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Brown Maloney. 03:35.340 --> 03:37.440 He knows a lot of cops. 03:37.440 --> 03:38.440 You know him? 03:38.440 --> 03:44.440 this afternoon. Could you tell us what happened after you left work? Well, I started to drive 03:44.440 --> 03:51.960 home out Central Avenue. I guess it must have been around 18th Street. Would you push that 03:51.960 --> 03:59.320 pill up a little bit? Yes, sir. I'll get it here. How's that? Thanks. I pulled up for the arterial. I 03:59.320 --> 04:03.720 saw this gal standing on the corner. She was hitchhiking. Do you remember what she looked like, 04:03.720 --> 04:13.160 how she was dressed? Well, you know, kind of flashy but nice clothes. Good-looking dame, tall, long, 04:13.160 --> 04:19.720 blonde hair, beautiful eyes. You're sure about the color of her hair? Yeah, it was blonde. And you offered 04:19.720 --> 04:27.320 her a ride? I didn't think there was anything wrong in it. I'm a married man, you know. I didn't think 04:27.320 --> 04:34.760 there was anything wrong. What happened then? Well, she got in the car and we drove off. We talked a 04:34.760 --> 04:40.440 while and she pulled a gun on me. Told me to drive up an alley. Where was that? Do you remember? 04:41.080 --> 04:51.560 Around 32nd Street, 32nd and Central. And then what? She took my wallet, watch, car keys, everything I had. 04:51.560 --> 05:00.040 And she made me get out of the car, lay down on the street. I felt her shove that gun again. 05:01.080 --> 05:07.880 Can you fix that pill? Yeah, you bet. Just lie still. There you are. I felt her shove that gun again, 05:07.880 --> 05:13.800 see, and then she pulled the trigger, I guess. That's all I remember. You know what we call her slugging you? 05:13.800 --> 05:22.840 Must have happened after she shot me. Her face looks pretty bad, huh? You'll be all right, Mr. Maloney. 05:22.840 --> 05:28.120 You think you would recognize the girl if you saw her again? I sure would. Nice looking, you know. 05:29.240 --> 05:37.720 Tall, blonde, beautiful shape. Doesn't figure, does it? What's that? She's made more money on the stage 05:37.720 --> 05:43.880 than she would row in guys like me. Must be crazy. Maybe. Would you look at these mug shots, Mr. Maloney, 05:43.880 --> 05:52.840 and see if any of these look like her? Let's see. Yeah. This one? No. 05:56.120 --> 06:04.120 What about this one here? No, let's see. No. All right. How about this one? 06:04.120 --> 06:08.280 No, she was better looking. Here's the last one. 06:10.440 --> 06:17.400 I don't know. This might be her. The hair was fixed right. Maybe a little more makeup. 06:18.440 --> 06:22.840 I'm not sure. All right, Mr. Maloney. Thank you. We'll be back to seeing the deer or so when you're 06:22.840 --> 06:29.320 feeling better. Okay. Say, my name won't be in the papers, will it? No, sir. Not unless you give it to 06:29.320 --> 06:35.160 him. I was just wondering. A wife might not understand giving a girl a ride, you know. Yes, sir. 06:35.160 --> 06:40.120 We know. Well, thank you, Mr. Maloney. We'll be checking back with you later on. Okay, officers. I 06:40.120 --> 06:49.000 hope you get a line on that dame. We're gonna try. Goodbye. Sure messed up, didn't you? Yeah. That dame's 06:49.000 --> 06:56.440 got some other motive besides money. Psycho. Some kind of a sadist, maybe. Yeah. Find out what you 06:56.440 --> 07:00.840 wanted, Sergeant. Yes, we did. Thanks, nurse. What did the doctor say about Maloney? Is he gonna be 07:00.840 --> 07:04.760 all right? Well, he had a severe beating, but he'll get over that all right. It's the bullet wound in 07:04.760 --> 07:08.840 the back. He'll recover, won't he? The bullet shattered part of the spinal cord. There was nothing 07:08.840 --> 07:18.120 the doctor could do. Yeah? Paraplegia. He'll never walk again. We left the county hospital, went back 07:18.120 --> 07:22.440 to the office and got out a local broadcast for the woman whose mugshot Maloney had partially 07:22.440 --> 07:28.680 identified. Her name was Beverly Allen. She had a record of three arrests and one conviction of 240 07:28.680 --> 07:34.840 PC assault and battery. After we checked in the office, we went across the street to the crime lab. 07:34.840 --> 07:39.400 Lee Jones had already examined the bullet taken from Maloney's spine and the cartridge casing found 07:39.400 --> 07:43.800 at the scene of the shooting. Both of them bore the same markings as those which had wounded the 07:43.800 --> 07:49.560 two previous victims. From the striations, the gun had been previously identified as a.45 Colt. 07:49.560 --> 07:54.360 Maloney's car was examined. We found nothing. We went back to the city hall and checked in at the 07:54.360 --> 07:57.160 stats office. It was 8.35 p.m. 08:06.840 --> 08:10.840 Hi, Ethel. Make that run for us here. Just a minute, Sergeant. 08:10.840 --> 08:20.200 I'll be right back. Hi, how are you coming, Ethel? I'm here. Same old run. I've been back seven years on this one. 08:20.200 --> 08:23.560 Yeah, that's right. Did you get any more names? A few. Let me check the list for you. All right. 08:24.280 --> 08:31.080 You have the names and D.R. numbers on Caucasian women. Five feet to five feet eight, 115 to 130 08:31.080 --> 08:37.800 pounds, 20 to 30 years, blonde or brunette assault and battery. M.O. Hitchhikes rides and robs drivers, 08:37.800 --> 08:43.080 uses his gun. Yeah, that's it. Here's what the machine turned out. 19 of them. Good. Here are the names. 08:43.800 --> 08:48.840 The D.R. numbers opposite each one. Fine. Any new names? More than the last time. Anything else for 08:48.840 --> 09:01.960 the night? No, that's it for now. Thanks a lot, Ethel. Let's go. Bad start. How's that? 17 of these names we 09:01.960 --> 09:07.480 checked and cleared already. And the other two? One's Catherine Collins. The other one's Beverly Allen. 09:07.480 --> 09:11.960 She might tie in. We've got nothing else to go on. You want to get to the record bureau and pull the 09:11.960 --> 09:15.800 packages on these two names? Yeah, okay. I'll check robbery and see if we have any calls. All right, Joe. 09:21.160 --> 09:27.640 Hi, Captain. Any calls for us? Just one fat brown wants to see you. Oh, bad mood? Kind of. 09:28.600 --> 09:30.360 Wants me too. Let's go. 09:30.360 --> 09:34.360 Did that fellow Maloney tell you anything? Nothing that helped much. Same old story. 09:35.080 --> 09:39.640 No reports on that broadcast we put out for that Beverly Allen? Not yet. No. Are you banking on it? 09:39.640 --> 09:44.280 It's first lead in 16 nights. Here we are. 09:48.280 --> 09:55.160 Walker, Friday. Come in. How are you, boss? Sit down. I'll take you to the office. 09:55.160 --> 10:01.320 Woman bandit gets 16th victim. Beautiful holdup queen, Rob's, Schuetz, resident worker. Yeah. 10:01.320 --> 10:07.960 It's on the editorial page too. Something else. Melville from the chief. Here, letter from the 10:07.960 --> 10:13.080 downtown citizens committee. Another one, the civic club. They all want answers. Men are doing all they 10:13.080 --> 10:19.000 can, chief. We got two other teams besides Friday and Romero. We've got a lot of people. 10:19.000 --> 10:25.880 Another one, the civic club. They all want answers. Men are doing all they can, chief. We got two other teams besides Friday and Romero working the case. 10:25.880 --> 10:30.360 Special squad from metropolitan division. They're on it too. I don't care what we've done. We got to do more. 10:30.360 --> 10:35.480 16 nights, 16 robberies, and three shootings. Three victims still in the hospital. When did we blow the whistle on her? 10:35.480 --> 10:39.720 Checked out every possible lead, chief. We got a want out on one suspect. We're checking out another one. 10:40.360 --> 10:43.480 Talked to that man Maloney, the one she got last night. What did he tell you? 10:43.480 --> 10:48.680 Well, not much more than the other 15 that she took. Descriptions still don't match in one respect. 10:48.680 --> 10:49.720 Well, how do you mean? 10:49.720 --> 10:56.360 Well, in 10 of the 16 cases we've had reported, the victims tagged the girl hitchhiker as a blonde, long hair. 10:57.080 --> 11:03.000 Four of them say she was a brunette with a short hairdo. Two of them tell us the girl had red hair, long. 11:03.000 --> 11:08.120 She's using wigs. That's what we figured. Checked every place in town where she could have rented or bought them. No leads. 11:08.120 --> 11:11.000 What about some of the bigger supply houses out of town? 11:11.000 --> 11:13.720 We've started in checking them. It'll take a little time. 11:13.720 --> 11:15.640 And you've got practically nothing on the woman? 11:15.640 --> 11:20.200 Same gun,.45 Colt. Lee Jones examined the bullet they took out of Maloney's spine. 11:21.240 --> 11:21.880 How's he doing? 11:22.840 --> 11:26.600 Not good. Bullet smashed his spinal cord. His legs are paralyzed. 11:26.600 --> 11:27.480 When do we stop her? 11:27.480 --> 11:28.520 Yeah? 11:28.520 --> 11:31.160 Uh, Romero? 11:31.160 --> 11:32.360 Hi, chief. Captain. 11:32.360 --> 11:33.400 What have you got? 11:33.400 --> 11:37.560 Both the packages on two possibles and this woman hold up thing. It's no good, Joe. 11:38.120 --> 11:40.040 Why not? What about that Alan, Dean? 11:40.040 --> 11:43.400 Jail in Kansas City? I called him. Been in for a month. 11:43.400 --> 11:44.360 And the other one? 11:44.360 --> 11:50.440 Catherine Collins. I checked Seattle. Been in the hospital up there for the past three months in TB ward. 11:50.440 --> 11:55.160 Where does that leave you, Friday? Right back where we started. No leads and no suspects. 11:55.160 --> 11:59.240 All right, Walker. Starting tonight, we cover every street and alley in the central area until we get that woman. 11:59.240 --> 12:01.960 We'll order up more men and more detectives from the Metropolitan Division. 12:01.960 --> 12:02.840 Right, chief. 12:02.840 --> 12:08.040 Get out more decoy cars. Have the area covered from sundown till sunrise until further notice. Get that woman. 12:08.040 --> 12:10.200 Right. Come on, Joe. Yeah. 12:12.680 --> 12:13.720 Hot shot. I get it. 12:15.160 --> 12:20.280 A two-eleven shooting at Gatewood and Cameron. A two-eleven shooting at Gatewood and Cameron. 12:20.280 --> 12:20.840 Let's go. 12:24.120 --> 12:28.680 The name on his driver's license said William Gillespie. We found him 50 feet from the corner 12:28.680 --> 12:33.720 of Gatewood Alley and Cameron Street. His face and head bore the marks of a vicious beating. 12:33.720 --> 12:38.040 There was a single bullet wound in his left shoulder. It was conscious when we arrived. 12:38.040 --> 12:42.680 Chief of Detectives Brown, Captain Walker, and Ben checked the area for physical evidence. 12:42.680 --> 12:47.400 I spoke briefly with the victim before he was placed on a stretcher and carried to the ambulance 12:47.400 --> 12:51.480 on the way he lapsed into unconsciousness. I went over to where Ben was standing with 12:51.480 --> 12:57.480 Chief Brown and Captain Walker. Take a look, Joe. Captain found over there near the lamp post. 12:57.480 --> 13:01.240 Yeah. 45 shell casings, same as the others. How's Gillespie, Friday? 13:01.240 --> 13:04.120 Doc says he'll be all right. Badly beaten. 13:04.120 --> 13:06.520 Tough day. She really works him over. 13:06.520 --> 13:09.080 Wonder what makes a woman do things like this. 13:09.080 --> 13:10.200 What makes a man do it. 13:13.160 --> 13:16.120 William Gillespie was taken to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. 13:16.760 --> 13:21.480 The shell casing, which we had found at the scene, was taken to Lee Jones at the crime lab for 13:21.480 --> 13:26.520 examination. It compared with the others. Jones confirmed that the markings on the bullet, 13:26.520 --> 13:31.720 which had wounded Gillespie, matched those on the bullet, which had been taken from Maloney's back. 13:31.720 --> 13:37.160 Both bullets had been fired from the same gun. The dragnet operation for the woman bandit went on. 13:37.800 --> 13:43.240 The men in the special detail covered every street and alley in the central area from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. 13:43.240 --> 13:48.600 the following morning. During the next five days, 11 suspects were picked up and brought in for 13:48.600 --> 13:52.200 questioning and released after the victims failed to identify any of them. 13:52.200 --> 13:58.360 Well, at least we got her stopped temporarily. She hasn't pulled a caper for almost a week. 13:58.360 --> 14:00.280 Yeah, that doesn't bring us any closer to her. 14:02.680 --> 14:08.040 I don't know about you, but it's got me beat. 17 jobs and she's as free today as she was before she 14:08.040 --> 14:13.640 started. Joe, Ben, what'd you find? Nothing. The last four women we questioned were clear. 14:13.640 --> 14:15.880 What about the other men on the case, Ed? Did they get anything? 14:15.880 --> 14:18.920 Axter and Olson are down at the record bureau being in a minute. 14:18.920 --> 14:22.360 They've been out talking to some of the victims again. Tough one. 14:23.400 --> 14:27.080 What are we thinking? How about a composite picture? We got enough to work with. 14:27.080 --> 14:30.280 Artists in the crime lab's working up a couple of sketches now. 14:30.280 --> 14:33.560 A lot of guesswork. What about the descriptions of the clothes the girl wears? 14:33.560 --> 14:37.720 Anything there we could start on? No, other than the fact that she wears flashy clothes. 14:38.840 --> 14:41.960 Hi, Olson. Hi. Any luck? Not much. 14:42.840 --> 14:45.800 None of the victims have a very good idea what the dame looked like. 14:45.800 --> 14:49.720 It's all good looking, nice figure, that's all. Nothing out of the ordinary, huh? 14:49.720 --> 14:53.160 Well, I'll tell them the same thing. Kind of an unusual voice, soft, low. 14:53.160 --> 14:56.520 That's about all they can remember. Not much here. She's been describing three 14:56.520 --> 14:59.400 different outfits, is that right? Yeah, green dress with a pink coat, 14:59.400 --> 15:03.800 white dress, dark blue jacket, bright red sweater and a brown skirt. Always carries a dark brown 15:03.800 --> 15:08.200 alligator handbag, shoes to match, no hat. Not much of a wardrobe, is it? 15:08.200 --> 15:11.160 Maybe that's why she took up robbery. Now look, let's get on this thing. We've been 15:11.160 --> 15:14.600 chasing this woman for almost a month now and she's still got the run of the town. How long's it 15:14.600 --> 15:18.840 going to take us? If we only had a lead that was worse, I'll find it. It's there someplace. 15:18.840 --> 15:22.040 I've never reached a thief yet without digging for him. Now I'll get it. 15:24.200 --> 15:27.560 Robbery, Olson. Yeah, right, Andy, I'll tell him. 15:28.680 --> 15:33.240 Anderson and Bergler, Joe, wants to see you and Ben. Thanks, Captain. That's all. Come on, Ben. 15:33.240 --> 15:42.920 Yeah. I'd like a day off, wouldn't you? We'll get one when we get this day. Right, Ed. 15:45.960 --> 15:50.520 This thing isn't doing much for the skipper. It's not doing much for our time off either, is it? 15:50.520 --> 15:57.400 That fire department's got the racket 24 hours on, 24-0. Sometimes they get three days off in a row. 15:57.400 --> 16:05.080 That's what you keep telling me. Here we are. Joe, Ben, Andy, what do you got? Checking back on a 16:05.080 --> 16:09.240 job out in Hollywood. Heard you were having troubles, came across this thing, thought I might help you out. 16:09.240 --> 16:13.640 What's that, Ed? One of the picture studios had a burglar about a month ago. Thief got in the 16:13.640 --> 16:20.280 wardrobe department, then next door in a makeup. Yeah, let's see. Here's some of the stuff taken, 16:20.280 --> 16:29.240 dress, coat. Oh, here you can read it. Okay, thanks. Red sweater, brown skirt. I look down here, Joe. 16:29.240 --> 16:35.160 Where? Right here. Oh, yeah. Took two makeup kits and four wigs. Two blondes, one redhead, 16:35.160 --> 16:40.920 one brunette. That's it. Any leads on this job? Not so far, no. 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So for a much different, much better flavor and aroma, smoke Fatima. 17:44.040 --> 17:48.840 One of the most popular misconceptions of the working detective is offered by the fiction writers 17:48.840 --> 17:54.040 is the picture of a man with amazing talents for detecting evidence, analyzing human behavior and 17:54.040 --> 17:59.320 motives, and then almost as if by magic, fitting all the pieces together to form the solution of 17:59.320 --> 18:05.000 the crime. The real life picture is a little different. The working detective has a job. 18:05.000 --> 18:11.080 In a sense, it's a practical and down to earth job as baking bread and practicing law. It's his job 18:11.080 --> 18:15.960 to protect citizens and apprehend criminals, and it's a job he doesn't do alone. To assist him in 18:15.960 --> 18:20.680 collecting and analyzing evidence, he has the aid of the crime laboratory. To help him identify 18:20.680 --> 18:25.160 oddities and suspects or possible suspects, he has the record bureau, latent fingerprints, 18:25.160 --> 18:29.560 the statistician's office, the ballistics department, a battery of men and machines to aid him in 18:29.560 --> 18:37.000 reaching conclusions based on fact. Tuesday, October 9th, 9 p.m. For the past eight hours, 18:37.000 --> 18:42.120 Thaxter and Olsen from robbery and Ben and I had been requesting all of the 16 victims of the woman 18:42.120 --> 18:48.120 bandit. We asked them one question. Could their assailant possibly have been a man dressed as a 18:48.120 --> 18:54.680 woman? The majority didn't think so. Those that did weren't very sure. We followed the lead through 18:54.680 --> 18:58.440 at 9 25 p.m. We checked in and headed down the hall for the stats office. 19:00.520 --> 19:05.000 Do you think it was a man dressed as a woman? I don't know. One male footprint, 19:05.000 --> 19:12.360 pretty slim arms. Maybe the machines here can tell us. Hello Sergeant. Back again Ethel. Can you 19:12.360 --> 19:19.000 make a run for us tonight? 9 25, sure I can. So here's a dope right here. I'm gonna try another 19:19.000 --> 19:29.800 angle. Yeah. Male precisions about 5 feet 8 or 9, 130 to 135 pounds, feminine features, size 9 shoe, 19:29.800 --> 19:37.240 impersonating women robbery and assault. That's it? Mhm. Arm 45 automatic, MO hitchhikes, rides, 19:37.240 --> 19:42.600 and robs drivers. How soon you think you can have it for us? Well, make the run on the collator, 19:42.600 --> 19:47.720 have to punch up the master first with all this information and let the machine work the cards. 19:47.720 --> 19:52.360 I don't think I'll have it for you much before 11 then, all right? Fine, we'll check back a little 19:52.360 --> 20:00.040 before 11 then, huh? We'll be ready. Good. Come on, Ben. Did you call your wife after dinner? Yeah. Wish 20:00.040 --> 20:04.600 I hadn't. She's mad as a horny. What's the matter? Kid's having a birthday party tomorrow and I forgot 20:04.600 --> 20:10.120 to order the cake. What's she gonna do for the party? Bake one? She have to. Then she pulled this gun on 20:10.120 --> 20:14.760 me and told me to stop the car. Well, I'm telling you, Captain, I just grabbed that gun and slapped 20:14.760 --> 20:18.440 that kid just as hard as I could. Hold it just a minute, will you please, Collins? This man's name is 20:18.440 --> 20:22.280 Amel Collins. Mr. Collins is Sergeant Friday, Sergeant Romero. How are you? How do you do? 20:22.280 --> 20:27.000 How are you? I was just telling the captain here, I'm down here on a vacation. I'm from Sacramento, 20:27.000 --> 20:32.680 South Sacramento. I was driving down your Figueroa Street about half an hour ago and picked up this 20:32.680 --> 20:36.360 girl hitching a ride and she tried to rob me. Collins took the gun away from her, subdued the 20:36.360 --> 20:40.360 girl and brought her in. Where is she now? Interrogation room. Faxed her and Olsen her with her. 20:40.360 --> 20:45.400 The description match? Not too close. Sounds like you didn't have too much trouble with her, Mr. Collins. 20:46.040 --> 20:51.080 Well, now that I come to think of it, maybe I didn't. When she pointed that gun, I just grabbed for it 20:51.080 --> 20:56.360 and slapped her as hard as I could. Sure took the starch out of her. Who is the girl? Any identification? 20:56.360 --> 21:00.600 None. Faxed her and Olsen haven't been able to get anything out of her. You want to try? Sure. What do 21:00.600 --> 21:06.200 you think, Skipper? You tell me. See if you can make her talk. I'll have a stenographer take Mr. Collins 21:06.200 --> 21:12.200 report. Okay. Glad to meet you, Mr. Collins. It's a pleasure. I'm only down here for a vacation, 21:12.200 --> 21:14.680 but if you need me, just call. You bet we will. Thanks. 21:18.040 --> 21:21.000 How do you figure that one? I don't know. Let's see what the girl has to say. 21:22.840 --> 21:27.400 Olsen? Joe, I want to talk to you before you go in. Sure. Did you find and get her to talk? 21:27.400 --> 21:32.280 Faxed her, did. Pretty sure she's not the one we're after. What's her story? Said she read about this 21:32.280 --> 21:36.840 woman bandit in the paper, decided to try her hand at it, needed money. Yeah. Claims her husband 21:36.840 --> 21:41.560 left her. She's pregnant, needs the dough for a hospital. She live here? Up the coast, Monterey. 21:41.560 --> 21:46.760 Got in town four days ago, staying at the YWCA. We checked there. She's not lying. You called Monterey? 21:46.760 --> 21:51.960 Yeah, they confirmed it. She left there last Wednesday night. She's not the one. Where do we go from 21:51.960 --> 21:56.600 here? You'll take care of having her booked, huh, Olsen? Yeah, as soon as we get a statement. Okay, fine. 21:56.600 --> 22:00.120 Friday band this way. Hustle it. You too, Olsen. What do you got, Ed? 22:00.120 --> 22:05.480 Fourth and Lucas, 211 shooting. Let's go. Any detail? Yeah. A tall blonde with a gun. Come on. 22:08.280 --> 22:13.800 The woman bandit's 18th victim was a truck driver. His name, Harry Reese. His story differed a little 22:13.800 --> 22:18.520 from that of the first victim. The woman was hitchhiking near Alvarado and Third Street. He 22:18.520 --> 22:23.240 gave her a ride. She robbed him at gunpoint, slugged him, and then shot him through the left shoulder. 22:23.800 --> 22:29.320 He described her as tall, blonde, attractive, and well dressed. I guess I should have known better. 22:29.320 --> 22:33.240 I remember reading about the dam in the papers. You're sure that the person who held you up was a 22:33.240 --> 22:38.680 woman? Hmm? I don't get you. What he means is you don't think it could have been a man dressed like a 22:38.680 --> 22:44.680 woman. Oh, no. I'm sure of that. No guy ever looked that good to me. All right, Mr. Reese. We'll check 22:44.680 --> 22:53.240 with you later at the hospital. Okay. We keeping that truck, Fred? Yeah. Olsen's got a couple of men 22:53.240 --> 22:58.280 watching it. He's going over it. Same old story. Just another version. Don't you think she's spreading 22:58.280 --> 23:03.160 it pretty thin? Her luck can't last forever. It's got me beat how she always manages to disappear 23:03.160 --> 23:08.760 without a trace. Now, Ben, this way. Over here. Yeah, okay. What do you got? Better hustle it. Four 23:08.760 --> 23:16.680 blocks down on Colfax. A shooting. Just came in on the car radio. Let's go. Slide over, Jim. Yeah. 23:18.360 --> 23:25.720 Hit the signs, Ben. The crowd watching. All right, Skipper. Is that all that came over, Ben? A shooting? 23:25.720 --> 23:29.800 All they said. See the cab driver. An ambulance shooting. He's working real fast. What's the 23:29.800 --> 23:32.520 address for now? 3rd and East Flower Hotel. Hold on. 23:35.880 --> 23:38.920 This is it coming up. Should be to the right here. Yeah, take a right. 23:42.520 --> 23:47.160 That must be it up ahead. I can't see. What's that sign say? Edgemarr Hotel for young women. 23:47.160 --> 23:57.400 Here's a cab driver. Right over here. Looks like blood stains to me here all over the sidewalk. 23:57.400 --> 24:00.760 Yeah, I guess it couldn't have happened any more than five or 10 minutes ago. I had this 24:00.760 --> 24:05.640 faece. He picked her up at 4th and Bixel and I drove her here. She paid the fare and got out. 24:05.640 --> 24:10.600 Yeah, go on. I was about halfway down the block when I heard a shot. At least it sounded like one. 24:10.600 --> 24:15.000 When I looked back, this dame was down on one knee near the door to the hotel here and by the time I 24:15.000 --> 24:19.560 backed up, she was gone. And you noticed the blood, huh? That's right. Yeah, I figured I better call 24:19.560 --> 24:24.200 somebody. Can you tell us what the girl looked like? Not bad at all. Blonde, tall, pretty girl, 24:24.200 --> 24:28.200 nervous. But you didn't see where she went. No, but I didn't. I'll get the driver's name and address. 24:28.200 --> 24:31.960 Joe, you and Ben, see if you can follow that trail. Stuff's all over the place. Right. 24:33.560 --> 24:40.840 Over this way, Ben. Yeah. It's not hard to follow. Down this alley between the buildings. 24:40.840 --> 24:48.840 How does this figure? Let's find out. Here we go. All the way back here. You got your flashlight? 24:48.840 --> 24:56.360 Yeah. Here it is. Yeah, this way. Come on. This must be the rear of the hotel. 24:56.360 --> 25:01.480 Look, the stains lead over this way to the back door here. Let me try. 25:05.160 --> 25:06.680 Okay, inside. 25:06.680 --> 25:14.920 Still follow it? Yeah. Careful. Up these stairs. Yeah. 25:19.960 --> 25:25.000 Second floor. What's the matter? Did you lose them? No, just a minute. 25:27.560 --> 25:33.480 See anything? Yeah. Stains lead on up the stairs here. Let's go. 25:33.480 --> 25:38.680 I just happened to think this is a woman's hotel. Then they ought to keep the back door closed. 25:38.680 --> 25:47.240 Come on. Third floor. Let's hold it. What is it? I thought I saw a door open down the hall. 25:48.440 --> 25:54.760 See anybody? No, let's go this way. 25:54.760 --> 26:02.440 It's an easy trail to follow. This is it. They stop here at this door. That doesn't sound like a woman. 26:02.440 --> 26:08.760 Yeah. You ready? Try the door first. Easy. It's locked. All right. Come on together now. Let's hit it. 26:10.760 --> 26:19.240 Watch your jaw. All right, you. I got the gun. Yeah. Oh, we found what we came for. Look. 26:19.240 --> 26:26.040 Still got the clothes on. Blonde wig, makeup, everything. Please help me. My leg. Call an ambulance. 26:26.040 --> 26:32.840 It's on the way. Take it easy. Have a look, Joe. 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