WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.440 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:14.440 --> 00:18.360 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:18.360 --> 00:33.800 Fatima cigarettes, best of long cigarettes, brings you Dragnet. 00:33.800 --> 00:35.880 You're a detective sergeant. 00:35.880 --> 00:38.200 You're assigned to juvenile bureau. 00:38.200 --> 00:41.600 A rash of crimes has broken out in your city. 00:41.600 --> 00:45.520 Suspicion points to an organized gang of juveniles. 00:45.520 --> 00:50.800 Your job, stop them. 00:50.800 --> 00:55.200 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of long cigarettes. 00:55.200 --> 00:56.200 Smoke Fatima. 00:56.200 --> 01:02.040 It's the long cigarette that contains an essential ingredient of all the very popular cigarettes, 01:02.040 --> 01:03.580 Turkish tobacco. 01:03.580 --> 01:08.340 That's why you see the turkey symbols on the attractive golden yellow Fatima package. 01:08.340 --> 01:14.120 That's why Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long 01:14.120 --> 01:15.440 cigarette. 01:15.440 --> 01:19.040 That's why Fatima doubles and redoubles its smokers. 01:19.040 --> 01:24.720 Yes, if you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of long cigarettes. 01:24.720 --> 01:26.720 Smoke Fatima. 01:26.720 --> 01:31.240 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:31.240 --> 01:36.280 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:36.280 --> 01:40.600 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 01:40.600 --> 01:42.040 files. 01:42.040 --> 01:48.160 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:48.160 --> 01:49.920 in action. 01:49.920 --> 01:53.320 It was Sunday, March 27th. 01:53.320 --> 01:55.800 It was windy in Los Angeles. 01:55.800 --> 01:58.600 We were working a night watch out of Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. 01:58.600 --> 01:59.880 My partner's Ben Romero. 01:59.880 --> 02:02.040 The boss is Ed Backstrand, Chief of Detectives. 02:02.040 --> 02:03.040 My name's Friday. 02:03.040 --> 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 02:07.360 --> 02:13.000 hospital room five, the treatment room. 02:13.000 --> 02:15.080 Everything happens on Sunday nights, huh, Joe? 02:15.080 --> 02:16.080 Yeah. 02:16.080 --> 02:17.080 How's the kid making out, Doc? 02:17.080 --> 02:18.520 The one arm is cut up badly. 02:18.520 --> 02:19.520 Nothing fatal, though. 02:19.520 --> 02:20.520 How'd it happen? 02:20.520 --> 02:21.960 That's what I like to find out. 02:21.960 --> 02:23.200 Can I talk to him? 02:23.200 --> 02:24.480 If you want, don't press him. 02:24.480 --> 02:26.480 Know he's had a bad shock. 02:26.480 --> 02:29.480 All right. 02:29.480 --> 02:38.400 Officer here to talk to you, son. 02:38.400 --> 02:39.400 I can't. 02:39.400 --> 02:42.280 Tell him I can't talk, please. 02:42.280 --> 02:43.720 Just a few routine questions, son. 02:43.720 --> 02:46.560 You're going to have to answer them sooner or later. 02:46.560 --> 02:49.360 Please, can't you see what's happened already? 02:49.360 --> 02:50.800 I can't tell you anything. 02:50.800 --> 02:52.800 Jack Monroe, is that your real name? 02:52.800 --> 02:53.800 Yeah. 02:53.800 --> 02:54.800 How old are you? 02:54.800 --> 02:55.800 I'll be 60 next July. 02:55.800 --> 02:57.880 When do you live? 02:57.880 --> 02:59.640 I can't tell you, you know that. 02:59.640 --> 03:01.120 Now, let me alone, will you? 03:01.120 --> 03:02.120 Let me alone. 03:02.120 --> 03:04.960 You've been running around with that gang of kids on Spring Street, haven't you? 03:04.960 --> 03:07.400 The big timers, isn't that what they call themselves? 03:07.400 --> 03:09.300 I don't know anything about it. 03:09.300 --> 03:10.680 Believe me, I can't talk. 03:10.680 --> 03:12.880 You tipped us off about the burglary they were going to pull tonight. 03:12.880 --> 03:14.360 Is that where they knifed you? 03:14.360 --> 03:15.440 Look, will you believe me? 03:15.440 --> 03:17.800 I can't tell you anything, not anything. 03:17.800 --> 03:18.800 Please. 03:18.800 --> 03:20.600 He's still shaky, Joe. 03:20.600 --> 03:22.160 All right, Doc. 03:22.160 --> 03:25.640 Well, Jack, we'll talk about it later when you feel better. 03:25.640 --> 03:27.760 You see what they've done to me already? 03:27.760 --> 03:29.760 They said next time they'd kill me. 03:29.760 --> 03:32.760 Juvenile Bureau, Friday. 03:32.760 --> 03:33.760 Yeah. 03:33.760 --> 03:36.760 Yeah, OK, friend. 03:36.760 --> 03:37.760 Goodbye. 03:37.760 --> 03:50.320 How'd you make out, Joe? 03:50.320 --> 03:51.320 Not very good, Ben. 03:51.320 --> 03:52.320 Captain Bowling come in yet? 03:52.320 --> 03:54.960 He checked in while you were gone, wants to see us. 03:54.960 --> 03:55.960 OK. 03:55.960 --> 03:57.680 Did the kid tell you who knifed him? 03:57.680 --> 03:58.680 No, I scared him good. 03:58.680 --> 03:59.680 He wouldn't tell me a thing. 03:59.680 --> 04:03.400 Did you get a line on the boy's parents, Friday? 04:03.400 --> 04:04.720 I got a hold of his father. 04:04.720 --> 04:05.720 He's on his way in. 04:05.720 --> 04:06.720 How's the boy? 04:06.720 --> 04:08.640 Bad knife wounds, nothing fatal. 04:08.640 --> 04:09.640 You know the boy? 04:09.640 --> 04:10.640 Not till this afternoon, Captain. 04:10.640 --> 04:14.280 He tipped us off about a burglary a gang of young kids were supposed to pull tonight. 04:14.280 --> 04:15.280 Would go through? 04:15.280 --> 04:19.320 No, but two hours ago, this Monroe kid was found in a vacant lot down on Olympic, cut 04:19.320 --> 04:20.320 up pretty bad. 04:20.320 --> 04:21.800 The gang must have pegged him. 04:21.800 --> 04:23.840 How long is it going to take you to break that up? 04:23.840 --> 04:26.080 We're just starting to get a line on him, Bob. 04:26.080 --> 04:28.200 There's been nearly a hundred in that gang. 04:28.200 --> 04:29.640 And every one of them working hard. 04:29.640 --> 04:33.360 Take a look at the pin map over here. 04:33.360 --> 04:35.880 This spot here, look at it. 04:35.880 --> 04:37.880 All the jobs pulled during the last month, huh? 04:37.880 --> 04:40.080 The last five weeks up to date. 04:40.080 --> 04:42.680 Red tabs for burglary, must be more than a hundred. 04:42.680 --> 04:46.160 The robberies, green pens, count them, at least 50. 04:46.160 --> 04:49.720 There's five more orange ones added for the weekend, auto thefts. 04:49.720 --> 04:50.880 You bet those kids are working hard. 04:50.880 --> 04:53.480 We got a lead on them, that's more than we had last week. 04:53.480 --> 04:55.480 You have to push it harder. 04:55.480 --> 04:56.840 Here's the big reason. 04:56.840 --> 04:58.880 This line of pens, brown and black. 04:58.880 --> 04:59.880 Purse snatchings. 04:59.880 --> 05:02.800 Purse snatching and rape, 26 of them in the past five weeks. 05:02.800 --> 05:05.080 They're pretty well concentrated in one area here. 05:05.080 --> 05:06.080 That's right. 05:06.080 --> 05:07.920 Now what's the lead you're working on? 05:07.920 --> 05:09.600 Right there on the pin map, Gab. 05:09.600 --> 05:10.600 Huh? 05:10.600 --> 05:13.400 Well, these two blocks here, Bob, where Franco Alley intersects Spring Street. 05:13.400 --> 05:14.400 Well, what about it? 05:14.400 --> 05:16.920 Well, it's the only clear area for a dozen blocks around. 05:16.920 --> 05:19.160 There's not a colored pin on it, you see? 05:19.160 --> 05:20.160 Yeah. 05:20.160 --> 05:24.120 Now all the rest of the pens, the robberies, burglaries, attacks, they all seem to branch 05:24.120 --> 05:28.080 out from this same spot right here in definite patterns, Franco Alley and Spring Street. 05:28.080 --> 05:30.080 You figure that's the focal point for the gang? 05:30.080 --> 05:31.720 Well, it's got all the mark. 05:31.720 --> 05:32.720 For instance? 05:32.720 --> 05:34.680 Well, we've been checking that neighborhood for a week. 05:34.680 --> 05:38.760 We got it narrowed down to one place, right on the corner of Franco and Spring. 05:38.760 --> 05:39.760 What is it? 05:39.760 --> 05:40.760 It's a soda fountain. 05:40.760 --> 05:41.760 It's pretty typical. 05:41.760 --> 05:44.480 Only it stays open all night and it gets a pretty good play from kids. 05:44.480 --> 05:46.080 A regular hangout, Captain. 05:46.080 --> 05:47.080 Pretty tough youngsters. 05:47.080 --> 05:48.080 None of them over 18. 05:48.080 --> 05:49.080 Who runs the place? 05:49.080 --> 05:52.000 A guy named Eddie Ramsey, small-time con man. 05:52.000 --> 05:53.680 Had a run-in with him when we worked bunco detail. 05:53.680 --> 05:54.880 I remember the name. 05:54.880 --> 05:55.880 Smart mouth. 05:55.880 --> 05:57.440 Tried to give us trouble, didn't we? 05:57.440 --> 05:58.960 Talked to some kids in there last night. 05:58.960 --> 06:01.720 He's got a place set up for him in the back of the store, kind of a club room. 06:01.720 --> 06:02.720 Sounds like a good lead. 06:02.720 --> 06:03.720 What are you doing about it? 06:03.720 --> 06:04.720 Well... 06:04.720 --> 06:05.720 Just a minute. 06:05.720 --> 06:06.720 Cotton bowling. 06:06.720 --> 06:07.720 Yeah? 06:07.720 --> 06:08.720 Who? 06:08.720 --> 06:11.720 Yeah, we'll be right down. 06:11.720 --> 06:13.760 A Monroe kid. 06:13.760 --> 06:16.120 His father's downstairs, cursing every one of us. 06:16.120 --> 06:17.120 What's his problem? 06:17.120 --> 06:18.960 Can't understand how his boy got into trouble. 06:18.960 --> 06:19.960 Come on, Ben, let's tell him. 06:19.960 --> 06:29.440 What kind of a city do we have when we can't allow our children out on the street without 06:29.440 --> 06:31.040 being stabbed or shot? 06:31.040 --> 06:34.160 What's our great police force doing when this is going on? 06:34.160 --> 06:35.360 I'd like an answer if you've got one. 06:35.360 --> 06:36.480 I demand an answer. 06:36.480 --> 06:37.760 We've got an answer for you, Mr. Monroe. 06:37.760 --> 06:38.760 Will you sit down? 06:38.760 --> 06:41.640 My boys lying in there in that hospital bed, cut to pieces. 06:41.640 --> 06:42.800 What did you do to prevent it? 06:42.800 --> 06:43.800 Tell me. 06:43.800 --> 06:44.800 You tell us, Mr. Monroe. 06:44.800 --> 06:45.800 What did you do to prevent it? 06:45.800 --> 06:46.800 I'm no cop. 06:46.800 --> 06:47.800 That's your job. 06:47.800 --> 06:49.600 I pay my taxes and I help pay your salary. 06:49.600 --> 06:51.520 We look out for your kids, but we don't raise them. 06:51.520 --> 06:52.520 That's your job. 06:52.520 --> 06:53.520 What are you talking about? 06:53.520 --> 06:54.520 Just a minute, Mr. Monroe. 06:54.520 --> 06:55.520 Answer me this. 06:55.520 --> 06:56.520 How old is your son, Jack? 06:56.520 --> 06:57.520 He's 16, I think. 06:57.520 --> 06:58.520 Why? 06:58.520 --> 06:59.520 You know what he does with his spare time? 06:59.520 --> 07:00.520 Where he spends his nights? 07:00.520 --> 07:01.520 Of course I do. 07:01.520 --> 07:02.520 He's at home. 07:02.520 --> 07:03.520 Some nights he goes to the library. 07:03.520 --> 07:05.720 Then you don't know much about your son, Mr. Monroe. 07:05.720 --> 07:09.080 For the past month, four nights out of five, he's been hanging around with a gang down 07:09.080 --> 07:10.720 on the soda fountain on Spring Street. 07:10.720 --> 07:12.120 He's down there as late as 2 a.m. 07:12.120 --> 07:13.680 He says he goes to the library. 07:13.680 --> 07:14.680 How do I know? 07:14.680 --> 07:15.680 I'm a busy man. 07:15.680 --> 07:17.120 Did you know that your son is mixed up with that gang? 07:17.120 --> 07:20.120 He's not mixed up with a gang. 07:20.120 --> 07:21.120 But they're growing. 07:21.120 --> 07:24.400 They started with purse snatching, breaking in parked cars, burglarizing candy stores. 07:24.400 --> 07:25.400 You don't know what you're talking about. 07:25.400 --> 07:26.400 Wait a minute, please. 07:26.400 --> 07:30.160 And then they took up robbery, stealing cars, beating up girls, women, attacking them. 07:30.160 --> 07:31.160 You're crazy. 07:31.160 --> 07:32.160 Jack's not that kind. 07:32.160 --> 07:34.400 He's part of that gang, and right now we hold all of them responsible. 07:34.400 --> 07:36.400 My boy wouldn't do anything like that. 07:36.400 --> 07:38.080 He's a member of that gang he told us. 07:38.080 --> 07:39.720 They're the ones that knifed him tonight. 07:39.720 --> 07:40.720 That's a lie. 07:40.720 --> 07:42.720 Jack's not mixed up with anything like that. 07:42.720 --> 07:44.920 You believe anything you want, Mr. Monroe. 07:44.920 --> 07:47.880 We're going to protect your boy as much as we can, but don't expect us to raise him for 07:47.880 --> 07:48.880 you. 07:48.880 --> 07:49.880 You better take a free piece of advice. 07:49.880 --> 07:50.880 You keep your advice. 07:50.880 --> 07:52.160 Jack's not in this. 07:52.160 --> 07:53.160 You can't prove he is. 07:53.160 --> 07:55.600 We're not out to prove anything right now. 07:55.600 --> 07:57.480 But you catch up with that boy of yours. 07:57.480 --> 07:59.120 Keep him off the streets before it's too late. 07:59.120 --> 08:00.120 Are you threatening me? 08:00.120 --> 08:01.600 No, sir, advising you. 08:01.600 --> 08:07.880 Next time we might meet at the morgue. 08:07.880 --> 08:10.080 One a.m. Monday, March 28th. 08:10.080 --> 08:14.080 A detail of 50 officers from juvenile bureau and metropolitan division were deployed for 08:14.080 --> 08:16.800 16 blocks along Figueroa Street. 08:16.800 --> 08:20.360 At five minutes past one, they started to move south over an appointed area. 08:20.360 --> 08:25.480 In the space of half an hour, 18 young kids, none of them over 17 years old, were picked 08:25.480 --> 08:29.720 up off the streets and brought to the second floor at 1335 Georgia Street, the juvenile 08:29.720 --> 08:30.720 bureau. 08:30.720 --> 08:32.880 Four of the youngsters were girls. 08:32.880 --> 08:36.560 At 1.45 a.m., Ben and I checked the soda fountain on the corner of Franco Alley and 08:36.560 --> 08:37.560 Spring Street. 08:37.560 --> 08:44.560 Same bunch, Joe. 08:44.560 --> 08:47.560 Business as usual. 08:47.560 --> 08:50.560 Yeah, come on. 08:50.560 --> 08:51.560 Hey, Teddy, the bulls. 08:51.560 --> 08:52.560 They're back again. 08:52.560 --> 08:53.560 Same guys. 08:53.560 --> 08:54.560 We're back in Cal Eddie. 08:54.560 --> 08:58.280 Hey, look, why do you guys have to keep tracking us, huh? 08:58.280 --> 09:00.040 You think we were crooks or something. 09:00.040 --> 09:01.680 You were here the last time we checked in, Teddy. 09:01.680 --> 09:02.680 You ever go home? 09:02.680 --> 09:03.680 Sure, when I'm tired. 09:03.680 --> 09:04.680 I ain't tired. 09:04.680 --> 09:06.760 What's the matter? 09:06.760 --> 09:08.000 What's your money on the table there? 09:08.000 --> 09:09.000 Sure, it's my money. 09:09.000 --> 09:11.000 You want to borrow a buck? 09:11.000 --> 09:12.000 $28. 09:12.000 --> 09:14.720 That's a lot of money for a boy your age. 09:14.720 --> 09:16.320 You keep pretty late hours, son. 09:16.320 --> 09:17.320 You have to go to school in the morning. 09:17.320 --> 09:18.320 Maybe. 09:18.320 --> 09:19.320 I can sit here, can't I? 09:19.320 --> 09:20.320 It's free country. 09:20.320 --> 09:21.320 I'm drinking coffee. 09:21.320 --> 09:24.320 You gonna make me on that? 09:24.320 --> 09:25.840 You've been drinking more than coffee. 09:25.840 --> 09:26.840 Where's your driver's license? 09:26.840 --> 09:29.840 Oh, every time the same thing. 09:29.840 --> 09:30.840 There. 09:30.840 --> 09:34.760 March 10th, 1933, 16 years old. 09:34.760 --> 09:36.920 They giving you trouble, Ted? 09:36.920 --> 09:37.920 Eddie's on his way out. 09:37.920 --> 09:38.920 What's your name? 09:38.920 --> 09:39.920 Jones. 09:39.920 --> 09:40.920 Clyde Jones. 09:40.920 --> 09:41.920 Huh, Ted? 09:41.920 --> 09:42.920 Sure. 09:42.920 --> 09:43.920 He's got money too. 09:43.920 --> 09:44.920 Rich family. 09:44.920 --> 09:45.920 You can save the smart talk, boys. 09:45.920 --> 09:47.920 Any of your pals in the back room? 09:47.920 --> 09:49.400 What's the trouble now, Sergeant? 09:49.400 --> 09:51.560 How many times a week do we get a check up? 09:51.560 --> 09:52.560 Go ahead, Eddie. 09:52.560 --> 09:53.560 Read them off. 09:53.560 --> 09:54.560 We told you the last time, Ramsey. 09:54.560 --> 09:56.960 Clean up your place here or we'll ride your back till you do. 09:56.960 --> 09:58.840 I told you the last time, Sergeant. 09:58.840 --> 10:00.160 There's nothing wrong with my place. 10:00.160 --> 10:01.680 It's almost 2 o'clock in the morning. 10:01.680 --> 10:04.120 You got a dozen underage kids hanging around here doing nothing. 10:04.120 --> 10:05.120 Some of them have been drinking. 10:05.120 --> 10:06.120 School boys. 10:06.120 --> 10:09.560 Better to have them in here than hanging around outside in the street. 10:09.560 --> 10:10.760 I keep an eye on them. 10:10.760 --> 10:12.280 You're not the guardian, Ramsey. 10:12.280 --> 10:16.080 This time of night they've got no business in here or on the street alone. 10:16.080 --> 10:17.200 That's your opinion, huh? 10:17.200 --> 10:18.200 That's the law, Ramsey. 10:18.200 --> 10:21.280 Now either you shut down that back room and keep these kids out of here late at night 10:21.280 --> 10:22.960 or we'll go after your license. 10:22.960 --> 10:25.320 You don't scare me, Sergeant. 10:25.320 --> 10:26.320 You can't prove a thing. 10:26.320 --> 10:28.160 A couple of these kids have juvenile records. 10:28.160 --> 10:29.240 They're on probation. 10:29.240 --> 10:30.720 We can tag you for contributing. 10:30.720 --> 10:32.280 You still don't scare me. 10:32.280 --> 10:34.200 Now why don't you leave the kids alone? 10:34.200 --> 10:35.200 That's right, Eddie. 10:35.200 --> 10:36.200 Read them off. 10:36.200 --> 10:37.200 Ben, get Benson and Bell. 10:37.200 --> 10:38.200 Roger. 10:38.200 --> 10:39.680 If you won't clean up your place, Ramsey, we'll do it for you. 10:39.680 --> 10:40.680 Yeah? 10:40.680 --> 10:41.680 What are you gonna do? 10:41.680 --> 10:45.680 We're pulling these boys in, all of them. 10:45.680 --> 10:50.920 2.25 a.m. Monday, March 28th. 10:50.920 --> 10:53.240 The dragnet operation had netted 30 juveniles. 10:53.240 --> 10:55.000 26 boys, 4 girls. 10:55.000 --> 10:58.760 24 of the children were between the ages of 16 and 17. 10:58.760 --> 11:01.980 They were lodged in the assembly room at the Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. 11:01.980 --> 11:04.680 The other half dozen were 13 and 15 year olds. 11:04.680 --> 11:08.360 They were taken to the juvenile hall at 1369 Henry Street. 11:08.360 --> 11:10.480 At 2.43 a.m. we met with Captain Bowling. 11:10.480 --> 11:11.480 Oh, checked in. 11:11.480 --> 11:12.480 30 of them. 11:12.480 --> 11:13.480 All right. 11:13.480 --> 11:15.880 In the morning we filed petitions to have every one of these cases brought to the attention 11:15.880 --> 11:16.880 of the juvenile court. 11:16.880 --> 11:17.880 Make a note of it. 11:17.880 --> 11:18.880 Okay, Bob. 11:18.880 --> 11:20.920 For the kids with records, ask for detention from the probation department. 11:20.920 --> 11:21.920 Right. 11:21.920 --> 11:22.920 We'll call their parents in the morning. 11:22.920 --> 11:23.920 Call them now. 11:23.920 --> 11:27.960 They've got some explaining to do. 11:27.960 --> 11:31.080 By 6 a.m. all but three of the children's parents had shown up. 11:31.080 --> 11:32.880 To most of them it was nothing new. 11:32.880 --> 11:34.520 Their kids had been there before. 11:34.520 --> 11:36.200 They'd be there again. 11:36.200 --> 11:38.960 They took the lecture from the juvenile officers calmly. 11:38.960 --> 11:41.800 As long as it didn't mean trouble for them, they wouldn't worry. 11:41.800 --> 11:44.080 When they got their children home, they would reprimand them. 11:44.080 --> 11:47.600 Not for running the streets, but for being picked up by the police. 11:47.600 --> 11:51.240 Ben and I had seen the cycle of the young criminals start before, a hundred times over. 11:51.240 --> 11:53.040 It had a lot of different endings. 11:53.040 --> 11:55.840 Most of them sour. 11:55.840 --> 11:58.680 During the next week that followed, we booked an average of a dozen juvenile delinquents 11:58.680 --> 11:59.680 every night. 11:59.680 --> 12:00.680 The clampdown continued. 12:00.680 --> 12:01.680 So did the crime wave. 12:01.680 --> 12:08.560 Ten burglaries, four armories, eight car thefts, six purse snitchings, three assaults on women. 12:08.560 --> 12:09.560 One week's work. 12:09.560 --> 12:11.640 Picked up a new angle on Ramsey today, Captain. 12:11.640 --> 12:13.080 He might be fencing for the gang. 12:13.080 --> 12:14.080 Who gave you the tip-off? 12:14.080 --> 12:16.000 One of our informants. 12:16.000 --> 12:17.800 Ramsey's brother lives out in the valley. 12:17.800 --> 12:19.240 He's supposed to be pushing the stuff. 12:19.240 --> 12:20.240 You check him out? 12:20.240 --> 12:21.240 Yeah, couldn't get a thing on him. 12:21.240 --> 12:24.360 Well, it might explain what attracts the kids to that soda farm. 12:24.360 --> 12:26.680 It explains those $20 bills the kids are flashing. 12:26.680 --> 12:29.760 They steal and rob, and then they sell the loot to Ramsey for nothing. 12:29.760 --> 12:33.280 Ramsey keeps his place open all night, and there's no reason to. 12:33.280 --> 12:34.480 He doesn't get that much trade. 12:34.480 --> 12:37.040 It's only from a young gang that hangs around there. 12:37.040 --> 12:38.040 You question the kids. 12:38.040 --> 12:39.920 How do they account for having all that money? 12:39.920 --> 12:42.160 Well, most of them say Ramsey lends it to them. 12:42.160 --> 12:44.720 They say they pay him back a little at a time. 12:44.720 --> 12:45.920 I think he's fencing for the kids. 12:45.920 --> 12:47.320 Have you tried to get his license? 12:47.320 --> 12:48.320 No luck, Captain. 12:48.320 --> 12:49.320 We can't prove a thing against him. 12:49.320 --> 12:51.200 Then we'll do it the hard way. 12:51.200 --> 12:55.640 Sweat it out. 12:55.640 --> 12:58.920 That night, we drove out to Ramsey's soda fountain and asked him again to clean up his 12:58.920 --> 13:03.080 place to keep the young kids out after 10 o'clock at night to stop lending him money. 13:03.080 --> 13:04.080 He refused. 13:04.080 --> 13:05.840 There was nothing we could do. 13:05.840 --> 13:07.280 His business was a public place. 13:07.280 --> 13:10.560 He could not be held responsible for any of his patrons. 13:10.560 --> 13:15.120 In the next 10 days that followed, Ben and I haunted the sidewalk outside the soda fountain. 13:15.120 --> 13:17.320 We questioned every youngster as they entered and left. 13:17.320 --> 13:19.480 We made more than a dozen arrests. 13:19.480 --> 13:20.920 Many of the kids had been drinking heavily. 13:20.920 --> 13:23.600 We found some of them under the influence of narcotics. 13:23.600 --> 13:26.040 But Ramsey was still in the clear. 13:26.040 --> 13:28.360 The crime wave continued sporadically. 13:28.360 --> 13:29.360 Ben and I waited for our chance. 13:29.360 --> 13:31.080 It was a long time coming. 13:31.080 --> 13:36.160 Thursday, April 14th, we had dinner at Johnny Cokin's place and it was 10.35 p.m. when we 13:36.160 --> 13:37.160 checked back in at the office. 13:37.160 --> 13:38.160 Hot shot. 13:38.160 --> 13:39.160 Grab it, Joe. 13:39.160 --> 13:40.160 Yeah. 13:40.160 --> 13:41.160 A terminal on Market Street, a 459 and shooting. 13:41.160 --> 13:42.160 A terminal on Market Street, a 459. 13:42.160 --> 13:43.160 Let's go. 13:43.160 --> 13:58.160 He was approximately five feet four inches tall, 125 pounds, and he was a very, very 13:58.160 --> 13:59.160 tall man. 13:59.160 --> 14:00.160 He had a shirt on. 14:00.160 --> 14:01.160 He had a white shirt, a red jacket, brown eyes, brown hair, brown eyes, slight build, 14:01.160 --> 14:02.160 fair complexion. 14:02.160 --> 14:06.160 He was wearing blue jeans and a corduroy jacket. 14:06.160 --> 14:09.620 We found him between a row of packing cases at the rear of the warehouse at Terminal and 14:09.620 --> 14:10.620 Market Street. 14:10.620 --> 14:13.900 There was a single bullet hole in his forehead just above the left eye. 14:13.900 --> 14:16.660 There was a 38 revolver near his right hand. 14:16.660 --> 14:19.200 The watchman told us how it happened. 14:19.200 --> 14:21.520 She broke in the back of the warehouse, Sergeant. 14:21.520 --> 14:23.220 She wanted to shoot it out with me. 14:23.220 --> 14:24.580 Here's his ID, Corn. 14:24.580 --> 14:26.820 Fell out of his pocket. 14:26.820 --> 14:28.820 Teddy Cameron, age 15. 14:28.820 --> 14:31.820 Dear God, a kid. 14:31.820 --> 14:33.820 I didn't know such a... 14:33.820 --> 14:35.820 He didn't either. 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Dead body report. 16:34.820 --> 16:36.820 Type, gunshot. 16:36.820 --> 16:41.820 DR number 437695. 16:41.820 --> 16:44.820 Victim, Theodore Cameron. 16:44.820 --> 16:49.820 Residence address, 960 Charter Street. 16:49.820 --> 16:57.820 Date and time of death, Thursday, April 14th, 1035 p.m. 16:57.820 --> 17:04.820 Place, Turnal and Market Streets, South State Warehouse. 17:04.820 --> 17:08.820 Cause of death, gunshot. 17:08.820 --> 17:12.820 Motive or reason, attempted burglary. 17:12.820 --> 17:17.820 Time discovered, 1040 p.m. 17:17.820 --> 17:21.820 Move to County Morgue. 17:21.820 --> 17:25.820 Discovered by Carl Hyba Night Watchman. 17:25.820 --> 17:31.820 Identified by Barbara Cameron, sister. 17:31.820 --> 17:37.820 Description of victim, male, Caucasian, age 15. 17:37.820 --> 17:45.820 Height, weight, occupation, student, descent, English. 17:45.820 --> 17:53.820 Witness, sign Joe Friday, serial number 2288. 17:53.820 --> 18:02.820 Age 15. 18:02.820 --> 18:03.820 Ready, Joe? 18:03.820 --> 18:04.820 Hmm? 18:04.820 --> 18:06.820 I mean, Cameron, boy, sister. She's waiting in the next room. 18:06.820 --> 18:09.820 Oh, yeah. Yeah, let's go. 18:09.820 --> 18:15.820 She taking it hard? Yeah. 18:15.820 --> 18:17.820 Morning, Miss Cameron. 18:17.820 --> 18:18.820 Good morning. 18:18.820 --> 18:21.820 We're gonna keep you long, just a few routine questions. 18:21.820 --> 18:22.820 Yes, all right. 18:22.820 --> 18:24.820 Miss Cameron, how many are there in your family? 18:24.820 --> 18:29.820 There were three of us. Teddy, Mike, and me. Mother and father are dead. 18:29.820 --> 18:34.820 I work. Teddy and Mike go to school. I mean, Mike does. 18:34.820 --> 18:36.820 How old is your brother Mike, Miss Cameron? 18:36.820 --> 18:37.820 He's 14. 18:37.820 --> 18:39.820 You're the sole support of your two brothers? 18:39.820 --> 18:40.820 Yes. 18:40.820 --> 18:43.820 Do you have any idea who the boys were your brother Ted used to run around with? 18:43.820 --> 18:49.820 I don't know them by name. I remember seeing a couple of them once or twice. 18:49.820 --> 18:54.820 Mike would know, I think. He and Ted were pretty close brothers. 18:54.820 --> 18:57.820 Do you know if Ted mixed with a gang of kids down on Spring Street? 18:57.820 --> 19:03.820 Maybe Mike would know that. Sergeant Teddy wasn't a bad boy. 19:03.820 --> 19:07.820 He wasn't a bum. None of us are. 19:07.820 --> 19:12.820 I tried to raise the boys like Ma told me. It wasn't easy. 19:12.820 --> 19:13.820 We made out. 19:13.820 --> 19:14.820 Yes, I understand, Miss Cameron. 19:14.820 --> 19:18.820 Our salary didn't have too much, but we got by. 19:18.820 --> 19:19.820 Yeah. 19:19.820 --> 19:27.820 I figured on getting married. I'm 31. It'd be good for the boys, especially Teddy. 19:27.820 --> 19:31.820 He's dead, isn't he? 19:31.820 --> 19:37.820 Yeah. I couldn't be in two places at once. 19:37.820 --> 19:42.820 Hold a job and watch the kids. But that's why I thought maybe a husband... 19:42.820 --> 19:47.820 I'm sorry to press, Miss Cameron. Do you think your brother Mike can tell us about that Spring Street gang? 19:47.820 --> 19:48.820 No, Mike can't. 19:48.820 --> 19:49.820 Where can we find him? 19:49.820 --> 19:55.820 Staying at a friend's house. I've got the address in my bag. 19:55.820 --> 20:00.820 Here. That's 2514. I don't write numbers too well. 20:00.820 --> 20:02.820 Thank you, Miss Cameron. You've been very helpful. 20:02.820 --> 20:04.820 I'll get somebody to drive you home. 20:04.820 --> 20:09.820 How do I have to go? Would it be all right if I just sit here for a while? 20:09.820 --> 20:11.820 That's all right. 20:11.820 --> 20:16.820 I'm tired. Real tired. 20:16.820 --> 20:21.820 2514 West Serrano Street. That was the address Barbara Cameron had given us. 20:21.820 --> 20:26.820 It was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Brewer, high school friends of the dead boy's sister. 20:26.820 --> 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. 20:30.820 --> 20:32.820 He identified Ramsey Soda Fountain as the hangout. 20:32.820 --> 20:36.820 It was 2.25 p.m. when we got back to Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. 20:36.820 --> 20:39.820 Hi, Guy. 20:39.820 --> 20:42.820 Juvenile Bureau, Romero. 20:42.820 --> 20:44.820 Yeah, hold on. I'll call it. 20:44.820 --> 20:46.820 Here, Joe. 20:46.820 --> 20:48.820 Thanks. Friday. 20:48.820 --> 20:50.820 Joe, this is Canfield and Burglary. 20:50.820 --> 20:51.820 Yeah, Homer. 20:51.820 --> 20:52.820 You work in that Cameron case, aren't you? 20:52.820 --> 20:53.820 Yeah. 20:53.820 --> 20:57.820 I just got a report on one you might be interested in out of the same neighborhood. Distillery Prowl. 20:57.820 --> 20:58.820 What do you got on it? 20:58.820 --> 21:02.820 Looks like a juvenile M.O. They got away with seven cases of scotch whiskey. Expensive stuff. 21:02.820 --> 21:03.820 Okay, we'll hop on it. 21:03.820 --> 21:09.820 Bubeck Warehouse, Crocker at 7th. 21:09.820 --> 21:12.820 Miss Elizabeth Rice was the auditor in charge at the Bubeck Warehouse. 21:12.820 --> 21:14.820 We located her on the mezzanine office row. 21:14.820 --> 21:18.820 It was her job to keep a running inventory on all incoming and outgoing liquor stock. 21:18.820 --> 21:20.820 She knew her job well. 21:20.820 --> 21:27.820 As you know, Sergeant Friday, each and every bottle of distilled spirits carries a United States Internal Revenue stamp. 21:27.820 --> 21:28.820 Yes, ma'am. 21:28.820 --> 21:33.820 Each stamp carries a serial number together with the name of the firm to whom the stamps are issued. 21:33.820 --> 21:37.820 Well, Miss Rice, in the stuff that's missing, the stamp on each bottle carries the case number, is that right? 21:37.820 --> 21:40.820 That's right. Now, what did I tell you? 21:40.820 --> 21:47.820 Oh, yes, I have it right here. Seven cases of high-grade blended scotch whiskey. 21:47.820 --> 21:50.820 Now, I have a bottle identical to those in the missing cases. 21:50.820 --> 21:51.820 Yes, I see. 21:51.820 --> 21:53.820 Now, if you'll just look here. 21:53.820 --> 21:54.820 Yes, ma'am. 21:54.820 --> 22:02.820 The number on this stamp here, 368-227-9956, followed by the firm name. 22:02.820 --> 22:04.820 Could you give us the numbers of the stolen cases? 22:04.820 --> 22:07.820 I have them typed out for you right here. 22:07.820 --> 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. 22:15.820 --> 22:17.820 All right, thank you very much, Miss Rice. 22:17.820 --> 22:21.820 And you think that this might be a juvenile case, Sergeant? 22:21.820 --> 22:22.820 Yes, ma'am, we do. 22:22.820 --> 22:25.820 Seven cases, that's close to $600, isn't it? 22:25.820 --> 22:31.820 We've lost a great deal more than that, Sergeant. The insurance company makes up for the liquor loss. 22:31.820 --> 22:32.820 Yes, ma'am. 22:32.820 --> 22:36.820 Those youngsters, who makes up for them? 22:39.820 --> 22:43.820 Ben and I left the Buick warehouse with a list of serial numbers of the seven cases of stolen liquor. 22:43.820 --> 22:45.820 We headed back to the juvenile bureau. 22:45.820 --> 22:51.820 We figured that there was a strong possibility that the Spring Street gang was responsible for the warehouse liquor theft. 22:51.820 --> 22:53.820 How were they disposing of the stolen property? 22:53.820 --> 22:55.820 That was the key question we had to answer. 22:55.820 --> 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, 23:00.820 --> 23:03.820 a man or woman whose job it is to dispose of stolen property. 23:03.820 --> 23:08.820 The gang members were close to Ramsey at the soda fountain. Ramsey was the logical suspect. 23:08.820 --> 23:11.820 All right, well, suppose they did steal the liquor. 23:11.820 --> 23:14.820 Suppose Ramsey's a fence. What's he done with the stuff? 23:14.820 --> 23:17.820 I don't think he's turned it this fast, if he's turned it at all. 23:17.820 --> 23:21.820 He wouldn't keep it at the soda fountain, no liquor license. And we've been around too much. 23:21.820 --> 23:25.820 He wouldn't keep it in his house. He lives in the rear of the fountain that's too hot. 23:25.820 --> 23:28.820 Only leaves one other location that we know about. 23:28.820 --> 23:30.820 His brother's place in the valley. 23:33.820 --> 23:37.820 It was five minutes to ten when we turned left off Ventura Boulevard onto Sepulveda. 23:37.820 --> 23:41.820 Ramsey's brother had a small farm about a mile and a half off the highway. 23:41.820 --> 23:44.820 It was a modest white frame house planted squarely in the center of an acre of ground. 23:44.820 --> 23:47.820 An unpaved driveway led off to the left of the house to the garage. 23:47.820 --> 23:49.820 Pull up here, huh? 23:49.820 --> 23:51.820 Yeah, okay. 23:51.820 --> 23:54.820 It looks kind of quiet, no lights. 23:54.820 --> 23:56.820 Let's go. 24:01.820 --> 24:03.820 Mud sticks to everything. 24:03.820 --> 24:06.820 Where's the doorbell? Oh, here it is. 24:06.820 --> 24:09.820 You got your flashlight? Yeah, what? 24:09.820 --> 24:12.820 Here's a note somebody left. 24:12.820 --> 24:17.820 Oh, it's on the bum again. Here, let's try to match. Okay. 24:17.820 --> 24:21.820 Can you hold it a little closer? Can you read it? Yeah. 24:21.820 --> 24:26.820 Harry, wife and I have gone to the drive-in theater. 24:26.820 --> 24:32.820 Before you put the truck away, get three... Can you hold that match closer? Oh, no, wait a minute. 24:32.820 --> 24:36.820 Yeah, get three cases out of the garage and take them into town. 24:36.820 --> 24:41.820 Ed is waiting. Please try to make it by 11.30 tonight. 24:41.820 --> 24:43.820 Let's see, it's signed George. The address is here. 24:43.820 --> 24:46.820 And there's a garage. Yeah, come on. 24:48.820 --> 24:53.820 Three cases. Could be eggs, Joe. If it is, we wasted a trip. 24:53.820 --> 25:00.820 Oh, I'm out of matches, Joe. All right, here, use mine. 25:00.820 --> 25:05.820 What was that? Checking. Come on. 25:05.820 --> 25:08.820 See anything? No. 25:08.820 --> 25:11.820 There goes the light. Just a minute, I'll strike another one. 25:11.820 --> 25:14.820 You can save your matches. We found it. 25:17.820 --> 25:20.820 We found five cases of eggs. 25:20.820 --> 25:24.820 We found five cases of Scotch whiskey on the floor of the garage. 25:24.820 --> 25:27.820 We checked the serial numbers against the warehouse list. They matched. 25:27.820 --> 25:29.820 We went back to the car and called communications. 25:29.820 --> 25:33.820 We had an immediate stakeout placed on George Ramsey's place, and then we headed back for the city. 25:33.820 --> 25:37.820 It was 11.20 p.m. when we got to the address we found on the note. 25:39.820 --> 25:44.820 It's about time, Harry. Hello, Ramsey. We can do without the music. 25:44.820 --> 25:48.820 What's your problem this time? 25:48.820 --> 25:52.820 You're almost out of Scotch, Ramsey. Serial numbers check out, Joe. 25:52.820 --> 25:56.820 Sorry I can't offer you a drink. We're too old to drink here, aren't we, Ramsey? 25:56.820 --> 25:58.820 Where's your phone? You want to invite somebody? 25:58.820 --> 26:01.820 You can see we're out of booze. You got a phone? 26:01.820 --> 26:04.820 In the hall. Ben, call the office. Yeah. 26:06.820 --> 26:09.820 All right, what's it all about? We've been out to your brother's place. 26:09.820 --> 26:11.820 What happened to the other two cases? You drink them here? 26:11.820 --> 26:14.820 I gave it to the kids. 26:15.820 --> 26:17.820 What are you looking at me like that for, Sergeant? 26:17.820 --> 26:20.820 Anything wrong, Eddie? Party's over, kid. 26:27.820 --> 26:30.820 The story you have just heard was true. 26:30.820 --> 26:34.820 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:34.820 --> 26:42.820 On June 5, 1949, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 74, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 26:42.820 --> 26:44.820 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:44.820 --> 26:50.820 Earlier tonight, you heard the reports of amazing increases in Fatima smokers from New York to Los Angeles. 26:50.820 --> 26:56.820 Yes, all over the country, Fatima is doubling and redoubling its sales. And here's reason one. 26:56.820 --> 27:04.820 Fatima is the long cigarette that contains an essential ingredient of all the very popular cigarettes, Turkish tobacco. 27:04.820 --> 27:11.820 Reason two. Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. 27:11.820 --> 27:18.820 Reason three. 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