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Speaker 5 (02:17):
It was Wednesday, April night was foggy in Los Angeles.
We were working a day watch out of personnel. My
partner's Ben Romero, the boss's deputy Chief Home and Commander B.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
I A, my name's Frank.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
We're on the way over from the City Hall and
it was five twenty five pm when we get the
Central Division the Assembly room. Why Sam you Yeah, it
looks like him over there. I let say hi you
Russell Clark. Yeah, that's right, Friday and Romero personnel hight'send.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Of Drummond over b. I'd like to talk to you
all right?
Speaker 7 (02:50):
When'd you want to see him? Right now? Okay?
Speaker 8 (02:52):
We look at the captain about okay, let's go sad.
What do they wanna see me about?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You know?
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Job a little ten year?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
Okay, how long you been on the job? Duh, about
two and a half months.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
How do you like it? Oh? I like it? Fine.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Wife doesn't sing much of it. She wanted me to
stay at my own job. What was that selling insurance?
Like starting home?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Nice?
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Doesn't like to be alone, especially now. Yeah, she's expecting
a couple of months. You know that yet? Yeah that's close?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
You know?
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Hey, I uh put in a request for day works.
You think that's why personnel wants.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
To see me? I don't know. I don't think so
why is she like to get that day watch? Yeah?
Is not the way you full of starting? I did? Yeah,
he started in traffic, didn't you been? Yeah? Uh huh
I had nine months? Uh go ahead? Uh oh, thanks.
I have to be on the job at six. I
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think it's gonna take right long.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I ruh right.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Anne looked at him, waiting.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Listen now callman, lieutenant, Yeah, commit, This is Dobficer Clark,
Lieutenant Drum.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
How did you do, sir? Hi A Clark? Sit down? Thanks? Oh,
A couple of questions for you.
Speaker 8 (04:19):
Yes, sir, you were on special duty at the Olympic
Auditorium last night there right, yes' for the fights? Anything
unusual happened out there last night? And well it wasn't
very important, lieutenant. And after the fight's A drunk fell
down the stairs on my way out of the auditorium,
broke his arm. I took him to Georgia Street and
they took care of the arm, and I drove him
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home and he was pretty drunk. Why didn't you book
the man? I I didn't think it was necessary. How
long you been with the department, Clark two and a
half onths S. Didn't you know he should have been
booked for violation of forty one twenty seven a LAMC.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Well, the man was in pretty bad shape, Lieutenant broke
an arm.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
I I guess I didn't think the law was that
stract low was there for a purpose.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
He decided to forget it. Now you're in a mess
right up to your neck. I don't understand.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
You remember the name of that drunk he took care
of last night. Yes, her name of Stacy, lives out
in West LA What. What's the matter to that drunk?
Mister Stacy wants to find a complain against you?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
What for?
Speaker 8 (05:15):
He claims you took him back to the auditorium, beat
him up, broke his arm, and robbed him of a
hundred and twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Crazy, he's lying.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
I didn't do that, got his word against your as Clark,
the fact seemed to favor him, but I can prove
it whether. Uh, there was at least a couple of
dozen people around it. There there was a doctor, he continued.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Maybe you better take it from the beginning, Clark, exactly
how did it happen?
Speaker 8 (05:35):
I was right after the fight, so I was on
duty in the lobby, you know. I saw a bunch
of people crowing around the foot of the stairs.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
I went over to see what the trouble was, and
they were looking at this man lying on the pavement. Well, Stacy.
A doctor was examining his doctor. Did he identify him too? Yeah?
I asked her his identification. He he showed it to me,
gave me clary he was doctor.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
All right, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Well he told me that he had seen Stacy fall
down the stairs coming out of the auditorium, so that
Stacey had broken his left arm. What'd you do then, Well,
the doc said'd be okay to move him. So I
helped him into my car and take him down to
Georgia Street. He's so drunkyard. They stand up. The attendant's
at Georgia Street took care of his arm. Well, they
can tell you all about this, maybe, but they can't
help you out as witnesses. You could have beaten up Stacy,
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robbed him, then take him into Georgia Street.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
But I didn't, Lieutenant Attendant, is Stacy's lying? What'd you do?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
When he left Georgia Street?
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:25):
I drove into Central and told him what happened. I
told the watch commander I was gonna drive this Stacy home,
and he warned.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Me about it.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
I guess I should have known him better. But well,
I swear to you that Stacy's lying. You should have
known him better. Where'd you go after you left Central?
I drove him home. On the way, he said he
was hungry, so I stopped. I brought him a sandwich
some black coffee. Kept telling me what a nag his
wife was, said he was afraid to go home.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Go on.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Well, when I got him to his place, his wife
started chewing me out. I just said, good night last
that's it. Huh, that's it, So help me. That's exactly
what happened.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Now, how about the doctor at the auditorium?
Speaker 8 (06:59):
When I saw Stacy full did you get his name
in address?
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Well?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
No, no, Lieutenant, I didn't I any think it was necessary.
How about the crowd that was standing around? Just spot
anybody you know?
Speaker 8 (07:12):
M No, no, no, I didn't. There just a bunch
of people coming out of the fence. And you haven't
got anyone to corroborate your story. But all those people
saw it. There must have been a couple of dozen
of me.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
What are their names?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
All I know is I didn't beat him up and
I didn't take his money. I tell you that Stacy's lying.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
You could be lying. We got no proof either way.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
I'm not lying, Lieutenant, I didn't do it.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
We might believe you, Clark, that doesn't make any doence.
If this man files at two eleven against just gotta
be sett on the court. R.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
But I I I didn't do it. I tell you,
I swear I did it. In just a minute, Mike,
send him, mister missus Stacy. You can hear the story
the way we get it from Stacey and his wife.
I'd like to hear it. I don't know why he's
doing this to me. I helped him all I could.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Look Gary Barriers, that's the one. Yeah, that's him.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Chief. Wait a minute, mister Stacy, what's this all about,
old Clark? Mister Stacy, would you repeat the same story
and told us this morning?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Please? You know what I told you, Chief? You had
the stenographer take it all down. It's the same thing.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Like to have you repeat it in front offic Flower
Carey's entitled I know what you're charging you with?
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Man Like that's entitled nothing you want to be in yourself?
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Fuck lady, your husband's line.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Don't call my husband a liar. You're not a policeman, you're.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
A hold them all right.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Wait a minute, I don't know what the city's coming to.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
COT's going around beating up private citizens who don't we
trust if we can't.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Trust a policeman Just a minute, please.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
No, Captain, you should have seen my husband when that
officer brought him home last night. I'm all Banda's face.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
All cut up.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
He was hurt so bad he could hardly stand up.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
He's too drunk to stand up.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Don't get fresh with me, all.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Right, that's enough.
Speaker 11 (08:42):
This cop got hold of me as I was coming
out of the fights, took me in back of the auditorium,
told me if I didn't hand over my wallet, he'd
booked me.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
On a drunk charge.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Were you drunk, Stacy?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
I was not.
Speaker 11 (08:53):
Had a couple of peers, that's all, and I wouldn't
give my money and beat me up, broke my arm
and took my wallet.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Hut, men like you get on the police force.
Speaker 11 (09:01):
He figured he'd cover up, so he took me and
had my arm fixed at the emergency hospital and.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
He drove me home, threatened me all the way. He said,
you tell anybody about this and I'll get you.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
That's just what he said. I don't get it, Stacy.
You know that story is a pack of lies. Why
are you doing this to me?
Speaker 11 (09:15):
It's the truth, and I'm gonna press charges and get
my money back.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
One hundred and twenty eight dollars. What have you done
with it?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
We can take care of the question, Missus Stacy.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Don't see you're doing it. Make him tell whe's o money?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
I haven't got it.
Speaker 12 (09:26):
Don't talk that to me, mister Stacy. You and your
wife want to find a crime report at this time?
Well you want to press charges? Romero, Yeah, take mister
missus Stacy's.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Down the record bureau. I have to make out a report.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
For two eleven and it so all right.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Put it away.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
Please now listen, we're gonna get action if we have
to take this to the district attorney.
Speaker 9 (09:45):
We're not afraid of the publicity. We'll go to the newspaper.
If we don't get action.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Yes, ma'am, what's it, Clark, they're lying.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
I can't I can't prove it, but they're well. You
can see the position that puts us in. If you're innocent,
will do all we can. If you're guilty, we'll see
you get everything that's coming to put the line. You
know that not up to us. The court's gonna have
to decide. That's it.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
That's it. Well, there's no other way. Flag.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
We got forty five hundred men in the department. We
don't claim they're all saints. Once in a while the
bad cop comes along and pulls a caper and all
of us get a black eye. This book of rules
is the only protection we got against that. By failing
to enforce the law, you have violated your duty as
a police officer. Get yourself in a real mess, Clerk,
like anybody else, should get.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
A fair trial. I mean, I'm dropping from the force.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Those people have filed the crime report, draw suspension pending
the outcome in the case after that, if.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
You're cleared, they'll be your hearing before the boarder rights
right through.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Right now, you'll be booked for robbery and assault and
Hilton in town to jail. Case will be presented the
District Attorney tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
What kind of hope I'll have to have your badge
on the desk, your gun ID card? Yeah on the desk.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Yeah, all right, Joe, that's it, Okay, take 'em.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Six pm.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Then returned to the office and together we took Rookie
police officer Russell Clark across the street to the Hall
of Justice at the County Jail booking desk on the
twelfth floor. He was booked on suspicion of two eleven
PC and assault with an attempt to do great bodily harm.
Was lodged in the cell black. Investigating charges against a
police officer involves exactly the same procedure as cases where
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private citizens are concerned. Prove the suspect innocent or guilty.
That's the job. If Clark was innocent, looked like there
was only one way approved That was somehow to find
the unnamed doctor who was supposed to have seen Stacy
fall down the auditorium stairs and then examined him afterwards.
If Clark was guilty, we had to find proof that
his story about Stacy falling downstairs was a lie. Besides that,
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we had to find evidence that he beat up Stacy
at the rear of the auditorium.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
That night and then he robbed him of a hundred
and twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Thursday, April tenth, got and I checked in for work
at seven forty five am and found a message from
the jailer on the phone board. Clark wanted to see
us right away. We met with him in the County
jail interview room.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
How you doing f not too bad? Don't let that
sour you know, Sergeant, you really think I rolled that character?
Want too in the truth?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
We checked you out, good family, You got a fine
army record.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
No, we don't think you did it.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
I just can't understand why he picked me up. I
tried to help him all I could. Then he walks
in the next day with a frame story like that.
You got any idea why Stacey would pull something like
this on you? I don't know. I'm worried, Sergeant, believe me.
I I I can't afford to sit here missing my pay.
We we live pretty close to the budget with a
baby coming. I'm worried about the wife. I just don't
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know what to do. And you sure you told us
everything about this that you remember. Well, that's the one
reason I wanted to see. I didn't sleep much last night.
I kept trying to remember the name of that doctor. Yeah, well,
I remember once he did mention his name, and then
when I asked for his identification, he showed me one
of his cards.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Any idea what his name was?
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Well, I'm not sure, but as I remembered, it was
some kind of a Swedish or Norwegian name or something
like Johnson Tollison, you know, something with a son on
the end of it. It's on that card and that
doesn't errate down too much.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
What is it card? Well?
Speaker 8 (13:43):
I think I put his card in one of the
pockets of my other uniform shirt. That's why I called you.
I wonder if you could check that for me. It's
at home. Sure, where do you live out of Norwich
Road four eleven? It's right near the coliseum or eleven. Yeah, alright,
let's check it out for Just ask the wife where
your cards should be in one.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Of the pockets.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Yeah, if you put it there.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Ben and I left the interview room at the County
Jail and drove out to the home of Officer Clark
on Norwich Road. We introduced ourselves to his wife and
told her what we were after. Her eyes were red
and looked like she'd been crying. She asked about her husband.
We told her he was alright.
Speaker 13 (14:23):
They're making a terrible mistake.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
Sergeant Russ never did anything crooked in his life. He
didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I know he didn't.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
We'll do everything began to straighten it out. As his law.
Of course, he'll have the final say.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
I knew Russ shouldn't have left his insurance job.
Speaker 14 (14:34):
I just knew it all this trouble.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
How about that shirt that your husband told us about
that when he wore that night at the auditorium.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
Oh, yes, it's out a uniform shirt.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
M Can we see it please, Yes, certainly, it's.
Speaker 13 (14:44):
Right this way back then.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
What's so important about the shirt?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Sergeant Your husband told us that there might be a
card in one of the pockets, might help clear up things.
Speaker 14 (14:53):
Well, it should be hanging up here in the closet.
I always like to keep Russ's shirts on him. When
is that keep so much nicer looking? What's my this morning?
I sent it to the cleaners.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Clark's wife Ben and I drove down to a dry
cleaning shop a few blocks away where Missus Clark had
left the shirt. The counter girl there told us that
the truck had already been by that morning and picked
up the day's cleaning. Was a store rule to check
all garments for contents. She had found nothing. We got
the address of the main plant, the Great Northern Dry Cleaners,
a place down on Factory Street.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Ten fifteen am.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
We checked in at the main plant and explained to
the manager what we were After we gave him the tag
number of her cleaning, and Missus Clark gave him the
description of the shirt.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
We waited in the.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Manager's office while he made a search for the dark
blue wool please shirt.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
How about this one, lady, it's the only blue wolf
shirt picked up at your fingers this morning.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Yes, that's Russa's shirt. That pocket sat there and mended.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
It pockets before you had to pull it out of
a tank. So with.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Hey not in this pocket by the other one?
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Yeah, look for yourself.
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April tenth, shortly after noon the daily newspapers were on
the streets, and the head on one of the top
front page stories.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Read Rookie cops slugs robed citizen.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Ben and I went back to the county jail and
told Clark that we'd fail to find the card. He
could give us no other lead that might help in
clearing the case. During the next two days that followed,
Ben and I ran down every possible lead, no matter
how removed it was. I made a thorough check on
mister and missus Stacey. We double checked back on Clark's record.
For one full day, we did nothing but phone doctors
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in and around the city of Los Angeles. From a
list of hundreds, we came across three doctors who had
been present at the fights and Olympic Auditorium on the
night Stacey claimed he was beaten up.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
And robbed by Officer Clark.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
None of the three had seen a man tumble down
the stairway leading from the balcony to the lobby. None
of them had seen any accident or had been called
on to help anyone professionally. Monday, April fourteenth, we met
with Lieutenant Ralph Rummond.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Oh go that's good us, Ralph, who can't figure it's
almost to fact Stacy's line Clark about him.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Oh, there's still nothing to show that he didn't do it.
He had the opportunity, maybe he had him outive. He
needs money, you know who doesn't. How much you get
on Stacy? He and his wife run a second hand
furniture store in South Flower. It's a small business. Stacy's
quite a gamber. He bets on the fights. Yeah, he
checked around with some of the gang down at the Auditorium.
Stacey's well known down there. He laid some pretty heavy
bets the night he claims Clark rolled him. How much
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you got the dope there, Ben, how's it figure out?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Uh? He lost over seventy five dollars in small amounts.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Add to that the fact that he was doing some
partying that might have caught for the hundred and twenty
eighties mess. Stacy blew the role, was afraid to tell
his wife, so he cooked up the story against Clark.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Sure, maybe that could have been the way it happened.
But he got on the other side not much. Ll
couldn't dig up anything against Clark.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
He doesn't seem like the type to pull something like
that maybe not. He still can't prove he didn't do it.
How much the papers you've been plugging for witnesses. Yeah,
here's the ad. Had it running in personals for four days.
Speaker 16 (19:56):
Now, okay, Oh for a stair aitorium, they please call
Michigan five two under one seventy five noise ownser.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
You know all the possible doctors in town have been
checked out too.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
How about the local medical magazines kind of adding their
raft nothing's happened. Well, one thing is sure. If something's
gonna happen, newspapers are scorching the kid in the department
along with him. Victim without a trial makes a good
reading in the tabloids. Here's one thing I can't understand
the clerk's leveling. There was a doctor the fight might
have looked at Stacy didn't. Where's the doctor? We've had
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this thing, noise do all around down.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
We give it a little more time.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
He might turn up. I kind of like the Stacy angle.
What do you mean, Well, suppose we get him in here.
I think we could break him down into question. No,
I doubt that we can't even get close to him.
That wife or his and not a lawyer. They're with
him all the time. He's afraid to talk to us.
MM maybe if we passed the word to his wife
had been gambling.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
How far can we go on that, Well, she might
believe that she might not. You've seen what she's like.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Yeah, I got an idea. He sold her on a story.
She's tagging along to get one hundred and twenty eight
dollars back. And it gives me an idea, Joe, one
thing we might have missed. Now, say we found out
that Stacy did a little partying before he went to
the fights at the auditoriument and I.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Didn't we Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
We checked out a couple of the bars he was
drinking at, but we figured he must have parted away
at least fifty out of one hundred and twenty eight dollars.
He didn't spend that much at the bars. Oh well, sure,
he probably hit a few other places too. That's what
I mean. There's still a lot of money to drink
up alone. You figure a woman, Maybe you got any
reason to think Stacy plays around just one?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Yeah? His what.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Monday? One pm?
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Then?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
And I started at the canvas of bars and small night.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Clubs in the general area around the Olympic Auditorium. We
started with those where Stacy was a regular customer. We
failed to turn up any leads. Either of the bartenders
refused to tell us that they had no knowledge of
Stacy's running around with other women.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
We kept at it. Another day passed, two days nothing.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
One of the newspapers started a campaign against the brutality
of police officers.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
On Thursday, we.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Got a tip from a bartender to place out on
Washington Street, the Brown Cow. He told us that he
thought he saw a man answering Stacy's description in his
bar a few nights before, with a flashy blonde in
her late twenties. He said he didn't know Stacy too well,
but he knew the girl and he knew the hotel
where she stayed. Her name was Sandra Gay, an acrobatic
specialty'd answer at the cheap nightclub.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
We checked out her hotel, but she wasn't in. Went
after word for her to get in touch with us,
and then we picked up a.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Hamburger and some potato salad for lunch and checked back
in at the office.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
How you doing call her U as good as you two?
How I mean did you smell at her fuel?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Self? A blonde named Sandra Gay. She's waiting in the
next room. Won't talk to anybody but you.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Thanks Amanda didn't waste much time, did she?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Very few? Sure strong? Your name Sandrack Gay?
Speaker 16 (23:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (23:05):
See I do you? Other seller's been looking for me?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Stop by your hotel. We'd like to ask you a
few questions.
Speaker 13 (23:11):
Yes, it's all right.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
It's my partner side with ro Marrio. My name's Friday.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I know.
Speaker 13 (23:15):
Oh is marey? Kind of cute, prick cow? What can
I help you with?
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Do you know anybody but the name of Gerald Stacy.
Speaker 13 (23:23):
Missgame Gerald's Yeah, I hate that name.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Do you know any man who calls himself out? No?
Speaker 13 (23:28):
I think that's a terrible name for man. Gerald.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
The man we have in mind is pretty short, stocky bill,
dark hair, and he wears steel rimmed glasses.
Speaker 13 (23:36):
That where's he hang out?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Place out in Washington The Brown Cow. Supposed to have
been seen with you, Gerald Stacy.
Speaker 13 (23:42):
Oh yeah, I think I know you mean furniture business
and runs a place near the Brown.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Cow hunt trot you know I?
Speaker 13 (23:49):
Oh, Pop, sure, I know her. I get together once
in a while.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
He's a kick, pretty big spender.
Speaker 13 (23:55):
Oh he's god. Yeah. Last time we went out, he
was fine. He can kick it around with any want to.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Oh, Pops, when's the last time you were out with
the miss game?
Speaker 13 (24:05):
Maybe a week two weeks ago, the Tuesday night, I think.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Yeah, Tuesday the eighth. Is that about right?
Speaker 13 (24:12):
I must have been it. Why was it all about?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Did you spend most of the evening wedding?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
No?
Speaker 13 (24:17):
I had to get back to the club, do I act?
He went on to the fights over at Luncheon.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
I got it firston no on Friday? Is this Sergeant Friday? Yes,
that's right.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
This is doctor Samuelson talking Sergeant. I've been out of town.
I just got back this morning. I saw the ad
in the paper. Yes, sir, I was at the fights
at night, sageant.
Speaker 17 (24:38):
What does JO wanna know?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Would you mind telling us doctor? Did you see a
man fall.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Down one of the stairways to the lobby.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
Suddenly?
Speaker 11 (24:44):
I was the one who examined him.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Five pm, mister and missus Stacy were called to Lieutenant
Drummond's office. Arrangements were made to have Officer Russell Clark
brought over from his cell in County Jail. At five fifteen,
Ben and I checked into the Lieutenant's office. Stacy and
his wife.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Are already there, certainly proud of our police department.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Chief, no whitewashing this time.
Speaker 9 (25:08):
You gave that fellow exactly what he had coming.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Thanks. You're sure you make a mistake. I'm sure, Chief,
that's the right man.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
You got him, Jerry, don't make mistakes on things like this. Inspector,
how about our money, the one hundred and twenty eighty?
Tell you where he hit it?
Speaker 8 (25:19):
No he hasn't. We'll bring officer Clark in from County jail.
Figure we try to crack it.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Make him tell what he did with our money?
Speaker 7 (25:25):
Joe, Will you have officer Clark brought in by the way?
All right, there he is. Where's our money?
Speaker 9 (25:36):
What have you done with it?
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Just a minute?
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Police, Stacy, you sure Officer Clark here is the man
who beat you.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Up and robbed you. Of course he is.
Speaker 11 (25:43):
Dragged me behind the auditorium and almost beat me to death,
broke my arm, took all my money.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
I'm twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Where is it?
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I haven't got your money, Joe? Bring the doctor in.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Can hear god?
Speaker 13 (25:55):
All right?
Speaker 17 (25:58):
Mister Stacy or a lawyer? This officer didn't break your arm.
I saw you fall down a flight of stairs at
that auditory and break your own arm.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
I examined it her.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
Who is this man?
Speaker 7 (26:09):
What about it? Stacy? He doesn't know what he's talking about.
I never saw him before in my life.
Speaker 17 (26:13):
No, but I've seen you, Stacy. You were drunk. I
saw you fall down those stairs.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
You're crazy. Joe said, this gay and fires gay?
Speaker 8 (26:25):
He who is strong perfume? You recognize any of these people?
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Miss gay?
Speaker 13 (26:30):
Hello?
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Tops, I don't know you.
Speaker 13 (26:33):
Don't you remember the perfume you give it to?
Speaker 9 (26:35):
Who is this woman?
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Just a friend? Honey?
Speaker 11 (26:38):
All right, Stacy, Now let's have it straight. It was
all a mistake. I don't wanna make trouble for anybody.
It wasn't this cop sport. I don't wanna make any
trouble about this woman. It was all a mistake.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Believe you took that.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Money, Gerald, just spend it on her.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
Now, wait a minute, causing all this trouble, squandering all
money after all I did for you.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
You're no good this time. I'm through all.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Right, clock, let's go. Okay, Well that's it.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
I don't know how to thank you. Fellas and doctor's
are best friend. You've then, Yeah, I've better call a wife.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
You want to know Friday phone message for you here?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Oh, thank you from your wife Clark. Yeah, she found
that doctor's card. The story I have.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Just heard was true, only the names were changed to
protect the innocent.
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Gerald Stacey was tried on charges of filing a false
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lams See and served his term as prescribed by law.
Officer Russell Clark was returned to duty with full back pay,
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Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime For the
next thirty minutes transcribe in cooperation with the Lost Angeles
Police Department. You will travel step by step on the
side of the law through an actual case from official
police bolence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
It was Wednesday, April night was foggy in Los Angeles.
We were working a day watch out of personnel. My
partner's Ben Romero, the boss's deputy Chief Home and Commander B.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
I A, my name's Frank.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
We're on the way over from the City Hall and
it was five twenty five pm when we get the
Central Division the Assembly room. Why Sam you Yeah, it
looks like him over there. I let say hi you
Russell Clark. Yeah, that's right, Friday and Romero personnel hight'send.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Of Drummond over b. I'd like to talk to you
all right?
Speaker 7 (02:50):
When'd you want to see him? Right now? Okay?
Speaker 8 (02:52):
We look at the captain about okay, let's go sad.
What do they wanna see me about?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You know?
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Job a little ten year?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
Okay, how long you been on the job? Duh, about
two and a half months.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
How do you like it? Oh? I like it? Fine.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Wife doesn't sing much of it. She wanted me to
stay at my own job. What was that selling insurance?
Like starting home?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Nice?
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Doesn't like to be alone, especially now. Yeah, she's expecting
a couple of months. You know that yet? Yeah that's close?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
You know?
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Hey, I uh put in a request for day works.
You think that's why personnel wants.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
To see me? I don't know. I don't think so
why is she like to get that day watch? Yeah?
Is not the way you full of starting? I did? Yeah,
he started in traffic, didn't you been? Yeah? Uh huh
I had nine months? Uh go ahead? Uh oh, thanks.
I have to be on the job at six. I
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think it's gonna take right long.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I ruh right.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Anne looked at him, waiting.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Listen now callman, lieutenant, Yeah, commit, This is Dobficer Clark,
Lieutenant Drum.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
How did you do, sir? Hi A Clark? Sit down? Thanks? Oh,
A couple of questions for you.
Speaker 8 (04:19):
Yes, sir, you were on special duty at the Olympic
Auditorium last night there right, yes' for the fights? Anything
unusual happened out there last night? And well it wasn't
very important, lieutenant. And after the fight's A drunk fell
down the stairs on my way out of the auditorium,
broke his arm. I took him to Georgia Street and
they took care of the arm, and I drove him
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home and he was pretty drunk. Why didn't you book
the man? I I didn't think it was necessary. How
long you been with the department, Clark two and a
half onths S. Didn't you know he should have been
booked for violation of forty one twenty seven a LAMC.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Well, the man was in pretty bad shape, Lieutenant broke
an arm.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
I I guess I didn't think the law was that
stract low was there for a purpose.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
He decided to forget it. Now you're in a mess
right up to your neck. I don't understand.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
You remember the name of that drunk he took care
of last night. Yes, her name of Stacy, lives out
in West LA What. What's the matter to that drunk?
Mister Stacy wants to find a complain against you?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
What for?
Speaker 8 (05:15):
He claims you took him back to the auditorium, beat
him up, broke his arm, and robbed him of a
hundred and twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Crazy, he's lying.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
I didn't do that, got his word against your as Clark,
the fact seemed to favor him, but I can prove
it whether. Uh, there was at least a couple of
dozen people around it. There there was a doctor, he continued.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Maybe you better take it from the beginning, Clark, exactly
how did it happen?
Speaker 8 (05:35):
I was right after the fight, so I was on
duty in the lobby, you know. I saw a bunch
of people crowing around the foot of the stairs.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
I went over to see what the trouble was, and
they were looking at this man lying on the pavement. Well, Stacy.
A doctor was examining his doctor. Did he identify him too? Yeah?
I asked her his identification. He he showed it to me,
gave me clary he was doctor.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
All right, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Well he told me that he had seen Stacy fall
down the stairs coming out of the auditorium, so that
Stacey had broken his left arm. What'd you do then, Well,
the doc said'd be okay to move him. So I
helped him into my car and take him down to
Georgia Street. He's so drunkyard. They stand up. The attendant's
at Georgia Street took care of his arm. Well, they
can tell you all about this, maybe, but they can't
help you out as witnesses. You could have beaten up Stacy,
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robbed him, then take him into Georgia Street.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
But I didn't, Lieutenant Attendant, is Stacy's lying? What'd you do?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
When he left Georgia Street?
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:25):
I drove into Central and told him what happened. I
told the watch commander I was gonna drive this Stacy home,
and he warned.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Me about it.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
I guess I should have known him better. But well,
I swear to you that Stacy's lying. You should have
known him better. Where'd you go after you left Central?
I drove him home. On the way, he said he
was hungry, so I stopped. I brought him a sandwich
some black coffee. Kept telling me what a nag his
wife was, said he was afraid to go home.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Go on.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Well, when I got him to his place, his wife
started chewing me out. I just said, good night last
that's it. Huh, that's it, So help me. That's exactly
what happened.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Now, how about the doctor at the auditorium?
Speaker 8 (06:59):
When I saw Stacy full did you get his name
in address?
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Well?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
No, no, Lieutenant, I didn't I any think it was necessary.
How about the crowd that was standing around? Just spot
anybody you know?
Speaker 8 (07:12):
M No, no, no, I didn't. There just a bunch
of people coming out of the fence. And you haven't
got anyone to corroborate your story. But all those people
saw it. There must have been a couple of dozen
of me.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
What are their names?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
All I know is I didn't beat him up and
I didn't take his money. I tell you that Stacy's lying.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
You could be lying. We got no proof either way.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
I'm not lying, Lieutenant, I didn't do it.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
We might believe you, Clark, that doesn't make any doence.
If this man files at two eleven against just gotta
be sett on the court. R.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
But I I I didn't do it. I tell you,
I swear I did it. In just a minute, Mike,
send him, mister missus Stacy. You can hear the story
the way we get it from Stacey and his wife.
I'd like to hear it. I don't know why he's
doing this to me. I helped him all I could.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Look Gary Barriers, that's the one. Yeah, that's him.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Chief. Wait a minute, mister Stacy, what's this all about,
old Clark? Mister Stacy, would you repeat the same story
and told us this morning?
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Please? You know what I told you, Chief? You had
the stenographer take it all down. It's the same thing.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Like to have you repeat it in front offic Flower
Carey's entitled I know what you're charging you with?
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Man Like that's entitled nothing you want to be in yourself?
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Fuck lady, your husband's line.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Don't call my husband a liar. You're not a policeman, you're.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
A hold them all right.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Wait a minute, I don't know what the city's coming to.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
COT's going around beating up private citizens who don't we
trust if we can't.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Trust a policeman Just a minute, please.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
No, Captain, you should have seen my husband when that
officer brought him home last night. I'm all Banda's face.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
All cut up.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
He was hurt so bad he could hardly stand up.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
He's too drunk to stand up.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Don't get fresh with me, all.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Right, that's enough.
Speaker 11 (08:42):
This cop got hold of me as I was coming
out of the fights, took me in back of the auditorium,
told me if I didn't hand over my wallet, he'd
booked me.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
On a drunk charge.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Were you drunk, Stacy?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
I was not.
Speaker 11 (08:53):
Had a couple of peers, that's all, and I wouldn't
give my money and beat me up, broke my arm
and took my wallet.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Hut, men like you get on the police force.
Speaker 11 (09:01):
He figured he'd cover up, so he took me and
had my arm fixed at the emergency hospital and.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
He drove me home, threatened me all the way. He said,
you tell anybody about this and I'll get you.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
That's just what he said. I don't get it, Stacy.
You know that story is a pack of lies. Why
are you doing this to me?
Speaker 11 (09:15):
It's the truth, and I'm gonna press charges and get
my money back.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
One hundred and twenty eight dollars. What have you done
with it?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
We can take care of the question, Missus Stacy.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Don't see you're doing it. Make him tell whe's o money?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
I haven't got it.
Speaker 12 (09:26):
Don't talk that to me, mister Stacy. You and your
wife want to find a crime report at this time?
Well you want to press charges? Romero, Yeah, take mister
missus Stacy's.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Down the record bureau. I have to make out a report.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
For two eleven and it so all right.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Put it away.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
Please now listen, we're gonna get action if we have
to take this to the district attorney.
Speaker 9 (09:45):
We're not afraid of the publicity. We'll go to the newspaper.
If we don't get action.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Yes, ma'am, what's it, Clark, they're lying.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
I can't I can't prove it, but they're well. You
can see the position that puts us in. If you're innocent,
will do all we can. If you're guilty, we'll see
you get everything that's coming to put the line. You
know that not up to us. The court's gonna have
to decide. That's it.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
That's it. Well, there's no other way. Flag.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
We got forty five hundred men in the department. We
don't claim they're all saints. Once in a while the
bad cop comes along and pulls a caper and all
of us get a black eye. This book of rules
is the only protection we got against that. By failing
to enforce the law, you have violated your duty as
a police officer. Get yourself in a real mess, Clerk,
like anybody else, should get.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
A fair trial. I mean, I'm dropping from the force.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Those people have filed the crime report, draw suspension pending
the outcome in the case after that, if.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
You're cleared, they'll be your hearing before the boarder rights
right through.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Right now, you'll be booked for robbery and assault and
Hilton in town to jail. Case will be presented the
District Attorney tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
What kind of hope I'll have to have your badge
on the desk, your gun ID card? Yeah on the desk.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Yeah, all right, Joe, that's it, Okay, take 'em.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Six pm.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Then returned to the office and together we took Rookie
police officer Russell Clark across the street to the Hall
of Justice at the County Jail booking desk on the
twelfth floor. He was booked on suspicion of two eleven
PC and assault with an attempt to do great bodily harm.
Was lodged in the cell black. Investigating charges against a
police officer involves exactly the same procedure as cases where
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private citizens are concerned. Prove the suspect innocent or guilty.
That's the job. If Clark was innocent, looked like there
was only one way approved That was somehow to find
the unnamed doctor who was supposed to have seen Stacy
fall down the auditorium stairs and then examined him afterwards.
If Clark was guilty, we had to find proof that
his story about Stacy falling downstairs was a lie. Besides that,
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we had to find evidence that he beat up Stacy
at the rear of the auditorium.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
That night and then he robbed him of a hundred
and twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Thursday, April tenth, got and I checked in for work
at seven forty five am and found a message from
the jailer on the phone board. Clark wanted to see
us right away. We met with him in the County
jail interview room.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
How you doing f not too bad? Don't let that
sour you know, Sergeant, you really think I rolled that character?
Want too in the truth?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
We checked you out, good family, You got a fine
army record.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
No, we don't think you did it.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
I just can't understand why he picked me up. I
tried to help him all I could. Then he walks
in the next day with a frame story like that.
You got any idea why Stacey would pull something like
this on you? I don't know. I'm worried, Sergeant, believe me.
I I I can't afford to sit here missing my pay.
We we live pretty close to the budget with a
baby coming. I'm worried about the wife. I just don't
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know what to do. And you sure you told us
everything about this that you remember. Well, that's the one
reason I wanted to see. I didn't sleep much last night.
I kept trying to remember the name of that doctor. Yeah, well,
I remember once he did mention his name, and then
when I asked for his identification, he showed me one
of his cards.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Any idea what his name was?
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Well, I'm not sure, but as I remembered, it was
some kind of a Swedish or Norwegian name or something
like Johnson Tollison, you know, something with a son on
the end of it. It's on that card and that
doesn't errate down too much.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
What is it card? Well?
Speaker 8 (13:43):
I think I put his card in one of the
pockets of my other uniform shirt. That's why I called you.
I wonder if you could check that for me. It's
at home. Sure, where do you live out of Norwich
Road four eleven? It's right near the coliseum or eleven. Yeah, alright,
let's check it out for Just ask the wife where
your cards should be in one.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Of the pockets.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Yeah, if you put it there.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Ben and I left the interview room at the County
Jail and drove out to the home of Officer Clark
on Norwich Road. We introduced ourselves to his wife and
told her what we were after. Her eyes were red
and looked like she'd been crying. She asked about her husband.
We told her he was alright.
Speaker 13 (14:23):
They're making a terrible mistake.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
Sergeant Russ never did anything crooked in his life. He
didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I know he didn't.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
We'll do everything began to straighten it out. As his law.
Of course, he'll have the final say.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
I knew Russ shouldn't have left his insurance job.
Speaker 14 (14:34):
I just knew it all this trouble.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
How about that shirt that your husband told us about
that when he wore that night at the auditorium.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
Oh, yes, it's out a uniform shirt.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
M Can we see it please, Yes, certainly, it's.
Speaker 13 (14:44):
Right this way back then.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
What's so important about the shirt?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Sergeant Your husband told us that there might be a
card in one of the pockets, might help clear up things.
Speaker 14 (14:53):
Well, it should be hanging up here in the closet.
I always like to keep Russ's shirts on him. When
is that keep so much nicer looking? What's my this morning?
I sent it to the cleaners.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Clark's wife Ben and I drove down to a dry
cleaning shop a few blocks away where Missus Clark had
left the shirt. The counter girl there told us that
the truck had already been by that morning and picked
up the day's cleaning. Was a store rule to check
all garments for contents. She had found nothing. We got
the address of the main plant, the Great Northern Dry Cleaners,
a place down on Factory Street.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Ten fifteen am.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
We checked in at the main plant and explained to
the manager what we were After we gave him the tag
number of her cleaning, and Missus Clark gave him the
description of the shirt.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
We waited in the.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Manager's office while he made a search for the dark
blue wool please shirt.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
How about this one, lady, it's the only blue wolf
shirt picked up at your fingers this morning.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Yes, that's Russa's shirt. That pocket sat there and mended.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
It pockets before you had to pull it out of
a tank. So with.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Hey not in this pocket by the other one?
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Yeah, look for yourself.
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April tenth, shortly after noon the daily newspapers were on
the streets, and the head on one of the top
front page stories.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Read Rookie cops slugs robed citizen.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Ben and I went back to the county jail and
told Clark that we'd fail to find the card. He
could give us no other lead that might help in
clearing the case. During the next two days that followed,
Ben and I ran down every possible lead, no matter
how removed it was. I made a thorough check on
mister and missus Stacey. We double checked back on Clark's record.
For one full day, we did nothing but phone doctors
(18:30):
in and around the city of Los Angeles. From a
list of hundreds, we came across three doctors who had
been present at the fights and Olympic Auditorium on the
night Stacey claimed he was beaten up.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
And robbed by Officer Clark.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
None of the three had seen a man tumble down
the stairway leading from the balcony to the lobby. None
of them had seen any accident or had been called
on to help anyone professionally. Monday, April fourteenth, we met
with Lieutenant Ralph Rummond.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Oh go that's good us, Ralph, who can't figure it's
almost to fact Stacy's line Clark about him.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Oh, there's still nothing to show that he didn't do it.
He had the opportunity, maybe he had him outive. He
needs money, you know who doesn't. How much you get
on Stacy? He and his wife run a second hand
furniture store in South Flower. It's a small business. Stacy's
quite a gamber. He bets on the fights. Yeah, he
checked around with some of the gang down at the Auditorium.
Stacey's well known down there. He laid some pretty heavy
bets the night he claims Clark rolled him. How much
(19:22):
you got the dope there, Ben, how's it figure out?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Uh? He lost over seventy five dollars in small amounts.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Add to that the fact that he was doing some
partying that might have caught for the hundred and twenty
eighties mess. Stacy blew the role, was afraid to tell
his wife, so he cooked up the story against Clark.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Sure, maybe that could have been the way it happened.
But he got on the other side not much. Ll
couldn't dig up anything against Clark.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
He doesn't seem like the type to pull something like
that maybe not. He still can't prove he didn't do it.
How much the papers you've been plugging for witnesses. Yeah,
here's the ad. Had it running in personals for four days.
Speaker 16 (19:56):
Now, okay, Oh for a stair aitorium, they please call
Michigan five two under one seventy five noise ownser.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
You know all the possible doctors in town have been
checked out too.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
How about the local medical magazines kind of adding their
raft nothing's happened. Well, one thing is sure. If something's
gonna happen, newspapers are scorching the kid in the department
along with him. Victim without a trial makes a good
reading in the tabloids. Here's one thing I can't understand
the clerk's leveling. There was a doctor the fight might
have looked at Stacy didn't. Where's the doctor? We've had
(20:31):
this thing, noise do all around down.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
We give it a little more time.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
He might turn up. I kind of like the Stacy angle.
What do you mean, Well, suppose we get him in here.
I think we could break him down into question. No,
I doubt that we can't even get close to him.
That wife or his and not a lawyer. They're with
him all the time. He's afraid to talk to us.
MM maybe if we passed the word to his wife
had been gambling.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
How far can we go on that, Well, she might
believe that she might not. You've seen what she's like.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Yeah, I got an idea. He sold her on a story.
She's tagging along to get one hundred and twenty eight
dollars back. And it gives me an idea, Joe, one
thing we might have missed. Now, say we found out
that Stacy did a little partying before he went to
the fights at the auditoriument and I.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Didn't we Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
We checked out a couple of the bars he was
drinking at, but we figured he must have parted away
at least fifty out of one hundred and twenty eight dollars.
He didn't spend that much at the bars. Oh well, sure,
he probably hit a few other places too. That's what
I mean. There's still a lot of money to drink
up alone. You figure a woman, Maybe you got any
reason to think Stacy plays around just one?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Yeah? His what.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Monday? One pm?
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Then?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
And I started at the canvas of bars and small night.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Clubs in the general area around the Olympic Auditorium. We
started with those where Stacy was a regular customer. We
failed to turn up any leads. Either of the bartenders
refused to tell us that they had no knowledge of
Stacy's running around with other women.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
We kept at it. Another day passed, two days nothing.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
One of the newspapers started a campaign against the brutality
of police officers.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
On Thursday, we.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Got a tip from a bartender to place out on
Washington Street, the Brown Cow. He told us that he
thought he saw a man answering Stacy's description in his
bar a few nights before, with a flashy blonde in
her late twenties. He said he didn't know Stacy too well,
but he knew the girl and he knew the hotel
where she stayed. Her name was Sandra Gay, an acrobatic
specialty'd answer at the cheap nightclub.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
We checked out her hotel, but she wasn't in. Went
after word for her to get in touch with us,
and then we picked up a.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Hamburger and some potato salad for lunch and checked back
in at the office.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
How you doing call her U as good as you two?
How I mean did you smell at her fuel?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Self? A blonde named Sandra Gay. She's waiting in the
next room. Won't talk to anybody but you.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Thanks Amanda didn't waste much time, did she?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Very few? Sure strong? Your name Sandrack Gay?
Speaker 16 (23:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (23:05):
See I do you? Other seller's been looking for me?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Stop by your hotel. We'd like to ask you a
few questions.
Speaker 13 (23:11):
Yes, it's all right.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
It's my partner side with ro Marrio. My name's Friday.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I know.
Speaker 13 (23:15):
Oh is marey? Kind of cute, prick cow? What can
I help you with?
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Do you know anybody but the name of Gerald Stacy.
Speaker 13 (23:23):
Missgame Gerald's Yeah, I hate that name.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Do you know any man who calls himself out? No?
Speaker 13 (23:28):
I think that's a terrible name for man. Gerald.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
The man we have in mind is pretty short, stocky bill,
dark hair, and he wears steel rimmed glasses.
Speaker 13 (23:36):
That where's he hang out?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Place out in Washington The Brown Cow. Supposed to have
been seen with you, Gerald Stacy.
Speaker 13 (23:42):
Oh yeah, I think I know you mean furniture business
and runs a place near the Brown.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Cow hunt trot you know I?
Speaker 13 (23:49):
Oh, Pop, sure, I know her. I get together once
in a while.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
He's a kick, pretty big spender.
Speaker 13 (23:55):
Oh he's god. Yeah. Last time we went out, he
was fine. He can kick it around with any want to.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Oh, Pops, when's the last time you were out with
the miss game?
Speaker 13 (24:05):
Maybe a week two weeks ago, the Tuesday night, I think.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Yeah, Tuesday the eighth. Is that about right?
Speaker 13 (24:12):
I must have been it. Why was it all about?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Did you spend most of the evening wedding?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
No?
Speaker 13 (24:17):
I had to get back to the club, do I act?
He went on to the fights over at Luncheon.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
I got it firston no on Friday? Is this Sergeant Friday? Yes,
that's right.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
This is doctor Samuelson talking Sergeant. I've been out of town.
I just got back this morning. I saw the ad
in the paper. Yes, sir, I was at the fights
at night, sageant.
Speaker 17 (24:38):
What does JO wanna know?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Would you mind telling us doctor? Did you see a
man fall.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Down one of the stairways to the lobby.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
Suddenly?
Speaker 11 (24:44):
I was the one who examined him.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Five pm, mister and missus Stacy were called to Lieutenant
Drummond's office. Arrangements were made to have Officer Russell Clark
brought over from his cell in County Jail. At five fifteen,
Ben and I checked into the Lieutenant's office. Stacy and
his wife.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Are already there, certainly proud of our police department.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Chief, no whitewashing this time.
Speaker 9 (25:08):
You gave that fellow exactly what he had coming.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Thanks. You're sure you make a mistake. I'm sure, Chief,
that's the right man.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
You got him, Jerry, don't make mistakes on things like this. Inspector,
how about our money, the one hundred and twenty eighty?
Tell you where he hit it?
Speaker 8 (25:19):
No he hasn't. We'll bring officer Clark in from County jail.
Figure we try to crack it.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Make him tell what he did with our money?
Speaker 7 (25:25):
Joe, Will you have officer Clark brought in by the way?
All right, there he is. Where's our money?
Speaker 9 (25:36):
What have you done with it?
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Just a minute?
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Police, Stacy, you sure Officer Clark here is the man
who beat you.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Up and robbed you. Of course he is.
Speaker 11 (25:43):
Dragged me behind the auditorium and almost beat me to death,
broke my arm, took all my money.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
I'm twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Where is it?
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I haven't got your money, Joe? Bring the doctor in.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Can hear god?
Speaker 13 (25:55):
All right?
Speaker 17 (25:58):
Mister Stacy or a lawyer? This officer didn't break your arm.
I saw you fall down a flight of stairs at
that auditory and break your own arm.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
I examined it her.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
Who is this man?
Speaker 7 (26:09):
What about it? Stacy? He doesn't know what he's talking about.
I never saw him before in my life.
Speaker 17 (26:13):
No, but I've seen you, Stacy. You were drunk. I
saw you fall down those stairs.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
You're crazy. Joe said, this gay and fires gay?
Speaker 8 (26:25):
He who is strong perfume? You recognize any of these people?
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Miss gay?
Speaker 13 (26:30):
Hello?
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Tops, I don't know you.
Speaker 13 (26:33):
Don't you remember the perfume you give it to?
Speaker 9 (26:35):
Who is this woman?
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Just a friend? Honey?
Speaker 11 (26:38):
All right, Stacy, Now let's have it straight. It was
all a mistake. I don't wanna make trouble for anybody.
It wasn't this cop sport. I don't wanna make any
trouble about this woman. It was all a mistake.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Believe you took that.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Money, Gerald, just spend it on her.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
Now, wait a minute, causing all this trouble, squandering all
money after all I did for you.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
You're no good this time. I'm through all.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Right, clock, let's go. Okay, Well that's it.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
I don't know how to thank you. Fellas and doctor's
are best friend. You've then, Yeah, I've better call a wife.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
You want to know Friday phone message for you here?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Oh, thank you from your wife Clark. Yeah, she found
that doctor's card. The story I have.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Just heard was true, only the names were changed to
protect the innocent.
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