September 11, 2025 • 26 mins
Dragnet - Old Time Radio Show - 271 The Big Key
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Drag Met You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail.
(00:28):
In the past five weeks, an unidentified hold up man
has robbed twelve drug stores. He's taken money in narcotics.
There's no lead to who he is or where he is.
Your job find.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Him whose Tuesday, March sixteenth was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working the day Watch out of robbery detail.
My partners Frank Smith, the boss's TV detective Thad Brown.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
My name is Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We were on our way out from the office and
it was nine thirty six am when we got the
corner of Boulevard and Westmoreland petitionar drugs.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Story in the back.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Now something you want, Yes, sir, we'd like to see
Harry Tishner.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Hey, I'm him Police officers. This is Frank Smith.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
My name is Friday, about to rob Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Would you like to tell us what happened?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I was robbed.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
We just like you to tell us how Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Now I'm with you, Yeah, I'm right with you. Let's
go back and sit down. You have to tell the story,
and time just melts away. I said, we'll be comfortable.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'll all fall out.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I see it's all right here, eh, eh.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Like the phosphate or something.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
No, sir, no, thanks you okay, and let's quit all
this fool around and get out of the business.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I want me to tell you about the hold up.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yes, sir, we like that.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Good.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Good, That's what.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Go ahead, aren't you going to take anything down right? Well? Yes, sir,
as soon as you tell us the story, now, if
you'd like to start him? Well, came in about eight,
that was this morning. Yes, just walked right in.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The door, came back to the prescription counter and stood there.
I had this little piece of paper in his hand.
I figured it was from a doctor, you know, uh,
prescribed medicine.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yes, sir, wasn't well, go ahead, what was it?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Note written on there like this?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
This is a stick up.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Don't make any noise. It was a note. Just pushed the.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Note across the counter. I didn't have to have anybody
push me off a cliff to know what.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Was going on.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
No, see I was being robbed, Yes, sir, do you
want to go ahead? Well? After he showed me the note.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
He kind of pushed me back.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Into the little room at the rear of the store,
in a kind of store place.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Now did he say anything to you at all?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Not a word, just pointed with that gun for me
to get into the back room.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I went, I see what happened?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Then he pushed me down to the floor and then
tied my hands and feet.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
What do you use you mean time?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
He up? Yes, rope.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh well, did he bring it into the store with him, No, sir, He.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Picked it up in the household on his way back
to the prescription count.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And I see, go ahead please.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
As soon as we got the store on he took
off the label and then undid the rope. He made
a loop and put it around my feet. Next thing
I knew, I was all trussed up like a rolled
roast ready for the oven. Yes see, I'll say one
thing for the guy, though, what's that? He very neat
had good knocks, yes, sir, Other officers, the.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Ones in the black and white car.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
You know, yes, sir, them You know what about him?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, well, they took the ropes with him.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
He said something about taking them to a laboratory.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
F You can see if you want to. It was
very neat, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What happened after the bandit tied yet robbed me?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You personally?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yes, personally and otherwise, well said, would you please tell us? Well,
first off, he went for the safe and took the
tin box out, opened the right up, and.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Took the money. Is that all he stole from the
cash by Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I had some government bunds in there, but he didn't
take those.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I guess he knew they wouldn't do him any good,
all right. See, he didn't take him took the money,
but didn't take the government bunds.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
According to what you told the officers this morning, the
thief took a supply of narcotics to.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Yes, he got them from the safe too.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well. Now, after he finished with a safe, what happened
he left? He walked out of the place. He just
ambled right out. During the time he was in the store,
he didn't say anything at all. An did anybody else
come in while he was here?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
You mean like a customer?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yes? No, oh, excuse me, that might be our office,
mister petitioner. We left this number, okay if he is okay, yeah,
thank you. Additional drugs. Uh huh oh, yeah, missus kemp
webbe uh uh huh No.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Shouldn't be uh huh no, I can't do that.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
If you have your doctor.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Called me, I'll make it up and send it over.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, no, no, nothing the prescription.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Uh huh. Okay, Well, i'll.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Call you when it's ready then and you can send
lining over.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
The right five is kind huh oh.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Well, if that's the way you feel, I won't Oh, sure, okay, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I can't imagine why you see a thing like that.
There's no reason at all.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Sure this categorthy call me when the son comes over
to get the prescription, not to give him any candy.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh I see, I'll usually throw in a liquor script
at though.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Don't want me to do it.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It's too bad, I said. I wonder if we can
go ahead with the description. Sure, I guess so.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Once you told the investigating officers the man's about thirty
five to thirty eight that right light in color, five
feet ten, one hundred and seventy five pounds, no visible Marxer.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Scars, that right, Well, I guess that's pretty close.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, there's anything different, we'd appreciate you telling us now.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
No talk with you, because I can't understand why there's
categorthy to say a thing like that.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
It's any liquors whip.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
By three, Yes, through we understand like that couldn't hurt anybody, And.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Said, would you be able to identify the hold up
man if you saw him again?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh? Yeah, no trouble, I'd know it.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
He never say a thing like that, sir, the fellow
who robbed me?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Oh, on the way out the way I was laying,
I saw him stop right up there with a Canon magazine,
stopped dead in his tracks. He went over to help himself,
took the top off and helped himself the handful.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Sure must like him. What was that, sir? Liquor ships
must reach.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Into the jar to the handful.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
After that, he left, all right, Yeah, as soon as
he put his.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Gloves back on.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Couldn't work the top of the jar with the gloves,
so he took him off now used his bare hands.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Ten o two am, Frank put in a call to
Harlan's stall and laden fingerprints. We asked him to come
out and go over the glass candy jar. While we
waited for him, Frank and I checked the list of
stolen our cut with the druggist Harry Tishner. We also
made arrangements for him to come downtown and look through
the mug books. When the glass candy jar was checked,
Harlan Stahr was able to come up with two partial prints.
They were enough for comparison, but not for identification. Eleven
(07:14):
fifteen am, Frank and I left the store and spent
the rest of the afternoon checking out the list of
names we've gotten from the Stats Office.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Several of the possibles.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Looked good, but after each one of them was investigated,
we still didn't have a suspect in custody. Wednesday morning,
March seventeenth, at eight oh six am, Frank and I
meant in the squadron.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Oram Joe Hi hied to call you this morning.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I thought maybe you'd want to stop and have some breakfast,
not off the house early time to check the book. Yeah, anything,
I'm skipping ONTs doctors. I figure that had happened, see
and yeah, come on, let's get it over with.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
An Yeah that's right, No na jet I'm gonna try
and line it up to seven.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, I'll call you back.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, they're here right now, bye, so we'll see what's kevin. Yeah,
commenced it that going in.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I won't tell you who's on my back about this thing,
and you don't get me any excuses, right are uh?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Where are you still in front of the first store?
That's how long ago? It's been five weeks?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
What do you know about him?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
WMA description? Clothes match you on all the jabs, close
enough so we know it's the same guy. Okay, what else?
And use the stolen car to get to the story.
Drives it away? Isn't too careful to hide the license plate?
We've been able to come up with three out of
the five. Check the cars out, yeah clean, not a
print on 'em. Nothing else. Pick up's out me yesterday.
The should help him, we nail him. What's that? I'll
(08:40):
start a listed a couple of partials from a candy jar.
That'll be enough for comparison.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Can't make the aspect on him, mind, No, it's not
enough to classify. What about the narcotics he's taking a
show up any place?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
No, not that we can find. We've been down all
the alleys. There's nothing there. We talked Tolucarelli. Hop Squad's
got nothing on it, none of it showing up. Then
it could be he's using and stuff himself. So we
got figured about the Status Office. I spend much more
time down there.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They're gonna put us to work with the machines informance
and given a smile.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So it's about all they think they're holy. No, come
out here, take aware of the mat.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Way he's kicking the places. He set up a pretty
definite operating schedule here. Then it's Boulevard, Kingsley Drive, Western Adams, Washington,
the rest of 'em.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
They're all grow up in this area.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Yeah, you gotta figure he's gonna keep working in the.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Center day until he hits him all. Then maybe he'll
move on to something else. Why help if we could
come up with a reason that he's working there.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Anything you can come up with, it's gotta help. Yeah,
we know it's true that he's been using the mercatics himself.
It's just a matter of time before we hand this
one over to homicide. He's gonna walk into the store,
somebody's gonna get him trouble. If he's on a needle,
he isn't gonna take it. Yeah, So it adds up
to a big.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Stop in the past. I mean, if we work the area,
it's gonna take a lot of 'em.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Men.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You know, we'll get him. I talk to Stone and
he's taking care of all the help. You leave from here.
There'll be four teams available. You can call Metro Division
for whatever else you need. All right, we'll set it
up for the night time check quick communications. Make sure
you get the three ways worthy right. This guy's been
pressing his luck for a long time. You know, I'm
bound a run short on it sometime. Robbery donaholl Yeah,
(10:13):
when m okay, we'll take care of him. Looks like
he just got partners. What do you mean your boy
just made it? Thirteen drugstore out on Pico. You know,
they don't expect the victim to live.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Frank and I left the office and drove over to
Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. He talked with the officer on duty.
He told us that the victim's name was George Rayler.
He owned a small neighborhood drug store at the corner
of Peco Boulevard and Vineyard Avenue. He went on to
say that he didn't have all of the particulars of
the beating, but that it had occurred during.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
The commission of a robbery. We talked to doctor Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
He told us that the elderly man was suffering from
a fractured skull, broken ribs, and possible internal injuries. He
added that from Railer's appearance, it looked as if he'd
been beaten about the head and shoulders with a heavy
instrument and then kicked in the chest.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
We left word to call as soon as he could
be questioned, and.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Then we drove over to the store on Peako, Yes
or something, I'd do it for police officers.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Well, how's mister Railer?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You see him? No, we haven't yet.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
You heard any things?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You're gonna be alright, but we don't know that yet.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yeah, I sure hope. So here's a guy who hit him,
Sure did a job, just beat him something awful.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, we know, not enough, just hitting him.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
But then he knocked him down and stomped him awful.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Do you hear when it happened?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah, I saw the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Do you wanna tell us what happened?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
You mean for the investigation?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
That's right, Okay, you wanna give us your name first,
Calvin Webster.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You work here in the Star to decent.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, that's right, sort of a general left hand.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Well, you've seen missus. Railer's his right hand.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I'm the left. Yeah, she wasn't here today and down
having her hair fixed.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Probably just as good.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Alright, webster, you wanna tell us?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Well, Saul came in about eight thirty, right after we opened.
Came in and went back to the prescription condor. I
was going back to tell him that.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Mister Railer would be right out, and then he was raylely.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, he was back check the stock on vitamin pills.
We do a big business in him. I have to
have a pretty careful watch on the supply. Wouldn't want
it to get caught short.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
All right, go ahead, Well the fella, the hold up man,
you know.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Yeah, we took this little piece of paper out of
his coat.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
I figured it was a prescription looked like him, it wasn't.
It turned out to be the note where he said
he wanted the money.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Did you see the note?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Well, not so as I can read it. First time.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
I knew there was something wrong when mister Railer started
to yell at the guy told him to get out
of the store, ran around the car and tried to
grab him, yelling all the time for me to call
the police, Call the cops, Call the cops.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Like that, He yelled at me, what'd you do?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I looked to see if I had a dime?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Well, you see, in the past, mister Railer's had trouble
with people making phone calls on a private phone, so
we had one of those little lock things put on it.
You can answer incoming calls, but you can't phone out.
I see, So I needed a dime to call a cop.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Yeah, well I didn't have one, only seventy five cents
for my lunch half in a quarter.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I see.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
Well, all this time mister Railer's yelling, he's yelling, and
the robber's hitting him.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
I thought about running back and trying to help, but
mister Rayler don't like for nobody to do something different
than what he says.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, he told me to pham. Yeah. Sure.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Well, when all of a sudden, bang, a fella hit
mister Railer with a gun, took it right out of
his pocket and hit him on the head.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Next thing, mister Railer's on the floor, this fella's stomping him. Well,
I couldn't just stand by no more, so I went
back to help. Too late? Was that it was too late?
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Mister Rayler was on the floor and this guy was
pointing a gun in me and was leaving the store.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I didn't see a hard to help, any to try
and stop him.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Was there anybody else in the Star at the time.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
No, just mister Railer and me. We just opened up,
still kind of getting ready for the day.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Did you get a good luck at this guy?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Oh? Yeah, I saw him.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Good. All right, Then you'll be able to give us
a description.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yeah, I'll tell you how he looked.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Did you see if he drove a car? I guess so,
But don't you know for sure?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Well, no, I didn't go out after him.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I figured that it takes somebody a lot bigger than
me to stop him. Besides, I had to take care
of mister Trayler. I see. Did you see the gun
he was using?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yeah, I got a real good look at it when
he was hitting the box.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
That's fine. What kind of a gun?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Was it a pistol, you know, like you see in
the movies?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I like SnO, it's a revolver and automatic.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I think it was a revolver had a barrel on
it short about that long?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
We'd like it to come downtown look at some pictures
if you would at the city Hall.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
That's right. I'll be glad to help out. As soon
as missus Rayler comes back, I'll go with you, all right. Fine,
I can't leave the store alone, you know, Uh huh.
You wanna give us the description of the man? Now?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You bet sure?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
If you cash the fella, so do we.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
This is the same guy I've been reading about the papers.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
He's mean, real mean doing a thing like that to
mister Rayler here.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
We know a getting away with it for a long time,
hasn't He is like a guy running up a big bill.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
That's right, he'll pay it. As soon as someone arrived
to take care of the drug store. We took Calvin
Webster down to the City Hall.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
He was showing all of the mudbooks and pictures of
recent paroles, who was unable to make an identification. We
had him returned to his home, and then Frank and
I checked with doctor Sebastian over at George Street Receiving Hospital.
He told us that the later his victim had been
transferred to the County Hospital and was out of the
critical stage.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He went on to say, however, that it would be
several hours before we'd be able to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
We checked with Captain Donahoe and Lieutenant Stoner. We also
contacted officers from Metropolitan Division and made arrangements for the
additional cars that we'd need in setting up the rolling stakeout.
That night, at seven thirty pm, the plan was put
into operation. Ten undercover cars maintained a watch on the
drug stores in the area. All suspicious vehicles were checked on,
All pedestrians loitering in the vicinity were interrogated. Our suspect
(15:31):
remained free. Three days went by without result. The bandit
had stopped his operations. On Sunday, March twenty first, Frank
and I were driving up Western Avenue, just north of Pico.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
What do you think, I don't know. Maybe after he
had that trouble with raillery decided to call it quits.
Doesn't figure, huh.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
Guy that's had the break sea has not going to
let something like a beating stop him.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
No, hope, you're right.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
All units on frequency one stand by, All units on frequency.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
One stand by.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
It might be a good Yeah, stand by one j
fourteen All units in the vicinity of nineteen forty seven
Welcome Place. One nine four seven Wilson Place.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
An officer needs help.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Coast three.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
All units in.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
The vicinity of nineteen forty seven Welcome Place.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
An officer needs help, Coast three.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
You've got the land. Yeah, here you are.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
I think it might be our boy.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We'll know in a minute. An officer needs help.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Of all the calls in the book, this is the
one that no officer wants to get, not because of
an outdone sense of loyalty to a fellow police officer,
but because it means that somebody has decided that lawful
authority has.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
No meaning for them. Such a person is an extreme
menace to every citizen in the city.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
By showing that they have no respect for the competence
of an armed professional officer, they have also shown that
they will not consider for an instant the life of
an unarmed citizen. By the time we arrived at the scene,
there were four teen police units in attendance.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
From one of the officers, we got the story. You know,
it was working the streets.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
So this young guy run out of the liquor store
stop to see.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
What was going on. Yeah, told him the fellaw to stop.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Didn't make any difference, kept going huh yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Usher in the car told him to stop.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
He'd shooting the suspect.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Turn around fired the policeman.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
How is he flesh wound?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What about the suspect, Oh, he didn't get the chance
to fire more than twice at him over there?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, anything from the owner.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Of the liquor store, Well, just at the suspect tried
to hold him up.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
He walked in, showed him an note.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
You.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Owner went along with it, had it over the money, and.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Then the suspect left.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Better take a look. Yeah, it might be a break.
It's a hard way to get it. Yeah, I'll take
a look. How about it. I can't tell for sure. Huh.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Description doesn't that's too good? Yeah, noah, I don't think
it's our suspect.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police force election.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The wounded police officer was taking a Judge Street Receiving
hospital for treatment. The suspect was removed to the County Morgue.
Pictures were taken and when they were shown to the
victims of the drug store bandit, they all said he
was not the man we were After the rolling stakeout
continued without result. During the next week, we answered several
two eleven calls in drug stores, but the m O
the thief used eliminated him as our suspect. Thursday, March
(18:36):
twenty fifth, Frank and I checked into the squad room.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
That's going, Joe. We're kind of tired.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, I get this one wrapped up and I'm going
to try to take a few days off the.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Robbery Friday. Yes, it's rngth. No, we're handling. But when
was that? All right? Would you like to give me
that address? Yes, I haven't. We'll check it out. Might
be something yet, Thanks for letting us know, right. What
(19:08):
was that?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Now?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Off? It turns out we'll let you know right. Thanks again. Bye.
What he got call from a radio unit out in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, he answer to four point fifteen. This morning, the
woman and her husband were having a brawl. Man had
left when the officers got there. The woman refused to
make a complaint.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
She placed the original call now it came from one
of the neighbors.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
When the officers were leaving. The woman said she'd handle
a bee for herself. Said she'd take care of her husband,
called him a lousey hold up man. Yeah, she made
the statement she could put him in San Quentin inside
of five minutes. Well, if he's the guy we're looking for,
I don't think we can do it that fat No,
wen't sure tried. We left the office and drove out
(19:48):
to the address I'd gotten on the phone. It was
a small, one story house set well back on the line.
When we got there, the lights were on. Frank and
I went up the front door.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And rang the bell. Yeah, miss Kearney, that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Police officers like to talk to you. What about I'd
better if we talked inside?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Right, it's my partner, Frank Smith. My name is Friday.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
How you do right?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You alone here in the house.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
It's the baby and me?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
See where's your husband?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Look?
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Before I start telling you a lot, why don't you
let me know what this is all about.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
We got a report from a radio car that there
was a disturbance here this morning.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Wasn't anything? I mean, Keith had a beef, not even
worth calling the cops about.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The Austier said, you made the remark that your husband
was a hold up man, that you could send him
to prison.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (20:30):
They talk a lot, don't they?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
They listened more, lady, Do you want to tell us
what you meant? Yeah, we'll go ahead.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
You go back and tell the little boys and a
place who's they're wrong on this one? That's all yeah,
because I meant nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Pretty serious thing to say without a reason, though.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
The morning I had a reason.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Might you want to tell us what I was?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
I don't see why not. Your cops start nosing around,
you'll find out anyway. I got trouble with my old man.
What kind of trouble he's out with other women? Didn't
come home last night. We had a beef about it.
The cops were called and they used their big ear.
You guys made the trip out him for nothing.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I'll beat it now.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Look what you've done. He's playing fine and you come
in here now where he's a big stink. You got
him all upset.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Okay, Hey here you are, fella, Hey, no reason to cry.
What's your husband's full name, Keith J.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Kearney.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
How long you live in Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Over six weeks?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Where you're from Idaho? You has ever been in trouble
with the police?
Speaker 7 (21:26):
For Keith's got a hard time not being in trouble
with anybody.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Have you ever been arrested?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I don't know how long you have been married, seven
years and you don't know if he's ever been arrested.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You got a picture of your husband? You mean that
you can have? We'd like to take a look at it.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Yeah, not a luck, I haven't got one.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Does he work?
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Not?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Everything can help it doesn't hold a job of any
kind of.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
No, Keith's a professional avoid He doesn't like anything steady.
It's beginning to look like he means me too.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
What's he do with his time?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Nothing? Just lives it.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
See, you're in the evening.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
If he was, it wouldn't have been the beef this morning,
and you wouldn't be asking a lot of questions.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I don't know what you're trying.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
To get me to say, but I can't go along
with you. You've got a problem with Keith, and talk
to him.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Leave me out of it.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I'll get it. You know where your husband is now? No,
you don't have any ideas. Here, ye are a little fella.
Here's your keys? Your husband drive a car?
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
What kind is it?
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Forty one?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
When do you expect your husband back when he walks
in the door.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
All right, missus Keney, I think that I'll do it. Sorry,
if we've cause you any trouble.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
You're having your nuts.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
All right, let's go for him. Good night, good night.
Better check on the husband. Yeah, wait a minute, get
a good look at those keys that the baby was
playing with.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Oh what plastic tag on him had a license number
eh one of the stolen cars used in the drug.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Store hold up. Frank and I went back to the
car and drove around.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The block, parking up the street from the Kearney residence.
We call the name of the man and his wife
and the RN, but there was no record on either
one of them. They got to the remark made by
his wife and the finding of the car keys. It
was decided to stake out on the house and wait
for the husband to return. Seven thirty pm. Eight thirty
nine pm, the lights in the house went out, but
there was still no sign of Keith Kearney. Ten ten
(23:17):
thirty we called the offs and told them we'd waited out.
Ten forty five pm. Joe, you know, let's see what
kind it is.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Looks like a plymouth. No checks out?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, Let's take him, all right, Turney, hold it up, Joe,
give it up, Turnie.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Give it away from me. He's trying to make his house. Yeah, Hearnie,
you're not going to make the front part.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Don't give your family any more trouble I got.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I'll throw it on that gun, all right, Let's give
it back to him.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
He's down, Joe.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Come on, Hearnie, Kearnie, careful, ome on, Kearney.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Throw that gun away. You heard me. Looks like he's
hurt bad. Yeah, how about it. He'll live. Call an ambulance, right,
you kill?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Did you care?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
No, ma'am?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
She dad?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You kill? You'll be all right to fight me for king.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
You didn't give me a chance.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Not fair.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
He didn't even have a chance.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
On all ladies.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Yeah, and it wasn't even a fair fight.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Never is when you pull a gun.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
Keith Jarris Kearney was tried and convicted on nine counts
of robbery in the first degree and received sentence as
prescribed by law. Robbery in the first degree is punishable
by imprisonment for a period of not less than five years.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
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Ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Drag Met You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail.
(00:28):
In the past five weeks, an unidentified hold up man
has robbed twelve drug stores. He's taken money in narcotics.
There's no lead to who he is or where he is.
Your job find.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Him whose Tuesday, March sixteenth was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working the day Watch out of robbery detail.
My partners Frank Smith, the boss's TV detective Thad Brown.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
My name is Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We were on our way out from the office and
it was nine thirty six am when we got the
corner of Boulevard and Westmoreland petitionar drugs.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Story in the back.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Now something you want, Yes, sir, we'd like to see
Harry Tishner.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Hey, I'm him Police officers. This is Frank Smith.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
My name is Friday, about to rob Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Would you like to tell us what happened?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I was robbed.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
We just like you to tell us how Oh.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Now I'm with you, Yeah, I'm right with you. Let's
go back and sit down. You have to tell the story,
and time just melts away. I said, we'll be comfortable.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'll all fall out.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I see it's all right here, eh, eh.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Like the phosphate or something.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
No, sir, no, thanks you okay, and let's quit all
this fool around and get out of the business.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I want me to tell you about the hold up.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yes, sir, we like that.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Good.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Good, That's what.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Go ahead, aren't you going to take anything down right? Well? Yes, sir,
as soon as you tell us the story, now, if
you'd like to start him? Well, came in about eight,
that was this morning. Yes, just walked right in.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The door, came back to the prescription counter and stood there.
I had this little piece of paper in his hand.
I figured it was from a doctor, you know, uh,
prescribed medicine.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yes, sir, wasn't well, go ahead, what was it?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Note written on there like this?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
This is a stick up.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Don't make any noise. It was a note. Just pushed the.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Note across the counter. I didn't have to have anybody
push me off a cliff to know what.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Was going on.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
No, see I was being robbed, Yes, sir, do you
want to go ahead? Well? After he showed me the note.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
He kind of pushed me back.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Into the little room at the rear of the store,
in a kind of store place.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Now did he say anything to you at all?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Not a word, just pointed with that gun for me
to get into the back room.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I went, I see what happened?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Then he pushed me down to the floor and then
tied my hands and feet.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
What do you use you mean time?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
He up? Yes, rope.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh well, did he bring it into the store with him, No, sir, He.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Picked it up in the household on his way back
to the prescription count.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And I see, go ahead please.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
As soon as we got the store on he took
off the label and then undid the rope. He made
a loop and put it around my feet. Next thing
I knew, I was all trussed up like a rolled
roast ready for the oven. Yes see, I'll say one
thing for the guy, though, what's that? He very neat
had good knocks, yes, sir, Other officers, the.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Ones in the black and white car.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
You know, yes, sir, them You know what about him?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, well, they took the ropes with him.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
He said something about taking them to a laboratory.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
F You can see if you want to. It was
very neat, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What happened after the bandit tied yet robbed me?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You personally?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yes, personally and otherwise, well said, would you please tell us? Well,
first off, he went for the safe and took the
tin box out, opened the right up, and.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Took the money. Is that all he stole from the
cash by Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I had some government bunds in there, but he didn't
take those.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I guess he knew they wouldn't do him any good,
all right. See, he didn't take him took the money,
but didn't take the government bunds.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
According to what you told the officers this morning, the
thief took a supply of narcotics to.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Yes, he got them from the safe too.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well. Now, after he finished with a safe, what happened
he left? He walked out of the place. He just
ambled right out. During the time he was in the store,
he didn't say anything at all. An did anybody else
come in while he was here?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
You mean like a customer?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yes? No, oh, excuse me, that might be our office,
mister petitioner. We left this number, okay if he is okay, yeah,
thank you. Additional drugs. Uh huh oh, yeah, missus kemp
webbe uh uh huh No.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Shouldn't be uh huh no, I can't do that.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
If you have your doctor.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Called me, I'll make it up and send it over.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, no, no, nothing the prescription.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Uh huh. Okay, Well, i'll.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Call you when it's ready then and you can send
lining over.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
The right five is kind huh oh.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Well, if that's the way you feel, I won't Oh, sure, okay, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I can't imagine why you see a thing like that.
There's no reason at all.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Sure this categorthy call me when the son comes over
to get the prescription, not to give him any candy.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh I see, I'll usually throw in a liquor script
at though.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Don't want me to do it.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It's too bad, I said. I wonder if we can
go ahead with the description. Sure, I guess so.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Once you told the investigating officers the man's about thirty
five to thirty eight that right light in color, five
feet ten, one hundred and seventy five pounds, no visible Marxer.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Scars, that right, Well, I guess that's pretty close.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, there's anything different, we'd appreciate you telling us now.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
No talk with you, because I can't understand why there's
categorthy to say a thing like that.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
It's any liquors whip.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
By three, Yes, through we understand like that couldn't hurt anybody, And.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Said, would you be able to identify the hold up
man if you saw him again?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh? Yeah, no trouble, I'd know it.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
He never say a thing like that, sir, the fellow
who robbed me?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Oh, on the way out the way I was laying,
I saw him stop right up there with a Canon magazine,
stopped dead in his tracks. He went over to help himself,
took the top off and helped himself the handful.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Sure must like him. What was that, sir? Liquor ships
must reach.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Into the jar to the handful.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
After that, he left, all right, Yeah, as soon as
he put his.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Gloves back on.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Couldn't work the top of the jar with the gloves,
so he took him off now used his bare hands.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Ten o two am, Frank put in a call to
Harlan's stall and laden fingerprints. We asked him to come
out and go over the glass candy jar. While we
waited for him, Frank and I checked the list of
stolen our cut with the druggist Harry Tishner. We also
made arrangements for him to come downtown and look through
the mug books. When the glass candy jar was checked,
Harlan Stahr was able to come up with two partial prints.
They were enough for comparison, but not for identification. Eleven
(07:14):
fifteen am, Frank and I left the store and spent
the rest of the afternoon checking out the list of
names we've gotten from the Stats Office.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Several of the possibles.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Looked good, but after each one of them was investigated,
we still didn't have a suspect in custody. Wednesday morning,
March seventeenth, at eight oh six am, Frank and I
meant in the squadron.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Oram Joe Hi hied to call you this morning.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I thought maybe you'd want to stop and have some breakfast,
not off the house early time to check the book. Yeah, anything,
I'm skipping ONTs doctors. I figure that had happened, see
and yeah, come on, let's get it over with.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
An Yeah that's right, No na jet I'm gonna try
and line it up to seven.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, I'll call you back.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, they're here right now, bye, so we'll see what's kevin. Yeah,
commenced it that going in.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I won't tell you who's on my back about this thing,
and you don't get me any excuses, right are uh?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Where are you still in front of the first store?
That's how long ago? It's been five weeks?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
What do you know about him?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
WMA description? Clothes match you on all the jabs, close
enough so we know it's the same guy. Okay, what else?
And use the stolen car to get to the story.
Drives it away? Isn't too careful to hide the license plate?
We've been able to come up with three out of
the five. Check the cars out, yeah clean, not a
print on 'em. Nothing else. Pick up's out me yesterday.
The should help him, we nail him. What's that? I'll
(08:40):
start a listed a couple of partials from a candy jar.
That'll be enough for comparison.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Can't make the aspect on him, mind, No, it's not
enough to classify. What about the narcotics he's taking a
show up any place?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
No, not that we can find. We've been down all
the alleys. There's nothing there. We talked Tolucarelli. Hop Squad's
got nothing on it, none of it showing up. Then
it could be he's using and stuff himself. So we
got figured about the Status Office. I spend much more
time down there.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They're gonna put us to work with the machines informance
and given a smile.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So it's about all they think they're holy. No, come
out here, take aware of the mat.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Way he's kicking the places. He set up a pretty
definite operating schedule here. Then it's Boulevard, Kingsley Drive, Western Adams, Washington,
the rest of 'em.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
They're all grow up in this area.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Yeah, you gotta figure he's gonna keep working in the.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Center day until he hits him all. Then maybe he'll
move on to something else. Why help if we could
come up with a reason that he's working there.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Anything you can come up with, it's gotta help. Yeah,
we know it's true that he's been using the mercatics himself.
It's just a matter of time before we hand this
one over to homicide. He's gonna walk into the store,
somebody's gonna get him trouble. If he's on a needle,
he isn't gonna take it. Yeah, So it adds up
to a big.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Stop in the past. I mean, if we work the area,
it's gonna take a lot of 'em.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Men.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You know, we'll get him. I talk to Stone and
he's taking care of all the help. You leave from here.
There'll be four teams available. You can call Metro Division
for whatever else you need. All right, we'll set it
up for the night time check quick communications. Make sure
you get the three ways worthy right. This guy's been
pressing his luck for a long time. You know, I'm
bound a run short on it sometime. Robbery donaholl Yeah,
(10:13):
when m okay, we'll take care of him. Looks like
he just got partners. What do you mean your boy
just made it? Thirteen drugstore out on Pico. You know,
they don't expect the victim to live.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Frank and I left the office and drove over to
Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. He talked with the officer on duty.
He told us that the victim's name was George Rayler.
He owned a small neighborhood drug store at the corner
of Peco Boulevard and Vineyard Avenue. He went on to
say that he didn't have all of the particulars of
the beating, but that it had occurred during.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
The commission of a robbery. We talked to doctor Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
He told us that the elderly man was suffering from
a fractured skull, broken ribs, and possible internal injuries. He
added that from Railer's appearance, it looked as if he'd
been beaten about the head and shoulders with a heavy
instrument and then kicked in the chest.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
We left word to call as soon as he could
be questioned, and.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Then we drove over to the store on Peako, Yes
or something, I'd do it for police officers.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Well, how's mister Railer?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You see him? No, we haven't yet.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
You heard any things?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You're gonna be alright, but we don't know that yet.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yeah, I sure hope. So here's a guy who hit him,
Sure did a job, just beat him something awful.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, we know, not enough, just hitting him.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
But then he knocked him down and stomped him awful.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Do you hear when it happened?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah, I saw the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Do you wanna tell us what happened?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
You mean for the investigation?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
That's right, Okay, you wanna give us your name first,
Calvin Webster.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You work here in the Star to decent.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, that's right, sort of a general left hand.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Well, you've seen missus. Railer's his right hand.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I'm the left. Yeah, she wasn't here today and down
having her hair fixed.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Probably just as good.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Alright, webster, you wanna tell us?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Well, Saul came in about eight thirty, right after we opened.
Came in and went back to the prescription condor. I
was going back to tell him that.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Mister Railer would be right out, and then he was raylely.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, he was back check the stock on vitamin pills.
We do a big business in him. I have to
have a pretty careful watch on the supply. Wouldn't want
it to get caught short.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
All right, go ahead, Well the fella, the hold up man,
you know.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Yeah, we took this little piece of paper out of
his coat.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
I figured it was a prescription looked like him, it wasn't.
It turned out to be the note where he said
he wanted the money.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Did you see the note?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Well, not so as I can read it. First time.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
I knew there was something wrong when mister Railer started
to yell at the guy told him to get out
of the store, ran around the car and tried to
grab him, yelling all the time for me to call
the police, Call the cops, Call the cops.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Like that, He yelled at me, what'd you do?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I looked to see if I had a dime?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Well, you see, in the past, mister Railer's had trouble
with people making phone calls on a private phone, so
we had one of those little lock things put on it.
You can answer incoming calls, but you can't phone out.
I see, So I needed a dime to call a cop.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Yeah, well I didn't have one, only seventy five cents
for my lunch half in a quarter.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I see.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
Well, all this time mister Railer's yelling, he's yelling, and
the robber's hitting him.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
I thought about running back and trying to help, but
mister Rayler don't like for nobody to do something different
than what he says.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, he told me to pham. Yeah. Sure.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Well, when all of a sudden, bang, a fella hit
mister Railer with a gun, took it right out of
his pocket and hit him on the head.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Next thing, mister Railer's on the floor, this fella's stomping him. Well,
I couldn't just stand by no more, so I went
back to help. Too late? Was that it was too late?
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Mister Rayler was on the floor and this guy was
pointing a gun in me and was leaving the store.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I didn't see a hard to help, any to try
and stop him.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Was there anybody else in the Star at the time.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
No, just mister Railer and me. We just opened up,
still kind of getting ready for the day.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Did you get a good luck at this guy?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Oh? Yeah, I saw him.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Good. All right, Then you'll be able to give us
a description.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yeah, I'll tell you how he looked.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Did you see if he drove a car? I guess so,
But don't you know for sure?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Well, no, I didn't go out after him.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I figured that it takes somebody a lot bigger than
me to stop him. Besides, I had to take care
of mister Trayler. I see. Did you see the gun
he was using?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yeah, I got a real good look at it when
he was hitting the box.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
That's fine. What kind of a gun?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Was it a pistol, you know, like you see in
the movies?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I like SnO, it's a revolver and automatic.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I think it was a revolver had a barrel on
it short about that long?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
We'd like it to come downtown look at some pictures
if you would at the city Hall.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
That's right. I'll be glad to help out. As soon
as missus Rayler comes back, I'll go with you, all right. Fine,
I can't leave the store alone, you know, Uh huh.
You wanna give us the description of the man? Now?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You bet sure?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
If you cash the fella, so do we.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
This is the same guy I've been reading about the papers.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
He's mean, real mean doing a thing like that to
mister Rayler here.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
We know a getting away with it for a long time,
hasn't He is like a guy running up a big bill.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
That's right, he'll pay it. As soon as someone arrived
to take care of the drug store. We took Calvin
Webster down to the City Hall.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
He was showing all of the mudbooks and pictures of
recent paroles, who was unable to make an identification. We
had him returned to his home, and then Frank and
I checked with doctor Sebastian over at George Street Receiving Hospital.
He told us that the later his victim had been
transferred to the County Hospital and was out of the
critical stage.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He went on to say, however, that it would be
several hours before we'd be able to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
We checked with Captain Donahoe and Lieutenant Stoner. We also
contacted officers from Metropolitan Division and made arrangements for the
additional cars that we'd need in setting up the rolling stakeout.
That night, at seven thirty pm, the plan was put
into operation. Ten undercover cars maintained a watch on the
drug stores in the area. All suspicious vehicles were checked on,
All pedestrians loitering in the vicinity were interrogated. Our suspect
(15:31):
remained free. Three days went by without result. The bandit
had stopped his operations. On Sunday, March twenty first, Frank
and I were driving up Western Avenue, just north of Pico.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
What do you think, I don't know. Maybe after he
had that trouble with raillery decided to call it quits.
Doesn't figure, huh.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
Guy that's had the break sea has not going to
let something like a beating stop him.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
No, hope, you're right.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
All units on frequency one stand by, All units on frequency.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
One stand by.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
It might be a good Yeah, stand by one j
fourteen All units in the vicinity of nineteen forty seven
Welcome Place. One nine four seven Wilson Place.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
An officer needs help.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Coast three.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
All units in.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
The vicinity of nineteen forty seven Welcome Place.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
An officer needs help, Coast three.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
You've got the land. Yeah, here you are.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
I think it might be our boy.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We'll know in a minute. An officer needs help.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Of all the calls in the book, this is the
one that no officer wants to get, not because of
an outdone sense of loyalty to a fellow police officer,
but because it means that somebody has decided that lawful
authority has.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
No meaning for them. Such a person is an extreme
menace to every citizen in the city.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
By showing that they have no respect for the competence
of an armed professional officer, they have also shown that
they will not consider for an instant the life of
an unarmed citizen. By the time we arrived at the scene,
there were four teen police units in attendance.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
From one of the officers, we got the story. You know,
it was working the streets.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
So this young guy run out of the liquor store
stop to see.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
What was going on. Yeah, told him the fellaw to stop.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Didn't make any difference, kept going huh yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Usher in the car told him to stop.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
He'd shooting the suspect.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Turn around fired the policeman.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
How is he flesh wound?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What about the suspect, Oh, he didn't get the chance
to fire more than twice at him over there?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, anything from the owner.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Of the liquor store, Well, just at the suspect tried
to hold him up.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
He walked in, showed him an note.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
You.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Owner went along with it, had it over the money, and.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Then the suspect left.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Better take a look. Yeah, it might be a break.
It's a hard way to get it. Yeah, I'll take
a look. How about it. I can't tell for sure. Huh.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Description doesn't that's too good? Yeah, noah, I don't think
it's our suspect.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police force election.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The wounded police officer was taking a Judge Street Receiving
hospital for treatment. The suspect was removed to the County Morgue.
Pictures were taken and when they were shown to the
victims of the drug store bandit, they all said he
was not the man we were After the rolling stakeout
continued without result. During the next week, we answered several
two eleven calls in drug stores, but the m O
the thief used eliminated him as our suspect. Thursday, March
(18:36):
twenty fifth, Frank and I checked into the squad room.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
That's going, Joe. We're kind of tired.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, I get this one wrapped up and I'm going
to try to take a few days off the.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Robbery Friday. Yes, it's rngth. No, we're handling. But when
was that? All right? Would you like to give me
that address? Yes, I haven't. We'll check it out. Might
be something yet, Thanks for letting us know, right. What
(19:08):
was that?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Now?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Off? It turns out we'll let you know right. Thanks again. Bye.
What he got call from a radio unit out in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, he answer to four point fifteen. This morning, the
woman and her husband were having a brawl. Man had
left when the officers got there. The woman refused to
make a complaint.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
She placed the original call now it came from one
of the neighbors.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
When the officers were leaving. The woman said she'd handle
a bee for herself. Said she'd take care of her husband,
called him a lousey hold up man. Yeah, she made
the statement she could put him in San Quentin inside
of five minutes. Well, if he's the guy we're looking for,
I don't think we can do it that fat No,
wen't sure tried. We left the office and drove out
(19:48):
to the address I'd gotten on the phone. It was
a small, one story house set well back on the line.
When we got there, the lights were on. Frank and
I went up the front door.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And rang the bell. Yeah, miss Kearney, that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Police officers like to talk to you. What about I'd
better if we talked inside?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Right, it's my partner, Frank Smith. My name is Friday.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
How you do right?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You alone here in the house.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
It's the baby and me?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
See where's your husband?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Look?
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Before I start telling you a lot, why don't you
let me know what this is all about.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
We got a report from a radio car that there
was a disturbance here this morning.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Wasn't anything? I mean, Keith had a beef, not even
worth calling the cops about.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The Austier said, you made the remark that your husband
was a hold up man, that you could send him
to prison.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (20:30):
They talk a lot, don't they?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
They listened more, lady, Do you want to tell us
what you meant? Yeah, we'll go ahead.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
You go back and tell the little boys and a
place who's they're wrong on this one? That's all yeah,
because I meant nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Pretty serious thing to say without a reason, though.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
The morning I had a reason.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Might you want to tell us what I was?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
I don't see why not. Your cops start nosing around,
you'll find out anyway. I got trouble with my old man.
What kind of trouble he's out with other women? Didn't
come home last night. We had a beef about it.
The cops were called and they used their big ear.
You guys made the trip out him for nothing.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I'll beat it now.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Look what you've done. He's playing fine and you come
in here now where he's a big stink. You got
him all upset.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Okay, Hey here you are, fella, Hey, no reason to cry.
What's your husband's full name, Keith J.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Kearney.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
How long you live in Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Over six weeks?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Where you're from Idaho? You has ever been in trouble
with the police?
Speaker 7 (21:26):
For Keith's got a hard time not being in trouble
with anybody.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Have you ever been arrested?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I don't know how long you have been married, seven
years and you don't know if he's ever been arrested.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You got a picture of your husband? You mean that
you can have? We'd like to take a look at it.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Yeah, not a luck, I haven't got one.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Does he work?
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Not?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Everything can help it doesn't hold a job of any
kind of.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
No, Keith's a professional avoid He doesn't like anything steady.
It's beginning to look like he means me too.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
What's he do with his time?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Nothing? Just lives it.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
See, you're in the evening.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
If he was, it wouldn't have been the beef this morning,
and you wouldn't be asking a lot of questions.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I don't know what you're trying.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
To get me to say, but I can't go along
with you. You've got a problem with Keith, and talk
to him.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Leave me out of it.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I'll get it. You know where your husband is now? No,
you don't have any ideas. Here, ye are a little fella.
Here's your keys? Your husband drive a car?
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
What kind is it?
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Forty one?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
When do you expect your husband back when he walks
in the door.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
All right, missus Keney, I think that I'll do it. Sorry,
if we've cause you any trouble.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
You're having your nuts.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
All right, let's go for him. Good night, good night.
Better check on the husband. Yeah, wait a minute, get
a good look at those keys that the baby was
playing with.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Oh what plastic tag on him had a license number
eh one of the stolen cars used in the drug.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Store hold up. Frank and I went back to the
car and drove around.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The block, parking up the street from the Kearney residence.
We call the name of the man and his wife
and the RN, but there was no record on either
one of them. They got to the remark made by
his wife and the finding of the car keys. It
was decided to stake out on the house and wait
for the husband to return. Seven thirty pm. Eight thirty
nine pm, the lights in the house went out, but
there was still no sign of Keith Kearney. Ten ten
(23:17):
thirty we called the offs and told them we'd waited out.
Ten forty five pm. Joe, you know, let's see what
kind it is.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Looks like a plymouth. No checks out?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, Let's take him, all right, Turney, hold it up, Joe,
give it up, Turnie.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Give it away from me. He's trying to make his house. Yeah, Hearnie,
you're not going to make the front part.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Don't give your family any more trouble I got.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I'll throw it on that gun, all right, Let's give
it back to him.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
He's down, Joe.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Come on, Hearnie, Kearnie, careful, ome on, Kearney.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Throw that gun away. You heard me. Looks like he's
hurt bad. Yeah, how about it. He'll live. Call an ambulance, right,
you kill?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Did you care?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
No, ma'am?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
She dad?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You kill? You'll be all right to fight me for king.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
You didn't give me a chance.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Not fair.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
He didn't even have a chance.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
On all ladies.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Yeah, and it wasn't even a fair fight.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Never is when you pull a gun.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
Keith Jarris Kearney was tried and convicted on nine counts
of robbery in the first degree and received sentence as
prescribed by law. Robbery in the first degree is punishable
by imprisonment for a period of not less than five years.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Dragnett is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces
Radio Service.
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The best.
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