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twenty first precinct sergeant klein yes where three thousand one hundred and twenty in the bar and grill now who's shot what's his name where's the man with the gun you are in the muster room at the twenty first precinct the nerve center a call is coming through you will follow the action taken pursuant to that call from this minute until the final report is written in the one hundred twenty four room at the twenty first precinct i'll send the officers what talk into the phone it's on its way the ambulance is already on its way just wait there for the officers twenty first precinct it's just lines on a map of the city of new york most of the one hundred seventy three thousand people wedged into the nine tenths of a square mile between fifth avenue and the east river wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the twenty first whether they know it or not the security of their persons their homes and their property is my job my job and the job of the one hundred sixty patrolmen eleven sergeants and four lieutenants of whom i'm the boss my name is kennelly frank kennelly i'm captain in command of the twenty first i was working my six pm to eight am tour it was a hot muggy night after i turned out the platoon for the late tour i went on patrol of the precinct with patrolman johnny farrell as operator and myself as recorder at two fifty five we were driving south on lexington avenue in the seventies there were few cars on the street and fewer pedestrians all right cut across east on seventy second johnny we'll take a turn up first gas sir aea thirty eight what was the matter with your boy johnny i don't know captain analogy to doctor a rack like that could be caused by anything nothing he ate or one of his toys or weed or something hide itself yeah and to keep them from scratching how are you going to keep a kid five years old from scratching and sleeping let your time well if there's somebody running where this side down on the next block oh yeah let's take a look the man pull up ahead of me police officer watch your hurry no hold up i was running to the police station okay captain yeah well tell me mister hold up guys we shot my boss where bar and grill he's dead i think he's dead where were you running the police station what was the matter with the phone i don't know i was so excited i guess what's your name charlie charlie burgess i'm the bartender okay get in the car open it off al yes he looked dead to me all right get in charlie you go around johnny yes sir where is it the bar and grill two blocks up what's the seat of that three thousand one hundred and twenty three thousand one hundred and twenty johnny yes you guys were there for an hour almost poor step all right six two home go ahead six two we picked up a man who reports a robbery and shooting at the barn grill three thousand one hundred twenty lexington three thousand one hundred twenty that's right we've got the witness we're on our way okay you you were running to the police station yeah that's right police station's in the other direction two one three one six three two the address three one two zero all right come on charlie let's go come on i didn't know where the police station was how should i know inside johnny he's over there behind the bar how come they're near me hold up guys put a couple of quarters in the jukebox i don't
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is he dead yeah he's dead here's the gun captain over here all right let it lay style and pull the plug on that jukebox that's
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cash register's clean now why'd they shoot him charlie i don't know happened so fast i don't know where were you standing right here right with a beer tap you were the bartender yeah that's right substitute the regulars on vacation why didn't they shoot you i ducked i ducked down behind the bar if you were the bartender what did you do change into your street clothes after the shooting no dutch said i could go home early business was slow i could go home so i chased if you change what were you doing behind the bar it was my last night i came back here so dutch could give me my money no other customers around when it happened no just the two hysteres hey what is this anyhow that's what we want to know from you charlie what it is two sector cars the sergeant's car detectives from the twenty first squad and an ambulance arrived on the scene almost immediately as required in homicide cases lieutenant matt king commanding the twenty first squad was called from his home also notified were the manhattan east homicide squad the medical examiner's office the new york county district attorney's office the police laboratory for latent fingerprint experts and a police photographer and such superior officers of the department as were concerned premises were completely examined for latent fingerprints and other physical evidence the apparent murder gun carefully handled was tagged for evidence by the laboratory men for ballistics and fingerprint examination body of the victim was taken to bellevue morgue for autopsy at ten minutes to four am lieutenant king brought charles burgess to the station house for a detailed account there in the twenty first squad he was questioned by lieutenant king in his office in the presence of assistant district attorney lewis curley two detectives and myself now you said the two bandits were average height yes sir tell me what you mean charlie by average height average height they weren't too big they weren't too small would you say they were as tall as i am a little taller maybe about as tall as captain kennelly about yeah yeah i guess both of them and they were about the same height well one was a little taller than the other it was only a little which one the one that fired the shot yeah the one that fired the shot he was a little taller you told captain kennelly on the scene that the other one was a little taller isn't that right captain that's what he said well one of them was a little taller what are you trying to do to me anyway getting a little confused charlie well this whole thing is enough to confuse anybody here charlie i have a cigarette i could use one of her squad shouldn't be confusing if you're giving it the facts that's all i'm giving you is the facts thanks it's all right i'm telling you what happened what else do you want from me okay thanks nothing else charlie that was the me's office with a preliminary report lieutenant yeah two bullet wounds one through the right shoulder the other entered the left arm went through the chest and pierced the heart that was a baby stand up a minute charlie me yeah you stand up whitey yeah lieutenant come over here a minute yeah sure lieutenant charlie supposing detective howard was the holed up man with a gun that's good whitey right there supposing charlie you were dutch yeah dutch about where was dutch standing from the holdup man when the shots were fired was about here i'd say uh huh where were you standing charlie about right over there but the bar ran along this way captain would you be charlie yeah sure right about here yeah right about there i could show you better if i was myself i want you to be dutch yeah all right now the hold up man fired the first shot bang and hit dutch in the right shoulder yep the second shot bang through the left arm and into the chest dutch fell down yeah that's right he fell down charlie are you sure that's about where the hold up man was standing yeah that's where he was standing about are you positive charlie sure i'm positive okay sit down listen can't i go home we've been at this an awful long time i'll tell you something charlie dutch will be dead a long time too the questioning continued for some minutes more charlie burgess stated he would be able to recognize either or both of the two killers if he saw him again finally coffee and sandwiches were sent for charlie sat on a bench in the corner munching at his food two uniformed officers arrived with a pair of narcotic addicts they caught in the act of breaking into and stealing goods from parked cars on madison avenue it was a good collar there'd been ten to twenty squeals a night in the precinct concerning such thieves as detectives started to talk to them charlie watched with fascination from the bench it was a question who was more in trouble i went back downstairs to the muster room and checked with the desk officer and the man on the boxes other than the homicide it had been a quiet tour i went into my office to read and sign reports which had accumulated during the tour it was getting light out and with the dawn came the first breeze in forty eight hours it might be a cooler day shortly before seven o' clock lieutenant king came downstairs and crossed the muster room to my office captain come in matt you got a minute yeah sure how are you doing i don't know i think charlie's telling us a pack of lies you think he killed a man sure could have captain but we'll need a lot we'll need to know if it was his gun where he got it and so forth we'll need a straight story on what went on there yeah oh could you use a cup of coffee man yeah captain there's some hot oh i think so hey what about the three customers he keeps talking about if charlie didn't kill dutch somebody had to somebody right out of his head sergeant excuse me captain go ahead and take the phone twenty first precinct sergeant klein thirty seven all right listen you're ringing in three minutes late i don't care what the clock in the jewelry store says according to this clock you're three minutes late all right yes sir captain is there any hot coffee yes sir it's on the fire oh thanks there's sugar's in the drawer then good thanks
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think happened matt i think charlie tried to dip the till and dutch caught him at it there was an argument charlie had a gun and bang the cash register was empty money had to go someplace charlie didn't have it on him wasn't any place in the store i know but he ran a block and a half before you nailed him could have been dropped in a trash can or hallway or even a mailbox sugar man yeah please help yourself thanks i've got two men out checking every trash can and doorway between the bar and grill and where you stopped him captain good but he could have had a friend who carried it away yeah that's a possibility problem right now is what we're gonna do with charlie we haven't got enough to book him in on homicide the assistant da thinks we ought to take him down to court and have him held as a material witness sounds like a good idea oh how's the coffee man hot enough yeah we told charlie what we're gonna do he called his brother and i think they'll have a lawyer down there the da says if they put up a fight he'll need your testimony at the hearing because you collared him on the street i told him you were due to go off at eight oh that's all right i'll go down he said he'd get it set down for as soon after ten as possible oh don't worry about it well thanks captain that'll help us a lot coffee sure takes fine yeah that was a good collar your men made ahern and ross or to clear most of those squeals we had breaking into cars better still man it ought to stop them yes sir you've got a big point at eight am i turned out the platoon for the day tour a few minutes later with the two detectives and charlie burgess i rode to police headquarters annex four
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we parked the car and took the elevator to the fifth floor bureau of criminal identification was approximately eight thirty am charlie was taken back to the combination ammo and general appearance file here there are thousands of photographs of men with criminal records classified according to the type of crimes they had committed stick up men burglars forges auto thieves pickpockets and so forth within each classification the photographs are broken down according to general physical description that is according to height weight hair color complexion and build charlie was seated on a stool in front of the file fox and howard stood on either side of him i leaned on another file behind them and watched well take your coat off charlie you got about six thousand pictures to look at that's hot no that's all right suit yourself relax charlie you count on making your career out of it i'm relaxed now this is what's known as a visible record file there's twelve slides to a cabinet seventy one pockets on each slide in each pocket there's two pictures full face and profile of the same man i'll pull out a slide start dropping the pockets in front of you say no and i'll drop the next one you all set i'm set i guess now relax charlie you'll be here a long time all right here goes no that's not him just say no save your boy no
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the guy that's him this one that's him i tell you that's the one that shot dutch that's him are you sure i'm telling you okay study it a little longer make sure no i don't have to study that's him study it anyway whitey come here now just sit there charlie do you believe him yep i asked you first captain you said it like it mattered it's like hitting the sweepstakes fifty thousand mugs to look at and he makes the third picture well either charlie lives right or he the best liar i ever met you are listening to twenty first precinct a factual account of the way the police work in the world's largest city charlie burgess was put to work looking through the mugs for the number two man meanwhile detective fox had an identification man pull a complete jacket on the suspect he identified al hantz also known as alfred harrod a man with a record of two arrests and one conviction armed robbery this information was telephoned to lieutenant king so was the report that the murder gun bore no readable fingerprints by nine forty five am charlie had failed to identify a picture of the number two man he was taken to the car and we drove farther downtown to the criminal courts building at one hundred center street there in felony crowd he was met by his brother and an attorney after considerable argument before the magistrate charles burgess was ordered held as a material witness in fifteen thousand dollars bail which could not be posted immediately the two detectives signed a receipt for charlie and drove him back uptown to the twenty first i went with him in there charlie in the lieutenant harlem come in go ahead darling hello captain thanks a lot oh that's all right shut the door will you fox cheers sit down charlie look sit down captain you were in on this thing before any of us except charlie that is do you think you can get him to talk sense i'll try look i don't feel like talking to anybody i'm bushed what do you think we are i'm really bush can't i get some sleep maybe maybe what kind of an answer is maybe it's as good as the answers you've been giving us johnny you know i wouldn't do nothing like kill him dutch i liked him i loved him like a brother i loved him charlie there's more murders over love than hate i'm telling you everything stacks up against you charlie you say there were three other fellas left the bar right before the holdup we can't find a trace of them they were in there they were in there you could have used the phone to call the cops instead you ran to the police station only you ran the wrong way i'm from brooklyn i only worked there three days i got mixed up that's natural is standing behind the bar in your street clothes natural no why did it happen when there were no customers in the joint charlie i don't know what do you want from me facts charlie just facts i'm giving you facts that's all i've been giving you isn't it the fact that you waited until all the customers were gone and you pulled a gun on doug no it's not isn't it the fact that you shot him in cold blood with the intention of saying two hold up men walked in and you were running away and ran right into my arm no
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well charlie i hope it isn't so for your sake because whoever did do it is going to wind up in the electric chair that was as far as we could get with charlie i left him with lieutenant king and went downstairs to the muster room i signed the blotter and left the precinct not due back on the job until late the next morning in the meantime lieutenant king had detailed two men to trace al hantz the former convict whose picture was identified by charlie burgess from different sources they learned two facts one that hance owned an automobile a nineteen forty nine plymouth coupe painted two tone green that al hantz now lived someplace in the neighborhood of saint mary's park the bronx that night and early the next morning detectives cruised the streets within ten blocks of each side of this park looking for such a car at four o' clock in the morning one was spotted parked near the mott haven yards of the new haven railroad registration was checked with the motor vehicle bureau car was registered in the name of al hans two men of the twenty first squad were assigned to a stakeout by eight am he had not shown up two detectives were sent in relief they watched until six pm still no luck at that time detective stock and howard were sent in relief they watched the car for seven hours that's him whitey there he goes let's get him wait a minute i'll grab him police officer host still alive hey what's the idea phil he's clean listen what's the idea what do you want you want to talk to y' all alright let's talk what's the beef what have you been doing for the past week i've been working working for a trucking company where here here in the bronx days are nice well a little of both what else have you been doing well i've been dating a girl every night yeah almost every night when i'm not working you got the wrong party boys we'll see about then come on listen why don't you save yourself a lot of trouble why don't you talk to her she can account for my time we'll talk to her what were you doing there all the time well we were drinking et cetera what's this girl's name her name's wanda wanda rutley that's the honest goodness truth where does he live she lives on east one hundred fifty second where on east one hundred fifty seconds i don't know the number i can show you the house okay al you show us the house come on there's our car the detectives took al hans to their car they drove to east one hundred fifty second street where hans pointed out the house in which he said the girl wanda rutland lived they drove in downtown of the twenty first for questioning by lieutenant king concerning his activities of tuesday night he denied all knowledge of the holdup and murder at four am lieutenant king instructed detectives fox and howard to go back uptown to the girl's room
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all right all right i'm coming all right i said making a girl up in the middle of the night yeah what do
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you want the police officers want to
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open up ah i don't care who you are girls gotta have some self
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respect you're a sound sleeper i gotta take sleeping pills doctor's orders
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hey don't any cops work the day shift what are you always doing come around the middle of the night and disturbing somebody's self respect like this look at me lucky i wasn't too godly to put
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on a kimono wanda do you know al hans yes sir i know al
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hans you know i know al hantz
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when'd you see him last what day is it anyway this is friday morning four o' clock have you seen him
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this week yeah i saw him a
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couple nights ago tuesday wednesday when day
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before yesterday now wait a minute what was that tuesday day before yesterday that's right he's here yeah excuse me i
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gotta sit down go ahead oh thanks
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you're very generous
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what time to get
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here tuesday night oh i don't know about nine ten o' clock something like that what time to leave it's late very late about midnight no much later
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what'd he do anyway one o' clock
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no much later it's closer four after four something i do close to four huh i don't know exactly where was
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around there sometime what was he doing
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here all the time well we were did i have to say i'll say anyway we were drinking and we were playing canasta canasta canasta we were playing
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canasta all right wanda go in and get dressed why some people want to talk to you downtown
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the middle of the night always in the middle of
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the night it doesn't look good whitey that depends whose side you're on looks great for al but charlie it looks terrible i was on the job at seven forty five in the morning after i turned out the platoon i looked over the blotter and arrest records for a picture of what had occurred in the precinct during the night lieutenant king walked in the front door with him were detective fox and charlie burgess he told me that after a night of questioning the girl had verified al hantz story in every particular now he was about to bring charlie face to face with hant with lieutenant king i followed detective fox and charlie burgess through the back room upstairs and into the detective squad all right charlie let's go inside captain yeah when's it going to be over that's what i want to know soon charlie okay uptown downtown i'm i'm getting sick of it who is it lieutenant oh that's lieutenant come in go ahead charlie i try to help
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him captain that's the guy i'm the guy that's what you're the guy that shot dutch you're out of your mind him i'm telling you it's him hey who is this jerk he's crazy him it's him get your hands off me will you tell him to get his hands off me darling all right listen what kind of a frame is this he's the guy right supposed to be quiet but bring her in here we'll wrap it up okay you wouldn't take my word for it huh but she'll take wanda who's wanda you'll see charlie everything i'll see tell me something come on in inside wanda all right don't have to rest sit down wanda hello
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wanda oh hans why don't you stay out of trouble i wouldn't have to lose my self respect and be waked up by policemen such an hour to make alibis for you all right could
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say please wanda you're involved in a very serious matter here oh i'm always
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involved in a very serious matter but i was at my house he was there from around nine o' clock until after three in the morning and nothing you can say will change things okay
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charlie wanda did you know this was a murder case
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murder case is it murder
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well now was al at your place between those times on tuesday night
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i told you he was didn't i
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we want the truth wanda i'm telling you the truth you ever been in jail sure i've been in jail you
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know i've been in jail how long overnight i was in two nights once
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were you ever in two years or three years or five years you know what it's like wanda i'm not scared
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i'm not scared of anything if you
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testify for al and we prove it's a lie we can send you away for hours for perjury or worse as accessory to murder and we will too
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you can't do that come here if
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oh fun is fun but i
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can't shut up my pit now get away from there i'll kill you watch him break that wall i'll get him
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battle hole i didn't mean any harm honestly i didn't he just said that he was in a little trouble and if i was asked any questions to
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cover up for him all right wanda
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sit down it didn't mean any harm i didn't know it was a murder
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bee sit down yeah is he okay he'll come around in a minute thanks captain for what you see you see yeah we see charlie we're sorry if we gave you a hard time it's all right lieutenant you guys were just doing your job i know that i'll admit looked bad for me awful bad charlie no matter how bad it looked for you it's going to look a lot worse for him twenty first precinct sergeant klein how'd you know it was burglar's man and so it goes around the clock through the week every day every year a police precinct in the city of new york is a flesh and blood merry go round anyone can catch the brass ring or the brass ring can catch anyone incidents portrayed on tonight's twenty first precinct occurred last year names were changed to protect the interests of persons involved twenty first precinct is presented with the official cooperation of the patrolman's benevolent association an organization of more than twenty thousand members of the police department city of new york everett sloane in the role of captain kennelly ken lynch as lieutenant king featured in tonight's cast were elster ferric wendell holmes chuck webster bill quinn phil sterling and lawson zerby written and directed by stanley ness produced for cbs radio by john ives art hannah speaking
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