WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.560 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.560 --> 00:14.040 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:14.040 --> 00:29.600 Fatima cigarettes, best of all king size cigarettes, brings you drag net on both radio and television. 00:29.600 --> 00:30.600 You're a detective sergeant. 00:30.600 --> 00:32.720 You're assigned to burglary detail. 00:32.720 --> 00:37.680 For more than two months, a wave of safe burglaries has been sweeping your city. 00:37.680 --> 00:40.120 Apparently it's the work of professionals. 00:40.120 --> 00:42.960 The jobs are well planned, well executed. 00:42.960 --> 00:45.600 There's no lead to the whereabouts of the suspects. 00:45.600 --> 00:51.160 Your job, get them. 00:51.160 --> 00:54.200 Compare Fatima with any other king size cigarette. 00:54.200 --> 00:58.200 Yes, compare Fatima with any other king size cigarette. 00:58.200 --> 01:02.960 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 01:02.960 --> 01:06.640 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 01:06.640 --> 01:12.560 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21 percent longer than standard cigarette 01:12.560 --> 01:13.560 size. 01:13.560 --> 01:16.360 Fatima gives you more for your money. 01:16.360 --> 01:22.640 And in king size Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, plus the added protection 01:22.640 --> 01:24.960 of Fatima quality. 01:24.960 --> 01:28.320 Try Fatima in the bright sunny yellow pack. 01:28.320 --> 01:32.360 Best of all, king size cigarettes. 01:32.360 --> 01:40.160 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:40.160 --> 01:45.040 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:45.040 --> 01:49.640 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:49.640 --> 01:51.320 police files. 01:51.320 --> 01:56.520 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:56.520 --> 01:57.520 in action. 01:57.520 --> 02:02.960 It was Sunday, June 8th. 02:02.960 --> 02:03.960 It was warm in Los Angeles. 02:03.960 --> 02:07.240 We were working the day watch out of burglary division, safe detail. 02:07.240 --> 02:09.640 My partner's Bill Lockwood, the boss's captain wisdom. 02:09.640 --> 02:10.640 My name's Friday. 02:10.640 --> 02:15.600 I was on the way back to the office and it was 8.36 a.m. when I got to room 45, burglary 02:15.600 --> 02:16.600 division. 02:16.600 --> 02:17.600 Joe. 02:17.600 --> 02:18.600 Oh, hi, Smith. 02:18.600 --> 02:21.440 There's a note in the book for us from the captain about your partner Lockwood. 02:21.440 --> 02:22.440 Yeah, what's that? 02:22.440 --> 02:24.040 I got to make that sick report on him yesterday. 02:24.040 --> 02:25.040 Did you call him? 02:25.040 --> 02:26.040 How's his leg? 02:26.040 --> 02:27.040 Well, I talked to him on the phone last night. 02:27.040 --> 02:28.040 Pretty bad ankle sprain. 02:28.040 --> 02:30.720 The doctor figures he'll be out for a couple of weeks anyway. 02:30.720 --> 02:32.440 Who's the fellow you got there? 02:32.440 --> 02:35.200 Suspect Jones and McCready picked up on Stakehouse drugstore, third inventory. 02:35.200 --> 02:36.760 What do you got on him? 02:36.760 --> 02:38.960 McCready says they picked him up about quarter to five this morning. 02:38.960 --> 02:41.120 Jones was staked out inside the drugstore. 02:41.120 --> 02:44.920 Saw this fellow drive up in the car, get out and try the front door of the place. 02:44.920 --> 02:48.320 And he went around and backed the place, tried the back door, then he came around the front 02:48.320 --> 02:50.320 again, tried to jimmy the door. 02:50.320 --> 02:52.440 Finally gave up, got in his car and started to drive off. 02:52.440 --> 02:54.800 Jones and McCready followed him, picked him up and brought him in. 02:54.800 --> 02:55.800 Where's Jones and McCready now? 02:55.800 --> 02:58.360 I told him to go ahead home, no reason for him to hang around. 02:58.360 --> 02:59.360 We carried the thing from here. 02:59.360 --> 03:00.360 What have you done so far? 03:00.360 --> 03:01.360 Did you check him through R.N.I.A.? 03:01.360 --> 03:02.360 Called Frank Cunningham. 03:02.360 --> 03:03.360 He's doing it now. 03:03.360 --> 03:04.360 What's his name? 03:04.360 --> 03:09.200 According to his identification, it's Charles W. Boyd in the dress at 239 West 92nd Street. 03:09.200 --> 03:11.760 That's what he tells us anyway. 03:11.760 --> 03:12.760 Is that your name, fella? 03:12.760 --> 03:13.760 Yeah, that's my name. 03:13.760 --> 03:14.760 It's all my identification. 03:14.760 --> 03:15.760 No reason for me to lie. 03:15.760 --> 03:16.760 You can check me out. 03:16.760 --> 03:17.760 All right. 03:17.760 --> 03:18.760 Hold your hand up there. 03:18.760 --> 03:19.760 I'll get these cups off of you. 03:19.760 --> 03:20.760 Yeah, sure. 03:20.760 --> 03:21.760 All right, there you are. 03:21.760 --> 03:22.760 Thanks. 03:22.760 --> 03:23.760 You're tired sitting here, handcuffed, sitting in one place. 03:23.760 --> 03:24.760 Frank, you want to tell Gaffney we'll be down in the interrogation room when R.N.I. calls 03:24.760 --> 03:25.760 back, tell him to transfer it in there, would you? 03:25.760 --> 03:26.760 Yeah, okay, I'll meet you there. 03:26.760 --> 03:27.760 All right, thanks. 03:27.760 --> 03:28.760 All right, boy, let's go. 03:28.760 --> 03:29.760 I'd like to talk to you down the hall. 03:29.760 --> 03:30.760 Yeah, let's get this thing over with. 03:30.760 --> 03:31.760 I don't feel good. 03:31.760 --> 03:32.760 I want to get out of here. 03:32.760 --> 03:33.760 What are you shaking for? 03:33.760 --> 03:34.760 There's nothing to get nervous about. 03:34.760 --> 03:35.760 He was sick. 03:35.760 --> 03:36.760 Yeah, I haven't been feeling good at all the last couple of days. 03:36.760 --> 03:37.760 Wouldn't you be? 03:37.760 --> 03:48.760 I was smoking. 03:48.760 --> 03:50.760 Hey, say, would you happen to have a cigarette, please? 03:50.760 --> 03:51.760 Yeah, here. 03:51.760 --> 03:52.760 Thanks. 03:52.760 --> 03:53.760 Here's a light for you. 03:53.760 --> 03:54.760 Yeah, thank God. 03:54.760 --> 03:55.760 Thanks. 03:55.760 --> 03:56.760 All right, turn around a minute, will you? 03:56.760 --> 03:57.760 Let me look at your eyes. 03:57.760 --> 03:58.760 Huh? 03:58.760 --> 03:59.760 Turn around. 03:59.760 --> 04:07.760 All right, let's go. 04:07.760 --> 04:12.760 It's okay, Joe. 04:12.760 --> 04:21.760 I told Gavin he'll put through the call tomorrow night. 04:21.760 --> 04:22.760 Oh, that's fine. 04:22.760 --> 04:23.760 I mean, sure, this won't take long. 04:23.760 --> 04:25.760 I'd like to get out of here and get home. 04:25.760 --> 04:26.760 I've been sick for a week. 04:26.760 --> 04:27.760 I ought to be in bed right now. 04:27.760 --> 04:32.760 I'm going to get as fast as we can right in here. 04:32.760 --> 04:33.760 Have a chair, Boyd. 04:33.760 --> 04:34.760 Yeah. 04:34.760 --> 04:38.760 All right, mister, you say you're not feeling well. 04:38.760 --> 04:39.760 You're tired. 04:39.760 --> 04:40.760 You want to go home. 04:40.760 --> 04:41.760 So are we. 04:41.760 --> 04:42.760 We've been working all night. 04:42.760 --> 04:43.760 Now, how about getting the bottom of this thing? 04:43.760 --> 04:44.760 I'm sure I'm all for it. 04:44.760 --> 04:46.760 I tried to explain to the guys who picked me up. 04:46.760 --> 04:47.760 I don't know what it's all about. 04:47.760 --> 04:48.760 Ask me anything you want. 04:48.760 --> 04:49.760 Now, let's start it here, Boyd. 04:49.760 --> 04:52.760 What were you doing out there hanging around that drug store at quarter to five this morning? 04:52.760 --> 04:54.760 It's the same thing I told the other officers. 04:54.760 --> 04:57.760 I was sick and wanted to get something for my nerve. 04:57.760 --> 04:58.760 Jumpy as a cat, couldn't sleep. 04:58.760 --> 04:59.760 Well, the drug store was closed. 04:59.760 --> 05:00.760 That was pretty obvious, wasn't it? 05:00.760 --> 05:01.760 Yeah, that's right. 05:01.760 --> 05:02.760 It was. 05:02.760 --> 05:05.760 I just drove up there, tried the door, and I saw the joint was closed, so I left. 05:05.760 --> 05:06.760 That's all there is to it. 05:06.760 --> 05:07.760 Just what I told the other officers. 05:07.760 --> 05:09.760 No, that's not true, Boyd, and you know it isn't. 05:09.760 --> 05:11.760 You hung around the store for more than 10 minutes. 05:11.760 --> 05:14.760 You tried the front door, then you waited a couple of minutes. 05:14.760 --> 05:15.760 You went around to the back. 05:15.760 --> 05:16.760 You tried to get in back there. 05:16.760 --> 05:17.760 You couldn't make it, so you came around front again. 05:17.760 --> 05:19.760 You tried to jimmy the front door, didn't you? 05:19.760 --> 05:20.760 No, no, that's not it. 05:20.760 --> 05:21.760 You got it all wrong. 05:21.760 --> 05:24.760 How about this, Boyd, this your crowbar? 05:24.760 --> 05:25.760 Yeah, what about it? 05:25.760 --> 05:26.760 Just a car tool. 05:26.760 --> 05:27.760 Used to fix flat tires. 05:27.760 --> 05:28.760 Carried around all the time in the car. 05:28.760 --> 05:29.760 Did they carry it on you? 05:29.760 --> 05:30.760 No, not all the time. 05:30.760 --> 05:31.760 I just happened to have it. 05:31.760 --> 05:32.760 That's all. 05:32.760 --> 05:33.760 Now look, Boyd, that's not going to get it. 05:33.760 --> 05:34.760 The officers have picked you up. 05:34.760 --> 05:36.760 Saw you using this bar on the door of that drug store. 05:36.760 --> 05:38.760 I thought you were willing to get on to facts. 05:38.760 --> 05:39.760 You were going to square with us. 05:39.760 --> 05:40.760 How about it? 05:40.760 --> 05:41.760 I'm sure, sure I'll square with you. 05:41.760 --> 05:43.760 I wanted to get over as much as you do. 05:43.760 --> 05:44.760 Just tell me what you want to know. 05:44.760 --> 05:46.760 All we want is the truth. 05:46.760 --> 05:48.760 It's addressed in your ID, the one you gave us. 05:48.760 --> 05:49.760 Is that your true address? 05:49.760 --> 05:51.760 You're living there now? 05:51.760 --> 05:52.760 Yeah, that's right. 05:52.760 --> 05:53.760 Check it out if you want. 05:53.760 --> 05:54.760 I'm not lying. 05:54.760 --> 05:55.760 No reason to lie. 05:55.760 --> 05:56.760 What do you think there is? 05:56.760 --> 05:58.760 This address of yours is just about 10 miles away from where you were picked up. 05:58.760 --> 06:02.760 Now you tell us how much sense it makes driving 10 miles to a drug store at 4.30 in the morning. 06:02.760 --> 06:03.760 Well, I had to. 06:03.760 --> 06:04.760 I was sick. 06:04.760 --> 06:05.760 It was the only place open. 06:05.760 --> 06:06.760 You're lying and you know it, mister. 06:06.760 --> 06:08.760 You had to pass at least two all-night drug stores on the way. 06:08.760 --> 06:09.760 Why couldn't you stop at one of those? 06:09.760 --> 06:10.760 I didn't see any stores open. 06:10.760 --> 06:11.760 I was sick. 06:11.760 --> 06:14.760 I just kept driving until I spotted a place I thought was open. 06:14.760 --> 06:15.760 Looked at me like it was open. 06:15.760 --> 06:17.760 A lot of lights in the window inside the store, too. 06:17.760 --> 06:19.760 I didn't know it was closed, so I tried the door. 06:19.760 --> 06:21.760 You usually try doors with a crowbar, boy? 06:21.760 --> 06:22.760 Look, what are you getting at? 06:22.760 --> 06:24.760 You think I was trying to break in that place? 06:24.760 --> 06:25.760 Yeah, that's what we think. 06:25.760 --> 06:26.760 Well, what for? 06:26.760 --> 06:27.760 What do I want to break in there? 06:27.760 --> 06:29.760 I wanted to get something for my nerves. 06:29.760 --> 06:30.760 That's all. 06:30.760 --> 06:31.760 I wanted to find a drug store. 06:31.760 --> 06:34.760 Why should I break or open a place and just get a bottle of medicine? 06:34.760 --> 06:36.760 We don't think you were looking for medicine, Boyd. 06:36.760 --> 06:37.760 Well, then what was it? 06:37.760 --> 06:38.760 What were you figuring? 06:38.760 --> 06:39.760 This is what we figured, mister. 06:39.760 --> 06:41.760 You're going in that store to burglarize the safe. 06:41.760 --> 06:42.760 The area is the same. 06:42.760 --> 06:43.760 The time element is right. 06:43.760 --> 06:44.760 So is the type of business. 06:44.760 --> 06:46.760 The M.O. matches right down the line. 06:46.760 --> 06:48.760 I don't know what you're talking about. 06:48.760 --> 06:49.760 Six safe jobs in the last two months. 06:49.760 --> 06:51.760 The same time element, the same general area. 06:51.760 --> 06:53.760 Drug stores, liquor stores, and markets. 06:53.760 --> 06:54.760 What about it? 06:54.760 --> 06:55.760 I don't know what you're talking about. 06:55.760 --> 06:56.760 It's the truth. 06:56.760 --> 06:57.760 I'm not a burglar. 06:57.760 --> 06:58.760 You got me wrong. 06:58.760 --> 06:59.760 I never touched a safe in my life. 06:59.760 --> 07:01.760 How many times have you been arrested, mister? 07:01.760 --> 07:02.760 How many times have you been arrested? 07:02.760 --> 07:03.760 Well, a couple of times. 07:03.760 --> 07:04.760 I've been picked up. 07:04.760 --> 07:05.760 Nothing serious. 07:05.760 --> 07:06.760 Those who helped me. 07:06.760 --> 07:07.760 It's the truth. 07:07.760 --> 07:08.760 I never touched a safe in my whole life. 07:08.760 --> 07:10.760 It's not going to do much good lying to us, Boyd. 07:10.760 --> 07:11.760 We'll get everything we need from records. 07:11.760 --> 07:12.760 I've got a record. 07:12.760 --> 07:13.760 I ain't denying that, but I'm no burglar. 07:13.760 --> 07:16.760 Then what were you doing at quarter to five this morning trying to get in that drug store 07:16.760 --> 07:17.760 if you're not a burglar? 07:17.760 --> 07:18.760 I tried to explain to you. 07:18.760 --> 07:19.760 I wasn't trying to break in. 07:19.760 --> 07:21.760 I needed some medicine, something for my nerves. 07:21.760 --> 07:22.760 I thought the place was open. 07:22.760 --> 07:23.760 I'm a sick man. 07:23.760 --> 07:24.760 I swear on a Bible, officer. 07:24.760 --> 07:25.760 That's just the way it was. 07:25.760 --> 07:26.760 I get it. 07:26.760 --> 07:27.760 Yeah, Friday, Tony. 07:27.760 --> 07:28.760 Oh, yeah, come on. 07:28.760 --> 07:29.760 Charles Boyd. 07:29.760 --> 07:30.760 Yeah, that's right. 07:30.760 --> 07:31.760 Mm-hmm. 07:31.760 --> 07:32.760 That's him. 07:32.760 --> 07:33.760 What do you got? 07:33.760 --> 07:34.760 Uh-huh. 07:34.760 --> 07:35.760 All the same, I think. 07:35.760 --> 07:36.760 Give me the last two. 07:36.760 --> 07:37.760 No, the last two. 07:37.760 --> 07:38.760 I'm not a burglar. 07:38.760 --> 07:39.760 I'm a drug dealer. 07:39.760 --> 07:40.760 I'm a drug dealer. 07:40.760 --> 07:41.760 I'm a drug dealer. 07:41.760 --> 07:43.760 Give me the last two arrests. 07:43.760 --> 07:44.760 No, the last two arrests again. 07:44.760 --> 07:45.760 Yeah. 07:45.760 --> 07:46.760 May 9th, May 22nd. 07:46.760 --> 07:47.760 All right, Tony. 07:47.760 --> 07:48.760 Yeah, thanks very much. 07:48.760 --> 07:51.760 Frank, you got that folder there, those crime reports? 07:51.760 --> 07:53.760 Yeah, I hear you. 07:53.760 --> 07:55.760 What'd he have to say? 07:55.760 --> 07:57.760 Boyd was in custody May 9th, May 22nd. 07:57.760 --> 07:58.760 What was he in on? 07:58.760 --> 07:59.760 Narcotics. 07:59.760 --> 08:00.760 He's a user. 08:00.760 --> 08:01.760 Long record. 08:01.760 --> 08:02.760 It's all the same, though. 08:02.760 --> 08:03.760 Never been picked up for anything but narcotics. 08:03.760 --> 08:04.760 That's about rose him out, huh? 08:04.760 --> 08:05.760 Night in the 22nd. 08:05.760 --> 08:06.760 If he was in jail, he couldn't have had anything to do with those last two judgements. 08:06.760 --> 08:07.760 Yeah, it's about the size of it. 08:07.760 --> 08:08.760 You got to be kidding me. 08:08.760 --> 08:11.760 I told you, you thought I was lying, didn't you? 08:11.760 --> 08:12.760 I'm no burglar. 08:12.760 --> 08:13.760 You know what my record is. 08:13.760 --> 08:14.760 I never touched a safe in my life. 08:14.760 --> 08:15.760 Just checking it out, Boyd. 08:15.760 --> 08:16.760 Sometimes it happens this way. 08:16.760 --> 08:17.760 Sure. 08:17.760 --> 08:18.760 No hard feelings. 08:18.760 --> 08:19.760 I take off now and go home. 08:19.760 --> 08:20.760 I'm not feeling well at all. 08:20.760 --> 08:21.760 I guess it's okay if you don't... 08:21.760 --> 08:22.760 No, you just sit still, Boyd. 08:22.760 --> 08:23.760 You're not going in. 08:23.760 --> 08:24.760 What do you mean? 08:24.760 --> 08:25.760 Red tab on your card down at the record bureau. 08:25.760 --> 08:26.760 Your last arrest, May 22nd violation, state narcotics act. 08:26.760 --> 08:27.760 You went out on a $1,500 bail. 08:27.760 --> 08:28.760 Yeah, that's right. 08:28.760 --> 08:29.760 It was all legal. 08:29.760 --> 08:30.760 I paid for it. 08:30.760 --> 08:31.760 I paid for it. 08:31.760 --> 08:32.760 I paid for it. 08:32.760 --> 08:33.760 I paid for it. 08:33.760 --> 08:38.760 Why didn't you show up for your preliminary hearing? 08:38.760 --> 08:39.760 We got a bench warrant for your arrest. 08:39.760 --> 08:40.760 Oh, no, they wouldn't do that to me, would they? 08:40.760 --> 08:41.760 I was sick in bed. 08:41.760 --> 08:42.760 I couldn't make it to court. 08:42.760 --> 08:43.760 Would you just look at me? 08:43.760 --> 08:44.760 You can tell, can't you? 08:44.760 --> 08:45.760 I ought to be in bed. 08:45.760 --> 08:46.760 Yeah, you don't look good at all. 08:46.760 --> 08:47.760 Of course I don't. 08:47.760 --> 08:48.760 I'm a sick man, really sick. 08:48.760 --> 08:49.760 I'll be in a hospital. 08:49.760 --> 08:50.760 Well, maybe that's where they'll send you. 08:50.760 --> 08:51.760 We continued questioning the suspect, Charles Boyd, who finally admitted that he'd gone 08:51.760 --> 08:52.760 to the drug store early that night. 08:52.760 --> 08:53.760 He was in the hospital. 08:53.760 --> 08:54.760 He was in the hospital. 08:54.760 --> 08:55.760 He was in the hospital. 08:55.760 --> 08:56.760 He was in the hospital. 08:56.760 --> 08:57.760 He was in the hospital. 08:57.760 --> 08:58.760 He was in the hospital. 08:58.760 --> 09:03.760 We continued questioning the suspect, Charles Boyd, who finally admitted that he'd gone 09:03.760 --> 09:06.760 to the drug store early that morning for the purpose of burglarizing a place to obtain 09:06.760 --> 09:07.760 narcotics. 09:07.760 --> 09:11.760 He told us it was his first attempt at burglary, and further interrogation proved beyond a 09:11.760 --> 09:14.760 doubt he had nothing to do with the current wave of safe burglaries. 09:14.760 --> 09:19.760 He was booked on the bench warrant, and narcotics detail was notified of his arrest. 09:19.760 --> 09:23.760 For all practical purposes, we were right back where we'd started from two months before, 09:23.760 --> 09:26.760 when the campaign of safe jobs first started. 09:26.760 --> 09:31.760 Boyd was just another in a long line of possible suspects who had to be tracked down and checked 09:31.760 --> 09:32.760 out. 09:32.760 --> 09:35.760 In the final analysis, they meant nothing to the case, but tracking them down and checking 09:35.760 --> 09:41.760 them out meant long hours of legwork, days, even weeks, and then more hours spent interrogating 09:41.760 --> 09:42.760 them. 09:42.760 --> 09:44.760 Boyd typified the possible suspect. 09:44.760 --> 09:46.760 He added nothing, but he couldn't be ignored. 09:46.760 --> 09:51.760 In the weeks that followed, stakeouts continued in the general area where the safe burglaries 09:51.760 --> 09:52.760 had been operating. 09:52.760 --> 09:53.760 No further leads. 09:53.760 --> 09:56.760 The investigation went on. 09:56.760 --> 09:59.760 On June 17, Frank Smith and I drove out to the San Fernando Valley to check a lead on 09:59.760 --> 10:02.760 a possible suspect we'd gotten from one of our informants. 10:02.760 --> 10:07.760 His information was that the possible suspect, an ex-convict by the name of Mark Chandler, 10:07.760 --> 10:11.760 who'd served time for burglary, had apparently come into some money recently. 10:11.760 --> 10:16.760 Through the parole office, we located Chandler on a chicken ranch just outside of Van Nuys. 10:16.760 --> 10:18.760 Yeah, I've been out here almost three months now. 10:18.760 --> 10:19.760 Nice life. 10:19.760 --> 10:20.760 Pretty hard work, though. 10:20.760 --> 10:24.760 Got a few routine questions for you, Mark, like we talked about the burglary detail. 10:24.760 --> 10:25.760 I guess you know why we're out here. 10:25.760 --> 10:27.760 Yeah, I think I get the idea. 10:27.760 --> 10:31.760 I admit there was a time when you wouldn't be very welcome, but right now it's different. 10:31.760 --> 10:33.760 Anything I can do to help, it's all right, folks. 10:33.760 --> 10:35.760 We're gonna lay it right on the table for you, Mark. 10:35.760 --> 10:36.760 You own this place, do you? 10:36.760 --> 10:37.760 Yeah, that's right. 10:37.760 --> 10:38.760 Me and my brother. 10:38.760 --> 10:39.760 Where'd the money come from? 10:39.760 --> 10:40.760 My brother. 10:40.760 --> 10:41.760 He set the whole thing up. 10:41.760 --> 10:42.760 You say you and your brother. 10:42.760 --> 10:43.760 Whose money bought the place, Mark? 10:43.760 --> 10:45.760 Well, my brother made the down payment. 10:45.760 --> 10:46.760 You can check on it. 10:46.760 --> 10:48.760 The whole deal went through ESCO right down here at the local bank. 10:48.760 --> 10:50.760 What's the deal anyway? 10:50.760 --> 10:51.760 Didn't you check with my parole officer? 10:51.760 --> 10:53.760 Yeah, we checked with Galloway. 10:53.760 --> 10:54.760 He told us you were still on active parole. 10:54.760 --> 10:56.760 You were running a chicken ranch. 10:56.760 --> 10:57.760 Didn't say it was for your brother, though. 10:57.760 --> 10:59.760 Well, I thought I filled him in on it. 10:59.760 --> 11:00.760 I didn't have enough cash to swing the deal. 11:00.760 --> 11:01.760 My brother put up most of the dough. 11:01.760 --> 11:03.760 I only had 800 bucks. 11:03.760 --> 11:05.760 That's your car back there in the driveway, Mark? 11:05.760 --> 11:07.760 No, that's my brother's. 11:07.760 --> 11:08.760 Nice one, huh? 11:08.760 --> 11:09.760 Yeah. 11:09.760 --> 11:11.760 I got permission from the parole officer to drive. 11:11.760 --> 11:13.760 Say, would you mind walking back with me to the Brutus shack? 11:13.760 --> 11:15.760 I got a new batch of Rhode Islanders in this morning. 11:15.760 --> 11:16.760 Day old chicks. 11:16.760 --> 11:17.760 Got to be sure the heat's right. 11:17.760 --> 11:19.760 Yeah, all right. 11:19.760 --> 11:21.760 There's a lot of work around a place like this. 11:21.760 --> 11:23.760 I just built those pens there. 11:23.760 --> 11:25.760 Uh-huh, they're nice. 11:25.760 --> 11:27.760 Good-looking flock of chicks there, wouldn't you say? 11:27.760 --> 11:28.760 Four weeks old. 11:28.760 --> 11:29.760 Those are bar drops. 11:29.760 --> 11:32.760 Notice how they're starting to feather out already, getting nice and heavy? 11:32.760 --> 11:33.760 Make wonderful fryers, you know. 11:33.760 --> 11:34.760 Oh, that's all? 11:34.760 --> 11:35.760 Oh, yeah. 11:35.760 --> 11:39.760 Just a minute. 11:39.760 --> 11:41.760 Hey, will you look at that mash rack? 11:41.760 --> 11:43.760 They like fiends. 11:43.760 --> 11:44.760 I just spilled that thing an hour ago. 11:44.760 --> 11:45.760 That's where the money goes. 11:45.760 --> 11:47.760 You know, that mash goes for better than five bucks a sack. 11:47.760 --> 11:49.760 Look, we don't want to take too much of your time, Chandler. 11:49.760 --> 11:50.760 We can see you're busy. 11:50.760 --> 11:52.760 We've got a couple of dates we'd like to check with you, 11:52.760 --> 11:53.760 where you were, what you did. 11:53.760 --> 11:54.760 Oh, sure, fellas. 11:54.760 --> 11:56.760 Just let me check the temperature in the Bruder house here. 11:56.760 --> 11:57.760 It won't take a minute. 11:57.760 --> 11:58.760 Hey, come on in. 11:58.760 --> 12:03.760 All right. 12:03.760 --> 12:05.760 They're pretty cute when they're small, huh? 12:05.760 --> 12:09.760 Let me see here. 12:09.760 --> 12:10.760 Just look at that, huh, Joe? 12:10.760 --> 12:11.760 Piled all over each other. 12:11.760 --> 12:15.760 There must be more than a thousand of them, at least. 12:15.760 --> 12:19.760 Yeah, just right, 89. 12:19.760 --> 12:21.760 Got to watch them pretty close the first week. 12:21.760 --> 12:23.760 Fell off the road, lost a big back last week. 12:23.760 --> 12:25.760 Heating element in the Bruder went out overnight. 12:25.760 --> 12:28.760 Oh, you've got to shove that door hard, fix a little. 12:28.760 --> 12:32.760 Yeah, I'll get it. 12:32.760 --> 12:34.760 Okay, what else was it, officers? 12:34.760 --> 12:35.760 Glad to help you any way I can. 12:35.760 --> 12:37.760 Well, there's dates we want to check, Mark. 12:37.760 --> 12:39.760 It was almost a month ago, the week ending May 7th. 12:39.760 --> 12:42.760 Can you confirm your time on that weekend, where you were, what you did? 12:42.760 --> 12:43.760 On the 7th? 12:43.760 --> 12:45.760 Yeah, let's see. 12:45.760 --> 12:46.760 Yeah, I was here. 12:46.760 --> 12:47.760 Any way of proving that? 12:47.760 --> 12:48.760 Yeah, I think so. 12:48.760 --> 12:50.760 I started here the 23rd of April. 12:50.760 --> 12:51.760 Been here every night since. 12:51.760 --> 12:53.760 Anyone we can check with on that? 12:53.760 --> 12:54.760 Well, my brother and his wife. 12:54.760 --> 12:56.760 They were here, they can tell you. 12:56.760 --> 12:57.760 Neighbors, too. 12:57.760 --> 12:59.760 They come over for cards on the weekends. 12:59.760 --> 13:03.760 Come to think of it, I remember my parole officer was out to see me one of those weekends. 13:03.760 --> 13:04.760 I'm pretty sure of it. 13:04.760 --> 13:05.760 You can check with him. 13:05.760 --> 13:06.760 All right, Mark, thanks. 13:06.760 --> 13:08.760 What's the pitch anyway, Sergeant? 13:08.760 --> 13:10.760 There are safe jobs around town, is that it? 13:10.760 --> 13:11.760 That's it. 13:11.760 --> 13:12.760 You heard anything, Mark? 13:12.760 --> 13:13.760 Any rumbles at all? 13:13.760 --> 13:14.760 No, sorry. 13:14.760 --> 13:15.760 This job keeps me pretty close to home. 13:15.760 --> 13:16.760 I don't get around at all. 13:16.760 --> 13:18.760 Maybe two, three nights a month. 13:18.760 --> 13:19.760 That's the only time I get out. 13:19.760 --> 13:21.760 That's all we're asking about. 13:24.760 --> 13:27.760 Before we left the suspect, Mark Chandler, we called his parole officer, 13:27.760 --> 13:31.760 and he substantiated the fact that he visited with Chandler on the night of May 7th, 13:31.760 --> 13:33.760 the date of one of the safe burglaries. 13:33.760 --> 13:36.760 We checked with his brother, his sister-in-law, and the neighbors, 13:36.760 --> 13:38.760 and all of them fully corroborated his story. 13:38.760 --> 13:42.760 Before we left, we were satisfied that Chandler had nothing to do with the safe burglaries. 13:42.760 --> 13:45.760 It was just another of the more than half a hundred possibles 13:45.760 --> 13:48.760 that we checked out in the course of the investigation. 13:48.760 --> 13:51.760 On June 22nd, we got a lead on still another one. 13:51.760 --> 13:55.760 It came from the proprietor of a fix-it shop on West Pico Boulevard near Normandy. 13:55.760 --> 13:57.760 We drove out to interview him. 13:57.760 --> 13:59.760 He gave his name as Harold Van Owen. 14:00.760 --> 14:01.760 Yeah, just a minute, officers. 14:01.760 --> 14:03.760 Be with me in a minute, all right? 14:03.760 --> 14:04.760 Yeah, okay. 14:04.760 --> 14:06.760 You have to get these keys made. 14:06.760 --> 14:08.760 The lady will be back soon, says she needs them. 14:09.760 --> 14:11.760 What time you got, Frank? 14:11.760 --> 14:12.760 Ten to twelve. 14:12.760 --> 14:13.760 You hungry? 14:13.760 --> 14:14.760 I didn't have much breakfast. 14:14.760 --> 14:16.760 How about dropping by Filippi's, all right? 14:16.760 --> 14:18.760 It's me. I could use a good French dip sandwich. 14:18.760 --> 14:20.760 Haven't been down there for a while. 14:22.760 --> 14:24.760 All right, officer, sorry to keep you waiting. 14:24.760 --> 14:26.760 I had to get the keys done. I promised the woman. 14:26.760 --> 14:27.760 That's all right, Mr. Van Owen. 14:27.760 --> 14:29.760 What was it you wanted to see us about? 14:29.760 --> 14:31.760 Well, I don't know to tell the truth. 14:31.760 --> 14:33.760 Maybe it's something, maybe it's nothing at all. 14:33.760 --> 14:34.760 I just don't know. 14:34.760 --> 14:36.760 I figured I ought to let somebody know about it, sir. 14:36.760 --> 14:37.760 Yes, sir? 14:37.760 --> 14:39.760 A young fellow was in here the day before yesterday. 14:39.760 --> 14:41.760 Said his name was Ralph McKinley. 14:41.760 --> 14:44.760 Told me he lived around the neighborhood, but I don't think I ever saw him before. 14:44.760 --> 14:45.760 He didn't act right to me. 14:45.760 --> 14:47.760 He said he's an inventor. 14:47.760 --> 14:49.760 I doubt it, though. He just didn't look the part to me. 14:49.760 --> 14:52.760 Young fellow, you know, dresses pretty flashy. 14:52.760 --> 14:54.760 Never met an inventor that looked like that before. 14:54.760 --> 14:56.760 Well, what did he want with you, sir? 14:56.760 --> 14:58.760 He wanted me to make up a piece of machinery for him. 14:58.760 --> 15:01.760 He said it was a special part of a new gadget he was working in. 15:01.760 --> 15:03.760 Brought in his own drawing of the thing. 15:03.760 --> 15:05.760 I got it down here someplace. 15:05.760 --> 15:07.760 What did the young fellow look like, would you remember that? 15:07.760 --> 15:09.760 Typical cool room cowboy, I guess. 15:09.760 --> 15:11.760 About 29, 30 years old. 15:11.760 --> 15:13.760 Thin side, tall. 15:13.760 --> 15:16.760 Got a lot of gray hair for a young fellow. 15:16.760 --> 15:18.760 Hair was almost gray. 15:20.760 --> 15:22.760 This is the drawing. 15:22.760 --> 15:24.760 This is what he wants me to make up for him. 15:26.760 --> 15:28.760 What do you think it's supposed to be? 15:28.760 --> 15:30.760 McKinley said it was part of a new hydraulic press he's working on. 15:30.760 --> 15:32.760 I got a few doubts about that. 15:32.760 --> 15:33.760 How do you mean? 15:33.760 --> 15:37.760 I've been tinkering around in this business long enough to know what goes into a hydraulic press. 15:37.760 --> 15:39.760 Can't see where this thing fits in at all. 15:39.760 --> 15:40.760 What's your idea on it? 15:40.760 --> 15:41.760 I think it's a pole. 15:41.760 --> 15:43.760 Only one job there any good for. 15:43.760 --> 15:45.760 Breaking into his safe. 15:49.760 --> 15:53.760 Before we left the fix-it shop, Van Owen gave us a complete description of Ralph McKinley, 15:53.760 --> 15:55.760 the man who'd ordered the gadget made for him. 15:55.760 --> 15:58.760 We showed him several mug shots of possible suspects, 15:58.760 --> 16:00.760 but he was unable to make any identification. 16:00.760 --> 16:05.760 Van Owen told us that McKinley said he'd call back in about three or four days to pick it up. 16:05.760 --> 16:08.760 Except for the man's chance remark that he lived in the neighborhood, 16:08.760 --> 16:11.760 Van Owen had no idea as to his whereabouts. 16:11.760 --> 16:12.760 12.10 p.m. 16:12.760 --> 16:16.760 We drove back to the office and made arrangements for an immediate stakeout at the fix-it shop. 16:16.760 --> 16:20.760 Then we checked the name and description of Ralph McKinley through R&I and through the staff's office. 16:20.760 --> 16:22.760 It got us nothing. 16:22.760 --> 16:25.760 As far as we could find out, he had no previous criminal record. 16:25.760 --> 16:27.760 The end of the week came and went. 16:27.760 --> 16:32.760 The man known as McKinley failed to show up at Van Owen's fix-it shop to pick up the article that he'd ordered. 16:32.760 --> 16:33.760 8.00 a.m. 16:33.760 --> 16:35.760 Monday morning, June 28th. 16:35.760 --> 16:37.760 We got the report and we checked in for work. 16:37.760 --> 16:40.760 Despite all precautions, another safe job had occurred over the weekend. 16:40.760 --> 16:43.760 This time at a liquor store on South Alvarado. 16:43.760 --> 16:46.760 The time, the area, and the MO were generally the same. 16:46.760 --> 16:48.760 Frank and I drove out to the location. 16:48.760 --> 16:52.760 The store was located in the middle of the block, directly beneath an apartment hotel. 16:52.760 --> 16:56.760 Two of the rooms on the second floor of the hotel were situated above the liquor store. 16:56.760 --> 16:59.760 In one of these rooms, a hole had been ripped in the floor. 16:59.760 --> 17:04.760 A hole large enough to allow a man to pass through it and gain access to the liquor store directly beneath. 17:04.760 --> 17:08.760 After we checked over the room, we put in a call for Ray Pinker and the crime lab crew. 17:08.760 --> 17:11.760 Then we went downstairs to interview the manager of the hotel, 17:11.760 --> 17:12.760 Aclide Winted. 17:12.760 --> 17:15.760 I rented that room prior to night. 17:15.760 --> 17:16.760 A couple of young fellows. 17:16.760 --> 17:18.760 We checked in a few minutes before 7. 17:18.760 --> 17:20.760 I figure I'm a pretty good judge of faces. 17:20.760 --> 17:22.760 It sure didn't look like fees to me. 17:22.760 --> 17:24.760 How'd they register me for this? 17:24.760 --> 17:26.760 One signed his name as Gordon. 17:26.760 --> 17:29.760 The other one was Richardson, I think. 17:29.760 --> 17:31.760 The register's right outside the desk. 17:31.760 --> 17:32.760 You can check it if you like. 17:32.760 --> 17:33.760 Yes, sir, we'd like to do that. 17:33.760 --> 17:37.760 When these two men, Gordon and Richardson, checked in here, did they have any baggage with them? 17:37.760 --> 17:38.760 Would you know that? 17:38.760 --> 17:39.760 Oh, yes. 17:39.760 --> 17:41.760 If they had baggage, they took most of it with them. 17:41.760 --> 17:43.760 They left a few old clothes behind. 17:43.760 --> 17:45.760 They must have left for the back way. 17:45.760 --> 17:49.760 Sometime late Sunday night, I figured, imagine tearing up the floor of that room. 17:49.760 --> 17:50.760 The lousy bums. 17:50.760 --> 17:52.760 I'd sure like to get my hands on them. 17:52.760 --> 17:54.760 Did they have a card, you know? 17:54.760 --> 17:56.760 They had a card. I got the license number, too. 17:56.760 --> 17:58.760 You think you'd recognize the two men if you saw them again? 17:58.760 --> 18:00.760 Take them in a minute. 18:00.760 --> 18:01.760 You sure of that, ain't you? 18:01.760 --> 18:04.760 Well, I'd know them in a minute, especially the young fellow Richardson. 18:04.760 --> 18:07.760 He could have been more than 27, 28 years old. 18:07.760 --> 18:10.760 That was great. 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Gordon on it, written in pencil. 20:06.760 --> 20:09.760 Along with the half a dozen pieces of clothing found in the hotel room, 20:09.760 --> 20:13.760 the items were taken back to the crime lab for further examination. 20:13.760 --> 20:14.760 Nine, ten a.m. 20:14.760 --> 20:17.760 After we finished interviewing the hotel manager, Clyde Winters, 20:17.760 --> 20:21.760 Frank Smith and I returned to the office with a license number and description of the suspect's car, 20:21.760 --> 20:26.760 as well as exemplars of their handwriting, which we'd obtained from the hotel register. 20:26.760 --> 20:31.760 We gave our DMV all the information on the car, and they began an immediate check. 20:31.760 --> 20:35.760 The vehicle was registered in the name of Ralph McKinley at a Bronson Avenue address. 20:35.760 --> 20:37.760 The legal owner was a local bank. 20:37.760 --> 20:43.760 We checked the Bronson Avenue place, but they told us there that the man known as McKinley had moved out seven months before. 20:43.760 --> 20:46.760 They had no information on his whereabouts. 20:46.760 --> 20:47.760 Ten, twenty a.m. 20:47.760 --> 20:50.760 We talked to the people at the bank, which held a pink slip on the car. 20:50.760 --> 20:55.760 They told us that the last two monthly payments on the car had been mailed in from a Clippard Street address. 20:55.760 --> 21:02.760 Frank and I drove out to the location, a one-story duplex apartment building near the intersection of Clippard and Beverly Boulevard. 21:04.760 --> 21:05.760 Nice unit, aren't they? 21:05.760 --> 21:07.760 They run up all over town. 21:07.760 --> 21:08.760 They seem to be, don't they? 21:08.760 --> 21:09.760 I'll get it. 21:13.760 --> 21:14.760 Yeah? 21:14.760 --> 21:15.760 Your name Ralph McKinley? 21:15.760 --> 21:16.760 Yeah, that's right, wouldn't you? 21:16.760 --> 21:19.760 Police officers, you want to get your coat and McKinley, like to talk to you downtown. 21:19.760 --> 21:20.760 What for? What's it all about? 21:20.760 --> 21:22.760 Anybody else living here with you? 21:22.760 --> 21:24.760 No, just myself. Look, you mind telling me what this is all about? 21:24.760 --> 21:26.760 Got a few questions we'd like to ask you. It won't take long. 21:26.760 --> 21:29.760 I can't go with you now. I got a business appointment, half an hour. 21:29.760 --> 21:32.760 I've been out of town the last couple of months. I'm due back on a job today. 21:32.760 --> 21:33.760 That's all? 21:33.760 --> 21:37.760 Yeah, I just can't spare the time. Appointments all day long. I got a whole flock of business I have to clear up. 21:37.760 --> 21:39.760 Well, that makes us even. Come on, let's go. 21:42.760 --> 21:47.760 Well, there wasn't much doubt about McKinley. He fitted the suspect's description almost perfectly. 21:47.760 --> 21:51.760 Tall, slight build, approximately 29 years of age, prematurely gray hair. 21:51.760 --> 21:54.760 We went over the apartment, but there was no sign of anyone else on the premises. 21:54.760 --> 21:57.760 No sign of any of the loot taken and the burglary. 21:57.760 --> 22:00.760 We checked the adjoining garage, but it was empty. 22:00.760 --> 22:03.760 The suspect refused to admit that he even owned a car. 22:03.760 --> 22:07.760 Frank got on the phone, called the office, and arranged for an immediate stakeout on the apartment. 22:07.760 --> 22:12.760 When the men arrived, we drove McKinley back to the city hall and took him to the interrogation room. 22:12.760 --> 22:16.760 He was arrogant and uncooperative. We talked to him for a full hour, but he'd admit nothing. 22:16.760 --> 22:20.760 Frank left and went down the street to the crime lab to check with Ray Pinker on his findings. 22:20.760 --> 22:22.760 I continued questioning McKinley. 22:22.760 --> 22:25.760 I don't care what the old man says. I don't know what you're talking about. 22:25.760 --> 22:28.760 He described you perfectly. He says you were in his fix-it shop a little over a week ago. 22:28.760 --> 22:31.760 You told him you were an inventor. You ordered this gadget from him. 22:31.760 --> 22:33.760 I don't get it. What's that supposed to prove? 22:33.760 --> 22:35.760 Well, you admit you went to the old man. You had him make this thing up for you, didn't you? 22:35.760 --> 22:37.760 I don't admit anything. Why should I? 22:37.760 --> 22:41.760 All we're looking for is a straight story. We're going to get it sooner or later, McKinley. Might as well be now. 22:41.760 --> 22:43.760 You're getting nothing from me. I don't have to tell you a thing. 22:43.760 --> 22:45.760 How about the hotel over on South Alvarado? You stayed there last weekend? 22:45.760 --> 22:48.760 No, of course not. Why should I go to a hotel? I stayed at my place. 22:48.760 --> 22:50.760 I thought you said you'd been away. You just got back in town. 22:50.760 --> 22:52.760 Sure, that's what I said. I just got back last week. 22:52.760 --> 22:54.760 Well, then you didn't stay at that hotel on South Alvarado. 22:54.760 --> 22:56.760 I told you I didn't. I don't even know the place. 22:56.760 --> 22:58.760 But you know Mr. Van Owen, the old fella at the fix-it shop. 22:58.760 --> 23:00.760 I don't know him either. I don't even go near that end of town. 23:00.760 --> 23:02.760 What end of town? 23:02.760 --> 23:04.760 What are you talking about? Where you said the shop is. 23:04.760 --> 23:09.760 I didn't mention where it was. I asked you if you knew of Mr. Van Owen, if you ever went to his fix-it shop to order anything. 23:09.760 --> 23:11.760 Look, what are you lying for? What's the angle? 23:11.760 --> 23:14.760 No angle, McKinley. I told you I'd like to have a straight story, that's all. 23:14.760 --> 23:19.760 Well, you've got it, mister. You heard everything I have to say. I don't know any old man. I don't know anything about that hotel. 23:22.760 --> 23:27.760 Why are you talking? Yeah, Don, how'd it go? Uh-huh. I see. 23:27.760 --> 23:31.760 Yeah, we'll pick it up. No, we'll pick it up, right. Thanks a lot. 23:33.760 --> 23:34.760 You're a library, good McKinley. 23:34.760 --> 23:35.760 Now what are you talking about? 23:35.760 --> 23:39.760 That was our handwriting, man. You've just been checking those exemplars of your handwriting we got from you. 23:39.760 --> 23:42.760 You compared them to a signature in the register at the hotel on South Alvarado. 23:42.760 --> 23:44.760 I already told you, I don't know the place. 23:44.760 --> 23:49.760 A young fellow by the name of Richardson checked in there Friday night about seven o'clock. He signed the register. The signature's in your handwriting, McKinley. 23:49.760 --> 23:50.760 Yeah, sure. That's right. 23:50.760 --> 23:52.760 I don't know the place. I've never been there. 23:52.760 --> 23:59.760 Now look, you're gonna have to do better than that, fella. The hotel manager's on his way down here now to identify you. So's Mr. Van Owen from that fix-it shop. Maybe you better pique together a new story, huh? 23:59.760 --> 24:02.760 You've got my story, cop. I was out of town. You can't pull where I was. 24:03.760 --> 24:05.760 All right, McKinley, any way you want it. 24:05.760 --> 24:06.760 Go? All right, how'd it go? 24:06.760 --> 24:10.760 Pretty good. Ray Pinker finished checking out the theft of crime lab. Here's the report on it. 24:10.760 --> 24:12.760 Thank you. 24:12.760 --> 24:14.760 It's about so's it up, no doubt about it. 24:14.760 --> 24:16.760 All right. 24:16.760 --> 24:19.760 All right, what is it this time? All your phony charges? I want out of here. 24:19.760 --> 24:23.760 Can't be done, McKinley. The report on the clothes found in that hotel room you were in. 24:23.760 --> 24:25.760 They're not my clothes. I wasn't even in the place. 24:25.760 --> 24:30.760 I'd say you were. Cleaning tags on a pair of trousers and one of the coats, traced them through the dry cleaners to you. 24:30.760 --> 24:32.760 You're a liar. I told you I wasn't in the place. 24:32.760 --> 24:41.760 There's something else here, fella. They ran tests on all the clothes they found in your room. They found particles of fire clay from the safe that you broke into down below in the liquor store, your coats, your trousers. They were covered with the stuff. 24:41.760 --> 24:42.760 Save your breath, will you? I'm not even... 24:42.760 --> 24:49.760 When you ripped up the floor of that hotel room, you picked up something else on the clothes, particles of floor varnish, small bits of wood they all tie in. 24:49.760 --> 24:50.760 You threw them? 24:50.760 --> 24:54.760 No, not quite. A piece of broken coat button we picked up a couple of feet from the safe. 24:54.760 --> 24:59.760 They matched it up with one of the buttons on your coat, a broken one. The pieces fit perfectly. 24:59.760 --> 25:03.760 McKinley, how about it? You've got my story. You know, you've got a lot to explain. I'll take my chances. 25:03.760 --> 25:06.760 What's the pitch, McKinley? You know you've got to come up with a story. It might as well be now. 25:06.760 --> 25:09.760 There's no story to it. I was out of town. I told you that. 25:09.760 --> 25:13.760 Why don't you get off it, mister? It's not going to take much to make a liar out of you. You know that, don't you? 25:13.760 --> 25:16.760 Why don't you get off my back, the two of you? I told you everything. I'm going to tell you. 25:16.760 --> 25:18.760 Sit down, McKinley. I'm getting out of here. 25:18.760 --> 25:19.760 Sit down. 25:20.760 --> 25:24.760 All right. Go ahead. I can wait it out as long as you can. 25:24.760 --> 25:25.760 I doubt that. 25:25.760 --> 25:26.760 I'm getting... 25:26.760 --> 25:27.760 All right. 25:27.760 --> 25:28.760 Smith speaking. 25:29.760 --> 25:30.760 How's it? 25:30.760 --> 25:31.760 Oh, yeah, Jim. What is it? 25:32.760 --> 25:33.760 Isn't it right? 25:33.760 --> 25:34.760 When? 25:35.760 --> 25:36.760 Mm-hmm. 25:36.760 --> 25:38.760 Fine. Yeah. Thanks. 25:39.760 --> 25:41.760 Here's the news for you, McKinley. 25:41.760 --> 25:42.760 Yeah? 25:42.760 --> 25:45.760 Your partner came back to your place a few minutes ago. Our men picked him up. They're bringing him in now. 25:45.760 --> 25:48.760 Yeah, there's news to me. I don't have any partner. I'm in business for myself. 25:48.760 --> 25:53.760 That's what your partner figures. Tell me he claims you got all the money. He thinks you were trying to run out on it. 25:53.760 --> 25:56.760 Oh, what money? Look, I showed you my wallet. You know how much I got. 25:56.760 --> 25:58.760 Well, we're gonna ask you just once more. 25:58.760 --> 26:00.760 You got it. There's nothing else to say. 26:00.760 --> 26:01.760 All right, Frank. 26:01.760 --> 26:05.760 Yeah, let's book him in. According to Rogers, his partner's willing to talk. I'll get the story from him. 26:05.760 --> 26:07.760 All right, McKinley. Let's go. 26:07.760 --> 26:08.760 What do you mean, go where? 26:08.760 --> 26:10.760 Main jail. We're booking you in. 26:10.760 --> 26:11.760 Come on. Let's go. 26:13.760 --> 26:15.760 Go ahead, Frank. Yeah. Come on. 26:20.760 --> 26:23.760 What did he say anyway? This guy you say they picked up? 26:23.760 --> 26:26.760 Oh, your partner? We told you what he said. Why? What's the matter? 26:26.760 --> 26:28.760 Nothing. I'm just there. 26:28.760 --> 26:32.760 Better order up a stenographer, huh, Joe? Have her ready to take the statement when they bring the guy in. 26:32.760 --> 26:33.760 Yeah, it's a good idea. 26:38.760 --> 26:39.760 Sergeant? 26:39.760 --> 26:40.760 Yeah. 26:41.760 --> 26:42.760 Let's go back, I'll tell you. 26:42.760 --> 26:47.760 The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:47.760 --> 26:53.760 On September 19th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 91, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 26:53.760 --> 26:55.760 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:55.760 --> 26:57.760 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:57.760 --> 27:01.760 Thank you, George Fenomen. Friends, just a parting word about Fatima. 27:01.760 --> 27:04.760 I know a lot of you have promised yourself that you'd be here. 27:04.760 --> 27:05.760 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 27:05.760 --> 27:06.760 I'm sorry. 27:06.760 --> 27:07.760 I'm sorry. 27:07.760 --> 27:08.760 I'm sorry. 27:08.760 --> 27:15.760 Friends, just a parting word about Fatima. 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Best of all, king-size cigarette. 27:45.760 --> 27:51.760 Ralph Arthur McKinley and his accomplice, John Warren Hatfield, were tried and convicted on six counts of second-degree burglary. 27:51.760 --> 27:54.760 They received sentences as prescribed by law. 27:54.760 --> 27:59.760 Second-degree burglary is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year 27:59.760 --> 28:04.760 or by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than one nor more than 15 years. 28:04.760 --> 28:09.760 Ladies and gentlemen, to protect our nation and the free world against communist aggression, 28:09.760 --> 28:13.760 we must produce vast quantities of guns, planes, tanks, and explosives. 28:13.760 --> 28:22.760 Defense of our country against aggression abroad and inflation at home depends on our ability to fill both our military and civilian requirements. 28:22.760 --> 28:25.760 Remember, the better we produce, the stronger we grow. 28:25.760 --> 28:38.760 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:38.760 --> 28:43.760 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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