WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.760 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:10.760 --> 00:13.280 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:13.280 --> 00:14.840 Fatima cigarettes. 00:14.840 --> 00:28.280 Best of all, king-sized cigarettes brings you dragnet on both radio and television. 00:28.280 --> 00:32.800 You're a detective sergeant, you're assigned to Wilshire Division, vice detail. 00:32.800 --> 00:37.040 An informant sends you word about an extortion racket going on in your area. 00:37.040 --> 00:38.880 The victim, a bookmaker. 00:38.880 --> 00:41.320 The suspect, a police officer. 00:41.320 --> 00:47.400 Your job, check it out. 00:47.400 --> 00:50.400 Compare Fatima with any other king-sized cigarette. 00:50.400 --> 00:54.400 Yes, compare Fatima with any other king-sized cigarette. 00:54.400 --> 00:59.160 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 00:59.160 --> 01:02.840 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 01:02.840 --> 01:08.760 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21 percent longer than standard cigarette 01:08.760 --> 01:09.760 size. 01:09.760 --> 01:12.600 Fatima gives you more for your money. 01:12.600 --> 01:18.840 And in king-sized Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, plus the added protection 01:18.840 --> 01:21.160 of Fatima quality. 01:21.160 --> 01:24.560 Try Fatima in the bright, sunny yellow pack. 01:24.560 --> 01:29.560 Best of all, king-sized cigarettes. 01:29.560 --> 01:36.760 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:36.760 --> 01:40.920 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:40.920 --> 01:45.320 travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:45.320 --> 01:46.320 police files. 01:46.320 --> 01:51.960 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:51.960 --> 01:54.960 in action. 01:54.960 --> 01:59.760 It was Tuesday, October 18th. 01:59.760 --> 02:01.600 It was hot in Los Angeles. 02:01.600 --> 02:04.640 We were working the day watch out of Wilshire Division, vice detail. 02:04.640 --> 02:06.120 My partner's Frank Smith. 02:06.120 --> 02:07.120 The boss is Captain Hayes. 02:07.120 --> 02:08.120 My name's Friday. 02:08.120 --> 02:12.280 We were on the way downtown from the office, and it was 9.35 a.m. when we got to the felony 02:12.280 --> 02:15.880 section of the main jail, the interview room. 02:15.880 --> 02:18.560 Sit down, Mr. Lawrence. 02:18.560 --> 02:19.560 Thanks. 02:19.560 --> 02:21.680 Got your message when we checked in this morning. 02:21.680 --> 02:22.680 What's it about? 02:22.680 --> 02:23.680 Well, I finally made up my mind. 02:23.680 --> 02:24.680 I've had enough of this. 02:24.680 --> 02:28.080 Say, either one of you got a cigarette, I'll left mine back in the cell. 02:28.080 --> 02:29.080 Yeah, sure. 02:29.080 --> 02:30.080 Here you are, Lawrence. 02:30.080 --> 02:31.080 Oh, thanks. 02:31.080 --> 02:32.080 I bet. 02:32.080 --> 02:34.080 Here's a match for you. 02:34.080 --> 02:35.680 Now, what's the story? 02:35.680 --> 02:36.680 What's on your mind? 02:36.680 --> 02:40.640 Well, I've been thinking about it most of the night. 02:40.640 --> 02:42.040 I didn't get very much sleep. 02:42.040 --> 02:46.320 So you were going to be yesterday, I mean, when you arrested me? 02:46.320 --> 02:47.320 Yeah. 02:47.320 --> 02:48.720 Well, it's just like I told you then. 02:48.720 --> 02:50.000 I'm not trying to kid anybody. 02:50.000 --> 02:51.000 I admit it. 02:51.000 --> 02:52.800 I've been taking a few bets. 02:52.800 --> 02:54.520 It wasn't any big operation, though. 02:54.520 --> 02:59.400 You know, I was just laying off a few bets with my friends and all people in the neighborhood. 02:59.400 --> 03:00.400 We know all that, Lawrence. 03:00.400 --> 03:01.400 We went through that yesterday. 03:01.400 --> 03:02.400 Yeah, I know. 03:02.400 --> 03:04.840 I just wanted to make sure we got it straight. 03:04.840 --> 03:06.160 We're not any big operators. 03:06.160 --> 03:10.160 We just ran the bookmaking as a sideline. 03:10.160 --> 03:12.160 This hasn't been too good lately. 03:12.160 --> 03:13.160 Had to make it up somehow. 03:13.160 --> 03:14.160 Sorry, Lawrence. 03:14.160 --> 03:15.160 We can't feel bad about it. 03:15.160 --> 03:16.160 You were tagged for making the book before. 03:16.160 --> 03:17.160 You should have learned your lesson. 03:17.160 --> 03:18.160 Oh, I know. 03:18.160 --> 03:19.160 I know. 03:19.160 --> 03:20.160 I know. 03:20.160 --> 03:21.160 I'm not singing the blues. 03:21.160 --> 03:22.160 I'm not playing alibi. 03:22.160 --> 03:23.160 I didn't call you down here for that. 03:23.160 --> 03:24.160 Well, now, what's this all about? 03:24.160 --> 03:26.160 Well, like I told you, I've been thinking about it a lot. 03:26.160 --> 03:28.160 I didn't sleep hard at all last night. 03:28.160 --> 03:30.160 I finally made up my mind, though. 03:30.160 --> 03:32.160 I'm going to get it off my chest if it kills me. 03:32.160 --> 03:33.160 All right. 03:33.160 --> 03:34.160 What's that? 03:34.160 --> 03:35.160 I know, Stuley. 03:35.160 --> 03:38.160 I don't want to get anybody in trouble, but there's one thing I believe in, and that's 03:38.160 --> 03:39.160 playing it square. 03:39.160 --> 03:40.160 It doesn't matter what you do. 03:40.160 --> 03:43.160 Just like now, Sergeant, I ain't beating about the rest. 03:43.160 --> 03:44.160 You know, man. 03:44.160 --> 03:45.160 What do you get, man? 03:45.160 --> 03:46.160 What do you want to tell us? 03:46.160 --> 03:47.160 Oh, all right. 03:47.160 --> 03:48.160 Here it is. 03:48.160 --> 03:49.160 You know what the record is. 03:49.160 --> 03:52.160 I stood a pinch for bookmaking a year and a half ago. 03:52.160 --> 03:55.160 I got the thing all squared away, and it came back from my business. 03:55.160 --> 03:56.160 I learned my lesson. 03:56.160 --> 04:00.160 I didn't want any more trouble, so I laid off the books. 04:00.160 --> 04:01.160 All right. 04:01.160 --> 04:02.160 Fill us in. 04:02.160 --> 04:03.160 What about this policeman? 04:03.160 --> 04:04.160 I'm getting to it. 04:04.160 --> 04:05.160 Just a minute. 04:05.160 --> 04:06.160 Hey, I'm sorry. 04:06.160 --> 04:07.160 You have a cigarette, please. 04:07.160 --> 04:09.160 I'm a little jumpy this morning. 04:09.160 --> 04:12.160 Yeah, well, I'll show you. 04:12.160 --> 04:13.160 Thanks. 04:13.160 --> 04:16.160 Oh, thanks a lot. 04:16.160 --> 04:22.360 Well, like I was saying, you know, when I kid up the last beef, I've begun all about 04:22.360 --> 04:23.360 the horses. 04:23.360 --> 04:24.360 I was off them for good. 04:24.360 --> 04:25.800 My wife made me promise. 04:25.800 --> 04:28.000 I wouldn't have anything more to do with them. 04:28.000 --> 04:32.160 We'd just run the business, you know, live on what they made, and we'd get along fine. 04:32.160 --> 04:33.160 All right. 04:33.160 --> 04:34.160 Go ahead. 04:34.160 --> 04:35.160 Everything was going fine, too. 04:35.160 --> 04:37.960 The business wasn't too good, but we made out. 04:37.960 --> 04:39.160 Then the trouble started. 04:39.160 --> 04:42.160 My oldest boy, that's Harry Jr. 04:42.160 --> 04:45.160 He had an accident on the job, and he broke his hip. 04:45.160 --> 04:48.160 I had to help his family out while he was in the hospital. 04:48.160 --> 04:52.160 Like I say, the business wasn't making too much money, but we made out, though. 04:52.160 --> 04:53.160 Go ahead. 04:53.160 --> 04:59.160 Yeah, well, then just as soon as Harry got well, the wife came down, gallbladder. 04:59.160 --> 05:02.160 She had to have an operation. 05:02.160 --> 05:04.160 Really cost money, you know. 05:04.160 --> 05:07.160 Well, the wife was resting at home. 05:07.160 --> 05:08.160 She didn't come down to the store. 05:08.160 --> 05:13.160 I started with the books again, you know, just taking a few bets on the side, just a 05:13.160 --> 05:14.160 few. 05:14.160 --> 05:16.160 I didn't really want to do it. 05:16.160 --> 05:18.160 Just one of those things, you know. 05:18.160 --> 05:20.160 I didn't have anybody to go to. 05:20.160 --> 05:21.160 The bills had to be paid. 05:21.160 --> 05:23.160 Where does this policeman fit in with this Ray Williams? 05:23.160 --> 05:25.160 Well, I'm just coming to it. 05:25.160 --> 05:26.160 Well, he came in the store. 05:26.160 --> 05:27.160 He said he wanted to make a bet. 05:27.160 --> 05:31.160 I didn't know him from Adam, so I played careful, you know. 05:31.160 --> 05:33.160 I told him I wasn't making books. 05:33.160 --> 05:35.160 Then he said he was a good friend of Myra's. 05:35.160 --> 05:39.160 Myra, that's a gal who runs a beauty parlor on Crenshaw. 05:39.160 --> 05:41.160 She used to make books, but she isn't now. 05:41.160 --> 05:43.160 Yeah, we know the spot. 05:43.160 --> 05:47.160 Well, when he said that he knew Myra, I figured it was all right, so I took the bet. 05:47.160 --> 05:49.160 That's when it started. 05:49.160 --> 05:53.160 As soon as he makes the bet, he comes out and says he's a cop working for Vice. 05:53.160 --> 05:57.160 I thought he was just kidding, and he flashes this identification. 05:57.160 --> 05:58.160 What kind of identification? 05:58.160 --> 05:59.160 Bag? 05:59.160 --> 06:00.160 What kind of a bag? 06:00.160 --> 06:01.160 Well, I don't know. 06:01.160 --> 06:03.160 Just a bag. 06:03.160 --> 06:05.160 It looked all right. 06:05.160 --> 06:06.160 All right, have a look. 06:06.160 --> 06:08.160 This one here, was it like this one? 06:08.160 --> 06:10.160 I don't know. 06:10.160 --> 06:11.160 I didn't get too good a look at it. 06:11.160 --> 06:13.160 It might have been something like that. 06:13.160 --> 06:14.160 I don't know. 06:14.160 --> 06:15.160 Did you ask for any other identification? 06:15.160 --> 06:16.160 Did you volunteer to show you any? 06:16.160 --> 06:17.160 No. 06:17.160 --> 06:18.160 Well, I didn't ask for any. 06:18.160 --> 06:19.160 I was scared. 06:19.160 --> 06:21.160 I just figured I was arrested again. 06:21.160 --> 06:22.160 That's all. 06:22.160 --> 06:24.160 He seemed to know all about the first pinch. 06:24.160 --> 06:25.160 I stood there making books. 06:25.160 --> 06:27.160 He told me that I'd been operating for about a month and a half. 06:27.160 --> 06:29.160 He said he had his eye on me. 06:29.160 --> 06:31.160 What did he do after he told you he was a policeman? 06:31.160 --> 06:34.160 Well, I started to explain to him how the thing shaped up 06:34.160 --> 06:38.160 while I was making books again, how I had to pay off those doctor bills. 06:38.160 --> 06:39.160 I tried to beg off. 06:39.160 --> 06:41.160 I told him that I quit right now. 06:41.160 --> 06:44.160 Then he turns around and tells me I don't have to. 06:44.160 --> 06:45.160 What do you mean? 06:45.160 --> 06:47.160 Well, that's just what he said. 06:47.160 --> 06:49.160 He didn't make sense to me either. 06:49.160 --> 06:50.160 And he went on. 06:50.160 --> 06:53.160 He told me I was operating in his district. 06:53.160 --> 06:56.160 He said it'd be okay if I went along the way I was. 06:56.160 --> 07:00.160 He'd see to it that I didn't stand any pinches. 07:00.160 --> 07:01.160 Yes, sir. 07:01.160 --> 07:02.160 What else did he say? 07:02.160 --> 07:06.160 Well, he said he wasn't the only one who'd have to be taken care of. 07:06.160 --> 07:08.160 He said there was his partner. 07:08.160 --> 07:12.160 A couple of guys over him they'd have to be taken care of too. 07:12.160 --> 07:15.160 He said the juice would cost me 100 bucks a week. 07:15.160 --> 07:17.160 I tried to explain to him. 07:17.160 --> 07:19.160 Well, I told him I wasn't operating big. 07:19.160 --> 07:20.160 I was just on the side. 07:20.160 --> 07:22.160 I said I wasn't making that much a week. 07:22.160 --> 07:24.160 Not all I was doing was about 50. 07:24.160 --> 07:25.160 That's all. 07:25.160 --> 07:26.160 Just 50. 07:26.160 --> 07:28.160 Then he said, well, he says, all right. 07:28.160 --> 07:32.160 If that's the way you feel about it, I'll just take you down, book you now. 07:32.160 --> 07:33.160 Mm-hmm. 07:33.160 --> 07:37.160 Well, I told him I didn't want to stand a pinch again. 07:37.160 --> 07:38.160 I'd do the best that I could. 07:38.160 --> 07:42.160 So he finally said, I'll give you two weeks to go ahead and open this thing up. 07:42.160 --> 07:47.160 He said I'd have to do more business because the juice was just going to cost me 100 a week. 07:47.160 --> 07:49.160 He didn't care how high I got it. 07:49.160 --> 07:51.160 This policeman told you to go ahead and open up, huh? 07:51.160 --> 07:53.160 For 100 a week, you can go ahead and make book and nobody bother you. 07:53.160 --> 07:54.160 Yeah. 07:54.160 --> 07:56.160 Did your wife ever see this policeman, this fellow Williams? 07:56.160 --> 07:57.160 Yeah, she saw him. 07:57.160 --> 07:59.160 She saw him a couple of times. 07:59.160 --> 08:01.160 She saw me give him the money. 08:01.160 --> 08:03.160 But when did all this start? 08:03.160 --> 08:06.160 About the 1st of July. 08:06.160 --> 08:10.160 Paid him $100 every week since then. 08:10.160 --> 08:12.160 Yeah, I'm all over the spot. 08:12.160 --> 08:14.160 Your fellas picked me up on a stand. 08:14.160 --> 08:15.160 He was running me to the ground. 08:15.160 --> 08:17.160 He had me in the bind. 08:17.160 --> 08:19.160 You say the man's name was Ray Williams, is that right? 08:19.160 --> 08:20.160 Yeah, that's right. 08:20.160 --> 08:21.160 You said he had a partner. 08:21.160 --> 08:22.160 Did you ever see him? 08:22.160 --> 08:23.160 No. 08:23.160 --> 08:24.160 I never did. 08:24.160 --> 08:25.160 Did Williams ever come in with anybody? 08:25.160 --> 08:26.160 Did you ever see him with anybody? 08:26.160 --> 08:27.160 No. 08:27.160 --> 08:28.160 As a matter of fact, I never did. 08:28.160 --> 08:30.160 One time I asked him who his partner was. 08:30.160 --> 08:31.160 He said, none of my business. 08:31.160 --> 08:33.160 What kind of a car does he drive? 08:33.160 --> 08:34.160 I don't know. 08:34.160 --> 08:36.160 Never came to my place in the car. 08:36.160 --> 08:37.160 He always walked. 08:37.160 --> 08:38.160 He came on foot. 08:38.160 --> 08:39.160 Do you know anything else about him? 08:39.160 --> 08:40.160 Where does he live? 08:40.160 --> 08:41.160 I don't know. 08:41.160 --> 08:42.160 He never told me. 08:42.160 --> 08:43.160 He never told me anything. 08:43.160 --> 08:44.160 You see? 08:44.160 --> 08:45.160 Nothing. 08:45.160 --> 08:48.160 Once I asked him what station he was working out of, who his boss was. 08:48.160 --> 08:50.160 He got a little hard with me. 08:50.160 --> 08:52.160 He told me not to get nosy, not to ask so many questions. 08:52.160 --> 08:54.160 Is there anything else you can tell us about Williams? 08:54.160 --> 08:56.160 Maybe where he hangs out, people he knows. 08:56.160 --> 08:58.160 Anything you figure will help us? 08:58.160 --> 09:00.160 Well, works out well, sir. 09:00.160 --> 09:01.160 You ought to know it. 09:01.160 --> 09:02.160 Ray Williams. 09:02.160 --> 09:03.160 Yeah, Ray Williams. 09:03.160 --> 09:04.160 He was a policeman. 09:04.160 --> 09:05.160 Not in my book. 09:05.160 --> 09:13.160 Frank and I continued questioning the prisoner, Harold Lawrence, and he gave us a complete 09:13.160 --> 09:17.160 description of the extortionist, the man he knew as Officer Ray Williams. 09:17.160 --> 09:21.160 Frank got on the phone, notified the commander of the internal affairs division of the latest 09:21.160 --> 09:25.160 development, and he advised us to bring the prisoner to his office immediately. 09:25.160 --> 09:29.160 We signed Lawrence out of the main jail for investigation and took him to the city hall, 09:29.160 --> 09:30.160 room 37. 09:30.160 --> 09:34.160 With the help of Sergeants Lloyd Reiner and Floyd Phillips, we started checking through 09:34.160 --> 09:36.160 the personnel files for the suspect. 09:36.160 --> 09:40.160 Neither Frank nor myself recognized the name or the description of Williams as given us 09:40.160 --> 09:41.160 by Lawrence. 09:41.160 --> 09:46.160 The first step was to show the prisoner photographs of every police officer in the department, 09:46.160 --> 09:48.160 regardless of rank or detail. 09:48.160 --> 09:50.160 He was unable to make an identification. 09:50.160 --> 09:54.160 We then showed him photographs of all police officers, retired or otherwise. 09:54.160 --> 09:57.160 He failed to identify any of them as Williams. 09:57.160 --> 10:00.160 We showed him photographs of all civilian employees of the department. 10:00.160 --> 10:02.160 Again, no identification. 10:02.160 --> 10:06.160 He was unable to find anyone who even closely resembled the extortionist. 10:06.160 --> 10:11.160 Not satisfied with this, the prisoner was shown photographs of all law enforcement agency 10:11.160 --> 10:13.160 personnel in the area. 10:13.160 --> 10:14.160 The same results. 10:14.160 --> 10:16.160 No identification. 10:16.160 --> 10:21.160 4.18 p.m. While Reiner and Phillips continued checking on their end, we returned the prisoner 10:21.160 --> 10:26.160 to the main jail and then Frank and I drove out to see his wife, Mrs. Mildred Lawrence. 10:26.160 --> 10:31.160 We located her at Lawrence's place of business, a small pet shop just off Wilshire Boulevard. 10:31.160 --> 10:33.160 What is it this time? 10:33.160 --> 10:34.160 Haven't we got enough trouble? 10:34.160 --> 10:35.160 What do you want now? 10:35.160 --> 10:36.160 We just got through talking to your husband, ma'am. 10:36.160 --> 10:37.160 A few things we'd like to clear up. 10:37.160 --> 10:39.160 I'd like to talk to you a few minutes if we could. 10:39.160 --> 10:40.160 You talked to Harry? 10:40.160 --> 10:41.160 How is he? 10:41.160 --> 10:42.160 He's all right, ma'am. 10:42.160 --> 10:43.160 We've been with him all day. 10:43.160 --> 10:44.160 We're still looking into the case. 10:44.160 --> 10:45.160 Why can't you let him alone? 10:45.160 --> 10:46.160 He was doing what he was doing. 10:46.160 --> 10:47.160 He wasn't lying. 10:47.160 --> 10:48.160 He told you everything. 10:48.160 --> 10:49.160 Yes, ma'am. 10:49.160 --> 10:50.160 We appreciate that. 10:50.160 --> 10:51.160 You wanted to let him alone. 10:51.160 --> 10:52.160 Let me alone. 10:52.160 --> 10:53.160 Trouble. 10:53.160 --> 10:54.160 That's all we've had. 10:54.160 --> 10:55.160 Sickness and trouble. 10:55.160 --> 10:56.160 No end of it. 10:56.160 --> 10:57.160 Well, we realize that, Miss Lawrence. 10:57.160 --> 10:58.160 We don't like to bother you, but there's something we have to straighten out here. 10:58.160 --> 10:59.160 I haven't anything to tell you. 10:59.160 --> 11:00.160 I'm busy. 11:00.160 --> 11:02.160 Left alone here to run the store. 11:02.160 --> 11:03.160 No help. 11:03.160 --> 11:04.160 I'm sick. 11:04.160 --> 11:05.160 Shouldn't even be down here. 11:05.160 --> 11:06.160 Let us alone. 11:06.160 --> 11:07.160 Let me alone. 11:07.160 --> 11:08.160 Harry was wrong. 11:08.160 --> 11:09.160 He'll pay for it. 11:09.160 --> 11:10.160 We're not asking you for anything. 11:10.160 --> 11:11.160 We're asking you for something, ma'am. 11:11.160 --> 11:12.160 We'd like you to help us. 11:12.160 --> 11:15.160 Help you? 11:15.160 --> 11:16.160 Why? 11:16.160 --> 11:17.160 Policemen all alike. 11:17.160 --> 11:18.160 As far as I'm concerned, you're nothing but trouble. 11:18.160 --> 11:19.160 Reason for all our trouble. 11:19.160 --> 11:20.160 Well, that's what we'd like to talk to you about, ma'am. 11:20.160 --> 11:21.160 I haven't anything to say, I told you. 11:21.160 --> 11:22.160 I'm a sick woman. 11:22.160 --> 11:23.160 Got a lot of work to do. 11:23.160 --> 11:24.160 You mind stepping aside there? 11:24.160 --> 11:25.160 Got this whole bin of dogs with the package up. 11:25.160 --> 11:26.160 Can't just stand around and talk. 11:26.160 --> 11:27.160 Poor little pups have to be fed. 11:27.160 --> 11:28.160 Haven't even cleaned their litter yet. 11:28.160 --> 11:29.160 We appreciate how you feel, Miss Lawrence. 11:29.160 --> 11:30.160 We won't take up too much of your time. 11:30.160 --> 11:31.160 Can't you give us just a few minutes, please? 11:31.160 --> 11:32.160 Now, you listen to me. 11:32.160 --> 11:33.160 I've tried to be nice to you. 11:33.160 --> 11:34.160 I've gotten my way. 11:34.160 --> 11:35.160 I've tried to be nice to you. 11:35.160 --> 11:42.160 I've gotten my way. 11:42.160 --> 11:43.160 I've tried to be nice to you. 11:43.160 --> 11:44.160 I've gotten my way. 11:44.160 --> 11:45.160 I've tried to be nice to you. 11:45.160 --> 11:46.160 I've got no reason to either. 11:46.160 --> 11:47.160 I could tell you a lot of things about policemen, things you wouldn't want to listen to. 11:47.160 --> 11:48.160 I don't think you're so smart. 11:48.160 --> 11:51.160 Maybe Harry was doing wrong, but he's not the only one. 11:51.160 --> 11:52.160 I could tell you plenty if I wanted to. 11:52.160 --> 11:53.160 Well, that's what we're here for, ma'am. 11:53.160 --> 11:54.160 We told you we were with your husband all day. 11:54.160 --> 11:55.160 Well, that's what we're here for, ma'am. 11:55.160 --> 11:56.160 We told you we were with your husband all day. 11:56.160 --> 11:57.160 Then why don't you let me alone? 11:57.160 --> 11:58.160 I talked to one cop already today. 11:58.160 --> 11:59.160 I told him to stay away and you do the same. 11:59.160 --> 12:00.160 I told him just what I thought of him. 12:00.160 --> 12:01.160 Low down thief. 12:01.160 --> 12:05.160 Who was this policeman you talked to today? 12:05.160 --> 12:06.160 You know who he is. 12:06.160 --> 12:08.160 He was the same place with you. 12:08.160 --> 12:09.160 Big, honest policeman. 12:09.160 --> 12:12.160 You never do anything wrong. 12:12.160 --> 12:14.160 That Ray Williams ought to be in jail just like Harry is. 12:14.160 --> 12:15.160 Ray Williams? 12:15.160 --> 12:16.160 That the man who was here today? 12:16.160 --> 12:17.160 That's what I said, wasn't it? 12:17.160 --> 12:18.160 Now, will you get out of here? 12:18.160 --> 12:20.160 Now, look, Miss Lawrence, just a minute, please. 12:20.160 --> 12:23.160 We talked to your husband and he told us all about this man, Williams. 12:23.160 --> 12:24.160 Then why don't you do something about it? 12:24.160 --> 12:27.160 Go get him and put him in jail just like you did Harry. 12:27.160 --> 12:29.160 That's what we're trying to do if you'll just help us. 12:29.160 --> 12:30.160 Williams isn't a policeman. 12:30.160 --> 12:31.160 What do you mean? 12:31.160 --> 12:32.160 Yes, ma'am. 12:32.160 --> 12:33.160 That's what we've been trying to tell you. 12:33.160 --> 12:35.160 We talked to your husband and he told us the whole story. 12:35.160 --> 12:36.160 How can you tell? 12:36.160 --> 12:37.160 How do you know he's not a policeman? 12:37.160 --> 12:38.160 He's not, ma'am. 12:38.160 --> 12:39.160 We're sure of that. 12:39.160 --> 12:40.160 Harry said he was. 12:40.160 --> 12:41.160 Showed Harry his badge. 12:41.160 --> 12:43.160 Well, that doesn't make him a policeman, ma'am. 12:43.160 --> 12:46.160 We had your husband look at pictures of every officer in this area. 12:46.160 --> 12:48.160 He convinced himself that Williams isn't a policeman. 12:48.160 --> 12:50.160 Well, if he isn't a policeman, who is he? 12:50.160 --> 12:51.160 That's what we want to find out. 12:51.160 --> 12:54.160 Will you help us, Mrs. Lawrence? 12:54.160 --> 12:56.160 You don't have to excuse me. 12:56.160 --> 12:57.160 I didn't mean to be nasty. 12:57.160 --> 12:59.160 I guess that I've been sick. 12:59.160 --> 13:01.160 I was troubled, Harry in jail. 13:01.160 --> 13:02.160 Yes, ma'am. 13:02.160 --> 13:03.160 We understand that. 13:03.160 --> 13:04.160 Now, you say Williams was here today. 13:04.160 --> 13:05.160 About what time was that? 13:05.160 --> 13:09.160 It was before lunch, about 11.30, quarter to 12, I think. 13:09.160 --> 13:10.160 He came here to get money. 13:10.160 --> 13:11.160 That's what he always came for. 13:11.160 --> 13:12.160 Did he say he'd be back? 13:12.160 --> 13:14.160 No, I told him never to come back. 13:14.160 --> 13:16.160 I told him Harry was in jail. 13:16.160 --> 13:17.160 All the money we gave him. 13:17.160 --> 13:18.160 What good did it do? 13:18.160 --> 13:20.160 Said I'd go to the city hall if he ever came back. 13:20.160 --> 13:21.160 What did he say to that? 13:21.160 --> 13:24.160 He said Harry had to expect an arrest now and then. 13:24.160 --> 13:26.160 I told him Harry wasn't going to get arrested anymore. 13:26.160 --> 13:27.160 He was through with all that junk. 13:27.160 --> 13:29.160 People like him, too. 13:29.160 --> 13:31.160 And then he swore at me. 13:31.160 --> 13:33.160 He called me some real nasty names. 13:33.160 --> 13:35.160 Told me I'd better keep my mouth shut or I'd get worse than Harry did. 13:35.160 --> 13:37.160 Then he went out and slammed the door. 13:37.160 --> 13:39.160 Was he driving a car? Did you notice? 13:39.160 --> 13:40.160 No, I never saw him in one. 13:40.160 --> 13:42.160 Is there anything you know about Williams at all? 13:42.160 --> 13:44.160 I mean, anything that would help us locate him, maybe? 13:44.160 --> 13:46.160 No, I don't think so. 13:46.160 --> 13:49.160 All I know is he said he was a policeman. 13:49.160 --> 13:50.160 His name was Ray Williams. 13:50.160 --> 13:52.160 Couldn't Harry tell you anything? Maybe he knows. 13:52.160 --> 13:54.160 No, ma'am, he couldn't tell us much. 13:54.160 --> 13:56.160 Oh, excuse me, please. 13:56.160 --> 13:58.160 Yes, ma'am. 13:58.160 --> 14:00.160 My aunt's pet shop. 14:00.160 --> 14:02.160 Yes? What's that? 14:02.160 --> 14:04.160 Old man? 14:04.160 --> 14:06.160 Hello? 14:06.160 --> 14:08.160 He hung up. 14:08.160 --> 14:10.160 Ma'am? 14:10.160 --> 14:12.160 It was Ray Williams. 14:12.160 --> 14:14.160 Said he just drove by here. He saw us. 14:14.160 --> 14:15.160 What did he want? 14:15.160 --> 14:17.160 He saw me talking to you. He knows you're a policeman. 14:17.160 --> 14:20.160 Told me to keep my mouth shut. Said if I don't, he's coming back. 14:20.160 --> 14:21.160 Yeah. 14:21.160 --> 14:23.160 Said he'd kill me. 14:23.160 --> 14:30.160 Before we left, we called in and arranged for a 24-hour stakeout on Lawrence's pet shop and also on the Lawrence home. 14:30.160 --> 14:34.160 Until the suspect was apprehended, she would be given a 24-hour protection. 14:34.160 --> 14:39.160 The next day, we picked up Mrs. Lawrence and brought her downtown to the City Hall, Room 23. 14:39.160 --> 14:42.160 We went through the same procedure with her as we had with her husband. 14:42.160 --> 14:47.160 Like her husband, she was unable to identify any of the photographs of police officers in the area. 14:47.160 --> 14:51.160 In addition to the personnel photographs, Mrs. Lawrence also went through a group of pictures 14:51.160 --> 14:54.160 which Sergeants Reiner and Phillips came up with. 14:54.160 --> 14:59.160 They'd had a run made through the staff's office on all known extortionists using the same ammo Williams used, 14:59.160 --> 15:01.160 posing as a police officer. 15:01.160 --> 15:06.160 From this group, both Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence gave us two partial identifications. 15:06.160 --> 15:09.160 Both men were picked up, questioned, and eliminated. 15:09.160 --> 15:14.160 Meantime, we'd gotten out a local broadcast and a teletype was sent to George Brereton, C.I.I. Sacramento, 15:14.160 --> 15:17.160 asking for assistance in identifying the extortion suspect. 15:17.160 --> 15:19.160 The investigation went on. 15:19.160 --> 15:22.160 Two days passed. No leads on the suspect. 15:22.160 --> 15:26.160 In checking on other possible victims of the extortionists, Ray Williams, 15:26.160 --> 15:30.160 we drove to interview Myra Thomas, operator of a beauty shop out on Crenshaw. 15:30.160 --> 15:33.160 She was a tall, good-looking brunette in her early thirties. 15:33.160 --> 15:36.160 This man we're looking for is Thomas Ray Williams. We understand he's a friend of yours. 15:36.160 --> 15:40.160 Please, Sergeant, you've described the man to me. You told me his name. It doesn't mean anything to me. 15:40.160 --> 15:41.160 I don't know him. 15:41.160 --> 15:42.160 Well, then how'd he get your name, Miss? 15:42.160 --> 15:44.160 I'm sure I don't know. I'm sorry. I can't help you. 15:44.160 --> 15:47.160 Well, now apparently the man knows you or he knows about you. 15:47.160 --> 15:51.160 I don't think I understand you. It makes you think this man Williams knows me. 15:51.160 --> 15:54.160 Well, we've already told you, ma'am. Mr. Lawrence says that when Ray Williams first approached him, 15:54.160 --> 15:56.160 he used your name as a means of introduction. 15:56.160 --> 15:58.160 Now, it's not a coincidence. I think you'll admit that. 15:58.160 --> 16:00.160 I just don't understand what it has to do with me. 16:00.160 --> 16:03.160 I know how you feel. I have an idea of what you're thinking. 16:03.160 --> 16:06.160 I was in trouble once, that bookmaking thing. 16:06.160 --> 16:08.160 I learned my lesson now. I'm through with that business. 16:08.160 --> 16:11.160 We're not here about that old arrest, ma'am. We don't want to bother you. 16:11.160 --> 16:13.160 Just thought you might be able to help us locate Williams. 16:13.160 --> 16:15.160 I'm sorry. I don't think I can. 16:15.160 --> 16:17.160 Possibly he might have been using another name, ma'am. 16:17.160 --> 16:21.160 I still wouldn't know him. The description doesn't sound like anybody I ever knew. 16:21.160 --> 16:23.160 You know the Lawrence's pretty well, do you? 16:23.160 --> 16:25.160 Yes, I wouldn't say pretty well, but I do know them. 16:25.160 --> 16:27.160 Have you seen them lately, either one of them? 16:27.160 --> 16:28.160 No, I haven't. 16:28.160 --> 16:30.160 You haven't talked with Mrs. Lawrence the last couple of days? 16:30.160 --> 16:31.160 No, why? 16:31.160 --> 16:34.160 We thought Mrs. Lawrence might have told you what kind of a man this Ray Williams is. 16:34.160 --> 16:37.160 What do you mean? What's so bad about posing as a policeman? 16:37.160 --> 16:41.160 Well, it's more than that, ma'am. He telephoned Mrs. Lawrence, threatened her if she talked to the police about him. 16:41.160 --> 16:42.160 What? 16:41.160 --> 16:43.160 Yes, ma'am. He said he'd kill her. 16:43.160 --> 16:45.160 Oh, no. Yes, ma'am, that's right. 16:45.160 --> 16:48.160 Couldn't be. He wouldn't do a thing like that. 16:48.160 --> 16:50.160 You know him that well? 17:00.160 --> 17:05.160 You are listening to Dragnet, authentic stories of your police force in action. 17:05.160 --> 17:11.160 Because of its quality, Fatima is the one king-sized cigarette that stands up. 17:11.160 --> 17:13.160 Here's the practical way to prove that yourself. 17:13.160 --> 17:17.160 Compare Fatima with any other king-sized cigarette. 17:17.160 --> 17:22.160 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 17:22.160 --> 17:25.160 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 17:25.160 --> 17:32.160 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21 percent longer than standard cigarette size. 17:32.160 --> 17:34.160 Fatima gives you more for your money. 17:34.160 --> 17:39.160 And in king-sized Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke. 17:39.160 --> 17:42.160 Plus, the added protection of Fatima quality. 17:42.160 --> 17:47.160 Because of its quality, its extra mildness, and superbly blended tobaccos, 17:47.160 --> 17:52.160 more and more smokers coast to coast are switching to Fatima every day. 17:52.160 --> 17:56.160 Buy Fatima. Your money back plus postage. 17:56.160 --> 18:00.160 If you're not convinced, Fatima is better than the king-sized cigarette you are now smoking. 18:00.160 --> 18:05.160 Just return the pack and the unsmoked Fatimas by August 1st, 1952. 18:05.160 --> 18:08.160 Fatima, Box 37, New York 1. 18:08.160 --> 18:10.160 Add to your smoking enjoyment. 18:10.160 --> 18:15.160 Smoke king-sized Fatima. Extra mild and soothing. 18:15.160 --> 18:18.160 Plus, the added protection of Fatima quality. 18:18.160 --> 18:22.160 Get Fatima in the bright, sunny yellow pack. 18:22.160 --> 18:25.160 Best of all, king-sized cigarettes. 18:25.160 --> 18:36.160 The idea of an extortionist posing as a policeman to obtain money certainly was nothing new. 18:36.160 --> 18:38.160 The idea is as old as crime itself. 18:38.160 --> 18:42.160 It's one of the most vicious types of extortion in the eyes of law enforcement agencies 18:42.160 --> 18:47.160 because so many such cases go unreported to proper authorities by the victims. 18:47.160 --> 18:50.160 Usually, the victim is a person of circumstances with something to hide. 18:50.160 --> 18:54.160 The extortionist discovers the person's secret by one means or another, 18:54.160 --> 18:58.160 and he begins the never-ending process of draining the victim of his last dollar, 18:58.160 --> 19:01.160 all under the guise of being a police officer. 19:01.160 --> 19:05.160 If the victim's intelligent enough, at the first approach by the extortionist, 19:05.160 --> 19:07.160 he takes the matter to the proper authorities. 19:07.160 --> 19:11.160 If he isn't, and he's lucky enough eventually to escape the extortion trap, 19:11.160 --> 19:15.160 he goes on for the rest of his life believing that a man who was hired to protect him 19:15.160 --> 19:17.160 was the source of all his trouble. 19:17.160 --> 19:21.160 And for the rest of his life, he hangs on to his idea, and he passes it on to others. 19:21.160 --> 19:26.160 A complete disrespect for law and law enforcement officers. 19:26.160 --> 19:33.160 Saturday, October 22, 2.15 p.m., Frank Smith and I continued questioning the beauty shop operator, Myra Thomas. 19:33.160 --> 19:38.160 The more we talked with her, the more we were convinced that she was acquainted with the suspect, Ray Williams. 19:38.160 --> 19:43.160 In order to convince her of the suspect's viciousness, we drove her over to see Mrs. Lawrence at the pet shop. 19:43.160 --> 19:48.160 After their talk, we drove Myra Thomas back to the beauty shop, and she told us the story. 19:48.160 --> 19:52.160 Guess I have to admit it, he certainly had me fooled. I thought he was a policeman. 19:52.160 --> 19:55.160 You say he showed you his identification, ma'am, I mean when he first approached you. 19:55.160 --> 19:59.160 Yes, he showed me a badge that looked authentic to me, and the way he talked, the things he said. 19:59.160 --> 20:01.160 I thought he was a policeman, I really did. 20:01.160 --> 20:05.160 Well, you've heard our end of the story, Miss Thomas. You've talked to Mrs. Lawrence. Are you willing to help us now? 20:05.160 --> 20:08.160 We won't get around, will we? Won't we need newspapers? 20:08.160 --> 20:09.160 They won't get it from us, no. 20:09.160 --> 20:12.160 You won't tell my husband, will you? He doesn't have to know all about this. 20:12.160 --> 20:14.160 No, ma'am, not unless you want him to. 20:14.160 --> 20:18.160 Well, I don't. We're not getting along too well, as it is. Williams is in trouble, too. 20:18.160 --> 20:21.160 Guess I should have told you when you first asked me. 20:21.160 --> 20:22.160 What's that, miss? 20:22.160 --> 20:26.160 Just like the Lawrence's, I was paying him off, too. A lot longer than the Lawrence's. 20:26.160 --> 20:29.160 Every week I paid him, and I couldn't tell anyone. Couldn't even tell my husband. 20:29.160 --> 20:30.160 What's that, ma'am? 20:30.160 --> 20:33.160 Guess I thought I was smart, the bookmaking thing I need. 20:33.160 --> 20:36.160 Started taking a few bets from the girls in the shop, just small ones. 20:36.160 --> 20:39.160 I didn't mean anything by it, and Miss Williams came in one day. 20:39.160 --> 20:43.160 Said his girlfriend made a bet with me, and wanted to place one, too. 20:43.160 --> 20:44.160 Did you take it? 20:44.160 --> 20:46.160 Yes, like I told you, I thought I was smart. 20:46.160 --> 20:50.160 And if I took the bet, he showed me the badge, told me he was a police officer. 20:50.160 --> 20:53.160 That's when it started. Same thing, just like the Lawrence's. 20:53.160 --> 20:56.160 How about after you were arrested, Miss Thomas? What happened with Williams then? 20:56.160 --> 21:00.160 Oh, after I got it settled, Williams came back to the shop again. 21:00.160 --> 21:03.160 I told him then I was through with the horses. Wouldn't have anything to do with it again. 21:03.160 --> 21:06.160 After that, I didn't see him for a while. I sure was glad. 21:06.160 --> 21:08.160 You've seen him since? You know where we can locate him now? 21:08.160 --> 21:11.160 Oh, no, I don't. I have seen him since, though. 21:11.160 --> 21:14.160 You promised me my husband won't know about this. You're giving me your word. 21:14.160 --> 21:17.160 Miss Thomas, if you don't want your husband to know about this, it's your business. 21:17.160 --> 21:18.160 He'll never hear it from us. 21:18.160 --> 21:21.160 Got to be that way, believe me. I love my husband. 21:21.160 --> 21:23.160 Ray Williams has caused us nothing but trouble. 21:23.160 --> 21:27.160 Can't tell you the worries he's caused me. I mean, besides all the money I paid him, too. 21:27.160 --> 21:28.160 You mean you're still paying him? 21:28.160 --> 21:30.160 Yes, that's right. Every week. 21:30.160 --> 21:33.160 You know how low that man is. I can't begin to tell you. 21:33.160 --> 21:34.160 I thought he was a policeman. 21:34.160 --> 21:37.160 Why are you still paying him off, ma'am? You mind telling us that? 21:37.160 --> 21:40.160 No, I guess I don't mind. I've gone this far. 21:40.160 --> 21:42.160 All right. 21:42.160 --> 21:46.160 It was while my husband and I were separated. We had a fight when we were separated. 21:46.160 --> 21:48.160 I started going out on dates. Nothing serious. 21:48.160 --> 21:51.160 One night, I was out with a fella from other town. 21:51.160 --> 21:54.160 Nice fella. Ray Williams saw me. 21:54.160 --> 21:57.160 A fella sitting in the car, parked him out right in the back of the bar. 21:57.160 --> 22:01.160 We were necking. Williams came by and knew that I saw him. 22:01.160 --> 22:02.160 I see. 22:02.160 --> 22:04.160 Wasn't anything wrong, really. I love my husband. 22:04.160 --> 22:06.160 He wouldn't understand about the fella that night, though. 22:06.160 --> 22:08.160 I mean, if Williams ever told him. 22:08.160 --> 22:10.160 That's what he's been holding over your head, Henry? 22:10.160 --> 22:13.160 Yes. It's more than a year now. I pay him every week. 22:13.160 --> 22:16.160 I'll tell you the truth, Sergeant. I can't go on much longer. I can't. 22:16.160 --> 22:18.160 Well, you don't have to worry about it anymore. 22:18.160 --> 22:20.160 Just help us locate the man. That's all you have to do now. 22:20.160 --> 22:24.160 Well, I don't know where he lives, but I know he's gonna contact me. He always does. 22:24.160 --> 22:26.160 That's what we'd like to know. How does he contact you? 22:26.160 --> 22:28.160 He phones, usually once a week, maybe every other week. 22:28.160 --> 22:32.160 He calls me and tells me to meet him someplace and bring the money. $50 every week. 22:32.160 --> 22:34.160 And you have a regular time that he calls you? 22:34.160 --> 22:38.160 No, almost any time. It's never the same day, never the same place I meet him. 22:38.160 --> 22:41.160 I haven't heard from him in over a week now. He should be calling pretty soon, I guess. 22:41.160 --> 22:43.160 Uh-huh. Easily call here. Does he phone you at home? 22:43.160 --> 22:46.160 Both places. He always seems to know where to reach me. 22:46.160 --> 22:48.160 I don't know what I'm gonna do this time. I just don't know. 22:48.160 --> 22:50.160 Ma'am? 22:50.160 --> 22:53.160 I haven't got the money for him. I'm broke. Four or five dollars, that's all I have. 22:53.160 --> 22:54.160 Well, don't worry about it. 22:54.160 --> 22:56.160 But he's gonna want his payoff. You know that. What am I gonna do? 22:56.160 --> 22:58.160 This time it's on us. 22:58.160 --> 23:01.160 BAND PLAYS 23:01.160 --> 23:05.160 Before we left Myra Thomas at the beauty shop, we had a definite understanding 23:05.160 --> 23:08.160 that as soon as she heard from the extortionist, Ray Williams, 23:08.160 --> 23:11.160 she was to call us immediately, any time of the day or night. 23:11.160 --> 23:14.160 Then we called the office and made arrangements for stake-outs 23:14.160 --> 23:17.160 to be placed both at the beauty shop and at Myra Thomas' home 23:17.160 --> 23:20.160 in case Williams decided to contact her in person. 23:20.160 --> 23:23.160 The Thomas woman was given a plain envelope containing $50 23:23.160 --> 23:26.160 and marked bills which she was to hand over to the suspect 23:26.160 --> 23:29.160 the next time he demanded his regular payoff. 23:29.160 --> 23:33.160 Two days went by. Tuesday, October 25th. 23:33.160 --> 23:36.160 No word on the suspect. Thursday, the 27th. 23:36.160 --> 23:40.160 Still no word. Saturday morning, October 29th. 23:40.160 --> 23:42.160 PHONE RINGS 23:42.160 --> 23:43.160 I got it. Right. 23:43.160 --> 23:46.160 Vice-Detail Smith. How's that? 23:46.160 --> 23:49.160 Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. I see. Hold on, huh? Pencil, Joe? 23:49.160 --> 23:51.160 Yeah. Here you go. 23:51.160 --> 23:54.160 Over to that place again? Okay. 23:54.160 --> 23:57.160 The time? Mm-hmm. 23:57.160 --> 23:59.160 Yeah, surely. In about half an hour. 23:59.160 --> 24:01.160 Yes, ma'am. We'll be there. Goodbye. 24:01.160 --> 24:03.160 What do you got, Frank? Anything? Yeah, Myra Thomas. 24:03.160 --> 24:06.160 Yeah? He wants to see us. I told her we'd be over in about half an hour. 24:06.160 --> 24:08.160 What's the deal? Williams called her. He wants his money. 24:08.160 --> 24:10.160 PHONE RINGS 24:10.160 --> 24:12.160 11.15 a.m. 24:12.160 --> 24:16.160 Frank and I got in the car and drove out to see Myra Thomas at her apartment. 24:16.160 --> 24:19.160 She told us that the suspect, Ray Williams, had telephoned her 24:19.160 --> 24:22.160 shortly before 11 o'clock that morning and set up a date to meet her 24:22.160 --> 24:25.160 for his regular payoff at 10 o'clock that night. 24:25.160 --> 24:29.160 The designated meeting place was a small nightclub out on Santa Monica Boulevard. 24:29.160 --> 24:31.160 The Thomas woman was to meet Williams at the bar. 24:31.160 --> 24:33.160 We told her to get there a few minutes ahead of time, 24:33.160 --> 24:36.160 and if she happened to spot Frank and I in the nightclub, 24:36.160 --> 24:38.160 she was to give no sign of recognition. 24:38.160 --> 24:40.160 As far as the actual payoff was concerned, 24:40.160 --> 24:43.160 we instructed her to hand over the envelope containing the money 24:43.160 --> 24:46.160 to the suspect when he demanded it without any argument. 24:46.160 --> 24:48.160 Shortly after 9 o'clock that night, 24:48.160 --> 24:52.160 Frank and I entered the nightclub and got a table directly adjoining the bar. 24:52.160 --> 24:57.160 It was a modernistic affair, lighted from below with a blue fluorescent lamp. 24:57.160 --> 25:00.160 A four-piece orchestra was playing at the rear of the place. 25:00.160 --> 25:01.160 Nobody was dancing. 25:01.160 --> 25:06.160 Only a few of the tables were occupied, but the bar was doing a good business. 25:06.160 --> 25:09.160 We waited. 9.30. 9.45. 25:09.160 --> 25:12.160 We spotted Myra Thomas as she entered the club. 25:12.160 --> 25:15.160 She went to the far end of the bar, sat down on one of the stools, 25:15.160 --> 25:19.160 and ordered a highball. 9.50. 10.00 p.m. 25:19.160 --> 25:22.160 We kept waiting. 10.15. 10.30. 25:22.160 --> 25:24.160 Still no sign of the suspect. 25:24.160 --> 25:27.160 We watched Myra Thomas order another highball. 25:27.160 --> 25:29.160 Getting late, Joe. 25:29.160 --> 25:30.160 Yeah, what time you got? 25:30.160 --> 25:31.160 25 to 11. 25:31.160 --> 25:32.160 Joe? 25:32.160 --> 25:34.160 Just came in, coming this way, gray suit. 25:34.160 --> 25:35.160 Yeah. 25:35.160 --> 25:36.160 What do you think? 25:36.160 --> 25:37.160 Description fits, doesn't it? 25:37.160 --> 25:39.160 It must be. Going up to Miss Thomas, talking to her. 25:39.160 --> 25:40.160 All right. 25:40.160 --> 25:41.160 He's got the envelope. 25:41.160 --> 25:42.160 All right, just a minute. Let's give him room. 25:42.160 --> 25:44.160 He's leaving. Going for the front door. 25:44.160 --> 25:45.160 What do you say? 25:45.160 --> 25:46.160 All right, let's go. 25:46.160 --> 25:47.160 Not wasting any time. 25:47.160 --> 25:48.160 Come on, let's hurry. 25:52.160 --> 25:53.160 Down the street. Come on. 25:54.160 --> 25:55.160 All right, Mr. Holden. 25:55.160 --> 25:56.160 What's the matter? What do you want? 25:56.160 --> 25:58.160 Police officers would like to talk to you. 25:58.160 --> 25:59.160 Me? What about? What's the matter? 25:59.160 --> 26:00.160 You got your identification? 26:00.160 --> 26:01.160 Well, sure, right here. What do you want? 26:01.160 --> 26:02.160 We'd like to look at it. 26:02.160 --> 26:04.160 Oh, sure. I hear you. 26:04.160 --> 26:05.160 Oh, excuse me. 26:05.160 --> 26:06.160 That's your badge? 26:06.160 --> 26:07.160 Oh, no, it's nothing. 26:07.160 --> 26:08.160 Where'd you get that phony badge? 26:08.160 --> 26:09.160 A friend of mine. 26:09.160 --> 26:10.160 Why? What's the matter? 26:10.160 --> 26:11.160 What do you got in your right-hand pocket? 26:11.160 --> 26:13.160 Nothing. Just an envelope. Why? 26:13.160 --> 26:14.160 Is there money in that envelope? 26:14.160 --> 26:15.160 What's that? 26:15.160 --> 26:16.160 I said, is there any money in that envelope? 26:16.160 --> 26:17.160 Currency. 26:17.160 --> 26:18.160 Yeah, I think so. Why? What's the difference? 26:18.160 --> 26:20.160 You know the serial numbers on the bills in that envelope? 26:20.160 --> 26:22.160 Look, I don't know what you mean, serial numbers on the money. 26:22.160 --> 26:23.160 What are you getting at? 26:23.160 --> 26:25.160 You got seven pieces of paper money in that envelope. 26:25.160 --> 26:27.160 Three $10 bills and four fives. 26:27.160 --> 26:28.160 Yeah, what about it? 26:28.160 --> 26:29.160 Extortion, mister. You know the pitch. 26:29.160 --> 26:30.160 Now, come on. Let's go. 26:30.160 --> 26:31.160 Now, hold it. Wait a minute. 26:31.160 --> 26:36.160 Let's get this straight, huh? So I got an envelope in my pocket, an ordinary envelope. 26:36.160 --> 26:37.160 That's supposed to make me a criminal? 26:37.160 --> 26:40.160 No. No more, and that badge makes you a cop. Come on. 26:47.160 --> 26:49.160 The story you have just heard was true. 26:49.160 --> 26:52.160 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:52.160 --> 26:56.160 On January 8th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 86, 26:56.160 --> 26:58.160 City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 26:58.160 --> 27:00.160 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:00.160 --> 27:03.160 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:03.160 --> 27:05.160 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:05.160 --> 27:10.160 Friends, our sales records show that more and more smokers every day are switching to king-size Fatima. 27:10.160 --> 27:13.160 Now, this makes us feel especially good because it backs up what we've been telling you, 27:13.160 --> 27:15.160 that Fatima gives you more for your money. 27:15.160 --> 27:18.160 No other king-size cigarette can match Fatima quality. 27:18.160 --> 27:22.160 When you buy your first pack and compare them with the cigarette you've been smoking, 27:22.160 --> 27:25.160 you'll notice Fatimas do have a better flavor and aroma, 27:25.160 --> 27:28.160 and you'll like their extra mild and soothing smoke. 27:28.160 --> 27:30.160 Next time, buy Fatima. 27:30.160 --> 27:32.160 Best of all, king-size cigarettes. 27:32.160 --> 27:44.160 Raymond Edward Williams was tried and convicted of extortion one count 27:44.160 --> 27:46.160 and impersonating an officer one count. 27:46.160 --> 27:51.160 He received sentences as prescribed by law and is now serving his term in the state penitentiary. 27:51.160 --> 27:56.160 Extortion is punishable by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years. 27:56.160 --> 28:01.160 Impersonation of an officer is punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 28:01.160 --> 28:07.160 or by imprisonment for not more than one year or by both such fine and imprisonment. 28:07.160 --> 28:10.160 Friends, sometime during the next two weeks, you'll be asked to buy a poppy 28:10.160 --> 28:13.160 in memory of those who fought to keep freedom alive. 28:13.160 --> 28:16.160 Give generously when you're asked and wear your poppy proudly. 28:16.160 --> 28:29.160 You have just heard Dragnet, the series of authentic cases from official files. 28:29.160 --> 28:34.160 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:34.160 --> 28:39.160 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Frasier. 28:39.160 --> 28:42.160 Heard tonight were Herb Ellis, Vic Rodman, June Whitley. 28:42.160 --> 28:48.160 Script by Jim Mosig, music by Walter Schuman, Hal Gibney speaking. 28:48.160 --> 28:53.160 King size Fatima, made by the same people who make popular Chesterfield cigarettes, 28:53.160 --> 29:04.160 has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:04.160 --> 29:16.160 Stay tuned for Counterspy next on NBC.