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Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Lockwood investigate a group of confidence men posing as authorized solicitors for legitimate charities and pocketing the donations they collect. An early arrest appears promising until the suspect proves he merely copied the scheme, leaving Friday and Lockwood searching for the experienced bunco artists whose fraud is depriving charitable causes of badly needed funds.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 12, 1952

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favorite podcast software. Our listener support and appreciation campaign continues. You can become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month at patreon.greatdetectives.net. But now from June 12th, 1950, here is The Big Donation. Your detective sergeant, you're assigned a bunkco detail. A team of confidence men are taking thousands of dollars from the people of your city. Their method of operation, posing as solicitors for different charitable causes.

There's no lead to their whereabouts. Your job, stop them. Dragnap. The document had drawn more than actual crime. While the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. From beginning to end, from crimes of punishment, Dragnap is the story of your police force in action. The was Tuesday, February 16th. It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a bunkco detail. My partner is Bill Lockwood, the boss is Captain Steve, my name is Friday. We're on the way out from the office and it was 2.8 pm when we got the first through the Polentia. The West Valley Hotel. We're here to the left, Joe. No, excuse me. Sorry we're all filled up no more.

No, we don't want to register. We're police officers. Like a check one of your guests. You're on the Raymond Side-Dell Registered. SCID-Double-O. Oh, I see. No, there's no Raymond Side-Dell registered. Small man about 5'6", 130 pounds, 10, complexion, being 35 and 40, where he's going to in the glasses. Oh, I don't know what's the trouble anyway. Anyone like that registered here? Well, it's just about to say there's no Raymond Side-Dell. We've got a Raymond Singer, the little small fella he wears glasses and he's about 35 and 41. He's in his room now. No matter if he actually just left, man, he went out for lunch. I think just for you fellas walked in. Where's the user you to now? A coffee shop right next to it. He's got a great top coat on, great hand. OK, thanks. You can use that door right here and connect to the top. Right, thank you. This bottom? Yeah, find the counter up on the front door. See? Yeah, the description checks that. OK, come on.

Spotted us going for the front door. All right, police officers, hold it up there. Making a run. All right, come on. This way. Where do you go, I lost? Alley up ahead, he ducked in there. Down the ramp, Choto Feltzora's ran in there. All right, come on, let's hurry. You spot him, Bill? No. Any other way out inside this ramp? Wait a minute. Yeah, down the fire in there. Another exit, I'll take that, you cover this end. Right. I watch it, Belly's coming out, the blusa down. All right, hold it. Check out your home, coming out. I'll go for his fire. All right, come on, Bill. All right, there we are. All right, go shoot, go shoot. All right, then hold it right there. What's the pitch, anyway? I wasn't doing anything. Hands behind you. Raymond Sydell, is that right? That's right, I wasn't doing anything. What's the sort of off? You know as well as we do. Look what you did in my car, just look at it. You cracked it up, Mr. Weedon.

Come on, come on, where I haven't done anything? We want to talk to you downtown. I'm not saying anything. You can talk to my lawyer, get the story from him. We already got it, come on, let's go. 2.35 p.m., we took the suspect Raymond Sydell back to the hotel where this where we checked his room, thoroughly. Bill got on the phone, made arrangements to have Sydell's car impounded, and a stakeout placed at the hotel. Then we drove back to the city hall, and took the suspect to the interrogation room. A check through our records and identification bureau earlier in the day had revealed a fair-sized record for Sydell. He'd had four previous local arrests, two for petty theft, one for secondary degree burglary, one for grand theft auto. He'd been convicted on one of the petty thefts, and also on the burglary charge for which he'd served time in the state penitentiary at San Clinton. Bill and I started questioning him. The first half hour we got nowhere. Now, Joe, I haven't been doing anything. I've been clean ever since I got out. Well, we'll get last night, Ray. Not gonna round town. What'd you do? Had a couple of drinks, went to a show, came out and went see some Ben Bono. What's your name?

Helen lives up on South Custer, and you can ask her. She'll tell you I was there. What time do you see her? Well, 10 o'clock. Yeah, I just met. You're a liar, Ray. Mm-hmm. You're a liar. What'd you call her say that? It's a truth, and four other people must be lying. What do you mean, what other people? You know what I mean. How about a Ray? I don't know what you mean. So help me. I don't. Why don't you give it up, Side-Dale? You all don't know better. We wouldn't have you down here if we didn't have your pay. Thanks for what? I don't even know what you're talking about. All right, then, I'll tell you, Ray. About 830 last night, you put in a call to a mystery. Mrs. Gerald Keyes, they live out in East Hollywood. Gladstone, 3962. Mrs. Keyes answered the phone. You're told you were taking contributions for European children, war orphans. You know she was interested in the cause. You asked her for a donation. You're crazy. That wasn't me. I don't even know. You done Mrs. Keyes, and she agreed to contribute. She offered $50. You talked her up to $150. She asked you what to send the money, and you said never mind. You'd be out to collect it. 45 minutes later, you're out there. You parked your car by a candy store down the street from the keys home. You walked up the block to the keys, collected the money, and you left. Now you prove it was me. You prove it. We got her co-side, Elle. Mrs. Keyes' husband got suspicious about the setup.

45 minutes after you phoned, you were at the front door with your handout. You had no credentials. Nothing. You notice you parked your car down the street instead of in front of the house. You got the license number of your car when you pulled away. So the owner of the candy store, you parked your car just outside his place. All three of them can describe you and your car. Mr. Keyes, Mrs. Keyes, the man at the candy store. Yeah, that right. Getting over to your rate? Gonna take more and a couple of people to build a case. All right, we got more. You gave Mrs. Keyes a signed receipt for the $150. You signed at Tom's side, Elle. Our handwriting man, check the signature with a specimen of your handwriting we got from your package. Now they both check not a doubt in the world. What do you say? I don't know. What would you say? Your jam. What's the story? Listen, anyway, should I dig my grave? Anyway, you want it. You're gonna stand the load for the last two months, including the one you pulled last night. It makes 14 cases. So, I, it's a lousy lie. So, you're right, right? Can you try to do it in the end? Anyway, 14 jobs have never hustled that hard in my life. That's how I'm gonna leave it in the last couple of months. Why load them on me? Everyone on the follow the same general MO. Same way you worked at last night. We didn't know where you got your list of names, but you contact people who are interested in different charities.

Your poses are an authorized solicitor. You get their money and then you take off. The last two months you've been collecting for more than 10 different drives. You're the PNR friends. A milk fund, summer camp for underprivileged kids. Cripple children's fund. The people give their money and good faith and you take off with it. Look, uh, what you're in the middle. Your MO follows all the way through. It's a solid racquet, Ray. We're gonna lean hard on you. I said, will you wait a minute? No, when I'm done, I'll give you the story. Yeah. I'm not taking the whole load on my back. I'll cop out to the one last night, but that's all. You look good for all of them. Look, will you give me a chance? The one last night was a first try for me. It's the only one I ever tried. I'm squaring with you. I was crazy even to make a pass. I shouldn't know better. I'm not a punk man. I already told you, Ray. Last night's a close match with the other jobs. You say you'll cop out to one. How do we account for the other 13? Just among us, whatever I say, I don't want credit for. All right. What's the pitch? Gonna have that cigarette now? Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Here's a match. I got out of the thing Sunday night, doing a little drink in at this place on Boyle Avenue.

A couple of guys at the bar were talking about it. I didn't know them. Talking about what? The racquet. Getting a list of marks and collecting charity money from them. These two guys weren't working. They just heard it was going on. They were yawning at the bartender about it. Figured some out of town grifters were doing it. When you figured you'd get it on the bail wagon. I thought I'd try a couple of jobs. That's all. Need a few bucks to tide me over. Didn't look like much of a risk. Pretty me. Why I heard about the MO. The grifters were using pretty simple a copy. I followed it through just so I heard they did it. They had a half dozen jobs under their bill already. If you knocked them over and they had to stand the rap, a couple of jobs of mine wouldn't make any difference. Very right. Is that what you figured out? What's the difference? I didn't get it. Figured you'd catch up with them and they'd take the rap for my jobs along with our own. It was just my life. You get me in, Staten. No, I'm up to stand the rap for everything. Well, it's a pretty fair story, Ray. Any way of proving it? Sure. Easy. These grifters started working here two months ago. Didn't they? They had pretty high the first week or so, didn't they? Well, I wasn't even in town then. Wasn't here the whole month. There was never a monoray.

Any way of proving it? Sure. That's sheriff up there. Ask a sheriff, he'll tell you. Why should he only leave him about it? He ought to. He had me in jail a whole month. 340 PM. While Bill continued questioning his suspect, Raymond Sidel, I went down the hall to the squadron and put in a call to the Monoray County Sheriff's office. They confirmed Sidel's story. He'd been arrested in the town of Monoray December 13th, approximately two months before on charges of vagrancy and suspicion of robbery. He was confined in the county jail there from December 13th to January 15th. The same period of time during which the unidentified bunkalman had started their campaign of falsely soliciting funds for various charities. While the information cleared Sidel of any part in the bunkal charity operations throughout the city that month, he still had to answer for his actions the night before, soliciting contributions falsely from a couple out in East Hollywood, Mr. and Mrs. Keys. After his statement was taken, Bill Lockwood and I drove Sidel to the main jail where we booked him in on suspicion of 48 PC, petty theft. Further investigation the next day and a half

seemed to indicate that the last story we got from Sidel was pretty close to the facts. There was the case of a small time thief imitating the apparently successful formula of a veteran team of bunker artists, an imitation which in the criminal world is far from unusual. A week passed, despite the broadcast, the bulletins and the special notices we'd gotten out of the suspects and their operations, there were three more cases reported. One of them came from a Mrs. Teresa Gilfoil, the woman in charge of the cripple children's home. Bill and I drove out to talk to her. This is the first thing I want to show you officers. What's happening? This way please. Go ahead, Bill. Yes ma'am? Me at Sweetheart. There are two gentlemen here I'd like to have you meet. Steven, Mrs. Sergeant Friday, Mrs. Officer Lockwood, their policeman. Mrs. Steven officers, he's three years old. Well, how are you Steven? I'm not saying. You'd like to say hello officers but he can't. His legs aren't his only trouble. He can't hear.

He can't talk either. Oh it's too bad. You're learning no aren't you sweetheart? You bet you are. So the while with us you'll be talking a blue streak. All right honey, you're a long play now. Real Sweetheart isn't he? I wanted you to meet him. So you can see what this means to us. And I look at children like that. This whole mess just makes my blood boil. Yes ma'am, we see what you mean. Hard enough getting people to contribute money to keep this place open. Help those poor kids to walk and talk. These have to make it even harder. The way things are I can't see how we're going to get through the year. Oh how much he estimate is cost you must go for. I mean how much donations are these 40 solicitors taking? Well I know of at least $700 they've collected from different people. Lord knows how much more money they got that was supposed to go to the home. I suppose a lot of people still think they gave their money to the right person. Well did you receive the notice we sent out about six weeks ago man about how these thieves operate in? Yes I did. I made a special note of it.

When we sent out our annual appeal letter to our regular donors most of your notice was incorporated right in it. Uh-huh. I don't know what happened. I guess they didn't pay any attention to it. When your first find out something was wrong with me. It was yesterday morning one of our regular donors Mr. Baxter called me. He wanted to know if we received his contribution all right. He wondered because he didn't receive his regular thank you note. That's when he told me about this man who came to his house and collected the money. Let me see. As soon as I heard that two of the other girls and myself got on the phone and called every one of the regular donors there were ten of them just like Mr. Baxter gave their good money to help these tots and we never received the penny of it. I've got all their names in the address this year if you'd like. Yes ma'am. Welcome to them if you want them. Yes I'll be fine. We'd like to check with each one of you. Now this is the completeness to all the regular donors who contributed in their money wasn't received is that right? Yes sir all those we know of. Probably a lot more I suppose. You've been in police work for a few years haven't you Sergeant? You must have met all kind. Yes ma'am I suppose so. What kind would you say these men are?

I mean going around and stealing the little regular income we have from donations. What kind of persons can they be? Well there's thousands of them as deal for them. They walk every city in the world they want money they want everything that goes with it no do anything but work for it. With the money these men are stealing they must know it for these cripple children they help them walk again help them talk little kids like Steven. Yes ma'am. And these men call themselves human beings and they take help away from a child like that. Shoot me. Couldn't be more ashamed of them. A shame to live in the same city with them. Yes ma'am. You'd think God would punish them. You think God would come down and punish them right now. Maybe he's even ashamed. Before we left Mrs. Gillfoil gave us a complete list of the names and addresses of donors who contributed annually to the upkeep of the crippled children's home. For the next couple of days Bill and I contacted each one of them personally. Those people who'd already given their contributions to the thieves unknowingly were unable to help us.

Their descriptions of the man who solicited money from them in the name of the cripple children's home generally duplicated the descriptions we've gotten from the previous victims. None of them were very detailed but they did seem to confirm our theory that there were two or more men involved in the bunkal operation. Receipts for the money they'd given the thieves were signed either by a Fred Wellman or a Norman Archer. The handwriting varied in each case. Those donors on the list who had not yet been contacted with the best hope we had of reaching this aspect. Since the crippled children's home appealed for funds only through the mail, we advised these people to get in touch with us immediately if anyone contacted them by phone and asked for contributions. A few more days passed, Monday, February 27th. We got a call back from one of these donors, a Mr. George Stage of the consolidated pool company out in the valley. We located him supervising work at the site of one of their pool constructions in the Taluca Lake area. Oh yeah, glad to see you again Sergeant. Say could you hold on just a minute I want to test that batch of mud and see if it makes too dry. Won't take a minute. Yes sir, go right ahead. Andy, come here a minute, will you?

How's that mixed with for you? Very nice looking pool, a little. Hmm, big one. You're a nice to have one. Yeah, once you look into it. It's about all I could afford to do right now, a little ginder. Okay, Sergeant, six, two and even. I'm gonna go over to the truck with some of these brackets so we can talk. All right, that's fine. I hope I got something for you, not sure if it'll be worth anything to you. You sent on the phone you got a call last night. Well I didn't, my wife did. They wanted to talk to me but I wasn't home yet. I'm finishing a pool for some folks in Encina. Oh, I've seen fair if you want. You know, it's running board for you. That's all right. But what was the gist of the phone call, Mr. Stage? Who was it? Well, as I say, the wife answered. Followed told her, his name was Mr. Archers, said he was collecting for the crippled kids home. Of course the wife knew the setup. If you talked to me, I wonder about the pony collectors going around. Uh, what should you tell them, Nancy? Unless you didn't get a chance to tell them anything. He did most of the talking. He gave her a big spiel about how much the poor, crippled kids needed to help. The wife asked him if he'd leave a number so I could call him back when I got home. Well, did he leave a number? No. No, okay, some pony excuse. He wouldn't be at the same phone, something like that.

Well, when I'd ask her if she couldn't make out a check, said he could come right out to pick it up. The wife said no, she couldn't. Matter of fact, she couldn't. I've got the checkbook. It's giving. Andy? Andy, get one of the boys to help you down the hole. You can't do that all by yourself. That's fine for Andy, he's a great worker. Yes, sir. Well, what was the upshot of the phone conversation between Archery and your wife on the... Well, she kept asking for a phone number or an address. Some place where I could get back to him when I got home. I guess they got it figured, though. He wouldn't give her a thing. That's the way it ended, sir. Yes, sir, that's it. Might be I'll have better luck to come. Behind me. Who is fellow Archery? Told the wife he'd call me back tonight. You are listening to Dragnet, authentic stories of your police force in action. Monday, February 27th, 130 PM. As soon as we found out there was a possibility

that one of the bunker suspects might contact a potential victim, George Stage, that night. Bill and I started making arrangements to be ready for him. At 6.45 PM, we were at the stage home. When the suspect telephoned, he identified himself as Norman Archery. George Stage followed our instructions to the letter. He agreed to make a contribution and asked Archery to call it his home to pick up the check. He set the date for 9 o'clock that night to allow us enough time for preparations. We got in touch with Lieutenant Lee Jones at the crime lab and he sent out two of his sound technicians with a microphone set up in a tape recorder. By 8 PM, the installation was complete. The microphone concealed in the living room of the stage home and the tape recorder. Set up in an adjoining room. Bill and I were stationed at the recorder in the bedroom. 8.30, 8.45. We waited. 9 PM, 905. Somebody have a front door. Yeah, you want to give me that headset bill? Here you go. Thanks. Okay, I'm going to turn on the recorder. Right, John. Yep, stage.

Yes, that's right. My name is Norman Archery. Mr. Stage, glad to know you are. I'm sure glad to meet you. Come on in. Thank you. Very nice place, yeah, Peter. We're pretty happy with it. Sit down, Richard. Thank you. We'll see how I hope I'm not interrupting your eating. Mr. Stage. All right, just sitting here watching television. I see. Well, I don't want to take up a moment of your time. I don't suppose I have to tell you what a word it calls. It is I represent the crippled children's home. Glad to make it donation. It's one of my favorite charity. I'm certainly happy to hear that. Really, you have any idea how much good your money does. Those little thoughts out the home really need. I help all of you help me give them. That's what they do. Are you one of the official items? Well, the size portion calls it. And I'm one of the authorized collectives for the maintenance fund. I have received your donation. All made out of your name. Yes, here we are. Let's push you along with all donations to the home.

But deductible from your income tag. Yeah. Well, here we are. See, it's all filled out. Your name and address. This space you have left, make a small amount of your contribution. Off it is out right now. How much would you like me to put you down for? Well, I know. I don't have too much cash on hand. I'm going to check me around. Well, I think we just might be fuzzy. But donations are me cash. You know, still things to be having and fun. Well, I've only got 20 or 30 dollars in cash. I like to give more than that. You sure a check wouldn't be all right. Well, as I say, it's simpler for donations. Cash but checks all right. Next slide. Okay. Oh my god. Oh, I've got here's my company check. How's that? Company checks are all I have here. Consolidated pool company. I guess it will work just as good. Be like a donation from the company. So, let me get out and I'll pay it over to the cripple children. No, no, home doesn't have a commercial banking card. It's not in corporate, you know. Well, isn't that what I usually have?

I check donations to my personal account. So, if you just make it out to me, you know, we have to simplify book work. And it takes a lot of work to run a home like that. And we've kind of afforded bookkeeping for you to see. I'll make it out to... Sorry, what's your first name again? No, I'm Norman Aja. A RCHR. How much will I put you down for? Well, let's see, I think I get 200 last year. Yeah, I think that was it. Yes, we certainly appreciate it too. Of course, it's like everything else I made in Scotland gone up. You give those youngsters nothing but the best. I mean, if you can see your way clear to make it a little more this year, we certainly thank you for it. That goes for those cripple kids too. I guess I can make it a little more with that a very good year. Let's make it to 50. That would be fine. Show cliché and let's say... Really, if it wasn't for such a great cause, I'd be embarrassed asking you for money. Not at all. I'm like, that I can afford it. Here you are. No, I see any gun. I can still wait. Thank you very much. I guess I don't have to tell you again how much we appreciate.

Let's see. One of my hands right outside the hallway. Oh, yes. All right. Thank you. Well, see that you're a check against in the bank first thing in the morning. All right. Thanks for coming out. Thank you for the stage. Thank you. How much does check mean stuff? I think I do. You hear it all right? You hear what he's saying? Yes, sir. We got it. How rotten can you get? Yes, sir. Bro, do you want to take a look at the window? All right. Mr. Stage, when you leave that tape recorder right where it is, don't let anyone touch it. We'll be back. Yeah, all right. He's pulling out your head down the street. All right, let's go. We'll call you, Mr. Stage. Yeah. Okay. You see him, Bill? Yeah. Don't pass the next part. Sorry. Go ahead, slide on my side. Now let's keep the lights off for a couple of blocks. Don't get them excited. All right. Can you see him? One turning left. Raise it and, is that him? See. Yeah, I said. Pull up closer, Vikyana. See if we can make his license. You're going to try.

How'd that? A little closer. Okay, that's fine. One sugar, one six six, zero five. All right. I'll check it and see if it's hot. One K80 to control one. One K80 to control one. Control one to one K80. All other cars on frequency six stand by. One K80 to control one. Request rolling make for stolen and DMV on one sugar, one six six zero five. Repeat. One S one six six zero five. KM836M. Control one one K80. One sugar one six six zero five stand by. You're good. I'm a good looking, Bill. I might have recognized him, huh? I mean, I couldn't take a chance. Anyways, worth more. We'll get him in this part and together. We'll have it all up in one. There was a lot of headaches. Yeah, well, don't lose them. We'll turn left up the next corner. Yeah, I saw him. He hasn't made it. Yeah, I think we're in a clear. All right, you can turn your lights on, huh? All right. Control one to one K80. Control one to one K80. One sugar one six six zero five. No one. Car is in 1950, Faniac, to Dorset and registered to Charles A. Sutton.

5840 Octavia Street Los Angeles. Motor number one, Adam six, Paul three three four two. Legal the same, KM-A367. One K80, the control one. Would you check records for Charles A. Sutton, Agen description unknown. Rush request, we have suspect under rolling surveillance. Control one to one K80, Roger. Looks like he's low on down, Joe. Yeah. All right, don't press him. Yeah, he's pulling up. We stopped there. Better cut the lights. Yeah, pull up right here, huh? Can you see him? Yeah. Going up to that house. Porch light on. Yeah. Must be where he keeps his pad. He acts like he's been there before. A man answering the door. He's going in. Control one to one K80, come in. One K80, the control one, go ahead. Control one to one K80. We have a Charles A. Sutton, WMA. 42 years, a five foot nine, 163 pounds of brown hair, blue eyes. He has a long felony record, suspicion of robbery, suspicion of burglary, grand theft, punkle.

Also three outstanding traffic ones. License number one, sugar one, six, six, oh five. One K80 to control one, Roger. KM8367. What do you think? Let's take him. Right. All right, you want to take the back bill all going the front. Okay, give me a second to get around. Right. Yeah. Police officer, want to talk to us. All right, come on, open it up. I'm sorry, the cops. All right, hold it right there, guess the wall. All right, two seconds, all right, police officers. Go on. Yeah. You get him, all right? It's okay. Come on, I'll front you. What are you trying to do? What's this all about? We'll talk downtown. You know what it's all about. All right, over next to you, fight me. What do you do, I can't wait. You haven't gotten anything on us. You want to get the cups on them, Bill? Yeah. Stand still, both of them. Here's mine. What's the pitch here anyway? I haven't done anything. Ah. Losing in here like this? Private house, you got no business here. $250 says you're own. What? It's checking your right-hand pocket.

All right, come on, let's go. The story you've just heard was true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. On May 28th, trial was held in Superior Court Department 88 City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. In a moment, the results of that trial. Charles A. Sutton and his accomplice Harold V. Mathur were tried and convicted on three counts of Grand Theft money and received sentences as prescribed by law. Grand Theft is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than one, nor more than ten years. The initial suspects, Sidel, pled guilty to petty theft and received a sentence of one year in the county jail.

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