1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,600 Sound off for Chesterfield. 2 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:16,160 Chesterfield, the only cigarette in America to give you premium quality in both regular 3 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:27,000 and king size brings you Dragnet. 4 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,920 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 5 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:41,760 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 6 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,200 You're a detective sergeant. 7 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,400 You're assigned to homicide detail. 8 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,080 You get a call that the body of a dead woman has been found in a closet. 9 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,260 There are no leads to her identification. 10 00:00:51,260 --> 00:00:53,600 The identity of the killer is unknown. 11 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:54,600 Your job? 12 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:55,600 Investigate. 13 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:03,760 Here's what a leading tobacco publication in the nation's press have had to say about 14 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,000 king size Chesterfield. 15 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,520 Tobacco leaf, more calls for Chesterfield king size cigarettes than for most brands 16 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:12,700 being marketed. 17 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:18,240 And the Cleveland press reported, dealers everywhere report the big pack sale phenomenal. 18 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:24,120 Last week in Cleveland, some areas reported the long size Chesterfield outsold all other 19 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:25,120 brands. 20 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,600 The reason for king size Chesterfield's amazing success is this. 21 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:34,960 All king size cigarettes give you quantity, but only Chesterfield king size gives you 22 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:38,700 quantity plus quality, premium quality. 23 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:44,120 That means Chesterfield king size contains tobacco is a better quality and higher price 24 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,880 than any other king size cigarette. 25 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,680 The same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. 26 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:55,040 Enough more of this tobacco to give you more than a one fifth longer smoke. 27 00:01:55,040 --> 00:02:01,720 So remember Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular 28 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,360 and king size. 29 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,480 Buy them either way you like them. 30 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:17,160 Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke, much milder. 31 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,240 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 32 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:25,200 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles police department, you will 33 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,800 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 34 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:31,480 police violence. 35 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:36,680 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 36 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:42,480 in action. 37 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:43,480 It was Thursday, April 17th. 38 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:45,240 It was warm in Los Angeles. 39 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,280 We were working the day watch out a homicide detail. 40 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,560 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 41 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:51,560 My name is Friday. 42 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:56,520 It was 11 36 a.m. when we got to the Greenleaf apartment hotel. 43 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:57,520 Apartment 406. 44 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:58,520 Yes? 45 00:02:58,520 --> 00:02:59,520 Police officers ma'am. 46 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:00,520 Oh yes, come in. 47 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:01,520 Thank you. 48 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:02,520 This is my partner, Frank Smith. 49 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:03,520 My name is Friday. 50 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:04,520 How do you do? 51 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:05,520 How do you do ma'am? 52 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:06,520 I'm Lorraine Holden. 53 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:07,520 I'm the one who called you. 54 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:08,520 Terrible thing, just terrible. 55 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:09,520 Yes, Miss Holden. 56 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:10,520 If you just tell us what happened, if you could. 57 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:11,520 Well Georgia, she's a maid. 58 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:12,520 Well Georgia, she's a maid. 59 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:13,520 I'm sorry. 60 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:14,520 I'm sorry. 61 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:15,520 I'm sorry. 62 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:16,520 I'm sorry. 63 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:17,520 She's a maid. 64 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:18,520 Well Georgia was cleaning up in here. 65 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,600 She finished the apartment and then she thought she'd check the coat closet right here. 66 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,280 She opened the door and there she was on the floor. 67 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:25,280 Ma'am? 68 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:26,280 Dead woman. 69 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,280 You can see for yourself she's right there on the floor. 70 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,280 Just terrible. 71 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:34,920 Where is this Georgia now, Mrs. Holden? 72 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,400 She's downstairs in my place. 73 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:37,400 She's pretty broken up. 74 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,080 Must have been a terrible shock to her. 75 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,760 She let out a scream that must have had half the neighborhood on edge. 76 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:43,280 I live down on the second floor on the rear. 77 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,280 I thought at first it's something that happened to Georgia. 78 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,680 Oh, that girl's got a powerful set of lungs. 79 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:48,680 Yes ma'am. 80 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:49,680 Who rented this apartment from you? 81 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:50,680 I knew you'd ask that. 82 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,680 I've got the receipt book right here on my apron, just a minute. 83 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,680 Put a pencil on the page, let's see. 84 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:57,160 Yes, there it is. 85 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,160 Raymond Bartley. 86 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,160 That's what he said, Bartley. 87 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,160 You know where this Bartley is now? 88 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:02,160 No I don't. 89 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:03,760 And that's another weird one, you know what I mean. 90 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:04,760 Ma'am? 91 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:05,760 Well look in the closets, look around the places. 92 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,480 None of his clothes, nothing to even tell you he was still here. 93 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,360 He's got another week to go on his rent. 94 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:11,360 How's that ma'am? 95 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,000 Well, he moved in a week ago. 96 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,520 You can see here on the receipt, Wednesday, April 9th. 97 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,320 Paid me two weeks in advance. 98 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,040 And you look around this place and it don't look like he's going to be around here anymore. 99 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:22,800 Do you have any idea where he might be? 100 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:23,800 Not the slightest. 101 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,440 Did it give you any indication that he was planning to move out? 102 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,440 Not the slightest, no sir. 103 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,440 I don't even have an inkling. 104 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:29,440 I'll call the coroner, Joe. 105 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:30,440 Okay. 106 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,040 Better get in touch with the crime lab too, have them come out. 107 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,040 Okay. 108 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:35,040 Do you mind if I use the phone, Mrs. Holden? 109 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,520 Not at all, it's right there back in the hall, a little shelf on the wall. 110 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:39,520 Thank you ma'am. 111 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:40,520 You think Mr. Bartley did it? 112 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:41,960 Do you think he killed a woman? 113 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,000 Well, we don't know ma'am. 114 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,760 Did Mr. Bartley rent this room by himself? 115 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:45,760 What? 116 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:46,760 I don't understand. 117 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:48,400 Well, did he register as Mr. and Mrs.? 118 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,200 Oh no sir, just plain Raymond Bartley. 119 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,240 Do you have any idea who the woman might be? 120 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:53,240 Oh not the slightest. 121 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:54,240 I never saw her before. 122 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,120 Georgia screamed and I ran in here. 123 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,000 Did you touch anything at all in the room here? 124 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000 No. 125 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000 I know how policemen work. 126 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 I've heard all about that. 127 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Don't touch anything, department. 128 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,080 No sir, I didn't touch anything. 129 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:05,080 Uh huh. 130 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,080 They're on the way, Joe. 131 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:08,080 All right, fine. 132 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,120 Mrs. Holden, have you ever seen the woman before? 133 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:11,120 No sir, I haven't. 134 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:12,120 Never saw her before. 135 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:13,120 Just took a quick glance. 136 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,120 Terrible, just terrible what they did. 137 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,920 I wonder if you could give us a description of Mr. Bartley. 138 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,680 Well, that would be kind of hard. 139 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,600 Like I said, I don't pay a lot of attention to the people who live here. 140 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,480 I just collect the rents and let it go with that. 141 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,080 Once in a while when George is sick, I come in and clean up. 142 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,960 Those times I talk to him a little bit, but I am not the nosy type. 143 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,120 You know what I mean. 144 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,120 Could you tell us about how tall Bartley is? 145 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,600 Well, I have to think about that too. 146 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,720 I guess he was about as tall as you. 147 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,200 Maybe a little one way or the other. 148 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:42,200 How much would you say Wade? 149 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,720 Well, he was kind of a heavy set little man. 150 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,080 I guess he weighs about as much as my husband. 151 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:48,080 That would be 200 or so. 152 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:49,080 How about his coloring? 153 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,080 Would you know? 154 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:51,080 Oh, there it goes again. 155 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,080 I tell you officers, I can't tell you too good. 156 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:55,880 Mr. Bartley was kind of a crowd melder. 157 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:57,440 How big a part? 158 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:58,440 A crowd melder. 159 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,840 You know, you put him in a crowd and he just melts away. 160 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:01,840 You never pay any attention to him. 161 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:02,840 You know what I mean. 162 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:03,840 Yes ma'am. 163 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:08,600 As I can remember, he had kind of brown hair and blue eyes, I guess. 164 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:09,800 Was there anything peculiar about him? 165 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,880 Did he have any scars, any marks, anything at all about him that would make you remember 166 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:14,880 him, make him a little easier to... 167 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:15,880 No, no, nothing. 168 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,520 How about the way he talked? 169 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,200 Could you tell where he was from? 170 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,920 No, he's just kind of an ordinary man, nothing special. 171 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:24,600 When was the last time you saw Mr. Bartley? 172 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,000 Let me see now. 173 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,920 I think it was, yes, Monday night. 174 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:29,920 He was coming in. 175 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:30,920 I was just coming back from the grocery. 176 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,680 It was about, oh, six, six-fifty. 177 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:35,960 I said hello and then he said the same hello. 178 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,480 Then he went on upstairs and I went to my apartment. 179 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:39,480 That was the last time. 180 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,920 Did Mr. Bartley have any close friends in the building, you know? 181 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:43,560 No, not that I can think of. 182 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,120 Well, did he ever say where he worked or what he did for a living? 183 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,720 No, not that I remember. 184 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:48,720 Well, how about references? 185 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:49,720 Did he have any? 186 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:50,720 No, I didn't ask for any. 187 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,080 You know if he drove a car? 188 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:54,080 It seems so stupid. 189 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,120 It seems like I don't know the answers to any of your questions. 190 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,360 I don't know about if he drove a car or not. 191 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:00,520 We don't have any garages in the building. 192 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:01,960 He might have and I wouldn't know it. 193 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:03,400 I just didn't pay any attention. 194 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:04,400 You know what I mean. 195 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:06,600 Did he get any mail while he was here, would you know that? 196 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,120 No, sir, nothing. 197 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:10,920 We'd like to talk to Georgia if we could. 198 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:12,640 Sure, I'll ask her to come up here. 199 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:13,640 Poor thing's so upset. 200 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:14,640 It's terrible. 201 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,720 It's the first time anything like this has happened to me. 202 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:19,560 First time anything like this has happened in the place. 203 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:20,560 I don't understand it. 204 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,360 I never bother the tenants, never cause them any trouble. 205 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:24,360 I don't even know this, Bartley. 206 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,800 Why do you have to do a thing like this to me? 207 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:27,800 Why me? 208 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:28,800 I don't know, ma'am. 209 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:29,800 Why her? 210 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,560 I end up because of the media everywhere. 211 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:35,560 It's terrible. 212 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,560 And I don't know what to do. 213 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:42,740 I have to sign these people out, and there's never another way. 214 00:07:42,740 --> 00:07:43,880 Oh, gets me. 215 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,880 I still don't know a better way. 216 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:48,060 answers me. 217 00:07:48,060 --> 00:07:49,920 Is there a way? 218 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:50,920 Yes, there is. 219 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:51,920 It's not a raceway. 220 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:56,160 I didn't know anything about the street come in and went that way. 221 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:57,360 It's an orange sector. 222 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:58,520 They throw them around. 223 00:07:58,520 --> 00:07:59,520 Yes. 224 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,280 He rolled the prints of the dead woman. 225 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,520 Hers were eliminated from those found in the apartment. 226 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,600 We talked to the maid and got the same story that we'd been given by Mrs. Halden. 227 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,080 She was unable to add any information to what we already had. 228 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:12,480 We talked to the neighbors in the building. 229 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,240 None of them had had any dealings with the missing Ray Bartley. 230 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,720 The woman in the apartment next to his told us that on the previous night at about 10 45, 231 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,160 she had heard a woman's voice and a loud argument coming from the murder apartment, 232 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,480 but she said she hadn't paid any attention to it. 233 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,440 2 42 p.m. Frank and I checked back into the office. 234 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,800 I'll call Bergman see if he was able to identify the woman or make the other prints. 235 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:34,560 Yeah right. I hope he's done some good. 236 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:34,880 Yeah. 237 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:43,360 Dean Bergman, please. 238 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:46,560 Hi, Dean. Frank Smith. 239 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:49,040 You've been able to make those prints yet? 240 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:53,840 Uh, well, how about the ones in the poker? 241 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:55,520 Yeah. Yeah. 242 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:58,640 Well, that's the way it goes, huh? 243 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,080 Uh-huh. Right. 244 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:06,080 Nothing on either the woman's or the ones he lifted from the poker. 245 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,840 He's sending them both on to Washington. See if they have anything. 246 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:11,680 Anything on him and R.N.I.? 247 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:14,320 Well, I called down there. They're checking them. Now I can't understand it. 248 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:14,800 What's that? 249 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,320 Well, how you can rent an apartment to somebody and not know what he looks like. 250 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,880 Like she said, the manager's probably mind your own business. 251 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:25,360 Yeah, I get it. Homicide Friday. 252 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:25,920 Oh, yeah, Lee. 253 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:28,480 Now, how about laundry marks? 254 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,840 Uh, yeah. How about the poker? 255 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:33,360 Yeah. 256 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:35,920 Yeah, well, that figure's done it. 257 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:36,320 Yeah. 258 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:37,440 OK, Lee. Thanks a lot. 259 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:38,800 Anything? 260 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:40,960 Well, he's pretty sure the poker was a murder weapon. 261 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:42,240 Anything to identify the woman? 262 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,440 No, not a thing. Whoever did this sure knew what he was doing. 263 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,840 Removed everything that could possibly tell us who she was. 264 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:49,280 That puts us in a good position. 265 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,760 Yeah, an unidentified body and an unknown killer. 266 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:59,440 The report came back from R.N.I. 267 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,160 There was nothing in the records on Array Botley of that description. 268 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,000 Three other teams of men were assigned to assist in the investigation. 269 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,280 We talked with everybody in the neighborhood around the apartment building. 270 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,920 None of the storekeepers had noticed the missing man. 271 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,400 None of them could give us any further information. 272 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,400 An APB was gotten out carrying the name and description that we'd obtained. 273 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,960 An APB was also gotten out on the dead woman. 274 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,880 We checked with missing persons detail for a possible missing report on the victim. 275 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:26,480 They said they'd let us know. 276 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,120 The newspapers gave us their help and in the following editions, 277 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,800 they carried pictures of the woman and requested that anyone knowing her identity 278 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:34,800 should contact the police department immediately. 279 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:36,720 Two days passed. 280 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,640 During this time, several people came in and said that they were sure that they knew the dead woman, 281 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,160 but they were unable to identify her. 282 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,120 Other leads were checked out, but let us know where. 283 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,840 The manager and the maid came in and went through the mug books. 284 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:48,800 No results. 285 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,680 Monday, April 21st, 927 a.m. 286 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:53,200 Friday? 287 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:53,680 Yeah. 288 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:54,640 Oh, hi, John. 289 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:55,280 Hi, Frank. 290 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:55,760 Hi, darling. 291 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:57,520 You guys getting anywhere in this closet murder? 292 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:58,560 No, not a thing. 293 00:10:58,560 --> 00:10:59,360 Well, I got a hunch. 294 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,840 Maybe it won't go anywhere, but I thought you guys might want to check it out. 295 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:02,560 What's that? 296 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:05,120 We got a missing report from San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. 297 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,600 A man up there said that his wife had come down here to see her sister. 298 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:08,640 He said she never showed up. 299 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:09,360 Yeah. 300 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,040 We went out and talked to the sister. 301 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:12,240 At times, she wasn't too cooperative. 302 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,360 You know, like she knew where her sister was all the time. 303 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,200 I checked this description on the APB. 304 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,320 It seems to me to match the description we got from both the husband and the sister. 305 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:20,960 Yeah. 306 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,760 Like I said, it's just a hunch, but I thought you might talk to this woman. 307 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,200 Might be able to come up with something. 308 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:26,160 What's her name? 309 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:26,960 Let's see. 310 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:28,880 Allard, Myra Allard. 311 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:30,160 Lives out in Hollywood Boulevard. 312 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:31,680 You talk to her. 313 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:33,360 See if you don't come up with the same thing we did. 314 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:34,160 Yeah, what's that? 315 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,080 She doesn't care if her sister's dead or alive. 316 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,560 Frank and I drove out to see Mrs. Myra Allard. 317 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:41,840 She told us that her sister had written and said that she'd be down for a visit. 318 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,680 On the day that she was supposed to arrive, the sister had phoned and told Mrs. Allard 319 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:49,360 that she wouldn't be out that day, but that she'd met some friends on the train, 320 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,240 that they were all going out on a sightseeing tour of the city. 321 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,240 In talking to her, we got the same impression that she'd given John St. John of missing 322 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:57,520 person's detail. 323 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,720 We asked her if she'd go with us to see if the dead woman might be her sister. 324 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:01,680 She said, no. 325 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:02,640 She said, no. 326 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:03,520 She said, no. 327 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,400 We asked her if she'd go with us to see if the dead woman might be her sister. 328 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,520 At first, she appeared reluctant, but when we gave her a full description of the body, 329 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:11,040 she agreed to accompany us. 330 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,520 She looked at the dead woman and burst into tears. 331 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:15,760 Half an hour later, after she'd recovered from the shock, 332 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,400 we talked to her in the interrogation room at the City Hall. 333 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:19,040 It's Alice. 334 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:19,840 There's no doubt about it. 335 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:20,800 It's just terrible. 336 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:22,720 My own sister dead. 337 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:24,000 If you try to take it easy. 338 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,520 Would you like another glass of water, Miss Allard? 339 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:26,480 No, thank you. 340 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:28,080 It's not just finding your dead. 341 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,400 I guess I always knew that Alice would end up like this. 342 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,960 I never wanted it this way, but I always knew it in my heart. 343 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:33,960 How's that man? 344 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,960 To understand that, you'd have to know Alice. 345 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:37,960 She was a beautiful girl, a wonderful person. 346 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,960 Now you said that you heard from Alice when she got here in L.A., is that right? 347 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,960 That's right. She called right after she got off the train. 348 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:46,960 What did she say to you then? 349 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,960 Well, as I told you, she said that she'd met some friends on the train and they were going out to see the town. 350 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,960 Did she say who these friends were? 351 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,960 No, just said that they were going to pick up Ray and then go out in the town. 352 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:56,960 Ray? 353 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:58,960 Yes, Ray Fletcher. 354 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,960 I tried to call him when Alice didn't show up, but there wasn't any answer at his apartment. 355 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:02,960 Where does he live, ma'am? 356 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,960 Out in Hollywood. I think it's on the sum of some place. I have the address. 357 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:07,960 Who is this Fletcher? 358 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:09,960 Well, that's something I'm not very proud of. 359 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:11,960 Why is that, ma'am? 360 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,960 He's a friend of my husband. Well, not really a friend in the real sense of the word. 361 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:16,960 Sort of an acquaintance. 362 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,960 Why do you say that you're not very proud of him, ma'am? I don't understand. 363 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,960 Well, I sort of feel that it's all my fault. 364 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:24,960 Why still don't you understand, ma'am? 365 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:25,960 The divorce. 366 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,960 Alice and Tom were on the verge of separating. 367 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,960 Tom said that he'd come at just about the end of the line. 368 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,960 Alice told me that they used to have terrible fights. 369 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:36,960 Anyway, she was down here one time. 370 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,960 Let me see. I think it was about three months ago. 371 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:40,960 She was terribly depressed. 372 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,960 Said that she and Tom had been fighting for several weeks. 373 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:45,960 A couple of times he'd hit her. 374 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,960 I can't understand it. I really can't. I told Alice I didn't believe it. 375 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:49,960 Yes, ma'am. 376 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,960 She showed me the bruises all across her back and shoulders. 377 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,960 She said that one night they were going over the bills and Tom just seemed to go crazy. 378 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,960 He started to rant and rave about how much they were in debt. 379 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:02,960 Of course I knew why I told Alice so. 380 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:07,960 I said that it was her fault for driving him, always asking for something new, something else. 381 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,960 She said that she told Tom that if he couldn't afford to keep it the way she wanted to live, 382 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:13,960 then she'd just have to find somebody who could. 383 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:15,960 That's when he hit her. 384 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:17,960 She left that night to come down here. 385 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:19,960 I don't know if it was terrible. 386 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,960 I don't agree with her, but I don't think any man has the right to hit a woman. 387 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:23,960 Yes, ma'am. 388 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:28,960 Well, she moped around the house for a couple of days, said about how she was never going back to him. 389 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,960 I felt kind of sorry for her, even though I don't agree with her. 390 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:34,960 After all, she was my sister. 391 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:35,960 Yes, ma'am, we understand. 392 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,960 Well, that night my husband came home and he brought this Ray Fletcher with him. 393 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:40,960 Met him down at the office. 394 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:41,960 How many words did you say, ma'am? 395 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,960 Down at the office. Ray works for the same company. 396 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,960 He's a steward on the ship that travels up the coast from here to Washington. 397 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:49,960 Anyway, my husband brought him home for dinner. 398 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,960 Ray said that we should all go out to eat, so we did. 399 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:57,960 We had dinner and a few drinks, and then Ray brought us home, and he and Alice went on. 400 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:00,960 Alice didn't get into almost 3.30 in the morning. 401 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:01,960 I see. 402 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:03,960 That night Ray was here again. 403 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:08,960 He and Alice went out that night, and for the next four nights in a row, every night out until all hours. 404 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:10,960 I finally had a talk with her about it. 405 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:15,960 Told her that I didn't think Tom would like it, and that I wouldn't have her doing things like that while she was under my roof. 406 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,960 That's when she told me that she was going to divorce Tom. 407 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,960 That she and Ray were going to get married. 408 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:23,960 I told her I thought she was crazy. 409 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:27,960 She didn't know what she was doing, but there wasn't any talking to her. 410 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:29,960 She saw Ray every day. 411 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,960 Then she went back up north to get things straightened out. 412 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,960 I see. Well, did she follow through with her divorce plan? 413 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:37,960 Well, as far as I know, she did. 414 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:43,960 She wrote me and said that she talked to Tom about it, and that they'd reached an agreement that he'd let her have her freedom. 415 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:45,960 How did he seem to take all this? 416 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,960 Well, he called me one night and asked if I knew why Alice was leaving him. 417 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:54,960 He didn't know about Ray. I told him all about it before. I thought that maybe Alice hadn't said anything about it. 418 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,960 What was his reaction to it? 419 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,960 I almost went crazy on the phone. Tom's a real jealous man. 420 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,960 If he could have gotten through the phone wires, I think he'd have taken my head off. 421 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,960 He screamed that I'd influenced his wife, that it was all my fault. 422 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,960 Why didn't you tell the officers from missing persons all of this when they were out there, ma'am? 423 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:13,960 I didn't want my husband to know about it. 424 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,960 Then, too, I thought that it might be better if Tom didn't know where Alice was. 425 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,960 After what he said, I thought it would be better if he never saw her again. 426 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:21,960 What's that, ma'am? 427 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,960 That night, we had the argument on the phone. He said that she'd never leave him. 428 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:27,960 That he'd see her dead first. 429 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:36,960 The description of Ray Fletcher Mrs. Allard had given us tallied closely with that of Raymond Bartley. 430 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:42,960 She also gave us his address and phone number. It was an apartment house in the southwest section of the city. 431 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,960 Frank and I drove over but found that he'd moved and left no forwarding address. 432 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,960 We checked the apartment but it had since been cleaned and occupied. 433 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:51,960 Again, we ran into the same problem. 434 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,960 No one could give us any information as to his whereabouts. 435 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,960 We went back to the city hall and ran the name Ray Fletcher through our N.I. 436 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,960 There was no record on anyone answering his description. 437 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:03,960 We contacted the shipping line where he was employed, 438 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,960 and they told us that they'd pull his employment record out of the files and call us back. 439 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,960 We contacted the San Francisco Police Department, gave them the full details of the case, 440 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,960 and had them check on the movements of the victim's husband, Tom Hudson, as a possible suspect. 441 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:20,960 4.52 p.m. Frank and I checked back into the city hall. 442 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:23,960 Hudson sure got a motive. 443 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,960 Yeah, we'll know more when we hear from the San Francisco Department. 444 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:28,960 Here we go. 445 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:29,960 I'll check the book. 446 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:31,960 Right. 447 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:34,960 Anything? 448 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,960 Yeah, there's a message from the shipping company Fletcher works for. Wants us to give him a call. 449 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:40,960 What's the number? You got it there? 450 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:42,960 Hollywood 26709. 451 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:44,960 Okay, I'll call it. 452 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:51,960 Hollywood 26709. 453 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:52,960 09? 454 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:53,960 Yeah, ask for Mr. August. 455 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:55,960 August. 456 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,960 Mr. August, please. 457 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:01,960 My name's Friday, Los Angeles Police Department. 458 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,960 Police Department, yes, ma'am. Yes, he asked me to call. 459 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,960 Mr. August, this is Sergeant Friday. You asked me to call you? 460 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,960 Yes, sir, that's right. Raymond Fletcher. 461 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:14,960 When was it? 462 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:15,960 Yes, sir. 463 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,960 Well, thank you very much, sir. If you think of anything else, we'd appreciate a call. 464 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:21,960 Yes, sir. Michigan 5211. 465 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:23,960 Right. Homicide, huh? 466 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:25,960 Right. Thank you, sir. Bye. 467 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:27,960 Well, we're doing real well. 468 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:28,960 What do you mean? 469 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:40,960 Fletcher sailed for Canada this morning. 470 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:45,960 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 471 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,960 These are the reasons thousands are changing to Chesterfield. 472 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:51,960 And why you should change to Chesterfield. 473 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:58,960 Only Chesterfield gives you premium quality in both regular and king size. 474 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,960 Only Chesterfield names all its ingredients. 475 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:06,960 And only Chesterfield gives you scientific facts in support of smoking. 476 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:09,960 First such report ever published about any cigarette. 477 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:17,960 A responsible consulting organization reports a study by a competent medical specialist and staff on the effects of smoking Chesterfield. 478 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:24,960 For six months, a group of men and women smoked only Chesterfield, 10 to 40 a day, their normal amount. 479 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:30,960 Forty-five percent of the group of smoked Chesterfields from one to 30 years for an average of 10 years each. 480 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:40,960 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. 481 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,960 After the examinations, the medical specialist stated, 482 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:56,960 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. 483 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,960 Of course, these cigarettes were Chesterfields. 484 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:03,960 Remember this report and buy Chesterfields either way you like them. 485 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:05,960 Regular or king size. 486 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,960 Premium quality Chesterfield. 487 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:09,960 And much milder. 488 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:22,960 We contacted the San Pedro office of the shipping company and made sure that Fletcher was on board the ship when it had sailed. 489 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:28,960 The management of the shipping line told us that it would take about 24 hours before the tanker would make its first stop at San Francisco. 490 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,960 We got in touch with the San Francisco Police Department and talked to Inspector Charles Sutton. 491 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:37,960 He told us that they'd place a stakeout where the ship was due to dock and that they would await our arrival. 492 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:46,960 At the same time Sutton told us that they had conducted an investigation of the dead woman's husband Tom Hudson and that as far as they could find out, he didn't have the opportunity to kill his wife. 493 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:52,960 They said that the records at the steel mill where he worked showed that he'd been on the job every day for the past month and a half. 494 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:58,960 Questioning of his neighbors showed that he'd spent his time off working around the house and was seen each evening. 495 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:06,960 Inspector Sutton stated that when Tom Hudson was told of his wife's death, he broke down and said that although there had been some talk of divorce, none of it had really been serious. 496 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:11,960 And that this trip that his wife had taken to Los Angeles was to straighten things out with Fletcher. 497 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,960 Hudson flew down to Los Angeles and gave a positive identification of the body. 498 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,960 We got in touch with the captain of the ship that Fletcher was on and filled him in on what had happened. 499 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:25,960 He told us that he'd place the man under arrest and hold him in the ship's brig for us when they docked at San Francisco. 500 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,960 Tuesday morning, 7.30 a.m., Frank and I checked out and flew up to San Francisco. 501 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,960 We met with Inspector Sutton and Inspector Jules Zimmerman. 502 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,960 They told us that the ship was expected to dock the following morning at 10.36 a.m. 503 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,960 We were waiting when the gangplank was lowered. 504 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:49,960 You're the officer? 505 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,960 Yes, sir. I'm Inspector Sutton, San Francisco Police Department. 506 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,960 Here are my credentials. These are detectives Joe Friday and Frank Smith. They're from Los Angeles. 507 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,960 Oh, yeah. You're the ones I talked to. I'm Captain Jackson. 508 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:00,960 How are you doing, Captain? 509 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,960 Down the brig. He's been there since I got your message. 510 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:04,960 I wonder if we could see him. 511 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,960 Yeah, sure. We can go down this way. 512 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:07,960 All right, bye. 513 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:10,960 You sure Fletcher's the man you want? 514 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,960 Well, we're not sure, sir. He looks that way. 515 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:13,960 Hard to believe. 516 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:14,960 Why is that, sir? 517 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,960 Well, Fletcher's been with us for several years. Good man, hard worker. 518 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,960 I know he's been studying for his papers. He wanted to be an engineer. 519 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,960 I used to go by his room late at night on my way to the bridge. 520 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,960 He'd be there reading and working on the papers. 521 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,960 Sure is hard to believe. Here we go through here. 522 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:30,960 Okay. 523 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,960 Yes, sir. Of course, I knew something had to be wrong. 524 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:33,960 Sir? 525 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,960 Well, once in a while he used to get together with Fletcher on shore. 526 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,960 We'd talk about what he was studying. I'd try to help him with his seamanship. 527 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,960 This trip I called him. I'd met an engineer that I thought Fletcher would like to talk to. 528 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,960 I'd known the guy for years just back from the Orient. 529 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,960 Anyway, I called Fletcher. They told me he'd moved out, hadn't left any forwarding address. 530 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:50,960 Uh-huh. 531 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,960 I didn't hear from him at all. Then he called me. 532 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,960 He wanted to know if he could stay at my place for a few days. 533 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,960 Said he had some trouble at the new place he was living. 534 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,960 The landlady was giving him a bad time. 535 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:01,960 Uh-huh. Did you say where he'd been staying? 536 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,960 Yeah, the, uh, broadleaf, something like that. 537 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:06,960 Could it be the greenleaf, sir? 538 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:07,960 Yeah, that's a greenleaf. 539 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,960 Said the landlady was a real prune, called her a miserable woman. 540 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,960 Oh, Fletcher looked as if he'd been tying one on for about a week when he checked into my place. 541 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:15,960 His clothes are a mess. 542 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:16,960 Come on, it's down here. 543 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,960 Okay, fine. 544 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,960 When I told Fletcher about this, he was real arrogant. 545 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,960 Said he didn't want to talk to anyone. Never seen him run like this before. 546 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,960 Yeah. 547 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,960 All right, Fletcher, police officers are here. Come on out. 548 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,960 Come on, Fletcher, let's go. 549 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,960 Now I'll go in. 550 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:42,960 How about it, Joe? 551 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,960 Room's empty. 552 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:54,960 A blockade of the dock area was set up immediately in the event Fletcher had escaped from the ship. 553 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,960 All officers in the area began a search. A search of the ship was started. 554 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,960 A check of Fletcher's cabin turned up several letters from Alice Hudson. 555 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,960 In the letters, she told Fletcher that she was going back to her husband. 556 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,960 We talked to the members of the crew who had been in the vicinity of the brig. 557 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:12,960 From one of them, we found that Fletcher had been in custody as the ship entered the harbor. 558 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:17,960 On the floor of the brig, we found a small strip of metal that Fletcher had used to pick the lock of the door. 559 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,960 The search of the ship went on, 1147 a.m. 560 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,960 One of the seamen found Fletcher's coat on the forward part of the deck. 561 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:25,960 It had been wedged in behind a lifeboat shot. 562 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,960 The search of the dock netted us nothing. 563 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:33,960 All we could assume was that Fletcher had escaped from the brig, jumped overboard, and then tried to swim to shore. 564 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:38,960 Inspector Sutton got in touch with Captain Cornelius Murphy, skipper of police boat D.A. White. 565 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,960 Captain Murphy and his crew began a search of the bay from the dock area to Lands End. 566 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,960 All police officers in the bay area were notified of the escape. 567 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,960 Captain Jackson furnished us with a good snapshot of Fletcher. 568 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,960 Seven hours passed. The search continued. Apparently, Fletcher had made good his escape. 569 00:24:53,960 --> 00:25:02,960 Wednesday morning, April 23rd, we got a report from an officer in the search party that the body of a man answering Fletcher's description had been found out near Seal Rocks near the Golden Gate. 570 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,960 Sutton, Zimmerman, Frank, and I drove out to Lands End. 571 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,960 We got out of the car and walked the rest of the way. 572 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:09,960 Watch your step, Frank. 573 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:14,960 Yeah. Every time one of those waves breaks, it makes this ledge like glass. 574 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:15,960 Sutton? 575 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:15,960 Yeah, Joe? 576 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:16,960 You see anything yet? 577 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:17,960 No. 578 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:22,960 Wait a minute. I'll see if I can yell to Zimmerman. He can see it from there. Maybe he can tell us if we're getting close. 579 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:23,960 Yeah. 580 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,960 Zimmerman! How we doing? 581 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:27,960 You hear what he's saying? 582 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,960 Nah, wind's carrying his voice away. 583 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,960 He's waving his arms, pointing down below us. 584 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:33,960 Now, wait a minute. 585 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:36,960 Watch it, Joe. It's a long way down. 586 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,960 Yeah, you don't have to tell me. 587 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:40,960 See anything? 588 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,960 A whittle after this next wave breaks. 589 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,960 Yeah, there he is. You see? Wedged in down here. 590 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,960 Yeah. Looks like him. Hard to be sure with all this water, though. 591 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,960 Yeah, I'll go down a little further. 592 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:55,960 Take it easy, Joe. 593 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:57,960 Yeah. Take a minute. 594 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:00,960 Watch him. 595 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:01,960 I'm all right. 596 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:04,960 How about it? 597 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:05,960 Yeah, it's Fletcher. 598 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,960 I'd better get the crew up here and pull him out. 599 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:08,960 Yeah, Joe. 600 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:09,960 I'll go with you. 601 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,960 Must have been carried this far by the current, huh? 602 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,960 Yeah, that's right, Joe. They get mean this time of the year. 603 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,960 Well, that does it. 604 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:18,960 Yeah, looks that way. 605 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:20,960 What's the matter, Joe? 606 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:21,960 I was just thinking. 607 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:22,960 Yeah? 608 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:24,960 A rough way to die, isn't it? 609 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,960 Sure is. You'd think he'd have known, wouldn't you, Joe? 610 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,960 About those currents out there, from Alcatraz to Angel Island. 611 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,960 Some of the meanest currents in the world out there. 612 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:34,960 Yeah, I know. 613 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,960 But I'm not sure if he's going to die. 614 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,960 You'd think a guy like Fletcher would have known better. 615 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,960 Working on a ship, he should have known about that water. 616 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,960 Well, maybe he did. 617 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,960 The story you have just heard was true. 618 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,960 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 619 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,960 On April 23rd, an examination was held in the office of the coroner 620 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,960 of the city and county of San Francisco. 621 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,960 In a moment, the results of that examination. 622 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,960 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 623 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,960 Thank you, George Feneman. 624 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,960 Friends, I just want to leave you with one thought tonight. 625 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,960 Chesterfield is the first cigarette to give you scientific facts in support of smoking. 626 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,960 Remember the study made by a competent medical specialist and staff. 627 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,960 They examined a group of people who smoked only Chesterfields. 628 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,960 After the examinations, the medical specialist stated, quote, 629 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,960 It is my opinion that the ears, nose, throat, and accessory organs 630 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,960 of all participating subjects examined by me were not adversely affected 631 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,960 in the six months period by smoking the cigarettes provided, end of quote. 632 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,960 Of course, these cigarettes were Chesterfield. 633 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,960 Remember these facts and buy Chesterfields either way you like them, 634 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:49,960 regular or king size, premium quality Chesterfields, and much milder. 635 00:27:49,960 --> 00:28:01,960 The Identification of Captain James R. Jackson 636 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,960 Upon completion of the autopsy, the body was identified as Raymond S. Fletcher. 637 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,960 The identification was made by his personal effects, fingerprints, 638 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,960 and the personal identification of Captain James R. Jackson. 639 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,960 Further investigation showed that the suspect had rented the apartment 640 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,960 where the body was found and that he was guilty of the murder of Alice Hudson. 641 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,960 His fingerprints were checked and found to be the same as those on the murder weapon. 642 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:30,960 The Identification of Captain James R. Jackson 643 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:35,960 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 644 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,960 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 645 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,960 W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 646 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,960 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynne, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 647 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,960 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, June Whitley, Peter Leeds. 648 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:56,960 Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. Hal Gibney speaking. 649 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,960 Sound off for Chesterfields. Either way you like them, regular or king size, 650 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:08,960 Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke. Much milder Chesterfield. 651 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:23,960 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles.