21st Precinct Ep8 The Bookkeeper

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Saying Sergeant Klein. What do you mean you were robbed?
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Held up?
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So where'd this happen? Where?
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Did he have a gun?
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There were two men.
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When was this?
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Just now?
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You are in the muscle room at the 21st Precinct,
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the nerve center. A call is coming through. You will
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follow the action taken pursuant to that call from this
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minute until the final report is written in the 124
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room at the 21st Precinct. Where are you calling from?
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Where?
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On what floor is that? All right.
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You take the elevator back downstairs. The officers will be
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right there.
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They'll be right there. You just wait. Yes, ma'am.
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21st Precinct. It's just lines on a map of the
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city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people wedged
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into the nine-tenths of a square mile between Fifth Avenue
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and the East River wouldn't know if you asked them
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that they lived or worked.
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In the 21st.
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Whether they know it or not, the security of their persons,
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their homes, and their property is my job.
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My job and the job of.
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The 160 patrolmen, 11 sergeants, and four lieutenants of whom
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I'm the boss. My name is Kennelly, Frank Kennelly.
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I'm captain in command of the 21st.
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What makes a city? Not buildings, not subways, not business.
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People make a city.
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From dawn to midnight, from midnight to dawn, the rich and.
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The poor and the good and the bad pour their
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lives together and stir up the city, as in the 21st,
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sometime in a way you'd least expect. I was working
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my 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Tour.
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It had started to rain.
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During the night, and it was still raining at 1.15 p.m.
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when I came out of the luncheon meeting of the
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Lenox Hill Lions Club... at which I spoke on the
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problems of juvenile delinquency.
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From the lobby of the.
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Hotel I rang in. Sergeant Klein on T.S. told me
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everything was quiet. I instructed him to send a car
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for me. When it came, I had the operator, Patrolman Farrell,
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drive me to the New Era Theater, a movie house.
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On First Avenue.
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I went into the lobby and was told by the
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manager that Mr. Crows could be found at the back
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of the theater near the candy stand.
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I saw him in the dim light, and I walked over.
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A cartoon was on the screen. Hello, Mr. Jones.
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Oh, Captain, how are you?
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Just fine.
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I had a report from Sergeant Collins on the night.
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Tour that you've been having some trouble over this way.
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Yeah, that's right, Captain, but I told the sergeant what
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was on.
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My mind last night.
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I appreciate you stopping by anyway. Well, I'm getting instructions
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to remain on post and in the cars here to
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pay special attention to the conditions.
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Oh, well, thanks.
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Oh, just a second. Here's that scene. I get the
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biggest kick out of these cartoons.
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I don't know why.
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I don't know why.
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You ever see anything so funny? I'm sure clever, all right.
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Look in there, Captain. A rainy afternoon and business is
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just fine. You know, I got the answer to what's wrong.
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With the picture business.
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Have you?
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Mm-hmm. If they make a good picture, you do business.
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Even on a day like this. It's simple.
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Make all good pictures. How many kids.
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Does the rule hang out at that candy.
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Store at nine, Mr.
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Cross? Well, you know, it varies. Now, on a nice
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night or a Saturday, there's a whole gang of them.
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They yell and they make jokes at the people.
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Coming on their way to the theater at night. And
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that can scare them. I don't need my patrons scared away.
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Condition at the box office is bad enough. And it's
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not healthy for the neighborhood.
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All right, Mr.
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Cross.
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We'll see what we can do about it.
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Look at that rabbit.
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How do you like that?
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You know, I see a feature picture once, I'm through
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with it. But I can watch these cartoons four or
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five times a day. Yeah, well, if the condition doesn't
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clear up, Mr.
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Cross, you just get in touch with me.
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Oh, is this the.
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Cop looking for you, Captain?
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Oh, yeah.
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Excuse me, Captain.
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Yes, Farrell? Signal 30 just came over.
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Yeah?
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Hold up just around the corner at 340. I thought
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you might want.
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To take a look.
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Yes, I do. So long, Mr.
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Cross.
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Thanks, Captain.
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One man, no description put out yet.
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All right. Let's go. I left the theater with Patrolman Farrell.
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It was still raining.
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We got into the car, and he drove around the
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corner to 340, a loft building.
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The sector car and the.
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Sergeant's car were already there. Sergeant Burns had posted his
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operator at the front door of the building to keep
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the curious out of the lobby.
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He held the door open and nodded as I went in.
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The lobby was long and.
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Narrow, the building old and grimy.
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At the far end of the lobby was a single
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old-fashioned elevator. Sergeant Burns was talking to a woman dressed
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in a raincoat, a woman about 35.
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The sector men and the patrolmen on post were questioning the.
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Elevator operator several feet away.
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I walked to Sergeant Burns.
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Do you know how much was in the envelope exactly?
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Hello, Sergeant.
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Hello, Captain. There was $ 1, 362.
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25.
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Exactly?
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Yes.
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How did you know that?
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I just came from the back.
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There was a payroll.
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Oh.
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Captain Canelli, this is Miss Beatrice Parazoni. How do you do?
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Is that how you pronounce it, Parazoni?
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Yes, that's right.
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She's a bookkeeper for a firm up on the sixth floor, Captain.
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She's coming back from the bank with a payroll. A
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man followed her into the lobby and onto the elevator.
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Pulled a gun, took the package.
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Then he forced the elevator operator to take them back.
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Down to the ground level. He got off, told him
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to go straight up to the top.
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Is that about right, Miss President?
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Yes, that's right, exactly.
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Did you get a description, Sergeant?
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Yes, sir, as good as they could give me.
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I didn't remember much.
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I honestly didn't.
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I could only look at that gun. That's all I
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could see.
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The elevator operator is not so good with the English.
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I called TS, gave him the best description we could get.
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Good.
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What kind of company is it.
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You work for?
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Well, it's a place that makes optical lenses.
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You know, for eyeglasses.
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Yeah.
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It's just a small company, about 14.
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To 15 men working in the shop and myself in
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the office with the boss, that's all.
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That was the whole payroll, $ 1, 362.
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25, the whole payroll for a week.
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Where's your boss?
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Did you tell him about it?
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I stopped up on the floor to call the police.
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He's not there. He's out selling. He's usually in the
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shop in the morning. He goes out seeing customers in
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the afternoon.
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How long have you been employed there, Miss Parazoni?
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Almost 10 years, between 9 and 10.
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You never had anything like this happen before, did you?
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Oh, no, nothing like this at all, never.
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Well, it's five minutes after 3 now, Miss Parazoni. What
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time did you leave the office for the bank?
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Well, it was just about 2 o'clock on payday. I
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usually work all morning until I get the payroll finished,
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and then I write out the check, and the boss
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signs it before he leaves to call on customers. I
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had the check, and I went out to lunch. And
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then I was going to the bank right before it
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closed to come back here in time to make up
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the payroll for when.
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The men go home.
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You follow this pattern pretty much every week? What do
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you mean? Well, I mean, do you pay on the
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same day every week?
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Oh, yeah.
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And do you go to the bank just about the
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same time?
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Yes, usually right before it closes.
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Oh, Sergeant, you ought to have the second target back
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on patrol.
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We don't need them here anymore.
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Yes, sir, Captain. All right, Ryan.
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I really ought to be getting upstairs and back to work, Captain.
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I don't know what I'm going to do about the
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payroll today. I don't know where I can reach the boss.
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The bank is closed. It'll be a shame for the
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men to go home without their money. Can I go
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upstairs now and see if I can get it straightened out?
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Well, the detectives will be here any minute, Miss Parazoni.
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They'll want to talk to you.
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I think you ought to wait down here until they come.
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Yes, Captain. Oh, ring in when you get back in service.
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I don't see what I have to wait for detectives for.
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I told you everything I know.
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I told you and that sergeant and the police in there.
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Yes, well, it's the detectives' case.
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It's up to them to conduct the investigation.
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I see.
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Out of all people, Captain, I don't know. Why did
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he pick on me? The funny thing is, he picked
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on me.
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Is it?
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I guess he didn't pick on me.
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He just picked on the $ 1, 300.
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The essential duty of the uniformed force is patrol. When
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the criminal is unknown or has fled, it is the
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job of the detectives to investigate. In this, as in
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all similar cases, the 21st Detective Squad, under the command
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of Lieutenant Matt King, was notified by the desk officer immediately.
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On the seat of the report.
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Within a few minutes, Detectives Ben Novak and Whitey Howard
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were on the job. Sergeant Burns opened his memorandum book,
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and from notes he had taken for his UF-61 and
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unusual occurrence report, gave them.
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The facts as he had learned them.
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He introduced them to the victim and to the witness,
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then resumed patrol. I returned to the precinct house. It
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was still raining, but not nearly so hard.
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I walked to the telephone switchboard where Sergeant.
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Klein was on the boxes. Hello, Captain. Any messages, Sergeant?
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No telephone messages, no, sir.
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But there was a communication on the teletype address to
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all precinct, division, and borough commanders I put on your desk.
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Good.
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Tell Glass I'll read and sign whatever report he's got
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ready now.
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Yes, sir.
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I'll be in my office. Yes, sir.
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21st Precinct, Sergeant Cronin.
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Hello.
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Oh, hello, Mr.
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Crone.
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Captain, can I talk to you for a minute?
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What's the matter?
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Are those boys at the candy store giving you trouble
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this early in the day? No, no, I'd just like
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to talk to you, Captain, if I could.
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Yeah, sure.
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Come into my office.
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Thanks.
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Thanks a lot.
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Go ahead.
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Have a seat, Mr. Crone.
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Yeah. Thanks a lot.
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Well, what's on your mind?
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Well, Captain, I'm the curious type, you know. Like anybody else,
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I like a little excitement. When that cop came in
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and told you there was a Signal 30 around the corner,
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I got sort of interested.
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No secret what a Signal 30 is. It's an armed felony, right?
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Not sure.
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Well, anyway, I figured I'd like to see what's going on.
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So when you left, I got my raincoat and I
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walked around the corner... The cop was standing at the
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door of the loft building, so I couldn't get in.
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But I looked through the door, and I saw that
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girl you were talking to. And from the conversation around there,
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I found out that she was held up for a payroll.
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Is that right?
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Yes, that's right.
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What about it?
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Well, uh, look, it's none of my business, maybe. I
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feel like an idiot.
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Well, you came here to tell me, didn't you?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I did.
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That girl, Captain, the one that was held up, she
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did an awful funny thing a little while before.
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What do you mean?
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About two o'clock, I was standing in the lobby there,
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in the lobby of the theater, and It was raining
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outside and I was still wondering how we were doing
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all the business we were doing so early in the
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day with the weather.
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But a good picture will bring him in.
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That's all you need.
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Uh, what about the girl? Yeah, well, I guess it
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was about 2 o'clock. I remember it because she had
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on a funny brown raincoat with a plaid pattern. You know,
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the one she was wearing.
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Yeah? Well, she bought a ticket and she came in
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a theater. Did she?
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Yeah, she did.
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Now, I know that's not funny in itself.
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I wouldn't have noticed her except for that raincoat. But
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I stand in the lobby a few minutes, talk to
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the ticket taker, go to the box office, talk to
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the cashier, shake.
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Hands with a few patrons.
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Then it's about 2.10, maybe 2.15, and I see this
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raincoat walking out again. I figure, this is funny. So
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I stop in the lobby, and I say, what's the matter, lady?
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Did you see the picture before? If you saw the
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picture before, I'd be glad to give you your money back.
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We don't want any dissatisfied patrons. Now, what'd she say?
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She said, no, she didn't see the picture before. So
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I told her, look, lady, if it's not the kind
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of picture you think it is, or you don't like it,
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let me give you a free pass and come back
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some other time. You know, we do these things for
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public relations. But she says, no, everything is all right.
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She doesn't want her money back or anything like that. Anyways,
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while I'm standing there talking to her, a man walks
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out of the theater and he walks right past without
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saying a word. She sort of looks at him like
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she was going to say something, like she knows him,
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but he walked out and he didn't even turn to her.
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Yeah?
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Well, that's all.
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Is it? Yeah, except that she left.
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Well, I.
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See, I shouldn't butt in anybody else's business.
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Sit down, Mr.
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Cross.
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You think there's something to it, Captain? I thought there
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was something to it.
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That's why I came over here.
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But I can't figure out what.
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What did the man look like?
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Well, that's kind of hard to say. Well, was he tall? Oh,
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I couldn't say he was exactly tall, but I couldn't
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say short either. Medium, maybe.
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You sure it was the same girl? I'm positive.
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I never forget a face, and I never forget a raincoat.
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In the whole city of New York, there couldn't be
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two raincoats like that, at least in this neighborhood. Listen, Captain,
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you think there's something to it? You think I hit
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on something?
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Maybe. For what?
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What? Mr. Crows, it's just like in your business. They're
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not all good pictures. Some of them we have to
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clear up. The inconsistency of witnesses and their honest mistakes
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are a major problem to law enforcement officers.
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The whole truth is.
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Not an easy thing at which to arrive.
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In this case, the victim of the robbery, Miss B.
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Parazone, made no.
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Mention of stopping at the movie theater on route to
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the bank.
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The theater manager said.
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He saw her there. This discrepancy could be either a
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mistake of identity, a coincidence, or of great importance. I
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asked Mr.
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Crows if he would mind telling his story again. He agreed,
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and I took him upstairs to.
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The 21st Detective Squad on the second floor. In my presence,
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he repeated the events as they occurred. Lieutenant King questioned
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him in great detail. When you saw her in the lobby,
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do you remember what kind of hat she had on? Well,
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it wasn't a hat exactly, Lieutenant. It was a bandana-like
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handkerchief over her head.
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It was raining.
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You know, lots of girls wear those things when it rains.
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And you couldn't see what color hair she had.
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No, but it was the same girl. Take my word
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for it.
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It was the same girl.
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Was she carrying anything in the theater?
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What do you mean?
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You mean a package or a pocketbook, anything like that?
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Yeah, yeah.
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She was carrying a pocketbook.
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Anything else?
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An umbrella.
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She had an umbrella.
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What kind of umbrella?
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What do you mean, what kind of umbrella?
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What color was it?
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What kind of handle did it have?
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Well, I don't remember those things, Lieutenant.
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I didn't take that much notice of it. When you
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looked through the door at the building and you saw
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her standing there talking to me, Mr. Crowes, did she
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have the umbrella in her hand then? Well, I don't
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remember seeing it, Captain. Maybe she put it down someplace.
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I don't remember.
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She might have had it. All right, Mr.
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Crowes, thanks a lot.
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Look, I don't know.
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Maybe I'm just shooting my mouth off. I don't even
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know what it all means. Probably just wasting your time
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and my time, too. What am I doing here? I
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should be over there thinking of ways to promote that
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stiff I've got opening on Monday.
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You're not wasting our time, Mr.
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Cruz.
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We've got to consider every angle.
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Well, that's what I figured. Oh, thanks a lot, Mr. Cruz.
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That's all right.
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Oh, we'll keep an eye on that candy store. I'd
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appreciate that, Captain. No back. Ben, no back.
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Yeah, Lieutenant?
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Come in here a minute, will you?
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Yes, sir.
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Ah, what do you think, man?
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I don't know.
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She could have had a good reason for stopping in
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the movie.
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It was her. Yes, Lieutenant?
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Shut the door, will you?
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On this robbery this afternoon, Ben, how close did you
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question the girl, the victim?
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Hello, Captain.
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Ben.
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Well, like I told you.
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She accounted for her time with a minute.
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Says she left the office about five minutes to two.
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She said she went down to the restaurant and had
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a sandwich. And then she went to the bank and
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started back to the office with the payroll.
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Did she say anything about any stops in between?
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No, sir.
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She couldn't have forgotten about making a stop someplace, could she?
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No, sir.
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I went over it with her three or four times.
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Hmm.
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She was pretty hazy on the description of the guy,
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wasn't she? Nothing definite.
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She said she was pretty scared.
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All she could see was the gun.
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How about the elevator boy?
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Well, I couldn't get much out of him. His English
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is pretty slim. Hernandez will be in at 6 o'clock.
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I'm going to see if I can get him to
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ride up there with me. The man lives on 106th Street.
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Hernandez can talk to him in Spanish, and maybe we
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can find out something that way.
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That's a good idea.
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How'd you leave it with this girl?
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Well, I told her we might want her to take
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a look through some mugs.
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In the rogues' gallery... See if she could pick out
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the man.
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Wouldn't you say you might do this?
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I said I might call her this afternoon.
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She said she'd be willing to ride downtown.
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With me after she got finished work.
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Did you talk to her boss, then?
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Yes, sir.
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What did he say about her?
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He says she's been there about 10 years. She's a
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good bookkeeper. He says she practically runs his business when
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he's away. She's 36 years old. She lives with a
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married sister up in Washington Heights. Well, what's the deal, Lieutenant?
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What's this all about? She may not have.
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Told you a straight story about what happened after she
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left the office. No. What did you call her, Ben?
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Tell her you wanted to take a look at some
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of the mugs.
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When?
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After she gets finished work?
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Now.
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I'm going to get it straight right now.
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I left the detective squad and walked downstairs through the
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back room where Patrolman Glass, the 124 man, was posting
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the latest teletype alarm. I saw Sergeant Waters come in
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the front door as I walked into the muster room.
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I called him aside and told him of an order.
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That had come through assigning to the precinct a patrolman.
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Who had just been flopped after eight years in the
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10th Detective District.
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The man would be in.
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Sergeant Waters' platoon.
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We conferred for a few minutes regarding the proper assignments
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of this man, whether he should be given a fixed post.
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Or made recorder in a second car.
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We looked over his departmental record and discussed the mental
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effect that emotion might have on the performance.
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Of his duties as a patrolman.
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It was decided to put him on post number three.
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Sergeant Waters went into the locker room to change to
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his uniform. Other men of the night tour were coming
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into the station house.
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I walked over to T.S.
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21st Precinct, Sergeant Klein. Yes, Captain.
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That's all right.
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Go ahead.
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Take the call. Who?
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Somebody's kidding you, mister.
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It's the 21st Precinct of the police department.
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All right. Yes, Captain.
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Get me a division, will you, Sergeant? Yes, sir.
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Now, hold it a minute.
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I didn't know we were coming here.
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Just a second now, miss. I've got to call up this.
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I thought we were going downtown.
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We'll go with you soon.
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We are, yeah.
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But I've got to check something here first about the car. Sergeant,
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could you ring upstairs for me?
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Yeah, sure, Ben. Hello, Miss Palazzone.
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Oh, hello.
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Well, are you feeling better now?
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Oh, yes, a lot.
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Who do you want up there, Ben?
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Lieutenant King.
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Is Lieutenant King there? There's a sergeant client on CS.
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Ben Novak wants to.
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Talk to him.
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Have you got any idea yet who that hold-up man was?
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Well, the detectives are handling it.
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Now, miss. Oh. Lieutenant King is on his way downstairs, Ben.
519
00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:35.660
Oh, good. Oh, here he comes now. I just called
520
00:17:35.740 --> 00:17:36.440
up for you, Lieutenant.
521
00:17:36.819 --> 00:17:38.680
Ah, yep. Hi, Captain. Hello, Matt.
522
00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:41.500
Lieutenant, this is Miss Beatrice Parazoni. She was the victim
523
00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:42.700
in that holdup before.
524
00:17:42.819 --> 00:17:43.099
Oh, yes.
525
00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:44.319
How do you do, Miss Parazoni?
526
00:17:44.420 --> 00:17:46.259
We're on our way downtown to look over some mugs
527
00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:47.720
to see if she can identify the man.
528
00:17:48.420 --> 00:17:48.900
How's the car?
529
00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:49.400
Is it tied up?
530
00:17:49.500 --> 00:17:51.240
I sent Whitey up to the 23rd to pick up
531
00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:52.940
a fellow they were holding there. He'll be back in
532
00:17:52.990 --> 00:17:53.190
a minute.
533
00:17:53.210 --> 00:17:53.569
Can you wait?
534
00:17:54.029 --> 00:17:55.190
Have you got time, Miss Parazoni?
535
00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:57.359
Well, yes, I guess. So how long do you think
536
00:17:57.380 --> 00:17:58.779
it'll take downtown to look at.
537
00:17:58.759 --> 00:17:59.460
The pictures in it?
538
00:17:59.819 --> 00:18:02.619
Well, there's a lot of pictures, isn't there, Captain? Well, plenty.
539
00:18:02.740 --> 00:18:03.940
Well, I'll call my sister.
540
00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:05.380
She's expecting me home for dinner.
541
00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:07.059
Oh, I think you'll be home for dinner, all right.
542
00:18:07.099 --> 00:18:08.000
Well, it's kind of early.
543
00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:13.029
Now, according to Detective Novak, you said you went downstairs
544
00:18:13.089 --> 00:18:15.950
about 2 o'clock or 5 minutes after. You went to
545
00:18:15.990 --> 00:18:18.109
a restaurant, had a sandwich for lunch, then went to
546
00:18:18.130 --> 00:18:20.650
the bank. You got the payroll and started back at
547
00:18:20.690 --> 00:18:21.049
the office.
548
00:18:21.589 --> 00:18:22.670
That's what she said she told you.
549
00:18:22.730 --> 00:18:23.289
Is that right, then?
550
00:18:23.390 --> 00:18:24.289
Yes, sir. That's what you said.
551
00:18:24.329 --> 00:18:25.329
Well, that's what I did, then.
552
00:18:25.549 --> 00:18:26.569
I just wanted to get it straight.
553
00:18:28.130 --> 00:18:29.210
How long has your boss.
554
00:18:28.990 --> 00:18:30.390
Been in business there, Miss Parazoni?
555
00:18:31.210 --> 00:18:32.589
He started just before the war.
556
00:18:33.309 --> 00:18:36.450
Have you been with him all that time? Well, practically, Captain.
557
00:18:36.589 --> 00:18:37.599
I came in 1943.
558
00:18:37.589 --> 00:18:40.230
You lived with your sister, is that right? That's right.
559
00:18:40.289 --> 00:18:41.069
At Morrison House.
560
00:18:41.250 --> 00:18:41.849
She and her husband?
561
00:18:42.029 --> 00:18:42.569
And their boy.
562
00:18:42.589 --> 00:18:43.119
They have a boy, six.
563
00:18:43.150 --> 00:18:44.269
How old are you?
564
00:18:46.130 --> 00:18:46.410
Thirty-six.
565
00:18:46.470 --> 00:18:47.730
You ever married?
566
00:18:48.970 --> 00:18:49.230
No.
567
00:18:49.490 --> 00:18:51.779
No, sir. What do you do when you're not working,
568
00:18:51.819 --> 00:18:52.430
Miss Perizzoni?
569
00:18:54.180 --> 00:18:55.799
Do you have a personal question?
570
00:18:56.259 --> 00:18:56.900
Well, maybe.
571
00:18:57.640 --> 00:18:58.660
I'm just a curious type.
572
00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:00.619
Nothing much.
573
00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:05.339
Do you have a boyfriend? I don't think I have
574
00:19:05.380 --> 00:19:08.589
to answer that, do I, Captain? Well, it's up to you.
575
00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:10.440
What does he want to know all about me for?
576
00:19:10.500 --> 00:19:11.980
I'm beginning to resent this.
577
00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.660
Well, well, something like a robbery happens. He wants to
578
00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:15.660
know all about everything.
579
00:19:16.619 --> 00:19:19.220
Do you have a boyfriend? No, no, sir.
580
00:19:21.089 --> 00:19:23.130
Captain, are you going to turn out the platoon? Yes,
581
00:19:23.210 --> 00:19:23.569
right now.
582
00:19:23.750 --> 00:19:25.690
They've come marching right out here, miss.
583
00:19:25.730 --> 00:19:27.210
Captain, can we wait in your office for a minute?
584
00:19:27.309 --> 00:19:27.789
Yeah, sure.
585
00:19:27.849 --> 00:19:29.970
Go ahead. All right. Come on this way, Miss Parzoni.
586
00:19:30.430 --> 00:19:31.269
Abandoned? Yes, sir.
587
00:19:31.289 --> 00:19:36.089
Okay, just a few minutes. Platoon, head hot!
588
00:19:36.349 --> 00:19:38.730
Forward, hot!
589
00:19:38.809 --> 00:19:40.710
Do you want.
590
00:19:40.589 --> 00:19:41.730
To say anything to them, Captain?
591
00:19:42.049 --> 00:19:42.250
Yes.
592
00:19:44.049 --> 00:19:47.190
Platoon, halt!
593
00:19:47.470 --> 00:19:52.339
Left, halt!
594
00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:55.420
Right, halt!
595
00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:02.019
Report second platoon. Platoon inspector, sir.
596
00:20:02.579 --> 00:20:03.119
No call.
597
00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:03.920
Ahern?
598
00:20:04.059 --> 00:20:04.299
Yes.
599
00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:05.180
Coley?
600
00:20:05.420 --> 00:20:06.359
Yes. Eisman?
601
00:20:06.660 --> 00:20:06.819
Yes.
602
00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:07.440
Black?
603
00:20:07.579 --> 00:20:07.720
Yes.
604
00:20:10.539 --> 00:20:12.920
As the roll was being called, I realized what course
605
00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:14.359
Lieutenant King was taking with the.
606
00:20:14.329 --> 00:20:15.920
Holdup victim, Beatrice Parzone.
607
00:20:16.549 --> 00:20:18.650
He wanted her brought into the station house, but without
608
00:20:18.670 --> 00:20:21.849
getting her unduly alarmed. Hence the excuse about the car
609
00:20:21.910 --> 00:20:24.349
and the interrogation in my office instead of upstairs in
610
00:20:24.369 --> 00:20:27.970
the detective squad. He had timed it perfectly. I spoke
611
00:20:27.990 --> 00:20:30.069
to the platoon and instructed the sector men and men
612
00:20:30.150 --> 00:20:32.309
on post to correct the condition which existed at the
613
00:20:32.349 --> 00:20:34.869
candy store near the New Era Theater and to watch
614
00:20:34.910 --> 00:20:37.150
for similar problems at other movie houses in the precinct.
615
00:20:37.940 --> 00:20:40.079
I read the alarm concerning the holdup man wanted for
616
00:20:40.099 --> 00:20:45.910
the robbery in the precinct that afternoon. All right, Sergeant.
617
00:20:46.170 --> 00:20:47.230
Post the platoon.
618
00:20:47.690 --> 00:20:55.769
I'll be.
619
00:20:58.029 --> 00:20:59.119
In my office, Sergeant.
620
00:20:59.170 --> 00:20:59.490
Yes, sir.
621
00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:09.309
Matt? Oh, come in, Captain. I, uh, want to get
622
00:21:09.349 --> 00:21:10.269
at these reports here.
623
00:21:10.329 --> 00:21:15.029
That's all right. We're just talking. You sure we're not
624
00:21:15.049 --> 00:21:15.950
disturbing you here, Captain?
625
00:21:16.329 --> 00:21:16.910
No, no.
626
00:21:17.089 --> 00:21:17.630
Go right ahead.
627
00:21:18.329 --> 00:21:19.390
Ben, do you want to check on the car?
628
00:21:19.769 --> 00:21:20.430
Okay, Lieutenant.
629
00:21:20.769 --> 00:21:21.740
Close the door, will you?
630
00:21:21.750 --> 00:21:22.009
Yes, sir.
631
00:21:25.420 --> 00:21:27.240
Uh, what else do you do in your spare.
632
00:21:27.059 --> 00:21:27.960
Time, Miss Barzoni?
633
00:21:28.900 --> 00:21:31.160
Well, I read and I sit with a baby when
634
00:21:31.180 --> 00:21:33.140
my sister and her husband go out. And I like
635
00:21:33.180 --> 00:21:34.440
to go to a concert once in a while.
636
00:21:34.460 --> 00:21:35.099
I like music.
637
00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:35.799
What else?
638
00:21:36.500 --> 00:21:37.160
Nothing much else.
639
00:21:37.660 --> 00:21:37.980
Movies?
640
00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:38.839
Do you like movies?
641
00:21:38.859 --> 00:21:40.059
Sure, once in a while.
642
00:21:40.539 --> 00:21:41.059
When do you go?
643
00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:41.380
At night?
644
00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:42.630
Yeah, at night.
645
00:21:42.690 --> 00:21:44.589
I work in the daytime except Saturday and Sunday. The
646
00:21:44.609 --> 00:21:46.890
movies are usually too crowded on Saturdays and Sundays.
647
00:21:47.509 --> 00:21:48.480
There's other things to do.
648
00:21:49.289 --> 00:21:50.730
You ever go in the daytime? No.
649
00:21:51.509 --> 00:21:52.349
Then why did you go today?
650
00:21:54.150 --> 00:21:57.519
What do you mean, today? Who said I went to
651
00:21:57.539 --> 00:21:58.240
the movies today?
652
00:21:58.519 --> 00:21:58.839
Did you?
653
00:22:00.779 --> 00:22:01.039
Well.
654
00:22:02.740 --> 00:22:05.259
Yeah, for a little while.
655
00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:07.339
Now, wait a minute, just a second. I don't understand this...
656
00:22:07.980 --> 00:22:09.519
Just when did you go to the movies?
657
00:22:10.329 --> 00:22:11.569
When I left the office.
658
00:22:11.589 --> 00:22:12.349
You mean at 2 o'clock?
659
00:22:13.089 --> 00:22:13.970
Yes, that's right.
660
00:22:14.430 --> 00:22:16.289
You didn't say anything about that to anybody before?
661
00:22:16.309 --> 00:22:17.849
I didn't think it was important.
662
00:22:17.869 --> 00:22:19.460
It's turning out to be important, isn't it?
663
00:22:20.769 --> 00:22:21.029
Yes.
664
00:22:21.809 --> 00:22:23.390
Then why didn't you think it was important before?
665
00:22:23.410 --> 00:22:24.170
I don't know.
666
00:22:24.210 --> 00:22:26.099
I just didn't think so, that's all.
667
00:22:26.140 --> 00:22:28.460
What was the name of the man you met there?
668
00:22:30.779 --> 00:22:31.119
Where?
669
00:22:31.400 --> 00:22:31.880
At the movies.
670
00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:35.400
I didn't meet any man.
671
00:22:36.019 --> 00:22:37.900
Supposing I told you you were seen with a man there.
672
00:22:40.819 --> 00:22:44.569
All right.
673
00:22:46.910 --> 00:22:47.869
I knew you'd find out.
674
00:22:47.910 --> 00:22:49.809
He said you wouldn't, but I knew you'd find out.
675
00:22:50.029 --> 00:22:50.329
Sure.
676
00:22:51.170 --> 00:22:52.589
We find out everything, don't we, Captain?
677
00:22:53.130 --> 00:22:53.599
Most of it.
678
00:22:53.710 --> 00:22:55.670
I didn't want to do it. I really didn't.
679
00:22:55.730 --> 00:22:58.019
I was afraid, and it wasn't right, and I didn't
680
00:22:58.039 --> 00:23:00.240
want to do it. But he said it wouldn't hurt
681
00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:02.519
my boss or me, only the insurance company.
682
00:23:02.579 --> 00:23:03.819
Nobody would find out about it.
683
00:23:04.119 --> 00:23:04.880
He was wrong, wasn't he?
684
00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:07.500
Yes, he was wrong. Why did you meet him in
685
00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:07.920
the theater?
686
00:23:08.779 --> 00:23:10.720
He wanted me to, to tell him how much was
687
00:23:10.779 --> 00:23:11.519
in the payroll.
688
00:23:12.099 --> 00:23:12.599
What's his name?
689
00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:15.759
Jack. Jack.
690
00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:19.759
Oh, how you can get fooled.
691
00:23:20.619 --> 00:23:23.089
Sure can get fooled. He found it so nice when
692
00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:23.849
I first met him.
693
00:23:24.269 --> 00:23:24.750
Where was that?
694
00:23:25.849 --> 00:23:27.349
On my vacation in the mountains.
695
00:23:27.849 --> 00:23:28.529
Where, at the hotel?
696
00:23:29.029 --> 00:23:29.750
Yes, that's right.
697
00:23:32.220 --> 00:23:33.480
I took my two weeks, and I went away.
698
00:23:33.500 --> 00:23:35.460
I couldn't expect to meet any man.
699
00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:37.599
All I wanted to do was.
700
00:23:37.539 --> 00:23:38.920
Get a little country air, a little.
701
00:23:38.980 --> 00:23:44.099
Fun time, that's all. I was there, and we danced,
702
00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:47.599
and we went boating, and we swam together. I didn't
703
00:23:47.619 --> 00:23:49.480
even go up there with any intention.
704
00:23:49.059 --> 00:23:49.859
Of meeting a man.
705
00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:53.460
Maybe I used to, but I got over that.
706
00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:57.769
It was really very nice. It was very nice.
707
00:23:59.630 --> 00:24:01.069
And then when I came back to the city, he
708
00:24:01.089 --> 00:24:02.230
took my telephone number.
709
00:24:02.309 --> 00:24:04.150
I never expected to hear from him, really.
710
00:24:04.509 --> 00:24:04.990
But you did.
711
00:24:05.769 --> 00:24:08.509
Yes, he called, and we started to see each other
712
00:24:08.549 --> 00:24:10.910
in the city. You know, he'd come over, and we'd
713
00:24:10.930 --> 00:24:12.740
go to a movie, take a walk, something like that.
714
00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:14.180
How long ago was it?
715
00:24:15.059 --> 00:24:16.000
Well, I got back from.
716
00:24:15.900 --> 00:24:17.380
My vacation three weeks ago.
717
00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:21.319
Then last Sunday night, we took a bus ride.
718
00:24:21.339 --> 00:24:24.079
It was so hot, we just had to get out someplace.
719
00:24:25.299 --> 00:24:27.079
We went up to Fort Tyron Park, and we sat
720
00:24:27.099 --> 00:24:31.029
at a bench upstairs. I could see that he had
721
00:24:31.069 --> 00:24:35.789
something on his mind. I thought he was going to
722
00:24:35.869 --> 00:24:37.609
ask me to marry him. That's what I thought.
723
00:24:37.650 --> 00:24:39.069
I really thought that.
724
00:24:40.789 --> 00:24:44.980
Then he finally told me what it was. This? Yes.
725
00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:47.799
I was so surprised.
726
00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:49.700
I couldn't say anything. I couldn't say a word.
727
00:24:50.859 --> 00:24:52.779
I didn't mean he was that kind of boy.
728
00:24:52.819 --> 00:24:53.759
He was so nice.
729
00:24:53.779 --> 00:24:55.500
Well, then why did you go ahead with it? Well,
730
00:24:55.559 --> 00:24:57.519
I wasn't going to. I told him no, and then.
731
00:24:58.470 --> 00:25:00.369
He said all he wanted money for was.
732
00:25:00.250 --> 00:25:01.069
Just to get married.
733
00:25:01.750 --> 00:25:03.130
Is that why you did it, so he'd marry you?
734
00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:06.039
No, I don't think I would have married him. I
735
00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:08.779
just did it because he wanted the money so bad.
736
00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:09.339
That's all.
737
00:25:09.420 --> 00:25:11.599
I wouldn't have married him ever, believe me.
738
00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:13.599
Weren't you still afraid, Bea?
739
00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:14.160
Yes.
740
00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:17.119
Well, then why did you go through with it?
741
00:25:17.140 --> 00:25:17.779
Oh, I don't know.
742
00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:20.079
I guess because he was so nice to me.
743
00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:24.109
At least for a month I had a good time.
744
00:25:25.029 --> 00:25:26.869
I figured I owed him something, that's all.
745
00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:27.940
Where does he live?
746
00:25:28.119 --> 00:25:28.440
I don't know.
747
00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:29.319
He never would tell me.
748
00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:30.460
Some hotel, I think.
749
00:25:30.549 --> 00:25:31.529
Is Jack Curley his real name?
750
00:25:31.609 --> 00:25:32.869
I don't know. I think so.
751
00:25:32.910 --> 00:25:33.549
Where can we find him?
752
00:25:33.930 --> 00:25:35.670
Well, he was supposed to meet me tonight.
753
00:25:35.829 --> 00:25:36.049
Where?
754
00:25:36.930 --> 00:25:39.049
In a bar on Broadway, way uptown.
755
00:25:39.130 --> 00:25:41.670
Oh, I got to thinking.
756
00:25:42.730 --> 00:25:45.410
I think that all he wanted was the money from this.
757
00:25:45.549 --> 00:25:47.410
I think he made the date just so I'd go
758
00:25:47.450 --> 00:25:50.099
through with this today. I don't think he's going to
759
00:25:50.140 --> 00:25:50.500
show up.
760
00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:52.359
I don't think I'll ever see him again.
761
00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:56.940
You'll see him again. Maybe not tonight. But I guarantee
762
00:25:56.960 --> 00:25:57.940
you'll see him.
763
00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:07.299
Again. 21st Precinct, Sergeant Klein.
764
00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:16.809
Who's dead? Who? She was killed. Oh.
765
00:26:18.829 --> 00:26:19.150
Where is it?
766
00:26:19.190 --> 00:26:19.349
Where?
767
00:26:19.349 --> 00:26:21.670
8080... What?
768
00:26:25.910 --> 00:26:32.960
He's 70. Who is this calling? What's your name? Doris what?
769
00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:35.380
All right.
770
00:26:36.180 --> 00:26:37.480
Just stay right where you are.
771
00:26:38.660 --> 00:26:39.980
The officers will be there right away.
772
00:26:41.349 --> 00:26:41.900
Yeah, right away.
773
00:26:43.049 --> 00:26:44.000
Oh, don't worry about it.
774
00:26:44.029 --> 00:26:44.769
Take care of it.
775
00:26:45.089 --> 00:26:48.950
Around the clock, through the week, every day, every year,
776
00:26:49.869 --> 00:26:52.190
the police precinct in the city of New York is
777
00:26:52.289 --> 00:26:56.750
a flesh-and-blood merry-go-round. Anyone can catch the brass ring.
778
00:26:58.509 --> 00:27:01.539
Or the brass ring can catch anyone.
779
00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:06.059
21st Precinct.
780
00:27:06.539 --> 00:27:08.619
A factual account of the way the police work in
781
00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:11.920
the world's largest city is presented with the official cooperation
782
00:27:11.940 --> 00:27:16.109
of the Patrolman's Benevolent Association, an organization of more than 20,000
783
00:27:16.109 --> 00:27:19.650
members of the Police Department, City of New York. Everett
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Sloan in the role of Captain Kennelly, Ken Lynch as
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Lieutenant King. Featured in tonight's cast were Elspeth Erick, Mandel Kramer,
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Wendell Holmes, Bill Smith, and Lawson Zerbe. Written and directed
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by Stanley Nist. Produced for CBS Radio by John I.
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Art Hanna speaking.