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For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 02:00.000 --> 02:06.000 you will travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 02:06.000 --> 02:13.000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 02:13.000 --> 02:21.000 It was Tuesday, October 5th. It was foggy and rainy in Los Angeles. 02:21.000 --> 02:28.000 We were working the day watch out in narcotics division. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Kearney. My name's Friday. 02:28.000 --> 02:35.000 It was 847 a.m. when we got to 401 North Avenue 19, the main jail. Felony section. 02:35.000 --> 02:37.000 Morning, fellas. 02:37.000 --> 02:38.000 How are you today, Pete? 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 Morning. 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 What brings you up here so early? 02:40.000 --> 02:45.000 We want to see Monty Wilkins. Booked in last night on narcotics. Booking numbers 906351. 02:45.000 --> 02:46.000 Okay. Let me look. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 Okay. 02:53.000 --> 02:55.000 Here it is. Season 103. 02:55.000 --> 02:58.000 Thank you, Pete. I'll put it in the book here, Joe. 02:58.000 --> 02:59.000 Okay. 02:59.000 --> 03:01.000 Here's my gun. You want to check it with your? 03:01.000 --> 03:03.000 Yeah, right. 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 I'll put them away. 03:05.000 --> 03:10.000 Okay, Pete. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 Here's your check. 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 Thank you, Pete. All set, Ben? 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 906351. 03:20.000 --> 03:21.000 That's it. 03:21.000 --> 03:22.000 Okay. Let's go. 03:22.000 --> 03:25.000 All right. 03:25.000 --> 03:30.000 All right. We want to talk to Monty Wilkins, season 103. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.000 All right. We'll get him. 03:33.000 --> 03:52.000 Monty Wilkins 103, for interview. 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 Hello, Friday. Ben? 04:04.000 --> 04:07.000 Hi, Monty. Better move out of the way there. He wants to lock that door, Monty. 04:07.000 --> 04:10.000 Oh, yeah. 04:13.000 --> 04:16.000 Let's go around the corner to the interview room, Monty. 04:16.000 --> 04:19.000 All right. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 Man, this is awful. 04:21.000 --> 04:22.000 What's the matter? Don't you feel good? 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 I feel awful. Pretty sick. 04:24.000 --> 04:27.000 You look bad. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 I'll get the light. 04:29.000 --> 04:34.000 Okay, Ben. 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 Sit down, Monty. 04:39.000 --> 04:41.000 Okay. Thanks. 04:41.000 --> 04:44.000 It's been about a year and a half, hasn't it, Monty? 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 About that long, yeah. 04:46.000 --> 04:48.000 We got you for possession that time, too, didn't we? 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 Yeah, that's right. 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 How long you been on the stuff this time? 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 I guess I've been hooked bad about a month. 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 How much you shooting? 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 About two caps a day. 04:57.000 --> 05:01.000 And you were picked up down in Slauson last night, you had seven caps on you. 05:01.000 --> 05:02.000 Yeah, that's right. 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 We checked with the crime lab. They've run the stuff. 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 It's not the usual Mexican, is it? 05:07.000 --> 05:08.000 That's right. 05:08.000 --> 05:09.000 You want to tell us about it? 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 Yeah, it's good stuff. It's not Mexican. 05:11.000 --> 05:13.000 We know that, Monty. Where'd you get it? 05:13.000 --> 05:17.000 Haven't had anything like that for a long time. Real good. 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 Haven't been cut. Real fine. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Maybe it's coming in from the East Coast. Can't get nothing like that from Mexico. 05:23.000 --> 05:26.000 Now, look, Monty, we ran the stuff through the lab. 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 We know it's high-grade heroin. We know all about it. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 Now, I want you to tell us where you've been getting it. 05:30.000 --> 05:33.000 Well, you know how it is. You want to ask the impossible of me? 05:33.000 --> 05:36.000 My life wouldn't be worth a penny. You know how it is. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 We handled you a year and a half ago, didn't we, Monty? 05:38.000 --> 05:39.000 Yeah. 05:39.000 --> 05:40.000 You're still around, aren't you? 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 Yeah, I did time, though. 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 Well, you knew that going in. You're going to do time this trip, too. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 So don't shoot us that line, huh? 05:47.000 --> 05:50.000 Well, you guys know how it is with us guys. I can't tell you anything. 05:50.000 --> 05:53.000 No, it isn't that you can't. You just don't want to. 05:53.000 --> 05:56.000 Now, look, we didn't come up here to spend the time of day with you, Wilkins. 05:56.000 --> 05:59.000 This is the only time around. If you want to help us, you can help yourself at the same time. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 It's up to you. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 You mean you can clear me on this? You can give me a break? 06:03.000 --> 06:07.000 We didn't say that. We can't make any promises to you or give you any kind of a break. 06:07.000 --> 06:12.000 It's entirely up to you how you want us to put it down in our reports, cooperative or uncooperative. 06:12.000 --> 06:17.000 Hmm. Well, okay. You squared with me last time. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 You helped us last time. We made a case. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 But I'm not going to be able to help you very much. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Where you been getting it? 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 Well, I've only made a couple of buys on that good stuff. 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 I just got it from some old mule I just happened to meet down there. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 Seemed to be pretty well loaded with the stuff. 06:31.000 --> 06:32.000 Where'd you meet him? 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 Oh, down near Fifth and Spring somewhere. 06:34.000 --> 06:35.000 What's his name? 06:35.000 --> 06:39.000 I never did know his name. I just knew that he was pushing the stuff. 06:39.000 --> 06:40.000 Some old mule, that's all. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 Who's he pushing it for? 06:42.000 --> 06:45.000 You know they never tell us guys where they're getting it. You know how they do. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 Yeah. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 I never did talk to him very much. 06:48.000 --> 06:52.000 I did hear him say once he was getting this stuff from a new bunch of guys from the East. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 Said they were really going to open up this town. 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 The way he talked, there were no small time operators. 06:57.000 --> 07:01.000 I got enough out of it to know they're working out of the Plaza Royal Hotel. 07:01.000 --> 07:02.000 Never figured that, would you? 07:02.000 --> 07:05.000 Anything else? Any names mentioned? 07:05.000 --> 07:08.000 Yeah, I remember this old mule mentioned a couple names. 07:08.000 --> 07:13.000 I think he talked about somebody named Kirk and another guy called Smith. 07:13.000 --> 07:17.000 Now you understand, this guy was just talking. I don't know how they fit in or what the connections are. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 Where can we get a hold of this old mule? 07:19.000 --> 07:20.000 I don't know where he's at. 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 How do you get a hold of him when you want to make a buy? 07:22.000 --> 07:26.000 I just run into him, that's all. Down around Spring Street. 07:26.000 --> 07:30.000 You know, just around. Last time I was down I couldn't find him. 07:30.000 --> 07:33.000 Is that all of it, Monty? Is that all you can tell us? 07:33.000 --> 07:36.000 Well, I don't know too much anyway. You know how it is. 07:36.000 --> 07:39.000 I couldn't tell you anymore. That's all I know. 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 All right, let's get out of this 510 if that's all you got. 07:41.000 --> 07:44.000 That's everything I got. 07:44.000 --> 07:49.000 I hope you fellas will write me up okay. I think I helped you quite a bit, haven't I? 07:49.000 --> 07:52.000 One of the best hotels in town, Plaza Royal. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Never would have figured that, would you? 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 Maybe. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 I've told you quite a lot. The rest ought to be easy. 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 No, you're wrong there, Monty. 07:59.000 --> 08:00.000 Why? 08:00.000 --> 08:04.000 You haven't told us the name of your mule. You haven't told us where we could find him. You haven't made it so easy. 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 That's all I have. I've told you a lot. 08:06.000 --> 08:14.000 Yeah, there's a lot you didn't tell. 08:14.000 --> 08:19.000 We continued our interrogation of Monty Wilkins. He refused to divulge any further information. 08:19.000 --> 08:23.000 What he had told us, together with information already compiled, seemed to check out. 08:23.000 --> 08:31.000 For the past seven months, we'd been trying to localize the operations of what had come to be regarded as a well-running distribution center for high-grade heroin. 08:31.000 --> 08:37.000 We knew of the existence of this distribution point through the various users that had been picked up almost daily. 08:37.000 --> 08:41.000 These users would have in their possession quantities of high-grade narcotics. 08:41.000 --> 08:45.000 Unlike the cheaper, lower-grade quality common in the southwest part of the country, 08:45.000 --> 08:49.000 this type of heroin was more common to the eastern section of the United States. 08:49.000 --> 08:54.000 We had believed the local distribution point to be somewhere in our metropolitan downtown area. 08:54.000 --> 08:58.000 The information gained from Monty Wilkins had strengthened this theory. 08:58.000 --> 09:03.000 10.25 a.m. We met with Francis Kearney, captain of the narcotics division. 09:03.000 --> 09:05.000 Plizer Royal Hotel. What do you think? 09:05.000 --> 09:10.000 Well, we figured what we were looking for could be in that area, but we've never put our finger on that hotel. 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 How do you figure on working it? 09:12.000 --> 09:15.000 Well, driving back from the jail, Ben and I were just kicking it around. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 Skipper, what do you think about putting a man in that hotel? 09:17.000 --> 09:20.000 Anything's a great deal better than we're doing now, but I don't know. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 Well, I'd like to give it a try. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 You sure like a crack at it, Skipper? 09:24.000 --> 09:28.000 You know how I feel about these kind of assignments, one man working inside, one outside. 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 Brings the element of danger up kind of high. 09:30.000 --> 09:33.000 Well, we know it's not going to be easy, but it looks like a good bet. 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 Sometimes these things are, sometimes they're not. 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 You know what kind of a bunch they've got to be. 09:37.000 --> 09:40.000 They've been running their racket just about as smooth as it can be run. 09:40.000 --> 09:44.000 You know the kind of a risk a man would have to take if he tried to make contact with any of them. 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 Well, I think it's about the quickest way to get to them. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 Well, maybe it might be worth it. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 You got any ideas how you'd like to work it? 09:50.000 --> 09:54.000 Just one thing, we haven't come to any decision who's going in and who isn't. 09:54.000 --> 09:59.000 Well, I think I ought to be the one to work it from the inside of the hotel with Ben working outside as a contact. 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 I don't know why we can't just turn that around. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 Last time you had the rough end. 10:02.000 --> 10:05.000 Joe, you just got back from your vacation about three weeks ago, didn't you? 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 Yeah, that's right. 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 Didn't you stay down in Arizona? Phoenix, wasn't it? 10:09.000 --> 10:10.000 Yeah. 10:10.000 --> 10:11.000 You know the town very well? 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 Well, we got some relatives down there, yeah. 10:13.000 --> 10:16.000 If they started asking you any questions about Phoenix, you could fill them in, huh? 10:16.000 --> 10:17.000 I think so. 10:17.000 --> 10:20.000 That's probably the best way to settle it, Romero. 10:20.000 --> 10:23.000 Friday, he'll be in a better position knowing a little about Phoenix. 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 I don't see how you figured that way. 10:25.000 --> 10:28.000 I went on my vacation, too, Columbus, Ohio. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 Well, because of the type of stuff that's been coming in, 10:30.000 --> 10:35.000 don't you think it'd be a little safer bet to have our men come from somewhere out this way rather than from the east? 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 Yeah, it makes sense. 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 Well, you did it again, Joe. You beat me out. 10:40.000 --> 10:43.000 All right, let's figure it this way. 10:43.000 --> 10:45.000 You're a local Phoenix hoodlum. 10:45.000 --> 10:48.000 Things got too hot for you down there, and you came up to L.A. to cool off. 10:48.000 --> 10:49.000 Yeah. 10:49.000 --> 10:52.000 How about Joe Edwards? How's that sound? 10:52.000 --> 10:53.000 That sounds right to me. 10:53.000 --> 10:58.000 We'll get all the necessary cards, identification papers, and a few letters to carry around with you all under the name Joe Edwards. 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 All right. 10:59.000 --> 11:03.000 I think the best way to work it is for you to hop right down to Phoenix. 11:03.000 --> 11:06.000 When you get in town, check with Roberts. He's in Narcotics Town. 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 Yeah, I know him. 11:07.000 --> 11:10.000 Have Roberts fill you in on what's been going on down there. 11:10.000 --> 11:13.000 Any of their current characters they've handled recently? 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 Any that have been known to pass through, you know, so you can talk about it freely. 11:16.000 --> 11:17.000 Yeah, I understand. 11:17.000 --> 11:22.000 Joe, when you check into the hotel down there, why don't you wire a head up here to the Plaza Royal for reservation? 11:22.000 --> 11:23.000 Might be a good cover. 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 Yeah, a good thought. That's the way to handle it. 11:25.000 --> 11:29.000 You two have worked these things before. You know what to do. All the necessary precautions. 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 Well, how long do you figure out a layover in Phoenix? 11:31.000 --> 11:33.000 A couple days, maybe. 11:33.000 --> 11:35.000 Think that's long enough for you to get filled in, what you need? 11:35.000 --> 11:39.000 Oh, yeah, that's fine. Well, I'll go home and get packed. I'll start on it first thing in the morning. 11:39.000 --> 11:43.000 All right. Romero will stand by at all times, day and night, while you're on this thing. 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 You know enough to call if things get tight. 11:45.000 --> 11:46.000 Sure. 11:46.000 --> 11:51.000 As soon as you get in from Phoenix and get located at the Plaza Royal, get in touch so we'll know which way to move. 11:51.000 --> 11:52.000 Right. Anything else? 11:52.000 --> 11:58.000 No, we want to break this thing, but we don't want to do it at the risk of a life. So if it starts getting warm, check out. 11:58.000 --> 11:59.000 Okay. 11:59.000 --> 12:03.000 I still don't like sending anybody on something like this, but it's got to be done. 12:03.000 --> 12:07.000 We don't know enough about it. We don't know how many are in the gang. We don't know what kind of a bunch they are. 12:07.000 --> 12:09.000 So be careful. I will. 12:09.000 --> 12:12.000 If you're not and I hear about it, this will be your last assignment like this. 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 Yeah. 12:13.000 --> 12:15.000 If I don't hear about it, well, you figure it. 12:15.000 --> 12:17.000 Yeah. Either way, I lose. 12:17.000 --> 12:28.000 I went over to the photo room at the crime lab and picked up the identification papers that had been made out in the name of Joe Edwards. 12:28.000 --> 12:33.000 I went home and removed all Los Angeles labels from the clothing that I was to take with me to Phoenix, Arizona. 12:33.000 --> 12:38.000 I removed all my personal identification and Los Angeles Police Department credentials. 12:38.000 --> 12:42.000 I left my service revolver home and borrowed a 38 automatic from Ben. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 I packed it in my suitcase. 12:44.000 --> 12:51.000 The crime lab also furnished me with a package or a bindle made to resemble the usual form in which a person would carry heroin. 12:51.000 --> 12:53.000 I packed this in my suitcase. 12:53.000 --> 12:57.000 Before my departure, Ben and I went over the proposed plan as best we could. 12:57.000 --> 13:00.000 I was to arrive from Phoenix under the assumed name of Joe Edwards. 13:00.000 --> 13:11.000 I would register at the Plaza Royal Hotel in downtown Los Angeles and attempt to make arrangements to participate in a narcotics buy for the purpose of gaining sufficient evidence to apprehend the narcotics ring. 13:11.000 --> 13:15.000 I was to keep Ben informed as best I could of my progress. 13:15.000 --> 13:21.000 As outlined by Captain Kearney, I arrived in Phoenix and contacted Sergeant Roberts at the Detective Bureau down there. 13:21.000 --> 13:28.000 He furnished me with all the necessary information and assisted me in acquiring local Phoenix clothing store labels to have sewn in my clothing. 13:28.000 --> 13:33.000 I obtained everything possible to make it appear that I was a long time resident of Phoenix, Arizona. 13:33.000 --> 13:38.000 Several dummy hotel bills were made up for me to make it look as if I'd lived there for a period of time. 13:38.000 --> 13:44.000 I was furnished with an Arizona driver's license, a membership in the local social club, and a voter's registration stub. 13:44.000 --> 13:46.000 These were all packed in my suitcase. 13:46.000 --> 13:51.000 October 9th, 10 a.m. I arrived at the Plaza Royal Hotel, the front desk. 13:51.000 --> 13:53.000 Yes, sir? 13:53.000 --> 13:55.000 My name's Edwards. I'm in from Phoenix. Did you get my wire? 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 One moment, sir. 13:57.000 --> 13:59.000 Yes, sir. Joe Edwards? 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 Yeah, that's right. 14:01.000 --> 14:02.000 Would you sign the register, please? 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 Yeah, all right. 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 Thank you. 14:10.000 --> 14:12.000 Front! 14:12.000 --> 14:13.000 Yes, sir. 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 Would you show this gentleman a room 211, please? 14:15.000 --> 14:17.000 Yes, sir. This way, please. 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 All right. Thank you. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 Go ahead, sir. 14:22.000 --> 14:27.000 Thank you. 14:27.000 --> 14:29.000 Two, please. 14:32.000 --> 14:35.000 Not very nice weather to arrive in Los Angeles, is it, sir? 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 No, not too good. 14:37.000 --> 14:39.000 I see by the stickers on your bag you've been through Arizona. 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 Yeah, that's right. 14:41.000 --> 14:43.000 Must be nice weather down there, huh? 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 Yeah, it's all right. 14:46.000 --> 14:47.000 This way, sir. 14:47.000 --> 14:52.000 Thank you. 14:59.000 --> 15:02.000 Let me open my window for you, sir. A little fresh air in here. 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 All right. 15:07.000 --> 15:10.000 Okay. Thanks. Here you go. 15:10.000 --> 15:13.000 Thank you very much, sir. Help you with your bags? 15:13.000 --> 15:17.000 Yeah, all right. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 Oh, I'm sorry, sir. Something dropped out on the floor here. 15:19.000 --> 15:20.000 You better let me have that. 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 Sorry. 15:22.000 --> 15:23.000 Very sorry that happened. 15:23.000 --> 15:26.000 That's all right. 15:31.000 --> 15:35.000 Mr. Edwards, while you're in town here, if there's anything I can do for you, don't hesitate to let me know. 15:35.000 --> 15:36.000 Yeah, okay. 15:36.000 --> 15:39.000 I couldn't help but notice that little package there that I dropped. 15:39.000 --> 15:40.000 Yeah. 15:40.000 --> 15:45.000 Well, like I say, I know my way around here in this town. If you need anything, you know anything at all, sir? 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 I'll tell you what. 15:47.000 --> 15:51.000 Now, here's five bucks. You never saw anything fall out of my bag there, right? 15:51.000 --> 15:52.000 Anything you say, sir. 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 Okay. Thanks a lot. See you later, huh? 15:54.000 --> 15:57.000 Yes, sir. 15:57.000 --> 15:58.000 Anything else, sir? 15:58.000 --> 16:02.000 No, no. That'll be all. 16:02.000 --> 16:04.000 You'll remember what I told you, sir? 16:04.000 --> 16:11.000 Yeah, I was just going to say the same thing to you. 16:11.000 --> 16:14.000 I couldn't be sure, but it looked like I'd been lucky right from the start. 16:14.000 --> 16:17.000 The bellboy at the Plaza Royal Hotel. 16:17.000 --> 16:22.000 I didn't know if I could consider this an opening contact or not, but he seemed to show more than a passing interest in the 16:22.000 --> 16:25.000 bindle of narcotics that he had seen fall from my suitcase. 16:25.000 --> 16:33.000 I didn't feel it was the right time to press the issue any further with a bellhop, but I figured I'd wait and leave the next move up to whoever he might have been working for. 16:33.000 --> 16:40.000 During the next three days, nothing happened. I tried without appearing to be too bold to arouse some interest, but without success. 16:40.000 --> 16:47.000 October 13th, my fifth day at the Plaza Royal Hotel, 6 p.m. I went in the bar off the main lobby. 16:47.000 --> 16:48.000 I beg your pardon? 16:48.000 --> 16:49.000 Yeah. 16:49.000 --> 16:54.000 Kirk Harding's my name. I noticed you here in the bar the last couple of nights. You up here to buy a little or are you selling? 16:54.000 --> 16:55.000 I'll leave a folly, Harding. 16:55.000 --> 16:59.000 Look, boy, we've had you tab since that first day you hit town, October 9th. 16:59.000 --> 17:03.000 We haven't been out here too long ourselves. We're in business too, same business you're in. 17:03.000 --> 17:06.000 Well, I don't know what kind of business you think I'm in, but you've got it figured wrong, mister. 17:06.000 --> 17:12.000 You know, this entire matter'd work out much better for you in the long run if you'd level with me. You're just gonna make it tough on yourself this way, Edmonds. 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 Well, I'm sorry. You've lost me way back somewhere. 17:14.000 --> 17:20.000 All right, let's do it the hard way. You're up here from Phoenix. We know you've got some stuff with you. 17:20.000 --> 17:24.000 We know you're not a user. You're a member of the social club down there. You're a registered voter. 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 Oh, you've been working real hard, haven't you? 17:26.000 --> 17:30.000 Well, there's more. You've got two pieces of luggage. You're carrying a 38 automatic. 17:30.000 --> 17:31.000 Any more? 17:31.000 --> 17:34.000 Yeah. 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Best of all long cigarettes. 19:24.000 --> 19:35.000 There was a tight moment as Kirk Harding fingered the telegram in the bar of the Plaza Royal Hotel. 19:35.000 --> 19:41.000 I'd spent many hours in consultation with Sergeant Roberts in Phoenix, Arizona before undertaking this assignment. 19:41.000 --> 19:47.000 I felt sure that we hadn't overlooked anything that might lead to my true identity. Kirk Harding read the wire to me. 19:47.000 --> 19:56.000 It was from a man by the name of George Ferguson. He'd done some legwork for Harding and had not been able to furnish him with anything other than what had been found out and going over my room. 19:56.000 --> 20:01.000 I knew I'd found the contact that I was looking for. I told him that I was in the business of buying narcotics. 20:01.000 --> 20:07.000 That I was in Los Angeles for the purpose of making a pre-arranged narcotics buy with agents dealing in Mexican stuff. 20:07.000 --> 20:16.000 Harding immediately gave me a strong sales pitch saying that he could furnish me with high-grade heroin fresh from the European market in quantity. 20:16.000 --> 20:19.000 At the end of the first week I was introduced to Kirk Harding's two associates. 20:19.000 --> 20:25.000 Another man called Smith, full name Horace L. Smith, and a woman by the name of Lucille Cosgrove. 20:25.000 --> 20:28.000 Ben had been unable to find records on any of the three. 20:28.000 --> 20:36.000 For the next three weeks we became more friendly. We went places together, spent a great deal of time together. Monday, November 15th. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 Well, we've had a lot of fun the last few weeks, haven't we? 20:38.000 --> 20:41.000 There's no doubt about that, but I've got to be getting back to Phoenix. 20:41.000 --> 20:48.000 Well, now don't get eager, Joe. You know how cagey you were and you made us wait. Preliminaries are over. This is the big buy for you or anybody else. 20:48.000 --> 20:49.000 Yeah, I know all that, but who am I? 20:49.000 --> 20:52.000 Just be patient. You'll have something to really set yourself up with down there. 20:52.000 --> 20:53.000 Okay. 20:53.000 --> 20:54.000 Now, excuse me, Joe. 20:54.000 --> 20:55.000 Yeah, go ahead. 20:57.000 --> 20:58.000 Oh, hi, Lucille. 20:58.000 --> 20:59.000 Hi. 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 Hi, sweetie. 21:00.000 --> 21:01.000 Hello, Jeff. 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 Hi, Lucille. What's the matter, Smith? Don't you feel good? 21:04.000 --> 21:10.000 I don't know. It's hotel food, I guess. I think I got an ulcer. My stomach saw all the time. 21:10.000 --> 21:11.000 Oh, that's too bad. 21:11.000 --> 21:15.000 I don't know what it could be. Baking soda don't do any good anymore. 21:15.000 --> 21:16.000 How about a drink, Joe? 21:16.000 --> 21:17.000 Yeah, fine with me. 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 Well, Lucille, you want to get some ice out of the kitchen, please? 21:19.000 --> 21:20.000 Sure. 21:20.000 --> 21:21.000 Skip me. 21:22.000 --> 21:27.000 Smith, you ought to go see a doctor. You don't know for sure what's wrong with you. It might make it worse. 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 If I don't know what it is, how could a doctor? 21:29.000 --> 21:32.000 I don't know. It works for everybody else. Might for you. 21:32.000 --> 21:37.000 Hey, I can't get this ice tray out. Joe, would you give me a hand, please? 21:37.000 --> 21:40.000 Yeah, sure. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 Okay, which one here? 21:44.000 --> 21:48.000 I got the ice. Keep working on that other tray there. It's something to tell you. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 Okay. 21:50.000 --> 21:53.000 Listen, Joe, big buys tonight. 21:53.000 --> 21:54.000 You sure? 21:54.000 --> 21:55.000 Yeah. 21:55.000 --> 21:56.000 How about it, you two? You need any help? 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 No, it's all right, Kirk. It's come along fine. 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 Joe, as soon as you show your money tonight, they're going to kill you. 22:00.000 --> 22:01.000 How do you know? 22:01.000 --> 22:06.000 Look, we don't have time to go into it. I know. We won't have a chance. They're going to kill you. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 What are you doing? Waiting for them to freeze? Come on. How about the ice cream? 22:08.000 --> 22:11.000 All right here, Kirk. I'm sorry. 22:11.000 --> 22:12.000 Let's go. 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 Yeah. 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 Okay, what do you want? Lucille? Joe? 22:17.000 --> 22:18.000 Coke, hi, sir. 22:18.000 --> 22:19.000 Yeah? 22:19.000 --> 22:20.000 I'll make mine bourbon with a little water. 22:20.000 --> 22:21.000 All right. 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 Smith, you sure you don't want one? 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 No, can't do it. 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 Joe, before I mix them, I got something for you. 22:26.000 --> 22:27.000 Yeah? 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 Smith tells me tonight's the night. 22:29.000 --> 22:33.000 Well, that's good, but why don't you tell me a little ahead of time? I got a date for tonight. 22:33.000 --> 22:36.000 I think you better break that one and keep this one, don't you? 22:36.000 --> 22:39.000 Well, yeah, I do, but just wish you'd have told me a little sooner. 22:39.000 --> 22:41.000 There's the phone. You can take care of it. 22:41.000 --> 22:43.000 Is it all right with you? 22:43.000 --> 22:47.000 You know as much about this business as we do. Go ahead and use it as long as we can hear you. 22:47.000 --> 22:50.000 Okay, fine. Just take a minute. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 Want to sit here, Joe? 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 Oh, thanks, Smith. Yeah. See, I wonder if you'd get my drink for me over there? 22:55.000 --> 22:56.000 Sure. 22:56.000 --> 23:06.000 She's probably going to be upset. I may need it, huh? 23:14.000 --> 23:15.000 Romero talking. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 Hi, honey. This is Joe. 23:17.000 --> 23:18.000 Oh, yeah, Joe. 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 I'm sorry I won't be able to make it tonight, dear. 23:20.000 --> 23:21.000 You can't talk, huh? 23:21.000 --> 23:24.000 That's right, dear. No, I just can't get out of it. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 I'll do the talking, Joe. Is it by tonight? 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 Yeah, well, it just came up all of a sudden. 23:28.000 --> 23:29.000 Where are you now? 23:29.000 --> 23:33.000 No, darling, I can't tell you where I'm going. You couldn't go along anyway. 23:33.000 --> 23:36.000 Okay, we'll be with you five minutes from now all the way. Why are you not at the hotel? 23:36.000 --> 23:39.000 Well, that's the way it is, and I can't help it, that's all. 23:39.000 --> 23:40.000 Maybe we can get together later, huh? 23:40.000 --> 23:45.000 We'll use one car, Joe. We'll stick as close as we can to it. One car ought to be safe, huh? 23:45.000 --> 23:48.000 Well, that's better, honey. Now, that's the way I like to hear you talk. I'm sorry. 23:48.000 --> 23:49.000 Now, I'll see you later, huh? 23:49.000 --> 23:50.000 We'll be with you. 23:50.000 --> 23:55.000 Okay, dear. 23:55.000 --> 23:56.000 Well, she still love you? 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 Yeah, she loves me. 23:58.000 --> 24:05.000 Fifteen minutes after I hung up, we went downstairs and got into a Green Chrysler sedan. 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 It was parked out in front of the hotel. 24:07.000 --> 24:11.000 I looked around. I didn't see Ben or any of our cars in sight. 24:11.000 --> 24:14.000 Smith drove, and Kirk and I got in the back seat. 24:14.000 --> 24:17.000 The woman, Lucille Cosgrove, remained at the hotel. 24:17.000 --> 24:22.000 I didn't know which of the two men was planning to kill me, but I felt sure Lucille Cosgrove told me the truth. 24:22.000 --> 24:26.000 Her information on the buy was right, and maybe this other was correct as well. 24:26.000 --> 24:29.000 We drove out Figueroa Street for about 16 miles. 24:29.000 --> 24:34.000 At this point, it became evident we were heading for the Los Angeles harbor area. 24:34.000 --> 24:37.000 You ever see a fog as thick as this, Joe? 24:37.000 --> 24:39.000 No, never have. 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 Can't see 50 feet in front of me. 24:41.000 --> 24:44.000 Yeah, well, just take it easy. Nobody's in a hurry. 24:44.000 --> 24:47.000 That's right. I don't want to pile up anywhere. 24:49.000 --> 24:50.000 Where are we going? 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 We're almost there. 24:52.000 --> 24:54.000 Is this your car here? I've never seen this one before. 24:54.000 --> 24:57.000 No, we rented it. Isn't that the way you operate? 24:57.000 --> 25:00.000 Yeah, that's right. I just wondered if you played it as safe as I do. 25:00.000 --> 25:01.000 We do. 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 I'm going to swing in this next alley up here, Kirk. 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 Somebody tailing us? 25:07.000 --> 25:08.000 Turn the lights. 25:08.000 --> 25:11.000 Right. See anything out the back window? 25:11.000 --> 25:14.000 Wait a minute. 25:17.000 --> 25:18.000 How'd they go? 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 How'd it look? 25:20.000 --> 25:24.000 Two guys in the front seat. Could have been somebody. 25:24.000 --> 25:26.000 What do you think, Joe? I'd look to you. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 Well, whoever it was, we lost them anyway. 25:28.000 --> 25:41.000 Yeah. Okay, let's go. 25:53.000 --> 25:56.000 Look at that. Clear spot here in the fog. 25:56.000 --> 25:58.000 Don't see a soul anywhere. 25:58.000 --> 25:59.000 It's fine. 25:59.000 --> 26:00.000 We almost there now? 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 Yeah, just around the corner. 26:02.000 --> 26:03.000 This is a break, isn't it? 26:03.000 --> 26:07.000 Fog's clear right in here. All socked in back up there. 26:07.000 --> 26:09.000 We're as safe as you'd want to be, huh? 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 Yeah, that's right. 26:11.000 --> 26:12.000 This is it. 26:12.000 --> 26:13.000 Over by the storage building? 26:13.000 --> 26:16.000 Yeah, that's right. Come on, let's go. 26:22.000 --> 26:24.000 Over this way, Joe. 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 What's over there in that building? 26:26.000 --> 26:29.000 We're not going inside. Just over there in that alcove. 26:29.000 --> 26:32.000 All right, this is it, Joe. I'd see the money. 26:32.000 --> 26:34.000 Well, where do I see the stuff, huh? 26:34.000 --> 26:38.000 You don't trust anybody, do you? 26:38.000 --> 26:39.000 What are you trying to prove? 26:39.000 --> 26:40.000 Well, I didn't like what he said. 26:40.000 --> 26:42.000 You're not going to like what I got to say either. Freeze, mister. 26:42.000 --> 26:43.000 Drop it, you! 26:43.000 --> 26:45.000 Watch it, Ben! 26:45.000 --> 26:47.000 He ducked in this alcove. 26:47.000 --> 26:50.000 Oh, take care of that one there. 26:50.000 --> 26:51.000 All right, easy, huh? 26:51.000 --> 26:52.000 Yeah, you see him? 26:52.000 --> 26:54.000 No, it's too dark. 26:54.000 --> 26:56.000 There he is. 26:56.000 --> 26:58.000 That's enough! I'm coming out! 26:58.000 --> 27:00.000 All right, throw your gun out ahead of you. 27:00.000 --> 27:03.000 He's not going to throw that gun out, Joe. Watch it. 27:07.000 --> 27:09.000 Come on. 27:09.000 --> 27:11.000 All right, let's go. 27:11.000 --> 27:15.000 Come on. 27:20.000 --> 27:21.000 There's his gun. 27:21.000 --> 27:23.000 Yeah, I got it. 27:23.000 --> 27:24.000 You want to shake him down? 27:24.000 --> 27:25.000 Yeah. 27:25.000 --> 27:26.000 Come on. 27:26.000 --> 27:27.000 On your feet. 27:27.000 --> 27:29.000 Where'd you get hit? 27:29.000 --> 27:30.000 My shoulder. 27:30.000 --> 27:31.000 Let me see. 27:31.000 --> 27:33.000 You're all right. Just grazed you. 27:33.000 --> 27:34.000 You're a cop, aren't you? 27:34.000 --> 27:35.000 Yeah, that's right. Now, come on, let's go. 27:35.000 --> 27:36.000 Where's the stuff? 27:36.000 --> 27:38.000 On the back seat in my car. 27:38.000 --> 27:39.000 Now, you tell me something. 27:39.000 --> 27:41.000 Why'd you slug Smith? 27:41.000 --> 27:43.000 I just wanted something I knew you'd never give me. 27:43.000 --> 27:44.000 What's that? 27:44.000 --> 27:46.000 An even chance. 27:52.000 --> 27:54.000 The story you have just heard was true. 27:54.000 --> 27:57.000 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:57.000 --> 28:00.000 On January 4th, trial was held in Superior Court, 28:00.000 --> 28:03.000 Department 81, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 28:03.000 --> 28:05.000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 28:05.000 --> 28:07.000 And now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 28:07.000 --> 28:08.000 Thank you. 28:08.000 --> 28:11.000 Friends, let's compare Fatima with any other long cigarette. 28:11.000 --> 28:14.000 Now, Fatima's are the same length, 85 millimeters. 28:14.000 --> 28:18.000 Fatima has the same circumference, 1 1 1 64 inches around. 28:18.000 --> 28:23.000 And Fatima filters the smoke exactly the same long distance as other king-sized cigarettes. 28:23.000 --> 28:26.000 But in Fatima, the difference is quality. 28:26.000 --> 28:30.000 You get extra mildness, a different, much better flavor and aroma. 28:30.000 --> 28:31.000 That's right. 28:31.000 --> 28:35.000 Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, 28:35.000 --> 28:37.000 which no other king-sized cigarette has. 28:37.000 --> 28:39.000 Tomorrow, bye Fatima. 28:46.000 --> 28:51.000 All three suspects, Kirk, Arthur Harding, Horace L. Smith and Lucille Marie Cosgrove, 28:51.000 --> 28:54.000 were convicted for violation of the State Narcotics Act, a felony. 28:54.000 --> 28:57.000 Harding and Smith were convicted on one count of attempt to commit murder. 28:57.000 --> 29:01.000 They are now serving their terms as prescribed by law in the state penitentiaries. 29:01.000 --> 29:06.000 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 29:06.000 --> 29:11.000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 29:11.000 --> 29:18.000 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet portions transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:18.000 --> 29:31.000 Stay tuned for Counterspire next over most NBC stations.