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from March sixth, nineteen fifty two, here is the Big Evans.

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

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

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detective sergeant. You're assigned a personnel division. A resident of

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your city files a report of assault and battery. His

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shoulder is dislocated. He's been badly beaten. He claims his

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assailant was a young police officer. Your job investigate.

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

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the next thirty minutes. In cooperation with the Los Angeles

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Police Department, you will travel step by step on the

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side of the law through an actual case transcribed from

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official police violence. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment,

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Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.

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Speaker 4: It was Tuesday, June eleventh. That was mild in Los Angeles.

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We were working the day Watch out of BIA. My

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partner's said Jacobs. The boss's Lieutenant Jesse. My name is Friday.

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It was ten twenty three am when I got to

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ROM eighty three Squadron.

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Speaker 5: No, you catch up with a lieutenant.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, in a meeting, said he'd be out about eleven thirty.

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He wants us to handle it for the time being.

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Speaker 5: Uh oh, Joe, this is Officer Blanchet. Is my partner,

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Joe Friday.

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Speaker 6: I'm glad to know you're Friday. I think I've seen

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you're on Central a couple of times.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, sure, how are you? What's this thing all about?

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Do you mind telling me you worked yesterday?

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Speaker 5: Did you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: That's right, my regular beat south Central area.

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Speaker 4: Anything out of the ordinary happened while you were on duty?

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Speaker 6: No, not much. Made a couple of pinches, that's about all.

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Pretty quiet Otherwise, did.

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Speaker 4: You make one of those arrests at seven nine two

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eight Cortland Avenue.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, woman, Two men users, all three of

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them were booked in violation State Narcotics Act.

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Speaker 5: Any of the three familiar to you at all? Blanchet?

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Speaker 6: I mean, had you ever seen him before the time

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he arrested him? No, none of them. I knew the place, though,

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I've been keeping an eye on it lately. One of

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those old fashioned homes converted into a rooming house.

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Speaker 4: Uh huh.

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Speaker 6: I've been noticing some of the people going in and

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out of the place. They didn't look too good to me.

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That's why I say I've been keeping an eye on

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the house. And what's the story on this?

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Speaker 2: Anyway?

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Speaker 5: You get a kickback and out of the rest I made. Well,

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we'd like to have your version of it first, Blanchet,

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Exactly what happened? How'd you come to make the pinch? Well?

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Speaker 6: I was walking my regular beat. I think it was

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about three thirty yesterday afternoon. I was going along Cortland

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the seventy nine hundred block. A woman came out of

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the front door and hailed me. She complained about a

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five or seven party in the house couple of doors

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Speaker 4: That was at number seven nine two eight, the boarding house.

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Speaker 7: Ah yeah, I checked it out. The party was going

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on up on the third floor. I went up, found

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the girl and the two men in the room facing

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on the street. The girl was fixing a pop for

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herself when I came in two caps of heroin on

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the table in front of her.

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Speaker 4: What'd you do?

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Speaker 5: Then?

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Speaker 7: I made a grab for the two caps. One of

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the guys beat me to it. He got him, ran

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to the next room and tried to flush him down

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the drain. He didn't quite make it, though, I got

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one of the caps before he could.

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Speaker 5: Get rid of it. What'd you do?

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Speaker 6: Then blanted and I sat to three of them down,

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called into the office. I checked the room over while

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we were waiting, found two more caps of heroin, usual

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equipment to go with it. When the radio car showed up,

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the three of them were taken downtown and narcotic squad

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Speaker 4: So all I can tell you about well, during the

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time you were waiting there in the room, Blanche, did

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you have any trouble with this aspects at all?

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Speaker 5: I got a lot of talk from one of the men.

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Speaker 6: Fellow by the name of Ebba, he's supposed to run

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the boarding house, claims he didn't have anything to.

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Speaker 5: Do with it. He didn't know. The girl was a hype,

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you know, the usual stuff, and that was the extent

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of it. Just tough.

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Speaker 4: Sure, that's all. Why, well, that's not the story. According

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to Evans, he had his lawyer bail him out last night.

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He was in the file charges against you.

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Speaker 5: Huh, what do you mean?

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Speaker 4: Salt and battery. He claims that you worked him over

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for no reason at all. He says you beat him

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up and dislocated his shoulder.

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Speaker 5: Oh, he's crazy, he's lying. I didn't work him over all.

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Speaker 4: He says, he's got witnesses to prove it. Blanchard. The

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two people who were with him, the woman the other man,

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he says elsewhere, that's what you did.

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Speaker 7: But it's not true. They're trying to cook up a frame.

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I didn't touch any of them.

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Speaker 5: We lis. Evans looked like he's been messed up, cuts

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and bruises all over his face, his shoulders fairly recent too.

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Speaker 6: I know that, but I didn't do it. He was

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in the same shape when I found him up in

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that room yesterday. Matter of fact, I asked him about it.

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He wouldn't tell me. It's a truth, Sergeant so helped me.

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All three of them are lying. I didn't beat him up.

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Speaker 4: Mel's your word against theirs, Blanchard. The facts seemed to

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favor Evans.

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Speaker 6: I don't get this at all. Two of those people

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are known hypes. State swear anything for a free cap.

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You know that what good is their word?

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Speaker 5: No good at all. It's not up to est to decide.

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Eavans filed to complaint to our job to follow through.

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Speaker 4: Now you're sure about the shape Evans was in when

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you found him up in that room yesterday, Blanched. He

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was already marked up, Is that right?

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Speaker 5: I'm sure he was. I told you I asked him

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about it. He wouldn't answer me.

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Speaker 4: But you had no way of proving that you couldn't

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possibly have been responsible for it.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's up to him, isn't it. Evans? He says,

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I worked him over. Let him prove it.

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Speaker 7: Well, praid he's got to jump there. Two witnesses. Yeah,

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but they're lying. You must know that they're lying.

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Speaker 4: Well, now, look, you can see the position puts us in.

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If you're innocent, we're going to do all we can.

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If you're guilty, will see that you get everything that's

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coming to you.

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Speaker 6: You know it as well as I do. Sergeant, I

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had no reason to beat him up.

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Speaker 5: I didn't do it.

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Speaker 7: It's not up to test Blanche. You the court will

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have to decide. Doesn't make sense, none of a test.

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Speaker 5: There's no other way to handle it. We got forty

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five hundred men in the department. We don't claim they're

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all saints. Once in a while, when them turns bed

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and all of us get a black guy hearing a

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jam Blanchard like anyone else, you'll get a fair trial. Yeah, well,

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what happens now? Do I draw suspension?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? That's right. If you're clear to the charges in court,

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they'll be a hearing before the border.

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Speaker 5: Writes, Am I through right now?

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Speaker 4: We left the bookie in at the main jail. Care

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to be presented at DA's office.

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Speaker 5: Tomorrow doesn't make sense. I had no reason to beat

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up Evans, no reason at all. You sure that I am?

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What do you mean, of course, I'm sure. Well, Evans

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claims you did have a reason, a good one.

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Speaker 4: What he says, you handed him a proposition he wouldn't

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go for, so you worked him over.

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Speaker 5: What do you mean, what kind of a propos of

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bad kind? Huh?

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Speaker 4: He says, you wanted to pay off. Investigating charges against

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a police officer involves exactly the same procedure as cases

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where private citizens are concerned, prove the suspect innocent or guilty.

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If Blanchard was innocent, it wasn't going to be an

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easy job proving it. If he hadn't beat up the complainant,

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George Evans and dislocated his shoulder, it seemed the only

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way out would be to find the man who did

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either that or proved that the two witnesses Evans had

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come up with were lying. If Blanchard was guilty, if

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he actually had slugged and beaten Evans, we had to

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find sufficient evidence, and we had to find a motive.

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Eleven ten am ed and I took Officer Harry Blanchard

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over to the main jail where he was booked in

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and lodged in one of the cell blocks. Went upstairs

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to the Women's jail, where we interviewed one of the

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witnesses to the alleged beating and Eleanor Rowland. She'd had

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previous arrests for vagrancy, grand theft, auto and petty theft,

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as well as an established reputation as a user of narcotics.

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She was twenty three years old.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it was terrible that cop really roughed him up,

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Pearl Evans. Cop didn't have to treat him like that.

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Speaker 5: How long have you known George Evans, miss Rowland your

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old friends?

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Speaker 8: No, I wouldn't say that. I met him a couple

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of weeks ago when I came down from the.

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Speaker 4: North San Francisco, Portland.

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Speaker 8: I was visiting up there. I'm a Portland girl originally.

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Speaker 4: Well, how about this other man you were with at

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the time Officer Blanche had picked you up? Is Ray Sherman?

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He and old friend Buster.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I've known him a few years.

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Speaker 5: You know Evans very well.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess she could say that Ray's had a

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room at the boarding house a couple of years. I

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guess he's good friends with Evans. Say can I ask

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you something? You ever worked narcotics up in Portland?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Man never had.

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Speaker 8: Hm, face is familiar. Could have sworn I mitched in Portland?

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Speaker 4: Do you want to run over that story again for us?

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Miss Rowland, about what happened yesterday?

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Speaker 8: Much to say, just as soon as I told you.

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Speaker 4: Usually stay at evans rooming house when you're in town to.

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Speaker 8: No, it's only the second time I was there.

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Speaker 5: How about George was either at the time?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 5: Not.

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Speaker 8: First me and Buster had a pop and then we

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sat around the top. Evans came in a little later.

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Three of us talked, told him me and Buster not

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to bring any more junk in the house. He didn't

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want to get into trouble. Then speak of the devil.

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A cop walked in.

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Speaker 4: What happened?

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Speaker 8: Then Buster grabbed two caps off the table, tried to

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get rid of him. He only got rid of one,

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though the cop got the other one.

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Speaker 4: How the argument start to remember that between Evans and

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the officer.

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Speaker 8: I mean, well, I was a little high at the time.

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I don't remember word for word. Heavens said he didn't

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have anything to do with it, but the cop kept

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pressing him. He told Evans he'd forget about it if

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Evans would pay him off. Evans told him, no, we

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wouldn't give him a cent, and then the cop started

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beating him up.

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Speaker 5: You were in the same room with them all this time.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, bustering me. We saw it all, peorl. Evans. He

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really got worked over. Cop didn't have to treat him

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like that. Say are you sure you're not from Portland?

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Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, I'm sure. Now about how many times would

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you say the officer hit Evans?

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Speaker 8: I couldn't tell you that exactly dozens of times, I guess,

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kept hitting him with his fists, pushed him all around

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the room. I was a little high at the time.

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I don't remember everything exactly. Sure could use a booster.

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Speaker 4: About now, are you sure about it? Meaning you've told us,

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miss Rowland that's the truth?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. Some of the details I didn't remember

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so well. He straightened it out for me, though. He

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told me just what happened. Who's that George Evans?

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Speaker 4: Eleven fifty am ed and I continued questioning Eleanor Rowland.

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The more we talked to her, the more we were

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convinced that at the time of the alleged beating, she

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was under a heavy dose of narcotics and that for

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the most part, she picked up her version of the

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story from the alleged victim, George Evans. We went down

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to the second floor of the main jail to one

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of the interview rooms, where we talked to the second witness,

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Ray Sherman alias Tom Raymond, alias Buster Raymond. He also

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had a long record as a user of narcotics. He

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gave the same general version of the incident as the

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Roland girl did, but despite the girl's story, he claimed

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he was not under the influence of narcotics at the time.

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Officer Blanchard entered the Roman made the arrests. Besides that,

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there were other discrepancies. One o five pm, we had

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some lunch at the Federal Cafe and then we drove

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out to interview the complainant in the case, George Evans.

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After checking at his rooming house, we finally located him

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in a neighborhood bowling alley. He was sitting at a

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bar joining the actual playing area, drinking a bottle of beer.

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Parts of his face and neck were bandaged and his

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left shoulder was in a cast. He appeared friendly and cooperative.

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Speaker 7: I kept telling the cop I didn't have any money,

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told him wouldn't give him a payoff.

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Speaker 5: Even if I did so, he started working you over that, right, Evans, Yes,

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that's right.

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Speaker 7: I don't have anything against cops normally, but this guy,

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that's something else.

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Speaker 5: How do you ever get in the forest anyway?

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Speaker 4: Had you ever had any contact with Officer Blanchard before yesterday?

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Speaker 10: Evans?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 7: I did twice before came to the house. Accused me

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of running a hideout for thieves junkies. Tried to get

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me to pay him off then too.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't do it. So when was that Evans? About

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six eight months ago? Yeah, at least that.

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Speaker 4: Well, how was it you didn't report Blanchard? Then?

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Speaker 7: Well let him wantn't caused any trouble, get mixed up

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in a law case. I figured I could take care

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of myself. But after that, going over yesterday, that was

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enough for me. I don't understand how the guy ever

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made the force to begin with. Aw the matter shoulder

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of mine, he really tore it apart.

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Speaker 4: I'll just spend your time yesterday, Evans. Do you mind

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telling us?

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Speaker 5: No, I don't mind.

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Speaker 7: Slept till about half past twelve one o'clock, had a

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little bit of a hangover, and I got up and

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made some breakfast and read the paper.

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Speaker 5: That's about size. I mean you were in your room

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all day after the time he went down the hall

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to Race Shermon's room. That's right. Ray was there with

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this girlfriend of his, Eleanor. I didn't know she was

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a hype.

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Speaker 7: That's the truth. Ray should have known him better having

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her there. I don't like the kind of stuff going

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on on place.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 4: We've checked you through the recond Bureau Evans. There's been

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three or four similar cases at your places the last

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few years. Hasn't there a couple?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a real problem. I don't know how you

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keep him out the whole neighborhood around here. You know,

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pretty hard to stop it.

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Speaker 4: I guess we understand you were in the room there

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while the girl helped herself to a fix. Is that right?

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Speaker 7: No, I wasn't in the room when she took the fix.

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I got there a couple of minutes after. I didn't

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even know what was going on. You could ask Gray

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Sherman the girl too. Let'll tell you I wasn't there.

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That's something else we wanted to ask you about. Sherman

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and the girl.

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Speaker 5: Don't seem too sure there are stories, can you straighten

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us out there? What do you mean, Oh, Sherman tells

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us one thing, A girl tells us something else. Can't

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seem to get together.

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Speaker 4: But I told him, he told him what?

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Speaker 5: Well, nothing, I told him. I told the truth. That's

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all that stupid ray. He doesn't know half the time

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what he's doing.

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Speaker 4: Well, it doesn't make it much of a witness in,

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does it.

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Speaker 5: What do you mean he was there when that cop

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slugged me beat me up? You could see that much. Well,

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that's just it. We're not sure he did.

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Speaker 4: Huh.

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Speaker 5: The girl says, Blanche would work you over in the

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living room. There, Sherman says, Blanche took you out in

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the kitchen and beat you up. Now, which is it?

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I think I'm beginning to get the pitch.

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Speaker 4: How's that you're out to cover up with that cop?

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Speaker 5: Is that it? Take care of your own.

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Speaker 4: We're designing to investigate this thing, Evans, just like any

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other criminal case. Blanche is not getting any more of

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a break than any other suspect would.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Sure, we still haven't asked our question. Where did

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it happened? Living room, my kitchen?

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Speaker 7: The interview's all over, Sergeant, I got the pitch. You

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can take this back to your office. I'm going to

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get that cop convicted. It's the last thing I do.

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Speaker 5: You can count on that.

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Speaker 4: What's the matter, Evans? All we did was ask you

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a simple question.

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Speaker 5: Don't try to kid me, Sergeant. I got the angle.

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You're trying for a cover up. Okay, go ahead and

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try now.

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Speaker 4: Look, why don't you snap out of it, mister. Nobody's

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trying to cover up unless it's you. Sherman and the

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girl are your witnesses. Some of the points of their

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stories don't check out. We want to clear them up.

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Does that sound unreasonable?

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Speaker 5: I told you, Sergeant, it's no use. I got your angle.

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Answer me one more thing, Evans. You're on your own.

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I'm telling you nothing.

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Speaker 7: Who was a doctor that treated you after you were

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beating up down at Georgia Street?

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Speaker 5: There, merchant? See you ort to know that now? I

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mean for your shoulder. We checked over your car down

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at Georgia Street, and no mention there a dislocated shouldern nose.

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I didn't even know I had one till I was

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bailed out. I had mowned doctor.

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Speaker 4: Fix you mind giving us his name?

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Speaker 5: Why should I? I was willing to go along cooperate.

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Then you started playing a cage. You're trying to cover

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up for that cop. Now you work it out in

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your own.

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Speaker 4: All right, mister, anyway you want it, you bet that's the.

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Speaker 5: Way I want it. You had this whole thing fram

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from the beginning.

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Speaker 4: You're off the track, Evans.

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Speaker 5: You're not kidding me. You're trying to prove that cops

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inisen trying to make me out a liar. What am

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I supposed to do to help you prove I'm a liar?

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Speaker 4: Now you helped enough already, ED and I double checked

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through Officer Blanchet's departmental record. It showed that Blanchet had

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been working his present beat for a little more than

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four months. Evans had told us that Blanchard allegedly had

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solicited payoffs from him at least six to eight months before.

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The following day, ED and I made further inquiries in

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the neighborhood of evans rooming house and also among his

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friends and associates. For one thing, we found out that

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Evans had not spent the entire morning and early afternoon

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in the house. He'd been seen leaving his place by

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several neighbors at about ten AM. Through one of his contacts.

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We got the address of an ex wife since remarried,

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and Marie Evans A. We located her in a small

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apartment in the East Wiltshire district, a small brunette woman

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about thirty five.

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Speaker 5: Now, you tell her she used to be married to Evan, Yah,

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that's right. Well what kind of business was Evans in

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when you were married to him, ma'am?

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Speaker 9: Well we had that rooming house over on Courtland.

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Speaker 4: That's what we know about that. Was there anything else?

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Speaker 9: Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: It does matter anyway, just a routine investigation. We'd like

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to have as much background on him as you can remember.

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Are you on fairly good terms with Evans?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 10: I haven't seen him since we split up about you

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and a half ago. I think that's why I couldn't.

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Speaker 5: Stand what was the trouble? Mammy mind telling us just asn't.

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Speaker 10: Much good, that's all. I find a lot of names

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to fit him. He was in everything by me. That's

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why I got away from him. Every cheap, lousy racket

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I can think of, he was in it, pedland, dope, blackmail,

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making the book, some of the two bit rackets.

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Speaker 9: He's been in all of them. One after the other.

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I had to get away.

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Speaker 5: Rooming house on Courtland Avenue. That's he's been operating all this.

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Speaker 9: Time, as long as I've known him, Yeah, about three years.

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Speaker 4: I'd say, is narcotics just a sideline with him? Or

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does he go in for it pretty heavy?

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Speaker 9: He was in it pretty heavy when I left him.

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I know what he's been doing since. I don't care.

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I soon forget all about it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, man, m I can understand.

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Speaker 9: What's the matter. Now, go to a case against him, Well.

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Speaker 5: Not exactly. Evans is filed against the police officer, assault

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and batteries. So listening and bribe, we're investigating the charges.

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Speaker 9: Sounds like him some coup really rough him up.

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Speaker 4: Oh we don't know, ma'am. That's what we're trying to

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find out.

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Speaker 9: I don't like to help you out. I don't think

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I can.

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Speaker 4: Well, just one more question, ma'am. Why you were married

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to Evans? Did you have a family doctor, I mean

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one that you called regularly when you were sick? Yeah?

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Speaker 9: We did.

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Speaker 4: Why What was his name? Can you remember?

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Speaker 9: Yeah? Doctor Chase. Do you like his address?

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Speaker 4: Two forty seven pm. We got to doctor Chase's office,

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and luckily we found him in.

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Speaker 5: Say a look at this magazine, Joe, Well, National Geographic

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looks like a real old one when you say.

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Speaker 4: It sure does covers torn offer.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what do you know about? That's older? Or I

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thought look good?

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Speaker 4: This yere? What do you got his pictures?

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Speaker 5: There? Look four pages of him? Pretty grand affair. Huh yeah,

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Teddy Rose felt breaks ground for Panama Canal. How about that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Already keep you waiting, gentlemen.

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Speaker 4: That's perfectly all right. Doctor.

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Speaker 5: Let's see how you want to know about mister Evans,

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Doctor George Evans.

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Speaker 11: Oh, yes, Evans. What wasn't exactly sergeant? What'd you have

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in mind?

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Speaker 4: Well, the first thing we'd like to know is if

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you've treated Evans recently, the last week or so.

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Speaker 5: Yes, as a matter of fact, I have.

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Speaker 11: And he was in here well if I see now,

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let's see, yes, I thought so. He was in here

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three days ago. I had some bad cuts and bruises.

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They'd already been treated, though there wasn't much.

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Speaker 5: I could do. Was there anything else wrong with him? Doctor? No?

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Speaker 10: Not.

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Speaker 11: Actually I examined his shoulder. He insisted it hurt him.

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He wanted me to put it in the cast.

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Speaker 4: You put the cast on did you.

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Speaker 11: Well, there really wasn't any need for it, but I

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put it on anyway, a little bit of psychiatry so

471
00:17:45,799 --> 00:17:47,799
to make him feel better. Well, honey, mean, doctor, was

472
00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,440
my need for it? Just one of those peculiar things.

473
00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,119
I've been treating Evans for some time.

474
00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:52,160
Speaker 10: You know.

475
00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:55,480
Speaker 11: Yeah, So that's what we understand. It's fairly unusual, hardly

476
00:17:55,519 --> 00:17:58,079
a rare case, though. I suppose you might call it

477
00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:01,160
a trick. Shoulder looks as if it might be dislocated,

478
00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,519
but it actually isn't. I think it's voluntary.

479
00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,519
Speaker 4: You mean he could do this thing himself.

480
00:18:05,839 --> 00:18:09,039
Speaker 11: Oh, yes, she can make it appear dislocated anytime he wants.

481
00:18:19,559 --> 00:18:23,680
Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police

482
00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:24,440
force and action.

483
00:18:32,799 --> 00:18:37,400
Speaker 4: Saturday, June fifteenth, ten am, the investigation continued. Meantime, the

484
00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,400
newspapers were still making front page material out of the story.

485
00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,279
One of the morning banner lines read cop slugs crippled

486
00:18:44,319 --> 00:18:47,799
citizen to get payoff, and another one police brutality rouses

487
00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:52,000
entire city. Our investigation went on early Saturday afternoon, ed

488
00:18:52,039 --> 00:18:54,440
and I succeeded in locating a former friend of Evans

489
00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,559
who told us that he'd seen him downtown the morning

490
00:18:56,559 --> 00:18:58,720
of the day on which the alleged beating had taken place.

491
00:18:59,039 --> 00:19:00,960
The same time, Evans told us he was in bed

492
00:19:01,079 --> 00:19:04,799
nursing a hangover. The former friend of Fred Werner said

493
00:19:04,799 --> 00:19:07,359
Evans was in the company of two known gamblers, Carl

494
00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,079
Sweetzer and Stanley Parrish. He told us that he'd spotted

495
00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:12,720
the three of them together at about eleven forty five am.

496
00:19:13,079 --> 00:19:15,400
We questioned Sweetser and Perish, but they refused to tell

497
00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,039
us anything. They admitted that they were acquainted with Evans,

498
00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:20,880
but they knew nothing about the beating he'd received. We

499
00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,400
continued making the rounds. Five thirty pm we dropped with

500
00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,039
the main jail and questioned Evans. Two witnesses again, Ray

501
00:19:27,079 --> 00:19:30,119
Sherman and Eleanor Rowland. We got the same stories as before.

502
00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,799
Six eighteen pm we got back to the city hall.

503
00:19:34,319 --> 00:19:36,200
Speaker 5: We'll stretcher. IM sure be glad to get home.

504
00:19:36,519 --> 00:19:38,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, not a bad day, though he had fair luck.

505
00:19:38,599 --> 00:19:40,599
Speaker 5: And I suppose son could always be better. She'd like

506
00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,200
to get the straight story one way or the other.

507
00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:43,880
You want to check the book ed see if we

508
00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:49,519
got anything. Oh, okay, not much, Joe all from a

509
00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:51,160
Tom Donnelly you know Donnalley.

510
00:19:51,319 --> 00:19:52,680
Speaker 4: No, it didn't sound too familiar to me.

511
00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,920
Speaker 5: I got it. Personal Jacobs, Isa Alfray, he's gone for

512
00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:01,160
the night. Uh huh no, I'm sorry, wouldn't No, all right,

513
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:05,880
thank him? Another message here for us Joe in the book. Yeah,

514
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,079
Blanchard's wife again. I'm getting to feel pretty silly about

515
00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:10,960
telling her the same thing that after night. Why don't

516
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:11,680
you call her tonight?

517
00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:13,960
Speaker 4: Well, you've been doing all right? When I give up now?

518
00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,400
Personnel Friday? Yeah, what was that.

519
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,240
Speaker 5: Your name? Yeah?

520
00:20:25,319 --> 00:20:31,440
Speaker 4: Okay, ten o'clock tonight. All right, that's fine and so sure, Yeah,

521
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:35,839
we'll meet you, okay ten o'clock. Yeah, fine, Bye, sounds

522
00:20:35,839 --> 00:20:38,440
pretty good. What was the name of Martin? Kimbro says

523
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,319
he knows George Evans. He wants to talk to us tonight.

524
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,119
What's a pitch? I don't know. It might be straight,

525
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,640
might not. What'd you say about Evans being worked over?

526
00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,240
He claims he knows all about it? Yeah, he says

527
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:52,599
Blanchard couldn't possibly have done it. Seven oh five pm.

528
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,880
We went over to Frank Kange's place, had some dinner,

529
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:56,440
and then we drove out to interview the man who'd

530
00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,759
identified himself on the phone as Martin kimbro We located

531
00:20:59,839 --> 00:21:02,240
him at the designated meeting place, a small bar just

532
00:21:02,319 --> 00:21:06,359
off Beverly Boulevard and Normandy Avenue. Kimbro was a small man,

533
00:21:06,519 --> 00:21:09,720
slight build, middle aged. He seemed less sure of himself

534
00:21:09,759 --> 00:21:11,720
than he did on the phone. He said that he

535
00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:14,039
knew George Evans fairly well, and that up until six

536
00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,400
months before he'd been on good terms with him. He

537
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,400
didn't go into details, but he gave us the general

538
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,599
idea that Evans had cheated him on some business deal

539
00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,400
the two of them had been engaged in. We asked

540
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,119
Kimbroe about the beating Evans had taken. He said it

541
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,359
was common knowledge among the people he traveled with that

542
00:21:28,759 --> 00:21:32,000
gamblers Carl Sweezer and Stanley Parrish were responsible for beating

543
00:21:32,039 --> 00:21:35,279
up Evans. He'd welched on a gambling debt and the

544
00:21:35,319 --> 00:21:36,960
two of them had been after him for months to

545
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,880
pay off. He also said he knew a close friend

546
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,839
of the two gamblers who told him that in private,

547
00:21:42,079 --> 00:21:45,799
Carl Sweetzer openly boasted of beating up Evans. According to

548
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,559
kimbro the beating had taken place about one pm the

549
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,119
Monday before the same day, officer Blanchard allegedly had given

550
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,359
him the beating relocated Sweetzer in the coffee shop of

551
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,440
a small hotel on South Rampart Street.

552
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:00,799
Speaker 5: I'm fraid I know which talk about sharg and I

553
00:22:00,839 --> 00:22:02,480
don't know any Georgia emas. I've never heard him. We

554
00:22:02,599 --> 00:22:04,319
understand you do sweets. I heard you used to play

555
00:22:04,319 --> 00:22:05,839
cards with him. Got it from a couple of people,

556
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:07,720
that's all. I guess they made a mistake. I don't

557
00:22:07,759 --> 00:22:09,559
remember the name at all. Maybe he's going under a

558
00:22:09,559 --> 00:22:09,960
different one.

559
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,079
Speaker 4: Huh, Well, how about his description? You ought to remember that?

560
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,279
Speaker 5: Well, maybe I meet quite a few people. It's kind

561
00:22:14,279 --> 00:22:15,759
of hard to place all of them, you know, kind

562
00:22:15,759 --> 00:22:16,240
of looked.

563
00:22:16,079 --> 00:22:19,079
Speaker 4: Like well, he's tall, dark complexion, dark hair, scar under

564
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,160
his chin. He dresses pretty well, usually wears a suit.

565
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, does means a thing to me. Runs a rooming

566
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,920
house over on Courtland to Avenue. It's been in quite

567
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:26,799
a few rackets on and all. Sure, I afraid it

568
00:22:26,799 --> 00:22:27,359
wouldn't know him.

569
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 4: Now. Look, we haven't got any beef with you, sweet soo.

570
00:22:29,279 --> 00:22:30,759
That's not the point. Evans is trying to get away

571
00:22:30,759 --> 00:22:32,119
with the fast when we're out to stop and we

572
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:33,400
could use your help. How about it?

573
00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 5: I don't see how I kind of help you. What's

574
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:35,599
a beef? Anyway?

575
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,559
Speaker 4: We think you know it's been all over the newspapers

576
00:22:37,559 --> 00:22:38,480
the last couple of days.

577
00:22:38,519 --> 00:22:41,119
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, a young cop once Evans got against him. Anyway,

578
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:42,839
I was trying to save face. We figure that's what

579
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,279
we hear anyway? Well, what I mean?

580
00:22:44,599 --> 00:22:46,160
Speaker 4: Well, I think you know how Evans likes to play

581
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:47,880
the big shot. It wouldn't do his stock much good

582
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:49,359
around town if the real story got out.

583
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,079
Speaker 5: I don't follow. What's story you're talking about.

584
00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 4: About his welching on a gambling tab getting roughed up.

585
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,160
If he says a cop did it makes him look

586
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,480
a lot better than it. He comes out of it

587
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:57,519
pretty clean that way down.

588
00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 5: Here passes all. Yeah, why you guys, have some coffee?

589
00:23:00,039 --> 00:23:01,920
I hate you along, okay, as soon as the waitress

590
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:05,400
comes around, all what else you hear about this Evans?

591
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,160
Pretty bad boy? Right, bad enough?

592
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 4: He's got a fast mouth, telling quite a few stories

593
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:10,200
around the neighborhood.

594
00:23:10,519 --> 00:23:13,079
Speaker 5: That's all I might remember him to all the dark

595
00:23:13,079 --> 00:23:14,039
guy arounds the room house.

596
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,039
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, you should remember him. He's mentioned you

597
00:23:16,079 --> 00:23:18,119
in a couple of the stories he's passing around. Where'd

598
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,640
you get that? Talking to a fellow last night, he says.

599
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,480
Evans claims that that card game he was in with

600
00:23:22,599 --> 00:23:25,160
you was rigged. That's why he didn't pay you off.

601
00:23:25,279 --> 00:23:27,359
He claims, you and Stan Perry's framed the whole thing.

602
00:23:27,839 --> 00:23:30,319
Speaker 5: I still laugh. Huh if only bums are all alike,

603
00:23:30,759 --> 00:23:32,640
lose a couple of dollars and squeal like a pig.

604
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,680
What's this Evans doing? Now? Who's up for a narcotics trap?

605
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,880
He's out on veil funk? What's your stake in this thing?

606
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,160
Speaker 4: We're trying to clear the thing up. Apparently Evans figures

607
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,799
he's going to frame the young cop, save face, talk himself.

608
00:23:43,559 --> 00:23:45,519
Speaker 5: Out of a bad situation, or what do you want

609
00:23:45,559 --> 00:23:47,960
from me? The truth? I'm not going to talk myself

610
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,039
in a jail, young cop or not, We're not asking

611
00:23:50,079 --> 00:23:52,480
you to. You want to clear the case? Huh? I

612
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,359
only need his proof. The cop didn't give Evans a

613
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,079
working over, that's right, Okay, you got a deal.

614
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,599
Speaker 4: Without actually incriminating himself in any way. Carl Sweetzer gave

615
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,079
us information and leads, which, after they were checked out,

616
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,759
showed definitely that George Evans was slugged and beaten in

617
00:24:09,759 --> 00:24:11,960
a neighborhood at least a mile from his rooming house.

618
00:24:12,519 --> 00:24:14,640
We talked to half a dozen people who saw Evans

619
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,279
in that neighborhood. Shortly after one pm the day of

620
00:24:17,319 --> 00:24:20,000
the incident, we talked to the clerk at the drug

621
00:24:20,039 --> 00:24:22,680
store where Evans went to bi iodine and bandages. They

622
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,400
all told us that he bore the markings of a

623
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,920
severe beating as early as one o'clock that afternoon. Evans

624
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,200
had told us repeatedly that he'd received the beating at

625
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,559
the hands of Officer Blanchard no earlier than three or

626
00:24:32,599 --> 00:24:35,960
three fifteen that afternoon. Ed and I drove over to

627
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,519
the main jail, where we interviewed Evans two witnesses again.

628
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,200
The girl Eleanor Rowland was the first to break. She

629
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,559
admitted that Evans had promised both her and her friend

630
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,440
Ray Sherman fifty dollars apiece if they would go along

631
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,440
with him and his plan to frame Officer Blanchard for

632
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,960
assault and battery and soliciting a bride. After an hour

633
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,839
of questioning, Sherman admitted the same thing. We had a

634
00:24:55,839 --> 00:24:59,119
stenographer take their statements. Four fifty pm ed and I

635
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:00,799
got in the car and drove to the rooming house

636
00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:04,720
on Cortland Avenue.

637
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh h right, sorry, do.

638
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,319
Speaker 4: You want to get your coade? Evans like to see

639
00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:08,880
you downtown?

640
00:25:09,039 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 5: What forwards it about filing a false report? You know

641
00:25:11,519 --> 00:25:13,039
this darning. What are you talking about? What do you

642
00:25:13,079 --> 00:25:13,880
mean a false report?

643
00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 4: You've been checked out all over town, Evans, your doctor,

644
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,119
your ex wife, your gambling friends. We talked to them all.

645
00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 5: So what what's that prove? Anyway? Proves you were lying?

646
00:25:20,559 --> 00:25:23,079
Mister had the young officer Blanchard, he didn't beat checked.

647
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,400
There's nothing wrong with your shouldery. The doctor Chasell vouch

648
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:25,599
for that.

649
00:25:25,839 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 7: I don't care what he says. I don't care what

650
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:28,839
any of them to say. I got my case against

651
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:29,880
that cop. I'm sticking with it.

652
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:30,559
Speaker 5: You're not going to talk me.

653
00:25:30,599 --> 00:25:32,079
Speaker 4: Why don't you give it up? Evans? We had to

654
00:25:32,079 --> 00:25:34,400
talk with Carl Sweetsert. What do you tell you enough

655
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,720
to convince this you're trying to frame Blanchard. We've got

656
00:25:36,759 --> 00:25:38,599
statements from people who saw you before you got back

657
00:25:38,599 --> 00:25:40,920
home Monday afternoon. They say you were mussed up. Then

658
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:42,799
that was at one o'clock in the afternoon. You've been

659
00:25:42,839 --> 00:25:44,920
telling us Blanchard wasn't at your place till three o'clock.

660
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,559
Now he explained that, I don't.

661
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 7: Know, Maybe I didn't have the time right My watch

662
00:25:48,279 --> 00:25:50,319
could have been off. Doesn't make any difference anyway. It's

663
00:25:50,319 --> 00:25:52,279
gonna make a lot of difference. How about getting your code.

664
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,000
I'm going to call my lawyer first. That isn't going

665
00:25:54,079 --> 00:25:56,440
to do much good. We've got statements from your two witnesses,

666
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:57,319
Ray Sherman and the girl.

667
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,039
Speaker 4: They've admitted the whole thing. Now, you haven't got.

668
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,039
Speaker 5: Much of a case left. I don't care what they say.

669
00:26:01,079 --> 00:26:02,440
They're lying, both of them. They're lyon.

670
00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 4: You ought to know, mister, you taught them how.

671
00:26:12,039 --> 00:26:15,079
Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names

672
00:26:15,079 --> 00:26:16,680
were changed to protect the innocent.

673
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,559
Speaker 3: On September, second trial was held in Superior Court, Department

674
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,640
eighty nine, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.

675
00:26:23,759 --> 00:26:34,799
In a moment the results of that trial, a complaint

676
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,599
was received on George Evans from the City Attorney's office

677
00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:40,599
for violation of section fifty two to forty three Municipal

678
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,920
Code filing a false report to the Police Department of misdemeanor.

679
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,920
He received a sentence of thirty days in the county jail.

680
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,559
Ray Sherman was tried and found guilty of Section eleven thousand,

681
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,400
five hundred Health and Safety Code possession of narcotics. He

682
00:26:54,519 --> 00:26:56,359
was sentenced to one year in the county jail in

683
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,640
three years probation. Eleanor Rowland was filed on as a

684
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,240
vague attic Section eleven seven hundred and twenty one Health

685
00:27:03,279 --> 00:27:06,119
and Safety Code. She was sentenced to sixty days in

686
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,359
the county jail. Officer Harry Blanchard was clear of the

687
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,920
charges pending against him and was reinstated with back pay.

688
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,920
You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases

689
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,359
from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of

690
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,440
Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department

691
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,039
Technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynne, and Sergeant

692
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,680
Vance Bracer. Heard tonight were Barney Phillips and wit Connor.

693
00:27:41,079 --> 00:27:45,839
Script by Jim Moser, music by Walter Schumann, hal Gidney speaking.

694
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 4: Now It's Counterspy on NBC.

695
00:28:05,319 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. As the case unfolds, it becomes painfully apparent,

696
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:17,640
but a big risk that Evans was taking. The two

697
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:25,519
witnesses he relied upon were junkies, so it's such a

698
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,200
big risk about on them being consistent and sticking to

699
00:28:29,319 --> 00:28:34,519
a story and then throwing in his tricks shoulder as

700
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,880
part of the alleged injury. Clearly he hadn't considered the

701
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,400
degree to which this was going to be investigated. But

702
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,960
he's not some random idiot doing something for no reason.

703
00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:51,559
To him, it was a way to preserve his criminal reputation,

704
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as the gamblers were making an example of him, and

705
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when word got around it would mark him as as

706
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a welcher and it would be just generally bad for

707
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his ability to function in the world of vice he

708
00:29:10,559 --> 00:29:15,559
operated in. And truth be told, even if they had

709
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found his evidence wanting and not enough to prefer charges

710
00:29:22,359 --> 00:29:26,839
against the officer, they would not have probably been able

711
00:29:26,839 --> 00:29:31,759
to bring a charge against him because they still had

712
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:37,039
the injuries and the witnesses, So it would have ended

713
00:29:37,119 --> 00:29:41,160
up a situation where there was not enough evidence to

714
00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:46,079
charge the officer and he might receive some lesser consequence

715
00:29:46,279 --> 00:29:53,519
because of Evans deceiving them about the trick shoulder that

716
00:29:53,799 --> 00:29:57,839
cast doubt on the entire allegation, But to actually turn

717
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it around and charge them. They needed the cooperation of

718
00:30:01,839 --> 00:30:07,279
the guy who beat Evans up, and I think Evans

719
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probably would have expected that'd be very hard to get.

720
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He would it just be a case where he accused

721
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,039
the officer, nobody got charged, and he just goes around

722
00:30:17,079 --> 00:30:20,799
and saying, yeah, the cops, they just defended their own

723
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,279
and let the guy get off. But yeah, cop beat

724
00:30:24,319 --> 00:30:27,519
me up. Can you believe it? And it's very hard

725
00:30:27,559 --> 00:30:33,559
for the gamblers, yeah, particularly to officially tell their story

726
00:30:33,839 --> 00:30:38,400
because they committed a crime. But then Friday gives them

727
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:43,279
some incentive because not only did Evans welch on a beat,

728
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,759
which the gamblers are not in the beating people up business.

729
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:53,359
They are in the taking money from people business. And

730
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,519
if you ignore all their attempts to collect and they

731
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:02,200
have to physically injure you, that is an effort to

732
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,119
preserve their reputation. That is not what they're in business for.

733
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:12,720
So the idea that this guy welched and didn't pay

734
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,920
off on his bet, it would have them angry. But

735
00:31:17,079 --> 00:31:22,079
then he learns not only that, but he's been going

736
00:31:22,119 --> 00:31:25,440
around town saying the game he lost the money in

737
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,480
was crooked. Well, that's a reputational harm to the gamblers,

738
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:35,240
and so he finds a way to cooperate without incriminating himself,

739
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,960
because at this point the police aren't concerned about vice

740
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,119
in particular or some beating that there's no witness to

741
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:50,319
other than the participants and who Evans wouldn't testify against anyway,

742
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:55,039
They're concerned about clearing up the involvement of the officer. Now,

743
00:31:55,079 --> 00:32:00,319
one thing I should note is that we don't actually

744
00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:05,559
positively learned from the narration that Friday got that information

745
00:32:06,119 --> 00:32:10,240
that Evans was going around spreading that rumor. The information

746
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:15,200
he summarizes is very generic. Now, he could have gotten

747
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:21,160
that information, but technically it's also possible that he came

748
00:32:21,279 --> 00:32:25,960
up with that as a way to get the cooperation

749
00:32:26,599 --> 00:32:31,039
of the man he needed. Understanding that particular psychology. I

750
00:32:31,119 --> 00:32:34,799
also have to note a little bit of absurdity and

751
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:41,680
dragnet or absurdism, I guess in humor. And that's also

752
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,799
a bit subtle, even while being absurd. And that was

753
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:52,200
in the doctor's office where Jacobs found the old magazine.

754
00:32:52,519 --> 00:32:55,640
And of course, if you've been in a doctor's office,

755
00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:01,920
and this may change as magazines become less popular, but

756
00:33:02,079 --> 00:33:06,240
you will often find a few years old magazines, and

757
00:33:06,279 --> 00:33:10,799
so they exaggerated this to the max with the Teddy

758
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:16,400
Roosevelt breaks ground on the Panama Canal. Now, technically, Teddy

759
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,039
Roosevelt did not break ground on the Panama Canal. He

760
00:33:20,359 --> 00:33:24,920
visited the construction site, but the groundbreaking actually occurred in

761
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,200
nineteen oh four, but he visited it in nineteen oh six.

762
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,599
So this takes the idea of old magazines in the

763
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:38,079
doctor's office to the extreme, as apparently there's a forty

764
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,160
six year old magazine in this office. This would be

765
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:47,640
like going into your doctor's office and find Today in

766
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:53,400
twenty twenty six and finding a magazine talking about the

767
00:33:53,440 --> 00:34:00,440
start of the Iran hostage crisis and how President Quarter

768
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,440
is going to handle that. It's a subtle, absurd thing

769
00:34:04,559 --> 00:34:06,920
that you don't expect to find and drag that, But

770
00:34:07,039 --> 00:34:10,679
there it is. Listener comments and feedback now, and we

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go to YouTube where Cuthbert two five four six comments

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on the Big Honeymoon. Dragnet never gets old. Indeed, even

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We'll be back next t stores today with another episode

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of Dragnet. But join us back here tomorrow for yours truly,

784
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Johnny Dollar.

785
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Speaker 12: Where it's just that I don't like being threatened. Johnny

786
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,840
knows I have enough trouble keeping this aulco under control

787
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:14,519
of just the daily run of problems I have to

788
00:35:14,519 --> 00:35:16,239
face at the office. What do you mean by you know,

789
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,239
you know, people demanding more from their insurance than they deserve,

790
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people filing claims when they aren't entitled in any insurance

791
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at all, and then trying.

792
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Speaker 9: To Oh what nothing, Johnny, I just.

793
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:32,519
Speaker 4: I'll be all right.

794
00:35:33,559 --> 00:35:36,039
Speaker 5: You forget to take one of your pills, right, No,

795
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,480
but maybe I better take another? Yes, me, you're taking

796
00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:40,280
too many of them.

797
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,159
Speaker 1: But what was this talk about being threatened?

798
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 12: Well, Johnny, this fellow by the name of oh oh.

799
00:35:47,679 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 6: No, Ray, Johnny say, what's the matter this pepe in

800
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:55,480
my stomach?

801
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 5: It's killing me.

802
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Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,

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