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It was Saturday, August 9th. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out

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of robbery detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Ed Walker, captain of robbery.

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My name's Friday. It was 1014 a.m. when I got to room 27A, robbery detail.

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Hi. Hi. What's up, Jim? I went. How is he? Well, no, for a while. What did the vet say?

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Thinks the dog picked up some kind of poison food. Oh, that's too bad. Sure hot.

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You got a penny? Yeah. Yeah, there you are. Thank you.

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Somebody poisoned, huh? Yeah. That's what the vet says. I never could figure why some people

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poison dogs. I don't understand some people not liking animals, but I can't see why they

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poison food and then just toss it around, wholesale loss. You know how I feel about that dog of

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mine. If anything happens to him, I don't know what he'll do. He'll be all right. Those vets

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can do wonders these days. I sure hope so. They told me to check back with them about

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noon. I'm about to melt in this heat. Yeah, doesn't seem to be any air at all. Well, it's

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more Sunday. Guess I'll just lie out in the backyard. It's gonna be good to just loaf

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around and read the Sunday papers, huh? It's a hot shot. I'll take it. My wife wants me

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to get out and get a little color. She says I'm better looking with a tan. She ought to

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know. All right. Will you get married, Joe? After so long, you get so as you believe everything

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they tell you. There's one roll on. Yeah. Robber in shooting. Victim's car was stolen. You want

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to get on it? All right. Let's go, Joe. Bank job. Don't make any plans for Sunday.

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10 53 a.m. Ben and I pulled up in front of the Union Trust and Savings Bank at Melrose

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and Logan. We made our way through the usual crowd that was milling in and around the bank.

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We spoke with a manager, a Mr. Bill Four. He told us that he didn't see the actual robbery.

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The victim was taken in the parking lot next to the bank. Her name was Myrtle Shaw, a longtime

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customer of the Union Trust and Savings. Four told us that she always did her banking at

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the same time each day around 10 in the morning when the bank first opened. He said she was

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the proprietor of Myrtle's Cafe four doors west of the bank. Let us through, please.

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Sorry. Let us through here. Officer, over here. Yes, sir. Friday and Romero Central Robbery.

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Did you answer the call? Yes, we did. Freeman and Welsh unit 13R. Ambulance just left. They

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can bring one to go to Georgia Street. Said she wanted her own doctor. OK. Is she inside

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the cafe? Yeah. Let's go in, Ben. Are you Freeman? No, I'm Welsh. Freeman's inside.

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See if you can clear this crowd a little, will you, Welsh? Right. Thank you. All right.

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We've seen everything now. Now let's move along. Come on.

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There she is, over in the last booth. Freeman? Yes, sir. Friday and Romero Central Robbery.

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Is this the victim? Yes, that's right. Her name's Myrtle Shaw. Michelle? Yes, sir.

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Yes, that's right. My name is Romero. This is Sergeant Friday. We're from Robbery Division

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downtown. You men detectives? Yes, ma'am. We'd like to ask you a few questions. Yes,

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all right. I hope you can catch the men that did this. We're going to do all we can. It's

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a little hard for me to talk. My face is swollen. It hurts. Something terrible. What happened?

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One of them struck me. Yes, ma'am. We know that. Do you want to tell us how it happened?

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And I was on my way to the bank. I drove in the parking lot there next door. Yeah. I just

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got out of my car when these men walked over to me. You're only four doors from the bank.

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Do you always drive such a short distance? No, no. I just picked up my car from Edgar's

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fell-in station. I haven't greased once a month. I see. Where was I? You just driven into the

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parking lot when these men walked up to you. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Well, one of them said, just

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hand over the money and there won't be any trouble. The other one said, this is a gun

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in my pocket, Grandma. Yeah. My head's splitting. Did someone call Dr. Van Hale? Yes, ma'am.

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He's on his way. Oh, thank you. Well, I carry my days receipts in a cloth bank bag. I had

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it in my purse and I wasn't sure if they knew I had any money. Yeah. I told them I didn't

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have any. I was going in to draw some out and one of the men said, look, old timer, we don't

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want to get rough. Just hand it over. We know you got it. What'd you do? Well, I turned

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around and started to walk away and I saw this one man's arm flash out of his pocket and

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then something hard like a rock struck me on the side of the face. That dislugs you with

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his gun. Oh, yes. It couldn't have been his hand. I don't think he could have cut my face

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like this with his hand. You should have let them take you to the emergency hospital. No.

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No, I don't want to go in any ambulance. I want my own doctor. He don't know what to

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do. Ambulance crew gave her first aid. She wouldn't let him take her. Mm-hmm. Thanks.

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Miss Shaw, would you know the men if you ever saw them again? Well, I think so, yes. One

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of them looked like the worst kind of a hoodlum. And they got your money, huh? Oh, yes. They

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tell me they got away with my car, too. How much money did you lose? $116.23. Do you own

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this cafe? Yes, I do. It's a small place, as you can see. I do all the cooking and serving

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up to 11.30 in the morning. Then I have a college girl that waits on tables in the afternoon

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and evening. Do you think those men have ever been in here in the cafe? No. Have you ever

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seen either of them before? No. No, I never laid eyes on them before today. How about

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the girl who works for you? Think she's ever seen them before? I don't know. You can ask

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her. She should be here soon. What time is it now? Mm-hmm. 11.20. Yes, she'll be along

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any minute. Oh, I wish there was something to stop this aching. I know you must have

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a lot of pain, Miss Shaw, but we've got to ask a few more questions so we can get right

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on this. Yeah, I understand. I'll tell you all I can. Ben, do you want to get the dope

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on the stolen car and a description of the man I'll call the office? Right. Say his name.

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Is there a pay phone I can use here, Miss Shaw? Yes. Right over there behind the fountain.

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Thank you. Do you need change? Yes, ma'am. I'm afraid I do. Well, just help yourself

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and the cash register there. Thank you. I put in a dime taking out two nickels. Oh, well,

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now that wasn't necessary, young man. You didn't have to tell me. Well, I know, but

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we don't like to open other people's cash registers. You're a police officer, aren't

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you? Yes, ma'am. I trust you. That seems to be the reason a lot of people don't. I called

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the office and as fast as Ben repeated the information, I phoned it in. The detailed

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information was broadcast to all units. The stolen car was a 1946 green Ford sedan, license

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number one X-ray one eight nine eight. All units were instructed to be on the lookout

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for the car and have found abandoned to notify robbery detail immediately and keep the car

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under surveillance until we arrive. I called in a description of the suspects and the fact

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that the money was taken in a cloth bag stamped Union Trust and Savings. Myrtle Shaw's doctor

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arrived and she was ordered to bed for rest and treatment. Ben and I interrogated all

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the possible witnesses in the parking lot. We found only one man who saw the actual robbery.

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His story compared to that of Miss Shaw's, but he could add nothing more. We talked with

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a young college student who worked in the restaurant. She didn't think she'd ever seen

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the men in question. We drove back to the city hall and went to the stats office. They

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made a run for us on the descriptions and MO that we had and we pulled the packages

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of all possible suspects that the machine sorted out. We narrowed and sifted the 24

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possibles down to 12. We took the mug shots out and showed them to the victim and the

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one witness. They could not identify any of them as the two men in the hold up. Two thirty

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five p.m. Saturday. We started to canvas the neighborhood door to door.

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I'm taking care of Logan Street for one block, both sides. Want to start you on Melrose?

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Okay. Let's try this drug store. I'm on fire. The paper says it's supposed to hit 99 today.

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I believe it. Come on. Yes, sir? Police officers. We're looking for a couple of men. Here's

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the descriptions. I wonder if you'd read this and tell us if you've ever seen them. Yes,

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sir. We ain't got time to have a coke. No, we better not. It's getting late. No, I'm

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afraid I've never seen anybody who answers either one of these descriptions. You sure?

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Yeah, quite sure. Thank you. I have to have that bag. Oh. Let's go. Is it just my imagination

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or does it seem to be getting hotter to you? Talking about it doesn't help. I'm trying ignoring

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it. That don't help me either. Let's try this bakery. How do you do, gentlemen? Hi, police

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officers. Wonder if you'd read the two descriptions listed here and tell us if you've ever seen

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either of these men. Yes, of course. No. Sure smells good in here, doesn't it? No, I don't

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seem to recall anybody that looks like this. Anybody else in here who might have seen them?

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No, I don't think so. I wait on trade. Okay, thank you, ma'am. Let's go. That smells just

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like good old apple pie, doesn't it, Joe? We're baking Danish coffee cake at the moment.

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The next place here is a plastic factory. Yeah, it looks like they're closed. Half day Saturday

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again. Somebody in there cleaning up. Yes, he didn't hear me. Oh, here he comes. Yeah.

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A lot of money in this plastic business. Mm-hmm. Really came into its own during the war, didn't

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it? Oh, yeah. The plant's closed Saturday afternoon. Police officers, wonder if you'd

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look this paper over and tell us if you may have seen two men answering these descriptions.

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All right. I have to put my glasses on. Yes, sir. There now. I don't need them for sweeping,

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just reading. All right, here you are. Mm-hmm. What do you think? What was that? I said, what

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do you think? Have you seen them? I don't know. How do you mean? I'm not sure yet. I'm not

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sure. I may have seen one of them. How about the other one? That's what I mean. Yeah. I

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don't know about the other one. But you do remember seeing one of them? I might have seen

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both of them. But you're not sure. I don't know. Well, do you want to tell us what you

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remember about the one you did see? Oh, don't you want to know about the other one too? Yes,

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sir, we do. But I understood you to say that you didn't know about the other one. No, I

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don't. Well, you just tell us what you know then. Then you want me to just forget about

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the other fellow. No, sir. But if you don't know, it's all right. I might know. Yeah.

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I haven't read about him yet. Oh. You asked me a question just as I finished reading about

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the first one. I was just starting on the second one at that time. Yes, sir. Sorry. What was

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that you asked me? Wasn't important. Then I'll read about the second one. Yes, sir. Thank

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you. Yeah. I seen them two or three days ago. Both of them. In this neighborhood? Yes, sir.

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Right around back in the parking lot. They work here? No, sir, they don't. Seems to me

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I've seen them a couple of times. What were they doing? I don't recall. I just remember

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I've seen them. You sure? Yes, I'm positive. One of them had on a brown suit, the other

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gray. Just like it says here. The description's fit all right. You have any idea where these

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men might be now? No, sir. We're investigating a robbery. We want these men for questioning.

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I wish I could help you more. I do know I've seen them, but that's about all. I don't know

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their names. All right, sir. What's your name? Seth Williamson. We'll leave you one of our

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cards, Mr. Williamson. If you see them again, I appreciate you letting us know. Yes, sir.

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Sure will. Let's go, then. Wish we had something more definite to go on. We just had a picture

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of the guys. Yeah, it'd help. There's a vacant lot in the corner, finishes out this block.

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All right, let's double back on the other side of the street. All right. Sure, huh?

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4.30 p.m. We continued knocking on doors, checking every place that was still open or

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showed any activity Saturday afternoon. We talked with hotel managers, janitors, and clean-up

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men at the different factories or business establishments. We checked grocery stores,

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private homes, everywhere that we could find anybody to show the descriptions to. By 6.15

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p.m., the only person who showed any sign of recognition of the two holed-up men was

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still Seth Williamson, the janitor at the plastics plant. Before we took time out for

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a sandwich and a cup of coffee, we drove back to the city hall to check the office. Hi,

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Friday. What do you say, Marty? A couple messages for you here. Thanks. What's the matter

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with you, Romero? I'm dehydrated. That sun almost fried me. Well, Joe, that one call

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I heard from your mother said to tell you your dog's out of danger. Oh, that's fine.

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Called in around 2, huh? Yeah. And the other one's from some guy who says he wants to talk

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to you right away. I've been calling in since about 3 this afternoon. Seth Williamson, huh?

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Called four times. Yeah. Said to tell you he'd wait at that number there. They heard from

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him. I'll call him right now. Been hot downtown, Marty? Pretty warm, man. Any kickback on that

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stolen car? No, not yet. And Benson Plastics? This is Sergeant Friday, police department.

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Oh, yes, I'm glad you called me back. I think I've got a little more information for you.

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Yeah? Those two fellas you were looking for, did you find them? No, not yet. Well, I just

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remembered what they were doing out back there in the parking lot. Yeah? They were taking

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pictures. Of what? Of the two girls that was with them. I remember now. There were two

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young women with them. One was a blonde and the other I don't recall. How were they dressed?

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The blonde had on a white shirt of some kind and a black dress. That's all I can tell you

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for sure. Who was taking the pictures? First the fellas took the girls' picture and then

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the girls took snapshots of the fellas. Thank you very much, Mr. Williamson. Oh, it'll help

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you. Yes, sir, it will. Goodbye. Goodbye. What do you got? They've had their pictures taken.

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Yeah? Let's find the prints.

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It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. The best of all long cigarettes. Ben and I figured

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if we could possibly turn up the photographs that had been taken, we'd have something more

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definite to go on. We still had a lot of doubts. Maybe the janitor Seth Williamson was wrong.

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Maybe there were no pictures. If the snapshots had been taken, maybe they were still in the

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camera, undeveloped. With any kind of fast service and processing, the photos could have

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been picked up by now. We figured it was worth the chance and the time involved to check

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the lead out. All we had was the victim scant description of the two holdup men and if we

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could possibly turn up pictures, it would help a great deal. If Williamson was right,

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we'd have another lead, the two girls. Six forty p.m. we started checking drug stores

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going through all prints that had not yet been picked up by the customers. We'd made

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the rounds of all the drug stores in the neighborhood earlier in the day, but we double checked

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the descriptions of the two men with the personnel in each store. By nine p.m. we'd

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checked out ten drug stores and found nothing. We were going on the hunch that the photos

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would most likely be dropped off for processing somewhere in the immediate neighborhood.

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It was only a hunch and we were running out of drug stores. Police business, we'd like

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to go through your photos that have been left for developing. Yes sir. Here's the box

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right here. Oh thank you. I'll take half. Not very many this time, huh? Oh, don't forget

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to check the negatives too. Sometimes they don't print them if they're bad. Yeah, I know.

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No, nothing in this one. People sure take a lot of pictures of babies, don't they?

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Yeah. Nothing. These are sure fuzzy. Pictures of the zoo. Pictures of Yellowstone.

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Ben. Yeah? Pay dirt maybe. Let me see. Two guys. Two girls. One's a blonde, white blouse,

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dark skirt. Look close. Let me see. Left by a Marion Lang, 223 East Bixel. Well Claire.

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Yes sir. You want to double check us on this envelope? Yes sir. This date and time right

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here, 3.30 PM August 6th. Yes, that's correct. That's when the films were left for processing.

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Three days before the robbery. Did you ever see this woman in the picture before? Let

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me see. This one? Oh yes. Yeah. She comes in here quite often. Miss Lang is her name.

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How about these men or this other girl here? No, no. I've never seen them. When were these

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prints supposed to be picked up? I waited on her. She told me she'd pick them up Friday,

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yesterday. Well we'll have to take these photos along with us. They'll be returned. All right

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sir. How will I explain this to Miss Lang? If this is the right address, you won't have

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to. Before we left, we called the office and had a stakeout placed in the drug store in

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case Marion Lang tried to pick up the photos. We checked the address she gave on the envelope,

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223 East Bixel. It was a small apartment building near the corner. The manager told us that

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Marion Lang had moved out the morning of August 9th, the day of the robbery. She left no forwarding

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address. The manager knew nothing of the other girl or the men in the photos. We checked

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with Myrtle Shaw, the victim. She positively identified the two men as the ones who robbed

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and slugged her. She knew nothing of the two girls, hadn't seen them before. We put out

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a warrant on Marion Lang and gave the photos to Lieutenant Frank Cunningham and the record

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girl. Monday morning, August 11th. Morning Frank. Hello Mark. Any record on the guys?

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Nothing we could find, no. I'm having copies sent out right now. Kind of thought maybe

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if we came up with pictures, we'd be half way home. Maybe we are. How do you mean? I had

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Tony make some blow ups from the negatives. Full of grain. Probably take them to the cheap

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box camera of some kind, but it might help. What'd you find? I just checked the enlargements.

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They were still in the wash, but I think we got something. Let's go over the photocopies.

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All right. Yeah, they're good and clear now. Clear as they'll ever be anyway. There we

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go. I had 16 by 20 enlargements made. This will show you what I found. Yeah. You guys

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take a good look at the face of this, this one man here. Thought we did. Why? It's pretty

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hard to see on those small prints. Look here. You see the nose on this one? I'd guess it's

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been broken one time or another, wouldn't you? Yeah. You see here? Scar over the left eye,

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scar over the right eye. A couple of them. Yeah. Look at the right ear. See how mashed

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it is? We couldn't come up with any names for you, but how better to be safe to guess

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his line of work? Looks like a prize fire. Nothing in the auditive file. I checked and

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double checked everything I could lay my hands on here in the department. I don't place

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him if he was a boxer of any standing. I don't know where it's going. Isn't much. Wish I

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had something else for you. It's a lead, isn't it? Might be. More than we had. It was possible

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that one of the two holed up men in the photos could have been a professional fighter. From

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his appearance and build, we felt it was a fair guess. We took copies of the snapshots

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to the state boxing commission, Los Angeles branch. We spoke with a Mr. Farmer who couldn't

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seem to recall a man from his picture. We went over the description that the victim

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had given us. Farmer said that he knew a great many of the fighters because at one time or

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another they all check in and out of the commission before about. But the man in the snapshot

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remained unidentified. He checked through several hundred cards bearing the photographs

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of boxers in the files. No luck. Farmer suggested that we try the Spring Street gym where the

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out of town fighters get into shape and the boxers in town train. We left him a copy of

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the photograph and our card so that he could continue checking back through his files.

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It was 10.22 a.m. when we got to the Spring Street gym. Here's the manager's office. Come

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in. You're the boss here? Yeah. What can I do for you? Police officers. Yeah? We're looking

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for a man we think might be a fighter. I wonder if you can help us out. Sure try. I'm Sergeant

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Friday. This is my partner Ben Romero. Hi. My name's Charlie Coleman. Here's a couple of photographs

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for you to look at Mr. Coleman. Have you ever seen this fellow on the right? Let's see here.

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Let's walk over by the window and get a little light on him. Wait a minute. He used to work

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out here all the time a couple of years back. His name is Billy. Marshall. Yeah that's right.

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One of them named Billy the Kid Marshall. Is he still around? Oh gee I couldn't tell you.

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Been a good two years since I've seen him up here. Any idea where we might locate him?

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I doubt it. He used to be at Benny Farmer's stable. Benny's been to East now over a year.

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Let me check back through my locker listings. Maybe I still got something on him.

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Let's see. Out cards. Yeah that's what we want. Let's take him over here by the window where

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we can read him. As I recall Marshall wasn't much of a fighter.

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Farmer nursed him up through the prelims got him in the semi windups. He started hitting the bottle.

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Played the dames. Oh yeah here we are. Can I see that please? Oh sure.

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Billy the Kid. Big beefy boy. Real sucker for right cross. 1637 Carver Avenue.

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That's the last address you got on him? Whatever the card says yeah.

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Real sucker for the old right cross. Thank you very much Mr. Coleman.

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You're welcome boys. Anytime. What's he done? We just want him for questioning. Oh I see.

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If you should hear from him don't tell him we're looking for him. Let's go. Thanks again.

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What do you think he did wrong? I don't know. How do you block a right cross?

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We called the new information into Captain Walker and he sent a crew of men to the

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boxing commission to check further. 1637 Carver Avenue. It was a cheap

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rooming house on the west side of town. Marshall hadn't lived there for over a year and a half.

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The landlady gave us a forwarding address. The next place hadn't seen him for a year.

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We kept checking and rechecking going from one end of town to the other.

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Each place was a little better than the last. It was easy to trace Billy the Kid's rise in the

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fight game such as it was with the condition of the places he lived in.

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We covered six different rooming houses, boarding houses and apartments.

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Each time his residence had been a little more recent.

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5.15 p.m. Monday, August 11th. We pulled up in front of the Sunflower Hotel,

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433 Banyan Street. Rates, two dollars a week and up.

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Nobody at the desk. I'll ring the bell.

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How do you do? Police officers. Have you got a Billy Marshall registered here?

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No, no one by that name here.

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Would you take a look at this picture? Either one of these men live here?

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Oh sure, that's Tom Green and George Martin, room nine.

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They in now?

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I could buzz their room and see.

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No, never mind. Room nine, you said.

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Yes sir, that's right.

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Let's go.

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Room nine. Cover McBride.

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Yeah?

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Special delivery letter.

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Slip it under the door.

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You have to sign for it.

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All right, stand still police officers.

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Watch it Ben.

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Take the other one Tom.

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Joe, Joe look out.

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All right, hold it right there Marshall. Get over there against the wall.

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You, get up, go over there with him. Move.

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Move.

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Give me a hand Joe, I'll help you up.

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You all right?

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Yeah, yeah I'm okay.

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There he is Joe. Looks like his picture fits the description.

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Except for one thing.

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Yeah? He's no sucker for a right cross.

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The story you have just heard was true.

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Only the names were changed to protect the innocent.

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On March 27th, 1947 trial was held in Superior Court,

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Department 81, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.

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Both William Marshall and his accomplice were found guilty of armed robbery

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