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nineteen fifty one, here is the big Friend.
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 to homicide detail. A phone
call comes into your office from a man who tells
you his wife has been murdered. He's not sure who
the killer is.
Speaker 3: Your job find him.
Speaker 4: Drag Net the documented drama of an actual crime for
the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
Police Department. If you will travel step by step on
the side of the law through an actual case transcribed
from official police files, from beginning to end, from crime
to punishment, drag Net is the story of your police
force in action.
Speaker 5: It was Tuesday, January ninth, was rainy and windy in
Los Angeles. We're working the night watch out of homicide Detail.
My partner's Ben Romero, the boss of stad Brown, Chief
of Detectives.
Speaker 6: My name is Friday.
Speaker 5: Was nine twenty seven PM when I got to Room
forty two, Homicide Detail.
Speaker 7: Hi, Joe, great night. Just look out there on Spring straight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know. I just came in out of it.
Speaker 7: Really coming down. Yeah, just like I told you on
the phone this afternoon. What's that every time those seagulls
flying from the coast, it means rain.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Sure. As a fine coat, I've never been sorry I
bought this. Let me take another look at that, Joe.
Yeah sure, oh yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 8: English coat.
Speaker 6: Huh Yeah.
Speaker 5: They make them a little heavier over there than we
do here. Seemed to be kind of good in our business.
Speaker 6: Do you remember that Henderson's steakeout last month?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, really poured down that thing. This coat kept me
dry as a bone. Water just seems to roll off
of it. Yeah, that's a good one. Here you go.
Speaker 5: Thank you have to hang it up. Supposed to keep
a good coat on a hanger, you know, especially when
they're wet.
Speaker 7: Bitch. Trouble with mine is it leaks right up here
over the shoulders. Must be through the seams. Yeah, I
guess so, same one I've been with. And I told
you about it before.
Speaker 6: We said you're going to get a new one, didn't you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's such a good coat. Otherwise I hain't
to throw it away.
Speaker 8: It's no good of it leaks.
Speaker 7: Oh, I guess you're right at dead. Maybe I can
get those seams fixed. Do you think I don't know
how long you had it? Seven years?
Speaker 6: I got it? Homicide Friday.
Speaker 7: This is fourteen on the lateboard right.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 8: Hello, my name's Lennard Gray.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, my wife's dead. She's getting killed.
Speaker 9: I just went down to the garage and when I
came back, she was dead. Did you send somebody out
here right away?
Speaker 7: Yes, sir? What's that address sixteen to twenty seven Oxford Faces.
Speaker 6: Twenty seven Oxford Place.
Speaker 9: Yes, that's right. I can't understand that she was all
right when I left, and then when I came back
she was dead.
Speaker 7: I can't understand that.
Speaker 6: We'll be right there, mister Gray.
Speaker 7: My best friend. It's right next door, Jessie, he says,
I did it.
Speaker 5: Sixteen twenty seven Oxford Places. On the east side of
the street was an average one story stucco home. All
the homes on the street were about the same general
style and size. Was a nice neighborhood. All the grounds
appeared to be well kept from what we could see
through the heavy rain. The porch light was burning when
we got there. Inside the house, we were met by
the two officers from UNIP thirty seven R, who filled
us in on the results of their preliminary investigation. We
asked them to stand by in front of the house.
Then we asked the husband of the murdered woman, Leonard Gray,
to show us where the body was banked.
Speaker 7: This way in the dining room. Everything just the way
you found it, mister Gray, who didn't touch anything. Nose
there hadn't touched anything right there on the floor. It's
bry faster. Yeah, that way up there. Yes, that's sorry, Ben.
Would you like to help him? M just sit right there.
Speaker 6: I'll be right with you.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 7: You and your wife live here alone, da, Yes, it's
just two of us, our children, Ben.
Speaker 6: Yeh.
Speaker 7: Clothing is torn. Must have put up a struggle. Huh yeah,
some rediness there on the throat, strangle. It could be
deep gash there on the forehead, broken face there on
the floor. Do you want to call a crime ln? Yeah,
mister Gray, where's your telephone? Riding the hall out there
by the bedroom? Thank you?
Speaker 6: You think you could tell us about it now, mister Gray?
Speaker 7: Yes, I think so. Do you have a cigarette? Yes, sir,
thank you, Just give.
Speaker 6: You a life.
Speaker 7: Thanks. That's all right now. Can you tell me just
what happened here tonight? Arl Anderson, that's my friend. It's
two houses down here, and I went out after work
we usually do once or twice a week, just to
have a few beers. I don't know. I felt pretty good.
I guess I had a couple too many. Earl said
it was late and we'd better be getting home, so
he did. I had little too much to drink, so
he drove.
Speaker 6: I see where were you and your friend drinking?
Speaker 7: The bar right across from where we work, Earl Anderson
and me. A lot of the men go there for
a beer right after work. Were there quite a few
men from working there tonight? Yeah? Quite a few. I
wonder if the other officer found the phone? All right, Yes, sir,
I'm sure he did. Kind of hard to find sometimes.
What I've had a cupboard with little curtains. That's all right,
mister Gray. Let's try to take it easy on their way, right.
Speaker 5: He was telling me that he and his friend, Earl
Anderson stopped after work. They had a couple of beers,
and then the two of them drove on home. I think,
is that right? So yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7: Well, we got home and I was feeling pretty good,
so I asked Earle to come on in and have
a little nightcap. What time was that when you got home?
About half past six? Early didn't want to come in
because he said, hazeler be upset with me because we
were a little late. Anyway, I finally talked to me
in too coming in with me? Was your wife upset
a little bit?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 7: She used to be unhappy when I was late because
of dinner. She was never unreasonable. I didn't make it
a habit to stay out and usually late. Anyhow, I
see I here terrible, there's terrible. We got in the house.
The first thing is So asked me, was if I'd
looked at the car?
Speaker 6: Whose car was that?
Speaker 7: So? Our car? DoD sit down forty two? It was
parked across the street.
Speaker 6: Now what if we might check back here a little?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I thought I understood you to say that you felt
that you'd had a little too much to drink.
Speaker 7: So your friend drove this Earl Anderson, Yes, but it
was his car. I guess I should have made that
a little clear. You see, we take turns driving home,
either his or my car. We trade off to fight
the traffic, no matter whose car I see.
Speaker 6: What if you'd go on?
Speaker 7: Please? I didn't know what she meant by asking if
i'd seen the car. She said someone had let all
the air out of the back tires. Do you know
why anybody'd want to do a thing like that? No,
I had no idea who'd do that to us? Hazel
said she wanted to use the car. Tonight she had
to go to a friend's house to help produce and
remodeling or something. H She didn't say a word about
my being late. I thought the car had kind of
taken her mind off it. Thought I'd go out and
look and see if I couldn't fix it or.
Speaker 5: Did it's I thank you as being important that you
fix the car right away, honey mean well, sir, I
was just thinking I wouldn't want to go out and
all that rain unless it was something pretty important. Well,
I didn't want to either, but I figured all I'd
have to do was put a little air in the
tires and then drive it down to the gas station.
Speaker 7: I see, do you want to go on? Earl said
he'd be willing to give me a hand. So we
went out to have a look at the car. Want
to look at the tires, and I knew we couldn't
fix them. Somebody had cut them with a knife or something.
They were beyond the pair. Do you have any idea
who did that? No? I couldn't figure it out. I
have no enemies that I can think of, no one
that'd do a thing like that. What did you do?
Speaker 8: Then?
Speaker 7: Earl and I figured that we'd better take the wheels off,
take them down to the garage, and buy some new tires.
I borrowed Earl's jack and we took off the wheels.
Arl said he'd be glad to take the wheels down
and that i'd better go back to the house with
Hazel because she might wonder what we were doing about
fixing the car. I understand. We talked back and forth
for a minute or two, and I finally said that
I go Where did your friend Earl Anderson go to
his house? I dropped him off?
Speaker 8: There?
Speaker 7: Where does he live? Just two houses down the street.
After I dropped them off, I went down and picked
up two new tires and two tubes, and they mounted
him on the wheels for me and I came back.
About what time was it when you got back here
to the house, you remember, I don't know, somewhere around
nine point fifteen. I guess, then what did you do?
I was gonna put the wheels on, but I thought
I'd better go back in the house and tell Hazel
lot have the car fixed. A minute, yes, and I
walked in the door. I knew something was wrong, seemed
like I could feel it. I called to her, she
didn't answer. Went through the house, and when I got
to the dining room, finally, we'll.
Speaker 5: Have to ask you to come downtown to this. Sir,
you'll have to give us a complete statement on this.
He's necessary. Yes, sir, I'm afraid it.
Speaker 7: Is all right. I wonder iful be all right if
I called my friend Earl Anderson to go down with me.
Speaker 5: I haven't told him about this. Well, not if I
and this friend of yours, Earl Anderson. When you spoke
with me on the phone, didn't you say something about
your best friend saying that he thought that you killed
your wife?
Speaker 7: Did I say that, Yes, sir, you did. I didn't
mean it that way.
Speaker 8: How did you mean it?
Speaker 7: I've been drinking earlier tonight, I told you. I guess
I must have gotten mixed up when he didn't say
that you killed him. No, No, he didn't.
Speaker 5: Well, I know there's been a strain in a pretty
bad shock, mister Gray. But you told us that you
didn't say anything to Earl Anderson about this?
Speaker 7: Now, Isn't that right? I'm so sick and upset? Is
that what I told you? Yes, sir, you asked me
if you'd be all right if you called your friend.
You said you hadn't told him anything about that. Did
I called him right after I got home. I was terrified.
I didn't know what to do. Then you did mention
your wife's dead dy Yes, sir, Well, you men are
questioning me. Your tone sounds as if you think I
might have done that.
Speaker 5: Sure, we're just trying to get the facts straight right now,
anybody is a suspect.
Speaker 7: I didn't do this. I swear to God, I didn't
kill my wife. Do you have any idea who might
have wanted to kill miss Gray? Oh? No, one, Hazel
and I didn't have many friends, no enemies that I
know of. I see you men have any ideas at all?
Can you tell anything from what you've seen? We might
know a little more after the crime lab checks things over.
As soon as the lad man get hit, then you
can start on the case. No, sir, we've already started
ten fifteen pm.
Speaker 5: But continued to question Leonard Gray, the husband of the
dead woman Hazel Gray. His answer seemed to follow the
same general pattern of hazy confusion. Ben and I a
weighed the possibilities and cause for his evident confusion. He
admitted that he'd been drinking earlier that evening the tremendous
shock of the death of his wife. The complete interrogation
necessary in the investigation. All these things could prove to
be reason enough for Leonard Gray's apparent confused. They could
all be possibilities of pretense as well. We had to
be sure. We asked him about relatives and in laws.
He told us that his parents were not living, but
his wife's mother and father resided in Los Angeles, in
the southwest section of the city. He gave us the address.
He furnished us with a list of his friends and
his acquaintances. He was feeling quite badly, but seemed to
want us to continue with the questioning. From time to
time he would add unimportant bits of his story which
he had omitted the first time. Through ten seventeen PM,
the crime lab crew arrived and went to work. Gray's
friend Earl Anderson was picked up and brought to the
murder house. Any idea who did this thing working on?
It's just one thing I want to make sure of.
You know you don't suspect Lynd.
Speaker 7: Why do he ask? Then?
Speaker 8: Well, I know how something like this can be. Lennon
Hazel are wonderful people, very good friends of mine. Just
wanted to go on record. Is being able to vouch
for Lynn he wouldn't do a thing like that.
Speaker 7: Is that what you wanted to tell him?
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I've known Len for about five years now,
going on six. We worked the same place. Just wonder
about your farm.
Speaker 7: That's would you know of anyone who might have a
reason to kill Missus Gray?
Speaker 8: Not the soul in the world. It was wonderful to everybody.
Just didn't have any enemies that I know of, such
a pretty girl.
Speaker 6: Well know that you're a close friend to Grace. Maybe
you'd be able to.
Speaker 8: Answer a couple of questions for us anyway that can
be of help to you.
Speaker 5: Well, how did mister and Missus Gray seem to get along?
I mean, did they have any arguments that you know of?
Speaker 7: I really don't think I should go into their personal
life in this thing.
Speaker 6: Do you mean you don't want to answer?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 8: Certainn't that? Well, it just seems is really not my
place to go into it.
Speaker 7: We're going to have to question everybody that the Gray's knew,
all their friends and acquaintances.
Speaker 8: Appreciate any help you could give us. Well, isn't that
I don't want to help? I know that if I answer,
it's going to make Lend.
Speaker 7: Look bad At the moment, I'm gonna have to get
all the facts from one source or another.
Speaker 8: Well, they used to have some arguments. I guess you'd
find it out from the neighbors anyway.
Speaker 6: Where the arguments that been pretty loud?
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I don't mean to imply that Lenn ever
struck Hazel, but she used to get quite cut out
with him sometimes.
Speaker 7: Why.
Speaker 8: How do you know Lenn likes to go out with
the boys, you know, goose it up quite a bit.
She used to tell him that she wasn't going to
put up with it any longer. He said he never
struck her, not that I know ups did. Did they
have these arguments often? I don't feel right talking this
way about Lenn behind.
Speaker 6: His back, but I know that as his friend, you
want to get this thing cleaned up.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, that's right, I do. Yes, he used to
have quite a few arguments. Please understand these differences of
theirs may have been loud, but I know Lenn would
never think of hurting Hazel. Anyway. Did you find out
who slice the tires on Len's car?
Speaker 7: We're checking her.
Speaker 8: I wonder if that couldn't have some bearing on this possibly, Yeah,
so we'd like to have you go back to the
time you and mister Grey got home. Just tell us
exactly what happened was excuse me for me, sure, Friday,
see you a minute right here, I'll be right back.
Speaker 7: Okay, we were just about through. It's old photo. Lift
some prints, corners, ready to take the body? Okay, yeah,
it's all right.
Speaker 6: Get anything besides the prince.
Speaker 8: A small piece of blue cloth, white button attached, looks
like it was ripped off his shirt.
Speaker 6: Where did they find it? Here's a body.
Speaker 8: We'll see you fellows. Back to the officer. Yeah, okay, Harris,
thank you. I was just telling your partner Sargan or
you were out of the room. Yes, and this kind
of a case that turns out to be murderer. You
have another whereabouts of everyone concerned, don't you? Yeah?
Speaker 7: We do.
Speaker 8: I suppose Lynne told you about it. Who's going down
and get the tires fixed on his car? Yeah?
Speaker 7: He did you tell you that I was.
Speaker 8: At home during that time? What were you? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 8: I don't mean to try to tell you your business
or anything like that, but isn't that the short of
information you have to have?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. Anything else you'd like to know, Yes, sir,
who killed Hazel Gray?
Speaker 4: You are listening to Dragnet from beginning to end. Dragnet
is the authentic story of your police force and action.
Speaker 5: Ten thirty pm, Tuesday, January ninth, Leonard Gray, the husband
of the murdered woman, and Earl Anderson, his friend, were
taken downtown to Homicide for further investigation. Complete statements were
taken from both men were checked them through R and I.
No record on either one. We had all problems and
burglary calls in the vicinity of the murder house rechecked.
Speaker 7: Yeh. It's working in the area where the murderer occurred.
Speaker 5: Had picked up two possible suspects loitering in the neighborhood,
but they were eliminated almost immediately. All of the neighbors,
friends and relatives if mister missus Gray were contacted and
questioned no leeds. All their stories tallied almost exactly with
that of Earl Anderson. The Grays had been known to
argue quite frequently. The arguments were loud, but no one
could say that they ever showed any physical violence toward
one another. Was the opinion of the relatives and in
laws that Leonard Gray drank too much. Earl Anderson, his friend,
was checked and found to be a completely reliable man.
We talked with the repairman at the garage where Gray
had his tires exchanged. His story was correct in every detail.
Earl Anderson's wife was checked. She vouched for the Grays
as well as her husband. Ben and I talked with
Captain Steed for an hour one five am.
Speaker 7: Well, Capper seems to feel like I do Brody. Yeah,
my husband Gray sure looks that way, didn't. We've been
over that story three times with him and we get
three different versions. Yeah, it's completely sober. Now he should
be able to tell a straight story. I don't know you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not completely satisfied as far as that goes.
The Captain isn't neither.
Speaker 7: You've heard him.
Speaker 6: Oh, admit, Gray looks bad right now?
Speaker 7: What do you say?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I'm going I'm aside from now. Yeah, No, Jee's right here.
You want to talk with him?
Speaker 3: All?
Speaker 7: Fine? Yeah? Go ahead? Wow, okay, thanks Rob Georgia Juvenal. Yeah,
picked up a couple of kids. They confess to slashing
the Gray's dire clears.
Speaker 6: That up didn't seem to figure in any way.
Speaker 8: Did it to you?
Speaker 7: No, if somebody did it and draw Gray out of
the house, No, it's cutting it pretty thin. Yeah, much time,
tim inst two. I guess I better call Layton Prince,
see what they got. Okay.
Speaker 6: Did Edward say that they were going to hold those
juveniles for us?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I said they woul bringing them down here for interrogation.
Well hi, hi Mac? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Oh how good? All right?
Speaker 7: Thanks?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you got something? What do you saying?
Speaker 7: One of the prints? They left it out? There is
a palm print. A girlfriend says, it'll worked for lemonation,
some mass.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The Prince was present, spots of blood.
Speaker 6: The killer of.
Speaker 5: Hazel Gray had left behind him, a clue to his identity,
about which there could be no mistake his palm print.
The prints of the dead woman Hazel Gray were checked
and eliminated.
Speaker 6: They weren't hers.
Speaker 5: Two forty am Leonard Gray and his friend Earl Anderson
were taken down and fingerprinted. Their palm prints were also taken.
Both men were returned to the interrogation room.
Speaker 8: Sergeant glad, we have to be fingerprinted, Yes, routine, Just
like I was telling Miss Sergeant Friday, what's it?
Speaker 7: Lenn and I have been suspects all along, haven't we It's.
Speaker 5: Just a matter of elimination. Anybody involved in any way
has to be checked out. Didn't the fellow the garage
verify a Lens story? Yes, it's the truth. I wouldn't
lie at a time like this. I don't believe that
anybody thinks you're lying. Then it's just they have to
be sure.
Speaker 7: That's right. Hyeah, interrogation room, this is a male. Well yeah, right, okay,
right away, crying mab Joe Finger says he and Jones
would like to see one of us right away.
Speaker 8: All right, you want to go, Yeah, I'll be right back. Okay, Sergeant.
Was there really any specific reason for us being fingerprinted?
Speaker 6: Well, we already tolds it's just routine.
Speaker 8: Wouldn't be perfectly in line to find Lens fingerprints around
his own house? Well, yes it would. Yours could be
there too, Well, yeah, I was going to say that
I'm over their house a great deal of the time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we knew.
Speaker 8: You mentioned that makes you feel kind of funny getting fingerprinted.
It doesn't make any difference what I have to go through.
If you can find who did this thing. I feel
the same way, and I think you're any closer to
knowing who did it?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 5: Possibly you men have had little time to think this over.
Do either of you have anything to add to your story?
Maybe some small y you may.
Speaker 8: Have overlooked it.
Speaker 7: I've been thinking about it all night. I can't think
of anything I haven't already told.
Speaker 8: You you, mister Amerson, Is there anything that you might
have forgotten to tell us? I'm sorry, I was just thinking, Yes,
couldn't have been anyone Hazel knew? Could there?
Speaker 5: Len?
Speaker 8: How do they mean? Well, somebody maybe from a past,
somebody she want I have told you about. I don't
see how that could be possible. You people checked your
father and mother, didn't you?
Speaker 7: Yes, sure we did.
Speaker 8: Well it eliminate that possibility. Haven't found any way at
all of telling who it was it killed? Hazel? Yeah,
we have.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 8: I think that lend here is entitled to know. I'd
be glad to leave the room if you want to
talk to them alone. No, sure, that's not necessary. When
we work it out, you'll both be told about it.
If there's something definite that you'd tell me, wouldn't you.
I think girl's right, I'm entitled to know. Well, sir,
we're a sign of the investigation, mister Grade. We're doing
everything that we can to get to the bottom of it,
Sergeant lenn And I think you men are a great
deal more than you've been telling him.
Speaker 7: His wife was a victim. It's his right to know
how the investigations going, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 6: I told you before whatever you should know.
Speaker 7: We'll tell him anything that we withhold from has done
for a good reason. Joel, I want to take a
look at that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks, right, here's a report on it. Thank you.
This shirt belong to either of you men.
Speaker 7: It's not mine? No?
Speaker 8: Why what's it mean? I get it?
Speaker 7: Carrigation on Friday, Yeadie?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 7: Thank you?
Speaker 3: What about that.
Speaker 8: Shirt, sergeant? What's it mean?
Speaker 7: This button here, little piece of cloth attached is fond
with the body? You noticed the front of the shirt here,
button ripped off, see I magic? Yeah, it's not my
shirt was found in your house. I never saw it before.
It's not mine.
Speaker 5: The palm print was what the print of your palm
bloodstains on? It was find near the body. What's you're
talking about her? What's he mean?
Speaker 8: I killed Hazel? What?
Speaker 7: I killed Hazel? Why?
Speaker 8: Because I loved her?
Speaker 7: I think I loved her more than you did. You
don't kill someone because you love him.
Speaker 8: You do if you love him enough.
Speaker 5: You're ready to give us a statement? Anderson, Yeah, I'll
tell you. I can't believe all this.
Speaker 7: I kill you. I agree, holdly, I can't believe it.
My best friend I wasn't your best friend.
Speaker 2: Why the story you have just heard was true? Only
the names were changeans to protect the innocent.
Speaker 4: On April fourth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
eighty nine, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
In a moment the results of that trial, Earl Taylor
Anderson was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree.
Speaker 7: He was executed in.
Speaker 4: The lethal gas chamber the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. A pretty straightforward case with only two real
suspects that presented themselves, but nevertheless, it was engaging in
a way that some other programs fail to be when
they have a limited number of suspects to work with.
The episode also shows that being confused by police doesn't
actually make you guilty, which I think is an important
point to remember. Also, I'm not particularly surprised about Ben
Romero's coat. That may be one of the least surprising
facts I've ever learned about a character. Well, now we
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known shows when I found your program. If I may continue,
A listener had just trash Pat Novak, and I like
it for the reasons he did in great dialogue, especially
with the detective and a drunk doctor. With all the
commentary in the world that can find any information. Pat
needs crazy, but it works for me a loll I
like Pete Kelly's Blues. Also, of course Dollar, I found
the Saint boring. Also, Nick Carter seemed to lose my
interest until they changed actresses. I don't think it was her,
but the story se better. The Sherlock Homes from the
thirties was just poor quality for me to follow to
poor I like Homes, but just had to skip it.
My only real complaint is every time they upgrade my phone,
I lose my place. I listen off the website. I
go down until you can enter a program number and
go from there. But I can't hold you responsible for that. Well,
I've wasted enough of your time. Thanks for the showing
your commentary well not at all. Appreciate the comments. I
would agree that a lot of the early Homes episodes
from the thirties are not in great condition. A lot
of listeners find them listenable. The good news is that
we have had a couple of episodes from that era
with Richard Gordon that have come into circulation in recent
years that sound a lot better, so we can kind
of enjoy those. And I appreciate your perspective on Pat
Novak as do the website issue. You're right, there's not
a whole lot we can do about that. I do
find it easier listening to podcast apps, which I know
not everyone has, but you're not the only person who
listened through the website. I remember a few years back
that there was a website update done and someone emailed
me because they lost their place. They were going through
it in reverse order and they were on page fifty
six and the way the website updated it just kind
of messed them up. So had to try to help
them as best I could. Of course, we are on YouTube.
One thing I do like podcast wise is we now
have the Volume one feed, which has seasons one through three,
the Volume two feed, which has seasons four, five, and six,
and the Volume three feed, which currently has season seven
and eight, and we will start adding season nine later
on this year. Currently we're posting season eight, and for
every week we post two weeks of episodes from season
eight on our Volume three feet and so those are
great options to experience those older episodes. But to each
their own. Thanks so much, appreciate the email and learning
how you got into listening to Old time radio. Well
now it is time to thank our Patreon supporter of
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this is your wedding.
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bring me all away from Rome to meet him.
Speaker 7: You are familiar with his reputation.
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Speaker 10: But suppose I told you in an earlier day he
had another name prior to nineteen forty five, he was
known as Mario Tosseri. To Sally, you'll recognize.
Speaker 7: Sure.
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for years. I've got a rope necktie I'd like to
try on and passan.
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Neal who hasn't. The Sali organized a squadro DOTZIONI them
Militsia of Ontario for shot Sisty Mussolini's personal strong arm squad.
Speaker 10: I think of it, Michael. Today we are honored by
the presence of each found.
Speaker 7: You are mistaken.
Speaker 11: What were you doing in nineteen forty five?
Speaker 7: I was fighting with the Partisans near Geneva.
Speaker 3: Who is your commander?
Speaker 2: You will not find any records for him.
Speaker 11: You were a small group, and prior to forty five
I was in tried doing what That is my own affair.
But I tell you I'm not to tell, and I
should be easy enough to check. Petenant didn't Teselli come
from Asena and see and I'll take him their first
thing in the morning. In the meantime, can you put
them away on ice? I'd hate from the spoil. After
all these years, I hope.
Speaker 1: You'll be with us then. In the meantime, send your
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This is your host, Adam Graham.
Speaker 7: Sign and off.