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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear is true.
The names have been changed to protect the innocance. You're
a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery details. You get
a call from the San Diego Police Department. The three
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hold up men are thought to be heading for your city.
You know they're arms, you know they're dangerous.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Your job get them.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Dragment, the documented drama of an actual crime, will the
next thirty minutes. In cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department.
You will travel step by step on the side of
the law to an actual case. Tnscribe from official police silence,
from beginning to end, from sign to punic drag nets
is the story of your police force.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
An action.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
With Monday, October fifth, with one in Los Angeles. Were
wasn't a night watch out? A robbery detail? My partner
Franks Smith, the bosses Captain Diddy, and my name is Siddy.
I was on my way into the office and was
fourth at the eight PM. I got to him twenty
seven as robbery. Hi, am I thank yeah, he was
here a couple of minutes ago. I think he went
down the hall. Sat'd be right back. Thanks the kid
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we're in the cycle again. By I had a cold cycle.
Oh yeah, oldest boy brings one home with him, give
it to his sister, then to go with the baby,
and then of the wife, and then to me. By
the time I got it, the oldest boys ready to
catch it again from me.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Doesn't seem to be any.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
End to it. It's see what you mean, leave the
other day.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
If you take care of the cold, you know, take
a lot of pills, stay in bed.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You can shake it in a week.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Don't do anything special for it, and it'll take seven
days to get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So an ap be here from San Diego, only down
there with the room cover gymkin, I think, Yeah, I
can hear him moan all the way from here. Or
is it play had a jewel robbery at a hotel
on the coast. Dreamn just one hundred and thirty five
thousand jewels and at least fifteen thousand jags.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
One hundred and fifty and he leaves on him.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No APV gives a description list of the stolen jewelis Oh,
when it happens, I said.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
One thirty of money.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, it's gonna keep him busy for a while. At
more scream than like an eagle.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Gel All I talked to him last week, said he
was going down to Mexico to do some fishing and
seven days off for the last three months.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I'll get to go now, I get it. Robbie Friday, Yeah, I'll.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Go ahead, and you know yeah, I'm what Yeah, we
got the APV.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How they're going?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Yeah, what do you figure they left?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay, more yeah, all right, We'll keep an eye open.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
What's he done? Well?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Davis walking here when they're coming up they're driving. Yeah,
they take it a whole up. Matterhead in this way.
The early editions of the Afternoon.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Papers came out and they carried the complete story.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Three men had entered the Carlton Surf Hotel.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
At one thirty am.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All three were armed, and they forced the manager to
open the safe. Inside the vault were the jewels and
the other valuables that had been deposited with the managements
for space keeping by the guests. After looting the safe,
the three men had robbed five of the guests who
had entered the lobby during the time that they'd been
going through the safe. After taking all the money and
valuables they could find, the three men forced the manager
and the guests into a back store room of the
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hotel and they locked them in. None of the victims
could tell the San Diego officers what kind of a
card then used, but all of them.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Were able to give good descriptions of the three men.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
The San Diego Police Department had been called and the
men from the Detective GUA had begun an immediate investigation.
From the phone conversation I had had with Lieutenant mort
gear they had evidence to believe that the three men
were heading up the Los Angeles. While the three detectives
from the San Diego Department came to La Lieutenant gear
Door told him Maguire would continue the investigation down in
their city. Eleven twelve pm, Sergeant Carll Davis, Gary Walk
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and Happy Hwan arrived at the city hall.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They filled us in on what had happened.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Way the thing worked, it figured that someone would either
worked for the hotel or was.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Working for it, had engineered it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That checked out the.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Identification again, Yeah, Virgil Russell worked in the hotel a
year ago as a.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Bus go in the dining room. All the victims gave
a positive identification of it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
All up the others's house.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Not none man, one major figure.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They might be coming up here now.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Russell's got a record set his package and found that
he has assistant. San Diego checked her and she gave
us laid to said her brother and two men came
by the house early this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Her brother's been staying with her the past few weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Anyway, he came by this morning. Package closed, so he
had to come up to La.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
On the business. Or she had an address up here
for him.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
So not good, said.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
He told her he'd get in touch with her. He
was staying with a friend place out on the Olympic Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Anything on that address, Yeah, package gave an address out there.
Russell had listed a friend of his when he was arrested. Well,
you fingured he might be out there.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
He got a good.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Description in the car.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
One thing is going to help.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Sister told us that she had I could brother about.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
The other two men. Wanted to know if they didn't
want to come to house, and Russell said no, they
were waiting for him.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
If the three of them were in a hurry, she
shouldn't give us a description of the other two or
what time this happened.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
About five thirty this poet, Well, they came right up here.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
They'd get in about eighteen with me.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, you're pretty sure if these are the right ones, though, looks.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Like that identification of mud.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Russell sister told us when he was packing, my broach
fell out of his grips.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
He picked it up for him. He would have skipped
on us.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, match is one that was taken from the hotel.
In the fact, large diamond with four rubies in the setting.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Looked attle bit for the job. He got a broadcast
down on the car. Yeah, Russell's sister told us a
fifty three mashed red and black Continental hookups.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
She said Russell just.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Got back from a trip through Arizona and the vat
of New Mexico said that he had the rear wind
to cover with those stickers, you know the ones they
get some gas stations.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, me, wind is supposed to be covered with him.
It shouldn't be hard to spot.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Maybe he figures that too, might haven't taken office partsibot
to lead though something else to look out for him.
Any chanced it might have gotten across the border into Mexico.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, it's possible, but it isn't likely.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
As soon as we got word on the car, we
got out of Supplemental eight on it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
He's got in touch with the authorities.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Down the border.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
They said they hadn't seen a car match the description
across the boarder, and if they'd gotten to the border,
the office down there didn't know about it anyway. Yeah,
I talked to Ali Gaton from our office. He said
they'd be on the lookout for him. Our pawn shot
detail got right on a car and we got the
description of jewelry out all over time.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
We haven't any reports on the gainst them.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They aren't going to try to sell it piece by
piece of too many of those pieces are easy to recognize,
you know. They'll probably try to pet up to a
fence and have it broken up. I will get the
word out on forman ask them to watch out for it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Height that big camp. He kept quiet for long. Boundary
rumbles on at some places.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'd like to check out the place on the Olympic.
It looks like it's Bethley.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
We got okay, we're walking here. Andon went down the
hall with Murky. Wanted to check some things that are and.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I well, I'll get on out. Olympics.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
We got the heather the Yeah, you better chack the
place first. It could be rough.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean well, three of them are on Ruffles third time,
twice before as the giant.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I don't think he's gonna want to go back. We
checked the name of Ruffles's friend through our files.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We found that he had no use. We drove out
to the address on Olympic and we talked with the neighbors.
From them, we.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Found out that it was not a private residence. We
talked to the woman who lived next door. We asked
her about the man lifted in the San Diego package
as a friend of the suspects. She told us she
hadn't seen him. Directly in front of the rooming house,
we found a car answering the.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Description given us by the sisters.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
There were no lights on in the rooming house. Walking
Hugh and covered the rear of the place. Frank, Carl
Davis and I went up to the front door.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Pretty dark.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I can't see anybody in answer you, No, I can't
check the window.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
See thank's funny, all right, col So let's try the dark.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Yeah, who is? Come on?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Open up it.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Nobody gets in hair? All right, I'm not doing anything when.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You do break. That's funny. I'll take him, jos He
exclaims everything. Okay, yeah, Cale, I'll get walking.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You and who else in the house all the way
with the land lady, she's upstairs, her and her daughter.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Nobody else here? What's your name, Peter Ellis?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Where's Russell? I don't know I near Russell?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
All right, we'll look around. Come on, what's the name
dining room? There's nothing in there?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
See nobody here. Ah, that'll check the other room. Where's
the struggle bedroom?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Ain't nobody in there?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Opening it up? So nobody in the kitchen. Set the
back toward walking Davids upstairs, and we'll try this one here.
Come on, you open it up.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Its lock.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You can't get in. There's a key in the door
over here.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Let's ship set black up, fake up?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Wait you call.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
That, Joe?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I can I come on?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You want a bed? Hey, Joe?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
The bottle sleep from Drills on the table here, Yeah,
and empty bottle with me.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
This is dead drunk.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That's dead with Queen Joseph especially.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, he's drunk. I guess we're pretty lucky under his
color there.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, three hens.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
With the suspects in custody, we searched the house.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
In the back bedroom where we found Virgil Russell, we
found a folder with all of the newspaper stories of
the hotel robbery. In each instance, that portion of the
story which referred to the thieves themselves was outlined in pencil,
and there were small.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Notations along the margins of the newspaper.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
A complete search of the house netted us nothing. There
was no sign of the loop from the robbery, although
each of the suspects had a large amount of money
in their possession. We talked to the landlady, but she
was unable to tell up anything about the suspects. She
said that she had rented a room to Peter Allis
over a year before, and if the suspect had moved.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Out after living in the house for only two months.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
She said that she hadn't seen them again since that
night when they arrived at the house and asked for rooms.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
We called the office the range for a stake.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Out on the place, and we took the two stuff
backs back to the office.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
We ran Peter Ellis d and I and we found
that he had one previous conviction on a lobbery charge.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Two fifteen am. We talked to Virgil Russell in the
interrogation room.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh, I know, I ain't trying to Kanye in anything.
I was in on the highest ill admitted that. I
ain't gonna be no fink, ain't gonna get any.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Other names out of me.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
We got the money we found on you from that
hotel robbery?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Is that right? I don't know where else did it
come from.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I got no reason to Kanye about the hotel job
I pulled it. Ain't afraid to admit it.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'm just not telling. Think that's all.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Maybe we can get it out of Elis and you
won't change anything. You're pretty sure about that. He admits
he was in on the robbery, and so what we
all had a deal.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
If any of us got caught, they wouldn't tell about
the other.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You think yell us and that other guy go that route.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Standing arrest alone. Sure we had an agreement.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh, come on, tell us how much he got for
the jewels. Didn't tell us that and not tell us
to the other man?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Is can't you?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I suppose so. Isn't any way you could tell if
I told you how much we got it? Seven five?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
How much?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Seven fives?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Who set up the deal with selling stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Youre probly yeah, I can handle it that he fetched
it forway to got seven thousand bucks for all the jewelry,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And made a good deal, all right, seven thousands of
one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars worth a jewelry
wasn't worth one hundred and thirty five that's just the
papers making it some thing.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh no, that's what you're wrong. That's what the stuff
is worth. Are you kidding? You got that report right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Wait a minute, that's that's maybe what they claimed the
stuff is worth. But you know how people are always
jacking things up. When the insurance companies the stuff was
worth maybe fifteen thousand do a cent more?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
After I heard it.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
This report you got the insurance company. Come, do you
like to read it yourself? Rustler?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Do you want me to read it to you?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Don't let me see it?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well? Lots be fun?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Oh no, good gud it. Just thief, that's what he is.
A steven thieve.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That's the kind of a guy you say you had
to deal with.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But you think he was doing your big favorite some
deal seven thousand dollars. If we picked him up, he
just screamed like an eagle. He's your pal, all right,
No good thief.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I can't believe it. Who'd sell his stuff to?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Do you know? No?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
And that's the truth. I saw that guy, but I
don't know who it was.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
How the deal worked.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Earlier to night we got to get out in wish Wood.
He called the fellow I was going to handle a deal.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Told him that me to.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Say, who's he? I think a lot of you think.
What's his name? Pain? Al Payne? I fell it last
name pay and he got a record. No, I don't
think so.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I never heard him talk about he gives a description. Yeah,
this stuff is really worth behind him thirty frank rands.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
He said it was a lot of talk.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Newspaper talk.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
He said, oh brother, what a laugh. What does Pain
look like you? He said about thirty seven, maybe undred
and fifty sixty pounds, both, a little bit of hair
on his I'll take the names, why and I do?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You want to bring the muggs back here?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah? Uffle yeah? At first name is at Alfred or Albert.
I think it's sell. But he's some kind of a promoter.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I don't know what he promotes.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I think it's just a dodge kind of a front.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
So let's go ahead with the story about to buy.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Huh where was it?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
He said? He went out the west.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Oh yeah, well we were supposed to meet out in
the parking lot for the ice rink, big place something.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, we met this guy that saw a pain call like.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
He looked at the stuff, said it was worth maybe
fifteen thousand the way it was, but he said I
had to be broken down before it could be sold,
and it wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Bring that much when it was all broken down. He
agreed to it, said it was true.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You went right along with it. Well, I was he deal.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
He was probably in the whole thing. Wouldn't be surprised.
I just can't get over we had all that stuff
and didn't know what it was worth.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
He got me out either. This guy is no.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I told you I didn't know. He said this paint
had an office are in town? You know what it is?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, I can show you.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
We were up there this afternoon while I was setting
up for deals. And I'm building over on six, and
you'd be willing to go over there with us so
you can mail it.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
That's right. We want to get the jewels.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Back. Sure, ago, So what that bum did to me?
Nothing too bad for him?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
How you gonna, oh, Ruffle Hero will have to introduce
me to somebody who wants to buy this stuff. I'll
have to tell Pain that I'm willing to pay, say,
fifty thousands.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Of the jewelry. That way, Pain will have to get
in touch with the other man. I don't think he'll
pass up a deal like that.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Maybe he figures to make more than that this way.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, I wu suppose he thinks that Ruffle here wants
to do business with me. He'll get the stuff back.
I don't think you want to cross Ruffle might work. Oh,
we don't get much choice. We got to get the
stuff back for it's broken up. Joel got some pictures here.
I match the description before the kind of match.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The description of I want to look at these.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, Joe's gonna go see this Pain with russe Manella
try to get laid on where the stuff here? Ey's
gonna work it. Oh, I tell Pain I'm interested in
buying the jewels. Offer maybe fifty thousand.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Picture's not here on a thesis train.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
If you go along with this, playing Ruffle, sure, I'd like.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
To see you get him and get him good.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Pretty risky. It doesn't want to take us any of
the way.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Suppose not.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Brussel, Yeah, we know.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Pain carries again.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I want you to remember it you get any bright
ideas that I tip and pay off about Joe. I remember,
we'll have men off of the building.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
All right, We're not going to start, yes it, we'll
finish it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
The two suspects, Peter Ellis and Virgil Russell, were taken
to the main jail and booked in for violation of
section two eleven of the California Penal Code. After that,
the officer from San Diego, Frank, and I discussed the
plan for.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Finding the stolen jewels.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It was agreed that I would go into the office
building with the suspect, Virgil Ruffle, to less than the
chances of discovery. I would carry no gun or any
police identifications. We were unable to make contact that night,
so the following morning we checked over the physical layout
of the building. There were six stories high and had
one elevator. There were two entrances to the building, one
in the front and one that opened off an alley
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in the rear. Officers were planted at both entrances. Additional
men were stationed on each floor. Two men were on
the roof to cut off any.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Possible escape to one of the adjoining buildings.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Eleven thirty am to the October sixth Ruff Will call
Pain and said that he wanted to see him. Paine
told him to come out over to the office. Ruff
when I got into a car and we drove over it.
It had dinner rings. But from the time we entered
the building, no one would.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Be permitted to leave until we returned to the main entrance.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Eleven fifty eight am. We got to the office building.
We went up to the fourth floor to sign on
Paine's door. I read Albert Paine Investment. Ruffal opened the
door and we walked in. I have verged. What's the bit? Well,
why did you meet Joe Ferstan Joe glad to meet?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, Samuel?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Sit down, boys, Now what's this thought about? About the stuff?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Now?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I gotta get it back? Now what's the pitch? I
don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Come off of Paine, Georgeys, we'll inger off the Annie
for the jewels.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
How much I goes? I have fifty thousand.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I got to see it first for fifteen thousand worth
of jewels paper fish with UD thirty five.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I explained that to you, they up the value. It's
all insured people up to price.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
The insurance companies papers up the price.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
They sell more papers. I told you, yeah, I ain't
buying it. I want the stuff back. I never even
got my cut of the seven thousand. Ill feels the
same way I told you. The money be coming, Oh,
I ain't coming anymore. I want the stuff bay. I
don't think we can do that. Most of it's already
broken up now. Not much of it could be broken
up at the time that he's at it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Guy that bought it isn't gonna like it.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Well, that's tough. You just tell him to stop breaking
it up. Telling me we want to.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Thank h Where do you figure to show the jewels.
I don't see who that concerns. You know, I'm walking
to fifty thousand for them. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Come on, come on, quit playing games. Let's get on it.
You get in touch with the guy you gave him
to and get the jewels. Thank And I got something
to say about this.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I was in on the job with you. Let you
forget it.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I'm going to say this once more.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Pin you get on that phone and get in touch
with your contact, tell him to stop breaking them up.
You set up a meat to get the stuff back.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I'll call him.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I don't think it's gonna do any good.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You probably get all the money's mothered down by this time,
got it all broken up.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
You call them, Let's see what happens. All right, now,
let me talk to fred.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Fred these yeah, uh listen, So he's come up. We
can't go through with the deal. Well, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I told him, doesn't make any difference. They want it
all back. Yeah, I told him that too, doesn't make
any difference. You want the jewels back as I'm broken
down too.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I told you how I want all of it back.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, yes, Freddy says, all of it? Okay, So when
can you make it? Yeah? All right, yeah, we'll see
you then, right, okay, fine, I have to step away
to my night. Why does he have to wait that one?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
How do I know?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
He just said he couldn't get it to any sooner.
He shouldn't let me talk to him. I'd have told him, yeah, sure, how.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Much have it's been broken up?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Well hardly, and he just got started, Fred says.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Almost all whole.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Who is this?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Fred?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
What's none of your business? I asked your question. You
bet your answer doesn't make any difference who he is.
You and your friends a lot of stuff to deal.
Be happy you fixed it?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Fine?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Well, Lord, come on better, and you better be right.
And I remember I got a piece of this. I
won't forget what kind tomorrow? Will doing need? Friend? He
said he'd called.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Let me know where I went.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I can't be any later than tomorrow. I gotta believe
in it. You're gonna have the money with you when
you pick up the stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I don't have it, all of it.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
I don't want you to down pain. I told you
i'd have all right. You called me tomorrow about ten.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Right, y'all?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Let another details then? Okay. I hope you're right about this? Right?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Let's deal.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I hope nothing happens to lost it up?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know, so do I.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Bugil ruff one and I left the office and went downstairs.
We checked with Frank, Kyle Davis and the other officers
from San Diego. Al Paine was taken in the custody.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And looked in at the main jail.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I'm suspicion of violation of Section two eleven PCs.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Then we returned to the office to find out who
has the stuff. Yeah, I fell the name of friends.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
You know he is no, not yet, but we will
figure that paint didn't tell you well.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I saw the number he die when he called fed.
It was a Hollywood precincts that. Now it was down
in the area.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I can try the number and see the answers. Oh,
I'm sorry I got the wrong number. Excuse me together.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, it's the Kingley Trophy Company.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I want to check the books. Okay, a A, I
m in kid. There was so Kingley Trophy Company.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Don lost upon as Sophy company.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
They'd give me a chance to milk the mountings down
a metal. Wouldn't it be easy to get rid of
it that way? It makes sense all you figure to
move in on right now we can.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Drive out and take place. Now we'll go over them
and go in and get them.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What happens with me, We gotta take you back to
main jail after they help. I gave the way it's
gotta be you know they're doing.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah, I of course, So when you're telling the DAI
out thought, yeah, we'll see he knows about it. There
a bad deal all the way, or I should have
known I couldn't win that from the start.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I should have known nobody can win. A lot of
people try it. We returned Virgil Russell to his cell
and then we drove out to.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
The Kingley Trophy Company.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It was a two story building on Los Palmas Avenue
in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
They made trophies and fraternity pins. A large sign on the.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Front of the building advertised that they could duplicate anything
and metal. We checked with a neighborhood merchants and found
that there was a permanent staff of four employees. The
company was owned by a Roger Kingley, and none of
the neighborhood people could tell us anything about an employee
by the name of Fred. Five pm, the employees of
the plant left the building. One man remained. From the
description we'd gotten from Russell, we figured that he was
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the person pain and called Fred six o three pm.
The lights in the rear of the factory went on.
Through the windows, we could see the suspect working over
a small funnet on a table. Off to one side.
We could see a quantity of jewelry. Frank Colin and
I went to the side door of the plant while
the other officers covered the remaining door.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, that's so. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I don't hit the.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Door, grabb him before he's got the chance to fill
the jewelry into the furnace.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Strength break for it.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
I got it.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Hold back to a break in the air like.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
This, Glad Joe, jewelry matches the description of the stolen stuff. Yeah,
it's like, it's all right, mister Standstone.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I'm thinking he's clean.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I don't know what the guys are doing. I don't
know what this is all about, all right, say that what's.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
The jewelry doing here? And this isn't mine? I didn't
ask you.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Who was asked what he was doing here?
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Oh, I'd say, give me twenty five hundred dollars if
I break it down for him.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
What's the fellow's name?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
A guy named Payne said he paid me the mellet
down for him.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
You know this stuff was stolen.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
No, no, I didn't.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
He just made the deal of mellet down.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Let me call you this afternoon tell you to stop
breaking it up.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah, and then he called.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Back and told me not to pay attention to what
he said.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Go ahead with the job. I did, like he said,
So else is in this with it?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
What do you mean? Who else here? It is the factory, nobody.
I'm the only one.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
I only did it because I needed the money. I
didn't know where the jewels came from.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I didn't care to make no difference in me. As
long as I got mine, I was happy. I didn't
know what it was all about.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It's like most of the here, how many pieces did
you break down? So the couple are appens apart, and
that a tiny melanie a mining down. It's all there,
all a pain game.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
What's your name?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Said Michael, All right, let's go. I don't know it
was sold.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I didn't know anything about it. I geted a job,
that's all, just a job.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I didn't even get paid for it.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Don't worry about it if you will, the story you
have just heard is true.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
The names were chained to protect the innocence.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
On February eighteenth, trial was held in Department eighty nine,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of San Diego.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
In a moment the results of that trial.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Virgil Nathan Russell, Peter Howard Ellis and Albert Franklin Paine,
who had tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree.
They received sentence as prescribed by law. Robbery and the
first degree is punishable by imprisonment and the State penitentiary
for a period of from.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Five years to life. Said George Michaelson was tried.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And found guilty of receiving stolen property. He received sentence
as prescribed by law. Receiving stolen property is punishable by
imprisonment in the States penitentiary for a period if not
more than ten years.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
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Speaker 4 (25:00):
From Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Drag Net is an NBC Radio Network production
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear is true.
The names have been changed to protect the innocance. You're
a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery details. You get
a call from the San Diego Police Department. The three
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hold up men are thought to be heading for your city.
You know they're arms, you know they're dangerous.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Your job get them.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
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You will travel step by step on the side of
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is the story of your police force.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
An action.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
With Monday, October fifth, with one in Los Angeles. Were
wasn't a night watch out? A robbery detail? My partner
Franks Smith, the bosses Captain Diddy, and my name is Siddy.
I was on my way into the office and was
fourth at the eight PM. I got to him twenty
seven as robbery. Hi, am I thank yeah, he was
here a couple of minutes ago. I think he went
down the hall. Sat'd be right back. Thanks the kid
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we're in the cycle again. By I had a cold cycle.
Oh yeah, oldest boy brings one home with him, give
it to his sister, then to go with the baby,
and then of the wife, and then to me. By
the time I got it, the oldest boys ready to
catch it again from me.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Doesn't seem to be any.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
End to it. It's see what you mean, leave the
other day.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
If you take care of the cold, you know, take
a lot of pills, stay in bed.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You can shake it in a week.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Don't do anything special for it, and it'll take seven
days to get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So an ap be here from San Diego, only down
there with the room cover gymkin, I think, Yeah, I
can hear him moan all the way from here. Or
is it play had a jewel robbery at a hotel
on the coast. Dreamn just one hundred and thirty five
thousand jewels and at least fifteen thousand jags.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
One hundred and fifty and he leaves on him.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No APV gives a description list of the stolen jewelis Oh,
when it happens, I said.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
One thirty of money.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, it's gonna keep him busy for a while. At
more scream than like an eagle.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Gel All I talked to him last week, said he
was going down to Mexico to do some fishing and
seven days off for the last three months.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I'll get to go now, I get it. Robbie Friday, Yeah, I'll.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Go ahead, and you know yeah, I'm what Yeah, we
got the APV.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How they're going?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Yeah, what do you figure they left?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay, more yeah, all right, We'll keep an eye open.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
What's he done? Well?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Davis walking here when they're coming up they're driving. Yeah,
they take it a whole up. Matterhead in this way.
The early editions of the Afternoon.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Papers came out and they carried the complete story.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Three men had entered the Carlton Surf Hotel.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
At one thirty am.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All three were armed, and they forced the manager to
open the safe. Inside the vault were the jewels and
the other valuables that had been deposited with the managements
for space keeping by the guests. After looting the safe,
the three men had robbed five of the guests who
had entered the lobby during the time that they'd been
going through the safe. After taking all the money and
valuables they could find, the three men forced the manager
and the guests into a back store room of the
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hotel and they locked them in. None of the victims
could tell the San Diego officers what kind of a
card then used, but all of them.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Were able to give good descriptions of the three men.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
The San Diego Police Department had been called and the
men from the Detective GUA had begun an immediate investigation.
From the phone conversation I had had with Lieutenant mort
gear they had evidence to believe that the three men
were heading up the Los Angeles. While the three detectives
from the San Diego Department came to La Lieutenant gear
Door told him Maguire would continue the investigation down in
their city. Eleven twelve pm, Sergeant Carll Davis, Gary Walk
(04:06):
and Happy Hwan arrived at the city hall.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They filled us in on what had happened.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Way the thing worked, it figured that someone would either
worked for the hotel or was.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Working for it, had engineered it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That checked out the.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Identification again, Yeah, Virgil Russell worked in the hotel a
year ago as a.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Bus go in the dining room. All the victims gave
a positive identification of it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
All up the others's house.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Not none man, one major figure.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They might be coming up here now.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Russell's got a record set his package and found that
he has assistant. San Diego checked her and she gave
us laid to said her brother and two men came
by the house early this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Her brother's been staying with her the past few weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Anyway, he came by this morning. Package closed, so he
had to come up to La.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
On the business. Or she had an address up here
for him.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
So not good, said.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
He told her he'd get in touch with her. He
was staying with a friend place out on the Olympic Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Anything on that address, Yeah, package gave an address out there.
Russell had listed a friend of his when he was arrested. Well,
you fingured he might be out there.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
He got a good.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Description in the car.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
One thing is going to help.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Sister told us that she had I could brother about.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
The other two men. Wanted to know if they didn't
want to come to house, and Russell said no, they
were waiting for him.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
If the three of them were in a hurry, she
shouldn't give us a description of the other two or
what time this happened.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
About five thirty this poet, Well, they came right up here.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
They'd get in about eighteen with me.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, you're pretty sure if these are the right ones, though, looks.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Like that identification of mud.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Russell sister told us when he was packing, my broach
fell out of his grips.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
He picked it up for him. He would have skipped
on us.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, match is one that was taken from the hotel.
In the fact, large diamond with four rubies in the setting.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Looked attle bit for the job. He got a broadcast
down on the car. Yeah, Russell's sister told us a
fifty three mashed red and black Continental hookups.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
She said Russell just.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Got back from a trip through Arizona and the vat
of New Mexico said that he had the rear wind
to cover with those stickers, you know the ones they
get some gas stations.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, me, wind is supposed to be covered with him.
It shouldn't be hard to spot.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Maybe he figures that too, might haven't taken office partsibot
to lead though something else to look out for him.
Any chanced it might have gotten across the border into Mexico.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, it's possible, but it isn't likely.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
As soon as we got word on the car, we
got out of Supplemental eight on it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
He's got in touch with the authorities.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Down the border.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
They said they hadn't seen a car match the description
across the boarder, and if they'd gotten to the border,
the office down there didn't know about it anyway. Yeah,
I talked to Ali Gaton from our office. He said
they'd be on the lookout for him. Our pawn shot
detail got right on a car and we got the
description of jewelry out all over time.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
We haven't any reports on the gainst them.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They aren't going to try to sell it piece by
piece of too many of those pieces are easy to recognize,
you know. They'll probably try to pet up to a
fence and have it broken up. I will get the
word out on forman ask them to watch out for it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Height that big camp. He kept quiet for long. Boundary
rumbles on at some places.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'd like to check out the place on the Olympic.
It looks like it's Bethley.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
We got okay, we're walking here. Andon went down the
hall with Murky. Wanted to check some things that are and.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I well, I'll get on out. Olympics.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
We got the heather the Yeah, you better chack the
place first. It could be rough.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean well, three of them are on Ruffles third time,
twice before as the giant.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I don't think he's gonna want to go back. We
checked the name of Ruffles's friend through our files.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We found that he had no use. We drove out
to the address on Olympic and we talked with the neighbors.
From them, we.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Found out that it was not a private residence. We
talked to the woman who lived next door. We asked
her about the man lifted in the San Diego package
as a friend of the suspects. She told us she
hadn't seen him. Directly in front of the rooming house,
we found a car answering the.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Description given us by the sisters.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
There were no lights on in the rooming house. Walking
Hugh and covered the rear of the place. Frank, Carl
Davis and I went up to the front door.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Pretty dark.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I can't see anybody in answer you, No, I can't
check the window.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
See thank's funny, all right, col So let's try the dark.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Yeah, who is? Come on?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Open up it.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Nobody gets in hair? All right, I'm not doing anything when.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You do break. That's funny. I'll take him, jos He
exclaims everything. Okay, yeah, Cale, I'll get walking.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You and who else in the house all the way
with the land lady, she's upstairs, her and her daughter.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Nobody else here? What's your name, Peter Ellis?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Where's Russell? I don't know I near Russell?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
All right, we'll look around. Come on, what's the name
dining room? There's nothing in there?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
See nobody here. Ah, that'll check the other room. Where's
the struggle bedroom?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Ain't nobody in there?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Opening it up? So nobody in the kitchen. Set the
back toward walking Davids upstairs, and we'll try this one here.
Come on, you open it up.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Its lock.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You can't get in. There's a key in the door
over here.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Let's ship set black up, fake up?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Wait you call.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
That, Joe?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I can I come on?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You want a bed? Hey, Joe?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
The bottle sleep from Drills on the table here, Yeah,
and empty bottle with me.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
This is dead drunk.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That's dead with Queen Joseph especially.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, he's drunk. I guess we're pretty lucky under his
color there.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, three hens.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
With the suspects in custody, we searched the house.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
In the back bedroom where we found Virgil Russell, we
found a folder with all of the newspaper stories of
the hotel robbery. In each instance, that portion of the
story which referred to the thieves themselves was outlined in pencil,
and there were small.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Notations along the margins of the newspaper.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
A complete search of the house netted us nothing. There
was no sign of the loop from the robbery, although
each of the suspects had a large amount of money
in their possession. We talked to the landlady, but she
was unable to tell up anything about the suspects. She
said that she had rented a room to Peter Allis
over a year before, and if the suspect had moved.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Out after living in the house for only two months.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
She said that she hadn't seen them again since that
night when they arrived at the house and asked for rooms.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
We called the office the range for a stake.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Out on the place, and we took the two stuff
backs back to the office.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
We ran Peter Ellis d and I and we found
that he had one previous conviction on a lobbery charge.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Two fifteen am. We talked to Virgil Russell in the
interrogation room.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh, I know, I ain't trying to Kanye in anything.
I was in on the highest ill admitted that. I
ain't gonna be no fink, ain't gonna get any.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Other names out of me.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
We got the money we found on you from that
hotel robbery?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Is that right? I don't know where else did it
come from.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I got no reason to Kanye about the hotel job
I pulled it. Ain't afraid to admit it.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'm just not telling. Think that's all.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Maybe we can get it out of Elis and you
won't change anything. You're pretty sure about that. He admits
he was in on the robbery, and so what we
all had a deal.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
If any of us got caught, they wouldn't tell about
the other.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You think yell us and that other guy go that route.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Standing arrest alone. Sure we had an agreement.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh, come on, tell us how much he got for
the jewels. Didn't tell us that and not tell us
to the other man?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Is can't you?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I suppose so. Isn't any way you could tell if
I told you how much we got it? Seven five?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
How much?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Seven fives?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Who set up the deal with selling stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Youre probly yeah, I can handle it that he fetched
it forway to got seven thousand bucks for all the jewelry,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And made a good deal, all right, seven thousands of
one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars worth a jewelry
wasn't worth one hundred and thirty five that's just the
papers making it some thing.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh no, that's what you're wrong. That's what the stuff
is worth. Are you kidding? You got that report right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Wait a minute, that's that's maybe what they claimed the
stuff is worth. But you know how people are always
jacking things up. When the insurance companies the stuff was
worth maybe fifteen thousand do a cent more?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
After I heard it.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
This report you got the insurance company. Come, do you
like to read it yourself? Rustler?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Do you want me to read it to you?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Don't let me see it?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well? Lots be fun?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Oh no, good gud it. Just thief, that's what he is.
A steven thieve.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That's the kind of a guy you say you had
to deal with.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But you think he was doing your big favorite some
deal seven thousand dollars. If we picked him up, he
just screamed like an eagle. He's your pal, all right,
No good thief.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I can't believe it. Who'd sell his stuff to?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Do you know? No?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
And that's the truth. I saw that guy, but I
don't know who it was.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
How the deal worked.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Earlier to night we got to get out in wish Wood.
He called the fellow I was going to handle a deal.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Told him that me to.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Say, who's he? I think a lot of you think.
What's his name? Pain? Al Payne? I fell it last
name pay and he got a record. No, I don't
think so.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I never heard him talk about he gives a description. Yeah,
this stuff is really worth behind him thirty frank rands.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
He said it was a lot of talk.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Newspaper talk.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
He said, oh brother, what a laugh. What does Pain
look like you? He said about thirty seven, maybe undred
and fifty sixty pounds, both, a little bit of hair
on his I'll take the names, why and I do?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You want to bring the muggs back here?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah? Uffle yeah? At first name is at Alfred or Albert.
I think it's sell. But he's some kind of a promoter.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I don't know what he promotes.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I think it's just a dodge kind of a front.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
So let's go ahead with the story about to buy.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Huh where was it?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
He said? He went out the west.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Oh yeah, well we were supposed to meet out in
the parking lot for the ice rink, big place something.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, we met this guy that saw a pain call like.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
He looked at the stuff, said it was worth maybe
fifteen thousand the way it was, but he said I
had to be broken down before it could be sold,
and it wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Bring that much when it was all broken down. He
agreed to it, said it was true.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You went right along with it. Well, I was he deal.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
He was probably in the whole thing. Wouldn't be surprised.
I just can't get over we had all that stuff
and didn't know what it was worth.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
He got me out either. This guy is no.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I told you I didn't know. He said this paint
had an office are in town? You know what it is?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, I can show you.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
We were up there this afternoon while I was setting
up for deals. And I'm building over on six, and
you'd be willing to go over there with us so
you can mail it.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
That's right. We want to get the jewels.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Back. Sure, ago, So what that bum did to me?
Nothing too bad for him?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
How you gonna, oh, Ruffle Hero will have to introduce
me to somebody who wants to buy this stuff. I'll
have to tell Pain that I'm willing to pay, say,
fifty thousands.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Of the jewelry. That way, Pain will have to get
in touch with the other man. I don't think he'll
pass up a deal like that.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Maybe he figures to make more than that this way.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, I wu suppose he thinks that Ruffle here wants
to do business with me. He'll get the stuff back.
I don't think you want to cross Ruffle might work. Oh,
we don't get much choice. We got to get the
stuff back for it's broken up. Joel got some pictures here.
I match the description before the kind of match.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The description of I want to look at these.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, Joe's gonna go see this Pain with russe Manella
try to get laid on where the stuff here? Ey's
gonna work it. Oh, I tell Pain I'm interested in
buying the jewels. Offer maybe fifty thousand.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Picture's not here on a thesis train.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
If you go along with this, playing Ruffle, sure, I'd like.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
To see you get him and get him good.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Pretty risky. It doesn't want to take us any of
the way.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Suppose not.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Brussel, Yeah, we know.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Pain carries again.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I want you to remember it you get any bright
ideas that I tip and pay off about Joe. I remember,
we'll have men off of the building.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
All right, We're not going to start, yes it, we'll
finish it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
The two suspects, Peter Ellis and Virgil Russell, were taken
to the main jail and booked in for violation of
section two eleven of the California Penal Code. After that,
the officer from San Diego, Frank, and I discussed the
plan for.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Finding the stolen jewels.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It was agreed that I would go into the office
building with the suspect, Virgil Ruffle, to less than the
chances of discovery. I would carry no gun or any
police identifications. We were unable to make contact that night,
so the following morning we checked over the physical layout
of the building. There were six stories high and had
one elevator. There were two entrances to the building, one
in the front and one that opened off an alley
(15:50):
in the rear. Officers were planted at both entrances. Additional
men were stationed on each floor. Two men were on
the roof to cut off any.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Possible escape to one of the adjoining buildings.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Eleven thirty am to the October sixth Ruff Will call
Pain and said that he wanted to see him. Paine
told him to come out over to the office. Ruff
when I got into a car and we drove over it.
It had dinner rings. But from the time we entered
the building, no one would.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Be permitted to leave until we returned to the main entrance.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Eleven fifty eight am. We got to the office building.
We went up to the fourth floor to sign on
Paine's door. I read Albert Paine Investment. Ruffal opened the
door and we walked in. I have verged. What's the bit? Well,
why did you meet Joe Ferstan Joe glad to meet?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, Samuel?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Sit down, boys, Now what's this thought about? About the stuff?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Now?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I gotta get it back? Now what's the pitch? I
don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Come off of Paine, Georgeys, we'll inger off the Annie
for the jewels.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
How much I goes? I have fifty thousand.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I got to see it first for fifteen thousand worth
of jewels paper fish with UD thirty five.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I explained that to you, they up the value. It's
all insured people up to price.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
The insurance companies papers up the price.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
They sell more papers. I told you, yeah, I ain't
buying it. I want the stuff back. I never even
got my cut of the seven thousand. Ill feels the
same way I told you. The money be coming, Oh,
I ain't coming anymore. I want the stuff bay. I
don't think we can do that. Most of it's already
broken up now. Not much of it could be broken
up at the time that he's at it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Guy that bought it isn't gonna like it.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Well, that's tough. You just tell him to stop breaking
it up. Telling me we want to.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Thank h Where do you figure to show the jewels.
I don't see who that concerns. You know, I'm walking
to fifty thousand for them. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Come on, come on, quit playing games. Let's get on it.
You get in touch with the guy you gave him
to and get the jewels. Thank And I got something
to say about this.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I was in on the job with you. Let you
forget it.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I'm going to say this once more.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Pin you get on that phone and get in touch
with your contact, tell him to stop breaking them up.
You set up a meat to get the stuff back.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I'll call him.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I don't think it's gonna do any good.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You probably get all the money's mothered down by this time,
got it all broken up.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
You call them, Let's see what happens. All right, now,
let me talk to fred.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Fred these yeah, uh listen, So he's come up. We
can't go through with the deal. Well, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I told him, doesn't make any difference. They want it
all back. Yeah, I told him that too, doesn't make
any difference. You want the jewels back as I'm broken
down too.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I told you how I want all of it back.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, yes, Freddy says, all of it? Okay, So when
can you make it? Yeah? All right, yeah, we'll see
you then, right, okay, fine, I have to step away
to my night. Why does he have to wait that one?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
How do I know?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
He just said he couldn't get it to any sooner.
He shouldn't let me talk to him. I'd have told him, yeah, sure, how.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Much have it's been broken up?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Well hardly, and he just got started, Fred says.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Almost all whole.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Who is this?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Fred?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
What's none of your business? I asked your question. You
bet your answer doesn't make any difference who he is.
You and your friends a lot of stuff to deal.
Be happy you fixed it?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Fine?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Well, Lord, come on better, and you better be right.
And I remember I got a piece of this. I
won't forget what kind tomorrow? Will doing need? Friend? He
said he'd called.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Let me know where I went.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I can't be any later than tomorrow. I gotta believe
in it. You're gonna have the money with you when
you pick up the stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I don't have it, all of it.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
I don't want you to down pain. I told you
i'd have all right. You called me tomorrow about ten.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Right, y'all?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Let another details then? Okay. I hope you're right about this? Right?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Let's deal.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I hope nothing happens to lost it up?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know, so do I.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Bugil ruff one and I left the office and went downstairs.
We checked with Frank, Kyle Davis and the other officers
from San Diego. Al Paine was taken in the custody.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And looked in at the main jail.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I'm suspicion of violation of Section two eleven PCs.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Then we returned to the office to find out who
has the stuff. Yeah, I fell the name of friends.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
You know he is no, not yet, but we will
figure that paint didn't tell you well.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I saw the number he die when he called fed.
It was a Hollywood precincts that. Now it was down
in the area.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I can try the number and see the answers. Oh,
I'm sorry I got the wrong number. Excuse me together.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, it's the Kingley Trophy Company.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I want to check the books. Okay, a A, I
m in kid. There was so Kingley Trophy Company.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Don lost upon as Sophy company.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
They'd give me a chance to milk the mountings down
a metal. Wouldn't it be easy to get rid of
it that way? It makes sense all you figure to
move in on right now we can.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Drive out and take place. Now we'll go over them
and go in and get them.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What happens with me, We gotta take you back to
main jail after they help. I gave the way it's
gotta be you know they're doing.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah, I of course, So when you're telling the DAI
out thought, yeah, we'll see he knows about it. There
a bad deal all the way, or I should have
known I couldn't win that from the start.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I should have known nobody can win. A lot of
people try it. We returned Virgil Russell to his cell
and then we drove out to.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
The Kingley Trophy Company.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It was a two story building on Los Palmas Avenue
in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
They made trophies and fraternity pins. A large sign on the.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Front of the building advertised that they could duplicate anything
and metal. We checked with a neighborhood merchants and found
that there was a permanent staff of four employees. The
company was owned by a Roger Kingley, and none of
the neighborhood people could tell us anything about an employee
by the name of Fred. Five pm, the employees of
the plant left the building. One man remained. From the
description we'd gotten from Russell, we figured that he was
(21:43):
the person pain and called Fred six o three pm.
The lights in the rear of the factory went on.
Through the windows, we could see the suspect working over
a small funnet on a table. Off to one side.
We could see a quantity of jewelry. Frank Colin and
I went to the side door of the plant while
the other officers covered the remaining door.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, that's so. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I don't hit the.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Door, grabb him before he's got the chance to fill
the jewelry into the furnace.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Strength break for it.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
I got it.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Hold back to a break in the air like.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
This, Glad Joe, jewelry matches the description of the stolen stuff. Yeah,
it's like, it's all right, mister Standstone.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I'm thinking he's clean.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I don't know what the guys are doing. I don't
know what this is all about, all right, say that what's.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
The jewelry doing here? And this isn't mine? I didn't
ask you.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Who was asked what he was doing here?
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Oh, I'd say, give me twenty five hundred dollars if
I break it down for him.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
What's the fellow's name?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
A guy named Payne said he paid me the mellet
down for him.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
You know this stuff was stolen.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
No, no, I didn't.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
He just made the deal of mellet down.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Let me call you this afternoon tell you to stop
breaking it up.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah, and then he called.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Back and told me not to pay attention to what
he said.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Go ahead with the job. I did, like he said,
So else is in this with it?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
What do you mean? Who else here? It is the factory, nobody.
I'm the only one.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
I only did it because I needed the money. I
didn't know where the jewels came from.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I didn't care to make no difference in me. As
long as I got mine, I was happy. I didn't
know what it was all about.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It's like most of the here, how many pieces did
you break down? So the couple are appens apart, and
that a tiny melanie a mining down. It's all there,
all a pain game.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
What's your name?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Said Michael, All right, let's go. I don't know it
was sold.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I didn't know anything about it. I geted a job,
that's all, just a job.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I didn't even get paid for it.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Don't worry about it if you will, the story you
have just heard is true.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
The names were chained to protect the innocence.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
On February eighteenth, trial was held in Department eighty nine,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of San Diego.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
In a moment the results of that trial.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Virgil Nathan Russell, Peter Howard Ellis and Albert Franklin Paine,
who had tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree.
They received sentence as prescribed by law. Robbery and the
first degree is punishable by imprisonment and the State penitentiary
for a period of from.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Five years to life. Said George Michaelson was tried.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And found guilty of receiving stolen property. He received sentence
as prescribed by law. Receiving stolen property is punishable by
imprisonment in the States penitentiary for a period if not
more than ten years.
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Los Angeles Police Departments Technical Advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant
Monkey Winn, Sergeant Van Slaciers. Third Tonight where Ben Alexander Eddie, Firestone,
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Speaker 4 (25:00):
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