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nineteen fifty one, here is the Big Bungalow.
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 to burglary detail. One of your
informants contacts you by telephone. He says he wants to
see you immediately. He claims knowledge of more than two
dozen burglaries committed in your city. He offers the information
despite threats against his own life. Your job investigate.
Speaker 3: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. Will 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: Was Monday, April sixteenth, was foggy in Los Angeles. We're
working the day watch out of burglary detail. My partner's
Ben Romero. The boss's Captain Wisdom. My name's Friday. We're
on the way out from the office and it was
one thirty eight pm when we got to the corner
of North Main and Cateello Street. Oaken's Cafe.
Speaker 5: Pretty well filled up.
Speaker 4: You want to sit at the counter those booth over
there in the corner. If people just leaving, Oh yeah,
I didn't see it. It's all right, and yeah fine.
Speaker 5: Oh it smells good. And wonder what the special is today.
Speaker 4: It's up there on the blackboard.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, enchilada with cheese, cold slough salad. That smell
pretty good, doesn't I wish I hadn't had lunch. I
should await and I keep forgetting. Monday's inch a lada
day down here. You're like the way Johnny fixes oh.
Speaker 6: Ben, How are you right? Yeah? I got these dirty
dishes out of the way. Is he going to be
the special?
Speaker 5: No? We forgot today? It was Monday? We had lunch already,
too bad.
Speaker 6: What'll it be? Just coffee?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fine Friday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, same from me, Roberta.
Speaker 6: Both of them black, I guess, kay, two blacks.
Speaker 4: So you haven't seen Smally around this afternoon? Have you
reburted Red? Smally Red?
Speaker 6: No, I haven't seen him a couple of days.
Speaker 5: I thought he said to meet him here at one thirty,
and he'll be alone.
Speaker 4: He's never been on time as long as I've known him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder what's eating? And he sounds a little
excited on the phone.
Speaker 4: Did you give you any idea what it was all about? Know?
Speaker 5: I just said it was important you had to see it. Hey,
I'm just thinking maybe I could handle one of those
as a lotas after all.
Speaker 7: You know, there's Red alright, fellas late all right A
long time?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I sit down, Red, good to see.
Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks, that's snow with you anyway?
Speaker 4: Too much with you?
Speaker 6: You are too? Coffee's black?
Speaker 5: Are you in hungry?
Speaker 7: What about a Hamburger steak? Can some coffee too?
Speaker 6: Hamburger's taking coffee.
Speaker 5: Right, You're looking pretty fair shape, Red. You're working steady now.
Speaker 8: Oh you know how it goes on again, off again.
Put in a full month playing bar boy at Ziggy's
joint place down in South.
Speaker 5: MAINI you know, hmm what happened there?
Speaker 7: Business fell off and the ZIGGI he said he had
to let me go and.
Speaker 8: Kind of thin ever since, I'm hustling programs out of
the racetrack right now. It's not too bad. I can't
afford to bet, but I get to see the races free.
You can't have everything, I guess.
Speaker 4: I understand you're little worried about something, Red, anything serious.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, it might be my guy's telling Ramri on
the phone, or wouldn't do me no good if I
got out, I mean me talking to you about it.
Speaker 7: You know, he'd probably tie a can of my tell
if he knew. I told you, who's that guy by
name of Jeff Allen? I know I am no it.
Speaker 4: Doesn't sound for many to me, Ben, I mean neither.
Speaker 2: Who is he d?
Speaker 7: Second story worker? Lots of savvy too.
Speaker 8: He's fell a couple of times in Burglary Wraps knows
his business so.
Speaker 7: Got a lot of moxie.
Speaker 5: How long has he been in town?
Speaker 8: You know, about six months? I think he come from
the East, finished the stretch back in Michigan.
Speaker 4: It's a real pro Huh what's he doing out here?
Speaker 9: Rin?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 7: A matter of fact, that's why I want to talk
to you about figure. Maybe he out No, Yeah, he's
doing real good the way I get it.
Speaker 8: I heard him a couple other guys talking about it
one night, don Ziggy's having a couple of beers.
Speaker 7: I guess they didn't think.
Speaker 4: I could hear him what they had to say.
Speaker 8: This guy Allen was running off about how good he
was doing, how many places he knocked over in the
last couple of months, how much stuff he took.
Speaker 5: What's he looked like, Rin? Oh?
Speaker 7: But he average about my high, dark hair, a.
Speaker 8: Little scar right in his chin, about one hundred six,
twenty seventy maybe thirty six years old.
Speaker 7: Usually wears leather jacket and black one.
Speaker 6: All right, right, here you go, burger steak Carson.
Speaker 8: Yeah, fine, sure, got a good appetise these days working
out there, You know it does you good?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll show you. I'm passed around ball.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, here you go.
Speaker 4: Oh could these burglary jobs Allan's supposed to be pulling? Red?
Where's he working them? Do you know? Then?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 7: I guess are long all over town? I was bored? Sure,
good hammer.
Speaker 4: When you ever heard him talking to his friends? Did
he mention any jobs in particular that he pulled?
Speaker 8: No, he's working hard on all that for a part.
The bulls are now one every week or so.
Speaker 5: Way, I got what about his m o. Red aren't regular.
Speaker 7: Second story routine?
Speaker 8: Usually Jimmy or a small bench bar usually goes through
the windows.
Speaker 5: He worked alone? Uh huh?
Speaker 7: Strictly there's French breads and nice and fresh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, where's that? I'm staying in town? Do you know Red?
Speaker 7: No? No, I know where I can find him?
Speaker 9: Though.
Speaker 7: With thirteen twenty two club out.
Speaker 8: On North Paris, they got hers out there quite a
bit almost every night.
Speaker 7: I think a guy who owns the joints for final.
Speaker 4: Jeff Allen is that supposed to be his right name?
Speaker 8: Red Fire as I know, uh huh. I ain't met
him a couple of times. He hung around Ziggy's space
when he first come to town. Of course I didn't
know what he was up to.
Speaker 4: Then you don't well enough to talk to him?
Speaker 8: Well just about Yeah, I have buddies with him or anything.
That's why I don't want to get out. You know,
he gets the word I'm on your team. I'm a
dad duck. I don't think he waste a minute calumb me.
Speaker 5: You don't have to worry, Red. We'll keep it quiet.
Why did you hear anything else? Or is that just
about the size of him?
Speaker 7: No, Mar's just about that far.
Speaker 8: I'll keep near the ground if I get any more rumbled.
How passer dome? Wow, I guess you know. I really
hate to talk about it.
Speaker 5: What's that Red?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 7: I mean how bad things have been running lately? You know,
since I got laid off.
Speaker 6: He is.
Speaker 8: So like mad with the programs down the track and
bring in a whole lot though, And I allows you
land lady, had I raised my.
Speaker 7: Rent last week?
Speaker 4: How much can you use? Red? Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, sighs. Anything and I'll just let alone. Maybe
something helped me hold home.
Speaker 5: The only thing I have is a twenty Joe, you've
got any change?
Speaker 7: My thanks? So I'm matter of trying to be fine.
That's plenty. I sure appreciate that.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, wow, real good Hamburger steak.
Speaker 7: Johnny puts out. I gotta get go, and File's got me.
Speaker 4: Down the track all right, Red, thanks a lot. Do
there's anything else call us? Huh? You got our number?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 7: Anything, I'll stay right on. You want me for anything, holler?
Speaker 10: Huh.
Speaker 7: I'm still the same place, right, Zack's alot, see you there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, think it easy? Red?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I read he's getting a little expensive. Huh.
Speaker 4: He's probably been having a rough time. But he looked hungry.
Speaker 5: I mean sure he did grab that twenty dollars bill
like his life depended on you. I went to buy
some new wool socks.
Speaker 4: Were they Well, i'll split it with you. Be worth
more than twenty bucks if the tip pays off.
Speaker 5: Don't get me wrong, I didn't mind giving him a
twenty by books is worth it. But look at this year.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, check for the food.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think the least he could have done was
pay for his own line.
Speaker 4: By and large, the character of the informant in fact
or fiction isn't generally regarded with too much sympathy. To
most people, the informant's nothing more than a stool pigeon,
a squealer, somebody who with a very active informing commits
a sin against a supposedly popular, unwritten law. Well, it's
obvious that this isn't always so, because in the interests
of law enforcement and justice, which means the betterment of
the community, the informant very often plays a major role.
Year after year, informants are responsible for the apprehension and
conviction of many hundreds of criminals, people who rob and
sheet and commit murder, crimes that are obviously far deadlier
than informing. As for the mechanics of law enforcement, at
the level of the working detective, the informant is considered
virtually indispensable. It's been said before by peace officers, and
it'll probably be said again quite a few times. If
your job is catching criminals and enforcing the law, this
is the first rule you have to learn. The working
detective is no better than his informants. Two twelve PM.
Ben and I had no idea if the information we'd
gotten from Red Smalley was authentic or not, but it
had to be checked out. We went back to the
office and had Frank Cunningham and R and I check
on Jeff Allen. We also had the Stat's office make
a run for us on suspects with similar mos. Then
we started to page through reports of burglaries which had
occurred throughout the city during the past three months. How
you doing over there? Anything at know?
Speaker 5: Not too much? Wait a minute, maybe this might be
one of'em.
Speaker 4: Here, let me see.
Speaker 5: Home in Holland Beck Park neighborhood. Burger's MO matches out
in a time Element two happened six weeks ago, winnowing.
The second floor of the house was pride open. They
took furs and money twenty three dollars.
Speaker 4: Uh huh, that's the only one you found.
Speaker 5: Another one here it took out a minute ago. M
was pretty much the same on this and too. The
only thing different is the night of the week it happened,
and this one's a Thursday. That when there's a Sunday.
It checks out pretty close.
Speaker 4: Otherwise. The only one thing I can't figure, what's that? Well.
Allan's supposed to have been in the city for at
least six months. According to Red, he's working a job
maybe once a week, once every ten days or so.
Now you got two reports there. That matches them all. Here,
I've picked out two more from that other pile. Seems
to me if he's been working in town for a
couple of months or ought to be more than four
reports on him.
Speaker 5: So I got Burglar and Meryl. Oh yeah, Frank, m M.
Jeff Allen, that's all? Now you have huh okay, right, Frank,
thank you? Yeah, Ry, And I got to make on Allen.
He's had one arrest here four years ago in to
veag George. He's a loser out of Michigan, go for burglary,
never been picked up for bergery here though he didn't register,
And that's all.
Speaker 4: That's It doesn't seem to jail right to me? Doesn' you?
Speaker 5: Not a loose? Ends to figure out?
Speaker 4: Wonder if Red was handing us a line on this thing,
why would he Well, maybe he needed that twenty dollars touch.
Maybe this Jeff Allen's an old Palais is read out
of falling out with him. He wants to get in
with him.
Speaker 5: This possible? I guess I don't got cha?
Speaker 4: Then, Hello, neighbor, what do you saying what's with you?
You're still in that steakhout south in the town.
Speaker 5: Yeah, third week?
Speaker 7: Sure, getting dell. You two look busy?
Speaker 5: What's all this? Oh, we've got a tip on some
prowl artist funny. Get a line on.
Speaker 4: Take a look at this three point one wind, Jim,
you run into any jobs recently to stack up like this?
I say we're shooting in the dark on it so far,
I don't know if we got anything or not.
Speaker 5: I'd say you got it regular report in the seventy
seven division this morning. Happened to check it when I
was out there, same amo, Is this same everything?
Speaker 4: Four fifty five pm, Ben and I went down the
hall to the record bureau and picked up a couple
of mugshots of the suspect, Jefferson Allen. Then we drove
out to the thirteen twenty two Club on North Ferris
Avenue in the Silver Lake District, the neighborhood bar where
Allen spent most of his time, according to our informant,
read Smally. We staked out in the car down the
where we could keep an eye on the front door
of the bar and still not look suspicious. Between five
and seven thirty pm, we watched at least two dozen
customers entering or leaving the bar, but none of them
came close to Alan's description eight pm nothing. By the
time where we relieved on steak out at eleven pm,
Alan still had failed to show. Late the following afternoon,
we were back at the same spot watching for a
sign of the suspect. Six forty eight pm.
Speaker 5: How are you fixed for smokes?
Speaker 4: Oh? I think I got a couple left. Yeah, here
you go.
Speaker 8: I got a light here, yeah, six.
Speaker 5: Hey you have a look Joe gray hat, dark suit.
He just came out of the bar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's coming this way. Yeah, I'll buy it.
Speaker 5: That's him getting in that blue sid down.
Speaker 4: I don't press Himlet's gi him a good leave, right,
just get him in. What do you think Let's wait
a minute, Yeah, okay, we'll clear all right? You got
him spotted?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no trouble. That's a funny one. Huh. I wonder
why we didn't see him go in and bore.
Speaker 4: I don't know. It might be a delivery entrance in
the back of the place we could have missed.
Speaker 5: Can you make out that Licen's number?
Speaker 4: Can you plod just a little? That's good? Yeah, let's
see seven toms seven ninety seven to two. I better
check it. Eighty K to control one, eight OK to
control one.
Speaker 9: Control under eighty K, going.
Speaker 4: Ahead, control one, request rolling making DMV on seven times
seven nine seven to two. That's seven times seven nine
seven to two.
Speaker 6: Control under eighty K. Rogers stand by.
Speaker 5: It doesn't seem to be in a great hurry, barely
poking along? Or is he now?
Speaker 4: I can't see?
Speaker 5: Just turn right on to Bronson. I want to give
him plenty of lee. Uh yeah, thatt's him up ahead,
there's picking up speed.
Speaker 4: I don't lose him.
Speaker 1: Ride control one to eighty K, control one to eight.
Speaker 4: OK, come in, please here we go eighty K to
control one, go ahead seven.
Speaker 3: Tom seven nine seven two.
Speaker 6: The car is registered to D.
Speaker 1: Denver J.
Speaker 3: John Carpenter, thirteen twenty two, North Paris.
Speaker 4: Avenue, Los Angeles, eighty K to control one Roger Cam
eight three sixty seven Carpenter.
Speaker 5: The same guy owns a bar, isn't it is? Adam
must know him.
Speaker 4: Pretty well well enough to use his car. Wonder what
the pitch is there? You checked on, Carpenter, didn't you?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Clean bill of health, no record? Yeah? Up ahead there
now he's.
Speaker 4: Slowing down, Yeah, turning up on the driveway, pull up
under that tree there. Huh right, that's fine, see him,
uh huh getting out, going to that bungle over there,
letting himself in the front door.
Speaker 5: No sign of anybody else there. No house was dark
when we drove up, wasn't it. He couldn't be living
there alone.
Speaker 4: He might be.
Speaker 5: Doesn't make much sense to me. Why would a single
guy get himself.
Speaker 4: A house that'd be Let's wait it out. Maybe he'll
come up with the answer. Nine fifteen pm we continued
our stakeout on the bungalow on South Bronson Avenue. A
little more than an hour passed when we saw the
lights go out in the house. The suspect, Jeff Allen,
came out the front door, locked up, got in his
car and drove off. Ben and I followed him. He
drove directly to the bar on North Ferris Avenue, the
thirteen twenty two club. He parked his car and went inside.
Ben and I drove back to the cottage on South
Bronson and let ourselves in through the back door. A
preliminary check of the house failed to give us any
real proof that Allan was the suspect we wanted. The
only possible lead we came up with was an expensive
hunting rifle, which we found stored away in one of
the closets. We copied down the serial number on the gun,
drove to a neighborhood's cigar store, called the office and
asked him to check out the number for us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Marph, we'll wait for the call.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, how'd you do?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna check it through now that call us good.
Speaker 4: I'm a little hungry, aren't you? Do you like candy bar?
Speaker 5: No, I'm getting a little tired of moun't mind the
square meal out. My back's killing me. Never been to
soaring my life.
Speaker 4: What's the matter, you fall?
Speaker 5: No, nothing like that. It's my snoring.
Speaker 4: Again, snoring? What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 5: Almost broke my back. It's a wife's idea. She claims
that I'm sleeping, I roll over on my back and
snores as he keeps your awake all night.
Speaker 4: There's not much you can do about it, is it?
Speaker 5: Eyah? The wife sawt of something supposed to be an
ald home remedy. She sewed a couple of golf balls
right into the back of my pajamas. You get the
idea behind it. If you roll over on your back,
the golf balls dig into you and you have to
roll over on your side again.
Speaker 4: That'll see what happened to you.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm a sound sleeper, rolled over on my back
and stayed there, slept on those golf balls all night,
woke up in the morning and like to have died.
But like I snapped a couple of vertebrae.
Speaker 4: It must be an easier way to keep you from
sleeping on your back.
Speaker 5: Uh, I wouldn't do any good anyhow, George just won't work.
I snowed just as loud sleeping on my side.
Speaker 4: I get it. Hello, yahmer is Joe Friday.
Speaker 7: W six three four four?
Speaker 4: Yeah? That checks? That was a serial in Lamorn? When
was that?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Y'all camer Thanks bye. I think maybe we got
a break. Yeah, they got to make on the gun
we found, is it registered Dallen? No, it was taken
in a burglary two months ago.
Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
force in action.
Speaker 4: Tuesday night, April seventeenth, ten thirty eight pm, we got
additional information from the office on the hunting rifle that
we'd found in the bungalow to which we trailed the suspect,
Jefferson Allen, a few hours earlier.
Speaker 7: The gun was.
Speaker 4: Registered to a mister Robert Lsal thirty oh eight Bush Street.
The rifle, along with three hundred dollars in jewelry and
forty eight dollars in cash, had been taken from LaSalle's
home two months before during his family's absence. The burglar's
method of operation matched Allen's alleged MO. Exactly ten forty
five PM. After arranging for a stakeout to be placed
on the bungalow on Bronson Avenue, Ben and I drove
to the thirteen twenty two club on North Ferris, where
we located the suspect, jeff Allen.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, that's correct, sergeant. I'm from back in Michigan originally.
I've been out here about six months now. I think
I'm gonna like it. Sure can't beat this weather. You've
been working here at the bory ever since you got
in town? Is that right? No, not quite. I've been
here for about four months. Kind of a handyman job.
I helped the bartender when I can keep the storeroom
in order see everything ship shaped?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: Uh? Have you ever been in Los Angeles before, Allen?
Speaker 5: Yeah, just once before, a couple of years ago. It
wasn't so good. Then. Jobs were hard to get I
ran into a little bit of trouble. Finally went back
east again.
Speaker 4: I see, what was this trouble you had?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 5: As I say, jobs were pretty hard to come by then.
I kept checking around, but I couldn't find anything. When
so good. I finally got picked up on a bag
charge and spent a couple of weeks at the county.
When I got out, I figured the best thing was
head back east again. A lot better this time though,
I'm doing okay. See, I couldn't get you anything. No,
there's something maybe you'd like to talk to me about,
anything I can help you with. It's a routine checkup.
Speaker 7: We're on.
Speaker 5: Got a few more questions for you, if you don't mind,
for sure, let's take one of these booths back here. Huh,
might as well be comfortable?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, go ahead?
Speaker 7: You sure I couldn't got you anything?
Speaker 5: A bottle of beer or coke? Maybe? No, you have
your family out here with you all and your wife. No,
I'm not married. Sorry, and I haven't taken the plunge yet.
Figure there's plenty of time for that. Hard enough to
keep myself going these days, let alone a family. Yeah,
I know what you mean.
Speaker 4: Have you ever been arrested before, Alan, I mean, other
than that bag charge you mentioned, you ever served any
big time Yeah?
Speaker 5: Matter of fact, I have back in Michigan. Pretty dumb trick.
I got in trouble as a kid, burglary served all
my time, though I don't know my day. I'm washed
up with that stuff a long time ago. It just
doesn't pay that so.
Speaker 4: Uh. Then that last time there was any trouble was
that vague charge? Is that it?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, that's it. As I say, I'm all washed
up with that stuff. It doesn't pay off at all.
I got wise to that. Mm hm. Lead to hear it, Allen,
And you figure you're going to stay on here, then
make this your permanent home. Yeah, I think I might.
It's sure like the weather job suits me too. Boss
even lets me use his car once in a while.
Were you nice? Huh?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Where are you living now? You got an apartment
in the neighborhood here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got an apartment, a nice little place. Not
exactly in the neighborhood, though, it's out in West Hollywood,
right on a bus line. No trouble getting into work.
It's a small apartment or abouts in West Hollywood. You
mind giving us the address? Oh, it's on Norwich Avenue.
Why do yes, It's part of this routine check. We
have to make you mind very much if we drive
out there with you. I don't look the place over. No,
I don't mind. I mean if you figure I need
checking out, I just assume clear it up now. I
got nothing to hide. Do you want me to get
my coat?
Speaker 4: No, it's all right.
Speaker 5: Say I should be back here in an hour or so.
What do you think I mean, it's just a route
tea check. It won't take long with.
Speaker 4: Them, No, not too long. I suppose you can figure
that better than weekend.
Speaker 5: How do you mean he.
Speaker 4: Said you had nothing to hide? Eleven twenty pm we
drove the suspect, Jeff Allen, to his apartment on Norwich Avenue.
It was more than two and a half miles from
the bungalow on South Bronson where we followed Alan earlier
that night, and where we located the stolen hunting rifle.
While Ben and I made a thorough check of the apartment.
Allan sat relaxed in an easy chair. Ben and I
covered everything in the apartment, but there was no evidence
of any loot taking in the burglaries.
Speaker 5: That's about it. Joe checked everything. Okay, that's about it.
I sergeant, you fellas want a beer before we go
back to the club.
Speaker 4: Just one or two more questions, Allan than I. Anything
will wash this thing up.
Speaker 5: Sure sertain.
Speaker 4: Do you rent some other place in town? Another house
or an apartment?
Speaker 5: Maybe another place? No, why would I do that? This
is my apartment. This is where I live. Why do
you ask that?
Speaker 4: About six o'clock to night, you were seen going into
a bungalow over on South Bronson, the same neighborhood as
a club where you work. We got a pretty good idea.
This quite a bit of loot from burglary store in
that house.
Speaker 5: I don't follow his sergeant. I don't know what you mean.
I don't live on South Bronson. I live here. You
ought to be able to tell that you were seen
going into the bungalow alan About five minutes past six tonight,
we found a stolen hunting raffle in the house. It
was taken in a burglary. You think you want to
tell us about No, I can't tell you anything about it.
I don't have any bungalow on South Bronson. I'm not
even sure I can tell you where this treet is.
Speaker 4: Then you better get your hat, mister, we'll show you.
Eleven forty eight pm, we got in the car and
started driving down Beverly Boulevard back toward the bungalow on
South Bronson Avenue. When we got to the bungalow, the
suspect still refused to admit that he had a key
to the door or that he was in any way
concerned with the place. We had him empty his pockets,
and among his possessions we found a ring of keys.
We tried them on the front door of the bungalow.
The fourth when we tried opened it, we went inside.
Alan still would admit nothing. Ben contacted the landlady next
door and she said she'd be right over. I continued
questioning him while Ben checked through the house again.
Speaker 5: Hey, Joel, yo, you want to come back here. I
think we've got some.
Speaker 4: All right, Ben? You want to go ahead back here?
Speaker 2: Ellen?
Speaker 5: Sure? Okay? I still can't tell you what the score is.
So I don't belong in this place. It ain't mine.
Speaker 4: What key you head? Seemed to fit the front door?
All right?
Speaker 5: How do you figure that that doesn't mean anything? I
had that key for years. I think it's a skeleton
key opens almost any kind of life down here, Joe,
small basement here leads right down off the kitch. All right,
go ahead, Allen, have a look, Joe. Line of cupboards
all the way around here. Check them for yourself. Yeah,
it's a pretty good haul.
Speaker 4: Furs, machinist tools, jewelry, quite a bit of it here,
A couple of radios, two more hunting rifles. Come on,
how about it, Alan, I want to save time for
all of us.
Speaker 5: Now, you got it wrong. Sorry, I think this isn't
my place. I told you when I got out of
that trouble back east, I made a my mind. I
was all washed up with this kind of stuff. This
house is mine. I haven't got anything to do with it.
You're a kid and yourself, Allan, you know that. Oh
you got it all wrong, you got it all mixed up. Well,
we'll let the landlady tell.
Speaker 4: Us the woman who owns this house. She's on her
way over from next door. She ought to be able
to tell us who she ranted the place to. Wouldn't
you say so? Wouldn't you?
Speaker 5: She might be wrong? It's possible now.
Speaker 4: Look we got you did the right to mister, why
not face it?
Speaker 5: Can't? I won't do it. I made up my mind
the last time it wouldn't happen again. I was all
washed up with it. I won't go through it again.
They will send me back and we'll be able to
take it. Maybe you should have figured that before you
started in. I didn't mean too. I was all washed
up with that stuff. I told you that the first
time I saw you. Didn't I know sure of it too.
I wouldn't try it again, didn't pay. It's just what
I told you. I'm all through with it, and I
washed up with it. I never lied to you, did
I what's the difference? Humph, you lie to yourself.
Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3: On July sixth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
eighty sixth, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
In a moment, the results of that trial, the apprehension
of the suspect, Jefferson Herald Allan, resulted in clearing twenty
two cases of burglaries committed over the past four months.
Allan was indicted on twenty two counts of first degree
burglary and received sentence. As prescribed by law, first degree
burglary is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for
not less than five years.
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Speaker 3: You have just heard drag met a series of authentic
cases from officials. Technical advice comes from the Office of
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Speaker 2: Today's the silver anniversary of NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back Our suspect. Kind of got to a point
where I was like, oh, come on, Now. Certainly I
respect that a criminal does not have to choose to
incriminate him or herself, but I would have a lot
more respect for a criminal who plams up and takes
the fifth rather than continuing on with the lame denials.
I mean, when they got to the point where they
were going to bring the landlady over and he was like, well,
she could be mistaken before she even identified him, I
was like, oh, come on. And kind of the same
thing with his insistence that, you know, his statement that
he was done with that after he got out of prison,
which they were supposed to take as something that indicated
his good intentions. But I have so much trouble buying that. Now.
Let's be clear, there are crimes that you can commit
on a whim. You know, you get back into the
wrong sort of environment and you make a bad choice
and you can find yourself committing a similar crime, re offending.
But burglary is such a premedicated crime. You don't just
randomly burglarize the place. You've got to make sure that
it's worth burglarizing, and you've also got to make sure
that it's a place that you can access without being
easily detected. So I don't like a criminal who insults
our intelligence, which I kind of feel like it did.
All right, Listener comments and feedback now, and we have
a couple comments on Spotify regarding the Big Lease Mechanics.
Sixty six rites after hearing Harry Bartel try a Mexican accent,
I'm glad he didn't try a French accent on that
escape episode with Jack Webb as an OSS agent. And
then Harrison says she might have been a criminal, but
at least she could properly pronounce Julio credit where credit
is due, I guess, and then Lucifer Sam says, hey, Adam,
Joe says, all we know are the facts, ma'am at
the twenty minute mark. I think that's the closest I've
heard to just the facts, man. Yeah, And of course
I think it's a very different context because in that case,
he was explaining their investigation. But the framing and it
comes I think from the Sanfrey Bert parody, and the
way it gets interpreted is that that's something that Joe
Friday says when questioning witnesses, and it's not. And I mean,
I think there are two things I hate about that idea.
Number one, it's route and second is that I think
it's a bad way to question witnesses because the witnesses
and one thing that I think you do hear from Dragnet,
and I think it's a very good lesson, is that
not everyone understands what the pertinent facts are, and there
are details that are going to be forgotten, particularly if
you sit there and you rush the witness. And where
they tend to have some success is by questioning the witness,
letting them tell the story as they experienced it, asking
follow up questions and then if and there are sometimes
where a witness just goes completely off the rails, where
we have gone so far from any sort of relevant
that they need to get them back on track. And
so what Friday will say in that instance is, oh,
that's very interesting, ma'am. But now I'd like to talk
a little bit more about the car you saw? Could
you tell us? And then pushes it back towards what's relevant.
But I appreciate the comment and the opportunity to go
on more about why I don't like that iconic phrase
that is associated with one of my favorite programs, but
was never actually setting it. All Right, now, let's go
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Speaker 10: All or where it just happens that right now I
can use a few extra Bucks's quite a few, so
what's the deal.
Speaker 11: Well, as a matter of fact, I hadn't thought in
terms of anyth on this one.
Speaker 9: Thoughts. Will pay whatever expenses you.
Speaker 10: Mean, sir, Oh, you trust me with my expense account, Fritz,
are you kidding?
Speaker 9: Of course not?
Speaker 10: Okay, Then, now that we understand each other, what's the problem,
a rother?
Speaker 9: Who's the problem? John Wakefield Edwards?
Speaker 4: Never hear of him?
Speaker 10: No, I can't say that I have retired business man
another goose, I think it was.
Speaker 9: He lived just outside of Almondy in New York. So
what's happened to him? Well, nothing that I know of.
Speaker 11: There's a lot of insurance with its, including a straight
life policy worth one hundred and sixty five thousands.
Speaker 9: How old is you, Fritz? In his late sixties? His
wife died well three or four years ago.
Speaker 10: Then who's a beneficiary?
Speaker 9: Is adopted daughter of Maryland? And how old is she?
In her late twenty She's a very attractive girl. Then
who cares about a flea?
Speaker 10: Let's I take you sam Andy, Johnny.
Speaker 9: You probably won't even see her? Oh why not? But
she lives and works over in Troy. Uh, well, what's
happening to me? All man?
Speaker 11: Well, they called me a few minutes ago and asked,
or rather demandi, did I send you over to.
Speaker 9: See him immediately? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 11: He wouldn't say what he did say though, just before
he hung up is that under no circumstances that you
to let her know that you're coming.
Speaker 10: M Berlin, I was aused so M I wonder so Johnny, I.
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