WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.680 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:10.680 --> 00:13.240 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:13.240 --> 00:14.960 Fatima cigarettes. 00:14.960 --> 00:25.360 Best of all, long cigarettes brings you dragnet. 00:25.360 --> 00:26.360 You're a detective sergeant. 00:26.360 --> 00:28.960 You're assigned to robbery detail. 00:28.960 --> 00:33.440 A doctor is severely beaten, robbed, and left in critical condition. 00:33.440 --> 00:36.320 Suspicion points to a narcotics addict. 00:36.320 --> 00:42.240 Your job, get him. 00:42.240 --> 00:46.400 You'll be amazed when you compare Fatima with other long cigarettes. 00:46.400 --> 00:49.160 You'll find they now cost the same. 00:49.160 --> 00:52.680 But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 00:52.680 --> 00:56.400 You see, Fatima is the quality king-size cigarette. 00:56.400 --> 01:01.360 Because it contains the finest domestic and Turkish tobacco superbly blended. 01:01.360 --> 01:03.000 And Fatima is extra mild. 01:03.000 --> 01:08.240 With a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. 01:08.240 --> 01:11.320 So compare Fatima yourself. 01:11.320 --> 01:14.360 Fatima's now cost the same as other long cigarettes. 01:14.360 --> 01:16.840 But your first puff will tell you. 01:16.840 --> 01:19.040 Ah, that's different. 01:19.040 --> 01:22.920 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 01:22.920 --> 01:25.280 Ask your dealer for Fatima. 01:25.280 --> 01:28.120 For quality king-size cigarette. 01:28.120 --> 01:30.720 Best of all, long cigarettes. 01:30.720 --> 01:33.840 Start enjoying Fatima tomorrow. 01:33.840 --> 01:41.880 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:41.880 --> 01:46.560 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:46.560 --> 01:51.040 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:51.040 --> 01:52.680 police files. 01:52.680 --> 01:57.720 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:57.720 --> 01:59.920 in action. 01:59.920 --> 02:05.840 It was Monday, August 7th. 02:05.840 --> 02:07.360 It was warm in Los Angeles. 02:07.360 --> 02:10.400 We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 02:10.400 --> 02:13.560 My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 02:13.560 --> 02:14.560 My name's Friday. 02:14.560 --> 02:19.200 It was 1.15 p.m. when I got to 4656 Collis Avenue. 02:19.200 --> 02:22.200 The front door. 02:22.200 --> 02:25.840 Is that you, Joseph? 02:25.840 --> 02:28.040 Yeah, Ma, it's me. 02:28.040 --> 02:30.440 I didn't expect you so soon. 02:30.440 --> 02:33.200 Well, I'm off for lunch and Ben and I were in the neighborhood, so. 02:33.200 --> 02:35.160 Oh, well, I'll get the telegram. 02:35.160 --> 02:36.160 Thank you. 02:36.160 --> 02:40.000 I must say, I'm glad you couldn't get home. 02:40.000 --> 02:41.840 Telegrams always make me nervous. 02:41.840 --> 02:44.680 Nobody ever sends a telegram unless it's important here, son. 02:44.680 --> 02:45.680 Thank you. 02:45.680 --> 02:46.680 Yes, they do, Ma. 02:46.680 --> 02:50.000 Some people send wires to invite you to lunch or to a reception or something like that. 02:50.000 --> 02:51.000 Is that so? 02:51.000 --> 02:52.880 Sure, you just forgot, haven't you? 02:52.880 --> 02:54.360 I've gotten them before like that. 02:54.360 --> 02:56.240 It's no way to do anyhow. 02:56.240 --> 02:57.240 Why not? 02:57.240 --> 03:00.640 People always associate frightening things with telegrams. 03:00.640 --> 03:03.880 Well, aren't you going to open it? 03:03.880 --> 03:04.880 Oh, yeah, sure. 03:04.880 --> 03:06.920 Well, if you were worried, you could open it, Ma. 03:06.920 --> 03:07.920 I've been all right. 03:07.920 --> 03:15.160 You know I never open anything addressed to you, Joseph. 03:15.160 --> 03:16.160 Anything important? 03:16.160 --> 03:18.200 It's from Belmont, my old high school. 03:18.200 --> 03:19.200 Oh, yeah. 03:19.200 --> 03:22.240 They want me to come up next week, they're having some sort of assembly up there. 03:22.240 --> 03:24.160 They want me to talk to the student body. 03:24.160 --> 03:25.160 Oh, that's nice. 03:25.160 --> 03:26.160 You going to go? 03:26.160 --> 03:27.160 Yeah, I think I better, don't you? 03:27.160 --> 03:30.160 I'll have to clear it through Captain Sheldon, though. 03:30.160 --> 03:32.720 I think it's awfully nice for them to remember you. 03:32.720 --> 03:35.120 What are you going to talk on, does it say? 03:35.120 --> 03:36.560 Yeah, police work, it says here. 03:36.560 --> 03:38.840 I'll have to think of something to base it on, though, won't I? 03:38.840 --> 03:40.520 You'll have to memorize it, Joseph. 03:40.520 --> 03:44.200 It doesn't look well for a man to stand up on a platform and read a prepared talk. 03:44.200 --> 03:45.200 Yeah, I know. 03:45.200 --> 03:46.200 Well, that's Ben. 03:46.200 --> 03:47.200 I've got to go, Ma. 03:47.200 --> 03:49.000 Would you and Ben like some lunch? 03:49.000 --> 03:50.760 I can fix you something in about a minute. 03:50.760 --> 03:51.760 No, we haven't got time, dear. 03:51.760 --> 03:52.760 I'll see you later. 03:52.760 --> 03:55.760 I don't know why they couldn't have written a letter instead. 03:55.760 --> 03:56.760 What's that, Ma? 03:56.760 --> 04:00.800 I said they could have written you a letter, besides it's much cheaper than a telegram. 04:00.800 --> 04:03.800 Yeah, Ma, I'll see you later. 04:03.800 --> 04:06.800 Bye, Joseph. 04:06.800 --> 04:08.800 Bye. 04:08.800 --> 04:12.040 Just got a call, Joe. 04:12.040 --> 04:13.040 They want us to call the office. 04:13.040 --> 04:15.040 Oh, well, I might as well do it from the house, huh? 04:15.040 --> 04:16.040 Yeah. 04:16.040 --> 04:17.040 All right, I'll be right back. 04:17.040 --> 04:18.040 Right. 04:18.040 --> 04:25.100 It's just me again, Ma. 04:25.100 --> 04:35.400 Came back to use the phone. 04:35.400 --> 04:38.400 2511 please. 04:38.400 --> 04:39.400 2511. 04:39.400 --> 04:40.400 This is Friday, Glen. 04:40.400 --> 04:41.400 Got one for you, Joe. 04:41.400 --> 04:42.400 What? 04:42.400 --> 04:43.400 I can't hear you, Glen. 04:43.400 --> 04:44.400 Got one for you. 04:44.400 --> 04:45.400 Wait a minute, I can't hear you. 04:45.400 --> 04:48.400 Hey, Ma, would you hold that vacuum for a minute, please? 04:48.400 --> 04:49.400 I can't hear. 04:49.400 --> 04:50.400 Oh, all right, Chris. 04:50.400 --> 04:51.400 Thank you. 04:51.400 --> 04:52.400 I'm sorry, Glen. 04:52.400 --> 04:53.400 What did you say again? 04:53.400 --> 04:54.400 That young kid hit again. 04:54.400 --> 04:55.400 He hit again. 04:55.400 --> 04:56.400 He hit again. 04:56.400 --> 04:57.400 He hit again. 04:57.400 --> 04:58.400 He hit again. 04:58.400 --> 04:59.400 He hit again. 04:59.400 --> 05:00.400 He hit again. 05:00.400 --> 05:01.400 He hit again. 05:01.400 --> 05:02.400 He hit again. 05:02.400 --> 05:03.400 He hit again. 05:03.400 --> 05:04.400 He hit again. 05:04.400 --> 05:05.400 He hit again. 05:05.400 --> 05:06.400 He hit again. 05:06.400 --> 05:07.400 He hit again. 05:07.400 --> 05:08.400 He hit again. 05:08.400 --> 05:09.400 He hit again. 05:09.400 --> 05:10.400 He hit again. 05:10.400 --> 05:11.400 He hit again. 05:11.400 --> 05:12.400 He hit again. 05:12.400 --> 05:13.400 He hit again. 05:13.400 --> 05:14.400 He hit again. 05:14.400 --> 05:15.400 He hit again. 05:15.400 --> 05:16.400 He hit again. 05:16.400 --> 05:17.400 He hit again. 05:17.400 --> 05:18.400 He hit again. 05:18.400 --> 05:19.400 He hit again. 05:19.400 --> 05:20.400 He hit again. 05:20.400 --> 05:21.400 He hit again. 05:21.400 --> 05:22.400 He hit again. 05:22.400 --> 05:23.400 He hit again. 05:23.400 --> 05:24.400 He hit again. 05:24.400 --> 05:25.400 He hit again. 05:25.400 --> 05:26.400 He hit again. 05:26.400 --> 05:27.400 He hit again. 05:27.400 --> 05:28.400 Toy, mother, what's that guy shooting? 05:28.400 --> 05:29.400 It. 05:29.400 --> 05:30.400 Almost. 05:30.400 --> 05:31.400 fairly heavy hit. 05:31.400 --> 05:32.400 Oscar. 05:32.400 --> 05:33.400 Anything? 05:33.400 --> 05:34.400 Yeah. 05:34.400 --> 05:36.400 That young hype hit again. 05:36.400 --> 05:38.400 Doctor's office beat him up pretty bad. 05:38.400 --> 05:39.400 He's down at Georgia. 05:39.400 --> 05:41.400 Great combination, isn't it, Joe? 05:41.400 --> 05:42.400 What's that? 05:42.400 --> 05:47.400 Arm full of narcotics and a loaded gun. 05:47.400 --> 05:51.400 Monday, August 7th. 05:51.400 --> 05:56.400 Since June 27th, Ben and I had been assigned to a case involving a young narcotics thief. 05:56.400 --> 05:59.400 For seven weeks now, he'd been robbing every possible source of drugs. 05:59.400 --> 06:04.400 For seven weeks now, he'd been robbing every possible source available to him of narcotics. 06:04.400 --> 06:09.400 Since the inception of the investigation, we'd seen this young criminal develop from a small-time sneak thief 06:09.400 --> 06:12.400 to a full-fledged armed and vicious thug. 06:12.400 --> 06:16.400 The descriptions of the young thief taken from his various victims tallied almost to the letter. 06:16.400 --> 06:23.400 Blonde, light complexion, small stature, 5'7 to 5'10, nervous and unusually juvenile in appearance. 06:23.400 --> 06:26.400 Everything possible was being done for his quick apprehension. 06:26.400 --> 06:29.400 Hundreds of mug shots were screened and shown to victims. 06:29.400 --> 06:31.400 No identification. 06:31.400 --> 06:34.400 3.30 p.m. We checked back in at the office. 06:34.400 --> 06:36.400 Went to see Sergeant Ed Hall, Narcotics Division. 06:36.400 --> 06:39.400 Chandler said you went over to Georgia Street to see that doctor. 06:39.400 --> 06:40.400 Yeah, that's right, Ed. 06:40.400 --> 06:42.400 Short visit, poor guy. 06:42.400 --> 06:43.400 Pretty bad, huh? 06:43.400 --> 06:44.400 The guy's really a mess. 06:44.400 --> 06:46.400 Kid must have worked overtime on him. 06:46.400 --> 06:47.400 And what's his condition? 06:47.400 --> 06:49.400 Still critical, and we laugh. 06:49.400 --> 06:50.400 They wouldn't let us stay long. 06:50.400 --> 06:52.400 We got a description. It's the same kid. 06:52.400 --> 06:55.400 Doctor's name was Gannon, huh? 55 years old. 06:55.400 --> 06:57.400 Yeah, pistol whipped him. 06:57.400 --> 06:59.400 Knocked out seven of his teeth, fractured his jaw. 06:59.400 --> 07:00.400 Doctor was wearing glasses. 07:00.400 --> 07:03.400 They don't know if he'll see out of his right eye anymore. 07:03.400 --> 07:05.400 Well, this puts Junior in the big leagues now. 07:05.400 --> 07:06.400 Yeah, it sure does. 07:06.400 --> 07:09.400 We got out of supplementary all points on him. 07:09.400 --> 07:12.400 Here's a list of the junk that he got. It's quite a haul here. 07:12.400 --> 07:14.400 Yeah. 07:14.400 --> 07:15.400 Hmm. 07:15.400 --> 07:19.400 Morphine quarter grain, 30 vials. 07:19.400 --> 07:22.400 Five vials, half grain coating. 07:22.400 --> 07:25.400 Dolophine quarter grain, six vials. 07:25.400 --> 07:27.400 Hmm. 07:27.400 --> 07:29.400 Yeah, he did all right. Long list here. 07:29.400 --> 07:30.400 We got that from the nurse. 07:30.400 --> 07:32.400 She was out to lunch when it happened. 07:32.400 --> 07:35.400 It's a small office out there, and the doctor closes up at noon. 07:35.400 --> 07:38.400 Nurse goes out to lunch, and he eats in the office. 07:38.400 --> 07:40.400 That's when the kid got to him. 07:40.400 --> 07:41.400 He knew when to hit, didn't he? 07:41.400 --> 07:42.400 Yeah. 07:42.400 --> 07:44.400 My boys haven't been able to turn up a thing for you. 07:44.400 --> 07:46.400 Nobody seems to know the kid. 07:46.400 --> 07:48.400 Well, the amount of stuff he hauled out of that doctor's office 07:48.400 --> 07:49.400 something ought to show, shouldn't it? 07:49.400 --> 07:52.400 Should, yeah, with a haul like that. 07:52.400 --> 07:53.400 You got anything at all to work on? 07:53.400 --> 07:56.400 Yeah, that car that was used on the job still got it staked out. 07:56.400 --> 07:58.400 Well, we'll just pick this up from the report counter. 07:58.400 --> 07:59.400 Yeah. 07:59.400 --> 08:00.400 Uh-huh. 08:00.400 --> 08:02.400 Car was reported stolen two hours after the robbery. 08:02.400 --> 08:04.400 It's a little bit of a break, huh? 08:04.400 --> 08:06.400 The report was taken out at the Wilshire station. 08:06.400 --> 08:09.400 Mrs. Irving Adams states that her husband had notified her 08:09.400 --> 08:12.400 that the car was stolen from him while he was at work today. 08:12.400 --> 08:15.400 Said he always parks it out in front on the street. 08:15.400 --> 08:16.400 We haven't checked it out yet, 08:16.400 --> 08:18.400 but we figured it was a good place to start, Mamie. 08:18.400 --> 08:20.400 Wait a minute. What did you say that name was? 08:20.400 --> 08:21.400 Irving Adams. 08:21.400 --> 08:23.400 Well, let me see that report. 08:26.400 --> 08:27.400 Well, this Adams is a user. 08:27.400 --> 08:29.400 He's up in county now waiting trial. 08:29.400 --> 08:30.400 Are you sure about that? 08:30.400 --> 08:32.400 Yeah, Walker and I picked him up. 08:32.400 --> 08:35.400 I just talked to Adams up in the county jail this morning. 08:35.400 --> 08:36.400 How long has he been in? 08:36.400 --> 08:38.400 Well, let's see, uh... 08:38.400 --> 08:41.400 It was last Tuesday, July 30th. 08:41.400 --> 08:43.400 The car couldn't have been stolen from Adams today 08:43.400 --> 08:45.400 if he's been in jail for a week. 08:45.400 --> 08:48.400 There's one guy can figure it out for you, Adams. 08:50.400 --> 08:51.400 4.05 p.m. 08:51.400 --> 08:54.400 We went up to the 10th floor of the county jail, the interview room. 08:54.400 --> 08:57.400 We talked to Irving Adams for an hour. 08:57.400 --> 08:58.400 He said he wanted to cooperate, 08:58.400 --> 09:00.400 but he couldn't explain his wife's action 09:00.400 --> 09:02.400 in reporting the car stolen from him. 09:02.400 --> 09:05.400 He kept repeating that he knew his wife was not involved in anything, 09:05.400 --> 09:07.400 that she was innocent of any complicity 09:07.400 --> 09:09.400 in the case of the youthful gunman. 09:09.400 --> 09:11.400 He could give us no information on anyone 09:11.400 --> 09:13.400 fitting the gunman's description. 09:13.400 --> 09:15.400 He insisted that the entire matter was a mistake 09:15.400 --> 09:17.400 and that his wife could clear everything up 09:17.400 --> 09:19.400 if we just talked to her. 09:19.400 --> 09:20.400 5.20 p.m. 09:20.400 --> 09:24.400 Ben and I drove out to 239 West 92nd Street, the Adams residence. 09:24.400 --> 09:26.400 It was a small white bungalow trimmed in red. 09:26.400 --> 09:28.400 The front lawn needed cutting and care. 09:28.400 --> 09:31.400 There were four bottles of soured milk on the front porch 09:31.400 --> 09:33.400 along with several old newspapers. 09:33.400 --> 09:35.400 The front blinds were down. 09:35.400 --> 09:38.400 Although it was still early, the front porch light was burning. 09:38.400 --> 09:40.400 The other homes in the neighborhood 09:40.400 --> 09:42.400 appeared to be neat and well-kept. 09:42.400 --> 09:46.400 The screen door was ajar and supported by one rusty hinge. 09:46.400 --> 09:48.400 5.21 p.m. 09:50.400 --> 09:51.400 Looks like nobody's home. 09:51.400 --> 09:53.400 Well, let's give it a try, huh? 09:53.400 --> 09:54.400 Give me a minute, I'll cover the back. 09:54.400 --> 09:55.400 Right. 09:55.400 --> 09:56.400 Come on. 10:12.400 --> 10:13.400 Yes? 10:13.400 --> 10:15.400 Police officer, my name's Friday. You're Mrs. Irving Adams? 10:15.400 --> 10:16.400 Yes, that's right. 10:16.400 --> 10:18.400 Well, I'd like to talk to you about your stolen car. 10:18.400 --> 10:19.400 Have you found it? 10:19.400 --> 10:21.400 Yes, we have. Can I come in? 10:21.400 --> 10:25.400 The place is in such a mess. Can't we talk here? 10:25.400 --> 10:27.400 Well, if you don't mind, I'd rather come inside. 10:27.400 --> 10:30.400 All right. Don't look at the house. 10:30.400 --> 10:32.400 I've been kind of sick. 10:32.400 --> 10:34.400 Haven't felt much like cleaning up. 10:34.400 --> 10:35.400 All right. 10:37.400 --> 10:39.400 You alone here, are you? 10:39.400 --> 10:41.400 Right now, my husband's at work. 10:41.400 --> 10:43.400 Mind if I go through the house? 10:43.400 --> 10:45.400 You mean search it? You got a warrant? 10:45.400 --> 10:47.400 No, I just want to go to the back door. 10:47.400 --> 10:48.400 What for? 10:48.400 --> 10:51.400 Well, my partner's around back there. 10:52.400 --> 10:54.400 This is the way to the back door here? 10:54.400 --> 10:55.400 That's right. 10:55.400 --> 10:56.400 This is? 10:56.400 --> 10:57.400 It's locked. Keys in the door. 10:57.400 --> 10:58.400 All right. 11:02.400 --> 11:03.400 Hey, Ben? 11:03.400 --> 11:04.400 Yeah, everything all right? 11:04.400 --> 11:05.400 Yeah, fine. 11:05.400 --> 11:07.400 Is he a police officer too? 11:07.400 --> 11:08.400 Yeah, that's right. 11:08.400 --> 11:10.400 Is this all there is to the house here? 11:10.400 --> 11:11.400 What do you mean? 11:11.400 --> 11:13.400 Well, just these three rooms here. 11:13.400 --> 11:14.400 Yes, that's all. 11:14.400 --> 11:16.400 I thought you said you were alone here. 11:16.400 --> 11:17.400 I am. 11:17.400 --> 11:19.400 Who's that woman lying down in the other room? 11:19.400 --> 11:21.400 That's Katherine. 11:22.400 --> 11:24.400 I didn't want you bothering her. 11:24.400 --> 11:26.400 She's been sick too. 11:26.400 --> 11:28.400 She sleeps most of the time. 11:28.400 --> 11:30.400 I just forgot about her. 11:30.400 --> 11:32.400 Anybody else around? 11:32.400 --> 11:34.400 No, nobody. 11:34.400 --> 11:36.400 No, I mean anybody sick or otherwise. 11:36.400 --> 11:38.400 Anyone besides you and this girl in there? 11:38.400 --> 11:42.400 Well, you've been in every room in the house except the bathroom. 11:42.400 --> 11:43.400 This it here? 11:43.400 --> 11:47.400 Yes. 11:51.400 --> 11:53.400 Okay. 11:53.400 --> 11:55.400 I don't understand all this. 11:55.400 --> 12:00.400 I reported my car stolen and you come out here and search my house. 12:00.400 --> 12:03.400 If I did steal my car, I wouldn't hide it in here. 12:03.400 --> 12:04.400 Yeah. 12:06.400 --> 12:08.400 Ben, want to come in? 12:08.400 --> 12:09.400 Yeah. 12:09.400 --> 12:11.400 Could you tell me something? 12:11.400 --> 12:12.400 Yeah. 12:12.400 --> 12:13.400 Why are you here? 12:13.400 --> 12:15.400 Well, I told you we'd find your car. 12:15.400 --> 12:16.400 This is Sergeant Romero. 12:16.400 --> 12:17.400 How do you do? 12:17.400 --> 12:19.400 What's the trouble? 12:19.400 --> 12:20.400 Anything wrong? 12:20.400 --> 12:22.400 Who did you say your car was stolen from? 12:22.400 --> 12:24.400 From me. 12:24.400 --> 12:25.400 It was my car. 12:25.400 --> 12:29.400 Is that the way you made the report, Mrs. Adams, it was stolen from you? 12:29.400 --> 12:30.400 I think so, yes. 12:30.400 --> 12:33.400 Mrs. Adams, according to the report that you made out this morning, 12:33.400 --> 12:36.400 you stated that the car was stolen from your husband, isn't that right? 12:36.400 --> 12:38.400 Is that what I said? 12:38.400 --> 12:40.400 Yes, ma'am, that's right. 12:40.400 --> 12:42.400 I don't remember. 12:42.400 --> 12:44.400 We both used the car so much. 12:44.400 --> 12:45.400 I forgot. 12:45.400 --> 12:47.400 Well, now, which is it, you or your husband? 12:47.400 --> 12:49.400 I'm not sure. 12:52.400 --> 12:54.400 You been drinking, Havey? 12:54.400 --> 12:56.400 A little bit, just ease my nerves. 12:56.400 --> 12:58.400 I haven't been feeling well. 12:58.400 --> 13:00.400 It's obvious you're not drunk, Mrs. Adams. 13:00.400 --> 13:02.400 Why don't you keep your story straight? 13:02.400 --> 13:05.400 Well, officers, I am telling the truth. 13:05.400 --> 13:08.400 Your husband's in the county jail. He's been there for a week. 13:08.400 --> 13:11.400 The car couldn't have been stolen from him, now, could it? 13:11.400 --> 13:14.400 I didn't say it was stolen from him. 13:14.400 --> 13:17.400 Is this your signature, Mrs. Adams? 13:17.400 --> 13:18.400 Yes, sir. 13:18.400 --> 13:22.400 This is a copy of the auto theft report that you made at the Wilshire division. 13:22.400 --> 13:23.400 Yes. 13:23.400 --> 13:25.400 Well, now, is this report a true one or a false one? 13:25.400 --> 13:27.400 There's a penalty for making a false report, Mrs. Adams. 13:27.400 --> 13:29.400 I'm sure you're aware of that. 13:29.400 --> 13:30.400 I only want my car back. 13:30.400 --> 13:32.400 Who was it stolen from? 13:32.400 --> 13:35.400 Whatever it says there, my husband. 13:35.400 --> 13:38.400 We just told you that he's in jail. He's still in there. 13:38.400 --> 13:39.400 We just talked to him. 13:39.400 --> 13:42.400 The car couldn't have been stolen from him. 13:42.400 --> 13:44.400 Have you got anything to say to that? 13:44.400 --> 13:46.400 No. 13:46.400 --> 13:49.400 Well, I think we'd better go downtown where you can sit and straighten yourself out 13:49.400 --> 13:50.400 and give us some right answers. 13:50.400 --> 13:52.400 I don't want to go to jail. 13:52.400 --> 13:56.400 That's just where you're going if you don't snap out of it and come up with the truth. 13:56.400 --> 13:58.400 I know who you want. 13:58.400 --> 14:00.400 It's Rex Burley, isn't it? 14:00.400 --> 14:02.400 Who's Rex Burley? 14:02.400 --> 14:04.400 Young kid, blond, small. 14:04.400 --> 14:06.400 He told me he was in some kind of trouble with the car. 14:06.400 --> 14:10.400 He said if I tell the police it was stolen, it'd be all right that way. 14:10.400 --> 14:11.400 Do you know where he is now? 14:11.400 --> 14:12.400 No, I don't. 14:12.400 --> 14:13.400 Are you sure about that? 14:13.400 --> 14:14.400 That's the truth. 14:14.400 --> 14:15.400 Yeah? Come on. 14:15.400 --> 14:18.400 Yeah. 14:18.400 --> 14:20.400 Catherine's awful sick. 14:20.400 --> 14:22.400 She always sleep this heavy? 14:22.400 --> 14:23.400 Only when she's sick. 14:23.400 --> 14:24.400 She's really out, isn't she? 14:24.400 --> 14:25.400 Yeah. 14:25.400 --> 14:26.400 Look at her leg. 14:26.400 --> 14:27.400 Yeah. She's a user. 14:27.400 --> 14:30.400 Say, this girl's on narcotics, Mrs. Adams. Are you a user? 14:30.400 --> 14:32.400 No, I'm not. 14:32.400 --> 14:34.400 I don't know where Catherine gets it. 14:34.400 --> 14:35.400 How about Rex Burley? 14:35.400 --> 14:37.400 He's on it, too. 14:37.400 --> 14:38.400 Maybe she gets it from him. 14:38.400 --> 14:40.400 Is there any stuff in the house now? 14:40.400 --> 14:41.400 Not that I know of. 14:41.400 --> 14:43.400 You want to tell us where Rex Burley is? 14:43.400 --> 14:45.400 I don't know. 14:45.400 --> 14:47.400 He called here about an hour ago. 14:47.400 --> 14:48.400 Catherine talked to him. 14:48.400 --> 14:50.400 Did he tell her where he was? 14:50.400 --> 14:51.400 Yes, he did. 14:51.400 --> 14:53.400 She wrote it down on a piece of paper. 14:53.400 --> 14:54.400 Where's that paper? 14:54.400 --> 14:57.400 Under her pillow. 14:57.400 --> 15:09.400 You are listening to Dragnet. 15:09.400 --> 15:15.400 From beginning to end, Dragnet is the authentic story of your police force in action. 15:15.400 --> 15:18.400 Now from beginning to end, the Fatima story. 15:18.400 --> 15:24.400 Actual convincing proof that in Fatima, the difference is quality. 15:24.400 --> 15:25.400 Quality of tobaccos. 15:25.400 --> 15:28.400 The finest domestic and Turkish varieties. 15:28.400 --> 15:35.400 Extra mild and superbly blended to give you a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 15:35.400 --> 15:37.400 Quality of manufacture. 15:37.400 --> 15:40.400 Smooth, round, perfect cigarettes. 15:40.400 --> 15:43.400 Rolled in the finest paper money can buy. 15:43.400 --> 15:47.400 Manufactured in the newest and most modern of all cigarette factories. 15:47.400 --> 15:53.400 Quality even to the appearance of the bright, clean, gold and yellow package. 15:53.400 --> 16:00.400 Carefully wrapped and sealed to bring you Fatima's rich, fresh, extra mild flavor. 16:00.400 --> 16:05.400 Because of its quality, its extra mildness, its better flavor and aroma, 16:05.400 --> 16:10.400 more long cigarette smokers are now insisting on Fatima than ever before. 16:10.400 --> 16:14.400 So if you smoke a long cigarette, compare Fatima. 16:14.400 --> 16:17.400 You'll find they now cost the same. 16:17.400 --> 16:20.400 But your first puff will tell you. 16:20.400 --> 16:23.400 Ah, that's different. 16:23.400 --> 16:27.400 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 16:27.400 --> 16:29.400 Insist on Fatima. 16:29.400 --> 16:33.400 Start enjoying the quality king size cigarette. 16:33.400 --> 16:34.400 Fatima. 16:34.400 --> 16:44.400 Best of all, long cigarettes. 16:44.400 --> 16:47.400 Monday, August 7th, 6.30 p.m. 16:47.400 --> 16:50.400 The young girl who was identified as Catherine Dorrance was awakened 16:50.400 --> 16:52.400 and she produced Rex Burley's address. 16:52.400 --> 16:55.400 She stated that she'd known him for the past year. 16:55.400 --> 16:58.400 She had just graduated from high school and gave her age as 18. 16:58.400 --> 17:01.400 And talking further with both Iris Adams and Catherine Dorrance, 17:01.400 --> 17:04.400 we found that the description of Rex Burley checked out with that given us 17:04.400 --> 17:06.400 from the suspect's victims. 17:06.400 --> 17:10.400 They both stated that as far as they knew, it was his true name, 17:10.400 --> 17:13.400 that he had no friends or associates known to them. 17:13.400 --> 17:16.400 A check with RNI showed no record on the name Rex Burley. 17:16.400 --> 17:20.400 At 6.37 p.m. Sergeants Hall and Walker from Narcotics Division arrived 17:20.400 --> 17:24.400 and continued the investigation of the two female suspects. 17:24.400 --> 17:28.400 A stakeout was placed on the house at 239 West 92nd Street. 17:28.400 --> 17:32.400 The address we got from Catherine Dorrance was a hotel on Washington Boulevard. 17:32.400 --> 17:34.400 We drove out and checked with the clerk. 17:34.400 --> 17:37.400 We asked if he had anyone registered under the name of Rex Burley 17:37.400 --> 17:38.400 and he told us no. 17:38.400 --> 17:40.400 We gave him Burley's description. 17:40.400 --> 17:43.400 He said that a young man similar to that had registered and was in room 210. 17:43.400 --> 17:45.400 We got a passkey from the clerk. 17:45.400 --> 17:52.400 We walked up to the second floor. 17:52.400 --> 17:54.400 This is it. 17:54.400 --> 17:56.400 Lights on under the door. 17:56.400 --> 17:58.400 Yeah. Careful, huh? 17:58.400 --> 18:00.400 Yeah. 18:00.400 --> 18:02.400 Who is it? 18:02.400 --> 18:04.400 Open up. We want to talk to you. 18:04.400 --> 18:05.400 What about? 18:05.400 --> 18:06.400 There's the key in the door. 18:06.400 --> 18:08.400 Yeah. Passkey's no good. 18:08.400 --> 18:11.400 All right. Come on. Open up. Police officers. 18:11.400 --> 18:13.400 He's not gonna open. 18:13.400 --> 18:16.400 All right. Let's hit it. 18:16.400 --> 18:18.400 All right. Again. 18:18.400 --> 18:21.400 Once more. Yeah. 18:21.400 --> 18:23.400 The window's open. 18:23.400 --> 18:25.400 Up the fire escape, Joe. 18:25.400 --> 18:27.400 Police officers. Hold it up. Watch it. 18:27.400 --> 18:30.400 You all right? Yeah. All right. Come on. Let's go. 18:32.400 --> 18:34.400 All right. Hold it up there. 18:34.400 --> 18:36.400 He doesn't want to stop. He's over the side, under the roof. 18:36.400 --> 18:38.400 All right. Come on. 18:42.400 --> 18:44.400 All right. Easy. 18:45.400 --> 18:48.400 Seem? No. It's pretty dark. 18:49.400 --> 18:51.400 All right. Come on. Easy now. 18:51.400 --> 18:53.400 All right. Easy. 18:56.400 --> 18:58.400 Over there. On that side. Can you see him? 18:58.400 --> 18:59.400 No. It's too dark. 18:59.400 --> 19:02.400 Watch that skyline. He's over there in that corner. 19:02.400 --> 19:04.400 See him? 19:04.400 --> 19:06.400 Yeah. Now he's gone. 19:06.400 --> 19:08.400 Must've ducked back down. 19:08.400 --> 19:09.400 Well, he's in that corner. 19:09.400 --> 19:11.400 All right. Let's take him. Now, keep down. 19:11.400 --> 19:13.400 You circle around from that side. I'll go around this way. 19:13.400 --> 19:21.400 All right. Be careful. Keep down. 19:22.400 --> 19:26.400 Don't shoot. Don't shoot. I said, please don't shoot. 19:26.400 --> 19:28.400 All right. Throw that gun out. Get your hands in the air. 19:28.400 --> 19:30.400 Walk toward the middle of the roof. 19:30.400 --> 19:33.400 All right. All right. Here's the gun. 19:35.400 --> 19:37.400 I see him, Joe. I got him covered. 19:37.400 --> 19:45.400 You all right? Yeah. All right. Keep those hands up. 19:48.400 --> 19:50.400 All right. Stand still. 19:50.400 --> 19:53.400 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 19:53.400 --> 19:55.400 All right. Get your hands behind you. Ben. 19:56.400 --> 19:57.400 Let's go, Burleigh. 19:57.400 --> 20:02.400 I didn't mean to do it. I was wrong. I know I was wrong. 20:02.400 --> 20:04.400 You should've thought about that a long time ago. 20:04.400 --> 20:06.400 How old are you, Burleigh? 20:06.400 --> 20:08.400 Twenty. 20:08.400 --> 20:10.400 You're living pretty high, aren't you? 20:10.400 --> 20:13.400 I had to have this stuff. I needed it. 20:13.400 --> 20:18.400 How else could I get it? I didn't have the money to buy it. 20:18.400 --> 20:20.400 You didn't have to get started on it. Come on. Let's go. 20:20.400 --> 20:22.400 I didn't want to get started. 20:22.400 --> 20:27.400 All of a sudden, I was just on it. I couldn't do anything about it. 20:27.400 --> 20:34.400 You don't understand. There was just somebody else to explain it to. 20:34.400 --> 20:36.400 There is, but they won't understand it either. 20:42.400 --> 20:44.400 Monday, August 7th, 840 p.m. 20:44.400 --> 20:49.400 Rex Burleigh was taken downtown to the robbery division for further interrogation. 20:49.400 --> 20:53.400 He told us that he was in his senior year in high school when he got started on narcotics. 20:53.400 --> 20:56.400 He kept repeating that he didn't mean to get started. 20:56.400 --> 21:00.400 He readily admitted his participation in six narcotics robberies. 21:00.400 --> 21:05.400 He told us that he got Catherine Dorrance, his 18-year-old girlfriend, started on dope. 21:05.400 --> 21:08.400 Gene Bechdel took his statement and a complete report was made. 21:08.400 --> 21:12.400 A partial recovery of the stolen narcotics was made from his hotel room. 21:12.400 --> 21:17.400 The remainder had been found at Irving Adams residence on 92nd Street. 21:17.400 --> 21:23.400 Both female suspects, Iris Adams and Catherine Dorrance, were filed on for violation of the State Narcotics Act. 21:23.400 --> 21:29.400 A show-up was scheduled for August 8th to allow a positive identification from Rex Burleigh's victims. 21:29.400 --> 21:33.400 We received word from Georgia Street that Dr. Gannon's condition was improved. 21:33.400 --> 21:37.400 The suspect was transported to the main jail where he was booked. 21:37.400 --> 22:00.400 It was 10.38 p.m. when I got to 1456 Collis Avenue, the front door. 22:00.400 --> 22:02.400 Joseph, is that you? 22:02.400 --> 22:04.400 Yeah, Ma. 22:04.400 --> 22:06.400 Have you had your dinner? 22:06.400 --> 22:11.400 I'll have to eat. I'll fix you something. 22:11.400 --> 22:14.400 I'm kind of tired. I'd just like to sit down for a minute. 22:14.400 --> 22:17.400 All right. There's evening paper. 22:17.400 --> 22:19.400 Oh, thank you. 22:19.400 --> 22:21.400 What did you do to the sleeve of your coat? 22:21.400 --> 22:24.400 Oh, well, I guess I must have ripped it, huh? 22:24.400 --> 22:27.400 You'll slip it off. I'll mend it after I fix you some dinner. 22:27.400 --> 22:29.400 Why don't you sit down and work on it now if you want to? 22:29.400 --> 22:31.400 I've got something I'd kind of like to go over with you. 22:31.400 --> 22:33.400 All right. 22:33.400 --> 22:35.400 You remember that telegram from Belmont this morning? 22:35.400 --> 22:37.400 Yeah, your old high school. 22:37.400 --> 22:40.400 Well, I think I got an idea for a speech, maybe. 22:40.400 --> 22:46.400 I just made a few notes here, wrote down some of it. 22:46.400 --> 22:49.400 You think you'd feel like listening to it, see if it's okay? 22:49.400 --> 22:52.400 All right. Direct speech today? 22:52.400 --> 22:54.400 Well, just parts of it. I hadn't written it clear out yet. 22:54.400 --> 22:56.400 I just got a few notes. I want to see what you thought of it. 22:56.400 --> 22:59.400 All right. Well, let me have your coat, son. 22:59.400 --> 23:01.400 Yeah. 23:01.400 --> 23:04.400 There you go. 23:04.400 --> 23:06.400 Thank you. 23:06.400 --> 23:08.400 Now let's hear you talk. 23:08.400 --> 23:10.400 Well, remember, it's not written down yet. 23:10.400 --> 23:12.400 It's just kind of hit and miss as I go along, 23:12.400 --> 23:14.400 but I think I can get the thought across, 23:14.400 --> 23:16.400 and then I'll put it all down on paper. 23:16.400 --> 23:18.400 All right. 23:18.400 --> 23:22.400 Um, Mr. Fisher, that's the principal up there, you know? 23:22.400 --> 23:24.400 Yes. 23:24.400 --> 23:27.400 Mr. Fisher, members of the faculty and students. 23:27.400 --> 23:31.400 I'd like to tell you about a young boy who started out in high school 23:31.400 --> 23:34.400 and ended up on the roof of a downtown hotel 23:34.400 --> 23:36.400 dodging police bullets. 23:36.400 --> 23:38.400 I'd like to tell you about his girlfriend, 23:38.400 --> 23:42.400 18 years old and a dope addict. 23:42.400 --> 23:45.400 This young fellow started out on narcotics 23:45.400 --> 23:47.400 in search of a new thrill, 23:47.400 --> 23:50.400 something new that he hadn't experienced in his young life. 23:50.400 --> 23:52.400 He was still in high school 23:52.400 --> 23:55.400 when a group of the more high-living youngsters 23:55.400 --> 23:57.400 used to congregate at the local malt shop. 23:57.400 --> 23:59.400 That's not so good, is it? 23:59.400 --> 24:01.400 Well, maybe it's not better this way. 24:01.400 --> 24:03.400 There was a malt shop on the corner 24:03.400 --> 24:06.400 where some of the youngsters used to get together after school, 24:06.400 --> 24:10.400 kind of a place where if you had the right connections, 24:10.400 --> 24:12.400 and our young boy and girl did, 24:12.400 --> 24:15.400 you could get a drink of liquor in the back room. 24:15.400 --> 24:20.400 Well, the high school faculty knows all about this local malt shop, 24:20.400 --> 24:24.400 and they inform the authorities, and pressure is brought to bear, 24:24.400 --> 24:27.400 but the man who operates the place is clever. 24:27.400 --> 24:30.400 If you can call the operations of a man like this clever, 24:30.400 --> 24:32.400 he knows how to cover up, 24:32.400 --> 24:34.400 how to keep the front room legitimate 24:34.400 --> 24:37.400 and the back room a spawning place for juvenile delinquency. 24:37.400 --> 24:40.400 And the students don't help much. 24:40.400 --> 24:44.400 There seems to be something during the formation of a juvenile mind 24:44.400 --> 24:47.400 that when his teachers or his parents catch him doing wrong, 24:47.400 --> 24:50.400 or they try to tell him it's bad, 24:50.400 --> 24:54.400 he prides himself in seeing how long he can get away with it under covers. 24:54.400 --> 24:59.400 It seems to be the stylish thing to do to outwit your parents and teachers. 24:59.400 --> 25:01.400 As the youngsters grow older, 25:01.400 --> 25:04.400 they invariably find out how infantile and stupid this is, 25:04.400 --> 25:06.400 but sometimes it's too late. 25:06.400 --> 25:09.400 That sounds kind of stuffy, Ma. What do you think? 25:09.400 --> 25:12.400 Sounds like the truth. Let me hear the rest of it. 25:12.400 --> 25:13.400 You know how kids are. 25:13.400 --> 25:16.400 Sometimes they resent it if they think you're lecturing them. 25:16.400 --> 25:18.400 They could have been with Ben and I tonight. 25:18.400 --> 25:20.400 It might make a difference. 25:20.400 --> 25:22.400 Why don't I make this too long? 25:22.400 --> 25:25.400 I don't want to make a mess of something like this. 25:25.400 --> 25:28.400 From this malt shop on the corner, in that back room, 25:28.400 --> 25:32.400 our young boy gets a good shove down the road of self-degradation. 25:32.400 --> 25:35.400 He has the right connections. 25:35.400 --> 25:38.400 It isn't too long before he graduates the liquor in the back room 25:38.400 --> 25:42.400 for something he thinks is far better, narcotics. 25:42.400 --> 25:45.400 He's heard that, unlike liquor, you can't smell it on his breath. 25:45.400 --> 25:47.400 He's a real veteran now. He has hangovers. 25:47.400 --> 25:50.400 He's heard that narcotics doesn't leave you with a hangover. 25:50.400 --> 25:56.400 It doesn't take too long before, in our police parlance, he's hooked. 25:56.400 --> 25:59.400 Living in this day and age, he thought that they taught him well 25:59.400 --> 26:01.400 in his economics and civics classes. 26:01.400 --> 26:04.400 He thought he knew what post-war inflation was all about. 26:04.400 --> 26:08.400 He didn't have the vaguest notion of the cost of his daily supply of narcotics 26:08.400 --> 26:10.400 once he was hooked on it. 26:10.400 --> 26:15.400 He found that before long he had to have his daily dosage. 26:15.400 --> 26:19.400 In no time at all, he found that it was all he could do to get by on $30 a day. 26:19.400 --> 26:21.400 That's what it cost him. 26:21.400 --> 26:25.400 $30 each and every day, or he became violently ill, 26:25.400 --> 26:29.400 so sick that he couldn't seem to function properly. 26:29.400 --> 26:33.400 Well, in order to maintain his daily needs, he got a gun, and he robbed, 26:33.400 --> 26:35.400 and he beat people, and he stole. 26:35.400 --> 26:39.400 He shared with his girlfriend, and he dragged her down with him. 26:39.400 --> 26:43.400 He ended up on the roof of a hotel trying to shoot his way out. 26:43.400 --> 26:47.400 When the boy was 20 years old, his girlfriend was 18. 26:47.400 --> 26:51.400 Two years ago, they both sat out there in a high school auditorium 26:51.400 --> 26:53.400 during an assembly. 26:53.400 --> 26:56.400 He went a long way, didn't he, in his two years out of high school? 26:56.400 --> 26:59.400 He was taken into custody on the night of August 7th. 26:59.400 --> 27:01.400 He was crying when we put the handcuffs on him. 27:01.400 --> 27:05.400 He was crying when we left him in his cell at the county jail. 27:05.400 --> 27:07.400 I guess he's still crying. 27:07.400 --> 27:09.400 Now, what do you think, Mom? 27:09.400 --> 27:12.400 That's just rough, I haven't... 27:12.400 --> 27:14.400 Oh, will they believe it? 27:14.400 --> 27:16.400 You think it'll do any good? 27:16.400 --> 27:18.400 Well, I don't know, Ma. It's up to them. 27:26.400 --> 27:29.400 The story you have just heard was true. 27:29.400 --> 27:32.400 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:32.400 --> 27:36.400 On November 9th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 83, 27:36.400 --> 27:38.400 sitting in the county of Los Angeles, state of California. 27:38.400 --> 27:40.400 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:40.400 --> 27:42.400 And now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:42.400 --> 27:44.400 Thank you. 27:44.400 --> 27:47.400 Friends, there are many cases on record of two people not related, 27:47.400 --> 27:50.400 looking so much alike, it's hard to tell them apart. 27:50.400 --> 27:54.400 A quick check of fingerprints, however, easily proves who's who. 27:54.400 --> 27:58.400 Now, at first sight, you could just as easily be fooled by king-sized cigarettes. 27:58.400 --> 28:02.400 If you were to place a Fatima and any other king-sized cigarettes side by side, 28:02.400 --> 28:04.400 you'd find they look identical. 28:04.400 --> 28:06.400 But believe me, there's a real difference. 28:06.400 --> 28:09.400 In Fatima, that difference is quality. 28:09.400 --> 28:13.400 Quality that gives you extra mildness, a much better flavor and aroma. 28:13.400 --> 28:16.400 Compare Fatima with any king-sized cigarette. 28:16.400 --> 28:19.400 The size is the same, now the price is the same. 28:19.400 --> 28:22.400 But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 28:22.400 --> 28:24.400 Buy a pack tomorrow. 28:24.400 --> 28:35.400 [♪jazz music playing on radio and radio station 28:35.400 --> 28:37.400 Rex Martin Burleigh was found guilty of three counts of robbery in the first degree 28:37.400 --> 28:41.400 and was sentenced to the state penitentiary where he is now serving his term. 28:41.400 --> 28:46.400 First degree robbery is punishable by imprisonment from five years to life. 28:46.400 --> 28:51.400 The Federal Civil Defense Administration will send you an air raid instruction sheet 28:51.400 --> 28:55.400 if you will write the superintendent of documents, Washington, D.C., 28:55.400 --> 28:58.400 enclosing five cents in coin or stamps. 28:58.400 --> 29:01.400 [♪jazz music playing on radio and radio station 29:01.400 --> 29:06.400 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 29:06.400 --> 29:10.400 Technical advice comes from the office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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