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Now from January eighteenth, nineteen fifty one, here is the
Big Dance.
Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only
the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. The three
months you've been tracking a pair of hold up men.
There's no pattern to their operation. They're young, they're brutal.
Speaker 3: Your job stop them.
Speaker 4: Drag Nets the documented drama of an actual crime call.
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 fiolence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
Drag Net is the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 5: It was Sunday, March third, was reigning in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6: We're working the night Watch out of Robbery detail. My
partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Harry Didton, Captain of Robbery.
My name is Friday. I was on my way back
from the neighborhood bakery shop and it was eight forty
five am when I got to Collis Avenue.
Speaker 5: Number forty six fifty six. H Joe, Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 7: Wasn't bakrio?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it was open. I got the stuff right here.
Speaker 7: Oh they have any raising bread?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Right here?
Speaker 7: How about the butterhorn?
Speaker 5: No, they don't make those on Sundays anymore.
Speaker 8: I got bare closy staff. Okay, well, let's get this
stuff open. Okay, Oh, I do you know we are?
Speaker 7: Hm? Where do you keep your aid from the refrigerator
right over there? Uh huh?
Speaker 5: Find 'em?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got you know, Joe.
Speaker 8: I don't like to say anything, but I can't keep
coming over here to your place every morning.
Speaker 5: Well what was your idea? Nobody asked?
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I know how you are.
Speaker 8: You don't know how to cook a decent bread first
for yourself.
Speaker 5: The coffee ready yet?
Speaker 7: Uh huh uh it's not berking yet. Hey, you sure
there's nothing wrong with this part. It's been on for
ten minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you forgot to plug it in.
Speaker 7: Oh ah, let's see. Oh what do you want?
Speaker 8: Better put the toast on. You always make the toast
before you cook the eggs. Yeah you remember yesterday the
toast was pretty cold.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I try. I better hold off for me. Yeah,
scrambled eggs.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well we had 'em yesterday.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I try.
Speaker 5: Not the only way you know how to fix 'em?
Speaker 7: I know what you'd like one of my Spanish genres.
Speaker 8: When'd you say your mother was coming back for about
three more days and I'll make a week warner.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 8: Well, I guess I can work something out with Amy.
My wife doesn't like me coming over here every morning
like that.
Speaker 5: Boy I told you before, I can make out alright here.
Speaker 7: Oh I know it is you think you're imposing? You'd
be lost with that. You can't open say is this?
Speaker 5: Uh r, well, the your is gonna take very long.
We haven't got very much time, you know.
Speaker 8: I'll have it on your plate and jiffy, what time
are we supposed to see those Victor nine thirty at
the County Hospital.
Speaker 7: Where's your tomato in the refrigerator? Uh? Huh?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Twenty three jobs in three months. Those guys really moved,
don't they.
Speaker 8: Yeah? Mm, nice tomatoes.
Speaker 5: Joe Holling Beck job last night, vicious punks.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and there's no reason to work the old man
over the way they did. What do the doctor say?
Speaker 6: Ah, he's gonna get over it alright. But they kicked
out all of his front teeth. He's fifty years.
Speaker 5: Old, samemo, every job. Ain't you gonna peel those?
Speaker 7: No skins are good for you now?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 7: You got a nice big bermuda rup bermuda.
Speaker 5: And oh yeah, I'll get you one.
Speaker 7: Kids.
Speaker 8: It's nineteen twenty year old stick up or it it's
knocked a man's senses for a half a dollar, robbing,
slug and kicking anywhere around the city. Yeah, it would
be one bunch. I'll be glad to catch up with.
Here's your onion?
Speaker 7: Good?
Speaker 5: Well? I wait a minute. You're gonna peel that, aren't you.
Speaker 7: I lose half the flavor.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I always peel 'em. I see now, and now I'll
make the whole works together. You gonna put it in
that pan on the stove there, Yes, sir, looks pretty hot,
doesn't it's smoking, Joe. That's the way you cook a
Spanish yellmut hot fire and fat.
Speaker 7: End of the pan. A whole trick and making a
good Spanish almond? Is you gotta work fast?
Speaker 5: Yeah? We're all those little brown flakes in the top.
Bring oh onion skins? No, I don't know. It doesn't
look right to me the way do you taste it?
I got it? Friday talking Elton.
Speaker 10: Young Joe Romero there with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's here.
Speaker 10: You two are supposed to see those robbery victims at
the County hospital this morning, aren't you.
Speaker 5: Yeah? Nine thirty, cancel that out.
Speaker 10: Cans Ellis and flowers are covering on that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll come.
Speaker 10: Just got the call South Grand and Colonial two eleven
and slugging same description.
Speaker 5: Looks like the kid Bandits all right, We'll get right
on it.
Speaker 8: It's a new stand near the corner, right bye. Look
at that, Joe, I just took it out of the pan. Yeah,
best Benny Shaman I ever made. It's too bad we're
not gonna have time to eat it.
Speaker 6: Eight fifty five am we left the house and drove
to the scene of the hold up, one door from
the corner of South Grand and Colonial Avenue the Victims,
where mister and missus John Wilden, proprietors of a small
newspaper and soft drink stand just off the intersection. Missus
Wilden was being carried to a waiting ambulance when we
got there. She was unconscious from her forehead to her chin.
Her face was a swollen mass of welts those had
been broken, and she had fractures of the jaw and
cheep bone. Her husband, John Wildon, aged fifty six, had
a single bruise on his forehead over his left eye.
We questioned him after the ambulance attendance gave him first aid.
His description of the hold up men tallied almost perfectly.
Speaker 11: One was a redhead, another one that had dark hair,
both about the same height. I'd say, as tall as
you are, officer.
Speaker 7: That's just Joe kid.
Speaker 8: Many you know, had you ever seen either one of
these men before, mister Wildon around the neighborhood.
Speaker 11: Maybe no, I never did. I don't know why they'd
picked on Madeline and me for a hold up. We'd
never been robbed before. I just got this little hole
in the wall here. Don't see how it could look
worthwhile any crook. You usually open up this early on
Sunday morning. Oh, yes, Sunday's one of our big days.
You see. We handle all the Sunday papers. You'd get
our big trade from the people going to church up
the street there, Saint Joseph's.
Speaker 5: Yes, I see.
Speaker 11: After the church lets out, most of the people had
down this way pick up the Sunday papers. We show
about fifteen twenty papers after every mass. It's a nice
little business, you know. We close up after twelve fifteen.
Speaker 5: Well when did the hold up take place? Can you
remember that, sir.
Speaker 11: Well, I'd say eight thirty, a few minutes after I
went down to the Athens Cafe down the street there.
I wanted to get some change. I left Madeline here
to handle the counter. Madlin, that's my wife, yes, And
when I got back, she wasn't behind the counter. I
took a look behind here and saw a cash box
laying on the cement there, empty and I didn't know
what to think.
Speaker 7: What'd you do? Then? Well?
Speaker 9: I pushed through this door. Here.
Speaker 11: There's a little dinky storeroom just back to the counter.
It's where we keep our supplies candy.
Speaker 5: And soda water. I see you might if we take
a look.
Speaker 9: See no, no, no, come out of here.
Speaker 7: Uh huh?
Speaker 9: You see what? When I came in, first thing I
saw was Madeline.
Speaker 11: That's my wife, and she was lying there on the
board's morning, had her hands over her face. The two
young fellas were standing over and both had guns.
Speaker 5: Uh What did they do? When they saw you?
Speaker 11: And they grabbed me and asked for money. I told
him I didn't have any. I began to holler for help.
One of 'em slugged me with his gun and then
they ran out. Still a little shaky, you mind if
I sit down.
Speaker 7: Then go ahead? Oh here, let me get this box
for you.
Speaker 5: Thank you? Say, I wonder if we could get you
some water, maybe a cold drink from the cover.
Speaker 11: Oh no, no, but you will find a half pint
behind those cases over there, a little brandy.
Speaker 9: I keep put away.
Speaker 11: Oh over here, yes, that's right behind those cases.
Speaker 9: I don't usually drink on Sundays.
Speaker 5: This is an exception.
Speaker 7: I guess, hey, honest, will what's it on the floor there?
Speaker 5: Ben no near your foot there?
Speaker 7: See?
Speaker 8: Oh, lights are not very good. Oh A book of matches? Yeah,
these yours, mister Willis matches. No, I don't carry him
all your wife's I guess.
Speaker 7: Huh.
Speaker 9: I don't think so, neither one of 'eus smoke.
Speaker 7: What's that ad putting on the back here? Uh?
Speaker 8: Big Tin cafe, steaks, chopped short orders, open all the night,
West Pico. Do you have a cigarettes and cigarsis no, sir.
Speaker 12: But.
Speaker 9: I can his soft drinks, newspapers, that's all.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: Uh? Inside of the match book covered Joe, I'm scribbling.
Speaker 8: On her or George Bell asked Cameron fifth and aalometer.
Uh do you recognize this at all, mister Wilder?
Speaker 9: Big ten cafe? No, I never been there.
Speaker 5: Now about the names here inside the cover?
Speaker 9: George Bell as Cameron.
Speaker 7: No, I never heard him when you first came in here.
Mister Wilman, do you remember where the hold up men
were standing?
Speaker 11: We're not too well. Uh, well, one was over there
and one was over there.
Speaker 7: I think could be Joe. One of 'em might have
dropped it. Uh huh?
Speaker 9: Trace him from that match book? Do you think that's possible?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 11: Yeah, how would you trace them that way? Annaly's this
some kind of scientific work, No, sir, legwork?
Speaker 5: Nine tight am. We call Layton fingerprints.
Speaker 6: As soon as they arrived, we dropped mister Wilden off
at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital to see his wife.
Speaker 5: Ben and I drove back to the office.
Speaker 6: We had the crime report typed up and got out
a supplementary broadcast on our original APB.
Speaker 5: We asked Frank.
Speaker 6: Cunningham and R and I to run the names George
Bell and ask Cameron through the files for possible mate.
Speaker 5: We checked for the restaurant advertised on the cover of
the matchbook, the Big Ten Cafe.
Speaker 6: The manager of the cafe failed to recognize either the
names on the matchbook or the descriptions of the.
Speaker 5: Hold up men nine fifty two. We checked back in
at the office. I'll get it.
Speaker 7: Robbery now, yeah, Frank, huh uhh yeah, good right, thank you.
Speaker 5: Cunningham.
Speaker 8: You got to make on the name George Bell, another
one for Sam Cameron. Both of them run together, got
long juvenile record. You got an address home, Yeah, it'll
be hard to run down. What do you mean Main Jail.
Speaker 6: Five days before, George Bell, a laborer, and Samuel Cameron,
a part time jewelry salesman, had been booked at the
Main Jail on charges of being drunk and disorderly. The
day after his arrest, Cameron was bailed out. Belle was
still in the drunk tank. Ben and I went out
of the Main jail.
Speaker 5: And talked to him. He didn't fit the description of
either of the bandits.
Speaker 6: It was very cooperative, but he stated that he'd been
very drunk and he couldn't remember too much.
Speaker 11: Just a no sergeant. Sam and I went out and
tied went on. What came to we were here in
the drunk tank. You have no idea at all how
your name's got on this match book. I'm trying to think, well,
pretty well, he did up Samity. That's another thing, that
dirty Sam.
Speaker 7: What do you mean he.
Speaker 11: Gets a friend of his to come up here and
bail him out. Think you do anything for me? No,
I bought the liquor. He lets me sit here now,
dirty Sam. You think he might remember about that match book?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm disgusting with him. Just see him.
Speaker 7: You can tell him that, Just on him.
Speaker 5: No, he's off mindless.
Speaker 8: How about the address here on the matchbook, George Fays
Fifth an alimeter? Doesn't that mean anything to you? Were
you in cameraon hitting some of the spots around that area. No,
we were messing around over in dog Town. Didn't get
down by alometers.
Speaker 5: Doll Well, must have some Talian for you. Fifth and alimeter?
Speaker 11: No, guy, I know down there is Sanchez. He wait
a minute, Yeah, just a minute, Sanchez. Goud senchiz sure.
I wanted to see Guts. I thought he'd put up
there for us. Yeah, go ahead, I got it now,
I think I have. Anyway, it was the morning after
and I woke up here in the tank o a
big head, you know, really whipped the first thing.
Speaker 7: I thought it was out.
Speaker 5: I think of Gus.
Speaker 11: Sanchez might pop for bail fund of mine. You know,
Gus works at about fifth and alimeter that's it morehow's
Italian out of this? Other mooch is in the tank
next to me. Somebody stopped bail for him and he's
getting out an hour. So I asked him to call
Gusts for me, and he said he would. He wrote
my name down and he wrote down Sam's too dirty Sam?
Speaker 5: And he took down Yes, his address?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Tift?
Speaker 7: And either you remember what this man looked back when?
Who took your name?
Speaker 11: Oh? Let's see, No, everything was going around. He he's
kind of car I don't know.
Speaker 5: Would you remember him if you saw him again? Guy
did me a favor.
Speaker 11: I'd remember him.
Speaker 7: Not like that?
Speaker 10: Did he sand?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: How about his name? Did he tell you that? No?
Speaker 7: I didn't ask him.
Speaker 5: I should have.
Speaker 7: Uh? You sure about the day this man was released? Positive?
Speaker 5: The same guy came in tuesday? Okay, Bell, thanks very much.
We'll be checking back with you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 5: And what about this guy? You gotta bait for him
or maybe if he's the one we won?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 5: What do he do? He lost his matches?
Speaker 6: Ben and I left the drunk tank and went down
the hall to check with the officer in charge. We
paged through the release book and found that seven men
had been bailed out or discharged from the jail on
the previous Tuesday.
Speaker 5: Went back to the.
Speaker 6: Record bureau and I had them pull the mug shots
on all seven men, and then we took the pictures
back to the drunk Tank and showed them to George Bell.
Speaker 13: M M, yeah, this one, I think, can't be sure,
I think that's him.
Speaker 6: George Bell attentively identified the mugshot of a Fred Gunter, WMA,
twenty one years old. Gunther had a previous record of
grand theft, auto perse snatching and drunk charges. His picture
matched closely with the description of one of the suspects.
Four am, we contacted the kid Bandit's most recent victim,
John Wildon, at his home. We asked him to look
at the same group of mugshots that were shown to
George Bell.
Speaker 9: Here.
Speaker 11: Here, this, here, here's one of them. You sure, mister Wilder,
he's the one who slugged me. Who is he?
Speaker 5: His named s Fred Gunter?
Speaker 9: Well, then you know him?
Speaker 7: You want me to identify him?
Speaker 10: Yes, sir?
Speaker 5: When we find.
Speaker 4: You are listening to drag met authentic stories of your
police force in action.
Speaker 8: Monday March fourth, nine am, we checked out the suspect,
Fred Gunter. No trace of him at any of his
previous addresses. We began checking with the other victims of
the kid bandits. After a day and a half of
leg work, we sat down and figured up the results.
More than two thirds of the victims definitely tabbed Gunter
as one of the.
Speaker 5: Hold up men. The next step was the record bureau.
Speaker 6: We had them pull the packages on every one of
Gunter's known friends and associates.
Speaker 5: There were more than thirty of them.
Speaker 8: We had mugshots pulled on each one of them and
made the rounds of the victims for the second time.
Speaker 6: Approximately half of the victims had singled out. One picture
is that of Gunter's partner in the hold ups. We
pulled the package on the man and checked his MAM machine.
His name was Harold Rhymers, WMA, age nineteen. Previous record
included car stripping and one charge eight W no conviction.
Speaker 8: Friday, March eighth, we continued our check of the friends
and associates known to.
Speaker 6: The two suspects gun through in Rhymers. We got nowhere.
Two weeks passed. On March twenty third, we got a
tipp from an informant about a girlfriend of Fred Gunter's,
a vocalist working at a.
Speaker 8: Downtown dance hall during intermissions long haul.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was one more flight.
Speaker 7: Climb, four flights of stairs and then they expect you
to dance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh, I guess this is it? Yeah, come on mage,
not floor. Uh, All show's a little aware place has
been there for years.
Speaker 7: Look at those walls. That sailing sure could use a
fresh coat of paint.
Speaker 5: Is her name is Stanley? Is that right?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: That's it over.
Speaker 14: Loose?
Speaker 5: Excuse me? Your name Lourene Stanley?
Speaker 14: Yeah that's right, sweet Lorraine. That's my billing you with
the band.
Speaker 5: No, we're police officers. I'd like to talk to you
for a minute if we can't sure all right?
Speaker 14: I was just rehearsing a little. What's it about Alficer?
Speaker 7: Do you know Fred gunnf Miss Stanley?
Speaker 14: Fred? Yeah, I know. I'm I used to be engaged
to Fred.
Speaker 7: You happen to know where he is now?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 14: I don't. I guess I haven't heard from him in
three four months. Usually looks me up when I'm in town.
Maybe he's sore about something.
Speaker 5: I don't know what was he contacted you at all?
Speaker 14: Not since I got back from Bakersfield a month ago.
I played thirty two weeks in Bakersfield to ramble in.
Sure he hated to leave. Nice place?
Speaker 5: Where does Gunther stay in town? Do yet know? That?
Speaker 14: Used to be that hotel on Selflower called him there,
but they said he moved. I used to like fred
a lot, not have to marr him.
Speaker 7: Do you have any idea where he might have grown
where we could contact him?
Speaker 14: No, I really don't. Nothing wrong is soon.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just a routine investigation. We'd like to
talk to him.
Speaker 14: What's it about?
Speaker 5: Can you tell me it's a robbery investigation?
Speaker 8: We want to locate gun there he happen to know
any of.
Speaker 5: His friends in the city.
Speaker 14: No, maybe that's why he didn't call. He's in trouble, robbery.
Speaker 9: Is in it?
Speaker 5: Well, we just like talk to him, that's all.
Speaker 14: Well, if he's done something wrong, I'm not gonna hide him.
I can't afford to get mixed.
Speaker 7: Up in it.
Speaker 14: I've got a career to think about it. I worked
too hard to throw it away.
Speaker 8: How about the places Gunter usually visits? Miss Dandy Barr's restman,
do you know any of those?
Speaker 14: I remember a few. I can give him the names
of your life, poor friend. I hope he didn't do.
Speaker 9: It for me, ma'am.
Speaker 14: Fred says he's in love with me.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 14: He thinks I want money. Maybe that's why he's doing it.
I told him, but he never believed me. All I
want is my career.
Speaker 5: What do you think that Gunther might come around here
to see it?
Speaker 14: Probably he usually does when I'm in town.
Speaker 5: How about where you're living.
Speaker 14: I'm staying at a different hotel.
Speaker 5: That's true.
Speaker 14: He doesn't know where he is, poor Fred. He's going
to be awfully disappointed.
Speaker 7: How do you mean he said he was going.
Speaker 14: To get money and buy a ring. He's going to
marry me this time? Poor Fred? This is my new theme. Officers,
you like it?
Speaker 7: Uh huh?
Speaker 6: Just one more thing, Miss Stanley. If Gunter contacts you
by phone, will you be sure and let us know?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 14: I don't do that.
Speaker 15: It's sure?
Speaker 14: A beautiful name, isn't it? Deanna Player of Bakersfield?
Speaker 9: He wrote it for me?
Speaker 5: Beautiful?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 14: Fred understands. I don't want to hurt him, but I
can't marry him. Oh, I make him understand? How do
I explain it?
Speaker 6: I don't think you'll have to, ma'am. Before we left
Lorraine Stanley, we told her that if Gunther should contact her,
not to tell him that she talked with us. Steakouts
were placed on the dance hall where she worked and
at the hotel where she was staying. Gunther's known hangouts
were also covered.
Speaker 5: The next night, the.
Speaker 6: Kid Banned It were back in business. They hit twice
a liquor store on Franklin Avenue. In a tavern on
South Flower, gun Through and Rhymers were again identified as
the two suspects. The steakouts continued. The search went on.
Four days later, we got a tip from the proprietor
of a shoe shine stand.
Speaker 5: On West Temple with gun Through.
Speaker 6: His partner, Harold Rymers, had been seen entering a small
hotel up the street from his stand. We drove over
and checked with a desk clerk. He identified Rhymer's mug shine.
Speaker 5: He told us the suspect.
Speaker 6: Wasn't in, but that he was expected back that night.
Ben and I went on steak out in his hotel
room seven pm. Rhymers failed to show.
Speaker 8: Getting a little hungry, Joe you yeah, what time you
got now? Twenty after seven the stomachs starting to crow.
And what's that paray? I don't think so let's see.
Well it's a salvation army band. Oh yeah, Saturday night.
Might as well check the office. Huh we can't get
a relief. Well would you get me Mesigan five to
two one one please?
Speaker 7: Michigan five to two one one. Yeah, we'll play for it.
Thank you? Did you close the one to George Illinois? Yeah? Okay?
Robbery ply yeah, Young, this is from Meryl. How's that sure? Okay? Thanks?
Speaker 8: Gunther and Rhymers they pulled a hole up down South
Maye twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 7: Gunter got away, you know, they got rhyming.
Speaker 5: Seven forty five pm. Then and I got back to
the City Hall and went to the interrogation room together
with Young and Carr from Robbery.
Speaker 6: We tried to question the suspect, Harold Rhymers. We talked
to him for over an hour. He refused to tell
us anything. We took him to the main jail where
he was booked on two eleven PC. Nine to fifteen pm.
We went back to the office.
Speaker 7: I'll get it, robbery or Meryl, just a minute, fu jure?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 6: Things Friday talking sergeant.
Speaker 8: This is Lorraine Stanley.
Speaker 5: Yeah, miss Stanley, I'm over at work the dance Will
you remember, yes, ma'am?
Speaker 7: Anything wrong?
Speaker 14: Well, Fred just called me, sergeant. I told the officers
here Fred.
Speaker 5: Gunter, yes, ma'am. Where is he?
Speaker 8: Did?
Speaker 5: He say? No? All he said was he wanted to
see me. Yeah, he said he was coming right over
nine pm.
Speaker 6: We called them in on steakout at the dance hall
and alerted them Delton, Young, Ben and I got in
the car and drove over. We checked with the detail
on steakhout. Gunther hadn't been spotted, but because of the
large crowd entering and leaving the dance hall, it was
possible that he could have gotten in unnoticed. We talked
to the Stanley girl. She hadn't seen or heard anything
further from the suspect. Ben and I staked out in
her dressing room. Where Gunter said he'd meet the girl
was a small converted storeroom at went end of the
dance floor, just behind the bandstand. Lorraine Stanley was on
during the intermission.
Speaker 5: We waited, what have.
Speaker 7: You got y know?
Speaker 5: Almost ten thirty?
Speaker 8: This guy must feel pretty sure of him, he said,
if he posed the robbery's almost picked up in Three
hours later, he makes a date to show in the
public play.
Speaker 5: You know he hasn't shown yet. I'm not too sure
about that Stanley girl.
Speaker 8: How do you mean she's that big an attraction for him?
Speaker 5: This is the only way out besides that fire escape
off the alley.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Young's covering the alley. Come on, you gotta find me.
Speaker 5: He's up the alley behind one of those trucks.
Speaker 7: You can't go for it's day and end.
Speaker 5: Stay here, Young and cut him up.
Speaker 7: You all right? Yeah?
Speaker 9: He slug may knock me down.
Speaker 7: I didn't see him in the dark. Come on, Ben,
easy enough, you're a dark Yeah.
Speaker 10: What behind that?
Speaker 5: I want your Joe missed him coming.
Speaker 7: Back to you.
Speaker 9: Don't shoot, don't shoot?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 1: That show.
Speaker 5: You want to stay with him? Young? We'll call him. Yeah,
right close to splace, that little cafe off the alley
to the left.
Speaker 7: Thanks.
Speaker 8: Come on then, yeah, I'm here, eh, yeah, I guess
they got a phone inside. Come on, wait a minute.
As soon as we get gun to downtown, we're gonna
come right back here. Before take a look at that
fry cook in the winter there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what about him?
Speaker 7: That fella makes a Spanish almond exactly like I did.
Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 4: On July nineteenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
eighty six, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
In a moment the results of that trial, Bred Gunter
and Harold Reimers were tried and convicted on several counts
of robbery and assault. They received sentences as prescribed by law,
and they're now serving their terms in the state penitentiary.
You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
from official fires. Technical advice comes from the Office of
Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Deparker.
We the People is next with Stories of Today on NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. One thing that's standing out to me this
time through Dragnet is how many of these early cases
are about theories of brutal robberies and whole ups.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't think all of them are all the same.
I think each is interesting to listen to as you're
listening to the episode and has its own unique twist,
But in memory, they do tend to kind of blend together.
Joel Friday trying to help out Ben Romero with breakfast
in mom Friday's absence seems to be a case of
the very near sighted leading the blind. I get the
idea that in terms of main dishes, Ben really just
knows how to do grambled eggs in Spanish homeless, and
that's about it. On the right side. At least when
he went to the bakery, Friday didn't have to find
a bakery that carried gram bread. We already talked in
a previous episode about what a challenge that would be.
Though I do have to say it seems to me
that if Friday had been allowed to have burial or milk,
and I don't think he even he could mess that up,
he actually would have been able to eat before going
on the call, rather than spending his morning before work
running to the bakery to pick up things to help
Ben help him. All right, Well, listener comments and feedback now,
and we have a comment regarding Matthew Slade in the
episode Passage two ten years and over on YouTube face
Off Rights that grilled camel over sounds yummy to each
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Fall Can Wear Well.
Speaker 12: I don't know whether you've heard Sojio, but you've got
a namesake in town. There's another Tony Paletti.
Speaker 5: You call that news.
Speaker 2: According to the phone book, there are eleven of them
in New York.
Speaker 12: Now, well, one I had in mine works for Gambler
named Frank Novak.
Speaker 5: So so I got to rumb A.
Speaker 12: Little couple of hoods just moved in from Detroit looking
for him.
Speaker 5: What's that got to do with me?
Speaker 12: Nothing, I hope, But these boys are kind of trigger happy.
I'd hate to see him make a mistake.
Speaker 7: Listener, Marie ain't either, limit.
Speaker 12: How mistakes have happened before, Tony. That's how they finally
caught up with murder Incorporated. I get the wrong man.
Speaker 14: What do you think you should do?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 12: I've already called the police and a few people have
no objection. I'd like to stick close for a couple
of days.
Speaker 15: Write of your mind why I think it makes sense?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 14: Look, he's nothing to worry about.
Speaker 7: What do you mean it's nothing to worry about?
Speaker 15: Didn't you just jam sud Mike was always a great warrior.
You should have seen him at Remagen. Just the same, Tony,
if you don't mind do mine today. I need a
nurse maid. I'll be ready for the old soldiers home.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
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