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It was cool in Los Angeles. 02:01.360 --> 02:03.720 We were working a day watch out of robbery detail. 02:03.720 --> 02:06.600 My partner is Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Ed Walker. 02:06.600 --> 02:10.080 My name is Friday. I was on the way back from Calvary Cemetery. 02:10.080 --> 02:14.760 It was 11.45 a.m. when I got to room 27A, robbery detail. 02:14.760 --> 02:18.600 Joe, how'd the funeral go? 02:18.600 --> 02:19.600 Pretty good turnout. 02:19.600 --> 02:21.520 Sure, sorry I couldn't make it. 02:21.520 --> 02:22.520 One of us had to be in court. 02:22.520 --> 02:25.320 A lot of the boys out there, huh? 02:25.320 --> 02:28.120 Yeah, Martin had a lot of friends. He was a good cop. 02:28.120 --> 02:29.400 You see his wife? 02:29.400 --> 02:30.400 Yeah. 02:30.400 --> 02:32.720 Wife took it hard again. 02:32.720 --> 02:34.720 Pretty hard, yeah. 02:34.720 --> 02:36.960 Are you about ready for lunch? 02:36.960 --> 02:39.640 I'm gonna make up the log book first. Now I'm a little behind. 02:39.640 --> 02:40.640 All right. 02:40.640 --> 02:41.640 Hi, Stu. 02:41.640 --> 02:42.640 Ben, what's with you? 02:42.640 --> 02:43.640 Oh, same old thing. 02:43.640 --> 02:46.640 Say, what's the D.R. number on that job we handled yesterday? 02:46.640 --> 02:47.640 Hmm? 02:47.640 --> 02:54.320 The grocery store thing? You know, we showed those mug shots to the victims. 02:54.320 --> 02:55.320 You remember the D.R. number? 02:55.320 --> 02:58.320 Oh, yeah, yeah. I got it here. 374-332. 02:58.320 --> 02:59.320 3-32. Thanks. 02:59.320 --> 03:00.320 Mm-hmm. 03:00.320 --> 03:01.320 Yes, sir? 03:01.320 --> 03:02.320 My name's Frank Chaney. 03:02.320 --> 03:10.080 I've just been paroled from Folsom. Can you tell me where I register? 03:10.080 --> 03:15.960 Yeah. I'll get one of the men from the rehabilitation detail. He'll take care of it. 03:15.960 --> 03:16.960 Okay. Thanks. 03:16.960 --> 03:17.960 Excuse me, Ben. 03:17.960 --> 03:18.960 Oh, yeah. 03:18.960 --> 03:19.960 Bosberg? Johnny Bosberg? 03:19.960 --> 03:20.960 Yeah. 03:20.960 --> 03:21.960 Got a minute? Something for you here. 03:21.960 --> 03:23.800 I'll be right there. 03:23.800 --> 03:25.800 Did you contact the witnesses in this report here? 03:25.800 --> 03:26.800 Let me see. 03:26.800 --> 03:27.800 This one. 03:27.800 --> 03:28.800 What do you got? 03:28.800 --> 03:29.800 Oh, yeah, yeah. I took care of it. 03:29.800 --> 03:30.800 I'll go over to the desk once the register's next, Tom. 03:30.800 --> 03:31.800 Hmm. Okay. 03:31.800 --> 03:32.800 Excuse me, Romero. 03:32.800 --> 03:33.800 Yeah. Mm-hmm. 03:33.800 --> 03:34.800 Hi. You want to register? 03:34.800 --> 03:35.800 Yeah. My name's Frank Chaney. 03:35.800 --> 03:36.800 Okay. 03:36.800 --> 03:37.800 Address? 03:37.800 --> 03:38.800 218 Belgrade. 03:38.800 --> 03:39.800 Belgrade. Where you been? 03:39.800 --> 03:40.800 Folsom. Got out Saturday. 03:40.800 --> 03:41.800 Okay. What'd you pull up for? 03:41.800 --> 03:42.800 Robbery. First degree. 03:42.800 --> 03:43.800 First degree. How much do you owe? 03:43.800 --> 03:44.800 Served 18 years. I'm on life parole. 03:44.800 --> 03:45.800 Life parole. Okay. 03:45.800 --> 03:46.800 Hey, Thackster. You want to tell Rambo we're out for seven? 03:46.800 --> 03:59.960 Wait a couple minutes, huh? You see the guy at the desk? The one with the 03:59.960 --> 04:04.360 Bosberg? Yeah. He's an ex-con, why? 04:04.360 --> 04:07.240 Frank Chaney. 1931. Jack Taylor and I had him. 04:07.240 --> 04:08.240 First big one we ever drew. 04:08.240 --> 04:09.240 Oh, that's so. 04:09.240 --> 04:11.240 Did you ever hear of him? Used to call him a gentleman bandit? 04:11.240 --> 04:14.120 Yeah. 1931, Claude. That's 18 years ago. 04:14.120 --> 04:16.840 Chaney was the biggest of them. Came from a wealthy family, too. 04:16.840 --> 04:18.120 Fought as a millionaire. 04:18.120 --> 04:19.120 You sent him up, huh? 04:19.120 --> 04:21.480 San Quentin. Tried to break out with a partner of his. 04:21.480 --> 04:24.040 Partner killed a trustee. Chaney was sent to Folsom. 04:24.040 --> 04:26.040 From a millionaire family. That's a queer one. 04:26.040 --> 04:28.040 Yeah. Well, how about that lunch, fellas? 04:28.040 --> 04:29.040 Yeah. Let's go. 04:29.040 --> 04:36.040 Seems like it could have been yesterday. 1931. We grow old right along with the thieves, 04:36.040 --> 04:37.040 huh? 04:37.040 --> 04:39.040 Where we go? Federal Cafe? That's all right with me. 04:39.040 --> 04:40.040 18 years. 04:40.040 --> 04:41.040 Yeah. 04:41.040 --> 04:42.040 Sure goes by in a hurry. 04:42.040 --> 04:48.840 I wonder if Chaney thinks so. As far as day-to-day routine goes, police work 04:48.840 --> 04:53.240 is pretty much like any other job. To the rookie detective just starting in, there's 04:53.240 --> 04:57.800 new things to see, new things to learn. But five or six years on the detail and the job 04:57.800 --> 05:01.760 gets pretty ordinary. You see a lot of dirt, a lot of trouble and tragedy, and after a 05:01.760 --> 05:05.760 while you begin to wonder what all the glamour's about and the excitement that's supposed to 05:05.760 --> 05:08.040 go along with the job. 05:08.040 --> 05:12.360 The fall months went by pretty slow. On November 3rd, we closed a case against a gang of drugstore 05:12.360 --> 05:17.640 holdup men. In December, Ben's youngster fell off a fence and sprained his wrist. My Uncle 05:17.640 --> 05:21.480 George from Renton, Washington, visited my mother and me in January. Stayed a couple 05:21.480 --> 05:27.200 of weeks. On January 28th, it rained. Ben and I checked into the office where we got 05:27.200 --> 05:31.920 a phone call from Lieutenant Mort Gear of the San Diego Police Department. He gave us 05:31.920 --> 05:35.600 additional information on a finance company holdup which had been pulled in San Diego 05:35.600 --> 05:40.320 the day before. In the robbery, one bystander had been shot and killed and another one wounded 05:40.320 --> 05:44.800 by the two bandits. They also shot a police officer three times through the stomach when 05:44.800 --> 05:50.200 he tried to stop him. Next day, Sergeant Ormsby and McGuire from San Diego arrived and we 05:50.200 --> 05:52.320 helped them check the suspects through the stats office. 05:52.320 --> 05:55.440 A couple of bad ones, Joe. Both have guns and they use them. 05:55.440 --> 05:58.560 One of them got away in a car and the other one on foot. Is that right, McGuire? 05:58.560 --> 06:00.440 Yeah, the big one used the car. 06:00.440 --> 06:08.760 Well, size ought to help some. Say, 45 years old, height 6 foot 1 or 2 inches, weight 275, 06:08.760 --> 06:12.120 85 pounds. Anybody get a look at the car, Ormsby? 06:12.120 --> 06:15.200 Blue Ford sedan, 1940 or 41 model. That's all we got. 06:15.200 --> 06:16.320 That's a rough one. 06:16.320 --> 06:19.480 After all the shooting, the witnesses didn't know what they saw. All mixed up. 06:19.480 --> 06:21.520 Well, how about the other one, the guy who got away on foot? 06:21.520 --> 06:27.880 He's a WMA, about 50 years old, 5 feet 8 to 9 inches, 145, 55 pounds. Where's glasses? 06:27.880 --> 06:30.040 Yeah, we got that on the teletype. Is that all? 06:30.040 --> 06:34.000 No, we traced it in the Greyhound bus depot about six blocks from the hold up. Changed 06:34.000 --> 06:36.400 his clothes in the washroom there, left behind a coat and a gun. 06:36.400 --> 06:37.400 Yeah. 06:37.400 --> 06:40.760 The coat was a kind of gift parolee from State Penn. Checked it through our crime lab. Same 06:40.760 --> 06:43.160 kind of suits are issued to all ex-cons. No make. 06:43.160 --> 06:46.680 Well, at least you know one of them's an ex-con. How about that gun you found? 06:46.680 --> 06:50.600 It's a murder weapon. Our ballistics men went over it, no prints. Tried to trace the serial 06:50.600 --> 06:54.200 number, no record. C.I.I. in Sacramento is trying to run it down. 06:54.200 --> 06:55.960 Well, we got any hunches? 06:55.960 --> 07:00.280 A few. We're almost sure both of them had gone their route before. Pretty cool. Shot 07:00.280 --> 07:02.080 down three people, didn't ban nine. 07:02.080 --> 07:03.880 How much did they take in the hold up? 07:03.880 --> 07:07.600 Eleven thousand. Are your stats of us make a run in those descriptions yet? 07:07.600 --> 07:10.600 Yeah, this morning or tonight's got the list of possibilities. They're pulling the mud 07:10.600 --> 07:12.800 shots now. They'll be winding it up by now, don't you think? 07:12.800 --> 07:15.600 Hey, let's check. This way, fellas. 07:15.600 --> 07:16.600 Yeah. 07:16.600 --> 07:18.000 Go ahead, Rory. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.800 Oh, thanks. 07:20.800 --> 07:22.600 How's the wife, Ormsby? 07:22.600 --> 07:24.800 Oh, fine, Ben. She's expecting again. 07:24.800 --> 07:27.000 What are you gonna do, raise an army? 07:27.000 --> 07:30.200 Four kids. That's not so bad. McGuire's wife wants six. 07:30.200 --> 07:31.400 How about that, Mac? 07:31.400 --> 07:36.800 He's at five now. No point in quitting when you're ahead. 07:36.800 --> 07:37.800 Frank? 07:37.800 --> 07:39.800 Hey, Joe. 07:39.800 --> 07:42.800 You know Russ Ormsby and Tony McGuire, don't you, San Diego PD? 07:42.800 --> 07:44.800 Yeah, sure. Met them last year. 07:44.800 --> 07:46.800 All right. Come on, Frank. Good to see you. 07:46.800 --> 07:49.800 I'm ready to call you. Got those mud shots together for you. 07:49.800 --> 07:51.000 Here, I got them right here. 07:51.000 --> 07:54.000 Okay. 07:54.000 --> 07:57.800 Here they are. These are the stats for suspect one. This is for number two. 07:57.800 --> 07:59.800 Okay, Frank. We'll check them out with the witnesses. 07:59.800 --> 08:03.800 There's one mug there. Here, let me show you. 08:03.800 --> 08:04.800 Here, this one. 08:04.800 --> 08:05.800 Yeah. 08:05.800 --> 08:09.800 It matches the description pretty close. Safe man by trade, but he can go any route. 08:09.800 --> 08:10.800 Name's Weber. 08:10.800 --> 08:11.800 First name? 08:11.800 --> 08:13.800 Stanley. Call him Turk, I think, nickname. 08:13.800 --> 08:14.800 Know anything about him? 08:14.800 --> 08:16.800 He's an ex-con. 08:16.800 --> 08:24.800 Ormsby and McGuire drove back to San Diego to show the mug shots to the holdup witnesses and see if they could get an identification. 08:24.800 --> 08:34.800 Late the next afternoon, they called back to tell us that Stanley Turk Weber had definitely been identified from his mug shot by four of the five witnesses as one of the holdup men. 08:34.800 --> 08:36.800 His partner remained unidentified. 08:36.800 --> 08:43.800 We called Turk Weber's parole officer, got all the available information on the suspect, including his latest address, an apartment house on North Alameda. 08:43.800 --> 08:45.800 Weber wasn't there. 08:45.800 --> 08:52.800 We talked with the apartment house manager and he told us that Turk hadn't been seen there since the day before the San Diego robbery and murder. 08:52.800 --> 08:58.800 We had a stake output on the apartment. Ben and I went back to the office and had the record bureau pull Weber's package. 08:58.800 --> 09:05.800 On his mama sheet, Ben spotted a familiar name, Henry Garson, another ex-con who was listed as one of Turk Weber's closest friends. 09:05.800 --> 09:07.800 Well, we got a hold of Garson's parole officer. 09:07.800 --> 09:14.800 He told us Garson had had his parole transferred to San Diego where he disappeared two weeks before he was wanted for violation of parole. 09:14.800 --> 09:17.800 We tried to check Weber through his relatives. We couldn't find any. 09:17.800 --> 09:23.800 But Henry Garson's report showed that he had a brother, Al, who ran a dry cleaning shop down in Seal Beach. 09:23.800 --> 09:26.800 He had no criminal record. The next morning we drove down to see him. 09:29.800 --> 09:33.800 Yeah, Henry came around last July. It's the last time I saw him. I want to borrow my car. 09:33.800 --> 09:35.800 You got any idea where he might be now? 09:35.800 --> 09:36.800 No. 09:36.800 --> 09:37.800 You're his brother. 09:37.800 --> 09:40.800 I don't know where he is. It's the truth. I don't want to know where he is. 09:40.800 --> 09:42.800 Was anyone with him when he came to see you last? 09:43.800 --> 09:44.800 No. 09:44.800 --> 09:45.800 You know who his friends are? 09:45.800 --> 09:46.800 Friends? No. 09:46.800 --> 09:50.800 Would you look at these pictures, please, see if you can identify any of them? 09:50.800 --> 09:51.800 No, I just... 09:59.800 --> 10:00.800 No. 10:00.800 --> 10:01.800 These here. 10:02.800 --> 10:03.800 No. 10:03.800 --> 10:04.800 No. 10:04.800 --> 10:05.800 No. 10:06.800 --> 10:07.800 Ah. 10:07.800 --> 10:08.800 How about these? 10:09.800 --> 10:10.800 No. 10:11.800 --> 10:12.800 No. 10:13.800 --> 10:17.800 No, no, look, can't you talk to me later? It's not good for business having cops around a shop. 10:17.800 --> 10:19.800 Who would you yell for if a shop was held up, Mr. Garson? 10:19.800 --> 10:20.800 What's that got to do with it? 10:20.800 --> 10:22.800 Your brother's in trouble. We might stop him from getting in deeper. 10:22.800 --> 10:23.800 No, look away now. 10:25.800 --> 10:26.800 Hello, Mrs. Runner. 10:26.800 --> 10:27.800 Good morning, Al. 10:27.800 --> 10:28.800 Can I help you? 10:28.800 --> 10:30.800 No, I should go ahead and wait in the gentleman. 10:30.800 --> 10:32.800 No, that's all right. They're just waiting. 10:32.800 --> 10:33.800 Can I help you? 10:33.800 --> 10:37.800 My husband's so clean and present. Can you have it by Tuesday? 10:37.800 --> 10:38.800 Tuesday? Yeah, I'll drink. 10:38.800 --> 10:42.800 And my fat jacket's clean and present. Can you sort these little stairs here? 10:42.800 --> 10:45.800 Yeah, yeah, we'll take care of them. 10:45.800 --> 10:46.800 Tuesday, all right? 10:47.800 --> 10:48.800 There you are. 10:48.800 --> 10:49.800 Thanks, Mrs. Runner. 10:49.800 --> 10:50.800 All right, Al, bye. 10:50.800 --> 10:51.800 Bye, Mrs. Runner, thanks. 10:54.800 --> 10:57.800 I'd like to hold you up, Garson, just a few more questions. 10:57.800 --> 10:58.800 All right. 10:58.800 --> 11:01.800 Now, you said the last time your brother was here, he wanted to borrow your car, is that right? 11:01.800 --> 11:02.800 That's right. 11:02.800 --> 11:03.800 Did you let him have it? 11:03.800 --> 11:04.800 I let him have nothing. 11:04.800 --> 11:05.800 How about the revoy, friend? 11:05.800 --> 11:09.800 Oh, can't you let us alone? If Henry's in trouble, let him take care of it. 11:09.800 --> 11:10.800 We've got troubles enough of our own. 11:10.800 --> 11:12.800 This is important, Garson. We've got to have your cooperation. 11:12.800 --> 11:13.800 Why me? 11:14.800 --> 11:17.800 Henry's no good, I admit it, but he's still my brother. 11:17.800 --> 11:18.800 Yeah. 11:18.800 --> 11:19.800 You ask me to send him to jail? 11:19.800 --> 11:20.800 If he belongs there, yell. 11:22.800 --> 11:23.800 Look, I don't want any trouble. 11:23.800 --> 11:24.800 Yeah, well, then. 11:25.800 --> 11:28.800 My mother lives in Santa Barbara, just moved there. I got the address. 11:29.800 --> 11:31.800 Henry goes to see her every once in a while. 11:31.800 --> 11:32.800 When's the last time you saw her? 11:32.800 --> 11:35.800 Two weeks ago, I was there too, and something else. 11:35.800 --> 11:36.800 What's that? 11:36.800 --> 11:37.800 Henry had a gun. 11:41.800 --> 11:46.800 Eleven a.m. Tuesday, Ben and I drove back to the office and put in a call to the Santa Barbara Police Department. 11:46.800 --> 11:52.800 We asked them to put a stake out on the home of Henry Garson's mother and to notify us the minute Garson was apprehended. 11:52.800 --> 11:57.800 We contacted San Diego and told them what we'd found out. After that, we doubled back on Turk Weber. 11:57.800 --> 12:01.800 From one of our informants, we heard that Weber and Garson had gone into some kind of a business together. 12:01.800 --> 12:05.800 For a bank roll, they'd succeeded in getting a loan from the Second National Bank out in Glendale. 12:05.800 --> 12:10.800 One p.m. We drove out and checked with the manager of the bank's loan department, Mr. Peabody. 12:11.800 --> 12:16.800 Here we are, officers. Stanley T. Weber, Henry Garson. Loan papers were signed over a month ago. 12:16.800 --> 12:17.800 What kind of a loan was it, Peabody? 12:17.800 --> 12:21.800 Business loan. Garson and Weber came in with another man. They talked to our manager, Mr. Ascot. 12:21.800 --> 12:22.800 Excuse me. 12:22.800 --> 12:23.800 What business are they in? 12:23.800 --> 12:27.800 Trucking concern. They wanted the money to buy equipment, more trucks. 12:27.800 --> 12:28.800 How much money did they borrow? 12:28.800 --> 12:30.800 $4,500, usual terms. 12:30.800 --> 12:32.800 I guess you inquired into their background. 12:32.800 --> 12:34.800 Oh, yes, their whole financial background. 12:34.800 --> 12:37.800 Did you know that Garson and Weber are both ex-convicts? 12:37.800 --> 12:38.800 I beg your pardon? 12:38.800 --> 12:40.800 I said, did you know that both of them are ex-convicts? 12:40.800 --> 12:43.800 You sure you haven't made a mistake? Henry Garson, Stanley T. Weber? 12:43.800 --> 12:46.800 Yeah, that's right. What'd they offer for collateral? 12:46.800 --> 12:50.800 Well, they had some of their equipment, two trucks, and then, of course, there was the co-signer. 12:50.800 --> 12:51.800 What was that? 12:51.800 --> 12:53.800 The name's right here on the loan papers. 12:53.800 --> 12:54.800 What'd they say? 12:54.800 --> 12:57.800 Right here. Co-signer, Frank Cheney. 13:01.800 --> 13:05.800 2.30 p.m. Ben and I checked back into the office and went down the hall to R&I. 13:05.800 --> 13:07.800 We pulled a package on Frank Bertram Cheney. 13:07.800 --> 13:12.800 White male American, 5 foot 8 and a half inches, 152 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. 13:13.800 --> 13:15.800 The record read like a dime novel. 13:15.800 --> 13:21.800 Almost 20 years before, Cheney had crashed into the headlines of Pacific Coast newspapers as the Gentleman Bandit. 13:21.800 --> 13:29.800 Maybe some of the news stories were exaggerated, but the records showed that he actually owned a yacht, three expensive cars, and an apartment house. 13:29.800 --> 13:33.800 In spite of all this, he decided to settle for a career of robbery and murder. 13:33.800 --> 13:37.800 At the age of 30, he was the most sought after man on the Pacific Coast. 13:37.800 --> 13:42.800 Finally, in 1931, after tracking him for a year and a half through more than a dozen armed robberies, 13:42.800 --> 13:46.800 Sergeant Thaxter and Taylor of the Los Angeles Police Department brought him in. 13:46.800 --> 13:52.800 He served 18 years at San Quentin and pulled some penitentiaries, and then he won his parole at the age of 48. 13:52.800 --> 13:55.800 We checked his parole officer and he had nothing to report against him. 13:55.800 --> 13:58.800 We checked back in at robbery detail and met with Captain Ed Walker. 13:58.800 --> 14:01.800 How about Cheney's friends, Weber and Garson? Nothing yet? 14:01.800 --> 14:05.800 Not a thing, skipper. Stakeout is still on Garson's mother's place in Santa Barbara. 14:05.800 --> 14:07.800 Weber's apartment is still covered. 14:07.800 --> 14:09.800 You called San Diego about this, the Cheney angle? 14:09.800 --> 14:11.800 Yeah, we briefed him. They got all the mug shots down there. 14:11.800 --> 14:15.800 Weber's definitely been tagged as one of the men on that finance company job. 14:15.800 --> 14:19.800 I figured Garson for the second man, but none of the witnesses have picked out his mug shot. 14:19.800 --> 14:21.800 You talked to Cheney's parole officer? 14:21.800 --> 14:23.800 Yeah, I did. He gave us Cheney's last address. 14:23.800 --> 14:27.800 Same as the one on his ex-con registration, but he's moved. Didn't notify the office. 14:27.800 --> 14:28.800 Where does that leave you? 14:28.800 --> 14:41.800 Well, I talked to the manager at the apartment. He gave us a couple of addresses to run down. 14:41.800 --> 14:43.800 At least we better start getting on it, huh? 14:43.800 --> 14:44.800 Yeah, yeah, it's getting late. 14:44.800 --> 14:46.800 Keep in touch. I'll notify you if anything breaks here. 14:46.800 --> 14:47.800 Right. 14:47.800 --> 14:49.800 Just a minute. 14:49.800 --> 14:52.800 Robbery Walker. Who? 14:52.800 --> 14:53.800 Yeah, just a minute. You, Joe. 14:53.800 --> 14:54.800 Thank you. 14:54.800 --> 14:55.800 San Diego. 14:55.800 --> 14:57.800 Hey. Friday. 14:57.800 --> 14:59.800 McGuire, Joe. How you doing? 14:59.800 --> 15:01.800 Good. 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It was an apartment house on West Stanford near Slauson. 17:05.800 --> 17:08.800 The manager's name was Mrs. Pritchard. 17:08.800 --> 17:13.800 Why, yes, I believe Mr. and Mrs. Cheney are home. They've been in all day. 17:13.800 --> 17:15.800 Which apartment is there in, ma'am? 17:15.800 --> 17:17.800 Number seven, straight down the hall on your right. 17:17.800 --> 17:18.800 Thank you. 17:18.800 --> 17:21.800 They may be having dinner now. Are they expecting you? 17:21.800 --> 17:23.800 Be all right, ma'am. Thank you. 17:28.800 --> 17:30.800 Okay. 17:36.800 --> 17:38.800 How about the door? 17:39.800 --> 17:41.800 It's open. Come in. 17:43.800 --> 17:47.800 The apartment was deserted. We checked the bedroom and the kitchen. 17:47.800 --> 17:49.800 There were obvious signs of a fast getaway. 17:49.800 --> 17:53.800 On a card table in the living room, we found the remains of a quick dinner. 17:53.800 --> 17:57.800 Two places were set. One plate was almost clean, the other hardly touched. 17:57.800 --> 18:00.800 The coffee on the stove was still lukewarm. 18:00.800 --> 18:02.800 We called the office and arranged for a steak out of it. 18:02.800 --> 18:05.800 Then we went back down the hall and talked to the manager again. 18:05.800 --> 18:10.800 Well, they moved in about a month ago, Sergeant. They looked like any other newly married couple. 18:10.800 --> 18:13.800 Did you notice if they had any visitors, Mrs. Pritchard? 18:13.800 --> 18:15.800 Well, they might have, but I didn't notice. 18:15.800 --> 18:17.800 Did you notice anything odd about them at all? 18:17.800 --> 18:19.800 Only that one thing. Yes, ma'am. 18:19.800 --> 18:22.800 Mr. Chaney always seemed to have plenty of money. 18:22.800 --> 18:26.800 Put down two months rent in advance, but he didn't seem to have a job. 18:26.800 --> 18:27.800 Yes, ma'am. 18:27.800 --> 18:31.800 Well, every morning he'd sleep late, but his wife was up at eight o'clock to go to work. 18:31.800 --> 18:33.800 Where did she work, you know? 18:33.800 --> 18:35.800 A company called Thompson and some other name. 18:35.800 --> 18:37.800 Offices are down on South Hope. 18:37.800 --> 18:41.800 Builders, I think. Homes and things. My phone. 18:41.800 --> 18:45.800 Would you excuse me? Yes, ma'am. Go right ahead. 18:45.800 --> 18:51.800 Hello? Oh, yes. What? Yes, two police officers. 18:51.800 --> 18:53.800 Mrs. Pritchard, no. 18:53.800 --> 18:55.800 Hello? Chaney? 18:55.800 --> 18:57.800 Yes, he hung up. 19:01.800 --> 19:06.800 An alert for Chaney and his wife was broadcast with special attention for the south end of the city. 19:06.800 --> 19:09.800 The wife's name and description was added to the APB. 19:09.800 --> 19:15.800 The next morning, Ben and I located her place of employment, Thompson and Kilkenny, a big construction company. 19:15.800 --> 19:20.800 The office manager told us that three days before, Mrs. Chaney had resigned her job by letter. 19:20.800 --> 19:25.800 She asked that her final paycheck be sent to her mother who lived in Marysville, California. 19:25.800 --> 19:33.800 We contacted the Marysville Police Department immediately, and the home of Chaney's mother-in-law was placed under 24-hour surveillance. 19:33.800 --> 19:36.800 We now had more than a half a dozen stakeouts going. 19:36.800 --> 19:39.800 A week passed. Nothing. 19:39.800 --> 19:42.800 Chaney and his wife seemed to have dropped completely from sight. 19:42.800 --> 19:50.800 Wednesday, February 9th, we got a tip from the Santa Barbara police that Chaney's friend, Henry Garson, was in Los Angeles working in an auction house on Wilshire Boulevard. 19:50.800 --> 19:52.800 We ran it down. 19:52.800 --> 19:54.800 Looks like a high class place. 19:54.800 --> 19:56.800 They've got a nice crowd, haven't they? 19:56.800 --> 19:57.800 Mm-hmm. 19:57.800 --> 19:59.800 Did you catalog here? No, thanks. 19:59.800 --> 20:00.800 Would you like to see the manager, please? 20:00.800 --> 20:03.800 You know, all right. Let me see. 20:03.800 --> 20:07.800 Oh, yes, over there by the claim desk, the man in the dark suit, Mr. Woolley. 20:07.800 --> 20:09.800 Thank you. Thank you. 20:15.800 --> 20:17.800 Mr. Woolley? Yeah? 20:17.800 --> 20:21.800 Police officer, sir. We'd like to check on a man who's supposed to be one of your employees, sir. 20:21.800 --> 20:23.800 Oh, that's so. What's his name? 20:23.800 --> 20:25.800 Here's his picture. 20:25.800 --> 20:27.800 Can you identify him? 20:27.800 --> 20:29.800 Why, yes. It's Johnson, the new clerk. 20:29.800 --> 20:31.800 Want to talk to him? Yes, sir. 20:31.800 --> 20:34.800 All right. Right this way. He's back in the store room. 20:34.800 --> 20:36.800 Some kind of trouble? 20:36.800 --> 20:39.800 We'd like to talk to him. Yes, all right. 20:39.800 --> 20:42.800 Let's see. Oh, yes, there he is. 20:42.800 --> 20:44.800 Johnson. Oh, Johnson, would you come... 20:44.800 --> 20:46.800 Come on, Ben. What are you running for? 20:46.800 --> 20:48.800 Johnson, come here. Out the back. Yep. 20:49.800 --> 20:52.800 There he goes. He's heading up the street. Come on. 20:52.800 --> 20:53.800 Yep. 20:53.800 --> 20:57.800 You got on that bus. All right, come on. Let's double back to the car. Yep. 20:57.800 --> 21:01.800 Hurry. Yep. 21:06.800 --> 21:08.800 Did you see the bus? Yeah. 21:08.800 --> 21:10.800 Come on, move it. Yep. 21:13.800 --> 21:15.800 All right, get the siren. 21:22.800 --> 21:25.800 All right, that did it. The driver's pulling over. 21:25.800 --> 21:28.800 He's still up behind the bus there, huh? Yeah, he's back there. 21:30.800 --> 21:32.800 Come on, let's go. Yep. 21:32.800 --> 21:35.800 You cover the back door, will you? All right. 21:38.800 --> 21:40.800 Open your door. 21:40.800 --> 21:42.800 What's the matter? Police officers. I want to check your passengers. 21:42.800 --> 21:44.800 Open that rear door right away. Yes, sir. 21:44.800 --> 21:47.800 All right, Garson, get off. I'm getting off. 21:47.800 --> 21:50.800 Coming at you, Joe. Getting off, copper. Make a hole. 21:50.800 --> 21:52.800 Drop it, Garson. He's got a gun. I said I'm getting off. 21:52.800 --> 21:55.800 Let's drop it. Come on. 21:57.800 --> 22:00.800 Good, Joe. You okay? Yeah. 22:00.800 --> 22:03.800 Let's get him off of here. What's it all about? Did he do something wrong? 22:03.800 --> 22:05.800 Yeah, he didn't get off when we asked him to. 22:11.800 --> 22:13.800 Nine p.m. Wednesday. 22:13.800 --> 22:18.800 We drove Garson to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital where he was treated for minor cuts and bruises. 22:18.800 --> 22:21.800 Then we took him back to the office of the interrogation room. 22:21.800 --> 22:24.800 We called San Diego and notified them of the arrest. 22:24.800 --> 22:30.800 From ten o'clock that night until ten the next morning, Captain Walker, Ben, and I questioned Garson. 22:30.800 --> 22:34.800 He refused to admit that he even knew Frank Cheney or Kirk Webber. 22:34.800 --> 22:37.800 By noon he was pretty tired. So were we. 22:37.800 --> 22:40.800 At 12.05 a call came through from San Diego. 22:40.800 --> 22:43.800 Oh, Friday. This is Russ Ormsby. Yeah, Russ. 22:43.800 --> 22:47.800 Fresh lead on Turk Webber. He's got a sister living in San Clemente. Yeah. 22:47.800 --> 22:50.800 And we've got our house staked out. Had a tip he's gonna pay her a visit. 22:50.800 --> 22:52.800 Where's that? This afternoon. 22:56.800 --> 23:03.800 3.15 p.m. We got to the San Clemente turnoff and a few minutes later Ormsby and McGuire arrived from San Diego. 23:03.800 --> 23:07.800 We drove to the home of Webber's sister on South Orange Street and identified ourselves. 23:07.800 --> 23:12.800 She told us that Turk had been there that morning but that he'd gone to the races at Del Mar for the afternoon. 23:12.800 --> 23:15.800 Did your brother say he was coming back? 23:15.800 --> 23:17.800 Said he might be back. He wasn't sure. 23:17.800 --> 23:20.800 Did he go to the racetrack alone? Yeah. 23:20.800 --> 23:24.800 Was he gonna meet anyone there? I don't think so. He didn't mention it. 23:24.800 --> 23:29.800 He driving a car? No, he took the bus to the track. I see. 23:29.800 --> 23:33.800 Where would he most likely go if he doesn't come back here? I don't know. 23:33.800 --> 23:35.800 Maybe back to L.A., maybe San Diego. I don't know. 23:35.800 --> 23:38.800 Do you know if your brother Turk is gonna meet Frank Cheney? 23:38.800 --> 23:42.800 How could he? Turk says Cheney's up north someplace with his wife. 23:42.800 --> 23:46.800 He told me that this morning. Where up north? He didn't know. 23:46.800 --> 23:51.800 You and McGuire want to stake out here in Ormsby. Ben and I will hit the track. 23:51.800 --> 23:52.800 Yeah, okay. 23:52.800 --> 23:56.800 Look, I can't have cops here if Turk comes back. They think I framed him. 23:56.800 --> 23:57.800 Then get over it. 23:57.800 --> 24:00.800 You don't know Turk when he gets sorry, goes out of his head, he'll kill me. 24:00.800 --> 24:03.800 Why worry, miss? Huh? He'll have to kill us first. 24:09.800 --> 24:14.800 3.45 p.m. Ben and I left Webber's sister's house and drove down to the racetrack at Del Mar. 24:14.800 --> 24:17.800 We got there just at the start of the seventh race. 24:17.800 --> 24:20.800 We had no idea whether the suspect was still there or not. 24:20.800 --> 24:23.800 We alerted the security police, gave them mugshots of Webber. 24:23.800 --> 24:28.800 Then we went to the public address booth in the clubhouse and talked to the man in charge. 24:28.800 --> 24:31.800 A few minutes later, the trap for Webber was set. 24:31.800 --> 24:37.800 Mr. Stanley T. Webber, please come to the public address booth for emergency phone call. 24:37.800 --> 24:41.800 Mr. Stanley T. Webber, please come to the public address booth. 24:41.800 --> 24:48.800 We waited. Ben stationed at a vantage point on one side of the booth, me on the other. 24:48.800 --> 24:52.800 Minutes passed. Webber didn't show. 24:52.800 --> 24:56.800 Ben caught my eye, shrugged his shoulders. 24:56.800 --> 25:03.800 Mr. Stanley T. Webber, please come to the public address booth for emergency telephone call. 25:03.800 --> 25:07.800 Mr. Stanley T. Webber, please come to the public address booth. 25:07.800 --> 25:11.800 The announcer was barely finished when I saw Ben motioning. 25:11.800 --> 25:14.800 I looked and saw a large man heading up the cement ramp. 25:14.800 --> 25:17.800 When he got to the top, he turned to his right and headed straight for the public address booth. 25:17.800 --> 25:19.800 It was Turk Webber. 25:21.800 --> 25:23.800 Hold it right there, Webber. 25:23.800 --> 25:24.800 Police officers, get your hands up. 25:24.800 --> 25:27.800 What is this? You lousy cops, I'll have you busted for this. 25:27.800 --> 25:28.800 Save it, Webber, get your hands up. 25:28.800 --> 25:29.800 Who tipped you? 25:29.800 --> 25:31.800 What difference does it make? Stand still. 25:31.800 --> 25:33.800 You'll never get him. You'll never get him in 20 years. 25:33.800 --> 25:34.800 Never get who? 25:34.800 --> 25:35.800 You know who, Chaney. 25:35.800 --> 25:38.800 He's too smart for you. You'll never get him, not in 20 years. 25:38.800 --> 25:39.800 All right, we got you, Webber. Shake him, Ben. 25:39.800 --> 25:40.800 I'll shake you, cop. 25:40.800 --> 25:41.800 Watch it, Ben. 25:41.800 --> 25:43.800 Let go. I'll kill you. 25:43.800 --> 25:44.800 I'll kill you. 25:44.800 --> 25:45.800 All right. 25:48.800 --> 25:49.800 That's it. 25:50.800 --> 25:52.800 He sure is a big bag. 25:52.800 --> 25:53.800 Yeah. 25:53.800 --> 25:55.800 What's that over there? Did that fall out of his pocket? 25:56.800 --> 25:58.800 Looks like a tip sheet. 25:58.800 --> 25:59.800 Yeah. 25:59.800 --> 26:00.800 What's it say? 26:00.800 --> 26:05.800 Yeah, Blue Boy's Peerless Selection for Thursday, price $1. 26:06.800 --> 26:08.800 Let me look at that a minute, Chaney. 26:09.800 --> 26:13.800 Best picks. You can't lose. This is your lucky day. 26:13.800 --> 26:14.800 What's it prove? 26:14.800 --> 26:16.800 He ought to get his dollar back. 26:24.800 --> 26:26.800 The story you have just heard was true. 26:26.800 --> 26:29.800 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:29.800 --> 26:35.800 On June 19th, trial was held in Superior Court, city and county of San Diego, state of California. 26:35.800 --> 26:37.800 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:37.800 --> 26:43.800 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to extra mild Fatima. 26:43.800 --> 26:45.800 Here is the actual report. 26:45.800 --> 26:50.800 From coast to coast, extra mild Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 26:50.800 --> 26:55.800 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering that Fatima is a drug. 26:55.800 --> 27:00.800 Discovering that Fatima is the king size cigarette that is extra mild. 27:00.800 --> 27:08.800 Extra mild because it contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, superbly blended to make it extra mild. 27:08.800 --> 27:12.800 To give it a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 27:12.800 --> 27:17.800 Enjoy extra mild Fatima yourself. Best of all long cigarettes. 27:17.800 --> 27:20.800 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 27:20.800 --> 27:25.800 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 27:33.800 --> 27:39.800 After identifying Frank Cheney as the man who did the shooting in the San Diego holdup and murder, 27:39.800 --> 27:46.800 Stanley T. Weber was tried and convicted of participation in the robbery and received a sentence of life imprisonment. 27:46.800 --> 27:53.800 Henry Garson was cleared of any complicity in the holdup killing, but he was returned to prison for violation of parole 27:53.800 --> 27:57.800 and for several burglaries in San Diego and Los Angeles. 27:57.800 --> 28:01.800 Both men are now serving their terms in the state penitentiary. 28:01.800 --> 28:17.800 Next week, Frank Cheney, the gentleman bandit, part two. 28:20.800 --> 28:25.800 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:25.800 --> 28:33.800 The technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:39.800 --> 28:46.800 Fatima cigarettes, the best of all long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet from Los Angeles. 28:46.800 --> 28:53.800 Next, Sarah's private caper with comedian Sarah Burner on NBC.