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November twenty ninth, nineteen fifty one, Here is the big Affair.
Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. The
names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. An unidentified armed
bandit starts a campaign of jewelry store hold ups in
your city. The robberies are carefully planned, carefully executed. The
bandit commits brutal attacks on each of the victims. Your job, get.
Speaker 3: Him drag meet the documented drama of an actual crime.
Well the next thirty minutes in cooperation with the Los
Angeles Police Department. You will travel step by step on
the side of the law through an actual case transcribed
from official police violence, from beginning to end, from crime
to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force
in action.
Speaker 4: It was Wednesday, March tenth, was cold in Los Angeles.
We're working the day watch out of robbery detail. My
partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Bideon. My name's Friday.
It was three twenty eight pm when I got to
room twenty seven a robbery detail.
Speaker 5: Joe, Yeah, Ben, Yo, this is met and missus Gordon.
Folks would like to have you meet my partner. Sorry, Friday,
how do.
Speaker 6: You doing, glad? And how are you sent? Missus Gordon?
Speaker 4: Are you feeling any better now?
Speaker 7: Com san recontid She's a lot better now, Sergeant, thank you.
My French isn't very good, but it's a lot better
than her English. Cecil has only been over here a
couple of weeks that matter, when I was on occupation
duty over there.
Speaker 4: Army you know, yeah, I see. Well, we'll try not
to keep you along, sir. We got a few questions
about the robbery. We think your wife might be able
to help us.
Speaker 7: We'll sure try so. I didn't like to help you
any way we can.
Speaker 5: Your wife was the only one in the story besides
the clerk at the time to hold up. Like to
have her tell us everything that happened if she would.
Speaker 7: Play okay, She says, she saw everything that happened, Sergeant,
what would you like to know?
Speaker 4: First?
Speaker 6: Well, how about the hold up man?
Speaker 4: Mister Gordon's your wife get a good look at him?
Can she describe him for us?
Speaker 8: Says here?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 7: She says, the fellow was wearing a blue coat, and
you had dark hair. Wasn't a very big man?
Speaker 4: M Does she have any idea about how total he was?
Speaker 8: Cecil Tai said that deal Christo.
Speaker 7: She can't say exactly how to hold sergeant said he'd
come up to about here on my shoulder, about five
or eight. I guess she thinks maybe weighed about one
hundred and seventy pounds.
Speaker 4: She's not sure he would you ask her exactly what
happened at the store. That is as much as she
can remember.
Speaker 8: Here ccil de la exact mon Sukie.
Speaker 9: Yeah literary director Monvan l.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 7: She says she was standing by the counter sergeant when
the hold up man came in, says, the fellow went
over to the clerk. The man who was waiting on
her says, the fellow had a gun in his hand.
Speaker 6: Would you ask her to go on?
Speaker 4: Hey, a prey.
Speaker 9: Doesn't sack the pai, she says.
Speaker 7: The hold up man made the clerk get up the jewelry.
The guy took it and dumped it in a paper
bag cecil.
Speaker 9: She saw his own preserve. Opting to lebem.
Speaker 7: Terrible, she co, well, after he got all this jeweler
in the paper bag, the feet began beating up on
the clerk, she says, for no reason at all. He
began slugging the clerk with a gun. He was scaring,
really got nasty with him. Naturally, it scared the wife
and she let out a scream. He turned around and
hit her, she says, that's all. She remembers. She would
like to get my hands on the lousy.
Speaker 5: You understand how you feel, mister Gordon, Could you ask
your wife? There's anything else about to hold up man?
Speaker 4: You remember, says to RAPELTI shows propos de setan abbe
til Calcucho's deck throat in there.
Speaker 10: No, that's about it.
Speaker 4: Sorry, well, how about the man's clothes? Does she remember
anything else he was wearing besides that blue jacket?
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 7: Res do sevetmo e paus don't bleet. She thinks maybe
he had on dark trousers. She's not sure, though, says
she was too scared to notice, says Porte Chapeau. I
asked her if he was wearing a hat. She says no,
she's sure of that, And I.
Speaker 4: Say, well, is there anything else that she can remember
about him? Anything at all?
Speaker 8: He at Tilo school, at police.
Speaker 5: You got it all?
Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much, mister Gordon, missus Gordon sco.
Speaker 8: How's that now?
Speaker 4: Sis you scopa?
Speaker 9: Quiet on French?
Speaker 7: She says she can't understand how a man to do
such a thing. She means, how he cut up the
clerk that way?
Speaker 4: Yes, so hard for her. She just can't understand. Tell
her we can't either. Two weeks before, on the twenty
seventh of April, at two thirty in the afternoon, the
robbery suspect had begun his campaign of downtown jewelry store
hold ups. Since that time in the same general area,
he'd succeeded in committing three more jewel robberies and making
good his escape.
Speaker 6: Each of the hold ups netted.
Speaker 4: Him more than three thousand dollars in rings, diamonds, and
other precious stones from his amo Oh.
Speaker 6: It was obvious that he was experienced.
Speaker 4: All of the robberies were committed in broad daylight, all
of them were apparently well planned. After obtaining the loot,
which he dumped into an ordinary paper bag, he turned
on his victims and with no provocation, beat them viciously.
After two weeks of investigation, we had yet to come
up with a solid lead on either the identity of
the suspect or his whereabouts. We had a fair description
of the hold up man, we had a good rundown
on his method of operation, but repeated checks on possible
suspects through the Record bureau Cii and Sacramento and through
our statistician's office failed to get us anything. There were
no kickbacks on our all points bulletin. After we interviewed
Missus Gordon, the witness to the latest jewel robbery, we
were no further along than we were two weeks before,
and am all in a description. Neither one of them
were giving us much help. Four h five pm we
met with Captain Didion, how about the mug books any
like there? Miss Gordon's in there, noscarper with her husband
and checking through them. Nothing yet? What else you got? Working?
Speaker 8: New run?
Speaker 5: Going through the stats office third one this week might
get us something. The store manager on that job this afternoon.
Did you talk to him yet?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: We did.
Speaker 6: He gave us the best lead we've had so far
in the thing looks pretty good.
Speaker 10: Now, what's that well?
Speaker 4: We had him checking the rug books and he came
up with a partial identification from one of them. Sam
Quentin released now Jack Maynard. He's only been arrested once
here a drunk charge. He's done time up at queue
for robbery before Ben and I pulled the package on him.
We figure we ought to still be serving time at Quinton.
Couldn't tell from his record though, how's that West? Possibly
he might have been parole the last month or so
that had put him on line for these hold ups.
Speaker 2: And you check Quinton.
Speaker 5: We got out a teletype to the wards office late
this morning, Skipper. We have answered pretty soon, the best
lead we've had so far. I hope it stands up.
Excusing robbery didion? Yeah, oh yeah, I'm not here. Uh huh, No,
you and to CADEB stay on it. Yeh, that's right
over the weekend anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, But.
Speaker 4: Well, what's the answer.
Speaker 5: He's had three weeks, he's cleared four jobs, every one
of them in broad daylight, more than one thousand dollars
worth of stuff.
Speaker 4: Now, how do we reach him? How about some extra men,
par skipper, Kim and managing?
Speaker 5: What do you got in mind? Steak up seems to
be the best angle for us with this kind of
a said that, how many teams you figure it'll take
oh a dozen? Anyhow you figure that? Joe?
Speaker 4: Yeah, just about a thief seems to be concentrating on
the downtown area. All four hold ups were in the
same general neighborhood within a twenty block radio. We can't
cover all the jewelry stores with a dozen teams. It
will give us pretty good coverage, though, sure help our chances.
You checked out all the other angles.
Speaker 6: Huh, everything not doing us much good?
Speaker 4: Rob Rid didon Yeah, I just minute through Friday. Oh thanks, yeah,
Friday talking. Yeah, that's right, that's all. No, we'll pick
it up, thank you. Those communications just got an answer
in the teletype of Quentin on Jack mannon no lead,
He's still in prison. We went back and started again
from the beginning. With our best lead gone. There wasn't
any alternative. The following day, Thursday, March eleventh, the steakouts
went into effect.
Speaker 6: A dozen jewelry stores.
Speaker 4: In the immediate downtown area, all of them potential hold
up victims, were placed under constant surveillance. Three days passed,
nothing happened, no sign of the hold up man.
Speaker 6: We stayed on it.
Speaker 4: Tuesday, March sixteenth, eleven, a m had a small downtown
jewelry shop three blocks from the nearest steakout team. The
bandit committed his fifth successive robbery and made good his escape.
Speaker 6: The m O and description matched in almost every respect.
Ben and I answered the call and drove.
Speaker 4: To the scene of the hold up to interview the
victim of mister walder Myers.
Speaker 11: He came straight back this way, just where I'm welcome.
I was at the end of the calendar there, just
where you are. He had a brown paper bag in
one hand, and it was just a couple of feet
from me. He put his other hand in his coat
pocket and he came up with a gun, pointed it
right at me.
Speaker 4: The store was empty at the times or no customers around.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's right, just myself and my son in law,
Herb in the back room. I guess he heard this
thief talking to me and he came out to see
what it.
Speaker 4: Was all about.
Speaker 6: That's when the fireworks started.
Speaker 11: And what happened, Well, he made Herb line up along
the counter, right next to me. By this time he
had all the loot he wanted in that paper bag
he was carrying. Just when I thought he was gonna leave,
he turned around. All of a sudden he said to Herb,
you think you're a smart guy, don't you. Then he
slugged her with the gun, brought it right down on
the side of his head all his might.
Speaker 6: And that's when the fight started.
Speaker 11: Just about Yeah, Herb fell down on one knee. There
was a great big gash on the side of his face.
Even when he was down, the thief kept slugging Herb
kept pounding him in the face with that gun. Herb
wasn't doing anything.
Speaker 9: I got good and sore.
Speaker 4: What happened then, Well, I didn't care what happened.
Speaker 11: I just got sore at the lousy crook. I made
a dive for him, grabbed him around the chest, hit
something like this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 11: The two of us went down on the floor and
I wrestled him for the gun. That's when it went off.
A wild shot, plowed right into the wall over there.
Herb picked himself up and piled on the guy. I
guess the crook relief must have figured he was through.
Fought like a wild man. I had a good hold
of the top coat he had on, but he slipped
right out of it. He grabbed his gun in the
paper bag, ran out of the store, left me there
holding an empty coat.
Speaker 4: And this is the coat he was wearing right here,
is that right?
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's you can see one of the sleeves there.
He almost ripped it clean off trying to get away.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I see.
Speaker 9: I already looked through the pockets.
Speaker 8: Nothing in him.
Speaker 4: How about this description of the man, mister Myers. You're
pretty sure of that, are you? I'm positive, Sergeant Man.
Speaker 6: You want to call the crime lab. And here's a
phone booth right over there, and you.
Speaker 4: Might Oh yeah, I wonder if I could check that
spot with a bullet hit mister Myers. That wild shot
he fired, Oh yeah, right over here, back of the cash.
Speaker 6: Right yeah, bedded in there, pretty solid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, lucky it was the wall, not one of us.
Speaker 11: Say, I got a pocket knife here if you want
to dig it out.
Speaker 4: No, sir, we've got a crew on the way out
from our crime lab ballistics man, take care of it.
I would like to take another look at that top coat,
the one the thief was wearing.
Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, sure, I already looked it over pretty good.
Nothing in the pockets. Couldn't find anything.
Speaker 5: Hey here, just ordinary top coat and there's no label
on it. No, you're right, there's nothing in the pocket.
Speaker 10: Oh what is to find something?
Speaker 4: Oh? No shirt? It feels like a hole in the
pocket here, good size, many Yeah, prim labs on the way.
You should be here in a couple of minutes. Okay,
anything at all in the coat? I don't know. Here
seems to be a hole in this pocket here as possible,
something might have dropped down into the landing of the coat.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me hold out that in for you, all right,
thank you.
Speaker 6: Let me hold it up a little.
Speaker 4: That's fine, right like this, uh huh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And it feels like something down in here.
Speaker 10: What is it?
Speaker 4: Just a minute, I get my hand down in there,
see if I can get it. Yeah. Here we are
a scrap of paper writing what is it Jill telephone number?
The phone number printed neatly on the scrap of paper
was Crestview nine two oh eight five. There were no
other notations. We checked out the number and found that
the telephone was installed at sixty four fourteen Cordova Drive
in the Los Veelis district. After the crime lab crew
arrived at the store, Ben and I took the bandit's
top coat and drove to the address listed for the
phone number, a twelve unit apartment house on the corner
of Franklin Avenue in Fairfax. The number turned out to
be a public phone booth located in the lobby of
the apartment. The manager could tell us nothing. We began
checking with the tenants on the first floor of the building.
We gave them the description of the jewelry store abandoned.
We showed them the top coat. They failed to recognize
either one. We started on the second floor at the
end of the hall. The tenant was a Missus Iverson.
You recognize a description of Tomas Iverson? Anything to you?
Speaker 10: Yes, I'd say it did, Sach. Have you tried the
apartment next door, Miss King's apartment?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: No, ma'am, why do he asked that.
Speaker 10: Yes, I'm almost sure of it, ma'am. I've seen a
man who looks like this going there several times.
Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
force in action.
Speaker 4: March sixteenth, Tuesday, two forty eight pm, Ben and I
went next door to the apartment where a man answering
the description of the jewelry store Bandit reportedly had been
seen several times.
Speaker 6: We rang, but there was no answer.
Speaker 4: We went back and checked with the manager of the building,
who told us that the apartment was registered to a
miss Leonora King. He told us that as far as
he knew, Miss King worked during the day and that
she usually returned to her apartment between seven and eight
o'clock at night. The manager gave us the address of
the place she worked and we checked it out. It
was an exclusive gift shop on Locienaca Boulevard in West Hollywood.
We located Leonor King back at the main packing desk,
where she was employed as a gift wrapper. When we
put the question to her that a man answering the
description of the jewelry store of Bandit had been seen
visiting her, she readily admitted it.
Speaker 9: Yes, that's right, I'd say it looks just like that.
Speaker 12: He drops by my apartment four or five times a month.
His name's Marty.
Speaker 4: What's his last name? Miss King? Where can you find him?
Speaker 12: I'm sorry I never did know his last Name' afraid
I don't know where you can find him either.
Speaker 4: Well, how's that, Miss King? He visit you quite a bit.
He's a friend of yours, isn't he Not exactly?
Speaker 12: I know him, that's about all. He's a friend of
a friend.
Speaker 10: It's more like that.
Speaker 9: Uh huh, excuse me.
Speaker 12: Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 10: This package has a rush on it.
Speaker 12: I'll have to wrap it now, do you mind?
Speaker 6: No, ma'am, you go right ahead.
Speaker 5: About this man Marty, Miss King, you might explaining a
little more if you don't know him, Well, why should
he visit you so often?
Speaker 10: Well, to tell you the truth, it's more of a
favorite than anything.
Speaker 12: It's through Virginia. She's my girlfriend, and I wish I
never got mixed up in.
Speaker 9: It to begin with.
Speaker 6: Why do you mean mixed up in what?
Speaker 12: Well, it's confidential, Sergeant, I just as soon not mentioned,
if you don't mind, would.
Speaker 6: Like to have you tell us everything you know about it.
It's a pretty important matter.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 12: Well, I don't know really how it started.
Speaker 10: I mean, how the two of them got together.
Speaker 12: Marty and Virginia just met. I suppose Ginia fell in
love with him. She had to find some way out
how that Virginia she was crazy about Marty. I guess
she still is. They didn't want to get all involved, though,
neither one of them. It's romantic in a way.
Speaker 9: Could I have the scissors there, sergeant?
Speaker 6: Yes, there you go.
Speaker 12: Well, the two of them want is to see each
other once a week. It's enough for Virginia, she says,
she loves him, that's all it counts. She doesn't want
to know where Marty lives, what he does, anything about him,
and I guess the same goes for Marty.
Speaker 4: See, so the two haven't get in touch with each
other through you?
Speaker 8: Is that it?
Speaker 10: That's right?
Speaker 12: Usually once a week, maybe once every two weeks. I
just as soon not talk about it if you don't mind, though,
I can give you Virginia's address. She can tell you
more about Marty.
Speaker 10: Than I can.
Speaker 6: You have no idea where we can locate the man.
Speaker 12: I'm sorry, none at all. Only contact I have is
when Marty Flow's mirror when he comes around, leaves a
message for Virginia where to meet him and win, then leaves.
I really think you ought to talk to Virginia about it.
Speaker 5: There we are one thing I don't quite understand, ma'am. Yes,
this girlfriend of yours, Virginia, you say she's in love
with this fellow Marty.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, crazy about him?
Speaker 4: And why are they're.
Speaker 5: Playing this hide and seek? If they're in love, why
don't they come out and get married. What's the problem Virginia?
Speaker 12: What she's already married?
Speaker 4: Before we left Leonora King, we advised her what the
situation was in the event the suspect Marty contacted her.
She was to get in touch with us immediately. She
gave us her promise that she wouldn't disclose our conversation
with her. We left her our card and she gave
us the address of her girlfriend, Virginia Brewer, who was
a South Argyle Street address.
Speaker 6: But missus Brewer wasn't at home.
Speaker 4: Eight fifteen pm, we drove to her place of employment,
a Valley nightclub out along Ventura Boulevard, where she was
appearing in the floor show.
Speaker 6: She was a dancer. We located her backstage, waiting to
go on.
Speaker 10: You must have some other girl in mind, actic, sir.
I don't know anyone by the name of Mary.
Speaker 4: You sure about that, missus Brewer. We got it from
a pretty good sort.
Speaker 10: Well, I'm sure I don't know where you got it,
but it's wrong. Ther name isn't familiar at all. Who
told you this? Anyway?
Speaker 6: Close friend of yours, ma'am. She seemed to know what
she was talking about.
Speaker 4: Who was it?
Speaker 10: I got a right to know that?
Speaker 4: Leonar King leonor Why should she tell you a story
like that? We wouldn't know, ma'am, unless it's the truth.
Speaker 10: Of course, it's not the truth. I don't know anybody.
I don't even know what this is all about.
Speaker 4: She says. You know the man, missus Brewer. She says
you're in love with him. She seemed to have all
the details. Now, is there any good reason why she
tell lies about you?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 9: You believe what she told you?
Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, we do, unless you can prove it's a lie.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry.
Speaker 10: That's my introduction.
Speaker 4: I have to go on, all right, ma'am. We way
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Speaker 10: M m m.
Speaker 1: Hm m m.
Speaker 4: Goodes have been.
Speaker 10: We'll be right back. Hot take another bout.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 10: You wanna come back here Rousters dressing room. You can
talk there.
Speaker 4: In here, thank you.
Speaker 10: Well, there's't any point trying to cover it over. Only
one thing I'd like to ask you. Yes, ma'am, her
husband doesn't have to know, does he? I mean, whatever
there is to this, you don't have to tell the papers.
Do you keep it quiet?
Speaker 6: Whatever you tell us will be strictly confidential, ma'am.
Speaker 10: All right. I know Marty. I've known him for six
months when I wasn't lying, I'm loving him.
Speaker 4: Well, we're not prying into your personal life in his Brewer.
We just like to locate this man, Marty, that's all.
It's pretty important to us.
Speaker 10: Why is it important? Why do you want him?
Speaker 4: Robbery investigation man. We'd like to get hold of him
for an interview.
Speaker 10: Robby Marty's done something that way you want him.
Speaker 4: We're not sure. Do you have any idea where we
can find him?
Speaker 10: No more than leonor yuess she told you about it.
I mean, Marty and I Hot Spin.
Speaker 6: You have no idea where he stays, where he works?
Speaker 10: No, I don't. It's been that way from the beginning. Well,
Noor knows as much about that as I do. Only
one way I can get in touch with him, and
that's when he leaves a message at the Nor's where
I leave a message. When you first met Marty and
I am that's the way we both wanted it. You
didn't want to get all involved because of my husband Hide.
Speaker 4: And neither have you seen this mighty lately, miss Brewer, Yes,
about ten days ago.
Speaker 6: You expect to see him again soon?
Speaker 10: I don't know. I suppose, so you'll leave a message
with le Nor if he wants me so I can
go on.
Speaker 4: Could you leave a message for him with Lenoor?
Speaker 10: Yes, I suppose, so I have to wait. He calls, though,
can't you tell me more about it? Sergeant, Why do
you want him? What's it about?
Speaker 4: We're going to have to ask your cooperation, ma'am. Your
friends are robbery suspect. I think he's a pretty good one.
Mighty yes, ma'am. And the next time he contacts you,
the next time he sets up a date with you,
we'd like to know where.
Speaker 10: We'd like to know when you think he's guilty, really
think he's done something?
Speaker 6: Well, he's a suspect, man, that's all we know.
Speaker 10: I guess Leonora told you. I love him, love him
more than anyone. Won't make any difference, ma'am, won't make
any difference. I love him. Even if he is guilty.
It won't make any difference.
Speaker 6: A will to him.
Speaker 4: Twenty five PM, we continued questioning Virginia Brewer. Before we left,
we got her promise that in the event the man
known as Marty contacted her, she would notify us immediately.
Speaker 6: Nine twenty PM.
Speaker 4: We checked back in at the office and made arrangements
to keep the home of Virginia Brewer under constant surveillance,
as well as the apartment of her girlfriend, Leonora King.
The following morning, we checked with the ballistics men at
the crime lab, who examined the slug which had been
taken from the wall of Walter Meyer's jewelry store, the
latest of the hold up man's victims. It was identified
as having been fired from a thirty two caliber revolver.
The slug was marked and filed as evidence. Thorough examination
of the top coat which the suspect had left behind
at as last hold up.
Speaker 6: Failed to yield any new leads.
Speaker 4: The jewel trays at the store which had been held
up were also checked for fingerprints. A week passed, no
sign of the jewel thief. Wednesday, March twenty fourth, I'll
grab it all right, robbery or Merril huh oh yes, yes, ma'am.
Well when was that all right? Bye? Yes, ma'am, thank you,
bye you anything that friend Missus Brewers.
Speaker 5: Lenora King says, this is for the marty called a
few minutes ago set up a date with Missus Brewer
was supposed to meet Leonoi's apartment when eight o'clock tonight,
four forty.
Speaker 4: Five p m. We checked with Captain Dideon and set
up a plan to have the apartment building where Leonora
King lived thoroughly covered that night. Carr and Matthews were
assigned to cover outside the main entrance. Micaleb and Olsen
would cover the lobby. Ben and I would be in
the apartment proper, along with Missus Brewer and Leonora King.
By six o'clock that night, we were all in position.
Speaker 6: We waited.
Speaker 4: Six thirty seven o'clock, seven point thirty We waited. Missus
Brewer walked the floor with a drink in her hand.
Seven forty five, seven point fifty. Ben watched at the window.
Virginia Brewer got nervous.
Speaker 10: You can't prove it. You don't know anything for sure.
How I know you're not trying for a frame, trying
to blame Marty something he didn't do.
Speaker 5: We're not blaming him for anything. Mammy's a suspect. We
want to talk to him, that's all.
Speaker 12: Why don't you sit down him, Virgin?
Speaker 10: You know he was getting upset. It'll be all right.
Come on, honey, got him all over the place on
our cops waiting for Marty.
Speaker 9: What am I supposed to think?
Speaker 4: Why don't you relax, missus Brewer. If he's not the man,
you got nothing.
Speaker 5: To worry about it.
Speaker 10: He's right, honey, sit down.
Speaker 4: Let me fresh up that jo. Yeah, car pulling up outside,
he said, Dan, Yeah, let's see right in front. Hey,
man getting out here. He's coming in here, alright.
Speaker 8: You can't see him. He must be inside, Marty.
Speaker 10: Marty, why didn't you tell me you want.
Speaker 6: To hop downstairs?
Speaker 5: Ben?
Speaker 6: See what happened.
Speaker 10: It'll be all right, honey, take it easy, he'll be
all right. I didn't know. I didn't know, Sorrget Why
did you do it? You what, ma'am Marty? I didn't
know about it. We didn't know anything about each other,
and this has to happen. Why didn't he tell me?
Speaker 6: I wouldn't know.
Speaker 10: I love him. The rest I don't know, but I
love him. He was in trouble. He could have told
me he loved me, would have told me, he would
have told me everything.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess maybe you've got the answer. What he
didn't love you?
Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3: On June twenty ninth, trial was held in Superior Court,
Department ninety one, City and County of Los Angeles, State
of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
the suspect, Martin Arthur Kessington, was wounded, but not fatally,
when he attempted to resis to rest. After interrogation, he
dictated a signed statement admitting guilt for all five of
the jewelry store hold ups. He was tried and convicted
on five counts of first degree robbery and received a
sentence as prescribed by law robbery in the first degree
as punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a
term of five years to life. Ah, you have just
heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files.
Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,
Los Angeles Police Department. Bartney Arborough is Sergeant Ben Romero.
Also heard were Big Perron and Virginia Gray. Script by
Jim Mosey, music by Walter Schumann. Hal Gidney speaking.
Speaker 4: Next Counterspy Fights International Intrigue on in VC.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. A solid episode and I think Joe Friday's
comment at the end was justified. If this robber had
actually loved her, I doubt that he could have been
content with a situation where they would just be together
for an hour, and truth be told, if she actually
cared as much for him as she said, she would
not have been content with it either. What you had
were two people who were using each other and at
least in her case, overly romanticizing the situation. Probably one
of the most common sound effects that you'll hear in
Dragon at the sort of dancing shoe routine. That's something
that's fairly easy for the sound effects of the era
to recreate, but it was used to really draws into
that scene and believe that we were watching a dancer
with our ears all right. Well, listener comments and feedback,
and we have a comment on the big bum Glow
over on Spotify, and doctor Who Done It wrote Adam,
I have to disagree with you. If I'm the suspect
and guilty, I will deny it until my prison sentence
is up. If I'm going to serve time either way,
I would rather have a shot. If I'm the suspect
in innocent, I will also be denying it until my
prison sentence is up. However, there's a lot and lighter
sentence and I can be released quicker than I will
admit it. There is something to that, and I could
totally go along with the idea of the burglar maintaining
his innocence all the way through trial and beyond as
a matter of trying to secure his release, And that
makes total sense. What I don't get, and maybe I
just don't understand the criminal mind is continuing to argue
this with the police because they're not buying your story
and for just wasting your energy. If you're denying a crime,
whether you're guilty or innocent, at some point you have
to reach the point where you say to the police, Okay,
well I've tried to tell you what actually happened. You're
not believing me, so I don't see the need to
continue this conversation, and continuing to engage them gives them
the chance to wear you down and then over on YouTube.
Regarding the episode the Big Hit and Run Killer, James
Riots definitely didn't see that twist coming. Great episode. Thanks
so much, James, And now it's time to thank our
Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you so much to Jeff,
Patreon supporter since March twenty twenty three, currently supporting the
podcast at the Master Detective level of fifteen dollars or
more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Jeff,
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for yours truly. Johnny dollar Ware, he's.
Speaker 4: Good to dollar read'e.
Speaker 10: Yes, this is his apartment.
Speaker 2: You said over the phone you thought you'd kill him
at least did.
Speaker 10: All right, That's not what I meant.
Speaker 9: I thought I was the one who killed him.
Speaker 10: I'm not sure I had.
Speaker 4: Oh I don't know, doesn't seem to matter.
Speaker 9: He's dead. I guess that's all.
Speaker 1: Get hold of yourself, Carol.
Speaker 10: All right, I guess I'm not making much depense. You'll
start a funny, light headed.
Speaker 4: Let thanks.
Speaker 2: Oh, why don't you start at the beginning?
Speaker 10: All right. I came to see you tonight about eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2: I guess he was a friend of yours.
Speaker 4: Oh, he sent for me.
Speaker 10: I had to come.
Speaker 6: Why I'm telling me why.
Speaker 10: He insisted that I have a drink with him. Then
I started to feel funny.
Speaker 6: I hope you'll be with.
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