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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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now from Chamber sixth, nineteen fifty one, here is the

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Big seventeen.

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Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. The

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names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a

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detective sergeant. You're assigned a juvenile bureau. A series of

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crime suddenly starts among teenage children in your city. Robberies, burglaries,

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bodily assault that doesn't seem to be any reason for it.

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The crime wave grows. Your job stop it.

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Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the

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next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,

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you will travel step by step on the side of

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the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files,

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from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is

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the story of your police force in action.

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Speaker 4: Was Thursday, April tenth, was warm in Los Angeles. We

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were working the night watch out of Juvenile Bureau. My

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partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Stein. My name

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is Friday. It was ten twenty seven pm when I

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got to thirteen thirty five Georgia Street, second floor, the squadroom.

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Joe got you, Yeah, you're ready, half a minute, all right,

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get my coat on here, if you leave a note

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for McNamara, Yeah, I set all right, let's hurry. Huh yeah,

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same neighborhood we had the trouble Monday night. Uh huh,

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sounds like the same gang too. These kids are sure moving.

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Go ahead, Yeah, what is it this time movie theater

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on West Fremont, small neighborhood house. Oh, they had a

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crowd of fifteen to twenty kids in there tonight, mixed

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group boys and girls. For no reason at all. They

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started to tear the place up. They do much dammage. Well,

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I don't know. We can see when we get there,

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told me on the phone. In the theater manager tried

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to quiet the kids down. Half of us boys piled

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all over them. One of them pulled a knife. They

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tore up a couple of seats up on the balcony,

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moved out into the lobby, smashed mirrors and lamps. They

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beat up one of the ashes. I was the little punks.

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Where'd you park the car straight back? I'd give a

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right arm to know how this thing got started. We've

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never had much trouble from the kids in that neighborhood

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out there, not till this last month seemed to be going.

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It's not getting any better. Burglary's car, theft's wrecking property.

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Somebody's going to come out on the short end. If

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it keeps up, it's got to happen. Maybe it already has.

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When they were ripping up that theater lobby tonight when

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kid got hurt. What happened to a fourteen year old

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boy and the mix up? He got shoved through a

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display case plate glass, cut up pretty bad his eyes.

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I'm not sure he'll see again. In police work, the

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standard law of cause and effect works like it does

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for everything else. When a crime is committed, there's a

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cause behind it, there's a reason for it. And when

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a group of normally well behaved kids in an average

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residential neighborhood start running wild, there's got to be a

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reason for that too. A month before, a rash of

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auto thefts, petty stealing, and public disturbances had broken out

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suddenly in the particular neighborhood. All of the incidents were

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traced directly to the teenagers in the area. Why the

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kids had suddenly decided to run wild, we didn't know,

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But the amount and the nature of the violations kept

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getting more serious. Juveniles who had previously been picked up

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for petty thefts and placed on probation were now committing

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burglar Auto steps in the area had jumped twenty percent.

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alike increased by the week. We had a fair idea

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what the root of all the trouble was, but so

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far we hadn't been able to trace it. Ten forty

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five pm we got to the neighborhood movie Theater on

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West Fremont. We went inside. The lobby was a shambles.

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Two large mirrors had been shattered, lamps and sofas overturned

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and broken. The lobby candy counter had been wrecked completely.

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The glass showcases were caved in, the popcorn machine was smashed,

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the soft drink cooler turned on its side. The last

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showing of the feature picture was still going on. We

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interviewed the theater manager in the lobby, a mister Clyde Barton.

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Speaker 5: They got real foul mouth, one or two of the

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girls too, some of the language I wouldn't even use

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at a stag party. I got some mad. I grabbed

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two of the noisy ones by the neck and told

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them to get out.

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Speaker 6: That's when it broke loose.

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Speaker 4: Well what exactly happened.

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Speaker 5: The whole crowd of them jumped out of their seats

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and piled on me. I fell back down against the

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stairs and I started swinging. Tell you a two sides,

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and I was scared. I didn't know what to make

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of them. Me seemed like a packup of animals wild.

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I happened to hit this one kid, and I saw

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him pull out a knife and come at me. Didn't

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take me too long to get out of there. Kids

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are not when a bunch of them like that come

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after you, you run.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, you've called for the police as soon as

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all this happened.

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Speaker 7: You bet I did.

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Speaker 5: Just as soon as I could get out into the

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lobby and into my office, I locked the door. I

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could hear him turn the place up outside. Just look

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at that smashed up everything inside. I have to have

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something like this happen. Look at this candy stand.

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Speaker 4: Well, how about some of the kids you recognize in

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that crowd?

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Speaker 5: Ms boarn Oh, say, the last show is ready to break.

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Folks are going to be coming out. You want to

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step back here into my office. We can talk there

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and be out of the way.

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Speaker 6: And here we are.

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Speaker 4: Pull up a chair for yourself if I say thank you.

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Speaker 5: I just got the feeling there's something radically wrong going

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on with those kids.

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Speaker 4: This is the first time you've ever had any trouble

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of any real size, Is that right?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Or once in a while the kids fall around in

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the show talking loud, you know, but nothing like this.

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Oh let's see Fred, my usher and the way they

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missed him up brutal, And that little fourteen year old

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they shoved through the glass showcase. It'll be a real

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mess if he doesn't pull through.

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Speaker 4: And I was gonna ask you, sir, about the kids

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in that crowd you recognize you haven't known any of

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the name.

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Speaker 6: Sure thing.

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Speaker 5: I made a list of them while you were run

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the way over here. I got a half dozen of

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little more. That's another thing I can understand.

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Speaker 6: You know what's sense when.

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Speaker 5: These kids start running wild, no matter what they do,

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they don't seem to care if they're recognized or that.

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You think if they wanted to raise the devil, they

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go over to some other neighborhood, someplace where people didn't

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know them.

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Speaker 6: They just don't seem to care.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, we've had the same report from a couple

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of other business people in the neighborhood here. Mister Barton,

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you probably have a pretty fair opportunity to watch the

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kids around here from time to time. I mean running

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theater here, and I sure do.

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Speaker 5: Most of them are in here once a week anyway,

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So all the kids I've known since they were knee pants.

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Speaker 4: Well, of you, any idea at all what's behind all

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this trouble, I mean, any real indication.

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Speaker 5: Maybe I'm just the suspicious kind, but I've got an idea.

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All right here, I'll get that list of names for

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you at the same time. Yeah, they are seven names

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in all. Every one of those kids was in that

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gang tonight. I can give you a hand tracking down

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the address and I'll thank you. Huh, there's something else.

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Here's what I was talking about.

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Speaker 4: What's this, sir?

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Speaker 5: And that scramble in the lobby tonight? This little box

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fell out of one of the kid's pockets. One of

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the ushes picked it up, brought it into me. I

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have a look inside.

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Speaker 4: Ben.

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Speaker 5: I don't know too much about it, Sogean, but I

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got a hunch. I don't think I made a mistake. Man,

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what do you think? No, sir, no mistake.

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Speaker 4: It's marijuana. We finished interviewing the theater manager, Clyde Barton,

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and then we talked to the usher, a Donald Masters,

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who recovered the small box containing the marijuana from the

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floor of the lobby. He told us he recognized the

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young fellow who dropped the box, but he wasn't sure.

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He said the boy's name was Harold Everson, one of

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the names which appeared on the list which the theater manager,

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mister Barton, had given us. Half an hour later, Ben

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and I located the Everson boys' home was a two

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story frame colonial style house in the better than average

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section of the area. The boy's father answered the door,

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Harold Everson Senior. We told him what we wanted.

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Speaker 8: A little late to be making routine calls. Don't you

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think people have to get this sleep? Why can't you

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let it wait until morning?

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Speaker 4: It's not a routine called, mister Everson, like to see

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your son. If he's on Harry, What do you have

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to see him about? Would you have any idea where

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your boy spend his time tonight, sir?

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Speaker 8: He said he was going down to the gym, played

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a little basketball, and he was going to the library.

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Speaker 7: It's a school night. He had studying to do.

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Speaker 4: I think maybe you ought to keep a little closer

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check on your son, sir. That's not the way we get.

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Speaker 8: It, you're getting at I trust my boy. He said,

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he's going to the gym and under the library. He's

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got no reason to lie about it.

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Speaker 4: They had a minor riot at the neighborhood movie down

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on West Fremont tonight. Gang of high school kids ran

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wild and wrecked the place.

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Speaker 7: What's that got to do with Harry?

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Speaker 4: A couple of people recognized him among the gang of kids.

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They said he did his share of wrecking along the

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rest of 'em.

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Speaker 8: Couldn't be it's a lie. Harry didn't go to the

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show tonight, he told me when he got home. He

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even had his books with him. He spent the night

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at the library. Oh, I'd like to have.

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Speaker 4: You take a look at this, mister Everson. Huh this

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box here? Would you recognize this at all?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, same kind of box. My stomach pills come in.

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Got a little ass condition of my stomach. I take

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these pills for it. What's all this have to do

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with Harry?

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Speaker 4: I'm going to open the box for you, mister Everson.

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Speaker 7: I don't get it. What is this stuff?

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Speaker 4: Someone saw your son drop the box in the lobby

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of the theater tonight. The box contains marijuana.

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Speaker 8: It's stupid. It couldn't be right. I haven't got that

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kind of a boy, I know it is, right.

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Speaker 4: Do you mind if we talk to your son. Maybe

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he can explain it for.

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Speaker 7: Us just a minute. I'll get him down here, all right,

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have a cheroche.

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Speaker 4: One, thank you. Sure a nice place, an Joe. Yeah,

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beautiful furniture. There's nothing like period furniture. Never goes out

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a day. Be just as much in styled ten years

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from now as it is today. We better be sure

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and take by Georgia Street Hospital on the way back,

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and sure that kid's doing. You know, the one that

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was hurt at the show. Oh yeah, this.

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Speaker 7: Is my boy, Harry.

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Speaker 6: Officer.

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Speaker 8: Harry just told me offices. He doesn't know what this

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is all about. He was at the library, like I said.

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Speaker 6: Sure, I was there to lay closed. Somebody made a mistake.

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I wasn't at the show tonight.

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Speaker 4: But Harry, do you know mister Barton, the man who

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runs the theater. Yeah, I know at least swear as

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you were there tonight. So does one of the iceers.

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Oh boy, but the name of Donald Masters, he says,

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he knows you pretty well.

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Speaker 6: I don't know any Donald Masters.

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Speaker 4: You go to the same high school together, son, You're

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in the same class.

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Speaker 6: I told you, I don't know any Donald Masters.

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Speaker 4: What about this, Harry, This box here. Do you recognize this?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 4: What's the matters? Huh?

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Speaker 7: What is it? Harry? What's wrong with you?

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Speaker 6: Nothing? I don't know whose it is. It's not mine.

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Speaker 4: Was lost in the lobby of the theater tonight. Master

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says he saw you drop him.

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Speaker 6: He's lying. I hate the kid's guts anyway, he's lying.

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Speaker 4: But you said you didn't know him, Son, what's wrong

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with you?

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Speaker 7: What he's shaking for? Kind of a story you're trying

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to tell?

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Speaker 6: I didn't mean it? Then, kid got this stuff for me.

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I didn't mean to get I didn't mean to dead.

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Speaker 8: That's forgetting to look like I'm the dummy of the family.

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Take it easy, mister Everson, Harry, you're a liar.

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Speaker 7: Kid got the stuff for me, That is the truth.

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Speaker 6: I didn't buy it.

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Speaker 8: You want him downtown officer, So mister Effson'd like to

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have you come down with him.

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Speaker 7: We get your clothes on, go back your room, get

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your clothes on.

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Speaker 6: Okay, dead.

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Speaker 8: Trying to believe son using marijuana. I can't tell you

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how I feel.

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Speaker 4: I'm afraid there's going to be more folks feeling the

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same way before this is cleaned up.

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Speaker 8: Would be different if Harry didn't have a chance, but

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good home, good training boys had the best I could

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give it. Yes, wife and I, we never thought we

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had a worry in the world as far as Harry

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was concerned.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, maybe that's why it happened. Before we left

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the Everson house, we checked the boy's room and came

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up with another small box full of marijuana, which he'd

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hidden back in his closet. Besides Everson and his son Harry,

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more than a half a dozen other teenagers who'd had

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a part in the theater brawl were rounded up and

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taken downtown along with their fathers for interrogation. By the

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time we finished our questioning and the teenagers had finished talking,

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we had most of the story piece together, a story

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that had the parents so amazed that half of them

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thought the youngsters were making it up. The pattern was

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familiar enough for us to know that they were telling

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the truth. Almost two months before, word had gone around

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among the teenagers in the neighborhood that marijuana, along with

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various stimulating drugs, was to be had easily and in

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quantity for anybody who wanted them. Word was passed around

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that it was the new thing to do. The smart

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thing to do if you wanted to keep up with

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the crowd. In questioning the Everson boy, we found that

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he seemed to know more about the history and operations

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of the narcotics campaign in the neighborhood than the other boys.

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Speaker 6: Did I know one of the guys who first showed

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up with this stuff names Johnny Demring. He's about my age, seventeen.

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I used to know him pretty well.

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Speaker 4: How do you mean he was the first to show

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up with this stuff? Harry? What kind of stuff?

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Speaker 6: Marijuana? Some of the other things? You know, yellow jackets, goofballs.

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More of the kids go for them than they do

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for marijuana.

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Speaker 4: Do the youngsters know what these goofballs are made of? Sun?

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They know what they are.

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Speaker 6: It's dope. I guess narcotics. The kids get a big

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kick at him. I guess that's all lakes here.

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Speaker 4: It's Johnny Demmering. Does he sell the stuff around the neighborhood, Harry.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he was the first one. He's got a couple

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of other kids selling for him, now, a couple of girls.

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They sell a lot for him. Johnny makes pretty good money.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess he does. Where does he get the

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stuff from? You know?

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Speaker 6: No, I wouldn't know that. Someplace downtown. Johnny knows a guy.

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He's never told anybody where he goes to meet the guy.

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Nobody ever goes with him.

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Speaker 4: Was Johnny at the shit with you tonight?

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Speaker 6: No, he doesn't hang around with the kids much anymore.

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He's getting a little big time. I think he's got

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his own car and good looking girlfriend downtown. Says he's

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gonna quit school next month.

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Speaker 4: Where does Johnny live, son, Can you tell us?

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Speaker 6: I don't know the address right off. I can check

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it in the phone book for you.

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Speaker 4: How about the kids Johnny gets to sell us? Can

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you give us their name?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, I think I can remember who they are.

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You gonna bring Johnny in.

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Speaker 4: And talk to him, that's the idea. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if you're gonna find him right away.

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He probably heard about the trouble tonight. And Johnny's a

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pretty smart guy. I don't think you'll find him very easy.

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Speaker 4: I think we'll find him.

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Speaker 6: Nobody knows much about him. He never talks about what

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he's doing, never tells anybody anything. Pretty smart guy.

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Speaker 4: He told you how smart was that? Complete statements were

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taken from each of the youngsters we'd brought in for questioning,

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and then in practically all cases they were released into

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the custody of their parents pending action by the juvenile court.

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With the information we had at hand, it took us

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the better part of Ford to round up everybody involved

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in the narcotics distribution system which had been set up

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among the teenagers in the neighborhood by seventeen year old

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Johnny Demering. As for the Demuring Boy himself, he couldn't

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be found. We checked with his family, his relatives, as friends,

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all his known associates. We got out a want for him.

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Then we checked the car that he owned through DMV.

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We got out a want for that. No sign of

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the boy. Narcotics Detail gave us a hand and got

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their informants busy trying to track down the source of

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the dope for which the Demmuring Boy had been the

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only neighborhood distributor. We knew it went far beyond him.

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It reached to the same vicious men who make their

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money off the hopeless adult drug addict, the same vicious

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men who today are trying to build a new market

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for their wares among the young people of this country. Tuesday,

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April twenty ninth, two thirty pm. Again right, June Bureau

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Meril Oh, yeah, Briddy, Yeah, huh, that's try what's his name? Yeah, yeah, okay,

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right away, right, but it's ready from narcotics. They figured

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they got our man, the Demmuring Boy, No, the guy

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who pushed his stuff to Demmering. His name is Jock o'harris.

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They found him in a Kunty hospital this morning. Somebody

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got a hold of him two nights ago and gave

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him a good work and over. We're lucky, we're making

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What do you mean, he's not supposed to last out

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the day. Two thirty five pm, Ben and I left

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the office and went immediately to the Katie Hospital where

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we were allowed to briefly interview the narcotics suspect, Jock o'harris.

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He was in a critical condition with a fracture of

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the skull. He gave us a statement in the form

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of a dying declaration. He admitted being the contact man

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for seventeen year old Johnny Demmering, and he admitted also

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that he had kept the boy supplied with enough narcotics

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to keep the neighborhood teenage demand for the stuff fully satisfied,

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Sae like.

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Speaker 7: A good kid. Never thought he turned?

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Speaker 4: What do you mean, Jocko, how he turned?

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Speaker 7: Why do you think I'm here?

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Speaker 4: You mean he's the one who worked over? Yeah? Where

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is he, Jocko? Do you know?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 4: Do you know where he's staying? Do you have any idea?

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You all?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 7: Still all my stuff?

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Speaker 6: Every outs?

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Speaker 4: What was it? Heroin? Yeah? Listen, Yeah, get him fast.

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Speaker 7: He's got enough junk to start a war.

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Speaker 3: You're in a cruiser car of a metropolitan police department.

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You receive a routine radio car.

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Speaker 9: All units attention, All units pick up and hold for investigation.

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The following vehicle nineteen forty eight Ford, two door Sedan, black,

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white side wall tires.

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Speaker 2: There are many cars that fit this description. You listen

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for more facts.

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Speaker 9: This car will have extensive damage to write front end

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license number nine Robert nine seven oh seven in the

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seven column nine Robert nine seven o seven.

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Speaker 2: Now you can pin it down to one.

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Speaker 4: Wednesday, April thirtieth, nine am. The hunt for seventeen year

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old Johnny Demmering was intensified, to our knowledge, because of

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the information we'd gained from narcotics peddler Jocko Harris. The

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teenage youngster had a large store of high grade heroine,

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which we knew because of his inexperience he was unaccustomed

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to dealing with. In his hands, the narcotics immediately became

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a lethal weapon. We knew that Johnny Demering had only

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one market to deal in, only one type of customer.

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He was acquainted with the teenager in previous transactions. We

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knew that the youngsters received only a low grade type

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of narcotic, highly deluded. We knew that if Demmring succeeded

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in dispensing the highly concentrated store that he had on hand,

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and the juvenile customers he served tried it on themselves,

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it would very likely result in death. Three pm Wednesday,

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Despite all our efforts, Johnny Demmering and the store of

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high greade narcotics which he'd hijacked from Jock o'hrris were

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still missing. Wednesday twelve noon, we began rechecking every one

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of the possible sources that might lead us to the suspect.

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One of them was the boy's mother, Missus Francis Demmering.

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We talked to her at work. She was employed as

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a motograph operator in the mailing department of a large

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downtown department store.

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Speaker 10: Not since the last time you talked to me, sarje

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and I haven't heard a word from my boy, nothing

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at all.

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Speaker 4: Have you heard anything? Well, yes, ma'am, in a way,

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they've got an idea. There's still somewhere in the city.

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That's why we figured we'd come back and talk to

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you again. Have you been in touch with your relatives

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in town recently, Miss Demmering, I mean knows that Johnny

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might possibly contact.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's just my sister and my mother.

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Speaker 4: Yes, ra'am.

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Speaker 10: I guess it just wasn't to be right from the start.

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Johnny's father ran away, you know. Tried my best after

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that never seemed to be enough. I suppose there's no

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getting away from it. A boy needs a father. Try

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all you want, they still need a father, some kind

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of discipline.

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Speaker 4: How about the relatives you have out of town, Miss Demmering,

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any word from them? And all about john.

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Speaker 10: No, sergeant nothing.

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Speaker 6: Would you excuse me? Please? This run here is finished.

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I have to get it.

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Speaker 4: Off the machine.

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Speaker 10: Yes, terrible thing, Johnny getting mixed up in all this

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seems no matter how you try, it's never enough, never enough.

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Speaker 4: Do you have any idea at all where Johnny would

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most likely go in down if he didn't want to

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be seen, missus demmering.

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Speaker 11: We'd go.

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Speaker 10: No, I wouldn't know that, Sergeant. First place, Johnny's never

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really been in trouble before.

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Speaker 4: How about Johnny's school friends, ma'am. Would there be any

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one of them he might possibly contact in a gym?

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None that I haven't told you about before.

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Speaker 10: I don't think Evelyn, she's the only one I suppose

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Johnny go to if he needed help if he was

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in trouble.

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Speaker 4: That's his girlfriend at the high school, isn't it, Evelyn maxiwmell.

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Speaker 6: Yes, that's right, sweet girl.

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Speaker 4: How about a girlfriend Johnny was supposed to have downtown somewhere,

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missus demming? Would you know anything about her? Nothing? Really?

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Speaker 6: No name was Betty.

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Speaker 11: I think you.

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Speaker 4: Have no idea where she lived downtown?

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Speaker 6: No, I don't, Sergeant.

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Speaker 4: Well, all right, ma'am, thank you very much, appreciate it

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if you'd notify us if you hear anything about your

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son at all.

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Speaker 10: All right, sergeant, thank you. Tomorrow's Johnny's birthday. You know

477
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I meant to tell you always expect Johnny home on

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his birthday. Seems no matter where he is, how he's

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tied up with his school or sports or something, Johnny

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always makes it home for his birthday.

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Speaker 4: I wonder how it'll be tomorrow. He's never missed once,

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not once. Well, if he shows up, I guess you

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can count on one thing, ma'am. What's that he's going

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to have to miss next year? Two pm, Ben and

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I picked up a glass of milk and a hot

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dog for lunch, and then we continued making a check

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of Johnny Demmering's closest friends. Next in line after his

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mother was Demering's high school girlfriend, Evelyn Maxford. Relocated her

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at her home. A tall, attractive brunette, nicely dressed and

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well mannered, she seemed unusually nervous as we interviewed her.

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Speaker 11: I haven't heard a word, Sergeant. I know tomorrow's his birthday.

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His mother's expecting him home. I know he won't come though,

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sure of that?

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Speaker 4: Are you sure, miss Well? I just know That's all

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I'd like to ask you again. Yes, Are you sure

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you haven't heard from Johnny Demmering recently in the past

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two days or so?

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Speaker 11: No, that's what I told you. Don't you believe me?

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Speaker 4: Do you know why? We're so anxious to locate Johnny,

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Miss Matxman, Well, I think so.

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Speaker 11: It's about the narcotics business. You say Johnny had a

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hand in it, he was selling those things to the kids.

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I still don't believe it myself.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot more than that the way it stands now,

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Miss Maxon, what do you mean. Well, when he was

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at school, Johnny was kept supplied with narcotics by a

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man named Jock o' Harris. He's what we call a pusher,

508
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kind of an in between supply man and a narcotics train. Well,

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two nights ago Johnny caught up with this Harris. He

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beat him up badly enough to send him to the

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hospital with a fractured skull. And then Johnny stole everybody

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in narcotics that Harris had in his room, some of

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the strongest stuff you can buy on the market. That's

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why we want Johnny, Miss Maxley.

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Speaker 11: I don't think I understand. What does it mean?

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Speaker 4: It means that most of the teenage kids Johnny's been

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supplying stuff to have been getting fairly weak grades in narcotics.

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If he gets some of this stuff to them and

519
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the kids start taking it, it might prove too strong

520
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for him. They take too much of it. It could

521
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kill him out right. Now, you see what we're up against.

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We've got to find that boy. We got to find

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him soon.

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Speaker 11: Couldn't you talk to his mother? Maybe she could tell you.

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Speaker 4: Something we already have. Man, she couldn't tell us anything.

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That's why we halfway depended on you.

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Speaker 11: Why do they have to put it in my lap?

528
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Why does it have to be me? I like Johnny

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for a while, I don't know what to think.

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Speaker 4: Now, well, have you heard from a miss Maxford? Now,

531
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there's no reason to be afraid. You'd probably feel a

532
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lot worse if something happened to one of the high

533
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school kids, wouldn't you that?

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Speaker 11: I got a call from him yesterday. Johnny wouldn't tell

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me where he was. I asked him, but he wouldn't

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tell me.

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Speaker 4: What else did he say?

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Speaker 11: He knows everybody's looking for He doesn't know about the

539
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stuff that he stole. Oh, I'm sure that he doesn't

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know what it could do.

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Speaker 4: Did he make any dates with you? Did he want

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to see you?

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Speaker 11: Yes, he wants to see me. He wants me to

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meet him tonight.

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Speaker 4: Where excuse me? Yes? Go ahead?

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Speaker 11: Hello, Yes, I don't know. I don't really what seven

547
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o'clock A right, yes, yes, I'll meet him, A right goodbye.

548
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That was Johnny just then. He wanted to make sure

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I was going to meet him tonight. When at seven

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o'clock tonight, right near Westlake Park, which side the west side, Sergeant,

551
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we hope to god it's not true.

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Speaker 4: What's it the.

553
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Speaker 11: Narcotics he stole from that man? He said they were powerful?

554
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Speaker 4: Yes we did.

555
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Speaker 11: Johnny's been taking them for two days.

556
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Speaker 4: Six forty five pm, Together with two other men from

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Juvenile Bureau, Hurst and Tye, we drove near the appointed

558
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spot along the lake in Westlake Park where Evelyn Maxford's

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meeting with a teenage suspect, Johnny Demmering was to take place.

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We staked out at a reasonable distance and Miss Maxford

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went ahead to the meeting spot. As far as we

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could see, there was no sign of Demmering. Somebody on

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the opposite side of the lake was playing a phonograph.

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The music came over faintly across the water. We watched

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the Maxford girl cross the long stretch of grass down

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to the lake. She approached the shore, We saw her

567
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stop and look down.

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Speaker 2: Show let's go, come on, yo.

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Speaker 4: We ran all away as fast as we could get there.

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When we got close enough, we found out the reason

571
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for the scream. He was lying face up on the ground,

572
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near the edge of a small clump of trees, close

573
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to the water. It was a good looking boy, dark hair,

574
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good build. Took only one look and you knew right

575
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away he was too young to be dead. You could

576
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argue for a week, but you wouldn't change it. He

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was dead. The girl stood over him, her face in

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her hands, crying. No marks on the body, Joe, none

579
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at all. It must be it. Huh, an overdose. That's

580
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the way it looks to me. We better get her

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out of here, hadn't we. Yeah, Miss Maxford, come on, Miss.

582
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Speaker 6: Maxford, it's starch.

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Speaker 11: It's all right. It's all right now.

584
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Speaker 4: We'll have one of the other men drive you home.

585
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We can take care of whatever has to be done here.

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Speaker 11: It was a good boy, It was smart. How do

587
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you ever get started such a thing? Could you ever

588
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make such a mistake?

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Speaker 4: At He's got the best excuse in the world, miss, Yes,

590
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he was seventeen.

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Speaker 2: The star you have just heard was true. The names

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were changed to protect the innocent.

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Speaker 3: On May second, a coroner's inquest was held at the

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County Morgue Hall of Justice, City and County of Los Angeles,

595
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State of California in a moment the results of that inquest.

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At the inquest, the coroner's jury ruled that seventeen year

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old John Andrew Demering had administered himself an overdose of

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narcotics and thus had taken his own life. All others

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involved in the juvenile narcotics ring, a total of eight

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persons were tried and convicted under the State Narcotics Act.

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They received sentences as prescribed by law and are now

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serving their terms in the state penitentiary. You have just

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heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files.

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Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,

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Los Angeles Police Department.

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Speaker 7: Stay tuned for Color Spy next on NBC.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. This episode portrays something really interesting that we

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might struggle to relate to, and that is the degree

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to which that the people in this neighborhood are just

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utterly shocked as a seemingly nice neighborhood with good kids

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and good parents went wrong and seemingly out of nowhere.

612
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It's a tragedy, but it feels almost like a sudden disasters.

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You know, the families are shocked. Jock o'harris was obviously

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shocked at giving a kid with big ideas drugs didn't

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go well. And of course the only reason that Johnny

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didn't cause a bunch of kids to old was that

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he himself.

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Speaker 4: Oh deed.

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Speaker 1: Today, I think our culture has changed, and there are

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some crimes that might shock us apps depending on where

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we lived and how we viewed that area, but we

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don't really have that same shock about many of the

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things described in this episode. Well, listener comments and feedback now,

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and we have a couple of from a listener who

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changes as user name on Spotify frequently, but we'll go

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with it, Doctor who Done It, who commented on a

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couple of episodes of Dragnet, and we start with the

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big sophomore listener rites to think this is based on

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real life events as heart wrenching. Honestly feel guilt because

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in the first ten minutes I was thinking, lock them up.

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You never know what it's like until you walk in

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their shoes. Very true. And then on the begin laws

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rights of all the crimes against the mother in law,

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this is not the one I was expecting. I don't

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condone the crime, but I understand the criminal. Thanks so much,

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appreciate your comments. Now it is time to thank our

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Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go

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ahead and thank Marla, Patreon supporter since January twenty eighteen,

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currently supporting the podcast at the shawmus level of four

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dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Marla,

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and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying

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another episode of Dragnat. Join us back here tomorrow for

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yours truly, Johnny, all are aware.

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Speaker 9: Coming in?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's about time, Paul.

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Speaker 4: I began to think you got yourself another board.

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Speaker 1: I think the company has thinking on a couple of

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steps investigators, but I managed to convince the press and you.

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Speaker 9: Can handle it.

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Speaker 6: Which one particular.

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Speaker 2: One of our clients, Nina's John welcome.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I get it. One of the chances somebody getting hurt.

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You don't want your own man to take any chances.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'll go.

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Speaker 4: Anything eighteen.

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Speaker 9: Do you think Mama time down in New York?

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 8: I'm thinking if we send you down up, you send.

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Speaker 2: Anyone else and another thing, what that There'll be a

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nice scene. And I think expencumented this man.

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Speaker 4: Welcome Ali, Oh my wife two thousand dollars, three thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, a long time since I've seen I hope

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you'll be with us then in the meantime, send your

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your host, Adam Graham.

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Speaker 4: Sign and off.