1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Fatima cigarettes. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Best of all, king-sized cigarettes brings you dragnet on both radio and television. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,000 You're a detective sergeant. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 You're assigned a homicide detail. 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 You're assigned a homicide detail. 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,000 You're assigned a homicide detail. 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000 You're assigned a homicide detail. 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 You're assigned a homicide detail. 11 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 You get a call from the receiving hospital in your city. 13 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,000 A dead body has been left in the hospital elevator. 14 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 There's no lead to the identity of the corpse. 15 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 There's no apparent cause of death. 16 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Your job, investigate. 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Compare Fatima with any other king-sized cigarette. 18 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Yes, compare Fatima with any other king-sized cigarette. 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,000 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 20 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 21 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21% longer than standard cigarette size. 22 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Fatima gives you more for your money. 23 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000 And in king-sized Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, 24 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 plus the added protection of Fatima quality. 25 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Buy Fatima in the bright, sunny, yellow pack. 26 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Best of all, king-sized cigarettes. 27 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 DRAGNET, the documented drama of an actual crime. 28 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:40,000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 29 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 you will travel step-by-step on the side of the law 30 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, 32 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,000 DRAGNET is the story of your police force in action. 33 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,000 It was Wednesday, November 9th. It was foggy in Los Angeles. 34 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. 35 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 My partner's Bill Lockwood. The boss is Captain Lorman. My name's Friday. 36 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 It was 11.28 p.m. when we got to the third floor at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, 37 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Dr. Terrell's office. 38 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Friday, glad to see you. Been waiting for you. 39 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 We made it as soon as we could, Doctor. 40 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 I'd like to have you meet my new partner, Bill Lockwood. Dr. Terrell, Bill. 41 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 How are you? I think I've seen you around, Lockwood. 42 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Yes, sir. How are you? 43 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000 I understand you got a problem, Doc. What's the story? 44 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,000 An odd one. Happened a few minutes after 11. 45 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 You want to sit down a minute? I'll fill you in before we go back 46 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 and take a look at the body. 47 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Thank you very much. 48 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 I understand it's a woman, that right? 49 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Yeah. Grace Morgan. She's a night nurse on duty. 50 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,000 She told me she was sitting at the desk checking over some patients' cards. 51 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 It was about five, ten minutes after 11 when she heard the elevator come up. 52 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 She heard the elevator stop and the doors open. 53 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Kept on checking the cards there. Didn't pay any attention to it. 54 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 And then she realized nobody got out of the elevator. 55 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 She looked up and the elevator doors were still open. 56 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 She saw this young woman slumped over in a wheelchair 57 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,000 sitting there in the elevator. 58 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 The woman was alone, was she? 59 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 That's right. 60 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 The nurse went over and wheeled her out of the elevator. 61 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 The woman was wearing a nightgown, bathroom over that. 62 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,000 She was unconscious. 63 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Nurse called me. The two of us took the woman into a treatment room. 64 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 I examined her. She was dead. 65 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Any indication how long? 66 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Body was still warm. She'd only been dead a short time. 67 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Any idea of the cause of death? 68 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,000 I noticed a couple of abrasions on her right shoulder. 69 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Another one in the right temporal region. Not positive. 70 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 But I don't think any of them were severe enough to cause death. 71 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 No other markings at all? 72 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 No. She seemed to have been in good physical condition. 73 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 I noticed a strong smell of alcohol, though. 74 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Could be she'd been drinking. 75 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Is the nurse pretty sure the woman came up the elevator alone? 76 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Possibility one of the attendants might have brought her up? 77 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 No. I checked with the attendant on duty down in the first floor lobby. 78 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Ray Collins. He didn't bring her up. 79 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 He said a man came in the lobby about 11 o'clock. 80 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Said he had a sick woman out in his car. 81 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 He asked for a wheelchair to bring her in. 82 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Ray asked if he could help, but the man said he'd take care of it. 83 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 That's all Ray knows about it. 84 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 He let the man have a wheelchair, then he went in the back room... 85 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 to change some linens on the ambulance stretcher. 86 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Any possibility one of the other attendants might have brought her up in the elevator? 87 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 No. Collins was the only attendant on duty. 88 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 I'd like to talk to him. Is he still around? 89 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Yeah. I knew you'd want to see him. He was off duty 11.30. I held him over. 90 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 He's down at the corner having a sandwich. 91 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 He ought to be back in a few minutes. 92 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 What do you figure, Doctor? Think the woman could have operated the elevator herself? 93 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Possible. Not too probable, though. It's a self-operating elevator, automatic. 94 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Someone could have wheeled the woman into the elevator... 95 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 pushed the button for the third floor and then stepped back. 96 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Would have taken her straight up. 97 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 The nurse is sure the elevator didn't go back down after it got up here. 98 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Positive. She heard the elevator doors open. They stayed that way. 99 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 She kept waiting for someone to come out. That's what attracted her attention. 100 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 How about identification? 101 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 The woman have a purse with her or anything like that, Doc? 102 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,000 No. All she had was what she was wearing. Nightgown, slippers and bathrobe. 103 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Let's go back and have a look. I'll show you. 104 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Okay. Thank you. 105 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 You say the only markings on the body are those abrasions on the shoulder and the forehead. 106 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Yeah. Yeah, that's right. 107 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 And you don't think that's why she's dead? Any ideas at all? 108 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 I wouldn't want to say, Lockwood. Strange one. 109 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Gonna have to wait for the autopsy. 110 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 How about the wheelchair the woman came up in, Doc? Where is it now? 111 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Back here in the same room with the body. 112 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 I gave notice it wasn't to be touched. I knew you'd want to check. 113 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Oh, fine. In here. 114 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 All right. You smoke in here? Yeah. Sure. 115 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Fine. Want a cigarette? 116 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 No, thanks. Bill? No. 117 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Over here on the table. 118 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Nurse put the woman's clothing over there. Nightgown, slippers, bathroom. 119 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,000 I see. Seems to be a fairly young woman. 120 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,000 I'd say in her early 30s. Nice-looking girl. 121 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Well-groomed. Notice her hair and fingernails. Well-kept. 122 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,000 And the bruise there on her head. Took a pretty good blow to cause that, wouldn't you say? 123 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Yeah. Might even be worse than it looks. Hard to say right now. 124 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Other abrasions I was telling you about, right here along the clavicle, 125 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 seem to be fairly distinct. Three or four of them. 126 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 That's all of them, huh? That's it. 127 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Like I say, we'll know more after they post the body. 128 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Take a look at the clothing over here. 129 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Want to check over the bathrobe, Bill? Yeah. 130 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,000 No label here. Size marking, though. Size 34. 131 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Just an ordinary rayon nightgown. Seems to be fairly new. It's not damaged. 132 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Nothing on the bathrobe, Joe. Both pockets empty. No visible markings. 133 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Manufacturers' label here. Fairly common trade name. 134 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Laundry marks? No, none showing. We can have the crime lab check them over. 135 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 How about the slippers? No, it's the same. Nothing. 136 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 You fellas want me to notify the coroner? No, we'll get it, Doc. 137 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 We have to call in for the crime lab crew anyway. 138 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Looks like a rough one. We don't even know what we've got. 139 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 I can't figure it. If somebody murdered the woman, why'd they bring her here to die? 140 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Yeah. If she was sick or hurt and they were worried enough about it to bring her here, 141 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 why'd they want to get rid of her? Leave her alone in an elevator. 142 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Yeah. Doesn't make sense. Somebody's got something to hide. 143 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Sure could use a lead. Man puts her on the elevator and sends her up three floors. 144 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Don't know who she is, how she died. Don't even know where she came from. 145 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 There's no choice. We'll just start at the beginning. Yeah. Ground floor. 146 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 11.52 p.m. The receiving hospital attendant Ray Collins returned, 147 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 and we interviewed him in Dr. Terrell's office. 148 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 He told us substantially the same thing the doctor had told us. 149 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,000 At a few minutes past 11 o'clock that night, a man entered the lobby of the hospital 150 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 and asked for a wheelchair to move a patient up to the third floor. 151 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Collins stated he gave the man the wheelchair. 152 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,000 The man refused his offer of assistance, and Collins went on about his work. 153 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 He didn't see the patient, and he didn't see any car parked outside, 154 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 and he was able to give us only a partial description of the man himself, 155 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,000 a male Caucasian, about 35 years old, short, heavy-billed, dark hair. 156 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,000 The crew from the crime lab arrived and began their investigation. 157 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:32,000 The body was photographed and fingerprinted, and the wheelchair was also dusted for prints. 158 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 The clothing was packed up to be taken downtown for further examination. 159 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,000 After the men from the crime lab left, Bill Lockwood began a canvas 160 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 of the immediate neighborhood for possible witnesses. 161 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Meantime, I checked with the rest of the hospital personnel and the patients. 162 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:50,000 They could tell me nothing. 12.30 a.m. I met Bill back at Dr. Terrell's office. 163 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 How'd you do, Joe? Any luck? 164 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 I talked to the nurses and some of the other attendants. They couldn't help any. 165 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Checked with the dispatcher on incoming and outgoing ambulances. Nothing there. 166 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,000 What about you? 167 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,000 No good. Most of the business places around here are locked up. 168 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Talked to the newsboy down at the corner. 169 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 He was about the only one on the street. He didn't see anything. 170 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Sure going slow, isn't it? Might give Bergman a call, 171 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 see if he's got the woman's prints classified there. 172 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,000 How about the coroner? Show up yet? 173 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Yeah, I think he's in there now. 174 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Yes, ma'am. Give me station 2557. 175 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Yeah, that's right. Layton prints. 176 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Hi. Let me talk to Bergman, please. 177 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Right. 178 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Yeah, Dean, Joe Friday. 179 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,000 No, we're still over at the hospital. You do any good on those prints? 180 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Yeah, that's what we figured. How about her prints? 181 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Okay, Dean, thanks. Yeah, right. 182 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,000 We're still betting a thousand. 183 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,000 What'd he say? They make her prints? 184 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Nothing in record zone. Her dean's gonna send along a set to Washington, 185 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 see if they got anything. 186 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 How about the wheelchair? Any prints there? 187 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Well, the nurses and Dr. Terrell's, that's all. We figured on that, didn't we? 188 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,000 How's he luck? 189 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Sure is. I checked with missing persons while you were out. 190 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,000 There's nothing there either. 191 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Well, that about finishes up here, huh? 192 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Yeah, we better get back to the office. 193 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Joe? 194 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Yeah, Don? 195 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,000 I think I got something for you here. 196 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Yeah? 197 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Nurse at the switchboard got a call a minute ago. 198 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Man's voice wanted to know the condition of Carla Cheswick. 199 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Mm-hmm. 200 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Nurse checked the list of patients, didn't find anyone by that name. 201 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 The man insisted she's here. 202 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,000 The nurse asked him what time the woman was admitted to the hospital. 203 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 He told her 11 o'clock tonight. 204 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Yeah. 205 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 The man said, I know she's there. I brought her myself. 206 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Along with Dr. Terrell, Bill Lockwood and I went down the hall 207 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 and talked to the nurse who'd received the phone call. 208 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 She told us that she tried to question the caller 209 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,000 as to his name and his relationship to the alleged patient Carla Cheswick, 210 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 but the man refused and hung up. 211 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,000 We put in a call to R&I and asked him to run the name for us. 212 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 There was no one by that name in the files. 213 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,000 We went back to the doctor's office and started checking through the telephone directories. 214 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 In the northwestern section, we found a listing for a Mrs. Carla Cheswick. 215 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 We called the number, but there was no answer. 216 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Then we checked with the office, told them what we had, 217 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000 and that we were going to follow through on it. 218 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,000 1 18 a.m. It was only a possibility, but it had to be checked out. 219 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Bill Lockwood and I left Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, 220 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000 got in the car and drove out to the address on North Capitol Avenue. 221 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,000 It was a large apartment house, fairly new. 222 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,000 The name on the mailbox for apartment 18 was Mrs. Carla Cheswick. 223 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 We rang, but there was no answer. 224 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 We finally had to get the manager to call the number. 225 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,000 We identified ourselves and explained the reason for our visit. 226 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 She got a passkey, showed us upstairs to the second floor, and led us in apartment 18. 227 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 There was no one there, but there was evidence of a recent party within a matter of hours. 228 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Half-filled cocktail glasses, an empty whiskey bottle, 229 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,000 a glass bowl containing partially-melted ice cubes. 230 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,000 An end table in the corner had been overturned. 231 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,000 In the bedroom, women's clothing was scattered on the floor and on the dressing table. 232 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:39,000 On the mantel in the living room, there was a picture of a woman. 233 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Did you notice anything unusual about her at that time, Ms. Herbert? 234 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 I mean, anything out of the ordinary? 235 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 No, don't think so. She'd been drinking some. 236 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 I'm pretty sure of that, but that's not unusual for Mrs. Cheswick. 237 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 She drinks quite a bit, parties and things, runs around a lot. 238 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Yes, ma'am. You didn't notice anything about her face, no cuts, bruises, anything like that? 239 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 No, nothing like that. Why? 240 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 You told us she had quite a few men friends. 241 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Do you know any of their names, where they live? 242 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,000 No, can't say to do. She was just one of the tenants. 243 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,000 I didn't try to get acquainted, didn't have much in common with her. 244 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 The other tenants didn't either, matter of fact. 245 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 She kept pretty much to herself, her and her friends. 246 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Mm-hmm, I see. Now, about this party she had last night, Ms. Herbert, 247 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 you say you don't know who was there with her? 248 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 No, I'm afraid I don't. When I called her on the phone to ask her to quiet things down, 249 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 I heard that one man's voice talking. That's about all, though. 250 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,000 I couldn't tell you who was there. 251 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Well, is there anyone at all that you know that was close to her? 252 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 I mean, someone we could talk to about her? 253 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Well, her husband, I suppose. He's the only one close to her I know. 254 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,000 He comes around every month and takes care of the rent. 255 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Kind of a peculiar thing, but I never questioned it. 256 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 I figured it's their business, live and let live. 257 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Do you have any idea where we can find the husband, ma'am? 258 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,000 No, I'm not sure. He works at a machine shop out near Glendale. 259 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 I have his home address and my rent booked downstairs if you want it. 260 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Yes, ma'am, we'd like to have that if we could. 261 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Would you happen to know how Mrs. Cheswick and her husband got along? 262 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,000 I mean, the separation of theirs, was it friendly or did they still quarrel quite a bit? 263 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:03,000 No, as far as I know, they got along all right, as long as they didn't have to live together. 264 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Poor Mr. Cheswick, I feel sorry for him. He's going to take it hard. 265 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 His wife, I don't know whether to blame or pity her. 266 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 She was a terrible disappointment to him. 267 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000 That so? 268 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,000 I had a long talk with him once, seemed like such a nice man, hard worker. 269 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 And his wife, he was so disgusted. 270 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,000 I mean, drinking all the time, going out with different men. 271 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Bitter disappointment. He told me how he felt. 272 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Or did he seem violent on the subject? I mean, did he feel anger toward his wife? 273 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,000 No, just pity. He said he'd rather have her dead than go on the way she was. 274 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:39,000 We checked through the dead woman's apartment for names and addresses of some of her men friends, but we found nothing. 275 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,000 The crew from the crime lab went over the apartment thoroughly. 276 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 The only evidence found were fingerprints on some of the cocktail glasses. 277 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Along with the apartment manager, Mrs. Herbert, we went downstairs and she gave us Mr. Cheswick's home address and also his place of employment. 278 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:59,000 It was 2.30 a.m. We got to a phone and called Cheswick's home, but the people he was staying with told us that he wasn't there. 279 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,000 He was working the all-night shift at a farm implement factory on Glendale Boulevard. 280 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:09,000 3.05 a.m. Bill and I drove out to the factory and checked with the night personnel superintendent. 281 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,000 He directed us to the factory repair shop where Cheswick was employed as a welder. 282 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 The foreman at the repair shop pointed him out for us. 283 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Cheswick was working on the welding line, a tall, thin man, slight build. 284 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Bill Lockwood and I went back and introduced ourselves. 285 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Yes, sir, Ernie Cheswick. That's my name. What can I do for you? 286 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 I'd like to talk to you for a few minutes if we could. It's about your wife. 287 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Carla? What's the matter? Is she in trouble again? 288 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,000 It might be better if we could step outside and talk. It won't take very long. 289 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,000 All right, I got to finish up this little job here if you don't mind waiting. 290 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,000 A couple of pieces of tubing. It won't take a minute. 291 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Sure, you go right ahead. 292 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,000 You might stand back a couple of steps. This thing pops a little. 293 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Okay, thanks. 294 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Not too much oxygen. I have to light it again. 295 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Yeah, that does it. 296 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Don't look at the flames, Joe. They're bad for your eyes. 297 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Yeah, I know. 298 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000 They're sure on their money, don't they? 299 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Yeah, they seem to. A lot of work. 300 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Finish this thing in here. 301 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Okay, that's got it. Now, what's this about my wife, Sergeant? What's the matter? 302 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,000 We understand you're separated from her, Mr. Cheswick. 303 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Yeah, that's right. About a year ago now. 304 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 I finally gave it up as a bad job. It wasn't anything I could do for her. 305 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Nothing anybody could do for her. Hopeless. 306 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 Well, when's the last time you saw her? 307 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,000 First of the month. I went by to pay her rent. 308 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Dropped in to say hello, that's all. I stay away as much as I can. 309 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,000 No good bum. That's about all you can do. 310 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Seemed to admit I was even married to her. 311 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Why do you ask, anyway? 312 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Your wife's dead, Mr. Cheswick. 313 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Huh? 314 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Yes, sir. She died late last night. Found her at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. 315 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Oh. Guess I've been expecting something like that. 316 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,000 I can't feel sorry. Probably the best thing for her. 317 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,000 How did it happen? 318 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Well, we're not sure. I wonder if we could step outside. 319 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,000 It sure would be a lot easier to talk with her. 320 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Yeah, all right. 321 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Fine. 322 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Over here, we can dug out the back way. 323 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Okay. 324 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,000 You say they found her at Georgia Street, huh? 325 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 What was it? She in an accident? 326 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,000 It doesn't look like that. We're gonna have to wait for the coroner's report. 327 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 What time do you check in at night for work, Mr. Cheswick? 328 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 They're supposed to be on the job by 10 o'clock. 329 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 I punched in before that tonight. Why? 330 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Routine question. 331 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 I suppose the men around the plant will vouch for you. 332 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 You checked in at 10 and you've been here ever since? 333 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Yeah, that's right. You're right. 334 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 You can ask any of them. What's the pitch? 335 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 You think I had something to do with it? Carla getting killed? 336 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Well, we didn't say that, Cheswick. Your wife's dead. 337 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,000 We have to check on all the leads, all the possible suspects. 338 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Well, I don't know how it happened, but I didn't have anything to do with it. 339 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 She wasn't why I lived nine years with her. 340 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Lousiest nine years of my life. 341 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Boos, parties, going out all the time. 342 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 She wasn't a wife. She didn't know what the word meant. 343 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 I understand she'd been running around with different men lately. 344 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Do you happen to know any of them? 345 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,000 No, I don't know. I couldn't care less. 346 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Stupid dame, Sergeant. 347 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 That's the easiest way you can let her off. 348 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 I tried to make a go of it. 349 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 It wasn't any good. I worked for her, tried to give her everything she wanted. 350 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Didn't make any difference. Yeah. 351 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 She was a bum. Some of them must be born that way, a bum dame. 352 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,000 I could have killed her. I had reason enough to. 353 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,000 I didn't. 354 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 How about your wife's drinking habits? 355 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 She do most of it at home, or did she go out to bars? 356 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Always at the bar. Only one place she ever went to. 357 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Place on 8th and Rosewood, right on the corner. 358 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Went there all the time, six, seven nights a week. 359 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 She'd hang over the bar all night. 360 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 I'd like to put up with that for nine years. 361 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Drinking, going off somewhere on weekends. 362 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 How come it lasted that long, Cheswick? 363 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,000 I don't know. I guess I should have had my head examined. 364 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Just a bum. I figured I could change her. 365 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Kept trying. Never worked out. 366 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,000 After the drinking, she'd have these terrific headaches that'd make her sick. 367 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 I'd stay home from work and take care of her, 368 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 wait on her hand and foot. 369 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,000 She always made promises. Nothing but a liar. 370 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,000 As soon as she got well, she'd start it all over again. Same thing. 371 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Yeah. 372 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Just a bum, a tramp. 373 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000 No good at all. No good. 374 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 A tramp. No good tramp. 375 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Cheswick? Mr. Cheswick, is there anything we can do? 376 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Carla. She's dead. 377 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Carla. 378 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Carla. 379 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 When the dead woman's husband, Ernest Cheswick, recovered, 380 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,000 we continued questioning him, but we got nowhere. 381 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Before we left the plant, we checked his time card, 382 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,000 talked to the machine shop foreman and some of the men Cheswick worked with. 383 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 We got the same story all along the line. 384 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Cheswick had showed up for work at 9.46 p.m. the night before 385 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,000 and had not left the plant since that time. 386 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,000 4.35 a.m. Bill and I got in the car, drove back to the office 387 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,000 and typed up a 15.7 report for Captain Lorman. 388 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:52,000 8.30 a.m. Over in the county morgue, the body of Mrs. Cheswick was being posted. 389 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 A few minutes past 10 a.m., Bill Lockwood and I drove out to a bar 390 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 on the corner of 8th and Rosewood, 391 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,000 the same bar where Ernest Cheswick told us his wife did most of her drinking. 392 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,000 It was a typical neighborhood cocktail lounge in the early morning. 393 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Two customers sipping beer at the far end of the bar. 394 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,000 The manager busy washing glasses and bringing in supplies. 395 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,000 We called him over and identified ourselves. 396 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Popular girl, married old Ernie Cheswick. They're separated now. 397 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000 Yeah, would you know if she was in here last night? 398 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,000 That's right, she was. Hardly Mrs. Knight. Why? 399 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Would you happen to know about what time she left last night? 400 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 8, 8.30, about that. 401 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,000 You might ask that fellow there down there in the bar. He'd know better than me. 402 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Well, how's that? 403 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:40,000 He left with her. 404 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 You are listening to Dragnet, 405 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 authentic stories of your police force in action. 406 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,000 To show our confidence in Fatima, we make this money back guarantee. 407 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Buy a pack of Fatimas. 408 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Enjoy Fatima quality, extra mildness and superbly blended tobaccos. 409 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:01,000 If you're not convinced, Fatima is better than the king size cigarette you're now smoking. 410 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Just return the pack and the unsmoked Fatimas by August 1st, 1952, 411 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 for your money back plus postage. 412 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Fatima, box 37, New York 1. 413 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Prove Fatima quality yourself. 414 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Compare Fatima with any other king size cigarette. 415 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:21,000 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 416 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 417 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 418 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 21% longer than standard cigarette size. 419 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Fatima gives you more for your money. 420 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:39,000 And in Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, 421 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,000 plus the added protection of Fatima quality. 422 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Ask your dealer for Fatima in the bright sunny yellow pack. 423 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Best of all, king size cigarettes. 424 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:59,000 November 10th, Thursday, 1014 a.m. 425 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,000 The manager of the cocktail lounge pointed out the man at the end of the bar 426 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 who was supposed to have left the place shortly after 8 o'clock the night before 427 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 with the dead woman, Carla Cheswick. 428 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Bill Lockwood and I went up to the man, identified ourselves and questioned him briefly. 429 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 He appeared tense and highly nervous. 430 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:18,000 He told us his name was John Gabels, an assistant sales manager for a downtown jewelry concern. 431 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,000 He didn't deny that he was in the bar the night before, 432 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,000 but he refused to admit that he left with Mrs. Cheswick. 433 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 He insisted he didn't even know her. 434 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,000 We asked him to account for how he spent his time the night before, but he refused. 435 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000 We got in the car and drove downtown to the city hall. 436 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,000 While Bill took the suspect to the interrogation room, 437 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,000 I stopped by the R&I counter and had to make a run on Gabels. 438 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 He had no previous criminal record. 439 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,000 I called the morgue, but there was no report on the autopsy yet. 440 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,000 1052 a.m. I signed in at the office, briefed Captain Lorman on the developments, 441 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,000 and then I headed down the hall for the interrogation room. 442 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,000 We had a couple of drinks together, and that's all there was to it. 443 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 You can ask anybody who was there. She got up and left by herself. I didn't go with her. 444 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,000 And Joe? 445 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Yeah? 446 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Gabels here was just telling me he did see Mrs. Cheswick in the bar last night, 447 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,000 had a couple of drinks with her. 448 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Why'd you hold out, Gabels? Why couldn't you tell us that when we asked you? 449 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,000 I didn't remember then. You came up to me in the bar, started asking questions, I got all rattled. 450 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Mm-hmm. 451 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 It didn't make any difference, though. I didn't even know her name. 452 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Just had those couple of drinks with her, and then she got up and left. 453 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,000 That's all. I didn't go out with her. 454 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 The bartender says you did. He's sure of it. 455 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Says he can get half a dozen other people to back him up. 456 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 He's wrong. He's got to be. He's thinking of somebody else. 457 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Well, if you didn't leave the bar with Mrs. Cheswick, when did you leave? 458 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,000 I don't know. About five or ten minutes later, I guess. 459 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Where'd you go then? 460 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 I walked around a little bit, got a little fresh air. 461 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Mm-hmm. 462 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,000 And I went to a show. 463 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Which one? 464 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000 I don't remember the name of the place. It's in Rosewood, a couple of blocks down from the bar. 465 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,000 What picture did you see? 466 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000 I'm not sure. I had a couple of drinks. 467 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 You went to the movies. You don't even know what you saw. 468 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,000 I told you I had a couple of drinks. I'm feeling pretty good. I just don't remember that, so... 469 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Not much of an alibi, Gables. 470 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 What are you talking about? I don't need an alibi. 471 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 A woman's dead, mister. You were with her the last time she was seen alive. 472 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,000 I wasn't with her. I don't care what anybody tells you. I wasn't with her. 473 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,000 This movie you say you went to, what time did you get out? 474 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000 After midnight, I think. I don't remember. 475 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Where'd you go after that? 476 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Bar. Had a few more drinks. Then I went back to my hotel. 477 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Which bar was that? 478 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Place on West Seventh. I go there sometimes. I know the bartender. 479 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 What time did you leave there? 480 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Closing time. Two o'clock. And then I went back to my hotel. 481 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,000 You say you know the bartender there. I guess he'd be glad to vouch for you. 482 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 I mean, that you were there when you said you were. 483 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,000 I don't know. Maybe not. He was pretty busy last night. Maybe didn't notice me. 484 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,000 How about your hotel? Huh? 485 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000 The desk clerk. Somebody like that. 486 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 They should be able to tell what time you got in, don't you think? 487 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,000 They wouldn't know. I always carry my key with me. I go in the side door. 488 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 They wouldn't know what time I got in. 489 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 What are you trying to sell, mister? 490 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 What are you talking about? 491 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,000 You knocked around town from eight o'clock last night till past two o'clock this morning. 492 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,000 You can't think of anyone that could vouch for you, where you were, what time you got there, what time you left. 493 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 I can't think of anybody right now. 494 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,000 I don't take down names and addresses every time somebody looks at me. 495 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,000 What's the difference, anyway? I didn't have anything to do with a girl. 496 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,000 This difference, Gables. The attendant at the hospital, he got a good look at the man who came in and asked for that wheelchair. 497 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,000 He gave us a man's description. It fits you pretty close. 498 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,000 So what? It doesn't mean anything. He could make a mistake, too, just like that bartender. 499 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 They're all wrong but you. Is that what you're trying to say? 500 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Look, as far as I'm concerned, I only got one thing to say. 501 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 I had a couple of drinks with Carla last night, and that's all. 502 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000 She left by herself. I didn't even go near the apartment. 503 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000 How'd you know she had an apartment? 504 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Well, you told me. You said so. 505 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 No, we didn't say anything like that. 506 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Then I guess I heard it around the bar. Maybe she mentioned to me. 507 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Yeah, that's probably it. 508 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Why don't you come off it, Gables? 509 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Come off what? I don't even know what you're getting at. 510 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 We want a straight story, and we're not getting it. 511 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 You told us you didn't even know the Cheswick woman before last night. You didn't even know her name. 512 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 That's right. 513 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Then why'd you say Carla just a minute ago? You said I had a couple of drinks with Carla. 514 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,000 I say that? 515 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 That's what you're saying. 516 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Maybe I just haven't remembered. I was drinking quite a bit, talking to her. Maybe I just remembered it. 517 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Won't do, Gables. Story doesn't hold water. How about it? 518 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,000 I don't know. I was drinking quite a bit. A lot of things I don't remember. 519 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,000 How about giving it to us straight? What do you remember? 520 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,000 I thought about it. Thought about it all night. 521 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,000 The more I went over it, the worse it got. I just couldn't remember. 522 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 I knew what it would sound like in court. I couldn't tell it that way. 523 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,000 You couldn't tell what? 524 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000 I didn't kill her. I didn't even touch her. You gotta believe that. 525 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000 I left the bar with her about 8.15, 8.30. 526 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,000 She invited me up to her apartment. She was pretty well gone. Had quite a few drinks. 527 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:03,000 We got there, had some more to drink, and then Carla got up and started for the kitchen to get some more ice. 528 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,000 She tripped, I think, stumbled a little bit, and then she fell down. 529 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 I think that's the way it was. 530 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,000 All right, go on. 531 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 She tried to get up, and then she fell again. 532 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,000 Wasn't a bad fall, though. I figured she'd just passed out. 533 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Got some cold towels, ice, water. I tried to bring her around. It wasn't any good. 534 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,000 She was white as a sheet. I got scared. I didn't know what happened. 535 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000 What'd you do then? 536 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,000 I don't remember. I just kept trying to bring her around. 537 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 I don't remember any of it very well. I don't even know why she fell down. 538 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 You think you could have hit her, Gables? You think maybe that's why she fell down? 539 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,000 No. I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think I was mad at her for anything. 540 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,000 I think we were having a pretty good time. I just don't remember, that's all. 541 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,000 I'm not sure about any of it. Lousy booze, no good at all. 542 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Did you kill her, Gables? 543 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,000 No, Sergeant. I swear it. As far as I can remember, I didn't. 544 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,000 We were having a good time. That's all I know. I know I wasn't mad. 545 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,000 I'm not a nasty drunk, not as far as I can remember, anyway. 546 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 What'd you do when you couldn't revive Mrs. Cheswick? You brought her to the hospital? 547 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,000 Yeah, the shape I was in, I couldn't figure anything else to do. 548 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 I got her in the car, drove her down to Georgia Street, put her in the elevator, 549 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,000 pressed the button and sent her up. 550 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,000 I'm a married man, you know. I didn't want any scandal. I didn't want to get involved. 551 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000 You didn't kill her. Is that what you want us to believe? 552 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,000 I don't know what to tell you. I don't remember. 553 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,000 If I killed her, I think I'd know it. I'm sure I would. I just don't remember. 554 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000 I'll get it. 555 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Interrogation room, Friday talking. Yeah, Arthur. 556 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,000 That's so. Just a second. 557 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000 All right, I got a pencil now. Go ahead. 558 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,000 Are you sure? How was that? 559 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,000 I see. No possibility, huh? 560 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Yeah, I see. OK, Arthur, thanks a lot. 561 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Yeah, sure, we'll pick it up later. Bye. 562 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Yeah, Jim? 563 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,000 Coroner's report just finished the autopsy. It's all right, Gables. 564 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,000 It's all right. It's all cleared up. 565 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,000 What do you mean? Well, you're free to go if you like. We're not going to hold you. 566 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 What's the pitch, Joe? Coroner's report. 567 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Primary cause of death was a massive cerebral hemorrhage, hemorrhage into the ventricle. 568 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Could have been a blow on the head, couldn't it? You figure that could have done it? 569 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,000 No. Secondary cause was a brain tumor, a big one. 570 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Coroner says she's had it for years. It must have caused her a lot of pain. 571 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 Probably would have counted for the drinking. 572 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,000 And the tumor wrote on the hemorrhage. That's what's killed her. 573 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:21,000 What's in? Coroner says erosion of the blood vessel by brain tumor 574 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,000 probably grew, caused pressure on the blood vessel, finally gave way, caused a hemorrhage, and that killed her. 575 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:31,000 And she just died. I didn't have anything to do with it. She died and I didn't kill her. 576 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,000 Yes, sir, that's right. You're free to go if you want. 577 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Thank God. You know, officers, I'll tell you the truth. 578 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,000 I didn't know the answer. I didn't know if I killed her or not. I really didn't. 579 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Drinking so much, I came to, and there she was dead. I didn't know what happened. I really didn't. 580 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,000 I didn't know the answer. 581 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,000 Well, you went up on us, Gables. We thought we did. 582 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:03,000 The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 583 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,000 On Thursday, November 10th, the meeting was held in the office of Captain of Homicide. 584 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000 In a moment, the results of that meeting. 585 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 586 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Thank you. Friends, there's not much I can add to what George Fenneman and Hal Gibney have already told you about Fatimus. 587 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:21,000 If you smoke them, I know you'll agree with me that Fatima is the best of all king-sized cigarettes. 588 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,000 If you haven't tried them yet, well, there's only one way to prove it to yourself, and that's to buy a pack and give them a try. 589 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,000 I wish you would kind of check up on what we've been telling you. 590 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,000 Compare Fatima's with any other king-sized cigarette. 591 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,000 You'll like Fatima's better flavor and aroma. It's extra mild and soothing smoke. 592 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:46,000 In Fatima, the difference is quality. Buy a pack tomorrow. Fatima. 593 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:54,000 With the filing of the official autopsy report by the county coroner, John Gabels was cleared of all charges. 594 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,000 He was released from custody immediately. 595 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:02,000 The death of Mrs. Carla Cheswick was listed as due to natural causes by the coroner's jury. 596 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:11,000 Ladies and gentlemen, last year's traffic death toll was 37,500, a 7% increase over 1950. 597 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:22,000 The National Safety Council believes that the best way to promote safety on the road is for each of us to know and obey traffic laws, to read and heed traffic signs. 598 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:32,000 So be careful. The life you save may be your own. 599 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,000 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 600 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 601 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher, 602 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,000 heard tonight were Martin Milner, Big Perrin and Gwen Delano. 603 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,000 Script by Jim Moser. Music by Walter Schuman, Hal Gibney speaking. 604 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Fatima cigarettes, best of all, king-size cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 605 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:17,000 Now it's Counterspy on NBC.