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02:22.360 --> 02:23.360 Yeah, try it again, huh? 02:23.360 --> 02:24.360 Maybe they can't hear it inside. 02:24.360 --> 02:25.360 Mm-hmm. 02:25.360 --> 02:26.360 Yes? 02:26.360 --> 02:27.360 Police officers, ma'am. 02:27.360 --> 02:28.360 Are you Ruth Thompson? 02:28.360 --> 02:29.360 Yes, that's right. 02:29.360 --> 02:30.360 What is it? 02:30.360 --> 02:31.360 My name's Friday. 02:31.360 --> 02:32.360 This is my partner, Sergeant Jacobs, Central Robbery. 02:32.360 --> 02:33.360 We'd like to talk to you a few minutes if we could. 02:33.360 --> 02:34.360 Well, I have a party going on right now. 02:34.360 --> 02:35.360 A few of my friends are over. 02:35.360 --> 02:36.360 What do you want, Sergeant? 02:36.360 --> 02:37.360 It's about an Andy Powell, Mr. Thompson. 02:37.360 --> 02:38.360 I understand you know him. 02:38.360 --> 02:39.360 I did know him, yes. 02:39.360 --> 02:40.360 I haven't seen him for a long time, three or four years anyway. 02:40.360 --> 02:41.360 Mind if we ask a few questions about him? 02:41.360 --> 02:42.360 It won't take long. 02:42.360 --> 02:43.360 All right. 02:43.360 --> 02:44.360 Come in, please. 02:44.360 --> 02:45.360 Thank you. 02:45.360 --> 02:53.160 We're sorry to disturb you, ma'am. 02:53.160 --> 02:54.760 It's pretty important or we wouldn't hold you out here. 02:54.760 --> 02:55.760 It's all right. 02:55.760 --> 02:56.760 Down the hall here. 02:56.760 --> 02:57.760 Fine. 02:57.760 --> 02:58.760 We can talk in the kitchen if you don't mind. 02:58.760 --> 02:59.760 It's my girlfriend's birthday today. 02:59.760 --> 03:02.760 I thought it'd be nice to have a little party for her. 03:02.760 --> 03:04.760 Oh, I see. 03:04.760 --> 03:06.440 Chair there, if you like. 03:06.440 --> 03:07.440 Oh, here, let me wipe it off. 03:07.440 --> 03:08.440 He spilled a drink on it. 03:08.440 --> 03:09.440 Probably Danny would spill the drinks. 03:09.440 --> 03:10.440 I suppose you know about Andy Powell, Mr. Thompson. 03:10.440 --> 03:11.440 What happened this morning? 03:11.440 --> 03:12.440 What's that? 03:12.440 --> 03:13.440 About Andy Powell. 03:13.440 --> 03:14.440 You heard about him? 03:14.440 --> 03:15.440 About Andy Powell? 03:15.440 --> 03:16.440 You heard what happened this morning? 03:16.440 --> 03:17.440 Just what I read in the morning paper. 03:17.440 --> 03:20.240 They said he broke out of San Quentin, another man with him. 03:20.240 --> 03:22.640 It's true then, he did break out? 03:22.640 --> 03:23.640 Yes, ma'am. 03:23.640 --> 03:24.640 That's the information we have. 03:24.640 --> 03:25.920 There's an all points bulletin out on him. 03:25.920 --> 03:27.360 Well, I don't want to get involved in it. 03:27.360 --> 03:28.360 It's none of my business. 03:28.360 --> 03:29.640 Andy doesn't mean anything to me. 03:29.640 --> 03:32.120 Well, at the time he was sent up, you were engaged to Powell. 03:32.120 --> 03:33.120 Is that right? 03:33.120 --> 03:35.840 Yes, but that was before he got into trouble, before he went to San Quentin. 03:35.840 --> 03:37.120 I saw him after the trial. 03:37.120 --> 03:38.360 I told him how I felt about it. 03:38.360 --> 03:39.360 I told him it wasn't any use. 03:39.360 --> 03:40.840 You mean you called it off, that is? 03:40.840 --> 03:42.160 It wasn't much else to do. 03:42.160 --> 03:46.120 It was robbery, five years to life, it wasn't the first time either. 03:46.120 --> 03:47.960 Andy knew it would be a long time, so die. 03:47.960 --> 03:49.920 Really I had to tell him, I had to call it off. 03:49.920 --> 03:53.120 We understand you were on Powell's correspondence list while he was up at Quentin. 03:53.120 --> 03:54.120 You wrote to him, did you? 03:54.120 --> 03:55.360 Yes, the first couple of months. 03:55.360 --> 03:56.360 We haven't written lately though. 03:56.360 --> 03:58.520 There wasn't any point to it, no point at all. 03:58.520 --> 04:01.220 Well, when was the last time you heard from Powell, Miss Thompson? 04:01.220 --> 04:02.220 Last time you wrote to him? 04:02.220 --> 04:04.560 Oh, eight or ten months, at least that. 04:04.560 --> 04:06.720 As I say, there wasn't much sense in going on. 04:06.720 --> 04:08.920 Andy knew he was in there for a long time. 04:08.920 --> 04:10.720 He couldn't expect me to wait all that time. 04:10.720 --> 04:13.520 Matter of fact, he said he didn't expect it, he told me that. 04:13.520 --> 04:15.480 You been up to visit Powell recently, Miss Thompson? 04:15.480 --> 04:16.480 No, no, I haven't. 04:16.480 --> 04:19.800 Well, then you haven't seen him since he went up to Quentin, you'll swear to that? 04:19.800 --> 04:20.920 Why do I have to swear to it? 04:20.920 --> 04:23.160 I already told you, Andy doesn't mean anything to me. 04:23.160 --> 04:24.800 It didn't make sense, it's all over. 04:24.800 --> 04:27.400 I'm not even a relative, why do I have to swear to anything? 04:27.400 --> 04:31.280 You haven't seen Powell since he went up to Quentin, is that right? 04:31.280 --> 04:32.760 Miss Thompson, is that right? 04:32.760 --> 04:35.200 What if I saw him or if I didn't see him, what difference does it make? 04:35.200 --> 04:36.200 It's none of my business. 04:36.200 --> 04:37.440 Well, did you see him, Miss Thompson? 04:37.440 --> 04:38.440 What difference does it make? 04:38.440 --> 04:40.200 I don't have anything to do with him. 04:40.200 --> 04:42.040 He doesn't mean anything to me, I told you. 04:42.040 --> 04:44.640 Did you see him? 04:44.640 --> 04:45.640 This morning. 04:45.640 --> 04:46.640 When? 04:46.640 --> 04:47.640 Late this morning, about 10.30. 04:47.640 --> 04:48.640 Was he alone? 04:48.640 --> 04:49.640 No, another man was with him. 04:49.640 --> 04:50.640 Who was the other man you recognized? 04:50.640 --> 04:53.880 Bert Selby, that's the way he introduced him, he didn't try to hide it. 04:53.880 --> 04:55.240 Some fellow he broke out of jail with. 04:55.240 --> 04:56.240 What did they want? 04:56.240 --> 04:57.240 Why were they here? 04:57.240 --> 05:00.040 Clothes, money, looked like the devil, both of them, terrible. 05:00.040 --> 05:01.440 What did you give them? 05:01.440 --> 05:02.920 They asked for them, not that silly. 05:02.920 --> 05:05.440 They didn't trust me anymore and they'd trust you. 05:05.440 --> 05:08.760 Andy had a knife, I tried to tell him I didn't have any money, he didn't believe me. 05:08.760 --> 05:10.720 He met me with that knife, I gave him the money. 05:10.720 --> 05:11.720 How much? 05:11.720 --> 05:15.920 About 17, 18 dollars, some loose change, they emptied my purse, they took it all. 05:15.920 --> 05:16.920 Anything else? 05:16.920 --> 05:19.400 Clothes, a couple of suits of my father's, he died last year. 05:19.400 --> 05:20.720 They took his gun too. 05:20.720 --> 05:23.280 I never thought Andy'd be that way, it was terrible. 05:23.280 --> 05:24.760 What kind of a gun was it, Miss Thompson? 05:24.760 --> 05:26.400 Quote revolver, 38 I think. 05:26.400 --> 05:28.400 They took that and the clothes and the money. 05:28.400 --> 05:30.040 It was about 10.30 this morning. 05:30.040 --> 05:31.320 Malcolm, you didn't report that. 05:31.320 --> 05:34.120 You say you knew about the escape, you knew they were wanted, didn't you? 05:34.120 --> 05:35.120 Why should I? 05:35.120 --> 05:36.600 They warned me about it, they threatened me. 05:36.600 --> 05:39.440 They said they'd come back and get me if I told the police. 05:39.440 --> 05:41.720 Look, I don't want to get mixed up in this. 05:41.720 --> 05:44.080 I'm engaged to a nice fella now, we want to get married. 05:44.080 --> 05:45.560 I don't want to get mixed up in this. 05:45.560 --> 05:46.680 Andy Powell's nothing to me. 05:46.680 --> 05:49.320 Did you watch the two men when they left the house here and you noticed if they drove off 05:49.320 --> 05:50.320 in the car? 05:50.320 --> 05:52.600 No, I didn't, I just shut the door and prayed I was rid of them. 05:52.600 --> 05:55.280 I took my money, food, my dad's clothes. 05:55.280 --> 05:56.280 Don't make it any tougher, huh? 05:56.280 --> 05:57.280 Please. 05:57.280 --> 05:59.160 Well, it's not a question of that, ma'am, we have to find them. 05:59.160 --> 06:00.840 We're gonna need all the cooperation we can get. 06:00.840 --> 06:03.040 I told you everything I could, honestly. 06:03.040 --> 06:05.560 I said they'd come back and kill me if I even talked to you. 06:05.560 --> 06:06.560 I can't do anymore. 06:06.560 --> 06:09.040 I sure hope you don't find him. 06:09.040 --> 06:10.040 How's that? 06:10.040 --> 06:11.960 When Andy went out the door, it's the last thing he said. 06:11.960 --> 06:14.800 He said if the cops ever found him, there was gonna be a fight. 06:14.800 --> 06:15.800 Terrible look on his face. 06:15.800 --> 06:16.800 You know. 06:16.800 --> 06:23.320 He said you'd never take him alive. 06:23.320 --> 06:26.240 The APB had come in a few minutes before eight o'clock that morning. 06:26.240 --> 06:28.880 It was from the warden's office, San Quentin. 06:28.880 --> 06:33.080 The two suspects had been assigned to an early morning work detail at the penitentiary and 06:33.080 --> 06:36.160 they were first reported missing at the 7 a.m. count. 06:36.160 --> 06:42.600 Number one suspect was Andrew A. Powell, WMA, 29 years, 5 foot 9, 175 pounds, brown hair, 06:42.600 --> 06:45.000 blue eyes, tan complexion. 06:45.000 --> 06:51.760 Suspect number two, Bertram O. Selby, WMA, 31 years, 5 foot 11, 160 pounds, blonde hair, 06:51.760 --> 06:54.120 gray eyes, tan complexion. 06:54.120 --> 06:56.000 Both of them had long criminal records. 06:56.000 --> 06:58.200 Both of them had been serving time for armed robbery. 06:58.200 --> 06:59.880 They'd used guns before. 06:59.880 --> 07:02.680 We figured if they had to, they'd use them again. 07:02.680 --> 07:06.520 Before we left Powell's ex-girlfriend, Ruth Thompson, we called the office and arranged 07:06.520 --> 07:10.760 for a 24-hour stakeout on her home in case the escaped prisoners returned. 07:10.760 --> 07:14.200 We also made arrangements for a stakeout at the downtown restaurant where she was employed 07:14.200 --> 07:15.760 as cashier. 07:15.760 --> 07:19.440 We passed along the information which the Thompson girl had given us and a broadcast 07:19.440 --> 07:22.080 and an APB was gotten out on the suspects. 07:22.080 --> 07:23.600 Four o'five p.m. 07:23.600 --> 07:27.120 Ed and I continued making the rounds of all the known friends and associates of the escaped 07:27.120 --> 07:28.120 prisoners. 07:28.120 --> 07:29.960 We failed to come up with any more leads. 07:29.960 --> 07:32.880 By 5.50 p.m., we went back to the city hall. 07:32.880 --> 07:35.480 Clouding up again, huh? 07:35.480 --> 07:36.480 Over there in the east? 07:36.480 --> 07:38.240 Yeah, the paper says rain tonight and tomorrow. 07:38.240 --> 07:39.240 We can sure use it. 07:39.240 --> 07:40.240 Oh, I can't. 07:40.240 --> 07:41.240 What's the matter? 07:41.240 --> 07:43.240 Haven't had a chance to get the shoemakers yet. 07:43.240 --> 07:45.640 Here, look at that. 07:45.640 --> 07:46.640 Hole in my shoe. 07:46.640 --> 07:47.640 I'm meaning to get them half-souled. 07:47.640 --> 07:48.640 I keep forgetting. 07:48.640 --> 07:49.640 Yeah. 07:49.640 --> 07:51.000 Don't tell me that's the only pair of shoes you got. 07:51.000 --> 07:52.320 No, I got another pair at home. 07:52.320 --> 07:54.440 They're not comfortable, though, not broken in. 07:54.440 --> 07:55.440 It's trouble with this job. 07:55.440 --> 07:56.440 What do you mean? 07:56.440 --> 07:59.600 Shoes, you get a new pair, start wearing them around, it happens every time. 07:59.600 --> 08:02.360 No sooner get the tops broken in than the soles wear out. 08:02.360 --> 08:03.360 It's a vicious circle. 08:03.360 --> 08:04.360 Yeah. 08:04.360 --> 08:05.360 Hi. 08:05.360 --> 08:06.360 What's the word? 08:06.360 --> 08:07.360 Oh, hi, Jess. 08:07.360 --> 08:08.360 Anything in the book for us, do you know? 08:08.360 --> 08:09.360 I don't know. 08:09.360 --> 08:10.360 I don't think so. 08:10.360 --> 08:11.360 I'll check it. 08:11.360 --> 08:12.360 How'd you two make out? 08:12.360 --> 08:13.360 Any luck? 08:13.360 --> 08:14.360 Oh, not too bad, Jess. 08:14.360 --> 08:17.080 We know Powell and Selby were in town this morning. 08:17.080 --> 08:18.080 Good chance they're still here. 08:18.080 --> 08:20.680 Any kickback on that last all points we got out? 08:20.680 --> 08:21.680 Nothing so far. 08:21.680 --> 08:24.600 Gaffney and Ricketts are running down a couple of possibles right now. 08:24.600 --> 08:25.600 One of them might pan out. 08:25.600 --> 08:26.600 Nothing in the book, Joe. 08:26.600 --> 08:27.600 We're clear. 08:27.600 --> 08:31.040 We're just saying yet on this Powell and Selby thing, got a couple of possibles we're checking 08:31.040 --> 08:32.040 on. 08:32.040 --> 08:33.040 Both calls came in the last hour. 08:33.040 --> 08:34.960 One was a holdup, Olympic near Vermont. 08:34.960 --> 08:35.960 Mm-hmm. 08:35.960 --> 08:39.840 Pawn shop there, two men pulled it off, slugged the owner, took clothes, money, 12 gauge shotgun. 08:39.840 --> 08:41.360 How about descriptions on the man? 08:41.360 --> 08:42.760 Well, they seem to be fairly close. 08:42.760 --> 08:46.000 When I got over the phone, Gaffney and Ricketts are out talking to the victim. 08:46.000 --> 08:49.000 They took mugs of Powell and Selby along, waiting for their call back now. 08:49.000 --> 08:50.000 I said you had two calls. 08:50.000 --> 08:51.000 What was the other one? 08:51.000 --> 08:54.120 2-11 and slugging out on Hollywood Boulevard just above Western. 08:54.120 --> 08:57.120 A couple of thieves knocked over a dry goods store. 08:57.120 --> 08:59.080 One take, clothes and money. 08:59.080 --> 09:00.440 Descriptions are pretty close there, too. 09:00.440 --> 09:03.320 Hollywood division's covering, waiting for their call back. 09:03.320 --> 09:06.320 Do you want a smoke? 09:06.320 --> 09:09.320 No, thanks. 09:09.320 --> 09:10.320 Here. 09:10.320 --> 09:11.320 Thanks. 09:11.320 --> 09:16.360 Thompson Girl is the only one who had anything, huh? 09:16.360 --> 09:17.960 None of the others could help you out? 09:17.960 --> 09:19.360 Yeah, it's about the size of it. 09:19.360 --> 09:21.960 Apparently, Powell doesn't have too many connections in town. 09:21.960 --> 09:22.960 Selby has even less. 09:22.960 --> 09:24.600 No more than a dozen names on that list. 09:24.600 --> 09:25.600 Were they Joe, friends, relatives? 09:25.600 --> 09:29.480 An even dozen, a couple of bars Powell was known to hang out when he was in town. 09:29.480 --> 09:30.480 Checked them out, too, nothing. 09:30.480 --> 09:33.640 They sure made a beeline here after they broke Quentin. 09:33.640 --> 09:36.080 It's a good 500-mile stretch. 09:36.080 --> 09:38.680 They don't have the connections here to help them, then what's the big attraction? 09:38.680 --> 09:39.680 Yeah. 09:39.680 --> 09:41.840 They could have some help lined up we don't know about. 09:41.840 --> 09:43.840 Somebody to hide them out, keep them in groceries for a while. 09:43.840 --> 09:47.720 It's possible they're making a run for one of the border towns, Tijuana, Mexicali. 09:47.720 --> 09:50.560 Maybe Powell figured on more help from the Thompson Girl. 09:50.560 --> 09:51.560 Clothes and money. 09:51.560 --> 09:53.280 Enough to get him and Selby over into Mexico, huh? 09:53.280 --> 09:55.160 She said all they got was $17. 09:55.160 --> 09:58.960 But cut corners to make it on that. 09:58.960 --> 09:59.960 Robbery Gonzalez. 09:59.960 --> 10:00.960 Oh, yeah, Jack. 10:00.960 --> 10:01.960 Mm-hmm. 10:01.960 --> 10:02.960 Sure? 10:02.960 --> 10:03.960 Yeah, okay, fine, thanks. 10:03.960 --> 10:04.960 Bye. 10:04.960 --> 10:05.960 What do you got? 10:05.960 --> 10:06.960 Jack Ricketts. 10:06.960 --> 10:12.760 He and Gaffney just finished talking to the owner of the pawn shop that was held up, the 10:12.760 --> 10:13.760 one on Olympic. 10:13.760 --> 10:16.320 They gave him a handful of mug shots to check. 10:16.320 --> 10:22.400 He tabbed two of them, Powell and Selby. 10:22.400 --> 10:27.120 At 6.30 p.m., a supplementary broadcast and an APB was gotten out on the two suspects 10:27.120 --> 10:31.560 and the record bureau's photocopy room turned out 2,000 copies of Powell's and Selby's mug 10:31.560 --> 10:33.800 shot for distribution. 10:33.800 --> 10:38.960 At 9 p.m., a theater on Western Avenue was robbed of $192. 10:38.960 --> 10:42.240 Powell and Selby were again identified as the holdup men. 10:42.240 --> 10:46.440 The robbery victim, the manager of the theater, said that both men were armed, one with a 10:46.440 --> 10:48.720 .38 revolver, the other with a sawed-off shotgun. 10:48.720 --> 10:52.440 Neither the manager nor the two witnesses were able to tell us how the thieves got away 10:52.440 --> 10:57.080 from the scene of the crime, if they were on foot or if they had a car. 10:57.080 --> 11:01.800 11.20 p.m., a hotshot call came through on a holdup at a liquor store in Delicatessen 11:01.800 --> 11:03.840 down on South Central Avenue. 11:03.840 --> 11:07.240 For the third time that night, Powell and Selby were identified from their mug shots 11:07.240 --> 11:08.960 as the holdup men. 11:08.960 --> 11:12.260 They'd used the same weapons, the revolver that they'd taken from the Thompson girls' 11:12.260 --> 11:16.080 home and the shotgun that they picked up in the robbery of the Olympic Boulevard pawn 11:16.080 --> 11:17.080 shop. 11:17.080 --> 11:20.920 Again, the victims were unable to tell us how the suspects got away, whether on foot 11:20.920 --> 11:21.920 or by car. 11:21.920 --> 11:27.360 Midnight, 1 a.m., there were still no replies to supplementary broadcasts and bulletins 11:27.360 --> 11:29.320 which had been gotten out. 11:29.320 --> 11:34.440 1.25 a.m., another hotshot call came through, this time on a holdup and a slugging at the 11:34.440 --> 11:38.000 2050 room, a small nightclub on West 9th Street. 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 Ed and I handled the call. 11:40.000 --> 11:43.920 For the fourth time, the bandits were identified as Powell and Selby, and for the fourth time, 11:43.920 --> 11:45.620 they'd made good their escape. 11:45.620 --> 11:50.160 We interviewed the manager of the 2050 room, a Herman Saunders. 11:50.160 --> 11:52.600 Quite a few people in here at the time of the holdup, Mr. Saunders? 11:52.600 --> 11:55.040 Yeah, good for Thursday night, 30 or 40 anyway. 11:55.040 --> 11:56.480 We sure left in a hurry. 11:56.480 --> 11:58.280 This is the second time this year we've been knocked over. 11:58.280 --> 11:59.800 Insurance company isn't gonna like it too much. 11:59.800 --> 12:01.680 Well, how much money did they take altogether, do you know? 12:01.680 --> 12:05.960 A little less than 600 from the cash register, mostly currency, some rolls of dimes and quarters. 12:05.960 --> 12:08.080 Got another 100 and a half from my wallet. 12:08.080 --> 12:09.080 That's about it. 12:09.080 --> 12:10.080 They didn't take anything from the customers. 12:10.080 --> 12:11.600 Are you sure about that identification, are you? 12:11.600 --> 12:12.800 There's no chance of a mistake there? 12:12.800 --> 12:13.800 I'm positive. 12:13.800 --> 12:14.800 I'd know Andy Powell anywhere. 12:14.800 --> 12:15.800 I should know him. 12:15.800 --> 12:17.200 Like I told you, he worked for me a year and a half. 12:17.200 --> 12:18.200 That was here at 2050? 12:18.200 --> 12:19.880 Yeah, he worked behind the bar. 12:19.880 --> 12:20.880 Good man too. 12:20.880 --> 12:21.880 I don't get it at all. 12:21.880 --> 12:22.880 You mean when I went bad? 12:22.880 --> 12:23.880 Well, yeah, that too. 12:23.880 --> 12:26.760 What I mean is if you're gonna hold up a place, you don't pick a joint where everybody knows 12:26.760 --> 12:27.760 you. 12:27.760 --> 12:29.000 I spotted Andy as soon as I saw him at the bar. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.200 I sold a couple of the waiters. 12:30.200 --> 12:31.640 He wasn't wearing any kind of a mask. 12:31.640 --> 12:33.240 He didn't make any attempt to disguise himself? 12:33.240 --> 12:35.400 No, stood there big as life, him and this other fella. 12:35.400 --> 12:36.680 Didn't waste any time either. 12:36.680 --> 12:39.800 They pulled the guns, lined up everybody in the place and stood them against that wall 12:39.800 --> 12:40.800 over there. 12:40.800 --> 12:41.800 Real wild West Isle. 12:41.800 --> 12:43.240 Took over the whole place. 12:43.240 --> 12:45.520 Acted real wild, Andy and this other fella. 12:45.520 --> 12:46.520 Must be crazy. 12:46.520 --> 12:47.520 Nobody was hurt? 12:47.520 --> 12:48.520 Didn't slug anyone? 12:48.520 --> 12:49.520 I slapped a few of the customers around. 12:49.520 --> 12:51.200 I thought for a while they were really gonna get rough. 12:51.200 --> 12:52.880 They had us lined up against the wall. 12:52.880 --> 12:53.880 Andy was acting tough. 12:53.880 --> 12:56.120 Had this knife with him, good four inch blade. 12:56.120 --> 12:58.800 Went right down the line jabbing people with it, threatening him. 12:58.800 --> 12:59.800 Must be out of his mind. 12:59.800 --> 13:01.840 Now you say he didn't take any money from the customers? 13:01.840 --> 13:02.840 Yeah, that's right. 13:02.840 --> 13:03.840 They worked it pretty fast. 13:03.840 --> 13:06.520 Empty the cash register, then my wallet, then they beat it. 13:06.520 --> 13:08.080 Never so glad to see anybody go in my life. 13:08.080 --> 13:09.080 Well, how'd they get away? 13:09.080 --> 13:10.440 Do you have any idea on that? 13:10.440 --> 13:11.960 Old guy who sells papers down the corner. 13:11.960 --> 13:14.560 He says he thinks he saw a car pull away right after the stick up. 13:14.560 --> 13:16.080 Said it was a blue sedan. 13:16.080 --> 13:17.800 Don't know how much stock you can put in it. 13:17.800 --> 13:19.480 The old man's eyes aren't what they used to be. 13:19.480 --> 13:22.120 Do you know Paul pretty well when he was working here, Mr. Saunders? 13:22.120 --> 13:24.360 I mean, do you know any of his friends, people he used to run with? 13:24.360 --> 13:25.680 No, I didn't know him that well. 13:25.680 --> 13:27.080 He worked for me, that's all. 13:27.080 --> 13:29.600 I still have his old address, the place he was living when he worked for me. 13:29.600 --> 13:30.600 I can get it if you want. 13:30.600 --> 13:31.600 Yeah, if you would, please. 13:31.600 --> 13:32.600 Sure, no trouble. 13:32.600 --> 13:35.080 I just don't get it. 13:35.080 --> 13:36.080 Don't get it at all. 13:36.080 --> 13:38.560 Of all the joints in town he could have held up, he had to pick mine. 13:38.560 --> 13:39.560 The one place he'd be recognized. 13:39.560 --> 13:42.160 You'd think he'd have better sense, wouldn't you? 13:42.160 --> 13:43.160 You'd think so, yeah. 13:43.160 --> 13:45.800 How'd he ever hire a guy as dumb as that Paul holding up the place he worked for? 13:45.800 --> 13:46.960 Biggest mistake he ever made. 13:46.960 --> 13:48.400 No, he made a bigger one yesterday. 13:48.400 --> 13:49.400 Yeah, what was that? 13:49.400 --> 13:52.400 When he broke prison. 13:52.400 --> 13:55.920 2.05 a.m. 13:55.920 --> 14:00.000 Further investigation at the scene of the latest holdup failed to turn up any new leads. 14:00.000 --> 14:03.120 While Ed and I checked on Powell's former address, which we'd gotten from the owner 14:03.120 --> 14:08.760 of the 2050 room, Gonzalez, Ricketts, and Gaffney continued checking the immediate neighborhood. 14:08.760 --> 14:13.440 In addition, a special detail from Metro Division was sent in to cover the entire area. 14:13.440 --> 14:17.760 The suspect's former address turned out to be a rooming house up on West Temple Street. 14:17.760 --> 14:21.320 The landlady remembered Andy Powell, but she had no forwarding address on him and she could 14:21.320 --> 14:24.500 tell us nothing about his former friends and associates. 14:24.500 --> 14:28.240 We checked back with Gonzalez, Ricketts, and Gaffney and they told us that besides the 14:28.240 --> 14:32.900 old newspaper vendor, the counter man at the coffee shop near the 2050 room had also spotted 14:32.900 --> 14:37.520 a blue sedan leaving the vicinity of the nightclub shortly after the holdup. 14:37.520 --> 14:41.520 He was able to give them the make, the model, and a partial license number. 14:41.520 --> 14:45.120 A supplementary all points had been gotten out on it immediately and the information 14:45.120 --> 14:47.760 relayed to DMV in auto theft detail. 14:47.760 --> 14:49.840 3.10 a.m. 14:49.840 --> 14:54.040 Ed and I completed our assignment in the investigation and went back to the office to check for instructions 14:54.040 --> 14:55.040 from Captain Didion. 14:55.040 --> 14:58.720 Can't see how we'd be much use out on the street the way things stand out, can you? 14:58.720 --> 14:59.720 No, I don't. 14:59.720 --> 15:01.360 Everything's covered, I can think of. 15:01.360 --> 15:04.520 Supplementary all points is out, detail from Metro's working in the neighborhood. 15:04.520 --> 15:05.520 It's funny, isn't it? 15:05.520 --> 15:06.520 What's that? 15:06.520 --> 15:08.520 It's a picture of a man named Eddie Powell going back to that place he used to work and 15:08.520 --> 15:09.520 holding it up. 15:09.520 --> 15:10.680 That doesn't make any sense at all, does it? 15:10.680 --> 15:11.680 That's for sure. 15:11.680 --> 15:13.280 Must have known somebody was going to recognize him. 15:13.280 --> 15:14.280 Couldn't have been a coincidence. 15:14.280 --> 15:15.720 There was only one way I can figure it. 15:15.720 --> 15:16.720 They don't care. 15:16.720 --> 15:17.720 Either one of them. 15:17.720 --> 15:19.960 They got their money now, a car, they both got guns, they're out to go as far as they 15:19.960 --> 15:20.960 can. 15:20.960 --> 15:21.960 Oh, hi, Jess. 15:21.960 --> 15:22.960 Hi. 15:22.960 --> 15:23.960 You just get back in? 15:23.960 --> 15:24.960 Yeah. 15:24.960 --> 15:25.960 Hi, Joe. 15:25.960 --> 15:26.960 Hi. 15:26.960 --> 15:27.960 You as tired as you sound? 15:27.960 --> 15:28.960 Worse. 15:28.960 --> 15:29.960 Fair piece of news, though. 15:29.960 --> 15:30.960 Yeah, what's that? 15:30.960 --> 15:35.880 Powell and Selby, they just found their hideout. 15:35.880 --> 15:39.680 After three hours of canvassing the general downtown area, particularly in the vicinity 15:39.680 --> 15:43.960 of the last holdup, a team of men working with a special detail from Metropolitan Division 15:43.960 --> 15:48.440 interviewed a desk clerk in a small hotel on South Broadway who recognized the suspect's 15:48.440 --> 15:49.440 mug shots. 15:49.440 --> 15:54.560 The two of them had registered early the morning before under the names J.E. Dennis and Harold 15:54.560 --> 15:57.840 Thompson, both from Fresno, California. 15:57.840 --> 16:01.960 The hotel room was searched and two San Quentin inmate uniforms were found stuffed under the 16:01.960 --> 16:03.980 mattress of the bed. 16:03.980 --> 16:07.380 After the room was processed for fingerprints, there was no doubt that the recent occupants 16:07.380 --> 16:09.560 were Powell and Selby. 16:09.560 --> 16:12.200 The clerk had no idea when they were supposed to return. 16:12.200 --> 16:15.960 The hotel was staked out immediately and the city-wide search for the escaped prisoners 16:15.960 --> 16:17.280 went on. 16:17.280 --> 16:22.320 The following day, Thursday, October 7th, 1130 a.m., still no sign of the suspects, 16:22.320 --> 16:25.120 no further reports or leads as to their whereabouts. 16:25.120 --> 16:26.120 The search went on. 16:26.120 --> 16:28.320 Ed and I signed back in at the office. 16:28.320 --> 16:31.680 Ten minutes later, a long distance phone call came in for us. 16:31.680 --> 16:33.680 When was that, Mort? 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19:41.760 --> 19:42.760 Here they've been driving you crazy up there. 19:42.760 --> 19:43.760 Just about, Tony. 19:43.760 --> 19:46.160 Four robberies in 24 hours have given us a run. 19:46.160 --> 19:47.160 How about Mort Gear? 19:47.160 --> 19:48.160 You around? 19:48.160 --> 19:49.160 Yeah, he just went down the hall, Jess. 19:49.160 --> 19:50.160 He ought to be back in a minute. 19:50.160 --> 19:51.160 Why don't you fellas sit down? 19:51.160 --> 19:52.160 Thanks very much. 19:52.160 --> 19:53.160 Thanks. 19:53.160 --> 19:54.160 What's the latest, Tony? 19:54.160 --> 19:56.400 Anything since you picked up that blue sedan? 19:56.400 --> 19:57.400 No, not much. 19:57.400 --> 19:58.400 I got the car and the impound. 19:58.400 --> 19:59.760 Had it dusted for prints. 19:59.760 --> 20:02.200 We made them all right, both sets, Powell and Selby. 20:02.200 --> 20:03.200 No sign of them around town? 20:03.200 --> 20:05.680 No, I got it pretty well covered too, not a trace. 20:05.680 --> 20:07.920 Well, we're in a good spot to make it over into Mexico. 20:07.920 --> 20:09.240 Hate to disappoint you. 20:09.240 --> 20:10.240 What do you mean? 20:10.240 --> 20:14.680 We think they already made it. 20:14.680 --> 20:19.000 At six o'clock that night, Gonzalez, Ed, and I, together with Lieutenant Gear, Tony McGuire, 20:19.000 --> 20:24.020 and Sergeants Gaeton and Schultz, drove south from San Diego to the International Line. 20:24.020 --> 20:28.120 We left mugshots of Powell and Selby with the immigration officers at the entry gate. 20:28.120 --> 20:33.120 Then we drove into the town of Tijuana, contacted the local commandant of police, and he promised 20:33.120 --> 20:35.360 us full cooperation. 20:35.360 --> 20:39.760 He assigned a special detail of his men to work with us in covering the town. 20:39.760 --> 20:43.160 At 8 p.m., the block-by-block canvas of the city began. 20:43.160 --> 20:47.280 Every back alley, every bar, every restaurant, every hotel, they were all checked. 20:47.280 --> 20:51.280 The tourist attractions, the souvenir stands, the night clubs, the highlight pavilion, we 20:51.280 --> 20:55.400 went straight through on it, 8 o'clock that night until 5 o'clock the next morning. 20:55.400 --> 21:00.120 All it got us was sore feet and a mediocre lead from a native taxi driver. 21:00.120 --> 21:03.880 After being shown the mugshots, he told one of the Mexican officers in the detail that 21:03.880 --> 21:08.880 about noon that day, he'd picked up two Americans resembling Powell and Selby and driven them 21:08.880 --> 21:13.880 to the town of Tocate, another Mexican tourist spot about 25 miles to the east. 21:13.880 --> 21:15.480 10.30 a.m. 21:15.480 --> 21:19.880 We drove over and checked with the police at Tocate, and they told us the two Americans 21:19.880 --> 21:22.040 had arrived in the town that morning. 21:22.040 --> 21:25.480 He invited Jess Gonzalez to go along with the three of his men to the hotel where the 21:25.480 --> 21:26.840 men were supposed to be staying. 21:26.840 --> 21:28.560 Ed and I waited in the office. 21:28.560 --> 21:29.560 Hi. 21:29.560 --> 21:30.560 Hi, Jess. 21:30.560 --> 21:31.560 What do you got? 21:31.560 --> 21:32.560 Not much. 21:32.560 --> 21:33.560 Went over to the hotel. 21:33.560 --> 21:34.560 The two men weren't there. 21:34.560 --> 21:38.080 Des clerk says they're told they're driving out to a little village about a mile from here. 21:38.080 --> 21:40.120 Police commandant asked me to come back here and wait. 21:40.120 --> 21:43.160 Said he and his men would drive out to the village and check the men out. 21:43.160 --> 21:44.360 That seems a little funny, doesn't it? 21:44.360 --> 21:45.960 Well, he didn't invite me to come along. 21:45.960 --> 21:47.440 It's not a good idea to push him. 21:47.440 --> 21:48.800 I mean, after all, it's his jurisdiction. 21:48.800 --> 21:49.800 Yeah. 21:49.800 --> 21:50.800 We're supposed to wait here till they get back? 21:50.800 --> 21:51.800 Yeah. 21:51.800 --> 21:52.800 I'm back to him now. 21:52.800 --> 21:53.800 Si, policia? 21:53.800 --> 21:54.800 Uh-huh, yeah. 21:54.800 --> 21:55.800 Si, si. 21:55.800 --> 21:56.800 About half an hour, si. 21:56.800 --> 21:57.800 All right, gracias. 21:57.800 --> 21:58.800 Goodbye, si. 21:58.800 --> 22:05.800 The commandant, he and his men found the two Americans. 22:05.800 --> 22:06.800 No go. 22:06.800 --> 22:11.160 We'll go to Powell and Selby. 22:11.160 --> 22:14.840 Half an hour later, the police commandant of Takati returned to the station along with 22:14.840 --> 22:17.960 his men and the two American tourists in question. 22:17.960 --> 22:21.480 One look at them and we knew we'd made the trip from Tijuana for nothing. 22:21.480 --> 22:24.640 Except for their build and the color of their hair, the two Americans bore little or no 22:24.640 --> 22:27.000 resemblance to Powell and Selby. 22:27.000 --> 22:28.680 2.30 p.m. 22:28.680 --> 22:32.600 We headed back for Tijuana and we checked in with Mort Gear and the rest of the men. 22:32.600 --> 22:36.000 While we'd been gone, they'd chased down half a dozen leads, but none of them had panned 22:36.000 --> 22:37.200 out. 22:37.200 --> 22:40.640 The rest of the afternoon, we covered the racetrack at Agua Caliente and distributed 22:40.640 --> 22:44.200 mug shots of the suspects to all track police officers. 22:44.200 --> 22:46.840 The mutual windows were covered and also the foreign book. 22:46.840 --> 22:48.000 No luck. 22:48.000 --> 22:51.520 The six of us took time out for a bite of supper and we talked it over. 22:51.520 --> 22:55.440 Logically, the next place in line to cover was either the fishing town of Ensenada on 22:55.440 --> 22:58.920 the coast or the city of Mexicali further inland. 22:58.920 --> 23:00.920 We decided to try Ensenada first. 23:00.920 --> 23:05.200 7.30 that night, we checked in at the Ensenada police station where we met with a local sub 23:05.200 --> 23:07.920 commandant, Pedro Martinez. 23:07.920 --> 23:12.640 Like the other commandants in Tijuana and Tecate, he offered full cooperation and gave us a 23:12.640 --> 23:15.240 special detail of men to aid in the search. 23:15.240 --> 23:18.840 We gave him a supply of mug shots of the two convicts to distribute among his men. 23:18.840 --> 23:19.840 Here you are, sir. 23:19.840 --> 23:22.520 These are pictures of one of them, Andrew Powell. 23:22.520 --> 23:24.320 This one here is the other man, Bert Selby. 23:24.320 --> 23:25.320 You all right? 23:25.320 --> 23:26.320 Thank you. 23:26.320 --> 23:27.320 Juan? 23:27.320 --> 23:28.320 Juan! 23:28.320 --> 23:29.320 Si. 23:29.320 --> 23:30.320 Si. 23:30.320 --> 23:31.320 Okay, yes. 23:31.320 --> 23:32.320 These pictures, Juan, criminals. 23:32.320 --> 23:34.160 They are for distribution to the men. 23:34.160 --> 23:35.160 One each. 23:35.160 --> 23:36.160 Si, si. 23:36.160 --> 23:37.160 Estos son los hombres? 23:37.160 --> 23:38.160 Si, si, por que? 23:38.160 --> 23:39.160 Un momento, un momento. 23:39.160 --> 23:40.160 Si. 23:40.160 --> 23:41.160 Excuse me, officers. 23:41.160 --> 23:42.160 Yes, all right. 23:42.160 --> 23:43.160 Go ahead. 23:43.160 --> 23:44.160 Joe, what is it? 23:44.160 --> 23:45.160 It's got me, I don't know. 23:45.160 --> 23:48.160 See the look on his face on the chief's shirt and the mug shots? 23:48.160 --> 23:49.160 He's got something on his mind. 23:49.160 --> 23:50.160 Just wait a minute. 23:50.160 --> 23:51.160 Officers, I hope you'll excuse me. 23:51.160 --> 23:52.160 Yes, sir. 23:52.160 --> 23:53.160 Anything wrong? 23:53.160 --> 23:54.160 My assistant, Teniente Sanfilippo, he says he knows the pictures of these men. 23:54.160 --> 23:55.160 Oh, how's that? 23:55.160 --> 23:56.160 He says he saw these men this morning here in Ensenada. 23:56.160 --> 23:57.160 Yeah, he should know. 23:57.160 --> 23:58.160 He's got a gun. 23:58.160 --> 23:59.160 He's got a gun. 23:59.160 --> 24:00.160 He's got a gun. 24:00.160 --> 24:01.160 He's got a gun. 24:01.160 --> 24:05.160 He says he saw these men this morning here in Ensenada. 24:05.160 --> 24:06.160 Yeah, he's sure about that, is he? 24:06.160 --> 24:07.160 Yes, sir, he says he's sure. 24:07.160 --> 24:10.160 He says the two men were here last night, right here in the station. 24:10.160 --> 24:12.160 You mean your men booked them in, they committed some kind of crime? 24:12.160 --> 24:13.160 Oh, no, sir. 24:13.160 --> 24:16.160 They came in to report a crime. 24:16.160 --> 24:18.160 8.20 p.m. 24:18.160 --> 24:22.160 On further questioning, the assistant to the Ensenada Commandant of Police told us that 24:22.160 --> 24:26.160 the night before, two men answering Powell and Selby's description had come in to file 24:26.160 --> 24:28.160 a complaint at the Central Police Station. 24:28.160 --> 24:32.160 They charged that they'd had their pockets picked at a local bar while they were under 24:32.160 --> 24:34.160 the influence of alcohol. 24:34.160 --> 24:38.160 The two complainants, who matched Powell's and Selby's descriptions perfectly, signed 24:38.160 --> 24:43.160 themselves J.E. Dennis and Harold Thompson, both from Fresno, California, the same names 24:43.160 --> 24:47.160 and addresses that had been used by the occupants of the Southside Los Angeles hotel room where 24:47.160 --> 24:52.160 the discarded prison uniforms had been found a day and a half before. 24:52.160 --> 24:56.160 After a brief talk with the police commandant, he dispatched a special detail to go out and 24:56.160 --> 25:02.160 pick up the two men registered as Dennis and Thompson at a motel near the south end of the city. 25:02.160 --> 25:05.160 At the commandant's request, we remained at the office. 25:05.160 --> 25:07.160 9.00 p.m., 9.30. 25:07.160 --> 25:12.160 The detail assigned to the job returned, but with only one of the suspects with him, Andrew Powell. 25:12.160 --> 25:16.160 While resisting arrest, the other suspect, identified as Selby, received a cut forward 25:16.160 --> 25:19.160 and was being taken to a local clinic for treatment. 25:19.160 --> 25:22.160 The commandant briefed us on what had happened. 25:22.160 --> 25:24.160 The rooms were searched, Officer Friday. 25:24.160 --> 25:27.160 The money was found, also two guns, a revolver and a shotgun. 25:27.160 --> 25:28.160 Here they are. 25:28.160 --> 25:30.160 All right, thanks very much, sir. 25:30.160 --> 25:32.160 Well, Powell, how about it? You ready to cop out? 25:32.160 --> 25:33.160 What are you talking about, cop out? 25:33.160 --> 25:35.160 What did you guys come all the way down here for anyway? 25:35.160 --> 25:36.160 You can't touch us. 25:36.160 --> 25:37.160 What makes you think we can't? 25:37.160 --> 25:38.160 You can't, that's all. 25:38.160 --> 25:39.160 You know better. 25:39.160 --> 25:40.160 You can't arrest us down here. 25:40.160 --> 25:41.160 No jurisdiction. 25:41.160 --> 25:42.160 We didn't arrest you, Powell. 25:42.160 --> 25:43.160 The Mexican officers did. 25:43.160 --> 25:44.160 Okay, fine. 25:44.160 --> 25:45.160 Now, how do you expect to get us out of Mexico? 25:45.160 --> 25:47.160 Yes, again, copper, you know you can't do it. 25:47.160 --> 25:48.160 You haven't got the right to. 25:48.160 --> 25:49.160 Maybe. 25:49.160 --> 25:51.160 You want to tell us where you have the loot, the money you took in those holdups? 25:51.160 --> 25:54.160 Why should I? Look, why don't you admit it? We got you beat, we got over the line. 25:54.160 --> 25:55.160 You can't touch us down here. 25:55.160 --> 25:56.160 I don't bet on that, mister. 25:56.160 --> 25:57.160 Comin' down? 25:57.160 --> 25:58.160 Yes, sir. 25:58.160 --> 25:59.160 You want to tell him how it stands? 25:59.160 --> 26:03.160 I will see that the general in charge of the Northern District is notified in the morning of your case. 26:03.160 --> 26:05.160 He will see that you and your partner are deported. 26:05.160 --> 26:08.160 What are you trying to pull? You can't do that. You know it, it's illegal. 26:08.160 --> 26:09.160 So is robbery, Powell. Come off it. 26:09.160 --> 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. 26:13.160 --> 26:15.160 A popular misconception, Mr. Powell. 26:15.160 --> 26:19.160 I'm afraid you have made a mistake. If you like, you can pass the word. 26:19.160 --> 26:22.160 How long would it be for us to receive the prisoners at the line, sir? 26:22.160 --> 26:25.160 I don't know. A long time, I think. Maybe as long as one o'clock tomorrow. 26:25.160 --> 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. 26:29.160 --> 26:32.160 You understand, Sergeant, we can't hand these men over to you now. 26:32.160 --> 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. 26:36.160 --> 26:38.160 You can't do this. It's illegal. You know you can't. 26:38.160 --> 26:39.160 We're gonna try. 26:39.160 --> 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. 26:43.160 --> 26:45.160 You can't arrest us and you know it. You know that, don't you? 26:45.160 --> 26:47.160 There's only one thing I know for sure, Powell. 26:47.160 --> 26:48.160 Yeah? 26:48.160 --> 26:50.160 You know, when you got out and you're going back. 26:57.160 --> 26:59.160 The story you have just heard was true. 26:59.160 --> 27:02.160 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:02.160 --> 27:08.160 On December 9th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 87, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:08.160 --> 27:10.160 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:10.160 --> 27:12.160 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:12.160 --> 27:13.160 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:13.160 --> 27:17.160 Friends, try a pack of Fatimas tomorrow and compare them yourself. 27:17.160 --> 27:20.160 We're so sure that you'll enjoy Fatima's extra mild and soothing smoke, 27:20.160 --> 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. 27:26.160 --> 27:30.160 Now, in my opinion, nothing proves our confidence in Fatima more than that. 27:30.160 --> 27:32.160 So buy a pack tomorrow. 27:32.160 --> 27:36.160 I know you'll agree with me that Fatima is the best of all king-size cigarettes. 27:36.160 --> 27:38.160 That in Fatima, the difference is quality. 27:38.160 --> 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. 27:43.160 --> 27:48.160 They were immediately arrested by police officers on the American side and returned to Los Angeles for trial. 27:48.160 --> 27:53.160 They pled guilty to four counts of first-degree robbery and received sentences as prescribed by law. 27:53.160 --> 27:58.160 First-degree robbery is punishable by a prison sentence of up to $1,000. 27:58.160 --> 28:03.620 The court ruled that the 28:03.620 --> 28:10.620 first-degree robbery is punishable by a prison term of from five years to life. 28:10.620 --> 28:15.620 After being returned to San Quentin, Powell and Selby were filed on, tried, and convicted of escape. 28:15.620 --> 28:21.620 Both of them are now serving life terms in fulsome state penitentiary Represse, California. 28:21.620 --> 28:24.620 For their cooperation in preparing tonight's broadcast, 28:24.620 --> 28:40.620 Dragnet wishes to thank Chief of Police Adam E. Jansen and the San Diego Police Department. 28:40.620 --> 28:44.620 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:44.620 --> 28:50.620 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:50.620 --> 28:55.620 Technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Winn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 28:55.620 --> 28:58.620 Heard tonight were Barney Phillips, Whit Conner, Herb Ellis. 28:58.620 --> 29:08.620 Script by Jim Moser. Music by Walter Shuman. Hal Gibney speaking. 29:08.620 --> 29:17.620 Fatima cigarettes. Best of all, king-size cigarettes is brought to you by Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:17.620 --> 29:21.620 Now it's Counterspy on NBC.