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It was foggy in Los Angeles. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 We were working the day watch out of Vice Detail. 02:06.000 --> 02:09.000 My partner's Bill Lockwood, the boss of Lieutenant Mingen's. My name's Friday. 02:09.000 --> 02:13.000 It was 4.20 p.m. when I got to the second floor of the old Central Jail building. 02:13.000 --> 02:15.000 Vice Detail. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 Hi, Bill. 02:16.000 --> 02:17.000 Hi, Bill. 02:17.000 --> 02:18.000 Did he show up yet? 02:18.000 --> 02:19.000 Yeah, waiting in the next room. 02:19.000 --> 02:20.000 You haven't talked to him yet? 02:20.000 --> 02:21.000 No, he just came in a couple of minutes ago. 02:21.000 --> 02:22.000 We figured our way for you. 02:22.000 --> 02:23.000 Well, how's he seem? Sober? 02:23.000 --> 02:24.000 He looks like he's off to lunch. 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 Yeah, he looks pretty good. Shave. Cleaned up a little. 02:26.000 --> 02:27.000 All right. 02:27.000 --> 02:28.000 Dave, how are you? 02:28.000 --> 02:29.000 Oh, hiya, Friday. 02:29.000 --> 02:30.000 Thought I'd drop by and see you. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 Remember you were talking to me last week about that thing. 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 You hear anything, Dave? 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 Yeah, I think I might have something for you. 02:35.000 --> 02:36.000 I think it's what you're looking for. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 Tried to get you on the phone last night, you weren't it? 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 Well, you should have left a message. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 Oh, I didn't want to do that. You know how it is. 02:41.000 --> 02:43.000 Guess I shouldn't even be coming up here like this. 02:43.000 --> 02:49.000 I'm just looking for some kind of a permanent address, Dave. Phone number. Some place we can contact you. 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 No, I'm still floating around a little. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 How about this thing we were talking about, would you hear? 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 I picked up a little chatter. I think it's what you want. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 Hey, you fellas had your coffee. I haven't had mine. What'd you say? 02:56.000 --> 02:58.000 Okay, how about the place down at the corner? 02:58.000 --> 02:59.000 Fine with me. 02:59.000 --> 03:01.000 All right, you want to check us out, Bill? Tell them we'll be back in about ten minutes. 03:01.000 --> 03:02.000 Yeah, fine. 03:02.000 --> 03:03.000 Thank you. 03:03.000 --> 03:05.000 All right, Dave, we'll go out this way. 03:05.000 --> 03:06.000 Okay. 03:06.000 --> 03:09.000 You're looking pretty good Friday. We'll treat you okay? 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 I can't complain, I guess. Go ahead. 03:11.000 --> 03:15.000 Guess we'd better wait for your partner. What's his name? 03:15.000 --> 03:16.000 Lachlan. 03:16.000 --> 03:17.000 Oh, yeah, sure. 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 Skipper's got something for us when we get back to him. 03:19.000 --> 03:20.000 All right. 03:20.000 --> 03:23.000 You're looking pretty good yourself, Lachlan. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 Yeah, real good. 03:24.000 --> 03:27.000 You seem to be in pretty fair shape. That carcass full of chains sounds healthy. 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 It's not too good. Still got a few diamonds to rattle. Hasn't been coming too fast lately. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 You still setting pence down there at that bowling alley? 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 Yeah. A lot of help hanging around, though. We really got to hustle for it. 03:38.000 --> 03:39.000 That's so. 03:39.000 --> 03:42.000 Oh, yeah. A lot of the alley's changing over to those automatic machines, you know? 03:42.000 --> 03:43.000 Mm-hmm. 03:43.000 --> 03:44.000 Quite a few guys out. 03:44.000 --> 03:47.000 A lot of the machines can set pence better than a man can. 03:47.000 --> 03:48.000 Hi, Matthew. How are you? 03:48.000 --> 03:49.000 All right, Joe. How'd it go? 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 What'd you say, Jack? 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 What? 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 Hey, who's that guy? 03:53.000 --> 03:55.000 Who works out of the office? Why? 03:55.000 --> 03:58.000 Nothing. I thought I'd seen him around. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 No, down this way, Dave. Just a couple of doors. 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 Oh. Oh, yeah. 04:01.000 --> 04:04.000 By the way, did you hear anything about Tony? You know, if he's in town? 04:04.000 --> 04:08.000 No, I've been working on it. It's dirty, Tony. He's not going to show. 04:08.000 --> 04:09.000 Go ahead, Dave. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 Yeah, thanks. 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 Why don't you two grab the back table? I'll order up. 04:13.000 --> 04:14.000 All right, fine. 04:14.000 --> 04:15.000 Black or sugar, huh? 04:15.000 --> 04:16.000 All right. Cream and sugar for you, Joe? 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 Yeah, all right. Fine. Bring a couple of those jelly donuts, will you? 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 Okay. 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 All right. 04:20.000 --> 04:23.000 What's the story, Dave? What did you hear? 04:23.000 --> 04:27.000 I heard about it last night right after I left the alley. You told me to keep my ears open, you know? 04:27.000 --> 04:28.000 Yeah. 04:28.000 --> 04:31.000 Said you figured there might be something on that new bunch hanging around the bar down from the alley. 04:31.000 --> 04:34.000 You figured they might tie in with a new bunch of high rollers in town. 04:34.000 --> 04:35.000 Yeah. What'd you pick up? 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 I think you picked it right from what I heard anyway. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 Here you go. Have I done it, Dave? 04:40.000 --> 04:43.000 Oh, yeah, thanks. You make a fine waiter, Lockwood. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 Thanks. We don't get a lead for you, so I may have to take it up. 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 Dave was just telling me he figured he might have something for us. 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 He picked it up at the spot down from the alleys last night. 04:50.000 --> 04:54.000 Well, like I said, after I was through at the alleys, I stopped by the place and had a couple of beers. 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 Can't afford anything else, but a few nickels they'd pay me. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 Lucky to get enough to eat the way things are going. 04:59.000 --> 05:02.000 Yeah, it's pretty rough, I know. Well, what's the pitch you got, Dave? 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 Well, I was sitting there having a beer and a couple of those new faces were sitting next to me. 05:05.000 --> 05:08.000 So I put my ear out, tried to pick up some of the talk. 05:08.000 --> 05:09.000 Yeah. 05:09.000 --> 05:12.000 I couldn't get all of it, but I did get enough to make out there was going to be a big game tonight. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 From what I could get, there was going to be a lot of scratch floating around. 05:15.000 --> 05:16.000 And you hear what it's going to be, Dave? 05:16.000 --> 05:19.000 I had to play it careful, you know. Couldn't be two noses. 05:19.000 --> 05:20.000 Yeah, sure. 05:20.000 --> 05:24.000 I sat and had another beer and one of those new monks heard the other guy calling Mike, I think. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 He asked the bartender for change to make a phone call. 05:26.000 --> 05:29.000 He got the change, went over the wall, thrown it. I got up and drifted over that way. 05:29.000 --> 05:33.000 Made out like I was watching the shuffleboard. I caught some of the talk. 05:33.000 --> 05:34.000 Yeah, what was that? 05:34.000 --> 05:37.000 Well, he was talking about some big game tonight. 05:37.000 --> 05:40.000 I heard him say to the guy in the other end not to show up before 11.30. 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 To get an address? 05:41.000 --> 05:42.000 Yeah. 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 Said he'd be back of an empty store building down on Gibbons Avenue. 05:45.000 --> 05:46.000 You get a number? 05:46.000 --> 05:47.000 Mm-hmm. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 9122. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 What was that again? 9122, right? 05:50.000 --> 05:51.000 Yeah. 05:51.000 --> 05:52.000 Gibbons, huh? 05:52.000 --> 05:56.000 Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Seems like it was a place I wrote it down. Wait a minute. I got to see. 05:56.000 --> 05:57.000 Let's see. 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 Yeah. 9122 Gibbons. 06:00.000 --> 06:04.000 Now, this fella that made the phone call, you say his name was Mike, is that right? 06:04.000 --> 06:10.000 Yeah, that's what I heard his partner call him. He's kind of a short guy, like 35, 36 on the fat side, black hair. 06:10.000 --> 06:11.000 Mike Filmer. 06:11.000 --> 06:12.000 You know him? 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 Yeah, we've had an eye on him. Thought he might figure in. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 Not about the size of it, Dave? That all you heard? 06:17.000 --> 06:18.000 Yeah, that's about it, Patty. 06:18.000 --> 06:22.000 As soon as he finished the phone call and his partner left, I finished my beer and left, too. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 I had to. Couldn't afford another one. 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 You were tough, he said. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 Yeah, well, thanks a lot, Dave. Really appreciate it. 06:27.000 --> 06:33.000 Well, don't mention it. You've always done all right by me. Donuts sure tasted great. Still hungry. 06:33.000 --> 06:36.000 The way I feel, I could take on a three-inch steak. 06:36.000 --> 06:41.000 I'm sorry things aren't better for you, Dave. How about a 10 spot? Will that help you in? 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 It sure will, Patty. Thanks a lot, huh? You really can use it. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Well, I'm glad to help you. You're always helping out. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 You sure make it nice. I mean, you make it nice and easy on a guy. 06:49.000 --> 06:50.000 How do you mean? 06:50.000 --> 06:54.000 Well, it's always there first. I never have to come right out and ask. 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 Good, though. You always get the pitch, don't you? 07:02.000 --> 07:06.000 Almost a month before, we had begun receiving complaints about a newly established gambling ring 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 which had set up operations in the city. 07:08.000 --> 07:12.000 After the first few complaints, we succeeded in identifying some of the men involved in the ring 07:12.000 --> 07:15.000 and also some of the places they frequented. 07:15.000 --> 07:20.000 The nature of most of the complaints against them was such that we knew we were dealing with a well-organized criminal element. 07:20.000 --> 07:26.000 Even if a player happened to win at one of the games, after he left the location he was beaten and robbed. 07:26.000 --> 07:29.000 Despite the fact that we had some of the suspects identified, 07:29.000 --> 07:33.000 we still lacked sufficient evidence to prosecute them successfully. 07:33.000 --> 07:37.000 The various victims either would not or could not identify the suspect. 07:37.000 --> 07:41.000 We knew the gang was running three or four games a week, each one of them at a different location, 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 each one of them at a different time. 07:43.000 --> 07:46.000 In the trade, that's known as a floating game. 07:46.000 --> 07:51.000 After we left our informant, Dave Carter, we headed back to the office and briefed Lieutenant Bingham. 07:51.000 --> 07:55.000 That afternoon, we checked the address on Gibbons Avenue and found it to be a vacant store building 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 with a for rent sign in the window. 07:57.000 --> 08:01.000 There was an entrance in front and one in the rear, windows along both sides of the building 08:01.000 --> 08:05.000 and a plasterboard partition dividing the inside of the store into two parts. 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 The place was deserted. 08:07.000 --> 08:11.000 At 10 o'clock that night, Bill Lockwood and I staked out in our car down the street from the store. 08:11.000 --> 08:16.000 Sergeant Fred Taylor and Jack Matthews were staked out in their car from another point of observation. 08:16.000 --> 08:19.000 We were in constant touch with each other by three-way radio. 08:19.000 --> 08:24.000 10.30. 11 p.m. 11.30. 08:25.000 --> 08:28.000 1K87 to 1K80, come in. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 1K80 to 1K87, go ahead. 08:30.000 --> 08:33.000 Joe, did you notice the lights come on in the back of the store a minute ago? 08:33.000 --> 08:37.000 Yeah, two men. They went in the back way, parked their car just down the street from us here. 08:37.000 --> 08:39.000 You see anything else? 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 The car just pulled up down the street from us. 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 Two men getting out, heading for the store. 08:43.000 --> 08:45.000 Joe, just a minute. 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 Yeah, they're going that way. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 They're going around the back, Joe. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 Uh-huh, looks like it's gonna pay off. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 Let's sit on it a while. 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 KMA 367. 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 We waited. 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 11.45. 08:59.000 --> 09:03.000 A blue pickup truck pulled up and stopped a short way from the front entrance to the store. 09:03.000 --> 09:07.000 We saw two men get out and go around to the back of the truck and unload half a dozen large boxes 09:07.000 --> 09:10.000 which they carried around to the rear entrance of the place. 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 One of the men came back, got in the cab of the truck and sat there. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 Midnight. 12.15 a.m. 09:16.000 --> 09:21.000 Over a period of half an hour, we watched 18 persons arrive from different directions and enter the store from the rear. 09:21.000 --> 09:24.000 12.30. 1 a.m. 09:24.000 --> 09:27.000 There were no new arrivals. We waited. 09:27.000 --> 09:29.000 1K87 to 1K80, come in. 09:29.000 --> 09:32.000 1K80 to 1K87, go ahead. 09:32.000 --> 09:36.000 Not much activity down here, Joe. Looks like it's pretty well set. What do you think? 09:36.000 --> 09:40.000 Yeah, I think we might as well hit it. Same way we laid it out, huh, Fred? 09:40.000 --> 09:44.000 We'll wait until Matthews picks up the lookouts, the man sitting in the truck. 09:44.000 --> 09:48.000 Right, Joe. Jack, you want to go ahead and grab him for a wait. 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 He's on his way, Joe. 09:52.000 --> 09:55.000 Okay, as soon as he picks him up, we meet in front of the place. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 Bill and I will take the front. You cover the back. You got that? 09:58.000 --> 10:01.000 Okay, Joe. Oh, hold on a minute, will you? 10:01.000 --> 10:04.000 Yeah, Jack got him. Bring him back to the car. 10:04.000 --> 10:07.000 Okay, let's go. KMA-367. 10:07.000 --> 10:10.000 You got the car key, Joe? Yeah, let's go. 10:14.000 --> 10:17.000 Did you figure that's the best way Joe True was going in the front? 10:17.000 --> 10:21.000 Well, it's probably where the rush is going to be. When Fred goes through the back, they're sure to start for the front. 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 Okay, Joe? Yeah. 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 And Jack's got the lookout in our car. He'll wait for us. 10:25.000 --> 10:28.000 Right. Now, what do you think about this, Fred? You go around and hit the back door. 10:28.000 --> 10:31.000 As soon as I hear you inside, they'll probably start for the front. We'll take care of them there. 10:31.000 --> 10:35.000 That's a good idea. Give me half a minute to get back there. Right, watch yourself. 10:35.000 --> 10:38.000 All right, Joe? Let's go. 10:43.000 --> 10:46.000 We're still going. We're not wise to it. Yeah, let's hold it right there. 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 Police officer, you're under arrest. I'll hold it right there. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 Come on, Bill, let's hit it. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 Jack's, Joe. Yeah, come on. 10:54.000 --> 10:57.000 All right, get back there, Walter. Get back. Police officer. 10:57.000 --> 11:00.000 Come on back. Get to the wall. Going out the window, Joe. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Fred! Fred! I said get back against the wall, all of you. 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 All right, I'll cover him. You get back to it after Fred. Right. 11:05.000 --> 11:07.000 All right, mister. With the rest of them in there, back against the wall. 11:07.000 --> 11:10.000 All right, I'm going. What's the beef about, anyway? 11:10.000 --> 11:13.000 All right, all of you, turn around. Face the wall. Put your hands against the wall. 11:13.000 --> 11:15.000 What's the pitch, anyway? Treating us like a bunch of thieves. 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 You're just having a little fun, no harm done. 11:17.000 --> 11:18.000 Joe, yeah, did you find Fred? What happened? 11:18.000 --> 11:21.000 He's been shot, hurt bad. Matthew's in with him now. I'll call the ambulance. Get some help. 11:21.000 --> 11:23.000 All right, you two, in with the others. Back against the wall. 11:23.000 --> 11:26.000 What's the beef? Sure, big noise about nothing. 11:26.000 --> 11:30.000 We're here to play a little card, friendly game, just a dollar limit. Nobody ever gets hurt. We're all friends. 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 Is that why you carry guns? 11:36.000 --> 11:43.000 One twenty a.m. The ambulance arrived and Sergeant Fred Taylor was taken immediately to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital in a critical condition. 11:43.000 --> 11:48.000 He'd been shot twice through the upper portion of the chest. He'd been unconscious from the time of the shooting. 11:48.000 --> 11:54.000 Who the assailant was, we had no idea. The crime lab arrived at the scene and began their preliminary investigation. 11:54.000 --> 11:59.000 Meantime, homicide officers had arrived and all units in the area were assisting in the investigation, 11:59.000 --> 12:06.000 making a house-to-house canvas and checking all backyards, alleys, and unoccupied buildings for possible suspects in hiding. 12:06.000 --> 12:12.000 Out of the total number of men present in the store at the time of the shooting, Bill and I had been able to detain nine of them. 12:12.000 --> 12:18.000 The remainder had either scrambled outside windows or the rear door and then apparently made their way over back fences. 12:18.000 --> 12:22.000 The nine we did get were taken downtown for interrogation. 12:22.000 --> 12:28.000 All of them had been searched but no weapons had been found. Bill Lockwood and I remained at the scene assisting the homicide officers. 12:28.000 --> 12:34.000 Two oh five a.m. An additional four men who'd been present at the gambling game that night were picked up in the area, 12:34.000 --> 12:38.000 transported downtown and held along with the other nine at homicide detail. 12:38.000 --> 12:43.000 Two twenty a.m. Bill and I were called downtown to assist in the questioning. 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 We got nowhere with the first three suspects, with the same with the fourth. 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 You expect us to believe that, Mike? 12:48.000 --> 12:50.000 Well, it's the truth. I don't know anything about it. 12:50.000 --> 12:54.000 Now look, Mike, let's put it on the table, huh? We listened to your line of chatter down at the store when we made the pinch. 12:54.000 --> 12:55.000 We heard it all. Now let's get out of fact. 12:55.000 --> 13:00.000 I told you everything I know, no different than the other guys you picked up. I heard there was going to be a game tonight so I came down. 13:00.000 --> 13:01.000 Who'd you come down with? How'd you get there? 13:01.000 --> 13:02.000 I drove, came by myself. 13:02.000 --> 13:03.000 Where'd you park your car? 13:03.000 --> 13:05.000 About two blocks away, a little alley there. By a gas station. 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 You're a liar, mister, and you know it. 13:07.000 --> 13:10.000 Well, it's the truth, so help me. If I knew there was going to be trouble, I wouldn't even have showed up. 13:10.000 --> 13:14.000 I play a few cards, sure. I don't go in for heavy stuff, though. I haven't got anything to do with a game. 13:14.000 --> 13:15.000 You're a liar. 13:15.000 --> 13:20.000 I can't say that. Now you show me where I've lied to. You tell me. We were stakeout on that place tonight, Mike. It was a little past 1145. 13:20.000 --> 13:23.000 You drove up in a blue pickup truck. Another man was with you. You were driving. 13:23.000 --> 13:24.000 Oh, no, you got it wrong. 13:24.000 --> 13:27.000 No, we haven't got it wrong. You parked that truck about 10 yards down the street from the front of the store. 13:27.000 --> 13:31.000 You got out first. The other man followed you. You unloaded six large cartons from the truck. 13:31.000 --> 13:34.000 Some of the equipment we found on the store. You took it around back and into the rear door, didn't you? 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 You got it wrong. It wasn't me. It couldn't have been me. 13:36.000 --> 13:41.000 Come off it, Mike. The man you were with, we've got him down the hall. The other officers have talked to him. They gave him the straight story. 13:41.000 --> 13:45.000 I didn't come with any other guy. Now, will you listen to me? I knew some of them there. I'll admit that. I came by myself. 13:45.000 --> 13:50.000 Now, you listen to me, mister. You get this through your head. Get it once and for all. This isn't a gambling beef anymore. Somebody's been shot. He's been hurt bad. 13:50.000 --> 13:53.000 Well, that's not my fault. I didn't shoot him. I don't know anything about it. 13:53.000 --> 13:59.000 You know more than you're telling. You lied about coming there and that truck. We saw you. Something else. The truck's been checked out. It's registered in your name. Now, you come up with an answer for that one fast. 13:59.000 --> 14:02.000 Well, I don't get it. Maybe my truck is down there. If it is, I don't know how it got there. 14:02.000 --> 14:11.000 You're in a jam, Mike. This isn't any Mr. Meanor rap. I think the sooner you realize that, the better it's gonna be for you. Look, you don't have to tell me it's serious. I know that. Now, what do you want from me anymore? You know what we want. You know the answers and we want them. 14:11.000 --> 14:20.000 You're part of that gambling setup. We know that. We know who was there tonight. Everybody. We want the names of every one of them. Now, either you got the answer to that shooting or somebody in that crowd has. We're gonna get the answer, Mike. Don't make any mistake about it. We're gonna get it. 14:20.000 --> 14:28.000 Now, what do I have to say to convince you? You're talking to the wrong guy. Not according to the man they got down the hall. The one in the pickup truck with you. He gave us the whole story. You hired him to help you tonight. You were gonna pay him 20 bucks. 14:28.000 --> 14:33.000 He helped you haul the equipment to the store and he was supposed to be the lookout at the front door. It ties in all the way. How about it? 14:33.000 --> 14:38.000 All right. Now, you've been calling Pete for lives, huh? Well, he's the liar. The whole lousy story. It's nothing but a lie. 14:38.000 --> 14:51.000 All right. Keep quiet. Why'd he call you? Oh, yes, sir. Oh, all right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, thank you. 14:51.000 --> 14:54.000 Now, you listen, Mike. Here's a piece of advice. 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Best of all, king-size cigarettes. 16:37.000 --> 16:44.000 Tuesday, February 10th, 530 a.m. Sergeant Fred Taylor had died at approximately 522 a.m. 16:44.000 --> 16:49.000 Cause of death was listed as hemorrhage and shock due to the two gunshot wounds in the chest. 16:49.000 --> 16:54.000 Officers from the medical detail had rushed Taylor's wife from his home to the receiving hospital. 16:54.000 --> 16:59.000 She was with him at the time of his death. Unfortunately, he never regained consciousness. 16:59.000 --> 17:07.000 545 a.m. While the investigation went on at the scene of the murder, Bill Lockwood and I continued our interrogation of the suspect, Mike Filmer. 17:07.000 --> 17:10.000 Another hour of questioning and he still refused to tell us anything. 17:10.000 --> 17:16.000 We finally confronted him with the man we'd seen him arrive with at the location of the gambling game earlier that morning. 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 Another ten minutes of questioning and he finally broke down. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 Why didn't you tell us that to begin with? 17:20.000 --> 17:24.000 Believe me, I wanted to. I was scared. I was scared to death. I never had anything like this happen to me before. 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to say. 17:26.000 --> 17:30.000 All right. This is a complete list of everybody you saw there last night. Everybody was in that game? 17:30.000 --> 17:32.000 Well, yeah, I think it covers it. Let me see it again. 17:32.000 --> 17:34.000 All right. Here you are. 17:34.000 --> 17:40.000 Uh, huh? Yeah. Yeah, just about everybody. These are the only addresses you got. Just these three here. 17:40.000 --> 17:44.000 Gotcha. Now, I'm not lying. Now, believe me, those are the only ones I know of. 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 All right. So you had a hand in the game. You brought in the equipment. You were working for the house. 17:47.000 --> 17:48.000 That's right. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 Then who's the boss, Mike? Who's running the game? 17:50.000 --> 17:52.000 What about it? Who's running it? 17:52.000 --> 17:57.000 Look, I told you everybody that was there, everybody. He wasn't there that night. He couldn't have had anything to do with it. 17:57.000 --> 18:03.000 Mike, we didn't ask you that. We asked you who the boss is. What's his name? Now, how about it? We want his name. 18:03.000 --> 18:06.000 But I told you he wasn't there last night. If he wasn't there, he couldn't have had anything to do with it. 18:06.000 --> 18:09.000 Look, he's a nice guy. He doesn't want trouble any more than I do. He couldn't tell you that. 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 You let us figure that out, will you? Now, who's the boss, Mike? 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 Does it have to be? Is that important? 18:13.000 --> 18:15.000 We wouldn't be asking you. Who is it? 18:15.000 --> 18:20.000 George Delano. Now, that's all I know about him, his name. How does he spell his last name? What's he look like? 18:20.000 --> 18:28.000 Well, I guess it's D-E-L-A-N-O. I never saw him write it down, though. I've only known him about a month, maybe five weeks. 18:28.000 --> 18:29.000 What's his description? 18:29.000 --> 18:38.000 Well, he's taller than I am, about five feet, ten, eleven, maybe. Dark hair, a little bit on the heavy side. Like me, I guess. Man about 45, 50. 18:38.000 --> 18:39.000 Where does he live? Where do we find him? 18:39.000 --> 18:43.000 I don't know where he lives. Some hotel downtown, I think. The only times I ever met him was at a bar. 18:43.000 --> 18:44.000 Which bar? Where about? 18:44.000 --> 18:50.000 South end of town, down on Vermont. I don't know the address, but I can point it out to you. It's a couple of doors down from the big bowling alley. 18:50.000 --> 18:52.000 Right across from a theater, a woman's dress shop next door. 18:52.000 --> 18:57.000 Yeah, that's right. That's the place. The only place I've ever seen him. He always calls me at home and tells me where to meet him. 18:57.000 --> 19:00.000 You mean to say you've been working for this Delano and you don't even know where he lives? 19:00.000 --> 19:03.000 Well, I don't know what else to tell you. I'm squaring with you. I really don't know. 19:04.000 --> 19:05.000 Grady talk to you, man? 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 Yeah, sir. I'll be right back, though. 19:11.000 --> 19:12.000 What do you got, Sam? 19:12.000 --> 19:16.000 Charlie Hart and I just got back from a place down on Gibbons Avenue, sir. 19:16.000 --> 19:20.000 I thought you'd like to know. We found a gun in the back of the place hidden under a lumber pile. 19:20.000 --> 19:21.000 All right. Did you check it out? 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 Yeah, ran through gun records. It's registered. 19:23.000 --> 19:24.000 What's the name? 19:24.000 --> 19:25.000 George Delano. 19:28.000 --> 19:36.000 738 A.M. With the new lead on the alleged boss of the gambling ring, George Delano, we interrupted our questioning of the suspect, Mike Filmer. 19:36.000 --> 19:41.000 We took him down the hall back to the homicide squad room to be held for further interrogation. 19:41.000 --> 19:44.000 We checked Delano through R&I, but we had no record on him. 19:44.000 --> 19:52.000 Then, along with Sergeant Sam Flowers and Charlie Hart of homicide, we drove out to the address of George Delano as listed in the gun registration file. 19:52.000 --> 20:00.000 It was a small cottage in the Wilshire area. The woman who answered the door identified herself as Mrs. George Delano, the suspect's wife. 20:00.000 --> 20:06.000 She called her husband to the door. We identified ourselves, briefed him on the reason for our visit, and told him we wanted to talk to him downtown. 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 He appeared cooperative, more than willing to come along. 20:09.000 --> 20:13.000 He got dressed. We drove him back to the city hall and took him to the interrogation room. 20:13.000 --> 20:16.000 He was well dressed and in his own way, well-mannered. 20:16.000 --> 20:23.000 After being told of the situation, he admitted freely that he'd been operating games at different locations throughout the city for the past month and a half. 20:23.000 --> 20:30.000 He told us that he'd employed Mike Filmer to assist him in his operations, and he also admitted ownership of the gun found near the murder scene. 20:30.000 --> 20:34.000 The gun had since been checked by Russ Camp and Ballistics and found to be the murder weapon. 20:34.000 --> 20:37.000 Well, yes, it's my gun, but I'd like to explain a little bit about it. 20:37.000 --> 20:38.000 What's that, Delano? 20:38.000 --> 20:41.000 Number one, I admit I'm a gambler. That's my racket. I'm new to Los Angeles. 20:41.000 --> 20:45.000 I even admit I've been working a few games, but I'm no murderer. I wouldn't have any part of it. 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 You said you were going to explain about the gun. Now what about it? 20:47.000 --> 20:51.000 Now, look, I'd like to fill you in on everything, officers. I've got nothing to hide from you. I'll tell you everything. 20:51.000 --> 20:52.000 Now? 20:52.000 --> 20:57.000 When I first came to this town, as I say, it's been about five, six weeks, I made a few connections and I started running these games. 20:57.000 --> 21:01.000 For the first couple of weeks, everything went fine. No beef, everything was fine. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 All I had to do was dodge you fellas, and then the trouble started. 21:03.000 --> 21:04.000 How do you mean? 21:04.000 --> 21:06.000 You mind if I have a smoke? I'm a little upset. 21:06.000 --> 21:07.000 All right, go ahead. 21:07.000 --> 21:08.000 You careful with it? 21:08.000 --> 21:09.000 No, nothing. 21:09.000 --> 21:12.000 I want to fill you in from the start. I want to clear this whole thing up. 21:12.000 --> 21:13.000 Yeah, that's what you said. 21:13.000 --> 21:18.000 Yeah. Well, as I told you, the first few weeks everything was fine. 21:18.000 --> 21:24.000 Then one night when the game was just about ready to break, a couple of punks came in, held us up, and they cleaned everybody in the place, made a big hole. 21:24.000 --> 21:25.000 When was this? Where did it happen? 21:25.000 --> 21:32.000 Down on the east side. The punks took us for everything. You know how it is. Couldn't make a report to you. I just had to take it to cover the losses myself. 21:32.000 --> 21:33.000 Yeah, now how about that gun? 21:33.000 --> 21:39.000 I'm coming to it. This thing happens and I figure that's the end of it. But no, a couple nights later they hit again. I still can't squab. 21:39.000 --> 21:43.000 We have to stand the losses. Another couple nights they knock us over again. Couldn't do a thing about it. 21:43.000 --> 21:48.000 All right, we've heard all that. That's your racket. You can expect it. All we want to know is about that gun. Now what's your story? 21:48.000 --> 21:54.000 I told you I was coming to it. After the third time they reached us, I hired a guard, somebody to stand watch outside in case of another stick up. 21:54.000 --> 21:55.000 That's the only thing I could do. Yeah? 21:55.000 --> 22:00.000 Well, so I hired some guy to stand guard on the game. Go under my gun in case there was any trouble. 22:00.000 --> 22:02.000 And you told them to use it in case there was trouble. 22:02.000 --> 22:03.000 Yeah, that's right. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 How about a raid from the police? You tell them to use it for that? 22:05.000 --> 22:13.000 No, no. Matter of fact, I made a point of telling them about that. All he was supposed to use the gun for was just to fire it up in the air. Maybe scare those punks off and warn the guys inside at the same time. 22:13.000 --> 22:16.000 We'll talk about that later, Delano. We want to know who had the gun last night. 22:16.000 --> 22:18.000 Well, the guard did. I told you. I loaned him the gun. 22:18.000 --> 22:20.000 Who's the guard? What's his name? Where do we find him? 22:20.000 --> 22:24.000 His name's Jake. A friend of mine got him falling. You see, Jake's gleecing. That's his gleecing. 22:24.000 --> 22:25.000 Where does he live? 22:25.000 --> 22:32.000 I couldn't tell you that. I don't know. I always contacted him at a bar in south Vermont, a place I go quite a bit. It's a little too early to catch him there now. 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 What do you know about this gleecing? What's he look like? 22:34.000 --> 22:43.000 I don't know. I haven't seen him much. I guess he's aged about 32, 33. Kind of light brown hair, tall. Ex-con, I think. Either he told me or somebody told me he did time. 22:43.000 --> 22:45.000 You knew he was an ex-con and you gave him your gun. 22:45.000 --> 22:54.000 Well, yeah, but I didn't tell him to shoot anybody. I made a point of telling him that. Dumb jerk. Especially shooting a cop. All he was supposed to do was fire up in the air. If those punks came around, scare him away. 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 To help me, that's the only time he was supposed to use a gun. I told him. 22:56.000 --> 22:58.000 How much of a story, Delano, can you prove it? 22:58.000 --> 23:06.000 Sure I can prove it. You can ask Mike, Mike Felmer. He'll tell you the same thing. You can ask Gleecing himself. Dumb jerk. Mike said he wasn't too sharp, a little punchy, wasn't quite right in the head. 23:06.000 --> 23:07.000 What's that? 23:07.000 --> 23:10.000 I said he was a little punchy, wasn't quite right in the head, Gleecing. 23:10.000 --> 23:17.000 You mean you met him in a bar. You didn't know anything about his background. You knew he was an ex-con. You had an idea he wasn't too sharp. Maybe he wasn't all air. Is that right? 23:17.000 --> 23:18.000 Yeah, that's about it. 23:18.000 --> 23:24.000 And you put this man in a spot where you knew he'd be in trouble, and then you gave him a gun. Is that right? How about it, Delano? 23:24.000 --> 23:28.000 What are you looking at me for? I told the dumb jerk what to do. I didn't tell him to shoot anybody. He punched, drunk, boozed. 23:28.000 --> 23:29.000 Yeah. 23:29.000 --> 23:33.000 Truth. I didn't have a thing to do with it. I hired the guy. That's all. It's not my fault. 23:33.000 --> 23:37.000 What are you looking at? I wasn't even there. I didn't even know about it. I didn't kill that cop. 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 Didn't you? 23:39.000 --> 23:53.000 923 A.M. We continued questioning George Delano. He told us that he'd instructed Jake Gleecing, the ex-convict, to stand guard at the rear of the store where the gambling games were held. 23:53.000 --> 24:01.000 He insisted that his instructions to Gleecing were that if he had to fire the gun at all, he was to fire it in the air and then only as a warning signal in case of robbery attempt. 24:01.000 --> 24:05.000 Delano was detained by homicide officers pending further investigation. 24:05.000 --> 24:13.000 We checked the name and description of Jake Gleecing through R&I and found his record and mugshot. We showed the mug to Delano and he identified it. 24:13.000 --> 24:16.000 Gleecing's record showed him to be on active parole. 24:16.000 --> 24:23.000 10.30 A.M. We contacted the parole office. They gave us his address and Bill and I checked it out. The second-rate hotel on South Flower Street. 24:23.000 --> 24:30.000 The manager told us Gleecing had left the hotel about 7.45 that morning and that he was not expected back until after 6 o'clock that night. 24:30.000 --> 24:35.000 He also told us there was a chance we might locate him in one of the bars around the neighborhood. 24:35.000 --> 24:39.000 10.45 We started making the rounds of the bars in the immediate vicinity. 24:39.000 --> 24:44.000 The third place we stopped at was practically deserted. The jukebox at the back of the place was turned up to full volume. 24:44.000 --> 24:52.000 There was a smell of disinfectant, whiskey, and stale perfume. There was one customer drinking at the far end of the bar. It was Gleecing. 24:52.000 --> 25:04.000 Ok, all right, after you,arethe pirates. Dire book, all right? 25:04.000 --> 25:06.000 Do not talk. 25:06.000 --> 25:09.000 Should I kill that jukebox Bill? 25:09.000 --> 25:10.000 Do you know why we want you? 25:10.000 --> 25:14.000 Yes, I know if there is any sense of "[?] 25:14.000 --> 25:14.000 27 begun to roll 25:14.000 --> 25:18.000 Would you do me a favor? 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 That is not what I told you. 25:20.000 --> 25:23.120 I shot him, I shouldn't have had the gun, shouldn't have taken the job. 25:23.120 --> 25:24.400 I shot him, I didn't mean it. 25:24.400 --> 25:25.400 Alright, come on. 25:25.400 --> 25:26.720 There ought to be a way, don't you think? 25:26.720 --> 25:28.240 I mean, there really ought to be a way. 25:28.240 --> 25:29.240 What's that? 25:29.240 --> 25:30.240 I didn't mean it. 25:30.240 --> 25:31.240 No reason to kill him. 25:31.240 --> 25:32.240 I didn't even know him. 25:32.240 --> 25:35.920 I just keep thinking, there's only a way if I could take it back again, you know? 25:35.920 --> 25:36.920 Yeah, we know. 25:36.920 --> 25:39.800 I mean, if I could go back and change it, make it all different. 25:39.800 --> 25:41.840 I mean, right from the beginning, I wouldn't even look at a gun. 25:41.840 --> 25:42.840 I'd change everything. 25:42.840 --> 25:43.840 I bet I would. 25:43.840 --> 25:44.840 I wouldn't even look at a gun. 25:44.840 --> 25:47.200 I only had the chance, you know? 25:47.200 --> 25:48.200 Second chance. 25:48.200 --> 25:50.120 There ought to be a way, second chance. 25:50.120 --> 25:51.120 You started with a gun, Jay. 25:51.120 --> 25:52.120 Yeah? 25:52.120 --> 25:53.120 You never had a first one. 25:53.120 --> 26:00.120 The story you have just heard was true. 26:00.120 --> 26:05.320 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:05.320 --> 26:10.320 On May 22nd, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 88, City and County of Los Angeles, 26:10.320 --> 26:11.320 State of California. 26:11.320 --> 26:13.680 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:13.680 --> 26:16.120 And now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:16.120 --> 26:17.120 Thank you, George Fenomen. 26:17.120 --> 26:21.320 Friends, Fatima gives you more for your money because no other king-size cigarette can match 26:21.320 --> 26:22.320 Fatima quality. 26:22.320 --> 26:26.080 Because Fatima's length filters and cools the smoke for your protection, gives you those 26:26.080 --> 26:30.080 extra puffs, 21% longer than standard cigarette size. 26:30.080 --> 26:32.720 I'm convinced that you'll agree with me once you try them. 26:32.720 --> 26:35.080 Get a pack of Fatima's next time you buy cigarettes. 26:35.080 --> 26:37.960 Fatima, an extra mild and soothing smoke. 26:37.960 --> 26:48.520 Best of all, king-size cigarettes. 26:48.520 --> 26:52.640 Jacob Allen Gleason was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and was sentenced 26:52.640 --> 26:54.680 to a life term in the state penitentiary. 26:54.680 --> 26:59.360 George Delano, Mike Filmer and all other principals were found guilty of violating the Municipal 26:59.360 --> 27:04.800 Code 43.01, gambling and received sentences as prescribed by law. 27:04.800 --> 27:09.560 George Delano and Mike Filmer were sentenced to six-month terms in the county jail. 27:09.560 --> 27:12.520 Others received proportionate sentences. 27:12.520 --> 27:16.960 Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. James Potts, director on the executive board of the Mystery Writers 27:16.960 --> 27:17.960 of America. 27:17.960 --> 27:20.760 Tonight, it is with a great deal of pleasure that I, speaking for the entire membership 27:20.760 --> 27:25.640 of the Mystery Writers of America in all fields, present the Edgar Allen Poe Award for the 27:25.640 --> 27:30.840 second consecutive year for the finest radio presentation in its class, DRAGNET. 27:30.840 --> 27:34.760 To you, Jack Webb, and your fine group of technicians responsible for the overall production 27:34.760 --> 27:38.880 of DRAGNET, we present this statuette of one of the immortals in the field of mystery, 27:38.880 --> 27:39.960 Edgar Allen Poe. 27:39.960 --> 27:43.080 Thank you very much, Mr. Fox, and thanks also to the membership of the Mystery Writers of 27:43.080 --> 27:44.320 America. 27:44.320 --> 27:48.720 And standing by to receive his award also for the second consecutive year as the outstanding 27:48.720 --> 27:53.400 radio writer in his field and for the consistent job he does on DRAGNET, Jim Moser. 27:53.400 --> 27:54.980 Here is your statuette. 27:54.980 --> 27:56.920 Thank you very much, Mr. Fox. 27:56.920 --> 28:00.480 Ladies and gentlemen, it's seldom indeed when the writer of any radio show receives his 28:00.480 --> 28:01.480 just and due acclaim. 28:01.480 --> 28:05.720 It's with the greatest of pleasure that we accept the Edgar Allen Poe Awards, and it 28:05.720 --> 28:07.600 is primarily a writer's award. 28:07.600 --> 28:10.440 All of us who have had a hand in bringing DRAGNET into your homes each week are proud 28:10.440 --> 28:12.240 of our writer, Jim Moser. 28:12.240 --> 28:16.160 For as anyone in radio will readily go on record by saying and knowing that you're only 28:16.160 --> 28:17.520 as good as the script you read. 28:17.520 --> 28:21.520 So it's with deep gratitude that we receive the MWA Award, which best illustrates and 28:21.520 --> 28:25.180 confirms the high opinion which we all hold of our writer, Jim Moser. 28:25.180 --> 28:29.600 Thank you, Jack, and I'd like to express my special appreciation to our technical advisors 28:29.600 --> 28:42.560 from the Los Angeles Police Department, without whom none of this would be possible. 28:42.560 --> 28:47.200 You have just heard DRAGNET, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:47.200 --> 28:50.160 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 28:50.160 --> 28:52.520 Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:52.520 --> 28:57.000 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Frasier. 28:57.000 --> 29:00.840 And tonight, we're Martin Milner, Eddie Firestone, Whit Conner. 29:00.840 --> 29:01.840 Script by Jim Moser. 29:01.840 --> 29:03.520 Music by Walter Shuman. 29:03.520 --> 29:05.520 Hal Gibney speaking. 29:05.520 --> 29:07.520 Fatima cigarettes. 29:07.520 --> 29:17.840 Best of all, king-size cigarettes is brought to you by DRAGNET, transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:17.840 --> 29:26.680 Now it's Counterspy on NBC.