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In sixteen days, sixteen burglaries have been committed, one each 18 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,599 night. They bear the same trademark. Thousands of dollars of jewels are missing. 19 00:02:29,159 --> 00:02:35,759 The thief is a master at his trade. Your job get him. 20 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,800 Drag Net. The document a drama of an actual crime, investigated and solved 21 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:45,159 by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home, your 22 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,520 family, and your life. For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with 23 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,560 the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side 24 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:58,520 of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. From beginning 25 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,840 to end, from crime to punishment, drag Net is the story of your 26 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:12,919 police force in action. It was Tuesday, June seventeenth, was warm in 27 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,080 Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of burglary. My partner's 28 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,840 Ben Romero. The boss is at backstrand, Chief of Detectives. My name 29 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,639 is Friday. I was on the way into work that morning and it was 30 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:29,240 seven fifty three am when I got to Room forty five Burglary detailed. Hi 31 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,680 joel Owia Walker gonna be a scorcher at today, Yeah, just like yesterday. 32 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,879 Been in yet. I think he's over in communications picking up the mail. 33 00:03:37,319 --> 00:03:42,479 Thanks you guys. Been busy. Kind of jewel thefts anything big there, 34 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,479 no big hauls. But he's consistent. Sixteen nights in a row, 35 00:03:45,919 --> 00:03:50,000 same guy, I think so, same mo. And everybody's got troubles. 36 00:03:50,319 --> 00:03:58,560 Gotta check some records. See you later, Joe, okay, Willie Burglary 37 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,840 Friday, Yeah okay, Mike. Soon as Ben gets back, he's picking 38 00:04:01,919 --> 00:04:09,439 up the mail, right bye, Hi, Joe Hire Ben Hannah just called 39 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,840 Chief wants to see us. Take a look at these first, but he 40 00:04:11,879 --> 00:04:16,360 got overnight reports. Yeah yeah these two yeah, two of the three diamond 41 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:20,720 rings, one sapphire, one necklace jade, big haul look at the other 42 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:27,879 one ladies watch, diamond band, emmon bracelet, turmaline brooch. What's turmaline? 43 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,639 Ben, I don't know. It must be valuable as gone. Let's 44 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,240 The owner left house about nine pm, returned about one thirty am. Found 45 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:39,720 property gone. Scratches on the door, probably using the cellophane method. Hasn't 46 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:44,120 missed yet. Two in one night now it's picking up his pace. Must 47 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,360 have a bag full of loot somewhere, whoever it is. You get the 48 00:04:46,399 --> 00:04:49,279 description sheets from bone shop detail. Yeah, I got him right here. 49 00:04:49,439 --> 00:04:51,720 You take half of them. Let's see what luck we got this morning. 50 00:04:51,800 --> 00:05:01,800 Yeah, nothing so far. You need it, I'll get it, yell 51 00:05:02,959 --> 00:05:06,360 Burglary Romero, Hi, Ben Chief still wants to talk to you. Boys. 52 00:05:06,399 --> 00:05:09,639 He's got an appointment to day. Turney wants to see you before you 53 00:05:09,759 --> 00:05:12,079 leave. Okay, Mike, just checking some by sheets, me running, 54 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,480 got to make it fast. He's in a bad mood this morning. Okay, 55 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,160 I thank you. Back Strand again. Yeah, he's in a bad 56 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:21,639 mood. Come on, wonder was bothering him? Something's bad. He doesn't 57 00:05:21,639 --> 00:05:26,519 blow very often. She's a detectives office hand and go ahead it and boys, 58 00:05:26,519 --> 00:05:29,279 he's waiting. Thank you mine all right, ma'am, I'll connect you. 59 00:05:30,519 --> 00:05:33,279 Friday, Romero, sit down. We do want to get them back 60 00:05:33,319 --> 00:05:39,079 Strandon, Oh, yes, missus Winter, Yes, ma'am. We're doing 61 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:45,240 all we can, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am, Yes, I'll 62 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:50,240 do that, yes, ma'am. Goodbye. Got trouble ed taxpayer? Is 63 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:54,800 winterrop? You two ought to remember the name we do scam. Ten days 64 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,759 ago, somebody lifted two thousand dollars worth of diamonds from her bedroom while she 65 00:05:57,759 --> 00:06:00,600 was at the symphony. Last night she was hit again. Diamond watch and 66 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,839 m LL bracelet and some kind of approach tourmaline. I don't care what kind 67 00:06:03,879 --> 00:06:06,879 it was. It's gone. What's the pitch We just read report a couple 68 00:06:06,879 --> 00:06:10,879 of minutes ago, Skipper, could be a time with those other sixteens. 69 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,920 Sixteen jobs in sixteen days. You haven't got a lead on the thief yet, 70 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,360 nothing shows up, no prints, nothing. What about the pawn shops. 71 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:19,680 Nobody's tried to soak any hot stuff as far as we know. We 72 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,319 double check the detail. We got every HOWK shopping town on the alert. 73 00:06:23,399 --> 00:06:26,480 Whoever it is, they've got to try to pawn the stuff sometime unless they're 74 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,319 going to give diamond rings for Christmas presents. And they haven't tried the pawn 75 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,240 shops yet, Skipper, were sure they look Sixteen burglaries in sixteen days, 76 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,000 jewels and watchers, good ones. That's got to stop. It's got to 77 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,240 stop soon. You understand. We'll stay right on top of it. Head. 78 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,279 We're doing all we can for two weeks. I've had half a dozen 79 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:45,040 women calling me every day, society women. Some of them figure they should 80 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,160 get extra treatment. They're only dr numbers to skipper. They all get the 81 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:50,279 same attention. Try and explain that to some of them. They think you're 82 00:06:50,319 --> 00:06:54,360 in on the racket. Maybe you boys would like to take these calls some 83 00:06:54,399 --> 00:06:56,720 morning, No thanks, Ed, all right, then let's get some action. 84 00:06:57,439 --> 00:07:00,199 Keep the pawn shop operators on their toes and get after every known in 85 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,519 town. That's all. I've got an appointment, all right, Ed, 86 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:09,480 check you later? Hold it a coat for you, Ben? Thank you 87 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:15,759 now? Oh hi, Max? What hold? It'd be right down? 88 00:07:15,519 --> 00:07:17,959 First? Break Joe? What you got necklace? And to watch both have 89 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:23,560 them on the stolen properly? Where Henry's pawn Shop, Fifth and Maine. 90 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,800 Six minutes later, at eight twenty five am, Ben and I drove up 91 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:33,040 in front of Henry's Square deal pawn shop, quick cash, no red tape, 92 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:38,360 watches bought and sold. The proprietor was Max Murphy, an old friend 93 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,639 of Ben's. Well pell of all days it had to happen yesterday. Took 94 00:07:41,639 --> 00:07:44,720 the day off one fishing up at Big Bear. I left my nephew in 95 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:46,759 charge Harry A real not head, that kid? What do you mean, 96 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,439 Max, Joe? If I told him once? I told him one hundred 97 00:07:49,439 --> 00:07:53,199 and once. Whatever you do. Whatever they come in with the hot check 98 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,480 it with the list, check it with the stolen property list. What does 99 00:07:56,519 --> 00:07:59,800 he do? He forgot? He forgot? Oh? Real notd heead? 100 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:03,079 That boy? How old is he? Max? Thirty two? A real 101 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,279 knothead. I checked the slips from yesterday, then I checked the stolen property 102 00:08:07,319 --> 00:08:09,319 list. There it is hot stuff. When of the stuff come in, 103 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,959 Max? You know about four o'clock yesterday afternoon. Can we look at it? 104 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:18,879 Oh? Sure, yeah? Back here behind the car, there it 105 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:22,120 is. Did you check out the steal numbers on the watch yet? Man? 106 00:08:22,319 --> 00:08:26,399 When I found out? Yes, they matched to a t all right. 107 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:31,319 Let's see yeah, description on this necklace matches too. Let's have a 108 00:08:31,319 --> 00:08:35,720 look at your bibook. I'm x yes, at Joe. Here, y'are 109 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:39,240 there's a deal right there here? Yeah, that's him. That's how he 110 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:45,960 gave his name, Walter Tracy and a half Blackstone Courts. Let me check 111 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,919 the book for the description, man, Oh sure, yeah, here, 112 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,320 okay, Max, Thanks, we'll be checking with you later. Sure, 113 00:08:54,399 --> 00:08:58,519 Joe, anytime. Sorry, al right, Max, see you later. 114 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:07,919 You fellows it easy, right? I want to check and see if we're 115 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:11,639 clear. Joe, Yeah, I will eighty K to control one eight OK 116 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:16,519 to control one a week clearer control one day eighty K is dan By good 117 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,600 lead. Joe got a description in here. Yeah, it's too bad. 118 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:24,240 Max's nephew to slip up control one day eighty K. Call your office immediately, 119 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:30,159 Call your office immediately. Yeah, I wonder what that's about. No, 120 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:41,080 Calle, you got some change. I'll use Maxi's phone. Use your 121 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:45,840 phone a minute, mac Oh, you bet sure? Help yourself. Thank 122 00:09:45,919 --> 00:10:07,200 you? City all two five two four five Burglary Levine. This is Ben 123 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,159 George. You got something one Universal loan shop sixth and bought in place. 124 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:13,039 Guy just took in a couple of rings. He checked too late. What 125 00:10:13,159 --> 00:10:16,360 you mean? He checked the form after the guy left and was signed Walller 126 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:30,559 Tracy. There they are Sageant both rings fine quality diamonds. Don't you usually 127 00:10:30,639 --> 00:10:33,000 check your stolen goods list before you take in stuff like this? Usually? 128 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,039 Yes? Last night, No, I don't know what I was thinking about. 129 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:43,000 We have a look at your bibook right here there it is Waldert Tracy 130 00:10:43,879 --> 00:10:48,480 six ninety nine dollars street, one hundred and forty five pounds, five foot 131 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,879 nine dark hair, build, thin, We'll I have to slap a hole 132 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,039 on these rings, I know I should have. Can you think of anything 133 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:58,720 else that might help us to identify the man? Well? No, howd 134 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:03,000 like soudan nice cut, very well addressed. Thank you, it's all for 135 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,039 now. Here's a card. If the guy happens to drop back, give 136 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,919 us a call with you show will side. Let's say, yeah, I've 137 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,039 got some nice watch bends yours look gold? Can I interest you? No? 138 00:11:13,159 --> 00:11:20,559 Thanks some O the time, come on ben that afternoon. In the 139 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,559 following morning, despite our alert and our warnings, two more pawn shops called 140 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,080 in with reports of stolen watches taken in. We checked them out. The 141 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,960 serial numbers on the watches matched those on the stolen property list on the pawn 142 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,480 shop account books. The loan was listed under the name Walter Tracy. The 143 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:41,200 addresses were given as number twelve Saint Vincent Place and seven hundred East Flower. 144 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:43,879 The descriptions of the man were the same, slight build, well dressed, 145 00:11:43,879 --> 00:11:46,600 about one hundred and forty five pounds, five feet nine inches, tall, 146 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,679 dark wavy hair. We had the name and description distributed to every pawn shop 147 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:54,840 in Los Angeles and surrounding communities. Through our informants. We checked up on 148 00:11:54,879 --> 00:11:58,080 every known fence in the city. For the next two nights, we received 149 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:03,000 no reports of stolen jewels. That made up for the double burglary the night 150 00:12:03,039 --> 00:12:07,879 before. On June nineteenth, the box score red eighteen successive nights, eighteen 151 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:13,320 successive jewel burglaries. At three twenty five in the afternoon, Ben and I 152 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,840 sat down to check over the late incoming reports. Got anything, Joe, 153 00:12:18,039 --> 00:12:22,320 Yeah, that's yet. No, nothn't here. Maybe the guy's left town. 154 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,480 Nope, no such luck. Take a look. That's it, number 155 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,120 nineteen. He may's had a record. Now he's making monkeys out of us. 156 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,200 In the look, man's watch ladies watch Chinese amber necklace, diamond shirt, 157 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,720 studs, and a bracelet with two large rubies. He's getting ambitionious. 158 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:43,480 How's the value lasting let? They say eighteen hundred dollars one haul. I'll 159 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:50,399 get it. Burglary Friday, Yeah what, yeah, you're right down stall 160 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,840 them. Let's go, man, where Kaplin's down on the second Walter Tracy's 161 00:12:54,840 --> 00:13:05,679 in there. Now trying to hawk a gold watch. Men cover the door. 162 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,159 I'll look like I'm shopping around, right, but watch a step. 163 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,200 We don't know this guy. Yeah, stay close to the door. Huh. 164 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,960 I'm sorry. That's the best we can do on the watch. Look, 165 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:20,720 Mac, this is gold twenty one jewels. Well, that's the best 166 00:13:20,759 --> 00:13:24,200 I can do. Drop dead, what's the best I can do? Don't 167 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,600 get sore? Yeah, sure, see you later. That's insurgent wall at 168 00:13:28,639 --> 00:13:30,639 Tracy. I stole them as long as I could. All right, I'll 169 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:35,279 check back with you later. She spot the guy that just came out. 170 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:39,879 Yeah, I went up straight. Let's follow him, hustling spot him Men 171 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,759 straight ahead, about fifteen yards he's crossing straight. Yeah, let's got up 172 00:13:43,759 --> 00:13:48,080 a little closer. We're losing sure of the light change. You can run 173 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:52,240 for him. What's the traffic light? Yeah? Get back, what's closed? 174 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,799 We might a spot at. This is going faster, Come on, 175 00:13:54,919 --> 00:14:00,519 Joe, run, Yeah, don't lose on. It's proud not help. 176 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,039 Hey, Hey, wait a minute, I thought you're a cop. It 177 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,600 takes in somebody like all my armist. We're like, oh god, you 178 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:07,600 don't have to get tough. Plus he cop tick the owner Street. I'm 179 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,519 gonna write a maze. Aw Come on, Joey, he's running for Yeah, 180 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:18,240 I see him. Watch the signal up ahead and hurry er almost up 181 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:22,399 to me into the parking line. Hey you stop, look, got joe 182 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:28,759 gone? I say geta wait. All right, smart guys, it's nice. 183 00:14:28,879 --> 00:14:33,919 Yeah, yeah, he's too fast for an honest man. Let's take 184 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:41,080 him in. When we got back to headquarters, Walter Tracy was under technical 185 00:14:41,159 --> 00:14:45,679 arrest. We took him directly to the interrogation room. We searched him thoroughly. 186 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,519 We had him take everything out of his pockets and put it on the 187 00:14:48,559 --> 00:14:50,720 table. Then we had him take all the money he had him his wallet 188 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,679 counted out and hold it in his hand. What is all this routine? 189 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,200 That's all the money you have on you, forty seven dollars and seventeen cents, 190 00:14:58,279 --> 00:15:01,639 right, yeah, okay, keep it in your hand. Ben shaking 191 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,440 down? All right, Tracy? Take off your coat, shirt, tying 192 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,080 your shoes and stop. What kind of a picture is this? I'm no 193 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,879 hood. Take them all two big cups. You're not penning anything on me. 194 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,720 I don't care what you do. Leeves, pockets, lyning nothing, 195 00:15:16,879 --> 00:15:22,080 God, Jill get his shirt. Take a light with the threads and costs 196 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:28,120 money? About the trousers, ben see cuffs pockets? No, let me 197 00:15:28,159 --> 00:15:31,559 get the bell slip from the inside of the belt. No, it's clean 198 00:15:31,759 --> 00:15:35,480 shoes roky, all right, Tracy, Let's see the soles of your feet. 199 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,399 I hope you don't mind they're dirty. Why don't you take a shower? 200 00:15:39,519 --> 00:15:45,240 Let's see, all right, Joe Nason, put your throws back on. 201 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,039 Yeah, thanks, all right? Sure? What's your name? Huh? 202 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:52,559 I said, what's your name? You're telling jokes, Walter Tracy? 203 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:58,039 You know that your real name? How old are you? Tracy? Twenty 204 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,960 seven? Where do you live? No place? Got in town a couple 205 00:16:00,039 --> 00:16:04,000 of days ago. Where you're from? Salina, Kansas? Where you've been 206 00:16:04,039 --> 00:16:10,679 sleeping last two nights? The park Pershing Square closed? Don't chili pretty Natty? 207 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:17,399 I had him pressed down by the square. I don't remember you ever 208 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:21,600 been arrested before. No, where'd you get this gun, Tracy? The 209 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,120 one you pulled on us. I didn't know who you were. Would have 210 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,399 been a couple of hoods. You kind of look like it. Where'd you 211 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,840 get the gun? I wanted in a crap game? Coming out on the 212 00:16:30,879 --> 00:16:34,720 train. Where'd you get the watch? Graduation president? You want him to 213 00:16:34,799 --> 00:16:37,480 run a make on him? Joe gun in the watch? Yeah, I'll 214 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:48,000 call him. Go on check. You can't prove a thing. Launch Shop 215 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:52,159 Records, Gilmore Girl was Friday? Can you give me a make on a 216 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:57,919 watch? Go ahead? Time Master yellow gold Man's wristwatch. Okay, case 217 00:16:59,039 --> 00:17:06,440 number seven one six F two three right, movement number B three five one 218 00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:10,680 seven oh eight. Got it? Okay, Now give me a make on 219 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:17,279 this Gunner thirty two S and W Automatic serial number five seven nine four six 220 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:21,799 one. Okay, call me back right, what's your station number two five 221 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:26,240 seven two. I'll ring it. Joe? Thanks having fun? What'd you 222 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,759 do with all those jewelry? Still? When do I get out of it? 223 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,119 I don't think you're gonna get out. You got nothing on me. 224 00:17:32,319 --> 00:17:36,400 I told you, Tracy, get your tape measure five nine? How much 225 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:41,000 you weigh? I'm ridden forty, I'm twenty seven. My name's Walter Tracy. 226 00:17:41,079 --> 00:17:44,160 I come from Solina. I've been in town two days and I don't 227 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,960 know what you guys are talking about. It sounds smart, you don't act 228 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:49,079 it, and you're flying Brian Copper, what'd you do with those jewels? 229 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:52,559 You still I don't know what you're talking about? What color your eyes? 230 00:17:53,839 --> 00:17:56,920 I don't know? I'm color Brian. What color would you say your hair? 231 00:17:57,039 --> 00:18:00,759 Is you color brind too? You bet? Rest before straighten out, 232 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:04,319 he asked me that I'm asking you. No, you ever done any big 233 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:07,039 time? No? All right, I don't care if your level with us 234 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,680 or not. We're gonna make you on those problem jobs, all nineteen of 235 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:12,839 them. Sure, sure, you guys are smart. You got in Los 236 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:17,160 Angeles two days ago? Is that right? Yeah? You don't know anything 237 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,480 about any jewel thess That's what I said. And how come your name and 238 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:23,559 your handwriting's on the account books and four pawnshops from Los Angeles not mine? 239 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,200 You can't prove, we can, Tracy, come clean? What'd you do 240 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,000 with the stuff you stole from twelve to fifty Maraga Drive June fifth? I 241 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,400 didn't steal any stuff. What did you do with the rings and watches you 242 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:34,480 took him? Fourteen hundred Plastical Road June ninth. I wasn't in town. 243 00:18:34,519 --> 00:18:37,000 What'd you do with the diamond dress pins you stole? June thirteenth, one 244 00:18:37,039 --> 00:18:40,880 twenty three South Vnes did I do that. You're not only kinky, you're 245 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:42,920 a bad liar. You prove it. Order get your saw book. Your 246 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:48,359 prints bounced, Tracy. Our handwriting man's going to work in those signatures of 247 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:49,359 yours. You haven't got a chance. Now, come on, where'd you 248 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,400 hide the stuff? You can't prove a thing. Where'd you say you've been 249 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:57,319 sleeping last two nights in the park Persian Square? You want to map clothes? 250 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:00,240 Sure looks nice, I said, I had impressed. But you can't 251 00:19:00,279 --> 00:19:07,559 remember where? No, I can't remember where. That a crime? Friday 252 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:10,480 timing, Joe. This is Gilmour. Here's the stuff you asked for. 253 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,440 Let's have it, Gil. I'll make on the watch, I'll make on 254 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:18,200 the gun. Okay, y'all thanks a lot. Yeah, you're in up 255 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,400 your neck. You said that, didn't you. You're gonna talk, Tracy 256 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:23,960 kind are tired? All right, we'll let you sleep on it. Come 257 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,559 on, Ben, let's book him, right, I'll get your jobs. 258 00:19:26,599 --> 00:19:34,240 Coppers. Sure, come on. We took Walter Tracy to the county jail 259 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:38,079 and had him booked on suspicion of burglary. It was still sullen. We 260 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,480 knew we had the guilty man. Now we had to prove it. As 261 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,559 it often happens, the victims never see the burglar. They only know he's 262 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:48,519 been there. They can't identify him, but they can identify their property. 263 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:52,559 Our job was to find the property. When we did, we'd have Walter 264 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:56,680 Tracy and the nineteen victims would have their property returned. But Tracy wasn't talking, 265 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,880 and we knew he'd never talk unless he thought it help him. We 266 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,759 took the problem dead backstrand smart punk skipper. But he's done time before. 267 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:07,119 How do you know? Tried him out last night. When we brought him 268 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:08,319 in. He talks like in the axe, like it, but he won't 269 00:20:08,319 --> 00:20:11,759 cop out. Are you sure I won't talk one hundred years? He knows 270 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:15,359 he's got unspot and one thing sure, We're not going to send him up 271 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:19,119 without finding the loot first. He's planted the stuff somewhere in the city. 272 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,599 We've got to find it. Ben and I have got an idea. Ed. 273 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:23,720 It's not going to be easy, but it might work. When is 274 00:20:23,759 --> 00:20:26,880 it. Tracy tried to soak some of the stolen property at four separate pawn 275 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,839 shops in the downtown area. Yeah, at each one of those four pawn 276 00:20:30,839 --> 00:20:33,720 shops. He gave a local address. We're sure he must have a roamor 277 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,119 and apartment someplace in town, all right, where that's where a guess work 278 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,359 comes in, Skipper. Every one of those addresses he gave fors within a 279 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:44,359 certain area. Oh big an area. Oh you've got that street diagram, 280 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:51,279 Joel. Yeah. Here it is ed from figure ROI here to San Pedro 281 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:57,119 and from Pico down to First Street. Area is about twelve blocks wide fourteen 282 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:03,039 blocks long. Territory. How are you going to cover it? On foot? 283 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,519 We'll take Tracy with us, plenty of legwork. You sure it stands 284 00:21:06,519 --> 00:21:07,440 here. We've got to find the stuff, and it's the only way we 285 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:12,400 can figure hotels, apartment's, rooming houses. There must be hundreds of places 286 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,759 you could stay in that territorium. It'll take a couple of weeks. Yeah, 287 00:21:15,799 --> 00:21:19,440 on foot it will all right. It's tough, but it's your idea. 288 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:27,400 Go to it. An hour after we left Chief Backstrand, we got 289 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,319 Tracy out of his cell in the county jail and started our canvas of the 290 00:21:30,319 --> 00:21:34,799 appointed area. We took the usual precautions and handcuffed Tracy's wrists to our own. 291 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:40,240 We started the search for his hideout at First Street and figure out was 292 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,559 a warm day in Los Angeles. The temperature was ninety one. After the 293 00:21:44,599 --> 00:21:47,519 first three hours. I could tell Ben's feet we're ready to give out, 294 00:21:47,559 --> 00:21:51,640 and so were mine. We couldn't even have the comfort of complaining that it 295 00:21:51,839 --> 00:21:56,200 encourage Tracy, and he was cocky enough already. Take cursed every step of 296 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,839 the way. My legs off, all right, quit poling. Will you 297 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,720 come on, Tracy? Up the stairs? Another one to check? Warm 298 00:22:03,839 --> 00:22:07,160 days? You know? Yeah? A little? What do you mean a 299 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,000 little? Must be one hundred and ten? Yes, what is it? 300 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:15,240 You're the manager? Yes? Could you tell me wich apartment this man has 301 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:18,480 in your house? Ma'am? Oh him, yes, ma'am this one. 302 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:22,559 Never saw him before. You don't live here, all right, ma'am? 303 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:27,920 Thank you? Yeah, hot er, why are you gonna get wise? 304 00:22:29,279 --> 00:22:33,480 Come on, Tracy, and that finishes this side of the street. You 305 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,359 want to cross over, Jill, Yeah, let's go. I'm hungry. 306 00:22:37,559 --> 00:22:40,279 I want to eat after we cover the other side of the street. You 307 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:41,720 can't do this to me. I'm gonna get a lawyer. I don't have 308 00:22:41,839 --> 00:22:47,160 your jobs both here. Yeah, come on, we only got a couple 309 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:55,960 one hundred places to go. All right, jas, what can I do 310 00:22:56,039 --> 00:22:57,880 for you? You're the manager, I run the place. Yeah, which 311 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:03,440 room does this man having place him? You made a mistake. He doesn't 312 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:08,599 live here? All right? Thanks, My feet are killing me. Wait 313 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,319 till I get a lawyer. I'll find both your dumb comps. I do 314 00:23:12,319 --> 00:23:15,559 you think you're doing anyway? My guy? All that day, and the 315 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,680 day after that, and the day after that, Ben and I with Tracy 316 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:23,279 handcuffed to our risk canvas to designated areas from hotel to hotel, from rooming 317 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:27,200 house to rooming house, and the apartments too. Every day our feet ached 318 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,599 a little more, our pace slowed down, Tracy got more irritable, and 319 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,039 the weather got hotter. The second day it reached a high of ninety two, 320 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:40,119 the third day ninety four, the fourth day ninety four. Police regulations 321 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,400 say plain clothes officers must wear a coat and necktie on the street at all 322 00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:48,440 times. We wore our coats and necktimes. The search continued into the fifth 323 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:52,680 day, our pace got even slower. Ben and I started to lose heart. 324 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,400 After a while, we forgot our object was to recover the stolen jewels. 325 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,200 All we wanted was to find Tracy's hideout. We knew we were right. 326 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,440 We knew Tracy was our man. Was a point of pride. Whether 327 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:08,200 your feet hurt or not, you don't give into a thief. Yes, 328 00:24:10,319 --> 00:24:12,519 what do you want? You're the land lady here, I am. Which 329 00:24:12,559 --> 00:24:17,400 apartment does this man have in the building? Well, none of them. 330 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,359 He's not one of my tenants, Thank you, ma'am. Come on, 331 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:25,599 Tracy. By the sixth day, all three of us had special pads in 332 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,799 our shoes. Our feet ache worse than ever. Tracy let us know about 333 00:24:29,839 --> 00:24:33,160 his every three minutes. By late afternoon of the sixth day, we'd covered 334 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,960 more than half of the designated area. The temperature was ninety five. You 335 00:24:38,079 --> 00:24:44,279 guys are gonna go on forever. I'm sweating like a horse. I'm getting 336 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,480 card of your moaning. That looks like the manager behind the desk, Yes, 337 00:24:48,559 --> 00:24:52,839 sir, you're the manager. Yes, sir? What can I do 338 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,319 for you? Can you tell us which room this man has in the hotel? 339 00:24:56,839 --> 00:25:00,359 Him? He doesn't live here? Hey, he fellas look off? 340 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,960 You warm like the cool off in the lobby. We're a condition. No 341 00:25:04,079 --> 00:25:11,920 thanks, I'm hungry. Why don't we eat you're always hungry. You get 342 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,279 the biggest mouth on a cop I ever saw. All right, then, 343 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:21,359 yeah, I'm hungry. I want to eat. Now, wait till I 344 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:26,640 give this story to the papers. Mistreating innocent guys. Break All right, 345 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:32,160 come on up the stairs. I'm going to get a lawyer tonight. I'll 346 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:41,119 show you. Yes, why mister Baker, where have you been? We 347 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,359 questioned the landlady and Miss Elizabeth Hunter. She told us that Baker alias Tracy, 348 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,640 had rented an apartment from her about two months before. That's all the 349 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,400 information she could give us. Tracy clammed up, he would admit nothing. 350 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,240 We asked Miss Hunter to accompany us as a witness. We took the elevator 351 00:25:56,319 --> 00:25:59,559 up to Tracy's apartment on the sixth floor. Miss Hunter, Tracy, Ben 352 00:25:59,599 --> 00:26:07,960 and I, I'm down this way here. Do you want me to open 353 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:15,599 it? Please? There's a good water. What is the water? I 354 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,359 told you to get out of town if I didn't come back. I didn't 355 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,480 want to leave. I didn't want to leave without you. I thought you 356 00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:25,880 slept in the park. Take a jump. Where is the stuff hidden? 357 00:26:26,759 --> 00:26:30,160 All right? Ben, handcuff into a chair, the girl behind him. 358 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,160 We'll find the stuff. Ourselves. All right, Tracy, all right you 359 00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:37,480 nick, I haven't done anything neither. See you can't prove it, Billy, 360 00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:44,519 shut up. No talking between you. Two affairs will separate you. 361 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,079 All right, Ben, you take the living room here. I'll try the 362 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:52,759 kitchen and get a window open. It's hot in here, right, Sergeant, 363 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,039 you will be careful of the furniture. Yes, ma'am, I had 364 00:26:56,079 --> 00:26:59,920 no idea you, mister Baker of all people. Don't talk to him, 365 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:06,680 please, man, Oh yes, Gop, Why don't you fail? Ben? 366 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,039 Look, it's only the beginning. He's got the stuff scattered seven ways 367 00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:11,960 for Sunday. We're gonna need help. In the milk bottle, Yeah, 368 00:27:12,079 --> 00:27:15,079 two rings, three loose diamonds. In this bottle of mayonnaise. We found 369 00:27:15,079 --> 00:27:18,240 some kind of approach in it, A couple of watches taped to the underside 370 00:27:18,279 --> 00:27:25,039 of the kitchen sink. All right, you convinced? Okay, Ben, 371 00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:32,200 call Backstrand. There was a definite possibility that Walter Baker alias Tracy, had 372 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,759 stored some of his stolen loot outside his apartment. We stood a little chance 373 00:27:34,759 --> 00:27:38,640 of ever recovering it unless we got him to break. Ben called Chief Backstrand 374 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,920 and ten minutes he arrived at the apartment with another man from Burglary Detail, 375 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,960 George Levine. Together we went over the four room apartment foot by foot. 376 00:27:47,279 --> 00:27:51,559 We found jewelry, watches, loose stones in every conceivable place, in cartons 377 00:27:51,599 --> 00:27:56,680 of Cottie's cheese and jars of cold cream in the garbage can everywhere. Who's 378 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,799 your girlfriend? All right? I don't ask her? What's your name? 379 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,240 I said, what is your name? Billy? Billy Crawford. He didn't 380 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,519 do anything, he didn't All right, Billy, maybe you can tell us 381 00:28:07,759 --> 00:28:10,119 where's the rest of the stuff he stole? He didn't steal, He didn't 382 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,160 steal anything. Billy, shut up, keep quiet, he ed, Wait 383 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,759 a minute, what just a minute. I want to look over here. 384 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,799 Papers taped to them the side of that top drawer. What is it from 385 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,160 now? No, you can't. You can't look at these. All right, 386 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:27,839 you found him. I'll talk No papers, he's your next con Yeah, 387 00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:33,440 I'll cop out. Don't do it, Belly, Shut up, dumb 388 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,799 dame. The rest of the stuff, where is it? On the roof, 389 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:38,920 inside the ventilator, the one near the front. You'll find a couple 390 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,519 of paper bags, I'd said. Levin got a cheap. I'll check it. 391 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,160 Your papers say you did time in Oregon? What for? Fell for 392 00:28:48,319 --> 00:28:52,079 robbery? Did five? Iome seven? What about the girl? I'm going 393 00:28:52,119 --> 00:28:56,759 with you? I don't know. You figure it all right, Fredy Romero. 394 00:28:57,279 --> 00:29:00,759 Take the girl to Lincoln Heights and Booker, we'll take him. Come. 395 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:04,839 I want to go with you. I'm sorry, man, this way 396 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,119 out? All right? Easy, lady? Wait a minute, gentlemen. 397 00:29:08,519 --> 00:29:15,680 Water, you're right, dumb dame Billy so long? Water, All right, 398 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,720 come on, let's go. What's made you feel? All right? 399 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:26,599 He lied? He so loved me. He lied to me. Don't feel 400 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:37,880 hurt, lady. He lied to everybody. The story you have just heard 401 00:29:38,119 --> 00:29:45,279 is true. Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. Walter Baker 402 00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:48,880 alias Walter Tracy was tried and convicted on three counts of first degree burglary and 403 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:53,279 received the maximum sentence prescribed by law. He is now serving out his term 404 00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:57,039 in the state penitentiary. A hold has been placed on him by the state 405 00:29:57,079 --> 00:30:00,720 of Oregon, where he will serve out seven years for violation of parole. 406 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:07,400 Billy Crawford, Baker's accomplice, was tried and convicted of receiving stolen property and 407 00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:15,400 is now serving time in the State Penitentiary for Women. You have just heard 408 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:21,079 the eleventh in a new series of authentic cases transcribed from official police files. 409 00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:27,799 Technical advice for Dragnet is furnished by the Los Angeles Police Department. Tonight's program 410 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:33,400 is dedicated to Worden Clarence A. Larkin of Fulsome Prison, Sacramento, who, 411 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:38,319 on the evening of September twenty fourth, nineteen thirty seven, gave his 412 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:48,640 life so that yours might be more secure. Dragnet came to you from Los 413 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:53,279 Angeles. If you enjoy Tonight's production of Dragnet, you'll want to listen this 414 00:30:53,359 --> 00:30:59,519 Saturday evening to a pair of adventure shows featuring two well known Hollywood personalities. 415 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,119 You'll enjoy Brian don Levey, star of Dangerous Assignments. Also on Saturday schedule 416 00:31:04,279 --> 00:31:08,839 is Richard Diamond, private detective, as played by the screens romantic tough guy 417 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:15,240 Dick Powell. Listen to both of these exciting programs this Saturday over most of 418 00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:26,960 these same NBC stations. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. Welcome 419 00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:33,440 back. This is another one of my favorite Dragnet stories, although it doesn't 420 00:31:33,519 --> 00:31:38,599 rank near as high as the City Hall bomb. Nevertheless, it illustrates one 421 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:45,960 of Dragnet's great ideas. It stands in contrast to many detective programs of the 422 00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:52,000 day, which imagine detective work as some glamorous pursuit filled with action and excitement 423 00:31:52,079 --> 00:31:59,279 all the time. Rather, Dragnet shows more often than not, solving a 424 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:05,039 crime is a long, hard slog, involving a lot of trial and error 425 00:32:05,559 --> 00:32:09,559 and also a lot of legwork. I think we all like to avoid tedium, 426 00:32:09,599 --> 00:32:15,039 and so much of our science and discoveries in recent years is dedicated to 427 00:32:15,119 --> 00:32:20,200 reducing the amount of tedium we all have to deal with. Sometimes, though, 428 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,839 the only solution is just to go through a long and tedious process, 429 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:30,519 and this story does a good job dramatizing that never was Joe Friday put through 430 00:32:30,519 --> 00:32:38,160 a more frustrating and exhausting experience. This job does a great job capturing the 431 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:46,400 pure medium and misery of this nearly week long trudge to California summer heat in 432 00:32:46,599 --> 00:32:54,400 suits and ties with very rare encounters with an air conditioner. Harry Morgan is 433 00:32:54,559 --> 00:33:00,119 perfect as our criminal, as it brings a sharp tongue and a smart mouth 434 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:07,000 and a bad attitude, taking him the most unpleasant companion the two police officers 435 00:33:07,079 --> 00:33:13,480 could have had on an already miserable task, and his performance really does help 436 00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:17,240 make this episode work. Now, Morgan wasn't actually twenty seven, as the 437 00:33:17,359 --> 00:33:22,720 character claim, but he was thirty five and Raymond Burr was thirty two. 438 00:33:23,079 --> 00:33:30,559 It's incredible how much older many people sounded back then baking Burr's character ed Bastrand. 439 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:35,000 It's a bit of a recurring theme with some Dryden that episode. It's 440 00:33:35,039 --> 00:33:40,000 particularly early ones where the police captain takes out how many complaints he's getting from 441 00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:45,319 the public on the investigating officers, as if they're not already doing everything they 442 00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:49,799 can to solve the case. However, it's a human practice, so I 443 00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:53,559 don't fault its inclusion in this episode. I do wonder if Friday in Romero 444 00:33:53,799 --> 00:34:00,279 offered to swap places with Bastrand and take his phone calls once they got into 445 00:34:00,319 --> 00:34:06,119 their daily pursuit with our friendly neighborhood burglar. I don't think I've mentioned this 446 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:10,039 before when talking about this episode in prior podcast, but the foot chase scene 447 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:16,079 was really good, particularly for something that was audio only. It brings to 448 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:22,519 light the many challenges that police may face in pursuing a suspect in public. 449 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:28,119 It's not nearly as easy as many other programs will make out as sometimes the 450 00:34:28,119 --> 00:34:31,760 police have a pretty easy time, you know, just being able to pursue 451 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:37,119 a suspect, and the suspect has to do something clever to shake them. 452 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:43,880 The idea of someone trying to grab a policeman while running for reasons definitely shows 453 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:49,599 some of the challenges that you can face as a police officer when pursuing a 454 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:52,159 suspect when you have a lot of people around. Finally, I have to 455 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:58,079 salute the one pawn shop owner for trying to bounce back from having to hand 456 00:34:58,159 --> 00:35:04,000 over the jewels and the money he paid for the stolen merchandise and tried to 457 00:35:04,039 --> 00:35:07,960 sell Friday a watchband. That's how you do it. You just never stop 458 00:35:07,119 --> 00:35:13,679 selling. Well. Now to listener comments and feedback, and regarding the brothers 459 00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:17,199 in the City Hall bomb, a listener writes, I was sure that the 460 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:22,039 brother with the bomb in the box was parly Bear until you said that you 461 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:25,480 didn't know. Well, thank you so much, and you may be right 462 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,360 thinking about it. It does sound a little bit like poorly Bear, and 463 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,159 I think you may be right on that now. As I said before in 464 00:35:34,199 --> 00:35:38,679 the previous episode, the listeners responding to I don't recognize the voices of all 465 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:44,599 the radio actors, although there are a good many that I do pick up 466 00:35:44,639 --> 00:35:51,719 on. I recognized Herb Butterfield and Jack Krushian among today's casts, but partly 467 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:57,480 Bear. I'm just not quite as tuned in yet, and I do think 468 00:35:57,559 --> 00:36:04,039 that he has a great deal of variability in his voice, although I should 469 00:36:04,039 --> 00:36:07,840 have it down a bit more, given that we just finished Tales of the 470 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:12,320 Texas Rangers and he was in that one a bunch. But I still don't 471 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,119 know who Elwood is and I haven't received a guest from anyone on that. 472 00:36:16,119 --> 00:36:21,960 And then a listener on YouTube Rights regarding my analysis of the City Hall bomb, 473 00:36:22,039 --> 00:36:24,519 your analysis, Adam spot On, I couldn't agree with them anymore. 474 00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:30,480 Well, thank you so much, and now it is time to thank our 475 00:36:30,639 --> 00:36:36,880 Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Alisha, Patreon supporter since March 476 00:36:37,039 --> 00:36:40,800 of twenty twenty two, currently supporting the program at the rookie level of two 477 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:45,960 dollars or more per month. Thank you so much for your support, Alisha, 478 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,599 and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast. 479 00:36:49,679 --> 00:36:53,719 Please follow us using your favorite podcast software, and if you're enjoying the podcast 480 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,079 on YouTube, be sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, 481 00:36:58,199 --> 00:37:04,039 and mark the notification bell. We'll be back tomorrow with our Sunday encore, 482 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:08,400 and we'll be back next Saturday with another episode of Dragnet. But join us 483 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:15,960 back here on Monday as we start our journey once again through our regular lineup 484 00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:20,360 with Sam Spade. Where I am sorry, mister spaed, but this has 485 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,199 affected me very bigly. Look, you promised you'd lay off the magic, 486 00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:27,199 Wendell. How you do? Misplaced half a woman this time? Now I 487 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,599 have given up magic, mister Spade. I am currently employed as third vice 488 00:37:30,639 --> 00:37:35,760 president of the second National Bank of North Taklahoma. All that, yes, 489 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,440 sir, oh, my star was rising, My future seemed assured. But 490 00:37:39,119 --> 00:37:43,800 now a shadow has fallen over my good name. Booted along? Will you, 491 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,719 Wendell? This is costing me money. I cannot tell you more on 492 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,119 the phone, mister Spade. You must come at once. It is extremely 493 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,159 urgent. I see well. Frankly, Wendell, I have a feeling I'll 494 00:37:52,159 --> 00:37:59,039 be tied up. The chances are I'll Why was that I just said? 495 00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:01,840 There's one hundred dollarder your desk blotter for a retainer. I left it when 496 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,559 I came with a note. But if you have a collection to make, 497 00:38:05,559 --> 00:38:08,920 suppose Wendel that is the collection. I hope you'll be with us then. 498 00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:15,119 In the meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot 499 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:19,559 net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on 500 00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:25,039 Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This 501 00:38:25,199 --> 00:38:28,639 is your host, Adam Graham signing off.