1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,840 The story you're about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:15,680 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:24,560 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, brings you Dragnet. 4 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:34,040 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,640 You're assigned to homicide detail. 6 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,760 Attempts have been made on the life of a notorious hoodlum in your city. 7 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,520 His death could mean an open gang war. 8 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:48,680 Your job, stop it. 9 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,640 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of all long cigarettes. 10 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,200 Smoke king size Fatima. 11 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:02,640 Fatima is the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly 12 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,180 blended to make Fatima extra mild. 13 00:01:06,180 --> 00:01:11,720 And that's why Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other 14 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:13,600 long cigarette. 15 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,520 That's why Fatima has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. 16 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:23,400 So enjoy Fatima, the best of all long cigarettes. 17 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,400 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 18 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,400 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 19 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:40,000 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 20 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,120 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 21 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,160 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 22 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,640 files. 23 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:54,720 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 24 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:55,720 in action. 25 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:00,240 It was Tuesday, July 18th. 26 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:01,800 It was hot in Los Angeles. 27 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,360 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 28 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,680 My partner is Ben Romero, the boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 29 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:08,680 My name is Friday. 30 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,800 It was 5.35 p.m. when we got out of the car at Sunset Boulevard in Paris Avenue and walked 31 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,160 down the street to the scene of the machine gunning. 32 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:22,480 The Loupos Cafe. 33 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:23,480 Look at that, Joe. 34 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:24,480 Yeah. 35 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,480 Lift up the whole front of the place. 36 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:28,480 Hi. 37 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:29,480 Yes, sir. 38 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:30,480 Romero and Friday, homicide. 39 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:31,480 Oh, I'm Sheldon from Hollywood Division. 40 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:32,480 Taylor and I picked up the call in our car. 41 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:33,480 Nobody hurt. 42 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:34,480 What's the story? 43 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:35,480 Just a second. 44 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:36,480 It's Captain Elliott holding them at Wees, Sheldon. 45 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:37,480 Hi. 46 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:38,480 Hi, Captain. 47 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:39,480 Number one. 48 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:47,120 Not much of it left. 49 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:48,680 Sheldon here was in the cruiser car. 50 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:49,680 He'll fill us in. 51 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:50,680 All right. 52 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:52,520 The intended victim was Gus Valentine. 53 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:53,520 He's over there with Taylor, my partner. 54 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:54,520 Yeah. 55 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,520 According to Valentine, he stopped in the restaurant here for a drink. 56 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,280 He was in there about 15 minutes, came out to hail a cab, and this car came around the 57 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:02,280 corner. 58 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:03,880 Down there, Sunset and Clayton. 59 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,280 They whipped by close to the curb and opened up. 60 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,520 They had the laundry there on one side of the place and a dry cleaning joint on the 61 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:11,520 other side. 62 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:12,520 Yes, sir. 63 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:13,520 A miracle, but nobody was hit. 64 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:14,520 Did you get anything on the car? 65 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,400 Nothing so far happened so fast, nobody got a good look at it. 66 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:18,400 How about Valentine? 67 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:19,400 Does he have any ideas? 68 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:20,400 I don't know. 69 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,640 Taylor's getting the information. 70 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:22,640 Nobody saw anything? 71 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:23,640 Any witnesses? 72 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:24,640 Yes, sir. 73 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:25,640 A couple. 74 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:30,520 A newsboy, Tim Benson, the lady in the dry cleaning place, Agnes Rebart. 75 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,000 Neither of them got a license number. 76 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Okay. 77 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 I'd like to talk to Valentine. 78 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,600 If you shout and keep the area clear, will you? 79 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:37,920 The lab men are on their way out. 80 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:38,920 Yes, sir. 81 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:39,920 Come on. 82 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:46,800 I told you I had no idea. 83 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,800 Green Fort Sedoon, is that it? 84 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:49,800 Yes. 85 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:50,800 Elliott Central Homicide. 86 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:51,800 Yes, sir. 87 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:52,800 This is Mr. Valentine, the intended victim. 88 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:53,800 Yes. 89 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:55,800 This is Sergeant Friday, Sergeant Romero. 90 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:57,800 Sergeant Friday, how are you? 91 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:58,800 Fine. 92 00:03:58,800 --> 00:03:59,800 It's been a long time. 93 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:00,800 Finally got out of the uniform, huh? 94 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:01,800 Seven years ago. 95 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:02,800 Who was it, Gus? 96 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,720 If I knew, I'd tell you, I don't like being shot at. 97 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:06,720 Let's go sit in the car. 98 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:07,720 This way, Valentine. 99 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:12,720 You want to get in back? 100 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,720 All right. 101 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,720 All right. 102 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:20,720 What's the story, Valentine? 103 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:21,720 How do you mean? 104 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:22,720 Let's not play it cozy. 105 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:23,720 Who's after you? 106 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,080 You suppose this would have happened if I knew? 107 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:27,080 Who's carrying the beef? 108 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:28,080 Somebody's unhappy with you. 109 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:29,080 You must know who. 110 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:30,080 I don't. 111 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:31,080 You know what kind of a car it was? 112 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,120 The other cop over there, Sedan, Green Ford. 113 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:34,880 We're not going to press you, Valentine. 114 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,280 You might as well know how we peg this kind of thing. 115 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:38,280 Yeah? 116 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:39,640 We got your number, had it for a long time. 117 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,440 You're all up and down the blotter from Lincoln Heights to the county jail. 118 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,520 You got a record everybody in this town knows about. 119 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,040 Aren't you a little mixed up? 120 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:47,760 I'm the guy that got shot at. 121 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:48,760 We know that. 122 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,080 I pay my taxes for protection, not a lecture on my past. 123 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:52,760 Let me give you the word, Valentine. 124 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,360 I've known you for a long time, and I've read about you in the newspapers. 125 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,920 I've watched your so-called climb from two-bit penny-ante rackets all the way up. 126 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,080 You've been told more than once about keeping your nose clean. 127 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:02,320 This is a switch, isn't it? 128 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,720 Man gets shot at, cops read riot act, innocent victim. 129 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,600 Look, we know you and we know that crowd you run with. 130 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,400 If you want to start a war around a battlefield, don't pick the streets of Los Angeles to fight 131 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:10,400 it out. 132 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:11,520 I don't think I asked for it the way you men talk. 133 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:13,760 You did somewhere up and down the line. 134 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:14,760 We know your operation. 135 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:16,160 You walked the sideline marker all the way. 136 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,080 Always got one foot inside the law. 137 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,000 When you make yourself a target for some punk's machine gun, that's where you step outside. 138 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,840 What are you going to do, eat me out and let the man with the machine gun get away? 139 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:25,920 We'll get him, whether you want to help us or not. 140 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,120 We just don't have the time to run around jamming a cork in the barrel of every gun in town. 141 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,240 Before you get out of this car, let this sink in. 142 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,080 There's not going to be any innocent people cut down by bullets that were meant for you. 143 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:35,080 Oh, I get it. 144 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,080 My tax money's no good, huh? 145 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,280 I pay a bigger chunk than most of the clods in this town. 146 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:40,960 You haven't got a clear title to the city yet, and until you do, don't set up a shooting 147 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:41,960 gun. 148 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,560 What do I do, dig a foxhole until you get ready to tap whoever's taking pot shots at me? 149 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:45,560 You can tell us who it is. 150 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:46,560 You got all I know. 151 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:47,960 Don't you think I'd want them picked up? 152 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:48,960 I think you're a liar. 153 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,680 I think you'd better square your beef and knock off this gangster stuff. 154 00:05:51,680 --> 00:06:07,280 There's not going to be any more of this kind of thing, understand? 155 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:11,600 Almost without exception, every city in the United States says it's Gus Valentine. 156 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,600 These men remain out of custody, not because of any lack of law enforcement, but because 157 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:20,040 of their ability to hide behind the laws which are designed to protect the innocent and use 158 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,080 them to their own advantage. 159 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:26,040 They operate allowing only the thinnest margin possible between themselves and the state 160 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:27,040 penitentiary. 161 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,240 We drove back to central division. 162 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,120 At 6.18 p.m., we were called to the chief of detective's office. 163 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,600 They wouldn't give you anything, huh? 164 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:34,600 Not a thing. 165 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:35,600 Usual line of smart talk. 166 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,840 Whoever after him meant business on storefronts were a mess. 167 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:40,400 Well, they won't quit now. 168 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:41,400 Just a minute. 169 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,400 What's that intelligence number? 170 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:44,400 2821. 171 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,400 Oh, yeah. 172 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,040 Mr. Brown, Captain White gone home? 173 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,040 I know. 174 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,080 Ask him to come up to the office. 175 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,080 Will you please? 176 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:56,080 Thanks. 177 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,960 If they do manage to tag Valentine, it could cause a pretty sour mess. 178 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,080 He's got enough flunkies around to parlay it into a fair-sized shooting war. 179 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:03,880 Seem to have started on less. 180 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,040 Was there any chance of pulling Valentine in until things simmer down? 181 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:08,040 No chance. 182 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:09,040 We've got nothing on him. 183 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:10,040 Nothing we can prove. 184 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:11,040 He's got a few boys close to him. 185 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:12,760 Maybe one of them could tell her. 186 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:14,920 Same two lawyers work for all of them. 187 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,520 If we pull him in, they'd be out in an hour on a writ. 188 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:18,520 You want to see me? 189 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:19,520 Yeah, why? 190 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:20,520 Sit down. 191 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:22,520 Let Valentine's shooting this afternoon. 192 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:23,520 Yeah. 193 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:24,520 What's your guess? 194 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:25,520 There's been some talk. 195 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,840 We heard he was hot. 196 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:28,840 You knew that. 197 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:29,840 Yeah. 198 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,520 The way we figured, he's getting too big for his pants. 199 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,520 He's coming up fast. 200 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,040 Stepped on a lot of toes on the way. 201 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:38,840 Shouldn't be too tough to find out why. 202 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:39,840 That's half of it. 203 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:41,520 If we get that much, maybe we can find out who. 204 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,240 You got a big field to pick from. 205 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,040 I can find you a dozen possibles. 206 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:46,040 We don't need a dozen. 207 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,320 All we want are the ones in that car this afternoon. 208 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:49,640 Who do you figure, Captain Hoy? 209 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,360 I kind of go along with Joe. 210 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,400 Like I said, I think maybe we'll be able to peg why a little faster. 211 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,080 And we can go from there. 212 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:58,080 All right. 213 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,320 Let's take what we know about the guy. 214 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,520 Let's just take this past year. 215 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,080 We know he's got more than a good share of the Mexican narcotics traffic. 216 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,400 That means he's taking business from the Eastern Syndicate. 217 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:10,880 That makes one of those boys a candidate. 218 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:11,880 That's right. 219 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,600 And there's the pinball machines. 220 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,080 He's giving Big Ernie Jacobs and Monk Watson a big push on those. 221 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:18,560 And put Simon to running. 222 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,240 That's a long list. 223 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,760 The horses, fancy poker games, prostitution, the works. 224 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:24,760 He's squeezing them all. 225 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,360 A lot of guys could be shooting at him with a machine gun. 226 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:28,360 Where do we start? 227 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:29,360 Legwork. 228 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:30,360 Lots of it. 229 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,360 Fast. 230 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:32,720 We'll start nosing around, see what we can pick up. 231 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,200 Friday, you and Romero can give us a hand there. 232 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:36,200 Yes, sir. 233 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:37,200 All right with you, L.E.? 234 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:38,200 Fine. 235 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:39,200 I don't have to tell you we've got to move as quick as we can. 236 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,640 We've got a lot of places to hit and we haven't got too much time. 237 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,000 We'll keep Valentine under surveillance to make sure he doesn't try to square things 238 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 with a gun. 239 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Yeah. 240 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,920 This is one the taxpayers wouldn't understand. 241 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:49,920 Yeah. 242 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,840 Trying to keep a guy alive that'd be more dangerous dead. 243 00:08:52,840 --> 00:09:01,960 Wednesday, July 19th, Ben and I started making the rounds to find out why someone was out 244 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,280 to get Gus Valentine. 245 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:05,280 Captain was right. 246 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:06,280 The list of his enemies was long. 247 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:11,120 For two days, we talked to gamblers and bartenders at the usual hangouts. 248 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,760 The few slim leads we picked up led nowhere. 249 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:18,960 Saturday, July 22nd, we met with one of Ben's informants, a bar boy at a cafe out on Santa 250 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:19,960 Monica Boulevard. 251 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:20,960 That's him over there. 252 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:21,960 At that table. 253 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:22,960 Oh, yeah. 254 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:23,960 Yuri, how are you? 255 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:24,960 Hiya, Ben. 256 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:25,960 Grab a chair. 257 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:26,960 You know my partner, don't you? 258 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:27,960 Sure. 259 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:28,960 Sit down, Joe. 260 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:29,960 Hi. 261 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:30,960 Want a beer? 262 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:31,960 No, no thanks. 263 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:32,960 We're working. 264 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:33,960 Coke? 265 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:34,960 Okay. 266 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:35,960 One more. 267 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:41,400 Here you go. 268 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:52,240 It's good and cold. 269 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:59,040 Doctor cut me down one beer a day. 270 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,040 It's a spot on a hot date, huh? 271 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:02,040 Yeah. 272 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:03,040 What about Valentine? 273 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:04,040 What about him? 274 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:05,840 You hear anything since I phoned you? 275 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:06,840 A couple of things. 276 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:08,840 Word's getting around he's a Welcher. 277 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:09,840 Horses? 278 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:10,840 I don't know. 279 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:11,840 Big money. 280 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:12,840 He hasn't paid off yet. 281 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:13,840 Who does he owe? 282 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:14,840 I can give you the name of one of them, Sal Tapper. 283 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:15,840 I don't know him. 284 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:16,840 Meat packing business, wholesaler. 285 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,360 Got a big plant down at 54th and commercial. 286 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,280 Owns a little neighborhood bar. 287 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:22,840 That's where he spends most of his time. 288 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:23,840 Where's that? 289 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:24,840 Gardena. 290 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:25,840 Calls it the Mile High. 291 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:26,840 What about this Sal Tapper? 292 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:27,840 What do you mean? 293 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,840 How close is he to Valentine? 294 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:30,840 You mean one of his boys? 295 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:31,840 Yeah. 296 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:32,840 No. 297 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:33,840 Valentine's his book, that's all. 298 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,840 Supposing Valentine owed him a wad of dough, would he push his points? 299 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:37,840 How do you mean? 300 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:38,840 Would he use pressure to collect? 301 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,840 Maybe a meat cleaver, not a machine gun. 302 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,840 I don't figure him in on that Tuesday caper. 303 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,840 Sure you don't want this set of coke? 304 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:46,840 No, thank you. 305 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:47,840 What time you go to work? 306 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:48,840 Plenty of time. 307 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,840 One bottle of beer ain't hardly enough. 308 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:54,840 Any rumbles about the shooting? 309 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:55,840 How do you mean? 310 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:56,840 Anything worth repeating? 311 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,840 Everybody says the same thing. 312 00:10:58,840 --> 00:10:59,840 He's got it coming. 313 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:00,840 Who is everybody? 314 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:01,840 The homeowners, neighborhood Joe's. 315 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:02,840 They got it all pegged. 316 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:03,840 What's the popular guess? 317 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:04,840 The name. 318 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:06,840 Well, that's about it, huh, Jerry? 319 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:07,840 That's about it. 320 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:08,840 What's your guess? 321 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:09,840 Fresh out, I don't know. 322 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,840 How come you guys are so worried about Gus Valentine? 323 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,840 I didn't think you cared whether he lived or died. 324 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:16,840 Either way, we're in trouble. 325 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:24,840 We left the cafe on Santa Monica Boulevard and drove out to Gardena to the Mile High Bar. 326 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,840 It was a typical neighborhood tavern with the windows painted in black 327 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,840 except for two small ovals in the center of each window. 328 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,840 They were filled with beer signs and red neon. 329 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,840 The cloth sign advertised shuffleboard and life-size television. 330 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,840 Inside, the walls were covered with alpine mountain climbers 331 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,840 trying to fight their way up a mountain that looked twice as steep as the Matterhorn. 332 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,840 Give me ten nickels, will you, Lin? 333 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,840 Can you tell us where we can find a solid tapper? 334 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,840 Yeah, I'm in. 335 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,840 Thanks, Lin. 336 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:56,840 What do you want? 337 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:57,840 Police officers. 338 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:58,840 I'd like to talk to you. 339 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,840 Sure, what about? 340 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:01,840 Gus Valentine. 341 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:03,840 Yeah? 342 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:07,840 He owes me money. 343 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,840 Is that all you've got against him? 344 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,840 As much as he owes me, that's enough. 345 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,840 This is a real tough machine to me. 346 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:20,840 How much money does he owe you? 347 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:21,840 Enough. 348 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,840 How long has he been booking for you? 349 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,840 I didn't say he was booking for me. 350 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:26,840 No, we did. 351 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:28,840 About two years. 352 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,840 Come on. 353 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:38,840 Hit it. 354 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,840 Four thousand on the first ball. 355 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,840 I gotta do better than that. 356 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:44,840 Where were you Tuesday afternoon? 357 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:45,840 At the packing house. 358 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:46,840 Can you prove it? 359 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,840 What I said, if I couldn't prove it... 360 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,840 When that little gate up there, 361 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,840 turns green and you go through it, 362 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:57,840 you get an extra ball. 363 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,840 If it's red, it doubles your score, 364 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:01,840 but it's real tough to get in there. 365 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:03,840 How long has Valentine owed you money? 366 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:04,840 All a little over a week. 367 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:05,840 When did he say he'd pay you? 368 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,840 He didn't say. 369 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:09,840 Said he was trying to raise the dog. 370 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:11,840 You're the only one he owes? 371 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:24,840 No. 372 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:25,840 There's a couple more guys in town. 373 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:26,840 Remember who they are? 374 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:27,840 No. 375 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:28,840 How do you know he owes somebody besides you? 376 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:30,840 I heard. 377 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:39,840 Did he say why he hasn't paid up? 378 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:40,840 What'd you say? 379 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,840 Did he say why he hasn't paid up? 380 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:43,840 I told you, he said he was trying to raise the money. 381 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,840 You sure you haven't tried to put the bite on him? 382 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:46,840 Sure I have. Sure I have. 383 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:48,840 I want the dog. 384 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:49,840 But I didn't gun him. 385 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:50,840 Somebody did? 386 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:52,840 Yeah, I know. I know. It wasn't me. 387 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:53,840 You had a reason. 388 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:54,840 I sold a lot of people. 389 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:55,840 Yeah. 390 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:56,840 We're looking for the one with the machine gun. 391 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:58,840 Well, I can't help you there. 392 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,840 Come on. 393 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,840 Get in there. 394 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,840 Hey. Hey, look at that. Free ball. 395 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,840 26,000. That's a real tough machine to beat. 396 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:15,840 And where did you say you worked usually? 397 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,840 At my packing plant, 54th and commercial. 398 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:19,840 Okay. 399 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:21,840 How long have you known Gus Valancey? 400 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:23,840 About four years. I met him at a party out in Hollywood. 401 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,840 It's the first time I've ever known him to Welch. 402 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:28,840 Mm-hmm. 403 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:34,840 In there. 404 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:36,840 Now. 405 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,840 Ah. 27,000. 406 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:42,840 I'm not doing so good, am I? 407 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,840 I don't know. It depends on where you were Tuesday. 408 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,840 12.30 p.m. We talked with the superintendent of Tapper's Meatpacking House. 409 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:57,840 He told us that Saul Tapper had been there all day when Gus Valentine was shot at. 410 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,840 We talked to several employees of the plant. They corroborated his story. 411 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,840 We checked Tapper out and found him to be a fairly respectable businessman 412 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:09,840 who gambled a great deal on the side, but we felt reasonably sure that he had no part in the shooting. 413 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:12,840 We knew that if we could run down the others to whom Valentine owed money, 414 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:17,840 we'd be closer to finding out why he was being shot at and eventually get to the right man. 415 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,840 1.45 p.m. Ben and I went upstairs to the eighth floor of the City Hall, the lunch room. 416 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,840 We had a sandwich and coffee. 417 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,840 Too close to dinner to have a piece of that pie, isn't it? 418 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,840 Yeah, I'd say so. Hand me another napkin, will you? 419 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:31,840 Yeah. Here. 420 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,840 Thank you. 421 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,840 Think you'd do any good to talk to Valentine again? 422 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,840 Maybe. I doubt it. He's not gonna tell us anything. 423 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:40,840 I figure we're on the right track. 424 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,840 A lot of reasons why he might be a target, but this welching business, that's new to him. 425 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:46,840 Could be. 426 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:47,840 You Sergeant Friday? 427 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:48,840 That's right. 428 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:49,840 Telephone. 429 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:50,840 Wait a minute. I'll go with you. I'm finished. 430 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:52,840 No, you got the check. I'll get the tip. 431 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:54,840 All right. 432 00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:58,840 Slide that phone over the way. 433 00:15:58,840 --> 00:15:59,840 Oh, yeah. 434 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:01,840 Thank you. 435 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:03,840 Friday. 436 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:04,840 Come down to Chief Brown's office right away. 437 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,840 Yes, sir. 438 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:08,840 Let's go. 439 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:13,840 That pie sure did look good. 440 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:14,840 Come on, let's get that over here. 441 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,840 Yeah. 442 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:17,840 Hey, who called? 443 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,840 It was the skipper. He wants us to go to Chief Brown's office. 444 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:21,840 Temple Street floor, please. 445 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:22,840 What's up? 446 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:23,840 I don't know. 447 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:24,840 You make the runs again tonight? 448 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:26,840 Yeah. A couple places we can hit in the south end of town. 449 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,840 I called Charlie Flint's place this afternoon. Maybe he'll have something for us. 450 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,840 Yeah, I hope so. 451 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:34,840 Come on. 452 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,840 Wish now I'd had that pie. I'm still hungry. 453 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:41,840 I got a candy bar in my desk. You can have that. 454 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,840 I can't eat those chewy bars. It'll eat. 455 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:44,840 Oh, it's some kind of a fudge bar. 456 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:46,840 Oh, come on. 457 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:49,840 Come in. 458 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:50,840 Yes, sir. 459 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:51,840 Get over to Georgia Street right away. 460 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:52,840 Why? 461 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:53,840 That's Valentine. They did it again. 462 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:54,840 Yeah. 463 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:59,840 This time they didn't miss. 464 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:13,840 Here, step by step, are the reasons why Fatima has more than doubled its smokers from coast to coast. 465 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:14,840 Step one. 466 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:19,840 The name Fatima has always stood for the best in cigarette quality. 467 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:20,840 Step two. 468 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:25,840 Long cigarette smokers discover Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 469 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:26,840 Step three. 470 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:30,840 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima extra mild. 471 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:36,840 Fatima is the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos 472 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,840 superbly blended to make Fatima extra mild. 473 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,840 And that's why more and more smokers every day agree. 474 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,840 It's wise to smoke extra mild, Fatima. 475 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,840 It's wise to smoke extra mild, Fatima. 476 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:59,840 Yes, the name Fatima on that golden yellow package is your insurance of an extra mild smoke. 477 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:06,840 So enjoy king size Fatima, the best of all long cigarettes. 478 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,840 Saturday, July 22nd, 5.30 p.m. 479 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,840 We drove to the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital and went up to the third floor. 480 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:24,840 We talked to the doctor in charge who told us that two slugs had been taken from Gus Valentine's right leg 481 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:25,840 and one from his right shoulder. 482 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,840 They had been marked for identification. 483 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,840 He was in fair condition. 484 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,840 We talked with the patrolman who made the ambulance follow up. 485 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,840 They told us Valentine had been shot as he entered his apartment house garage. 486 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:37,840 There were no eye witnesses. 487 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:39,840 We went in and talked to Valentine. 488 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,840 You told the officers that the guy who shot you was on foot. 489 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:43,840 Yeah. 490 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:44,840 Who was it? 491 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:45,840 Couldn't tell. 492 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:47,840 You haven't any idea who it could have been? 493 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:48,840 No. 494 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,840 You don't expect us to swallow that again, do you? 495 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:51,840 I don't care either way. 496 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:53,840 Why don't you pay up what you owe? 497 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:54,840 What do you mean? 498 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:55,840 You owe some big money. 499 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:56,840 You haven't paid off. 500 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:57,840 Where'd you get that? 501 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,840 That's the word going around. 502 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:01,840 Looks to us like you either pay up or get shot up. 503 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:02,840 Did I ask for advice? 504 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:03,840 No, and here's something else you didn't ask for. 505 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,840 Twice in one week you've been mixed up in shooting scrapes. 506 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:07,840 We told you the city doesn't belong to you. 507 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:08,840 I don't claim ownership. 508 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:10,840 Now listen, we've been over this before and this is the last time. 509 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,840 Don't push us any courage. 510 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:13,840 We know you talk big and you haven't got the guts to go along with it. 511 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:14,840 Yeah, sure. 512 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:15,840 Now come on, who's shooting at you? 513 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:16,840 I know your phone number. 514 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:17,840 I'll call you if I need help. 515 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:19,840 I'll take care of this myself. 516 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:21,840 Valentine, the first time you pull a cap gun, we're going to sit on you. 517 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,840 If there's any retaliating, we'll do it. 518 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:25,840 I'm tired of sitting like a duck on a pond. 519 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:26,840 Then tell us who's gunning for you. 520 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:27,840 That's between me and them. 521 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:28,840 I'll meet them when I'm ready. 522 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:29,840 All right. 523 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:30,840 We're through talking. 524 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:34,840 When we get to the bottom of this and find out who's been doing all the shooting, we'll have an answer. 525 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,840 And if we find out you've been withholding evidence, it's going to go hard for you, understand? 526 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:38,840 Yeah, sure. 527 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:39,840 Now leave me alone. 528 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:40,840 Come on, here. 529 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:41,840 Yeah. 530 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,840 I better call the office. 531 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:55,840 Homicide, Graham. 532 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:56,840 Captain Elliott there? 533 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:57,840 I'll see. 534 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,840 Captain, would you take two? 535 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:01,840 Elliott? 536 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:03,840 This is Friday, checking in on the Valentine thing. 537 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:04,840 What's the story? 538 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:05,840 Couldn't get anything out of him. 539 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:06,840 He isn't hurt bad. 540 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:07,840 Right leg and shoulder. 541 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:08,840 All right. 542 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:09,840 Here's something you can run down. 543 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:10,840 Yeah? 544 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,840 Got a tip from White and Intelligence. 545 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,840 He's got a man out at Freddy's fishing chips on Slauson. 546 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:17,840 Says a couple of guys in there blowing off about Valentine. 547 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:18,840 Who are they? 548 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:19,840 Billy Keele and Tony Farrar. 549 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:21,840 They're not on Valentine's team. 550 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:22,840 That's right. 551 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:24,840 White's man says the party's getting rough out there. 552 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:25,840 You, Romero, better follow up on it. 553 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:26,840 Right. 554 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,840 Another thing, if it looks like anything, you better bring him in for questioning. 555 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:30,840 Okay. 556 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:31,840 Check on me when you get in. 557 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:32,840 Right. 558 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:33,840 Let's go. 559 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:34,840 What is it? 560 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:35,840 Keele and Farrar. 561 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,840 Skipper wants us to pick him up and bring him in for questioning. 562 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:38,840 What do they know about the shooting? 563 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:39,840 They know enough to talk about it. 564 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:44,840 Seven p.m. 565 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,840 We located Freddy's Fish and Chips place on Slauson near Montgomery Street. 566 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:54,840 A dozen or so tables at the back of the restaurant were already taken with the overflow lined up too deep at the bar. 567 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:59,840 The man from Intelligence Detail was down at the far end of the steam table nursing a cheese sandwich. 568 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:03,840 He motioned us over and pointed out Billy Keele and Tony Farrar. 569 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:08,840 They were sitting at one of the tables along with four other men drinking Boilermakers and eating French fried potatoes. 570 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,840 Ben and I made our way through the crowd toward the back tables. 571 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,840 Sorry. 572 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:15,840 Sorry. 573 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:16,840 Pardon me. 574 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:18,840 Can I get through here, please? 575 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:19,840 All right. 576 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:20,840 So let's take it. 577 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:21,840 Don't it? 578 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,840 You, Billy Keele? 579 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:24,840 That's right. 580 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,840 Which one is Tony Farrar? 581 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:28,840 He's getting a beer. 582 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:29,840 What do you want? 583 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,840 Police officers want to talk to you and Farrar downtown. 584 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:33,840 What's the matter? 585 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:34,840 I'd like to ask you a few questions. 586 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:35,840 You want to get your hat? 587 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,840 If you got any questions, you can ask them here. 588 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:39,840 Hey, Vic, how about buying a round? 589 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:40,840 Come on, Keele, let's go. 590 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:41,840 I got nothing to tell you now. 591 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:42,840 Let me alone. 592 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,840 There's two ways to go downtown, the hard way and the easy way. 593 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,840 Let's take the easy way. 594 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:48,840 All right. 595 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:53,840 This way. 596 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:54,840 Okay. 597 00:21:54,840 --> 00:22:03,840 Hey. 598 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:29,840 Hey. 599 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:34,840 Hey. 600 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:39,840 Joe, Joe, I got Farrar. 601 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,840 He's going out the back way. 602 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:42,840 I'll get him. 603 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:43,840 Wait a minute, Joe. 604 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:44,840 Let go of me. 605 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:45,840 All right. 606 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:46,840 Let's go. 607 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:58,840 Come on, Farrar, come on. 608 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,840 You all right, Joe? 609 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:01,840 Yeah. 610 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:02,840 You're bleeding pretty bad. 611 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:03,840 Yeah, I know. 612 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,840 Let's get him to the car. 613 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,840 Look at your suit. 614 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:11,840 It's ripped to pieces. 615 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:18,840 My wife's going to kill me. 616 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,840 One of the officers in the ambulance follow-up drove our car back to the city hall. 617 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:27,840 Tony Farrar and Billy Keele were taken to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for emergency treatment. 618 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,840 We went in the same ambulance. 619 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,840 Ben had a broken index finger, a two-inch cut in his scalp and a deep gash in his right thigh. 620 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,840 I had five stitches taken in my upper right arm and three above my left eye. 621 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,840 My right eye was swollen shut. 622 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,840 The man from intelligence detail was taken to the PNF ward to be treated for a minor concussion. 623 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:51,840 It was 9.15 p.m. when we got back to the city hall, the interrogation room. 624 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,840 How about it, Keele? 625 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:54,840 What? 626 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:55,840 What do you know about the Valentine shooting? 627 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:56,840 I don't know anything about it. 628 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:57,840 You're worried. 629 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:58,840 About what? 630 00:23:58,840 --> 00:23:59,840 You tell us. 631 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,840 You started that fight out there. 632 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,840 I didn't see any reason to go downtown. 633 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,840 Does Valentine owe you any money? 634 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:06,840 No. 635 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:07,840 You've been talking a lot. 636 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,840 Any law against that? 637 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:10,840 Why'd you shoot Gus Valentine? 638 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:11,840 I didn't shoot him. 639 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,840 Can you account for your time Tuesday afternoon? 640 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:15,840 I don't have to answer that. 641 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:16,840 Where were you this afternoon? 642 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:18,840 My lawyer's coming in. Ask him. 643 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,840 How much money does Valentine owe you? 644 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,840 Keele, ever see this before? 645 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,840 I don't even know what it is. 646 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,840 We found that machine gun in your apartment. 647 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:32,840 It doesn't belong to me. 648 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,840 We got your car downstairs. Green Ford sedan. 649 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:36,840 Doesn't belong to me. 650 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,840 White Slip's got your name on it. 651 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,840 Here's something else with your name on it. 652 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,840 Two chits for $750 signed by Gus Valentine. 653 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:44,840 Money he owes you and the horses. 654 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:45,840 You shot him, didn't you? 655 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:47,840 I don't see how you can prove it. 656 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:48,840 I'll tell you how. 657 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,840 We ran this tommy gun through the crime lab. 658 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,840 We dug the same slugs out of the front of those stores 659 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,840 where you tried to kill Valentine. 660 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:55,840 Your prints are all over the gun. 661 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:56,840 How much more do you want? 662 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:57,840 It's not my gun. 663 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,840 All we gotta do is find the.45 you used this afternoon 664 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,840 and match it up with the slugs we dug out of Valentine's leg 665 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,840 and, Mr. You'll Be Away for a long time. 666 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,840 All right. We used the tommy gun. 667 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,840 We didn't hit him. Didn't try. 668 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:11,840 We only wanted to scare him. 669 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,840 I got tired of waiting for my dough. 670 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:14,840 I got no use for a Welchian. 671 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:15,840 What about this afternoon? 672 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:16,840 No, sir. 673 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,840 Me and Ferrat didn't have nothing to do with that. 674 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,840 I'll take the machine gun wrap, but it wasn't us this afternoon. 675 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:22,840 Elliot, Ferrati, step outside a minute. 676 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:23,840 Yeah. 677 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:28,840 Valentine. 678 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:29,840 Yeah? 679 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:35,840 Well, he just blew his hospital room full of holes. 680 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,840 It took us 17 minutes with red light and siren 681 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,840 to get to the Ferndale Sanitarium 682 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,840 where Gus Valentine was recovering from his gunshot wounds. 683 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,840 Three cruiser cars were out front when we pulled up. 684 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,840 We went to room 12 in the West Wing. 685 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:49,840 There's the doctor, Joe. 686 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,840 Yeah. 687 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:52,840 How is he, doctor? 688 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,840 He was dead when we got in here. 689 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,840 He had a private nurse who shot her too. 690 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:57,840 Dead. 691 00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:58,840 Anyone else hurt? 692 00:25:58,840 --> 00:25:59,840 It was visiting hours. 693 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,840 Some woman was in there talking to him. 694 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:02,840 She got hit. 695 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,840 We're treating her down in the emergency room. 696 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,840 Appreciate it, doctor, if you keep your staff out of the room 697 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,840 here until we finish our investigation. 698 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:09,840 Yes, sir. 699 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:10,840 Thank you. 700 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:11,840 Let's have a look inside. 701 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:12,840 Mm-hmm. 702 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:14,840 Look at that. 703 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:15,840 Mm. 704 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,840 He didn't fool this time. 705 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,840 Too bad he wouldn't give us more help. 706 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:22,840 Yeah. 707 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,840 We're no worse off than we were. 708 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:26,840 We still have to find out who it was without him. 709 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,840 I hope we can get to him before Valentine's crowd starts shooting back. 710 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:31,840 We got to. 711 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,840 Anyway, this cancels out his debts. 712 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:34,840 You know his record. 713 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:35,840 Yeah. 714 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,840 He owed a lot more than he could ever pay. 715 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,840 The story you have just heard was true. 716 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,840 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 717 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,840 On October 26th, trial was held in Superior Court, 718 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,840 Department 97, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 719 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,840 In a moment, the results of that trial. 720 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:05,840 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to Fatima. 721 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,840 Here is the actual report. 722 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,840 From coast to coast, king-sized Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 723 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,840 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering that Fatima 724 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,840 is the best of all long cigarettes. 725 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:23,840 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima has a much different, much better 726 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,840 flavor and aroma. 727 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,840 Long cigarette smokers find that Fatima is extra mild 728 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,840 because it's the long cigarette which contains the finest 729 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:38,840 Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly blended to make it extra mild. 730 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,840 So enjoy extra mild Fatima. 731 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,840 Best of all long cigarettes. 732 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,840 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 733 00:27:47,840 --> 00:28:00,840 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 734 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,840 Billy Keele and Tony Farrar were tried and convicted of assault 735 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,840 with intent to commit murder. 736 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,840 They were filed on by the Federal authorities, Bureau of Alcohol and Tax Unit 737 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:13,840 for the illegal possession of a machine gun and were found guilty in Federal Court. 738 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,840 Because they were both in custody at the time of Gus Valentine's murder, 739 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,840 they were cleared of any complicity of the crime. 740 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,840 Valentine's killer was still at large. 741 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,840 Next week, The Big Gangster, Part 2. 742 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:32,840 You have just heard Dragnet, authentic cases from official files. 743 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,840 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 744 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,840 W.A. 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