WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.000 Sound off for Chesterfield. 00:11.000 --> 00:15.840 Chesterfield, only cigarette in America to give you premium quality in both regular and 00:15.840 --> 00:26.400 king size brings you drag. 00:26.400 --> 00:30.280 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:30.280 --> 00:41.440 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:41.440 --> 00:43.320 You're a detective sergeant. 00:43.320 --> 00:45.880 You're assigned a homicide detail. 00:45.880 --> 00:49.960 Naval intelligence tells you that two marines have been picked up by the shore patrol. 00:49.960 --> 00:51.480 They're reported sick. 00:51.480 --> 00:53.400 One is in critical condition. 00:53.400 --> 00:55.400 Foul play is suspected. 00:55.400 --> 01:01.240 Your job, investigate. 01:01.240 --> 01:05.720 Here's what leading tobacco publications have had to say about king size Chesterfield. 01:05.720 --> 01:09.800 U.S. Tobacco Journal, Atlanta, Georgia. 01:09.800 --> 01:12.180 Chesterfield king size is going strong. 01:12.180 --> 01:16.620 One jobber reordered twice this week in addition to his regular order. 01:16.620 --> 01:22.760 And the Chicago Weekly, Tobacco Leaf, reports more calls for Chesterfield king size cigarettes 01:22.760 --> 01:24.800 than for most brands being marketed. 01:24.800 --> 01:29.760 The reason for king size Chesterfield's amazing success is this. 01:29.760 --> 01:34.720 All king size cigarettes give you quantity, but only Chesterfield king size gives you 01:34.720 --> 01:38.520 quantity plus quality, premium quality. 01:38.520 --> 01:44.040 That means Chesterfield king size contains tobaccos of better quality and higher price 01:44.040 --> 01:46.760 than any other king size cigarette. 01:46.760 --> 01:50.640 The same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. 01:50.640 --> 01:54.480 Enough more of this tobacco to give you over a fifth longer smoke. 01:54.480 --> 02:00.360 So remember, Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular 02:00.360 --> 02:01.880 and king size. 02:01.880 --> 02:03.920 Buy them either way you like them. 02:03.920 --> 02:11.280 Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke, much milder. 02:11.280 --> 02:18.280 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 02:18.280 --> 02:23.240 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 02:23.240 --> 02:27.840 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 02:27.840 --> 02:29.540 police files. 02:29.540 --> 02:34.720 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:34.720 --> 02:40.120 in action. 02:40.120 --> 02:41.120 It was Tuesday, July 10th. 02:41.120 --> 02:42.120 It was hot in Los Angeles. 02:42.120 --> 02:44.440 We were working the day watch out a homicide detail. 02:44.440 --> 02:45.920 My partner is Frank Smith. 02:45.920 --> 02:46.920 The boss is Captain Warman. 02:46.920 --> 02:47.920 My name is Friday. 02:47.920 --> 02:50.920 It was 7 58 a.m. when I got to room 42. 02:50.920 --> 02:51.920 Homicide. 02:51.920 --> 02:52.920 Morning, John. 02:52.920 --> 02:53.920 Hi. 02:53.920 --> 02:54.920 Just get in? 02:54.920 --> 02:55.920 Yeah. 02:55.920 --> 02:56.920 Anything in the book? 02:56.920 --> 02:57.920 I'm looking. 02:57.920 --> 02:58.920 What's the matter? 02:58.920 --> 02:59.920 Are you hacked about something? 02:59.920 --> 03:00.920 No, no. 03:00.920 --> 03:01.920 Why do you ask that? 03:01.920 --> 03:02.920 Figures you're sorry about something. 03:02.920 --> 03:03.920 What do you do? 03:03.920 --> 03:04.920 Take a sour pill? 03:04.920 --> 03:07.320 If you keep this up, you won't be asked to post toothpaste ads. 03:07.320 --> 03:08.320 Well, now that's funny. 03:08.320 --> 03:09.320 All right, Joe. 03:09.320 --> 03:10.320 Tell your Uncle Dudley what's the matter. 03:10.320 --> 02:55.880 The 03:10.320 --> 03:12.320 thing you and Gaffney have been working on? 03:12.320 --> 03:13.320 Yeah, the white glove band. 03:13.320 --> 03:14.320 It came up while you were out on vacation. 03:14.320 --> 03:15.320 Spent over a month on it. 03:15.320 --> 03:16.320 Covered it from every angle. 03:16.320 --> 03:17.320 Yeah. 03:17.320 --> 03:18.320 Looked like we had the guy any way he turned. 03:18.320 --> 03:19.320 We had an idea of how to get him out of the way. 03:19.320 --> 03:23.200 We thought he traced him on every move he made on each of the deals. 03:23.200 --> 03:24.200 We figured we really had the guy. 03:24.200 --> 03:25.200 The DA's office thought so, too. 03:25.200 --> 03:26.200 They quit him? 03:26.200 --> 03:27.200 Yeah. 03:27.200 --> 03:28.200 Let him walk right out, 12 men, good and true. 03:28.200 --> 03:29.200 Let that cheap hoodlum walk right out on the streets a free man. 03:29.200 --> 03:30.200 Well, that's where it goes sometimes. 03:30.200 --> 03:31.200 Is there Mr. Friday here? 03:31.200 --> 03:32.200 Yes, sir. 03:32.200 --> 03:33.200 I'm Friday. 03:33.200 --> 03:34.200 Is there something I can do for you? 03:34.200 --> 03:35.200 Well, I'm Richard Houston, Naval Intelligence. 03:35.200 --> 03:36.200 Deputy Chief Brown directed me to you. 03:36.200 --> 03:37.200 I see. 03:37.200 --> 03:38.200 Well, it's my partner, Frank Smith. 03:38.200 --> 03:39.200 Lieutenant Houston. 03:39.200 --> 03:40.200 Oh, yes, sir. 03:40.200 --> 03:41.200 Like sit down, sir. 03:41.200 --> 03:42.200 What is it we can do for you? 03:42.200 --> 03:43.200 I'm a lawyer. 03:43.200 --> 03:44.200 I'm a lawyer. 03:44.200 --> 03:45.200 I'm a lawyer. 03:45.200 --> 03:51.600 Well, we got a weird one. 03:51.600 --> 03:53.640 That's why we thought your department ought to be in on it. 03:53.640 --> 03:56.200 About all I can tell you is just the skeleton of the thing. 03:56.200 --> 03:57.200 We don't know all the details. 03:57.200 --> 03:59.240 We haven't gone into it completely yet. 03:59.240 --> 04:01.880 We figured you fellows would like to be in on it from the beginning. 04:01.880 --> 04:03.880 Looks like it's going to be a police investigation. 04:03.880 --> 04:04.880 Yes, sir. 04:04.880 --> 04:08.640 To begin, I should go back three weeks ago and tell you the story as near as we've been 04:08.640 --> 04:09.640 able to reconstruct it. 04:09.640 --> 04:10.640 Yes, sir. 04:10.640 --> 04:11.640 Go right ahead. 04:11.640 --> 04:13.240 Well, a couple of Marines left the base. 04:13.240 --> 04:16.720 They'd just gotten back from Korea, both on a 48-hour pass. 04:16.720 --> 04:17.720 We figured they came up here to LA. 04:17.720 --> 04:20.760 They had a lot of back pay in their pockets. 04:20.760 --> 04:23.920 We don't know where they started, but they ended up in a cheap hotel. 04:23.920 --> 04:26.640 We got a call from the shore patrol early Monday morning. 04:26.640 --> 04:30.640 They'd gotten a complaint that the two boys were causing a disturbance in the hotel. 04:30.640 --> 04:32.960 They picked them up and found they both were in a pretty bad way. 04:32.960 --> 04:35.400 They had them shipped to the Naval Hospital down at Long Beach. 04:35.400 --> 04:37.840 By the time they got there, they were really rocky. 04:37.840 --> 04:41.240 Well, I'm sorry, sir, but I don't quite see just how we're connected with this. 04:41.240 --> 04:42.240 Well, I'm getting to that. 04:42.240 --> 04:43.240 I'm sorry. 04:43.240 --> 04:44.240 All right, I'm a little long-winded. 04:44.240 --> 04:48.760 Anyway, last night, the boys had been AWOL for over two weeks. 04:48.760 --> 04:50.720 They were brought into the hospital, like I said. 04:50.720 --> 04:53.360 Doctors did what they could, but it was too late to help. 04:53.360 --> 04:55.280 One of the boys died late last night. 04:55.280 --> 04:56.280 We're not sure about the other one. 04:56.280 --> 04:57.920 That's where you come in, sir. 04:57.920 --> 05:00.920 They were both poisoned. 05:00.920 --> 05:06.240 9.06 a.m. 05:06.240 --> 05:10.760 Frank and I talked with Captain Lorman, then we checked out a Crip car and left for Long 05:10.760 --> 05:11.760 Beach. 05:11.760 --> 05:13.880 After we got there, we talked with a doctor in charge. 05:13.880 --> 05:17.000 He told us that it would be later that night before the boy would be completely out of 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 danger. 05:18.000 --> 05:21.280 He said, however, that we could talk to him if we phrased our questions so that the answers 05:21.280 --> 05:23.280 could be kept fairly brief. 05:23.280 --> 05:24.560 We looked over the boy's record. 05:24.560 --> 05:27.600 His full name was Jack Wayne Walker, age 24. 05:27.600 --> 05:31.280 He'd enlisted in the Marine Corps on January 14, 1950. 05:31.280 --> 05:35.120 He'd spent almost a year in the Far East, and his service record had been good until 05:35.120 --> 05:36.540 this time. 05:36.540 --> 05:40.640 The record of the victim, TFC Edward Monahan, was pretty much the same. 05:40.640 --> 05:43.280 The boys had both come from the same town in Arkansas. 05:43.280 --> 05:45.320 The date of their enlistment was the same. 05:45.320 --> 05:47.760 They'd served overseas the same time. 05:47.760 --> 05:50.800 At 3.48 p.m., the doctor ushered us into Jack Walker's room. 05:50.800 --> 05:51.800 Who are you? 05:51.800 --> 05:52.800 Police officer. 05:52.800 --> 05:53.800 Jack, we'd like to talk to you. 05:53.800 --> 05:54.800 What's it about? 05:54.800 --> 05:55.800 I haven't done anything. 05:55.800 --> 05:56.800 At least I don't think I did. 05:56.800 --> 05:57.800 No, it's not that. 05:57.800 --> 05:58.800 We'd like to find out what happened while you were up in L.A. 05:58.800 --> 05:59.800 I killed my buddy up there. 05:59.800 --> 06:00.800 That's what happened. 06:00.800 --> 06:01.800 You heard about that, didn't you? 06:01.800 --> 06:02.800 Yes, we did. 06:02.800 --> 06:03.800 That's what we wanted to talk to you about. 06:03.800 --> 06:04.800 Poor Ed. 06:04.800 --> 06:10.480 Year in Korea, guys taking potshots at us, cold, mud, and we've got to come back here to get 06:10.480 --> 06:11.480 it. 06:11.480 --> 06:12.480 I didn't trust that little crumb. 06:12.480 --> 06:14.280 I knew we shouldn't have had anything to do with it. 06:14.280 --> 06:16.040 Well, you shouldn't have trusted who again? 06:16.040 --> 06:17.040 Stubby. 06:17.040 --> 06:18.040 You know the rest of his name? 06:18.040 --> 06:19.040 No, just Stubby. 06:19.040 --> 06:21.520 I just can't believe it about Ed. 06:21.520 --> 06:23.840 He was shoved off for L.A. going to have a last fling. 06:23.840 --> 06:25.920 Ed was getting married as soon as we got home. 06:25.920 --> 06:28.120 All right, if you could just start right at the beginning. 06:28.120 --> 06:29.120 Sure. 06:29.120 --> 06:31.920 Well, first, we both had a 48-hour pass. 06:31.920 --> 06:35.640 We figured to go to L.A., like I said, for a last fling, a few drinks, look at some of 06:35.640 --> 06:37.560 the lights, have a little fun. 06:37.560 --> 06:40.160 Sort of a bachelor party for Ed before it got hitched. 06:40.160 --> 06:45.240 Well, we pulled into town, let's see, I think it was Saturday morning. 06:45.240 --> 06:49.400 A couple of buddies told us about a joint up there where we could have some fun. 06:49.400 --> 06:54.240 We head up there, nice little place, that hour in the morning, I guess about 10, 10 06:54.240 --> 06:55.240 30. 06:55.240 --> 06:58.880 Well, we start in the drink, it gets pretty foggy after that. 06:58.880 --> 07:03.160 Like little parts in a jigsaw, you know, you sort of see a little bit of everything, but 07:03.160 --> 07:04.760 the whole picture ain't there. 07:04.760 --> 07:09.200 Well, I remember we hung around the place for two days and then it all really goes black. 07:09.200 --> 07:12.440 The next thing I remember, we woke up in some flea bag. 07:12.440 --> 07:14.400 I remember looking at the calendar on the wall. 07:14.400 --> 07:16.680 We was already a couple of days AWOL. 07:16.680 --> 07:19.880 Ed and I talked about what we should do. 07:19.880 --> 07:24.280 And then we get to trying to think up an excuse for the CO for being AWOL. 07:24.280 --> 07:26.160 Well, our CO ain't easy. 07:26.160 --> 07:28.440 He's had experts try. 07:28.440 --> 07:30.080 Ed says he figured out something. 07:30.080 --> 07:32.920 So we start for the bus depot, get back to base. 07:32.920 --> 07:37.420 On the way, we pass this bar and Ed says, well, maybe we ought to stop and have one 07:37.420 --> 07:39.280 more for the road, so we do. 07:39.280 --> 07:43.040 And I don't remember much for a couple more days. 07:43.040 --> 07:46.920 And I remember once we stopped and watched the guy get tattooed, Ed and I got talking 07:46.920 --> 07:49.360 about it, you know, whether or not we should have it done. 07:49.360 --> 07:51.480 Finally, I figured it was kind of kid stuff. 07:51.480 --> 07:52.480 So we didn't. 07:52.480 --> 07:56.200 I remember that because it was right after we left the tattoo place, went to this bar 07:56.200 --> 07:57.200 where we met Stubby. 07:57.200 --> 07:58.920 Now, this is the fellow that you were talking about? 07:58.920 --> 07:59.920 Yeah, it's him. 07:59.920 --> 08:00.920 And you met him in a bar? 08:00.920 --> 08:01.920 Uh huh. 08:01.920 --> 08:02.920 Yeah. 08:02.920 --> 08:05.080 Ed and I were sitting there trying to figure out what we was going to do, you know. 08:05.080 --> 08:09.720 We were pretty broke by this time and then two weeks, over two weeks they were all anyway 08:09.720 --> 08:11.280 sliced, we had big trouble. 08:11.280 --> 08:12.280 Yeah. 08:12.280 --> 08:15.440 Well, we walked into this place with about 4.30 or five in the afternoon. 08:15.440 --> 08:18.600 At least as I can tell, that's about what time it was. 08:18.600 --> 08:21.360 The whole deal gets kind of foggy. 08:21.360 --> 08:25.560 We sat down this bar in order to drink and just sat in their mind on business, trying 08:25.560 --> 08:27.480 to figure what we ought to do. 08:27.480 --> 08:31.320 Then this Stubby joker comes up, sits down next to Ed, brings his drink with him. 08:31.320 --> 08:33.560 He was in the bar when you came in, is that right? 08:33.560 --> 08:34.560 Yeah. 08:34.560 --> 08:35.560 At least I think so. 08:35.560 --> 08:38.760 I didn't pay much attention, but he had a drink when he came up to Ed and me. 08:38.760 --> 08:40.120 Yeah, go ahead. 08:40.120 --> 08:45.200 Well, he got to talk about the core and next thing we know, he's setting up the drink. 08:45.200 --> 08:48.440 We was fixed loans he wanted to buy, we wasn't going to argue. 08:48.440 --> 08:50.080 They seem to know this Stubby in the bar? 08:50.080 --> 08:52.480 Yeah, the way it's on the tables called him by name. 08:52.480 --> 08:54.280 All right, you want to go ahead? 08:54.280 --> 08:58.600 Yeah, well, this Stubby kept going on about how he liked the core and how he'd won a whole 08:58.600 --> 09:00.920 flock of citations in Korea. 09:00.920 --> 09:04.640 Told us all about the time he'd spent in Japan, place we thought he was just throwing a bunch 09:04.640 --> 09:08.960 of coconuts at us, but we'd ask him about places in Korea and things you could only 09:08.960 --> 09:10.160 know if he was there. 09:10.160 --> 09:13.560 He'd come up with the answers all right, but even with all that, there was something that 09:13.560 --> 09:15.760 just didn't ring true. 09:15.760 --> 09:23.560 Anyway, long about 8, 8.30 that night, Stubby got in a thrash with the bartender, something 09:23.560 --> 09:24.840 about the price of the drink. 09:24.840 --> 09:29.120 So he suggested we go up to his place and get a jug and drink up there. 09:29.120 --> 09:33.480 I wasn't too hot for the idea, but Ed said we had nothing to lose. 09:33.480 --> 09:36.520 We didn't have a sack for the night and there wasn't much dough left, so we shoved off with 09:36.520 --> 09:37.520 him. 09:37.520 --> 09:38.520 Where did this Stubby live? 09:38.520 --> 09:39.520 Hotel down on Fifth. 09:39.520 --> 09:40.520 I'll tell you how to find the place. 09:40.520 --> 09:42.000 Same place you were picked up in? 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 Yeah. 09:43.000 --> 09:44.000 We got the address then. 09:44.000 --> 09:45.000 Oh, okay. 09:45.000 --> 09:46.480 What happened when you got Stubby's room? 09:46.480 --> 09:51.040 Well, we cracked the jug, sat around drinking for a while, and then Ed and I went to sleep. 09:51.040 --> 09:55.360 I tell you the next morning, we had the biggest hangover in the entire United States and Canada, 09:55.360 --> 09:56.360 both of us. 09:56.360 --> 09:57.360 We felt miserable. 09:57.360 --> 10:01.160 Ed stopped beefing about the cheap boo Stubby drung in on us. 10:01.160 --> 10:03.560 That's when he tried to tout us on them pills. 10:03.560 --> 10:04.560 What those are? 10:04.560 --> 10:06.040 Well, them things supposed to relieve hangovers. 10:06.040 --> 10:08.280 You mean the kind they sell in drug stores? 10:08.280 --> 10:09.280 Oh, no, not them. 10:09.280 --> 10:11.680 Stubby told us about that one. 10:11.680 --> 10:12.680 He'd come back to the States. 10:12.680 --> 10:16.800 He'd stood some duty in a hospital and said that while he was there, he got them pills. 10:16.800 --> 10:20.680 He said there was a special prescription, that they was great for head shrinking. 10:20.680 --> 10:22.160 He wanted us to try them. 10:22.160 --> 10:23.160 Did you? 10:23.160 --> 10:24.640 Well, no, not right away. 10:24.640 --> 10:28.800 They kept after us, though, kidding us about being big, tough Marines with a hangover. 10:28.800 --> 10:32.160 Then he took one of the pills, at least as we thought he did. 10:32.160 --> 10:35.040 So Ed and I figured then we didn't have anything to lose. 10:35.040 --> 10:36.720 You took one of these hangover pills then, did you? 10:36.720 --> 10:37.720 Yeah, we both did. 10:37.720 --> 10:38.720 What happened then? 10:38.720 --> 10:39.720 Well, nothing right away. 10:39.720 --> 10:44.040 Stubby said, take a little time for it to take effect. 10:44.040 --> 10:45.040 We got up and started to get dressed. 10:45.040 --> 10:48.560 Ed and I thought we'd better get back to the base, you know, if we'd probably be in enough 10:48.560 --> 10:50.640 trouble as it was without worrying about a hangover. 10:50.640 --> 10:51.640 Yeah. 10:51.640 --> 10:52.640 You left the room? 10:52.640 --> 10:54.840 Yeah, we were just getting our stuff together and Ed took sick. 10:54.840 --> 10:58.840 He said he had awful pain in his stomach, like a cramp, you know. 10:58.840 --> 11:00.680 We asked Stubby if the pill could have caused it. 11:00.680 --> 11:02.640 He said no, must have been the booze. 11:02.640 --> 11:05.800 Well, right about then I was getting ready to mop up the place with this Stubby. 11:05.800 --> 11:07.120 I figured, sure, he'd given us a mickey. 11:07.120 --> 11:09.080 I couldn't figure why, though. 11:09.080 --> 11:10.080 Then it hit me. 11:10.080 --> 11:11.080 That felt, huh? 11:11.080 --> 11:13.040 Yeah, I guess so. 11:13.040 --> 11:14.400 Real bad cramps in my stomach. 11:14.400 --> 11:15.400 I got real dizzy. 11:15.400 --> 11:17.200 The room started to go round. 11:17.200 --> 11:20.440 We asked Stubby to call a doctor, and that's when we knew he was really in trouble. 11:20.440 --> 11:21.440 How bad? 11:21.440 --> 11:23.280 Well, we knew then he was nuts off his trolley. 11:23.280 --> 11:25.080 And neither of us could walk. 11:25.080 --> 11:27.920 Ed doubled up and passed out, and I could hardly keep awake. 11:27.920 --> 11:29.920 We both just lay there on the floor. 11:29.920 --> 11:31.880 I kept asking this bum to get us a medic. 11:31.880 --> 11:32.880 Did he? 11:32.880 --> 11:35.520 No, he just stood there and laughed at us, laughed like a crazy fool. 11:35.520 --> 11:37.560 He kept saying, we was big, strong Marines. 11:37.560 --> 11:40.120 We should be able to take a little stomach ache without running to a doctor. 11:40.120 --> 11:42.880 At no time did he make any attempt to get you medical help. 11:42.880 --> 11:46.080 No, just like I said, he just stood there and laughed at us. 11:46.080 --> 11:47.080 Then he got real mean. 11:47.080 --> 11:48.720 He got crazy leery on his face. 11:48.720 --> 11:51.640 He'd show us that he'd fix us up good for what we'd done. 11:51.640 --> 11:52.640 What do you mean by that? 11:52.640 --> 11:53.640 I don't know. 11:53.640 --> 11:55.960 All I thought about was getting Ed and me to a doc. 11:55.960 --> 11:59.160 About this time, I didn't much care what the little screwball did. 11:59.160 --> 12:01.680 Then it really started harping on how he's getting even with us. 12:01.680 --> 12:04.520 I tried to get at him, I'd have killed him if I could have. 12:04.520 --> 12:07.520 I tried to get at him, but I fell and went out, I guess. 12:07.520 --> 12:11.440 That's when he said that thing about that we wouldn't be the last ones he'd get. 12:11.440 --> 12:12.440 What? 12:12.440 --> 12:16.360 Well, he said like this, you guys are the first, just the first, but there's gonna be 12:16.360 --> 12:18.360 more, a lot more. 12:18.360 --> 12:26.800 We continued to talk to Jack Walker. 12:26.800 --> 12:29.600 He gave us a complete description of the man he'd known as Stubby. 12:29.600 --> 12:33.480 And going over the story again with him, there were a few changes in it, but none that couldn't 12:33.480 --> 12:35.760 be accounted for by his condition. 12:35.760 --> 12:38.080 We got the address of the bar where he'd met Stubby. 12:38.080 --> 12:41.760 We checked with the doctor and he told us that both boys had been given a powerful corrosive 12:41.760 --> 12:42.760 poison. 12:42.760 --> 12:46.680 He went on to say that it was a miracle that Jack Walker was still alive. 12:46.680 --> 12:50.360 9.26 p.m., Frank and I drove back to Los Angeles. 12:50.360 --> 12:54.160 We checked into the office and ran the name Stubby through the moniker file and R&I, but 12:54.160 --> 12:55.160 we found nothing. 12:55.160 --> 12:58.880 We got out a local and an APB on the description and the name. 12:58.880 --> 13:01.680 The stats office started a run on the MO. 13:01.680 --> 13:05.200 Frank and I checked the hotel on 5th Street and the manager showed us the room, but he 13:05.200 --> 13:09.120 said that it had been cleaned and occupied since the two Marines had left. 13:09.120 --> 13:12.420 Layton Prince went over the room but failed to come up with anything. 13:12.420 --> 13:15.680 We took the hotel registration card and booked it in as evidence. 13:15.680 --> 13:18.240 The man had signed his name as Alton Richards. 13:18.240 --> 13:22.320 The manager gave us the same description as the one we'd gotten from the Marines. 13:22.320 --> 13:25.480 We ran the name through R&I, but we failed to come up with any new leads. 13:25.480 --> 13:29.640 There'd been no replies to the broadcast and the stats office had finished the run and 13:29.640 --> 13:31.560 had come up with four possible suspects. 13:31.560 --> 13:34.360 These were checked out, but they led us nowhere. 13:34.360 --> 13:38.400 2.30 a.m., we checked the bar, but we thought it was closed. 13:38.400 --> 13:43.200 Wednesday, 8.14 a.m., we briefed Captain Lorman on the developments and then we went over 13:43.200 --> 13:46.720 to again check the bar where the two Marines were supposed to have met Stubbe. 13:46.720 --> 13:49.680 The place was deserted except for one man drinking a beer. 13:49.680 --> 13:52.680 The waitress was sitting in her rear booth filing her fingernails. 13:52.680 --> 13:54.160 Frank and I went back to talk to her. 13:54.160 --> 13:57.160 Yeah, something you want? 13:57.160 --> 14:01.120 Well, police officers, Miss, we'd like to talk to you. 14:01.120 --> 14:02.120 Captain? 14:02.120 --> 14:03.560 Yes, ma'am, this is my partner, Joe Friday. 14:03.560 --> 14:04.560 My name's Smith. 14:04.560 --> 14:05.560 Yes. 14:05.560 --> 14:06.560 Boy, does that sound phony. 14:06.560 --> 14:07.560 Here's my ID card. 14:07.560 --> 14:08.560 Yeah, Smith, all right. 14:08.560 --> 14:09.560 What do you want? 14:09.560 --> 14:10.560 Would you mind if we sit down? 14:10.560 --> 14:11.560 No, go ahead, Liz. 14:11.560 --> 14:14.560 Thank you. 14:14.560 --> 14:16.840 What's this all about? 14:16.840 --> 14:17.840 Do you work here, Studi? 14:17.840 --> 14:18.840 Yeah, most of the time. 14:18.840 --> 14:19.840 What's your name, Miss? 14:19.840 --> 14:20.840 Vera. 14:20.840 --> 14:21.840 Vera Gay. 14:21.840 --> 14:24.840 Well, Miss Gay, were you working here around the eighth or ninth or the tenth of July? 14:24.840 --> 14:26.840 Yeah, and you can make it Vera. 14:26.840 --> 14:29.360 You know most of the people who come in here regularly, do they? 14:29.360 --> 14:30.360 Yeah, I suppose so. 14:30.360 --> 14:34.360 I wonder if you'd look at this description and tell us if you know the man here. 14:34.360 --> 14:36.840 WMA, what does that mean? 14:36.840 --> 14:37.840 White male American. 14:37.840 --> 14:38.840 Yeah, WMA. 14:38.840 --> 14:46.320 Thirty-six years, five feet seven to five feet nine, 155 pounds stubby. 14:46.320 --> 14:47.320 Yeah? 14:47.320 --> 14:48.320 Yeah, I know him. 14:48.320 --> 14:49.320 Comes in here all the time, nice guy. 14:49.320 --> 14:50.320 Loud when he gets drunk, so he's nice to me, though. 14:50.320 --> 14:51.320 Tells me I should be in pictures. 14:51.320 --> 14:52.320 You know the movie? 14:52.320 --> 14:53.320 Yes, ma'am, have you seen him today? 14:53.320 --> 14:54.320 No, he hardly ever gets in before maybe noon, one o'clock. 14:54.320 --> 14:55.320 It just doesn't bother you, does it, my father Moneo? 14:55.320 --> 14:56.320 Not at all. 14:56.320 --> 14:57.320 He does bother some people, you know, like running a piece of chalk down a blackboard. 14:57.320 --> 15:10.320 Mrs. Stubby, does he have any other name? 15:10.320 --> 15:11.320 Would you know it? 15:11.320 --> 15:12.320 Yeah, Paul Rogers. 15:12.320 --> 15:13.320 That's another one, Joe. 15:13.320 --> 15:14.320 Yeah. 15:14.320 --> 15:15.320 And you want to go ahead, miss? 15:15.320 --> 15:16.320 I went out with him a couple of times, finally gave it up. 15:16.320 --> 15:17.320 I couldn't go that route. 15:17.320 --> 15:18.320 What's that, ma'am? 15:18.320 --> 15:21.320 All he talked about was either him and the Marine Corps and what a big hero he was or 15:21.320 --> 15:24.320 else how he was going to get me in pictures, you know, movies. 15:24.320 --> 15:25.320 Yes, ma'am. 15:25.320 --> 15:27.320 I didn't come out to California to get in the movies. 15:27.320 --> 15:32.320 Well, I came out to be a private secretary, only those jobs are a little hard to get, 15:32.320 --> 15:33.320 so I work here. 15:33.320 --> 15:34.320 I make enough for coffee and cakes. 15:34.320 --> 15:35.320 And when the job comes along, I'll take it. 15:35.320 --> 15:36.320 I work in a big office, nice boss. 15:36.320 --> 15:37.320 Who knows, he might even marry me. 15:37.320 --> 15:38.320 Well, that movie hokum for me, you know, sir, and not your little Vera. 15:38.320 --> 15:39.320 Did you work on the night of the 9th? 15:39.320 --> 15:40.320 That's the night before last? 15:40.320 --> 15:41.320 Let's see. 15:41.320 --> 15:42.320 Yeah, I was in. 15:42.320 --> 15:43.320 You happened to see the Stubby Rogers that night? 15:43.320 --> 15:44.320 Well, I got to think about that. 15:44.320 --> 15:45.320 Let's see. 15:45.320 --> 15:46.320 That night, I was in. 15:46.320 --> 15:55.320 We had the fight just before closing. 15:55.320 --> 15:58.320 Yeah, he was in earlier. 15:58.320 --> 16:00.320 Did you happen to notice if he was with anybody? 16:00.320 --> 16:01.320 What's this all about? 16:01.320 --> 16:02.320 Did he do something you wanted for? 16:02.320 --> 16:04.320 No, we just like to talk to him. 16:04.320 --> 16:05.320 Yeah. 16:05.320 --> 16:07.320 Well, if he did anything, we had nothing to do with it. 16:07.320 --> 16:08.320 This is a good place. 16:08.320 --> 16:09.320 We got nothing to do with the people who come in. 16:09.320 --> 16:11.320 We got the price of a drink to get served. 16:11.320 --> 16:12.320 We don't ask for trouble. 16:12.320 --> 16:13.320 Oh, we aren't going to cause any trouble, miss. 16:13.320 --> 16:15.320 We just want to talk to this Rogers. 16:15.320 --> 16:17.320 Yeah, well, as long as we aren't rung into it. 16:17.320 --> 16:19.320 Do you remember if he was with anyone? 16:19.320 --> 16:21.320 Yeah, he was with a couple of Marines. 16:21.320 --> 16:22.320 Left with them, had a beef with Sam. 16:22.320 --> 16:23.320 He's the night bartender. 16:23.320 --> 16:25.320 Complained that the drinks were too high. 16:25.320 --> 16:26.320 I don't know what he was crying about. 16:26.320 --> 16:27.320 He's been drinking here a long time. 16:27.320 --> 16:28.320 Never had problems before. 16:28.320 --> 16:30.320 You saw him leave with these two Marines then? 16:30.320 --> 16:32.320 Yeah, three of them walked out. 16:32.320 --> 16:33.320 I think actually they sort of floated out. 16:33.320 --> 16:35.320 The two kids were really boiled. 16:35.320 --> 16:37.320 Do you remember what time it was when they left? 16:37.320 --> 16:38.320 Oh, that'd be kind of hard to tell. 16:38.320 --> 16:39.320 We were pretty busy. 16:39.320 --> 16:40.320 It was pretty important, miss. 16:40.320 --> 16:42.320 Oh, now let me think. 16:42.320 --> 16:44.320 I guess maybe around 8, maybe 8.30, 16:44.320 --> 16:45.320 around in there. 16:45.320 --> 16:46.320 Just a guess, though. 16:46.320 --> 16:48.320 Do you have any idea where this Rogers lives? 16:48.320 --> 16:49.320 Yeah, I've been there a couple of times. 16:49.320 --> 16:51.320 Hotel on South Hill. 16:51.320 --> 16:53.320 Can you give us the address? 16:53.320 --> 16:55.320 Yeah, I got it in person. 16:55.320 --> 16:57.320 I should have known he was a phony. 16:57.320 --> 16:59.320 All he's saying is how he could get me in pictures, 16:59.320 --> 17:00.320 you know, in movies. 17:00.320 --> 17:01.320 Yeah, that's right. 17:01.320 --> 17:02.320 Don't come that way. 17:02.320 --> 17:04.320 Of course you understand I didn't come out here 17:04.320 --> 17:05.320 to get in pictures. 17:05.320 --> 17:06.320 I came out to be a private secretary. 17:06.320 --> 17:08.320 Here's the address. 17:08.320 --> 17:09.320 Here, keep it. 17:09.320 --> 17:10.320 I won't be using it anymore. 17:10.320 --> 17:11.320 All right, thank you, Miss Kay. 17:11.320 --> 17:12.320 Here's our card. 17:12.320 --> 17:14.320 If you think of anything more you think we ought to know, 17:14.320 --> 17:15.320 we'd appreciate a call from her. 17:15.320 --> 17:16.320 Yeah, thanks. 17:16.320 --> 17:17.320 Sure appreciate your help. 17:17.320 --> 17:18.320 Well, you never know. 17:18.320 --> 17:20.320 Maybe I'll need your help sometime. 17:20.320 --> 17:22.320 Matter of fact, you might be able to lend me a hand. 17:22.320 --> 17:23.320 What's that, miss? 17:23.320 --> 17:25.320 You know any picture producers? 17:25.320 --> 17:27.320 You know, movies? 17:32.320 --> 17:34.320 Frank called the name Paul Rogers into the office 17:34.320 --> 17:37.320 and a supplementary broadcast and an APB were gotten out. 17:37.320 --> 17:39.320 A stakeout was arranged on the bar. 17:39.320 --> 17:40.320 We went back to the city hall 17:40.320 --> 17:42.320 and the check drew our eye on the name Paul Rogers 17:42.320 --> 17:43.320 and added us nothing. 17:43.320 --> 17:45.320 We drove over to the hotel on South Hill. 17:45.320 --> 17:48.320 The manager told us that Rogers was not in his room. 17:48.320 --> 17:50.320 He went on to say that Rogers had not been using his room 17:50.320 --> 17:52.320 regularly for the past week or so, 17:52.320 --> 17:54.320 but that he had been in a couple of days before 17:54.320 --> 17:55.320 in the company of a soldier 17:55.320 --> 17:58.320 and that as far as he knew the soldier was still in. 17:58.320 --> 17:59.320 In the company of the manager, 17:59.320 --> 18:00.320 Frank and I went upstairs. 18:00.320 --> 18:03.320 The manager unlocked the door and we went in. 18:04.320 --> 18:06.320 I'm going to go and find someone in bed. 18:06.320 --> 18:07.320 Yeah. 18:07.320 --> 18:08.320 Come on. 18:12.320 --> 18:13.320 Come on, you. 18:13.320 --> 18:14.320 How about it? 18:14.320 --> 18:15.320 Just a minute. 18:16.320 --> 18:17.320 How about it, Joe? 18:17.320 --> 18:19.320 I don't know. He's dead. 18:29.320 --> 18:31.320 You are listening to Dragnet, 18:31.320 --> 18:34.320 the authentic story of your police force in action. 18:34.320 --> 18:37.320 A report every smoker should hear. 18:37.320 --> 18:40.320 Nose, throat, and accessory organs 18:40.320 --> 18:44.320 not adversely affected by smoking Chesterfields. 18:44.320 --> 18:47.320 First such report published about any cigarette. 18:47.320 --> 18:50.320 A responsible consulting organization reports a study 18:50.320 --> 18:52.320 by a competent medical specialist and staff 18:52.320 --> 18:55.320 on the effects of smoking Chesterfields. 18:55.320 --> 18:57.320 For six months, a group of men and women 18:57.320 --> 19:00.320 smoked only Chesterfield, 10 to 40 a day, 19:00.320 --> 19:01.320 their normal amount. 19:01.320 --> 19:04.320 45% of the group of smoked Chesterfields 19:04.320 --> 19:07.320 from one to 30 years, for an average of 10 years each. 19:07.320 --> 19:10.320 At the beginning and end of the six months, 19:10.320 --> 19:12.320 each smoker was given a thorough examination, 19:12.320 --> 19:15.320 including x-rays and covering the sinuses, 19:15.320 --> 19:17.320 nose, ears, and throat. 19:17.320 --> 19:20.320 After these examinations, the medical specialist stated, 19:20.320 --> 19:23.320 it is my opinion that the ears, nose, throat, 19:23.320 --> 19:26.320 and accessory organs of all participating subjects 19:26.320 --> 19:29.320 examined by me were not adversely affected 19:29.320 --> 19:32.320 in the six-month period by smoking the cigarettes provided. 19:32.320 --> 19:37.320 Remember this report and buy much milder Chesterfields, 19:37.320 --> 19:40.320 regular or king-size. 19:40.320 --> 19:49.320 Music 19:49.320 --> 19:51.320 Wednesday, July 11th, 1240 p.m. 19:51.320 --> 19:53.320 We called the coroner's office, 19:53.320 --> 19:55.320 then we got in touch with the crime lab and the photographers. 19:55.320 --> 19:58.320 After the pictures had been taken, the body was removed. 19:58.320 --> 20:00.320 The victim was a soldier in his mid-30s. 20:00.320 --> 20:02.320 On the nightstand beside the bed, 20:02.320 --> 20:04.320 we found an empty pill bottle and a suicide note. 20:04.320 --> 20:07.320 The note was booked as evidence and turned over to Don Meyer 20:07.320 --> 20:10.320 for comparison with a handwriting taken from the hotel registration card 20:10.320 --> 20:12.320 that Rogers had signed. 20:12.320 --> 20:15.320 The men from Leighton Prince went over the place thoroughly. 20:15.320 --> 20:17.320 They come up with several classifiable prints. 20:17.320 --> 20:20.320 Fingerprints found on the bottle belonged to the victim. 20:20.320 --> 20:23.320 There were several other sets in the room which were not identified. 20:23.320 --> 20:24.320 The crime lab went over the room, 20:24.320 --> 20:27.320 then they went back to the lab to make their analysis. 20:27.320 --> 20:31.320 All officers in the area were alerted to be on the lookout for Rogers. 20:31.320 --> 20:34.320 Frank and I talked to the manager of the hotel, a Henry Corey. 20:34.320 --> 20:37.320 He told us that Rogers had lived in the hotel for the past four and a half months. 20:37.320 --> 20:40.320 He said that Rogers was quiet, kept pretty much to himself, 20:40.320 --> 20:42.320 and for the most part was a good tenant. 20:42.320 --> 20:45.320 He said that on several occasions Rogers had gotten behind in his rent, 20:45.320 --> 20:48.320 but that he'd always managed to come up with the money. 20:48.320 --> 20:51.320 The manager told us that in the conversations he'd had with Rogers, 20:51.320 --> 20:55.320 the main topic had been the Marine Corps and the suspect's record overseas. 20:55.320 --> 20:57.320 Rogers presented himself as an armchair general, 20:57.320 --> 21:00.320 constantly calling down the way the situation was being handled. 21:00.320 --> 21:02.320 He would refer to his own exploits, 21:02.320 --> 21:06.320 but when questioned about his leaving the service, he became vague and evasive. 21:06.320 --> 21:09.320 Additional handwriting samples were obtained and sent to Meyer. 21:09.320 --> 21:12.320 The manager told us that the latest victim had come in with Rogers the night before 21:12.320 --> 21:14.320 and that at the time he'd been pretty drunk. 21:14.320 --> 21:17.320 They'd gone upstairs, and when Rogers had left in the morning, 21:17.320 --> 21:20.320 the manager had assumed that the soldier had gone the night before. 21:20.320 --> 21:21.320 Three twenty p.m. 21:21.320 --> 21:25.320 Frank and I went back to relieve the stake out at the bar. 21:32.320 --> 21:33.320 Back again? 21:33.320 --> 21:34.320 Yes, Miss Gay. 21:34.320 --> 21:35.320 Sit down. 21:35.320 --> 21:36.320 Thank you. 21:36.320 --> 21:38.320 It seems like every time I see you I'm doing something with my nails, 21:38.320 --> 21:41.320 this morning filing them, now I'm filing them again. 21:41.320 --> 21:43.320 I'm going to put polish on them after this. 21:43.320 --> 21:44.320 I guess you think I'm pretty vain. 21:44.320 --> 21:45.320 No, not at all, Miss. 21:45.320 --> 21:47.320 New color called frosted rose, isn't it? 21:47.320 --> 21:50.320 Kind of iridescent, that's what the label says. 21:50.320 --> 21:52.320 Have you filed your nails with Stardust? 21:52.320 --> 21:53.320 Yes, ma'am. 21:53.320 --> 21:54.320 It's a pretty bottle, too. 21:54.320 --> 21:56.320 Make sure you put things up nice nowadays. 21:56.320 --> 21:58.320 Uh-oh, here comes your boy. 21:58.320 --> 21:59.320 That's Rogers. 21:59.320 --> 22:00.320 Yeah. 22:01.320 --> 22:02.320 Yes, Stubbie, one of the beans. 22:02.320 --> 22:03.320 Perfect, Colt. 22:03.320 --> 22:04.320 How's it going, Stubbie? 22:04.320 --> 22:06.320 Same old sick as before. 22:06.320 --> 22:07.320 Yeah, pretty dull. 22:07.320 --> 22:08.320 You're doing a great business. 22:08.320 --> 22:10.320 It's early yet. 22:10.320 --> 22:12.320 Here's your drink, it'll be four bits. 22:12.320 --> 22:13.320 There you go. 22:15.320 --> 22:16.320 All right, thanks a good. 22:16.320 --> 22:17.320 All right, Frank, let's go. 22:17.320 --> 22:18.320 No trouble now. 22:18.320 --> 22:20.320 Not unless he makes it. 22:23.320 --> 22:25.320 Hi, fellas, something you want? 22:25.320 --> 22:26.320 You Paul Rogers? 22:26.320 --> 22:27.320 Yeah, who are you? 22:27.320 --> 22:28.320 Police officers. 22:28.320 --> 22:29.320 We'd like to talk to you. 22:29.320 --> 22:30.320 I don't want any trouble in here. 22:30.320 --> 22:31.320 Well, there's not going to be any trouble. 22:31.320 --> 22:32.320 Always fights. 22:32.320 --> 22:34.320 Why is it everybody comes into a bar and starts fights? 22:34.320 --> 22:35.320 Think there's someplace else to be? 22:35.320 --> 22:36.320 All right, come on, Rogers. 22:36.320 --> 22:37.320 Four for four? 22:37.320 --> 22:38.320 You've got nothing to haul me in. 22:38.320 --> 22:39.320 We'll talk to you about that, too. 22:39.320 --> 22:40.320 Well, let me finish my drink. 22:40.320 --> 22:41.320 No, afraid not. 22:41.320 --> 22:42.320 Let's go now. 22:42.320 --> 22:43.320 Look, I said I was going to finish my drink. 22:43.320 --> 22:44.320 Don't lean. 22:44.320 --> 22:45.320 Let's can it, Mr. and Goat. 22:45.320 --> 22:46.320 I said I was going to finish my drink. 22:46.320 --> 22:49.320 All right, Mr. on your feet. 22:49.320 --> 22:50.320 Nothing on him. 22:50.320 --> 22:52.320 Let's take him to the office. 22:52.320 --> 22:53.320 Sergeant. 22:53.320 --> 22:54.320 Yes, sir. 22:54.320 --> 22:55.320 Thanks. 22:55.320 --> 22:56.320 Sure appreciate it. 22:56.320 --> 22:57.320 What's that? 22:57.320 --> 23:05.320 Thought for a minute there you were going to have a fight. 23:05.320 --> 23:07.320 We took the suspect back to the city hall. 23:07.320 --> 23:09.320 Then we checked the name through the Marine base in San Diego. 23:09.320 --> 23:13.320 Lieutenant Richard Houston called back to say that Rogers had received a court martial 23:13.320 --> 23:16.320 and a dishonorable discharge in January of that year. 23:16.320 --> 23:20.320 He'd been tried by a military court on the charge of stealing alcohol from the hospital 23:20.320 --> 23:23.320 pharmacy and selling it to the patients in the hospital. 23:23.320 --> 23:28.320 We stopped in handwriting analysis and Don Meyer took an exemplar of the suspect's writing. 23:28.320 --> 23:33.320 When we checked by the office, there was a message from Sergeants Bill Cummings and Harry Hanson 23:33.320 --> 23:37.320 stating that their investigation had shown that the death of the soldier in Rogers' room 23:37.320 --> 23:39.320 was suicide beyond any doubt. 23:39.320 --> 23:44.320 746 p.m. Frank and I talked to the suspect in the interrogation room. 23:44.320 --> 23:46.320 Terrible thing treating a veteran like this. 23:46.320 --> 23:47.320 All right, let's save it, Rogers. 23:47.320 --> 23:48.320 There's a few questions we'd like some answers to. 23:48.320 --> 23:49.320 I got nothing to hide. 23:49.320 --> 23:52.320 All right, what were the conditions of your discharge from the Marine Corps? 23:52.320 --> 23:53.320 What do you mean? 23:53.320 --> 23:55.320 Did you get an honorable discharge or a dishonorable discharge? 23:55.320 --> 23:56.320 I had a little trouble. 23:56.320 --> 23:57.320 Lousy officers. 23:57.320 --> 23:59.320 Never did understand what the problems of the enlisted man were. 23:59.320 --> 24:01.320 What do you do for a living, Rogers? 24:01.320 --> 24:02.320 I work. 24:02.320 --> 24:03.320 Where? 24:03.320 --> 24:04.320 Around. 24:04.320 --> 24:05.320 You have a steady job? 24:05.320 --> 24:06.320 What do you mean steady? 24:06.320 --> 24:07.320 One you've held for say more than six months. 24:07.320 --> 24:08.320 Haven't been out of service that long. 24:08.320 --> 24:09.320 What about the Corps? 24:09.320 --> 24:10.320 Japan, Korea? 24:10.320 --> 24:11.320 How long were you there? 24:11.320 --> 24:12.320 About four or five months. 24:12.320 --> 24:13.320 Why'd you come back? 24:13.320 --> 24:14.320 I was wounded. 24:14.320 --> 24:15.320 How? 24:15.320 --> 24:16.320 What do you mean how? 24:16.320 --> 24:17.320 Trust that, how were you wounded? 24:17.320 --> 24:18.320 Well, I wasn't exactly wounded. 24:18.320 --> 24:19.320 I had my feet frostbitten. 24:19.320 --> 24:22.320 According to this here, you went AWOL and got lost. 24:22.320 --> 24:24.320 When they found you, your feet were frozen. 24:24.320 --> 24:25.320 Is that right? 24:25.320 --> 24:26.320 What's that you got? 24:26.320 --> 24:27.320 Your record in the Corps. 24:27.320 --> 24:28.320 You've got a lot of nerve digging into that. 24:28.320 --> 24:30.320 That's what you got me in here for anyway. 24:30.320 --> 24:32.320 I done nothing that puts me in line for this kind of treatment. 24:32.320 --> 24:35.320 You know a couple of Marines named Ed Monahan and Jack Walker? 24:35.320 --> 24:36.320 Monahan? 24:36.320 --> 24:37.320 Walker? 24:37.320 --> 24:38.320 No, I don't think I know him. 24:38.320 --> 24:40.320 You ever register in a hotel on Fifth Street? 24:40.320 --> 24:41.320 No, I live over on Hill. 24:41.320 --> 24:43.320 You know a soldier named Marty Wilkins? 24:43.320 --> 24:44.320 What's he got to do with it? 24:44.320 --> 24:45.320 We found him dead in your room. 24:45.320 --> 24:47.320 What, you're cracking up? 24:47.320 --> 24:49.320 Yeah, sure Rogers, we just dreamed we found that body. 24:49.320 --> 24:50.320 Nothing to do with him. 24:50.320 --> 24:51.320 Met him in a bar. 24:51.320 --> 24:52.320 He said he wasn't feeling too good. 24:52.320 --> 24:53.320 Said he didn't have a place to sleep. 24:53.320 --> 24:55.320 I let him have my room. 24:55.320 --> 24:56.320 Something wrong in that? 24:56.320 --> 24:58.320 Be a little kind and now even that gets you in trouble. 24:58.320 --> 25:00.320 You sure you don't know a Marine named Ed Monahan? 25:00.320 --> 25:01.320 Positive. 25:01.320 --> 25:02.320 There's something wrong, Rogers. 25:02.320 --> 25:04.320 Girl at the bar says she saw you leave the place with two Marines. 25:04.320 --> 25:06.320 They could have been Monahan and Walker. 25:06.320 --> 25:07.320 Maybe I know them. 25:07.320 --> 25:08.320 I might and still not know their names. 25:08.320 --> 25:11.320 You didn't take them up to a room you'd rented in a hotel on Fifth Street? 25:11.320 --> 25:13.320 No, I told you once I never lived on Fifth. 25:13.320 --> 25:14.320 Check with our handwriting man. 25:14.320 --> 25:17.320 He says your writing matches some samples we found on the hotel register. 25:17.320 --> 25:18.320 Maybe I write like somebody else. 25:18.320 --> 25:19.320 No, we don't think so, mister. 25:19.320 --> 25:20.320 How about Jack Walker? 25:20.320 --> 25:22.320 Maybe you know him, you just didn't remember him. 25:22.320 --> 25:23.320 No, I keep telling you I don't know them. 25:23.320 --> 25:24.320 Vera says you do. 25:24.320 --> 25:25.320 Well, she's lying. 25:25.320 --> 25:26.320 Is she? 25:26.320 --> 25:27.320 Sure she is. 25:27.320 --> 25:28.320 She's trying to save her own skin. 25:28.320 --> 25:29.320 From what? 25:29.320 --> 25:30.320 She doesn't want to stand a rep for murder, can't you see? 25:30.320 --> 25:33.320 Yeah, go ahead, Roger. 25:33.320 --> 25:35.320 I'm saying nothing until I see my lawyer. 25:35.320 --> 25:36.320 You sure you don't want to tell us why you did it? 25:36.320 --> 25:37.320 I got nothing to say. 25:37.320 --> 25:38.320 Makes it tough, Roger. 25:38.320 --> 25:39.320 What do you mean? 25:39.320 --> 25:40.320 Just makes it rough, that's all. 25:40.320 --> 25:42.320 Looks like you're going to have to stand a murder rep. 25:42.320 --> 25:43.320 Yeah? 25:43.320 --> 25:46.320 That's the way it looks. 25:46.320 --> 25:48.320 Well, I didn't mean it. 25:48.320 --> 25:50.320 I didn't, I just wanted to get even, that's all. 25:50.320 --> 25:51.320 Just get even. 25:51.320 --> 25:52.320 For what, Roger? 25:52.320 --> 25:53.320 For the way the court treated me. 25:53.320 --> 25:54.320 Kicked me out. 25:54.320 --> 25:55.320 I didn't do anything really wrong. 25:55.320 --> 25:56.320 Copped a little alcohol, that's all. 25:56.320 --> 25:57.320 No harm done. 25:57.320 --> 25:58.320 Maybe look at it a little different. 25:58.320 --> 25:59.320 Yeah, that's a trouble. 25:59.320 --> 26:00.320 Stinking brass, they're all alike. 26:00.320 --> 26:01.320 They don't care what happens to us. 26:01.320 --> 26:02.320 The guys in the field try to get a job. 26:02.320 --> 26:05.320 I looked everywhere, I just didn't fit. 26:05.320 --> 26:07.320 Seemed like everywhere I went I got into trouble. 26:07.320 --> 26:09.320 I wanted like it was when I first went in. 26:09.320 --> 26:10.320 Like it was after boot camp. 26:10.320 --> 26:14.320 Walking down the street, girls looking at you, a Marine, a big man. 26:14.320 --> 26:15.320 They took that away from me. 26:15.320 --> 26:16.320 They wouldn't let me enlist again. 26:16.320 --> 26:18.320 I tried, but they wouldn't let me. 26:18.320 --> 26:20.320 You can understand what that'd do to a guy, can't you? 26:20.320 --> 26:21.320 I don't know. 26:21.320 --> 26:22.320 It tore me apart. 26:22.320 --> 26:25.320 Right then I decided to get even with all the stinking gyrenes in the world. 26:25.320 --> 26:26.320 They wouldn't let me in and I hated them. 26:26.320 --> 26:27.320 Yeah. 26:27.320 --> 26:30.320 Remember what happened the day you gave the two boys the pills, do you? 26:30.320 --> 26:31.320 Sure, remember what happened. 26:31.320 --> 26:33.320 Sure, remember all of it. 26:33.320 --> 26:35.320 They cried for a medic. 26:35.320 --> 26:36.320 They weren't big men then. 26:36.320 --> 26:37.320 No, sir, they sure weren't. 26:37.320 --> 26:40.320 All right, Rogers, we'll get a stenographer. 26:40.320 --> 26:41.320 Tell me, Sergeant. 26:41.320 --> 26:42.320 Yeah. 26:42.320 --> 26:43.320 Did I get both of them? 26:43.320 --> 26:44.320 No, Walker's gonna be all right. 26:44.320 --> 26:45.320 He a young one? 26:45.320 --> 26:46.320 That's right. 26:46.320 --> 26:47.320 A real nice kid. 26:47.320 --> 26:48.320 Lucky, too. 26:48.320 --> 26:49.320 Is that right? 26:49.320 --> 26:50.320 Yeah. 26:50.320 --> 26:51.320 No worries. 26:51.320 --> 26:53.320 Really got it made. 26:53.320 --> 26:54.320 Uniform, that's what does it. 26:54.320 --> 26:56.320 Uniform makes all the difference in the world. 26:56.320 --> 26:57.320 Yeah, well, don't worry. 26:57.320 --> 26:58.320 You'll get one. 26:58.320 --> 27:08.320 The story you have just heard was true. 27:08.320 --> 27:11.320 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:11.320 --> 27:16.320 On November 13th, trial was held in Department 87, Superior Court of the State of California, 27:16.320 --> 27:17.320 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 27:17.320 --> 27:20.320 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:20.320 --> 27:22.320 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:22.320 --> 27:24.320 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:24.320 --> 27:27.320 In modern crime detection, the working detective depends on scientific research. 27:27.320 --> 27:32.320 He relies on the services of trained experts in ballistics, communications, fingerprints, 27:32.320 --> 27:33.320 to name just a few. 27:33.320 --> 27:35.320 He's interested only in facts. 27:35.320 --> 27:38.320 And as a smoker, you should be interested only in facts. 27:38.320 --> 27:41.320 That's why the report you heard earlier is so important to you. 27:41.320 --> 27:46.320 Nose, throat, and accessory organs not adversely affected by smoking Chesterfield. 27:46.320 --> 27:48.320 First such report ever published about any cigarette. 27:48.320 --> 27:49.320 Remember it. 27:49.320 --> 27:52.320 And next time, buy Chesterfield. 27:52.320 --> 28:07.320 Regular or king-size, premium quality Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke. 28:07.320 --> 28:11.320 Paul M. Rogers was tried and convicted on one count of murder in the first degree. 28:11.320 --> 28:25.320 He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 28:25.320 --> 28:29.320 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:29.320 --> 28:34.320 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:34.320 --> 28:39.320 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wins, Sergeant Vance Brashear. 28:39.320 --> 28:43.320 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Virginia Gregg, Jack Crouchon. 28:43.320 --> 28:51.320 Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. Hal Gibney speaking. 28:51.320 --> 28:53.320 Sound off for Chesterfield. 28:53.320 --> 29:00.320 Either way you like them, regular or king-size, Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke. 29:00.320 --> 29:04.320 Much milder Chesterfield. 29:04.320 --> 29:18.320 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:18.320 --> 29:35.320 Tonight it's Barry Craig, confidential investigator on NBC.