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This week I look 20 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:38.439 at the audio drama release for by Lamore, and you 21 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.120 can have all of my articles automatically to deliver to 22 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:44.480 your Kendle and can try that service out free for 23 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:47.439 two weeks to search for great detectives of old time 24 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:50.120 radio in the Kindle store. Well, now it's time for 25 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:53.359 today's episode of drag Net. The original air date is 26 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:56.920 October the nineteenth, nineteen fifty two, and this one is 27 00:01:56.959 --> 00:01:58.000 the big Pill. 28 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:16.840 Sound off, ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about 29 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:19.879 to hear is true. The names have been changed to 30 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:32.039 protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a 31 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:36.240 homicide detail. Naval intelligence tells you that two marines have 32 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:39.080 been picked up with the shore Patrols. They are reported sick, 33 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:43.719 one is in critical condition. Foul play is suspected. Your 34 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:45.879 job investigate. 35 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:59.240 Drag Man, the documented drama of an actual crime, while 36 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:01.319 the next thirty minut that it's in cooperation with the 37 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:04.840 Los Angeles Police Department. You will travel step by step 38 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:06.919 on the side of the law through an actual case. 39 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:11.319 Transcribe from official police files from beginning to end, from 40 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:14.800 crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police 41 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:15.479 force and action. 42 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:21.919 It was two of the July tenth. It was hot 43 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:22.759 in Los Angeles. 44 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:24.879 We were working to day watch out a homicide detail 45 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.280 my partner's Frank Smith, the boss's Captain Warreman. 46 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:28.159 My name is Friday. 47 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:30.159 There was seven fifty eight am when I got to 48 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:35.400 Room forty two Homicide one and Joe all us get in. Yeah, 49 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:40.240 anything in the book, I'm looking. What's scenario? You hacked 50 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:40.840 about something? 51 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:41.120 No? 52 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:42.919 No, why do you ask that I begas? You're sorry 53 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:45.280 about something? What do you take a sour pill and 54 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:48.000 keep this up? You won't be asked to post toothpaste ads? Well, 55 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.240 that's funny, all right, Joe, tell your uncle daddy what's amatic? 56 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.520 Not a said court deal? Yesterday? It was miserable thing 57 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:55.759 you and Gaffney had been working out. 58 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:57.560 Yeah, the White Glove band. It came up while you 59 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:59.639 were out on vacation. Spent over a month on uncovered it. 60 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:02.360 From every looked like we had the guy anyway. Turned 61 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:04.560 we had an idea how much he'd taken on each job. 62 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:06.599 Lee thought he traced him on every movie made, on 63 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:07.199 each of the deals. 64 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:08.479 We figured we really had the guy. 65 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:11.360 DA's office thought so too, had quitting. Yeah, let him 66 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:13.240 walk right out twelve men Good and True. Let that 67 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:15.280 chief Woodlum walk right out on the streets to Freeman. 68 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:19.000 Well, that's where to go sometime. Very mister Friday here, Yes, sir, 69 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:20.360 I'm Friday. Something I do for you? 70 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.920 Well, I'm Richard Houston, Naval Intelligence Deputy Chief. 71 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:24.920 Frown directed me to you. 72 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:29.040 I say it was my partner Frank Smitton like, shit down, sir, 73 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:30.319 What is it we can do for you? 74 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:32.519 Well, we get a weird one. That's why we thought 75 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:34.560 your department ought to be in on it. About all 76 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:36.439 I can tell you is just the skeleton of the thing. 77 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:38.680 We don't know all the details. We haven't gone into 78 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.160 it completely yet. We figured you fellows would like to 79 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:43.120 be in on it. From the beginning. Looks like it's 80 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:46.439 going to be a police investigation. Says to begin I 81 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:48.079 should go back three weeks ago and tell you the 82 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:50.680 story as near as we've been able to reconstructed yestrict 83 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:53.399 right to have. Well, a couple of Marines left the base. 84 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:55.560 They'd just gotten back from Korea, both on a forty 85 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:56.439 eight hour pass. 86 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.079 We figured they came up here to La They. 87 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:00.800 Had a lot of back pay in the their pockets. 88 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:02.600 We don't know where they started, but they ended up 89 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:04.879 in the Chief Hotel. We got a call from the 90 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:07.839 Shore Patrol early Monday morning, they'd gotten a complaints that 91 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.199 the two boys were causing a disturbance in the hotel. 92 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:12.439 They picked them up and found they both were in 93 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:14.160 a pretty bad way. They had him shipped to the 94 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:16.839 Naval hospital down at Long Beach. By the time they 95 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:19.360 got there, they were really rocky. Well, I'm sorry, sure, 96 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:21.439 but I don't quite see just how we're connected with this. 97 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:23.839 Well, I'm getting to that. I'm sorry, all right, I'm 98 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:24.680 a little long winded. 99 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:28.160 Anyway, last night, the boys had been awl for over 100 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:30.839 two weeks. They were brought into the hospital. Like I said, 101 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:32.560 the doctors did what they could, but it was too 102 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:35.000 late to help. One of the boys died late last night. 103 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.839 We're not sure about the other one. That's for you, coming, sir. 104 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:39.079 They were both poisoned. 105 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:47.160 Nine oh six. 106 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.480 Am, Frank and I talked with Captain Lorman. Then we 107 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:51.439 checked out a crypt car and left for Long Beach. 108 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:53.839 When we got there, we talked with a doctor in charge. 109 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:55.639 He told us that it would be later that night 110 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.360 before the boy would be completely out of danger. He said, however, 111 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:00.360 that we could talk to him if we played our 112 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:02.759 questions so that the answers could be kept fairly brief. 113 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:05.759 We looked over the boys record. His full name was 114 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:09.120 Jack Wayne Walker, aged twenty four. He'd enlisted in the 115 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:11.639 Marine Corps on January fourteenth, nineteen fifty. 116 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:12.839 He'd spent almost a. 117 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:14.800 Year in the Far East, and his service record had 118 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.720 been good until this time. The record of the victim, 119 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:20.519 PFC Edward Monaghan, was pretty much the same. 120 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:22.680 The boys had both come from the same town. 121 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:25.160 In Arkansas, the date of their enlistment was the same. 122 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.600 They'd served overseas at the same time. At three forty 123 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:31.079 eight pm, the doctor rushered us into Jack Walker's room. 124 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:33.639 Who are you police officers? Jack? We like to talk 125 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:36.279 to you. What's it about. I haven't done anything, at 126 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:37.240 least they don't think i'd know. 127 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:38.720 It's not that we'd like to find out what happened 128 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:39.600 when you're up in LA. 129 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:41.560 I killed my buddy up there. That's what happened. You 130 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:42.519 heard about that, didn't you? 131 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:43.920 Yes, we did. That's what we want to talk to 132 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:44.240 you about. 133 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:48.120 Poor ed year in Courier. Guys taking potshots at us 134 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:50.680 cold mud, and we've got to come back here to 135 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:53.120 get it. I didn't trust that little crumb. I knew 136 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:54.160 we shouldn't have had anything. 137 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:55.959 To do with it, or you shouldn't have trusted who 138 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:58.160 Stubby you know the rest of his name? 139 00:06:58.319 --> 00:06:59.199 No, just Stubby. 140 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:01.519 I just can't believe. 141 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:01.839 It about Ed. 142 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.000 We shoved off, well a going to have a last fling. 143 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:06.279 Ed was getting married as soon as we got home. 144 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:08.079 All right, if we could just start right at the beginning, 145 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:10.600 Oh sure, Well, first. 146 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:12.959 We both had a forty eight hour pass. We figured 147 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:14.759 to go down are, like I said, for last fling, 148 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:16.600 a few drinks. Look, some of the lights, have a 149 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.639 little fun, sort of a bachelor party for ed Ford. 150 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:20.160 Got hit you. 151 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:24.160 Well, we pulled into town, see I think it was 152 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:27.279 Saturday morning. A couple of buddies told us about a 153 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:29.680 joint up there we could have some fun. Yeah, we 154 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:32.120 head up there and nice little place that hour in 155 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:35.319 the morning, I guess about ten ten thirty. Well, we 156 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:39.519 started to drink. Gets pretty foggy after that, like little 157 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.240 parts in a jigsaw, you know, you sort of see 158 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:44.519 a little bit of everything, but the whole picture ain't there. 159 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:44.879 Yeah. 160 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:47.360 Well, I remember we hung around the place for two 161 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:50.199 days and then it all really goes black. The next 162 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:52.240 thing I remember, we woke up in some flea bag. 163 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:54.800 I remember looking at the calendar on the wall. We 164 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:57.040 was already a couple of days a wall. Ed and 165 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:00.600 I talked about what we should do, and then we 166 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.199 get to trying to think up an excuse for the 167 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:06.519 COO for being a wall with our co ain't easy, 168 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:07.439 He's had experts. 169 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:07.759 Try. 170 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:10.920 Ed says, he figured out something. So we stopped at 171 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.480 the bus deepole get back to base. On the way, 172 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.480 we pass this bar and Ed says, well, maybe we 173 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.480 ought to stop and have one more for the road. 174 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:21.360 So we do, and I don't remember much for a 175 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:24.439 couple more days, and I remember once we stopped and 176 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.199 watched the guy get tattooed. Ed and I got talking 177 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:29.040 about it, you know, whether or not we should have 178 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:31.839 it done. Finally figure it's kind of kids stuff, so 179 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:34.639 we didn't. I remember that because it was right after 180 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:36.679 we left the tattoo place, went to this bar. We 181 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:37.360 met Stubby. 182 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:39.480 Well this is the fellow that you were talking about. Yeah, 183 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:41.159 it's him, and you met him in the bar. 184 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:43.360 Uh huh yeah. Ed now was sitting there trying to 185 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:45.919 figure out what's going to do. You know, we're pretty 186 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:48.360 broke by this time. And then two weeks, over two weeks, 187 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:50.480 they wall anyway sliced. 188 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:51.360 Do we have big trouble? 189 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.159 Yeah, Well, we walked into this place, was about four 190 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:56.919 point thirty five in the afternoon, at leastly as I 191 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:59.519 can tell, that's about what time it was. A whole 192 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:02.679 deal gets kind of foggy. We sat down this bar 193 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.039 in order to drink and just setting there mind our 194 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:06.960 own business, trying to figure what we ought to do. 195 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:10.399 Then this stubby joker comes up, sits down next to it, 196 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:11.159 brings his drink. 197 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:12.919 Well, he was in the bar when you came in. 198 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.320 Yeah, well, at least I think so. I didn't pay 199 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:18.240 much attention, but he had a drink when he come up. 200 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.000 To heaving me. Yeah, go ahead. 201 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:23.000 Well he got to talking about the Core, and next 202 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:25.679 thing we know, he's setting up the drink where we 203 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:27.399 was fixed loan as he wanted to buy. We wasn't 204 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:28.000 going to argue. 205 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:30.279 Did they seem to know this stubby in the bar? 206 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.759 Yeah, the waits on tables called him my name to 207 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:36.440 go ahead. Yeah. Well, this stubby kept going on about 208 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:38.799 how he liked the Core and how he'd want to 209 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:42.080 whole flock of citations in Korea told us all about. 210 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:43.000 The time it spent in Japan. 211 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:45.000 At first we thought he was just throwing a bunch 212 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:47.519 of coconuts at us. But we'd ask him about places 213 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:49.759 in Korea and things you could only know if you 214 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:50.159 was there. 215 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:52.039 He'd come up with the answers all right. 216 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:53.639 But even with all that, there. 217 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:54.960 Was something that just didn't ring true. 218 00:09:55.320 --> 00:10:01.720 Yeah, anyway, long, about eight or eight thirty that night, 219 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:03.919 Stubby got in a thrash with the bartend or something 220 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.000 about the price of the drink. So he suggested we 221 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:07.840 go up to his place and get a jug, you know, 222 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:10.919 and drink up there. I wasn't too hot for the idea, 223 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:13.759 but Ed said we had nothing to lose, and we 224 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:15.360 didn't have a sack for the night, and there wasn't 225 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:17.039 much doe left, so we shoved off with him. 226 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:18.399 The Stubby live a. 227 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:20.360 Hotel down on Fifth I'll tell you how to find 228 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:22.000 the place, same place you were picked up in. 229 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:25.360 Yeah, we got the address that. Oh, okay, Well what 230 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:26.679 happened when you got Stubby's room? 231 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:29.200 We cracked the jug, sat around drinking for a while, 232 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:31.840 and then Ed and I went to sleep. I tell you, 233 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:33.879 the next morning we had the biggest hangovers in the 234 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.080 entire United States and Canada, both of us. 235 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:37.399 We felt miserable. 236 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:40.919 ED start beefing about the cheap booze Stubby wronging on us. 237 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:42.919 That's when he tried to tell us on them. 238 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:46.559 Pill What those one of them things supposed to relieve hangovers? 239 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:49.519 You mean the candidies selling drug stories. Oh no, no, damn. 240 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:52.440 Stubby told us about that. One h he'd come. 241 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.159 Back to the States. He stood some duty in the 242 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:56.519 hospital and said the while he was there he got 243 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.919 them pilled, said there was a special prescription that there's 244 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:01.559 it's great for headshrinking. 245 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:03.080 And wanted us to try. And did you? 246 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:05.000 Well, no, not right away. 247 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.519 He kept after us though, kidding us about being big 248 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:10.039 tough marines with a hangover. And then he took one 249 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:12.759 of the pills. Least wise we thought he did so, 250 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:14.799 Ed and I figured then we didn't have anything to lose. 251 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:17.200 You took one of these hangover pills, and yeah, we 252 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:19.200 both did. What happened then? 253 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:22.759 Well, nothing right away, Stubby said, take a little time 254 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:25.440 for it take effect. We got up, started to get dressed, 255 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:27.559 ed and I thought we'd better get back to the base. 256 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:29.320 You know, it would probably be in enough troubles of 257 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:30.720 was that I was worried about a hangover. 258 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.480 Yeah, he left the room. No, he was just getting 259 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.879 our stuff together and Ed took six said they. 260 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:38.000 Had awful pain the stomach, like a cramp, you know. 261 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:40.879 We asked stubby if the pill could have caused it. 262 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:43.480 He said no, it must have been the booze. Well, 263 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:45.240 right about then, I was getting ready to mop up 264 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:47.120 the place of this stubby, I figured sure, giving us 265 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:47.440 a mickey. 266 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:48.600 I couldn't figure why though. 267 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:52.159 Then it hit me that fell Yeah, I guess so, 268 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:55.519 real bad cramps in my stomach. I got real dizzy. 269 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.159 Rooms started to go around, and we asked the stubby 270 00:11:58.200 --> 00:11:59.639 to call a doctor. And that's when we knew it 271 00:11:59.679 --> 00:11:59.960 was reading. 272 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:01.480 How's that? 273 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:01.720 Well? 274 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:04.039 We knew then he was nuts off his trolley and 275 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:06.720 neither of us walk It had doubled up and passed 276 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:08.159 out and I could hardly keep awake. 277 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:09.679 We both laid it on the floor. 278 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.120 I kept asking this bomb to get us a medic. 279 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:13.240 Did he you know? 280 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:15.039 He just stood there and laugh at us, laughed like 281 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:17.720 a crazy fool. He kept saying we was big, strong marines. 282 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:19.240 We should be able to take a little stomach ache. 283 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:20.320 I woul run to do a doctor. 284 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:22.399 There's no time. Did he make any attempt to get 285 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:22.960 your medicals. 286 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:25.080 You know, it's just like I said. He just stood 287 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:27.799 there and laugh at us. Then he got real, got 288 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:29.840 crazy leer on his face, said he'd show us, and 289 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:32.679 he fixed us up good for what we'd done. Then, 290 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:34.679 I don't know, well, I thought about was getting had 291 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:37.159 met to a doc about this time. I didn't much 292 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:40.120 care what the little screwball did. Then it really started 293 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:42.320 hopping on how he's getting even with us. I tried 294 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:43.759 to get at him. I have killed him if I 295 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:45.840 could about it. I tried to get at him, but 296 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.039 I fell and went out. I guess that's when he 297 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.840 said that thing about that we wouldn't be the last 298 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:53.679 ones he'd get right. Well, he said like this, you 299 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:56.519 guys are the first, just the first, but there's going 300 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:57.960 to be more, a lot more. 301 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:07.000 We continued to talk to Jack Walker. 302 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.080 He gave us a complete description of the man he'd 303 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:11.559 known as Stubby, and going over the story again with him. 304 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:13.480 There were a few changes in it, but none that 305 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:15.200 couldn't be accounted for by his condition. 306 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:18.279 We got the address of the bar where he'd met Stubby. 307 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:20.000 We checked with the doctor and he told us that 308 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:23.159 both boys had been given a powerful corrosive poison. He 309 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:24.720 went on to say that it was a miracle that 310 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.799 Jack Walker was still alive. Nine twenty six pm, Frank 311 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:30.480 and I drove back to Los Angeles. 312 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.000 We checked into the office. 313 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:33.799 And ran the name Stubby through the Moniker file and 314 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:36.159 R and I, but we found nothing. We got out 315 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.399 a local and an APB on the description and the name. 316 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:42.000 The stats office started a run on the mo Frank 317 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:43.840 and I checked the hotel on Fifth Street and the 318 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:45.879 manager showed us the room, but he said that it 319 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.559 had been cleaned and occupied since the two Marines had left. 320 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:51.080 Layton Prince went over the room but failed to come 321 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:54.320 up with anything. We took the hotel registration card and 322 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.759 booked it in his evidence. The man had signed his 323 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:59.639 name as Alton Richards. The manager gave us the same 324 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.600 description is the one we'd gotten from the marine. We 325 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:04.360 ran the name through R and I, but we failed 326 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:06.559 to come up with any new lead. There'd been no 327 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:09.200 replies to the broadcast, and the staff's office had finished 328 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:11.840 the run and had come up with four possible suspects. 329 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:14.320 Leaves were checked out, but they let us nowhere. 330 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:17.039 Two thirty am we checked the bar, but we found 331 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:21.600 it was closed Wednesday eight fourteen am. We briefed Captain 332 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:23.600 Lrmon on the developments, and then we went over to 333 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:26.039 again check the bar where the two Marines were supposed 334 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:28.279 to have met Stubby. The place was deserted except for 335 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:30.840 one man drinking a beer. The waitress was sitting in 336 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.519 a rare booth filing her fingernails. Frank and I went 337 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.519 back to talk to her. 338 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:38.919 Yes, something you. 339 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:41.039 Want, well, police officers, Miss, we'd like to talk to. 340 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:41.919 You, captain. 341 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:45.759 Yes, ma'am, that's my partner, go Friday. My name is Smith. Yes, boy? 342 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.039 Does that sound fronny? Here's a ID card? 343 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:49.720 Yes, Smith? 344 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:50.039 All right? 345 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:50.559 What do you want? 346 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:53.240 You mind if we sit down? No, go ahead and live. 347 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:57.840 What's it's all about? Do you work here? 348 00:14:57.879 --> 00:14:59.200 Study here most of the time? 349 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:00.519 What's your name? Miss? Vera? 350 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:01.679 Vera gay? 351 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:03.639 I'm gay? Were you working here around the eighth and 352 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:05.039 ninth or the tenth of July? 353 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:06.759 Yeah? And you can make it Vera? 354 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:08.960 You know most of the people who come in here 355 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:09.480 regular doly? 356 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:10.879 Yeah, I suppose so. 357 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:12.759 I wonder if you look at this description, tell us 358 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:16.840 if you know the man here way? What's that name? 359 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:19.000 White male American? Yeah? 360 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:23.919 Wma thirty six years, five feet seventy five feet nine, 361 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:26.279 one hundred and fifty five pounds. 362 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:26.720 Dubby. 363 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:31.360 Yeah, yeah, I know him, comes in here all the time. 364 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:34.279 Nice guy, loud when he gets drunk. It's always nice 365 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:36.480 to me, though. Tell me I should be in pictures, 366 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:37.240 you know the movie? 367 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:38.879 Yes, man, you seen him today? 368 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:41.120 No, he had to ever get in before maybe noon 369 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:44.159 one o'clock. It just doesn't bother he does it my fall, 370 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.720 him my nail, not at all. He does bother some people, 371 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:48.679 you know, like rounding a piece of chalk down a. 372 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.120 Blackboard, Miss Stubby. Does he have any other name? Do 373 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:54.279 you know it? Yeah? Paul Rodgers, that's another one, John. 374 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:56.639 How do you want to go ahead? And miss? 375 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:57.000 No? 376 00:15:57.200 --> 00:15:58.240 Not with him a couple of times. 377 00:15:58.279 --> 00:15:59.919 Finally gave it up. I couldn't go that route. 378 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:00.679 What's that man? 379 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:02.000 Well he talked about. 380 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:03.559 Was either him in the Marine Corps, what a big 381 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:05.519 hero he was, or else how he was going to 382 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.159 get me in pictures, you know movies? Yes, n I 383 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:10.039 didn't come out to California to get in the movies. 384 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:12.799 I came out to be a private secretary. I mean 385 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:14.320 those jobs are a little hard to get, so I 386 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:17.679 work here make enough for coffee and cakes. And when 387 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:19.799 a job comes along, I'll take it. Work in a 388 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:22.200 big office, nice boss. Who knows he might even marry me? 389 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:24.919 That movie holp him for me, you know, sir, not 390 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:25.639 your little vera. 391 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:27.639 Did you work on the night of the night it's 392 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.519 night before last? Let's see, Yeah, I was in. You 393 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:32.320 happened to see the study Rogers that night? 394 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:33.440 Well, I gotta think about that. 395 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:36.840 Let's see, that was the night we had the fight 396 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:37.639 just before closing. 397 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:39.879 Yeah, he was in earlier. You happen to notice if 398 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:41.639 he was with anybody? What's it all about? 399 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:43.559 He do something you wanted for we? 400 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:44.799 We just like to talk to him. 401 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:45.480