1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Sound off for Chesterfield. 2 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,840 Chesterfield, only cigarette in America to give you premium quality in both regular and 3 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:26,400 king size brings you drag. 4 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:30,280 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 5 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:41,440 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 6 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,320 You're a detective sergeant. 7 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,880 You're assigned a homicide detail. 8 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,960 Naval intelligence tells you that two marines have been picked up by the shore patrol. 9 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:51,480 They're reported sick. 10 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:53,400 One is in critical condition. 11 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,400 Foul play is suspected. 12 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:01,240 Your job, investigate. 13 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,720 Here's what leading tobacco publications have had to say about king size Chesterfield. 14 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,800 U.S. Tobacco Journal, Atlanta, Georgia. 15 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,180 Chesterfield king size is going strong. 16 00:01:12,180 --> 00:01:16,620 One jobber reordered twice this week in addition to his regular order. 17 00:01:16,620 --> 00:01:22,760 And the Chicago Weekly, Tobacco Leaf, reports more calls for Chesterfield king size cigarettes 18 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:24,800 than for most brands being marketed. 19 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:29,760 The reason for king size Chesterfield's amazing success is this. 20 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:34,720 All king size cigarettes give you quantity, but only Chesterfield king size gives you 21 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:38,520 quantity plus quality, premium quality. 22 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:44,040 That means Chesterfield king size contains tobaccos of better quality and higher price 23 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,760 than any other king size cigarette. 24 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,640 The same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. 25 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,480 Enough more of this tobacco to give you over a fifth longer smoke. 26 00:01:54,480 --> 00:02:00,360 So remember, Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular 27 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:01,880 and king size. 28 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,920 Buy them either way you like them. 29 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:11,280 Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke, much milder. 30 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:18,280 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 31 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:23,240 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 32 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,840 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 33 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,540 police files. 34 00:02:29,540 --> 00:02:34,720 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 35 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:40,120 in action. 36 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:41,120 It was Tuesday, July 10th. 37 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,120 It was hot in Los Angeles. 38 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,440 We were working the day watch out a homicide detail. 39 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:45,920 My partner is Frank Smith. 40 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:46,920 The boss is Captain Warman. 41 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:47,920 My name is Friday. 42 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:50,920 It was 7 58 a.m. when I got to room 42. 43 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:51,920 Homicide. 44 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:52,920 Morning, John. 45 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:53,920 Hi. 46 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:54,920 Just get in? 47 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:55,920 Yeah. 48 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:56,920 Anything in the book? 49 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:57,920 I'm looking. 50 00:02:57,920 --> 00:02:58,920 What's the matter? 51 00:02:58,920 --> 00:02:59,920 Are you hacked about something? 52 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:00,920 No, no. 53 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:01,920 Why do you ask that? 54 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:02,920 Figures you're sorry about something. 55 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:03,920 What do you do? 56 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:04,920 Take a sour pill? 57 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:07,320 If you keep this up, you won't be asked to post toothpaste ads. 58 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:08,320 Well, now that's funny. 59 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:09,320 All right, Joe. 60 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:10,320 Tell your Uncle Dudley what's the matter. 61 00:03:10,320 --> 00:02:55,880 The 62 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,320 thing you and Gaffney have been working on? 63 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:13,320 Yeah, the white glove band. 64 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:14,320 It came up while you were out on vacation. 65 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:15,320 Spent over a month on it. 66 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:16,320 Covered it from every angle. 67 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:17,320 Yeah. 68 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:18,320 Looked like we had the guy any way he turned. 69 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:19,320 We had an idea of how to get him out of the way. 70 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,200 We thought he traced him on every move he made on each of the deals. 71 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:24,200 We figured we really had the guy. 72 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:25,200 The DA's office thought so, too. 73 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:26,200 They quit him? 74 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:27,200 Yeah. 75 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:28,200 Let him walk right out, 12 men, good and true. 76 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:29,200 Let that cheap hoodlum walk right out on the streets a free man. 77 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:30,200 Well, that's where it goes sometimes. 78 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:31,200 Is there Mr. Friday here? 79 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,200 Yes, sir. 80 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:33,200 I'm Friday. 81 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:34,200 Is there something I can do for you? 82 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:35,200 Well, I'm Richard Houston, Naval Intelligence. 83 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,200 Deputy Chief Brown directed me to you. 84 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:37,200 I see. 85 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:38,200 Well, it's my partner, Frank Smith. 86 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,200 Lieutenant Houston. 87 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:40,200 Oh, yes, sir. 88 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:41,200 Like sit down, sir. 89 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:42,200 What is it we can do for you? 90 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:43,200 I'm a lawyer. 91 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:44,200 I'm a lawyer. 92 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:45,200 I'm a lawyer. 93 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:51,600 Well, we got a weird one. 94 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,640 That's why we thought your department ought to be in on it. 95 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,200 About all I can tell you is just the skeleton of the thing. 96 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,200 We don't know all the details. 97 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,240 We haven't gone into it completely yet. 98 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,880 We figured you fellows would like to be in on it from the beginning. 99 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:03,880 Looks like it's going to be a police investigation. 100 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:04,880 Yes, sir. 101 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,640 To begin, I should go back three weeks ago and tell you the story as near as we've been 102 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:09,640 able to reconstruct it. 103 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:10,640 Yes, sir. 104 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:11,640 Go right ahead. 105 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,240 Well, a couple of Marines left the base. 106 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,720 They'd just gotten back from Korea, both on a 48-hour pass. 107 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:17,720 We figured they came up here to LA. 108 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,760 They had a lot of back pay in their pockets. 109 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,920 We don't know where they started, but they ended up in a cheap hotel. 110 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,640 We got a call from the shore patrol early Monday morning. 111 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,640 They'd gotten a complaint that the two boys were causing a disturbance in the hotel. 112 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,960 They picked them up and found they both were in a pretty bad way. 113 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,400 They had them shipped to the Naval Hospital down at Long Beach. 114 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,840 By the time they got there, they were really rocky. 115 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:41,240 Well, I'm sorry, sir, but I don't quite see just how we're connected with this. 116 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:42,240 Well, I'm getting to that. 117 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:43,240 I'm sorry. 118 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:44,240 All right, I'm a little long-winded. 119 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,760 Anyway, last night, the boys had been AWOL for over two weeks. 120 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:50,720 They were brought into the hospital, like I said. 121 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,360 Doctors did what they could, but it was too late to help. 122 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,280 One of the boys died late last night. 123 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:56,280 We're not sure about the other one. 124 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:57,920 That's where you come in, sir. 125 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,920 They were both poisoned. 126 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:06,240 9.06 a.m. 127 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:10,760 Frank and I talked with Captain Lorman, then we checked out a Crip car and left for Long 128 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:11,760 Beach. 129 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,880 After we got there, we talked with a doctor in charge. 130 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,000 He told us that it would be later that night before the boy would be completely out of 131 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 danger. 132 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,280 He said, however, that we could talk to him if we phrased our questions so that the answers 133 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:23,280 could be kept fairly brief. 134 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:24,560 We looked over the boy's record. 135 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,600 His full name was Jack Wayne Walker, age 24. 136 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,280 He'd enlisted in the Marine Corps on January 14, 1950. 137 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:35,120 He'd spent almost a year in the Far East, and his service record had been good until 138 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:36,540 this time. 139 00:05:36,540 --> 00:05:40,640 The record of the victim, TFC Edward Monahan, was pretty much the same. 140 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,280 The boys had both come from the same town in Arkansas. 141 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:45,320 The date of their enlistment was the same. 142 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:47,760 They'd served overseas the same time. 143 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,800 At 3.48 p.m., the doctor ushered us into Jack Walker's room. 144 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:51,800 Who are you? 145 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:52,800 Police officer. 146 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:53,800 Jack, we'd like to talk to you. 147 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:54,800 What's it about? 148 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:55,800 I haven't done anything. 149 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:56,800 At least I don't think I did. 150 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:57,800 No, it's not that. 151 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:58,800 We'd like to find out what happened while you were up in L.A. 152 00:05:58,800 --> 00:05:59,800 I killed my buddy up there. 153 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:00,800 That's what happened. 154 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:01,800 You heard about that, didn't you? 155 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:02,800 Yes, we did. 156 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:03,800 That's what we wanted to talk to you about. 157 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:04,800 Poor Ed. 158 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:10,480 Year in Korea, guys taking potshots at us, cold, mud, and we've got to come back here to get 159 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:11,480 it. 160 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:12,480 I didn't trust that little crumb. 161 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,280 I knew we shouldn't have had anything to do with it. 162 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:16,040 Well, you shouldn't have trusted who again? 163 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:17,040 Stubby. 164 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:18,040 You know the rest of his name? 165 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:19,040 No, just Stubby. 166 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,520 I just can't believe it about Ed. 167 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,840 He was shoved off for L.A. going to have a last fling. 168 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:25,920 Ed was getting married as soon as we got home. 169 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,120 All right, if you could just start right at the beginning. 170 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:29,120 Sure. 171 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,920 Well, first, we both had a 48-hour pass. 172 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,640 We figured to go to L.A., like I said, for a last fling, a few drinks, look at some of 173 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,560 the lights, have a little fun. 174 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,160 Sort of a bachelor party for Ed before it got hitched. 175 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:45,240 Well, we pulled into town, let's see, I think it was Saturday morning. 176 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,400 A couple of buddies told us about a joint up there where we could have some fun. 177 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:54,240 We head up there, nice little place, that hour in the morning, I guess about 10, 10 178 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:55,240 30. 179 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,880 Well, we start in the drink, it gets pretty foggy after that. 180 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:03,160 Like little parts in a jigsaw, you know, you sort of see a little bit of everything, but 181 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,760 the whole picture ain't there. 182 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:09,200 Well, I remember we hung around the place for two days and then it all really goes black. 183 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,440 The next thing I remember, we woke up in some flea bag. 184 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,400 I remember looking at the calendar on the wall. 185 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,680 We was already a couple of days AWOL. 186 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,880 Ed and I talked about what we should do. 187 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,280 And then we get to trying to think up an excuse for the CO for being AWOL. 188 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,160 Well, our CO ain't easy. 189 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,440 He's had experts try. 190 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,080 Ed says he figured out something. 191 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:32,920 So we start for the bus depot, get back to base. 192 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,420 On the way, we pass this bar and Ed says, well, maybe we ought to stop and have one 193 00:07:37,420 --> 00:07:39,280 more for the road, so we do. 194 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,040 And I don't remember much for a couple more days. 195 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,920 And I remember once we stopped and watched the guy get tattooed, Ed and I got talking 196 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,360 about it, you know, whether or not we should have it done. 197 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,480 Finally, I figured it was kind of kid stuff. 198 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:52,480 So we didn't. 199 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,200 I remember that because it was right after we left the tattoo place, went to this bar 200 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:57,200 where we met Stubby. 201 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:58,920 Now, this is the fellow that you were talking about? 202 00:07:58,920 --> 00:07:59,920 Yeah, it's him. 203 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:00,920 And you met him in a bar? 204 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:01,920 Uh huh. 205 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:02,920 Yeah. 206 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,080 Ed and I were sitting there trying to figure out what we was going to do, you know. 207 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,720 We were pretty broke by this time and then two weeks, over two weeks they were all anyway 208 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,280 sliced, we had big trouble. 209 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:12,280 Yeah. 210 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,440 Well, we walked into this place with about 4.30 or five in the afternoon. 211 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,600 At least as I can tell, that's about what time it was. 212 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,360 The whole deal gets kind of foggy. 213 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:25,560 We sat down this bar in order to drink and just sat in their mind on business, trying 214 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,480 to figure what we ought to do. 215 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:31,320 Then this Stubby joker comes up, sits down next to Ed, brings his drink with him. 216 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,560 He was in the bar when you came in, is that right? 217 00:08:33,560 --> 00:08:34,560 Yeah. 218 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:35,560 At least I think so. 219 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:38,760 I didn't pay much attention, but he had a drink when he came up to Ed and me. 220 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:40,120 Yeah, go ahead. 221 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:45,200 Well, he got to talk about the core and next thing we know, he's setting up the drink. 222 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,440 We was fixed loans he wanted to buy, we wasn't going to argue. 223 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,080 They seem to know this Stubby in the bar? 224 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,480 Yeah, the way it's on the tables called him by name. 225 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,280 All right, you want to go ahead? 226 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,600 Yeah, well, this Stubby kept going on about how he liked the core and how he'd won a whole 227 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,920 flock of citations in Korea. 228 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:04,640 Told us all about the time he'd spent in Japan, place we thought he was just throwing a bunch 229 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,960 of coconuts at us, but we'd ask him about places in Korea and things you could only 230 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,160 know if he was there. 231 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,560 He'd come up with the answers all right, but even with all that, there was something that 232 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:15,760 just didn't ring true. 233 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:23,560 Anyway, long about 8, 8.30 that night, Stubby got in a thrash with the bartender, something 234 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:24,840 about the price of the drink. 235 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:29,120 So he suggested we go up to his place and get a jug and drink up there. 236 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:33,480 I wasn't too hot for the idea, but Ed said we had nothing to lose. 237 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,520 We didn't have a sack for the night and there wasn't much dough left, so we shoved off with 238 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:37,520 him. 239 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:38,520 Where did this Stubby live? 240 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:39,520 Hotel down on Fifth. 241 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:40,520 I'll tell you how to find the place. 242 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,000 Same place you were picked up in? 243 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Yeah. 244 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,000 We got the address then. 245 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,000 Oh, okay. 246 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,480 What happened when you got Stubby's room? 247 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:51,040 Well, we cracked the jug, sat around drinking for a while, and then Ed and I went to sleep. 248 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:55,360 I tell you the next morning, we had the biggest hangover in the entire United States and Canada, 249 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:56,360 both of us. 250 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:57,360 We felt miserable. 251 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,160 Ed stopped beefing about the cheap boo Stubby drung in on us. 252 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,560 That's when he tried to tout us on them pills. 253 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:04,560 What those are? 254 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:06,040 Well, them things supposed to relieve hangovers. 255 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,280 You mean the kind they sell in drug stores? 256 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:09,280 Oh, no, not them. 257 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,680 Stubby told us about that one. 258 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:12,680 He'd come back to the States. 259 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,800 He'd stood some duty in a hospital and said that while he was there, he got them pills. 260 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,680 He said there was a special prescription, that they was great for head shrinking. 261 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:22,160 He wanted us to try them. 262 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:23,160 Did you? 263 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:24,640 Well, no, not right away. 264 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,800 They kept after us, though, kidding us about being big, tough Marines with a hangover. 265 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,160 Then he took one of the pills, at least as we thought he did. 266 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,040 So Ed and I figured then we didn't have anything to lose. 267 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:36,720 You took one of these hangover pills then, did you? 268 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:37,720 Yeah, we both did. 269 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:38,720 What happened then? 270 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:39,720 Well, nothing right away. 271 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,040 Stubby said, take a little time for it to take effect. 272 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:45,040 We got up and started to get dressed. 273 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,560 Ed and I thought we'd better get back to the base, you know, if we'd probably be in enough 274 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:50,640 trouble as it was without worrying about a hangover. 275 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:51,640 Yeah. 276 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:52,640 You left the room? 277 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:54,840 Yeah, we were just getting our stuff together and Ed took sick. 278 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,840 He said he had awful pain in his stomach, like a cramp, you know. 279 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:00,680 We asked Stubby if the pill could have caused it. 280 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:02,640 He said no, must have been the booze. 281 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,800 Well, right about then I was getting ready to mop up the place with this Stubby. 282 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,120 I figured, sure, he'd given us a mickey. 283 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,080 I couldn't figure why, though. 284 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:10,080 Then it hit me. 285 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:11,080 That felt, huh? 286 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,040 Yeah, I guess so. 287 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:14,400 Real bad cramps in my stomach. 288 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:15,400 I got real dizzy. 289 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,200 The room started to go round. 290 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,440 We asked Stubby to call a doctor, and that's when we knew he was really in trouble. 291 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:21,440 How bad? 292 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,280 Well, we knew then he was nuts off his trolley. 293 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,080 And neither of us could walk. 294 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:27,920 Ed doubled up and passed out, and I could hardly keep awake. 295 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,920 We both just lay there on the floor. 296 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,880 I kept asking this bum to get us a medic. 297 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:32,880 Did he? 298 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,520 No, he just stood there and laughed at us, laughed like a crazy fool. 299 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,560 He kept saying, we was big, strong Marines. 300 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:40,120 We should be able to take a little stomach ache without running to a doctor. 301 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,880 At no time did he make any attempt to get you medical help. 302 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,080 No, just like I said, he just stood there and laughed at us. 303 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:47,080 Then he got real mean. 304 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:48,720 He got crazy leery on his face. 305 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,640 He'd show us that he'd fix us up good for what we'd done. 306 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:52,640 What do you mean by that? 307 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:53,640 I don't know. 308 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,960 All I thought about was getting Ed and me to a doc. 309 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,160 About this time, I didn't much care what the little screwball did. 310 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,680 Then it really started harping on how he's getting even with us. 311 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:04,520 I tried to get at him, I'd have killed him if I could have. 312 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,520 I tried to get at him, but I fell and went out, I guess. 313 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,440 That's when he said that thing about that we wouldn't be the last ones he'd get. 314 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:12,440 What? 315 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:16,360 Well, he said like this, you guys are the first, just the first, but there's gonna be 316 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,360 more, a lot more. 317 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:26,800 We continued to talk to Jack Walker. 318 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,600 He gave us a complete description of the man he'd known as Stubby. 319 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,480 And going over the story again with him, there were a few changes in it, but none that couldn't 320 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:35,760 be accounted for by his condition. 321 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,080 We got the address of the bar where he'd met Stubby. 322 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,760 We checked with the doctor and he told us that both boys had been given a powerful corrosive 323 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:42,760 poison. 324 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:46,680 He went on to say that it was a miracle that Jack Walker was still alive. 325 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:50,360 9.26 p.m., Frank and I drove back to Los Angeles. 326 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,160 We checked into the office and ran the name Stubby through the moniker file and R&I, but 327 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:55,160 we found nothing. 328 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,880 We got out a local and an APB on the description and the name. 329 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,680 The stats office started a run on the MO. 330 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:05,200 Frank and I checked the hotel on 5th Street and the manager showed us the room, but he 331 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,120 said that it had been cleaned and occupied since the two Marines had left. 332 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,420 Layton Prince went over the room but failed to come up with anything. 333 00:13:12,420 --> 00:13:15,680 We took the hotel registration card and booked it in as evidence. 334 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:18,240 The man had signed his name as Alton Richards. 335 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,320 The manager gave us the same description as the one we'd gotten from the Marines. 336 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,480 We ran the name through R&I, but we failed to come up with any new leads. 337 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,640 There'd been no replies to the broadcast and the stats office had finished the run and 338 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:31,560 had come up with four possible suspects. 339 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:34,360 These were checked out, but they led us nowhere. 340 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,400 2.30 a.m., we checked the bar, but we thought it was closed. 341 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:43,200 Wednesday, 8.14 a.m., we briefed Captain Lorman on the developments and then we went over 342 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,720 to again check the bar where the two Marines were supposed to have met Stubbe. 343 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,680 The place was deserted except for one man drinking a beer. 344 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:52,680 The waitress was sitting in her rear booth filing her fingernails. 345 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:54,160 Frank and I went back to talk to her. 346 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,160 Yeah, something you want? 347 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:01,120 Well, police officers, Miss, we'd like to talk to you. 348 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:02,120 Captain? 349 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:03,560 Yes, ma'am, this is my partner, Joe Friday. 350 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:04,560 My name's Smith. 351 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:05,560 Yes. 352 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:06,560 Boy, does that sound phony. 353 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:07,560 Here's my ID card. 354 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:08,560 Yeah, Smith, all right. 355 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:09,560 What do you want? 356 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:10,560 Would you mind if we sit down? 357 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:11,560 No, go ahead, Liz. 358 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:14,560 Thank you. 359 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:16,840 What's this all about? 360 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:17,840 Do you work here, Studi? 361 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:18,840 Yeah, most of the time. 362 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:19,840 What's your name, Miss? 363 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:20,840 Vera. 364 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:21,840 Vera Gay. 365 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,840 Well, Miss Gay, were you working here around the eighth or ninth or the tenth of July? 366 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,840 Yeah, and you can make it Vera. 367 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,360 You know most of the people who come in here regularly, do they? 368 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:30,360 Yeah, I suppose so. 369 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:34,360 I wonder if you'd look at this description and tell us if you know the man here. 370 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,840 WMA, what does that mean? 371 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:37,840 White male American. 372 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:38,840 Yeah, WMA. 373 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:46,320 Thirty-six years, five feet seven to five feet nine, 155 pounds stubby. 374 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:47,320 Yeah? 375 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:48,320 Yeah, I know him. 376 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:49,320 Comes in here all the time, nice guy. 377 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:50,320 Loud when he gets drunk, so he's nice to me, though. 378 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:51,320 Tells me I should be in pictures. 379 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:52,320 You know the movie? 380 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:53,320 Yes, ma'am, have you seen him today? 381 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:54,320 No, he hardly ever gets in before maybe noon, one o'clock. 382 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:55,320 It just doesn't bother you, does it, my father Moneo? 383 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:56,320 Not at all. 384 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:57,320 He does bother some people, you know, like running a piece of chalk down a blackboard. 385 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:10,320 Mrs. Stubby, does he have any other name? 386 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:11,320 Would you know it? 387 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:12,320 Yeah, Paul Rogers. 388 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:13,320 That's another one, Joe. 389 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:14,320 Yeah. 390 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:15,320 And you want to go ahead, miss? 391 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:16,320 I went out with him a couple of times, finally gave it up. 392 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:17,320 I couldn't go that route. 393 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:18,320 What's that, ma'am? 394 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,320 All he talked about was either him and the Marine Corps and what a big hero he was or 395 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:24,320 else how he was going to get me in pictures, you know, movies. 396 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:25,320 Yes, ma'am. 397 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,320 I didn't come out to California to get in the movies. 398 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:32,320 Well, I came out to be a private secretary, only those jobs are a little hard to get, 399 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:33,320 so I work here. 400 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:34,320 I make enough for coffee and cakes. 401 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:35,320 And when the job comes along, I'll take it. 402 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:36,320 I work in a big office, nice boss. 403 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:37,320 Who knows, he might even marry me. 404 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:38,320 Well, that movie hokum for me, you know, sir, and not your little Vera. 405 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:39,320 Did you work on the night of the 9th? 406 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:40,320 That's the night before last? 407 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:41,320 Let's see. 408 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:42,320 Yeah, I was in. 409 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:43,320 You happened to see the Stubby Rogers that night? 410 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:44,320 Well, I got to think about that. 411 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:45,320 Let's see. 412 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:46,320 That night, I was in. 413 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:55,320 We had the fight just before closing. 414 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,320 Yeah, he was in earlier. 415 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,320 Did you happen to notice if he was with anybody? 416 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:01,320 What's this all about? 417 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:02,320 Did he do something you wanted for? 418 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,320 No, we just like to talk to him. 419 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:05,320 Yeah. 420 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:07,320 Well, if he did anything, we had nothing to do with it. 421 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:08,320 This is a good place. 422 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:09,320 We got nothing to do with the people who come in. 423 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,320 We got the price of a drink to get served. 424 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:12,320 We don't ask for trouble. 425 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:13,320 Oh, we aren't going to cause any trouble, miss. 426 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,320 We just want to talk to this Rogers. 427 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,320 Yeah, well, as long as we aren't rung into it. 428 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,320 Do you remember if he was with anyone? 429 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:21,320 Yeah, he was with a couple of Marines. 430 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:22,320 Left with them, had a beef with Sam. 431 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:23,320 He's the night bartender. 432 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,320 Complained that the drinks were too high. 433 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:26,320 I don't know what he was crying about. 434 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:27,320 He's been drinking here a long time. 435 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,320 Never had problems before. 436 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,320 You saw him leave with these two Marines then? 437 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,320 Yeah, three of them walked out. 438 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:33,320 I think actually they sort of floated out. 439 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,320 The two kids were really boiled. 440 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:37,320 Do you remember what time it was when they left? 441 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:38,320 Oh, that'd be kind of hard to tell. 442 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:39,320 We were pretty busy. 443 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:40,320 It was pretty important, miss. 444 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,320 Oh, now let me think. 445 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,320 I guess maybe around 8, maybe 8.30, 446 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:45,320 around in there. 447 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:46,320 Just a guess, though. 448 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,320 Do you have any idea where this Rogers lives? 449 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:49,320 Yeah, I've been there a couple of times. 450 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,320 Hotel on South Hill. 451 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:53,320 Can you give us the address? 452 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,320 Yeah, I got it in person. 453 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,320 I should have known he was a phony. 454 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,320 All he's saying is how he could get me in pictures, 455 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:00,320 you know, in movies. 456 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:01,320 Yeah, that's right. 457 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:02,320 Don't come that way. 458 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,320 Of course you understand I didn't come out here 459 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:05,320 to get in pictures. 460 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:06,320 I came out to be a private secretary. 461 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,320 Here's the address. 462 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:09,320 Here, keep it. 463 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:10,320 I won't be using it anymore. 464 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:11,320 All right, thank you, Miss Kay. 465 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:12,320 Here's our card. 466 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,320 If you think of anything more you think we ought to know, 467 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:15,320 we'd appreciate a call from her. 468 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:16,320 Yeah, thanks. 469 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:17,320 Sure appreciate your help. 470 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:18,320 Well, you never know. 471 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:20,320 Maybe I'll need your help sometime. 472 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,320 Matter of fact, you might be able to lend me a hand. 473 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:23,320 What's that, miss? 474 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:25,320 You know any picture producers? 475 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,320 You know, movies? 476 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,320 Frank called the name Paul Rogers into the office 477 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,320 and a supplementary broadcast and an APB were gotten out. 478 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:39,320 A stakeout was arranged on the bar. 479 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:40,320 We went back to the city hall 480 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,320 and the check drew our eye on the name Paul Rogers 481 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:43,320 and added us nothing. 482 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,320 We drove over to the hotel on South Hill. 483 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,320 The manager told us that Rogers was not in his room. 484 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:50,320 He went on to say that Rogers had not been using his room 485 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,320 regularly for the past week or so, 486 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,320 but that he had been in a couple of days before 487 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:55,320 in the company of a soldier 488 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,320 and that as far as he knew the soldier was still in. 489 00:17:58,320 --> 00:17:59,320 In the company of the manager, 490 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:00,320 Frank and I went upstairs. 491 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,320 The manager unlocked the door and we went in. 492 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,320 I'm going to go and find someone in bed. 493 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:07,320 Yeah. 494 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:08,320 Come on. 495 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:13,320 Come on, you. 496 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:14,320 How about it? 497 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:15,320 Just a minute. 498 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:17,320 How about it, Joe? 499 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,320 I don't know. He's dead. 500 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,320 You are listening to Dragnet, 501 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,320 the authentic story of your police force in action. 502 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,320 A report every smoker should hear. 503 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,320 Nose, throat, and accessory organs 504 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,320 not adversely affected by smoking Chesterfields. 505 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,320 First such report published about any cigarette. 506 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,320 A responsible consulting organization reports a study 507 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,320 by a competent medical specialist and staff 508 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,320 on the effects of smoking Chesterfields. 509 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:57,320 For six months, a group of men and women 510 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,320 smoked only Chesterfield, 10 to 40 a day, 511 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:01,320 their normal amount. 512 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,320 45% of the group of smoked Chesterfields 513 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:07,320 from one to 30 years, for an average of 10 years each. 514 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,320 At the beginning and end of the six months, 515 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,320 each smoker was given a thorough examination, 516 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,320 including x-rays and covering the sinuses, 517 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,320 nose, ears, and throat. 518 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:20,320 After these examinations, the medical specialist stated, 519 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,320 it is my opinion that the ears, nose, throat, 520 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,320 and accessory organs of all participating subjects 521 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,320 examined by me were not adversely affected 522 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,320 in the six-month period by smoking the cigarettes provided. 523 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:37,320 Remember this report and buy much milder Chesterfields, 524 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,320 regular or king-size. 525 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:49,320 Music 526 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,320 Wednesday, July 11th, 1240 p.m. 527 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,320 We called the coroner's office, 528 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,320 then we got in touch with the crime lab and the photographers. 529 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,320 After the pictures had been taken, the body was removed. 530 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,320 The victim was a soldier in his mid-30s. 531 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,320 On the nightstand beside the bed, 532 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,320 we found an empty pill bottle and a suicide note. 533 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,320 The note was booked as evidence and turned over to Don Meyer 534 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,320 for comparison with a handwriting taken from the hotel registration card 535 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,320 that Rogers had signed. 536 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,320 The men from Leighton Prince went over the place thoroughly. 537 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,320 They come up with several classifiable prints. 538 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,320 Fingerprints found on the bottle belonged to the victim. 539 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,320 There were several other sets in the room which were not identified. 540 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:24,320 The crime lab went over the room, 541 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,320 then they went back to the lab to make their analysis. 542 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:31,320 All officers in the area were alerted to be on the lookout for Rogers. 543 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,320 Frank and I talked to the manager of the hotel, a Henry Corey. 544 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,320 He told us that Rogers had lived in the hotel for the past four and a half months. 545 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,320 He said that Rogers was quiet, kept pretty much to himself, 546 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,320 and for the most part was a good tenant. 547 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,320 He said that on several occasions Rogers had gotten behind in his rent, 548 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,320 but that he'd always managed to come up with the money. 549 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,320 The manager told us that in the conversations he'd had with Rogers, 550 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:55,320 the main topic had been the Marine Corps and the suspect's record overseas. 551 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,320 Rogers presented himself as an armchair general, 552 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,320 constantly calling down the way the situation was being handled. 553 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,320 He would refer to his own exploits, 554 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:06,320 but when questioned about his leaving the service, he became vague and evasive. 555 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,320 Additional handwriting samples were obtained and sent to Meyer. 556 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,320 The manager told us that the latest victim had come in with Rogers the night before 557 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,320 and that at the time he'd been pretty drunk. 558 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,320 They'd gone upstairs, and when Rogers had left in the morning, 559 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,320 the manager had assumed that the soldier had gone the night before. 560 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:21,320 Three twenty p.m. 561 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:25,320 Frank and I went back to relieve the stake out at the bar. 562 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:33,320 Back again? 563 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:34,320 Yes, Miss Gay. 564 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:35,320 Sit down. 565 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:36,320 Thank you. 566 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,320 It seems like every time I see you I'm doing something with my nails, 567 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,320 this morning filing them, now I'm filing them again. 568 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:43,320 I'm going to put polish on them after this. 569 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:44,320 I guess you think I'm pretty vain. 570 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:45,320 No, not at all, Miss. 571 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,320 New color called frosted rose, isn't it? 572 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,320 Kind of iridescent, that's what the label says. 573 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,320 Have you filed your nails with Stardust? 574 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:53,320 Yes, ma'am. 575 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:54,320 It's a pretty bottle, too. 576 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,320 Make sure you put things up nice nowadays. 577 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,320 Uh-oh, here comes your boy. 578 00:21:58,320 --> 00:21:59,320 That's Rogers. 579 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,320 Yeah. 580 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:02,320 Yes, Stubbie, one of the beans. 581 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:03,320 Perfect, Colt. 582 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:04,320 How's it going, Stubbie? 583 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,320 Same old sick as before. 584 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:07,320 Yeah, pretty dull. 585 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:08,320 You're doing a great business. 586 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,320 It's early yet. 587 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,320 Here's your drink, it'll be four bits. 588 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:13,320 There you go. 589 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:16,320 All right, thanks a good. 590 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:17,320 All right, Frank, let's go. 591 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:18,320 No trouble now. 592 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,320 Not unless he makes it. 593 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,320 Hi, fellas, something you want? 594 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:26,320 You Paul Rogers? 595 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:27,320 Yeah, who are you? 596 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:28,320 Police officers. 597 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:29,320 We'd like to talk to you. 598 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:30,320 I don't want any trouble in here. 599 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:31,320 Well, there's not going to be any trouble. 600 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:32,320 Always fights. 601 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,320 Why is it everybody comes into a bar and starts fights? 602 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:35,320 Think there's someplace else to be? 603 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:36,320 All right, come on, Rogers. 604 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:37,320 Four for four? 605 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:38,320 You've got nothing to haul me in. 606 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:39,320 We'll talk to you about that, too. 607 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:40,320 Well, let me finish my drink. 608 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:41,320 No, afraid not. 609 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:42,320 Let's go now. 610 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,320 Look, I said I was going to finish my drink. 611 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:44,320 Don't lean. 612 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:45,320 Let's can it, Mr. and Goat. 613 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:46,320 I said I was going to finish my drink. 614 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,320 All right, Mr. on your feet. 615 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:50,320 Nothing on him. 616 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,320 Let's take him to the office. 617 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:53,320 Sergeant. 618 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:54,320 Yes, sir. 619 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:55,320 Thanks. 620 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:56,320 Sure appreciate it. 621 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:57,320 What's that? 622 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:05,320 Thought for a minute there you were going to have a fight. 623 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,320 We took the suspect back to the city hall. 624 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,320 Then we checked the name through the Marine base in San Diego. 625 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:13,320 Lieutenant Richard Houston called back to say that Rogers had received a court martial 626 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,320 and a dishonorable discharge in January of that year. 627 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,320 He'd been tried by a military court on the charge of stealing alcohol from the hospital 628 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,320 pharmacy and selling it to the patients in the hospital. 629 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:28,320 We stopped in handwriting analysis and Don Meyer took an exemplar of the suspect's writing. 630 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:33,320 When we checked by the office, there was a message from Sergeants Bill Cummings and Harry Hanson 631 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:37,320 stating that their investigation had shown that the death of the soldier in Rogers' room 632 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,320 was suicide beyond any doubt. 633 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:44,320 746 p.m. Frank and I talked to the suspect in the interrogation room. 634 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,320 Terrible thing treating a veteran like this. 635 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:47,320 All right, let's save it, Rogers. 636 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:48,320 There's a few questions we'd like some answers to. 637 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:49,320 I got nothing to hide. 638 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,320 All right, what were the conditions of your discharge from the Marine Corps? 639 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:53,320 What do you mean? 640 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,320 Did you get an honorable discharge or a dishonorable discharge? 641 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:56,320 I had a little trouble. 642 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:57,320 Lousy officers. 643 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,320 Never did understand what the problems of the enlisted man were. 644 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,320 What do you do for a living, Rogers? 645 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,320 I work. 646 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,320 Where? 647 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:04,320 Around. 648 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:05,320 You have a steady job? 649 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:06,320 What do you mean steady? 650 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:07,320 One you've held for say more than six months. 651 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,320 Haven't been out of service that long. 652 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:09,320 What about the Corps? 653 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:10,320 Japan, Korea? 654 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:11,320 How long were you there? 655 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:12,320 About four or five months. 656 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:13,320 Why'd you come back? 657 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,320 I was wounded. 658 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:15,320 How? 659 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:16,320 What do you mean how? 660 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:17,320 Trust that, how were you wounded? 661 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,320 Well, I wasn't exactly wounded. 662 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:19,320 I had my feet frostbitten. 663 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,320 According to this here, you went AWOL and got lost. 664 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,320 When they found you, your feet were frozen. 665 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,320 Is that right? 666 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,320 What's that you got? 667 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:27,320 Your record in the Corps. 668 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:28,320 You've got a lot of nerve digging into that. 669 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,320 That's what you got me in here for anyway. 670 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,320 I done nothing that puts me in line for this kind of treatment. 671 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,320 You know a couple of Marines named Ed Monahan and Jack Walker? 672 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:36,320 Monahan? 673 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,320 Walker? 674 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:38,320 No, I don't think I know him. 675 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,320 You ever register in a hotel on Fifth Street? 676 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:41,320 No, I live over on Hill. 677 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,320 You know a soldier named Marty Wilkins? 678 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:44,320 What's he got to do with it? 679 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:45,320 We found him dead in your room. 680 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,320 What, you're cracking up? 681 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,320 Yeah, sure Rogers, we just dreamed we found that body. 682 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:50,320 Nothing to do with him. 683 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:51,320 Met him in a bar. 684 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,320 He said he wasn't feeling too good. 685 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:53,320 Said he didn't have a place to sleep. 686 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,320 I let him have my room. 687 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:56,320 Something wrong in that? 688 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,320 Be a little kind and now even that gets you in trouble. 689 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,320 You sure you don't know a Marine named Ed Monahan? 690 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:01,320 Positive. 691 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:02,320 There's something wrong, Rogers. 692 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,320 Girl at the bar says she saw you leave the place with two Marines. 693 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,320 They could have been Monahan and Walker. 694 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:07,320 Maybe I know them. 695 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,320 I might and still not know their names. 696 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,320 You didn't take them up to a room you'd rented in a hotel on Fifth Street? 697 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,320 No, I told you once I never lived on Fifth. 698 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:14,320 Check with our handwriting man. 699 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,320 He says your writing matches some samples we found on the hotel register. 700 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:18,320 Maybe I write like somebody else. 701 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:19,320 No, we don't think so, mister. 702 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:20,320 How about Jack Walker? 703 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,320 Maybe you know him, you just didn't remember him. 704 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:23,320 No, I keep telling you I don't know them. 705 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:24,320 Vera says you do. 706 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:25,320 Well, she's lying. 707 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:26,320 Is she? 708 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:27,320 Sure she is. 709 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,320 She's trying to save her own skin. 710 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:29,320 From what? 711 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:30,320 She doesn't want to stand a rep for murder, can't you see? 712 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,320 Yeah, go ahead, Roger. 713 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,320 I'm saying nothing until I see my lawyer. 714 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:36,320 You sure you don't want to tell us why you did it? 715 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:37,320 I got nothing to say. 716 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:38,320 Makes it tough, Roger. 717 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:39,320 What do you mean? 718 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:40,320 Just makes it rough, that's all. 719 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,320 Looks like you're going to have to stand a murder rep. 720 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:43,320 Yeah? 721 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,320 That's the way it looks. 722 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,320 Well, I didn't mean it. 723 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,320 I didn't, I just wanted to get even, that's all. 724 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:51,320 Just get even. 725 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:52,320 For what, Roger? 726 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,320 For the way the court treated me. 727 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,320 Kicked me out. 728 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,320 I didn't do anything really wrong. 729 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:56,320 Copped a little alcohol, that's all. 730 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:57,320 No harm done. 731 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:58,320 Maybe look at it a little different. 732 00:25:58,320 --> 00:25:59,320 Yeah, that's a trouble. 733 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:00,320 Stinking brass, they're all alike. 734 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:01,320 They don't care what happens to us. 735 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:02,320 The guys in the field try to get a job. 736 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,320 I looked everywhere, I just didn't fit. 737 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,320 Seemed like everywhere I went I got into trouble. 738 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,320 I wanted like it was when I first went in. 739 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:10,320 Like it was after boot camp. 740 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,320 Walking down the street, girls looking at you, a Marine, a big man. 741 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:15,320 They took that away from me. 742 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:16,320 They wouldn't let me enlist again. 743 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,320 I tried, but they wouldn't let me. 744 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,320 You can understand what that'd do to a guy, can't you? 745 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:21,320 I don't know. 746 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,320 It tore me apart. 747 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,320 Right then I decided to get even with all the stinking gyrenes in the world. 748 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:26,320 They wouldn't let me in and I hated them. 749 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:27,320 Yeah. 750 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,320 Remember what happened the day you gave the two boys the pills, do you? 751 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:31,320 Sure, remember what happened. 752 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,320 Sure, remember all of it. 753 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,320 They cried for a medic. 754 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:36,320 They weren't big men then. 755 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:37,320 No, sir, they sure weren't. 756 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,320 All right, Rogers, we'll get a stenographer. 757 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:41,320 Tell me, Sergeant. 758 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:42,320 Yeah. 759 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:43,320 Did I get both of them? 760 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:44,320 No, Walker's gonna be all right. 761 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:45,320 He a young one? 762 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:46,320 That's right. 763 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:47,320 A real nice kid. 764 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:48,320 Lucky, too. 765 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:49,320 Is that right? 766 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:50,320 Yeah. 767 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:51,320 No worries. 768 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,320 Really got it made. 769 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:54,320 Uniform, that's what does it. 770 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,320 Uniform makes all the difference in the world. 771 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:57,320 Yeah, well, don't worry. 772 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:58,320 You'll get one. 773 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:08,320 The story you have just heard was true. 774 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,320 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 775 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:16,320 On November 13th, trial was held in Department 87, Superior Court of the State of California, 776 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:17,320 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 777 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,320 In a moment, the results of that trial. 778 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,320 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 779 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,320 Thank you, George Fenomen. 780 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,320 In modern crime detection, the working detective depends on scientific research. 781 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:32,320 He relies on the services of trained experts in ballistics, communications, fingerprints, 782 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:33,320 to name just a few. 783 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,320 He's interested only in facts. 784 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,320 And as a smoker, you should be interested only in facts. 785 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,320 That's why the report you heard earlier is so important to you. 786 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:46,320 Nose, throat, and accessory organs not adversely affected by smoking Chesterfield. 787 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,320 First such report ever published about any cigarette. 788 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:49,320 Remember it. 789 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,320 And next time, buy Chesterfield. 790 00:27:52,320 --> 00:28:07,320 Regular or king-size, premium quality Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke. 791 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,320 Paul M. Rogers was tried and convicted on one count of murder in the first degree. 792 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:25,320 He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 793 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,320 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 794 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:34,320 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 795 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:39,320 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wins, Sergeant Vance Brashear. 796 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:43,320 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Virginia Gregg, Jack Crouchon. 797 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:51,320 Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. Hal Gibney speaking. 798 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,320 Sound off for Chesterfield. 799 00:28:53,320 --> 00:29:00,320 Either way you like them, regular or king-size, Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke. 800 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,320 Much milder Chesterfield. 801 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:18,320 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles. 802 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:35,320 Tonight it's Barry Craig, confidential investigator on NBC.