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Great Detectives dot net. Now from March fifteenth, nineteen fifty one,
here is the Big Ben.
Speaker 2: The story you're about to hear is true, only the
names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. A man is
pulled from his car on a deserted street. He's robbed,
beaten viciously. His car is stolen. A criminal makes his escape.
Your job find him.
Speaker 3: Drag Net the documented drama of an actual crime. For
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.
Speaker 2: From official police files.
Speaker 3: From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, drag Net
is the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 4: It was Monday, July ninth. It was warm in Los Angeles.
We're working the day watch out of robbery detail. My
partner's Ben Romero. The boss is bad Brown, Chief of detective.
My name's Friday was nine to fifty five am when
we got to the Stacey Hollywood Department Store Personnel.
Speaker 5: Department, Stacy Hollywood, that would be the Yardish Department. Yes, mam,
I'll connect you. Yes, can I help you?
Speaker 2: Police officer? Yes, sir, like to speak to one of
your employees. Uh, Harvey Kimbrough.
Speaker 5: Guess a moment, I'll page him for you.
Speaker 6: You gotta match.
Speaker 2: Mm. Yeah, here we are.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Well. I was a kid.
Speaker 6: I never could figure out what that was.
Speaker 2: What's their the auto call system to call the employees
to the phone rings all over the story and yeah,
I know.
Speaker 5: Office, Yes, mister Kimbro They're two policemen waiting to see
you on the tenth floor. All right, that was mister Kimbro.
Speaker 2: He's on his way up.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much. Did I give you the crime
report on this thing?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: I think you kept it.
Speaker 2: Then let me see say your home. Oh yeah, you'll
hear it, mart, I'll say one' they what do you
got there? They call him pepto pails are good, farmer,
And what are they for? They call it the stomach
for stomach cats. You know I'm good.
Speaker 6: Oh I haven't got a stomach ache.
Speaker 2: Uh. These gentlemen here stella. Yes, that's right you Harvey Kimbro, Yes, sir,
that's right. I sure appreciate you people coming over here.
I don't like to take time off from work. It
makes it tough on my partner's clide Morren, Yes, for
wednespent janitor. Work in a big store like this keeps
you hopping?
Speaker 6: Do you do?
Speaker 2: You haven't got any idea who the hold up men
are yet? Have you? No?
Speaker 4: Sure we have, and we'd like to get a little
more information on what happened when you.
Speaker 6: Did you talk to the two officers and the police car.
Speaker 4: Yes, we did, but it's customary for us to make
a follow up for any additional information.
Speaker 2: You fellas who play clothes mines that it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're from Central Robbery.
Speaker 2: Oh I see well, I never knew i'd get this
much service.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I wonder if we might step outside the officer.
Speaker 4: I don't imagine you want to discuss your personal business
here in the office.
Speaker 6: It's very considered of you.
Speaker 2: Thank you for.
Speaker 6: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: I wonder if you'd mind going over it again for
as Mster Kimbro. Maybe something you didn't think of when
the other officers talked. I believe I told him everything.
I was on my way into work this morning about
five am. You live out Mill m.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, that's right.
Speaker 2: I take the freeway in.
Speaker 6: It was all the commercial street that you were held up.
Speaker 2: That's right, Commercial right near Alameda, almost to the corner.
Whether tearing those buildings down. Man flagged me down. Looked
like his car was stalled. Well, always make it a
habit to stop when I see somebody in trouble. I
know how it is at time in the morning, no
gas stations opened. Figured maybe the fellow needed a shove
or something, so you stopped to give him a hand.
Is that right? That's what I had in mind. I'd
no more to stop the car, and he came over.
He pointed a gun at me and told me.
Speaker 6: To get out.
Speaker 2: What'd you do well? I asked the fellow, what'd he want?
I told him I didn't have any money, told him
I was on my way into work. What do you
say to that? Didn't say anything. He just opened the
car door, grabbed me by the arm, and pulled me out.
I wasn't prepared for it, and I kind of fell
out onto the street. Yeah, I still didn't know what
he was after thought at first he might have been crazy.
Speaker 6: He was going to kill me? Or why'd you think
he was going to kill you?
Speaker 2: He's no With the gun and all, and the way
he pulled me out of the car, I just couldn't
make it out.
Speaker 6: I see, did you go on police? Well?
Speaker 2: He took my wallet from me, all the money I had,
fourteen dollars, and then he said, don't bother to get
up and stay right there for five minutes after I leave,
and then he bent down and I hit me in
the face. What'd he hit you with? With his fist?
Hit me right right here in the mouth. You can
see the cart right in shadow I lived here. Well,
you see the blood pretty heavy there. It's a nasty cut. Well,
it's better now. The men who came in the ambulance
they put something on it. It'll be all right.
Speaker 6: Well did he knock you out when he hits you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I saw him get into my car, and then the
car parked up ahead and took off. And this man
who helped me up, he followed my car.
Speaker 6: Well, do you have anything more on the description of
the hold up man or his car?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: I think I told the other officers everything I can remember.
Would you recognize a man if you saw him again,
mister Gimbre, Yes, sir, I think I would.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Your car is a blue nineteen forty eight dots sedan
right rear fender damage.
Speaker 6: Is that correct? Yes, sir? Any other identifying marks at all?
Speaker 2: No, sir, that's about the size of it.
Speaker 4: And the other car looked to you like a late
model Chevrolet I forty nine or fifty anyway, two tone green,
that's sir, that's.
Speaker 6: What we have. Did you see the license number on that?
Speaker 2: No, sir, I didn't this. Uh, this witnesses lestid you,
mister Sidney Ferguson that was the fellow that stopped and
picked me up, brought me into work. Did you talk
to him yet? It might be able to help when
we're gonna see as soon as we leave you eight
hundred block on Saturday, Yes, sir, that's right. Sure, hope
you get that thief. My car too awful hard to
get her on Los Angeles is out a car.
Speaker 6: I won't do her best. I was just wondering, mister Kimberle. Yes, sir,
what's that? Well?
Speaker 4: You say that when the man hit you, he didn't
knock you out. You weren't unconscious.
Speaker 2: No, sir, I was not well.
Speaker 6: Did you try to locate a phone call for help?
Speaker 2: I didn't have to this mister Ferguson pulled up and
stopped right away, and then the officers came. Besides, I
figured I'd better do what I was told. How's that
I was afraid? I was gonna wait five minutes then
and I left the department store.
Speaker 4: Picked up our car in the parking lot next door,
and drove out to the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 6: The eight hundred block on.
Speaker 4: Sataquoi Avenue, Sidney Ferguson's home was a typical valley residence,
one story farmhouse.
Speaker 2: Style round back to the gate.
Speaker 7: They on the driveway, mh this way, I guess huh yeah,
Hi there, this is the Ferguson house.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, we're looking for Sidney Ferguson.
Speaker 2: Surely I'm Sidney Ferguson Police officers.
Speaker 6: Mister Ferguson got that hold up this morning out on
commercial stream, Yes, sir, that's right. This is Sergeant Romero.
Speaker 2: My name's Friday, Happy new him. Excuse my wet handmen
cleaning out my tanks from rising your fellows work out
of the city hall. Yes, we do. Wouldn't happen to
know with John O'Grady down there, Narcotics Division went to
high school with John.
Speaker 6: No, I don't believe I know him then? Oh Grady?
Speaker 2: Yeah, tall fella, kind of blonde, wave the air, Yeah,
yeah that's right, good looking fellaw. Yeah, I think I've
seen him around, good friend of mine. Wasn't that a
shame this morning? That kimber guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a rough one, And the reason we
came out to see is that we thought that maybe
you could give us some additional information on it.
Speaker 2: Glad to give you all the help I can like
to see you get that hold.
Speaker 6: Up man, mind giving us a rundown on what happened
this morning, Not at all.
Speaker 2: It's around five o'clock this morning. Not usually up that
time in the morning. But I was on my way
back from Monterey Park. Generally try to make it down
there at least once twice a month go down and
see Jack Robinson and a choir's friend I have down there,
and we swapped fish.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, I was on my way back coming down Commercial
Street when I saw this man sitting on the side
of the curb. Looked like he was hurt. To me,
uh huh, I see, wouldn't have noticed it. Probably it
was pretty dark because two cars pulled out, one right
after the other seemed to be in a big hurry.
And you pulled up to give kimbro a hand. Yes,
I did, of course. When I got close enough, I
could see the guy had been kicking the teeth bleeding
pretty bad. Offered to take him to hospital, but he
said he didn't want to be late for work. After
the officers came and talked to him and the ambulance
men treated him, I drove him up to Stacey's Hollywood,
dropped him off there that's where he works in. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, the report says here that you got the license
number of the getaway car, but you couldn't find the
paper that you'd written it on when the officers interviewed.
Speaker 2: You think, yes, I did, and that doesn't beat them all.
What's that? Well, I had the piece of paper a
few minutes before the officers got there. I guess I
was more rattle than the kimbro fella. When I got
home here this morning, there was a slip of paper
right on the floor of my car. A little bit
of a break, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Yes, so it is.
Speaker 2: I wonder if we could have it. You bet you can't,
watch step In Siens.
Speaker 6: I didn't thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm on the fish officers. It's my hobby. Tropical fish.
Sure got a lot of it. Yeah, let's see now,
when I put that piece of paper, I really wrote
it down. Believe me, I just misplaced it some place
here I'm trying to get rid of so in the
AlSi off the glass of the tanks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, look at these. Have you ever seen the thing
pretty in your life?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So that's what they call clown fish salt water fish.
Uh huh?
Speaker 6: Do you keep all tropical fishing salt water.
Speaker 2: Oh no, most of 'em are fresh water. And there's
the ones that breed good in captivity.
Speaker 6: Where do you get all these fish catching?
Speaker 2: Oh? No, place called a Quium Stock Company out on Beverlely.
Uh huh loo card Joe down the corner sea him over. Yeah,
that's a seahorse, Joe, Yeah, that's right. They're also kept
in salt water. Sure is interesting on Joe. Yeah, how'd
you fellas really like to see something you haven't seen before?
What's that put in this tank here? Hoprochromas multicolor. That's
her scientific name, commonly known as the Egyptian mouth breeder.
Is that a fie? It's a little female man. She's
one of the most sacrificing mothers in a Quiam history.
One of the strangers too. How's that bunch? Lays her
eggs and a small depression and the sand down there
at the bottom of the tank.
Speaker 6: How many eggs would that be?
Speaker 2: Usually eighty to ninety. Now here's the strange part. As
the eggs are fertilized, she scoops.
Speaker 6: Him up in a she eats him.
Speaker 2: Oh no, they remain in her mouth while they hatch. Well,
how long does that? They over fourteen days? Oh? How
does she eat?
Speaker 6: Adjust it?
Speaker 2: She doesn't. She doesn't touch food in any farm for
this two week period. Seems just waste away. And what happens?
Then finally the eggs hatch after fourteen days and the
little fry comes swimming out of the mother's mouth. Yeah,
while the fry are growing up first, you know, you
can hardly stand there so tiny. While they're growing up.
If anything frightens him, quick as the price, theyre back
in the monther's mouth. M. That's certainly amazing. Yeah, yeah,
Hopochroma smulticolor. I'm commonly known as the Egyptian mouth breeder.
That as big as they ever get, Yes, sir, one
inch to an inch and a half. It's hard to believe.
The betters are almost as strange. The male builds a
bubble nest on the surface of the water. That's these
in this tank. Hum, here's that different? Hm? The one
I wrote the license number on it?
Speaker 6: Well, it's foot I wonder if I could see that please? Yeah,
thanks you, I'm pretty sure this number, Yes I am.
Speaker 2: I got a good look at it.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you very much, sir, Yeah, thank you, not
at all.
Speaker 2: Wish could come home and spend a little time. You
seem kind of interested in tropical official Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well maybe I'll do that sometimes. Go bye, nic, Thanks
very much. That's a good break. If this license number
checks out, Yeah, Thatt Ferguson is a nice fella.
Speaker 2: Yeah, say sergeant for the now, Yes, sir, you almost forgot.
I'm meant to ask you, what's that about five weeks
from now? Yeah, I would you like a nice pair
of baby Egyptian mouthbreeders.
Speaker 4: Ten forty five am Ben and I got in the
car and headed back toward town. I called communications and
had them check the license number Ferguson gave us through DMV.
They called back and told us that the car was
a nineteen forty nine Chevrolet four door Sedan. The registered
owner was a Jack B. Grant one nine one one
two Beacon Street, which in the southwest part of Los
Angeles was a large old ash residents that had been
converted into a roaming house. We checked with the landity
and missus Ida Fisher.
Speaker 5: He's been with me here about eight months.
Speaker 6: What time did you say Grant left this morning, missus Fisher.
Speaker 5: Well, it was pretty early, must have been a round
four am when I heard him go out. He came
back in again about eight o'clock this morning, parked his car,
and then he drove off with some other man.
Speaker 6: Would you happen to know the other man? No, I wouldn't.
I just saw him drive off. We're just Grant Parker's
car man round.
Speaker 2: Back in the garage.
Speaker 6: What if you'd mind if we take a look.
Speaker 2: I know that's all right. You just go right around
the back there down the drive.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, ma'am.
Speaker 5: Now there's two cars parked in there. The black Ford
belongs to mister Spencer, yes, ma'am, thank you. And the
nineteen and forty nine Chevrolet that's mister Grant's.
Speaker 6: We checked the car and the license number.
Speaker 4: It matched the description given us by the victim, Harvey
Kimbro and the witness Sidney Ferguson. Together with missus Fisher,
we checked Jack Grant's room. We found nothing of importance.
His clothing and personal effects were all there, nothing to
indicate that he wouldn't be back. We told the landlady
that we were placing the house under surveillance and if
Grant should return, not to say that we've been there.
She agreed and offered further assistance. She said she'd signal
us by raising lowering our front window curtain. When Grant returned,
we parked down the street, called the office and advised
them we were on stakeout. Two men were sent out
and they covered the back entrance, Ben and I covered
the front. By six o'clock that night, Grant had failed
to show. Nine pm, still nothing, eleven pm.
Speaker 2: What time did they say that relief team was coming out?
Around eleven sometime? Chandler and Records. Huh yeah, I guess so? Oh,
I sure. I am stiff. Feels like needles all over
my body. Been about twelve hours, isn't it. Yeah, it's
like driving up to San Francisco. Wife always makes me
drive all the way. When I climb out of that
gar H'm as stiff as a board. Uh car pulling
up down the street there, Yeah, that's racked.
Speaker 6: Its hi, Jack Friddy?
Speaker 2: Who's that you got with you?
Speaker 6: Same guy brought you your lunch yesterday?
Speaker 2: Stop ragging. That's the house right up there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, the green and white from there.
Speaker 2: No side of 'em at all.
Speaker 6: Huh no nothing, Oh you guys wanna take off? Yeah,
I guess you can make out Rick Its you got
Chandler with you.
Speaker 2: I feel sorry if you Friday drawing this guy for
a partner.
Speaker 4: Man after seven years, he kind of grows on. You
like to check out the landlady before we take off.
Her name's are the Fisher?
Speaker 2: Jack?
Speaker 6: Right you?
Speaker 2: It's good? Joe? Yeah, see you later, Jack.
Speaker 6: Say hello to Chenley right then, night swim? I had
rack Its sure is a ribs taker.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Front room lights is still on and she's sweating it
out with her. Yes, loves it.
Speaker 4: Police officers, Ms Fisher, Oh Sorryan Friday, Oh yes, sorry
to buy you again.
Speaker 2: Man, that's all right.
Speaker 6: I just couldn't see who it was.
Speaker 2: My porch likes Burner. Yes, ma'am. Mister grand still hasn't
come in.
Speaker 6: I wonder if you might if we took another look
at his room.
Speaker 5: I don't see why it hasn't come in.
Speaker 2: What's it? Joe?
Speaker 6: What do you doing.
Speaker 7: Out the bar?
Speaker 2: Joe? Joe? You all right?
Speaker 5: Didn't know he had a gun.
Speaker 6: He made me hiding, made me lady. Would you call
an abun and hurry yo?
Speaker 2: It was not dead as lady.
Speaker 6: Get the ambulance please.
Speaker 2: Monday, July ninth eleven, twenty eight pm, the ambulance arrived
and Joe was taken to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.
Speaker 6: His condition was critical.
Speaker 2: Despite the fact that the other men on a stakeout
at the house had closed in as quickly as possible,
Jack Grant somehow succeeded in jumping out a side window
and making good his escape through a maze of neighboring backyards.
The men at the scene began a search of the
immediate area. I called in and communication stt out of
broadcast on APB. A special detail of men and cruiser
cars was rushed to the scene and a blockade thrown
up around the area. I stayed on and worked with
Rickitgs and Chandler. Under questioning the landlady, missus Fisher, broke
down and admitted that Grant had given her ten dollars
to keep his presence in the house a secret. She
told us that when we'd searched the suspect's room earlier,
he had hidden in the cellar. She was taken into
custody one thirty am. I got a relief and I
went downtown to the Georgia Street Receiving the Hospital. P
and f for were removed one slug from the upper
thoracic reach and another one from his right shoulder. Looked
like they could have been thirty at caliber. They've been
marked for evidence. How's he doing? As well as can
be expected? What does that mean? It's hard to tell.
Depends on how it goes the next four hours. Can
I go see? No, No, we're not admitting anyone in there.
And under said it has lost quite a lot of blood.
It's pretty weak. He need anybody for confusion? Oh, that's
all taken care of. His relatives be notified, Yes, sir,
just his mother. She's visiting relatives up in rent in Washington.
I sent him a wire, little bricks and news to her. Yeah,
that's about all we can do for now. Oh, I
wonder if I couldn't sneak in and leave this card
in a cigarettes one prayed.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be some time before Sergeant Friday can use 'em.
Speaker 2: Just leave him. I'll have a nurse take care of
it all right, dot Uh, thank you? Is there anything
I can get for him? Anything he needs? No?
Speaker 6: Doing everything we can for him. You don't think I
could just look in for a minute. No, I'm sorry,
must be something I can do. He got a good prayer.
Speaker 2: Handy two a m. I left Georgia Street receiving hospital
and drove back to the scene of the shooting. The
search for the suspect, Jack Brant was still going on.
The neighborhood was checked and rechecked. Everything possible was done
to find the man who would shot down the sergeant.
You'll Friday. He's been said that the police department goes
all out its efforts to run down a criminal who
attacks a police officer. It's true, but most people aren't
aware of the reason. Certain elements would like you to
believe that the police officer places the safety of his
fellow officers above that of the citizen. This isn't true.
His first day at the academy, the cadet peace officer
is taught this basic fact. If a criminal would shoot
down the armed police officer, he wouldn't hesitate to shoot
down the unarmed citizen. Three am I finally located looked
in at jack Rickitts at the corner of Coronat and
Bacon Street, seven blocks from the scene of the shooting.
How is he not too good depends on the next
four hour.
Speaker 6: What are his chances? I didn't ask.
Speaker 2: We're not getting any place here, nothing at all.
Speaker 6: Nothing. Something's gotta break.
Speaker 2: Channelers still downtown to come and through grants package down
at the IE Bureau and come up with anything. Not
the last time, I cheer back about forty minutes ago.
Not any idea fresh out. You couldn't have gotten far,
but this soon he couldn't. Bus depots, train terminals and
airports are all covered.
Speaker 6: Highway patrol has been alerted.
Speaker 2: Nothing so far. He's someplace close.
Speaker 6: He's got to be. I think he's holed up.
Speaker 2: In town two. But where. Yeah, he's in the jam.
He's had good publicity. A lot of his friends are
going to hide the welcome.
Speaker 6: At Maybe that narras it now a little maybe let's
find him.
Speaker 2: Three thirty am. Jack records and now got back to
the city Hall. We went directed to the Eye Bureau
channel learning powers that sifted through Jack Grant's package. They'd
drawn up a list of all Grant's known friends and associates.
There were twenty two names on the list. Three of
them were in San Quentin Penitente Street. Two of them
were doing time at the county work for him. I'd
left seventeen names on the list. Further checking showed that
five of 'em had out of store eight addresses twelve names.
The list was split down the middle. Ricketts and I
took six names, ten and Power six of the twelve,
with the exception of one. All names had appeared on
the police blodder in the past eight years. Raymond Weller,
Peter Denton, Orrace Phillips, Henry Brien. Ricketts and I checked him.
Some were in bed, some hadn't been to bed. We
were reasonably sure. Now Exam knew that we're about to dissuspect.
I called Georgia Street to find out about Joe. He
told me no change in his condition. Four fifty five
a him.
Speaker 6: After this time, we get a cook bite to eat.
Speaker 2: Huh, you don't look so good and I'm not hungry.
Speaker 6: What's this one's name?
Speaker 2: Anthony Baxter, Room twenty three, He says it, yeah, Anthony Baxter. Yeah,
please offers, we want to talk to you. It's a
fine hour to get a guy out of bed. Do
you always sleep with your clothes on? And step back
there in the room. What's going on? You are a
friend of Jack Grins. Why do you know Jack Grinn?
Why Jack Grant's a friend of yours. I'm gonna tell
you anything that I know. Why you wanna talk here
and downtown. I got a right to know what it's
all about. Get your hat and cool if you just
want to know if I know Jackie Grant? Is that
all you want?
Speaker 6: To?
Speaker 2: Get that coat in there? I know Grant? Where is he?
Speaker 6: I don't wanna get mixed up in anything you're mixed
up in And already you know him?
Speaker 2: You know it's the trouble with you guys. Guy tries
to walk straight down and you guys come around, try
and push him into a corner. Where's Grin. Look, I've
been in jail and I did my time. You haven't
got anything on me. Actually, let's get this straight. We're
not after you. We're after Grinn. We didn't come here
to push you around. We don't want you to push
us around. And where I'm gonna tell you something. I
don't like being talked to this when I'm not going
to stand for it. I got certain rights and I'm
gonna stand on now. You listen to me. A friend
of mine's laying in the hospital because of your pal
Jack Grant.
Speaker 6: He put two bullets in him. Now, I'm tired and
I'm out of patients.
Speaker 2: Where is he?
Speaker 1: Where is he?
Speaker 2: All right? Bennett's all right, it's the last time around.
Back to tell us where Grant is?
Speaker 6: We go downtown, Come on quick.
Speaker 2: Hotel sober room six oh five, five twenty seven am.
We located the Philbert Hotel on North Crocker Street on
the way over. We called in and told him what
we'd find. Chandler and Powers met us outside the hotel.
They took up their position. Reckitts and I checked with
a desk clerk and confirmed that the suspect was in
room six oh five. He was registered under an alias.
He took the elevator to the sixth floor. Room six
oh five is directly across from the elevator. What is it,
police officer? Watch your pant now, keep your hand out
of that pocket, Ran, I wouldn't wanna shoot you. Five
forty two am. Rickits in China took the suspect into custody.
It was six o three am when I got to
Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.
Speaker 6: Be in their fort Sigean, how is he?
Speaker 2: You can go in and stay too long?
Speaker 6: Thank you? Hi Joe, Hi, you were tired?
Speaker 2: How you feeling, Oh, I'll do.
Speaker 6: I'd to go.
Speaker 4: I got grind. You were tired, you been working straight
through on Yeah, h I can get you. No, I
guess I'm better hurry up and get out of here.
Huh why we still got that stolen cardifined, the story.
Speaker 2: You have just heard was true, only the names were
changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3: On November seventh, trial was held in Superior Court Department
eighty nine, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
In a moment the results of that trial, Jack Grant
was tried and convicted on one count of assault to
commit murder. He and his accomplice were convicted on several
counts of first degree robbery. Assault to commit murder is
punishable by imprisonment for from one to fourteen years, first
degree robbery by imprisonment from five years to life. The
Landlady Ida Fisher was placed on probation.
Speaker 2: You have just heir.
Speaker 3: Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official fights. Technical
advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police wh Parker,
Los Angeles Police Department.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. I've seen a number of black and white
dragging that TV episodes before I had heard this one,
and I have to admit that I was very surprised
when Joe Friday was shot because in the TV version,
which was after Ben Alexander played Friday's partner Frank Smith,
it was Frank that was shot, not Joe, and this
illustrates why, despite the fact that he only appeared in
two TV episodes and one hundred odd radio episodes, many
of view Barton y Our Borrow as Joe Friday's best
partner as a character. While Bill Gannon and Frank Smith
brought some lightnous, fun and balance to Dragnet, Ben Romero
was probably the only one who could be followed as
a credible substitute protagonist taking over for Friday and being
able to dial into some real intensity and be able
to deliver some real raw emotion and still be true
to the character. And Alexander was more credible as someone
who was interested in tropical fish. So an interesting contrast
of the strength of the two portrayals. Well, now we
turn to listener comments and feedback and we go over
to Spotify where sham Spade rights regarding the episode The
Big New Years. It's episodes like this that make me
regret that Dragnet is written in reality because you know
the news is about to be delivered. My stomach ache
for Joe and Ben and my heart breaks for the wife. Well,
thanks for the comment, and I think Dragnet does a
really good job of bringing home how difficult these situations
are that law enforcement has to deal with each time
they need to do it. It's awkward and it's difficult,
and there's some real uncertainty. I think it reflects the
reality that it doesn't get easier. Well, now it's time
to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
want to go ahead and thank Martin, Patreon supporter since
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Thank you so much for your support, Martin, and that
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Speaker 2: Wear, and Robert, imagine finding you here. Well, it's certainly
as a small world, much too small.
Speaker 8: You're going somewhere. Well, if you are I devoid Cairo,
I don't think you'd like it this time of year. Well,
you'd have arranged to stay naturally, Oh, that would have
been lovely. Still it might have posed a problem. What
about yes Man?
Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that her name?
Speaker 8: She's beautiful, Robert Mullah showed me her picture.
Speaker 6: Suppose we leave her out of this discussion and she
knows nothing of activities.
Speaker 8: Why, Conrad, you haven't gone middle class and fallen in love.
Speaker 6: I said, we will leave her out of this.
Speaker 2: Now here your orders. I refuse to accept.
Speaker 8: Himim I wouldn't get on that plane, Robert, I don't
think you'd like the welcoming committee in Cairo. Do you
remember Emil Russo?
Speaker 6: Emil Oh, he's waiting for you at.
Speaker 8: The airport there now. Personally, I never believed those stories
that he learned his trade working for the Nazis at duckholl.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 8: One never knows.
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