The Big Rain - Dragnet | 11/03/1953 (Ep220)
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Speaker 6: It was Tuesday, November seventeenth. It was raining in Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: We were working the night watch out a homicide detail.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Mormon.
Speaker 6: My name is Friday.
Speaker 7: We're on our way back from the main jail and
it was eleven twenty seven pm when we got to
room forty two homicide.
Speaker 6: We got to get that.
Speaker 1: Car radio fixed, Joe.
Speaker 8: It's getting worse all the time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, we can take it over in the morning.
Speaker 8: Thing almost knocked me right out of the seat when
I called in the night. As soon as you press
the button, bang.
Speaker 6: You get a shot man. When I was out of
lope yesterday, he picked up the mic. I thought he
was gonna climb out of the window. Yeah, well, that's
pretty funny.
Speaker 1: As long as you don't have to use the thing.
Speaker 6: It must be a short someplace. Got to get it fixed,
you know.
Speaker 8: I must have use the dollars where the diame's calling
in today.
Speaker 6: This keeps up. I'm gonna have to give up lunches.
But that wouldn't hurt you either.
Speaker 8: That's not kind, Joe. I've lost seven pounds in the
last two weeks.
Speaker 9: Where I'm gonna see about a transfer.
Speaker 7: Let's finish up these reports when you get out of here.
Speaker 6: What he's saying, Okay, I'm with hot shot. I get it.
That's a robbery called in the Olympic.
Speaker 1: Oh thought for a minute we were gonna have to
go out. All I want to do is get home
and get some dry socks on my feet are killing me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got an idea.
Speaker 7: If you'll stop talking and pick up a pencil, we
can quit on time for a change.
Speaker 9: Another hot shot, I got her, get your hat beating
out in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, woman found her land in the gutter. She's still alive.
Was when they got the call. We better step on it,
though they don't know how long she's gonna last.
Speaker 7: When we got to the address we've been given by
the complaint board, two radio cars from Hollywood Division were
already there. An ambulance had arrived, and the crew was
doing what they could for the victim. She was still alive,
but the attendant said that she appeared to have a
skull fracture, in addition to possible internal injuries. From one
of the officers who answered the call, we found that
the victim had been sprawled across the sidewalk, her head
in the gutter. Due to the heavy rain, a stream
of water was running down into a storm drain. The
fact that the drain was above the victim's head appeared
to be the only thing that saved her from drowning.
The crime lab had been called and the men from
Hollywood Division were doing what they could to keep the
crowd back in order to preserve any physical evidence it
might have been left. The victim appeared to be a
woman in the early forties. The clothes she wore looked expensive,
but they were badly torn. Her face was cut, and
the men and the ambulance crew removed her immediately to
Hollywood Emergency Hospital for treatment. An officer was assigned to
her in the event she regained consciousness. When she was found,
her left shoe was missing, and there was no sign
of any.
Speaker 6: Purse or wallet.
Speaker 7: None of the people who gathered in the crowd could
give us an identification of her. The homes in the
vicinity were large and the area was sparsely populated. The
nearest house to the place where the victim was found
was at least three hundred feet down the street. We
talked to the people in the crowd and found that
the man who'd made the original call was still supposed
to be there. We checked with the officers in the
radio unit, but they said they hadn't seen him. From them, however,
we found that the call had been from the home
of a mister and missus Roger Heflin. We contacted them
and they came back to the scene and pointed out
the man Frank and I took him over to our
car for questioning.
Speaker 8: All right, Johnson, you want to tell us what happened.
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 6: You called the police, didn't you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I called him.
Speaker 6: You found her, yes, sir, she was lying on the
street like that. I got scared in the call the police.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe she was dead.
Speaker 6: What were you doing up here this time of night?
Speaker 10: Just walking around?
Speaker 6: You live up here? Do you know where do you live?
Speaker 10: Got a room down a fountain?
Speaker 6: Let me see your identification with the police.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, here's mawalla.
Speaker 6: Any money in it? No? All right, let me have
it here?
Speaker 1: Here are.
Speaker 6: It's your true name, ce Sel August Johnson.
Speaker 7: Yeah, who's Mary Johnson? I say, who's Mary Johnson?
Speaker 1: Who's she my sister?
Speaker 6: It's her address here in the car.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Hey, you aren't gonna call her.
Speaker 11: You aren't going to call her?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 10: Well, she'd be pretty sure about it if she did.
She don't like it for me to get mixed up
with caps. She don't like it at all.
Speaker 6: You ever been in an institution?
Speaker 11: Hmm?
Speaker 6: State institution? You ever been in one?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I was in Camarilla once.
Speaker 6: How long ago did you get out?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 10: Long time ago, three days, long time ago. I have
been there for a long time. Oh were you there
molesting people?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 10: I was in Camerono.
Speaker 6: Why'd they send you there, fellow? To get well from?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 13: Just?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we know what they want you to get well from.
Speaker 4: I was never in Camerono.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been drinking and I haven't.
Speaker 11: Hmm.
Speaker 6: I said that you've been drinking, Yeah, a little bit
where by down Highway Boulevard. When they sent you to
the hospital.
Speaker 4: What was the reason I never been to hospital.
Speaker 6: They told us that you'd been in Camarillo.
Speaker 1: That was to get well, I luck, fellow.
Speaker 6: We asked you before what for? They thought I was
molesting people? Were you No, I didn't hurt anybody? Did
they say you did?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Who the lady? They said I hit her? Did you
hit her?
Speaker 11: Huh?
Speaker 6: I said, did you hit the woman? No?
Speaker 4: I never heard anybody.
Speaker 6: You know who the woman is that you found?
Speaker 10: You aren't going to call my sister?
Speaker 6: Are you? Do you know who the woman is?
Speaker 1: What woman?
Speaker 6: I look all, I'll pay attention the one you found tonight.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I've known her for a long time.
Speaker 6: What's her name? Grace? You know our last name? M?
Do you know our last name?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 10: You know?
Speaker 4: I never really been a camera And I.
Speaker 5: Just told you that.
Speaker 6: That's so why.
Speaker 10: I don't know. Just sometimes I like to do things
like that. I don't have no reason.
Speaker 6: I just like to do it.
Speaker 10: Like once I told my sister I killed a man.
Speaker 4: She almost fainted.
Speaker 10: I just like to do that once in a while
things get dull, I like to get him started.
Speaker 6: What do you mean, Grace bar down on Hollywood.
Speaker 4: I go in there all the time. I met her there.
Speaker 6: Did you meet her there at night?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, she was there?
Speaker 10: Said she had a fight with her old man, said.
Speaker 1: They had a real beef.
Speaker 4: She told me. You hit her, felt at her right
in her mouth.
Speaker 10: What do you think of a guy doing things like
that to a woman? Any man do a thing like that,
He's no good, no good at all. They said I
did it too, told my sister I hit a.
Speaker 6: Woman who said that other cops when they arrested me.
Speaker 10: When was this when I was a cameraller.
Speaker 6: To get well? You wonder a doctor's care now?
Speaker 10: No, No, I got real well a camerlla.
Speaker 13: Real well.
Speaker 10: Let me go.
Speaker 6: You just got through telling us that you'd never been there.
Speaker 1: I'm a liar.
Speaker 4: You can't believe anything I say. I'm a real liar.
Speaker 10: My sister's all the times saying that about me. She says,
I'm a liar. That's one of the reasons she used
to get sort at me. I'm such a liar. I
was never there.
Speaker 6: You know where this grace lived?
Speaker 10: No, I think it was up on a Ledgwood drive.
I think that's where it was in ledged drive.
Speaker 6: You know where the house is?
Speaker 4: I never saw it.
Speaker 10: I was gonna go up there one day and punch
your old man on the nose, you know, cause he
hit Grace. I was plenty sorry about it.
Speaker 1: He gave her a black eye.
Speaker 10: I was plenty sore, but I didn't.
Speaker 4: You know why you tell us?
Speaker 10: Because I thought my sister get mad at me. She
always gets mad when I get in fights and want
to lie. She'd be real sore. She got no sense
of humor. There's a guy at the hospital had a
real sense of humor.
Speaker 4: He was funny.
Speaker 10: He had a piece of in her tube, and he
worked like a hat floppy.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: He had a real great sense of humor. Got my sister.
She don't like anybody to laugh.
Speaker 7: How many times you've been arrested, fellow, Maybe a couple
here in Los Angeles?
Speaker 10: Yeah, all the time in LA cops.
Speaker 4: She don't like me.
Speaker 10: They got no sense of humor. None.
Speaker 4: You never saw such dull cop.
Speaker 7: All right, Jennison, you'll wait here, and we got a
few things to check out, and we want to take
you downtown.
Speaker 4: You aren't gonna arrest me, are you see?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 6: I hope not.
Speaker 4: My sister she'd be real sore.
Speaker 6: Johnson, Hmmm, tell me something. Did you hit her?
Speaker 4: You mean, did I hit Grace? Is that what you mean?
Speaker 6: That's what I mean.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 10: I met her a night and she asked me to
take a walk with her.
Speaker 1: You take a walk, that's all.
Speaker 10: Then all of a sudden she was lying on the ground.
Speaker 4: I was pretty drunk. I didn't know what happened.
Speaker 10: Just all of a sudden she was there, and I
got scared and I called the cops.
Speaker 1: But I didn't hit her.
Speaker 10: I wouldn't do a thing like that to Grace, not me.
Speaker 1: You believe that, don't you?
Speaker 10: Well, don't you?
Speaker 6: You got to buy it.
Speaker 1: You got it because it's the.
Speaker 6: Truth, is that right? Sure, it's the truth, every word.
Speaker 7: Well, you said it yourself, didn't you. You're an awful liar.
Twelve fifty two, Am Well, one of the officers from
a radio unit stood by with Cecil Johnson. We talked
with Lieutenant Lee Jones from the crime lab. He told
us that what footprints they'd found in the immediate vicinity
of the victim had been destroyed by the rain. He
told us that his who was unable to find any
useful physical evidence.
Speaker 6: The area was searched, but we failed to find either
the missing left shoe or the woman's.
Speaker 7: Purse, if she'd carried one. We put in a call
to the Hollywood Receiving Hospital. Doctor Elwin Terrell told us
that the victim was suffering from a fracture of the
skull and apparently several broken ribs. He told us that
the woman was in a deep coma and she couldn't
be questioned at that time.
Speaker 6: We asked him to contact us to the business office in.
Speaker 7: The event that she regained consciousness. We questioned the people
in the neighborhood, but they were of no aid. None
of them recalled hearing any automobiles on the streets, and
none of them could testify as to the people loitering
in the area. One ten am, we took Cecil Johnson
and had him detained at the city jail pending for
the investigation. The check of his record showed that he'd
been sent to Camerillo twice on charges of molesting and
violation of Section two forty five PC. He'd been released
into the custody of his sister three weeks previously before
he was placed in a cell. We got the name
and address at the bar where he said he'd met
the woman he called Grace. One forty am, Frank and
I drove out to the place. It was located on
Hollywood Boulevard near Lost Palmers Avenue. There was only one
other custs from in the place. When we went in,
the bartender was cleaning up for the night.
Speaker 6: Well it be we're looking for amo.
Speaker 1: Hi, man, what do you want? It's note about that
lousy Jackie is what's that? Your cops aren't you? Isn't
this about Jackie or police officers? Yeah? You got to understand.
I thought he was an actor, you know. I thought
he was just hanging around the place to take work calls.
That's what he told me. I didn't have no way
of knowing different.
Speaker 6: It's the truth. We don't know anything about Jackie.
Speaker 7: We'd like to ask you some questions about a man
named Cecil.
Speaker 6: Johnson, that crack putt.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought you were after me because of Jackie.
Oh there it goes again.
Speaker 6: Excuse me. Yeah, well here it is.
Speaker 1: No, he ain't here anymore. What I don't care how
the horse did. Jackie ain't here, and I don't call
me no more. You see this guy, Jackie's a book
all the time. He's using my phone and I don't
know it. Yesterday a couple of cops come in and
put the arm on him.
Speaker 6: All day.
Speaker 1: The phone's been ringing. Yeah, from what they say, he's
lucky he got arrested. He must have lost his shirt.
Yesterday hors came in that paid twenty to one. He
really must have had it.
Speaker 6: What do you know about the cecil Johnson? Creep?
Speaker 1: Real creep.
Speaker 6: Did you see him to night?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 6: He was in power time.
Speaker 1: Let's see, it was just before the fight on TV
that I'll make it about six forty five. Yeah, by
the man, about six forty five.
Speaker 6: You come in alone?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it always does. You don't have no friends?
Speaker 6: What time do you leave? Do you remember? All?
Speaker 1: We stayed around and watched the fight, got into one
argument with a guy, then he left about let's see,
I guess it must have been about nine thirty four
to ten.
Speaker 6: You know a woman named Grace. We understand he's in
here quite a bit Grace.
Speaker 1: Euh, I don't got a couple of Grace's come in here?
What you always look like?
Speaker 6: About forty two, dark hair, wearing a tweed coat.
Speaker 1: Excuse me a minute?
Speaker 6: Ere yeah.
Speaker 1: He oh yeah it is now he's not here. He
won't be back to stop calling. I don't care if
it did pay that look, but I got no part
in the accident. I forget the number I had Jackie's gone,
he's in the can. Yeah, he's pinching. No lay off euh.
Let's see dark haired tweed coat. Oh yeah, that'll be
Grace Dylan.
Speaker 6: Dylan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's pretty much of a regular.
Speaker 12: All right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess so d I L L O N.
I guess that's the way to speller. What's all the questions?
I think wrong?
Speaker 6: What time was she in here tonight?
Speaker 1: Who says she was?
Speaker 6: Well, that's what we understand.
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, well there's nothing wrong around here, no
reason not to cooperate. She was here, come in about eight?
Speaker 6: What times she leave?
Speaker 1: I guess it was nine to thirty nine forty five?
Speaker 6: She leave alone.
Speaker 1: You gotta think about that, all right, lots of people
in here with the fight, you know. Let me think
I'm gonna tear that thing.
Speaker 6: Right out of the wall.
Speaker 1: He ain't here, he's been pinched. I don't know when
he'd be back, and I don't care, you know, come
to think about it, I think she left with that
Cecil Johnson.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he didn't want them that much to drink, you know.
Speaker 1: Cecil had a couple of beers. That's all he needs.
Don't take much with him.
Speaker 6: How about the Dylan woman.
Speaker 1: She was failing no pain when she got here, really
caring a load. I finally told her to take a walk,
told her I couldn't serve her no more. That's when
she left and Cecia was sitting right there next to
each other. When I told her I wouldn't pour no
more for us, she got hacked in her and Cecil left.
You know where she lives, not right off.
Speaker 8: I can look it up.
Speaker 1: We keep a list of people who come in here.
Send him announcements about things like when we got a
new piano, play things like that. I see, I can
look it up for it. Just take him into Fine. Thanks,
see a be she Oh, here it is Dobby Dexter Dibbs,
and wished he come in and pick up a table carr. Oh,
let's see, yeah, here it is here. It is twenty
nine seventeen Ledgwood Drive.
Speaker 6: Twenty ninety seventeen. Thank you.
Speaker 1: You can take the car if you want. Don't make
any difference to me if she never comes back. The
way she carried on at night. People just don't understand.
Speaker 6: What's that.
Speaker 1: You can just serve them so much. After that, you're
pouring a hundred proof of trouble. You got to shut
them off sometime. She ever come in here with her husband, Dylan, Yeah,
a couple of times, quite a while ago, though. They
came in late one night, sat back there and the booth,
had a couple of quick belts. He drinks irish whiskey,
likes it. Neat had a big beef. I finally had
to go back and ask him to go out, real bummies.
Speaker 6: Mean, yeah.
Speaker 1: The kind of guy would have known him is to
hate him, you know, the kind.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he ain't here.
Speaker 1: I don't care how much you lost. He's in the cannon.
What what.
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, honey, Well I didn't know it was you. Uh
huh yeah, I'll be home early. As soon as I
close up, right, Yeah, well I do too. What all right, honey,
I love you, I do too, mean it. Look, honey,
there's there's a couple of men here. I got to
talk to her. But yeah, as soon as I close up, Yeah, goodbye, honey?
What oh yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 6: There Bye.
Speaker 1: It's it's the wife who'd just been married a couple
of weeks. She's kind of the you know, the dell
never hit his wife, would you know?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: He did. She came in here one night with a
mouse that had no end, said her own man gave
it to her. See what's all this about? Anyway? There's
something wrong with Grace, something happened to her.
Speaker 6: Well, we don't know yet.
Speaker 1: Let me give you this for free. If there's anything
happened to a six to twenty event, was her own man?
So real, bummy's mean anything wrong and it's him that
caused it. You better talk to him. You'll find out,
all right, sir, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6: We will.
Speaker 1: Thanks no, not at all glad to help out. Good night,
say you guys going downtown? Yeah, that's right to the jail.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, if you see Jackie, will you give him a
message for me?
Speaker 11: All right?
Speaker 1: What's that tell him? If he gets out? I don't
want him back here no more? Okay, guy, ties up
my phone.
Speaker 7: Two twenty six am. We got a description of the
victim's husband and check the name through R and I.
We weren't able to come up with any criminal record
on him. Frank and I droll out to the address
giving us by the bartender. It was a large English
stuckole house five blocks from where Grace Dilan had been found.
Speaker 6: We rang the bell and waited.
Speaker 7: An elderly woman answered the door and told us that
herman Dylan was not in. She explained that she was
a babysitter and that she'd been called to take care
of the couple's three children. She went on to say
that mister Dylon left the house at approximately ten fifteen
pm and had not yet returned. We called the office
and arrange for a stakeout.
Speaker 6: To be set up on the house. While we waited
for the.
Speaker 7: Officers to arrive, the babysitter told us that the Dylan's
had constant fights. She said that on several occasions, mister
Dylon threatened to kill his wife if she didn't spend
more time at home taking care of the children. She
went on to explain that there'd been an argument that
evening and that after a loud fight, the wife had
left the house. After she'd been gone for over now
our herman Dylan left to find her three h two am.
Speaker 6: The officers arrived. We asked him to wait for the
husband to return and then to notify us immediately. Frank
and I drove downtown.
Speaker 7: And checked into the crime lab. We talked with Lieutenant
Lee Jones regarding his findings. He told us that he'd
gone over the victim's clothing, but he was unable to
find any physical evidence to help us in finding her assailant.
Three forty six am. We checked into the office and
put in the.
Speaker 6: Call to the hospital. How you spell that doe? Huh ade?
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, do you have any idea when that might be?
Speaker 11: Hi?
Speaker 6: Seesar?
Speaker 8: Well if you let us know, right, yeah, the business
office here will know how to reach us. Right, nice again,
good night, doc? How is she WELLA doctor says he's
finished his examination. She's got a funnel bone fracture, three
broken ribs, cuts and contusions.
Speaker 6: She's gonna be all right? Hey you think so? So
she might come out of it anytime. Says it looks
like she might have been thrown from a car and
allow to explain the missing shoe in purse. Women. Yeah,
do you have any idea when we can talk to her?
Speaker 1: No? My not do any good anyway? You mean WELLA
doc says, this kind of fracture can produce her retrograde amnesia.
Speaker 6: Hmhm, she won't remember anything.
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Speaker 7: Four h two am, Frank and I signed out of
the office and we went home. At five thirteen am,
I got a call at the husband of the victim,
Hermann Delon, had returned home.
Speaker 6: The officer's a call says they were bringing him down
to the city Hall.
Speaker 7: I got in touch with Frank and by the time
we got to the squadroom, Dylan was already there. He
appeared dazed and acted as if he'd been drinking heavily.
We sent out for some black coffee for him. You
apparently didn't know what had happened to his wife.
Speaker 4: What's all this is it about? Anyway? What are you
dragging me out of my house like this?
Speaker 6: For got a few questions we don't to ask you.
Speaker 12: Dylan, What do you got that's so important? You got
to go through it at six in the morning.
Speaker 6: Why don't you see your wife last about seven thirty
last night?
Speaker 8: Why how do you and your wife get along?
Speaker 4: We've been married for ten years?
Speaker 6: Not much of an answer, mister, you're not married.
Speaker 4: Been married ten years and it's an answer. Been married
ten years, it's all the answer you need.
Speaker 6: Well, maybe you better spell it out for me.
Speaker 12: After that long, you have a few disagreements bound to
you know, being together all that time.
Speaker 7: You and your wife have a disagreement last night, did you, Yeah,
we had a discussion.
Speaker 1: What about I don't think that's any of your business.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well maybe it is now what you argue about.
Speaker 4: A running around wasn't a real argument.
Speaker 1: Just a discussion.
Speaker 6: Way we got it.
Speaker 4: It was more than that, and you got it wrong.
Speaker 6: We heard you hit her a couple of times.
Speaker 4: That's a lie. I might have shoved her a little.
Speaker 12: She had it coming all the time, running around. We
got three kids, three little kids, and she doesn't care
that for them, always going out, hanging around those cheap bars,
boozing it up. I came home the other night she'd
walked out and let the kids all alone, all by themselves,
didn't even get a sitter for him.
Speaker 6: Where you've been tonight? Why?
Speaker 4: Why you have to know that?
Speaker 6: You want to tell us?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I after Grace and me had the fight, she walked out.
I waited for her to come home. Then when she didn't,
I went out to find it.
Speaker 6: Did you Did you find her?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 12: I looked all over for her, all the bars along
the boulevard, but you wasn't there.
Speaker 6: Well, you've been since the bar's closed, walking around and
all this rain.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I've been trying to figure out what to do,
trying to make.
Speaker 4: Up my mind about what but I should do with Grace.
Things can't go on like this, They just can't.
Speaker 6: We've heard from some of your wife's friends that you
meet threats in their lives. That right, Who told you that?
We just heard it as a true I suppose.
Speaker 12: So if i'd have found her a night out of
maybe killed it and never been so mad before.
Speaker 6: Did you see anybody in Newton night?
Speaker 12: Why?
Speaker 6: When you were walking around did you see anybody anew?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: Why when you've got no way to prove where you were.
What I have to do that might make things easier
on you.
Speaker 4: Hey, what's this all about anyway?
Speaker 12: Why are you asking all these questions about me and Grace?
Speaker 4: What are you trying to say? Where is Grace?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well where is she? What's happened to her?
Speaker 6: In the hospital? She had an accident. It's pretty bad.
Speaker 4: What kind of an accident?
Speaker 6: Looks like she was beaten?
Speaker 4: And you think I did it?
Speaker 6: Might have been you.
Speaker 4: Is she alive?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You think I bade her up?
Speaker 2: Did you know?
Speaker 4: I maybe wanted to knock some sense into her, But
I didn't do it.
Speaker 6: You prove where you were tonight? Why?
Speaker 1: And you prove where you were? No?
Speaker 4: I don't even know myself.
Speaker 1: You really think I did it?
Speaker 6: That's what we're trying to find out.
Speaker 4: You know, I was pretty drunk tonight. I got real loaded.
That's a terrible point.
Speaker 6: Let me see your hands with you?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 6: Let me see him? All right? Put them up there,
both of them here, But you get those bruises. I
don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't remember.
Speaker 1: Better.
Speaker 6: Try it's pretty important.
Speaker 4: I told you I was drunk.
Speaker 6: Only one thing it'll put bruises like that on your hands.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you hit something pretty hard.
Speaker 7: Herman Dillon was detained pending further investigation. We'd call the hospital,
but there was no change in Missus Dillon's condition. Because
of the lack of physical evidence, her testimony was essential
and apprehending the first nude beating her. We had two
prime suspects, Cecil Johnson, who was known to have been
in her company when she left the bar. Johnson's record
indicated that he was capable of committing the crime. On
the other hand, the victim's husband had stated that he
might kill her. He was unable to explain his movements
at the time of the attack. The only person who
could tell us the true story was the victim herself,
and we had the doctor's statement that she might not
remember the events.
Speaker 6: Immediately leading up to the beating. At ten fourteen.
Speaker 7: Am the following morning, the officer called from the hospital
telling us that Missus Dillonman regained consciousness.
Speaker 6: And could be questioned.
Speaker 7: The doctor told us that she was calling for her
husband and asked if we bring Dylan with us. We
went by the city jail and picked.
Speaker 6: Him up, and then we drove over to the hospital.
Speaker 7: The doctor told us that Missus Dillon was in a
weak condition and that we couldn't talk to at any length.
Speaker 6: Frank, Dylan and I went into where Roman waited for
it to open her eyes.
Speaker 13: That to herman, Yes, dear, you're not mad at me?
Speaker 11: Are you You're not still mad at me?
Speaker 4: No, dear, I'm not. Oh it's good.
Speaker 11: I was afraid you still were mad.
Speaker 13: You know, Herman, you shouldn't have hit me like you did.
I know maybe I had a reason, but you shouldn't.
Speaker 11: Have hit me.
Speaker 6: Can you tell us what happened to missus Dylan? Who
are you police officers?
Speaker 11: What are you doing here trying to find.
Speaker 6: Out who did this to you?
Speaker 13: Wasn't anybody did it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I wasn't anybody. I did it myself, silly, did it
all by myself.
Speaker 6: I don't believe I understandings.
Speaker 11: Dylan m and me had a fight and I walked out.
I was gonna leave him.
Speaker 13: I went down and had a few drinks, just a few,
and I got to thinking about me and herman, how
I was such a bad wife.
Speaker 11: I got to thinking about the kids and how I
was a bad mother. Y'are's still mad at me? Are
you Herman really in your heart, no, grace.
Speaker 4: I'm glad You're gonna be alright. That's all it counts.
Speaker 6: You wanna tell us what happened, miss Dylan, please?
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 11: I was on my way home. I was going back.
Cecil was walking home with me. It was rain pretty hard,
and we came to a gutter that was full of water.
I stepped up on the curb to go around, and.
Speaker 13: I didn't wanna step in the water, and I fell
fell down the hill, rolled all the way to the bottom,
all the way to the next street.
Speaker 11: I remember falling. I remember laying in the street down below,
and how I couldn't move.
Speaker 13: I didn't know about anything else after that until just
when you got here, Lynna, I don't remember much of anything.
Speaker 6: You mean that you fell on yourself, that nobody beat
you up? Huh. Oh.
Speaker 11: Herman hit me when I was home. He got mad
at me and hit me. But he was right.
Speaker 13: You were right, honey, real right. But it's gonna be different,
I promise you, just as long as you ain't still
mad at me, that's all that mad is that you
ain't mad.
Speaker 6: I take it easy, honey, Everything's gonna be alright.
Speaker 4: Just take it easy and try to get some sleep.
Speaker 13: I love you, Herman, I love you very much, and
I'm gonna make it all up to you all the
bad times.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna make it all up to you.
Speaker 4: I love you too.
Speaker 6: Grace.
Speaker 4: You go to slave, get some.
Speaker 1: Rest, all right, honey, I thank you, Miss Dylan.
Speaker 6: We'll better go.
Speaker 4: You're gonna want meaning.
Speaker 6: We're saying, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Wonder she means it.
Speaker 12: If she really did what I'm making it up with
the kids, things are going to be different.
Speaker 6: I don't know. She said she would.
Speaker 4: That's just it.
Speaker 11: Hm.
Speaker 4: She said it so many times before. The star you
have just heard is true. The names were changed to
protect the innocent.
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Speaker 3: Since no crime had been committed, no legal action was
taken against mister and missus Dillon Cecil. August Johnson was
removed to Room five Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for further
psychiatric examination. You have just heard Dragnet, a series of
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