WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.000 Sound off for Chesterfield. 00:11.000 --> 00:16.060 Chesterfield, the only cigarette in America to give you premium quality in both regular 00:16.060 --> 00:26.920 and king size, brings you dragnet. 00:26.920 --> 00:30.800 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:30.800 --> 00:41.400 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:41.400 --> 00:42.960 You're a detective sergeant. 00:42.960 --> 00:45.240 You're assigned to narcotics detail. 00:45.240 --> 00:49.520 You receive information that a big buy of heroin is going to be made in your city. 00:49.520 --> 00:52.360 You know the location and the man who's going to sell it. 00:52.360 --> 00:55.360 Your job, stop him. 00:55.360 --> 01:05.080 Thousands are changing to Chesterfield, both regular and king size, because only Chesterfield 01:05.080 --> 01:07.960 has premium quality in both sizes. 01:07.960 --> 01:13.700 That means king size Chesterfield contains tobaccos of better quality and higher price 01:13.700 --> 01:16.140 than any other king size cigarette. 01:16.140 --> 01:19.640 The same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. 01:19.640 --> 01:25.080 There is absolutely no difference, except that king size Chesterfield is larger, contains 01:25.080 --> 01:29.880 so much more of the same tobaccos, it gives more than a fifth longer smoke. 01:29.880 --> 01:34.440 Yes, more than a fifth longer smoke from king size Chesterfield. 01:34.440 --> 01:41.080 So remember, Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular 01:41.080 --> 01:42.600 and king size. 01:42.600 --> 01:46.640 Buy them either way you like them, regular or king size. 01:46.640 --> 01:50.920 You'll find premium quality Chesterfields much milder. 01:50.920 --> 01:55.920 Yes, Chesterfield is best for you. 01:55.920 --> 02:04.520 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 02:04.520 --> 02:09.400 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 02:09.400 --> 02:14.000 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 02:14.000 --> 02:15.700 police files. 02:15.700 --> 02:20.920 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:20.920 --> 02:27.000 in action. 02:27.000 --> 02:29.440 Was Tuesday April 8th, it was windy in Los Angeles. 02:29.440 --> 02:31.680 We were working the night watch out on narcotics detail. 02:31.680 --> 02:35.600 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss is Captain Kearney, my name is Friday. 02:35.600 --> 02:38.920 We were on our way to the meet and it was 9 48 p.m. when we got to the corner of Pico 02:38.920 --> 02:44.120 and Clanton, the 617 club. 02:44.120 --> 02:45.120 Let's sit back there, huh? 02:45.120 --> 02:50.200 Yeah, looks all right. 02:50.200 --> 02:51.200 What time you got Joe? 02:51.200 --> 02:52.200 9 49, why? 02:52.200 --> 02:54.200 This watch is giving me trouble. 02:54.200 --> 02:55.200 Yeah? 02:55.200 --> 02:56.200 I guess it's getting old. 02:56.200 --> 02:57.720 You had it cleaned lately? 02:57.720 --> 02:58.720 Maybe that's what it needs. 02:58.720 --> 02:59.720 Yeah, a couple of years ago. 02:59.720 --> 03:01.160 Ran real good right after that. 03:01.160 --> 03:02.560 Just been lately like I said. 03:02.560 --> 03:04.640 I think maybe I'd have it cleaned again. 03:04.640 --> 03:06.760 I was reading where they should be cleaned at least once a year. 03:06.760 --> 03:07.760 Do you know that? 03:07.760 --> 03:09.120 No, this is getting old Joe. 03:09.120 --> 03:10.600 Had it for almost 23 years. 03:10.600 --> 03:13.200 Got it when I graduated from high school. 03:13.200 --> 03:14.800 Sure looks like it's still good, doesn't it? 03:14.800 --> 03:15.800 Yes, sir. 03:15.800 --> 03:16.800 Coffee for me, Frank? 03:16.800 --> 03:17.800 Yeah, please. 03:17.800 --> 03:18.800 Two coffees, right over there. 03:18.800 --> 03:21.600 I didn't say them when we came in, did you? 03:21.600 --> 03:22.600 No, we're early. 03:22.600 --> 03:23.600 Meet's not supposed to be until 10 30. 03:23.600 --> 03:24.600 What's that? 03:24.600 --> 03:25.600 I don't know. 03:25.600 --> 03:26.600 I don't know if you drink your coffee, I did. 03:26.600 --> 03:27.600 I'm not going to knock it off. 03:27.600 --> 03:28.600 First thing you know you're going to have everybody in that place looking at us. 03:28.600 --> 03:29.600 I don't care, let them look. 03:29.600 --> 03:30.600 I never wanted to do it, I never did. 03:30.600 --> 03:31.600 Okay, you did it. 03:31.600 --> 03:32.600 I love you and Joe, but it's not falling. 03:32.600 --> 03:33.600 What's going on in the next book? 03:33.600 --> 03:34.600 I don't know, I can't see. 03:34.600 --> 03:35.600 Easy for you to say you didn't do it. 03:35.600 --> 03:36.600 I'm not going to do it. 03:36.600 --> 03:45.600 I'm going to bring a lot of tension over here. 03:45.600 --> 03:48.600 I can't help it, everybody. 03:48.600 --> 03:51.600 I say it's a cop. 03:51.600 --> 03:52.600 A cop would know it's all about it. 03:52.600 --> 03:53.600 But cheap booze has done it. 03:53.600 --> 03:56.600 Every time you get a couple of bills and you start to fall, knock it off. 03:56.600 --> 03:57.600 Knock it off, knock it off. 03:57.600 --> 04:00.600 If I had to do it over again, it would have been different. 04:00.600 --> 04:01.600 I tell you, it would have been different. 04:01.600 --> 04:02.600 What do you think, Joe? 04:02.600 --> 04:03.600 It sounds like you had too much to drink. 04:03.600 --> 04:04.600 I hope they get out of here. 04:04.600 --> 04:05.600 I don't want anything to lose. 04:05.600 --> 04:06.600 I hope they get out of here. 04:06.600 --> 04:07.600 I don't want anything to louse up our body here. 04:07.600 --> 04:08.600 Sure, you get big, big man. 04:08.600 --> 04:09.600 You got no worries. 04:09.600 --> 04:10.600 Come on, let's go. 04:10.600 --> 04:11.600 You didn't kill the old lady. 04:11.600 --> 04:12.600 Not so loud. 04:12.600 --> 04:21.600 You didn't kill her. 04:21.600 --> 04:24.600 Because of the high booth walls, we were unable to tell who was doing the talking. 04:24.600 --> 04:27.600 As soon as the men got up to leave the place, Frank and I followed them. 04:27.600 --> 04:32.600 Frank stopped long enough to call our contact and postpone the narcotics by. 04:32.600 --> 04:35.100 We followed the two men from the bar down the street. 04:35.100 --> 04:37.600 They walked up to Spring and then they split up. 04:37.600 --> 04:38.600 Frank followed one of them. 04:38.600 --> 04:39.600 I tailed the other. 04:39.600 --> 04:42.100 He went directly to a hotel on West 6th Street. 04:42.100 --> 04:45.600 He stopped and talked with the hotel clerk and then he took the elevator upstairs. 04:45.600 --> 04:50.600 I checked with the clerk and he told me that the man's name was Sam Allison. 04:50.600 --> 04:54.100 The clerk also told me that Allison had been a resident of the hotel off and on for the 04:54.100 --> 04:55.100 past ten years. 04:55.100 --> 04:59.600 He went on to say that every so often Allison would pack up and leave, but that he'd always 04:59.600 --> 05:00.600 return. 05:00.600 --> 05:03.900 He was unable to give me any information as to how Allison made his living or who the 05:03.900 --> 05:05.400 other man might be. 05:05.400 --> 05:06.400 1210 a.m. 05:06.400 --> 05:08.400 I called the office. 05:08.400 --> 05:09.400 Frank had checked back in. 05:09.400 --> 05:13.100 The man he was following had entered an all-night movie and in the darkness, Frank somehow had 05:13.100 --> 05:14.100 lost him. 05:14.100 --> 05:19.400 I went back to the office and we sent a radiogram to Inspector Charlie Sutton up in San Francisco, 05:19.400 --> 05:23.400 requesting all information on unsolved murders in the Bay Area in the last few months. 05:23.400 --> 05:28.400 We ran the name Sam Allison through R&I, but we got no make on anyone answering his description. 05:28.400 --> 05:29.400 215 a.m. 05:29.400 --> 05:32.400 We checked out of the office and went home to get some sleep. 05:32.400 --> 05:37.900 The following morning, Wednesday, April 9th, 758 a.m., I checked back into the office. 05:37.900 --> 05:39.900 Is that you, Joe? 05:39.900 --> 05:40.900 Yeah. 05:40.900 --> 05:43.400 The message in the book to call Operator 18 in San Francisco. 05:43.400 --> 05:44.900 Did you put the call in? 05:44.900 --> 05:45.900 No, I just got in. 05:45.900 --> 05:47.900 Figured I'd wait a minute for you to get here. 05:47.900 --> 05:49.900 All right, let's take care of it. 05:49.900 --> 05:52.400 Operator 18, San Francisco, please. 05:55.400 --> 05:59.400 Joe Friday, Los Angeles Police Department, Michigan, 5211. 05:59.400 --> 06:01.400 Yeah, that's right. 06:01.400 --> 06:03.400 Probably Charlie Sutton, huh? 06:03.400 --> 06:04.400 Yeah. 06:04.400 --> 06:05.400 Yes, ma'am? 06:05.400 --> 06:07.400 Oh, Charlie, Joe Friday. 06:07.400 --> 06:08.400 Yeah. 06:08.400 --> 06:10.400 Not a bad name. 06:10.400 --> 06:11.400 I'm sorry. 06:11.400 --> 06:12.400 I'm sorry. 06:12.400 --> 06:13.400 I'm sorry. 06:13.400 --> 06:14.400 I'm sorry. 06:14.400 --> 06:15.400 I'm sorry. 06:15.400 --> 06:16.400 I'm sorry. 06:16.400 --> 06:17.400 I'm sorry. 06:17.400 --> 06:18.400 I'm sorry. 06:18.400 --> 06:19.400 I'm sorry. 06:19.400 --> 06:20.400 Uh-huh. 06:20.400 --> 06:21.400 When? 06:21.400 --> 06:24.400 January 15th, huh? 06:24.400 --> 06:26.400 How'd it happen? 06:26.400 --> 06:27.400 Uh-huh. 06:27.400 --> 06:28.400 Yeah. 06:28.400 --> 06:30.400 Can you talk a little louder, Charlie? 06:30.400 --> 06:32.400 Any description? 06:32.400 --> 06:33.400 Yeah, I see. 06:33.400 --> 06:34.400 Where? 06:34.400 --> 06:36.400 You sent it right down to us, huh? 06:36.400 --> 06:37.400 Okay, fine. 06:37.400 --> 06:38.400 Yeah. 06:38.400 --> 06:39.400 Okay, Charlie. 06:39.400 --> 06:40.400 No, we don't know. 06:40.400 --> 06:41.400 No. 06:41.400 --> 06:42.400 Yeah, thanks again. 06:42.400 --> 06:43.400 Right, bye. 06:43.400 --> 06:44.400 Anything? 06:44.400 --> 06:46.400 Yeah, out at Land's End up in San Francisco. 06:46.400 --> 06:48.400 The woman was beaten to death. 06:48.400 --> 06:55.400 The San Francisco Police Department said that they'd forward all available information on 06:55.400 --> 06:56.400 the killing. 06:56.400 --> 07:00.400 From what Inspector Charlie Sutton had said, the victim had been robbed and beaten out 07:00.400 --> 07:01.400 on the Land's End area. 07:01.400 --> 07:05.400 There had been one witness to the murder, and we told the authorities in the Bay City 07:05.400 --> 07:09.400 that we would send them stand-up mugs of our suspect, Sam Allison. 07:09.400 --> 07:10.400 9.37 a.m. 07:10.400 --> 07:13.400 Frank and I drove over to the hotel on West 6th. 07:13.400 --> 07:16.400 We talked to the desk clerk, and then we went to the hotel. 07:16.400 --> 07:20.400 We talked to the desk clerk, and then we went upstairs to Allison's room. 07:20.400 --> 07:24.400 This must be at 3.05. 07:24.400 --> 07:25.400 Yeah. 07:25.400 --> 07:30.400 I'll try it again. 07:30.400 --> 07:34.400 Yeah, who is it? 07:34.400 --> 07:35.400 Police officers. 07:35.400 --> 07:36.400 We'd like to talk to you. 07:36.400 --> 07:37.400 Just a minute. 07:37.400 --> 07:38.400 Yeah? 07:38.400 --> 07:39.400 You Sam Allison? 07:39.400 --> 07:40.400 Yeah, that's right. 07:40.400 --> 07:41.400 What's the bit? 07:41.400 --> 07:42.400 I'd like to talk to you. 07:42.400 --> 07:43.400 What about? 07:43.400 --> 07:46.400 Might be better if we talked inside. 07:46.400 --> 07:47.400 All right, come on in. 07:47.400 --> 07:48.400 What's this all about? 07:48.400 --> 07:51.400 When I get dressed, I'd like to talk to you downtown. 07:51.400 --> 07:52.400 What for? 07:52.400 --> 07:53.400 You got nothing on me. 07:53.400 --> 07:54.400 Just like to talk to you. 07:54.400 --> 07:55.400 Come on, get dressed. 07:55.400 --> 07:56.400 Wait a minute, Joy. 07:56.400 --> 07:58.400 Look, you tell me what it's all about first. 07:58.400 --> 07:59.400 You've been up in San Francisco lately. 07:59.400 --> 08:00.400 Why? 08:00.400 --> 08:01.400 Have you? 08:01.400 --> 08:02.400 Yeah, so when? 08:02.400 --> 08:03.400 When? 08:03.400 --> 08:04.400 I don't know. 08:04.400 --> 08:05.400 First of the year, I guess. 08:05.400 --> 08:06.400 Around there. 08:06.400 --> 08:07.400 You narrow that down a little? 08:07.400 --> 08:08.400 First part of January, I guess. 08:08.400 --> 08:09.400 Where were you last night? 08:09.400 --> 08:10.400 Around. 08:10.400 --> 08:11.400 Where around? 08:11.400 --> 08:13.400 Met a friend, had a couple drinks and came home just around. 08:13.400 --> 08:14.400 Who's the friend? 08:14.400 --> 08:15.400 Hey, look, I'm not going to answer any more of your questions 08:15.400 --> 08:16.400 until I know what this is all about. 08:16.400 --> 08:17.400 Where are your clothes? 08:17.400 --> 08:18.400 In the closet. 08:18.400 --> 08:19.400 I'll get them. 08:19.400 --> 08:20.400 They're getting real big, aren't they? 08:20.400 --> 08:21.400 You tell us what you want, I'll get them. 08:21.400 --> 08:22.400 That pinstripe. 08:22.400 --> 08:23.400 You know, the gray one right in front of you. 08:23.400 --> 08:24.400 You know, pinstripe. 08:24.400 --> 08:25.400 This is? 08:25.400 --> 08:26.400 Yeah. 08:26.400 --> 08:27.400 Oh, in that bureau, second drawer? 08:27.400 --> 08:28.400 With some shirts there. 08:28.400 --> 08:29.400 Give me one of the blue ones, will you? 08:29.400 --> 08:30.400 One with the tab collar and the little round things on it. 08:30.400 --> 08:31.400 This is the one? 08:31.400 --> 08:32.400 Yeah. 08:32.400 --> 08:33.400 Oh, yeah, that's the one. 08:33.400 --> 08:34.400 Yeah, that's the one. 08:34.400 --> 08:41.400 This is the one, second drawer, with some shirts there. 08:41.400 --> 08:42.400 Give me one of the blue ones, will you? 08:42.400 --> 08:43.400 One with the tab collar and the little round things on it. 08:43.400 --> 08:44.400 This it? 08:44.400 --> 08:45.400 Yeah. 08:45.400 --> 08:46.400 Here you go. 08:46.400 --> 08:47.400 Thanks. 08:47.400 --> 08:48.400 Thanks a lot. 08:48.400 --> 08:49.400 Hey, why don't you guys figure out, 08:49.400 --> 08:50.400 let me know what this is all about. 08:50.400 --> 08:51.400 What do you do for a living, Allison? 08:51.400 --> 08:52.400 Oh, this and that. 08:52.400 --> 08:53.400 All right, what's that mean? 08:53.400 --> 08:54.400 I work with horses. 08:54.400 --> 08:55.400 You a trainer, that it? 08:55.400 --> 08:56.400 No, not exactly. 08:56.400 --> 08:57.400 A tout? 08:57.400 --> 08:58.400 No. 08:58.400 --> 08:59.400 See, in that top drawer, there's a little velvet box. 08:59.400 --> 09:00.400 Got a collar bar in there. 09:00.400 --> 09:01.400 Would you get it for me, huh? 09:01.400 --> 09:02.400 Here? 09:02.400 --> 09:03.400 Yeah. 09:03.400 --> 09:04.400 And a little bit of a black box. 09:04.400 --> 09:05.400 That's right. 09:05.400 --> 09:06.400 The golden one. 09:06.400 --> 09:07.400 Yeah. 09:07.400 --> 09:08.400 Know what you want? 09:08.400 --> 09:09.400 Yeah, thanks. 09:09.400 --> 09:10.400 Yeah, I got my shoes. 09:10.400 --> 09:11.400 Wait a minute. 09:11.400 --> 09:12.400 Which ones do you want? 09:12.400 --> 09:13.400 The black ones. 09:13.400 --> 09:14.400 It's the only pair. 09:14.400 --> 09:16.400 Who were you drinking with last night, Allison? 09:16.400 --> 09:18.400 Oh, like I told you, a friend. 09:18.400 --> 09:19.400 What's his name? 09:19.400 --> 09:20.400 Look, I told you I wasn't going to say anything 09:20.400 --> 09:21.400 until I found out what this was all about. 09:21.400 --> 09:23.400 All right, Allison, I'm going to lay this out for you. 09:23.400 --> 09:25.400 We were in a bar last night, placed down in Clanton. 09:25.400 --> 09:26.400 You there? 09:26.400 --> 09:27.400 Clanton? 09:27.400 --> 09:28.400 Oh, you mean the 617 Club? 09:28.400 --> 09:29.400 That's right. 09:29.400 --> 09:30.400 Yeah, I was there. 09:30.400 --> 09:31.400 So what? 09:31.400 --> 09:32.400 We were in the booth next to you. 09:32.400 --> 09:35.400 Heard you talk about killing a woman in San Francisco. 09:35.400 --> 09:36.400 You're wrong about that. 09:36.400 --> 09:37.400 Yeah, sure we are. 09:37.400 --> 09:38.400 Let's go downtown. 09:38.400 --> 09:39.400 No, I mean it. 09:39.400 --> 09:40.400 I don't know what you're talking about. 09:40.400 --> 09:41.400 Oh, sure, I was in the bar last night, 09:41.400 --> 09:44.400 but I don't know anything about killing an old broad up north. 09:44.400 --> 09:45.400 Who said she was old? 09:45.400 --> 09:46.400 Well, you just did. 09:46.400 --> 09:47.400 No, I didn't. 09:47.400 --> 09:48.400 Said a woman had been killed. 09:48.400 --> 09:49.400 I didn't say anything about her age. 09:49.400 --> 09:51.400 Well, from the way you said it, I figured she was old. 09:51.400 --> 09:52.400 No, that won't work, Allison. 09:52.400 --> 09:54.400 Look, you've got no reason to think that I did that. 09:54.400 --> 09:55.400 No, you've got no reason to think that. 09:55.400 --> 09:57.400 You admit you were up north about the time it happened. 09:57.400 --> 09:59.400 You were in a bar last night talking about it. 09:59.400 --> 10:02.400 Now, you seem to know quite a bit about the whole thing for somebody who wasn't involved. 10:02.400 --> 10:04.400 Well, maybe I just heard about it, you know. 10:04.400 --> 10:05.400 Where'd you hear about it? 10:05.400 --> 10:06.400 Well, around. 10:06.400 --> 10:07.400 Well, I don't know where, but... 10:07.400 --> 10:08.400 Well, I heard about it. 10:08.400 --> 10:09.400 I mean, that's what happened. 10:09.400 --> 10:11.400 But you guys know it wasn't me. 10:11.400 --> 10:12.400 You know that, don't you? 10:12.400 --> 10:13.400 Who were you with last night? 10:13.400 --> 10:15.400 He the one that did it? Is that it? 10:15.400 --> 10:16.400 I don't know. 10:16.400 --> 10:18.400 I don't know if he did it or not. 10:18.400 --> 10:19.400 I don't know anything about it. 10:19.400 --> 10:21.400 All I know is I wasn't mixed up in it. 10:21.400 --> 10:22.400 I didn't have anything to do with it. 10:22.400 --> 10:23.400 Who's Jack Kenton? 10:23.400 --> 10:24.400 Kenton? 10:24.400 --> 10:25.400 I don't know any Kenton. 10:25.400 --> 10:29.400 Well, he knows you according to this postcard in your drawer over here. 10:29.400 --> 10:30.400 Oh, that right? 10:30.400 --> 10:31.400 Yeah, that's right. 10:31.400 --> 10:33.400 Sam, I'll be in town Monday night. 10:33.400 --> 10:36.400 Meet you at your hotel and sign Jack as a return address. 10:36.400 --> 10:37.400 You're in San Diego. 10:37.400 --> 10:38.400 Now, who is he? 10:38.400 --> 10:39.400 Oh, yeah, Kenton. 10:39.400 --> 10:40.400 I forgot for a minute. 10:40.400 --> 10:44.400 Well, maybe you forgot that he was with you in that bar last night, too, huh? 10:44.400 --> 10:46.400 Well, what happens to me if I do remember? 10:46.400 --> 10:47.400 Are you gonna find out? 10:47.400 --> 10:48.400 I don't think so. 10:48.400 --> 10:50.400 Was he the man you were with last night? 10:50.400 --> 10:51.400 I don't want him to find out. 10:51.400 --> 10:52.400 I got big trouble if he does. 10:52.400 --> 10:53.400 Isn't that right? 10:53.400 --> 10:56.400 Yeah, he's the guy, but don't tell him I said so, will you? 10:56.400 --> 10:57.400 You won't tell him, huh? 10:57.400 --> 10:58.400 Jack would come after me if he knew. 10:58.400 --> 10:59.400 He's really off his rocker. 10:59.400 --> 11:00.400 He is, huh? 11:00.400 --> 11:01.400 Yeah, and he'd kill me if he knew. 11:01.400 --> 11:04.400 You guys are gonna have trouble taking him, you know that, huh? 11:04.400 --> 11:05.400 We are, huh? 11:05.400 --> 11:06.400 Yeah. 11:06.400 --> 11:07.400 He's fallen a couple times before. 11:07.400 --> 11:08.400 Done big time up a queue. 11:08.400 --> 11:09.400 Told me a hundred times before. 11:09.400 --> 11:10.400 At least a hundred times. 11:10.400 --> 11:11.400 Yeah, what's that? 11:11.400 --> 11:13.400 He killed the first cop that came after him. 11:17.400 --> 11:18.400 1117 A.M. 11:18.400 --> 11:21.400 Frank and I took Sam Allison down to the city hall. 11:21.400 --> 11:23.400 He was fingerprinted and mug shots were taken. 11:23.400 --> 11:27.400 A pair of stand-up mugs were sent to San Francisco immediately. 11:27.400 --> 11:29.400 We contacted the San Diego Police Department 11:29.400 --> 11:31.400 and asked them to put a stake out on the address 11:31.400 --> 11:34.400 that was on the postcard we found in Allison's room. 11:34.400 --> 11:36.400 In the event this Jack Kenton returned, 11:36.400 --> 11:38.400 they were to pick him up and call us. 11:38.400 --> 11:41.400 While we talked to them, they ran the name through their files 11:41.400 --> 11:45.400 and found that he had a minor record in San Diego dating back some 15 years. 11:45.400 --> 11:50.400 A check of our files showed that he'd served time in San Quentin for armed robbery 11:50.400 --> 11:53.400 and ADW while trying to commit a robbery. 11:53.400 --> 11:55.400 We got out a local and an APB on him. 11:55.400 --> 11:57.400 We talked to Allison. 11:57.400 --> 11:58.400 He told us that as far as he knew, 11:58.400 --> 12:02.400 Kenton was planning to return to San Diego on the preceding night. 12:02.400 --> 12:06.400 He couldn't give us any information as to where Kenton had stayed while he was in Los Angeles. 12:06.400 --> 12:07.400 2 P.M. 12:07.400 --> 12:10.400 We got a call from San Diego that they'd picked up Jack Kenton. 12:10.400 --> 12:11.400 2.30 P.M. 12:11.400 --> 12:14.400 Frank and I checked out a trip car and left for San Diego. 12:14.400 --> 12:16.400 We checked in with Lieutenant Mort Gear when we got there 12:16.400 --> 12:19.400 and he told us that Kenton had been seen returning to his home 12:19.400 --> 12:22.400 right after we'd contacted them. 12:22.400 --> 12:24.400 We drove out to his place and searched it, 12:24.400 --> 12:27.400 but we found nothing to tie him in with a murder in San Francisco. 12:27.400 --> 12:28.400 8.30 P.M. 12:28.400 --> 12:31.400 We left San Diego and returned to Los Angeles. 12:31.400 --> 12:35.400 On the return trip, Kenton was sullen and refused to answer any questions. 12:35.400 --> 12:36.400 We took him to the city hall. 12:36.400 --> 12:37.400 1.15 A.M. 12:37.400 --> 12:41.400 Oh, lousy dear, you guys are trying to tie a bum rap on me and you know it. 12:41.400 --> 12:42.400 Do we? Sure. 12:42.400 --> 12:43.400 You ever do any big time, Kenton? 12:43.400 --> 12:44.400 No. 12:44.400 --> 12:45.400 Never been to jail, huh? 12:45.400 --> 12:46.400 No. 12:46.400 --> 12:47.400 That's not what our record says. 12:47.400 --> 12:50.400 Maybe a couple of tickets for traffic stuff. 12:50.400 --> 12:52.400 Book says you served time at Q. How about that? 12:52.400 --> 12:54.400 A couple of years, yeah. 12:54.400 --> 12:56.400 Don't you figure that is big time? 12:56.400 --> 12:57.400 Yeah, I suppose so. 12:57.400 --> 12:59.400 Then why didn't you tell us about it? 12:59.400 --> 13:00.400 I forgot. 13:00.400 --> 13:01.400 You been in San Francisco lately? 13:01.400 --> 13:03.400 Oh, you sure? I'm sure. 13:03.400 --> 13:06.400 We got a rumble that you were up there around the first year. 13:06.400 --> 13:07.400 That right? Yeah. 13:07.400 --> 13:11.400 Well, you tell your pigeon that he's not even a fruitcake if he says I was up in Frisco. 13:11.400 --> 13:13.400 Couple other people who say you were up there too. 13:13.400 --> 13:14.400 Yeah, who? 13:14.400 --> 13:15.400 Couple of people. 13:15.400 --> 13:17.400 Well, they're offering that too if they say that. 13:17.400 --> 13:19.400 The officers say so too. 13:19.400 --> 13:20.400 How do they figure that? 13:20.400 --> 13:22.400 They got an eye dent on your picture. 13:22.400 --> 13:24.400 I was never picked up in Frisco. They got no picture of me. 13:24.400 --> 13:25.400 We got a few. 13:25.400 --> 13:27.400 So I done time out L.A. 13:27.400 --> 13:28.400 Yeah, you did. 13:28.400 --> 13:30.400 When we get a mug, we ship a copy up north. They do the same. 13:30.400 --> 13:32.400 That right? That's right. 13:32.400 --> 13:33.400 So maybe I'll be big about all this. 13:33.400 --> 13:36.400 Admit I was in Frisco around the first of year. What's that prove? 13:36.400 --> 13:38.400 What'd you do while you were up there? 13:38.400 --> 13:39.400 Moved around. 13:39.400 --> 13:40.400 Went up for vacation. 13:40.400 --> 13:42.400 What do you do for a living? 13:42.400 --> 13:43.400 A little of everything. 13:43.400 --> 13:45.400 What's that include? 13:45.400 --> 13:47.400 Like I said, a little of everything. 13:47.400 --> 13:49.400 What'd you tell the parole board? 13:49.400 --> 13:50.400 I tell them I'm a contractor. 13:50.400 --> 13:51.400 What do you build? 13:51.400 --> 13:53.400 Whatever needs building. I'm versatile. 13:53.400 --> 13:55.400 You're pretty smart too, aren't you? 13:55.400 --> 13:58.400 Look, I know my rights. I know that you know that I'm an ex-con. 13:58.400 --> 13:59.400 You know it as well as I do. 13:59.400 --> 14:01.400 But there ain't no P.V. tab on my card. 14:01.400 --> 14:03.400 I don't go around a corner without telling the board. 14:03.400 --> 14:05.400 You got nothing on me for that. 14:05.400 --> 14:07.400 They know you're in San Francisco? 14:07.400 --> 14:09.400 Yeah, like I said, it was for a vacation. 14:09.400 --> 14:10.400 Where'd you live up there? 14:10.400 --> 14:12.400 Around. Hotel down on Geary. 14:12.400 --> 14:14.400 How long were we there? 14:14.400 --> 14:16.400 Maybe three weeks, month. 14:16.400 --> 14:17.400 Got a cigarette? 14:17.400 --> 14:18.400 Yeah. 14:18.400 --> 14:20.400 Here. 14:20.400 --> 14:21.400 Thanks. 14:27.400 --> 14:28.400 Thanks. 14:28.400 --> 14:29.400 What's this all about anyway? 14:29.400 --> 14:31.400 What's the pitch with Was I in Frisco? 14:31.400 --> 14:33.400 You remember where you were last night? 14:33.400 --> 14:34.400 Yeah, I was up here. 14:34.400 --> 14:35.400 I came up to see a friend. 14:35.400 --> 14:36.400 Who's a friend? 14:36.400 --> 14:37.400 I don't remember. 14:37.400 --> 14:39.400 Where'd you see this friend? 14:39.400 --> 14:40.400 Bar. 14:40.400 --> 14:42.400 Had a couple of drinks and I went to a movie. 14:42.400 --> 14:43.400 What bar? 14:43.400 --> 14:45.400 I don't remember. Some place downtown. 14:45.400 --> 14:46.400 Over on Clanton, maybe? 14:46.400 --> 14:47.400 That could be. 14:47.400 --> 14:49.400 Like I said, I don't remember. 14:49.400 --> 14:52.400 We figure it was the 617 Club on Clanton. 14:52.400 --> 14:53.400 You know more than I do. 14:53.400 --> 14:55.400 You were there with Sam Allison, isn't it, Ray? 14:55.400 --> 14:57.400 Allison? 14:57.400 --> 14:59.400 Don't think I know anybody by that name. 14:59.400 --> 15:01.400 He says he knows you. 15:01.400 --> 15:02.400 Allison? 15:02.400 --> 15:03.400 No, I don't think I know any... 15:03.400 --> 15:04.400 All right, now let's come off it, Kenton. 15:04.400 --> 15:05.400 We know you were there. 15:05.400 --> 15:06.400 We were in the booth right next to you. 15:06.400 --> 15:08.400 We heard you talk about killing the woman in San Francisco. 15:08.400 --> 15:09.400 We heard every word you said. 15:09.400 --> 15:11.400 You must have been listening to somebody else. 15:11.400 --> 15:13.400 You got the wrong pitch all the way around. 15:13.400 --> 15:14.400 I wasn't there last night. 15:14.400 --> 15:15.400 I don't know any Sam Allison. 15:15.400 --> 15:18.400 I didn't kill anyone in San Francisco or anyplace else. 15:18.400 --> 15:20.400 The bartender down there says he knows you. 15:20.400 --> 15:21.400 Says you were in the place last night. 15:21.400 --> 15:22.400 We saw you there ourselves. 15:22.400 --> 15:24.400 You know, you guys ought to lay off that cheap booze 15:24.400 --> 15:26.400 that's beginning to hit your eyes. 15:26.400 --> 15:28.400 We got another witness who says you were there. 15:28.400 --> 15:29.400 They're willing to swear to it. 15:29.400 --> 15:31.400 All right, so maybe I was. What's that proof? 15:31.400 --> 15:32.400 Why'd you lie about it? 15:32.400 --> 15:34.400 I didn't lie. I just forgot. 15:34.400 --> 15:36.400 Maybe you forgot about San Francisco too. Is that it? 15:36.400 --> 15:38.400 No, I didn't forget about it. 15:38.400 --> 15:40.400 You said you spent your time up north in a bar. Which bar? 15:40.400 --> 15:41.400 Cookies. 15:41.400 --> 15:42.400 Where's that? 15:42.400 --> 15:43.400 On Kearney. 15:43.400 --> 15:44.400 You got any way to prove you were there? 15:44.400 --> 15:45.400 With those cookies? 15:45.400 --> 15:47.400 Sure, talk to Cookie himself. He'll tell you. 15:47.400 --> 15:48.400 What's his last name? 15:48.400 --> 15:49.400 I don't know. 15:49.400 --> 15:51.400 You spent all his time with him, you don't know his last name. 15:51.400 --> 15:52.400 Cookie, just plain Cookie. 15:52.400 --> 15:54.400 That's all you need to know to get a drink. 15:54.400 --> 15:55.400 He ever done any time? 15:55.400 --> 15:56.400 Not Cookie. 15:56.400 --> 15:58.400 He'll do almost anything to make a buck 15:58.400 --> 16:00.400 as long as he doesn't have to work for it. 16:00.400 --> 16:02.400 But he's never fallen, I know about it. 16:02.400 --> 16:04.400 He's too busy watering the booze he sells. 16:04.400 --> 16:05.400 You ever get down here Fisherman's Wharf up there? 16:05.400 --> 16:07.400 No. Never left downtown. 16:07.400 --> 16:10.400 Then you couldn't have been down there on January 12th, now could you? 16:10.400 --> 16:12.400 How do I know where I was on the 12th? 16:12.400 --> 16:13.400 I said I wasn't near the wharf. 16:13.400 --> 16:16.400 That means on the 12th, 13th, 14th, as far as you want to go. 16:16.400 --> 16:18.400 I don't know how else to say it. 16:18.400 --> 16:20.400 I wasn't down on Fisherman's Wharf. 16:20.400 --> 16:22.400 Is that where this woman got it? 16:22.400 --> 16:24.400 Might have been, yeah. Doesn't make any difference though. 16:24.400 --> 16:26.400 You didn't leave downtown, did you? 16:26.400 --> 16:28.400 No, never left downtown. 16:28.400 --> 16:31.400 Gary Street for the hotel, Kearney Street for cookies. That's all. 16:31.400 --> 16:33.400 How about Land's End? Ever get out there? 16:33.400 --> 16:35.400 Maybe if I write it out. 16:35.400 --> 16:37.400 Maybe then you'll get what I'm trying to say. 16:37.400 --> 16:39.400 I was always downtown. I never left it. 16:39.400 --> 16:41.400 I didn't go to Land's End. I didn't go to Fisherman's Wharf. 16:41.400 --> 16:43.400 I didn't go to the tea gardens in the park. 16:43.400 --> 16:45.400 I never left downtown. 16:45.400 --> 16:46.400 You're sure about that? 16:46.400 --> 16:47.400 I've told you. I've told you. 16:47.400 --> 16:49.400 Every way I know how, that's all I can do. 16:49.400 --> 16:51.400 Yeah, well, there's something that doesn't jive here, Kenton. 16:51.400 --> 16:52.400 What's that? 16:52.400 --> 16:53.400 We got a call from San Francisco. 16:53.400 --> 16:56.400 They got a girl up there who was out on Land's End on January 15th. 16:56.400 --> 16:59.400 She says that she'll identify you as the man who killed the woman that night. 16:59.400 --> 17:01.400 She says she's positive. 17:01.400 --> 17:04.400 That's why all this bit about was I someplace on January 12th, huh? 17:04.400 --> 17:05.400 Yeah, that's right. 17:05.400 --> 17:06.400 Playing it real cozy, aren't you? 17:06.400 --> 17:07.400 Well, it won't work, Cop. 17:07.400 --> 17:10.400 Thanks, but no thanks. I'm having none of it. 17:10.400 --> 17:12.400 Now, you guys go and try to figure some other way. 17:12.400 --> 17:14.400 You got nothing on me. Nothing, and you know it. 17:14.400 --> 17:17.400 Now, if you're tired of playing games, either give me my walking papers or book me. 17:17.400 --> 17:19.400 I'm tired. I want to go to sleep. 17:19.400 --> 17:20.400 The girl will be here in the morning, Kenton. 17:20.400 --> 17:23.400 That's swell. I got to get my sleep then. I want to look real nice for her. 17:23.400 --> 17:25.400 All right. Let's go. 17:26.400 --> 17:29.400 You know, Cop, that's one nice thing about the law's mistake. 17:29.400 --> 17:30.400 Yeah? 17:30.400 --> 17:32.400 I don't have to do a thing. Just sit and watch. 17:32.400 --> 17:33.400 You got to prove it. 17:33.400 --> 17:36.400 Any way you slice it, you got to do the work. I don't have to do a thing. 17:36.400 --> 17:38.400 Yeah, that's right, Kenton. There's only one little difference. 17:38.400 --> 17:40.400 Yeah, we make you and you got to do the time. 17:51.400 --> 17:56.400 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 17:57.400 --> 18:00.400 Chesterfield is best for you. 18:00.400 --> 18:02.400 Premium quality Chesterfield. 18:02.400 --> 18:07.400 Yes, only Chesterfield has premium quality in both regular and king size. 18:07.400 --> 18:12.400 And only Chesterfield gives you this scientific evidence on the effects of smoking. 18:12.400 --> 18:18.400 A medical specialist is making regular bi-monthly examinations of a group of people from various walks of life. 18:18.400 --> 18:24.400 Forty-five percent of this group, about half of them, have smoked Chesterfield for an average of over ten years. 18:24.400 --> 18:34.400 After eight months, the medical specialist reports that he observed no adverse effects on the nose, throat, and sinuses of the group from smoking Chesterfield. 18:34.400 --> 18:38.400 Those are the facts. I'd say that means real mildness. 18:38.400 --> 18:42.400 So buy them either way you like them, regular or king size. 18:42.400 --> 18:46.400 You'll find premium quality Chesterfields much milder. 18:46.400 --> 18:54.400 Yes, Chesterfield is best for you. 19:00.400 --> 19:06.400 Three thirty-nine a.m. We took Jack Kenton down and had some stand-up mugs made of him and sent to San Francisco. 19:06.400 --> 19:09.400 Kenton was booked at the main jail in suspicion of murder. 19:09.400 --> 19:13.400 Five twenty-six a.m. Frank and I checked out of the office and we went home. 19:13.400 --> 19:19.400 The next day at one thirty p.m. we met with Captain Lorm in a homicide division and talked over the developments with him. 19:19.400 --> 19:24.400 Together we worked out a plan that we thought might work in getting Allison to admit to the murder. 19:24.400 --> 19:29.400 Four fifteen p.m. we had Kenton brought from his cell in the main jail to the interrogation room at the city hall. 19:29.400 --> 19:32.400 We talked to him for two hours. He'd admit nothing. 19:32.400 --> 19:34.400 Where's your witness about time she got here, isn't it? 19:34.400 --> 19:36.400 She'll be here. 19:36.400 --> 19:41.400 If she gets this thing over with, I'm getting a little sick of playing ring around a rosie with you boys. 19:41.400 --> 19:43.400 Maybe you haven't got anything else to do, but I have. 19:43.400 --> 19:45.400 Why, Ryan, what's so important, Kenton? 19:45.400 --> 19:48.400 Got a heavy date down in San Diego tonight. 19:48.400 --> 19:49.400 This is Friday, isn't it? 19:49.400 --> 19:50.400 That's right. 19:50.400 --> 19:52.400 Real doll. 19:52.400 --> 19:54.400 Been trying to date with her for a couple of weeks. 19:54.400 --> 19:56.400 Finally made it. 19:56.400 --> 19:58.400 You guys think I'll be out of here by six? 19:58.400 --> 20:00.400 Depends on what the witness is. 20:00.400 --> 20:01.400 How about a cigarette, huh? 20:01.400 --> 20:03.400 Yeah. Here you are. 20:03.400 --> 20:05.400 I got a man. 20:08.400 --> 20:10.400 Cops find anything in my house? 20:10.400 --> 20:12.400 What do you mean? 20:12.400 --> 20:14.400 When they went through it. 20:14.400 --> 20:17.400 Look, I've been through this before. I know the bit as well as you guys do. 20:17.400 --> 20:21.400 A fellow falls once, does some time, your cops never leave him alone. 20:24.400 --> 20:26.400 You drink much, Kenton? 20:26.400 --> 20:27.400 Hmm? 20:27.400 --> 20:28.400 You drink much. 20:28.400 --> 20:31.400 Yeah, I have a highball once in a while. 20:31.400 --> 20:33.400 What's the matter? Something wrong with that? 20:33.400 --> 20:35.400 You guys gonna give me a lecture on the evils of alcohol? 20:35.400 --> 20:38.400 No, just trying to figure out what kind of a guy you are when you're loaded. 20:38.400 --> 20:41.400 Well, I'm a doll. Living doll. 20:41.400 --> 20:44.400 Put on lampshades, tell funny stories, life of the party, that's me. 20:44.400 --> 20:46.400 You ever have a crying jag when you've been drinking? 20:46.400 --> 20:47.400 Nope. 20:47.400 --> 20:48.400 Sure about that? 20:48.400 --> 20:49.400 Yeah. 20:49.400 --> 20:50.400 Well, we got it. 20:50.400 --> 20:52.400 Soon as you get a couple of belts in you start to ball. 20:52.400 --> 20:53.400 Now, how about that? 20:53.400 --> 20:55.400 Whoever told you that's lying? 20:55.400 --> 20:58.400 Seems pretty sure about it, this fella. 20:58.400 --> 21:01.400 You seem to have a lot of information from this fella of yours. 21:01.400 --> 21:02.400 Who is the guy? 21:02.400 --> 21:03.400 Friend of ours. 21:03.400 --> 21:04.400 Yeah? 21:04.400 --> 21:06.400 He sure isn't a friend of mine. 21:06.400 --> 21:08.400 Good idea who it is. 21:08.400 --> 21:10.400 Sounds a lot like my friend Sam. 21:10.400 --> 21:11.400 That's him? 21:11.400 --> 21:13.400 Yeah, old Sam, the working man's friend. 21:13.400 --> 21:17.400 Rumble we got says you were with him the night before last, is that right? 21:17.400 --> 21:18.400 Oh, yeah. 21:18.400 --> 21:23.400 This is the night you guys were in the next booth and heard all the stuff about me killing the old brawn. 21:23.400 --> 21:26.400 What's this bit about a rumble? You know what and I do. 21:26.400 --> 21:30.400 You picked up Sam, he talked his mouth out to save his own skin. 21:30.400 --> 21:33.400 You guys are about as coy as a bulldozer. 21:33.400 --> 21:35.400 Why don't you come off it? You're not working with an amateur. 21:35.400 --> 21:37.400 I've been around for a long time. 21:37.400 --> 21:40.400 I know the angles. You guys got nothing on me. 21:40.400 --> 21:43.400 You got nothing because I'm clean. 21:43.400 --> 21:46.400 Just want to be big men. 21:46.400 --> 21:50.400 Got nothing else to do so you decided to kill a little time by leaning on somebody. 21:50.400 --> 21:55.400 I happen to be around. I got a record so I fit your program real pretty. 21:55.400 --> 21:57.400 Well, get off my back. I've had it. 21:57.400 --> 22:03.400 Now either book me on suspicion and I'll sue you for every last dime you got or let me go. 22:03.400 --> 22:05.400 I got a date I want to keep. 22:05.400 --> 22:07.400 That's a nice try, Ken. It won't work. 22:07.400 --> 22:08.400 What do you mean? 22:08.400 --> 22:10.400 All right, I'll lay out a few things for you. 22:10.400 --> 22:14.400 A woman was killed in San Francisco on January 15th. You were in town that day. 22:14.400 --> 22:16.400 You got a record for robbery and assault. 22:16.400 --> 22:18.400 Woman was robbed and then killed. 22:18.400 --> 22:20.400 You got blind one night and you talked all about it. 22:20.400 --> 22:22.400 You had a real crying jag and you got worried. 22:22.400 --> 22:24.400 You talked about how everybody you saw looked like a cop. 22:24.400 --> 22:27.400 They all looked like they knew what you'd done and they were moving to nail you for it. 22:27.400 --> 22:29.400 You got a real bad case of the bull horrors. 22:29.400 --> 22:32.400 We got a friend of yours who says you could have been the guy. 22:32.400 --> 22:35.400 We got an identification from a girl who says you killed that old woman. 22:35.400 --> 22:36.400 She's on her way down here now. 22:36.400 --> 22:38.400 As soon as she sees you and makes it positive, you had it, mister. 22:38.400 --> 22:40.400 Now that's what you said. 22:40.400 --> 22:42.400 You talk real convincing. 22:42.400 --> 22:44.400 Makes it sound like you really got something on me. 22:44.400 --> 22:46.400 We have, Kenton, and you know it. 22:46.400 --> 22:48.400 Let's check and see if that girl's here. 22:48.400 --> 22:50.400 Yeah, I will. 22:56.400 --> 22:57.400 Got a cigarette? 22:57.400 --> 23:02.400 Yeah, here. 23:04.400 --> 23:05.400 Now what's the matter, Kenton? 23:05.400 --> 23:07.400 You figure maybe we aren't giving you a snow job? 23:07.400 --> 23:09.400 No, I know where I stand. 23:09.400 --> 23:12.400 I'm just getting a little worried that maybe this girl might make a mistake. 23:12.400 --> 23:14.400 It could happen, you know. It's happened before. 23:14.400 --> 23:15.400 Is that right? 23:15.400 --> 23:17.400 Sure, lots of times. 23:17.400 --> 23:20.400 You know, somebody watches a thing like this, they aren't sure what they've really seen. 23:20.400 --> 23:22.400 Some college back east proved it. 23:22.400 --> 23:23.400 Is that so? 23:23.400 --> 23:27.400 He had a deal where one of the students pretended he was going to knock off the teacher. 23:27.400 --> 23:29.400 After he'd done it, all the kids gave a different story of what happened. 23:29.400 --> 23:30.400 It happens all the time. 23:30.400 --> 23:31.400 Yeah. 23:31.400 --> 23:34.400 Well, if you didn't do it, then you got nothing to worry about, have you? 23:34.400 --> 23:36.400 No, I suppose not. 23:43.400 --> 23:45.400 She says she saw the guy, huh? 23:45.400 --> 23:47.400 Yeah, that's right. 23:47.400 --> 23:49.400 Came all the way down here to look at me, huh? 23:49.400 --> 23:53.400 Yep. 23:53.400 --> 23:55.400 You figure she's here yet? 23:55.400 --> 23:57.400 Should be. 23:57.400 --> 23:59.400 Her plane landed an hour ago. 23:59.400 --> 24:01.400 Mm-hmm. 24:03.400 --> 24:07.400 You say she identified my picture, she said I was the guy? 24:07.400 --> 24:09.400 I didn't hear it, it just came in, man. 24:14.400 --> 24:16.400 That's him. 24:16.400 --> 24:18.400 That's the man. He killed her. I saw it. 24:18.400 --> 24:20.400 I'd never forget him. That's the man. 24:20.400 --> 24:23.400 She's crazy. She's wrong. You know that, don't you? She's wrong. 24:23.400 --> 24:26.400 Don't let him touch me. The man's a murderer. He killed the old woman. I saw him. 24:26.400 --> 24:29.400 Beat her to death. I saw him do it. 24:29.400 --> 24:32.400 All right, lady. We'll be all right. All right, Miss Carter. 24:32.400 --> 24:33.400 You want to step outside? 24:33.400 --> 24:35.400 Oh, yes, please. I want to get away from him. 24:35.400 --> 24:38.400 I don't ever want to have to look at him again. 24:44.400 --> 24:46.400 How about it? 24:46.400 --> 24:48.400 I didn't see her. 24:48.400 --> 24:51.400 I didn't see her. I didn't know anybody was around. 24:51.400 --> 24:53.400 I didn't mean to kill the old woman. 24:53.400 --> 24:56.400 I didn't. You know that, don't you? Yeah, sure. 24:56.400 --> 24:59.400 She wouldn't give me her purse. 24:59.400 --> 25:03.400 I followed her from downtown, all the way out on the streetcar. 25:03.400 --> 25:05.400 I got out and followed her. 25:05.400 --> 25:08.400 Right by Sutro's, by the Cliff House. 25:08.400 --> 25:12.400 Then I tried to take the money, she wouldn't give it to me. 25:12.400 --> 25:15.400 Only about 30 bucks. 25:15.400 --> 25:17.400 Why didn't she give it to me? 25:17.400 --> 25:20.400 30 bucks, it wasn't worth it to her. 25:20.400 --> 25:23.400 For 30 bucks. 25:23.400 --> 25:27.400 It would have been all right if that girl hadn't seen. 25:27.400 --> 25:29.400 I looked, tried to make sure nobody saw her. 25:29.400 --> 25:32.400 I didn't see her. I did. 25:34.400 --> 25:36.400 You want to stay with him, Frank, while I get the stenographer? 25:36.400 --> 25:39.400 Yeah, Joe, go ahead. Okay. 25:42.400 --> 25:44.400 Did it work, Sergeant? 25:44.400 --> 25:46.400 Yeah, it worked fine. 25:46.400 --> 25:48.400 Funny, I was scared stiff when I went in. 25:48.400 --> 25:49.400 Wasn't sure I could carry it off. 25:49.400 --> 25:51.400 It worked fine. He copped out, admitted everything. 25:51.400 --> 25:53.400 If there's nothing else, I'll go on back to work. 25:53.400 --> 25:54.400 Thanks, Stella. 25:54.400 --> 25:56.400 Look, will you tell Cunningham that I'll give him a ring, will you? 25:56.400 --> 25:57.400 Yeah. 25:57.400 --> 25:59.400 Say, Sergeant. Yeah. 25:59.400 --> 26:00.400 Thanks for letting me help. 26:00.400 --> 26:04.400 You know, filing packages and her and I get the little doll down there. 26:04.400 --> 26:07.400 The story you have just heard was true. 26:07.400 --> 26:10.400 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:10.400 --> 26:13.400 On August 17th, trial was held in Department 89, 26:13.400 --> 26:15.400 Superior Court of the State of California, 26:15.400 --> 26:17.400 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 26:17.400 --> 26:19.400 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:19.400 --> 26:21.400 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:21.400 --> 26:23.400 Thank you, George Fenomen. 26:23.400 --> 26:25.400 Friends, it's getting a little closer to Christmas, 26:25.400 --> 26:27.400 and there's a man right near you. 26:27.400 --> 26:29.400 He's a good friend of mine. 26:29.400 --> 26:31.400 He's a good friend of mine. 26:31.400 --> 26:34.400 Friends, it's getting a little closer to Christmas, and there's a man right near you. 26:34.400 --> 26:37.400 You're a neighborhood cigarette dealer who has a lot of fine gift ideas. 26:37.400 --> 26:41.400 Of course, he's featuring the gift of the year, the Chesterfield Christmas Carton. 26:41.400 --> 26:45.400 It's the ideal gift because Chesterfield is the only premium quality cigarette 26:45.400 --> 26:48.400 available to you in both regular and king size. 26:48.400 --> 26:51.400 Chesterfield is the one I smoke, and it's the one I'm giving for Christmas. 26:51.400 --> 27:05.400 Regular or king size, premium quality Chesterfields are much milder. 27:05.400 --> 27:09.400 Jack Gerald Kenton was tried and found guilty of murder in the first degree. 27:09.400 --> 27:14.400 He is now serving a life sentence in the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 27:14.400 --> 27:21.400 Ladies and gentlemen, until everyone is safe, no one is safe from tuberculosis. 27:21.400 --> 27:25.400 Help save lives by buying all the Christmas seals you can 27:25.400 --> 27:29.400 and using Christmas seals on all your Christmas mail. 27:29.400 --> 27:47.400 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 27:47.400 --> 27:52.400 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 27:52.400 --> 27:58.400 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wins, Sergeant Fance Brasher. 27:58.400 --> 28:02.400 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartel, 28:02.400 --> 28:11.400 script by John Robinson, music by Walter Schuman, Hal Gipney speaking. 28:11.400 --> 28:14.400 Sound off for Chesterfield. 28:14.400 --> 28:25.400 Either way you like them, regular or king size, you'll find premium quality Chesterfields much milder. 28:25.400 --> 28:30.400 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles. 28:30.400 --> 28:56.400 Music