1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,680 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,240 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,960 Fatima cigarettes. 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:25,360 Best of all, long cigarettes brings you dragnet. 5 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:26,360 You're a detective sergeant. 6 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:28,960 You're assigned to robbery detail. 7 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:33,440 A doctor is severely beaten, robbed, and left in critical condition. 8 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,320 Suspicion points to a narcotics addict. 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:42,240 Your job, get him. 10 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,400 You'll be amazed when you compare Fatima with other long cigarettes. 11 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,160 You'll find they now cost the same. 12 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:52,680 But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 13 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,400 You see, Fatima is the quality king-size cigarette. 14 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,360 Because it contains the finest domestic and Turkish tobacco superbly blended. 15 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,000 And Fatima is extra mild. 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,240 With a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. 17 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,320 So compare Fatima yourself. 18 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:14,360 Fatima's now cost the same as other long cigarettes. 19 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,840 But your first puff will tell you. 20 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,040 Ah, that's different. 21 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,920 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 22 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,280 Ask your dealer for Fatima. 23 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,120 For quality king-size cigarette. 24 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,720 Best of all, long cigarettes. 25 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,840 Start enjoying Fatima tomorrow. 26 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:41,880 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 27 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:46,560 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 28 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:51,040 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 29 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:52,680 police files. 30 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:57,720 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 31 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:59,920 in action. 32 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:05,840 It was Monday, August 7th. 33 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:07,360 It was warm in Los Angeles. 34 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,400 We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 35 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,560 My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 36 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:14,560 My name's Friday. 37 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:19,200 It was 1.15 p.m. when I got to 4656 Collis Avenue. 38 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,200 The front door. 39 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,840 Is that you, Joseph? 40 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,040 Yeah, Ma, it's me. 41 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,440 I didn't expect you so soon. 42 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,200 Well, I'm off for lunch and Ben and I were in the neighborhood, so. 43 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,160 Oh, well, I'll get the telegram. 44 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:36,160 Thank you. 45 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:40,000 I must say, I'm glad you couldn't get home. 46 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,840 Telegrams always make me nervous. 47 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,680 Nobody ever sends a telegram unless it's important here, son. 48 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:45,680 Thank you. 49 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:46,680 Yes, they do, Ma. 50 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,000 Some people send wires to invite you to lunch or to a reception or something like that. 51 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Is that so? 52 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,880 Sure, you just forgot, haven't you? 53 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:54,360 I've gotten them before like that. 54 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,240 It's no way to do anyhow. 55 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:57,240 Why not? 56 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,640 People always associate frightening things with telegrams. 57 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:03,880 Well, aren't you going to open it? 58 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:04,880 Oh, yeah, sure. 59 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:06,920 Well, if you were worried, you could open it, Ma. 60 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:07,920 I've been all right. 61 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:15,160 You know I never open anything addressed to you, Joseph. 62 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:16,160 Anything important? 63 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,200 It's from Belmont, my old high school. 64 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:19,200 Oh, yeah. 65 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,240 They want me to come up next week, they're having some sort of assembly up there. 66 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,160 They want me to talk to the student body. 67 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:25,160 Oh, that's nice. 68 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:26,160 You going to go? 69 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:27,160 Yeah, I think I better, don't you? 70 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,160 I'll have to clear it through Captain Sheldon, though. 71 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,720 I think it's awfully nice for them to remember you. 72 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,120 What are you going to talk on, does it say? 73 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:36,560 Yeah, police work, it says here. 74 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,840 I'll have to think of something to base it on, though, won't I? 75 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:40,520 You'll have to memorize it, Joseph. 76 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,200 It doesn't look well for a man to stand up on a platform and read a prepared talk. 77 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:45,200 Yeah, I know. 78 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,200 Well, that's Ben. 79 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:47,200 I've got to go, Ma. 80 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,000 Would you and Ben like some lunch? 81 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,760 I can fix you something in about a minute. 82 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:51,760 No, we haven't got time, dear. 83 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:52,760 I'll see you later. 84 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,760 I don't know why they couldn't have written a letter instead. 85 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:56,760 What's that, Ma? 86 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,800 I said they could have written you a letter, besides it's much cheaper than a telegram. 87 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,800 Yeah, Ma, I'll see you later. 88 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,800 Bye, Joseph. 89 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:08,800 Bye. 90 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,040 Just got a call, Joe. 91 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,040 They want us to call the office. 92 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,040 Oh, well, I might as well do it from the house, huh? 93 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,040 Yeah. 94 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,040 All right, I'll be right back. 95 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:18,040 Right. 96 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:25,100 It's just me again, Ma. 97 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:35,400 Came back to use the phone. 98 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,400 2511 please. 99 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:39,400 2511. 100 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:40,400 This is Friday, Glen. 101 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:41,400 Got one for you, Joe. 102 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:42,400 What? 103 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:43,400 I can't hear you, Glen. 104 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:44,400 Got one for you. 105 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:45,400 Wait a minute, I can't hear you. 106 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,400 Hey, Ma, would you hold that vacuum for a minute, please? 107 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:49,400 I can't hear. 108 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:50,400 Oh, all right, Chris. 109 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:51,400 Thank you. 110 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:52,400 I'm sorry, Glen. 111 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:53,400 What did you say again? 112 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:54,400 That young kid hit again. 113 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:55,400 He hit again. 114 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:56,400 He hit again. 115 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:57,400 He hit again. 116 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:58,400 He hit again. 117 00:04:58,400 --> 00:04:59,400 He hit again. 118 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:00,400 He hit again. 119 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:01,400 He hit again. 120 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:02,400 He hit again. 121 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:03,400 He hit again. 122 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:04,400 He hit again. 123 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:05,400 He hit again. 124 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:06,400 He hit again. 125 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:07,400 He hit again. 126 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:08,400 He hit again. 127 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:09,400 He hit again. 128 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:10,400 He hit again. 129 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:11,400 He hit again. 130 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:12,400 He hit again. 131 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:13,400 He hit again. 132 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:14,400 He hit again. 133 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:15,400 He hit again. 134 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:16,400 He hit again. 135 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:17,400 He hit again. 136 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:18,400 He hit again. 137 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:19,400 He hit again. 138 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,400 He hit again. 139 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:21,400 He hit again. 140 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:22,400 He hit again. 141 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:23,400 He hit again. 142 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:24,400 He hit again. 143 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:25,400 He hit again. 144 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:26,400 He hit again. 145 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:27,400 He hit again. 146 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:28,400 Toy, mother, what's that guy shooting? 147 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:29,400 It. 148 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:30,400 Almost. 149 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:31,400 fairly heavy hit. 150 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:32,400 Oscar. 151 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:33,400 Anything? 152 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:34,400 Yeah. 153 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,400 That young hype hit again. 154 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,400 Doctor's office beat him up pretty bad. 155 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:39,400 He's down at Georgia. 156 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,400 Great combination, isn't it, Joe? 157 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:42,400 What's that? 158 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:47,400 Arm full of narcotics and a loaded gun. 159 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:51,400 Monday, August 7th. 160 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:56,400 Since June 27th, Ben and I had been assigned to a case involving a young narcotics thief. 161 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,400 For seven weeks now, he'd been robbing every possible source of drugs. 162 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,400 For seven weeks now, he'd been robbing every possible source available to him of narcotics. 163 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:09,400 Since the inception of the investigation, we'd seen this young criminal develop from a small-time sneak thief 164 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,400 to a full-fledged armed and vicious thug. 165 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,400 The descriptions of the young thief taken from his various victims tallied almost to the letter. 166 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:23,400 Blonde, light complexion, small stature, 5'7 to 5'10, nervous and unusually juvenile in appearance. 167 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,400 Everything possible was being done for his quick apprehension. 168 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,400 Hundreds of mug shots were screened and shown to victims. 169 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,400 No identification. 170 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,400 3.30 p.m. We checked back in at the office. 171 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,400 Went to see Sergeant Ed Hall, Narcotics Division. 172 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,400 Chandler said you went over to Georgia Street to see that doctor. 173 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:40,400 Yeah, that's right, Ed. 174 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,400 Short visit, poor guy. 175 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:43,400 Pretty bad, huh? 176 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:44,400 The guy's really a mess. 177 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:46,400 Kid must have worked overtime on him. 178 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:47,400 And what's his condition? 179 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,400 Still critical, and we laugh. 180 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:50,400 They wouldn't let us stay long. 181 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:52,400 We got a description. It's the same kid. 182 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,400 Doctor's name was Gannon, huh? 55 years old. 183 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,400 Yeah, pistol whipped him. 184 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,400 Knocked out seven of his teeth, fractured his jaw. 185 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:00,400 Doctor was wearing glasses. 186 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,400 They don't know if he'll see out of his right eye anymore. 187 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,400 Well, this puts Junior in the big leagues now. 188 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:06,400 Yeah, it sure does. 189 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,400 We got out of supplementary all points on him. 190 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,400 Here's a list of the junk that he got. It's quite a haul here. 191 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,400 Yeah. 192 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:15,400 Hmm. 193 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,400 Morphine quarter grain, 30 vials. 194 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,400 Five vials, half grain coating. 195 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,400 Dolophine quarter grain, six vials. 196 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,400 Hmm. 197 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,400 Yeah, he did all right. Long list here. 198 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:30,400 We got that from the nurse. 199 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,400 She was out to lunch when it happened. 200 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,400 It's a small office out there, and the doctor closes up at noon. 201 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,400 Nurse goes out to lunch, and he eats in the office. 202 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,400 That's when the kid got to him. 203 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:41,400 He knew when to hit, didn't he? 204 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:42,400 Yeah. 205 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,400 My boys haven't been able to turn up a thing for you. 206 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,400 Nobody seems to know the kid. 207 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,400 Well, the amount of stuff he hauled out of that doctor's office 208 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:49,400 something ought to show, shouldn't it? 209 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,400 Should, yeah, with a haul like that. 210 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:53,400 You got anything at all to work on? 211 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,400 Yeah, that car that was used on the job still got it staked out. 212 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:58,400 Well, we'll just pick this up from the report counter. 213 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:59,400 Yeah. 214 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:00,400 Uh-huh. 215 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,400 Car was reported stolen two hours after the robbery. 216 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,400 It's a little bit of a break, huh? 217 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,400 The report was taken out at the Wilshire station. 218 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,400 Mrs. Irving Adams states that her husband had notified her 219 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,400 that the car was stolen from him while he was at work today. 220 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,400 Said he always parks it out in front on the street. 221 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:16,400 We haven't checked it out yet, 222 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,400 but we figured it was a good place to start, Mamie. 223 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,400 Wait a minute. What did you say that name was? 224 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:21,400 Irving Adams. 225 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,400 Well, let me see that report. 226 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:27,400 Well, this Adams is a user. 227 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,400 He's up in county now waiting trial. 228 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:30,400 Are you sure about that? 229 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,400 Yeah, Walker and I picked him up. 230 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,400 I just talked to Adams up in the county jail this morning. 231 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:36,400 How long has he been in? 232 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,400 Well, let's see, uh... 233 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,400 It was last Tuesday, July 30th. 234 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,400 The car couldn't have been stolen from Adams today 235 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,400 if he's been in jail for a week. 236 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,400 There's one guy can figure it out for you, Adams. 237 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:51,400 4.05 p.m. 238 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,400 We went up to the 10th floor of the county jail, the interview room. 239 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,400 We talked to Irving Adams for an hour. 240 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:58,400 He said he wanted to cooperate, 241 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,400 but he couldn't explain his wife's action 242 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,400 in reporting the car stolen from him. 243 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,400 He kept repeating that he knew his wife was not involved in anything, 244 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,400 that she was innocent of any complicity 245 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,400 in the case of the youthful gunman. 246 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,400 He could give us no information on anyone 247 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,400 fitting the gunman's description. 248 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,400 He insisted that the entire matter was a mistake 249 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,400 and that his wife could clear everything up 250 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,400 if we just talked to her. 251 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:20,400 5.20 p.m. 252 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,400 Ben and I drove out to 239 West 92nd Street, the Adams residence. 253 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,400 It was a small white bungalow trimmed in red. 254 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,400 The front lawn needed cutting and care. 255 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,400 There were four bottles of soured milk on the front porch 256 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,400 along with several old newspapers. 257 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,400 The front blinds were down. 258 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,400 Although it was still early, the front porch light was burning. 259 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,400 The other homes in the neighborhood 260 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,400 appeared to be neat and well-kept. 261 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,400 The screen door was ajar and supported by one rusty hinge. 262 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,400 5.21 p.m. 263 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:51,400 Looks like nobody's home. 264 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,400 Well, let's give it a try, huh? 265 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:54,400 Give me a minute, I'll cover the back. 266 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:55,400 Right. 267 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:56,400 Come on. 268 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:13,400 Yes? 269 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,400 Police officer, my name's Friday. You're Mrs. Irving Adams? 270 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:16,400 Yes, that's right. 271 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,400 Well, I'd like to talk to you about your stolen car. 272 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:19,400 Have you found it? 273 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,400 Yes, we have. Can I come in? 274 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,400 The place is in such a mess. Can't we talk here? 275 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,400 Well, if you don't mind, I'd rather come inside. 276 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,400 All right. Don't look at the house. 277 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,400 I've been kind of sick. 278 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,400 Haven't felt much like cleaning up. 279 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:35,400 All right. 280 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,400 You alone here, are you? 281 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,400 Right now, my husband's at work. 282 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,400 Mind if I go through the house? 283 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,400 You mean search it? You got a warrant? 284 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:47,400 No, I just want to go to the back door. 285 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:48,400 What for? 286 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,400 Well, my partner's around back there. 287 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,400 This is the way to the back door here? 288 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:55,400 That's right. 289 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:56,400 This is? 290 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:57,400 It's locked. Keys in the door. 291 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:58,400 All right. 292 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:03,400 Hey, Ben? 293 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:04,400 Yeah, everything all right? 294 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:05,400 Yeah, fine. 295 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,400 Is he a police officer too? 296 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:08,400 Yeah, that's right. 297 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,400 Is this all there is to the house here? 298 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:11,400 What do you mean? 299 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,400 Well, just these three rooms here. 300 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:14,400 Yes, that's all. 301 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,400 I thought you said you were alone here. 302 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:17,400 I am. 303 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,400 Who's that woman lying down in the other room? 304 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,400 That's Katherine. 305 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,400 I didn't want you bothering her. 306 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,400 She's been sick too. 307 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,400 She sleeps most of the time. 308 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,400 I just forgot about her. 309 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,400 Anybody else around? 310 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,400 No, nobody. 311 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:36,400 No, I mean anybody sick or otherwise. 312 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,400 Anyone besides you and this girl in there? 313 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:42,400 Well, you've been in every room in the house except the bathroom. 314 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:43,400 This it here? 315 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,400 Yes. 316 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,400 Okay. 317 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,400 I don't understand all this. 318 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:00,400 I reported my car stolen and you come out here and search my house. 319 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,400 If I did steal my car, I wouldn't hide it in here. 320 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:04,400 Yeah. 321 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,400 Ben, want to come in? 322 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:09,400 Yeah. 323 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,400 Could you tell me something? 324 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:12,400 Yeah. 325 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:13,400 Why are you here? 326 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,400 Well, I told you we'd find your car. 327 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:16,400 This is Sergeant Romero. 328 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:17,400 How do you do? 329 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,400 What's the trouble? 330 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:20,400 Anything wrong? 331 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,400 Who did you say your car was stolen from? 332 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,400 From me. 333 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:25,400 It was my car. 334 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,400 Is that the way you made the report, Mrs. Adams, it was stolen from you? 335 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:30,400 I think so, yes. 336 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,400 Mrs. Adams, according to the report that you made out this morning, 337 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,400 you stated that the car was stolen from your husband, isn't that right? 338 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,400 Is that what I said? 339 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,400 Yes, ma'am, that's right. 340 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,400 I don't remember. 341 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,400 We both used the car so much. 342 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:45,400 I forgot. 343 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:47,400 Well, now, which is it, you or your husband? 344 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,400 I'm not sure. 345 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,400 You been drinking, Havey? 346 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,400 A little bit, just ease my nerves. 347 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,400 I haven't been feeling well. 348 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:00,400 It's obvious you're not drunk, Mrs. Adams. 349 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,400 Why don't you keep your story straight? 350 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,400 Well, officers, I am telling the truth. 351 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,400 Your husband's in the county jail. He's been there for a week. 352 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,400 The car couldn't have been stolen from him, now, could it? 353 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,400 I didn't say it was stolen from him. 354 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,400 Is this your signature, Mrs. Adams? 355 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:18,400 Yes, sir. 356 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,400 This is a copy of the auto theft report that you made at the Wilshire division. 357 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:23,400 Yes. 358 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,400 Well, now, is this report a true one or a false one? 359 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,400 There's a penalty for making a false report, Mrs. Adams. 360 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,400 I'm sure you're aware of that. 361 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:30,400 I only want my car back. 362 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,400 Who was it stolen from? 363 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,400 Whatever it says there, my husband. 364 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,400 We just told you that he's in jail. He's still in there. 365 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:39,400 We just talked to him. 366 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:42,400 The car couldn't have been stolen from him. 367 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,400 Have you got anything to say to that? 368 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,400 No. 369 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,400 Well, I think we'd better go downtown where you can sit and straighten yourself out 370 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:50,400 and give us some right answers. 371 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,400 I don't want to go to jail. 372 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,400 That's just where you're going if you don't snap out of it and come up with the truth. 373 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:58,400 I know who you want. 374 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,400 It's Rex Burley, isn't it? 375 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,400 Who's Rex Burley? 376 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,400 Young kid, blond, small. 377 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,400 He told me he was in some kind of trouble with the car. 378 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:10,400 He said if I tell the police it was stolen, it'd be all right that way. 379 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:11,400 Do you know where he is now? 380 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:12,400 No, I don't. 381 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:13,400 Are you sure about that? 382 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:14,400 That's the truth. 383 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:15,400 Yeah? Come on. 384 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,400 Yeah. 385 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,400 Catherine's awful sick. 386 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,400 She always sleep this heavy? 387 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:23,400 Only when she's sick. 388 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:24,400 She's really out, isn't she? 389 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:25,400 Yeah. 390 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:26,400 Look at her leg. 391 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:27,400 Yeah. She's a user. 392 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,400 Say, this girl's on narcotics, Mrs. Adams. Are you a user? 393 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,400 No, I'm not. 394 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,400 I don't know where Catherine gets it. 395 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:35,400 How about Rex Burley? 396 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,400 He's on it, too. 397 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:38,400 Maybe she gets it from him. 398 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,400 Is there any stuff in the house now? 399 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:41,400 Not that I know of. 400 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,400 You want to tell us where Rex Burley is? 401 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,400 I don't know. 402 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,400 He called here about an hour ago. 403 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:48,400 Catherine talked to him. 404 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,400 Did he tell her where he was? 405 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:51,400 Yes, he did. 406 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,400 She wrote it down on a piece of paper. 407 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:54,400 Where's that paper? 408 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,400 Under her pillow. 409 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:09,400 You are listening to Dragnet. 410 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:15,400 From beginning to end, Dragnet is the authentic story of your police force in action. 411 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,400 Now from beginning to end, the Fatima story. 412 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:24,400 Actual convincing proof that in Fatima, the difference is quality. 413 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:25,400 Quality of tobaccos. 414 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,400 The finest domestic and Turkish varieties. 415 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:35,400 Extra mild and superbly blended to give you a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 416 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,400 Quality of manufacture. 417 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,400 Smooth, round, perfect cigarettes. 418 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,400 Rolled in the finest paper money can buy. 419 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:47,400 Manufactured in the newest and most modern of all cigarette factories. 420 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:53,400 Quality even to the appearance of the bright, clean, gold 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7th, 6.30 p.m. 434 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,400 The young girl who was identified as Catherine Dorrance was awakened 435 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,400 and she produced Rex Burley's address. 436 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,400 She stated that she'd known him for the past year. 437 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,400 She had just graduated from high school and gave her age as 18. 438 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,400 And talking further with both Iris Adams and Catherine Dorrance, 439 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,400 we found that the description of Rex Burley checked out with that given us 440 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:06,400 from the suspect's victims. 441 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,400 They both stated that as far as they knew, it was his true name, 442 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,400 that he had no friends or associates known to them. 443 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,400 A check with RNI showed no record on the name Rex Burley. 444 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,400 At 6.37 p.m. Sergeants Hall and Walker from Narcotics Division arrived 445 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:24,400 and continued the investigation of the two female suspects. 446 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,400 A stakeout was placed on the house at 239 West 92nd Street. 447 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,400 The address we got from Catherine Dorrance was a hotel on Washington Boulevard. 448 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,400 We drove out and checked with the clerk. 449 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,400 We asked if he had anyone registered under the name of Rex Burley 450 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:38,400 and he told us no. 451 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,400 We gave him Burley's description. 452 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,400 He said that a young man similar to that had registered and was in room 210. 453 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,400 We got a passkey from the clerk. 454 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:52,400 We walked up to the second floor. 455 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,400 This is it. 456 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,400 Lights on under the door. 457 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,400 Yeah. Careful, huh? 458 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,400 Yeah. 459 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,400 Who is it? 460 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:04,400 Open up. We want to talk to you. 461 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:05,400 What about? 462 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:06,400 There's the key in the door. 463 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,400 Yeah. Passkey's no good. 464 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,400 All right. Come on. Open up. Police officers. 465 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,400 He's not gonna open. 466 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,400 All right. Let's hit it. 467 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,400 All right. Again. 468 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,400 Once more. Yeah. 469 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,400 The window's open. 470 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:25,400 Up the fire escape, Joe. 471 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,400 Police officers. Hold it up. Watch it. 472 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,400 You all right? Yeah. All right. Come on. Let's go. 473 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,400 All right. Hold it up there. 474 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,400 He doesn't want to stop. He's over the side, under the roof. 475 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,400 All right. Come on. 476 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,400 All right. Easy. 477 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,400 Seem? No. It's pretty dark. 478 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,400 All right. Come on. Easy now. 479 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,400 All right. Easy. 480 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,400 Over there. On that side. Can you see him? 481 00:18:58,400 --> 00:18:59,400 No. It's too dark. 482 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,400 Watch that skyline. He's over there in that corner. 483 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,400 See him? 484 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,400 Yeah. Now he's gone. 485 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,400 Must've ducked back down. 486 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:09,400 Well, he's in that corner. 487 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,400 All right. Let's take him. Now, keep down. 488 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,400 You circle around from that side. I'll go around this way. 489 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:21,400 All right. Be careful. Keep down. 490 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,400 Don't shoot. Don't shoot. I said, please don't shoot. 491 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,400 All right. Throw that gun out. Get your hands in the air. 492 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,400 Walk toward the middle of the roof. 493 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,400 All right. All right. Here's the gun. 494 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,400 I see him, Joe. I got him covered. 495 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:45,400 You all right? Yeah. All right. Keep those hands up. 496 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,400 All right. Stand still. 497 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,400 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 498 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,400 All right. Get your hands behind you. Ben. 499 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:57,400 Let's go, Burleigh. 500 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:02,400 I didn't mean to do it. I was wrong. I know I was wrong. 501 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,400 You should've thought about that a long time ago. 502 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,400 How old are you, Burleigh? 503 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,400 Twenty. 504 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,400 You're living pretty high, aren't you? 505 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,400 I had to have this stuff. I needed it. 506 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:18,400 How else could I get it? I didn't have the money to buy it. 507 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,400 You didn't have to get started on it. Come on. Let's go. 508 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,400 I didn't want to get started. 509 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:27,400 All of a sudden, I was just on it. I couldn't do anything about it. 510 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:34,400 You don't understand. There was just somebody else to explain it to. 511 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,400 There is, but they won't understand it either. 512 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,400 Monday, August 7th, 840 p.m. 513 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:49,400 Rex Burleigh was taken downtown to the robbery division for further interrogation. 514 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,400 He told us that he was in his senior year in high school when he got started on narcotics. 515 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,400 He kept repeating that he didn't mean to get started. 516 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,400 He readily admitted his participation in six narcotics robberies. 517 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:05,400 He told us that he got Catherine Dorrance, his 18-year-old girlfriend, started on dope. 518 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,400 Gene Bechdel took his statement and a complete report was made. 519 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,400 A partial recovery of the stolen narcotics was made from his hotel room. 520 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:17,400 The remainder had been found at Irving Adams residence on 92nd Street. 521 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:23,400 Both female suspects, Iris Adams and Catherine Dorrance, were filed on for violation of the State Narcotics Act. 522 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:29,400 A show-up was scheduled for August 8th to allow a positive identification from Rex Burleigh's victims. 523 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,400 We received word from Georgia Street that Dr. Gannon's condition was improved. 524 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,400 The suspect was transported to the main jail where he was booked. 525 00:21:37,400 --> 00:22:00,400 It was 10.38 p.m. when I got to 1456 Collis Avenue, the front door. 526 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,400 Joseph, is that you? 527 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,400 Yeah, Ma. 528 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,400 Have you had your dinner? 529 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:11,400 I'll have to eat. I'll fix you something. 530 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,400 I'm kind of tired. I'd just like to sit down for a minute. 531 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,400 All right. There's evening paper. 532 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,400 Oh, thank you. 533 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,400 What did you do to the sleeve of your coat? 534 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,400 Oh, well, I guess I must have ripped it, huh? 535 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,400 You'll slip it off. I'll mend it after I fix you some dinner. 536 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,400 Why don't you sit down and work on it now if you want to? 537 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,400 I've got something I'd kind of like to go over with you. 538 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,400 All right. 539 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,400 You remember that telegram from Belmont this morning? 540 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,400 Yeah, your old high school. 541 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,400 Well, I think I got an idea for a speech, maybe. 542 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:46,400 I just made a few notes here, wrote down some of it. 543 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,400 You think you'd feel like listening to it, see if it's okay? 544 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,400 All right. Direct speech today? 545 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,400 Well, just parts of it. I hadn't written it clear out yet. 546 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,400 I just got a few notes. I want to see what you thought of it. 547 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,400 All right. Well, let me have your coat, son. 548 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,400 Yeah. 549 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,400 There you go. 550 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,400 Thank you. 551 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,400 Now let's hear you talk. 552 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,400 Well, remember, it's not written down yet. 553 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,400 It's just kind of hit and miss as I go along, 554 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,400 but I think I can get the thought across, 555 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,400 and then I'll put it all down on paper. 556 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,400 All right. 557 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,400 Um, Mr. Fisher, that's the principal up there, you know? 558 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,400 Yes. 559 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,400 Mr. Fisher, members of the faculty and students. 560 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,400 I'd like to tell you about a young boy who started out in high school 561 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,400 and ended up on the roof of a downtown hotel 562 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,400 dodging police bullets. 563 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,400 I'd like to tell you about his girlfriend, 564 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,400 18 years old and a dope addict. 565 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,400 This young fellow started out on narcotics 566 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,400 in search of a new thrill, 567 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,400 something new that he hadn't experienced in his young life. 568 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,400 He was still in high school 569 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,400 when a group of the more high-living youngsters 570 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,400 used to congregate at the local malt shop. 571 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,400 That's not so good, is it? 572 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,400 Well, maybe it's not better this way. 573 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,400 There was a malt shop on the corner 574 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,400 where some of the youngsters used to get together after school, 575 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,400 kind of a place where if you had the right connections, 576 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,400 and our young boy and girl did, 577 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,400 you could get a drink of liquor in the back room. 578 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:20,400 Well, the high school faculty knows all about this local malt shop, 579 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,400 and they inform the authorities, and pressure is brought to bear, 580 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,400 but the man who operates the place is clever. 581 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,400 If you can call the operations of a man like this clever, 582 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,400 he knows how to cover up, 583 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,400 how to keep the front room legitimate 584 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,400 and the back room a spawning place for juvenile delinquency. 585 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,400 And the students don't help much. 586 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,400 There seems to be something during the formation of a juvenile mind 587 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,400 that when his teachers or his parents catch him doing wrong, 588 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,400 or they try to tell him it's bad, 589 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,400 he prides himself in seeing how long he can get away with it under covers. 590 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:59,400 It seems to be the stylish thing to do to outwit your parents and teachers. 591 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,400 As the youngsters grow older, 592 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,400 they invariably find out how infantile and stupid this is, 593 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,400 but sometimes it's too late. 594 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,400 That sounds kind of stuffy, Ma. What do you think? 595 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,400 Sounds like the truth. Let me hear the rest of it. 596 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:13,400 You know how kids are. 597 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,400 Sometimes they resent it if they think you're lecturing them. 598 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,400 They could have been with Ben and I tonight. 599 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,400 It might make a difference. 600 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,400 Why don't I make this too long? 601 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,400 I don't want to make a mess of something like this. 602 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,400 From this malt shop on the corner, in that back room, 603 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,400 our young boy gets a good shove down the road of self-degradation. 604 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,400 He has the right connections. 605 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,400 It isn't too long before he graduates the liquor in the back room 606 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,400 for something he thinks is far better, narcotics. 607 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,400 He's heard that, unlike liquor, you can't smell it on his breath. 608 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,400 He's a real veteran now. He has hangovers. 609 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,400 He's heard that narcotics doesn't leave you with a hangover. 610 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:56,400 It doesn't take too long before, in our police parlance, he's hooked. 611 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,400 Living in this day and age, he thought that they taught him well 612 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,400 in his economics and civics classes. 613 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,400 He thought he knew what post-war inflation was all about. 614 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,400 He didn't have the vaguest notion of the cost of his daily supply of narcotics 615 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,400 once he was hooked on it. 616 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:15,400 He found that before long he had to have his daily dosage. 617 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,400 In no time at all, he found that it was all he could do to get by on $30 a day. 618 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,400 That's what it cost him. 619 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,400 $30 each and every day, or he became violently ill, 620 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,400 so sick that he couldn't seem to function properly. 621 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,400 Well, in order to maintain his daily needs, he got a gun, and he robbed, 622 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,400 and he beat people, and he stole. 623 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,400 He shared with his girlfriend, and he dragged her down with him. 624 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,400 He ended up on the roof of a hotel trying to shoot his way out. 625 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,400 When the boy was 20 years old, his girlfriend was 18. 626 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,400 Two years ago, they both sat out there in a high school auditorium 627 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,400 during an assembly. 628 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,400 He went a long way, didn't he, in his two years out of high school? 629 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,400 He was taken into custody on the night of August 7th. 630 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,400 He was crying when we put the handcuffs on him. 631 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,400 He was crying when we left him in his cell at the county jail. 632 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,400 I guess he's still crying. 633 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,400 Now, what do you think, Mom? 634 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,400 That's just rough, I haven't... 635 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,400 Oh, will they believe it? 636 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,400 You think it'll do any good? 637 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,400 Well, I don't know, Ma. 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