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From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, 01:49.960 --> 01:53.200 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 01:53.200 --> 02:00.360 It was Saturday, August 9th. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out 02:00.360 --> 02:04.440 of robbery detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Ed Walker, captain of robbery. 02:04.440 --> 02:09.880 My name's Friday. It was 1014 a.m. when I got to room 27A, robbery detail. 02:09.880 --> 02:17.640 Hi. Hi. What's up, Jim? I went. How is he? Well, no, for a while. What did the vet say? 02:17.640 --> 02:23.160 Thinks the dog picked up some kind of poison food. Oh, that's too bad. Sure hot. 02:23.160 --> 02:29.560 You got a penny? Yeah. Yeah, there you are. Thank you. 02:29.560 --> 02:44.240 Somebody poisoned, huh? Yeah. That's what the vet says. I never could figure why some people 02:44.240 --> 02:50.240 poison dogs. I don't understand some people not liking animals, but I can't see why they 02:50.240 --> 02:54.920 poison food and then just toss it around, wholesale loss. You know how I feel about that dog of 02:54.920 --> 02:57.840 mine. If anything happens to him, I don't know what he'll do. He'll be all right. Those vets 02:57.840 --> 03:01.400 can do wonders these days. I sure hope so. They told me to check back with them about 03:01.400 --> 03:07.800 noon. I'm about to melt in this heat. Yeah, doesn't seem to be any air at all. Well, it's 03:07.800 --> 03:11.640 more Sunday. Guess I'll just lie out in the backyard. It's gonna be good to just loaf 03:11.640 --> 03:16.240 around and read the Sunday papers, huh? It's a hot shot. I'll take it. My wife wants me 03:16.240 --> 03:19.720 to get out and get a little color. She says I'm better looking with a tan. She ought to 03:19.720 --> 03:23.640 know. All right. Will you get married, Joe? After so long, you get so as you believe everything 03:23.640 --> 03:28.080 they tell you. There's one roll on. Yeah. Robber in shooting. Victim's car was stolen. You want 03:28.080 --> 03:32.200 to get on it? All right. Let's go, Joe. Bank job. Don't make any plans for Sunday. 03:32.200 --> 03:39.160 10 53 a.m. Ben and I pulled up in front of the Union Trust and Savings Bank at Melrose 03:39.160 --> 03:43.560 and Logan. We made our way through the usual crowd that was milling in and around the bank. 03:43.560 --> 03:48.080 We spoke with a manager, a Mr. Bill Four. He told us that he didn't see the actual robbery. 03:48.080 --> 03:52.620 The victim was taken in the parking lot next to the bank. Her name was Myrtle Shaw, a longtime 03:52.620 --> 03:57.120 customer of the Union Trust and Savings. Four told us that she always did her banking at 03:57.120 --> 04:01.480 the same time each day around 10 in the morning when the bank first opened. He said she was 04:01.480 --> 04:07.000 the proprietor of Myrtle's Cafe four doors west of the bank. Let us through, please. 04:07.000 --> 04:12.600 Sorry. Let us through here. Officer, over here. Yes, sir. Friday and Romero Central Robbery. 04:12.600 --> 04:17.920 Did you answer the call? Yes, we did. Freeman and Welsh unit 13R. Ambulance just left. They 04:17.920 --> 04:21.480 can bring one to go to Georgia Street. Said she wanted her own doctor. OK. Is she inside 04:21.480 --> 04:25.080 the cafe? Yeah. Let's go in, Ben. Are you Freeman? No, I'm Welsh. Freeman's inside. 04:25.080 --> 04:28.760 See if you can clear this crowd a little, will you, Welsh? Right. Thank you. All right. 04:28.760 --> 04:32.040 We've seen everything now. Now let's move along. Come on. 04:32.040 --> 04:45.040 There she is, over in the last booth. Freeman? Yes, sir. Friday and Romero Central Robbery. 04:45.040 --> 04:51.400 Is this the victim? Yes, that's right. Her name's Myrtle Shaw. Michelle? Yes, sir. 04:51.400 --> 04:55.320 Yes, that's right. My name is Romero. This is Sergeant Friday. We're from Robbery Division 04:55.320 --> 05:00.280 downtown. You men detectives? Yes, ma'am. We'd like to ask you a few questions. Yes, 05:00.280 --> 05:05.200 all right. I hope you can catch the men that did this. We're going to do all we can. It's 05:05.200 --> 05:10.960 a little hard for me to talk. My face is swollen. It hurts. Something terrible. What happened? 05:10.960 --> 05:14.640 One of them struck me. Yes, ma'am. We know that. Do you want to tell us how it happened? 05:14.640 --> 05:19.600 And I was on my way to the bank. I drove in the parking lot there next door. Yeah. I just 05:19.600 --> 05:24.160 got out of my car when these men walked over to me. You're only four doors from the bank. 05:24.160 --> 05:29.120 Do you always drive such a short distance? No, no. I just picked up my car from Edgar's 05:29.120 --> 05:36.240 fell-in station. I haven't greased once a month. I see. Where was I? You just driven into the 05:36.240 --> 05:42.280 parking lot when these men walked up to you. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Well, one of them said, just 05:42.280 --> 05:46.200 hand over the money and there won't be any trouble. The other one said, this is a gun 05:46.200 --> 05:53.680 in my pocket, Grandma. Yeah. My head's splitting. Did someone call Dr. Van Hale? Yes, ma'am. 05:53.680 --> 06:01.120 He's on his way. Oh, thank you. Well, I carry my days receipts in a cloth bank bag. I had 06:01.120 --> 06:05.880 it in my purse and I wasn't sure if they knew I had any money. Yeah. I told them I didn't 06:05.880 --> 06:10.760 have any. I was going in to draw some out and one of the men said, look, old timer, we don't 06:10.760 --> 06:15.000 want to get rough. Just hand it over. We know you got it. What'd you do? Well, I turned 06:15.000 --> 06:19.680 around and started to walk away and I saw this one man's arm flash out of his pocket and 06:19.680 --> 06:23.480 then something hard like a rock struck me on the side of the face. That dislugs you with 06:23.480 --> 06:27.200 his gun. Oh, yes. It couldn't have been his hand. I don't think he could have cut my face 06:27.200 --> 06:30.680 like this with his hand. You should have let them take you to the emergency hospital. No. 06:30.680 --> 06:34.560 No, I don't want to go in any ambulance. I want my own doctor. He don't know what to 06:34.560 --> 06:38.760 do. Ambulance crew gave her first aid. She wouldn't let him take her. Mm-hmm. Thanks. 06:38.760 --> 06:44.560 Miss Shaw, would you know the men if you ever saw them again? Well, I think so, yes. One 06:44.560 --> 06:50.560 of them looked like the worst kind of a hoodlum. And they got your money, huh? Oh, yes. They 06:50.560 --> 06:57.920 tell me they got away with my car, too. How much money did you lose? $116.23. Do you own 06:57.920 --> 07:03.720 this cafe? Yes, I do. It's a small place, as you can see. I do all the cooking and serving 07:03.720 --> 07:09.320 up to 11.30 in the morning. Then I have a college girl that waits on tables in the afternoon 07:09.320 --> 07:13.000 and evening. Do you think those men have ever been in here in the cafe? No. Have you ever 07:13.000 --> 07:16.560 seen either of them before? No. No, I never laid eyes on them before today. How about 07:16.560 --> 07:21.200 the girl who works for you? Think she's ever seen them before? I don't know. You can ask 07:21.200 --> 07:26.280 her. She should be here soon. What time is it now? Mm-hmm. 11.20. Yes, she'll be along 07:26.280 --> 07:31.920 any minute. Oh, I wish there was something to stop this aching. I know you must have 07:31.920 --> 07:34.840 a lot of pain, Miss Shaw, but we've got to ask a few more questions so we can get right 07:34.840 --> 07:38.960 on this. Yeah, I understand. I'll tell you all I can. Ben, do you want to get the dope 07:38.960 --> 07:42.920 on the stolen car and a description of the man I'll call the office? Right. Say his name. 07:42.920 --> 07:47.680 Is there a pay phone I can use here, Miss Shaw? Yes. Right over there behind the fountain. 07:47.680 --> 07:52.920 Thank you. Do you need change? Yes, ma'am. I'm afraid I do. Well, just help yourself 07:52.920 --> 08:03.120 and the cash register there. Thank you. I put in a dime taking out two nickels. Oh, well, 08:03.120 --> 08:07.280 now that wasn't necessary, young man. You didn't have to tell me. Well, I know, but 08:07.280 --> 08:10.720 we don't like to open other people's cash registers. You're a police officer, aren't 08:10.720 --> 08:18.000 you? Yes, ma'am. I trust you. That seems to be the reason a lot of people don't. I called 08:18.000 --> 08:21.680 the office and as fast as Ben repeated the information, I phoned it in. The detailed 08:21.680 --> 08:27.120 information was broadcast to all units. The stolen car was a 1946 green Ford sedan, license 08:27.120 --> 08:31.560 number one X-ray one eight nine eight. All units were instructed to be on the lookout 08:31.560 --> 08:35.680 for the car and have found abandoned to notify robbery detail immediately and keep the car 08:35.680 --> 08:40.400 under surveillance until we arrive. I called in a description of the suspects and the fact 08:40.400 --> 08:45.720 that the money was taken in a cloth bag stamped Union Trust and Savings. Myrtle Shaw's doctor 08:45.720 --> 08:50.040 arrived and she was ordered to bed for rest and treatment. Ben and I interrogated all 08:50.040 --> 08:55.400 the possible witnesses in the parking lot. We found only one man who saw the actual robbery. 08:55.400 --> 08:59.880 His story compared to that of Miss Shaw's, but he could add nothing more. We talked with 08:59.880 --> 09:03.720 a young college student who worked in the restaurant. She didn't think she'd ever seen 09:03.720 --> 09:08.320 the men in question. We drove back to the city hall and went to the stats office. They 09:08.320 --> 09:12.640 made a run for us on the descriptions and MO that we had and we pulled the packages 09:12.640 --> 09:17.840 of all possible suspects that the machine sorted out. We narrowed and sifted the 24 09:17.840 --> 09:22.240 possibles down to 12. We took the mug shots out and showed them to the victim and the 09:22.240 --> 09:26.680 one witness. They could not identify any of them as the two men in the hold up. Two thirty 09:26.680 --> 09:31.320 five p.m. Saturday. We started to canvas the neighborhood door to door. 09:31.320 --> 09:38.320 I'm taking care of Logan Street for one block, both sides. Want to start you on Melrose? 09:38.320 --> 09:43.320 Okay. Let's try this drug store. I'm on fire. The paper says it's supposed to hit 99 today. 09:43.320 --> 09:52.000 I believe it. Come on. Yes, sir? Police officers. We're looking for a couple of men. Here's 09:52.000 --> 09:55.600 the descriptions. I wonder if you'd read this and tell us if you've ever seen them. Yes, 09:55.600 --> 10:01.040 sir. We ain't got time to have a coke. No, we better not. It's getting late. No, I'm 10:01.040 --> 10:05.000 afraid I've never seen anybody who answers either one of these descriptions. You sure? 10:05.000 --> 10:18.160 Yeah, quite sure. Thank you. I have to have that bag. Oh. Let's go. Is it just my imagination 10:18.160 --> 10:22.920 or does it seem to be getting hotter to you? Talking about it doesn't help. I'm trying ignoring 10:22.920 --> 10:31.120 it. That don't help me either. Let's try this bakery. How do you do, gentlemen? Hi, police 10:31.120 --> 10:34.280 officers. Wonder if you'd read the two descriptions listed here and tell us if you've ever seen 10:34.280 --> 10:42.640 either of these men. Yes, of course. No. Sure smells good in here, doesn't it? No, I don't 10:42.640 --> 10:46.080 seem to recall anybody that looks like this. Anybody else in here who might have seen them? 10:46.080 --> 10:52.920 No, I don't think so. I wait on trade. Okay, thank you, ma'am. Let's go. That smells just 10:52.920 --> 11:01.880 like good old apple pie, doesn't it, Joe? We're baking Danish coffee cake at the moment. 11:01.880 --> 11:06.520 The next place here is a plastic factory. Yeah, it looks like they're closed. Half day Saturday 11:06.520 --> 11:16.960 again. Somebody in there cleaning up. Yes, he didn't hear me. Oh, here he comes. Yeah. 11:16.960 --> 11:21.920 A lot of money in this plastic business. Mm-hmm. Really came into its own during the war, didn't 11:21.920 --> 11:30.240 it? Oh, yeah. The plant's closed Saturday afternoon. Police officers, wonder if you'd 11:30.240 --> 11:34.240 look this paper over and tell us if you may have seen two men answering these descriptions. 11:34.240 --> 11:43.960 All right. I have to put my glasses on. Yes, sir. There now. I don't need them for sweeping, 11:43.960 --> 11:52.800 just reading. All right, here you are. Mm-hmm. What do you think? What was that? I said, what 11:52.800 --> 11:57.760 do you think? Have you seen them? I don't know. How do you mean? I'm not sure yet. I'm not 11:57.760 --> 12:01.840 sure. I may have seen one of them. How about the other one? That's what I mean. Yeah. I 12:01.840 --> 12:04.840 don't know about the other one. But you do remember seeing one of them? I might have seen 12:04.840 --> 12:09.240 both of them. But you're not sure. I don't know. Well, do you want to tell us what you 12:09.240 --> 12:13.120 remember about the one you did see? Oh, don't you want to know about the other one too? Yes, 12:13.120 --> 12:16.240 sir, we do. But I understood you to say that you didn't know about the other one. No, I 12:16.240 --> 12:20.000 don't. Well, you just tell us what you know then. Then you want me to just forget about 12:20.000 --> 12:24.080 the other fellow. No, sir. But if you don't know, it's all right. I might know. Yeah. 12:24.080 --> 12:30.600 I haven't read about him yet. Oh. You asked me a question just as I finished reading about 12:30.600 --> 12:37.040 the first one. I was just starting on the second one at that time. Yes, sir. Sorry. What was 12:37.040 --> 12:44.720 that you asked me? Wasn't important. Then I'll read about the second one. Yes, sir. Thank 12:44.720 --> 12:49.640 you. Yeah. I seen them two or three days ago. Both of them. In this neighborhood? Yes, sir. 12:49.640 --> 12:53.840 Right around back in the parking lot. They work here? No, sir, they don't. Seems to me 12:53.840 --> 12:58.000 I've seen them a couple of times. What were they doing? I don't recall. I just remember 12:58.000 --> 13:02.840 I've seen them. You sure? Yes, I'm positive. One of them had on a brown suit, the other 13:02.840 --> 13:07.040 gray. Just like it says here. The description's fit all right. You have any idea where these 13:07.040 --> 13:11.640 men might be now? No, sir. We're investigating a robbery. We want these men for questioning. 13:11.640 --> 13:16.760 I wish I could help you more. I do know I've seen them, but that's about all. I don't know 13:16.760 --> 13:21.320 their names. All right, sir. What's your name? Seth Williamson. We'll leave you one of our 13:21.320 --> 13:25.240 cards, Mr. Williamson. If you see them again, I appreciate you letting us know. Yes, sir. 13:25.240 --> 13:31.920 Sure will. Let's go, then. Wish we had something more definite to go on. We just had a picture 13:31.920 --> 13:36.880 of the guys. Yeah, it'd help. There's a vacant lot in the corner, finishes out this block. 13:36.880 --> 13:43.360 All right, let's double back on the other side of the street. All right. Sure, huh? 13:43.360 --> 13:48.160 4.30 p.m. We continued knocking on doors, checking every place that was still open or 13:48.160 --> 13:53.080 showed any activity Saturday afternoon. We talked with hotel managers, janitors, and clean-up 13:53.080 --> 13:57.160 men at the different factories or business establishments. We checked grocery stores, 13:57.160 --> 14:01.960 private homes, everywhere that we could find anybody to show the descriptions to. By 6.15 14:01.960 --> 14:05.760 p.m., the only person who showed any sign of recognition of the two holed-up men was 14:05.760 --> 14:10.200 still Seth Williamson, the janitor at the plastics plant. Before we took time out for 14:10.200 --> 14:16.440 a sandwich and a cup of coffee, we drove back to the city hall to check the office. Hi, 14:16.440 --> 14:23.440 Friday. What do you say, Marty? A couple messages for you here. Thanks. What's the matter 14:23.440 --> 14:29.440 with you, Romero? I'm dehydrated. That sun almost fried me. Well, Joe, that one call 14:29.440 --> 14:33.160 I heard from your mother said to tell you your dog's out of danger. Oh, that's fine. 14:33.160 --> 14:36.760 Called in around 2, huh? Yeah. And the other one's from some guy who says he wants to talk 14:36.760 --> 14:41.800 to you right away. I've been calling in since about 3 this afternoon. Seth Williamson, huh? 14:41.800 --> 14:45.000 Called four times. Yeah. Said to tell you he'd wait at that number there. They heard from 14:45.000 --> 14:52.000 him. I'll call him right now. Been hot downtown, Marty? Pretty warm, man. Any kickback on that 14:52.000 --> 15:01.000 stolen car? No, not yet. And Benson Plastics? This is Sergeant Friday, police department. 15:01.000 --> 15:06.000 Oh, yes, I'm glad you called me back. I think I've got a little more information for you. 15:06.000 --> 15:10.000 Yeah? Those two fellas you were looking for, did you find them? No, not yet. Well, I just 15:10.000 --> 15:15.000 remembered what they were doing out back there in the parking lot. Yeah? They were taking 15:15.000 --> 15:19.000 pictures. Of what? Of the two girls that was with them. I remember now. There were two 15:19.000 --> 15:24.000 young women with them. One was a blonde and the other I don't recall. How were they dressed? 15:24.000 --> 15:29.000 The blonde had on a white shirt of some kind and a black dress. That's all I can tell you 15:29.000 --> 15:33.000 for sure. Who was taking the pictures? First the fellas took the girls' picture and then 15:33.000 --> 15:38.000 the girls took snapshots of the fellas. Thank you very much, Mr. Williamson. Oh, it'll help 15:38.000 --> 15:43.000 you. Yes, sir, it will. Goodbye. Goodbye. What do you got? They've had their pictures taken. 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 Yeah? 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With any kind of fast service and processing, the photos could have 17:40.000 --> 17:45.000 been picked up by now. We figured it was worth the chance and the time involved to check 17:45.000 --> 17:49.000 the lead out. All we had was the victim scant description of the two holdup men and if we 17:49.000 --> 17:53.000 could possibly turn up pictures, it would help a great deal. If Williamson was right, 17:53.000 --> 17:58.000 we'd have another lead, the two girls. Six forty p.m. we started checking drug stores 17:58.000 --> 18:02.000 going through all prints that had not yet been picked up by the customers. We'd made 18:02.000 --> 18:06.000 the rounds of all the drug stores in the neighborhood earlier in the day, but we double checked 18:06.000 --> 18:10.000 the descriptions of the two men with the personnel in each store. By nine p.m. we'd 18:10.000 --> 18:14.000 checked out ten drug stores and found nothing. We were going on the hunch that the photos 18:14.000 --> 18:18.000 would most likely be dropped off for processing somewhere in the immediate neighborhood. 18:18.000 --> 18:22.000 It was only a hunch and we were running out of drug stores. Police business, we'd like 18:22.000 --> 18:27.000 to go through your photos that have been left for developing. Yes sir. Here's the box 18:27.000 --> 18:35.000 right here. Oh thank you. I'll take half. Not very many this time, huh? Oh, don't forget 18:35.000 --> 18:39.000 to check the negatives too. Sometimes they don't print them if they're bad. Yeah, I know. 18:39.000 --> 18:48.000 No, nothing in this one. People sure take a lot of pictures of babies, don't they? 18:48.000 --> 18:59.000 Yeah. Nothing. These are sure fuzzy. Pictures of the zoo. Pictures of Yellowstone. 18:59.000 --> 19:14.000 Ben. Yeah? Pay dirt maybe. Let me see. Two guys. Two girls. One's a blonde, white blouse, 19:14.000 --> 19:21.000 dark skirt. Look close. Let me see. Left by a Marion Lang, 223 East Bixel. Well Claire. 19:21.000 --> 19:25.000 Yes sir. You want to double check us on this envelope? Yes sir. This date and time right 19:25.000 --> 19:29.000 here, 3.30 PM August 6th. Yes, that's correct. That's when the films were left for processing. 19:29.000 --> 19:33.000 Three days before the robbery. Did you ever see this woman in the picture before? Let 19:33.000 --> 19:38.000 me see. This one? Oh yes. Yeah. She comes in here quite often. Miss Lang is her name. 19:38.000 --> 19:43.000 How about these men or this other girl here? No, no. I've never seen them. When were these 19:43.000 --> 19:48.000 prints supposed to be picked up? I waited on her. She told me she'd pick them up Friday, 19:48.000 --> 19:51.000 yesterday. Well we'll have to take these photos along with us. They'll be returned. All right 19:51.000 --> 19:55.000 sir. How will I explain this to Miss Lang? If this is the right address, you won't have 19:55.000 --> 20:02.000 to. Before we left, we called the office and had a stakeout placed in the drug store in 20:02.000 --> 20:07.000 case Marion Lang tried to pick up the photos. We checked the address she gave on the envelope, 20:07.000 --> 20:12.000 223 East Bixel. It was a small apartment building near the corner. The manager told us that 20:12.000 --> 20:17.000 Marion Lang had moved out the morning of August 9th, the day of the robbery. She left no forwarding 20:17.000 --> 20:22.000 address. The manager knew nothing of the other girl or the men in the photos. We checked 20:22.000 --> 20:26.000 with Myrtle Shaw, the victim. She positively identified the two men as the ones who robbed 20:26.000 --> 20:31.000 and slugged her. She knew nothing of the two girls, hadn't seen them before. We put out 20:31.000 --> 20:35.000 a warrant on Marion Lang and gave the photos to Lieutenant Frank Cunningham and the record 20:35.000 --> 20:42.000 girl. Monday morning, August 11th. Morning Frank. Hello Mark. Any record on the guys? 20:42.000 --> 20:47.000 Nothing we could find, no. I'm having copies sent out right now. Kind of thought maybe 20:47.000 --> 20:51.000 if we came up with pictures, we'd be half way home. Maybe we are. How do you mean? I had 20:51.000 --> 20:55.000 Tony make some blow ups from the negatives. Full of grain. Probably take them to the cheap 20:55.000 --> 21:00.000 box camera of some kind, but it might help. What'd you find? I just checked the enlargements. 21:00.000 --> 21:04.000 They were still in the wash, but I think we got something. Let's go over the photocopies. 21:04.000 --> 21:31.000 All right. Yeah, they're good and clear now. Clear as they'll ever be anyway. There we 21:31.000 --> 21:37.000 go. I had 16 by 20 enlargements made. This will show you what I found. Yeah. You guys 21:37.000 --> 21:42.000 take a good look at the face of this, this one man here. Thought we did. Why? It's pretty 21:42.000 --> 21:48.000 hard to see on those small prints. Look here. You see the nose on this one? I'd guess it's 21:48.000 --> 21:54.000 been broken one time or another, wouldn't you? Yeah. You see here? Scar over the left eye, 21:54.000 --> 22:00.000 scar over the right eye. A couple of them. Yeah. Look at the right ear. See how mashed 22:00.000 --> 22:05.000 it is? We couldn't come up with any names for you, but how better to be safe to guess 22:05.000 --> 22:10.000 his line of work? Looks like a prize fire. Nothing in the auditive file. I checked and 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 double checked everything I could lay my hands on here in the department. I don't place 22:13.000 --> 22:19.000 him if he was a boxer of any standing. I don't know where it's going. Isn't much. Wish I 22:19.000 --> 22:27.000 had something else for you. It's a lead, isn't it? Might be. More than we had. It was possible 22:27.000 --> 22:31.000 that one of the two holed up men in the photos could have been a professional fighter. From 22:31.000 --> 22:35.000 his appearance and build, we felt it was a fair guess. We took copies of the snapshots 22:35.000 --> 22:39.000 to the state boxing commission, Los Angeles branch. We spoke with a Mr. Farmer who couldn't 22:39.000 --> 22:43.000 seem to recall a man from his picture. We went over the description that the victim 22:43.000 --> 22:47.000 had given us. Farmer said that he knew a great many of the fighters because at one time or 22:47.000 --> 22:51.000 another they all check in and out of the commission before about. But the man in the snapshot 22:51.000 --> 22:55.000 remained unidentified. He checked through several hundred cards bearing the photographs 22:55.000 --> 23:00.000 of boxers in the files. No luck. Farmer suggested that we try the Spring Street gym where the 23:00.000 --> 23:05.000 out of town fighters get into shape and the boxers in town train. We left him a copy of 23:05.000 --> 23:09.000 the photograph and our card so that he could continue checking back through his files. 23:09.000 --> 23:18.000 It was 10.22 a.m. when we got to the Spring Street gym. Here's the manager's office. Come 23:18.000 --> 23:27.000 in. You're the boss here? Yeah. What can I do for you? Police officers. Yeah? We're looking 23:27.000 --> 23:31.000 for a man we think might be a fighter. I wonder if you can help us out. Sure try. I'm Sergeant 23:31.000 --> 23:36.000 Friday. This is my partner Ben Romero. Hi. My name's Charlie Coleman. Here's a couple of photographs 23:36.000 --> 23:42.000 for you to look at Mr. Coleman. Have you ever seen this fellow on the right? Let's see here. 23:42.000 --> 23:51.000 Let's walk over by the window and get a little light on him. Wait a minute. He used to work 23:51.000 --> 23:57.000 out here all the time a couple of years back. His name is Billy. Marshall. Yeah that's right. 23:57.000 --> 24:01.000 One of them named Billy the Kid Marshall. Is he still around? Oh gee I couldn't tell you. 24:01.000 --> 24:04.000 Been a good two years since I've seen him up here. Any idea where we might locate him? 24:04.000 --> 24:09.000 I doubt it. He used to be at Benny Farmer's stable. Benny's been to East now over a year. 24:09.000 --> 24:13.000 Let me check back through my locker listings. Maybe I still got something on him. 24:16.000 --> 24:22.000 Let's see. Out cards. Yeah that's what we want. Let's take him over here by the window where 24:22.000 --> 24:30.000 we can read him. As I recall Marshall wasn't much of a fighter. 24:30.000 --> 24:39.000 Farmer nursed him up through the prelims got him in the semi windups. He started hitting the bottle. 24:39.000 --> 24:46.000 Played the dames. Oh yeah here we are. Can I see that please? Oh sure. 24:46.000 --> 24:54.000 Billy the Kid. Big beefy boy. Real sucker for right cross. 1637 Carver Avenue. 24:54.000 --> 24:57.000 That's the last address you got on him? Whatever the card says yeah. 24:57.000 --> 25:00.000 Real sucker for the old right cross. Thank you very much Mr. Coleman. 25:00.000 --> 25:05.000 You're welcome boys. Anytime. What's he done? We just want him for questioning. Oh I see. 25:05.000 --> 25:09.000 If you should hear from him don't tell him we're looking for him. Let's go. Thanks again. 25:09.000 --> 25:13.000 What do you think he did wrong? I don't know. How do you block a right cross? 25:15.000 --> 25:18.000 We called the new information into Captain Walker and he sent a crew of men to the 25:18.000 --> 25:23.000 boxing commission to check further. 1637 Carver Avenue. It was a cheap 25:23.000 --> 25:27.000 rooming house on the west side of town. Marshall hadn't lived there for over a year and a half. 25:27.000 --> 25:32.000 The landlady gave us a forwarding address. The next place hadn't seen him for a year. 25:32.000 --> 25:35.000 We kept checking and rechecking going from one end of town to the other. 25:35.000 --> 25:39.000 Each place was a little better than the last. It was easy to trace Billy the Kid's rise in the 25:39.000 --> 25:43.000 fight game such as it was with the condition of the places he lived in. 25:43.000 --> 25:46.000 We covered six different rooming houses, boarding houses and apartments. 25:46.000 --> 25:49.000 Each time his residence had been a little more recent. 25:49.000 --> 25:54.000 5.15 p.m. Monday, August 11th. We pulled up in front of the Sunflower Hotel, 25:54.000 --> 25:58.000 433 Banyan Street. Rates, two dollars a week and up. 26:04.000 --> 26:06.000 Nobody at the desk. I'll ring the bell. 26:10.000 --> 26:14.000 How do you do? Police officers. Have you got a Billy Marshall registered here? 26:14.000 --> 26:16.000 No, no one by that name here. 26:16.000 --> 26:19.000 Would you take a look at this picture? Either one of these men live here? 26:21.000 --> 26:24.000 Oh sure, that's Tom Green and George Martin, room nine. 26:24.000 --> 26:25.000 They in now? 26:25.000 --> 26:27.000 I could buzz their room and see. 26:27.000 --> 26:29.000 No, never mind. Room nine, you said. 26:29.000 --> 26:30.000 Yes sir, that's right. 26:30.000 --> 26:31.000 Let's go. 26:39.000 --> 26:41.000 Room nine. Cover McBride. 26:43.000 --> 26:44.000 Yeah? 26:44.000 --> 26:46.000 Special delivery letter. 26:46.000 --> 26:47.000 Slip it under the door. 26:47.000 --> 26:49.000 You have to sign for it. 26:53.000 --> 26:54.000 All right, stand still police officers. 26:54.000 --> 26:56.000 Watch it Ben. 26:57.000 --> 26:58.000 Take the other one Tom. 27:02.000 --> 27:04.000 Joe, Joe look out. 27:06.000 --> 27:09.000 All right, hold it right there Marshall. Get over there against the wall. 27:09.000 --> 27:11.000 You, get up, go over there with him. Move. 27:11.000 --> 27:12.000 Move. 27:13.000 --> 27:15.000 Give me a hand Joe, I'll help you up. 27:17.000 --> 27:18.000 You all right? 27:18.000 --> 27:20.000 Yeah, yeah I'm okay. 27:20.000 --> 27:23.000 There he is Joe. Looks like his picture fits the description. 27:23.000 --> 27:25.000 Except for one thing. 27:25.000 --> 27:28.000 Yeah? He's no sucker for a right cross. 27:34.000 --> 27:37.000 The story you have just heard was true. 27:37.000 --> 27:41.000 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:41.000 --> 27:44.000 On March 27th, 1947 trial was held in Superior Court, 27:44.000 --> 27:48.000 Department 81, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:48.000 --> 27:50.000 In a moment the results of that trial. 27:50.000 --> 27:55.000 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to extra mild Fatima. 27:55.000 --> 27:56.000 Here is the actual report. 27:56.000 --> 28:01.000 From coast to coast, extra mild Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 28:01.000 --> 28:04.000 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering that Fatima 28:04.000 --> 28:07.000 is the king size cigarette that is extra mild. 28:07.000 --> 28:11.000 Extra mild because it contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos 28:11.000 --> 28:14.000 superbly blended to make it extra mild. 28:14.000 --> 28:17.000 To give it a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 28:17.000 --> 28:20.000 Enjoy extra mild Fatima yourself. 28:20.000 --> 28:22.000 Best of all, long cigarettes. 28:22.000 --> 28:25.000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 28:25.000 --> 28:37.000 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 28:37.000 --> 28:41.000 Both William Marshall and his accomplice were found guilty of armed robbery 28:41.000 --> 28:48.000 and grand theft auto and are now serving their terms as prescribed by law. 28:48.000 --> 28:53.000 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:53.000 --> 28:56.000 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 28:56.000 --> 28:59.000 W.A. 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