1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,560 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:23,920 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,440 You're a detective sergeant. 4 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,720 You're assigned a homicide detail. 5 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:33,560 A 64 year old shopkeeper is found murdered, beaten to death in the back room of his store. 6 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,360 The body bears the marks of a savage attack. 7 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:38,280 There's no trace of the killer. 8 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:39,680 Your job? 9 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:50,360 Get him. 10 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:51,560 Dragnet. 11 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,160 The documented drama of an actual crime. 12 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:58,520 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 13 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:03,060 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 14 00:01:03,060 --> 00:01:04,600 police files. 15 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:09,760 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 16 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:16,320 in action. 17 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:18,240 Was Wednesday, February 19th. 18 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:19,880 Was cloudy in Los Angeles. 19 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,540 We were working the night watch out a homicide detail. 20 00:01:22,540 --> 00:01:25,600 My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 21 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:26,600 My name's Friday. 22 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:31,240 We were on the way out from the office and it was 10 56 p.m. when we got to 10 16 south 23 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:32,240 12th street. 24 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,240 The apex men's shop. 25 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,920 Yes sir? 26 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,000 Friday and Romero, central homicide. 27 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,000 ID card. 28 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,200 Oh yeah sergeant, been waiting for you. 29 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,600 My partner's upstairs in the back talking to the victim's wife. 30 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:47,600 You answered the call did you? 31 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:48,600 Yeah that's right. 32 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:49,600 Miles and Kever unit 16R. 33 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:50,600 Who are you? 34 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:51,600 Miles. 35 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,280 Kever's talking to Mrs. Wilford, victim's wife. 36 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:55,280 She found the body. 37 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:56,280 What's that up above? 38 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:57,280 How's that? 39 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:58,280 Music up there somewhere. 40 00:01:58,280 --> 00:01:59,280 Sounds like a party. 41 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:00,640 Oh yeah well that's a dance place. 42 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,520 It takes a hole up the floor of the building. 43 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,200 A wonderland dance hall I think that's it. 44 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:06,760 When was the body found Miles do you know? 45 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,640 Well the wife wasn't very definite about it. 46 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:11,480 She told us she came in the shop here about 10 o'clock tonight. 47 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,360 Place was wide open, nobody behind the counter. 48 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,680 Said she looked around a while, finally found her husband's body in the store room back 49 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:17,680 there. 50 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,120 Nothing for a weak stomach, it's pretty brutal. 51 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,120 What else do you have to say? 52 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,120 Oh not too much, she's pretty closed mouthed. 53 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,200 Probably the shock of finding her husband like that I don't know. 54 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:27,600 You want to show us where he is Miles? 55 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,680 Yeah straight back this way. 56 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:36,080 Victim's name is Joseph Wilford, owner of the store ran it himself. 57 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,240 Wife says he's had the business here for 23 years. 58 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,480 Typical men's shop you can see that. 59 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:43,480 That's around the left. 60 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:44,480 In here. 61 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:45,480 Okay go ahead. 62 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,480 He used this for his store room I guess. 63 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,240 Oh that's it. 64 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:57,800 As far as we know the body hasn't been touched. 65 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:59,960 Yeah sure took a terrible beating. 66 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:01,320 An elderly man. 67 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,240 Wife said he was 64 last birthday. 68 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,240 She couldn't think of any enemies he has. 69 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:07,240 Anybody want to do this? 70 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:08,240 Where did he keep his cash? 71 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:09,800 Did she tell you that? 72 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,760 No cash register I guess, can't be sure until late in Prince gets here. 73 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:14,160 Yeah, did you call the crime lab yet? 74 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,160 I'm waiting for you fellas. 75 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:16,400 I want to call him now would you mind? 76 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:17,400 Oh sure sorry. 77 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,680 Say you might as well call the coroner while you're at it. 78 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:20,680 Tell him there's no big rush. 79 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,680 Yeah right. 80 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,560 Take a look around here Jill. 81 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,040 Looks like a tornado ripped through. 82 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:29,040 Yeah. 83 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,000 Chair overturned, clothes all over the floor. 84 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Come here man. 85 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Look at the body. 86 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Yeah? 87 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,680 His arms tied behind his back. 88 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:41,880 Ordinary clothesline robe. 89 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:43,520 What's that cloth knotted around his neck? 90 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:44,520 I don't know. 91 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,760 Looks like it could be a woman's slip, doesn't it? 92 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,040 Whoever it was they weren't taking any chances he'd live through it. 93 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,800 The wounds on the head here, the neck see. 94 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,200 Yeah, looks like he was stamped on by boot, something like that. 95 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,800 Maybe a narrow heel, so brutal. 96 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,040 Doesn't look too much like a robbery motive. 97 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:07,440 Not from the beating he took anyway. 98 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,720 Looks like he might have had a taste for art all over the wall here. 99 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,520 Pin up girls, fancy calendars. 100 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,040 I talked to the crime lab sergeant on the way out. 101 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,040 Oh thanks Miles. 102 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,040 Notified deputy coroner. 103 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:18,680 Anything else I can do for you? 104 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,880 Yeah, would you mind getting the wife down here, Ms. Wilford? 105 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:21,880 We'd like to talk to her. 106 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:22,880 Sure, right away. 107 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:23,880 Thank you. 108 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:24,880 How's she feeling, any hysterics? 109 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:25,880 No, she's pretty quiet. 110 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:26,880 She went upstairs to rest. 111 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,880 A couple of housekeeping rooms up there. 112 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:30,440 Guess that's where she and her husband live. 113 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,120 Well tell her she doesn't feel too well. 114 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:33,560 We could come up there and talk to her. 115 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:34,560 Right sergeant. 116 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:35,560 What do you think? 117 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,240 I don't know, we'll see what the crime lab can come up with. 118 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,080 We can start checking around the neighborhood after we talk to the wife. 119 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,200 Let me take a look here. 120 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,360 What's that there? 121 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,720 It's funny. 122 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,240 Not much place in the haberdashery for things like this, look. 123 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:53,240 Woman's nightgown. 124 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:54,240 Black lace. 125 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:55,800 It's packed in a gift box. 126 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:57,040 Is that a card there? 127 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,760 Yeah, see if we can read it without touching it. 128 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:04,760 It says, to a beautiful girl, you've been away too long hoping we'll never be parted 129 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:05,760 again. 130 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:06,760 Signed Joseph Wilford. 131 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:08,760 Seems a little funny, huh? 132 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:09,760 Yeah, it does. 133 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,840 Maybe his wife's been on a trip, he's gonna give it to her as a present. 134 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:17,720 When's the last time you gave your wife a black lace nightgown? 135 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:22,160 11.05 p.m. 136 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,880 The two officers who'd answered the call, Miles and Kever, brought the victim's wife, 137 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,240 Mrs. Agnes Wilford, downstairs and Ben and I questioned her. 138 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,960 She was a small, slight woman, dark hair, dark brown eyes, a sharp nose and chin. 139 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:35,980 She looked to be in her early 50s. 140 00:05:35,980 --> 00:05:39,200 She said that both she and her husband had emigrated to America from northern Germany 141 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,320 twenty-five years before. 142 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,480 We asked her how her married life with Mr. Wilford had been, but she kept dodging the 143 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:45,700 question. 144 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:48,840 We asked her how she happened to find the body. 145 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:50,800 The body's just as you found it, Mrs. Wilford. 146 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:52,080 You didn't disturb anything? 147 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,960 No, I just came back from a friend's and looked and I saw him and he was dead. 148 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:57,960 Somebody killed Joseph. 149 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,640 And you're pretty sure that your husband wasn't having any trouble with anybody? 150 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:01,640 No enemies? 151 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,880 No, he didn't have any enemies, not to do this. 152 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:04,880 Yes, ma'am. 153 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,880 You lived upstairs in the back of the store with Mr. Wilford, is that right, ma'am? 154 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,800 For a long time, yes, we lived upstairs in the rooms. 155 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,200 It was nice, save money for rent. 156 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,680 Well, do you have any idea at all why your husband's dead, why somebody'd want to kill 157 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:17,680 him? 158 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:18,680 There was money in the store. 159 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,680 They'd kill for that. 160 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:22,480 You're a policeman. 161 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:24,000 People kill for money, you know that. 162 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,160 Well, do you know where Mr. Wilford kept his money, ma'am? 163 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,640 There was a wooden drawer on the table in the back room. 164 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:31,360 He would keep the money there. 165 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,880 But I looked when I came in first, it was empty. 166 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,240 Was there any money in that drawer tonight, do you know that? 167 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,960 Oh, yes, three, four hundred dollars anyway. 168 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,000 Joseph always kept it in there. 169 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,040 That terrible place up above the music all the time, the noise. 170 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,200 You should make them be quiet. 171 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,920 The dance halls have been up there for a year tonight anyway. 172 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:53,240 They should be quiet. 173 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:54,240 Yes, ma'am. 174 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,960 About the money Mr. Wilford had in the store. 175 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,400 Maybe a thousand dollars, seven, eight hundred, maybe that anyway. 176 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,720 And then his wristwatch he had on, that's gone too. 177 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,960 Can you give us a description of the watch, Mrs. Wilford, what make it was, what it looked 178 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:07,960 like? 179 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:08,960 Oh, yes, I can give that to you. 180 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:16,480 It's white gold, expensive, writing on the back, Agnes, Joseph. 181 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,200 On birthday I gave it to him. 182 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,320 Have you been away from your husband recently, ma'am? 183 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,200 I mean on a trip or anything like that? 184 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,200 No, I haven't been away. 185 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:25,200 Why? 186 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,280 Well, we don't mean to upset you at a time like this, but would you know if your husband 187 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:30,880 had any women friends? 188 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:32,440 Mrs. Wilford? 189 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:37,200 If you have a cigarette, I'd like one. 190 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:38,200 Oh, yes, ma'am. 191 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:39,200 Here you are. 192 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,200 Thank you very much. 193 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:45,200 Thank you for your light, Liz. 194 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,440 Thank you. 195 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:53,680 Do we have to talk about it? 196 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,720 I'm afraid so, ma'am. 197 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,720 Most of them I know. 198 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:59,280 For ten years it's been like this. 199 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,520 Well, many of them, young women. 200 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:04,920 Joseph didn't try to hide it from me. 201 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:06,280 I knew all about it. 202 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,040 You continued to live with your husband all this time, ma'am? 203 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:10,040 I did. 204 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:14,320 He'd bring the girls to the shop here sometimes. 205 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,480 When they'd come, I'd go away for a while. 206 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,920 After they were gone, I'd come back. 207 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,320 Joseph and I would never talk about it. 208 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:25,040 You mean you never had any arguments with your husband about the women? 209 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:26,240 No. 210 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,120 He never lied to me about the girls. 211 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,200 He had them, that's all. 212 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,800 It was something he expected me to understand. 213 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:33,800 I see. 214 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,600 You say you knew several of these women your husband went out with. 215 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:38,000 Could you give us their names, please? 216 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,760 Yes, there's an address book upstairs in Joseph's desk. 217 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:41,760 The names are in there. 218 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:42,760 I see. 219 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:44,120 Would you mind showing us that address book now, please? 220 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:45,600 Yes, we can go upstairs. 221 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,640 I'll get it for you. 222 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,600 There's one question I'd like to ask you, Mrs. Wilfred. 223 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:51,600 If you don't mind. 224 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:52,600 Yes. 225 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,480 About your husband, ma'am. 226 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:56,480 I don't know. 227 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,880 He hurt very much at first. 228 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,720 And then by and by, it didn't hurt so much. 229 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:05,720 Time, I guess. 230 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:06,720 A habit. 231 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:07,720 Thank you, pardon? 232 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:08,720 A habit. 233 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,600 If you want to, you can get used to anything. 234 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:13,600 Yes, ma'am. 235 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:22,520 Even a man who doesn't love you anymore. 236 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:26,040 We went upstairs to the housekeeping rooms where Mrs. Wilfred gave us her husband's 237 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:27,720 personal address book. 238 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:31,100 She also gave us a description of his wristwatch, which had been removed from the body along 239 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:33,000 with the name of the jeweler who'd sold her the watch. 240 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,880 It was a Hamilton with a diamond studded dial. 241 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:40,240 The crime lab crew arrived downstairs and began their routine investigation. 242 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:44,160 We finished questioning the victim's wife and then we started checking the neighborhood. 243 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,880 Only a few of the stores in the area were still open. 244 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,960 We found only one possible witness, a newsboy, who told us that he'd seen an attractive 245 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:55,240 dark-haired woman enter the store earlier in the night at about 8.30 p.m. 246 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,840 His description of her was only sketchy. 247 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,920 Another hour of checking the neighborhood and we went back to the store. 248 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,480 Lieutenant Lee Jones and the crime lab crew finished checking over the entire layout. 249 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,720 They went back downtown to give a thorough examination to what physical evidence that 250 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,080 they'd found. 251 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,920 The deputy coroner arrived and removed the body. 252 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,520 Together with Hupka and Forbes from homicide, Ben and I spent most of the next day checking 253 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,920 with store owners in the immediate neighborhood of Wilfred's haberdashery. 254 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,360 They could tell us nothing we hadn't already found out. 255 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,680 We got the description and serial numbers of the victim's missing wristwatch, notified 256 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:27,920 the pawn shop detail and got out a broadcast on it. 257 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:32,240 3.45 p.m. We checked by the office. 258 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:34,720 We got a slow enough start on this thing, huh? 259 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:35,840 Everybody tells us the same story. 260 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:37,560 Yeah, seems to be pretty common knowledge. 261 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:38,880 You had a lot of girlfriends. 262 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,800 I guess we better start checking out the names in that address book, huh? 263 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:43,800 Yeah. 264 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,320 Sure beats all, doesn't it, Joe? 265 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:47,320 What's that? 266 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,080 Mrs. Weld, for ten years, her husband's dating other women right in front of her. 267 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:51,080 It isn't normal. 268 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,400 Can't see why she didn't just pack up and leave. 269 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,200 It's kind of hard to figure at that. 270 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:56,440 Maybe she was still in love with him. 271 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,160 I wonder how Forbes and Hubka made out. 272 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,160 I'll check the books, see if we've got a caller. 273 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:02,160 Okay. 274 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:03,160 Let's see. 275 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:04,160 No? 276 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:05,160 No word from him, huh? 277 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,520 No, Lee Jones called from the crime lab, wants us to check with him. 278 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:08,520 I'll call him. 279 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:09,520 Okay, fine. 280 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:10,520 2667, please. 281 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:11,520 I'll try. 282 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:16,000 I guess we better check with the morgue, too, huh? 283 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,560 See if they got the body posted yet. 284 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:18,560 Yeah. 285 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:19,560 Hi, Lee, Mr. Romero. 286 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:20,560 What was it? 287 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:21,560 Did you get the name? 288 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:23,560 I see. 289 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:25,600 I went by. 290 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,800 What do you have? 291 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,440 Lee talked to the coroner already. 292 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,120 Wilfred died about nine o'clock, cause of death was strangulation. 293 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,600 How about those wounds on the head and on the neck? 294 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:35,600 That didn't do it. 295 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:36,600 The cloth died around his neck. 296 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,160 It was a woman's slip, all right. 297 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,440 Did he pick up anything off it, any laundry marks? 298 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:41,440 He did better than that. 299 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,800 He got the name of the laundry. 300 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,080 After checking for all stains and markings on the woman's slip, which had been found 301 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:52,240 knotted around the murder victim's neck, Lee Jones had examined it under a special fluorescent 302 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:53,240 light. 303 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,800 He found a type of marking used by only one large laundry service in the city. 304 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,040 We checked with the managers of the laundry company and found that the slip had been cleaned 305 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,520 by them for a Miss Elise Dressler. 306 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,480 She had a North Hudson Street address. 307 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:05,920 We started checking on her. 308 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,400 The first lead came from the dead man's personal address book. 309 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,840 We found the name of Elise Dressler listed along with her address and telephone number. 310 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,880 There was a single word scribbled beside her name and enclosed with parenthesis. 311 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:18,520 It said Max. 312 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:19,800 That was all. 313 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,600 5.42 p.m. 314 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:25,240 We drove out to the address, a Spanish style apartment house on North Hudson. 315 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:26,920 We rang, but there was no answer. 316 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:30,720 The apartment manager told us Miss Dressler worked as a dancer at a nightclub on West 7th 317 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:31,720 Street. 318 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,340 Ben and I drove to the club, a high-priced theater restaurant which was newly opened. 319 00:12:35,340 --> 00:12:38,480 We were told Elise Dressler wasn't due there until 9 p.m. 320 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,760 We had a couple of ham and cheese sandwiches and some coffee at a lunch counter, and we 321 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,480 checked back at the club a few minutes past 9. 322 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,000 The show was already started. 323 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,040 We located the Dressler girl in her room backstage. 324 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,080 She was a tall, fairly attractive blonde. 325 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,960 We started questioning her. 326 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:55,800 Can you tell us where you were last night, Miss? 327 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:56,800 Yeah, all right. 328 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:57,960 Here I work every night but Monday. 329 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:58,960 We closed then. 330 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:00,440 What time did you get here last night? 331 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:01,440 Just about 8 o'clock. 332 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,680 I had something to eat and then I changed to my costume and went to work. 333 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:05,920 Do you know if Mr. Wilford had any enemies? 334 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:06,920 No. 335 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:07,920 Maybe somebody he was having trouble with? 336 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:08,920 No. 337 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:09,920 Maybe that wife of his. 338 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:10,920 That's none of my business. 339 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:11,920 I wouldn't know. 340 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:13,640 You can't think of anybody at all who might want him out of the way. 341 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:14,880 No, I don't think so. 342 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:18,680 He and Max Hollins had some arguments, but that's the only time I saw Joe mad at anybody. 343 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:19,680 Who's this Max Hollins? 344 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:22,040 He's the man who arranged for me to come out from New York. 345 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:23,480 Joe and Max have been friends for a long time. 346 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:25,040 What were the arguments about, Miss Dressler? 347 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:26,040 Do you remember? 348 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:27,040 Yeah, about me. 349 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,680 You see, Max brought me out here and I suppose at first he thought he owned me. 350 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:32,280 He didn't think I should go out with any other men but him. 351 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:33,280 Max is stubborn sometimes. 352 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:34,280 Well, so am I. 353 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:35,840 I like Wilford, so I went out with him. 354 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:36,840 I went out with Max, too. 355 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,920 Well, these arguments they had about you, would you say that they were pretty mad at 356 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:41,880 each other, Max and this Mr. Wilford? 357 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,480 Only last week, Max was very angry with Joe, but I think he got over it. 358 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:47,000 Could we talk together later? 359 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,000 It's almost time for me to go on. 360 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,000 I've got to get outside. 361 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Oh, sure. 362 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Excuse me. 363 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 I'll get it. 364 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,040 We'll wait backstage here for you, Miss Dressler. 365 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:55,040 Is that all right? 366 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,040 Yeah, fine. 367 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:57,040 Oh, that's all right. 368 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,040 I still have a few minutes. 369 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,760 Well, how about the last time you were in Wilford's store, Miss Dressler? 370 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:02,760 Can you remember that? 371 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:03,760 Not exactly. 372 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,000 At least six months ago, I hardly ever went to see Joe there. 373 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,760 Did you ever have any occasion to leave any clothing with Wilford in his store, maybe 374 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,160 for cleaning alteration? 375 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:12,880 No, I never left him. 376 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:13,880 Maybe it's possible they could be there. 377 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:14,880 How do you mean? 378 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:16,760 Well, I have some nice slips, you know. 379 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,080 First I sent them out, but Joe said he knew a very nice French laundry to do them. 380 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,400 He'd come to my place, pick them up, and then take them to the laundry. 381 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,000 Maybe he could have left them in his shop one day. 382 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,720 Well, would anybody besides yourself have access to the clothes in your apartment, maybe 383 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:28,720 a roommate? 384 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:29,720 No, I live by myself. 385 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,240 I have the only key to the door except Max Hollins. 386 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:33,240 He's got one. 387 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,280 He lives in my apartment house, the upstairs floor. 388 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:36,400 Nobody else has a key. 389 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,320 Did you send in clothing to the French laundry with Mr. Wilford recently? 390 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:40,640 Yesterday, I did. 391 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:41,640 Two nice slips of mine. 392 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:43,240 But Joe Wilford didn't call for him. 393 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:44,240 I sent him over with Max. 394 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:45,240 How'd that happen? 395 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:46,240 Max said he might as well take him. 396 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,240 He was going down to that neighborhood by the haberdashery. 397 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:49,240 Oh. 398 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:50,240 Yeah, I wanted to see Wilford anyway. 399 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:56,680 Max said he wanted to fix up their argument. 400 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,280 We continued questioning the Dressler girl after she finished her first act at the theater 401 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:01,280 restaurant. 402 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,680 She told us that she hadn't seen Max Hollins since early the day before. 403 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,400 She was taken downtown where she gave us a full statement. 404 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,000 Further questioning got us the information that the argument between the two men, Joseph 405 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,080 Wilford and Max Hollins, over the affections of Elise Dressler was far from settled at 406 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:16,760 their last meeting. 407 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,160 The girl admitted that it was a serious argument and that it ended up in a fist fight between 408 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:21,160 the two men. 409 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,680 She said Max Hollins was out of town for the night, but that he'd return early the next 410 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,080 evening for work. 411 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:30,800 He was employed as manager of a room service department at a large downtown hotel. 412 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:32,600 11.30 p.m. 413 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,560 Ben and I drove back to the apartment house on North Hudson and together with the building 414 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,000 manager we checked Max Hollins' apartment. 415 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,160 We found nothing. 416 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,640 The manager told us Hollins' car was parked in the apartment garage, so we went down and 417 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:44,520 gave it a routine check. 418 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,360 Under the front seat we found a paper bag with a pair of gloves in it. 419 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,760 There were blood stains on both gloves. 420 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,640 We dropped him off at the crime lab for examination. 421 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,640 At six o'clock the following night, Ben and I went to the room service department of the 422 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,200 downtown hotel where Hollins was employed. 423 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,760 Sorry, Mr. Hollins is late this evening. 424 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:01,760 He should be here pretty soon. 425 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,240 Did he notify you he'd be in late? 426 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,720 Well, he called, yes, probably be here in 10 or 15 minutes. 427 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:06,720 I'm his assistant. 428 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:07,720 Can I help you? 429 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:08,720 No, that's all right. 430 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:09,720 We'll wait. 431 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:10,720 All right. 432 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:11,720 Pardon me. 433 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:12,720 I wonder if we could look at your wristwatch, please. 434 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:13,720 Well, surely it's just a few minutes past eight. 435 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:15,000 No, we just want to look at the watch if we can. 436 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Oh, sure. 437 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Here. 438 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Could you take it off? 439 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,000 I'd like to look at the back of it if it's all right. 440 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,000 Sure, that's all right. 441 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Here. 442 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,000 That's looking, isn't it? 443 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Just got it yesterday. 444 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 That's so. 445 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Same engraving. 446 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,000 Agnes to Joseph. 447 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Where'd you get this watch, sir? 448 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Why, what's the matter? 449 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Where'd you get it? 450 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Max Hollins. 451 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:51,560 He sold it to me. 452 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,800 February 21st, Friday, 6.30 p.m. 453 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,040 We called the office and notified them that we'd located the wristwatch taken from the 454 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,080 body of the murder victim, Joseph Wilfred. 455 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,640 A stakeout was placed on the North Hudson Street apartment house. 456 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:08,420 Ben and I stayed on at the hotel waiting the return of the murder suspect, Max Hollins. 457 00:17:08,420 --> 00:17:11,560 We talked to his assistant and found out that Hollins had a room in the hotel where he could 458 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:14,560 sleep whenever he was called on to work late at night. 459 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:16,400 6.55 p.m. 460 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,200 We called the office back and asked for a couple of men to be sent over to check the 461 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:20,200 suspect's room. 462 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,320 A few minutes later, Hollins himself showed up for work. 463 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:25,320 Apparently, he'd been doing some drinking. 464 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:28,620 Ben and I questioned him at his desk to stall for time until the men from the office could 465 00:17:28,620 --> 00:17:32,360 get to the hotel and make a thorough check of the suspect's room. 466 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:36,460 Hollins was kept busy on the phone taking room service orders from the hotel guests. 467 00:17:36,460 --> 00:17:39,640 In between calls, we talked to him. 468 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,960 I left a lease in the apartment and then I took the few pieces of laundry she had and 469 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:44,280 dropped them off at Wilfred's store. 470 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:46,160 It was about 6 o'clock Wednesday night. 471 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,640 You mentioned it addressed the girl you wanted to see, Mr. Wilfred. 472 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,600 You wanted to patch up an argument you'd had with him? 473 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,480 Yes, I just wanted to make sure he didn't have any bad feelings about it. 474 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:54,960 It really wasn't much of an argument. 475 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:56,880 How long did you stay at Wilfred's store, Mr. Hollins? 476 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:57,880 Do you remember then? 477 00:17:57,880 --> 00:17:59,440 Twenty minutes, maybe a half hour. 478 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,000 We talked and we had a glass of wine in the back room. 479 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,480 No, it was upstairs. 480 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,320 We drank the wine and everything was all right. 481 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:08,600 I guess it was about half past six when I left the store. 482 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:09,760 It was all right then. 483 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,680 Well, did anybody come in the store while you were there? 484 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,000 No, it was nobody. 485 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000 How about Mrs. Wilfred? 486 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,600 Was she in the store at all during the time you were there on Wednesday? 487 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,360 No, he said she was gone for the day. 488 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:19,880 She'd be back later on. 489 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:21,400 We finished our talk, then I left. 490 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,440 It was the last time I saw Joseph. 491 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,280 It was a terrible thing for somebody to kill him. 492 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:28,280 Excuse me again, please. 493 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:29,280 Yes, sir. 494 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,280 Go ahead. 495 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:32,280 Room service, may I help you, please? 496 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:33,280 Yes, sir. 497 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:34,280 Yes, sir. 498 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,680 Well, could I suggest the Palace Court salad? 499 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:37,680 Very nice, yes. 500 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,800 Half the vada chokes filled with fresh crab meat, a thousand-dollar dressing garnished 501 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:43,480 with slices of avocado. 502 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,200 All right. 503 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:46,560 Two orders. 504 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:47,560 Some consomme. 505 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:48,560 All right. 506 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,680 French rolls, coffee, and brandy. 507 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:51,680 8.30. 508 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:52,680 Yes, sir. 509 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:53,680 I'll be right away. 510 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:55,720 Fred, this order for 8.13? 511 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,280 Yes, Mr. Holland? 512 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,120 That's Mr. and Mrs. Morrow, 8.13. 513 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:00,120 Make it quickly, please. 514 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:01,120 Yes, sir. 515 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:03,400 One of the best men I have, Fred. 516 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,640 We keep a very high standard in our room service. 517 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:06,640 Only the very best. 518 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:07,640 They're all Geneva men. 519 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:08,640 Yes, sir. 520 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:09,800 Something else we'd like to find out? 521 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:11,840 Twenty-one years ago, I came here to the hotel. 522 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:12,840 There was nothing. 523 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:13,840 They were serving garbage. 524 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:14,840 Bad service. 525 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:15,840 Very bad. 526 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:17,600 I built our staff one by one. 527 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:18,600 I did it. 528 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,600 There's our staff list there. 529 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:21,840 Finest waiters in the country. 530 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:25,480 Henry Sanchez, Fred LaSalle, Conrad Lutz, Joe Zwick. 531 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:26,480 Yes, sir. 532 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:27,480 And Elmer Creighton. 533 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,920 He waited on the President when he came to visit here from Washington. 534 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,600 The President thought so much of our service, he wrote a letter to Elmer later on. 535 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:35,600 No argument at all. 536 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,000 I have the best spend in the country, the best food. 537 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,240 Twenty-one years to make it like it is. 538 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:41,400 I did it all myself. 539 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,280 I understand you and Wilford were old friends, Mr. Holland. 540 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,200 You knew him quite a number of years, is that right? 541 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:47,200 Most of his life, yes. 542 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:48,840 I knew Joseph from the old country. 543 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:50,560 We came from the same town. 544 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,000 Terrible thing that's happened. 545 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,480 I always liked Joseph. 546 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:55,800 A good friend. 547 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,040 What about these arguments you had with him lately about the girl, Elise Dresler? 548 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:00,320 Any amount of anything? 549 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,280 No, but it showed something typical of Joseph. 550 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:04,680 Maybe it was the business he was in. 551 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:05,680 Dollars. 552 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:06,680 It's all he thought about. 553 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:07,680 The big dollar. 554 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,800 He knew he had more money than I did. 555 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,400 He thought he could do anything with it. 556 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:12,400 How do you mean? 557 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:13,800 About the girl, Elise. 558 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,640 I took a visit to the old country three years ago, Stausburg. 559 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,760 That's where I learned my trade from the best maitre d's in Europe. 560 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:25,000 I met Elise on my way back in New York. 561 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,320 You can check up on all my background. 562 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,880 I worked at the Grand Hotel in Brussels. 563 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:31,480 That's when it was the best. 564 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,720 I was at the Carlton in London. 565 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,120 Then I went to Venice, the Hotel Danielier. 566 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:39,240 After I went to the Hotel Majestic in Cannes. 567 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:40,240 Yes, sir. 568 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:41,880 What would that have to do with Miss Dresler? 569 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:42,880 Very nice girl. 570 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:43,880 We liked each other. 571 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,880 When I came back here, I arranged for her to come out from New York. 572 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:47,880 She took care of everything. 573 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,720 I thought I'd like to marry her when she came here. 574 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,240 How about it, Hollins? 575 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,240 You want to tell us now? 576 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:54,240 Yes, sir. 577 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,240 Did you kill Wilfred? 578 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,240 Excuse me, please. 579 00:20:58,240 --> 00:20:59,240 Room service. 580 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:00,240 May I help you, please? 581 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:01,240 Yes, Mr. Sutter. 582 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:05,840 Dinner for twelve tomorrow night in your suite. 583 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,840 Your wife and I made up the menu. 584 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,560 Certainly, Mr. Sutter. 585 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,560 I'll check it over for you. 586 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:12,560 Let's see. 587 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,360 We serve caviar with pligny to start with. 588 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:18,440 And the soup, consomme, marteau-laine. 589 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,440 And with the soup, amanteato. 590 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,120 Yes, sir, that's Spanish. 591 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:25,120 Then crab legs, sandini. 592 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:26,120 Sir? 593 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:27,120 Sandini. 594 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:29,480 That's crab legs rolled in breadcrumbs. 595 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,880 Fried in butter, served in a terrapin dish with bechamel sauce. 596 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,640 After that, the chateaubriand with truffle sauce, souffle potatoes, small green peas 597 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:39,640 français. 598 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,560 And with that, we serve Ponte Connais 27. 599 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:47,960 Dessert, we shall have peach flambé, coffee, and liqueurs afterward. 600 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:48,960 Yes, sir. 601 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,840 Henry Sanchez and 100 Lutes. 602 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,960 They will serve you. 603 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:54,960 Thank you. 604 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:55,960 Thank you, Mr. Sutter. 605 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:56,960 Good night, sir. 606 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:01,080 A real gentleman, Mr. Sutter. 607 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:02,880 He knows how to give a dinner party. 608 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:04,320 The old school. 609 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:05,880 Not so many of them left now. 610 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,560 It's not like it used to be. 611 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,040 People aren't the same anymore. 612 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,600 Oh, yes, Fred. 613 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,280 What is it? 614 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:14,760 Message for the officers here, Sergeant. 615 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:15,760 Oh, thank you. 616 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:16,760 Excuse us a minute. 617 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:17,760 Oh, of course. 618 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:18,760 What is it? 619 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:19,760 It's from Forbes. 620 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:20,760 I checked his room in the hotel. 621 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:21,760 They didn't find anything. 622 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:22,760 Better get him downtown, huh? 623 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:23,760 Yeah. 624 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,760 Hollins, we'll have to ask you to come downtown. 625 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:27,760 Oh, yes. 626 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,760 Get my top coat on here. 627 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:31,760 Now, there. 628 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:32,760 Out this way, Sergeant. 629 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:33,760 All right. 630 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:34,760 You park your car in the hotel. 631 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:35,760 I'll be right back. 632 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:36,760 I'll be right back. 633 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:37,760 I'll be right back. 634 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:38,760 I'll be right back. 635 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:39,760 I'll be right back. 636 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:40,760 I'll be right back. 637 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:41,760 You park your car in the hotel garage? 638 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:42,760 No, sir. 639 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:43,760 Outside on 10th Street. 640 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,120 You go out the side door, then. 641 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:47,120 This way. 642 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:50,120 It's starting to rain. 643 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:55,160 Do you both have your top coats? 644 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,160 Yeah. 645 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:57,160 Well, let's go. 646 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:01,680 We're parked right down this way. 647 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:02,680 What did Elise say? 648 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:03,680 Elise Dressler. 649 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,120 She said you had a fight with Wilford. 650 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:09,120 You went to see him the same day he was murdered. 651 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:10,120 Yes. 652 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:11,120 It's terrible. 653 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:12,120 It's too bad. 654 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:13,880 Might as well tell you, sir. 655 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,880 We've got the evidence, quite a bit of it. 656 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:16,880 All points to you. 657 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:17,880 Oh? 658 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:18,880 How is that? 659 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,040 Well, the pair of gloves you were wearing, we found them. 660 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,760 The wristwatch you took off the body, we found that, too. 661 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:24,760 Yes. 662 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,720 You want to tell us about it? 663 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,680 I didn't use good sense. 664 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,520 I didn't know what to do when I went to see him. 665 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:34,520 But I... 666 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,320 I didn't have it in my mind to kill him. 667 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,120 God knows I tried to talk to him. 668 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:43,000 I asked him, please, to stay away from Elise. 669 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,360 I asked him as a friend. 670 00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:45,440 Yes, sir. 671 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,280 All he said to me was, Max, I give her presents and she likes me. 672 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,760 I have the money to give her what she wants, Max. 673 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,600 You haven't got the money. 674 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:54,600 That's what he said to me. 675 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,000 You had a fight with him, then? 676 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,280 No, there wasn't any fight. 677 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,040 I'm not sorry. 678 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,800 I killed him, but I'm not sorry. 679 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,760 You want to give us a statement about it downtown? 680 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,040 I suppose. 681 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,440 I'm not ashamed of it. 682 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:08,440 All right, let's go. 683 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,640 Down this way. 684 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,320 Any man would have done the same. 685 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,840 How could you hear such talk and not kill him? 686 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,840 How about the wrist watch you took off of him, the money from the drawer? 687 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:23,720 I wanted to hurt him more, even after he was dead, after I beat him and beat him. 688 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:28,280 I knew it would be the worst way to hurt Joseph, to take his money. 689 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:29,280 Here we are. 690 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,280 In the back house. 691 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,280 Yes. 692 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,280 Sergeant. 693 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,880 Yeah. 694 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,760 I've told you now, I killed him. 695 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,600 Don't you think I had a right to kill him? 696 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:45,600 I wouldn't know. 697 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,440 But he was like that. 698 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,560 The first time you met Joseph, you would know he was bad. 699 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,760 It was better for everybody, for him to die. 700 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,400 First time you met him, you would know that. 701 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,400 I'm sorry, I wouldn't know, mister. 702 00:24:58,400 --> 00:24:59,400 What? 703 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,360 The only time I met him, he was dead. 704 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:11,880 The story you have just heard was true. 705 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,440 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 706 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:19,160 On June 4th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 89, City and County of Los Angeles, 707 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,400 State of California. 708 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:31,920 In a moment, the results of that trial. 709 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,260 Max Hollins was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 710 00:25:35,260 --> 00:25:48,960 He was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 711 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:53,920 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 712 00:25:53,920 --> 00:26:02,080 Additional advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police 713 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:27,600 Officer, Dallas Police Station.