November 2, 2025 • 29 mins
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next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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Speaker 5 (02:03):
It was Thursday, September sixth was warm in Los Angeles.
We're working the day.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Watch out of homicide detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The
boss is Captain Steve.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
My name is Friday.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
I was on the way back from communications and it
was one twenty eight pm when I got to Room
forty two Homicide.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You ready, Skipper?
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Yeah, man, what's up?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
It's got the call Third and Temple, you know, fitz
Floyd Building, thirteenth floor.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
They got a jumper, righty?
Speaker 9 (02:30):
Then that's how's it?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Right? What's the story?
Speaker 9 (02:37):
Skipper took the call?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Not much tell.
Speaker 10 (02:40):
Guys perched out on a window, LEDs thirteen flowers up,
threatening to jump.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
What time you got round now? One thirty three?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Not much time?
Speaker 9 (02:48):
What a guy on a ledge you serve? Notice?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Well, what do you mean?
Speaker 9 (02:52):
Says he's gonna jump? At two o'clock.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
One thirty six pm, then pulled the cardo was a
stock up at Third and Temple.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
We double parked near the.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Intersection started across the street. At the building on the
northeast corner was a steel framed structure with a block
granite facing. The stone lettering over the main entrance read R. H.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Fitzroy Building, nineteen twenty seven.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
The immediate area had been blocked off in all directions.
The sidewalks directly adjacent to the building on Third Street
and on Temple Street had also been cleared of all
pedestrian traffic. Hundreds of curious onlookers jammed against police lines
at the far side of the intersection, reaching back for
a full block in the direction. Hundreds more had packed
in behind them. Thirteen stories above the pavement was the
(03:36):
center of attraction. The figure of a man standing upright
on a narrow ledge looking down at the crown on
the street directly below, and men from the fire Department's
rescue squad were hurriedly stretching out.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Nets were ended. The building took the elevator to the
thirteenth floor.
Speaker 9 (03:51):
It was bounded by a peers back to onan wiseman.
I saw the crowd gathering in.
Speaker 10 (03:55):
The street, and I went back from lunch, woked up
and Sawguay on the ledge that came.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Right up along as the granvit' stay any about fifteen
minutes you're drawing and crowd must be a couple thousand
people down there.
Speaker 10 (04:12):
How was that room number?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Friday? Uh? Thirteen oh five? Yeah, set this way, there's
back the back.
Speaker 9 (04:20):
I been watching for you.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
The office is down here. Okay, how's it stand out?
Speaker 10 (04:25):
You're still out there ready to jump? We got twenty
two minutes to figure out how.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
To stump him.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
What's the story anyway?
Speaker 10 (04:29):
I let the doctor tell you.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Go ahead.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
Through here, nurse where doctor turnago?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
What talking to meet?
Speaker 11 (04:42):
Doctor Rych? He's bringing him right up.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
This is Captain Steve Homicide in the flint of hands.
Speaker 12 (04:46):
How do you do?
Speaker 10 (04:47):
Friday?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Roma?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
How the nurse ar you?
Speaker 10 (04:49):
Here's how he climbed outside this window here? Yeah, right
now he's standing on the ledge about twelve feet to
the right of the window. The ledge is about fourteen
inches wide.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
No other one those close are doing No this is it?
Did you try to talk him out of it? Get
him back inside?
Speaker 10 (05:02):
We took a turn at it, you know. Wiseman crawled
out on the ledge talk to him, So did I.
One of the queerest jumpers asked him across, honey, mean
get a hammer with him, carpenter's hammer. Whenever you get
close to him, he takes a cut at you. Wiseman
wasn't looking for it, had a duc fast he.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Almost went over. Was there any other way to reach him?
Speaker 10 (05:17):
Double check the whole lay out?
Speaker 9 (05:18):
This windows the closest or about lowering a man from
the roof.
Speaker 10 (05:21):
White piece of corners up there, big overhang and put
a man down on a rope and he'd be hang
him three feet from the side of the building.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Wouldn't come close to the guy?
Speaker 9 (05:28):
How about this doctor you mentioned, Becky figure he can help.
Speaker 10 (05:31):
It's worth a try this one hand.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yes, you saw it happen.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
You know better than I do. What doctor Turner's idea is?
Would you fill these men in?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Please make it brief surely anolish man on the ledge?
Who is he?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Do you know?
Speaker 11 (05:42):
Walter Harrison's he's name. He's one of the doctor's patients.
His sister brought him in for a routine check up.
That was about one o'clock.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
How old are man?
Speaker 11 (05:48):
Forty one? His sister told us he's been complaining of
the back ache lately. While the doctor was examining him
and mister Harrison flew up all of a sudden. He
yelled out we were trying to crip him, that we
wanted to kill him. Oh excuse me, he.
Speaker 12 (06:00):
Sure that's Turney's office.
Speaker 11 (06:03):
No, I'm sorry, not this afternoon. We have an awful
lot of trouble.
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Yes, all right, sensing well, what happened?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
After Harrison started to act up, Miss lending him.
Speaker 11 (06:11):
Doctor Turner and I tried to hold him. He shoved
his book out of the way. He hit the doctor
in the face. Then he ran to the window, got
out on that ledge and crawled along the side of
the building. He's been there ever since.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Miss Harrison is a mental case.
Speaker 11 (06:22):
Yes, he's been for ten years, been in and out
of the state hospital at camera a lit a couple
of times. Sister Ruth's been taking care of him. She
was here, what happened?
Speaker 9 (06:30):
Where is she now?
Speaker 11 (06:31):
Next door the treatment room? Felma, that's the other nurse
she's looking after Miss Harrison. She's pretty close to hysteric.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
Tried to talk to her, Skipper, not much help so far,
you said, his doctor's been treating this, mister Harrison.
Speaker 11 (06:41):
No, he just came in for a physical check up.
Doctor Reich has been handling his mental condition. That's where
doctor Turner is now getting rich. He has his office
in the next building.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
What times you got, ben?
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Mm getting short? Nineteen minutes to two? How about a
time element back? If he's gonna kill himself, why is
he waiting for two o'clock to do it?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
He's got me.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
He's scribbled a note out there, threw it down the street.
One of the men the rescue squad grabbed it and
brought it up, and I got.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It right here.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Let me see, and I look at that.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
They want my life. They want what's this next one? Oh?
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Dad, Dad? They want me dead?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
You know, I'd like to pray first. I'll jump at
two o'clock. I don't what's this last thing?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Ben?
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I can't let me see you at two o'clock. Don't
touch my body, that's it. Don't touch my body.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
You saw the guy close range back? What do you
think he's serious?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I don't know. I'm not even gonna guess.
Speaker 9 (07:33):
How about me going out and talking to Skipper? It
might work, won't do any hard had ledges fourteen inches wide.
Rome Arrah, if you slip by, I don't wanna explain.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
It to your wife and kid. But how about me
giving it a try. That jumper case last October I
was on that one.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
It's volunteer duty, Joe. I'm not gonna order you, you
know the rest.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Of Yeah, I'll watch it. You wanna stand by here
at the window bend, you know.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Okay, let's get that window up, uh fines, yeah, blind, Okay.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Get your head with the window all right up, a
little stuck, Yeah, all the way up it goes.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Okay, make careful now, huh yeah, I will, Joe, Yeah, back.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Don't forget about that hammer.
Speaker 10 (08:13):
The guy it's got it. It's my guess.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, what's that?
Speaker 10 (08:15):
The guy might want to die. I don't think he wants.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
To do it alone. One PM.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
If we could take Walder Harrison's word for it, we
had exactly seventeen minutes to talk him into a change
of mind before he plunged to his death from the
pavement thirteen stories below.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I crawled out of the window and started inching my
way along the narrow ledge went slow. I kept my
eyes on Harrison.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
He stood about ten feet away from me, looking down
at the crowds jamming.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
The streets below. I adged along to within eight feet
of him. He didn't seem to notice me.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
It was a fairly tall man, about five foot ten,
medium bill, dark hair, who was wearing gray pin striped trousers,
a white shirt.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
No coat, no necktie. I got to within six feet
of him.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
He raised one arm and made a motion with his
fist at the crowd below Handam you tack?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You want to get me out so fast?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
He kept edging toward him. He still didn't seem to
notice me. He turned his body a little bit. He
kept pounding the side of the building with a hammer.
I gotta look at his right hand, you know, he
held the carpenter's hammer. I got to within five feet
of him. An airliner passed over him. Harrison looked up.
(09:35):
He muttered something. Then he turned he saw me.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 12 (09:41):
It's all right with me, Waller. Why do you want
to kill yourself? You're only gonna hurt people.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
You don't care about people. You don't care about me.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
What am I doing out here?
Speaker 11 (09:52):
Well?
Speaker 7 (09:52):
You got it wrong, Walter.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
A lot of people care about you.
Speaker 12 (09:55):
They want you back inside and what's where it's safe.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You're another one of those. You want to get your
hand to me.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
You want to gun me.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
W is your not I'm going to choose.
Speaker 12 (10:05):
It's all right, Water, you can kill me. I want
to help you first.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
You stay back. Don't you move anymore. I got this
hammer and out smash your face for the smash you.
Speaker 12 (10:15):
I only want to talk.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I know we can straighten this out.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I'll do it my way. You understand my way.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
I know who you are.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You've been after me before. I know what it's all about.
Speaker 12 (10:26):
I know you do water, but you got it wrong.
Speaker 11 (10:28):
Now.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
Look, you're gonna jump up this building at two o'clock.
That's in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
That's right, you better hand.
Speaker 12 (10:33):
All right now, let's let's talk it over for five
of those minutes. Huh, can't do any harm. I'm not
gonna hurt you. How about it?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Why should I talk to you?
Speaker 12 (10:44):
Because I care about what happens to you. So does
your sister, so to a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Well, then you're like a lot of people. You want
to get your hands on, Like I don't. Animals down there,
the whole dirty tack them. They want to grab me,
get all around close and put their hands. I mean, well,
I gonna do it.
Speaker 12 (11:01):
Of course they're not. Nobody's gonna hurt you.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
You know that, don't you bet your life?
Speaker 9 (11:05):
They're not.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
You see that dirty packt on there. Well, they don't
know that. I'm gonna jump right too. I'm gonna jump
right though. All they won't even touch me.
Speaker 12 (11:16):
I can do it right now, Walter, we'll forget your promise.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
What are you talking about? What promise? Two o'clock?
Speaker 12 (11:23):
You wrote that down yourself. You said you wouldn't jump
until it was two a clock.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Was no promise. I I just wrote it down.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
That's all, just two o'clock.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Yeah, well, your sister believed it.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
We gave her the note. She says that your promise. Now,
you're gonna make a liar out of yourself.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You're you're the liar. Ruth didn't say that. She didn't
say it was a problem.
Speaker 12 (11:44):
You gotta take my word for that. All right, Let's
go in and ask her how about it?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
See see Ruth inside?
Speaker 12 (11:52):
Sure, man, I go, I take my hand water all.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Right, all right, I'll take you.
Speaker 12 (12:01):
Put your step without with you.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You'll get back and get back now. Next time I want, miss,
I'll smite the whole harm you. You think you're pretty smart,
don't you. You're trying to trick me, while I told
you before I know who you are. You're trying to
get your hands on You.
Speaker 12 (12:16):
Promised your sister two o'clock. You're still gonna break that promise.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I'm not like you in that pack down there. I
don't pray promise.
Speaker 12 (12:23):
Everybody knows that warror.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
They trust you.
Speaker 12 (12:27):
Come on, how about talking this thing out?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
What time is.
Speaker 9 (12:33):
One?
Speaker 12 (12:34):
Fourteen minutes to go live?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
How do I know that?
Speaker 12 (12:39):
You can look at my watch there right?
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Hey, you stand back.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I told you before you stay away from you.
Speaker 12 (12:46):
And just wanted to show you the time. That's all
all right. You can look at that big clock up
the streets, see the one on the side of the
whole bark building up there?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Fourteen minutes? How do I know that's right? How do
I know? They're not even with you too?
Speaker 12 (13:02):
You already said it, big company. They don't care about
you or me. They got a business to run their clock.
They don't care what happened.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
No, of course not, they don't.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
They don't care.
Speaker 12 (13:15):
All right, Well, I'll just keep an eye on all right,
you don't mind if I talk while you wait? Do you.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
That's plan?
Speaker 9 (13:24):
What's it doing?
Speaker 12 (13:26):
Well, it's just an airliner, probably on its way into Bourbank.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
You're not cooling. That plane has been by before. It's
flying low too.
Speaker 12 (13:34):
Yeah, I guess I didn't notice it.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Well, what difference does it make?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Probably watch flying back and forth. Maybe they're the police,
so they're they're trying to do something. They're trying to
get their hands on me.
Speaker 9 (13:47):
Oh, let's see.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Yeah, might be their plane.
Speaker 12 (13:50):
It's a big one.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Sure, sure, they're trying to do something. Coming right by here,
flying low.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
It's the same one.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I can see.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Blood.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
But do you see there on the wing?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (14:07):
What's that the number right there on the wing.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
It's the same one that pass over a few minutes ago.
You'll get away from me, Give it to me. You
thought you tricked me. You didn't know I had my
pocket night. Well, I can kill you with her now,
I can kill you right now.
Speaker 12 (14:27):
Yeah, I told you before. It's all right with me.
Look out there, watch your step on the ledge.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
When you should have cut your hand off, I should
have cut your whole arm off and thrown it to
those animals.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Look at that blood over your hand.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, I'm sorry, Water, it's not your fault.
Speaker 12 (14:46):
I just wanted to talk the whole thing over, to
tell you how your sister feels.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
You're alive.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I knew it when I looked at you, and I
know you get away. You'll get away before I kiss you.
Speaker 12 (14:55):
Look, there's only one thing I can tell you. Your
sister road sitting inside there, and she's worried, sick. She's
waiting for you. He wants to take your home, now,
how about it.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
There's no reason for all.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
You know that, don't you.
Speaker 12 (15:08):
I sure you do. The sister and your family, they
care about you. They want your home again, they want
you with them. There's no reason to be standing out here, now,
is there?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
You wait two o'clock, mister, Yeah, I'll show you the reason.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
One twelve minutes left. I made my way along the
ledge through the window back into the office. Doctor Wright,
a man who'd been treating Walter Harrison for his metal sickness,
was already there with doctor Turner.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
While the nurse bandied up my hand, Captain Steve ben
and I talked with him.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
I've treated Harrison for ten years, on and off. I
guess he showed some improvement, not much definite paranoid tendencies.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Had he ever try this before, Doctor, right.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Not to mind out that his sister might.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I tell you more.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
I really don't know what to advise you to do.
He's never been this violent before using a hammer, and
I think that's your Yeah, that's right, thank you.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
It's only one thing I've got to know, doctor. Is
it worth letting.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Another one of my men go out there on that ledge?
Speaker 10 (16:06):
I'm afraid that's your decision. Captains may help with me.
Not I know the patient, but I can't read his mind.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I was just thinking we might bring Harrison's sister to
the window and have her talks on I think that
might help, Doctor, very possible, it might.
Speaker 10 (16:19):
And a spot like this, I'm the same boat you
And so guess what you think Harrison's really going to
be ready to jump at two o'clock doctor, From what
Sergeant Friday tells me, Yes, I think he would jump.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
We got to come up with something. We can't just
stand around. Wants a guy take a dive down thirteen story?
Speaker 9 (16:33):
I wish I knew the answer. It got to be
one some place. There's got to be an answer.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Always check your watch we got ten minutes to find it.
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Speaker 5 (19:02):
Captain Steve got.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
On the fold and talk to the manager of the
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with a large clock set into either side of it,
the same clock Harrison was keeping time by.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Yeah, that's right, Just so you don't make it look
too obvious, Okay, mister w I'll thank you. They're going
to do all I can.
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That's what works. What do you say they're gonna.
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Start slowing down the clock in the building right away.
If Harrison goes by that time, it's going to be
a long ten minutes.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
But how much they figure they can stretch it about
five or six minutes without making it look too obvious.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
And you sure you use it. Let's hope Harrison doesn't
catch on.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Manager said, they'll stop the clock when it's a minute
to go. It'll never reach two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Skip Garamaryl.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
I just checked with the rescue squad down the street.
They're stringing out more nets. You know they're not guaranteeing anything.
How do you mean they're worried about those ledges jetting
up in the building every other floor they see. If
Harrison jumps close enough, he's bound to hit one of them.
He does, he'll be dead before he reaches street level.
Nets down they won't do him any good.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I don't think we can do about it.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
Something else we will have.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
To and over the locker they come up with any ideas,
ben just one sounds like a good word.
Speaker 9 (20:04):
What's that they figured?
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Like we did the overhang on the roof is too
wide to lower a man directly down on top of
Harrison to grab it. They think it might work if
they try this. Put a man in a rope, sling
just over the edge of the roof, lower him down
toward Harrison as close as possible without death, give him
a good line.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Let him try the rope harsh.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I don't know they got any candidates to try it.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Yeah, one guy's been on the rescue squad for years,
supposed to be an expert with a lasso cap.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Ye know what happens if he misses Harrison?
Speaker 9 (20:33):
Who knows what happens if Harrison jump happened.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
I just got off that ledge in a hurry. He
came at me with that KNIGHTE se any closer to
the window the back to off again?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Something else?
Speaker 10 (20:42):
That clock in the Hobart building. Pretty sure he's wise
to that gimmick. He's given it up. What do you
mean the two o'clock deadline? He's not gonna wait for
it one fifty five pm.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Especially equip police car with loud speakers mounted on the roof.
Who's rest of the intersection of Third and.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Temple streets opposite the Atstroy Building. Sergeant Jack Wiseman took
Walder Harrison's sister, Ruth down in the elevator to the street.
She got on the police car.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Microphone and started talking to her brother over the loud speakers.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Word was passed to the special detail of men from
the Fire Department's rescue squad standing by on the roof
of the building.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
They went to work.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Captain Steed went up to the roof to see if
he could assist them. Ben and I waited in the
office on the thirteenth floor. The nurse, Miss Lenihan and
Jean Bechhel were with us. One point fifty seven pm,
the men on the roof started to lower the man
from the rescue squad in the rope sling.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
He held a double.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Strength lasso in his hands. The end of it was
wrapped around his body and tied securely. Ben and I
watched from the window. We looked along the narrow ledge.
Walder Harrison stood erect.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And motionless, an open pocket knife in one hand, his
feet poisoned the brink of a thirteen story jump. The
voice of Harrison's sister drifted up from the loud speakers
down on the street.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
W this is roll Jash, Miss.
Speaker 12 (22:03):
I want you to come home with me.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Walder, please, you can't.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Understand sister's doing all right?
Speaker 9 (22:12):
Then you should for sure if he looks up.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Yeah, there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
No one's gonna hurt you. We wanna help you.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
Walder, Please, I can't see jo they're letting the man down.
Speaker 12 (22:25):
Yeah, coming slow to be afraid.
Speaker 11 (22:28):
Of you know that.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Don't you.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Come home with me please, I'll take care of you.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I'll see that you're safe.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
That you're all right.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Joe, How Harrison doing?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
Can you see?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Yeah? He's looking down, not moving at all.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Nobody's gonna hurt you.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Believe me.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Then you see why your friends they want to help you.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Can me hear me, Walter, they wanted to help.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
That's it. What man coming down on the rope.
Speaker 10 (23:03):
He's just above Harrison.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
Now hear your friends. You can trust me. You're just true.
You've got to trust me. Yeah, I see the man now.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
He's right and done nothing last already, keep your fingers crossed.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And that's so.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
He's rowney, dear miss Joey, miss?
Speaker 12 (23:37):
What wait a minute?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Parison, Lord, Lord, the Lord jennif Awar from ur the
word man.
Speaker 12 (23:43):
Pull him out of the way.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
That does still on the ledge.
Speaker 12 (23:46):
I'm going out, Joe, Wait a minute, it's only a chance.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Yeah, why don't you get him mad at you?
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Say anything himselving him, anything to make him go for you.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
If you can get him downe to this window, I
can grab him.
Speaker 12 (23:55):
I get him by the window.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
I'll hold onto him.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:57):
When you grab him, try to lean as close to
the building as you There's.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Not much to lean on the other way. One fifteen
nine pm. I got through the window and out onto
the ledge. The crowds jamming the streets below had swollen
almost twice their size.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
A few blocks away, the big clock on the side
of the Hobart building read five minutes to two, but
Harrison wasn't looking at it. He still had his eyes
fixed on the pavement thirteen stories beneath us.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
He torn off his.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Collar and his shirt was refilled with the neck. He
waved his arms and shouted at the crowd below as
he tottered along the ledge towards the corner of the building,
away from the window. Though I was supposed to lure
him into in his right hand, he still held out
with the open pocket knife.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
No, ya, you're not gonna get your hands on me.
You're not even going to get Cloe.
Speaker 12 (24:39):
Wait a minute, Harrison, watch it, you watch me.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Miss, I'm gonna jump right through him down there for
thirty ann juggers.
Speaker 12 (24:47):
What I wait a minute, I got a messy spoy
from his sister Rood. Now do you want to Harris?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
You you want to get your hands on me? None
of you stop out to your lighton.
Speaker 12 (24:56):
You're a pony, Harrison, You're.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
A pony liar. I'm all right off hurt me.
Speaker 12 (25:01):
You're not kidding anybody. You don't think I can jump hunt?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Where's your what?
Speaker 12 (25:06):
Anybody can jump any phony can do that. It doesn't
take anything. Those animals down there in the street, any
one of them.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
Could do that.
Speaker 12 (25:13):
They're just like one of them.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I've still got this knife. I've used it a cook.
I can tell you couldn't kill anything.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
You haven't got a cut.
Speaker 12 (25:21):
You're a phony, you're.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Lives, You're you're a rotten liar. I cut you a peace.
Speaker 12 (25:26):
Oh you talk me, Harrison, but you're all taught.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I can cut you to patience.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
You haven't got me, fool, mister that's for a minute.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I've cut you to patience.
Speaker 12 (25:35):
You haven't got half the nerve.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You're a phony and you know you're rotten life. Use
your stays to your boss. You stand still a hustle.
Speaker 13 (25:43):
Oh you talk a real good game, but that's about
all you're off. I still have my knife and you
right now, Yeah, sure you will. You're backing away. You're
a frad of a phony, Harrison. Nobody's afraid of a phony.
Cut you up, punk, I'm waiting for you.
Speaker 12 (26:02):
Come on, it's no matter erithon.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
You're not. You're not waiting. Stay stealing and stop tucking away.
Don't stop.
Speaker 12 (26:11):
I'll tell you you're coming get me.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Huh, haven't you got enough nerve? You're just talking again,
I'll talk Huh that window. You gotta stop by the window,
and and then I'll cut you a piece. All right, Harrison.
Speaker 12 (26:27):
Here, now you go ahead, prove your up, pony.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
All right, I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
You're running right for robbing?
Speaker 13 (26:41):
You running a shut the shopper, rubber, show them out
slip they're gonna fall.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Well, how close can it get there?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
That's just one iful sergeant.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
Both help you? Are you all right?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (27:01):
Fine?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Would you mind getting Captain Steve for us, but you
know who he is surely right away where Yeah that
was a rough one man, Dan, looked like you were
both going over the side.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Yeah, but I lost to Joe.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Or you didn't have to worry. No, no, you told
me which way to lean.
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Speaker 5 (02:03):
It was Thursday, September sixth was warm in Los Angeles.
We're working the day.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Watch out of homicide detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The
boss is Captain Steve.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
My name is Friday.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
I was on the way back from communications and it
was one twenty eight pm when I got to Room
forty two Homicide.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You ready, Skipper?
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Yeah, man, what's up?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
It's got the call Third and Temple, you know, fitz
Floyd Building, thirteenth floor.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
They got a jumper, righty?
Speaker 9 (02:30):
Then that's how's it?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Right? What's the story?
Speaker 9 (02:37):
Skipper took the call?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Not much tell.
Speaker 10 (02:40):
Guys perched out on a window, LEDs thirteen flowers up,
threatening to jump.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
What time you got round now? One thirty three?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Not much time?
Speaker 9 (02:48):
What a guy on a ledge you serve? Notice?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Well, what do you mean?
Speaker 9 (02:52):
Says he's gonna jump? At two o'clock.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
One thirty six pm, then pulled the cardo was a
stock up at Third and Temple.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
We double parked near the.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Intersection started across the street. At the building on the
northeast corner was a steel framed structure with a block
granite facing. The stone lettering over the main entrance read R. H.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Fitzroy Building, nineteen twenty seven.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
The immediate area had been blocked off in all directions.
The sidewalks directly adjacent to the building on Third Street
and on Temple Street had also been cleared of all
pedestrian traffic. Hundreds of curious onlookers jammed against police lines
at the far side of the intersection, reaching back for
a full block in the direction. Hundreds more had packed
in behind them. Thirteen stories above the pavement was the
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center of attraction. The figure of a man standing upright
on a narrow ledge looking down at the crown on
the street directly below, and men from the fire Department's
rescue squad were hurriedly stretching out.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Nets were ended. The building took the elevator to the
thirteenth floor.
Speaker 9 (03:51):
It was bounded by a peers back to onan wiseman.
I saw the crowd gathering in.
Speaker 10 (03:55):
The street, and I went back from lunch, woked up
and Sawguay on the ledge that came.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Right up along as the granvit' stay any about fifteen
minutes you're drawing and crowd must be a couple thousand
people down there.
Speaker 10 (04:12):
How was that room number?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Friday? Uh? Thirteen oh five? Yeah, set this way, there's
back the back.
Speaker 9 (04:20):
I been watching for you.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
The office is down here. Okay, how's it stand out?
Speaker 10 (04:25):
You're still out there ready to jump? We got twenty
two minutes to figure out how.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
To stump him.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
What's the story anyway?
Speaker 10 (04:29):
I let the doctor tell you.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Go ahead.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
Through here, nurse where doctor turnago?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
What talking to meet?
Speaker 11 (04:42):
Doctor Rych? He's bringing him right up.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
This is Captain Steve Homicide in the flint of hands.
Speaker 12 (04:46):
How do you do?
Speaker 10 (04:47):
Friday?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Roma?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
How the nurse ar you?
Speaker 10 (04:49):
Here's how he climbed outside this window here? Yeah, right
now he's standing on the ledge about twelve feet to
the right of the window. The ledge is about fourteen
inches wide.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
No other one those close are doing No this is it?
Did you try to talk him out of it? Get
him back inside?
Speaker 10 (05:02):
We took a turn at it, you know. Wiseman crawled
out on the ledge talk to him, So did I.
One of the queerest jumpers asked him across, honey, mean
get a hammer with him, carpenter's hammer. Whenever you get
close to him, he takes a cut at you. Wiseman
wasn't looking for it, had a duc fast he.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Almost went over. Was there any other way to reach him?
Speaker 10 (05:17):
Double check the whole lay out?
Speaker 9 (05:18):
This windows the closest or about lowering a man from
the roof.
Speaker 10 (05:21):
White piece of corners up there, big overhang and put
a man down on a rope and he'd be hang
him three feet from the side of the building.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Wouldn't come close to the guy?
Speaker 9 (05:28):
How about this doctor you mentioned, Becky figure he can help.
Speaker 10 (05:31):
It's worth a try this one hand.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yes, you saw it happen.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
You know better than I do. What doctor Turner's idea is?
Would you fill these men in?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Please make it brief surely anolish man on the ledge?
Who is he?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Do you know?
Speaker 11 (05:42):
Walter Harrison's he's name. He's one of the doctor's patients.
His sister brought him in for a routine check up.
That was about one o'clock.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
How old are man?
Speaker 11 (05:48):
Forty one? His sister told us he's been complaining of
the back ache lately. While the doctor was examining him
and mister Harrison flew up all of a sudden. He
yelled out we were trying to crip him, that we
wanted to kill him. Oh excuse me, he.
Speaker 12 (06:00):
Sure that's Turney's office.
Speaker 11 (06:03):
No, I'm sorry, not this afternoon. We have an awful
lot of trouble.
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Yes, all right, sensing well, what happened?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
After Harrison started to act up, Miss lending him.
Speaker 11 (06:11):
Doctor Turner and I tried to hold him. He shoved
his book out of the way. He hit the doctor
in the face. Then he ran to the window, got
out on that ledge and crawled along the side of
the building. He's been there ever since.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Miss Harrison is a mental case.
Speaker 11 (06:22):
Yes, he's been for ten years, been in and out
of the state hospital at camera a lit a couple
of times. Sister Ruth's been taking care of him. She
was here, what happened?
Speaker 9 (06:30):
Where is she now?
Speaker 11 (06:31):
Next door the treatment room? Felma, that's the other nurse
she's looking after Miss Harrison. She's pretty close to hysteric.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
Tried to talk to her, Skipper, not much help so far,
you said, his doctor's been treating this, mister Harrison.
Speaker 11 (06:41):
No, he just came in for a physical check up.
Doctor Reich has been handling his mental condition. That's where
doctor Turner is now getting rich. He has his office
in the next building.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
What times you got, ben?
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Mm getting short? Nineteen minutes to two? How about a
time element back? If he's gonna kill himself, why is
he waiting for two o'clock to do it?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
He's got me.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
He's scribbled a note out there, threw it down the street.
One of the men the rescue squad grabbed it and
brought it up, and I got.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It right here.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Let me see, and I look at that.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
They want my life. They want what's this next one? Oh?
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Dad, Dad? They want me dead?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
You know, I'd like to pray first. I'll jump at
two o'clock. I don't what's this last thing?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Ben?
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I can't let me see you at two o'clock. Don't
touch my body, that's it. Don't touch my body.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
You saw the guy close range back? What do you
think he's serious?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I don't know. I'm not even gonna guess.
Speaker 9 (07:33):
How about me going out and talking to Skipper? It
might work, won't do any hard had ledges fourteen inches wide.
Rome Arrah, if you slip by, I don't wanna explain.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
It to your wife and kid. But how about me
giving it a try. That jumper case last October I
was on that one.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
It's volunteer duty, Joe. I'm not gonna order you, you
know the rest.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Of Yeah, I'll watch it. You wanna stand by here
at the window bend, you know.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Okay, let's get that window up, uh fines, yeah, blind, Okay.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Get your head with the window all right up, a
little stuck, Yeah, all the way up it goes.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Okay, make careful now, huh yeah, I will, Joe, Yeah, back.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Don't forget about that hammer.
Speaker 10 (08:13):
The guy it's got it. It's my guess.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, what's that?
Speaker 10 (08:15):
The guy might want to die. I don't think he wants.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
To do it alone. One PM.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
If we could take Walder Harrison's word for it, we
had exactly seventeen minutes to talk him into a change
of mind before he plunged to his death from the
pavement thirteen stories below.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I crawled out of the window and started inching my
way along the narrow ledge went slow. I kept my
eyes on Harrison.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
He stood about ten feet away from me, looking down
at the crowds jamming.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
The streets below. I adged along to within eight feet
of him. He didn't seem to notice me.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
It was a fairly tall man, about five foot ten,
medium bill, dark hair, who was wearing gray pin striped trousers,
a white shirt.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
No coat, no necktie. I got to within six feet
of him.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
He raised one arm and made a motion with his
fist at the crowd below Handam you tack?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You want to get me out so fast?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
He kept edging toward him. He still didn't seem to
notice me. He turned his body a little bit. He
kept pounding the side of the building with a hammer.
I gotta look at his right hand, you know, he
held the carpenter's hammer. I got to within five feet
of him. An airliner passed over him. Harrison looked up.
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He muttered something. Then he turned he saw me.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 12 (09:41):
It's all right with me, Waller. Why do you want
to kill yourself? You're only gonna hurt people.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
You don't care about people. You don't care about me.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
What am I doing out here?
Speaker 11 (09:52):
Well?
Speaker 7 (09:52):
You got it wrong, Walter.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
A lot of people care about you.
Speaker 12 (09:55):
They want you back inside and what's where it's safe.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You're another one of those. You want to get your
hand to me.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
You want to gun me.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
W is your not I'm going to choose.
Speaker 12 (10:05):
It's all right, Water, you can kill me. I want
to help you first.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
You stay back. Don't you move anymore. I got this
hammer and out smash your face for the smash you.
Speaker 12 (10:15):
I only want to talk.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I know we can straighten this out.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I'll do it my way. You understand my way.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
I know who you are.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You've been after me before. I know what it's all about.
Speaker 12 (10:26):
I know you do water, but you got it wrong.
Speaker 11 (10:28):
Now.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
Look, you're gonna jump up this building at two o'clock.
That's in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
That's right, you better hand.
Speaker 12 (10:33):
All right now, let's let's talk it over for five
of those minutes. Huh, can't do any harm. I'm not
gonna hurt you. How about it?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Why should I talk to you?
Speaker 12 (10:44):
Because I care about what happens to you. So does
your sister, so to a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Well, then you're like a lot of people. You want
to get your hands on, Like I don't. Animals down there,
the whole dirty tack them. They want to grab me,
get all around close and put their hands. I mean, well,
I gonna do it.
Speaker 12 (11:01):
Of course they're not. Nobody's gonna hurt you.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
You know that, don't you bet your life?
Speaker 9 (11:05):
They're not.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
You see that dirty packt on there. Well, they don't
know that. I'm gonna jump right too. I'm gonna jump
right though. All they won't even touch me.
Speaker 12 (11:16):
I can do it right now, Walter, we'll forget your promise.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
What are you talking about? What promise? Two o'clock?
Speaker 12 (11:23):
You wrote that down yourself. You said you wouldn't jump
until it was two a clock.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Was no promise. I I just wrote it down.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
That's all, just two o'clock.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Yeah, well, your sister believed it.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
We gave her the note. She says that your promise. Now,
you're gonna make a liar out of yourself.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You're you're the liar. Ruth didn't say that. She didn't
say it was a problem.
Speaker 12 (11:44):
You gotta take my word for that. All right, Let's
go in and ask her how about it?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
See see Ruth inside?
Speaker 12 (11:52):
Sure, man, I go, I take my hand water all.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Right, all right, I'll take you.
Speaker 12 (12:01):
Put your step without with you.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You'll get back and get back now. Next time I want, miss,
I'll smite the whole harm you. You think you're pretty smart,
don't you. You're trying to trick me, while I told
you before I know who you are. You're trying to
get your hands on You.
Speaker 12 (12:16):
Promised your sister two o'clock. You're still gonna break that promise.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I'm not like you in that pack down there. I
don't pray promise.
Speaker 12 (12:23):
Everybody knows that warror.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
They trust you.
Speaker 12 (12:27):
Come on, how about talking this thing out?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
What time is.
Speaker 9 (12:33):
One?
Speaker 12 (12:34):
Fourteen minutes to go live?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
How do I know that?
Speaker 12 (12:39):
You can look at my watch there right?
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Hey, you stand back.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I told you before you stay away from you.
Speaker 12 (12:46):
And just wanted to show you the time. That's all
all right. You can look at that big clock up
the streets, see the one on the side of the
whole bark building up there?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Fourteen minutes? How do I know that's right? How do
I know? They're not even with you too?
Speaker 12 (13:02):
You already said it, big company. They don't care about
you or me. They got a business to run their clock.
They don't care what happened.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
No, of course not, they don't.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
They don't care.
Speaker 12 (13:15):
All right, Well, I'll just keep an eye on all right,
you don't mind if I talk while you wait? Do you.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
That's plan?
Speaker 9 (13:24):
What's it doing?
Speaker 12 (13:26):
Well, it's just an airliner, probably on its way into Bourbank.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
You're not cooling. That plane has been by before. It's
flying low too.
Speaker 12 (13:34):
Yeah, I guess I didn't notice it.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Well, what difference does it make?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Probably watch flying back and forth. Maybe they're the police,
so they're they're trying to do something. They're trying to
get their hands on me.
Speaker 9 (13:47):
Oh, let's see.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Yeah, might be their plane.
Speaker 12 (13:50):
It's a big one.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Sure, sure, they're trying to do something. Coming right by here,
flying low.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
It's the same one.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I can see.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Blood.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
But do you see there on the wing?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (14:07):
What's that the number right there on the wing.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
It's the same one that pass over a few minutes ago.
You'll get away from me, Give it to me. You
thought you tricked me. You didn't know I had my
pocket night. Well, I can kill you with her now,
I can kill you right now.
Speaker 12 (14:27):
Yeah, I told you before. It's all right with me.
Look out there, watch your step on the ledge.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
When you should have cut your hand off, I should
have cut your whole arm off and thrown it to
those animals.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Look at that blood over your hand.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, I'm sorry, Water, it's not your fault.
Speaker 12 (14:46):
I just wanted to talk the whole thing over, to
tell you how your sister feels.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
You're alive.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I knew it when I looked at you, and I
know you get away. You'll get away before I kiss you.
Speaker 12 (14:55):
Look, there's only one thing I can tell you. Your
sister road sitting inside there, and she's worried, sick. She's
waiting for you. He wants to take your home, now,
how about it.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
There's no reason for all.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
You know that, don't you.
Speaker 12 (15:08):
I sure you do. The sister and your family, they
care about you. They want your home again, they want
you with them. There's no reason to be standing out here, now,
is there?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
You wait two o'clock, mister, Yeah, I'll show you the reason.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
One twelve minutes left. I made my way along the
ledge through the window back into the office. Doctor Wright,
a man who'd been treating Walter Harrison for his metal sickness,
was already there with doctor Turner.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
While the nurse bandied up my hand, Captain Steve ben
and I talked with him.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
I've treated Harrison for ten years, on and off. I
guess he showed some improvement, not much definite paranoid tendencies.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Had he ever try this before, Doctor, right.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Not to mind out that his sister might.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I tell you more.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
I really don't know what to advise you to do.
He's never been this violent before using a hammer, and
I think that's your Yeah, that's right, thank you.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
It's only one thing I've got to know, doctor. Is
it worth letting.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Another one of my men go out there on that ledge?
Speaker 10 (16:06):
I'm afraid that's your decision. Captains may help with me.
Not I know the patient, but I can't read his mind.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I was just thinking we might bring Harrison's sister to
the window and have her talks on I think that
might help, Doctor, very possible, it might.
Speaker 10 (16:19):
And a spot like this, I'm the same boat you
And so guess what you think Harrison's really going to
be ready to jump at two o'clock doctor, From what
Sergeant Friday tells me, Yes, I think he would jump.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
We got to come up with something. We can't just
stand around. Wants a guy take a dive down thirteen story?
Speaker 9 (16:33):
I wish I knew the answer. It got to be
one some place. There's got to be an answer.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
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Speaker 6 (18:20):
It's the sworn duty of the peace officer to protect
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Speaker 5 (18:28):
Criminals and lawbreakers. Oftentimes the citizen has to be protected
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Speaker 6 (18:34):
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Speaker 5 (18:40):
Incompetence such as Water Harrison.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
If he was being assaulted, robbed, or shot at by
a gunman, it would have been no more serious. Harrison's
life was in jeopardy. Trying to save him had to
be the first consideration. One PM, Sergeant Jack Wiseman inched
his way out on the ledge of the thirteenth story
and kept Water Harrison busy talking anything to keep his
mind off the gymp.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Captain Steve got.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
On the fold and talk to the manager of the
whole art building, a twelve story structure three blocks away
with a large clock set into either side of it,
the same clock Harrison was keeping time by.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Yeah, that's right, Just so you don't make it look
too obvious, Okay, mister w I'll thank you. They're going
to do all I can.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
That's what works. What do you say they're gonna.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Start slowing down the clock in the building right away.
If Harrison goes by that time, it's going to be
a long ten minutes.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
But how much they figure they can stretch it about
five or six minutes without making it look too obvious.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
And you sure you use it. Let's hope Harrison doesn't
catch on.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Manager said, they'll stop the clock when it's a minute
to go. It'll never reach two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Skip Garamaryl.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
I just checked with the rescue squad down the street.
They're stringing out more nets. You know they're not guaranteeing anything.
How do you mean they're worried about those ledges jetting
up in the building every other floor they see. If
Harrison jumps close enough, he's bound to hit one of them.
He does, he'll be dead before he reaches street level.
Nets down they won't do him any good.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I don't think we can do about it.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
Something else we will have.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
To and over the locker they come up with any ideas,
ben just one sounds like a good word.
Speaker 9 (20:04):
What's that they figured?
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Like we did the overhang on the roof is too
wide to lower a man directly down on top of
Harrison to grab it. They think it might work if
they try this. Put a man in a rope, sling
just over the edge of the roof, lower him down
toward Harrison as close as possible without death, give him
a good line.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Let him try the rope harsh.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I don't know they got any candidates to try it.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Yeah, one guy's been on the rescue squad for years,
supposed to be an expert with a lasso cap.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Ye know what happens if he misses Harrison?
Speaker 9 (20:33):
Who knows what happens if Harrison jump happened.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
I just got off that ledge in a hurry. He
came at me with that KNIGHTE se any closer to
the window the back to off again?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Something else?
Speaker 10 (20:42):
That clock in the Hobart building. Pretty sure he's wise
to that gimmick. He's given it up. What do you
mean the two o'clock deadline? He's not gonna wait for
it one fifty five pm.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Especially equip police car with loud speakers mounted on the roof.
Who's rest of the intersection of Third and.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Temple streets opposite the Atstroy Building. Sergeant Jack Wiseman took
Walder Harrison's sister, Ruth down in the elevator to the street.
She got on the police car.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Microphone and started talking to her brother over the loud speakers.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Word was passed to the special detail of men from
the Fire Department's rescue squad standing by on the roof
of the building.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
They went to work.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Captain Steed went up to the roof to see if
he could assist them. Ben and I waited in the
office on the thirteenth floor. The nurse, Miss Lenihan and
Jean Bechhel were with us. One point fifty seven pm,
the men on the roof started to lower the man
from the rescue squad in the rope sling.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
He held a double.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Strength lasso in his hands. The end of it was
wrapped around his body and tied securely. Ben and I
watched from the window. We looked along the narrow ledge.
Walder Harrison stood erect.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And motionless, an open pocket knife in one hand, his
feet poisoned the brink of a thirteen story jump. The
voice of Harrison's sister drifted up from the loud speakers
down on the street.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
W this is roll Jash, Miss.
Speaker 12 (22:03):
I want you to come home with me.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Walder, please, you can't.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Understand sister's doing all right?
Speaker 9 (22:12):
Then you should for sure if he looks up.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Yeah, there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
No one's gonna hurt you. We wanna help you.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
Walder, Please, I can't see jo they're letting the man down.
Speaker 12 (22:25):
Yeah, coming slow to be afraid.
Speaker 11 (22:28):
Of you know that.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Don't you.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Come home with me please, I'll take care of you.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I'll see that you're safe.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
That you're all right.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Joe, How Harrison doing?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
Can you see?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Yeah? He's looking down, not moving at all.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Nobody's gonna hurt you.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Believe me.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Then you see why your friends they want to help you.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Can me hear me, Walter, they wanted to help.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
That's it. What man coming down on the rope.
Speaker 10 (23:03):
He's just above Harrison.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
Now hear your friends. You can trust me. You're just true.
You've got to trust me. Yeah, I see the man now.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
He's right and done nothing last already, keep your fingers crossed.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And that's so.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
He's rowney, dear miss Joey, miss?
Speaker 12 (23:37):
What wait a minute?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Parison, Lord, Lord, the Lord jennif Awar from ur the
word man.
Speaker 12 (23:43):
Pull him out of the way.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
That does still on the ledge.
Speaker 12 (23:46):
I'm going out, Joe, Wait a minute, it's only a chance.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Yeah, why don't you get him mad at you?
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Say anything himselving him, anything to make him go for you.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
If you can get him downe to this window, I
can grab him.
Speaker 12 (23:55):
I get him by the window.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
I'll hold onto him.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:57):
When you grab him, try to lean as close to
the building as you There's.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Not much to lean on the other way. One fifteen
nine pm. I got through the window and out onto
the ledge. The crowds jamming the streets below had swollen
almost twice their size.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
A few blocks away, the big clock on the side
of the Hobart building read five minutes to two, but
Harrison wasn't looking at it. He still had his eyes
fixed on the pavement thirteen stories beneath us.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
He torn off his.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Collar and his shirt was refilled with the neck. He
waved his arms and shouted at the crowd below as
he tottered along the ledge towards the corner of the building,
away from the window. Though I was supposed to lure
him into in his right hand, he still held out
with the open pocket knife.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
No, ya, you're not gonna get your hands on me.
You're not even going to get Cloe.
Speaker 12 (24:39):
Wait a minute, Harrison, watch it, you watch me.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Miss, I'm gonna jump right through him down there for
thirty ann juggers.
Speaker 12 (24:47):
What I wait a minute, I got a messy spoy
from his sister Rood. Now do you want to Harris?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
You you want to get your hands on me? None
of you stop out to your lighton.
Speaker 12 (24:56):
You're a pony, Harrison, You're.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
A pony liar. I'm all right off hurt me.
Speaker 12 (25:01):
You're not kidding anybody. You don't think I can jump hunt?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Where's your what?
Speaker 12 (25:06):
Anybody can jump any phony can do that. It doesn't
take anything. Those animals down there in the street, any
one of them.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
Could do that.
Speaker 12 (25:13):
They're just like one of them.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I've still got this knife. I've used it a cook.
I can tell you couldn't kill anything.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
You haven't got a cut.
Speaker 12 (25:21):
You're a phony, you're.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Lives, You're you're a rotten liar. I cut you a peace.
Speaker 12 (25:26):
Oh you talk me, Harrison, but you're all taught.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I can cut you to patience.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
You haven't got me, fool, mister that's for a minute.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I've cut you to patience.
Speaker 12 (25:35):
You haven't got half the nerve.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You're a phony and you know you're rotten life. Use
your stays to your boss. You stand still a hustle.
Speaker 13 (25:43):
Oh you talk a real good game, but that's about
all you're off. I still have my knife and you
right now, Yeah, sure you will. You're backing away. You're
a frad of a phony, Harrison. Nobody's afraid of a phony.
Cut you up, punk, I'm waiting for you.
Speaker 12 (26:02):
Come on, it's no matter erithon.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
You're not. You're not waiting. Stay stealing and stop tucking away.
Don't stop.
Speaker 12 (26:11):
I'll tell you you're coming get me.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Huh, haven't you got enough nerve? You're just talking again,
I'll talk Huh that window. You gotta stop by the window,
and and then I'll cut you a piece. All right, Harrison.
Speaker 12 (26:27):
Here, now you go ahead, prove your up, pony.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
All right, I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
You're running right for robbing?
Speaker 13 (26:41):
You running a shut the shopper, rubber, show them out
slip they're gonna fall.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Well, how close can it get there?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
That's just one iful sergeant.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
Both help you? Are you all right?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (27:01):
Fine?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Would you mind getting Captain Steve for us, but you
know who he is surely right away where Yeah that
was a rough one man, Dan, looked like you were
both going over the side.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Yeah, but I lost to Joe.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Or you didn't have to worry. No, no, you told
me which way to lean.
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The story you have just heard was true, only the
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