April 10, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Dragon met 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 a
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robbery detail. Three hold up man have robbed and beaten
two supermarket operators in your city. You've got a good
description of the thieves. Your job, get 'em. It was Tuesday,
November third. It was cold's Los Angeles. We were working
the day watch out a robbery detail. When partners Frank Smift,
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the boss a chief that he takes his fat ground
wedding's finny. We've gotten a hot shot called by a
robbery And it was nine forty six am when we
got to the corner of Lockwood and Barton Avenue. Was
the locked in the market officer back there? Now Friday
and Smith Central Robbery.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh yeah, I'm Jackson. You in a three A then
you asked the call. Yeah, we got here a couple
of minutes ago. Where's the victim back room there? It's
pretty bad off ambulance attendance with him. Now my part
is taking in the neighborhood. If there's nothing you need
me for, I'll get in my hand.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, make it to a level word court for you?
Would you? Right? Thank you? Looks like there was quite
a fight, you know, stuff all over the place. Come up?
What you got in that follow? Sure's you gotta clean
up these cuts? Try to hold still? Oh they can't
get easy.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Huh yeah, that's something you want. We're out of central robbery.
It is just a victim.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, a couple of.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Cuts, nothing serious. Tell him about Andy. He's the one
who really got it.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Who's Andy? Yeah? The clerk pretty rough.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Looks like I might be a factor, Joe, he's on
the truck.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Now. How did you get this tape on you? Now?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh? I should do it?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Might be a good idea if you saw your doctor. Yeah,
what about Andy?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Uh, we're gonna take him down. Georgie's step receiving. You
wanna call me on you know by That might be
better if you called them? Yeah, okay, I see you guys,
Yeah right, yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
One guy really clouded me hurt.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
What if you feel like telling us what happened here?
Three of them?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Three came in and held up the place, clouded me
and Andy.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Sure, hope he's gonna be all right. What's your name? Sir? Cliff? Hall.
You old the store?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Do you no me and Andy run it?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Though I would like to buy it. What times these men.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Come in must have been around nine thirty running there?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Did you give the officers or answer the call a
description of them men? Yeah, that was the first thing
they asked me. Gladly.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I was getting the money ready for the bank deposit.
Andy was back here stacking bitble cases. These three guys
came in. First off, I thought there were customers, you know.
A couple of them walked in the back of the place.
I thought they were picking out stuff. The other one
kind of stood around by the cash register where I
was go ahead. But after he was there for a
minute and I see the other two aren't picking up nothing.
I asked him if there was something I could get
for him. That's when he pulled out a gun.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What about the other two? All worked like they had
some kind of signal.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Soon as the one in front pulled his gun, the
other two did too.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Ill asked me to put all the money in a
paper bag. Got the bag from up in front there,
took it right out of the stack and handed it
to him. He said, want me to put the dough
in it? He recall his exact words. What the way
he said it? The words he used, you recall him.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Let me see.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I think it was put all the dough in this bag.
Don't say anything, just do as I say. That was
the way he said.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What'd you do? Then? Like he said, he.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Had that gun pointed right at me. I could see
the other two guys. I wasn't gonna do anything but
what he told me. I put the money in the bag.
I thought they'd leave the place. But that's when Andy
came out. I guess he wondered what the.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Other two were after.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You see, from where he was, he couldn't see the guns.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He walked out to.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Him and asked if there was anything specially we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
What happened then?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Then he saw what was happening, saw the guns, and
he tried to throw the guys out.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I don't know why he did it. Andy's liked that.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
He gets an idea in his head and there isn't anything.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It'll shake it loose. He tied into those two guys.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Almost had him with two even with the guns.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
The guy that was with me saw what was going on.
He yelled back at him, told him not to shoot.
He ran back and laid his gun alongside Andy's head. Oh,
clouded him right along in here, and he'd dropped like
a sack of potatoes and't the three guys ran out.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Of the store. How much money did he get?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You know, I hadn't finished up with a bank statement yet.
I'd just be guessing, but I'd say about eight thousand dollars.
Might run to eighty five.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But that's about it. I see, if you could just
give us a description of the man, all three of 'em, if.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You could, you know, the one who was with me must.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Have been about five eleven, kind of dark.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Complex it had straight black hair with color. Were his
eyes brown? Do you have any marks or scars you
could see?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Clean shaven, Yeah, I had a real dark beard. Looked
kind of like he had some kind of talcum powder on.
Do you remember how he was dressed.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Let's see, a dark blue suit, great top coat, great hat.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Was he wearing a tie you know?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, a great tie with maroon stripes, you know, kind
of diagonal, a thin tie.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Anything unusual about him make it easy force to identify him?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
No, I don't think so. How about the gun he
was carrying?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What kind was it? I couldn't see the name.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
No, I mean, was it an automatic or revolver? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
An automatic looked like a big caliber. I'd say forty five.
One of the other fellas had revolver, but the guy
with me and the small one had automatics. You know,
if they drove a car. If they did, I didn't
see it. Might have had it parked right out in front,
for all I know. I told you I was busy
when they came in. When they left, I was too
worried about Andy to paying.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
The attention to him. Why are they hitting a terrible
thing right along here? Oh, excuse me a minute. I
got some masters here in the door. Yeah, you don't hope.
Adye's gonna be all right.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We've been together a long time. Can't get over that
little guy that wanted who hit me? I should have
taken him. But the big one, he was a tough.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Looking at real fighter. Well, it wasn't gonna help much. Huh,
He's gonna lose this one. We got the descriptions of
the other two men, and the supplementary local broadcast was
gotten out. The two officers who had answered the call
found a woman in the neighborhood who'd seen three men
leave the vicinity immediately after the robbery. She said that
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she was parked in the car half a block from
the store on the same side of the street. She
explained that about nine twenty am, a car had pulled
into a parking place in front of her. She'd seen
three men leave the car and walk down the sidewalk
in the direction of the Lockton Market. About ten minutes later,
the men came back to the car. They appeared to
be in a hurry. One of the men was upset
and arguing with the other two. She told the officers
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that they had gotten into the car and driven off
toward Hollywood Boulevard. We asked her to describe the three men.
The description she gave us match to one we'd gotten
of the thieves. She gave us a description of the car,
and another supplementary broadcast was put out. We asked her
to come down the City Hall to go through the
mug books to see if she could give us a
positive identification. The report from George Street Receiving Hospital indicated
that the victim of the slugging, Andrew Rich, was suffering
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from a fractured jaw and the concussion he was given
emergency treatment and removed to the county hospital. The crime
lab crew came out and they went over the store
for physical evidence. They were able to lift three partial
fingerprints from the counter next to the cash registry. Dean
Bergmann and Layton Prince explained that the partials were not
enough for identification, but that if we apprehended the hold
up men, he'd be able to tell us if they'd
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left the impressions ten twenty seven a m. We took
the victim, Clifford Hall, and the woman who'd seen the
car to the mug room. They went through the mug book,
but they were unable to come up with an identification.
We had the staff's office make a run on the
m O. They came back with a list of seventeen
names of men who at one time or another had
used the same method of operation. The list was split
and sergeant's Mead and Lightner worked with us and checking
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the names out. Thursday three forty eight pm Frank and
I got to the sixth name on.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Our list, Jerry Evanson That right, yeah, sure dark in
this holly on and washed the winners less than lighter.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, four were might not be in we'll try it again. Now,
let's talk to manager.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, uh, manager, we want to see him.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Minute, Just a man, what do you want to sleep?
Come on, Everston, open up there, we can get out
of here.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Come on alright, come on, Emison, you're.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Doing a clean look, you got no right.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
You're compussing and you're like that, you're so clean.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What are you putting that trouble for you? It's scared,
that's all. I just got scared. All right? Do you fail?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
If somebody walks out and shoves away into your room,
you ain't gonna stand around and just let him do it. Hey, clean, gentlemen,
I told you that I got no trouble. I don't
want man, you check with Galloway.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I'm home every night at nine o'clock every night.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Where were you this morning? Huh? This morning? Where were you?
What time? You? Just tell us what you did starting
when you got up?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
When I was up all night I got a virus
or something.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I couldn't sleep.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Take a look down a dresser. You can see the
stuff I've been taking. I haven't been out of this room,
not for a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
An you pro that? What can you no? There wasn't
anybody here you get any phone calls? No, I don't
know what this is all about.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
You guys are leaning on me for nothing. Now you
talk to Galloway, I'll tell you I've been working.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well. Look here, I'll show you on. I just want
to show you something I got in a dress. You
stay right there, I'll get it for you.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Okare going to take a look in the top drawer there,
left hands?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, he's what you mean. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I'll take the rubber band off and look.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You see. I'm telling you the truth. Now you see.
It's all the check receipts I've gotten from where I work.
You look at him.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I'm working every day and I'm home at night all
nine o'clock every night.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
How about it, Joe? Yeah, now you see. Yeah, I'm
an out of this room all day. I'm not a minute.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Come on, what's all this about?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Anyway? What do you guys ask to figure? Maybe you
could tell us? Yeah, I'm sorry. Without you telling me
what you want, there's nothing I can give you. You see
any of the boys anymore?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I mean the fellas I knew before I fell.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's right now. If I can help. But I'm trying
to stay away from see any of'em lately. Yeah. Saw
Alex a couple of days ago. Alex.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, Alex Finley. I knew him when I was up
in Kew. He came in where I was working. Did
you talk to him at all?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
All right? Just sit alone past couple of minutes talking
about some of the guys, you know, seeing the rackets
now I don't know see for all? Yeah, I think so.
Do you give you anything? Oh, a couple of.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Rumbles, But if I turn him over to you.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I don't want to got it for him.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You don't know where you got him?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
All right?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Alex tells me there's a gang it's gonna start working
here in town market sjobs.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
How many men from what Alex says is for oh,
heavy guys.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Finally with him, No, I don't think so. He told
it to me that he just heard it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Did you say anything about who the foremen are? No,
I don't think you know. He just said they were
heavy and they were starting to work. You know where
he can get in touch with Alex?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
No, Well, you might check with Galloway at the Pearl office.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
He might have Yeah, we will.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I'll probably see him again, I'll try to get.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
The information if I can. Well, what is it? What
does you want to know? Who the guys are? That's sure? Okay?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Now, like I told you, though, I don't want any
credit for it. I'm in real trouble if it gets
around that I'm playing foot see with you. Yeah, sure,
I'll try to find out when they're gonna start working
to And.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Don't you worry about that, huh? We already know that.
Four ten PM we got in touch with Fed Galloway
at the State Adult Parole Officers.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
And we checked on Jerry Evanston. From what the record
showed the story Evanston.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I told this was true. His parole officer had reported
him working and apparently living up to the conditions of
his release. We left him one of our cards and
asked him to call us and the vet he heard
from Alex Spinley. Four twenty one pm we checked back
into the office and we met with Sergeant's Meat and Lightning.
They told us that they checked out the names on
their half of the list without result. We've got a
teletype up to George Brett and CII Sacramento, giving him
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the description of the hold up man and listing themo
that they've used. We asked him to run the information
through their files and forward any information they came up with.
Five nineteen pm, we went out to get something to eat,
and then we checked back into the office. Good dinner, Hi, John, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
A saw a guy get eat so many ensiladas as you. Yeah,
I can't help but get started on the can'ci in
to stop.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, you got any soda in your locker? You you
got trouble again? You know I always do, and we
have enceladas. You ought to remember that when you order
a half a dozen. I suppose I get it. Robbery Friday? Yeah,
when was it?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We're pretty sure, are they there's a lab been called yet?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yep? Okay, right, thanks. Oh that's a break. Yeah, we
just found the getaway car. Six forty seven pm we
left the office and drove out to where the car
had been found. Was parked on Lockwood Avenue, five blocks
from the market that had been robbed. The radio car
officers had spotted that had called the office immediately when
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they saw a brown paper bag in the back seat
bearing the printed name locked in the market. The crew
from White and Prints came out, went over the car
they were able to come up with a single print
from a man's index finger Bergmann compared it with the
parcels found at the market. They matched. We checked the
white slip in the car and found that the vehicle
was stolen. The report on it had been filed at
ten thirty seven am that morning.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
We talked with the people in the immediate vicinity, but
none of them were able to tell us anything about.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
The people would park the car. However, we did come
up with an elderly man who told us that he'd
seen three men get into another car about nine forty
five that morning. He said that he remembered it because
the driver of the car had pulled into a parking
space and stopped. The morning, another automobile had parked directly
in front of the car, and the driver of the
first machine had moved so that there was no one
in front of him. Man went on to say that
a few minutes after the driver pulled into a second
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parking place, three men had come around the corner, gotten
into the car, and the forum had driven off. The
witness was unable to give us a description as a
car than to say that it was a late model
Plymouth or four The only description he could give us
as the men's was that one of them was large
and was wearing a gray top coat in the half,
and that one of them was small. Eight forty pm.
Thank and I went back to the office and checked
out for the night. The following morning, at eight o
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two am, I checked back in for work. Hi, Joe,
good morning, kind of cold out. Yeah, you look happy
this morning. I didn't sleep a wink last night, Joe,
not a wink.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It's a matter stomach next time I even think about
eating that chillot has stopped.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Me with you, Joe. Yeah, sure, any mail come in?
I don't know. I just got in and there's an
ad here for that stir over in West six they're
having their annual sale. Yeah. I want to try to
get over there, like to get me a new suit
for Christmas. You know there's a special delivery from huh
probably those mugs. We asked, Well, I'll see, yeah, for
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six of 'em. You want to get in touch with
Clip Hall. Drive over and have him take a look
at him. Yeah, you got you out the pictures. Yeah,
we can mix him up. I'll call Hall, Okay, I sure.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Hope we get an identical we haven't got much to
go on. I's gotta be a break someplace. You gotta
find this.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
From what family said about the gang starting up operation
doesn't sound like just one job. You know. They started
on a strain and they can do a lot of damage. Well,
it doesn't give as much a choice, does he? No,
we gotta give to him. Eight twenty seven am, Frank
and I left the office and drove over to talk
to the victim, Cliff Hall. We showed him the mug
shots George bretton it sent us. He picked one out
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and said that he was positive that the man in
the picture was the wine who held him up. The
name on the mug shot was Herold Bishop. According to
the record Breton that Centers Bishop had been convicted twice
on violation of two eleven PC on Rodrey. Nine twenty am.
We drove over to the Sati hospital and showed the
pictures to the other victor, Andrew Rich. He picked the
mug shot of Bishop as a suspect who'd robbed and
beaten him. The notation on Bishop's picture gave us the
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information that he was on parole at the time. We
returned to the office and put in a call to
Frett Galloway at the State Adult Parole Office. Yeah, fred
this is Joe Fridday. Yeah, fine, we like some information
on a Herald Bishop, San Francisco, number A two six
nine two six. That's a male, white Caucasian and we
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got a mug from Beden. Now he says on parole. Yeah,
if you will, thanks a lot. He's checking the master file.
Now meet and Lightner standing by if we need him.
And we get this address, we're gonna have to move fast.
Yeah yeah, Bred, when was that? Well Ozzi's report there?
I see you know, I don't know. Yeah, I suppose
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by Freddy, thank you. I you can tell Meat and
Lightning to relax. Bishop's got an out of state parole.
He's living over in Phoenix. Well, he still could be
getting into California. Aren't likely? Huh? Tred checked with his
parole officer. Yeah, he's got a job and he's been
reporting to his parole officer every month. We asked fed
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Galloway at the State Parole Office to contact Bishop's parole
officer in Phoenix and check him closely. The report came
back that the suspect had a job with a small
contractor and that he'd been working regularly. He'd also been
giving monthly reports to his officer. We've had a suspect
identified by two of his victims, and yet if the
information we'd gotten was correct, it would have been a
physical impossibility for him to have committed the robbery. We
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got a copy of his jacket and looked over his
past records. We found that the Bishop had been arrested
for armed robbery the first time eighteen years previously, he'd
been brought to trial and acquitted. The next arrest was
ten months after his trial. He'd been convicted and served
six years at San Quentin. He'd been released and within
six months Bishop had been picked up again. This time
he was sent to full some penitentiary. While he was there,
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he appeared to be a model prisoner, and after serving
four and a half years, he'd been placed on parole.
After leaving the prison, he'd requested and he had been
granted and out of state leave. In checking Bishop's m
oh we found that it matched exactly that of the
thieves who had held up the locked in the market.
The time of approach was the same, the number of
men used was the same, the method of leaving the
scene was exact. We had a suspect, and yet he
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couldn't have committed the crime. Three weeks passed, on Saturday,
November twenty sixth, the thieves hit again. In checking with
the victims, they identified the mugshot of Bishop. We put
in a long distance call to the Phoenix Police Department
and asked them to check on the suspect. We got
word back that he was in their city. They told
us that he wasn't at work due to a virus infection.
They went on to say that they checked with his
lamaity and that she told him that Bishop hadn't left
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his apartment at all on the day of the theft. Monday,
November twenty eighth, we got our first break in the case.
Agay Bbby's faith. Yeah, oh yeah, Jerry, uh huh are
you sure about that? Where? How about the rest of him? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Just a minute, toss me that guy with young ago Okay, Jerry,
go ahead, yeah, m.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
How do you spell out LA L E A H Y.
I got it? You know the address? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Okay, Thanks Jerry, we'll get in touch with you, right Jerry.
Evanston remembers the guy we talked to over in South
seventh Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
All the way he tells it. We aren't too far off.
What do you mean you saw Bishop in town last Saturday.
We put in a call and we found that there
were two major airlines with flights to Phoenix. The flight
time they listed was one hour and thirty five minutes
by air. If Bishop cumped the last flight leaving Phoenix,
he could arrive in Los Angeles at eleven twenty pm,
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the night before he planned to commit a robbery. The
next day, after the hold up, he could catch a
plane from the Lost ag Anders International Airport that would
have him back in Phoenix at eight twenty five pm.
By doing this, he would be absent from his work
only one day, and he could schedule his flight so
as not to hit on the days when he had
an interview with his parole officer. Tuesday, November twenty ninth,
a meeting was held in Chief bad Brown's office, who
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decided to put a special stake out on the airport
and wait for the suspect to come into town at
that time. He'd be followed and taken into custody as
he prepared to commit another robbery. The names of the
three other men Jerry Evanson had given Frank as having
been involved in the hold ups, had been checked through
R and I. All three of them had arrest records,
surveillances were placed on their homes and they were kept
under constant watch. Monday, December twelfth, eleven fifteen pm, Frank
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and I relieve the stake out at the airport. There's
a betch over there. We can keep all the gates in. Jim, Yeah,
wonder one. He's gonna hit it again. I don't know.
The last couple of weeks he sure dragged by him. Then. Yeah,
anything on the other three guys. Now. I talked to
Pinky Need this morning. He enlightened her stake out at
lady's apartment. How they're doing nothing, the parking, the car
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down the street. What they say. Lady's like o'clock. He
comes in at five am, leaves at nine pm every day.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Ye'll see right, Yeah, there you go, John, Yeah, h
bishop's let him get outside.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, order if he's got an a luggage, I'll they
bringing up outside. Were can wait for him there? Right?
Come on? They see him, Yeah, there is getting into
that cab. Come up. Frank and I got in our
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car and followed the cab taken by the suspect. We
followed him out of the airport grounds and then up
Lebrae Avenue. The cab turned right on Washington Boulevard and
headed for downtown Los Angeles. We pulled up to a stoplight.
Still got him. Yeah, he's still up ahead, probably that
blue market. You see him. Yeah, he got the number
of the cab two nine seven four. There's the light, minoscope,
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better try to pick it up a little. Frank caps
pulling away from us. Yeah, I think you've seen us. No,
and she closed in a little. Traffic so heavy and
he was asiring well tripping there. Still see him? Yeah,
there's a break. Guy had to make it a right turn.
Now we're right behind the cap. Yeah, I'll close in now,
good watch it, Frank. That guy pulling out of the alley,
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hold on. As we drove down the street. After the
stop light had changed the car it failed to make
a bull large stop coming out of an alley, and
we'd hit its broadside. The dam he'd done to both
cars was considerable, and we've lost our suspect. Frank got
to a phone and called the office. He gave them
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the number of the cap that bishop was in and
asked for a traffic investigation car. The office gott in
a search for the missing suspect. Then Jack Smeers told
us to proceed to the apartment of Tom Lady to
wait for further development. In the meantime, a city wide
broadcast went out carrying a description of Bishop and the
other three men involved in the fact. Frank and I
arrived at the apartment when we relieved Meat and Lightness.
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We had the manager the place let us into lady's room.
We waited one thirty am, two thirty four o'clock, five
thirty am. Frank and I had been on duty for
over twenty one hours. At five forty five, the phone
in the apartment rang once and then it quick. That
was the arranged signal between us and the office. Frank
put in the call. Lieutenant Smeers told us that officers
Max Herman and Ed Benson were on the way after
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we leave us. Fifteen minutes later, we heard somebody in
the hall. Yeah, you know, it's probably Benson and Herman. Yeah,
I get it all right, Joe, Yeah, come on, it's
going upstairs. Bring up for the rough Come on, Sam, No,
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you want to take that shi right, watch it. They
the elevator. Chaff Joey, I you you're in trouble. Bishop,
don't build me more for yourself. I can not lose.
They help you again? Out joint for life. You want
to shock you. There's no way off this rope. Bishop,
throw that gun out here and you follow it.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You're out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Cot give it up, Bishop, come on, throw that gun out.
I'm throwing up. Cot shop me up, blowing your head off?
You all right? Joe Yeah? How is he better? Colin Anders? Yeah?
What's that from out of his pocket? Five a minute?
Something you'll never use? Airplane ticket to Phoenix.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Albert Martin Krueger, Harold Nelson, Bishop, Thomas Nakelelahy, and Charles
Ebert Lee were taken into custody and brought the trial
for two counts of robbery in the first degree. Say
convicted and received sentence as prescribed by law. Robbery in
the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in the state
penitentiary for a period of not less.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Than five years. Because of his previous record.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Thomas Nakelelahy was given the maximum sentence and is now
serving life imprisonment in the state penitentiary.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Fulsome California.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Dragnet is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces
Radio Service.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Up Stop the steps, scrap of cloud above, scrap the
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clo
Dragon met 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 a
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robbery detail. Three hold up man have robbed and beaten
two supermarket operators in your city. You've got a good
description of the thieves. Your job, get 'em. It was Tuesday,
November third. It was cold's Los Angeles. We were working
the day watch out a robbery detail. When partners Frank Smift,
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the boss a chief that he takes his fat ground
wedding's finny. We've gotten a hot shot called by a
robbery And it was nine forty six am when we
got to the corner of Lockwood and Barton Avenue. Was
the locked in the market officer back there? Now Friday
and Smith Central Robbery.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh yeah, I'm Jackson. You in a three A then
you asked the call. Yeah, we got here a couple
of minutes ago. Where's the victim back room there? It's
pretty bad off ambulance attendance with him. Now my part
is taking in the neighborhood. If there's nothing you need
me for, I'll get in my hand.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, make it to a level word court for you?
Would you? Right? Thank you? Looks like there was quite
a fight, you know, stuff all over the place. Come up?
What you got in that follow? Sure's you gotta clean
up these cuts? Try to hold still? Oh they can't
get easy.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Huh yeah, that's something you want. We're out of central robbery.
It is just a victim.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, a couple of.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Cuts, nothing serious. Tell him about Andy. He's the one
who really got it.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Who's Andy? Yeah? The clerk pretty rough.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Looks like I might be a factor, Joe, he's on
the truck.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Now. How did you get this tape on you? Now?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh? I should do it?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Might be a good idea if you saw your doctor. Yeah,
what about Andy?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Uh, we're gonna take him down. Georgie's step receiving. You
wanna call me on you know by That might be
better if you called them? Yeah, okay, I see you guys,
Yeah right, yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
One guy really clouded me hurt.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
What if you feel like telling us what happened here?
Three of them?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Three came in and held up the place, clouded me
and Andy.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Sure, hope he's gonna be all right. What's your name? Sir? Cliff? Hall.
You old the store?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Do you no me and Andy run it?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Though I would like to buy it. What times these men.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Come in must have been around nine thirty running there?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Did you give the officers or answer the call a
description of them men? Yeah, that was the first thing
they asked me. Gladly.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I was getting the money ready for the bank deposit.
Andy was back here stacking bitble cases. These three guys
came in. First off, I thought there were customers, you know.
A couple of them walked in the back of the place.
I thought they were picking out stuff. The other one
kind of stood around by the cash register where I
was go ahead. But after he was there for a
minute and I see the other two aren't picking up nothing.
I asked him if there was something I could get
for him. That's when he pulled out a gun.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What about the other two? All worked like they had
some kind of signal.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Soon as the one in front pulled his gun, the
other two did too.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Ill asked me to put all the money in a
paper bag. Got the bag from up in front there,
took it right out of the stack and handed it
to him. He said, want me to put the dough
in it? He recall his exact words. What the way
he said it? The words he used, you recall him.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Let me see.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I think it was put all the dough in this bag.
Don't say anything, just do as I say. That was
the way he said.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What'd you do? Then? Like he said, he.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Had that gun pointed right at me. I could see
the other two guys. I wasn't gonna do anything but
what he told me. I put the money in the bag.
I thought they'd leave the place. But that's when Andy
came out. I guess he wondered what the.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Other two were after.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You see, from where he was, he couldn't see the guns.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He walked out to.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Him and asked if there was anything specially we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
What happened then?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Then he saw what was happening, saw the guns, and
he tried to throw the guys out.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I don't know why he did it. Andy's liked that.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
He gets an idea in his head and there isn't anything.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It'll shake it loose. He tied into those two guys.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Almost had him with two even with the guns.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
The guy that was with me saw what was going on.
He yelled back at him, told him not to shoot.
He ran back and laid his gun alongside Andy's head. Oh,
clouded him right along in here, and he'd dropped like
a sack of potatoes and't the three guys ran out.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Of the store. How much money did he get?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You know, I hadn't finished up with a bank statement yet.
I'd just be guessing, but I'd say about eight thousand dollars.
Might run to eighty five.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But that's about it. I see, if you could just
give us a description of the man, all three of 'em, if.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You could, you know, the one who was with me must.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Have been about five eleven, kind of dark.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Complex it had straight black hair with color. Were his
eyes brown? Do you have any marks or scars you
could see?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Clean shaven, Yeah, I had a real dark beard. Looked
kind of like he had some kind of talcum powder on.
Do you remember how he was dressed.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Let's see, a dark blue suit, great top coat, great hat.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Was he wearing a tie you know?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, a great tie with maroon stripes, you know, kind
of diagonal, a thin tie.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Anything unusual about him make it easy force to identify him?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
No, I don't think so. How about the gun he
was carrying?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What kind was it? I couldn't see the name.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
No, I mean, was it an automatic or revolver? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
An automatic looked like a big caliber. I'd say forty five.
One of the other fellas had revolver, but the guy
with me and the small one had automatics. You know,
if they drove a car. If they did, I didn't
see it. Might have had it parked right out in front,
for all I know. I told you I was busy
when they came in. When they left, I was too
worried about Andy to paying.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
The attention to him. Why are they hitting a terrible
thing right along here? Oh, excuse me a minute. I
got some masters here in the door. Yeah, you don't hope.
Adye's gonna be all right.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We've been together a long time. Can't get over that
little guy that wanted who hit me? I should have
taken him. But the big one, he was a tough.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Looking at real fighter. Well, it wasn't gonna help much. Huh,
He's gonna lose this one. We got the descriptions of
the other two men, and the supplementary local broadcast was
gotten out. The two officers who had answered the call
found a woman in the neighborhood who'd seen three men
leave the vicinity immediately after the robbery. She said that
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she was parked in the car half a block from
the store on the same side of the street. She
explained that about nine twenty am, a car had pulled
into a parking place in front of her. She'd seen
three men leave the car and walk down the sidewalk
in the direction of the Lockton Market. About ten minutes later,
the men came back to the car. They appeared to
be in a hurry. One of the men was upset
and arguing with the other two. She told the officers
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that they had gotten into the car and driven off
toward Hollywood Boulevard. We asked her to describe the three men.
The description she gave us match to one we'd gotten
of the thieves. She gave us a description of the car,
and another supplementary broadcast was put out. We asked her
to come down the City Hall to go through the
mug books to see if she could give us a
positive identification. The report from George Street Receiving Hospital indicated
that the victim of the slugging, Andrew Rich, was suffering
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from a fractured jaw and the concussion he was given
emergency treatment and removed to the county hospital. The crime
lab crew came out and they went over the store
for physical evidence. They were able to lift three partial
fingerprints from the counter next to the cash registry. Dean
Bergmann and Layton Prince explained that the partials were not
enough for identification, but that if we apprehended the hold
up men, he'd be able to tell us if they'd
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left the impressions ten twenty seven a m. We took
the victim, Clifford Hall, and the woman who'd seen the
car to the mug room. They went through the mug book,
but they were unable to come up with an identification.
We had the staff's office make a run on the
m O. They came back with a list of seventeen
names of men who at one time or another had
used the same method of operation. The list was split
and sergeant's Mead and Lightner worked with us and checking
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the names out. Thursday three forty eight pm Frank and
I got to the sixth name on.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Our list, Jerry Evanson That right, yeah, sure dark in
this holly on and washed the winners less than lighter.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, four were might not be in we'll try it again. Now,
let's talk to manager.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, uh, manager, we want to see him.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Minute, Just a man, what do you want to sleep?
Come on, Everston, open up there, we can get out
of here.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Come on alright, come on, Emison, you're.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Doing a clean look, you got no right.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
You're compussing and you're like that, you're so clean.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What are you putting that trouble for you? It's scared,
that's all. I just got scared. All right? Do you fail?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
If somebody walks out and shoves away into your room,
you ain't gonna stand around and just let him do it. Hey, clean, gentlemen,
I told you that I got no trouble. I don't
want man, you check with Galloway.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I'm home every night at nine o'clock every night.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Where were you this morning? Huh? This morning? Where were you?
What time? You? Just tell us what you did starting
when you got up?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
When I was up all night I got a virus
or something.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I couldn't sleep.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Take a look down a dresser. You can see the
stuff I've been taking. I haven't been out of this room,
not for a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
An you pro that? What can you no? There wasn't
anybody here you get any phone calls? No, I don't
know what this is all about.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
You guys are leaning on me for nothing. Now you
talk to Galloway, I'll tell you I've been working.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well. Look here, I'll show you on. I just want
to show you something I got in a dress. You
stay right there, I'll get it for you.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Okare going to take a look in the top drawer there,
left hands?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, he's what you mean. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I'll take the rubber band off and look.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You see. I'm telling you the truth. Now you see.
It's all the check receipts I've gotten from where I work.
You look at him.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I'm working every day and I'm home at night all
nine o'clock every night.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
How about it, Joe? Yeah, now you see. Yeah, I'm
an out of this room all day. I'm not a minute.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Come on, what's all this about?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Anyway? What do you guys ask to figure? Maybe you
could tell us? Yeah, I'm sorry. Without you telling me
what you want, there's nothing I can give you. You see
any of the boys anymore?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I mean the fellas I knew before I fell.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's right now. If I can help. But I'm trying
to stay away from see any of'em lately. Yeah. Saw
Alex a couple of days ago. Alex.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, Alex Finley. I knew him when I was up
in Kew. He came in where I was working. Did
you talk to him at all?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
All right? Just sit alone past couple of minutes talking
about some of the guys, you know, seeing the rackets
now I don't know see for all? Yeah, I think so.
Do you give you anything? Oh, a couple of.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Rumbles, But if I turn him over to you.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I don't want to got it for him.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You don't know where you got him?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
All right?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Alex tells me there's a gang it's gonna start working
here in town market sjobs.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
How many men from what Alex says is for oh,
heavy guys.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Finally with him, No, I don't think so. He told
it to me that he just heard it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Did you say anything about who the foremen are? No,
I don't think you know. He just said they were
heavy and they were starting to work. You know where
he can get in touch with Alex?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
No, Well, you might check with Galloway at the Pearl office.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
He might have Yeah, we will.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I'll probably see him again, I'll try to get.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
The information if I can. Well, what is it? What
does you want to know? Who the guys are? That's sure? Okay?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Now, like I told you, though, I don't want any
credit for it. I'm in real trouble if it gets
around that I'm playing foot see with you. Yeah, sure,
I'll try to find out when they're gonna start working
to And.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Don't you worry about that, huh? We already know that.
Four ten PM we got in touch with Fed Galloway
at the State Adult Parole Officers.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
And we checked on Jerry Evanston. From what the record
showed the story Evanston.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I told this was true. His parole officer had reported
him working and apparently living up to the conditions of
his release. We left him one of our cards and
asked him to call us and the vet he heard
from Alex Spinley. Four twenty one pm we checked back
into the office and we met with Sergeant's Meat and Lightning.
They told us that they checked out the names on
their half of the list without result. We've got a
teletype up to George Brett and CII Sacramento, giving him
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the description of the hold up man and listing themo
that they've used. We asked him to run the information
through their files and forward any information they came up with.
Five nineteen pm, we went out to get something to eat,
and then we checked back into the office. Good dinner, Hi, John, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
A saw a guy get eat so many ensiladas as you. Yeah,
I can't help but get started on the can'ci in
to stop.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, you got any soda in your locker? You you
got trouble again? You know I always do, and we
have enceladas. You ought to remember that when you order
a half a dozen. I suppose I get it. Robbery Friday? Yeah,
when was it?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We're pretty sure, are they there's a lab been called yet?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yep? Okay, right, thanks. Oh that's a break. Yeah, we
just found the getaway car. Six forty seven pm we
left the office and drove out to where the car
had been found. Was parked on Lockwood Avenue, five blocks
from the market that had been robbed. The radio car
officers had spotted that had called the office immediately when
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they saw a brown paper bag in the back seat
bearing the printed name locked in the market. The crew
from White and Prints came out, went over the car
they were able to come up with a single print
from a man's index finger Bergmann compared it with the
parcels found at the market. They matched. We checked the
white slip in the car and found that the vehicle
was stolen. The report on it had been filed at
ten thirty seven am that morning.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
We talked with the people in the immediate vicinity, but
none of them were able to tell us anything about.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
The people would park the car. However, we did come
up with an elderly man who told us that he'd
seen three men get into another car about nine forty
five that morning. He said that he remembered it because
the driver of the car had pulled into a parking
space and stopped. The morning, another automobile had parked directly
in front of the car, and the driver of the
first machine had moved so that there was no one
in front of him. Man went on to say that
a few minutes after the driver pulled into a second
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parking place, three men had come around the corner, gotten
into the car, and the forum had driven off. The
witness was unable to give us a description as a
car than to say that it was a late model
Plymouth or four The only description he could give us
as the men's was that one of them was large
and was wearing a gray top coat in the half,
and that one of them was small. Eight forty pm.
Thank and I went back to the office and checked
out for the night. The following morning, at eight o
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two am, I checked back in for work. Hi, Joe,
good morning, kind of cold out. Yeah, you look happy
this morning. I didn't sleep a wink last night, Joe,
not a wink.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It's a matter stomach next time I even think about
eating that chillot has stopped.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Me with you, Joe. Yeah, sure, any mail come in?
I don't know. I just got in and there's an
ad here for that stir over in West six they're
having their annual sale. Yeah. I want to try to
get over there, like to get me a new suit
for Christmas. You know there's a special delivery from huh
probably those mugs. We asked, Well, I'll see, yeah, for
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six of 'em. You want to get in touch with
Clip Hall. Drive over and have him take a look
at him. Yeah, you got you out the pictures. Yeah,
we can mix him up. I'll call Hall, Okay, I sure.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Hope we get an identical we haven't got much to
go on. I's gotta be a break someplace. You gotta
find this.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
From what family said about the gang starting up operation
doesn't sound like just one job. You know. They started
on a strain and they can do a lot of damage. Well,
it doesn't give as much a choice, does he? No,
we gotta give to him. Eight twenty seven am, Frank
and I left the office and drove over to talk
to the victim, Cliff Hall. We showed him the mug
shots George bretton it sent us. He picked one out
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and said that he was positive that the man in
the picture was the wine who held him up. The
name on the mug shot was Herold Bishop. According to
the record Breton that Centers Bishop had been convicted twice
on violation of two eleven PC on Rodrey. Nine twenty am.
We drove over to the Sati hospital and showed the
pictures to the other victor, Andrew Rich. He picked the
mug shot of Bishop as a suspect who'd robbed and
beaten him. The notation on Bishop's picture gave us the
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information that he was on parole at the time. We
returned to the office and put in a call to
Frett Galloway at the State Adult Parole Office. Yeah, fred
this is Joe Fridday. Yeah, fine, we like some information
on a Herald Bishop, San Francisco, number A two six
nine two six. That's a male, white Caucasian and we
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got a mug from Beden. Now he says on parole. Yeah,
if you will, thanks a lot. He's checking the master file.
Now meet and Lightner standing by if we need him.
And we get this address, we're gonna have to move fast.
Yeah yeah, Bred, when was that? Well Ozzi's report there?
I see you know, I don't know. Yeah, I suppose
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by Freddy, thank you. I you can tell Meat and
Lightning to relax. Bishop's got an out of state parole.
He's living over in Phoenix. Well, he still could be
getting into California. Aren't likely? Huh? Tred checked with his
parole officer. Yeah, he's got a job and he's been
reporting to his parole officer every month. We asked fed
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Galloway at the State Parole Office to contact Bishop's parole
officer in Phoenix and check him closely. The report came
back that the suspect had a job with a small
contractor and that he'd been working regularly. He'd also been
giving monthly reports to his officer. We've had a suspect
identified by two of his victims, and yet if the
information we'd gotten was correct, it would have been a
physical impossibility for him to have committed the robbery. We
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got a copy of his jacket and looked over his
past records. We found that the Bishop had been arrested
for armed robbery the first time eighteen years previously, he'd
been brought to trial and acquitted. The next arrest was
ten months after his trial. He'd been convicted and served
six years at San Quentin. He'd been released and within
six months Bishop had been picked up again. This time
he was sent to full some penitentiary. While he was there,
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he appeared to be a model prisoner, and after serving
four and a half years, he'd been placed on parole.
After leaving the prison, he'd requested and he had been
granted and out of state leave. In checking Bishop's m
oh we found that it matched exactly that of the
thieves who had held up the locked in the market.
The time of approach was the same, the number of
men used was the same, the method of leaving the
scene was exact. We had a suspect, and yet he
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couldn't have committed the crime. Three weeks passed, on Saturday,
November twenty sixth, the thieves hit again. In checking with
the victims, they identified the mugshot of Bishop. We put
in a long distance call to the Phoenix Police Department
and asked them to check on the suspect. We got
word back that he was in their city. They told
us that he wasn't at work due to a virus infection.
They went on to say that they checked with his
lamaity and that she told him that Bishop hadn't left
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his apartment at all on the day of the theft. Monday,
November twenty eighth, we got our first break in the case.
Agay Bbby's faith. Yeah, oh yeah, Jerry, uh huh are
you sure about that? Where? How about the rest of him? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Just a minute, toss me that guy with young ago Okay, Jerry,
go ahead, yeah, m.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
How do you spell out LA L E A H Y.
I got it? You know the address? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Okay, Thanks Jerry, we'll get in touch with you, right Jerry.
Evanston remembers the guy we talked to over in South
seventh Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
All the way he tells it. We aren't too far off.
What do you mean you saw Bishop in town last Saturday.
We put in a call and we found that there
were two major airlines with flights to Phoenix. The flight
time they listed was one hour and thirty five minutes
by air. If Bishop cumped the last flight leaving Phoenix,
he could arrive in Los Angeles at eleven twenty pm,
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the night before he planned to commit a robbery. The
next day, after the hold up, he could catch a
plane from the Lost ag Anders International Airport that would
have him back in Phoenix at eight twenty five pm.
By doing this, he would be absent from his work
only one day, and he could schedule his flight so
as not to hit on the days when he had
an interview with his parole officer. Tuesday, November twenty ninth,
a meeting was held in Chief bad Brown's office, who
(19:15):
decided to put a special stake out on the airport
and wait for the suspect to come into town at
that time. He'd be followed and taken into custody as
he prepared to commit another robbery. The names of the
three other men Jerry Evanson had given Frank as having
been involved in the hold ups, had been checked through
R and I. All three of them had arrest records,
surveillances were placed on their homes and they were kept
under constant watch. Monday, December twelfth, eleven fifteen pm, Frank
(19:38):
and I relieve the stake out at the airport. There's
a betch over there. We can keep all the gates in. Jim, Yeah,
wonder one. He's gonna hit it again. I don't know.
The last couple of weeks he sure dragged by him. Then. Yeah,
anything on the other three guys. Now. I talked to
Pinky Need this morning. He enlightened her stake out at
lady's apartment. How they're doing nothing, the parking, the car
(20:01):
down the street. What they say. Lady's like o'clock. He
comes in at five am, leaves at nine pm every day.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Ye'll see right, Yeah, there you go, John, Yeah, h
bishop's let him get outside.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, order if he's got an a luggage, I'll they
bringing up outside. Were can wait for him there? Right?
Come on? They see him, Yeah, there is getting into
that cab. Come up. Frank and I got in our
(20:42):
car and followed the cab taken by the suspect. We
followed him out of the airport grounds and then up
Lebrae Avenue. The cab turned right on Washington Boulevard and
headed for downtown Los Angeles. We pulled up to a stoplight.
Still got him. Yeah, he's still up ahead, probably that
blue market. You see him. Yeah, he got the number
of the cab two nine seven four. There's the light, minoscope,
(21:10):
better try to pick it up a little. Frank caps
pulling away from us. Yeah, I think you've seen us. No,
and she closed in a little. Traffic so heavy and
he was asiring well tripping there. Still see him? Yeah,
there's a break. Guy had to make it a right turn.
Now we're right behind the cap. Yeah, I'll close in now,
good watch it, Frank. That guy pulling out of the alley,
(21:32):
hold on. As we drove down the street. After the
stop light had changed the car it failed to make
a bull large stop coming out of an alley, and
we'd hit its broadside. The dam he'd done to both
cars was considerable, and we've lost our suspect. Frank got
to a phone and called the office. He gave them
(21:53):
the number of the cap that bishop was in and
asked for a traffic investigation car. The office gott in
a search for the missing suspect. Then Jack Smeers told
us to proceed to the apartment of Tom Lady to
wait for further development. In the meantime, a city wide
broadcast went out carrying a description of Bishop and the
other three men involved in the fact. Frank and I
arrived at the apartment when we relieved Meat and Lightness.
(22:13):
We had the manager the place let us into lady's room.
We waited one thirty am, two thirty four o'clock, five
thirty am. Frank and I had been on duty for
over twenty one hours. At five forty five, the phone
in the apartment rang once and then it quick. That
was the arranged signal between us and the office. Frank
put in the call. Lieutenant Smeers told us that officers
Max Herman and Ed Benson were on the way after
(22:35):
we leave us. Fifteen minutes later, we heard somebody in
the hall. Yeah, you know, it's probably Benson and Herman. Yeah,
I get it all right, Joe, Yeah, come on, it's
going upstairs. Bring up for the rough Come on, Sam, No,
(22:59):
you want to take that shi right, watch it. They
the elevator. Chaff Joey, I you you're in trouble. Bishop,
don't build me more for yourself. I can not lose.
They help you again? Out joint for life. You want
to shock you. There's no way off this rope. Bishop,
throw that gun out here and you follow it.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You're out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Cot give it up, Bishop, come on, throw that gun out.
I'm throwing up. Cot shop me up, blowing your head off?
You all right? Joe Yeah? How is he better? Colin Anders? Yeah?
What's that from out of his pocket? Five a minute?
Something you'll never use? Airplane ticket to Phoenix.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Albert Martin Krueger, Harold Nelson, Bishop, Thomas Nakelelahy, and Charles
Ebert Lee were taken into custody and brought the trial
for two counts of robbery in the first degree. Say
convicted and received sentence as prescribed by law. Robbery in
the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in the state
penitentiary for a period of not less.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Than five years. Because of his previous record.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Thomas Nakelelahy was given the maximum sentence and is now
serving life imprisonment in the state penitentiary.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Fulsome California.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Dragnet is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces
Radio Service.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Up Stop the steps, scrap of cloud above, scrap the
(25:43):
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