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02:34.480 --> 02:35.480 Just a second. 02:35.480 --> 02:36.480 It's Captain Elliott holding them at Wees, Sheldon. 02:36.480 --> 02:37.480 Hi. 02:37.480 --> 02:38.480 Hi, Captain. 02:38.480 --> 02:39.480 Number one. 02:39.480 --> 02:47.120 Not much of it left. 02:47.120 --> 02:48.680 Sheldon here was in the cruiser car. 02:48.680 --> 02:49.680 He'll fill us in. 02:49.680 --> 02:50.680 All right. 02:50.680 --> 02:52.520 The intended victim was Gus Valentine. 02:52.520 --> 02:53.520 He's over there with Taylor, my partner. 02:53.520 --> 02:54.520 Yeah. 02:54.520 --> 02:57.520 According to Valentine, he stopped in the restaurant here for a drink. 02:57.520 --> 03:01.280 He was in there about 15 minutes, came out to hail a cab, and this car came around the 03:01.280 --> 03:02.280 corner. 03:02.280 --> 03:03.880 Down there, Sunset and Clayton. 03:03.880 --> 03:06.280 They whipped by close to the curb and opened up. 03:06.280 --> 03:10.520 They had the laundry there on one side of the place and a dry cleaning joint on the 03:10.520 --> 03:11.520 other side. 03:11.520 --> 03:12.520 Yes, sir. 03:12.520 --> 03:13.520 A miracle, but nobody was hit. 03:13.520 --> 03:14.520 Did you get anything on the car? 03:14.520 --> 03:17.400 Nothing so far happened so fast, nobody got a good look at it. 03:17.400 --> 03:18.400 How about Valentine? 03:18.400 --> 03:19.400 Does he have any ideas? 03:19.400 --> 03:20.400 I don't know. 03:20.400 --> 03:21.640 Taylor's getting the information. 03:21.640 --> 03:22.640 Nobody saw anything? 03:22.640 --> 03:23.640 Any witnesses? 03:23.640 --> 03:24.640 Yes, sir. 03:24.640 --> 03:25.640 A couple. 03:25.640 --> 03:30.520 A newsboy, Tim Benson, the lady in the dry cleaning place, Agnes Rebart. 03:30.520 --> 03:33.000 Neither of them got a license number. 03:33.000 --> 03:34.000 Okay. 03:34.000 --> 03:35.000 I'd like to talk to Valentine. 03:35.000 --> 03:36.600 If you shout and keep the area clear, will you? 03:36.600 --> 03:37.920 The lab men are on their way out. 03:37.920 --> 03:38.920 Yes, sir. 03:38.920 --> 03:39.920 Come on. 03:39.920 --> 03:46.800 I told you I had no idea. 03:46.800 --> 03:48.800 Green Fort Sedoon, is that it? 03:48.800 --> 03:49.800 Yes. 03:49.800 --> 03:50.800 Elliott Central Homicide. 03:50.800 --> 03:51.800 Yes, sir. 03:51.800 --> 03:52.800 This is Mr. Valentine, the intended victim. 03:52.800 --> 03:53.800 Yes. 03:53.800 --> 03:55.800 This is Sergeant Friday, Sergeant Romero. 03:55.800 --> 03:57.800 Sergeant Friday, how are you? 03:57.800 --> 03:58.800 Fine. 03:58.800 --> 03:59.800 It's been a long time. 03:59.800 --> 04:00.800 Finally got out of the uniform, huh? 04:00.800 --> 04:01.800 Seven years ago. 04:01.800 --> 04:02.800 Who was it, Gus? 04:02.800 --> 04:05.720 If I knew, I'd tell you, I don't like being shot at. 04:05.720 --> 04:06.720 Let's go sit in the car. 04:06.720 --> 04:07.720 This way, Valentine. 04:07.720 --> 04:12.720 You want to get in back? 04:12.720 --> 04:15.720 All right. 04:15.720 --> 04:19.720 All right. 04:19.720 --> 04:20.720 What's the story, Valentine? 04:20.720 --> 04:21.720 How do you mean? 04:21.720 --> 04:22.720 Let's not play it cozy. 04:22.720 --> 04:23.720 Who's after you? 04:23.720 --> 04:26.080 You suppose this would have happened if I knew? 04:26.080 --> 04:27.080 Who's carrying the beef? 04:27.080 --> 04:28.080 Somebody's unhappy with you. 04:28.080 --> 04:29.080 You must know who. 04:29.080 --> 04:30.080 I don't. 04:30.080 --> 04:31.080 You know what kind of a car it was? 04:31.080 --> 04:33.120 The other cop over there, Sedan, Green Ford. 04:33.120 --> 04:34.880 We're not going to press you, Valentine. 04:34.880 --> 04:37.280 You might as well know how we peg this kind of thing. 04:37.280 --> 04:38.280 Yeah? 04:38.280 --> 04:39.640 We got your number, had it for a long time. 04:39.640 --> 04:42.440 You're all up and down the blotter from Lincoln Heights to the county jail. 04:42.440 --> 04:44.520 You got a record everybody in this town knows about. 04:44.520 --> 04:46.040 Aren't you a little mixed up? 04:46.040 --> 04:47.760 I'm the guy that got shot at. 04:47.760 --> 04:48.760 We know that. 04:48.760 --> 04:51.080 I pay my taxes for protection, not a lecture on my past. 04:51.080 --> 04:52.760 Let me give you the word, Valentine. 04:52.760 --> 04:55.360 I've known you for a long time, and I've read about you in the newspapers. 04:55.360 --> 04:58.920 I've watched your so-called climb from two-bit penny-ante rackets all the way up. 04:58.920 --> 05:01.080 You've been told more than once about keeping your nose clean. 05:01.080 --> 05:02.320 This is a switch, isn't it? 05:02.320 --> 05:04.720 Man gets shot at, cops read riot act, innocent victim. 05:04.720 --> 05:06.600 Look, we know you and we know that crowd you run with. 05:06.600 --> 05:09.400 If you want to start a war around a battlefield, don't pick the streets of Los Angeles to fight 05:09.400 --> 05:10.400 it out. 05:10.400 --> 05:11.520 I don't think I asked for it the way you men talk. 05:11.520 --> 05:13.760 You did somewhere up and down the line. 05:13.760 --> 05:14.760 We know your operation. 05:14.760 --> 05:16.160 You walked the sideline marker all the way. 05:16.160 --> 05:18.080 Always got one foot inside the law. 05:18.080 --> 05:21.000 When you make yourself a target for some punk's machine gun, that's where you step outside. 05:21.000 --> 05:23.840 What are you going to do, eat me out and let the man with the machine gun get away? 05:23.840 --> 05:25.920 We'll get him, whether you want to help us or not. 05:25.920 --> 05:29.120 We just don't have the time to run around jamming a cork in the barrel of every gun in town. 05:29.120 --> 05:31.240 Before you get out of this car, let this sink in. 05:31.240 --> 05:34.080 There's not going to be any innocent people cut down by bullets that were meant for you. 05:34.080 --> 05:35.080 Oh, I get it. 05:35.080 --> 05:36.080 My tax money's no good, huh? 05:36.080 --> 05:38.280 I pay a bigger chunk than most of the clods in this town. 05:38.280 --> 05:40.960 You haven't got a clear title to the city yet, and until you do, don't set up a shooting 05:40.960 --> 05:41.960 gun. 05:41.960 --> 05:44.560 What do I do, dig a foxhole until you get ready to tap whoever's taking pot shots at me? 05:44.560 --> 05:45.560 You can tell us who it is. 05:45.560 --> 05:46.560 You got all I know. 05:46.560 --> 05:47.960 Don't you think I'd want them picked up? 05:47.960 --> 05:48.960 I think you're a liar. 05:48.960 --> 05:51.680 I think you'd better square your beef and knock off this gangster stuff. 05:51.680 --> 06:07.280 There's not going to be any more of this kind of thing, understand? 06:07.280 --> 06:11.600 Almost without exception, every city in the United States says it's Gus Valentine. 06:11.600 --> 06:15.600 These men remain out of custody, not because of any lack of law enforcement, but because 06:15.600 --> 06:20.040 of their ability to hide behind the laws which are designed to protect the innocent and use 06:20.040 --> 06:22.080 them to their own advantage. 06:22.080 --> 06:26.040 They operate allowing only the thinnest margin possible between themselves and the state 06:26.040 --> 06:27.040 penitentiary. 06:27.040 --> 06:29.240 We drove back to central division. 06:29.240 --> 06:32.120 At 6.18 p.m., we were called to the chief of detective's office. 06:32.120 --> 06:33.600 They wouldn't give you anything, huh? 06:33.600 --> 06:34.600 Not a thing. 06:34.600 --> 06:35.600 Usual line of smart talk. 06:35.600 --> 06:38.840 Whoever after him meant business on storefronts were a mess. 06:38.840 --> 06:40.400 Well, they won't quit now. 06:40.400 --> 06:41.400 Just a minute. 06:41.400 --> 06:43.400 What's that intelligence number? 06:43.400 --> 06:44.400 2821. 06:44.400 --> 06:47.400 Oh, yeah. 06:47.400 --> 06:51.040 Mr. Brown, Captain White gone home? 06:51.040 --> 06:52.040 I know. 06:52.040 --> 06:54.080 Ask him to come up to the office. 06:54.080 --> 06:55.080 Will you please? 06:55.080 --> 06:56.080 Thanks. 06:56.080 --> 06:58.960 If they do manage to tag Valentine, it could cause a pretty sour mess. 06:58.960 --> 07:02.080 He's got enough flunkies around to parlay it into a fair-sized shooting war. 07:02.080 --> 07:03.880 Seem to have started on less. 07:03.880 --> 07:07.040 Was there any chance of pulling Valentine in until things simmer down? 07:07.040 --> 07:08.040 No chance. 07:08.040 --> 07:09.040 We've got nothing on him. 07:09.040 --> 07:10.040 Nothing we can prove. 07:10.040 --> 07:11.040 He's got a few boys close to him. 07:11.040 --> 07:12.760 Maybe one of them could tell her. 07:12.760 --> 07:14.920 Same two lawyers work for all of them. 07:14.920 --> 07:17.520 If we pull him in, they'd be out in an hour on a writ. 07:17.520 --> 07:18.520 You want to see me? 07:18.520 --> 07:19.520 Yeah, why? 07:19.520 --> 07:20.520 Sit down. 07:20.520 --> 07:22.520 Let Valentine's shooting this afternoon. 07:22.520 --> 07:23.520 Yeah. 07:23.520 --> 07:24.520 What's your guess? 07:24.520 --> 07:25.520 There's been some talk. 07:25.520 --> 07:27.840 We heard he was hot. 07:27.840 --> 07:28.840 You knew that. 07:28.840 --> 07:29.840 Yeah. 07:29.840 --> 07:32.520 The way we figured, he's getting too big for his pants. 07:32.520 --> 07:34.520 He's coming up fast. 07:34.520 --> 07:37.040 Stepped on a lot of toes on the way. 07:37.040 --> 07:38.840 Shouldn't be too tough to find out why. 07:38.840 --> 07:39.840 That's half of it. 07:39.840 --> 07:41.520 If we get that much, maybe we can find out who. 07:41.520 --> 07:43.240 You got a big field to pick from. 07:43.240 --> 07:45.040 I can find you a dozen possibles. 07:45.040 --> 07:46.040 We don't need a dozen. 07:46.040 --> 07:48.320 All we want are the ones in that car this afternoon. 07:48.320 --> 07:49.640 Who do you figure, Captain Hoy? 07:49.640 --> 07:52.360 I kind of go along with Joe. 07:52.360 --> 07:55.400 Like I said, I think maybe we'll be able to peg why a little faster. 07:55.400 --> 07:57.080 And we can go from there. 07:57.080 --> 07:58.080 All right. 07:58.080 --> 08:01.320 Let's take what we know about the guy. 08:01.320 --> 08:03.520 Let's just take this past year. 08:03.520 --> 08:07.080 We know he's got more than a good share of the Mexican narcotics traffic. 08:07.080 --> 08:09.400 That means he's taking business from the Eastern Syndicate. 08:09.400 --> 08:10.880 That makes one of those boys a candidate. 08:10.880 --> 08:11.880 That's right. 08:11.880 --> 08:13.600 And there's the pinball machines. 08:13.600 --> 08:17.080 He's giving Big Ernie Jacobs and Monk Watson a big push on those. 08:17.080 --> 08:18.560 And put Simon to running. 08:18.560 --> 08:20.240 That's a long list. 08:20.240 --> 08:23.760 The horses, fancy poker games, prostitution, the works. 08:23.760 --> 08:24.760 He's squeezing them all. 08:24.760 --> 08:27.360 A lot of guys could be shooting at him with a machine gun. 08:27.360 --> 08:28.360 Where do we start? 08:28.360 --> 08:29.360 Legwork. 08:29.360 --> 08:30.360 Lots of it. 08:30.360 --> 08:31.360 Fast. 08:31.360 --> 08:32.720 We'll start nosing around, see what we can pick up. 08:32.720 --> 08:35.200 Friday, you and Romero can give us a hand there. 08:35.200 --> 08:36.200 Yes, sir. 08:36.200 --> 08:37.200 All right with you, L.E.? 08:37.200 --> 08:38.200 Fine. 08:38.200 --> 08:39.200 I don't have to tell you we've got to move as quick as we can. 08:39.200 --> 08:41.640 We've got a lot of places to hit and we haven't got too much time. 08:41.640 --> 08:45.000 We'll keep Valentine under surveillance to make sure he doesn't try to square things 08:45.000 --> 08:46.000 with a gun. 08:46.000 --> 08:47.000 Yeah. 08:47.000 --> 08:48.920 This is one the taxpayers wouldn't understand. 08:48.920 --> 08:49.920 Yeah. 08:49.920 --> 08:52.840 Trying to keep a guy alive that'd be more dangerous dead. 08:52.840 --> 09:01.960 Wednesday, July 19th, Ben and I started making the rounds to find out why someone was out 09:01.960 --> 09:04.280 to get Gus Valentine. 09:04.280 --> 09:05.280 Captain was right. 09:05.280 --> 09:06.280 The list of his enemies was long. 09:06.280 --> 09:11.120 For two days, we talked to gamblers and bartenders at the usual hangouts. 09:11.120 --> 09:13.760 The few slim leads we picked up led nowhere. 09:13.760 --> 09:18.960 Saturday, July 22nd, we met with one of Ben's informants, a bar boy at a cafe out on Santa 09:18.960 --> 09:19.960 Monica Boulevard. 09:19.960 --> 09:20.960 That's him over there. 09:20.960 --> 09:21.960 At that table. 09:21.960 --> 09:22.960 Oh, yeah. 09:22.960 --> 09:23.960 Yuri, how are you? 09:23.960 --> 09:24.960 Hiya, Ben. 09:24.960 --> 09:25.960 Grab a chair. 09:25.960 --> 09:26.960 You know my partner, don't you? 09:26.960 --> 09:27.960 Sure. 09:27.960 --> 09:28.960 Sit down, Joe. 09:28.960 --> 09:29.960 Hi. 09:29.960 --> 09:30.960 Want a beer? 09:30.960 --> 09:31.960 No, no thanks. 09:31.960 --> 09:32.960 We're working. 09:32.960 --> 09:33.960 Coke? 09:33.960 --> 09:34.960 Okay. 09:34.960 --> 09:35.960 One more. 09:35.960 --> 09:41.400 Here you go. 09:41.400 --> 09:52.240 It's good and cold. 09:52.240 --> 09:59.040 Doctor cut me down one beer a day. 09:59.040 --> 10:01.040 It's a spot on a hot date, huh? 10:01.040 --> 10:02.040 Yeah. 10:02.040 --> 10:03.040 What about Valentine? 10:03.040 --> 10:04.040 What about him? 10:04.040 --> 10:05.840 You hear anything since I phoned you? 10:05.840 --> 10:06.840 A couple of things. 10:06.840 --> 10:08.840 Word's getting around he's a Welcher. 10:08.840 --> 10:09.840 Horses? 10:09.840 --> 10:10.840 I don't know. 10:10.840 --> 10:11.840 Big money. 10:11.840 --> 10:12.840 He hasn't paid off yet. 10:12.840 --> 10:13.840 Who does he owe? 10:13.840 --> 10:14.840 I can give you the name of one of them, Sal Tapper. 10:14.840 --> 10:15.840 I don't know him. 10:15.840 --> 10:16.840 Meat packing business, wholesaler. 10:16.840 --> 10:19.360 Got a big plant down at 54th and commercial. 10:19.360 --> 10:21.280 Owns a little neighborhood bar. 10:21.280 --> 10:22.840 That's where he spends most of his time. 10:22.840 --> 10:23.840 Where's that? 10:23.840 --> 10:24.840 Gardena. 10:24.840 --> 10:25.840 Calls it the Mile High. 10:25.840 --> 10:26.840 What about this Sal Tapper? 10:26.840 --> 10:27.840 What do you mean? 10:27.840 --> 10:29.840 How close is he to Valentine? 10:29.840 --> 10:30.840 You mean one of his boys? 10:30.840 --> 10:31.840 Yeah. 10:31.840 --> 10:32.840 No. 10:32.840 --> 10:33.840 Valentine's his book, that's all. 10:33.840 --> 10:36.840 Supposing Valentine owed him a wad of dough, would he push his points? 10:36.840 --> 10:37.840 How do you mean? 10:37.840 --> 10:38.840 Would he use pressure to collect? 10:38.840 --> 10:40.840 Maybe a meat cleaver, not a machine gun. 10:40.840 --> 10:42.840 I don't figure him in on that Tuesday caper. 10:42.840 --> 10:45.840 Sure you don't want this set of coke? 10:45.840 --> 10:46.840 No, thank you. 10:46.840 --> 10:47.840 What time you go to work? 10:47.840 --> 10:48.840 Plenty of time. 10:48.840 --> 10:52.840 One bottle of beer ain't hardly enough. 10:52.840 --> 10:54.840 Any rumbles about the shooting? 10:54.840 --> 10:55.840 How do you mean? 10:55.840 --> 10:56.840 Anything worth repeating? 10:56.840 --> 10:58.840 Everybody says the same thing. 10:58.840 --> 10:59.840 He's got it coming. 10:59.840 --> 11:00.840 Who is everybody? 11:00.840 --> 11:01.840 The homeowners, neighborhood Joe's. 11:01.840 --> 11:02.840 They got it all pegged. 11:02.840 --> 11:03.840 What's the popular guess? 11:03.840 --> 11:04.840 The name. 11:04.840 --> 11:06.840 Well, that's about it, huh, Jerry? 11:06.840 --> 11:07.840 That's about it. 11:07.840 --> 11:08.840 What's your guess? 11:08.840 --> 11:09.840 Fresh out, I don't know. 11:09.840 --> 11:12.840 How come you guys are so worried about Gus Valentine? 11:12.840 --> 11:14.840 I didn't think you cared whether he lived or died. 11:14.840 --> 11:16.840 Either way, we're in trouble. 11:16.840 --> 11:24.840 We left the cafe on Santa Monica Boulevard and drove out to Gardena to the Mile High Bar. 11:24.840 --> 11:27.840 It was a typical neighborhood tavern with the windows painted in black 11:27.840 --> 11:30.840 except for two small ovals in the center of each window. 11:30.840 --> 11:33.840 They were filled with beer signs and red neon. 11:33.840 --> 11:37.840 The cloth sign advertised shuffleboard and life-size television. 11:37.840 --> 11:40.840 Inside, the walls were covered with alpine mountain climbers 11:40.840 --> 11:44.840 trying to fight their way up a mountain that looked twice as steep as the Matterhorn. 11:44.840 --> 11:47.840 Give me ten nickels, will you, Lin? 11:47.840 --> 11:50.840 Can you tell us where we can find a solid tapper? 11:50.840 --> 11:52.840 Yeah, I'm in. 11:52.840 --> 11:55.840 Thanks, Lin. 11:55.840 --> 11:56.840 What do you want? 11:56.840 --> 11:57.840 Police officers. 11:57.840 --> 11:58.840 I'd like to talk to you. 11:58.840 --> 12:00.840 Sure, what about? 12:00.840 --> 12:01.840 Gus Valentine. 12:01.840 --> 12:03.840 Yeah? 12:06.840 --> 12:07.840 He owes me money. 12:07.840 --> 12:10.840 Is that all you've got against him? 12:10.840 --> 12:13.840 As much as he owes me, that's enough. 12:15.840 --> 12:18.840 This is a real tough machine to me. 12:18.840 --> 12:20.840 How much money does he owe you? 12:20.840 --> 12:21.840 Enough. 12:21.840 --> 12:23.840 How long has he been booking for you? 12:23.840 --> 12:25.840 I didn't say he was booking for me. 12:25.840 --> 12:26.840 No, we did. 12:26.840 --> 12:28.840 About two years. 12:34.840 --> 12:36.840 Come on. 12:36.840 --> 12:38.840 Hit it. 12:38.840 --> 12:40.840 Four thousand on the first ball. 12:40.840 --> 12:42.840 I gotta do better than that. 12:42.840 --> 12:44.840 Where were you Tuesday afternoon? 12:44.840 --> 12:45.840 At the packing house. 12:45.840 --> 12:46.840 Can you prove it? 12:46.840 --> 12:48.840 What I said, if I couldn't prove it... 12:52.840 --> 12:54.840 When that little gate up there, 12:54.840 --> 12:56.840 turns green and you go through it, 12:56.840 --> 12:57.840 you get an extra ball. 12:57.840 --> 12:59.840 If it's red, it doubles your score, 12:59.840 --> 13:01.840 but it's real tough to get in there. 13:01.840 --> 13:03.840 How long has Valentine owed you money? 13:03.840 --> 13:04.840 All a little over a week. 13:04.840 --> 13:05.840 When did he say he'd pay you? 13:05.840 --> 13:07.840 He didn't say. 13:07.840 --> 13:09.840 Said he was trying to raise the dog. 13:09.840 --> 13:11.840 You're the only one he owes? 13:11.840 --> 13:24.840 No. 13:24.840 --> 13:25.840 There's a couple more guys in town. 13:25.840 --> 13:26.840 Remember who they are? 13:26.840 --> 13:27.840 No. 13:27.840 --> 13:28.840 How do you know he owes somebody besides you? 13:28.840 --> 13:30.840 I heard. 13:30.840 --> 13:39.840 Did he say why he hasn't paid up? 13:39.840 --> 13:40.840 What'd you say? 13:40.840 --> 13:42.840 Did he say why he hasn't paid up? 13:42.840 --> 13:43.840 I told you, he said he was trying to raise the money. 13:43.840 --> 13:45.840 You sure you haven't tried to put the bite on him? 13:45.840 --> 13:46.840 Sure I have. Sure I have. 13:46.840 --> 13:48.840 I want the dog. 13:48.840 --> 13:49.840 But I didn't gun him. 13:49.840 --> 13:50.840 Somebody did? 13:50.840 --> 13:52.840 Yeah, I know. I know. It wasn't me. 13:52.840 --> 13:53.840 You had a reason. 13:53.840 --> 13:54.840 I sold a lot of people. 13:54.840 --> 13:55.840 Yeah. 13:55.840 --> 13:56.840 We're looking for the one with the machine gun. 13:56.840 --> 13:58.840 Well, I can't help you there. 14:00.840 --> 14:02.840 Come on. 14:02.840 --> 14:04.840 Get in there. 14:07.840 --> 14:09.840 Hey. Hey, look at that. Free ball. 14:09.840 --> 14:13.840 26,000. That's a real tough machine to beat. 14:13.840 --> 14:15.840 And where did you say you worked usually? 14:15.840 --> 14:18.840 At my packing plant, 54th and commercial. 14:18.840 --> 14:19.840 Okay. 14:19.840 --> 14:21.840 How long have you known Gus Valancey? 14:21.840 --> 14:23.840 About four years. I met him at a party out in Hollywood. 14:23.840 --> 14:26.840 It's the first time I've ever known him to Welch. 14:26.840 --> 14:28.840 Mm-hmm. 14:32.840 --> 14:34.840 In there. 14:34.840 --> 14:36.840 Now. 14:36.840 --> 14:40.840 Ah. 27,000. 14:40.840 --> 14:42.840 I'm not doing so good, am I? 14:42.840 --> 14:44.840 I don't know. It depends on where you were Tuesday. 14:48.840 --> 14:52.840 12.30 p.m. We talked with the superintendent of Tapper's Meatpacking House. 14:52.840 --> 14:57.840 He told us that Saul Tapper had been there all day when Gus Valentine was shot at. 14:57.840 --> 15:00.840 We talked to several employees of the plant. They corroborated his story. 15:00.840 --> 15:04.840 We checked Tapper out and found him to be a fairly respectable businessman 15:04.840 --> 15:09.840 who gambled a great deal on the side, but we felt reasonably sure that he had no part in the shooting. 15:09.840 --> 15:12.840 We knew that if we could run down the others to whom Valentine owed money, 15:12.840 --> 15:17.840 we'd be closer to finding out why he was being shot at and eventually get to the right man. 15:17.840 --> 15:21.840 1.45 p.m. Ben and I went upstairs to the eighth floor of the City Hall, the lunch room. 15:21.840 --> 15:24.840 We had a sandwich and coffee. 15:24.840 --> 15:27.840 Too close to dinner to have a piece of that pie, isn't it? 15:27.840 --> 15:30.840 Yeah, I'd say so. Hand me another napkin, will you? 15:30.840 --> 15:31.840 Yeah. Here. 15:31.840 --> 15:33.840 Thank you. 15:33.840 --> 15:35.840 Think you'd do any good to talk to Valentine again? 15:35.840 --> 15:38.840 Maybe. I doubt it. He's not gonna tell us anything. 15:38.840 --> 15:40.840 I figure we're on the right track. 15:40.840 --> 15:44.840 A lot of reasons why he might be a target, but this welching business, that's new to him. 15:44.840 --> 15:46.840 Could be. 15:46.840 --> 15:47.840 You Sergeant Friday? 15:47.840 --> 15:48.840 That's right. 15:48.840 --> 15:49.840 Telephone. 15:49.840 --> 15:50.840 Wait a minute. I'll go with you. I'm finished. 15:50.840 --> 15:52.840 No, you got the check. I'll get the tip. 15:52.840 --> 15:54.840 All right. 15:57.840 --> 15:58.840 Slide that phone over the way. 15:58.840 --> 15:59.840 Oh, yeah. 15:59.840 --> 16:01.840 Thank you. 16:01.840 --> 16:03.840 Friday. 16:03.840 --> 16:04.840 Come down to Chief Brown's office right away. 16:04.840 --> 16:06.840 Yes, sir. 16:06.840 --> 16:08.840 Let's go. 16:12.840 --> 16:13.840 That pie sure did look good. 16:13.840 --> 16:14.840 Come on, let's get that over here. 16:14.840 --> 16:16.840 Yeah. 16:16.840 --> 16:17.840 Hey, who called? 16:17.840 --> 16:20.840 It was the skipper. He wants us to go to Chief Brown's office. 16:20.840 --> 16:21.840 Temple Street floor, please. 16:21.840 --> 16:22.840 What's up? 16:22.840 --> 16:23.840 I don't know. 16:23.840 --> 16:24.840 You make the runs again tonight? 16:24.840 --> 16:26.840 Yeah. A couple places we can hit in the south end of town. 16:26.840 --> 16:29.840 I called Charlie Flint's place this afternoon. Maybe he'll have something for us. 16:29.840 --> 16:32.840 Yeah, I hope so. 16:32.840 --> 16:34.840 Come on. 16:36.840 --> 16:39.840 Wish now I'd had that pie. I'm still hungry. 16:39.840 --> 16:41.840 I got a candy bar in my desk. You can have that. 16:41.840 --> 16:43.840 I can't eat those chewy bars. It'll eat. 16:43.840 --> 16:44.840 Oh, it's some kind of a fudge bar. 16:44.840 --> 16:46.840 Oh, come on. 16:48.840 --> 16:49.840 Come in. 16:49.840 --> 16:50.840 Yes, sir. 16:50.840 --> 16:51.840 Get over to Georgia Street right away. 16:51.840 --> 16:52.840 Why? 16:52.840 --> 16:53.840 That's Valentine. 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18:44.840 --> 18:45.840 Couldn't tell. 18:45.840 --> 18:47.840 You haven't any idea who it could have been? 18:47.840 --> 18:48.840 No. 18:48.840 --> 18:50.840 You don't expect us to swallow that again, do you? 18:50.840 --> 18:51.840 I don't care either way. 18:51.840 --> 18:53.840 Why don't you pay up what you owe? 18:53.840 --> 18:54.840 What do you mean? 18:54.840 --> 18:55.840 You owe some big money. 18:55.840 --> 18:56.840 You haven't paid off. 18:56.840 --> 18:57.840 Where'd you get that? 18:57.840 --> 18:59.840 That's the word going around. 18:59.840 --> 19:01.840 Looks to us like you either pay up or get shot up. 19:01.840 --> 19:02.840 Did I ask for advice? 19:02.840 --> 19:03.840 No, and here's something else you didn't ask for. 19:03.840 --> 19:05.840 Twice in one week you've been mixed up in shooting scrapes. 19:05.840 --> 19:07.840 We told you the city doesn't belong to you. 19:07.840 --> 19:08.840 I don't claim ownership. 19:08.840 --> 19:10.840 Now listen, we've been over this before and this is the last time. 19:10.840 --> 19:11.840 Don't push us any courage. 19:11.840 --> 19:13.840 We know you talk big and you haven't got the guts to go along with it. 19:13.840 --> 19:14.840 Yeah, sure. 19:14.840 --> 19:15.840 Now come on, who's shooting at you? 19:15.840 --> 19:16.840 I know your phone number. 19:16.840 --> 19:17.840 I'll call you if I need help. 19:17.840 --> 19:19.840 I'll take care of this myself. 19:19.840 --> 19:21.840 Valentine, the first time you pull a cap gun, we're going to sit on you. 19:21.840 --> 19:23.840 If there's any retaliating, we'll do it. 19:23.840 --> 19:25.840 I'm tired of sitting like a duck on a pond. 19:25.840 --> 19:26.840 Then tell us who's gunning for you. 19:26.840 --> 19:27.840 That's between me and them. 19:27.840 --> 19:28.840 I'll meet them when I'm ready. 19:28.840 --> 19:29.840 All right. 19:29.840 --> 19:30.840 We're through talking. 19:30.840 --> 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. 19:34.840 --> 19:37.840 And if we find out you've been withholding evidence, it's going to go hard for you, understand? 19:37.840 --> 19:38.840 Yeah, sure. 19:38.840 --> 19:39.840 Now leave me alone. 19:39.840 --> 19:40.840 Come on, here. 19:40.840 --> 19:41.840 Yeah. 19:41.840 --> 19:43.840 I better call the office. 19:54.840 --> 19:55.840 Homicide, Graham. 19:55.840 --> 19:56.840 Captain Elliott there? 19:56.840 --> 19:57.840 I'll see. 19:57.840 --> 19:59.840 Captain, would you take two? 20:00.840 --> 20:01.840 Elliott? 20:01.840 --> 20:03.840 This is Friday, checking in on the Valentine thing. 20:03.840 --> 20:04.840 What's the story? 20:04.840 --> 20:05.840 Couldn't get anything out of him. 20:05.840 --> 20:06.840 He isn't hurt bad. 20:06.840 --> 20:07.840 Right leg and shoulder. 20:07.840 --> 20:08.840 All right. 20:08.840 --> 20:09.840 Here's something you can run down. 20:09.840 --> 20:10.840 Yeah? 20:10.840 --> 20:12.840 Got a tip from White and Intelligence. 20:12.840 --> 20:15.840 He's got a man out at Freddy's fishing chips on Slauson. 20:15.840 --> 20:17.840 Says a couple of guys in there blowing off about Valentine. 20:17.840 --> 20:18.840 Who are they? 20:18.840 --> 20:19.840 Billy Keele and Tony Farrar. 20:19.840 --> 20:21.840 They're not on Valentine's team. 20:21.840 --> 20:22.840 That's right. 20:22.840 --> 20:24.840 White's man says the party's getting rough out there. 20:24.840 --> 20:25.840 You, Romero, better follow up on it. 20:25.840 --> 20:26.840 Right. 20:26.840 --> 20:29.840 Another thing, if it looks like anything, you better bring him in for questioning. 20:29.840 --> 20:30.840 Okay. 20:30.840 --> 20:31.840 Check on me when you get in. 20:31.840 --> 20:32.840 Right. 20:32.840 --> 20:33.840 Let's go. 20:33.840 --> 20:34.840 What is it? 20:34.840 --> 20:35.840 Keele and Farrar. 20:35.840 --> 20:37.840 Skipper wants us to pick him up and bring him in for questioning. 20:37.840 --> 20:38.840 What do they know about the shooting? 20:38.840 --> 20:39.840 They know enough to talk about it. 20:39.840 --> 20:44.840 Seven p.m. 20:44.840 --> 20:48.840 We located Freddy's Fish and Chips place on Slauson near Montgomery Street. 20:48.840 --> 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. 20:54.840 --> 20:59.840 The man from Intelligence Detail was down at the far end of the steam table nursing a cheese sandwich. 20:59.840 --> 21:03.840 He motioned us over and pointed out Billy Keele and Tony Farrar. 21:03.840 --> 21:08.840 They were sitting at one of the tables along with four other men drinking Boilermakers and eating French fried potatoes. 21:08.840 --> 21:12.840 Ben and I made our way through the crowd toward the back tables. 21:12.840 --> 21:14.840 Sorry. 21:14.840 --> 21:15.840 Sorry. 21:15.840 --> 21:16.840 Pardon me. 21:16.840 --> 21:18.840 Can I get through here, please? 21:18.840 --> 21:19.840 All right. 21:19.840 --> 21:20.840 So let's take it. 21:20.840 --> 21:21.840 Don't it? 21:21.840 --> 21:23.840 You, Billy Keele? 21:23.840 --> 21:24.840 That's right. 21:24.840 --> 21:26.840 Which one is Tony Farrar? 21:26.840 --> 21:28.840 He's getting a beer. 21:28.840 --> 21:29.840 What do you want? 21:29.840 --> 21:32.840 Police officers want to talk to you and Farrar downtown. 21:32.840 --> 21:33.840 What's the matter? 21:33.840 --> 21:34.840 I'd like to ask you a few questions. 21:34.840 --> 21:35.840 You want to get your hat? 21:35.840 --> 21:38.840 If you got any questions, you can ask them here. 21:38.840 --> 21:39.840 Hey, Vic, how about buying a round? 21:39.840 --> 21:40.840 Come on, Keele, let's go. 21:40.840 --> 21:41.840 I got nothing to tell you now. 21:41.840 --> 21:42.840 Let me alone. 21:42.840 --> 21:45.840 There's two ways to go downtown, the hard way and the easy way. 21:45.840 --> 21:47.840 Let's take the easy way. 21:47.840 --> 21:48.840 All right. 21:52.840 --> 21:53.840 This way. 21:53.840 --> 21:54.840 Okay. 21:54.840 --> 22:03.840 Hey. 22:24.840 --> 22:29.840 Hey. 22:29.840 --> 22:34.840 Hey. 22:34.840 --> 22:39.840 Joe, Joe, I got Farrar. 22:39.840 --> 22:41.840 He's going out the back way. 22:41.840 --> 22:42.840 I'll get him. 22:42.840 --> 22:43.840 Wait a minute, Joe. 22:43.840 --> 22:44.840 Let go of me. 22:44.840 --> 22:45.840 All right. 22:45.840 --> 22:46.840 Let's go. 22:46.840 --> 22:58.840 Come on, Farrar, come on. 22:58.840 --> 23:00.840 You all right, Joe? 23:00.840 --> 23:01.840 Yeah. 23:01.840 --> 23:02.840 You're bleeding pretty bad. 23:02.840 --> 23:03.840 Yeah, I know. 23:03.840 --> 23:06.840 Let's get him to the car. 23:06.840 --> 23:09.840 Look at your suit. 23:09.840 --> 23:11.840 It's ripped to pieces. 23:11.840 --> 23:18.840 My wife's going to kill me. 23:18.840 --> 23:22.840 One of the officers in the ambulance follow-up drove our car back to the city hall. 23:22.840 --> 23:27.840 Tony Farrar and Billy Keele were taken to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for emergency treatment. 23:27.840 --> 23:29.840 We went in the same ambulance. 23:29.840 --> 23:34.840 Ben had a broken index finger, a two-inch cut in his scalp and a deep gash in his right thigh. 23:34.840 --> 23:38.840 I had five stitches taken in my upper right arm and three above my left eye. 23:38.840 --> 23:40.840 My right eye was swollen shut. 23:40.840 --> 23:45.840 The man from intelligence detail was taken to the PNF ward to be treated for a minor concussion. 23:45.840 --> 23:51.840 It was 9.15 p.m. when we got back to the city hall, the interrogation room. 23:51.840 --> 23:53.840 How about it, Keele? 23:53.840 --> 23:54.840 What? 23:54.840 --> 23:55.840 What do you know about the Valentine shooting? 23:55.840 --> 23:56.840 I don't know anything about it. 23:56.840 --> 23:57.840 You're worried. 23:57.840 --> 23:58.840 About what? 23:58.840 --> 23:59.840 You tell us. 23:59.840 --> 24:01.840 You started that fight out there. 24:01.840 --> 24:03.840 I didn't see any reason to go downtown. 24:03.840 --> 24:05.840 Does Valentine owe you any money? 24:05.840 --> 24:06.840 No. 24:06.840 --> 24:07.840 You've been talking a lot. 24:07.840 --> 24:09.840 Any law against that? 24:09.840 --> 24:10.840 Why'd you shoot Gus Valentine? 24:10.840 --> 24:11.840 I didn't shoot him. 24:11.840 --> 24:14.840 Can you account for your time Tuesday afternoon? 24:14.840 --> 24:15.840 I don't have to answer that. 24:15.840 --> 24:16.840 Where were you this afternoon? 24:16.840 --> 24:18.840 My lawyer's coming in. Ask him. 24:18.840 --> 24:20.840 How much money does Valentine owe you? 24:20.840 --> 24:24.840 Keele, ever see this before? 24:27.840 --> 24:29.840 I don't even know what it is. 24:29.840 --> 24:31.840 We found that machine gun in your apartment. 24:31.840 --> 24:32.840 It doesn't belong to me. 24:32.840 --> 24:35.840 We got your car downstairs. Green Ford sedan. 24:35.840 --> 24:36.840 Doesn't belong to me. 24:36.840 --> 24:38.840 White Slip's got your name on it. 24:38.840 --> 24:40.840 Here's something else with your name on it. 24:40.840 --> 24:43.840 Two chits for $750 signed by Gus Valentine. 24:43.840 --> 24:44.840 Money he owes you and the horses. 24:44.840 --> 24:45.840 You shot him, didn't you? 24:45.840 --> 24:47.840 I don't see how you can prove it. 24:47.840 --> 24:48.840 I'll tell you how. 24:48.840 --> 24:50.840 We ran this tommy gun through the crime lab. 24:50.840 --> 24:52.840 We dug the same slugs out of the front of those stores 24:52.840 --> 24:54.840 where you tried to kill Valentine. 24:54.840 --> 24:55.840 Your prints are all over the gun. 24:55.840 --> 24:56.840 How much more do you want? 24:56.840 --> 24:57.840 It's not my gun. 24:57.840 --> 25:00.840 All we gotta do is find the.45 you used this afternoon 25:00.840 --> 25:02.840 and match it up with the slugs we dug out of Valentine's leg 25:02.840 --> 25:05.840 and, Mr. You'll Be Away for a long time. 25:05.840 --> 25:08.840 All right. We used the tommy gun. 25:08.840 --> 25:10.840 We didn't hit him. Didn't try. 25:10.840 --> 25:11.840 We only wanted to scare him. 25:11.840 --> 25:13.840 I got tired of waiting for my dough. 25:13.840 --> 25:14.840 I got no use for a Welchian. 25:14.840 --> 25:15.840 What about this afternoon? 25:15.840 --> 25:16.840 No, sir. 25:16.840 --> 25:18.840 Me and Ferrat didn't have nothing to do with that. 25:18.840 --> 25:20.840 I'll take the machine gun wrap, but it wasn't us this afternoon. 25:20.840 --> 25:22.840 Elliot, Ferrati, step outside a minute. 25:22.840 --> 25:23.840 Yeah. 25:27.840 --> 25:28.840 Valentine. 25:28.840 --> 25:29.840 Yeah? 25:29.840 --> 25:35.840 Well, he just blew his hospital room full of holes. 25:35.840 --> 25:37.840 It took us 17 minutes with red light and siren 25:37.840 --> 25:39.840 to get to the Ferndale Sanitarium 25:39.840 --> 25:42.840 where Gus Valentine was recovering from his gunshot wounds. 25:42.840 --> 25:44.840 Three cruiser cars were out front when we pulled up. 25:44.840 --> 25:47.840 We went to room 12 in the West Wing. 25:47.840 --> 25:49.840 There's the doctor, Joe. 25:49.840 --> 25:51.840 Yeah. 25:51.840 --> 25:52.840 How is he, doctor? 25:52.840 --> 25:54.840 He was dead when we got in here. 25:54.840 --> 25:56.840 He had a private nurse who shot her too. 25:56.840 --> 25:57.840 Dead. 25:57.840 --> 25:58.840 Anyone else hurt? 25:58.840 --> 25:59.840 It was visiting hours. 25:59.840 --> 26:01.840 Some woman was in there talking to him. 26:01.840 --> 26:02.840 She got hit. 26:02.840 --> 26:04.840 We're treating her down in the emergency room. 26:04.840 --> 26:06.840 Appreciate it, doctor, if you keep your staff out of the room 26:06.840 --> 26:08.840 here until we finish our investigation. 26:08.840 --> 26:09.840 Yes, sir. 26:09.840 --> 26:10.840 Thank you. 26:10.840 --> 26:11.840 Let's have a look inside. 26:11.840 --> 26:12.840 Mm-hmm. 26:13.840 --> 26:14.840 Look at that. 26:14.840 --> 26:15.840 Mm. 26:17.840 --> 26:19.840 He didn't fool this time. 26:19.840 --> 26:21.840 Too bad he wouldn't give us more help. 26:21.840 --> 26:22.840 Yeah. 26:22.840 --> 26:24.840 We're no worse off than we were. 26:24.840 --> 26:26.840 We still have to find out who it was without him. 26:26.840 --> 26:29.840 I hope we can get to him before Valentine's crowd starts shooting back. 26:29.840 --> 26:31.840 We got to. 26:31.840 --> 26:33.840 Anyway, this cancels out his debts. 26:33.840 --> 26:34.840 You know his record. 26:34.840 --> 26:35.840 Yeah. 26:35.840 --> 26:37.840 He owed a lot more than he could ever pay. 26:44.840 --> 26:47.840 The story you have just heard was true. 26:47.840 --> 26:51.840 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:51.840 --> 26:54.840 On October 26th, trial was held in Superior Court, 26:54.840 --> 26:58.840 Department 97, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 26:58.840 --> 27:00.840 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:00.840 --> 27:05.840 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to Fatima. 27:05.840 --> 27:07.840 Here is the actual report. 27:07.840 --> 27:11.840 From coast to coast, king-sized Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 27:11.840 --> 27:15.840 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering that Fatima 27:15.840 --> 27:18.840 is the best of all long cigarettes. 27:18.840 --> 27:23.840 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima has a much different, much better 27:23.840 --> 27:25.840 flavor and aroma. 27:25.840 --> 27:29.840 Long cigarette smokers find that Fatima is extra mild 27:29.840 --> 27:32.840 because it's the long cigarette which contains the finest 27:32.840 --> 27:38.840 Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly blended to make it extra mild. 27:38.840 --> 27:41.840 So enjoy extra mild Fatima. 27:41.840 --> 27:43.840 Best of all long cigarettes. 27:43.840 --> 27:47.840 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 27:47.840 --> 28:00.840 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 28:00.840 --> 28:03.840 Billy Keele and Tony Farrar were tried and convicted of assault 28:03.840 --> 28:05.840 with intent to commit murder. 28:05.840 --> 28:08.840 They were filed on by the Federal authorities, Bureau of Alcohol and Tax Unit 28:08.840 --> 28:13.840 for the illegal possession of a machine gun and were found guilty in Federal Court. 28:13.840 --> 28:16.840 Because they were both in custody at the time of Gus Valentine's murder, 28:16.840 --> 28:18.840 they were cleared of any complicity of the crime. 28:18.840 --> 28:21.840 Valentine's killer was still at large. 28:21.840 --> 28:24.840 Next week, The Big Gangster, Part 2. 28:24.840 --> 28:32.840 You have just heard Dragnet, authentic cases from official files. 28:32.840 --> 28:35.840 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 28:35.840 --> 28:38.840 W.A. 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