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02:34.160 --> 02:35.160 Excuse me, sir. 02:35.160 --> 02:36.160 Yes, sir. 02:36.160 --> 02:37.160 Help your gentleman. 02:37.160 --> 02:38.160 We're looking for Henry Loomis. 02:38.160 --> 02:39.160 Yes, sir, that's my name. 02:39.160 --> 02:40.320 Police officers, Mr. Loomis. 02:40.320 --> 02:41.320 My name's Friday. 02:41.320 --> 02:42.320 I believe I talked to you on the phone. 02:42.320 --> 02:43.320 Oh, yeah, yeah. 02:43.320 --> 02:44.320 This is my partner, Sergeant Romero. 02:44.320 --> 02:45.320 Hi, Mr. Romero. 02:45.320 --> 02:48.880 I wonder if you'd mind waiting a half a minute, officer, just getting a little book work straightened 02:48.880 --> 02:49.880 out here. 02:49.880 --> 02:50.880 Today's receipts. 02:50.880 --> 02:51.880 Yeah, I'll go right in. 02:51.880 --> 02:52.880 Well, it'll take but a minute. 02:52.880 --> 02:53.880 Let's see here. 02:53.880 --> 02:54.880 Uh-huh. 02:54.880 --> 02:55.880 Thirty-seven. 02:55.880 --> 02:56.880 Forty-five. 02:56.880 --> 02:57.880 Thirty-seven. 02:57.880 --> 02:58.880 Uh-huh. 02:58.880 --> 02:59.880 There we go. 02:59.880 --> 03:00.880 Ain't that lousy book work. 03:00.880 --> 03:09.960 Going to get a girl to come in and do it one of these days. 03:09.960 --> 03:10.960 Let's go up front here and talk. 03:10.960 --> 03:11.960 All right, sir, fine. 03:11.960 --> 03:13.960 Pull up a couple of stools there. 03:13.960 --> 03:14.960 Might as well be comfortable. 03:14.960 --> 03:15.960 Yes, thank you. 03:15.960 --> 03:16.960 Thank you, sir. 03:16.960 --> 03:18.760 Have you talked to any of the other merchants in the neighborhood yet? 03:18.760 --> 03:19.760 No, sir, not yet. 03:19.760 --> 03:21.360 We'd like to find out what you have to tell us first. 03:21.360 --> 03:23.920 Well, it's one of those high school kids, I can tell you that. 03:23.920 --> 03:24.920 I'm sure of it. 03:24.920 --> 03:27.960 I don't want to sound like an old grouse, but this stealing's got to stop. 03:27.960 --> 03:30.440 You get quite a bit of business from the high school trade, do you? 03:30.440 --> 03:33.380 At the new hour and then just after school, that's out. 03:33.380 --> 03:35.440 Usually have quite a bunch of them in here around those times. 03:35.440 --> 03:36.440 Uh-huh. 03:36.440 --> 03:37.440 Do you especially cater to the high school crowd? 03:37.440 --> 03:39.840 I mean, do you serve lunch here or anything like that? 03:39.840 --> 03:40.840 No, I don't. 03:40.840 --> 03:42.600 I usually get the kids to take their lunch. 03:42.600 --> 03:46.760 They come in and buy soda water or milk to drink with their sandwiches. 03:46.760 --> 03:48.920 They seem like such a nice class of kids. 03:48.920 --> 03:49.920 I didn't think they were thieves. 03:49.920 --> 03:52.360 Well, how long has this stealing been going on, Mr. Loomis? 03:52.360 --> 03:54.280 I'd say about 10 days, two weeks. 03:54.280 --> 03:56.160 It's not very hard for them to get away with it. 03:56.160 --> 03:58.800 Fifteen or 20 kids crowd in here during noon hour. 03:58.800 --> 04:00.440 I'm usually busy up at the counter. 04:00.440 --> 04:04.200 It's no great trick for any one of them to make off with a couple of dollars worth of 04:04.200 --> 04:05.200 merchandise. 04:05.200 --> 04:07.320 You say this happens just about every day? 04:07.320 --> 04:08.920 Every day the kids are in here, yeah. 04:08.920 --> 04:12.200 I tried playing detective myself for a while, trying to catch the giddily ones. 04:12.200 --> 04:13.200 Didn't do much good. 04:13.200 --> 04:14.200 Uh-huh. 04:14.200 --> 04:17.320 As long as this stealing's been going on, Mr. Loomis, is it every month more than just 04:17.320 --> 04:18.880 a few dollars' worth of food every day? 04:18.880 --> 04:20.680 I know, that's the funny part of it, Sergeant. 04:20.680 --> 04:24.200 When I check back on my inventories, it's always just about the same amount. 04:24.200 --> 04:27.760 A few cans of meat, vegetables, butter, a few loaves of bread. 04:27.760 --> 04:29.400 It's not so much the value of this stuff. 04:29.400 --> 04:33.480 I just don't like the idea of some kid making a fool out of me day after day. 04:33.480 --> 04:35.680 Has your cash register ever been tampered with, you know? 04:35.680 --> 04:36.960 I mean, any money stolen? 04:36.960 --> 04:39.360 No, sir, that's another thing I can't understand. 04:39.360 --> 04:43.000 If a kid's gonna turn thief, you'd think he'd go after the cash. 04:43.000 --> 04:46.080 Whoever's doing it, they've never tried anything like that here. 04:46.080 --> 04:48.600 Well, how about some of the other merchants in the neighborhood, sir? 04:48.600 --> 04:51.120 You mentioned on the phone there were a couple of others having the same trouble that you 04:51.120 --> 04:52.120 are. 04:52.120 --> 04:53.120 Yes, sir, there's George Bofe. 04:53.120 --> 04:55.640 He's the newspaper distributor, and there's Collins. 04:55.640 --> 04:57.480 He's got the grocery place up the street. 04:57.480 --> 04:58.480 You can talk to them. 04:58.480 --> 05:00.520 I gave you their addresses on the phone, didn't I? 05:00.520 --> 05:01.520 Yes, sir, you did. 05:01.520 --> 05:02.520 Just one more thing, Mr. Loomis. 05:02.520 --> 05:06.440 About this crowd of high school boys that hang around here, any of them in particular, 05:06.440 --> 05:07.440 you might suspect? 05:07.440 --> 05:08.680 As a matter of fact, there is. 05:08.680 --> 05:12.200 I certainly can't prove anything, but I just have a feeling about it. 05:12.200 --> 05:13.680 I don't like the boy. 05:13.680 --> 05:14.680 Just one boy, sir? 05:14.680 --> 05:18.360 Yes, sir, there may be more than one that's guilty, but this young fellow, I'm pretty sure 05:18.360 --> 05:19.360 of. 05:19.360 --> 05:20.360 What's his name? 05:20.360 --> 05:24.320 I hear the kids call him Harry, red-haired boy, curly red hair, tall, a few freckles. 05:24.320 --> 05:27.120 It won't be hard to get his last name if we need it. 05:27.120 --> 05:30.080 Is there anything else you can think of that we ought to know? 05:30.080 --> 05:34.420 You go up the street and talk to the other two men, Sergeant, George Bofe and Collins. 05:34.420 --> 05:36.200 They might have something more for you. 05:36.200 --> 05:37.760 I think I've told you about everything. 05:37.760 --> 05:40.800 All right, Mr. Loomis, I've got your home phone here. 05:40.800 --> 05:43.080 If we want to contact you later tonight, I'll call you there. 05:43.080 --> 05:44.080 Is that all right? 05:44.080 --> 05:45.080 Perfectly all right. 05:45.080 --> 05:46.080 Here's our card, sir. 05:46.080 --> 05:47.680 You can call us at that number there anytime, all right? 05:47.680 --> 05:48.680 Thank you. 05:48.680 --> 05:52.960 What do you think's behind the whole thing, Sergeant, this cheap stealing, nickel and 05:52.960 --> 05:53.960 dime stuff? 05:53.960 --> 05:54.960 I don't know, sir. 05:54.960 --> 05:55.960 We'll try and find out for you. 05:55.960 --> 05:59.000 It just doesn't make sense stealing like that day after day. 05:59.000 --> 06:02.520 You'd think even a kid would know that you can't go on stealing forever. 06:02.520 --> 06:07.080 Yes, sir, a lot of them give it a try. 06:07.080 --> 06:10.880 From the very start, the whole pattern of the case and the thief's method of operation 06:10.880 --> 06:13.160 made little or no sense at all. 06:13.160 --> 06:17.040 The thefts had been going on for more than two weeks, and they'd all taken place in a 06:17.040 --> 06:19.960 12-square block area. 06:19.960 --> 06:24.240 In each of the two dozen cases reported to us, not one of the thefts had been for more 06:24.240 --> 06:27.240 than $5, either in cash or merchandise. 06:27.240 --> 06:32.440 The thief's scene of operation included two grocery stores, a drug store, coin boxes attached 06:32.440 --> 06:37.180 to the newsstands in the neighborhood, and a five-and-ten-cent variety store. 06:37.180 --> 06:41.940 With one exception, all of the cases involved theft of merchandise only. 06:41.940 --> 06:45.980 The breaking open of coin boxes attached to newsstands was the single instance in which 06:45.980 --> 06:47.540 money was taken. 06:47.540 --> 06:50.600 The total sum was less than $3.50. 06:50.600 --> 06:52.800 7.40 p.m. 06:52.800 --> 06:56.820 Ben and I left the grocery store and went up the street to the home of George Brophy. 06:56.820 --> 07:00.460 He was the neighborhood newspaper distributor who operated the coin box newsstands which 07:00.460 --> 07:01.460 had been broken into. 07:01.460 --> 07:03.520 Well, I think you can just about count on it, Sergeant. 07:03.520 --> 07:05.680 It's one of the kids in the neighborhood doing all this. 07:05.680 --> 07:07.600 Either that or a couple of them are working together. 07:07.600 --> 07:09.440 What makes you so sure about it, Mr. Brophy? 07:09.440 --> 07:12.280 Well, for one thing, we got more in our share of kids out this way. 07:12.280 --> 07:15.720 A lot of them are from poor families, underprivileged, you might say. 07:15.720 --> 07:19.600 I guess they figure it's one way of picking up extra spending money. 07:19.600 --> 07:20.880 I got nothing against kids myself. 07:20.880 --> 07:24.640 A few nickels they get out of those boxes, I wouldn't prosecute them for that. 07:24.640 --> 07:26.040 Well, sir, that's not exactly it. 07:26.040 --> 07:27.040 The point is they're stealing. 07:27.040 --> 07:30.840 If they get away with this small-time stuff, they might figure they're ripe for something 07:30.840 --> 07:31.840 bigger. 07:31.840 --> 07:34.200 Probably be the best thing in the world for them if we can stop them now and set them 07:34.200 --> 07:35.200 on the right track, you see. 07:35.200 --> 07:36.200 Yeah. 07:36.200 --> 07:37.200 Put in with you there, Sergeant. 07:37.200 --> 07:38.680 I don't know how much I can help you, though. 07:38.680 --> 07:42.320 Do you have any idea at all who it might be that's breaking into the coin boxes? 07:42.320 --> 07:46.040 Well, like I say, I have nothing against any kid myself, but there is one of them around 07:46.040 --> 07:48.880 the neighborhood I've been a little suspicious about, a red-headed kid. 07:48.880 --> 07:50.680 What's he look like, you know? 07:50.680 --> 07:54.680 Red hair, freckled face, kind of tall and gangly, typical high school kid. 07:54.680 --> 07:57.600 Old Loomis down at the grocery store, he's been a little leery about the same kid, too. 07:57.600 --> 08:00.040 Well, why do you single out this red-haired boy, Mr. Brophy? 08:00.040 --> 08:01.040 Well, he... 08:01.040 --> 08:04.040 Oh, excuse me, I better grab a lot of him. 08:04.040 --> 08:05.040 Yes. 08:05.040 --> 08:06.040 Hello. 08:06.040 --> 08:09.040 Oh, yeah, Maggie, hi. 08:09.040 --> 08:11.480 Four of them. 08:11.480 --> 08:12.480 When are they born? 08:12.480 --> 08:13.480 Is that right? 08:13.480 --> 08:14.480 That's right. 08:14.480 --> 08:15.480 Born this morning. 08:15.480 --> 08:16.480 Four of them, huh? 08:16.480 --> 08:17.480 Yeah, yeah, just a minute, I'll call them. 08:17.480 --> 08:18.480 Ah, Grace. 08:18.480 --> 08:19.480 Yeah, honey? 08:19.480 --> 08:20.480 It's for you, Maggie Harris. 08:20.480 --> 08:21.480 Okay, thanks. 08:21.480 --> 08:22.480 Excuse me, officer. 08:22.480 --> 08:23.480 A friend of my wife's, her cat just had four kittens. 08:23.480 --> 08:24.480 Oh, I see. 08:24.480 --> 08:25.480 Oh, where were we? 08:25.480 --> 08:26.480 Oh, yeah, about the kid. 08:26.480 --> 08:27.480 Yes, sir, what do you suspect? 08:27.480 --> 08:28.480 Well, there's a couple reasons, Sergeant. 08:28.480 --> 08:29.480 Late one night when I was making my collections, I spotted the boy hanging around one of the 08:29.480 --> 08:30.480 newsstands. 08:30.480 --> 08:44.120 Didn't look like he had any business there that time of night. 08:44.120 --> 08:46.600 He looked up and saw me coming, he turned and ducked down a side street. 08:46.600 --> 08:48.960 Well, do you have any idea where this boy lives, Mr. Brophy? 08:48.960 --> 08:50.600 No, can't say I do. 08:50.600 --> 08:53.720 He goes to that high school a few blocks up on South Waverly, I know that. 08:53.720 --> 08:56.040 It's the same boy that the grocer man had his eye on. 08:56.040 --> 08:59.320 You said there were a couple of reasons why you were suspicious of this boy, Mr. Brophy? 08:59.320 --> 09:01.880 Yeah, well, this other thing doesn't mean too much. 09:01.880 --> 09:03.240 There wasn't anything really wrong with it. 09:03.240 --> 09:04.720 It just seemed a little queer, that's all. 09:04.720 --> 09:05.720 What was that? 09:05.720 --> 09:08.520 Well, I dropped in at the safety liquor store down the street last week. 09:08.520 --> 09:10.040 I wanted to pick up a little something. 09:10.040 --> 09:11.520 I saw the same kid in there. 09:11.520 --> 09:15.720 He was asking Benny, the guy who runs the place, if he'd sell him a fifth of bourbon. 09:15.720 --> 09:17.800 I heard the kid saying it was supposed to be for his father. 09:17.800 --> 09:19.320 His father was sick and couldn't come in. 09:19.320 --> 09:21.160 Of course, Benny turned him down. 09:21.160 --> 09:22.160 He wouldn't sell it to the kid. 09:22.160 --> 09:23.960 And that was the extent of it, huh? 09:23.960 --> 09:24.960 Yeah, that's all. 09:24.960 --> 09:26.320 There wasn't anything wrong with it. 09:26.320 --> 09:27.320 Kid didn't insist. 09:27.320 --> 09:30.320 I thought it was just a little lot of lines sending a kid after liquor. 09:30.320 --> 09:32.280 Well, that's about the size of it. 09:32.280 --> 09:34.920 How about some of the other merchants in the neighborhood who have been bothered by these 09:34.920 --> 09:35.920 petty thefts? 09:35.920 --> 09:37.920 Do you know if any of them are suspicious of this boy? 09:37.920 --> 09:40.800 No, I wouldn't know that. 09:40.800 --> 09:42.960 Henry Loomis, not the stores, but they all know. 09:42.960 --> 09:44.440 Well, thanks very much, Mr. Brophy. 09:44.440 --> 09:47.360 If anything else comes up, you can get us at the number on this card here. 09:47.360 --> 09:48.360 Oh, okay, sir. 09:48.360 --> 09:49.360 Fine. 09:49.360 --> 09:52.680 If I can help at all to clear this thing up, I'd be glad to do it. 09:52.680 --> 09:55.640 Well, we'll probably be checking back with you, and thanks again, sir. 09:55.640 --> 09:57.720 Sure is funny, the whole thing. 09:57.720 --> 09:59.720 I got a big laugh out of it. 09:59.720 --> 10:00.720 Sir? 10:00.720 --> 10:03.880 Oh, I mean the friend of my wife called Maggie Harris. 10:03.880 --> 10:05.880 Cat had four kittens, like I told you. 10:05.880 --> 10:07.520 Sure got a big laugh out of that. 10:07.520 --> 10:09.160 I kept telling her she wouldn't believe me. 10:09.160 --> 10:10.160 What's that, sir? 10:10.160 --> 10:16.200 Well, she thought the cat was a male. 10:16.200 --> 10:20.040 The next morning, Ben and I continued checking with various merchants and residents in the 10:20.040 --> 10:23.560 neighborhood where the series of petty thefts were taking place. 10:23.560 --> 10:27.920 We located and questioned one more shopkeeper who was suspicious of the tall red-haired 10:27.920 --> 10:29.920 boy known as Harry. 10:29.920 --> 10:34.320 That afternoon, we went to the high school on South Waverly Avenue to check on him. 10:34.320 --> 10:38.240 From his first name and his description, he was identified by the boy's vice principal 10:38.240 --> 10:39.840 as Harry Thomas Dunbar. 10:39.840 --> 10:44.720 He was 18 years old and a sophomore with an average scholastic record. 10:44.720 --> 10:48.660 We were told that Dunbar had left the grounds about half an hour before with the high school's 10:48.660 --> 10:50.960 basketball team. 10:50.960 --> 10:54.320 The group was headed for one of the local sports pavilions where the team had one of 10:54.320 --> 10:57.840 its more important games scheduled for that afternoon. 10:57.840 --> 11:02.080 Harry Dunbar was in charge of selling the printed programs for the game. 11:02.080 --> 11:04.920 Ben and I drove out to the sports pavilion and checked with one of the boys collecting 11:04.920 --> 11:06.420 tickets at the door. 11:06.420 --> 11:12.400 He told us we'd find Harry Dunbar inside at the program stand. 11:12.400 --> 11:15.480 These high school kids sure take their basketball seriously, don't they? 11:15.480 --> 11:17.000 Yeah, big turnout, sounds like. 11:17.000 --> 11:20.120 We're going to be lucky if we can find that boy in this crowd. 11:20.120 --> 11:22.880 You see him anywhere? 11:22.880 --> 11:23.880 No. 11:23.880 --> 11:26.200 Which side is the program stand supposed to be on? 11:26.200 --> 11:28.880 Well, there's a lot of them along and through here on both sides. 11:28.880 --> 11:31.760 I guess we better start checking them out. 11:31.760 --> 11:32.760 Yeah. 11:32.760 --> 11:33.760 Joe. 11:33.760 --> 11:34.760 Yeah. 11:34.760 --> 11:40.560 That stand back there on the left, you see? 11:40.560 --> 11:41.560 Redheaded kid? 11:41.560 --> 11:43.560 Yeah, let's check him. 11:43.560 --> 11:44.560 Okay. 11:44.560 --> 11:45.560 Programs, dime. 11:45.560 --> 11:47.760 Complete programs for the game, 10 cents. 11:47.760 --> 11:48.760 Excuse me, son. 11:48.760 --> 11:49.760 Program, mister? 11:49.760 --> 11:50.760 You're Harry Dunbar? 11:50.760 --> 11:51.760 Yeah, that's right. 11:51.760 --> 11:52.760 Well, please, officers, Harry. 11:52.760 --> 11:55.160 We'd like to talk to you for a few minutes if it's all right. 11:55.160 --> 11:57.000 Oh, well, I can't talk to you now. 11:57.000 --> 11:58.800 I'm pretty busy selling these programs here. 11:58.800 --> 12:00.600 Then suppose we wait a few minutes, son. 12:00.600 --> 12:02.760 See, you only have a few left there to sell. 12:02.760 --> 12:04.400 No, I wouldn't do any good waiting. 12:04.400 --> 12:06.440 When I sell these, I got something else to do. 12:06.440 --> 12:08.440 It's only going to take a few minutes of your time, Harry. 12:08.440 --> 12:10.480 We won't keep you long. 12:10.480 --> 12:11.480 What is it, officer? 12:11.480 --> 12:12.480 What do you want to talk to me about? 12:12.480 --> 12:14.040 Just have a few questions for you, son. 12:14.040 --> 12:15.040 That's all. 12:15.040 --> 12:17.400 Can you step out in the lobby with us for just a minute? 12:17.400 --> 12:18.400 What's it all about? 12:18.400 --> 12:19.400 I'd like to know. 12:19.400 --> 12:21.360 I guess you shouldn't not talk about it out here. 12:21.360 --> 12:22.360 Oh, all right. 12:22.360 --> 12:24.880 We can go up this ramp here. 12:24.880 --> 12:26.880 All right. 12:26.880 --> 12:28.840 There's a hallway back here. 12:28.840 --> 12:30.120 Runs underneath the stands. 12:30.120 --> 12:31.120 Won't be so noisy. 12:31.120 --> 12:32.560 Fine, we won't keep you long. 12:32.560 --> 12:36.720 Just a few routine questions. 12:36.720 --> 12:39.280 This ought to do okay. 12:39.280 --> 12:40.280 What is it you want to know about? 12:40.280 --> 12:44.000 Do you know a Mr. Loomis Harry runs a grocery store near the high school? 12:44.000 --> 12:45.640 Yeah, old man Loomis. 12:45.640 --> 12:47.520 I go down to his store and eat lunch sometimes. 12:47.520 --> 12:48.520 Why? 12:48.520 --> 12:50.560 Mr. Collins, he runs another store near the high school. 12:50.560 --> 12:52.320 Yeah, I know the place. 12:52.320 --> 12:53.320 Sometimes I go there too. 12:53.320 --> 12:56.080 A bunch of the kids hang around there during lunchtime. 12:56.080 --> 12:59.360 We've had quite a few complaints from Collins and Loomis, some of the other stores in the 12:59.360 --> 13:00.360 neighborhood too. 13:00.360 --> 13:01.800 We're checking on some of them. 13:01.800 --> 13:03.600 Thought maybe you could help us out, Harry. 13:03.600 --> 13:05.200 No, I couldn't help you any. 13:05.200 --> 13:07.440 Mr. Collins and that old man Loomis, they don't like us. 13:07.440 --> 13:09.800 They want to get us in trouble. 13:09.800 --> 13:10.800 I think they're lying. 13:10.800 --> 13:11.800 Lying about what? 13:11.800 --> 13:14.760 About us kids stealing things out of their stores. 13:14.760 --> 13:17.880 I bet they even told you I'm stealing things from them. 13:17.880 --> 13:18.880 Are you Harry? 13:18.880 --> 13:20.000 Of course not. 13:20.000 --> 13:21.720 They can't say any of us stole things. 13:21.720 --> 13:22.720 They don't know. 13:22.720 --> 13:23.720 They can't prove anything. 13:23.720 --> 13:27.840 Do you know the man that distributes newspapers in your neighborhood, son, and Mr. Brophy? 13:27.840 --> 13:28.840 Who? 13:28.840 --> 13:29.840 Mr. Brophy. 13:29.840 --> 13:32.760 Some of the coin boxes on his newsstands have been broken into. 13:32.760 --> 13:34.640 He thought maybe you could tell us something about that. 13:34.640 --> 13:35.640 Why me? 13:35.640 --> 13:36.640 I don't know any Mr. Brophy. 13:36.640 --> 13:38.120 Well, he knows you, Harry. 13:38.120 --> 13:42.040 He saw you hanging around one of the newsstands one night and there's something else. 13:42.040 --> 13:44.240 He saw you trying to buy a bottle of liquor in the neighborhood. 13:44.240 --> 13:45.240 Is that right? 13:45.240 --> 13:47.400 We've had three or four reports on you, son. 13:47.400 --> 13:48.400 What'd he say? 13:48.400 --> 13:49.400 He won't tell us about it? 13:49.400 --> 13:50.400 They're crazy. 13:50.400 --> 13:51.400 I haven't done anything. 13:51.400 --> 13:52.400 Well, then you got nothing to worry about, son. 13:52.400 --> 13:53.400 I won't tell you anything. 13:53.400 --> 13:54.400 We got Ben. 13:54.400 --> 13:55.400 Here, grab it. 13:55.400 --> 13:56.400 I got him. 13:56.400 --> 13:57.400 All right. 13:57.400 --> 13:58.400 Hold it up, son. 13:58.400 --> 13:59.400 Let me go. 13:59.400 --> 14:00.400 Let me go. 14:00.400 --> 14:01.400 Take it easy, Uncle. 14:01.400 --> 14:02.400 I haven't done anything. 14:02.400 --> 14:03.400 I haven't. 14:03.400 --> 14:04.400 Now let me go, please. 14:04.400 --> 14:05.400 I haven't done anything. 14:05.400 --> 14:06.400 Why'd you try to run away? 14:06.400 --> 14:07.400 I have to get home. 14:07.400 --> 14:08.400 I gotta get home right away. 14:08.400 --> 14:09.400 All right, son. 14:09.400 --> 14:10.400 We'll take you there. 14:10.400 --> 14:11.400 No, you can't go with me. 14:11.400 --> 14:12.400 I have to go alone. 14:12.400 --> 14:13.400 I'm afraid we're gonna have to hold on to you, Harry. 14:13.400 --> 14:18.400 What is it? 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He admitted he was responsible. He said he'd been stealing things from the store for more than a month. 16:24.400 --> 16:31.400 We asked the boy about the petty thefts from the grocery store operated by Mr. Collins. Again he told us he was responsible. 16:31.400 --> 16:39.400 He also admitted stealing from the neighborhood drug store and the variety store, in addition to breaking into the coin boxes on the self-service newsstands. 16:39.400 --> 16:50.400 In each instance he described his method of operation. He estimated that over a period of some four and a half weeks he'd stolen approximately $50 in merchandise and about $5 in cash. 16:50.400 --> 16:54.400 We asked him why. He refused to answer. 16:54.400 --> 17:00.400 You must have had a reason for doing all this hearing. Why don't you tell us? We're going to find out sooner or later. 17:00.400 --> 17:04.400 Sorry, officer. It's the next turn to your left. 17:04.400 --> 17:09.400 Okay. What's the matter, son? You afraid of what your folks are going to say? 17:09.400 --> 17:14.400 No, that's not it. I never stole anything in my life till this time. 17:14.400 --> 17:18.400 When I started in I didn't think of it as stealing. It's something I had to do. That's all. I couldn't help it. 17:18.400 --> 17:21.400 That doesn't make much sense, Harry. What do you mean you couldn't help it? 17:21.400 --> 17:24.400 It's the truth. You've got to believe me. There wasn't anything else I could do. 17:24.400 --> 17:27.400 Well, what was it then? Was somebody forcing you to steal? 17:27.400 --> 17:32.400 No. Can't you just believe me? It's something I had to do. 17:32.400 --> 17:36.400 Sergeant, can't you let me off here? I'll walk home the rest of the way. I promise you I'll come and see you tomorrow. 17:36.400 --> 17:40.400 You know we couldn't do that, son. You've already admitted stealing from a half a dozen stores in the neighborhood, 17:40.400 --> 17:43.400 breaking into those coin boxes. It's going to have to be straightened out one way or the other. 17:43.400 --> 17:46.400 But I can pay them back for what I took. I got a job. I'll pay back every one of them. 17:46.400 --> 17:51.400 I believe you, son, but there's still a lot of explaining that's going to have to be done. 17:51.400 --> 17:56.400 This is the 1500, bro, Harry. Want to point out your house for us? Son? 17:56.400 --> 17:59.400 Can't we fix it up some other way? We don't have to go to my house, do we? 17:59.400 --> 18:02.400 The sooner you fix it, the better. Now, how about it? 18:02.400 --> 18:05.400 Keep on going. It's the way down the end of the block. 18:08.400 --> 18:13.400 Well, now, which is it, son? There's no houses beyond this. It's just that shack down there. 18:13.400 --> 18:15.400 That's my house. 18:17.400 --> 18:19.400 Okay, Harry. 18:19.400 --> 18:22.400 Maybe I better go in first to see if everything's all right. 18:22.400 --> 18:24.400 It'll be all right. We'll come with you. 18:28.400 --> 18:31.400 Ben and I followed the boy up the stairs and into the house. 18:31.400 --> 18:35.400 From the outside, it looked run down and badly in need of painting. 18:35.400 --> 18:40.400 On the inside, it still looked in fair condition except for the housekeeping. 18:40.400 --> 18:43.400 The floor of the living room was littered with sand and dirt. 18:43.400 --> 18:45.400 The floor was covered with dirt. 18:45.400 --> 18:49.400 A few pieces of furniture didn't look much better. 18:49.400 --> 18:55.400 A card table set in one corner was crowded with dirty dishes and scraps of half-eaten food. 18:55.400 --> 18:58.400 Across the room was a baby in a crib. 18:58.400 --> 19:01.400 Couldn't have been more than a few months old. 19:01.400 --> 19:05.400 Apparently, the bedclothes in the crib hadn't been changed for days. 19:05.400 --> 19:10.400 Next to the crib huddled in an army cot, underneath a bed, was a stack of trash. 19:10.400 --> 19:15.420 hadn't been changed for days. Next to the crib huddled in an army cot, underneath a 19:15.420 --> 19:19.660 few thin blankets was a dark-haired little girl, maybe two, two and a half years old. 19:19.660 --> 19:24.180 Her face was thin and pale. She was asleep. Through an open door we could see into the 19:24.180 --> 19:28.760 next room where a woman was lying on a couch. There was an empty glass and a newly opened 19:28.760 --> 19:30.260 bottle of whiskey on the nightstand. 19:30.260 --> 19:35.220 You should have let me come in first, officers. I would have had a chance to clean up a little. 19:35.220 --> 19:36.700 Kids mess up the house, you know. 19:36.700 --> 19:38.700 Harry, is that you, Harry? 19:38.700 --> 19:41.700 That's my mother. Rest in little, I guess. 19:41.700 --> 19:45.700 This is the baby in the crib. His name's Jerry. 19:45.700 --> 19:49.700 That's my little sister on the cot there. Her name's Annie. 19:49.700 --> 19:52.700 Get your mother out here, will you, son? We want to talk to her. 19:52.700 --> 19:57.700 Don't get mad at her, will you? Mom's had a tough time lately. She tries to do her best. 19:57.700 --> 20:00.700 What's the matter with the kids here, son? Have they been sick? 20:00.700 --> 20:05.700 Baby had a cold, but I got that medicine from the drugstore. He seems to be okay. 20:05.700 --> 20:09.700 I'm not so sure about Annie, though. She had a bad cold. Doesn't seem to be getting over it. 20:09.700 --> 20:11.700 You want to take a look, man? 20:11.700 --> 20:13.700 Yeah. 20:13.700 --> 20:15.700 Get your mother up, son. 20:15.700 --> 20:18.700 Yeah. All right. 20:21.700 --> 20:24.700 Hey, Ma. Ma, get up, will you? 20:24.700 --> 20:26.700 What is it? Who'd you bring home with you? 20:26.700 --> 20:28.700 A couple of policemen. They want to talk to you. 20:28.700 --> 20:32.700 What'd you bring them in for? Close the door there. I have to fix up a little. 20:32.700 --> 20:35.700 My mother'll be right out, officer. All right, son. 20:35.700 --> 20:37.700 Joe? Yeah? 20:37.700 --> 20:40.700 We better get to her phone right away. It looks pretty bad. What is it? 20:40.700 --> 20:44.700 Baby needs a doctor. A little girl here. I hope she does, too. What? 20:44.700 --> 20:46.700 I'm not sure she's alive. 20:50.700 --> 20:57.700 An ambulance was called immediately, and Harry Dunbar's two-year-old sister Annie and his baby brother were both rushed to the general hospital. 20:57.700 --> 21:03.700 The mother, identified as Mrs. Florence Dunbar, was taken downtown and booked at the main jail on a drunk charge. 21:03.700 --> 21:08.700 Six forty-five p.m. We took the boy, Harry Dunbar, over to Ben's house. 21:08.700 --> 21:13.700 We put in a call to the general hospital to check on his little sister Annie and his infant brother. 21:13.700 --> 21:16.700 They told us both the children were suffering from malnutrition. 21:16.700 --> 21:18.700 The little girl, Annie, had double pneumonia. 21:18.700 --> 21:24.700 Miraculously, the baby seemed to have been spared. He was sick, but his condition wasn't considered serious. 21:24.700 --> 21:30.700 After Ben's wife fed him dinner, eighteen-year-old Harry Dunbar sat down and told us the story. 21:30.700 --> 21:33.700 Three months before, his father had deserted the family. 21:33.700 --> 21:38.700 His mother had made a pretense at supporting Harry and the two babies and then gave it up in favor of drinking. 21:38.700 --> 21:42.700 The whole burden of keeping a family alive was piled on the youngster's shoulders. 21:42.700 --> 21:50.700 Besides school, he had three odd jobs that he worked at to earn enough money to pay the rent, the gas and light bill, food, and general necessities. 21:50.700 --> 21:53.700 It wasn't enough, so he had to take to stealing. 21:53.700 --> 21:57.700 His mother wouldn't work, but at the same time she wouldn't let the boy apply for charity. 21:57.700 --> 22:03.700 He slept at Ben's house that night. The next morning at juvenile bureau, he gave us the rest of the story. 22:03.700 --> 22:08.700 I guess it got too much for me. I don't know. I could sneak the food and medicine from the stores, all right, 22:08.700 --> 22:14.700 but I couldn't seem to get enough money together. The rent bill and all that. Kids needed clothes, too. 22:14.700 --> 22:18.700 Why wouldn't your mother let you apply for help, son, some of the local charity? 22:18.700 --> 22:24.700 I'd never go for that, officer. She'd get mad when I talked about it, said she had too much pride to take charity. 22:24.700 --> 22:28.700 Did your mother know that you were stealing the food and medicine that you used to bring home? 22:28.700 --> 22:35.700 I don't know. I guess so. I wouldn't be so mad at her, but every time I got some money together to pay bills, she wanted me to buy whiskey for her. 22:35.700 --> 22:38.700 She begged so much, I couldn't say no. 22:38.700 --> 22:43.700 We're having your mother brought over from the main jail, Harry. We'd like to find out if we can't locate your father. 22:43.700 --> 22:46.700 We want to check outside, Ben, and see if they've brought Ms. Dunbar over yet. 22:46.700 --> 22:48.700 Okay, thank you. 22:50.700 --> 22:53.700 How about the kids, Officer Annie, and the baby? How they doing? 22:53.700 --> 22:57.700 I checked the hospital, Harry. The doctor's going to call us as soon as he can. 22:57.700 --> 23:03.700 Ma should have known better. Poor little kids. I could take care of myself, but they had to depend on her. 23:03.700 --> 23:05.700 She'd only stop drinking. 23:05.700 --> 23:07.700 Go right in, Ms. Dunbar. 23:07.700 --> 23:11.700 Harry, you all right, son? What have they been doing to you? 23:11.700 --> 23:13.700 I'm all right, ma. Don't hang on me like that. 23:13.700 --> 23:20.700 I was worried about you, Harry, you and the kids. I'm sorry they got sick. I didn't know. It's just bad luck, Harry. 23:20.700 --> 23:22.700 We got to stick together, you and me. 23:22.700 --> 23:24.700 There's a chair here, ma. Sit down, huh? 23:24.700 --> 23:29.700 Joan, the hospital called. They took the message outside. Here you are. 23:29.700 --> 23:30.700 Thank you. 23:30.700 --> 23:33.700 The hospital, Officer? About Annie and the baby? 23:33.700 --> 23:36.700 Yeah, that's right, son. About your little sister Annie. 23:36.700 --> 23:38.700 What about her? What did the doctor say? 23:38.700 --> 23:43.700 Well, it's not good, Harry. The doctor called and said Annie had pneumonia. 23:43.700 --> 23:45.700 Pneumonia. 23:45.700 --> 23:47.700 She'd be all right, though, huh? To take care of her? 23:47.700 --> 23:54.700 Well, it's not that way, son. I mean, the doctor said, oh, look, you tell him what to do. 23:54.700 --> 23:56.700 What is it? What about Annie? 23:56.700 --> 23:59.700 We got a right to know. She's my little girl. 23:59.700 --> 24:02.700 Sergeant, you can tell me. 24:02.700 --> 24:04.700 You want to sit down, Harry? 24:04.700 --> 24:06.700 Yes, sir? 24:06.700 --> 24:11.700 Annie died ten minutes ago. The doctors tried, and they couldn't help. 24:13.700 --> 24:15.700 Annie dead? 24:15.700 --> 24:17.700 That's right, son. 24:17.700 --> 24:22.700 She's only a little kid. She's only two years old. 24:22.700 --> 24:28.700 Harry. Harry, son. Poor little Annie. 24:28.700 --> 24:34.700 Why did it have to be her, my own little girl? My own little Annie. 24:34.700 --> 24:42.700 Be good to me, son. I don't know how I can stand it. My own little girl Annie. 24:42.700 --> 24:44.700 Go outside, Ma. Go outside. 24:44.700 --> 24:48.700 No, Harry. I need you. I need you more than ever, son. 24:48.700 --> 24:54.700 Be good to me. We have to stick together now. We got to love one another. 24:54.700 --> 24:56.700 All right, Miss Dunn. 24:56.700 --> 25:01.700 No. I need Harry. He's all I got. Aren't you, son? 25:01.700 --> 25:06.700 It's so hard sometimes. Everything's against us. 25:06.700 --> 25:09.700 Lord only knows I've tried. 25:09.700 --> 25:14.700 We've got to try to be happy to stay together and love one another. 25:14.700 --> 25:16.700 Lord only knows... 25:16.700 --> 25:17.700 Will you shut up, Ma? 25:17.700 --> 25:22.700 Harry, don't blame me, son. We've got to try to be happy. 25:22.700 --> 25:27.700 I blame you. Anybody blame you. You killed her. Poor little kid. You killed Annie. 25:27.700 --> 25:29.700 Harry, don't say it. Don't say it. 25:29.700 --> 25:33.700 I will say it, Ma. You did it. The whole terrible thing. Annie's dead. You did it. 25:33.700 --> 25:34.700 Don't you know what I mean? 25:34.700 --> 25:36.700 No, son. Don't hurt me. 25:36.700 --> 25:38.700 All right, Harry. Now take it easy. 25:38.700 --> 25:44.700 You know her, too, don't you? She did it. Her and her whiskey and her drinking and laying around, not even caring about the kids. 25:44.700 --> 25:49.700 I tried to tell you, Ma. It's the least you could have done. Take care of the kids. See they're all right. 25:49.700 --> 25:54.700 You had to drink. It wouldn't work. You had to lay around. Don't you understand? I couldn't do it all. I tried. I couldn't do it all. 25:54.700 --> 25:58.700 You had to go on drinking and lay there and watch Annie die. 25:58.700 --> 26:04.700 Please, son. Don't say that. We've got to love each other. I wouldn't hurt Annie. You know your mother would never do that. 26:04.700 --> 26:06.700 You're not my mother. You're not anybody's mother. 26:06.700 --> 26:10.700 You don't know what you're saying. Harry, I'm your mother. 26:10.700 --> 26:15.700 Lord knows I've tried to be a good mother. You don't mean what you're saying. 26:15.700 --> 26:17.700 Goodbye, Ma. I hope I never have to see you again. 26:17.700 --> 26:20.700 Harry, please, don't go. 26:20.700 --> 26:22.700 Ben, you better go get her. 26:28.700 --> 26:33.700 You wouldn't believe me, Sergeant. Lord knows I've tried. 26:33.700 --> 26:41.700 It's not easy, a husband deserting you the way Charlie did. Three kids on your hands. What could I do? 26:41.700 --> 26:42.700 Yes, ma'am. 26:42.700 --> 26:52.700 Harry ought to understand. I tried. Lord knows it's the best anybody can do. Just try and hope for the best. 26:52.700 --> 26:55.700 Yes, ma'am. I've only got one question. 26:55.700 --> 26:56.700 Yes? 26:56.700 --> 26:58.700 How hard did you try? 27:05.700 --> 27:10.700 The story you have just heard was true. Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:10.700 --> 27:16.700 On April 23rd, trial was held in Municipal Court, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:16.700 --> 27:19.700 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:19.700 --> 27:21.700 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:21.700 --> 27:28.700 Thank you. Friends, I have here a pack of Fatimas. Inside, of course, 20 king-size Fatima cigarettes. 27:28.700 --> 27:36.700 Now Fatimas are the same length and circumference as other king-size cigarettes, and Fatima filters the smoke the same long distance. 27:36.700 --> 27:41.700 But only inside this golden yellow package do you get Fatima quality. 27:41.700 --> 27:49.700 That's right. Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which no other king-size cigarette has. 27:49.700 --> 27:52.700 Next time, buy Fatima. 28:00.700 --> 28:04.700 Eighteen-year-old Harold Dunbar was filed on in juvenile court. 28:04.700 --> 28:10.700 After the hearing, the court directed that the two Dunbar children be placed in a foster home. 28:10.700 --> 28:15.700 Mrs. Dunbar was permanently deprived of the custody of her children. 28:23.700 --> 28:27.700 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:27.700 --> 28:34.700 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:34.700 --> 29:02.700 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:04.700 --> 29:10.700 Stay tuned for Counterspy, next over NBC.