1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,760 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,520 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:32,080 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, brings you Dragnet. 4 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,120 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,200 You're assigned to bunko fugitive detail. 6 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:42,080 You receive information an escaped criminal is hiding out in your city. 7 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:43,080 He's dangerous. 8 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,320 He may be armed. 9 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:50,880 Your job, get him. 10 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,920 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of all long cigarettes. 11 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,400 Smoke king size Fatima. 12 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:04,240 Fatima is the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobacco's 13 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:08,280 superbly blended to make Fatima extra mild. 14 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:13,400 And that's why Fatima is a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other 15 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,160 long cigarette. 16 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,920 That's why Fatima has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. 17 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:24,320 So enjoy Fatima, the best of all long cigarettes. 18 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:28,120 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 19 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:33,840 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 20 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:41,200 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 21 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,640 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 22 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,840 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 23 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:50,840 files. 24 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:57,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 25 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,520 in action. 26 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:01,760 Was Thursday, April 27. 27 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,160 It was warm in Los Angeles. 28 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,960 We're working a night watch out of bunko fugitive detail. 29 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,320 My partner's Ben Romero. 30 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,240 The boss is Blaine Steed, captain of bunko fugitive. 31 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,240 My name's Friday. 32 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:17,720 I was on the way back from communications and it was 6.45 p.m. when I got to room 38, 33 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:18,720 squad room. 34 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:19,720 Hi. 35 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:20,720 How are you? 36 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:21,720 How about some dinner? 37 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:22,720 Well, we got one to check out first. 38 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:23,720 Here's the teletypes. 39 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:24,720 Kimber just brought it in. 40 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:25,720 Thanks. 41 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:26,720 San Rafael, huh? 42 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:27,720 Pick up and hold for this department. 43 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:28,720 One Alfred Garvey. 44 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:29,720 Wanted for suspicion, forgery, robbery. 45 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:30,720 This man poses as a suspect. 46 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:31,720 He's a suspect. 47 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:32,720 He's a suspect. 48 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:33,720 He's a suspect. 49 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:34,720 He's a suspect. 50 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:35,720 He's a suspect. 51 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:36,720 He's a suspect. 52 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:37,720 He's a suspect. 53 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,920 This man poses as a fingerprint expert from San Rafael Police Department. 54 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:45,320 Here's his mug pulled from the record bureau. 55 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,240 We're informed Garvey is registered at the Fair Deal Hotel, your city. 56 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:50,240 Where's he at? 57 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,480 Over near First and Broadway. 58 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,600 Please advise us on his arrest and officers will arrive with warrant signed Chief Police 59 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,400 Frank Kelly, San Rafael, California. 60 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,480 Shouldn't take long to pick him up. 61 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:00,480 All right. 62 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:01,480 We can eat later, I guess. 63 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:02,480 Hi. 64 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:03,480 Hi, Max. 65 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:04,480 What are you doing around? 66 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:05,480 I thought you took off on vacation. 67 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,760 I just came back to pick up some stuff from my locker. 68 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:09,760 Soft touch. 69 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:10,760 Sure. 70 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:12,680 Listen, the wife's got the car there. 71 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:14,920 You guys going anywhere near North Main and Daly? 72 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:16,600 Yeah, we're going to leave right now. 73 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:17,600 Oh, okay. 74 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:18,600 Let me grab my coat. 75 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:19,600 All right. 76 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,600 You live out near Highland Park, don't you, Mike? 77 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:22,600 Yeah. 78 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,600 Mike took the kids shopping in the car this afternoon. 79 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,600 And I got him shoes for our vacation. 80 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,240 Kids sure scuff up the toes in a hurry. 81 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,280 All right, you all set? 82 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:34,280 Let's go. 83 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:36,960 Where are you going on your vacation? 84 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:37,960 Big bear. 85 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,200 We're going to stay the whole three weeks. 86 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:41,640 The in-laws own a cabin up there. 87 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,360 They even pay the utilities for us. 88 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:44,360 That's pretty nice. 89 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:45,360 Only one trouble. 90 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:46,360 What's that? 91 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:47,360 They're coming with us. 92 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:48,360 Oh. 93 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:49,360 Where'd you park? 94 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:50,360 In the captain's stall. 95 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:51,360 All right. 96 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:52,360 I'll ride in the back. 97 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:53,360 Okay. 98 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:54,360 I'll take care of it. 99 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:55,360 All right. 100 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:56,360 I'll take care of it. 101 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:57,360 All right. 102 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:58,360 I'll take care of it. 103 00:03:58,360 --> 00:03:59,360 All right. 104 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:00,360 I'll take care of it. 105 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:01,360 All right. 106 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:02,360 I'll take care of it. 107 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:03,360 All right. 108 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:13,080 You two still working on that valley case? 109 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:14,080 No. 110 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:15,080 We washed it up Monday. 111 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:16,260 What's this one? 112 00:04:16,260 --> 00:04:19,960 Tell-a-type from San Rafael and what some guy picked up. 113 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:20,960 There's a mugshot. 114 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,900 Who's Richard's going to work with while he's gone, Mike? 115 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:24,900 I don't know. 116 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:25,960 What's the crowd up ahead? 117 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:27,160 Oh, yeah. 118 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,160 Freiners Convention. 119 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,040 I forgot that they were having a parade tonight. 120 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:31,220 You better stay over to one side. 121 00:04:31,220 --> 00:04:32,820 I think we can get through all right. 122 00:04:32,820 --> 00:04:34,060 Watch those kids there. 123 00:04:34,060 --> 00:04:37,060 Yeah, there we go. 124 00:04:37,060 --> 00:04:39,060 That's the place up ahead, isn't it? 125 00:04:39,060 --> 00:04:41,060 Fair deal, yeah. 126 00:04:41,060 --> 00:04:42,740 We gotta stop by this hotel a minute, Max. 127 00:04:42,740 --> 00:04:43,820 You want to wait here? 128 00:04:43,820 --> 00:04:44,820 I'll come in. 129 00:04:44,820 --> 00:04:45,820 All right. 130 00:04:50,820 --> 00:04:53,320 It's a big turnout for the parade, huh? 131 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,320 Yeah, it's a big crowd. 132 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:56,820 Fair deal hotel. 133 00:04:56,820 --> 00:04:57,820 Look at those rates. 134 00:04:57,820 --> 00:05:06,820 $2.35 a day, $2 a week. 135 00:05:06,820 --> 00:05:08,820 Yes, sir, can I help you? 136 00:05:08,820 --> 00:05:10,820 Police officers, would you look at this picture, please? 137 00:05:10,820 --> 00:05:11,820 All right. 138 00:05:11,820 --> 00:05:14,820 Maybe registered as Alfred Garvey. 139 00:05:14,820 --> 00:05:16,820 Garvey sure came in yesterday. 140 00:05:16,820 --> 00:05:17,820 The picture makes him look old. 141 00:05:17,820 --> 00:05:18,820 Is he in now? 142 00:05:18,820 --> 00:05:20,820 Let's see. 143 00:05:20,820 --> 00:05:24,820 Garvey room 307. 144 00:05:24,820 --> 00:05:25,820 The key is gone. 145 00:05:25,820 --> 00:05:26,820 He must be in. 146 00:05:26,820 --> 00:05:27,820 Yes, sir. 147 00:05:27,820 --> 00:05:29,820 Elevator's down there at the end of the hall. 148 00:05:29,820 --> 00:05:31,820 Okay. 149 00:05:31,820 --> 00:05:33,820 The elevator's in use. 150 00:05:33,820 --> 00:05:34,820 Let's take the stairs. 151 00:05:34,820 --> 00:05:35,820 I'll wait for you here. 152 00:05:35,820 --> 00:05:36,820 I want to see the parade. 153 00:05:36,820 --> 00:05:39,820 Okay, Max. 154 00:05:39,820 --> 00:05:41,820 I've never seen it to fail. 155 00:05:41,820 --> 00:05:42,820 What's that? 156 00:05:42,820 --> 00:05:43,820 Stairs. 157 00:05:43,820 --> 00:05:47,820 Every time my archie's hurt, we get a thief to check who lives upstairs. 158 00:05:47,820 --> 00:05:49,820 Just one more flight. 159 00:05:49,820 --> 00:05:55,820 Yeah. 160 00:05:55,820 --> 00:05:58,820 305, 307. 161 00:05:58,820 --> 00:05:59,820 Door's open. 162 00:05:59,820 --> 00:06:02,820 Let's have a look. 163 00:06:02,820 --> 00:06:05,820 Come on. 164 00:06:05,820 --> 00:06:09,820 It's empty. 165 00:06:09,820 --> 00:06:10,820 Nothing in the closet. 166 00:06:10,820 --> 00:06:13,820 Yeah, pretty fast checkout. 167 00:06:13,820 --> 00:06:14,820 It came from downstairs. 168 00:06:14,820 --> 00:06:15,820 The lobby, come on. 169 00:06:15,820 --> 00:06:18,820 Yep. 170 00:06:18,820 --> 00:06:20,820 Come on, hurry up. 171 00:06:20,820 --> 00:06:21,820 Hey, stop him! 172 00:06:21,820 --> 00:06:22,820 Stop that guy, police! 173 00:06:22,820 --> 00:06:23,820 The police! 174 00:06:23,820 --> 00:06:24,820 It's Maxwell. 175 00:06:24,820 --> 00:06:25,820 Max, Max, are you all right? 176 00:06:25,820 --> 00:06:26,820 He went out the door. 177 00:06:26,820 --> 00:06:27,820 Blue suit. 178 00:06:27,820 --> 00:06:28,820 He was carving. 179 00:06:28,820 --> 00:06:29,820 He shot your friend. 180 00:06:29,820 --> 00:06:30,820 Call an ambulance. 181 00:06:30,820 --> 00:06:31,820 He ran out the door. 182 00:06:31,820 --> 00:06:32,820 He shot your friend. 183 00:06:32,820 --> 00:06:33,820 Come on, Ben. 184 00:06:33,820 --> 00:06:34,820 Call an ambulance, will you? 185 00:06:34,820 --> 00:06:35,820 Hey, you. 186 00:06:35,820 --> 00:06:38,820 Did you see a man come out of this hotel? 187 00:06:38,820 --> 00:06:39,820 What'd you say? 188 00:06:39,820 --> 00:06:41,820 Did you just see a man come out of this hotel? 189 00:06:41,820 --> 00:06:42,820 I don't know. 190 00:06:42,820 --> 00:06:43,820 All right, Ben, you go that way. 191 00:06:43,820 --> 00:06:44,820 I'll check up this way. 192 00:06:44,820 --> 00:06:45,820 Yeah, right. 193 00:06:45,820 --> 00:06:46,820 What's the matter? 194 00:06:46,820 --> 00:06:47,820 Watch where you're going, huh? 195 00:06:47,820 --> 00:06:49,820 Did you see a man running up this way just now about my height? 196 00:06:49,820 --> 00:06:50,820 Blue suit? 197 00:06:50,820 --> 00:06:51,820 No, I didn't see anybody. 198 00:06:51,820 --> 00:06:52,820 Did you see anybody? 199 00:06:52,820 --> 00:06:53,820 Hey, hey, boy. 200 00:06:53,820 --> 00:06:54,820 Yeah, you want a paper, mister? 201 00:06:54,820 --> 00:06:58,820 No, listen, did you see a man running by here a minute ago in a blue suit? 202 00:06:58,820 --> 00:06:59,820 Maybe. 203 00:06:59,820 --> 00:07:00,820 I didn't notice. 204 00:07:00,820 --> 00:07:01,820 Do you want a paper? 205 00:07:01,820 --> 00:07:02,820 I'm sorry. 206 00:07:02,820 --> 00:07:03,820 Sorry, lady. 207 00:07:03,820 --> 00:07:04,820 Ben, Ben, over here. 208 00:07:04,820 --> 00:07:05,820 Yeah. 209 00:07:05,820 --> 00:07:06,820 Did you spot him? 210 00:07:06,820 --> 00:07:07,820 No, we're gonna need help. 211 00:07:07,820 --> 00:07:08,820 All right, come on. 212 00:07:08,820 --> 00:07:09,820 I called an ambulance. 213 00:07:09,820 --> 00:07:10,820 You better help your friend. 214 00:07:10,820 --> 00:07:11,820 He's bleeding. 215 00:07:11,820 --> 00:07:12,820 I don't know what to do. 216 00:07:12,820 --> 00:07:13,820 Ben, get a hold of communications. 217 00:07:13,820 --> 00:07:14,820 Get some help out here. 218 00:07:14,820 --> 00:07:15,820 All right. 219 00:07:15,820 --> 00:07:16,820 The guy came down the elevator. 220 00:07:16,820 --> 00:07:17,820 He was carving. 221 00:07:17,820 --> 00:07:18,820 He was carving. 222 00:07:18,820 --> 00:07:19,820 He was carving. 223 00:07:19,820 --> 00:07:20,820 He was carving. 224 00:07:20,820 --> 00:07:21,820 He was carving. 225 00:07:21,820 --> 00:07:22,820 He was carving. 226 00:07:22,820 --> 00:07:23,820 He was carving. 227 00:07:23,820 --> 00:07:24,820 Your friend tried to stop him. 228 00:07:24,820 --> 00:07:25,820 Garvey shot him right in the face. 229 00:07:25,820 --> 00:07:26,820 All right, stop yelling, huh? 230 00:07:26,820 --> 00:07:27,820 He was terrible. 231 00:07:27,820 --> 00:07:28,820 Now look, he's bleeding. 232 00:07:28,820 --> 00:07:29,820 You better do something. 233 00:07:29,820 --> 00:07:30,820 Will you shut up? 234 00:07:30,820 --> 00:07:32,820 Max, Max, how is it? 235 00:07:32,820 --> 00:07:34,820 Man, chest hurts. 236 00:07:34,820 --> 00:07:36,820 All right, easy, huh? 237 00:07:36,820 --> 00:07:39,820 Garvey came out of the elevator fast with a gun. 238 00:07:39,820 --> 00:07:40,820 All right, take it easy now. 239 00:07:40,820 --> 00:07:43,820 Joe, I've got communications there blocking off the area. 240 00:07:43,820 --> 00:07:44,820 That's fine. 241 00:07:44,820 --> 00:07:45,820 Watch that front door. 242 00:07:45,820 --> 00:07:47,820 Will you keep those people out of here? 243 00:07:47,820 --> 00:07:48,820 Yeah, yeah. 244 00:07:48,820 --> 00:07:49,820 Chest hurts. 245 00:07:49,820 --> 00:07:52,820 Chest? 246 00:07:52,820 --> 00:07:54,820 I'll be here in a minute, boy. 247 00:07:54,820 --> 00:08:00,820 Call the wife, Eleanor. 248 00:08:00,820 --> 00:08:02,820 Ambulance this year? 249 00:08:02,820 --> 00:08:03,820 Yeah. 250 00:08:03,820 --> 00:08:05,820 He looks bad. 251 00:08:05,820 --> 00:08:07,820 He's not going to get any worse. 252 00:08:07,820 --> 00:08:14,820 He's dead. 253 00:08:14,820 --> 00:08:18,820 The name on the personnel report said John Warren Maxwell, Sergeant. 254 00:08:18,820 --> 00:08:21,820 Los Angeles Police Department, badge number 103-77. 255 00:08:21,820 --> 00:08:24,820 Nearest living relative, wife, Eleanor Jean Maxwell. 256 00:08:24,820 --> 00:08:27,820 Dependents, John Maxwell Jr., six years. 257 00:08:27,820 --> 00:08:29,820 Deborah Lee Maxwell, two years. 258 00:08:29,820 --> 00:08:33,820 Death and line of duty, April 27th, 715 p.m. 259 00:08:33,820 --> 00:08:37,820 John Maxwell's body was removed from Georgia Street to the county morgue. 260 00:08:37,820 --> 00:08:44,820 At 745, a special detail of men from homicide and bunko fugitive were on the scene to aid in the investigation of the killing. 261 00:08:44,820 --> 00:08:48,820 The neighborhood where the Fair Deal Hotel was located was covered for a half mile around. 262 00:08:48,820 --> 00:08:52,820 By nine o'clock, the parade was over and the area was cleared. 263 00:08:52,820 --> 00:08:54,820 We had a single lead to work with. 264 00:08:54,820 --> 00:08:57,820 In checking out the different taxi cab stands in the neighborhood, 265 00:08:57,820 --> 00:09:03,820 we found out that three separate fares had been picked up within two blocks of the hotel, four minutes after the shooting. 266 00:09:03,820 --> 00:09:06,820 Ben and I went to the offices of the taxi cab company. 267 00:09:06,820 --> 00:09:09,820 The cabs in question were called in and the way bills were checked. 268 00:09:09,820 --> 00:09:13,820 The times of the three different trips were listed and so was the address of each destination. 269 00:09:13,820 --> 00:09:16,820 We copied down the addresses and then interviewed the drivers. 270 00:09:16,820 --> 00:09:18,820 We're going to give each one of you half a dozen pictures. 271 00:09:18,820 --> 00:09:23,820 I'd like to see if you can identify any of them as passengers you picked up tonight near the Fair Deal Hotel. 272 00:09:23,820 --> 00:09:27,820 All right, here you go. Four, five, six. 273 00:09:27,820 --> 00:09:28,820 Check them carefully, please. 274 00:09:28,820 --> 00:09:29,820 Here, yours, right here. 275 00:09:29,820 --> 00:09:30,820 Take a good look at each one of them. 276 00:09:30,820 --> 00:09:31,820 Okay, thanks. 277 00:09:31,820 --> 00:09:33,820 Now, fellas, take your time. 278 00:09:33,820 --> 00:09:35,820 Look them all over real good before you make up your minds. 279 00:09:40,820 --> 00:09:42,820 Here. Here's the one, Sergeant. No mistake. 280 00:09:42,820 --> 00:09:46,820 Let me see. Where'd you pick up this man? 281 00:09:46,820 --> 00:09:51,820 About a block from the hotel. I drove him to a place on 14th Street. Same address on the way bill. 282 00:09:51,820 --> 00:09:52,820 Ben. 283 00:09:52,820 --> 00:09:53,820 Yeah? 284 00:09:53,820 --> 00:09:54,820 Alfred Garvey. 285 00:09:57,820 --> 00:10:04,820 Ben and I, along with Ricketson Chandler from homicide, drove out to the 14th Street address, another small, transient hotel. 286 00:10:04,820 --> 00:10:07,820 The clerk on duty identified Garvey from his mugshot. 287 00:10:07,820 --> 00:10:14,820 He said the suspect had called at the hotel at about 745 that night and asked to see one of the guests, Mrs. Lorraine Thomas. 288 00:10:14,820 --> 00:10:19,820 The clerk said he told Garvey Mrs. Thomas was out, that she hadn't been there for four days. 289 00:10:19,820 --> 00:10:28,820 Ricketson Chandler went on stakeout in the lobby of the hotel, and Ben and I went up to the second floor to stake out Mrs. Thomas' room Friday, 1125 a.m. 290 00:10:28,820 --> 00:10:31,820 Lorraine Thomas returned to the hotel and was taken into custody. 291 00:10:31,820 --> 00:10:34,820 We took her to homicide and questioned her for more than an hour. 292 00:10:34,820 --> 00:10:37,820 She admitted that she was acquainted with Garvey, but that's all. 293 00:10:37,820 --> 00:10:40,820 One o'clock. We went to Clifton's cafeteria for lunch. 294 00:10:40,820 --> 00:10:42,820 Here, take this tray. 295 00:10:42,820 --> 00:10:43,820 Thanks. 296 00:10:43,820 --> 00:10:44,820 Silverware? 297 00:10:44,820 --> 00:10:45,820 Hmm. 298 00:10:50,820 --> 00:10:53,820 You were the first one he ran to after the shooting. 299 00:10:53,820 --> 00:11:01,820 Garvey doesn't have many friends in Los Angeles. Maybe that's why he looked me up. I'll have a mixed green salad, please. 300 00:11:01,820 --> 00:11:04,820 What kind of work does Garvey do, do you know? 301 00:11:04,820 --> 00:11:07,820 He told me he was in the Merchant Marines. 302 00:11:07,820 --> 00:11:08,820 Coleslaw. 303 00:11:08,820 --> 00:11:11,820 Some of that potato salad, please. 304 00:11:11,820 --> 00:11:13,820 Do you know what he does in the Merchant Marines? 305 00:11:13,820 --> 00:11:16,820 He told me his steward. French dressing, please. 306 00:11:16,820 --> 00:11:18,820 Do you know any of his friends in town? 307 00:11:18,820 --> 00:11:22,820 No, I don't. Dry bread. Can I have an extra butter, please? 308 00:11:22,820 --> 00:11:25,820 I'm French roll. What kind do you want, Ben? 309 00:11:25,820 --> 00:11:27,820 Give me some of those biscuits. 310 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:29,820 Thank you. 311 00:11:29,820 --> 00:11:32,820 Does Garvey usually stay at the Fair Deal Hotel when he's in town? 312 00:11:32,820 --> 00:11:33,820 I don't know. 313 00:11:33,820 --> 00:11:36,820 That split-piece soup sure looks good. 314 00:11:36,820 --> 00:11:39,820 We told you the police up north were looking for him. 315 00:11:39,820 --> 00:11:41,820 Yeah, I know you did. 316 00:11:41,820 --> 00:11:45,820 Like I told you, I've been out with him a few times. That's all I know about him. 317 00:11:45,820 --> 00:11:48,820 He must have introduced you to some of his friends. 318 00:11:48,820 --> 00:11:53,820 I'll have the prime ribs there. Rare. That piece there. 319 00:11:53,820 --> 00:11:56,820 How about it? Did you ever meet any of his friends? 320 00:11:56,820 --> 00:12:00,820 Yeah, one or two. No, no gravy. 321 00:12:00,820 --> 00:12:04,820 Meatloaf, brown gravy. Remember any of the names of his friends? 322 00:12:04,820 --> 00:12:06,820 I just met him, that's all. I don't remember. 323 00:12:06,820 --> 00:12:11,820 Let me have a roast turkey. Go kind of heavy on that dressing, will you? 324 00:12:11,820 --> 00:12:13,820 Did you ever go out with any of them? 325 00:12:13,820 --> 00:12:15,820 No. 326 00:12:15,820 --> 00:12:18,820 Why do you think Garvey went to your hotel after the shooting? 327 00:12:18,820 --> 00:12:19,820 I don't know. 328 00:12:19,820 --> 00:12:21,820 Maybe he figured you'd hide him. 329 00:12:21,820 --> 00:12:22,820 I don't know why he should. 330 00:12:22,820 --> 00:12:25,820 He killed a man and headed straight for your place. 331 00:12:25,820 --> 00:12:26,820 That doesn't make you look too good. 332 00:12:26,820 --> 00:12:30,820 I can't help that. I like some of those string beans, please. 333 00:12:30,820 --> 00:12:33,820 Miss Thomas, you know it's going to go hard on you if you're holding back information on Garvey. 334 00:12:33,820 --> 00:12:35,820 I'm not. 335 00:12:35,820 --> 00:12:38,820 Why don't you take some of that summer squash, Joe? It's good for you. 336 00:12:38,820 --> 00:12:41,820 I can't eat that much. When did you first meet Garvey? 337 00:12:41,820 --> 00:12:43,820 About three years ago, up in St. Helena. 338 00:12:43,820 --> 00:12:45,820 You might as well keep your nose clean. 339 00:12:45,820 --> 00:12:46,820 How do you mean? 340 00:12:46,820 --> 00:12:50,820 We're going to reach him, Miss Thomas. You might as well tell us all you know. 341 00:12:50,820 --> 00:12:53,820 Look, if Garvey's killing people, I don't want to have any more to do with him. 342 00:12:53,820 --> 00:12:55,820 We do. Now, where is he? 343 00:12:55,820 --> 00:12:57,820 I told you, I don't know. 344 00:12:57,820 --> 00:12:58,820 Squash, please. 345 00:12:58,820 --> 00:13:01,820 You said you had a little boy, didn't you, Miss Thomas? 346 00:13:01,820 --> 00:13:05,820 Do we have to talk about it now? I thought we were going to have lunch. 347 00:13:05,820 --> 00:13:07,820 How old's your little boy? 348 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:08,820 He's seven years old. 349 00:13:08,820 --> 00:13:09,820 Where is he now? 350 00:13:09,820 --> 00:13:11,820 He's in school up in San Francisco. 351 00:13:11,820 --> 00:13:14,820 Isn't this line going off a flow? 352 00:13:14,820 --> 00:13:16,820 It's lunchtime. 353 00:13:16,820 --> 00:13:19,820 You know that cop that Garvey killed last night? 354 00:13:19,820 --> 00:13:22,820 Mashed potatoes, country gravy. 355 00:13:22,820 --> 00:13:24,820 Do you hear what I said? 356 00:13:24,820 --> 00:13:26,820 Yes, I know he killed a cop. 357 00:13:26,820 --> 00:13:28,820 He had a little boy, too. 358 00:13:28,820 --> 00:13:30,820 There's nothing I can do. 359 00:13:30,820 --> 00:13:31,820 No potatoes, thanks. 360 00:13:31,820 --> 00:13:35,820 Yeah, there's something you can do, Miss Thomas. You can tell us where Garvey is. 361 00:13:35,820 --> 00:13:37,820 If I knew, I'd tell you. 362 00:13:37,820 --> 00:13:38,820 Brunch fries, please. 363 00:13:38,820 --> 00:13:40,820 You're kidding us, Miss Thomas, but we're not going to kid you. 364 00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:43,820 You know a lot more about this than you're telling us. 365 00:13:43,820 --> 00:13:45,820 Maybe I do, but I'm scared. 366 00:13:45,820 --> 00:13:46,820 Who are you afraid of? 367 00:13:46,820 --> 00:13:49,820 Look, why can't you count me out of this? I don't want any part of it. 368 00:13:49,820 --> 00:13:52,820 You're in all the way. The only way you're going to get out is to tell us what you know. 369 00:13:52,820 --> 00:13:53,820 He'll kill me. 370 00:13:53,820 --> 00:13:56,820 If something happens to me, nobody's going to worry about my kid. 371 00:13:56,820 --> 00:13:59,820 You don't have to worry. He's not going to find out. 372 00:13:59,820 --> 00:14:02,820 No, no dessert, please. 373 00:14:02,820 --> 00:14:03,820 Now both kill me. 374 00:14:03,820 --> 00:14:05,820 Both? Who's the other one? 375 00:14:05,820 --> 00:14:09,820 Who wants the you? It's trouble no matter what you try to do. Nothing but trouble. 376 00:14:09,820 --> 00:14:12,820 Garvey's working with somebody, is that it? 377 00:14:12,820 --> 00:14:14,820 His name's Jack Fleming. 378 00:14:14,820 --> 00:14:15,820 Yeah? 379 00:14:15,820 --> 00:14:20,820 They made me promise to cover for him, give him a place to hide out whenever the heat was on. 380 00:14:20,820 --> 00:14:21,820 Then you know where they are. 381 00:14:21,820 --> 00:14:23,820 No, I don't. That's the truth. 382 00:14:23,820 --> 00:14:25,820 Why do they need a place to hide out? 383 00:14:25,820 --> 00:14:27,820 You said Garvey killed a cop. 384 00:14:27,820 --> 00:14:28,820 What about Fleming? 385 00:14:28,820 --> 00:14:29,820 Oh, Joe, you better move along. 386 00:14:29,820 --> 00:14:30,820 Oh, I'm sorry. 387 00:14:30,820 --> 00:14:32,820 What about Fleming? 388 00:14:32,820 --> 00:14:34,820 They're going to pull some jobs. 389 00:14:34,820 --> 00:14:36,820 All right, we can skip the dessert. Come on. 390 00:14:36,820 --> 00:14:38,820 I'll take a check for all of them. 391 00:14:38,820 --> 00:14:40,820 Let's go. 392 00:14:40,820 --> 00:14:42,820 What kind of jobs? Where? 393 00:14:42,820 --> 00:14:44,820 Hold up. Tomorrow night. 394 00:14:44,820 --> 00:14:46,820 Three Kings Liquor Store out in Wilshire. 395 00:14:46,820 --> 00:14:47,820 Let's sit down. 396 00:14:47,820 --> 00:14:49,820 They're both the same, Garvey and Fleming. 397 00:14:49,820 --> 00:14:51,820 They can't hold a gun without usin'. 398 00:14:51,820 --> 00:14:52,820 Here's the table. 399 00:14:55,820 --> 00:14:58,820 Oh, you dropped your tray. I'll get you some more. 400 00:14:58,820 --> 00:15:02,820 Don't bother. 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They're extra mild. 408 00:15:43,820 --> 00:15:46,820 In my opinion, it's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 409 00:15:46,820 --> 00:15:50,820 And more and more smokers are discovering this every day. 410 00:15:50,820 --> 00:15:55,820 Actual figures show Fatima has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. 411 00:15:55,820 --> 00:15:58,820 So enjoy Fatima yourself. 412 00:15:58,820 --> 00:16:05,820 The long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, superbly blended to make it extra mild. 413 00:16:05,820 --> 00:16:09,820 You will prefer Fatima's much different, much better flavor. 414 00:16:09,820 --> 00:16:10,820 You will agree. 415 00:16:10,820 --> 00:16:13,820 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 416 00:16:13,820 --> 00:16:17,820 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 417 00:16:17,820 --> 00:16:22,820 The Last Rites 418 00:16:24,820 --> 00:16:26,820 Saturday, April 29th. 419 00:16:26,820 --> 00:16:31,820 Last Rites were held for Sergeant John Maxwell and he was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery. 420 00:16:31,820 --> 00:16:38,820 A guard of honor from the police department was present along with most of the men Maxwell had worked with in Munko fugitive detail. 421 00:16:38,820 --> 00:16:47,820 The chief of detectives delivered a short eulogy and one of the men from the department band sounded taps over the grave. 422 00:16:47,820 --> 00:16:50,820 We got back to the office at noon, checked in at the record bureau. 423 00:16:50,820 --> 00:16:57,820 The photocopy room had taken negatives of Garvey's and Fleming's coming out mugs and made duplicates that were distributed to all officers. 424 00:16:57,820 --> 00:17:03,820 The stakeouts continued at the Fair Deal in the 14th Street Hotel where Lorraine Thomas was staying. 425 00:17:03,820 --> 00:17:05,820 She was put under protective custody. 426 00:17:05,820 --> 00:17:10,820 Ben and I, Ricketts and Chandler went on stakeout at the Three Kings Liquor Store on Wilshire Boulevard. 427 00:17:10,820 --> 00:17:15,820 It was a large modern place and it did a volume business, especially on Saturday night. 428 00:17:15,820 --> 00:17:17,820 Ricketts and Chandler covered the store from the outside. 429 00:17:17,820 --> 00:17:24,820 Ben and I were stationed in the supply room at the rear of the place where we had the main counter and most of the store in full view. 430 00:17:24,820 --> 00:17:31,820 We set up a prearranged signal with the clerk on duty and if and when Garvey and Fleming showed up, the clerk was to accidentally knock an empty bottle off the counter. 431 00:17:31,820 --> 00:17:35,820 We waited until midnight. Nothing happened. 432 00:17:37,820 --> 00:17:40,820 It's the first customer in half an hour, it's kind of slow. 433 00:17:40,820 --> 00:17:43,820 Yeah, wait a minute, here comes another one. 434 00:17:43,820 --> 00:17:45,820 No sale, it's a woman. 435 00:17:52,820 --> 00:17:54,820 The clerk sure got the jitters. 436 00:17:54,820 --> 00:17:56,820 I'll put in with him. 437 00:17:58,820 --> 00:18:00,820 I could go for a hamburger. 438 00:18:00,820 --> 00:18:01,820 What did you eat there? 439 00:18:01,820 --> 00:18:03,820 I wasn't very hungry, man. 440 00:18:03,820 --> 00:18:05,820 I got an almond bar, you want? 441 00:18:05,820 --> 00:18:10,820 Yeah, thanks. Wait a minute, another customer. 442 00:18:10,820 --> 00:18:15,820 Yeah, man, can't see his face too well with that hat on, can you? 443 00:18:15,820 --> 00:18:17,820 That's Fleming, come on. 444 00:18:17,820 --> 00:18:19,820 Police officers, get your hands up. 445 00:18:19,820 --> 00:18:21,820 Watch it, Joe. 446 00:18:23,820 --> 00:18:24,820 You're hitting. 447 00:18:24,820 --> 00:18:26,820 He's going out the front, come on. 448 00:18:26,820 --> 00:18:28,820 Ricketts and Chandler stopped him. 449 00:18:28,820 --> 00:18:31,820 Yeah, he's down, watch him. Get the gun. 450 00:18:31,820 --> 00:18:32,820 Yeah. 451 00:18:33,820 --> 00:18:35,820 Yeah, here, here, there. 452 00:18:36,820 --> 00:18:37,820 That's Fleming, all right. 453 00:18:37,820 --> 00:18:39,820 Ricketts, call an ambulance. 454 00:18:39,820 --> 00:18:41,820 What's the score? 455 00:18:41,820 --> 00:18:44,820 Looks like one in the shoulder and legs too. 456 00:18:44,820 --> 00:18:45,820 What about Garvey? 457 00:18:45,820 --> 00:18:46,820 I don't know. 458 00:18:46,820 --> 00:18:47,820 What do you think? 459 00:18:47,820 --> 00:18:49,820 Fleming stopped all the slugs. 460 00:18:49,820 --> 00:18:50,820 Yeah. 461 00:18:50,820 --> 00:18:56,820 Let's ask him. 462 00:18:56,820 --> 00:18:59,820 The wounded suspect was treated at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital 463 00:18:59,820 --> 00:19:02,820 and then booked into the prison ward at the General Hospital. 464 00:19:02,820 --> 00:19:04,820 At 11 a.m. the next day, we questioned him, 465 00:19:04,820 --> 00:19:07,820 but he refused to admit that he even knew Alfred Garvey. 466 00:19:07,820 --> 00:19:11,820 We re-questioned Fleming for the next three days with no results. 467 00:19:11,820 --> 00:19:14,820 The stakeouts continued, the search went on. 468 00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:16,820 There was no response to our APB. 469 00:19:16,820 --> 00:19:18,820 Garvey was still at large. 470 00:19:18,820 --> 00:19:21,820 As far as we were concerned, there was only one way to get directly to Garvey, 471 00:19:21,820 --> 00:19:23,820 and that was through Fleming. 472 00:19:23,820 --> 00:19:28,820 We called on Lorraine Thomas again and asked her that if she would try to get some information on Fleming, 473 00:19:28,820 --> 00:19:31,820 try to get him to talk and to tell her where Garvey was. 474 00:19:31,820 --> 00:19:34,820 I'm not even sure if he knows where Garvey's hiding. 475 00:19:34,820 --> 00:19:36,820 He must have a good idea. 476 00:19:36,820 --> 00:19:39,820 Even if he has, he's not going to tell me. He wouldn't trust me that far. 477 00:19:39,820 --> 00:19:42,820 He'll go further with you than he will with us. He won't even give us his name. 478 00:19:42,820 --> 00:19:44,820 I'm afraid it's up to you, Miss Thomas. 479 00:19:44,820 --> 00:19:46,820 Why can't you let me out of this? 480 00:19:46,820 --> 00:19:48,820 Look, figure it this way. 481 00:19:48,820 --> 00:19:52,820 You knew about Fleming and Garvey. You knew they were in town. You knew what they were up to. 482 00:19:52,820 --> 00:19:54,820 You didn't break your back to save that dead cop's life. 483 00:19:54,820 --> 00:19:56,820 Garvey shot him. I didn't. 484 00:19:56,820 --> 00:19:59,820 You knew he was a killer. You knew he had a gun. 485 00:19:59,820 --> 00:20:01,820 What do you want me to do? 486 00:20:01,820 --> 00:20:04,820 Get close to Fleming. Visit him every day till he talks. 487 00:20:04,820 --> 00:20:06,820 He doesn't trust me. I told you. 488 00:20:06,820 --> 00:20:09,820 Then get him to trust you, will you? Do favors for him. 489 00:20:09,820 --> 00:20:13,820 He wants to contact friends to raise money for a lawyer. Help him do that. 490 00:20:13,820 --> 00:20:16,820 Run errands. Do anything for him within reason. 491 00:20:16,820 --> 00:20:19,820 Suppose he finds out about the holdup that I told you about it. 492 00:20:19,820 --> 00:20:21,820 He's got a long stretch ahead of him. He won't bother you. 493 00:20:21,820 --> 00:20:24,820 They'll kill me if they find out. They wouldn't wait a minute. 494 00:20:24,820 --> 00:20:26,820 They won't find out. 495 00:20:26,820 --> 00:20:30,820 All right. It won't be my fault. 496 00:20:30,820 --> 00:20:33,820 Al did the shooting. He killed the cop, let him square it up. 497 00:20:33,820 --> 00:20:35,820 He'll square it with the court. There's only one trouble. 498 00:20:35,820 --> 00:20:39,820 Maxwell's wife and kids, how does Al square it with them? 499 00:20:39,820 --> 00:20:46,820 On the morning of May 8th, suspect Jack Fleming was removed from his private room 500 00:20:46,820 --> 00:20:49,820 and wheeled down to the X-ray lab on the pretext of treatment. 501 00:20:49,820 --> 00:20:54,820 While he was absent, a dictaphone was placed in his room by a sound crew from the crime lab. 502 00:20:54,820 --> 00:20:56,820 Fleming was then returned. 503 00:20:56,820 --> 00:21:00,820 That afternoon, while Ben and I listened in on earphones in the next room, 504 00:21:00,820 --> 00:21:03,820 Lorraine Thomas paid her first visit to Fleming. 505 00:21:03,820 --> 00:21:06,820 We had briefed her on how to proceed in getting a suspect to talk, 506 00:21:06,820 --> 00:21:11,820 in particular to reveal Garvey's hideout. It was a slow process. 507 00:21:11,820 --> 00:21:14,820 For the next 15 days, between the hours of 2 and 4 in the afternoon, 508 00:21:14,820 --> 00:21:19,820 Mrs. Thomas visited Fleming while Ben and I monitored their conversation in the adjoining room. 509 00:21:19,820 --> 00:21:23,820 For 15 days, despite all her shows of confidence, Fleming refused to confide. 510 00:21:23,820 --> 00:21:27,820 He was sullen and closed-mouthed. Some afternoons he would hardly speak to her. 511 00:21:27,820 --> 00:21:31,820 On the 16th day, his mood seemed to be improving. 512 00:21:31,820 --> 00:21:36,820 Here, let me fix that pillow for you, Jack. 513 00:21:38,820 --> 00:21:40,820 There, buddy? 514 00:21:40,820 --> 00:21:44,820 Yeah, that's good. Thanks. 515 00:21:44,820 --> 00:21:50,820 I, uh, I got in touch with Dave and Johnny like you asked me to. 516 00:21:50,820 --> 00:21:52,820 Huh? What'd they say? 517 00:21:52,820 --> 00:21:57,820 Well, they said they could get you the money for the lawyer the day after tomorrow. 518 00:21:57,820 --> 00:22:01,820 And Dave said he might be over to see you tonight. 519 00:22:01,820 --> 00:22:05,820 That's fine. Once I get a lawyer, I'll stop worrying. 520 00:22:05,820 --> 00:22:09,820 I stopped by Denelli's place, too. 521 00:22:09,820 --> 00:22:13,820 Pop Royce wasn't there. I'm going back tomorrow to see him. 522 00:22:13,820 --> 00:22:15,820 He ought to be able to help. 523 00:22:15,820 --> 00:22:18,820 You've been okay, Lurie. I won't forget it. 524 00:22:18,820 --> 00:22:21,820 That's what friends are for. 525 00:22:21,820 --> 00:22:24,820 Jim, I'm sure sorry you had to get it this way. 526 00:22:24,820 --> 00:22:27,820 I can give it back where it came from. 527 00:22:27,820 --> 00:22:31,820 Say, I bought you some new magazines, a couple of candy bars. 528 00:22:31,820 --> 00:22:34,820 Well, put them over here near the bed, will you? 529 00:22:34,820 --> 00:22:37,820 Yeah, sure. Let me get them for you. 530 00:22:40,820 --> 00:22:43,820 There, Jack. See, I'll put them right here at this table. 531 00:22:43,820 --> 00:22:45,820 I'll bring you some more tomorrow. 532 00:22:45,820 --> 00:22:49,820 No, that's fine. You're going to try and see Pop Royce again tomorrow? 533 00:22:49,820 --> 00:22:53,820 Yeah, they told me he'd be in around noon for sure. 534 00:22:53,820 --> 00:22:56,820 If I don't see him then, I'll keep trying till I do. 535 00:22:56,820 --> 00:22:59,820 Yeah, that's it. Oh, listen, there's something else. 536 00:22:59,820 --> 00:23:00,820 Sure, Jack. 537 00:23:00,820 --> 00:23:02,820 Come here. I don't want to talk loud. 538 00:23:02,820 --> 00:23:04,820 The cops might have bugged this room. 539 00:23:04,820 --> 00:23:05,820 Yeah. 540 00:23:05,820 --> 00:23:07,820 All right. A little closer. 541 00:23:07,820 --> 00:23:08,820 Okay. 542 00:23:08,820 --> 00:23:13,820 Tonight, I want you to go to George's joint, the Blue Moon, down on South Flower. 543 00:23:13,820 --> 00:23:14,820 Yeah? 544 00:23:14,820 --> 00:23:18,820 And ask for George at the bar. He's usually around from 11. 545 00:23:18,820 --> 00:23:21,820 Tell George you've seen me. He'll know it. 546 00:23:21,820 --> 00:23:23,820 Then tell him to take you to Al. 547 00:23:23,820 --> 00:23:24,820 Take me to Al? 548 00:23:24,820 --> 00:23:27,820 Yeah, Al Garvey. George knows the place. 549 00:23:27,820 --> 00:23:29,820 Yeah? Okay, Jack. 550 00:23:29,820 --> 00:23:33,820 And keep your mouth shut. Don't talk to anybody but George. He knows the place. 551 00:23:33,820 --> 00:23:36,820 All right, Jack. It'll help you out. 552 00:23:37,820 --> 00:23:41,820 Well, yeah. It's a long wait. 553 00:23:41,820 --> 00:23:42,820 We're paid. 554 00:23:42,820 --> 00:23:43,820 Let's go. 555 00:23:43,820 --> 00:23:52,820 Ten forty-five p.m. A detail of three cars followed Lorraine Thomas to the Blue Moon Tavern on South Flower Street. 556 00:23:52,820 --> 00:23:55,820 We parked down the block and watched her go in. 557 00:23:55,820 --> 00:23:59,820 At fifteen minutes past eleven, she came out with a small fat man in a dark blue suit. 558 00:23:59,820 --> 00:24:02,820 They got in a tan-colored coupe and drove south. 559 00:24:02,820 --> 00:24:07,820 The cruiser cars, using three-way radio, tailed the coupe alternately out through the Echo Park area 560 00:24:07,820 --> 00:24:10,820 and then back to the starting point at the Blue Moon Tavern. 561 00:24:10,820 --> 00:24:14,820 Lorraine Thomas went back into the bar with a man and twenty minutes later came out, 562 00:24:14,820 --> 00:24:17,820 caught a taxi and took it to her hotel on Fourteenth Street. 563 00:24:17,820 --> 00:24:20,820 We drove back to the office. It was five minutes past one a.m. 564 00:24:20,820 --> 00:24:21,820 That's it. 565 00:24:21,820 --> 00:24:23,820 I get it. 566 00:24:24,820 --> 00:24:25,820 Monco Fugitive Friday. 567 00:24:25,820 --> 00:24:28,820 Lorraine Thomas, Sergeant. He showed me the place George did. 568 00:24:28,820 --> 00:24:29,820 Where? 569 00:24:29,820 --> 00:24:34,820 We drove past it. Ten thirty-two Alamo, apartment three. 570 00:24:34,820 --> 00:24:35,820 Is Garvey there now? 571 00:24:35,820 --> 00:24:40,820 No. George said he's supposed to be there tomorrow in the afternoon, five o'clock. 572 00:24:40,820 --> 00:24:42,820 George said I'll have to go alone. 573 00:24:42,820 --> 00:24:43,820 Are they watching the place? 574 00:24:43,820 --> 00:24:49,820 I think so. Garvey's staying with another man. They got guns. 575 00:24:49,820 --> 00:24:50,820 You know where Garvey is now? 576 00:24:50,820 --> 00:24:51,820 George wouldn't tell me. 577 00:24:51,820 --> 00:24:55,820 We can't afford to tip our hand. How do we know Garvey will be there at five o'clock tomorrow? 578 00:24:55,820 --> 00:24:58,820 That's just it. We don't. 579 00:24:58,820 --> 00:25:03,820 May 9th, three p.m. 580 00:25:03,820 --> 00:25:07,820 An immediate stakeout was placed at the suspected hideout. 581 00:25:07,820 --> 00:25:13,820 A detail of twenty plain clothesmen began filtering into the neighborhood in the vicinity of ten thirty-two Alamo Street. 582 00:25:13,820 --> 00:25:19,820 A three-story apartment house at that address was checked thoroughly and then covered on all sides. 583 00:25:19,820 --> 00:25:22,820 Apartment three on the first floor was checked out too. 584 00:25:22,820 --> 00:25:29,820 It was registered to a Thomas King, whom the manager identified as Alfred Garvey from his mugshot. 585 00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:35,820 To avoid pedestrian casualties, we toured the immediate vicinity between three and four thirty that afternoon, 586 00:25:35,820 --> 00:25:39,820 advising residents and storekeepers to clear the street and stay inside. 587 00:25:39,820 --> 00:25:46,820 At four thirty-five p.m., the men in the detail took up their assigned positions. We waited. 588 00:25:46,820 --> 00:25:48,820 Hold that light, will you, Jim? 589 00:25:48,820 --> 00:25:50,820 Yeah. 590 00:25:50,820 --> 00:25:54,820 Thanks. I'm in a lot of trouble for that punk Garvey. 591 00:25:54,820 --> 00:25:56,820 There'll be more trouble if he doesn't show. 592 00:25:56,820 --> 00:26:00,820 No search left. Handcoupé coming down the street behind us. 593 00:26:00,820 --> 00:26:02,820 Same one we tailed last night. 594 00:26:02,820 --> 00:26:04,820 A girl driving. There's two guys with him. 595 00:26:04,820 --> 00:26:07,820 You know, Garvey's one of them. They're pulling up. 596 00:26:07,820 --> 00:26:08,820 Ready? 597 00:26:08,820 --> 00:26:10,820 Wait a minute. 598 00:26:11,820 --> 00:26:13,820 All right, let's go. 599 00:26:13,820 --> 00:26:16,820 Police officers, hold it right there. 600 00:26:16,820 --> 00:26:18,820 Hell, cops! 601 00:26:18,820 --> 00:26:20,820 Get down! 602 00:26:20,820 --> 00:26:21,820 They're behind the car. 603 00:26:21,820 --> 00:26:23,820 Throw them in, Garvey. You haven't got a chance. 604 00:26:23,820 --> 00:26:25,820 Hell, break from the house! 605 00:26:27,820 --> 00:26:29,820 All right, hold it, Ben. 606 00:26:29,820 --> 00:26:31,820 Can't see. Both of them. 607 00:26:31,820 --> 00:26:33,820 Come on. 608 00:26:38,820 --> 00:26:40,820 Both dead. 609 00:26:40,820 --> 00:26:44,820 Both dead. Garvey, the other guy. 610 00:26:44,820 --> 00:26:46,820 Rotten case. 611 00:26:46,820 --> 00:26:48,820 It's a rotten business. 612 00:26:56,820 --> 00:26:58,820 The story you have just heard was true. 613 00:26:58,820 --> 00:27:02,820 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 614 00:27:02,820 --> 00:27:05,820 On August 2nd, trial was held in Superior Court, 615 00:27:05,820 --> 00:27:09,820 Department 93, City and County of Los Angeles, State of Florida. 616 00:27:09,820 --> 00:27:11,820 In a moment, the results of that trial. 617 00:27:11,820 --> 00:27:16,820 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to Fatima. 618 00:27:16,820 --> 00:27:18,820 Here is the actual report. 619 00:27:18,820 --> 00:27:24,820 From coast to coast, king-sized Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 620 00:27:24,820 --> 00:27:32,820 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering that Fatima is the best of all long cigarettes. 621 00:27:32,820 --> 00:27:38,820 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima has a much different, much better flavor than Fatima. 622 00:27:38,820 --> 00:27:40,820 Much better flavor and aroma. 623 00:27:40,820 --> 00:27:47,820 Long cigarette smokers find that Fatima is extra mild because it's the long cigarette 624 00:27:47,820 --> 00:27:54,820 which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, superbly blended to make it extra mild. 625 00:27:54,820 --> 00:28:00,820 So enjoy extra mild Fatima. Best of all long cigarettes. 626 00:28:00,820 --> 00:28:04,820 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 627 00:28:04,820 --> 00:28:08,820 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 628 00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:25,820 Jack Fleming, the only survivor of the holdup gang, was found guilty of several counts of armed robbery. 629 00:28:25,820 --> 00:28:31,820 Garvey's accomplices who aided him in hiding out were tried and convicted of being accessories. 630 00:28:31,820 --> 00:28:39,820 They are serving prison terms as prescribed by law. 631 00:28:39,820 --> 00:28:44,820 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 632 00:28:44,820 --> 00:28:55,820 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department. 633 00:28:55,820 --> 00:29:05,820 Fatima cigarettes, the best of all long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet from Los Angeles. 634 00:29:05,820 --> 00:29:14,820 The halls of Ivy is pleasant listening tomorrow on NBC. 635 00:29:14,820 --> 00:29:28,820 Music