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Speaker 3 (02:00):
It was Monday, February ninth.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Was foggy in Los Angeles. We were working the day
Watch Out of Vices Detail. My partner's Bill Lockwood. The
bosses lieutenants, bring him.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
My name is Friday. Was four twenty pm when I.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Got to the second floor of the old Central Jail
Building Bice detail.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Hi, Joe, All right, Bill, you show up yet?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, I'm waiting in the next room.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh fine, Did you talk to him yet?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
No, I just came in a couple of minutes ago,
figured I wait for you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Ww's he seeing sober? He looks like he's awful.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Ash, Yeah, it looks pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Shay flinged up a little fine.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Dave, how are you?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Oh? Hi, Freddy thought I dropped by and see Remember
you were talking to me last week about that thing.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Do you hear anything, Dave?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Yeah, I think I might have something for you. I
think it's what you're looking for. She tried to get
you on the phone last night.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You want in, Well, you should have left the message.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Oh, I didn't want to do that, you know how.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Just guess I shouldn't even be coming up here like this.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And you got some kind of a permanent address, day
phone number, someplace we can contact you.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
No, I'm still floating around a little now about this
thing we were talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
What'd you hear? I picked up a little chatter.
Speaker 8 (02:50):
I think it's what you want.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So you fellas had your coffee?
Speaker 7 (02:53):
I haven't had mine.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
What'd you say?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Okay, I'll about the place down in the corner finally me.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
All right, if you wanna check us out, Bill, tell
me we'll be back in about ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, thank you. Alright, they we walk this way.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Okay, ye're looking pretty good.
Speaker 9 (03:05):
Friday World treating you?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Okay, I can't I'm playing. I guess go ahead. I
guess we better wait for your partner.
Speaker 10 (03:13):
Huh what's his name?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Lockwood?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Yeah, sure, Skipper's got something for us when we get
back to Alright, you're looking pretty good yourself, Lockwood?
Speaker 9 (03:22):
Yeah, real good.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You seem to be in pretty fair shape.
Speaker 11 (03:24):
That Parker's called chain sounds healthy.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
That's not too good. Still got a few diamonds to rattle.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
Has been coming too fast.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Let you know you're still setting pins down there at
the bowling alley.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Yeah, uh huh. A lot of help hanging around there.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That really got a hustle for it, that's all. Oh yeah,
a lot of.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
The alley's changing over to those automatic machines. You know,
quite a few guys out Elija. Machines can set pins
better than a man.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Can, right, Matthew's alright, alright, Joe, I bill.
Speaker 11 (03:48):
Let me see John not too much.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, who's up? Pack? He works out of the office life.
Speaker 10 (03:54):
Nothing I thought I've seen him around.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, No, down this way.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
They're just a couple of doors.
Speaker 11 (03:59):
Oh oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
By the way, do you hear anything about Tony? You
know fe's in town. No, I've been working on it.
It's thirty Tony. You knuck on his show?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Go ahead there, Yeah, thanks, and why don't you too
grab the back table.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
I order up.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I find black with sugar.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Huh uh, cream and sugar for your Joe.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, it's fine, bring a couple of those jelly donuts.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But you okay?
Speaker 11 (04:18):
All right?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
What's the story Dave? When you were here?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
I heard about it last night, right after I left
the alley. You told me to keep my ears up.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
You know.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Yeah, said you figured it might be.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Something on that new bunch hanging around the bar down
from the alleys. You figured they might tie in with
a new bunch of high rollers in town.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, what'd you pick up?
Speaker 7 (04:35):
I think you figured right from what I heard.
Speaker 11 (04:36):
Anyway, here you go, how don't do?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh? Yeah, thanks, you make a fine waiter.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Lock with thanks, we don't get a lead, Breezon.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I may have to take it up.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Day was just telling me that he figures he might
have something for us. He picked it up with the
spot down from the alleys last night.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Well, like I said, after I was through at the Alleys,
I stopped by the place and I had a couple
of beers. Can't afford anything else, if you Nicholas, they
pay me lucky they get enough to eat the way.
Speaker 11 (04:58):
Things are going.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, that's pretty rough.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I know.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
The picture got Dave while I was sitting there having
a beer, and a couple of those new faces were
sitting next to me. So I put my ear out
tried to pick.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Up some of the tall Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I couldn't get all of it, but I did get
enough to make out there's gonna be a big game tonight.
From what I could get, there's gonna be a lot
of scratch floating.
Speaker 11 (05:14):
Now you hear what's gonna be there?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Now.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I had to play it careful, you know, couldn't be
too nosey.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
I uh sat and had another beer in one of
this new monks. Heard the other guy calling Mike. I
think he has the bartender for change to make a
phone call.
Speaker 11 (05:26):
He got the change, went over the wall phone.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I got up and drifted over that way and made
out like I was watching the shuffle board, and I
caught some of the tall Now what was that. Well,
he was talking about some big game tonight. I heard
him say the guy in the other end not to
show up.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Before eleven thirty to get an address.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yeah, said he'd be back up an empty store building
down on Gibbons Avenue. And you get the number nine
one two two.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
What was that again? Nine one two too, yeah, Gibbons.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure. As soon as I got out
of the place, I wrote it down within me.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I got let's see, yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Nine one two two, give me Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Well, this fella that made the phone call, you say
his name was Mike, Is that right?
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yeah, that's what I heard his partner call him. He's
kind of a short guy, like thirty five, thirty six
on the fat side, black.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Hair, Mike Filmer.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
You know, Yeah, we've had a nine him thought he
might figure in.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Not about the size of a day, not all you heard.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Yeah, that's about it, Friddy. As soon as he finished
the phone call, him and his partner left, I finished
my beer and left too.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I had to. Couldn't ford another one. Real tough these days.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
Yeah, well, thanks a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Do you really appreciate it?
Speaker 11 (06:27):
Well, don't mention it.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
You've always done alright by me, though not sure taste
it great? Still hungry, but I feel I could take
on a.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Three inch stick. I'm sorry things aren't better for you.
Dave about the ten spottle what helped him?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Yeah, sure will, Friddy, thanks a lot, I.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
Really can use it.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
Well, I'm glad to help you.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You're always helping us.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
You sure make it nice. I mean you make it
nice and kneasy on a guy.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
What do you mean? Well, it's always there first.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
I never have to come right out and ask what's good?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Though.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
You always get the pitch, don't you. Mm.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Almost a month before we had begun receiving complaints about
a newly established gambling ring which had set up operations
in the city. After the first few complaints, we succeeded
in identifying some of the men involved in the ring,
and also some of the places they frequented. The nature
of most of the complaints against them was such that
we knew we were dealing with a well organized criminal element.
Even if a player happened to win at one of
(07:23):
the games, after he left the location, he was beaten
and robbed.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Despite the fact that we had.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Some of the suspects identified, we still lacked sufficient evidence
to prosecute them successfully. The various victims either would not
or could not identify the suspects. We knew the gang
was running three or four games a week, each one
of them at a different location, each one of them
at a different time.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
In the trade, that's known as a floating game.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
After we left our informant, Dave Carter, we headed back
to the office.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And briefed Lieutenant Bingham.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
That afternoon, we checked the address on Gibbons Avenue and
found it to be a vacant store building with a
furent sign in the window. There was an entrance in
front and one in the rear, windows along both sides
of the building, and a plasterboard partition dividing the inside
of the store into two parts. The place was deserted
at ten o'clock that night. Bill Lockwood and I staked
out in our car down the street from the store.
(08:12):
Sergeant Fred Taylor and Jack Matthews were staked out in
their car from another point of observation.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
We were in constant.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Touch with each other by three way radio ten thirty
eleven PM, eleven thirty.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
One K eighty seven to one K eighty Come.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
In one ky to one K eighty seven, go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Did you notice the lights come on on the back
of the store a minute ago?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Two men they went in the back way, parked their
car just down the street from us.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Here. Did you see anything else?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The car just pulled up down the street from us.
Speaker 11 (08:42):
Two men getting out.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Heading for the store.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Joe, just a minute, Yeah, they're.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
Going that way.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
See they're going around the back.
Speaker 10 (08:49):
Joe.
Speaker 11 (08:51):
H looks like it's gonna pay off.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Let's sit out in a while, KMA three six seven.
We waited. Eleven forty five.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
A blue pickup truck pulled up and stopped. A short
way from the front entrance to the store. We saw
two men get out and go around to the back
of the truck and unload half a dozen large boxes,
which they carried around to the rear entrance of the place.
One of the men came back, got in the cab
of the truck and sat there midnight twelve fifteen am.
Over a period of half an hour, we watched eighteen
persons arrive from different directions and enter the store from
(09:22):
the rear.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Twelve thirty one am. There were no new arrivals.
Speaker 11 (09:27):
We waited.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
One k come in, one k to one kty seven
go ahead. Not much activity down here.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Joe looks like a pretty well set. What do you think?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, I think we might as well hit it same
way we laid it out. Huh.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Fred will wait until Matthews picks up the lookout a
man sitting in the truck.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
Right, Joe, Jack, you want to go ahead?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
The drab and go wait?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
He shot his way, Joe, Okay, Soon as he picks
him up, we meet in front of the place, Bill
and I'll take the front.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
You cover the back.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
You got that, okay?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Joe?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Hold on mine, will you? Yeah? Jack?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Got him, bring him back.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
To the car.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Okay, let's go cam A three sixty seven, got the
carton fill.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
Yeah, it's going for you.
Speaker 11 (10:16):
Figured that's the best way.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Joe too, was going in the front.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
That's probably where the rush is gonna be. When Fred
goes through the back, they're sure to start for the front. Okay, Joe, Yeah,
Jack's got the lookout.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Now, carry'll wait for us.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Right now. What do you think about this? Fred?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You go around and hit the back door, so as
I hear you inside, they'll probably start for the front.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We'll take care of him there.
Speaker 11 (10:33):
It's good idea. Give me a half a minute to
get back there.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I'll ride to watch yourself.
Speaker 10 (10:38):
All right, Jill, let's go.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
We're still going and wants Yeah, let's.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Hold it right now, please go if we're going to rest,
all right there, come on, billet in.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
It shut h come on, police, off back against the wall,
the bread Brett.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Let's take it back against the wall, all right, Off
over you get back to Brett right all right, mister,
with the rest of them on there, back against the wall.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
All right, I'm going what's the beef about anyway?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Just all right and turn around face the wall.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Put your hands against the wall.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
What's the pitch anyway?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Treat this like a bunch of thieves.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
You just have a little fun.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
No harm done, Joe, As you find Fred, what happened?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
He's been shot? Hurt bad?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Matthews in with him now, I'll call the ambulance.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Get some help, all right, you too, and with the
others back against the what's your beef?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Sure?
Speaker 11 (11:27):
A big noise about nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
We're here to play a little cards, friendly game, just
a dollar limit.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Nobody ever gets hurt.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
We're all friends.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Is that why you carry guns?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
One am, the ambulance arrived and Sergeant Fred Taylor was
taken immediately to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital in a critical condition.
He'd been shot twice through the upper portion of the chest.
He'd been unconscious from the time.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Of the shooting. Who the assailant was we had no idea.
The crime RAB arrived at the scene and began their
preliminary investigation.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Meantime, homicide officers that are arrived and all units in
the area were assisting in the investigation, making a house
to house canvas and checking all backyards, alleys and unoccupied
buildings for possible suspects.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
In hiding.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Out of a total number of men present in the
store at the time of the shooting, Bill and I
had been.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Able to detain nine of them.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
The remainder had either scrambled outside windows or the rear door,
and then apparently made their way over back fences. The
nine we did get were taken downtown for interrogation. All
of them had been searched, but no weapons had been found.
Bill Lockwood and I remained at the scene assisting the
homicide officers.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Two five AM.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
An additional four men who'd been present at the gambling
game that night were picked up in the area, transported downtown,
and held along with the other nine at homicide detail
two twenty AM. Bill and I were called downtown to
assist in the questioning. We got nowhere where the first
three suspects was the same.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
With the fourth.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Do you expect us to believe that, Mike, Well, that's
the truth.
Speaker 11 (12:52):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Now, Look, Mike, let's put it on the table.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
We listened to your line of chattered down at the
store when we made the pinch. We heard it all. Now,
let's get out of fact.
Speaker 11 (12:59):
I told you everything I know, no different than the
other guys you picked up.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I heard there was going to be a game tonight,
so I came.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
Who'd you come down with?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
How'd you get there?
Speaker 10 (13:05):
I drove came by myself.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Where'd you park your car?
Speaker 11 (13:07):
About two blocks away?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
A little sally there by?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Guess you're a liar, mister, and you know it well,
that's the truth.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
To help me.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
If I knew there was going to be trouble, wouldn't
even have showed up.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
I play a few cards.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Sure, I don't go in for every stuff, though, I.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Haven't got anything to do with the game.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
You're a liar.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You can't say that.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Now you show me where I've life.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
You tell me we were staked out on that place tonight, Mike.
It was a little past eleven forty five. You drove
up in a blue pickup truck.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Another man was with you.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You were driving.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh no, you got it wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Oh, we haven't got it wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
You parked that truck about ten yards down the street
from the front of the store.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You got out first, the other man followed you.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
You unloaded six large carts from the truck, some of
the equipment we found on the store.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You took it around backing into the rear door. Didn't
you If you got it wrong, it wasn't me.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
It couldn't have been me.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Come off with Mike, the man you were with, we've
got him down the hall. The other officers have talked
to him.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
He gave him the straight story.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
I didn't come with any other guy.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Now, when you listen to me, I knew some of
them there.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'll admit that I came by myself. Listen to me, mister.
You get this through your head.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Get it once and for all. This isn't a gambling
deep anymore. Somebody's been shot, he's been hurt bad.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, that's not my fault.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I didn't shoot him on anything about it.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You no more than you're telling you lied about coming
here in that truck. We saw you something else. The
truck's been checked out. It's registered in your name. Now
you come up with an answer for that one fast.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
Oh, I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Maybe my truck is down there.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
If it is, I don't know how it got there.
You're in a jam, Mike. This isn't any misdemeanor rap.
I think the sooner you realize that, the better it's
going to be for you.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
You don't have to tell me it's serious.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
I know that.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Now, what do you want from me? And you know
what we want?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
You know the answers, and we want them. You're part
of that gambling setup.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We know that.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
We know who was there tonight, everybody. We want the
names of every one of them. Now, either you got
the answer to that shooting or somebody in that crowd has.
We're gonna get the answer, Mike, don't make any mistake
about it. We're gonna get it.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
What do I have to say to convincing?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You're talking to the wrong guy.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Not according to the man they got down the hall,
I wanted a pickup truck with you.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
He gave us the whole story.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
You hired him to help you tonight.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
You were gonna pay him twenty bucks. He helped your
hauld the equipment to the store, and he was supposed
to be the lookout at the front door. It tries
in all the way.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
How about it? All right? Now you've been calling people
lives huh.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, he's the liar, the whole lousy story.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It is nothing but a lie, all right, keep quiet
Friday talking? Oh yes, sir, all right, yeah, thank you?
How you listening, Mike, here's a piece of advice. You
make up your mind? How do you mean make up
my mind?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And I'm trying to cooperate.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
You don't believe me.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'm trying to help you out every way I can.
Speaker 9 (15:03):
I'm only too glad to give you a hand.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I know you got a tough job. You got my child.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Don't you worry about us? Mister from here and start
worrying about yourself.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You're going to do a lot of it. I don't
know what you're talking about. That policeman he just died.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You are listening to drag myth authentic stories of your
police force and action.
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Tuesday, February tenth, five thirty am, Sergeant Fred Taylor had
died at approximately five twenty two am. Cause of death
was listed as hemorrhage and shocked due to the two
gunshot wounds in the chest.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Officers from the medical detail and rushed Taylor's wife from
his home to the receiving hospital. He was with him
at the time of his death. Unfortunately, he never.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Regained consciousness five forty five am. While the investigation went
on at the scene of the murder, Bill Lockwood and
I continued our interrogation of the suspect, Mike Filmer. Another
hour of questioning and he still refused to tell us anything.
We finally confronted him with a man we'd seen him
arrive with at the location of the gambling game earlier
that morning. Another ten minutes of questioning, and he finally
(17:24):
broke down, Why.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Didn't you tell us that to begin with?
Speaker 11 (17:26):
And believe me?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I wanted to. I was scared.
Speaker 11 (17:27):
I was scared of death.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I never had anything like this happened to me before.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
I didn't know what to do, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
What to say.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
All right, this is a complete list of everybody you
saw there last night. Everybody was in that game.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, yeah, I think it covers it.
Speaker 11 (17:38):
Let me see him hear that. Yeah, yeah, just about everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
These are the only addresses you've got, just these three here,
gots it now.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
I'm not lying.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
I believe those the only ones I know.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
All right, So you had a hand in the game.
He brought in the equipment you were working for the house.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Then, who's the boss? Mike? Who's running the game?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Who's running it?
Speaker 11 (18:00):
I've told you everybody that was there, everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
He wasn't there that night. He couldn't have had anything
to do with Mike. We didn't ask you that. We
asked you who the boss is? What's his name? How
about it? We want his name? But I told you
he wasn't there last night. If he wasn't there, he
couldn't have anything to do with it. Look, he's a
nice guy. He doesn't want trouble anymore than I do.
He couldn't tell you. Let us figure that out. Well,
you know who's the boss, Mike?
Speaker 11 (18:19):
Does it have to be? Is that important?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
We wouldn't be asking you who is he?
Speaker 11 (18:23):
George Delano?
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Now?
Speaker 11 (18:24):
That's all I know about him is name? How does
he spell his last name?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
What do he look like?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well?
Speaker 11 (18:28):
I guess it's d el an O.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I never saw him write it down.
Speaker 11 (18:33):
Though I've only known him about a month, maybe five weeks.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
What's his description?
Speaker 8 (18:37):
When?
Speaker 11 (18:37):
He's taller than I.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
Am, about five feet ten eleven, maybe dark hair, a
little bit on the heavy side like me.
Speaker 11 (18:43):
I guess man about forty five fifty.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Where does he live?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Where do we find him?
Speaker 11 (18:47):
I don't know where he lives, some hotel downtown. I
think the only times they ever met him was at
the bar?
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Which bar for a south end of town down on Vermont.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
I don't know the address, but I can point.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
It out to you.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
It's a couple of doors down from the big bowling alley.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Right across from a theater was dress shop next door.
Speaker 11 (19:01):
Yeah, that's right, that's your place. The only place I've
ever seen him. He always calls me at home, tells you.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Where to meet him. You mean to say, you've been
working for this Delana and you don't even know where
he lives.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Well, I don't know what else to tell you. I'm
squaring with you. I really don't know. Friday.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, I'll be right back now.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
What you got Sam, Charlie Hart and I just got
back and placed down on Gibbons Avenue the store.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You know, thought you'd like him.
Speaker 11 (19:26):
Now we found a gun in the back of the place.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Hiding under a lumber pile. All right, you check it out.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
Yeah, I ran through a gun record the tragedy.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
What's the name?
Speaker 11 (19:32):
George Delano?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Seven thirty eight am.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
With the new lead on the alleged boss of the
gambling ring, George Delano, we interrupted our questioning of the suspect.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Mike Filmer.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
We took him down the hall back to the homicide
squadron to be held for further interrogation.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
We checked Delano through R and I, but we had
no record on him.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Then, along with Sergeant Sam Flowers and Charlie Hartup Homicide,
we drove out to the address of George Delano as
listed in the gun registration files. There was a small
cottage in the Wilshire area. The woman who answered the
door identified herself as Missus George Delano, the suspect's wife.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
She called her husband to the door.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
We identified ourselves, briefed him on the reason for our
visit and told him we wanted.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
To talk to him downtown. He appeared cooperative, more than
willing to come along.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
He got dressed.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
We drove him back to the City Hall and took
him to the interrogation room. He was well dressed and,
in his own way, well mannered. After being told of
the situation, he admitted freely that he'd been operating games
at different locations throughout the city for the past month
and a half.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
He told us that he'd employed Mike Filmer to.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Assist him in his operations, and he also admitted ownership
of the gun found near the murder scene. The gun
had since been checked by RUSS camp and Ballistics and
found to.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Be the murder weapon.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Well, yes, it's my gun, but I like to explain
a little bit about it.
Speaker 11 (20:46):
What's that delna number one?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I ad met.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
I'm a gambler, that's my racket. I'm new to Los Angeles,
I met. I've been working a few games, but I'm
no murderer.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
I wouldn't have any part.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
If you said you were going to explain about the gun,
and I would about it.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Now, look, I'd like to fill you in on everything, officers.
I got nothing to hide from. Yeah, I'll tell you
everything now. When I first came to this town, as
I say, it's been about five six weeks, I made
a few connections and I started running these games. For
the first couple of weeks, everything went fine. No beasts,
everything was fine. All I had to do was dodg
you fell it? And then the trouble started in How
do you mean you might if I have a smoke
a little excited to go in carefully?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
No, nothing.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
I want to fill the in from the start. I
want to clear this whole thing up.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah that's what you said.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Yeah, Well, as I told you, the first few weeks,
everything was fine. Then one night, when the game was
just about ready to break, a couple of funks came
in held us up. They cleaned everybody in the place,
made a big haul.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
When was this word?
Speaker 11 (21:36):
It happened down on the east side, puns took us
for everything.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know it is.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Couldn't make a report to you. I just had to
take it over the losses myself.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, how about that gun.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
I'm coming to it.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
This thing happens, and I figured at the end of it.
But no, A couple of nights later they hit again.
I still can't squawk. I have to stand the loss.
Another couple of nights they knock us over again.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Couldn't do a thing about it. Losing.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
We've heard all that. That's your racket. You can expect it.
All we want to know is about that gun. Now,
what's your story?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I told you I was coming to it. After the
third time they reached this, I hired a guard, somebody
stand watch.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
Outside in case of another stick up. The only thing
I could do.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Yeah, So I hired some guy to stand guard on
the games. Wanted my gun in case there was any.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Trouble, and he told him to use it in case
there was struggle.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
How about rate from the police.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
He told me to use it for that.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Oh, no, matter of fact, I made a point of
telling him about that. All he was supposed to use
the gun for was just to fire it up in
the air, maybe scare those punks off and warn the
guys inside at the same time.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
We'll talk about that later, Delana. We want to know
who had the gun last night?
Speaker 11 (22:27):
Well, the guard did.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
I told you I loaned him the gun.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Who's the guard?
Speaker 11 (22:30):
What's his name? Where do we find him? His name's Jake.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
A friend of mine got him for me.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
See Jake Leasena LEAs.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Of course you live.
Speaker 11 (22:37):
I couldn't tell you that.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
I always contacted him at a bar in south for
a month place i'd.
Speaker 11 (22:41):
Go quite a bit, you know, a little too early to.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Catch him there.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Now, what do you know about this Gleason? What you
look like?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
I haven't seen him much. I guess you sayed about
thirty two thirty three, kind of light brown hair, tall
x con. I think either he told me or somebody
told me.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Did time you knew he was an ex con and
you gave him your gun?
Speaker 7 (22:57):
Yeah, but I didn't tell him to shoot anybody. I
made a point of tell him that dumb jerk, especially
shooting a cop. All he was supposed to do is
fire up in the air. Those punks came around scare
him away to help me. That's the only time he
was supposed to use the gun.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
I told him. How much of a story, Deleno? Can
you proven sure?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I can prove it.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
You can ask Mike Mike Filmer and tell you the
same thing. You can ask Leeson himself, jerk. Mike said
he wasn't too sharp, A little punch.
Speaker 11 (23:18):
He wasn't quite right in the head. What's a I
said he was a little punch, he wasn't quite right
in the head. Gleason?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
You mean you met him in a bar. You didn't
know anything about his background. You knew he was an
ex con, you had an id.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Wasn't too sharp, Maybe he wasn't all there? Is that?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Right?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (23:30):
That's about it.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
And you put this man on the spot where you
knew he'd be in trouble, and then you gave him
a gun.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (23:35):
How about it?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Delano?
Speaker 7 (23:36):
What are you looking at me for?
Speaker 11 (23:37):
I told the dumb jerk what to do.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
I didn't tell him shoot anybody, punch trunk's booze. Now, truth,
I didn't have a thing to do with it.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
I hired the guy, that's all.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
It's not my fault. Are you looking at I wasn't
even there.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
I didn't even know about it.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
I didn't kill that cock, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Nine twenty three am we continued questioning. George Delano told
us that he'd instructed Jake Gleason, the ex convict, to
stand guard at the rear of the store where the
gambling games were held.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
He insisted that his instructions to Gleason were that if.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
He had to fire the gun at all, he was
to fire it in the air and then only as
a warning signal in case of robbery attempt. Delano was
detained by homicide officers pending further investigation. We checked the
name and description of Jake Gleason through our and I
and found his record and mugshot. We showed the mug
to Delano and he identified it. Gleason's record showed him
to be on active parole. Ten thirty am we contacted
(24:31):
the parole office. They gave us his address, and Villa
and I checked it out the second rate hotel in
South Flower Street. The manager told us Gleason had left.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
The hotel about seven to forty five that.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Morning, and that he was not expected back until after
six o'clock that night. He also told us.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
There was a chance we might locate him in one
of the bars around the neighborhood. Ten forty five, we
started making the rounds of the bars in the immediate vicinity.
The third place we stopped at was practically deserted. The
jukebox at the back of the place was turned up
the full volume. There was a smell of disinfectant wind
Ski and stay O perfume. There was one customer drinking
at the fire end of the bar.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
It was gleasing.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Stand up police officers.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
All right, take them down, bill.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Way, Joe hands him back.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, I want to kill that joke box.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Do you know why we watch you?
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I know.
Speaker 10 (25:24):
There wasn't any sense running.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
I know you'd be out.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
Could you do me a favor? I mean, wait a minute,
just a minute. It's like to tell you I didn't
mean it. I guess it's my own fault. I shot him.
I shouldn't have had the gun, shouldn't have taken a job.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
I shot him. I didn't mean it, all right, Come on,
there ought to be away. Don't you think, I mean,
there really ought to be away?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
What's it?
Speaker 11 (25:43):
I didn't mean it, no reason to kill him, I
didn't even know him.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
I just keep thinking, there's only a way, if I
could take it back again, you know, yeah, I mean,
if I could go back and change it, make it
all different. I mean, right from the beginning, I wouldn't
even look at a gun. I'd change everything, Bet I would.
Speaker 11 (25:58):
I wouldn't even look at a gun.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
Only had the chance, you know, second chance. There ought
to be away, second chance.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
You started with a gun, Jay, Now you never had
a first one.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
The story you have just heard was true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
On May twenty, second trial was held in Superior Court,
Department eighty eighth, City and County of Los Angeles, State
of California. In a moment, the results of that trial.
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And now here is our star, Jack Webb, Thank you,
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Jacob Allan Gleason was tried and convicted of murder in
the first degree and was sentenced to a life term
in the state penitentiary. George Delano, Mike Filmer, and all
other Principles were found guilty of violating the Municipal Code
forty three point zero one gambling and received sentences as
prescribed by law. George Delano and Mike Filmer were sentenced
to six month terms in the County jail. Others received
(27:26):
proportionate sentences.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Mister James Fox, Director on the Executive
Board of the Mystery Writers of America. Tonight, it is
with a great deal of pleasure that I am, speaking
for the entire membership of the Mystery Writers of America
in all fields, present the Edgar Allan Poe Award for
the second consecutive year for the finest radio presentation in
his class. Dragnet to you, Jack Webb and your fine
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represent the statuette of one of the immortals in the
field of mystery, actor Alan Poe.
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Thank you very much, mister Fox, and thanks also the
membership of the Mystery Writers of America.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
And standing by to receive his awards also for the
second consecutive year as the outstanding radio writer in his field,
and for the consistent job he doesn't Dragnet Jim Mojar
here's your statuette.
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Technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Fraser.
Heard tonight were Martin Milner, Eddie Firestone with Connor. Script
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Speaker 3 (02:00):
It was Monday, February ninth.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Was foggy in Los Angeles. We were working the day
Watch Out of Vices Detail. My partner's Bill Lockwood. The
bosses lieutenants, bring him.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
My name is Friday. Was four twenty pm when I.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Got to the second floor of the old Central Jail
Building Bice detail.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Hi, Joe, All right, Bill, you show up yet?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, I'm waiting in the next room.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh fine, Did you talk to him yet?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
No, I just came in a couple of minutes ago,
figured I wait for you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Ww's he seeing sober? He looks like he's awful.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Ash, Yeah, it looks pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Shay flinged up a little fine.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Dave, how are you?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Oh? Hi, Freddy thought I dropped by and see Remember
you were talking to me last week about that thing.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Do you hear anything, Dave?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Yeah, I think I might have something for you. I
think it's what you're looking for. She tried to get
you on the phone last night.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You want in, Well, you should have left the message.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Oh, I didn't want to do that, you know how.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Just guess I shouldn't even be coming up here like this.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And you got some kind of a permanent address, day
phone number, someplace we can contact you.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
No, I'm still floating around a little now about this
thing we were talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
What'd you hear? I picked up a little chatter.
Speaker 8 (02:50):
I think it's what you want.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So you fellas had your coffee?
Speaker 7 (02:53):
I haven't had mine.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
What'd you say?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Okay, I'll about the place down in the corner finally me.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
All right, if you wanna check us out, Bill, tell
me we'll be back in about ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, thank you. Alright, they we walk this way.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Okay, ye're looking pretty good.
Speaker 9 (03:05):
Friday World treating you?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Okay, I can't I'm playing. I guess go ahead. I
guess we better wait for your partner.
Speaker 10 (03:13):
Huh what's his name?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Lockwood?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Yeah, sure, Skipper's got something for us when we get
back to Alright, you're looking pretty good yourself, Lockwood?
Speaker 9 (03:22):
Yeah, real good.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You seem to be in pretty fair shape.
Speaker 11 (03:24):
That Parker's called chain sounds healthy.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
That's not too good. Still got a few diamonds to rattle.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
Has been coming too fast.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Let you know you're still setting pins down there at
the bowling alley.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Yeah, uh huh. A lot of help hanging around there.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That really got a hustle for it, that's all. Oh yeah,
a lot of.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
The alley's changing over to those automatic machines. You know,
quite a few guys out Elija. Machines can set pins
better than a man.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Can, right, Matthew's alright, alright, Joe, I bill.
Speaker 11 (03:48):
Let me see John not too much.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, who's up? Pack? He works out of the office life.
Speaker 10 (03:54):
Nothing I thought I've seen him around.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, No, down this way.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
They're just a couple of doors.
Speaker 11 (03:59):
Oh oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
By the way, do you hear anything about Tony? You
know fe's in town. No, I've been working on it.
It's thirty Tony. You knuck on his show?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Go ahead there, Yeah, thanks, and why don't you too
grab the back table.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
I order up.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I find black with sugar.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Huh uh, cream and sugar for your Joe.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, it's fine, bring a couple of those jelly donuts.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But you okay?
Speaker 11 (04:18):
All right?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
What's the story Dave? When you were here?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
I heard about it last night, right after I left
the alley. You told me to keep my ears up.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
You know.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Yeah, said you figured it might be.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Something on that new bunch hanging around the bar down
from the alleys. You figured they might tie in with
a new bunch of high rollers in town.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, what'd you pick up?
Speaker 7 (04:35):
I think you figured right from what I heard.
Speaker 11 (04:36):
Anyway, here you go, how don't do?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh? Yeah, thanks, you make a fine waiter.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Lock with thanks, we don't get a lead, Breezon.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I may have to take it up.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Day was just telling me that he figures he might
have something for us. He picked it up with the
spot down from the alleys last night.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Well, like I said, after I was through at the Alleys,
I stopped by the place and I had a couple
of beers. Can't afford anything else, if you Nicholas, they
pay me lucky they get enough to eat the way.
Speaker 11 (04:58):
Things are going.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, that's pretty rough.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I know.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
The picture got Dave while I was sitting there having
a beer, and a couple of those new faces were
sitting next to me. So I put my ear out
tried to pick.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Up some of the tall Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I couldn't get all of it, but I did get
enough to make out there's gonna be a big game tonight.
From what I could get, there's gonna be a lot
of scratch floating.
Speaker 11 (05:14):
Now you hear what's gonna be there?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Now.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I had to play it careful, you know, couldn't be
too nosey.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
I uh sat and had another beer in one of
this new monks. Heard the other guy calling Mike. I
think he has the bartender for change to make a
phone call.
Speaker 11 (05:26):
He got the change, went over the wall phone.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I got up and drifted over that way and made
out like I was watching the shuffle board, and I
caught some of the tall Now what was that. Well,
he was talking about some big game tonight. I heard
him say the guy in the other end not to
show up.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Before eleven thirty to get an address.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yeah, said he'd be back up an empty store building
down on Gibbons Avenue. And you get the number nine
one two two.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
What was that again? Nine one two too, yeah, Gibbons.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure. As soon as I got out
of the place, I wrote it down within me.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I got let's see, yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Nine one two two, give me Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Well, this fella that made the phone call, you say
his name was Mike, Is that right?
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yeah, that's what I heard his partner call him. He's
kind of a short guy, like thirty five, thirty six
on the fat side, black.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Hair, Mike Filmer.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
You know, Yeah, we've had a nine him thought he
might figure in.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Not about the size of a day, not all you heard.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Yeah, that's about it, Friddy. As soon as he finished
the phone call, him and his partner left, I finished
my beer and left too.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I had to. Couldn't ford another one. Real tough these days.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
Yeah, well, thanks a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Do you really appreciate it?
Speaker 11 (06:27):
Well, don't mention it.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
You've always done alright by me, though not sure taste
it great? Still hungry, but I feel I could take
on a.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Three inch stick. I'm sorry things aren't better for you.
Dave about the ten spottle what helped him?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Yeah, sure will, Friddy, thanks a lot, I.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
Really can use it.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
Well, I'm glad to help you.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You're always helping us.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
You sure make it nice. I mean you make it
nice and kneasy on a guy.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
What do you mean? Well, it's always there first.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
I never have to come right out and ask what's good?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Though.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
You always get the pitch, don't you. Mm.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Almost a month before we had begun receiving complaints about
a newly established gambling ring which had set up operations
in the city. After the first few complaints, we succeeded
in identifying some of the men involved in the ring,
and also some of the places they frequented. The nature
of most of the complaints against them was such that
we knew we were dealing with a well organized criminal element.
Even if a player happened to win at one of
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the games, after he left the location, he was beaten
and robbed.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Despite the fact that we had.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Some of the suspects identified, we still lacked sufficient evidence
to prosecute them successfully. The various victims either would not
or could not identify the suspects. We knew the gang
was running three or four games a week, each one
of them at a different location, each one of them
at a different time.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
In the trade, that's known as a floating game.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
After we left our informant, Dave Carter, we headed back
to the office.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And briefed Lieutenant Bingham.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
That afternoon, we checked the address on Gibbons Avenue and
found it to be a vacant store building with a
furent sign in the window. There was an entrance in
front and one in the rear, windows along both sides
of the building, and a plasterboard partition dividing the inside
of the store into two parts. The place was deserted
at ten o'clock that night. Bill Lockwood and I staked
out in our car down the street from the store.
(08:12):
Sergeant Fred Taylor and Jack Matthews were staked out in
their car from another point of observation.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
We were in constant.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Touch with each other by three way radio ten thirty
eleven PM, eleven thirty.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
One K eighty seven to one K eighty Come.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
In one ky to one K eighty seven, go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Did you notice the lights come on on the back
of the store a minute ago?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Two men they went in the back way, parked their
car just down the street from us.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Here. Did you see anything else?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The car just pulled up down the street from us.
Speaker 11 (08:42):
Two men getting out.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Heading for the store.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Joe, just a minute, Yeah, they're.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
Going that way.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
See they're going around the back.
Speaker 10 (08:49):
Joe.
Speaker 11 (08:51):
H looks like it's gonna pay off.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Let's sit out in a while, KMA three six seven.
We waited. Eleven forty five.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
A blue pickup truck pulled up and stopped. A short
way from the front entrance to the store. We saw
two men get out and go around to the back
of the truck and unload half a dozen large boxes,
which they carried around to the rear entrance of the place.
One of the men came back, got in the cab
of the truck and sat there midnight twelve fifteen am.
Over a period of half an hour, we watched eighteen
persons arrive from different directions and enter the store from
(09:22):
the rear.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Twelve thirty one am. There were no new arrivals.
Speaker 11 (09:27):
We waited.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
One k come in, one k to one kty seven
go ahead. Not much activity down here.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Joe looks like a pretty well set. What do you think?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, I think we might as well hit it same
way we laid it out. Huh.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Fred will wait until Matthews picks up the lookout a
man sitting in the truck.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
Right, Joe, Jack, you want to go ahead?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
The drab and go wait?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
He shot his way, Joe, Okay, Soon as he picks
him up, we meet in front of the place, Bill
and I'll take the front.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
You cover the back.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
You got that, okay?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Joe?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Hold on mine, will you? Yeah? Jack?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Got him, bring him back.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
To the car.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Okay, let's go cam A three sixty seven, got the
carton fill.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
Yeah, it's going for you.
Speaker 11 (10:16):
Figured that's the best way.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Joe too, was going in the front.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
That's probably where the rush is gonna be. When Fred
goes through the back, they're sure to start for the front. Okay, Joe, Yeah,
Jack's got the lookout.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Now, carry'll wait for us.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Right now. What do you think about this? Fred?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You go around and hit the back door, so as
I hear you inside, they'll probably start for the front.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We'll take care of him there.
Speaker 11 (10:33):
It's good idea. Give me a half a minute to
get back there.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I'll ride to watch yourself.
Speaker 10 (10:38):
All right, Jill, let's go.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
We're still going and wants Yeah, let's.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Hold it right now, please go if we're going to rest,
all right there, come on, billet in.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
It shut h come on, police, off back against the wall,
the bread Brett.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Let's take it back against the wall, all right, Off
over you get back to Brett right all right, mister,
with the rest of them on there, back against the wall.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
All right, I'm going what's the beef about anyway?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Just all right and turn around face the wall.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Put your hands against the wall.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
What's the pitch anyway?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Treat this like a bunch of thieves.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
You just have a little fun.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
No harm done, Joe, As you find Fred, what happened?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
He's been shot? Hurt bad?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Matthews in with him now, I'll call the ambulance.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Get some help, all right, you too, and with the
others back against the what's your beef?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Sure?
Speaker 11 (11:27):
A big noise about nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
We're here to play a little cards, friendly game, just
a dollar limit.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Nobody ever gets hurt.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
We're all friends.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Is that why you carry guns?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
One am, the ambulance arrived and Sergeant Fred Taylor was
taken immediately to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital in a critical condition.
He'd been shot twice through the upper portion of the chest.
He'd been unconscious from the time.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Of the shooting. Who the assailant was we had no idea.
The crime RAB arrived at the scene and began their
preliminary investigation.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Meantime, homicide officers that are arrived and all units in
the area were assisting in the investigation, making a house
to house canvas and checking all backyards, alleys and unoccupied
buildings for possible suspects.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
In hiding.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Out of a total number of men present in the
store at the time of the shooting, Bill and I
had been.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Able to detain nine of them.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
The remainder had either scrambled outside windows or the rear door,
and then apparently made their way over back fences. The
nine we did get were taken downtown for interrogation. All
of them had been searched, but no weapons had been found.
Bill Lockwood and I remained at the scene assisting the
homicide officers.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Two five AM.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
An additional four men who'd been present at the gambling
game that night were picked up in the area, transported downtown,
and held along with the other nine at homicide detail
two twenty AM. Bill and I were called downtown to
assist in the questioning. We got nowhere where the first
three suspects was the same.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
With the fourth.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Do you expect us to believe that, Mike, Well, that's
the truth.
Speaker 11 (12:52):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Now, Look, Mike, let's put it on the table.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
We listened to your line of chattered down at the
store when we made the pinch. We heard it all. Now,
let's get out of fact.
Speaker 11 (12:59):
I told you everything I know, no different than the
other guys you picked up.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I heard there was going to be a game tonight,
so I came.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
Who'd you come down with?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
How'd you get there?
Speaker 10 (13:05):
I drove came by myself.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Where'd you park your car?
Speaker 11 (13:07):
About two blocks away?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
A little sally there by?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Guess you're a liar, mister, and you know it well,
that's the truth.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
To help me.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
If I knew there was going to be trouble, wouldn't
even have showed up.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
I play a few cards.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Sure, I don't go in for every stuff, though, I.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Haven't got anything to do with the game.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
You're a liar.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You can't say that.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Now you show me where I've life.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
You tell me we were staked out on that place tonight, Mike.
It was a little past eleven forty five. You drove
up in a blue pickup truck.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Another man was with you.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You were driving.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh no, you got it wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Oh, we haven't got it wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
You parked that truck about ten yards down the street
from the front of the store.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You got out first, the other man followed you.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
You unloaded six large carts from the truck, some of
the equipment we found on the store.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You took it around backing into the rear door. Didn't
you If you got it wrong, it wasn't me.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
It couldn't have been me.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Come off with Mike, the man you were with, we've
got him down the hall. The other officers have talked
to him.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
He gave him the straight story.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
I didn't come with any other guy.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Now, when you listen to me, I knew some of
them there.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'll admit that I came by myself. Listen to me, mister.
You get this through your head.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Get it once and for all. This isn't a gambling
deep anymore. Somebody's been shot, he's been hurt bad.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, that's not my fault.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I didn't shoot him on anything about it.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You no more than you're telling you lied about coming
here in that truck. We saw you something else. The
truck's been checked out. It's registered in your name. Now
you come up with an answer for that one fast.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
Oh, I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Maybe my truck is down there.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
If it is, I don't know how it got there.
You're in a jam, Mike. This isn't any misdemeanor rap.
I think the sooner you realize that, the better it's
going to be for you.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
You don't have to tell me it's serious.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
I know that.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Now, what do you want from me? And you know
what we want?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
You know the answers, and we want them. You're part
of that gambling setup.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We know that.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
We know who was there tonight, everybody. We want the
names of every one of them. Now, either you got
the answer to that shooting or somebody in that crowd has.
We're gonna get the answer, Mike, don't make any mistake
about it. We're gonna get it.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
What do I have to say to convincing?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You're talking to the wrong guy.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Not according to the man they got down the hall,
I wanted a pickup truck with you.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
He gave us the whole story.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
You hired him to help you tonight.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
You were gonna pay him twenty bucks. He helped your
hauld the equipment to the store, and he was supposed
to be the lookout at the front door. It tries
in all the way.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
How about it? All right? Now you've been calling people
lives huh.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, he's the liar, the whole lousy story.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It is nothing but a lie, all right, keep quiet
Friday talking? Oh yes, sir, all right, yeah, thank you?
How you listening, Mike, here's a piece of advice. You
make up your mind? How do you mean make up
my mind?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And I'm trying to cooperate.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
You don't believe me.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'm trying to help you out every way I can.
Speaker 9 (15:03):
I'm only too glad to give you a hand.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I know you got a tough job. You got my child.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Don't you worry about us? Mister from here and start
worrying about yourself.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You're going to do a lot of it. I don't
know what you're talking about. That policeman he just died.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
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police force and action.
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Speaker 4 (16:43):
Tuesday, February tenth, five thirty am, Sergeant Fred Taylor had
died at approximately five twenty two am. Cause of death
was listed as hemorrhage and shocked due to the two
gunshot wounds in the chest.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Officers from the medical detail and rushed Taylor's wife from
his home to the receiving hospital. He was with him
at the time of his death. Unfortunately, he never.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Regained consciousness five forty five am. While the investigation went
on at the scene of the murder, Bill Lockwood and
I continued our interrogation of the suspect, Mike Filmer. Another
hour of questioning and he still refused to tell us anything.
We finally confronted him with a man we'd seen him
arrive with at the location of the gambling game earlier
that morning. Another ten minutes of questioning, and he finally
(17:24):
broke down, Why.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Didn't you tell us that to begin with?
Speaker 11 (17:26):
And believe me?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I wanted to. I was scared.
Speaker 11 (17:27):
I was scared of death.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I never had anything like this happened to me before.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
I didn't know what to do, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
What to say.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
All right, this is a complete list of everybody you
saw there last night. Everybody was in that game.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, yeah, I think it covers it.
Speaker 11 (17:38):
Let me see him hear that. Yeah, yeah, just about everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
These are the only addresses you've got, just these three here,
gots it now.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
I'm not lying.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
I believe those the only ones I know.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
All right, So you had a hand in the game.
He brought in the equipment you were working for the house.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Then, who's the boss? Mike? Who's running the game?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Who's running it?
Speaker 11 (18:00):
I've told you everybody that was there, everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
He wasn't there that night. He couldn't have had anything
to do with Mike. We didn't ask you that. We
asked you who the boss is? What's his name? How
about it? We want his name? But I told you
he wasn't there last night. If he wasn't there, he
couldn't have anything to do with it. Look, he's a
nice guy. He doesn't want trouble anymore than I do.
He couldn't tell you. Let us figure that out. Well,
you know who's the boss, Mike?
Speaker 11 (18:19):
Does it have to be? Is that important?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
We wouldn't be asking you who is he?
Speaker 11 (18:23):
George Delano?
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Now?
Speaker 11 (18:24):
That's all I know about him is name? How does
he spell his last name?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
What do he look like?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well?
Speaker 11 (18:28):
I guess it's d el an O.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I never saw him write it down.
Speaker 11 (18:33):
Though I've only known him about a month, maybe five weeks.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
What's his description?
Speaker 8 (18:37):
When?
Speaker 11 (18:37):
He's taller than I.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
Am, about five feet ten eleven, maybe dark hair, a
little bit on the heavy side like me.
Speaker 11 (18:43):
I guess man about forty five fifty.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Where does he live?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Where do we find him?
Speaker 11 (18:47):
I don't know where he lives, some hotel downtown. I
think the only times they ever met him was at
the bar?
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Which bar for a south end of town down on Vermont.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
I don't know the address, but I can point.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
It out to you.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
It's a couple of doors down from the big bowling alley.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Right across from a theater was dress shop next door.
Speaker 11 (19:01):
Yeah, that's right, that's your place. The only place I've
ever seen him. He always calls me at home, tells you.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Where to meet him. You mean to say, you've been
working for this Delana and you don't even know where
he lives.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Well, I don't know what else to tell you. I'm
squaring with you. I really don't know. Friday.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, I'll be right back now.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
What you got Sam, Charlie Hart and I just got
back and placed down on Gibbons Avenue the store.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You know, thought you'd like him.
Speaker 11 (19:26):
Now we found a gun in the back of the place.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Hiding under a lumber pile. All right, you check it out.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
Yeah, I ran through a gun record the tragedy.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
What's the name?
Speaker 11 (19:32):
George Delano?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Seven thirty eight am.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
With the new lead on the alleged boss of the
gambling ring, George Delano, we interrupted our questioning of the suspect.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Mike Filmer.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
We took him down the hall back to the homicide
squadron to be held for further interrogation.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
We checked Delano through R and I, but we had
no record on him.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Then, along with Sergeant Sam Flowers and Charlie Hartup Homicide,
we drove out to the address of George Delano as
listed in the gun registration files. There was a small
cottage in the Wilshire area. The woman who answered the
door identified herself as Missus George Delano, the suspect's wife.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
She called her husband to the door.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
We identified ourselves, briefed him on the reason for our
visit and told him we wanted.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
To talk to him downtown. He appeared cooperative, more than
willing to come along.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
He got dressed.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
We drove him back to the City Hall and took
him to the interrogation room. He was well dressed and,
in his own way, well mannered. After being told of
the situation, he admitted freely that he'd been operating games
at different locations throughout the city for the past month
and a half.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
He told us that he'd employed Mike Filmer to.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Assist him in his operations, and he also admitted ownership
of the gun found near the murder scene. The gun
had since been checked by RUSS camp and Ballistics and
found to.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Be the murder weapon.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Well, yes, it's my gun, but I like to explain
a little bit about it.
Speaker 11 (20:46):
What's that delna number one?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I ad met.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
I'm a gambler, that's my racket. I'm new to Los Angeles,
I met. I've been working a few games, but I'm
no murderer.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
I wouldn't have any part.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
If you said you were going to explain about the gun,
and I would about it.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Now, look, I'd like to fill you in on everything, officers.
I got nothing to hide from. Yeah, I'll tell you
everything now. When I first came to this town, as
I say, it's been about five six weeks, I made
a few connections and I started running these games. For
the first couple of weeks, everything went fine. No beasts,
everything was fine. All I had to do was dodg
you fell it? And then the trouble started in How
do you mean you might if I have a smoke
a little excited to go in carefully?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
No, nothing.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
I want to fill the in from the start. I
want to clear this whole thing up.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah that's what you said.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Yeah, Well, as I told you, the first few weeks,
everything was fine. Then one night, when the game was
just about ready to break, a couple of funks came
in held us up. They cleaned everybody in the place,
made a big haul.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
When was this word?
Speaker 11 (21:36):
It happened down on the east side, puns took us
for everything.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know it is.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Couldn't make a report to you. I just had to
take it over the losses myself.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, how about that gun.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
I'm coming to it.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
This thing happens, and I figured at the end of it.
But no, A couple of nights later they hit again.
I still can't squawk. I have to stand the loss.
Another couple of nights they knock us over again.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Couldn't do a thing about it. Losing.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
We've heard all that. That's your racket. You can expect it.
All we want to know is about that gun. Now,
what's your story?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I told you I was coming to it. After the
third time they reached this, I hired a guard, somebody
stand watch.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
Outside in case of another stick up. The only thing
I could do.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Yeah, So I hired some guy to stand guard on
the games. Wanted my gun in case there was any.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Trouble, and he told him to use it in case
there was struggle.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
How about rate from the police.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
He told me to use it for that.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Oh, no, matter of fact, I made a point of
telling him about that. All he was supposed to use
the gun for was just to fire it up in
the air, maybe scare those punks off and warn the
guys inside at the same time.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
We'll talk about that later, Delana. We want to know
who had the gun last night?
Speaker 11 (22:27):
Well, the guard did.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
I told you I loaned him the gun.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Who's the guard?
Speaker 11 (22:30):
What's his name? Where do we find him? His name's Jake.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
A friend of mine got him for me.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
See Jake Leasena LEAs.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Of course you live.
Speaker 11 (22:37):
I couldn't tell you that.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
I always contacted him at a bar in south for
a month place i'd.
Speaker 11 (22:41):
Go quite a bit, you know, a little too early to.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Catch him there.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Now, what do you know about this Gleason? What you
look like?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
I haven't seen him much. I guess you sayed about
thirty two thirty three, kind of light brown hair, tall
x con. I think either he told me or somebody
told me.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Did time you knew he was an ex con and
you gave him your gun?
Speaker 7 (22:57):
Yeah, but I didn't tell him to shoot anybody. I
made a point of tell him that dumb jerk, especially
shooting a cop. All he was supposed to do is
fire up in the air. Those punks came around scare
him away to help me. That's the only time he
was supposed to use the gun.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
I told him. How much of a story, Deleno? Can
you proven sure?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I can prove it.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
You can ask Mike Mike Filmer and tell you the
same thing. You can ask Leeson himself, jerk. Mike said
he wasn't too sharp, A little punch.
Speaker 11 (23:18):
He wasn't quite right in the head. What's a I
said he was a little punch, he wasn't quite right
in the head. Gleason?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
You mean you met him in a bar. You didn't
know anything about his background. You knew he was an
ex con, you had an id.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Wasn't too sharp, Maybe he wasn't all there? Is that?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Right?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (23:30):
That's about it.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
And you put this man on the spot where you
knew he'd be in trouble, and then you gave him
a gun.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (23:35):
How about it?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Delano?
Speaker 7 (23:36):
What are you looking at me for?
Speaker 11 (23:37):
I told the dumb jerk what to do.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
I didn't tell him shoot anybody, punch trunk's booze. Now, truth,
I didn't have a thing to do with it.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
I hired the guy, that's all.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
It's not my fault. Are you looking at I wasn't
even there.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
I didn't even know about it.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
I didn't kill that cock, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Nine twenty three am we continued questioning. George Delano told
us that he'd instructed Jake Gleason, the ex convict, to
stand guard at the rear of the store where the
gambling games were held.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
He insisted that his instructions to Gleason were that if.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
He had to fire the gun at all, he was
to fire it in the air and then only as
a warning signal in case of robbery attempt. Delano was
detained by homicide officers pending further investigation. We checked the
name and description of Jake Gleason through our and I
and found his record and mugshot. We showed the mug
to Delano and he identified it. Gleason's record showed him
to be on active parole. Ten thirty am we contacted
(24:31):
the parole office. They gave us his address, and Villa
and I checked it out the second rate hotel in
South Flower Street. The manager told us Gleason had left.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
The hotel about seven to forty five that.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Morning, and that he was not expected back until after
six o'clock that night. He also told us.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
There was a chance we might locate him in one
of the bars around the neighborhood. Ten forty five, we
started making the rounds of the bars in the immediate vicinity.
The third place we stopped at was practically deserted. The
jukebox at the back of the place was turned up
the full volume. There was a smell of disinfectant wind
Ski and stay O perfume. There was one customer drinking
at the fire end of the bar.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
It was gleasing.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Stand up police officers.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
All right, take them down, bill.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Way, Joe hands him back.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, I want to kill that joke box.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Do you know why we watch you?
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I know.
Speaker 10 (25:24):
There wasn't any sense running.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
I know you'd be out.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
Could you do me a favor? I mean, wait a minute,
just a minute. It's like to tell you I didn't
mean it. I guess it's my own fault. I shot him.
I shouldn't have had the gun, shouldn't have taken a job.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
I shot him. I didn't mean it, all right, Come on,
there ought to be away. Don't you think, I mean,
there really ought to be away?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
What's it?
Speaker 11 (25:43):
I didn't mean it, no reason to kill him, I
didn't even know him.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
I just keep thinking, there's only a way, if I
could take it back again, you know, yeah, I mean,
if I could go back and change it, make it
all different. I mean, right from the beginning, I wouldn't
even look at a gun. I'd change everything, Bet I would.
Speaker 11 (25:58):
I wouldn't even look at a gun.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
Only had the chance, you know, second chance. There ought
to be away, second chance.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
You started with a gun, Jay, Now you never had
a first one.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
The story you have just heard was true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
On May twenty, second trial was held in Superior Court,
Department eighty eighth, City and County of Los Angeles, State
of California. In a moment, the results of that trial.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
And now here is our star, Jack Webb, Thank you,
George Fenoman.
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Speaker 2 (27:04):
Jacob Allan Gleason was tried and convicted of murder in
the first degree and was sentenced to a life term
in the state penitentiary. George Delano, Mike Filmer, and all
other Principles were found guilty of violating the Municipal Code
forty three point zero one gambling and received sentences as
prescribed by law. George Delano and Mike Filmer were sentenced
to six month terms in the County jail. Others received
(27:26):
proportionate sentences.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Ladies and gentlemen, Mister James Fox, Director on the Executive
Board of the Mystery Writers of America. Tonight, it is
with a great deal of pleasure that I am, speaking
for the entire membership of the Mystery Writers of America
in all fields, present the Edgar Allan Poe Award for
the second consecutive year for the finest radio presentation in
his class. Dragnet to you, Jack Webb and your fine
(27:48):
group of technicians responsible for the overall production of Dragnet
represent the statuette of one of the immortals in the
field of mystery, actor Alan Poe.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Thank you very much, mister Fox, and thanks also the
membership of the Mystery Writers of America.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
And standing by to receive his awards also for the
second consecutive year as the outstanding radio writer in his field,
and for the consistent job he doesn't Dragnet Jim Mojar
here's your statuette.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Thank you very much, mister Fox.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Ladies and gentlemen, it's seldom, indeed, when the writer of
any radio show receives his just and due acclaim for
the greatest of pleasure that we accept the ed grallin
Pole Awards, and it is primarily a writer's award. All
of us who have had a hand in bringing Dragnate
into your homes each week, are proud of our writer,
Jim Moser, for as anyone in radio will readily go
on record by saying and knowing.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
That you're only as good as the scripture read.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
So it's with deep gratitude that we receive the MWA Award,
which best illustrates and confirms the high opinion which we
all hold of our writer, Jim Moser.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Thank you, Jack, and I'd like to express my special
appreciation to our technical advisors from the Los Angeles Police Department,
without whom none of this would be possible.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department
Technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Fraser.
Heard tonight were Martin Milner, Eddie Firestone with Connor. Script
by Jim Moser, music by Walter Schumann. Hell give me speaking.
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