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Speaker 1: from April the tenth of nineteen fifty two, here is
Speaker 1: the big show.
Speaker 2: The stary you were about to hear is true. The
Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
Speaker 2: detective sergeant. You're assigned a juvenile division. You got a
Speaker 2: call from one of the bus line terminals in your city.
Speaker 2: A seven week old baby has been abandoned in the
Speaker 2: depot waiting room. There's no sign of the mother, no
Speaker 2: lead to or whereabouts. Your job find her.
Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. Well the
Speaker 3: next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
Speaker 3: you will travel step by step on the side of
Speaker 3: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police bolence,
Speaker 3: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
Speaker 4: Dragnet is the story of your police force. In action.
Speaker 5: Was Wednesday, August fourteenth, That was hot in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: We're working the day watch out of Juvenile Division, my partner,
Speaker 5: said Jacob to the bosses, Captain.
Speaker 6: Stein, Commander Juvenile Division. My name is Friday.
Speaker 5: We're on the way out from the office, and it
Speaker 5: was eleven oh five am when we got to the
Speaker 5: corner of sixth in Los Angeles streets the bus depot,
Speaker 5: use me, ma'am and missus Lewis.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's Rid Are you the police, Yes.
Speaker 6: Ma'am, it's my partner side and Jacob's name's Friday. Juvenile Division.
Speaker 6: How do you do.
Speaker 8: I'm certainly glad you're here. I've been waiting around the
Speaker 8: seat be four hours. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 4: The baby must be getting pretty heavy, ma'amkes's down over here.
Speaker 6: Thought about it all right, thank you?
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's all right, honey, you sleep me clease you
Speaker 8: by the things.
Speaker 5: That's a shame, yes, ma'am. Well, report we got didn't
Speaker 5: go into detail.
Speaker 6: Some woman left the baby with you, is that right?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 7: As soon as we got off the bus this.
Speaker 9: Morning, she said she'd only be gone a few minutes.
Speaker 8: It's been hours.
Speaker 7: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 6: Well, did you know the woman missus?
Speaker 8: Well, her name's Dorothew Miller. She's from Arizona, Tucsons.
Speaker 9: We got off the bus and she asked me if
Speaker 9: i'd hold her baby while she went to get a luggage.
Speaker 9: She said she'd meet me right there by the information there.
Speaker 9: He's been waiting ever since. She hadn't come back. I
Speaker 9: don't know what to think of it.
Speaker 4: How well do you know this darting on her man?
Speaker 8: Well, not too well. But she seemed like such a
Speaker 8: nice girl, friendly and very socially.
Speaker 4: We sat together all the way in, got on the
Speaker 4: bus with her two sons.
Speaker 9: At its Oh no, I'm from Cincinnati. I got on
Speaker 9: the bus there and then went down to Dallas. Had
Speaker 9: a visit with an ad of mine down there. I
Speaker 9: got another bus at Dallas to come up here, went
Speaker 9: along and started very nice. Same bus I came in
Speaker 9: on this morning. I'm not getting my husband, army man,
Speaker 9: he's coming in on a transport from overseas, coming in tomorrow.
Speaker 5: So you say this, Dorothy Eveiller, I bought it the
Speaker 5: bus of Tucson with a baby. She rode all the
Speaker 5: way into Lost Age the hill.
Speaker 9: Yes, right into this seapo. She sat on the seat
Speaker 9: next to mine. He struck up a conversation. Got to
Speaker 9: be quite good friends, he said a sepa. I stand imagine.
Speaker 4: How did the Miller woman seen him as though? It's
Speaker 4: all right? I mean, was there anything odd about her behavior?
Speaker 4: Anything unusual?
Speaker 9: No, nothing at all. Seemed to me to be a
Speaker 9: perfect mother. Took good care of the baby woman. For
Speaker 9: here's what's the upsetting for her to go off like this,
Speaker 9: leave her baby where the stranger does.
Speaker 10: Makes me sense?
Speaker 6: Well, now you say you talk to this Dorothy Miller
Speaker 6: quite a bit along the way, man, I.
Speaker 10: Thank you for what was that?
Speaker 4: Maybe if we move out the card, Joe think me
Speaker 4: a lot easier.
Speaker 5: To That's a good idea, Miss Lords. Would you mind
Speaker 5: coming along with us to our car parks. Just down
Speaker 5: the street should be a little quet roun.
Speaker 9: Yes, I have these two believes.
Speaker 6: Okay, be out this way there she'd be. I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: hardly part of help you ever won know that?
Speaker 4: No, that's okay.
Speaker 6: Just down the street here, ma'am.
Speaker 8: Oh, miss gilful Day, it was shame or its troubled?
Speaker 6: H Can you make it all right? Miss lord?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yes I can too.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna slip the lashes and back of the funny
Speaker 6: room there, yeah, okay, in your hands.
Speaker 5: Okay, not about this miller woman, Miss Louis.
Speaker 6: I was gonna ask you.
Speaker 5: Yes, well, that she happened to tell you where she
Speaker 5: lived in tu Soon, if she had any people or
Speaker 5: any family.
Speaker 9: No, I don't recall anything like that. She talks about
Speaker 9: some of the girlfriends she had, their their babies.
Speaker 10: She didn't mention any of.
Speaker 8: Them by name.
Speaker 5: Those I about her description as low as anything unusual there, No, I.
Speaker 9: Wouldn't say so small girl, I put three or four,
Speaker 9: I'd say one hundred and ten or fifteen pounds, dark hair,
Speaker 9: shoulder length, dark eyes, knife and classie, very pretty eyes.
Speaker 6: Wow, how old would you say?
Speaker 7: Twenty?
Speaker 9: It's what she told me anyway, She said she had
Speaker 9: a brisbee in May. I remember we talked about that
Speaker 9: she was born under the same fine eyewa.
Speaker 4: Char as the bull, and all the talk she had
Speaker 4: was this and on our girls. She never gave you
Speaker 4: any reason to think that anything was wrong with it,
Speaker 4: didn't seem to be despondent, depressed about anything.
Speaker 8: Perfectly normal girl, as far as I could tell, I
Speaker 8: just can't get over it. I can't imagine her doing
Speaker 8: anything like this.
Speaker 6: Well, how'd you seem this morning when you got in
Speaker 6: on the bus. Pretty much the same?
Speaker 8: Yes, I think. So we got off the bus together.
Speaker 9: She had her hands full with the baby, so I
Speaker 9: helped her off with the hand belief she was carrying.
Speaker 9: When we got inside the waiting room, she mentioned that
Speaker 9: she had to go pick up some luggage from the
Speaker 9: tech stands. She asked me if I'd mind very much
Speaker 9: holding her baby while she went after it.
Speaker 8: I said, no, not at all. She went around the
Speaker 8: corner of the baggage stand and that's the last I saw.
Speaker 6: You checked around the depot and you had her page.
Speaker 9: I talked to everyone in the place. The porter's ticket
Speaker 9: close information to travelers aid not one of.
Speaker 8: Them could help. I tried everybody there, more friends than
Speaker 8: ether than is he trying to think you were wonderful.
Speaker 8: It's adorable. It's a little boy, she said. He named Steven.
Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am. Oh, you say you've been way around the
Speaker 4: depot three hours? Has the baby been said?
Speaker 9: Yes, this handsley similar girl gave me the whole. I
Speaker 9: found a bottleful of formula in it, and that's coffee
Speaker 9: shop warmed it for me. A little teller here finished
Speaker 9: it off.
Speaker 8: Well, I guess we'll be wanting some more pretty soon.
Speaker 4: I guess we're there back in Huh Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 8: I can't imagine it. I just can't imagine this little boy.
Speaker 8: Just look at him.
Speaker 10: Yes, her own baby, so small, helpless?
Speaker 7: How could she go off and leave him?
Speaker 6: Well, I guess she had a reason. Must have been important.
Speaker 10: A sudden week old baby, what's more important than that.
Speaker 5: Before we left the bus depot, ed contacted the clerk
Speaker 5: at the depot information desk and left our card with him.
Speaker 5: If anyone came in to make inquiries about the abandoned child,
Speaker 5: he was to advise him to get in touch with us.
Speaker 5: Eleven forty eight am, the woman who had been left.
Speaker 6: With the baby. Missus Marjorie Lewis, agreed to return to
Speaker 6: the office with us and give us a complete report
Speaker 6: on everything she knew about the case.
Speaker 5: As soon as we got back, we briefed Captain Stein
Speaker 5: on what happened, and he assigned Policewoman Betty Stone to
Speaker 5: come in.
Speaker 6: And help out with the baby.
Speaker 5: A cursory examination seemed to indicate there was nothing abnormal
Speaker 5: about the baby nor apparent deformities. We checked the blanket
Speaker 5: in a baby's clothing, but we found no identifying marks
Speaker 5: of any.
Speaker 6: Use to it.
Speaker 5: Policewoman Stone made the baby comfortable for the time being,
Speaker 5: and then she began to check through the contents of
Speaker 5: the small police which the baby's mother had left with
Speaker 5: Missus Lewis.
Speaker 6: It contained the usual assortment baby oil, powder, dextros, a
Speaker 6: few cans of milk, a couple of blankets, and the
Speaker 6: supply of diapers. Ed and I continued to interview Missus Lewis.
Speaker 4: Is the miller woman's first baby, do you know or
Speaker 4: did she happen to mention it?
Speaker 8: Yes, it's her first, That's what she told me.
Speaker 6: Anyway, did you talk about the baby's health at all?
Speaker 6: Was there any trouble there, would you know?
Speaker 9: Well, she did say she had some trouble with the formula.
Speaker 9: At first, it didn't seem to suit. The baby wasn't
Speaker 9: anything serious though, As a matter of fact, that does
Speaker 9: worry me a little bit.
Speaker 8: Such, what's that the baby's formula?
Speaker 9: Missus Miller did say it had to be fixed a
Speaker 9: special way, some special medicine she put in it too.
Speaker 7: Are you sure the baby's going to get good care?
Speaker 4: Yes, man's no need to worry. He'll be moved to
Speaker 4: general hospital a la fassa.
Speaker 9: But the special formula, the medicine she was giving him,
Speaker 9: Will they know about that?
Speaker 8: Will they know how to see him?
Speaker 5: Well, they've handle cases like this performulas, Lewis, They're pretty competent.
Speaker 6: People don't know what to do.
Speaker 8: I truly hope so. I don't know why I'm so
Speaker 8: considered her.
Speaker 10: I guess it's just the little scholars, so small all alone.
Speaker 10: It's a helpless, terrible change.
Speaker 6: Yes, man, about this special formula the baby has to have.
Speaker 6: What's the reason for that? Would you know the baby
Speaker 6: been sick recently?
Speaker 8: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 9: Missus Miller did say he was a little sick when
Speaker 9: he was born, spend a little time in an incubator.
Speaker 9: I don't believe it was critical though, at least I
Speaker 9: didn't gather.
Speaker 11: It that well.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, miss Lewis. Appreciate your cooperation everything
Speaker 6: you've done on it.
Speaker 8: Not at all, tach, and I only wish I could
Speaker 8: be more.
Speaker 4: Hell, do you mind telling us where you'll be stopping
Speaker 4: in town? Then hospital? We might have the contact you again?
Speaker 8: Well right, don't have any reservations. I was thinking of
Speaker 8: staying at a hotel close to downtown.
Speaker 6: Was a big convention in town. Most of the place,
Speaker 6: they're pretty crowd. We'd be glad to help you find
Speaker 6: a hotel space if you're like, oh, well, that's.
Speaker 8: Certainly very nice. Not at all, so I concidy. Could
Speaker 8: I see you a minute?
Speaker 6: Please? Yeah? Sorry, it was excuse me please?
Speaker 12: Sure, yeah, I bet it or a policewoman. I'm not
Speaker 12: bad at checking diapers. What do you mean over here?
Speaker 12: Belief the mother elects of missus Lewis.
Speaker 6: Did you come up with anything?
Speaker 12: Didn't exort first, went over to Belief. Everything inside nothing
Speaker 12: and I started putting the things back in the bag.
Speaker 12: Found this nut stack of diapers there paid receipt for
Speaker 12: a hospital bill eternity.
Speaker 6: Ward Santa Maria Hospital too Son.
Speaker 12: There's a patient name right there at the top, Dorothy Miller.
Speaker 6: Twelve thirty PM a local broadcast and an APB was
Speaker 6: gotten out on Dorothy Miller. And then we sent a communication.
Speaker 5: To the Tucson Police Department laying out the story for
Speaker 5: them and asking him to check with the Santa Maria.
Speaker 6: A Hospital there for a possible lead.
Speaker 5: On the missing mother. Meantime, the baby was removed to
Speaker 5: General Hospital. We found accommodations for missus Lewis at a
Speaker 5: downtown hotel.
Speaker 6: We dropped her off there and then we drove back
Speaker 6: to the bus depot on Sixth Street.
Speaker 5: We tried to locate the driver of the bus on
Speaker 5: which the Miller woman and her baby had arrived that morning.
Speaker 5: We were told he was off duty and then he
Speaker 5: wouldn't report back until eight.
Speaker 6: O'clock the following morning. We left our card along.
Speaker 5: With a message for the driver asking him to contact
Speaker 5: as as soon as he returned. For the rest of
Speaker 5: the afternoon, Ed and I, along with the two other
Speaker 5: men from Juvenile Division, checked.
Speaker 6: With all the bus depot personnel, but we were unable
Speaker 6: to turn up any kind of a lead.
Speaker 5: After that, we started making the rounds of the hotels, bars, restaurants,
Speaker 5: and taxi cab stands in the nameborhood.
Speaker 6: The same result. Nothing. Seven fifty five am.
Speaker 5: The following morning, I reported back in for work money Joe, alright,
Speaker 5: bety head check in yet?
Speaker 12: Uh h, I went out for a minute, says be
Speaker 12: right back.
Speaker 6: What do you know anything.
Speaker 12: New communication for you from the Tucson PD kick back
Speaker 12: on that query you got off to him yesterday. Take
Speaker 12: ed left it in near by.
Speaker 6: Well, thanks, Betty, I'll get it.
Speaker 11: M hmm.
Speaker 6: Do you see that edge short coming?
Speaker 12: Yeah, confirms the fact the woman had her baby in
Speaker 12: that hospital.
Speaker 6: Still not much help, though, Yeah, I say they checked
Speaker 6: out her last known address in Tucson. Should move, no
Speaker 6: forwarding address, no landin their relatives or friends.
Speaker 12: The day the baby was borne seems to check.
Speaker 6: Out June twenty fourth, Thanks for baby just about seven
Speaker 6: weeks old. It's part here. Doesn't make much sense out
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 12: The Miller girl's description, Yeah, mis.
Speaker 6: Lewis said Dorothy Miller was small and dark, long, dark haired,
Speaker 6: dark eyes. People at the hospital described her as being blonde,
Speaker 6: fairly tall, blue eyes, long blonde hair, about twenty nine,
Speaker 6: thirty years old.
Speaker 12: Missus Lewis said the Miller girl just turned twenty.
Speaker 6: Didn't see she said, she doesn't figure.
Speaker 12: A little too much to write off this coincidence to
Speaker 12: Dorothy Miller's having babies same day, same hospital.
Speaker 6: And I just sent this think this description of the
Speaker 6: Miller girl, fairly tall, long lawn Here, there's Lewis has
Speaker 6: long lawn here. Oh hi, Joe, Hi, what's doing?
Speaker 4: A bus driver we wanted to talk to and wanted
Speaker 4: to throw the bus Dorothy Miller and the baby came
Speaker 4: in on yesterday. That description miss Lewis gave us A
Speaker 4: Dorothy Miller driver doesn't remember anyone like that on his
Speaker 4: buts he remembered miss Lewis. Though she didn't get on
Speaker 4: the bus at Dallas. She didn't sit next to a
Speaker 4: younger with a baby either.
Speaker 6: Driver says, he's surely what's the pitch.
Speaker 4: Lewis got on the bus at Tucsons she had a
Speaker 4: baby in her arms.
Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
Speaker 3: force and action.
Speaker 5: Jacobs and I went into the adjoining room, where we
Speaker 5: continued to interview the bus driver. The same man who
Speaker 5: had been driving a bus on which Missus Lewis and
Speaker 5: the abandoned baby and his mother supposedly had arrived in
Speaker 5: Los Angeles the day before. The more we talked to
Speaker 5: the driver, the more he convinced it that the story
Speaker 5: we'd gotten from Missus Marjorie Lewis was a long way
Speaker 5: from the truth.
Speaker 6: He repeated that he was absolutely sure.
Speaker 5: That Missus Lewis did not get on the bus at Dallas,
Speaker 5: that she boarded the bush at Tucsons, and that at
Speaker 5: the time she got on she was holding a baby
Speaker 5: in her arms. He was just as positive that Missus
Speaker 5: Lewis held a baby in her arms all the way
Speaker 5: to Los Angeles, and that she did not sit next
Speaker 5: to a young, dark haired girl, but an elderly woman.
Speaker 5: He also told us that none of his passengers on
Speaker 5: that particular trip fitted the description of Dorothy Miller has
Speaker 5: given us by Missus Lewis. Eight fifty am before the
Speaker 5: bus driver left, we got his address and a phone
Speaker 5: number where we could get in touch with him if necessary.
Speaker 5: Nine oh five, Ams Ed and I got in the
Speaker 5: car go to the downtown hotel where.
Speaker 6: Missus Lewis was staying and.
Speaker 5: Called her room from the phone in the lobby. She
Speaker 5: told us that her husband, Army and Walter Lewis, had
Speaker 5: arrived in from overseas earlier that morning and checked in
Speaker 5: at the hotel.
Speaker 6: I asked her if her.
Speaker 5: Husband was with her, but she said no, he was
Speaker 5: downstairs at the.
Speaker 6: Hotel barber shop ed and I got in the elevator
Speaker 6: and went up to see her.
Speaker 5: Outside and down on the street you could hear the
Speaker 5: sounds of a parade passing by. It was American Legion
Speaker 5: Conventional week, the traditional parade, some.
Speaker 6: Parade in this.
Speaker 8: Oh, good morning, come in free, Thank you very.
Speaker 6: Much, ma'am.
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 7: Did you find out anything?
Speaker 6: Well, A few things, ma'am. We've been checking around.
Speaker 5: Two or three more questions we'd like to ask you
Speaker 5: if you don't mind, well, no, not at all.
Speaker 7: How the baby are they taking care of it?
Speaker 6: The yes, ma'am, it's fine and checked at the hospital.
Speaker 6: Is doing real well.
Speaker 8: I'm goad and the mirror's girl, do I see Millie?
Speaker 8: Did you find out anything?
Speaker 4: We have been able to low kid, I know treasure
Speaker 4: at all. While we're here, Miss Lewis, a few things
Speaker 4: we'd like to have you straightened out for us.
Speaker 10: Well, I'll do.
Speaker 9: Anything I can to help, since I already told you
Speaker 9: everything I could remember about the girl.
Speaker 6: Well, now we're going to be honest with you, miss Lewis.
Speaker 6: I don't think you're telling the truth.
Speaker 8: I don't understand.
Speaker 6: Doctor.
Speaker 5: The man who was driving a bus you came in
Speaker 5: on yesterday, the same bush you say Dorothy Miller and
Speaker 5: her baby were on.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5: Well, the bus driver couldn't remember the Miller girl told
Speaker 5: us none of his passions and even came close to
Speaker 5: her description.
Speaker 8: Well, there was quite a few people on the bus.
Speaker 10: I guess you can't blame for not remembering it.
Speaker 4: You remembered you, miss Lewis, you were sitting there at
Speaker 4: the front of the bus. He doesn't remember anyone with
Speaker 4: a baby sitting next to.
Speaker 8: You, though, I guess you made a mistake. You can't
Speaker 8: remember everything when they said you.
Speaker 4: Were holding a baby.
Speaker 7: I don't understand.
Speaker 10: What is it you're trying to find out.
Speaker 6: Well, we talked to you yesterday. You told us that
Speaker 6: she got on the bus of Dallas.
Speaker 11: Isn't it right?
Speaker 10: Yes? What would that have to do with it?
Speaker 5: The bus driver says, you got on a Tucson you
Speaker 5: seemed to remember pretty well. He says, when he got
Speaker 5: on the bus, you were holding.
Speaker 6: A baby in your arms.
Speaker 10: That's silly. He's wrong.
Speaker 7: He must have leaking kids with somebody else.
Speaker 4: I don't see how man. He says, you were the
Speaker 4: only woman on the bus with a baby.
Speaker 10: What's the point of his charge. I don't understand any
Speaker 10: of this.
Speaker 5: Well, Frankly needed to weave. I don't know why you're
Speaker 5: lying to us about this, but apparently you are.
Speaker 10: You're wrong. I'm not lying.
Speaker 7: It happened just the way I told you. The girl
Speaker 7: gave me the baby to hold, and then she disappeared.
Speaker 7: There's no reason for me to lie about that.
Speaker 5: We find a receipt for a hospital Doloment, the least
Speaker 5: with the baby's things in it. The receipt was made
Speaker 5: out to Dorothy Miller.
Speaker 10: Well, that's proves it justice.
Speaker 8: She was on the bus with us, and her baby
Speaker 8: was with us.
Speaker 4: The check was made with a hospital too. Son. They
Speaker 4: remember the name Dorothy Miller. She gave birth to a
Speaker 4: baby boy about seven weeks ago. She wasn't the same
Speaker 4: girl you described to us, though the description wasn't even closer.
Speaker 7: Then it must be a mistake. I guess somebody made
Speaker 7: a mistake.
Speaker 10: I can't understand any of this.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 4: They sent us back a description of the Dorothy Miller,
Speaker 4: who said at the hospital it's a fairly tall woman,
Speaker 4: long blonde hair, by twenty nine to thirty. Yes, description
Speaker 4: fits humans, Lois, that's almost perfectly.
Speaker 6: It's wrong.
Speaker 10: It has to be wrong.
Speaker 8: Who think's a mistake.
Speaker 11: I beg your pie.
Speaker 7: I say the whole thing is a mistake. It has
Speaker 7: to be wrong.
Speaker 6: No, I don't think so, ma'am.
Speaker 7: Why don't you tell me what did you think?
Speaker 6: Tell me there is no Dorothy Miller. There never was.
Speaker 6: There's no such person, ma'am.
Speaker 10: That's what you really think. I invented it. I made
Speaker 10: it all up.
Speaker 6: Did you.
Speaker 10: And the baby?
Speaker 8: What about him?
Speaker 7: There's no dog for your miller? What about the baby?
Speaker 6: I don't know. You want to tell us, Miss Lewis?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Louis, and I guess something.
Speaker 6: Boy, you are all right.
Speaker 10: I suppose I knew it would happen sometimes I.
Speaker 7: Try not to think about it. H and you call
Speaker 7: from downstairs. I knew you'd found out.
Speaker 10: That's why. Yes, my husband was with me, isn't it
Speaker 10: He didn't want to embarrass you.
Speaker 5: We wanted to give you a chance to tell your
Speaker 5: side of the story, but maybe you wanted to keep
Speaker 5: it from your husband.
Speaker 10: No, it doesn't matter. I'll tell him. We'll be back
Speaker 10: in a few minutes. You can do anything he wants.
Speaker 10: I won't blame you. We'll pack your bags and walk
Speaker 10: up and leave, and I won't blame him.
Speaker 11: All right, You want to tell us about him, Well,
Speaker 11: I think you.
Speaker 8: Know my baby, my own baby, and I shouldn't keep him.
Speaker 7: There wasn't anything else to.
Speaker 10: Do, susin.
Speaker 7: My own baby.
Speaker 4: You made up the whole story. But the girl died
Speaker 4: and Millner are leaving a baby with you?
Speaker 6: Is Louis.
Speaker 10: It's a beautiful day, big crowd for the parade and
Speaker 10: lined all the way up the street.
Speaker 6: You must have had a reason for him, his louis
Speaker 6: giving your baby away. Now do you want to tell
Speaker 6: us about it?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Sorry, it won't make a difference to done. It's
Speaker 10: all done. My husband. I'm thinking about Wilder. I'm going
Speaker 10: to have to hurt him, and I don't want to
Speaker 10: hurt him. I don't know I'm going to tell him.
Speaker 10: I tried to make him understand all the time before
Speaker 10: he left, her overseas. It's almost two years ago. I
Speaker 10: tried to make him understand. He wouldn't listen. He didn't believe.
Speaker 10: He thought I was fooling. Yes, I love him start
Speaker 10: and I tried to explain, I just want to be alone.
Speaker 10: Having him away all the time. I knew it was
Speaker 10: going to be trouble. I knew it. I didn't want
Speaker 10: to be alone. He didn't understan. He only said I
Speaker 10: was schooling. He left for overseason October. All the almost
Speaker 10: two years ago. I went down to Wilmington. I saw
Speaker 10: him leave on the boat, so then watched him go.
Speaker 10: I wasn't going to see it twenty four months. Wouldn't
Speaker 10: see no children, no family. It's the two room apartments.
Speaker 10: You would believe. You only would have taken me with him.
Speaker 6: Where were you living at that time?
Speaker 10: Man up the coast, just the side of Santa Barbara.
Speaker 10: I told what I couldn't be alone. I needed something.
Speaker 10: They only had children. He'd only taken me with it.
Speaker 10: Didn't have to be this way.
Speaker 7: He could have taken me with him, he could have
Speaker 7: arranged it.
Speaker 10: He wouldn't. He left me alone. I tried to tell him,
Speaker 10: he left me here alone. Yeah, I took it for
Speaker 10: a year, a whole year, two room apartments, being alone.
Speaker 10: I wrote to Walter twice a week.
Speaker 12: He wrote to me.
Speaker 6: Did he do any good?
Speaker 10: He didn't want me with him a whole year and
Speaker 10: it got too much.
Speaker 4: You mean you could have joined him overseas.
Speaker 9: I don't know why kept writing to him. He kept
Speaker 9: putting me off a whole year. It got too much
Speaker 9: to room apartment alone. You can't spend your life that way.
Speaker 9: I started going out, having dates. I had to get out,
Speaker 9: started going to party different people just I drank too much.
Speaker 9: Didn't want to be alone. It's always drunk. There's one party.
Speaker 9: I don't even remember who I went with if I
Speaker 9: was drinking. I don't know when I left. I don't
Speaker 9: even remember who I was put didn't have to be
Speaker 9: This didn't have to happen.
Speaker 6: Are you all right, miss lord? And there's something when
Speaker 6: you get.
Speaker 10: You, I'm all right. I didn't know what to do
Speaker 10: when the problem other doctors. He didn't understand you, I
Speaker 10: mean the way I felt. Said the baby would be
Speaker 10: born in June. I cried. He didn't understand.
Speaker 6: That's nice.
Speaker 10: When the time came, I went to Tucson Arizona had
Speaker 10: my baby. At least I wasn't alone. Used a different
Speaker 10: name in the hospital, Dorothy Miller. Maybe it wasn't Walter's baby,
Speaker 10: but it was mine, but mine. I thought at first
Speaker 10: it wouldn't make much differs, But it did, though, did ah?
Speaker 10: I knew what it means. I loved Walter and I
Speaker 10: still love him. If you found out I knew.
Speaker 7: What it would mean, I couldn't even think about it.
Speaker 10: I love Walter. I couldn't even think about telling him.
Speaker 6: So do you think you don't giving up the baby?
Speaker 6: Giving him away? About the idea, I can't.
Speaker 10: Tell you how many times I worked it out in
Speaker 10: my mind, day after day.
Speaker 7: I almost went crazy with it. Walder the baby was won.
Speaker 10: I finally decided Walter the thing was fair.
Speaker 6: Won't you well? I wouldn't know, man, it's your decisions
Speaker 6: up to you.
Speaker 10: I don't know how to tell him. Won't you help me?
Speaker 10: Please help me? Tell Walter?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 10: You're like oame.
Speaker 8: I mean to make a choice.
Speaker 10: When you have to hurt somebody have to choose between
Speaker 10: the two of them, one of them has to be churched.
Speaker 10: Ma'am her husband and markas which one.
Speaker 5: Ten thirty eight am at missus lewis request, and I
Speaker 5: stayed on at the hotel room until her husband, Army
Speaker 5: Captain Walller Lewis, returned. He was a tall, dark haired
Speaker 5: man in his late thirty dark eyes and complexion. Missus
Speaker 5: Lewis was waiting in the adjoining room. It wasn't easy,
Speaker 5: but as best we could ed and I breached the husband.
Speaker 6: On what had happened. His first reaction was fairly normal.
Speaker 5: He took it pretty hard. We kept on talking to him.
Speaker 5: After a while he calmed down. We laid out the
Speaker 5: whole story for him again.
Speaker 11: She's turned the baby over to police.
Speaker 6: Is that it?
Speaker 11: She gave the baby up.
Speaker 4: Yes, she figured it was the only things he could do.
Speaker 11: It's kind of hard to believe in. What's the answer?
Speaker 11: What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 10: All?
Speaker 5: Sure, I know some of our business captains. I think
Speaker 5: you might try looking at it from your wife's point
Speaker 5: of view. Maybe, But I mean I'm pretty obvious she's
Speaker 5: still in love with you. I think she's showing you that. Yeah, well,
Speaker 5: she was in a jam. It was a big choice
Speaker 5: for it to Mike. She knew she was wrong, she
Speaker 5: made a mistake. She was ready to pay for it.
Speaker 5: It was either you or the baby.
Speaker 11: She knew that.
Speaker 6: She decided to give up the baby. Baby's all right now,
Speaker 6: somebody's taking care of her.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, baby boy.
Speaker 11: Where's March?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 11: My wife in the next room.
Speaker 6: I want to say her, Well, maybe you should wait
Speaker 6: this a little while.
Speaker 11: It's all right.
Speaker 6: I just want to tell her something.
Speaker 10: A h.
Speaker 6: All right today, all right, you don't have to say anything, March.
Speaker 7: We'll do what you want.
Speaker 10: I don't right, got it right, don't do anything to work.
Speaker 10: I just want to tell you I love you.
Speaker 6: And then, okay, get.
Speaker 11: On my come on.
Speaker 6: I will anything you can do. I won't play. It's
Speaker 6: gonna be all right, honey, nothing to cry about.
Speaker 11: Everything will be all right. Try and take me. Do
Speaker 11: you got a little mistakes?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 11: I guess I made my share of it?
Speaker 6: Oh my god? Often?
Speaker 11: Yes, like that your favorite? You got a car downstairs? Yes,
Speaker 11: we do. W if your mind dropping me by the hospital.
Speaker 11: I like to see my son.
Speaker 6: The story you have just heard was true.
Speaker 4: The names were changed to protect Unison.
Speaker 3: On Thursday, August fifteenth, a meeting withheld in the District
Speaker 3: Attorney's Office at Ian County of Los Angeles, State of California,
Speaker 3: in a moment the results of that meeting. At the
Speaker 3: meeting and the District Attorney's office, it was decided that,
Speaker 3: in the interests of justice, no criminal complaint be filed
Speaker 3: against missus Marjorie Lewis.
Speaker 4: The baby was released to the custody of her and
Speaker 4: her husband.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, this one is a favorite of mine.
Speaker 1: It's a very human episode on a lot of levels. There's,
Speaker 1: of course some small ways, such as having Friday and
Speaker 1: Jacobs find a hotel room with a big convention in
Speaker 1: town that's not necessarily something you would associate that sort
Speaker 1: of level of service. I do have a sense that
Speaker 1: working in juvenile you might have been more familiar with
Speaker 1: that sort of setup than if you'd worked in other departments.
Speaker 1: And of course, the case itself comes down to messy
Speaker 1: human failings and trying to figure out how to deal
Speaker 1: with it. And again you see some great compassion from
Speaker 1: Friday and Jacobs in going beyond the legally required investigation
Speaker 1: to help tell the husband, and they walked a fine
Speaker 1: line in doing that, even in suggesting that he consider
Speaker 1: things from his wist's point of view. Broddy was clear
Speaker 1: that he knew that this was not really his business.
Speaker 1: They did try to achieve some level of understanding, and
Speaker 1: that also might be another reflection of the nature of
Speaker 1: the work in the juvenile division as opposed to other
Speaker 1: areas within the LAPD. The radio version of this episode
Speaker 1: caused no particular controversy. However, once it aired on television,
Speaker 1: there were people who felt that the episode was in
Speaker 1: some way promoting or excusing adultery, which seems to sadly
Speaker 1: miss the point of of what the episode was portrayed,
Speaker 1: as the episode made no attempt to excuse immoral behavior,
Speaker 1: but rather showed a compassionate response in the aftermath or
Speaker 1: all involved. I think it's actually quite a beautiful story,
Speaker 1: particularly for a series like Dragnet, which can often have
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Speaker 1: that the person raising me is capable of murder and
Speaker 1: getting away with it when a curfew is set, I
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Speaker 1: on a recent Johnny Dowler episode, there is homicide, but
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Speaker 1: She alleged that the sister attacked her and she acted
Speaker 1: in self defense, and the court believed her. And even
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Speaker 1: for self defense, I couldn't see her being convicted of
Speaker 1: murder at most manslaughter. But then again, if you're a
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Speaker 6: Where Polyick is Henry Davidson Pollick.
Speaker 3: That's it, the widower of Selfter that's the one on
Speaker 3: And he lived here in his apartment too, that is boy.
Speaker 2: He died.
Speaker 4: That was back in fifty six, with all his money,
Speaker 4: all his insurance with his wife.
Speaker 3: Oh goodness knows why?
Speaker 6: How did he die?
Speaker 11: In that big plane?
Speaker 4: Grads got over the desert, don't you remember?
Speaker 11: Not as single as your vibrate? What's good? What kind
Speaker 11: of a man was he?
Speaker 6: Ooh himself didn't like it so much?
Speaker 4: And his wife okay, I guess she was let younger
Speaker 4: than him, spent all his money all the time. He
Speaker 4: didn't like it. Man like that shouldn't be married.
Speaker 6: Nobody must have thought a lot of it or leader everything.
Speaker 10: He just didn't like being married.
Speaker 8: Died down.
Speaker 4: Let an interview with his work. Oh his death got
Speaker 4: him out with and give her some money to spend
Speaker 4: before she died.
Speaker 6: But somebody's been.
Speaker 11: Playing that money back.
Speaker 4: Well, you think maybe she's suffered to change her heart
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 3: Do you think she realized she never.
Speaker 6: Deserved what he left? It that what you're thinking.
Speaker 4: Sure, that might have been a possibility except for one thing.
Speaker 11: The money's still coming in. Oh he is there anybody
Speaker 11: to whom she might have turned over that insurance her?
Speaker 2: Give anything to anybody else?
Speaker 8: Not?
Speaker 6: Herm is there and.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely sure that she's dead.
Speaker 6: I carried her in off.
Speaker 4: The street after the car hit her.
Speaker 11: You don't believe me, asked the doctor.
Speaker 4: Doctor Jules Maitland overrun Park Avenue, ask the police.
Speaker 11: Yeah, maybe I will.
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