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half hour with Richard Diamond, Private Detective starring Dick Paul.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It ain't Richard Diamond a smiling gum shoe.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Were for the A eight size and odors they laughing
Hyena the Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Then, yeah, go on in and spoil this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You know what, I think you've got the kindest, most
wonderful face in.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
The whole wide world. You do, absolutely, but I do
wish you'd do me a favor. Well sure, ready, please
stop wearing it upside down? Hello?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Rick? Oh? Thanks? Thanks? What's doing?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I want a sandwich?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We'll take some of that coffee.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Sure, something on your mind?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Rick, No, just get.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Tired of sitting around the office. No business, not in
a week?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Mmmm? Den me sugar?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Oh yeah, I forgot here. Yeah itice a little tent.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I got some guy in the phone and won't give
me his name, says he wants to talk to you
matter alife from death.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Okay, put him on right, homicide Lieutenant Levinson.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
I'm going to say this once, so listen carefully. Tonight,
somewhere in New York, city. I'm going to kill a
man and there's nothing you can do about it. What
promptly at eight o'clock somewhere in this city, I'm going
to kill a man.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Hello, Hello, something wrong?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Some guy says he's going to kill somebody at eight
o'clock tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh, dandy, crank. Did you say who his victim is
going to be?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Just crank.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I should have heared him.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
They had suggestions, my landlord, for instance, be a little gruesom.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
He really did it.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, you'd have a hard time protecting eight million people
from the killer you don't know anything about.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Hobd was just a crank. Holdus yell. If that guy
calls back, put him through and trace the call, right.
It sure would be miserable if that call was on
the level. Oh relax, I'll have some more coffee.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I had some more coffee.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Wald worried a little, not a lot, because a big
precinct caters to a good number of cranks.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Every day.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
We talked about old times, and around six I matched
Walt for dinner. He stuffed himself at the automat until
I ran out of change and begged for mercy. Then
he dropped me off at my flat on fifty third
and went back to the precinct. I showered, shaved, slipped
into my blue suit, and headed to the door.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, do me a favor, will you? Rick?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You gotta stop stuffing yourself, Walt. It sounds like you
got indigestion.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I'm down to morg meet me here please.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Oh now, look, I got a date with a live one.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'm in on the start of some troubles. Riblely grow
that guy who called me it good? He stabbed a
man to death on Broadway at eight o'clock. Here he is,
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Lieutenant Hello, Well, hi Eric, thanks for coming down. Okay, Hell?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Who is he? Or who was he?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Brother identified him? Abram Weiss stabbed in the heart from
behind with a long, thin.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Instrument on Broadway eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's right. A dozen people so I'm staggered to the
curb and fall. Most of them just thought he was drunk.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You think your boy on the phone did it eight
o'clock right on the nose.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Whoever did it must have walked up behind him, jabbed
him just below the left shoulder blade and kept on walking.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
What do you want before, Walt?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
If this guy on the phone did kill Abraham Weiss,
and we can't find a motive that's a little more
than a simple killing. We may be mixed up with
a madman.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Oh so I qualify in that league.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You're one of the few guys who really is interested
in criminal psychology.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well, I think it's the answer. You can't stop something
to let you know the cause.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Will you give me a hand? Rick?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Sure, I've got Weiss's family at the station. Let's go
see them.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Why why, Lieutenant, why did this happen to eight?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's what we're going to try and find out. Missus Weiss.
We were hoping you might help us.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
He didn't have any enemies. He was a good man.
We have three children. I left them with missus Billatt
and my neighbor. It's going to be hard on them.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
You're sure your husband didn't know it.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
No, he didn't have any enemies. He was a good
husband and a good father. Everybody liked him. What only
last week, missus doudup to speak from us.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
We'd like a list of your brother's friends, mister Weiss,
where he worked, people he had business with, anyone you
can remember who might give us a lead.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Been sitting out there thinking about that. There just isn't
anyone that I know would want to kill leave? It
was a good guy that his job, took care of
Louise and the kids, didn't bother nobody along.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
When Louise and Abe married for.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
No six years? Maybe a little more nice girl. Louise
all the best, good wife.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
What happens to her now?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I'll take care of him? Do not married him?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
No quite a job taking care of a widow and
free kids. I'm doing all right.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
It's the least I can do. You got a girl?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Why maybe going to get married?
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Huh, Well, I'm engaged. I've been thinking about it. It'll
have to wait for a while, I guess, until Louise
gets back on her feet.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Okay, tell us about some of your brother's friends. Well,
I guess his best friend was Art Brierly.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
They was all close.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
He told us about everyone he could think of. Give
us a dozen names and addresses we could check. Like Louise,
Martin couldn't think why anyone would want to kill Abraham Weiss.
The next was missus Rebecca Weiss, tired. The hurt in
her eyes enough for all the mothers.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Who had raised the sun and lost him. We were
trying not to keep you too long, Missus Weiss.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
It's all riot, Lieutenant, you want to help?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Would you like a glass of water?
Speaker 10 (08:18):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
No?
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Then will I be able to see man soon? It's
right that I should see man soon.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
A few questions first, if you don't mind, you know.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
You're trying to help, a few questions. It's men as
you like, Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Not long with missus Rebecca Weiss.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Nothing that would help to catch her son's killer. So
we checked the people who would know in Abraham, and
there were plenty. His boss gave us a few more
names to add to the long list, all of them
friends who couldn't imagine why anyone would want to kill
a nice guy like Abe at seven thirty the night.
Next morning, Walt look at reports and port more coffee.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, I'll put sugar in it.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
If that phone call was on the level, why would
a guy kill like that call us and tell us
he was going to do it? What would be his reason?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Well, couldn't guess.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
But if that guy who called in to the killing
and Betty, you'll phone again, why, well he bragged he
was going to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He'll want the credit.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, I gotta get some rest a couple of hours. Anyway,
let's both get a couple.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh yeah, sorry, that doesn't matter, lousy dream.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Five o'clock?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Oh? I died?
Speaker 11 (09:52):
Then I a boy called again?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Oh you trace it?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Phone booth and Grand Central.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
What do you have to say?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
How much I wanted to know how he liked his handiwork.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
What's a good answer to that one?
Speaker 11 (10:03):
Well?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I said a few things, but I guess he figured
we weren't satisfied, so he promised he'd killed somebody else tonight.
A Hello, Rick, seen the papers?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, m hmm.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Been terrorizes city, unknown killer murders. That will please baffled.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Everybody's on my back. Exactly what did he say? You
want to hear? I made a recording, let's hear it. Okay,
let's put.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Him on.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Hello, lieutenant? Yeah, what do you think now, Lieutenant? I
did what I said I was gonna do, didn't I?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Look?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Who is this the man who called yesterday and said
he was going to kill someone at eight.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
O'clock last night? I don't believe it?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Certainly you do.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You'd like to stall so you could have this call traced?
Speaker 11 (11:07):
Would you better listen?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
I want everybody to know just how stupid the police
force really is. I'm gonna kill again tonight, and there's
nothing you can.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Do about it. Look you, whoever you are, If it's
the last thing I ever do.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Was tonight at eight, another innocent victim will die because
the police can.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Do nothing about it. Hello, Hello, Oh that the call
came from.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
A phone booth in granted, he said, another innocent victim.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, so he's a nut for some reason. He hates
the police force. There's your motive.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I guess it's possible, but something sticks in my crawl.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Eh, what eight o'clock? Why I think eight o'clock both times?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, I guess, like you said, he wants the credit.
We'll liably get a couple of killings in an evening.
He wants us to be sure which one he did.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Okay, so he makes at eight o'clock the first time,
Why the second? Why not six or seven or ten
or following a pattern? I guess maybe? So, Well, what
do we do?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I got every man possible in the streets, but Rick,
let's face it, this is a pretty big city at
six to and even if he does kill again, it
will be anywhere near the scene of his first stabbing.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I guess we just wait.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, a little over an hour ago.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
So we waited, Wall got the coffee going, and I
went to a whole package of cigarettes. Somewhere in the
middle of New York, probably on a crowded street, A
man was walking, waiting like we were for eight o'clock,
waiting to stab someone through the heart, waiting for eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Walk coffee. Now, give me a cigarette.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
You don't smoke?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
What a bet ah?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Here, get a match, got a ladder?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
This is no good.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
M let's go. Weren't you entrance to Madison Square Garden
men stabbed to death in the crowd going into the fights.
Bat a eight o'clock.
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Speaker 3 (15:06):
A man murdered going into Madison Square Garden to see
the fights, stabbed through the height while he stood in
the middle of the large crowd. We went through the
same routine identify the body, questioned witnesses who had been
close to him, see his friends, anyone who knew him.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Names leon Ellis, small time fight manager, no family hands.
A young kid named Billy Martin wasn't fighting last night.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
At ten o'clock the next morning, we found Billy Martin
working at the East Side gym. We talked to him
for a while, but he couldn't help much, so we
kept going, making our list of names, talking to everyone
all morning and end of the afternoon. By four point thirty,
we were holding each other up.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Look, we're working with a madman who kills anybody close
to him so he can show how helpless we are
to stop him. The whole city's in a panic. The
newspapers are blasting everybody in the department, yours truly in particular. Yeah,
I got him on.
Speaker 11 (16:04):
The line again, even bright to me about this last killing.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
As fast as you can, right, it's got that record
a ricketar boy again. Okay, go ahead the precinct, Lieutenant Levinson.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You can skip the formalities, Lieutenant, Your sergeant told you
who was on the line. Well, I did it again
last night, didn't I, Lieutenant?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, so we can't stop you. I admitted. I'll admit
it to the papers. That should make you happy. The
police department can't do anything about it. That's what you want,
isn't it again?
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Tonight, Lieutenant, one more person will die.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Now wait a minute, at least give me a chance
to talk. Why do you trace the call? Now?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Tonight at eight o'clock and you can't stop?
Speaker 11 (16:47):
Hello, Yeah, a call came from a phone booth in
Rockefeller Senate.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Tick's the right place to call from. We look pretty silly,
rounding up everybody in Rockefeller Senator.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Walt looked sick, and I felt it. What could we do?
We knew nothing about our killer.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Where he'd strike next. Walt called in the reporters and
gave them the story. The papers would blast into the pipelind,
but it was the best way to warn the public
to stealth the streets. That the pipelin was alerted and
radio stations were given bulletins to broadcast, and Walt and
I climbed into a prow car and started cruising.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
At eight five. It came in attention all.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Units in the vicinity of his own twelve to eleven
in front of four fifteen West sixty fourth fall one
five William sixty four ambulance.
Speaker 11 (17:38):
That body car seven.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Three come in, please seven three, go ahead to eleven at.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
Four fifteen West sixty four.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Is us stabbing, Lieutenant Roger. That's it.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Rick.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
The victim was an elderly man, dressed expensively, lying face
down on the sidewalk. Again, no witnesses to the killing.
Most of the people who had seen the man fall
realized almost immediately what had happened because of the publicity
on the last two killings.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
But like one man said, well, how are.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
You going to see who kill him in a crowd
like this, maybe one hundred people on the block when
it happens, or you guys better start doing something.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yes, sir, Does mister Arthur Reeves live here?
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Yes, sir, but mister Reeves is not in at the moment.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm from the police, Lieutenant Levinson, homicide. Homis I'd like
to talk with everybody in the house.
Speaker 10 (18:39):
Certainly, sir, because something happened to mister Reeves.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
He's been murdered.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Oh no, no, not mister Reeve.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
How many people in the house, myself, the.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
Maid, and mister George Reaves. Mister Reeves neview.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Tell him I like to talk with.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Him, and we talked with the three people in the
dead man's house, the maid, the butler, and George Reeves,
the nephew.
Speaker 12 (18:58):
I wondered not to take you to tonight. I showed
him the paper.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Did he usually take walks at night?
Speaker 12 (19:04):
N's for the past fifteen years?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Why anyone would want to kill him?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Mister Reeves?
Speaker 12 (19:08):
Of course not, you know, very good and well, it
was that faint What did it?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
How about you? Can you think of why anyone who
want to kill your employer?
Speaker 10 (19:17):
No, sir, I've been with mister Reeve's rover twenty years.
I'm acquainted with most of his friends and associates.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Look here, I can assure you that my uncle knew
no one who would want to kill him.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
You're his nephew.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Your uncle took walks every night, Yes, every night.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Now, if you don't mind, we'd like you all to
come down at the station of make statements.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Okay, we got the statements and other list of names
and a long one. None of these killings tie together.
Nobody on the first list has any connection with anybody
on the second list. Let's face it. If that madman
calls again, we can't stop him.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Oh, take it easy, Well, can we I want to
talk to the maid, the butler, the nephew again.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Why it's just the same as all the others.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I want to We talked to them.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Okay, I'm sorry getting jumpy.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You're tired, so am I?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Ohis sending the maid? What are you doing fixing the recorder?
I may want to listen to it again. So we
again talked to the maid, then the butler, then the nephew,
and the tape recorder picked up everything they said, and
it sounded very much like everything everybody else had said
after the first two killings. Walt let them go home
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and went up to talk to the commissioner. When he
came back, he looked pretty discouraged.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I'm sure on the griddle solved a turn in my bed.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I want you to listen to something.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Oh sure, I've cut out sections of tape stuck them together.
Mister Reeds took walks every night after dinner, and dinner
was always at seven.
Speaker 12 (20:49):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Then he always left sometimes close.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
To eight, yes, seven or a quarter to eight.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
He was never gone more than half an hour.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Did he leave tonight about a quarter to eight? Weren't
you worried when he didn't come back within half an hour.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Certainly, both the maid and I were very anxious.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Were you all in the house between a quarter of
eight in the time we arrived, Yes, sir, Where was
mister Reeves's nephew in his room?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
He went up right after dinner.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
How wealthy was your employer?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
He was very wealthy, mister Reeves? Who inherit your uncle's fortune?
Speaker 11 (21:25):
Why I do.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Was mister Reeves ever longer than half an hour with
his walks?
Speaker 12 (21:32):
Never more than a few minutes one way at the other?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Who handles your uncle's affairs? Mister Reeves? Richard B. Gregg.
He's been my uncle's attorney for many years.
Speaker 12 (21:44):
Young mister Reeves has always been excitable, gotten a lot
of trouble in the past.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yes, he argued with his uncle many times.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
No, mister Reeves didn't come down and ask why his
uncle had been gone.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
On so long.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Certainly I worried about my uncle, but I thought he
might have stopped along the way for something or other.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, so you took out pieces of the testimony and
stuck them together.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
So what just this?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Every one of these killing taking place at eight o'clock?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I know, and it's worried you.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
No, This is the first time that one of our
victims was certain to be out on the streets at
eight o clock.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Coincidence maybe maybe mister Reeves was a wealthy man, very wealthy.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And the nephew gets his money, and the nephew was
in his room at the time of the killing.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Who saw him?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
The butler and the maid both say he was up there.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
So he climbs out of the window.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
His uncle was killed only two blocks in the house,
plenty of times to stab him, get back through the window.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You're really reaching out, aren't you sure?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I am? What do you want me to do? Well?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
The nephew's voice certainly doesn't match the ones we got
on the threatening phone calls.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
So he disguises it.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I got an idea. What let's put a tail on
all three of these people. Anyway, it's not much. It's
all we've got so far. I'm going out to check
on something. What here's something, make your hair curl. I
just saw the attorney for the Reeves estate and he
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said the old man was planning on changing his will,
leading all his money to charity, not his nephew. He
was supposed to meet with mister Reeves.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
This morning, and Reeves gets killed last night.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Pretty convenient for the nephew. We can't arrest him on that, No,
but it makes a good motive.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You think the nephew would kill two men and then
his uncle just so would look like a madman had
picked out another innocent victim.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
You've got admit it to be pretty clever.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Here's an understatement.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
Yeah, he's on the line again, Lieutenant, I'm tracing it.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Oh no, my boy. Again, there goes your theory.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Hello, you can't do anything, lieutenant. I've killed three men
and you can't stop me. I'm going to kill again
tonight at eight.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Hello, it was him, all right tonight at eight, Rick,
We've just got to do Yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Call came from Grand Central again.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, Well, what happens to your theory?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Now he might do it again, expect you to react
just this way. Who's tailing George Reeves?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Harrison?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
When does he report in again?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Checks in on the hour? Last time was about twenty
minutes ago?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Forty minutes ago? Huh? No way of contacting him? No, okay,
we wait.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah, where was he at four forty six? Don't
let him out of your sight? Well at four forty six,
George Reeves made a phone call from a booth in
Grand Central station. He's home now.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
We had something emotive and a man calling from Grand Central,
but not enough to make an arrest.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
We waited until seven and then headed for the Reeves house.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Here he is surrounded. He let two men on him.
No matter where he goes, he's still in the house,
according to Harrison, and.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I want to do more than pick him up with
a knife. Here he comes, yeah, climbing into his car.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
A tension cars three fourteen fifteen suspect heading east proceed
east on US streets.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
We tailed him, keeping in contact with the other cars
as they stayed parallel. When Reeves turned off, we went
on ahead and notified the car in our right or left.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
To pick him up. That way, Reeves wouldn't suspect the tail.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
About seven point thirty we got a call that Reeves
at the parked and we headed for the spot in
a hurry.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Aspect is heading north on a colder.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Oh, get ahead of him back at the corner of Davis,
we'll pick him up there.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
We stopped at the corner and get out of the car.
We waited until we spotted.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Reeves walking in our direction, and then let him pass
and followed, staying close.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
He kept after him until five minutes. Said he swung
out on the Broadway and was pushing his way through
the crowd. Then it happened.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Where do you go?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We loost him? Come on, m in a stage, let
us true? Please got away?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Oh your push? You see him? Turn on?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
No, he's got to be crossing the street. Let's go, Reeves.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
What God, the knife? Oh, let me go, let me
go rob it you okay, Yeah, here's the knife?
Speaker 12 (26:29):
Young man, young man, what right have you got to
hit that?
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Nights gentlemen, he was helping me across the street.
Speaker 12 (26:36):
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Speaker 2 (02:02):
It ain't Richard Diamond a smiling gum shoe.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Were for the A eight size and odors they laughing
Hyena the Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Then, yeah, go on in and spoil this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You know what, I think you've got the kindest, most
wonderful face in.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
The whole wide world. You do, absolutely, but I do
wish you'd do me a favor. Well sure, ready, please
stop wearing it upside down? Hello?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Rick? Oh? Thanks? Thanks? What's doing?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I want a sandwich?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We'll take some of that coffee.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Sure, something on your mind?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Rick, No, just get.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Tired of sitting around the office. No business, not in
a week?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Mmmm? Den me sugar?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Oh yeah, I forgot here. Yeah itice a little tent.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I got some guy in the phone and won't give
me his name, says he wants to talk to you
matter alife from death.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Okay, put him on right, homicide Lieutenant Levinson.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
I'm going to say this once, so listen carefully. Tonight,
somewhere in New York, city. I'm going to kill a
man and there's nothing you can do about it. What
promptly at eight o'clock somewhere in this city, I'm going
to kill a man.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Hello, Hello, something wrong?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Some guy says he's going to kill somebody at eight
o'clock tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh, dandy, crank. Did you say who his victim is
going to be?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Just crank.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I should have heared him.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
They had suggestions, my landlord, for instance, be a little gruesom.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
He really did it.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, you'd have a hard time protecting eight million people
from the killer you don't know anything about.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Hobd was just a crank. Holdus yell. If that guy
calls back, put him through and trace the call, right.
It sure would be miserable if that call was on
the level. Oh relax, I'll have some more coffee.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I had some more coffee.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Wald worried a little, not a lot, because a big
precinct caters to a good number of cranks.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Every day.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
We talked about old times, and around six I matched
Walt for dinner. He stuffed himself at the automat until
I ran out of change and begged for mercy. Then
he dropped me off at my flat on fifty third
and went back to the precinct. I showered, shaved, slipped
into my blue suit, and headed to the door.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, do me a favor, will you? Rick?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You gotta stop stuffing yourself, Walt. It sounds like you
got indigestion.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I'm down to morg meet me here please.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Oh now, look, I got a date with a live one.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'm in on the start of some troubles. Riblely grow
that guy who called me it good? He stabbed a
man to death on Broadway at eight o'clock. Here he is,
(05:04):
Lieutenant Hello, Well, hi Eric, thanks for coming down. Okay, Hell?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Who is he? Or who was he?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Brother identified him? Abram Weiss stabbed in the heart from
behind with a long, thin.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Instrument on Broadway eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's right. A dozen people so I'm staggered to the
curb and fall. Most of them just thought he was drunk.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You think your boy on the phone did it eight
o'clock right on the nose.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Whoever did it must have walked up behind him, jabbed
him just below the left shoulder blade and kept on walking.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
What do you want before, Walt?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
If this guy on the phone did kill Abraham Weiss,
and we can't find a motive that's a little more
than a simple killing. We may be mixed up with
a madman.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Oh so I qualify in that league.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You're one of the few guys who really is interested
in criminal psychology.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well, I think it's the answer. You can't stop something
to let you know the cause.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Will you give me a hand? Rick?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Sure, I've got Weiss's family at the station. Let's go
see them.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Why why, Lieutenant, why did this happen to eight?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's what we're going to try and find out. Missus Weiss.
We were hoping you might help us.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
He didn't have any enemies. He was a good man.
We have three children. I left them with missus Billatt
and my neighbor. It's going to be hard on them.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
You're sure your husband didn't know it.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
No, he didn't have any enemies. He was a good
husband and a good father. Everybody liked him. What only
last week, missus doudup to speak from us.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
We'd like a list of your brother's friends, mister Weiss,
where he worked, people he had business with, anyone you
can remember who might give us a lead.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Been sitting out there thinking about that. There just isn't
anyone that I know would want to kill leave? It
was a good guy that his job, took care of
Louise and the kids, didn't bother nobody along.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
When Louise and Abe married for.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
No six years? Maybe a little more nice girl. Louise
all the best, good wife.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
What happens to her now?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I'll take care of him? Do not married him?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
No quite a job taking care of a widow and
free kids. I'm doing all right.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
It's the least I can do. You got a girl?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Why maybe going to get married?
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Huh, Well, I'm engaged. I've been thinking about it. It'll
have to wait for a while, I guess, until Louise
gets back on her feet.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Okay, tell us about some of your brother's friends. Well,
I guess his best friend was Art Brierly.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
They was all close.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
He told us about everyone he could think of. Give
us a dozen names and addresses we could check. Like Louise,
Martin couldn't think why anyone would want to kill Abraham Weiss.
The next was missus Rebecca Weiss, tired. The hurt in
her eyes enough for all the mothers.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Who had raised the sun and lost him. We were
trying not to keep you too long, Missus Weiss.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
It's all riot, Lieutenant, you want to help?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Would you like a glass of water?
Speaker 10 (08:18):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
No?
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Then will I be able to see man soon? It's
right that I should see man soon.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
A few questions first, if you don't mind, you know.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
You're trying to help, a few questions. It's men as
you like, Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Not long with missus Rebecca Weiss.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Nothing that would help to catch her son's killer. So
we checked the people who would know in Abraham, and
there were plenty. His boss gave us a few more
names to add to the long list, all of them
friends who couldn't imagine why anyone would want to kill
a nice guy like Abe at seven thirty the night.
Next morning, Walt look at reports and port more coffee.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, I'll put sugar in it.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
If that phone call was on the level, why would
a guy kill like that call us and tell us
he was going to do it? What would be his reason?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Well, couldn't guess.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
But if that guy who called in to the killing
and Betty, you'll phone again, why, well he bragged he
was going to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He'll want the credit.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, I gotta get some rest a couple of hours. Anyway,
let's both get a couple.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh yeah, sorry, that doesn't matter, lousy dream.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Five o'clock?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Oh? I died?
Speaker 11 (09:52):
Then I a boy called again?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Oh you trace it?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Phone booth and Grand Central.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
What do you have to say?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
How much I wanted to know how he liked his handiwork.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
What's a good answer to that one?
Speaker 11 (10:03):
Well?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I said a few things, but I guess he figured
we weren't satisfied, so he promised he'd killed somebody else tonight.
A Hello, Rick, seen the papers?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, m hmm.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Been terrorizes city, unknown killer murders. That will please baffled.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Everybody's on my back. Exactly what did he say? You
want to hear? I made a recording, let's hear it. Okay,
let's put.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Him on.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Hello, lieutenant? Yeah, what do you think now, Lieutenant? I
did what I said I was gonna do, didn't I?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Look?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Who is this the man who called yesterday and said
he was going to kill someone at eight.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
O'clock last night? I don't believe it?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Certainly you do.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You'd like to stall so you could have this call traced?
Speaker 11 (11:07):
Would you better listen?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
I want everybody to know just how stupid the police
force really is. I'm gonna kill again tonight, and there's
nothing you can.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Do about it. Look you, whoever you are, If it's
the last thing I ever do.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Was tonight at eight, another innocent victim will die because
the police can.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Do nothing about it. Hello, Hello, Oh that the call
came from.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
A phone booth in granted, he said, another innocent victim.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, so he's a nut for some reason. He hates
the police force. There's your motive.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I guess it's possible, but something sticks in my crawl.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Eh, what eight o'clock? Why I think eight o'clock both times?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, I guess, like you said, he wants the credit.
We'll liably get a couple of killings in an evening.
He wants us to be sure which one he did.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Okay, so he makes at eight o'clock the first time,
Why the second? Why not six or seven or ten
or following a pattern? I guess maybe? So, Well, what
do we do?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I got every man possible in the streets, but Rick,
let's face it, this is a pretty big city at
six to and even if he does kill again, it
will be anywhere near the scene of his first stabbing.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I guess we just wait.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, a little over an hour ago.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
So we waited, Wall got the coffee going, and I
went to a whole package of cigarettes. Somewhere in the
middle of New York, probably on a crowded street, A
man was walking, waiting like we were for eight o'clock,
waiting to stab someone through the heart, waiting for eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Walk coffee. Now, give me a cigarette.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
You don't smoke?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
What a bet ah?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Here, get a match, got a ladder?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
This is no good.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
M let's go. Weren't you entrance to Madison Square Garden
men stabbed to death in the crowd going into the fights.
Bat a eight o'clock.
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Speaker 3 (15:06):
A man murdered going into Madison Square Garden to see
the fights, stabbed through the height while he stood in
the middle of the large crowd. We went through the
same routine identify the body, questioned witnesses who had been
close to him, see his friends, anyone who knew him.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Names leon Ellis, small time fight manager, no family hands.
A young kid named Billy Martin wasn't fighting last night.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
At ten o'clock the next morning, we found Billy Martin
working at the East Side gym. We talked to him
for a while, but he couldn't help much, so we
kept going, making our list of names, talking to everyone
all morning and end of the afternoon. By four point thirty,
we were holding each other up.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Look, we're working with a madman who kills anybody close
to him so he can show how helpless we are
to stop him. The whole city's in a panic. The
newspapers are blasting everybody in the department, yours truly in particular. Yeah,
I got him on.
Speaker 11 (16:04):
The line again, even bright to me about this last killing.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
As fast as you can, right, it's got that record
a ricketar boy again. Okay, go ahead the precinct, Lieutenant Levinson.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You can skip the formalities, Lieutenant, Your sergeant told you
who was on the line. Well, I did it again
last night, didn't I, Lieutenant?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, so we can't stop you. I admitted. I'll admit
it to the papers. That should make you happy. The
police department can't do anything about it. That's what you want,
isn't it again?
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Tonight, Lieutenant, one more person will die.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Now wait a minute, at least give me a chance
to talk. Why do you trace the call? Now?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Tonight at eight o'clock and you can't stop?
Speaker 11 (16:47):
Hello, Yeah, a call came from a phone booth in
Rockefeller Senate.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Tick's the right place to call from. We look pretty silly,
rounding up everybody in Rockefeller Senator.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Walt looked sick, and I felt it. What could we do?
We knew nothing about our killer.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Where he'd strike next. Walt called in the reporters and
gave them the story. The papers would blast into the pipelind,
but it was the best way to warn the public
to stealth the streets. That the pipelin was alerted and
radio stations were given bulletins to broadcast, and Walt and
I climbed into a prow car and started cruising.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
At eight five. It came in attention all.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Units in the vicinity of his own twelve to eleven
in front of four fifteen West sixty fourth fall one
five William sixty four ambulance.
Speaker 11 (17:38):
That body car seven.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Three come in, please seven three, go ahead to eleven at.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
Four fifteen West sixty four.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Is us stabbing, Lieutenant Roger. That's it.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Rick.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
The victim was an elderly man, dressed expensively, lying face
down on the sidewalk. Again, no witnesses to the killing.
Most of the people who had seen the man fall
realized almost immediately what had happened because of the publicity
on the last two killings.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
But like one man said, well, how are.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
You going to see who kill him in a crowd
like this, maybe one hundred people on the block when
it happens, or you guys better start doing something.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yes, sir, Does mister Arthur Reeves live here?
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Yes, sir, but mister Reeves is not in at the moment.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm from the police, Lieutenant Levinson, homicide. Homis I'd like
to talk with everybody in the house.
Speaker 10 (18:39):
Certainly, sir, because something happened to mister Reeves.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
He's been murdered.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Oh no, no, not mister Reeve.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
How many people in the house, myself, the.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
Maid, and mister George Reaves. Mister Reeves neview.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Tell him I like to talk with.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Him, and we talked with the three people in the
dead man's house, the maid, the butler, and George Reeves,
the nephew.
Speaker 12 (18:58):
I wondered not to take you to tonight. I showed
him the paper.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Did he usually take walks at night?
Speaker 12 (19:04):
N's for the past fifteen years?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Why anyone would want to kill him?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Mister Reeves?
Speaker 12 (19:08):
Of course not, you know, very good and well, it
was that faint What did it?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
How about you? Can you think of why anyone who
want to kill your employer?
Speaker 10 (19:17):
No, sir, I've been with mister Reeve's rover twenty years.
I'm acquainted with most of his friends and associates.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Look here, I can assure you that my uncle knew
no one who would want to kill him.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
You're his nephew.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Your uncle took walks every night, Yes, every night.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Now, if you don't mind, we'd like you all to
come down at the station of make statements.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Okay, we got the statements and other list of names
and a long one. None of these killings tie together.
Nobody on the first list has any connection with anybody
on the second list. Let's face it. If that madman
calls again, we can't stop him.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Oh, take it easy, Well, can we I want to
talk to the maid, the butler, the nephew again.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Why it's just the same as all the others.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I want to We talked to them.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Okay, I'm sorry getting jumpy.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You're tired, so am I?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Ohis sending the maid? What are you doing fixing the recorder?
I may want to listen to it again. So we
again talked to the maid, then the butler, then the nephew,
and the tape recorder picked up everything they said, and
it sounded very much like everything everybody else had said
after the first two killings. Walt let them go home
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and went up to talk to the commissioner. When he
came back, he looked pretty discouraged.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I'm sure on the griddle solved a turn in my bed.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I want you to listen to something.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Oh sure, I've cut out sections of tape stuck them together.
Mister Reeds took walks every night after dinner, and dinner
was always at seven.
Speaker 12 (20:49):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Then he always left sometimes close.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
To eight, yes, seven or a quarter to eight.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
He was never gone more than half an hour.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Did he leave tonight about a quarter to eight? Weren't
you worried when he didn't come back within half an hour.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Certainly, both the maid and I were very anxious.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Were you all in the house between a quarter of
eight in the time we arrived, Yes, sir, Where was
mister Reeves's nephew in his room?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
He went up right after dinner.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
How wealthy was your employer?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
He was very wealthy, mister Reeves? Who inherit your uncle's fortune?
Speaker 11 (21:25):
Why I do.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Was mister Reeves ever longer than half an hour with
his walks?
Speaker 12 (21:32):
Never more than a few minutes one way at the other?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Who handles your uncle's affairs? Mister Reeves? Richard B. Gregg.
He's been my uncle's attorney for many years.
Speaker 12 (21:44):
Young mister Reeves has always been excitable, gotten a lot
of trouble in the past.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yes, he argued with his uncle many times.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
No, mister Reeves didn't come down and ask why his
uncle had been gone.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
On so long.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Certainly I worried about my uncle, but I thought he
might have stopped along the way for something or other.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, so you took out pieces of the testimony and
stuck them together.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
So what just this?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Every one of these killing taking place at eight o'clock?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I know, and it's worried you.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
No, This is the first time that one of our
victims was certain to be out on the streets at
eight o clock.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Coincidence maybe maybe mister Reeves was a wealthy man, very wealthy.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And the nephew gets his money, and the nephew was
in his room at the time of the killing.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Who saw him?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
The butler and the maid both say he was up there.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
So he climbs out of the window.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
His uncle was killed only two blocks in the house,
plenty of times to stab him, get back through the window.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You're really reaching out, aren't you sure?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I am? What do you want me to do? Well?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
The nephew's voice certainly doesn't match the ones we got
on the threatening phone calls.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
So he disguises it.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I got an idea. What let's put a tail on
all three of these people. Anyway, it's not much. It's
all we've got so far. I'm going out to check
on something. What here's something, make your hair curl. I
just saw the attorney for the Reeves estate and he
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said the old man was planning on changing his will,
leading all his money to charity, not his nephew. He
was supposed to meet with mister Reeves.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
This morning, and Reeves gets killed last night.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Pretty convenient for the nephew. We can't arrest him on that, No,
but it makes a good motive.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You think the nephew would kill two men and then
his uncle just so would look like a madman had
picked out another innocent victim.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
You've got admit it to be pretty clever.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Here's an understatement.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
Yeah, he's on the line again, Lieutenant, I'm tracing it.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Oh no, my boy. Again, there goes your theory.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Hello, you can't do anything, lieutenant. I've killed three men
and you can't stop me. I'm going to kill again
tonight at eight.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Hello, it was him, all right tonight at eight, Rick,
We've just got to do Yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Call came from Grand Central again.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, Well, what happens to your theory?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Now he might do it again, expect you to react
just this way. Who's tailing George Reeves?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Harrison?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
When does he report in again?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Checks in on the hour? Last time was about twenty
minutes ago?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Forty minutes ago? Huh? No way of contacting him? No, okay,
we wait.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah, where was he at four forty six? Don't
let him out of your sight? Well at four forty six,
George Reeves made a phone call from a booth in
Grand Central station. He's home now.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
We had something emotive and a man calling from Grand Central,
but not enough to make an arrest.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
We waited until seven and then headed for the Reeves house.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Here he is surrounded. He let two men on him.
No matter where he goes, he's still in the house,
according to Harrison, and.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I want to do more than pick him up with
a knife. Here he comes, yeah, climbing into his car.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
A tension cars three fourteen fifteen suspect heading east proceed
east on US streets.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
We tailed him, keeping in contact with the other cars
as they stayed parallel. When Reeves turned off, we went
on ahead and notified the car in our right or left.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
To pick him up. That way, Reeves wouldn't suspect the tail.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
About seven point thirty we got a call that Reeves
at the parked and we headed for the spot in
a hurry.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Aspect is heading north on a colder.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Oh, get ahead of him back at the corner of Davis,
we'll pick him up there.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
We stopped at the corner and get out of the car.
We waited until we spotted.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Reeves walking in our direction, and then let him pass
and followed, staying close.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
He kept after him until five minutes. Said he swung
out on the Broadway and was pushing his way through
the crowd. Then it happened.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Where do you go?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We loost him? Come on, m in a stage, let
us true? Please got away?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Oh your push? You see him? Turn on?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
No, he's got to be crossing the street. Let's go, Reeves.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
What God, the knife? Oh, let me go, let me
go rob it you okay, Yeah, here's the knife?
Speaker 12 (26:29):
Young man, young man, what right have you got to
hit that?
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Nights gentlemen, he was helping me across the street.
Speaker 12 (26:36):
I have a good mind.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
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the street, just forget about him.
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