December 24, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Drag Mett.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. You
get a call to investigate unknown trouble. The caller gives
no indication of what's wrong. Your job. Check it out.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It was Saturday, July eighteenth, was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working a day watch out a homicide detail.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Mormon. My
name is Friday. We went our way back from questioning
as suspect, and it was ten fifty six am when
I got back to our car.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You know one key, did you get me a pact? Yeah?
Here are they, Joe? I wonder if you do me
a favor. I just did I bought your pack of cigarettes? No?
Something else?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So I've been thinking about taking a sergeant's exam, see
if I can crack at this time. Now, I figure
I got about six months before they're gonna hold him again.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Gives me plenty of time to get ready. It's a
lot of work. I'm gonna have to really hustle the books,
you know. Yeah, I know. I talked to say about
it last night. Got it all squared away. Ian Laars
ain't gonna come out this year. That's what loust me
up last year. It is sure, Joe. You know our house,
we had army cops all over the place, kids running
around on scream and nobody can study like that. You're
(01:38):
gonna be able to work out the classes? Well, I'm
gonna have to. I'm sure he was the acts of
money plan Me'd like to do some work on the house.
I'm the only way we could do it till I
make sergeants. That's all we want me to do. We Well,
I wondered if he kind of helped me out along
the way you made it and tell me what to do,
what to what's out for Well, I'll do what I
can for it. But there isn't anybody gonna make it
(01:58):
to you besides yourself, you know, nine oh last. But
it's as long as you're in my corner, old body,
I'll be in your corner. Attention, all units, you better
get the help.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
All units at fifty two ninety one, loam around the street.
Investigate on known trouble. That's at five two nine one.
Lom around the street. Investigate on known trouble car eleven
s ninety three. Take the call code three KMA three
sixty seven missus Miranda.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Now isn't here? Yeah, sixty one hundred block. We must
have just passed the place. I didn't see any injury
me either, code three. It's important.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Maybe you and we'll go bank check it out. Right,
we should be up here on the right fifty eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Couple of blocks up there and they take it easy.
Should be in here. Yeah, does look like there's any
trouble and this is it? You won't pull up? Yeah,
at the back of the court fifty two ninety one.
There's nothing going on. Yeah, Well, maybe I better verify
(03:04):
that address.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Huh yeah, one cade over to control one.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Control one to one. Cade don't go ahead?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Would you repeat the address on the call to La
Miranda Street and buy one kady you mean no, there's
probably some kids having a.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Time, Yeah, Control one to one. K Oh that address,
it's fifty two ninety one Lamaranda five two nine.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
One La Miranda Roger control one one cade Oh, code
six at that address.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Came eight for sixth. Unless it's it, we better check
it out. Uh h.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
There's nothing wrong here, doesn't look like it, doesn't m
there's somebody back there. Joe, same at the window.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Don't fight all about it. I don't know one thing, sure, Yeah,
they didn't send for us.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The five units of the court were arranged in the
shape of the U fifty two ninety.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
One was the building at the far end.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
In the center, running between the two wings was a
grass area. Large palm trees were growing at either end,
and there was a wrought iron table and poor hairs
in the center of the area. From what we could
see of the building the shot had come from, the
only door was the one facing us. Frank and I
jepped over to the left side of the court to
the unit occupied by the manager. We waited on the
porch until the Pelamy car that had been assigned to
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the call arrived. While the officers from the unit covered
the house.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Frank and I went to the manager's place and talked
to him. He identified himself as Marshall Rice. He appeared
to be nervous and upset.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I don't know why it should be so tough. You
get him out of there, that's all I care about.
Just get him out.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
What did you say The man's name was Suttley Gray.
He's the one who called the police.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Ye, I called him right after he took a first shot.
I wasn't gonna wait around for no repeat performance.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Do you have any idea why he's doing this?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
And we want to make any sense that he's wigged?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Sir Flisville, he's gone straight up.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Did you talk to him this morning?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah? I went back there about eight thirty one to
get some things straightened out, and then had a cup.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Of coffee with him in Charlotte Foo Charlotte.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
His wife real dolls. She sure don't deserve to come
up with a flip like him out.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
He's seen them, You mean when I talked to him,
that's all right.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I didn't notice anything. If I had, i'd have called
you instead of waiting for this to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
For What'd you talk about?
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Different things?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
We've been planning on doing a little remodeling, you know,
paint and paper.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Dudley's been helping me. Lost his job a couple of
months ago and.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Said he's just been sitting around watching the TV, not
doing a liquor work. So I asked him to give
me a hand with a redecorating guy's already six weeks
behind his rent.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
She just goes to show M.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Well, you try to be nice to a guy.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Try to give my hand.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
What happened to kick you? He's no good. He's not
good at all. He'll find out when he comes out.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
You'll see them.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Although they lived here, he's been a.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Couple of years. You need the exact date they moved in.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, you're not right now. You ever had any trouble
with him before this?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
And like this, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But you have had trouble?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Well, sure, I just try to live together and not
have a little beef now and then?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
What were the disagreements about different things?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Sounds kind of silly when you're talking about him.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, I help us get him out of we know
what caused this.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well, like he likes one baseball team, I like another.
He don't like the fish, I don't like the haunts.
Things like that lay him out in the sun.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
They just dry right up.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Silly little things.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Anything else, well, you might as well tell you you'll
find out anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Well, Dudley thought there was something between Charlotte and me.
Of course there wasn't, But you just couldn't convince him
he was off base.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Wasn't anything could convince him.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
He said something about that this morning today.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, we were just sitting there talking about how he
ought to help me out with a paint, and Charlotte
said he should. All of a sudden, he got this
kind of wild look in his eye, told me he
knew all about me and his wife, and I wasn't
fooling anybody.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
I we just sat there.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
He didn't know what this thing, picked up his coffee
cup and flung it across the room, smacked against the wall,
Coffee all over the place, streaming down the walls, ruined
the paint. Told me to get out of the house
and leave Charlotte alone, that if you ever saw me
talking to her again, he'd make me sorry.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
I did.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, what about his family? Now are they in the house.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I'm pretty sure they ain't.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Charlotte puk the kids and left right after I did.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Tom walk on. You know where they live, and I
can't help you there?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
She have any people of friends in the neighborhood here,
And I.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Said, I ever heard got to sit it down National City,
But I don't think she went there and quite say that.
I didn't have no grips, she'd go on there. She
had taken clothes for the kids, didn't have no grips
Once she left.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I'm pretty sure she didn't go in National.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
City, but you don't know where we can find her.
That's the least.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Might have gone to a show.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
The Dudley calms down, How do you figure to get
him to come out?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We try to talk to him. First reason with him.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
That ain't gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
He hasn't got any reason left to do a thing
like this, So we gotta try. You're gonna have to
kill him. You just wait and see. That's the only
way you're gonna get him out. Shoot the house full
of holes and hope he gets in the middle. That's
the only way.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
We hope that youth see something else? You I don't know, Yeah,
what's that had.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Gunn he's got the twenty two rifles. He's got a
real thing about guns, big collection rifles, pistols, automatic to
a whole bunch up there, and they all worked.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We got a description of Dudley Gray and we called
it into R and I. We found that he had
no record in our files. We got in touch with
Captain Luhman and filled him in. We requested the additional
teams of men.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Be dispatched with peer gas, e clipping and shot down.
The men from the Fellaming units covered the back of
the house, while Frank and I covered the front. All
of the other tenants of the.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Court were instructed to stay indoor eleven fourteen am, but
Frank standing by, I went up to the porch to
try and.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Talk to Gray. Gray, Gray, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I got nothing to say to you.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Once you put the gun down, comeing out here.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You'll try to take this place.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'll kill you all no reason for that. I know
who you are.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You don't have to try to kid me.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The police officers, Gray, we want to help you. Yeah,
you don't have to lie.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
You just want me to open the gates to let
you and the rest of the men here. Well, you
go back to tell the chief.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I won't do it.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right, Come on out here, Gray, put the gun down.
Let's talk it over.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm telling you I got nothing. Let's say, I'm sneaking
around here trying to get me to let you in.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
As soon as you're inside, you bring the place down.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Run off, all the horses, run off.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
What Yeah, I sure the cat you wont well, it
won't work, Oh, Joe, I know who you are.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You go tell the chief and.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It didn't work.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Now one ind is getting in here, not once. I'm
gonna defend this fort till the cavalry gets here. I'll
show your division on the way.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Right now, Gray, come on out here. We're on your side.
We wanna help you.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's a lie. He's got different polls on. But I
still recognize you. You were Scott's around here last week.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I remember.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Now you get out of here.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Come on, Gray, give us a break. Let's talk it over.
So right with it? What about it? I don't know.
He thinks he's an a fort told me he thought
I was an Indian.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
You heard him, Yeah, I heard him. What the landlord says.
He can hold out in there as long.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
As he wants.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, maybe if we could find his wife, we might
be able to come up with the answer. All right,
I'll check with the rest of the neighbors see if
they can tell us anything.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, I'll go on back and try to talk to him.
Wait a minute, and take it easy, Joe. He sounds
pretty sick. You know.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Check the boys in the back when you didn't see
there any way getting to him from there?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Right?
Speaker 8 (09:56):
I see you out there, I see it, and I
don't try anything.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I'm ready for you.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Sure you are. Gray. We couldn't put anything over on you.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You'll best you can. I'm too smart for you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
How long you think it'll be before the cavalry gets here, Gray? Right?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
In a couple of days? Last two time, David, before yesterday?
You should be here day after tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You're gonna pick up the Indians, then, won't you? Gray?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, I'm gonna make him sorry I ever tried to Gray?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
How about riting less fight on your side? We should
like to be with you, you mean that jar. We'd
like to be with a smart fellow like you.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
No, I'm gonna know if I can trust you as
you can. I couldn't do anything that will hurt you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I suppose not.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Okay, come on in.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I cause somebody to watch it, the Indians. I use
some fire hours. Come on, okay, Howkee you could cover it?
Soon as you get here. I'll take the bar off
the gate, all.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Right, and I hurry up that engine, see you.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That'll be all in here. Won't open the gate, wait
till you get a little closer.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Can't take any che Almost there, Dray, you better open
the dark, get us a little closer. Got to go.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Fool men, Well, it.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Didn't work to it didn't work.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Your fun off didn't work.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
When Gray fired at me and I dropped to the
ground while Frank and the other officers returned the fire,
driving the man away from the window. Eleven forty seven am,
the additional men arrived from the office.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
With tear gas equipment. It was distributed and we worked
out a plan to take Gray.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Was decided that two men would cover the right side
of the house while another team covered the back.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Frank and I would go around to the left side
and fire tear gas shells into the building until Gray
had to leave.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Eleven fifty eight am, all of the officers were in
position and Frank and I started to move in to
use the tear gas gun.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
All right, that's enough that just get out of the building. Yeah,
I see her.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Just get out of that guard.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Go on now, want you get back on the house. Please,
We don't know when to get hurt here.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Then you just got to get right out of My idea,
if you knocked down one more bush and you're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You don't understand, ma'am. There's a man in that house
and he's got a gun.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
I don't care about mister Gray what he does with
his own business. I'm just telling you to.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Get out of my flowers.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
All the year I've been worrying over trying to coach
the blossom out of them. Now you come around here
with your big feet and ruin it all.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Sorry about that, but we have to get Gray out
of that house.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
Then do it without stepping all over my flowers. You're
a cop, you're supposed to know how to handle things
like this. And look what you've done to my twopris pogognias.
Three months, have been working with them, just put them
out last week and now look they're all broken.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
You just ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
Big men like you do want a thing like this
to my flowers.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
The show us, ma'am if we hurt your flowers were
sick and you did, think you better getting side.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Now, lady, are you telling me what to do?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yes, ma'am, that's a direct order, yes, ma'am. All right,
I don't go, but you just remember you ordered me
to go. You'll let me hear about.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
This young man.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
What's your number?
Speaker 8 (12:51):
What's the number on your badge?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I tend to.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Report you for this, you'll find out, or twopis Pogoonias,
you'll find out. Now, what's your number?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Thank? You want to handle it? Yeah, my ma'am. We
can talk right over here.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
Oh you don't think it. Heap me out of it.
I'm gonna call a lot of a lot.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Of it if you do to stop me. If you'll
just go on inside, well, i'll talk to you later.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
All I'll be watching you.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I'll be right here watching it.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Well, there's one for you. Well, well, let's get on there, right.
I think we'll need the mask.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, we shouldn't out here, I said, look out front.
It's all right, gondow le Monica out there. Yeah, whenever
you're ready, I should bring him up. I'll get him
out of one. Ready, better hold it up for it
comes from creedy. Right, Hey, hold it up, Joe, what
do you got? Yeah, just find out how Gray's.
Speaker 10 (13:48):
Wife and kids are in there with him.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Sergeant Jack McCready was standing by in the manager's office
when Missus Gray had telephoned from the house with the
possibility that innocent people might be hit.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We were unable to fire into the home.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
We met with Captain Lorman and discussed the methods we
could use to get the women and children.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Out of the place. We worked out a plan.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
It would depend entirely on being able to talk to
missus Gray and explain what we were trying to do.
Frank and I went to the manager's place and put
in a call to the house.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
How about it. Just studying the ring figure it will work.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
The only way we can make it go is to
talk to the woman, explain the set up to her.
She get in touch with the office about the doctor. Yeah,
they're sending a psychiatrist out.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You might be able to talk to Gray. I hope so,
I mean no, looks like we're in trouble now. She
won't answer the phone.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police force in action.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Without being able to talk to the woman, there was
a little chance at the plan for getting her and
the children out of the house would work. One fourteen pm,
a large crowd of people had gathered on the street
in front of the court. Additional policemen from Metro Division
had to be called in the control them. From time
to time, Dudley Gray would scream something at the bystanders
and fire into the crowd.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So far, we'd been able to keep the curious citizens
back far enough.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
So that none of them were hurt, but it was
only a matter of time before our luck ran out. Meanwhile,
we were still faced with the problem of first getting
the wife and children out of the house before we
could attempt to take the man himself. One nine pm,
while Frank and Sergeant Jack McCready went around to the
back of the house to ascertain the possibility of removing
the family from that side, I again attempted.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
To talk to Gray. Gray, Gray, Come on, Gray, we
want to talk to you. I thought I killed you,
and come on.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Drays, We're trying to help you, if you'll give us
a chance.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Do you expect me to believe that the truth I
want to talk you say, I'll give you something.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
What's that You better get out of hand?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Take your friends with you so as the cavalry gets here,
you're all come.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Come on, Gray, there isn't any cavalry. You're in Los Angeles.
You're sick. Gray. We want to help you, if you'll
give us a chance.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I don't need nothing from you.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
What about your wife and kids? You're gonna have them hurt?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
They're all right, TAS's gonna get to them.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
They're all right.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
They aren't gonna stay that way with you shooting that gun.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Well, you let me worry about it. They're my family.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I ain't no concerning yours and mine, And.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You're gonna have them killed? Are you watch a lie?
Why do you think of doing all this?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
It's for them so they get out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I want to watch the Indians warming.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
All over the places for them. I'm doing it. It's
kind of hard to buy gray, hard.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
To see what you're trying to protect them from.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
What do you think you want to tell me that?
Don't you think I know what's going on all the time,
sitting in here looking at you people trying to take
things away from me.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You all think you gonna know what's going on?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well, you just save your breath, save everything. I know
what's right.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
I know I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Tell you what we'll make a deal with you, Greg,
what kind of deals and you'll make Let your wife
and kids come out, Let us take care of them.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Give us a chance. To prove that we're on your side.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You can't catch me with that one again. You tried
once before and it didn't work. Remember you tried once before.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
We didn't cause you any trouble.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I don't believe anything you say.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Might well save your breath.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
All you Indians is tricky.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You're not fooling me. What about all the people out
there in the street? What about it? You want to
hurt them too?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Be real honest with you?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
What you got to? Come on? But I'll be honest
all right.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I don't much care.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
They'redumb enough to get caught in the middle of an
Indian wars.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
They're tough luck.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You've come close to shooting a couple of them. You
know that's time to.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Go back to their home.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Please them?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Biking to the man.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Come on, Greg, let's get together and talk things over
out here. What do you say?
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Aw suden doing? You get me out of the fort
and you don't try something.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I'm not falling for that. And what are you trying
to do? I don't know what you're talking about, Greg,
trying out with You're.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Trying to break it into the back and I'm like,
well it won't work.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I'll take care of y'all.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Don't get out of the hot how about it. We're getting
the gas equipment ready now. Yeah, we got his family out.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, i'd kept Gray busy in front of the house.
Frank and Jack McCready had gone around to the rear.
They found the room where Missus Gray and the children
were hiding. By breaking a window, they'd been able to
remove them from the house. The children were taken to
one of the neighbors, and Missus Gray was waiting for
me in the manager's place. Outside, the members of homicide
detail were making preparations to get Dudley Gray out of
the house.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Thank god, you got this out of it.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It's all right now it's Gray un children next door,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
What are you gonna do without him?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oh, I'm trying to get him to come out of
the house.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
You're gonna have to shoot him.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Well, that depends on how he wants it. He doesn't
know what he's doing. We know it.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
But your husband's in there taking pot shots and anybody
who comes near him only a matter of time before
somebody gets so close he can't miss.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Get him to give up your policeman things like this
before he's you're chanting to get him out without hurting him.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh, we're trying what caused this to happen.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
A lot of things to all.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Miss Gray. If we know what's wrong with him, it
might help. Could you give us some kind of an
angle on him.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
I don't know how long it's been building, Maybe a year,
maybe longer.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Time to say.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You try to take care of the family, came it together.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
You don't see the side.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yes, it might be my fault.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
I guess it is just all of a sudden things
got too heavy for him to carriage. He lost his job.
We couldn't say the.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Bills scot so I wouldn't as the phone because I
knew it was somebody wanting their money.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I try to take it either.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
He didn't have any way to get the pressure off,
No way at all. It's finally gone.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
All right, go ahead, you shoot.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
The children are all right, they've been taken care of.
H saying they're fine, but they haven't runch. I couldn't
see anything. They haven't et with it this morning.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I'm sure they'll be sad.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
I was just kind of picky with it. Food and
he's coaxing to.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Eat they'll be all right, it's gray. How would you
go on?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Please?
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Well, it finally broke this morning. Once it started, it
wasn't anything we could do. Marshall came over.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's the manager.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Yes, he came over to ask Dudley if he'd help
with the painting.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Mentioned that it'd be.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
A way to pay some of the back rent. Didn't
mean anything. Dudley just took it the wrong way. What's
that Marshall told him about the rent? I said it
was nice of him to give Dudley the chance to
make it up. I didn't mean anything by it.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Had They got up from the table and went into
the living room and turned on the television. Didn't say
word to me, just got up and walked out, sat
there watching a picture, one of those cowboy things. Just
sat there and watched it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Kids went in and tried to talk to him, so nice,
tried to bring him out of it. He didn't even
though we were in the room. Just sat there and
looked the picture.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Has your husband never been under the care of a doctor?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
You mean for his mind?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
That's right. No.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
I was afraid to ask him my shirt of but
it seemed that't mean Another Bill that was causing all
the trouble. Anyway, I told her, I was trying to
believe that it wasn't anything serious, that it'd go away. Yeah,
he's been better to tell the bill.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Anyway.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
He sat there for once, and he just got up
and walked to the closet, picked up the rifle and
told me and the kids to get into the back bedroom.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Said that they weren't gonna take the place.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Did you know what he meant?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
No?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Not.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
At first. I knew there was something wrong, but I
didn't know to be as sad as this.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Is there anybody your husband's particularly fond of.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
We've been married for eight years, Sergeant, I guess I
could qualify.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
That's what I mean. Man. Is there anyone that he'd
listened to? A friend? Maybe a minister or a priest.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
No, any friends he had or gone. They didn't understand
his moves there.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
There isn't anybody, all right, miss, great job seeing her, Yeah,
excuse me, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
We ran out of time, but Grag just shot at top.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
The officer was not seriously wounded. He was removed to
Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for treatment. People in the adjoining
units were evacuated the streets were cleared as much as possible,
and the men were in position to move in.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Frank, Jack McReady and I were opposite the front door
of the house. From missus Gray.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
We learned that her husband had several hundred rounds of
ammunition for the rifle.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
That he was using. In addition to this, he had.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Several handguns and ample shells for them.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
She told us that the other guns were located in
the closet in the rear of the place.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It was decided to pour tear gas into the back
windows and try to keep Gray away from the other guns.
Frank was armed with a sawt off shot downloaded with
double arch, but mccreedy had a forty five caliber machine gun.
The officers were in position and the signal was given
there to.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Go the gas gun.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, and she'd be coming out pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Hope we can make out killing him. We'll try. Gas
is starting to come through the front windows. I quite alright.
Saw the gun out. Great, throw the gun out, Oh joy,
come on, throw that gun out. He's done. Come on,
he still got the gun. He dead? No, you gotta
(23:15):
get an ambulance.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
I'll take care of.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Is he dead?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Did he kill him. No, ma'am, I didn't know. I
didn't seen. He's gonna be all right, missus Gray. That's
on the way.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
He didn't know what he was doing, that's all.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He didn't know what he was doing. Yes, he knows.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
We love him. That's all it counts.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
We love him and want to take killed him.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
He didn't think anybody cared for That's what was wrong.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
He just didn't know.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Yes, maybe he wouldn't get you know, everybody wasn't getting
You know, people care.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Don't you think that's all it's wrong. I wouldn't know, ma'am.
But he took a hard way to find out. The
story you have just heard is true. The names were
changed to protect the inner.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
On August twenty sixth, the preliminary hearing was held in
the prison ward of the County Hospital in and for
the County of Los Angeles, State of California. Dudley Peter
Gray was held to answer charges of assault with intent
to commit murder. He was examined by three psychiatrists appointed
(24:23):
by the court and found to be insane. He was
confined to the State Mental Hospital at Camarillo for treatment.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
You have just heard Dragnet the authentic story of your
police force in action and starring Jack Webb.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
A presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Drag Mett.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. You
get a call to investigate unknown trouble. The caller gives
no indication of what's wrong. Your job. Check it out.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It was Saturday, July eighteenth, was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working a day watch out a homicide detail.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Mormon. My
name is Friday. We went our way back from questioning
as suspect, and it was ten fifty six am when
I got back to our car.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You know one key, did you get me a pact? Yeah?
Here are they, Joe? I wonder if you do me
a favor. I just did I bought your pack of cigarettes? No?
Something else?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So I've been thinking about taking a sergeant's exam, see
if I can crack at this time. Now, I figure
I got about six months before they're gonna hold him again.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Gives me plenty of time to get ready. It's a
lot of work. I'm gonna have to really hustle the books,
you know. Yeah, I know. I talked to say about
it last night. Got it all squared away. Ian Laars
ain't gonna come out this year. That's what loust me
up last year. It is sure, Joe. You know our house,
we had army cops all over the place, kids running
around on scream and nobody can study like that. You're
(01:38):
gonna be able to work out the classes? Well, I'm
gonna have to. I'm sure he was the acts of
money plan Me'd like to do some work on the house.
I'm the only way we could do it till I
make sergeants. That's all we want me to do. We Well,
I wondered if he kind of helped me out along
the way you made it and tell me what to do,
what to what's out for Well, I'll do what I
can for it. But there isn't anybody gonna make it
(01:58):
to you besides yourself, you know, nine oh last. But
it's as long as you're in my corner, old body,
I'll be in your corner. Attention, all units, you better
get the help.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
All units at fifty two ninety one, loam around the street.
Investigate on known trouble. That's at five two nine one.
Lom around the street. Investigate on known trouble car eleven
s ninety three. Take the call code three KMA three
sixty seven missus Miranda.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Now isn't here? Yeah, sixty one hundred block. We must
have just passed the place. I didn't see any injury
me either, code three. It's important.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Maybe you and we'll go bank check it out. Right,
we should be up here on the right fifty eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Couple of blocks up there and they take it easy.
Should be in here. Yeah, does look like there's any
trouble and this is it? You won't pull up? Yeah,
at the back of the court fifty two ninety one.
There's nothing going on. Yeah, Well, maybe I better verify
(03:04):
that address.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Huh yeah, one cade over to control one.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Control one to one. Cade don't go ahead?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Would you repeat the address on the call to La
Miranda Street and buy one kady you mean no, there's
probably some kids having a.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Time, Yeah, Control one to one. K Oh that address,
it's fifty two ninety one Lamaranda five two nine.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
One La Miranda Roger control one one cade Oh, code
six at that address.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Came eight for sixth. Unless it's it, we better check
it out. Uh h.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
There's nothing wrong here, doesn't look like it, doesn't m
there's somebody back there. Joe, same at the window.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Don't fight all about it. I don't know one thing, sure, Yeah,
they didn't send for us.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The five units of the court were arranged in the
shape of the U fifty two ninety.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
One was the building at the far end.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
In the center, running between the two wings was a
grass area. Large palm trees were growing at either end,
and there was a wrought iron table and poor hairs
in the center of the area. From what we could
see of the building the shot had come from, the
only door was the one facing us. Frank and I
jepped over to the left side of the court to
the unit occupied by the manager. We waited on the
porch until the Pelamy car that had been assigned to
(04:35):
the call arrived. While the officers from the unit covered
the house.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Frank and I went to the manager's place and talked
to him. He identified himself as Marshall Rice. He appeared
to be nervous and upset.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I don't know why it should be so tough. You
get him out of there, that's all I care about.
Just get him out.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
What did you say The man's name was Suttley Gray.
He's the one who called the police.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Ye, I called him right after he took a first shot.
I wasn't gonna wait around for no repeat performance.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Do you have any idea why he's doing this?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
And we want to make any sense that he's wigged?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Sir Flisville, he's gone straight up.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Did you talk to him this morning?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah? I went back there about eight thirty one to
get some things straightened out, and then had a cup.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Of coffee with him in Charlotte Foo Charlotte.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
His wife real dolls. She sure don't deserve to come
up with a flip like him out.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
He's seen them, You mean when I talked to him,
that's all right.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I didn't notice anything. If I had, i'd have called
you instead of waiting for this to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
For What'd you talk about?
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Different things?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
We've been planning on doing a little remodeling, you know,
paint and paper.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Dudley's been helping me. Lost his job a couple of
months ago and.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Said he's just been sitting around watching the TV, not
doing a liquor work. So I asked him to give
me a hand with a redecorating guy's already six weeks
behind his rent.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
She just goes to show M.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Well, you try to be nice to a guy.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Try to give my hand.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
What happened to kick you? He's no good. He's not
good at all. He'll find out when he comes out.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
You'll see them.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Although they lived here, he's been a.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Couple of years. You need the exact date they moved in.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
No, you're not right now. You ever had any trouble
with him before this?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
And like this, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But you have had trouble?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Well, sure, I just try to live together and not
have a little beef now and then?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
What were the disagreements about different things?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Sounds kind of silly when you're talking about him.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, I help us get him out of we know
what caused this.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well, like he likes one baseball team, I like another.
He don't like the fish, I don't like the haunts.
Things like that lay him out in the sun.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
They just dry right up.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Silly little things.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Anything else, well, you might as well tell you you'll
find out anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Well, Dudley thought there was something between Charlotte and me.
Of course there wasn't, But you just couldn't convince him
he was off base.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Wasn't anything could convince him.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
He said something about that this morning today.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, we were just sitting there talking about how he
ought to help me out with a paint, and Charlotte
said he should. All of a sudden, he got this
kind of wild look in his eye, told me he
knew all about me and his wife, and I wasn't
fooling anybody.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
I we just sat there.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
He didn't know what this thing, picked up his coffee
cup and flung it across the room, smacked against the wall,
Coffee all over the place, streaming down the walls, ruined
the paint. Told me to get out of the house
and leave Charlotte alone, that if you ever saw me
talking to her again, he'd make me sorry.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
I did.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, what about his family? Now are they in the house.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I'm pretty sure they ain't.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Charlotte puk the kids and left right after I did.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Tom walk on. You know where they live, and I
can't help you there?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
She have any people of friends in the neighborhood here,
And I.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Said, I ever heard got to sit it down National City,
But I don't think she went there and quite say that.
I didn't have no grips, she'd go on there. She
had taken clothes for the kids, didn't have no grips
Once she left.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I'm pretty sure she didn't go in National.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
City, but you don't know where we can find her.
That's the least.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Might have gone to a show.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
The Dudley calms down, How do you figure to get
him to come out?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We try to talk to him. First reason with him.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
That ain't gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
He hasn't got any reason left to do a thing
like this, So we gotta try. You're gonna have to
kill him. You just wait and see. That's the only
way you're gonna get him out. Shoot the house full
of holes and hope he gets in the middle. That's
the only way.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
We hope that youth see something else? You I don't know, Yeah,
what's that had.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Gunn he's got the twenty two rifles. He's got a
real thing about guns, big collection rifles, pistols, automatic to
a whole bunch up there, and they all worked.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We got a description of Dudley Gray and we called
it into R and I. We found that he had
no record in our files. We got in touch with
Captain Luhman and filled him in. We requested the additional
teams of men.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Be dispatched with peer gas, e clipping and shot down.
The men from the Fellaming units covered the back of
the house, while Frank and I covered the front. All
of the other tenants of the.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Court were instructed to stay indoor eleven fourteen am, but
Frank standing by, I went up to the porch to
try and.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Talk to Gray. Gray, Gray, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I got nothing to say to you.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Once you put the gun down, comeing out here.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You'll try to take this place.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'll kill you all no reason for that. I know
who you are.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You don't have to try to kid me.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The police officers, Gray, we want to help you. Yeah,
you don't have to lie.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
You just want me to open the gates to let
you and the rest of the men here. Well, you
go back to tell the chief.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I won't do it.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right, Come on out here, Gray, put the gun down.
Let's talk it over.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm telling you I got nothing. Let's say, I'm sneaking
around here trying to get me to let you in.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
As soon as you're inside, you bring the place down.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Run off, all the horses, run off.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
What Yeah, I sure the cat you wont well, it
won't work, Oh, Joe, I know who you are.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You go tell the chief and.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It didn't work.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Now one ind is getting in here, not once. I'm
gonna defend this fort till the cavalry gets here. I'll
show your division on the way.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Right now, Gray, come on out here. We're on your side.
We wanna help you.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's a lie. He's got different polls on. But I
still recognize you. You were Scott's around here last week.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I remember.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Now you get out of here.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Come on, Gray, give us a break. Let's talk it over.
So right with it? What about it? I don't know.
He thinks he's an a fort told me he thought
I was an Indian.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
You heard him, Yeah, I heard him. What the landlord says.
He can hold out in there as long.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
As he wants.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, maybe if we could find his wife, we might
be able to come up with the answer. All right,
I'll check with the rest of the neighbors see if
they can tell us anything.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, I'll go on back and try to talk to him.
Wait a minute, and take it easy, Joe. He sounds
pretty sick. You know.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Check the boys in the back when you didn't see
there any way getting to him from there?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Right?
Speaker 8 (09:56):
I see you out there, I see it, and I
don't try anything.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I'm ready for you.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Sure you are. Gray. We couldn't put anything over on you.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You'll best you can. I'm too smart for you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
How long you think it'll be before the cavalry gets here, Gray? Right?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
In a couple of days? Last two time, David, before yesterday?
You should be here day after tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You're gonna pick up the Indians, then, won't you? Gray?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, I'm gonna make him sorry I ever tried to Gray?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
How about riting less fight on your side? We should
like to be with you, you mean that jar. We'd
like to be with a smart fellow like you.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
No, I'm gonna know if I can trust you as
you can. I couldn't do anything that will hurt you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I suppose not.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Okay, come on in.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I cause somebody to watch it, the Indians. I use
some fire hours. Come on, okay, Howkee you could cover it?
Soon as you get here. I'll take the bar off
the gate, all.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Right, and I hurry up that engine, see you.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That'll be all in here. Won't open the gate, wait
till you get a little closer.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Can't take any che Almost there, Dray, you better open
the dark, get us a little closer. Got to go.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Fool men, Well, it.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Didn't work to it didn't work.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Your fun off didn't work.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
When Gray fired at me and I dropped to the
ground while Frank and the other officers returned the fire,
driving the man away from the window. Eleven forty seven am,
the additional men arrived from the office.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
With tear gas equipment. It was distributed and we worked
out a plan to take Gray.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Was decided that two men would cover the right side
of the house while another team covered the back.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Frank and I would go around to the left side
and fire tear gas shells into the building until Gray
had to leave.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Eleven fifty eight am, all of the officers were in
position and Frank and I started to move in to
use the tear gas gun.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
All right, that's enough that just get out of the building. Yeah,
I see her.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Just get out of that guard.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Go on now, want you get back on the house. Please,
We don't know when to get hurt here.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Then you just got to get right out of My idea,
if you knocked down one more bush and you're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You don't understand, ma'am. There's a man in that house
and he's got a gun.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
I don't care about mister Gray what he does with
his own business. I'm just telling you to.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Get out of my flowers.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
All the year I've been worrying over trying to coach
the blossom out of them. Now you come around here
with your big feet and ruin it all.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Sorry about that, but we have to get Gray out
of that house.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
Then do it without stepping all over my flowers. You're
a cop, you're supposed to know how to handle things
like this. And look what you've done to my twopris pogognias.
Three months, have been working with them, just put them
out last week and now look they're all broken.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
You just ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
Big men like you do want a thing like this
to my flowers.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
The show us, ma'am if we hurt your flowers were
sick and you did, think you better getting side.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Now, lady, are you telling me what to do?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yes, ma'am, that's a direct order, yes, ma'am. All right,
I don't go, but you just remember you ordered me
to go. You'll let me hear about.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
This young man.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
What's your number?
Speaker 8 (12:51):
What's the number on your badge?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I tend to.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Report you for this, you'll find out, or twopis Pogoonias,
you'll find out. Now, what's your number?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Thank? You want to handle it? Yeah, my ma'am. We
can talk right over here.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
Oh you don't think it. Heap me out of it.
I'm gonna call a lot of a lot.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Of it if you do to stop me. If you'll
just go on inside, well, i'll talk to you later.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
All I'll be watching you.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I'll be right here watching it.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Well, there's one for you. Well, well, let's get on there, right.
I think we'll need the mask.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, we shouldn't out here, I said, look out front.
It's all right, gondow le Monica out there. Yeah, whenever
you're ready, I should bring him up. I'll get him
out of one. Ready, better hold it up for it
comes from creedy. Right, Hey, hold it up, Joe, what
do you got? Yeah, just find out how Gray's.
Speaker 10 (13:48):
Wife and kids are in there with him.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Sergeant Jack McCready was standing by in the manager's office
when Missus Gray had telephoned from the house with the
possibility that innocent people might be hit.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We were unable to fire into the home.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
We met with Captain Lorman and discussed the methods we
could use to get the women and children.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Out of the place. We worked out a plan.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
It would depend entirely on being able to talk to
missus Gray and explain what we were trying to do.
Frank and I went to the manager's place and put
in a call to the house.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
How about it. Just studying the ring figure it will work.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
The only way we can make it go is to
talk to the woman, explain the set up to her.
She get in touch with the office about the doctor. Yeah,
they're sending a psychiatrist out.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You might be able to talk to Gray. I hope so,
I mean no, looks like we're in trouble now. She
won't answer the phone.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police force in action.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Without being able to talk to the woman, there was
a little chance at the plan for getting her and
the children out of the house would work. One fourteen pm,
a large crowd of people had gathered on the street
in front of the court. Additional policemen from Metro Division
had to be called in the control them. From time
to time, Dudley Gray would scream something at the bystanders
and fire into the crowd.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So far, we'd been able to keep the curious citizens
back far enough.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
So that none of them were hurt, but it was
only a matter of time before our luck ran out. Meanwhile,
we were still faced with the problem of first getting
the wife and children out of the house before we
could attempt to take the man himself. One nine pm,
while Frank and Sergeant Jack McCready went around to the
back of the house to ascertain the possibility of removing
the family from that side, I again attempted.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
To talk to Gray. Gray, Gray, Come on, Gray, we
want to talk to you. I thought I killed you,
and come on.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Drays, We're trying to help you, if you'll give us
a chance.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Do you expect me to believe that the truth I
want to talk you say, I'll give you something.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
What's that You better get out of hand?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Take your friends with you so as the cavalry gets here,
you're all come.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Come on, Gray, there isn't any cavalry. You're in Los Angeles.
You're sick. Gray. We want to help you, if you'll
give us a chance.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I don't need nothing from you.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
What about your wife and kids? You're gonna have them hurt?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
They're all right, TAS's gonna get to them.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
They're all right.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
They aren't gonna stay that way with you shooting that gun.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Well, you let me worry about it. They're my family.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I ain't no concerning yours and mine, And.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You're gonna have them killed? Are you watch a lie?
Why do you think of doing all this?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
It's for them so they get out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I want to watch the Indians warming.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
All over the places for them. I'm doing it. It's
kind of hard to buy gray, hard.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
To see what you're trying to protect them from.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
What do you think you want to tell me that?
Don't you think I know what's going on all the time,
sitting in here looking at you people trying to take
things away from me.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You all think you gonna know what's going on?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well, you just save your breath, save everything. I know
what's right.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
I know I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Tell you what we'll make a deal with you, Greg,
what kind of deals and you'll make Let your wife
and kids come out, Let us take care of them.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Give us a chance. To prove that we're on your side.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You can't catch me with that one again. You tried
once before and it didn't work. Remember you tried once before.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
We didn't cause you any trouble.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I don't believe anything you say.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Might well save your breath.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
All you Indians is tricky.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You're not fooling me. What about all the people out
there in the street? What about it? You want to
hurt them too?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Be real honest with you?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
What you got to? Come on? But I'll be honest
all right.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I don't much care.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
They'redumb enough to get caught in the middle of an
Indian wars.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
They're tough luck.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You've come close to shooting a couple of them. You
know that's time to.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Go back to their home.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Please them?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Biking to the man.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Come on, Greg, let's get together and talk things over
out here. What do you say?
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Aw suden doing? You get me out of the fort
and you don't try something.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I'm not falling for that. And what are you trying
to do? I don't know what you're talking about, Greg,
trying out with You're.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Trying to break it into the back and I'm like,
well it won't work.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I'll take care of y'all.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Don't get out of the hot how about it. We're getting
the gas equipment ready now. Yeah, we got his family out.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, i'd kept Gray busy in front of the house.
Frank and Jack McCready had gone around to the rear.
They found the room where Missus Gray and the children
were hiding. By breaking a window, they'd been able to
remove them from the house. The children were taken to
one of the neighbors, and Missus Gray was waiting for
me in the manager's place. Outside, the members of homicide
detail were making preparations to get Dudley Gray out of
the house.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Thank god, you got this out of it.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It's all right now it's Gray un children next door,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
What are you gonna do without him?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oh, I'm trying to get him to come out of
the house.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
You're gonna have to shoot him.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Well, that depends on how he wants it. He doesn't
know what he's doing. We know it.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
But your husband's in there taking pot shots and anybody
who comes near him only a matter of time before
somebody gets so close he can't miss.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Get him to give up your policeman things like this
before he's you're chanting to get him out without hurting him.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh, we're trying what caused this to happen.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
A lot of things to all.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Miss Gray. If we know what's wrong with him, it
might help. Could you give us some kind of an
angle on him.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
I don't know how long it's been building, Maybe a year,
maybe longer.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Time to say.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You try to take care of the family, came it together.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
You don't see the side.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yes, it might be my fault.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
I guess it is just all of a sudden things
got too heavy for him to carriage. He lost his job.
We couldn't say the.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Bills scot so I wouldn't as the phone because I
knew it was somebody wanting their money.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I try to take it either.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
He didn't have any way to get the pressure off,
No way at all. It's finally gone.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
All right, go ahead, you shoot.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
The children are all right, they've been taken care of.
H saying they're fine, but they haven't runch. I couldn't
see anything. They haven't et with it this morning.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I'm sure they'll be sad.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
I was just kind of picky with it. Food and
he's coaxing to.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Eat they'll be all right, it's gray. How would you
go on?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Please?
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Well, it finally broke this morning. Once it started, it
wasn't anything we could do. Marshall came over.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's the manager.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Yes, he came over to ask Dudley if he'd help
with the painting.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Mentioned that it'd be.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
A way to pay some of the back rent. Didn't
mean anything. Dudley just took it the wrong way. What's
that Marshall told him about the rent? I said it
was nice of him to give Dudley the chance to
make it up. I didn't mean anything by it.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Had They got up from the table and went into
the living room and turned on the television. Didn't say
word to me, just got up and walked out, sat
there watching a picture, one of those cowboy things. Just
sat there and watched it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Kids went in and tried to talk to him, so nice,
tried to bring him out of it. He didn't even
though we were in the room. Just sat there and
looked the picture.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Has your husband never been under the care of a doctor?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
You mean for his mind?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
That's right. No.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
I was afraid to ask him my shirt of but
it seemed that't mean Another Bill that was causing all
the trouble. Anyway, I told her, I was trying to
believe that it wasn't anything serious, that it'd go away. Yeah,
he's been better to tell the bill.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Anyway.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
He sat there for once, and he just got up
and walked to the closet, picked up the rifle and
told me and the kids to get into the back bedroom.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Said that they weren't gonna take the place.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Did you know what he meant?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
No?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Not.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
At first. I knew there was something wrong, but I
didn't know to be as sad as this.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Is there anybody your husband's particularly fond of.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
We've been married for eight years, Sergeant, I guess I
could qualify.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
That's what I mean. Man. Is there anyone that he'd
listened to? A friend? Maybe a minister or a priest.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
No, any friends he had or gone. They didn't understand
his moves there.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
There isn't anybody, all right, miss, great job seeing her, Yeah,
excuse me, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
We ran out of time, but Grag just shot at top.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
The officer was not seriously wounded. He was removed to
Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for treatment. People in the adjoining
units were evacuated the streets were cleared as much as possible,
and the men were in position to move in.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Frank, Jack McReady and I were opposite the front door
of the house. From missus Gray.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
We learned that her husband had several hundred rounds of
ammunition for the rifle.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
That he was using. In addition to this, he had.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Several handguns and ample shells for them.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
She told us that the other guns were located in
the closet in the rear of the place.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It was decided to pour tear gas into the back
windows and try to keep Gray away from the other guns.
Frank was armed with a sawt off shot downloaded with
double arch, but mccreedy had a forty five caliber machine gun.
The officers were in position and the signal was given
there to.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Go the gas gun.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, and she'd be coming out pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Hope we can make out killing him. We'll try. Gas
is starting to come through the front windows. I quite alright.
Saw the gun out. Great, throw the gun out, Oh joy,
come on, throw that gun out. He's done. Come on,
he still got the gun. He dead? No, you gotta
(23:15):
get an ambulance.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
I'll take care of.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Is he dead?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Did he kill him. No, ma'am, I didn't know. I
didn't seen. He's gonna be all right, missus Gray. That's
on the way.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
He didn't know what he was doing, that's all.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He didn't know what he was doing. Yes, he knows.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
We love him. That's all it counts.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
We love him and want to take killed him.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
He didn't think anybody cared for That's what was wrong.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
He just didn't know.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Yes, maybe he wouldn't get you know, everybody wasn't getting
You know, people care.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Don't you think that's all it's wrong. I wouldn't know, ma'am.
But he took a hard way to find out. The
story you have just heard is true. The names were
changed to protect the inner.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
On August twenty sixth, the preliminary hearing was held in
the prison ward of the County Hospital in and for
the County of Los Angeles, State of California. Dudley Peter
Gray was held to answer charges of assault with intent
to commit murder. He was examined by three psychiatrists appointed
(24:23):
by the court and found to be insane. He was
confined to the State Mental Hospital at Camarillo for treatment.
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