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It was hot in Los Angeles. 23 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 We were working the day watch out of Juvenile Division. 24 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 My partner's Ed Jacobs. The boss is Captain Stein, Commander, Juvenile Division. 25 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,000 My name's Friday. 26 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:15,000 We were on the way out from the office and it was 11.05 a.m. when we got to the corner of 6th and Los Angeles streets. 27 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,000 The bus depot. 28 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Excuse me, ma'am, you Mrs. Lewis? 29 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Yes, that's right. Are you the police? 30 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Yes, ma'am. This is my partner Sergeant Jacobs. My name's Friday, Juvenile Division. 31 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Well, how do you do? I'm certainly glad you're here. I've been waiting around this depot for hours. I don't know what to do. 32 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Baby must be getting pretty heavy, ma'am. Would you like to sit down over here and tell us about it? 33 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 All right. Thank you. 34 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,000 That's all right, honey. You sleep now. Sleepy bye. 35 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Well, things are just a shame. 36 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Yes, ma'am. The report we got didn't go into detail. Some woman left the baby with you, is that right? 37 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Yes, as soon as we got off the bus this morning. She said she'd only be gone a few minutes. It's been hours. I don't know what to do. 38 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Well, did you know the woman, Mrs. Lewis? 39 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Her name's Dorothy Miller. She's from Arizona, Tucson. 40 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 We got off the bus and she asked me if I'd hold her baby while she went to get her luggage. 41 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 She said she'd meet me right there by the information desk. 42 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 I've been waiting ever since. She hasn't come back. I don't know what to think of it. 43 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 How well do you know this Dorothy Miller, ma'am? 44 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Well, not too well, but she seemed like such a nice girl. Friendly and very social. We sat together all the way in. 45 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,000 You got on the bus with her too, Sanze? 46 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Oh, no. I'm from Cincinnati. I got on the bus there and then went down to Dallas. Had a visit with an aunt of mine down there. 47 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 I see. 48 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,000 And I got another bus at Dallas to come out here. It went along the Southern route. Very nice. 49 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Same bus I came in on this morning. I'm out here to meet my husband, army man. He's coming in on a transport from overseas. 50 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Coming in tomorrow. 51 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Now, you say this Dorothy Miller boarded the bus at Tucson with her baby. She rode all the way into Los Angeles with you. 52 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Yes, right into this depot. She sat in the seat next to mine. We struck up a conversation. Got to be quite good friends. 53 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 He's such a cute baby. I just can't imagine. 54 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Well, how did the Miller woman seem to you, Mrs. Lewis? All right? I mean, was there anything odd about her behavior? Anything unusual? 55 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:07,000 No, nothing at all. Seemed to me to be a perfect mother. Took good care of the baby. Wonderful care. That's what's so upsetting. 56 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:13,000 For her to go off like this, leave her baby with a stranger, doesn't make any sense. 57 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Well, now you say you talked with this Dorothy Miller quite a bit along the way, ma'am. 58 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 I beg your pardon. What was that? 59 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Maybe if we move out the car, Joe. It'd be a lot easier to talk. 60 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Yeah, that's a good idea. Mrs. Lewis, would you mind coming along with us to our car? It's parked just down the street. Should be a little quieter there, huh? 61 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Yes, all right. I have these two valets here. 62 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000 All right, I'll get them, ma'am. 63 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Oh, thank you. 64 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 We'll be off this way for you. 65 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Excuse me. I'm sorry. Pardon me. 66 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Sorry? 67 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Pardon us, please. 68 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Can I help you with one of those ends? 69 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,000 No, no, it's okay. 70 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Just down the street here, ma'am. 71 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Oh, my. Isn't it a beautiful day? What a shame. I was in trouble. 72 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Yes, ma'am. 73 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Can you make it all right, Mrs. Lewis? 74 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Oh, yes, I think so. 75 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 All right. Want to slip the bleases and back ends plenty of room there? 76 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Yeah, okay. 77 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Give me your hand. 78 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Okay. 79 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Now about this Miller woman, Mrs. Lewis, I was going to ask you. 80 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Yes? 81 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Well, did she happen to tell you where she lived in Tucson, if she had any people there, any family? 82 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 No, I don't recall anything like that. 83 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 She talked about some of the girlfriends she had there, their babies. 84 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 She didn't mention any of them by name, though. 85 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,000 How about her description, Mrs. Lewis? Anything unusual there? 86 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,000 No, I wouldn't say so. 87 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Small girl, five foot three or four, I'd say, 110 or 15 pounds, dark hair, shoulder length, dark eyes, nice reflection, very pretty eyes. 88 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 About how old would you say? 89 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Twenty. That's what she told me, anyway. She said she had a birthday in May. 90 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:40,000 I remember we talked about that. She was born under the same sign I was, Taris the Bull. 91 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,000 And all the talks you had with this Miller girl, she never gave you any reason to think that anything was wrong with her? 92 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Didn't seem to be despondent, depressed about anything? 93 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Perfectly normal girl, as far as I could tell. I just can't get over it. I can't imagine her doing anything like this. 94 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Well, how'd she seem this morning when you got in on the bus? Pretty much the same? 95 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Yes, I think so. We got off the bus together. She had her hands full with the baby, so I helped her off with the hand release she was carrying. 96 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,000 When we got inside the waiting room, she mentioned that she had to go pick up some luggage from the check stand. 97 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:14,000 She asked me if I had mind very much holding her baby while she went after it. I said no, not at all. 98 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,000 She went around the corner of the baggage stand and that's the last I saw of her. 99 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 You checked around the depot, did you, and you had her page? 100 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:27,000 I talked to everyone in the place, the porters, ticket clerks, information desk, travelers aid. Not one of them could help. I tried everybody. 101 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Oh, there. It's all right now. We'll find your mother. Yes. You try and sleep. Sleep some more. Wonderful. It's adorable. 102 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 It's a little boy. She said his name's Stephen. 103 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Yes, ma'am. Oh, you say you've been waiting around the depot three hours as the baby been fed? 104 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Yes. This hand release the other girl gave me to hold. I found a bottle full of formula in it. The man at the coffee shop warmed it for me. 105 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:59,000 The little fella here finished it off. The way he eats, I guess he'll be wanting some more pretty soon. 106 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,000 I guess we better get back in, huh? Yeah, I guess so. 107 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 I can't imagine it. I just can't imagine it. 108 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Ma'am? This little boy, just look at him. 109 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Yes, ma'am? 110 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Her own baby, so small and helpless. How could she go off and leave him? 111 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Well, I guess she had a reason. Must have been important. 112 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 A seven-weeks-old baby? What's more important than that? 113 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Before we left the bus depot, Ed contacted the clerk at the depot information desk and left our card with him. 114 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:34,000 If anyone came in to make inquiries about the abandoned child, he was to advise them to get in touch with us. 115 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Eleven forty-eight a.m. The woman who had been left with the baby, Mrs. Marjorie Lewis, 116 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:44,000 agreed to return to the office with us and give us a complete report on everything she knew about the case. 117 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,000 As soon as we got back, we briefed Captain Stein on what happened, 118 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,000 and he assigned policewoman Betty Stone to come in and help out with the baby. 119 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:57,000 A cursory examination seemed to indicate there was nothing abnormal about the baby, no apparent deformities. 120 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:02,000 We checked the blanket and the baby's clothing, but we found no identifying marks of any use to us. 121 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Policewoman Stone made the baby comfortable for the time being, 122 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:10,000 and then she began to check through the contents of the small police which the baby's mother had left with Mrs. Lewis. 123 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:17,000 It contained the usual assortment, baby oil, powder, dextrose, a few cans of milk, a couple of blankets, and a supply of diapers. 124 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Ed and I continued to interview Mrs. Lewis. 125 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Is this the Miller woman's first baby, do you know, or did she happen to mention it? 126 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Yes, it's her first. That's what she told me anyway. 127 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Did you talk about the baby's health at all? Was there any trouble there, would you know? 128 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Well, she did say she had some trouble with the formula at first. It didn't seem to suit the baby. 129 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Wasn't anything serious, though. 130 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,000 As a matter of fact, that does worry me a little bit, Sergeant. 131 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,000 What's that? 132 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:45,000 The baby's formula. Mrs. Miller did say it had to be fixed a special way, some special medicine she put in it, too. 133 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Are you sure the baby's going to get good care? 134 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Yes, ma'am. There's no need to worry. He'll be moved to General Hospital. I'll look after him. 135 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:56,000 But the special formula, the medicine she was giving him, will they know about that? Will they know how to feed him? 136 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Well, they've handled cases like this before, Ms. Lewis. They're pretty competent people. They'll know what to do. 137 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:09,000 I surely hope so. I don't know why I'm so concerned. I guess it's just the little fellow's so small, all alone, so helpless. Terrible shame. 138 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Yes, ma'am. 139 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,000 About this special formula the baby has to have, what's the reason for that, would you know? 140 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 The baby been sick recently? 141 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:21,000 No, I don't think so. Mrs. Miller did say he was a little sickly when he was born, spent a little time in an incubator. 142 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,000 I don't believe it was critical, though. At least I didn't gather that. 143 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Well, thank you very much, Ms. Lewis. Appreciate your cooperation, everything you've done on this. 144 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Not at all, Sergeant. I only wish I could be more help. 145 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,000 You mind telling us where you'll be stopping in town, ma'am? Possibly we might have to contact you again. 146 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Well, I don't have any reservations. I was thinking of staying at a hotel close to downtown. 147 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Well, there's a big convention in town. Most of the places are pretty crowded. We'd be glad to help you find a hotel space, if you like. 148 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Oh, well, that's certainly very nice, honey. 149 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,000 Not at all. 150 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Sergeant Friday, could I see you a minute, please? 151 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Yes, all right. Would you excuse me, please? 152 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Sure. 153 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Yeah, Betty? 154 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 For a policewoman, I'm not bad at checking diapers. 155 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 How do you mean? 156 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Over here. 157 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 The valise the mother left with Mrs. Lewis. 158 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Mm-hmm. Did you come up with anything? 159 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Didn't think so at first. Went over the valise, everything inside, nothing. 160 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,000 And I started putting the things back in the bag. Found this and that stack of diapers there. 161 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Mm-hmm. 162 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Paid receipt for a hospital bill. Maternity ward. 163 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Santa Maria Hospital, Tucson. 164 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 There's the patient's name right there at the top. 165 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Mm-hmm. Dorothy Miller. 166 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,000 12.30 p.m. A local broadcast and an APB was gotten out on Dorothy Miller. 167 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Then we sent a communication to the Tucson Police Department, 168 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,000 laying out the story for them and asking them to check with the Santa Maria Hospital there 169 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 for a possible lead on the missing mother. 170 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Meantime, the baby was removed to General Hospital. 171 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,000 We found accommodations for Mrs. Lewis at a downtown hotel. 172 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,000 We dropped her off there and took her to the hospital. 173 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Then we drove back to the bus depot on 6th Street. 174 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:53,000 We tried to locate the driver of the bus on which the Miller woman and her baby had arrived that morning. 175 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,000 We were told he was off duty and that he wouldn't report back until 8 o'clock the following morning. 176 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 We left our card along with a message for the driver, 177 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 asking him to contact us as soon as he returned. 178 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,000 For the rest of the afternoon, Ed and I, along with the two other men from juvenile division, 179 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:11,000 checked with all the bus depot personnel, but we were unable to turn up any kind of a lead. 180 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:16,000 After that, we started making a rounds of the hotels, bars, restaurants, and taxi cab stands in the neighborhood. 181 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 The same results, nothing. 182 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 7.55 a.m. the following morning, I reported back in for work. 183 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Morning, Joe. 184 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Hi, Betty. Ed check in yet? 185 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Uh-huh. I went out for a minute, so he'll be right back. 186 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000 What do you know? Anything new? 187 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Communication for you from the Tucson PD. 188 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Kick back on that query you got off to him yesterday. 189 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Think Ed left it in your bag. 190 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Oh, thanks, Betty. I'll get it. 191 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Mm-hmm. Did you see this? 192 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Ed showed it to me, yeah. Confirms the fact the woman had her baby in that hospital. 193 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Still not much help, though. 194 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Yeah, I see. They checked out her last known address in Tucson. 195 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 She moved, no forwarding address, no line in her relatives or friends. 196 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 The day the baby was born seems to check out. 197 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,000 June 24th. Makes the baby just about seven weeks old on that. 198 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,000 This part here doesn't make much sense, though, does it? 199 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000 The Miller Grill's description? 200 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Yeah. Ms. Lewis said that the baby was born on June 24th. 201 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 This part here doesn't make much sense, though, does it? 202 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,000 The Miller Grill's description? 203 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Yeah. Ms. Lewis said Dorothy Miller was small and dark, long, dark hair, dark eyes. 204 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:15,000 People at the hospital describe her as being blonde, fairly tall, blue eyes, long blonde hair, about 29, 30 years old. 205 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Mrs. Lewis said the Miller Grill just turned 20, didn't she? 206 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Yeah, that's what she said. She sure doesn't figure. 207 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,000 A little too much to write off as coincidence. 208 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Two Dorothy Millers having babies, same day, same hospital. 209 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 I just happen to think this description of the Miller Grill. 210 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Mm-hmm. 211 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Fairly tall, long blonde hair. 212 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Ms. Lewis says long blonde hair. 213 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Benny? Oh, hi, Joe. 214 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Hi, what's doing? 215 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,000 The bus driver we wanted to talk to, the one who drove the bus, Dorothy Miller, and the baby came in on yesterday? 216 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Yeah. 217 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 That description Ms. Lewis gave us of Dorothy Miller? 218 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Mm-hmm. 219 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,000 The driver doesn't remember anyone like that on his bus. He remembered Ms. Lewis, though. 220 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,000 She didn't get on the bus at Dallas. She didn't sit next to a young girl with a baby, either. 221 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,000 The driver says he's sure of it. 222 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Well, then what's the pitch? 223 00:12:50,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Ms. Lewis got on the bus at Tucson. 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Come in, please. 265 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Thank you. 266 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Thank you very much, ma'am. 267 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 What happened? Did you find out anything? 268 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Well, a few things, ma'am. We've been checking around. Two or three more questions we'd like to ask, if you don't mind. 269 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 No, not at all. How's the baby? Are they taking care of him? Is he all right? 270 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Yes, ma'am. He's fine. We checked at the hospital. He's doing real well. 271 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Oh, I'm glad. And the Miller Grill, Dorothy Miller, did you find out anything? 272 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,000 We haven't been able to locate her, no trace for at all. 273 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,000 That's why we're here, Mrs. Lewis. A few things we'd like to have you straighten out for us. 274 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Well, I'll do anything I can to help. 275 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,000 I think I already told you everything I could remember about the girl. 276 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Well, now, we're going to be honest with you, Mrs. Lewis. We don't think you're telling the truth. 277 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 What? I don't understand. 278 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:37,000 You talked to the man who was driving the bus you came in on yesterday, the same bus you say Dorothy Miller and her baby were on? 279 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Yes, that's right. 280 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Well, the bus driver couldn't remember the Miller girl, told us none of his passengers even came close to her description. 281 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Well, there was quite a few people on the bus. I guess you can't blame him for not remembering her. 282 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:51,000 He remembered you, Mrs. Lewis. You were sitting here in front of the bus. He doesn't remember anyone with a baby sitting next to you, though. 283 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 I guess he made a mistake. He can't remember everything. 284 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Well, he said you were holding the baby. 285 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,000 I don't understand this. What is it you're trying to find out? 286 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Well, when we talked to you yesterday, you told us that you got on the bus at Dallas, isn't that right? 287 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Yes. What would that have to do with it? 288 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Well, the bus driver says you got on a Tucson. He seemed to remember it pretty well. 289 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 He says when you got on the bus, you were holding a baby in your arms. 290 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,000 That's silly. He's wrong. He must have me confused with somebody else. 291 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,000 I don't see how, ma'am. He says you were the only woman on the bus with a baby. 292 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,000 What's the point of this, Sergeant? I don't understand any of this. 293 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Well, frankly, neither do we. I don't know why you're lying to us about this, but apparently you are. 294 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:29,000 You're wrong. I'm not lying. It happened just the way I told you. The girl gave me the baby to hold, and then she disappeared. 295 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 There's no reason for me to lie about that. 296 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,000 We found a receipt for a hospital bill in that police with the baby's things in it. 297 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,000 The receipt was made out to Dorothy Miller. 298 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Well, that proves it, doesn't it? She was on the bus with me, and her baby was with her. 299 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,000 The check was made with a hospital at Tucson. They remembered the name Dorothy Miller. 300 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 She gave birth to a baby boy about seven weeks ago. 301 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,000 She wasn't the same girl you described to us, though. The description wasn't even close. 302 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Then it must be a mistake. I guess somebody made a mistake. I can't understand any of this. 303 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Well, they sent us back a description of the Dorothy Miller who stayed at the hospital. 304 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,000 She was a fairly tall woman, long blonde hair, about 29 or 30. 305 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Yes. 306 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 The description fits you, Miss Lowe. It fits almost perfectly. 307 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Well, it's wrong. It has to be wrong. The whole thing's a mistake. 308 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,000 I beg your pardon? 309 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,000 I say the whole thing is a mistake. It has to be wrong. 310 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 No, I don't think so, ma'am. 311 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Why don't you tell me? What do you think? Tell me, please. 312 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,000 There is no Dorothy Miller. There never was. There's no such person, ma'am. 313 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 That's what you really think? I invented it. I made it all up. 314 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Did you? 315 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:33,000 And the baby? What about him? There's no Dorothy Miller. What about the baby? 316 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,000 I don't know. Do you want to tell us? 317 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Miss Lewis? 318 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Yes. Yes. 319 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Miss Lewis, can I get something for you? 320 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Thank you. I'm all right. I suppose I knew it would happen sometime. 321 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,000 I try not to think about it. 322 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Ma'am? 323 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:57,000 When you called from downstairs, I knew you'd found out. 324 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,000 That's why you asked. My husband was with me, isn't it? He didn't want to embarrass me. 325 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 We wanted to give you a chance to tell your side of the story. 326 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Thought maybe you wanted to keep it from your husband. 327 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,000 No, it doesn't matter. I'll tell him. He'll be back in a few minutes. 328 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,000 He can do anything he wants. I won't blame him. 329 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,000 He'll pack his bags and walk out and leave, and I won't blame him. 330 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,000 All right. You want to tell us about it? 331 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Well, I think you know. My baby. My own baby, and I couldn't keep him. 332 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:31,000 There wasn't anything else to do. Nothing. My own baby. 333 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,000 You made up the whole story about the girl, Dorothy Miller, her leaving the baby with you? 334 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Miss Lewis? 335 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Miss Lewis? 336 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Such a beautiful day, isn't it? Big crowds for the parade. They lined all the way up the street. 337 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,000 You must have had a reason for it, Miss Lewis, giving your baby away. Now, do you want to tell us about it? 338 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Yes, all right. It won't make any difference, darling. It's all done. 339 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:03,000 My husband I'm thinking about, Walter. I'm going to have to hurt him, and I don't want to hurt him. 340 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,000 I don't know how I'm going to tell him. 341 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Tell him what, ma'am? 342 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:11,000 I tried to make him understand all the time before he left for overseas. It was almost two years ago. 343 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,000 I tried to make him understand. He wouldn't listen. He didn't believe me. He thought I was fooling. 344 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Yes, ma'am. 345 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:23,000 I love him, Sergeant. I tried to explain. I didn't want to be alone, having him away all the time. 346 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:28,000 I knew there was going to be trouble. I knew it. I didn't want to be alone. He didn't understand. He only said I was fooling. 347 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 Yes, ma'am. 348 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:38,000 He left for overseas in October, Walter, almost two years ago. I went down to Wilmington. I saw him leave on the boat. 349 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:45,000 I stood there and watched him go. I wasn't going to see him. 24 months. I wouldn't see him. 350 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:53,000 No children, no family. It's a two-room apartment. He only believed me. He only would have taken me with him. 351 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Where were you living at that time, ma'am? 352 00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Up the coast, just beside of Santa Barbara. I told Walter I couldn't be alone. I needed something. 353 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:09,000 We only had children. He'd only taken me with him. It didn't have to be this way. He could have taken me with him. 354 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:15,000 He could have arranged it. He wouldn't. He left me here alone. I tried to tell him. He left me here alone. 355 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,000 Yes, ma'am. 356 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:23,000 I took it for a year, a whole year, two-room apartment, being alone. I wrote to Walter twice a week. 357 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:31,000 He wrote to me. It didn't do any good. He didn't want me with him. A whole year. And it got too much. 358 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000 You mean you could have joined him overseas? 359 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I don't know why. I kept writing to him. He kept putting me off a whole year. It got too much. 360 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Two-room apartment, alone. You can't spend your life that way. I started going out, having dates. I had to get out. 361 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:49,000 I started going to parties, different people. I guess I drank too much. I didn't want to be alone. 362 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:57,000 I always drank too much. It was one party. I don't even remember who I went with. I guess it was drinking. I don't know. 363 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:06,000 When I left, I don't even remember who I was with. It didn't have to be this way. It didn't have to happen like this. 364 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Are you all right, Ms. Lewis? There's something we can get you. 365 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:20,000 I'm all right. I didn't know what to do when I found out. The doctor, he didn't understand either. I mean the way I felt. 366 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:25,000 He said the baby would be born in June. I cried. He didn't understand. 367 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Yes, ma'am. 368 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:33,000 When the time came, I went to Tucson, Arizona. Had my baby. At least I wasn't alone. 369 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Used a different name at the hospital. Dorothy Miller. Maybe it wasn't Walter's baby, but it was mine. It was mine. 370 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:46,000 I thought at first it wouldn't make much difference, but it did, though. It did. 371 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Ma'am? 372 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:55,000 I knew what it'd mean. I loved Walter. I still love him. If he found out, I knew what it would mean. 373 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:01,000 I couldn't even think about it. I love Walter. I couldn't even think about telling him. 374 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,000 So you figured on giving up the baby, huh? Giving him away. Is that the idea? 375 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:09,000 I can't tell you how many times I worked it out in my mind. Day after day, I almost went crazy with it. 376 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Walter the baby, which one? I finally decided, Walter. Don't you think it's fair? Don't you? 377 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Well, I wouldn't know, ma'am. It's your decision. It's up to you. 378 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:25,000 I don't know how to tell him. Won't you help me, please? Help me tell Walter? 379 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 All right. If you like. 380 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:33,000 It's a terrible thing. I mean, to make a choice when you have to hurt somebody, to have to choose between the two of them. 381 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 One of them has to be hurt. 382 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000 Ma'am? 383 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 My husband and my baby. Which one? 384 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Ten thirty-eight a.m. At Mrs. Lewis' request, Ed and I stayed on at the hotel room until her husband, Army Captain Walter Lewis, returned. 385 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:54,000 He was a tall, dark-haired man in his late thirties, dark eyes, tan complexion. 386 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Mrs. Lewis was waiting in the adjoining room. It wasn't easy, but as best we could, Ed and I briefed the husband on what had happened. 387 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:06,000 His first reaction was fairly normal. He took it pretty hard. We kept on talking to him. 388 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,000 After a while, he calmed down. We laid out the whole story for him again. 389 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,000 She turned the baby over to the police, is that it? She gave the baby up? 390 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,000 Yes, sir. She figured it was the only thing she could do. 391 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:21,000 Kind of hard to believe, isn't it? What's the answer? What am I supposed to do? 392 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Well, sir, I know it's none of our business, Captain. I think you might try looking at it from your wife's point of view, maybe. 393 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000 What do you mean? 394 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Well, it's pretty obvious. She's still in love with you. I think she's showing you that. 395 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Yeah? 396 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:41,000 I know she was in a jam. It was a big choice for her to make. She knew she was wrong. She made a mistake. She was ready to pay for it. 397 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:46,000 It was either you or the baby. She knew that. She decided to give up the baby. 398 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 The baby's all right now? Somebody's taking care of it? 399 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Yes, sir. Baby boy. 400 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Where's Marge now, my wife? 401 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 In the next room. 402 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000 I want to see her. Maybe if you'd wait just a little while... 403 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000 No, it's all right. Just want to tell her something, aren't you? 404 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Marge? 405 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:16,000 What can I say, Walter? Sorry. Sorry there's no any other thing to say. 406 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,000 You don't have to say anything, Marge. 407 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:23,000 You can do what you want. I won't blame you. You've got a right to do anything you want. 408 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:30,000 I just want to tell you, Walter, I love you. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 409 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Sit down, Marge. Come on. Sit down. 410 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,000 I won't blame you, Walter. Anything you do, I won't blame you. 411 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:44,000 It's going to be all right, honey. Nothing to cry about. Everything will be all right. 412 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Try and take it easy, dear. We got a little mistake here. 413 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:56,000 I guess I made my share of it. It's a little work out. 414 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Officer? 415 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Yes, sir. 416 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:05,000 I'd like to ask you a favor. You got a car downstairs? 417 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Yes, sir. We do. 418 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,000 I wonder if you'd mind dropping us by the hospital. 419 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,000 I'd like to see my son. 420 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:27,000 The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 421 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:33,000 On Thursday, August 15th, a meeting was held in the district attorney's office, city and county of Los Angeles, state of California. 422 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,000 In a moment, the results of that meeting. And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 423 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:43,000 Thank you, George Finnaman. 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