1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,440 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:18,360 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:33,800 Fatima cigarettes, best of long cigarettes, brings you Dragnet. 4 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:35,880 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,200 You're assigned to juvenile bureau. 6 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,600 A rash of crimes has broken out in your city. 7 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,520 Suspicion points to an organized gang of juveniles. 8 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:50,800 Your job, stop them. 9 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:55,200 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of long cigarettes. 10 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,200 Smoke Fatima. 11 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:02,040 It's the long cigarette that contains an essential ingredient of all the very popular cigarettes, 12 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,580 Turkish tobacco. 13 00:01:03,580 --> 00:01:08,340 That's why you see the turkey symbols on the attractive golden yellow Fatima package. 14 00:01:08,340 --> 00:01:14,120 That's why Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long 15 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:15,440 cigarette. 16 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,040 That's why Fatima doubles and redoubles its smokers. 17 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:24,720 Yes, if you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of long cigarettes. 18 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:26,720 Smoke Fatima. 19 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:31,240 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 20 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:36,280 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 21 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:40,600 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 22 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,040 files. 23 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:48,160 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 24 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,920 in action. 25 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,320 It was Sunday, March 27th. 26 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,800 It was windy in Los Angeles. 27 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,600 We were working a night watch out of Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. 28 00:01:58,600 --> 00:01:59,880 My partner's Ben Romero. 29 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,040 The boss is Ed Backstrand, Chief of Detectives. 30 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,040 My name's Friday. 31 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,360 I was on the way up from the Juvenile Bureau and it was 11.25 p.m. when I got to the receiving 32 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:13,000 hospital room five, the treatment room. 33 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,080 Everything happens on Sunday nights, huh, Joe? 34 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:16,080 Yeah. 35 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:17,080 How's the kid making out, Doc? 36 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:18,520 The one arm is cut up badly. 37 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:19,520 Nothing fatal, though. 38 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:20,520 How'd it happen? 39 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:21,960 That's what I like to find out. 40 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:23,200 Can I talk to him? 41 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:24,480 If you want, don't press him. 42 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:26,480 Know he's had a bad shock. 43 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,480 All right. 44 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:38,400 Officer here to talk to you, son. 45 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:39,400 I can't. 46 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,280 Tell him I can't talk, please. 47 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:43,720 Just a few routine questions, son. 48 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,560 You're going to have to answer them sooner or later. 49 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,360 Please, can't you see what's happened already? 50 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:50,800 I can't tell you anything. 51 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:52,800 Jack Monroe, is that your real name? 52 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:53,800 Yeah. 53 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:54,800 How old are you? 54 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:55,800 I'll be 60 next July. 55 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,880 When do you live? 56 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:59,640 I can't tell you, you know that. 57 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:01,120 Now, let me alone, will you? 58 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:02,120 Let me alone. 59 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,960 You've been running around with that gang of kids on Spring Street, haven't you? 60 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,400 The big timers, isn't that what they call themselves? 61 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,300 I don't know anything about it. 62 00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:10,680 Believe me, I can't talk. 63 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,880 You tipped us off about the burglary they were going to pull tonight. 64 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,360 Is that where they knifed you? 65 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:15,440 Look, will you believe me? 66 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,800 I can't tell you anything, not anything. 67 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:18,800 Please. 68 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,600 He's still shaky, Joe. 69 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,160 All right, Doc. 70 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,640 Well, Jack, we'll talk about it later when you feel better. 71 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:27,760 You see what they've done to me already? 72 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,760 They said next time they'd kill me. 73 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,760 Juvenile Bureau, Friday. 74 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:33,760 Yeah. 75 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,760 Yeah, OK, friend. 76 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:37,760 Goodbye. 77 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:50,320 How'd you make out, Joe? 78 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,320 Not very good, Ben. 79 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:52,320 Captain Bowling come in yet? 80 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,960 He checked in while you were gone, wants to see us. 81 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:55,960 OK. 82 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:57,680 Did the kid tell you who knifed him? 83 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:58,680 No, I scared him good. 84 00:03:58,680 --> 00:03:59,680 He wouldn't tell me a thing. 85 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,400 Did you get a line on the boy's parents, Friday? 86 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:04,720 I got a hold of his father. 87 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:05,720 He's on his way in. 88 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:06,720 How's the boy? 89 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,640 Bad knife wounds, nothing fatal. 90 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:09,640 You know the boy? 91 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:10,640 Not till this afternoon, Captain. 92 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,280 He tipped us off about a burglary a gang of young kids were supposed to pull tonight. 93 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:15,280 Would go through? 94 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:19,320 No, but two hours ago, this Monroe kid was found in a vacant lot down on Olympic, cut 95 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:20,320 up pretty bad. 96 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:21,800 The gang must have pegged him. 97 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,840 How long is it going to take you to break that up? 98 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:26,080 We're just starting to get a line on him, Bob. 99 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,200 There's been nearly a hundred in that gang. 100 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,640 And every one of them working hard. 101 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,360 Take a look at the pin map over here. 102 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,880 This spot here, look at it. 103 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:37,880 All the jobs pulled during the last month, huh? 104 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,080 The last five weeks up to date. 105 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,680 Red tabs for burglary, must be more than a hundred. 106 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,160 The robberies, green pens, count them, at least 50. 107 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,720 There's five more orange ones added for the weekend, auto thefts. 108 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:50,880 You bet those kids are working hard. 109 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,480 We got a lead on them, that's more than we had last week. 110 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:55,480 You have to push it harder. 111 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:56,840 Here's the big reason. 112 00:04:56,840 --> 00:04:58,880 This line of pens, brown and black. 113 00:04:58,880 --> 00:04:59,880 Purse snatchings. 114 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,800 Purse snatching and rape, 26 of them in the past five weeks. 115 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,080 They're pretty well concentrated in one area here. 116 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:06,080 That's right. 117 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:07,920 Now what's the lead you're working on? 118 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,600 Right there on the pin map, Gab. 119 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:10,600 Huh? 120 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,400 Well, these two blocks here, Bob, where Franco Alley intersects Spring Street. 121 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:14,400 Well, what about it? 122 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,920 Well, it's the only clear area for a dozen blocks around. 123 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,160 There's not a colored pin on it, you see? 124 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:20,160 Yeah. 125 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,120 Now all the rest of the pens, the robberies, burglaries, attacks, they all seem to branch 126 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,080 out from this same spot right here in definite patterns, Franco Alley and Spring Street. 127 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,080 You figure that's the focal point for the gang? 128 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,720 Well, it's got all the mark. 129 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:32,720 For instance? 130 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:34,680 Well, we've been checking that neighborhood for a week. 131 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,760 We got it narrowed down to one place, right on the corner of Franco and Spring. 132 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:39,760 What is it? 133 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:40,760 It's a soda fountain. 134 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:41,760 It's pretty typical. 135 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,480 Only it stays open all night and it gets a pretty good play from kids. 136 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,080 A regular hangout, Captain. 137 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:47,080 Pretty tough youngsters. 138 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:48,080 None of them over 18. 139 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:49,080 Who runs the place? 140 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,000 A guy named Eddie Ramsey, small-time con man. 141 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,680 Had a run-in with him when we worked bunco detail. 142 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:54,880 I remember the name. 143 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:55,880 Smart mouth. 144 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:57,440 Tried to give us trouble, didn't we? 145 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:58,960 Talked to some kids in there last night. 146 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,720 He's got a place set up for him in the back of the store, kind of a club room. 147 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:02,720 Sounds like a good lead. 148 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:03,720 What are you doing about it? 149 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:04,720 Well... 150 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:05,720 Just a minute. 151 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:06,720 Cotton bowling. 152 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:07,720 Yeah? 153 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:08,720 Who? 154 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,720 Yeah, we'll be right down. 155 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,760 A Monroe kid. 156 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,120 His father's downstairs, cursing every one of us. 157 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:17,120 What's his problem? 158 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:18,960 Can't understand how his boy got into trouble. 159 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:19,960 Come on, Ben, let's tell him. 160 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:29,440 What kind of a city do we have when we can't allow our children out on the street without 161 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,040 being stabbed or shot? 162 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,160 What's our great police force doing when this is going on? 163 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:35,360 I'd like an answer if you've got one. 164 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:36,480 I demand an answer. 165 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:37,760 We've got an answer for you, Mr. Monroe. 166 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:38,760 Will you sit down? 167 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,640 My boys lying in there in that hospital bed, cut to pieces. 168 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:42,800 What did you do to prevent it? 169 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:43,800 Tell me. 170 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:44,800 You tell us, Mr. Monroe. 171 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:45,800 What did you do to prevent it? 172 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:46,800 I'm no cop. 173 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:47,800 That's your job. 174 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:49,600 I pay my taxes and I help pay your salary. 175 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,520 We look out for your kids, but we don't raise them. 176 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:52,520 That's your job. 177 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:53,520 What are you talking about? 178 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:54,520 Just a minute, Mr. Monroe. 179 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:55,520 Answer me this. 180 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:56,520 How old is your son, Jack? 181 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:57,520 He's 16, I think. 182 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:58,520 Why? 183 00:06:58,520 --> 00:06:59,520 You know what he does with his spare time? 184 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:00,520 Where he spends his nights? 185 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:01,520 Of course I do. 186 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:02,520 He's at home. 187 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:03,520 Some nights he goes to the library. 188 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,720 Then you don't know much about your son, Mr. Monroe. 189 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,080 For the past month, four nights out of five, he's been hanging around with a gang down 190 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:10,720 on the soda fountain on Spring Street. 191 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,120 He's down there as late as 2 a.m. 192 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:13,680 He says he goes to the library. 193 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:14,680 How do I know? 194 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:15,680 I'm a busy man. 195 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,120 Did you know that your son is mixed up with that gang? 196 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,120 He's not mixed up with a gang. 197 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:21,120 But they're growing. 198 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,400 They started with purse snatching, breaking in parked cars, burglarizing candy stores. 199 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:25,400 You don't know what you're talking about. 200 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:26,400 Wait a minute, please. 201 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,160 And then they took up robbery, stealing cars, beating up girls, women, attacking them. 202 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:31,160 You're crazy. 203 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:32,160 Jack's not that kind. 204 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,400 He's part of that gang, and right now we hold all of them responsible. 205 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,400 My boy wouldn't do anything like that. 206 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,080 He's a member of that gang he told us. 207 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:39,720 They're the ones that knifed him tonight. 208 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:40,720 That's a lie. 209 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:42,720 Jack's not mixed up with anything like that. 210 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,920 You believe anything you want, Mr. Monroe. 211 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,880 We're going to protect your boy as much as we can, but don't expect us to raise him for 212 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:48,880 you. 213 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:49,880 You better take a free piece of advice. 214 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:50,880 You keep your advice. 215 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:52,160 Jack's not in this. 216 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:53,160 You can't prove he is. 217 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,600 We're not out to prove anything right now. 218 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,480 But you catch up with that boy of yours. 219 00:07:57,480 --> 00:07:59,120 Keep him off the streets before it's too late. 220 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:00,120 Are you threatening me? 221 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:01,600 No, sir, advising you. 222 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:07,880 Next time we might meet at the morgue. 223 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,080 One a.m. Monday, March 28th. 224 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,080 A detail of 50 officers from juvenile bureau and metropolitan division were deployed for 225 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,800 16 blocks along Figueroa Street. 226 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,360 At five minutes past one, they started to move south over an appointed area. 227 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:25,480 In the space of half an hour, 18 young kids, none of them over 17 years old, were picked 228 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,720 up off the streets and brought to the second floor at 1335 Georgia Street, the juvenile 229 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:30,720 bureau. 230 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:32,880 Four of the youngsters were girls. 231 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,560 At 1.45 a.m., Ben and I checked the soda fountain on the corner of Franco Alley and 232 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:37,560 Spring Street. 233 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:44,560 Same bunch, Joe. 234 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:47,560 Business as usual. 235 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:50,560 Yeah, come on. 236 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:51,560 Hey, Teddy, the bulls. 237 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:52,560 They're back again. 238 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:53,560 Same guys. 239 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:54,560 We're back in Cal Eddie. 240 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:58,280 Hey, look, why do you guys have to keep tracking us, huh? 241 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,040 You think we were crooks or something. 242 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:01,680 You were here the last time we checked in, Teddy. 243 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:02,680 You ever go home? 244 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:03,680 Sure, when I'm tired. 245 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:04,680 I ain't tired. 246 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:06,760 What's the matter? 247 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,000 What's your money on the table there? 248 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Sure, it's my money. 249 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 You want to borrow a buck? 250 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 $28. 251 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,720 That's a lot of money for a boy your age. 252 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,320 You keep pretty late hours, son. 253 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:17,320 You have to go to school in the morning. 254 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:18,320 Maybe. 255 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:19,320 I can sit here, can't I? 256 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:20,320 It's free country. 257 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:21,320 I'm drinking coffee. 258 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,320 You gonna make me on that? 259 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:25,840 You've been drinking more than coffee. 260 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:26,840 Where's your driver's license? 261 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,840 Oh, every time the same thing. 262 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:30,840 There. 263 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,760 March 10th, 1933, 16 years old. 264 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,920 They giving you trouble, Ted? 265 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:37,920 Eddie's on his way out. 266 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:38,920 What's your name? 267 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:39,920 Jones. 268 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:40,920 Clyde Jones. 269 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:41,920 Huh, Ted? 270 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:42,920 Sure. 271 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:43,920 He's got money too. 272 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:44,920 Rich family. 273 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:45,920 You can save the smart talk, boys. 274 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:47,920 Any of your pals in the back room? 275 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:49,400 What's the trouble now, Sergeant? 276 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,560 How many times a week do we get a check up? 277 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:52,560 Go ahead, Eddie. 278 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:53,560 Read them off. 279 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:54,560 We told you the last time, Ramsey. 280 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:56,960 Clean up your place here or we'll ride your back till you do. 281 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,840 I told you the last time, Sergeant. 282 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,160 There's nothing wrong with my place. 283 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:01,680 It's almost 2 o'clock in the morning. 284 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:04,120 You got a dozen underage kids hanging around here doing nothing. 285 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:05,120 Some of them have been drinking. 286 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:06,120 School boys. 287 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,560 Better to have them in here than hanging around outside in the street. 288 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:10,760 I keep an eye on them. 289 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,280 You're not the guardian, Ramsey. 290 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,080 This time of night they've got no business in here or on the street alone. 291 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,200 That's your opinion, huh? 292 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:18,200 That's the law, Ramsey. 293 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,280 Now either you shut down that back room and keep these kids out of here late at night 294 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:22,960 or we'll go after your license. 295 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,320 You don't scare me, Sergeant. 296 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:26,320 You can't prove a thing. 297 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,160 A couple of these kids have juvenile records. 298 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:29,240 They're on probation. 299 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:30,720 We can tag you for contributing. 300 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:32,280 You still don't scare me. 301 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,200 Now why don't you leave the kids alone? 302 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:35,200 That's right, Eddie. 303 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:36,200 Read them off. 304 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:37,200 Ben, get Benson and Bell. 305 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:38,200 Roger. 306 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,680 If you won't clean up your place, Ramsey, we'll do it for you. 307 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:40,680 Yeah? 308 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:41,680 What are you gonna do? 309 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:45,680 We're pulling these boys in, all of them. 310 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:50,920 2.25 a.m. Monday, March 28th. 311 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,240 The dragnet operation had netted 30 juveniles. 312 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,000 26 boys, 4 girls. 313 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,760 24 of the children were between the ages of 16 and 17. 314 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,980 They were lodged in the assembly room at the Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. 315 00:11:01,980 --> 00:11:04,680 The other half dozen were 13 and 15 year olds. 316 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:08,360 They were taken to the juvenile hall at 1369 Henry Street. 317 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,480 At 2.43 a.m. we met with Captain Bowling. 318 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:11,480 Oh, checked in. 319 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:12,480 30 of them. 320 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:13,480 All right. 321 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,880 In the morning we filed petitions to have every one of these cases brought to the attention 322 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:16,880 of the juvenile court. 323 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:17,880 Make a note of it. 324 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:18,880 Okay, Bob. 325 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:20,920 For the kids with records, ask for detention from the probation department. 326 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:21,920 Right. 327 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:22,920 We'll call their parents in the morning. 328 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:23,920 Call them now. 329 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,960 They've got some explaining to do. 330 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,080 By 6 a.m. all but three of the children's parents had shown up. 331 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:32,880 To most of them it was nothing new. 332 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:34,520 Their kids had been there before. 333 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,200 They'd be there again. 334 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,960 They took the lecture from the juvenile officers calmly. 335 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,800 As long as it didn't mean trouble for them, they wouldn't worry. 336 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,080 When they got their children home, they would reprimand them. 337 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,600 Not for running the streets, but for being picked up by the police. 338 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,240 Ben and I had seen the cycle of the young criminals start before, a hundred times over. 339 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,040 It had a lot of different endings. 340 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,840 Most of them sour. 341 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,680 During the next week that followed, we booked an average of a dozen juvenile delinquents 342 00:11:58,680 --> 00:11:59,680 every night. 343 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:00,680 The clampdown continued. 344 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:01,680 So did the crime wave. 345 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:08,560 Ten burglaries, four armories, eight car thefts, six purse snitchings, three assaults on women. 346 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:09,560 One week's work. 347 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,640 Picked up a new angle on Ramsey today, Captain. 348 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:13,080 He might be fencing for the gang. 349 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:14,080 Who gave you the tip-off? 350 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,000 One of our informants. 351 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,800 Ramsey's brother lives out in the valley. 352 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,240 He's supposed to be pushing the stuff. 353 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:20,240 You check him out? 354 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:21,240 Yeah, couldn't get a thing on him. 355 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,360 Well, it might explain what attracts the kids to that soda farm. 356 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,680 It explains those $20 bills the kids are flashing. 357 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:29,760 They steal and rob, and then they sell the loot to Ramsey for nothing. 358 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,280 Ramsey keeps his place open all night, and there's no reason to. 359 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:34,480 He doesn't get that much trade. 360 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,040 It's only from a young gang that hangs around there. 361 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:38,040 You question the kids. 362 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:39,920 How do they account for having all that money? 363 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,160 Well, most of them say Ramsey lends it to them. 364 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,720 They say they pay him back a little at a time. 365 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:45,920 I think he's fencing for the kids. 366 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:47,320 Have you tried to get his license? 367 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:48,320 No luck, Captain. 368 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:49,320 We can't prove a thing against him. 369 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:51,200 Then we'll do it the hard way. 370 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:55,640 Sweat it out. 371 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,920 That night, we drove out to Ramsey's soda fountain and asked him again to clean up his 372 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:03,080 place to keep the young kids out after 10 o'clock at night to stop lending him money. 373 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:04,080 He refused. 374 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:05,840 There was nothing we could do. 375 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,280 His business was a public place. 376 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,560 He could not be held responsible for any of his patrons. 377 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:15,120 In the next 10 days that followed, Ben and I haunted the sidewalk outside the soda fountain. 378 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,320 We questioned every youngster as they entered and left. 379 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,480 We made more than a dozen arrests. 380 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:20,920 Many of the kids had been drinking heavily. 381 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,600 We found some of them under the influence of narcotics. 382 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,040 But Ramsey was still in the clear. 383 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,360 The crime wave continued sporadically. 384 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:29,360 Ben and I waited for our chance. 385 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:31,080 It was a long time coming. 386 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:36,160 Thursday, April 14th, we had dinner at Johnny Cokin's place and it was 10.35 p.m. when we 387 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:37,160 checked back in at the office. 388 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:38,160 Hot shot. 389 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:39,160 Grab it, Joe. 390 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:40,160 Yeah. 391 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,160 A terminal on Market Street, a 459 and shooting. 392 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:42,160 A terminal on Market Street, a 459. 393 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:43,160 Let's go. 394 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:58,160 He was approximately five feet four inches tall, 125 pounds, and he was a very, very 395 00:13:58,160 --> 00:13:59,160 tall man. 396 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:00,160 He had a shirt on. 397 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:01,160 He had a white shirt, a red jacket, brown eyes, brown hair, brown eyes, slight build, 398 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:02,160 fair complexion. 399 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:06,160 He was wearing blue jeans and a corduroy jacket. 400 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,620 We found him between a row of packing cases at the rear of the warehouse at Terminal and 401 00:14:09,620 --> 00:14:10,620 Market Street. 402 00:14:10,620 --> 00:14:13,900 There was a single bullet hole in his forehead just above the left eye. 403 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:16,660 There was a 38 revolver near his right hand. 404 00:14:16,660 --> 00:14:19,200 The watchman told us how it happened. 405 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,520 She broke in the back of the warehouse, Sergeant. 406 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:23,220 She wanted to shoot it out with me. 407 00:14:23,220 --> 00:14:24,580 Here's his ID, Corn. 408 00:14:24,580 --> 00:14:26,820 Fell out of his pocket. 409 00:14:26,820 --> 00:14:28,820 Teddy Cameron, age 15. 410 00:14:28,820 --> 00:14:31,820 Dear God, a kid. 411 00:14:31,820 --> 00:14:33,820 I didn't know such a... 412 00:14:33,820 --> 00:14:35,820 He didn't either. 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Dead body report. 432 00:16:34,820 --> 00:16:36,820 Type, gunshot. 433 00:16:36,820 --> 00:16:41,820 DR number 437695. 434 00:16:41,820 --> 00:16:44,820 Victim, Theodore Cameron. 435 00:16:44,820 --> 00:16:49,820 Residence address, 960 Charter Street. 436 00:16:49,820 --> 00:16:57,820 Date and time of death, Thursday, April 14th, 1035 p.m. 437 00:16:57,820 --> 00:17:04,820 Place, Turnal and Market Streets, South State Warehouse. 438 00:17:04,820 --> 00:17:08,820 Cause of death, gunshot. 439 00:17:08,820 --> 00:17:12,820 Motive or reason, attempted burglary. 440 00:17:12,820 --> 00:17:17,820 Time discovered, 1040 p.m. 441 00:17:17,820 --> 00:17:21,820 Move to County Morgue. 442 00:17:21,820 --> 00:17:25,820 Discovered by Carl Hyba Night Watchman. 443 00:17:25,820 --> 00:17:31,820 Identified by Barbara Cameron, sister. 444 00:17:31,820 --> 00:17:37,820 Description of victim, male, Caucasian, age 15. 445 00:17:37,820 --> 00:17:45,820 Height, weight, occupation, student, descent, English. 446 00:17:45,820 --> 00:17:53,820 Witness, sign Joe Friday, serial number 2288. 447 00:17:53,820 --> 00:18:02,820 Age 15. 448 00:18:02,820 --> 00:18:03,820 Ready, Joe? 449 00:18:03,820 --> 00:18:04,820 Hmm? 450 00:18:04,820 --> 00:18:06,820 I mean, Cameron, boy, sister. She's waiting in the next room. 451 00:18:06,820 --> 00:18:09,820 Oh, yeah. Yeah, let's go. 452 00:18:09,820 --> 00:18:15,820 She taking it hard? Yeah. 453 00:18:15,820 --> 00:18:17,820 Morning, Miss Cameron. 454 00:18:17,820 --> 00:18:18,820 Good morning. 455 00:18:18,820 --> 00:18:21,820 We're gonna keep you long, just a few routine questions. 456 00:18:21,820 --> 00:18:22,820 Yes, all right. 457 00:18:22,820 --> 00:18:24,820 Miss Cameron, how many are there in your family? 458 00:18:24,820 --> 00:18:29,820 There were three of us. Teddy, Mike, and me. Mother and father are dead. 459 00:18:29,820 --> 00:18:34,820 I work. Teddy and Mike go to school. I mean, Mike does. 460 00:18:34,820 --> 00:18:36,820 How old is your brother Mike, Miss Cameron? 461 00:18:36,820 --> 00:18:37,820 He's 14. 462 00:18:37,820 --> 00:18:39,820 You're the sole support of your two brothers? 463 00:18:39,820 --> 00:18:40,820 Yes. 464 00:18:40,820 --> 00:18:43,820 Do you have any idea who the boys were your brother Ted used to run around with? 465 00:18:43,820 --> 00:18:49,820 I don't know them by name. I remember seeing a couple of them once or twice. 466 00:18:49,820 --> 00:18:54,820 Mike would know, I think. He and Ted were pretty close brothers. 467 00:18:54,820 --> 00:18:57,820 Do you know if Ted mixed with a gang of kids down on Spring Street? 468 00:18:57,820 --> 00:19:03,820 Maybe Mike would know that. Sergeant Teddy wasn't a bad boy. 469 00:19:03,820 --> 00:19:07,820 He wasn't a bum. None of us are. 470 00:19:07,820 --> 00:19:12,820 I tried to raise the boys like Ma told me. It wasn't easy. 471 00:19:12,820 --> 00:19:13,820 We made out. 472 00:19:13,820 --> 00:19:14,820 Yes, I understand, Miss Cameron. 473 00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:18,820 Our salary didn't have too much, but we got by. 474 00:19:18,820 --> 00:19:19,820 Yeah. 475 00:19:19,820 --> 00:19:27,820 I figured on getting married. I'm 31. It'd be good for the boys, especially Teddy. 476 00:19:27,820 --> 00:19:31,820 He's dead, isn't he? 477 00:19:31,820 --> 00:19:37,820 Yeah. I couldn't be in two places at once. 478 00:19:37,820 --> 00:19:42,820 Hold a job and watch the kids. But that's why I thought maybe a husband... 479 00:19:42,820 --> 00:19:47,820 I'm sorry to press, Miss Cameron. Do you think your brother Mike can tell us about that Spring Street gang? 480 00:19:47,820 --> 00:19:48,820 No, Mike can't. 481 00:19:48,820 --> 00:19:49,820 Where can we find him? 482 00:19:49,820 --> 00:19:55,820 Staying at a friend's house. I've got the address in my bag. 483 00:19:55,820 --> 00:20:00,820 Here. That's 2514. I don't write numbers too well. 484 00:20:00,820 --> 00:20:02,820 Thank you, Miss Cameron. You've been very helpful. 485 00:20:02,820 --> 00:20:04,820 I'll get somebody to drive you home. 486 00:20:04,820 --> 00:20:09,820 How do I have to go? Would it be all right if I just sit here for a while? 487 00:20:09,820 --> 00:20:11,820 That's all right. 488 00:20:11,820 --> 00:20:16,820 I'm tired. Real tired. 489 00:20:16,820 --> 00:20:21,820 2514 West Serrano Street. That was the address Barbara Cameron had given us. 490 00:20:21,820 --> 00:20:26,820 It was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Brewer, high school friends of the dead boy's sister. 491 00:20:26,820 --> 00:20:30,820 We talked to Mike Cameron. He told us that his brother Teddy had been running around with a gang down on Spring Street. 492 00:20:30,820 --> 00:20:32,820 He identified Ramsey Soda Fountain as the hangout. 493 00:20:32,820 --> 00:20:36,820 It was 2.25 p.m. when we got back to Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. 494 00:20:36,820 --> 00:20:39,820 Hi, Guy. 495 00:20:39,820 --> 00:20:42,820 Juvenile Bureau, Romero. 496 00:20:42,820 --> 00:20:44,820 Yeah, hold on. I'll call it. 497 00:20:44,820 --> 00:20:46,820 Here, Joe. 498 00:20:46,820 --> 00:20:48,820 Thanks. Friday. 499 00:20:48,820 --> 00:20:50,820 Joe, this is Canfield and Burglary. 500 00:20:50,820 --> 00:20:51,820 Yeah, Homer. 501 00:20:51,820 --> 00:20:52,820 You work in that Cameron case, aren't you? 502 00:20:52,820 --> 00:20:53,820 Yeah. 503 00:20:53,820 --> 00:20:57,820 I just got a report on one you might be interested in out of the same neighborhood. Distillery Prowl. 504 00:20:57,820 --> 00:20:58,820 What do you got on it? 505 00:20:58,820 --> 00:21:02,820 Looks like a juvenile M.O. They got away with seven cases of scotch whiskey. Expensive stuff. 506 00:21:02,820 --> 00:21:03,820 Okay, we'll hop on it. 507 00:21:03,820 --> 00:21:09,820 Bubeck Warehouse, Crocker at 7th. 508 00:21:09,820 --> 00:21:12,820 Miss Elizabeth Rice was the auditor in charge at the Bubeck Warehouse. 509 00:21:12,820 --> 00:21:14,820 We located her on the mezzanine office row. 510 00:21:14,820 --> 00:21:18,820 It was her job to keep a running inventory on all incoming and outgoing liquor stock. 511 00:21:18,820 --> 00:21:20,820 She knew her job well. 512 00:21:20,820 --> 00:21:27,820 As you know, Sergeant Friday, each and every bottle of distilled spirits carries a United States Internal Revenue stamp. 513 00:21:27,820 --> 00:21:28,820 Yes, ma'am. 514 00:21:28,820 --> 00:21:33,820 Each stamp carries a serial number together with the name of the firm to whom the stamps are issued. 515 00:21:33,820 --> 00:21:37,820 Well, Miss Rice, in the stuff that's missing, the stamp on each bottle carries the case number, is that right? 516 00:21:37,820 --> 00:21:40,820 That's right. Now, what did I tell you? 517 00:21:40,820 --> 00:21:47,820 Oh, yes, I have it right here. Seven cases of high-grade blended scotch whiskey. 518 00:21:47,820 --> 00:21:50,820 Now, I have a bottle identical to those in the missing cases. 519 00:21:50,820 --> 00:21:51,820 Yes, I see. 520 00:21:51,820 --> 00:21:53,820 Now, if you'll just look here. 521 00:21:53,820 --> 00:21:54,820 Yes, ma'am. 522 00:21:54,820 --> 00:22:02,820 The number on this stamp here, 368-227-9956, followed by the firm name. 523 00:22:02,820 --> 00:22:04,820 Could you give us the numbers of the stolen cases? 524 00:22:04,820 --> 00:22:07,820 I have them typed out for you right here. 525 00:22:07,820 --> 00:22:15,820 Seven cases, 12 bottles to the case, Canada Dry, Incorporated, four of the red label and three of the black label, Johnny Walker. 526 00:22:15,820 --> 00:22:17,820 All right, thank you very much, Miss Rice. 527 00:22:17,820 --> 00:22:21,820 And you think that this might be a juvenile case, Sergeant? 528 00:22:21,820 --> 00:22:22,820 Yes, ma'am, we do. 529 00:22:22,820 --> 00:22:25,820 Seven cases, that's close to $600, isn't it? 530 00:22:25,820 --> 00:22:31,820 We've lost a great deal more than that, Sergeant. The insurance company makes up for the liquor loss. 531 00:22:31,820 --> 00:22:32,820 Yes, ma'am. 532 00:22:32,820 --> 00:22:36,820 Those youngsters, who makes up for them? 533 00:22:39,820 --> 00:22:43,820 Ben and I left the Buick warehouse with a list of serial numbers of the seven cases of stolen liquor. 534 00:22:43,820 --> 00:22:45,820 We headed back to the juvenile bureau. 535 00:22:45,820 --> 00:22:51,820 We figured that there was a strong possibility that the Spring Street gang was responsible for the warehouse liquor theft. 536 00:22:51,820 --> 00:22:53,820 How were they disposing of the stolen property? 537 00:22:53,820 --> 00:22:55,820 That was the key question we had to answer. 538 00:22:55,820 --> 00:23:00,820 Ben and I had a hunch and a tip from an informant that the young gang was operating under the guidance of a fence, 539 00:23:00,820 --> 00:23:03,820 a man or woman whose job it is to dispose of stolen property. 540 00:23:03,820 --> 00:23:08,820 The gang members were close to Ramsey at the soda fountain. Ramsey was the logical suspect. 541 00:23:08,820 --> 00:23:11,820 All right, well, suppose they did steal the liquor. 542 00:23:11,820 --> 00:23:14,820 Suppose Ramsey's a fence. What's he done with the stuff? 543 00:23:14,820 --> 00:23:17,820 I don't think he's turned it this fast, if he's turned it at all. 544 00:23:17,820 --> 00:23:21,820 He wouldn't keep it at the soda fountain, no liquor license. And we've been around too much. 545 00:23:21,820 --> 00:23:25,820 He wouldn't keep it in his house. He lives in the rear of the fountain that's too hot. 546 00:23:25,820 --> 00:23:28,820 Only leaves one other location that we know about. 547 00:23:28,820 --> 00:23:30,820 His brother's place in the valley. 548 00:23:33,820 --> 00:23:37,820 It was five minutes to ten when we turned left off Ventura Boulevard onto Sepulveda. 549 00:23:37,820 --> 00:23:41,820 Ramsey's brother had a small farm about a mile and a half off the highway. 550 00:23:41,820 --> 00:23:44,820 It was a modest white frame house planted squarely in the center of an acre of ground. 551 00:23:44,820 --> 00:23:47,820 An unpaved driveway led off to the left of the house to the garage. 552 00:23:47,820 --> 00:23:49,820 Pull up here, huh? 553 00:23:49,820 --> 00:23:51,820 Yeah, okay. 554 00:23:51,820 --> 00:23:54,820 It looks kind of quiet, no lights. 555 00:23:54,820 --> 00:23:56,820 Let's go. 556 00:24:01,820 --> 00:24:03,820 Mud sticks to everything. 557 00:24:03,820 --> 00:24:06,820 Where's the doorbell? Oh, here it is. 558 00:24:06,820 --> 00:24:09,820 You got your flashlight? Yeah, what? 559 00:24:09,820 --> 00:24:12,820 Here's a note somebody left. 560 00:24:12,820 --> 00:24:17,820 Oh, it's on the bum again. Here, let's try to match. Okay. 561 00:24:17,820 --> 00:24:21,820 Can you hold it a little closer? Can you read it? Yeah. 562 00:24:21,820 --> 00:24:26,820 Harry, wife and I have gone to the drive-in theater. 563 00:24:26,820 --> 00:24:32,820 Before you put the truck away, get three... Can you hold that match closer? Oh, no, wait a minute. 564 00:24:32,820 --> 00:24:36,820 Yeah, get three cases out of the garage and take them into town. 565 00:24:36,820 --> 00:24:41,820 Ed is waiting. Please try to make it by 11.30 tonight. 566 00:24:41,820 --> 00:24:43,820 Let's see, it's signed George. The address is here. 567 00:24:43,820 --> 00:24:46,820 And there's a garage. Yeah, come on. 568 00:24:48,820 --> 00:24:53,820 Three cases. Could be eggs, Joe. If it is, we wasted a trip. 569 00:24:53,820 --> 00:25:00,820 Oh, I'm out of matches, Joe. All right, here, use mine. 570 00:25:00,820 --> 00:25:05,820 What was that? Checking. Come on. 571 00:25:05,820 --> 00:25:08,820 See anything? No. 572 00:25:08,820 --> 00:25:11,820 There goes the light. Just a minute, I'll strike another one. 573 00:25:11,820 --> 00:25:14,820 You can save your matches. We found it. 574 00:25:17,820 --> 00:25:20,820 We found five cases of eggs. 575 00:25:20,820 --> 00:25:24,820 We found five cases of Scotch whiskey on the floor of the garage. 576 00:25:24,820 --> 00:25:27,820 We checked the serial numbers against the warehouse list. They matched. 577 00:25:27,820 --> 00:25:29,820 We went back to the car and called communications. 578 00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:33,820 We had an immediate stakeout placed on George Ramsey's place, and then we headed back for the city. 579 00:25:33,820 --> 00:25:37,820 It was 11.20 p.m. when we got to the address we found on the note. 580 00:25:39,820 --> 00:25:44,820 It's about time, Harry. Hello, Ramsey. We can do without the music. 581 00:25:44,820 --> 00:25:48,820 What's your problem this time? 582 00:25:48,820 --> 00:25:52,820 You're almost out of Scotch, Ramsey. Serial numbers check out, Joe. 583 00:25:52,820 --> 00:25:56,820 Sorry I can't offer you a drink. We're too old to drink here, aren't we, Ramsey? 584 00:25:56,820 --> 00:25:58,820 Where's your phone? You want to invite somebody? 585 00:25:58,820 --> 00:26:01,820 You can see we're out of booze. You got a phone? 586 00:26:01,820 --> 00:26:04,820 In the hall. Ben, call the office. Yeah. 587 00:26:06,820 --> 00:26:09,820 All right, what's it all about? We've been out to your brother's place. 588 00:26:09,820 --> 00:26:11,820 What happened to the other two cases? You drink them here? 589 00:26:11,820 --> 00:26:14,820 I gave it to the kids. 590 00:26:15,820 --> 00:26:17,820 What are you looking at me like that for, Sergeant? 591 00:26:17,820 --> 00:26:20,820 Anything wrong, Eddie? Party's over, kid. 592 00:26:27,820 --> 00:26:30,820 The story you have just heard was true. 593 00:26:30,820 --> 00:26:34,820 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 594 00:26:34,820 --> 00:26:42,820 On June 5, 1949, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 74, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 595 00:26:42,820 --> 00:26:44,820 In a moment, the results of that trial. 596 00:26:44,820 --> 00:26:50,820 Earlier tonight, you heard the reports of amazing increases in Fatima smokers from New York to Los Angeles. 597 00:26:50,820 --> 00:26:56,820 Yes, all over the country, Fatima is doubling and redoubling its sales. And here's reason one. 598 00:26:56,820 --> 00:27:04,820 Fatima is the long cigarette that contains an essential ingredient of all the very popular cigarettes, Turkish tobacco. 599 00:27:04,820 --> 00:27:11,820 Reason two. Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. 600 00:27:11,820 --> 00:27:18,820 Reason three. To millions of smokers, the name Fatima has always stood for the best in cigarette quality. 601 00:27:18,820 --> 00:27:26,820 Smoke Fatima, the best of all long cigarettes. 602 00:27:31,820 --> 00:27:36,820 Edward and George Ramsey were tried and convicted in Superior Court of receiving stolen property. 603 00:27:36,820 --> 00:27:40,820 After serving their terms as prescribed by law in the state penitentiary, 604 00:27:40,820 --> 00:27:48,820 they will be returned to the county jail where they will serve a one-year term for contributing to the delinquency of minors. 605 00:27:51,820 --> 00:27:56,820 You have just heard Dragnet, a new series of authentic cases from official files. 606 00:27:56,820 --> 00:28:03,820 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Acting Chief of Police, W.A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department. 607 00:28:03,820 --> 00:28:09,820 Honoring the city of Greenwich, State of Connecticut, and the men who make up the Greenwich Police Department. 608 00:28:09,820 --> 00:28:13,820 Another of America's great law enforcement agencies. 609 00:28:13,820 --> 00:28:23,820 One of these men, Chief John M. Gleason, FBI National Police Academy graduate, who dedicates his life to making yours more secure. 610 00:28:23,820 --> 00:28:35,820 Fatima cigarettes, the best of long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet from Los Angeles. 611 00:28:39,820 --> 00:28:43,820 This Christmas, give the gift that makes every pipe smoker happy. 612 00:28:43,820 --> 00:28:46,820 A Christmas humidor of mellow Grainger. 613 00:28:46,820 --> 00:28:50,820 Grainger is made just for pipes by the tried and true Wellman method. 614 00:28:50,820 --> 00:28:55,820 Rough cut to smoke mild and cool, and humidor packed to stay ever fresh. 615 00:28:55,820 --> 00:29:00,820 Yes, make this Christmas a Merry Christmas for all the pipe smokers on your list. 616 00:29:00,820 --> 00:29:03,820 Give them each a Christmas humidor of mellow Grainger. 617 00:29:03,820 --> 00:29:20,820 Listen to Dragnet next week and be sure to hear Morton Downey tonight on NBC.