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Drag Net the documented drama of an actual crime for
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Speaker 6 (01:58):
The Sunday, March third, was raining in Los Angeles. We're
working the night watching out a robbery detail. My partner's
Ben Romero. The boss is Harry Diddy and captain of robbery.
My name's Fridays. I was on my way back from
the neighborhood bakery shop and it was eight forty five
am when I got to Collis Avenue, number forty six,
fifty six.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yo.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Yeah, what happened was in the bakeryel Oh yeah it
was open. I got the stuff right here. Oh they
haven't your raisin bread?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, right here?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
How about the butterhorn? No, they don't make those on
Sundays anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I got bare clause.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Insteads okay, well let's get this stuff open.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Okay, all right, you know we are.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Hm, where do you keep your aim from the refrigerator whatever? There?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Find him?
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Yeah? Yeah, you know, Joe. I don't like to say anything,
but I can't.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Keep coming over here to your place every morning.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
What was your idea? Nobody asked, Yeah, but I know
how you are. You don't know how to cook a
decent breakfast for yourself.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
The coffee ready?
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Yes, no, it's not berking yet. Hey you sure there's
nothing wrong with this part. It's been on for ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, you've got to plug it in.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Oh, let's see what do you want? Better put the
toast on. You always make the toast before you cook
the eggs. Yeah, you remember yesterday The toast is pretty cold.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh yeah, I try.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I better hold off from man. Yeah, scrambled eggs. Okay,
well we had them yesterday. Oh yeah, I try not
the only way you know how to fix them. I
know what you'd like one of my Spanish genres. When'd
you say your mother was coming back for about three
more days? Yeah, I'll make a week one. Yeah that's right. Well,
(04:04):
I guess I can work something out with Amy. My
wife doesn't like me coming over here every morning, like they.
Well I told you before, I can make out all
right here? Oh? I know it is. You think you're
imposing you'd be lost without you can't open say, is
this rum of the year is gonna take very long?
We haven't got very much time, you know, I'll have
it on your plate. And Jeffy, what time are we
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supposed to see those vector nine thirty at the county Hospital.
Where's your tomato in the refrigerator?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You know?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Twenty three jobs in three months. Those guys really moved,
don't they. Yeah, nice tomato is Jill at holling Beck
job last night? Vicious punks. Yeah, there's no reason to
work for you, old man over the way they did.
What do doctors say? All he's gonna get over it,
all right, but they kicked out all of his front
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teeth fifty years old, same memo, every job.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Ain't you gonna peel those?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
No skin's good for you. Now you got a nice
big Bermuda group Bermuda, And oh yeah, I'll get you
on from kid nineteen twenty year old stick up or
its knocked a man's senses for a half a dollar, robbing,
slug and kicking anywhere around the city. Yeah, it will
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be one bunch.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'll be glad to catch up when there's your onion doing.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Well. No, wait a minute, you're gonna peel? Why aren't you?
And those half the flavor?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I don't know I always peel him. I see now.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
And uh now I met the whole work together. You're
gonna put it in the pan on.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The stove there, Yes, sir, looks pretty hot that.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
It's smoking, Joe. That's the way you cook the Spanish, y'all,
but hot fire and fat end of the pan. A
whole freaking making a good Spanish almen?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Is you gotta work fair? Mm?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
We're all those little brown flakes on the top freen
oh Union skins. No, I don't know. That doesn't look
right to me. Where did you taste it? I got
it right?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He talking helping young Joe.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Mama there with you.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yeah, he's here.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
You two are supposed to see those robbery victims at
the county hospital this morning, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Yeah? At nine thirty?
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Cancel that out? Can tell us and powers are covering
on that.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Yeah, I'll come.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Just got the call. South Granded Colonial two eleven's lugging,
same description. It looks like the kid Bandit's.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
All right, we'll get right on it. It's a new
stand near the corner, right bye. Look at that, Joe.
I just took it out of the fan. Yeah, best
Spanish almond I ever made. It's too bad, We're not
gonna have time to eat it. Eight fifty five am.
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We left the house and drove to the scene of
the hold up, one door from the corner of South
Grand and Colonial Avenue. The victims were mister and missus
John Wilden, proprietors of a small newspaper and soft drink
stand just off the intersection. Missus Wilden was being carried
to a waiting ambulance when we got there. She was
unconscious from her forehead to her chin. Her face was
a swollen mass of welts. Her nose had been broken,
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and she had fractures of the jaw and cheekbone. Her husband,
John Wildon, aged fifty six, had a single bruise on
his forehead over his left eye. We questioned him after
the ambulance attendance gave him first aid. His description of
the holdup men tallied almost perfectly.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
One was a redhead, the one that had dark hair.
Both bought the same height. I'd say, as tall as
you are, off, sir, that's just joe kid bet it.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
You know, had you ever seen either one of these
men before mister Wilden around the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Maybe no, never did. I don't know why they picked
on Madeline and me for a hold up. We'd never
been robbed before. I just got this little hole in
the wall here. Don't see how it could look worthwhile
any crook.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
We usually open up this early on Sunday morning.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Oh yeah, Sunday's one of our big days.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
You see.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
We handle all of Sunday papers. You get our big
trade from the people going to church up the street there,
Saint Joseph's.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yes, I see.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
And after the church lets out, most of the people
had down this way and pick up the Sunday papers.
You show about fifteen twenty papers after every mass. It's
a nice little business, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
We close up after twelve fifteen.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Well when did the hold up take place? Can you
remember that, sir?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Well, I'd say eight thirty, A few minutes after I
went down to the Athams Cafe down the street there.
I wanted to get some change. I left Madlin here
to handle the counter.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Ma.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Then that's my wife, yes, And when I got back,
she wasn't behind the counter. I took a look behind
here and saw our cash box laying on the cement there, empty,
and I didn't know what to think.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
What'd you do? Then?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I pushed through this door. Here. It's a little thinky storeroom.
Just back to the counter. It's where we keep our
supplies candy and soda.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Water.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You might if we take a lookser no.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Not at all.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Come out of half.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You see.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
When I came in, the first thing I saw was madling.
That's my wife, and she was lying there on the
boards morning, had her hands.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Over her face.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
The two young fellows are standing over and both had guns.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
What did they do when they saw you?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
And they grabbed me and asked for money? I told
him he didn't have any. I began to holler for help.
One of them slugged me.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
With his gun and then they ran out.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Still a little shaky, you mind if I sit down.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Then go the oh here, let me get this box
for you. Thank you?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Say what if we could get you some water? Maybe
a cold drink from a couver?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Oh no, no, but you will find a half pipe
behind those cases over there, a little brandy. I keep
it away from over here, Yes, that's right behind those cases.
I don't usually drink on Sundays.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
This is an exception.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I guess, Hey, you're honest, brother.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
What's it on the floor there? Ben? No New York
foots there see, Oh, lats are not very good.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh book matches?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
You know these yours? Mister Willards his matches. No, I
don't carry him all your wife's I guess.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I don't think sonn either one of 'em is smoke.
What's that ad putting on the back you?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Uh? Big Tim cafe?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Steaks chopped short utters, open all night, West Pico. Do
you have a cigarettes and cigars?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
They said?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Noah, sir, but I can the soft drinks, newspapers, that's all.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Inside of the match book covered Joe, I'm scribbling on him.
H George Bell asked Cameron fifth and alometer. Uh do
you recognize this at.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
All, mister Wilder, Big Ten Cafe? No, I never been there.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Now about the names here inside the color.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
George Bell ask Cameron, No, I never heard of.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Him when you first came in here. Mister Wildern, do
you remember where the hold up men were standing?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
We're not too well.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Uh? Well, one was over there and one was over there.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I think, good bed you.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
One of them might have dropped me trace them from
a matchbook?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Do you think that's possible?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, how would you trace them.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
That way analysis some kind of scientific work, No, sir, legwork.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Nine am. We call Layton fingerprints. As soon as they arrived,
we dropped mister Wilden off at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital
to see his wife. Ben and I drove back to
the office. We had the crime report typed up and
got out of supplementary broadcast on.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Our original APB.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
We asked Frank Cunningham and R and I to run
the names George Bell and ask Cameron through the files
for possible may We checked with the restaurant advertised on
the cover of the matchbook, the Big Tim Cafe. The
manager of the cafe failed to recognize either the names
on the matchbook or the descriptions of the hold up
man nine fifty two. We checked back in at the office.
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I'll get it robbery now, yea, fran huh uhh, Yeah,
good right, thank you cunning him. You gotta make on
the named George Bell, another one for Sam Cameron. Both
of 'em run together that long juvenile record during he
got an interest home.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah, it won't be hard to run down.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
What do you mean? Maine jail? Five days before George Bell,
a laborer and Samuel Cameron, a part time jewelry salesman,
had been booked at the main jail on charges of
being drunk and disorderly. The day after his arrest, Cameron
was bailed out. Bell was still in the drunk tank
then and I went out of the main jail and
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talked to him. He didn't fit the description of either
of the bandits. It was very cooperative, but he stated
that he'd been very drunk and he couldn't remember too much.
Just doing a notice, Sergeant Sam and I went out
and Tiger and Iland but came too. We were during
the drunk tank. You have no idea at all how
your name's got on this match, But I'm trying to think. Well,
pretty well he did up Stami thin. That's another thing
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that did he? Sam?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
What do you mean get the friend of his to
come up here and bail him? I think you do
anything for me?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
No, I brought the liquor. He lets me sit here now,
dirty Sam. You think he might remember about that match book?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I don't know. I'm disgusted with him. Just see him.
He can tell him that I saw him. Know he's
off my list.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
How about the address you're on the match book? George says,
fifth an alimeter. Doesn't that mean anything to you? Were
you and camera and hitting some of the spots around
that area. No, we were messing around over in Dogtown.
He didn't get down by atometer, doll. Well we must
have some telling him by fifth an allometer.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
No, guy, I know, down there is Sanchez.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Wait a minute, yeah, just a minute, Sanchez got sanchis
sure I wanted to see Guts. I thought he'd put
up that for us. Yeah, we ahead. I got it now,
I think I have. Anyway, it was the morning after
and I woke up here in the tank o a
big head, you.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Know, really whipped the first thing I thought.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I was out, figured Gut Sanchez might pop for bail.
Fun of mine, you know, looks at a box Fifinalomia.
I said, well, how's Italian? How this other mooch just
in at bank next to me and somebody stopped there
for him and he's getting nothing an hour?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
So I asked him to call gust for me, and
he said he would.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
He wrote my name down, and he wrote down Sam's
two dirty.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Sam, and he took down Gus's address.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Yeah, Tiftomy, you don't remember what this man looked like
when he took your name. Oh, let's see.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
No, everything was going around, and he's kind of tall.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I don't know. Would you remember him if you saw
him again?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Guy did me a favor. I'd remember him, Not like
that daddy Sam.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Well, how about his name? Did he tell you that? No?
I didn't ask him. I should have been sure about
the day this man was relieved positive the same day
I came in Tuesday, O. K. Bell, Thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
We'll be checking back with you. Yeah, alright, And what
about this guy?
Speaker 6 (14:51):
You gotta be for him or maybe if he's the
one we wanted?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, what he do?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
He lost his matches then, and I left the drunk
tank and went down the hall to check with the
officer in charge. We paged through the release book and
found that seven men had been bailed out or discharged
from the jail on the previous Tuesday. Went back to
the record bureau and had them pull the mugshots on
all seven men, and then we took the pictures back
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to the drunk Tank and showed them to George Bell.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
M M, yeah, this one I think. Can't be sure.
I think that's him.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
George Bell attentively identified the mugshot of a Fred Gunter WMA,
twenty one years old. Gunter had a previous record of
grand theft, auto perse snatching and drunk charges. His picture
matched closely with the description of one of the suspects.
Four am, we contacted the kid band It's most recent victim,
John Wildem, at his home. We asked him to look
at the same group of mugshots that we'd shown to George.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Bell here here this year. He's one of them. You sure,
mister Willie, He's the one who slugged me.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Who is he? His name's fred Denter.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Well, then you know, and you want me to identify her?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Yes, sir, when we find him.
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Monday, March fourth, nine am, we checked out the suspect,
Fred Dunter, trace of him at any of his previous addresses.
We began checking with the other victims of the kid bandits.
After a day and a half of leg work, we
sat down and figured up the results. More than two
thirds of the victims definitely tapped gun Through as one
of the hold up men. The next step was the
record bureau. We had them pull the packages on every
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one of Gunter's known friends and associates. There were more
than thirty of them. We had mud shots pulled on
each one of them and made the rounds of the
victims for the second time. Approximately half of the victims
had singled out. One picture is that of Gunter's partner
in the hold up. We pulled the package on the
man and checked his mamachue. His name was Harold Rymers, WMA,
age nineteen. Previous record included car stripping and one charge
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ADW no conviction. Friday, March eighth, we continued our check
of the friends and associates known to the two suspects
gun through in Rhymers. We got nowhere. Two weeks passed.
On March twenty third, we got a tip from an
informant about a girlfriend of Fred Gunter's, a vocalist working
at a downtown dance hall during intermissions long haul. Here's
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one more flight. I'm four flats of stairs and then
they expect you to dance. You know, I guess this
is it? Yeah, come on May and that floor, Uh,
this show's a little aware place has been there for years.
(19:23):
Look at those walls and that seating.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I sure could use a fresh coat of pain.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Your names Stanley's that right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I see it.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Over? Excuse me? Your name Loraine Stanley?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
That's right, sweet, the range.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
You're with the band? Were police officers like, talk to
you for a.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Minute if we can sure?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
All right, I'm just rehearsing a little. What's it about office?
Do you know a Fred gunned forms Stanley Fred? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I know, I'm I used to be engaged to Fred.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
You happen to know where he is now? No?
Speaker 8 (19:58):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
I guess I haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I mean three four months.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
He usually looks me up when I'm in town. Maybe
he throw about something. I don't know. Was he contacted
you at all?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Not since I got back from Bakersfield a month ago.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
I played thirty two weeks in Bakersfield to ramble in
sure he needed to read nice place? Where does Gunter
stay in town?
Speaker 9 (20:17):
Do you have to know?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
That used to be that hotel? I'm so flower call
him there, but the city moved. He used to like
said a lot. Not nothing there anymore. Do you have
any idea where he might have gone where we could
contact him? No? I really don't. Nothing wrong is there's
got I mean, it's just routine investigations. I talk to him.
What's it about? Can't you tell him it's a robbery investigation.
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We want to locate guns. He happen to know any
of his friends in the city. No, maybe that's why
he didn't grow he's in trouble robbery he did well.
We just like to talk to him, that's all. Well,
if he's done something wrong, I'm not gonna hide him.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I can't afford to get mixed up in it.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I've got a career to think about it.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
I've worked too hard to throw it away. Well, how
about the way his gun the usually visits Miss Stanley
Barr's restaurant. Do you know any of those? I remember
a few. I didn't believe he love poor friend. No,
he didn't do it for me, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Friend says he's in love with me and I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
He thinks don't want money. Maybe that's why he bring him.
I told him, but he never believed me. All I
want is in my career. Well, do you think the
count might come around here to see you? Probably usually
judgment in the town.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
How about where you're living.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I'm saying in a different hotels?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
He doesn't work, Poor Fred, He's gonna be awfully disappointed.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
How do you mean he said he was gonna get
money and buy a ring.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
He's gonna marry me this time. Poor friends, my new
team of the y you like it?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Just one more thing, Miss Stanley.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
If a gun To contacts you by phone, will you
be sure and let us know? All right?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I don't do that. It's a beautiful team, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Guiana player of Bakersfield.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
He wrote a school, Well understand, I don't want to
hurt me, Marian. How do I make him understand? How
do I expand? I don't think you'll have to, ma'am.
Before we left Lorraine Stanley, we told her that if
Gunter should contact her, not to tell him that he
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talked with us. Steakouts were placed on the dance hall
where she working at the hotel where she was staying.
Gunter's known hangouts were also covered. The next night, the
kid bandits were back in bags. They hit twice a
Lectuor store on Franklin Avenue, in a tavern on South Flower,
gun Through and Rhymers were again identified as the two suspects.
The steakhouts continued. The search went on.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Four days later, we got a.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Tip from the proprietor of a shoe shine stand on
West Temple. The gunter's partner, Harold Rhymers, had been seen
entering a small hotel up the street from his stand.
We drove over and checked to the desk cart. He
identified Rhymer's month's out. He told us the suspect wasn't in,
but that he was expected back that night. Ben and
I went on steak out in his hotel room seven pm.
Rhymers failed to show getting a little hungry.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Joe you yea?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
What time you got now?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Twenty after seven? Someone starting to crowd and what's that afraid?
Well they saw let's see, oh the Salvation Army band.
Oh yeah, Saturday night. Might as well check the office.
Huh people, we can't get a relief or would you
get me Michigan five to one one please? Michigan five
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to one one. Yeah, we'll pay for it, thank you.
Would you close the one that George little noise?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Okay, Robbily, yeah young, this is from Maryland? How was that? Sure? Okay? Thanks?
Guns and Rhymers. They pulled a hold up down South
May twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Guns had got away, you know, they got Rhymings.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Forty five pm. Then and I got back to the
city Hall and went to the interrogation room together with
Young in car from robbery. We tried to question the suspect,
Harold Rhymers. We talked to him for over an hour.
He refused to tell us anything. We took him to
the main jail where he was booked on two eleven PC.
Nine fifteen pm we went back to the office. I'm
getting robbery or Meryl. Good mess Fio, Joe, okay, thanks
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Friday Targan Sergeant, this is Lorraine stan Yeah, Miss Stanley.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I'm older at work dance I you remember.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Yes, ma'am? Anything wrong? Well? Freda's cooled the sergeant.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I told the.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Officers year Fred Conker, yes, ma'am. Where is he?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Did he say? No? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
He said what he wanted to see me? Yeah, he
said he was gonning right over.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Nine twentive pm we called them in on steakout at
the dance hall and alerted them. Delton, Young Ben and
I got in the car and drove over. We checked
with the detail on Steakhoutdncer hadn't been spotted, but because
of a large crowd entering him eating the dance hall,
it was possible that he could have gotten in unnoticed.
We talked to the Stanley girl. She hadn't seen or
heard anything further from the suspect then and I staked
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out in her dressing room. Where Gunter said he'd meet
the girl was a small converted storeroom at one end
of the dance floor. Just find the bandstand Lorraine Stanley
was on during the intermission. We waited, what have you got?
You know almost ten thirty. This guy must feel pretty
sure of himself. He pulled the robbery's almost picked up
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in three hours later he makes a date to show
in the public play. You know he hasn't shown yet.
I'm not too sure about that Stanley girl.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
How do you mean I see that big an attraction
for him.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
This is the only way out besides that fire escape
off the alley.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah, Young's covering the alley.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You got bud me. He's up the alley behind one
of those trucks.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
You can't go forward to day and end. Stay here
Young and cut him up.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
You are right, Luck may knock me down.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I didn't see him in the.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Alright, Come on, Ben, Yeah, Lee, m you're dark.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
You know.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
What?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Get behind that part.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
I go watch your Joe coming back to yo. Don't
shoot don't show all right, that Joe. You wanna stay
with him, young, We'll call him alright close to place
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that little cafe off the alley to the left.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Thanks, Come on then, yeah, I'm here. They yeah, I
guess they got.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
A phone inside.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Come on, wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
As soon as we get gun.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
To downtown, we're gonna come right back here.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Well, forth, take a.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Look at that fried cook in the window there.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
You know what about him? That fromam makes the Spanish
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Speaker 6 (01:58):
The Sunday, March third, was raining in Los Angeles. We're
working the night watching out a robbery detail. My partner's
Ben Romero. The boss is Harry Diddy and captain of robbery.
My name's Fridays. I was on my way back from
the neighborhood bakery shop and it was eight forty five
am when I got to Collis Avenue, number forty six,
fifty six.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yo.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Yeah, what happened was in the bakeryel Oh yeah it
was open. I got the stuff right here. Oh they
haven't your raisin bread?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, right here?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
How about the butterhorn? No, they don't make those on
Sundays anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I got bare clause.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Insteads okay, well let's get this stuff open.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Okay, all right, you know we are.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Hm, where do you keep your aim from the refrigerator whatever? There?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Find him?
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Yeah? Yeah, you know, Joe. I don't like to say anything,
but I can't.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Keep coming over here to your place every morning.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
What was your idea? Nobody asked, Yeah, but I know
how you are. You don't know how to cook a
decent breakfast for yourself.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
The coffee ready?
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Yes, no, it's not berking yet. Hey you sure there's
nothing wrong with this part. It's been on for ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, you've got to plug it in.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Oh, let's see what do you want? Better put the
toast on. You always make the toast before you cook
the eggs. Yeah, you remember yesterday The toast is pretty cold.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh yeah, I try.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I better hold off from man. Yeah, scrambled eggs. Okay,
well we had them yesterday. Oh yeah, I try not
the only way you know how to fix them. I
know what you'd like one of my Spanish genres. When'd
you say your mother was coming back for about three
more days? Yeah, I'll make a week one. Yeah that's right. Well,
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I guess I can work something out with Amy. My
wife doesn't like me coming over here every morning, like they.
Well I told you before, I can make out all
right here? Oh? I know it is. You think you're
imposing you'd be lost without you can't open say, is
this rum of the year is gonna take very long?
We haven't got very much time, you know, I'll have
it on your plate. And Jeffy, what time are we
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supposed to see those vector nine thirty at the county Hospital.
Where's your tomato in the refrigerator?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You know?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Twenty three jobs in three months. Those guys really moved,
don't they. Yeah, nice tomato is Jill at holling Beck
job last night? Vicious punks. Yeah, there's no reason to
work for you, old man over the way they did.
What do doctors say? All he's gonna get over it,
all right, but they kicked out all of his front
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teeth fifty years old, same memo, every job.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Ain't you gonna peel those?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
No skin's good for you. Now you got a nice
big Bermuda group Bermuda, And oh yeah, I'll get you
on from kid nineteen twenty year old stick up or
its knocked a man's senses for a half a dollar, robbing,
slug and kicking anywhere around the city. Yeah, it will
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be one bunch.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'll be glad to catch up when there's your onion doing.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Well. No, wait a minute, you're gonna peel? Why aren't you?
And those half the flavor?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I don't know I always peel him. I see now.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
And uh now I met the whole work together. You're
gonna put it in the pan on.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The stove there, Yes, sir, looks pretty hot that.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
It's smoking, Joe. That's the way you cook the Spanish, y'all,
but hot fire and fat end of the pan. A
whole freaking making a good Spanish almen?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Is you gotta work fair? Mm?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
We're all those little brown flakes on the top freen
oh Union skins. No, I don't know. That doesn't look
right to me. Where did you taste it? I got
it right?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He talking helping young Joe.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Mama there with you.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yeah, he's here.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
You two are supposed to see those robbery victims at
the county hospital this morning, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Yeah? At nine thirty?
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Cancel that out? Can tell us and powers are covering
on that.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Yeah, I'll come.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Just got the call. South Granded Colonial two eleven's lugging,
same description. It looks like the kid Bandit's.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
All right, we'll get right on it. It's a new
stand near the corner, right bye. Look at that, Joe.
I just took it out of the fan. Yeah, best
Spanish almond I ever made. It's too bad, We're not
gonna have time to eat it. Eight fifty five am.
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We left the house and drove to the scene of
the hold up, one door from the corner of South
Grand and Colonial Avenue. The victims were mister and missus
John Wilden, proprietors of a small newspaper and soft drink
stand just off the intersection. Missus Wilden was being carried
to a waiting ambulance when we got there. She was
unconscious from her forehead to her chin. Her face was
a swollen mass of welts. Her nose had been broken,
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and she had fractures of the jaw and cheekbone. Her husband,
John Wildon, aged fifty six, had a single bruise on
his forehead over his left eye. We questioned him after
the ambulance attendance gave him first aid. His description of
the holdup men tallied almost perfectly.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
One was a redhead, the one that had dark hair.
Both bought the same height. I'd say, as tall as
you are, off, sir, that's just joe kid bet it.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
You know, had you ever seen either one of these
men before mister Wilden around the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Maybe no, never did. I don't know why they picked
on Madeline and me for a hold up. We'd never
been robbed before. I just got this little hole in
the wall here. Don't see how it could look worthwhile
any crook.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
We usually open up this early on Sunday morning.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Oh yeah, Sunday's one of our big days.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
You see.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
We handle all of Sunday papers. You get our big
trade from the people going to church up the street there,
Saint Joseph's.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yes, I see.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
And after the church lets out, most of the people
had down this way and pick up the Sunday papers.
You show about fifteen twenty papers after every mass. It's
a nice little business, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
We close up after twelve fifteen.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Well when did the hold up take place? Can you
remember that, sir?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Well, I'd say eight thirty, A few minutes after I
went down to the Athams Cafe down the street there.
I wanted to get some change. I left Madlin here
to handle the counter.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Ma.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Then that's my wife, yes, And when I got back,
she wasn't behind the counter. I took a look behind
here and saw our cash box laying on the cement there, empty,
and I didn't know what to think.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
What'd you do? Then?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I pushed through this door. Here. It's a little thinky storeroom.
Just back to the counter. It's where we keep our
supplies candy and soda.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Water.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You might if we take a lookser no.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Not at all.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Come out of half.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You see.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
When I came in, the first thing I saw was madling.
That's my wife, and she was lying there on the
boards morning, had her hands.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Over her face.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
The two young fellows are standing over and both had guns.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
What did they do when they saw you?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
And they grabbed me and asked for money? I told
him he didn't have any. I began to holler for help.
One of them slugged me.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
With his gun and then they ran out.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Still a little shaky, you mind if I sit down.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Then go the oh here, let me get this box
for you. Thank you?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Say what if we could get you some water? Maybe
a cold drink from a couver?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Oh no, no, but you will find a half pipe
behind those cases over there, a little brandy. I keep
it away from over here, Yes, that's right behind those cases.
I don't usually drink on Sundays.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
This is an exception.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I guess, Hey, you're honest, brother.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
What's it on the floor there? Ben? No New York
foots there see, Oh, lats are not very good.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh book matches?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
You know these yours? Mister Willards his matches. No, I
don't carry him all your wife's I guess.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I don't think sonn either one of 'em is smoke.
What's that ad putting on the back you?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Uh? Big Tim cafe?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Steaks chopped short utters, open all night, West Pico. Do
you have a cigarettes and cigars?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
They said?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Noah, sir, but I can the soft drinks, newspapers, that's all.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Inside of the match book covered Joe, I'm scribbling on him.
H George Bell asked Cameron fifth and alometer. Uh do
you recognize this at.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
All, mister Wilder, Big Ten Cafe? No, I never been there.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Now about the names here inside the color.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
George Bell ask Cameron, No, I never heard of.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Him when you first came in here. Mister Wildern, do
you remember where the hold up men were standing?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
We're not too well.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Uh? Well, one was over there and one was over there.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I think, good bed you.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
One of them might have dropped me trace them from
a matchbook?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Do you think that's possible?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, how would you trace them.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
That way analysis some kind of scientific work, No, sir, legwork.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Nine am. We call Layton fingerprints. As soon as they arrived,
we dropped mister Wilden off at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital
to see his wife. Ben and I drove back to
the office. We had the crime report typed up and
got out of supplementary broadcast on.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Our original APB.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
We asked Frank Cunningham and R and I to run
the names George Bell and ask Cameron through the files
for possible may We checked with the restaurant advertised on
the cover of the matchbook, the Big Tim Cafe. The
manager of the cafe failed to recognize either the names
on the matchbook or the descriptions of the hold up
man nine fifty two. We checked back in at the office.
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I'll get it robbery now, yea, fran huh uhh, Yeah,
good right, thank you cunning him. You gotta make on
the named George Bell, another one for Sam Cameron. Both
of 'em run together that long juvenile record during he
got an interest home.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah, it won't be hard to run down.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
What do you mean? Maine jail? Five days before George Bell,
a laborer and Samuel Cameron, a part time jewelry salesman,
had been booked at the main jail on charges of
being drunk and disorderly. The day after his arrest, Cameron
was bailed out. Bell was still in the drunk tank
then and I went out of the main jail and
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talked to him. He didn't fit the description of either
of the bandits. It was very cooperative, but he stated
that he'd been very drunk and he couldn't remember too much.
Just doing a notice, Sergeant Sam and I went out
and Tiger and Iland but came too. We were during
the drunk tank. You have no idea at all how
your name's got on this match, But I'm trying to think. Well,
pretty well he did up Stami thin. That's another thing
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that did he? Sam?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
What do you mean get the friend of his to
come up here and bail him? I think you do
anything for me?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
No, I brought the liquor. He lets me sit here now,
dirty Sam. You think he might remember about that match book?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I don't know. I'm disgusted with him. Just see him.
He can tell him that I saw him. Know he's
off my list.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
How about the address you're on the match book? George says,
fifth an alimeter. Doesn't that mean anything to you? Were
you and camera and hitting some of the spots around
that area. No, we were messing around over in Dogtown.
He didn't get down by atometer, doll. Well we must
have some telling him by fifth an allometer.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
No, guy, I know, down there is Sanchez.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Wait a minute, yeah, just a minute, Sanchez got sanchis
sure I wanted to see Guts. I thought he'd put
up that for us. Yeah, we ahead. I got it now,
I think I have. Anyway, it was the morning after
and I woke up here in the tank o a
big head, you.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Know, really whipped the first thing I thought.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I was out, figured Gut Sanchez might pop for bail.
Fun of mine, you know, looks at a box Fifinalomia.
I said, well, how's Italian? How this other mooch just
in at bank next to me and somebody stopped there
for him and he's getting nothing an hour?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
So I asked him to call gust for me, and
he said he would.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
He wrote my name down, and he wrote down Sam's
two dirty.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Sam, and he took down Gus's address.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Yeah, Tiftomy, you don't remember what this man looked like
when he took your name. Oh, let's see.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
No, everything was going around, and he's kind of tall.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I don't know. Would you remember him if you saw
him again?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Guy did me a favor. I'd remember him, Not like
that daddy Sam.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Well, how about his name? Did he tell you that? No?
I didn't ask him. I should have been sure about
the day this man was relieved positive the same day
I came in Tuesday, O. K. Bell, Thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
We'll be checking back with you. Yeah, alright, And what
about this guy?
Speaker 6 (14:51):
You gotta be for him or maybe if he's the
one we wanted?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, what he do?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
He lost his matches then, and I left the drunk
tank and went down the hall to check with the
officer in charge. We paged through the release book and
found that seven men had been bailed out or discharged
from the jail on the previous Tuesday. Went back to
the record bureau and had them pull the mugshots on
all seven men, and then we took the pictures back
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to the drunk Tank and showed them to George Bell.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
M M, yeah, this one I think. Can't be sure.
I think that's him.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
George Bell attentively identified the mugshot of a Fred Gunter WMA,
twenty one years old. Gunter had a previous record of
grand theft, auto perse snatching and drunk charges. His picture
matched closely with the description of one of the suspects.
Four am, we contacted the kid band It's most recent victim,
John Wildem, at his home. We asked him to look
at the same group of mugshots that we'd shown to George.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Bell here here this year. He's one of them. You sure,
mister Willie, He's the one who slugged me.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Who is he? His name's fred Denter.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Well, then you know, and you want me to identify her?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Yes, sir, when we find him.
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Monday, March fourth, nine am, we checked out the suspect,
Fred Dunter, trace of him at any of his previous addresses.
We began checking with the other victims of the kid bandits.
After a day and a half of leg work, we
sat down and figured up the results. More than two
thirds of the victims definitely tapped gun Through as one
of the hold up men. The next step was the
record bureau. We had them pull the packages on every
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one of Gunter's known friends and associates. There were more
than thirty of them. We had mud shots pulled on
each one of them and made the rounds of the
victims for the second time. Approximately half of the victims
had singled out. One picture is that of Gunter's partner
in the hold up. We pulled the package on the
man and checked his mamachue. His name was Harold Rymers, WMA,
age nineteen. Previous record included car stripping and one charge
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ADW no conviction. Friday, March eighth, we continued our check
of the friends and associates known to the two suspects
gun through in Rhymers. We got nowhere. Two weeks passed.
On March twenty third, we got a tip from an
informant about a girlfriend of Fred Gunter's, a vocalist working
at a downtown dance hall during intermissions long haul. Here's
(19:02):
one more flight. I'm four flats of stairs and then
they expect you to dance. You know, I guess this
is it? Yeah, come on May and that floor, Uh,
this show's a little aware place has been there for years.
(19:23):
Look at those walls and that seating.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I sure could use a fresh coat of pain.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Your names Stanley's that right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I see it.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Over? Excuse me? Your name Loraine Stanley?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
That's right, sweet, the range.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
You're with the band? Were police officers like, talk to
you for a.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Minute if we can sure?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
All right, I'm just rehearsing a little. What's it about office?
Do you know a Fred gunned forms Stanley Fred? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I know, I'm I used to be engaged to Fred.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
You happen to know where he is now? No?
Speaker 8 (19:58):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
I guess I haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I mean three four months.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
He usually looks me up when I'm in town. Maybe
he throw about something. I don't know. Was he contacted
you at all?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Not since I got back from Bakersfield a month ago.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
I played thirty two weeks in Bakersfield to ramble in
sure he needed to read nice place? Where does Gunter
stay in town?
Speaker 9 (20:17):
Do you have to know?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
That used to be that hotel? I'm so flower call
him there, but the city moved. He used to like
said a lot. Not nothing there anymore. Do you have
any idea where he might have gone where we could
contact him? No? I really don't. Nothing wrong is there's
got I mean, it's just routine investigations. I talk to him.
What's it about? Can't you tell him it's a robbery investigation.
(20:38):
We want to locate guns. He happen to know any
of his friends in the city. No, maybe that's why
he didn't grow he's in trouble robbery he did well.
We just like to talk to him, that's all. Well,
if he's done something wrong, I'm not gonna hide him.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I can't afford to get mixed up in it.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I've got a career to think about it.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
I've worked too hard to throw it away. Well, how
about the way his gun the usually visits Miss Stanley
Barr's restaurant. Do you know any of those? I remember
a few. I didn't believe he love poor friend. No,
he didn't do it for me, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Friend says he's in love with me and I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
He thinks don't want money. Maybe that's why he bring him.
I told him, but he never believed me. All I
want is in my career. Well, do you think the
count might come around here to see you? Probably usually
judgment in the town.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
How about where you're living.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I'm saying in a different hotels?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
He doesn't work, Poor Fred, He's gonna be awfully disappointed.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
How do you mean he said he was gonna get
money and buy a ring.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
He's gonna marry me this time. Poor friends, my new
team of the y you like it?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Just one more thing, Miss Stanley.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
If a gun To contacts you by phone, will you
be sure and let us know? All right?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I don't do that. It's a beautiful team, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Guiana player of Bakersfield.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
He wrote a school, Well understand, I don't want to
hurt me, Marian. How do I make him understand? How
do I expand? I don't think you'll have to, ma'am.
Before we left Lorraine Stanley, we told her that if
Gunter should contact her, not to tell him that he
(22:20):
talked with us. Steakouts were placed on the dance hall
where she working at the hotel where she was staying.
Gunter's known hangouts were also covered. The next night, the
kid bandits were back in bags. They hit twice a
Lectuor store on Franklin Avenue, in a tavern on South Flower,
gun Through and Rhymers were again identified as the two suspects.
The steakhouts continued. The search went on.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Four days later, we got a.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Tip from the proprietor of a shoe shine stand on
West Temple. The gunter's partner, Harold Rhymers, had been seen
entering a small hotel up the street from his stand.
We drove over and checked to the desk cart. He
identified Rhymer's month's out. He told us the suspect wasn't in,
but that he was expected back that night. Ben and
I went on steak out in his hotel room seven pm.
Rhymers failed to show getting a little hungry.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Joe you yea?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
What time you got now?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Twenty after seven? Someone starting to crowd and what's that afraid?
Well they saw let's see, oh the Salvation Army band.
Oh yeah, Saturday night. Might as well check the office.
Huh people, we can't get a relief or would you
get me Michigan five to one one please? Michigan five
(23:30):
to one one. Yeah, we'll pay for it, thank you.
Would you close the one that George little noise?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Okay, Robbily, yeah young, this is from Maryland? How was that? Sure? Okay? Thanks?
Guns and Rhymers. They pulled a hold up down South
May twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Guns had got away, you know, they got Rhymings.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Forty five pm. Then and I got back to the
city Hall and went to the interrogation room together with
Young in car from robbery. We tried to question the suspect,
Harold Rhymers. We talked to him for over an hour.
He refused to tell us anything. We took him to
the main jail where he was booked on two eleven PC.
Nine fifteen pm we went back to the office. I'm
getting robbery or Meryl. Good mess Fio, Joe, okay, thanks
(24:28):
Friday Targan Sergeant, this is Lorraine stan Yeah, Miss Stanley.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I'm older at work dance I you remember.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Yes, ma'am? Anything wrong? Well? Freda's cooled the sergeant.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I told the.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Officers year Fred Conker, yes, ma'am. Where is he?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Did he say? No? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
He said what he wanted to see me? Yeah, he
said he was gonning right over.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Nine twentive pm we called them in on steakout at
the dance hall and alerted them. Delton, Young Ben and
I got in the car and drove over. We checked
with the detail on Steakhoutdncer hadn't been spotted, but because
of a large crowd entering him eating the dance hall,
it was possible that he could have gotten in unnoticed.
We talked to the Stanley girl. She hadn't seen or
heard anything further from the suspect then and I staked
(25:08):
out in her dressing room. Where Gunter said he'd meet
the girl was a small converted storeroom at one end
of the dance floor. Just find the bandstand Lorraine Stanley
was on during the intermission. We waited, what have you got?
You know almost ten thirty. This guy must feel pretty
sure of himself. He pulled the robbery's almost picked up
(25:29):
in three hours later he makes a date to show
in the public play. You know he hasn't shown yet.
I'm not too sure about that Stanley girl.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
How do you mean I see that big an attraction
for him.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
This is the only way out besides that fire escape
off the alley.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah, Young's covering the alley.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You got bud me. He's up the alley behind one
of those trucks.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
You can't go forward to day and end. Stay here
Young and cut him up.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
You are right, Luck may knock me down.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I didn't see him in the.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Alright, Come on, Ben, Yeah, Lee, m you're dark.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
You know.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
What?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Get behind that part.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
I go watch your Joe coming back to yo. Don't
shoot don't show all right, that Joe. You wanna stay
with him, young, We'll call him alright close to place
(26:36):
that little cafe off the alley to the left.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Thanks, Come on then, yeah, I'm here. They yeah, I
guess they got.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
A phone inside.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Come on, wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
As soon as we get gun.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
To downtown, we're gonna come right back here.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Well, forth, take a.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Look at that fried cook in the window there.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
You know what about him? That fromam makes the Spanish
almond exactly like I do.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
The story you have just heard was true, only the
names were changed to protect the innocence.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
On July nineteenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
eighty sixth, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
In a moment, the results of that trial.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Now here is our star, Jack Webb.
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