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Start enjoying Fatima for a new year of greater smoking enjoyment. 01:35.000 --> 01:44.000 Dragnet, the documentary drama of an actual crime. 01:44.000 --> 01:48.000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 01:48.000 --> 01:54.000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 01:54.000 --> 02:03.000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 02:03.000 --> 02:09.000 It was Thursday, September 6th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 02:09.000 --> 02:13.000 My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Steed. My name's Friday. 02:13.000 --> 02:18.000 I was on the way back from communications and it was 1.28 p.m. when I got to room 42. 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 Homicide. 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 You ready, Skipper? 02:23.000 --> 02:24.000 Yeah, coming. 02:24.000 --> 02:25.000 Ben, what's up? 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 Just got the call, 3rd and Temple. 02:27.000 --> 02:28.000 Yeah? 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 Fitzroy building, 13th floor. They got a jumper. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 All righty, Ben. 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 Let's hustle it. 02:33.000 --> 02:37.000 All right. 02:37.000 --> 02:38.000 What's the story? 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 Skipper took the call. 02:39.000 --> 02:43.000 Not much to tell. Guy's perched out on a window ledge, 13 floors up, threatening to jump. 02:43.000 --> 02:44.000 Yeah? 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 What time you got Romero? 02:46.000 --> 02:47.000 1.33. 02:47.000 --> 02:48.000 Not much time. 02:48.000 --> 02:49.000 What? 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 The guy on the ledge you served notice. 02:51.000 --> 02:52.000 Well, how do you mean? 02:52.000 --> 02:57.000 Says he's gonna jump at 2 o'clock. 02:57.000 --> 03:02.000 1.36 p.m. Ben pulled a car to a stop at 3rd and Temple, with double park near the intersection, 03:02.000 --> 03:05.000 and started to cross the street to the building on the northeast corner. 03:05.000 --> 03:09.000 It was a steel-framed structure with a block granite facing. 03:09.000 --> 03:14.000 The stone lettering over the main entrance read, R.H. Fitzroy building, 1927. 03:14.000 --> 03:17.000 The immediate area had been blocked off in all directions. 03:17.000 --> 03:24.000 The sidewalks directly adjacent to the building on 3rd Street and on Temple Street had also been cleared of all pedestrian traffic. 03:24.000 --> 03:29.000 Hundreds of curious onlookers jammed against police lines at the far side of the intersection. 03:29.000 --> 03:35.000 Reaching back for a full block in either direction, hundreds more had packed in behind them. 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 Thirteen stories above the pavement was the center of attraction, 03:38.000 --> 03:43.000 the figure of a man standing upright on a narrow ledge, looking down at the crowd. 03:43.000 --> 03:48.000 On the street directly below him, men from the fire department's rescue squad were hurriedly stretching out nets. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 We entered the building, took the elevator to the 13th floor. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 Who's standing by up here, Skipper? 03:53.000 --> 03:57.000 Bechtel and Wiseman. They saw the crowd gathering in the street and they went back for lunch. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 Looked up and saw a guy on the edge that came right up. 03:59.000 --> 04:00.000 How long has the guy been standing out there? 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 About 15 minutes. 04:01.000 --> 04:04.000 Sure is one little crowd. Must be a couple thousand people down there. 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 Yeah. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 What was that room number, Friday? 04:14.000 --> 04:18.000 1305. Yeah, it's down this way. 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 There's Beck book. 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 Beck? 04:20.000 --> 04:21.000 Hi. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 I was just searching for you. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 The office is down here. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 Okay. 04:25.000 --> 04:26.000 How's it stand now? 04:26.000 --> 04:29.000 Still out there, ready to jump. We got 22 minutes to figure out how to stop him. 04:29.000 --> 04:30.000 What's the story anyway? 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 I'll let the doctor tell you. 04:32.000 --> 04:35.000 Go ahead. 04:35.000 --> 04:40.000 Through here. 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 Nurse, where'd Dr. Turner go? 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 He was out to meet Dr. Rice. He's bringing him right up. 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 This is Captain Steed, homicide in the Flanahan. 04:46.000 --> 04:47.000 How do you do? 04:47.000 --> 04:48.000 How's your Friday, Romero? 04:48.000 --> 04:49.000 How do you do? 04:49.000 --> 04:50.000 How are you? 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 Well, he climbed outside this window here. 04:52.000 --> 04:56.000 Yeah. Right now he's standing on the ledge about 12 feet to the right of the window. 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 The ledge is about 14 inches wide. 04:58.000 --> 04:59.000 No other windows closer to him? 04:59.000 --> 05:00.000 No, this is it. 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 Did you try to talk him out of it, get him back inside? 05:02.000 --> 05:06.000 We took a turn at it, yeah. Wiseman crawled out on the ledge, talked to him, so did I. 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 One of the queerest jumpers I've come across. 05:08.000 --> 05:09.000 What do you mean? 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 He's got a hammer with him, a carpenter's hammer. 05:11.000 --> 05:13.000 Whenever you get close to him, he takes a cut at you. 05:13.000 --> 05:16.000 Wiseman wasn't looking for it. Had a duck fast. He almost went over it. 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 Was there any other way to reach him? 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 We checked the whole layout. This window's the closest. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 What about lowering a man from the roof? 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 A wide piece of cord is up there, a big overhang. 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 Put a man down on a rope and he'd be hanging three feet from the side of the building. 05:27.000 --> 05:29.000 Wouldn't come close to the guy. 05:29.000 --> 05:31.000 How about this doctor you mentioned, Beck? You figure he can help? 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 It's worth a try. Miss Lennan? 05:33.000 --> 05:34.000 Yes, Sergeant. 05:34.000 --> 05:37.000 You saw it happen. You know better than I do what Dr. Turner's idea is. 05:37.000 --> 05:39.000 Would you fill these men in, please? Make it brief. 05:39.000 --> 05:40.000 Surely. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 Another man on the ledge. Who is he, do you know? 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 Walter Harrison, Miss Dane. He's one of the doctor's patients. 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 His sister brought him in for a routine checkup. That was about one o'clock. 05:48.000 --> 05:49.000 How old was the man? 05:49.000 --> 05:53.000 Forty-one. His sister told us he's been complaining of a backache lately. 05:53.000 --> 05:56.000 While the doctor was examining him, and Mr. Harrison flew up all of a sudden. 05:56.000 --> 05:59.000 He yelled out we were trying to cripple him, that we wanted to kill him. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 Oh, excuse me, please. 06:00.000 --> 06:01.000 Sure. 06:01.000 --> 06:03.000 Dr. Turner's office. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 No, I'm sorry. Not this afternoon. We have an awful lot of trouble. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Yes, all right, Dancer. 06:08.000 --> 06:11.000 Well, what happened after Harrison started to act up, Miss Lennan? 06:11.000 --> 06:14.000 Dr. Turner and I tried to hold him. He shoved us both out of the way. 06:14.000 --> 06:18.000 He hit the doctor in the face, then he ran to the window, got out on that ledge, 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 and crawled along the side of the building. He's been there ever since. 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 Miss Harrison has a mental case? 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 Yes, he's been for ten years. 06:24.000 --> 06:27.000 Been in and out of the state hospital at Camillo a couple of times. 06:27.000 --> 06:30.000 Sister Ruth's been taking care of him. She was here when it happened. 06:30.000 --> 06:31.000 Where is she now? 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 Next door, the treatment room. Thelma, that's the other nurse. 06:33.000 --> 06:36.000 She's looking after Miss Harrison. She's pretty close to hysteric. 06:36.000 --> 06:39.000 Tried to talk to her, Skipper. Not much help so far. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 You say the doctor's been treating this, Mr. Harrison? 06:41.000 --> 06:45.000 No, he just came in for a physical checkup. Dr. Reich's been handling his mental condition. 06:45.000 --> 06:49.000 That's where Dr. Turner is now getting Reich. He has his office in the next building. 06:49.000 --> 06:51.000 What time you got, Ben? 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 Hmm. 06:52.000 --> 06:53.000 Getting short. Nineteen minutes to two. 06:53.000 --> 06:57.000 How about a time element, Beck? If he's going to kill himself, why is he waiting for two o'clock to do it? 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 He's got me. He scribbled a note out there, threw it down to the street. 07:00.000 --> 07:03.000 One of the men in the rescue squad grabbed it and brought it up. I got it right here. 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 Here, let me see. Can I look at that, Dancer? 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 Mm-hmm. 07:08.000 --> 07:12.000 They want my life. They want... What's his next one? 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 Dead. Dead. They want me dead. 07:14.000 --> 07:15.000 Oh, okay. 07:15.000 --> 07:19.000 I'd like to pray first. I'll jump at two o'clock. 07:19.000 --> 07:22.000 What's this last thing, Ben? I can't remember. 07:22.000 --> 07:28.000 Let me see. At two o'clock, don't touch my body. That's it. Don't touch my body. 07:28.000 --> 07:31.000 You saw the guy at close range. Beck, what do you think? He's serious. 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 I don't know. I'm not even going to guess. 07:33.000 --> 07:36.000 How about me going out and talking to Skipper? It might work. He won't do any harm. 07:36.000 --> 07:40.000 That ledge is 14 inches wide, Romero. If you slip, I don't want to explain it to your wife and kid. 07:40.000 --> 07:43.000 Well, how about me giving it a try? That jumper case last October, I was on that one. 07:43.000 --> 07:46.000 It's volunteer duty, Joe. I'm not going to order you. You know the recipe. 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 Yeah, I'll watch it. You want to stand by here at the window, Ben? 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 Yeah, okay. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 Let's get that window off, huh? 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 There's blinds. 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 Yeah. 07:55.000 --> 07:58.000 There's blinds, huh? Okay. 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 Give me a hand with the window. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 All right. Come on. Up she goes. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 I'm stuck. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 Yeah, I did. 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 All the way up, huh? There he goes. 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 Okay. 08:08.000 --> 08:09.000 Be careful now, huh? 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 Yeah, I will, Joe. 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 Yeah, Beck. 08:11.000 --> 08:14.000 Don't forget about that hammer the guy's got. It's just my guess. 08:14.000 --> 08:15.000 Yeah, what's that? 08:15.000 --> 08:18.000 The guy might want to die. I don't think he wants to do it alone. 08:21.000 --> 08:28.000 1.43 p.m. If we could take Walter Harrison's word for it, we had exactly 17 minutes to talk him into a change of mind 08:28.000 --> 08:31.000 before he plunged to his death on the pavement 13 stories below. 08:31.000 --> 08:35.000 I crawled out of the window and started inching my way along the narrow ledge. 08:35.000 --> 08:39.000 Went slow. I kept my eyes on Harrison. 08:39.000 --> 08:43.000 He stood about 10 feet away from me, looking down at the crowds jamming the streets below. 08:43.000 --> 08:48.000 I edged along to within 8 feet of him. He didn't seem to notice me. 08:48.000 --> 08:52.000 He was a fairly tall man, about 5 foot 10, medium bill, dark hair. 08:52.000 --> 08:57.000 He was wearing gray pinstripe trousers, a white shirt, no coat, no necktie. 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 I got to within 6 feet of him. 08:59.000 --> 09:03.000 He raised one arm and made a motion with his fist at the crowd below. 09:03.000 --> 09:10.000 You animal! You dirty bag of animal! You won't touch me! I'll jump right through you! 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 You won't even touch me! 09:12.000 --> 09:17.000 I kept edging toward him. He still didn't seem to notice me. 09:17.000 --> 09:20.000 I turned his body a little. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 I kept pounding the side of the building with a hammer. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 I got a look at his right hand. 09:25.000 --> 09:29.000 He held the carpenter's hammer. 09:29.000 --> 09:31.000 I got to within 5 feet of him. 09:31.000 --> 09:34.000 An airliner passed overhead. 09:34.000 --> 09:39.000 Harrison looked up and muttered something, then he turned and saw me. 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 I'm going to kill you. 09:41.000 --> 09:46.000 It's all right with me, Walter. Why do you want to kill yourself? You're only going to hurt people. 09:46.000 --> 09:50.000 You don't care about people. You don't care about me. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 What am I doing out here? 09:52.000 --> 09:55.000 You got it wrong, Walter. A lot of people care about you. 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 They want you back inside. They want you where it's safe. 09:57.000 --> 10:02.000 You're another one of those. You want to get your hands on me. You want a gun. 10:02.000 --> 10:05.000 Well, you're not. I'm going to kill you. 10:05.000 --> 10:09.000 It's all right, Walter. You can kill me. I want to help you first. 10:09.000 --> 10:10.000 You stay back! 10:10.000 --> 10:15.000 Don't you move anymore. I got this hammer and I'll smash your face with it. I'll smash you! 10:15.000 --> 10:18.000 I only want to talk to you. I know we can straighten this out. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 I'll do it my way. You understand? 10:20.000 --> 10:26.000 My way? I know who you are. You've been after me before. I know what it's all about. 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 Yeah, I know you do, Walter, but you got it wrong. 10:28.000 --> 10:31.000 Now look, you're going to jump off this building at two o'clock. That's in 15 minutes. 10:31.000 --> 10:34.000 That's right. You bet I am. 10:34.000 --> 10:37.000 All right, now let's talk it over for five of those minutes, huh? 10:37.000 --> 10:42.000 Can't do any harm. I'm not going to hurt you. How about it? Okay? 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 Why should I talk to you? 10:44.000 --> 10:48.000 Because I care about what happens to you. So does your sister. So do a lot of people. 10:48.000 --> 10:52.000 And you're like a lot of people. You're going to want to get your hands on them. 10:52.000 --> 10:56.000 Like those animals down there, the whole dirty pack of them. 10:56.000 --> 11:00.000 They want to grab on them, get all around close and put their hands on me. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Well, they're not going to do it. 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 Of course they're not. Nobody's going to hurt you. You know that, don't you? 11:05.000 --> 11:07.000 You bet your life they're not. 11:07.000 --> 11:10.000 You see that dirty pack down there? 11:10.000 --> 11:13.000 Well, they don't know it, but I'm going to jump right through them. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 I'm going to jump right through all of them. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 They won't even touch me and I can do it right now. 11:18.000 --> 11:21.000 Wait a minute, Walter. Don't forget your promise. 11:21.000 --> 11:23.000 What are you talking about? What promise? 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 Two o'clock. You wrote that down yourself. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 You said you wouldn't jump until it was two o'clock. 11:27.000 --> 11:32.000 That was no promise. I just wrote it down. That's all. Just two o'clock. 11:32.000 --> 11:36.000 Yeah. Well, your sister believed it. We gave her the note. 11:36.000 --> 11:39.000 She says it's your promise. Now, are you going to make a liar out of yourself? 11:39.000 --> 11:44.000 You're the liar. Ruth didn't say that. She didn't say it was a promise. 11:44.000 --> 11:47.000 You got to take my word for that. 11:47.000 --> 11:51.000 All right. Let's go in and ask her. How about it? 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 See Ruth inside? 11:53.000 --> 11:57.000 Sure. Come on. Come on. Take my hand, Walter. 11:57.000 --> 12:01.000 All right. All right. I'll take your hand. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 Watch your step. Look out, will you? 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 You get back there. Get back. 12:05.000 --> 12:08.000 Now, next time I won't miss. I'll smash you whole hard. 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 You think you're pretty smart, don't you? You're trying to trick me. 12:11.000 --> 12:16.000 I told you before, I know who you are. You're trying to get your hands on me. 12:16.000 --> 12:20.000 You promised your sister two o'clock. You're still going to break that promise? 12:20.000 --> 12:24.000 I'm not like you in that sack down there. I don't break promises. 12:24.000 --> 12:27.000 Everybody knows that, Walter. They trust you. 12:27.000 --> 12:31.000 Now, come on. How about talking this thing out? 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 What time is it? 12:33.000 --> 12:36.000 One forty-six. Fourteen minutes to go. 12:36.000 --> 12:40.000 You're lying. How do I know that's the time? 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 You can look at my watch. Here. Right here. 12:42.000 --> 12:45.000 You stand back. I told you before. 12:45.000 --> 12:46.000 You stay away from me. 12:46.000 --> 12:49.000 I just wanted to show you the time, that's all. 12:49.000 --> 12:52.000 All right. You can look at that big clock up the street, see? 12:52.000 --> 12:56.000 The one on the side of the Hobart building up there? 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 Fourteen minutes. 12:58.000 --> 13:02.000 How do I know that's right? How do I know they're not in with you two? 13:02.000 --> 13:07.000 You already said it, big company. They don't care about you or me. 13:07.000 --> 13:11.000 They got a business to run. Is there a clock? They don't care what happens. 13:11.000 --> 13:15.000 No. No, of course not. They don't care. 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 All right. Well, I'll just keep an eye on this clock. 13:18.000 --> 13:23.000 All right. You don't mind if I talk while you wait, do you? 13:23.000 --> 13:27.000 What's that plane doing up there? 13:27.000 --> 13:30.000 Oh, it's just an airliner. Probably on its way into Burbank. 13:30.000 --> 13:34.000 You're not fooling me. That plane's been by before. It's flying low, too. 13:34.000 --> 13:38.000 Yeah. I guess I didn't notice it. Well, what difference does it make? 13:38.000 --> 13:42.000 Probably watch it, flying back and forth. 13:42.000 --> 13:47.000 Maybe they're the police. They're trying to do something. They're trying to get their hands on me. 13:47.000 --> 13:52.000 Well, let's see. Yeah. Might be their plane. It's a big one. 13:52.000 --> 13:59.000 Sure. Sure, they're trying to do something, coming right by here, flying low. 13:59.000 --> 14:03.000 It's the same one. I can see. 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 Look. 14:05.000 --> 14:08.000 Do you see there on the wing? Yeah, what's that? 14:08.000 --> 14:12.000 The number right there on the wing. It's the same one that's passed over a few minutes ago. 14:12.000 --> 14:14.000 Will you get away from me? All right, Walter. Give me that. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 Give it to me. 14:16.000 --> 14:19.000 You're backstabbing me, Walter. 14:19.000 --> 14:24.000 You thought you tricked me. You didn't know I had my pocket knife. 14:24.000 --> 14:27.000 Well, I can kill you with it now. I can kill you right now. 14:27.000 --> 14:31.000 Yeah. I told you before, it's all right with me. 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 Just look out there. Watch your step on the ledge, will you? 14:33.000 --> 14:41.000 I should have cut your hand off. I should have cut your whole arm off and thrown it to those animals down there. 14:41.000 --> 14:44.000 Look at that blood all over your hand. 14:44.000 --> 14:47.000 Well, I'm sorry, Walter. It's not your fault. 14:47.000 --> 14:50.000 I just wanted to talk the whole thing over to tell you how your sister feels about it. 14:50.000 --> 14:56.000 You're a liar. I knew it when I looked at you. Now you get away. You get away before I kill you. 14:56.000 --> 15:00.000 Look, there's only one thing I can tell you. Your sister Ruth's sitting inside there and she's worried sick. 15:00.000 --> 15:03.000 She's waiting for you. She wants to take you home. 15:03.000 --> 15:08.000 Now how about it? There's no reason for always. You know that, don't you? 15:08.000 --> 15:09.000 Do I? 15:09.000 --> 15:14.000 Sure you do. Your sister and your family, they care about you. They want you home again. They want you with them. 15:14.000 --> 15:17.000 There's no reason to be standing out here now, is there? 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 You wait until two o'clock, mister. 15:19.000 --> 15:20.000 Yeah. 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 I'll show you the reason. 15:24.000 --> 15:27.000 One forty eight p.m. Twelve minutes left. 15:27.000 --> 15:30.000 I made my way along the ledge, through the window, back into the office. 15:30.000 --> 15:36.000 Dr. Wright, a man who'd been treating Walter Harrison for his mental sickness, was already there with Dr. Turner. 15:36.000 --> 15:40.000 While the nurse bandaged up my hand, Captain Steed, Ben and I talked with him. 15:42.000 --> 15:49.000 I've treated Harrison for ten years, on and off, I guess. He showed some improvement. Not much definite paranoid tendencies. 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 Did he ever try this before, Dr. Wright? 15:51.000 --> 15:53.000 Not to my knowledge. His sister might tell you more. 15:53.000 --> 15:58.000 I really don't know what to advise you to do. He's never been this violent before, using a hammer and a knife. 15:58.000 --> 16:00.000 There you are, sir. I think that's you all right? 16:00.000 --> 16:01.000 Yeah, that's fine. Thank you. 16:01.000 --> 16:06.000 There's only one thing I've got to know, doctor. Is it worth letting another one of my men go out there on that ledge? 16:06.000 --> 16:12.000 I'm afraid that's your decision, Captain. It may help, it may not. I know the patient, but I can't read his mind. 16:12.000 --> 16:18.000 I was just thinking, we might bring Harrison's sister to the window and have her talks on. Think that might help, doctor? 16:18.000 --> 16:22.000 Very possible it might. In a spot like this, I'm in the same boat you are. It's all guesswork. 16:22.000 --> 16:25.000 You think Harrison's really going to be ready to jump at two o'clock, doctor? 16:25.000 --> 16:28.000 From what Sergeant Friday tells me, yes, I think he'll jump. 16:28.000 --> 16:33.000 We've got to come up with something. We can't just stand around and watch a guy take a dive down 13 story. 16:33.000 --> 16:34.000 I wish I knew the answer. 16:34.000 --> 16:37.000 There's got to be one someplace. There's got to be an answer. 16:37.000 --> 16:40.000 Well, let's check your watch. 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Trying to save him had to be the first consideration. 18:53.000 --> 19:02.000 One fifty p.m. Sergeant Jack Wiseman inched his way out on the ledge of the thirteenth story and kept Walter Harrison busy talking, anything to keep his mind off the jump. 19:02.000 --> 19:13.000 Captain Steed got on the phone and talked to the manager of the Hobart building, a twelve-story structure three blocks away with a large clock set into either side of it, the same clock Harrison was keeping time by. 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 Yeah, that's right, just so you don't make it look too obvious. 19:16.000 --> 19:19.000 Okay, Mr. Walsh, thank you. 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 I'm going to do all I can. Let's hope it works. 19:21.000 --> 19:22.000 Yeah, what do you say? 19:22.000 --> 19:27.000 They're going to start slowing down the clock in the building right away. If Harrison goes by that time, it's going to be a long ten minutes. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 Well, how much they figure they can stretch it? 19:29.000 --> 19:32.000 About five or six minutes without making it look too obvious. 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 We can sure use it. Let's hope Harrison doesn't catch on. 19:34.000 --> 19:39.000 Manager said they'll stop the clock when it's a minute to go. It'll never reach two o'clock. 19:39.000 --> 19:40.000 Skipper. 19:40.000 --> 19:41.000 Yeah, Merrill. 19:41.000 --> 19:44.000 I just checked with the rescue squad down the street. They're stringing out more nets. 19:44.000 --> 19:45.000 Well? 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 They're not guaranteeing anything. 19:46.000 --> 19:47.000 How do you mean? 19:47.000 --> 19:57.000 They're worried about those ledges jutting up from the building every other floor. They say if Harrison jumps close enough, he's bound to hit one of them. If he does, he'll be dead before he reaches street level. Nets down there won't do him any good. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 Well, nothing we can do about it. Something else we'll have to hand over to Locke. 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 Have they come up with any ideas, Ben? 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 Just one. Sounds like it could work. 20:04.000 --> 20:05.000 What's that? 20:05.000 --> 20:10.000 They figured like we did. The overhang on the roof is too wide to lower a man directly down on top of Harrison to grab him. 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 Yeah? 20:11.000 --> 20:22.000 They think it might work if they try this. Put a man in a rope sling just over the edge of the roof. Lower him down toward Harrison as close as possible without death. Give him a good line. Let him try to rope Harrison. 20:22.000 --> 20:24.000 I don't know. 20:24.000 --> 20:25.000 Have they got any candidates to try it? 20:25.000 --> 20:29.000 Yeah, Warren. That guy's been on the rescue squad for years. Supposed to be an expert with a lasso. 20:29.000 --> 20:30.000 Captain? 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 No, might do it. I don't know. 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 Yeah. What happens if he misses Harrison? 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 Who knows? What happens if Harrison jumps? 20:36.000 --> 20:37.000 Captain? 20:37.000 --> 20:40.000 I just got off that ledge in a hurry. He came at me with that knife. 20:40.000 --> 20:41.000 Is he any closer to the window? 20:41.000 --> 20:44.000 He backed off again. Something else. That clock in the Hobart building. 20:44.000 --> 20:45.000 Yeah. 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 Pretty sure he's wise to that gimmick. He's given it up. 20:47.000 --> 20:48.000 What do you mean? 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 The two o'clock deadline. He's not going to wait for it. 20:50.000 --> 21:01.000 One fifty-five p.m. A specially equipped police car with loudspeakers mounted on the roof was rushed to the intersection of 3rd and Temple Streets opposite the Fitzroy building. 21:01.000 --> 21:06.000 Sergeant Jack Wiseman took Walter Harrison's sister Ruth down on the elevator to the street. 21:06.000 --> 21:10.000 She got on the police car microphone and started talking to her brother over the loudspeakers. 21:10.000 --> 21:15.000 Word was passed to the special detail of men from the fire department's rescue squad standing by on the roof of the building. 21:15.000 --> 21:19.000 They went to work. Captain Steed went up to the roof to see if he could assist them. 21:19.000 --> 21:25.000 Ben and I waited in the office on the 13th floor. The nurse, Miss Lenahan, and Gene Bechtoe were with us. 21:25.000 --> 21:31.000 One fifty-seven p.m. The men on the roof started to lower the man from the rescue squad in the rope sling. 21:31.000 --> 21:39.000 He held a double-strength lasso in his hand. The end of it was wrapped around his body and tied securely. Ben and I watched from the window. 21:39.000 --> 21:48.000 We looked along the narrow ledge. Walter Harrison stood erect and motionless, an open pocket knife in one hand, his feet poised in the brink of a thirteen-story jump. 21:48.000 --> 21:53.000 The voice of Harrison's sister drifted up from the loudspeakers down on the street. 21:53.000 --> 22:10.000 Walter? This is Ruth, Walter. Can you hear me? This is Ruth. I want you to come home with me, Walter. Please. You've got to understand. 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 Sister's doing all right. Finish it for sure if it looks up. 22:13.000 --> 22:14.000 Yeah, sure will. 22:14.000 --> 22:22.000 There's nothing wrong. No one's going to hurt you. We want to help you, Walter. Please. 22:22.000 --> 22:25.000 I can't see, Jill. They're letting the man down? 22:25.000 --> 22:26.000 Yeah. Coming slow. 22:26.000 --> 22:41.000 There's nothing to be afraid of. You know that, don't you? Come home with me, please. I'll take care of you. I'll see that you're safe. That you're all right. 22:41.000 --> 22:44.000 Jill, how's Harrison doing? Can you see? 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 Yeah. He's looking down. Not moving at all. 22:46.000 --> 23:01.000 Nobody's going to hurt you, believe me. These people are your friends. They want to help you. Can you hear me, Walter? They want to help you. 23:01.000 --> 23:02.000 That's it. 23:02.000 --> 23:03.000 What? 23:03.000 --> 23:20.000 He's looking down on the rope. He's just above Harrison now. They're your friends. You can trust me, your sister Ruth. You've got to trust me, Walter. I want to take care of you. I want to take you home. 23:20.000 --> 23:28.000 Yeah, I see the man now. He's right above me. Got the lasso ready. 23:28.000 --> 23:29.000 Keep your fingers crossed. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 What is it? What's happening? 23:31.000 --> 23:34.000 A lasso. He's throwing it. 23:34.000 --> 23:36.000 Get him away from me! 23:36.000 --> 23:37.000 Missed, Joey, missed! 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 Walter, wait a minute, Harrison! 23:39.000 --> 23:43.000 No, I didn't lie! Get him away from me! Get him away from me! 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 Pull that man up! Pull him out of the way! 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 Don't spill on the ledge. I'm going out. 23:47.000 --> 23:51.000 Joe, wait a minute. It's only a chance. Why don't you get him mad at you? Say anything and insult him. 23:51.000 --> 23:52.000 Well, I'll try. 23:52.000 --> 23:55.000 Anything to make him go for you. If you can get him down to this window, I can grab him. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 If I get him by the window, I'll hold on to him, huh? 23:57.000 --> 24:01.000 Yeah, when you grab him, try to lean as close to the building as you can. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 There's not much to lean on the other way. 24:03.000 --> 24:07.000 One-fifty-nine p.m. I got through the window and out onto the ledge. 24:07.000 --> 24:10.000 The crowds jamming the streets below had swollen to almost twice their size. 24:10.000 --> 24:17.000 A few blocks away, the big clock on the side of the Hobart building read five minutes to two, but Harrison wasn't looking at it. 24:17.000 --> 24:20.000 He still had his eyes fixed on the pavement thirteen stories beneath us. 24:20.000 --> 24:23.000 He torn off his collar and his shirt was ripped open with a neck. 24:23.000 --> 24:28.000 He waved his arms and shouted at the crowd below as he tottered along the ledge toward the corner of the building, 24:28.000 --> 24:31.000 away from the window that I was supposed to lure him into. 24:31.000 --> 24:35.000 In his right hand, he still held onto the open pocket knife. 24:35.000 --> 24:39.000 You're not going to get your hands on me. You're not even going to get close. 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 Wait a minute, Harrison. Watch it. 24:41.000 --> 24:46.000 You watch me, mister. I'm going to jump right through them down there. 24:46.000 --> 24:47.000 Those dirty animals, you just watch. 24:47.000 --> 24:51.000 All right, wait a minute. I got a message for you from your sister Ruth. 24:51.000 --> 24:52.000 Now, do you want to hear it? 24:52.000 --> 24:56.000 I want to get your hands on me. None of you. I'll see you later. 24:56.000 --> 25:00.000 You're a phony, Harrison. You're a phony liar. 25:00.000 --> 25:01.000 I'm a what? 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 You don't hurt me. You're not kidding anybody. 25:03.000 --> 25:07.000 You don't think I can jump, huh? Well, you just watch. 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 Anybody can jump. Any phony can do that. 25:09.000 --> 25:10.000 Right? 25:10.000 --> 25:14.000 It doesn't take anything. Those animals down there in the street, any one of them could do that. 25:14.000 --> 25:15.000 You're just like one of them. 25:15.000 --> 25:20.000 I've still got this knife. I've used it before. I can kill. 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 You can kill anything. You haven't got the guts. You're a phony. 25:22.000 --> 25:27.000 You're a liar. You're a rotten liar. I can cut you to pieces. 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 Oh, you talk big, Harrison, but you're all talk. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 I can cut you to pieces. 25:31.000 --> 25:33.000 You haven't got me fooled, mister. Not for a minute. 25:33.000 --> 25:35.000 I'll cut you to pieces. 25:35.000 --> 25:38.000 You haven't got half the nerve. You're a phony and you know it. 25:38.000 --> 25:44.000 You're a rotten liar. You stand still. Go on. You stand still and I'll show you. 25:44.000 --> 25:47.000 Oh, you talk a real good game, but that's about all. You're all talk. 25:47.000 --> 25:51.000 I'll show you. I still have my knife and I'll kill you right now. 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 Yeah, sure you will. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 You're backing away. You're afraid. 25:55.000 --> 25:58.000 You're a phony, Harrison. Nobody's afraid of a phony. 25:58.000 --> 26:00.000 Cut you a cut. 26:00.000 --> 26:05.000 I'm waiting for you. Come on. What's the matter, Harrison? 26:05.000 --> 26:11.000 You're not, you're not waiting. Stay still and stop backing away. Now stop. 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 I tell you, you come and get me, huh? 26:13.000 --> 26:17.000 Haven't you got enough nerve? And you're just talking again. All talk, huh? 26:17.000 --> 26:24.000 That window. You've got to stop by the window and then I'll cut you to pieces. 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 All right, Harrison. 26:26.000 --> 26:30.000 Here. Now you go ahead. Prove you're a phony. 26:30.000 --> 26:34.000 You're a liar. I'll show you. 26:34.000 --> 26:37.000 You rotten liar. 26:37.000 --> 26:39.000 All right, Warren. Now drop it. Drop it. 26:39.000 --> 26:43.000 I'll cut you to pieces. 26:43.000 --> 26:44.000 Drop it. Drop it. 26:44.000 --> 26:47.000 Don't look out. Grab them. They're going to fall. 26:53.000 --> 26:55.000 Well, how close can it get? 26:55.000 --> 26:57.000 Here. Nurse? 26:57.000 --> 27:01.000 That was just wonderful, Sergeant. Both of you. Are you all right? 27:01.000 --> 27:05.000 Yeah, fine. Would you mind getting Captain Sneed for us, please? You know who he is. 27:05.000 --> 27:10.000 I'll be right away. 27:10.000 --> 27:14.000 Well, that was a rough one. 27:14.000 --> 27:18.000 Yeah, Dan. It looked like you were both going over the side. 27:18.000 --> 27:19.000 Yeah. 27:19.000 --> 27:21.000 Thought I'd lost you, Joe. 27:21.000 --> 27:23.000 Well, you didn't have to worry. 27:23.000 --> 27:24.000 No? 27:24.000 --> 27:26.000 No. You told me which way to lean. 27:26.000 --> 27:29.000 The story you have just heard was true. 27:29.000 --> 27:32.000 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:32.000 --> 27:36.000 On September 10th, a sanity hearing was held at the County Hospital Psychopathic Ward, 27:36.000 --> 27:39.000 City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:39.000 --> 27:41.000 In a moment, the results of that hearing. 27:41.000 --> 27:43.000 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:43.000 --> 27:44.000 Thank you. 27:44.000 --> 27:47.000 Friends, there's one big difference in long cigarettes, 27:47.000 --> 27:50.000 and here's the one sentence that tells the full story. 27:50.000 --> 27:52.000 Jack, you're a great man. 27:52.000 --> 27:57.000 There's one big difference in long cigarettes, and here's the one sentence that tells the full story. 27:57.000 --> 27:59.000 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 27:59.000 --> 28:03.000 That's why this headline is being featured in leading national magazines. 28:03.000 --> 28:10.000 Yes, these new Fatima full-page color ads are another proof of Fatima's fast-growing popularity. 28:10.000 --> 28:15.000 More long cigarette smokers are insisting on Fatima quality than ever before. 28:15.000 --> 28:20.000 Now, if you're a long cigarette smoker like I am, buy a pack of extra-mild Fatimas. 28:20.000 --> 28:26.000 You'll find, as I have, that Fatimas now cost the same, but in Fatima, the difference is quality. 28:26.000 --> 28:40.000 After being examined by six psychiatrists, Walter John Harrison was judged mentally incompetent. 28:40.000 --> 28:44.000 On his sister's request, he was committed to a private sanitarium. 28:44.000 --> 28:55.000 Seven months later, Harrison took his own life by hanging. 28:55.000 --> 29:00.000 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 29:00.000 --> 29:15.000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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