229. The Big Listen

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[01:41] travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. Was Wednesday, August 4th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Chief of Detective Stad Brown. My name's Friday. We were on our way out from the office and it was 9.42 a.m. when we got to the Osborne

[02:12] Turkish Bath. Steam room. Hot, isn't it? Yeah. It must be Dell back there. Yeah. Dell? Yeah, who is it? Friday and Smith. I'll be right with you. Okay. Hey Joe, did you ever have one of these? One of what? Turkish Baths. You ever had one? No, no I never have. I understand they're great for colds. You just sit there and it burns the germs right out. It's great. You ever have one? No, but Armin, my brother-in-law, he takes them all the time. He tells me about how it does for colds. Next time he has one, I think I'll go with him.

[02:42] Yeah, that's a good idea. All right, sorry to keep you waiting. We've been having trouble with the boiler. Got to keep a close check on the steam pressure in here. That's okay. Let's get out of here, huh? It won't make me unhappy. It sure is hot, Dell. Go on upstairs. We can talk there. Okay. What do you got for us, Dell? I might not go anyplace, but I thought I ought to fill you guys in on it. The fellow rolled in here last night. Must have been a little busy. The night man's out with a cold, so I had to fill in. A cold? Yeah, some kind of virus or something. Oh, yeah. Come on, we can talk in the office.

[03:13] Sit down, you. Mind if I go over some of these bills while we talk? No, go ahead. Well, this bimbo pulled in here last night, really carrying a load. I registered him and had Jimmy take him upstairs. The guy's kind of loud, you know, rolling all over the place. I wanted to get him upstairs to a room, but I couldn't. We wouldn't hear no more from him. He had a different idea. A couple of minutes later, he comes downstairs, wants to know what's going on. What do you mean? Wants to know where the steam room is. Says he's not going to sit in the little room all night. He paid for his steam bath.

[03:43] That's what he wants. When he starts to talk about his high-powered friends and this deal they're out to pull, I kind of figure there's something wrong. Did he tell you who the friends were? No, not right now. I just mentioned a guy named Bud. Kept talking how Bud was going to be sore at him because he got drunk. Must have said it a hundred times. How Bud was going to be real sore. Sounded to me like this Bud is the big man in the deal. I see. No idea what the deal is though, huh? No, most he said was that when they left town, they were all going to have a lot of money. More money than I'd ever seen. You got the name on this guy? Oh, here's the register here.

[04:13] Let's see, uh... Hey, you can see right here, uh... Vernon Carmichael, Los Angeles. Didn't give an address, huh? Once he mentioned he had to meet Bud at a hotel down on South Street, didn't say which one though. Well, Flower's a long street, Dell, that doesn't help much. Didn't give me any ideas at all of what the deal was going to be, huh? No, must be a good one though. Why do you say that? Well, when I took him up to his room last night, I could see his clothes hanging on a chair. Yeah. On top of his coat he had a shoulder holster. Looked like a 45 automatic in it.

[04:44] The way I look at it, a guy that's carrying that kind of muscle is figuring on scoring heavy. You make any phone calls while he was here? No. Anybody had the room since he left? No, I told the cleaning guy to come back. No, I told the clean-up man to leave it alone. Figured you'd want to go over it. Good idea. What time did he leave this morning? Jimmy says it was about 7.30. I figured sure he'd sleep most of the morning. If I'd known he was going to leave that early, I'd have called you last night. Well, we better take a look at that room, Dell. Might be able to come up with something that'll tell us who he is. I got something else for you. Yeah, what's that? I mentioned this Carmichael to Jimmy last night. Told him when I thought there was something wrong.

[05:15] Yeah. The reason the guy left so early is that he got a call from somebody. Guess it's the guy that picked him up. Did this Jimmy see who it was? No, did the next best thing though. Yeah, what's that? Got the license number of the car. 10.15 a.m. We got in touch with Leighton Prince and Harland Stahl sent a crew out to go over the room. Frank put in a call to the record bureau and he had the name Vernon Carmichael checked. There was no record on anyone answering the description that we'd gotten from the manager of the Turkish bath. In addition, a radiogram was sent to the Department of Motor Vehicles in Pennsylvania

[05:47] asking for all available information on the owner of the car bearing a license number that we'd been given. 11.30 a.m. Harland Stahl's crew finished checking the room and they told us that they'd been able to lift a complete set of clean fingerprints from a water glass. They were photographed and classified. In checking our files, there was no record of the prints. They were forwarded to George Breton up at Sacramento to CII and to the FBI in Washington D.C. Two days passed. On Friday, August 6th, we got the word from DMV in Pennsylvania that the car was registered to a Howard Nielsen.

[06:18] The radiogram also gave us a description of the car and the registered owner's address in Pittsburgh. On receipt of this information, we got in touch with the police department in Pittsburgh and found that Howard Bud Nielsen had a misdemeanor record. Late Friday afternoon, the kickback from Washington D.C. arrived with the information that the fingerprints found in the room at the Turkish bath were those of Vernon Carmichael. His record listed arrests for petty theft and robbery in Pennsylvania. He'd been brought to trial, but he'd been acquitted. Both men were well known to the police department in Pittsburgh as hoodlums.

[06:48] On Saturday morning, the mugshots of both Nielsen and Carmichael arrived. 10.15 a.m. We met with Lieutenant Jack Smires and we decided that the information, coupled with the records of the two men, made the incident worth investigation. The mugshots of the pair were copied and a canvas of the hotels on South Flower Street was started in an attempt to find the residence of the suspects. The search went on for another two days without results. Monday, August 9th, 11.47 a.m. Frank and I got back to the office from communications. You know, we're going to feel pretty silly if Carmichael and Nielsen are already back there.

[07:20] Yeah, I know. It's beginning to look like the tip from Dell about the hotel on Flower was off, huh? Yeah. Still a lot of places to check, don't they? Friday? Yeah. We got it for you. What? Carmichael and Nielsen. We found the hotel. At 10.30 that morning, officers Murphy and Rafferty had gotten the first affirmative answer to their questions about the suspects. A room clerk in a small hotel at the corner of South Flower Street and Bunker Hill Avenue had recognized the mugshots of Carmichael and Nielsen. Further questioning brought out the name of the third man on the trio.

[07:52] He was identified as Ernest Hunter. A check of the name through our records netted us no new information on him and the name and the description was forwarded again to Brereton up at C.I.I. in Sacramento and again to Pittsburgh for possible identification. In talks with Lieutenant Smyers and Chief of Detective Stad Brown, it was decided to keep the man under 24-hour surveillance. Three additional teams of men from robbery detail were assigned to the duty. For the next seven days, the three men were under constant watch. Their habits were regular. Their movements during the day followed the same general pattern.

[08:23] The kickback on Ernest Hunter disclosed no criminal record. At the end of the first week of watching the men, it was decided that the next step in the operation was to place a microphone in their room so that we might be able to monitor their conversations. Frank and I got in touch with the sound crew at the crime lab and we made arrangements with them. The necessary permits were obtained from the Federal Communications Commission and the listening equipment itself was ready. We made arrangements with radio car officers to pick up the suspects for investigation. The sound crew, Frank and I, along with Murphy and Rafferty, stood by for word that the trio was in custody.

[08:55] Tuesday night, 9.40 p.m. Should be getting word pretty quick. Red 2 to Red 1. Red 2 to Red 1. Come in, Red 1. That's Murphy. Red 1 to Red 2. Come in, Red 2. Any word yet, Gover? No, not yet. We're all set in the manager's apartment. Monitor to Outpost 1. Monitor to Outpost 1. Come in, Outpost 1. Sounds like they got him. Yeah, you want to take it? Yeah. Stand by, Red 3. Outpost 1 to Monitor. Outpost 1 to Monitor. Go ahead.

[09:28] Monitor to Outpost 1. Information received that suspects are in custody. Repeat, suspects are in custody. Acknowledge. Outpost 1 to Monitor. Outpost 1 to Monitor. Message received. Outpost 1 out. You heard it. Now. Red 1 to Red 2 and Red 3. Red 1 to Red 2 and Red 3. You read me, Red 2 and 3? Red 2 to Red 1. Read you. Red 3 to Red 1. Receiving clearly. Red 1 to Red 3. Suspects are now in custody.

[10:01] Proceed with installation of listening equipment. Over. Roger, Red 1. Red 3, please keep contact. Will do, Red 1. Red 3 out. Red 1 to Red 2. Come in, Red 2. Red 2 to Red 1. Murph, can you see the suspect's apartment from where you are? Not good, Joe. It's down the hall and around the corner. First door. Over. Red 1 to Red 3. Come in, Red 3. Red 3 to Red 1. Are you in the apartment yet?

[10:31] Yeah, Joe. We're just starting to install the bug. Is there a radio in the room? Yeah, a small table model. It's on the nightstand next to the bed. Can you fix that before you leave? Yeah, I'll pull one of the wires so it won't work. Good. What are you putting the bug? We're laying it under the edge of the carpet near the door to the kitchen. Should be able to pick up the whole room from there. There's nothing to do now until we get it finished, huh? Yeah. We got the recorder all set up? Yeah, it's in the room. Sound crew came in this afternoon, made the installation on it.

[11:02] You know how to work it? Yeah, I think so. Jack checked me out on it. It's pretty simple. Just like playing the piano. Press a key and away it goes. Well, I hope you got it. I've always had trouble with them. Last time out, I wanted to rewind one of the spools and listen to something. Ended up erasing everything we had. Yes, I remember that very well. I was afraid you wouldn't. Red 3 to Red 1. Red 3 to Red 1. Come in, Red 1. It's the sound crew. Yeah. Red 1 to Red 3. Have completed installation. We're leaving the apartment. Have you seen anybody in the halls? No, all clear. We've had more than our share of luck on this one, Joe.

[11:35] Yeah, let's hope it holds out. 11.15 p.m. The installation of the listening equipment was completed. And Frank and I, along with Officer Pat Murphy, took up our positions in the room we intended to use as a monitoring post. Officer Rapporty went back to the city hall and told them that we'd finished and we were ready to have the suspects released. In the meantime, Carmichael, Nielsen, and Hunter had been fingerprinted and mugged. A search of their persons had failed to reveal any incriminating evidence, and the time that they'd been held had allowed us to make the necessary installation.

[12:09] After the trio had been released, we received information that they were proceeding toward the hotel. Frank, Murphy, and I waited for them at the monitor post to come into their room. 12.35 a.m. That's them. Get the recorder, huh? Right. You want to take care of the log, Frank? Yeah. Let's see, it's 12.36 a.m. That's it. Lousy deal, boy. I just wanted to ask you some questions, that's all. That's what you think. They had a reason. You're so smart, you tell me why. Ah, shut up. When you're in Carmichael, you weren't such a big man when they started asking you the questions all the time, saying how you was going to tell them all.

[12:39] Why don't you shut your mouth? Probably when you got tanked up in that Turkish bath, that's probably what tipped them. What tipped? A couple of uniformed cops stopped us on a routine investigation. They got nothing. Anything on us you think you'd let us go? Well, do you? You think you'd let us go? Why don't you dry up? Hunter, turn on the radio. Will you get some music? Yeah. Next time you get tanked, come back here. Don't go roaming all over town. That's why they picked us up. You said something. What'd I say? You know what I said? I'm telling you. You being a big man, you tell me what I said to them. They said, yeah, go ahead, tell me.

[13:12] You said something. I don't know what it was, but you shut up your mouth. Hey, Hunter, what's the matter with the radio? I thought you were going to turn it off. I'm trying to. It's broken, don't worry. It doesn't make any difference. I'm an assassin. I've been shut for a while. If you open your mouth anymore, you got more trouble you can have. That's the way it looks to you. Yeah, shut up. You guys don't shut up. I'm going to throw one of you out of here. Now shut up and get some sleep. Good night. Good night. And that's the way it went for the next five days. When the men were in the room, they argued continually.

[13:46] They talked about the deal they were working on, but from their conversation, there was no way of learning what they planned. When they left the room, they were constantly under surveillance, but their movements were routine. They took their meals in the same restaurant. They went to movies. They sat in bars, always together. During the time they were out of the apartment, they made no local contacts. They received no telephone calls. They made none. We knew that they were planning something, but there was no way of knowing what it was. All conversation in the room was recorded and listened to over and over again in the hope that we could come up with some kind of a lead. But the time spent in replaying the recordings netted us nothing.

[14:18] From what they'd said, we figured that whatever they were planning would take place on either Tuesday, August 17th, or on Wednesday, August 18th. On Tuesday, three-way cars were assigned to the streets in front of the hotel, but the suspects acted as usual. On Wednesday, they didn't leave their room. Frank, Murphy, and I continued to wait. On the streets outside, three other teams of men were standing by in undercover cars. 9.30 p.m. That's their telephone. Get the recorder, Murr. 9.31 p.m. Yeah.

[14:49] Hello. Yeah. When? Right. Okay, we'll be right now. Yep. When? Yeah, that's the word we got. Right, we'll see you in about 30 minutes. Right. Hey, how are we gonna know you? Yeah. Yeah, I got it right. Hey, the word is that the contact? Yeah. The stuff just got in. We're supposed to pick it up right away. Oh, looks like we've got to work now. Thank you so much for making us go. That's it. I'll get it out.

[15:22] Outpost 1. The unit's 1K89, 1K88, 1K87. Suspects are leaving room. Suspects are leaving room. Outpost 1 out. All right, let's go. I wish we knew what it was. Sounds like it might be narcotics. Well, it could be. Doesn't make a lot of difference, does it? Yeah. I think we should start something. By the time we got to the street, the suspects were getting into their car and pulling away from the curb. Frank, Murphy, and I got to our car and followed them. They drove down South Flower to the corner of Palm Drive and turned left.

[15:52] Three blocks further, they pulled into a gas station and apparently asked directions. They turned south on Broadway and drove about a mile. At Santa Barbara Avenue, they turned left again and drove three blocks. They stopped and parked the car in front of a small bar. We informed the other units of the activity and asked them to stand by in the area. Carmichael got out of the car and entered the bar. Murphy left us and entered the bar after him. Carmichael returned in a few minutes with another man. The two of them got back into the car and they talked. At the end of that time, all four of the men got out of the automobile and then they entered the bar.

[16:24] Shortly after that, Carmichael, Nielsen, and Hunter walked out of the place. Carmichael was carrying a small package wrapped in plain brown paper and tied with a string. The fourth man wasn't with them. Frank and I got out of our car and approached the men as they stood talking. All right, hold it up, police officers. Over there, put your hands up on that wall. What's going on? Get your hands up there. Frank, you want to check in the package? Yeah. Keep your hands on that wall. Lousy deal. I hope you're happy, Carmichael. I hope you're real happy. What are you talking about? I've got to leave this one to you. You really took care of this. Stand still and keep quiet. How about it, Frank?

[16:54] I don't know. What do you mean? Where's money? $20 bills. Must be $15,000, $20,000 worth. Queer? As far as I can tell, it's good. Where's that put us? Well, it's $20,000 here. Yeah. Let's find out where they got it. You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. There are good reasons why thousands of people are changing to Chesterfield every day.

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[18:28] 10.02 a.m. The four suspects were taken into custody and removed to the city hall for interrogation. We got in touch with the Secret Service and asked them to come over to the office to check on the currency. The agent arrived and after looking at the money pointed out several minute mistakes that had been made in the engraving of the plates. He went on to explain, however, that this particular printing was one of the best that he'd ever seen. He told us that the paper used in the bills would be analyzed and that we'd receive copies of the reports as soon as they were finished. 12.14 a.m. While Murphy, Rafferty, and the Secret Service man questioned Nielsen in the interrogation room, Frank and I talked to Carmichael in the squad room.

[19:02] We questioned him for about an hour, but he refused to say anything that would help us get a lead to the source of the counterfeit. 1.30 a.m. How long you figure you can keep this up, Carmichael? I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, now come off it. We're getting tired of playing kid games here. We want to know where the queer came from now. Who says it's queer? The guy that printed it was pretty sloppy. He made a lot of mistakes. Y'all? Yeah, Murr. See you in a minute. Yeah. Be right back. How you doing? Nothing. Nielsen won't say a word. He gives it to us that he didn't know what was going on. Says he just went out there to pick up a package. You say who they were running the errand for? No. Tells us just he went along for the ride. The whole thing was Carmichael's idea.

[19:34] We thought maybe we'd go to work on Hunter, see what we can get from him. Okay. You gonna stick with Carmichael? Yeah, I guess so. From what we heard in the room, if there's gonna be a break, I got a hunch it's gonna come from him. Okay. You got anything, let us know, huh? Right away. Well, the big man's back again. Your friend there tell you all about it? No, but yours did. Nielsen just laid the whole thing in your lap. You're kidding. You want to talk to him? What'd he say? The way he tells it. He was just along for the ride. You're the big wheel on the whole thing. He said that? I said you could talk to him if you want to. He ain't gonna make it. He ain't gonna lay it on me.

[20:05] You want to tell us your side of it? Yeah, I'll tell you the way it happened. That lousy bum. How do you like that, him saying I'm the wheel? I'll tell you. All right. Now where'd the queer come from? I don't know. I thought you were gonna tell us. I'm doing that. I really don't know where it came from. You turn up with $20,000 and $20 bills and you ask us to believe that you don't know where it was printed. I'm not asking you anything. I'm telling you what I know. That's it. Well, tell us about your part. Nielsen, Hunter and me were approached in Pittsburgh. By who? I don't know. We're going that way again, huh? I say you don't believe me. That's the way it happened. The guy who approached you, he just walked up and said, here's 20,000 bucks, just like that, huh? No, the deal was that Nielsen, Hunter and me were supposed to come out here.

[20:37] We were supposed to check into a hotel and wait for a call. Guy who called us would have the queer. He'd turn it over to us and we'd pass it. You bought the counterfeit? Yeah. What'd you pay for it? Two and a half. For $20? Yeah, two and a half for 20. You paid the other man we picked up? Yeah, we gave him 2,500 bucks. You ever see the man before? What? The man you bought the queer from. Do you know him? No, I never saw him before. He's not the man who made the original contact in Pittsburgh. No, the guy back east was an old man. How old? I don't know, maybe 55, 60, around in there. Not the fellow you met tonight? I told you that before. It's not the same man. Did you hear him use a name of any kind? No. Just to call him Pop, that's all. Pop.

[21:09] Give us a description of this man, Pop. What's in it for me? Well, what do you got now? Nothing. All right, it'll stay that way. You're in big trouble, Carmichael. If you're smart at all, you're going to cop out the whole thing and cooperate with us. Lousy Nielsen, him all the time yelling about how it was all set. All the time saying we had it made. Sure, I'll go with you. I just want to see Nielsen get his, that's all. Just want to see him get his. We're going to want you to look at some pictures, too. I told you I'd go the route. You just tell me what you want to know if I got the answer so of you. All right. What'd he tell you? What? That lousy Nielsen. What'd he tell you about how it happened? He tell you the way I did? He tell it that way?

[21:39] I'm out, yeah. Sure, that's the way it happened. Can't be told any other way. Well, Nielsen might give you an argument there. Further interrogation of the other three men in the operation served to corroborate the story that we'd been given by Carmichael. $2,500 in cash was found on the fourth suspect. Once the other men were confronted with the fact that Carmichael had told us everything he knew concerning the operation, they all followed suit. But other than telling us that they knew the head man in the counterfeiting act as Pop, they couldn't come up with any further information. From the man who'd been in the bar, we learned that he'd met Pop in Pittsburgh.

[22:09] They also told us that he'd met the man who'd been in the bar, and that he'd met the man who'd been in the bar, and that he'd met Pop in Pittsburgh. They also told us that as far as he knew, the counterfeiter had been in prison at one time or another. However, the suspect was unable to tell us in what state or on what charges Pop had served time. He went on to tell us that he'd gotten the money in Pittsburgh and that Pop had told him that he'd be contacted later. The Secret Service had completed their analysis of the counterfeit bills, and they told us that they were some of the most perfect printing jobs that they'd run across. The counterfeiter had made one major mistake, however. In the printing of the currency, he'd impregnated the paper with small silken hairs

[22:42] so that it would stand close inspection. The currency now in use is made with nylon hairs. The agent from the Secret Service told us that they had agents working on tracing the manufacturer of the paper in the hopes that they could come up with a lead as to the identity of Pop. The four suspects were booked into the city jail. Thursday, August 19, we ran the name Pop through our moniker file. Of the 47 cards turned over to us by the record bureau, 19 of the suspects listed matched the descriptions that we'd been given. The pictures of the men were pulled and shown to Carmichael and the other three suspects.

[23:12] They were unable to give us an identification. The name and description was sent to George Brereton in Sacramento, and he sent us another 150 possible. These were checked out without result. The nickname and physical description of the man was sent to Washington, and we got back over a thousand names and pictures. It took us six weeks working with the Secret Service to check out these possible. Results? Nothing. Tuesday, October 5, Frank and I got back to the office. I get it.

[23:42] Robbery Friday. Yeah. All right, wait a minute. Wait till I get that down. All right, go ahead. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah, well, it should check out. Right. Okay, we'll meet you. What you got? Report of the paper and the queer bills just came through. Yeah. Looks like we found Pop. In checking the manufacturers of paper similar to that used in the counterfeit $20 bills,

[24:12] the Secret Service had come up with the name of a small print shop in the eastern section of Los Angeles. The paper used was of an unusual type, and there were not many orders for it. This particular shop had ordered large quantities of it in the past and was continuing to use it. In checking out the name of the man on the order blanks, the Secret Service had found that he'd been convicted of robbery and had served a term in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. He'd been released and had come to California and opened a small print shop. We spent the next two days checking the suspect out. His name was given to Stanley Jackson, age 47.

[24:44] For the next week, the print shop and Jackson himself were kept under constant surveillance. On Thursday, October 14th at 1150 p.m., the suspect was followed to his print shop. I'll cover the front of the shop, Joe. Right, man. Come on, Frank. Yeah. Joe? Yeah. Sounds like a press, doesn't it? Yeah. Come on. Back door is around here. Can you see what's going on in there? No. The window's all painted over.

[25:15] What do you figure? The law doesn't leave us with a lot of choice. If we go in and he's not turning counterfeit, we're going to make him so hinky that we might never nail him. Yeah. If we don't go in, he might get rid of the plates and we're in trouble there, too. Yeah, like I said, we haven't got much choice, have we? All right. Let's go. What's going on? What are you doing in here? Police officers, you're under arrest. You want to take the press, Frank? You've got no right coming in here like this. I know my rights. You haven't got a warrant. You've got no right to act like this. Want to kill a plate? I got it. They're the plates from the press, Joe. Doing a green overlay. Take a look. You haven't got any right touching those. They're mine. They belong to me, mister.

[25:47] Where'd you get the plates, Jackson? They're good, aren't they, mister? The very best. Where'd you get them? Made them? Made them myself. Where'd you learn engraving? In prison. When they sent me to prison, I learned all about engraving, real engraving. Not photo process, but the real thing. Finest plates I've ever seen. The best. Beautiful money, isn't it? Best I've ever seen. Fool anybody. Did it all myself. Pass it anywhere. Fool anybody, anywhere. Yeah. Just look at it, mister. That's a genuine article, isn't it? Real money. It's perfect. Absolutely perfect, mister. No, you're wrong there. Hmm?

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