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nineteen fifty one, here is the Big Sophomore.

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

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

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a detective sergeant. You're assigned to Juvenile Bureau. Dozens of

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petty theft cases are reported in one of the resident

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areas in your city. The victims neighborhood businessmen, the suspects,

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teenage high school students. Your job stop them.

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Speaker 3: Drag Net the documented drama of an actual crime. For

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the next thirty minutes, in cooperation of 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 files, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.

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Dragnet is the story of your police force.

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Speaker 4: In action.

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Speaker 5: Was Tuesday, February fourth, was cloudy in Los Angeles. We

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were working a night watch out of Juvenile Bureau, assigned

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a university division. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss's inspector Bowling.

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My name is Friday. We're on the way out from

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the office and it was seven thirteen pm when we

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got to the corner of South Waverley and Chester Avenue,

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the grocery store.

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Speaker 6: I guess that's him back there to meet Connor. Yeah,

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looks like he's getting ready to close up.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I guess we just about meet it in time.

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Speaker 6: Excuse me, sir, Yes, sir, help your gentlemen.

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Speaker 4: We're looking for Henry Loomis.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, that's my name, Police officers, mister Loomis. My

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name is Friday. I believe I talk to you on

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the phone. Oh yeah, I guess my partner, Sergeant Ramero one.

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Speaker 6: If you'd mind waiting a half a minute offices, just

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getting a little bookwork straightened out here, today's receipt. I'll

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go right in.

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Speaker 2: I'll take a better minute.

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Speaker 6: Let's see. Yeah, eighty seven forty five.

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Speaker 2: Thirty.

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Speaker 6: So that's all.

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Speaker 2: I hate that.

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Speaker 6: Allows a bookwork going to get a girl to come

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in and do it one of these days. Let's go

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up front here and talk. All right, fine, pull up

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a couple of stools there, well as we'll be comfortable. Yes,

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thank you. You talk to any of the other merchants

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in the neighborhood yet, no, sir, nus yet. We'd like

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to find out what you have to tell us.

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Speaker 4: First.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's one of those high school kids. I can

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tell you that, I'm sure of it. I don't want

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to sound like an old grouge, but this stealing's gotta stop.

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You get quite a bit of business from the high

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school trade. Being at the noon hour and then just

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after school lets out. Usually have quite a bunch of

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them in here around those times. Do you spasically cater

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to the high school crowd? I mean, do you deserve

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lunch here or anything like that. No, I don't. I

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usually get the kids to take their lunch. They come

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in and buy soda, water or milk to drink with

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their sandwiches. They seem like such a nice class of kids.

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I didn't think they were thieves.

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Speaker 4: Well, how long has this stealing been going on?

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Speaker 6: I might say about ten days, two weeks. It's not

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very hot from the get away with it. Fifteen or

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twenty kids crowd in here during noon hour. I'm usually

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busy up at the counter. It's no great trick for

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honey one of them to make off for a couple

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of dollars with the merchandise. We'll say this happens just

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about every day, every day the kids are in here. Yeah.

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I tried playing detective myself for a while, trying to

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catch the gilly ones.

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Speaker 8: Didn't do much good.

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Speaker 6: As long as this stealing's been going on, Miss Lumis,

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is every monthy more than just a few dollars worth

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of food every day?

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Speaker 2: No, that's a funny part.

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Speaker 6: Besides, And when I checked back on my inventories, it's

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always just about the same amount. A few cans of meat, vegetables, butter,

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few loads of bread. It's not so much the value

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of this stuff. I just don't like the idea of

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some kid making a fool out of it day after day.

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Has your case register ever been tampered with, you know,

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I mean any money stolen?

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Speaker 7: No.

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Speaker 6: So that's another thing. I can't understand that a kid's

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gonna turn thief. You'd think you'd go after the cash.

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Whoever's doing it. They've never tried anything like that here.

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Speaker 5: Well, how about some of the other merchants in the neighborhood.

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So you mentioned on the phone there were a couple

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of others having the same trouble that you are.

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Speaker 6: Yes, So there's George Brophy, he's the newspaper distributor. And

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there's Collins. He's got the grossy place up the street.

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You can talk to them. I gave you their addresses

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on the phone. Yes, Just one more thing, missus, lemmit's

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about this crowd of high school boys and hang around here.

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Any of them in particular, you might suspect as a

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matter of fact, there is I certainly can't prove anything,

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but I just have a feeling about it.

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Speaker 2: I don't like the boy.

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Speaker 6: Just one boy said yes, so there may be more

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than one that's guilty. But this young fellow I'm.

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Speaker 4: Pretty sure of.

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Speaker 6: I hear the kids call him Harry, redhead boy, curly,

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red hair, tall, a few freckles. Won't be hard to

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get his last name if we need it. Uh huh?

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Is there anything else you can think of it? We

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ought to know you go up the street and talk

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to the other two men's Sides and George Broughy and Collins.

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They might have something more for you. I think I've

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told you about everything.

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Speaker 4: All right, mister Lewis. I've got your home phone here.

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If we want to contact you later tonight, I'll call you.

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There is a.

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Speaker 6: Perfectly all right. Here's our card, so you can call

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us at that number there anytime.

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Speaker 2: I thank you.

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Speaker 6: What do you think is behind the whole thing, Sides

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and this cheap stealing Nicholin dime stuff.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, sir. We'll try and find out for you.

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Speaker 6: Just doesn't make sense stealing like that day after day.

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I think even the kids know that you can't go

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on stealing forever. Yes, sir, A lot of them give

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it a try. From the very start.

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Speaker 5: The whole pattern of the case and the thief's method

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of operation made little or no sense at all. The

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thefts had been going on for more than two weeks,

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and they'd all taken place in a twelve square block.

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In each of the two dozen cases reported to us,

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not one of the thefts had been for more than

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five dollars, either in cash or merchandise. The thief's scene

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of operation included two grocery stores, a drug store, coinboxes

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attached to the newsstands in the neighborhood, and a five

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and ten cent variety store. With one exception, all of

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the cases involved theft of merchandise only. The breaking open

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of coin boxes attached to newsstands was the single instance

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in which money was taken. The total sum was less

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than three dollars and fifty cents. Seven forty PM. Ben

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and I left the grocery store and went up the

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street to the home of George Brophy. He was the

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neighborhood newspaper distributor who operated the coinbox newsstands which had

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been broken into.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think you can just about count on it, Surge,

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and it's one of the kids in the neighborhood doing

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all this. Either that or a couple of them are

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working together. What makes you so sure about it, mister Brofy, Well,

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for one thing, we got more in our share kids

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out this way. A lot of them are from poor families,

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under privileged, you might say. I guess they figure it's

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one way of picking up extra spending, right. I got

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nothing against kids myself. If you, Nicholas, they get out

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of those boxes, I would prosecute them for that.

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Speaker 5: Well, sir, that's not exactly it. The point is they're stealing.

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They get away with this small time stuff. They might

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figure they're right for something bigger, probably be the best

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thing in the world for him. If we can stop

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them now and set them on the right dragon sing yeah.

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Speaker 6: Put in with you there, surgeon. I don't know how

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much it can help you, though. Do you have any

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idea at all who it might be is breaking into

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the coin box? Well, like I say, I have nothing

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against any kid myself, but there is one I'm around

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the neighborhood. I've been a little suspicious about a red

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headed kid. Once you look like you know, red hair,

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freckle face, kind of tall and gangly, typical high school kid.

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Oh loomis down to the grocery store. He's been literally

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about the same kid too. Well, why do you single

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out this red haired boy, mister Broky? Well, oh, excuse me,

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a better grad? Yes, hello, oh yeah, Maggie, im for

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of them? One are they born? Is that right?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 6: Bar in this morning? For four of them?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, just a minute alcohol?

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Speaker 2: Uh great, yeah, honey, it's real, Maggie Harris. Okay, thanks,

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excuse me.

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Speaker 6: Friend of my wife's so cat just had four kittens.

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Oh I see where were we?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, but the kid?

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, what do you suspect?

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Speaker 6: Well, there's a couple of reasons, Sergeant. Late one night

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and I was making my collections, I spotted the boy

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hanging around one of the newsstands. Didn't look like I

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had any business there at that time of night. He

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looked up and saw me coming. He turned and duck

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down a side street.

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Speaker 4: But do you have any idea where this boy lives,

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mister Brothy?

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Speaker 6: No, I can't say I do. He goes at high

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school a few blocks up on South Waverley. I know

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that it's the same boy that the groceryman had his

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eye on. And you said there was a couple of

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reasons why he was suspicious of this boy, mister Brothy, yeah,

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well this other thing doesn't mean too much. There wasn't

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anything really wrong with it. It just seemed a little queer.

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Speaker 2: So oh is that well?

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Speaker 6: I dropped in at the Safety liquor store down the

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street last week. I wanted to pick up a little something.

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I saw the same kid in there. He was asking Benny,

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the guy who runs the place, if he'd sell him

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a fifth of bourbon. I heard the kid saying it

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was supposed to be for his father. His father was

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sick and couldn't come in. Of course, Benny turned him down.

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He wouldn't sell it.

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Speaker 2: To the kid.

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Speaker 4: And that was the extent of it.

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Speaker 6: Now, yeah, that's all. Wasn't anything wrong with it. Kid

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didn't insist. I thought it was just a little lot

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of lines sending a kid out the liquor. Well, it's

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about size of it. How about some of the other

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merchants in the neighborhood who have been bothered with these

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petty thefts. You know if any of them is suspicious

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of this boy. No, I wouldn't know that. Henry Loom

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missed out the stories, but you don't want to know. Well,

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thanks very much, mister Brophy. If anything else comes up,

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you can get us at the number on his card

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and here. Oh okay, so fine, if I can help

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it all the clear, they sing up. I'd be glad

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to do it.

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Speaker 4: Well, we'll probably be checking back with you. And thanks again, sir.

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Speaker 6: Sure it's funny, the whole thing. I get a big

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laugh out of sir. Oh. I mean the friend of

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my wife's called up Maggie Harris cat had four kittens.

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Speaker 2: Like I told you.

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Speaker 6: He got a big laugh out of that. I kept

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telling her. She wouldn't believe me, was that, sir? She

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thought the cat was a mail.

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Speaker 5: The next morning, Ben and I continued checking with various

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merchants and residents in the neighborhood where the series of

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petty thefts were taking place. We located and questioned one

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more shopkeeper who was suspicious of the tall, red haired

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boy known as Harry. That afternoon, we went to the

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high school on South Waverley Avenue to check on him.

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From his first name in his description, he was identified

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by the boy's vice principal as Harry Thomas Dunbar. He

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was eighteen years old and a sophomore with an average

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scholastic record. We were told that Dunbar had left the

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grounds about half an hour before with the high school's

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basketball team. The group was headed for one of the

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local sports pavilions, where the team had one of its

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more important games scheduled for that afternoon. Harry Dunbar was

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in charge of selling the printed programs for the game.

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Ben and I drove out to the sports pavilion and

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checked with one of the boys collecting tickets at the door.

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He told us we'd find Harry Dunbar inside at the

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program stand.

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Speaker 6: These high school kids, shure, take your basketball seriously, don't Yeah,

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a big turnout.

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Speaker 5: Sounds like we're gonna be lucky if we can find

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that boy in this crowd. Yeah, you see him anywhere. No,

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which side is the program standing supposed to be on? Well,

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there's a lot of them along and through here, on

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both sides. I guess we better start checking them out.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's stand back down and left.

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Speaker 4: You see, right headed?

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Speaker 6: Kid?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's check you.

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Speaker 7: A programs dime, complete programs for the game. Ten excuse me, son,

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program mister?

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Speaker 4: Your name Harry Dunbar. Yeah, that's right. With police officers, Harry,

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we'd like to talk to you for a few minutes.

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If it's all right.

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Speaker 7: Oh well, I can't talk to you now. I'm pretty

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busy sell these programs here.

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Speaker 6: I suppose we wait a few minutes, son, So you

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only have a few left there to say.

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Speaker 7: No, I wouldn't do any good waiting and I selly's

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I got something else to do.

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Speaker 4: It's I'm not gonna take a few minutes of your time, Harry.

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We won't keep you along.

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Speaker 8: What is it alsin?

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Speaker 7: What do you want to talk to me about?

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Speaker 5: A few questions for your son, that's all. Can you

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step out in the lobby with us for just a minute.

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Speaker 8: What's it all about?

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Speaker 6: I'd like to know? Well, just soon, not talk about

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it out here.

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Speaker 7: Oh all right, we can go up this ramp here.

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All right, there's a hallway back here runs underneath the stands.

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Speaker 8: Won't be so noisy.

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Speaker 6: Fine, we won't keep you along. Just a few routine questions,

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this sort of do Okay?

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Speaker 8: What is it you want to know about?

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Speaker 4: Do you know how mister Loomis Harry runs a grocery

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store near the high school.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, old man Loomis. I can go down to the

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store and eat lunch sometimes.

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Speaker 6: Why how about a mister Collins, he runs another store

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near the high school.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I know the place.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes I go there too, A bunch of the kids

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hanging around there during lunchtime.

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Speaker 5: We've had quite a few complaints from Collins and Loomis,

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some of the other stores in the neighborhood too. We're

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checking on some of I'm proud. Maybe you could help

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us out, Harry.

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Speaker 7: No, I couldn't help you any mister Collins, now old

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man Loomis. They don't like us and want to get

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us in trouble. I think they're lying, lying about what

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about us kids stealing things out of their stores. I

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bet they even told you I'm stealing things.

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Speaker 6: From him, are you, Harry?

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Speaker 8: Of course not. They can't say any of us stole things.

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They don't know. They can't prove.

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Speaker 6: Anything, do you know with the man that distributes newspapers

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and your neighborhood's done and mister Brothy, who mister Brothy,

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some of the coin boxes on his newstands have been

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broken into. He thought maybe you could tell her something

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about that.

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Speaker 7: Why me, I don't know any mister Brokey, Well he

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knows you, Harry.

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Speaker 5: You saw your hanging around one of the news stands

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one night. And there's something else you saw you're trying

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to buy a bottle of liquor in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 4: Is that right?

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Speaker 6: We've had three or four reports on your son. What

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do you say you want to tell us about it?

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Speaker 8: They're crazy. I haven't done anything.

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Speaker 4: Well, you've got nothing to worry about, son.

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Speaker 7: I will tell you any man they're grabbing, I got him,

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all right, hold it.

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Speaker 6: Up, son, have gold.

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Speaker 8: Let me go, take it easy, MFL. I haven't done anything.

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Speaker 7: I haven't now let me go.

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Speaker 8: Please, I haven't done anything.

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Speaker 6: Why do you try to run away?

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Speaker 8: I have to get home.

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Speaker 7: I gotta get home right away.

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Speaker 4: All right, son, We'll take you there.

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Speaker 7: No, you can't go with me. I have to go along.

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Speaker 2: Grad.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna have to hold on to you, Harry. Either

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we take you home or we take you downtown.

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Speaker 4: Which is it.

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Speaker 7: I tried to tell them I couldn't do everything.

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Speaker 8: I tried, but it didn't work out. I can't do everything.

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Speaker 4: What do you mean, sir?

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Speaker 8: Take me home? Let don't tell you.

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Speaker 2: You are in the forgery division of a metropolitan police

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department handwriting analysis.

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Speaker 6: All right, now write the alphabet and lower case please.

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Speaker 2: You are listening to a police officer taking a sample

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of a suspect's handwriting. This handwriting sample will be compared

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with the forged signature side by side. Two signatures may

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often look alike, but closer examination will prove a world

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of difference.

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Speaker 4: Wednesday, February fifth, four fifteen pm.

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Speaker 5: We left the sports pavilion, got in the car and

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started to drive our teenage suspect, Harry Dunbar to his home.

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On the way, we questioned him about the series of

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petty thefts which had been going on in his neighborhood.

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We asked him about stealing merchandise from the grocery store

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run by mister Loomis. He admitted he was responsible. He

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said he'd been stealing things from the store for more

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than a month. We asked the boy about the petty

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thefts from the grocery store operated by mister Collins.

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Speaker 4: Again he told us he was responsible. He also admitted

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stealing from the neighborhood.

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Speaker 5: Drug store and the variety store, in addition to breaking

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into the coin boxes on the self service newstands.

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Speaker 6: In each instance, he described his method of operation.

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Speaker 5: He estimated that over a period of some four and

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a half weeks, he'd stolen approximately fifty.

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Speaker 6: Dollars in merchandise and about five dollars in cash.

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Speaker 4: We asked him why, he refused to answer, and.

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Speaker 6: Must have better reason for doing all this, Harry, why

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don't you tell us? We're gonna find out sooner or later.

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Speaker 7: Sorry, ul sir, it's the next turn to your left.

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Speaker 4: Okay, some matter, Son, You afraid of what your folks

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are gonna say.

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Speaker 8: No, that's not it.

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Speaker 7: I never stole anything in my life till this time.

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When I started in, I didn't think of it as stealing.

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Something I had to do, that's all.

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Speaker 8: I couldn't help it.

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Speaker 6: That doesn't make much sense, Harry, What do you mean

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you couldn't help it? It's the truth.

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Speaker 8: You gotta believe me.

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Speaker 7: There wasn't anything else I could do.

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Speaker 4: What was it then, somebody forcing you to steal?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 7: Can't you just believe me something I had to do, Sergeant?

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Can't you let me off? Y'all walk home the rest

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of the way. I promise you'll come and see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: You know we couldn't do that, son.

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Speaker 5: You've already admitted stealing from a half a dozen stores

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in the neighborhood, breaking into those coin boxes.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna have to be straightened out one way or

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the other.

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Speaker 7: But I can pay them back for what I took.

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I got a job up here, back every one of them.

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Speaker 5: I believe your son, But there's still a lot of

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explaining that's gonna have to be done.

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Speaker 6: This is the fifteen hundred blog, Harry. I want to

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point out your house for us.

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Speaker 7: Huh, can't we fix it up some other way? We

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don't have to go to my house?

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Speaker 6: Do it something? You face it the better?

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Speaker 2: How Aby?

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Speaker 8: Keep on going s way down the end of the

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block there?

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Speaker 4: Well, now, which is it? Sun? There's no houses beyond this,

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just that shack down there.

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Speaker 6: That's my house.

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Speaker 10: Okay, eh, maybe I better go in first see if

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everything's all right.

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Speaker 4: It'll be all right. We'll come with you.

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Speaker 5: Ben and I followed the boy up the stairs and

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into the house. From the outside, it looked run down

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and badly in need of painting. On the inside, it

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still looked in fair condition except for the housekeeping. The

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floor of the living room was littered with soil, clothing,

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cigarette ashes, dirt, and dust.

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Speaker 4: The few pieces of furniture didn't look much better.

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Speaker 5: A card table set in one corner was crowded with

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dirty dishes and scraps of half eaten food.

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Speaker 4: Across the room was.

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Speaker 5: A baby in a crib couldn't have been more than

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a few months old. Apparently the bedclothes in the crib

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hadn't been changed for days. Next to the crib, huddled

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in an army cot underneath a few thin blankets, was

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a dark haired little girl, maybe two two and a

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half years old.

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Speaker 4: Her face was thin and pale. She was asleep.

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Speaker 5: Through an open door we could see into the next room,

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where a woman was lying on a couch. There was

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an empty glass and a newly opened bottle of whiskey

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on the nightstand.

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Speaker 7: She'ld let me come in first off, we'll have chance

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to clean up a little kids mess up the house.

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Speaker 6: Jerry, got you, Harry.

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Speaker 7: That's my mother, rest a little. I guess this is

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a baby in the crib named Jerry. Well, that's my

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little sister, and a cot to her name's Annie.

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Speaker 4: Get your mother out here with your son. Want to

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talk to her.

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Speaker 7: Don't get mad at her, huh, will you? Mars had

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a tough time lay She tries to do her best.

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Speaker 4: Does no matter what. The kids here sona they been sick.

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Speaker 7: Baby had a cold but I got that mediciner from

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the drug store. He seems to be okay. I'm not

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so sure about Annie, though she had a bad colt

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doesn't seem to be getting over it.

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Speaker 6: We won't take a look. Then get your mother up, son, Yeah,

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all right, my.

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Speaker 8: Get up?

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Speaker 4: Wi you?

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Speaker 6: What is it? Who'd you bring home with you? A couple?

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What do you bring him in? Before close the door? There?

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I have to fix up a little My mother will

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be right out of us, all right, son, Joe, Yeah,

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we better get to a phone right away.

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Speaker 4: It looks pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 6: Baby needs a doctor? A little girl here. I hope

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she does too, but I'm not sure she's alive.

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Speaker 5: An ambulance was called immediately, and Harry Dunbar's to year

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old sister Annie and his baby brother were both rushed

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to the General Hospital. The mother, identified as Missus Florence Dunbar,

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was taken downtown and booked at the main jail on

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a drunk charge.

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Speaker 4: Six forty five p m. We took the boy, Harry Dunbar,

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over to Ben's house.

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Speaker 5: We'd put in a call to the General Hospital to

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check on his little sister Annie and his infant brother.

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Speaker 4: They told us.

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Speaker 5: Both the children were suffering from malnutrition. The little girl,

480
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Annie had double pneumonia. Miraculously, the baby seemed to have

481
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been spared. He was sick, but his condition wasn't considered serious.

482
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After Ben's wife fed him dinner, eighteen year old Harry

483
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Dunbar sat out and told us the story. Three months before,

484
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his father had deserted the family. His mother had made

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a pretense at supporting Harry and the two babies and

486
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then gave it up in favor of drinking. The whole

487
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burden of keeping the family alive was pile on the

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youngster's shoulders. Besides school, he had three odd jobs that

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he worked at to earn enough money to pay the rent,

490
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the gas and light bill, food and general necessities. It

491
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wasn't enough, so he had to take the stealing. His

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mother wouldn't work, but at the same time she wouldn't

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let the boy apply for charity. He slept at Ben's

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house that night, and the next morning at juvenile bureau,

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he gave us.

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Speaker 4: The rest of the story.

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Speaker 8: I guess it's got too much for me. I don't know.

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Speaker 7: I could sneak to food and medicine from the stores,

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all right, but couldn't seem to get enough money together

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the rent bill and all that kids need clothes too.

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Speaker 6: Oh, why wouldn't your mother let you apply for help

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son some of the local charity.

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Speaker 8: Well, I'd never go for that office.

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Speaker 7: She get mad when I talked about it, said she

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had too much pride to take charity.

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Speaker 4: Did your mother know that you were stealing the food

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and medicine that you used to bring home?

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Speaker 7: I don't know, I guess so I wouldn't be so

509
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mad at her. But every time I got some money

510
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together to pay bills, she want me to buy whiskey

511
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for She begged so much I couldn't say no.

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Speaker 5: We're having your mother brought over from the main jail, Harry.

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We'd like to find out if we can't locate your father.

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We want to check outside Ben, see if they brought him.

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It's done borrow ver yet? Yeah, okay, thank you.

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Speaker 8: How about the kids off, sir.

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Speaker 6: Annie and the baby? How they doing?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I checked the hospital, Harry. The doctor's gonna call as

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soon as he can.

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Speaker 7: I should have known better, poor little kids. I could

522
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take care of myself, but they had to depend on her.

523
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She'd only stopped drinking.

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Speaker 4: Go right, in Miss Dunbar.

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Speaker 6: Harry.

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Speaker 11: You all right, son, what they've been doing to you?

527
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Speaker 8: I'm all right. Don't hang on me like that.

528
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Speaker 11: I was worried about you, Harry, You and the kids.

529
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I'm sorry they got sick.

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Speaker 6: I didn't know.

531
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Speaker 11: It's just bad luck, Harry.

532
00:23:27,279 --> 00:23:29,839
Speaker 6: We got to stick together, you and Me's a cherry.

533
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Sit down John. You know, hospital call they took the

534
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message outside.

535
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, thank you.

536
00:23:37,759 --> 00:23:40,039
Speaker 8: The hospital loss her? About Annie the baby?

537
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Speaker 6: Yeah, i'd write, son, about your little sister Annie.

538
00:23:43,279 --> 00:23:43,799
Speaker 4: What about her?

539
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Speaker 7: What the doctor say?

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Speaker 6: Well, it's not good, Harry. The doctor called him said Annie,

541
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he had pneumonia.

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Speaker 8: Pneumonia, she'ld be all right though, to take care of her.

543
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Speaker 6: Well, it's not that way, son, I mean the doctor said,

544
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oh look, you tell her.

545
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Speaker 4: What is it?

546
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Speaker 8: What about Anne?

547
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Speaker 6: We got a right to know.

548
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Speaker 8: She's my little girl, Sergeant. You can tell me.

549
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Speaker 5: You want to sit down, Harry, Yes, sir, Annie died

550
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:17,359
ten minutes ago.

551
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Speaker 4: The doctor's tried. They couldn't help.

552
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Speaker 7: Annie did.

553
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Speaker 6: That's right, son, She's only a little kid.

554
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Speaker 11: She's only two years old, Harry, Harry's son, Poor little Lannie.

555
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I need have to be her my own little girl,

556
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my own little Lannie.

557
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Speaker 6: Be good to me. Son.

558
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Speaker 11: I don't know how I can stand it.

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Speaker 6: My own little girl Annie GOTSI.

560
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Speaker 11: No, Harry, I need you. I need your more than ever. Son,

561
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Be good to me.

562
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Speaker 6: We have to stick together now. We gotta love one

563
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:08,039
another all No I need Harry, He's all I got.

564
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I'm just Son. It's so hard.

565
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Speaker 11: Sometimes everything's against us. Lord, don't he knows. I've tried.

566
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We've got to try to be happy, to stay together

567
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and love one another.

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Speaker 6: Lord don't even know. Harry.

569
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Speaker 11: Don't blame me, Son, We've got to try to be happy.

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Speaker 7: I blame you.

571
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Speaker 8: Anybody blame me. You killed it, poor little kid.

572
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Speaker 7: You killed any carry it. I will say it while

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you did it, the whole terrible thing.

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Speaker 2: Annie's dead.

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Speaker 4: You did it.

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Speaker 8: Don't you know what it means?

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Speaker 4: So don't hurt all right, Harry, take it easy.

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Speaker 8: You know it too, don't you.

579
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Speaker 7: She did it, her whiskey and her drinking and laying around,

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not even caring about the kids. I try to tell you, Mam,

581
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,880
at least you could have done take care of the kids,

582
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,079
see that, all right? You had to drink.

583
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Speaker 8: It wouldn't work. You had to lay around.

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00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 7: Don't you understand. I couldn't do it all.

585
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 2: I tried.

586
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Speaker 7: I couldn't do it all. You had to go on

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drinking later.

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Speaker 11: Watch any DoD Please don't say that I'm gonna love

589
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each other. I wouldn't hurt any You know your mother

590
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:17,160
never do that. You know what you're saying, Harry, I'm

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00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:17,640
your mother.

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Speaker 6: No, I've tried to be a good mother.

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Speaker 11: You don't mean what you're saying.

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Speaker 8: I never have to see you again.

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Speaker 11: Harry, Please don't go. He wouldn't believe me.

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Speaker 6: Sergeant.

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00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 11: Lord knows I've tried. It's not easy, your husband deserting

598
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,880
you the way Charlie did, three kids on your hands.

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Speaker 6: What can I do? Yes, I ought to understand.

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Speaker 7: I tried.

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Speaker 6: Lord.

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00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,079
Speaker 11: No, it's the best anybody can do. Just try and

603
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hope for the best.

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Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, I only got one question, Yes, how.

605
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:03,599
Speaker 4: Hard did you try?

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00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,319
Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the

607
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,359
names were changed to protect the innocent. On April twenty,

608
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,559
third trial was held in Municipal Court, City and County

609
00:27:20,559 --> 00:27:23,880
of Los Angeles, State of California. In a moment the

610
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:35,839
results of that trial, eighteen year old Harold Dunbar was

611
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,480
filed on in Juvenile Court. After the hearing, the court

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directed that the two Dunbar children be placed in a

613
00:27:42,279 --> 00:27:46,960
foster home. Missus Dunbar was permanently deprived of the custody

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00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:47,640
of her children.

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Speaker 3: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases

616
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,519
from official fire technical advice comes from the Office of

617
00:28:02,559 --> 00:28:05,799
Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.

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Speaker 6: Stay tuned for a countras By next over NBC.

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Speaker 1: Just raise some serious real life questions and certainly for

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00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:50,200
the time would have exposed lesteners and given awareness to

621
00:28:50,559 --> 00:28:54,519
some of the issues that were going on with juveniles

622
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,759
that juvenile divisions had to deal with. The mother was

623
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,160
far too real list. I was just thinking that because

624
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,960
of Dragonet's true tolized storytelling, it often captured some of

625
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:12,200
the sort of psychological functions that we talk about today

626
00:29:12,599 --> 00:29:18,000
and were not necessarily all as understood and categorized, and

627
00:29:18,079 --> 00:29:20,400
certainly did it, I think better than some of the

628
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,400
more heightened dramas did. The one thing that this episode

629
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:30,279
does highlight is that the job of the police often

630
00:29:30,359 --> 00:29:36,480
becomes more than solving crimes, and certainly that often happens

631
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,680
in the juvenile division cases. And you'll see this with

632
00:29:40,759 --> 00:29:45,200
a lot of Dragnet episodes, both radio and television. There's

633
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,519
a crime that they're concerned about, but it was relatively

634
00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:54,400
minor compared to the underlying issues, and that so often

635
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,200
does turn out to be the case issues at home,

636
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,400
where issues at home and the misconduct of adults becomes

637
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:08,920
a far bigger concern than whatever crime there was, and

638
00:30:09,559 --> 00:30:12,920
it's a very different sort of case and approach with

639
00:30:13,079 --> 00:30:18,000
the young man spending the night in Romero's house. Well,

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00:30:18,039 --> 00:30:22,000
now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,

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and I want to go ahead and thank Denise, Patreon

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that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast,

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We'll be back next Thursday with another episode of dragonat

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but join us back here tomorrow for yours truly, Johnny

651
00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:01,599
Dahl are flip time.

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00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,039
Speaker 9: I've called and Rip. If you don't do something about

653
00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:06,759
my loss of the Cape Star, you call.

654
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 2: The police, Well, sure of course.

655
00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 9: I might have known you would, so they'll tell the papers.

656
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,920
More publicity for you in that lousy insurance business.

657
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:15,599
Speaker 1: For Hilly.

658
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 2: I always notify the police.

659
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,359
Speaker 9: You know what that means. It means reporters, photographers, cops

660
00:31:21,359 --> 00:31:23,799
half the time falling all over themselves when I get in.

661
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,079
If you're somebody else, and I don't mean the cops.

662
00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:32,880
If you don't get out, I'll cancel every policy I

663
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,119
have with you. My own. The house is the cars,

664
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,559
this old tom everything here, you take it, Johnny Hash.

665
00:31:38,359 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 2: Sure, Hello, not all.

666
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:41,279
Speaker 9: Didn't you hear what I said?

667
00:31:41,559 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 2: Miss Sad? Johnny Dollar?

668
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:51,519
Speaker 9: Johnny, So we got you. Well, now we'll have some

669
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,240
actions because you'll come out here right away.

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00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 6: Won't you.

671
00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:56,279
Speaker 2: Well, that depends.

672
00:31:56,319 --> 00:31:59,279
Speaker 9: I don't know what to do. James Starr, Emerald gone

673
00:31:59,319 --> 00:32:04,039
and Rip so busy, Gat leaves off, and Johnny you

674
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,680
have to complete. Well, look, honey, I'll be waiting for you.

675
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,279
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.

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Send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net.

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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.