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Drag me.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true.

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The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

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You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned the bunko fugitive detail.

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A secretary tells you her employer has suddenly left town. She says he's taken all the company records with him.

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Your job, check it out.

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It was Monday, May 18th. It was cloudy in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of bunko fugitive detail.

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My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Didion. My name's Friday.

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We were on our way back from lunch and it was 1.46 p.m. when we got to room 38. Bunko fugitive.

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Sergeant Friday?

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That's right.

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They told me to see you.

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Yes ma'am, it's my partner Frank Smith.

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How do you do?

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Good afternoon.

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My name's Givens. Clara Givens.

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Would you like to sit down here?

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Well?

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Yes ma'am.

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It isn't anything when you put your finger on it. At least it isn't anything I'm sure of.

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Wasn't even my idea. Coming to the police.

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Mama said I... I mean my mother advised me to discuss this matter with you.

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I see.

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She's always claimed there's something funny about my job.

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She said this just goes to prove it. I'm sure she's mistaken.

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I'm sure Mr. Orlean wouldn't do anything wrong.

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Mr. Orlean?

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Oh he's my boss. My employer, Henry Orlean.

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The thing is he's disappeared.

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Yeah?

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All of a sudden.

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I wanted to see him last.

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Friday. Friday evening when I left the office. 5 p.m.

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Have you checked with his home?

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I don't know where he lives. He never told me.

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I see.

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He's never gone out of town before. Not since I started working for him.

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How long has that been?

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Seven months. Seven months on the third.

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What kind of business is he in?

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Uranium. Uranium stocks.

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Multiple Uranium Investments Incorporated. That's the name of his company.

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I see.

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Well don't the other employees have any idea where he went?

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There aren't any other employees. I'm the only one.

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Oh I see. Have you talked to a missing person?

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No. No I haven't.

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You see mama doesn't think he's missing.

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She says he's skipped out that he's a crook.

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Does your mother know this Mr. Orlean?

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Only what I told her about him. They've never met.

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She's been suspicious from the very beginning though.

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Fated to go following you.

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Well it's...

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Well it's kind of hard to explain.

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How's that?

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You see the thing is mama just can't understand why he ever hired me.

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Hmm?

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The employment office sent me to see him.

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Along with seven or eight other secretaries.

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Mr. Orlean picked me out from all the rest.

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Was there something strange in that?

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Well the truth is I'm not much of a stenographer.

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Not a real good one that is.

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I get kind of nervous whenever I have to take dictation.

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My typing's just fair too.

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I could do a real clean copy if they'd just let me take my time.

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But they never do.

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Is that right?

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Except for Mr. Orlean.

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He doesn't rush me or get me all upset.

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It's the first time I've ever been able to hang on to a job.

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Pays awful good.

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Twenty dollars a week more than I ever earned before.

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That's so.

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Mama couldn't believe it when I told her.

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She said there's a catch to it someplace.

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Hmm.

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It'd be different if I was...

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Well...

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If I wasn't plain.

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Two or three of the other girls who tried out for Mr. Orlean.

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They were very attractive and they all had nice clothes.

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Mm-hmm.

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Mama sure was surprised when I told her he'd picked me.

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That there's a catch to it somewhere.

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That's how she put it.

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He's up to something and he wants a secretary who's not too bright.

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Well I'm afraid we're going to need more than that to start an investigation, Miss Gibbons.

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Yes sir.

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I see.

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Well thank you very much.

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Just a minute.

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Does he owe you any back wages?

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Oh no.

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No, I'm paid up a month in advance.

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Mm-hmm.

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That was another thing that seemed funny.

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I mean when you think about it now it seems funny.

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What do you mean?

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My being with him less than a year and him wanting me to take a vacation with pay a whole month off.

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How'd that come about?

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Well it was just last week.

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Monday.

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Mm-hmm.

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A week ago today when he brought up the subject.

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He said it was getting on towards summer and I had to start thinking about where I wanted to go on my vacation.

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Yeah.

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I told him I didn't feel entitled to a vacation yet.

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He just smiled and said it was up to him to decide that.

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But he's the boss, wasn't he?

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Then he insisted I tell him just where I wanted to go.

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I couldn't think of any place at all.

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He finally asked me why I didn't visit my sister in Hawaii.

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I see.

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She's married to a Navy officer stationed in Honolulu.

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I guess I must have mentioned her to Mr. Rowan.

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I guess that's what I knew about her.

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Yes ma'am, must be.

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But the idea of ever paying her a visit hadn't even crossed my mind.

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Mm-hmm.

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I tried to argue with him but he pretended to get mad and told me if I was a good enough secretary to deserve a holiday he's going to see that I got it.

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Then he said he'd make up for it when I got back that he'd really pour the work on.

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Mm-hmm.

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I knew he wasn't serious about pouring the work on.

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But it did seem like he really wanted me to go to Hawaii.

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Well why didn't you take him up on it?

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Well I meant to. I had my ticket.

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Round trip flight.

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Mr. Rowan paid for it just like he said he would.

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Yeah.

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I was supposed to leave Saturday night.

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I sent Anne an airmail letter telling her all about the trip.

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That's my sister, Anne Burkott.

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Yeah.

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Well Saturday morning she wired me not to come.

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Her husband's being transferred in a week or two.

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But she wasn't sure where.

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Maybe back to the States.

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I see.

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Oh I suppose I could have made the trip anyway but it wouldn't be any fun going some place where I didn't know anybody.

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I don't make friends very easy.

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Is that so?

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Well I didn't know just what to do whether Mr. Rowan would still want me to take the month off or not.

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I went down to the office this morning to talk to him about it.

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He wasn't there. Everything was gone.

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Yeah.

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From the safe, all records and stock certificates, everything.

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And corporation papers he had framed up on the wall. They were gone too.

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Had somebody broken in?

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I don't think so.

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The door to the suit was locked when I got there. It had my key.

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And what about safe?

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I don't understand.

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Well was the safe open or closed?

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Closed.

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Well how'd you happen to look inside?

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I telephoned my mother and told her that Mr. Rowan wasn't there and she said I'd better check and see if anything was missing.

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Said it sounded to her like he'd skipped out.

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After I looked in the safe she told me to get in touch with the police.

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Well now just exactly what sort of business was this uranium company?

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Mr. Rowan invested in various uranium stocks.

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For other people?

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Yes that's right.

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Which bank did he use?

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Western National. The accounts in the main branch.

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I'll give him a call Joe.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Well there just wouldn't be any reason for him to run away would there?

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Well it's pretty hard to tell yet.

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I mean he's doing a real good business.

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Well that might be a reason.

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Oh?

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You know the names of his customers?

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The people who invested in Mr. Rowan?

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That's right.

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Well I guess I could remember some of them.

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Books are gone though. I wouldn't be able to recall them all.

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I see.

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The old customers, the ones who've been with us for several months, I'd remember them.

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Uh huh.

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Was the business new when you started to work with him?

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Yes sir, brand new.

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Find out anything?

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Yeah, Orlean closed out the mullable uranium bank account last Friday evening.

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A little before six.

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Six?

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Yeah.

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Banks they open late on Fridays Joe.

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Oh I forgot.

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How much did he withdraw?

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Just under a hundred thousand.

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A lot of money.

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I guess mama was right about him.

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I'm starting to look that way.

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I should have known.

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From the beginning I should have known.

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What?

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She's always right.

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While Frank put in a call to Sacramento to check on the corporate status of multiple uranium investments,

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I asked Clara Givens to give me a detailed description of the suspect.

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Two twenty eight p.m. Sacramento reported that no such corporation had ever been authorized.

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We ran the name Henry Orlean through RNI and they had nothing on him.

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We turned the description and MO over to the stats office.

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They came up with seven possible stock fraud artists.

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We pulled their mug shots and showed them to Miss Givens.

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She was unable to identify any of the pictures.

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Three oh seven p.m. Miss Givens accompanied us to the Wendler building on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile.

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We went up to Suite 4D.

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Just a second until I find my key.

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Yes ma'am.

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Here it is.

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This is the outer office where I work.

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That's his office in there?

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Yes sir.

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That's real fancy.

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Have you talked to the building manager today?

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No sir.

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Is he around do you know?

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There isn't any manager.

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Not exactly. The owner has an office down the hall.

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I'd be glad to find out if he's in.

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Thank you.

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You'll be here?

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Yes ma'am.

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Very impressive quarters huh?

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Must have been a very impressive guy.

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Yeah.

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Look at that John. I wonder what he had up there.

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On the wall. See that spot?

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Looks like it used to be a picture or something.

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Those incorporation papers maybe huh?

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Phony.

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I don't know as far as the state of California is concerned they're phony.

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This is Mr. Wendler.

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Mr. Wendler is Sergeant Friday.

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How are you?

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How do.

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This is... I'm off the ferry. I don't seem to remember your name.

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Sorry my name's Frank Smith.

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Pleased to meet you. This is our identification.

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Forget him.

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Well you're the owner of this building are you?

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Well it's the Wendler building. I'm Ted Wendler.

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Yes sir.

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Draw your own conclusions.

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Do you have any objections to answering a few questions Wendler?

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No.

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Alright will you answer them for us please?

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I thought I was.

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Yes sir I asked you one before to own this building.

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Outright.

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That isn't important.

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It's important to me. It's important to the mortgage company.

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Is it in your name?

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Yes it's in my name.

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Alright fine.

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What about the man who rented this suite?

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Yes sir.

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What about him?

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Did you know he left town?

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Well she just told me.

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Did you know about it before?

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No.

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What can you tell us about him?

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He's a broker or something. Uranium stocks I guess.

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We got that much.

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That's all you know about him huh?

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Yeah.

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How long has he rented from you?

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Let's see a little over seven months.

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He ate on the third.

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Did he mention anything about where he had offices before?

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No he said he was from back east.

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Any particular place?

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No.

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Why what's he done?

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We like to talk to him that's all.

283
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Well maybe he'll come back.

284
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Well if he doesn't it's all the same to me.

285
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Why?

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I made him pay his rent in advance the whole first year.

287
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That's your usual practice?

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No only with fellas in the stock market.

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You see I remember 1929.

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Yeah.

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You never know what's going to happen not with fellas in the market.

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You see I remember 29.

293
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Yeah.

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If Orleans stays away I'm way ahead of him.

295
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Rent's paid up.

296
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I'm nearly five months ahead of him.

297
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Yes sir.

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I wish we were.

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Ted Wendler confirmed Miss Gibbons description of the suspect and insisted he could tell

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us nothing further about the man.

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While a crew from the crime lab went over the offices we again questioned Clara Gibbons.

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She gave us the names and addresses of some of the people who had invested money with

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Orleans.

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4.48 p.m. the crime lab reported that they'd been unable to discover any useful fingerprints

305
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in the suite.

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The only physical evidence they had uncovered was a copy of a prospectus which purported

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to list various securities owned by multiple uranium investments.

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It had fallen behind a filing cabinet.

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The next day May 19th Frank and I checked with several of the uranium companies listed

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on the prospectus.

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They all informed us that none of their stock had ever been purchased by multiple uranium

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incorporated or Henry Orleans.

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3.13 p.m. Frank and I drove out to interview one of the victims.

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Would you like to sit down?

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Thank you.

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Miss Custis do you know a man named Henry Orleans?

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Yes.

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Yes I know him.

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Why?

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Did you ever invest any money with him?

321
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Five thousand dollars.

322
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Nothing's happened to Mr. Orleans.

323
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We aren't sure yet.

324
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How'd you happen to give him the money?

325
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It was some insurance my husband left me.

326
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Yes ma'am.

327
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I'd kept it in savings.

328
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Didn't bring in much interest.

329
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When I heard about Mr. Orleans' company.

330
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Where did you hear about it?

331
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Do you remember?

332
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At the hospital.

333
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Ma'am?

334
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St. Agnes Children's Hospital.

335
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Oh.

336
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I spend a day a week there helping out in the charity ward.

337
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I'm on some of the committees too.

338
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You know fundraising, things like that.

339
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Yes ma'am.

340
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Oh I'm not one of the big people behind the work but somebody has to get out and dig for

341
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the little donations too.

342
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Yes ma'am I do.

343
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And I have quite a bit of free time now.

344
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Do you remember who it was that first mentioned Mr. Orleans to you?

345
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I think it was Mrs. Larrington.

346
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Larrington?

347
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Yes Mrs. Arthur Larrington.

348
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You must have heard of her.

349
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She does so much charity work around town.

350
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She's very prominent socially.

351
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Yes ma'am.

352
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Just what did she say about Mr. Orleans' company?

353
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Well she wasn't talking to me exactly.

354
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One afternoon when she was showing some people the plan for the new clinic.

355
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I guess she was asking them for some contributions.

356
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That's how it sounded.

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One of the ladies said it all depended on how well her husband's stocks did during the next

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quarter.

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I see.

360
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And Mrs. Larrington laughed and told her her husband ought to be in multiple uranium.

361
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But he wouldn't have anything to worry about.

362
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Go on.

363
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Well that was all I heard.

364
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They went on to the next room.

365
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Afterwards I got to thinking if this uranium stock was good enough for Mrs. Larrington maybe

366
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I ought to check into it.

367
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You know you're always hearing about people making fortunes in uranium.

368
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Yes ma'am.

369
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Well I looked up the company in the phone book and talked to Mr. Orleans.

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At first he wasn't very anxious for me to invest but when I told him I knew Mrs. Larrington

371
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he said he'd take me in as a favor to her.

372
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When was all this?

373
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Oh about four months ago.

374
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Have you seen Mr. Orleans since?

375
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No.

376
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You heard from him?

377
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Not directly.

378
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I get a dividend check every month though.

379
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Stock's paying very well.

380
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I figured it out.

381
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On a yearly basis it'll come to over 30%.

382
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You can't do much better than that.

383
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I told some of my friends about it too so they could get in on it.

384
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Well thank you very much ma'am.

385
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You still haven't explained what this is all about.

386
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We're trying to get in touch with Mr. Orleans that's all.

387
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Oh the Wendler building on Wilshire Boulevard.

388
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That's where he's off to.

389
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The Wendler building.

390
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Yes ma'am.

391
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Isn't he there?

392
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No he isn't.

393
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I don't understand.

394
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Orleans seems to have disappeared.

395
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What about my money?

396
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I'm afraid that went with him.

397
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Why that isn't possible.

398
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He couldn't have.

399
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Mrs. Lawrence said it was a good stock.

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Yes ma'am we'll talk to her about it.

401
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Well he paid me dividends every month.

402
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Good dividends.

403
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Yeah well I wouldn't count on any more of them.

404
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Why I'll bring charges against him.

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I'll have him put in jail.

406
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He'll find out.

407
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But that's all you need isn't it?

408
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Somebody to bring charges?

409
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No ma'am not quite.

410
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Well what do you mean?

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We need him.

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Frank and I left Mrs. Custis and drove out to interview another victim.

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Mrs. J.T. Pressing on Highland Avenue.

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She told us that she had invested eight thousand dollars in multiple uranium.

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She also told us that she had first heard about the stock to a friend who was on the fundraising committee for St. Agnes Hospital.

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We interviewed three more victims.

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All of them were in some way associated with the hospital or were acquainted with Mrs. Arthur Lorington.

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8.45 p.m. We drove up to the Lorington Estate in Bel Air.

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A maid showed us into the library and said that Mrs. Lorington would see us in a few minutes.

420
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Hey Joe.

421
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Yeah.

422
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That's her.

423
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Huh?

424
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Up there on the wall that painting, that's Mrs. Lorington.

425
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Yeah.

426
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Saw it in the Sunday paper once.

427
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Society page.

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Real honest to gosh.

429
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Artist did it.

430
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You don't say.

431
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Hmm.

432
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Probably flatters her a lot.

433
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Maybe.

434
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Well it's bound to.

435
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What makes you think so?

436
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Well it stands to reason Joe.

437
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If all a person wants is a good likeness, a photographer ought to do the trick.

438
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Yeah.

439
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Artists know that too.

440
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They do.

441
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Hmm.

442
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Figures they want something else.

443
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Want to look better so he flatters them.

444
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Oh I see.

445
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That's the way it works.

446
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Are you gentlemen waiting for me?

447
00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,000
Mrs. Lorington?

448
00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,000
That's right.

449
00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,000
We're police officers.

450
00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,000
This is Frank Smith.

451
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My name's Friday.

452
00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000
Well I'm sure it's my husband you want to talk to.

453
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Unfortunately he's in San Francisco on a business trip.

454
00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000
No ma'am.

455
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We'd like to talk to you if you don't mind.

456
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You know a man named Henry Orlean?

457
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Orlean?

458
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That's it, yeah.

459
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Hmm.

460
00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000
The name sounds familiar but I meet so many people it's hard to be certain.

461
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Have you ever heard of a stock called Multiple Uranium Incorporated?

462
00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000
Oh yes, yes of course.

463
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Well I didn't associate the two for a moment.

464
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That's Mr. Orlean's company isn't it?

465
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Yes ma'am.

466
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Do you have any money invested in that stock?

467
00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:37,000
No, not me personally but I can vouch for the company if that's what you want to know.

468
00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000
You see I'm on the fundraising committee for St. Agnes Hospital.

469
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Matter of fact I'm the chairman.

470
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Yes ma'am we know.

471
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And we do own some of Mr. Orlean's stock.

472
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The hospital that is.

473
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Tell us how'd you happen to buy it?

474
00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,000
We didn't.

475
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It was a donation.

476
00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000
Would you mind telling us from who?

477
00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000
No not yet.

478
00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000
It's Orlean himself.

479
00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,000
I see.

480
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When did he give it to you?

481
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Last year.

482
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September.

483
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Yes it was September.

484
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Charity Bazaar.

485
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I don't recall the exact date but I can find out for you.

486
00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,000
Well September's close enough.

487
00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000
Just what was this bazaar?

488
00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,000
A party here at my home.

489
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We opened the grounds to the general public.

490
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A garden party and auction combined.

491
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An auction?

492
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Some of the most picture people donated the items we sold and all the money went to the hospital.

493
00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,000
We raised over $25,000.

494
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Not counting what Mr. Orlean gave us.

495
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That's the stock donation.

496
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That's right.

497
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He congratulated me on the bazaar.

498
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He seemed to be very interested in charity work.

499
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I said we would certainly use his help and he offered to do whatever he could.

500
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Go ahead.

501
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He said that unfortunately he couldn't give us cash at the moment.

502
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He mumbled something about a tax problem.

503
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I'm not really too clear about those things.

504
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Everyone seems to be having tax problems nowadays.

505
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So instead of an outright gift he offered us a block of stock in his company.

506
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I see. Now just how much stock was involved?

507
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Five hundred shares. I think something like that.

508
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At any rate he said the market value of what he was giving us would be in the neighborhood of $10,000.

509
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Did he tell you anything else about it?

510
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He didn't go into the details of his corporation and I certainly didn't question him.

511
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You don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

512
00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000
Yes ma'am.

513
00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:15,000
All I recall he said his company owned shares in other uranium companies so that the money was well diversified.

514
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Now was that all?

515
00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000
Yes I believe so.

516
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Except that he made one request.

517
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What was it?

518
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He asked me not to sell the stock for at least a year.

519
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To give you a reason?

520
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Oh yes.

521
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He said that within a year's time it would double in market value.

522
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And in the meantime the hospital would be receiving excellent dividends.

523
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I see.

524
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As a matter of fact the dividends have been remarkable.

525
00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,000
Something like $500 a month I believe our treasurer told me.

526
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Mr. Orlean must be a very shrewd investor.

527
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Did you ever discuss this uranium stock with any of your friends Miss Larkin?

528
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Why yes, once or twice.

529
00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,000
One of our committee meetings when we were going over the books we were surprised at the return it was paying us.

530
00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,000
We all talked about it then.

531
00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000
I suppose I may have mentioned it since.

532
00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,000
Just in conversation.

533
00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000
Yes ma'am.

534
00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,000
Is Mr. Orlean upset that I told other people about his company?

535
00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000
I didn't know he wanted it kept secret.

536
00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000
No he wanted you to tell him.

537
00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,000
Well then.

538
00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,000
Several people that you discussed multiple uranium with invested in the company as a result.

539
00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000
It's a perfectly sound investment.

540
00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,000
No ma'am.

541
00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,000
What?

542
00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000
Orlean has disappeared and so has their money.

543
00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,000
I'm sure you're mistaken.

544
00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,000
The stock he sold him was phony.

545
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000
So was the stock he gave your hospital fund.

546
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,000
It couldn't be.

547
00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,000
Look at the dividends it paid.

548
00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000
It was just good advertising.

549
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,000
You mean he used the hospital?

550
00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,000
He used me?

551
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,000
I'm afraid so.

552
00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,000
I just don't know what to say.

553
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,000
I've never been involved in a situation like this before.

554
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,000
Yes ma'am.

555
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000
It's terribly distressing.

556
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:47,000
I know it's not my fault but I can't help thinking I should have been more careful more discreet.

557
00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000
Well I'm sorry.

558
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000
I'm afraid you'll have to excuse me.

559
00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,000
I don't feel like talking anymore.

560
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,000
I'm very upset.

561
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,000
We understand.

562
00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,000
Annesia we'll show you out.

563
00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,000
We'll find a way.

564
00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,000
Let's go.

565
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,000
Oh I was just looking at that painting up there again.

566
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,000
You know I was right Joe.

567
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,000
Platters here.

568
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:20,000
The interview with Mrs. Lorington had enabled us to establish the suspect's M.O.

569
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:26,000
Additional bullets were sent out alerting all police departments, charity organizations and fundraising committees.

570
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,000
During the rest of the week we interviewed other victims of the stock swindle.

571
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:34,000
None of them could furnish any additional information about the whereabouts of the man who called himself Henry Orlean.

572
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:39,000
Three weeks later on June 9th we received a report from the Chicago Police Department.

573
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:45,000
They informed us that a man answering Orlean's description had worked an oil stock swindle in that city during the previous year.

574
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,000
He had then used the name of Roger Norgant.

575
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,000
They also told us that this Norgant was suspected of an earlier stock swindle in Kansas City.

576
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:56,000
Neither the Chicago nor Kansas City police had a positive identification of the suspect.

577
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,000
But in both cities the M.O. had been the same.

578
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,000
The suspect had donated a block of phony stock to a charitable organization.

579
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:08,000
Had paid very high dividends on the donated shares and then had been able to acquire investments from private persons.

580
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,000
Wednesday June 11th 317 p.m. Frank and I were in the office.

581
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000
Sergeant Friday.

582
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,000
Yes ma'am.

583
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,000
You remember me.

584
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,000
Clara Gibbons.

585
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,000
I used to work with Mr. Orlean.

586
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000
Yes ma'am.

587
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,000
How are you?

588
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000
What can we do for you?

589
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,000
Mama just found him.

590
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,000
Where?

591
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000
Over on Hill Street.

592
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000
She was just walking along and she saw him.

593
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,000
Is she sure it's him?

594
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,000
Positive.

595
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000
Please hurry.

596
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000
Just a minute Miss Gibbons.

597
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,000
What is it?

598
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,000
Didn't you tell us your mother had never seen this man?

599
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,000
Well she's seen him now.

600
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000
He was walking downhill.

601
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000
Why does she know it's him if she never saw him before?

602
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000
I told her what he looked like dozens of times.

603
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000
All about him.

604
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000
I see.

605
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000
For heaven's sake you don't have to see a person to know what he looks like.

606
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000
Mama would recognize Mr. Orlean anywhere.

607
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000
She said so half a dozen times.

608
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,000
She can describe him better than I can.

609
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000
My mother's very intelligent Sergeant.

610
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000
She's not like me.

611
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000
Now please don't stand here and argue about it or he'll get away.

612
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,000
Well just where is he?

613
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000
The Norbridge Hotel corner of Hill and Hall.

614
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000
I thought your mother saw him on the street.

615
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000
Well she followed him into the hotel.

616
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,000
She didn't want to lose him.

617
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,000
He went upstairs and she telephoned me from the lobby.

618
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000
She said she'd wait there to make sure he didn't leave.

619
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000
Oh I see.

620
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,000
She told me to bring you as soon as I could.

621
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000
It's nearly half an hour since she called me.

622
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,000
We haven't got much time.

623
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,000
Fine Miss Gibbons.

624
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,000
All right we'll check on her right away.

625
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000
You're going to arrest him aren't you?

626
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000
If it's the right man.

627
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,000
Of course it's the right man.

628
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000
Excuse me a minute.

629
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,000
Do you have to answer it now?

630
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,000
Uncle Fugitive Friday.

631
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,000
Yeah that's right.

632
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,000
I see.

633
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000
Fine.

634
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000
Okay.

635
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,000
We'll forward our warrant to you.

636
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000
Will you send us a notification by telegram?

637
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000
Thank you.

638
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,000
We sure are.

639
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,000
Many thanks.

640
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000
Salt Lake City Police Department.

641
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000
Yeah?

642
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000
Picked up Orleans this morning.

643
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,000
Tadden from our circular.

644
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,000
Are you sure it's him?

645
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000
Gave him a full confession.

646
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,000
Admitted to KC and Chicago deals too.

647
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,000
But it couldn't be Mr. Arlen.

648
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,000
He's at the Norbridge Hotel.

649
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,000
No Miss Gibbons I'm afraid your mother was mistaken.

650
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000
I've never known Mama to make a mistake.

651
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,000
No we all make them.

652
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000
But she's waiting for us at the hotel.

653
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,000
What'll I tell her?

654
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000
Well let's see I guess there's only one thing.

655
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000
What's that?

656
00:22:52,000 --> 00:23:00,000
Tell her not to wait.

657
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,000
The story you have just heard is true.

658
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,000
The names were changed to protect the innocent.

659
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,000
On August 16th trial was held in Department 98,

660
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000
Superior Court of the State of California,

661
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:21,000
in and for the County of Los Angeles.

662
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,000
Francis Caxton Wheatley alias Henry Orlean alias Roger Norgott

663
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,000
was tried and convicted of grand theft seven counts

664
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,000
and received sentence as prescribed by law.

665
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000
Grand theft is punishable by imprisonment in the County Jail

666
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,000
for no more than one year or in the state prison

667
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,000
for not less than one or more than ten years.

668
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,000
Polls were placed on the suspect by the states of Illinois and Missouri

669
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:53,000
at the termination of his sentence in San Quentin.

670
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000
You have just heard Dragnet,

671
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000
the authentic story of your police force in action

672
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000
and starring Jack Webb,

673
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:14,000
a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.

674
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:25,040
Three day in last

675
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:41,840
four day in couple in