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Dragnet - "The Big Pick Afrs" (Old Time Radio, 1953) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: The story you're about to hear is true. The names
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: have been changed to protect the innocent dragnet. You're a
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: detective sergeant. You're assigned to Bunco Fugitive Detail. An organized
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: gang of pickpockets is working in your city. None of
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: the victims can give a description of the suspects. There's
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: no lead to their identity. Your job get them.
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: It was Tuesday, May tenth. We were working the day
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: watch Out a Bunco Fugitive Division Pickpocket Detail. My partner's
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  Speaker 3: Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Didion. My name was Friday.
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  Speaker 3: I was on my way back from communications and it
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  Speaker 3: was eleven fourteen am when I got through Room thirty
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  Speaker 3: eight Bunco. O.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, anything come in from Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they checked the connies playing back. There no trace
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  Speaker 3: of back.
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  Speaker 4: Tip's wrong then, huh yeah, it looks like it four
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  Speaker 4: two now all thought.
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  Speaker 3: All we can do is sit and wait for a
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: reply on the radiogram. He's gotta be someplace and he
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: isn't gonna stop working. They'll be wood on him somewhere.
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: I'll be glad and we turned the key. Uh excuse me, Yes, sir.
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: How wouldn't if they could help me?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Well try, sir. You wanna come on in? What's
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: it all about?
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  Speaker 5: I've been robbed, sir, and they took my money, all
• 1:26
  Speaker 5: of it, every bit. I don't know how, but they
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  Speaker 5: took it all. I don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, do you wanna sit down?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Please?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how they did it. I tried to
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  Speaker 5: be so careful, but they took it all. Thirty seven
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  Speaker 5: years doing without and now I got nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. This is my partner, Frank Smith. My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe if you tell us what happened here we could
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  Speaker 3: help you.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, maybe, I'm Lewis Bonning. Yes, sir, I lived at
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  Speaker 5: eighteen twenty Woodworth Court, Los Angeles, twelve. I have a
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  Speaker 5: room there. I see fourteen dollars a week in privileges.
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  Speaker 1: If you tell us what happened to Bonning, we might
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: be able to.
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  Speaker 3: Do something for you.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm trying to tell you, trying to think of
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  Speaker 5: what happened. I don't believe it yet.
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  Speaker 3: An you said you were robbed, Is that right?
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  Speaker 6: Yes? Two hundred dollars all gone?
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  Speaker 3: Or were you held up?
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  Speaker 6: No? Nothing like that. If it was that way i'd know.
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  Speaker 5: But just all of a sudden, I put my hand
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  Speaker 5: in my pocket to feel the money, and it wasn't there.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing was there. I had a pocket full of empty.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ill, sir, to usually carry that much money around
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  Speaker 4: with you.
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  Speaker 5: No, mister, I got it from the bank this morning.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going away. I was leaving Los Angeles. That's why
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  Speaker 5: I had the money, so I could leave.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I suppose you start right at the beginning and
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  Speaker 3: tell us the whole story with you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, my wife passed on four weeks ago, Monday, April fourth,
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  Speaker 5: and that's when it happened to April fourth.
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  Speaker 6: We came to this country when we were both young.
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  Speaker 6: She died four weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, if you had gone about the death, please.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I thought i'd maybe go back to cars it
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  Speaker 5: to live with one of my daughters. She asked me
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  Speaker 5: to come, and I thought I would, so I.
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  Speaker 6: Drew out the money. You took the money out of
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  Speaker 6: the bank, Yes, this morning, two hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 5: That's what we'd saved. I couldn't leave it here in
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  Speaker 5: the bank if I was going to be in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you could have had the money transferred, you know.
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  Speaker 6: I guess that's what I should have done, but it's
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  Speaker 6: too late. Now.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have the money when you left the bank?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I rolled the bills up and put them here
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  Speaker 5: in my pocket. Here listen on the left side. I
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  Speaker 5: kept my hand on the money, so I knew it
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  Speaker 5: was there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what'd you do After you left the bank and.
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  Speaker 5: I was going home? I thought i'd walk home. I
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  Speaker 5: went down the street and then I thought i'd stop
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  Speaker 5: for some coffee. I was all packed up my room,
• 3:32
  Speaker 5: so I didn't want to make a mess. I thought
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  Speaker 5: i'd have a cup of coffee out. I went into
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  Speaker 5: the big market. They have a coffee condor there, and
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  Speaker 5: I went in and sat down. All the time I
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  Speaker 5: kept my hand on the money. I could feel it
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  Speaker 5: through the pants.
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  Speaker 2: It was in my pocket.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I had the coffee in and I went to
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  Speaker 5: go out of the market. As I walked through, all
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  Speaker 5: the people of box fell off a stack of boxes.
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  Speaker 5: Who'd almost hit me. I didn't think anything about it.
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  Speaker 5: If nobody was hurt. All the people in the market
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  Speaker 5: came over to me and asked I was all right,
• 4:00
  Speaker 5: But I said yes, I was all right. Then I
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  Speaker 5: went out of the market. I got on the street.
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  Speaker 5: When I remembered about the money, it was gone.
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  Speaker 3: I'd have been taken from me in the market, Is
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  Speaker 3: that right?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, mister? Which in the market?
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  Speaker 4: I think, Well, let's get this trait while you were
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  Speaker 4: in there? Did anyone bump into you?
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  Speaker 6: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 4: I mean anyone jostly you bump into you?
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  Speaker 3: Without reason?
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  Speaker 6: No? No, I don't remember.
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  Speaker 3: Did anybody follow you from the bank to the market
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  Speaker 3: that you noticed?
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  Speaker 6: It was hard to tell, mister. There are a lot
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  Speaker 6: of people on the streets. Would be hard to tell
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  Speaker 6: if there was anyone.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I understand. But was there any one person you
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  Speaker 3: recall having seen this morning, one face that you might remember.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe no, mister. I tried to think about it, but
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  Speaker 5: there's no one I see. Do you think you'll get
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  Speaker 5: it back for me?
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  Speaker 3: Sure?
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  Speaker 6: The money? It makes a big difference.
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  Speaker 3: How was that before?
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  Speaker 5: When I had the money, I could go and live
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  Speaker 5: with my daughter. With the money, I could be independent.
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  Speaker 5: It be a different feeling, you understand, don't you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sure I do.
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  Speaker 5: That's why it's so important you get the money back
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  Speaker 5: so I can go live with my daughter, So I
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  Speaker 5: can do that. That's showing the reason I troubles you. The
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  Speaker 5: only reason I have to ask you to find the man.
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  Speaker 5: That's the only reason I got.
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  Speaker 3: That's a little different with us, sir, huh, we've got
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  Speaker 3: another one. For the past several weeks, we've been getting
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  Speaker 3: reports of the existence of an organized gang of pickpockets
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  Speaker 3: working in Los Angeles. Contrary to most opinion, a pickpocket
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  Speaker 3: seldom works alone. Like everything else, it's gotten to be
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  Speaker 3: a highly specialized operation. Normally, there are several men to
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  Speaker 3: each team, the jug mob who usually spends his time
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  Speaker 3: in banks looking for the victim, the shover who pushes
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  Speaker 3: or bumps the victims so his money can be taken,
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  Speaker 3: and the wire who does the actual pocket picking. In
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  Speaker 3: certain types of operation, the jug mob is replaced by
• 5:43
  Speaker 3: the shark, who works street cars and spots people who
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  Speaker 3: have large amounts of money. Under normal circumstances, a professional
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  Speaker 3: group of pickpockets can take approximately five thousand dollars a
• 5:52
  Speaker 3: day out of a tip or a crowd. Eleven forty
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  Speaker 3: seven am, we had the victim. Lewis Bonning looked through
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  Speaker 3: the pictures No One pickpockets for a possible identification of
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  Speaker 3: the man who taking his money. He was unable to
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  Speaker 3: find anybody who looked familiar. We told him to go home,
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  Speaker 3: and we said that we'd be in touch with him.
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  Speaker 3: Twelve thirty five pm. Frank and I checked back into
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  Speaker 3: the office. They're roughly huh.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They all come out of that killer, don't they. I
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  Speaker 3: sure hope we can do some good for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice old guy.
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  Speaker 3: You wanna get in touch with Slim Raymos. Let's go
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  Speaker 3: down and talk to him. He might be able to
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  Speaker 3: come up with something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll get his number. Get a new book.
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  Speaker 3: This is getting almost impossible to use.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, h I said, that's numbers all crossed out, you
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  Speaker 4: know when they change the prefixes. Yeah, I made a
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  Speaker 4: mess out of my book and it's.
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  Speaker 3: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: Or a.
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  Speaker 3: Slim Raymus there he slimed a Frank Smith.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah good, yeah, say Slim. Wait a minute now, the
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  Speaker 4: reason I called you, Joe and I'd like to come
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  Speaker 4: down and talk to you.
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  Speaker 3: If it's okay, you're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Be there this afternoon. Uh no, nothing wrong, just a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things we want to check over here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, see here on two thirty Huh is that
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  Speaker 4: all right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, now I know where it is right, see you then,
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna be in all afternoon, said he'd be glad
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  Speaker 4: to see this.
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  Speaker 3: Good. Maybe he's got something we can use on this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he'll lay it out for us if he has.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's the one good thing about starting with nothing
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  Speaker 3: in it. Yeah, we can only go one way. Twelve
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  Speaker 3: o six pm, Frank and I checked out of the
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  Speaker 3: office and we started for Santa Monica. Slim Ramos had
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  Speaker 3: been one of the best pickpockets in the business. He'd
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  Speaker 3: been arrested and served the term in San Quentin. After
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  Speaker 3: he'd been parode, he'd opened a small stand on one
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  Speaker 3: of the amusement piers near the beach. From his past record,
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  Speaker 3: Ramos had been cooperative with the police department, and several
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  Speaker 3: arrests were attributed to his information. Raymos was operating a
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  Speaker 3: Wheel of Fortune booth at the end of the pier.
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  Speaker 3: Frank and I parked the car and walked out.
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  Speaker 1: By the place.
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  Speaker 4: Huh, Yeah, I got to bring the kids down here
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  Speaker 4: some Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: They get a real kick out of it. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: Slim's booth there. Yeah, I don't see him.
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  Speaker 1: He said he'd be here.
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  Speaker 3: He might be around back.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, i'd sure like to win one of those hands.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, bigg ones.
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  Speaker 3: Right to slim you around?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, hold on, be right out, all right, Joe Frank
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  Speaker 5: I from the backpackaging some groceres.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: What can I do for you?
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: I'd like talk to you about a cannon operation.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I should have known.
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  Speaker 5: Come on back here, we can sit down, all right,
• 8:40
  Speaker 5: watch your heads on the counter. Yeah, got a couple
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  Speaker 5: of shares back here, Come on I and finish up
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  Speaker 5: with a second.
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  Speaker 6: All right, go ahead, Oh I want you to bomb.
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  Speaker 3: You got any rumbles about a bunch work in the
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: downtown area?
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  Speaker 5: What kind of operations? Judd Moobs think I heard something
• 8:54
  Speaker 5: about a bunch coming in from the east KC. I
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  Speaker 5: think seems I heard they worked a couple of skiol
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  Speaker 5: dates with a cornie back there. Boss didn't know they
• 9:01
  Speaker 5: were working. When he found out, he had him kicked
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  Speaker 5: off the lot.
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  Speaker 3: You got any names for us, Nah?
• 9:05
  Speaker 5: Not right off, Gonna check around, might be able to
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  Speaker 5: come up with him.
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  Speaker 6: What's the bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've been scoring good work in the downtown area.
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  Speaker 3: Took an elderly man for his life savings this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh, figures huh.
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  Speaker 5: They always pick on the elderly ones. Bump into a
• 9:18
  Speaker 5: young guy might give you trouble. Pick the old ones,
• 9:20
  Speaker 5: they don't seem to notice it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how you been doing swim?
• 9:22
  Speaker 6: Oh good?
• 9:23
  Speaker 5: Got it real good. I ain't killing the world, but
• 9:25
  Speaker 5: my rent's paid. I know there ain't gonna be a
• 9:27
  Speaker 5: fuzz on my tail tonight. I got it real good.
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: How long have you been here? Now?
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  Speaker 1: It's good?
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: About a year.
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  Speaker 5: I thought, if I could get permission, might go out
• 9:34
  Speaker 5: with a carnie this year.
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: You know what.
• 9:35
  Speaker 5: The front end got a letter from a friend. It's
• 9:37
  Speaker 5: got a grind store. One of the big ones says
• 9:40
  Speaker 5: he might be able to get me in a grind store. Yeah,
• 9:42
  Speaker 5: you know, everybody plays, everybody wins, pay a dime to
• 9:45
  Speaker 5: win a piece of slum with maybe a couple of cents. Well,
• 9:47
  Speaker 5: this carne I might go with's got no grift in
• 9:49
  Speaker 5: the front end, all percentage games. The way, I figured,
• 9:52
  Speaker 5: if you go out with a good one, whether old's
• 9:53
  Speaker 5: gonna do all right?
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  Speaker 1: You figured you can come out better than you do here.
• 9:56
  Speaker 5: Oh sure, you see, we get a real good play
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  Speaker 5: over the weekends. Regular days is kind of slow. Go
• 10:00
  Speaker 5: out with a big carnie. You can draw crowds anytime.
• 10:03
  Speaker 5: If the weather's good, bound to come out better.
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  Speaker 3: You'll check into those names for us with your slim.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll make a couple of calls.
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  Speaker 3: Can you make them now?
• 10:10
  Speaker 5: No, I have to get in touch with the guy tonight.
• 10:11
  Speaker 5: I'll get back to your first thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: All right, same number in Michigan, five to one one.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, buncle fugitive.
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  Speaker 6: All right, I'll give you a call.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: Buy you guys cupt coffee.
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  Speaker 3: No thanks, Slim, We're just gonna want to come along
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  Speaker 3: and buy you one.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Now hold on, I want to check with Harry, have
• 10:24
  Speaker 5: him keep an eye on things.
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: Here, you go ahead, Okay, I'll.
• 10:27
  Speaker 6: Watch the counter.
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  Speaker 5: I came up too fast the other day, like took
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  Speaker 5: all the.
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  Speaker 6: Skin off my back.
• 10:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, hold on a minute, I'll be right back all right.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: Nice fucking place, huh.
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's painted it since we were down here last time.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's go painted up the.
• 10:44
  Speaker 5: Place, I Slim, Yeah, I thought I might turn a
• 10:47
  Speaker 5: bigger tip of the place.
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: Look good.
• 10:48
  Speaker 6: You know, people like a clean looking place.
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: Are the rest of the boots doing down here? Slim?
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: Were pretty good? And I told you great other time.
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  Speaker 6: It's a little slow.
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: Any grift down here, No, he.
• 10:58
  Speaker 6: Said, there is.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't heard of it in the Santa Monica Police Department,
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: Lieutenant Cunningham.
• 11:02
  Speaker 6: He keeps the place real clean.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: The last thing I heard about was a guy who
• 11:05
  Speaker 5: was working with a camelback wheel. What camelback like mine?
• 11:09
  Speaker 5: Only this was gaffed. How smoothest pitcher around? The arrow
• 11:13
  Speaker 5: is connected to a spindle. Spindle goes through a stand.
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: Looks like it'd be no way to gee it. Plane
• 11:17
  Speaker 5: pipe looks clean?
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: What's a gimmick?
• 11:19
  Speaker 5: All the frame rests on four pins. Pins are supposed
• 11:21
  Speaker 5: to be what anchors it to the counter?
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 5: Now, three of the pins go into one piece of
• 11:24
  Speaker 5: the counter. They really do hold the wheel in place.
• 11:26
  Speaker 5: The other one goes through a separate piece of wood
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: on the booth side of the counter. There's a space
• 11:30
  Speaker 5: between the board on the booth side and one of
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: the three legs go through. Now, the pin in the
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: fourth leg is loose. It's connected with a bunch of
• 11:36
  Speaker 5: levers inside. The pipe acts as a brake on the wheel.
• 11:39
  Speaker 5: All the operator has to do is lean against the
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: board and he's got complete control of the wheel.
• 11:43
  Speaker 6: All the time.
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: It's a real nice deal of ith the way they
• 11:45
  Speaker 5: figured it's perfect. In case they get a cowboy in
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: the crowd, the mark can pick the wheel right up
• 11:49
  Speaker 5: out of the counter, shows that there's no wires running
• 11:52
  Speaker 5: to it. Wheel's gaffed. There's no way to prove it.
• 11:55
  Speaker 5: Set it up with a couple of sticks in front.
• 11:58
  Speaker 5: Let them win a couple of times. You got it made.
• 12:00
  Speaker 6: It's the way they figure.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't work out though, real and like on my wheel,
• 12:04
  Speaker 5: I got one hundred and twenty numbers on it. Figure
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  Speaker 5: I get good action. I'm gonna have maybe half of
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  Speaker 5: them covered right off. The odds are on my side.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of the rest is only one winner. Half
• 12:13
  Speaker 5: of them covered means a gross of about six bucks.
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  Speaker 5: I give away five dollars worth of grocery.
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  Speaker 2: Even with a.
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  Speaker 5: Winner, I come out every time a percentage.
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  Speaker 1: Of prove it.
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  Speaker 6: Look at it that way. You don't need a gap wheel.
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  Speaker 3: That's too bad. More of them don't figure it like this.
• 12:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I suppose it took me a long time to
• 12:27
  Speaker 5: find it out.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you came up with the answers.
• 12:29
  Speaker 5: I hope I can do the same for you. On
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: the cannon operation, so do we. It's funny I get
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: to think of when I was working as a wire
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: Now we figured that anytime we could lift a poke
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  Speaker 5: from the mark was a big laugh.
• 12:40
  Speaker 6: A lot of difference.
• 12:41
  Speaker 5: Now, yeah, now I sleep nights.
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: Two fifteen pm, we continued to talk to our informants,
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: swim Ramos. He said that he didn't know the name
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: of the carnival the possible suspects had been fired from.
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: He said that he'd call some of his contacts and
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: try to get the information for us. We set up
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: a time for him to get in touch with us,
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: and then Frank and I drove back to the office.
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: We contacted Captain Didion and made arrangements for additional men
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: to be assigned to help us. Sergeants John Debetta and
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: Danny Gilmore were asked to aid us in the search
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: of the market where the victim had been robbed. We
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: spent the next three hours in the market looking at
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: the crowd in the hopes that we'd see ann pickpocket
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: or even see a wire in operation, but the surveillance
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: netted us nothing. We made arrangements for the victim's bank
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: to be watched the following morning, six fifteen pm. Frank
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: and I got back to the squadroom.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Well, you sure he does a good business? Sendent right
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: the market, Joe.
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: A lot of people going there.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the matter with you?
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: Well, I was just thinking, he said, it comes down
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: to the point where the only way to hang on
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: to your money is to carry it in your hand
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: and keep your fist closed.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: Starting close.
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: I was talking with Lieutenant Jack Swan. He was telling
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: me a guy came in here from Nebraska, came in
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: by bus, you know, were sitting in the station waiting
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: for a coach to take him up the north. Had
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: all his money in his shoe and his shoe, yeah,
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: had in his left shoe. Had the money all flat
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: so we could walk on it.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: Figured it'd be safe there. It wasn't it. Now dozed
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: off for a minute.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: Next thing, he knows, shoes off, the money's gone.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: How would anybody know where it was?
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know the guy that took it, founded though,
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: guy dozed off for a minute, loses his shoe and
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: all his money.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: Anything turn up on it? No again, Well con fugitive Friday, Yeah, yeah, slim.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: What was that name again? Yeah? Uh, what do you
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: say about it? Wait a minute, right, yeah, here you go,
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: pencil soon? Yeah, okay, thank you, all right, Slim, go ahead,
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: whether it was a K what.
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: O l C se isn't Charlie?
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: Oh t t right?
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: You know where they're staying. All right, we'll give us
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: a call for anything more. Turns up? Huh right, okay, Slim, thanks.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: A lot, right bye, How do you do?
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: We're pretty good? Three names of the guys who worked
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: to Connie and KC. Eh Slim talked to a friend.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: Got the information that the guys who work in the
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: downtown area have been scoring real good.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Say where we could find him?
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: No, he's gonna try to get the address for us. Well,
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: we took a big jump just knowing who they are.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Deal now is to make it work. What do you mean,
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: al Slim says his bunch is pretty hinky. They're playing
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: it real careful. Yeah, words out. They got two more
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: big scores to make it and then they're gonna leave town.
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: police force election.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: The three names are informant had given us were Howard Kremer,
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Victor Lyden, and Edward Olkin. We had the names checked
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: through our record bureau, but we found that none of
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: the three men had been arrested in Los Angeles. We
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: got a radiogram off to the police department in Kansas City,
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: the last place the trio was known to have worked.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: We asked that all information on the thieves beforewarded to it.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: We also set a teletype at George Breton up at Sacramento, CII,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: asking him to check the names for us. The following morning, Wednesday,
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Mail eleventh, we got word from Kansas City that the
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: officials there were forwarding mug shots and descriptions of the
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: three men. During the day, Frank and I met with
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Captain Didion and a surveillance of the downtown area banks
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: was set up. On Friday morning, when Frank and I
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: checked in the work, a special delivery letter was waiting
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: for us. In it, we found the records and pictures
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: of premer Lydon and Alcotte. The pictures were handed over
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: to the photo lab and they started to reproduce them.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: The descriptions were sent to the print shop and mo
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: o sheets were made up as soon as possible. The
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: pictures and the bulletins were distributed to all bank guards
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: in the area. Additional officers from Bunco. Fugitive were placed
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: in the vicinity. Frank and I maintained a ruling stakeout
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: in the downtown area. At nine pm Friday night, the
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: banks closed and we'd got no report that the thieves
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: had worked. Local broadcasts were gotten out on the end,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: but there were no Replying. Monday, May sixteenth, the plan
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: was put into effect again no results. Tuesday, the gang
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: didn't work, began to look as if they might have
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: closed up operations in Los Angeles and moved. On Wednesday,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: May eighteen, Thank and I came back from lunch. I
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: get it, uncle, fugit it Friday, Yes, sir, that's right?
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Where right? No, don't do anything to let him know.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: Right, Well, let's.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Go some good. The Shover bank guard just spotted him.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: The call had come from a bank at the corner
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: of Seventh in Jackson Streets. The guard told us that
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: he'd seen one of the suspects enter the bank and
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: under the pretense of filling out deposit slips, observed the
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: withdrawals that the customers were making. It took us a
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: little under three minutes to get to the address. We
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: checked with the guard and he pointed out the suspect.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: He pretended to make out a deposit slip while I
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: waited at the new account desk. When we entered the bank,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: the suspect was standing at the teller's window. In front
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: of him was an elderly man. As the lion moved up,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: the suspect began to examine the slip that he'd made out. Then,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: as the elderly man took his turn at the window,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: the suspect walked away and stopped by the door. He
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: waited for the man to finish his business at the
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: teller's counter. Then as he passed through the door, the
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: suspect fell and stepped behind him. Frank and I followed
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: him down the street. As he walked through the crowds,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: he was joined by Edward Alcott, the shover in the operation.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: The elderly man entered a small tobacco store, and as
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: he went through the door, the wire Howard Kremer joined
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: the other two suspects. As the elderly man stood at
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: the counter waiting to be served, the shover walked over
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: to the magazine rang. He stood looking at the magazines
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: for a moment, and then as he turned away, he
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: seemingly tripped and fell against the proposed victim. Both Frank
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: and I knew what it was coming. We were watching
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: for it, and yet and he missed the actual fift.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: The wire moved in and removed the victim's money so
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: fast that we couldn't see it. The shover took the
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: wallet from the wire, and the gang was ready to
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: move on. Frank and I stepped into him. All right,
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: mister police officers, you're under a ask for what? Stop dreaming?
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: You know the rot and now come on, come all right, mister,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: come on on, your get up.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: You're waiting to compleat me alone. You're going to recract
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: this shoving a citizen around?
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: No reason for this. How about the other two? They're
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: out all right, Let's get him downtown. How about the
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: victim until he left when the beat started? Better try
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: to catch him.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: You're gonna be sorry for this stewweight. You're gonna be
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: real sorry shoving an not a citizen around.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a trouble with you punks. What do you
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: mean you're rung on both counts. The three suspects were
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: taken into custody and brought downtown. The victim's wallet was
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: found on the person of Edward Dolphin, who was identified
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: by the owner and booked his evidence. Three point fifteen pm.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: We took the wire Howard Kremer to the interrogation room.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Sit down, Trammer.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, you want to give us a statement
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: or what, come off? But you know what we're talking about.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: You've got to have me a cross with somebody else.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to level with you. I don't know what
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: you're talking about.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: You want us to lay it out for you.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I don't care much either way. You guys slamm into
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: a store where I'm trying to buy a pack of
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: cigarettes and all of a sudden I got handcuffs on you.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Tell me I'm hooked for being a pickpocket.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: That's the way you want to tell it, dur ain't
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: any other words?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Your two friends tell it different?
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: What two friends? Two fellas? We picked up with you.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: This is a big time a lot of people. You
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: walk into a store, you don't ask who's standing next
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: to you.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: They put the whole deal on you. Who lying?
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: And Alton never heard them? How long do you thinkure
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: you're going to keep this up, mister.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: As long as it takes to get you on my side.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: They don't build days that long.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: If that's your loss, I'm a nice fellow if you
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: take the time to get to know me.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: All right, Kramer, this is way off the road. Now,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: maybe you got all day. We haven't. You can either
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: give it to us here and now we can drop
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: you into a cell and let you wait it out.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: You put me in a tank and I'll be out
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: in half an hour.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: How many times you've been arrested? Who says there was
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: a first? How many times you've got the books?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Look it up?
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: We ask you a question.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: So I'm not a genius.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I got trouble with addition, take everything out of your pockets.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Come on, or why Look, you run a lot of
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: funny time here, Kremer.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Then you're better ring the bell because I'll need more
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: You got a job, yeah, I'm a president of a bank.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: You're going way out on this, Cremer.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I like the senior You work where round? No special places?
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: What do you do?
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: I'm a sales What do you sell?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Whatever people can afford?
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: All right? Now, come on, put your things on the
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: table right now.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: You can sign a receipt.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: They aren't got to be taken from me. You want
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: to see what you're carrying.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, you boys deserve a break. But I'll tell you now.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: The numbers on my phone book are mine. Don't go
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: near him.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Come on, get it up.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Here's my what handkerchief, comb, nail flippers and change, A
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: couple of ticket stuffs from a movie, a lousy picture.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Cigarette slider. That's it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: You got any money in that wallet?
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: How much? I don't know.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: I don't pay much attention to how much I'm carrying.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: You can't even come close.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: How much you got? No, take it out and count it?
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: Okay, one, two, three, all right?
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Comes off to thirty seven hundred dollars.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: You must do real good at that salesmoro.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Job company pays big commissions.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I put the money in your pocket.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Why don't you put it into it?
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: What'd you say?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Look, cop, I've been around. I've been with most of
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: the cardies in the country one time or another. I
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: know the score. There ain't a place in the world
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: that the fixed camp be put in. And why don't
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: you just take the money? You drop it in your
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: pocket and I forget I was ever in here. Won't
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: be nobody hurt the old guys, maybe out a couple
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: of hundred bucks.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: But so what, you won't miss it? Why not put
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: the fix?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Them will both come.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Out all right? Now? The fix just curdled Grimmer. Why
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: you said we had the record what you called it?
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: We got all the word about you way down the line.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: You talk about how you worked with Carnies. How long?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: What's the longest time you ever stayed with one outfit?
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I like the move, Yeah, sure you do. That's the
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: way that people who run the show wanted decent Carnie
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: doesn't want a guy like you were around. You were
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: anybody like you. You've been on the road taking money
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: away from people who can't afford it for a long time. Now,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: wen you and you come in here acting like a
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: big man. You do the indignant bit, and then when
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: that doesn't work, you try to buy your way out.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: You've had it, mister, We know it, and your two
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: buddies know it. What are you going to take a
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: good look?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: You really figure you've got it made.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: We know we have.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: The other two guys really caught off.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: The whole thing all comes down to how you engineered it.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: You will buy what they say, we buy it. Then
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: there isn't much more for me to say, is it
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: not a great deal?
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Now? Okay, let's go.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: How about a statement? Why make it easier on yourself?
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Use your FI CAPI you know what I mean?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, bring the girl in. I'll give you
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: a statement. Pray, yeah you mind? If I have a smoke?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: What was that I said?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Your mind?
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: If I have a smoke? No, go ahead, wild one,
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: isn't it?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Head it all down?
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: So pat good, shover better?
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Dug ma. I'll sit in the front row with any
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: wire in the business. All that don't add up to
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: a winner.
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: That's like you said, huh, you get trouble with addition,
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: Lord Nathan Kremer, Edward Francis Holcott, and Victor Frederick Lytton
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: were tried.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: And convicted on six counts of grand theft money and
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: received sentence. As prescribed by law, grand theft money is
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: punishable by imprisonment on the state penitentiary for a period.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Of not less than one nor more than ten years.
• 24:18
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• 24:22
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