WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.760 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:12.760 --> 00:16.520 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:16.520 --> 00:32.080 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, brings you Dragnet. 00:32.080 --> 00:34.120 You're a detective sergeant. 00:34.120 --> 00:37.200 You're assigned to bunko fugitive detail. 00:37.200 --> 00:42.080 You receive information an escaped criminal is hiding out in your city. 00:42.080 --> 00:43.080 He's dangerous. 00:43.080 --> 00:45.320 He may be armed. 00:45.320 --> 00:50.880 Your job, get him. 00:50.880 --> 00:55.920 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of all long cigarettes. 00:55.920 --> 00:58.400 Smoke king size Fatima. 00:58.400 --> 01:04.240 Fatima is the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobacco's 01:04.240 --> 01:08.280 superbly blended to make Fatima extra mild. 01:08.280 --> 01:13.400 And that's why Fatima is a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other 01:13.400 --> 01:15.160 long cigarette. 01:15.160 --> 01:18.920 That's why Fatima has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. 01:18.920 --> 01:24.320 So enjoy Fatima, the best of all long cigarettes. 01:24.320 --> 01:28.120 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 01:28.120 --> 01:33.840 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 01:33.840 --> 01:41.200 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:41.200 --> 01:45.640 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:45.640 --> 01:49.840 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 01:49.840 --> 01:50.840 files. 01:50.840 --> 01:57.000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:57.000 --> 02:00.520 in action. 02:00.520 --> 02:01.760 Was Thursday, April 27. 02:01.760 --> 02:04.160 It was warm in Los Angeles. 02:04.160 --> 02:06.960 We're working a night watch out of bunko fugitive detail. 02:06.960 --> 02:08.320 My partner's Ben Romero. 02:08.320 --> 02:11.240 The boss is Blaine Steed, captain of bunko fugitive. 02:11.240 --> 02:12.240 My name's Friday. 02:12.240 --> 02:17.720 I was on the way back from communications and it was 6.45 p.m. when I got to room 38, 02:17.720 --> 02:18.720 squad room. 02:18.720 --> 02:19.720 Hi. 02:19.720 --> 02:20.720 How are you? 02:20.720 --> 02:21.720 How about some dinner? 02:21.720 --> 02:22.720 Well, we got one to check out first. 02:22.720 --> 02:23.720 Here's the teletypes. 02:23.720 --> 02:24.720 Kimber just brought it in. 02:24.720 --> 02:25.720 Thanks. 02:25.720 --> 02:26.720 San Rafael, huh? 02:26.720 --> 02:27.720 Pick up and hold for this department. 02:27.720 --> 02:28.720 One Alfred Garvey. 02:28.720 --> 02:29.720 Wanted for suspicion, forgery, robbery. 02:29.720 --> 02:30.720 This man poses as a suspect. 02:30.720 --> 02:31.720 He's a suspect. 02:31.720 --> 02:32.720 He's a suspect. 02:32.720 --> 02:33.720 He's a suspect. 02:33.720 --> 02:34.720 He's a suspect. 02:34.720 --> 02:35.720 He's a suspect. 02:35.720 --> 02:36.720 He's a suspect. 02:36.720 --> 02:37.720 He's a suspect. 02:37.720 --> 02:40.920 This man poses as a fingerprint expert from San Rafael Police Department. 02:40.920 --> 02:45.320 Here's his mug pulled from the record bureau. 02:45.320 --> 02:49.240 We're informed Garvey is registered at the Fair Deal Hotel, your city. 02:49.240 --> 02:50.240 Where's he at? 02:50.240 --> 02:52.480 Over near First and Broadway. 02:52.480 --> 02:55.600 Please advise us on his arrest and officers will arrive with warrant signed Chief Police 02:55.600 --> 02:57.400 Frank Kelly, San Rafael, California. 02:57.400 --> 02:59.480 Shouldn't take long to pick him up. 02:59.480 --> 03:00.480 All right. 03:00.480 --> 03:01.480 We can eat later, I guess. 03:01.480 --> 03:02.480 Hi. 03:02.480 --> 03:03.480 Hi, Max. 03:03.480 --> 03:04.480 What are you doing around? 03:04.480 --> 03:05.480 I thought you took off on vacation. 03:05.480 --> 03:08.760 I just came back to pick up some stuff from my locker. 03:08.760 --> 03:09.760 Soft touch. 03:09.760 --> 03:10.760 Sure. 03:10.760 --> 03:12.680 Listen, the wife's got the car there. 03:12.680 --> 03:14.920 You guys going anywhere near North Main and Daly? 03:14.920 --> 03:16.600 Yeah, we're going to leave right now. 03:16.600 --> 03:17.600 Oh, okay. 03:17.600 --> 03:18.600 Let me grab my coat. 03:18.600 --> 03:19.600 All right. 03:19.600 --> 03:21.600 You live out near Highland Park, don't you, Mike? 03:21.600 --> 03:22.600 Yeah. 03:22.600 --> 03:24.600 Mike took the kids shopping in the car this afternoon. 03:24.600 --> 03:27.600 And I got him shoes for our vacation. 03:27.600 --> 03:31.240 Kids sure scuff up the toes in a hurry. 03:31.240 --> 03:33.280 All right, you all set? 03:33.280 --> 03:34.280 Let's go. 03:34.280 --> 03:36.960 Where are you going on your vacation? 03:36.960 --> 03:37.960 Big bear. 03:37.960 --> 03:40.200 We're going to stay the whole three weeks. 03:40.200 --> 03:41.640 The in-laws own a cabin up there. 03:41.640 --> 03:43.360 They even pay the utilities for us. 03:43.360 --> 03:44.360 That's pretty nice. 03:44.360 --> 03:45.360 Only one trouble. 03:45.360 --> 03:46.360 What's that? 03:46.360 --> 03:47.360 They're coming with us. 03:47.360 --> 03:48.360 Oh. 03:48.360 --> 03:49.360 Where'd you park? 03:49.360 --> 03:50.360 In the captain's stall. 03:50.360 --> 03:51.360 All right. 03:51.360 --> 03:52.360 I'll ride in the back. 03:52.360 --> 03:53.360 Okay. 03:53.360 --> 03:54.360 I'll take care of it. 03:54.360 --> 03:55.360 All right. 03:55.360 --> 03:56.360 I'll take care of it. 03:56.360 --> 03:57.360 All right. 03:57.360 --> 03:58.360 I'll take care of it. 03:58.360 --> 03:59.360 All right. 03:59.360 --> 04:00.360 I'll take care of it. 04:00.360 --> 04:01.360 All right. 04:01.360 --> 04:02.360 I'll take care of it. 04:02.360 --> 04:03.360 All right. 04:03.360 --> 04:13.080 You two still working on that valley case? 04:13.080 --> 04:14.080 No. 04:14.080 --> 04:15.080 We washed it up Monday. 04:15.080 --> 04:16.260 What's this one? 04:16.260 --> 04:19.960 Tell-a-type from San Rafael and what some guy picked up. 04:19.960 --> 04:20.960 There's a mugshot. 04:20.960 --> 04:23.900 Who's Richard's going to work with while he's gone, Mike? 04:23.900 --> 04:24.900 I don't know. 04:24.900 --> 04:25.960 What's the crowd up ahead? 04:25.960 --> 04:27.160 Oh, yeah. 04:27.160 --> 04:28.160 Freiners Convention. 04:28.160 --> 04:30.040 I forgot that they were having a parade tonight. 04:30.040 --> 04:31.220 You better stay over to one side. 04:31.220 --> 04:32.820 I think we can get through all right. 04:32.820 --> 04:34.060 Watch those kids there. 04:34.060 --> 04:37.060 Yeah, there we go. 04:37.060 --> 04:39.060 That's the place up ahead, isn't it? 04:39.060 --> 04:41.060 Fair deal, yeah. 04:41.060 --> 04:42.740 We gotta stop by this hotel a minute, Max. 04:42.740 --> 04:43.820 You want to wait here? 04:43.820 --> 04:44.820 I'll come in. 04:44.820 --> 04:45.820 All right. 04:50.820 --> 04:53.320 It's a big turnout for the parade, huh? 04:53.320 --> 04:55.320 Yeah, it's a big crowd. 04:55.320 --> 04:56.820 Fair deal hotel. 04:56.820 --> 04:57.820 Look at those rates. 04:57.820 --> 05:06.820 $2.35 a day, $2 a week. 05:06.820 --> 05:08.820 Yes, sir, can I help you? 05:08.820 --> 05:10.820 Police officers, would you look at this picture, please? 05:10.820 --> 05:11.820 All right. 05:11.820 --> 05:14.820 Maybe registered as Alfred Garvey. 05:14.820 --> 05:16.820 Garvey sure came in yesterday. 05:16.820 --> 05:17.820 The picture makes him look old. 05:17.820 --> 05:18.820 Is he in now? 05:18.820 --> 05:20.820 Let's see. 05:20.820 --> 05:24.820 Garvey room 307. 05:24.820 --> 05:25.820 The key is gone. 05:25.820 --> 05:26.820 He must be in. 05:26.820 --> 05:27.820 Yes, sir. 05:27.820 --> 05:29.820 Elevator's down there at the end of the hall. 05:29.820 --> 05:31.820 Okay. 05:31.820 --> 05:33.820 The elevator's in use. 05:33.820 --> 05:34.820 Let's take the stairs. 05:34.820 --> 05:35.820 I'll wait for you here. 05:35.820 --> 05:36.820 I want to see the parade. 05:36.820 --> 05:39.820 Okay, Max. 05:39.820 --> 05:41.820 I've never seen it to fail. 05:41.820 --> 05:42.820 What's that? 05:42.820 --> 05:43.820 Stairs. 05:43.820 --> 05:47.820 Every time my archie's hurt, we get a thief to check who lives upstairs. 05:47.820 --> 05:49.820 Just one more flight. 05:49.820 --> 05:55.820 Yeah. 05:55.820 --> 05:58.820 305, 307. 05:58.820 --> 05:59.820 Door's open. 05:59.820 --> 06:02.820 Let's have a look. 06:02.820 --> 06:05.820 Come on. 06:05.820 --> 06:09.820 It's empty. 06:09.820 --> 06:10.820 Nothing in the closet. 06:10.820 --> 06:13.820 Yeah, pretty fast checkout. 06:13.820 --> 06:14.820 It came from downstairs. 06:14.820 --> 06:15.820 The lobby, come on. 06:15.820 --> 06:18.820 Yep. 06:18.820 --> 06:20.820 Come on, hurry up. 06:20.820 --> 06:21.820 Hey, stop him! 06:21.820 --> 06:22.820 Stop that guy, police! 06:22.820 --> 06:23.820 The police! 06:23.820 --> 06:24.820 It's Maxwell. 06:24.820 --> 06:25.820 Max, Max, are you all right? 06:25.820 --> 06:26.820 He went out the door. 06:26.820 --> 06:27.820 Blue suit. 06:27.820 --> 06:28.820 He was carving. 06:28.820 --> 06:29.820 He shot your friend. 06:29.820 --> 06:30.820 Call an ambulance. 06:30.820 --> 06:31.820 He ran out the door. 06:31.820 --> 06:32.820 He shot your friend. 06:32.820 --> 06:33.820 Come on, Ben. 06:33.820 --> 06:34.820 Call an ambulance, will you? 06:34.820 --> 06:35.820 Hey, you. 06:35.820 --> 06:38.820 Did you see a man come out of this hotel? 06:38.820 --> 06:39.820 What'd you say? 06:39.820 --> 06:41.820 Did you just see a man come out of this hotel? 06:41.820 --> 06:42.820 I don't know. 06:42.820 --> 06:43.820 All right, Ben, you go that way. 06:43.820 --> 06:44.820 I'll check up this way. 06:44.820 --> 06:45.820 Yeah, right. 06:45.820 --> 06:46.820 What's the matter? 06:46.820 --> 06:47.820 Watch where you're going, huh? 06:47.820 --> 06:49.820 Did you see a man running up this way just now about my height? 06:49.820 --> 06:50.820 Blue suit? 06:50.820 --> 06:51.820 No, I didn't see anybody. 06:51.820 --> 06:52.820 Did you see anybody? 06:52.820 --> 06:53.820 Hey, hey, boy. 06:53.820 --> 06:54.820 Yeah, you want a paper, mister? 06:54.820 --> 06:58.820 No, listen, did you see a man running by here a minute ago in a blue suit? 06:58.820 --> 06:59.820 Maybe. 06:59.820 --> 07:00.820 I didn't notice. 07:00.820 --> 07:01.820 Do you want a paper? 07:01.820 --> 07:02.820 I'm sorry. 07:02.820 --> 07:03.820 Sorry, lady. 07:03.820 --> 07:04.820 Ben, Ben, over here. 07:04.820 --> 07:05.820 Yeah. 07:05.820 --> 07:06.820 Did you spot him? 07:06.820 --> 07:07.820 No, we're gonna need help. 07:07.820 --> 07:08.820 All right, come on. 07:08.820 --> 07:09.820 I called an ambulance. 07:09.820 --> 07:10.820 You better help your friend. 07:10.820 --> 07:11.820 He's bleeding. 07:11.820 --> 07:12.820 I don't know what to do. 07:12.820 --> 07:13.820 Ben, get a hold of communications. 07:13.820 --> 07:14.820 Get some help out here. 07:14.820 --> 07:15.820 All right. 07:15.820 --> 07:16.820 The guy came down the elevator. 07:16.820 --> 07:17.820 He was carving. 07:17.820 --> 07:18.820 He was carving. 07:18.820 --> 07:19.820 He was carving. 07:19.820 --> 07:20.820 He was carving. 07:20.820 --> 07:21.820 He was carving. 07:21.820 --> 07:22.820 He was carving. 07:22.820 --> 07:23.820 He was carving. 07:23.820 --> 07:24.820 Your friend tried to stop him. 07:24.820 --> 07:25.820 Garvey shot him right in the face. 07:25.820 --> 07:26.820 All right, stop yelling, huh? 07:26.820 --> 07:27.820 He was terrible. 07:27.820 --> 07:28.820 Now look, he's bleeding. 07:28.820 --> 07:29.820 You better do something. 07:29.820 --> 07:30.820 Will you shut up? 07:30.820 --> 07:32.820 Max, Max, how is it? 07:32.820 --> 07:34.820 Man, chest hurts. 07:34.820 --> 07:36.820 All right, easy, huh? 07:36.820 --> 07:39.820 Garvey came out of the elevator fast with a gun. 07:39.820 --> 07:40.820 All right, take it easy now. 07:40.820 --> 07:43.820 Joe, I've got communications there blocking off the area. 07:43.820 --> 07:44.820 That's fine. 07:44.820 --> 07:45.820 Watch that front door. 07:45.820 --> 07:47.820 Will you keep those people out of here? 07:47.820 --> 07:48.820 Yeah, yeah. 07:48.820 --> 07:49.820 Chest hurts. 07:49.820 --> 07:52.820 Chest? 07:52.820 --> 07:54.820 I'll be here in a minute, boy. 07:54.820 --> 08:00.820 Call the wife, Eleanor. 08:00.820 --> 08:02.820 Ambulance this year? 08:02.820 --> 08:03.820 Yeah. 08:03.820 --> 08:05.820 He looks bad. 08:05.820 --> 08:07.820 He's not going to get any worse. 08:07.820 --> 08:14.820 He's dead. 08:14.820 --> 08:18.820 The name on the personnel report said John Warren Maxwell, Sergeant. 08:18.820 --> 08:21.820 Los Angeles Police Department, badge number 103-77. 08:21.820 --> 08:24.820 Nearest living relative, wife, Eleanor Jean Maxwell. 08:24.820 --> 08:27.820 Dependents, John Maxwell Jr., six years. 08:27.820 --> 08:29.820 Deborah Lee Maxwell, two years. 08:29.820 --> 08:33.820 Death and line of duty, April 27th, 715 p.m. 08:33.820 --> 08:37.820 John Maxwell's body was removed from Georgia Street to the county morgue. 08:37.820 --> 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. 08:44.820 --> 08:48.820 The neighborhood where the Fair Deal Hotel was located was covered for a half mile around. 08:48.820 --> 08:52.820 By nine o'clock, the parade was over and the area was cleared. 08:52.820 --> 08:54.820 We had a single lead to work with. 08:54.820 --> 08:57.820 In checking out the different taxi cab stands in the neighborhood, 08:57.820 --> 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. 09:03.820 --> 09:06.820 Ben and I went to the offices of the taxi cab company. 09:06.820 --> 09:09.820 The cabs in question were called in and the way bills were checked. 09:09.820 --> 09:13.820 The times of the three different trips were listed and so was the address of each destination. 09:13.820 --> 09:16.820 We copied down the addresses and then interviewed the drivers. 09:16.820 --> 09:18.820 We're going to give each one of you half a dozen pictures. 09:18.820 --> 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. 09:23.820 --> 09:27.820 All right, here you go. Four, five, six. 09:27.820 --> 09:28.820 Check them carefully, please. 09:28.820 --> 09:29.820 Here, yours, right here. 09:29.820 --> 09:30.820 Take a good look at each one of them. 09:30.820 --> 09:31.820 Okay, thanks. 09:31.820 --> 09:33.820 Now, fellas, take your time. 09:33.820 --> 09:35.820 Look them all over real good before you make up your minds. 09:40.820 --> 09:42.820 Here. Here's the one, Sergeant. No mistake. 09:42.820 --> 09:46.820 Let me see. Where'd you pick up this man? 09:46.820 --> 09:51.820 About a block from the hotel. I drove him to a place on 14th Street. Same address on the way bill. 09:51.820 --> 09:52.820 Ben. 09:52.820 --> 09:53.820 Yeah? 09:53.820 --> 09:54.820 Alfred Garvey. 09:57.820 --> 10:04.820 Ben and I, along with Ricketson Chandler from homicide, drove out to the 14th Street address, another small, transient hotel. 10:04.820 --> 10:07.820 The clerk on duty identified Garvey from his mugshot. 10:07.820 --> 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. 10:14.820 --> 10:19.820 The clerk said he told Garvey Mrs. Thomas was out, that she hadn't been there for four days. 10:19.820 --> 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. 10:28.820 --> 10:31.820 Lorraine Thomas returned to the hotel and was taken into custody. 10:31.820 --> 10:34.820 We took her to homicide and questioned her for more than an hour. 10:34.820 --> 10:37.820 She admitted that she was acquainted with Garvey, but that's all. 10:37.820 --> 10:40.820 One o'clock. We went to Clifton's cafeteria for lunch. 10:40.820 --> 10:42.820 Here, take this tray. 10:42.820 --> 10:43.820 Thanks. 10:43.820 --> 10:44.820 Silverware? 10:44.820 --> 10:45.820 Hmm. 10:50.820 --> 10:53.820 You were the first one he ran to after the shooting. 10:53.820 --> 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. 11:01.820 --> 11:04.820 What kind of work does Garvey do, do you know? 11:04.820 --> 11:07.820 He told me he was in the Merchant Marines. 11:07.820 --> 11:08.820 Coleslaw. 11:08.820 --> 11:11.820 Some of that potato salad, please. 11:11.820 --> 11:13.820 Do you know what he does in the Merchant Marines? 11:13.820 --> 11:16.820 He told me his steward. French dressing, please. 11:16.820 --> 11:18.820 Do you know any of his friends in town? 11:18.820 --> 11:22.820 No, I don't. Dry bread. Can I have an extra butter, please? 11:22.820 --> 11:25.820 I'm French roll. What kind do you want, Ben? 11:25.820 --> 11:27.820 Give me some of those biscuits. 11:27.820 --> 11:29.820 Thank you. 11:29.820 --> 11:32.820 Does Garvey usually stay at the Fair Deal Hotel when he's in town? 11:32.820 --> 11:33.820 I don't know. 11:33.820 --> 11:36.820 That split-piece soup sure looks good. 11:36.820 --> 11:39.820 We told you the police up north were looking for him. 11:39.820 --> 11:41.820 Yeah, I know you did. 11:41.820 --> 11:45.820 Like I told you, I've been out with him a few times. That's all I know about him. 11:45.820 --> 11:48.820 He must have introduced you to some of his friends. 11:48.820 --> 11:53.820 I'll have the prime ribs there. Rare. That piece there. 11:53.820 --> 11:56.820 How about it? Did you ever meet any of his friends? 11:56.820 --> 12:00.820 Yeah, one or two. No, no gravy. 12:00.820 --> 12:04.820 Meatloaf, brown gravy. Remember any of the names of his friends? 12:04.820 --> 12:06.820 I just met him, that's all. I don't remember. 12:06.820 --> 12:11.820 Let me have a roast turkey. Go kind of heavy on that dressing, will you? 12:11.820 --> 12:13.820 Did you ever go out with any of them? 12:13.820 --> 12:15.820 No. 12:15.820 --> 12:18.820 Why do you think Garvey went to your hotel after the shooting? 12:18.820 --> 12:19.820 I don't know. 12:19.820 --> 12:21.820 Maybe he figured you'd hide him. 12:21.820 --> 12:22.820 I don't know why he should. 12:22.820 --> 12:25.820 He killed a man and headed straight for your place. 12:25.820 --> 12:26.820 That doesn't make you look too good. 12:26.820 --> 12:30.820 I can't help that. I like some of those string beans, please. 12:30.820 --> 12:33.820 Miss Thomas, you know it's going to go hard on you if you're holding back information on Garvey. 12:33.820 --> 12:35.820 I'm not. 12:35.820 --> 12:38.820 Why don't you take some of that summer squash, Joe? It's good for you. 12:38.820 --> 12:41.820 I can't eat that much. When did you first meet Garvey? 12:41.820 --> 12:43.820 About three years ago, up in St. Helena. 12:43.820 --> 12:45.820 You might as well keep your nose clean. 12:45.820 --> 12:46.820 How do you mean? 12:46.820 --> 12:50.820 We're going to reach him, Miss Thomas. You might as well tell us all you know. 12:50.820 --> 12:53.820 Look, if Garvey's killing people, I don't want to have any more to do with him. 12:53.820 --> 12:55.820 We do. Now, where is he? 12:55.820 --> 12:57.820 I told you, I don't know. 12:57.820 --> 12:58.820 Squash, please. 12:58.820 --> 13:01.820 You said you had a little boy, didn't you, Miss Thomas? 13:01.820 --> 13:05.820 Do we have to talk about it now? I thought we were going to have lunch. 13:05.820 --> 13:07.820 How old's your little boy? 13:07.820 --> 13:08.820 He's seven years old. 13:08.820 --> 13:09.820 Where is he now? 13:09.820 --> 13:11.820 He's in school up in San Francisco. 13:11.820 --> 13:14.820 Isn't this line going off a flow? 13:14.820 --> 13:16.820 It's lunchtime. 13:16.820 --> 13:19.820 You know that cop that Garvey killed last night? 13:19.820 --> 13:22.820 Mashed potatoes, country gravy. 13:22.820 --> 13:24.820 Do you hear what I said? 13:24.820 --> 13:26.820 Yes, I know he killed a cop. 13:26.820 --> 13:28.820 He had a little boy, too. 13:28.820 --> 13:30.820 There's nothing I can do. 13:30.820 --> 13:31.820 No potatoes, thanks. 13:31.820 --> 13:35.820 Yeah, there's something you can do, Miss Thomas. You can tell us where Garvey is. 13:35.820 --> 13:37.820 If I knew, I'd tell you. 13:37.820 --> 13:38.820 Brunch fries, please. 13:38.820 --> 13:40.820 You're kidding us, Miss Thomas, but we're not going to kid you. 13:40.820 --> 13:43.820 You know a lot more about this than you're telling us. 13:43.820 --> 13:45.820 Maybe I do, but I'm scared. 13:45.820 --> 13:46.820 Who are you afraid of? 13:46.820 --> 13:49.820 Look, why can't you count me out of this? I don't want any part of it. 13:49.820 --> 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. 13:52.820 --> 13:53.820 He'll kill me. 13:53.820 --> 13:56.820 If something happens to me, nobody's going to worry about my kid. 13:56.820 --> 13:59.820 You don't have to worry. He's not going to find out. 13:59.820 --> 14:02.820 No, no dessert, please. 14:02.820 --> 14:03.820 Now both kill me. 14:03.820 --> 14:05.820 Both? Who's the other one? 14:05.820 --> 14:09.820 Who wants the you? It's trouble no matter what you try to do. Nothing but trouble. 14:09.820 --> 14:12.820 Garvey's working with somebody, is that it? 14:12.820 --> 14:14.820 His name's Jack Fleming. 14:14.820 --> 14:15.820 Yeah? 14:15.820 --> 14:20.820 They made me promise to cover for him, give him a place to hide out whenever the heat was on. 14:20.820 --> 14:21.820 Then you know where they are. 14:21.820 --> 14:23.820 No, I don't. That's the truth. 14:23.820 --> 14:25.820 Why do they need a place to hide out? 14:25.820 --> 14:27.820 You said Garvey killed a cop. 14:27.820 --> 14:28.820 What about Fleming? 14:28.820 --> 14:29.820 Oh, Joe, you better move along. 14:29.820 --> 14:30.820 Oh, I'm sorry. 14:30.820 --> 14:32.820 What about Fleming? 14:32.820 --> 14:34.820 They're going to pull some jobs. 14:34.820 --> 14:36.820 All right, we can skip the dessert. Come on. 14:36.820 --> 14:38.820 I'll take a check for all of them. 14:38.820 --> 14:40.820 Let's go. 14:40.820 --> 14:42.820 What kind of jobs? Where? 14:42.820 --> 14:44.820 Hold up. Tomorrow night. 14:44.820 --> 14:46.820 Three Kings Liquor Store out in Wilshire. 14:46.820 --> 14:47.820 Let's sit down. 14:47.820 --> 14:49.820 They're both the same, Garvey and Fleming. 14:49.820 --> 14:51.820 They can't hold a gun without usin'. 14:51.820 --> 14:52.820 Here's the table. 14:55.820 --> 14:58.820 Oh, you dropped your tray. I'll get you some more. 14:58.820 --> 15:02.820 Don't bother. 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Nothing happened. 17:37.820 --> 17:40.820 It's the first customer in half an hour, it's kind of slow. 17:40.820 --> 17:43.820 Yeah, wait a minute, here comes another one. 17:43.820 --> 17:45.820 No sale, it's a woman. 17:52.820 --> 17:54.820 The clerk sure got the jitters. 17:54.820 --> 17:56.820 I'll put in with him. 17:58.820 --> 18:00.820 I could go for a hamburger. 18:00.820 --> 18:01.820 What did you eat there? 18:01.820 --> 18:03.820 I wasn't very hungry, man. 18:03.820 --> 18:05.820 I got an almond bar, you want? 18:05.820 --> 18:10.820 Yeah, thanks. Wait a minute, another customer. 18:10.820 --> 18:15.820 Yeah, man, can't see his face too well with that hat on, can you? 18:15.820 --> 18:17.820 That's Fleming, come on. 18:17.820 --> 18:19.820 Police officers, get your hands up. 18:19.820 --> 18:21.820 Watch it, Joe. 18:23.820 --> 18:24.820 You're hitting. 18:24.820 --> 18:26.820 He's going out the front, come on. 18:26.820 --> 18:28.820 Ricketts and Chandler stopped him. 18:28.820 --> 18:31.820 Yeah, he's down, watch him. Get the gun. 18:31.820 --> 18:32.820 Yeah. 18:33.820 --> 18:35.820 Yeah, here, here, there. 18:36.820 --> 18:37.820 That's Fleming, all right. 18:37.820 --> 18:39.820 Ricketts, call an ambulance. 18:39.820 --> 18:41.820 What's the score? 18:41.820 --> 18:44.820 Looks like one in the shoulder and legs too. 18:44.820 --> 18:45.820 What about Garvey? 18:45.820 --> 18:46.820 I don't know. 18:46.820 --> 18:47.820 What do you think? 18:47.820 --> 18:49.820 Fleming stopped all the slugs. 18:49.820 --> 18:50.820 Yeah. 18:50.820 --> 18:56.820 Let's ask him. 18:56.820 --> 18:59.820 The wounded suspect was treated at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital 18:59.820 --> 19:02.820 and then booked into the prison ward at the General Hospital. 19:02.820 --> 19:04.820 At 11 a.m. the next day, we questioned him, 19:04.820 --> 19:07.820 but he refused to admit that he even knew Alfred Garvey. 19:07.820 --> 19:11.820 We re-questioned Fleming for the next three days with no results. 19:11.820 --> 19:14.820 The stakeouts continued, the search went on. 19:14.820 --> 19:16.820 There was no response to our APB. 19:16.820 --> 19:18.820 Garvey was still at large. 19:18.820 --> 19:21.820 As far as we were concerned, there was only one way to get directly to Garvey, 19:21.820 --> 19:23.820 and that was through Fleming. 19:23.820 --> 19:28.820 We called on Lorraine Thomas again and asked her that if she would try to get some information on Fleming, 19:28.820 --> 19:31.820 try to get him to talk and to tell her where Garvey was. 19:31.820 --> 19:34.820 I'm not even sure if he knows where Garvey's hiding. 19:34.820 --> 19:36.820 He must have a good idea. 19:36.820 --> 19:39.820 Even if he has, he's not going to tell me. He wouldn't trust me that far. 19:39.820 --> 19:42.820 He'll go further with you than he will with us. He won't even give us his name. 19:42.820 --> 19:44.820 I'm afraid it's up to you, Miss Thomas. 19:44.820 --> 19:46.820 Why can't you let me out of this? 19:46.820 --> 19:48.820 Look, figure it this way. 19:48.820 --> 19:52.820 You knew about Fleming and Garvey. You knew they were in town. You knew what they were up to. 19:52.820 --> 19:54.820 You didn't break your back to save that dead cop's life. 19:54.820 --> 19:56.820 Garvey shot him. I didn't. 19:56.820 --> 19:59.820 You knew he was a killer. You knew he had a gun. 19:59.820 --> 20:01.820 What do you want me to do? 20:01.820 --> 20:04.820 Get close to Fleming. Visit him every day till he talks. 20:04.820 --> 20:06.820 He doesn't trust me. I told you. 20:06.820 --> 20:09.820 Then get him to trust you, will you? Do favors for him. 20:09.820 --> 20:13.820 He wants to contact friends to raise money for a lawyer. Help him do that. 20:13.820 --> 20:16.820 Run errands. Do anything for him within reason. 20:16.820 --> 20:19.820 Suppose he finds out about the holdup that I told you about it. 20:19.820 --> 20:21.820 He's got a long stretch ahead of him. He won't bother you. 20:21.820 --> 20:24.820 They'll kill me if they find out. They wouldn't wait a minute. 20:24.820 --> 20:26.820 They won't find out. 20:26.820 --> 20:30.820 All right. It won't be my fault. 20:30.820 --> 20:33.820 Al did the shooting. He killed the cop, let him square it up. 20:33.820 --> 20:35.820 He'll square it with the court. There's only one trouble. 20:35.820 --> 20:39.820 Maxwell's wife and kids, how does Al square it with them? 20:39.820 --> 20:46.820 On the morning of May 8th, suspect Jack Fleming was removed from his private room 20:46.820 --> 20:49.820 and wheeled down to the X-ray lab on the pretext of treatment. 20:49.820 --> 20:54.820 While he was absent, a dictaphone was placed in his room by a sound crew from the crime lab. 20:54.820 --> 20:56.820 Fleming was then returned. 20:56.820 --> 21:00.820 That afternoon, while Ben and I listened in on earphones in the next room, 21:00.820 --> 21:03.820 Lorraine Thomas paid her first visit to Fleming. 21:03.820 --> 21:06.820 We had briefed her on how to proceed in getting a suspect to talk, 21:06.820 --> 21:11.820 in particular to reveal Garvey's hideout. It was a slow process. 21:11.820 --> 21:14.820 For the next 15 days, between the hours of 2 and 4 in the afternoon, 21:14.820 --> 21:19.820 Mrs. Thomas visited Fleming while Ben and I monitored their conversation in the adjoining room. 21:19.820 --> 21:23.820 For 15 days, despite all her shows of confidence, Fleming refused to confide. 21:23.820 --> 21:27.820 He was sullen and closed-mouthed. Some afternoons he would hardly speak to her. 21:27.820 --> 21:31.820 On the 16th day, his mood seemed to be improving. 21:31.820 --> 21:36.820 Here, let me fix that pillow for you, Jack. 21:38.820 --> 21:40.820 There, buddy? 21:40.820 --> 21:44.820 Yeah, that's good. Thanks. 21:44.820 --> 21:50.820 I, uh, I got in touch with Dave and Johnny like you asked me to. 21:50.820 --> 21:52.820 Huh? What'd they say? 21:52.820 --> 21:57.820 Well, they said they could get you the money for the lawyer the day after tomorrow. 21:57.820 --> 22:01.820 And Dave said he might be over to see you tonight. 22:01.820 --> 22:05.820 That's fine. Once I get a lawyer, I'll stop worrying. 22:05.820 --> 22:09.820 I stopped by Denelli's place, too. 22:09.820 --> 22:13.820 Pop Royce wasn't there. I'm going back tomorrow to see him. 22:13.820 --> 22:15.820 He ought to be able to help. 22:15.820 --> 22:18.820 You've been okay, Lurie. I won't forget it. 22:18.820 --> 22:21.820 That's what friends are for. 22:21.820 --> 22:24.820 Jim, I'm sure sorry you had to get it this way. 22:24.820 --> 22:27.820 I can give it back where it came from. 22:27.820 --> 22:31.820 Say, I bought you some new magazines, a couple of candy bars. 22:31.820 --> 22:34.820 Well, put them over here near the bed, will you? 22:34.820 --> 22:37.820 Yeah, sure. Let me get them for you. 22:40.820 --> 22:43.820 There, Jack. See, I'll put them right here at this table. 22:43.820 --> 22:45.820 I'll bring you some more tomorrow. 22:45.820 --> 22:49.820 No, that's fine. You're going to try and see Pop Royce again tomorrow? 22:49.820 --> 22:53.820 Yeah, they told me he'd be in around noon for sure. 22:53.820 --> 22:56.820 If I don't see him then, I'll keep trying till I do. 22:56.820 --> 22:59.820 Yeah, that's it. Oh, listen, there's something else. 22:59.820 --> 23:00.820 Sure, Jack. 23:00.820 --> 23:02.820 Come here. I don't want to talk loud. 23:02.820 --> 23:04.820 The cops might have bugged this room. 23:04.820 --> 23:05.820 Yeah. 23:05.820 --> 23:07.820 All right. A little closer. 23:07.820 --> 23:08.820 Okay. 23:08.820 --> 23:13.820 Tonight, I want you to go to George's joint, the Blue Moon, down on South Flower. 23:13.820 --> 23:14.820 Yeah? 23:14.820 --> 23:18.820 And ask for George at the bar. He's usually around from 11. 23:18.820 --> 23:21.820 Tell George you've seen me. He'll know it. 23:21.820 --> 23:23.820 Then tell him to take you to Al. 23:23.820 --> 23:24.820 Take me to Al? 23:24.820 --> 23:27.820 Yeah, Al Garvey. George knows the place. 23:27.820 --> 23:29.820 Yeah? Okay, Jack. 23:29.820 --> 23:33.820 And keep your mouth shut. Don't talk to anybody but George. He knows the place. 23:33.820 --> 23:36.820 All right, Jack. It'll help you out. 23:37.820 --> 23:41.820 Well, yeah. It's a long wait. 23:41.820 --> 23:42.820 We're paid. 23:42.820 --> 23:43.820 Let's go. 23:43.820 --> 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. 23:52.820 --> 23:55.820 We parked down the block and watched her go in. 23:55.820 --> 23:59.820 At fifteen minutes past eleven, she came out with a small fat man in a dark blue suit. 23:59.820 --> 24:02.820 They got in a tan-colored coupe and drove south. 24:02.820 --> 24:07.820 The cruiser cars, using three-way radio, tailed the coupe alternately out through the Echo Park area 24:07.820 --> 24:10.820 and then back to the starting point at the Blue Moon Tavern. 24:10.820 --> 24:14.820 Lorraine Thomas went back into the bar with a man and twenty minutes later came out, 24:14.820 --> 24:17.820 caught a taxi and took it to her hotel on Fourteenth Street. 24:17.820 --> 24:20.820 We drove back to the office. It was five minutes past one a.m. 24:20.820 --> 24:21.820 That's it. 24:21.820 --> 24:23.820 I get it. 24:24.820 --> 24:25.820 Monco Fugitive Friday. 24:25.820 --> 24:28.820 Lorraine Thomas, Sergeant. He showed me the place George did. 24:28.820 --> 24:29.820 Where? 24:29.820 --> 24:34.820 We drove past it. Ten thirty-two Alamo, apartment three. 24:34.820 --> 24:35.820 Is Garvey there now? 24:35.820 --> 24:40.820 No. George said he's supposed to be there tomorrow in the afternoon, five o'clock. 24:40.820 --> 24:42.820 George said I'll have to go alone. 24:42.820 --> 24:43.820 Are they watching the place? 24:43.820 --> 24:49.820 I think so. Garvey's staying with another man. They got guns. 24:49.820 --> 24:50.820 You know where Garvey is now? 24:50.820 --> 24:51.820 George wouldn't tell me. 24:51.820 --> 24:55.820 We can't afford to tip our hand. How do we know Garvey will be there at five o'clock tomorrow? 24:55.820 --> 24:58.820 That's just it. We don't. 24:58.820 --> 25:03.820 May 9th, three p.m. 25:03.820 --> 25:07.820 An immediate stakeout was placed at the suspected hideout. 25:07.820 --> 25:13.820 A detail of twenty plain clothesmen began filtering into the neighborhood in the vicinity of ten thirty-two Alamo Street. 25:13.820 --> 25:19.820 A three-story apartment house at that address was checked thoroughly and then covered on all sides. 25:19.820 --> 25:22.820 Apartment three on the first floor was checked out too. 25:22.820 --> 25:29.820 It was registered to a Thomas King, whom the manager identified as Alfred Garvey from his mugshot. 25:29.820 --> 25:35.820 To avoid pedestrian casualties, we toured the immediate vicinity between three and four thirty that afternoon, 25:35.820 --> 25:39.820 advising residents and storekeepers to clear the street and stay inside. 25:39.820 --> 25:46.820 At four thirty-five p.m., the men in the detail took up their assigned positions. We waited. 25:46.820 --> 25:48.820 Hold that light, will you, Jim? 25:48.820 --> 25:50.820 Yeah. 25:50.820 --> 25:54.820 Thanks. I'm in a lot of trouble for that punk Garvey. 25:54.820 --> 25:56.820 There'll be more trouble if he doesn't show. 25:56.820 --> 26:00.820 No search left. Handcoupé coming down the street behind us. 26:00.820 --> 26:02.820 Same one we tailed last night. 26:02.820 --> 26:04.820 A girl driving. There's two guys with him. 26:04.820 --> 26:07.820 You know, Garvey's one of them. They're pulling up. 26:07.820 --> 26:08.820 Ready? 26:08.820 --> 26:10.820 Wait a minute. 26:11.820 --> 26:13.820 All right, let's go. 26:13.820 --> 26:16.820 Police officers, hold it right there. 26:16.820 --> 26:18.820 Hell, cops! 26:18.820 --> 26:20.820 Get down! 26:20.820 --> 26:21.820 They're behind the car. 26:21.820 --> 26:23.820 Throw them in, Garvey. You haven't got a chance. 26:23.820 --> 26:25.820 Hell, break from the house! 26:27.820 --> 26:29.820 All right, hold it, Ben. 26:29.820 --> 26:31.820 Can't see. Both of them. 26:31.820 --> 26:33.820 Come on. 26:38.820 --> 26:40.820 Both dead. 26:40.820 --> 26:44.820 Both dead. 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