Speaker 1: State your name and prison number herald Edgerton, the second
Speaker 1: prison number two to one to oh dash three seven
Speaker 1: and your age please forty six last month. You don't
Speaker 1: look at Edgerton. Prison life agrees with you.
Speaker 2: No, sir, I just tried to take care of myself. Sir,
Speaker 2: I feel the years even if I don't.
Speaker 1: Look at chargers in which you were convicted.
Speaker 3: Armed robbery, defrauding an insurance.
Speaker 1: Company sentence now being served ten to twenty years, You
Speaker 1: may proceed, having served three years and seven months, and
Speaker 1: having the kind permission of Warden Holliday, I am up
Speaker 1: for parole.
Speaker 3: Up for parole tonight.
Speaker 4: Another in the exciting new crime series based on authentic
Speaker 4: cases actually heard by parole boards, are now state prisons
Speaker 4: re enacted here for the first time.
Speaker 3: Now, Harry Marble, you are about.
Speaker 5: To sit in judgment on another human being's freedom to
Speaker 5: decide whether he shall become your neighbor, your employee, perhaps
Speaker 5: your friend, or whether he shall remain where you society
Speaker 5: have put him behind prison bars. Well, that human being
Speaker 5: is a social offender, a criminal up for parole. The
Speaker 5: story you're about to hear is taken from the official
Speaker 5: records of Harold Edgerton, the second prison number two one
Speaker 5: oh dash three seven, now pleading before the parole Board
Speaker 5: and before you for his freedoms.
Speaker 1: Opportunity as a privilege or a prisoner, to be able
Speaker 1: to present his case as he sees it with honesty
Speaker 1: and frankness, is in my opinion, what makes this democracy
Speaker 1: of ours strong and great. I hope that you will
Speaker 1: accept my statement in the spirit in which it is
Speaker 1: delivered with full frankness and the full honesty of which
Speaker 1: I'm capable. That is precisely what we're interested in. Until
Speaker 1: three and a half years ago, well four years ago,
Speaker 1: I was a respected, and I might say in all modesty,
Speaker 1: a well liked human being.
Speaker 2: I owned my own home, mortgage free. I had a
Speaker 2: business I inherited it from my father, Herold Edgerton Associates
Speaker 2: real Estate. I had not one outstanding obligation, and I
Speaker 2: accounted my friends. I think it's accurate to say in
Speaker 2: the hundreds.
Speaker 1: Well, these facts are all known to us, Edgerton. But
Speaker 1: what we want to know from you is why did you,
Speaker 1: a respected, responsible, dependable family man, commit armed robbery and
Speaker 1: a fraud and insurance company.
Speaker 2: The answer, perhaps is that I had too good a life,
Speaker 2: had life, gentlemen, can you understand it?
Speaker 3: It was fine, but it was dull, dull.
Speaker 2: I know, I know it sounds like a schoolboy talking,
Speaker 2: But I always read the magazines, gentlemen, Time, Fortune, the
Speaker 2: story of the giants of America. They took chances, they gambled,
Speaker 2: and they won, a little audacity, a little vision. This
Speaker 2: is the difference between mediocrity and greatness.
Speaker 3: Call it Eurotic if you like. But I had this drive.
Speaker 1: Then It wasn't speculation. It wasn't business deals that got
Speaker 1: you started on.
Speaker 2: This, No, sir, would that it were. It was something
Speaker 2: much more common, much more vulgar. It was gambling. How
Speaker 2: many times I stood at the gambling tables and watched
Speaker 2: without betting a dime, And finally I had some excess cash.
Speaker 2: I sat down at the table roulette in the house
Speaker 2: of the notorious Gambler, differed Chasen and lost six thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: And I got up to leave. Jason asked me to
Speaker 3: come into his office.
Speaker 1: So now I'm mister region stretched and I've been watching
Speaker 1: you six thousand dollars. There's a lot of money to
Speaker 1: lose one who's never gambled before. But I've studied up
Speaker 1: on you. You have a fine real estate business, matter
Speaker 1: in appearance or everything that could be desired.
Speaker 3: We're just what are you getting at, sir?
Speaker 1: How would it be if you were to pay that
Speaker 1: debt to me without an expenditure from your own pocket the.
Speaker 3: Six thousand What are you driving at? Just this?
Speaker 1: I speak carefully and confidentially to you, sir. Supposing one night,
Speaker 1: say tomorrow night, you had occasion to leave in your safe.
Speaker 6: Be one in your inside office.
Speaker 1: Security is in the amount of six thousand dollars, and
Speaker 1: supposing quite by accident you're safe was robbed. Go on,
Speaker 1: supposing three armed bandits would a rifle you're safe tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: find those securities and.
Speaker 3: Make off with them.
Speaker 6: You were.
Speaker 1: You carry insurance, don't you, of course? But then the
Speaker 1: debt would be settled, insurance company would be out some
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars, and you won't lose a penny. It's
Speaker 1: quite simple. It's been done before. But that's robbery, sir.
Speaker 1: Defrauding the insurance company, that's criminal. You prefer to pay
Speaker 1: the money out of your own pocket and shoot yourself,
Speaker 1: mister Regidon, It's up to you.
Speaker 6: You don't have much vision do you, mister Rigdon.
Speaker 2: What shall I say, gentlemen of the board, to explain
Speaker 2: what I did. I was weak, I was avaricious, I
Speaker 2: was grasping. I could scarcely afford the six thousand dollar loss,
Speaker 2: and so later that night I called Jason on the
Speaker 2: phone and said, there would be sixty six hundred dollars
Speaker 2: in railroad stocks in the safe.
Speaker 6: You see how easy it was? Heyes, and heir six
Speaker 6: hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: I don't understand.
Speaker 1: The debt was six thousand, the securities came to six thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred.
Speaker 6: The difference is yours.
Speaker 3: Well, sir, I've got to get home.
Speaker 1: Oh stay, I'm ament. You see, we aren't quite finished.
Speaker 1: I am quite finished. Just an idea I had, mister Egdon,
Speaker 1: see what you think of it. After all, one doesn't
Speaker 1: need a gambling debt to make such an arrangement as
Speaker 1: we made last night.
Speaker 6: I suppose it was just to happen without the gambling debt.
Speaker 1: And suppose I was to offer you thirty percent of
Speaker 1: whatever we found in somebody.
Speaker 6: Else's safe the next time. What do you mean simply this?
Speaker 1: I know that you're friendly with quite a number of
Speaker 1: real estate firms, you have an idea. I'm certain which
Speaker 1: ones keep securities and they're safe. All I need to
Speaker 1: know my organization, that is, is where and when and
Speaker 1: roughly how much seventy percent is my share, thirty percent
Speaker 1: is yours.
Speaker 3: I won't do it.
Speaker 1: You don't have to answer right now. Why don't you
Speaker 1: think it over? I mean I want to decide in
Speaker 1: the morning.
Speaker 7: Eh, gentlemen of the board.
Speaker 3: I should have gone to the police right then and there.
Speaker 3: I should have called a stop to the filthy business
Speaker 3: at that moment.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you driton? That's what this board wants to know.
Speaker 3: What can I say? Sir? Men are weak?
Speaker 2: I was weak, and there was a kind of intoxication,
Speaker 2: a tremendous kind of excitement.
Speaker 3: Many would have resisted it. I couldn't you ever stop
Speaker 3: to think of your family?
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, sir, I did. My wife is fine, a
Speaker 2: woman as man could ever have. My son, herold Edgerton
Speaker 2: the third, he bears my father's name as I do.
Speaker 2: I thought of them, and I thought, if they find out,
Speaker 2: the disgrace will ruin them, shame them. And there were
Speaker 2: my clients, people dependent upon me, small investors, They too
Speaker 2: would be ruined.
Speaker 3: So I never went to the police.
Speaker 1: And now you see the false wisdom of that decision.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, of course, But which of us, if he
Speaker 2: thinks he sees a way out, will face the music.
Speaker 3: In Jason's gang, I.
Speaker 2: Was called the chief. I was the frontman. He, of course,
Speaker 2: was the real power. We bought a cabin cruiser. It
Speaker 2: was docked in Lake Michigan, and after a job was over,
Speaker 2: we would meet aboard the boat, cruise out into the
Speaker 2: lake and divide the loot. It was a magnificent ruse,
Speaker 2: a floating headquarters for who would think to look for
Speaker 2: criminals aboard a sixty thousand dollars cruiser rigged for deep
Speaker 2: sea fishing, a pleasure boat. And so my career as
Speaker 2: chief began. Not bad, Chief, No, I'd say it was
Speaker 2: very good. Jason, My guess is that this jewelry's white
Speaker 2: nineteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Whatever you say, Ah, whatever.
Speaker 1: You say, Chief, I think the next thing you want
Speaker 1: to say is the vague that the realty.
Speaker 2: It was the most efficient operation I had ever seen,
Speaker 2: the farmer's realty. The take twenty two thousand dollars. I think, Chief,
Speaker 2: a private home on the north side. Maybe the Grappith mansion.
Speaker 3: Oh, this has got to stop, Jason.
Speaker 6: When never use the same pattern, do we?
Speaker 1: Chief robbery today, a hoist in a bank tomorrow, cabbing
Speaker 1: a private home the next day.
Speaker 6: That's your right, isn't it cheap?
Speaker 3: I won't do it. Tom Griffin is a friend of mine.
Speaker 6: It's friendlier with friends.
Speaker 3: I went along with you two three jobs, but one
Speaker 3: is going to stop. I'll tell you I won't do it. Jason,
Speaker 3: what I've.
Speaker 1: Got on you wedget and you'll do it.
Speaker 2: I was trapped, hopelessly trapped, and then chasing put forth
Speaker 2: the next step.
Speaker 1: We understand each other. Do we have to we have
Speaker 1: to achieve. There's the finest insurance in the world.
Speaker 3: Just be sure you do it right.
Speaker 5: Oh, Harold, it was a lovely play, a lovely evening.
Speaker 1: Didn't you adore the music?
Speaker 3: Yes, that was fine.
Speaker 6: Helen, come in the living room, Darling.
Speaker 1: Let's never drink.
Speaker 8: Hell.
Speaker 1: I pitch to saving.
Speaker 3: The patent, the bonds, my earrings, my necklace. Harold, this
Speaker 3: is horrible, my dear, I'll handle this. Give me the
Speaker 3: police immediately. Hello, hello, police, my house.
Speaker 2: Has been robbed. I thought, gentlemen of the board, that
Speaker 2: with the robbery of my own home. I had reached
Speaker 2: the lowest point in my life, Yes, Edgerton, and I found,
Speaker 2: gentlemen that I had not.
Speaker 3: Kevin helped me. It was only the beginning.
Speaker 2: What you may ask can be more heinous than defrauding
Speaker 2: an insurance company, armed robbery of a friend's home, in
Speaker 2: robbing your own home. And I answered, gentlemen, what I
Speaker 2: did next?
Speaker 3: What are you saying?
Speaker 2: I mean murder, sir, cold, brutal, calculated murder.
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Speaker 4: of Harold Edgeddon the Second the present case number two
Speaker 4: one oh dash three seven, The Man who is up
Speaker 4: or Parole?
Speaker 1: All right, now, Jititon, you made a shocking statement of
Speaker 1: this board. You said the next step in your career
Speaker 1: was murder, yes, sir, just a moment.
Speaker 3: Now, you were never charged with murder? Sir? What are
Speaker 3: you saying? What are you trying to tell this board?
Speaker 2: I am saying, sir, that I might as well have
Speaker 2: been charged with murder, because I, in my own mind,
Speaker 2: that's what I committed murder. It began with the biggest
Speaker 2: haul in the gang's existence. It began as everything did
Speaker 2: with Chason. He had me call the gang together on
Speaker 2: the boat.
Speaker 1: All right now, absolute client, absolute attention.
Speaker 6: JP will explain the plan.
Speaker 3: Wor's yours? Jee?
Speaker 2: Well, the building is the Mercantile Trusted, it's south and
Speaker 2: it's seventh was mater?
Speaker 3: Chief? What is it?
Speaker 1: You better go on cheese and I Chief isn't feeling
Speaker 1: too good. Just sit back and take it easy. Chief,
Speaker 1: stop me if I say anything wrong? Okay, okay, can
Speaker 1: I get you something maybe nice?
Speaker 6: Right, It'll be all right.
Speaker 3: Just listen.
Speaker 1: This time it's going to be the top fifteen floors
Speaker 1: of the entire building. No more wants sweet jobs. Fifteen floors. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 6: The Chief cooks up a planet. It's a plan.
Speaker 1: At eleven o'clock at night, the eight people in the
Speaker 1: building six cleaning women. One elevator operator one God God
Speaker 1: is about sixty five.
Speaker 3: They call him Pop.
Speaker 6: You'd be a seat, gotcha out?
Speaker 1: One O five. The six cleaning women leave and all
Speaker 1: that's left is the operator and Pop. Right, the operator
Speaker 1: is off duty at two am before he does regularly
Speaker 1: check me on this cheef. It brings a container of
Speaker 1: coffee for Pop, who was the only man in the
Speaker 1: building after two am.
Speaker 3: It's correct.
Speaker 1: Now, if there was something in the coffee, say maybe
Speaker 1: a pillar something, gotcha.
Speaker 3: That's terrific how you're feeling out, Chief, I'm all right.
Speaker 1: You'll be a lot better when the job's done, won't you.
Speaker 1: That's right, Okay, we do it. We meet back here
Speaker 1: in a bout at three twenty. Job's done, the boat
Speaker 1: kicks off. I get everything right.
Speaker 3: Cheap, fine, jeez, just fine.
Speaker 1: Hey, I hop he's the off he's the coffee shame well,
Speaker 1: I'm knocking off tough day. See if nobody walks off
Speaker 1: of the build, nipp hop.
Speaker 8: He's not like a light chas he'll be sleeping till
Speaker 8: tomorrow morning. All right, tony, come on, let's go.
Speaker 3: Hey, hold it down.
Speaker 1: That's allowed that something like call on iesay want Tony,
Speaker 1: this place blocks to us. Did you get the thirty
Speaker 1: face floor? Okay, Tony, get them going on? Twenty seven hours, right,
Speaker 1: twenty seventh floor, securities.
Speaker 3: Ninety flour two thousand.
Speaker 6: You've been able to figureut?
Speaker 3: How much? Where do we get to the bout?
Speaker 6: Tony?
Speaker 1: Don't count your chickens hair in the elevator shop keeps
Speaker 1: as one of this nothing to worry about.
Speaker 3: Look at Pop, sleep like a baby.
Speaker 6: Good night Pop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you read about it in the papers tomorrow. Now
Speaker 1: let's get back to the boat.
Speaker 3: Yes, three o'clock. I hope this doesn't grow into a
Speaker 3: real storm. What are you worried about?
Speaker 6: Ejeton?
Speaker 3: Wind is blowing in the rain? Said, dreadful night to
Speaker 3: be out in the water.
Speaker 6: Ah, yes, help and drink. I ought to be right
Speaker 6: to catch the nose man. We ought to be on it.
Speaker 3: I hope Tony's all right. I sent him out on
Speaker 3: deck to get some air. He's awful sea set here?
Speaker 9: Who comes the embassy announced tonight and that's the news
Speaker 9: on the international seat and now at home. Police have
Speaker 9: just announced one of the most daring robberies in the
Speaker 9: history of the city. It is fourteen offices in the
Speaker 9: merchantild trust building were stripped between the hours of two
Speaker 9: and three am this morning of jewelry, merchandise, and securities
Speaker 9: estimated at six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: They're wrong.
Speaker 6: This up is what a million dollars.
Speaker 9: Autant clue with the local airports, which indicated the band
Speaker 9: of robbers had left the city by plane. An earlier
Speaker 9: rest is expected, and in Washington today the Senate.
Speaker 1: Announced yes, an arrest is expected shortly at the airport.
Speaker 3: Great, you never.
Speaker 1: See anything like it in your life.
Speaker 2: We made mister Tony in here, chief, I said, a
Speaker 2: lout on deck a few minutes ago.
Speaker 3: Isn't he out there on the boat? I looked over?
Speaker 6: Is it blowing batter hurrying on? He show up?
Speaker 3: What could he fall over? Maybe that's what happened. Stop
Speaker 3: hins and Tony's gone over. We gotta find it. Get
Speaker 3: out of here.
Speaker 1: That's right, chilling out. Stop the angle with the chiefs
Speaker 1: out the matter with you're chasing a man falls overboard?
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Just go off right, forget about him? What do you
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna do? Start shining sight rights on the water,
Speaker 1: threwing him on it.
Speaker 3: But we can't let him drown.
Speaker 1: Oh, we can just get ourselves picked up by the
Speaker 1: coast guard of the place. Patrol's murder cheasing, do me
Speaker 1: a favor, edgitant forget them morality.
Speaker 6: It doesn't take come.
Speaker 3: Yet, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: As clearly as if I had put a gun to
Speaker 2: that boy's head and pulled the trigger, I murdered him.
Speaker 3: He was a decent kid. A robber, yes, but a
Speaker 3: decent person. Shortly after that that you were picked. That's right, sir,
Speaker 3: It was about a month later.
Speaker 2: How I lived during that month, What rationalizations and justifications
Speaker 2: I gave to myself, it's impossible to describe, but I
Speaker 2: hoped what happened would happen.
Speaker 3: Did you be arrested, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2: Tony's body was washed ashore and he was tied in
Speaker 2: with Chasen as Toolpigeon did that. As you know, Chasen
Speaker 2: was the first member of the gang arrested. And for
Speaker 2: whatever reasons, I can't presume to know what goes on
Speaker 2: inside the mind of a man like Chasen, but he
Speaker 2: kept his mouth shut about my connection with the operation.
Speaker 2: Then they found Tony's.
Speaker 1: Hat inside the hat band of phoneem.
Speaker 2: That's correct, sir, My private number in case he got
Speaker 2: into trouble, gentlemen, with the arrest. When the arresting officers came,
Speaker 2: I knew relief for the first time in the many
Speaker 2: months I had been part of Chasin's gang.
Speaker 3: And in the years that followed.
Speaker 2: These years here in prison, I have spent that time
Speaker 2: atoning for the many guilts which I freely admit, the
Speaker 2: guilt of my wife, my.
Speaker 3: Son, my daughter, my clients told me to society. Ah,
Speaker 3: that's how it happened.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Now, if you like, if it pleases the board,
Speaker 2: I would like to make one final statement.
Speaker 3: I am reluctant to do this, but what is an engine?
Speaker 2: I want to read a letter from my wife, Sir,
Speaker 2: you may read it, dear herald at the time of
Speaker 2: the trial, when I learned for the first time that
Speaker 2: you were involved in those terrible things. You know how
Speaker 2: shocked I was that a gentle, generous, fine man like
Speaker 2: yourself could have this side of his character. Shall I continue, gentlemen, yes,
Speaker 2: finish the letter please. But now I've had time to think,
Speaker 2: and I begin to understand how such a thing is possible.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you now, my darling, for your own.
Speaker 2: Peace of mind, when you come out, and I know
Speaker 2: no parole board in the land will ask you to
Speaker 2: serve your full term when they have heard your story.
Speaker 2: Then when you come out, my darling, we shall be
Speaker 2: waiting Helen, Herald Third and Helen. That's all, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: You were a victim, then, dritan of human fraily ordinary
Speaker 1: human weakness.
Speaker 3: Is that what we're to understand? I tried to say
Speaker 3: it as honestly as I knew Howser.
Speaker 1: Having made the initial air of involvement with Chasen, you
Speaker 1: became his victim, his tool, and the rest flowed logically
Speaker 1: from this terrible premise.
Speaker 3: I would like not to repeat myself, sir, that is
Speaker 3: what happened.
Speaker 1: As you're well aware, there's another inmate inside this prison,
Speaker 1: well known to you, Clifford Chasin.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I know as.
Speaker 1: None of this board that you have during your imprisonment
Speaker 1: stayed away from Chasen, never exchanged a word with him
Speaker 1: in the past three and a half year.
Speaker 3: I tried my best, Sir.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a liberty with the normal procedure
Speaker 1: of this board and bring this man into the hearing
Speaker 1: God show Chasen, and I want to caution you, sir,
Speaker 1: this man is a fantastic liar.
Speaker 6: With that, Jason, thanks to the chairman.
Speaker 1: Jason, you're aware that you were picked up in connection
Speaker 1: with the Mercantile Trust theft on the word of a
Speaker 1: stool pigeon.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 1: You're also aware, probably by now, the name of that
Speaker 1: stool pigeon.
Speaker 6: That's right. Ready, Galande from Detroit.
Speaker 1: Let me add to your store of information, Jason, the
Speaker 1: name of the man who informed on you was Harold
Speaker 1: edrit in the second. That's the list, and the question
Speaker 1: is addressed to you. Answer otherwise absolute silence. Now, Chasen,
Speaker 1: who masterminded the gang? Whose gang wasn't? Who in fact
Speaker 1: was the chief? So you s told on me? You're
Speaker 1: the one all these years. I kept my mouth shut
Speaker 1: all these years. What have you been telling him?
Speaker 3: All right? I'll tell him.
Speaker 1: Sure, in the beginning I brought him into the organization.
Speaker 1: But after that it was his idea. Every safe job,
Speaker 1: every stick up, every house we knocked over, He kised them,
Speaker 1: he planned them.
Speaker 6: What you been telling you?
Speaker 3: I have said my piece, gentlemen, did you tell.
Speaker 1: Him about knocking over your own house? Did you tell
Speaker 1: him how you wanted want of the boys to do
Speaker 1: it while your wife was there to make it look
Speaker 1: more authentic. Then I got down rougher up. Have you
Speaker 1: break a rhyme?
Speaker 3: Did you tell him that the man's a pathological liar?
Speaker 1: Did you tell him how you killed Tony? Did you
Speaker 1: tell him how when he fell overboard? I wanted a
Speaker 1: site fun, even if it was risky.
Speaker 5: Not what you said.
Speaker 3: No, tell them what I said, Jess, you said, what's
Speaker 3: one death?
Speaker 6: When you're making history?
Speaker 1: That's what you're sail Not another word either of you. Now,
Speaker 1: one last question, Harold Driden, what have you to say
Speaker 1: to all this?
Speaker 3: Will you keep him quiet? Sir?
Speaker 1: He'll be quiet. God stand by this man, all right?
Speaker 3: Proceed, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: This man standing here with me is one of the
Speaker 2: most cunning and desperate criminals I have ever met. You've
Speaker 2: just tasted a sample of his pathological lying. Of course
Speaker 2: I informed on him. I would do it again. He
Speaker 2: killed a man. Let me inform on him once more. Gentlemen,
Speaker 2: there is a prison break planned in this institution. Clifford
Speaker 2: Chasen planned that prison break well as your silence.
Speaker 1: You finished addon and not quite, sir.
Speaker 2: I wish only to remind you that I was someone
Speaker 2: who felt need for excitement, and it got involved terribly
Speaker 2: and desperately over my head. I did what I did
Speaker 2: out of fear and because I was a duke. But
Speaker 2: if in your wisdom, gentlemen, you see fit to return
Speaker 2: me to society, I can only say, and I believe
Speaker 2: I have learned my lessons, let me go back to
Speaker 2: my family. My guilt will always be with.
Speaker 1: Me, all right, edgeton board, will decide your case. Step
Speaker 1: outside with a guard.
Speaker 5: While Harold Edgerton's second waits and the parole Board reviews
Speaker 5: his history. You too have a decision to make in
Speaker 5: a moment. You can compare your decision with that of
Speaker 5: the actual parole board before which he appeared.
Speaker 3: That amiable redhead.
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Speaker 5: Now the decision of the parole board in the case
Speaker 5: of Harold Egerton, the second prison number two one oh
Speaker 5: dash three.
Speaker 1: Seven edgdon't step out of that light. I want to
Speaker 1: see your face as.
Speaker 3: I talked to you. Yes, sir, this is all right.
Speaker 3: I have sat on parole.
Speaker 1: Boards for nineteen years, and that long period of intense experience,
Speaker 1: I have met many hardened men. I've listened to men
Speaker 1: who boasted of stealing from the poor, petty racketeers. I've
Speaker 1: heard from men who vandalized whole neighborhoods, beat their own families,
Speaker 1: their fathers, sisters, mothers. I can recall nearly two decades
Speaker 1: of lies and deceptions and cruelty. But never in my
Speaker 1: time have I sat and listened to a man so
Speaker 1: thoroughly corrupt, so utterly viscerally dishonest as yourself, sir.
Speaker 3: I was silence.
Speaker 1: Yes, I've seen men conn others out of their life savings,
Speaker 1: but I have never seen an individual attempt so loud,
Speaker 1: so vulgar a job of confidence as you've tried before
Speaker 1: this board. I only meant to try to try to
Speaker 1: con a parole board. Hardly a single word of what
Speaker 1: you said was truth. It was you who planned the robberies,
Speaker 1: every one of them. It was you who was the
Speaker 1: chief the brains, You who let Tony die. You who
Speaker 1: dare to introduce a letter here from your wife, a
Speaker 1: letter written this board will knows over two years of
Speaker 1: go and since disowned. Your wife has divorced you, edgitden
Speaker 1: your children disown you, and yet you have the incredible
Speaker 1: effrontery to stand before this board and urge it. We
Speaker 1: grant you clemency based on a fraud you informed on
Speaker 1: your own henchman Jason. You denounced him as a pathological liar,
Speaker 1: and you blandly tell us that he is planning a
Speaker 1: prison break. You were planning the prison break, you, Edgenden.
Speaker 1: We have information from the grape vine, and we know
Speaker 1: you've done yourself an incredible deservice, and you told us
Speaker 1: the truth as it happened. This board might have been
Speaker 1: inclined to listen to you, but now knowing you, I
Speaker 1: can tell you that you shall not appear before a
Speaker 1: parole board in this state until such time as you've
Speaker 1: served your minimum prison sentence of ten years. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: you've learned nothing from three and a half years of incarceration.
Speaker 1: Role denied.
Speaker 3: Next case, Harold Legiton.
Speaker 5: The second is still in prison, and he will be
Speaker 5: there for many years to come, as will any prisoner
Speaker 5: who attempts to peddle a lie to a parole board.
Speaker 3: We have told his story tonight so.
Speaker 5: That all may understand the extremely difficult and crucial tasks
Speaker 5: parole boards of this nation face. And we have told
Speaker 5: it in the interest of the thousands of men and
Speaker 5: women in American prisons who made themselves someday be up
Speaker 5: for parole. You have been listening to up Or Paroles
Speaker 5: with Bernard Lenraw as Harold Legendon and Santa Sawtega as
Speaker 5: Clifford Chason, written by Arnold Pearl and produced and directed
Speaker 5: by Mitchell Grayson. Research by Wally Gould. Music was under
Speaker 5: the direction of Harry Saler.
Speaker 1: Listen again and at.
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