1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,840 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,880 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:22,440 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, brings you Dragnet. 4 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:35,920 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to hit and run felony detail. 5 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:40,040 A dead body is found in the streets in the early hours of the morning. 6 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:44,320 There's only one clue, a set of skid marks on the pavement. 7 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,680 Your job? Find the killer. 8 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:55,760 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of all long cigarettes. 9 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:01,120 Smoke extra mild Fatima. Yes, Fatima is the king-size cigarette, 10 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,280 which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, 11 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:09,360 superbly blended to make it extra mild. 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From beginning to end, from crime to 20 00:01:52,600 --> 00:02:01,120 punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 21 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,120 It was Monday, April 19th. It was windy in Los Angeles. 22 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,120 We were working the day watch out of traffic division. 23 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:10,120 My partner is Ben Romero. The boss is Lieutenant Calfee, commander AID. 24 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:15,120 My name is Friday. It was 7.55 a.m. when I got to the second floor at 123 South 25 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:20,120 Figueroa Street. Accident investigation. Get and run felony detail. 26 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,120 Good morning, Joe. 27 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:23,120 George? 28 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,120 How is it? 29 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,120 Oh, it's not much better. Still aching. 30 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:27,120 Rough. 31 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,120 Lousy thing. Kept me up most of the night. 32 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,120 Check with that dentist that told you about it? 33 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:36,120 Yeah, I did. Said it's a wisdom tooth. This one here. 34 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:37,120 Oh, yeah. 35 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,120 Says it's gotta come out. Supposed to go back and see him today. 36 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,120 That's rough. Remember a friend of mine had his wisdom teeth out. 37 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,120 Hurt like the devil. Terrible. Finally pulled them. 38 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,120 Eight for five, six days after. 39 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:49,120 Hmm. 40 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,120 Excuse me, Joe. 41 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,120 Yeah, McD? 42 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,120 Better have a 57 on that follow-up you handed yesterday, huh? 43 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,120 Okay. I got most of it down. I'll finish it up. 44 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,120 Friday? 45 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:02,120 Hi. Ben come in yet? 46 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:06,120 He's down in the record room. I want to see that Joe, if you ask. 47 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,120 Hmm. Hasn't gone down much. 48 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,120 That's a bad wisdom tooth, Dennis. He's gonna have to yank it. 49 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,120 Bum deal, huh? 50 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,120 That's the first time I ever had any trouble with him. 51 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,120 I remember a few years back my sister Gertrude had trouble with a wisdom tooth. 52 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:20,120 Impacted. 53 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:21,120 Yeah? 54 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:25,120 Whole side of her face was swollen. Poor kid was in terrible pain. Full week. 55 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,120 Even after they pulled it, it still hurt. 56 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:28,120 Oh. 57 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,120 Hi, Joe. 58 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:30,120 What? 59 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,120 Picked up the overnight reports down at records, Mac. Here you go. 60 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,120 Oh, thanks, Ben. 61 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,120 This one on top here. I'd like to have you two check it out. 62 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,120 Dead body report? 63 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:44,120 Yeah. Left me a note on it. That's about all. Hard to figure. 64 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,120 What's the story? 65 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,120 Just what you see in the report. 66 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:52,120 Victims. Edward Raymond Stokes, 732 Delano Street, Apartment 2. 67 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:57,120 His body was found in the gutter near 63rd and Vermont, 3 o'clock this morning. No witnesses. 68 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,120 Only one piece of evidence. 69 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,120 Yeah, see they got it listed here. Skid marks near the body. Is that all? 70 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,120 That's it. Apparently hit and run. 71 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,120 Where's the body, man? 72 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,120 Neighborhood mortuary out there. Emerald Hills Funeral Home. 73 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,120 One of the deputy coroners handled the body. A fellow named Joe Larimore. 74 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:13,120 Anybody claim it, chap? 75 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,120 No. 76 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,120 Okay. Ben, you ready? 77 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:16,120 Yeah, let's go. 78 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,120 I'm gonna check you later, man. 79 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,120 Yeah. If you need any help, I've got McLennan and Rogers on hand. 80 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,120 Right. 81 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,120 How do we manage to draw all the choice ones? 82 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,120 I don't know. Skid marks and a dead body. 83 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:31,120 Yeah. 84 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,120 Oh, say, I almost forgot. How's your jaw? 85 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:34,120 Oh, it still hurts. 86 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,120 Oh, it's tough. 87 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,120 And still swollen. 88 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:39,120 What did Dennis say? 89 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:40,120 Wisdom tooth. 90 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,120 Oh, miserable. 91 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:44,120 Yeah. 92 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:49,120 Wife had the same thing a couple years back. Dennis tried to yank the tooth and it broke right in two. 93 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,120 Finally got it out. 94 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:51,120 That's good. 95 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,120 Funny thing about wisdom, T. 96 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,120 What's that? 97 00:04:54,120 --> 00:05:03,120 After they pull them. Hurts for five or six days. 98 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:10,120 Eight thirty-three a.m. Ben and I drove out to 63rd and Vermont and rechecked the spot where the dead body of Edward Stokes had been found. 99 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:16,120 According to the report, the body was found two feet west of the Easterly curb and thirty-two north of 63rd Street on Vermont. 100 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:21,120 We examined the skid marks. They showed definite signs of being a lot older than twenty-four hours. 101 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:30,120 The consistency of the rubber was weak and there were heavy dirt smudges over them indicating more wear than they could have possibly had since the estimated time of the victim's death. 102 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:38,120 We got back in the car and drove to the Emerald Hills funeral home at Vernon and Denver Avenue. 103 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,120 Sure is rotten weather for April, huh? 104 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:41,120 Yeah. 105 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,120 These funeral homes, you ever notice it? 106 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:44,120 What's that? 107 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:48,120 Why do they always put awnings over the windows? They never open drapes. 108 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,120 I don't know. Come on. 109 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:55,120 The funeral going on. 110 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,120 You know where the office is? 111 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,120 There's a brass plate on that door over there. 112 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,120 Let's have a look. 113 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,120 Yes, sir? 114 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,120 Here's somebody's, you know. 115 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,120 Gentlemen, the I.B. of Service? 116 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,120 Police officers. I'd like to talk to Mr. Larimore. I believe he's a deputy coroner. 117 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,120 I'm Mr. Larimore. You came about the hit-and-run victim? 118 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,120 Yeah, that's right. This is Sergeant Romero. My name's Bridey. 119 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:17,120 We'd like to check the body if we could. 120 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,120 Certainly. It's back this way. 121 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,120 I understand you moved the body from the scene of the accident here to the mortuary. 122 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:27,120 Yes, that's right. Early this morning. Unusual case. 123 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,120 Careful. There's two steps down just inside the door. 124 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,120 Thank you. 125 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,120 Why do you say it's unusual, Mr. Larimore? 126 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,120 Well, here, let me show you. 127 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,120 There. 128 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:45,120 Now, for one thing, the victim had a basal skull fracture. 129 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:50,120 I don't know about you gentlemen, but in the hit-and-run cases I've handled, a basal fracture's a pretty rare thing. 130 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,120 Well, it is possible, isn't it? 131 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,120 Yes, it's possible. Anything's possible, as they say. 132 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:00,120 But it's not usual. There are a few other things here, too. 133 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:01,120 Yeah. 134 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:05,120 Notice the victim's knee here. Single clean cut. 135 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,120 Also, these wounds on the head. 136 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,120 I've never seen anything like it in hit-and-run cases. I've been called in. 137 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:17,120 Yeah, a wound on the knee doesn't jive, does it? If it was hit by a car, the knee should be skinned up quite a bit. 138 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,120 Exactly. Well, you know how it usually is. The automobile hits the victim. 139 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,120 There's always signs that the body was either dragged or thrown. 140 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,120 Shredding of clothing, skinned knees, legs, elbows. 141 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,120 No sign of that here. 142 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,120 You don't think the victim could have been killed by hit-and-run cars, any? 143 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,120 No, I don't say that. It's possible that it might have been a car, but... 144 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,120 Well, let's say it's not very probable. 145 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,120 Has anybody at all inquired about the body, Mr. Larimore? 146 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:42,120 No one, no. 147 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,120 That's funny. 148 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,120 Oh, uh... Mr. Larimore, can I see him, please? 149 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,120 All right, Tom. Excuse me a moment? 150 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:50,120 Yeah, sure. 151 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,120 Well, yeah. Where do we start? 152 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,120 I don't know. Maybe we won't have to. 153 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,120 Another lead like this, we can turn it over to homicide. 154 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:05,120 Sergeant? 155 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:06,120 Yeah? 156 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,120 There's a young lady in the lobby. 157 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,120 She wants to claim the body. 158 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,120 The girl was shown the body. She identified it as that of Edward Raymond Stokes. 159 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,120 She gave her name as Marion Fuller, the victim's common-law wife. 160 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,120 After she recovered from her shock, she asked if she might sit down for a while and rest. 161 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,120 We took her into one of the offices in the mortuary and Ben got her a glass of water. 162 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,120 She told us that she had last seen Stokes alive at about 1 a.m. that morning. 163 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:37,120 They'd been drinking together at a neighborhood bar on Vermont Avenue between 63rd and 64th streets, 164 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,120 half a block from where the victim's body had been found scrawled in the gutter. 165 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,120 Why don't you sit down over there, Miss Fuller? 166 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:45,120 Thanks. 167 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,120 How long did you know Edward Stokes, Miss Fuller? 168 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,120 About six years. On and off. 169 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,120 We've been together pretty much the last couple of years, though. 170 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:55,120 Oh, my head. 171 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,120 Would you mind telling us exactly what happened while you were with Stokes last night, 172 00:08:58,120 --> 00:08:59,120 everything he can remember? 173 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,120 I can't think. This headache's killing me. 174 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,120 Well, we should try, Miss Fuller. It's important. 175 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:09,120 Well, Eddie and I had dinner together at the Spanish oven, face down on South Fig. 176 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,120 That was about a quarter to eight. 177 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:15,120 Then we drove out to the Brown Barrel on Vermont, the bar I told you about. 178 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:16,120 Yeah. 179 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,120 Eddie and I go there most of the time. 180 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,120 We stayed there and drank, played a little shuffleboard. 181 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,120 You know, go ahead. 182 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:27,120 Oh, we stayed too long, drank a little too much. 183 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:31,120 I started talking to this fellow next to me, and he got sore. 184 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,120 Always got jealous when he was drunk. Poor Eddie. 185 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,120 Did Eddie fight with this other man, Miss Fuller? 186 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,120 Oh, no, I stopped him. That made Eddie mad. 187 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,120 He never could drink right. He always wanted to pick a fight. 188 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:43,120 Who was the other man you remember? 189 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,120 No, I don't. I guess I had a lot to drink, too. 190 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,120 He was just some guy at the bar. 191 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:50,120 Headache. 192 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,120 Well, it's not going to take much longer. Just a few more questions. 193 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,120 That organ's getting on my nerves. 194 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:59,120 What happened after you broke up the argument between Stokes and the other man? 195 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,120 Oh, nothing. We stayed in the bar. 196 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,120 Eddie played shuffleboard most of the time. I was one of the booths drinking. 197 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:06,120 Yeah? 198 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:11,120 Around one o'clock, I started feeling sick, so I went outside and sat in the car. 199 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,120 I guess I passed out there. 200 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:13,120 In your car? 201 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,120 No. I guess I belonged to one of the fellows in the bar. 202 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,120 I passed out, and that's all I can remember. 203 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,120 Did you sleep in the car all night? 204 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,120 No. I guess whoever owned it drove me home. 205 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,120 Well, how did they know where you lived? 206 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:27,120 Must have been one of our friends. I don't know. I don't remember anything until this morning. 207 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,120 They phoned me up and said Eddie was dead. 208 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:30,120 Who phoned you, Miss Farr? 209 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,120 One of our friends. I don't remember. I had a rotten headache. 210 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:34,120 Well, you can do better than that. 211 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,120 I tell you, I don't remember. 212 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,120 They phoned and told me Eddie was dead. Somebody ran Eddie down. 213 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:40,120 All right. 214 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,120 Where are we going? 215 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,120 Downtown. We'll have a stenographer take your statement. 216 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:49,120 I've got a terrible hangover. I've never had one as bad as this. 217 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,120 Neither has Eddie. Let's go. 218 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:56,120 From the way back to the office, Ben stopped at a drug store, and I picked up a box of aspirin. 219 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:58,120 The wisdom tooth was giving me trouble again. 220 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,120 The clerk at the soda fountain fixed something for Marion Fuller's hangover. 221 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,120 When we got her back to the office, we questioned her for more than an hour, 222 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,120 but she gave us only one additional piece of information. 223 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,120 The victim, Eddie Stokes, had been married before and divorced. 224 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,120 His ex-wife lived out in the valley with her two children, 225 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,120 and on several occasions she came to see Stokes at the Vermont Avenue bar. 226 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:21,120 When he failed to make the monthly payments for the support of the children. 227 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,120 Each time they'd argued bitterly. 228 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:27,120 We had a police stenographer take the Fuller woman's statement, and then she was released. 229 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,120 Ten forty-five a.m., Sergeants Rogers and McLendon were assigned to check out the Vermont Avenue bar, 230 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,120 where Stokes had last been seen alive. 231 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,120 Ben and I drove out to the valley to the home of Catherine Stokes, the victim's former wife. 232 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,120 She met us on the front porch. 233 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,120 Inside, it sounded like one of the children was practicing her magic. 234 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:46,120 We told her what had happened. 235 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,120 Last week, I think it was. Yes, Thursday last week. 236 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,120 Eddie hadn't sent any money for the kids' support for three months. 237 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:57,120 I hated to chase after him like that. There wasn't anything else I could do. 238 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,120 Where did you meet him, Miss Stokes? 239 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,120 That bar I used to hang around. 240 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,120 It's over on Vermont, called the Brown Barrel or something. 241 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,120 Wouldn't you like to come inside? 242 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,120 Yes, thank you. 243 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:12,120 Do you happen to know anybody by the name of Marion Fuller? 244 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,120 Yes, Eddie mentioned her. 245 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,120 It was a man's seeing a woman like that. 246 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,120 Do you know anything about her at all? 247 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,120 No. Whenever I saw Eddie, he'd mention he was running around with her. 248 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,120 Yes, he wanted to make me jealous. 249 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,120 Was your husband a pretty heavy drinker? 250 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,120 Yes, he was. So I got the divorce. 251 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,120 Eddie was such a fine boy when we got married. 252 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:38,120 Good home. You didn't know any of the people he'd been running around with lately? 253 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,120 No, just the Fuller woman, that's all. 254 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,120 Can you think of anything at all that might possibly have a bearing on his death? 255 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,120 No. Eddie was probably drinking, 256 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,120 wandered in the street in a car hit. 257 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,120 I don't know. 258 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:56,120 Oh, there's the bakery, man. I've got to get some bread and a few things. Excuse me? 259 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,120 I think that's about all, don't you, Joe? 260 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,120 Yeah, I'll tell you what, I'm going to go get some bread. 261 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,120 You're going to get some bread and some bread? 262 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:05,120 Yeah. 263 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,120 I'll tell you what, I'll leave our car here, Ms. Stokes, in case you want to contact us for any reason. 264 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,120 All right. 265 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,120 It was so wonderful when we were married, Eddie and I. 266 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,120 My folks gave us this house as a wedding present. 267 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,120 We got wonderful presents. 268 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,120 We had everything we wanted. 269 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:27,120 A car, nice house, kids. 270 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,120 It was wonderful that we started drinking. 271 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,120 Started all of a sudden. I never knew why. 272 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:34,120 Yes, ma'am. 273 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,120 How do men get that way? 274 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,120 How do they start? 275 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,120 I don't know. We only see a part of it. 276 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:41,120 Yeah? 277 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,120 When they finish. 278 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:53,120 Twelve noon, Ben and I drove back into town to Vermont and 63rd Street for a meet with Sergeants Rogers and McClendon. 279 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,120 They told us that they checked out the bartender who had been on duty the night before, 280 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:59,120 and also seven of his customers. 281 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,120 Their stories were almost identical. 282 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,120 Each of them remembered seeing Eddie Stokes at the bar. 283 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:09,120 Each of them remembered he was playing shuffleboard, that he was drinking heavily, and that he left the bar at about 1.45 a.m. 284 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:14,120 All of us had the idea that for some reason the bartender and the customers were lying. 285 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:19,120 In most cases, it's hard to find two witnesses who tell identical stories, let alone seven. 286 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:26,120 For the rest of that afternoon, Rogers, McClendon, Ben, and I spent our time canvassing the neighborhood in the vicinity of the Brown Barrel Tavern. 287 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:28,120 4.45 p.m. 288 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:32,120 We talked to the proprietor of a small grocery store two blocks down the street from the tavern. 289 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:38,120 He told us that he rarely visited the bar, but that he thought that the man who ran the butcher shop next to his place, Mr. Eugene Murray, 290 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,120 was a regular patron of the Brown Barrel. 291 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,120 So we went next door. 292 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:47,120 Would you make that two pounds of ground brown, Mr. Murray, we're having, combination, please? 293 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:48,120 Yes, ma'am, two pounds. 294 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,120 Nice looking meats, huh, Joe? 295 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,120 Yeah, those steaks look good, don't they? 296 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:53,120 Mm-hmm. 297 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:54,120 Two pounds. 298 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:57,120 All right. 299 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,120 Anything else now, Mrs. Kidney? 300 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,120 Got some nice fresh kidneys today. 301 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,120 No, George won't touch kidneys. That'll be all. 302 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,120 You put it on the bill, won't you, Mr. Murray? 303 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:13,120 Yes, ma'am. Thank you. 304 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,120 You're welcome. 305 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,120 Yes, sir, gentlemen. Can I help you? 306 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:23,120 Police officers, Mr. Murray, I'd like to ask you a few questions. 307 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,120 Oh, sure. Glad to help out if I can. 308 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,120 Have you ever been in the Brown Barrel tavern down the next block there? 309 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,120 Brown Barrel? Yeah, I go there all the time. 310 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,120 Say, would you mind if I fix up another while we're talking? 311 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,120 The customer's gonna pick it up in a couple of minutes. I don't like to keep waiting. 312 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:36,120 Sure, go ahead. 313 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:37,120 I gotta go to the ice bar. 314 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,120 When's the last time you were in the Brown Barrel, Mr. Murray? 315 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,120 Last night, wife and I went to the movies. 316 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,120 I'm gonna have English fixed tonight. 317 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:47,120 Closet. 318 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:53,120 Closing picture. We got dinner at the barrel on the way home for a beer. 319 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:54,120 By what time was that? 320 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,120 Pretty close to two. 321 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,120 What's the matter? Some kind of trouble? 322 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,120 Did you notice anything unusual while you were in there? Anybody fighting or arguing? 323 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:07,120 No, we were only in there a couple of minutes, but now that you mention it, there was something funny happened. 324 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:08,120 What was that? 325 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:14,120 Well, the bartender Carl and a half dozen of the neighborhood gang were back in one of the booths talking together. 326 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:18,120 They seemed kind of nervous. None of them seemed to be having a good time. 327 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:19,120 Yeah. 328 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,120 Wife and I yelled hello at them, but they kind of gave us a go-by. 329 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,120 Then this drunk came up to us. 330 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,120 Uh, any, uh, say officer, would you reach that knife for me? 331 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:29,120 Which one? 332 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:30,120 Uh, that one. 333 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:31,120 Oh yeah, here you are. 334 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:32,120 Yeah, thanks. 335 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:33,120 Go ahead. 336 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:39,120 Yeah, well, this drunk came up to us and whispers to me, say, you better get out of here. There's been a fight. 337 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,120 Isn't that a beautiful piece of meat? 338 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:46,120 Well, I didn't pay much attention to him. He was pretty drunk, could hardly understand him. 339 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:49,120 I guess they have a lot of fights in there anyway. 340 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,120 Is that all he told you? There's been a fight? 341 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:55,120 Yeah, that time. Well, he came back a couple of minutes later and whispered the same thing. 342 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,120 You better get out. There's been a fight, he said. Wife and I just laughed at him. 343 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:00,120 Mm-hmm. 344 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:13,120 He said, I know all about it. 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She didn't remember anything. She was released again. 370 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:57,120 It looked like we were in for a long night. 371 00:18:57,120 --> 00:18:59,120 We went across the street for a bowl of soup and a sandwich. 372 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:02,120 When we got back, Ben called his wife and told her he'd be working late. 373 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:04,120 I called my mother. 374 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:09,120 Working late again? Oh, Joseph. How's your tooth feeling? 375 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:11,120 It's a little better, Ma. It's still pretty tender. 376 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:13,120 I'm going to go to the dentist tomorrow. 377 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:16,120 Yes, you've got to have that attended to right away. 378 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:19,120 Bad teeth can poison your whole system. 379 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:22,120 You be sure and see that dentist. Is he a good one? 380 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:25,120 Yeah, he's okay. One of the fellas down here told me about him. 381 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:27,120 I'll see you a little later. Don't wait up. 382 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:31,120 Yeah, and you don't work too late, Joseph. You need your rest. 383 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:33,120 Yeah, okay, Ma. Goodbye. 384 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:36,120 All right, Joseph. Goodbye. 385 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:40,120 Joe. Yeah? 386 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:42,120 Just talked to that butcher's wife on the phone, Ms. Murray. 387 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:43,120 What'd she have to say? 388 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:46,120 Ask her the same questions we asked Murray. She couldn't add much. Same story. 389 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:48,120 Got something for you? Yeah, Matt? 390 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:51,120 Rogers and McLendon just called in. They're still out at that bar. 391 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:53,120 Joe? Finally got somebody to talk a little. 392 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:55,120 What'd they get? The bar boy out there. 393 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:57,120 He says there was a fight happened about 1.30. 394 00:19:57,120 --> 00:20:00,120 Doesn't remember who was fighting. Not much yet. 395 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:05,120 The bar boy's name is Milner. He told Rogers he went outside about 20 minutes to 2 to put the garbage out. 396 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:07,120 He saw the fuller woman asleep in that car. 397 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:09,120 You get the license number? No. 398 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:13,120 Said there was a ticket on the windshield. 399 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:19,120 Ben and I checked with the sergeant of the watch at 77th Street Division. 400 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:23,120 He told us Unit 111 was assigned to the area where the brown barrel was located. 401 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:33,120 In checking their worksheet, we found that Unit 111 had issued a hang-on citation the night before to a car parked near 63, 30, and 1 half Vermont Avenue, the address of the brown barrel tavern. 402 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:39,120 We checked the license number through DMV and found that the car was registered to a William R. Huddy, 14 Naylor Street. 403 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:42,120 We drove out to the Naylor Street address and talked to Huddy's wife. 404 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:47,120 She told us he was playing in a shuffleboard tournament that night at a bar down on South Olive Street. 405 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:49,120 8.55 p.m. We checked in at the bar. 406 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:52,120 The bar, Ken? Oh, yes, sir. What'll it be? 407 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:56,120 Do you know if there's a William Huddy in here? He's supposed to be playing a shuffleboard game here tonight. 408 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:59,120 Oh, yeah, I know. He's with the Highland Park team. 409 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:03,120 Yeah, let me see. Yeah, that's him up now, out on the blue shirt. 410 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:05,120 Thank you. Come on, Ben. 411 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:10,120 That's it, Bill. Good weight. Make it another three. 412 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:15,120 Oh, that cleans him. Good one, Bill. 413 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:18,120 Yeah, that's pretty close feet, that one, Max. 414 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:21,120 Excuse me? Yeah? 415 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:23,120 Are you William Huddy? Yeah, that's right. 416 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:26,120 Police officers. We'd like to talk to you a minute. Oh, what about? 417 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:30,120 I'd like to ask you a few questions. You step over here a minute. 418 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:33,120 Yeah, all right. 419 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:37,120 Were you at the Brown Bell Tavern out on Vermont last night? 420 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:40,120 Yeah, I was. Why, what's the matter? 421 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:45,120 You know Marion Fuller? Yeah, she hangs around the place. She goes with a guy named Eddie. 422 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:47,120 Did you drive her home last night? 423 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:50,120 Yeah, as a matter of fact, I did. She passed out in my car. 424 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:53,120 She's a nice kid, but she drinks a lot. I drove her home. 425 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:56,120 Do you mind telling us what happened at the bar last night when you were there? 426 00:21:56,120 --> 00:22:00,120 Well, I come in about nine o'clock and I start playing shuffleboard with a couple of guys. 427 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:03,120 This guy Eddie still wants one of them. Yeah? 428 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:07,120 Well, he got in a beef with a guy at the bar over Marion. It's nothing big, though. 429 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:10,120 Guy left after a while. Go ahead. 430 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:16,120 That's about all. I left the place around 1.30 and I said he was beefing with some merchant seaman about that time. 431 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:18,120 Was the Fuller girl still at the bar at that time? 432 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:22,120 No, when I went outside, I saw her sleeping in my car, so I drove her home. 433 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:25,120 I left her off and then came back to the bar. That's when they told me. 434 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:26,120 Told you what? 435 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:30,120 Well, they said Eddie had a fight with this merchant seaman. They said it'd be better if we kept it quiet. 436 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:32,120 Who told you that? 437 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:37,120 Carl, a bartender. And I got the real story from one of the fellas I was playing shuffleboard with, Leo McCarty. 438 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:39,120 What'd he tell you? 439 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:44,120 Well, he said that when Eddie Stokes left, the merchant seaman followed him out. He said he chased Eddie. 440 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:47,120 McCarty went out about five minutes later. Yeah? 441 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:51,120 Well, the merchant seaman was gone and Stokes was lying in the gutter down the street. 442 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:53,120 Did McCarty look at him? 443 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:58,120 Yeah, he said Stokes looked pretty bad. He said he looked like he was dead, but I wouldn't believe that. 444 00:22:58,120 --> 00:22:59,120 Why not? 445 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:01,120 This McCarty always exaggerates. 446 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:11,120 Ten fifteen p.m. We had William Huddy come back to the office with us where we questioned him further and took his statement. 447 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:18,120 Then we had his friend Leo McCarty brought in along with the bartender at the Brown Barrel Tavern and the customers that he'd framed his story with. 448 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:21,120 McCarty was the first to give us the straight story and then the others followed. 449 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:25,120 The bartender, Carl Janssen, who also owned the bar, was the last to break. 450 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:28,120 How about it, Janssen? Why didn't we get a straight story to begin with? 451 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:33,120 What about the publicity? How would that look? A murder around my place. 452 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:37,120 It could work out worse than that, Mr. Janssen. You've been withholding evidence. You talked these people into the same deal. 453 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:44,120 I'd protect myself. The newspapers, all the scandal recommends business. I had to keep it quiet. 454 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:48,120 It's not my fault that Stokes was killed. I didn't do it. I'm not to blame. 455 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:51,120 No, but you know who is to blame. Now, how about it? Who is he? 456 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:56,120 Well, he works on the ships. Comes in here most of the time when he's in port. 457 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:57,120 What's his name? 458 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:00,120 Henry Baxter. I've cashed some of his paychecks. 459 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:01,120 Ben, you better get the captain, huh? 460 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:02,120 Yeah, okay. 461 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:11,120 Hit the run felony Friday. Oh, yeah. No, just a minute. For you, Janssen. 462 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:21,120 Oh, yeah. Thank you. Yes. Oh. Yes, Frida, just a minute. Sergeant. 463 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:22,120 Yeah. 464 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:25,120 It's my wife. She's at the bar now. She thought she ought to know. 465 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:26,120 Yeah? 466 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:29,120 Henry Baxter. Frida says he just came in. 467 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:39,120 I talked to Janssen's wife and told her to delay Baxter as long as possible without arousing his suspicions. 468 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:45,120 Eleven twenty-five p.m. Ben and I and Mr. Janssen, along with Rogers and McClendon, drove out to the Brown Barrel Tavern on Vermont. 469 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:50,120 When we got there, Baxter was gone. Mrs. Janssen told us he was pretty drunk by the time he left the bar. 470 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:56,120 She'd watched him go down one block, cross the street, and then enter a small nightclub on the opposite side called the Pink Shamrock. 471 00:24:56,120 --> 00:25:00,120 She'd been keeping an eye on the place, and as far as she knew, Baxter was still inside. 472 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:04,120 We went down the street to the nightclub. Rogers and McClendon covered the back entrance. 473 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:08,120 We got inside in the middle of a floor show. The blonde was doing some kind of a dance. 474 00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:12,120 Can you spot him, Mr. Janssen? 475 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:16,120 No. I don't see him yet. 476 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:19,120 How about over on this side, back in the corner there? 477 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:25,120 No. No, he's not there. It's so dark in here I can't see too well. 478 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:28,120 There's the rear exit to the place. He could have slept out that way. 479 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:31,120 Gentlemen, like to have the picture taken? Souvenir photograph? 480 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:34,120 No, no thanks. Maybe we'd better check with the waiter, Ben. 481 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:39,120 No, I'll just show you in just a minute. That man over there at that table. 482 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:40,120 Where? 483 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:43,120 Yeah, yeah, I'm almost positive. 484 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:44,120 Where? 485 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:49,120 Right there next to that pillar. Just behind it, you see. 486 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:51,120 Yeah, yeah, that's him, that's him. 487 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:54,120 All right. Come on, Ben. You stay right here, Mr. Janssen. 488 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:56,120 You bet. 489 00:25:56,120 --> 00:26:00,120 Waiter? Hey, waiter. Another Coke High. 490 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:03,120 New waiter, another Coke High. 491 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:05,120 Your name is Henry Baxter? 492 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:07,120 Yeah, that's right. What? 493 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:09,120 Police officers like to talk to you. 494 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:12,120 Yeah? Well, yeah. 495 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:13,120 Outside. 496 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:16,120 Outside nothing. You want to see a show? 497 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:18,120 Let's go outside. Come on, Baxter. 498 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,120 Hey, wait a minute. What's the beef anyway? 499 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:21,120 You know what the beef is? 500 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:23,120 Sure I know what the beef is. 501 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:24,120 Come on, Baxter. 502 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:27,120 The lousy punk Eddie Stokes trying to give me bad times. 503 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:29,120 Now he knows what a bad time is. 504 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:31,120 Come on, Baxter. Come on. 505 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:33,120 I told him what the beef was. 506 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:35,120 I saw how he did it. 507 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:38,120 I beat him. He hit his head on the curb. 508 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:40,120 Come on. Let's go. 509 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:43,120 Hey, everybody, I killed Eddie Stokes. 510 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:45,120 I killed him. 511 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:51,120 All right, then. 512 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:54,120 Let's get him out of here. 513 00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:56,120 Yeah, okay. 514 00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:59,120 How's that tooth feel, Joe? 515 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:03,120 It's okay. 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