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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Dragon, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The story you were about to hear is true. The
names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
A pair of hold up.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Men have been operating in your city.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You know their method of operation, you know what they
look like.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Your job get them.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It was Wednesday, June eighth. It was warm in Los
anges Le's. We were working the day watch out a
robbery detail. My partner is Frank Smith, the boss achievity
tact his stab down.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
My name is Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
We're on our way out from the office and it
was ten fourteen am when we get to the corner
of Roberta and Mercury, the.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
After hours cafe.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, I want to see.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
If I see Harry Prentis.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, man, what do you want police officers?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
It's my part Frank Smith.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
My name is pr All right about last night, huh yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Were you here?
Speaker 6 (01:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (01:04):
Sure it was?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And the only once got a key places open? I'm here,
yes or no?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
About the robbery?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Yeah sure?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
What do you want to know?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
How would you tell us what happened?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Should have read the papers this morning all about it
and there got a couple of copies if you want
to see him.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
No, that won't be nice, No, no trouble.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Goal happened to have a couple of copies right here.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah here, take a look right here. Yeah, I hit it. Yeah,
I'll read it to you.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Last night at the after hours cafe, and we should
give the address. And at the after hours cafe, two
gunmen held up and be Jeffrey Hanks. The victim was
approached outside the bar, and one asked.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
For his munch.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
And now we saw that. We just like to hear
your version if we could.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Oh, oh, okay, what do you want to know?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Did you see them in the gunman? That's right?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Yeah, sure, I told the other cops. They did, gave
me a description everything.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
He knows anything about this speech and the accent.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Maybe no. I asked them what they wanted.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
One big one you ordered the Scotch in the rocks.
The other one asked for plain grapefruit juice, no booze,
just the juice and lucky I had it. A couple
of cans in for vodka drinks. Don't get a lot
of call for it. Guy drank all.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I had when the victim come in.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You mean Hanks?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Yeah, almost been about eight thirty someplace in there, walked in,
sat don had you seen them before?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
No?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Brand new face, nice looking guy, though, kind you like
to have for regularly, that's all. Yeah, quiet, good drinker,
doesn't bother the singles at the bar. Nice, you know
what I mean? Yeah, I had a place full of them,
I wouldn't have no worries.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
How do he happen to get mixed up with the
other dude you know?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, you mean Hanks, that's right. I don't know. I
wasn't paying a lot of attention. Porta Mamartini left them alone.
A friend of mine, lady type, was here, was talking
to her. Her and a boyfriend been having trouble.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
He belted it around a little bit, not bad, couple
of scratchy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I think so well.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
She was asking me what to do.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We've been friends for a long time since I opened
the place. Anyway, we was.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Talking, so I didn't see what happened, Yea. All I
know is that the three of them got up, moved
to the booth in the back, ordered another round.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I hardly got the drinks back to the table and
they was ready for another one go ahead, kept running
from the bar to their table for the next couple
of hours.
Speaker 8 (02:58):
Hear anything they were saying.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Much when I was drinking scotch. You got a little
plastered and loud. Told him a couple of times to
shut up, said after eighty six and if they didn't
cat it up, so I told him to leave. Didn't
take it kindly, I mean that I started to get rough,
you know, telling me that they didn't have to take
no guph from a bar keeper now. And I told
him I want drinking a grapefruit juice. I told him
to get his friends out. He says, we're not causing
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any trouble, and I said, that's the.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Way I want to keep it.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
So he said for me to leave him alone, and
I said to the grapefruiter, I said for him to
leave right then, I don't want you in my place.
I said, yeah, well then, so scotch on the rocks.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
He said, tell his cat to go hide his head
like that, he.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Said, and turned the bear loose, and I grabbed the
both of them, threw him.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Out through the door.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Oh you see, And I went back to the other guy,
nice looking on him. He was pretty gas by then
and about eight Martine, He's asked him to leave.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
He did, ye, Do you have any trouble with it?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
No, just asked.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
He walked out for the other two outside when he left.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, I stand on the sidewalk. I told him to
shove off.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
I called the cops.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Old Scotch in the rocks. He said for me to
go soak. My head was going after him, and I
figured it wouldn't do no good, so I came back inside.
A couple of minutes later, A nice guy banks thanks.
Oh yeah, yeah, well he came in all beat up,
close to him real mets, you know, big cut right
right along here for it, said he'd been robbed, wanted me.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
To call the cops. Had you ever seen these of
the two men before?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
You mean Scotch and the rocks and grit that's right?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
No, No, I never did.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Or if you take a look at this description, see
if that's right here?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Sure, glad to help him?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, yeah, that looks about right.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Anything you're going to add to it now, there's a
couple of guys at the bottom and stand out.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Would you know him if you saw him again?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I just say, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yes, a couple of guys came in order to drink
nothing special. I'm not sure I could point him out
for you. Anybody forget him?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Not quite?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Huh, we won't.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Eleven thirty am we left the bard went back to
the city Hall. We checked with the stats office and
picked up the results of their latest run. They listed
four possibles, but when.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
We read the names, we were closer to the hold
up men than we had been.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The names were ones that we checked and cleared before
Frank and I went back to robbery. It was a
message for us to see Captain Donahoe. We went into
his office.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Yeah no, as far as I know, there's nothing to want,
that's right.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
He just came in.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
What all right?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I let to know right away?
Speaker 8 (05:19):
Yeah, bye, gollon.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Nik skipper.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Yeah that was Keith Brown.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Been calling him all morning.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Yeah, you know what he wants?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
What do I tell him?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Well, we talked to the bartender. He can't give us anything.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
What about the victim?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Not much there here? Able to come up with a name, No,
says he didn't hear anything.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That's a big help.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well that's it up, thank you figure out?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Yeah, thanks Smith, Yes, I got it.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Thanks too.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
From the beginning, what do you got a good m
good description.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
We've got an idea of the line they're working and
that's about it. What about stats? Just picked up the
new run for names? What's on clean? They all been
checking before.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
Gotta be something around Tom on them? Well, there should be,
but there just isn't. How about your informants.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
No, they haven't been able to tell us anything straight,
no reason they should lie.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Victims and witnesses, seeing the mug books all.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
We got, they haven't able to come up with an identification.
Burton up at CII said, all.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
The stuff he's got in the method of operation, we've checked.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It all through.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
What about the places they can spend the money?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
We've been to the Guardiana half a dozen times or
nothing out there?
Speaker 8 (06:22):
What about Vegas?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Talked to the department over there. They're giving us all
the help they can, but they haven't turned anything yet.
We haven't got the race tracks covered. Possible you miss something, sure, possible.
I don't know what it could be.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
You knew you wouldn't have missed it, you know from
the beginning, gold okay, first report was.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Made on the.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Got it here?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
It is Tuesday, April twenty sixth victim came out of
the bar. Two men stopped him, started a conversation, got
him into a car, beat him and robbed him.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Six weeks ago. That's right, and the guys are still running.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
The next one was on Friday, April twenty ninth, same description.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
How often has been happening since?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Couple of times a week.
Speaker 10 (07:02):
You can't find a leak, no sir, no rumbles, none
that we haven't run down anybody in the office got anything.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
We talked to me and Stromwell and I thought they
had it made for us, but the rely didn't go
any place.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Money they're getting isn't sitting in their pockets being spent someplace.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
We can't find the cash registry.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
I'll tell you this.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
A fellow in the nailed last night. What's his name,
Fipley Nigs. Yeah, well, he's got some friends in the
city hall. They're pretty upset about what happened. Called the
chief this morning. He's been on me. I'm giving it
to you. He won't be happy with excuses, and I
don't want to give him any, So don't hand me
an right boils down simple.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
I don't care how you do it, I don't care
where I just get it done. I want those two
men and I want them fast.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Right.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
I know how it is now you do too, Yes, sir.
I don't like the pressure any more than you do.
We're getting it all the way around.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
People that are making them noise shoul follow us around
for a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's the difference. They don't have to.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Huh, you're getting paid. Frank and I went over every
piece of information we had on the case. We re
read the reports that had been filed by the officers
at the scene. Statements from witness and victims were gone
over again. The names of the staff's office had given
us were run through Y and I again.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
None of it did any good.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
We still didn't have a lead to the identity of
the thieves. Three days passed while we talked to informants
and questioned other sources of information. On Sunday, June twelfth,
we got back to the office from talking to a
bartender out on the Olympic Boulevard.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Well that's another one.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Didn't go any place.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Yeah, you want to get the book, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Robbery faddy, Uh yeah, Jack, Yeah, where is the place?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
M M.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
In a minute? Yeah, I got it. Yeah, I guess
the word's all over. Yeah, okay, we'll check it out. Thanks, boy, there's.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Nothing in the book. I think. I want to know
if you could make it for dinner tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Got a barbecue plan? You better call it off.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You got other plan?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That was McCready on the phone. He just got a
call from a bartender out who this woman crying in
her beer, says he figured we want to check it out.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Is it she says?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Her boyfriend is one of our suspects. M The bar,
Sergeant Jack McCready had mentioned was on the corner of
Wilshire Boulevard and Ingram Street. There were two people in
the place when we arrived, one an elderly man sitting
near the door, and the other a middle aged woman
at the rear of the bar. We checked with a
bartender and he told us that he'd made the call.
He went on to say that the woman had come
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in about ten that morning. Since that time, she'd been
crying and mumbling something about going to the police. Frank
and I went back to talk to her.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, I understand that you want to talk to the police.
My name is Friday. Is my partner, Frank Smith. You're
cut sir, what do you want to say? This is
about lady?
Speaker 7 (09:50):
That bum Dorwin? That's what it's about. Bum.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
That's his name, is it Darwin?
Speaker 11 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (09:56):
We ah, no good? You played them the meal all
the time hitting me. I think he was married all
the time.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
What's his last name? You know, whole Brook?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Darwin?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Whole Brook. You'd like to buy me a drink? That lady, Well,
that's where you're wrong. I'm supposed to.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
Show you that they don't know what you're talking about,
and then you want it to me though you haven't
got Derwin none?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
What's he done? Hold ups?
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Yeah, hold ups? Let's say he's done all over town.
Old Darwin's the old people up?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
See your husband me?
Speaker 11 (10:34):
Derwin's right, that's right, that's real funny now that is?
I mean Darwin married, But I don't think I wouldn't
do it for a mends.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Don't think it.
Speaker 11 (10:47):
But A'm true, not at all, that's true. A friend,
been a friend for twelve years, that's a long time,
that's right. Been a hold hands for twelve years.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
We ain't married. You don't want to?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Will you tell us about the hold ups that he's
been pulling?
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Ben? All the papers you haven't read it all the papers.
Are you sure there were cops?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
What you tell us about Darwin?
Speaker 11 (11:16):
Lousy all the time talking about us, someday we'd get married,
all the time, talking like that, I got a couple
of bucks for the womb will take a big step
as well.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
He was odd.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
I'm saying it's a big step. So what happens he
has a couple.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Of bucks when he takes off with another girl?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Lousy?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Bum there one is liable. Now where do you get
the money?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
The hold ups?
Speaker 7 (11:44):
I got the paper?
Speaker 11 (11:45):
I choose you that before he's running after up all
those people in front of bars.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
He's pretty good at beating people up. You know, he's
good at that. Not much else, but he's real good
at that.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
You ever talked about the hold ups to you?
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Now that'd be kind Telly talking to anybody? Follow me
went out just because I know that.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So what's this fellow look like?
Speaker 9 (12:11):
The derwood?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
That's right?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
I guess the person who say she was wrong? And
I wouldn't, so I guess that's what you would say.
I would it got dark hair kind of roll away.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Right here here?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Yeah, in front?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
How tall is he?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (12:30):
Here's a bo one?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Well, how tall.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
About see how.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Much you weigh?
Speaker 7 (12:38):
I don't know. I guess a couple of hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Was he fat or thin?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Because then then how old is he? Thirty? Thirty? Eight
years old? Three years old?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
In me?
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Two years?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
What color his eyes?
Speaker 12 (12:55):
Do?
Speaker 8 (12:55):
He have been arrested?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I says, he have been arrested.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
I don't know. Maybe I said to me other words.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Run through the out check you don't we'll talk to him.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Yeah, you do that? You tell him from me? I
think his bum for twelve years. He didn't tell me.
When he is a couple of bucks, we take a
step and then he runs out with another girl?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Wow, he heroe.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You know where we can find him?
Speaker 7 (13:23):
I guess he saw him. I don't know the place.
I'll see be home.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
You got the address?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Sure? One eight through some half Margot Street?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
And you hear very well?
Speaker 7 (13:35):
One eight to seven and a half Margot Street. So
side seven five three to one.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
That's sorry that hill side seven five three two one.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
That's what I said on the second floor Margot Street.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You have any close friends that you know?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Are sure?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Girl?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
He walked out with she's a close friend?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Any man?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Nope, Girl, don't like nobody on his back Isabelle on
as Cast None, Yeah, excuse.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Me a minute late?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Oh yeah, sure, he'll go to his heads. I tell
her about that, told her about the drink though.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
What do you got?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I checked ironeye on home bro. How's he stand?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I found a couple of the description.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
One of them might be good done time for robbery?
Does he owe anything?
Speaker 12 (14:19):
No?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Get out clean?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I wonder if he stayed that way.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Frank and I left the bar and drove over to
the Margot Street address. We checked with the land that
he She told us the whole book had moved in
approximately six weeks before. She went on to say that
he'd been behind his rent, but that he'd paid what
he owed and had given her the money for an
additional two months.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
She said that she didn't know what.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
He did for a living.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
He had few visitors in the land that he couldn't
tell us if he owned a car. According to her,
he was in his room. Frank and I went up
to see him.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
There it is, he said, there going a whole brook
gives the minute? What do you want?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Police? You got no right to bus to here like this?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
There is nothing wrong?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Then you won't mind up we look around with you.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh, go ahead, you won't find it.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
I'll check it down.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Now tell me what you want. Maybe I can give
your hands. You just sit still there. Sure I got
nothing to worry about. Tear the place to part. Just
make sure you put it all back right where you
found it. That's clean, Joe. I could have told you that.
I show you could might let me know why you're
rousted me.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
You work for a living.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Why do you know why we hear what?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
You're doing? Pretty well with the money. I guess you'd say,
you mind? Tell us where you got it? Why is investment?
That's it?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Sure?
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Read the financial page all the time.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
A couple of bucks here, a couple more of their
first thing?
Speaker 7 (15:48):
You know you're on your way to a million.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, the way it came to us, you might have
made the money the hard way.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Whoever told you that's a liar?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
So sure, I got a pretty good idea.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Who's got the big mouth?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Don't make any difference.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You can't tag me for anything.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Why don't you tell us?
Speaker 7 (16:01):
I will?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You're beefing about the money.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, you can't say I didn't make it from investments.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I don't have to prove it.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
You do, you get approved.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I didn't make it from investing. I think we might
be able to go ahead and I'll give you something
else what I don't think you're going to like the interest.
We took Derwin Holbrook back to the city Hall and
talked to him for over an hour.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
He refused to admit.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Any part of the holdups. We made arrangements for the
victims to come down and see him. Witnesses were asked
to special show ups, but they failed to give us
a positive identification. Pulbrook's name came up on the overtime
sheet and he was released from custody. There was nothing
we could do. Another week went by. Pulbrook was kept
in their constant surveillance. Monday, June twentieth, Frank and I
were in the squad room.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Righty Smith, ask you for we're here?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I Captain, what do you got?
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Your boys did another job last night out in West
la We didn't see the reports. Just came in.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Got a meeting of war on this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Be there, I'm side.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Victim died without regaining consciousness.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Any descriptions of the suspect enough to know if the
two fellows you're after that's your hot suspect.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Which his name Hobrook. That sorry you able to keep
them this time? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
It's the matter.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Report says the hold up took place at ten fifteen. Yeah,
Holbrook was asleep at nine. We rechecked with the team
of men who had been keeping Drwin Holbrook under surveillance.
They verified the fact that the suspect had been in
his room at the time of the robbery, and that
there was no way for him to have left the apartment.
(17:29):
We went out to the hospital and talked to the
officer that had been with the latest victim. He said
that the dead man hadn't said anything to help identify
as assailant. We talked with a bartender the place where
the beating had occurred. He remembered two men in the bar,
and he remembered them talking with a victim, but he
was unable to tell us anything more. Additional broadcasts were
gotten out. At the meeting with Captain Lahman, it was
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decided that from that point the investigation would be a
joint operation between robbery and homicide. After the meeting, Frank,
Captain Donaho and I met back in Rome twenty seven about.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
In it's up.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Yep, Well you've heard it, and how are you gonna
work it?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
There's only one way rolling stake out. Thought you tried that, Rob.
This time we use more cars.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Better work this lightest one's really got the corner pocket screaming,
how are you gonna set it up?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Well?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Let job out in West LA's the first time he's
moved out of central.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I think we can figure we'll be back.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
That's playing it the long way.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
There's nothing left.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
I'll buy it. How's it gonna work?
Speaker 12 (18:25):
You know?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
We take a look at the map over.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
He's been hitting in this area along here up to now,
we've had it covered in through here and here. Now
we can put additional cars on these streets and.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Maybe over here.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Huh, how about a check system?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
It will be kind of hard to work out, skipper.
We'll be in a three way car.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
We're creating.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
This partner will be in one. That way, we can
keep casing what's going on when you start. Hope we
can swing it tonight. Talk to macready, No, not the
whole thing, went over part of it.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
What's he think? He goes with us? It's the only way, then.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It better come through for you. Hmm, you don't get
another chance.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
At seven twenty that night, the rolling steakeout began.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
It continued for another week. Several arrests were made, but
when the suspects were checked, they were ruled out as
the ones that we were looking for. In the meantime,
the hold up men hit twice more in the area.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Under surveillance, bartenders started closing their places. Early pressure from
citizens groups and newspapers got a little worse. Apparently there
was nothing we could do to stop the thieves. Tuesday,
June twenty eighth, we stopped.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
For some beat.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That's gonna be another long night, and I hope we
get something out of it.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Yeah, all right, fellers. Well to be well.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
A couple of eggs over easy, I get it from
the side order of bacon. Well, thank you, how about you?
Speaker 7 (19:45):
That sounds good, Joe.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
I'll have the same, only make my eggs straight up
for you know.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I'll have a side order a ham ride over and
two coffee as we bring them away.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Sure thing, I'll get them for you right now. I
got to get home. I'll have a cup of coffee.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I'll drop you off.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
My wife's gonna be soft and I'll make it pretty
quick their beast.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
So that's the trouble with women today, all the time
trying to run our lives.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's right, have your coffee, will leave my friend.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
You'll like them.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It feels so good. Maybe I ought to leave now.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Look, you'll be all right.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Just take it east John old day.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
That's a description like you might be setting one. Let's
kick it.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Well.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
If you any trouble, stay with us, some new one.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
What if you allow us take a look at your identification?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Why?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Because I ask you who? You? Police officer? Wat? Come on?
Come on here, shove me around. I thought this a
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bo Wait to do nothing, and don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
You've got nothing to hold me on nothing.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
We'll talk about it downtown. Come on, let's go.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
What's your charge?
Speaker 8 (20:51):
You gotta make one.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Come on, you gotta make a charge.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
You can't pick me without it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
But I try suspicion a robbery now for me? You
keep believing that, fella.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I will. You're out on a limb. Cop you nothing.
I'll be free in a couple hours.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You got it wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
We won't have to. We'll let the jury do it.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
We took the suspect back to the city hall. He
was identified as Emmit Noonan.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
He refused to admit any part in the hold ups.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He wouldn't tell us who the friend was that he'd
mentioned to the intended victim. A check of R and
I revealed that he'd serve sentences at San Quentin and
at Fulsome for armed robbery. We pulled his mugshot and
a team of detectives went out to check with the victims.
It was an hour before they got back to the office.
We talked to him and then we went to see Noonan.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Said to turn me out now, no, not quite well.
Ain't you gonna give up?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Guy?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
If you got nothing to make a charge on?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
You know it.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I don't know how long you want to play this game,
and i'd like you don't get some sleep.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
We just got word from the officers who checked your
picture with the victims.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Yeah, they gave us a positive identification.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Nothing different about me. Lots of guys look the same.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Why don't you come off at noon We got your maid,
and you know it.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I don't know anything of the kind cup you're saying.
Speaker 13 (21:55):
One thing I say different. It's my word against you
is we'll see who the court believe we've got a
head start.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
How do you figure that?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
It's the way you work.
Speaker 13 (22:02):
Any record I got you can't mention in court as
far as they're concerned, I'm clean.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I want to call it a day. We can all
get some sleep. What do you do for a living?
I'm a salesman?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
What do you sell?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Different things? Name them magazine, sometimes ozery, different things. When's
the last time you work six months ago?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
How have you lived since then?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
They saved my money? You know you're in for more
in a robbery charge and I'm not standing That.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Man out in West La died.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It's too bad. I didn't see anything about it in
the paper. Is the only way. I don't know. Who's
the guy with you on the jobs. I don't know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You know we'll get to them. We'll not save yourself
a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't know nothing of the kind. You guys are
out of your skull's all right?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Let's go now.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Are you get unlock to do them?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
This one where we going.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Main jail for how long until they pass sentence?
Speaker 13 (22:46):
You sound pretty sure we are? Come on, it's too
bad about you guys. What's that how long you've been
working on these robberies?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
A couple of months?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
And I'm your pigeon.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You hear the man.
Speaker 13 (22:56):
Let's make you feel kind of lousy, be so sure,
and then find out that you're wrong. You know, if
I keep my mouth shut, you can have a case.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
You know how, I'm going to tell you, real simple.
We can identify you positively. We got a dozen people
that are going to get up on a stand and
point you out as a man who knock them down
and walked on them. The time we get through with
you will have enough on you for a five minute deliberation.
Speaker 13 (23:14):
You're ruling out one thing, Copiah, what's that the jury?
All I need is one person who won't go with
the rest of them, one who doesn't listen.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
You got it all figured out.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
One person doesn't care. I got it made just one.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Well, when you're in real trouble, huh, we'll find twelve.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
We do.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
The story you've just heard is true. The names were
changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
On November nineteenth, trial was held in Department ninety eight,
Superior Court of the State of California in and fall,
the County of.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Further investigation resulted in the arrest of Jerome Nathan Pollock
as an accomplice in the robberies. Both he and Emma
David Noonan were tried and convicted of murder in the
first degree. The jury failed to return a recommendation of
leniency and both men received the maximum sentence. They were
put to death in the lethal gas chamber of the
State Penitentiary San Quentin, California.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
Dragnet is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio.
Speaker 12 (24:23):
Service stop stops.
Speaker 14 (25:12):
That's steer, step fer.
Speaker 12 (25:25):
Step fer, stepper steppers
Dragon, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The story you were about to hear is true. The
names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
A pair of hold up.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Men have been operating in your city.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You know their method of operation, you know what they
look like.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Your job get them.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It was Wednesday, June eighth. It was warm in Los
anges Le's. We were working the day watch out a
robbery detail. My partner is Frank Smith, the boss achievity
tact his stab down.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
My name is Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
We're on our way out from the office and it
was ten fourteen am when we get to the corner
of Roberta and Mercury, the.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
After hours cafe.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, I want to see.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
If I see Harry Prentis.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, man, what do you want police officers?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
It's my part Frank Smith.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
My name is pr All right about last night, huh yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Were you here?
Speaker 6 (01:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (01:04):
Sure it was?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And the only once got a key places open? I'm here,
yes or no?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
About the robbery?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Yeah sure?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
What do you want to know?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
How would you tell us what happened?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Should have read the papers this morning all about it
and there got a couple of copies if you want
to see him.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
No, that won't be nice, No, no trouble.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Goal happened to have a couple of copies right here.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah here, take a look right here. Yeah, I hit it. Yeah,
I'll read it to you.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Last night at the after hours cafe, and we should
give the address. And at the after hours cafe, two
gunmen held up and be Jeffrey Hanks. The victim was
approached outside the bar, and one asked.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
For his munch.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
And now we saw that. We just like to hear
your version if we could.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Oh, oh, okay, what do you want to know?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Did you see them in the gunman? That's right?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Yeah, sure, I told the other cops. They did, gave
me a description everything.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
He knows anything about this speech and the accent.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Maybe no. I asked them what they wanted.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
One big one you ordered the Scotch in the rocks.
The other one asked for plain grapefruit juice, no booze,
just the juice and lucky I had it. A couple
of cans in for vodka drinks. Don't get a lot
of call for it. Guy drank all.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I had when the victim come in.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You mean Hanks?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Yeah, almost been about eight thirty someplace in there, walked in,
sat don had you seen them before?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
No?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Brand new face, nice looking guy, though, kind you like
to have for regularly, that's all. Yeah, quiet, good drinker,
doesn't bother the singles at the bar. Nice, you know
what I mean? Yeah, I had a place full of them,
I wouldn't have no worries.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
How do he happen to get mixed up with the
other dude you know?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, you mean Hanks, that's right. I don't know. I
wasn't paying a lot of attention. Porta Mamartini left them alone.
A friend of mine, lady type, was here, was talking
to her. Her and a boyfriend been having trouble.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
He belted it around a little bit, not bad, couple
of scratchy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I think so well.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
She was asking me what to do.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We've been friends for a long time since I opened
the place. Anyway, we was.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Talking, so I didn't see what happened, Yea. All I
know is that the three of them got up, moved
to the booth in the back, ordered another round.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I hardly got the drinks back to the table and
they was ready for another one go ahead, kept running
from the bar to their table for the next couple
of hours.
Speaker 8 (02:58):
Hear anything they were saying.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Much when I was drinking scotch. You got a little
plastered and loud. Told him a couple of times to
shut up, said after eighty six and if they didn't
cat it up, so I told him to leave. Didn't
take it kindly, I mean that I started to get rough,
you know, telling me that they didn't have to take
no guph from a bar keeper now. And I told
him I want drinking a grapefruit juice. I told him
to get his friends out. He says, we're not causing
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any trouble, and I said, that's the.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Way I want to keep it.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
So he said for me to leave him alone, and
I said to the grapefruiter, I said for him to
leave right then, I don't want you in my place.
I said, yeah, well then, so scotch on the rocks.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
He said, tell his cat to go hide his head
like that, he.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Said, and turned the bear loose, and I grabbed the
both of them, threw him.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Out through the door.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Oh you see, And I went back to the other guy,
nice looking on him. He was pretty gas by then
and about eight Martine, He's asked him to leave.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
He did, ye, Do you have any trouble with it?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
No, just asked.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
He walked out for the other two outside when he left.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, I stand on the sidewalk. I told him to
shove off.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
I called the cops.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Old Scotch in the rocks. He said for me to
go soak. My head was going after him, and I
figured it wouldn't do no good, so I came back inside.
A couple of minutes later, A nice guy banks thanks.
Oh yeah, yeah, well he came in all beat up,
close to him real mets, you know, big cut right
right along here for it, said he'd been robbed, wanted me.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
To call the cops. Had you ever seen these of
the two men before?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
You mean Scotch and the rocks and grit that's right?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
No, No, I never did.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Or if you take a look at this description, see
if that's right here?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Sure, glad to help him?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, yeah, that looks about right.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Anything you're going to add to it now, there's a
couple of guys at the bottom and stand out.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Would you know him if you saw him again?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I just say, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yes, a couple of guys came in order to drink
nothing special. I'm not sure I could point him out
for you. Anybody forget him?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Not quite?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Huh, we won't.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Eleven thirty am we left the bard went back to
the city Hall. We checked with the stats office and
picked up the results of their latest run. They listed
four possibles, but when.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
We read the names, we were closer to the hold
up men than we had been.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The names were ones that we checked and cleared before
Frank and I went back to robbery. It was a
message for us to see Captain Donahoe. We went into
his office.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Yeah no, as far as I know, there's nothing to want,
that's right.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
He just came in.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
What all right?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I let to know right away?
Speaker 8 (05:19):
Yeah, bye, gollon.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Nik skipper.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Yeah that was Keith Brown.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Been calling him all morning.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Yeah, you know what he wants?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
What do I tell him?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Well, we talked to the bartender. He can't give us anything.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
What about the victim?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Not much there here? Able to come up with a name, No,
says he didn't hear anything.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That's a big help.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well that's it up, thank you figure out?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Yeah, thanks Smith, Yes, I got it.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Thanks too.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
From the beginning, what do you got a good m
good description.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
We've got an idea of the line they're working and
that's about it. What about stats? Just picked up the
new run for names? What's on clean? They all been
checking before.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
Gotta be something around Tom on them? Well, there should be,
but there just isn't. How about your informants.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
No, they haven't been able to tell us anything straight,
no reason they should lie.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Victims and witnesses, seeing the mug books all.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
We got, they haven't able to come up with an identification.
Burton up at CII said, all.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
The stuff he's got in the method of operation, we've checked.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It all through.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
What about the places they can spend the money?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
We've been to the Guardiana half a dozen times or
nothing out there?
Speaker 8 (06:22):
What about Vegas?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Talked to the department over there. They're giving us all
the help they can, but they haven't turned anything yet.
We haven't got the race tracks covered. Possible you miss something, sure, possible.
I don't know what it could be.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
You knew you wouldn't have missed it, you know from
the beginning, gold okay, first report was.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Made on the.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Got it here?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
It is Tuesday, April twenty sixth victim came out of
the bar. Two men stopped him, started a conversation, got
him into a car, beat him and robbed him.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Six weeks ago. That's right, and the guys are still running.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
The next one was on Friday, April twenty ninth, same description.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
How often has been happening since?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Couple of times a week.
Speaker 10 (07:02):
You can't find a leak, no sir, no rumbles, none
that we haven't run down anybody in the office got anything.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
We talked to me and Stromwell and I thought they
had it made for us, but the rely didn't go
any place.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Money they're getting isn't sitting in their pockets being spent someplace.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
We can't find the cash registry.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
I'll tell you this.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
A fellow in the nailed last night. What's his name,
Fipley Nigs. Yeah, well, he's got some friends in the
city hall. They're pretty upset about what happened. Called the
chief this morning. He's been on me. I'm giving it
to you. He won't be happy with excuses, and I
don't want to give him any, So don't hand me
an right boils down simple.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
I don't care how you do it, I don't care
where I just get it done. I want those two
men and I want them fast.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Right.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
I know how it is now you do too, Yes, sir.
I don't like the pressure any more than you do.
We're getting it all the way around.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
People that are making them noise shoul follow us around
for a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's the difference. They don't have to.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Huh, you're getting paid. Frank and I went over every
piece of information we had on the case. We re
read the reports that had been filed by the officers
at the scene. Statements from witness and victims were gone
over again. The names of the staff's office had given
us were run through Y and I again.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
None of it did any good.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
We still didn't have a lead to the identity of
the thieves. Three days passed while we talked to informants
and questioned other sources of information. On Sunday, June twelfth,
we got back to the office from talking to a
bartender out on the Olympic Boulevard.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Well that's another one.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Didn't go any place.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Yeah, you want to get the book, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Robbery faddy, Uh yeah, Jack, Yeah, where is the place?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
M M.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
In a minute? Yeah, I got it. Yeah, I guess
the word's all over. Yeah, okay, we'll check it out. Thanks, boy, there's.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Nothing in the book. I think. I want to know
if you could make it for dinner tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Got a barbecue plan? You better call it off.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You got other plan?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That was McCready on the phone. He just got a
call from a bartender out who this woman crying in
her beer, says he figured we want to check it out.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Is it she says?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Her boyfriend is one of our suspects. M The bar,
Sergeant Jack McCready had mentioned was on the corner of
Wilshire Boulevard and Ingram Street. There were two people in
the place when we arrived, one an elderly man sitting
near the door, and the other a middle aged woman
at the rear of the bar. We checked with a
bartender and he told us that he'd made the call.
He went on to say that the woman had come
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in about ten that morning. Since that time, she'd been
crying and mumbling something about going to the police. Frank
and I went back to talk to her.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, I understand that you want to talk to the police.
My name is Friday. Is my partner, Frank Smith. You're
cut sir, what do you want to say? This is
about lady?
Speaker 7 (09:50):
That bum Dorwin? That's what it's about. Bum.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
That's his name, is it Darwin?
Speaker 11 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (09:56):
We ah, no good? You played them the meal all
the time hitting me. I think he was married all
the time.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
What's his last name? You know, whole Brook?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Darwin?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Whole Brook. You'd like to buy me a drink? That lady, Well,
that's where you're wrong. I'm supposed to.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
Show you that they don't know what you're talking about,
and then you want it to me though you haven't
got Derwin none?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
What's he done? Hold ups?
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Yeah, hold ups? Let's say he's done all over town.
Old Darwin's the old people up?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
See your husband me?
Speaker 11 (10:34):
Derwin's right, that's right, that's real funny now that is?
I mean Darwin married, But I don't think I wouldn't
do it for a mends.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Don't think it.
Speaker 11 (10:47):
But A'm true, not at all, that's true. A friend,
been a friend for twelve years, that's a long time,
that's right. Been a hold hands for twelve years.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
We ain't married. You don't want to?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Will you tell us about the hold ups that he's
been pulling?
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Ben? All the papers you haven't read it all the papers.
Are you sure there were cops?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
What you tell us about Darwin?
Speaker 11 (11:16):
Lousy all the time talking about us, someday we'd get married,
all the time, talking like that, I got a couple
of bucks for the womb will take a big step
as well.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
He was odd.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
I'm saying it's a big step. So what happens he
has a couple.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Of bucks when he takes off with another girl?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Lousy?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Bum there one is liable. Now where do you get
the money?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
The hold ups?
Speaker 7 (11:44):
I got the paper?
Speaker 11 (11:45):
I choose you that before he's running after up all
those people in front of bars.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
He's pretty good at beating people up. You know, he's
good at that. Not much else, but he's real good
at that.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
You ever talked about the hold ups to you?
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Now that'd be kind Telly talking to anybody? Follow me
went out just because I know that.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So what's this fellow look like?
Speaker 9 (12:11):
The derwood?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
That's right?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
I guess the person who say she was wrong? And
I wouldn't, so I guess that's what you would say.
I would it got dark hair kind of roll away.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Right here here?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Yeah, in front?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
How tall is he?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (12:30):
Here's a bo one?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Well, how tall.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
About see how.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Much you weigh?
Speaker 7 (12:38):
I don't know. I guess a couple of hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Was he fat or thin?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Because then then how old is he? Thirty? Thirty? Eight
years old? Three years old?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
In me?
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Two years?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
What color his eyes?
Speaker 12 (12:55):
Do?
Speaker 8 (12:55):
He have been arrested?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I says, he have been arrested.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
I don't know. Maybe I said to me other words.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Run through the out check you don't we'll talk to him.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Yeah, you do that? You tell him from me? I
think his bum for twelve years. He didn't tell me.
When he is a couple of bucks, we take a
step and then he runs out with another girl?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Wow, he heroe.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You know where we can find him?
Speaker 7 (13:23):
I guess he saw him. I don't know the place.
I'll see be home.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
You got the address?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Sure? One eight through some half Margot Street?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
And you hear very well?
Speaker 7 (13:35):
One eight to seven and a half Margot Street. So
side seven five three to one.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
That's sorry that hill side seven five three two one.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
That's what I said on the second floor Margot Street.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You have any close friends that you know?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Are sure?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Girl?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
He walked out with she's a close friend?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Any man?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Nope, Girl, don't like nobody on his back Isabelle on
as Cast None, Yeah, excuse.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Me a minute late?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Oh yeah, sure, he'll go to his heads. I tell
her about that, told her about the drink though.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
What do you got?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I checked ironeye on home bro. How's he stand?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I found a couple of the description.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
One of them might be good done time for robbery?
Does he owe anything?
Speaker 12 (14:19):
No?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Get out clean?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I wonder if he stayed that way.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Frank and I left the bar and drove over to
the Margot Street address. We checked with the land that
he She told us the whole book had moved in
approximately six weeks before. She went on to say that
he'd been behind his rent, but that he'd paid what
he owed and had given her the money for an
additional two months.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
She said that she didn't know what.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
He did for a living.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
He had few visitors in the land that he couldn't
tell us if he owned a car. According to her,
he was in his room. Frank and I went up
to see him.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
There it is, he said, there going a whole brook
gives the minute? What do you want?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Police? You got no right to bus to here like this?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
There is nothing wrong?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Then you won't mind up we look around with you.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh, go ahead, you won't find it.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
I'll check it down.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Now tell me what you want. Maybe I can give
your hands. You just sit still there. Sure I got
nothing to worry about. Tear the place to part. Just
make sure you put it all back right where you
found it. That's clean, Joe. I could have told you that.
I show you could might let me know why you're
rousted me.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
You work for a living.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Why do you know why we hear what?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
You're doing? Pretty well with the money. I guess you'd say,
you mind? Tell us where you got it? Why is investment?
That's it?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Sure?
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Read the financial page all the time.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
A couple of bucks here, a couple more of their
first thing?
Speaker 7 (15:48):
You know you're on your way to a million.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, the way it came to us, you might have
made the money the hard way.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Whoever told you that's a liar?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
So sure, I got a pretty good idea.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Who's got the big mouth?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Don't make any difference.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You can't tag me for anything.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Why don't you tell us?
Speaker 7 (16:01):
I will?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You're beefing about the money.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, you can't say I didn't make it from investments.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I don't have to prove it.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
You do, you get approved.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I didn't make it from investing. I think we might
be able to go ahead and I'll give you something
else what I don't think you're going to like the interest.
We took Derwin Holbrook back to the city Hall and
talked to him for over an hour.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
He refused to admit.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Any part of the holdups. We made arrangements for the
victims to come down and see him. Witnesses were asked
to special show ups, but they failed to give us
a positive identification. Pulbrook's name came up on the overtime
sheet and he was released from custody. There was nothing
we could do. Another week went by. Pulbrook was kept
in their constant surveillance. Monday, June twentieth, Frank and I
were in the squad room.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Righty Smith, ask you for we're here?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I Captain, what do you got?
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Your boys did another job last night out in West
la We didn't see the reports. Just came in.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Got a meeting of war on this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Be there, I'm side.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Victim died without regaining consciousness.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Any descriptions of the suspect enough to know if the
two fellows you're after that's your hot suspect.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Which his name Hobrook. That sorry you able to keep
them this time? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
It's the matter.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Report says the hold up took place at ten fifteen. Yeah,
Holbrook was asleep at nine. We rechecked with the team
of men who had been keeping Drwin Holbrook under surveillance.
They verified the fact that the suspect had been in
his room at the time of the robbery, and that
there was no way for him to have left the apartment.
(17:29):
We went out to the hospital and talked to the
officer that had been with the latest victim. He said
that the dead man hadn't said anything to help identify
as assailant. We talked with a bartender the place where
the beating had occurred. He remembered two men in the bar,
and he remembered them talking with a victim, but he
was unable to tell us anything more. Additional broadcasts were
gotten out. At the meeting with Captain Lahman, it was
(17:50):
decided that from that point the investigation would be a
joint operation between robbery and homicide. After the meeting, Frank,
Captain Donaho and I met back in Rome twenty seven about.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
In it's up.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Yep, Well you've heard it, and how are you gonna
work it?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
There's only one way rolling stake out. Thought you tried that, Rob.
This time we use more cars.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Better work this lightest one's really got the corner pocket screaming,
how are you gonna set it up?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Well?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Let job out in West LA's the first time he's
moved out of central.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I think we can figure we'll be back.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
That's playing it the long way.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
There's nothing left.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
I'll buy it. How's it gonna work?
Speaker 12 (18:25):
You know?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
We take a look at the map over.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
He's been hitting in this area along here up to now,
we've had it covered in through here and here. Now
we can put additional cars on these streets and.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Maybe over here.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Huh, how about a check system?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
It will be kind of hard to work out, skipper.
We'll be in a three way car.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
We're creating.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
This partner will be in one. That way, we can
keep casing what's going on when you start. Hope we
can swing it tonight. Talk to macready, No, not the
whole thing, went over part of it.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
What's he think? He goes with us? It's the only way, then.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It better come through for you. Hmm, you don't get
another chance.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
At seven twenty that night, the rolling steakeout began.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
It continued for another week. Several arrests were made, but
when the suspects were checked, they were ruled out as
the ones that we were looking for. In the meantime,
the hold up men hit twice more in the area.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Under surveillance, bartenders started closing their places. Early pressure from
citizens groups and newspapers got a little worse. Apparently there
was nothing we could do to stop the thieves. Tuesday,
June twenty eighth, we stopped.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
For some beat.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That's gonna be another long night, and I hope we
get something out of it.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Yeah, all right, fellers. Well to be well.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
A couple of eggs over easy, I get it from
the side order of bacon. Well, thank you, how about you?
Speaker 7 (19:45):
That sounds good, Joe.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
I'll have the same, only make my eggs straight up
for you know.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I'll have a side order a ham ride over and
two coffee as we bring them away.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Sure thing, I'll get them for you right now. I
got to get home. I'll have a cup of coffee.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I'll drop you off.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
My wife's gonna be soft and I'll make it pretty
quick their beast.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
So that's the trouble with women today, all the time
trying to run our lives.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's right, have your coffee, will leave my friend.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
You'll like them.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It feels so good. Maybe I ought to leave now.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Look, you'll be all right.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Just take it east John old day.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
That's a description like you might be setting one. Let's
kick it.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Well.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
If you any trouble, stay with us, some new one.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
What if you allow us take a look at your identification?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Why?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Because I ask you who? You? Police officer? Wat? Come on?
Come on here, shove me around. I thought this a
(20:45):
bo Wait to do nothing, and don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
You've got nothing to hold me on nothing.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
We'll talk about it downtown. Come on, let's go.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
What's your charge?
Speaker 8 (20:51):
You gotta make one.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Come on, you gotta make a charge.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
You can't pick me without it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
But I try suspicion a robbery now for me? You
keep believing that, fella.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I will. You're out on a limb. Cop you nothing.
I'll be free in a couple hours.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You got it wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
We won't have to. We'll let the jury do it.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
We took the suspect back to the city hall. He
was identified as Emmit Noonan.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
He refused to admit any part in the hold ups.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He wouldn't tell us who the friend was that he'd
mentioned to the intended victim. A check of R and
I revealed that he'd serve sentences at San Quentin and
at Fulsome for armed robbery. We pulled his mugshot and
a team of detectives went out to check with the victims.
It was an hour before they got back to the office.
We talked to him and then we went to see Noonan.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Said to turn me out now, no, not quite well.
Ain't you gonna give up?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Guy?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
If you got nothing to make a charge on?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
You know it.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I don't know how long you want to play this game,
and i'd like you don't get some sleep.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
We just got word from the officers who checked your
picture with the victims.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Yeah, they gave us a positive identification.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Nothing different about me. Lots of guys look the same.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Why don't you come off at noon We got your maid,
and you know it.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I don't know anything of the kind cup you're saying.
Speaker 13 (21:55):
One thing I say different. It's my word against you
is we'll see who the court believe we've got a
head start.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
How do you figure that?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
It's the way you work.
Speaker 13 (22:02):
Any record I got you can't mention in court as
far as they're concerned, I'm clean.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I want to call it a day. We can all
get some sleep. What do you do for a living?
I'm a salesman?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
What do you sell?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Different things? Name them magazine, sometimes ozery, different things. When's
the last time you work six months ago?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
How have you lived since then?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
They saved my money? You know you're in for more
in a robbery charge and I'm not standing That.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Man out in West La died.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It's too bad. I didn't see anything about it in
the paper. Is the only way. I don't know. Who's
the guy with you on the jobs. I don't know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You know we'll get to them. We'll not save yourself
a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't know nothing of the kind. You guys are
out of your skull's all right?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Let's go now.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Are you get unlock to do them?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
This one where we going.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Main jail for how long until they pass sentence?
Speaker 13 (22:46):
You sound pretty sure we are? Come on, it's too
bad about you guys. What's that how long you've been
working on these robberies?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
A couple of months?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
And I'm your pigeon.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You hear the man.
Speaker 13 (22:56):
Let's make you feel kind of lousy, be so sure,
and then find out that you're wrong. You know, if
I keep my mouth shut, you can have a case.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
You know how, I'm going to tell you, real simple.
We can identify you positively. We got a dozen people
that are going to get up on a stand and
point you out as a man who knock them down
and walked on them. The time we get through with
you will have enough on you for a five minute deliberation.
Speaker 13 (23:14):
You're ruling out one thing, Copiah, what's that the jury?
All I need is one person who won't go with
the rest of them, one who doesn't listen.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
You got it all figured out.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
One person doesn't care. I got it made just one.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Well, when you're in real trouble, huh, we'll find twelve.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
We do.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
The story you've just heard is true. The names were
changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
On November nineteenth, trial was held in Department ninety eight,
Superior Court of the State of California in and fall,
the County of.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Further investigation resulted in the arrest of Jerome Nathan Pollock
as an accomplice in the robberies. Both he and Emma
David Noonan were tried and convicted of murder in the
first degree. The jury failed to return a recommendation of
leniency and both men received the maximum sentence. They were
put to death in the lethal gas chamber of the
State Penitentiary San Quentin, California.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
Dragnet is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio.
Speaker 12 (24:23):
Service stop stops.
Speaker 14 (25:12):
That's steer, step fer.
Speaker 12 (25:25):
Step fer, stepper steppers
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