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...YOUR DRAMATIC PIECE ON MIRROR'S CRIME ACE SID HUGHES HELPING FBI BY LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE [OCT. 5], IT'S PROBABLY FIRST TIME IN HISTORY THAT HOT EXCLUSIVE STORY COST NEWSPAPER 60,000 CIRCULATION. SID'S STORY ACTUALLY BOOSTED OUR NORMAL QUARTER MILLION DAILY SALES INSTEAD OF DROPPING THEM TO 188,000 WHICH YOU INADVERTENTLY QUOTED. NOW HUGHES IN NEED OF FBI PROTECTION FROM OUR WOUNDED CIRCULATION AND ADVERTISING DEPARTMENTS. CAN YOU GET HIM OFF HOT SEAT...
...Johnny?" "Not too good," Johnson answered. "I understand I'm pretty hot out there." Hughes told him he didn't know how hot he was, but would check and call him back. Johnson volunteered to call back himself in an hour. An FBI agent hustled to the Mirror office, set up a monitoring phone to listen in on the call when Johnson phoned back. In Baltimore, every outgoing call to Los Angeles was monitored, so that FBI agents could swiftly trace the call and nab Johnson. In an hour, he called back...
...Hughes, 45, assistant city editor of the Los Angeles Mirror (circ. 188,453), is a cigar-chewing, tough-talking newsman who never got to high school. But in 23 years of covering the police beat for Los Angeles papers he has earned his own graduate degrees in crime and criminals. He mixes on such familiar terms with the underworld that the front-door of his apartment has a one-way mirror in it so that Hughes can see who is coming without the visitor's seeing him; on "tough" stories he often carries a .38 revolver, just in case...
Johnson, headlined as the "blitzkrieg bandit," met Hughes several months ago when he came to the Mirror to ask help in getting a driver's license so that he could work as a truck driver. Hughes got him the license, from then on frequently got calls from Johnson. "He was a mixed-up guy," says Hughes, "who has been in crime ever since he was a kid. He likes to talk and I like to sit back and listen." Two months ago, Johnson stopped calling after police started looking for him as a suspect in the strangulation murder...
...good," Johnson answered. "I understand I'm pretty hot out there." Hughes told him he didn't know how hot he was, but would check and call him back. Johnson volunteered to call back himself in an hour. An FBI agent hustled to the Mirror office, set up a monitoring phone to listen in on the call when Johnson phoned back. In Baltimore, every outgoing call to Los Angeles was monitored, so that FBI agents could swiftly trace the call and nab Johnson. In an hour, he called back...