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02:26.400 --> 02:27.400 Hi. 02:27.400 --> 02:28.400 What'd you find out? 02:28.400 --> 02:29.400 Talked to the coroner. 02:29.400 --> 02:30.400 He finished posting the body. 02:30.400 --> 02:31.400 Yeah. 02:31.400 --> 02:33.240 Caused the death of multiple fractures of the skull. 02:33.240 --> 02:34.240 Internal injury. 02:34.240 --> 02:36.200 Boy was 17 years old. 02:36.200 --> 02:37.200 You checked the car? 02:37.200 --> 02:40.400 Yeah, the kid must have been doing at least 70 when he hit that street light. 02:40.400 --> 02:41.400 It's a real mess. 02:41.400 --> 02:43.840 The car was really wound around that pole. 02:43.840 --> 02:46.520 We're gonna have to dig up a fast answer somewhere. 02:46.520 --> 02:48.160 A lot of you ragged. 02:48.160 --> 02:50.080 Well, there's only one way to burn it out. 02:50.080 --> 02:51.760 Find the big man and throw the book at him. 02:51.760 --> 02:52.760 Make him an example. 02:52.760 --> 02:53.760 We'll never forget, huh? 02:53.760 --> 02:54.760 You checked the juvenile bureau? 02:54.760 --> 02:56.760 Yeah, the evidence has been booked with the property clerk. 02:56.760 --> 02:58.120 How about the boy's parents? 02:58.120 --> 02:59.680 Mrs. Moore wasn't feeling too well. 02:59.680 --> 03:00.680 He drove her home. 03:00.680 --> 03:01.840 Father's still down in the hall. 03:01.840 --> 03:03.600 Inspector Walker's office. 03:03.600 --> 03:04.600 Can we talk to him now? 03:04.600 --> 03:06.400 Yeah, he should be free by now. 03:06.400 --> 03:07.400 Let me check the book. 03:07.400 --> 03:08.400 Already dead. 03:08.400 --> 03:09.400 There's no calls. 03:09.400 --> 03:10.400 Oh, okay. 03:10.400 --> 03:11.400 Let's go. 03:11.400 --> 03:16.240 You know, there's only one thing fortunate about this whole thing. 03:16.240 --> 03:17.240 What do you mean? 03:17.240 --> 03:20.880 Well, the kid being alone when he cracked up would have been a slaughter if he had a 03:20.880 --> 03:22.520 car full of his friends with him. 03:22.520 --> 03:24.120 It's still pretty grim. 03:24.120 --> 03:26.800 How's the boy's father taking it? 03:26.800 --> 03:27.800 Usual. 03:27.800 --> 03:28.800 Pretty rough. 03:28.800 --> 03:31.800 He should be able to help some. 03:31.800 --> 03:32.800 Yeah. 03:32.800 --> 03:33.800 Mr. Morrill? 03:33.800 --> 03:34.800 Yes, Sergeant. 03:34.800 --> 03:37.800 The inspector asked me to wait here for you. 03:37.800 --> 03:38.800 Yes, sir. 03:38.800 --> 03:39.800 This is my partner, Sergeant Friday. 03:39.800 --> 03:40.800 Mr. Morrill, Joe. 03:40.800 --> 03:41.800 How do you do, Mr. Friday? 03:41.800 --> 03:44.240 I just don't understand it, Sergeant. 03:44.240 --> 03:46.360 I don't understand any of it. 03:46.360 --> 03:49.440 My boy Ken wasn't the type to go racing around like that in the car. 03:49.440 --> 03:51.800 He never took the car without my permission. 03:51.800 --> 03:53.400 I just don't know what got into it. 03:53.400 --> 03:57.160 Had you noticed at all whether your boy was acting a little strange the last few weeks 03:57.160 --> 03:58.160 or so? 03:58.160 --> 03:59.160 No. 03:59.160 --> 04:01.000 Of course, I only saw Ken in the morning, a few hours in the evening. 04:01.000 --> 04:02.000 I'm at the office all day. 04:02.000 --> 04:03.400 Why do you ask that? 04:03.400 --> 04:07.960 Well, was he going out very often on school nights, keeping odd or unusual hours? 04:07.960 --> 04:12.320 He used to go to the library three or four nights a week to do his schoolwork. 04:12.320 --> 04:16.080 Got home about midnight a few times, and I warned him about that. 04:16.080 --> 04:19.200 Did you have any way of knowing if he was really spending his nights at the library? 04:19.200 --> 04:21.280 No, but I took his word for it. 04:21.280 --> 04:23.160 Ken didn't lie to me. 04:23.160 --> 04:25.040 What's this have to do with the auto accident, Sergeant? 04:25.040 --> 04:26.560 I don't think I understand. 04:26.560 --> 04:28.720 The officers investigating the accident, sir. 04:28.720 --> 04:30.480 They checked over the car afterward. 04:30.480 --> 04:31.480 Why was it? 04:31.480 --> 04:32.480 Were the brakes bad? 04:32.480 --> 04:33.480 What'd they find? 04:33.480 --> 04:34.480 Bill? 04:34.480 --> 04:35.480 Yeah. 04:35.480 --> 04:44.000 You see this small metal case, we found it in the front seat on the floor of the car. 04:44.000 --> 04:45.000 What's that stuff inside? 04:45.000 --> 04:46.000 Did this belong to Ken? 04:46.000 --> 04:47.000 Yes, sir. 04:47.000 --> 04:48.000 We think he was using it. 04:48.000 --> 04:49.000 What for? 04:49.000 --> 04:50.000 I don't know. 04:50.000 --> 04:54.920 It's marijuana. 04:54.920 --> 04:58.560 Men and women who traffic in narcotics all the way from the small time peddler to the 04:58.560 --> 05:02.040 big wholesaler are rated among the lowest kind of criminal. 05:02.040 --> 05:05.160 One step lower, you find an even more vicious kind. 05:05.160 --> 05:09.000 Those who lure youngsters into the deadly trap of narcotics who feed on the nickels 05:09.000 --> 05:13.060 and dimes by supplying their young victims with dope. 05:13.060 --> 05:18.120 The death of 17-year-old Kenneth Morrow was the second of its kind within eight months. 05:18.120 --> 05:22.360 It seemed to stem from unidentified suspects who were making it their business to build 05:22.360 --> 05:26.240 a thriving marijuana trade among high school students. 05:26.240 --> 05:30.720 Thursday, 11 a.m., we continued to question the dead boy's father, Thomas Morrow, but 05:30.720 --> 05:33.480 he couldn't tell us anything further that might help. 05:33.480 --> 05:38.080 Friday, April 12, we checked with the principal of the high school which the Morrow boy attended. 05:38.080 --> 05:41.480 We talked to the boy's teachers and checked his school record. 05:41.480 --> 05:44.760 His marks had been above average till about three months before when they began to fall 05:44.760 --> 05:47.440 off for no apparent reason. 05:47.440 --> 05:51.000 We got a list of most of the boy's friends from his teachers and we started checking 05:51.000 --> 05:52.280 them out. 05:52.280 --> 05:58.240 One was a 16-year-old blonde girl, Peggy Kane, supposedly Kenneth Morrow's girlfriend. 05:58.240 --> 06:03.880 We found her waiting outside the music room. 06:03.880 --> 06:06.040 Yes, Ken and I went around together for a while. 06:06.040 --> 06:07.040 He was a real nice boy. 06:07.040 --> 06:08.960 Did you see each other quite a bit, Peggy? 06:08.960 --> 06:10.680 Oh, for about five or six months. 06:10.680 --> 06:12.500 Yes, we got along fine. 06:12.500 --> 06:15.920 Just after Christmas was the last time I went out with him and we double dated. 06:15.920 --> 06:16.920 Mm-hmm. 06:16.920 --> 06:17.920 Did he seem all right to you then? 06:17.920 --> 06:19.440 I mean, did he act different at all? 06:19.440 --> 06:21.480 Well, a little different, yes. 06:21.480 --> 06:22.480 Not silly, you know. 06:22.480 --> 06:24.080 He just wasn't like he used to be. 06:24.080 --> 06:25.080 How do you mean? 06:25.080 --> 06:26.920 Well, he didn't talk the same. 06:26.920 --> 06:29.040 Ken was a real nice boy most of the time. 06:29.040 --> 06:31.720 I guess he started getting in with the wrong crowd. 06:31.720 --> 06:34.800 He began to swear, you know, bad talk, things like that. 06:34.800 --> 06:35.800 When did all this start, Peggy? 06:35.800 --> 06:36.800 Do you remember? 06:36.800 --> 06:37.800 Just before Christmas, I think. 06:37.800 --> 06:38.800 I'm not sure. 06:38.800 --> 06:39.800 Poor Ken. 06:39.800 --> 06:43.000 Was there anything else you might have noticed? 06:43.000 --> 06:44.680 I don't know. 06:44.680 --> 06:48.440 Ken used to be pretty good about his studies and all of a sudden it seemed he just didn't 06:48.440 --> 06:49.440 care. 06:49.440 --> 06:54.920 Sometimes he'd come into the library, we used to study there, and he'd make a lot of noise. 06:54.920 --> 06:56.400 Just changed, that's all. 06:56.400 --> 06:58.720 For a while we didn't see each other there anymore. 06:58.720 --> 07:00.480 Well, why was that, Peggy? 07:00.480 --> 07:02.320 We just didn't come down. 07:02.320 --> 07:04.080 I called his house a couple of times. 07:04.080 --> 07:05.560 His folks said he was at the library. 07:05.560 --> 07:07.360 I didn't say anything to him. 07:07.360 --> 07:09.640 Well, did Ken have many friends here at school? 07:09.640 --> 07:10.640 Do you know that? 07:10.640 --> 07:11.640 Not many, no. 07:11.640 --> 07:12.640 I see. 07:12.640 --> 07:16.120 Of those he did have, who would you say was closer to him? 07:16.120 --> 07:17.920 Gee, I don't know, Sergeant. 07:17.920 --> 07:20.160 There were half a dozen of them. 07:20.160 --> 07:21.640 Ken used to be with all of them. 07:21.640 --> 07:23.160 No one boy in particular. 07:23.160 --> 07:25.480 Well, Bob Lavelle maybe. 07:25.480 --> 07:27.760 I saw Ken in Bob's car a few times. 07:27.760 --> 07:29.520 Does Lavelle go to school here? 07:29.520 --> 07:31.160 Yes, he's a senior. 07:31.160 --> 07:35.040 Ken used to work with Bob down in the cafeteria after school, but he got in the mix up, he 07:35.040 --> 07:36.040 was fired. 07:36.040 --> 07:37.040 Bob was fired? 07:37.040 --> 07:38.040 No, Ken. 07:38.040 --> 07:40.840 He was rude to one of the ladies down there who does the cooking. 07:40.840 --> 07:41.840 Bob still works there. 07:41.840 --> 07:43.960 Would he be at the cafeteria now, do you know? 07:43.960 --> 07:44.960 Yes, I think so. 07:44.960 --> 07:46.640 The fountain's open until about 3.30. 07:46.640 --> 07:50.200 And you think that this Bob Lavelle was about the closest friend that Ken had, huh? 07:50.200 --> 07:51.760 I think so. 07:51.760 --> 07:53.920 The only one I know, anyway. 07:53.920 --> 07:55.200 Have you talked to Ken's folks? 07:55.200 --> 07:56.200 Yeah, we have. 07:56.200 --> 07:57.200 I feel so sorry for him. 07:57.200 --> 08:01.720 Gee, I think I have to go now, Sergeant. 08:01.720 --> 08:03.000 I have a chemistry class. 08:03.000 --> 08:04.560 Just one more question, Peggy. 08:04.560 --> 08:07.600 Last time you went out with Ken on this double date, who was the other couple? 08:07.600 --> 08:08.600 Do you remember? 08:08.600 --> 08:09.600 I don't remember their names. 08:09.600 --> 08:12.080 They were some kids I never saw before. 08:12.080 --> 08:13.080 Ken knew them. 08:13.080 --> 08:14.360 It wasn't much of a date. 08:14.360 --> 08:15.800 Where did you go? 08:15.800 --> 08:18.000 We started for the show, but Ken changed his mind. 08:18.000 --> 08:19.600 He wanted to go to the beach and park. 08:19.600 --> 08:23.520 He was acting funny, talking all the time, saying silly things. 08:23.520 --> 08:24.720 The other boy was the same way. 08:24.720 --> 08:25.720 Were they drinking? 08:25.720 --> 08:27.840 No, I never saw Ken take a drink. 08:27.840 --> 08:29.880 I couldn't smell any liquor on his breath. 08:29.880 --> 08:30.880 I don't know. 08:30.880 --> 08:31.880 It was such a silly thing. 08:31.880 --> 08:32.880 What was that? 08:32.880 --> 08:37.120 Well, maybe it's just my imagination, but Ken and this other boy had a real terrible 08:37.120 --> 08:39.040 musty smell about them. 08:39.040 --> 08:42.920 I kidded them about it, and they said they'd been to a tea party. 08:42.920 --> 08:43.920 That's where they got it. 08:43.920 --> 08:45.760 They kept talking silly like that all evening. 08:45.760 --> 08:46.760 I see. 08:46.760 --> 08:48.920 Was the musty smell all over the car or just on the boys? 08:48.920 --> 08:49.920 All over. 08:49.920 --> 08:52.360 It kind of made me sick, but they didn't seem to mind it. 08:52.360 --> 08:55.400 Look, I'd like you to think real careful, Peggy. 08:55.400 --> 08:58.600 Have you ever come across that musty smell on anybody around the school here? 08:58.600 --> 09:00.640 Yes, I have a couple of times. 09:00.640 --> 09:01.640 Makes me sick. 09:01.640 --> 09:02.640 What is it? 09:02.640 --> 09:04.280 Who did you notice it on, Peggy? 09:04.280 --> 09:05.280 Bob Lavelle. 09:05.280 --> 09:10.400 Ben and I went back to the principal's office and checked the record on Robert Lavelle. 09:10.400 --> 09:14.000 He was 18 years old, and he was scheduled to graduate in June. 09:14.000 --> 09:17.120 The registrar told us that there was a good chance that he wouldn't be graduated because 09:17.120 --> 09:20.000 his marks had been poor for the better part of the year. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.880 They dropped even lower during the present semester. 09:22.880 --> 09:26.480 Lavelle had played football the year before and had made third string on the All-City 09:26.480 --> 09:27.480 team. 09:27.480 --> 09:29.040 He was well liked by his teachers. 09:29.040 --> 09:33.120 For the last two years, he'd worked part-time at the school soda farm. 09:33.120 --> 09:36.600 We went down to interview him. 09:36.600 --> 09:37.600 Nice setup, huh? 09:37.600 --> 09:38.600 Yeah. 09:38.600 --> 09:39.600 Cafeteria, soda farm. 09:39.600 --> 09:41.280 Wasn't like that in my day. 09:41.280 --> 09:43.480 It must be the boy there behind the counter. 09:43.480 --> 09:44.480 Oh, yeah. 09:44.480 --> 09:47.480 Let's sit down. 09:47.480 --> 09:51.920 How about that, Joe? 09:51.920 --> 09:52.920 What's that? 09:52.920 --> 09:53.920 That sign hanging up there. 09:53.920 --> 09:54.920 Idiot special. 09:54.920 --> 10:01.640 Five scoops of ice cream, marshmallow, bananas, chocolate, strawberry flavoring, whipped cream 10:01.640 --> 10:05.280 topping, maraschino cherries, chopped nuts, and onion. 10:05.280 --> 10:06.800 No, you're reading over. 10:06.800 --> 10:08.680 That's on the hamburger sign there. 10:08.680 --> 10:09.680 Oh. 10:09.680 --> 10:10.680 Yeah? 10:10.680 --> 10:11.680 You want something? 10:11.680 --> 10:12.680 Chocolate soda. 10:12.680 --> 10:14.640 Could you make it with vanilla ice cream, please? 10:14.640 --> 10:15.960 Chocolate soda with vanilla cream. 10:15.960 --> 10:16.960 Are you Bob Lavelle? 10:16.960 --> 10:17.960 Yeah, that's right. 10:17.960 --> 10:18.960 Police officers, Bob. 10:18.960 --> 10:19.960 We'd like to talk to you. 10:19.960 --> 10:20.960 Oh. 10:20.960 --> 10:22.720 Well, I'm pretty busy right now. 10:22.720 --> 10:23.720 Got to clean up. 10:23.720 --> 10:25.720 We close in a few minutes. 10:25.720 --> 10:27.400 I'll make you soda right away. 10:27.400 --> 10:28.400 You say chocolate? 10:28.400 --> 10:29.400 Yeah, that's right. 10:29.400 --> 10:32.600 Well, we'll make it brief. 10:32.600 --> 10:34.160 Did you know Ken Morrow, Bob? 10:34.160 --> 10:35.160 Oh, yeah. 10:35.160 --> 10:36.920 He used to work here. 10:36.920 --> 10:40.800 Did you spend much time with him outside of school, I mean? 10:40.800 --> 10:41.800 Not much. 10:41.800 --> 10:43.720 Went to a couple of shows together. 10:43.720 --> 10:44.720 It's about all. 10:44.720 --> 10:46.720 I'm kind of rushed now. 10:46.720 --> 10:49.680 When was the last time that you saw him? 10:49.680 --> 10:50.680 You remember? 10:50.680 --> 10:53.680 A week ago, I guess. 10:53.680 --> 10:57.000 Too bad about Ken. 10:57.000 --> 11:00.360 How about the night he was in the accident? 11:00.360 --> 11:02.360 Did you see him then? 11:02.360 --> 11:05.000 No, I didn't know him too well. 11:05.000 --> 11:07.280 He went around with a different crowd. 11:07.280 --> 11:11.880 They reached me a bag of those cashews, huh, Joe, on the card there? 11:11.880 --> 11:12.880 Yeah. 11:12.880 --> 11:13.880 There you go. 11:13.880 --> 11:14.880 Oh, thanks. 11:14.880 --> 11:17.880 Want some? 11:17.880 --> 11:18.880 Crisp. 11:18.880 --> 11:19.880 No, no thanks. 11:19.880 --> 11:22.880 The nuts or the dime, Officer? 11:22.880 --> 11:25.880 Right there on the counter, Bob. 11:25.880 --> 11:26.880 Oh, yeah. 11:26.880 --> 11:29.880 I gotta get going soon as I close. 11:29.880 --> 11:33.360 I have to get out of town. 11:33.360 --> 11:36.480 We talked to some of Ken Morrow's friends around the school, Bob. 11:36.480 --> 11:39.320 They tell us that he used to drive around in your car with you quite a bit. 11:39.320 --> 11:42.080 Just a couple of times around school. 11:42.080 --> 11:45.080 You hadn't been with him for about a week before the accident. 11:45.080 --> 11:46.080 That's right. 11:46.080 --> 11:47.080 Just what I told you. 11:47.080 --> 11:54.080 You want a little whipped cream on that? 11:54.080 --> 11:57.080 Yeah, yeah, a little. 11:57.080 --> 11:58.080 How about a cherry? 11:58.080 --> 11:59.080 Good. 11:59.080 --> 12:00.080 Good idea. 12:00.080 --> 12:01.080 There you are. 12:01.080 --> 12:02.080 Thank you. 12:02.080 --> 12:05.080 Too late to fix a hamburger? 12:05.080 --> 12:08.080 Yeah, I really gotta close up. 12:08.080 --> 12:13.080 It's getting a little late, officers, I'm gonna have to close up right now. 12:13.080 --> 12:15.080 We'll make it fast. 12:15.080 --> 12:18.080 Did you notice anything different about the Morrow boy in the last few weeks? 12:18.080 --> 12:19.080 Anything peculiar at all? 12:19.080 --> 12:21.080 No, he was the same as ever. 12:21.080 --> 12:23.080 I didn't notice anything. 12:23.080 --> 12:25.080 All right, look, Bob, we're gonna lay it out for you. 12:25.080 --> 12:27.080 Did you know he was using marijuana? 12:27.080 --> 12:29.080 No, I didn't know anything about it. 12:29.080 --> 12:31.080 Do you have any idea where he might have gotten it? 12:31.080 --> 12:33.080 I wouldn't know that. 12:33.080 --> 12:36.080 Look, you mind if I lock up the counter now? 12:36.080 --> 12:37.080 I'll come around the other side. 12:37.080 --> 12:39.080 Sure, go ahead. 12:39.080 --> 12:41.080 I didn't know that about Ken, officer. 12:41.080 --> 12:44.080 I wouldn't know where he got his stuff. 12:44.080 --> 12:46.080 You sure he was using marijuana? 12:46.080 --> 12:49.080 Well, we found some in his car, we found some more in his locker upstairs. 12:49.080 --> 12:52.080 That's tough. 12:52.080 --> 12:54.080 Anything more, officer, I gotta hurry. 12:54.080 --> 12:55.080 Well, it's just routine, Bob. 12:55.080 --> 12:57.080 We did the same with the other boys we talked to. 12:57.080 --> 12:58.080 We'd like to check your locker. 12:58.080 --> 12:59.080 You don't mind, do you? 12:59.080 --> 13:00.080 I gotta get out of town. 13:00.080 --> 13:01.080 I'm late now. 13:01.080 --> 13:02.080 Your locker's just upstairs, isn't it? 13:02.080 --> 13:03.080 It won't take that long. 13:03.080 --> 13:04.080 It's important to me. 13:04.080 --> 13:05.080 I gotta get out of town. 13:05.080 --> 13:06.080 We've got our car outside. 13:06.080 --> 13:07.080 We'll drive you down. 13:07.080 --> 13:08.080 We'll be down there in no time. 13:08.080 --> 13:09.080 No, I've already got a ride. 13:09.080 --> 13:10.080 Can't you check it tomorrow? 13:10.080 --> 13:11.080 It's not gonna take a minute, Bob. 13:11.080 --> 13:13.080 Now, let's go, huh? 13:13.080 --> 13:15.080 All right. 13:17.080 --> 13:19.080 Say, I happen to remember. 13:19.080 --> 13:21.080 I didn't bring my locker key today. 13:21.080 --> 13:22.080 Can't tell. 13:22.080 --> 13:24.080 Yeah. 13:24.080 --> 13:26.080 Come to think of it, I don't know where it is. 13:26.080 --> 13:27.080 I guess I lost it. 13:27.080 --> 13:29.080 Well, we must have a passkey around here, don't we? 13:29.080 --> 13:31.080 I don't think so. 13:31.080 --> 13:33.080 Well, we'll ask at the office, huh? 13:33.080 --> 13:34.080 You're putting me in a jam, officer. 13:34.080 --> 13:35.080 That's gonna take time. 13:35.080 --> 13:36.080 I'm due downtown. 13:36.080 --> 13:38.080 I'm sorry, Bob, but we gotta check it. 13:38.080 --> 13:40.080 I got my locker all jammed up with stuff. 13:40.080 --> 13:41.080 It'll take us an hour. 13:41.080 --> 13:42.080 Office is down there, Jim. 13:42.080 --> 13:44.080 Yeah, all right, let's go. 13:44.080 --> 13:48.080 I don't know why you're picking on me. 13:48.080 --> 13:50.080 My locker's jammed. 13:50.080 --> 13:52.080 They can't get it open. 13:52.080 --> 13:54.080 Why are you picking on me? 13:54.080 --> 13:58.080 Let's ask in here. 13:58.080 --> 14:00.080 Go ahead, Bob. 14:00.080 --> 14:02.080 Close the door. 14:02.080 --> 14:03.080 Yeah. 14:03.080 --> 14:07.080 I got my key. I'll show you. 14:07.080 --> 14:09.080 Robert LaVelle took us to his locker and opened it. 14:09.080 --> 14:11.080 Hidden inside one of his gym shoes, 14:11.080 --> 14:13.080 we found four sticks of medium-grade marijuana. 14:13.080 --> 14:15.080 We took them, put them in an envelope, and sealed it. 14:15.080 --> 14:17.080 On the way downtown, the boy told us 14:17.080 --> 14:19.080 that he'd been buying this stuff for about six months 14:19.080 --> 14:22.080 and reselling it to some of the students at the high school. 14:22.080 --> 14:24.080 Said that he paid 50 cents apiece for the sticks 14:24.080 --> 14:26.080 and sold them for 75. 14:26.080 --> 14:29.080 He was an occasional user himself. 14:29.080 --> 14:31.080 Before we turned him over to the juvenile officers, 14:31.080 --> 14:33.080 he told us that a man named Ray Jensen 14:33.080 --> 14:35.080 supplied him with a marijuana. 14:35.080 --> 14:37.080 Jensen's address was a trailer camp 14:37.080 --> 14:39.080 in the southwest part of Los Angeles. 14:39.080 --> 14:41.080 We drove out and checked with the operator of the camp. 14:41.080 --> 14:45.080 He pointed out Jensen's trailer at the rear of the camp. 14:45.080 --> 14:47.080 That one, Joe? The blue and gray one? 14:47.080 --> 14:48.080 Yeah, this is good right here. 14:48.080 --> 14:50.080 Okay. 14:57.080 --> 14:59.080 Looks like Jensen's doing well, huh? 14:59.080 --> 15:01.080 Yeah, nice-looking trailer. 15:06.080 --> 15:08.080 Just a minute. 15:10.080 --> 15:12.080 Yeah? Weesawks. 15:12.080 --> 15:14.080 All right, open it up. Get out of here. 15:14.080 --> 15:16.080 Come on, watch it, Joe. 15:16.080 --> 15:18.080 All right, hold it, mister. Get out. Get out. 15:18.080 --> 15:20.080 All right, Jensen. 15:23.080 --> 15:25.080 That's good, Ben. I'll get him. 15:25.080 --> 15:29.080 Come on, get out. 15:29.080 --> 15:31.080 What's the pitch, huh? Where's your warrant? 15:31.080 --> 15:33.080 It's all over the floor, Jensen. Marijuana. 15:33.080 --> 15:35.080 Who tipped? One of those lousy kids, huh? 15:35.080 --> 15:36.080 Which one? 15:36.080 --> 15:37.080 You guess. You know enough of them. 15:37.080 --> 15:39.080 You can't have me for all that. I'm not the big guy. 15:39.080 --> 15:40.080 All right, then who is? 15:40.080 --> 15:42.080 I don't know. I'm only one of the mules. 15:42.080 --> 15:43.080 Where do you get your stuff? 15:43.080 --> 15:45.080 The big guy, the big tomato. That's what they call him. 15:45.080 --> 15:46.080 Yeah? 15:46.080 --> 15:48.080 Big man. Nobody sees him. 15:48.080 --> 15:50.080 I don't even know what he looks like. Neither do you. 15:50.080 --> 15:52.080 You let us worry about that. Come on. 15:52.080 --> 15:54.080 Big tomato, that's what they call him. 15:54.080 --> 15:56.080 You won't get him. He's smart. 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We got nowhere. 17:54.080 --> 17:58.080 The only thing he'd tell us was that the leader of the marijuana ring was unknown to him. 17:58.080 --> 18:01.080 The Big Tomato, that's all he could tell us. 18:01.080 --> 18:07.080 We went back and started rechecking leads furnished just by some of the high school boys who had purchased narcotics from Robert Lavelle. 18:07.080 --> 18:09.080 They all ended nowhere. 18:09.080 --> 18:15.080 Meantime, the flow of marijuana into the schools and into the hands of the teenage students continued. 18:15.080 --> 18:19.080 We'd no sooner choke off one source of supply when two more would turn up. 18:19.080 --> 18:22.080 We knew that there was only one real solution. 18:22.080 --> 18:26.080 Find the gang leader and wipe out the entire supply and distribution setup. 18:26.080 --> 18:29.080 We stayed on it. Monday, April 22nd. 18:29.080 --> 18:34.080 Ben got a call from one of his informants that he had a lead on the source of marijuana on the east side of town. 18:34.080 --> 18:40.080 The informant's name was Willie Breck, a groundskeeper at a golf course near one of the city high schools. 18:40.080 --> 18:45.080 We drove out to talk to him. We located Breck by the clubhouse near the first tee. 18:45.080 --> 18:48.080 On the tee now, R. Cory, Richard Bridget. 18:48.080 --> 18:51.080 You remember my partner, don't you Willie Joe Friday? 18:51.080 --> 18:52.080 Oh yeah, hi. 18:52.080 --> 18:53.080 How are you, Willie? 18:53.080 --> 18:55.080 Kind of busy today, big tournament. 18:55.080 --> 18:58.080 Yeah, quite a crowd you got here. It's a nice turnout. 18:58.080 --> 19:01.080 You've been having trouble, huh? How to marry in town? 19:01.080 --> 19:03.080 Yeah, you think you can help us? 19:03.080 --> 19:09.080 Maybe I can. Dirty business, working high school kids with that stuff. It's real dirty. 19:09.080 --> 19:10.080 Any ideas, Willie? 19:10.080 --> 19:15.080 Don't know how much of it's true. It's all from the grapevine downtown. 19:15.080 --> 19:19.080 The boss is somebody they call the Big Tomato. It's funny when that. 19:19.080 --> 19:20.080 Any idea who he is? 19:20.080 --> 19:26.080 Couldn't say. He's getting lots of this stuff in though. Usual feed line over from Mexico. 19:26.080 --> 19:27.080 What else, Willie? 19:27.080 --> 19:31.080 I hear there's more on the way. Don't know when though. 19:31.080 --> 19:34.080 It's a proper high school trade. Guess they figure they got a good business. 19:34.080 --> 19:36.080 How they getting jump over, you know? 19:36.080 --> 19:40.080 No, but it's getting here. Almost any kid can get some over on this side of town. 19:40.080 --> 19:43.080 Imagine that. Kids in their teens. Weed hits. 19:43.080 --> 19:47.080 How about this Big Tomato, Willie? No word it though? 19:47.080 --> 19:48.080 Just one, pretty thin. 19:48.080 --> 19:49.080 Yeah. 19:49.080 --> 19:53.080 There's a connection. Lives over on Hauser Boulevard. 19:53.080 --> 19:56.080 Got his number here somewhere. 19:56.080 --> 20:01.080 Supposed to be the main connection for this Tomato guy. 20:01.080 --> 20:04.080 Oh yeah, there's his address. 20:04.080 --> 20:08.080 Third number there. It's a six. His name is Tony Childs. 20:08.080 --> 20:10.080 Is he supposed to handle all this stuff? 20:10.080 --> 20:13.080 Most would, I hear. Gets it off in the Big Tomato. 20:13.080 --> 20:14.080 That about it? 20:14.080 --> 20:17.080 That's it. Tony Childs. You got the address. 20:17.080 --> 20:19.080 Many thanks, Willie. When anything comes up, you'll call, huh? 20:19.080 --> 20:20.080 Sure thing. 20:20.080 --> 20:21.080 How's the job out here? 20:21.080 --> 20:27.080 Better than yours. I sure wouldn't want it. Working every day around joy poppers, mules, main liners. 20:27.080 --> 20:29.080 Somebody's gotta do it, Willie. 20:29.080 --> 20:35.080 Yeah, but not for me, Sergeant. Those doasters are all lice. Selling junk to kids. 20:35.080 --> 20:36.080 Guess you met the lowest, huh? 20:36.080 --> 20:38.080 No, not yet. We're looking for him. 20:43.080 --> 20:48.080 We went back to the office and checked the name and address of Tony Childs through R&I. 20:48.080 --> 20:53.080 No previous record. A stakeout was placed on his home and at his place of business. 20:53.080 --> 20:56.080 Childs himself was placed under 24-hour surveillance. 20:56.080 --> 21:01.080 A week passed. Nothing happened. Another week. Still nothing. 21:01.080 --> 21:06.080 There was no letup in the supply of marijuana finding its way into the city and into the schools. 21:06.080 --> 21:10.080 We couldn't see the beginnings of the racket, but we saw the end result. 21:10.080 --> 21:13.080 The percentage of juvenile users was still in the upswing. 21:13.080 --> 21:18.080 Wednesday, May 8th. We heard rumbles of another big marijuana buy in the offing. 21:18.080 --> 21:21.080 Either it failed to materialize or we missed it. 21:21.080 --> 21:26.080 Friday, May 10th. Ben and I took our turn shadowing the suspect, Tony Childs. 21:28.080 --> 21:30.080 Can you see him from here, Joe? 21:30.080 --> 21:33.080 Yeah. He's still in the barbershop. There's two guys with him. 21:33.080 --> 21:36.080 Yeah. Ten past four. We better check in, huh? 21:36.080 --> 21:38.080 Yeah, I'll call in, huh? 21:38.080 --> 21:40.080 Drugstore there. No telephone. 21:40.080 --> 21:43.080 Yeah, all right. I'll be right back. 22:01.080 --> 22:04.080 Narcotics, please. Thank you. 22:06.080 --> 22:09.080 Yeah, Johnny. This is Joe Friday. 22:09.080 --> 22:12.080 Yeah. Yeah, we got him paid. 22:12.080 --> 22:14.080 Okay, right away. Bye. 22:20.080 --> 22:21.080 What have you got? 22:21.080 --> 22:23.080 Tony Childs. They want him picked up right away. 22:23.080 --> 22:24.080 How come? 22:24.080 --> 22:27.080 Well, they just raided this place. They found 32 ounces of weed in his room. 22:27.080 --> 22:28.080 Supposed to have more on him. 22:28.080 --> 22:29.080 Let's go. 22:29.080 --> 22:30.080 Come on. 22:32.080 --> 22:34.080 What do you think, trouble? 22:34.080 --> 22:39.080 Don't be surprised. 22:43.080 --> 22:45.080 Childs, I'd like to talk to you. 22:45.080 --> 22:46.080 What's that? 22:46.080 --> 22:49.080 Police officers like to talk to you and your two friends here downtown. 22:49.080 --> 22:52.080 Can't make it, copper. I'm flying to Vegas tonight. 22:52.080 --> 22:53.080 We want to see you downtown first. 22:53.080 --> 22:55.080 Good luck. Don't push me, huh? 22:55.080 --> 22:57.080 Nobody's pushing you, Childs. We want to see you downtown. 22:57.080 --> 22:58.080 Now, come on. Let's go. 22:58.080 --> 22:59.080 Look out, Joe! 22:59.080 --> 23:04.080 You ready to wrap him, Sam? 23:08.080 --> 23:11.080 Watch him! 23:18.080 --> 23:22.080 That's it. Three of them. 23:22.080 --> 23:24.080 Okay. 23:24.080 --> 23:26.080 Not getting them? 23:26.080 --> 23:29.080 All right. Come on, you. 23:29.080 --> 23:32.080 I'm glad this doesn't come up often. 23:32.080 --> 23:33.080 Where's the barber? 23:33.080 --> 23:35.080 He ran outside. 23:35.080 --> 23:36.080 Rough one, huh? 23:36.080 --> 23:37.080 Yeah. 23:37.080 --> 23:39.080 What's your hunch, Joe? 23:39.080 --> 23:41.080 Think one of these three is the big tomato? 23:41.080 --> 23:44.080 I don't know. Let's ask him. 23:46.080 --> 23:50.080 A search of the barber's shop failed to reveal the presence of any narcotics. 23:50.080 --> 23:55.080 Tony Childs and his two companions were found to have a dozen sticks of marijuana in their possession. 23:55.080 --> 24:01.080 They were treated for cuts and bruises at Georgia Street and then booked for suspicion of narcotics, a felony, at the main jail. 24:01.080 --> 24:06.080 Three other men found at Childs' apartment at the time of the raid were also booked. 24:06.080 --> 24:08.080 We got nowhere questioning any of them. 24:08.080 --> 24:13.080 As usual, we had the small fry, but the ringleader, the big tomato, was still in the clear. 24:13.080 --> 24:18.080 Still free to hire somebody else to run the marijuana supply line into the high schools. 24:18.080 --> 24:19.080 Three weeks passed. 24:19.080 --> 24:23.080 Together with Captain Kearney and Sergeant Barr, Ben and I rechecked our earlier leads. 24:23.080 --> 24:26.080 We ran down anything that even looked like it might be promising. 24:26.080 --> 24:30.080 Nothing panned out. Wednesday, June 5th, 5.30 p.m. 24:30.080 --> 24:33.080 We got a call from the main jail. Tony Childs wanted to talk to us. 24:33.080 --> 24:35.080 Ben and I went over to see him. 24:38.080 --> 24:39.080 Charles? 24:39.080 --> 24:40.080 I got something for you. 24:40.080 --> 24:43.080 Been playing the stooge long enough. If I'm good enough for jail, so's he. 24:43.080 --> 24:44.080 All right, what do you got? 24:44.080 --> 24:47.080 There's a big buy coming off. When you get him, tell him how long I've been in here. 24:47.080 --> 24:48.080 What kind of a buy? 24:48.080 --> 24:51.080 Mary, one of the biggest. It was set up before I got in here. 24:51.080 --> 24:53.080 Where's your mate gonna be? 24:53.080 --> 24:55.080 Bruno Street, down by the train yards. I'll draw you a map. 24:55.080 --> 24:59.080 Set up's the same. Car pulls up and honks a couple of times in an alley down there. 24:59.080 --> 25:00.080 Who's handling the buy? 25:00.080 --> 25:02.080 A big man. Don't waste any time. 25:02.080 --> 25:03.080 When is it? 25:02.080 --> 25:03.080 Tonight. 25:07.080 --> 25:11.080 We went back to the office and met with Sergeants Barr and Jacobson. 8 p.m. 25:11.080 --> 25:15.080 Ben and I took up our positions on the stakeout along with the rest of the men. 25:15.080 --> 25:18.080 We had a clear view of the exact location where the buy was to be made. 25:18.080 --> 25:27.080 We waited. 10 p.m. 11 p.m. No one showed. Midnight came and went. 25:27.080 --> 25:38.080 1.30 a.m. Still no sign. At 18 minutes of 2, we spotted a man carrying a shopping bag emerge from behind a row of freight cars near the end of the rail yard. 25:38.080 --> 25:42.080 He made his way across the street to the alley. He stood back in the shadows. 25:42.080 --> 25:47.080 As soon as the car gets in the alley, we pull up and block it, hon. 25:47.080 --> 25:50.080 Yeah, that's right. Beck will do the same thing down at the other end. 26:02.080 --> 26:04.080 Headlights coming in the alley. 26:04.080 --> 26:12.080 Wait a minute. No, no, they're going on through. 26:12.080 --> 26:13.080 What's the time now? 26:13.080 --> 26:16.080 Four minutes to 2. 26:16.080 --> 26:24.080 We waited. 18 minutes passed. Still no sign of the car that, according to Charles, was supposed to be there for the big buy. 26:24.080 --> 26:30.080 We could still see the figure of a man with a shopping bag huddled in the alley. 3 a.m. 26:30.080 --> 26:34.080 Joe? Yeah? Car down there in the alley? 26:34.080 --> 26:35.080 Yeah. 26:37.080 --> 26:41.080 That's it. You want to start up? Yep. 26:42.080 --> 26:44.080 Just enough to block the alley. 26:46.080 --> 26:48.080 That's good. 26:48.080 --> 26:50.080 All right, come on, let's go. 26:52.080 --> 26:53.080 Come on. 26:53.080 --> 26:56.080 All right, kill your engine and get out of the car. 26:56.080 --> 26:57.080 Joe, look out! 26:58.080 --> 26:59.080 They can't go far. 27:02.080 --> 27:03.080 Come on. 27:06.080 --> 27:08.080 All right, let's get them out of there. 27:08.080 --> 27:09.080 Yeah. 27:09.080 --> 27:10.080 Here's three of them. 27:10.080 --> 27:12.080 Here's the guy with the shopping bag. 27:12.080 --> 27:13.080 All right, I got it. 27:13.080 --> 27:14.080 Fresh, not some cold. 27:14.080 --> 27:15.080 That's one. 27:15.080 --> 27:16.080 Easy there. 27:16.080 --> 27:17.080 Yep. 27:17.080 --> 27:23.080 Pull right over there, will you? Get his coat off of that. I got it. 27:23.080 --> 27:24.080 That's it. 27:24.080 --> 27:25.080 There we are. 27:25.080 --> 27:26.080 All three of them. 27:26.080 --> 27:27.080 Yeah. 27:28.080 --> 27:31.080 Hey, hey, look at this, Joe. 27:31.080 --> 27:33.080 Found one of them in this guy's hand. 27:33.080 --> 27:35.080 In the can, huh? 27:35.080 --> 27:36.080 Mm-hmm. 27:36.080 --> 27:37.080 Full of marijuana. 27:37.080 --> 27:39.080 Did you look at the labels on those cans? 27:39.080 --> 27:40.080 Yeah. 27:40.080 --> 27:42.080 Fancy solid packed to man. 27:42.080 --> 27:43.080 Yeah. 27:43.080 --> 27:48.080 There he is, a big tomato. 27:48.080 --> 27:52.080 The story you have just heard was true. 27:52.080 --> 27:55.080 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:55.080 --> 27:58.080 On October 3rd, trial was held in Superior Court, 27:58.080 --> 28:01.080 Department 89, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 28:01.080 --> 28:03.080 In a moment, the results of that trial. 28:03.080 --> 28:05.080 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 28:05.080 --> 28:06.080 Thank you. 28:06.080 --> 28:08.080 Jack, you're a great actor. 28:08.080 --> 28:09.080 You're a great actor. 28:09.080 --> 28:13.080 You're a great actor, and you'll be a great actor in the future. 28:13.080 --> 28:14.080 Thank you. 28:14.080 --> 28:16.080 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 28:16.080 --> 28:17.080 Thank you. 28:17.080 --> 28:20.080 Friends, if you're a long cigarette smoker, like I am, 28:20.080 --> 28:23.080 remember in Fatima, the difference is quality. 28:23.080 --> 28:26.080 Now, believe me, this difference is mighty important. 28:26.080 --> 28:31.080 So important that you'll always remember the first pack of Fatimas that you buy. 28:31.080 --> 28:34.080 Fatima's fast-growing popularity backs me up on that. 28:34.080 --> 28:38.080 But look, you can prove it to yourself by getting a pack of Fatimas tomorrow. 28:38.080 --> 28:42.080 And your first pack will convince you to go right on smoking them. 28:42.080 --> 28:46.080 Join me in the new thousands who enjoy Fatima's extra mildness. 28:46.080 --> 28:49.080 Fatima's rich, better flavor and aroma. 28:49.080 --> 28:52.080 You'll discover what all we Fatima smokers know. 28:52.080 --> 28:55.080 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 29:02.080 --> 29:06.080 John A. Stanson, alias the Big Tomato, along with his associates in the Narcotic Gang, 29:06.080 --> 29:09.080 was tried and convicted for violating the State Narcotic Act. 29:09.080 --> 29:12.080 He received sentences as prescribed by law, 29:12.080 --> 29:15.080 and are now serving their terms in the state penitentiary. 29:15.080 --> 29:19.080 The radio editors of the United States and Canada have named Dragnet 29:19.080 --> 29:23.080 the best radio program of its type for 1950. 29:23.080 --> 29:26.080 And Dragnet's Jack Webb, the most promising star of tomorrow. 29:26.080 --> 29:31.080 On behalf of Dragnet, I'd like to thank the radio editors of the United States and Canada 29:31.080 --> 29:33.080 and the editors of Motion Picture Daily, 29:33.080 --> 29:37.080 who conducted the voting in the 15th annual poll for Fame magazine. 29:44.080 --> 29:48.080 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 29:48.080 --> 29:52.080 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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