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Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
This Thursday, March he was windy in Los Angeles. We
were working the night watch out a homicide. My partner's
Ben Romero. The boss is stabbed bound. Chief of detectives,
my name is Friday. I was all the way back
from the record Bureau. Was eleven forty five pm when
I got to room forty two.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Homicide Joe Hi. Bill Ramera called about five minutes ago.
He's on his way in from Georgia's Street.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 8 (02:35):
Captain still around.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
He's gone for the nights. You can catch him at
home if you want to trouble.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
The Rattlesnake Bandits got two more couples tonight. All right, man,
it's about.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
The same as the last three jobs. He pulled pretty vicious.
Gave the victims a bad going over.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
Who are they?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
The young salesman his girlfriend. They were parked up in
the Silver Lake area. Bandit robbed him when he didn't
find enough money in the young fellow's waality pistol with
to messed him up quite a bit.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
Why did he do that?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Oh, there's no reason for it. The young girl in
the car had an engagement ring on. She offered to
hand it over. The band that pulled her out of
the car, punched her in the face, hit her quite
a few times. Guy just seems to be looking for blood.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
That's no leads on him. Uh no, not so far.
It looks like I'm out. Have you got any aspen bill? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I got a fresh bottle this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Well, don't see a headache. I've had it all right.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
How about the thief Samo the samull it has been
so far, he works the outlying districts, parking areas.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Doesn't seem to be any reason at all for these sluggings.
The victims all agree on that, no provocations at all.
The guy just seems to get a kick out of
punching in somebody's face.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Two pills in it, Yeah, that's a fine thing. Boys
and robbery turn up anything, No.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Neither have we.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
The bandit operates some hot cars he's got a few
good prints.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
To work with.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
No make though guy works alone, well, he did for
the first two jobs. Last few times he had a
bright looking blonde with.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Him, good looking, you know, nice figures, and victims say
that she stands by and seems to age him on.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
I'm a seems to get a big strill out of him.
I guess, hivail skill.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Hi, how'd you do?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Man?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Doctor didn't think it'd be a good idea to brother
him too much to night we can talk to him
to more.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
How about the hold up man's descriptions? You get that?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Yeah from the girl. Match's what the other victims gave us.
She didn't see the getaway car though they didn't have
a chance.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
How about the young fellas he's still unconscious. Yeah, I
think going to move him to the county hospital. She
would have seen his face. Yeah there, Himo.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
It's a mess and spand its girlfriend, the blonde, nothing
at all on her.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
They can say she's got.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
A nice figure, good looking. Quite a few like that
in most engine. What are they getting out of these
stick ups anyway? It can't be too much. Uh, oh,
that's just it.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
None of the heights of none of the morning, fifty
dollars hardly worth the trouble.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
I shot, I get it. What is really Rattlesnake bandit?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
He got another couple south end of Echo Park.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
He shot both of them.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Together with Cummings and Macready from homicide, Ben and I
drove to the scene of the hold up and shooting
in the Echo Park area. The victims were identified as
Ralph Younger, thirty four, a high school English teacher. He'd
been beaten severely about the face and neck and shot
once through the right shoulder. His companion was a Thell Madonovan,
twenty six, a grade school teacher. She'd been shot through
the temple, just above the eyes.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
She was still alive, but in a critical condition.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
We questioned Ralph Younger briefly before he was removed by
ambulance to the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
His description of.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
The hold up mentality exactly with that of the Rattlesnake bandit.
He also gave us the description and license number of.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
The getaway car.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
We got out a broadcast in an APB. A routine
check of the area failed to turn up any leads.
Eleven am the next morning, Ralph Younger told us the
story from his hospital bed.
Speaker 10 (06:01):
I was I was teaching Thelma how to drive, Sergeant.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
We were going along on that.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
Side street when the sedan pulled up, forced us over
to the curb.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
And your friend, miss Donovan was sitting in the driver's seat.
Then that's right.
Speaker 10 (06:16):
I got out on my side and started over to
ask this fellow what he was doing. Proudness like that.
He rushed up to me and started slugging me in
the face with his gun.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
I went done, Well, what did miss Donovan do?
Speaker 10 (06:31):
She started hollering for help. Hold up guy ran over
and shoved his gun at her. He had it pointed
at her head, and he grabbed Thelma's purse and started
looking through it.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
For money.
Speaker 10 (06:44):
I guess, uh huh, say, yeah, would you mind moving,
miss Piller?
Speaker 9 (06:50):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:50):
We a little bit not shure, got you?
Speaker 9 (06:52):
Oh heare?
Speaker 7 (06:54):
We are?
Speaker 8 (06:55):
And how's that? Okay? Come on under the shoulder place?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
All right?
Speaker 10 (07:02):
Yeah, very hard, that's fine.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Nice. We were you lying on the street while all this
was going on. Mister Gunner by.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
Now he yanked me to my feet, made me stand
by the car with my hands up. Thelma was crying.
Hold up man looked for a person and he said,
who are you trying to kid ladies? You got more
money than this. Alma told him the truth. That was
all she had, three dollars.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
What happened?
Speaker 10 (07:31):
Then he shoved the batre of the gun against her
head right here by the temple. Then I heard the
gun go off. Thelma fell over in the seat. There
was many a reason for it, no reason at all.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
She just shut her Well what did you do then?
Do you remember?
Speaker 10 (07:48):
I jumped for the man. I wanted to kill him
right there. He turned and fired the gun.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
At me, hit me right here, pull off the shoulder,
and he.
Speaker 10 (08:01):
Round out and got my car and drove off.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It was a blonde girl with him.
Speaker 10 (08:04):
I got a good look at her, blonde, pretty attractive.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
And well was there anything else about the man's description
that you might have forgotten to tell us last night?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (08:14):
I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
I gave you a license number of his car.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Can't you find him that way?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
And it was in stolen car, miss the Younger. He
took it from one of his other victims. It was
found out, will see this morning.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Finding I only wish i'd got my hands on him.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Poor, So I wish you you know, well, there was
no late report. Maybe you better check with a doctor.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
Uh, you know, hey, before you go, would you mind
ringing the butt in here just for the nurse?
Speaker 8 (08:41):
The shoulders give me trouble again, you know?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Okay, well, uh, thanks for very much, younger. Sure, hope
that shoulder yours gets better.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
I hope so I'll buy. We'll be checking with you
later on.
Speaker 11 (08:52):
Yes, yeah, okay, MoMA.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Romero, Joe, how'd you do? Bill? Check through the doctor Donovan.
Girl still unconscious, pretty critical. What the doc says she's
going to pull through?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
She might, They can't tell yet. One thing sure though.
Once bullet did a lot of damage. She's totally blind.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Four days before, a bullet from the hold up gun
had blinded school teacher Selma Donovan for life. The Rattlesnake
bandit and his blonde girlfriend were unknown to the city
of Los Angeles. In the space of little more than
ninety six hours, they robbed and slugged a dozen people
from one end of the city to the other. In
every case, the attacks were just about as brutal and
vicious as they were unprovoked. The amount of money taken
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from each victim was negligible. The only apparent conclusion was
that the bandit and his girlfriend were out for blood
that night.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Despite a city wide alert.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
To all radio cars and patrolmen, the suspects robbed and
slugged two more couples between the hours of ten pm
and midnight. Between midnight and one thirty am, they got
two more victims two thirty am.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Better.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
When I got back to the city hall the car pool.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
You're not the name of the Kistoms flame one one
of the Tick group flas do the al place over there?
Speaker 9 (10:14):
I wonder how much freaky in comings may now.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
I hope they got more than we have.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Right here, you wanna get the radio jump?
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Yeah, let's go right?
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Uh going in? I knew I forgot something.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
What's that cigarette? You got any left? I don't think so?
Old pack is all?
Speaker 12 (10:38):
So?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
There's one west in here? No, no, that's all right.
I can't take it. Last month and go ahead. There's
a machine upstairs, but the elevator. I'll get something, all right.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I sure better get these shoes out, so be walking
around with my stocking feet pretty soon.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
It just got him a couple of weeks ago, didn't you.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Tops are as good as new swords.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
Of darn things went just like that. The wonder they
had 'em on.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
Say, yeah, in just a minute, I wanna get those smokes.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
So Skipper say he was gonna stay around until about two.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Yeah, he's probably gone by now, and it's.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
A long day.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Anything in the book a minute?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Tell your wife called, I want you to get a
refill in that prescription for your little boy.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Oh hi, how'd you two do nothing? How about you?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Chandler called from robbery a minute ago, thinks they may
have something.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Yeah, at two.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Eleven, big service station out on Pico hold up. Man
had a blonde in the car with him.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
What about descriptions?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Chibes pretty well with the guy we're after coming the emo,
doesn't that thief and his girl haven't tried anything but
car hold up since they started.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
How they manage a job?
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Well, you know how they've been operating for transportation. They
robbed the people, steal their car. When they reach another victim,
they transfer to his car. First time they switched that
systems tonight.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Hold up from South Hoover. The man and his wife.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Instead of changing over, they stayed in the blue Chabby coop,
same one they took in the job before that.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Up to now they've used the same hot car in
the last three jobs. Sure going to help if they
stick with it. What about the gas station.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
And den Veallett excuse you're probably Chandler homicide comings yeaglen
Uh huh five pole three eight nine.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
They dug out a witness to the gas station job.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
So Spicks drove off in the blue Chavy coup licensed
five pole three eight nine, the same car and stops me,
what was it? Take twenty three bucks? Like the attendant
took off. The broadcasts out area has been alerted.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Nothing yet, okay man, Yeah, he.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
Was growing into a long Yeah, you're gonna cover hope.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
He'll yeah, Freggie gets back right. Well, we'll be checking with.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
You guys.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
On the side from merw Yeah, how they all right?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Thanks?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Brookstore on South Fig two eleven, slugging blonde girl drove
the escape.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Car you know, five poul three eight nine.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
In the next three hours before dawn, the Rattlesnake bandit
and his blonde girlfriend held up and robbed a restaurant
and two more service stations, and made good their escape.
For some unknown reason, they continued to use the same
stolen car, the blue Chevrolet Coup By noontime the following day,
composite pictures of the hold up couple.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Were drawn up by the crime.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Lab artist from the descriptions given by the victims. The
pictures were printed up and given wide distribution throughout the city.
The description and license number of the escape car was
in the hands of every radio car and patrolman in
all divisions.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
The search was intensified.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
It got us nothing the following night and early morning,
without even slowing their pace, the suspects added four more
hold ups and.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Sluggings to their credit.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
One of the victims was spread Lerner, proprietor of a
small lunch counter near eighteenth and Olive.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Haven't held up for four officer A half dozen times
I ever saw a punk as hard looking as this guy.
Though you were sure about the description, miss learning why
he's stood just as close as you're standing to me
now while looking his eye, waving that gun around. I
wasn't taking any chances. I gave him everything which was there,
eighteen dollars and a half. Well, how about the getaway car.
(14:46):
You're pretty sure of the make and the cutter or.
I ran to the door there as soon as they left,
saw him drive off as the licenses. I wrote it down,
it's five.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
P three eight nine. I saw the whole thing prize.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Lewis would tie up with a funk like him, Lois
who's at But you know the blonde drives the car
for him?
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Lois Hagen.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Why do you know that's her name? She used to
be a waitress. Word for my brother, Lois Hagen. Blonde.
I spotted her right away in that car. Yeah, yeah, sure, Lewis, didn't.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
You know it was her?
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Seven thirty am.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
We put in a call of the record bureau and
had them check on the name and description of Lois Hagen, No,
make no previous record. With the help of Fred Lerner
and his brother, we trace the Hagen girl to a
drive in where she used to work.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
There.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
We checked the employment records and got an address on
her eighteen hundred Norwich Drive turned out to be a
small apartment house in West Hollywood.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Ben checked with a landlady while I waited.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
In the car, and as the plane too, John Hage
turned the plane ton is in it.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Uncertified and I said, what'd you get? Talk to the landlady.
She's manage the apartment for sixteen years. You know she
never heard of lowis Hagen.
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Speaker 8 (17:37):
Tuesday, March thirteenth.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
That night, in the one following the Rattlesnake bandit and
his Bronz girlfriend, supposedly Lois Hagen, continued their campaign of hold.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Ups and sluggings.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
They robbed two liquor stores, an all night cafe cigar shop,
and two more service stations.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
In each case, the.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Descriptions of the suspects and their getaway car was the same.
Routine investigations got nowhere. Ben and I went to work
checking out the thin lead that we.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Had on the girl known as Lois Hagen.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
After three days of pounding a pavement and asking questions,
we found two former waitresses at drive in restaurants who
had worked with Lois Hagen. Both of them gave us
addresses where they thought the Hagen.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Girl had lived at one time. One of them was
a phony it was a vacant lot.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
The other, panned out was a rooming house out in
the Boyle Heights district. The manager told us that the
Hagen girl lived there two years before. She told us
that as far as she knew, the girl's mother and
missus Ernestine Hagen, still ran a small French laundry on
South Hobart Boulevard. We found missus Hagen working in her shop.
She was a small, thin woman with gray hair.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yes, I have a daughter, Lewis. What's the matter?
Speaker 8 (18:43):
I'd like to talk to him, miss Hagen?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Do you know where we can locate her?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Probably sounds funny too you. I haven't seen my daughter
in two years.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Do you have any idea where she's living now?
Speaker 12 (18:53):
No, she's not much of a daughter. We didn't get along,
as I say, two years ago. We had an argument,
she left me, never wrote a letter.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I just don't know. I see, I hate she's living
in Detroit for a while. I guess she's back here now.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
One of my lady friends, missus McCormick Solo, was shopping
out in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
It was about a month ago.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
How old is your daughter's here?
Speaker 12 (19:16):
She'll be twenty next month? She looks older and she
really is. Whould you excuse me please my flirt?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I am back here and I have a heating certainly, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
Do you have a copy in the composite picture of
the girl? M Yeah, yeah, right here.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I didn't realize it was getting so late.
Speaker 12 (19:36):
I had this rush order to get ready by four
o'clock offices.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
If you want, you can come back here. We can
talk while I get it out.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
All right, ma'am?
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Thank you?
Speaker 12 (19:45):
Huh, that's a true there with your life, oh, thank you.
Seems I'm always so busy lately. I used to have
some fine help.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
It's not so easy to find anymore. Science seems awful.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Hot.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
HM's so all right.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
I wonder if you'd mind looking at this picture, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
This one here, all right, mm looks something like those
you're looking forwards? Thing? Is she done something again?
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Well, we're not sure, ma'am. Or she been in trouble before.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
I can't be more ashamed of her than I already
at Yeah, she's been in trouble before.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
She was nothing but trouble my only child. Her father
died when she's a baby, but I guess she needed
a father. I couldn't do anything with her.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Was your daughter ever in any serious trouble with the policeman?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I don't know. Maybe she was. I didn't hear about it,
and I tried to understand, and we never got along.
I don't know. This makes me sick to.
Speaker 13 (20:57):
Think about him.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Well, how about her friends, Miss egg and I mean
a friends. Do you have to know any of them?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
No, Lois never brought him home, and I knew they
were tramps. I heard the way the neighbors were talking,
trampy fellas, trumpy girls, drinking, doing things. You know, she's
learning those things at home.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
What was lois last known address? Do you have any
idea at all?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Place in Royal Heights and boarding house. It's last I
heard Lois.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
She never wrote a letter.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
That's another thing.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
She could have had the best education.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Any girl could want. I worked twelve years in the
laundry year to give it to her. I sent her
to the convent. Even the nuns.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Couldn't do anything with her. She only sassed them back.
She finally quit all together.
Speaker 13 (21:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
Can you think of anybody who might know where your
daughter is?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Maybe one of your relatives.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yeah, we don't have any relatives here. I have a
brother in Ohio. That's all these least balls is at
an awful lot of trouble about that drug stock face.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I wonder if you have a picture of your daughter
that we could borrow. We'll see that it's returned to you.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah, right, I've got lots of pictures of Lois. It's
a pretty girl, you know, looks quite a bit like
me when I was young.
Speaker 14 (22:16):
Yes, ma'am, well, thanks very much for your time. And
the nurses at the hospital said at the lowis is
ball beautiful child. Certainly strange, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
How's that?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
And the babies they all look so clean and so good. Yes, ma'am,
what happens to him?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Before we left versus Hagen, we got a photograph of
her daughter, Lois, and then we drove back to the office.
We spent the rest of the afternoon showing the picture
to several of the robbery victims. All of them identified
the Hagen girl as the bandit's accomplice. We got out
a supplementary broadcast that night. The hold up couple failed
to put in an appearance. The following night, the same
sign of them. Still no sign of.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
The escape car either where they might be hiding out.
We had no idea.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
The search went on, repeated checks that the Stats office
and the record bureau failed to turn up any new leads.
We stayed on it. Four nights later, the still unidentified
hold up man and Lois Hagen.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Started in all over again.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Two drug store hold ups, two robberies of couples and
pot cars. All of the victims were beaten senseless. Monday
March nineteenth, eight am. Sure, sorry, they turned up anything
last night?
Speaker 8 (23:33):
Two more jobs.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Both victims identified to Hagen girl as he accomplished anything else, still.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Using the same escape car. It's about it. We're no
closer than we were a week ago.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
I checked the.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Hospital on the drugs. They said, Now, how's he doing?
I don't know, Yeah, still unconsciously.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I'll get it.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Homicide Friday. You got my where? Yeah, right away? What
if you got a thirty two? I that out on
eighteenth in Hill the hold up car. They just spotted
it eight twenty am.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Together with Cummings and MacCready, we drove out to eighteenth
and Hill, where the officers in Unit thirty two are
had The hold up car Stakedown was parked in the
back of a large service station on Hill Street, near
the corner of eighteenth. We talked with a manager and
he told us that a blonde girl answering Lois Hagen's description,
had left the car there earlier that morning just to
have the distributor fixed and the battery recharged.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
She told him that she'd called for the car early
that night. Because of the way that the service.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Station was situated, it would have been impossible to stake
out on the blue coop without making it look obvious.
We explained the setup to the manager and made arrangements
for Ben andight Opposes employees. That way, we could keep
a close watch on the car until the suspects called
for Cummings and McCreadie hold up in a coffee shop
directly across the street. Two teams of men from rob
recovered from their vantage points. Ben and I took up
(24:52):
our posts to supervisors of the station's ten minute car wash.
Speaker 13 (25:02):
They sure do a great business here. Huh.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Yeah, you mentioned to the manager about keeping the area
clear around that cart and you yeah, it's.
Speaker 13 (25:09):
All set up. We're not going to have an excuse
in the world if we miss those two.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Yeah, they show up.
Speaker 13 (25:16):
What are we supposed to do now? Pull these tickets
off the cars as they move off the wash line.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Yeah, that's all just to slip the tickets in that
box over there.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
See mm hmm.
Speaker 13 (25:26):
Must have run them a few dollars out installing all
this equipment.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Seems to be paying off. Doesn't it What time you
got now?
Speaker 13 (25:35):
A few minutes passed? Forth?
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Want to smoke?
Speaker 13 (25:38):
No, I just put one out.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
One am bend spotted.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
The young blonde girl turned the corner onto Hill and
start up the street towards the service station. As she
came closer, she looked to the right and the left.
She paused in front of the station, looked on both
sides of the street, and then she turned.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Completely around and walked on past. So always, Hagan, she's
going right down as the corner. How about yeah, I'll
put in with it. How about a tale? But can't
just let her walk away from him? It's in just
a minute. Take a look. She's turning around, coming back
his way. She's coming in now we better get back
(26:16):
to our car. Looks like a right. The young blonde
entered the garage.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Office, paid the repair bill, and drove off in the
hold up car. Ben and I followed an eighty K.
Cummings and mccreedy tailed us. The blue coop moved two
blocks down Hill Street and then turned into an apartment garage.
We parked on the street, went in and got the
manager out of bed or showed him Lois Hagen's picture
He told us that she was registered alone and apartment sixteen.
He failed to recognize the description of the hold up.
(26:43):
Man mccredy and three men from robbery covered the front
and back exits. Cummings, Ben and I climbed the stairs
to the third floor, number sixteen.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Joe, do you want to ring it?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (27:02):
Sorry? Man from the bedroom?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Bell right, I'll take the kitchen. Wait a minute, what
is this?
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Police officers? You loss? Hete you get out of here.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Let me bedroom back here?
Speaker 8 (27:10):
All right? Where is he? Come on, let's have it.
Speaker 13 (27:12):
Get out right, get off upstairs?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You watch your bill?
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I got it.
Speaker 13 (27:16):
Come on back here you go stare Joe watching?
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Yeah, pull it back, get off my dog, come back.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Gave me roll.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Give it up, mister.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
You haven't got a chance.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Come on, job, we got the building covered.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Mister, give it up.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Hook Joe, I'm getting his gun. How is he then? Joe?
Speaker 13 (27:44):
Man? You all right?
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Yeah, I'm bill. You wanna take the girl downstairs?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Let me see a right? Right?
Speaker 8 (27:54):
All right?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Lady?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Didn't you have to happen? I tried to tell him
get away. You wouldn't listen.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Nevertheless, let's go.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I'm married just today.
Speaker 13 (27:59):
You didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Did you just married? Yeah, marry two days?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Yeah, Honeymoon's over come on, lady.
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The story you have just heard was true. All of
the names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
On August fifth, trial was held in Superior Court Department
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In a moment the results of that trial.
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Speaker 5 (02:06):
This Thursday, March he was windy in Los Angeles. We
were working the night watch out a homicide. My partner's
Ben Romero. The boss is stabbed bound. Chief of detectives,
my name is Friday. I was all the way back
from the record Bureau. Was eleven forty five pm when
I got to room forty two.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Homicide Joe Hi. Bill Ramera called about five minutes ago.
He's on his way in from Georgia's Street.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 8 (02:35):
Captain still around.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
He's gone for the nights. You can catch him at
home if you want to trouble.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
The Rattlesnake Bandits got two more couples tonight. All right, man,
it's about.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
The same as the last three jobs. He pulled pretty vicious.
Gave the victims a bad going over.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
Who are they?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
The young salesman his girlfriend. They were parked up in
the Silver Lake area. Bandit robbed him when he didn't
find enough money in the young fellow's waality pistol with
to messed him up quite a bit.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
Why did he do that?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Oh, there's no reason for it. The young girl in
the car had an engagement ring on. She offered to
hand it over. The band that pulled her out of
the car, punched her in the face, hit her quite
a few times. Guy just seems to be looking for blood.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
That's no leads on him. Uh no, not so far.
It looks like I'm out. Have you got any aspen bill? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I got a fresh bottle this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Well, don't see a headache. I've had it all right.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
How about the thief Samo the samull it has been
so far, he works the outlying districts, parking areas.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Doesn't seem to be any reason at all for these sluggings.
The victims all agree on that, no provocations at all.
The guy just seems to get a kick out of
punching in somebody's face.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Two pills in it, Yeah, that's a fine thing. Boys
and robbery turn up anything, No.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Neither have we.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
The bandit operates some hot cars he's got a few
good prints.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
To work with.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
No make though guy works alone, well, he did for
the first two jobs. Last few times he had a
bright looking blonde with.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Him, good looking, you know, nice figures, and victims say
that she stands by and seems to age him on.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
I'm a seems to get a big strill out of him.
I guess, hivail skill.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Hi, how'd you do?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Man?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Doctor didn't think it'd be a good idea to brother
him too much to night we can talk to him
to more.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
How about the hold up man's descriptions? You get that?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Yeah from the girl. Match's what the other victims gave us.
She didn't see the getaway car though they didn't have
a chance.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
How about the young fellas he's still unconscious. Yeah, I
think going to move him to the county hospital. She
would have seen his face. Yeah there, Himo.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
It's a mess and spand its girlfriend, the blonde, nothing
at all on her.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
They can say she's got.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
A nice figure, good looking. Quite a few like that
in most engine. What are they getting out of these
stick ups anyway? It can't be too much. Uh, oh,
that's just it.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
None of the heights of none of the morning, fifty
dollars hardly worth the trouble.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
I shot, I get it. What is really Rattlesnake bandit?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
He got another couple south end of Echo Park.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
He shot both of them.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Together with Cummings and Macready from homicide, Ben and I
drove to the scene of the hold up and shooting
in the Echo Park area. The victims were identified as
Ralph Younger, thirty four, a high school English teacher. He'd
been beaten severely about the face and neck and shot
once through the right shoulder. His companion was a Thell Madonovan,
twenty six, a grade school teacher. She'd been shot through
the temple, just above the eyes.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
She was still alive, but in a critical condition.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
We questioned Ralph Younger briefly before he was removed by
ambulance to the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
His description of.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
The hold up mentality exactly with that of the Rattlesnake bandit.
He also gave us the description and license number of.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
The getaway car.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
We got out a broadcast in an APB. A routine
check of the area failed to turn up any leads.
Eleven am the next morning, Ralph Younger told us the
story from his hospital bed.
Speaker 10 (06:01):
I was I was teaching Thelma how to drive, Sergeant.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
We were going along on that.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
Side street when the sedan pulled up, forced us over
to the curb.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
And your friend, miss Donovan was sitting in the driver's seat.
Then that's right.
Speaker 10 (06:16):
I got out on my side and started over to
ask this fellow what he was doing. Proudness like that.
He rushed up to me and started slugging me in
the face with his gun.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
I went done, Well, what did miss Donovan do?
Speaker 10 (06:31):
She started hollering for help. Hold up guy ran over
and shoved his gun at her. He had it pointed
at her head, and he grabbed Thelma's purse and started
looking through it.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
For money.
Speaker 10 (06:44):
I guess, uh huh, say, yeah, would you mind moving,
miss Piller?
Speaker 9 (06:50):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:50):
We a little bit not shure, got you?
Speaker 9 (06:52):
Oh heare?
Speaker 7 (06:54):
We are?
Speaker 8 (06:55):
And how's that? Okay? Come on under the shoulder place?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
All right?
Speaker 10 (07:02):
Yeah, very hard, that's fine.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Nice. We were you lying on the street while all this
was going on. Mister Gunner by.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
Now he yanked me to my feet, made me stand
by the car with my hands up. Thelma was crying.
Hold up man looked for a person and he said,
who are you trying to kid ladies? You got more
money than this. Alma told him the truth. That was
all she had, three dollars.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
What happened?
Speaker 10 (07:31):
Then he shoved the batre of the gun against her
head right here by the temple. Then I heard the
gun go off. Thelma fell over in the seat. There
was many a reason for it, no reason at all.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
She just shut her Well what did you do then?
Do you remember?
Speaker 10 (07:48):
I jumped for the man. I wanted to kill him
right there. He turned and fired the gun.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
At me, hit me right here, pull off the shoulder,
and he.
Speaker 10 (08:01):
Round out and got my car and drove off.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It was a blonde girl with him.
Speaker 10 (08:04):
I got a good look at her, blonde, pretty attractive.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
And well was there anything else about the man's description
that you might have forgotten to tell us last night?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (08:14):
I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
I gave you a license number of his car.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Can't you find him that way?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
And it was in stolen car, miss the Younger. He
took it from one of his other victims. It was
found out, will see this morning.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Finding I only wish i'd got my hands on him.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Poor, So I wish you you know, well, there was
no late report. Maybe you better check with a doctor.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
Uh, you know, hey, before you go, would you mind
ringing the butt in here just for the nurse?
Speaker 8 (08:41):
The shoulders give me trouble again, you know?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Okay, well, uh, thanks for very much, younger. Sure, hope
that shoulder yours gets better.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
I hope so I'll buy. We'll be checking with you
later on.
Speaker 11 (08:52):
Yes, yeah, okay, MoMA.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Romero, Joe, how'd you do? Bill? Check through the doctor Donovan.
Girl still unconscious, pretty critical. What the doc says she's
going to pull through?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
She might, They can't tell yet. One thing sure though.
Once bullet did a lot of damage. She's totally blind.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Four days before, a bullet from the hold up gun
had blinded school teacher Selma Donovan for life. The Rattlesnake
bandit and his blonde girlfriend were unknown to the city
of Los Angeles. In the space of little more than
ninety six hours, they robbed and slugged a dozen people
from one end of the city to the other. In
every case, the attacks were just about as brutal and
vicious as they were unprovoked. The amount of money taken
(09:43):
from each victim was negligible. The only apparent conclusion was
that the bandit and his girlfriend were out for blood
that night.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Despite a city wide alert.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
To all radio cars and patrolmen, the suspects robbed and
slugged two more couples between the hours of ten pm
and midnight. Between midnight and one thirty am, they got
two more victims two thirty am.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Better.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
When I got back to the city hall the car pool.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
You're not the name of the Kistoms flame one one
of the Tick group flas do the al place over there?
Speaker 9 (10:14):
I wonder how much freaky in comings may now.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
I hope they got more than we have.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Right here, you wanna get the radio jump?
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Yeah, let's go right?
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Uh going in? I knew I forgot something.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
What's that cigarette? You got any left? I don't think so?
Old pack is all?
Speaker 12 (10:38):
So?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
There's one west in here? No, no, that's all right.
I can't take it. Last month and go ahead. There's
a machine upstairs, but the elevator. I'll get something, all right.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I sure better get these shoes out, so be walking
around with my stocking feet pretty soon.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
It just got him a couple of weeks ago, didn't you.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Tops are as good as new swords.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
Of darn things went just like that. The wonder they
had 'em on.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
Say, yeah, in just a minute, I wanna get those smokes.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
So Skipper say he was gonna stay around until about two.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Yeah, he's probably gone by now, and it's.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
A long day.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Anything in the book a minute?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Tell your wife called, I want you to get a
refill in that prescription for your little boy.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Oh hi, how'd you two do nothing? How about you?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Chandler called from robbery a minute ago, thinks they may
have something.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Yeah, at two.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Eleven, big service station out on Pico hold up. Man
had a blonde in the car with him.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
What about descriptions?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Chibes pretty well with the guy we're after coming the emo,
doesn't that thief and his girl haven't tried anything but
car hold up since they started.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
How they manage a job?
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Well, you know how they've been operating for transportation. They
robbed the people, steal their car. When they reach another victim,
they transfer to his car. First time they switched that
systems tonight.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Hold up from South Hoover. The man and his wife.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Instead of changing over, they stayed in the blue Chabby coop,
same one they took in the job before that.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Up to now they've used the same hot car in
the last three jobs. Sure going to help if they
stick with it. What about the gas station.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
And den Veallett excuse you're probably Chandler homicide comings yeaglen
Uh huh five pole three eight nine.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
They dug out a witness to the gas station job.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
So Spicks drove off in the blue Chavy coup licensed
five pole three eight nine, the same car and stops me,
what was it? Take twenty three bucks? Like the attendant
took off. The broadcasts out area has been alerted.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Nothing yet, okay man, Yeah, he.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
Was growing into a long Yeah, you're gonna cover hope.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
He'll yeah, Freggie gets back right. Well, we'll be checking with.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
You guys.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
On the side from merw Yeah, how they all right?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Thanks?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Brookstore on South Fig two eleven, slugging blonde girl drove
the escape.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Car you know, five poul three eight nine.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
In the next three hours before dawn, the Rattlesnake bandit
and his blonde girlfriend held up and robbed a restaurant
and two more service stations, and made good their escape.
For some unknown reason, they continued to use the same
stolen car, the blue Chevrolet Coup By noontime the following day,
composite pictures of the hold up couple.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Were drawn up by the crime.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Lab artist from the descriptions given by the victims. The
pictures were printed up and given wide distribution throughout the city.
The description and license number of the escape car was
in the hands of every radio car and patrolman in
all divisions.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
The search was intensified.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
It got us nothing the following night and early morning,
without even slowing their pace, the suspects added four more
hold ups and.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Sluggings to their credit.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
One of the victims was spread Lerner, proprietor of a
small lunch counter near eighteenth and Olive.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Haven't held up for four officer A half dozen times
I ever saw a punk as hard looking as this guy.
Though you were sure about the description, miss learning why
he's stood just as close as you're standing to me
now while looking his eye, waving that gun around. I
wasn't taking any chances. I gave him everything which was there,
eighteen dollars and a half. Well, how about the getaway car.
(14:46):
You're pretty sure of the make and the cutter or.
I ran to the door there as soon as they left,
saw him drive off as the licenses. I wrote it down,
it's five.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
P three eight nine. I saw the whole thing prize.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Lewis would tie up with a funk like him, Lois
who's at But you know the blonde drives the car
for him?
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Lois Hagen.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Why do you know that's her name? She used to
be a waitress. Word for my brother, Lois Hagen. Blonde.
I spotted her right away in that car. Yeah, yeah, sure, Lewis, didn't.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
You know it was her?
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Seven thirty am.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
We put in a call of the record bureau and
had them check on the name and description of Lois Hagen, No,
make no previous record. With the help of Fred Lerner
and his brother, we trace the Hagen girl to a
drive in where she used to work.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
There.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
We checked the employment records and got an address on
her eighteen hundred Norwich Drive turned out to be a
small apartment house in West Hollywood.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Ben checked with a landlady while I waited.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
In the car, and as the plane too, John Hage
turned the plane ton is in it.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Uncertified and I said, what'd you get? Talk to the landlady.
She's manage the apartment for sixteen years. You know she
never heard of lowis Hagen.
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Speaker 8 (17:37):
Tuesday, March thirteenth.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
That night, in the one following the Rattlesnake bandit and
his Bronz girlfriend, supposedly Lois Hagen, continued their campaign of hold.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Ups and sluggings.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
They robbed two liquor stores, an all night cafe cigar shop,
and two more service stations.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
In each case, the.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Descriptions of the suspects and their getaway car was the same.
Routine investigations got nowhere. Ben and I went to work
checking out the thin lead that we.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Had on the girl known as Lois Hagen.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
After three days of pounding a pavement and asking questions,
we found two former waitresses at drive in restaurants who
had worked with Lois Hagen. Both of them gave us
addresses where they thought the Hagen.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Girl had lived at one time. One of them was
a phony it was a vacant lot.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
The other, panned out was a rooming house out in
the Boyle Heights district. The manager told us that the
Hagen girl lived there two years before. She told us
that as far as she knew, the girl's mother and
missus Ernestine Hagen, still ran a small French laundry on
South Hobart Boulevard. We found missus Hagen working in her shop.
She was a small, thin woman with gray hair.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yes, I have a daughter, Lewis. What's the matter?
Speaker 8 (18:43):
I'd like to talk to him, miss Hagen?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Do you know where we can locate her?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Probably sounds funny too you. I haven't seen my daughter
in two years.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Do you have any idea where she's living now?
Speaker 12 (18:53):
No, she's not much of a daughter. We didn't get along,
as I say, two years ago. We had an argument,
she left me, never wrote a letter.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I just don't know. I see, I hate she's living
in Detroit for a while. I guess she's back here now.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
One of my lady friends, missus McCormick Solo, was shopping
out in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
It was about a month ago.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
How old is your daughter's here?
Speaker 12 (19:16):
She'll be twenty next month? She looks older and she
really is. Whould you excuse me please my flirt?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I am back here and I have a heating certainly, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
Do you have a copy in the composite picture of
the girl? M Yeah, yeah, right here.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I didn't realize it was getting so late.
Speaker 12 (19:36):
I had this rush order to get ready by four
o'clock offices.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
If you want, you can come back here. We can
talk while I get it out.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
All right, ma'am?
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Thank you?
Speaker 12 (19:45):
Huh, that's a true there with your life, oh, thank you.
Seems I'm always so busy lately. I used to have
some fine help.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
It's not so easy to find anymore. Science seems awful.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Hot.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
HM's so all right.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
I wonder if you'd mind looking at this picture, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
This one here, all right, mm looks something like those
you're looking forwards? Thing? Is she done something again?
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Well, we're not sure, ma'am. Or she been in trouble before.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
I can't be more ashamed of her than I already
at Yeah, she's been in trouble before.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
She was nothing but trouble my only child. Her father
died when she's a baby, but I guess she needed
a father. I couldn't do anything with her.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Was your daughter ever in any serious trouble with the policeman?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I don't know. Maybe she was. I didn't hear about it,
and I tried to understand, and we never got along.
I don't know. This makes me sick to.
Speaker 13 (20:57):
Think about him.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Well, how about her friends, Miss egg and I mean
a friends. Do you have to know any of them?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
No, Lois never brought him home, and I knew they
were tramps. I heard the way the neighbors were talking,
trampy fellas, trumpy girls, drinking, doing things. You know, she's
learning those things at home.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
What was lois last known address? Do you have any
idea at all?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Place in Royal Heights and boarding house. It's last I
heard Lois.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
She never wrote a letter.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
That's another thing.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
She could have had the best education.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Any girl could want. I worked twelve years in the
laundry year to give it to her. I sent her
to the convent. Even the nuns.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Couldn't do anything with her. She only sassed them back.
She finally quit all together.
Speaker 13 (21:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
Can you think of anybody who might know where your
daughter is?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Maybe one of your relatives.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yeah, we don't have any relatives here. I have a
brother in Ohio. That's all these least balls is at
an awful lot of trouble about that drug stock face.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I wonder if you have a picture of your daughter
that we could borrow. We'll see that it's returned to you.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah, right, I've got lots of pictures of Lois. It's
a pretty girl, you know, looks quite a bit like
me when I was young.
Speaker 14 (22:16):
Yes, ma'am, well, thanks very much for your time. And
the nurses at the hospital said at the lowis is
ball beautiful child. Certainly strange, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
How's that?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
And the babies they all look so clean and so good. Yes, ma'am,
what happens to him?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Before we left versus Hagen, we got a photograph of
her daughter, Lois, and then we drove back to the office.
We spent the rest of the afternoon showing the picture
to several of the robbery victims. All of them identified
the Hagen girl as the bandit's accomplice. We got out
a supplementary broadcast that night. The hold up couple failed
to put in an appearance. The following night, the same
sign of them. Still no sign of.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
The escape car either where they might be hiding out.
We had no idea.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
The search went on, repeated checks that the Stats office
and the record bureau failed to turn up any new leads.
We stayed on it. Four nights later, the still unidentified
hold up man and Lois Hagen.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Started in all over again.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Two drug store hold ups, two robberies of couples and
pot cars. All of the victims were beaten senseless. Monday
March nineteenth, eight am. Sure, sorry, they turned up anything
last night?
Speaker 8 (23:33):
Two more jobs.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Both victims identified to Hagen girl as he accomplished anything else, still.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Using the same escape car. It's about it. We're no
closer than we were a week ago.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
I checked the.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Hospital on the drugs. They said, Now, how's he doing?
I don't know, Yeah, still unconsciously.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I'll get it.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Homicide Friday. You got my where? Yeah, right away? What
if you got a thirty two? I that out on
eighteenth in Hill the hold up car. They just spotted
it eight twenty am.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Together with Cummings and MacCready, we drove out to eighteenth
and Hill, where the officers in Unit thirty two are
had The hold up car Stakedown was parked in the
back of a large service station on Hill Street, near
the corner of eighteenth. We talked with a manager and
he told us that a blonde girl answering Lois Hagen's description,
had left the car there earlier that morning just to
have the distributor fixed and the battery recharged.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
She told him that she'd called for the car early
that night. Because of the way that the service.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Station was situated, it would have been impossible to stake
out on the blue coop without making it look obvious.
We explained the setup to the manager and made arrangements
for Ben andight Opposes employees. That way, we could keep
a close watch on the car until the suspects called
for Cummings and McCreadie hold up in a coffee shop
directly across the street. Two teams of men from rob
recovered from their vantage points. Ben and I took up
(24:52):
our posts to supervisors of the station's ten minute car wash.
Speaker 13 (25:02):
They sure do a great business here. Huh.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Yeah, you mentioned to the manager about keeping the area
clear around that cart and you yeah, it's.
Speaker 13 (25:09):
All set up. We're not going to have an excuse
in the world if we miss those two.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Yeah, they show up.
Speaker 13 (25:16):
What are we supposed to do now? Pull these tickets
off the cars as they move off the wash line.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Yeah, that's all just to slip the tickets in that
box over there.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
See mm hmm.
Speaker 13 (25:26):
Must have run them a few dollars out installing all
this equipment.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Seems to be paying off. Doesn't it What time you
got now?
Speaker 13 (25:35):
A few minutes passed? Forth?
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Want to smoke?
Speaker 13 (25:38):
No, I just put one out.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
One am bend spotted.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
The young blonde girl turned the corner onto Hill and
start up the street towards the service station. As she
came closer, she looked to the right and the left.
She paused in front of the station, looked on both
sides of the street, and then she turned.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Completely around and walked on past. So always, Hagan, she's
going right down as the corner. How about yeah, I'll
put in with it. How about a tale? But can't
just let her walk away from him? It's in just
a minute. Take a look. She's turning around, coming back
his way. She's coming in now we better get back
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to our car. Looks like a right. The young blonde
entered the garage.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Office, paid the repair bill, and drove off in the
hold up car. Ben and I followed an eighty K.
Cummings and mccreedy tailed us. The blue coop moved two
blocks down Hill Street and then turned into an apartment garage.
We parked on the street, went in and got the
manager out of bed or showed him Lois Hagen's picture
He told us that she was registered alone and apartment sixteen.
He failed to recognize the description of the hold up.
(26:43):
Man mccredy and three men from robbery covered the front
and back exits. Cummings, Ben and I climbed the stairs
to the third floor, number sixteen.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Joe, do you want to ring it?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (27:02):
Sorry? Man from the bedroom?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Bell right, I'll take the kitchen. Wait a minute, what
is this?
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Police officers? You loss? Hete you get out of here.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Let me bedroom back here?
Speaker 8 (27:10):
All right? Where is he? Come on, let's have it.
Speaker 13 (27:12):
Get out right, get off upstairs?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You watch your bill?
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I got it.
Speaker 13 (27:16):
Come on back here you go stare Joe watching?
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Yeah, pull it back, get off my dog, come back.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Gave me roll.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Give it up, mister.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
You haven't got a chance.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Come on, job, we got the building covered.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Mister, give it up.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Hook Joe, I'm getting his gun. How is he then? Joe?
Speaker 13 (27:44):
Man? You all right?
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Yeah, I'm bill. You wanna take the girl downstairs?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Let me see a right? Right?
Speaker 8 (27:54):
All right?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Lady?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Didn't you have to happen? I tried to tell him
get away. You wouldn't listen.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Nevertheless, let's go.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I'm married just today.
Speaker 13 (27:59):
You didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Did you just married? Yeah, marry two days?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Yeah, Honeymoon's over come on, lady.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
The story you have just heard was true. All of
the names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
On August fifth, trial was held in Superior Court Department
eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
In a moment the results of that trial.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Now here's our star, Jack Webb, thank you.
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The body of the dead hold up man was identified
as that of Frank Ralston killed bride his accompass. Lois
Hagen was tried and convicted on six counts of armed
robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. She received sentences
as prescribed by law and is now serving her term
in the State Penitentiary for Women. You have just heard Dragnet,
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