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For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 02:13.000 --> 02:20.000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 02:20.000 --> 02:29.000 It was Thursday, February 7th. It was raining in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 02:29.000 --> 02:33.000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Didion. My name is Friday. 02:33.000 --> 02:38.000 I was on the way back from R&I and it was 8.42 a.m. when I got to room 27A. Robbery. 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 Hi, you Joe? 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 Yeah. 02:40.000 --> 02:41.000 Where you been? 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 Gone to R&I. 02:42.000 --> 02:43.000 Oh, I'm sorry I'm late. 02:43.000 --> 02:44.000 No, it's no problem. 02:44.000 --> 02:48.000 Couldn't get the car started. The battery was dead. I had to call the gas station and have them get me started. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Well, don't worry about it. It's okay. 02:50.000 --> 02:51.000 Anything here in the book? 02:51.000 --> 02:57.000 No. Checked them when I got in. Had a 211 out in Westwood last night. Same M.O. might be the guy. 02:57.000 --> 02:58.000 Who's checking it? 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 Murph and Creasy went out there this morning. 03:01.000 --> 03:07.000 Here's the stuff we got last night. R&I went through it. Doesn't look like they got anything. You seen the skipper yet? 03:07.000 --> 03:11.000 No, I saw him come in. I didn't talk to him. Came in, went to his office carrying a bottle of milk. 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 Well, that figures. 03:12.000 --> 03:17.000 He's like a barometer, isn't he Joe? When there's no milk on his desk, you know, everything's under control. 03:17.000 --> 03:18.000 Yeah. 03:18.000 --> 03:20.000 As soon as that milk comes out, you know the ulcers are grinding. 03:20.000 --> 03:21.000 Yeah, I suppose. 03:21.000 --> 03:25.000 Yeah, it must be real rough on him though. The way the papers have been yakking about this thing. 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 I saw Captain Jack this morning on the way in. 03:27.000 --> 03:28.000 Yeah. 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 He said the corner pockets leaned him all over him. 03:30.000 --> 03:35.000 Well, there's gotta be an answer some place. The guy can't just keep walking into the stores and walking out again. He's gotta make a mistake some place. 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 Yeah. What's that figure? Six jobs so far? 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 Yeah, six of them. Every one of them. He's made it clean. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 Hot shot. I'll get it. 03:42.000 --> 03:47.000 Well, those figures were wrong. 03:47.000 --> 03:48.000 Yeah? 03:48.000 --> 03:49.000 He just made it seven. 03:49.000 --> 03:58.000 For the past two months, a holdup man had been hitting markets throughout the central area. 03:58.000 --> 04:04.000 In each case, the description of the bandit was the same. His M.O. tallied with that used in other robberies. 04:04.000 --> 04:08.000 In each instance, the bandit had been waiting for the manager of the market when the store was open. 04:08.000 --> 04:13.000 At gunpoint, the suspect would force the manager to accompany him around the market. 04:13.000 --> 04:16.000 He'd push a wire food cart in front of him as they walked. 04:16.000 --> 04:20.000 He'd pick up various merchandise and place it in the basket. 04:20.000 --> 04:28.000 He'd then force the manager to open the safe, clean it out, lock the manager in a cold storage vault, and walk out of the market pushing the food cart in front of him. 04:28.000 --> 04:31.000 Special stakeouts had been arranged at the market. 04:31.000 --> 04:35.000 Extra units from Metro Division had been assigned to patrol duty, but the holdups continued. 04:35.000 --> 04:42.000 922 A.M. Frank and I got to the address of the latest robbery, the county market at the corner of Olympic and Maryland. 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 A radio car was there when we arrived. 04:44.000 --> 04:48.000 Come in. 04:48.000 --> 04:49.000 Yes, something you wanted. 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 Police officers. It's my partner, Frank Smith. My name's Friday. 04:52.000 --> 04:56.000 Hello, I'm Arthur Scott. I'm the manager here. You got that man did this yet? 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 No, sir, not yet. I wonder if you could tell us just what happened. 04:58.000 --> 04:59.000 Sure. 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 You know where the other officers are, Mr. Scott? 05:01.000 --> 05:05.000 Outside someplace they were talking to the others, getting names and addresses, something like that. 05:05.000 --> 05:06.000 You want to check them, Frank? 05:06.000 --> 05:07.000 Yeah, sure. 05:07.000 --> 05:10.000 Fine. I wonder if you'd mind telling me just what happened. 05:10.000 --> 05:18.000 Well, the man was waiting for me when I came in this morning. I don't know how he got in. He just walked up behind me and said that I shouldn't cause any trouble. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 By what time was this, do you remember? 05:19.000 --> 05:23.000 Well, let's see. It must have been about 710, 715. 05:23.000 --> 05:26.000 Yeah, I came in the front door. Everything looked all right. 05:26.000 --> 05:31.000 I walked back here on my way to the office. He just came up and backed up me. 05:31.000 --> 05:32.000 Yes, sir. 05:32.000 --> 05:35.000 He had this gun. He pointed at me and told me not to cause any trouble, like I said. 05:35.000 --> 05:37.000 What kind of a gun was it, would you remember? 05:37.000 --> 05:39.000 It was just a gun. He pointed it right at me. 05:39.000 --> 05:43.000 Well, I understand that, sir. Do you remember if it was an automatic or a revolver? 05:43.000 --> 05:49.000 I guess it was a revolver, a long barrel. I could see the bullets in it. I knew it was loaded. I wasn't going to mess with him. 05:49.000 --> 05:51.000 Yes, sir. And what happened after he walked up to you? 05:51.000 --> 05:57.000 He told me that if I went along with him, I wouldn't get hurt. And then he walked me up to the front of the store by the check stands, 05:57.000 --> 06:04.000 took one of the baskets, and started to walk along the racks. Made me walk in front of him. Real nerve. He took his time. 06:04.000 --> 06:08.000 Well, while we walked along, he'd take things out of the displays. 06:08.000 --> 06:09.000 What kind of things? 06:09.000 --> 06:17.000 Well, you know, different kind of cheeses, caviar, took some special artichoke hearts. Things cost a buck and a half a jar. Expensive. 06:17.000 --> 06:22.000 Yes, sir. What did the man look like, Mr. Scott? Can you give us any kind of a description? 06:22.000 --> 06:29.000 Well, that's kind of hard. He had on this big overcoat and a brown hat pulled down, and then the black mask over his face. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 I couldn't get a very good look at him. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 Well, how old would you say he was? 06:33.000 --> 06:38.000 Oh, boy, I'd have to guess on that. Maybe 50, 55. Looked that old anyway. 06:38.000 --> 06:43.000 But all I could see was the bottom part of his face, like he was pretty old. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 How about the color of his eyes? Could you see them? 06:45.000 --> 06:49.000 Yeah, through the mask they were blue. Real light blue, kind of watery. 06:49.000 --> 06:51.000 About how tall would you say he was? 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 Maybe five, two or three. Short little man. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 How about his weight? 06:55.000 --> 07:00.000 Real little, like I said. I don't think he weighed more than 130. That'd be outside, too. 07:00.000 --> 07:03.000 Was there anything unusual about him? Anything at all that you can remember? 07:03.000 --> 07:05.000 No, not that I can remember. 07:05.000 --> 07:08.000 Anything in the way he talked? Some accent of any kind? Anything like that? 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 No, nothing at all there. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 How about the coat he was wearing? What color was that? Do you remember? 07:12.000 --> 07:18.000 It was a dark brown, sort of a herringbone. Real old, like he'd been worn for a long time, 07:18.000 --> 07:21.000 kind of frayed around the edges of the cuffs. You know, around here like this. 07:21.000 --> 07:25.000 And the buttonholes on the coat were all torn, too. Oh, excuse me. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 Yes, we're going to go ahead. 07:27.000 --> 07:33.000 Scott? Yeah? How much? Yeah, and how much case? 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 Mm-hmm. 07:35.000 --> 07:39.000 That's not too bad. Yeah, well, order 25 cases of it, huh? 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 We'll use it as a loss later this weekend. 07:41.000 --> 07:46.000 Oh, okay. Well, don't bother me about it now. You do what you think. 07:46.000 --> 07:51.000 Okay. Seems like nobody can do anything but you give people a little responsibility. 07:51.000 --> 07:54.000 They hardly ever know how to use it. Yes, sir. What if you'd go ahead with your story? 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 Hmm? Well, right after this man picked up the food? 07:57.000 --> 08:03.000 Oh, well, at first I thought he was going to take that, and then I got thinking about the stuff in the papers. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 You know about the black mask bandit? Yes, sir. 08:05.000 --> 08:08.000 Well, I got thinking about that, and then I knew who he was. 08:08.000 --> 08:11.000 I tried to get as much information about him as I could. 08:11.000 --> 08:17.000 Not much anyway, but this time must have been 7.30 or so. Jack Thomas came in. 08:17.000 --> 08:21.000 He works in the vegetable department. And right away this guy said for him to get in the back. 08:21.000 --> 08:25.000 You mean back here? No, back in the meat department. Put him right in the refrigerator. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 Well, what about the other employees? What happened when they came in? 08:27.000 --> 08:32.000 He'd make them get back in the refrigerator. Cold. People were pretty lucky. 08:32.000 --> 08:35.000 Being as how it's cold outside, most of them had coats on. Would have froze if they didn't have. 08:35.000 --> 08:36.000 I understand. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 Customers too. They'd come in. He'd put them in the refrigerator. 08:38.000 --> 08:43.000 There was 14 people in there when he got through. A couple of kids, too. Came in with their mothers. 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 I see. 08:44.000 --> 08:49.000 Well, then he took me back to the safe, made me open it. I thought about saying no, but it's a little safe. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 You know down low? Yes, sir. 08:51.000 --> 08:56.000 Well, I knelt down to work the combination. I looked up at him. He had the gun pointed right at my head. 08:56.000 --> 09:01.000 I looked right into the barrel, saw the bullets in the cylinders. I was scared, and I opened the safe. 09:01.000 --> 09:04.000 He took the money and put it in a paper bag and dropped it into the basket. 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 And he put you in the refrigerator, too, did he? 09:06.000 --> 09:13.000 Yeah. That is, he started to when he opened the door of the people and they were all shivering, flailing their arms around, trying to keep warm. 09:13.000 --> 09:17.000 It's a little room, not much bigger than this, and there wasn't much room to flail. 09:17.000 --> 09:23.000 Anyway, they asked him if he wouldn't let them out. He said no, but then he asked me if there was someplace else he could put him. 09:23.000 --> 09:29.000 And I told him that the only place I could think of was another storage room. We use it sometimes when we've got a real big shipment of meat. 09:29.000 --> 09:31.000 Don't usually keep it under refrigeration. 09:31.000 --> 09:34.000 I see. They let you all go there, huh? 09:34.000 --> 09:39.000 Yeah, the darndest thing I ever saw. Fourteen of them. All fourteen herded them just like cattle. 09:39.000 --> 09:43.000 Moved them all to the other cooler. They were all so cold, they'd have done anything to get out of that one. 09:43.000 --> 09:49.000 I tell you, officer, I was scared that one of them might try to be brave about it and cause trouble. I think that guy would have killed him right on the spot. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 Yes, sir. Well, what'd he do then? 09:51.000 --> 09:59.000 Well, he locked the door. Then from when I could see through the cooler window, he just strolled out of the store and down the street. He was still wheeling the basket in front of me. 09:59.000 --> 10:00.000 Anything, Frank? 10:00.000 --> 10:07.000 Yeah, Joe. I checked with Wheelock from the radio car. He said they canvassed the neighborhood. Came up with a man who thinks he saw the band at Driveaway. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 Was he able to give us any kind of a description on the car? 10:09.000 --> 10:15.000 No. Said he saw this guy walking down the street pushing a basket and thought it was kind of funny. Didn't pay too much attention to it. 10:15.000 --> 10:22.000 Saw him get into a late model Ford and drive away. Couldn't give a very good description of the car. Said it was a dark color. Not sure about the year. 10:22.000 --> 10:23.000 The guy still had that mask on? 10:23.000 --> 10:30.000 No. Didn't have the mask, but the fella didn't notice anything about his face. Can't help us much there. He's gonna come down and look through the mug books. 10:30.000 --> 10:34.000 Oh, that's good. Do you have any idea how much money was taken here, sir? 10:34.000 --> 10:38.000 Well, I can't tell you to the penny, but I figure about $3,500. 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 You usually keep this much money on hand, do you? 10:40.000 --> 10:46.000 No, not as a rule. I didn't get to the bank yesterday. We had an inventory sale going on. I just didn't get the chance. 10:46.000 --> 10:52.000 Did the band take anything you think might help us identify him? Anything from the safe that you might be able to describe? 10:52.000 --> 11:01.000 No, not a thing. Just the money. Of course, that's enough. There wasn't much in there. A wristwatch. It was lost here in the store. He looked at that but threw it back into the safe. 11:01.000 --> 11:03.000 Was he wearing gloves, do you remember? 11:03.000 --> 11:11.000 Yeah, he was. Looked like pigskin. Sort of a light tan. Oh, I know what you're thinking about. Fingerprints. Oh, with those gloves, he wouldn't leave anything. 11:11.000 --> 11:12.000 Yes, sir. 11:12.000 --> 11:13.000 Say, officer. 11:13.000 --> 11:14.000 Yeah? 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 You talked to the other officer that was here, the one in the car? 11:16.000 --> 11:17.000 Yes, sir. I did. 11:17.000 --> 11:21.000 He was kind of in charge of the people in the icebox. Took care of them. Was any of them hurt? 11:21.000 --> 11:23.000 No, sir. Some of them were pretty cold, but they were all right. 11:23.000 --> 11:26.000 Yeah, we keep that box turned way down to sub-zero. 11:26.000 --> 11:27.000 Yes, sir. 11:27.000 --> 11:34.000 I wonder if, as police officers, you'd mind talking to those folks. They're all good customers here. I'd hate to lose them to Frenchie's Fine Foods down the street. 11:34.000 --> 11:35.000 Where is that, sir? 11:35.000 --> 11:40.000 Frenchie's Market just down the street. He's going to make a big thing out of this. By noontime, it'll be all over the neighborhood. 11:40.000 --> 11:43.000 Well, I'm sure none of your customers will blame you, sir. 11:43.000 --> 11:48.000 Well, no, officer. It ain't exactly that. That Frenchie's going to make a big reputation on my back. 11:48.000 --> 11:51.000 Well, Mr. Scott, markets have been held up before. 11:51.000 --> 11:52.000 Yeah, but not with our motto. 11:52.000 --> 11:53.000 What's that? 11:53.000 --> 11:55.000 We freeze anything. 11:55.000 --> 12:07.000 946 A.M. Frank and I continued to talk to Arthur Scott. We questioned him about the actions of the holdup man, but he was unable to give us any new information. 12:07.000 --> 12:17.000 The crime lab came out and checked the store. The MO was the same. He'd entered through a rear window. Tool marks were found. Photographs were taken. No other physical evidence was found. 12:17.000 --> 12:26.000 1014 A.M. We drove back to the office and checked with Captain Didion. Three other teams of men were assigned to help us in interviewing the people who had been locked up in the refrigerator. 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 None of them could add anything to what we already knew. 12:29.000 --> 12:36.000 Because of the age of the bandit and the smoothness with which he operated, we had a hunch that he might have served some time in a state prison. 12:36.000 --> 12:42.000 Frank and I checked out a trip car and drove up to Folsom Penitentiary. We checked with Warden Heinze and told him what we wanted. 12:42.000 --> 12:49.000 For the next two days we checked the prison files. We got several possible leads, but when we got back to Los Angeles, none of them led anywhere. 12:49.000 --> 12:55.000 Tuesday, February 12th, 849 A.M. We checked with Captain Didion. 12:55.000 --> 12:58.000 Well, you come up with anything? 12:58.000 --> 13:00.000 No, not a thing, Skipper. We checked them all out. Nothing. 13:00.000 --> 13:03.000 How much longer do you figure it's going to take you to come up with something we can use? 13:03.000 --> 13:05.000 We're doing everything we can. We've run down every lead. 13:05.000 --> 13:11.000 They all go nowhere. Yeah, I know. I've been telling the corner pocket they had all month. It doesn't prove a thing, and they aren't buying it anymore. 13:11.000 --> 13:16.000 Well, Frank and I got an idea, Skipper. It's kind of wild, but we might turn it. 13:16.000 --> 13:17.000 Well, let's hear it. 13:17.000 --> 13:20.000 If you take a look at the map over here. 13:20.000 --> 13:27.000 In the last two months he's hit seven places here. Here, through here, and up and through here. 13:27.000 --> 13:30.000 Not much of a pattern, but maybe there's enough to work on here. 13:30.000 --> 13:34.000 And the way he's worked in the past, he's going to be waiting in the stores when the manager comes in. 13:34.000 --> 13:38.000 So the problem is to find some way to check the managers after they first get to the stores. 13:38.000 --> 13:39.000 So? 13:39.000 --> 13:42.000 Well, so most of the stores open about 8 o'clock. 13:42.000 --> 13:46.000 From what we've been able to check out, the managers get in about 6.30 to 7. 13:46.000 --> 13:50.000 We make arrangements for them to call the office after they're in the stores, and they've checked them through. 13:50.000 --> 13:51.000 How are you going to work the calling? 13:51.000 --> 13:58.000 Well, Frank and I figured if we could stagger the call, so we'd get one at, say, 6.30, next one at 6.31 or 6.32, you know, and so forth. 13:58.000 --> 14:02.000 We allow them five minutes leeway. If we haven't heard from them in that time, then we know something's wrong. 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 How many men do you figure you're going to need to do this? 14:04.000 --> 14:09.000 Well, maybe two, three other teams, those and the men from Metro that we have now. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 It's Wildskipper, but it's about the only thing we've got left. 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 How long will it take you to check with the store owners? 14:14.000 --> 14:18.000 Well, maybe two, three days. We figured we'd keep it in this area right over here. 14:18.000 --> 14:21.000 There seems to be maybe where he'll hit next is all we can say. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 Just a minute. 14:24.000 --> 14:25.000 Robbery, did he? 14:26.000 --> 14:27.000 Yeah. 14:27.000 --> 14:28.000 When? 14:29.000 --> 14:30.000 Are you sure about the ammo? 14:31.000 --> 14:32.000 Mm-hmm. 14:32.000 --> 14:33.000 Description? 14:33.000 --> 14:34.000 Send it in, will you? 14:34.000 --> 14:35.000 Right. 14:37.000 --> 14:38.000 Better enlarge that area. 14:38.000 --> 14:39.000 What do you mean? 14:39.000 --> 14:40.000 He just hit in Sacramento. 14:47.000 --> 14:49.000 Tuesday, February 12th, 3.45 p.m. 14:50.000 --> 14:54.000 Frank and I talked on the phone to Fritz Kaminski, chief of police in Sacramento. 14:54.000 --> 14:59.000 He told us that the market bandit went through the same sequence of events that had characterized his operations in Los Angeles. 14:59.000 --> 15:05.000 First, he took several food items from the display stands in the store, and then he forced the manager to open the safe. 15:05.000 --> 15:10.000 After robbing the safe, the thief locked the manager in a meat refrigeration locker and left the store. 15:10.000 --> 15:16.000 A witness in the neighborhood saw the suspect leave the store and said that he'd escaped in a late-modeled dark Ford sedan. 15:16.000 --> 15:25.000 He was unable to give as much of a description of the man, but he said that he was elderly, small, and that he'd been dressed in a brown overcoat and a brown hat, and he wore a black mask. 15:25.000 --> 15:29.000 There could be little doubt that it was the same man who had been hitting the markets in the Southland. 15:30.000 --> 15:34.000 Wednesday, February 13th, Frank and I checked out a trip car and we drove up to Sacramento. 15:35.000 --> 15:36.000 We talked with the victim and with the witness. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 Both of them were unable to find the thief's picture in the mug books. 15:40.000 --> 15:45.000 Sake outs were arranged on the markets in the Sacramento area, and additional bulletins were gotten out on the Ford sedan. 15:46.000 --> 15:50.000 Frank and I returned to Los Angeles and started to set up the plan that we discussed with Captain Didion. 15:50.000 --> 15:57.000 Each of the store managers agreed to cooperate, and starting the morning of February 18th, the plan was put into operation. 15:57.000 --> 16:03.000 Three weeks passed. The band had failed to hit again. March 18th, 637 a.m. 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 Robbery, Mervin. What's that number? 16:07.000 --> 16:08.000 Yes? 16:08.000 --> 16:09.000 Robbery, Smith. 16:09.000 --> 16:10.000 Yes, sir. 16:10.000 --> 16:11.000 Okay, thanks. 16:12.000 --> 16:13.000 Number 38, okay. 16:13.000 --> 16:16.000 Right. Still no word from 34. We better get ready to roll on it. 16:16.000 --> 16:20.000 Let's see. That's that supermarket on Palmetto Avenue. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 That's right. Let's go. Merv? 16:21.000 --> 16:22.000 Yeah? 16:22.000 --> 16:23.000 Catch the rest of the calls, will you? 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 Yes, sure, Joe. 16:24.000 --> 16:25.000 What do you think, Joe? 16:25.000 --> 16:26.000 I don't know. 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And finally, we ask you to try Chesterfield and prove what we say. 17:50.000 --> 18:07.000 Chesterfield is best for you. They're much milder, to give you all the pleasure that the modern cigarette can give. 18:07.000 --> 18:10.000 It took us a little over five minutes to get to the store on Palmetto. 18:10.000 --> 18:14.000 As we went by the place, we couldn't see anyone through the front windows. The store looked empty. 18:14.000 --> 18:19.000 Frank pulled the car into the parking lot next door to the store, and we walked around to the front. 18:19.000 --> 18:20.000 How about it? 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 No, I can't see anything from here. You want to cover the bank? 18:22.000 --> 18:23.000 Yeah. 18:23.000 --> 18:24.000 I'll give you time to get back there, then I'll go in the front. 18:24.000 --> 18:33.000 Right. Watch it. 18:33.000 --> 18:34.000 I tell you, I don't know the combination. 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 I don't want any trouble. I'm trying to be nice. I don't want to hurt you. 18:38.000 --> 18:43.000 I'm hoping to save you and everything will be all right. You read the papers. You know about me. Now, do what I say. Nothing will happen. 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 All right, mister. Let's hold it right there. Police officers, put that gun down. 18:45.000 --> 18:52.000 Watch it, Joe. It's coming at you. 18:52.000 --> 18:53.000 You okay, Joe? 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 Yeah, I got him, Frank. 18:55.000 --> 18:56.000 Want to shake him down? 18:56.000 --> 18:57.000 Right. 18:57.000 --> 18:58.000 Here. 18:58.000 --> 18:59.000 You got him? You got the gun? 18:59.000 --> 19:00.000 Yeah, we got him. 19:00.000 --> 19:05.000 I was sure scared there for a minute. I tried to think about how I was going to stall him long enough for you to get here. 19:05.000 --> 19:09.000 Yeah. He's clean, Joe. All right, come on, mister. On your feet. Come on. 19:09.000 --> 19:10.000 What's your name? 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 Clark. Leonard Clark. 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 All right. Let's go. 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 You want me to go along with you? 19:15.000 --> 19:16.000 Yeah, I want you to make a crime report. 19:16.000 --> 19:19.000 Fine. I'll do anything to help try to rob me. 19:19.000 --> 19:23.000 Lousy deal. Might have known something was wrong the way that guy played it. Should have known. 19:23.000 --> 19:24.000 Yeah, sure. 19:24.000 --> 19:29.000 You figure me for the guy you're looking for, this black mask bandit the paper's been yacking about? 19:29.000 --> 19:30.000 That's the way we figure it. 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 Too bad, fellas. You can't make me for it. 19:32.000 --> 19:33.000 Is that right? 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 Yeah, you're looking for somebody else. You got the wrong man. 19:35.000 --> 19:36.000 How old are you, Clark? 19:36.000 --> 19:37.000 52. 19:37.000 --> 19:38.000 Ever serve any big time? 19:38.000 --> 19:39.000 Sure. What's that prove? 19:39.000 --> 19:43.000 Well, the way you look, the way you work this one, even the mask. We made you for it. 19:43.000 --> 19:44.000 Only one thing. 19:44.000 --> 19:45.000 What's that? 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 You gotta prove it. 19:46.000 --> 19:55.000 Eight thirty a.m. We took Leonard Clark downtown to the city hall. We talked to him for about an hour. 19:55.000 --> 19:59.000 He admitted trying to hold up the market, but he insisted that he was not the black mask bandit. 19:59.000 --> 20:04.000 He told us that he'd read about the holdups in the paper and that it seemed like an easy way to pull a robbery. 20:04.000 --> 20:08.000 He told us that he'd used a pinch bar to jimmy a rear window in the market and then he entered the place. 20:08.000 --> 20:12.000 He told us that he'd waited for the manager to come in and then he tried to get him to open the safe. 20:12.000 --> 20:17.000 Sergeants Murphy and Creasy went out to his home. They found nothing there to tie him in with the other robberies. 20:17.000 --> 20:24.000 A check through R&I showed a record on Clark listing two convictions for 211 and one count of 245 P.C. 20:24.000 --> 20:30.000 He'd served time at both San Quentin and Folsom penitentiaries as well as some of the eastern penitentiaries. 20:30.000 --> 20:36.000 Mug shots of Clark were shown to the victims of the black mask bandit and they said that it was a possibility that he could be the man who'd robbed them. 20:36.000 --> 20:41.000 Friday, March 21st, a special show up was arranged and the victims were asked to be present. 20:41.000 --> 20:47.000 We explained that the questions asked were for the express purpose of acquainting the victims with the suspect's voice. 20:47.000 --> 20:49.000 Clark was brought out on the stage and asked his name. 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 Leonard Clark. 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 What were you arrested for? 20:53.000 --> 20:54.000 I don't know. 20:54.000 --> 20:56.000 You must know what you're being held for. 20:56.000 --> 20:59.000 They say I'm the black mask bandit. 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 Are you? 21:00.000 --> 21:01.000 No. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 Were you armed when you were arrested? 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 What? 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 Were you armed when you were arrested? 21:07.000 --> 21:08.000 Yeah. 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 What kind of weapon were you carrying? 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 38 revolver. 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 Leonard, could you speak a little louder, please? 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 38 revolver. 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 How long have you been in jail? 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 Since Tozie. 21:20.000 --> 21:21.000 Where were you arrested? 21:21.000 --> 21:24.000 Market out on South Palmetto. 21:24.000 --> 21:27.000 It's a long street. Where on South Palmetto? 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 1721 on South Palmetto. 21:29.000 --> 21:31.000 What were you doing there? 21:31.000 --> 21:35.000 I was arrested for trying to hold up a place. 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 You ever done any big time? 21:37.000 --> 21:38.000 Huh? 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 I say you ever done any big time? 21:40.000 --> 21:41.000 Yeah. 21:41.000 --> 21:42.000 Where? 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 They killed Folsom. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 What'd you do the time for, Leonard? 21:46.000 --> 21:47.000 Which time? 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 Let's take him in order. How about Quentin? 21:49.000 --> 21:52.000 Five to life for robbery. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 How about Folsom? 21:53.000 --> 21:54.000 Same thing. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 You owe any time now? 21:56.000 --> 22:01.000 I'm on parole. 22:01.000 --> 22:02.000 Joe. 22:02.000 --> 22:03.000 Yeah? 22:03.000 --> 22:04.000 Ask him to turn around. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 One of the victims can't see him too good. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 All right. 22:07.000 --> 22:10.000 Leonard, take a quarter turn to your left. 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 No, no, no, Leonard, to your left. 22:13.000 --> 22:18.000 All right, now another quarter turn. 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 Another quarter turn. 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 Now another quarter turn. 22:22.000 --> 22:26.000 No, no, same way, another quarter turn. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 Now face the front, Leonard. 22:28.000 --> 22:29.000 Where do you live? 22:29.000 --> 22:30.000 In Hollywood. 22:30.000 --> 22:31.000 Where? 22:31.000 --> 22:35.000 Corner of DeLoncrea Monroe, apartment house. 22:35.000 --> 22:36.000 It's a good sized corner. 22:36.000 --> 22:37.000 Which apartment? 22:37.000 --> 22:40.000 Ashley Arms, apartment 604. 22:40.000 --> 22:42.000 What do you do for a living? 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 I'm a carpenter. 22:44.000 --> 22:45.000 A what? 22:45.000 --> 22:48.000 A carpenter, a carpenter, I said. 22:48.000 --> 22:50.000 You work steady? 22:50.000 --> 22:51.000 Yeah. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 Who do you work for? 22:52.000 --> 22:56.000 I'm a carpenter for a contractor named Gageley. 22:56.000 --> 22:59.000 Now look straight, will you, Leonard? 22:59.000 --> 23:00.000 Straight ahead. 23:00.000 --> 23:01.000 Yeah. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 You remember where you were on February 7th? 23:03.000 --> 23:04.000 That was a Thursday. 23:04.000 --> 23:05.000 No. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.000 You got no idea at all? 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 Not at all. 23:09.000 --> 23:10.000 You own a car? 23:10.000 --> 23:11.000 Yeah. 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 What make is it? 23:13.000 --> 23:14.000 There's a four. 23:14.000 --> 23:15.000 Speak up, will you, Leonard? 23:15.000 --> 23:16.000 We can't hear you. 23:16.000 --> 23:19.000 A four, a four. 23:19.000 --> 23:21.000 What color is it? 23:21.000 --> 23:22.000 Dark blue. 23:22.000 --> 23:23.000 What year? 23:23.000 --> 23:24.000 1950. 23:24.000 --> 23:25.000 All right, Leonard. 23:25.000 --> 23:27.000 Now would you step over to the side of the stage? 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 Uh-uh, the other way. 23:29.000 --> 23:30.000 Side of the stage. 23:30.000 --> 23:33.000 How's it look, Frank? 23:33.000 --> 23:34.000 Nothing yet. 23:34.000 --> 23:37.000 Manager at the county market seems to think it's him. 23:37.000 --> 23:38.000 The others aren't sure. 23:38.000 --> 23:39.000 Yeah. 23:39.000 --> 23:43.000 Maybe when we get the coat and mask on it'll help. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 Those clothes, Leonard, are they yours? 23:45.000 --> 23:46.000 Yeah, they're mine. 23:46.000 --> 23:47.000 How about that mask? 23:47.000 --> 23:48.000 That belong to you too? 23:48.000 --> 23:49.000 Yeah. 23:49.000 --> 23:52.000 Would you put the mask on? 23:52.000 --> 23:53.000 Just put it on. 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 That's it. 23:55.000 --> 23:58.000 Now put the hat on. 23:58.000 --> 23:59.000 Not the way you usually wear it? 23:59.000 --> 24:00.000 That's right. 24:00.000 --> 24:01.000 All right. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 Take a quarter turn to your left. 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 No, Leonard, your left. 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 That's it. 24:07.000 --> 24:10.000 Now again. 24:10.000 --> 24:13.000 And again. 24:13.000 --> 24:15.000 Once more. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 All right, now face forward. 24:17.000 --> 24:19.000 All the way around. 24:19.000 --> 24:20.000 Come on, Leonard. 24:20.000 --> 24:21.000 Straight forward. 24:21.000 --> 24:22.000 That's it. 24:22.000 --> 24:25.000 Now repeat these words. 24:25.000 --> 24:27.000 Just be quiet and you won't get hurt. 24:27.000 --> 24:30.000 Just be quiet and you won't get hurt. 24:30.000 --> 24:34.000 Now say, open the safe and don't cause any trouble. 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 Open the safe and don't cause any trouble. 24:36.000 --> 24:37.000 A little louder, Leonard. 24:37.000 --> 24:40.000 Open the safe and don't cause any trouble. 24:40.000 --> 24:41.000 All right, Leonard. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 You can take the mask off. 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 How many times have you been arrested? 24:45.000 --> 24:46.000 I don't know. 24:46.000 --> 24:47.000 How many times did you say? 24:47.000 --> 24:49.000 Maybe 15, something like that. 24:49.000 --> 24:50.000 What did you fall for? 24:50.000 --> 24:51.000 Suspicion. 24:51.000 --> 24:52.000 Suspicion of what? 24:52.000 --> 24:53.000 A lot of things. 24:53.000 --> 24:55.000 They didn't nail me for it. 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 How old are you now, Leonard? 24:57.000 --> 24:58.000 52. 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 How old were you when you were arrested the first time? 25:00.000 --> 25:02.000 16. 25:02.000 --> 25:04.000 You've had quite a life, haven't you? 25:04.000 --> 25:07.000 Yeah, I fell among evil companions. 25:07.000 --> 25:12.000 All right, Leonard, that's all. 25:12.000 --> 25:13.000 How about it, Mr. Scott? 25:13.000 --> 25:16.000 I can't be sure, Sergeant, but I think that's a man. 25:16.000 --> 25:18.000 Can I see you a minute, Joe? 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 Mm-mm. 25:20.000 --> 25:23.000 Scott just gave a tentative identification. 25:23.000 --> 25:24.000 Yeah, well, he's the only one. 25:24.000 --> 25:25.000 What do you mean? 25:25.000 --> 25:27.000 The others say we got the wrong man. 25:27.000 --> 25:33.000 11.45 p.m. 25:33.000 --> 25:35.000 We returned Leonard Clark to his cell. 25:35.000 --> 25:38.000 Frank and I continued to question the victims of the black mask bandit. 25:38.000 --> 25:41.000 Only one of them was able to give us a tentative identification. 25:41.000 --> 25:45.000 Clark would be filed on the following morning for attempting to rob the market on Palmetto Avenue, 25:45.000 --> 25:48.000 pending investigation on the other charges. 25:48.000 --> 25:52.000 The working detective has come to know that many times at a show up, 25:52.000 --> 25:55.000 identifying witnesses sometimes become confused, 25:55.000 --> 25:58.000 sometimes fail to speak up for one reason or another, 25:58.000 --> 26:01.000 sometimes due to fear, the idea of incriminating a man, 26:01.000 --> 26:06.000 thus making the officer's task of bringing a suspect to justice all the more difficult. 26:06.000 --> 26:09.000 In spite of the lack of identifying witnesses, 26:09.000 --> 26:13.000 Frank and I felt reasonably sure that we had the black mask bandit in custody. 26:13.000 --> 26:18.000 The following morning, March 22nd, we checked into the office to fill out the follow-up forms. 26:18.000 --> 26:20.000 You know, Joe, I just can't figure it. He's got to be it. 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 He's got the motive, the opportunity, everything. 26:22.000 --> 26:24.000 Yeah, M.O. matches. 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 We got him on one count anyway. What happens now? 26:26.000 --> 26:28.000 I guess we just wait. 26:28.000 --> 26:30.000 If there aren't any more holdups, we know we got the right guy. 26:30.000 --> 26:32.000 That's about the only way we can do it. 26:32.000 --> 26:33.000 Anyway, you slice it, Clark's finished. 26:33.000 --> 26:35.000 The court gets through them this time, they'll nail him for life. 26:35.000 --> 26:36.000 Yeah, I suppose so. 26:36.000 --> 26:38.000 He sure looks like the guy to me, though. 26:38.000 --> 26:39.000 I tell you, Joe, he's got to be it. 26:39.000 --> 26:41.000 Everything fits with him, all the way down the line. 26:41.000 --> 26:42.000 That's what I figured, too. 26:42.000 --> 26:43.000 Friday, Smith? 26:43.000 --> 26:44.000 Yes, Gipper. 26:44.000 --> 26:46.000 Call from Hollywood Division. Just had one at 3rd and Selma. 26:46.000 --> 26:47.000 Yeah, what about it? 26:47.000 --> 26:50.000 Black mask bandit? We haven't got him. 26:57.000 --> 26:59.000 The story you have just heard was true. 26:59.000 --> 27:02.000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:02.000 --> 27:05.000 On July 17th, trial was held in Department 89, 27:05.000 --> 27:09.000 Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles. 27:09.000 --> 27:11.000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:11.000 --> 27:14.000 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:14.000 --> 27:15.000 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:15.000 --> 27:18.000 Friends, all of us who sell Chesterfields want to thank you 27:18.000 --> 27:23.000 for making 1952 such a wonderful year, both for Dragnet and for Chesterfield. 27:23.000 --> 27:26.000 Remember, Chesterfield makes it possible for us to bring you Dragnet, 27:26.000 --> 27:30.000 and in return, we hope you'll try our cigarette, because Chesterfield is best for you. 27:30.000 --> 27:32.000 Premium quality, Chesterfield. 27:32.000 --> 27:36.000 Either way you like them, regular or king size, they're much milder. 27:45.000 --> 27:49.000 Leonard Stanley Clark was tried and convicted of attempted robbery. 27:49.000 --> 27:53.000 Because of his previous criminal record, he was sentenced to life imprisonment 27:53.000 --> 27:55.000 without possibility of parole. 27:55.000 --> 27:59.000 He is now serving his term in the State Penitentiary, Folsom, California. 27:59.000 --> 28:02.000 Next week, the big mask, Part 2. 28:02.000 --> 28:07.000 Ladies and gentlemen, as an investment, bonds are better than ever. 28:07.000 --> 28:11.000 So whether you already buy on the payroll savings plan where you work, 28:11.000 --> 28:16.000 or the bond-a-month plan where you bank, get an extra bond for defense tomorrow. 28:16.000 --> 28:20.000 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:20.000 --> 28:24.000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, 28:24.000 --> 28:26.000 Los Angeles Police Department. 28:26.000 --> 28:31.000 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 28:31.000 --> 28:35.000 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Whit Connor, Harry Bartel, 28:35.000 --> 28:38.000 and the Chief of Police, John H. W. Bates. 28:38.000 --> 28:42.000 The Chief of Police, John H. Bates, and the Chief of Police, John H. Bates. 28:42.000 --> 28:46.000 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Whit Connor, Harry Bartel. 28:46.000 --> 28:49.000 Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. 28:49.000 --> 28:51.000 Hal Gibney speaking. 28:55.000 --> 28:57.000 Sound off for Chesterfield. 28:57.000 --> 29:00.000 Either way you like them, regular or king size, 29:00.000 --> 29:05.000 you'll find premium quality Chesterfields much milder. 29:05.000 --> 29:09.000 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:35.000 --> 29:42.000 Tonight there's more adventure with Barry Craig, confidential investigator on NBC.