November 14, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Dragon, ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocence.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to Juvenile Detail. You
(00:27):
get a report that a teenage boy has been found
in the downtown alley.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
He's in critical condition. Your job check it out.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It was Wednesday, November sixteenth. It was cool in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out of Juvenile Detail.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss's Captain Powers. My name
is Friday. We're on our way into the office and
it was nine to seventeen pm when we got the
second floor of Georgie Street Juvenile the squadron.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I don't know, Joe, let's see a kid like that.
You start wondering, Yeah, fifteen years old John hold up
the liquor store kind of worries.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
The guy, What do you mean about your own kids?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
How are they gonna turn on?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
All?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Most of them turn out okay. You can't help worrying though, Well,
you're a father.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Maybe you're better off Joe not having the worries.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Do you really believe that?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I guess so.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Once you stop trying to marry me off. Oh say
that reminds me?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, you know, the Phillips live down the street from us.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I don't think I do.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
They were over for dinner the same night you were. Yah,
last summertime. Fay made fried chicken. Oh yeah, remember it,
I remember the chicken. Go ahead, You're gonna spend Christmas
with us, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Christmas?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
They You told me to be sure and remind you.
It's only a month or so off.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
That's soon.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, can we count on you?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, we're not working.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
It's well, I'll let thing know.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Well, it's just got to do with the Thorps.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Nothing, It's got nothing to do with him.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Joe, Why are you so daring suspicious?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Which one of them has the sister?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Come on, mister and missus? Which one both of them?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
For all I know?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, which one has a sister coming out here for
the holidays? Which one? Missus Phillips? And they're all going
to be at your place for Christmas dinners?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I think, well, if he hasn't asked them yet, she
wanted to be sure that you can, okay to ask him.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
They're your friends.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
You won't regret it, Joe. You know missus Phillips is
darn nice looking, good talker to her her sisters.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Anything like seeing me one big favorily once that Christmas
is still five weeks away. Don't start selling me now.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I wouldn't try to sell you on any girl. Do
you know that I never met this one. I was
just thinking that sometimes you can kind of sort of
judge a person by a family and.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Yount Friday, where's that? I see? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I found a kid lying a malley off Sheridan Street.
He's hurt pretty bad, an accident, knife in his back.
Frank and I drove out to the address where the
victim had been found. Was a dark valley that opened
onto Sheridan Street in the block between fifth and sixth.
An ambulance had been called and the boy had already
been moved to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. Nine forty two pm.
(03:08):
We talked to one of the patrol car officers who
had discovered the body. We're only a couple of blocks away.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We headed right over.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Where'd you find them? Hey, I'll show you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Right here against that wall's lost a lot of blood.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yeah, nice, still in them small of the back. Look
like you've been beat up too, do you say anything
about who did it?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I mean mumbled something.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
We couldn't understand them, and then he passed out.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I would you say, ah, fifteen sixteen.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Maybe he's a good.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Looking kid, about five eight, black hair, blue eyes, regular features,
what kind of clothes and jeans and a jacket windbreaker type?
See anybody around him might have done it? No, not
a soul of the street was deserted. My partner's out looking.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Now give him a hand.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Who file a complaint?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I would check the board. I'm afraid that won't help. Well,
they don't know either. While a patrol car officer searched
the neighborhood for suspects, Frank and I canvassed the area
for the person who had reported the crime. Ten sixteen
pm we talked to the patrons in the nearby barn Grill.
They denied having any knowledge of the assault. Ten forty
(04:06):
two pm we entered a small tobacco shop on the
corner of Sheridan and Eighth.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Even the gents, are you, sir?
Speaker 6 (04:15):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (04:16):
For?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Police office? Is Frank Smith? My name is Friday.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Sam Crest Here, mister Crest, something troubling you fellas like
to talk to you for a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
That's all done.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Anything I should sure not.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
As far as we know.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
Well, you never can tell, you know the way they
keep making up new laws. Nowadays a person can be
a criminal out even half trying too many rules. That's
what's wrong with this country too.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Don many rules.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yes, ought to be just one.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Golden rule that ought to be more insufficient. Yeah, don't
work out that way though.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Man could live up to it every day of his
life and still wouldn't keep him out of jail. Golden
rules don't say nothing about paying income, taking off licenses,
or filing social security reports.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well does it?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
No, it doesn't seem to.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
But you in jail if you don't do them.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, man can live.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
But the golden rule don't make no difference.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It makes a difference. Ooh, some maybe, but not enough.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Have you been here all evening with the crest since
supper time?
Speaker 7 (05:19):
When was that six point thirty eat as a drug
store over on Soto Street? Stop serving food at seven?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I say, see what times you get back to start?
You remember?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Ooh, five odds? Maybe?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Then you've been here ever since.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Sure, he ain't doubt my word. I say, I tell
the truth.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
You know, Yes, I may not get all my government
forms figured out right, but I'm a truthfool man.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Anybody suspicious come in here tonight, suspicious.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
I'm afraid you'll have to explain that. You see, I
ain't no policemen. Folks don't look suspicious to me. They
just look like folks.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, let me strangers then.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Sure, lots of strangers, eight or ten, Maybe I see strangers.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
To me these waves.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I don't get acquainted with folks easy and comes buys
a pack of cigarettes or some tobacco.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Don't make him a friend. All I said, most of
the night's customer has been in before.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Oh some of them had, Yeah, some of them had.
I don't keep track.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I see, did you hear anything out on.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
The street traffic, folks walking by you, fellas? Sure ain't
very specific or anything like a fight front of my
place in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well, I didn't hear no fight.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Somebody get the mixing it up? Looks that way.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Oh that's the trouble with this world. People always squabbling.
Wherever you go, whatever you do, it ends up in squabbling.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Who was it? We don't know yet.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Anybody hurt?
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Yes here, well, probably bring it on himself.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Were there any youngsters hanging around your place to night,
mister Crest, youngsters? Teenagers?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, if there was, I didn't notice them. Kids.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Huh, yes, Oh, I just don't know what we're coming to.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Thank you very much, sir. Sure all right?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I say.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
There was one one young fellow.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
He didn't hang around.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
No, he was in a big rush, you know, No,
I know.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I don't think I ever.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Saw him before.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Could you describe him for it?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Oh? Just an ordinary kid?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
How big was he?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Who? Not big? He come up to about here on me.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Probably don't have his full growth yet.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I think he recalled how he was drafted.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Well, I didn't pay much attention, only in the shop
a couple of minutes. The color of his hair light
reddish or bondish. Nice looking boy, Oh, no, better worse
than most.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
But times you see him, it's been nearly a couple
of hours ago, along about.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Nine o'clock, come charging him, all out of breath. Yeah,
asked if I had a phone. I pointed out the
booth over there in the corner. But well, there was
nothing more to tell he run over the booth, made
a call, wasn't on the phone more than a few.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Seconds, and he come out and left the shop.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Anything else you can tell us about her?
Speaker 7 (08:08):
I don't think so, No, except that when he was leaving, Yeah,
he wasn't.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
In a hurry like when he come in.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
He sort of peered out the door for it seemed
as though all the steam had gone out, and he
looked back over his shoulder.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Yeah, I said, oh, gaunest expression on his face. What
do you mean, Mikey was scared to death. While we're
in the tobacco shop. We telephone Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And talked to doctor Sebastian. He told us that the
victim was in a critical condition and had been moved
to General Hospital. He also told us that they had
not been able to identify the boy. We called General
and asked to be notified when he was able to talk.
Eleven thirty one pm, Frank and I went back to
the office. Homicide was notified. Patrol car officers who had
discovered the body reported that they had not found any
suspects in the vicinity of the crime. Eleven forty six pm,
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which checked with the crime lamb an examination of the
weapon and revealed no useful fingerprints. It was a spring
blade knife with an eight inch blade. Twelve o two am.
Frank and I went off duty and another team of
detectives continued the investigation the next morning, Thursday, November seventeenth,
eight twelve am.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I wanted Joe all right, anything new? No, not so far.
I'm about missing persons. Nobody's reporting them. It's funny you
think somebody'd be looking for him by now. It's folks
or somebody. You know. You wouldn't any coffee and that thing. Yeah,
I hope you so all right?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Probably cold by now?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Better than nothing.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
He missed breakfast.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I wasn't hungry. You're right, it's cold. Yeah, say Joe
about Christmas? What about it? Well, we won't invite missus
Phillips sister if you don't want us to.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You know, I got to think them last night.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
People shouldn't force a guy to get married and raise
a family if it's against his best judge.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Well, who's getting married and raising a family. It's just
a Christmas dinner? Yeah, but you know, say, well, you
know me, I got juvenile Friday, Yes, sir, all right, sir,
thank you very much. General hospital boys coming to eh.
We talked to him. Yeah, for a minute or two.
We better get a move on, huh, Doc said to hurry.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Frank and I drove out the General hospital.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
A doctor in charge of the case was waiting for
us in the hall outside the patient's room.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Yes, right, to Gwynn. Don't stay too long, all right,
you're gonna be all right now, too soon to tell.
If the wound was an inch higher, I could give
you an answer. Yeah, it could be dead.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
We went on into the room. The shades were drawn
and the victory was in semi darkness. His eyes were open,
but he closed them as soon as he saw center.
I have a feeling, son, Son, I'm okay, like to
talk to you for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
No ways stopping you?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Is there?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
What's your name?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Son?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
What yours?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Smith?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Frank Smith?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
My partner's Joe Friday, Cops.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Well, well, what how about telling us who you are?
I forgot oh you know, amnesia?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, how'd you get hurt? Kids?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Forgot that too, for trying to help you, son, Not
my fault. I don't remember nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You know you're pretty sick. Sure, but it's not amnesia.
You're a duck.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
No, and you tell what's wrong.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
With You're nice to you?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Now what happened?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Come on? What's your name?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Abraham Lincoln? You guys can call me eight?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
All right, we'll find out. Go ahead, What are.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
You doing on Sheridan Street last night?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Where I was?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You want them to get away with it? Who the
fella that's stuck a shive in your back?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Now?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Who do a thing like that?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
That's what we want you to tell us.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Hey, you know what?
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Mmm, it's I was starting to come back to tell
us about him. There was this black sedan, see great
big job. Yeah, I was walking along the street. Sedan
pulled up beside me. Twelve guys jumped out. Told you
it was a big job. Six of them tried to
grab me. All right, that's enough, But you want to
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know what happened.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It was all wearing masks.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I said, that's enough. Sure, Now you listen to me something.
We're gonna find out who you are and who stabbed you.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Sorry, I ain't a position off for a reward.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You want your face in all the newspapers?
Speaker 8 (12:34):
What before?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I ain't important?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I said, We're gonna find out who you are.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Well, okay, you want to play detect, Let's have it Tom, Tom?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
What Markcutt?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Where do you live?
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Diamond Street?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What number?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Apartment house? Corner of Diamond Olympics, second floor in the back.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I suppose you tell us what happened last night? Guy
jumped me?
Speaker 6 (12:55):
That's all I know.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Who was he?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I never saw him before?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You sure about that?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
What do you look like?
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
It was dark?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Somebody your own age? Heck no, how was he thirty
thirty five? Why'd he pick you?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Must have thought I had some dough. You never saw
him before, That's what I said. That's all was he?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I don't know to get a look at his face?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Uh, can't tell us anything about him? Nope, But you
know how old he was?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
I a feeling, that's all.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Where do you go to school?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Taylor High for the year ten?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Any gangs in the year school?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You don't belong to one. Nope, you had any kind
of trouble lately? What kind of trouble were the other
kids at the school?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Can't you got get anything straight? It wasn't a kid?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Who do you live with?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Marka, my old man, where's your mother under a tombstone?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
We'll get in touch with your dad with four he
might be worried about you.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Want to bet.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
We're unable to get any additional information from the victim.
We went back to the office and checked the name
Tom Market through R and I. They had nothing on him.
Nine forty seven am. Frank and idro out to the
address he'd given us. There's a two story stuccle apartment house.
Badly you need a repair. We went up the second floor.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Must be this one man, I don't hear any about it.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
Hey, Ezy William, all right, it's all the pounding for Market.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, we're police officers.
Speaker 10 (14:36):
Frank Smith, my name is Friday. Well what do you
want Come in for a minute. If you're don't, I'm
gonna full fly on my face. Oh boy, my head's
coming apart and stretch kind of tied one on last night.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
That's so haven't gotten AskMen? Have you grocer right?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Not?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Can't it beer?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Nope, that's what I really need.
Speaker 10 (14:57):
Usually keep a cup in the refrigerator for an emergency
like this. But the kid of mine has been guzzling
him again. But I talk to you about yourself the market. Yeah,
you know he didn't come home last night, didn't he?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
No way of me and knowing it.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I work nights, drive, I hacked, don't get home at.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Four or five.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
He leaves for school before I wake up. What'd you
pick him up for? He's not under arrest. Huh, he's
in the hospital. Hospital, that's right.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
He was stabbed last night. I yeah, it's gonna be
all right.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
An.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
They don't know yet.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
They thought you might be able to help us, help you. Yeah,
find out who did it? You know who your son's
friends are.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I don't know nothing about him.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
We don't well, we aren't very close.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I see. Has he been worried lately about anything?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Upset? No more unusual? How's he doing in school?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Lousy?
Speaker 10 (15:46):
So always asked me to come down and talk to him, principle,
his teachers. What do they say about him?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I don't go.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
I want a couple of times when he first came
to live with me, he didn't do any good.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
That's uh.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I can't change him anything. I tell Tom, just rubbed
him the wrong way. So he's on his own. How
long was your son level there?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Three years?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
How about before that?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
He looked with his mom.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
She divorced me a couple of years after he was born,
took him with her. When she died, there was nobody
else to look after him.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
He had to come back to me. I got to
get me a glass of water and only take a set.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, looks like the kid was right, he thought his
father Lady. She doesn't seem very upset.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I just got to stop this drinking.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Never used to feel like this when I was younger.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
That right.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
They're going to bat for two or three days. Come
out of him and feel Okay. I can't take it anymore.
Fusser will be leaving. If you'd like to see your son,
he's a general hospital. I I'm asked to see me.
Speaker 10 (16:44):
He's pretty second market. You talked to him, didn't you.
That's right, he asked to see me.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
No, he didn't.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
He thinks so, and I guess I can't blame him
for hating me. He figures I didn't want him after
his mom died. Figured I had to take him. Yeah,
tried to tell him different, he didn't. We just can't
talk to me bothering his son living in the same apartment,
like we speak a different language. Thank God going on
to see him. Well, that's up to you being asked
(17:13):
for me. It's funny. It was somebody who hates you,
your own son.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
No, maybe you're wrong about it.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
They see it in his face, his eyes away, he talks.
Every time I look at him, I can see it.
Tom's the one who's wrong. It's not his fault, but
he's wrong. He wouldn't believe it on the stack of
Bible because even you guys don't.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
But I love him.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Frank and idrill out to the Taylor High School on
Grand Avenue ten fifty seven am. We interviewed the principal,
James Winger. He told us that Tom Market was a
poor student, that he was difficult to manage it. He
also told us that the boy had a good mind
and was capable of much better work than he performed.
He was unable to throw any light on the n
thing and suggested that we talk with a victims homeroom.
Teach your Miss Norah Rollins. Eleven sixteen am. We interviewed
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Miss Rollins in a small room which you joined the
Principal's office.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
I'm supposed to be giving an English examination during this period, Sergeant.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Yes, ma'am, it's only take a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You have a student named Tom Marcott.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Certainly he's in my homeroom.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
What kind of a boy is he?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
No?
Speaker 11 (18:16):
Is he lazy, impossible to discipline? Similar to a number
of the others. He's absent today though, something happened to Tom.
He's had an accident, an accident or a fight. Why
do you say that it won't be the first time
he had any fights lately?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
He came to.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
School with a cut lip two or three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Does Tom have any particular enemies?
Speaker 8 (18:38):
I really don't know. There are over seventy five students
in my homeroom.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
It's a little.
Speaker 11 (18:42):
Difficult to know very much about any of them.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yes, mam.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
How about friends? Who's he power around with?
Speaker 11 (18:47):
You know, nobody in particular, as far as I can
tell it.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
No, wait a minute. There's one boy, ma'am, Arthur Jalat.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And what does he look like?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Well, he's small, god haired, almost just troublesome.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Is Tom see in school today?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I believe so, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Is there anything else you can tell us about Tom?
Speaker 11 (19:05):
No that I don't have much hope for him, and
I've asked his father to come in and see me.
Several times so far he's always declined. The invitation is
Tom badly here, Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Ma'am pretty bad.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Knife wound?
Speaker 11 (19:22):
Seventeen years ago? When I first started teaching, that would
have shocked me. It was a very naive young.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Lady, sergeant.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Is that right?
Speaker 11 (19:30):
I thought all a person had to do to become
a teacher was to take the right courses, get a
degree in credential.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
Seems such a simple matter.
Speaker 11 (19:38):
I wanted to teach English literature, so I studied English literature, Shakespeare, Charser, Browning, Keith, Shelley.
As I continue in the profession, I discovered that I
omitted one.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Essential court's judo.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
We asked mister Wingdore if we could interview the student
named Arthur Jolly. He asked his secretary to have the
boy sent into us. I was like, he's the one
who called in the report.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Now, must have been with Marcott when it happened.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Come in, do you want to see me?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Come in son.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Here, Arthur Jonathan?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Is that who you asked for? Sit out?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Son? We're police officers, a smith. My name's Friday. Do
you have a friend named Tom Marcott.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I know him? Pretty good friend of yours?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
He's a friend?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
You've been with him lately? When yesterday? The day before?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Where here we've got some of the same subjects. How
about after school?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You saw him after school?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Did you not before? Last last night?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Too? Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Where were you last night?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Movie?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Who'd you go with?
Speaker 5 (20:45):
What?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Along?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
What movie?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Double bill?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
In Hollywood? What you do afterwards?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
It's you ride on spending time around Sheridan Street. Where's
that he want us to show you?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Come on, we'll take you over there.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
What for?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Like cab you meet a man who runs at the
back of shop.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
On that part of town? You kidding or something?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Young fella came into his place last night. So the
way he described him, it could be you. He must
be blind to something. Well, let's find out.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Come on, okay, So maybe I wasn't his neck? What's
what's the beef?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Your friend Market was around there too?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Honey?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Who incidence?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
You know?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What's the matter with Tom?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Anyhow?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Why I ain't been in school today? He's in the hospital. Oh,
it's a good thing you called us when you did?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You might be dead by now? Who says I called you?
Man who runs the tobacco shop.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
How there could he tell it? Well?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I mean who I was calling?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
All right, Joha, give us the whole story now with
what's doing? Come on, let's get it over with.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
It's about Tom.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Ask him.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
We're asking you. You want us to take in? Of course,
not up to you. I ain't much to tell, just
walking around Tom and me. Yeah, a fellow jumped out
from an alley, came at us with a knife.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Go ahead, took a.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Swing at Tom. I ducked off, you know, called the cops.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
That's all I know.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Who wasn't Jeo?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Your guess is as good as mine.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
We don't think so.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Suit yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I thought Tom was a friend of yours.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
He is.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Well, we want to know who stabbed him?
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Would expect me to do? Dream up and name?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
How big was he?
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Medium sized?
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Nineteen twenty?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Tom says he was about thirty five.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Tom outow, No, he's a lot closer to him.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
All right, let's go down to the Juvenile.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Bureau Befoh, I told you everything I know.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I want to show you some mugshots.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Forget it. I wouldn't recognize this picture.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Let's give it a try.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Anyway, I'll take it easy, will you.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
What's the matter.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
I don't want to be seen leaving with you guys?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Wouldn't do my reputation any good?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
What are you afraid of?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I ain't afraid I got a nice to your buddy?
Is that who you're afraid of? Look?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
If Tom wanted you to know, he'd have told you,
wouldn't he? Tom ain't dead?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
All right?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Come on, John, let's go give me a n answers Tom,
okay or not?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Doesn't make any difference to you. Sure it makes a difference.
It doesn't look like it to us. I'm no squealer.
All right. You've had your chance.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Now you gotta go.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Ah him.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Come on, you can't arrest me. A boy was stabbed
last night. You saw it, as far as we know.
You're the only other person who was there. Now you
figure it out.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I didn't have nothing to do with it. Tom will
tell you, so throw me in jail. My own man
will kill me.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Oh that's tough.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
I ain't gonna take the wrap. It's up to you, okay, okay?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It was Jerry. Jerry?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Who longer you go to the school? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What was it all about?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Tom tried to date.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Jerry's girl. Jerry heard about it, followed.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Us last night.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'll get a hold along all right.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Yeah, Jerry finds out I squealed on him, it'll do
even worse to me.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
He ain't gonna find out.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Is he.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
We won't tell him.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
There the tumbles.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
You can start sending flowers. Jerry's the big man around school.
Yeah or six foot, lots of muscle, lots of shove.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Oh that doesn't make him a big man, does it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Huh? He needs a knife.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
The story you've just heard is true. The names were
changed to protect the innocence.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
On December second, a hearing was held in Juvenile Department
Superior Court, State of California. In and fall the County
of Los Angeles, petitions were filed on both the victim
and the subject. The victim, Thomas Marcott, was placed under
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twenty four hour supervision in a foster home. The subject,
Jerome Lgren, due to a previous juvenile record and the
viciousness of the attack, was sentenced to a juvenile correctional establishment.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
You have just heard Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police force in action and starring Jack Webb, a presentation
of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's the best cover.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
That's that's the Cooper, That's that's that's.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
That's the comer, that's that's.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
That's that's
Speaker 4 (25:34):
That's that's the host comb that's com
Dragon, ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocence.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to Juvenile Detail. You
(00:27):
get a report that a teenage boy has been found
in the downtown alley.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
He's in critical condition. Your job check it out.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It was Wednesday, November sixteenth. It was cool in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out of Juvenile Detail.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss's Captain Powers. My name
is Friday. We're on our way into the office and
it was nine to seventeen pm when we got the
second floor of Georgie Street Juvenile the squadron.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I don't know, Joe, let's see a kid like that.
You start wondering, Yeah, fifteen years old John hold up
the liquor store kind of worries.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
The guy, What do you mean about your own kids?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
How are they gonna turn on?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
All?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Most of them turn out okay. You can't help worrying though, Well,
you're a father.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Maybe you're better off Joe not having the worries.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Do you really believe that?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I guess so.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Once you stop trying to marry me off. Oh say
that reminds me?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, you know, the Phillips live down the street from us.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I don't think I do.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
They were over for dinner the same night you were. Yah,
last summertime. Fay made fried chicken. Oh yeah, remember it,
I remember the chicken. Go ahead, You're gonna spend Christmas
with us, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Christmas?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
They You told me to be sure and remind you.
It's only a month or so off.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
That's soon.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, can we count on you?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, we're not working.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
It's well, I'll let thing know.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Well, it's just got to do with the Thorps.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Nothing, It's got nothing to do with him.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Joe, Why are you so daring suspicious?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Which one of them has the sister?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Come on, mister and missus? Which one both of them?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
For all I know?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, which one has a sister coming out here for
the holidays? Which one? Missus Phillips? And they're all going
to be at your place for Christmas dinners?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I think, well, if he hasn't asked them yet, she
wanted to be sure that you can, okay to ask him.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
They're your friends.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
You won't regret it, Joe. You know missus Phillips is
darn nice looking, good talker to her her sisters.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Anything like seeing me one big favorily once that Christmas
is still five weeks away. Don't start selling me now.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I wouldn't try to sell you on any girl. Do
you know that I never met this one. I was
just thinking that sometimes you can kind of sort of
judge a person by a family and.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Yount Friday, where's that? I see? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I found a kid lying a malley off Sheridan Street.
He's hurt pretty bad, an accident, knife in his back.
Frank and I drove out to the address where the
victim had been found. Was a dark valley that opened
onto Sheridan Street in the block between fifth and sixth.
An ambulance had been called and the boy had already
been moved to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. Nine forty two pm.
(03:08):
We talked to one of the patrol car officers who
had discovered the body. We're only a couple of blocks away.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We headed right over.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Where'd you find them? Hey, I'll show you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Right here against that wall's lost a lot of blood.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yeah, nice, still in them small of the back. Look
like you've been beat up too, do you say anything
about who did it?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I mean mumbled something.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
We couldn't understand them, and then he passed out.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I would you say, ah, fifteen sixteen.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Maybe he's a good.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Looking kid, about five eight, black hair, blue eyes, regular features,
what kind of clothes and jeans and a jacket windbreaker type?
See anybody around him might have done it? No, not
a soul of the street was deserted. My partner's out looking.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Now give him a hand.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Who file a complaint?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I would check the board. I'm afraid that won't help. Well,
they don't know either. While a patrol car officer searched
the neighborhood for suspects, Frank and I canvassed the area
for the person who had reported the crime. Ten sixteen
pm we talked to the patrons in the nearby barn Grill.
They denied having any knowledge of the assault. Ten forty
(04:06):
two pm we entered a small tobacco shop on the
corner of Sheridan and Eighth.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Even the gents, are you, sir?
Speaker 6 (04:15):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (04:16):
For?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Police office? Is Frank Smith? My name is Friday.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Sam Crest Here, mister Crest, something troubling you fellas like
to talk to you for a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
That's all done.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Anything I should sure not.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
As far as we know.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
Well, you never can tell, you know the way they
keep making up new laws. Nowadays a person can be
a criminal out even half trying too many rules. That's
what's wrong with this country too.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Don many rules.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yes, ought to be just one.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Golden rule that ought to be more insufficient. Yeah, don't
work out that way though.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Man could live up to it every day of his
life and still wouldn't keep him out of jail. Golden
rules don't say nothing about paying income, taking off licenses,
or filing social security reports.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well does it?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
No, it doesn't seem to.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
But you in jail if you don't do them.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, man can live.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
But the golden rule don't make no difference.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It makes a difference. Ooh, some maybe, but not enough.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Have you been here all evening with the crest since
supper time?
Speaker 7 (05:19):
When was that six point thirty eat as a drug
store over on Soto Street? Stop serving food at seven?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I say, see what times you get back to start?
You remember?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Ooh, five odds? Maybe?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Then you've been here ever since.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Sure, he ain't doubt my word. I say, I tell
the truth.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
You know, Yes, I may not get all my government
forms figured out right, but I'm a truthfool man.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Anybody suspicious come in here tonight, suspicious.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
I'm afraid you'll have to explain that. You see, I
ain't no policemen. Folks don't look suspicious to me. They
just look like folks.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, let me strangers then.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Sure, lots of strangers, eight or ten, Maybe I see strangers.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
To me these waves.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I don't get acquainted with folks easy and comes buys
a pack of cigarettes or some tobacco.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Don't make him a friend. All I said, most of
the night's customer has been in before.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Oh some of them had, Yeah, some of them had.
I don't keep track.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I see, did you hear anything out on.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
The street traffic, folks walking by you, fellas? Sure ain't
very specific or anything like a fight front of my
place in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well, I didn't hear no fight.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Somebody get the mixing it up? Looks that way.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Oh that's the trouble with this world. People always squabbling.
Wherever you go, whatever you do, it ends up in squabbling.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Who was it? We don't know yet.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Anybody hurt?
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Yes here, well, probably bring it on himself.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Were there any youngsters hanging around your place to night,
mister Crest, youngsters? Teenagers?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, if there was, I didn't notice them. Kids.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Huh, yes, Oh, I just don't know what we're coming to.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Thank you very much, sir. Sure all right?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I say.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
There was one one young fellow.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
He didn't hang around.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
No, he was in a big rush, you know, No,
I know.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I don't think I ever.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Saw him before.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Could you describe him for it?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Oh? Just an ordinary kid?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
How big was he?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Who? Not big? He come up to about here on me.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Probably don't have his full growth yet.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I think he recalled how he was drafted.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Well, I didn't pay much attention, only in the shop
a couple of minutes. The color of his hair light
reddish or bondish. Nice looking boy, Oh, no, better worse
than most.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
But times you see him, it's been nearly a couple
of hours ago, along about.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Nine o'clock, come charging him, all out of breath. Yeah,
asked if I had a phone. I pointed out the
booth over there in the corner. But well, there was
nothing more to tell he run over the booth, made
a call, wasn't on the phone more than a few.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Seconds, and he come out and left the shop.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Anything else you can tell us about her?
Speaker 7 (08:08):
I don't think so, No, except that when he was leaving, Yeah,
he wasn't.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
In a hurry like when he come in.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
He sort of peered out the door for it seemed
as though all the steam had gone out, and he
looked back over his shoulder.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Yeah, I said, oh, gaunest expression on his face. What
do you mean, Mikey was scared to death. While we're
in the tobacco shop. We telephone Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And talked to doctor Sebastian. He told us that the
victim was in a critical condition and had been moved
to General Hospital. He also told us that they had
not been able to identify the boy. We called General
and asked to be notified when he was able to talk.
Eleven thirty one pm, Frank and I went back to
the office. Homicide was notified. Patrol car officers who had
discovered the body reported that they had not found any
suspects in the vicinity of the crime. Eleven forty six pm,
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which checked with the crime lamb an examination of the
weapon and revealed no useful fingerprints. It was a spring
blade knife with an eight inch blade. Twelve o two am.
Frank and I went off duty and another team of
detectives continued the investigation the next morning, Thursday, November seventeenth,
eight twelve am.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I wanted Joe all right, anything new? No, not so far.
I'm about missing persons. Nobody's reporting them. It's funny you
think somebody'd be looking for him by now. It's folks
or somebody. You know. You wouldn't any coffee and that thing. Yeah,
I hope you so all right?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Probably cold by now?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Better than nothing.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
He missed breakfast.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I wasn't hungry. You're right, it's cold. Yeah, say Joe
about Christmas? What about it? Well, we won't invite missus
Phillips sister if you don't want us to.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You know, I got to think them last night.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
People shouldn't force a guy to get married and raise
a family if it's against his best judge.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Well, who's getting married and raising a family. It's just
a Christmas dinner? Yeah, but you know, say, well, you
know me, I got juvenile Friday, Yes, sir, all right, sir,
thank you very much. General hospital boys coming to eh.
We talked to him. Yeah, for a minute or two.
We better get a move on, huh, Doc said to hurry.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Frank and I drove out the General hospital.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
A doctor in charge of the case was waiting for
us in the hall outside the patient's room.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Yes, right, to Gwynn. Don't stay too long, all right,
you're gonna be all right now, too soon to tell.
If the wound was an inch higher, I could give
you an answer. Yeah, it could be dead.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
We went on into the room. The shades were drawn
and the victory was in semi darkness. His eyes were open,
but he closed them as soon as he saw center.
I have a feeling, son, Son, I'm okay, like to
talk to you for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
No ways stopping you?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Is there?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
What's your name?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Son?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
What yours?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Smith?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Frank Smith?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
My partner's Joe Friday, Cops.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Well, well, what how about telling us who you are?
I forgot oh you know, amnesia?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, how'd you get hurt? Kids?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Forgot that too, for trying to help you, son, Not
my fault. I don't remember nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You know you're pretty sick. Sure, but it's not amnesia.
You're a duck.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
No, and you tell what's wrong.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
With You're nice to you?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Now what happened?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Come on? What's your name?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Abraham Lincoln? You guys can call me eight?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
All right, we'll find out. Go ahead, What are.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
You doing on Sheridan Street last night?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Where I was?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You want them to get away with it? Who the
fella that's stuck a shive in your back?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Now?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Who do a thing like that?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
That's what we want you to tell us.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Hey, you know what?
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Mmm, it's I was starting to come back to tell
us about him. There was this black sedan, see great
big job. Yeah, I was walking along the street. Sedan
pulled up beside me. Twelve guys jumped out. Told you
it was a big job. Six of them tried to
grab me. All right, that's enough, But you want to
(12:23):
know what happened.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It was all wearing masks.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I said, that's enough. Sure, Now you listen to me something.
We're gonna find out who you are and who stabbed you.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Sorry, I ain't a position off for a reward.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You want your face in all the newspapers?
Speaker 8 (12:34):
What before?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I ain't important?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I said, We're gonna find out who you are.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Well, okay, you want to play detect, Let's have it Tom, Tom?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
What Markcutt?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Where do you live?
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Diamond Street?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What number?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Apartment house? Corner of Diamond Olympics, second floor in the back.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I suppose you tell us what happened last night? Guy
jumped me?
Speaker 6 (12:55):
That's all I know.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Who was he?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I never saw him before?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You sure about that?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
What do you look like?
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
It was dark?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Somebody your own age? Heck no, how was he thirty
thirty five? Why'd he pick you?
Speaker 6 (13:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Must have thought I had some dough. You never saw
him before, That's what I said. That's all was he?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I don't know to get a look at his face?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Uh, can't tell us anything about him? Nope, But you
know how old he was?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
I a feeling, that's all.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Where do you go to school?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Taylor High for the year ten?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Any gangs in the year school?
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You don't belong to one. Nope, you had any kind
of trouble lately? What kind of trouble were the other
kids at the school?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Can't you got get anything straight? It wasn't a kid?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Who do you live with?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Marka, my old man, where's your mother under a tombstone?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
We'll get in touch with your dad with four he
might be worried about you.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Want to bet.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
We're unable to get any additional information from the victim.
We went back to the office and checked the name
Tom Market through R and I. They had nothing on him.
Nine forty seven am. Frank and idro out to the
address he'd given us. There's a two story stuccle apartment house.
Badly you need a repair. We went up the second floor.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Must be this one man, I don't hear any about it.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
Hey, Ezy William, all right, it's all the pounding for Market.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, we're police officers.
Speaker 10 (14:36):
Frank Smith, my name is Friday. Well what do you
want Come in for a minute. If you're don't, I'm
gonna full fly on my face. Oh boy, my head's
coming apart and stretch kind of tied one on last night.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
That's so haven't gotten AskMen? Have you grocer right?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Not?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Can't it beer?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Nope, that's what I really need.
Speaker 10 (14:57):
Usually keep a cup in the refrigerator for an emergency
like this. But the kid of mine has been guzzling
him again. But I talk to you about yourself the market. Yeah,
you know he didn't come home last night, didn't he?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
No way of me and knowing it.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I work nights, drive, I hacked, don't get home at.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Four or five.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
He leaves for school before I wake up. What'd you
pick him up for? He's not under arrest. Huh, he's
in the hospital. Hospital, that's right.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
He was stabbed last night. I yeah, it's gonna be
all right.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
An.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
They don't know yet.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
They thought you might be able to help us, help you. Yeah,
find out who did it? You know who your son's
friends are.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I don't know nothing about him.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
We don't well, we aren't very close.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I see. Has he been worried lately about anything?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Upset? No more unusual? How's he doing in school?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Lousy?
Speaker 10 (15:46):
So always asked me to come down and talk to him, principle,
his teachers. What do they say about him?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I don't go.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
I want a couple of times when he first came
to live with me, he didn't do any good.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
That's uh.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I can't change him anything. I tell Tom, just rubbed
him the wrong way. So he's on his own. How
long was your son level there?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Three years?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
How about before that?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
He looked with his mom.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
She divorced me a couple of years after he was born,
took him with her. When she died, there was nobody
else to look after him.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
He had to come back to me. I got to
get me a glass of water and only take a set.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, looks like the kid was right, he thought his
father Lady. She doesn't seem very upset.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I just got to stop this drinking.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Never used to feel like this when I was younger.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
That right.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
They're going to bat for two or three days. Come
out of him and feel Okay. I can't take it anymore.
Fusser will be leaving. If you'd like to see your son,
he's a general hospital. I I'm asked to see me.
Speaker 10 (16:44):
He's pretty second market. You talked to him, didn't you.
That's right, he asked to see me.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
No, he didn't.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
He thinks so, and I guess I can't blame him
for hating me. He figures I didn't want him after
his mom died. Figured I had to take him. Yeah,
tried to tell him different, he didn't. We just can't
talk to me bothering his son living in the same apartment,
like we speak a different language. Thank God going on
to see him. Well, that's up to you being asked
(17:13):
for me. It's funny. It was somebody who hates you,
your own son.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
No, maybe you're wrong about it.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
They see it in his face, his eyes away, he talks.
Every time I look at him, I can see it.
Tom's the one who's wrong. It's not his fault, but
he's wrong. He wouldn't believe it on the stack of
Bible because even you guys don't.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
But I love him.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Frank and idrill out to the Taylor High School on
Grand Avenue ten fifty seven am. We interviewed the principal,
James Winger. He told us that Tom Market was a
poor student, that he was difficult to manage it. He
also told us that the boy had a good mind
and was capable of much better work than he performed.
He was unable to throw any light on the n
thing and suggested that we talk with a victims homeroom.
Teach your Miss Norah Rollins. Eleven sixteen am. We interviewed
(18:03):
Miss Rollins in a small room which you joined the
Principal's office.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
I'm supposed to be giving an English examination during this period, Sergeant.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Yes, ma'am, it's only take a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You have a student named Tom Marcott.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Certainly he's in my homeroom.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
What kind of a boy is he?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
No?
Speaker 11 (18:16):
Is he lazy, impossible to discipline? Similar to a number
of the others. He's absent today though, something happened to Tom.
He's had an accident, an accident or a fight. Why
do you say that it won't be the first time
he had any fights lately?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
He came to.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
School with a cut lip two or three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Does Tom have any particular enemies?
Speaker 8 (18:38):
I really don't know. There are over seventy five students
in my homeroom.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
It's a little.
Speaker 11 (18:42):
Difficult to know very much about any of them.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yes, mam.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
How about friends? Who's he power around with?
Speaker 11 (18:47):
You know, nobody in particular, as far as I can
tell it.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
No, wait a minute. There's one boy, ma'am, Arthur Jalat.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And what does he look like?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Well, he's small, god haired, almost just troublesome.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Is Tom see in school today?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I believe so, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Is there anything else you can tell us about Tom?
Speaker 11 (19:05):
No that I don't have much hope for him, and
I've asked his father to come in and see me.
Several times so far he's always declined. The invitation is
Tom badly here, Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Ma'am pretty bad.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Knife wound?
Speaker 11 (19:22):
Seventeen years ago? When I first started teaching, that would
have shocked me. It was a very naive young.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Lady, sergeant.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Is that right?
Speaker 11 (19:30):
I thought all a person had to do to become
a teacher was to take the right courses, get a
degree in credential.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
Seems such a simple matter.
Speaker 11 (19:38):
I wanted to teach English literature, so I studied English literature, Shakespeare, Charser, Browning, Keith, Shelley.
As I continue in the profession, I discovered that I
omitted one.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Essential court's judo.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
We asked mister Wingdore if we could interview the student
named Arthur Jolly. He asked his secretary to have the
boy sent into us. I was like, he's the one
who called in the report.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Now, must have been with Marcott when it happened.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Come in, do you want to see me?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Come in son.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Here, Arthur Jonathan?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Is that who you asked for? Sit out?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Son? We're police officers, a smith. My name's Friday. Do
you have a friend named Tom Marcott.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I know him? Pretty good friend of yours?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
He's a friend?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
You've been with him lately? When yesterday? The day before?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Where here we've got some of the same subjects. How
about after school?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You saw him after school?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Did you not before? Last last night?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Too? Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Where were you last night?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Movie?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Who'd you go with?
Speaker 5 (20:45):
What?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Along?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
What movie?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Double bill?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
In Hollywood? What you do afterwards?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
It's you ride on spending time around Sheridan Street. Where's
that he want us to show you?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Come on, we'll take you over there.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
What for?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Like cab you meet a man who runs at the
back of shop.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
On that part of town? You kidding or something?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Young fella came into his place last night. So the
way he described him, it could be you. He must
be blind to something. Well, let's find out.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Come on, okay, So maybe I wasn't his neck? What's
what's the beef?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Your friend Market was around there too?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Honey?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Who incidence?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
You know?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What's the matter with Tom?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Anyhow?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Why I ain't been in school today? He's in the hospital. Oh,
it's a good thing you called us when you did?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You might be dead by now? Who says I called you?
Man who runs the tobacco shop.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
How there could he tell it? Well?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I mean who I was calling?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
All right, Joha, give us the whole story now with
what's doing? Come on, let's get it over with.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
It's about Tom.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Ask him.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
We're asking you. You want us to take in? Of course,
not up to you. I ain't much to tell, just
walking around Tom and me. Yeah, a fellow jumped out
from an alley, came at us with a knife.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Go ahead, took a.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Swing at Tom. I ducked off, you know, called the cops.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
That's all I know.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Who wasn't Jeo?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Your guess is as good as mine.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
We don't think so.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Suit yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I thought Tom was a friend of yours.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
He is.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Well, we want to know who stabbed him?
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Would expect me to do? Dream up and name?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
How big was he?
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Medium sized?
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Nineteen twenty?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Tom says he was about thirty five.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Tom outow, No, he's a lot closer to him.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
All right, let's go down to the Juvenile.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Bureau Befoh, I told you everything I know.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I want to show you some mugshots.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Forget it. I wouldn't recognize this picture.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Let's give it a try.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Anyway, I'll take it easy, will you.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
What's the matter.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
I don't want to be seen leaving with you guys?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Wouldn't do my reputation any good?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
What are you afraid of?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I ain't afraid I got a nice to your buddy?
Is that who you're afraid of? Look?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
If Tom wanted you to know, he'd have told you,
wouldn't he? Tom ain't dead?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
All right?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Come on, John, let's go give me a n answers Tom,
okay or not?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Doesn't make any difference to you. Sure it makes a difference.
It doesn't look like it to us. I'm no squealer.
All right. You've had your chance.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Now you gotta go.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Ah him.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Come on, you can't arrest me. A boy was stabbed
last night. You saw it, as far as we know.
You're the only other person who was there. Now you
figure it out.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I didn't have nothing to do with it. Tom will
tell you, so throw me in jail. My own man
will kill me.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Oh that's tough.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
I ain't gonna take the wrap. It's up to you, okay, okay?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It was Jerry. Jerry?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Who longer you go to the school? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What was it all about?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Tom tried to date.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Jerry's girl. Jerry heard about it, followed.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Us last night.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'll get a hold along all right.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Yeah, Jerry finds out I squealed on him, it'll do
even worse to me.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
He ain't gonna find out.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Is he.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
We won't tell him.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
There the tumbles.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
You can start sending flowers. Jerry's the big man around school.
Yeah or six foot, lots of muscle, lots of shove.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Oh that doesn't make him a big man, does it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Huh? He needs a knife.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
The story you've just heard is true. The names were
changed to protect the innocence.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
On December second, a hearing was held in Juvenile Department
Superior Court, State of California. In and fall the County
of Los Angeles, petitions were filed on both the victim
and the subject. The victim, Thomas Marcott, was placed under
(24:13):
twenty four hour supervision in a foster home. The subject,
Jerome Lgren, due to a previous juvenile record and the
viciousness of the attack, was sentenced to a juvenile correctional establishment.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
You have just heard Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police force in action and starring Jack Webb, a presentation
of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.
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That's the best cover.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
That's that's the Cooper, That's that's that's.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
That's the comer, that's that's.
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