October 31, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Drag me.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned the Burglary detail. You've
got a call that someone has broken into a necktie
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manufacturer's a large supply of hand painted ties have been stolen.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Your job. Check it out.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It was Saturday, September tenth, was hot in Los Angeles, US.
We were working the day watch out of Burglary Detail.
My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Bernard.
My name is Friday. As On my way into the office,
it was eight thirty one am when I got to
Room forty five, Burglary. HI, fine, anything for US. Patrol
car picked up a couple of high school kids about
three am. Found them hanging around a filling station over
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on Jefferson Children. Was checking them against those other filling
station jobs last week.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Just let us know.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Okay, Oh, it's gonna be a scorcher. Yeah you noticed
it last night? The heat, Oh yeah, sure I did.
I don't think I slept more than thirty minutes. Wonder
about air conditioning the house, but it's pretty expensive in
it well, I guess it depends that.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
It yeah, be worth it, though whether like this, Well, we.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Don't get these spells too often.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
I don't know, Joe.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Lots of the new houses have air conditioning. Yeah, just
the bedroom might not cost too much, you know, one
of those portable units. I get it, Burgery Friday, Yes, sir,
just say.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
By what do you have as all right? Yes, sir,
I see right away. Bye.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Time manufacturing company out on the Western somebody cleaned them
out last night. Over one hundred dozen neck ties. Yeah,
order says he knows who did it. Frank and I
drew out to a small manufacturing shop on Southwestern Avenue
nine o three am. We interviewed the owner, George Prosper.
He told us the back door had been forced open
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during the night and that a large supply of hand
painted neckties had been stolen.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You see right here, the lock's broken.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yes, that's how he got in, No mistake about it.
You taking anything else beside the ties? Our little cash
eighty ninety dollars. But the ties are the important thing.
Oh yeah, they're worth at least five dollars a piece
of retail, all hand painted. You know, yes, sir, some
of them are worth more special designs.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Or they made up for the individual one of a kind.
Of course, most of the ties he stole weren't specials.
They were from a wholesale stock Christmas orders, Olivett. It
doesn't feel very much like Christmas today, But we have
to get our orders filled before the end of October.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I certainly hope.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You'll be able to get the ties back for us
in time.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yes, sir, you said you had an idea of who
the thief might be.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Morgan Gilroy, who's the young fellow used to work for me.
I'll let him go first last week. Just wasn't dependable,
always late in the morning, careless work or two.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, why do you blame him for the buggery?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, he was very upset when I fired him, said
his wife was having a baby. Said I didn't have
any right to let him go without notice. I told
him I warn him off enough, gave him a whole
week's pay, and that seemed more than fair to me.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Did he say anything else? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, he threatened me. Oh, said I'd be sorry I
fired him. Said I'd live to regret it. Made quite
a scene. Told him if he didn't get out, I'd
call the police.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Did he leave then, well, not right away.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
He quieted down sell and asked me to change my
mind and keep him on. Said he couldn't be out
of work now that he had to have a job
on kind of the baby. I told him there are
plenty of jobs to be had. If a man really wants.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Work, he can find it.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Different when I was his age, had to earn your wages,
and he take young fellows like Gilroy, careless, irresponsible. I
always looking for short cuts, always looking for an easy dollar,
never give value in return. That's why I'm sure it
was him. Just the sort of stunt he'd pull, easy
way to earn a dollar.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Well then he's got something to learn, any hm, This
was the hard way. Frank and I called the crime lab.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
While they checked the premises, we continued to interview.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The victim, George Prosper.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
He gave us a description of the suspect, Morgan Gilroy
and Gilroy's home address. They also gave us a detailed
description of the skull and property.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Ten seventeen am.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
The lab reporter that they were unable to find any
useful fingerprints on the Jimmy Dore pictures of the Jimmy
marks were taken. There was no other physical evidence. Ten
fifty seven am, Frank and I row out to the address.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Prospered given us.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It was a small apartment house on Fountain Avenue in Hollywood.
The Gilroy apartment was number seven. Yes, Morgan Gilroyan, no,
he isn't you Missus Gilroy?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yes, sir or police officers? Man, it was Frank Smith.
My name is Friday the Artif we come in for
a minute.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Oh, I guess it'll be all right. I'm sorry, I'm
not fixed up. I kind of overslept this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Man.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Were you out late last night?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Missus Gilroy?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
How about your husband?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
What about him?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Was he? Well?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Don't you didn't? You got to tell why? You want
to know?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It's a police matter and maybe you'd.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Better talk to Morgan.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yes, ma'am. Do you know where he is at work?
Where does he worked? Missus Gilroy?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
For a time manufacture?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Which one do you know?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Prosperous? George prosper that's the owner's name.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
How long has your husband worked for him?
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Six or seven months?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And that's where he went this morning?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Did he That's where he goes every morning? Something happened
to Morgan.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We'd like to talk to him.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
That's well, then, why don't you I told you where
you could find him, Yes, ma'am, the Prosper Tie Company.
I don't know what the address is, but it's in
the phone book.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh we just came from there, missus Gilroy.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
I don't understand. Didn't you see more?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Your husband doesn't work for him anymore? What he was
let out last week?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
What?
Speaker 6 (05:38):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That's what his boss told us.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Well, Morgan would have said something about it. Oh, you've
made a mistake. He must be talking about a different person.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
No, ma'am, what's that to be a mistake?
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Sure, Morgan gave me his paycheck last night. Every Friday
night he gives me his paycheck. He got paid yesterday,
the same as every week.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Do you still have a check?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
No, not exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
But it wasn't the check he gave me, not really?
Oh you see, he'd cashed it on his way home
from work. But it was the usual amount eighty dollars.
Mister Prosper must have paid him.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
What time your husband get home?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Is he all right last night?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Well, he was later than usual, Holly, if Morgan's in
some kind of trouble, I've got a right to know.
I've got a right, haven't I.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I suppose you just answer our questions. Would you say he.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Wouldn't have done anything wrong? Not at a time like this.
You see, we're we're gonna have a baby. Morgan doesn't
even think about anything else. He wants everything to be
just perfect when the baby comes. That's why he couldn't
have done anything wrong. Do you understand what I'm getting at.
That's why whatever it is, well, it just has to
be a mistake.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But you're gonna help us clear it up, all right?
What time he come home?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
About?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
About two fifteen?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Damn?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Did he say where he'd been?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
He called from the shop about five thirty yesterday afternoon,
said they had a rush shipment to get out, that
he'd be working late, told me not to wait up
for him.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Had he ever worked this late before?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Once or twice? Not till two fifteen, maybe, but till
nearly midnight.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Were you awake when he got home?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Then you're sure at the time two.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Fifteen, yes, sir, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
See.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I couldn't get to sleep. I was kind of worried
about him. I guess I kept watching the clock. It
was two fifteen when he came in.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
What did he say?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
He was kind of put out, provoked about my still
being awake, said I had to get my rest on
account of the baby. I guess I sort of flared back.
I said it was his fault on a kind of
him being outsolate. Oh, it wasn't a real fight or
anything like that. Yes, he said, I oughtn't to blame him.
That we'd need all the extra money he could make.
And he took out his wallet and gave me this
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week's pay.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Like I told you, did he bring anything else home
whe him?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
It's to go right with him?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Extra clothes, ties and anything like that. No, you mind
if I look around the apartment, Well, I know.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Where everything is. If you'll tell me what you're looking for,
maybe I can help you.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That's right, I can make that.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
It's just the bedroom.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Yes, the bed isn't don't worry about it. I wasn't
feeling very good this morning. Yes, ma'am, you'd like some coffee?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, ma'am, thank you?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
What about your friend?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Did mister Prosper really say he fired Morgan.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Well did he say why?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Well, you better ask your husband about that.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Just isn't fair a good time like this. You don't
appreciate Morgan, the people he's worked for. You know, man
does his best.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
This is a thanks he does, Gilroy, These times belong
to your husband.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Oh, yes, you know already got him.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Sure there's something he made at the shop, samples I see.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Does he have any more of the same kind?
Speaker 6 (08:37):
I don't think so. Don't tell me all this fuss
is about a couple of ties.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, it's a few more than that, ma'am. Oh, a
hundred dozen.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Except for the three times which Frank had found in
the bedroom, we were unable to turn up anything else
that seemed to answer the description of the stolen property.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Twelve fifteen pm.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Brank stayed at the gilroy of apartment to wait for
the suspect, but I drove.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Back to the tie factory.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
George Prosper identified the time he's taken from Gilroy's closet.
He said that they were samples manufactured in his plant.
He also said that they had been given to the
suspect and had not been stolen.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
One thirty six PM.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I checked Gilroy's name through and if they had nothing
on him. Two seventeen PM. I returned to the suspect's apartment. Hi, John,
can they sign him?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
No, not so far.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Where's missus Gilroy?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
She's lying down, So she's taking this pretty hard when
all the pieces after you left.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
That's a shame.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I guess you can't blame her much, you know, in
the heat and all, she's bound at the upset find out.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
But these are Gilroy's time.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, Prosper gave him to him, says they's somewhat similar
to the ones that were stolen, but they're not the same.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Anyone to go out for sandwich?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I guess so you eat already? No, it wasn't hungry.
Can I bring it back to them?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
No, shake, Maybe that'll do it, okay, doctor, Yeah, fine,
I won't be long, Frank.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Miss Gilroy's all right energy. Well, I guess I mean
she doesn't need a doctor anything like that. Well, I
don't know, Joe, Well, you don't know more about it
than I do.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Well, I thought if you need a doctor, she'd call one.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Man. Don't right it up anyway?
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Wait sure, I thought, I Oh you.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
That's what happened to the other officer.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
We'll have to get some ones. Oh feeling better.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Yes, thank you. Apartment's so stuffy today. That's what it was, yes, ma'am. No,
that isn't what it was at all. Ma'am, you were
not other poison. You've got me so nervous. I don't
know whether I'm coming or going.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I'm sorry we had to body.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
You're just wasting your time. Morgan won't be home before
six o'clock.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
He never gets off working.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
I can't seem to get it through my head, but
he's not at the shop. Yeah, ma'am, if amenity comes in,
I'll telephone you, or if I hear it from him.
I promise amenity comes in.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
We might be better if we wait.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Won't you try to believe me. Morgan's honest, completely honest, Yes, ma'am.
He hasn't done anything wrong to be had. I'd know it.
You'd have told me.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
There's one thing you didn't tell him, Miss Gilroy.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Oh got money he brought home last night where it
came from Frank and I waited in the apartment until
the suspect, Morgan Gilroy came home six seventeen pm, we
took him into custody and drove him down to the
City Hall for questioning.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
It was very uncooperative and for nearly an hour.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Refused to discuss his whereabouts the previous night.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Seven oh eight pm. We continued the interrogation.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
I just had to lose your job last week, gil
Roy answered the boss.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He says you weren't dependable.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It says it, and you afraid to tell your.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Wife he fired you?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Who says I didn't tell her?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Did you.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
That?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Maybe you'll feel more like talking in the money?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
You can't keep me down here tonight, is that right?
You want to drive Julie out or her mind?
Speaker 8 (11:47):
You saw she acted when your guys took me in.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
What are you trying to do to her?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
We're not doing anything to were Gilroy all. We wanted
some straight answers from you.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
Wasn't enough losing my job just when I needed it
the most. Now you guys got to crawl on my
back too.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
When'd you get your last paycheck?
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Yeah? There, you fired me.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
That was last week sometime, I guess.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
So you gave your wife some money just last night,
so you told her it was this week's pay well.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
I had to tell her something, didn't I didn't want
to worry about me being out of work.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I had to tell her something.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
What'd you get the money?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Fog it?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (12:16):
Maybe it looked like I was stealing, but I was.
Now I was gonna tell him I was taking it.
It was just alone until I start drawing unemployment. I
thought he was buddy Steve and me. Somebody turned over
to cops for a lousy eighty bucks So Steve.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Steve McGill, and then while you picked me up? What
were you with us? McGill last night?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
What time five o'clock on?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
What want have been nearly too?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
It was a little after when I got home.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Where were you?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
I met Steve at a bar over in Vermont.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
What's the name of it?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Black Pony?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
What'd you do?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Then?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I had a couple of drinks by tea.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I go ahead.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Some other guys came in.
Speaker 9 (12:51):
Friends with Steve, so I met him once or twice
two somebody said let's get up a poltry game.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I told him I couldn't afford it.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
I didn't have any cash, despair, and Steve said for
me not to worry that if I.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Ran shortage taking Yeah. We all went over to his place.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
I did real good for the first couple of hours
and only had five bucks to start with, ran it
up to over a hundred. They were all ridden me
about hi. I was the one that didn't want to play.
On about midnight, my luck started turning.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
By one thirty, I was cleaned up.
Speaker 9 (13:19):
Always seemed to be second high, get a straight chirts fate.
Somebody else did have a flush second high.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
The game break up at one point thirty.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Well, I played on a little longer without me fifteen
twenty minutes. I stayed on because I wanted to make
a touch from Steve. After the other guys went home
go ahead. I didn't know how to bring up the subject.
Not that Steve can't afford it. He's got plenty a
doll and he went over a couple.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Of hundred in the game.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
I was kind of beating around the bush. All of
a sudden I noticed how drunk he was. Couldn't get
his pants off, just toppled around the bed and went
to sleep. He sure looked like he was asleep. Money
was still laying there on the table where we've been playing.
Over two hundred bucks and only took eighty.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
That ought to prove a thief. I was. I'd have
taken it off.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
What did you do?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Then?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
I went home?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Just stop off on the way.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Well, I couldn't I that's Judy Hill Telger.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I was there by a little after two or you
in the neighborhood of the tie factory last night?
Speaker 8 (14:11):
Now within a half a mile. He's got to do
with it anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Where his friend of yours live, Steve?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
That's right, a little street just off Western Gramercyy place.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You got a telephone, thank you? So you know the number?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
No hand must be in the book.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'll check it, Joe. My last name is McGill.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
What the heck's going on here? You guys didn't even
know about Steve. He didn't turn to you.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Who well, who did.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
A lot of ties were stolen the last night in factory.
You used to work for.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
Time, that's right.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
And you think I had something to do with it?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Your ex boss does.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Well, he hadn't got any right to accuse me.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
He's threatened to make trouble.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
Why may have sounded off when he fired me, but
it was just talk.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
How could I make trouble for him?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Somebody did.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
We were unable to contact the suspect's friend, Steve McGill
until the following morning. He confirmed the story Gilroy had
told us and refused to press any charges against him.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
From McGill, we got the names of the.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Other three men who had played cards the night the
time factory was broken into it. They also confirmed Gilroy's alibi. Sunday,
September eleventh, ten forty six am, Morgan Gilroy was released.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Frank and I went back to the office.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Now we got nothing, that's right.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Do you think his wife was telling the truth about
him getting home at two fifteen and we can't.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Prove he didn't. Just h Well, that seems to be
cool and awful little bit.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, probably would have been able to sleep last night too.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah, that's my luck.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Well, maybe he grabbing an apple this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
No, I don't feel right when I sleep in the daytime.
Joe isn't good for a person, you know, throws your
system right out of whack. Food except for my brother
in law, arm and he can sleep anytime anyplace.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
No's train it off they.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Burgary Friday, Yes, sir, uh huh, yeah, I've got it.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well, when did it happen?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I see right by men's clothing stout and Crenshaw owner
came in this morning to do some work on the books.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Uh, somebody had jimmy the backdoor during the night.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Solar supply of suit slack, sport coaches, Yeah, and a
batch of hand painted times. Frank and I drove out
to Nimbo's Men's store on Crenshaw Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
We talked to the owner, Carl Nimbo.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
He showed us how the store had been entered and
gave us a description of the stolen merchandise.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
The thief that.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Apparently followed the same ms that had been used in
the Phosphor Tie company. We were unable to learn anything
more about the suspect's identity. Several days later, a tie
shop in Hollywood reported the loss of over two hundred
NIP times. The following night, a men's.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Clothing store on Wilson Boulevard was burglarized.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Investigation indicated that all these crimes were the work of
the same man or men. Burglars who were known to
have used similar ms were interrogated.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
No leads were developed.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Monday, September nineteenth, dat oh six pm, Frank and I
were getting ready to go off duty. You want to
stop by the house on your way home?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
No, I'm pretty tired. I think I like the sat early.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
We could watch a little TV. Is supposed to be
a good fight tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's too late for that now, is it? Oh? Yeah,
I guess so.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh I could watch something else. You're not gonna go
to sleep at eight o'clock, are you?
Speaker 6 (17:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Come on then I got it all right, brag gray Smith.
Who Oh, yes, sir, sure I remember? Yes, sir, I
see what's that address? We'll meet you out in front
right away.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Yes, sir, islands that tie factory.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
George Prosper.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You know he's calling from a bar over on Normandy.
But if one of the stolen ties just walked in,
we go back to a small bar and grill on
the corner of Normandy and Kingsley Drive. George Prosper was
standing in front of the place when we pulled up
and walked over to us.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Good evening, that's Prosper, Good evening.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
How are you pretty fair? I'm sure this is one
of your ties? Now?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Positive?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Positive?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
It was a special worked out to design myself. See
there's another one like it anywhere?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Can you point them out to us.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I see through the window there, that corner booth, that
one man. Yeah, a tall fella sitting a loan. Okay, thanks,
you want me to come in with.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You, No, sir, we'll take care of it. We might
need you later on though.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Whatever you say.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
You know how to get in touch with me?
Speaker 10 (18:16):
Yes, good night, good night?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well like talk to you for a minute. Okay, so.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
Well workplace officers? Okay, what's your name? Crandle Dick Trandle.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You got a job?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Doing way CPA pubably could count.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
That's right, I'll make pretty good money. Huh what makes
you think? So wear your draft? I'm single, I don't
have a lot of expenses. It's a nice sue.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
K Remember where you bought it?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Sure?
Speaker 11 (18:48):
San Francisco, went up there on my vacation a week ago.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Can we see the label? Okay?
Speaker 11 (18:56):
Okay, yeah, one drink?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
No thanks, my pledgure? Nope?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Ever been arrested trennel? Sure? Tell us about a way speeding?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Nothing else?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
No? You get that tie up?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
North to No, where'd you get it?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Fell? I met a couple of nights ago.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
Got to talking to him in a bar fluck bar,
well Olympic down to a town don't remember the name
of it.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
What about this fella we were talking?
Speaker 11 (19:18):
Said he was in the clothing business. Happen to mention
my hobby was stamp collecting, Yeah, said she was a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 11 (19:25):
One of his customers was a stamp collector too. Had
the factory make up a special tie. Farm designed it
like rare postage stamps. This one right here When I went,
offered to sell it to me because a customer was
made for it left LA.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
He had the tie with him in his hotel.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Took me over there to show me what hotel I want?
Speaker 11 (19:41):
All the place a couple of blocks away from the bar.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Do you think you could find it again?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I guess so.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Did you go up to his room?
Speaker 11 (19:47):
Yeah, he showed me the tie, showed me a lot.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Of other clothes too.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Did you buy anything else?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Nothing else I needed.
Speaker 11 (19:52):
I stocked up when I was in San Francisco. Didn't
need to tie either. But it was a real bargain. Yeah,
three fifty it's all he asked for it, like this
is worth eight. But you couldn't see I was making
any profits selling at the price like that. You made
a provit It doesn't seem possible. It must a custom
one pre fifty. No, it didn't, huh, but it will.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Bick.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Trendle gave us a description of the man who had
sold him the time he agreed to accompany, as to
the bar where they'd met. Ten seventeen pm, Frank and
I interviewed the bartender at the BTJ Cafe on Olympic Boulevard.
He remembered the suspect and said he had been in
several times during the past week.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
He couldn't tell us his name or address.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
He left the bar and canvas the vicinity for the
hotel where the suspect had taken Trendle.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Ten fifty eight pm.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Trendle identified the Mortons Hotel as the suspect's residence. Frank
and I went inside and talked to the clerk on duty.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
To the best of my knowledge, there's only one person
staying here who fits that description. That's mister Lafferty, one
of the nicest gentlemen you ever meet. He's in the
clothing business. Are you round now, let me check his box.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Yes, yes, he must be in his room.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Key's not here, but room is are that's two twelve.
He's very careful mister Lafferty always leaves his key at
the desk whenever he goes out, as he's generous, too
generous to a fall. They'll say, I sure see this tie.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
He gave it to me.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
That's too bad, you may have to give it back.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Frank and I walked up to the second floor Room
two twelve was at the end of the hall.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
And then the fire escape.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
The transom was open and we could see a light
inside the room.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Open up?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Yes, just a minute. What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Jo?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Police officer? Standstill?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Oh police, you're wasting your time. I don't believe in firearms?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Light Joe?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Or did I tell you if I was the stuff?
I suppose you mean the items I stole?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
What we mean?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I've already managed to dispose of a the deal of
it parts left is in the closet and by the way,
the burglar kits under the bed. Always believe in cooperating
with the police. Things seem to work out better that way. Yeah, although, Frankly,
I'm surprised you wanted to hear sooner?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Is that so last week? That's what I was expecting.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I'm sorry, we related.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
That looks like we got everything we need.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Joe, all right, let's go.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
You didn't overlook the tools.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Don't worry.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Last week I was certain you'd be here.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Then right after my second job, I've never been able
to pull more than two before without being arrested on me.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
You don't say it.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
It was four this time, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, we know.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Four jobs. Well that's a new record for me.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Well, let's don't let it go to your head now.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Oh, I don't take all the credit.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
If i'd ever worked Los Angeles before, you probably would
have found me sooner.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Have to go somewhere else when I get out.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, maybe up.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
North to Seattle.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I never worked there, might be here A pull five
jobs before they catch me, set myself.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
A new record.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, well that's not likely.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
You see. Just wait till I get out.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
We won't be around that long.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The story you've just heard is true. The names were
changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
On January seventh, trial was held in Department ninety eight,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. Russell Herbert Lafferty was tried
and convicted of burglary in the first degree four counts.
(23:21):
Because of his previous record, he was a judge to
be an habitual criminal and was sentenced to life imprisonment
in the State Penitentiary San Quentin, California.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Dragnet the Story of Your Police Force in action as
a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Services as them. That's atom, that's that's that's.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
That's that's.
Speaker 13 (24:22):
That's that's that's that's
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Atom.
Drag me.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned the Burglary detail. You've
got a call that someone has broken into a necktie
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manufacturer's a large supply of hand painted ties have been stolen.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Your job. Check it out.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It was Saturday, September tenth, was hot in Los Angeles, US.
We were working the day watch out of Burglary Detail.
My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Bernard.
My name is Friday. As On my way into the office,
it was eight thirty one am when I got to
Room forty five, Burglary. HI, fine, anything for US. Patrol
car picked up a couple of high school kids about
three am. Found them hanging around a filling station over
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on Jefferson Children. Was checking them against those other filling
station jobs last week.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Just let us know.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Okay, Oh, it's gonna be a scorcher. Yeah you noticed
it last night? The heat, Oh yeah, sure I did.
I don't think I slept more than thirty minutes. Wonder
about air conditioning the house, but it's pretty expensive in
it well, I guess it depends that.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
It yeah, be worth it, though whether like this, Well, we.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Don't get these spells too often.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
I don't know, Joe.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Lots of the new houses have air conditioning. Yeah, just
the bedroom might not cost too much, you know, one
of those portable units. I get it, Burgery Friday, Yes, sir,
just say.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
By what do you have as all right? Yes, sir,
I see right away. Bye.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Time manufacturing company out on the Western somebody cleaned them
out last night. Over one hundred dozen neck ties. Yeah,
order says he knows who did it. Frank and I
drew out to a small manufacturing shop on Southwestern Avenue
nine o three am. We interviewed the owner, George Prosper.
He told us the back door had been forced open
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during the night and that a large supply of hand
painted neckties had been stolen.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You see right here, the lock's broken.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yes, that's how he got in, No mistake about it.
You taking anything else beside the ties? Our little cash
eighty ninety dollars. But the ties are the important thing.
Oh yeah, they're worth at least five dollars a piece
of retail, all hand painted. You know, yes, sir, some
of them are worth more special designs.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Or they made up for the individual one of a kind.
Of course, most of the ties he stole weren't specials.
They were from a wholesale stock Christmas orders, Olivett. It
doesn't feel very much like Christmas today, But we have
to get our orders filled before the end of October.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I certainly hope.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You'll be able to get the ties back for us
in time.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yes, sir, you said you had an idea of who
the thief might be.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Morgan Gilroy, who's the young fellow used to work for me.
I'll let him go first last week. Just wasn't dependable,
always late in the morning, careless work or two.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, why do you blame him for the buggery?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, he was very upset when I fired him, said
his wife was having a baby. Said I didn't have
any right to let him go without notice. I told
him I warn him off enough, gave him a whole
week's pay, and that seemed more than fair to me.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Did he say anything else? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, he threatened me. Oh, said I'd be sorry I
fired him. Said I'd live to regret it. Made quite
a scene. Told him if he didn't get out, I'd
call the police.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Did he leave then, well, not right away.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
He quieted down sell and asked me to change my
mind and keep him on. Said he couldn't be out
of work now that he had to have a job
on kind of the baby. I told him there are
plenty of jobs to be had. If a man really wants.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Work, he can find it.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Different when I was his age, had to earn your wages,
and he take young fellows like Gilroy, careless, irresponsible. I
always looking for short cuts, always looking for an easy dollar,
never give value in return. That's why I'm sure it
was him. Just the sort of stunt he'd pull, easy
way to earn a dollar.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Well then he's got something to learn, any hm, This
was the hard way. Frank and I called the crime lab.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
While they checked the premises, we continued to interview.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
The victim, George Prosper.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
He gave us a description of the suspect, Morgan Gilroy
and Gilroy's home address. They also gave us a detailed
description of the skull and property.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Ten seventeen am.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
The lab reporter that they were unable to find any
useful fingerprints on the Jimmy Dore pictures of the Jimmy
marks were taken. There was no other physical evidence. Ten
fifty seven am, Frank and I row out to the address.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Prospered given us.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It was a small apartment house on Fountain Avenue in Hollywood.
The Gilroy apartment was number seven. Yes, Morgan Gilroyan, no,
he isn't you Missus Gilroy?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yes, sir or police officers? Man, it was Frank Smith.
My name is Friday the Artif we come in for
a minute.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Oh, I guess it'll be all right. I'm sorry, I'm
not fixed up. I kind of overslept this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Man.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Were you out late last night?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Missus Gilroy?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
How about your husband?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
What about him?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Was he? Well?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Don't you didn't? You got to tell why? You want
to know?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It's a police matter and maybe you'd.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Better talk to Morgan.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yes, ma'am. Do you know where he is at work?
Where does he worked? Missus Gilroy?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
For a time manufacture?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Which one do you know?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Prosperous? George prosper that's the owner's name.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
How long has your husband worked for him?
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Six or seven months?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And that's where he went this morning?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Did he That's where he goes every morning? Something happened
to Morgan.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We'd like to talk to him.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
That's well, then, why don't you I told you where
you could find him, Yes, ma'am, the Prosper Tie Company.
I don't know what the address is, but it's in
the phone book.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh we just came from there, missus Gilroy.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
I don't understand. Didn't you see more?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Your husband doesn't work for him anymore? What he was
let out last week?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
What?
Speaker 6 (05:38):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That's what his boss told us.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Well, Morgan would have said something about it. Oh, you've
made a mistake. He must be talking about a different person.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
No, ma'am, what's that to be a mistake?
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Sure, Morgan gave me his paycheck last night. Every Friday
night he gives me his paycheck. He got paid yesterday,
the same as every week.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Do you still have a check?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
No, not exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
But it wasn't the check he gave me, not really?
Oh you see, he'd cashed it on his way home
from work. But it was the usual amount eighty dollars.
Mister Prosper must have paid him.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
What time your husband get home?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Is he all right last night?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Well, he was later than usual, Holly, if Morgan's in
some kind of trouble, I've got a right to know.
I've got a right, haven't I.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I suppose you just answer our questions. Would you say he.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Wouldn't have done anything wrong? Not at a time like this.
You see, we're we're gonna have a baby. Morgan doesn't
even think about anything else. He wants everything to be
just perfect when the baby comes. That's why he couldn't
have done anything wrong. Do you understand what I'm getting at.
That's why whatever it is, well, it just has to
be a mistake.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But you're gonna help us clear it up, all right?
What time he come home?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
About?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
About two fifteen?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Damn?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Did he say where he'd been?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
He called from the shop about five thirty yesterday afternoon,
said they had a rush shipment to get out, that
he'd be working late, told me not to wait up
for him.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Had he ever worked this late before?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Once or twice? Not till two fifteen, maybe, but till
nearly midnight.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Were you awake when he got home?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Then you're sure at the time two.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Fifteen, yes, sir, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
See.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I couldn't get to sleep. I was kind of worried
about him. I guess I kept watching the clock. It
was two fifteen when he came in.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
What did he say?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
He was kind of put out, provoked about my still
being awake, said I had to get my rest on
account of the baby. I guess I sort of flared back.
I said it was his fault on a kind of
him being outsolate. Oh, it wasn't a real fight or
anything like that. Yes, he said, I oughtn't to blame him.
That we'd need all the extra money he could make.
And he took out his wallet and gave me this
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week's pay.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Like I told you, did he bring anything else home
whe him?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
It's to go right with him?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Extra clothes, ties and anything like that. No, you mind
if I look around the apartment, Well, I know.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Where everything is. If you'll tell me what you're looking for,
maybe I can help you.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That's right, I can make that.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
It's just the bedroom.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Yes, the bed isn't don't worry about it. I wasn't
feeling very good this morning. Yes, ma'am, you'd like some coffee?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, ma'am, thank you?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
What about your friend?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Did mister Prosper really say he fired Morgan.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Well did he say why?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Well, you better ask your husband about that.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Just isn't fair a good time like this. You don't
appreciate Morgan, the people he's worked for. You know, man
does his best.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
This is a thanks he does, Gilroy, These times belong
to your husband.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Oh, yes, you know already got him.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Sure there's something he made at the shop, samples I see.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Does he have any more of the same kind?
Speaker 6 (08:37):
I don't think so. Don't tell me all this fuss
is about a couple of ties.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, it's a few more than that, ma'am. Oh, a
hundred dozen.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Except for the three times which Frank had found in
the bedroom, we were unable to turn up anything else
that seemed to answer the description of the stolen property.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Twelve fifteen pm.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Brank stayed at the gilroy of apartment to wait for
the suspect, but I drove.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Back to the tie factory.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
George Prosper identified the time he's taken from Gilroy's closet.
He said that they were samples manufactured in his plant.
He also said that they had been given to the
suspect and had not been stolen.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
One thirty six PM.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I checked Gilroy's name through and if they had nothing
on him. Two seventeen PM. I returned to the suspect's apartment. Hi, John,
can they sign him?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
No, not so far.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Where's missus Gilroy?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
She's lying down, So she's taking this pretty hard when
all the pieces after you left.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
That's a shame.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I guess you can't blame her much, you know, in
the heat and all, she's bound at the upset find out.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
But these are Gilroy's time.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, Prosper gave him to him, says they's somewhat similar
to the ones that were stolen, but they're not the same.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Anyone to go out for sandwich?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I guess so you eat already? No, it wasn't hungry.
Can I bring it back to them?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
No, shake, Maybe that'll do it, okay, doctor, Yeah, fine,
I won't be long, Frank.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Miss Gilroy's all right energy. Well, I guess I mean
she doesn't need a doctor anything like that. Well, I
don't know, Joe, Well, you don't know more about it
than I do.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Well, I thought if you need a doctor, she'd call one.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Man. Don't right it up anyway?
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Wait sure, I thought, I Oh you.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
That's what happened to the other officer.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
We'll have to get some ones. Oh feeling better.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Yes, thank you. Apartment's so stuffy today. That's what it was, yes, ma'am. No,
that isn't what it was at all. Ma'am, you were
not other poison. You've got me so nervous. I don't
know whether I'm coming or going.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I'm sorry we had to body.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
You're just wasting your time. Morgan won't be home before
six o'clock.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
He never gets off working.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
I can't seem to get it through my head, but
he's not at the shop. Yeah, ma'am, if amenity comes in,
I'll telephone you, or if I hear it from him.
I promise amenity comes in.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
We might be better if we wait.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Won't you try to believe me. Morgan's honest, completely honest, Yes, ma'am.
He hasn't done anything wrong to be had. I'd know it.
You'd have told me.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
There's one thing you didn't tell him, Miss Gilroy.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Oh got money he brought home last night where it
came from Frank and I waited in the apartment until
the suspect, Morgan Gilroy came home six seventeen pm, we
took him into custody and drove him down to the
City Hall for questioning.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
It was very uncooperative and for nearly an hour.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Refused to discuss his whereabouts the previous night.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Seven oh eight pm. We continued the interrogation.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
I just had to lose your job last week, gil
Roy answered the boss.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He says you weren't dependable.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It says it, and you afraid to tell your.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Wife he fired you?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Who says I didn't tell her?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Did you.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
That?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Maybe you'll feel more like talking in the money?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
You can't keep me down here tonight, is that right?
You want to drive Julie out or her mind?
Speaker 8 (11:47):
You saw she acted when your guys took me in.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
What are you trying to do to her?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
We're not doing anything to were Gilroy all. We wanted
some straight answers from you.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
Wasn't enough losing my job just when I needed it
the most. Now you guys got to crawl on my
back too.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
When'd you get your last paycheck?
Speaker 8 (12:00):
Yeah? There, you fired me.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
That was last week sometime, I guess.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
So you gave your wife some money just last night,
so you told her it was this week's pay well.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
I had to tell her something, didn't I didn't want
to worry about me being out of work.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I had to tell her something.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
What'd you get the money?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Fog it?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (12:16):
Maybe it looked like I was stealing, but I was.
Now I was gonna tell him I was taking it.
It was just alone until I start drawing unemployment. I
thought he was buddy Steve and me. Somebody turned over
to cops for a lousy eighty bucks So Steve.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Steve McGill, and then while you picked me up? What
were you with us? McGill last night?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
What time five o'clock on?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
What want have been nearly too?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
It was a little after when I got home.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Where were you?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
I met Steve at a bar over in Vermont.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
What's the name of it?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Black Pony?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
What'd you do?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Then?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I had a couple of drinks by tea.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I go ahead.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Some other guys came in.
Speaker 9 (12:51):
Friends with Steve, so I met him once or twice
two somebody said let's get up a poltry game.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I told him I couldn't afford it.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
I didn't have any cash, despair, and Steve said for
me not to worry that if I.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Ran shortage taking Yeah. We all went over to his place.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
I did real good for the first couple of hours
and only had five bucks to start with, ran it
up to over a hundred. They were all ridden me
about hi. I was the one that didn't want to play.
On about midnight, my luck started turning.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
By one thirty, I was cleaned up.
Speaker 9 (13:19):
Always seemed to be second high, get a straight chirts fate.
Somebody else did have a flush second high.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
The game break up at one point thirty.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Well, I played on a little longer without me fifteen
twenty minutes. I stayed on because I wanted to make
a touch from Steve. After the other guys went home
go ahead. I didn't know how to bring up the subject.
Not that Steve can't afford it. He's got plenty a
doll and he went over a couple.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Of hundred in the game.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
I was kind of beating around the bush. All of
a sudden I noticed how drunk he was. Couldn't get
his pants off, just toppled around the bed and went
to sleep. He sure looked like he was asleep. Money
was still laying there on the table where we've been playing.
Over two hundred bucks and only took eighty.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
That ought to prove a thief. I was. I'd have
taken it off.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
What did you do?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Then?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
I went home?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Just stop off on the way.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Well, I couldn't I that's Judy Hill Telger.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I was there by a little after two or you
in the neighborhood of the tie factory last night?
Speaker 8 (14:11):
Now within a half a mile. He's got to do
with it anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Where his friend of yours live, Steve?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
That's right, a little street just off Western Gramercyy place.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You got a telephone, thank you? So you know the number?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
No hand must be in the book.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'll check it, Joe. My last name is McGill.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
What the heck's going on here? You guys didn't even
know about Steve. He didn't turn to you.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
Who well, who did.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
A lot of ties were stolen the last night in factory.
You used to work for.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
Time, that's right.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
And you think I had something to do with it?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Your ex boss does.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Well, he hadn't got any right to accuse me.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
He's threatened to make trouble.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
Why may have sounded off when he fired me, but
it was just talk.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
How could I make trouble for him?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Somebody did.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
We were unable to contact the suspect's friend, Steve McGill
until the following morning. He confirmed the story Gilroy had
told us and refused to press any charges against him.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
From McGill, we got the names of the.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Other three men who had played cards the night the
time factory was broken into it. They also confirmed Gilroy's alibi. Sunday,
September eleventh, ten forty six am, Morgan Gilroy was released.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Frank and I went back to the office.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Now we got nothing, that's right.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Do you think his wife was telling the truth about
him getting home at two fifteen and we can't.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Prove he didn't. Just h Well, that seems to be
cool and awful little bit.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, probably would have been able to sleep last night too.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah, that's my luck.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Well, maybe he grabbing an apple this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
No, I don't feel right when I sleep in the daytime.
Joe isn't good for a person, you know, throws your
system right out of whack. Food except for my brother
in law, arm and he can sleep anytime anyplace.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
No's train it off they.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Burgary Friday, Yes, sir, uh huh, yeah, I've got it.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well, when did it happen?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I see right by men's clothing stout and Crenshaw owner
came in this morning to do some work on the books.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Uh, somebody had jimmy the backdoor during the night.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Solar supply of suit slack, sport coaches, Yeah, and a
batch of hand painted times. Frank and I drove out
to Nimbo's Men's store on Crenshaw Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
We talked to the owner, Carl Nimbo.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
He showed us how the store had been entered and
gave us a description of the stolen merchandise.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
The thief that.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Apparently followed the same ms that had been used in
the Phosphor Tie company. We were unable to learn anything
more about the suspect's identity. Several days later, a tie
shop in Hollywood reported the loss of over two hundred
NIP times. The following night, a men's.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Clothing store on Wilson Boulevard was burglarized.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Investigation indicated that all these crimes were the work of
the same man or men. Burglars who were known to
have used similar ms were interrogated.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
No leads were developed.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Monday, September nineteenth, dat oh six pm, Frank and I
were getting ready to go off duty. You want to
stop by the house on your way home?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
No, I'm pretty tired. I think I like the sat early.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
We could watch a little TV. Is supposed to be
a good fight tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's too late for that now, is it? Oh? Yeah,
I guess so.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh I could watch something else. You're not gonna go
to sleep at eight o'clock, are you?
Speaker 6 (17:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Come on then I got it all right, brag gray Smith.
Who Oh, yes, sir, sure I remember? Yes, sir, I
see what's that address? We'll meet you out in front
right away.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Yes, sir, islands that tie factory.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
George Prosper.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You know he's calling from a bar over on Normandy.
But if one of the stolen ties just walked in,
we go back to a small bar and grill on
the corner of Normandy and Kingsley Drive. George Prosper was
standing in front of the place when we pulled up
and walked over to us.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Good evening, that's Prosper, Good evening.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
How are you pretty fair? I'm sure this is one
of your ties? Now?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Positive?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Positive?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
It was a special worked out to design myself. See
there's another one like it anywhere?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Can you point them out to us.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I see through the window there, that corner booth, that
one man. Yeah, a tall fella sitting a loan. Okay, thanks,
you want me to come in with.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You, No, sir, we'll take care of it. We might
need you later on though.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Whatever you say.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
You know how to get in touch with me?
Speaker 10 (18:16):
Yes, good night, good night?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well like talk to you for a minute. Okay, so.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
Well workplace officers? Okay, what's your name? Crandle Dick Trandle.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You got a job?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Doing way CPA pubably could count.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
That's right, I'll make pretty good money. Huh what makes
you think? So wear your draft? I'm single, I don't
have a lot of expenses. It's a nice sue.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
K Remember where you bought it?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Sure?
Speaker 11 (18:48):
San Francisco, went up there on my vacation a week ago.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Can we see the label? Okay?
Speaker 11 (18:56):
Okay, yeah, one drink?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
No thanks, my pledgure? Nope?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Ever been arrested trennel? Sure? Tell us about a way speeding?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Nothing else?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
No? You get that tie up?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
North to No, where'd you get it?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Fell? I met a couple of nights ago.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
Got to talking to him in a bar fluck bar,
well Olympic down to a town don't remember the name
of it.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
What about this fella we were talking?
Speaker 11 (19:18):
Said he was in the clothing business. Happen to mention
my hobby was stamp collecting, Yeah, said she was a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 11 (19:25):
One of his customers was a stamp collector too. Had
the factory make up a special tie. Farm designed it
like rare postage stamps. This one right here When I went,
offered to sell it to me because a customer was
made for it left LA.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
He had the tie with him in his hotel.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Took me over there to show me what hotel I want?
Speaker 11 (19:41):
All the place a couple of blocks away from the bar.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Do you think you could find it again?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I guess so.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Did you go up to his room?
Speaker 11 (19:47):
Yeah, he showed me the tie, showed me a lot.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Of other clothes too.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Did you buy anything else?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Nothing else I needed.
Speaker 11 (19:52):
I stocked up when I was in San Francisco. Didn't
need to tie either. But it was a real bargain. Yeah,
three fifty it's all he asked for it, like this
is worth eight. But you couldn't see I was making
any profits selling at the price like that. You made
a provit It doesn't seem possible. It must a custom
one pre fifty. No, it didn't, huh, but it will.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Bick.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Trendle gave us a description of the man who had
sold him the time he agreed to accompany, as to
the bar where they'd met. Ten seventeen pm, Frank and
I interviewed the bartender at the BTJ Cafe on Olympic Boulevard.
He remembered the suspect and said he had been in
several times during the past week.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
He couldn't tell us his name or address.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
He left the bar and canvas the vicinity for the
hotel where the suspect had taken Trendle.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Ten fifty eight pm.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Trendle identified the Mortons Hotel as the suspect's residence. Frank
and I went inside and talked to the clerk on duty.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
To the best of my knowledge, there's only one person
staying here who fits that description. That's mister Lafferty, one
of the nicest gentlemen you ever meet. He's in the
clothing business. Are you round now, let me check his box.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Yes, yes, he must be in his room.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Key's not here, but room is are that's two twelve.
He's very careful mister Lafferty always leaves his key at
the desk whenever he goes out, as he's generous, too
generous to a fall. They'll say, I sure see this tie.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
He gave it to me.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
That's too bad, you may have to give it back.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Frank and I walked up to the second floor Room
two twelve was at the end of the hall.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
And then the fire escape.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
The transom was open and we could see a light
inside the room.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Open up?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Yes, just a minute. What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Jo?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Police officer? Standstill?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Oh police, you're wasting your time. I don't believe in firearms?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Light Joe?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Or did I tell you if I was the stuff?
I suppose you mean the items I stole?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
What we mean?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I've already managed to dispose of a the deal of
it parts left is in the closet and by the way,
the burglar kits under the bed. Always believe in cooperating
with the police. Things seem to work out better that way. Yeah, although, Frankly,
I'm surprised you wanted to hear sooner?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Is that so last week? That's what I was expecting.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I'm sorry, we related.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
That looks like we got everything we need.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Joe, all right, let's go.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
You didn't overlook the tools.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Don't worry.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Last week I was certain you'd be here.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Then right after my second job, I've never been able
to pull more than two before without being arrested on me.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
You don't say it.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
It was four this time, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, we know.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Four jobs. Well that's a new record for me.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Well, let's don't let it go to your head now.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Oh, I don't take all the credit.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
If i'd ever worked Los Angeles before, you probably would
have found me sooner.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Have to go somewhere else when I get out.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, maybe up.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
North to Seattle.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I never worked there, might be here A pull five
jobs before they catch me, set myself.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
A new record.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, well that's not likely.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
You see. Just wait till I get out.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
We won't be around that long.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The story you've just heard is true. The names were
changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
On January seventh, trial was held in Department ninety eight,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. Russell Herbert Lafferty was tried
and convicted of burglary in the first degree four counts.
(23:21):
Because of his previous record, he was a judge to
be an habitual criminal and was sentenced to life imprisonment
in the State Penitentiary San Quentin, California.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Dragnet the Story of Your Police Force in action as
a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Services as them. That's atom, that's that's that's.
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