1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,640 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,440 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:15,160 Fatima cigarettes. 4 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:29,040 Best of all, king-size cigarettes brings you dragnet on both radio and television. 5 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:30,520 You're a detective sergeant. 6 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,800 You're assigned a robbery detail. 7 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,040 Two convicts escaped from the state penitentiary. 8 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:37,720 They're heading for your city. 9 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:38,720 They're armed. 10 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,240 They've boasted they won't be taken alive. 11 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:46,560 Your job, get them. 12 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,520 In Fatima, the difference is quality. 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,120 Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. 14 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,280 Prove it yourself today. 15 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,480 Compare Fatima with any other king-size cigarette. 16 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:03,240 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 17 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,840 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 18 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:12,880 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21 percent longer than standard cigarette 19 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:13,880 size. 20 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:20,520 And in Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, plus the added protection of Fatima 21 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:21,520 quality. 22 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:25,400 Definitely the best quality in its class, but the same price as the cigarette you're 23 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:26,400 now smoking. 24 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,160 Buy Fatima in the bright, sunny yellow pack. 25 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,760 Best of all, king-size cigarettes. 26 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:42,120 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 27 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,960 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 28 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:51,560 travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 29 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,240 police files. 30 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:58,400 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 31 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,400 in action. 32 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:05,280 It was Wednesday, October 6th. 33 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,120 It was cloudy in Los Angeles. 34 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,120 We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 35 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,520 My partner's Ed Jacobs, the boss's Captain Didion. 36 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:12,520 My name's Friday. 37 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,000 We were on the way out from the office and it was 2.40 p.m. when we got to Kesterson 38 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Boulevard, number 1256. 39 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,360 Sounds like she's having a party, huh? 40 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:23,360 Yeah, try it again, huh? 41 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:24,360 Maybe they can't hear it inside. 42 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:25,360 Mm-hmm. 43 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:26,360 Yes? 44 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:27,360 Police officers, ma'am. 45 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:28,360 Are you Ruth Thompson? 46 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:29,360 Yes, that's right. 47 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:30,360 What is it? 48 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:31,360 My name's Friday. 49 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:32,360 This is my partner, Sergeant Jacobs, Central Robbery. 50 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:33,360 We'd like to talk to you a few minutes if we could. 51 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:34,360 Well, I have a party going on right now. 52 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:35,360 A few of my friends are over. 53 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:36,360 What do you want, Sergeant? 54 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:37,360 It's about an Andy Powell, Mr. Thompson. 55 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:38,360 I understand you know him. 56 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:39,360 I did know him, yes. 57 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:40,360 I haven't seen him for a long time, three or four years anyway. 58 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:41,360 Mind if we ask a few questions about him? 59 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:42,360 It won't take long. 60 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:43,360 All right. 61 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:44,360 Come in, please. 62 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:45,360 Thank you. 63 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:53,160 We're sorry to disturb you, ma'am. 64 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:54,760 It's pretty important or we wouldn't hold you out here. 65 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:55,760 It's all right. 66 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,760 Down the hall here. 67 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:57,760 Fine. 68 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:58,760 We can talk in the kitchen if you don't mind. 69 00:02:58,760 --> 00:02:59,760 It's my girlfriend's birthday today. 70 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,760 I thought it'd be nice to have a little party for her. 71 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,760 Oh, I see. 72 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,440 Chair there, if you like. 73 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:07,440 Oh, here, let me wipe it off. 74 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:08,440 He spilled a drink on it. 75 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:09,440 Probably Danny would spill the drinks. 76 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:10,440 I suppose you know about Andy Powell, Mr. Thompson. 77 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:11,440 What happened this morning? 78 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:12,440 What's that? 79 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:13,440 About Andy Powell. 80 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:14,440 You heard about him? 81 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:15,440 About Andy Powell? 82 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:16,440 You heard what happened this morning? 83 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:17,440 Just what I read in the morning paper. 84 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,240 They said he broke out of San Quentin, another man with him. 85 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,640 It's true then, he did break out? 86 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:23,640 Yes, ma'am. 87 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:24,640 That's the information we have. 88 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:25,920 There's an all points bulletin out on him. 89 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:27,360 Well, I don't want to get involved in it. 90 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:28,360 It's none of my business. 91 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:29,640 Andy doesn't mean anything to me. 92 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:32,120 Well, at the time he was sent up, you were engaged to Powell. 93 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:33,120 Is that right? 94 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,840 Yes, but that was before he got into trouble, before he went to San Quentin. 95 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:37,120 I saw him after the trial. 96 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:38,360 I told him how I felt about it. 97 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:39,360 I told him it wasn't any use. 98 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,840 You mean you called it off, that is? 99 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:42,160 It wasn't much else to do. 100 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,120 It was robbery, five years to life, it wasn't the first time either. 101 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:47,960 Andy knew it would be a long time, so die. 102 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:49,920 Really I had to tell him, I had to call it off. 103 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,120 We understand you were on Powell's correspondence list while he was up at Quentin. 104 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:54,120 You wrote to him, did you? 105 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:55,360 Yes, the first couple of months. 106 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:56,360 We haven't written lately though. 107 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,520 There wasn't any point to it, no point at all. 108 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,220 Well, when was the last time you heard from Powell, Miss Thompson? 109 00:04:01,220 --> 00:04:02,220 Last time you wrote to him? 110 00:04:02,220 --> 00:04:04,560 Oh, eight or ten months, at least that. 111 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:06,720 As I say, there wasn't much sense in going on. 112 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,920 Andy knew he was in there for a long time. 113 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:10,720 He couldn't expect me to wait all that time. 114 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,520 Matter of fact, he said he didn't expect it, he told me that. 115 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,480 You been up to visit Powell recently, Miss Thompson? 116 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:16,480 No, no, I haven't. 117 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,800 Well, then you haven't seen him since he went up to Quentin, you'll swear to that? 118 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:20,920 Why do I have to swear to it? 119 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,160 I already told you, Andy doesn't mean anything to me. 120 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,800 It didn't make sense, it's all over. 121 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,400 I'm not even a relative, why do I have to swear to anything? 122 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:31,280 You haven't seen Powell since he went up to Quentin, is that right? 123 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:32,760 Miss Thompson, is that right? 124 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,200 What if I saw him or if I didn't see him, what difference does it make? 125 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,200 It's none of my business. 126 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:37,440 Well, did you see him, Miss Thompson? 127 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:38,440 What difference does it make? 128 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,200 I don't have anything to do with him. 129 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,040 He doesn't mean anything to me, I told you. 130 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,640 Did you see him? 131 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:45,640 This morning. 132 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:46,640 When? 133 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:47,640 Late this morning, about 10.30. 134 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:48,640 Was he alone? 135 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:49,640 No, another man was with him. 136 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:50,640 Who was the other man you recognized? 137 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,880 Bert Selby, that's the way he introduced him, he didn't try to hide it. 138 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:55,240 Some fellow he broke out of jail with. 139 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:56,240 What did they want? 140 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:57,240 Why were they here? 141 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,040 Clothes, money, looked like the devil, both of them, terrible. 142 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:01,440 What did you give them? 143 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:02,920 They asked for them, not that silly. 144 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,440 They didn't trust me anymore and they'd trust you. 145 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,760 Andy had a knife, I tried to tell him I didn't have any money, he didn't believe me. 146 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,720 He met me with that knife, I gave him the money. 147 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:11,720 How much? 148 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,920 About 17, 18 dollars, some loose change, they emptied my purse, they took it all. 149 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:16,920 Anything else? 150 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,400 Clothes, a couple of suits of my father's, he died last year. 151 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,720 They took his gun too. 152 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,280 I never thought Andy'd be that way, it was terrible. 153 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:24,760 What kind of a gun was it, Miss Thompson? 154 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,400 Quote revolver, 38 I think. 155 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,400 They took that and the clothes and the money. 156 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,040 It was about 10.30 this morning. 157 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,320 Malcolm, you didn't report that. 158 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,120 You say you knew about the escape, you knew they were wanted, didn't you? 159 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:35,120 Why should I? 160 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:36,600 They warned me about it, they threatened me. 161 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,440 They said they'd come back and get me if I told the police. 162 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:41,720 Look, I don't want to get mixed up in this. 163 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,080 I'm engaged to a nice fella now, we want to get married. 164 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,560 I don't want to get mixed up in this. 165 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:46,680 Andy Powell's nothing to me. 166 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,320 Did you watch the two men when they left the house here and you noticed if they drove off 167 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:50,320 in the car? 168 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:52,600 No, I didn't, I just shut the door and prayed I was rid of them. 169 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,280 I took my money, food, my dad's clothes. 170 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:56,280 Don't make it any tougher, huh? 171 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:57,280 Please. 172 00:05:57,280 --> 00:05:59,160 Well, it's not a question of that, ma'am, we have to find them. 173 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:00,840 We're gonna need all the cooperation we can get. 174 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,040 I told you everything I could, honestly. 175 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,560 I said they'd come back and kill me if I even talked to you. 176 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:06,560 I can't do anymore. 177 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,040 I sure hope you don't find him. 178 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:10,040 How's that? 179 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:11,960 When Andy went out the door, it's the last thing he said. 180 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,800 He said if the cops ever found him, there was gonna be a fight. 181 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:15,800 Terrible look on his face. 182 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:16,800 You know. 183 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:23,320 He said you'd never take him alive. 184 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,240 The APB had come in a few minutes before eight o'clock that morning. 185 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,880 It was from the warden's office, San Quentin. 186 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:33,080 The two suspects had been assigned to an early morning work detail at the penitentiary and 187 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,160 they were first reported missing at the 7 a.m. count. 188 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:42,600 Number one suspect was Andrew A. Powell, WMA, 29 years, 5 foot 9, 175 pounds, brown hair, 189 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,000 blue eyes, tan complexion. 190 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:51,760 Suspect number two, Bertram O. Selby, WMA, 31 years, 5 foot 11, 160 pounds, blonde hair, 191 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,120 gray eyes, tan complexion. 192 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,000 Both of them had long criminal records. 193 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,200 Both of them had been serving time for armed robbery. 194 00:06:58,200 --> 00:06:59,880 They'd used guns before. 195 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,680 We figured if they had to, they'd use them again. 196 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,520 Before we left Powell's ex-girlfriend, Ruth Thompson, we called the office and arranged 197 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:10,760 for a 24-hour stakeout on her home in case the escaped prisoners returned. 198 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,200 We also made arrangements for a stakeout at the downtown restaurant where she was employed 199 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:15,760 as cashier. 200 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,440 We passed along the information which the Thompson girl had given us and a broadcast 201 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,080 and an APB was gotten out on the suspects. 202 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:23,600 Four o'five p.m. 203 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,120 Ed and I continued making the rounds of all the known friends and associates of the escaped 204 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:28,120 prisoners. 205 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:29,960 We failed to come up with any more leads. 206 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,880 By 5.50 p.m., we went back to the city hall. 207 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,480 Clouding up again, huh? 208 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:36,480 Over there in the east? 209 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,240 Yeah, the paper says rain tonight and tomorrow. 210 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:39,240 We can sure use it. 211 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:40,240 Oh, I can't. 212 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:41,240 What's the matter? 213 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,240 Haven't had a chance to get the shoemakers yet. 214 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,640 Here, look at that. 215 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:46,640 Hole in my shoe. 216 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:47,640 I'm meaning to get them half-souled. 217 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:48,640 I keep forgetting. 218 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:49,640 Yeah. 219 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,000 Don't tell me that's the only pair of shoes you got. 220 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,320 No, I got another pair at home. 221 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,440 They're not comfortable, though, not broken in. 222 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:55,440 It's trouble with this job. 223 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:56,440 What do you mean? 224 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,600 Shoes, you get a new pair, start wearing them around, it happens every time. 225 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,360 No sooner get the tops broken in than the soles wear out. 226 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:03,360 It's a vicious circle. 227 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:04,360 Yeah. 228 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:05,360 Hi. 229 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:06,360 What's the word? 230 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:07,360 Oh, hi, Jess. 231 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:08,360 Anything in the book for us, do you know? 232 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:09,360 I don't know. 233 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:10,360 I don't think so. 234 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:11,360 I'll check it. 235 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:12,360 How'd you two make out? 236 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:13,360 Any luck? 237 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:14,360 Oh, not too bad, Jess. 238 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,080 We know Powell and Selby were in town this morning. 239 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:18,080 Good chance they're still here. 240 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:20,680 Any kickback on that last all points we got out? 241 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:21,680 Nothing so far. 242 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,600 Gaffney and Ricketts are running down a couple of possibles right now. 243 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:25,600 One of them might pan out. 244 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:26,600 Nothing in the book, Joe. 245 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:27,600 We're clear. 246 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,040 We're just saying yet on this Powell and Selby thing, got a couple of possibles we're checking 247 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:32,040 on. 248 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:33,040 Both calls came in the last hour. 249 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:34,960 One was a holdup, Olympic near Vermont. 250 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:35,960 Mm-hmm. 251 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,840 Pawn shop there, two men pulled it off, slugged the owner, took clothes, money, 12 gauge shotgun. 252 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,360 How about descriptions on the man? 253 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:42,760 Well, they seem to be fairly close. 254 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,000 When I got over the phone, Gaffney and Ricketts are out talking to the victim. 255 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,000 They took mugs of Powell and Selby along, waiting for their call back now. 256 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 I said you had two calls. 257 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 What was the other one? 258 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,120 2-11 and slugging out on Hollywood Boulevard just above Western. 259 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,120 A couple of thieves knocked over a dry goods store. 260 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,080 One take, clothes and money. 261 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:00,440 Descriptions are pretty close there, too. 262 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,320 Hollywood division's covering, waiting for their call back. 263 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,320 Do you want a smoke? 264 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,320 No, thanks. 265 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:10,320 Here. 266 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:11,320 Thanks. 267 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:16,360 Thompson Girl is the only one who had anything, huh? 268 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:17,960 None of the others could help you out? 269 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:19,360 Yeah, it's about the size of it. 270 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,960 Apparently, Powell doesn't have too many connections in town. 271 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:22,960 Selby has even less. 272 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:24,600 No more than a dozen names on that list. 273 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:25,600 Were they Joe, friends, relatives? 274 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,480 An even dozen, a couple of bars Powell was known to hang out when he was in town. 275 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:30,480 Checked them out, too, nothing. 276 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,640 They sure made a beeline here after they broke Quentin. 277 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,080 It's a good 500-mile stretch. 278 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,680 They don't have the connections here to help them, then what's the big attraction? 279 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:39,680 Yeah. 280 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:41,840 They could have some help lined up we don't know about. 281 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:43,840 Somebody to hide them out, keep them in groceries for a while. 282 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,720 It's possible they're making a run for one of the border towns, Tijuana, Mexicali. 283 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,560 Maybe Powell figured on more help from the Thompson Girl. 284 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:51,560 Clothes and money. 285 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:53,280 Enough to get him and Selby over into Mexico, huh? 286 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:55,160 She said all they got was $17. 287 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,960 But cut corners to make it on that. 288 00:09:58,960 --> 00:09:59,960 Robbery Gonzalez. 289 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:00,960 Oh, yeah, Jack. 290 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:01,960 Mm-hmm. 291 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:02,960 Sure? 292 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:03,960 Yeah, okay, fine, thanks. 293 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:04,960 Bye. 294 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:05,960 What do you got? 295 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:06,960 Jack Ricketts. 296 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:12,760 He and Gaffney just finished talking to the owner of the pawn shop that was held up, the 297 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:13,760 one on Olympic. 298 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,320 They gave him a handful of mug shots to check. 299 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:22,400 He tabbed two of them, Powell and Selby. 300 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:27,120 At 6.30 p.m., a supplementary broadcast and an APB was gotten out on the two suspects 301 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,560 and the record bureau's photocopy room turned out 2,000 copies of Powell's and Selby's mug 302 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:33,800 shot for distribution. 303 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:38,960 At 9 p.m., a theater on Western Avenue was robbed of $192. 304 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:42,240 Powell and Selby were again identified as the holdup men. 305 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:46,440 The robbery victim, the manager of the theater, said that both men were armed, one with a 306 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:48,720 .38 revolver, the other with a sawed-off shotgun. 307 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,440 Neither the manager nor the two witnesses were able to tell us how the thieves got away 308 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:57,080 from the scene of the crime, if they were on foot or if they had a car. 309 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:01,800 11.20 p.m., a hotshot call came through on a holdup at a liquor store in Delicatessen 310 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,840 down on South Central Avenue. 311 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,240 For the third time that night, Powell and Selby were identified from their mug shots 312 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:08,960 as the holdup men. 313 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:12,260 They'd used the same weapons, the revolver that they'd taken from the Thompson girls' 314 00:11:12,260 --> 00:11:16,080 home and the shotgun that they picked up in the robbery of the Olympic Boulevard pawn 315 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:17,080 shop. 316 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,920 Again, the victims were unable to tell us how the suspects got away, whether on foot 317 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:21,920 or by car. 318 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:27,360 Midnight, 1 a.m., there were still no replies to supplementary broadcasts and bulletins 319 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,320 which had been gotten out. 320 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:34,440 1.25 a.m., another hotshot call came through, this time on a holdup and a slugging at the 321 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:38,000 2050 room, a small nightclub on West 9th Street. 322 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Ed and I handled the call. 323 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,920 For the fourth time, the bandits were identified as Powell and Selby, and for the fourth time, 324 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:45,620 they'd made good their escape. 325 00:11:45,620 --> 00:11:50,160 We interviewed the manager of the 2050 room, a Herman Saunders. 326 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,600 Quite a few people in here at the time of the holdup, Mr. Saunders? 327 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,040 Yeah, good for Thursday night, 30 or 40 anyway. 328 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:56,480 We sure left in a hurry. 329 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,280 This is the second time this year we've been knocked over. 330 00:11:58,280 --> 00:11:59,800 Insurance company isn't gonna like it too much. 331 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:01,680 Well, how much money did they take altogether, do you know? 332 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:05,960 A little less than 600 from the cash register, mostly currency, some rolls of dimes and quarters. 333 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,080 Got another 100 and a half from my wallet. 334 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:09,080 That's about it. 335 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:10,080 They didn't take anything from the customers. 336 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:11,600 Are you sure about that identification, are you? 337 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:12,800 There's no chance of a mistake there? 338 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:13,800 I'm positive. 339 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:14,800 I'd know Andy Powell anywhere. 340 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:15,800 I should know him. 341 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,200 Like I told you, he worked for me a year and a half. 342 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:18,200 That was here at 2050? 343 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:19,880 Yeah, he worked behind the bar. 344 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:20,880 Good man too. 345 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:21,880 I don't get it at all. 346 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:22,880 You mean when I went bad? 347 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:23,880 Well, yeah, that too. 348 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,760 What I mean is if you're gonna hold up a place, you don't pick a joint where everybody knows 349 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:27,760 you. 350 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,000 I spotted Andy as soon as I saw him at the bar. 351 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,200 I sold a couple of the waiters. 352 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:31,640 He wasn't wearing any kind of a mask. 353 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:33,240 He didn't make any attempt to disguise himself? 354 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,400 No, stood there big as life, him and this other fella. 355 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:36,680 Didn't waste any time either. 356 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:39,800 They pulled the guns, lined up everybody in the place and stood them against that wall 357 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:40,800 over there. 358 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:41,800 Real wild West Isle. 359 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:43,240 Took over the whole place. 360 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,520 Acted real wild, Andy and this other fella. 361 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:46,520 Must be crazy. 362 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:47,520 Nobody was hurt? 363 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:48,520 Didn't slug anyone? 364 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:49,520 I slapped a few of the customers around. 365 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,200 I thought for a while they were really gonna get rough. 366 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:52,880 They had us lined up against the wall. 367 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:53,880 Andy was acting tough. 368 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,120 Had this knife with him, good four inch blade. 369 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,800 Went right down the line jabbing people with it, threatening him. 370 00:12:58,800 --> 00:12:59,800 Must be out of his mind. 371 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,840 Now you say he didn't take any money from the customers? 372 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:02,840 Yeah, that's right. 373 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:03,840 They worked it pretty fast. 374 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,520 Empty the cash register, then my wallet, then they beat it. 375 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,080 Never so glad to see anybody go in my life. 376 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:09,080 Well, how'd they get away? 377 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,440 Do you have any idea on that? 378 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:11,960 Old guy who sells papers down the corner. 379 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,560 He says he thinks he saw a car pull away right after the stick up. 380 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:16,080 Said it was a blue sedan. 381 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:17,800 Don't know how much stock you can put in it. 382 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,480 The old man's eyes aren't what they used to be. 383 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,120 Do you know Paul pretty well when he was working here, Mr. Saunders? 384 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,360 I mean, do you know any of his friends, people he used to run with? 385 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:25,680 No, I didn't know him that well. 386 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:27,080 He worked for me, that's all. 387 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,600 I still have his old address, the place he was living when he worked for me. 388 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:30,600 I can get it if you want. 389 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:31,600 Yeah, if you would, please. 390 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:32,600 Sure, no trouble. 391 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,080 I just don't get it. 392 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:36,080 Don't get it at all. 393 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,560 Of all the joints in town he could have held up, he had to pick mine. 394 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:39,560 The one place he'd be recognized. 395 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:42,160 You'd think he'd have better sense, wouldn't you? 396 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:43,160 You'd think so, yeah. 397 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,800 How'd he ever hire a guy as dumb as that Paul holding up the place he worked for? 398 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:46,960 Biggest mistake he ever made. 399 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,400 No, he made a bigger one yesterday. 400 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:49,400 Yeah, what was that? 401 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,400 When he broke prison. 402 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,920 2.05 a.m. 403 00:13:55,920 --> 00:14:00,000 Further investigation at the scene of the latest holdup failed to turn up any new leads. 404 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,120 While Ed and I checked on Powell's former address, which we'd gotten from the owner 405 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:08,760 of the 2050 room, Gonzalez, Ricketts, and Gaffney continued checking the immediate neighborhood. 406 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:13,440 In addition, a special detail from Metro Division was sent in to cover the entire area. 407 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:17,760 The suspect's former address turned out to be a rooming house up on West Temple Street. 408 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:21,320 The landlady remembered Andy Powell, but she had no forwarding address on him and she could 409 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,500 tell us nothing about his former friends and associates. 410 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:28,240 We checked back with Gonzalez, Ricketts, and Gaffney and they told us that besides the 411 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:32,900 old newspaper vendor, the counter man at the coffee shop near the 2050 room had also spotted 412 00:14:32,900 --> 00:14:37,520 a blue sedan leaving the vicinity of the nightclub shortly after the holdup. 413 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:41,520 He was able to give them the make, the model, and a partial license number. 414 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:45,120 A supplementary all points had been gotten out on it immediately and the information 415 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,760 relayed to DMV in auto theft detail. 416 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:49,840 3.10 a.m. 417 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:54,040 Ed and I completed our assignment in the investigation and went back to the office to check for instructions 418 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:55,040 from Captain Didion. 419 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,720 Can't see how we'd be much use out on the street the way things stand out, can you? 420 00:14:58,720 --> 00:14:59,720 No, I don't. 421 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,360 Everything's covered, I can think of. 422 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,520 Supplementary all points is out, detail from Metro's working in the neighborhood. 423 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:05,520 It's funny, isn't it? 424 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:06,520 What's that? 425 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:08,520 It's a picture of a man named Eddie Powell going back to that place he used to work and 426 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:09,520 holding it up. 427 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:10,680 That doesn't make any sense at all, does it? 428 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:11,680 That's for sure. 429 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,280 Must have known somebody was going to recognize him. 430 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:14,280 Couldn't have been a coincidence. 431 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:15,720 There was only one way I can figure it. 432 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:16,720 They don't care. 433 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:17,720 Either one of them. 434 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,960 They got their money now, a car, they both got guns, they're out to go as far as they 435 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:20,960 can. 436 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:21,960 Oh, hi, Jess. 437 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:22,960 Hi. 438 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:23,960 You just get back in? 439 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:24,960 Yeah. 440 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:25,960 Hi, Joe. 441 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:26,960 Hi. 442 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:27,960 You as tired as you sound? 443 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:28,960 Worse. 444 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:29,960 Fair piece of news, though. 445 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:30,960 Yeah, what's that? 446 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:35,880 Powell and Selby, they just found their hideout. 447 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,680 After three hours of canvassing the general downtown area, particularly in the vicinity 448 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,960 of the last holdup, a team of men working with a special detail from Metropolitan Division 449 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,440 interviewed a desk clerk in a small hotel on South Broadway who recognized the suspect's 450 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:49,440 mug shots. 451 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:54,560 The two of them had registered early the morning before under the names J.E. Dennis and Harold 452 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,840 Thompson, both from Fresno, California. 453 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,960 The hotel room was searched and two San Quentin inmate uniforms were found stuffed under the 454 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:03,980 mattress of the bed. 455 00:16:03,980 --> 00:16:07,380 After the room was processed for fingerprints, there was no doubt that the recent occupants 456 00:16:07,380 --> 00:16:09,560 were Powell and Selby. 457 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,200 The clerk had no idea when they were supposed to return. 458 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,960 The hotel was staked out immediately and the city-wide search for the escaped prisoners 459 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:17,280 went on. 460 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:22,320 The following day, Thursday, October 7th, 1130 a.m., still no sign of the suspects, 461 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,120 no further reports or leads as to their whereabouts. 462 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:26,120 The search went on. 463 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,320 Ed and I signed back in at the office. 464 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,680 Ten minutes later, a long distance phone call came in for us. 465 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:33,680 When was that, Mort? 466 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:34,680 What's that? 467 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:35,680 Yeah, close enough, right? 468 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:36,680 We'll let you know, yeah. 469 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:37,680 Bye. 470 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:38,680 Mort Gear down to San Diego. 471 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:39,680 Yeah, what do you want? 472 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:46,120 One of the traffic officers was checking a car about 8 o'clock this morning, 586 parking. 473 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,680 Blue sedan fits close to the description of the escaped car. 474 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:50,240 That's a pretty common model, isn't it? 475 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:51,520 Did he say anything else? 476 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,640 Traffic man checked the inside of the car, glove compartment, found half a dozen rolls 477 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,360 of dimes and quartered the same name stamp on all of them. 478 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:58,360 Yeah. 479 00:16:58,360 --> 00:16:59,360 2050 room. 480 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:14,480 You are listening to Dragnet, authentic stories of your police force in action. 481 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,440 Comparison proves Fatima quality. 482 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,120 Prove Fatima quality yourself today. 483 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:23,640 Compare Fatima with any other king-size cigarette. 484 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:28,600 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 485 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:32,160 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 486 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:38,120 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21% longer than standard cigarette 487 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:39,120 size. 488 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:45,040 And in Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke plus the added protection of Fatima 489 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:46,040 quality. 490 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:51,280 Friends, to show our confidence in Fatima, we make this money back guarantee. 491 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,320 Buy a pack of Fatimas. 492 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:58,760 Enjoy Fatima quality, extra mildness and superbly blended tobacco. 493 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:04,360 If you're not convinced Fatima is better than the king-size cigarette you're now smoking, 494 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:09,720 just return the pack and the unsmoked Fatimas by August 1st, 1952 for your money back plus 495 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:10,720 postage. 496 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,160 Fatima, box 37, New York 1. 497 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:20,200 Remember, because of its quality, its extra mildness, its better flavor and aroma, more 498 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:24,520 smokers now insist on Fatima than ever before. 499 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:31,720 Insist on the best, Fatima, extra mild and soothing plus the added protection of Fatima 500 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,440 quality. 501 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,200 Smoke Fatima. 502 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:44,840 Best of all, king-size cigarettes. 503 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:49,360 October 7th, Thursday 1 p.m. after we got the report from Lieutenant Mort Gear that the 504 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:53,160 escape car along with a few dollars of the stolen money had been located in San Diego 505 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,120 that morning, Ed and I had a meeting with Captain Didion. 506 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:59,200 It was beginning to look like our first hunch was right. 507 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:03,680 Powell and Selby's 24-hour campaign of holdups in the Los Angeles area had netted them a 508 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,760 fresh change of clothes and more than enough money to live on for a while. 509 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,440 With the locating of the escape car in San Diego, it looked like the suspects were apparently 510 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:17,280 taking the next logical step, a fast move over the international border into Mexico. 511 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,800 A distance of less than 20 miles from San Diego. 512 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,280 Probably they figured once over the line they had a good chance of losing themselves. 513 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:29,240 1.40 p.m. on Captain Didion's orders, Jess Gonzalez, Ed and I got in the car and headed 514 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,360 south for San Diego with a supply of mug shots of the escaped prisoners. 515 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:35,640 We got there a few minutes after 4 p.m. 516 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:39,760 We went directly to the San Diego PD where we contacted Sergeant Tony McGuire, a robbery 517 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:40,760 detail. 518 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:41,760 Tough week, huh? 519 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:42,760 Here they've been driving you crazy up there. 520 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:43,760 Just about, Tony. 521 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,160 Four robberies in 24 hours have given us a run. 522 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:47,160 How about Mort Gear? 523 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:48,160 You around? 524 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:49,160 Yeah, he just went down the hall, Jess. 525 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:50,160 He ought to be back in a minute. 526 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:51,160 Why don't you fellas sit down? 527 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,160 Thanks very much. 528 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:53,160 Thanks. 529 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:54,160 What's the latest, Tony? 530 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,400 Anything since you picked up that blue sedan? 531 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:57,400 No, not much. 532 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:58,400 I got the car and the impound. 533 00:19:58,400 --> 00:19:59,760 Had it dusted for prints. 534 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,200 We made them all right, both sets, Powell and Selby. 535 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,200 No sign of them around town? 536 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,680 No, I got it pretty well covered too, not a trace. 537 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:07,920 Well, we're in a good spot to make it over into Mexico. 538 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,240 Hate to disappoint you. 539 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:10,240 What do you mean? 540 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:14,680 We think they already made it. 541 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:19,000 At six o'clock that night, Gonzalez, Ed, and I, together with Lieutenant Gear, Tony McGuire, 542 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:24,020 and Sergeants Gaeton and Schultz, drove south from San Diego to the International Line. 543 00:20:24,020 --> 00:20:28,120 We left mugshots of Powell and Selby with the immigration officers at the entry gate. 544 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:33,120 Then we drove into the town of Tijuana, contacted the local commandant of police, and he promised 545 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,360 us full cooperation. 546 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:39,760 He assigned a special detail of his men to work with us in covering the town. 547 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:43,160 At 8 p.m., the block-by-block canvas of the city began. 548 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:47,280 Every back alley, every bar, every restaurant, every hotel, they were all checked. 549 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,280 The tourist attractions, the souvenir stands, the night clubs, the highlight pavilion, we 550 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:55,400 went straight through on it, 8 o'clock that night until 5 o'clock the next morning. 551 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:00,120 All it got us was sore feet and a mediocre lead from a native taxi driver. 552 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:03,880 After being shown the mugshots, he told one of the Mexican officers in the detail that 553 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:08,880 about noon that day, he'd picked up two Americans resembling Powell and Selby and driven them 554 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:13,880 to the town of Tocate, another Mexican tourist spot about 25 miles to the east. 555 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:15,480 10.30 a.m. 556 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,880 We drove over and checked with the police at Tocate, and they told us the two Americans 557 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,040 had arrived in the town that morning. 558 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,480 He invited Jess Gonzalez to go along with the three of his men to the hotel where the 559 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:26,840 men were supposed to be staying. 560 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:28,560 Ed and I waited in the office. 561 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:29,560 Hi. 562 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:30,560 Hi, Jess. 563 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:31,560 What do you got? 564 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:32,560 Not much. 565 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:33,560 Went over to the hotel. 566 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:34,560 The two men weren't there. 567 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:38,080 Des clerk says they're told they're driving out to a little village about a mile from here. 568 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,120 Police commandant asked me to come back here and wait. 569 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:43,160 Said he and his men would drive out to the village and check the men out. 570 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:44,360 That seems a little funny, doesn't it? 571 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:45,960 Well, he didn't invite me to come along. 572 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:47,440 It's not a good idea to push him. 573 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:48,800 I mean, after all, it's his jurisdiction. 574 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:49,800 Yeah. 575 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:50,800 We're supposed to wait here till they get back? 576 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:51,800 Yeah. 577 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:52,800 I'm back to him now. 578 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:53,800 Si, policia? 579 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:54,800 Uh-huh, yeah. 580 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:55,800 Si, si. 581 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:56,800 About half an hour, si. 582 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:57,800 All right, gracias. 583 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:58,800 Goodbye, si. 584 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:05,800 The commandant, he and his men found the two Americans. 585 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:06,800 No go. 586 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:11,160 We'll go to Powell and Selby. 587 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,840 Half an hour later, the police commandant of Takati returned to the station along with 588 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,960 his men and the two American tourists in question. 589 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,480 One look at them and we knew we'd made the trip from Tijuana for nothing. 590 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,640 Except for their build and the color of their hair, the two Americans bore little or no 591 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,000 resemblance to Powell and Selby. 592 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,680 2.30 p.m. 593 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,600 We headed back for Tijuana and we checked in with Mort Gear and the rest of the men. 594 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,000 While we'd been gone, they'd chased down half a dozen leads, but none of them had panned 595 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,200 out. 596 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,640 The rest of the afternoon, we covered the racetrack at Agua Caliente and distributed 597 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,200 mug shots of the suspects to all track police officers. 598 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,840 The mutual windows were covered and also the foreign book. 599 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,000 No luck. 600 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,520 The six of us took time out for a bite of supper and we talked it over. 601 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,440 Logically, the next place in line to cover was either the fishing town of Ensenada on 602 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,920 the coast or the city of Mexicali further inland. 603 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:00,920 We decided to try Ensenada first. 604 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:05,200 7.30 that night, we checked in at the Ensenada police station where we met with a local sub 605 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,920 commandant, Pedro Martinez. 606 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:12,640 Like the other commandants in Tijuana and Tecate, he offered full cooperation and gave us a 607 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,240 special detail of men to aid in the search. 608 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,840 We gave him a supply of mug shots of the two convicts to distribute among his men. 609 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:19,840 Here you are, sir. 610 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,520 These are pictures of one of them, Andrew Powell. 611 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,320 This one here is the other man, Bert Selby. 612 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:25,320 You all right? 613 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:26,320 Thank you. 614 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:27,320 Juan? 615 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:28,320 Juan! 616 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:29,320 Si. 617 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,320 Si. 618 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,320 Okay, yes. 619 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,320 These pictures, Juan, criminals. 620 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,160 They are for distribution to the men. 621 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,160 One each. 622 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:36,160 Si, si. 623 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:37,160 Estos son los hombres? 624 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,160 Si, si, por que? 625 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,160 Un momento, un momento. 626 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:40,160 Si. 627 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:41,160 Excuse me, officers. 628 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,160 Yes, all right. 629 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:43,160 Go ahead. 630 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:44,160 Joe, what is it? 631 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,160 It's got me, I don't know. 632 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,160 See the look on his face on the chief's shirt and the mug shots? 633 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,160 He's got something on his mind. 634 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:50,160 Just wait a minute. 635 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:51,160 Officers, I hope you'll excuse me. 636 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:52,160 Yes, sir. 637 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:53,160 Anything wrong? 638 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:54,160 My assistant, Teniente Sanfilippo, he says he knows the pictures of these men. 639 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:55,160 Oh, how's that? 640 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,160 He says he saw these men this morning here in Ensenada. 641 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:57,160 Yeah, he should know. 642 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,160 He's got a gun. 643 00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,160 He's got a gun. 644 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:00,160 He's got a gun. 645 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,160 He's got a gun. 646 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,160 He says he saw these men this morning here in Ensenada. 647 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,160 Yeah, he's sure about that, is he? 648 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,160 Yes, sir, he says he's sure. 649 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,160 He says the two men were here last night, right here in the station. 650 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,160 You mean your men booked them in, they committed some kind of crime? 651 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:13,160 Oh, no, sir. 652 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,160 They came in to report a crime. 653 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,160 8.20 p.m. 654 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:22,160 On further questioning, the assistant to the Ensenada Commandant of Police told us that 655 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,160 the night before, two men answering Powell and Selby's description had come in to file 656 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,160 a complaint at the Central Police Station. 657 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:32,160 They charged that they'd had their pockets picked at a local bar while they were under 658 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,160 the influence of alcohol. 659 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:38,160 The two complainants, who matched Powell's and Selby's descriptions perfectly, signed 660 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:43,160 themselves J.E. Dennis and Harold Thompson, both from Fresno, California, the same names 661 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,160 and addresses that had been used by the occupants of the Southside Los Angeles hotel room where 662 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:52,160 the discarded prison uniforms had been found a day and a half before. 663 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,160 After a brief talk with the police commandant, he dispatched a special detail to go out and 664 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:02,160 pick up the two men registered as Dennis and Thompson at a motel near the south end of the city. 665 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,160 At the commandant's request, we remained at the office. 666 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,160 9.00 p.m., 9.30. 667 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:12,160 The detail assigned to the job returned, but with only one of the suspects with him, Andrew Powell. 668 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:16,160 While resisting arrest, the other suspect, identified as Selby, received a cut forward 669 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,160 and was being taken to a local clinic for treatment. 670 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,160 The commandant briefed us on what had happened. 671 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,160 The rooms were searched, Officer Friday. 672 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,160 The money was found, also two guns, a revolver and a shotgun. 673 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:28,160 Here they are. 674 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,160 All right, thanks very much, sir. 675 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,160 Well, Powell, how about it? You ready to cop out? 676 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,160 What are you talking about, cop out? 677 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,160 What did you guys come all the way down here for anyway? 678 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:36,160 You can't touch us. 679 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,160 What makes you think we can't? 680 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:38,160 You can't, that's all. 681 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:39,160 You know better. 682 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,160 You can't arrest us down here. 683 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:41,160 No jurisdiction. 684 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,160 We didn't arrest you, Powell. 685 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:43,160 The Mexican officers did. 686 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:44,160 Okay, fine. 687 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:45,160 Now, how do you expect to get us out of Mexico? 688 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,160 Yes, again, copper, you know you can't do it. 689 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,160 You haven't got the right to. 690 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:49,160 Maybe. 691 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,160 You want to tell us where you have the loot, the money you took in those holdups? 692 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,160 Why should I? Look, why don't you admit it? We got you beat, we got over the line. 693 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:55,160 You can't touch us down here. 694 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,160 I don't bet on that, mister. 695 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:57,160 Comin' down? 696 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:58,160 Yes, sir. 697 00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,160 You want to tell him how it stands? 698 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:03,160 I will see that the general in charge of the Northern District is notified in the morning of your case. 699 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,160 He will see that you and your partner are deported. 700 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,160 What are you trying to pull? You can't do that. You know it, it's illegal. 701 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,160 So is robbery, Powell. Come off it. 702 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:13,160 Doesn't make any difference. You can't touch us in Mexico. It's against the law. You can't touch us. 703 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,160 A popular misconception, Mr. Powell. 704 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,160 I'm afraid you have made a mistake. If you like, you can pass the word. 705 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,160 How long would it be for us to receive the prisoners at the line, sir? 706 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,160 I don't know. A long time, I think. Maybe as long as one o'clock tomorrow. 707 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:29,160 You know you can't do this. You'll never get away with it. I know a lawyer in T-1. I'll get him to straighten that out. 708 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,160 You understand, Sergeant, we can't hand these men over to you now. 709 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:36,160 But if you will be at the international border at one o'clock tomorrow, I'm sure they'll be crossing over. 710 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,160 You can't do this. It's illegal. You know you can't. 711 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:39,160 We're gonna try. 712 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:43,160 Wastin' your time. Why don't you admit it? You can't arrest us. We got over the line. We got you beat. 713 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,160 You can't arrest us and you know it. You know that, don't you? 714 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,160 There's only one thing I know for sure, Powell. 715 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:48,160 Yeah? 716 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,160 You know, when you got out and you're going back. 717 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,160 The story you have just heard was true. 718 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,160 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 719 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:08,160 On December 9th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 87, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 720 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,160 In a moment, the results of that trial. 721 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,160 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 722 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:13,160 Thank you, George Fenomen. 723 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,160 Friends, try a pack of Fatimas tomorrow and compare them yourself. 724 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,160 We're so sure that you'll enjoy Fatima's extra mild and soothing smoke, 725 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:26,160 that we'll give you your money back if you don't enjoy Fatima more than the king-size cigarettes you've been smoking. 726 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,160 Now, in my opinion, nothing proves our confidence in Fatima more than that. 727 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,160 So buy a pack tomorrow. 728 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:36,160 I know you'll agree with me that Fatima is the best of all king-size cigarettes. 729 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,160 That in Fatima, the difference is quality. 730 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:43,160 Andrew Powell and Bertram Selby were deported from Mexico as undesirable aliens and turned over to U.S. authorities at the international border. 731 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:48,160 They were immediately arrested by police officers on the American side and returned to Los Angeles for trial. 732 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:53,160 They pled guilty to four counts of first-degree robbery and received sentences as prescribed by law. 733 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,160 First-degree robbery is punishable by a prison sentence of up to $1,000. 734 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:03,620 The court ruled that the 735 00:28:03,620 --> 00:28:10,620 first-degree robbery is punishable by a prison term of from five years to life. 736 00:28:10,620 --> 00:28:15,620 After being returned to San Quentin, Powell and Selby were filed on, tried, and convicted of escape. 737 00:28:15,620 --> 00:28:21,620 Both of them are now serving life terms in fulsome state penitentiary Represse, California. 738 00:28:21,620 --> 00:28:24,620 For their cooperation in preparing tonight's broadcast, 739 00:28:24,620 --> 00:28:40,620 Dragnet wishes to thank Chief of Police Adam E. Jansen and the San Diego Police Department. 740 00:28:40,620 --> 00:28:44,620 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 741 00:28:44,620 --> 00:28:50,620 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 742 00:28:50,620 --> 00:28:55,620 Technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Winn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 743 00:28:55,620 --> 00:28:58,620 Heard tonight were Barney Phillips, Whit Conner, Herb Ellis. 744 00:28:58,620 --> 00:29:08,620 Script by Jim Moser. Music by Walter Shuman. Hal Gibney speaking. 745 00:29:08,620 --> 00:29:17,620 Fatima cigarettes. Best of all, king-size cigarettes is brought to you by Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 746 00:29:17,620 --> 00:29:21,620 Now it's Counterspy on NBC.