WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Sound off for Chesterfield. 00:07.000 --> 00:15.040 Chesterfield, the only cigarette in America to give you premium quality in both regular 00:15.040 --> 00:25.560 and king size brings you Dragnet. 00:25.560 --> 00:29.440 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:29.440 --> 00:39.920 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:39.920 --> 00:41.360 You're a detective sergeant. 00:41.360 --> 00:43.560 You're assigned to homicide detail. 00:43.560 --> 00:46.560 You get a call that the body of a man has been found in an alley. 00:46.560 --> 00:49.240 He's been strangled with his own necktie. 00:49.240 --> 00:51.040 The body has been robbed. 00:51.040 --> 00:52.880 There's no lead to the killer. 00:52.880 --> 00:58.800 Your job, find him. 00:58.800 --> 01:04.960 Thousands are changing to Chesterfield, both regular and king size, because Chesterfield 01:04.960 --> 01:09.800 is the first and only cigarette to give you premium quality in both sizes. 01:09.800 --> 01:15.480 That means king size Chesterfield contains tobaccos of better quality and higher price 01:15.480 --> 01:17.840 than any other king size cigarette. 01:17.840 --> 01:22.800 It's the same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield, and there's enough to give you more than a 01:22.800 --> 01:24.920 one fifth longer smoke. 01:24.920 --> 01:29.080 Yes, more than a fifth longer smoke from king size Chesterfield. 01:29.080 --> 01:35.280 So remember Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular 01:35.280 --> 01:36.680 and king size. 01:36.680 --> 01:39.120 Buy them either way you like them. 01:39.120 --> 01:45.520 Premium quality Chesterfield and much milder. 01:45.520 --> 01:52.280 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:52.280 --> 01:57.080 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:57.080 --> 02:01.680 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 02:01.680 --> 02:03.360 police files. 02:03.360 --> 02:08.520 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:08.520 --> 02:13.880 in action. 02:13.880 --> 02:14.880 Was Sunday, February 10th. 02:14.880 --> 02:16.480 It was cold in Los Angeles. 02:16.480 --> 02:18.120 We were working the day watch out of homicide. 02:18.120 --> 02:19.200 My partner is Frank Smith. 02:19.200 --> 02:20.920 The boss is Thad Brown, chief of detectives. 02:20.920 --> 02:21.920 My name is Friday. 02:21.920 --> 02:26.480 We got in the call at 8.36 a.m. and it was 8.49 a.m. when we got to the corner of 18th 02:26.480 --> 02:29.280 and Winfield, the back alley. 02:29.280 --> 02:30.280 Must be it there. 02:30.280 --> 02:31.280 Yeah, yeah there's Harper. 02:31.280 --> 02:32.280 Sergeant, back here. 02:32.280 --> 02:33.280 Hi Friday, son. 02:33.280 --> 02:34.280 Harper, where is he? 02:34.280 --> 02:35.280 Back here. 02:35.280 --> 02:36.280 Who found him? 02:36.280 --> 02:37.280 The fellow who gives his name is Alexander Jones. 02:37.280 --> 02:38.280 Where is he now? 02:38.280 --> 02:39.280 Al's got him out in the car. 02:39.280 --> 02:40.280 I figured you'd want to talk to him. 02:40.280 --> 02:41.280 Pretty bad off. 02:41.280 --> 02:42.280 Yeah. 02:42.280 --> 02:43.280 Must have had himself a real time last night. 02:43.280 --> 02:44.280 He's seeing things this morning. 02:44.280 --> 02:45.280 We picked him up just coming out of the alley. 02:45.280 --> 02:46.280 He's got a gun. 02:46.280 --> 02:47.280 He's got a gun. 02:47.280 --> 02:48.280 He's got a gun. 02:48.280 --> 02:49.280 He's got a gun. 02:49.280 --> 02:50.280 He's got a gun. 02:50.280 --> 02:53.280 He's got a gun. 02:53.280 --> 02:56.280 He's got a gun. 02:56.280 --> 02:57.280 Yeah, probably not his real name. 02:57.280 --> 02:58.800 I've seen him around here before. 02:58.800 --> 03:00.800 There's the body. 03:00.800 --> 03:02.800 Yeah, strangle. 03:02.800 --> 03:05.720 Yeah, ambulance is here. 03:05.720 --> 03:06.720 Here's a slip. 03:06.720 --> 03:07.720 He was DOA. 03:07.720 --> 03:08.720 Yeah. 03:08.720 --> 03:11.120 See how the tie has pulled up out of the shirt. 03:11.120 --> 03:12.120 Looks like he was robbed. 03:12.120 --> 03:14.120 Pockets all turned inside out. 03:14.120 --> 03:15.120 Uh-huh. 03:15.120 --> 03:16.120 Want to call the crime lab, Frank? 03:16.120 --> 03:17.120 Yeah. 03:17.120 --> 03:20.480 Found a couple of footprints over here in the gutter. 03:20.480 --> 03:21.480 Heel indentation looks pretty good. 03:21.480 --> 03:22.480 Yeah. 03:22.480 --> 03:23.480 Put this box over him. 03:23.480 --> 03:24.480 I don't know if they'll mean anything. 03:24.480 --> 03:27.480 I thought I'd better keep them for you, though. 03:27.480 --> 03:28.480 Uh-huh. 03:28.480 --> 03:30.640 It's like the body was dragged back here, doesn't it? 03:30.640 --> 03:31.640 Marks in the dirt. 03:31.640 --> 03:32.640 Yeah. 03:32.640 --> 03:33.640 How about the neighborhood, Harper? 03:33.640 --> 03:34.640 Anybody around here see anything? 03:34.640 --> 03:35.640 I don't know. 03:35.640 --> 03:38.640 There wasn't anybody on the streets when we picked up this Jones guy. 03:38.640 --> 03:40.200 Haven't had a chance to canvas the area. 03:40.200 --> 03:41.200 Didn't want to leave here, you know. 03:41.200 --> 03:42.200 Yeah. 03:42.200 --> 03:44.200 Well, we'd better call the office head and send out a couple of men. 03:44.200 --> 03:45.200 Call Lee. 03:45.200 --> 03:46.200 He'll be right out. 03:46.200 --> 03:47.200 Got him at home. 03:47.200 --> 03:48.200 He's sound asleep. 03:48.200 --> 03:50.960 Said he'd call the lab and have Alan bring the stuff out and leave him right here. 03:50.960 --> 03:51.960 How about the corner? 03:51.960 --> 03:52.960 He's on his way. 03:52.960 --> 03:56.000 Well, I want to call the office, Frank, and get some help checking the stores around, 03:56.000 --> 03:57.400 see if anybody heard anything. 03:57.400 --> 03:59.600 I used the phone in the cigar store on the corner. 03:59.600 --> 04:01.880 Guy on there said he opened up about 7, 715. 04:01.880 --> 04:04.080 Said he didn't know anything about it. 04:04.080 --> 04:05.080 Store's back door is right there. 04:05.080 --> 04:06.800 See the one with the cigar posters on it? 04:06.800 --> 04:07.800 Yeah. 04:07.800 --> 04:08.800 All right. 04:08.800 --> 04:09.800 Come on. 04:09.800 --> 04:10.800 I'll call in and then we can check some of the other places, huh? 04:10.800 --> 04:11.800 Right. 04:11.800 --> 04:12.800 I'll wait here, Sergeant, till the rest of them come. 04:12.800 --> 04:13.800 Fine. 04:13.800 --> 04:14.800 Thanks, Harper. 04:14.800 --> 04:15.800 We'll be in the stores around the street side there. 04:15.800 --> 04:16.800 Okay. 04:16.800 --> 04:17.800 Let us know when Lee gets here, would you? 04:17.800 --> 04:18.800 Yeah. 04:18.800 --> 04:19.800 What do you think, Joe? 04:19.800 --> 04:20.800 Well, I don't know. 04:20.800 --> 04:25.440 The way he's dressed there, good clothes, looks like he had money. 04:25.440 --> 04:26.440 Doesn't figure, does it? 04:26.440 --> 04:27.440 Yeah. 04:27.440 --> 04:29.440 What was he doing down here? 04:29.440 --> 04:34.440 9, 12 a.m. 04:34.440 --> 04:40.800 I called the office and two teams of men were sent out to help us canvas the area. 04:40.800 --> 04:44.600 Frank and I checked with the owner of a liquor store who was getting ready to open for business. 04:44.600 --> 04:47.680 He told us that he'd come in early that morning to clean up his store and that he'd taken 04:47.680 --> 04:51.200 a load of trash out into the alley at about 8.25 a.m. 04:51.200 --> 04:53.560 But at that time, he hadn't seen the body. 04:53.560 --> 04:56.680 He went on to say, however, that it was possible that it might have been there and he just 04:56.680 --> 04:58.000 didn't notice it. 04:58.000 --> 04:59.400 9.26 a.m. 04:59.400 --> 05:03.320 Sergeant Jay Allen and Lieutenant Lee Jones from the crime lab arrived and began collecting 05:03.320 --> 05:04.800 the physical evidence. 05:04.800 --> 05:07.880 The body and the surrounding area were photographed. 05:07.880 --> 05:10.760 Photographs were taken of the footprints that Officer Harper had found. 05:10.760 --> 05:14.240 They were compared with the shoes worn by the victim, but they didn't match. 05:14.240 --> 05:17.240 The coroner went through the dead man's pockets but found nothing. 05:17.240 --> 05:20.200 Everything had been removed, all his personal effects, if any. 05:20.200 --> 05:23.480 The crew from the crime lab went through the alley and found a wallet behind the garbage 05:23.480 --> 05:25.280 cans at the rear of the liquor store. 05:25.280 --> 05:29.480 There was no money in it, but other papers hadn't been disturbed. 05:29.480 --> 05:32.600 Driver's license, Social Security card, and several business cards in the wallet bore 05:32.600 --> 05:34.560 the name of Arthur McKinley. 05:34.560 --> 05:37.720 The description on the license matched that of the victim. 05:37.720 --> 05:42.360 Comparison of the thumbprint on the driver's license with those taken from the body matched. 05:42.360 --> 05:47.200 Lee's home address was listed as 9722 Willettus Street in Hollywood. 05:47.200 --> 05:49.000 The coroner removed the body. 05:49.000 --> 05:50.360 10.52 a.m. 05:50.360 --> 05:53.400 Frank and I talked to Alex Jones, the man who had been in the alley where the body had 05:53.400 --> 05:54.480 been found. 05:54.480 --> 05:56.080 We had him take everything out of his pockets. 05:56.080 --> 05:57.240 I don't know what you're talking about. 05:57.240 --> 05:58.240 I didn't kill anybody. 05:58.240 --> 05:59.560 We didn't say you did. 05:59.560 --> 06:02.120 All we want to know is what were you doing in that alley? 06:02.120 --> 06:03.640 I went there to get away. 06:03.640 --> 06:04.640 From what? 06:04.640 --> 06:05.640 People. 06:05.640 --> 06:06.640 They're no good. 06:06.640 --> 06:07.640 None of them. 06:07.640 --> 06:08.640 No good. 06:08.640 --> 06:09.640 You got a job? 06:09.640 --> 06:10.640 Yeah, I work. 06:10.640 --> 06:11.640 What do you do? 06:11.640 --> 06:14.080 I wash dishes sometimes. 06:14.080 --> 06:15.080 Pearl Diver? 06:15.080 --> 06:16.080 No sir, I'm no pearl diver. 06:16.080 --> 06:17.080 I'm a bartender. 06:17.080 --> 06:18.080 I don't feel so good. 06:18.080 --> 06:21.760 You got anything to drink around here? 06:21.760 --> 06:22.760 You know better than that, don't you? 06:22.760 --> 06:25.400 I didn't mean booze. 06:25.400 --> 06:26.400 Something cold. 06:26.400 --> 06:30.560 It feels like somebody's closed a valve in my head and it feels like it's going to blow 06:30.560 --> 06:31.560 apart. 06:31.560 --> 06:33.200 Isn't there something, anything, as long as it's cold? 06:33.200 --> 06:34.640 How about a Coke? 06:34.640 --> 06:36.280 Yeah, it'll be fine. 06:36.280 --> 06:37.280 I'll get it for you. 06:37.280 --> 06:38.280 Want one, Joe? 06:38.280 --> 06:39.280 No, no thanks. 06:39.280 --> 06:41.880 Mind if I go with you? 06:41.880 --> 06:43.200 It's kind of stuffy in here. 06:43.200 --> 06:44.200 All right, come on. 06:44.200 --> 06:45.200 We'll all walk down. 06:45.200 --> 06:50.360 You ever been arrested, Alex? 06:50.360 --> 06:53.640 Yeah, a couple of times. 06:53.640 --> 06:55.560 Picked me up for being drunk. 06:55.560 --> 06:57.040 What's your real name, Alex? 06:57.040 --> 06:58.040 Stafford. 06:58.040 --> 06:59.640 Alex Stafford, that's the truth. 06:59.640 --> 07:01.640 Where are you from? 07:01.640 --> 07:02.640 Kansas. 07:02.640 --> 07:04.200 What are you doing out here? 07:04.200 --> 07:07.840 Figured that when I got out of the service, I'd come out here and go to work. 07:07.840 --> 07:08.840 Yeah? 07:08.840 --> 07:12.880 Got out here, spent a couple of days looking for a job, had my muster and out pay about 07:12.880 --> 07:13.880 400 bucks. 07:13.880 --> 07:16.880 Figured I didn't have to go to work right away. 07:16.880 --> 07:23.880 All right, just a second. 07:23.880 --> 07:29.880 All right, here you go. 07:29.880 --> 07:30.880 Thanks. 07:30.880 --> 07:31.880 You want one, Frank? 07:31.880 --> 07:32.880 No, thanks. 07:32.880 --> 07:37.880 I want to check R&I and see if they've finished the run on McKinley yet. 07:37.880 --> 07:40.880 Sure cold. 07:40.880 --> 07:44.200 Tastes good. 07:44.200 --> 07:46.880 I feel better. 07:46.880 --> 07:47.880 That's fine. 07:47.880 --> 07:48.880 All right, let's go. 07:48.880 --> 07:50.880 Frank, see you back at the interrogation room. 07:50.880 --> 07:51.880 Okay, Joe. 07:51.880 --> 07:56.880 Want to stop at the office, give the coroner's office a call? 07:56.880 --> 07:57.880 Yeah. 07:57.880 --> 08:01.800 Like I was telling you, I figured that I didn't have to come up with a job right away, so I 08:01.800 --> 08:03.560 started to see the town. 08:03.560 --> 08:07.440 You know, try to find a place to work where I could maybe do something good. 08:07.440 --> 08:13.240 Where the tips would be good, you know, nice people. 08:13.240 --> 08:19.040 Well, I went around to the bars and talked to the bartenders, checking around. 08:19.040 --> 08:22.880 Each of the places I'd have a drink, you know, just to be sociable. 08:22.880 --> 08:23.880 Yeah. 08:23.880 --> 08:27.000 It wasn't long before my dough was gone. 08:27.000 --> 08:29.720 I was flat broke, kicked out of my room. 08:29.720 --> 08:31.720 I can't blame the landlady. 08:31.720 --> 08:32.720 She carried me for a couple of months. 08:32.720 --> 08:33.720 Finally said I had to go. 08:33.720 --> 08:34.720 All right, go ahead. 08:34.720 --> 08:43.360 What did you mean when you said that you were running away from people? 08:43.360 --> 08:46.800 I got a job yesterday washing dishes in a restaurant down on Spring. 08:46.800 --> 08:47.800 I worked like a dog. 08:47.800 --> 08:49.800 When I left last night, they paid me. 08:49.800 --> 08:53.880 I guess the boss knew I didn't have any money, no place to sleep. 08:53.880 --> 08:56.640 I started to find a bed. 08:56.640 --> 09:00.600 Then I got to thinking that a drink might make me sleep better. 09:00.600 --> 09:02.760 So I stopped at a bar and had a couple. 09:02.760 --> 09:04.680 I had a couple more. 09:04.680 --> 09:05.960 I guess I fell asleep. 09:05.960 --> 09:06.960 Yeah. 09:06.960 --> 09:10.520 Anyway, I went into the alley, that one where you found the dead man. 09:10.520 --> 09:12.960 I sat down and I went to sleep again. 09:12.960 --> 09:18.240 When I woke up, I was walking out when a cop in a car stopped me. 09:18.240 --> 09:19.760 I didn't know the man was in there. 09:19.760 --> 09:20.760 Honest, I didn't. 09:20.760 --> 09:22.400 Now, you got to believe me, because somebody's got to believe me. 09:22.400 --> 09:23.400 I didn't know he was there. 09:23.400 --> 09:24.400 Anything? 09:24.400 --> 09:25.400 Not on a kindling. 09:25.400 --> 09:26.400 Found Alex record. 09:26.400 --> 09:27.400 Yeah. 09:27.400 --> 09:28.400 Like you said, a couple of drunk arrests. 09:28.400 --> 09:29.400 That's all. 09:29.400 --> 09:30.400 I told you. 09:30.400 --> 09:31.400 Didn't I tell you that? 09:31.400 --> 09:32.400 I got nothing to hide. 09:32.400 --> 09:34.400 I didn't even know the man was there. 09:34.400 --> 09:35.400 All right. 09:35.400 --> 09:36.400 Take it easy. 09:36.400 --> 09:37.400 Anything from the coroner? 09:37.400 --> 09:38.400 Yeah, Joe. 09:38.400 --> 09:39.400 I call him. 09:39.400 --> 09:40.400 Fixes a time of death at about 1130 last night. 09:40.400 --> 09:42.400 Body hasn't been posted yet. 09:42.400 --> 09:43.720 All right. 09:43.720 --> 09:47.400 You prove where you were at 1130 last night, can you, Alex? 09:47.400 --> 09:49.760 I don't know. 09:49.760 --> 09:50.760 Some place. 09:50.760 --> 09:51.760 Yeah, we know that. 09:51.760 --> 09:52.760 But where? 09:52.760 --> 09:53.760 Well, I got to think. 09:53.760 --> 09:54.760 1130. 09:54.760 --> 09:57.080 I was still working. 09:57.080 --> 09:59.640 I was washing dishes in the place over on spring. 09:59.640 --> 10:01.000 You can prove that, can you? 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 Yeah. 10:02.000 --> 10:03.000 Yeah, sure. 10:03.000 --> 10:04.000 The boss, he'll tell you. 10:04.000 --> 10:05.000 He'll tell you until 12. 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 That's when I left the place. 10:06.000 --> 10:07.000 12 o'clock, he'll tell you. 10:07.000 --> 10:08.000 12 midnight. 10:08.000 --> 10:09.000 All right, Alex. 10:09.000 --> 10:10.000 Can I go now? 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 Well, we got to put in a call first. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 Maybe it might be better if we held you over a little while. 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 Why? 10:15.000 --> 10:16.000 I haven't done anything. 10:16.000 --> 10:17.000 Well, it's against the law to be drunk on the streets. 10:17.000 --> 10:18.000 You know that, Alex. 10:18.000 --> 10:19.000 Yeah, I guess I do. 10:19.000 --> 10:20.000 You're gonna put me in jail, huh? 10:20.000 --> 10:21.000 No, we're gonna have to book you. 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 The judge will decide where you're gonna go. 10:22.000 --> 10:23.000 Probably be the county work farm. 10:23.000 --> 10:24.000 Yeah. 10:24.000 --> 10:25.000 That was probably better that way. 10:25.000 --> 10:26.000 Gave me a chance to get off the booze. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 Boy, I'm gonna have to go. 10:27.000 --> 10:28.000 I'm gonna have to go. 10:28.000 --> 10:34.000 Yeah, that was probably better that way. 10:34.000 --> 10:35.000 Give me a chance to get off the booze. 10:35.000 --> 10:36.000 Boy, I had it this time. 10:36.000 --> 10:37.000 Sear nose sings. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 Just one thing, Sergeant. 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 Yeah? 10:40.000 --> 10:44.320 I want to make sure you understand that you really believe me. 10:44.320 --> 10:45.320 What's that, Alex? 10:45.320 --> 10:47.320 I'm not a dishwasher. 10:47.320 --> 10:52.320 I'm a bartender. 10:52.320 --> 10:55.400 12.18 p.m. 10:55.400 --> 11:01.440 We had Alex Stafford booked at the main jail on a charge of violation of 4127 LAMC, drunk. 11:01.440 --> 11:04.000 We called the place where he'd been employed and found that he'd been telling the truth 11:04.000 --> 11:07.000 about the time he had left the restaurant on Spring Street. 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 1.36 p.m. 11:09.000 --> 11:10.760 We drove out to McKinley's home in Hollywood. 11:10.760 --> 11:13.800 It was a small stucco cottage set into the side of a hill. 11:13.800 --> 11:18.040 In front of the house, there was a boy's bicycle and a smaller child's wagon. 11:18.040 --> 11:20.040 Frank rang the bell and we waited. 11:20.040 --> 11:21.040 Yes? 11:21.040 --> 11:22.040 Ms. McKinley? 11:22.040 --> 11:23.040 Yes, that's right. 11:23.040 --> 11:24.040 What do you want? 11:24.040 --> 11:25.040 Police officers, ma'am. 11:25.040 --> 11:26.040 We'd like to talk to you. 11:26.040 --> 11:27.040 It's about Arthur, isn't it? 11:27.040 --> 11:28.040 Isn't it? 11:28.040 --> 11:29.040 It might be better if we talked inside, Mrs. McKinley. 11:29.040 --> 11:30.040 All right. 11:30.040 --> 11:31.040 Come on in. 11:31.040 --> 11:32.040 You'll have to excuse the way the house looks. 11:32.040 --> 11:33.040 I haven't felt like cleaning it up. 11:33.040 --> 11:34.040 I've been so worried about Arthur. 11:34.040 --> 11:35.040 That's quite all right, ma'am. 11:35.040 --> 11:36.040 Now, what is it you want to tell me about him? 11:36.040 --> 11:37.040 He's dead, isn't he? 11:37.040 --> 11:38.040 You don't have to lie about it. 11:38.040 --> 11:39.040 I know he's dead. 11:39.040 --> 11:40.040 I spent the whole night thinking about it. 11:40.040 --> 11:41.040 You can probably tell I haven't gotten any sleep. 11:41.040 --> 11:42.040 I'm not going to lie. 11:42.040 --> 11:43.040 I'm not going to lie. 11:43.040 --> 11:44.040 I'm not going to lie. 11:44.040 --> 11:45.040 I'm not going to lie. 11:45.040 --> 11:46.040 I'm not going to lie. 11:46.040 --> 11:55.040 I'm not going to lie. 11:55.040 --> 11:58.040 Arthur's dead, isn't he? 11:58.040 --> 12:01.040 Yes, ma'am, he is. 12:01.040 --> 12:04.040 I'll have to sit down. 12:04.040 --> 12:06.040 Is there something we can get for him, Mrs. McKinley? 12:06.040 --> 12:07.040 Water? 12:07.040 --> 12:08.040 Something like that? 12:08.040 --> 12:09.040 No. 12:09.040 --> 12:10.040 Nothing. 12:10.040 --> 12:12.040 Why do you say you knew your husband was dead, ma'am? 12:12.040 --> 12:13.040 I just knew it, that's all. 12:13.040 --> 12:14.040 I can't tell you how. 12:14.040 --> 12:17.040 I can't put it into words, but I just knew it, that's all. 12:17.040 --> 12:19.040 When he called last night, I knew. 12:19.040 --> 12:21.040 What time was that, ma'am? 12:21.040 --> 12:22.040 About 6.30. 12:22.040 --> 12:25.040 He said he was just leaving the shop and that he was on his way home. 12:25.040 --> 12:26.040 It was his birthday. 12:26.040 --> 12:29.040 He's going to stop and get some beer and a couple bottles of bourbon. 12:29.040 --> 12:31.040 We're having some people, you know. 12:31.040 --> 12:33.040 He said he was going to stop for some things. 12:33.040 --> 12:34.040 Then he said he'd be right home. 12:34.040 --> 12:35.040 Yes, ma'am. 12:35.040 --> 12:38.040 When the children waited up for him till 10 o'clock. 12:38.040 --> 12:40.040 That's way past their bedtime. 12:40.040 --> 12:41.040 I let them wait up. 12:41.040 --> 12:44.040 They had some presents they wanted to give their father. 12:44.040 --> 12:47.040 Arthur Gendron made a wallet and handcraft class at school. 12:47.040 --> 12:49.040 All tools and carbon, everything. 12:49.040 --> 12:51.040 It's on the table there. 12:51.040 --> 12:53.040 Little bro got him an ashtray. 12:53.040 --> 12:55.040 She picked it out by herself. 12:55.040 --> 12:57.040 It's on the table too. 12:57.040 --> 12:59.040 I guess maybe he'll never get it now. 12:59.040 --> 13:01.040 I wonder if we could call your family, doctor, ma'am. 13:01.040 --> 13:03.040 You don't look like you well. 13:03.040 --> 13:06.040 No, I just can't believe it yet. 13:06.040 --> 13:08.040 But I know it's true. 13:08.040 --> 13:10.040 That's funny, isn't it? 13:10.040 --> 13:13.040 I know it's true, but I don't believe it. 13:13.040 --> 13:16.040 I know it's true, and I don't believe it. 13:16.040 --> 13:18.040 How did it happen? Was it an accident in the car? 13:18.040 --> 13:20.040 No, ma'am. He was murdered. 13:20.040 --> 13:22.040 Arthur. 13:22.040 --> 13:24.040 Arthur, he was murdered? 13:24.040 --> 13:26.040 That's right, Miss McKinley. 13:26.040 --> 13:28.040 Miss McKinley. 13:28.040 --> 13:30.040 There's no Mr. McKinley anymore. 13:30.040 --> 13:32.040 He was murdered. 13:32.040 --> 13:34.040 I think maybe you'd better let us call a doctor for you, ma'am. 13:34.040 --> 13:35.040 Get you something. 13:35.040 --> 13:37.040 No, there's nothing a doctor can do. 13:37.040 --> 13:39.040 Nothing anybody can do. 13:39.040 --> 13:41.040 Nothing. 13:41.040 --> 13:43.040 Who did it? You know? 13:43.040 --> 13:45.040 You know who killed him? 13:45.040 --> 13:47.040 No, ma'am, we don't, not yet. 13:47.040 --> 13:49.040 You said your husband called you from the shop, ma'am. 13:49.040 --> 13:51.040 What shop would that be? 13:51.040 --> 13:53.040 It's a floor shop, our shop. We owned it. 13:53.040 --> 13:55.040 He called me from there about 6.30 and said he'd be home. 13:55.040 --> 13:57.040 He was gonna stop for some things and then he'd be home. 13:57.040 --> 13:59.040 But he wasn't. 13:59.040 --> 14:01.040 I knew it. 14:01.040 --> 14:03.040 I knew it all night. 14:03.040 --> 14:07.040 I thought and I thought of what I'd say, what I'd do, how I'd feel. 14:07.040 --> 14:09.040 But now none of it fits. 14:09.040 --> 14:11.040 None of it seems to matter. 14:11.040 --> 14:13.040 Nothing matters much. 14:13.040 --> 14:15.040 Nothing. 14:15.040 --> 14:17.040 He said he was coming right home. 14:17.040 --> 14:19.040 Who's your family doctor, ma'am? 14:19.040 --> 14:21.040 What'd you say? 14:21.040 --> 14:23.040 Your family doctor, ma'am. Who is he? 14:23.040 --> 14:25.040 Dr. Simpkins in Hollywood. 14:25.040 --> 14:27.040 Dr. Simpkins, Hollywood 27083. 14:27.040 --> 14:29.040 Want to call him? 14:29.040 --> 14:31.040 Yeah. 14:31.040 --> 14:33.040 He said he was gonna pick up a few things and come right home. 14:33.040 --> 14:35.040 My husband. 14:35.040 --> 14:37.040 My husband. 14:37.040 --> 14:39.040 Arthur McKinley. 14:39.040 --> 14:41.040 You know that, do you? 14:41.040 --> 14:43.040 Ma'am. 14:43.040 --> 14:45.040 There is no Mr. McKinley anymore. He's there. 14:49.040 --> 14:51.040 We called the McKinley family doctor. 14:51.040 --> 14:53.040 He arrived and gave Mrs. McKinley a sedative. 14:53.040 --> 14:55.040 Frank and I talked to her before it took effect. 14:55.040 --> 14:57.040 We asked her about her husband's friends, his business associates. 14:57.040 --> 14:59.040 She could give us no new leads. 14:59.040 --> 15:03.040 She told us that her husband usually brought the weekend receipts from the store home with him on Sunday nights 15:03.040 --> 15:05.040 so that he could make out the deposit slip for the bank. 15:05.040 --> 15:07.040 She said that he usually had about $300 to $400 on Sunday night. 15:07.040 --> 15:09.040 She gave us the name of the liquor store where he did business. 15:09.040 --> 15:11.040 2.47 p.m. Frank and I drove out to the store. 15:11.040 --> 15:13.040 Tell me, what can I do for you? 15:13.040 --> 15:15.040 Mr. Kennedy? 15:15.040 --> 15:17.040 Good night. 15:17.040 --> 15:19.040 Police officer, Mr. Kennedy. Like to ask you a couple of questions? 15:19.040 --> 15:21.040 Sure. I ain't help the police. 15:21.040 --> 15:23.040 Nothing that I've done, is it? 15:23.040 --> 15:25.040 No, sir. It's about Arthur McKinley. 15:25.040 --> 15:27.040 He get home last night? 15:27.040 --> 15:29.040 His wife called. Seemed pretty ill. 15:29.040 --> 15:31.040 He's been in the hospital for a while. 15:31.040 --> 15:33.040 He got home last night? His wife called. Seemed pretty upset. 15:33.040 --> 15:35.040 Nothing wrong, is it? 15:35.040 --> 15:37.040 Was Mr. McKinley in here last night, sir? 15:37.040 --> 15:39.040 Yeah, he was. Let's see. I guess it was about a quarter to seven. 15:39.040 --> 15:41.040 Come in, got a case of beer, couple bottles of bourbon. 15:41.040 --> 15:43.040 Was there anybody with him when he came in? 15:43.040 --> 15:45.040 No, no, there wasn't. 15:45.040 --> 15:47.040 Did he seem all right to you when he was here? 15:47.040 --> 15:49.040 What do you mean? 15:49.040 --> 15:51.040 Well, was he in good spirits? Did he act like anything was wrong? 15:51.040 --> 15:53.040 No. Of course, that don't mean anything. 15:53.040 --> 15:55.040 Sir? 15:55.040 --> 15:57.040 Well, even if there was anything wrong, I thought Arthur, you'd never know it. 15:57.040 --> 15:59.040 Always laughing, always had a joke. 15:59.040 --> 16:01.040 He had a great one last night. Real funny. 16:01.040 --> 16:03.040 Yeah? He told the one about the two musicians 16:03.040 --> 16:05.040 that were walking down the railroad track, and one of them said to the other, 16:05.040 --> 16:07.040 Boy, this is the longest stairway I've ever been down. 16:07.040 --> 16:09.040 Boy, this is the longest stairway I've ever been down. 16:09.040 --> 16:11.040 Well, yes, sir. And then the other musician said, 16:11.040 --> 16:13.040 I don't mind that, but these low banisters are killing me. 16:13.040 --> 16:15.040 I don't mind that, but these low banisters are killing me. 16:15.040 --> 16:17.040 Low banisters. 16:17.040 --> 16:19.040 Say, what's this all about, anyway? 16:19.040 --> 16:21.040 Say, what's this all about, anyway? 16:21.040 --> 16:23.040 Something happened to Arthur? 16:23.040 --> 16:25.040 He's been murdered, Mr. Kennedy. 16:25.040 --> 16:27.040 Arthur? Arthur McKinley? 16:27.040 --> 16:29.040 Arthur McKinley? 16:29.040 --> 16:31.040 You sure? Yes, sir. 16:31.040 --> 16:33.040 We're sure. 16:33.040 --> 16:35.040 How about that? 16:35.040 --> 16:37.040 Only last night I saw him laughing away. 16:37.040 --> 16:39.040 He was killed. 16:39.040 --> 16:41.040 You know who did it? No, sir, not yet. 16:41.040 --> 16:43.040 How about that? 16:43.040 --> 16:45.040 I bet his wife's pretty upset. 16:45.040 --> 16:47.040 Do you know anyone who might want to kill him? 16:47.040 --> 16:49.040 No, not Arthur. 16:49.040 --> 16:51.040 Anybody in the neighborhood he had quarrels with? 16:51.040 --> 16:53.040 Any disagreements? 16:53.040 --> 16:55.040 No, not even think of. 16:55.040 --> 16:57.040 Anybody you don't know hanging around the neighborhood lately? 16:57.040 --> 16:59.040 Anybody who could have known about McKinley's carrying that money around with him? 16:59.040 --> 17:01.040 Anybody who could have known about McKinley's carrying that money around with him? 17:01.040 --> 17:03.040 Let me think. 17:03.040 --> 17:05.040 Yeah, come to think about it, there is a fella. 17:05.040 --> 17:07.040 Seen him around the last couple of days. 17:07.040 --> 17:09.040 Matter of fact, I saw him last night when I helped Arthur carry the beer out to the car. 17:09.040 --> 17:11.040 Sure, that's where I saw him. 17:11.040 --> 17:13.040 Sir? He was in the car with Arthur. 17:13.040 --> 17:15.040 He was in the car with Arthur. 17:15.040 --> 17:17.040 February 10th, 350 p.m. 17:17.040 --> 17:19.040 February 10th, 350 p.m. 17:19.040 --> 17:21.040 We continued to question John Kennedy. 17:21.040 --> 17:23.040 He told us that when Arthur McKinley had left the liquor store, 17:23.040 --> 17:25.040 primero中国市市民ly had left the liquor store, 17:25.040 --> 17:27.240 he had carried a case a beer out to the car for him. 17:27.240 --> 17:30.240 Kennedy said that was a man waiting in the car. 17:30.240 --> 17:32.380 The liquor store owner told us that he had seen the man in the neighborhood 17:32.380 --> 17:34.240 that he had seen the man in the neighborhood on several previous occasions. 17:34.240 --> 17:38.420 That the man had talk to most of the shopkeepers in the vicinity asking for odd jobs. 17:38.420 --> 17:40.420 Kennedy went on to say that he had hired him himself once 17:40.420 --> 17:42.420 to watch the front windows of the store. 17:42.420 --> 17:46.420 He gave us a complete description and Frank called it into the office. 17:46.420 --> 17:48.420 A local and an A.P.B. were gotten out on him. 17:48.420 --> 17:50.420 Kennedy was unable to give us his name or tell us where the suspect might live. 17:50.420 --> 17:51.840 Kennedy was unable to give us his name or tell us where the suspect might live. 17:51.840 --> 17:53.500 He agreed to go downtown to the city hall 17:53.500 --> 17:55.340 and look through the mug books for us. 17:55.340 --> 17:57.300 He called his brother down to take charge of the store, 17:57.300 --> 17:58.200 and as soon as he arrived, 17:58.200 --> 18:02.080 Kennedy was taken down to the office, 517 PM. 18:02.080 --> 18:03.580 We drove back to the McKinley home. 18:03.580 --> 18:05.680 Mrs. McKinley had recovered from the initial shock 18:05.680 --> 18:07.520 of finding out that her husband was dead. 18:07.520 --> 18:09.360 We asked her if she knew where her husband's car was, 18:09.360 --> 18:11.180 and she told us that as far as she knew, 18:11.180 --> 18:12.760 he had driven it the night before, 18:12.760 --> 18:14.500 and that she hadn't seen it since. 18:14.500 --> 18:16.300 She gave us the description and license number, 18:16.300 --> 18:17.560 and we called it into the office. 18:17.560 --> 18:19.600 A broadcast was gotten out on it. 18:19.600 --> 18:21.240 We asked Mrs. McKinley to go with us 18:21.240 --> 18:23.740 to her husband's store, and she agreed. 18:23.740 --> 18:25.140 On a table in back of the store, 18:25.140 --> 18:28.040 we found two empty beer bottles and a couple of glasses. 18:28.040 --> 18:29.740 Layton Prince was called, and they came out 18:29.740 --> 18:31.240 and lifted two sets of fingerprints 18:31.240 --> 18:33.020 from the bottles and the glasses. 18:33.020 --> 18:35.340 Crime Lab came out and photographed the place. 18:35.340 --> 18:36.480 There was no sign of a struggle, 18:36.480 --> 18:38.320 but there was evidence that there had been a party there 18:38.320 --> 18:39.760 the night before. 18:39.760 --> 18:41.520 We drove Mrs. McKinley back to her home, 18:41.520 --> 18:42.760 and at 813 PM, 18:42.760 --> 18:45.760 Frank and I checked back into the city hall. 18:45.760 --> 18:46.860 Long day, huh, Joe? 18:46.860 --> 18:47.960 Yeah, I'm getting a little tired. 18:47.960 --> 18:48.900 What do you want to eat tonight? 18:48.900 --> 18:49.900 Doesn't make any difference. 18:49.900 --> 18:50.720 Go ahead. 18:50.720 --> 18:51.560 Okay. 18:53.560 --> 18:54.660 I'll get it. 18:56.160 --> 18:57.400 Homicide Friday. 18:57.400 --> 18:58.540 Yeah, Dean. 18:58.540 --> 18:59.540 Mm-hmm. 18:59.540 --> 19:01.080 They did, huh? 19:01.080 --> 19:01.900 Who? 19:01.900 --> 19:03.240 Oh, let me get that. 19:03.240 --> 19:04.840 Yeah, yeah, I got it. 19:04.840 --> 19:06.080 Okay, thanks, Dean. 19:06.080 --> 19:06.920 Yeah, you bet. 19:06.920 --> 19:08.020 Good night. 19:08.020 --> 19:09.080 It was Bergman. 19:09.080 --> 19:10.720 They made the prints on that bottle and glass. 19:10.720 --> 19:11.560 Yeah. 19:11.560 --> 19:14.520 A fellow named Fred Girard did time for armed robbery. 19:14.520 --> 19:18.340 The 19:18.340 --> 19:21.860 The 19:21.860 --> 19:24.700 The 19:24.700 --> 19:26.540 You are listening to Dragnet, 19:26.540 --> 19:29.540 the authentic story of your police force in action. 19:29.540 --> 19:31.840 We like to give you the facts about Chesterfield 19:31.840 --> 19:33.640 so you can be your own judge. 19:33.640 --> 19:36.540 Chesterfield is the first and only cigarette 19:36.540 --> 19:41.140 to give you premium quality in both regular and king size. 19:41.140 --> 19:43.420 Chesterfield is the first and only cigarette 19:43.420 --> 19:45.360 to tell you what it's made of. 19:45.360 --> 19:49.020 The world's best tobaccos, kept tasty and fresh 19:49.020 --> 19:51.300 by pure and costly moistening agents, 19:51.300 --> 19:53.300 the best that money can buy. 19:53.300 --> 19:56.660 And Chesterfield cigarette paper is of the highest purity. 19:56.660 --> 20:00.000 Now Chesterfield is the first and only cigarette 20:00.000 --> 20:01.980 to present this scientific evidence 20:01.980 --> 20:03.600 on the effects of smoking. 20:03.600 --> 20:05.700 A medical specialist is making regular 20:05.700 --> 20:08.020 bimonthly examinations of a group of people 20:08.020 --> 20:09.880 from various walks of life. 20:09.880 --> 20:12.740 45% of this group have smoked Chesterfields 20:12.740 --> 20:14.720 for an average of 10 years. 20:14.720 --> 20:17.760 He reports that he observed no adverse effects 20:17.760 --> 20:20.420 on the nose, throat, and sinuses of the group 20:20.420 --> 20:22.700 from smoking Chesterfield. 20:22.700 --> 20:25.960 Either way you like them, regular or king size, 20:25.960 --> 20:29.960 you will find premium quality Chesterfields much milder. 20:31.100 --> 20:15.620 ["The 20:39.620 --> 20:41.080 830 p.m." 20:41.080 --> 20:43.340 Frank and I pulled a package on Fred Girard. 20:43.340 --> 20:46.180 He'd been arrested in 1942 on a charge of violation 20:46.180 --> 20:48.020 of 211 PC. 20:48.020 --> 20:49.960 He'd been convicted and had served five years 20:49.960 --> 20:52.260 in the penitentiary at San Quentin. 20:52.260 --> 20:53.760 We checked back with John Kennedy, 20:53.760 --> 20:56.120 the man who had seen Arthur McKinley leave the liquor store 20:56.120 --> 20:59.000 in the company of the man we figured to be the murderer. 20:59.000 --> 21:00.760 When we entered the mug room, he was talking to 21:00.760 --> 21:03.560 Sergeants Joe LaMonica and Danny Galindo. 21:03.560 --> 21:05.400 They told us that so far he had been unable 21:05.400 --> 21:08.040 to identify the man he had seen with McKinley. 21:08.040 --> 21:09.600 We showed him a mug shot of Girard 21:09.600 --> 21:11.700 and he positively identified it. 21:11.700 --> 21:13.840 Kennedy went on to say that as far as he was concerned, 21:13.840 --> 21:15.980 there could be no mistake and that as far as he knew, 21:15.980 --> 21:18.040 Girard was the last man seen with the victim 21:18.040 --> 21:19.620 before his death. 21:19.620 --> 21:22.060 McKinley's car had been found two blocks from the alley 21:22.060 --> 21:23.820 where we'd found the body. 21:23.820 --> 21:25.720 In the back of it, the officers found the remainder 21:25.720 --> 21:28.400 of the case of beer and the two bottles of bourbon. 21:28.400 --> 21:30.600 Leighton Prince went out and dusted the car. 21:30.600 --> 21:32.160 They came up with one good set of prints 21:32.160 --> 21:33.560 other than the victim's. 21:33.560 --> 21:35.400 When these were checked, it was found that they matched 21:35.400 --> 21:38.140 the file copies of Girard's fingerprints. 21:38.140 --> 21:39.940 It was 9.46 p.m. 21:39.940 --> 21:42.640 We drove out to the address listed in Girard's package. 21:42.640 --> 21:44.180 His landlady showed us to his room. 21:44.180 --> 21:46.780 It was evident that he hadn't been in it the night before. 21:46.780 --> 21:49.240 Frank and I waited for him to return. 21:49.240 --> 21:50.980 10 p.m., 11, 11.30. 21:56.760 --> 21:58.360 What are you doing here? 21:58.360 --> 21:59.860 You Fred Girard? 21:59.860 --> 22:01.560 Yeah, that's right. Who are you? 22:01.560 --> 22:02.820 Police officers. 22:02.820 --> 22:04.720 Oh, cops. What do you want with me? 22:04.720 --> 22:06.200 You know a man named Arthur McKinley? 22:06.200 --> 22:07.040 Why? 22:07.040 --> 22:07.860 You know him? 22:07.860 --> 22:08.700 I know him. 22:08.700 --> 22:09.540 Anything wrong with that? 22:09.540 --> 22:10.360 When'd you see him last? 22:10.360 --> 22:11.200 Last night. 22:11.200 --> 22:12.040 Where? 22:12.040 --> 22:12.880 At his store. 22:12.880 --> 22:14.680 I came by about 6.15. 22:14.680 --> 22:16.680 We talked for a while and then he closed his store. 22:16.680 --> 22:18.580 He said he had to get home for a birthday party, 22:18.580 --> 22:20.080 something like that. 22:20.080 --> 22:22.240 We went down the street to Kennedy's to get some beer 22:22.240 --> 22:23.580 and then he went back to the store. 22:23.580 --> 22:25.280 I heisted a couple and then I left. 22:25.280 --> 22:26.520 What time was then? 22:26.520 --> 22:28.680 I guess about 8.30 or so. 22:28.680 --> 22:31.220 Had to meet a guy out in Santa Monica so I left. 22:31.220 --> 22:32.860 You left McKinley at his store? 22:32.860 --> 22:34.300 Yeah, that's right. 22:34.300 --> 22:35.420 See how much this is all about. 22:35.420 --> 22:36.760 What are you giving me problems for? 22:36.760 --> 22:37.800 I haven't done anything. 22:37.800 --> 22:39.260 All right, take everything out of your pockets. 22:39.260 --> 22:40.600 Put it right down here. 22:40.600 --> 22:42.200 Well, if you got no right to barge in here 22:42.200 --> 22:43.540 and tell me what to do, I'm clean. 22:43.540 --> 22:45.700 Then you got no reason for not cooperating now, have you? 22:45.700 --> 22:46.800 Well, I suppose not. 22:46.800 --> 22:48.800 Then take everything out of your pockets. 22:48.800 --> 22:49.640 All right. 22:54.580 --> 22:55.420 My keys. 22:58.220 --> 22:59.120 Your money in your wallet? 22:59.120 --> 22:59.960 Yeah. 22:59.960 --> 23:00.780 How much you got? 23:00.780 --> 23:01.860 I don't know, I have counted. 23:01.860 --> 23:03.320 All right, count it. 23:03.320 --> 23:06.160 I don't know, I see five, six, seven, eight. 23:06.160 --> 23:08.400 Eight bucks, I don't know. 23:08.400 --> 23:11.160 Five, six, seven, eight, nine, 23:11.160 --> 23:12.000 92 cents. 23:13.200 --> 23:14.540 Canadian penny. 23:14.540 --> 23:15.800 Was there anybody with McKinley and you 23:15.800 --> 23:16.940 when you were drinking? 23:16.940 --> 23:18.600 No, just went in the back of the store 23:18.600 --> 23:20.000 to have a beer, a little talk. 23:20.000 --> 23:21.680 We got along pretty good. 23:21.680 --> 23:23.880 Used to hire me once in a while, clean up a store, 23:23.880 --> 23:26.120 sweep out, things like that. 23:26.120 --> 23:27.340 Yeah. 23:27.340 --> 23:28.320 Was he feeling all right when you left him? 23:28.320 --> 23:29.480 I guess so. 23:29.480 --> 23:32.080 I didn't ask him, but he didn't say anything about it. 23:32.080 --> 23:33.720 Just said he had to get home for a party, 23:33.720 --> 23:35.820 that his wife would be active if he was late. 23:35.820 --> 23:37.460 Like I said, I left at 915. 23:37.460 --> 23:38.620 You might ask Stu Bennett, 23:38.620 --> 23:40.000 he might be able to tell you something. 23:40.000 --> 23:41.100 Who's he? 23:41.100 --> 23:43.660 Owns a little grocery just down the street from McKinley. 23:43.660 --> 23:45.400 You say he might know about McKinley? 23:45.400 --> 23:46.760 Yeah, he was there when I left. 23:46.760 --> 23:50.000 I was walking out and when Mr. McKinley opened the door, 23:50.000 --> 23:51.340 Bennett was walking by. 23:51.340 --> 23:52.780 He said he had some things he wanted to talk 23:52.780 --> 23:54.240 to McKinley about. 23:54.240 --> 23:57.080 When I left, Bennett went in the store. 23:57.080 --> 23:58.040 What's this all about anyway? 23:58.040 --> 23:59.520 Something happened to McKinley? 23:59.520 --> 24:01.680 He's been murdered. 24:01.680 --> 24:02.680 Oh, no kid. 24:02.680 --> 24:04.880 He's been a nice guy. 24:04.880 --> 24:06.780 You figured I did it, huh? 24:06.780 --> 24:07.880 That's the way it looked. 24:07.880 --> 24:08.880 Yeah. 24:08.880 --> 24:09.880 Well, I did some time. 24:09.880 --> 24:10.880 I won't try to con you. 24:10.880 --> 24:12.680 You'll probably know all about it anyway. 24:12.680 --> 24:14.560 I wouldn't kill anybody though. 24:14.560 --> 24:15.560 I'm going straight. 24:15.560 --> 24:17.320 I've been working every day since I got out. 24:17.320 --> 24:18.320 Mm-hmm. 24:18.320 --> 24:19.320 I'll tell you though. 24:19.320 --> 24:20.520 You might talk to Stu Bennett. 24:20.520 --> 24:22.360 He was with him when I left. 24:22.360 --> 24:29.700 Fred Gerard gave us a complete description of Stuart Bennett. 24:29.700 --> 24:32.180 We called the name into R&I, but he had no record. 24:32.180 --> 24:34.580 We checked Bennett's store and found a card on the front door 24:34.580 --> 24:36.280 that gave his home address. 24:36.280 --> 24:38.040 Frank and I drove out to his house. 24:38.040 --> 24:39.680 He lived in a new apartment development 24:39.680 --> 24:41.580 in the southwest section of town. 24:41.580 --> 24:45.580 Monday morning, 1247 a.m., we rang the bell to his apartment. 24:45.580 --> 24:48.580 It's probably asleep. 24:48.580 --> 24:49.580 Yeah. 24:49.580 --> 24:50.580 Want to try it again? 24:50.580 --> 24:51.580 Yeah. 24:51.580 --> 24:54.580 Who is it? 24:54.580 --> 24:56.580 Like talk to you. 24:56.580 --> 24:57.580 Just a minute. 25:01.080 --> 25:02.080 Yeah? 25:02.080 --> 25:03.080 Police officers. 25:03.080 --> 25:04.080 I'm Frank Smith. 25:04.080 --> 25:05.080 This is my partner Joe Friday. 25:05.080 --> 25:06.080 How do you do? 25:06.080 --> 25:07.080 Want to come in? 25:07.080 --> 25:08.080 All right. 25:08.080 --> 25:10.880 Well, what is it you wanted to talk to me about? 25:10.880 --> 25:13.880 You know a man named Arthur McKinley? 25:13.880 --> 25:14.880 Do you? 25:14.880 --> 25:17.880 I knew you'd find out. 25:17.880 --> 25:18.880 I knew it. 25:18.880 --> 25:19.880 I knew it right after it happened. 25:19.880 --> 25:20.880 I knew it right away. 25:20.880 --> 25:21.880 All right. 25:21.880 --> 25:22.880 You want to get dressed? 25:22.880 --> 25:23.880 Yeah, all right. 25:23.880 --> 25:27.880 I came home last night after it happened. 25:27.880 --> 25:28.880 I thought about it. 25:28.880 --> 25:29.880 I thought and thought. 25:29.880 --> 25:32.280 I wanted to go and tell you about it. 25:32.280 --> 25:34.780 I knew that I'd done a terrible thing. 25:34.780 --> 25:35.780 Killed Arthur. 25:35.780 --> 25:38.780 Killed another human being. 25:38.780 --> 25:39.780 You got to understand one thing, Mr. Friday. 25:39.780 --> 25:40.780 What's that? 25:40.780 --> 25:41.780 It's important to me. 25:41.780 --> 25:42.780 I'm not a vicious man. 25:42.780 --> 25:44.780 Why'd you kill him? 25:44.780 --> 25:48.080 Well, I stopped last night to talk to him about all of us getting together as sort of 25:48.080 --> 25:51.780 a pool, hiring Fred to sort of take care of all the stores. 25:51.780 --> 25:52.780 That's what I went to see him about. 25:52.780 --> 25:56.880 I thought it'd be nice to have someone to take care of the stores, you know, wash the 25:56.880 --> 25:57.880 windows, sweep up them. 25:57.880 --> 25:59.480 We'd all chip in and pay him. 25:59.480 --> 26:01.080 Sort of a pool, like I said. 26:01.080 --> 26:02.080 Yeah. 26:02.080 --> 26:03.080 We talked. 26:03.080 --> 26:04.680 Arthur wasn't too much in favor of the idea. 26:04.680 --> 26:07.880 Said he'd been thinking about giving Fred a regular job in the flower shop. 26:07.880 --> 26:09.680 Said things were real good with him. 26:09.680 --> 26:11.780 He thought he'd take on an assistant. 26:11.780 --> 26:13.280 Things were going real fine for him. 26:13.280 --> 26:14.280 All right. 26:14.280 --> 26:15.280 You better get dressed. 26:15.280 --> 26:16.280 We'll go downtown. 26:16.280 --> 26:20.680 After I killed him, I took him out of the store and put him in an alley. 26:20.680 --> 26:21.680 Yeah? 26:21.680 --> 26:23.400 I wanted to come and tell you about it. 26:23.400 --> 26:24.400 I went down to City Hall. 26:24.400 --> 26:26.480 I walked up the stairs on Spring Street. 26:26.480 --> 26:27.480 You know the big ones? 26:27.480 --> 26:28.480 Yeah. 26:28.480 --> 26:29.480 I was going to give myself up. 26:29.480 --> 26:30.880 I wanted to tell you about it. 26:30.880 --> 26:33.200 And then when I got there, the doors were closed. 26:33.200 --> 26:35.280 The sign said to use the Main Street entrance. 26:35.280 --> 26:37.080 I sat down on the stairs. 26:37.080 --> 26:39.360 I sat there for a long time. 26:39.360 --> 26:43.200 I thought about telling somebody about what I'd done. 26:43.200 --> 26:44.840 Then I walked around by the police department. 26:44.840 --> 26:47.040 On the walk, it goes around. 26:47.040 --> 26:48.640 I looked under the window and saw the detectives. 26:48.640 --> 26:50.280 I wanted to go right in and tell them about it. 26:50.280 --> 26:51.280 All right. 26:51.280 --> 26:52.280 Come on. 26:52.280 --> 26:53.280 Get your clothes on. 26:53.280 --> 26:54.280 Let's go. 26:54.280 --> 26:55.280 I should prove it to you. 26:55.280 --> 26:56.280 What's that? 26:56.280 --> 26:57.280 I'm not a vicious man. 26:57.280 --> 27:00.880 I have to get out of here and Museum of Cure. 27:00.880 --> 27:09.560 Louis would leave my picture if I did not Voulez's head in it now. 27:09.560 --> 27:10.560 I'mינה. 27:10.560 --> 27:12.720 I don't need to go back now. 27:12.720 --> 27:14.160 Yes, my son can't. 27:14.160 --> 27:16.360 He's no hothead. 27:16.360 --> 27:19.360 He'll ум. 27:19.360 --> 27:21.360 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:21.360 --> 27:27.360 Friends, remember now, Chesterfield is first to present this scientific evidence on the effects of smoking. 27:27.360 --> 27:33.360 A medical specialist is making regular bi-monthly examinations of a group of people from various walks of life. 27:33.360 --> 27:37.360 Forty-five percent of this group have smoked Chesterfields for an average of ten years. 27:37.360 --> 27:44.360 He reports that he observed no adverse effects on the nose, throat, and sinuses of the group from smoking Chesterfield. 27:44.360 --> 27:47.360 Either way you like them, regular or king size, 27:47.360 --> 27:51.360 you'll find premium quality Chesterfields much milder. 27:51.360 --> 27:59.360 Music 27:59.360 --> 28:03.360 Stuart Carlisle Bennett was tried and found guilty of murder in the first degree. 28:03.360 --> 28:07.360 He is now serving his term in the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 28:07.360 --> 28:13.360 Murder in the first degree is punishable by death or by confinement in the State Penitentiary for life. 28:13.360 --> 28:22.360 Music 28:22.360 --> 28:27.360 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:27.360 --> 28:32.360 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:32.360 --> 28:37.360 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 28:37.360 --> 28:42.360 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Eddie Firestone, Carolyn Jones, Herb Vigran. 28:42.360 --> 28:47.360 Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. Hal Gibney speaking. 28:47.360 --> 28:51.360 Sound off for Chesterfields. 28:51.360 --> 28:55.360 Either way you like them, regular or king size, 28:55.360 --> 29:00.360 you'll find premium quality Chesterfields much milder. 29:00.360 --> 29:04.360 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:04.360 --> 29:14.360 Music 29:14.360 --> 29:19.360 Tonight more adventure with Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator on NBC. 29:19.360 --> 29:34.360 Music