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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Dragon.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Me, ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a Bunco fugitive detail.
(00:25):
A secretary tells you her employer has suddenly left town.
She says he's taken all the company records with him.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Your job check it out.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It was Monday, May eighteenth. It was cloudy in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out of Bunko Fugitive Detail.
My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Didion.
My name is Frandy. We're on our way back from
lunch and it was one forty six pm when we
got the room thirty eight Bunco Fugitive that's right.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
They told me to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yes, ma'am, it's my partner, Frank Smith.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
How you do. My name is Gibbons. Clara Gibbons.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
M you like s DOWNA thank you? All right? Well, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
It isn't anything when you put your finger on it.
At least it isn't anything I'm sure of. Well, wasn't
even my idea coming to the police, Mama said, I
I mean my mother advised me to discuss this matter
with you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Let me see, she's.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Always claimed there was something funny about my job, she says,
it just goes to prove it. I'm sure she's mistaken.
I'm sure mister Orlion wouldn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Mister Orlian.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Oh, he's my boss, my employer, Henry Orlean. The thing
is he's disappeared, Yeah, all.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Of a sudden.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I wanted to say him last Friday, Friday evening when
I left.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Office five pm.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Have you checked with it's home?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Right?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I don't know where he lives.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
He never told him.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I see, he's never gone out of town before, not
since I.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Started working for him.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
How long has that been?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Seven months?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Seven months? On the third?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
What kind of business is he in?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Uranium? Uranium stock, Multiple Uranium Investments Incorporated. That's the name
of his company.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I see. Why don't the other employees have any idea?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Or when there aren't any other employees? I know only one?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh? I see, have you talked to missing persons? No?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
No, I haven't. You see, Mamma doesn't think he's missing.
She says he's skipped out, that he's a crook.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Does your mother know this?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Mister Ollium only, but I told her about him.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
They've never met. She's been suspicious from the very beginning, though.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
It's well, it's kind of hard to explain. How's that?
You see?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
The thing is, Mamma just can't understand why he ever
hired me. The employment office sent me to see him
along with seven or eight other secretaries.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Mister Arland picked me out from all the rest.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Was there something strange in that?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Well?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
The truth is, I'm not much of a stenographer, not
a real good one.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
That is.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I get kind of nervous whenever I have to take dictation,
and my tapping's just fair too. I could do real
clean copy if they'd just let me take my time,
But they never do.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Except for mister Arland. He doesn't rush me or get
me all upset. It's the first time I've ever been
able to hang on to a job.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Pays awful good.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Twenty dollars a week, more than I've earned before, that's all.
Mom couldn't believe it when I told her. She said,
there's a catch to it. Someplace be different if I
s well, if I wasn't playing. Two or three of
the other girls who tried out for mister Orland. They
were very attractive and they all had nice clothes. Ma'ma
(03:53):
sure was surprised when I told her he'd pick me.
That there's a catch to it somewhere, That's how she
put it. He's up to something and he wants a
secretary who's.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Not too bright.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well, I'm afraid we're gonna need more than that to
start an investigation, mis gimmons, Yes, sir, I see, well,
thank you very much a minute. Does he owe any
back wages?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Oh no, no, I'm paid up a month in the dance.
That was another thing that seemed funny. I mean, when
you think about it now, it seems funny.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
But what do you mean, might be.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
In with him less than a year and him wanting
me to take a vacation with pay a whole month off.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
How'd they come about?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Well, it was just last week, uh, Monday, a week
ago today, when he brought up the subject. He said
it was getting on towards summer and I to start
thinking about where I wanted to go on my vacation. Yeah,
I told him I I didn't feel him titled to
a vacation yet. He just smiled and said it was
up to him to decide that that he's the boss,
(04:53):
wasn't he?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And he insisted I tell.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Him just where I wanted to go. I couldn't think
of any place at all. Finally asked me why I
didn't visit my sister in Hawaii, NSTE. She's married to
a Navy officer stationed in Honolulu. I guess I must
have mentioned her, mister or Owner. I guess that's that's
how I knew about her.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yes, ma'am must speak, but the idea of.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Ever paying her visit hadn't even crossed my mind.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I tried to argue with him, but he.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Pretended to get mad and told me if.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I was a good enough secretary to deserve a holiday,
he's gonna see that I got it, and he said
he'd make up for it when I got back, that
he'd really pour the work on. I knew he wasn't
serious about pouring the work on, but it did seem
like he really wanted me to go to Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Well, why didn't you take him up on her?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I meant to.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
I had my ticket round trip flight. Mister Orland paid
for it, just like you said it would.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, I was supposed.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
To leave Saturday night I sent down an airmail letter
telling her all about the trip. That's my sister, Anne Burcott.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well, Saturday morning she wired me not to come.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Her husband's being transferred in a week or two, but
she wasn't sure where.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Maybe back to the States, I see. Oh. I suppose
I could have made the trip.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Anyway, but it wouldn't be any fun going someplace where
I didn't know anybody. I don't make friends.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Crazy?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Is that so well?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I d I didn't know just what to do, whether
mister orlandoud still want me to.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Take the month off or not.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Went down to the office this morning to talk to
him about it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Everything was gone, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
From the safe, all records and stock certificates, everything in
corporation papers he had framed up on the wall.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They were gone too.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Had somebody broken in?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
The door of the suit was locked when I got there,
had my key?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And what about safe?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I don't understand what was the.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Safe open or closed?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Toast?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Why'd you have to look inside?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I telephoned my mother and told that mister Arlan wasn't there,
and she said I'd bet her check and see if
anything was missing, said, It sounded to her like he'd
skipped out.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
After I looked in the safe.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
She told me to get in touch with the police.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Well, not just exactly what sort of business was this
uranium company?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Mister land invested in various uranium stocks for other people.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Which bank did he use?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Western National? The accounts in the main branch.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'll get him a call, jo.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, okay, It just wouldn't be any reason for him
to run away, would there.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, it's pretty hard to tell you.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I mean he was doing a real good business.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Well, that might be a reason. Oh do you know
what the means of his customers?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Well, the people who invested in the starts right, and
I guess I could remember some of 'em.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Books are going on. Wouldn't be able to recall.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
'em, all, I see.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
The old customers are the ones who've been with us
for several months. I'd remember them.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Uh huh was the business new when you started to
work with Yes? Find I mean yeah, Arly enclosed out
the Mullible Uranium Bank account last Friday evening a little
before six six.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah. Thanks, They opened late on.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Friday, and we don't forgot how much do you withdraw?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Just under one hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It's a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Yeah, I guess Mama was right about him starting to
look that way. I should have known from the beginning.
I should have known what she's always right.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
While Frank Woulting called the Sacramento to check on the
corporate status of multiple uranium investments, I asked Clara Gibbons
to give me a detailed description of the suspect. Two
twenty eight pm. Sacramento reported that no such corporation had
ever been authorized. We ran the name Henry Orleyan through
our and I They had nothing on him. We turned
the description and mo over to the Stats office. They
came up with seven possible stock fraud artists. We pulled
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their mugshots and showed them to Miss Gibbons. She was
unable to identify any of the pictures. Three oh seven pm.
Miss Gibbons accompanied this to the Wendler Building on Roscha
Boulevard in Americle Mile. We went up to Sweet four D.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Just the second til I find my key. Yes, ma'am,
m here it is. This is the outer.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Office where I work.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's his office in there. Yes, you're.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Well, that's real fancy have you talked to the building
manager today? Is he around?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
You know, there isn't any manager, not exactly. The owner
has an office down in the hall. Oh, I'll be
glad to find out if he's in.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Thank you. Uh you'll be here, yes, maam. Very impressive quarters.
Huh must have been a very impressive guy.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, and that job.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I wonder what he had up there.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, on the wall see that spot.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It's like he used to be a picture or something,
you know, those incorporation papers maybe huh phonies. I don't
know as far as the State of California's concerned.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
This is mister Wembur, Mr wenbdor it's Sergeant Tray.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Are you I do this is?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
I'm also sorry I don't seem to remember your name.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Sorry, my name is Frank Smith. Well please to meet you.
This identification forget him.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Well you're the owner of this building.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I well it's the Wendler Building. I'm Ted Wendler. Answer
draw your own conclusions.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
You know, do you have any objectives answering a few
questions Wendler? Nor would you answering force? Please? I thought
I was yes, sir, I asked you one before the
own this building outright. That isn't important. It's important to me,
it's important to the mortgage company.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Is it in your name?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yes, it's in my name. Lauren's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
What about the man who rant.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
It this suite?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
All? Yah?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
What about him? Do you know he left town?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
She just told me. Do you know about it before?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
What can you tell us about him? He's a broker
or something, uranium stocks. I guess that we got that much.
That's all you know about him, though?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
How long has you read it from? You see you
a little over seven months?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Be eight? On the third?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Did he mention anything about where he had offices before?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
You know?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
He said he was from back east, any particular place? No,
why what's he done? I'd like to talk? That's maybe
he'll come back.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
If he doesn't, it's all the same to me, right,
I made it pays rent in advance whole first year.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That's your usual practice. Only with fellas in the stock market,
you see. I remember nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
You know you'll never know what's going to happen, Not
with fellas in the market, you see, I remember twenty nine. Yeah,
if Alan stays away on way ahead of them Brent's
paid um, I'm nearly five months ahead.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Of them, Yes, sir, I wish we were.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Ted.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Wendler confirmed Miss Gibbons' description of the suspect and insisted
he could tell us nothing further about the man.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
While at Crue from the.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Crime Lab went over the office. We again questioned Clara Gibbons.
She gave us the names and addresses of some of
the people who had invested money with Orleum. Four forty
eight pm, the crime Lab reported that they'd been unable
to discover any useful fingerprints in this suite. The only
physical evidence they had uncovered was a copy of a prospectus,
which purported to list various securities owned by Multiple Uranium Investments.
It had fallen behind a filing cabinet. The next day,
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May nineteen, Frank and I checked with several of the
uranium companies listed on the perspective. They all informed us
that none of their stock had ever been purchased by
Multiple Uranium Incorporated or Henry Orlean. Three thirteen pm, Frank
and I drove out to interview one of the victims.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Would you like to sit down, thank.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
You, miss usence. Do you know a man named Henry.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Orlean, Yes, yes, I know him.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Why did you ever invest any money with him?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Five thousand dollars and nothing's happened to mister Orley.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I'm sure how'd you happen to give him the money?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It was some insurance my husband left me. Yes, man,
I'd kept it in savings. Didn't bring in much interest
when I heard about mister Orlian's company. When you hear
about it, do you remember at the hospital, well, Saint
Agnes's Children's Hospital. Oh, I spent a day a week
there helping out in the charity. I'm on some of
the committees too, you know, fundraising things like that, Yes, ma'am. Oh,
I'm not one of the big people behind the work,
but somebody has to get out and dig for the
(12:45):
little donations too. Yes, and I have quite a bit
of free time.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Do you remember who it was that first mentioned mister
Orlian to you?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I think it was Missus Laurrington Laarrington. Yes, Missus Arthur Laurrington.
You must have heard of her. She does so much
charity around town. She's very prominent socially.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yes, ma'am. Just what did she say about mister Leiam's company?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Well, she wasn't talking to me exactly one afternoon when
she was showing some people the plans for the new clinic.
Mm hmm, I guess she was asking him for some contributions.
That's how it sounded. And one of the lady said
it all depended on how well her husband's stalks did
during the next quarter.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I see, and Missus Laurington laughed and.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Told her her husband ought to be in multiple uranium,
that he wouldn't have anything.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
To worry about. Go on, Oh, that was all I heard.
It went on to the next room. Afterwards.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I got to thinking this uranium stalk was good enough
for Missus Laurington. Maybe I ought to check into it.
You know, you're always hearing about people making fortunes in uranium.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Ma'am.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Well, I looked up the company in the phone book
and talked to mister Ordon. At first, he wasn't very
anxious for me to invest, but when I told him
I knew Missus Laurrington, he said he'd take me in
as a favor to her.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
One was all with about four months ago.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Have you seen mister Eliam Since no, you heard from him.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Not directly.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I get a dividend check every mine though. Stock's paying
very well. I figured it out on a yearly basis.
It'll come to over thirty percent. You can't do much
better than that, ma'am. I told some of my friends
about it too, so they could get in on it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Well, thank you very much, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
You still haven't explained what this is all about.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Or we're trying to get in touch with mister Olea.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Or the Windler Building on Wilshire Boulevard. That's where his
office is, the Windler.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Building, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Isn't he there? No?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
He isn't. I don't understand, olam. Seems to have disappeared.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
What what about my money?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I'm afraid that went with him.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Why that is impossible. He couldn't have.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Missus Laingson said it was a good stock.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yes, ma'am. We'll talk to her about it.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Well.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
He paid me dividends every month, good dividends.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, I wouldn't count any more of them.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
What why, I'll bring charges against him. I'll have him
put in jail. He'll find out.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
But that's all you need, isn't it somebody to bring charges?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
No, ma'am, not client.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Well, what do you mean we need him.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Frank and I left Missus Houstas and drove out to
interview another victims, Missus j T. Pressing on Highland Avenue.
She told us that she had invested eight thousand dollars
in multiple uranium. She also told us that she had
first heard about the stocks to a friend who was
on the fundraising committee for Saint Aggan's Hospital. We interviewed
three more victims. All of them were in some way
associated with the hospital or were acquainted with Missus Arthur Laurrington.
Eight forty five pm we drove up to the Laurrington
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the State in bel Air. A maid showed us into
the library and said that Missus Laurrington would see us
in a few minutes. Hey, Joe, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Up there on the wall, that's painting as Missus Laurrington.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, sat in the Sunday paper wants society page.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Real honesty. Gosh, artists did it?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You don't say? Mm?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Probably flatters here a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh it's bound too.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
What makes you think so well? Its fans to reason, Joe. I,
While a person wants a good likeness, a photographer.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Ought to do the trick.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, artists know that too.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
They do figures. They want something else, want to look better, so.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
We flatters and oh, I see that works.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Are you gentlemen waiting for me?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Was Lington?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Or police officers? Is Frank Smith? My name's Friday.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I'm sure it's my husband you want to talk to.
Unfortunately he's in San Francisco on the business.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
No, man, we'd like to talk to you if you
don't mind. You know a man named Henry Orlean?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Orlean that's it?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, hmm.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You name sounds familiar, but I meet so many people
it's hard to be certain.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Have you ever heard of a stock called Multiple Uranium Incorporation?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Yes, yes, of course I didn't associate the two for
a moment. That's mister Orlean's company, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Do you have any money invested in that time?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
No, not me personally, but I can vouch for the
company if that's what you want to know. You see,
I'm on the fundraising committee for Saint Agnes Hospital. Matter
of fact, on the chairman. Yes, man, we know, and
we do own some of mister orlean stock the hospital
that is.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Tell us how'd you happen to buy him?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
We didn't it was a donation.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Would you mind telling us from who did mister Oran himself?
I see, when do you give it to you?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Last year?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Timber?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yes, it's September charity bazaarre. I don't recall the exact date,
but I can find.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Out for you September enough.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Just what was this bizarre a party here in my home?
We opened the grounds to the general public, A garden party,
an auction combined an auction. Some of the most picture
people donated the items we sold, and all the money
went to hospital. We raised over twenty five thousand dollars,
was not counting what mister Orleum gave us.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
That's the stock donation.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That's right. He congratulated me on the bazaar. He seemed
to be very interested in charity work. I said we
would certainly use his help, and he offered to.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Do whatever he could.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Rightly, he said that unfortunately he couldn't give us cash
at the moment. He mumbled something about a tax problem.
I'm not really too clear about those things. Everyone who's
been having tax problems nowadays. So instead of an outright gift,
the office a block of stock in his company.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I see not just how much stock was involved.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Five hundred shares. I think there's something like that. At
any rate. He said the market value of what he
was giving us would be in the neighborhood of ten
thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Did he tell you anything else?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
He didn't go into the details of his corporation, and
I certainly didn't question him. You don't look a gift
horse in them all as man all. I recall he
said his company owned shares and other uranium companies, so
that the money was well diversified.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Now was that all?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Hm?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Yes, I believe so, except that he made one request.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
He asked me not to sell the stock for at
least a year.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Did you give you a reason?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
He said that within a year's time it would double
in market value, and in the meantime the hospital would
be receiving excellent dividends.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I see.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
A matter of fact, the dividends had been remarkable m hm,
something like five hundred dollars a month. I believe my
treasurer told me, mister Orlean must be a very shrewd investor.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Did you ever discuss this uranium stock with any of
your friends, missus Larnson? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Why yes? Once or twice. One of our committee meetings,
when we were going over the books, we were surprised
at the return that was paying us. We all talked
about it then. I suppose I may have mentioned it
soon just in conversation. Yes, ma'am, is mister orlean Up
said that I told other people about it company. I
didn't know he wanted it kept a secret.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
He wanted to tell him. Well, then several people that
you discussed multiple uranium with invested in the company.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
As a result, it's a perfectly solid investment.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
No, ma'am, what ling has disappeared, and so is their money.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
IM sure you're mistaken.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
The stock he sold him was phony, so as the
stock he gave your hospital for him.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
It couldn't be. Look at the dividends it paid.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I was just good advertising.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You mean he used the hospital, he used me.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So, I just don't know what to say. I've never
been involved in the situation like this before. It's terribly distressing.
I Oh, I know it's not my fault, but I
can't help thinking I should have been more careful, more discreet. Oh,
(19:49):
I'm sorry. I'm afraid you'll have to excuse me. I
don't feel like talking anymore. I'm very upset. I understand
Aneitia will have showed you out.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
We'll find a way. Let's go. Oh, I was just
looking at that painting up there again. No, I was right,
Joe platters here. The interview with missus Laurington had enabled
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us to establish the suspects. M Additional bulletins were sent
out alerting all police departments, charity organizations, and fundraising committees.
During the rest of the week, we interviewed other victims
of the stock swindle. None of them could furnish any
additional information about the whereabouts of the man who called
himself Henry Orlean. Three weeks later, on June ninth, we
received a report from the Chicago Police Department. They informed
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us that a man answering Orleans description had worked an
oil stock swindle in that city during the previous year.
He had then used the name of Roger narget They
also told us that this Nargot was suspected of an
earlier stock swindle in Kansas City. Neither the Chicago nor
Kansas City police had a positive identification in the suspect,
but in both cities them had been the same. The
suspect of donated a block of phony stock to a
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charitable organization, had paid very high dividends on the donated chairs,
and then had been able to acquire investments from private persons. Wednesday,
June eleventh, three seventeen pm, Frank and I were in
the office Friday's.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Boud You remember me, Clara Gibbons, I used.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
To work here Instagram? How are you? What can we
do for you?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Mama just found him.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Mama just found him, mister Oley, Oh Brown Hill Street.
She we was just walking along and she's sewing.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Is she sure it's him?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Positive? Please her?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Just a minute?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Misgiving? Yeah? What is it?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Didn't she tell us your mother had never seen this man?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Well she's seen him now.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
He was walking down here.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Why does he know it's him if she never saw
him before?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
He told us what he looked like, dozens of times,
all about him. She, for heaven's sake, you don't have
to see a person and know what he looks like.
Mama would recognize mister Orland anywhere. She said so half
a dozen times. She can describe him better than I can.
My mother is very intelligent, son, She's not like me.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Not.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Please don't stand here and argue about.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
It, or he'll get away.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Just where is he?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
The Norwidge Hotel, corner of Hill and Halliday.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Watch.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Your mother saw him on the street.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
She followed him into the hotel. She doesn't want to
lose him. He went upstairs and she telephoned me from
the lobby. She said she'd wait there to make sure
he didn't leave. That She told me to bring you
as soon as I could. It's nearly half an hour
since she called me. We haven't got much car.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
We'll check on it right away.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
You go to arrest him, aren't you. If it's the
right man, of course it's the right man.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Excuse me a minute.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Did you have to answer it now?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Unclefus it to Friday. That's right, I see fine, Okay,
well Ford, I warrant to you. Well you send us
a notification by telegram. Thank you well, Sure are many things.
Salt Lake City Police Apartment.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
EH picked up.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
All him this morning, tad him from our circular. Ay,
sure it's him, give him a full confession, admitted the
case in Chicago, deals Town.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Couldn't be mister Arland.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
He's at the Norbridge Hotel.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
No misgivings. I'm afraid your mother was mistaken.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I've never known I'm gonna make a mistake.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
We all make them.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Well, she's waiting for us the hotel.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
We'll not tell her.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Well, let's see. I guess there's only one thing.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
What's that tell her not to wait?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
The story you have just heard is true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
On August sixteenth, trial was held in Department ninety eighth
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. Francis Caxton Wheatley alias Henry
Orlean alias Roger Norgott was tried and convicted of grand
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theft seven counts and received sentence as prescribed by law.
Grand theft is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail
for no more than one year or in the state
prison for not less than one or more than ten years.
Holes were placed on the suspect by the states of
Illinois and Missouri at the termination of his sentence in
San Quentin.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
You have just heard Dragnet, the Authentic story of your
Police Force in action and starring Jack Webb, a presentation
the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Hello about
Speaker 4 (25:04):
The
Dragon.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Me, ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a Bunco fugitive detail.
(00:25):
A secretary tells you her employer has suddenly left town.
She says he's taken all the company records with him.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Your job check it out.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It was Monday, May eighteenth. It was cloudy in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out of Bunko Fugitive Detail.
My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Didion.
My name is Frandy. We're on our way back from
lunch and it was one forty six pm when we
got the room thirty eight Bunco Fugitive that's right.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
They told me to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yes, ma'am, it's my partner, Frank Smith.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
How you do. My name is Gibbons. Clara Gibbons.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
M you like s DOWNA thank you? All right? Well, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
It isn't anything when you put your finger on it.
At least it isn't anything I'm sure of. Well, wasn't
even my idea coming to the police, Mama said, I
I mean my mother advised me to discuss this matter
with you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Let me see, she's.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Always claimed there was something funny about my job, she says,
it just goes to prove it. I'm sure she's mistaken.
I'm sure mister Orlion wouldn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Mister Orlian.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Oh, he's my boss, my employer, Henry Orlean. The thing
is he's disappeared, Yeah, all.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Of a sudden.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I wanted to say him last Friday, Friday evening when
I left.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Office five pm.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Have you checked with it's home?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Right?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I don't know where he lives.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
He never told him.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I see, he's never gone out of town before, not
since I.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Started working for him.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
How long has that been?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Seven months?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Seven months? On the third?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
What kind of business is he in?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Uranium? Uranium stock, Multiple Uranium Investments Incorporated. That's the name
of his company.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I see. Why don't the other employees have any idea?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Or when there aren't any other employees? I know only one?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh? I see, have you talked to missing persons? No?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
No, I haven't. You see, Mamma doesn't think he's missing.
She says he's skipped out, that he's a crook.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Does your mother know this?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Mister Ollium only, but I told her about him.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
They've never met. She's been suspicious from the very beginning, though.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
It's well, it's kind of hard to explain. How's that?
You see?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
The thing is, Mamma just can't understand why he ever
hired me. The employment office sent me to see him
along with seven or eight other secretaries.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Mister Arland picked me out from all the rest.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Was there something strange in that?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Well?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
The truth is, I'm not much of a stenographer, not
a real good one.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
That is.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I get kind of nervous whenever I have to take dictation,
and my tapping's just fair too. I could do real
clean copy if they'd just let me take my time,
But they never do.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Except for mister Arland. He doesn't rush me or get
me all upset. It's the first time I've ever been
able to hang on to a job.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Pays awful good.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Twenty dollars a week, more than I've earned before, that's all.
Mom couldn't believe it when I told her. She said,
there's a catch to it. Someplace be different if I
s well, if I wasn't playing. Two or three of
the other girls who tried out for mister Orland. They
were very attractive and they all had nice clothes. Ma'ma
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sure was surprised when I told her he'd pick me.
That there's a catch to it somewhere, That's how she
put it. He's up to something and he wants a
secretary who's.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Not too bright.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well, I'm afraid we're gonna need more than that to
start an investigation, mis gimmons, Yes, sir, I see, well,
thank you very much a minute. Does he owe any
back wages?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Oh no, no, I'm paid up a month in the dance.
That was another thing that seemed funny. I mean, when
you think about it now, it seems funny.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
But what do you mean, might be.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
In with him less than a year and him wanting
me to take a vacation with pay a whole month off.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
How'd they come about?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Well, it was just last week, uh, Monday, a week
ago today, when he brought up the subject. He said
it was getting on towards summer and I to start
thinking about where I wanted to go on my vacation. Yeah,
I told him I I didn't feel him titled to
a vacation yet. He just smiled and said it was
up to him to decide that that he's the boss,
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wasn't he?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And he insisted I tell.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Him just where I wanted to go. I couldn't think
of any place at all. Finally asked me why I
didn't visit my sister in Hawaii, NSTE. She's married to
a Navy officer stationed in Honolulu. I guess I must
have mentioned her, mister or Owner. I guess that's that's
how I knew about her.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yes, ma'am must speak, but the idea of.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Ever paying her visit hadn't even crossed my mind.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I tried to argue with him, but he.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Pretended to get mad and told me if.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I was a good enough secretary to deserve a holiday,
he's gonna see that I got it, and he said
he'd make up for it when I got back, that
he'd really pour the work on. I knew he wasn't
serious about pouring the work on, but it did seem
like he really wanted me to go to Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Well, why didn't you take him up on her?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I meant to.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
I had my ticket round trip flight. Mister Orland paid
for it, just like you said it would.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, I was supposed.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
To leave Saturday night I sent down an airmail letter
telling her all about the trip. That's my sister, Anne Burcott.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well, Saturday morning she wired me not to come.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Her husband's being transferred in a week or two, but
she wasn't sure where.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Maybe back to the States, I see. Oh. I suppose
I could have made the trip.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Anyway, but it wouldn't be any fun going someplace where
I didn't know anybody. I don't make friends.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Crazy?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Is that so well?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I d I didn't know just what to do, whether
mister orlandoud still want me to.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Take the month off or not.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Went down to the office this morning to talk to
him about it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Everything was gone, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
From the safe, all records and stock certificates, everything in
corporation papers he had framed up on the wall.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They were gone too.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Had somebody broken in?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
The door of the suit was locked when I got there,
had my key?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And what about safe?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I don't understand what was the.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Safe open or closed?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Toast?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Why'd you have to look inside?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I telephoned my mother and told that mister Arlan wasn't there,
and she said I'd bet her check and see if
anything was missing, said, It sounded to her like he'd
skipped out.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
After I looked in the safe.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
She told me to get in touch with the police.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Well, not just exactly what sort of business was this
uranium company?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Mister land invested in various uranium stocks for other people.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Which bank did he use?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Western National? The accounts in the main branch.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'll get him a call, jo.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, okay, It just wouldn't be any reason for him
to run away, would there.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, it's pretty hard to tell you.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I mean he was doing a real good business.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Well, that might be a reason. Oh do you know
what the means of his customers?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Well, the people who invested in the starts right, and
I guess I could remember some of 'em.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Books are going on. Wouldn't be able to recall.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
'em, all, I see.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
The old customers are the ones who've been with us
for several months. I'd remember them.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Uh huh was the business new when you started to
work with Yes? Find I mean yeah, Arly enclosed out
the Mullible Uranium Bank account last Friday evening a little
before six six.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah. Thanks, They opened late on.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Friday, and we don't forgot how much do you withdraw?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Just under one hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It's a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Yeah, I guess Mama was right about him starting to
look that way. I should have known from the beginning.
I should have known what she's always right.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
While Frank Woulting called the Sacramento to check on the
corporate status of multiple uranium investments, I asked Clara Gibbons
to give me a detailed description of the suspect. Two
twenty eight pm. Sacramento reported that no such corporation had
ever been authorized. We ran the name Henry Orleyan through
our and I They had nothing on him. We turned
the description and mo over to the Stats office. They
came up with seven possible stock fraud artists. We pulled
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their mugshots and showed them to Miss Gibbons. She was
unable to identify any of the pictures. Three oh seven pm.
Miss Gibbons accompanied this to the Wendler Building on Roscha
Boulevard in Americle Mile. We went up to Sweet four D.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Just the second til I find my key. Yes, ma'am,
m here it is. This is the outer.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Office where I work.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's his office in there. Yes, you're.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Well, that's real fancy have you talked to the building
manager today? Is he around?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
You know, there isn't any manager, not exactly. The owner
has an office down in the hall. Oh, I'll be
glad to find out if he's in.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Thank you. Uh you'll be here, yes, maam. Very impressive quarters.
Huh must have been a very impressive guy.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, and that job.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I wonder what he had up there.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, on the wall see that spot.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It's like he used to be a picture or something,
you know, those incorporation papers maybe huh phonies. I don't
know as far as the State of California's concerned.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
This is mister Wembur, Mr wenbdor it's Sergeant Tray.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Are you I do this is?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
I'm also sorry I don't seem to remember your name.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Sorry, my name is Frank Smith. Well please to meet you.
This identification forget him.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Well you're the owner of this building.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I well it's the Wendler Building. I'm Ted Wendler. Answer
draw your own conclusions.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
You know, do you have any objectives answering a few
questions Wendler? Nor would you answering force? Please? I thought
I was yes, sir, I asked you one before the
own this building outright. That isn't important. It's important to me,
it's important to the mortgage company.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Is it in your name?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yes, it's in my name. Lauren's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
What about the man who rant.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
It this suite?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
All? Yah?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
What about him? Do you know he left town?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
She just told me. Do you know about it before?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
What can you tell us about him? He's a broker
or something, uranium stocks. I guess that we got that much.
That's all you know about him, though?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
How long has you read it from? You see you
a little over seven months?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Be eight? On the third?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Did he mention anything about where he had offices before?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
You know?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
He said he was from back east, any particular place? No,
why what's he done? I'd like to talk? That's maybe
he'll come back.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
If he doesn't, it's all the same to me, right,
I made it pays rent in advance whole first year.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That's your usual practice. Only with fellas in the stock market,
you see. I remember nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
You know you'll never know what's going to happen, Not
with fellas in the market, you see, I remember twenty nine. Yeah,
if Alan stays away on way ahead of them Brent's
paid um, I'm nearly five months ahead.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Of them, Yes, sir, I wish we were.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Ted.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Wendler confirmed Miss Gibbons' description of the suspect and insisted
he could tell us nothing further about the man.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
While at Crue from the.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Crime Lab went over the office. We again questioned Clara Gibbons.
She gave us the names and addresses of some of
the people who had invested money with Orleum. Four forty
eight pm, the crime Lab reported that they'd been unable
to discover any useful fingerprints in this suite. The only
physical evidence they had uncovered was a copy of a prospectus,
which purported to list various securities owned by Multiple Uranium Investments.
It had fallen behind a filing cabinet. The next day,
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May nineteen, Frank and I checked with several of the
uranium companies listed on the perspective. They all informed us
that none of their stock had ever been purchased by
Multiple Uranium Incorporated or Henry Orlean. Three thirteen pm, Frank
and I drove out to interview one of the victims.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Would you like to sit down, thank.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
You, miss usence. Do you know a man named Henry.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Orlean, Yes, yes, I know him.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Why did you ever invest any money with him?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Five thousand dollars and nothing's happened to mister Orley.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I'm sure how'd you happen to give him the money?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It was some insurance my husband left me. Yes, man,
I'd kept it in savings. Didn't bring in much interest
when I heard about mister Orlian's company. When you hear
about it, do you remember at the hospital, well, Saint
Agnes's Children's Hospital. Oh, I spent a day a week
there helping out in the charity. I'm on some of
the committees too, you know, fundraising things like that, Yes, ma'am. Oh,
I'm not one of the big people behind the work,
but somebody has to get out and dig for the
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little donations too. Yes, and I have quite a bit
of free time.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Do you remember who it was that first mentioned mister
Orlian to you?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I think it was Missus Laurrington Laarrington. Yes, Missus Arthur Laurrington.
You must have heard of her. She does so much
charity around town. She's very prominent socially.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yes, ma'am. Just what did she say about mister Leiam's company?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Well, she wasn't talking to me exactly one afternoon when
she was showing some people the plans for the new clinic.
Mm hmm, I guess she was asking him for some contributions.
That's how it sounded. And one of the lady said
it all depended on how well her husband's stalks did
during the next quarter.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I see, and Missus Laurington laughed and.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Told her her husband ought to be in multiple uranium,
that he wouldn't have anything.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
To worry about. Go on, Oh, that was all I heard.
It went on to the next room. Afterwards.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I got to thinking this uranium stalk was good enough
for Missus Laurington. Maybe I ought to check into it.
You know, you're always hearing about people making fortunes in uranium.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Ma'am.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Well, I looked up the company in the phone book
and talked to mister Ordon. At first, he wasn't very
anxious for me to invest, but when I told him
I knew Missus Laurrington, he said he'd take me in
as a favor to her.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
One was all with about four months ago.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Have you seen mister Eliam Since no, you heard from him.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Not directly.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I get a dividend check every mine though. Stock's paying
very well. I figured it out on a yearly basis.
It'll come to over thirty percent. You can't do much
better than that, ma'am. I told some of my friends
about it too, so they could get in on it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Well, thank you very much, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
You still haven't explained what this is all about.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Or we're trying to get in touch with mister Olea.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Or the Windler Building on Wilshire Boulevard. That's where his
office is, the Windler.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Building, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Isn't he there? No?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
He isn't. I don't understand, olam. Seems to have disappeared.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
What what about my money?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I'm afraid that went with him.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Why that is impossible. He couldn't have.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Missus Laingson said it was a good stock.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yes, ma'am. We'll talk to her about it.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Well.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
He paid me dividends every month, good dividends.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, I wouldn't count any more of them.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
What why, I'll bring charges against him. I'll have him
put in jail. He'll find out.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
But that's all you need, isn't it somebody to bring charges?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
No, ma'am, not client.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Well, what do you mean we need him.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Frank and I left Missus Houstas and drove out to
interview another victims, Missus j T. Pressing on Highland Avenue.
She told us that she had invested eight thousand dollars
in multiple uranium. She also told us that she had
first heard about the stocks to a friend who was
on the fundraising committee for Saint Aggan's Hospital. We interviewed
three more victims. All of them were in some way
associated with the hospital or were acquainted with Missus Arthur Laurrington.
Eight forty five pm we drove up to the Laurrington
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the State in bel Air. A maid showed us into
the library and said that Missus Laurrington would see us
in a few minutes. Hey, Joe, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Up there on the wall, that's painting as Missus Laurrington.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, sat in the Sunday paper wants society page.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Real honesty. Gosh, artists did it?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You don't say? Mm?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Probably flatters here a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh it's bound too.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
What makes you think so well? Its fans to reason, Joe. I,
While a person wants a good likeness, a photographer.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Ought to do the trick.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, artists know that too.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
They do figures. They want something else, want to look better, so.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
We flatters and oh, I see that works.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Are you gentlemen waiting for me?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Was Lington?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Or police officers? Is Frank Smith? My name's Friday.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I'm sure it's my husband you want to talk to.
Unfortunately he's in San Francisco on the business.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
No, man, we'd like to talk to you if you
don't mind. You know a man named Henry Orlean?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Orlean that's it?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, hmm.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You name sounds familiar, but I meet so many people
it's hard to be certain.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Have you ever heard of a stock called Multiple Uranium Incorporation?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Yes, yes, of course I didn't associate the two for
a moment. That's mister Orlean's company, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Do you have any money invested in that time?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
No, not me personally, but I can vouch for the
company if that's what you want to know. You see,
I'm on the fundraising committee for Saint Agnes Hospital. Matter
of fact, on the chairman. Yes, man, we know, and
we do own some of mister orlean stock the hospital
that is.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Tell us how'd you happen to buy him?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
We didn't it was a donation.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Would you mind telling us from who did mister Oran himself?
I see, when do you give it to you?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Last year?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Timber?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yes, it's September charity bazaarre. I don't recall the exact date,
but I can find.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Out for you September enough.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Just what was this bizarre a party here in my home?
We opened the grounds to the general public, A garden party,
an auction combined an auction. Some of the most picture
people donated the items we sold, and all the money
went to hospital. We raised over twenty five thousand dollars,
was not counting what mister Orleum gave us.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
That's the stock donation.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That's right. He congratulated me on the bazaar. He seemed
to be very interested in charity work. I said we
would certainly use his help, and he offered to.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Do whatever he could.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Rightly, he said that unfortunately he couldn't give us cash
at the moment. He mumbled something about a tax problem.
I'm not really too clear about those things. Everyone who's
been having tax problems nowadays. So instead of an outright gift,
the office a block of stock in his company.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I see not just how much stock was involved.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Five hundred shares. I think there's something like that. At
any rate. He said the market value of what he
was giving us would be in the neighborhood of ten
thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Did he tell you anything else?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
He didn't go into the details of his corporation, and
I certainly didn't question him. You don't look a gift
horse in them all as man all. I recall he
said his company owned shares and other uranium companies, so
that the money was well diversified.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Now was that all?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Hm?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Yes, I believe so, except that he made one request.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
He asked me not to sell the stock for at
least a year.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Did you give you a reason?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
He said that within a year's time it would double
in market value, and in the meantime the hospital would
be receiving excellent dividends.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I see.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
A matter of fact, the dividends had been remarkable m hm,
something like five hundred dollars a month. I believe my
treasurer told me, mister Orlean must be a very shrewd investor.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Did you ever discuss this uranium stock with any of
your friends, missus Larnson? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Why yes? Once or twice. One of our committee meetings,
when we were going over the books, we were surprised
at the return that was paying us. We all talked
about it then. I suppose I may have mentioned it
soon just in conversation. Yes, ma'am, is mister orlean Up
said that I told other people about it company. I
didn't know he wanted it kept a secret.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
He wanted to tell him. Well, then several people that
you discussed multiple uranium with invested in the company.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
As a result, it's a perfectly solid investment.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
No, ma'am, what ling has disappeared, and so is their money.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
IM sure you're mistaken.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
The stock he sold him was phony, so as the
stock he gave your hospital for him.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
It couldn't be. Look at the dividends it paid.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I was just good advertising.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You mean he used the hospital, he used me.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So, I just don't know what to say. I've never
been involved in the situation like this before. It's terribly distressing.
I Oh, I know it's not my fault, but I
can't help thinking I should have been more careful, more discreet. Oh,
(19:49):
I'm sorry. I'm afraid you'll have to excuse me. I
don't feel like talking anymore. I'm very upset. I understand
Aneitia will have showed you out.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
We'll find a way. Let's go. Oh, I was just
looking at that painting up there again. No, I was right,
Joe platters here. The interview with missus Laurington had enabled
(20:19):
us to establish the suspects. M Additional bulletins were sent
out alerting all police departments, charity organizations, and fundraising committees.
During the rest of the week, we interviewed other victims
of the stock swindle. None of them could furnish any
additional information about the whereabouts of the man who called
himself Henry Orlean. Three weeks later, on June ninth, we
received a report from the Chicago Police Department. They informed
(20:40):
us that a man answering Orleans description had worked an
oil stock swindle in that city during the previous year.
He had then used the name of Roger narget They
also told us that this Nargot was suspected of an
earlier stock swindle in Kansas City. Neither the Chicago nor
Kansas City police had a positive identification in the suspect,
but in both cities them had been the same. The
suspect of donated a block of phony stock to a
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charitable organization, had paid very high dividends on the donated chairs,
and then had been able to acquire investments from private persons. Wednesday,
June eleventh, three seventeen pm, Frank and I were in
the office Friday's.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Boud You remember me, Clara Gibbons, I used.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
To work here Instagram? How are you? What can we
do for you?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Mama just found him.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Mama just found him, mister Oley, Oh Brown Hill Street.
She we was just walking along and she's sewing.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Is she sure it's him?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Positive? Please her?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Just a minute?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Misgiving? Yeah? What is it?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Didn't she tell us your mother had never seen this man?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Well she's seen him now.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
He was walking down here.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Why does he know it's him if she never saw
him before?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
He told us what he looked like, dozens of times,
all about him. She, for heaven's sake, you don't have
to see a person and know what he looks like.
Mama would recognize mister Orland anywhere. She said so half
a dozen times. She can describe him better than I can.
My mother is very intelligent, son, She's not like me.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Not.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Please don't stand here and argue about.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
It, or he'll get away.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Just where is he?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
The Norwidge Hotel, corner of Hill and Halliday.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Watch.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Your mother saw him on the street.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
She followed him into the hotel. She doesn't want to
lose him. He went upstairs and she telephoned me from
the lobby. She said she'd wait there to make sure
he didn't leave. That She told me to bring you
as soon as I could. It's nearly half an hour
since she called me. We haven't got much car.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
We'll check on it right away.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
You go to arrest him, aren't you. If it's the
right man, of course it's the right man.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Excuse me a minute.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Did you have to answer it now?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Unclefus it to Friday. That's right, I see fine, Okay,
well Ford, I warrant to you. Well you send us
a notification by telegram. Thank you well, Sure are many things.
Salt Lake City Police Apartment.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
EH picked up.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
All him this morning, tad him from our circular. Ay,
sure it's him, give him a full confession, admitted the
case in Chicago, deals Town.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Couldn't be mister Arland.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
He's at the Norbridge Hotel.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
No misgivings. I'm afraid your mother was mistaken.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I've never known I'm gonna make a mistake.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
We all make them.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Well, she's waiting for us the hotel.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
We'll not tell her.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Well, let's see. I guess there's only one thing.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
What's that tell her not to wait?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
The story you have just heard is true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
On August sixteenth, trial was held in Department ninety eighth
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. Francis Caxton Wheatley alias Henry
Orlean alias Roger Norgott was tried and convicted of grand
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theft seven counts and received sentence as prescribed by law.
Grand theft is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail
for no more than one year or in the state
prison for not less than one or more than ten years.
Holes were placed on the suspect by the states of
Illinois and Missouri at the termination of his sentence in
San Quentin.
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