WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.680 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:12.680 --> 00:15.080 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:15.080 --> 00:16.760 Fatima cigarettes. 00:16.760 --> 00:28.700 Best of all, king-sized cigarettes brings you dragnet. 00:28.700 --> 00:30.240 You're a detective sergeant. 00:30.240 --> 00:32.760 You're assigned to burglary detail. 00:32.760 --> 00:35.600 One of your informants contacts you by telephone. 00:35.600 --> 00:37.960 He says he wants to see you immediately. 00:37.960 --> 00:41.960 He claims knowledge of more than two dozen burglaries committed in your city. 00:41.960 --> 00:45.560 He offers the information despite threats against his own life. 00:45.560 --> 00:50.880 Your job, investigate. 00:50.880 --> 00:56.320 The latest Fatima sales report shows thousands and thousands of king-sized cigarette smokers 00:56.320 --> 00:58.400 are switching to Fatima. 00:58.400 --> 01:06.160 For the month of October, coast to coast actual figures show Fatima sales are up 110 percent 01:06.160 --> 01:07.720 or more than double. 01:07.720 --> 01:11.040 Fatima, best of all king-sized cigarettes. 01:11.040 --> 01:15.440 Definitely the best quality in its class, but the same price as the cigarette you are 01:15.440 --> 01:16.800 now smoking. 01:16.800 --> 01:21.960 Remember, thousands of Americans are switching to extra mild Fatima. 01:21.960 --> 01:30.600 Next time, insist on the best, king-sized Fatima in the distinctive golden yellow package. 01:30.600 --> 01:38.000 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:38.000 --> 01:42.880 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:42.880 --> 01:47.480 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:47.480 --> 01:49.160 police files. 01:49.160 --> 01:54.360 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:54.360 --> 01:59.800 in action. 01:59.800 --> 02:01.360 Was Monday, April 16th. 02:01.360 --> 02:02.840 Was foggy in Los Angeles. 02:02.840 --> 02:05.160 We were working the day watch out a burglary detail. 02:05.160 --> 02:07.800 My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Captain Wisdom. 02:07.800 --> 02:08.800 My name's Friday. 02:08.800 --> 02:12.360 We were on the way out from the office and it was 1.38 p.m. when we got to the corner 02:12.360 --> 02:18.240 of North Main and Satello Street, Johnny Cokin's Cafe. 02:18.240 --> 02:19.240 Pretty well filled up. 02:19.240 --> 02:20.240 You want to sit at the counter? 02:20.240 --> 02:21.560 No, there's a booth over there in the corner. 02:21.560 --> 02:22.560 People are just leaving. 02:22.560 --> 02:24.560 Oh yeah, didn't see it. 02:24.560 --> 02:27.520 This is all right, isn't it? 02:27.520 --> 02:28.520 Yeah, fine. 02:28.520 --> 02:29.920 Oh, it smells good. 02:29.920 --> 02:32.600 I wonder what the special is today. 02:32.600 --> 02:34.080 No, it's up there on the blackboard. 02:34.080 --> 02:38.480 Oh yeah, enchilada with cheese, coleslaw, salad. 02:38.480 --> 02:39.480 That's not pretty good, doesn't it? 02:39.480 --> 02:40.480 I wish I hadn't had lunch. 02:40.480 --> 02:41.480 I should have waited. 02:41.480 --> 02:44.200 I keep forgetting Monday's enchilada day down here. 02:44.200 --> 02:45.800 I sure like the way Johnny fixes. 02:45.800 --> 02:47.800 Oh, Friday, Ben, how are you? 02:47.800 --> 02:50.240 Yeah, I got these dirty dishes out of the way. 02:50.240 --> 02:51.240 Okay, fine. 02:51.240 --> 02:52.240 Is it going to be the special? 02:52.240 --> 02:53.880 No, we forgot today was Monday. 02:53.880 --> 02:54.880 We had lunch already. 02:54.880 --> 02:55.880 Too bad. 02:55.880 --> 02:56.880 What'll it be? 02:56.880 --> 02:57.880 Just coffee? 02:57.880 --> 02:58.880 Yeah, it's fine. 02:58.880 --> 02:59.880 Friday? 02:59.880 --> 03:00.880 Yeah, same for me, Roberta. 03:00.880 --> 03:01.880 Both of them black, I guess. 03:01.880 --> 03:02.880 Okay, two blacks. 03:02.880 --> 03:03.880 So you haven't seen Smalley around this afternoon, have you, Roberta? 03:03.880 --> 03:04.880 Red Smalley? 03:04.880 --> 03:05.880 Red? 03:05.880 --> 03:06.880 No, I haven't seen him for a couple of days. 03:06.880 --> 03:07.880 Okay. 03:07.880 --> 03:08.880 I thought he said to meet him here at 1.30. 03:08.880 --> 03:09.880 Well, he'll be alone. 03:09.880 --> 03:10.880 He's never been on time as long as I've known him. 03:10.880 --> 03:11.880 Yeah, I wonder what's eating him. 03:11.880 --> 03:12.880 He sounded a little excited on the phone. 03:12.880 --> 03:17.880 Did he give you any idea what it was all about? 03:17.880 --> 03:18.880 No, just said it was important, had to see it. 03:18.880 --> 03:20.880 Hey, I was just thinking, maybe I could handle one of those enchiladas after all. 03:20.880 --> 03:21.880 Yeah, there's Red. 03:21.880 --> 03:22.880 All right, fellas. 03:22.880 --> 03:23.880 Hope I ain't late. 03:23.880 --> 03:24.880 All right. 03:24.880 --> 03:25.880 Been a long time, huh? 03:25.880 --> 03:26.880 Yeah, sit down, Red. 03:26.880 --> 03:27.880 Good to see you. 03:27.880 --> 03:28.880 Yeah, thanks. 03:28.880 --> 03:29.880 What's new with you, anyway? 03:29.880 --> 03:30.880 Oh, not too much. 03:30.880 --> 03:31.880 How's it with you? 03:31.880 --> 03:32.880 Here you are. 03:32.880 --> 03:33.880 Two coffees black, huh, you, Ben? 03:33.880 --> 03:34.880 Hungry. 03:34.880 --> 03:35.880 What about a hamburger steak, huh? 03:35.880 --> 03:36.880 Some coffee, too. 03:36.880 --> 03:37.880 Hamburger steak and coffee, right? 03:37.880 --> 03:38.880 You're looking pretty fair-shaped, Red. 03:38.880 --> 03:39.880 You working steady now? 03:39.880 --> 03:44.880 Well, you know how it goes, on again, off again. 03:44.880 --> 03:49.880 Put in a full month playing bar boy at Ziggy's joint place down in South Main, you know? 03:49.880 --> 03:50.880 Mm-hmm, what happened there? 03:50.880 --> 03:52.880 Business fell off and Ziggy said he had to let me go. 03:52.880 --> 03:54.880 Been kind of thin ever since. 03:54.880 --> 03:57.880 I'm hustling programs out of the racetrack right now. 03:57.880 --> 03:58.880 It's not too bad. 03:58.880 --> 04:01.880 Can't afford to bet, but I get to see the races free. 04:01.880 --> 04:03.880 You can't have everything, I guess. 04:03.880 --> 04:05.880 I understand you're a little worried about something, Red. 04:05.880 --> 04:06.880 Anything serious? 04:06.880 --> 04:07.880 Well, yeah, might be. 04:07.880 --> 04:09.880 My guy's telling Romero on the phone. 04:09.880 --> 04:11.880 Wouldn't do me no good if it got out. 04:11.880 --> 04:13.880 I mean, me talking to you about it, you know? 04:13.880 --> 04:16.880 He'd probably tie a can in my tail if he knew I told you. 04:16.880 --> 04:17.880 Who's that? 04:17.880 --> 04:19.880 Guy by the name of Jeff Allen. 04:19.880 --> 04:20.880 You know him? 04:20.880 --> 04:21.880 No, doesn't sound familiar to me. 04:21.880 --> 04:22.880 Ben? 04:22.880 --> 04:23.880 Me neither. Who is he, Red? 04:23.880 --> 04:25.880 Second story worker. 04:25.880 --> 04:26.880 Lots of savvy, too. 04:26.880 --> 04:29.880 He's fell a couple of times on burglary raps. 04:29.880 --> 04:30.880 Knows his business, though. 04:30.880 --> 04:31.880 Got a lot of moxie. 04:31.880 --> 04:33.880 How long has he been in town, you know? 04:33.880 --> 04:34.880 Well, about six months, I think. 04:34.880 --> 04:37.880 Come from the east, finished a stretch back in Michigan. 04:37.880 --> 04:38.880 He's a real pro. 04:38.880 --> 04:40.880 What's he doing out here, Red? 04:40.880 --> 04:42.880 Well, matter of fact, that's what I want to talk to you about. 04:42.880 --> 04:44.880 Figured maybe you ought to know. 04:44.880 --> 04:45.880 Yeah? 04:45.880 --> 04:47.880 He's doing real good the way I get it. 04:47.880 --> 04:51.880 I heard him and a couple other guys talking about it one night down in Ziggy's. 04:51.880 --> 04:53.880 They were having a couple beers. 04:53.880 --> 04:54.880 I guess they didn't think I could hear them. 04:54.880 --> 04:56.880 What'd they have to say? 04:56.880 --> 04:59.880 This guy Allen was running off about how good he was doing. 04:59.880 --> 05:02.880 How many places he knocked over in the last couple of months. 05:02.880 --> 05:03.880 How much stuff he took. 05:03.880 --> 05:04.880 And what's he look like, Red? 05:04.880 --> 05:06.880 Oh, pretty average. 05:06.880 --> 05:07.880 About my height. 05:07.880 --> 05:08.880 Dark hair. 05:08.880 --> 05:11.880 Little scar right here in his chin. 05:11.880 --> 05:14.880 About 160, 70 maybe. 05:14.880 --> 05:16.880 36 years old. 05:16.880 --> 05:18.880 Usually wears leather jacket, black one. 05:18.880 --> 05:19.880 All right, Red, here you go. 05:19.880 --> 05:20.880 Bring your steak, Crockett. 05:20.880 --> 05:23.880 Yeah, fine. 05:23.880 --> 05:26.880 Sure got a good appetite these days working out in the air, you know. 05:26.880 --> 05:27.880 It does you good. 05:27.880 --> 05:28.880 Yeah, huh? 05:28.880 --> 05:29.880 Yeah. 05:29.880 --> 05:31.880 I'll show you how passionate I am about what pets you're talking about. 05:31.880 --> 05:32.880 Oh, yeah. 05:32.880 --> 05:33.880 Here you go. 05:33.880 --> 05:37.880 Good. 05:37.880 --> 05:39.880 These burglary jobs Allen's supposed to be pulling, Red. 05:39.880 --> 05:41.880 Where's he working them, do you know that? 05:41.880 --> 05:43.880 Well, no, I guess I don't. 05:43.880 --> 05:45.880 All over town, I suppose. 05:45.880 --> 05:47.880 Sure good hamburger. 05:47.880 --> 05:50.880 When you overheard him talking to his friends, did he mention any jobs in particular that he pulled? 05:50.880 --> 05:52.880 No, but he's working hard. 05:52.880 --> 05:54.880 I know that for a fact. 05:54.880 --> 05:56.880 He pulls a new one every week or so, the way I get it. 05:56.880 --> 05:58.880 And what about his M.O., Red? 05:58.880 --> 06:02.880 Well, it's a regular second-star routine. 06:02.880 --> 06:06.880 Usually Jimmy or a small Finch bar usually goes through a window. 06:06.880 --> 06:07.880 Does he work alone? 06:07.880 --> 06:09.880 Uh-huh, strictly. 06:09.880 --> 06:11.880 His French bread's nice and fresh. 06:11.880 --> 06:12.880 Yeah. 06:12.880 --> 06:14.880 Where's Allen staying in town, do you know, Red? 06:14.880 --> 06:15.880 No, I don't. 06:15.880 --> 06:17.880 I know where I can find him, though. 06:17.880 --> 06:20.880 The 1322 Club out on North Barrett. 06:20.880 --> 06:22.880 He hangs out there quite a bit almost every night. 06:22.880 --> 06:25.880 I think the guy who owns the joint's a friend of his. 06:25.880 --> 06:26.880 Jeff Allen. 06:26.880 --> 06:28.880 Is that supposed to be his right name, Red? 06:28.880 --> 06:30.880 As far as I know, huh? 06:30.880 --> 06:32.880 I only met him a couple of times. 06:32.880 --> 06:34.880 He hung around Ziggy's place when he first come to town. 06:34.880 --> 06:37.880 Of course, I didn't know what he was up to then. 06:37.880 --> 06:39.880 Do you know him well enough to talk to him? 06:39.880 --> 06:40.880 Well, just about, yeah. 06:40.880 --> 06:42.880 I don't have buddies with him or anything. 06:42.880 --> 06:44.880 That's why I don't want to get out, you know? 06:44.880 --> 06:47.880 If he gets the word I'm on your team, I'm a dead duck. 06:47.880 --> 06:49.880 I don't think he'll waste a minute killing me. 06:49.880 --> 06:51.880 You don't have to worry, Red. We'll keep it quiet. 06:51.880 --> 06:54.880 Well, did you hear anything else, or is that just about the size of him? 06:54.880 --> 06:57.880 No, that's just about it, fellas. 06:57.880 --> 06:58.880 I'll keep near the ground. 06:58.880 --> 07:01.880 If I get any more rumble, I'll pass it on. 07:01.880 --> 07:05.880 Well, guess you know I really hate to talk about it. 07:05.880 --> 07:06.880 What's that, Red? 07:06.880 --> 07:09.880 Well, I mean how bad things have been running lately, you know, 07:09.880 --> 07:11.880 since I got laid off on Ziggy's. 07:11.880 --> 07:14.880 My hustle like mad with the programs down the track 07:14.880 --> 07:17.880 doesn't bring in a whole lot, though. 07:17.880 --> 07:20.880 And that lousy landlady had to raise my rent last week. 07:20.880 --> 07:22.880 How much can you use, Red? 07:22.880 --> 07:26.880 Well, you know, Sergeant, anything at all, just let alone maybe something to help me over the home. 07:26.880 --> 07:29.880 Well, the only thing I have is a 20, Joe. You got any change? 07:29.880 --> 07:32.880 Thanks, Romero. I try and be fine. That's plenty. I sure appreciate that. 07:32.880 --> 07:34.880 Oh, yeah. 07:34.880 --> 07:38.880 Well, real good hamburger steak Johnny puts up. 07:38.880 --> 07:41.880 I got to get going, fellas. Got me down the track. 07:41.880 --> 07:42.880 All right, Red, thanks a lot. 07:42.880 --> 07:44.880 If there's anything else, call us. You got our number. 07:44.880 --> 07:46.880 Sure thing, I'll stay right on it. 07:46.880 --> 07:50.880 You want me for anything holler, huh? I'm still the same place. 07:50.880 --> 07:52.880 Right. Thanks a lot. I'll see you there. 07:52.880 --> 07:56.880 Yeah, take it easy, Red. Yeah, bye, Red. 07:56.880 --> 07:58.880 Hmm, he's getting a little expensive, huh? 07:58.880 --> 08:01.880 He's probably been having a rough time, but he looked hungry to me. 08:01.880 --> 08:04.880 Sure did. Grabbed that $20 bill like his life depended on him. 08:04.880 --> 08:06.880 I went to buy some new wool socks, was there? 08:06.880 --> 08:09.880 Well, I'll split it with you. It'd be worth more than 20 bucks if the tip pays off. 08:09.880 --> 08:13.880 Don't get me wrong, I didn't mind giving him the 20 bucks. It was worth it. 08:13.880 --> 08:16.880 But look at this year. Oh, you got the check for the food, huh? 08:16.880 --> 08:20.880 Yeah, I think the least he could have done was pay for his own lunch. 08:25.880 --> 08:28.880 By and large, the character of the informant in fact or fiction 08:28.880 --> 08:31.880 isn't generally regarded with too much sympathy. 08:31.880 --> 08:35.880 To most people, the informant's nothing more than a stool pigeon, a squealer, 08:35.880 --> 08:42.880 somebody who, with a very active informing, commits a sin against a supposedly popular unwritten law. 08:42.880 --> 08:44.880 Well, it's obvious that this isn't always so, 08:44.880 --> 08:48.880 because in the interests of law enforcement and justice, which means the betterment of the community, 08:48.880 --> 08:52.880 the informant very often plays a major role. 08:52.880 --> 08:58.880 Year after year, informants are responsible for the apprehension and conviction of many hundreds of criminals, 08:58.880 --> 09:04.880 people who rob and cheat and commit murder, crimes that are obviously far deadlier than informing. 09:04.880 --> 09:09.880 As for the mechanics of law enforcement at the level of the working detective, 09:09.880 --> 09:12.880 the informant is considered virtually indispensable. 09:12.880 --> 09:17.880 It's been said before by peace officers, and it'll probably be said again quite a few times. 09:17.880 --> 09:22.880 If your job is catching criminals and enforcing the law, this is the first rule you have to learn. 09:22.880 --> 09:26.880 The working detective is no better than his informants. 09:26.880 --> 09:32.880 2.12 p.m. Ben and I had no idea if the information we'd gotten from Red Smalley was authentic or not, 09:32.880 --> 09:34.880 but it had to be checked out. 09:34.880 --> 09:38.880 We went back to the office and had Frank Cunningham and R. and I check on Jeff Allen. 09:38.880 --> 09:42.880 We also had the stats office make a run for us on suspects with similar M.O.s. 09:42.880 --> 09:49.880 Then we started to page through reports of burglaries, which had occurred throughout the city during the past three months. 09:49.880 --> 09:52.880 Hmm, no. 09:52.880 --> 09:54.880 How you doing over there? Anything at all? 09:54.880 --> 09:58.880 Not too much. Wait a minute, maybe. This might be one of them. 09:58.880 --> 10:01.880 Here, let me see. 10:01.880 --> 10:06.880 Home in Hollenbeck Park neighborhood. Burglar's M.O. matches out in a time element, too. 10:06.880 --> 10:11.880 Happened six weeks ago. Window on the second floor of the house was pried open. They took furs and money. $23. 10:11.880 --> 10:13.880 Uh-huh. That the only one you found? 10:13.880 --> 10:16.880 Another one here I took out a minute ago. 10:16.880 --> 10:18.880 M.O. was pretty much the same on this one, too. 10:18.880 --> 10:22.880 Only thing different is the night of the week it happened on. This one's a Thursday. That one there's a Sunday. 10:22.880 --> 10:25.880 Yeah, it checks out pretty close otherwise. The only one thing I can't figure. 10:25.880 --> 10:26.880 What's that? 10:26.880 --> 10:29.880 Well, Allen's supposed to have been in the city for at least six months. 10:29.880 --> 10:33.880 According to Red, he's working a job maybe once a week, once every ten days or so. 10:33.880 --> 10:36.880 Now, you got two reports there that matches M.O. here. 10:36.880 --> 10:38.880 I picked out two more from that other pile. 10:38.880 --> 10:42.880 Seems to me if he's been working in town for a couple of months, there ought to be more than four reports on him, shouldn't there? 10:42.880 --> 10:45.880 I got it. 10:45.880 --> 10:51.880 Burglar and Merrill. Oh, yeah, Frank. Jeff Allen. Is that so? 10:51.880 --> 10:55.880 Oh, you have, huh? Okay, right, Frank. Thank you. 10:55.880 --> 10:56.880 Yeah? 10:56.880 --> 10:59.880 R. and I got a make on Allen. He's had one arrest here four years ago in a vag charge. 10:59.880 --> 11:05.880 He's a loser out of Michigan. Fell for burglary. Never been picked up for burglary here, though. He isn't registered. 11:05.880 --> 11:06.880 And that's all, huh? 11:06.880 --> 11:07.880 That's it. 11:07.880 --> 11:09.880 Doesn't seem to gel right to me. Does it to you? 11:09.880 --> 11:10.880 Lot of loose ends to figure out. 11:10.880 --> 11:12.880 I wonder if Red was handing us a line on this thing. 11:12.880 --> 11:13.880 Why would he? 11:13.880 --> 11:19.880 Well, maybe he needed that $20 touch. Maybe this Jeff Allen's an old pal of his. Red had a falling out with him. He wants to get even with him, I suppose. 11:19.880 --> 11:21.880 It's possible, I guess. I don't know. 11:21.880 --> 11:22.880 Hi, Charles. 11:22.880 --> 11:23.880 Ben. 11:23.880 --> 11:24.880 Oh, hello, Jim. 11:24.880 --> 11:26.880 Sabre, what are you saying? What's with you? You still on that stakeout south of the town? 11:26.880 --> 11:30.880 Yeah, third week. Sure getting dull. You two look busy. What's all this? 11:30.880 --> 11:34.880 Well, we got a tip on some prowler. Just trying to get a line on. 11:34.880 --> 11:38.880 Take a look at this 3.1, will you, Jim? You run into any jobs recently to stack up like this? 11:38.880 --> 11:39.880 Yeah, I see. 11:39.880 --> 11:43.880 We're shooting in the dark on it so far. I don't know if we got anything or not. 11:43.880 --> 11:48.880 I'd say you got it. Burglary port in the 77 division this morning. Happened to check it when I was out there. 11:48.880 --> 11:49.880 Same MO as this? 11:49.880 --> 11:50.880 Same everything. 11:50.880 --> 11:59.880 4.55 p.m. Ben and I went down the hall to the record bureau and picked up a couple of mugshots of the suspect, Jefferson Allen. 11:59.880 --> 12:09.880 Then we drove out to the 1322 club on North Ferris Avenue in the Silver Lake District, the neighborhood bar where Allen spent most of his time, according to our informant, Red Smalley. 12:09.880 --> 12:14.880 We staked out on the car down the street where we could keep an eye on the front door to the bar and still not look suspicious. 12:14.880 --> 12:22.880 Between 5 and 7.30 p.m. we watched at least two dozen customers entering or leaving the bar, but none of them came close to Allen's description. 12:22.880 --> 12:29.880 8 p.m. Nothing. By the time we were relieved on stake out at 11 p.m., Allen still had failed to show. 12:29.880 --> 12:36.880 Late the following afternoon, we were back at the same spot, watching for a sign of the suspect. 6.48 p.m. 12:36.880 --> 12:38.880 How you fix your smokes? 12:38.880 --> 12:41.880 I think I got a couple left. Here you go. 12:41.880 --> 12:42.880 Oh, thanks. 12:42.880 --> 12:44.880 KGT, I lost angle. 12:44.880 --> 12:45.880 I got a light here. 12:45.880 --> 12:46.880 Yeah. 12:46.880 --> 12:50.880 118, 16 spring. 118, 16 spring. 12:53.880 --> 12:59.880 Hey, have a look, Joe. Gray hat, dark suit. Just came out of the bar. 12:59.880 --> 13:02.880 Yeah, he's coming this way. Yeah, I'll buy it. That's him. 13:02.880 --> 13:03.880 Getting in that blue sedan. 13:03.880 --> 13:05.880 All right, don't press him. Let's give him a good lead. 13:05.880 --> 13:06.880 Right. 13:06.880 --> 13:07.880 He's getting in. 13:07.880 --> 13:12.880 What do you think, Joe? Let's wait a minute. 13:12.880 --> 13:14.880 Yeah, okay, we're clear. 13:14.880 --> 13:15.880 All right. 13:16.880 --> 13:17.880 You got him spotted? 13:17.880 --> 13:21.880 Yeah, no trouble. That's a funny one, huh? Wonder why we didn't see him go in the bar. 13:21.880 --> 13:24.880 I don't know. Might be a delivery entrance in the back of the place we could have missed. 13:24.880 --> 13:26.880 Can you make out that license number? 13:26.880 --> 13:28.880 Can you pull out just a little? That's good. 13:28.880 --> 13:34.880 Yeah, let's see. Seven Tom, seven, nine, seven, two. I better check it. 13:34.880 --> 13:37.880 80K to control one. 80K to control one. 13:37.880 --> 13:39.880 Control one to 80K. Go ahead. 13:39.880 --> 13:44.880 Control one. Request rolling make and DMV on seven Tom, seven, nine, seven, two. 13:44.880 --> 13:48.880 That's seven Tom, seven, nine, seven, two. 13:48.880 --> 13:52.880 Control one to 80K. Roger. Stand by. KMA three, six, seven. 13:52.880 --> 13:56.880 Doesn't seem to be in any great hurry. Barely poking along. 13:56.880 --> 13:58.880 Where is he now? I can't see. 13:58.880 --> 14:00.880 Just turned right onto Bronson. 14:00.880 --> 14:05.880 I want to give him plenty of lean. Yeah, that's him up ahead there. 14:05.880 --> 14:07.880 He's picking up speed now. Don't lose him. Right. 14:07.880 --> 14:11.880 Control one to 80K. Control one to 80K. Come in, please. 14:11.880 --> 14:14.880 Here we go. 80K to control one. Go ahead. 14:14.880 --> 14:17.880 Seven Tom, seven, nine, seven, two. 14:17.880 --> 14:20.880 The car is registered to D. Denver, J. John Carpenter. 14:20.880 --> 14:24.880 1322 North Ferris Avenue, Los Angeles. 14:24.880 --> 14:26.880 80K to control one. Roger. 14:26.880 --> 14:30.880 KMA three, six, seven. Carpenter. Same guy who owns the bar, isn't it? 14:30.880 --> 14:32.880 His Allen must know him pretty well. Well enough to use his car. 14:32.880 --> 14:35.880 I wonder what the pitch is there. You checked on Carpenter, didn't you? 14:35.880 --> 14:37.880 Yeah. Clean bill of health. No record. 14:37.880 --> 14:40.880 Yeah. He's up ahead there. Now he's slowing down. 14:40.880 --> 14:42.880 Yeah. Turning up on that driveway. 14:42.880 --> 14:44.880 Pull up onto that tree there, huh? Right. 14:44.880 --> 14:46.880 That's fine. 14:48.880 --> 14:50.880 See him? Uh-huh. 14:50.880 --> 14:53.880 Getting out. Going into that bungalow over there. 14:53.880 --> 14:56.880 Letting himself in the front door. 14:56.880 --> 14:58.880 No sign of anybody else there, huh? No. 14:58.880 --> 15:00.880 House was dark when we drove up, wasn't it? 15:00.880 --> 15:02.880 He couldn't be living there alone. He might be. 15:02.880 --> 15:04.880 Doesn't make much sense to me. 15:04.880 --> 15:06.880 Why would a single guy get himself a house that big? 15:06.880 --> 15:09.880 Well, let's wait it out. Maybe he'll come up with the answer. 15:10.880 --> 15:15.880 9.15 PM. We continued our stakeout on the bungalow on South Bronson Avenue. 15:15.880 --> 15:19.880 A little more than an hour passed when we saw the lights go out on the house. 15:19.880 --> 15:24.880 The suspect, Jeff Allen, came out the front door, locked up, got in his car, and drove off. 15:24.880 --> 15:26.880 Ben and I followed him. 15:26.880 --> 15:30.880 He drove directly to the bar on North Ferris Avenue, the 1322 Club. 15:30.880 --> 15:32.880 He parked his car and went inside. 15:32.880 --> 15:37.880 Ben and I drove back to the cottage on South Bronson and let ourselves in through the back door. 15:37.880 --> 15:42.880 A preliminary check of the house failed to give us any real proof that Allen was the suspect we wanted. 15:42.880 --> 15:45.880 The only possible lead we came up with was an expensive hunting rifle, 15:45.880 --> 15:50.880 which we found stored away in one of the closets. 15:50.880 --> 15:54.880 We copied down the serial number on the gun, drove to a neighborhood cigar store, 15:54.880 --> 15:57.880 called the office, and asked them to check out the number for us. 15:57.880 --> 16:00.880 Yeah, right, Murph. We'll wait for the call. Yeah, thanks. 16:01.880 --> 16:02.880 How'd you do? 16:02.880 --> 16:04.880 Gonna check it through now they'll call us. 16:04.880 --> 16:07.880 Good. I'm a little hungry, aren't you? 16:07.880 --> 16:08.880 Would you like a candy bar? 16:08.880 --> 16:11.880 No, I'm getting a little tired of them. I wouldn't mind a square meal, though. 16:11.880 --> 16:14.880 My back's killing me. Never been so sore in my life. 16:14.880 --> 16:16.880 Why, what's the matter? Did you fall? 16:16.880 --> 16:18.880 No, nothing like that. It's my snoring again. 16:18.880 --> 16:20.880 Your snoring? What's that got to do with it? 16:20.880 --> 16:22.880 Almost broke my back. It was the wife's idea. 16:22.880 --> 16:26.880 She claims when I'm sleeping I roll over on my back and snore as it keeps her awake all night. 16:26.880 --> 16:28.880 There's not much you can do about it, is there? 16:28.880 --> 16:31.880 Yeah, the wife thought of something. Supposed to be an old home remedy. 16:31.880 --> 16:34.880 She sewed a couple of golf balls right into the back of my pajamas. 16:34.880 --> 16:36.880 You get the idea behind it? 16:36.880 --> 16:40.880 If you roll over on your back, the golf balls dig into you and you have to roll over on your side again. 16:40.880 --> 16:42.880 Mm-hmm. Well, so what happened to you? 16:42.880 --> 16:46.880 Well, I'm a sound sleeper. Rolled over on my back and stayed there. 16:46.880 --> 16:48.880 Slept on those golf balls all night. 16:48.880 --> 16:50.880 Woke up in the morning, liked to have died. 16:50.880 --> 16:52.880 Felt like I'd snapped a couple of vertebrae. 16:52.880 --> 16:55.880 Must be an easier way to keep you from sleeping on your back. 16:55.880 --> 16:57.880 I wouldn't do any good anyhow, Joe. It just won't work. 16:57.880 --> 16:58.880 What do you mean? 16:58.880 --> 17:00.880 I snore just as loud sleeping on my side. 17:00.880 --> 17:02.880 I'll get it. 17:05.880 --> 17:06.880 Hello? 17:07.880 --> 17:09.880 Yeah, Murph, this is Joe Friday. 17:09.880 --> 17:10.880 Mm-hmm. 17:10.880 --> 17:15.880 W-615-344. Yeah, that checks. That was the serial number on it. 17:15.880 --> 17:20.880 When was that? Huh? Yeah. Yeah, okay, Murph. Thanks. 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Best of all, king-size cigarettes. 18:56.880 --> 19:04.880 Music 19:04.880 --> 19:07.880 Tuesday night, April 17th, 1038 p.m. 19:07.880 --> 19:11.880 We got additional information from the office on the hunting rifle that we'd found in the bungalow 19:11.880 --> 19:14.880 to which we'd trailed the suspect, Jefferson Allen, a few hours earlier. 19:14.880 --> 19:19.880 The gun was registered to a Mr. Robert LaSalle, 3008 Bush Street. 19:19.880 --> 19:23.880 The rifle, along with $300 in jewelry and $48 in cash, 19:23.880 --> 19:28.880 had been taken from LaSalle's home two months before during his family's absence. 19:28.880 --> 19:32.880 The burglar's method of operation matched Allen's alleged M.O. exactly. 19:32.880 --> 19:38.880 1045 p.m. After arranging for a stakeout to be placed on the bungalow on Bronson Avenue, 19:38.880 --> 19:44.880 Ben and I drove to the 1322 Club on North Ferris where we located the suspect, Jeff Allen. 19:44.880 --> 19:47.880 Yes, sir, that's correct, Sergeant. I'm from back in Michigan originally. 19:47.880 --> 19:50.880 I've been out here about six months now. I think I'm gonna like it. 19:50.880 --> 19:52.880 Sure can't beat this weather, huh? 19:52.880 --> 19:55.880 You've been working here at the bar ever since you got in town, is that right? 19:55.880 --> 19:59.880 No, not quite. I've been here for about four months. Kind of a handyman job. 19:59.880 --> 20:04.880 I help the bartender when I can, keep the store room in order, see everything ship-shaped, you know. 20:04.880 --> 20:06.880 You ever been in Los Angeles before, Allen? 20:06.880 --> 20:09.880 Yeah, just once before, a couple of years ago. 20:09.880 --> 20:12.880 Wasn't so good then. Jobs were hard to get. 20:12.880 --> 20:15.880 I ran into a little bit of trouble. Finally went back east again. 20:15.880 --> 20:17.880 I see. What was this trouble you had? 20:17.880 --> 20:20.880 Well, as I say, jobs were pretty hard to come by then. 20:20.880 --> 20:23.880 I kept checking around, but I couldn't find anything. 20:23.880 --> 20:26.880 Wasn't so good, I finally got picked up on a bag charge. 20:26.880 --> 20:28.880 Spent a couple of weeks at the county. 20:28.880 --> 20:31.880 When I got out, I figured the best thing was head back east again. 20:31.880 --> 20:33.880 A lot better this time, though. I'm doing okay. 20:33.880 --> 20:35.880 See, I couldn't get you anything, huh? 20:35.880 --> 20:37.880 No, thanks, it's the same. 20:37.880 --> 20:40.880 There's something maybe you'd like to talk to me about, anything I can help you with? 20:40.880 --> 20:44.880 It's a routine checkup we're on. Got a few more questions for you, if you don't mind. 20:44.880 --> 20:47.880 Sure. Let's take one of these booths back here, huh? 20:47.880 --> 20:50.880 Might as well be comfortable. Yeah, okay. 20:52.880 --> 20:54.880 Go ahead. 20:54.880 --> 20:57.880 You sure I couldn't get you anything? A bottle of beer, a Coke, maybe? 20:57.880 --> 20:58.880 No, no, thanks. 20:58.880 --> 21:00.880 Do you have your family out here with you, Alan, your wife? 21:00.880 --> 21:04.880 No, I'm not married, Sergeant. I haven't taken the plunge yet. 21:04.880 --> 21:06.880 Figured there's plenty of time for that. 21:06.880 --> 21:09.880 It's hard enough to keep myself going these days, let alone a family. 21:09.880 --> 21:10.880 Yeah, I know what you mean. 21:10.880 --> 21:12.880 You ever been arrested before, Alan? 21:12.880 --> 21:15.880 I mean, other than that vag charge you mentioned, do you ever serve any big time? 21:15.880 --> 21:18.880 Yeah, matter of fact, I have back in Michigan. 21:18.880 --> 21:21.880 Pretty dumb trick I got in trouble as a kid, burglary. 21:21.880 --> 21:23.880 Served all my time, though, I don't owe him a day. 21:23.880 --> 21:26.880 I'm washed up with that stuff a long time ago. It just doesn't pay, that's all. 21:26.880 --> 21:30.880 Er, and that last time there was any trouble was that vag charge, is that it? 21:30.880 --> 21:33.880 Yes, sir, that's it. As I say, I'm all washed up with that stuff. 21:33.880 --> 21:35.880 It doesn't pay off at all, I got wise to that. 21:35.880 --> 21:38.880 Mm-hmm, glad to hear it, Alan. You figure you're gonna stay on here then, 21:38.880 --> 21:40.880 make this your permanent home. 21:40.880 --> 21:43.880 I think I might, I sure like the weather. Job suits me, too. 21:43.880 --> 21:46.880 Boss even lets me use his car once in a while. Pretty nice, huh? 21:46.880 --> 21:49.880 Yeah, huh? Where you living now? You got an apartment in the neighborhood here? 21:49.880 --> 21:51.880 Yeah, I got an apartment, nice little place. 21:51.880 --> 21:55.880 Not exactly in the neighborhood, though, it's out in West Hollywood, right on a bus line. 21:55.880 --> 21:58.880 No trouble getting into work, just a small apartment. 21:58.880 --> 22:01.880 Whereabouts in West Hollywood? You mind giving us the address? 22:01.880 --> 22:03.880 No, it's on Norwich Avenue. Why do you ask? 22:03.880 --> 22:05.880 It's part of this routine check we have to make. 22:05.880 --> 22:08.880 You mind very much if we drive out there with you, I'll look the place over? 22:08.880 --> 22:11.880 No, I don't mind. I mean, if you figure I need checking out, 22:11.880 --> 22:13.880 I just assume clear it up now, I got nothing to hide. 22:13.880 --> 22:16.880 You want me to get my coat? No, that's all right. 22:17.880 --> 22:21.880 Say, uh, I should be back here in an hour or so, what do you think? 22:21.880 --> 22:23.880 I mean, it's just a routine check, it won't take long, will it? 22:23.880 --> 22:26.880 No, not too long. I suppose you can figure that better than we can. 22:26.880 --> 22:29.880 How do you mean? You said you had nothing to hide. 22:31.880 --> 22:36.880 11.20 p.m. We drove the suspect Jeff Allen to his apartment on Norwich Avenue. 22:36.880 --> 22:39.880 It was more than two and a half miles from the bungalow on South Bronson 22:39.880 --> 22:41.880 where we'd followed Allen earlier that night 22:41.880 --> 22:43.880 and where we'd located the stolen hunting rifle. 22:43.880 --> 22:46.880 While Ben and I made a thorough check of the apartment, 22:46.880 --> 22:48.880 Allen sat relaxed in an easy chair. 22:48.880 --> 22:50.880 Ben and I covered everything in the apartment, 22:50.880 --> 22:53.880 but there was no evidence of any loot taken in the burglaries. 22:54.880 --> 22:56.880 That's about it, Joe, checked everything. 22:56.880 --> 22:58.880 Okay. That's about it, huh, Sergeant? 22:58.880 --> 23:00.880 You fellas want a beer before we go back to the club? 23:00.880 --> 23:03.880 Just one or two more questions, Allen, and I think we can wash this thing up. 23:03.880 --> 23:05.880 Sure, Sergeant. 23:05.880 --> 23:08.880 Do you rent some other place in town, another house or an apartment, maybe? 23:08.880 --> 23:10.880 Another place? No, why would I do that? 23:10.880 --> 23:13.880 This is my apartment. This is where I live. Why do you ask that? 23:13.880 --> 23:17.880 About six o'clock tonight, you were seen going into a bungalow over on South Bronson, 23:17.880 --> 23:19.880 the same neighborhood as the club where you work. 23:19.880 --> 23:22.880 We got a pretty good idea that there's quite a bit of loot from burglaries stored in that house. 23:22.880 --> 23:24.880 I don't follow you, Sergeant. I don't know what you mean. 23:24.880 --> 23:27.880 I don't live on South Bronson. I live here. You ought to be able to tell that. 23:27.880 --> 23:31.880 You were seen going into the bungalow, Allen, about five minutes past six tonight. 23:31.880 --> 23:33.880 We found a stolen hunting rifle in the house. 23:33.880 --> 23:37.880 It was taken in a burglary. You think you want to tell us about it? 23:37.880 --> 23:41.880 No, I can't tell you anything about it. I don't have any bungalow on South Bronson. 23:41.880 --> 23:43.880 I'm not even sure I can tell you where the street is. 23:43.880 --> 23:45.880 Well, you better get your hat, mister. We'll show you. 23:48.880 --> 23:50.880 Eleven forty-eight p.m. 23:50.880 --> 23:53.880 We got in the car and started driving down Beverly Boulevard 23:53.880 --> 23:56.880 back toward the bungalow on South Bronson Avenue. 23:56.880 --> 24:00.880 When we got to the bungalow, the suspect still refused to admit that he had a key to the door 24:00.880 --> 24:03.880 or that he was in any way concerned with the place. 24:03.880 --> 24:07.880 We had him empty his pockets, and among his possessions we found a ring of keys. 24:07.880 --> 24:10.880 We tried them on the front door of the bungalow. 24:10.880 --> 24:13.880 The fourth one we tried opened it. We went inside. 24:13.880 --> 24:15.880 Allen still would admit nothing. 24:15.880 --> 24:19.880 Ben contacted the landlady next door, and she said she'd be right over. 24:19.880 --> 24:22.880 I continued questioning him while Ben checked through the house again. 24:22.880 --> 24:23.880 Hey, Joe. 24:23.880 --> 24:24.880 Huh? 24:24.880 --> 24:26.880 Joe, you want to come back here? I think we've got something. 24:26.880 --> 24:28.880 Yeah, all right, Ben. You want to go ahead back there, Allen? 24:28.880 --> 24:29.880 Sure. 24:29.880 --> 24:33.880 Still can't tell you what the score is, though I don't belong in this place. It ain't mine. 24:33.880 --> 24:36.880 Well, that key you had seemed to fit the front door all right. How do you figure that? 24:36.880 --> 24:39.880 That doesn't mean anything. I had that key for years. 24:39.880 --> 24:42.880 I think it's a skeleton key. Opens almost any kind of lock. 24:42.880 --> 24:44.880 Down here, Joe, a small basement here. Leads right down off the kitchen. 24:44.880 --> 24:46.880 Yeah, all right. Go ahead, Allen. 24:46.880 --> 24:47.880 Hmm. 24:52.880 --> 24:56.880 Have a look, Joe. Line of cupboards all the way around here. 24:56.880 --> 24:57.880 Check them for yourself. 24:57.880 --> 24:59.880 Yeah, all right. 25:01.880 --> 25:04.880 It's a pretty good hall. Furze, machinist tools. 25:07.880 --> 25:11.880 Jewelry. Quite a bit of it here. A couple of radios. 25:11.880 --> 25:13.880 Two more hunting rifles. 25:14.880 --> 25:17.880 Come on, how about it, Allen? You want to save time for all of us now? 25:17.880 --> 25:20.880 You got it wrong, Sergeant. This isn't my place. I told you. 25:20.880 --> 25:24.880 When I got out of that trouble back east, I made up my mind I was all washed up with this kind of stuff. 25:24.880 --> 25:26.880 This house isn't mine. I haven't got anything to do with it. 25:26.880 --> 25:28.880 You're kidding yourself, Allen. You know that. 25:28.880 --> 25:30.880 Oh, you got it all wrong. You got it all mixed up. 25:30.880 --> 25:32.880 Well, we'll let the landlady tell us. 25:32.880 --> 25:35.880 The woman who owns this house, she's on her way over from next door. 25:35.880 --> 25:38.880 She ought to be able to tell us who she rented the place to. 25:38.880 --> 25:40.880 Wouldn't you say so? 25:41.880 --> 25:43.880 Wouldn't you? 25:43.880 --> 25:46.880 She might be wrong. It's possible. 25:46.880 --> 25:49.880 No, look, we got you dead to rights, mister. Why not face it? 25:50.880 --> 25:51.880 Can't. 25:51.880 --> 25:55.880 I won't do it. I made up my mind the last time. It wouldn't happen again. 25:55.880 --> 25:59.880 I was all washed up with it. I won't go through it again. They'll send me back. 25:59.880 --> 26:01.880 I won't be able to take it. 26:01.880 --> 26:03.880 Maybe you should have figured that before you started in. 26:03.880 --> 26:06.880 I didn't mean to. I was all washed up with that stuff. 26:06.880 --> 26:08.880 I told you that the first time I saw you, didn't I? 26:08.880 --> 26:10.880 Yeah. 26:10.880 --> 26:13.880 I'm sure of it, too. I wouldn't try it again. 26:13.880 --> 26:15.880 Didn't pay. 26:15.880 --> 26:18.880 It's just what I told you. I'm all through with it. I'm washed up with it. 26:18.880 --> 26:20.880 I never lied to you, did I? 26:20.880 --> 26:21.880 What's the difference? 26:21.880 --> 26:22.880 Huh? 26:22.880 --> 26:25.880 You lied to yourself. 26:31.880 --> 26:34.880 The story you have just heard was true. 26:34.880 --> 26:36.880 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:36.880 --> 26:39.880 On July 6th, trial was held in Superior Court, 26:39.880 --> 26:42.880 Department 86, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 26:42.880 --> 26:44.880 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:44.880 --> 26:46.880 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:46.880 --> 26:47.880 Thank you. 26:47.880 --> 26:51.880 September. Fatima first made its famous money back offer. 26:51.880 --> 26:55.880 Millions heard it, yet only 46 have written. 26:55.880 --> 27:01.880 October. Actual figures reported Fatima's sales up 110 percent coast to coast, 27:01.880 --> 27:03.880 or more than double. 27:03.880 --> 27:07.880 November. 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