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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The story you're about to hear is true.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The names have been changed to protect the innocence. You're
a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. You get
a teletype warning you that two hold up men are
heading for your city. You know they're armed and dangerous.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Your job to be ready for the.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Straight the documented drama of an actual crimes.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
The Los Angeles Police Departments, you.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Will travel step by step on the side of the law.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
To an actual case.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Transcribe from official police vilence from beginning to land.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
I'm trying to punishment.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Drag nest is the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
It wiscus.
Speaker 7 (01:11):
The HPEL step was raining in Los Angeles. We were
working to day watch out of robbery detail. My partner
Frank Smith, the Boston setected Sad Brown.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
My name is Friday as I'm.
Speaker 7 (01:19):
Always back tomorrow and I had It was eight forty
six am when I got the room twenty seven eight
squad room rank. Yeah, yo, back here, I'm out of
turning thing. Yeah. A couple of names none, a mass
of descriptions. One of them are supposed to be in
the safternoon's mail.
Speaker 8 (01:34):
I said they were centering them there especially would be
easier when we know who we're looking for.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
There will Friday Mitya asking me, got a minute right there.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Monday? Yeah, close the door, set down here, take a
look at this.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
What is it about the merchants biters?
Speaker 8 (01:59):
I just talk to lepos Cheff.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Lots and straight give me as much as he could
on the merchant.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
We check out records.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
There's a lot of isn't like they from what Leapos says.
They're fresh after the name a town now someplace in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
They're trying to run it out.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Both we got said they'll pull a couple of gas
station over there anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, at least they think so, burning of their records.
The boys got into town a couple of months ago,
no visible means, with plenty of money hung around the
places on the strift gambles drank themselves quite a time.
Speaker 9 (02:28):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
The department over there started.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
To wonder where the money was coming from.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Put a couple of men on him full time, or
they find.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Out not much cozy.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
They were finally picked up on a drunk charge. Mugs
and printed nothing to hold them on. So they were
released next morning. Let's get down, let's clean.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I'm away out. They stopped long enough to kick.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
In a couple of those gas station motels you know
along the highway.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
We're pretty good, but.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
They comes like the identification right away.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, as soon as they saw the pictures, sheriffs off
as notified Bakers Highway Patrol. Theer was waiting. But they
must have gotten through before the wood winner. We've been
able to trace them through bar still Victor bill On
through pear blossoms, little rock. It worked hard all the way.
What he made three service stations, two restaurants, one motel.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Holding on them here in La not yet.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
A matter of time.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We've got to get them before then. All the victims
tell the same story. These two guys are off their rockets.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
We've tacked up their well armed tar, they're driving.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
His coals and they're on the needle.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Tell it where we got it.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Leopold says they kept a couple of dates with norm
pushers in Vegas. As far as he could tell, it
wasn't anything passed. That doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
So it's the story and on it Okay, I tell
it before.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
It's a matter of time untill they try to put
somebody around here in town. For a couple of crazy
gunmen high on h bad combination.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Somebody's gonna lose.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
Let's hope it's not us.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Ethan Gifford and Mertons WMA twenty seven years, five feet
eight inches, one hundred and.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Fifty five times and his brother, Grady.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
James Martin for twenty four years, five six hundred and
fifty two pounds arrived in Los Angeles on the morning
of April fifth. The first word we had at their
presence was a hotshot telephone call reporting a robbery of
a market on the corner of Santa Monica Boulevarden Monroe Street.
The market owners, mister and Missus Turner Dylon, had both
Schiston with mister Dyllon has been removed to George Beaton
seting the hospital for treatment of a skull practice. The
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woman had been given emergency treatment on the scene and
referred to her own doctor. The description the victims.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Gave us match to Mergan brothers.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
As soon as the Munkshots and Las Vegas arrived, Frank
and I had all out to see missus Dyllon.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
The found her in the small apartment above the store.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
I just talked to doctor the hospital, he said, turned brissent. Sure,
wonder the way they hit him, that's right, no reasons
for it. We did give him the money, tend he
kept telling him, take the money and leave us alone.
Take some money. Didn't make any difference to him.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I don't think the adenhard us.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
We'd like to look at some pictures, mister Dyllons, see
if you can point out them.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Man, Oh, sure, anything be.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
He to tetch him here? You are on man, think
you got him in here?
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Do you hope?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes? Yeah, you're right now.
Speaker 9 (05:03):
Yeah, they are saying too, so I gonna help again.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Yeah they did?
Speaker 7 (05:08):
You notice that they built a time and the villain.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
I can't turn you to sure we we didn't really
see until they were in the store. I think now
there must be something wrong with men to beat somebody
up like that.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You know up here, can't be a normal person.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
What they say to you, Well, told us it was
a stick up, said the hand over the money, the
bigger one. That's that's him right there, he said, for
us to hurry up. I see my husband opened the
cash registers and I gave him what was there they want,
told him to get to the safe. Hand over that
money too. Yeah, pointed the gun that has kind of
pushed its back to the safe.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Trinder opened it all the time.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
We did just what they said.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
We weren'tnna cause them any trouble. Yeah, handed them all
the money. Every time Tryner kept saying, take the money,
but leave us alone. He must have said it fifty
times before I even knew what was happening. Turner was
lying on the floor and didn't hit I got mad.
I tried to get up the man myself didn't make
any difference to him.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I was a woman that hit me too.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
What's the gun? Yeah, here in my face.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
If they didn't hit me as hard as they just
turn it. If they didn't, still not too good.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
To tell you the truth.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
I was more consented to taking care of my husband
and paying attention to that ru couple of food limbs.
I don't know where men like it comes from. Must
be something wrong with the way.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
They were brought up.
Speaker 9 (06:21):
Truth, Come on, it will probably be their parents who
ought to be and jail.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
I'm not the boys at all. You might be right,
it's not the boy's pal.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
Well, we'll settle for.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Four twenty five pm when you see the communicating the
FBI telling us that the merchants others are wanted by
the state of Alabama for escape. The complete record on
the two men was also sent They've been arrested a
total of twenty six times for everything from petty steft
to kidnapping. According to the Kickback, they'd escaped from a
road gang observing a sentence to the possession of narcotics.
We contacted the authorities in Alabama and asked them to
(06:55):
forward all available information on the suspect. After talking with
Captain Donahoe, Frank and.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
I went over to the First Creek Stations to see
Captain Waller. We asked him to.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Supply a list of places the two brothers might turn
for an archaic contact. He gave us a list of
several places in town and the names of men we
could talk to. A sixteen pm. He started to check
them out. Yeah, I want them things you've seen.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Patty Hayworth's around.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Why you're looking for him?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
I want to talk to him for a Bob.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
What we wanted you to know we'd asked for you
when we the guy's cost.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
That's right now where it's pasty.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Come on, we got word that he hasn't been one
three blocks away from here in the past four years.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Nowhere is he?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I told you, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
They're not being smart missing.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
A back room.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Stay along herefore, as I know what you do, it's
not some different plan sold there.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Oh yeah, do you want something?
Speaker 8 (07:54):
You Patty Hayworth.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I tried.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Sit down. I know you.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
If you're in your wrong room, police officers, we got
some questions for you. I just don't guarantee the answers as.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
To start.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Go.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
You're heard from the Martin brothers who Grady and Ethan
Merton no.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Name you don't know, Red Queen in the barking and
I could turn him over.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
That's the baby I've been looking forst first time today. Yeah,
first win. Too bad. I didn't pay for the deck.
I hadn't make it.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Kill him, all right?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
I come on here with what do you know about
the Martins?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I told you nothing? Now why come to me? At
other guys in town?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
They're gonna need eight the way we got it.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You can steer them to it.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Old friends again all right, get your coach. Why let's
take a ride. But why we can't talk here?
Speaker 8 (08:42):
Let's get down town.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
It's a nice place. There's nothing wrong with right here.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
I don't what do you know?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
What's in it for me?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Why?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Information like that ought to be worth it?
Speaker 8 (08:52):
You know we can't do anything for you. Come on,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
How long do you think you're gonna be able to
hold it long enough?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
How do you make that?
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Well, I'll tell you. We'll take you downtown.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Process you pass the word, you're copped out.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Told us about a half a dozen people in town.
Things like that gets around, you're going to be in trouble.
You'll come back with what we want to know?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Well, that's kind of crumby and almost.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Builds a black mail.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And you called it.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
We didn't you really do that?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We would.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
All right, crushed out all the roads. What do you
want to know about the Mertins?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
You know him?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I met him yet where place down the street last night?
What is it?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
A bar?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Hotel?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Hotel? That? No, we just used the room to meet.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Know where they are?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What they want?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
You call it a you do them any good?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
No?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
He told you the truth.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
And I'm pushing anymore?
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Why do they come to you heard I.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Could turn them on.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
What you tell them?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Oh, I said, I couldn't help him. I told him
I try and line something up stall. You know, I
don't want any part of that action. You know, I
could have a piece that they answer to. You know why, Well,
these guys are too far out. They must be shooting
seven eight caps a day. Guys sad most of the
time cooking. They're out of their skulls.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
He's got anything that will help box the man.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I don't know, Hey, man abroad, what you mean? Oh,
they're dragging abroad with them. A big one must be
six to two in the stock. You know. I've seen her
around where he used to.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Have some drinks. Downtown's got too rough that some of.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
The managers they tied the candle.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
She's been floating for a.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Couple of months, ties into some guy who pay the
bill sides. He wises up, She drops and goes on
to prowle.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
She got an address.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Oh, I can't name it, some fleabag on sipar thing.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
She might chip you with it, not steadying us.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
She's smart, you know, honey, looks you do real good
one of the homeliest women I ever met.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Yeah, it looks like she should be wearing.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
A bridle work and would get in touch with it.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Well, it's hard to say since she's running with the mertens. Yes,
you might try the ten of hearts to dive on six.
She used to show for the place when they kicked
her out.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
You were freelance. She still hangs around.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I think, well, I believe it with a huh.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
They're going to contact you.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I know they might want me to call you if
they do.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Yeah, we'd appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Okay, you got a card? Yeah, thanks, I'll give you
a ring.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
All right, anyone we'll hear from you.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yeah, hey, yah.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
You see, well you should have thanked the game. I lost,
know you didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You're won.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
We returned to the office and ran the name of
description of the woman through the record section.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
We came up with a pack.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
He's listing arrest the violation of Section six forty seventy
five of the Pemal Code and forty two twenty lam
s listening drinks.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
She'd served two terms in the.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
County jail and at the present time was not on parole.
We got our address and go out to see her
Landy to get the apartment household that she was out
and wasn't expected back at any certain times. Thank and
I drove down to the Tenor Hearts, a small bar
on sixth Streets. We found the woman sitting on one
of the front stools.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Hi, honey, liked by drink? Your name, James fin letter
names don't meant even here, just friends, so it really
counts friends.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
How about it? That's your name?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (11:54):
You guys trap? That's are you asking me for rank?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
On?
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Were rocking?
Speaker 8 (11:58):
I want to talk to you out what let's get outside?
You's a talk there?
Speaker 9 (12:02):
I had a choice, not much, okay, Henry, Yeah, save
the tool.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Okay, So.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Right out here when you talk in the car, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Go ahead, get in, Okay.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
What's the beef?
Speaker 8 (12:31):
You work your beef lean.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
In this place?
Speaker 5 (12:33):
That's right? Uh?
Speaker 9 (12:35):
Once I come in and have a couple of drinks.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Where do you live? I've been around you right.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Out here to pass the time of day. What do
you ask you?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
A couple of questions not to callers for that uniform
you intend the suit out to.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Ask about a traffic accident?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
What do you do with your time?
Speaker 9 (12:51):
Game, move around, lay it out for me when fast.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
First of the week, huh, okay, got.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Late Monday, got us about one thirty. Had a bad
night Sunday. What a couple of the real head tagged
amy on the corner, A couple of bloody mary went home,
danks my clothes and met his friends.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
You wanna give us his name?
Speaker 9 (13:15):
An't go any father after us?
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Nick Feiffer, Okay, what happennt?
Speaker 9 (13:21):
I was out with him until thinety two thirty, that's
in the morning. Yeah. Came home, went to bed and
slept until about eleven thirty two. Got a call from
a couple of friends who just got into town.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Got their names, same deal, Same deal.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
A couple of brothers. They met a girlfriend of mine
in Las Vegas. She gave him my number. How about
the names Easton and Grady merchants. Okay, met them, had
a couple of drinks and go out to the beach
for lunch. Came back to town at dinner. Takes us
up the last night.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Have you seen him today?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Nope, he couldn't call me.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
S afternoon yeh, sat down some.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Kinds of business.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
He'll take care of the season.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
After that they were gonna.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Pick me up.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Well, yeah, about an hour that The reason for the
my silver might and grothers right me had a game going.
I'm on their side. I want that clear. They pulled
a booboo.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
They did it.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Themselves, no help from me, cause I'm concerned. They both
got soft spots.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
What do you mean?
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Nice calls sauce.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
They say what this physiness was they had to take
care of.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
No mentioning something about somebody will want him money, something
like that that they were gonna collect.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Didn't say where though, not to me.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
The way you were rigged last night, though, didn't leave
a lot of dogs, all those guns going out to collect. Ye,
they weren't gonna do it nice.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
We called the office and told them what it happened.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Another team of men were set out to help us.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Cover the place.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Frank and I took a couple our positions in the
back of the bar.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Were waiting one fifteen.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
What do you think, Joe, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
They decided not show us that's possible.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
John got not here this morning. Ye, well, I was shaving.
I always have trouble, you know. Try all the things
to tell you about the ladder, say on two and
a half minutes.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Hot water, all the things you're supposed to do.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I tried them off, finally came.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Up with the answer.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
He did, yep, But what is it?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
This done?
Speaker 8 (15:36):
New kind of razor?
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Yeah, I got thinking about say and gave me the idea.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
How does that work?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Pays?
Speaker 8 (15:45):
My wife?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
All know that she's shaving.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
Though, so you don't understand she's not shaving.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Well, Oh, the last night he gave herself one of
those home permanents, and I got the idea from that.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
For the new razors.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Yeah, they got those permanent things for different kinds of hair,
like hair that's hard to curl, medium, easy to curl, easy.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
You know, I think I know what's coming here.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Oh, somebody invented a razor for Top Stars medium beard's
white stairs.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You do all right?
Speaker 8 (16:13):
M hm, he's gonna invented.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I am sure.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
I'm not gonna invented.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
You know how I am with those things. It's that
the idea, though, I feel like to buy one if
they had him top Stars, find me one right away
first day. Every be the answer out here comes time.
That's like lady mustinking in dinner.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Yeah, my brothers might be outside.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Wait a minute when.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
We move.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Talking to the similar woman's through.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Definitely, let's go.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
We'll take him outside, all right, Hold up, he's leaving, Joe,
come on, come down, take it easy, take it easy,
all right, come on, get up, come on, get over
them in the wall.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Dance him.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Miselle Lucas himself. I put your hands down the back.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I mean you shove me around for the top. You're
gonna be sorry about your brother.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
You'll find it.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
You got a fat mountains.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
You know where is he?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
I won't let you do him.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Got him? That's right, you'll turn them on and you
talk to me guys like you always causin trouble.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Now she bumb I don't know what he's in seasons'.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
You're gonna be sorry when hears about this.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
Tell him say to get you.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
You can't dig far enough to get away. You'll find him.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Pay your back.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You tell us she's gonna collect in.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
She'll be shorry not alone.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
You'll have company.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
The other team of men remained at the bar, and
you have the other suspect returned because Grady Merton into
the city Hall for questioning empty apart, come on, empty.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Amount change keys can't get your spend.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
Then let me see your arms ring. Come on, let
me see your arms for There's two ways.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
To do this.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
You take your choice.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 8 (18:16):
When do you have your last pop?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
You got to prove it.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
That won't be hard. Only got to do is drop
you on a night hot sell and you'll be screaming
for it.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Sure you get all the money you can on that.
I'll book it myself.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Let me see the water.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
It's nothing wrong with your reach.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
With a pink slip on your car? Whatt Nevada?
Speaker 7 (18:35):
I sort of said, key for I just like to
carry him.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Senner, what happens now? You hit me?
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Turn around for that's something Vinci Martin, that's key here?
What's it for? Hendrick Sermon's hotel? That what you've been saying?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I'm not gonna say anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You want me to talk, it's gotta be with the lawyer.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
I know my right.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
You can't make you say that. You huh weet all
we need.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
They had Grady Merton take into the main jail and
held the answer charges of violation of Section two eleven
PC three twenty six am. Frank and I left the
office and go out to the Hendrick times with a
large private home in the French Shaw area.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
That had been converted into a hotel.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Frank covered the back entrance to the building and I
walked up the steps.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
Go, I'm covering uncovered.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You know it's three thirty.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I hope you've got a good reason coming around here.
There's time.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
As I lace office and company, he was ready to go.
Room five see what for police business?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Listens?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Is the clean place. There's no problem, and that's where
I want it. That's where I want to see out here.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Now, who's in room five?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
See company?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
One of the names.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I don't know if something white right in the room
for him.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I only see him a couple of times.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
All right, then one of them look like this picture coming.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Here away and get some life. Ah, just take a look.
Oh this is fella here, that's right. M well, yes, yes,
that's one of them. Yeah at the end. Now, well,
I wouldn't have any way of.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Going that Tennant's come and go as they please, see long.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
As they don't let the water run. Don't they have
no loud parties?
Speaker 9 (20:33):
We don't bother.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
It was the third floor over here, okay, just falls
out of the back door.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Yeah, he's gotta go through the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
See can you tell me what this is all about?
The better?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
If we didn't, we're gonna be in shooting.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I don't think so. Well.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
If it is, I can give your hands.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I gotta prongagement role he used to hunt.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
I can guess if you.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
That won't be necessary.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
All right, thanks?
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Yeah, I don't know yet.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Running backstairs, he's right through there. It looks like a closer.
If you open another door.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
And you can go on up.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Uh say you have the key of the room.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, yeah, here are right?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Why would you go with you?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
It might be better if you stayed here?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Yeah, Well, I'll get my gun guard in the front door.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
He won't get out. I'll guard it.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
It's just down this way, man, easy.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Oh no, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You know what I'm saying. Yeah? What see? I did? Ye?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
What are you doing in the high What are you
guys doing it? Todd?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I had to get any to do this.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
We did.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
We should have killed you all the time in the world,
and I didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
I should have killed Yeah, you should have per a
big shock. I couldn't do it, no reason at all.
Wouldn't it cost me anymore? That's any sure they never
executed anybody in this state for killing a cop, wouldn't
it cost me anymore?
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Got a bigger billion to pay?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Now, come on.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
The story you have just.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Heard is true.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
The names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
On August eighteenth, trial was held in the Apartment ninety
eighth Superior Court of the State of California in and
Paula County of Los Angeles, and I'm almost the results
of that trial. Ethan Gifford Merton and Grady James Merton
were tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree
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five counts and received sentences prescribed by law. Robbery in
the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in the state
teneicentiary for a period of from five years to delight.
Because of the viciousness of their crimes, their sentences were
set to run consecutively. A hold was placed on them
by the State of Alabama in the event they are paroled.
(23:29):
You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases
from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department
Technical Advisors. Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynne, Sergeant Vans
Brascher heard tonight where Ben Alexander, Herb bellis, Virginia Gregg,
Vick Rodman, Bert Hollins, script.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
By John Robinson, music by Walter Schumann.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Hell give me speaking.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
What's an entirely different Dragnet case History Week on your
local NBC television station.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Please check your newspapers for the day and.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Time Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Transcribe from Los Angeles
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The story you're about to hear is true.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The names have been changed to protect the innocence. You're
a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. You get
a teletype warning you that two hold up men are
heading for your city. You know they're armed and dangerous.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Your job to be ready for the.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Straight the documented drama of an actual crimes.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
The Los Angeles Police Departments, you.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Will travel step by step on the side of the law.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
To an actual case.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Transcribe from official police vilence from beginning to land.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
I'm trying to punishment.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Drag nest is the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
It wiscus.
Speaker 7 (01:11):
The HPEL step was raining in Los Angeles. We were
working to day watch out of robbery detail. My partner
Frank Smith, the Boston setected Sad Brown.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
My name is Friday as I'm.
Speaker 7 (01:19):
Always back tomorrow and I had It was eight forty
six am when I got the room twenty seven eight
squad room rank. Yeah, yo, back here, I'm out of
turning thing. Yeah. A couple of names none, a mass
of descriptions. One of them are supposed to be in
the safternoon's mail.
Speaker 8 (01:34):
I said they were centering them there especially would be
easier when we know who we're looking for.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
There will Friday Mitya asking me, got a minute right there.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Monday? Yeah, close the door, set down here, take a
look at this.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
What is it about the merchants biters?
Speaker 8 (01:59):
I just talk to lepos Cheff.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Lots and straight give me as much as he could
on the merchant.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
We check out records.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
There's a lot of isn't like they from what Leapos says.
They're fresh after the name a town now someplace in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
They're trying to run it out.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Both we got said they'll pull a couple of gas
station over there anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, at least they think so, burning of their records.
The boys got into town a couple of months ago,
no visible means, with plenty of money hung around the
places on the strift gambles drank themselves quite a time.
Speaker 9 (02:28):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
The department over there started.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
To wonder where the money was coming from.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Put a couple of men on him full time, or
they find.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Out not much cozy.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
They were finally picked up on a drunk charge. Mugs
and printed nothing to hold them on. So they were
released next morning. Let's get down, let's clean.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I'm away out. They stopped long enough to kick.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
In a couple of those gas station motels you know
along the highway.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
We're pretty good, but.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
They comes like the identification right away.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, as soon as they saw the pictures, sheriffs off
as notified Bakers Highway Patrol. Theer was waiting. But they
must have gotten through before the wood winner. We've been
able to trace them through bar still Victor bill On
through pear blossoms, little rock. It worked hard all the way.
What he made three service stations, two restaurants, one motel.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Holding on them here in La not yet.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
A matter of time.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We've got to get them before then. All the victims
tell the same story. These two guys are off their rockets.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
We've tacked up their well armed tar, they're driving.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
His coals and they're on the needle.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Tell it where we got it.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Leopold says they kept a couple of dates with norm
pushers in Vegas. As far as he could tell, it
wasn't anything passed. That doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
So it's the story and on it Okay, I tell
it before.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
It's a matter of time untill they try to put
somebody around here in town. For a couple of crazy
gunmen high on h bad combination.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Somebody's gonna lose.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
Let's hope it's not us.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Ethan Gifford and Mertons WMA twenty seven years, five feet
eight inches, one hundred and.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Fifty five times and his brother, Grady.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
James Martin for twenty four years, five six hundred and
fifty two pounds arrived in Los Angeles on the morning
of April fifth. The first word we had at their
presence was a hotshot telephone call reporting a robbery of
a market on the corner of Santa Monica Boulevarden Monroe Street.
The market owners, mister and Missus Turner Dylon, had both
Schiston with mister Dyllon has been removed to George Beaton
seting the hospital for treatment of a skull practice. The
(04:19):
woman had been given emergency treatment on the scene and
referred to her own doctor. The description the victims.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Gave us match to Mergan brothers.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
As soon as the Munkshots and Las Vegas arrived, Frank
and I had all out to see missus Dyllon.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
The found her in the small apartment above the store.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
I just talked to doctor the hospital, he said, turned brissent. Sure,
wonder the way they hit him, that's right, no reasons
for it. We did give him the money, tend he
kept telling him, take the money and leave us alone.
Take some money. Didn't make any difference to him.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I don't think the adenhard us.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
We'd like to look at some pictures, mister Dyllons, see
if you can point out them.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Man, Oh, sure, anything be.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
He to tetch him here? You are on man, think
you got him in here?
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Do you hope?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes? Yeah, you're right now.
Speaker 9 (05:03):
Yeah, they are saying too, so I gonna help again.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Yeah they did?
Speaker 7 (05:08):
You notice that they built a time and the villain.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
I can't turn you to sure we we didn't really
see until they were in the store. I think now
there must be something wrong with men to beat somebody
up like that.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You know up here, can't be a normal person.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
What they say to you, Well, told us it was
a stick up, said the hand over the money, the
bigger one. That's that's him right there, he said, for
us to hurry up. I see my husband opened the
cash registers and I gave him what was there they want,
told him to get to the safe. Hand over that
money too. Yeah, pointed the gun that has kind of
pushed its back to the safe.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Trinder opened it all the time.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
We did just what they said.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
We weren'tnna cause them any trouble. Yeah, handed them all
the money. Every time Tryner kept saying, take the money,
but leave us alone. He must have said it fifty
times before I even knew what was happening. Turner was
lying on the floor and didn't hit I got mad.
I tried to get up the man myself didn't make
any difference to him.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I was a woman that hit me too.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
What's the gun? Yeah, here in my face.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
If they didn't hit me as hard as they just
turn it. If they didn't, still not too good.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
To tell you the truth.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
I was more consented to taking care of my husband
and paying attention to that ru couple of food limbs.
I don't know where men like it comes from. Must
be something wrong with the way.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
They were brought up.
Speaker 9 (06:21):
Truth, Come on, it will probably be their parents who
ought to be and jail.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
I'm not the boys at all. You might be right,
it's not the boy's pal.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
Well, we'll settle for.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Four twenty five pm when you see the communicating the
FBI telling us that the merchants others are wanted by
the state of Alabama for escape. The complete record on
the two men was also sent They've been arrested a
total of twenty six times for everything from petty steft
to kidnapping. According to the Kickback, they'd escaped from a
road gang observing a sentence to the possession of narcotics.
We contacted the authorities in Alabama and asked them to
(06:55):
forward all available information on the suspect. After talking with
Captain Donahoe, Frank and.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
I went over to the First Creek Stations to see
Captain Waller. We asked him to.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Supply a list of places the two brothers might turn
for an archaic contact. He gave us a list of
several places in town and the names of men we
could talk to. A sixteen pm. He started to check
them out. Yeah, I want them things you've seen.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Patty Hayworth's around.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Why you're looking for him?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
I want to talk to him for a Bob.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
What we wanted you to know we'd asked for you
when we the guy's cost.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
That's right now where it's pasty.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Come on, we got word that he hasn't been one
three blocks away from here in the past four years.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Nowhere is he?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I told you, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
They're not being smart missing.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
A back room.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Stay along herefore, as I know what you do, it's
not some different plan sold there.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Oh yeah, do you want something?
Speaker 8 (07:54):
You Patty Hayworth.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I tried.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Sit down. I know you.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
If you're in your wrong room, police officers, we got
some questions for you. I just don't guarantee the answers as.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
To start.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Go.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
You're heard from the Martin brothers who Grady and Ethan
Merton no.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Name you don't know, Red Queen in the barking and
I could turn him over.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
That's the baby I've been looking forst first time today. Yeah,
first win. Too bad. I didn't pay for the deck.
I hadn't make it.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Kill him, all right?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
I come on here with what do you know about
the Martins?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I told you nothing? Now why come to me? At
other guys in town?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
They're gonna need eight the way we got it.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You can steer them to it.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Old friends again all right, get your coach. Why let's
take a ride. But why we can't talk here?
Speaker 8 (08:42):
Let's get down town.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
It's a nice place. There's nothing wrong with right here.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
I don't what do you know?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
What's in it for me?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Why?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Information like that ought to be worth it?
Speaker 8 (08:52):
You know we can't do anything for you. Come on,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
How long do you think you're gonna be able to
hold it long enough?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
How do you make that?
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Well, I'll tell you. We'll take you downtown.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Process you pass the word, you're copped out.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Told us about a half a dozen people in town.
Things like that gets around, you're going to be in trouble.
You'll come back with what we want to know?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Well, that's kind of crumby and almost.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Builds a black mail.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And you called it.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
We didn't you really do that?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We would.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
All right, crushed out all the roads. What do you
want to know about the Mertins?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
You know him?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I met him yet where place down the street last night?
What is it?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
A bar?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Hotel?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Hotel? That? No, we just used the room to meet.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Know where they are?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What they want?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
You call it a you do them any good?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
No?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
He told you the truth.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
And I'm pushing anymore?
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Why do they come to you heard I.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Could turn them on.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
What you tell them?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Oh, I said, I couldn't help him. I told him
I try and line something up stall. You know, I
don't want any part of that action. You know, I
could have a piece that they answer to. You know why, Well,
these guys are too far out. They must be shooting
seven eight caps a day. Guys sad most of the
time cooking. They're out of their skulls.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
He's got anything that will help box the man.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I don't know, Hey, man abroad, what you mean? Oh,
they're dragging abroad with them. A big one must be
six to two in the stock. You know. I've seen her
around where he used to.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Have some drinks. Downtown's got too rough that some of.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
The managers they tied the candle.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
She's been floating for a.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Couple of months, ties into some guy who pay the
bill sides. He wises up, She drops and goes on
to prowle.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
She got an address.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Oh, I can't name it, some fleabag on sipar thing.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
She might chip you with it, not steadying us.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
She's smart, you know, honey, looks you do real good
one of the homeliest women I ever met.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Yeah, it looks like she should be wearing.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
A bridle work and would get in touch with it.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Well, it's hard to say since she's running with the mertens. Yes,
you might try the ten of hearts to dive on six.
She used to show for the place when they kicked
her out.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
You were freelance. She still hangs around.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I think, well, I believe it with a huh.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
They're going to contact you.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I know they might want me to call you if
they do.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Yeah, we'd appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Okay, you got a card? Yeah, thanks, I'll give you
a ring.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
All right, anyone we'll hear from you.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yeah, hey, yah.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
You see, well you should have thanked the game. I lost,
know you didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You're won.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
We returned to the office and ran the name of
description of the woman through the record section.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
We came up with a pack.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
He's listing arrest the violation of Section six forty seventy
five of the Pemal Code and forty two twenty lam
s listening drinks.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
She'd served two terms in the.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
County jail and at the present time was not on parole.
We got our address and go out to see her
Landy to get the apartment household that she was out
and wasn't expected back at any certain times. Thank and
I drove down to the Tenor Hearts, a small bar
on sixth Streets. We found the woman sitting on one
of the front stools.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Hi, honey, liked by drink? Your name, James fin letter
names don't meant even here, just friends, so it really
counts friends.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
How about it? That's your name?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (11:54):
You guys trap? That's are you asking me for rank?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
On?
Speaker 9 (11:57):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Were rocking?
Speaker 8 (11:58):
I want to talk to you out what let's get outside?
You's a talk there?
Speaker 9 (12:02):
I had a choice, not much, okay, Henry, Yeah, save
the tool.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Okay, So.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Right out here when you talk in the car, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Go ahead, get in, Okay.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
What's the beef?
Speaker 8 (12:31):
You work your beef lean.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
In this place?
Speaker 5 (12:33):
That's right? Uh?
Speaker 9 (12:35):
Once I come in and have a couple of drinks.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Where do you live? I've been around you right.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Out here to pass the time of day. What do
you ask you?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
A couple of questions not to callers for that uniform
you intend the suit out to.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Ask about a traffic accident?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
What do you do with your time?
Speaker 9 (12:51):
Game, move around, lay it out for me when fast.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
First of the week, huh, okay, got.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
Late Monday, got us about one thirty. Had a bad
night Sunday. What a couple of the real head tagged
amy on the corner, A couple of bloody mary went home,
danks my clothes and met his friends.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
You wanna give us his name?
Speaker 9 (13:15):
An't go any father after us?
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Nick Feiffer, Okay, what happennt?
Speaker 9 (13:21):
I was out with him until thinety two thirty, that's
in the morning. Yeah. Came home, went to bed and
slept until about eleven thirty two. Got a call from
a couple of friends who just got into town.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Got their names, same deal, Same deal.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
A couple of brothers. They met a girlfriend of mine
in Las Vegas. She gave him my number. How about
the names Easton and Grady merchants. Okay, met them, had
a couple of drinks and go out to the beach
for lunch. Came back to town at dinner. Takes us
up the last night.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Have you seen him today?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Nope, he couldn't call me.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
S afternoon yeh, sat down some.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Kinds of business.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
He'll take care of the season.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
After that they were gonna.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Pick me up.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Well, yeah, about an hour that The reason for the
my silver might and grothers right me had a game going.
I'm on their side. I want that clear. They pulled
a booboo.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
They did it.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Themselves, no help from me, cause I'm concerned. They both
got soft spots.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
What do you mean?
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Nice calls sauce.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
They say what this physiness was they had to take
care of.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
No mentioning something about somebody will want him money, something
like that that they were gonna collect.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Didn't say where though, not to me.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
The way you were rigged last night, though, didn't leave
a lot of dogs, all those guns going out to collect. Ye,
they weren't gonna do it nice.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
We called the office and told them what it happened.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Another team of men were set out to help us.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Cover the place.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Frank and I took a couple our positions in the
back of the bar.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Were waiting one fifteen.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
What do you think, Joe, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
They decided not show us that's possible.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
John got not here this morning. Ye, well, I was shaving.
I always have trouble, you know. Try all the things
to tell you about the ladder, say on two and
a half minutes.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Hot water, all the things you're supposed to do.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I tried them off, finally came.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Up with the answer.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
He did, yep, But what is it?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
This done?
Speaker 8 (15:36):
New kind of razor?
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Yeah, I got thinking about say and gave me the idea.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
How does that work?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Pays?
Speaker 8 (15:45):
My wife?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
All know that she's shaving.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
Though, so you don't understand she's not shaving.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Well, Oh, the last night he gave herself one of
those home permanents, and I got the idea from that.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
For the new razors.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Yeah, they got those permanent things for different kinds of hair,
like hair that's hard to curl, medium, easy to curl, easy.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
You know, I think I know what's coming here.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Oh, somebody invented a razor for Top Stars medium beard's
white stairs.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You do all right?
Speaker 8 (16:13):
M hm, he's gonna invented.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I am sure.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
I'm not gonna invented.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
You know how I am with those things. It's that
the idea, though, I feel like to buy one if
they had him top Stars, find me one right away
first day. Every be the answer out here comes time.
That's like lady mustinking in dinner.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Yeah, my brothers might be outside.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Wait a minute when.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
We move.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Talking to the similar woman's through.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Definitely, let's go.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
We'll take him outside, all right, Hold up, he's leaving, Joe,
come on, come down, take it easy, take it easy,
all right, come on, get up, come on, get over
them in the wall.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Dance him.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Miselle Lucas himself. I put your hands down the back.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I mean you shove me around for the top. You're
gonna be sorry about your brother.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
You'll find it.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
You got a fat mountains.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
You know where is he?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
I won't let you do him.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Got him? That's right, you'll turn them on and you
talk to me guys like you always causin trouble.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Now she bumb I don't know what he's in seasons'.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
You're gonna be sorry when hears about this.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
Tell him say to get you.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
You can't dig far enough to get away. You'll find him.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Pay your back.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You tell us she's gonna collect in.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
She'll be shorry not alone.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
You'll have company.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
The other team of men remained at the bar, and
you have the other suspect returned because Grady Merton into
the city Hall for questioning empty apart, come on, empty.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Amount change keys can't get your spend.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
Then let me see your arms ring. Come on, let
me see your arms for There's two ways.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
To do this.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
You take your choice.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 8 (18:16):
When do you have your last pop?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
You got to prove it.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
That won't be hard. Only got to do is drop
you on a night hot sell and you'll be screaming
for it.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Sure you get all the money you can on that.
I'll book it myself.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Let me see the water.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
It's nothing wrong with your reach.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
With a pink slip on your car? Whatt Nevada?
Speaker 7 (18:35):
I sort of said, key for I just like to
carry him.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Senner, what happens now? You hit me?
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Turn around for that's something Vinci Martin, that's key here?
What's it for? Hendrick Sermon's hotel? That what you've been saying?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I'm not gonna say anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You want me to talk, it's gotta be with the lawyer.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
I know my right.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
You can't make you say that. You huh weet all
we need.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
They had Grady Merton take into the main jail and
held the answer charges of violation of Section two eleven
PC three twenty six am. Frank and I left the
office and go out to the Hendrick times with a
large private home in the French Shaw area.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
That had been converted into a hotel.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Frank covered the back entrance to the building and I
walked up the steps.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
Go, I'm covering uncovered.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You know it's three thirty.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I hope you've got a good reason coming around here.
There's time.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
As I lace office and company, he was ready to go.
Room five see what for police business?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Listens?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Is the clean place. There's no problem, and that's where
I want it. That's where I want to see out here.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Now, who's in room five?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
See company?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
One of the names.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I don't know if something white right in the room
for him.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I only see him a couple of times.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
All right, then one of them look like this picture coming.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Here away and get some life. Ah, just take a look.
Oh this is fella here, that's right. M well, yes, yes,
that's one of them. Yeah at the end. Now, well,
I wouldn't have any way of.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Going that Tennant's come and go as they please, see long.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
As they don't let the water run. Don't they have
no loud parties?
Speaker 9 (20:33):
We don't bother.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
It was the third floor over here, okay, just falls
out of the back door.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Yeah, he's gotta go through the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
See can you tell me what this is all about?
The better?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
If we didn't, we're gonna be in shooting.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I don't think so. Well.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
If it is, I can give your hands.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I gotta prongagement role he used to hunt.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
I can guess if you.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
That won't be necessary.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
All right, thanks?
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Yeah, I don't know yet.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Running backstairs, he's right through there. It looks like a closer.
If you open another door.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
And you can go on up.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Uh say you have the key of the room.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, yeah, here are right?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Why would you go with you?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
It might be better if you stayed here?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Yeah, Well, I'll get my gun guard in the front door.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
He won't get out. I'll guard it.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
It's just down this way, man, easy.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Oh no, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You know what I'm saying. Yeah? What see? I did? Ye?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
What are you doing in the high What are you
guys doing it? Todd?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I had to get any to do this.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
We did.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
We should have killed you all the time in the world,
and I didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
I should have killed Yeah, you should have per a
big shock. I couldn't do it, no reason at all.
Wouldn't it cost me anymore? That's any sure they never
executed anybody in this state for killing a cop, wouldn't
it cost me anymore?
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Got a bigger billion to pay?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Now, come on.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
The story you have just.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Heard is true.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
The names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
On August eighteenth, trial was held in the Apartment ninety
eighth Superior Court of the State of California in and
Paula County of Los Angeles, and I'm almost the results
of that trial. Ethan Gifford Merton and Grady James Merton
were tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree
(23:01):
five counts and received sentences prescribed by law. Robbery in
the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in the state
teneicentiary for a period of from five years to delight.
Because of the viciousness of their crimes, their sentences were
set to run consecutively. A hold was placed on them
by the State of Alabama in the event they are paroled.
(23:29):
You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases
from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department
Technical Advisors. Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynne, Sergeant Vans
Brascher heard tonight where Ben Alexander, Herb bellis, Virginia Gregg,
Vick Rodman, Bert Hollins, script.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
By John Robinson, music by Walter Schumann.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Hell give me speaking.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
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