April 20, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Dragon, 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 to burglary details.
(00:25):
An organized gang of thieves is working in your city.
Their method of operation is clever and fast. There's no
lead to their identity.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Your job, stop 'em.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It was Tuesday, May seventh, was warrem in Los Angeles.
We were working a day watch out of burglary Detail.
My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Vernine.
Name was Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We ran our way out from.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The office and it was nine forty six am when
they got to the corner of Beverly Boulevard and Farntmains Streets.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The Brighton Nimes apartments call they isn't it?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, there is it.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Won't try it again, Yeah, it's not it.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, Miss Anderson. Yeah that's right, police officers. It's my partner,
Frank Smith. My name is Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Oh yeah, come on, I thank you very much, ma'am.
Get out. I'll put some coffee on alright.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's the only way to do it. Joe, what coffee grinder?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh, I saw it is uh yeah, you buy the
coffee beans and you grind 'em up as you need
the coffee real fresh. I'm gonna get pay one. I'm
great gadgets. Yeah, that's so.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You never tasted coffee that press joe a.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Whole different flavor. If you say so, Yeah, wait'll I
get say one. You'll be asked over for the first
part of coffee.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And that's nice. You gon to marriage, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah, it's about the burglary, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yes, ma'am. A couple of questions we'd like to ask.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
They've got the reports you gave the officers last night.
And this let's of store on property. You wonder if
you look at it and see if it's right?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And mm diamond watch.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Yeah, the mink.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
It's the mink that's important. Took me three years working
to get passed. Sure, hope you bring it back.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yes, ma'am, we'll try. Have you got any ideas as
to what time the stuff might occurred?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Well, near as I can figure, it must have been
around midnight. Why do you say that, Well, I got
home from.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Work about eleven thirty. I'm a hostess in the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Downtown, m Quad.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Please got home the coach was still here. I had
never come into the house without checking on it. You know,
it's the only real thing of value I got, Yes, ma'am, Well,
there it was hanging in the closet. I went out
to have a cup of coffee and pick up the
papers before I went to bed. Whoever took it must
have been waiting outside. He saw me leave and them
came in.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Why do you say, he hm, well you said he
must have been waiting.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Oh, I didn't mean anything special, you know, just a
word I see.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Did you see anybody in the vi center of England?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That's the house?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
No, not that I can tell about.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Now.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
The corner's a pretty busy place, sergeant.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Lots of people.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Around there, a couple of.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Restaurants, always a lot of people around.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Wonderfully, you could see how they got in, please, yeah,
all right back here.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
And you see they cut the screen on the porch
door and then just reached in and opened it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Top half of the door. You had it like this,
did you?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
You see you just put these two little things in
the glass.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Part of the door comes out. Always take it out
on warm night.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Anything else in the apartment disturbed, not that.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I could tell.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Seems that they just went into the bedroom and took
a coat that in the watch and the other stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
But it's the coat that's important.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yes, I understand me.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Coat means something special to a girl. I told you
it took me three years of saving before I could
buy it. It's a long time to do without things
chargeant a awful long time, yes, ma'am. I only had
the coat three days and this happened just three days
or they even had a chance to wor it is
the courting chart, I think so. Oh yeah, well I
just got it. I think it's in short. I have
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to check over the salesman. I told him when I
wanted the coat covered, or I just hope it's an effect.
Beautiful coat, just beautiful silver blue. Cost me almost four
thousand dollars, come right down to it.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
That's about a thousand dollars a day.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
We have the serial number here for the watch. Now,
is there any way you could identify the coke force?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Certainly?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
All I have to do is look at it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I can tell well, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But is there any mark, any type of label it
would help us in identifying?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Oh, yeah, I see what you mean. Well, there's a
store label. You could tell by that.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh, that's probably one of the first things that thieves
will take.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Off, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I suppose so, well, there's my initials. They can't get
those out, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I got my initials on some of the pelts, had
it done when I got the coat, had it marked
right on the skins under the lining my initials, JA,
you could.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Be able to tell from that?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Could you draw the initials force?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, wait a minute, I got a piece of paper.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oh, here my tavising. You can use this.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
T oh thinks it's pencil.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Okay, but you see it's sort of like there, j
A like that.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Would you draw the coat and show us where the
initials are?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Sure, you see, here's the sleeves, but then the body
part comes down like this, the hymns here, and the
initials are right there.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Alright, Miss Andrews, And this is exactly how they then.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Show Oh, there goes a coffee. Can Can I give
you a cup?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
No house?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
No, no thanks man, Well excuse me a minute.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Huh yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Do you really think you're gonna get a bath?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
We're gonna try did.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
The minute we're here last night, get any.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Clothes big of fighting the.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Man of who were here last night? Did they find
anything that in the hill?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Not a great deal? No'm I sure hope they.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Find my coat. I just hate to think about it.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
What's that meant?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
All that time, three years working to safe com then
just to have a three days. Do you know how
the models and the magazines kind of drag and meat
toad along the ground, you know, sort.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Of over their shoulders.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yes, ma'am, I guess so well.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I just had a three days, you know. Yeah, I
didn't you learn.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
How to do that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Reports of similar burglaries had been coming into the office
for the past six weeks, and each one the method
of operation was similar enough to let us know that
we were dealing with the same thieves. All of the
homes that were proud were residences. The owners of the
houses were always absent. Entrance to the places was made
through a rear window. In those cases, where the window
was open, the screen was cut. Where the window was locked,
the pane of glass was broken and the entrance made
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that way.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The classification of good stolen was also the same in
all of the burglaries.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Pieces of jewelry, whatever money was found in fur coats.
The only room prowled was the one where the fur
coats were checked. Another that it wasn't hostile. Bullet was
blocked off in mary on pieces, but there'd been no replies.
The m had been checked at Thatt's office and the
possibles that they came up with were checked out. The
coman of speaking about produced no tangible evidence. Frank and
I had gone over the burglery reports time and time again,
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trying to find something that would tie the thefts together.
Then others looked at each other at Dolton City clip
from the gettle at the time the coach was purchased,
it would be stolen. Friends victims were checked. In most instances,
we found that they didn't even know the victim had
been in possession of the article stolen on the maysburg
was reporting. Among the old articles were a mink stolen
the full length natural Mink code. The code had been
purchased only three days before the theft. The victim warntic
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only twice. After going over the physical evidence at the
scene and talking with a woman, we were no further
than we had then.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Saturday, Mail Evan Frank and I checked into the office.
Another one that doesn't face.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Then you get the reports out.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, it's gotta be something to tie them all together
or something in common, and I'll we come up with that.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Maybe we got the answers.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You see the bunch down the Chief Brown's office and
we came in. Yeah, I recognized one of them. Yeah,
who insurance man? Almost like we'd be down here when
we get through top and the Chief Brown? What's the
figure that thefts? The cost them a little round of
forty seven thousand dollars and it kind of lost. You
do some meal them too when you.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Spous Funnily, none of the stuff's turned up. Well, isn't
doing them any good unless they sell it?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Very every Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah it is. What's your name? What? So?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Why are you now? M all right that we'll be
right over right? Well, maybe we got one. Yeah, the
woman so she wants to talk to us about a
stolen for a coat. The woman gave the name of
Wilda Chandler. She said that she had some information for
us and asked us to meet her in the bar
at the corner of Saint Andrews's Place and Lost Palmas Avenue.
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It took us twenty three minutes to get there, so
her no, we better ask the bars in there. Yeah, yeah, sir,
Miss Chandler. Here Chandler, that's right, she just called said
to meet her here, might be her and the back
both didn't give him no name, back boots, thank you?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Why amnute?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah? It's her your friend? Were you doing this foraver?
What's that? Gotta get her out of here? Well? Do
you mean get her out of here?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
All she's been doing is sitting back there playing that song,
playing a song order and doubles. You ain't got a
girl in here this time in the morning, and I
gotta carry the orders back to her. Got a lot
of other stuff to do. All I would say about it?
Or if you can't get her out at least talker
and are sitting up there at the bar, says I
don't have to walk?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, sir, as Chammy, sit write down boy and expecting
him Smith Fright and Frank Smith Friday.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You just bet you glad to meet both of him
talk to you on the phone, didn't they? Yes, man, Yeah,
I'll never forget a name. I about to drink for
you too much, So mass King you should have a
couple you used to make everything a lot better.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I may have SEP talking about some information on some
storm for coach sling.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, and I got it Old Max. He's gonna be sorry.
Old Max het that on a jukebox, melancholy mood. Here, yes, ma'am, i'd.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
You just bet you Old Max. I's noad, it goes gone,
is against piration. Tears are all I have to show,
no consolation. The old Max left me. Here's miss fur coat?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Uh huh? Who's Max's alla?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Sure you don't want to drink no, ma'am, m Max,
just the tears. I'm not cold. See he's good. What
do you think of it?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Great? Pretty?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
That's old it's a lot of his coat in you know, go.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And tell us about the storm coast.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Play butter Max almost two months and I just found
Uh if you think it's pretty dumb, huh? Or maybe
if you tell us about him two months. I just
got the message last night Friday, May tenth, one, twenty two,
or am if you wanna be exact when I got
the message about old Max.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Well, luckily if you called us and said that you
had some information on some coast, and I wonder.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
If you be kind enough to tell us about it.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Just bet y'all, would you put this in a joke
box for me? Play number B seven?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Huh? Yes, that B seven?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, melancholy mood old Max and my stone know what?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Even no good?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
A real no good?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
This Max?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
He got something to do with the Bugleryes, he just
betch ye.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
I don't select Max. He's a pistol. Yeah, say how
about a drink? No, thank you, I ain't for you
for me.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Suppose you tell us about Max and the first what'd
you please?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
That's the way you want. Max is a thief. That's well,
you know him.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I don't know a thief like for him?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Two months? You even thinking about marrying him all the time.
He's a thief.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
What's Max's last name?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Barrett? Thanks for playing a song? It's real nice.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's the seven? What about this?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Max? Tell me how I was gonna wear mink? And
this is what I end up with.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I like wes Ken.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But if you have some information for us, we wanna hear.
But we haven't got time to sit here and keep
your company.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
You think it's all a gag.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You just think I'm lonely, So I called her. That's
what you're thinking there, Why don't you tell us? Well,
it is my gag. I can tell you all about
the coat. It's all about him.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yes, l'am, that's why we were here. Would you go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I'm a hatchet during the restaurant in the country. It's
good record as a job about three months ago, doing
real well at it. Then I meet this Max two
months ago. Oh, Max walks here, Yes, ma'am. Gives me
the big pitch. Now he thinks I'm so pretty all
that kind of stuff, you know, queat well, he really
piled it on. Always got a big deal cooking him.
As soon as it comes through him and me, he's
gonna get married, tells me the while he's waiting for
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the deal to jelly sell insurance. Old Max selling insurance.
Pretty's funny, Well, he tells me that the hardest thing
about selling insurance is a contact, you know, getting to
meet the people who need it. Contact. Yeah, and that's
where I come in. You see, the old Max. He
doesn't tell insurance on people, not like on their lives.
He doesn't tell that king. He tells what they call
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uh personal property insurance on things like rings and coats, stuff,
like that.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You with me, yes, ma'am so far?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Well, he tells me that if I'll help him with
his contact, he'll cut me in on this percentage, says,
All I have to do is tell him when some
woman comes in with a new coat, your name and address,
you know, go see you make the sale? Gets me simple.
All I got to do is get the names and addresses?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Did you do it? Sure?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I don't think you get I get him the names
and addresses. I know there's anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Can he tell us what names you gave him?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I got every one of them. Tell him at a
homie going.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
To find out he wasn't an insurance salesman.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Last night one twenty two am, and I wasn't feeling
so good, so I took off some work, went by
his place. O, Max is just coming. He got the
car parked out by his garage backs. He just loaded
with her coats, all kinds of other stuff, watches, jewelry,
and I knew he was a no good. Oh Max Pistol,
a real no good.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
For what happened?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I asked him about the stuff where he got it?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Now?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
He told me all about it. I'd been stealing all
the names I've been giving him were his sucker list.
How as soon as I'd given them information, he left
his all that time two months and I figured he
was an insurance salesman.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You know what he's doing when the coach was listing
on him.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Shure, he's been a regular order business. You call up
and order a blue mink coat and you want a platform,
and just called Max.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You'll have it cause he disposing of it here in La.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Not old Max. He's too smart for that. Ships the
stuff east, Do you right? Didn't I just tell you
it was and you just bet you. Max gets an
order and he goes out and sails it, and he
gets the whole some young kid and offers him a
crypt for the East, maybe Chicago, Detroit, New York, wherever
the delivery is supposed to be made. Gives a kid
a plane ticket and sends him on the way.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The carrier know what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
No, Max just gives him a suitcase and tells him
where to deliver it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I'd find out about the operations set up.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Oh Max. He told me, said that since I found out,
he'd have to cut me in, give me all.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The scoop there'd ever been arrested.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I don't know, Maybe get any close friends in town.
Do you know?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I guess I never saw none of him myself.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You wanna show us whylans?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Sure, I wanna see him get his Actually, the way
he lied ain't nothing too bad for him?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh, Max pistol, he sell all the stone goods?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Well? Do you know where the stone coats are?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
And the rest of the things must be his?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
A partner can't think of any other place. A be
gotta be there.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Do you know if he's there now? He should be.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
You don't never get up before noon? He should be there.
I just wanna see you get him. Well, I was
just picking the world what he did to me?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You know what's that?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Oh? I to turn him steal on those coats all
my beautiful mink?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What it is? This man?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
This is very pretty cold, I thought so true. Take
a close look. Old Mexican dated it to me to
show he was on a level. Take a good luck. Yeah,
all that didn't make and he gives me a rabbit.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Before we left the bar, we put in a call
to ask him if Max Barrett had a police record.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
The office told us if there was none in our files.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
We asked her a teletype to George Breckman at the
CII office up in Sacramentos.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
We also had the name Wilda Chandler checked she had
no record in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Eleven twenty am.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
We got Barrett's dress from the Chandler woman, and then
we called her radio car. The officers took her to
the city hall where she could make a full statement.
Frank and I drove over to Barrett's apartment. Wilda Chandler
had told us it's the same with model potty acts, Saidam.
We found the car parked in the garage in the
rear of Barrett's address. A preliminary search of the garage
end of the car failed to turn up any evidence.
Eleven forty six am, Frank and I went up to
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see Barrett.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I get it. Probably still a slave to see it.
It's about.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, you Max Barrett.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, who are you guys? What do you want? The
police officers we like to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
All.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Come one hundred feet back.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
This is all about anyway. What are you guys doing
breaking in here? Acting, going check the closets, bank right, you're.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Gonna know right to come in here and do this.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
What are you looking for I got nothing to hide.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
You didn't act that way when we came in.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I know you were real cops. You read all the
time in the papers. Are guys say their.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Cops and then break in and rob people? That's what
I thought you were, woman cops. We showed your identification,
didn't we?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well, how'd I know it was real?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And the mixed up with the law before?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
How do I know you were really cops?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
How about it?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
The place is clean, all right, it's clean they expect
to find. Come on, get dressed. We're taking it down.
Time for what we want to talk to you, and
you're talking.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You got to do do it here. I'm not going
to any place for you.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You just keep believing that, mister, and I guess you
close on coming. Are arresting me for suspicially burglary?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Are you serious? Get dressed?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Hey, you take me in book me. You're gonna be
in real trouble cop, because there's one big problem improvement.
Twelve ten pm, we called the office and the Rings
for a stakeout on Barrett's apartment. Any event any of
his sooks contacted him. We asked his landlady about his friends.
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She told us that as far as she knew, the
suspect was an insurance salesman. She said that he told
her that because his type of business, it would be
necessary for him to keep late hours and that he
didn't want to be disturbed during the day. We searched
his apartment in his garunt were unable to turn up
any of the stolen merchandise.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
We took him down to the city Hall and got
off all station radiograms with.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Special attention to the police departments in Chicago, Detroit, and
New York, giving them descriptions of the suspect and of.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The stolen property. We asked that there pawnshop details check
the outlets in their cities.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Through fifteen pm, we had Barrett brought to the city
Hall and we talked to him in the Squadrooll.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Okay, you made the boo boo. How are you going
to get out of it? What anyway? So you have
a chance to check my record? You know, I'm plained.
How are you going to get out of me?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
So you do?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Got a job? Yeah? Where you at? Some insurance sales?
What's the name of your company?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Once, let's talk to him. I don't want you to
call him then they find out I'm down here. Before
I get a chance to tell him about it, I'll
lose my job. You kind of got this thing a
little mixture. What do you mean You've been trying to
sell us on innocent jar all morning? Yet every time
we ask a question, if it's a smart answer, if
you haven't got anything to hide, once you come up
and tell us the truth for a change, I'm doing that.
When what's company you worked for? And I'm gonna tell
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you it's rape book we found in your car? That's
the one's great Southwestern life at it? Why don't you
call him and find out?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Well he did? I say, they've never heard of it?
And it isn't them, is it?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
What are you doing with a rate book that illegal?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
To as you get it? Friend of mine? I like
to check the prices of other companies, keep her breast
to things. What's a friend's name? You know I'm not
gonna give you that. Hey, who put you on to me?
Any who said it yourself?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
We're I'm gonna tell you that it was at wild Abroad.
Oh who's playing cozy now? Wilde Chandler. She's the one
who told you to pick me up isn't she She
have a reason to do that, so she might think, So,
what's you tell us about it? I tried to help
her out, give her the chance to and some extra money.
Told her I'd give her five bucks for every prospect
she turned over to me, who bought some urance. And
it worked good for a while, and she started boozing
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it out, got to be a real lush. Couldn't trust
her anymore. She was giving me a list of bad names,
making them up. I had to get rid of it,
you know, give her a coat and called it quits.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
How about these names she gave you?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
You got to copy them? No, SU mean not.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
They weren't any good, So I threw them away bank.
Yeah you got that list? Yeah, here you go. Listen
to these See if.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
They sound like the people will have told you about.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
All Manell, Myrtle Briggs, Missus Murdred Carlson, Ms, Jane Anderson,
Dallas beckwith how about it?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You willium?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
She's the one, isn't she Bush, She's the one who
told you. Didn't she recognize the names? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Every one of those people has had a burglary in
her house in the last month. There's a lot more
names why don't you cop out and tell us the truth.
I got nothing to say until I see a lawyer.
Jo see you a minute, yeahs right away. Well you
got kids, says his name is Jim Nelson. Picked him
up out of barrass place anything on them suitcase here?
It is here the coast to what about? Nelson checked him,
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got a records that to burglary arrest, one conviction.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It got him over in them teration? Whose were the
Rubles walked in and we duck says you.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What he Barrett?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Or maybe you want to talk to him first? Yeah,
be right back right, it's got.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Anything on the coast. Hadn't had a chance to check
him in. Brought the Nelson kid right in.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Anybody out at Barrett's now, Yeah, we called the team
before we left. Oookay, thanks, I'll call you right high Rubles,
thanks all right? Also now they're down the hall. Can
need anything to drive?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Thanks anything? Nelson? That right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
What did your suitcase para do it to me? When
a couple of days ago I was supposed to take
it Detroit for them, I.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Didn't make it. Got thinking about how is willing to
pay my expenses back there just to take the suitcase.
Got the one who work was so important, opened the suitcase,
and when I saw what was in it, I didn't
want any part of it. Try to give it back
to him, copick, Hey, you know where he got the coat?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
No, I don't want to anytime a guy's willing to
pay expenses back.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
He's just delivered a suitcase. There's something funny about it,
the whole part of the actually know I got a record.
I only stun the fiction I he got buried here.
Now he's gonna hold him. You know, I'd like to
see him for a minute. Why, like to tell him
what I thought about the deal he tried to pull,
telling me how he was my friend all the time,
getting me to carry the stuff for him, and he
fix it up so I can see him. Yeah, come on,
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you're gonna be able to nail him. We're well.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Now you imagine a guy pull a stung like that
on his friends.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
A guy do that? Do about anything? Well, you will
need to testify about how Barrett gave you the suitcase.
Not sure I am. I want to see him nail good. Bet. Yeah,
set around here, spend a year as we'll see you.
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Thought i'd be in detried by now I didn't remain.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Just keep your mouth shut. I think that nothing that nice.
Watch the while they get suitcase fight. Yeah, how about
it if you just bagged before Beck?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
He should and he gave it to me.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Beautiful code.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Here.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Just take a look at the lighting.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Shall we. I don't know anything about those A guy
saw him to me. I don't know where they came from.
How about it? Right there? Initials? JA, do you want
to tell us? Stout there? Bet kid? I should have
known my money, so I'm gonna buck. Yeah, it's going
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good until he stuck his noses, so it's all going good.
How low is he gonna deal?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Gett I wouldn't worry about it. You're gonna find out
the thou have got heard is true. The names were
changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
On September eighteenth, trial was held in Department ninety seven,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. Max Rudolph Barrett was tried
and convicted of burglary in the first degree four counts
and received sentence as prescribed by law. Burglary and the
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first degree is punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary
for a period of not less than five years. His
associates in the burglary ring were tried and convicted of
receiving stolen property, which is punishable by imprisonment and the
State penitentiary for a period of not more than ten years.
Because of the cooperation she gave it in apprehending the suspects,
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will Larwine Chandler was released from custody dispres United States
on Forces Radio Services.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Stop most stop chaptomats doctor stept Statut
Dragon, 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 to burglary details.
(00:25):
An organized gang of thieves is working in your city.
Their method of operation is clever and fast. There's no
lead to their identity.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Your job, stop 'em.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It was Tuesday, May seventh, was warrem in Los Angeles.
We were working a day watch out of burglary Detail.
My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Vernine.
Name was Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We ran our way out from.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The office and it was nine forty six am when
they got to the corner of Beverly Boulevard and Farntmains Streets.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The Brighton Nimes apartments call they isn't it?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, there is it.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Won't try it again, Yeah, it's not it.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, Miss Anderson. Yeah that's right, police officers. It's my partner,
Frank Smith. My name is Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Oh yeah, come on, I thank you very much, ma'am.
Get out. I'll put some coffee on alright.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's the only way to do it. Joe, what coffee grinder?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh, I saw it is uh yeah, you buy the
coffee beans and you grind 'em up as you need
the coffee real fresh. I'm gonna get pay one. I'm
great gadgets. Yeah, that's so.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You never tasted coffee that press joe a.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Whole different flavor. If you say so, Yeah, wait'll I
get say one. You'll be asked over for the first
part of coffee.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And that's nice. You gon to marriage, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah, it's about the burglary, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yes, ma'am. A couple of questions we'd like to ask.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
They've got the reports you gave the officers last night.
And this let's of store on property. You wonder if
you look at it and see if it's right?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And mm diamond watch.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Yeah, the mink.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
It's the mink that's important. Took me three years working
to get passed. Sure, hope you bring it back.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yes, ma'am, we'll try. Have you got any ideas as
to what time the stuff might occurred?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Well, near as I can figure, it must have been
around midnight. Why do you say that, Well, I got
home from.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Work about eleven thirty. I'm a hostess in the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Downtown, m Quad.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Please got home the coach was still here. I had
never come into the house without checking on it. You know,
it's the only real thing of value I got, Yes, ma'am, Well,
there it was hanging in the closet. I went out
to have a cup of coffee and pick up the
papers before I went to bed. Whoever took it must
have been waiting outside. He saw me leave and them
came in.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Why do you say, he hm, well you said he
must have been waiting.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Oh, I didn't mean anything special, you know, just a
word I see.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Did you see anybody in the vi center of England?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That's the house?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
No, not that I can tell about.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Now.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
The corner's a pretty busy place, sergeant.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Lots of people.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Around there, a couple of.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Restaurants, always a lot of people around.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Wonderfully, you could see how they got in, please, yeah,
all right back here.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
And you see they cut the screen on the porch
door and then just reached in and opened it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Top half of the door. You had it like this,
did you?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
You see you just put these two little things in
the glass.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Part of the door comes out. Always take it out
on warm night.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Anything else in the apartment disturbed, not that.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I could tell.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Seems that they just went into the bedroom and took
a coat that in the watch and the other stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
But it's the coat that's important.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yes, I understand me.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Coat means something special to a girl. I told you
it took me three years of saving before I could
buy it. It's a long time to do without things
chargeant a awful long time, yes, ma'am. I only had
the coat three days and this happened just three days
or they even had a chance to wor it is
the courting chart, I think so. Oh yeah, well I
just got it. I think it's in short. I have
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to check over the salesman. I told him when I
wanted the coat covered, or I just hope it's an effect.
Beautiful coat, just beautiful silver blue. Cost me almost four
thousand dollars, come right down to it.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
That's about a thousand dollars a day.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
We have the serial number here for the watch. Now,
is there any way you could identify the coke force?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Certainly?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
All I have to do is look at it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I can tell well, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But is there any mark, any type of label it
would help us in identifying?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Oh, yeah, I see what you mean. Well, there's a
store label. You could tell by that.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh, that's probably one of the first things that thieves
will take.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Off, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I suppose so, well, there's my initials. They can't get
those out, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I got my initials on some of the pelts, had
it done when I got the coat, had it marked
right on the skins under the lining my initials, JA,
you could.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Be able to tell from that?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Could you draw the initials force?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, wait a minute, I got a piece of paper.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oh, here my tavising. You can use this.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
T oh thinks it's pencil.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Okay, but you see it's sort of like there, j
A like that.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Would you draw the coat and show us where the
initials are?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Sure, you see, here's the sleeves, but then the body
part comes down like this, the hymns here, and the
initials are right there.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Alright, Miss Andrews, And this is exactly how they then.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Show Oh, there goes a coffee. Can Can I give
you a cup?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
No house?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
No, no thanks man, Well excuse me a minute.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Huh yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Do you really think you're gonna get a bath?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
We're gonna try did.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
The minute we're here last night, get any.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Clothes big of fighting the.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Man of who were here last night? Did they find
anything that in the hill?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Not a great deal? No'm I sure hope they.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Find my coat. I just hate to think about it.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
What's that meant?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
All that time, three years working to safe com then
just to have a three days. Do you know how
the models and the magazines kind of drag and meat
toad along the ground, you know, sort.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Of over their shoulders.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yes, ma'am, I guess so well.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I just had a three days, you know. Yeah, I
didn't you learn.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
How to do that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Reports of similar burglaries had been coming into the office
for the past six weeks, and each one the method
of operation was similar enough to let us know that
we were dealing with the same thieves. All of the
homes that were proud were residences. The owners of the
houses were always absent. Entrance to the places was made
through a rear window. In those cases, where the window
was open, the screen was cut. Where the window was locked,
the pane of glass was broken and the entrance made
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that way.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The classification of good stolen was also the same in
all of the burglaries.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Pieces of jewelry, whatever money was found in fur coats.
The only room prowled was the one where the fur
coats were checked. Another that it wasn't hostile. Bullet was
blocked off in mary on pieces, but there'd been no replies.
The m had been checked at Thatt's office and the
possibles that they came up with were checked out. The
coman of speaking about produced no tangible evidence. Frank and
I had gone over the burglery reports time and time again,
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trying to find something that would tie the thefts together.
Then others looked at each other at Dolton City clip
from the gettle at the time the coach was purchased,
it would be stolen. Friends victims were checked. In most instances,
we found that they didn't even know the victim had
been in possession of the article stolen on the maysburg
was reporting. Among the old articles were a mink stolen
the full length natural Mink code. The code had been
purchased only three days before the theft. The victim warntic
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only twice. After going over the physical evidence at the
scene and talking with a woman, we were no further
than we had then.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Saturday, Mail Evan Frank and I checked into the office.
Another one that doesn't face.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Then you get the reports out.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, it's gotta be something to tie them all together
or something in common, and I'll we come up with that.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Maybe we got the answers.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You see the bunch down the Chief Brown's office and
we came in. Yeah, I recognized one of them. Yeah,
who insurance man? Almost like we'd be down here when
we get through top and the Chief Brown? What's the
figure that thefts? The cost them a little round of
forty seven thousand dollars and it kind of lost. You
do some meal them too when you.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Spous Funnily, none of the stuff's turned up. Well, isn't
doing them any good unless they sell it?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Very every Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah it is. What's your name? What? So?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Why are you now? M all right that we'll be
right over right? Well, maybe we got one. Yeah, the
woman so she wants to talk to us about a
stolen for a coat. The woman gave the name of
Wilda Chandler. She said that she had some information for
us and asked us to meet her in the bar
at the corner of Saint Andrews's Place and Lost Palmas Avenue.
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It took us twenty three minutes to get there, so
her no, we better ask the bars in there. Yeah, yeah, sir,
Miss Chandler. Here Chandler, that's right, she just called said
to meet her here, might be her and the back
both didn't give him no name, back boots, thank you?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Why amnute?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah? It's her your friend? Were you doing this foraver?
What's that? Gotta get her out of here? Well? Do
you mean get her out of here?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
All she's been doing is sitting back there playing that song,
playing a song order and doubles. You ain't got a
girl in here this time in the morning, and I
gotta carry the orders back to her. Got a lot
of other stuff to do. All I would say about it?
Or if you can't get her out at least talker
and are sitting up there at the bar, says I
don't have to walk?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, sir, as Chammy, sit write down boy and expecting
him Smith Fright and Frank Smith Friday.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You just bet you glad to meet both of him
talk to you on the phone, didn't they? Yes, man, Yeah,
I'll never forget a name. I about to drink for
you too much, So mass King you should have a
couple you used to make everything a lot better.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I may have SEP talking about some information on some
storm for coach sling.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, and I got it Old Max. He's gonna be sorry.
Old Max het that on a jukebox, melancholy mood. Here, yes, ma'am, i'd.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
You just bet you Old Max. I's noad, it goes gone,
is against piration. Tears are all I have to show,
no consolation. The old Max left me. Here's miss fur coat?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Uh huh? Who's Max's alla?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Sure you don't want to drink no, ma'am, m Max,
just the tears. I'm not cold. See he's good. What
do you think of it?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Great? Pretty?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
That's old it's a lot of his coat in you know, go.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And tell us about the storm coast.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Play butter Max almost two months and I just found
Uh if you think it's pretty dumb, huh? Or maybe
if you tell us about him two months. I just
got the message last night Friday, May tenth, one, twenty two,
or am if you wanna be exact when I got
the message about old Max.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Well, luckily if you called us and said that you
had some information on some coast, and I wonder.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
If you be kind enough to tell us about it.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Just bet y'all, would you put this in a joke
box for me? Play number B seven?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Huh? Yes, that B seven?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, melancholy mood old Max and my stone know what?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Even no good?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
A real no good?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
This Max?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
He got something to do with the Bugleryes, he just
betch ye.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
I don't select Max. He's a pistol. Yeah, say how
about a drink? No, thank you, I ain't for you
for me.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Suppose you tell us about Max and the first what'd
you please?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
That's the way you want. Max is a thief. That's well,
you know him.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I don't know a thief like for him?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Two months? You even thinking about marrying him all the time.
He's a thief.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
What's Max's last name?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Barrett? Thanks for playing a song? It's real nice.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's the seven? What about this?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Max? Tell me how I was gonna wear mink? And
this is what I end up with.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I like wes Ken.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But if you have some information for us, we wanna hear.
But we haven't got time to sit here and keep
your company.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
You think it's all a gag.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You just think I'm lonely, So I called her. That's
what you're thinking there, Why don't you tell us? Well,
it is my gag. I can tell you all about
the coat. It's all about him.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yes, l'am, that's why we were here. Would you go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I'm a hatchet during the restaurant in the country. It's
good record as a job about three months ago, doing
real well at it. Then I meet this Max two
months ago. Oh, Max walks here, Yes, ma'am. Gives me
the big pitch. Now he thinks I'm so pretty all
that kind of stuff, you know, queat well, he really
piled it on. Always got a big deal cooking him.
As soon as it comes through him and me, he's
gonna get married, tells me the while he's waiting for
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the deal to jelly sell insurance. Old Max selling insurance.
Pretty's funny, Well, he tells me that the hardest thing
about selling insurance is a contact, you know, getting to
meet the people who need it. Contact. Yeah, and that's
where I come in. You see, the old Max. He
doesn't tell insurance on people, not like on their lives.
He doesn't tell that king. He tells what they call
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uh personal property insurance on things like rings and coats, stuff,
like that.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You with me, yes, ma'am so far?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Well, he tells me that if I'll help him with
his contact, he'll cut me in on this percentage, says,
All I have to do is tell him when some
woman comes in with a new coat, your name and address,
you know, go see you make the sale? Gets me simple.
All I got to do is get the names and addresses?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Did you do it? Sure?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I don't think you get I get him the names
and addresses. I know there's anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Can he tell us what names you gave him?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I got every one of them. Tell him at a
homie going.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
To find out he wasn't an insurance salesman.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Last night one twenty two am, and I wasn't feeling
so good, so I took off some work, went by
his place. O, Max is just coming. He got the
car parked out by his garage backs. He just loaded
with her coats, all kinds of other stuff, watches, jewelry,
and I knew he was a no good. Oh Max Pistol,
a real no good.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
For what happened?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I asked him about the stuff where he got it?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Now?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
He told me all about it. I'd been stealing all
the names I've been giving him were his sucker list.
How as soon as I'd given them information, he left
his all that time two months and I figured he
was an insurance salesman.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You know what he's doing when the coach was listing
on him.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Shure, he's been a regular order business. You call up
and order a blue mink coat and you want a platform,
and just called Max.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You'll have it cause he disposing of it here in La.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Not old Max. He's too smart for that. Ships the
stuff east, Do you right? Didn't I just tell you
it was and you just bet you. Max gets an
order and he goes out and sails it, and he
gets the whole some young kid and offers him a
crypt for the East, maybe Chicago, Detroit, New York, wherever
the delivery is supposed to be made. Gives a kid
a plane ticket and sends him on the way.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The carrier know what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
No, Max just gives him a suitcase and tells him
where to deliver it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I'd find out about the operations set up.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Oh Max. He told me, said that since I found out,
he'd have to cut me in, give me all.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The scoop there'd ever been arrested.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I don't know, Maybe get any close friends in town.
Do you know?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I guess I never saw none of him myself.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You wanna show us whylans?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Sure, I wanna see him get his Actually, the way
he lied ain't nothing too bad for him?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh, Max pistol, he sell all the stone goods?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Well? Do you know where the stone coats are?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
And the rest of the things must be his?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
A partner can't think of any other place. A be
gotta be there.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Do you know if he's there now? He should be.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
You don't never get up before noon? He should be there.
I just wanna see you get him. Well, I was
just picking the world what he did to me?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You know what's that?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Oh? I to turn him steal on those coats all
my beautiful mink?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What it is? This man?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
This is very pretty cold, I thought so true. Take
a close look. Old Mexican dated it to me to
show he was on a level. Take a good luck. Yeah,
all that didn't make and he gives me a rabbit.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Before we left the bar, we put in a call
to ask him if Max Barrett had a police record.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
The office told us if there was none in our files.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
We asked her a teletype to George Breckman at the
CII office up in Sacramentos.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
We also had the name Wilda Chandler checked she had
no record in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Eleven twenty am.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
We got Barrett's dress from the Chandler woman, and then
we called her radio car. The officers took her to
the city hall where she could make a full statement.
Frank and I drove over to Barrett's apartment. Wilda Chandler
had told us it's the same with model potty acts, Saidam.
We found the car parked in the garage in the
rear of Barrett's address. A preliminary search of the garage
end of the car failed to turn up any evidence.
Eleven forty six am, Frank and I went up to
(15:47):
see Barrett.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I get it. Probably still a slave to see it.
It's about.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, you Max Barrett.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, who are you guys? What do you want? The
police officers we like to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
All.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Come one hundred feet back.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
This is all about anyway. What are you guys doing
breaking in here? Acting, going check the closets, bank right, you're.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Gonna know right to come in here and do this.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
What are you looking for I got nothing to hide.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
You didn't act that way when we came in.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I know you were real cops. You read all the
time in the papers. Are guys say their.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Cops and then break in and rob people? That's what
I thought you were, woman cops. We showed your identification,
didn't we?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well, how'd I know it was real?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And the mixed up with the law before?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
How do I know you were really cops?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
How about it?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
The place is clean, all right, it's clean they expect
to find. Come on, get dressed. We're taking it down.
Time for what we want to talk to you, and
you're talking.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You got to do do it here. I'm not going
to any place for you.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You just keep believing that, mister, and I guess you
close on coming. Are arresting me for suspicially burglary?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Are you serious? Get dressed?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Hey, you take me in book me. You're gonna be
in real trouble cop, because there's one big problem improvement.
Twelve ten pm, we called the office and the Rings
for a stakeout on Barrett's apartment. Any event any of
his sooks contacted him. We asked his landlady about his friends.
(17:16):
She told us that as far as she knew, the
suspect was an insurance salesman. She said that he told
her that because his type of business, it would be
necessary for him to keep late hours and that he
didn't want to be disturbed during the day. We searched
his apartment in his garunt were unable to turn up
any of the stolen merchandise.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
We took him down to the city Hall and got
off all station radiograms with.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Special attention to the police departments in Chicago, Detroit, and
New York, giving them descriptions of the suspect and of.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The stolen property. We asked that there pawnshop details check
the outlets in their cities.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Through fifteen pm, we had Barrett brought to the city
Hall and we talked to him in the Squadrooll.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Okay, you made the boo boo. How are you going
to get out of it? What anyway? So you have
a chance to check my record? You know, I'm plained.
How are you going to get out of me?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
So you do?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Got a job? Yeah? Where you at? Some insurance sales?
What's the name of your company?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Once, let's talk to him. I don't want you to
call him then they find out I'm down here. Before
I get a chance to tell him about it, I'll
lose my job. You kind of got this thing a
little mixture. What do you mean You've been trying to
sell us on innocent jar all morning? Yet every time
we ask a question, if it's a smart answer, if
you haven't got anything to hide, once you come up
and tell us the truth for a change, I'm doing that.
When what's company you worked for? And I'm gonna tell
(18:20):
you it's rape book we found in your car? That's
the one's great Southwestern life at it? Why don't you
call him and find out?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Well he did? I say, they've never heard of it?
And it isn't them, is it?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
What are you doing with a rate book that illegal?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
To as you get it? Friend of mine? I like
to check the prices of other companies, keep her breast
to things. What's a friend's name? You know I'm not
gonna give you that. Hey, who put you on to me?
Any who said it yourself?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
We're I'm gonna tell you that it was at wild Abroad.
Oh who's playing cozy now? Wilde Chandler. She's the one
who told you to pick me up isn't she She
have a reason to do that, so she might think, So,
what's you tell us about it? I tried to help
her out, give her the chance to and some extra money.
Told her I'd give her five bucks for every prospect
she turned over to me, who bought some urance. And
it worked good for a while, and she started boozing
(19:03):
it out, got to be a real lush. Couldn't trust
her anymore. She was giving me a list of bad names,
making them up. I had to get rid of it,
you know, give her a coat and called it quits.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
How about these names she gave you?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
You got to copy them? No, SU mean not.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
They weren't any good, So I threw them away bank.
Yeah you got that list? Yeah, here you go. Listen
to these See if.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
They sound like the people will have told you about.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
All Manell, Myrtle Briggs, Missus Murdred Carlson, Ms, Jane Anderson,
Dallas beckwith how about it?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You willium?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
She's the one, isn't she Bush, She's the one who
told you. Didn't she recognize the names? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Every one of those people has had a burglary in
her house in the last month. There's a lot more
names why don't you cop out and tell us the truth.
I got nothing to say until I see a lawyer.
Jo see you a minute, yeahs right away. Well you
got kids, says his name is Jim Nelson. Picked him
up out of barrass place anything on them suitcase here?
It is here the coast to what about? Nelson checked him,
(19:57):
got a records that to burglary arrest, one conviction.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It got him over in them teration? Whose were the
Rubles walked in and we duck says you.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What he Barrett?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Or maybe you want to talk to him first? Yeah,
be right back right, it's got.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Anything on the coast. Hadn't had a chance to check
him in. Brought the Nelson kid right in.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Anybody out at Barrett's now, Yeah, we called the team
before we left. Oookay, thanks, I'll call you right high Rubles,
thanks all right? Also now they're down the hall. Can
need anything to drive?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Thanks anything? Nelson? That right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
What did your suitcase para do it to me? When
a couple of days ago I was supposed to take
it Detroit for them, I.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Didn't make it. Got thinking about how is willing to
pay my expenses back there just to take the suitcase.
Got the one who work was so important, opened the suitcase,
and when I saw what was in it, I didn't
want any part of it. Try to give it back
to him, copick, Hey, you know where he got the coat?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
No, I don't want to anytime a guy's willing to
pay expenses back.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
He's just delivered a suitcase. There's something funny about it,
the whole part of the actually know I got a record.
I only stun the fiction I he got buried here.
Now he's gonna hold him. You know, I'd like to
see him for a minute. Why, like to tell him
what I thought about the deal he tried to pull,
telling me how he was my friend all the time,
getting me to carry the stuff for him, and he
fix it up so I can see him. Yeah, come on,
(21:22):
you're gonna be able to nail him. We're well.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Now you imagine a guy pull a stung like that
on his friends.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
A guy do that? Do about anything? Well, you will
need to testify about how Barrett gave you the suitcase.
Not sure I am. I want to see him nail good. Bet. Yeah,
set around here, spend a year as we'll see you.
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Thought i'd be in detried by now I didn't remain.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Just keep your mouth shut. I think that nothing that nice.
Watch the while they get suitcase fight. Yeah, how about
it if you just bagged before Beck?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
He should and he gave it to me.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Beautiful code.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Here.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Just take a look at the lighting.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Shall we. I don't know anything about those A guy
saw him to me. I don't know where they came from.
How about it? Right there? Initials? JA, do you want
to tell us? Stout there? Bet kid? I should have
known my money, so I'm gonna buck. Yeah, it's going
(22:30):
good until he stuck his noses, so it's all going good.
How low is he gonna deal?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Gett I wouldn't worry about it. You're gonna find out
the thou have got heard is true. The names were
changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
On September eighteenth, trial was held in Department ninety seven,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. Max Rudolph Barrett was tried
and convicted of burglary in the first degree four counts
and received sentence as prescribed by law. Burglary and the
(23:12):
first degree is punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary
for a period of not less than five years. His
associates in the burglary ring were tried and convicted of
receiving stolen property, which is punishable by imprisonment and the
State penitentiary for a period of not more than ten years.
Because of the cooperation she gave it in apprehending the suspects,
(23:32):
will Larwine Chandler was released from custody dispres United States
on Forces Radio Services.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
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