1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Here's another in NBC's great parade of new shows. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,000 ["Dragnet Theme"] 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 ["Dragnet Theme"] 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,000 NBC brings you Dragnet. 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:29,000 ["Dragnet Theme"] 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:34,000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. 9 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,000 An armed gang of blitz bandits has started to work in your city. 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Their pace is fast. Four and five robberies each night. 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,000 The criminals are not amateurs. They're well armed, dangerous. 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Your job, get them. 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 ["Dragnet Theme"] 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime, 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,000 investigated and solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch 16 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,000 on the security of your home, your family, and your life. 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law 19 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,000 through an actual case from official police files. 20 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, 21 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 22 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,000 ["Dragnet Theme"] 23 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 It was Thursday, October 23rd. It was windy in Los Angeles. 24 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,000 We were working a day watch out of robbery. 25 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Ed Backstrand, chief of detectives. 26 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,000 My name's Friday. I was on my way back from the statistician's office, 27 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,000 and it was 1142 A.M. when I got to room 27A. 28 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Robbery detail. 29 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,000 How'd it work out, Joe? Any good prospects? 30 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,000 I don't know how good they are, but I got a handful. 31 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,000 How many did you get? 32 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Let me see. 15, 18, 22. 33 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Ethel down in the stats office ran them on the IBM for me. 34 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 There they are. 35 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Hmm, let's see. 36 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 It's a gang of three men working on foot. Blitz robberies. 37 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 They only take cash. M.O. is tie-ups. 38 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Work from eight to ten at night. One of the gang's tall, the other two short. 39 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 And these are the men the machine sorted out. 40 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Under that heading, yeah. If our information's wrong, then so's the machine. 41 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Got a good bunch of candidates here. 42 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Their descriptions match up with what we got. 43 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 They seem to. Check the names on that list, Ben. 44 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Some of the smartest thieves in the country. 45 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Yeah. Tommy Willis, Ray Grandpa, Kemp Satelli, Manny Roberts, 46 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 George Cross, Mario Koski. 47 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Reads like June graduation at San Quentin. 48 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Yeah, George Cross and Tommy Willis are in town. We know that. 49 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,000 And Koski is around a couple of weeks ago. 50 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,000 And what about the rest? It's a big field. 51 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Have to check them out, I guess. Might as well start at the beginning. 52 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Do you see the overnight reports yet? Yeah. No restaurants, no liquor stores. 53 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 That makes five days the gang's laid off. 54 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Well, I can afford to, can't they? Eighteen robberies in 24 days. 55 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 That's a pretty good haul. 56 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 This stop-and-go strategy of theirs, Joe, it's got me. 57 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Yeah. They work hard for a week in one area and then they lay low. 58 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,000 If they just keep going, we might have a better try at them. 59 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Hey, Joe. Yeah, Chandler. 60 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,000 A fellow out there to see you, Joe. His name's Decker. 61 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Decker. Henry Decker? Didn't say. Want to see him? 62 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Yeah, send him in. Right. 63 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Come on in, Mr. Decker. This way. 64 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 How are you, Joe? You're looking good. 65 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Well, Hank Decker. How are you? 66 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,000 I'm fine. 67 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 What are you waiting for? Applause? Come on in and shut the door. 68 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Hank, this is my partner, Ben Romero. Ben, Hank Decker. 69 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Hi, Hank. How are you, Ben? 70 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Hank and I are in service together. 71 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Yeah, I just dropped in for a visit, Joe. Are you busy? 72 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 No more than usual. Sit down. Thanks. 73 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 I remembered you telling me you were on the PD, 74 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 so I figured I'd drop around and get an inside track. 75 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 How do you mean? I just filed with civil service 76 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 to take the exam next month. 77 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Figured I'd like to work at being a cop. 78 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 He sells shop, Joe. 79 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Great pep talk, you boys hand out. 80 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 You sure you want to be a cop? 81 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Look, I'm 30 years old, Joe. I'm married, high school education. 82 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 About a year of junior college. 83 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 What's your wife think? She's not sold. 84 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Well, that's why I dropped in. 85 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 How about coming out to the house for dinner tonight? 86 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 You want me to sell her? Just talk to her. 87 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Seven okay? Seven's okay. 88 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Glad to have met you, Ben. 89 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Same here, Decker. See you again. 90 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Bye, Joe. See you tonight, Hank. 91 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Well, what do you think, Ben? 92 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Oh, to make a good cop? 93 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,000 We had a list of 22 possible suspects. 94 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 By five o'clock, Ben and I had checked out two of them 95 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 who might possibly have had a hand in the blitz robberies 96 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 of the 18 liquor stores and restaurants in the past 24 days. 97 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Number one man was Thomas Willis, Caucasian, 98 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,000 age 29, 5 feet 11 inches, 175 pounds, dark hair, blue eyes. 99 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Number two man was Mario Kosky, Caucasian, 100 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 5 feet 6 inches, 170 pounds, dark hair, dark eyes, 101 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 large scar under his chin, running across his throat 102 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 up to and behind his left ear. 103 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,000 According to our informants and after questioning some of their associates, 104 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 either Willis or Kosky or both could have taken part in the blitz holdups. 105 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 We showed their mugs to the victims, but none of them could give us definite assurance 106 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 that either Willis or Kosky were in the holdup gang. 107 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 At seven that night, I went out to Hank Decker's house for supper, 108 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,000 met his wife Linda, his four-year-old twin boys. 109 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,000 We talked about the Army, played with the kids for a while. 110 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Before we sat out to eat, we put the boys in bed. 111 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Hank was in the kitchen carving a roast. 112 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 His wife closed the door to the kids' room and we started downstairs for the kitchen. 113 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 What do you think of our two atom bombs? 114 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 They're fine kids, Miss Decker. 115 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Hank told me that you were worried about him wanting to join the force. 116 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 I was 12 years old when my father was shot down. 117 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,000 He was a policeman in Des Moines. 118 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 He was only 37 when he died. 119 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,000 I wouldn't know what to do if anything like that happened to Hank. 120 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,000 What do you want me to say? 121 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 But does Hank really want it? 122 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Can't you talk him out of it? 123 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 You're his wife, can you? 124 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 No, I think it's his choice, Miss Decker. 125 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 He's going to have to make up his own mind. 126 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,000 I'm sorry. 127 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,000 If it's what Hank wants, I guess I worry too much. 128 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,000 A lot of women marry cops, they have and they will, and they all worry. 129 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Hank will be all right. 130 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Do you guarantee it, Joe? 131 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,000 During the next month I heard from Hank Decker only once. 132 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 He was studying hard. 133 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 During the same month, Ben and I were working hard, 134 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,000 trying to find some kind of a concrete lead to break the Blitz gang. 135 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:45,000 There had been no subsequent holdups which seemed to tie in directly with the gang or its operations. 136 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,000 From the list of possible suspects which Ben and I made up, 137 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,000 18 names had been eliminated for one reason or another. 138 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:56,000 They were in jail at the time of the robberies, out of the Los Angeles area or out of the state. 139 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:02,000 But four names remained, George Cross, Tommy Willis, Mario Koski, Julian Brock. 140 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:07,000 During the latter part of the month, George Cross was booked on a minor charge and we questioned him at that time. 141 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,000 He showed no knowledge of the holdups. 142 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Nearly two months after the robberies were committed, 143 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Ben and I were still without a solution as to the whereabouts of the gang. 144 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Never known a Blitz gang like this before, Joe. 145 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Once they get wound up, they usually go into let caught. 146 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Did you get out those telegram checks to the east yet? 147 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Last night before I went home, sent out all three. 148 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Willis, Koski and Brock. I'd like to find just one of them. 149 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Chicago might have something. That's Koski's old hangout. Willis too. 150 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 What about Brock? He's from Kansas City, isn't he? 151 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Yeah, I got a wire too. Might have an answer from one of them tomorrow. 152 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 That's a slow job. We'll have to wait it out. 153 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 I guess so. No follow-ups from the victims we talked to. 154 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 I'll get it. 155 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Robbery Friday. 156 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Oh, hiya, Joe. Hank Decker. Congratulations. 157 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,000 What for? 158 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Just passed my written exam. Got the letter this morning. How about that? 159 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 That's fine. When do you take your physical? 160 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Oh, not till the end of the month. Next week I take the oral and agility tests. 161 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Then the physical. If I get by them, I'm in. 162 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 You're going to have a full month at the police academy after the test. 163 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,000 There's a lot of work, Hank. 164 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 It can't be any worse than these tests. 165 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,000 It's a tough 30 days out there on the hill. Law, court procedure, evidence, 166 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,000 combat firing target practice. You'll have to wade through all of them. 167 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 You ever going to have anything encouraging to say? 168 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Yeah, when you graduate. 169 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 I won't count on it. How's your job going? 170 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Slow. How's your wife feel now? 171 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,000 About taking the job? A little better. She said to say hello. 172 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Okay. Keep us posted, huh? 173 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 I'll do that, Joe. 174 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Right. Bye. 175 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Hank passed his written test. 176 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Sure anxious. 177 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Browny, Romero, got a minute? 178 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Yes, Gaffer. Come on, Joe. 179 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 You got something, Ed? 180 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Yeah. Those blitz robberies you're handling. 181 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Not having much luck. 182 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 We were. Gangs disappeared. Not a trace of them so far. 183 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,000 They leave town? 184 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 We're not sure, Ed. We don't even have a good description. 185 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,000 We're guessing most of the way. 186 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000 What are your guesses? You've had a couple of months to make them. 187 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Twelve of the holdup victims we talked to told us definitely that there were three men in the gang, 188 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,000 two of them short, one of them tall. We've just been working from there. 189 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:10,000 All three of them have dark complexions, started with 22 possibilities and got it weighted down to four. 190 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,000 No, wait a minute, three. 191 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Yeah. Tommy Willis, Mario Koski, Julian Brock. 192 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Willis and Koski are eastern hoods. Brock's from the middle west. 193 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,000 And where are they now? 194 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Haven't showed their faces around town. Checking some of the cities in the east. 195 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 That's about all we've got, Skipper. 196 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Eh. Not much for two months' work. Thieves can't be that smart. 197 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Right now they are. 198 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 We've sounded out every lead we had, Ed. We're doing our best. 199 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Either of you ever hear of a man by the name of Al Mishakov? 200 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 No, I don't think so. 201 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 He was a Chicago gunman in the old days, wasn't he, Ed? 202 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 That's right. 203 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 I thought he was doing time in Juliette. 204 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Parole last year. Got a tip he was spotted on East Broadway night before last. 205 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 You figured it might tie in with our job? 206 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:50,000 I don't know. Find out. If I remember right, Mishakov's brother used to be pretty friendly with Mario Koski. 207 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,000 I helped send both of them up 13 years ago. Same rap, robbery. 208 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Is that all you heard, Ed? Somebody spotted Mishakov? 209 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:01,000 That's all. If you can track him down, you might get some kind of a lead. 210 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 That's more than you got now. 211 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,000 That night and for the next two nights following, Ben and I had dinner downtown instead of going home. 212 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,000 And then we spent the rest of the night covering the lower end of the city in search of Al Mishakov. 213 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,000 We got more than a dozen leads on where to find him from some of our informants, but none of the leads paid off. 214 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:27,000 We kept missing him. No one knew where he was staying. No one knew or no one would tell us. 215 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Worst thing about this job, Joe, leg work? 216 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 You must be averaging 10 miles a night. 217 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,000 My feet say 20. Almost midnight. 218 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Here's McCarthy's place. Let's try it. 219 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Right. 220 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Let's go down to the end of the bar, Ben. 221 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Yeah. 222 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Hiya, Ben. Good to see you come in. What's new? 223 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,000 Oh, not much, Bert. Meet my partner, Joe Friday. 224 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Hiya, Friday. What do you fellas have? 225 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Looking for a guy, Bert. His name's Al Mishakov, Chicago. You heard anything? 226 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 He was in here earlier tonight. Couple of guys with him. 227 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Are you sure? What do you look like? 228 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Six feet, about 45, I guess. Big build. 229 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Sounds like him, all right, Joe. Is he staying in the neighborhood, Bert? 230 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Down here? I don't think so. Most of those big-timers stay uptown someplace. 231 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000 You looking for Mishakov? 232 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 I'd like to talk to him. How long ago was he in? 233 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Oh, about 8 o'clock. Couple of guys with him. They were talking about driving out to the airport. Something about Las Vegas. 234 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,000 There's an 840 plane for Vegas, isn't there, Ben? 235 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Thanks. Oh, 840, 850. I can't recall which. 236 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Bert, do you remember the exact time they left? 237 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Exactly. No, for say, there's one of the fellas that was with Mishakov down there in the middle of the bar. 238 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Which one, Bert? 239 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,000 There. The one with the sandy hair, big chin. See him? 240 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Yeah. Want to tell Joe? 241 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Come on. 242 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,000 And, George, you know what he said? He said when he was in Vegas last week... 243 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Pardon me. Pardon me. I'd like to talk to you a minute. 244 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Yeah, who are you? 245 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Police, Sergeant Friday. 246 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Oh, have a drink, Sergeant. 247 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,000 No, thanks. I said I wanted to talk to you. 248 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Oh, Square John. Huh, wait a minute, George. Square John wants to talk to me. 249 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Come on outside. We can talk better out there. 250 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,000 I ain't done nothing. What's the pitch? I got a right to know. 251 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Let's go outside. 252 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Maybe I don't want to go outside. 253 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,000 I think you better. Come on. 254 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:17,000 All right, all right. Quit shoving, you dumb cop. Shoving people around. What are you trying to do? 255 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Ah, what a sausage. 256 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,000 All right, down this way. 257 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Of course, parked up next alley, Joe. 258 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Hey, look, what's this all about, huh? I got a right to know. 259 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 You were seen with Al Mishikoff tonight. Where is he? 260 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Who? 261 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Al Mishikoff. You want us to spell it? 262 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 I don't think you can spell your own name. 263 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Nobody's asking you to play smart. 264 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Where's Mishikoff? 265 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Out of town. What do you care? 266 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Here's the car. All right, inside you. 267 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Now, look, you got me wrong. I ain't done nothing. 268 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Where's Mishikoff? 269 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 You and some other guy drove to the airport with him tonight. Let's have it. 270 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,000 I'm clear, I tell you. I just drove out with him. That's all. 271 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Where'd Mishikoff go? 272 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Vegas. Took the plane for Vegas. 273 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 When? 274 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 About 8.30, quarter to 9. What's up, anyway? 275 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Who's the guy traveling with Mishikoff? 276 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Nobody. 277 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Who's the guy traveling with Mishikoff? 278 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Koski. I just met him tonight. 279 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Mario Koski? Is that the guy? 280 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Yeah, I'm level and I ain't done nothing. 281 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Ben, get to a phone call the office. Contact Las Vegas police. 282 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Ask them to pick up Koski and Mishikoff. 283 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,000 When we got back to the office, we questioned the man we had picked up for almost two hours. 284 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 His name was John Delmar, an ex-convict. 285 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:26,000 He'd been paroled from Folsom Prison two months before after serving three and a half years for burglary. 286 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,000 He said Mishikoff was looking for a man to work with him and Koski. 287 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 He didn't specify the work. 288 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Delmar said he refused the offer, but they parted on friendly terms. 289 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,000 He said Koski and Mishikoff told him that they were going to Las Vegas for a few days, then returned to Los Angeles. 290 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,000 But when Ben and I checked back with the Las Vegas police, they said Koski and Mishikoff were going to Las Vegas. 291 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:52,000 When I checked back with the Las Vegas police the next morning, they reported that nobody answering the description of either Koski or Mishikoff was seen arriving or leaving the airport. 292 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,000 We checked with the airlines and sent inquiries to law enforcement agencies throughout the entire area. 293 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 No sign. 294 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Three weeks went by. Still no sign. 295 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Nothing in there overnight, Joe. No, not a thing. 296 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Oh, yeah, same here. Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, nobody's seen them. 297 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,000 They've got to come out sometime. We can wait. Yeah, we can wait. 298 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Gets on your nerves. Let's check with Backstrand. Maybe he's got a job for us in the meantime. 299 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:24,000 You're getting as eager as your friend Hank Decker, Joe. Incidentally, how'd things turn out for him? 300 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,000 He passed all his exams, putting in his months training at the Academy now. He should do all right. 301 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 How are you? 302 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Hi, Mike. Skipper busy? 303 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Not in his office. Won't be in till afternoon. 304 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,000 What's the matter? 305 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 He's got a lecture at the police academy this morning. 306 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Thank you. Thanks, Mike. Come on, Ben. 307 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Ben and I drove out to the police academy near Elysian Park. 308 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,000 We went out to check with Ed Backstrand on the blitz robberies, not to listen to his lecture. 309 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:55,000 When we walked into the classroom, he was just finishing up, so we sat in the back of the room and listened. 310 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 It was a pretty good speech. 311 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Because of the alertness of the arresting officer, his talent for memorizing detail, and his knowledge of how a criminal acts under a given set of circumstances, the arrest was made. 312 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Well, that's about it, gentlemen. Thank you for your attention. 313 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Now, when I ran this speech over at home, my wife said it wasn't a very good talk, but at least it came out on time. 314 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Now, it seems, I'm two minutes short, so I guess I failed on both counts. 315 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:28,000 If I may, I'd like to use the few minutes that are left to tell you what I think of being a cop after 24 years. 316 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:33,000 For one reason or other, you men have chosen the career of a police officer. 317 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Now, let me tell you right now, without any qualifications, it's a thankless job. 318 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Maybe you can't see it now. Maybe you think I'm exaggerating. 319 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:46,000 But when you graduate next week and get that uniform on, your whole lives are going to change. 320 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,000 You're going to lose friends, a lot of them. 321 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,000 They'll want parking tickets fixed, some other favors. 322 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:58,000 You'll have to turn them down, so you'll be a heel, a fathead. 323 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:04,000 When you're on the beach, you're going to meet the cream of society and the scum, the lowest. 324 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Sometimes you won't be able to tell the difference. 325 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Some of you will have to work with thugs, stupid gangsters, dope addicts, cheap women, all the human garbage you can find in a big city. 326 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:22,000 You'll come home at night and take a shower to wash off the dirt, but you still won't feel clean. That's the job. 327 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:28,000 When you buy a box of candy and bring it home for your anniversary, the neighbors will say you chiseled it. 328 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:34,000 When you save up a few dollars and buy a new car or some furniture for the house, that's graph. 329 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:39,000 People are going to want favors. They'll offer you things, a free beer or a new dress for your wife. 330 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:44,000 If you take it, you're a chiseler. If you don't, you're a tough cop. 331 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Well, here's a piece of advice. 332 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Take nothing from anyone, no matter how good a friend he is. 333 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Pay for everything you get and don't ask favors. 334 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Treat everybody alike, no matter what they look like or what they believe in. 335 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 You don't play favorites. 336 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:04,000 There are going to be times when a few men in the department get out of line. 337 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:10,000 The newspapers will play it up because it makes good reading and the average John Public will love it. 338 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Because that's the only way he can pay you back for that traffic ticket you gave him. 339 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Being a good cop is a hard job, but it's a good one. 340 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Let me warn you just once more. It's one of the most thankless jobs on earth. 341 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 That's all, gentlemen. 342 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:36,000 The following week, Hank Decker graduated from the police academy and hit the transfer list for a regular assignment. 343 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,000 He drew a job of teaching combat firing and boxing at the academy. 344 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,000 He didn't like it, so he put in a request for a transfer and waited. 345 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,000 For the next six weeks, Ben and I waited, too, for some sign of the Blitz bandits. 346 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 There wasn't any. 347 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:55,000 The only possible suspects, Mario Koski and Al Mischikoff, had disappeared completely. 348 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,000 We kept a close check on every possible avenue of information. 349 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Still, no sign. 350 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Ben and I were transferred to the night watch on robbery for a few weeks, 351 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:09,000 and that gave Hank Decker a chance to drop in and visit with us a couple of hours when he went off duty at the academy. 352 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,000 He was still as eager as ever. 353 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Hi, Ben. Is y'all anything new? 354 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Hi, Hank. Nothing here. What about the academy? 355 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000 Oh, big news. What's up? 356 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,000 Getting a transfer starting next Monday. Gonna start on a beat. 357 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Thought you were all tied up with that boys' club you started out there. 358 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Oh, I was, but Hanson's gonna take over when I leave. 359 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,000 The kids sure love it. Free swimming in the pool, boxing lessons. We teach them everything. 360 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Where's your beat gonna be, huh? Central, right in the downtown district. 361 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Might learn something, huh? You'll learn a lot if you want to forget most of it. 362 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Look, it's a quarter after seven. Don't you ever go home for dinner, Hank? 363 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Getting my wife used to it. This new shift's gonna be night work, you know. 364 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Wait till you're on it for a year, and then you tell us how you like it. 365 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,000 A year? I want to be in the detective bureau after a year. 366 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Well, you're not even gonna last a year. If you don't get home to dinner, 367 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 your wife's called twice this week already. She calls me. 368 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Okay. When did she call tonight? She hasn't yet. 369 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,000 I guess I better head off. Let me know if anything breaks, huh, Joe? I'd like to tag along. 370 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Okay, Hank. Well, on your way. 371 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Okay. Good night. So long. Good night. 372 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 How eager can you get? Were we like that when we started? 373 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Not me. I never had that much energy at one time in my whole life. 374 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Hot shot, Joe. I'll get it. 375 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:21,000 At 767 East Broadway, a liquor store. 211 and slugging. 376 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,000 At 767 East Broadway, a liquor store. 211 and... 377 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,000 767 East Broadway, 211, liquor store. Let's go. 378 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 767 East Broadway, King's Liquor Store. 379 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,000 We pushed our way through the small crowd outside the door and into the shop. 380 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Two patrolmen in uniform were already interviewing the proprietor. 381 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,000 He had two large gashes on his head just above the right temple. 382 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,000 He was trembling and badly shaken, but he managed to give us a good description of the holdup men. 383 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Yeah. I can tell you what they looked like. 384 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Three of them. 385 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 They were all white, black, and white. 386 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 They were all white, black, and white. 387 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:59,000 One of the short men, he had a big scar here on the throat like this. 388 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,000 One of the short men, he had a big scar here on the throat like this. 389 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 After the three men robbed the store, they slugged me and tied me up. 390 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Turner, this man's hurt. You call an ambulance? 391 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000 On the way, Sergeant. 392 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 That's fine. 393 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,000 We have just one more question, Mr. King. Here's a handful of pictures. 394 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,000 I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get me out of here. 395 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,000 I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get me out of here. 396 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000 I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get me out of here. 397 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,000 We have just one more question, Mr. King. Here's a handful of pictures. 398 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,000 We'd like you to tell us if any one of these men were in the gang that held you up tonight. 399 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,000 Let me look. 400 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000 There you are. Take your time. 401 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000 No. No, not him. 402 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,000 No. 403 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,000 No. 404 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Oh, this one. Here. 405 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 He took the money from the register. 406 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Would you look through the rest, please? 407 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Anymore? 408 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Let me see again. 409 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 No. 410 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,000 No. Oh, here. Another one. 411 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,000 The fat one with the scar. This is him. 412 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 I think he's the one that slugged me. 413 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Thanks, Mr. King. Here's our card. We'll be contacting you later. 414 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Turner, will you and your partner take the crime report? We've got some checking to do. 415 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Right, Sergeant. 416 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Thanks. Come on, Ben. 417 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Yeah. 418 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Koski and Meschkoff. You picked out both of them, Joe. 419 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Yeah, we certainly did, didn't we? 420 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Attention all units. Attention all units. 421 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Wait a minute. 422 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:25,000 The southeast corner of Broadway and East 3rd, a liquor store and restaurant 211, code 3. 423 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 All units, the southeast corner of Broadway and East 3rd. 424 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Come on, Ben. Let's roll. 425 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:51,000 When we got to the liquor store and restaurant at Broadway and East 3rd, Ben and I knew for certain that Koski and Meschkoff were back in the city and working hard. Their ammo matched down to almost the smallest detail. We put a call through to communications and the entire central division was alerted. Then we called Chief Backstrand and told him the news. 426 00:21:51,000 --> 00:22:03,000 He assigned a special detail from the Metropolitan Unit to patrol the area until further notice. But at 923 p.m., before they pulled out of the police garage, the Blitz bandits added two more liquor stores and one more restaurant to their list of victims. 427 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,000 Early the next morning, Ben and I met with Chief Backstrand in his office. 428 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,000 You got a make on that third man yet? 429 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:15,000 We ran his description through R&I early this morning, Ed. The closest candidate's a guy by the name of Julian Brock, done time here in New York. 430 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Any tie-up with Koski or Meschkoff? 431 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Mama, she says he knows Koski pretty well. 432 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,000 And that's good enough. Now, how do you think you're going to get these thieves? 433 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,000 We've got the alert out, Chief. Special detail from the Metropolitan Division's been briefed. Communications all set. 434 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:36,000 All right. Here's a tip for you. Tell the men if there's a hold-up call that only the car in the area of the hold-up will handle it. These thieves are no amateurs. Let me try some decoy trick. 435 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Tell the men to stay in the area they're assigned to until they receive a call. Check? 436 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 We'll take care of it, Ed. You going to be on the hand tonight? 437 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,000 When do you figure on starting? 438 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 We'll have the full detail out by 630. 439 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Play it safe and start at four. Why chance missing them? 440 00:22:50,000 --> 00:23:02,000 At 330 that afternoon, we left the police garage with a special detail from the Metropolitan Division, and we started to cruise the central area. 441 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:07,000 We weren't looking for any action the first few hours, and we didn't get any. 442 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:12,000 The five o'clock traffic in the downtown area was heavy as usual. 443 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Hope that gang holds off until after six. We couldn't get out of this traffic if our lives depended on it. 444 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,000 We'd probably do better on foot if it wasn't for radio contact. 445 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Control four to 80K. Control four to 80K, your location. 446 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Get it, will you, Joe? 447 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Yeah, wait until I get the mic. 80K to Control four. 8-OK to Control four. Our location on Spring Street between second and third. 448 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:47,000 80K, standby. 80K, call your office, code two. Call your office, code two, KMA 367. 449 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 80K to Control four, Roger, KMA 367. 450 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Yeah, now what do I do for a parking space? 451 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 You know, you're lucky. That guy up ahead there, he's pulling out. 452 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Good, that hasn't happened to me in six months. 453 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,000 Okay, hold on, Ben. I'll be back in a minute. 454 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Yeah. 455 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,000 City Hall? 456 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,000 2511. 457 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000 2511. 458 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Robbery, Chandler. 459 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,000 This is Friday, Bill. You want us? 460 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Yeah, I just met a Joe. Chief wants to talk to you. 461 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Hello, Friday. 462 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Yeah, Ed. 463 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Cruiser car just brought in a guy answering the description of Mario Koski. 464 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Yeah? 465 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Get over here right away and question the guy. If it is Koski, we can all go home early. 466 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Ben and I went back to the office and questioned the man who gave his name as Conrad Larkin. 467 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:53,000 He was Koski's approximate height and weight, same color hair, same color eyes. 468 00:24:53,000 --> 00:25:00,000 The resemblance to Koski's picture was evident. We questioned him thoroughly about the blitz robberies, and then we checked out his fingerprints. 469 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:06,000 The coincidence was hard to overlook, but we were satisfied. The man was not Mario Koski. 470 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:14,000 There was a phone message on my desk to call Hank's wife. I called her, and then we checked with Chief Backstrand again and started for the police garage. 471 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 It was ten minutes past six. 472 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000 Hey, Ben. Joe. Wait a minute, will you? 473 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Oh, hi, Hank. What's all the excitement? 474 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000 I heard about those jobs last night, the blitz gang. How about tagging along tonight? 475 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000 What's the story? 476 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,000 You suit yourself, Hank. 20-I-do home for dinner. 477 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,000 I told the wife I'd eat out tonight. 478 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000 You sure you're not due home for dinner? 479 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000 No, not tonight, Joe. Uh, is everything in luck yet? 480 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Not so far, Hank. Maybe later on tonight. 481 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 Come on, here's the garage. 482 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,000 How close did you come to the gang last night? 483 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Not close enough. Two steps ahead of us all the way. 484 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,000 They sure must work fast. Five jobs in a row. 485 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 All right, Hank. Let's don't rub it in, huh? 486 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Hey, Ben, watch it, will you? 487 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Watch out. 488 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Woman driver. 489 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000 How about it, Joe? You think I can make the outfit? 490 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 You can talk to Ed Backstrand. He might get you a transfer after a while. 491 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Yeah, I might try it. 492 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Joe, look across the street. There's a guy coming out of the bar. 493 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Where? 494 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 In front of the bar. He's standing there. Guy in the dark coat, you see? 495 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000 Yeah. Two other guys behind him. 496 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000 Who is it? 497 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 I can't be sure. Ben, you better pull up. 498 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Koski. Looks just like his picture. 499 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000 All right. Come on. 500 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 All right, hold it, mister. We want to talk to you. 501 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 Watch it, Joe. 502 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000 Hank, get down. Get down. 503 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,000 Two of them down, Ben. 504 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Other than one up alley. Let's go. 505 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Did they get Hank? 506 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,000 Yeah. 507 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 All right, hold it right here. 508 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 All right, Koski. Throw out your gun and come out with your hands up. 509 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 All right, let's return the fire. 510 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,000 Come on. 511 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,000 He... 512 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000 He had his chance. 513 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Yeah. Grab his gun. Let's get back to Hank. 514 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Did you get the guns from the other two? 515 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000 Yeah, they're dead. Hank got them both. 516 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000 All right, one side, please. 517 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000 Officer, did you call an ambulance? 518 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Yeah, they're on their way. 519 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,000 Come on, Ben. One side, please. Will you let us through? 520 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,000 Hank, how you doing? 521 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000 That's a good job. 522 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Ben, will you get the crowd black? Give him some air. 523 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000 We're going to get him some air. 524 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000 All right, let's go. 525 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,000 All right, easy, Hank. They'll be here in a minute. 526 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Hank? 527 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Hank? 528 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000 How's it going, Joe? 529 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Going? 530 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Yeah. Come on. 531 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,000 What have you got, Joe? 532 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Phone message from Hank's wife. 533 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,000 For you? 534 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Yeah. 535 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000 What's that? 536 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,000 A letter from his wife. 537 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,000 For you? 538 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,000 Yeah. 539 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,000 You returned the call? 540 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000 Before we left the office. 541 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,000 Who was it? 542 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 She wanted me to remind Hank 543 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,000 he was due home for dinner at 7 o'clock. 544 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,000 The story you have just heard is true. 545 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Only the names were changed 546 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,000 to protect the innocent. 547 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000 You have just heard the 12th in a new series of authentic cases from official files. 548 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Technical advice for Dragnet is furnished by the Los Angeles Police Department. 549 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000 Tonight's program is dedicated to patrolman James Frank Goggin 550 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000 of the Cleveland Police Department, 551 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000 who on the morning of January 13, 1939, 552 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,000 gave his life 553 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,000 so that yours might be more than a mere 554 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000 one-year-old. 555 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000 The story you have just heard is true. 556 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 557 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 558 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,000 The story you have just heard is dedicated to patrolman James Frank Goggin 559 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,000 of the Cleveland Police Department, 560 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,000 who on the morning of January 13, 1939, 561 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,000 gave his life 562 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000 so that yours might be more secure. 563 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles. 564 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles. 565 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000 If you enjoyed tonight's production of Dragnet, 566 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000 if you enjoyed tonight's production of Dragnet, 567 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,000 you'll want to listen to Richard Diamond, 568 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 private detective, 569 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000 as played by the screen's romantic tough guy, Dick Powell, 570 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,000 heard Saturday on most of these NBC stations. 571 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,000 This is NBC, 572 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:12,000 the national broadcasting company.