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Why fist pracing dodging water? All
right, get on over the second Avenue
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the stead alarm and not fire,
Just head, dodge and tennis on the
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job. Then he'll put you to
work on traffic. Yeah, that's right.
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You are in the muster room at
the twenty first Precincts, the Nerve
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Center. A call is coming through. You will follow the action taken for
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two inter that call from this minute
until the final report is written in the
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one twenty four rooms at the twenty
first Precincts. Okay, you're gone,
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bringing when you get back on your
post. Yeah, all right. Twenty
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first Precincts its just lines on the
map of the city of New York.
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Most of the one hundred and seventy
three thousand people who waited into the nine
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tenths of the square mile between Fifth
Avenue and the East River wouldn't know if
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you asked them that they lived or
works in the twenty first Whether they know
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it enough. The security of their
homes, their prisons, and their property
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is the job of the men of
the twenty first precinct. The twenty first
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one hundred and sixty Pertolman, eleven
sergeants, and four lieutenants of whom I'm
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the boss. My name is Kennellie, Frank Kennellie. I'm Captain in command
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of the twenty first I was working
my day tour eight am to sixty pm.
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It was raining hard when I came
on the job, and the sixty
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three men who would patrol the precinct
on foot and infector cars for the next
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eight hours turned out wearing rubber coats, boots and cap covers. At ten
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minutes after nine, Lieutenant Gorman,
the desk officer, rang in my office
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and informed me of a two alarmed
fire and a loft building on Second Avenue.
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By the time a car came by
the station house to take me to
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the scene of the fire, the
third alarm had hit the Teeming Waine,
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added to our difficulties, and it
had not stopped until about the time the
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fire was out. At eleven fourteen, I return into the station house to
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finish the paperwork and begin a required
inspection of departmental equipment. My calendar showed
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that I was scheduled to give a
talk on safety to the student body of
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Julia Richmond High School at one thirty
pm, so at noon I changed the
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civilian clothes and took my rainsilp uniform
trousers under my arm. It was my
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intention to leave them to be pressed
while I went for my meal in the
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restaurant a few doors from the tailor
shop on Third Avenue, operated by Philip
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Parazoni. He loove it, PARAZONI, how are you? I'm fine,
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I'm Captain Kennelly still or you don't
have to bob him. Still still?
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Come here, missus PARAZONI. Hello, che Oh phil how are you?
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Sail a rose? You better get
to two eleven and ticke up work?
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All right? Yeah, the night
JOm as uniform and the elevator out the
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uniform from from the soap fac two
eleven years to elest All right, I'll
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get the only pleas if they want
to back my five o'clock. Huh only
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pres wife symtis. Yeah. Sometimes
they ruin more customers than their words.
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Oh yeah, kept your pets.
I got them a soap this morning.
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Say oh, I'm giving a talk
to some high school students at the one
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thirty this afternoon. I wondered if
I could get them pleased. Oh sure,
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they're not too wet. They don't
worry about it. I'll take care
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of I'm gonna have lunch down the
block. Could I picked them up about
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half an hour. I'll deliver them
to the station house if you were no,
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No, that's all right, I'll
pick them up. Yeah, okay,
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thanks a lot till oh chapter Yeah, could I ask you something?
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Oh? Sure? What is it
now? Look, Captain Young, I'm
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sorry how Rose acted? What happened? You two have a fight? Yeah?
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Yeah, I guess you could call
it a fright anyway, I'm sorry.
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I don't worry about it when I'm
laid about it. You shouldn't treat
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people like that, customers, especially
you. Oh, it happens in the
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best of families. Yeah, best
the family. I left Phil Parizoni's tailor
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shop and went a few doors down
the street to a restaurant where I had
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my meal. When I returned for
the uniform trousers a half hour later,
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Missus Parrazoni was not in the shop. At one thirty pm, I was
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introduced to the student body at Julia
Richmond High School, and I talked for
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twenty minutes on the subject of safety, especially safe driving. It was two
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ten pm when I returned to the
station house, wherein the muster room.
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Lieutenant Gorman was desk officer and Sergeant
Waters was on telephone. Quick pointers A,
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Captain, well ahead and take the
call, Sargeant Yes, A signed
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to blocker twenty place placing Sigeant Waters. Where were you're born? To Burrow,
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Manhattan? When you got down to
the Department of Health one twenty five
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white streak. You can get a
copy of your base if you get there,
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one twenty five white streak? Where
are on the east side? You
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take the elections in Avenue expressed downtown
and came to fourteen seats for the locals
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right the white seat and just upstairs. Then oh, okay yo up,
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yes, sergeant, did you have
something for me? Oh yeah, Captain?
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Why you know that Philip PARIZONI from
the teen attimp I don't want a
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bout him. Came in to see
him. John and his wife are asked
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him Whitney rufe were they? And
then huh yes, sir Hard my vice
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pray thanks, dog and water all
right? Where you be? Oh?
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Phil? Oh you know my wife's
rose? Yes, sure, hello,
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my stars on me. Hello,
Well what can I do for your philm
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Well, he told me it wasn't
the right thing. Could do we tell
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me in so many words, I
wouldn't listen to no Rose, that's what
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he told me. It wasn't the
right thing to do. What wasn't the
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right thing to do? It was
all my fault. He didn't have anything
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to do with Rose. Let's just
talk to him. Would you wait outside?
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It's mike, what would you just
staying outside and I'll get it straight
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and dot? Is that all right
with your captain? Yeah? I guess
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so, yeah, go ahead,
Rose, lets me get straighten dot.
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Yeah, all right, but it's
my fault everything. Could I close the
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gold cans so I don't get it? This is all wait here? Yeah?
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Sure, that's hard. Well what's
the trouble Phil, captain? When
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when you came in the store to
get your pants? Press ya? Well,
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that's why she acted so funny because
it was you. You said she
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thought you came to arresta. That's
why she acted that way. Arrester.
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For one, it's a long story, it's a very long story. Or
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did she do well? Captain?
When somebody has worked too hard for so
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many years, worked really struggles,
can you blame them too much? If
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they see an opportunity to make some
money, took like that a big opportunity
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to make it. I can't blame
them as it's legitimate. Well in this
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case it's legitimate, and it is, but it can't be both. Well,
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I mean, the money don't really
belong to anybody. You better start
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at the beginning. So you know. Well, so it was yesterday morning.
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We were in the shop, but
Rose was at the corner, like
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like when you came in today,
and I was in the back of the
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president you see. Yeah, Well, the door opened and the customer came
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in. A woman, a very
pretty young woman. Yeah, well she
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came in mad as a wet hen. Well, I heard her talking to
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Rose, and I came up to
see what the matter was. She had
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on a nice wolf suit. See
the front of the skirt was thirty and
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smarts. And I didn't blame us
for being man anyway, She said she
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was on the bus. She said
two men got on, and the man
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who was sitting next to her saw
the two men. Well, she thinks
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they were detectives and they were after
the man that was sitting next to her.
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Well, anyway, he jumped out
of the seat and crawled all over
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and ruined the suit with his shoe
and went out the back door the bus
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and the two men ran out after
huh. Well, anyway, after a
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minute, she looked down on the
seat and there was a packet, you
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see, a pretty big packet.
Must must have belonged to the man that
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the policeman with chase him. She
picked it up and did the woman to
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half the package when she came into
the store. Oh yeah, yeah,
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she had it all right. It
was right down on the cormeter all the
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time. Only anyway, I said, I tried to fix up a skirt
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as best I could, and she
went in the dressing room you know.
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Well I was in the back there
working on the skirt, and then the
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lady asked Rose to bring the package
into the dressing room. She'd like to
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take a look at it while she
was waiting. So so Rose brought the
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package in, and Rose said,
you know how curiosity can get the best
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of the ladies. Well, they
sat there looking at it, and Rose
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was hoping that she would open it
up. And finally the lady decided to
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open it up. And what was
in it, Well, I didn't know.
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I didn't find out until last night. Oh well, she didn't say
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anything to me about it. While
we were in the store. I was
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busy fact there, I didn't know
what was going on in the dressing room.
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I see, your wife only told
you what was in it. Yeah,
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I never saw anything in there.
But what was in the package?
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Money? Lots of money kept it? How much? Well, I don't
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know exactly. Rose said. At
least three thousand they take, aren't they?
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Sure? Well? Rose told me
they didn't content that. They were
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so scared they didn't count it.
Oh the money, the money wasn't all
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of us in there? What else? Number slips, you know, slips
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from playing policy. Oh yeah,
well they take it out. Grows to
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the lady that this feller on the
puss was the racketeer he seeing it was
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being taked by the cops. Yeah, oh you're gonna ask, grows in,
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well a lot. I think we
ought to have this story from her,
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don't you. Yeah? Yeah,
I think we ought to missus Pirezoni.
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Yes, where'd you come in?
Now? All right? Just kind
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of seat? Yeah you tell him
so well? Not everything? Yes,
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sit down the stars, ny.
I only got up to the part after
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you opened the package in the dressing
room. Oh yes, I did rather
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hear the story from you, missus
PARAZONI instead of what you told your husband.
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Yeah. Sure, Now how much
money was in there? So we
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didn't count it West all that money
in the policy slips. We got scared.
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You and the lady. Yeah,
we wrapped the package back up again.
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What was it a stack of money? Yes, stack about this thick
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about two or three You just pick
uptomoney. And was the pile of money
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tied up? Yeah, with the
rubber band, A couple of rubber things.
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And what was on top? Twenty
dollars bill? Did you see the
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bottom? Yeah? It was ten. I think there's a ten dollar bill
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on the bottom. You never did
take the rubber band, so I didn't
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even touch it. She was holding
it, and you decided to wrap it
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up quickly, and she decided it. She said the best thing to do
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would be to call the police.
That would be the best thing. Oh
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why didn't you call the police?
Well, I came back with the skirts.
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You better let her tell it,
so, oh yeah, okay,
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all right. Well, still came
back to the dressing room with the skirt
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and she had the package roll tied
up again. I took her out in
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front of where the telephone was and
she walked over to it, and she
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took up the telephone. All of
a sudden she hung up where it was
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still. I was in back there. I was working on some work at
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the President Miching. I don't know. I didn't see any of it,
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so it's right he didn't see any
of it. Did she tell you her
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name? Not? Then? Did
you ever find it out? Well?
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Later she said of it the best
if I didn't know a full name.
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She said her first name was married. Oh did she tell you why she
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didn't call the police? Yeah?
Yes, she told me that she was
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afraid to call the police. She
said that she was afraid that they'd find
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out if she had twenty two postles
tickets on a car. Never wants to
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call about any of them. She's
afraid to be arrested and find a lot
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of money and things like that.
She said, maybe it'd be better if
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she left the package, didn't the
stone, if I'd call the police.
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Did you agree to that? Well? I didn't care. But then she
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said there wasn't any reason why we
couldn't keep the money to ourselves, better
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that we should have it in the
criminals. The only thing was she was
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afraid that the man from the bus
might have gotten away from the copson might
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have remembered her. So what did
you do? Well, it was decided
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that we could leave it in one
of those lockers in Grand Central stations.
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You know, one of the lockers
right in the waiting room. There here
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a little locker with a key that
to take out put in the dime.
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Yeah. Well, because she was
scared, I took the package when out
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of the store, and she followed
me. I went over and took the
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subway and rode down the Grand sent
room. I put the package in the
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locker, and she said I could
keep the key because I didn't know her
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full name away to get in touch
with her, but she show and knew
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me, and she was sure.
I was honest. Is the backage still
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in the locker? Yes, still
in the locker, and you've got the
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key? Yeah? I got the
kick got her ideas. How much cash
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did she ask you to put up? So? So, did you tell
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him he had you to put up
can? No? No, I didn't
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tell him. How did you know
she had me to put up cash?
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I knew how much? Was it? Seven hundred and fifty dollars? Have
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they given a dory? Yes?
No, No, I'm supposed to meet
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at the testing room. You're lucky, missus barrows on me. What do
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you mean lucky? I'm worried at
that sad a death. You're lucky not
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only didn't find three thousand dollars of
someone else's money, you didn't lose seven
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hundred and fifty of your own.
You are listening to twenty first Precincts,
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a factual account of the way police
work in the world's largest city. Now
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back to twenty first Precincts and Captain
Tennelly. I took mister Missus Palizona upstairs
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to the twenty first Detective Squad and
into the office of Lieutenant Matt King's squad
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commanders him shamming, buncle and pigeon
dropping, as the small con games are
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called, are old storiesn't easily recognizable
to police officers, but to the victim,
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they're most convincing. This is especially
true because in many there is a
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blinding streak of larceny exceeded only by
that in the carn arty. These confidence
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rackets are invariably based upon the victim's
desire to get something for nothing, something
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that belongs to somebody else. To
the police officer, the gullibility of people
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is amazing. It's incredible how many
in the city of New York fall victim
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to these same old small con games
year in and year out. In this
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case, Lieutenant King and Detective Louis
de Luca questioned the intended victim very closely
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as I listened. Why should she
give you the key? She were on
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the level. Why wouldn't she suspect
you'd go to the locker and get the
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package for yourself. Well, she
told me that she trusted me because she
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knew where to get in touch with
me. We were in business. She
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walked in off the street with a
smudge on her suit, and that sufficient
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reason for her to trust you with
three thousand dollars. Well, she told
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my wife she had to trust somebody. YEA, that's right. She couldn't
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go to the police, and a
kind of the twenty two part ticket.
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You've known these people a long time, haven't you got Yeah, ever since
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I've been in the prisint many years. As far as I know, they're
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good, honest, hard working people. It was all my fault, And
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I told Philly, said, why
didn't I go to the police. I
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should have gone to the police.
That grows. Please. If I meant
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to you to go to the police, I would have insisted, I let's
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pick this up for a minute where
we left go off? Yeah, all
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right, yesterday you and this Mary
and put the package down to Grand Central
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and you got one of those dime
lockers. Yes, that's right. Then
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what did you do? We went
to a I don't know, a coffee
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bar. I guess you'd call it
in Grand Central. We stood there,
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we had a cup of coffee,
and she said, well, I guess
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nobody followed us. I guess the
detectives arrest of the man. I said,
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yes, I guess they did.
So. She thanked me a lot
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for helping her, and she started
to say how much I should get for
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helping her. She mentioned something like
twenty five percent of what was in the
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package. Well, I would have
been satisfied with twenty five percent. Anyway,
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we settled on the fact that I
should get a third. We were
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supposed to meet at Grand Central.
Why did this coffee bar exactly at noon
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today? We take the package someplace
and open up and then split the money.
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If you happened to give you the
key, well, it was her
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own idea. It was very nice
if I wasn't. I thought it was,
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and you parted company. Yes,
what time do you get back at
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the store. It was about an
hour rest our left. Your husband asked
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you where you've been? Well,
yeah, yeah, yeah, since told
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she had to go out with the
lady to help her out. I asked
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her why she had to help out
of strange I said, she said she
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just did, she had to that
goal. And you accepted that answer.
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Well, I couldn't go let accept
accepted. What else could I do?
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Why did you tell him about the
money last night? After dinner? I
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just didn't keep it in mere anymore. I told her about the package and
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about everything that was in it,
and how we went to Graham Central,
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how we put it in the locker, and how she was going to meet
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me there tomorrow and I was going
to get one third. Your husband told
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you to go to the police,
didn't he? Yes, he told me
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to, but with no enthusiasm.
With no enthusiasm, what's to work?
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At least you told me and you
were intending to meet her at Grand Central
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station at noon today and open up
the package. Yes, that's right.
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It was about noon that I gave
you a star. You were still laying,
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Yes, I know I was there. I got a call from her
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on the telephone at nine thirty this
morning's Maria, Yes, Marian. She
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said she was an awful trouble.
She said she got home the night before
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I went to bed, and when
she woke up in the morning there was
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a policeman there. So policeman phone
Almans fell out of my hand. She
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said. The policeman came to a
restaurant the kind of a twenty two traffic
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ticket that she didn't show up and
court for. She said the policeman took
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her down to the magistrate's court and
she was sitting there just waiting for her
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trial. So she said she couldn't
meet me this noon, but that I
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ought to go down and put another
diamond the locker at Grand Central Stage and
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I told her i'd do that.
It made me promised to be sure enough
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to open the package because we'd have
to count the money together, and I
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told her I wouldn't, but I
just put the dime in. Did you
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get down to Grand Central, Yeah, yeah, I went down there.
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I went out of the store when
the captain was in there. Do you
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remember that captain when I lived,
Yes, I remember I'm so nervous.
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I didn't know what to do.
I thought she came to get there,
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but I saw it. When I
found out she didn't, I went over
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and got the subway and went down
to Grand Central and put another diamond the
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locker. You look inside and see
if the package was still there. Yeah.
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Yeah, I opened up the locker. I looked inside to see it
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was still in there. The passage. Then you went back to the store.
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Yes, what time was? That's
been about a quarter of the one
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that I got back. What time
to hear from marrying again? About one
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o'clock? She called, what'd you
say this time? Well, if she
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told me she'd been up before the
judge, she said. The judge was
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very mad at her for ignoring the
twenty two traffic tickets. And you find
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a seven hundred and fifty dollars seven
hundred and fifty dollars. She had had
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the money right away. She got
a jail. She had to pay the
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fine by four o'closs that afternoon.
She said she didn't know what she was
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going to do. The judge wouldn't
let her leave the building, but he
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let her go out in the hall
and use the pay telephone. So she
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could call some friends if she didn't
have about four o'clock that afternoon to go
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to jail. What'd you say to
well? I told her. I told
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her she had all that money in
Gray Simple Station. I said, you're
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to be able to use that.
She said no, if she didn't want
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to do that. She didn't want
to take the chance on opening up the
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passage knock down there because they're all
kinds of cops around and everything. There's
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always all kinds of cops in the
court house. Did you have any suggestions
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of her? Yeah? I told
her I could open it up and throw
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the policy flips away. I could
go to the ladies room in Grand Central
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Station and throw them in the waistbats
to something like that, and just bring
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the money down. She said,
no, that wouldn't be any good because
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we'd have to count the money together, and he's take our shares. If
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there wouldn't be any suspicion on either
side, that seems fair, didn't Yeah,
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but I knew she was in such
trouble and she had to pay the
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seven hundred fifty dollars fine. Did
she have any suggestions, Yeah, she
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had a suggestion. She wanted to
know if I had seven hundred and fifty
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dollars if I could get it,
and I said, yeah, I I
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could go to the savings account,
and she said, please, please,
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wouldn't I do her a favor and
draw the money so she could pay the
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fine. And after she paid the
fine, we'd go up to Grand Central
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and get the package and we'd split
it right away, and I'd get my
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seven hundred and fifty dollars back,
and she'd give me half for the risk
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instead of only a third. Did
you agree to do that? Finally?
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I told her all right, I
would, And I told her that i'd
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meet her with the seven hundred and
fifty dollars. Where was that in the
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courthouse down on Center Street. Were
in the courthouse on the second floor,
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right by the pay telephones there.
She said that the judge had given a
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permission to go out and stand by
the telephones to wait for calls and to
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make calls, but she had to
be back inside the court and pay off
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the fine before o'clock. What time
are you going to meet her? At?
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A quarter to four? Well,
you know? Or to be thankful,
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Linch, you decided to bring the
whole thing to me. You would
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have given another seven hundred and fifty
dollars and never seen her again. Yeah,
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but the package, I'd a keeated
a lot of the packages in there.
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If you'd have gotten back thirty of
yours seven hundred and fifty dollars,
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twenty on top and a ten on
the bottom. It looked like money to
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me, it always does. What
made you decide to come and see me?
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Oh? He was Still's ideas.
Oh no, Rose, you've decided
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to do No, that's not true. It was his idea. See,
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he keeps the bank book in the
drawer of the sewing the scene he was
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putting a new lining in a coat
and he wouldn't get away from it.
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Finally he stood up to get something. I got the bank book. He
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saw me, so he asked me
what happened, and I told him.
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He says, no, I can't
go to the bank and get the money.
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But I told him, I promise. He said, I don't care
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what your But she decided to come
here herself. She decides, he told
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me, So I decided. What
do you think it was? Jennings?
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Think I'd going out of Grand Center
and pick up that baggage? What kind
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of it? Now? Quarter to
three, I think you had to leave
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it there at least until we're sure
that this Marion goes down at the courthouse,
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just as probably be standing in Grand
Central watching that locker. She sees
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a police officer or Rose go get
the package. She's not going to show
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up at the courthouse, but stays
there in the lockers, and she's sure
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the deal was on. Isadan,
what should I do? You don't have
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to worry about that. In Parazon
mean you just do what we tell you.
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It was decided that Missus CARAZONI would
go ahead and complete the transaction with
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the con artist she knew only as
marriaim a dummy package of money prepared in
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exactly the same manner as the package
left in the locker, and Grand Central
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was gotten ready. There was a
twenty dollar bill on top and a ten
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on the bottom. In between was
plain paper cut the size. The serial
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numbers of the two reel bills were
recorded for evidence. Detective de Luca was
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instructed to see that Missus PARISONI waited
until the exact time of the appointment,
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entered the building and took the elevator
to the second floor. Lieutenant King and
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I went into the lobby of the
building and met two detectives of the Fifth
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Squad. The four of us took
the elevator to the second floor. It
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was hardly necessary to make ourselves inconspicuous
in the corridor. The place, as
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always on court days, was jammed
with police officers, defendants, witnesses,
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complainants, bail bondsmen, and attorneys
waiting for their cases to be called in
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the various courts. The two detectives
from the fifth Squad were planted near the
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elevators. Lieutenant King and I walked
to a place in the carner, close
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to the telephone roof, and there
we waited. Captain. That's the first
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time I've heard of the Criminal Court
building being part of a con game.
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It's impressive, man, I'm trying
to give her credit to that. It's
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impressive. All there's a woman waiting. I think that, sir, m
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he's pretty close to the description.
Wait a minute, there's another one down
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there, where as the drinking faster? All right, lots of them,
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Captain, Yes, we just have
to wait and see. How's the time
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you do up here? Now?
How about moving across there where we can
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see the elevators. Cat talking,
there's a babe there the blue dress.
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Yeah, that could be hard too. I want to see. Look,
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we better not both watched the elevators. Man, now, I love I
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look this way. You just let
me know what's going on. Okay,
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okay, there's another one that could
be the goal. The description fits half
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the women in New York. Yeah, business parers only coming off the elevator,
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starting to look around. You see
him. I guess which one is?
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She looking? Basine? Here she
comes. You think Marion showed,
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Yes, sir, she showed.
PARAZONI is walking over to her, the
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one little blue dress. I better
keep looking this way. Yes, he's
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greeted her, but making the change. PARAZONI is giving us a package.
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She's got it all right, that's
cool, good looking, all right,
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you'll want think that will help her
and go for he know how much lit'll
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do from now on? Where will
I wait for you? All right?
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We're police officers. I'll take that
package. What one you've got there,
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I'll have it? Please? Did
you bring them? Did you bring in
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because you were cheating? Give me
you want to pay? Your eyes out?
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You're looking sorrow. I love to
come. I'll stand over there in
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Zoni. I don't think so,
No, I don't think so, but
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let her believe it. But you
do open up the packaging grand pencil.
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No, only Still, what made
they're ringing the nut? You picked the
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wrong mark? Hey, yeah,
but you didn't count on one thing.
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He's got a streak of honesty when
he face breaking tig and waters. Yeah,
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that's right. It was our policemen
working over there. What do you
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want to know for Well, how
is what bad doing concern you? Yeah?
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Yeah, well you'll just have the
bed with it's a while, mister.
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Getting her out is more important than
you're losing a little sleep, all
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right, Yeah, we'll be soon
there out a way a stone as possible.
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Yes, yes, y'all welcome.
And so it goes around the clock
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through the week, every day,
every year. A police precinct in the
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City of New York is a flesh
and blood merrygoround. Anyone can catch the
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brass ring, or the brass ring
can catch anyone. Twenty first Precinct,
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a factual account of the way the
police work in the world's largest city,
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is presented with the official cooperation of
the Patrolman's Benevolent Association, an organization of
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more than twenty thousand members of the
Police Department, City of New York.
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Everett's flown in the role of Captain
genelle En Lynch is Lieutenant King Hellowstone,
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the sergeant. Featured in the night's
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Bally Haynes, and Bill Quinn.
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for CBS Radio by John eys Art, Hannah Stephens
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Why fist pracing dodging water? All
right, get on over the second Avenue
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the stead alarm and not fire,
Just head, dodge and tennis on the
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job. Then he'll put you to
work on traffic. Yeah, that's right.
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You are in the muster room at
the twenty first Precincts, the Nerve
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Center. A call is coming through. You will follow the action taken for
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two inter that call from this minute
until the final report is written in the
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one twenty four rooms at the twenty
first Precincts. Okay, you're gone,
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bringing when you get back on your
post. Yeah, all right. Twenty
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first Precincts its just lines on the
map of the city of New York.
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Most of the one hundred and seventy
three thousand people who waited into the nine
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tenths of the square mile between Fifth
Avenue and the East River wouldn't know if
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you asked them that they lived or
works in the twenty first Whether they know
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it enough. The security of their
homes, their prisons, and their property
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is the job of the men of
the twenty first precinct. The twenty first
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one hundred and sixty Pertolman, eleven
sergeants, and four lieutenants of whom I'm
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the boss. My name is Kennellie, Frank Kennellie. I'm Captain in command
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of the twenty first I was working
my day tour eight am to sixty pm.
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It was raining hard when I came
on the job, and the sixty
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three men who would patrol the precinct
on foot and infector cars for the next
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eight hours turned out wearing rubber coats, boots and cap covers. At ten
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minutes after nine, Lieutenant Gorman,
the desk officer, rang in my office
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and informed me of a two alarmed
fire and a loft building on Second Avenue.
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By the time a car came by
the station house to take me to
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the scene of the fire, the
third alarm had hit the Teeming Waine,
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added to our difficulties, and it
had not stopped until about the time the
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fire was out. At eleven fourteen, I return into the station house to
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finish the paperwork and begin a required
inspection of departmental equipment. My calendar showed
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that I was scheduled to give a
talk on safety to the student body of
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Julia Richmond High School at one thirty
pm, so at noon I changed the
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civilian clothes and took my rainsilp uniform
trousers under my arm. It was my
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intention to leave them to be pressed
while I went for my meal in the
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restaurant a few doors from the tailor
shop on Third Avenue, operated by Philip
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Parazoni. He loove it, PARAZONI, how are you? I'm fine,
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I'm Captain Kennelly still or you don't
have to bob him. Still still?
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Come here, missus PARAZONI. Hello, che Oh phil how are you?
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Sail a rose? You better get
to two eleven and ticke up work?
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All right? Yeah, the night
JOm as uniform and the elevator out the
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uniform from from the soap fac two
eleven years to elest All right, I'll
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get the only pleas if they want
to back my five o'clock. Huh only
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pres wife symtis. Yeah. Sometimes
they ruin more customers than their words.
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Oh yeah, kept your pets.
I got them a soap this morning.
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Say oh, I'm giving a talk
to some high school students at the one
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thirty this afternoon. I wondered if
I could get them pleased. Oh sure,
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they're not too wet. They don't
worry about it. I'll take care
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of I'm gonna have lunch down the
block. Could I picked them up about
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half an hour. I'll deliver them
to the station house if you were no,
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No, that's all right, I'll
pick them up. Yeah, okay,
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thanks a lot till oh chapter Yeah, could I ask you something?
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Oh? Sure? What is it
now? Look, Captain Young, I'm
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sorry how Rose acted? What happened? You two have a fight? Yeah?
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Yeah, I guess you could call
it a fright anyway, I'm sorry.
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I don't worry about it when I'm
laid about it. You shouldn't treat
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people like that, customers, especially
you. Oh, it happens in the
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best of families. Yeah, best
the family. I left Phil Parizoni's tailor
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shop and went a few doors down
the street to a restaurant where I had
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my meal. When I returned for
the uniform trousers a half hour later,
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Missus Parrazoni was not in the shop. At one thirty pm, I was
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introduced to the student body at Julia
Richmond High School, and I talked for
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twenty minutes on the subject of safety, especially safe driving. It was two
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ten pm when I returned to the
station house, wherein the muster room.
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Lieutenant Gorman was desk officer and Sergeant
Waters was on telephone. Quick pointers A,
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Captain, well ahead and take the
call, Sargeant Yes, A signed
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to blocker twenty place placing Sigeant Waters. Where were you're born? To Burrow,
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Manhattan? When you got down to
the Department of Health one twenty five
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white streak. You can get a
copy of your base if you get there,
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one twenty five white streak? Where
are on the east side? You
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take the elections in Avenue expressed downtown
and came to fourteen seats for the locals
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right the white seat and just upstairs. Then oh, okay yo up,
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yes, sergeant, did you have
something for me? Oh yeah, Captain?
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Why you know that Philip PARIZONI from
the teen attimp I don't want a
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bout him. Came in to see
him. John and his wife are asked
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him Whitney rufe were they? And
then huh yes, sir Hard my vice
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pray thanks, dog and water all
right? Where you be? Oh?
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Phil? Oh you know my wife's
rose? Yes, sure, hello,
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my stars on me. Hello,
Well what can I do for your philm
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Well, he told me it wasn't
the right thing. Could do we tell
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me in so many words, I
wouldn't listen to no Rose, that's what
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he told me. It wasn't the
right thing to do. What wasn't the
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right thing to do? It was
all my fault. He didn't have anything
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to do with Rose. Let's just
talk to him. Would you wait outside?
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It's mike, what would you just
staying outside and I'll get it straight
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and dot? Is that all right
with your captain? Yeah? I guess
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so, yeah, go ahead,
Rose, lets me get straighten dot.
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Yeah, all right, but it's
my fault everything. Could I close the
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gold cans so I don't get it? This is all wait here? Yeah?
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Sure, that's hard. Well what's
the trouble Phil, captain? When
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when you came in the store to
get your pants? Press ya? Well,
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that's why she acted so funny because
it was you. You said she
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thought you came to arresta. That's
why she acted that way. Arrester.
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For one, it's a long story, it's a very long story. Or
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did she do well? Captain?
When somebody has worked too hard for so
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many years, worked really struggles,
can you blame them too much? If
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they see an opportunity to make some
money, took like that a big opportunity
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to make it. I can't blame
them as it's legitimate. Well in this
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case it's legitimate, and it is, but it can't be both. Well,
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I mean, the money don't really
belong to anybody. You better start
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at the beginning. So you know. Well, so it was yesterday morning.
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We were in the shop, but
Rose was at the corner, like
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like when you came in today,
and I was in the back of the
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president you see. Yeah, Well, the door opened and the customer came
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in. A woman, a very
pretty young woman. Yeah, well she
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came in mad as a wet hen. Well, I heard her talking to
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Rose, and I came up to
see what the matter was. She had
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on a nice wolf suit. See
the front of the skirt was thirty and
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smarts. And I didn't blame us
for being man anyway, She said she
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was on the bus. She said
two men got on, and the man
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who was sitting next to her saw
the two men. Well, she thinks
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they were detectives and they were after
the man that was sitting next to her.
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Well, anyway, he jumped out
of the seat and crawled all over
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and ruined the suit with his shoe
and went out the back door the bus
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and the two men ran out after
huh. Well, anyway, after a
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minute, she looked down on the
seat and there was a packet, you
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see, a pretty big packet.
Must must have belonged to the man that
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the policeman with chase him. She
picked it up and did the woman to
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half the package when she came into
the store. Oh yeah, yeah,
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she had it all right. It
was right down on the cormeter all the
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time. Only anyway, I said, I tried to fix up a skirt
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as best I could, and she
went in the dressing room you know.
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Well I was in the back there
working on the skirt, and then the
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lady asked Rose to bring the package
into the dressing room. She'd like to
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take a look at it while she
was waiting. So so Rose brought the
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package in, and Rose said,
you know how curiosity can get the best
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of the ladies. Well, they
sat there looking at it, and Rose
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was hoping that she would open it
up. And finally the lady decided to
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open it up. And what was
in it, Well, I didn't know.
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I didn't find out until last night. Oh well, she didn't say
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anything to me about it. While
we were in the store. I was
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busy fact there, I didn't know
what was going on in the dressing room.
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I see, your wife only told
you what was in it. Yeah,
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I never saw anything in there.
But what was in the package?
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Money? Lots of money kept it? How much? Well, I don't
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know exactly. Rose said. At
least three thousand they take, aren't they?
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Sure? Well? Rose told me
they didn't content that. They were
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so scared they didn't count it.
Oh the money, the money wasn't all
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of us in there? What else? Number slips, you know, slips
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from playing policy. Oh yeah,
well they take it out. Grows to
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the lady that this feller on the
puss was the racketeer he seeing it was
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being taked by the cops. Yeah, oh you're gonna ask, grows in,
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well a lot. I think we
ought to have this story from her,
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don't you. Yeah? Yeah,
I think we ought to missus Pirezoni.
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Yes, where'd you come in?
Now? All right? Just kind
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of seat? Yeah you tell him
so well? Not everything? Yes,
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sit down the stars, ny.
I only got up to the part after
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you opened the package in the dressing
room. Oh yes, I did rather
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hear the story from you, missus
PARAZONI instead of what you told your husband.
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Yeah. Sure, Now how much
money was in there? So we
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didn't count it West all that money
in the policy slips. We got scared.
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You and the lady. Yeah,
we wrapped the package back up again.
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What was it a stack of money? Yes, stack about this thick
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about two or three You just pick
uptomoney. And was the pile of money
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tied up? Yeah, with the
rubber band, A couple of rubber things.
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And what was on top? Twenty
dollars bill? Did you see the
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bottom? Yeah? It was ten. I think there's a ten dollar bill
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on the bottom. You never did
take the rubber band, so I didn't
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even touch it. She was holding
it, and you decided to wrap it
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up quickly, and she decided it. She said the best thing to do
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would be to call the police.
That would be the best thing. Oh
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why didn't you call the police?
Well, I came back with the skirts.
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You better let her tell it,
so, oh yeah, okay,
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all right. Well, still came
back to the dressing room with the skirt
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and she had the package roll tied
up again. I took her out in
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front of where the telephone was and
she walked over to it, and she
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took up the telephone. All of
a sudden she hung up where it was
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still. I was in back there. I was working on some work at
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the President Miching. I don't know. I didn't see any of it,
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so it's right he didn't see any
of it. Did she tell you her
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name? Not? Then? Did
you ever find it out? Well?
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Later she said of it the best
if I didn't know a full name.
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She said her first name was married. Oh did she tell you why she
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didn't call the police? Yeah?
Yes, she told me that she was
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afraid to call the police. She
said that she was afraid that they'd find
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out if she had twenty two postles
tickets on a car. Never wants to
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call about any of them. She's
afraid to be arrested and find a lot
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of money and things like that.
She said, maybe it'd be better if
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she left the package, didn't the
stone, if I'd call the police.
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Did you agree to that? Well? I didn't care. But then she
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said there wasn't any reason why we
couldn't keep the money to ourselves, better
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that we should have it in the
criminals. The only thing was she was
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afraid that the man from the bus
might have gotten away from the copson might
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have remembered her. So what did
you do? Well, it was decided
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that we could leave it in one
of those lockers in Grand Central stations.
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You know, one of the lockers
right in the waiting room. There here
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a little locker with a key that
to take out put in the dime.
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Yeah. Well, because she was
scared, I took the package when out
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of the store, and she followed
me. I went over and took the
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subway and rode down the Grand sent
room. I put the package in the
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locker, and she said I could
keep the key because I didn't know her
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full name away to get in touch
with her, but she show and knew
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me, and she was sure.
I was honest. Is the backage still
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in the locker? Yes, still
in the locker, and you've got the
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key? Yeah? I got the
kick got her ideas. How much cash
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did she ask you to put up? So? So, did you tell
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him he had you to put up
can? No? No, I didn't
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tell him. How did you know
she had me to put up cash?
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I knew how much? Was it? Seven hundred and fifty dollars? Have
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they given a dory? Yes?
No, No, I'm supposed to meet
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at the testing room. You're lucky, missus barrows on me. What do
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you mean lucky? I'm worried at
that sad a death. You're lucky not
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only didn't find three thousand dollars of
someone else's money, you didn't lose seven
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hundred and fifty of your own.
You are listening to twenty first Precincts,
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a factual account of the way police
work in the world's largest city. Now
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back to twenty first Precincts and Captain
Tennelly. I took mister Missus Palizona upstairs
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to the twenty first Detective Squad and
into the office of Lieutenant Matt King's squad
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commanders him shamming, buncle and pigeon
dropping, as the small con games are
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called, are old storiesn't easily recognizable
to police officers, but to the victim,
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they're most convincing. This is especially
true because in many there is a
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blinding streak of larceny exceeded only by
that in the carn arty. These confidence
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rackets are invariably based upon the victim's
desire to get something for nothing, something
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that belongs to somebody else. To
the police officer, the gullibility of people
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is amazing. It's incredible how many
in the city of New York fall victim
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to these same old small con games
year in and year out. In this
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case, Lieutenant King and Detective Louis
de Luca questioned the intended victim very closely
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as I listened. Why should she
give you the key? She were on
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the level. Why wouldn't she suspect
you'd go to the locker and get the
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package for yourself. Well, she
told me that she trusted me because she
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knew where to get in touch with
me. We were in business. She
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walked in off the street with a
smudge on her suit, and that sufficient
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reason for her to trust you with
three thousand dollars. Well, she told
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my wife she had to trust somebody. YEA, that's right. She couldn't
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go to the police, and a
kind of the twenty two part ticket.
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You've known these people a long time, haven't you got Yeah, ever since
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I've been in the prisint many years. As far as I know, they're
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good, honest, hard working people. It was all my fault, And
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I told Philly, said, why
didn't I go to the police. I
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should have gone to the police.
That grows. Please. If I meant
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to you to go to the police, I would have insisted, I let's
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pick this up for a minute where
we left go off? Yeah, all
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right, yesterday you and this Mary
and put the package down to Grand Central
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and you got one of those dime
lockers. Yes, that's right. Then
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what did you do? We went
to a I don't know, a coffee
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bar. I guess you'd call it
in Grand Central. We stood there,
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we had a cup of coffee,
and she said, well, I guess
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nobody followed us. I guess the
detectives arrest of the man. I said,
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yes, I guess they did.
So. She thanked me a lot
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for helping her, and she started
to say how much I should get for
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helping her. She mentioned something like
twenty five percent of what was in the
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package. Well, I would have
been satisfied with twenty five percent. Anyway,
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we settled on the fact that I
should get a third. We were
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supposed to meet at Grand Central.
Why did this coffee bar exactly at noon
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today? We take the package someplace
and open up and then split the money.
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If you happened to give you the
key, well, it was her
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own idea. It was very nice
if I wasn't. I thought it was,
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and you parted company. Yes,
what time do you get back at
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the store. It was about an
hour rest our left. Your husband asked
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you where you've been? Well,
yeah, yeah, yeah, since told
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she had to go out with the
lady to help her out. I asked
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her why she had to help out
of strange I said, she said she
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just did, she had to that
goal. And you accepted that answer.
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Well, I couldn't go let accept
accepted. What else could I do?
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Why did you tell him about the
money last night? After dinner? I
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just didn't keep it in mere anymore. I told her about the package and
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about everything that was in it,
and how we went to Graham Central,
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how we put it in the locker, and how she was going to meet
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me there tomorrow and I was going
to get one third. Your husband told
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you to go to the police,
didn't he? Yes, he told me
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to, but with no enthusiasm.
With no enthusiasm, what's to work?
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At least you told me and you
were intending to meet her at Grand Central
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station at noon today and open up
the package. Yes, that's right.
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It was about noon that I gave
you a star. You were still laying,
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Yes, I know I was there. I got a call from her
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on the telephone at nine thirty this
morning's Maria, Yes, Marian. She
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said she was an awful trouble.
She said she got home the night before
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I went to bed, and when
she woke up in the morning there was
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a policeman there. So policeman phone
Almans fell out of my hand. She
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said. The policeman came to a
restaurant the kind of a twenty two traffic
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ticket that she didn't show up and
court for. She said the policeman took
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her down to the magistrate's court and
she was sitting there just waiting for her
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trial. So she said she couldn't
meet me this noon, but that I
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ought to go down and put another
diamond the locker at Grand Central Stage and
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I told her i'd do that.
It made me promised to be sure enough
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to open the package because we'd have
to count the money together, and I
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told her I wouldn't, but I
just put the dime in. Did you
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get down to Grand Central, Yeah, yeah, I went down there.
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I went out of the store when
the captain was in there. Do you
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remember that captain when I lived,
Yes, I remember I'm so nervous.
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I didn't know what to do.
I thought she came to get there,
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but I saw it. When I
found out she didn't, I went over
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and got the subway and went down
to Grand Central and put another diamond the
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locker. You look inside and see
if the package was still there. Yeah.
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Yeah, I opened up the locker. I looked inside to see it
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was still in there. The passage. Then you went back to the store.
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Yes, what time was? That's
been about a quarter of the one
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that I got back. What time
to hear from marrying again? About one
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o'clock? She called, what'd you
say this time? Well, if she
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told me she'd been up before the
judge, she said. The judge was
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very mad at her for ignoring the
twenty two traffic tickets. And you find
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a seven hundred and fifty dollars seven
hundred and fifty dollars. She had had
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the money right away. She got
a jail. She had to pay the
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fine by four o'closs that afternoon.
She said she didn't know what she was
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going to do. The judge wouldn't
let her leave the building, but he
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let her go out in the hall
and use the pay telephone. So she
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could call some friends if she didn't
have about four o'clock that afternoon to go
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to jail. What'd you say to
well? I told her. I told
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her she had all that money in
Gray Simple Station. I said, you're
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to be able to use that.
She said no, if she didn't want
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to do that. She didn't want
to take the chance on opening up the
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passage knock down there because they're all
kinds of cops around and everything. There's
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always all kinds of cops in the
court house. Did you have any suggestions
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of her? Yeah? I told
her I could open it up and throw
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the policy flips away. I could
go to the ladies room in Grand Central
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Station and throw them in the waistbats
to something like that, and just bring
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the money down. She said,
no, that wouldn't be any good because
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we'd have to count the money together, and he's take our shares. If
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there wouldn't be any suspicion on either
side, that seems fair, didn't Yeah,
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but I knew she was in such
trouble and she had to pay the
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seven hundred fifty dollars fine. Did
she have any suggestions, Yeah, she
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had a suggestion. She wanted to
know if I had seven hundred and fifty
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dollars if I could get it,
and I said, yeah, I I
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could go to the savings account,
and she said, please, please,
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wouldn't I do her a favor and
draw the money so she could pay the
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fine. And after she paid the
fine, we'd go up to Grand Central
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and get the package and we'd split
it right away, and I'd get my
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seven hundred and fifty dollars back,
and she'd give me half for the risk
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instead of only a third. Did
you agree to do that? Finally?
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I told her all right, I
would, And I told her that i'd
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meet her with the seven hundred and
fifty dollars. Where was that in the
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courthouse down on Center Street. Were
in the courthouse on the second floor,
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right by the pay telephones there.
She said that the judge had given a
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permission to go out and stand by
the telephones to wait for calls and to
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make calls, but she had to
be back inside the court and pay off
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the fine before o'clock. What time
are you going to meet her? At?
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A quarter to four? Well,
you know? Or to be thankful,
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Linch, you decided to bring the
whole thing to me. You would
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have given another seven hundred and fifty
dollars and never seen her again. Yeah,
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but the package, I'd a keeated
a lot of the packages in there.
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If you'd have gotten back thirty of
yours seven hundred and fifty dollars,
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twenty on top and a ten on
the bottom. It looked like money to
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me, it always does. What
made you decide to come and see me?
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Oh? He was Still's ideas.
Oh no, Rose, you've decided
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to do No, that's not true. It was his idea. See,
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he keeps the bank book in the
drawer of the sewing the scene he was
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putting a new lining in a coat
and he wouldn't get away from it.
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Finally he stood up to get something. I got the bank book. He
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saw me, so he asked me
what happened, and I told him.
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He says, no, I can't
go to the bank and get the money.
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But I told him, I promise. He said, I don't care
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what your But she decided to come
here herself. She decides, he told
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me, So I decided. What
do you think it was? Jennings?
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Think I'd going out of Grand Center
and pick up that baggage? What kind
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of it? Now? Quarter to
three, I think you had to leave
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it there at least until we're sure
that this Marion goes down at the courthouse,
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just as probably be standing in Grand
Central watching that locker. She sees
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a police officer or Rose go get
the package. She's not going to show
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up at the courthouse, but stays
there in the lockers, and she's sure
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the deal was on. Isadan,
what should I do? You don't have
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to worry about that. In Parazon
mean you just do what we tell you.
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It was decided that Missus CARAZONI would
go ahead and complete the transaction with
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the con artist she knew only as
marriaim a dummy package of money prepared in
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exactly the same manner as the package
left in the locker, and Grand Central
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was gotten ready. There was a
twenty dollar bill on top and a ten
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on the bottom. In between was
plain paper cut the size. The serial
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numbers of the two reel bills were
recorded for evidence. Detective de Luca was
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instructed to see that Missus PARISONI waited
until the exact time of the appointment,
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entered the building and took the elevator
to the second floor. Lieutenant King and
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I went into the lobby of the
building and met two detectives of the Fifth
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Squad. The four of us took
the elevator to the second floor. It
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was hardly necessary to make ourselves inconspicuous
in the corridor. The place, as
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always on court days, was jammed
with police officers, defendants, witnesses,
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complainants, bail bondsmen, and attorneys
waiting for their cases to be called in
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the various courts. The two detectives
from the fifth Squad were planted near the
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elevators. Lieutenant King and I walked
to a place in the carner, close
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to the telephone roof, and there
we waited. Captain. That's the first
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time I've heard of the Criminal Court
building being part of a con game.
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It's impressive, man, I'm trying
to give her credit to that. It's
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impressive. All there's a woman waiting. I think that, sir, m
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he's pretty close to the description.
Wait a minute, there's another one down
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there, where as the drinking faster? All right, lots of them,
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Captain, Yes, we just have
to wait and see. How's the time
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you do up here? Now?
How about moving across there where we can
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see the elevators. Cat talking,
there's a babe there the blue dress.
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Yeah, that could be hard too. I want to see. Look,
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we better not both watched the elevators. Man, now, I love I
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look this way. You just let
me know what's going on. Okay,
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okay, there's another one that could
be the goal. The description fits half
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the women in New York. Yeah, business parers only coming off the elevator,
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starting to look around. You see
him. I guess which one is?
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She looking? Basine? Here she
comes. You think Marion showed,
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Yes, sir, she showed.
PARAZONI is walking over to her, the
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one little blue dress. I better
keep looking this way. Yes, he's
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greeted her, but making the change. PARAZONI is giving us a package.
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She's got it all right, that's
cool, good looking, all right,
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you'll want think that will help her
and go for he know how much lit'll
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do from now on? Where will
I wait for you? All right?
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We're police officers. I'll take that
package. What one you've got there,
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I'll have it? Please? Did
you bring them? Did you bring in
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because you were cheating? Give me
you want to pay? Your eyes out?
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You're looking sorrow. I love to
come. I'll stand over there in
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Zoni. I don't think so,
No, I don't think so, but
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let her believe it. But you
do open up the packaging grand pencil.
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No, only Still, what made
they're ringing the nut? You picked the
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wrong mark? Hey, yeah,
but you didn't count on one thing.
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He's got a streak of honesty when
he face breaking tig and waters. Yeah,
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that's right. It was our policemen
working over there. What do you
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want to know for Well, how
is what bad doing concern you? Yeah?
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Yeah, well you'll just have the
bed with it's a while, mister.
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Getting her out is more important than
you're losing a little sleep, all
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right, Yeah, we'll be soon
there out a way a stone as possible.
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Yes, yes, y'all welcome.
And so it goes around the clock
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through the week, every day,
every year. A police precinct in the
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City of New York is a flesh
and blood merrygoround. Anyone can catch the
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brass ring, or the brass ring
can catch anyone. Twenty first Precinct,
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a factual account of the way the
police work in the world's largest city,
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is presented with the official cooperation of
the Patrolman's Benevolent Association, an organization of
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more than twenty thousand members of the
Police Department, City of New York.
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Everett's flown in the role of Captain
genelle En Lynch is Lieutenant King Hellowstone,
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the sergeant. Featured in the night's
cast were Branda Rayburn, Joan Allison,
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Bally Haynes, and Bill Quinn.
Written and directed by Sam Liniz, produced
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for CBS Radio by John eys Art, Hannah Stephens
