August 11, 2025 • 26 mins
Dragnet - Old Time Radio Show - 256 The Big Rescue
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear is true.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The names have been changed to protect the innocent drag men.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. Two
men are terrorizing your city. They're both armed and considered dangerous.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Your job get them.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
It was Thursday, September ninth. It was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working to night watch out of robbery detail.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss of chief of detective's
Sad Brown.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
My name's Friday.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I was on my way back from the street and
it was eleven forty two pm when I got to
the eighth fourteen club, the back room.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I hate to think, what's going to happen?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Mister Neggary here is about I'm gonna be pretty bad, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How about it?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Joe?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Do you catch your fellows yet?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, sir, descriptions out.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
Guys from the f cars are checking the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I haven't got nothing yet, though, Oh sure, not yet.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Wish I was home, sir. If I was home, I
could turn off the phone. I got one of those
attachments in the extension in the bedroom that turns it off.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Wish I was there. Now, mister nigger is really going
to be soort.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Was there anything at all about the two men that
would stand out and make a little easier.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
For us to identify him? Tell you truth?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So I see if there was, I didn't see.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It, all right.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I was scared, daring, scared, and I'm not afraid to stay.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
So, yes, sir, I can tell you again if you
want me to about the robbery, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
If you would, it might be something you didn't remember
the first time.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Okay, I guess it was about a quarter to eleven
when it came in, just a guess that. I think
it was about then, A dark one. He had the
machine gun. He kind of moved over so he had
a good look at the people sitting at the bar.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Kind of again was machine gun? I see you go ahead.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I guess he could have hit him all from where
he was held a gun kind of low, you know,
like it.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Is hip here.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What about the other one?
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
He waited with his friend, and he walked up to
the bar, stood right in the middle of the floor.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He had the automatic.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Huh, yeah, it looked like a forty five. He stood
right in the middle of the place. Just looking there
watching me.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Then? Will the fell out in front, reached over and
pulled the plug.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
In the jukebox, turned it off right in the middle
of the record, pull the plug, and that's what made
the other people turn around, turned right around and looked
at the guns. That's when the light fell. The one
with the forty five. He said, sit where you are,
This is a stick up.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Those his exact words, well there as I can remember.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Yeah, he kind of had a squeaky little voice like
it was still changing, you know, yes, but those were
the words, sit right where you are, This is a
stick up.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
All right, mister, give the money you want to go ahead?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well, the one where the funny voice told everybody to
get up and turn around, so there was facing the bar,
you know, where their back to.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
The hold up man made them all turn around. Then
he told him to start on the back of the
place and walk over to one of the tables and
dump all their money out. He said, not to forget anything,
put it all there.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Did they take anything besides money.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Not that I saw.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
There were a couple of people who had pretty good
looking watches on, but the only thing the band had
seemed to want was cat?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I see?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Then they left after they got the money.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, yeah, walked to the door and said for us
not to try and call anybody for five minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
After that they walked out.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Did you see if they had a car?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
No, sir, didn't even go near the door. We did,
like they said, five minutes and after that, I called.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You you know him again? If you saw them?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Would you you bet? I would you put me in
that crowd with them, and I'll tell you no trouble there.
I'd know him. Oh, excuse me for that?
Speaker 8 (03:26):
I had.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Eight fourteen cloud Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Oh yeah, mister Negre. Uh huh, I'll try.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, who called you?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yeah, well, there wasn't anything I could do about mister Negra, No, sir,
both of them had guns. Yeah, all right, sir, that's
the way you feel about it, All right, sir, I'm fine.
I'll be in the morning, right, fired me?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, too bad? I've I heard you say he'd be
in the morning though.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Well, I come in to pick up my money, and
I said time I get here tomorrow, I'll have another
change of heart.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So hire me back. I've been fired twelve times already, twelve.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
He always hires me back. Isn't anybody else who worked. Fore,
we got a lot of trouble keeping help, a lot
of He thinks I should have stopped the hold of
them in myself, just walked in with my bare hands
and stopped him.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Pretty silly when you think of it.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Uh, he says, they're only kidding with the guns that
they wouldn't have really shot me. Pretty silly, says he'd
have bet on it, right. Doesn't take too much to
figure that out. Yeah, either way, that I lost, wouldn't I.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
The description of the suspects, the method of operation they'd used,
everything about the robbery sounded just as.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
If it had been read for my m bulletins.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
For the past three weeks, Frank and I had been
after the two gunmen. All sources of information had been tapped,
Victims and witnesses had been questioned and requestioned. People in
the immediate vicinity had been talked. Two mugshots had been
pulled and worn out by handling.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
To date, in.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Concrete information, we had exactly what we'd started with. Two
gunmen who were moving around at will and robbing citizens
where and when they chose.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
The victims of the latest robbery were.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Shown the mug books, but they were unable to make
an identification. The canvas of the area turned up no
usable information. Frank and I worked until three forty five am,
and then we filled out the log and left the office.
The next morning we checked with Captain Donahoe and Chief Brown.
As a result of the meeting, we arrived at the
only possible solution to apprehending the suspects, leg work, and
a lot of it. We spent the rest of the
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afternoon rechecking informants.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
At nine thirty pm, we stopped for dinner and then
we went back to the office. You got the address
Sam gave you. Yeah, it's here somewhere. Yeah, here it is.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I think it's worth checking out. We've got nothing else
to do as well, so they get to the straighten up.
We can kick her right out there and see him.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, may yeah, Friday, Yeah, free? What to do?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Thanks? Three? Yeah it's Friday? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Boy?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
When was it west?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Possibly see anybody else?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
All right, we'll come right over bye Highland Park. I
just picked up a guy for four or five nine. Yeah,
matches the description of our blonde Hold up, man, I
think it'll check out.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
They shook him down when he was picked up. They
found a forty five with a full clip. It's pretty
heavy for a burglar.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You know, Scob and talk to him.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
It should be a break.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
We've been chasing luck long enough, or maybe we caught up.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Frank and I signed out of the office immediately and
we started over to Highland Park. It wasn't the first
time we'd gone out on a similar call. During the
time we'd been after the hold up man, There's been
several others.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
All of them had to be checked out.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
We never knew when an odd piece of information might
turn the lead that we've been looking for.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Just before we turned off onto.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Avenue sixty four, a call came in over the radio, argue,
stand by, you want to turn it out?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I got it.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Stand by stand by eleven K four all units on
prequency one see stand by units the vicinity of Highland
Park Area, all units the vicinity of six oh four
or five York Boulevard, Highland Park Division units eleven F two,
eleven F three, eleven F five, and eleven F seven,
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and all traffic units attention.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It's a big one.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
At ten forty seven BM this date, an armed man
enters the Highland Park Police Station and forced an officer
to release two prisoners. The man was armed with a
submachine gun believed to be a forty five caliber. Suspect
is described WMA.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
The Highland Park Police Division is a large brick building located.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
On York Boulevard. On the ground floor is.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
A booking desk and a couple of administration offices. Directly
behind the booking counter across the hall as a cell block.
Prisoners are held there pending further investigation or transfer to
the main jail. When Frank and I arrived, there were
a dozen police cars around the building. Other units were
searching the area for the escape suspects. The call had
gone out of the entire state, and members of the
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Highway Patrol and the Sheriff's Department and all other departments
were joining in the manhunt.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Frank and I.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Talked to Officer Boyd Hutchins, the policeman who had been
on duty when the escape took place.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
So he came in the side door, and first I
thought he just wanted some information, uh huh, and I
walked over to take care of him. I couldn't see
the gun. He was carrying it low, kind of hidden
by the counter.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You didn't see him come into the building anything.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
No, I was on the phone. First I knew was
when he asked me if he could see Burton, and
I told him we couldn't swing it right then said
he'd have to come back. And that's when he asked
me if there was anybody around who could okay a visit.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, I told him there was.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And said for him to come back in the morning.
That's when I showed you the gun, huh.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
And he brought it right up over the counter, set
for him not to cause any trouble and I wouldn't
get hurt, and he didn't have to tell me. Yeah,
there had been a chance for him to take on
I'd tried it. I didn't see how it had proven
anything for me to bleed.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
All over him, you know, and made me take him
back to the cell block.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
I unlocked the door and he told Burton to come out.
What about the other guy, Oh, his name is Kenneth Lechner.
He was in the same cell with Burton. The guy
with a machine gun asked if he wanted to go
for the ride, and Lector said yes, and then the
three of.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Them walked out of the building.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Didn't make any attempt to tie up in anything like that.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
No, he just said sit tight, and I wasn't about
to argue.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
What do you know about this Lecner?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Oh, he was picked up on a want from Oklahoma
with charge murder.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
We went to the city hall and we checked the
name Gail Burton threw R and I there was no
record on him in Los Angeles. We forwarded the information
on him to George Bretton up at CII and Sacramento.
The rest of the night was spent in checking out
the possible places the suspects might have been hiding.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
In the city of over two minion people, there are
a lot of places.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
While we were cambing the city, men from the Sheriff's
department were going over the county territory. We had a
vague description of the car that was used, but it
might match any one of several hundred being driven on
the streets.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Of Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Roadblocks were set up on principal routes leaving this special
details were standing by it.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
All train and bus.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Depots and the airports were covered leaves and days off
where all personnel were canceled. But the time the search.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Got out a low gear.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Over three thousand policemen were looking for the three men.
Field stations were set up in the less populated areas,
and coffee and hot soup were served to the men
participating in the search.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
The night dragged on without result.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Saturday, September eleventh, we received a report that two men
answering the descriptions of Burton and the man who had
aided in his escape, had tried to rent a boat
down in San Diego. However, when this check got it
proved to be false. Saturday afternoon, we received information from
George Breton that Burton had an arrest record in Sacramento
and that mug shots and all information were being forwarded.
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We got in touch with the authorities in the northern
city and asked them to check further on the friends
and relatives of Burton. When the mug shots arrived, they
were shown to the hold up victims.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Mister Gilmore liked, how you take a look at these pictures,
see if you're recognizing the am.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You think there might be one here.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Of the foe hold us up and we want you
to tell us.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
If you can.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
No not him? Huh? Will you remember how I told him?
Mister Negrid give me my job back.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So he did just like, oh, you.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Know, that's fine.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
As soon as he read in the papers how they
broke out of jail, he said, I was right not
to cause trouble as soon as he found out about
the jail brig.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But we're not sure they're the same man yet, mister Gilmore.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Don't know why, Sir, don't know why. I ain't sure.
Here's his picture.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
This is the man who held Jeff.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah one, I'm the same.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
How about it? Jeff's Burton.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
The other victims also identified Burton as one of the
men who had held him up. With the name of
the man, we at least had some place to start.
We put in a call to Sacramento and we talked
to the police department up there. We found that the
suspect had been arrested on charges of suspicion of burglary,
suspicion of robbery ADWN, and assault with intent to do
great bodily huh. In spite of the numerous arrests, Burton
had only served one term in the county jail. We
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got all available information on him, and the search was intensified.
We've gotten reports from informants that the three men might
try to escape across the border into Mexico. San Diego
was notified of this, and al Gabman was dispatched at
the international boundary of Tijuana to aid the Mexican police.
Two days passed without news of the suspects. Monday, September thirteenth,
Frank and I got back into the office from chasing
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down a lead that went nowhere.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Better check with a skipper.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, I'll do it right away. I got it. Robbery Friday,
be all right, I'll take it the longest in San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I might have gotten up there hello this Friday. Oh yeah,
Ddie m Yeah, well we got the adivcation from Brandon.
Now nothing yet. When was that? That could be a
given time with it? Just a minute, Frank, yeah, Seeddie
Vanderfert up there when these guys pull the first.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Job, I think it was August sixteenth, placed over on Pico.
That's the first one in yeahs ain't d.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Now the other one doesn't show up on any of
the sheets. Kenneth Lechner, No, we're expecting it from Oklahoma.
You guys will check it out for Ustanna.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
All right, let us know soon you've got something, definitely,
what do you right?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Ed, thanks for calling ye bye.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
What's he got?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I got a rumble that Burton was up there in
the first part of August.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
He said about a week he said, yeah, Ed says
he's got an informant down the film wore just he
used to run with.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Burton might give us a lead on the partner.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
How come well, according to the informant, Burton met a
guy up north.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
They got real chummy. They left time together. Come up
with a name.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, he did.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Kirby Money and OEt been in trouble a couple of times.
Petty stuff rumbles got that he was always talking about
going big, forming his own gang. Cutting into the heavy
stuff matches real good. Monet's descriptions the same as a
number two man. Pictures of Kirby Monette arrived from San Francisco,
and when they were shown to the victims of the thieves,
we had a positive identification on our second suspect. Armed
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with this information, the job of the men in the
field was considerably ea.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Now they knew who they were looking for.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Ten forty two pm, Frank and I started downstairs for
our car.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Give me Paula. Yeah, you tell me where the office
of the chief is.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Down the hall into the right, thanks, hold out.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
What do you want to see the chief about?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
That's personal?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Maybe better tell me? Huh. If I wanted you, I'd
ask it that way. I'd get over the wall.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Better shake him down?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Right, all right, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You don't have to go through all this.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I'm not going to cause you any trouble. Your name's
Kenneth Leckner in it. That's right. You couldn't find me.
Figured i'd come to you.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Frank and I took the suspect of the squad room.
We got in touch with the chief and Detective stab Brown.
We told him what had happened, and he said he'd
come over to the office as soon as possible. We
shook Kenneth Fleckner, but we found nothing. We asked him
to tell us about the jail break.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I didn't have nothing to do with it. You got
to believe that.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
We'll let you tell us. I'm giving it to you
the way it happened. Where my name Burton, I don't know.
Last I saw him. They were out on West Pico.
You got an address, no sitting in the car. They
had a place, and they were waiting for the crowd
to clear before they took it. You know what place
it was, that's a bar, got the name. No, I
haven't got any idea. I told you I want no
part of it. That's the reason I left. You haven't
got any idea where the place is?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Or no? None? You want to take communications Frank telling
him about it. Yeah, I'll get it right away. You
guys must have every cop in the country out looking
for us. Never saw so much fuzz. You know. I
can't go that route anymore. It doesn't work out for me.
Never wasn't any good at running. Do you hear anything
at all about the plans they were making? No, not
a lot.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I don't think they trusted me very much. I was
with them, but like an in law or something, I'll
tell you something, Sergeant once.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Then these guys are roof jobs.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Both of them.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
What do you mean they lost the road all the
time talking about how they're gonna put class back in
hold up's gonna form a big gang and really jump
the cops all the time, talking like that, roof jobs.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You got any idea where we can pick them up?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It ain't nothing I'd like better than to give it
the address, but I ain't got it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
What about this car they're using, Can you give us
description of it? Yeah, it's a fifty two Nash four
doors stole them. It must be the hate where we
left Highland Park. It give us the number on the plate.
I don't think so I can't pull it up.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I don't think I've already took a good look at it.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What about this machine gun they got shells for? They're
loaded with him.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
These two guys are heavy enough to start a small
war on their own.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
When he carries a.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Chopper and a forty five in his belt, Burton's got
two forty fives and the thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
He carries a thirty eight strap to his leg.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
He's always laughing about it, says, even if he's picked up,
he's got to take it out.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Oh, these guys are real far out.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
They've been reading too many comic books all the time,
talking about Dyllinger and Floyd. Burton even took the smoking
cigars as it makes him look like.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Doc Barker, and then he can give us that'll help
us name him.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
No, nothing all right? Like me, let's go. You're taking
me to jail, that's right, now you doing me a
favorite osageant? What's that?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Give me a cell by myself. I hadn't much sleep
in the last couple of days. I'd sure like to
get something.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
That's who we can do, all right, said still a man.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
You gotta put these on again.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
That's right, all right, come on, get the word out.
Yeah a little late. What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Burton and Money have already hit the bar trol car
spotted him on the way out. You know, there's a
beef and the men in the I took Burton in
the custody, dropped him in the car and started.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
To bring him in.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Hadn't gone more in a couple of blocks from when
they drove up, rammed the police car and started shooting.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Anybody hurt.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Yeah, he took Burton away from the men in the
unit to shot one on them.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
How bad.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
He's a Georgia street receiving now. They don't expect him
to live. We had Count Leckner held for the Oklahoma authorities.
We contacted Captain Donah and told him what had happened.
He'd taken over the search for the two suspects in
the Fico area. A blockade had been set up on
all streets leading into and out of the area.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
All vehicles were being.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Stopped and searched. All pedestrians were being interrogated. Frank and
I joined in the manhunt. By six thirty the next morning, Wednesday,
September fifteenth, the area had been covered without result. However,
and checking all automobiles in the vicinity of the hold up,
we'd come across a nineteen fifty two Nash gray in color.
The left front fender was damaged and matched the description
of the suspects car very close. We put a stake
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out on the vehicle and it was kept under walks
for the next twenty four hours. During that time, no
one approached it. We checked the license number with Auto
Theft Division and found the car to be stolen.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
It had been taken from the owner five days before,
on September tenth.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
We brought Kenneth Leckner from the main jail and he
positively identified the car as the one driven by Money
and Burton. At the end of the surveillance, the crew
from the crime lab came out and identified paint scrapings
from the Dammi's defender as having come from the police
car that had been rammed the crew from Laton.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Prince came out and went over the car while a
worked plank and I stood by. Looks like we got
to turn. It's not gonna do as much good. We
can't find the guy with a key.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
At least you'd be about finished.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Now check with him, all right, I'll walk over with you.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yes, yes, ma'am. Something to do for you.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
You know what those managing to that car?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Police business?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
You were cop?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
You tell me what's going on?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Investigation of what the car? That's right?
Speaker 9 (18:43):
What are you looking for?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Information?
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Not gonna tell me?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Huh. Gonna be a little better if we didn't, ma'am.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Okay, but he's not gonna like it, not a bit.
Who's that sows it owns the car? I'm gonna like
having all you guys room around.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You know, the man that owns the car.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Sure begin to get married.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
I know him, what's his name? Monete's kind of French
like romantic.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
How long you know him?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Not long?
Speaker 9 (19:04):
Sort of a whirl wind courtships.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
You'd say, just met each other.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And we knew you know where this money is? Now?
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Not right off?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I know where he'll be. Where's there at his place.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
I'm supposed to.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Meet him there at seven thirty tonight.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
We've got a date.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Why you want to talk to us, that's right, the
night stall.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You'll like him.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
Almost everybody does, all right. Never knew anybody met Terby
didn't want to be around him all the time. Everybody
wants to be around tirty.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
You know him.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You'll see, well, I won't be too hard a man. Huh.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
He's already convinced us. We had the girl, Drusilla Roth,
show us where the suspect was living. The results of
the investigation by latent Prince brought out several partial fingerprints.
These were identified as belonging to both suspects. We checked
with a landlady at the apartment. She verified the fact.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
That Money and Burton had moved into the place three
days before.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
She told us that neither man was at home in
our company. We checked the room under a pile of
dirty clothes. In one of the bureau drawers, we found
several boxes of Ammiena for the forty fives and the
thirty eight. There were also several hundred rounds of cartridges.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
For the machine gun.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Because of the physical structure of the building, it was
decided the best way to keep the place on the
surveillance would be for one team to cover the front door,
another to watch the rear entrance, and the.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Third to wait in the room itself.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Frank called the office and Sergeants Murphy, Rafferty and Benson,
along with Lieutenant Stoner, came out to help us. We
instructed the manager to stay in her room and not
let onto either of the suspects that we were in
the building. We waited six forty five pm. Should be
showing up pretty quick, huh now.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Anywhere from Georgia Street. I talked to Stoner when he
got here.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I've given Simon a couple of transfusions.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Figure they're going to be.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Able to transfer him to General the first thing in
the morning.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
You're going to make it.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Then it looks like it.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I took a thirty eight out of his left lung,
two more out of his hip. Pretty rough go, But
timing got six forty seven.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Should be here.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
But if he's going to keep that date, Now there's
another one that comes first. At seven o six pm,
there was a knock on the door. It was a signal.
Look we'd arranged. We opened it and found that Lieutenant
Stoner had come up to tell us that Gail Burton
had been taken into custody. He'd approached the apartment, and
as soon as the offices stopped him, he surrendered, offering
no resistance. Stoner wanted to tell us that he and
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Benson would take the suspect downtown for booking. Frank and
I settled back to wait for mineg alright, twy No,
I sure like a smoke?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, Why as I, Joe?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
You and I always draw the steak inside the room
where all we can do is sit.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I don't know you usually ask for it that way,
don't you.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Well, next time, I'm gonna take one of the entrances.
Sit out there in the car, smoke when you want.
He wanted some day to just run down the drug
store for a candy bar.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It's a lot better, dut to Joe. M sound like
somebody coming tonight? Eh? What's that?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Alright, MANA hold it right there, watch the joke see him.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
It's down this way, alright, I hold it.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Then he said him, no, he might have gone down
the stairs the apartment at the end of the hall.
Right all right, man, ain't come on out. So last
time around mine throw that gun out and.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You follow it.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Not coming out?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
All right, let's go in. Wait a minute. Oh noo,
I got you, quin, I want to fight.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Throw the gun out here right there, drop.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It all right here.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Oh I say, I got it.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
All right, hands behind your head, back out of the door.
Come on, turn around, keep those hands and see him.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Okay, okay, come, I don't show your name, Moore.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I won't give you no much.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I hold it right there, I don't move. Keep those
hands up, I'll shake it. Yeah, there's another one forty
five had.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
In this belt. I did give them to you. I
wasn't gonna tired.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Sure, I keep still, all right, Take your hands down
back one at a time, and I turned around.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
You gonna take me an that's right, a coppy shot.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
He didn't die.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You know, you're pretty lucky.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
And all you got me for is robbery.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That's all just robbery. That's how it looks from here.
The robbery.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Jail turn doesn't make a lot of difference, is that right?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Sure? Now, jail bill can hold.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Me, not one. I'll get out.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I'll be running again.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
You see, I wouldn't give us a bigger men, And
new said they'd come back.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yeah, show me. I sure like to meet him.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Don't worry you will.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Kenneth's Nelson Lehner was returned to the state of Oklahoma
for prosecution on a murder charge. A hold was placed
against him by the State of California in the event
he is paroled. Gail Claude Burton and Kirby Arno Monet
were tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree
six counts, violation of Section forty five seventy four PC,
bringing a firearm into a prison, violation of the machine
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gun Law, and assault with intent to commit murder. Robbery
in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment for a
period of not less than five years. Violation of Section
forty five seventy four is punishable by imprisonment for a
period of not less than one year in the state penitentiary.
Violation of the machine gun Law is punishable by a
term in the state prison not to exceed five years
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and or a fine of five thousand dollars. Assault with
intent to commit murder is punishable by imprisonment for a
period of not less than one nor more than fourteen
years in the state penitentiary.
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Speaker 1 (26:00):
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Ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear is true.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The names have been changed to protect the innocent drag men.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. Two
men are terrorizing your city. They're both armed and considered dangerous.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Your job get them.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
It was Thursday, September ninth. It was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working to night watch out of robbery detail.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss of chief of detective's
Sad Brown.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
My name's Friday.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I was on my way back from the street and
it was eleven forty two pm when I got to
the eighth fourteen club, the back room.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I hate to think, what's going to happen?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Mister Neggary here is about I'm gonna be pretty bad, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How about it?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Joe?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Do you catch your fellows yet?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, sir, descriptions out.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
Guys from the f cars are checking the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I haven't got nothing yet, though, Oh sure, not yet.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Wish I was home, sir. If I was home, I
could turn off the phone. I got one of those
attachments in the extension in the bedroom that turns it off.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Wish I was there. Now, mister nigger is really going
to be soort.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Was there anything at all about the two men that
would stand out and make a little easier.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
For us to identify him? Tell you truth?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So I see if there was, I didn't see.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It, all right.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I was scared, daring, scared, and I'm not afraid to stay.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
So, yes, sir, I can tell you again if you
want me to about the robbery, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
If you would, it might be something you didn't remember
the first time.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Okay, I guess it was about a quarter to eleven
when it came in, just a guess that. I think
it was about then, A dark one. He had the
machine gun. He kind of moved over so he had
a good look at the people sitting at the bar.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Kind of again was machine gun? I see you go ahead.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I guess he could have hit him all from where
he was held a gun kind of low, you know,
like it.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Is hip here.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What about the other one?
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
He waited with his friend, and he walked up to
the bar, stood right in the middle of the floor.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He had the automatic.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Huh, yeah, it looked like a forty five. He stood
right in the middle of the place. Just looking there
watching me.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Then? Will the fell out in front, reached over and
pulled the plug.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
In the jukebox, turned it off right in the middle
of the record, pull the plug, and that's what made
the other people turn around, turned right around and looked
at the guns. That's when the light fell. The one
with the forty five. He said, sit where you are,
This is a stick up.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Those his exact words, well there as I can remember.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Yeah, he kind of had a squeaky little voice like
it was still changing, you know, yes, but those were
the words, sit right where you are, This is a
stick up.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
All right, mister, give the money you want to go ahead?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well, the one where the funny voice told everybody to
get up and turn around, so there was facing the bar,
you know, where their back to.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
The hold up man made them all turn around. Then
he told him to start on the back of the
place and walk over to one of the tables and
dump all their money out. He said, not to forget anything,
put it all there.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Did they take anything besides money.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Not that I saw.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
There were a couple of people who had pretty good
looking watches on, but the only thing the band had
seemed to want was cat?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I see?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Then they left after they got the money.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, yeah, walked to the door and said for us
not to try and call anybody for five minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
After that they walked out.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Did you see if they had a car?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
No, sir, didn't even go near the door. We did,
like they said, five minutes and after that, I called.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You you know him again? If you saw them?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Would you you bet? I would you put me in
that crowd with them, and I'll tell you no trouble there.
I'd know him. Oh, excuse me for that?
Speaker 8 (03:26):
I had.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Eight fourteen cloud Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Oh yeah, mister Negre. Uh huh, I'll try.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, who called you?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yeah, well, there wasn't anything I could do about mister Negra, No, sir,
both of them had guns. Yeah, all right, sir, that's
the way you feel about it, All right, sir, I'm fine.
I'll be in the morning, right, fired me?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, too bad? I've I heard you say he'd be
in the morning though.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Well, I come in to pick up my money, and
I said time I get here tomorrow, I'll have another
change of heart.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So hire me back. I've been fired twelve times already, twelve.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
He always hires me back. Isn't anybody else who worked. Fore,
we got a lot of trouble keeping help, a lot
of He thinks I should have stopped the hold of
them in myself, just walked in with my bare hands
and stopped him.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Pretty silly when you think of it.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Uh, he says, they're only kidding with the guns that
they wouldn't have really shot me. Pretty silly, says he'd
have bet on it, right. Doesn't take too much to
figure that out. Yeah, either way, that I lost, wouldn't I.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
The description of the suspects, the method of operation they'd used,
everything about the robbery sounded just as.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
If it had been read for my m bulletins.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
For the past three weeks, Frank and I had been
after the two gunmen. All sources of information had been tapped,
Victims and witnesses had been questioned and requestioned. People in
the immediate vicinity had been talked. Two mugshots had been
pulled and worn out by handling.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
To date, in.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Concrete information, we had exactly what we'd started with. Two
gunmen who were moving around at will and robbing citizens
where and when they chose.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
The victims of the latest robbery were.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Shown the mug books, but they were unable to make
an identification. The canvas of the area turned up no
usable information. Frank and I worked until three forty five am,
and then we filled out the log and left the office.
The next morning we checked with Captain Donahoe and Chief Brown.
As a result of the meeting, we arrived at the
only possible solution to apprehending the suspects, leg work, and
a lot of it. We spent the rest of the
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afternoon rechecking informants.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
At nine thirty pm, we stopped for dinner and then
we went back to the office. You got the address
Sam gave you. Yeah, it's here somewhere. Yeah, here it is.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I think it's worth checking out. We've got nothing else
to do as well, so they get to the straighten up.
We can kick her right out there and see him.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, may yeah, Friday, Yeah, free? What to do?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Thanks? Three? Yeah it's Friday? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Boy?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
When was it west?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Possibly see anybody else?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
All right, we'll come right over bye Highland Park. I
just picked up a guy for four or five nine. Yeah,
matches the description of our blonde Hold up, man, I
think it'll check out.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
They shook him down when he was picked up. They
found a forty five with a full clip. It's pretty
heavy for a burglar.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You know, Scob and talk to him.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
It should be a break.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
We've been chasing luck long enough, or maybe we caught up.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Frank and I signed out of the office immediately and
we started over to Highland Park. It wasn't the first
time we'd gone out on a similar call. During the
time we'd been after the hold up man, There's been
several others.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
All of them had to be checked out.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
We never knew when an odd piece of information might
turn the lead that we've been looking for.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Just before we turned off onto.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Avenue sixty four, a call came in over the radio, argue,
stand by, you want to turn it out?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I got it.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Stand by stand by eleven K four all units on
prequency one see stand by units the vicinity of Highland
Park Area, all units the vicinity of six oh four
or five York Boulevard, Highland Park Division units eleven F two,
eleven F three, eleven F five, and eleven F seven,
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and all traffic units attention.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It's a big one.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
At ten forty seven BM this date, an armed man
enters the Highland Park Police Station and forced an officer
to release two prisoners. The man was armed with a
submachine gun believed to be a forty five caliber. Suspect
is described WMA.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
The Highland Park Police Division is a large brick building located.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
On York Boulevard. On the ground floor is.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
A booking desk and a couple of administration offices. Directly
behind the booking counter across the hall as a cell block.
Prisoners are held there pending further investigation or transfer to
the main jail. When Frank and I arrived, there were
a dozen police cars around the building. Other units were
searching the area for the escape suspects. The call had
gone out of the entire state, and members of the
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Highway Patrol and the Sheriff's Department and all other departments
were joining in the manhunt.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Frank and I.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Talked to Officer Boyd Hutchins, the policeman who had been
on duty when the escape took place.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
So he came in the side door, and first I
thought he just wanted some information, uh huh, and I
walked over to take care of him. I couldn't see
the gun. He was carrying it low, kind of hidden
by the counter.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You didn't see him come into the building anything.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
No, I was on the phone. First I knew was
when he asked me if he could see Burton, and
I told him we couldn't swing it right then said
he'd have to come back. And that's when he asked
me if there was anybody around who could okay a visit.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, I told him there was.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And said for him to come back in the morning.
That's when I showed you the gun, huh.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
And he brought it right up over the counter, set
for him not to cause any trouble and I wouldn't
get hurt, and he didn't have to tell me. Yeah,
there had been a chance for him to take on
I'd tried it. I didn't see how it had proven
anything for me to bleed.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
All over him, you know, and made me take him
back to the cell block.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
I unlocked the door and he told Burton to come out.
What about the other guy, Oh, his name is Kenneth Lechner.
He was in the same cell with Burton. The guy
with a machine gun asked if he wanted to go
for the ride, and Lector said yes, and then the
three of.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Them walked out of the building.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Didn't make any attempt to tie up in anything like that.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
No, he just said sit tight, and I wasn't about
to argue.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
What do you know about this Lecner?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Oh, he was picked up on a want from Oklahoma
with charge murder.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
We went to the city hall and we checked the
name Gail Burton threw R and I there was no
record on him in Los Angeles. We forwarded the information
on him to George Bretton up at CII and Sacramento.
The rest of the night was spent in checking out
the possible places the suspects might have been hiding.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
In the city of over two minion people, there are
a lot of places.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
While we were cambing the city, men from the Sheriff's
department were going over the county territory. We had a
vague description of the car that was used, but it
might match any one of several hundred being driven on
the streets.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Of Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Roadblocks were set up on principal routes leaving this special
details were standing by it.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
All train and bus.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Depots and the airports were covered leaves and days off
where all personnel were canceled. But the time the search.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Got out a low gear.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Over three thousand policemen were looking for the three men.
Field stations were set up in the less populated areas,
and coffee and hot soup were served to the men
participating in the search.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
The night dragged on without result.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Saturday, September eleventh, we received a report that two men
answering the descriptions of Burton and the man who had
aided in his escape, had tried to rent a boat
down in San Diego. However, when this check got it
proved to be false. Saturday afternoon, we received information from
George Breton that Burton had an arrest record in Sacramento
and that mug shots and all information were being forwarded.
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We got in touch with the authorities in the northern
city and asked them to check further on the friends
and relatives of Burton. When the mug shots arrived, they
were shown to the hold up victims.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Mister Gilmore liked, how you take a look at these pictures,
see if you're recognizing the am.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You think there might be one here.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Of the foe hold us up and we want you
to tell us.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
If you can.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
No not him? Huh? Will you remember how I told him?
Mister Negrid give me my job back.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So he did just like, oh, you.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Know, that's fine.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
As soon as he read in the papers how they
broke out of jail, he said, I was right not
to cause trouble as soon as he found out about
the jail brig.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But we're not sure they're the same man yet, mister Gilmore.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Don't know why, Sir, don't know why. I ain't sure.
Here's his picture.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
This is the man who held Jeff.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah one, I'm the same.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
How about it? Jeff's Burton.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
The other victims also identified Burton as one of the
men who had held him up. With the name of
the man, we at least had some place to start.
We put in a call to Sacramento and we talked
to the police department up there. We found that the
suspect had been arrested on charges of suspicion of burglary,
suspicion of robbery ADWN, and assault with intent to do
great bodily huh. In spite of the numerous arrests, Burton
had only served one term in the county jail. We
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got all available information on him, and the search was intensified.
We've gotten reports from informants that the three men might
try to escape across the border into Mexico. San Diego
was notified of this, and al Gabman was dispatched at
the international boundary of Tijuana to aid the Mexican police.
Two days passed without news of the suspects. Monday, September thirteenth,
Frank and I got back into the office from chasing
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down a lead that went nowhere.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Better check with a skipper.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, I'll do it right away. I got it. Robbery Friday,
be all right, I'll take it the longest in San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I might have gotten up there hello this Friday. Oh yeah,
Ddie m Yeah, well we got the adivcation from Brandon.
Now nothing yet. When was that? That could be a
given time with it? Just a minute, Frank, yeah, Seeddie
Vanderfert up there when these guys pull the first.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Job, I think it was August sixteenth, placed over on Pico.
That's the first one in yeahs ain't d.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Now the other one doesn't show up on any of
the sheets. Kenneth Lechner, No, we're expecting it from Oklahoma.
You guys will check it out for Ustanna.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
All right, let us know soon you've got something, definitely,
what do you right?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Ed, thanks for calling ye bye.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
What's he got?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I got a rumble that Burton was up there in
the first part of August.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
He said about a week he said, yeah, Ed says
he's got an informant down the film wore just he
used to run with.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Burton might give us a lead on the partner.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
How come well, according to the informant, Burton met a
guy up north.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
They got real chummy. They left time together. Come up
with a name.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, he did.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Kirby Money and OEt been in trouble a couple of times.
Petty stuff rumbles got that he was always talking about
going big, forming his own gang. Cutting into the heavy
stuff matches real good. Monet's descriptions the same as a
number two man. Pictures of Kirby Monette arrived from San Francisco,
and when they were shown to the victims of the thieves,
we had a positive identification on our second suspect. Armed
(13:57):
with this information, the job of the men in the
field was considerably ea.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Now they knew who they were looking for.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Ten forty two pm, Frank and I started downstairs for
our car.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Give me Paula. Yeah, you tell me where the office
of the chief is.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Down the hall into the right, thanks, hold out.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
What do you want to see the chief about?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
That's personal?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Maybe better tell me? Huh. If I wanted you, I'd
ask it that way. I'd get over the wall.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Better shake him down?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Right, all right, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You don't have to go through all this.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I'm not going to cause you any trouble. Your name's
Kenneth Leckner in it. That's right. You couldn't find me.
Figured i'd come to you.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Frank and I took the suspect of the squad room.
We got in touch with the chief and Detective stab Brown.
We told him what had happened, and he said he'd
come over to the office as soon as possible. We
shook Kenneth Fleckner, but we found nothing. We asked him
to tell us about the jail break.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I didn't have nothing to do with it. You got
to believe that.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
We'll let you tell us. I'm giving it to you
the way it happened. Where my name Burton, I don't know.
Last I saw him. They were out on West Pico.
You got an address, no sitting in the car. They
had a place, and they were waiting for the crowd
to clear before they took it. You know what place
it was, that's a bar, got the name. No, I
haven't got any idea. I told you I want no
part of it. That's the reason I left. You haven't
got any idea where the place is?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Or no? None? You want to take communications Frank telling
him about it. Yeah, I'll get it right away. You
guys must have every cop in the country out looking
for us. Never saw so much fuzz. You know. I
can't go that route anymore. It doesn't work out for me.
Never wasn't any good at running. Do you hear anything
at all about the plans they were making? No, not
a lot.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I don't think they trusted me very much. I was
with them, but like an in law or something, I'll
tell you something, Sergeant once.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Then these guys are roof jobs.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Both of them.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
What do you mean they lost the road all the
time talking about how they're gonna put class back in
hold up's gonna form a big gang and really jump
the cops all the time, talking like that, roof jobs.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You got any idea where we can pick them up?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It ain't nothing I'd like better than to give it
the address, but I ain't got it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
What about this car they're using, Can you give us
description of it? Yeah, it's a fifty two Nash four
doors stole them. It must be the hate where we
left Highland Park. It give us the number on the plate.
I don't think so I can't pull it up.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I don't think I've already took a good look at it.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What about this machine gun they got shells for? They're
loaded with him.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
These two guys are heavy enough to start a small
war on their own.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
When he carries a.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Chopper and a forty five in his belt, Burton's got
two forty fives and the thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
He carries a thirty eight strap to his leg.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
He's always laughing about it, says, even if he's picked up,
he's got to take it out.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Oh, these guys are real far out.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
They've been reading too many comic books all the time,
talking about Dyllinger and Floyd. Burton even took the smoking
cigars as it makes him look like.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Doc Barker, and then he can give us that'll help
us name him.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
No, nothing all right? Like me, let's go. You're taking
me to jail, that's right, now you doing me a
favorite osageant? What's that?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Give me a cell by myself. I hadn't much sleep
in the last couple of days. I'd sure like to
get something.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
That's who we can do, all right, said still a man.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
You gotta put these on again.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
That's right, all right, come on, get the word out.
Yeah a little late. What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Burton and Money have already hit the bar trol car
spotted him on the way out. You know, there's a
beef and the men in the I took Burton in
the custody, dropped him in the car and started.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
To bring him in.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Hadn't gone more in a couple of blocks from when
they drove up, rammed the police car and started shooting.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Anybody hurt.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Yeah, he took Burton away from the men in the
unit to shot one on them.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
How bad.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
He's a Georgia street receiving now. They don't expect him
to live. We had Count Leckner held for the Oklahoma authorities.
We contacted Captain Donah and told him what had happened.
He'd taken over the search for the two suspects in
the Fico area. A blockade had been set up on
all streets leading into and out of the area.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
All vehicles were being.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Stopped and searched. All pedestrians were being interrogated. Frank and
I joined in the manhunt. By six thirty the next morning, Wednesday,
September fifteenth, the area had been covered without result. However,
and checking all automobiles in the vicinity of the hold up,
we'd come across a nineteen fifty two Nash gray in color.
The left front fender was damaged and matched the description
of the suspects car very close. We put a stake
(17:53):
out on the vehicle and it was kept under walks
for the next twenty four hours. During that time, no
one approached it. We checked the license number with Auto
Theft Division and found the car to be stolen.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
It had been taken from the owner five days before,
on September tenth.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
We brought Kenneth Leckner from the main jail and he
positively identified the car as the one driven by Money
and Burton. At the end of the surveillance, the crew
from the crime lab came out and identified paint scrapings
from the Dammi's defender as having come from the police
car that had been rammed the crew from Laton.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Prince came out and went over the car while a
worked plank and I stood by. Looks like we got
to turn. It's not gonna do as much good. We
can't find the guy with a key.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
At least you'd be about finished.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Now check with him, all right, I'll walk over with you.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yes, yes, ma'am. Something to do for you.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
You know what those managing to that car?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Police business?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
You were cop?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
You tell me what's going on?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Investigation of what the car? That's right?
Speaker 9 (18:43):
What are you looking for?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Information?
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Not gonna tell me?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Huh. Gonna be a little better if we didn't, ma'am.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Okay, but he's not gonna like it, not a bit.
Who's that sows it owns the car? I'm gonna like
having all you guys room around.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You know, the man that owns the car.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Sure begin to get married.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
I know him, what's his name? Monete's kind of French
like romantic.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
How long you know him?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Not long?
Speaker 9 (19:04):
Sort of a whirl wind courtships.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
You'd say, just met each other.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And we knew you know where this money is? Now?
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Not right off?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I know where he'll be. Where's there at his place.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
I'm supposed to.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Meet him there at seven thirty tonight.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
We've got a date.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Why you want to talk to us, that's right, the
night stall.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You'll like him.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
Almost everybody does, all right. Never knew anybody met Terby
didn't want to be around him all the time. Everybody
wants to be around tirty.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
You know him.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You'll see, well, I won't be too hard a man. Huh.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
He's already convinced us. We had the girl, Drusilla Roth,
show us where the suspect was living. The results of
the investigation by latent Prince brought out several partial fingerprints.
These were identified as belonging to both suspects. We checked
with a landlady at the apartment. She verified the fact.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
That Money and Burton had moved into the place three
days before.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
She told us that neither man was at home in
our company. We checked the room under a pile of
dirty clothes. In one of the bureau drawers, we found
several boxes of Ammiena for the forty fives and the
thirty eight. There were also several hundred rounds of cartridges.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
For the machine gun.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Because of the physical structure of the building, it was
decided the best way to keep the place on the
surveillance would be for one team to cover the front door,
another to watch the rear entrance, and the.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Third to wait in the room itself.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Frank called the office and Sergeants Murphy, Rafferty and Benson,
along with Lieutenant Stoner, came out to help us. We
instructed the manager to stay in her room and not
let onto either of the suspects that we were in
the building. We waited six forty five pm. Should be
showing up pretty quick, huh now.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Anywhere from Georgia Street. I talked to Stoner when he
got here.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I've given Simon a couple of transfusions.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Figure they're going to be.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Able to transfer him to General the first thing in
the morning.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
You're going to make it.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Then it looks like it.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I took a thirty eight out of his left lung,
two more out of his hip. Pretty rough go, But
timing got six forty seven.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Should be here.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
But if he's going to keep that date, Now there's
another one that comes first. At seven o six pm,
there was a knock on the door. It was a signal.
Look we'd arranged. We opened it and found that Lieutenant
Stoner had come up to tell us that Gail Burton
had been taken into custody. He'd approached the apartment, and
as soon as the offices stopped him, he surrendered, offering
no resistance. Stoner wanted to tell us that he and
(21:16):
Benson would take the suspect downtown for booking. Frank and
I settled back to wait for mineg alright, twy No,
I sure like a smoke?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, Why as I, Joe?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
You and I always draw the steak inside the room
where all we can do is sit.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I don't know you usually ask for it that way,
don't you.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Well, next time, I'm gonna take one of the entrances.
Sit out there in the car, smoke when you want.
He wanted some day to just run down the drug
store for a candy bar.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It's a lot better, dut to Joe. M sound like
somebody coming tonight? Eh? What's that?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Alright, MANA hold it right there, watch the joke see him.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
It's down this way, alright, I hold it.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Then he said him, no, he might have gone down
the stairs the apartment at the end of the hall.
Right all right, man, ain't come on out. So last
time around mine throw that gun out and.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You follow it.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Not coming out?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
All right, let's go in. Wait a minute. Oh noo,
I got you, quin, I want to fight.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Throw the gun out here right there, drop.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It all right here.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Oh I say, I got it.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
All right, hands behind your head, back out of the door.
Come on, turn around, keep those hands and see him.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Okay, okay, come, I don't show your name, Moore.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I won't give you no much.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I hold it right there, I don't move. Keep those
hands up, I'll shake it. Yeah, there's another one forty
five had.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
In this belt. I did give them to you. I
wasn't gonna tired.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Sure, I keep still, all right, Take your hands down
back one at a time, and I turned around.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
You gonna take me an that's right, a coppy shot.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
He didn't die.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You know, you're pretty lucky.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
And all you got me for is robbery.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That's all just robbery. That's how it looks from here.
The robbery.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Jail turn doesn't make a lot of difference, is that right?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Sure? Now, jail bill can hold.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Me, not one. I'll get out.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I'll be running again.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
You see, I wouldn't give us a bigger men, And
new said they'd come back.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yeah, show me. I sure like to meet him.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Don't worry you will.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Kenneth's Nelson Lehner was returned to the state of Oklahoma
for prosecution on a murder charge. A hold was placed
against him by the State of California in the event
he is paroled. Gail Claude Burton and Kirby Arno Monet
were tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree
six counts, violation of Section forty five seventy four PC,
bringing a firearm into a prison, violation of the machine
(24:01):
gun Law, and assault with intent to commit murder. Robbery
in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment for a
period of not less than five years. Violation of Section
forty five seventy four is punishable by imprisonment for a
period of not less than one year in the state penitentiary.
Violation of the machine gun Law is punishable by a
term in the state prison not to exceed five years
(24:22):
and or a fine of five thousand dollars. Assault with
intent to commit murder is punishable by imprisonment for a
period of not less than one nor more than fourteen
years in the state penitentiary.
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