1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Sound off for Chesterfield. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:13,160 Chesterfield, first cigarette in America to give you premium quality in both regular and 3 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:22,840 king size brings you drag men. 4 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:26,720 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 5 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:39,360 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 6 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,000 You're a detective sergeant. 7 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,240 You're assigned to homicide detail. 8 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,560 You got a call that a man has been murdered. 9 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,280 His killer is unknown. 10 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:53,040 Your job, get him. 11 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,760 Here's what the tobacco trade press has had to say about Chesterfield. 12 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:01,040 U.S. Tobacco Journal, Boston, Massachusetts. 13 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:05,280 Chesterfield cigarettes in the new king size is still maintaining large turnovers in this 14 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:06,280 area. 15 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:11,440 Dealers report that sales continue to climb on this size and it seems that volume on the 16 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,360 regular size has climbed to new heights with its big brother. 17 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:21,240 And Tobacco Leaf reports from Chicago, more calls for Chesterfield king size cigarettes 18 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,160 than for most brands being marketed. 19 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:29,120 Dealers all over the country tell us no product they ever handled has grown so fast in so 20 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,520 short a time as king size Chesterfield. 21 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:38,600 King size cigarettes give you quantity, but only Chesterfield king size gives you quantity 22 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,920 plus quality, premium quality. 23 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:47,160 Chesterfield king size contains tobaccos of better quality and higher price than any other 24 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:48,840 king size cigarettes. 25 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:54,000 In fact, the only difference between Chesterfield king size and Chesterfield regular is that 26 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,560 the king size is larger, contains more of these same tobaccos, enough to give you more 27 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,960 than a one-fifth longer smoke. 28 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:09,120 So remember, Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give smokers premium quality in both regular 29 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,560 and king size. 30 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,800 Ask your dealer for Chesterfield, either way you like them. 31 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,800 Premium quality Chesterfields and much milder. 32 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:28,080 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 33 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:33,000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 34 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,640 travel step by step on the side of the law to an actual case transcribed from official 35 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:39,340 police files. 36 00:02:39,340 --> 00:02:44,540 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 37 00:02:44,540 --> 00:02:50,160 in action. 38 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:51,160 Was Saturday, May 12th. 39 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:52,160 It was warm in Los Angeles. 40 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,600 We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 41 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:55,600 My partner's Frank Smith. 42 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:56,600 The boss is Captain Warman. 43 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:57,600 My name's Friday. 44 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,600 It was 8.04 a.m. when I got to room 42. 45 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:01,600 Homicide. 46 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:02,600 After you, Joe? 47 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:03,600 Yeah, I'm sorry I'm late, Frank. 48 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:04,600 I got held up in traffic. 49 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:05,600 Okay, no problem. 50 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:06,600 I'll sure be dead when I get that freeway finished, won't you? 51 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,600 Around the end of the pass this time of the morning, you can't go more than 10 miles an 52 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:12,600 hour. 53 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:13,600 Yeah, cars really climb up around Franklin. 54 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:14,600 Oh boy, when we get through tonight, I'm gonna go straight to bed. 55 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:15,600 I might not even stop to eat. 56 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:16,600 Oh, what's the matter? 57 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:17,600 Have trouble getting to sleep last night? 58 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:18,600 Well, I wouldn't have had any trouble if I'd had the chance to do it. 59 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:19,600 What do you mean, I'll get it? 60 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:20,600 My brother-in-law. 61 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:21,600 Oh, what'd he have to do with it? 62 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:22,600 Well, a couple of weeks ago, he sent away for one of those courses in hypnotism at home. 63 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:23,600 Book got to the house yesterday right away. 64 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:24,600 He's got a new career. 65 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:25,600 He's gonna go into the hypnotism business. 66 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:26,600 All right. 67 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:27,600 Yeah. 68 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,600 Book tells how if you do it right, you can have full control over people and make them 69 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:29,600 do things you want, all that stuff. 70 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:30,600 Right away, he's got a new career. 71 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:31,600 He's got a new job. 72 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:43,600 He's got a new job. 73 00:03:43,600 --> 00:04:02,600 He's got a new job. 74 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:17,600 He's got a new job. 75 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:32,600 He's got a new job. 76 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:47,600 He's got a new job. 77 00:04:47,600 --> 00:05:02,600 He's got a new job. 78 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:17,600 He's got a new job. 79 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:32,600 He's got a new job. 80 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:47,600 He's got a new job. 81 00:05:47,600 --> 00:06:02,600 He's got a new job. 82 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:17,600 He's got a new job. 83 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:32,600 He's got a new job. 84 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:47,600 He's got a new job. 85 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:59,600 He's got a new job. 86 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:16,600 He's got a new job. 87 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:18,940 was going to have enough trouble as it was. 88 00:07:18,940 --> 00:07:20,940 I don't think I understand. 89 00:07:20,940 --> 00:07:22,940 Suicide Sergeant. 90 00:07:22,940 --> 00:07:24,940 The one unforgivable sin. 91 00:07:24,940 --> 00:07:26,940 Yes ma'am. 92 00:07:26,940 --> 00:07:28,940 Okay Joe, I called him. 93 00:07:28,940 --> 00:07:32,940 Checked with the fellas in the car there looking around the neighborhood. 94 00:07:32,940 --> 00:07:33,940 Miss Curtis. 95 00:07:33,940 --> 00:07:34,940 Yes. 96 00:07:34,940 --> 00:07:36,940 I wonder if you could give us a description of the man you saw. 97 00:07:36,940 --> 00:07:37,940 We'd like to get out a call on him. 98 00:07:37,940 --> 00:07:38,940 Of course. 99 00:07:38,940 --> 00:07:39,940 I saw him pretty good. 100 00:07:39,940 --> 00:07:40,940 Just standing there looking at me. 101 00:07:40,940 --> 00:07:42,940 Well how old a man would you say he was? 102 00:07:42,940 --> 00:07:44,940 Maybe 35 or 40. 103 00:07:44,940 --> 00:07:46,940 Maybe older than that I'm sure. 104 00:07:46,940 --> 00:07:48,940 How tall would you say he was? 105 00:07:48,940 --> 00:07:49,940 Taller than you. 106 00:07:49,940 --> 00:07:50,940 About how much taller? 107 00:07:50,940 --> 00:07:52,940 Oh, maybe a couple of inches. 108 00:07:52,940 --> 00:07:54,940 I think about six one or two, is that right? 109 00:07:54,940 --> 00:07:56,940 Yes, I think that's pretty close. 110 00:07:56,940 --> 00:07:58,940 About his weight, how heavy do you think he was? 111 00:07:58,940 --> 00:08:00,940 I'm not very good at that. 112 00:08:00,940 --> 00:08:02,940 I'd guess about 180 around there. 113 00:08:02,940 --> 00:08:04,940 What about his clothes? 114 00:08:04,940 --> 00:08:06,940 What was he wearing, could you remember? 115 00:08:06,940 --> 00:08:10,940 He had on one of those blue denim outfits, you know the trousers and the jacket, light blue. 116 00:08:10,940 --> 00:08:14,940 His coat had that dark blue trim knitted around the bottom and collar. 117 00:08:14,940 --> 00:08:16,940 Had on a white shirt, no tie. 118 00:08:16,940 --> 00:08:19,940 And a pair of those shoes with a real thick sole. 119 00:08:19,940 --> 00:08:20,940 That rubber. 120 00:08:20,940 --> 00:08:22,940 Anything unusual about him? 121 00:08:22,940 --> 00:08:23,940 I don't think I know what you mean. 122 00:08:23,940 --> 00:08:27,940 Well did he have any marks or scars, anything that might make it easier for us to identify him? 123 00:08:27,940 --> 00:08:29,940 No, not that I could see. 124 00:08:29,940 --> 00:08:32,940 But you won't have any trouble identifying him. 125 00:08:32,940 --> 00:08:34,940 I'll tell you if you have the right one or not. 126 00:08:34,940 --> 00:08:36,940 Did he have a car, would you know that? 127 00:08:36,940 --> 00:08:38,940 I don't think so, I didn't see one. 128 00:08:38,940 --> 00:08:40,940 Thank you ma'am. 129 00:08:40,940 --> 00:08:42,940 I'll call us in right away Joe, get out the local and APB. 130 00:08:42,940 --> 00:08:43,940 Yeah, Miss Curtis? 131 00:08:43,940 --> 00:08:44,940 Yes. 132 00:08:44,940 --> 00:08:47,940 Could you tell us exactly what time the shooting took place? 133 00:08:47,940 --> 00:08:50,940 Not exactly, but I'd say about a quarter to eight. 134 00:08:50,940 --> 00:08:52,940 Did this man say anything to you? 135 00:08:52,940 --> 00:08:54,940 No, not a word. 136 00:08:54,940 --> 00:08:57,940 You never saw him before, maybe around the neighborhood of the stars, in the street some place? 137 00:08:57,940 --> 00:08:59,940 No, I never saw him, I know that. 138 00:08:59,940 --> 00:09:01,940 But if I see him again, I'll know him. 139 00:09:01,940 --> 00:09:03,940 Alright ma'am, I'll be right back Joe. 140 00:09:03,940 --> 00:09:06,940 I hope you won't take offense ma'am. 141 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:07,940 What's that sergeant? 142 00:09:07,940 --> 00:09:10,940 Well you don't seem too greatly concerned about your son's death here. 143 00:09:10,940 --> 00:09:12,940 I thought I'd explain that to you. 144 00:09:12,940 --> 00:09:15,940 I told you that I have to figure that it's the Lord's will. 145 00:09:15,940 --> 00:09:20,940 I might as well tell you sergeant, you'll probably find out anyway. 146 00:09:20,940 --> 00:09:21,940 What's that ma'am? 147 00:09:21,940 --> 00:09:24,940 Well, Jeff and I had a few arguments. 148 00:09:24,940 --> 00:09:27,940 Nothing serious, but we did have words. 149 00:09:27,940 --> 00:09:29,940 How may you pardon me? 150 00:09:29,940 --> 00:09:31,940 Well, I told you that my daughter took her own life. 151 00:09:31,940 --> 00:09:32,940 Oh yeah. 152 00:09:32,940 --> 00:09:34,940 She lived with us here in this house. 153 00:09:34,940 --> 00:09:37,940 I thought it was a happy home. 154 00:09:37,940 --> 00:09:39,940 I found out it wasn't. 155 00:09:39,940 --> 00:09:41,940 I found out too well. 156 00:09:41,940 --> 00:09:44,940 You see Alice, that's my daughter. 157 00:09:44,940 --> 00:09:45,940 Yes ma'am. 158 00:09:45,940 --> 00:09:47,940 Well she was going to marry. 159 00:09:47,940 --> 00:09:50,940 She'd met a young man who worked in an aircraft factory. 160 00:09:50,940 --> 00:09:52,940 She seemed to think he was very nice. 161 00:09:52,940 --> 00:09:54,940 I couldn't see much in him. 162 00:09:54,940 --> 00:09:56,940 I told her so. 163 00:09:56,940 --> 00:10:01,940 We had quite a few rows about it, once when he was here. 164 00:10:01,940 --> 00:10:04,940 On that night, the row, Alice's young man left, 165 00:10:04,940 --> 00:10:07,940 made quite a fuss about my trying to run the children's lives. 166 00:10:07,940 --> 00:10:10,940 Told Alice that he'd marry her right away that night. 167 00:10:10,940 --> 00:10:14,940 But when they were married, he didn't want to have anything to do with Jeff or me. 168 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:16,940 Well did Jeff take any part in this quarrel? 169 00:10:16,940 --> 00:10:17,940 No my yes. 170 00:10:17,940 --> 00:10:19,940 Finally the young man stormed out of the house. 171 00:10:19,940 --> 00:10:22,940 Alice was in tears, just seemed to go to pieces. 172 00:10:22,940 --> 00:10:26,940 That night she took an overdose of sleeping pills. 173 00:10:26,940 --> 00:10:29,940 I'll never forget when I called her for breakfast. 174 00:10:29,940 --> 00:10:32,940 Terrible. 175 00:10:32,940 --> 00:10:35,940 That's not doing any good. 176 00:10:35,940 --> 00:10:37,940 I'm sorry sergeant. 177 00:10:37,940 --> 00:10:39,940 That's quite all right ma'am. 178 00:10:39,940 --> 00:10:41,940 Now you said you and your son had several arguments. 179 00:10:41,940 --> 00:10:43,940 Was it about this engagement thing? 180 00:10:43,940 --> 00:10:45,940 Yes, after Alice's funeral. 181 00:10:45,940 --> 00:10:47,940 Jeff seemed to sulk around the house. 182 00:10:47,940 --> 00:10:49,940 Then at night he'd go out and drink quite a bit. 183 00:10:49,940 --> 00:10:52,940 He seemed to think that I'd caused Alice to do away with herself. 184 00:10:52,940 --> 00:10:57,940 I tried to tell him that I didn't, that I was just as sorry as he was. 185 00:10:57,940 --> 00:11:01,940 I told him how badly I felt, but he didn't seem to do any good. 186 00:11:01,940 --> 00:11:03,940 Well have you heard from Alice's fiance since that night? 187 00:11:03,940 --> 00:11:05,940 He was at the funeral. 188 00:11:05,940 --> 00:11:07,940 What's his name Mrs. Criss? 189 00:11:07,940 --> 00:11:09,940 Dudley, Bruce Dudley. 190 00:11:09,940 --> 00:11:11,940 Do you know where we can get in touch with him? 191 00:11:11,940 --> 00:11:14,940 I think Jeff had his address. I can look for it. 192 00:11:14,940 --> 00:11:15,940 Thank you. 193 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:18,940 But you don't think that Bruce had anything to do with this? 194 00:11:18,940 --> 00:11:20,940 I know it wasn't him. I know Bruce. 195 00:11:20,940 --> 00:11:23,940 I know what he looks like. It wasn't him in the living room. 196 00:11:23,940 --> 00:11:25,940 Well we just want to talk to him ma'am. 197 00:11:25,940 --> 00:11:28,940 Of course he might have hired someone else. 198 00:11:28,940 --> 00:11:32,940 No, I'm sure Bruce had nothing to do with it. 199 00:11:32,940 --> 00:11:34,940 Even with what he did say. 200 00:11:34,940 --> 00:11:35,940 Ma'am? 201 00:11:35,940 --> 00:11:37,940 That night when they had the fight, 202 00:11:37,940 --> 00:11:40,940 Jeff told him that if he didn't get out he'd throw him out. 203 00:11:40,940 --> 00:11:45,940 When he left Bruce said that someday our meddling in other people's lives was going to backfire. 204 00:11:45,940 --> 00:11:48,940 That it might take some time but that we'd be repaid. 205 00:11:48,940 --> 00:11:50,940 And that look in his eyes when he went through the door, 206 00:11:50,940 --> 00:11:53,940 Sergeant, maybe he did do it. 207 00:11:53,940 --> 00:11:55,940 He looked mad enough to kill us both. 208 00:11:55,940 --> 00:12:00,940 912 A.M. 209 00:12:00,940 --> 00:12:02,940 The coroner arrived and removed the body. 210 00:12:02,940 --> 00:12:05,940 The men from the crime lab crew went over the place. 211 00:12:05,940 --> 00:12:08,940 A complete set of pictures was taken before the body was removed. 212 00:12:08,940 --> 00:12:12,940 Latent prints went over the rifle on the table and the cleaning apparatus. 213 00:12:12,940 --> 00:12:17,940 Frank and I noticed that the tablecloth on the living room table had been on the floor when we got to the house. 214 00:12:17,940 --> 00:12:21,940 Mrs. Curtis had told us that her son had grabbed it as he fell to the floor. 215 00:12:21,940 --> 00:12:23,940 We talked with the neighbors. 216 00:12:23,940 --> 00:12:27,940 One of them, Mrs. Alvin Kemper, said that she had been watering the lawn between 7.30 and 8.00 A.M. 217 00:12:27,940 --> 00:12:30,940 But that she had seen no one enter or leave the Curtis house. 218 00:12:30,940 --> 00:12:35,940 She told us that she had heard frequent and loud arguments between Mrs. Curtis and her son. 219 00:12:35,940 --> 00:12:37,940 Frank and I drove out to the address of Bruce Dudley. 220 00:12:37,940 --> 00:12:41,940 It was a modern one-room apartment on Riverside Drive in the San Fernando Valley. 221 00:12:41,940 --> 00:12:44,940 We rang the buzzer a second time and waited. 222 00:12:44,940 --> 00:12:45,940 Looks like he's not in. 223 00:12:45,940 --> 00:12:46,940 What time have you got? 224 00:12:46,940 --> 00:12:47,940 About 17. 225 00:12:47,940 --> 00:12:50,940 He's probably gone out. Come on, we can check the manager. 226 00:12:50,940 --> 00:12:52,940 Yeah? Mr. Dudley? 227 00:12:52,940 --> 00:12:53,940 Yeah, what do you want? 228 00:12:53,940 --> 00:12:54,940 We're police officers. We'd like to talk to you. 229 00:12:54,940 --> 00:12:56,940 Okay, come on in. 230 00:12:56,940 --> 00:12:58,940 I just got up out late last night. 231 00:12:58,940 --> 00:13:00,940 I don't feel at all well. 232 00:13:00,940 --> 00:13:03,940 Now move those clothes and sit down. I'm going to put a pot of coffee on. 233 00:13:03,940 --> 00:13:06,940 Oh, I feel like a troop of midgets ran barefoot over my tongue. 234 00:13:06,940 --> 00:13:08,940 Yes, sir. Go right ahead. 235 00:13:08,940 --> 00:13:09,940 What do you want to see me about? 236 00:13:09,940 --> 00:13:10,940 You know a Jeff Curtis? 237 00:13:10,940 --> 00:13:11,940 Yeah, I know him. 238 00:13:11,940 --> 00:13:13,940 Hey, what did you say your name's were? 239 00:13:13,940 --> 00:13:15,940 Well, my name's Friday. It's my partner, Frank Smith. 240 00:13:15,940 --> 00:13:17,940 You got any badge, something to prove that you're cops? 241 00:13:17,940 --> 00:13:19,940 Yes, sir. Here's my ID. 242 00:13:19,940 --> 00:13:22,940 Sergeant Joseph Friday. 243 00:13:22,940 --> 00:13:24,940 Okay. Now what's this about Jeff? 244 00:13:24,940 --> 00:13:26,940 He's dead, Mr. Dudley. 245 00:13:26,940 --> 00:13:27,940 Dead? 246 00:13:26,940 --> 00:13:27,940 Yes, sir. 247 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:28,940 How'd it happen? Accident? 248 00:13:28,940 --> 00:13:29,940 Well, we're not sure. 249 00:13:29,940 --> 00:13:30,940 He didn't kill himself, did he? 250 00:13:30,940 --> 00:13:31,940 Why do you ask that? 251 00:13:31,940 --> 00:13:33,940 I just thought he might have. 252 00:13:33,940 --> 00:13:36,940 Sister killed herself. Thought he might have done the same thing. 253 00:13:36,940 --> 00:13:38,940 Do you know of any reason that he'd do something like that? 254 00:13:38,940 --> 00:13:40,940 No, not that I could name. 255 00:13:40,940 --> 00:13:42,940 I understand you and Mr. Curtis didn't get along too well. 256 00:13:42,940 --> 00:13:44,940 We got along all right. 257 00:13:44,940 --> 00:13:47,940 Oh, when Alice and I split up, there were some worries and I think it's serious. 258 00:13:47,940 --> 00:13:49,940 Well, the way we get it, you were pretty sure of him. 259 00:13:49,940 --> 00:13:50,940 Yeah? 260 00:13:50,940 --> 00:13:52,940 Yeah. I understand you and he had quite an argument. 261 00:13:52,940 --> 00:13:53,940 He was ready to throw you out of the house. 262 00:13:53,940 --> 00:13:56,940 You've been talking to his mother. She's been throwing lies around again. 263 00:13:56,940 --> 00:13:58,940 Well, is it true? Did you and Curtis have an argument? 264 00:13:58,940 --> 00:13:59,940 Yeah, I got nothing to hide. 265 00:13:59,940 --> 00:14:01,940 You been out of the house this morning? 266 00:14:01,940 --> 00:14:02,940 No, why? 267 00:14:02,940 --> 00:14:04,940 Have any way of proving you were here all morning? 268 00:14:04,940 --> 00:14:06,940 Just got up. You know that. You guys got me out of bed. 269 00:14:06,940 --> 00:14:07,940 What are you trying to prove? 270 00:14:07,940 --> 00:14:09,940 Just want to know if you can account for your time, that's all. 271 00:14:09,940 --> 00:14:11,940 You think I had something to do with Jeff's death, is that it? 272 00:14:11,940 --> 00:14:12,940 We didn't say that. 273 00:14:12,940 --> 00:14:14,940 No, but you meant it. 274 00:14:14,940 --> 00:14:16,940 Oh, excuse me. I got to get the coffee. 275 00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:17,940 You want some coffee? 276 00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:18,940 No, no thanks. 277 00:14:18,940 --> 00:14:19,940 How about you? 278 00:14:19,940 --> 00:14:20,940 No. 279 00:14:20,940 --> 00:14:21,940 You don't mind if I have a cup, huh? 280 00:14:21,940 --> 00:14:22,940 No, sir. Go right ahead. 281 00:14:22,940 --> 00:14:23,940 Thanks. 282 00:14:31,940 --> 00:14:33,940 Ah, let's face it. 283 00:14:33,940 --> 00:14:35,940 You guys really think I had anything to do with what happened to Jeff? 284 00:14:35,940 --> 00:14:37,940 We're not paid to say what we think. We try to get the facts. 285 00:14:37,940 --> 00:14:38,940 Yeah. 286 00:14:38,940 --> 00:14:40,940 And if I was you, I'd concentrate on Mrs. Curtis. 287 00:14:40,940 --> 00:14:43,940 I wouldn't put it past the old bat to kill her own son. 288 00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:46,940 Check around the bar as a neighbor to talk to his friends, I'll tell you. 289 00:14:46,940 --> 00:14:50,940 His mother was scared to death that he'd marry one of these days, walk out on her. 290 00:14:50,940 --> 00:14:52,940 Used to be on his back all the time about the girls he went out with. 291 00:14:52,940 --> 00:14:53,940 I knew some of them. 292 00:14:53,940 --> 00:14:56,940 Alice and me used to double date with him once in a while. 293 00:14:56,940 --> 00:14:58,940 Did they ever have any arguments about this while you were around? 294 00:14:58,940 --> 00:15:00,940 A couple of times, yeah. 295 00:15:01,940 --> 00:15:03,940 If you don't believe me, why don't you check with Harry? 296 00:15:03,940 --> 00:15:04,940 He'll tell you the same story. 297 00:15:04,940 --> 00:15:06,940 Lord knows he went through enough of it. 298 00:15:06,940 --> 00:15:07,940 Harry? 299 00:15:07,940 --> 00:15:10,940 Yeah, Jeff's brother. He got married... 300 00:15:10,940 --> 00:15:12,940 Oh, let's see, about five years ago. 301 00:15:12,940 --> 00:15:14,940 Moved out of the house, locked, stocked in baggage. 302 00:15:14,940 --> 00:15:16,940 He went through a thrash with his mother about it. 303 00:15:16,940 --> 00:15:17,940 He'll tell you about it. 304 00:15:17,940 --> 00:15:19,940 Used to come over to see Jeff once in a while after he got married, 305 00:15:19,940 --> 00:15:22,940 but the old lady caused so much trouble that they started me at a bar. 306 00:15:22,940 --> 00:15:24,940 Got to the point where Harry wouldn't go in the house. 307 00:15:24,940 --> 00:15:25,940 Check with him, he'll tell you. 308 00:15:25,940 --> 00:15:27,940 You know where we can get in touch with him? 309 00:15:27,940 --> 00:15:28,940 No, I haven't got the address. 310 00:15:28,940 --> 00:15:29,940 Look it up in the book, Harry Curtis. 311 00:15:29,940 --> 00:15:31,940 I think it's out on Selma, someplace in Hollywood. 312 00:15:31,940 --> 00:15:32,940 All right, sir. 313 00:15:32,940 --> 00:15:33,940 Where do you work? 314 00:15:33,940 --> 00:15:34,940 Meier Aircraft. I'm a toolmaker. 315 00:15:34,940 --> 00:15:35,940 You work the day shift? 316 00:15:35,940 --> 00:15:36,940 Yeah, I'm off today. 317 00:15:36,940 --> 00:15:37,940 What's this for? 318 00:15:37,940 --> 00:15:39,940 Just wanted to know where we could meet you. 319 00:15:39,940 --> 00:15:42,940 You still think I had something to do with it, huh? 320 00:15:42,940 --> 00:15:43,940 No, we didn't say you did. 321 00:15:43,940 --> 00:15:45,940 Your name came up and we had to check it out. 322 00:15:45,940 --> 00:15:46,940 Yeah. 323 00:15:46,940 --> 00:15:48,940 Oh, there were a lot of times when Jeff and I didn't get along. 324 00:15:48,940 --> 00:15:50,940 I won't try to tell you that there weren't. 325 00:15:50,940 --> 00:15:51,940 I never do anything to hurt him. 326 00:15:51,940 --> 00:15:53,940 He got enough in his hands with that mother. 327 00:15:53,940 --> 00:15:56,940 Sure, one night when we came home from a date, Alice, me, Jeff and his date, 328 00:15:56,940 --> 00:15:59,940 we're sitting around the kitchen having something to eat. 329 00:15:59,940 --> 00:16:00,940 Mother came in madder than a wet hen. 330 00:16:00,940 --> 00:16:03,940 Ray's cane told Jeff to get the woman out of the house. 331 00:16:03,940 --> 00:16:05,940 Jeff told her he wouldn't have her talk to the girl like that. 332 00:16:05,940 --> 00:16:07,940 He thought quite a bit of her. 333 00:16:07,940 --> 00:16:09,940 He walked right over and slapped the girl across the face, 334 00:16:09,940 --> 00:16:11,940 told her to leave Jeff alone. 335 00:16:11,940 --> 00:16:14,940 That she'd rather see him dead than tied up with a girl like that. 336 00:16:18,940 --> 00:16:20,940 2.40 p.m. we drove back to the office. 337 00:16:20,940 --> 00:16:23,940 There had been no replies from the local or the APB. 338 00:16:23,940 --> 00:16:26,940 We checked the names of Jeffrey Curtis and Bruce Dudley through R&I. 339 00:16:26,940 --> 00:16:29,940 There was no record on Curtis, but Dudley had been arrested twice 340 00:16:29,940 --> 00:16:34,940 for LAMC 4127C, being drunk in a public place. 341 00:16:34,940 --> 00:16:37,940 He served sentences in the city jail on both charges. 342 00:16:37,940 --> 00:16:40,940 We checked with the coroner's office and they told us that Curtis had been killed 343 00:16:40,940 --> 00:16:42,940 by a.38 caliber bullet. 344 00:16:42,940 --> 00:16:45,940 It had been fired at close range into the back of his skull. 345 00:16:45,940 --> 00:16:48,940 The bullet was booked for evidence and we made out a dead body report. 346 00:16:48,940 --> 00:16:51,940 We put in a call to the brother's house, but we were told that he was out of the city 347 00:16:51,940 --> 00:16:54,940 and he wouldn't return until sometime that night. 348 00:16:54,940 --> 00:16:57,940 We left word for him to call our office as soon as he returned. 349 00:16:57,940 --> 00:17:00,940 We checked on the suicide story given us by Mrs. Curtis 350 00:17:00,940 --> 00:17:02,940 and found that an Alice Curtis had taken her own life 351 00:17:02,940 --> 00:17:05,940 with an overdose of sleeping pills two years before. 352 00:17:05,940 --> 00:17:09,940 5.20 p.m. Frank and I drove out to talk to Mrs. Curtis again. 353 00:17:09,940 --> 00:17:11,940 You want to look at Jeff's room, don't you? 354 00:17:11,940 --> 00:17:12,940 Yes, Mrs. Curtis. 355 00:17:12,940 --> 00:17:14,940 This way. 356 00:17:17,940 --> 00:17:20,940 When we were here this morning you didn't say anything about your other son. 357 00:17:20,940 --> 00:17:24,940 Harry? Well, you see, Officer, Harry doesn't care much for me. 358 00:17:24,940 --> 00:17:27,940 I know it's hard to believe that a boy would desert his own mother, 359 00:17:27,940 --> 00:17:29,940 but that's what Harry did. 360 00:17:29,940 --> 00:17:32,940 And right away his wife started to cause trouble between us. 361 00:17:32,940 --> 00:17:34,940 The rifle your son was cleaning this morning? 362 00:17:34,940 --> 00:17:37,940 Oh, yes. Those men from the crime lab, I think they said they took it. 363 00:17:37,940 --> 00:17:40,940 Yes, ma'am. Did your son do much hunting? 364 00:17:40,940 --> 00:17:44,940 Well, he used to. He used to do quite a bit before Harry got married. 365 00:17:44,940 --> 00:17:46,940 They used to be great pals. 366 00:17:46,940 --> 00:17:49,940 Mother couldn't ask for a better pair of sons. 367 00:17:49,940 --> 00:17:52,940 And when Harry left home, Jeff sort of gave it up. 368 00:17:52,940 --> 00:17:57,940 He cleaned the gun when he had to, but he didn't go after game anymore. 369 00:17:57,940 --> 00:18:00,940 Then, too, he was afraid to leave me alone at night. 370 00:18:00,940 --> 00:18:01,940 Ma'am? 371 00:18:01,940 --> 00:18:04,940 Well, we've had a lot of trouble with prowlers in the neighborhood. 372 00:18:04,940 --> 00:18:06,940 Had to call the police a couple of times. 373 00:18:06,940 --> 00:18:08,940 They didn't find anybody, though. 374 00:18:08,940 --> 00:18:10,940 Mm-hmm. 375 00:18:10,940 --> 00:18:12,940 These your son's clothes, ma'am? 376 00:18:12,940 --> 00:18:13,940 Yes. 377 00:18:13,940 --> 00:18:16,940 This man you saw this morning, did you notice that he had a gun? 378 00:18:16,940 --> 00:18:18,940 Yes, he did. It was a revolver. 379 00:18:18,940 --> 00:18:20,940 When I came into the room it was still smoking. 380 00:18:20,940 --> 00:18:23,940 Mm-hmm. Did your son keep any other firearms in the house? 381 00:18:23,940 --> 00:18:25,940 Oh, no. Just the rifle. 382 00:18:25,940 --> 00:18:28,940 I wouldn't have any other guns in the place. I don't like them. 383 00:18:28,940 --> 00:18:31,940 You had me call to go up in the attic, lady, Mrs. Curtis? 384 00:18:31,940 --> 00:18:32,940 What? 385 00:18:32,940 --> 00:18:33,940 The attic, ma'am. 386 00:18:33,940 --> 00:18:36,940 Have either you or your son had any reason to go up there? 387 00:18:36,940 --> 00:18:39,940 No, I don't think we've been up there since we moved. 388 00:18:39,940 --> 00:18:42,940 Could I get you officers a cup of coffee or anything? 389 00:18:42,940 --> 00:18:45,940 I've got some nice fresh cake, like a slice of that. 390 00:18:45,940 --> 00:18:47,940 No, ma'am. Thanks. Just the same. 391 00:18:47,940 --> 00:18:48,940 Oh. 392 00:18:47,940 --> 00:18:48,940 Now. 393 00:18:48,940 --> 00:18:50,940 Look at here. 394 00:18:50,940 --> 00:18:54,940 Ma'am. Look at here on the shoulders of these suits in the back. 395 00:18:54,940 --> 00:18:56,940 You see this dirt? 396 00:18:56,940 --> 00:18:58,940 Looks like it came down from that door to the attic. 397 00:18:58,940 --> 00:19:01,940 Now, let me get a chair and we'll have a look. 398 00:19:01,940 --> 00:19:02,940 What's this all about? 399 00:19:02,940 --> 00:19:05,940 I told you we haven't used that attic. Don't you believe me? 400 00:19:05,940 --> 00:19:08,940 I'd just like to take a look if you don't mind, ma'am. 401 00:19:08,940 --> 00:19:09,940 Well, maybe I do mind. 402 00:19:09,940 --> 00:19:11,940 It's just going to take a minute, ma'am. 403 00:19:14,940 --> 00:19:17,940 I think you officers have sure got your nerves. 404 00:19:17,940 --> 00:19:20,940 I tried to be nice to you, help you out. 405 00:19:20,940 --> 00:19:22,940 Isn't enough that my boy's dead. 406 00:19:22,940 --> 00:19:24,940 Now you have to come in here and tear my home apart. 407 00:19:24,940 --> 00:19:27,940 There's something up here for that attic. I can reach it. 408 00:19:29,940 --> 00:19:32,940 Yeah, here it is. Get my pencil. 409 00:19:36,940 --> 00:19:38,940 Have you ever seen this, Mrs. Curtis? 410 00:19:38,940 --> 00:19:42,940 No. I haven't got any idea how that gun got there. 411 00:19:42,940 --> 00:19:43,940 Doesn't belong to us. 412 00:19:43,940 --> 00:19:44,940 What do you think, Joe? 413 00:19:44,940 --> 00:19:47,940 I don't know. 38 caliber. 414 00:19:57,940 --> 00:20:01,940 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 415 00:20:01,940 --> 00:20:04,940 And now a report every smoker should hear. 416 00:20:05,940 --> 00:20:12,940 Nose, throat, and accessory organs not adversely affected by smoking Chesterfields. 417 00:20:12,940 --> 00:20:15,940 First such report published about any cigarette. 418 00:20:15,940 --> 00:20:23,940 A responsible consulting organization reports a study by a competent medical specialist and staff on the effects of smoking Chesterfields. 419 00:20:23,940 --> 00:20:30,940 For six months, a group of men and women smoked only Chesterfields, 10 to 40 a day, their normal amount. 420 00:20:30,940 --> 00:20:36,940 Forty-five percent of the group of smoked Chesterfields from one to 30 years, for an average of 10 years each. 421 00:20:36,940 --> 00:20:46,940 At the beginning and end of the six months, each smoker was given a thorough examination, including x-rays and covering the sinuses, nose, ears, and throat. 422 00:20:46,940 --> 00:20:49,940 After these examinations, the medical specialist stated, 423 00:20:49,940 --> 00:21:02,940 It is my opinion that the ears, nose, throat, and accessory organs of all participating subjects examined by me were not adversely affected in the six-month period by smoking the cigarettes provided. 424 00:21:02,940 --> 00:21:12,940 Remember this report and buy Chesterfields, regular or king size, premium quality Chesterfields, and much milder. 425 00:21:12,940 --> 00:21:24,940 We took the gun back to the city hall. It was checked for fingerprints, but none were found. 426 00:21:24,940 --> 00:21:28,940 We checked with pawn shop records, but the gun had not been registered. 427 00:21:28,940 --> 00:21:31,940 By checking with the manufacturer, we got the retailer's name. 428 00:21:31,940 --> 00:21:33,940 It had been sold to the victim, Jeff Curtis. 429 00:21:33,940 --> 00:21:40,940 The gun was turned over to Russ Camp for the routine check through ballistics. 430 00:21:40,940 --> 00:21:42,940 Just a minute, and I'll take it out. 431 00:21:42,940 --> 00:21:44,940 Right. 432 00:21:44,940 --> 00:21:46,940 Okay. 433 00:21:46,940 --> 00:21:49,940 There's another comparison knife. 434 00:21:49,940 --> 00:21:51,940 There we are. 435 00:21:51,940 --> 00:21:53,940 What's the matter now? 436 00:21:53,940 --> 00:21:55,940 Viations here. 437 00:21:55,940 --> 00:21:56,940 Got a make, Russ? 438 00:21:56,940 --> 00:22:00,940 Yeah, a match. 439 00:22:00,940 --> 00:22:07,940 1146 p.m. Harry Curtis called the office. He was surprised to hear of his brother's death, but said that he would be down to see us in the morning. 440 00:22:07,940 --> 00:22:12,940 Frank and I checked out, and the next morning we drove out to the house on Burns Street and picked up Mrs. Curtis. 441 00:22:12,940 --> 00:22:14,940 We talked to her in the interrogation room. 442 00:22:14,940 --> 00:22:18,940 This is perfectly ridiculous. I don't understand what you're trying to get me to say. 443 00:22:18,940 --> 00:22:20,940 Well, maybe if we laid out for you, ma'am. 444 00:22:20,940 --> 00:22:23,940 Yes, that might do it. At least it would be something. 445 00:22:23,940 --> 00:22:29,940 All right, when we walked into your house yesterday morning, you said that nothing in the house had been touched, that everything was just as it was when your son was killed. Is that right? 446 00:22:29,940 --> 00:22:31,940 Yes, I guess I said that. 447 00:22:31,940 --> 00:22:34,940 I'd have you be sure one way or the other, ma'am. What did you say? 448 00:22:34,940 --> 00:22:38,940 I said that. I hadn't touched anything. Nobody did. 449 00:22:38,940 --> 00:22:41,940 Would you tell us what your son was doing when you left the room? 450 00:22:41,940 --> 00:22:43,940 I told you he was cleaning the rifle. 451 00:22:43,940 --> 00:22:44,940 On the living room table? 452 00:22:44,940 --> 00:22:45,940 Yes, that's right. 453 00:22:45,940 --> 00:22:47,940 What did you say he did after he was shot? 454 00:22:47,940 --> 00:22:48,940 I said he fell down. 455 00:22:48,940 --> 00:22:51,940 Did he touch anything as he fell? Brush up against anything? 456 00:22:51,940 --> 00:22:54,940 Well, when he fell, he grabbed the tablecloth, pulled it down with him. 457 00:22:54,940 --> 00:22:59,940 Yes, ma'am. Well, then maybe you can explain how it was that all the things he used to clean the rifle and the gun itself were still on the table. 458 00:22:59,940 --> 00:23:00,940 What? 459 00:23:00,940 --> 00:23:03,940 How is it those things didn't come off the table when he pulled the cloth off? 460 00:23:03,940 --> 00:23:06,940 I don't know what you're trying to get me to say. 461 00:23:06,940 --> 00:23:08,940 Well, we'd like for you to tell us the truth. 462 00:23:08,940 --> 00:23:10,940 I'm telling that. 463 00:23:10,940 --> 00:23:17,940 All right, ma'am. When the crime lab went over your house, they found two places in the kitchen floor that had been filled in with plastic wood. The job didn't look very old. 464 00:23:17,940 --> 00:23:24,940 Well, what's wrong with that? Jeff took good care of the house. He might have tried to plug up someplace where ants were getting in. 465 00:23:24,940 --> 00:23:32,940 When the men from the lab dug up the patches, they found two.38 caliber bullets underneath. They checked them with a bullet that killed your son. The bullets came from the same gun. 466 00:23:32,940 --> 00:23:35,940 I don't know what you're talking about. What does all this show? 467 00:23:35,940 --> 00:23:38,940 You talked about the prowlers. Have you had trouble with them in the neighborhood? 468 00:23:38,940 --> 00:23:39,940 That's right. 469 00:23:39,940 --> 00:23:40,940 What actions did you take to stop this? 470 00:23:40,940 --> 00:23:45,940 I called the police. Had them come out and try to find the person who was causing the trouble. 471 00:23:45,940 --> 00:23:47,940 When did you call the police last? 472 00:23:47,940 --> 00:23:48,940 Three weeks ago. 473 00:23:48,940 --> 00:23:54,940 We've checked the reports, ma'am. There's no record of anyone having called the police to check prowlers in that neighborhood for the past six months. 474 00:23:54,940 --> 00:23:58,940 Are you trying to make me out a liar? Is that what you're trying to do? 475 00:23:58,940 --> 00:23:59,940 We're trying to get the truth. 476 00:23:59,940 --> 00:24:00,940 Frank. 477 00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:01,940 Yeah, Joe. 478 00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:03,940 You want to check the office and see if Mr. Kurz is here yet? 479 00:24:03,940 --> 00:24:04,940 Yeah, sure. 480 00:24:04,940 --> 00:24:06,940 You brought my son here? 481 00:24:06,940 --> 00:24:08,940 Yes, ma'am. We've got to get the truth to this. 482 00:24:08,940 --> 00:24:10,940 Well, why did you have to get him involved in it? 483 00:24:10,940 --> 00:24:12,940 Well, as I said, ma'am, we're trying to find the facts. 484 00:24:12,940 --> 00:24:14,940 You don't believe what I've told you? 485 00:24:14,940 --> 00:24:16,940 Well, no, ma'am. You've made it a little difficult. 486 00:24:16,940 --> 00:24:18,940 How can you say that? 487 00:24:18,940 --> 00:24:22,940 Well, first you tell us that nothing was touched, yet the physical setup doesn't make that possible. 488 00:24:22,940 --> 00:24:28,940 You deny knowing anything about the gun when we find it, but we find two bullets that have been fired from the same gun embedded in the floor of the kitchen. 489 00:24:28,940 --> 00:24:32,940 You told us about prowlers in the neighborhood, but there's no police record of it. 490 00:24:32,940 --> 00:24:37,940 Your next door neighbor says she was out in front of her house all morning, but she didn't see anyone enter or leave your house. 491 00:24:37,940 --> 00:24:39,940 We find the murder gun up in the attic. 492 00:24:39,940 --> 00:24:42,940 You told us you saw the killer leave the house with a gun. 493 00:24:42,940 --> 00:24:46,940 Your son died instantly. Now, can you tell us who put the gun there? 494 00:24:46,940 --> 00:24:49,940 No, ma'am. There's too much here that doesn't tell. 495 00:24:51,940 --> 00:24:54,940 They got you into this, didn't they, Harry? 496 00:24:54,940 --> 00:24:55,940 Yes, mother. 497 00:24:55,940 --> 00:24:57,940 They're trying to tell you that I killed Jeff. 498 00:24:57,940 --> 00:25:00,940 They want me to tell them that I killed my own boy. 499 00:25:00,940 --> 00:25:03,940 Tell them. Tell them I wouldn't do a thing like that. 500 00:25:03,940 --> 00:25:05,940 Not my own boy. 501 00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:07,940 I'm afraid I can't, mother. 502 00:25:07,940 --> 00:25:09,940 What do you mean you can't? 503 00:25:09,940 --> 00:25:11,940 The officers just told me about it. 504 00:25:11,940 --> 00:25:15,940 Well, who are you going to believe, the policeman or me, your mother? 505 00:25:15,940 --> 00:25:17,940 You don't give me much choice. 506 00:25:17,940 --> 00:25:18,940 What? 507 00:25:18,940 --> 00:25:23,940 I love you, mother. You've got to believe that. I know that whatever you did, you thought was right. 508 00:25:23,940 --> 00:25:26,940 I know you didn't mean to hurt Jeff. I know that. 509 00:25:26,940 --> 00:25:28,940 Then you think I killed him, too? 510 00:25:30,940 --> 00:25:32,940 Don't you? 511 00:25:34,940 --> 00:25:36,940 Harry, give me an answer. 512 00:25:36,940 --> 00:25:39,940 You think I killed Jeff, don't you? 513 00:25:39,940 --> 00:25:41,940 Yes, mother. 514 00:25:42,940 --> 00:25:44,940 Well, I did. 515 00:25:44,940 --> 00:25:47,940 I didn't think I meant to do it. 516 00:25:47,940 --> 00:25:49,940 I think I just wanted to frighten him. 517 00:25:49,940 --> 00:25:52,940 He was running around so much. 518 00:25:52,940 --> 00:25:54,940 Those tramps, they were seeing terrible women. 519 00:25:54,940 --> 00:25:57,940 I had to keep him home. I had to keep him with me. 520 00:25:57,940 --> 00:25:59,940 It was all I had. 521 00:25:59,940 --> 00:26:01,940 I'm not young anymore, Harry. 522 00:26:01,940 --> 00:26:04,940 You went away, then Alice. 523 00:26:04,940 --> 00:26:06,940 Jeff was all I had. 524 00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:09,940 I didn't want him to leave, and he was going to. 525 00:26:09,940 --> 00:26:11,940 We had an argument. 526 00:26:11,940 --> 00:26:13,940 He was cleaning the gun. 527 00:26:13,940 --> 00:26:15,940 I got the revolver. 528 00:26:15,940 --> 00:26:20,940 That way I knew that I'd always have him with me, that he wouldn't leave. 529 00:26:20,940 --> 00:26:24,940 I pulled the trigger, then I knew what I'd done. 530 00:26:24,940 --> 00:26:27,940 That Jeff was gone, too. 531 00:26:28,940 --> 00:26:30,940 I didn't know what I was doing. 532 00:26:30,940 --> 00:26:32,940 I didn't know. 533 00:26:32,940 --> 00:26:35,940 You've got to believe that, officer. 534 00:26:35,940 --> 00:26:37,940 Yes, ma'am. 535 00:26:37,940 --> 00:26:39,940 Do you believe me? 536 00:26:39,940 --> 00:26:41,940 That I just wanted my boy? 537 00:26:41,940 --> 00:26:43,940 I wanted to keep him. 538 00:26:43,940 --> 00:26:45,940 That's all any mother wants. 539 00:26:45,940 --> 00:26:48,940 I tried to keep my boy. 540 00:26:49,940 --> 00:26:51,940 Maybe that's what was wrong. 541 00:26:51,940 --> 00:26:53,940 What do you mean? 542 00:26:53,940 --> 00:26:55,940 You tried too hard. 543 00:27:01,940 --> 00:27:04,940 The story you have just heard was true. 544 00:27:04,940 --> 00:27:07,940 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 545 00:27:07,940 --> 00:27:11,940 On September 4th, trial was held in Department 87, Superior Court of the State of California, 546 00:27:11,940 --> 00:27:13,940 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 547 00:27:13,940 --> 00:27:15,940 In a moment, the results of that trial. 548 00:27:15,940 --> 00:27:17,940 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 549 00:27:17,940 --> 00:27:22,940 Each of our dragnet case histories is based entirely on facts taken from authentic police files, 550 00:27:22,940 --> 00:27:25,940 and everything we tell you about Chesterfield is based on facts, too. 551 00:27:25,940 --> 00:27:28,940 Chesterfield, for example, was the first to name its ingredients. 552 00:27:28,940 --> 00:27:33,940 Chesterfield tells you what it's made of, because you should know what gives you the best possible smoke. 553 00:27:33,940 --> 00:27:37,940 Now, that brings me to the report that George Fenomen and Hal Gibney read earlier. 554 00:27:37,940 --> 00:27:39,940 That, too, is based entirely on facts. 555 00:27:39,940 --> 00:27:44,940 Nose, throat, and accessory organs not adversely affected by smoking Chesterfield. 556 00:27:44,940 --> 00:27:47,940 First such report ever published about any cigarette. 557 00:27:47,940 --> 00:27:51,940 Remember this the next time you buy cigarettes and ask for Chesterfield. 558 00:27:51,940 --> 00:28:04,940 Regular or king size, premium quality Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke. 559 00:28:04,940 --> 00:28:08,940 Edith A. Curtis was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree 560 00:28:08,940 --> 00:28:12,940 and was sentenced to the state penitentiary for women to Hatchipi, California. 561 00:28:12,940 --> 00:28:15,940 While serving her sentence there, she died from natural causes. 562 00:28:15,940 --> 00:28:21,940 Murder in the first degree is punishable by death or confinement in the state penitentiary for life. 563 00:28:21,940 --> 00:28:34,940 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 564 00:28:34,940 --> 00:28:39,940 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 565 00:28:39,940 --> 00:28:44,940 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 566 00:28:44,940 --> 00:28:48,940 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Herb Ellis, Helen Klebe, and Whit Conner. 567 00:28:48,940 --> 00:28:54,940 Script by John Robinson, music by Walter Shuman, Hal Gibney speaking. 568 00:28:54,940 --> 00:28:57,940 Tomorrow, sound off for Chesterfield. 569 00:28:57,940 --> 00:29:03,940 Either way you like them, regular or king size, Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke. 570 00:29:03,940 --> 00:29:06,940 Much milder Chesterfield. 571 00:29:06,940 --> 00:29:11,940 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 572 00:29:11,940 --> 00:29:22,940 This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.