WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.400 Sound off for Chesterfield. 00:10.400 --> 00:15.640 Chesterfield, the only cigarette in America to give you premium quality in both regular 00:15.640 --> 00:26.400 and king size brings you Dragnet. 00:26.400 --> 00:30.240 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:30.240 --> 00:40.880 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:40.880 --> 00:42.400 You're a detective sergeant. 00:42.400 --> 00:44.720 You're assigned to homicide detail. 00:44.720 --> 00:47.560 The body of a dead man has been found in the rear of his shop. 00:47.560 --> 00:50.080 He has been brutally beaten to death. 00:50.080 --> 00:51.800 The killer is unknown. 00:51.800 --> 00:57.520 Your job, find him. 00:57.520 --> 01:03.600 Thousands are changing to Chesterfield, both regular and king size, because Chesterfield 01:03.600 --> 01:08.440 is the first and only cigarette to give you premium quality in both sizes. 01:08.440 --> 01:14.160 That means king size Chesterfield contains tobaccos of better quality and higher price 01:14.160 --> 01:16.680 than any other king size cigarette. 01:16.680 --> 01:20.160 It's the same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. 01:20.160 --> 01:25.600 There is absolutely no difference except that king size Chesterfield is larger, contains 01:25.600 --> 01:30.520 so much more of the same tobaccos, it gives more than a fifth longer smoke. 01:30.520 --> 01:33.080 Yes, more than a fifth longer smoke. 01:33.080 --> 01:39.520 So remember, Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular 01:39.520 --> 01:41.020 and king size. 01:41.020 --> 01:43.420 Buy them either way you like them. 01:43.420 --> 01:50.640 Premium quality Chesterfield and much milder. 01:50.640 --> 01:56.760 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:56.760 --> 02:01.600 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 02:01.600 --> 02:06.140 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 02:06.140 --> 02:07.820 police files. 02:07.820 --> 02:12.960 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:12.960 --> 02:13.960 in action. 02:13.960 --> 02:19.360 It was Monday, July 5th. 02:19.360 --> 02:20.760 It was hot in Los Angeles. 02:20.760 --> 02:22.960 We were working the day watch out a homicide detail. 02:22.960 --> 02:24.040 My partner is Frank Smith. 02:24.040 --> 02:25.240 The boss is Captain Norman. 02:25.240 --> 02:26.240 My name is Friday. 02:26.240 --> 02:28.960 It was 7 58 a.m. when I got to room 42. 02:28.960 --> 02:29.960 Homicide. 02:29.960 --> 02:31.640 Is that you Joe? 02:31.640 --> 02:32.640 Yeah. 02:32.640 --> 02:33.640 How's it going? 02:33.640 --> 02:34.640 Don't ask me. 02:34.640 --> 02:35.640 What's the matter? 02:35.640 --> 02:36.640 I went to the beach yesterday. 02:36.640 --> 02:37.640 Got the sunburn. 02:37.640 --> 02:39.640 I could hardly sleep last night. 02:39.640 --> 02:40.640 I'm just miserable Joe. 02:40.640 --> 02:44.400 It's going to be a week before I can wear a shirt without feeling I got army blanket 02:44.400 --> 02:45.400 on. 02:45.400 --> 02:46.400 Well can't you get something for it? 02:46.400 --> 02:47.560 Something to make it feel a little better anyway? 02:47.560 --> 02:48.560 Don't bring that up either. 02:48.560 --> 02:49.560 What's that? 02:49.560 --> 02:52.040 If you've got any homemade remedies for sunburn, keep them to yourself. 02:52.040 --> 02:53.040 I've had them for now. 02:53.040 --> 02:54.040 Why? 02:54.040 --> 02:55.040 What's the matter? 02:55.040 --> 02:56.840 Like I said, we went to the beach yesterday. 02:56.840 --> 02:57.840 Beautiful day. 02:57.840 --> 03:00.880 They fixed up a lunch, sandwiches, potato salad, deviled eggs, all that stuff. 03:00.880 --> 03:01.880 Yeah, I know. 03:01.880 --> 03:03.480 We went down to Castle Rock, you know, down the highway. 03:03.480 --> 03:04.480 Yeah. 03:04.480 --> 03:05.480 Just had a ball. 03:05.480 --> 03:06.480 Just great. 03:06.480 --> 03:09.160 Kids played in the water and then when it got dark we had a few Fourth of July things 03:09.160 --> 03:10.160 for them. 03:10.160 --> 03:11.160 We had sparklers, stuff like that. 03:11.160 --> 03:12.160 Yeah. 03:12.160 --> 03:13.640 When we got home I started to feel it. 03:13.640 --> 03:14.840 What, the sunburn? 03:14.840 --> 03:15.840 Yeah. 03:15.840 --> 03:17.440 Back feels like it's on fire, Joe. 03:17.440 --> 03:19.320 Legs feel like it got them in hot oil. 03:19.320 --> 03:20.320 Believe me, it's terrible. 03:20.320 --> 03:24.960 Took off my shirt, pants at home, just sitting there in my shorts. 03:24.960 --> 03:27.360 I was trying to figure out some way to stop the burning, you know. 03:27.360 --> 03:28.360 Yeah. 03:28.360 --> 03:29.360 Well, it happened. 03:29.360 --> 03:30.360 In comes Armand. 03:30.360 --> 03:31.360 Oh, that's your brother-in-law, huh? 03:31.360 --> 03:32.360 Yeah. 03:32.360 --> 03:34.960 He's read in some magazine where tea is the stuff for burns. 03:34.960 --> 03:36.480 Right away he starts brewing tea. 03:36.480 --> 03:37.480 Tea? 03:37.480 --> 03:38.480 Yeah. 03:38.480 --> 03:39.480 Can you drink? 03:39.480 --> 03:40.480 Yeah. 03:40.480 --> 03:41.480 I'm on the floor, right? 03:41.480 --> 03:42.480 Flat on my stomach. 03:42.480 --> 03:44.960 I was feeling so miserable I'd have done anything to get rid of the feeling so I just lay there. 03:44.960 --> 03:48.360 And he starts putting tea leaves all up and down my back. 03:48.360 --> 03:49.360 Back of my legs. 03:49.360 --> 03:51.040 It felt real good at first. 03:51.040 --> 03:52.600 Kind of cool, you know. 03:52.600 --> 03:53.600 Yeah. 03:53.600 --> 03:54.600 And all this time you're laying on your stomach here. 03:54.600 --> 03:55.600 Yeah. 03:55.600 --> 03:56.600 Right in the middle of the living room floor. 03:56.600 --> 03:59.920 He put papers down first, you know, so the tea wouldn't drip all over the floor. 03:59.920 --> 04:01.240 Well, you brew the stuff first. 04:01.240 --> 04:02.240 Yeah. 04:02.240 --> 04:03.240 And then they put the tea leaves on me. 04:03.240 --> 04:05.800 But then the tea leaves started to dry. 04:05.800 --> 04:08.520 They crinkled all up and the pain came back. 04:08.520 --> 04:09.520 Just miserable, Joe. 04:09.520 --> 04:10.880 Well, did it do any good at all? 04:10.880 --> 04:11.960 I don't know. 04:11.960 --> 04:15.400 They finally took it off and put some kind of ointment on my back. 04:15.400 --> 04:16.400 Helped a little. 04:16.400 --> 04:18.120 I had to sleep on my stomach all night. 04:18.120 --> 04:19.280 Couldn't turn over. 04:19.280 --> 04:21.440 I just lay real still. 04:21.440 --> 04:25.640 Once in a while I'd fall asleep and roll over and wow, I'd wake right up with a pain. 04:25.640 --> 04:27.840 I tell you, Joe, I didn't sleep at all. 04:27.840 --> 04:28.840 Not a wink. 04:28.840 --> 04:30.100 Yeah, I know what you mean. 04:30.100 --> 04:31.840 I don't see what you're blaming Armin for. 04:31.840 --> 04:33.600 Seems like he did try to help you out, though. 04:33.600 --> 04:34.600 Oh, sure, he tried. 04:34.600 --> 04:36.320 The whole thing was his fault. 04:36.320 --> 04:38.760 If he'd kept his big mouth shut, everything would have been all right. 04:38.760 --> 04:39.760 How'd he figure that? 04:39.760 --> 04:40.760 A picnic. 04:40.760 --> 04:41.760 It was his idea, Joe. 04:41.760 --> 04:42.760 It's a hot shot. 04:42.760 --> 04:43.760 I'll get it. 04:43.760 --> 04:48.760 What is it? 04:48.760 --> 04:51.760 Killing down on Bixle. 04:51.760 --> 04:55.840 8.14 a.m. 04:55.840 --> 04:57.480 We arrived at the address on South Bixle. 04:57.480 --> 04:59.280 It was a small neighborhood pawn shop. 04:59.280 --> 05:02.800 A radio card arrived and the two officers had cleared the crowd away from the entrance 05:02.800 --> 05:04.200 of the store. 05:04.200 --> 05:07.360 One of the officers showed us through a curtain into the back room. 05:07.360 --> 05:08.360 Everything was smashed. 05:08.360 --> 05:10.000 Glass cases were demolished. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.960 Clothing from the shelves had been torn down and thrown all over the floor. 05:12.960 --> 05:17.080 At one side of the room, a closet door was half open and in the closet was the body of 05:17.080 --> 05:18.120 a man. 05:18.120 --> 05:21.160 We started to talk with George Armstrong, a victim's partner. 05:21.160 --> 05:22.920 Terrible, huh? 05:22.920 --> 05:23.920 I don't want to look anymore. 05:23.920 --> 05:25.320 I don't want to believe it. 05:25.320 --> 05:26.320 Anybody would do this to Mark. 05:26.320 --> 05:27.320 Mark? 05:27.320 --> 05:28.320 Is that your partner's name? 05:28.320 --> 05:29.320 Yes, I'm Mark Williams, my friend. 05:29.320 --> 05:31.320 We've been together the last 15 years. 05:31.320 --> 05:34.160 We've been together for 10 years before that. 05:34.160 --> 05:35.320 I don't want to think about it. 05:35.320 --> 05:36.320 Would you like to step out here, sir? 05:36.320 --> 05:37.320 Front part of the store? 05:37.320 --> 05:38.320 Well, would it be all right? 05:38.320 --> 05:39.320 Yes, it'd be fine. 05:39.320 --> 05:40.320 I'll call the crime lab, John. 05:40.320 --> 05:41.320 All right, good. 05:41.320 --> 05:42.320 Where's the phone, sir? 05:42.320 --> 05:43.320 It's back there on the wall. 05:43.320 --> 05:44.320 Thanks. 05:44.320 --> 05:45.320 I'd like to ask you some questions if it'd be all right. 05:45.320 --> 05:46.320 Yes. 05:46.320 --> 05:47.320 You discovered the body, is that right? 05:47.320 --> 05:48.320 Well, yes. 05:48.320 --> 05:49.320 This morning when I came in, I opened the store like I always do, about, I think, 745, 05:49.320 --> 05:50.320 I guess it was, something like that. 05:50.320 --> 05:51.320 I see. 05:51.320 --> 05:52.320 I opened the front door like I usually do and I came in and I saw a body. 05:52.320 --> 05:53.320 I don't know if it's a body or a body. 05:53.320 --> 05:54.320 I don't know. 05:54.320 --> 05:55.320 I don't know. 05:55.320 --> 06:05.560 I opened the front door like I usually do and I came in and put the water on for some 06:05.560 --> 06:06.560 tea. 06:06.560 --> 06:09.200 You can see there, you see that hot plate? 06:09.200 --> 06:11.400 Mark and I usually have a cup of tea when he comes in. 06:11.400 --> 06:12.400 I see. 06:12.400 --> 06:15.320 Well, then I went to the back room to hang up my coat. 06:15.320 --> 06:19.280 First I thought that somebody had tried to rob the place, where things, you know, were 06:19.280 --> 06:20.280 scattered all over. 06:20.280 --> 06:23.120 Then I saw Mark laying on the floor and I called you. 06:23.120 --> 06:25.120 They're on the way, Joe. 06:25.120 --> 06:28.280 Did you always open up the store by yourself, Mr. Armstrong? 06:28.280 --> 06:29.280 Yes. 06:29.280 --> 06:32.920 I don't know how it started, but somewhere along the line I'd open up the place and then 06:32.920 --> 06:35.160 Mark would clean up the shop and close. 06:35.160 --> 06:37.240 It's been that way for years. 06:37.240 --> 06:38.240 When did you last see Mr. Williams? 06:38.240 --> 06:39.240 That is, when did you see him alive? 06:39.240 --> 06:40.240 Saturday night. 06:40.240 --> 06:41.240 I left about 545. 06:41.240 --> 06:42.240 He was closing the place up. 06:42.240 --> 06:47.540 I told him that I'd meet him for breakfast Sunday morning. 06:47.540 --> 06:48.540 He wasn't there. 06:48.540 --> 06:50.360 I tried to call him at home, but there wasn't any answer. 06:50.360 --> 06:52.420 His landlady, they hadn't seen him. 06:52.420 --> 06:53.420 Was he married, do you know? 06:53.420 --> 06:54.420 No. 06:54.420 --> 06:55.420 He wasn't married. 06:55.420 --> 06:56.420 Same thing happened to both of us. 06:56.420 --> 06:58.000 Neither one of us married. 06:58.000 --> 06:59.000 What's that to you? 06:59.000 --> 07:01.480 Well, you see, Mark and I are both in love with the same girl. 07:01.480 --> 07:02.480 We were younger. 07:02.480 --> 07:07.240 We used to take her to the park with someone, listen to the band, concert. 07:07.240 --> 07:08.240 Three of us. 07:08.240 --> 07:09.640 We used to go every place together. 07:09.640 --> 07:11.920 Like I said, both of us were in love with her. 07:11.920 --> 07:17.160 Well, things went along just fine for a year or so, then she got married to someone else. 07:17.160 --> 07:19.240 Mark and I were pretty sad about it. 07:19.240 --> 07:20.240 Couldn't blame the girl, though. 07:20.240 --> 07:22.040 The guy she married was rich. 07:22.040 --> 07:24.840 We had a big house, a good family. 07:24.840 --> 07:26.320 We didn't have much of anything. 07:26.320 --> 07:28.560 No, neither of us married. 07:28.560 --> 07:31.480 Just never seemed to find a girl compared with Kate. 07:31.480 --> 07:32.480 Kate? 07:32.480 --> 07:33.480 Kate Dillon. 07:33.480 --> 07:34.920 She's a lovely girl. 07:34.920 --> 07:37.840 This meeting you were going to have yesterday morning, was that a regular thing? 07:37.840 --> 07:39.080 Oh, yes, it was. 07:39.080 --> 07:44.880 You see, about the only relaxation Mark and I had was bowling on the green. 07:44.880 --> 07:45.880 Bowling? 07:45.880 --> 07:46.880 Mm-hmm. 07:46.880 --> 07:50.880 Every Sunday that it didn't rain, we'd meet for breakfast, then catch a bus out to Exposition 07:50.880 --> 07:53.320 Park, you know, bowling club out there. 07:53.320 --> 07:55.480 Mark and I both belonged. 07:55.480 --> 07:56.840 Mark was a sort of local champion. 07:56.840 --> 07:58.320 Played a real good game. 07:58.320 --> 08:01.240 Well, didn't you think that anything was wrong when he didn't meet you yesterday? 08:01.240 --> 08:02.240 Well, yes, I did. 08:02.240 --> 08:03.240 I did it first. 08:03.240 --> 08:06.600 Then I got to thinking about it, and I figured maybe he wasn't feeling too good. 08:06.600 --> 08:08.280 Just didn't want to go out to the club. 08:08.280 --> 08:09.280 Yes, sir. 08:09.280 --> 08:10.800 He'd get like that, moody. 08:10.800 --> 08:11.800 Just for no reason at all. 08:11.800 --> 08:13.960 Decided he didn't want to go any place at all. 08:13.960 --> 08:15.400 Just sit in his room. 08:15.400 --> 08:18.040 Almost always came to work, even when he was in the mood. 08:18.040 --> 08:21.640 But now and then he'd just sit up there and look out the window. 08:21.640 --> 08:23.520 Was there any special reason for all this? 08:23.520 --> 08:25.560 No, not that I know of. 08:25.560 --> 08:26.880 He'd just get like that. 08:26.880 --> 08:27.880 No special reason. 08:27.880 --> 08:30.280 When he did, you just had to sit and let the mood pass. 08:30.280 --> 08:31.600 Nothing else to do. 08:31.600 --> 08:32.600 I see. 08:32.600 --> 08:35.360 Well, did Mr. Williams have any enemies that you'd know of, anyone at all, that might do 08:35.360 --> 08:36.360 a thing like this? 08:36.360 --> 08:37.360 No, sir. 08:37.360 --> 08:38.360 No one. 08:38.360 --> 08:39.360 Mm-hmm. 08:39.360 --> 08:40.520 Was he alone when he left him Saturday night? 08:40.520 --> 08:43.560 Yes, he was straightening up the shelves, getting the things in order. 08:43.560 --> 08:45.080 But he was all by himself. 08:45.080 --> 08:46.080 No one was here. 08:46.080 --> 08:48.400 Have you ever had any trouble with anyone in the neighborhood lately? 08:48.400 --> 08:50.200 Somebody who might have been looking for trouble, maybe? 08:50.200 --> 08:52.520 Well, Sergeant, most of our customers have trouble. 08:52.520 --> 08:56.360 Well, yes, sir, but about how much money was on the premises when you left? 08:56.360 --> 08:59.080 Mm, maybe $1,500. 08:59.080 --> 09:00.080 Where'd you keep the money? 09:00.080 --> 09:02.120 In the safe, right there. 09:02.120 --> 09:05.160 You can see for yourself it's all right. 09:05.160 --> 09:06.680 Would you mind opening it up just to be sure? 09:06.680 --> 09:09.840 Well, if you want me to, but I'm sure everything's okay. 09:09.840 --> 09:11.840 If you wouldn't mind, sir. 09:11.840 --> 09:12.840 Okay. 09:12.840 --> 09:18.080 I know there's nothing wrong here. 09:18.080 --> 09:19.080 43. 09:19.080 --> 09:25.040 You can see for yourself that everything's okay, can't you? 09:25.040 --> 09:26.040 16 left. 09:26.040 --> 09:29.720 Yes, sir, we just want to be sure. 09:29.720 --> 09:30.720 Right to 8. 09:30.720 --> 09:31.720 There. 09:31.720 --> 09:32.720 You can see it. 09:32.720 --> 09:33.720 Uh-huh. 09:33.720 --> 09:36.720 Is the money kept in that strongbox? 09:36.720 --> 09:37.720 Yes, sir. 09:37.720 --> 09:39.640 Who knew the combination to this safe? 09:39.640 --> 09:41.240 I mean, besides you. 09:41.240 --> 09:42.240 Just Mark and me. 09:42.240 --> 09:45.240 We're the only ones. 09:45.240 --> 09:46.880 There. 09:46.880 --> 09:47.880 All the money's there. 09:47.880 --> 09:49.840 Is there anything else missing from the store? 09:49.840 --> 09:50.840 Anything that you can see? 09:50.840 --> 09:52.720 Well, sir, I did look around you. 09:52.720 --> 09:54.440 If there was anything, how could I tell? 09:54.440 --> 09:57.800 I'd have to take a complete inventory. 09:57.800 --> 09:58.800 What difference does it make? 09:58.800 --> 09:59.800 How's it going to help Mark? 09:59.800 --> 10:03.440 Well, it's pretty important we find out why he was killed the way he was, sir. 10:03.440 --> 10:04.440 A beating and all. 10:04.440 --> 10:07.040 If you'd look around, you might be able to come up with something. 10:07.040 --> 10:10.840 All right, I'll look around, but I'll tell you, I don't think there's anything gone. 10:10.840 --> 10:18.160 All right, if you just do that, we'll look over the back room if we're all right. 10:18.160 --> 10:19.960 Pretty bad, huh, John? 10:19.960 --> 10:20.960 Yeah. 10:20.960 --> 10:23.160 Looks like revenge could have been the motive, maybe, from the looks of things here. 10:23.160 --> 10:25.160 Yeah, it'd have to be something like that. 10:25.160 --> 10:26.160 Yeah, but beating. 10:26.160 --> 10:29.160 The way the place is all smashed up. 10:29.160 --> 10:30.160 Yeah. 10:30.160 --> 10:31.160 Frank? 10:31.160 --> 10:32.160 Yeah? 10:32.160 --> 10:33.160 Come over here. 10:33.160 --> 10:34.160 Yeah? 10:34.160 --> 10:35.160 Look here in the closet. 10:35.160 --> 10:36.160 You can see it there under the body. 10:36.160 --> 10:37.160 Oh, yeah, it looks like a hand axe. 10:37.160 --> 10:41.120 Yeah, might have been trying to defend himself, huh? 10:41.120 --> 10:42.120 Well, maybe. 10:42.120 --> 10:43.120 Sergeant? 10:43.120 --> 10:44.120 Yes, sir? 10:44.120 --> 10:45.120 You were right, absolutely right. 10:45.120 --> 10:46.120 What's that, sir? 10:46.120 --> 10:47.120 Well, he did steal something. 10:47.120 --> 10:48.120 The gun case had been broken into. 10:48.120 --> 10:49.120 Yes, sir, anything missing? 10:49.120 --> 10:50.120 A couple of revolvers. 10:50.120 --> 10:51.120 8.32 a.m. 10:51.120 --> 10:52.120 The crime lab crew arrived and went over the place. 10:52.120 --> 10:53.120 In the back room under a pile of clothes, they found a 10-inch length of lead pipe that 10:53.120 --> 11:05.320 was 11:05.320 --> 11:07.860 made of lead. 11:07.860 --> 11:11.680 Dean Bergman from Leighton Prince dusted the room, the safe in the store, and the lead 11:11.680 --> 11:12.680 pipe. 11:12.680 --> 11:13.920 He came up with several clean prints. 11:13.920 --> 11:17.520 He rolled the dead man's fingerprints and then he took Armstrong's. 11:17.520 --> 11:20.880 Comparison with those he'd found eliminated all of them except a partial print on the 11:20.880 --> 11:21.880 safe. 11:21.880 --> 11:24.280 The coroner arrived and removed the body. 11:24.280 --> 11:27.120 Frank and I canvassed the neighborhood, but none of the people in the area had noticed 11:27.120 --> 11:29.680 anyone suspicious in the last few days. 11:29.680 --> 11:33.200 We called the office and Sergents Joe Lamonica and Howard Hudson came out to help us in the 11:33.200 --> 11:34.480 search of the vicinity. 11:34.480 --> 11:38.200 The axe found in the hands of the victim, Mark Williams, had stains on the blade. 11:38.200 --> 11:41.920 A closer check of the pawn shop showed that several articles other than the guns had been 11:41.920 --> 11:42.920 stolen. 11:42.920 --> 11:46.280 George Armstrong gave us a complete list of the missing property along with the serial 11:46.280 --> 11:47.600 numbers of the guns. 11:47.600 --> 11:48.600 11.34 a.m. 11:48.600 --> 11:51.080 Frank and I checked back into the city hall. 11:51.080 --> 11:53.640 Frank, did you get the APBs out? 11:53.640 --> 11:54.640 Yeah. 11:54.640 --> 11:55.960 Notified the pawn shop detail. 11:55.960 --> 11:56.960 Any word from Lamonica and Hudson? 11:56.960 --> 11:57.960 No, not yet. 11:57.960 --> 11:58.960 At least there's nothing in the book there. 11:58.960 --> 11:59.960 I get it. 11:59.960 --> 12:00.960 Homicide Friday. 12:00.960 --> 12:01.960 Oh, yeah, Joe. 12:01.960 --> 12:04.960 Yeah. 12:04.960 --> 12:09.560 No, we haven't heard from him yet. 12:09.560 --> 12:10.560 No. 12:10.560 --> 12:11.560 Where? 12:11.560 --> 12:12.560 Yeah. 12:12.560 --> 12:14.560 Yeah, well, that figures. 12:14.560 --> 12:15.560 OK, thanks. 12:15.560 --> 12:16.560 It's Lamonica. 12:16.560 --> 12:20.880 He and Hudson found a bloodstained shirt in an alley behind an apartment house a couple 12:20.880 --> 12:22.160 of blocks from the pawn shop. 12:22.160 --> 12:23.160 Yeah. 12:23.160 --> 12:25.280 Checked the apartment register and they found a Wallace Holmes listed. 12:25.280 --> 12:26.280 Holmes? 12:26.280 --> 12:27.280 Yeah, Lamonica knows him. 12:27.280 --> 12:28.280 Yeah. 12:28.280 --> 12:30.480 Just served six months for violation of the Narcotics Act. 12:30.480 --> 12:38.800 12.02 PM, we ran the name Wallace Holmes through R&I. 12:38.800 --> 12:41.200 He had a record dating back almost 10 years. 12:41.200 --> 12:44.760 He'd been arrested twice for violation of the state health and safety code and once 12:44.760 --> 12:47.080 on suspicion of 211 PC. 12:47.080 --> 12:50.160 We talked to the neighbors in the apartment building where he lived, but they told us that 12:50.160 --> 12:53.680 Holmes had been in bed with a bad cold for the past three days. 12:53.680 --> 12:57.080 Several of them had taken him food on occasion and stated positively that he could not have 12:57.080 --> 12:59.200 left the apartment. 12:59.200 --> 13:01.800 We then checked his fingerprints against those we'd found at the pawn shop. 13:01.800 --> 13:02.800 There was no make. 13:02.800 --> 13:05.200 A stakeout was placed on the building. 13:05.200 --> 13:09.200 2.15 PM, we checked by the crime lab to see if Ray Pinker had finished the tests on the 13:09.200 --> 13:11.520 physical evidence that he'd collected at the murder scene. 13:11.520 --> 13:12.520 Looks like the lead pipe. 13:12.520 --> 13:14.040 Can you tell us anything about the killer? 13:14.040 --> 13:15.360 Nothing, except he's WMA. 13:15.360 --> 13:17.440 Well, how about the other bloodstains, Ray? 13:17.440 --> 13:19.520 Test out type O, victim's type B. 13:19.520 --> 13:22.160 Well, figures that he managed to hit the killer with the axe then, huh? 13:22.160 --> 13:23.160 Possible. 13:23.160 --> 13:24.160 How about the shirt? 13:24.160 --> 13:25.160 Do you find anything on it? 13:25.160 --> 13:27.560 Haven't finished the tests on the dust particles we found in the pocket yet. 13:27.560 --> 13:29.280 The precipitant test shows it's human blood. 13:29.280 --> 13:30.920 Haven't had a chance to group it yet. 13:30.920 --> 13:32.400 How about any laundry markings? 13:32.400 --> 13:33.400 Anything there, Ray? 13:33.400 --> 13:37.600 Just about to check it. 13:37.600 --> 13:38.600 Spread it out here. 13:38.600 --> 13:41.600 You want to get those lights, Frank? 13:41.600 --> 13:44.400 Yeah, I'll do it. 13:44.400 --> 13:47.400 Turn on this fluorescent. 13:47.400 --> 13:52.160 Yeah, laundry marking here. 13:52.160 --> 13:54.000 Yeah, looks like RJ. 13:54.000 --> 13:55.000 Is that right? 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 And there's a number there, too. 13:57.000 --> 14:00.680 7-6-9-0-2. 14:00.680 --> 14:01.680 Anything else, Ray? 14:01.680 --> 14:02.680 Hmm? 14:02.680 --> 14:05.880 Looks like that's about it. 14:05.880 --> 14:06.880 What laundry would you know? 14:06.880 --> 14:08.520 Yeah, I think so. 14:08.520 --> 14:11.160 Markings the same type as consolidated central laundry uses. 14:11.160 --> 14:12.160 Big place out on Pico. 14:12.160 --> 14:15.240 Handle cleaning for a lot of small neighborhood places in town. 14:15.240 --> 14:16.240 I can give you the address. 14:16.240 --> 14:17.240 Okay, anything else? 14:17.240 --> 14:20.920 Oh, yeah, a 15 neck and a 33 sleeve. 14:20.920 --> 14:22.360 Average size, not much help, huh? 14:22.360 --> 14:25.560 Maybe I can give you some more when I get through the dust particles in the pockets. 14:25.560 --> 14:26.560 Yeah, okay. 14:26.560 --> 14:28.320 Wish we had a little more to go on. 14:28.320 --> 14:32.520 Well, you got a piece of lead pipe, a stained shirt and an axe that looks like it's been 14:32.520 --> 14:33.520 recently used. 14:33.520 --> 14:34.520 Yeah. 14:34.520 --> 14:35.520 They all connect somewhere along the line. 14:35.520 --> 14:39.320 Yeah, all we got to do is find out where. 14:39.320 --> 14:44.960 2.58 p.m. Frank and I drove out to the consolidated central laundry. 14:44.960 --> 14:47.320 We talked to the manager and he looked through the files. 14:47.320 --> 14:50.440 He was able to tell us that the shirt had been laundered at a small cleaning place on 14:50.440 --> 14:51.440 South Hill. 14:51.440 --> 14:53.720 He gave us the address and Frank and I drove over. 14:53.720 --> 14:55.280 We talked to the manager of the shop. 14:55.280 --> 14:56.280 Uh-huh. 14:56.280 --> 14:57.280 Yeah, it's our number, all right. 14:57.280 --> 15:00.160 Pastor, would it be possible for you to tell us who owns the shirt? 15:00.160 --> 15:02.600 Yeah, I'll look it up in the book. 15:02.600 --> 15:06.400 Let's see, R.J. 769-02. 15:06.400 --> 15:09.400 Mm-hmm, that's right. 15:09.400 --> 15:13.280 Let's see, 642-998-7. 15:13.280 --> 15:16.320 Yeah, yeah, here it is. 15:16.320 --> 15:18.920 John Dunlap, address out on 3rd Street. 15:18.920 --> 15:21.360 Say, what do you want to know about the shirt for? 15:21.360 --> 15:22.360 Dunlap done something? 15:22.360 --> 15:24.080 No, we're just conducting an investigation here. 15:24.080 --> 15:25.080 Oh. 15:25.080 --> 15:26.480 What's the describe that's Dunlap for us? 15:26.480 --> 15:28.000 Oh, sure, I've known John for years. 15:28.000 --> 15:31.560 He's been bringing us things in here for at least, uh, eight, maybe nine years. 15:31.560 --> 15:33.440 Could you give us a description of him, you think? 15:33.440 --> 15:37.960 Yeah, John, he's about, uh, about my size, maybe 5'11". 15:37.960 --> 15:38.960 Weighs about 180. 15:38.960 --> 15:40.360 How about his coloring? 15:40.360 --> 15:41.360 Huh? 15:41.360 --> 15:43.240 His coloring, is he dark or light-complected? 15:43.240 --> 15:44.240 Oh, yeah. 15:44.240 --> 15:46.440 Well, I guess you'd say maybe sort of medium. 15:46.440 --> 15:47.440 Yeah, medium. 15:47.440 --> 15:50.680 Does he have any marks or scars on him, anything unusual about him? 15:50.680 --> 15:53.000 Well, if you asked me that yesterday, I'd have said no. 15:53.000 --> 15:54.000 How's that? 15:54.000 --> 15:58.000 Well, up till this morning, well, John came in this morning and there was nothing that 15:58.000 --> 15:59.800 made him stand out up till then. 15:59.800 --> 16:01.680 He must have had an accident over the weekend, I guess. 16:01.680 --> 16:02.680 I don't understand. 16:02.680 --> 16:16.160 He came in this morning, his face was all scratched up. 16:16.160 --> 16:21.020 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 16:21.020 --> 16:25.080 We like to give the facts about Chesterfield so you can be your own judge. 16:25.080 --> 16:30.880 Chesterfield is the first and only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular 16:30.880 --> 16:32.520 and king size. 16:32.520 --> 16:37.000 Chesterfield is the first and only cigarette to tell you what it's made of, the world's 16:37.000 --> 16:42.740 best tobaccos, kept tasty and fresh by pure and costly moistening agents, the best that 16:42.740 --> 16:44.400 money can buy. 16:44.400 --> 16:47.600 And Chesterfield cigarette paper is of the highest purity. 16:47.600 --> 16:52.480 Now Chesterfield is the first cigarette to present this scientific evidence on the effects 16:52.480 --> 16:53.480 of smoking. 16:53.480 --> 16:58.200 A medical specialist is making regular bi-monthly examinations of a group of people from various 16:58.200 --> 16:59.720 walks of life. 16:59.720 --> 17:04.680 Forty-five percent of this group have smoked Chesterfield for an average of over ten years. 17:04.680 --> 17:09.400 After eight months, the medical specialist reports that he observed no adverse effects 17:09.400 --> 17:13.880 on the nose, throat, and sinuses of the group from smoking Chesterfield. 17:13.880 --> 17:16.080 I'd say that means real mildness. 17:16.080 --> 17:22.080 Either way you like them, regular or king size, you'll find premium quality Chesterfields 17:22.080 --> 17:32.000 much milder. 17:32.000 --> 17:35.680 Monday 5.30 p.m. Frank and I ran the name John Dunlap through R&I. 17:35.680 --> 17:38.440 We found no record on anyone answering his description. 17:38.440 --> 17:42.520 Meantime a stakeout on Wallace Holmes' apartment where we found the bloodstained shirt continued. 17:42.520 --> 17:45.680 Ray Pinker had finished the test on the shirt and found that most of the blood on it was 17:45.680 --> 17:48.760 type B, however there were also small traces of type O. 17:48.760 --> 17:52.480 The tests on the dust particles found in the pockets of the shirt netted us nothing. 17:52.480 --> 17:55.880 6.15 p.m. We drove out to the address given us by the cleaning shop. 17:55.880 --> 17:57.640 It was a large apartment building. 17:57.640 --> 17:59.120 Dunlap was registered in the penthouse. 17:59.120 --> 18:01.600 We took the elevator up and rang the bell. 18:01.600 --> 18:02.600 Yeah? 18:02.600 --> 18:03.600 John Dunlap? 18:03.600 --> 18:06.480 That's right, what can I do for you? 18:06.480 --> 18:07.720 Police officer, would you like to talk to you? 18:07.720 --> 18:08.720 Police? 18:08.720 --> 18:09.720 What do you want with me? 18:09.720 --> 18:10.720 Just like to talk to you. 18:10.720 --> 18:11.720 Well, okay, come on in. 18:11.720 --> 18:16.040 You can see you caught me in the shower. 18:16.040 --> 18:17.040 This is my partner Frank Smith. 18:17.040 --> 18:18.040 My name's Friday. 18:18.040 --> 18:19.040 Hi, John. 18:19.040 --> 18:20.040 How do you do, sir? 18:20.040 --> 18:21.040 Hey, mind if I go ahead and get dressed while we talk? 18:21.040 --> 18:22.320 I got a date and I don't want to be too late. 18:22.320 --> 18:23.320 No, it's all right. 18:23.320 --> 18:24.320 Go right ahead. 18:24.320 --> 18:26.240 Come on in here. 18:26.240 --> 18:27.240 What is it I can do for you, officers? 18:27.240 --> 18:30.120 Well, I wonder if you could explain your movement Saturday night. 18:30.120 --> 18:31.120 Saturday night? 18:31.120 --> 18:32.120 Yes, sir. 18:32.120 --> 18:33.120 Well, let's see. 18:33.120 --> 18:36.200 I played golf in the morning, got back from the club about six, I guess. 18:36.200 --> 18:39.560 Miserable game, 102, lost $35. 18:39.560 --> 18:40.560 Sure was off Saturday. 18:40.560 --> 18:41.800 Just a minute, sir. 18:41.800 --> 18:44.200 You tell us what clothes you want, we'll get them for you. 18:44.200 --> 18:45.560 All right, hand me that shirt there. 18:45.560 --> 18:46.560 The blue one, huh? 18:46.560 --> 18:47.560 Yeah. 18:47.560 --> 18:50.720 Sure, miserable game Saturday, three-putted almost every green. 18:50.720 --> 18:51.720 Nice looking shirts down there. 18:51.720 --> 18:52.720 You like them? 18:52.720 --> 18:53.720 Well, they're nice looking. 18:53.720 --> 18:54.720 Where do you get them? 18:54.720 --> 18:56.400 I haven't made, can't wear store-made shirts. 18:56.400 --> 18:58.560 Next too long collar doesn't fit right. 18:58.560 --> 19:00.080 What did you do after you got home from the golf club? 19:00.080 --> 19:02.600 Took a shower, then went out, had a date. 19:02.600 --> 19:04.240 Lousy game room the whole evening. 19:04.240 --> 19:05.240 Sir? 19:05.240 --> 19:08.560 Well, after that crummy 102, I really played the 19th hole, got pretty loaded. 19:08.560 --> 19:11.000 By the time I got to Alice's, I was in a rare mood. 19:11.000 --> 19:12.000 Alice? 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 Yeah, Alice, Alice Miller. 19:13.000 --> 19:16.480 Anyway, I was about half hour late and she was fit to be tied. 19:16.480 --> 19:17.840 We were supposed to have dinner out in Malibu. 19:17.840 --> 19:21.760 It took us about an hour to drive out there and Alice kept getting mad as we drove. 19:21.760 --> 19:23.000 I guess I didn't help things out any. 19:23.000 --> 19:24.960 I was in a foul mood and didn't keep it to myself. 19:24.960 --> 19:25.960 Yeah. 19:25.960 --> 19:28.440 Well, by the time we got there, really going at it, silly thing. 19:28.440 --> 19:30.600 No sense to the argument at all, but it just kept building. 19:30.600 --> 19:31.600 Either one of you married? 19:31.600 --> 19:33.320 Yeah, I assume a partner here is. 19:33.320 --> 19:34.800 Well, then he knows what I mean. 19:34.800 --> 19:37.360 Well, we didn't get down to the beach till about 8.30 or 9. 19:37.360 --> 19:40.560 We got out of the car and Alice said she wanted me to take her back home. 19:40.560 --> 19:42.000 I told her we'd just gotten there. 19:42.000 --> 19:43.560 She said she didn't care, wanted to go home. 19:43.560 --> 19:44.560 Yeah. 19:44.560 --> 19:47.120 I told her if she wanted to leave, it was OK with me and I turned around to walk down 19:47.120 --> 19:48.120 to the house. 19:48.120 --> 19:49.120 You know, it's pretty dark down there. 19:49.120 --> 19:50.120 Uh huh. 19:50.120 --> 19:53.360 Well, I walked right over the embankment, must have fallen over about six, seven feet. 19:53.360 --> 19:55.560 Didn't hurt myself much, but you can see I scratched up my face. 19:55.560 --> 19:56.560 Yeah, we can't. 19:56.560 --> 19:58.440 Well, the long one, though, I guess it was worth it. 19:58.440 --> 19:59.440 How's that? 19:59.440 --> 20:02.480 Well, Alice was so scared she ran down to me and the argument was all over. 20:02.480 --> 20:03.840 We went on into the house and had dinner. 20:03.840 --> 20:04.840 How long were you there? 20:04.840 --> 20:08.960 Oh, I guess until, uh, well, maybe 2.30, 3 in the morning. 20:08.960 --> 20:10.720 Got to playing charades, time just went. 20:10.720 --> 20:13.200 You happen to know what blood type you have? 20:13.200 --> 20:14.200 What? 20:14.200 --> 20:15.200 Your blood type. 20:15.200 --> 20:16.200 Do you know what it is? 20:16.200 --> 20:17.760 I think it's A, but I'm not sure, though. 20:17.760 --> 20:18.760 Uh huh. 20:18.760 --> 20:20.280 You said you had your shirts made to order, huh? 20:20.280 --> 20:21.280 Yeah, that's right. 20:21.280 --> 20:22.280 Why? 20:22.280 --> 20:24.240 Can you tell us how someone else might have gotten one of your shirts? 20:24.240 --> 20:25.240 Wait a minute. 20:25.240 --> 20:26.840 I don't think I understand just what's going on. 20:26.840 --> 20:27.840 What is this all about? 20:27.840 --> 20:29.520 You come in here and ask a lot of questions. 20:29.520 --> 20:30.520 What's it all for? 20:30.520 --> 20:31.520 Just routine. 20:31.520 --> 20:32.520 Routine what? 20:32.520 --> 20:35.440 Routine for me to have policemen come in and ask a lot of questions? 20:35.440 --> 20:37.520 Where was I Saturday night who makes my shirts? 20:37.520 --> 20:38.520 Who might have had them? 20:38.520 --> 20:39.520 Come on, what's the pitch? 20:39.520 --> 20:42.120 All right, do you know a man named Mark Williams? 20:42.120 --> 20:43.120 Williams? 20:43.120 --> 20:45.800 Uh, no, Tom Williams sells insurance. 20:45.800 --> 20:46.800 No, Mark Williams. 20:46.800 --> 20:48.920 No, I don't think I know Mark. 20:48.920 --> 20:50.960 Anyway, what's he got to do with this? 20:50.960 --> 20:52.440 He was killed Saturday night. 20:52.440 --> 20:54.000 You figure maybe I did? 20:54.000 --> 20:56.720 Well, a shirt that belongs to you was found near the scene. 20:56.720 --> 20:57.720 My shirt? 20:57.720 --> 20:58.720 That's right. 20:58.720 --> 20:59.720 Same label. 20:59.720 --> 21:00.720 Check the laundry markings in it. 21:00.720 --> 21:01.720 Your laundry man said it was your shirt. 21:01.720 --> 21:02.720 Said it was your number. 21:02.720 --> 21:03.720 You talked to Harry? 21:03.720 --> 21:05.560 Yeah, if that's his name, I guess we did. 21:05.560 --> 21:07.000 I don't understand it. 21:07.000 --> 21:08.200 Hey, wait a minute. 21:08.200 --> 21:09.200 Yes, sir? 21:09.200 --> 21:11.600 A couple of weeks ago, I gave a half a dozen shirts to the woman who comes in to clean 21:11.600 --> 21:12.840 up the place. 21:12.840 --> 21:13.840 She might know what happened. 21:13.840 --> 21:14.840 Let me call her and find out. 21:14.840 --> 21:16.840 I've got her number here someplace. 21:16.840 --> 21:20.720 Yeah, here it is. 21:20.720 --> 21:23.560 If anybody knows, she would. 21:23.560 --> 21:26.000 A couple of weeks ago, told her she could have them. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.800 I don't know what the matter with them. 21:28.800 --> 21:30.320 Hello? 21:30.320 --> 21:31.320 Mrs. Lambert in, please? 21:31.320 --> 21:33.360 Yeah, thank you. 21:33.360 --> 21:35.440 Hello, Mrs. Lambert. 21:35.440 --> 21:36.440 This is John Dunlap. 21:36.440 --> 21:37.440 Oh, just fine. 21:37.440 --> 21:38.440 And you? 21:38.440 --> 21:39.440 That's good. 21:39.440 --> 21:43.920 No, no, I just want to know what you did with those shirts you took a couple of weeks ago. 21:43.920 --> 21:46.720 Well, no, Mrs. Lambert, I did give them to you. 21:46.720 --> 21:48.840 I just want to know what you did with them. 21:48.840 --> 21:49.840 Uh-huh. 21:49.840 --> 21:50.840 I see. 21:50.840 --> 21:53.560 Well, can you give me the address? 21:53.560 --> 21:54.560 Well, just a minute. 21:54.560 --> 21:55.560 I'll get a pencil. 21:55.560 --> 21:56.560 Do you have a pencil, officer? 21:56.560 --> 21:57.560 Here you are. 21:57.560 --> 21:58.560 Thank you. 21:58.560 --> 21:59.560 Now, go ahead, Mrs. Lambert. 21:59.560 --> 22:02.560 Uh-huh. 22:02.560 --> 22:04.840 47? 22:04.840 --> 22:06.960 All right, thank you. 22:06.960 --> 22:08.680 No, no, don't you worry. 22:08.680 --> 22:09.680 Everything's all right. 22:09.680 --> 22:11.680 Yeah, well, thank you, Mrs. Lambert. 22:11.680 --> 22:13.120 Yeah, I'll see you then. 22:13.120 --> 22:14.120 Right, goodbye. 22:14.120 --> 22:16.960 A real character thought I wanted the shirts back. 22:16.960 --> 22:18.440 Did she tell you what she did with them? 22:18.440 --> 22:27.600 Yeah, I said she sold them to a secondhand store down on Bixel. 22:27.600 --> 22:30.320 We went over to the cleaning woman. 22:30.320 --> 22:32.800 She gave us the same story that we'd gotten from John Dunlap. 22:32.800 --> 22:35.640 We went over to the secondhand store, but it was closed. 22:35.640 --> 22:38.040 The stakeout on the apartment continued. 22:38.040 --> 22:41.480 The body had been posted, and the coroner told us that Williams had been killed at approximately 22:41.480 --> 22:43.180 midnight on Saturday night. 22:43.180 --> 22:46.120 That would allow two hours on either side, making it possible for the murder to take 22:46.120 --> 22:49.760 place between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. 22:49.760 --> 22:52.000 Frank and I checked out of the office and went home. 22:52.000 --> 22:56.040 The following morning, Tuesday, July 6th at 8 17 p.m., we checked the secondhand store 22:56.040 --> 22:57.840 where the shirts had been sold. 22:57.840 --> 22:59.520 The dealer told us that he remembered the shirts. 22:59.520 --> 23:02.120 He said that he'd bought five of them and had only sold one. 23:02.120 --> 23:05.160 He was able to give us a fair description of the man he'd sold the shirt to. 23:05.160 --> 23:08.480 He went on to say that he'd heard that the man was a user of narcotics. 23:08.480 --> 23:11.300 We ran the name he gave us, Fred Harris, through R&I. 23:11.300 --> 23:13.560 He had a record of violation of the state narcotic act. 23:13.560 --> 23:16.320 We got out an APB and a local bulletin on him. 23:16.320 --> 23:20.360 We called Narcotics Division and notified them that we wanted Harris as a suspect. 23:20.360 --> 23:23.520 We checked the address listed on his record, but we found that he'd moved and left no 23:23.520 --> 23:25.280 forwarding address. 23:25.280 --> 23:26.600 Two days went by. 23:26.600 --> 23:29.400 We ran down all leads, but we were able to come up with nothing new. 23:29.400 --> 23:31.920 Thursday, July 8th, 8 30 a.m. 23:31.920 --> 23:33.720 Frank and I checked back into the squad room. 23:33.720 --> 23:36.720 Well, there's another one that didn't go anyplace. 23:36.720 --> 23:39.720 Yeah, well, he's got to be someplace. 23:39.720 --> 23:42.080 I get it. 23:42.080 --> 23:43.080 Homicide Friday. 23:43.080 --> 23:44.080 Oh, yeah, Joe. 23:44.080 --> 23:45.080 Mm-hmm. 23:45.080 --> 23:46.080 Yeah. 23:46.080 --> 23:47.080 Well, how soon will you be here? 23:47.080 --> 23:48.080 All right. 23:48.080 --> 23:49.080 Okay. 23:49.080 --> 23:50.080 Right. 23:50.080 --> 23:51.080 Anything? 23:51.080 --> 23:56.080 Well, Monica and Hudson, they just picked Harris up. 23:56.080 --> 24:00.400 1120 a.m. 24:00.400 --> 24:02.480 Fred Harris was brought to the interrogation room. 24:02.480 --> 24:05.360 Frank and I talked to him for about an hour, but other than his name, he refused to tell 24:05.360 --> 24:06.360 us anything. 24:06.360 --> 24:07.680 We tried to lead him out. 24:07.680 --> 24:10.720 We talked about his family, about sports, food, everything we could think of. 24:10.720 --> 24:12.200 None of it worked. 24:12.200 --> 24:14.200 Harris remained sullen and uncooperative. 24:14.200 --> 24:15.200 1 46 p.m. 24:15.200 --> 24:16.760 How about some lunch, Joe? 24:16.760 --> 24:18.200 I guess so. 24:18.200 --> 24:19.200 Harris? 24:19.200 --> 24:20.200 No. 24:20.200 --> 24:21.200 No, thanks. 24:21.200 --> 24:22.200 All right. 24:22.200 --> 24:23.200 You suit yourself. 24:23.200 --> 24:24.200 What do you want, Joe? 24:24.200 --> 24:25.200 Oh, ham on rice, all right? 24:25.200 --> 24:26.200 Get some coffee, too, huh? 24:26.200 --> 24:27.200 Okay. 24:27.200 --> 24:28.200 You sure, Harris? 24:28.200 --> 24:30.200 You don't want it, indeed? 24:30.200 --> 24:33.200 No, I told you. 24:33.200 --> 24:34.200 Okay. 24:34.200 --> 24:37.200 All right, if I smoke? 24:37.200 --> 24:40.200 Yeah, go ahead. 24:40.200 --> 24:48.200 Why don't you want to talk about it, Harris? 24:48.200 --> 24:49.200 About what? 24:49.200 --> 24:50.200 Why you killed Williams. 24:50.200 --> 24:51.200 Who says I did? 24:51.200 --> 24:52.200 That's the way it looks. 24:52.200 --> 24:53.200 It looks wrong. 24:53.200 --> 24:55.200 Well, you figured for yourself, Harris. 24:55.200 --> 24:57.200 When you killed the old man, you weren't very careful. 24:57.200 --> 24:59.200 You left a couple of prints around the place. 24:59.200 --> 25:00.200 Yeah? 25:00.200 --> 25:01.200 Shirt your war. 25:01.200 --> 25:02.200 We got that. 25:02.200 --> 25:03.200 Found it right where you dropped it. 25:03.200 --> 25:04.200 Ran that down and leads right to you. 25:04.200 --> 25:05.200 Got the man who sold it to you. 25:05.200 --> 25:06.200 Identifies you. 25:06.200 --> 25:07.200 Maybe he's wrong. 25:07.200 --> 25:08.200 No, you know better than that. 25:08.200 --> 25:11.200 When they picked you up, you were carrying some of the things you stole from that pawn 25:11.200 --> 25:12.200 shop. 25:12.200 --> 25:13.200 You can't account for your time on Saturday night. 25:13.200 --> 25:15.200 I told you I didn't do it. 25:15.200 --> 25:16.400 I didn't kill the old man. 25:16.400 --> 25:19.400 I just don't remember where I was that night. 25:19.400 --> 25:20.400 Didn't that happen to you? 25:20.400 --> 25:23.000 You go someplace and a couple of days later you can't remember where you were. 25:23.000 --> 25:24.000 Doesn't that ever happen to you? 25:24.000 --> 25:25.000 Oh, yeah. 25:25.000 --> 25:26.000 Once in a while. 25:26.000 --> 25:27.000 Yeah, you see? 25:27.000 --> 25:31.800 How do you expect me to remember when you sometimes forget? 25:31.800 --> 25:32.800 You a user? 25:32.800 --> 25:34.880 What are you asking that for? 25:34.880 --> 25:35.880 You got the record. 25:35.880 --> 25:36.880 Look it up yourself. 25:36.880 --> 25:39.880 Roll up your sleeve. 25:39.880 --> 25:44.000 All right. 25:44.000 --> 25:45.000 You're a user. 25:45.000 --> 25:47.400 You work for a living? 25:47.400 --> 25:48.400 Yeah, sometimes. 25:48.400 --> 25:50.400 What do you do? 25:50.400 --> 25:51.400 Whatever I can. 25:51.400 --> 25:52.400 When did you last work? 25:52.400 --> 25:54.000 A couple of weeks ago. 25:54.000 --> 25:56.000 You haven't worked since then, huh? 25:56.000 --> 25:57.000 No. 25:57.000 --> 25:58.000 Where'd you get that stuff they found on you? 25:58.000 --> 25:59.000 I don't know. 25:59.000 --> 26:00.000 I must have bought it. 26:00.000 --> 26:01.000 Any idea where? 26:01.000 --> 26:02.000 No. 26:02.000 --> 26:03.400 You bought the stuff and you don't know where. 26:03.400 --> 26:05.040 That what you want me to believe? 26:05.040 --> 26:06.040 Believe what you want. 26:06.040 --> 26:07.040 I don't care. 26:07.040 --> 26:08.040 Well, here's what I believe. 26:08.040 --> 26:09.040 You tell me if I'm wrong. 26:09.040 --> 26:11.000 I think you went to the old man's pawn shop about closing time on Saturday night. 26:11.000 --> 26:12.200 You had a big yen on it. 26:12.200 --> 26:13.200 No money to make a connection. 26:13.200 --> 26:14.560 You tried to rob the old man. 26:14.560 --> 26:15.560 He didn't like it and you killed him. 26:15.560 --> 26:18.280 You killed him with that hunk of lead pipe we found, the one with your fingerprints all 26:18.280 --> 26:19.280 over it. 26:19.280 --> 26:20.880 Then you tried to get the safe open and you couldn't. 26:20.880 --> 26:23.600 So you wiped it clean, grabbed what you could carry and you ran out of the store. 26:23.600 --> 26:26.320 A couple of blocks away you calmed down and took a look at yourself. 26:26.320 --> 26:28.800 You threw that shirt in the ash can and then you went up to Wallace Holmes' apartment to 26:28.800 --> 26:30.520 try to make a connection, didn't you? 26:30.520 --> 26:31.520 He tell you all that? 26:31.520 --> 26:32.520 No. 26:32.520 --> 26:33.520 Now come on, how about it? 26:33.520 --> 26:34.520 Holmes tell you that? 26:34.520 --> 26:36.080 Now look, you're a little mixed up, aren't you? 26:36.080 --> 26:38.320 You just answer, you don't ask. 26:38.320 --> 26:39.320 Sure he told you. 26:39.320 --> 26:40.800 He never found out if he did. 26:40.800 --> 26:42.800 My big pal, Wallace Holmes. 26:42.800 --> 26:47.600 After all I've done for him, if I had a nickel for every pop I shared with that bum and he 26:47.600 --> 26:51.600 cops out on me, blabs everything to you. 26:51.600 --> 26:52.840 One guy I'd have done anything for. 26:52.840 --> 26:55.160 Get the guy the shirt off your back and this is a thanks I get. 26:55.160 --> 26:56.160 Now what's your big trouble, Harris? 26:56.160 --> 26:57.160 What do you mean? 26:57.160 --> 26:58.160 You ought to hang on to your shirts. 26:58.160 --> 27:08.800 The story you have just heard was true. 27:08.800 --> 27:11.400 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:11.400 --> 27:16.240 On November 15th, trial was held in Department 86, Superior Court of the State of California 27:16.240 --> 27:18.360 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 27:18.360 --> 27:20.640 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:20.640 --> 27:23.060 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:23.060 --> 27:24.720 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:24.720 --> 27:28.420 Friends again this year, Chesterfield has asked me to remind you to see your own neighborhood 27:28.420 --> 27:32.080 cigarette dealer first about your Christmas shopping problems. 27:32.080 --> 27:36.680 Among many wonderful gift ideas, he's featuring the gift of the year, the Chesterfield Christmas 27:36.680 --> 27:37.680 Carton. 27:37.680 --> 27:41.880 Now to my way of thinking, it's the ideal gift because Chesterfield is the only premium 27:41.880 --> 27:46.440 quality cigarette available to you shoppers in both regular and king size. 27:46.440 --> 27:51.560 Either way, regular or king size, they're a wonderful smoke and they make fine Christmas 27:51.560 --> 27:52.560 gifts. 27:52.560 --> 27:54.180 Get them from your dealer. 27:54.180 --> 28:04.960 Premium quality Chesterfields. 28:04.960 --> 28:08.560 Fred Richard Harris was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. 28:08.560 --> 28:22.640 He was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 28:22.640 --> 28:27.760 You have just heard Drag Met, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:27.760 --> 28:31.640 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police 28:31.640 --> 28:33.120 Department. 28:33.120 --> 28:38.080 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 28:38.080 --> 28:43.760 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Vic Rodman, Olin Soule, script by John Robinson, music 28:43.760 --> 28:49.720 by Walter Schuman, Hal Gibney speaking. 28:49.720 --> 28:51.920 Sound off for Chesterfields. 28:51.920 --> 28:57.920 Either way you like them, regular or king size, you'll find premium quality Chesterfields 28:57.920 --> 29:02.240 much milder. 29:02.240 --> 29:14.040 Tonight has brought you Drag Met Transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:14.040 --> 29:33.080 And it's more adventure with Barry Craig, confidential investigator on NBC.