Dragnet - The Big Job

It starts as a routine pickup. A teletype comes in: Alfred Garvey — wanted for forgery and robbery, known to pose as a fingerprint expert — is registered at the Fair Deal Hotel in Los Angeles. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero head over to bring him in. It shouldn't take long.

On the way, they give a lift to off-duty Sergeant Max Maxwell — badge number 10377, heading home to start a three-week vacation with his wife Eleanor and their two young children. It's a small, warm moment. The kind that makes what follows devastating.

While Friday and Romero check Garvey's empty room upstairs, Garvey slips out via the elevator — and shoots Maxwell in the lobby. Their only hope: reluctant witness Lorraine Thomas, who knows more than she's telling.

Episode Quotes:

"Maxwell's wife and kids. How does Al square with them?" — Sgt. Friday, cutting through excuses to convince reluctant witness Lorraine Thomas to cooperate

"I don't want to talk loud. The cops might have bumped this room." — Jack Fleming, unknowingly confirming his suspicions — and talking anyway — as detectives listen in from the next room

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Transcript

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SPEAKER_11 2:23

It was Thursday, April 27th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We're working a night watch out of Bunko Fugitive Detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Blaine Steed, captain of Bunko Fugitive. My name's Friday. I was on the way back from communications. It was 6 45 p.m. when I got to room 38. Squad room.

SPEAKER_12 2:44

Hi. How are you?

SPEAKER_11 2:46

How about some dinner?

SPEAKER_12 2:47

Well, we got one to check out first. Here's the teletops. Kipper just brought it in.

SPEAKER_11 2:51

Thanks. From San Rafael, huh? Pick up and hold for this department one Alfred Garvey. Warranted for suspicion, forgery, robbery. This man poses as a fingerprint expert from San Rafael Police Department.

SPEAKER_12 3:05

Here's his mouthbook and the record girl.

SPEAKER_11 3:08

Mm-hmm. We're informed Garvey is registered at the Fair Deal Hotel, your city. Where's that? Over near first in Broadway. Please advise us on his arrest, and officers will arrive with Warrant Science Chief Police Frank Kelly, San Rafael, California.

SPEAKER_12 3:22

Shouldn't take long to bake him up.

SPEAKER_11 3:24

Well, we can eat later, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 3:26

Hi.

SPEAKER_11 3:27

Hi, Max. What are you doing around? I thought you took off on vacation.

SPEAKER_04 3:31

I am just came back to pick up some stuff in my locker. Soft touch. Sure. Uh listen, uh, wife's got the car there. Are you guys going anywhere near North Maine and Daly?

SPEAKER_11 3:40

Yeah, but we're gonna leave right now.

SPEAKER_04 3:42

Oh, okay. Let me grab my coat. All right.

SPEAKER_12 3:44

You live out near Highland Park, don't you, Max?

SPEAKER_04 3:47

Yeah. Why took the kid shopping in the car this afternoon? Had to get him shoes for our vacation. Sure scuff up the toes in a hurry.

SPEAKER_11 3:57

All right, you all set?

SPEAKER_04 3:58

Let's go. Where are you going on your vacation? Big bear. You're gonna have to stay the whole three weeks. The in-laws own a cabin up there. They even pay the utilities for it. Pretty nice. Only one trouble. What's that? They're coming with us. Oh.

SPEAKER_11 4:19

What'd you bought? Captain's stall. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 4:29

All right in the back. Okay. You two still working in that valley, Kate? No, we washed it up Monday.

SPEAKER_11 4:42

What's this one? Tell a type from San Rafael. What some guy picked up. Here's a mud shot.

SPEAKER_12 4:48

Who's Richard's gonna work with where he's gone, Max?

SPEAKER_04 4:51

I don't know. What's the code?

SPEAKER_11 4:54

Oh, yeah. Finish Convention. I forgot they were having the parades, Max. You better stay over to one side. I think we can get through, all right. Watch those kids there. What's the place up ahead, isn't it? Fair deal, yeah. We gotta stop by this hotel a minute, Max. You want to wait here? Awesome.

SPEAKER_04 5:20

Big turnout for the parade, huh? Yeah, big crowd. Fair deal itself. Suppose rates: 35 cents a day,$2 a week.

SPEAKER_07 5:35

Yes, sir. Can I help you?

SPEAKER_08 5:37

Police officer, would you look at this picture, please?

SPEAKER_07 5:40

All right.

SPEAKER_08 5:41

Maybe registered as Alfred Garvey.

SPEAKER_07 5:43

Garvey sure came in yesterday. The picture makes him look old.

SPEAKER_11 5:47

Is he in now?

SPEAKER_07 5:48

Well, let's see. Garvey, room 307. The key is gone. He must be in.

SPEAKER_11 5:55

Thank you.

SPEAKER_07 5:56

Yes, sir. Elevator's down there at the end of the hall. Stay.

SPEAKER_04 6:02

Elevators and youth. Let's take the stairs. I'll wait for you here. I want to see the parade.

SPEAKER_12 6:06

Okay, man. I've never seen it to fail. Except stairs.

SPEAKER_11 6:13

Every time my arch is hurt, we get a thief to check who lives upstairs. Just one more flight. Yeah. 305. 307. Doors open. Let's have a look. Come on.

unknown 6:36

Empty.

SPEAKER_11 6:40

Not a minute long, huh? Yeah. Pretty fast checkout. Came from downstairs. The lobby. Come on. Yep. Come on, hurry up.

SPEAKER_05 6:53

Stop that guy, please. Pullies.

SPEAKER_11 6:55

It's Maxwell. Max. Max, are you all right? Run out the door. He showed you friends. Call an ambulance. You run out the door. He showed you friends. Come on, Ben. Call out ambulance, will you? Hey, Hugh. Did you see a man come out of this hotel? Did you just see a man come out of this hotel? All right, Ben, you go that way. I'll check up this way. Watch where you're going. Did you see a man running up this way just now about my height? Blue suit? Hey, hey, boys. No, listen. Did you see a man running by here a minute ago in a blue suit? Maybe I didn't know this. Sorry. Sorry, lady.

SPEAKER_07 7:37

Ren over here. Oh, we're gonna need help.

SPEAKER_11 7:41

Come on.

SPEAKER_07 7:49

You better help you, Frank. I don't know what to do.

SPEAKER_11 7:52

Then get a hold of communication. Get some help out here.

SPEAKER_07 7:54

If the guy came down to the elevator, it was Garvey, your friend tried to stop you. Garvey shot him right in his car. All right, stop yelling, man. Stand up for now. Look, he's bleeding. You better do it. Will you shut up?

SPEAKER_11 8:03

Max. Max, how is it?

SPEAKER_04 8:06

Just.

SPEAKER_11 8:08

All right, easy, huh?

SPEAKER_04 8:09

Garvey. Came out of the elevator fast with a gun.

SPEAKER_11 8:13

All right, take it easy now.

SPEAKER_12 8:14

Yeah. I got communications. Lock him up here. It's fine.

SPEAKER_11 8:19

Watch that front door. Will you keep those people out of here? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 8:26

I'll be here in a minute, boy.

SPEAKER_04 8:28

Call the wife, Elena.

SPEAKER_12 8:34

Amulent this year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 8:38

He looks bad. He's not gonna get any worse. He's dead. The name on the personnel report said John Juan Maxwell, sergeant. Los Angeles Police Department, badge number 10377. Nearest living relative, wife, Eleanor Jean Maxwell. Dependents, John Maxwell Jr., six years. Deborah Lee Maxwell, two years. Death in line of duty, April 27th, 7.15 p.m. John Maxwell's body was removed from Georgia Street to the County Morgue. At 7.45, a special detail of men from Homicide and Bunko Fugitive were on the scene to aid in the investigation of the killing. The neighborhood where the Faredale Hotel was located was covered for a half mile around. By 9 o'clock, the parade was over and the area was cleared. We had a single lead to work with. In checking out the different taxicab stands in the neighborhood, we found out that three separate fairs had been picked up within two blocks of the hotel four minutes after the shooting. Ben and I went to the offices of the taxicab company. The cabs in question were called in and the way bills were checked. The times of the three different trips were listed, and so was the address of each destination. We copied down the addresses and then interviewed the drivers.

SPEAKER_12 9:52

We're going to give each one of you half a dozen picks. You'd like to see if you can identify any of them as passengers you picked up tonight near the Fair Deal Hotel.

SPEAKER_11 10:00

All right, here you go. There you are. Four, five, six. Check them carefully, please. Take a good look at each one of them, huh? Okay, right. Now, fellas, take your time. Look them all over real good before you make up your mind. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_08 10:17

Here. Here's the one, Sergeant. No mistake.

SPEAKER_11 10:20

Let me see. Where'd you pick up this man?

SPEAKER_08 10:23

About a block from the hotel. I drove him to a place on 14th Street. Same address on the waypoint.

SPEAKER_11 10:29

Ben? Yeah? Alfred Garvey. Ben and I, along with Ricketts and Chandler from Homicide, drove out to the 14th Street address. Another small trench and hotel. The clerk on duty identified Garvey from his mug shot. He said the suspect had called at the hotel at about 7.45 that night and asked to see one of the guests, uh, Mrs. Lorraine Thomas. The clerk said he told Garvey Mrs. Thomas was out, but she hadn't been there for four days. Ricketts and Chandler went on stakeout in the lobby of the hotel, and Ben and I went up to the second floor to stake out Mrs. Thomas's room. Friday, 11:25 a.m. Lorraine Thomas returned to the hotel and was taken into custody. We took her to homicide and questioned her for more than an hour. She admitted that she was acquainted with Garvey, but that's all. One o'clock. We went to Clifton's cafeteria for lunch. Here, take this track.

SPEAKER_07 11:24

Get here a little earlier and you wouldn't get there. Look at that lineman.

SPEAKER_11 11:29

You were the first one he ran to after the shooting.

SPEAKER_06 11:32

Garve doesn't have many friends in Los Angeles. Maybe that's why he looked me up. I'll have a mixed green salad first.

SPEAKER_11 11:41

What kind of work does Garvey do, do you know?

SPEAKER_06 11:43

He told me he was in the Merchant Marine.

SPEAKER_12 11:48

Remember that potato salad, please? Do you know what he does in the Merchant Marine?

SPEAKER_06 11:53

He told me a steward. French dressing.

SPEAKER_12 11:56

Do you know any of his friends in town?

SPEAKER_06 11:59

No, I don't. Fry bread. Can I have an extra butterfruit?

SPEAKER_11 12:02

Oh, French rolls. What kind of you want then? Give me some of those biscuits. Garvey usually stays at the Fair Deal Hotel when he's in town.

SPEAKER_06 12:13

I don't know.

SPEAKER_11 12:14

Flip piece soup. She looks good, and we told you the police up north were looking for him.

SPEAKER_06 12:20

Yeah, I know you did. Like I told you, I've been out with him a few times. That's all I know about him.

SPEAKER_12 12:26

He must have introduced you to some of his friends.

SPEAKER_06 12:29

I'll have the prime ribs here. Rare. That piece.

SPEAKER_11 12:34

How about it? Did you ever meet any of his friends?

SPEAKER_06 12:37

Yeah, one or two. No, no gravy.

SPEAKER_11 12:41

Meatloaf. Brown gravy. Do you remember any of the names of his friends?

SPEAKER_06 12:45

I just met him, that's all. I don't remember.

SPEAKER_12 12:47

Let me have a roast turkey. Go kind of heavy on that dressing, right? Did you ever go out with any of them?

SPEAKER_06 12:55

No.

SPEAKER_11 12:56

Why do you think Garve went to your hotel after the shooting?

SPEAKER_06 12:59

I don't know.

SPEAKER_11 13:00

Maybe you figured you'd hide him.

SPEAKER_06 13:02

I don't know why he should.

SPEAKER_11 13:04

He killed a man and headed straight for your place. Doesn't make you look too good.

SPEAKER_06 13:08

I can't help that. I like some of those string beans, please.

SPEAKER_12 13:11

Miss Thomas, you know it's gonna go hard on you if you're holding back information on Garvey. Why don't you take some of that summer squash, Joe? Good for you. Well, I can't eat that much. When did you first meet Garvey?

SPEAKER_06 13:23

About three years ago, up in St. Helena.

SPEAKER_12 13:25

You might as well keep your nose clean.

SPEAKER_06 13:27

How do you mean?

SPEAKER_12 13:28

We're gonna reach you, Miss Thomas. You might as well tell us all you know.

SPEAKER_06 13:32

Look, if Garvey's killing people, I don't want to have any more to do with him.

SPEAKER_12 13:35

We do. Now, where is he?

SPEAKER_06 13:38

I told you, I don't know.

SPEAKER_11 13:40

Squash, please. You said you had a little boy, didn't you, Miss Thomas?

SPEAKER_06 13:44

Do we have to talk about it now? I thought we were gonna have lunch.

SPEAKER_11 13:48

How old is your little boy?

SPEAKER_06 13:50

He's seven years old. Where is he now? He's in school up in San Francisco. What's the cost? Isn't this line going awful slow? Lunchtime.

SPEAKER_11 14:00

You know that cop that Garvey killed last night?

SPEAKER_06 14:03

Smashed potatoes, country gravy.

SPEAKER_11 14:06

You hear what I said?

SPEAKER_06 14:07

Yes, I know he killed a cop.

SPEAKER_11 14:09

He had a little boy, too.

SPEAKER_06 14:11

There's nothing I can do.

SPEAKER_11 14:13

No potatoes, thanks.

SPEAKER_12 14:14

Yeah, there's something you can do, Miss Thomas. You can tell us where Garvey.

SPEAKER_06 14:19

If I knew, I'd tell you.

SPEAKER_11 14:20

Front cry for you. You're kidding us, Miss Thomas, but we're not gonna kid you. You know a lot more about this than you're telling us.

SPEAKER_06 14:27

Maybe I do, but I'm scared.

SPEAKER_11 14:29

Who are you afraid of?

SPEAKER_06 14:30

Look, why can't you count me out of this? I don't want any part of it.

SPEAKER_11 14:33

You're in all the way. The only way you're gonna get out of it is to tell us what you know.

SPEAKER_06 14:36

You kill me. Well, if something happens to me, nobody's gonna worry about my killing.

SPEAKER_11 14:40

You don't have to worry. He's not gonna find out. No, no dessert free.

SPEAKER_06 14:47

Both kill me.

SPEAKER_11 14:48

Both, who's the other one?

SPEAKER_06 14:50

Oh, what's the new? Trouble no matter what you try to do. Nothing's trouble.

SPEAKER_11 14:54

Garvey's working with somebody, is that it?

SPEAKER_06 14:57

His name's Jack Fleming.

SPEAKER_11 14:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 15:00

They made me promise to cover for him. Give them a place to hide out whenever the heaps are on.

SPEAKER_11 15:05

Then you know where they are.

SPEAKER_06 15:06

No, I don't, and that's the truth.

SPEAKER_11 15:08

Why do they need a place to hide out?

SPEAKER_06 15:10

You said Garvey killed a cop.

SPEAKER_11 15:12

What about Fleming? Oh, Joe. We better move along. What about Fleming?

SPEAKER_06 15:18

I'm gonna pull some jobs.

SPEAKER_11 15:19

Sorry, we can skip the dessert. Come on. I'll take the check for all of them. Let's go. What kind of jobs? Where?

SPEAKER_06 15:28

Hold up tomorrow night. Three King's liquor store out in Wilshire.

SPEAKER_11 15:32

Let's sit down.

SPEAKER_06 15:33

They're both the same, Garvey and Fleming. They can't hold a gun without using it.

SPEAKER_11 15:37

Yes, Damon.

SPEAKER_06 15:38

Whoops.

SPEAKER_12 15:41

Oh, you dropped your tray. I'll get you some more.

SPEAKER_06 15:44

Don't bother. I'm not hungry anymore.

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Saturday, April 29th. Last rites were held for Sergeant John Maxwell, and he was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery. A guard of honor from the police department was present along with most of the men Maxwell had worked with in Bunko Fugitive Detail. The chief of detectives delivered a short eulogy, and one of the men from the department band sounded taps over the grave. We got back to the office at noon, checked in at the record bureau. A photocopy room had taken negatives of Garvey's and Fleming's coming out mugs and made duplicates that were distributed to all officers. The stakeouts continued at the fair deal in the 14th Street Hotel where Lorraine Thomas was staying. She was put under protective custody. Ben and I, Ricketts and Chandler, went on stakeout at the Three Kings liquor store on Wilshire Boulevard. It was a large, modern place, and it did a volume business, especially on Saturday night. Ricketts and Chandler covered the store from the outside. Ben and I were stationed in the supply room at the rear of the place where we had the main counter and most of the store in full view. We set up a pre-arranged signal with the clerk on duty, and if and when Garvey and Fleming showed up, the clerk was to accidentally knock an empty bottle off the counter. We waited until midnight. Nothing happened. Wait a minute, here comes another one. No say that's a woman. I put in with him.

SPEAKER_12 18:49

I could go for a hamburger. What didn't you eat there? I wasn't very hungry, man. Well, I got an element bore, he was. Yeah, thanks. Another customer. Yeah, man. Can't see his face too well with a hat on, can you?

SPEAKER_11 19:06

That's swimming. Come on. Police officers, get your hands up. Watch it, Joe. You're hitting. He's going out the front. Come on. Ricketts and town are stopping. Yeah, he's down. Watch him. Get the gun. Yeah. Yeah, here, here it is. Fleming, all right. Rickett, call an ambulance. What's the score? Looks like one in the shoulder and legs, too. What about Garvey? I don't know. What do you think? Fleming stopped all the slugs. Yeah. Let's ask him. The wounded suspect was treated at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital and then booked into the prison ward at the General Hospital. At 11 a.m. the next day, we questioned him, but he refused to admit that he even knew Alfred Garvey. We re-questioned Fleming for the next three days with no results. The stakeouts continued. The search went on. There was no response to our APV. Garvey was still at large. As far as we were concerned, there was only one way to get directly to Garvey and that was through Fleming. We called on Lorraine Thomas again and asked her that if she'd try to get some information on Fleming, try to get him to talk and to tell her where Garve was.

SPEAKER_06 20:26

I'm not even sure if he knows where Garvey's hiding.

SPEAKER_12 20:29

He must have a good idea.

SPEAKER_06 20:31

Even if he has, you're not going to tell me. He wouldn't trust me. That's why.

SPEAKER_12 20:34

Go further with you and he will with us, and you only can give us his name.

SPEAKER_11 20:37

I'm afraid it's up to you, Miss Thomas.

SPEAKER_06 20:39

Why can't you let me out of this?

SPEAKER_11 20:42

Look, figure it this way. You knew about Fleming and Garvey. You knew they were in town. You knew what they were up to. You didn't break your back to save that dead cop's life.

SPEAKER_06 20:49

Garvey shot him. I did.

SPEAKER_11 20:51

You knew he was a killer. You knew he had a gun.

SPEAKER_06 20:54

What do you want me to do?

SPEAKER_11 20:56

Get close to Fleming. I visit him every day until he's off.

SPEAKER_06 20:59

He doesn't trust me. I told you.

SPEAKER_11 21:01

Then get him to trust you, will you? Do favors for him. He wants to contact friends to raise money for a lawyer. Help him do that. Run errands. Do anything for him within reason.

SPEAKER_06 21:10

Well if he finds out about the holder. But I told you about it.

SPEAKER_11 21:14

He's got a long stretch ahead of him. He won't bother you.

SPEAKER_06 21:16

They'll kill me if they find out. They wouldn't wait a minute.

SPEAKER_11 21:19

They won't find out.

SPEAKER_06 21:21

All right. Won't be my fault. Al did the shooting. He killed the cop, let him square it up.

SPEAKER_11 21:28

He'll square it with the court. There's only one trouble. Yes. Maxwell's wife and kids. How does Al square it with them? On the morning of May 8th, suspect Jack Fleming was removed from his private room and wheeled down to the X ray lab on the pretext of treatment. While he was absent, a dictaphone was placed in his room by a sound crew from the crime lab. Fleming was then returned. That afternoon, while Ben and I listened in on earphones in the next room, Lorraine Thomas paid her first visit to Fleming. We had Briefed her on how to proceed in getting a suspect to talk, in particular, to reveal Garvey's hideout. It was a slow process. For the next 15 days, between the hours of two and four in the afternoon, Mrs. Thomas visited Fleming while Ben and I monitored their conversation in the adjoining room. For 15 days, despite all her shows of confidence, Fleming refused to confide. He was sullen and close-mouthed. Some afternoons he would hardly speak to her. On the 16th day, his mood seemed to be improving.

SPEAKER_06 22:28

Here. Let me fix the telephone for you, Jack. Sir Billy?

SPEAKER_09 22:37

That's good. Thanks.

SPEAKER_06 22:41

I uh I got in touch with Dave and Johnny like I asked me to. Huh? Well they said they could get you the money for the lawyer the day after tomorrow. Dave said he might be able to see you tonight.

SPEAKER_09 22:58

That's fine. Once I get a lawyer, I'll stop for it.

SPEAKER_06 23:03

I stopped by Danelli's place, too. Pop Royce wasn't there. I'm going back tomorrow to see him. Yeah, get the help.

SPEAKER_09 23:12

You can help you. I won't forget it.

SPEAKER_06 23:19

So you had to get it this way.

SPEAKER_09 23:21

Forget it. I can give it backwards.

SPEAKER_06 23:25

That was just a new magazine with a couple of categories.

SPEAKER_09 23:30

Put them over here on you the bad boy.

SPEAKER_06 23:32

Yeah, sure, let me get them for you. Okay. I'll put them right here at the table. I'll bring you some more tomorrow.

SPEAKER_09 23:45

You're gonna try and see pop roads again tomorrow.

SPEAKER_06 23:48

Yeah, I tell me being around noon for sure. If I don't see him then I'll keep trying till I do. Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_09 23:55

Oh, it's something else. I want to talk about the top spike about this room.

unknown 24:05

Well, possible.

SPEAKER_09 24:07

Tonight, I want you to go to George's joint, the blue south flower.

unknown 24:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 24:15

He's usually around for 11 night. Tell George you've seen me. He'll know it. And tell him to take you to Al.

SPEAKER_06 24:23

Take me to Al.

SPEAKER_09 24:24

Yeah, Al Garvey. George knows the place. Yeah. Okay, Jack. And keep your mouth shut. Don't talk to anybody but George. He knows the place.

unknown 24:33

All right, Jack.

SPEAKER_06 24:34

He'll help you out.

SPEAKER_12 24:37

Well.

SPEAKER_11 24:39

Well. A long week. Get paid. Let's go. 10 45 p.m. A detail of three cars followed Lorraine Thomas to the Blue Moon Tavern on South Flower Street. We parked down the block and watched her go in. At 15 minutes past 11, she came out with a small fat man in a dark blue suit. They got in a tan-colored coupe and drove south. The cruiser cars, using three-way radios, tailed the troop alternately out through the Echo Park area and then back to the starting point at the Blue Moon Tavern. Lorraine Thomas went back into the bar with a man and 20 minutes later came out, caught a taxi, and took it to her hotel on 14th Street. We drove back to the office. It was five minutes past 1 a.m. That's it. I get it. Monko Fugitive Friday.

SPEAKER_06 25:26

Lorraine Thomas, Sergeant. He showed me the place George did.

SPEAKER_11 25:30

Where?

SPEAKER_06 25:31

We drove past 1032 Alamo, apartment three.

SPEAKER_11 25:35

Is Garvey there now?

SPEAKER_06 25:37

No. George said he's supposed to be there tomorrow in the afternoon, 5 o'clock. George said I'll have to go alone.

SPEAKER_11 25:44

Are they watching the place?

SPEAKER_06 25:45

I think so. Garvey's staying with another man. They got guns.

SPEAKER_11 25:50

Do you know where Garvey now?

SPEAKER_06 25:52

George wouldn't tell me.

SPEAKER_11 25:53

We can't afford to tip our hand. How do we know Garvey will be there at 5 o'clock tomorrow?

unknown 25:58

That's just it. We don't.

SPEAKER_11 26:03

May 9th, 3 p.m. An immediate stakeout was placed at the suspected hideout. A detail of 20 plain clothesmen began filtering into the neighborhood in the vicinity of 1032 Alamo Street. A three-story apartment house at that address was checked thoroughly and then covered on all sides. Apartment three on the first floor was checked out too. Was registered to a Thomas King, whom the manager identified as Alfred Garvey from his mugshot. To avoid pedestrian casualties, we toured the immediate vicinity between 3 and 4.30 that afternoon, advising residents and storekeepers to clear the street and stay inside. At 4:35 p.m., the men in the detail took up their assigned position. We waited.

SPEAKER_12 26:49

Hold that light, wait again.

SPEAKER_11 26:51

Yeah.

unknown 26:54

Hey.

SPEAKER_12 26:56

Awful lot of trouble for that folk Garvey. Be more trouble if he doesn't show. No sex left. Hmm? Can coupe coming down the street behind her?

SPEAKER_11 27:04

Same one we tailed last night. A girl driving, two guys with her. You know, Garvey's one of them. They're pulling up. Ready? Oh, wait a minute. All right, let's go. Police officers, hold it right there.

SPEAKER_05 27:24

Hell, talk! Don't get out.

SPEAKER_11 27:28

Throw them in, Garvey. You haven't got a chance.

unknown 27:31

Hell! Break the wall!

SPEAKER_05 27:35

All right, hold it then.

SPEAKER_12 27:36

That's there. Both of them. Come on. Both dead. Garvey. The other guy. Rotten case. Rotten business.

SPEAKER_02 28:02

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SPEAKER_03 28:09

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