1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,840 Sound off for Chesterfield. 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,680 Chesterfield, only cigarette in America to give you premium quality in both regular and 3 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:26,160 king size brings you Dragnet. 4 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,940 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 5 00:00:29,940 --> 00:00:40,800 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 6 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,280 You're a detective sergeant. 7 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,400 You're assigned a robbery detail. 8 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,200 You got a call that a bank has been robbed. 9 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,840 From the MO, you know the job was done by a professional. 10 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,680 He's made good his escape. 11 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:57,760 Your job, get him. 12 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:02,720 Here's what leading tobacco publications have had to say about regular and king size Chesterfield. 13 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,280 U.S. tobacco journal, Boston, Massachusetts. 14 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:11,280 Chesterfield cigarettes in the new king size is still maintaining large turnovers in this 15 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:12,280 area. 16 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:17,040 Dealers report that sales continue to climb on this size and it seems that volume on the 17 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,960 regular size has climbed to new heights with its new big brother. 18 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:26,620 And Tobacco Leaf reports from Chicago, more calls for Chesterfield king size cigarettes 19 00:01:26,620 --> 00:01:28,540 than for most brands being marketed. 20 00:01:28,540 --> 00:01:33,760 The reason for king size Chesterfield's amazing success is this. 21 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,960 All king size cigarettes give you quantity, but only Chesterfield king size gives you 22 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:42,760 quantity plus quality, premium quality. 23 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:48,040 That means Chesterfield king size contains tobaccos of better quality and higher price 24 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,580 than any other king size cigarette. 25 00:01:50,580 --> 00:01:54,080 The same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. 26 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:58,080 Enough more of this tobacco to give you more than a fifth longer smoke. 27 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:04,480 So remember Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular 28 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:05,920 and king size. 29 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:07,920 Buy them either way you like them. 30 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:14,320 Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke, much milder. 31 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:22,680 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 32 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,560 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 33 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:32,200 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 34 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:33,900 police files. 35 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:39,120 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 36 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,120 in action. 37 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:45,920 It was Monday, January 21st. 38 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:47,400 It was cold in Los Angeles. 39 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,720 We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 40 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,000 My partner is Frank Smith. 41 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,480 The boss is Captain Didion. 42 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:53,480 My name is Friday. 43 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,440 It was 2 56 p.m. when I got to room 27A. 44 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:58,440 Robbery. 45 00:02:58,440 --> 00:02:59,440 Joe? 46 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:00,440 Yeah. 47 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:01,440 Sure cold out. 48 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:02,440 Yeah. 49 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:12,240 The paper says you'd warm up a little before the end of the week. 50 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:13,240 I hope so. 51 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:14,920 How'd your weekend go? 52 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:15,920 Don't bring it up. 53 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:16,920 What happened? 54 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:18,280 At my house there's only one thing that could happen. 55 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:19,280 What do you mean? 56 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:20,960 My brother-in-law Armand. 57 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,200 All the time he just sits around the house, sits there and reads those detective magazines. 58 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:25,200 Doesn't he work? 59 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,120 If he's ever held a job, he's kept it a secret. 60 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,600 Just moves around between the relatives. 61 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:30,600 This year it's Faye's turn. 62 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,400 And he just sits around all day, huh? 63 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:33,400 Yeah. 64 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,040 Reads those detective magazines. 65 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,200 Always sending for those books that are sent in the plain wrappers. 66 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,600 You know, the ones that tell you how you can have a business in your own home. 67 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:41,320 Yeah, I know what you mean. 68 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,320 Well, this time he really did it. 69 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,480 He sent for one that tells you how to go into the house cleaning business. 70 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,520 I thought at first it might be a pretty good deal. 71 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,080 You know, if it worked out he could give Faye a hand with a house. 72 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,520 Well, Saturday morning the book gets to the house with all the formulas and instructions 73 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,760 for making the cleaners for the rugs and the upholstery. 74 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,360 First off he borrows five bucks from me to buy the stuff to mix the formulas. 75 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,520 Then he goes to the kitchen and takes all of Faye's good pants and mix up the goop in 76 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:05,520 it. 77 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:06,520 Smells terrible. 78 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,600 All those bleaches and soaps. 79 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:10,880 I'm sitting in the front room watching television all in all. 80 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:11,880 I'm pretty comfortable. 81 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:12,880 Yeah. 82 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,000 He comes in, he says the room is filthy and he's going to clean it. 83 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,680 Tells me to get out of the room and that he's going to surprise all of us. 84 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:19,680 Yeah. 85 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:20,680 Well, he did. 86 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,200 Faye and I took the kid down to the barber's to have her hair cut, did a little shopping 87 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:25,200 for the weekend. 88 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,120 You should have seen the house when we got back, Joe. 89 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,120 Just miserable. 90 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:30,320 What did he do? 91 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:31,800 First off he wasn't there. 92 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,680 Left a note on the kitchen table telling us that he was out for a walk. 93 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,200 I kind of figured what had happened so Faye and me walked into the living room. 94 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:39,760 Joe, you wouldn't believe it. 95 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:40,760 Is that so? 96 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:41,760 They almost fainted. 97 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:42,760 Pretty awful. 98 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:43,760 Worse than that. 99 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,120 The room was beautiful. 100 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:47,800 Everything in it was clean as a whistle. 101 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:48,800 All spotless. 102 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,440 Curtains, carpet, the upholstery, even the tables had been waxed. 103 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:53,440 What's wrong with that? 104 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,120 Sounds to me like a pretty good deal. 105 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:56,120 Faye. 106 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:57,160 But what about her? 107 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,800 Right away she starts climbing all over me, reaching me off for being so mean to him. 108 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,360 Says all about how I should be ashamed of myself, said that I should have thought of 109 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,640 the house cleaning gimmick myself. 110 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:08,840 I should have given him a hand in cleaning up the place. 111 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:12,200 And at the next day off we have to do the whole house. 112 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,120 I tell you Joe, no matter what the guy does, it always ends up making me look bad. 113 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,080 Why you say you've only got this year with him, huh? 114 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:20,080 Yeah. 115 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:21,680 Then he goes to Faye's sister in Piedmont. 116 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,040 I'll sure be glad when that time comes. 117 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:25,040 Yeah, don't blame him. 118 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:26,040 It's a hot shot. 119 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,040 I'll get it. 120 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:33,120 80T211 Bank robbery in progress. 121 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:40,760 It took us a little over four minutes to get to the bank at the corner of Lebanon and Broadway. 122 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,000 In that time the bandit had completed the robbery and made good his escape. 123 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,700 A radio card arrived at the scene and the officers had gotten a description of the car 124 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:48,800 and of the bandit. 125 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,940 They'd call the information into communications and a broadcast was gotten out to all cars 126 00:05:52,940 --> 00:05:56,700 in the vicinity to be on the alert for the hold-up man. 127 00:05:56,700 --> 00:06:03,080 At 3 p.m. Frank and I arrived at the bank. 128 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,080 Back there. 129 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:05,080 Bank guard. 130 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:06,080 Yeah. 131 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:07,080 I couldn't, Oliver. 132 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:08,080 What you want me to do? 133 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:09,080 Try to stop him? 134 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:10,080 Have him shoot that gun off? 135 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:11,080 He'd have killed half the people in here. 136 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:12,440 I'm not saying that you should have actually tried to stop him. 137 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,120 All I'm saying is that there is something that you should have done. 138 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:16,360 You just stood there and looked at it. 139 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:17,360 You could see the gun. 140 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:18,360 There must have been something you could do. 141 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:19,360 I beg your pardon, sir. 142 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:20,360 You get away. 143 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:21,360 You're probably in cahoots with the robber. 144 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:22,920 You probably came back to get the rest of the money. 145 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:24,360 Well, Gibson, don't just stand there. 146 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:25,360 Stop these men. 147 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:26,360 We're police officers, sir. 148 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:27,360 You can't see Gibson. 149 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:28,360 They're police officers. 150 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:29,360 Do you have a badge or something? 151 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:30,800 After this, I don't think I'll trust anyone again. 152 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:31,800 Yes, sir. 153 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:32,800 Here's our identification. 154 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:33,800 Oh, yes. 155 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:34,800 Officer Friday. 156 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:35,800 This is my partner, Frank Smith. 157 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:36,800 How do you do? 158 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:37,800 I suppose you want to ask me a lot of questions. 159 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:38,800 Well, there are some things we'd like to know, sir. 160 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,080 I'd like to talk in my office, I guess. 161 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:41,080 It'll be more quiet there. 162 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:42,080 That'll be fine. 163 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:43,680 Would it be all right if Gibson came along? 164 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,040 I'd like to have him see how a couple of real detectives work. 165 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:47,040 Yes, sir. 166 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,040 I think it'll be all right. 167 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:49,040 Fine. 168 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,040 Back this way. 169 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:51,040 Oh, Officer Friday, this is Gibson, the bank guard. 170 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,040 Now, use the term loosely. 171 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:56,440 This is Mr. Jones. 172 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,440 That's Smith, sir, Frank Smith. 173 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:00,440 Oh, yes, Smith. 174 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:01,440 Sorry. 175 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:02,440 Go ahead. 176 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:03,440 Just sit down any place. 177 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:04,440 Yes, sir. 178 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:05,440 Thank you. 179 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:06,440 Now, you listen good, Gibson. 180 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:07,440 Yes, sir. 181 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:08,440 Mr. Allen, you were the victim, were you? 182 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:09,440 I certainly was. 183 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:10,440 It was just three o'clock. 184 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:11,440 Gibson was just putting up the chain across the door, you know, to keep people out. 185 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:12,440 Yes, sir. 186 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:13,440 Gibson was out there. 187 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:14,440 I was in here in my office. 188 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:15,440 Go ahead, Gibson. 189 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:16,440 Tell the officers about it. 190 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:17,440 Yes, sir. 191 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:18,920 Well, he parked his car right in front of the bank, and when he pulled up, I thought it 192 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,120 was a customer trying to get in before the bank closed. 193 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:22,240 I held the chain for him. 194 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:23,800 That was nice of you. 195 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:24,800 What happened then, Mr. Gibson? 196 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,640 As soon as he got to the doorway, I saw the shotgun. 197 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,360 He had it kind of under his coat, you know. 198 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,880 I tried to stop him, but he had the gun pointed right at me. 199 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,640 He said that if I made a move, he'd as soon shoot me as look at me. 200 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:35,640 Mm-hmm. 201 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:36,640 You sure it was a shotgun, are you? 202 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:37,640 Yes, sir. 203 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:38,640 I could tell. 204 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:39,640 It was a 12 gauge. 205 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:40,640 It was sawed off. 206 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,400 Told me to get over in that little alcove near the entrance to our escrow department. 207 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:44,400 I did. 208 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,040 Then he told me to hand over my gun. 209 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:47,520 I started to get it out of the holster. 210 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,960 I thought that maybe I'd have a chance to surprise him, but he must have known when 211 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:51,960 I was planning. 212 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:52,960 Why do you say that? 213 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:54,720 He told me to face it in the corner. 214 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,360 Then he took the gun out of the holster. 215 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:57,360 Mm-hmm. 216 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,000 Well, I did what he told me. 217 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 What happened then? 218 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,360 He asked me where the manager was. 219 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:02,360 I pointed out his office. 220 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,120 Well, to this time, do any of the people in the bank have any idea what was going on? 221 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:07,120 No, sir. 222 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,480 The way he acted, he knew what he was doing. 223 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,480 Right off, I knew there wasn't anything I could do. 224 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:12,600 I kept thinking about the people in the bank. 225 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,360 That shotgun didn't want anyone to get hurt. 226 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:15,560 It's the only bright thing you did. 227 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:16,560 Do you want to go on? 228 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:17,560 What happened then? 229 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,080 Well, like I said, he asked where the manager's office was. 230 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,880 I showed him, and he told me he wanted me to go back there with him. 231 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:24,880 We walked back there. 232 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,680 He put the shotgun under his coat, and by some miracle, nobody saw it. 233 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:30,080 That's where he brought me into the picture. 234 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,000 He just walked in, told me it was a stick-up. 235 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,640 He had this little leather bag the kind a doctor uses. 236 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,120 He opened it up, told me to walk in front of him. 237 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:38,400 He made me carry the bag. 238 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,000 I kept the gun at my back all the time. 239 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 I could feel it. 240 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,680 Made me walk down the row of windows, the ones into the teller's boxes. 241 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:46,480 For each one, he made me stop and ask the tellers for the money. 242 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,000 Did he touch anything at all, do you remember? 243 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,000 No, no. 244 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 He was very careful. 245 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 He was very careful. 246 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,000 He wouldn't touch anything. 247 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,440 After I put the money into the bag, he'd tell each one of them that if they made a sound, 248 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,880 he'd kill me, then come back and kill them too. 249 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:58,880 It was terrible. 250 00:08:58,880 --> 00:08:59,880 It almost scared me to death. 251 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:01,680 Well, who was it that turned in the alarm here? 252 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:03,080 Walter, the clean-up man, sir. 253 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,960 He was in the back of the bank, and he came out of the vice president's office. 254 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,320 He saw the robber, and then he sneaked back into the room and called you. 255 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,240 The bandit just barely got out of the place when the police car pulled up. 256 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,760 We gave the other officers a description of the car and the bandit. 257 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:15,760 Yes, sir. 258 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:16,760 We heard the broadcast. 259 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:17,760 All the cars in the area have been alerted. 260 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:19,880 I wonder if I could have a drink of water, officer. 261 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:20,880 I'm so nervous. 262 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:21,880 I'm still not over it. 263 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,200 My stomach's going to be grinding for a month. 264 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,280 You're a member of the Federal Reserve here, aren't you? 265 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:27,280 Oh, yes. 266 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,280 Well, then the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be in on it too. 267 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:31,280 Yes, sir. 268 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:32,280 Water's right over here. 269 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:33,280 I keep it in the office for my pills. 270 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:34,280 I have ulcers, you know. 271 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:35,280 Yes, sir. 272 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:36,280 Would you like a drink? 273 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:37,280 No, sir. 274 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:38,280 No, thank you. 275 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:39,280 No. 276 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:40,280 Thank you. 277 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:46,480 Well, what happened after the man finished taking the money from the cages? 278 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,920 He walked out of the front of the place and got in his car. 279 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,800 By that time, I could hear the sirens of the police car coming. 280 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:52,800 He'd just left. 281 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:57,320 On the way out, he said if we told him anything about him, he'd come back and kill us. 282 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,320 Yes, and he looked right at me when he said it. 283 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,000 You've got to give me some sort of protection. 284 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,600 I'm not going to make a sitting duck of myself. 285 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:04,000 We'll take care of that, sir. 286 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,720 Could you give us a description of the man, sir? 287 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,760 I've already given it to the two officers who are here. 288 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,560 Well, we know, sir, but if you wouldn't mind. 289 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:10,560 Of course not. 290 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:12,040 How tall would you say he was? 291 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,440 Oh, about 5'11", maybe 6''. 292 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,240 How old would you say he was? 293 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,720 30, 35, round in there. 294 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:19,720 How much do you think he weighed? 295 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,240 Oh, about 160, maybe more. 296 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,560 I'm not very good at guessing weights. 297 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:24,560 How about his coloring? 298 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:25,920 Was he dark or light? 299 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:26,920 Light, light. 300 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,400 He had real light blonde hair. 301 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,240 His eyebrows were almost invisible. 302 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,280 They were so light that you almost couldn't see them at all. 303 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:34,280 Same with his eyelashes. 304 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:35,280 How about his clothes? 305 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:36,280 Beg your pardon? 306 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:37,280 His clothes? 307 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:38,280 What was he wearing? 308 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:39,280 Well, he had on a blue shirt. 309 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:40,280 No, I'm sorry, sir. 310 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:41,280 I think it was a white shirt. 311 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:42,280 Was it? 312 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:43,280 No, I'm sure it was blue. 313 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,680 I remember, because he was wearing a brown coat. 314 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:48,320 I thought that he certainly didn't have very good taste, what was wearing a blue shirt 315 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:49,320 and a brown coat. 316 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:50,320 No, Gibson, no. 317 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:51,320 The shirt was blue. 318 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,800 No tie, brown coat, and black loafers shoes. 319 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,400 I remember these because they were the only thing about them that looked good. 320 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,280 They looked like those ones that are advertised in the magazines, you know, skegums or something 321 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:02,280 like that. 322 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:03,280 Black. 323 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:04,280 Was there anything unusual about him? 324 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:05,280 I beg your pardon? 325 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:06,280 Anything unusual about him? 326 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,680 Anything that might cause you to remember him, know him if you saw him again? 327 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:09,680 Well, they were the bandages. 328 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:10,680 What's that, sir? 329 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:14,960 When he came in, he had bandages on his face, one over his right eyebrow, another on his 330 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,360 chin, right here, sort of on the throat. 331 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:18,360 You mean regular bandages? 332 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:22,120 No, sir, they were those adhesive kind, you know, with the gauze and tape all together. 333 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:23,120 Oh, yeah. 334 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,200 And you say he had one over the right eyebrow and one on his chin? 335 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:27,360 Yes, sir. 336 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:28,880 I still think it was a white shirt. 337 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:29,880 I said it was blue. 338 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,240 Are you trying to say that I don't know blue when I see it? 339 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,320 No, sir, I just think that you might have made a mistake in all the excitement. 340 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:36,320 Officer. 341 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:37,320 Yes, sir? 342 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:38,320 It was a blue shirt. 343 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:39,320 All right, sir. 344 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:40,320 How about his car, the one he got away in? 345 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:41,320 It was parked right out in front. 346 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:42,320 Did you see it? 347 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:43,320 Certainly I saw it. 348 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:44,320 I was standing right in the door when he drove away. 349 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,200 Well, can you describe the car for us? 350 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,240 Yes, like I told the other officers, it was a late model Buick, dark blue, a coupe. 351 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,440 I'm sorry, sir, but it was a green Ford sedan. 352 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:55,240 Well, let's see if we can't let Mr. Allen tell his story, Mr. Gibson. 353 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,200 We'll check it with you when we finish with him, all right? 354 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:58,200 No. 355 00:11:58,200 --> 00:11:59,600 I don't know what you're trying to prove with these officers. 356 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,680 After the way you handled the affair, there's no use trying to impress them with your prowess 357 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:03,680 as a detective. 358 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:07,080 It was a dark blue Buick coupe. 359 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,520 Anything unusual about the car that you could see, any dented fenders, stickers, windshield 360 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:12,440 emblems, anything like that, would you remember? 361 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,240 No, I didn't notice anything special. 362 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,440 No, sir, it looked pretty new as far as I could tell. 363 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:17,440 All right, fine. 364 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,320 Well, you two gentlemen have helped us a lot here. 365 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,840 There are some questions we'd like to ask the other people in the bank. 366 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,440 Oh, yes, that's what the other officers said. 367 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:24,440 I told them all to stay. 368 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:25,440 Would you like to talk to them now? 369 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:26,440 Yes, sir. 370 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:27,440 Fine, I'll send them in here to you. 371 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,240 No, we can talk to them out there, sir, it'll be all right. 372 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:30,240 All right. 373 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,240 Gibson, maybe you can help them. 374 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:34,240 Officer. 375 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,520 Yes, Gibson. 376 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:40,080 I didn't want to tell you while we were in there. 377 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:41,280 He'd probably make some remark. 378 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:42,760 I didn't even tell the other officers. 379 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,200 It's about the license number of the bandit's car. 380 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:46,200 Did you get it? 381 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:55,200 Well, not all of it, sir, just the first three numbers. 382 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:59,000 The bank guard went on to explain that in the confusion he had failed to give the information 383 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,320 about the license number to the other officers. 384 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:02,800 We continued to talk to him. 385 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,240 He told us that the bandit had tied a cloth over the rear license plate and that as he 386 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,880 drove away from the scene, a corner of the cloth had come loose and he was able to see 387 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,160 the first three numbers of the plate. 388 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,600 We called this information into communications and a supplemental broadcast was gotten out. 389 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,880 In company with agents from the FBI, we talked to the rest of the employees in the bank. 390 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,760 From them, we got a fairly good description of the holdup man and of his car. 391 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,060 They agreed that it was a late model, dark Ford sedan. 392 00:13:28,060 --> 00:13:32,240 With FBI agent Tom Asherid, Frank and I checked by the office and asked the stats office to 393 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:33,960 make a run on the MO. 394 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:37,800 We checked the oddity file on R&I on the possibility that the tape might have been used to cover 395 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,600 scars or other marks that would make identification easier. 396 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:42,600 9.46 p.m. 397 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,680 We stopped and got some sandwiches and coffee and then we went to the DMV offices. 398 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:47,680 Hi, Joe. 399 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:48,680 George, you know Frank. 400 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:49,680 Yeah, hi. 401 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:50,680 How's it going, George? 402 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:51,680 This is Tom Asherid, agent from the FBI. 403 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:52,680 He's working with us on this thing. 404 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:53,680 Oh, hi. 405 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:54,680 Glad to know you. 406 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:55,680 Yeah, same here. 407 00:13:55,680 --> 00:13:56,680 Where do we find the files here, George? 408 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:57,680 Oh, what's the number again? 409 00:13:57,680 --> 00:13:58,680 1U5. 410 00:13:58,680 --> 00:13:59,680 That's all we have. 411 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:00,680 Not much. 412 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:01,680 Oh, you'll find the files of that number in these drawers here. 413 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:02,680 You know what kind of car it is? 414 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:03,680 Yeah, Ford sedan, late model. 415 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:04,680 We're not sure what year. 416 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:05,680 Uh-huh. 417 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:06,680 Oh, go to it. 418 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:07,680 I don't envy you. 419 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:08,680 Yeah, I don't. 420 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,680 Well, that's it for the night. 421 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:14,680 I think I'll shove off. 422 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:20,680 Anything you guys need to be somebody here, you can give me a call. 423 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:21,680 I'll leave my home number on the desk. 424 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:22,680 Right. 425 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:23,680 Thanks a lot. 426 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:24,680 Good night, George. 427 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:25,680 Good night. 428 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:26,680 Hope you find it before I get back. 429 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:27,680 Yeah. 430 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:28,680 It's not a week. 431 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:29,680 Well, let's get to it. 432 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:30,680 Right. 433 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:31,680 Let's see. 434 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:32,680 1U5. 435 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:39,120 It took us the next eight hours to go through the almost 10,000 license registrations. 436 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,640 Each file card had to be checked for a similarity of make and model. 437 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:47,360 Each automobile in the Los Angeles area was listed, and then each one in the entire state. 438 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,000 Each of them had to be checked out. 439 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,360 6.02 a.m. Tuesday, January 22nd. 440 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,120 We finished checking the file. 441 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:54,120 That does it. 442 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:59,400 I didn't know there were so many cars in California, let alone that many with a license that begins 443 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,960 with 1U5 in the Los Angeles area. 444 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:02,960 That's a total, Joe. 445 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:03,960 How's it look? 446 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:04,960 Well, we got a place to start here. 447 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:05,960 302 names. 448 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:14,280 6.30 a.m. We checked back into the office, and then we went home to get a couple of hours 449 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:15,280 sleep. 450 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,880 At 8.30 a.m., Frank, Tom, and I met in the robbery office. 451 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,280 Captain Didion had assigned four other teams of men to work with us. 452 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:24,080 The FBI had also assigned additional agents. 453 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,280 The list of possible was divided up, and we began to check them out. 454 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,040 We spent three days on it. 455 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,040 In each instance, we didn't talk to the person involved directly, but to their neighbors. 456 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:37,680 We didn't explain what it was that we were after, merely that we were conducting an investigation. 457 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,600 We ran into the usual false leaves, the usual petty jealousies, and the neighborhood feud. 458 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,640 It all served to slow us down and make the job more difficult. 459 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:48,720 There had been no replies to the local or the APB that we'd gotten out on the car or 460 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:49,880 the bandits. 461 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,000 The staff's office had come up with two possibles on the MO. 462 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,080 These were both checked out, but let us know where. 463 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,160 We went back to checking out the license plate numbers. 464 00:15:58,160 --> 00:15:59,160 January 28th. 465 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,800 The names on our list were down to seven. 466 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,960 The next one was a Mr. Ivan Q. Field. 467 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,000 We rang the bell to the house next door and waited. 468 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Yes? 469 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Sorry to bother you, ma'am. 470 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Police officers, what if we could talk to you? 471 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Police? 472 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Well, what's it about? 473 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,000 I haven't done anything. 474 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,680 No, ma'am, we'd just like to ask you a couple of questions about your next door neighbor, 475 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:15,680 Mr. Field. 476 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:16,680 I should have known. 477 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,440 I thought a couple of times about calling you about him myself, miserable man. 478 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:20,880 I wonder if we could come in, ma'am. 479 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:22,440 Might be better than talking on the phone. 480 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:23,440 You just bet you can. 481 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:24,440 Come right in. 482 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:25,440 I'll tell you what you want to know. 483 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:26,440 Thank you very much. 484 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,440 What do you want him for? 485 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:29,440 What's he done? 486 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:30,440 Well, we're just conducting an investigation, ma'am. 487 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,440 A few things we'd like to know about Mr. Field. 488 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:33,440 Uh-huh. 489 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:34,440 Well, you don't have to play cozy with me. 490 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,160 I know what kind of people they are. 491 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:37,160 Can't understand it either. 492 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:38,160 Ma'am? 493 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:39,640 I said I couldn't understand it. 494 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,000 His brothers, so nice, a real gentleman. 495 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,120 It seems hard to believe that they'd even be related, let alone be brothers. 496 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,480 Nothing but trouble since he and his wife moved in. 497 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:48,480 You mean it's not their house? 498 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:49,480 Oh, of course not. 499 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,680 I don't think either one of them could afford to rent on a one-room apartment, let alone 500 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:53,680 a house. 501 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:54,680 Would you know if they have a car? 502 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:55,680 No, no, not them. 503 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,640 Like I said, I don't think he's ever worked. 504 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,240 Just lives off his brother. 505 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:00,240 His brother has a car. 506 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:01,240 It's real nice. 507 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:02,240 What kind of a car is it, ma'am? 508 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:03,240 Do you know? 509 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:04,240 Yes, it's a Ford. 510 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:05,240 Do you know what model? 511 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:06,240 Model? 512 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:07,240 Yes, ma'am. 513 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:08,240 Is it a coupe or a sedan? 514 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:09,240 Oh, sedan. 515 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:10,240 Real nice. 516 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:11,240 Sort of a dark green. 517 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:12,240 Only I guess it really isn't dark. 518 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:13,240 Then it isn't light, really. 519 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:14,240 Just green. 520 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:15,240 Pretty, though. 521 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:16,240 Yes, ma'am. 522 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:17,240 Do you know if Mr. Field is in right now? 523 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:18,240 Yes, I think so. 524 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:19,240 I saw him out in the backyard a couple of hours ago, him and his wife. 525 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:20,240 He was prancing around in one of them skimpy little sun suits. 526 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:21,240 Terrible. 527 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:29,240 No decency at all, I tell you, Officer, neither one of them is any good. 528 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:31,040 Do you know what Mr. Field does for a living? 529 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:32,040 Oh, you mean does he work? 530 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,040 Yes, ma'am. 531 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:34,040 Oh, no. 532 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:35,040 At least I've never seen any indication that he does. 533 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,040 All he does is just sit around the yard and throw rocks at my cat. 534 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:39,040 Terrible. 535 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,040 That's what I was going to call you about. 536 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,040 Isn't there a law or something about throwing things at poor, dumb animals? 537 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:45,040 Yes, ma'am. 538 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:46,520 Of course, cats aren't really dumb. 539 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,680 Lots of times I think they're a lot smarter than some people I know. 540 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,640 I wonder if you could describe Ivan Field for us, ma'am. 541 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:53,640 Oh, sure. 542 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:55,640 He's kind of a little man, not very big. 543 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:56,640 About how tall, ma'am? 544 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:57,640 Oh, maybe five feet seven. 545 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:58,640 How about his coloring? 546 00:17:58,640 --> 00:17:59,640 Mean his hair? 547 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:00,640 Yes, ma'am. 548 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:01,640 Dark, very dark. 549 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:02,640 He lets us out when he looks that way. 550 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:03,640 Well, thank you very much, ma'am. 551 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:04,640 Sorry to cause you all this trouble. 552 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:05,640 Oh, no trouble at all. 553 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:06,640 Are you going to arrest him now? 554 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:07,640 No, ma'am. 555 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:08,640 Well, why not? 556 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:09,640 What about the rocks and my cat? 557 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,640 Well, I think the SPCA are the people you want to talk to on that. 558 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:13,640 Well, all right. 559 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:14,640 But I tell you right now, Mr. Field isn't going to like it. 560 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:19,640 He likes my cat. 561 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:23,640 He isn't going to like the idea at all when he hears about it. 562 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:24,640 Just wait until he gets home. 563 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:25,640 I'll tell him about his brother's been acting. 564 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:26,640 Oh, just a minute, ma'am. 565 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:27,640 Yes? 566 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:28,640 You mean that the man living next door isn't Ivan Field? 567 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:29,640 No. 568 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:30,640 I didn't say it was. 569 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:31,640 It's his brother, Harry. 570 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:32,640 Brother? 571 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:33,640 What's the matter with you, young man? 572 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:34,640 Don't you hear well? 573 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:35,640 Everything I say, you ask me to repeat. 574 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:36,640 I don't mean to, ma'am. 575 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:37,640 It's just that I want to be sure of what you say. 576 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:44,640 What's going on here? 577 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:49,640 First you ask me a lot of questions about Mr. Field, and then I tell you that he isn't 578 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:51,640 home, and his wife went back east for the holidays. 579 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:52,640 They haven't come back yet. 580 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,640 While he was gone, he said that his brother could use the house. 581 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,640 I thought at first it would be nice. 582 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,640 Then I found out. 583 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,640 Harry is nothing like his brother, nothing at all. 584 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,640 Well, what if we could describe him for us? 585 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:05,640 My, you want to know about everybody, don't you? 586 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,640 Well, we'd just like a description of Harry Field, ma'am, that's all. 587 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:10,640 Well, he's taller than Ivan. 588 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:11,640 Harry must be close to six feet. 589 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,640 He doesn't look anything like Ivan in any other way. 590 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:15,640 Ivan's dark in Harry's life. 591 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,640 His hair almost doesn't have any color. 592 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:18,640 He's real blonde. 593 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:19,640 How long ago did they move in? 594 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:20,640 Well, now let me see. 595 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,640 Elizabeth, that's my Persian cat. 596 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,640 Well, Elizabeth had her last litter in December. 597 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:26,640 December the 12th. 598 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,640 Harry and his wife moved in the next morning. 599 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,640 I remember that because I was up most of the night with Elizabeth. 600 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:33,640 She didn't need me. 601 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:34,640 Awfully independent. 602 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,640 But it was the morning that they moved in. 603 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:37,640 Oh, I remember it well. 604 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,640 Elizabeth had six little kittens. 605 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:41,640 It was December the 13th when Harry moved in. 606 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,640 And they've been using Ivan Field's car? 607 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:44,640 Oh, my, yes. 608 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:46,640 Hardly a day goes by, but what, they don't drive it somewhere. 609 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,640 I wonder if we could use your phone, ma'am. 610 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:49,640 Oh, sure. 611 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:50,640 It's on the table there in the hall. 612 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:51,640 Thanks. 613 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:52,640 I'll check the names who are in it. 614 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:53,640 Okay. 615 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:57,640 Would you happen to know if this Harry Field has any marks or scars on him? 616 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:58,640 Well, now let me see. 617 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,640 I think so. 618 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,640 Seems to me that I saw him and his wife out in the backyard one day. 619 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,640 He was wearing swimming trunks and she was in one of those sun suits I told you about. 620 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:08,640 It's graceful. 621 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:09,640 Yes, ma'am. 622 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,640 Well, it seems to me that he had a scar on his leg. 623 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,640 Yes, just above the knee. 624 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,640 I think it was the right leg. 625 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:20,640 No, what I meant, ma'am, was does he have any marks on his face, on his forehead or on his chin? 626 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:21,640 No, no, no marks. 627 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:22,640 Oh. 628 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:23,640 Oh, wait a minute. 629 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,640 The other day I noticed he had a cut over his right eyebrow. 630 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,640 It looked like he'd been in a fight. 631 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:30,640 Probably a drunken brawl. 632 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:31,640 So? 633 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:32,640 Yeah, anything? 634 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:33,640 Talked to Cunningham. 635 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:34,640 He checked the name. 636 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:35,640 Looks like it might be the same one. 637 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:36,640 What's that? 638 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,640 They paroled a Harry Q. Field from San Quentin. 639 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,640 Description checks out when they parole him. 640 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,640 December 10th last year, did a term for robbery. 641 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:57,640 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 642 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,640 Chesterfield was first to name its ingredients. 643 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,640 Ingredients that give you the best possible smoke. 644 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:08,640 Now Chesterfield is first to give you scientific facts in support of smoking. 645 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:15,640 Nose, throat, and accessory organs not adversely affected by smoking Chesterfields. 646 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,640 First such report published about any cigarette. 647 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:25,640 A responsible consulting organization reports a study by a competent medical specialist and staff on the effects of smoking Chesterfields. 648 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,640 For six months, a group of men and women smoked only Chesterfield. 649 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,640 Ten to forty a day their normal amount. 650 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:38,640 Forty-five percent of the group of smoked Chesterfields from one to thirty years for an average of ten years each. 651 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:47,640 At the beginning and end of the six months, each smoker was given a thorough examination including x-rays and covering the sinuses, nose, ears, and throat. 652 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,640 After these examinations, the medical specialist stated, 653 00:21:51,640 --> 00:22:03,640 It is my opinion that the ears, nose, throat, and accessory organs of all participating subjects examined by me were not adversely affected in the six months period by smoking the cigarettes provided. 654 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:08,640 Remember this report and buy Chesterfields either way you like them. 655 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:14,640 Regular or king size. Premium quality Chesterfields and much milder. 656 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:25,640 January 28th, 430 p.m. We called the office and told them of the latest developments. 657 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:31,640 Tom Ashford called the local FBI office and arrangements were made to take Harry Field and his wife into custody. 658 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:38,640 A further check on him was made through R&I and we found that his record listed four arrests for armed robbery with only one conviction. 659 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:42,640 He spent four and a half years in San Quentin before he'd gotten his parole. 660 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,640 The name of his brother was also checked. He had no previous record. 661 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,640 The car in Field's driveway matched the one used by the bandit. 662 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:54,640 512 p.m. The men from robbery arrived and the plan for taking Field was formulated. 663 00:22:54,640 --> 00:23:03,640 The working detective knows that to successfully apprehend an armed and dangerous suspect, he must act quickly and employ the one big advantage on his side, the element of surprise. 664 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:08,640 By moving rapidly before the suspect becomes aware of any attempt to apprehend him, 665 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:17,640 the officer in many cases cannot only avoid bloodshed but can often have a better chance of preserving any and all physical evidence necessary to prosecute the suspect. 666 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,640 536 p.m. We were ready to move in. 667 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:22,640 All set, gentlemen. Our arms back. 668 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,640 Good. No indication he knows what's up. The lights are still on. 669 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,640 Let's hope it stays that way. 670 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,640 Officer? Mr. Friday? 671 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:30,640 The Jenkins woman. 672 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:31,640 Yeah. 673 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:32,640 Officer! 674 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,640 Ma'am, would you mind keeping your voice down? We don't want Field to know we're here. 675 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,640 Well, I'm not talking loud, but there's something I want you to know. 676 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,640 Well, it'd be better if you went back into your house, ma'am. Just stay there till this is over, would you? 677 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,640 That's sort of what I want to tell you about. 678 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:43,640 Ma'am? 679 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,640 Well, I got to thinking, and I figure maybe here he wasn't too bad a sword after all. 680 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:51,640 We don't want to be rude here, but I think it'd be better if you go back in your house. All this talking's allowed to let him know that we're here. 681 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,640 But that's just it. I don't want anybody hurt, so I called him. 682 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:55,640 What? 683 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,640 I called him. Told him he didn't have a chance to give himself up. 684 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:05,640 Unknowingly, Mrs. Jenkins had made it impossible to take the suspect without violence. 685 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:10,640 By warning him, she had put him on the alert. We had no alternative now but to apprehend him as best we could. 686 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,640 5.40 p.m. 687 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,640 McHaleb and Crowley are covering the back. Other fellows are covering the side windows. 688 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:28,640 All right. Let's go. 689 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:29,640 What do you want? 690 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,640 Open up. Come on, Field. We want to talk to you. 691 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:35,640 Yeah, I'll be there in a minute. Take it easy. 692 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,640 Open up, Field. Police officers. 693 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:42,640 All right. I'll be there in a minute. 694 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,640 Let's go. He's stalling. 695 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:46,640 Lock. Come on. Let's hit it. 696 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:47,640 All right. 697 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:48,640 All right. Stand still. 698 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:49,640 Hey, what are you doing? 699 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:50,640 Fireplace, Joe. 700 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:51,640 I'll get it. 701 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,640 Guys, I'm for all you cops won't leave me alone. I'm straight. 702 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,640 Bag's full of money, Joe. Parsley burned. 703 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:56,640 My money? I could do what I want with it. 704 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,640 You bet you can. Hands behind you. Come on. 705 00:24:58,640 --> 00:24:59,640 I'll shake him down. 706 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,640 All right. 707 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,640 He's clean, Joe. 708 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:07,640 You got him, huh? 709 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:08,640 Yeah. We got part of the loot, too. 710 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:09,640 He's trying to burn it. 711 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,640 Crowley and I will shake the rest of the house. 712 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:12,640 Right, Max. 713 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:13,640 All right. How about it, Field? 714 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,640 We got the money. People can identify you. 715 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,640 Car parked in the driveway. It fits the description. 716 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:18,640 You've been through this before. 717 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,640 You got out of Q on December 10th. 718 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,640 You pulled this job on January 21st. Is that right? 719 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,640 Like I said, I fell once. I did my time. 720 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:26,640 Joe? 721 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:26,640 Yeah, Max? 722 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,640 Found his wife hiding in the back bedroom. 723 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:29,640 Found a sawed-off shotgun. 724 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:30,640 All right. Let's get him out of here. 725 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:31,640 Say, Frank? 726 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:32,640 Yeah? 727 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:33,640 Message came in for him before I left the office. 728 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:34,640 Forgot about it. 729 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:35,640 Say who it was from? 730 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:36,640 No, I didn't leave a name. Here's a number. 731 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,640 One's your phone right away. 732 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:39,640 I'll call it now. 733 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:40,640 We can take Field in. 734 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:41,640 Good, Max. Thanks. 735 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:42,640 We'll be right behind you. 736 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:43,640 We want to talk to his wife anyway. 737 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,640 Okay, Field. Let's go. 738 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:46,640 All right. Come on, Frank. 739 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:48,640 Come on. 740 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,640 Hollywood 24709. 741 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,640 I don't know anybody with that number. 742 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:53,640 Simple way to find out. It's a call-up. 743 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:54,640 It's kind of late. 744 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:55,640 Well, go ahead and call him anyway. 745 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,640 Yeah. Here's the phone. 746 00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:58,640 I'll check with you later, Joe. 747 00:25:58,640 --> 00:25:59,640 Frank. 748 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:00,640 Right, Tom. We'll check you. 749 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:01,640 Bye, Tom. 750 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:02,640 Come on. Let's go. 751 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:03,640 I want to use the phone. 752 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:04,640 Oh, yeah. Go ahead. 753 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:05,640 You got a dime? 754 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:06,640 Just a minute. 755 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:08,640 Yeah. Yeah. 756 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,640 I'll leave it for the call. 757 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:23,640 Huh. Wonder who it is. 758 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:25,640 Hello. 759 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:26,640 What place is this? 760 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:29,640 Oh. 761 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:30,640 Well, this is Frank Smith. 762 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:31,640 Were you looking for me? 763 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:34,640 Yeah. 764 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,640 Yeah. Yeah, he does. 765 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:40,640 Oh. 766 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,640 Yeah, that's the right address. 767 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:47,640 Yeah. 768 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:52,640 I should have known. 769 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:53,640 What's that? 770 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,640 Call from the Murphy House Cleaning Company. 771 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:56,640 Who were they with? 772 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:57,640 My brother-in-law. 773 00:26:58,640 --> 00:26:59,640 Call them in to clean up our house. 774 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:00,640 Yeah. What about it? 775 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,640 Now they want to know where to send the bill. 776 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,640 The story you have just heard was true. 777 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,640 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 778 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,640 On February 19th, trial was held in federal court 779 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,640 in the city of Los Angeles, state of California. 780 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,640 In a moment, the results of that trial. 781 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,640 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 782 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,640 Thank you, George Fenomen. 783 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:27,640 Before a case goes to trial, 784 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,640 the working detective has to get all the evidence. 785 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,640 He interviews witnesses, takes statements, checks and re-checks. 786 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,640 He tries to get all the facts. 787 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,640 As a smoker, you too should be interested in facts. 788 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,640 You should know Chesterfield is first to give you scientific data 789 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,640 in support of smoking. 790 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,640 Nose, throat, and accessory organs, 791 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,640 not adversely affected by smoking Chesterfield. 792 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,640 The first such report ever published about any cigarette. 793 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:51,640 Remember that. 794 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,640 And next time, buy Chesterfield. 795 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,640 Get them regular or king size. 796 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,640 You'll find premium quality Chesterfield 797 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,640 give you the best possible smoke. 798 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:08,640 Music 799 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,640 Perry Q. Field was tried and convicted 800 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,640 of violation of the federal bank robbery statute. 801 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,640 He received a sentence of 20 years 802 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,640 in a federal penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington. 803 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,640 The investigation showed his wife, Dora Field, 804 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,640 was not implicated in any way in the robbery. 805 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:32,640 Music 806 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,640 You have just heard Dragnet, 807 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,640 a series of authentic cases from official files. 808 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,640 Technical advice comes from the office of Chief of Police, 809 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,640 W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 810 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,640 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, 811 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,640 Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 812 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,640 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Whit Conner, Jack Crouchon. 813 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,640 Script by John Robinson, music by Walter Schuman, 814 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,640 Hal Gibney speaking. 815 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,640 Sound off for Chesterfield. 816 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,640 Either way you like them, regular or king size, 817 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,640 Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke. 818 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:11,640 Much milder Chesterfield. 819 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,640 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet 820 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,640 transcribed from Los Angeles. 821 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:23,640 Music 822 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:28,640 Tonight it's Barry Craig, confidential investigator on NBC. 823 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:50,640 Music