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Speaker 5: It was Monday, August seventh. It was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working a day watch out of robbery detail.
My partner's Ben Romero, the boss's Thad Brown, cheap of detectives.
My name is Friday. It was one fifteen PM when
I got to forty six fifty six Collis Avenue the
front door.
Speaker 4: Is that your jersey?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's me.
Speaker 6: I didn't expect you so soon.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm off for lunch, and Ben and I were
in the neighborhood.
Speaker 6: So oh well, I'll.
Speaker 7: Get the telegram. Thank you, say, I'm glad you could
get home. Telegrams always make me nervous. Nobody ever sends
a telegram that's it's important here, So thank.
Speaker 5: You, yes, said you, Maa. Some people send wires invite
you to lunch or do a reception or something like that.
Or is that so sure you've just forgotten? Haven't sure?
I've gotten them before like that?
Speaker 6: There's no way to do anyhow.
Speaker 5: Why not?
Speaker 7: I'm always associaped frightening things with telegrams. Well aren't you
going to open?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, sure, Well if you were worried, you could
open it.
Speaker 7: I've been all right, you know, I never opened anything
addressed to you, Joseph, anything important.
Speaker 5: It's from Belmont, my old high school. Oh yeah, they
want me to come up next week. They're having some
sort of assembly up there, want me to talk to
the student body.
Speaker 6: That's nice, you're going to go?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I better, don't you. I have to
clear through Captain Sheldon.
Speaker 7: Though I think it's awfully nice for them to remember you.
Speaker 6: But are you going to talk on.
Speaker 5: To say, uh, police work? It says, yeah, I'll have
to think of something to base.
Speaker 7: It on, though, wat I you don't have to memorize it.
Joseph doesn't look well for men to stand up on
a platform ready prepare to talk?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. Oh that's Ben. I gotta go on my.
Speaker 7: Would you I've been like some lunchhop and picture something
about a minute.
Speaker 5: No, we haven't got time, girl. I'll see you later.
Speaker 7: I don't know why they couldn't have written a letter
instead that I said. They could have written you a letter. Besides,
it's much cheaper than a telegram.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I'll see you later.
Speaker 8: By Jersey.
Speaker 5: Right, she's gotta call Joe. They want us to call
the office, so well I might as well do it
from the house. Yeah all right, I'll be right back. Right,
it's just me again.
Speaker 9: Ma came back and used the phone.
Speaker 5: Please, it's Friday. Glenn got one for you, Joe. I
can't hear you. Glenn got one for you. Wait a minute,
I can't hear you. Hey, Ma, would you hold that
vacuum for a minute please? I can't hear. Thank you,
I'm sorry, Glenn. What did you say again?
Speaker 10: That young kid hit again Doctor's office.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's that same kid, only.
Speaker 3: This time you get a little rough.
Speaker 8: Victims at Georgia Street. He's still carrying that gun.
Speaker 5: Did he use the gun to beat the man with victims?
A fifty five year old doctor? No reason for it, Joe,
All right, we'll get right on it, right, yeah, bye, okay,
I'm all through anything. Yeah. That young high pit again
Doctor's office. Beat him up pretty bad. He's down at
Georgia Great combination, isn't it. You know? What's that? Armful
of narcotics and a loaded gun? Monday, August seventh. Since
June twenty seventh, Ben and I had been assigned to
a case involving a young narcotics thief. For seven weeks now,
he'd been robbing every possible source available to him of narcotics.
Since the inception of the investigation, we'd seen this young
criminal develop from a small time sneak thief to a
full fledged, armed and vicious thug. The descriptions of the
young thief taken from his various victims tallied almost to
the letter, blonde like, complex and small stature five seven
to five ten, nervous, and unusually juvenile in appearance. Everything
possible was being done for his quick apprehension. Hundreds of
mugshots were screened and shown to victims no identification. Three
point thirty pm. We checked back in at the office,
went to see Sergeant ed Hall, Narcotics Division.
Speaker 10: Chandler said, you went over to Georgia Street to see
that doctor. Yeah, try ed Short visit poor guy.
Speaker 5: Pretty bad. The guy's really a mess. Kid must have
worked overtime on him and wants his condition still critical.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they wouldn't let us stay alone. We got a description.
It's the same kid. Doctor's name was Gannon, fifty five
years old.
Speaker 5: Yeah, pistol whipped him, knocked out seven of his teeth,
fractured his jaw.
Speaker 10: Doctor was wearing glasses. They don't know if he'll see
out of his right eye anymore. This puts junior in
the big leaves now, Yeah, it sure it does.
Speaker 5: We got out of supplementary all points on him. Here's
a list of the joke that he got quite a
haul here.
Speaker 11: Yeah, m morphine, quarter grain thirty miles five dollars half
grain cordine dolphine quarter grains six miles. Yeah, he did
all right, long list here. We got that from the nurse.
She was out to lunch when it happened. To the
small office out there, and the doctor closes up at noon.
Nurse goes out to lunch and he eats in the office.
That's when the kid got to him.
Speaker 10: He knew when they hit, didn't he. Yeah, boys have
been able to.
Speaker 5: Turn up a thing for you. Nobody seems to know
the kid well. The amount of stuff he haul out
of that doctor's office something on a show. Should Yeah
all like that. You got anything at all to work on?
Speaker 10: Yeah, that car that was used on the job still
got a stake down. We'll just picked this up for
the report counting when out the car was reported stolen
two hours after the robber. It's a little bit of
a breakout. The fort was taken on at the Wilchire station.
Miss Irving Adams states to her husband had notified her
that the car was stolen from him while he was
at work today, so he always parks it out in
front on the street.
Speaker 5: We haven't checked it out yet. We figured it was
a good place to start. Maybe, wait a minute, would
you say that name was Irving Adams. Let me see
that before. Wells, Adams is a user. He's up in
county now waiting crown. Are you sure about that? Yeah,
Walker and I picked him up. I just talked to
Adams up in the county jail this morning. How long
has he been in Let's see, it was last Tuesday,
July thirtieth. The car couldn't have been stolen from Adams
today if he's been in jail for a week. There's
one guy can figure it out for you, Adams. Four
h five pm we went up to the tenth flour
of the county Jail, the interview room. We talked to
Irving Adams for an hour. He said he wanted to cooperate,
but he couldn't explain his wife's action in reporting the
car stolen from him. He kept repeating that he knew
his wife was not involved in anything, that she was
innocent of any complicity in the case of the youthful gunman.
He could give us no information on anyone fitting the
gunman's description. He insisted that the entire matter was a
mistake and that his wife could clear everything up if
we just talked to her. Five twenty pm, Ben and
I drove out to two thirty nine West ninety second Street.
The Adam's residence was a small white bungalow, trimmed and red.
The front lawn needed cutting in care. There were four
bottles of soured milk on the front porch, along with
several old newspapers. The front blinds were down, although it
was still early. The front porch light was burning. The
other homes in the neighborhood appeared to be neat and
well kept. The screen door was ajar and supported by
one rusty hinge. Five twenty one pm. It's like nobody's home. Yea,
let's give it a try.
Speaker 10: Give me a minute, I'll cover the back right, Yes.
Speaker 5: Police officer, my name is Friday, or missus Irving Adams.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5: Well, I like talk to you about your stolen car.
Speaker 4: Have we found it?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: We have?
Speaker 5: Can I come in place?
Speaker 4: Is in such a mess? Can't we talk here?
Speaker 5: Well, if you don't mind, I'd rather come inside.
Speaker 12: Oh right, don't look at the house. I've been kind
of sick. I haven't felt much like cleaning up.
Speaker 5: All right, you alone here?
Speaker 4: Are you right now? My husband's at work.
Speaker 5: Mind if I go through the.
Speaker 4: House, I mean, searcher, you've got a warrant.
Speaker 5: Well, I just want to go to the back door.
Speaker 13: What for?
Speaker 5: Well, my partners around back there. This is the way
to the back door.
Speaker 4: Hair, that's right, This is it's locked. Key's in the door,
hey Ben?
Speaker 5: Yeah, everything will right? Yeah? Fine?
Speaker 4: Is he a police officer too?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right. This all that is to the house here?
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: Well, just these three rooms here?
Speaker 4: Yes, that's all.
Speaker 5: I thought you said you were alone here I am.
Who's that woman lying down in the other room.
Speaker 12: That's Catherine. I didn't want you bothering you. She's been
sick too, she sleeps most of the time. I just
forgot about it. Anybody else around, no nobody.
Speaker 5: No, I mean anybody's sick or otherwise, anyone besides you
and this girl in there.
Speaker 12: Well, you've been in every room in the house except
the bathroom. Miss it here? Yes, okay, I don't understand
all this. I reported my car's tolen, and you come
out here and search my house. If I did steal
my car, I wouldn't hide it in here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, want to come in yeah.
Speaker 4: Could you tell me something?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Why are you here?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 5: I told you we find your car. This is sigent Romeo.
How do you do?
Speaker 4: What's the trouble? Anything wrong?
Speaker 5: Who'd you say your car was stolen from me?
Speaker 4: It was my car?
Speaker 5: Is that the way you made the report? Miss Adams,
was stolen from you?
Speaker 4: I think, sir?
Speaker 5: Yes, it was Adams. According to the report that you
made out this morning, you stated that the car was
stolen from your husband. Isn't it right?
Speaker 4: Is that what I said?
Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, that's right.
Speaker 4: I don't remember we both used the car so much
for God?
Speaker 5: Well, no, which is it you or your husband?
Speaker 4: I'm not sure. You've been drinking heavy a little bit,
just to ease my nerves.
Speaker 5: I have been feeling. Well, it's obvious you're not drunk.
Missus Adams. Why don't you keep your story straight?
Speaker 4: We love users. I am telling the truth.
Speaker 5: Your husband's in the county jail. He's been there for
a week. The car couldn't have been stolen from him,
I could it.
Speaker 12: I didn't say it was stolen from him.
Speaker 5: This year's signa tore Miss Adam.
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, this is a copy of the Auto Theft
report that you made at the WILSR Division.
Speaker 5: Yes, well, as this report a true one or a
false one, is a penalty for making a false report,
Miss Adams, I'm sure you're aware of that.
Speaker 4: I only want my car back.
Speaker 5: Who was it stolen from?
Speaker 4: Whatever it says there? My husband?
Speaker 5: Well, we just told you that he's in jail. He's
still in there. We just talked to him. The car
couldn't have been stolen from him. Have you got anything
to say to that? No? Well, I think we better
go downtown where you can sit and straighten yourself out
and give us some right answers.
Speaker 4: I don't want to go to jail.
Speaker 5: That's just where you're going if you don't snap out
of it and come up with the truth.
Speaker 4: I know who you want. It's Rex Burley, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Who's Rex Burley?
Speaker 12: Young kid going small? He told me he was in
some kind of trouble with the car. Said, if I
tell the police it was told him to be all
right that way.
Speaker 5: Do you know where he is now?
Speaker 4: No? I don't you sure about that? That's the truth.
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 12: Catherine's awful sick. She always sleep is heavy only when
she's sick.
Speaker 5: She's really out, isn't she? Yeah, look at her leg. Yeah,
she's a user. Say this girl's on Narcoticsmith's Adams. Are
you a user?
Speaker 4: No, I'm not. I don't know where Catherine gets it.
Speaker 5: How about rex Burley?
Speaker 12: He's on it too. Maybe she gets it from him.
Is there any stuff in the house now, not that
I know.
Speaker 5: You want to tell us where rex Burley is?
Speaker 12: I don't know. He called her about an hour ago.
Catherine talked to him. Did he tell her where he what?
Speaker 4: Yes? He did. She wrote it down on a piece
of paper.
Speaker 14: Where's that paper under a pillow?
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Speaker 5: Monday, August seventh, six thirty pm, the young girl who
has identified as Katherine Dorrance was awakened and she produced
rex Burley's address. He stated that she'd known him for
the past year, she had just graduated from high school
and gave her ages eighteen. And Talking further with both
Iris Adams and Katherine Dorrance, we found that the description
of rex Burley checked out with that given us from
the suspects victims. They both stated that as far as
they knew it was his true name, that he had
no friends or associates known to them. A check with
R and I showed no record on the name Rex Burley.
At six thirty seven pm, Sergeant's Hall and Walker from
Narcotics Division arrived and continued the investigation of the two
female suspects. A stakeout was placed on the house at
two thirty nine West ninety second Street. The address we
got from Catherine Dorrance was a hotel on Washington Boulevard.
We drove out and checked with the clerk. We asked
if he had anyone registered under the name of Rex Burley,
and he told us no. We gave him Burley's description.
He said that a young man similar to that had
registered and was in room two ten. We got a
pass key from the clerk. We walked up to the
second floor. It mhmm, lights on under the door? Yeah, carefully,
where is it? Open up? We want to talk to you.
What about what's the key in the door? Yeah, thats
key's no good? All right, come on, open up, police officers.
All right, let's hit it again once more.
Speaker 10: Yeah, winner's open up the fire escape joe, police officers,
hold it up?
Speaker 3: Watch you all right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, come on, let's go.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 9: Hold it up there.
Speaker 5: He doesn't want to stop.
Speaker 2: He's over the side under the roof.
Speaker 5: Al right, come on alright, easy seem No, it's pretty dark,
all right, Come on easy now, easy Over there on
that side, can you see him? No, it's too dark.
What's that skyline? He's over there in that corner. You
see him? Yeah, Now he's going muster duck back down. Well,
he's in that corner. All right, let's take him. I
keep down. You circle around from that side. I'll go
around this way, all right, careful, keep down, don't please
don't t get your hands in the air.
Speaker 9: Walk toward the middle of the rock.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 10: I see him, Joe, I got him covered you all right, Yeah,
all right.
Speaker 5: Keep those hands up right, standstill, so all right, get
your hands behind you, man.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 5: Burlie.
Speaker 15: I didn't mean to do it.
Speaker 2: I was wrong.
Speaker 4: I know I was wrong.
Speaker 5: You should have thought about that a long time ago.
How old are you, Burleie? Twenty? You're living pretty high,
aren't you. I had to have this stuff.
Speaker 4: I needed it. How olse could I get it?
Speaker 15: I didn't buddy to buy it.
Speaker 5: He didn't have to get started on it. Come on,
let's go.
Speaker 15: I didn't want to get started. All of a sudden,
I just done it. I couldn't do anything about it.
You don't understand. It's just somebody else to explain it to.
Speaker 5: There is, but they won't understand it either. Monday, August seventh,
eight rex Burley was taking downtown to the Robbery Division
for further interrogation. He told us that he was in
his senior year in high school when he got started
on narcotics. He kept repeating this, he didn't mean to
get started. He readily admitted his participation in six narcotics robberies.
He told us that he got Katherine Dorrance, his eighteen
year old girlfriend, started on dope. Jean Bechdel took his
statement and a complete report was made. A partial recovery
of the stolen narcotics was made from his hotel room,
and the remainder had been found at Irving Adams residence
on ninety second Street. Both female suspects, Iris Adams and
Katherine Dorrance were filed on for violation of the State
Narcotics Act. A show up was scheduled for August eighth
to allow positive identification from rex Burley's victims. We received
word from Georgia Street that doctor Gannon's condition was improved.
The suspect was transported to the main jail where he
was booked. It was ten thirty eight pm when I
got to fourteen fifty six Collis Avenue. The front door
is that you? No, I'm not hungry.
Speaker 6: I don't have to eat fixture something.
Speaker 5: I'm kind of tired. I just like to sit down
for a minute.
Speaker 6: All right, there's evening paper.
Speaker 5: Oh thank you.
Speaker 6: What don't you do to the sleep of your coat?
Speaker 5: It's so Messa ripped it?
Speaker 6: Uh you slip it off. I'm mended after it fixtures
some dinner.
Speaker 5: Why don't you sit down and work on it now
if you want to. I've got something I'm kind of
like to go over with you. You remember that telegram
from Belmont this morning high school? Well, I think I
got an idea for a speech. Maybe I just made
a few notes here, wrote down sound of it. You
think you feel like listening to it? See if it's okay?
Speaker 6: You're at the speech today?
Speaker 5: Well, just parts of it. I hadn't written a clara yet.
I just got a few. I want to see what
you thought of.
Speaker 6: It, and let me have your coat?
Speaker 5: Then, yeah, there you go. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Now it's here you talk.
Speaker 5: Well, I remember it's not written down yet. It's just
kind of hit and miss as I going wrong, But
I think I can get the thought across and then
I'll put it all down on papers. Mister Fisher, that's
the principal up there, mister Fisher. Members of the faculty
in students, I like to tell you about a young
boy who started out in high school and ended up
on the roof of a downtown hotel, dodging police bullets.
I like to tell you about his girlfriend, eighteen years
old and a dope addict. This young fellow started out
on narcotics in search of a new thrill, something new
that he hadn't experienced in his young life. He was
still in high school when a group of the more
high living youngsters used to congregate at the local malt shop.
Well that's not so good, is it. Well, maybe sound
better this way. There was a malt shop on the
corner where some of the youngsters used to get together
after school. Kind of a place where if you had
the right connections, and our young boy and girl did,
you could get a drink of liquor in the back room. Well,
the high school faculty knows all about this local malt shop,
and they inform the authorities and pressure is brought to bear.
But the man who operates the place is clever. If
you can call the operations of a man like this clever.
He knows how to cover up, how to keep the
front room legitimate, in the back room a spawning place
for a juvenile delinquency, and the students don't help much.
There seems to be something during the formation of a
juvenile mind that when his teachers or his parents catch
him doing wrong or they try to tell him it's bad,
he prides himself and seeing how long he can get
away with it under covers seems to be the stylish
thing to do to outwit your parents and teachers. As
the youngsters grow older, they invariably find out how infantil
and stupid this is. But sometimes it's too late. That
sounds kind of stuffy, Ma, What do you think.
Speaker 6: It sounds like the truth? Let me hear the rest
of it.
Speaker 5: Well, you know how kids are. Sometimes they resent it
if they think you're lecturing them. Maybe they could have
been with Ben and I and I might make a difference. Well,
I want to make this too long, man, I think
maybe I ought to finish up something like this from
this malt shop on the corner. In that back room,
our young boy gets a good shoved down the road
of self degradation. He has the right connections and isn't
too long before he graduates the liquor in the back
room for something. He thinks it's far better narcotics. He's
heard that, unlike liquor, you can't smell it on his breath.
And he's a real veteran now he has hangovers. He's
heard that narcotics doesn't leave you with a hangover, so
it doesn't take too long before in our well, in
police parlance, he's hooked. Living in this day and age,
he thought that they taught him well in his economics
and civics classes. He thought he knew what post war
inflation was all about. He didn't have the vaguus notion
of the cost of his daily supply of narcotics. Once
he was hooked on it, he found that before long
he had to have his daily dosage and no time
at all. He found that it was all he could
do to get buy on thirty dollars a day, So
that costs monk thirty dollars each and every day. Or
he became violently ill, so sick that he couldn't seem
to function properly well in order to maintain his daily needs.
He got a gun and he robbed and he beat
people in He stole. He shared with his girlfriend, and
he dragged her down with him. He ended up on
the roof of a hotel trying to shoot his way out.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 5: The boy was twenty years old, his girlfriend was eighteen.
Two years ago, they both sat out there in a
high school auditorium during an assembly. He went a long way,
didn't he? In his two years out of high school.
Taken into custody on the night of August seventh. Who
was crying when we put the handcuffs on him? He
was crying when we left him in his cell at
the county jail. I guess he's still crying. I only think, man,
that's just rough. I haven't.
Speaker 6: Good. I believe it. You think it'll do any good?
Speaker 16: Well, I don't know, man, it's up to them.
Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3: On November ninth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
eighty three, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
In a moment, the results of that trial, and now.
Speaker 2: Here is our star Jack Webb.
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow, Rex Martin Burley was found guilty of three counts
of robbery in the first degree and was sentenced to
the State penitentiary, where he is now serving his term.
First degree robbery is punishable by imprisonment from five years
to life.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back a solid narcotics episode. In terms of life decisions,
taking legal advice from a twenty year old narcotics addict
about how to file a police report might be one
of the most foolish decisions you can make without even
getting details as to what he advised. Also, we have
another use of the last name Ginning. It just stands
out how much they reuse that name along with Carver
throughout the run of Dragnet. I did really like the
ending segment where Joe Friday was crafting this speech. It's
interesting in many ways because so many people are familiar
with the nineteen sixties series where Joe Friday is associated
with having a thorough three point lecture ready to deliver
at an instant. I mean, some of the Joe Friday
speeches from the sixties were so impressive that they were
put into the Congressional record, and essentially it's assumed that, yeah,
he's just got that on the top of his head.
So having the scene where he's thinking through what he
wants to say and how it's going to be received
by his audience reflects the way the character was originally conceived.
And he's having to put some real thought into how
he's going to speak to these high schoolers. And it's
a realistic, kind of first outline of how the speech
might worked out, rather than a finished product. And certainly
there's some thought as to how he's going to craft
the message, but there is actually with that closing line,
an important idea that reflects something different than the way
we often view things in the twenty first century. Friday
said whether the speech would do any good would be
up to the kids, And I think in our information age,
in so many contexts, you'll hear people emphasize the role
of the speaker, the role of the presentation, and suggests
that if you have the right speakers and the most
effective methods and the right in influencers, then that will work.
And if people make bad decisions, the speaker has failed
in their function. Now Certainly speakers should try to be engaging.
They shouldn't be overtly offensive to their audience unnecessarily. They
should do the best job to present the information in
the best way possible. And certainly, if you're using new
technology and social media, you should you do all the
fundamentals of presenting in that format. But at the end
of the day, we're all fundamentally responsible for our own
lives and the decisions we make, whether the decisions more legal, financial, spiritual, health,
or anything else. We always say that the idea is
that people need to communicate ideas better, we can ignore
that responsibility element, and I think that's an interesting point
from this episode. All right, well, now it's time to
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was me?
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in al fam I'm sorry, pal, but it couldn't be helped,
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Speaker 8: No, not a single blessed thing if you ask me, friend,
we got a bum steir that Gal's no spy.
Speaker 2: And what about those confidential reports and the embassy.
Speaker 5: We found in her apartment?
Speaker 8: I'm beginning to think they were planted by home by
the same little lady who gave us the original tip?
Speaker 1: Are you able to laugh?
Speaker 5: Jound to her again?
Speaker 8: Nope, had names she used was a phony. Don't get
it me and Nina by I, Lady six too, and
even somebody's trying to frame Maria. What gets me is
why I hope.
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