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It was Monday, April 18th. It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch

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out of Internal Affairs Division. My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is

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Captain Fulton. My name is Friday. I was on my way into the office. It was 7 58 a.m.

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when I got to room 36. Squad room. Morning. Hi.

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We keeping you up? There's a couch down the hall. Maybe you can use that. Yeah.

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Remember a couple of months ago, Fay was on that quiz show? Yeah. Yeah, seems I

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heard something about that. Well, one of the prizes was a dog. You know, they were

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gonna give us a little pup. Mm-hmm. Turned out they were giving away

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cockers. Very nice dogs and thoroughbreds. Mm-hmm.

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Fay and me talked it over and decided we'd rather have one of those, those

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basset hounds. What are they? One of those dogs with a little short hind legs and

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long ears. You know, long face. Basset hounds. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

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I've seen them in the magazines. You know, they got sad eyes. Always look so sad. Yeah.

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Well, they're hard to get. We had to wait a while. I got the call Saturday. Pup was

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there. Mm-hmm. I went out and picked him up.

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Named him Hector. Yeah. That's it. Hector. Why? Why? Because the old expression kind

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of fit. Mm-hmm. Since Hector was a pup, get it, Joe? Hector, see, he's still a pup.

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Old Hector the pup. I was up with him all night. He couldn't sleep, kept whining. You

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still work here, don't you? I just stayed up and kind of hummed to him to

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comfort him. You're still working here? Oh. He didn't come in this morning? Yeah.

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There's a couple of mugshots over there from Sacramento. Thank you.

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You'll be glad to get to bed tonight. Excuse me. Yes, ma'am. Something we can do for you?

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The man down room 38, Bunko, told me to come here. Yes, ma'am. DeBetta, that's his

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name, said see you. Mm-hmm. Want to report something? All right. Would you like to

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sit down? Thank you. Now, what can we do for you? I think it's been too long. What's that?

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Well, I paid for it over a month ago. I'm tired of waiting. You want to tell us about

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what you mean? Well, Henry should be home by now. It's been over a month. Who's Henry?

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My husband, Henry Fowell. When I gave the man the money, said he'd get Henry out of

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jail right away. That's what he told me. What man? The man who came to see me. Oh,

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yes, ma'am. But who was he? A policeman. 812 a.m. We continued to talk to the woman. She

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identified herself as Mrs. Henry Fowell, and she gave us the full story. When did this

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man approach you, ma'am? Just a minute, Mr. Smith. I got it all written down. Ma'am?

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Got it right here in my bag. Yep, here it is. March 6th. That's when I met him. Where

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was that? What? Where'd you meet him? He came to the house, my house. Told me he wanted to

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talk to me about something. Said it was important. Mm-hmm. I didn't know him. There wasn't any

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reason he'd have anything important to talk to me about. But he said he knew the mister.

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You mean your husband? That's right. Henry Fowell. Is he in prison? Yes. Been there for

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three and a half years. We don't like to ask this, Miss Fowell, but it's necessary. Burglary.

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That's what he was convicted for. Judge told him he'd go to jail for five years to life.

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Mm-hmm. Was this the first time he's been in jail? I thought so. At first I thought

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it was all a mistake. They was wrong about the mister. Yes, ma'am. They weren't. Came

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out in the trial. Seems he'd done the same thing before, twice before. I see. I didn't

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know about it when we got married. Didn't have any idea. Mm-hmm. The mister's my second

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husband. Mm-hmm. First one died ten years ago. Woman my age gets lonely, so when Mr.

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Fowell asked me to marry him, I said yes. Then I found out about the stealing. Mm-hmm.

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Miss Mann said he knew your husband, is that right? That's right. Told me they met several

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years ago. Uh-huh. Then he went on to tell me how the mister could get out. What do you

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mean? The way he told it. If you had friends who knew the right people, you could get out

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of jail. What's that? If the right people were paid, a man could get out of prison.

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Uh-huh. And he wanted you to give him some money? Not at first. When he came to the house

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at the beginning, he didn't even mention it. Not at all. When did he bring it up? Oh,

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about a week later. Came over in the afternoon. I was out in the yard and he said he'd met

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the people who were important. The ones who could get the mister out of prison. Did he

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say who these people were? No. Just told me he'd met them. Mm-hmm. Now what happened

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then? Well, on March 14th, he told me that it could be arranged for the mister to get

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out of jail. Tell me, did he tell you how this could be done? Well, from what he told

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me, he'd talk to the right people. That's the way he said it. The right people. I see.

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If he gave him $5,000, the mister could be turned out. $5,000, huh? Yes. I told him I

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couldn't give him that much, that I just didn't have it. What did the man say when you told

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him that? Asked me how much I could give him. Mm-hmm. I said if I sold a few things, did

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what I could to get more money, I might be able to pay $3,500. Well, what'd he say about

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that? Say, would he be all right? No, no. No. He told me he'd have to go back and talk

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to the people, ask them if it'd be enough. When'd you see him again? Two days. He came

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back. What'd he say then? Told me it'd be okay, the money'd be enough. Mm-hmm. I got

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it together and gave it to him. That same day? No. No, it was two days later, on March

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16th. That's when I gave him the money. I see. It's been over a month now and the mister

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still hasn't been turned out. I wrote to him, but he doesn't say anything about coming home.

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I don't think he knows anything about it. Yes, ma'am. Now, I don't want to cause any trouble.

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Just want the mister out of prison or else I want my money back. You told us this man

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was a policeman? That's right. In what city? I don't understand. Well, what city did he

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work in or what city did he say he worked in? Here, in Los Angeles, right here. Did he show

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you some identification? Oh, yes. I wouldn't just hand over the money without that. I saw

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his badge. Mm-hmm. Did it look like this one? Let me see. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Just like that one.

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Same thing. Mm-hmm. Did he give you a name? Yes. He said he was Jim Sorvell. Sergeant

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Jim Sorvell. That's S-O-R-V-E-L-L. That's right. I'll check it. Did you see anything

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else to identify him? What do you mean? Well, did he show you any other cards, anything

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else? You mean it might be a wrong name? That's right. Oh, no, I'm sure about that. I wouldn't

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just hand my money over to anybody. I was sure. Well, how do you mean? I saw his driver's

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license. Did he tell you where he worked? You mean in what department? That's right.

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Yes. It's one of the reasons I believed him because of where he worked. Yeah. Right here

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in the city hall. While I continued to talk to Mrs. Firewell, Frank put in a call to personnel.

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Three minutes later, he called me out into the hall. Let me close the door. What do you

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got? Well, I checked the personnel records. Yeah. What'd you find out? Looks like she

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was telling the truth. What? There is a Jim Sorvell. City hall? Well, closer than that.

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Auto theft detail. We put in a call to auto theft detail and asked that Sergeant James

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Sorvell see us right away. While the victim waited in the squad room, Frank and I took

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the officer down to the interrogation room. Go ahead, sit down, Jim. Yeah. Thanks. Well,

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what's this all about? Well, it's a rough one, Jim. We hope you got the answers. Now,

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give me a try. How long you been a policeman? Twelve years. How long you been working in

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auto theft, Jim? Two years this time. I worked there before about five years ago. Uh-huh.

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Well, what's this all about anyway? You know a woman named Farwell? Farwell? Uh-huh. No,

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I don't think I do. How about a man, Henry Farwell? No, I don't think so. No, wait a

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minute. Huh? A few years ago when I was working burglary, seems we had a suspect with that

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name. Yeah. Big guy. Fallen twice before the way I remember. Bad name around town. Might

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be the same one. What about him? I heard he went to the joint a couple of years ago.

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Well, his wife came in here this morning. Yeah. Says she gave a man $3,500 to get Farwell

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out of jail. Lawyer? No. Some kind of a deal. This fella said he knew the right people.

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Told her a little juice had opened the doors for her old man. How do I fit into this? Well,

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this guy told her he was a policeman. Showed her I.D. to prove it. What name? Yours. You

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believe her? Well, no, we don't want to. We figured we'd get your side of the story first.

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Well, there's nothing to tell you, Freddie. I had no part in the action. That's the truth.

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I hope it stands out. It's got to. I don't know anything about the deal. Nothing at all.

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I wouldn't know the woman if she walked in here right now. Well, then you don't mind

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letting her take a look at you then. No, no. Bring her in. Right? Yeah. How'd she happen

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to pick me? Told us the fella that took her gave your name. Must be a goof up someplace.

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You got your driver's license? Yeah. Want to show it to me? Sure. Next line is take it

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out of your wallet, isn't it? I don't like this any better than you do, Jim. Yeah. You

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got your badge on you? Yeah. You want that, too? Well, I want to see it. All right. Miss

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Farwell says the suspect showed her a badge. Says it looked good. I don't think it was

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mine. Here. I want to step inside, Miss Farwell. Yes. Thank you. All right, Miss Farwell. You

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know this man? Yeah. Seems I've seen him someplace before. Yes. Now be careful and look carefully.

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Do you know where you've seen him? I'm trying to think. Take your time. Be sure. Yes, ma'am.

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Please be sure. Yeah. Hair's a little shorter. He had a mustache before. But I can tell.

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I can tell for sure. What's that? He's the one that took my money. Mrs. Farwell was taken

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down the hall where she made a complete report. We continued to interrogate Sergeant James

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Sorvell, but he maintained his innocence. He was suspended from the police department

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pending an investigation by our detail and the district attorney's office. The week went

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by. During that time, we talked to Sorvell's friends and the men he worked with. His financial

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condition was investigated. He owed some money, but he was not behind in his payments. His

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bank account didn't show any large deposits, and from what we could find out, he was not

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living beyond his means. If he was guilty, he hadn't spent any of the money that he'd

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taken. We asked the stats office to make a run on con men who had used a similar approach.

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They came back with a list of 18 possible suspects. We pulled the mug shots from the

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packages on the men and we drove out to see Mrs. Farwell. She showed us into the living

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room of a very small house. Now then, what is it this time? You come to bring my money

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back? No, ma'am. Well, when am I going to get it? Seems like a long time. The mister's

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still in prison and I haven't got my money. Yes, ma'am. We'd like you to look at some

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pictures if you would. What for? We'd like to see if you recognize any of the men. Sure,

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I've got nothing else to do. Let's see them. There you are, ma'am. Yes, sir. All right.

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Now, looked at the pictures. Now I get the money. No, ma'am. When do I get it? Well,

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we haven't been able to recover it yet. What? We haven't found it yet. What about that man

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you got, Sorville? What about him? Ma'am. Make him tell you where the money is. He took

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it. Make him tell. From what we've been able to find out, he hasn't got it. Now we get

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down to cases, huh? What's that? Let's lay the cards on the table. I'm getting pretty

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mad about it. When I first came to see you, I wanted the money back. Either that or to

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have the mister out of prison. Either one. It didn't much matter which, but I did want

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one of them. Yes, ma'am. I understand. Now, you've got the man who took the $3,500, got

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him in jail, and you tell me you can't find the money. Is that right? Yes, ma'am. That's

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right. You want to know what I think? You want to know? What's that? I think you're

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all in it together. That's what I think. The whole bunch of you. All in the thing together.

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That's not true. You say so, but I think different. Now, I'm going to tell you something, Mr. Friday.

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I'm not going to wait any more. I want the money back or I'm going to the newspapers

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again. I'll tell them what's happened. They'll get me some action. Not just a minute, Miss

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Firewell. No, I won't. I've done all my waiting already. You think that just because I'm an

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old woman, you can push me around. Well, you just got another thing coming. I want that

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money and I want it right now. And if I don't get it, you're going to be in a lot of trouble.

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We're doing everything we can to get your money back. Well, then you better start doing

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more because I'm not happy at all. All you cops, you stick together. Well, this time

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it's not going to do you any good. You don't understand, Miss Firewell. I think I do. Maybe

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too much. I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'll give you just three days to get that

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money back or I'll scream my head off to the newspapers. You've got the man in jail. Next

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thing you'll be telling me he didn't do it. We're not sure he did. Uh-huh. Well, he did.

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I guess I know. I'm the one he stole from. He's the man and I want to see him in prison

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too. Well, if he's guilty, that's where he'll go. I'm telling you he is. What more do you

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need? Just one more thing. What's that? Proof. Frank and I went back to the office and met

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with Captain Fulton. We laid out the results of our investigation. According to what the

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victim had told us, we had the right man in custody. But according to the evidence we'd

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found, it was a case of mistaken identity. Two days later on Thursday, April 28th, we

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got a call from a bartender out on Vermont Avenue. Frank and I drove out to see him.

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Hi. I'd like to see Vince Elkhart. I'm him. What do you want? Police officers. It's Frank

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Smith. My name's Friday. Oh, yeah? Want to come back here? We can talk. Yeah, fine. All

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right. What do you want to see us about? I know I'm letting myself in for a lot of trouble.

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Anything you guys can do to help me out, I'd appreciate it. But I ain't asking for no special

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treatment. Well, I suppose you tell us what it is. Well, night before last, a couple of

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kids came in. They sat at the bar, ordered a drink. Mm-hmm. Well, they look kind of young,

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so I asked to see their I.D. Plane it safe, you know. Go ahead. Well, they showed me their

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driver's licenses. I checked them. Looked all right to me. So I served them. Yeah. Guess

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I made them kind of embarrassed. They only had one and then shoved off. Mm-hmm. There

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was no sooner out of the place when this guy came up. Told me he wanted to talk. What about?

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Said the two kids were underage, minors, that I'd served them and the beef was on. Who was

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he? That's why I called you. Maybe I was wrong serving the kids. Maybe I did make a mistake,

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but I sure ain't gonna stand for no shakedown. Not a penny's worth. This man tried it, did

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he? Sure. Told me if I paid off, he'd forget what he saw. Who is he? Cop. Name of Jim Survell.

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We got a description of the man who tried to blackmail Vince Elkhart. It matched Sergeant

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Jim Survell. While I continued to talk to Elkhart, Frank put in a call to the policeman

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and asked him to come over to the bar. It took him 12 minutes to get there. He was brought

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into the place and confronted by the bartender. Would you turn around? Sure. How's that?

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Uh-huh. Yeah. How about it? He hasn't any doubts as far as I'm concerned. No. He's

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the wrong man. We made arrangements for Vince Elkhart, the bartender, to come down to the

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city hall and go through the mug books. He was unable to find a picture of the suspect.

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We contacted C.I.I. up in Sacramento and asked them to check their files. Thursday, 5.30 p.m.,

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we returned to the bar. No. Come right down to it. I guess I should have known he wasn't

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a cop. Should have known it all along. Have you seen this fellow before? I'm not sure

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about that. Seems like I might have, but I can't be sure. We do a pretty good business

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in here. A lot of people. He might have been around, but I can't name a date or time. Was

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he with anybody the night he was in here? Do you remember? I don't remember. Matter

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of fact, I don't even remember him coming in. Just all of a sudden after the kids left,

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he was at the bar, tossing me the pitch. Really sanded me to think a cop would pull a stunt

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like that. What did you tell him when he asked you for the payoff? I said for him to get

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out of the place. That if he was going to make a pinch, to go ahead and do it or else

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clear out. Did he leave? Yeah. Said I didn't give him any choice. Walked out. Hello. Yeah,

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that's right. Just a minute. Hey, Vince. Yeah? Catch the phone, will you? Yeah. Excuse me.

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Yeah, go right ahead. Hello. Yeah, that's right. Who? Oh, yeah. Mm hmm. I don't know.

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Yeah. No, I understand. Uh huh. Well, it's nice of you. Sure. I thought about it. Okay.

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Goodbye. You guys must live right. That was him. The phony cop? Yeah. He'll be right over.

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Frank and I took up positions in the back of the bar. 20 minutes later, the suspect

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walked in. Hi, Elkhart. Hello. Want to give me a coke high? Sure. Looks like him. Well,

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he's shirving coal lately, huh? Yeah. Not doing much business. Slow night. Here's your

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drink. Thanks. Where can we talk? It's all right here. Yeah, what about the two guys in

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the back? They won't bother anybody. Both gassed. All right, Elkhart, what about it? You mean

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the payoff? That's right. I talked to boys downtown. They say they'll let you off the

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hook for $750. That's a lot of money. Your license is worth more, isn't it? I suppose

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so. But I got to know what I'm buying. Who are these guys downtown? Well, that doesn't

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come in. But all you got to do is dig up the money. How high does the juice go? What do

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you mean? Just that. How far up does the payoff go? All the way to the top. We got enough.

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All right. Yes, sir. You play along with us and you'll do all right. This is him. All

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right, mister. Let's go. What are you talking about? What is this? Police officers. You're

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under arrest. For what? Suspicion grand theft, impersonating an officer. And we ought to

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be able to figure up a couple more on the way downtown. You guys are wrong. You made

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a mistake. Sure we have. Stand still. You're going to be awful sorry about this. Is that

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right? Sure. I got a lot of friends in town, some of them pretty high. You mind giving

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me your names and numbers? I want to be sure I got the right dope on you guys. By the time

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I get through, you'll both be working so far out, you'll need a passport to get home.

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You got it all figured, haven't you? Front, back and in the middle. Like reading a story.

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Well, I don't know about the first part. Yeah. But I can tell you how it's going to end.

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The suspect was taken down to the city hall. He refused to give us his name and a thorough

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search of his person failed to turn up anything to aid in identifying him. His fingerprints

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were rolled and while we waited for the results of the check, Frank and I talked to the suspect

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in the squad room. How long you figure you're going to be able to keep this thing up? I

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don't know what you're talking about. No, come off it. We've got you dead to rights

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and you know it. News to me. Why don't you tell us who you are? I forgot. You know a

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man named Jim Sorvell? I don't think so. Well, according to that bartender, you said you

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were Sorvell. Well, he's got a big mouth. Look, have you ever been arrested? I forgot.

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You better get your memory back. Why? I'll get it. ID. Smith. Yeah. Wait a minute. Toss

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me that pad. Here you are. Thanks. All right. 46. Yeah. Yeah. All right. 52, huh? Okay.

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All right. Thanks a lot. You better get in touch with those big friends of yours. I will

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when it's necessary. Well, time just came up. We got your record. Full name, Charles Bobo

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Kiernan Offner. You've fallen twice in California. Once for GTA, once for attempted robbery.

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There's an outstanding one from Eureka and two from out of state. All three are on charges

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of extortion. Want to read the rest of it? How about it? You don't have to. I'm in the

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box. Where's the badge and the driver's license? My place. Where's that? Hotel over on Grand.

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Where'd you get the badge? Bought it, guy I know. It's one of the old ones. Mark doesn't

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know the difference. Yeah. How about the license? Made that up myself. Why'd you pick Sorvell?

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Looked like a good dodge. A cop who's going to cause trouble. Why him? Tagged a cleaning

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store out in Highland Park one night. Must be the place where the Sorvell does business.

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Clerk thought I was him. We got to talking. Things just worked out. What about the prison

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deal? How'd you build that for yourself? Well, I know a guy up at Q. He buddies up with a

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prisoner, gets all the information, cuts a letter out to me and I pull the swindle. How

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many times you worked the deal? Collected three. The last one was an old woman. What'd you

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take? Thirty-five hundred. Just you and the guy up in the joint cellar is? Yeah. You willing

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to make a statement? Sure. All right, we'll call a stenographer. Look, can you tell me

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something? What's that? The two out of state beasts. You think they'll extradite me? We

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don't call it. Why? I'd rather do my time here in California. It's nicer here. Yeah.

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Prettier. Lots of nice scenery in California. It's different. Well, I wouldn't worry. You

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won't see much of it. The story you've just heard is true. The names were changed to protect

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the innocent. On July 28th, trial was held in Department 96 Superior Court of the State

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of California in and for the County of Los Angeles. In a moment, the results of that

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Kiernan Offner was tried and convicted on grand theft money three counts and received

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a sentence as prescribed by law. Grand theft money is punishable by imprisonment for a

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period of not less than one nor more than 10 years in the state penitentiary. Sergeant

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James Sorbel was reinstated in his duties with full back pay. You have just heard Dragnet,

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