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Twenty first Precinct, Sage and Waters. Yeah, that's right, it's our
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placement working over there. What do
you want to know for Well, how
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does what they're don't consign you?
Yeah? Yeah, well you'll just have
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to bed. You are in the
muster room at the twenty first Precinct,
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the Nerve Center. A call is
coming through. You will follow the action
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taken pursuing too that call from this
minute until the final report is written.
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In the one twenty four room at
the twenty first Precinct. All right,
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yeah, we'll be through there right
away as soon as possible, Yes,
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sir, Yeah, welcome twenty first
Precinct. It just lines on a map
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of the city of New York.
Most of one hundred and seventy three thousand
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people wedged into the nine tenths of
the square mile between Fifth Avenue and the
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East River wouldn't know if you asked
that they lived or worked in the twenty
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first. Whether they know it or
not, the security of their homes,
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their persons, and their property is
the job of the men of the twenty
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first Precinct. The twenty first one
hundred and sixty patrolmen, eleven sergeants,
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and four lieutenants of whom I'm the
boss. My name is Kennellie Frank Kennelli.
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I'm Captain in command of the twenty
first I was working my night tour
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four pm to eight a m.
But in fact I had been on the
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job for three consecutive days. The
election had come on a day which,
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according to my duty chart would normally
have been time off, but as is
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required, I had been on the
job since I signed the blotterer at seven
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thirty eight am on Monday. For
every man in the department, the regular
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duty chart went out at eight pm
on Monday night. Then they were on
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the job, guarding the polls and
the voting machines and then tabulating for sixteen
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hours straight. Then they went on
reserve for eight hours more, then back
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on the job. After I turned
out the platoon at midnight, I lay
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down on the couch in my office
and slept for the first time in nearly
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forty eight hours. Meanwhile, the
men were taking over their posts, and
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one of them, Patrolman Daniel Mercado, walked over the prescribed route from the
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station house to Madison Avenue after a
leaving Patrolman Edward Farrell on his assigned post.
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He began to try the doors to
the shops along the avenue. As
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he was in the process of this
operation, the car in which Sergeant William
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Waters was riding his recorder and Patrolman
Joseph Hearne as operator, pulled up to
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the curb. Okay, stay in
a car while I talk him. Yes,
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Sir Marcado, Yes, sergeant,
there's a street light out down an
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next block. You reported a file
said it's been out for about two hours.
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When I relieved them, he reported
it okay, he said they're on
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a way to fix it. All
right, you're still out At the end
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of the tour, I came the
report of it. Yes, I've been
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having trouble in this whole circuit up
here the last couple of days. What's
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that? What's why a knocking?
I don't hear any knocking, Sigein,
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stop now there it is. Sounds
like somebody hitting a window. Where's it
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coming from? Everything's closed in the
box. What about upstairs and one of
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the apartments? Good, Bassin.
I don't think it's from upstairs. Sounds
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like it's from way down that way. Sargin. Yeah, Arge, come
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on, yes, right there.
It is so yeah, I think it's
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from way down. That went the
next block over, John, somebody's knocking
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on some glass. I'm I don't
hear it. I'll wait just a second,
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you will it is? Yeah,
I'm down the next block. How
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do you think, Joe? You
got me? Could be coming from across
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hold? All right? Yes,
sorry, we'll walk down. You've been
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a car. Okay, come on
a coat him there. It is still
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sounds from down that way. Come
on, keep your eyes on os apart
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and win. It's upstairs. Okay, I'll look at the stores. It
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rings out like a bow, sure
does. There's nothing to stop at this
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time a night. Yeah. Here
okay, drug store is closed? Hi?
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What is it? What? Somebody
inside the drug story saying? A
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woman? All right, lady,
take it easy, take it easy.
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Can you get me out? How
did you get in? I was last
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year? I was using this lady, you will have to come closer to
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the door and talk a little bit
louder. I can't hear what you're saying.
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I was in the telephone booth from
the door closed in the telephone booth.
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Yes, that's right, wouldn't you
know it? All right? I
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was in the telephone booth and all
of a sudden the night without I didn't
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know what happened. I hung up
in the place was closed. It was
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lost time. How long ago was
this? How long ago was it?
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I don't know. I hadn't any
idea about ten or fifteen minutes ago.
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He usually closes between twelve and twelve
thirty, Sergeant. He was closed when
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I came on post. I think
it was What did he say? He
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was talking to me? Oh,
I've been trying to attack somebody's attention.
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I've been just standing here knocking on
the door with a half a dollar.
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All right, lady, I would
have called the police for the dime I
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used in the phone was a mask
dime, a quarter or nickel I had.
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All I had was the half dollar. Now, look, don't get
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panicky. Just take it easy and
we'll get you out. I lost panicky.
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I'm just trying to tell you what
happened. I know I'll get out
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good. I was getting a little
worried until somebody heard me. But I'll
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know. I'll be all right now, Yeah, you'll be fine. Now,
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what I want you to do is
reach up on the inside of the
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door, see if you can find
a latch to turn. You need a
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knob, that's right. See if
you can find a knob. The only
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thing is this and I tried that
before. That won't do it, okay,
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is the only thing in the open
that side you. And if the
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store has a burglar alarm service,
they always have a key at the office.
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It'd be a sign that says protected
by Holmes or Burns Patrol or whoever
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it is. Yes, or usually
there's no backdoor, Is that mccanno,
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No, sir, this is the
only way in around. Let me put
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my light up on the trans there's
no transom. Joel. You think of
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anything you can do, We'll get
you out. Don't worry about it.
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I'm not worried. What billing is
this in the number twenty four? Yes,
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sergeant twenty four. All right,
walk around the corner of the billing
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entrance. Find what a partner the
superintendent lives in a see if you see
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if he's got a key to this
goal. Yes, sure, all right,
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get going, mccanno. Yes,
go to the call box and ring
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in. Tell a lieutenant what we've
got, Okay, Sarge, he might
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want to check homes protective anyway,
and Burns and what's the name of that
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drug? Urge Paul Ridge, all
right, going okay, sigein, Yes,
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lady, you're not going away and
leave me? No, are not
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going anyplace. Oh that's good.
I saw them leave. I sent them
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to see if they could find somebody
with a key. Oh, thank you,
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Yeah, welcome. Listen. Yes, didn't the druggers snow you're in
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the telephone boot? No? I
guess he didn't. It's in a funny
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place, way in the back,
in an alcove. Almost was he alone
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in the store? I think so? Didn't he see you come in?
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Didn't he see you when you came
in the store? Maybe he did,
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But I was in the boot alone. I guess he forgot. What's your
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name? Rank? Neighbors? How
do you spell that? Ye? Are
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a d? The last thing,
oh, an add is that? Miss?
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Or missus? Miss? Where do
you live around the corner? Their
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number? Twenty two? Don't you
have a phone in your apartment? Oh?
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Yes, why don't you use that
instead of coming down here? Well,
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Paul, I was making was rather
a personal nature. I didn't care
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to have my roommate over here.
It. Oh, I see what did
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you say? I said? I
see? I understand. Oh, thank
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you very much. You're welcome.
How long do you think that have to
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stay in here until we can find
someone with a key? Do you know
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someone? Well, it's in this
apartment building. The super might have a
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key, you think so? Maybe? And if the druggist subscribed to the
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burglar alarm service, they'll have a
key for shore. It doesn't look to
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me like he subscribed to it.
It's such a small store. And besides,
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didn't hand about thereby tape on the
window. There's all kinds of burglar
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alarms. Oh, supposing he doesn't
subscribe, then we've got the own his
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name and phone number on file at
the station house. We'll get him down
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here to open up. I don't
think he's gonna like that very much.
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Well, he should have looked around
the store before he locked up. What
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did you say he should have looked
around the store better? What's what's the
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tumuld? All right? Keep moving? Excuse me off as I he didn't
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mean to use up your prerogative view. I'm not you're surping anything, mister.
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You just better go on home and
getting bit Hello, we got a
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damsel in distress. You go on, go on, You better hit the
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tize who put her in there?
You get moving? Will you listen?
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Listen, listen. I am not
drunk. I'm my offering you my technical
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know how for this damsel in distress. If you think I'm drunk, yeah,
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I think so, you are perfectly
mistaken. All I had was one
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of rocks on a Scotch with a
whisk up coming wheel. Now look,
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will you get going? Go on
home? All right? All right?
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A word from the wisest sufficient you
and I I got I sway, damsel
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in distress. I was worried.
I thought you were going to arrest him
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him. No, we've got bigger
troubles. I say, we've got bigger
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troubles. You know, I'm thinkin
you get a little worried? What I
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think you can get a little bit
worried? I said, are you in
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a hurry to get any place?
No? Will anyone be concerned about you?
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Do's my roommate, But I don't
care about her or whether she's concerned.
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All right, then relax, enjoy
the first that's being made all of
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you. I can't. I can't
relax. You'll relax before we'll get you
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out. Don't worry. I know
you'll get me out. I have no
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doubt about that. I'm trying to
be calm and collected. I just thee
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but I've got in those control.
He was so ridiculous in here. How
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do you think I feel out here? I spoke to the desk officer.
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Sergeant. Yeah, they rang over
the homes. This store isn't a subscriber.
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They got no key burns either.
I didn't think they would be.
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How's she doing? He's still in
there? Is he reading? Did you
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find the key? No? Not
yet. A sergeant lieutenant got the owner's
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name from the business house file,
and like I told you, it's Ridge,
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Paul Ridge. He lives up Washington
Heights. The lieutenant said, if
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the super didn't have a key,
to ring in again, and he'd get
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hold of mister Verage right away.
Okay, Yes, what's going on?
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How are you plotting out there?
We're not plotting anything, lady, except
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how to get you out. There's
a hind sergeant. How'd you do,
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Joe? I woke up the super
surgery. Yeah, he's got no key
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to any of these stories. All
he handles is the residential apartments in the
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building. These stores here are handled
direct by the office. Okay, maccado.
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You better ring into lieutenant again.
Tell him we can't look at a
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key. Okay, by the way, super sed He come and see if
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he could give us a hand as
soon as he gets dressed. But he
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doesn't know what there is that he
can't do. There's not a lot of
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way out of the stories. Aunt
nur, sir, he says, there
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isn't just this door. Yes,
Laddy, did you get a key?
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No? Not yet. I thought
that that's policeman. Was you wake up
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the souper of the building. He
did. The souper has got no key
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to any of the stores. Are
we going to do? How am I
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going to get out? We'll get
you out. You'll keep saying that you
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don't do anything. Just don't worry. I Well, I'm getting worried to
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death. We've got the home telephone
number of the Druggists in the files at
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the station house. The other officer
went to call the box. He's going
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to ask a lieutenant to phone the
druggist to come down here. Do you
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think he'll Paul? He'll come.
Yeah. He might not feel very good
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about it. He might not feel
very good about it, but he'll come.
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Oh well, I hope. So
what's that souper? His name Charlie.
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He said he'd come out as soon
as he got dressed. Yes,
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sergeant, he doesn't know what he
can do though, Yes, ma'am.
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Where does this drugs here in Washington
Heights? How long should he take him
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to get in here? About a
half hour? A little more? Maybe
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what I said my bun Oh,
sergeant, you're ringing maccarom. Yes,
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sir, I rang in. Let's
go off as a call up the druggist's
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home. Is he coming down?
Open up now, sir? His wife
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said he wasn't there. Well,
maybe he didn't have time to get home
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yet, but he's not coming home. He doesn't live there, his wife
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told the lieutenant. They were separated
about a month ago. Well where does
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the wife say he's living now?
She told a lieutenant. She doesn't know.
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She knows how to get in touch
with him when she has to,
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doesn't she? Yes, she knows
that. Well where does she read?
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Right here? Right here at the
store? You are listening to twenty first
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Precinct, the bactual account of the
way police work in the world's largest city.
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You have a horrible feeling that something
is wrong when the radio goes dead.
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You turn on the television set,
nothing there either. You walk out
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on the street to look for your
newspaper, but it isn't on your porch,
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your front lawn, no place.
And then you notice the silence all
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around you, no voices, not
a one. The theater lights are off,
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the public auditorium is boarded up.
You're frightened. You don't know what's
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wrong. I'll tell you what's wrong. You've just found out what it would
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be like to live under a system
of government that controls the freedom of speech.
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There are such systems in the world
today, but a group of men
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took care that it wouldn't happen to
you. They did the work a hundred
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and sixty five years ago when they
wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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In the first article of those ten
original Amendments, they said, Congress
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shall make no law abridging the freedom
of speech or of the press. Those
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men, men like Franklin and Jefferson, made it official, made it a
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law. Every time we have our
say in public or in private, we're
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exercising that law and exercises good.
If someone else doesn't like what we say,
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he's entitled to his own opinion,
and he's entitled a voice it just
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as loudly and clearly as he wants. That's guaranteed by our Constitution, by
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our Bill of Rights, freedom of
speech, it's one of our freedoms.
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Now back to twenty first Precinct and
Captain Kennelly a law. I had been
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without rest for many hours. I
was not able to fall asleep on the
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couch in my office. After twenty
minutes or so, I had gotten up,
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washed my face and walk into the
muster room, where I saw Lieutenant
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Matt, commander of the twenty first
Detective Squad, come into the station house.
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He'd been on the job the same
number of hours as I. Detectives
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as well as members of the patrol
Force, are assigned to election day duty,
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either at the polls or on patrol
in uniform. Oh man, hello,
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Captain, I saw you coming in
when you should be going out.
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Why don't you go home? I
thought about it, Captain, I've got
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to be back here at seven thirty
in the morning, just to use one
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of the beds upstairs. Oh well, how about a cup of coffee?
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Yeah, sure, Captain Red.
Is there any hot coffee? Yes,
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sir, He Shugars in the draw. Captain good, It was a pretty
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quiet election, captain, yeah,
pretty quiet. Go ahead, man,
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How do you think you'll like the
new governor? I don't know. Let's
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see what he does after the first
of the year. Yeah. Thanks,
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that's enough, guy, okay,
sugar man, Yes, thank the HONA
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Jr. Squad may out with its
election duty and the edges no, no
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edges, no, sir, But
it's at a time for himself, did
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he yes? So everything was nice
and quiet at the polling place he was
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assigned to until about two o'clock,
that is, and then walks to this
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individual who says she's missus so and
so. Well, the husky voice didn't
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bother the election clerks too much,
but that heavy beard made them a little
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suspicious, despite the beautiful fur coat
and the high heel shoes. So they
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called over Fitz. Who was it
a man? Yes, sir, Fitz
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says he was quite a guy.
So it took all three cops over there
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to help get him quiet and done. Well, what was the idea?
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It seems he voted earlier in the
day. Missus so and so was sick
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and bad, and he'd be done. And if she was going to lose
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her vote. He said, she
told him exactly how she wanted to vote,
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and he was going to vote for
her. The election clerks and fits
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and a half dozen cops weren't going
to stop him. What happened? Or
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are? They're gonna have tagged for
psycho down the value. It's gonna be
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a long time before Fitz lives down
in that closed eye he got from a
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lady. I guess it will excuse
me, Captain, Yes, Lieutenant,
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all right, mat We've got a
woman locked in a drug store over Mattis
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Navina. Why does she get in
there? She was on the phone booth
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when the drugg is closed up.
Yeah, super of the building said he's
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got no key. We got out
the druggers's phone number from the business house
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file. His wife says she's separated
from about a month and she doesn't know
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where he's living. Well, they
got a burglar alarm service. I checked,
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Holmes, Captain, store isn't a
subscriber. Who's on the job over
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there? Sergeant Waters, Captain and
Maccado and the herne. Sergeant says a
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woman started off kind of cool and
collected when they first got there, but
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she's getting a little panicky. No, are you making any further effort to
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locate the druggist? Yes, sir, he's got a mother who lives in
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the Bronx. According to the wife, the mother's got no phone. She
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doesn't think he's living with the mother, but the mother might know where he
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is. I got the fiftieth precinct
to send a man over there to talk
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to the mother. Any friends with
the man or employees at the store.
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The wife says, he's got a
pharmacist working from a no One she doesn't
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know his name, came to work
after they got separated. She used to
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help him out in the store herself. She doesn't happen to have a key
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around the house there, No,
sir, Sergeant Waters wanted to know what
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I thought about sending for the emergency
squad to take the door off, or
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cut the glass out, or do
whatever they could to get around You.
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Better hold up on that for a
while, then, Yes, sir,
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I'll take a ride over there and
see what it looks like. Have a
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cor come around for me. Okay, right a week you want to come
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take a look man now, Captain, No thanks, I spent too much
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of my time now seeing people who
were locked up. In a few minutes,
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Sector con number three came by the
house for me and drove me over
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to the drug store on Madison Avenue, where by this time a few people
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had gathered, despite the lateness of
the hour. As the car pulled to
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a stop behind the sergeant's car,
I could see considerable activity in the doorway.
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All right, you wait here?
What happened? All right, there's
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nothing to see. You might as
well move on. Lauren West Sergeant Waters
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in the doorway, they're talking to
her. Okay, yes, just keep
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moving, sergeant Oh n Well,
know how you doing. Well? She's
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still in there, miss Nagger.
Yes. I sent one of the officers
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with the super of the building.
They went to call somebody from the real
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estate company. We'll see if they've
got a key. It's getting to be
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in the awfully lone time. We'll
know something in a few minutes. You've
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been saying that, You've been saying
you'll know something in a few minutes,
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But an awful long time is gone. Boy, we're doing everything we can.
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I don't know. Oh, I
don't know if you are. I'm
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still locked in here. I'm Captain
Kennelly, we'll get you out. We'll
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get you out soon. What you've
got to talk closer to the door,
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Captain, I said, we'll get
you out very soon. I hope.
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So, we hope. So she's
in there too much longer, Captain,
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she's going to go to pieces.
I don't know whether I don't blame her
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Mersa neither would I am. I
was thinking about getting the emergency truck over
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here and taking that door off,
or the glass out or something. I
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don't think they could take the door
off their buttered hinges. I could jimmy
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it open. That had caused a
lot of damage. Best thing might be
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to cut the glass out. Yes, Marcado went with the super. Yes,
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who are they calling? Some executive
from the real estate company that manages
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this building? Oh yeah, Super
says he might know where there's a key
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to the store, and if he
doesn't, he might know who to call.
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And she goes again, sir,
yes, any new You haven't come
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back yet. Oh I'm getting very
thirsty, thirsty, yes, very thirsty.
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Well why don't you go behind the
soda parting and get a glass of
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water? Do you think it would
be all right? It'd be all right?
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Sure, did you say so?
Yes, go ahead, all right,
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I will well, I don't keep
it busy for a minute anyway.
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Yeah, ahnd yes, sir,
you're call me sorry, captain. Yes,
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he take a walk down to the
call box, ringing into Lieutenant Gorman
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and see he's had any luck in
locating the druggist. Answer and tell him
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I'll be here until we get her
off. Okay, let me know what
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he says. Yes, the fifties
was going to send a man around his
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mother's place. Yes, I know, all right, miss Natan. We're
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right. Here's my drink of water. That's good. And I found this
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chair too. There's no sense stagging
here with I can think sitting. Yes,
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you'll be a lot more comfortable.
It's not how possible I am to
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make the difference. But I'm getting
very nervous. What I'm getting very nervous.
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I want to get out of here. We'll get you off. I
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want you to get the yard now, right now. There's no reason why
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can't get out right now, Mike. I told you, lady. If
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we can't find somebody with a key, we'll get the emergency squad over here
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to take off the door very soon. You've been saying that happened all right,
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just for you learn you'll be a
Yes, McConnell, Captain, this
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is Charlie super at number twenty eight. I'm glad to know you. Captain.
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Hello, some deal we got here? Huh yeah? Do you have
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any luck? No luck at all. I went inside and I called up
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my boss, which is mister Doyle. Well did he have a key?
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Well, mister Doylad's got charge of
residential Rynolds only, so he told me
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to call up mister Matthews, which
is charge of business Rattels. I said,
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look, mister Doyle, mister Matthews
don't know me from a hole in
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the ground. So mister Doyle called
up mister Matthews, and mister Doyle called
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me back. Well, did mister
Matthews have the key? I know?
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So they said they've got no keys
to any of these stores, at least
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that's what mister Doyle told me.
Mister Matthews told him. I talked to
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mister Doyle, Captain. He said
that Matthews assured him there was no master
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key to these stores in their office. The only one who has a key,
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Iseutenant. I rang into the house. Captain, Yes, I hearn
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a. Lieutenant Gorman says the fiftieth
got back to him. They sent a
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man by the house of the man's
mother. She doesn't know where he's living.
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She hasn't heard from him, and
over a month. Captain, Yes,
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okay, wolf, Miss Nada,
put that chair down. Put it
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down. I'm going to get out
of the air. Look, we've got
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the emergency's fought on the way.
Miss Nador, you've been saying that,
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I'll put that chair down. What's
the trouble, Sergeant, You better get
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back Maccado, keep the rest of
them back. Yes, come out of
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hun Let's get him back. Miss
Nader, I'll get you out. You
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better get out of the way.
I think she means a captain, what
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put that chair off. We'll get
you out. Do Come on, captain,
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snot captain, come on? What? How are you all right?
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Sir? Yeah, I'm all right. I'm sorry. I pushed you,
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Kevin when I saw that check coming. Now, don't worry about it.
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Thanks, Yes, well I did
it. Yeah, you did it.
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I had to please help me.
I don't step through there yet. There's
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a lot of that jagged glass hanging
there. Maccado espin right here, take
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your night stick. Clean that glass
off around there, Yes, stand a
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few feet back in them, Snata, I want to come out. You'll
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be able to step out in a
minute. All right, he's only going
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to be a minute. It's good, misge go ahead, Maccado, Oh
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yours? Yes it okay, Maccado. That's good. Oh, Captain,
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I I guess she solved the problem
for us. I guess she did.
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And from now on, I don't
think she'll mind if a roommate over his
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phone conversation wenty face precincts. Sergeant
Waters, owre you the watchman? What
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they break into? Did you see
the thieves? Yeah? Yeah, well
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what's missing? Oh yeah? Well
what was all that doing in a tool
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shock? Yeah? And so it
goes around the clock through the week,
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every day, every year. A
police precinct in the City of New York
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is a flesh and blood merry go
round. Anyone can catch the brass ring,
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or the brass ring can catch anyone. Twenty first Precinct, a factual
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account of the way the police work
in the world's largest city, is presented
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with the official cooperation of the Patrolman's
Benevolent Association, an organization of more than
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twenty thousand members of the Police Department
City of New York, Everett Sloan in
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the role of Captain Kennelle Ken Lynch
as Lieutenant King Harold Stone as Sergeant Waters.
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Featured in tonight's cast were Abbey Lewis, John Sylvester, John Gibson,
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Santo Sartaga, and Bob Dryden.
Written and directed by Stanley Niss, Produced
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for CBS Radio by John ives Ed
Fleming speaking This is the United States Armed
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Forces Radio and television service m YEAH
and tod it
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Twenty first Precinct, Sage and Waters. Yeah, that's right, it's our
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placement working over there. What do
you want to know for Well, how
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does what they're don't consign you?
Yeah? Yeah, well you'll just have
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to bed. You are in the
muster room at the twenty first Precinct,
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the Nerve Center. A call is
coming through. You will follow the action
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taken pursuing too that call from this
minute until the final report is written.
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In the one twenty four room at
the twenty first Precinct. All right,
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yeah, we'll be through there right
away as soon as possible, Yes,
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sir, Yeah, welcome twenty first
Precinct. It just lines on a map
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of the city of New York.
Most of one hundred and seventy three thousand
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people wedged into the nine tenths of
the square mile between Fifth Avenue and the
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East River wouldn't know if you asked
that they lived or worked in the twenty
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first. Whether they know it or
not, the security of their homes,
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their persons, and their property is
the job of the men of the twenty
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first Precinct. The twenty first one
hundred and sixty patrolmen, eleven sergeants,
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and four lieutenants of whom I'm the
boss. My name is Kennellie Frank Kennelli.
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I'm Captain in command of the twenty
first I was working my night tour
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four pm to eight a m.
But in fact I had been on the
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job for three consecutive days. The
election had come on a day which,
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according to my duty chart would normally
have been time off, but as is
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required, I had been on the
job since I signed the blotterer at seven
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thirty eight am on Monday. For
every man in the department, the regular
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duty chart went out at eight pm
on Monday night. Then they were on
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the job, guarding the polls and
the voting machines and then tabulating for sixteen
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hours straight. Then they went on
reserve for eight hours more, then back
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on the job. After I turned
out the platoon at midnight, I lay
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down on the couch in my office
and slept for the first time in nearly
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forty eight hours. Meanwhile, the
men were taking over their posts, and
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one of them, Patrolman Daniel Mercado, walked over the prescribed route from the
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station house to Madison Avenue after a
leaving Patrolman Edward Farrell on his assigned post.
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He began to try the doors to
the shops along the avenue. As
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he was in the process of this
operation, the car in which Sergeant William
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Waters was riding his recorder and Patrolman
Joseph Hearne as operator, pulled up to
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the curb. Okay, stay in
a car while I talk him. Yes,
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Sir Marcado, Yes, sergeant,
there's a street light out down an
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next block. You reported a file
said it's been out for about two hours.
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When I relieved them, he reported
it okay, he said they're on
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a way to fix it. All
right, you're still out At the end
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of the tour, I came the
report of it. Yes, I've been
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having trouble in this whole circuit up
here the last couple of days. What's
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that? What's why a knocking?
I don't hear any knocking, Sigein,
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stop now there it is. Sounds
like somebody hitting a window. Where's it
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coming from? Everything's closed in the
box. What about upstairs and one of
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the apartments? Good, Bassin.
I don't think it's from upstairs. Sounds
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like it's from way down that way. Sargin. Yeah, Arge, come
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on, yes, right there.
It is so yeah, I think it's
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from way down. That went the
next block over, John, somebody's knocking
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on some glass. I'm I don't
hear it. I'll wait just a second,
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you will it is? Yeah,
I'm down the next block. How
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do you think, Joe? You
got me? Could be coming from across
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hold? All right? Yes,
sorry, we'll walk down. You've been
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a car. Okay, come on
a coat him there. It is still
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sounds from down that way. Come
on, keep your eyes on os apart
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and win. It's upstairs. Okay, I'll look at the stores. It
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rings out like a bow, sure
does. There's nothing to stop at this
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time a night. Yeah. Here
okay, drug store is closed? Hi?
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What is it? What? Somebody
inside the drug story saying? A
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woman? All right, lady,
take it easy, take it easy.
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Can you get me out? How
did you get in? I was last
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year? I was using this lady, you will have to come closer to
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the door and talk a little bit
louder. I can't hear what you're saying.
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I was in the telephone booth from
the door closed in the telephone booth.
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Yes, that's right, wouldn't you
know it? All right? I
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was in the telephone booth and all
of a sudden the night without I didn't
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know what happened. I hung up
in the place was closed. It was
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lost time. How long ago was
this? How long ago was it?
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I don't know. I hadn't any
idea about ten or fifteen minutes ago.
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He usually closes between twelve and twelve
thirty, Sergeant. He was closed when
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I came on post. I think
it was What did he say? He
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was talking to me? Oh,
I've been trying to attack somebody's attention.
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I've been just standing here knocking on
the door with a half a dollar.
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All right, lady, I would
have called the police for the dime I
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used in the phone was a mask
dime, a quarter or nickel I had.
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All I had was the half dollar. Now, look, don't get
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panicky. Just take it easy and
we'll get you out. I lost panicky.
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I'm just trying to tell you what
happened. I know I'll get out
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good. I was getting a little
worried until somebody heard me. But I'll
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know. I'll be all right now, Yeah, you'll be fine. Now,
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what I want you to do is
reach up on the inside of the
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door, see if you can find
a latch to turn. You need a
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knob, that's right. See if
you can find a knob. The only
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thing is this and I tried that
before. That won't do it, okay,
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is the only thing in the open
that side you. And if the
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store has a burglar alarm service,
they always have a key at the office.
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It'd be a sign that says protected
by Holmes or Burns Patrol or whoever
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it is. Yes, or usually
there's no backdoor, Is that mccanno,
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No, sir, this is the
only way in around. Let me put
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my light up on the trans there's
no transom. Joel. You think of
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anything you can do, We'll get
you out. Don't worry about it.
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I'm not worried. What billing is
this in the number twenty four? Yes,
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sergeant twenty four. All right,
walk around the corner of the billing
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entrance. Find what a partner the
superintendent lives in a see if you see
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if he's got a key to this
goal. Yes, sure, all right,
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get going, mccanno. Yes,
go to the call box and ring
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in. Tell a lieutenant what we've
got, Okay, Sarge, he might
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want to check homes protective anyway,
and Burns and what's the name of that
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drug? Urge Paul Ridge, all
right, going okay, sigein, Yes,
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lady, you're not going away and
leave me? No, are not
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going anyplace. Oh that's good.
I saw them leave. I sent them
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to see if they could find somebody
with a key. Oh, thank you,
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Yeah, welcome. Listen. Yes, didn't the druggers snow you're in
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the telephone boot? No? I
guess he didn't. It's in a funny
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place, way in the back,
in an alcove. Almost was he alone
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in the store? I think so? Didn't he see you come in?
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Didn't he see you when you came
in the store? Maybe he did,
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But I was in the boot alone. I guess he forgot. What's your
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name? Rank? Neighbors? How
do you spell that? Ye? Are
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a d? The last thing,
oh, an add is that? Miss?
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Or missus? Miss? Where do
you live around the corner? Their
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number? Twenty two? Don't you
have a phone in your apartment? Oh?
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Yes, why don't you use that
instead of coming down here? Well,
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Paul, I was making was rather
a personal nature. I didn't care
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to have my roommate over here.
It. Oh, I see what did
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you say? I said? I
see? I understand. Oh, thank
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you very much. You're welcome.
How long do you think that have to
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stay in here until we can find
someone with a key? Do you know
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someone? Well, it's in this
apartment building. The super might have a
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key, you think so? Maybe? And if the druggist subscribed to the
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burglar alarm service, they'll have a
key for shore. It doesn't look to
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me like he subscribed to it.
It's such a small store. And besides,
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didn't hand about thereby tape on the
window. There's all kinds of burglar
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alarms. Oh, supposing he doesn't
subscribe, then we've got the own his
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name and phone number on file at
the station house. We'll get him down
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here to open up. I don't
think he's gonna like that very much.
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Well, he should have looked around
the store before he locked up. What
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did you say he should have looked
around the store better? What's what's the
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tumuld? All right? Keep moving? Excuse me off as I he didn't
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mean to use up your prerogative view. I'm not you're surping anything, mister.
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You just better go on home and
getting bit Hello, we got a
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damsel in distress. You go on, go on, You better hit the
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tize who put her in there?
You get moving? Will you listen?
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Listen, listen. I am not
drunk. I'm my offering you my technical
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know how for this damsel in distress. If you think I'm drunk, yeah,
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I think so, you are perfectly
mistaken. All I had was one
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of rocks on a Scotch with a
whisk up coming wheel. Now look,
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will you get going? Go on
home? All right? All right?
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A word from the wisest sufficient you
and I I got I sway, damsel
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in distress. I was worried.
I thought you were going to arrest him
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him. No, we've got bigger
troubles. I say, we've got bigger
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troubles. You know, I'm thinkin
you get a little worried? What I
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think you can get a little bit
worried? I said, are you in
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a hurry to get any place?
No? Will anyone be concerned about you?
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Do's my roommate, But I don't
care about her or whether she's concerned.
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All right, then relax, enjoy
the first that's being made all of
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you. I can't. I can't
relax. You'll relax before we'll get you
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out. Don't worry. I know
you'll get me out. I have no
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doubt about that. I'm trying to
be calm and collected. I just thee
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but I've got in those control.
He was so ridiculous in here. How
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do you think I feel out here? I spoke to the desk officer.
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Sergeant. Yeah, they rang over
the homes. This store isn't a subscriber.
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They got no key burns either.
I didn't think they would be.
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How's she doing? He's still in
there? Is he reading? Did you
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find the key? No? Not
yet. A sergeant lieutenant got the owner's
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name from the business house file,
and like I told you, it's Ridge,
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Paul Ridge. He lives up Washington
Heights. The lieutenant said, if
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the super didn't have a key,
to ring in again, and he'd get
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hold of mister Verage right away.
Okay, Yes, what's going on?
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How are you plotting out there?
We're not plotting anything, lady, except
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how to get you out. There's
a hind sergeant. How'd you do,
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Joe? I woke up the super
surgery. Yeah, he's got no key
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to any of these stories. All
he handles is the residential apartments in the
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building. These stores here are handled
direct by the office. Okay, maccado.
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You better ring into lieutenant again.
Tell him we can't look at a
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key. Okay, by the way, super sed He come and see if
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he could give us a hand as
soon as he gets dressed. But he
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doesn't know what there is that he
can't do. There's not a lot of
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way out of the stories. Aunt
nur, sir, he says, there
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isn't just this door. Yes,
Laddy, did you get a key?
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No? Not yet. I thought
that that's policeman. Was you wake up
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the souper of the building. He
did. The souper has got no key
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to any of the stores. Are
we going to do? How am I
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going to get out? We'll get
you out. You'll keep saying that you
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don't do anything. Just don't worry. I Well, I'm getting worried to
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death. We've got the home telephone
number of the Druggists in the files at
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the station house. The other officer
went to call the box. He's going
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to ask a lieutenant to phone the
druggist to come down here. Do you
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think he'll Paul? He'll come.
Yeah. He might not feel very good
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about it. He might not feel
very good about it, but he'll come.
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Oh well, I hope. So
what's that souper? His name Charlie.
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He said he'd come out as soon
as he got dressed. Yes,
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sergeant, he doesn't know what he
can do though, Yes, ma'am.
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Where does this drugs here in Washington
Heights? How long should he take him
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to get in here? About a
half hour? A little more? Maybe
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what I said my bun Oh,
sergeant, you're ringing maccarom. Yes,
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sir, I rang in. Let's
go off as a call up the druggist's
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home. Is he coming down?
Open up now, sir? His wife
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said he wasn't there. Well,
maybe he didn't have time to get home
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yet, but he's not coming home. He doesn't live there, his wife
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told the lieutenant. They were separated
about a month ago. Well where does
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the wife say he's living now?
She told a lieutenant. She doesn't know.
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She knows how to get in touch
with him when she has to,
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doesn't she? Yes, she knows
that. Well where does she read?
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Right here? Right here at the
store? You are listening to twenty first
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Precinct, the bactual account of the
way police work in the world's largest city.
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You have a horrible feeling that something
is wrong when the radio goes dead.
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You turn on the television set,
nothing there either. You walk out
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on the street to look for your
newspaper, but it isn't on your porch,
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your front lawn, no place.
And then you notice the silence all
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around you, no voices, not
a one. The theater lights are off,
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the public auditorium is boarded up.
You're frightened. You don't know what's
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wrong. I'll tell you what's wrong. You've just found out what it would
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be like to live under a system
of government that controls the freedom of speech.
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There are such systems in the world
today, but a group of men
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took care that it wouldn't happen to
you. They did the work a hundred
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and sixty five years ago when they
wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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In the first article of those ten
original Amendments, they said, Congress
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shall make no law abridging the freedom
of speech or of the press. Those
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men, men like Franklin and Jefferson, made it official, made it a
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law. Every time we have our
say in public or in private, we're
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exercising that law and exercises good.
If someone else doesn't like what we say,
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he's entitled to his own opinion,
and he's entitled a voice it just
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as loudly and clearly as he wants. That's guaranteed by our Constitution, by
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our Bill of Rights, freedom of
speech, it's one of our freedoms.
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Now back to twenty first Precinct and
Captain Kennelly a law. I had been
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without rest for many hours. I
was not able to fall asleep on the
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couch in my office. After twenty
minutes or so, I had gotten up,
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washed my face and walk into the
muster room, where I saw Lieutenant
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Matt, commander of the twenty first
Detective Squad, come into the station house.
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He'd been on the job the same
number of hours as I. Detectives
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as well as members of the patrol
Force, are assigned to election day duty,
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either at the polls or on patrol
in uniform. Oh man, hello,
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Captain, I saw you coming in
when you should be going out.
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Why don't you go home? I
thought about it, Captain, I've got
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to be back here at seven thirty
in the morning, just to use one
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of the beds upstairs. Oh well, how about a cup of coffee?
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Yeah, sure, Captain Red.
Is there any hot coffee? Yes,
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sir, He Shugars in the draw. Captain good, It was a pretty
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quiet election, captain, yeah,
pretty quiet. Go ahead, man,
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How do you think you'll like the
new governor? I don't know. Let's
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see what he does after the first
of the year. Yeah. Thanks,
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that's enough, guy, okay,
sugar man, Yes, thank the HONA
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Jr. Squad may out with its
election duty and the edges no, no
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edges, no, sir, But
it's at a time for himself, did
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he yes? So everything was nice
and quiet at the polling place he was
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assigned to until about two o'clock,
that is, and then walks to this
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individual who says she's missus so and
so. Well, the husky voice didn't
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bother the election clerks too much,
but that heavy beard made them a little
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suspicious, despite the beautiful fur coat
and the high heel shoes. So they
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called over Fitz. Who was it
a man? Yes, sir, Fitz
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says he was quite a guy.
So it took all three cops over there
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to help get him quiet and done. Well, what was the idea?
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It seems he voted earlier in the
day. Missus so and so was sick
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and bad, and he'd be done. And if she was going to lose
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her vote. He said, she
told him exactly how she wanted to vote,
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and he was going to vote for
her. The election clerks and fits
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and a half dozen cops weren't going
to stop him. What happened? Or
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are? They're gonna have tagged for
psycho down the value. It's gonna be
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a long time before Fitz lives down
in that closed eye he got from a
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lady. I guess it will excuse
me, Captain, Yes, Lieutenant,
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all right, mat We've got a
woman locked in a drug store over Mattis
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Navina. Why does she get in
there? She was on the phone booth
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when the drugg is closed up.
Yeah, super of the building said he's
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got no key. We got out
the druggers's phone number from the business house
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file. His wife says she's separated
from about a month and she doesn't know
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where he's living. Well, they
got a burglar alarm service. I checked,
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Holmes, Captain, store isn't a
subscriber. Who's on the job over
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there? Sergeant Waters, Captain and
Maccado and the herne. Sergeant says a
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woman started off kind of cool and
collected when they first got there, but
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she's getting a little panicky. No, are you making any further effort to
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locate the druggist? Yes, sir, he's got a mother who lives in
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the Bronx. According to the wife, the mother's got no phone. She
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doesn't think he's living with the mother, but the mother might know where he
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is. I got the fiftieth precinct
to send a man over there to talk
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to the mother. Any friends with
the man or employees at the store.
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The wife says, he's got a
pharmacist working from a no One she doesn't
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know his name, came to work
after they got separated. She used to
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help him out in the store herself. She doesn't happen to have a key
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around the house there, No,
sir, Sergeant Waters wanted to know what
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I thought about sending for the emergency
squad to take the door off, or
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cut the glass out, or do
whatever they could to get around You.
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Better hold up on that for a
while, then, Yes, sir,
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I'll take a ride over there and
see what it looks like. Have a
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cor come around for me. Okay, right a week you want to come
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take a look man now, Captain, No thanks, I spent too much
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of my time now seeing people who
were locked up. In a few minutes,
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Sector con number three came by the
house for me and drove me over
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to the drug store on Madison Avenue, where by this time a few people
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had gathered, despite the lateness of
the hour. As the car pulled to
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a stop behind the sergeant's car,
I could see considerable activity in the doorway.
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All right, you wait here?
What happened? All right, there's
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nothing to see. You might as
well move on. Lauren West Sergeant Waters
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in the doorway, they're talking to
her. Okay, yes, just keep
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moving, sergeant Oh n Well,
know how you doing. Well? She's
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still in there, miss Nagger.
Yes. I sent one of the officers
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with the super of the building.
They went to call somebody from the real
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estate company. We'll see if they've
got a key. It's getting to be
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in the awfully lone time. We'll
know something in a few minutes. You've
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been saying that, You've been saying
you'll know something in a few minutes,
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But an awful long time is gone. Boy, we're doing everything we can.
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I don't know. Oh, I
don't know if you are. I'm
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still locked in here. I'm Captain
Kennelly, we'll get you out. We'll
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get you out soon. What you've
got to talk closer to the door,
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Captain, I said, we'll get
you out very soon. I hope.
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So, we hope. So she's
in there too much longer, Captain,
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she's going to go to pieces.
I don't know whether I don't blame her
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Mersa neither would I am. I
was thinking about getting the emergency truck over
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here and taking that door off,
or the glass out or something. I
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don't think they could take the door
off their buttered hinges. I could jimmy
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it open. That had caused a
lot of damage. Best thing might be
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to cut the glass out. Yes, Marcado went with the super. Yes,
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who are they calling? Some executive
from the real estate company that manages
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this building? Oh yeah, Super
says he might know where there's a key
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to the store, and if he
doesn't, he might know who to call.
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And she goes again, sir,
yes, any new You haven't come
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back yet. Oh I'm getting very
thirsty, thirsty, yes, very thirsty.
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Well why don't you go behind the
soda parting and get a glass of
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water? Do you think it would
be all right? It'd be all right?
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Sure, did you say so?
Yes, go ahead, all right,
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I will well, I don't keep
it busy for a minute anyway.
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Yeah, ahnd yes, sir,
you're call me sorry, captain. Yes,
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he take a walk down to the
call box, ringing into Lieutenant Gorman
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and see he's had any luck in
locating the druggist. Answer and tell him
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I'll be here until we get her
off. Okay, let me know what
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he says. Yes, the fifties
was going to send a man around his
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mother's place. Yes, I know, all right, miss Natan. We're
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right. Here's my drink of water. That's good. And I found this
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chair too. There's no sense stagging
here with I can think sitting. Yes,
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you'll be a lot more comfortable.
It's not how possible I am to
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make the difference. But I'm getting
very nervous. What I'm getting very nervous.
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I want to get out of here. We'll get you off. I
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want you to get the yard now, right now. There's no reason why
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can't get out right now, Mike. I told you, lady. If
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we can't find somebody with a key, we'll get the emergency squad over here
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to take off the door very soon. You've been saying that happened all right,
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just for you learn you'll be a
Yes, McConnell, Captain, this
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is Charlie super at number twenty eight. I'm glad to know you. Captain.
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Hello, some deal we got here? Huh yeah? Do you have
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any luck? No luck at all. I went inside and I called up
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my boss, which is mister Doyle. Well did he have a key?
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Well, mister Doylad's got charge of
residential Rynolds only, so he told me
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to call up mister Matthews, which
is charge of business Rattels. I said,
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look, mister Doyle, mister Matthews
don't know me from a hole in
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the ground. So mister Doyle called
up mister Matthews, and mister Doyle called
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me back. Well, did mister
Matthews have the key? I know?
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So they said they've got no keys
to any of these stores, at least
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that's what mister Doyle told me.
Mister Matthews told him. I talked to
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mister Doyle, Captain. He said
that Matthews assured him there was no master
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key to these stores in their office. The only one who has a key,
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Iseutenant. I rang into the house. Captain, Yes, I hearn
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a. Lieutenant Gorman says the fiftieth
got back to him. They sent a
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man by the house of the man's
mother. She doesn't know where he's living.
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She hasn't heard from him, and
over a month. Captain, Yes,
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okay, wolf, Miss Nada,
put that chair down. Put it
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down. I'm going to get out
of the air. Look, we've got
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the emergency's fought on the way.
Miss Nador, you've been saying that,
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I'll put that chair down. What's
the trouble, Sergeant, You better get
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back Maccado, keep the rest of
them back. Yes, come out of
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hun Let's get him back. Miss
Nader, I'll get you out. You
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better get out of the way.
I think she means a captain, what
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put that chair off. We'll get
you out. Do Come on, captain,
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snot captain, come on? What? How are you all right?
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Sir? Yeah, I'm all right. I'm sorry. I pushed you,
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Kevin when I saw that check coming. Now, don't worry about it.
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Thanks, Yes, well I did
it. Yeah, you did it.
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I had to please help me.
I don't step through there yet. There's
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a lot of that jagged glass hanging
there. Maccado espin right here, take
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your night stick. Clean that glass
off around there, Yes, stand a
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few feet back in them, Snata, I want to come out. You'll
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be able to step out in a
minute. All right, he's only going
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to be a minute. It's good, misge go ahead, Maccado, Oh
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yours? Yes it okay, Maccado. That's good. Oh, Captain,
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I I guess she solved the problem
for us. I guess she did.
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And from now on, I don't
think she'll mind if a roommate over his
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phone conversation wenty face precincts. Sergeant
Waters, owre you the watchman? What
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they break into? Did you see
the thieves? Yeah? Yeah, well
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what's missing? Oh yeah? Well
what was all that doing in a tool
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shock? Yeah? And so it
goes around the clock through the week,
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every day, every year. A
police precinct in the City of New York
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is a flesh and blood merry go
round. Anyone can catch the brass ring,
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or the brass ring can catch anyone. Twenty first Precinct, a factual
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account of the way the police work
in the world's largest city, is presented
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with the official cooperation of the Patrolman's
Benevolent Association, an organization of more than
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twenty thousand members of the Police Department
City of New York, Everett Sloan in
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the role of Captain Kennelle Ken Lynch
as Lieutenant King Harold Stone as Sergeant Waters.
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Featured in tonight's cast were Abbey Lewis, John Sylvester, John Gibson,
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Santo Sartaga, and Bob Dryden.
Written and directed by Stanley Niss, Produced
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for CBS Radio by John ives Ed
Fleming speaking This is the United States Armed
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