November 1, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you are about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the
innocent dragnet. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide detail.
(00:28):
A killer is loose in your city. You don't know
who he is or where to find him. You don't
know who his victim will be. Your job stop him.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It was Tuesday, May thirteenth. It was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out a homicide detail.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss's Count Mormon. My name
is Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I was on my way back.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
From handwriting and it was eight twenty six am when
I got to Room forty two homicide.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Get it.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, John just finished up, he says, the handwriting match
just victim wrote the note.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Huh that's it?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Then, huh, Yeah, you talked to his wife and she's
pretty broken up. Figures a too fast. I got a heartbro. Well,
why don't you take a couple of pepto pals or
whatever it is.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Let's get on.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There's a lot of work here.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Hey, there's an idea. I never thought of that. Yeah,
I got some of my locker over here.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You sure have last time I bought a Big Box seven.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
There must be some left.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, find him?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Uh yeah, eh he thinks the husband fits in.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Huh yeah all the way along over? What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
I said, what are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
I found the peptos?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, but what are you doing with them there?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Oh? Huh? Put them together?
Speaker 7 (01:48):
I must have dropped them sometimes, so all the pills
are all broken up, trying to put one together.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
You can't be too careful, can't take too much?
Speaker 6 (01:56):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Oh there one pill? It's all just to take just one.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I don't understand. What do you mean how you can
come in here and no sleep, upset stomach and feel
so good? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
You know something, Joe?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The pose? I really don't. You don't No, that ought
to be about right.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I guess that look like one pill to you.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I don't know. Thank I hope so too important a
decision for me to help you with own pepto pal?
Good for what ails you?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Potent? Joe, real potent?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I just wondered if you were all through now? Oh?
As soon as I scraped.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
The crumbs away, okay, I went, here's when you missed?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Thanks?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Hm, we have gone okay, Okay, Yeah, what are you
all through?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Now? You've had your pill and everything. Oh, I took
my pill. I've got the pepto pals all worked out.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Now what can I do for it?
Speaker 6 (02:52):
God, sa, I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, shooting at the corner of Broadway in sand JUNI
and who's the victim? Traffic officer.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We left the office and drove to the scene of
the shooting. Traffic at the intersection had come to a
virtual standstill. Eighteen feet from the northwest corner. Lying in
the middle of the pedestrian crosswalk was a uniform traffic
officer who was wearing a white cap or the Traffic Division.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
There was a large bloodstain on the.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Right side of his chest and his service revolver was
still in this holster. By the time we got to
the scene, the ambulance had arrived and the wounded officer
was being given emergency treatment.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Other officers were trying to get the traffic moving again,
and additional men.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Were throwing up a blockade around the immediate vicinity in
an attempt to apprehend the person who shot the policeman.
Captain Lorman and chie that detect his stab Brown arrived
and took charge of the search.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Frank and I checked through.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
The crowd that had gathered, and we found a witness
to the shooting.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Yeah, I saw the whole thing, officer, right from the beginning.
I saw it. Just about the most awful thing I
ever saw it.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Sir, you just give us your name, Roy Hitcock. It's hickok,
all right, must if you'll tell us what happened.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Well, I was on my way to work, walking down
the street.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I got to the corner here Broadway in San Julian.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
I got to the corner, I stopped for a light.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
I just stood there waiting for it to be time
to cross, and all of a sudden, his car came
up and.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Slid to a stop.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
The light changed and he had to stop. He must
have been going pretty fast because he went clear out
into the intersection, and the officer, the one who was shot,
held up his hand. I think that was the only
reason the driver didn't run the light. The officer held
up his hand, proser, go ahead. Well the fella stopped,
but he was right in the middle of the crosswalk.
Everybody had to go around the car, you know, out
into the intersection. He was right in the middle, and
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we all had to go around it. Yeah, well he
just sat there. He didn't make any try to back
up or not. He just sat there, kind of waiting
for the light to change again so he could get going.
We see then the officer, the one who was shot,
he started to walk over to the fella. I guess
he wanted to back up. Must have been something like that.
I wanted him to get out of the way.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
To what happened then, Well, all.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Of a sudden, this guy in the car just started shooting.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Where was the officer when the shooting started.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
We hadn't even got to the car yet. He must
have been about ten twelve feet from it, and I
pulled out the gun and started piling away point blank.
He did it right in the policeman's face. Everybody on
the street got panicky when they heard the shooting, started
to run everywhere, yelling, screaming, real panic.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
What'd the offer do?
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Nothing? He stood there and looked surprised, and then he
tried to get his gun out of the holster, but
well before he could do it, the fellow in the
car shot a couple more times, and the policeman fell down.
What do you do then, you mean the guy in
the car.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
We took off, drove right through the people and drove
down San Julian. So wondered he didn't kill somebody the
way he drove off, just didn't care about anybody, barreled.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
South on St. Julian.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
If you talk to the other officers about this move,
not too much. Seems like as soon as it happened,
there were so many people around, there wasn't much time
to talk to anybody. I called down where I work
and I told him i'd be late. I told him
they expect me when I walked in. I never did
see so many policemen or cars in.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Just a minute. Folks, you'll have to get back here.
Please give us a little more room, all right, thank you.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Can you give us a description of the car, the
one that killer drove, Yes, you bet, I can. I
can tell you all about it.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Why would you go ahead?
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Well, it was a dark colored sedan, a blue, A
dark blue.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
What kind of car was it?
Speaker 8 (06:04):
You mean the brand? Yes, I'm not real sure about that.
It all happened so fast, you know, all of a
sudden it was over. I only got a kind of
a quick look at it because I wasn't paying much attention.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
So well, look, folks, you'll have to stay back here,
please fight hold him.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Back over there? When now, what kind of car was it? Well?
Speaker 8 (06:24):
I think it was either a Plymouth or maybe a DeSoto,
but I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
But you're pretty sure about the color, are you? Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:29):
Yeah, it was blue?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Dark blue?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Or what about the man driving a card you get
a good look at him? Yeah, I guess just about everybody.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Did you know, sitting out there in the middle of
the street like that, everybody that went by him had
a look at him.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Could you give his description to him?
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Well, what do you want to know?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well? How about the color?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
His hair was light, not real blond, but a light color.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
How about his eyes?
Speaker 8 (06:47):
It looked like they were blue?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
About old? Would you say the man was?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
I don't know, maybe twenty four twenty five round there?
He wasn't real old?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Was he clean shaven?
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
How about the glasses?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Do you remember?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Was he wearing? No? Was righting about him? That would
make it easier for us to identify him?
Speaker 8 (07:02):
I don't think I know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Well, was there anything about him? A scar? Maybe a birthmark,
something like that you might have.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Seen, Not that I remember it. Might have had something
like that, but if he did, I don't remember it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Did you have the chance to see what the man
was wearing, Well, just that he had on a white
shirt and a jacket.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
It looked like the ones they issue in the army,
you know, kind of windbreaker type of light material.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Did the man say anything.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
If he did, I didn't hear it. As soon as
he started shooting, it seemed like the roof come out,
all the noise, everybody yelling and trying to get out
of the way the bullets. If he said anything, I
sure didn't hear it.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I see, Is there anything else that you can give
us on the man, Well, there is a sergeant.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
But I feel a little silly about it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well what's that?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
What's about the car? I told you I didn't pay
much attention to it, not at first. Well after the
shooting started. Then I got as good luck as I could.
I got a pretty good look at the back of
it when the guy took off.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Just Tom and I didn't hear you.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
I say, I got a pretty good look at the
back of it when the guy took off, you know,
when he went down the street.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I say, I feel a little silly because.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
I didn't get more. I's that the license number. Yeah,
I could only get four of them numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
The witness was able to give us the numbers one, Sugar, one,
three nine. A broadcast was gotten out carrying this information.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And a search was started through auto records in an
attempt to come up with the owner of the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Two men were detailed with the Department of Motor Vehicles
to assist their men in the search of the files. Meantime,
Chief Brown.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And Captain Lorman had ordered roadblocks to be put up on.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Sam Julian and all streets leading to adjoining areas. The
one witness, Roy Hiccock, was taken to the City Hall
and was shown the mug books, who was unable to
come up with an identification on the suspect. Twelve forty pm,
Frank put in a call at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital
and found that Officer Larry Gerau was still in a
critical condition and that he had not regained consciousness. His
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family had been notified and the car was dispatched to
bring his wife to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
All people in the immediate vicinity of the shooting.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Were interrogated and their statements were taken but none of
them could give us a lead as to the identity.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Of the suspect.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Five twenty seven pm, Frank and I went back to
the office. Well, he checked by auto records. I put
him a call to Captain Lorman. Yeah, Skipper, No, no,
they're still checking it.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah. Well Frank's down there now.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
He looked at him if he wasn't even to give
us anything. No, I say, he couldn't give us anything.
You know, last we heard he was still unconscious.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, he left word that we're to be called if
he comes out. No, no, Glyndall, McCreadie, we're over there. Yeah,
she's taking it pretty hard, right, just a minute.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I got a Skipper on the phone. If anything comes up,
we'll call you, Joe. Yeah, Forton hold on him, WI skipper.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, what he got, Well, they made the car. Yeah,
it was stolen this morning.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And we got to pretty good pie of news. No,
Frank just came in. They made the car. He was
stolen this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
We got into to the owner of the car and
we talked to him. He told us that he'd noticed
that the car was gone from the place where he'd
left it the night before and that he'd filed a
report on it. Immediately, we got a full description of
the vehicle and a supplementary broadcast was gotten out. Eight
fourteen pm, we got a call from Georgia Street Hospital
telling us that Officer Giau had regained consciousness and he
could be questioned.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Frank and I left the office and drove over to
see him.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
By the time we got there, however, he lapsed into
a comba again.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
We talked to doctor Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
He told us that he'd remove four bullets from Giro's body.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
One of the shots had severed the officer's spinal cord.
In the event that he pulled out of it, he'd
never walk again. Frank and I talked with Glendawyn McReady.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
They'd been able to interview the wounded officer, but they
hadn't been able to get any additional information from him.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
As we walked down the hall, we.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Met missus Duau, Sergeant Friday, Yes, ma'am, I'm Elanderaux, Larry's wife, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Do they know yet?
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Do they know if Larry's going to.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Be all right? We'll be better if you talk to
doctor Sebastian.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Miss Dureau, I have, He tells me they don't know yet.
How can they say that they don't know? Larry's been
here for almost twelve hours.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
They must know something.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Why won't they tell me? We're sorry, miss Dera.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Have you caught the man yet, the man who did
this Toilarry?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Have you got him yet? No, ma'am, not yet. Then
what are you doing here? Why aren't you looking for him?
We're doing everything we can, man, but.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
You haven't caught him.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
You're all running around looking, but you haven't caught him.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Well, that's doing a lot of good.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
It makes me feel a lot better to know that
the man who shot my husband is still running free.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We're sorry.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
That doesn't help, Sergeant. I can't take it home with
me and spread after sorrow in front of my children.
They're still gonna want to know where their father is.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
They're still gonna want to have him back. Your good
wishes aren't gonna be.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Enough, Joe.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'll check the office, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Tell the skipper we're going to tag Metro Division, right,
missus Duero.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
We know how you feel, We know what's going through
your mind. My partner there was.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Just shot not too long ago, and I've been right
here in the same place waiting for a.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Report too, Just like you.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I know what it is to see the doctor come
out of a treatment room and not say anything. I
know there is much I can say to make it easier,
but we can tell you this. There are four thousand
policemen in this city. Every one of them was looking
for the man who shot your husband.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Oh yeah, a suspect. Yeah, they found him.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
The tip had come in from a man who had
phoned the complaint board and said that he knew where
the suspect was hiding. The man wouldn't give his name. Immediately,
two cars were dispatched to the address. There was a
chief rooming house on East fourth Street. The manager of
the place said that there was a tenant who met
the description of the suspect in a room on the
fifth floor. He'd given the name James Krell. When the
investigating officers had approached the room, they were met with gunfire.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
They returned the fire.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The building was evacuated and the streets in front of
the building were roped off.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Several more cars arrived.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
From Metro Division and the building was completely surrounded. Frank
and I stopped by the office and picked up tear
gas equipment. From what we were told, the suspect had
barricaded the door leading into the room with furniture. The
only way we had to get him out alive was
with gas. Frank and I talked with Captain Lorman with
Chief Brownie.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
We decided to use a white right shell and blast
through the door. Frank took the gun and we went
up to the fifth floor. The halls were empty. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Let's give him another chance, all right, all right, Trel,
We'll give you one more chance to come out of there.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Come on, Prell, open the door and throw the gun out.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
He's not coming out, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
That's the last time around. Crell get out, Get out
of her.
Speaker 11 (13:36):
Come through that dark.
Speaker 12 (13:40):
All right, Frank, Let's put the mask on right, golfruck, Yeah,
I got to go.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Should be coming up.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, let's move the furnature. I'll cover this gun. All right,
watch it, I'm coming out. I give up that gun
out here. Throw the gun out first, and then you
follow it.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Okay, okay, I'm doing what you say.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Here's the gun. I quit, here's the gun.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I got it, all right, Paul, Come on out with
your hand fast, Come on.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Move all right, don't shoot. Don't shoot. I'm doing like
you say.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I'm coming.
Speaker 13 (14:23):
Come on, move down here, come on, move crol, alright,
this will do.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Stand still, hands up against the wall. Come on, Crell,
do what he says.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
I can't breeze. I'll do whatever you say, but I
can't breathe.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I can't breeze. I guess you better get used to it. Trell,
what that cop dies?
Speaker 13 (14:40):
They won't let you walk out of the room.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
The suspect was taking to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for
treatment when the investigating officers that approached the room that
he was hiding in. Trell had shot at them through
the door. They'd returned the fire, and one of the
bullets had shattered his left wrist. We got his full name,
and we ran him through R and I. We found
that he had a minor record in California and was
at the time a deserted from the Army. His risk
was taken care of, and then Frank and I talked
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to him in the treatment room.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Lowsy deal all the way around.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Sure, you guys had no right to come up there
and shoot off that gain.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I didn't call it. Why'd you shoot that officer.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
I thought he was gonna shoot me.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Was self defend. When they picked him up, his gun
was still in his holster. Then somebody put it back.
Why do you want to shoot you? Oh? Nos? Who
could figure any cop? You're all stated, why did you
do it?
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Look, I'll tell you nice and playing. I drove up
to the signal, I stopped. This wise cop come over,
started rossing about being in the intersection.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I told him to shut up.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
I don't have to take that kind of talk from nobody.
He pulled a gun.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It was self defense. We got a couple of people
saw the whole thing. They tell a little different. They're
either a psycho or else. You're paying them all. How
long have you been a long? Who says I am
the army? I could square that beef with him? What
about that cay you're driving this morning?
Speaker 13 (15:48):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
What did you get it?
Speaker 9 (15:49):
As long as to a friend of mine, a bard
on a reporter that silim.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
He must have forgotten.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
He told me to take what's the friend's name? I
forget pay you to remember. I have a very bad memory.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Why did you shoot the officer because he.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Was gonna shoot me?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
He just walked up and said he was gonna shoot.
Is that?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Hey, guys, just say the staw you cops are put
that unifarm mind. You all think you could boss anybody around, Well,
you made a mistake with this one. Isn't anybody bosses
me around?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
How long you've been in town?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Well?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I answered the question a couple of weeks. You've been
any wall for over six months. On where you've been?
Where I like to travel? Manager that rooming house says
you just checked in this morning? Is that right? You
talked to her? I didn't all right? Where you've been
staying there? He goes the memory again. Pluck, you're in trouble.
Crell talk like that won't do you any good.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
One of those things. I wish I could help you, fellas,
But there's nothing like where you.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Get the car from her friend? What's his name? I
don't remember, but he said you could take it. Yeah,
then why he reported stolen? Asked Kim, we did?
Speaker 6 (16:31):
He says he doesn't know you.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Where'd you get the gun? Picked it up? Where bought it?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Don't know the name of the store being checked. Now
you might as well save time and tell us you're
getting paid. What do the officers say before you shot.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
Him, didn't say anything, just pulled his gun. That was
fast to self defense.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
You might think this is a game crew. You maybe
think you're a big man sitting here. But I want
to set you straight. You're in trouble, more trouble than
you've ever been in before.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
We've got at least twenty people who saw you deliberately
gun in that cop. They're willing to swear to it
in court.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
You know what I think it was.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You go ahead and tell us it.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Was this kind of purple flash and all of a
sudden this cop was laying there.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Maybe it wasn't self defense. Maybe it was temporary insanity. Hey,
how's that sound? Temporary insanity? He dyed, No, not yet,
cops and catch you can't kill them. You made a
putt a good try, all right, mister, on your feet,
but for all night, let's go. We're going to jail.
Get up, krown. Come on, we're not gonna take me to.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
The gas chamber right now, huh do without a trial
or nothing, just lock me up and drop the eggs.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
And you're awful close to it, mystery.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
You've gotta get me there first, and you're stand in
front of it right now, I'll tell you what. I'll
give you a tender one. It don't make it. Come on, well,
I bet you guys would just love to have me
make a break. Huh. And you listen, Trell with that arm.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
We can't put handcuffs on you, but you're still in custody.
Don't try anything.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
How about it?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
You like that?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Would you get your pictures in all the papers?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Heroic cops killed criminal, all right in here?
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Yeah, you guys would really like that.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I'm gonna give you something for free. Crew, Well, you
know what's that? You talk a lot, but you don't
say anything. Always happens.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Put a guy in the uniform right away.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
He's a big man, a bum on the outside. But
just give him a badge in the suit right away.
He's big.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Sure, come on. How's about a cigarette here? Well?
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Thanks, got a match?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Come on, move cars back this way. Wait a minute,
what do you want? A cigarette?
Speaker 9 (18:30):
Not doing me much good without a match?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
All right here, got Joe, hold it up?
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Crow alright, crow, hold it up, hold it up.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Brow shoots down. Come on, how about it?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Joe?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Oh, I guess he was right.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
That bet about the gas chamber. Yeah, he won't make it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
A doctor was called down from the hospital and the suspect,
James Crell, was pronounced dead. The body was removed to
the County Morgue, and going over the dead man's effects,
(19:14):
we found a receipt from one of the downtown hotels.
There were two names listed on it and a notation
to the effect that the rent on room five seventeen
had been paid for a week. The other name on
the slip was Sidney Larson. We checked it through our
and eye. We found that Larson had a long felony
record in California and had been parole.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Two months previously.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The report came back on the gun that Prell had
used was among seven revolvers that had been stolen from
a hardware store in Toi Larry on May sixth. The
other six guns were still missing. We checked with doctor
Sebastian on Officer Gerau's condition. We were told that the
policeman was still unconscious, but that he had passed the
critical stage. Missus Girou collapsed when she heard the news
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that her husband would never walk again, and she was
placed under seddy. Forty eight pm, Frank and I left
the office and drove over to the hotel.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Named on the receipt of the Founds was a run down.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Place with a potted rubber plant on the lobby. We
rang the bell on the counter and waited.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, you're the manager here, all right?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I am.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, what police officers want some information about what take
a lot of This is not one of your receipts.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Let me take a look. I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 14 (20:23):
Let me get the lights out so I can see.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Yeah, there's the name right on the top.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Sure looks like it's one of ours on her You
recognize the two names on it.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, yeah, I do, Yeah, I recognize him.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Good, it's fellow larcense the in now, I don't know.
Speaker 14 (20:42):
We don't keep a very close tab on the people
who stay here.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Service isn't too good, but we don't ask questions. Change
the sheets once a week. We don't ask questions.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Ze in.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
It might be it I have to check it, and
there's a police investigation.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Mystery. There's larcen name.
Speaker 14 (20:55):
I'll check the box. Oh, key's going must be upstairs.
He alone, can't see. Might be I didn't hear nobody
go up. But then I don't listen too, good room,
you mean I gotta go up with you?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Come on, mister, let's go.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Look we got a nice, quiet hotel. We don't cause
no trouble.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
There's no reason for few cops to come snooping around.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
We've got the pass key.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Yeah, let's go. I have to take the elevator up.
I can't go to the stairs. Surely go ahead, Uh? Good,
forward me.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
And that's what they say.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
For how long or two haven't been here?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Larsen and krawl?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
How long have they been here?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
I have to check the book for that. I can't
carry those things around in my head.
Speaker 14 (21:45):
If I did, there wouldn't be no room for the.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Important thing about when?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
Why?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
About? When did they come in?
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I don't know, maybe two three weeks?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Round in there?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
They got any friends?
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Almost everybody's got a few friends.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Any of 'em come around here? No after that's saying
we're not snoopy.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
So I'll get the door, all right?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Which way?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Why?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Which way is five seventeen to the left.
Speaker 14 (22:13):
I don't want no trouble right now.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
We're not gonna make any Look, this is.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
A quiet hotel.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
We don't want any of the tennis to get sore.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You guys are gonna walk out. I gotta live here.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I don't want no trouble.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Here. You did give me the key? Yeah, you take
that side, Frank.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, let me stand back out of the way and
keep still.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
No trouble now, I please?
Speaker 12 (22:40):
All s Yeah, looks like he's asleep.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
If you take the right side.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
He's got a gun.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Get out of here, Frank, Come on.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
I'm on, get What are you doing? You got no
right to come in like this.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I'll check the room, Joe, what are you looking for?
I'm registered. You check my parole officer. He'll tell you
I'm clean. What about the gun? All right?
Speaker 8 (23:22):
So I got a gun?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
You're an ext can, aren't you a big deal?
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Try let's go where.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You've been there before. Take a look, Joe, or what'd
you get these?
Speaker 8 (23:32):
You find out?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Cock?
Speaker 8 (23:33):
You're getting nothing from me?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
All right? Come on, take kiddies, let's go.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
What about crowd you get into.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
That's right, you got him in jail. He's dead, Krell.
That's right. He tried to make a break and it
didn't work.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Poor kid didn't know what it was all about. Wanted
to be a tough.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Guy, and you were going to show him.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
How weren't you a nice kid?
Speaker 8 (23:50):
He wanted to be a big man. We had all
planned hit the big time, got the guns. He went
out to get a car this morning. That's probably why
he killed a cop.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Crew got scared.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
You didn't know. I want to be big. He wanted
people to talk about him.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Don't worry about it, mystery, Huh they will.
Speaker 11 (24:13):
The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the death of
James Edward Crell was justifiable homicide. Sydney Carter Larson was
filed on for ex convict with a gun, and upon
completion of sentence on that count, was released to the
authorities of Tillerry, California, for prosecution on a charge of burglary.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
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 12 (25:01):
Come Out.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Comer Commers
Speaker 1 (25:52):
And Summer's comm
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you are about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the
innocent dragnet. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide detail.
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A killer is loose in your city. You don't know
who he is or where to find him. You don't
know who his victim will be. Your job stop him.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It was Tuesday, May thirteenth. It was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out a homicide detail.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss's Count Mormon. My name
is Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I was on my way back.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
From handwriting and it was eight twenty six am when
I got to Room forty two homicide.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Get it.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, John just finished up, he says, the handwriting match
just victim wrote the note.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Huh that's it?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Then, huh, Yeah, you talked to his wife and she's
pretty broken up. Figures a too fast. I got a heartbro. Well,
why don't you take a couple of pepto pals or
whatever it is.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Let's get on.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There's a lot of work here.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Hey, there's an idea. I never thought of that. Yeah,
I got some of my locker over here.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You sure have last time I bought a Big Box seven.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
There must be some left.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, find him?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Uh yeah, eh he thinks the husband fits in.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Huh yeah all the way along over? What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
I said, what are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
I found the peptos?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, but what are you doing with them there?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Oh? Huh? Put them together?
Speaker 7 (01:48):
I must have dropped them sometimes, so all the pills
are all broken up, trying to put one together.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
You can't be too careful, can't take too much?
Speaker 6 (01:56):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Oh there one pill? It's all just to take just one.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I don't understand. What do you mean how you can
come in here and no sleep, upset stomach and feel
so good? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
You know something, Joe?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The pose? I really don't. You don't No, that ought
to be about right.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I guess that look like one pill to you.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I don't know. Thank I hope so too important a
decision for me to help you with own pepto pal?
Good for what ails you?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Potent? Joe, real potent?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I just wondered if you were all through now? Oh?
As soon as I scraped.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
The crumbs away, okay, I went, here's when you missed?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Thanks?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Hm, we have gone okay, Okay, Yeah, what are you
all through?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Now? You've had your pill and everything. Oh, I took
my pill. I've got the pepto pals all worked out.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Now what can I do for it?
Speaker 6 (02:52):
God, sa, I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, shooting at the corner of Broadway in sand JUNI
and who's the victim? Traffic officer.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We left the office and drove to the scene of
the shooting. Traffic at the intersection had come to a
virtual standstill. Eighteen feet from the northwest corner. Lying in
the middle of the pedestrian crosswalk was a uniform traffic
officer who was wearing a white cap or the Traffic Division.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
There was a large bloodstain on the.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Right side of his chest and his service revolver was
still in this holster. By the time we got to
the scene, the ambulance had arrived and the wounded officer
was being given emergency treatment.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Other officers were trying to get the traffic moving again,
and additional men.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Were throwing up a blockade around the immediate vicinity in
an attempt to apprehend the person who shot the policeman.
Captain Lorman and chie that detect his stab Brown arrived
and took charge of the search.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Frank and I checked through.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
The crowd that had gathered, and we found a witness
to the shooting.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Yeah, I saw the whole thing, officer, right from the beginning.
I saw it. Just about the most awful thing I
ever saw it.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Sir, you just give us your name, Roy Hitcock. It's hickok,
all right, must if you'll tell us what happened.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Well, I was on my way to work, walking down
the street.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I got to the corner here Broadway in San Julian.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
I got to the corner, I stopped for a light.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
I just stood there waiting for it to be time
to cross, and all of a sudden, his car came
up and.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Slid to a stop.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
The light changed and he had to stop. He must
have been going pretty fast because he went clear out
into the intersection, and the officer, the one who was shot,
held up his hand. I think that was the only
reason the driver didn't run the light. The officer held
up his hand, proser, go ahead. Well the fella stopped,
but he was right in the middle of the crosswalk.
Everybody had to go around the car, you know, out
into the intersection. He was right in the middle, and
(04:34):
we all had to go around it. Yeah, well he
just sat there. He didn't make any try to back
up or not. He just sat there, kind of waiting
for the light to change again so he could get going.
We see then the officer, the one who was shot,
he started to walk over to the fella. I guess
he wanted to back up. Must have been something like that.
I wanted him to get out of the way.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
To what happened then, Well, all.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Of a sudden, this guy in the car just started shooting.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Where was the officer when the shooting started.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
We hadn't even got to the car yet. He must
have been about ten twelve feet from it, and I
pulled out the gun and started piling away point blank.
He did it right in the policeman's face. Everybody on
the street got panicky when they heard the shooting, started
to run everywhere, yelling, screaming, real panic.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
What'd the offer do?
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Nothing? He stood there and looked surprised, and then he
tried to get his gun out of the holster, but
well before he could do it, the fellow in the
car shot a couple more times, and the policeman fell down.
What do you do then, you mean the guy in
the car.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
We took off, drove right through the people and drove
down San Julian. So wondered he didn't kill somebody the
way he drove off, just didn't care about anybody, barreled.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
South on St. Julian.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
If you talk to the other officers about this move,
not too much. Seems like as soon as it happened,
there were so many people around, there wasn't much time
to talk to anybody. I called down where I work
and I told him i'd be late. I told him
they expect me when I walked in. I never did
see so many policemen or cars in.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Just a minute. Folks, you'll have to get back here.
Please give us a little more room, all right, thank you.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Can you give us a description of the car, the
one that killer drove, Yes, you bet, I can. I
can tell you all about it.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Why would you go ahead?
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Well, it was a dark colored sedan, a blue, A
dark blue.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
What kind of car was it?
Speaker 8 (06:04):
You mean the brand? Yes, I'm not real sure about that.
It all happened so fast, you know, all of a
sudden it was over. I only got a kind of
a quick look at it because I wasn't paying much attention.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
So well, look, folks, you'll have to stay back here,
please fight hold him.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Back over there? When now, what kind of car was it? Well?
Speaker 8 (06:24):
I think it was either a Plymouth or maybe a DeSoto,
but I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
But you're pretty sure about the color, are you? Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:29):
Yeah, it was blue?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Dark blue?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Or what about the man driving a card you get
a good look at him? Yeah, I guess just about everybody.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Did you know, sitting out there in the middle of
the street like that, everybody that went by him had
a look at him.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Could you give his description to him?
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Well, what do you want to know?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well? How about the color?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
His hair was light, not real blond, but a light color.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
How about his eyes?
Speaker 8 (06:47):
It looked like they were blue?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
About old? Would you say the man was?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
I don't know, maybe twenty four twenty five round there?
He wasn't real old?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Was he clean shaven?
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
How about the glasses?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Do you remember?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Was he wearing? No? Was righting about him? That would
make it easier for us to identify him?
Speaker 8 (07:02):
I don't think I know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Well, was there anything about him? A scar? Maybe a birthmark,
something like that you might have.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Seen, Not that I remember it. Might have had something
like that, but if he did, I don't remember it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Did you have the chance to see what the man
was wearing, Well, just that he had on a white
shirt and a jacket.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
It looked like the ones they issue in the army,
you know, kind of windbreaker type of light material.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Did the man say anything.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
If he did, I didn't hear it. As soon as
he started shooting, it seemed like the roof come out,
all the noise, everybody yelling and trying to get out
of the way the bullets. If he said anything, I
sure didn't hear it.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I see, Is there anything else that you can give
us on the man, Well, there is a sergeant.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
But I feel a little silly about it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well what's that?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
What's about the car? I told you I didn't pay
much attention to it, not at first. Well after the
shooting started. Then I got as good luck as I could.
I got a pretty good look at the back of
it when the guy took off.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Just Tom and I didn't hear you.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
I say, I got a pretty good look at the
back of it when the guy took off, you know,
when he went down the street.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I say, I feel a little silly because.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
I didn't get more. I's that the license number. Yeah,
I could only get four of them numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
The witness was able to give us the numbers one, Sugar, one,
three nine. A broadcast was gotten out carrying this information.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And a search was started through auto records in an
attempt to come up with the owner of the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Two men were detailed with the Department of Motor Vehicles
to assist their men in the search of the files. Meantime,
Chief Brown.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And Captain Lorman had ordered roadblocks to be put up on.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Sam Julian and all streets leading to adjoining areas. The
one witness, Roy Hiccock, was taken to the City Hall
and was shown the mug books, who was unable to
come up with an identification on the suspect. Twelve forty pm,
Frank put in a call at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital
and found that Officer Larry Gerau was still in a
critical condition and that he had not regained consciousness. His
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family had been notified and the car was dispatched to
bring his wife to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
All people in the immediate vicinity of the shooting.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Were interrogated and their statements were taken but none of
them could give us a lead as to the identity.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Of the suspect.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Five twenty seven pm, Frank and I went back to
the office. Well, he checked by auto records. I put
him a call to Captain Lorman. Yeah, Skipper, No, no,
they're still checking it.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah. Well Frank's down there now.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
He looked at him if he wasn't even to give
us anything. No, I say, he couldn't give us anything.
You know, last we heard he was still unconscious.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, he left word that we're to be called if
he comes out. No, no, Glyndall, McCreadie, we're over there. Yeah,
she's taking it pretty hard, right, just a minute.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I got a Skipper on the phone. If anything comes up,
we'll call you, Joe. Yeah, Forton hold on him, WI skipper.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, what he got, Well, they made the car. Yeah,
it was stolen this morning.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And we got to pretty good pie of news. No,
Frank just came in. They made the car. He was
stolen this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
We got into to the owner of the car and
we talked to him. He told us that he'd noticed
that the car was gone from the place where he'd
left it the night before and that he'd filed a
report on it. Immediately, we got a full description of
the vehicle and a supplementary broadcast was gotten out. Eight
fourteen pm, we got a call from Georgia Street Hospital
telling us that Officer Giau had regained consciousness and he
could be questioned.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Frank and I left the office and drove over to
see him.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
By the time we got there, however, he lapsed into
a comba again.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
We talked to doctor Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
He told us that he'd remove four bullets from Giro's body.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
One of the shots had severed the officer's spinal cord.
In the event that he pulled out of it, he'd
never walk again. Frank and I talked with Glendawyn McReady.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
They'd been able to interview the wounded officer, but they
hadn't been able to get any additional information from him.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
As we walked down the hall, we.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Met missus Duau, Sergeant Friday, Yes, ma'am, I'm Elanderaux, Larry's wife, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Do they know yet?
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Do they know if Larry's going to.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Be all right? We'll be better if you talk to
doctor Sebastian.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Miss Dureau, I have, He tells me they don't know yet.
How can they say that they don't know? Larry's been
here for almost twelve hours.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
They must know something.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Why won't they tell me? We're sorry, miss Dera.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Have you caught the man yet, the man who did
this Toilarry?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Have you got him yet? No, ma'am, not yet. Then
what are you doing here? Why aren't you looking for him?
We're doing everything we can, man, but.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
You haven't caught him.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
You're all running around looking, but you haven't caught him.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Well, that's doing a lot of good.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
It makes me feel a lot better to know that
the man who shot my husband is still running free.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We're sorry.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
That doesn't help, Sergeant. I can't take it home with
me and spread after sorrow in front of my children.
They're still gonna want to know where their father is.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
They're still gonna want to have him back. Your good
wishes aren't gonna be.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Enough, Joe.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'll check the office, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Tell the skipper we're going to tag Metro Division, right,
missus Duero.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
We know how you feel, We know what's going through
your mind. My partner there was.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Just shot not too long ago, and I've been right
here in the same place waiting for a.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Report too, Just like you.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I know what it is to see the doctor come
out of a treatment room and not say anything. I
know there is much I can say to make it easier,
but we can tell you this. There are four thousand
policemen in this city. Every one of them was looking
for the man who shot your husband.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Oh yeah, a suspect. Yeah, they found him.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
The tip had come in from a man who had
phoned the complaint board and said that he knew where
the suspect was hiding. The man wouldn't give his name. Immediately,
two cars were dispatched to the address. There was a
chief rooming house on East fourth Street. The manager of
the place said that there was a tenant who met
the description of the suspect in a room on the
fifth floor. He'd given the name James Krell. When the
investigating officers had approached the room, they were met with gunfire.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
They returned the fire.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The building was evacuated and the streets in front of
the building were roped off.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Several more cars arrived.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
From Metro Division and the building was completely surrounded. Frank
and I stopped by the office and picked up tear
gas equipment. From what we were told, the suspect had
barricaded the door leading into the room with furniture. The
only way we had to get him out alive was
with gas. Frank and I talked with Captain Lorman with
Chief Brownie.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
We decided to use a white right shell and blast
through the door. Frank took the gun and we went
up to the fifth floor. The halls were empty. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Let's give him another chance, all right, all right, Trel,
We'll give you one more chance to come out of there.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Come on, Prell, open the door and throw the gun out.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
He's not coming out, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
That's the last time around. Crell get out, Get out
of her.
Speaker 11 (13:36):
Come through that dark.
Speaker 12 (13:40):
All right, Frank, Let's put the mask on right, golfruck, Yeah,
I got to go.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Should be coming up.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, let's move the furnature. I'll cover this gun. All right,
watch it, I'm coming out. I give up that gun
out here. Throw the gun out first, and then you
follow it.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Okay, okay, I'm doing what you say.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Here's the gun. I quit, here's the gun.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I got it, all right, Paul, Come on out with
your hand fast, Come on.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Move all right, don't shoot. Don't shoot. I'm doing like
you say.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I'm coming.
Speaker 13 (14:23):
Come on, move down here, come on, move crol, alright,
this will do.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Stand still, hands up against the wall. Come on, Crell,
do what he says.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
I can't breeze. I'll do whatever you say, but I
can't breathe.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I can't breeze. I guess you better get used to it. Trell,
what that cop dies?
Speaker 13 (14:40):
They won't let you walk out of the room.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
The suspect was taking to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for
treatment when the investigating officers that approached the room that
he was hiding in. Trell had shot at them through
the door. They'd returned the fire, and one of the
bullets had shattered his left wrist. We got his full name,
and we ran him through R and I. We found
that he had a minor record in California and was
at the time a deserted from the Army. His risk
was taken care of, and then Frank and I talked
(15:13):
to him in the treatment room.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Lowsy deal all the way around.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Sure, you guys had no right to come up there
and shoot off that gain.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I didn't call it. Why'd you shoot that officer.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
I thought he was gonna shoot me.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Was self defend. When they picked him up, his gun
was still in his holster. Then somebody put it back.
Why do you want to shoot you? Oh? Nos? Who
could figure any cop? You're all stated, why did you
do it?
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Look, I'll tell you nice and playing. I drove up
to the signal, I stopped. This wise cop come over,
started rossing about being in the intersection.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I told him to shut up.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
I don't have to take that kind of talk from nobody.
He pulled a gun.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It was self defense. We got a couple of people
saw the whole thing. They tell a little different. They're
either a psycho or else. You're paying them all. How
long have you been a long? Who says I am
the army? I could square that beef with him? What
about that cay you're driving this morning?
Speaker 13 (15:48):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
What did you get it?
Speaker 9 (15:49):
As long as to a friend of mine, a bard
on a reporter that silim.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
He must have forgotten.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
He told me to take what's the friend's name? I
forget pay you to remember. I have a very bad memory.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Why did you shoot the officer because he.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Was gonna shoot me?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
He just walked up and said he was gonna shoot.
Is that?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Hey, guys, just say the staw you cops are put
that unifarm mind. You all think you could boss anybody around, Well,
you made a mistake with this one. Isn't anybody bosses
me around?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
How long you've been in town?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Well?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I answered the question a couple of weeks. You've been
any wall for over six months. On where you've been?
Where I like to travel? Manager that rooming house says
you just checked in this morning? Is that right? You
talked to her? I didn't all right? Where you've been
staying there? He goes the memory again. Pluck, you're in trouble.
Crell talk like that won't do you any good.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
One of those things. I wish I could help you, fellas,
But there's nothing like where you.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Get the car from her friend? What's his name? I
don't remember, but he said you could take it. Yeah,
then why he reported stolen? Asked Kim, we did?
Speaker 6 (16:31):
He says he doesn't know you.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Where'd you get the gun? Picked it up? Where bought it?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Don't know the name of the store being checked. Now
you might as well save time and tell us you're
getting paid. What do the officers say before you shot.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
Him, didn't say anything, just pulled his gun. That was
fast to self defense.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
You might think this is a game crew. You maybe
think you're a big man sitting here. But I want
to set you straight. You're in trouble, more trouble than
you've ever been in before.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
We've got at least twenty people who saw you deliberately
gun in that cop. They're willing to swear to it
in court.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
You know what I think it was.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You go ahead and tell us it.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Was this kind of purple flash and all of a
sudden this cop was laying there.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Maybe it wasn't self defense. Maybe it was temporary insanity. Hey,
how's that sound? Temporary insanity? He dyed, No, not yet,
cops and catch you can't kill them. You made a
putt a good try, all right, mister, on your feet,
but for all night, let's go. We're going to jail.
Get up, krown. Come on, we're not gonna take me to.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
The gas chamber right now, huh do without a trial
or nothing, just lock me up and drop the eggs.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
And you're awful close to it, mystery.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
You've gotta get me there first, and you're stand in
front of it right now, I'll tell you what. I'll
give you a tender one. It don't make it. Come on, well,
I bet you guys would just love to have me
make a break. Huh. And you listen, Trell with that arm.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
We can't put handcuffs on you, but you're still in custody.
Don't try anything.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
How about it?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
You like that?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Would you get your pictures in all the papers?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Heroic cops killed criminal, all right in here?
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Yeah, you guys would really like that.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I'm gonna give you something for free. Crew, Well, you
know what's that? You talk a lot, but you don't
say anything. Always happens.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Put a guy in the uniform right away.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
He's a big man, a bum on the outside. But
just give him a badge in the suit right away.
He's big.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Sure, come on. How's about a cigarette here? Well?
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Thanks, got a match?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Come on, move cars back this way. Wait a minute,
what do you want? A cigarette?
Speaker 9 (18:30):
Not doing me much good without a match?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
All right here, got Joe, hold it up?
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Crow alright, crow, hold it up, hold it up.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Brow shoots down. Come on, how about it?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Joe?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Oh, I guess he was right.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
That bet about the gas chamber. Yeah, he won't make it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
A doctor was called down from the hospital and the suspect,
James Crell, was pronounced dead. The body was removed to
the County Morgue, and going over the dead man's effects,
(19:14):
we found a receipt from one of the downtown hotels.
There were two names listed on it and a notation
to the effect that the rent on room five seventeen
had been paid for a week. The other name on
the slip was Sidney Larson. We checked it through our
and eye. We found that Larson had a long felony
record in California and had been parole.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Two months previously.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The report came back on the gun that Prell had
used was among seven revolvers that had been stolen from
a hardware store in Toi Larry on May sixth. The
other six guns were still missing. We checked with doctor
Sebastian on Officer Gerau's condition. We were told that the
policeman was still unconscious, but that he had passed the
critical stage. Missus Girou collapsed when she heard the news
(19:56):
that her husband would never walk again, and she was
placed under seddy. Forty eight pm, Frank and I left
the office and drove over to the hotel.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Named on the receipt of the Founds was a run down.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Place with a potted rubber plant on the lobby. We
rang the bell on the counter and waited.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, you're the manager here, all right?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I am.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, what police officers want some information about what take
a lot of This is not one of your receipts.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Let me take a look. I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 14 (20:23):
Let me get the lights out so I can see.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Yeah, there's the name right on the top.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Sure looks like it's one of ours on her You
recognize the two names on it.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, yeah, I do, Yeah, I recognize him.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Good, it's fellow larcense the in now, I don't know.
Speaker 14 (20:42):
We don't keep a very close tab on the people
who stay here.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Service isn't too good, but we don't ask questions. Change
the sheets once a week. We don't ask questions.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Ze in.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
It might be it I have to check it, and
there's a police investigation.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Mystery. There's larcen name.
Speaker 14 (20:55):
I'll check the box. Oh, key's going must be upstairs.
He alone, can't see. Might be I didn't hear nobody
go up. But then I don't listen too, good room,
you mean I gotta go up with you?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Come on, mister, let's go.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Look we got a nice, quiet hotel. We don't cause
no trouble.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
There's no reason for few cops to come snooping around.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
We've got the pass key.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Yeah, let's go. I have to take the elevator up.
I can't go to the stairs. Surely go ahead, Uh? Good,
forward me.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
And that's what they say.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
For how long or two haven't been here?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Larsen and krawl?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
How long have they been here?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
I have to check the book for that. I can't
carry those things around in my head.
Speaker 14 (21:45):
If I did, there wouldn't be no room for the.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Important thing about when?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
Why?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
About? When did they come in?
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I don't know, maybe two three weeks?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Round in there?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
They got any friends?
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Almost everybody's got a few friends.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Any of 'em come around here? No after that's saying
we're not snoopy.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
So I'll get the door, all right?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Which way?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Why?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Which way is five seventeen to the left.
Speaker 14 (22:13):
I don't want no trouble right now.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
We're not gonna make any Look, this is.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
A quiet hotel.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
We don't want any of the tennis to get sore.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You guys are gonna walk out. I gotta live here.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I don't want no trouble.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Here. You did give me the key? Yeah, you take
that side, Frank.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, let me stand back out of the way and
keep still.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
No trouble now, I please?
Speaker 12 (22:40):
All s Yeah, looks like he's asleep.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
If you take the right side.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
He's got a gun.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Get out of here, Frank, Come on.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
I'm on, get What are you doing? You got no
right to come in like this.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I'll check the room, Joe, what are you looking for?
I'm registered. You check my parole officer. He'll tell you
I'm clean. What about the gun? All right?
Speaker 8 (23:22):
So I got a gun?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
You're an ext can, aren't you a big deal?
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Try let's go where.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You've been there before. Take a look, Joe, or what'd
you get these?
Speaker 8 (23:32):
You find out?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Cock?
Speaker 8 (23:33):
You're getting nothing from me?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
All right? Come on, take kiddies, let's go.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
What about crowd you get into.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
That's right, you got him in jail. He's dead, Krell.
That's right. He tried to make a break and it
didn't work.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Poor kid didn't know what it was all about. Wanted
to be a tough.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Guy, and you were going to show him.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
How weren't you a nice kid?
Speaker 8 (23:50):
He wanted to be a big man. We had all
planned hit the big time, got the guns. He went
out to get a car this morning. That's probably why
he killed a cop.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Crew got scared.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
You didn't know. I want to be big. He wanted
people to talk about him.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Don't worry about it, mystery, Huh they will.
Speaker 11 (24:13):
The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the death of
James Edward Crell was justifiable homicide. Sydney Carter Larson was
filed on for ex convict with a gun, and upon
completion of sentence on that count, was released to the
authorities of Tillerry, California, for prosecution on a charge of burglary.
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