WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.360 Sound off for Chesterfield. 00:10.360 --> 00:15.260 Chesterfield, the first and only cigarette in America to give you premium quality in 00:15.260 --> 00:27.160 both regular and king size brings you Dragnet. 00:27.160 --> 00:30.920 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:30.920 --> 00:41.560 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:41.560 --> 00:43.080 You're a detective sergeant. 00:43.080 --> 00:45.440 You're assigned to forgery detail. 00:45.440 --> 00:48.280 Two men have been passing bad checks in your city. 00:48.280 --> 00:50.300 You have descriptions of both of them. 00:50.300 --> 00:52.200 You know the names on the checks. 00:52.200 --> 00:55.200 Your job, get them. 00:55.200 --> 01:00.640 First, we read you the six months report. 01:00.640 --> 01:02.520 Then the eight months report. 01:02.520 --> 01:07.400 Now here is ten full months of scientific evidence on smoking Chesterfield. 01:07.400 --> 01:12.600 A medical specialist is making regular bi-monthly examinations of a group of people from various 01:12.600 --> 01:14.280 walks of life. 01:14.280 --> 01:19.800 Forty-five percent of this group have smoked Chesterfields for an average of over ten years. 01:19.800 --> 01:25.880 After ten full months, almost a year now, the specialist reports he observed no adverse 01:25.880 --> 01:31.640 effects on the nose, throat, and sinuses of the group from smoking Chesterfield. 01:31.640 --> 01:33.220 That's the report. 01:33.220 --> 01:38.920 And Chesterfield is the first and only premium quality cigarette throughout in both regular 01:38.920 --> 01:41.160 and king size. 01:41.160 --> 01:46.660 Fine tobaccos, the world's best, kept tasty and fresh, wrapped in the finest cigarette 01:46.660 --> 01:48.480 paper money can buy. 01:48.480 --> 01:55.000 Yes, everything that goes into your Chesterfield makes it the premium quality cigarette. 01:55.000 --> 02:01.040 And it's the only cigarette that gives you scientific evidence of real smoking pleasure. 02:01.040 --> 02:04.320 Try much milder Chesterfield today. 02:04.320 --> 02:07.320 They're best for you. 02:07.320 --> 02:16.160 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 02:16.160 --> 02:20.460 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 02:20.460 --> 02:25.080 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 02:25.080 --> 02:26.780 police files. 02:26.780 --> 02:31.960 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:31.960 --> 02:34.960 in action. 02:34.960 --> 02:39.280 It was Thursday, April 8th. 02:39.280 --> 02:40.280 It was windy in Los Angeles. 02:40.280 --> 02:42.840 We were working the day watch out of forgery detail. 02:42.840 --> 02:43.960 My partner's Frank Smith. 02:43.960 --> 02:44.960 The boss is Captain Welsh. 02:44.960 --> 02:46.280 My name's Friday. 02:46.280 --> 02:50.760 We were on the way back from the main jail and it was 9.46 a.m. when we got to room 29. 02:50.760 --> 02:51.760 Forgery. 02:51.760 --> 02:54.560 Well, that wraps that one up. 02:54.560 --> 02:55.560 Yeah. 02:55.560 --> 02:56.560 When are we going to rain him? 02:56.560 --> 02:57.560 Oh, figure day after tomorrow. 02:57.560 --> 02:58.560 Okay. 02:58.560 --> 03:00.040 Well, let's get started on these other crime reports, huh? 03:00.040 --> 03:01.040 Yeah. 03:01.040 --> 03:02.040 Friday, Smith? 03:02.040 --> 03:03.040 Yeah, Skipper. 03:03.040 --> 03:04.040 See you in a minute? 03:04.040 --> 03:05.040 Sure. 03:05.040 --> 03:06.040 Sit down. 03:06.040 --> 03:07.040 What's up, Skipper? 03:07.040 --> 03:08.040 How's the Clemencing going? 03:08.040 --> 03:09.040 Well, we just talked to him. 03:09.040 --> 03:10.040 Says he'll plead guilty. 03:10.040 --> 03:11.040 Well, I want you to take a look at this. 03:11.040 --> 03:12.040 Okay. 03:12.040 --> 03:14.040 Oh, border checks, huh? 03:14.040 --> 03:15.040 Yeah. 03:15.040 --> 03:16.040 I want you two to go to work on it. 03:16.040 --> 03:17.760 Are we going to work with Saunders and Boehm on it? 03:17.760 --> 03:18.760 I want you to take it over. 03:18.760 --> 03:19.760 Well, is there a case in it? 03:19.760 --> 03:21.480 Yeah, but we got a call from San Francisco last night. 03:21.480 --> 03:22.480 They got Richards up there. 03:22.480 --> 03:23.480 Oh. 03:23.480 --> 03:24.640 At least they know he's operating in the Bay Area. 03:24.640 --> 03:26.000 Saunders and Boehm left last night. 03:26.000 --> 03:27.640 They've been on that one for the last year. 03:27.640 --> 03:29.160 Looks like they can clean it up. 03:29.160 --> 03:31.080 They get back before you bust this, they'll give you a hand. 03:31.080 --> 03:32.560 Well, what's the pitch on it, Skipper? 03:32.560 --> 03:33.560 It's all there. 03:33.560 --> 03:34.560 Let's take a look, huh, Joe? 03:34.560 --> 03:35.560 Mm-hmm. 03:35.560 --> 03:36.560 Sure, a bunch of paper. 03:36.560 --> 03:37.560 Here's what we can figure. 03:37.560 --> 03:39.560 They've been working a little over a year. 03:39.560 --> 03:44.320 All the checks are drawn on big companies here. 03:44.320 --> 03:45.320 How far we got on it? 03:45.320 --> 03:46.600 Saunders and Boehm have been working on it. 03:46.600 --> 03:49.120 They got about halfway through the list of print shops in the city. 03:49.120 --> 03:50.400 Then this thing up north came up. 03:50.400 --> 03:51.400 Mm-hmm. 03:51.400 --> 03:52.400 Let me see some of the checks, will you, Joe? 03:52.400 --> 03:53.400 Oh, sure, here. 03:53.400 --> 03:57.800 You've got rubber companies, oil companies, department stores, aircraft plants. 03:57.800 --> 03:59.200 How about the ID when they pass them? 03:59.200 --> 04:00.200 It works. 04:00.200 --> 04:02.880 Drivers licenses, social security cards, lodge cards. 04:02.880 --> 04:03.880 Looks legit enough. 04:03.880 --> 04:04.880 Been a lot of people taking. 04:04.880 --> 04:05.880 Descriptions always match, do they? 04:05.880 --> 04:06.880 Close enough, yeah. 04:06.880 --> 04:08.840 Now and then there's a little difference, but they all match up close enough. 04:08.840 --> 04:10.440 Still using the same bad border. 04:10.440 --> 04:11.440 Uh-huh. 04:11.440 --> 04:14.520 You notice that even though they changed the name of the company on the check, changed 04:14.520 --> 04:16.960 the heading all around, they use the same border on all of them. 04:16.960 --> 04:17.960 Yeah, I see. 04:17.960 --> 04:19.440 Look, there in the lower left-hand corner. 04:19.440 --> 04:20.440 See? 04:20.440 --> 04:21.440 Yeah, plate's broken. 04:21.440 --> 04:22.440 A little break in the border. 04:22.440 --> 04:23.440 Mm-hmm. 04:23.440 --> 04:24.960 All the checks they pass have the same thing. 04:24.960 --> 04:27.600 Yeah, well, you wouldn't notice it unless you're really looking for it, would you? 04:27.600 --> 04:28.600 Well, that's it. 04:28.600 --> 04:29.600 All the reports are there. 04:29.600 --> 04:31.600 Everything that's been done, it's in your lap now. 04:31.600 --> 04:32.600 Need anything, let me know. 04:32.600 --> 04:33.600 Right. 04:33.600 --> 04:36.600 Okay, Skipper, we'll get right on it. 04:36.600 --> 04:41.680 Well, from the package here, sure looks like they're scoring good, doesn't it? 04:41.680 --> 04:42.680 How much they got? 04:42.680 --> 04:43.680 I don't see. 04:43.680 --> 04:44.680 Figures about $70,000. 04:44.680 --> 04:45.680 Huh. 04:45.680 --> 04:49.560 All the bulletins we put out. 04:49.560 --> 04:51.280 Know the people you cast checks for. 04:51.280 --> 04:52.280 Yep. 04:52.280 --> 04:53.280 $70,000. 04:53.280 --> 04:54.280 That's a lot of money, isn't it? 04:54.280 --> 04:55.280 Sure is. 04:55.280 --> 04:58.280 If people would just read those bulletins. 04:58.280 --> 05:02.360 They never learn, huh? 05:02.360 --> 05:03.360 10.02 a.m. 05:03.360 --> 05:04.760 We started through the package. 05:04.760 --> 05:07.040 The check forgers had been working for over a year. 05:07.040 --> 05:10.080 They'd passed phony checks all over the southern part of the state. 05:10.080 --> 05:13.880 The amounts on the checks varied from $50 to $275. 05:13.880 --> 05:16.000 They carried 10 different endorsements. 05:16.000 --> 05:20.560 The names and signatures had been run through our files, but we'd gotten no identification. 05:20.560 --> 05:24.040 The writing had been checked by Don Meyer, but there were no examples in the files that 05:24.040 --> 05:25.480 matched. 05:25.480 --> 05:28.840 During the next two days, we finished canvassing the print shops in the area in an attempt 05:28.840 --> 05:30.980 to find where the bad checks were being printed. 05:30.980 --> 05:33.840 We came up with no new information. 05:33.840 --> 05:37.960 Some circulars were gotten out to all stores and check cashing agencies in the area, giving 05:37.960 --> 05:43.160 the description of the two men and lists of the companies the checks had been drawn upon. 05:43.160 --> 05:46.560 Photographs of the checks pointing out the border defect were also distributed. 05:46.560 --> 05:47.840 Two weeks went by. 05:47.840 --> 05:49.400 No results. 05:49.400 --> 05:51.200 Informants had been checked and rechecked. 05:51.200 --> 05:53.080 Known forgers had been questioned. 05:53.080 --> 05:55.440 The victims of the forgers had been shown the mug books. 05:55.440 --> 05:58.000 They failed to make any identification. 05:58.000 --> 06:01.680 From what they'd told us, we had the artist in the crime lab draw up a composite picture 06:01.680 --> 06:03.240 of the two men. 06:03.240 --> 06:08.280 These were distributed to the people and organizations most likely to cash the phony checks. 06:08.280 --> 06:12.280 Lieutenant Saunders and Sergeant Boomey finished their investigation up in San Francisco and 06:12.280 --> 06:14.480 joined us in the search for the forgers. 06:14.480 --> 06:17.080 Tuesday, April 27th, 1014 a.m. 06:17.080 --> 06:18.880 Frank and I checked back into the office. 06:18.880 --> 06:20.280 Lousy thing. 06:20.280 --> 06:21.280 Yeah. 06:21.280 --> 06:22.280 The clutch was out. 06:22.280 --> 06:23.280 You know, I thought it was a pin. 06:23.280 --> 06:24.280 It sure felt like it. 06:24.280 --> 06:26.720 Funny feeling when you press down, there's nothing there. 06:26.720 --> 06:27.720 Yeah. 06:27.720 --> 06:28.720 Did he say when it would be ready? 06:28.720 --> 06:29.800 I thought he could have it for us in the morning. 06:29.800 --> 06:31.800 I'll check the business office and get another car. 06:31.800 --> 06:33.320 We'll try to get a good one. 06:33.320 --> 06:35.320 Last one we drew was about to fall apart. 06:35.320 --> 06:36.320 Yeah. 06:36.320 --> 06:39.320 I'll get it. 06:39.320 --> 06:40.320 Forgery Friday. 06:40.320 --> 06:41.320 Yes, ma'am. 06:41.320 --> 06:42.320 Yes, ma'am, that's right. 06:42.320 --> 06:43.320 What? 06:43.320 --> 06:44.320 Uh-huh. 06:44.320 --> 06:45.320 What was that address again? 06:45.320 --> 06:46.320 Yes, ma'am, I have it. 06:46.320 --> 06:47.320 Yeah. 06:47.320 --> 06:48.320 Yeah, well, do everything you can. 06:48.320 --> 06:49.320 Yes, ma'am. 06:49.320 --> 06:50.320 Right away. 06:50.320 --> 06:51.320 I'll get your coat. 06:51.320 --> 06:52.320 What is it? 06:52.320 --> 06:53.320 Check cashing agency out on Pico. 06:53.320 --> 06:54.320 The guy's there now. 06:54.320 --> 07:06.800 Frank and I left the office and checked out another car. 07:06.800 --> 07:09.240 We drove out to the check cashing agency on Pico. 07:09.240 --> 07:12.800 Was located near a large tool and dye plant and they advertised that they cashed payroll 07:12.800 --> 07:13.800 checks. 07:13.800 --> 07:14.800 10.33 a.m. 07:14.800 --> 07:16.800 We parked the car and went into the store. 07:16.800 --> 07:17.800 Are you the police? 07:17.800 --> 07:18.800 Yes, ma'am. 07:18.800 --> 07:20.280 Are you the one that placed the call? 07:20.280 --> 07:21.280 I sure am. 07:21.280 --> 07:22.280 I stalled him, like you said. 07:22.280 --> 07:23.280 That's him back there. 07:23.280 --> 07:24.280 Uh-huh. 07:24.280 --> 07:26.200 I went to the store and asked the manager to get back and open the safe. 07:26.200 --> 07:27.600 He got pretty huffy about it at first. 07:27.600 --> 07:28.760 Then he said he'd wait. 07:28.760 --> 07:29.760 I think he's been drinking. 07:29.760 --> 07:30.760 Yes, ma'am. 07:30.760 --> 07:31.760 All right, we'll talk to him. 07:31.760 --> 07:32.760 He's the one. 07:32.760 --> 07:33.760 You'll see. 07:33.760 --> 07:34.760 I spotted him right away. 07:34.760 --> 07:36.240 Took one look at him and I knew he was the one you'd been looking for. 07:36.240 --> 07:37.240 All right, ma'am. 07:37.240 --> 07:38.240 Let's go. 07:38.240 --> 07:39.240 Sure fits the description. 07:39.240 --> 07:40.240 He's the one. 07:40.240 --> 07:41.240 Excuse me. 07:41.240 --> 07:42.240 Yeah? 07:42.240 --> 07:43.880 You wanted to cash a check, did you? 07:43.880 --> 07:44.880 Yeah, that's right. 07:44.880 --> 07:45.880 What if we could see your identification? 07:45.880 --> 07:46.880 A young lady has it. 07:46.880 --> 07:47.880 Here it is. 07:47.880 --> 07:51.480 His driver's license and his social security card. 07:51.480 --> 07:53.200 All right, thank you. 07:53.200 --> 07:54.920 Leslie P. Bergen, is that right? 07:54.920 --> 07:55.920 That's what it says. 07:55.920 --> 07:56.920 Yeah, we've seen it before. 07:56.920 --> 07:58.600 I wonder if we could see that check, please. 07:58.600 --> 07:59.600 I bet. 07:59.600 --> 08:00.600 I'll get it for you. 08:00.600 --> 08:02.760 Well, look, there's no reason to make a federal case out of this. 08:02.760 --> 08:04.640 Give me the check and I'll go someplace else. 08:04.640 --> 08:08.520 I tell you, though, you act like this to everybody who comes in here, you ain't gonna stay in business 08:08.520 --> 08:09.520 long. 08:09.520 --> 08:10.520 Yeah. 08:10.520 --> 08:11.520 Here, your officer. 08:11.520 --> 08:12.520 Here's the check. 08:12.520 --> 08:13.520 What's she talking about? 08:13.520 --> 08:14.520 What? 08:14.520 --> 08:15.520 Officer. 08:15.520 --> 08:16.520 She called him officer. 08:16.520 --> 08:17.520 What are you, cops? 08:17.520 --> 08:18.520 You called him. 08:18.520 --> 08:19.520 How about it, Joe? 08:19.520 --> 08:20.520 Yeah, broken border. 08:20.520 --> 08:21.520 Where'd you get this check, mister? 08:21.520 --> 08:22.520 What do you mean, where did I get it? 08:22.520 --> 08:23.520 I gave you this check, huh? 08:23.520 --> 08:24.520 Yeah, that's right. 08:24.520 --> 08:26.240 Say, what's this all about, anyway? 08:26.240 --> 08:27.240 How come you guys are so interested? 08:27.240 --> 08:29.240 I wonder if we could see what you got in your pockets. 08:29.240 --> 08:31.240 No, I don't have to show you. 08:31.240 --> 08:32.240 It's none of your business. 08:32.240 --> 08:33.240 You've been drinking, mister? 08:33.240 --> 08:34.240 None of your business. 08:34.240 --> 08:35.240 You got no call to act like this? 08:35.240 --> 08:37.240 All right, come on, let's see what's in your pockets. 08:37.240 --> 08:38.240 What's that gonna prove? 08:38.240 --> 08:40.680 Now, look, Bergen, if you haven't done anything wrong, then you got no reason not to show us, 08:40.680 --> 08:41.680 have you? 08:41.680 --> 08:42.680 Yeah. 08:42.680 --> 08:43.680 All right. 08:43.680 --> 08:44.680 Put the things here on the counter. 08:44.680 --> 08:45.680 All right. 08:45.680 --> 08:48.200 You guys are gonna regret this, you know? 08:48.200 --> 08:49.200 Is that right? 08:49.200 --> 08:50.200 You just bet. 08:50.200 --> 08:53.560 I got a lot of friends in pretty high places, and they're gonna hear about this. 08:53.560 --> 08:55.680 You guys be sorry you ever started this. 08:55.680 --> 08:58.440 All right, come on, you can go a little faster than that, can't you? 08:58.440 --> 08:59.440 All right, here. 08:59.440 --> 09:02.040 Here's some keys, chains, money clip. 09:02.040 --> 09:05.040 All right, pick up the money and keep that with you. 09:05.040 --> 09:08.240 Now, just the money, now the back pockets. 09:08.240 --> 09:09.240 Back pockets? 09:09.240 --> 09:10.240 That's right, we wanna see what's in them, too. 09:10.240 --> 09:14.560 Well, all righty, I'm glad to cooperate with the law. 09:14.560 --> 09:15.560 Nice to know you guys are this alert. 09:15.560 --> 09:17.120 I'm glad to know you're doing your duty. 09:17.120 --> 09:19.920 Yeah, come on, let's get to those back pockets, shall we? 09:19.920 --> 09:20.920 Hey, what's your name? 09:20.920 --> 09:21.920 Friday. 09:21.920 --> 09:22.920 Cop, huh? 09:22.920 --> 09:23.920 That's right. 09:23.920 --> 09:24.920 Friday, huh? 09:24.920 --> 09:25.920 What's your first name? 09:25.920 --> 09:26.920 Joe. 09:26.920 --> 09:27.920 Joe Friday. 09:27.920 --> 09:29.360 That's right, now come on, get the stuff out of your back pockets. 09:29.360 --> 09:30.360 What are you stalling on? 09:30.360 --> 09:32.360 I bet you think I'm trying to hide something in there, huh? 09:32.360 --> 09:33.360 Well, you're wrong. 09:33.360 --> 09:35.360 I got nothing to hide. 09:35.360 --> 09:38.800 There's my wallet, comb, that's all. 09:38.800 --> 09:39.800 This key here? 09:39.800 --> 09:40.800 Keys to your car? 09:40.800 --> 09:43.800 No, I don't have a car. 09:43.800 --> 09:45.680 Oh, that's not true, officer. 09:45.680 --> 09:46.680 I saw him drive up. 09:46.680 --> 09:48.480 That's his car out in front, the red Ford. 09:48.480 --> 09:50.080 Is that right, Bergen? 09:50.080 --> 09:52.400 Well, now maybe it is, and then maybe again it isn't. 09:52.400 --> 09:53.680 You want to check on it, Frank? 09:53.680 --> 09:54.680 Yeah. 09:54.680 --> 09:55.680 Here's the key. 09:55.680 --> 09:57.600 I hate to think of it, I really do. 09:57.600 --> 09:58.600 What's that? 09:58.600 --> 10:01.760 Trouble you guys are going to get into when my friends in high places hear about this. 10:01.760 --> 10:02.760 Yeah, sure. 10:02.760 --> 10:03.760 Let's look at your wallet, huh? 10:03.760 --> 10:04.760 Why, you bet. 10:04.760 --> 10:06.280 I was glad to cooperate with the law. 10:06.280 --> 10:07.280 No, you hold it. 10:07.280 --> 10:08.280 Just open it up. 10:08.280 --> 10:09.280 Any money in it? 10:09.280 --> 10:11.480 I told you, the money's in the money clip. 10:11.480 --> 10:13.680 Right here, you told me to keep it. 10:13.680 --> 10:14.680 You don't remember very well. 10:14.680 --> 10:16.840 Well, these are your cards here, business cards. 10:16.840 --> 10:17.840 Let me see. 10:17.840 --> 10:18.840 Here. 10:18.840 --> 10:20.240 Yeah, certainly, they're my... 10:20.240 --> 10:22.000 Leslie Paul Bergen, business advisor. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.080 I thought you said you worked at the plant. 10:24.080 --> 10:26.120 Part-time job. 10:26.120 --> 10:27.120 What's your name? 10:27.120 --> 10:28.120 Friday. 10:28.120 --> 10:29.120 What's your first name? 10:29.120 --> 10:30.120 Joe, I told you. 10:30.120 --> 10:31.120 Joe Friday, huh? 10:31.120 --> 10:32.520 I ought to remember that and tell my friends in high places. 10:32.520 --> 10:34.680 How about your coat pockets, anything in them? 10:34.680 --> 10:37.920 Well, cigarettes, maybe handkerchiefs, matches, that's about all. 10:37.920 --> 10:38.920 All right, let's see them. 10:38.920 --> 10:39.920 All righty. 10:39.920 --> 10:45.040 Sure nice to know that we've got officers like you, always doing your duty. 10:45.040 --> 10:46.440 Yeah, see? 10:46.440 --> 10:47.440 Nothing. 10:47.440 --> 10:49.560 What'd you say you got this check? 10:49.560 --> 10:50.560 What check? 10:50.560 --> 10:51.560 This one here, the one you tried to cash. 10:51.560 --> 10:52.560 Oh, yeah, that check. 10:52.560 --> 10:54.040 Yeah, that check, that's the one. 10:54.040 --> 10:55.960 Well, I got it from a friend. 10:55.960 --> 10:57.400 He asked me to cash it for him. 10:57.400 --> 11:00.440 Just so happened I had the money, so I did. 11:00.440 --> 11:02.320 Anything wrong with cashing a check for a friend? 11:02.320 --> 11:03.800 How come the check's made out to you? 11:03.800 --> 11:06.720 They always make checks out to me, always do, down at the plant. 11:06.720 --> 11:08.840 Now look, mister, you got your stories all mixed up here. 11:08.840 --> 11:11.160 Let's go down to town and get this thing straightened out, shall we? 11:11.160 --> 11:12.160 Joe. 11:12.160 --> 11:13.160 Yeah. 11:13.160 --> 11:14.160 We hit it. 11:14.160 --> 11:15.960 Twenty-three checks all made out to him, found them in the glove compartment of the 11:15.960 --> 11:16.960 car. 11:16.960 --> 11:17.960 And then we went to a Leslieard Doyle. 11:17.960 --> 11:18.960 What's his name? 11:18.960 --> 11:19.960 Smith. 11:19.960 --> 11:20.960 First name? 11:20.960 --> 11:21.960 Frank, Frank Smith. 11:21.960 --> 11:22.960 What is this? 11:22.960 --> 11:23.960 Oh, he's a happy drunk. 11:23.960 --> 11:24.960 Oh. 11:24.960 --> 11:25.960 He's checked yours, Doyle? 11:25.960 --> 11:27.800 Well, let me see. 11:27.800 --> 11:28.800 Never saw those in my life. 11:28.800 --> 11:29.800 Well, we found them in your car. 11:29.800 --> 11:32.240 Oh, I certainly don't understand that. 11:32.240 --> 11:33.240 In my car? 11:33.240 --> 11:34.240 Yes, that's right. 11:34.240 --> 11:35.240 Now come on, let's go downtown. 11:35.240 --> 11:36.240 Where are we going? 11:36.240 --> 11:37.240 Downtown. 11:37.240 --> 11:38.240 What's your name? 11:38.240 --> 11:39.240 Smith, Frank Smith. 11:39.240 --> 11:40.240 Thony name. 11:40.240 --> 11:43.400 You're aware my friends hear about this, policemen using an alias. 11:43.400 --> 11:45.960 My friends are gonna hear about this, you know? 11:45.960 --> 11:46.960 Sure. 11:46.960 --> 11:49.960 Yeah, in high places. 11:49.960 --> 11:56.640 1057 A.M. The suspect admitted that his true name was Leslie Doyle and that the car belonged 11:56.640 --> 11:57.640 to him. 11:57.640 --> 11:59.000 We took him to the city hall. 11:59.000 --> 12:01.480 Frank ran the name through R&I, but we got no make on him. 12:01.480 --> 12:03.560 His prints were rolled, but there was no record on him. 12:03.560 --> 12:07.520 A communication was gotten off to George Brerick in C.I.I. Sacramento, and one was 12:07.520 --> 12:08.520 sent to Washington. 12:08.520 --> 12:12.040 1130 A.M. We took him to the interrogation room to question him. 12:12.040 --> 12:14.800 I told you, I don't know where the checks came from. 12:14.800 --> 12:15.960 They were found in your car. 12:15.960 --> 12:17.480 So they were found in my car. 12:17.480 --> 12:18.480 That mean they're mine? 12:18.480 --> 12:19.480 Looks like you had something to do with it. 12:19.480 --> 12:22.200 They all were made out to you, the phony I.D. you got there. 12:22.200 --> 12:23.560 Well, maybe it's a joke. 12:23.560 --> 12:25.040 Maybe it's some of the idea of a gag. 12:25.040 --> 12:26.640 Doyle, that's not very funny, is it, Doyle? 12:26.640 --> 12:28.240 You don't have to tell me. 12:28.240 --> 12:31.640 Say, you got another aspirin in my head that's coming apart. 12:31.640 --> 12:32.640 Frank, you know. 12:32.640 --> 12:33.640 Yeah. 12:33.640 --> 12:34.640 Here. 12:34.640 --> 12:35.640 Thanks. 12:35.640 --> 12:36.640 Got some water? 12:36.640 --> 12:37.640 I got some for you. 12:37.640 --> 12:38.640 Oh, never mind. 12:38.640 --> 12:39.640 I'll take it without. 12:39.640 --> 12:41.640 I thought you might have a tap here. 12:41.640 --> 12:42.640 What? 12:42.640 --> 12:46.480 Sure, you turn it on and let it drip and then you don't give people none until they answer 12:46.480 --> 12:47.480 your questions. 12:47.480 --> 12:48.480 Yeah, sure. 12:48.480 --> 12:52.040 You take pills like I do, you get to the point where the only important thing is to get them 12:52.040 --> 12:53.040 in your stomach. 12:53.040 --> 12:54.040 All right. 12:54.040 --> 12:57.760 Now, how about the checks? 12:57.760 --> 13:00.040 I told you a hundred times I know anything about them. 13:00.040 --> 13:01.040 Then maybe we better fill you in. 13:01.040 --> 13:02.040 Yeah, go ahead. 13:02.040 --> 13:03.040 I like to hear. 13:03.040 --> 13:05.040 We got you for trying to pass a check this morning, didn't we? 13:05.040 --> 13:06.160 You want to cop out to that? 13:06.160 --> 13:07.560 So maybe one check. 13:07.560 --> 13:08.960 Like I said, that's no crime. 13:08.960 --> 13:11.360 I cashed it for a guy. 13:11.360 --> 13:13.120 Maybe it was the same guy who applied to the other ones. 13:13.120 --> 13:14.360 Oh, why don't you come off it, Doyle? 13:14.360 --> 13:15.440 Let's stop playing games here. 13:15.440 --> 13:17.080 We made you for the forgeries and you know it. 13:17.080 --> 13:18.980 Your description matches the one we got. 13:18.980 --> 13:21.820 You turn up with twenty three checks made out to you, all drawn on different companies. 13:21.820 --> 13:23.880 The border on the checks matches the ones we're looking for. 13:23.880 --> 13:25.480 We got witnesses who identify you. 13:25.480 --> 13:29.440 Now why not save a lot of time and admit it? 13:29.440 --> 13:32.440 Come on, Doyle. 13:32.440 --> 13:35.560 Doyle? 13:35.560 --> 13:37.960 Don't look like there's any other way, does it? 13:37.960 --> 13:38.960 Not from here. 13:38.960 --> 13:43.160 Well, if I cop out, will it help any? 13:43.160 --> 13:44.600 What do you mean? 13:44.600 --> 13:46.400 Like you said, now let's stop playing games. 13:46.400 --> 13:47.400 Will it help me out any? 13:47.400 --> 13:49.080 You're liable for one to fourteen on each cop. 13:49.080 --> 13:50.080 And if I help? 13:50.080 --> 13:52.200 All we can do is see that it's marked down that way. 13:52.200 --> 13:53.200 That's all? 13:53.200 --> 13:54.200 That's all. 13:54.200 --> 13:55.880 Well, then I got nothing to lose but not talking. 13:55.880 --> 13:57.560 That's the wrong way to look at it. 13:57.560 --> 13:59.360 You guys haven't come up with any other way. 13:59.360 --> 14:00.360 We don't make deals, Doyle. 14:00.360 --> 14:01.360 You know that. 14:01.360 --> 14:02.360 Well, all right. 14:02.360 --> 14:04.360 I'll play it that way, too. 14:04.360 --> 14:07.080 Now let's get this five ten, huh? 14:07.080 --> 14:08.680 Your true name, Leslie Richard Doyle? 14:08.680 --> 14:11.720 Charge, suspicion, four seven, OPC, forgery, April 27. 14:11.720 --> 14:12.840 Where do you live, Doyle? 14:12.840 --> 14:13.840 I told you once. 14:13.840 --> 14:15.800 Well, tell us again, would you? 14:15.800 --> 14:18.680 Nineteen thousand five hundred and forty North Edge Hill Avenue. 14:18.680 --> 14:19.680 Is that a private home? 14:19.680 --> 14:20.680 No, it's an apartment. 14:20.680 --> 14:21.680 What's the number? 14:21.680 --> 14:22.920 Say, you got another aspirin. 14:22.920 --> 14:24.480 This headache's the worst one I ever had. 14:24.480 --> 14:25.480 Don't worry. 14:25.480 --> 14:30.400 They're gonna get worse. 14:30.400 --> 14:31.960 We continued to talk to Doyle. 14:31.960 --> 14:34.680 He told us that he'd come from back east about a year and a half ago. 14:34.680 --> 14:37.440 He said that he'd never been arrested and he had no record. 14:37.440 --> 14:41.080 He refused to tell us who his confederate was in the forgery operation, and he told 14:41.080 --> 14:44.600 us that we'd get no help from him in proving that he was mixed up in it. 14:44.600 --> 14:47.440 We booked him at the main jail and then we got in touch with Lieutenant Saunders and 14:47.440 --> 14:48.680 Sergeant Boehmie. 14:48.680 --> 14:51.280 Together with them, we arranged a special show up. 14:51.280 --> 14:55.080 The victims of the forges were asked to be present, and twelve of them gave us a positive 14:55.080 --> 14:58.100 identification of Doyle as the man who'd victimized them. 14:58.100 --> 15:00.400 The others said that he was not the man. 15:00.400 --> 15:03.720 When confronted with this information, Doyle confessed to being one of the men involved, 15:03.720 --> 15:05.880 but he still refused to name his accomplice. 15:05.880 --> 15:07.260 A week went by. 15:07.260 --> 15:09.120 Each day we questioned Doyle. 15:09.120 --> 15:12.160 Gradually we pieced together a picture of their operation. 15:12.160 --> 15:15.160 Doyle still refused to tell us where we could find his partner. 15:15.160 --> 15:19.740 The kickback from Washington and Sacramento arrived but gave us no new information. 15:19.740 --> 15:22.640 All known friends and associates of Doyle were checked out. 15:22.640 --> 15:26.400 From them, we found out that Doyle did work with another man, but that none of the witnesses 15:26.400 --> 15:27.920 could identify him. 15:27.920 --> 15:31.320 The rumble was that the two men had split up because of Doyle's drinking. 15:31.320 --> 15:34.280 We were able to get little other information on the missing partner. 15:34.280 --> 15:38.280 Wednesday, May 5th, 1140 A.M., Frank and I checked into Captain Welsh's office. 15:38.280 --> 15:39.280 How about it? 15:39.280 --> 15:40.280 No, nothing, Skipper. 15:40.280 --> 15:42.120 He says that he knew Doyle, but he doesn't know the other man. 15:42.120 --> 15:43.320 Any of the other leads pan out? 15:43.320 --> 15:44.320 No, none of them. 15:44.320 --> 15:45.320 Where'd he go from here? 15:45.320 --> 15:48.320 Well, talking to Doyle's friend, we found out they used to hang out down around Wilshire 15:48.320 --> 15:49.320 and Olympic. 15:49.320 --> 15:50.320 You know that area down there? 15:50.320 --> 15:51.320 Yeah. 15:51.320 --> 15:52.320 Well, Frank and I have been talking it over. 15:52.320 --> 15:53.560 Looks like about the only way to bring them out is to go looking for them. 15:53.560 --> 15:55.280 Yeah, so you guys go down there, huh? 15:55.280 --> 15:56.280 Well, we checked on that. 15:56.280 --> 15:57.280 The bunch down there aren't too chummy. 15:57.280 --> 16:00.520 They don't talk to strangers much, so we figured that maybe the best idea would be for one of 16:00.520 --> 16:04.440 us to go undercover, maybe pose as a thief, buy our stolen goods, something like that. 16:04.440 --> 16:05.440 We might get a line on them that way. 16:05.440 --> 16:06.440 Yeah, might work. 16:06.440 --> 16:07.440 Well, not much choice now. 16:07.440 --> 16:08.440 We've tried about everything else. 16:08.440 --> 16:09.440 Well, which one of you is going to do it? 16:09.440 --> 16:10.760 Well, I thought maybe I'd be the one. 16:10.760 --> 16:12.720 I don't know if that's such a good idea. 16:12.720 --> 16:13.720 Why not, Skipper? 16:13.720 --> 16:14.720 Joe took the last one. 16:14.720 --> 16:16.160 Yeah, but didn't you work that area when you were in Vice? 16:16.160 --> 16:17.880 Yeah, but that was a couple of years ago. 16:17.880 --> 16:20.000 Still might be some people down there who remember you. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 You better take this one on Friday. 16:21.000 --> 16:22.000 All right. 16:22.000 --> 16:23.000 When do you figure to start? 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 I thought in the morning. 16:24.000 --> 16:25.800 Okay, work out the way you're going to keep in contact. 16:25.800 --> 16:31.080 All the details will give you the help you need to swing it. 16:31.080 --> 16:32.080 Right, Skipper. 16:32.080 --> 16:33.080 I don't know, Joe. 16:33.080 --> 16:34.080 Seems like you're always the one to draw this duty. 16:34.080 --> 16:35.080 It ought to be my turn sometime. 16:35.080 --> 16:44.200 I'll trade with you. 16:44.200 --> 16:50.880 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 16:50.880 --> 16:57.060 Smokers all over America are changing to Chesterfield because Chesterfields are premium quality 16:57.060 --> 17:00.680 throughout in both regular and king size. 17:00.680 --> 17:06.000 King size Chesterfield contains tobacco is a better quality and higher price than any 17:06.000 --> 17:08.520 other king size cigarette. 17:08.520 --> 17:11.640 That's certainly important to every king size smoker. 17:11.640 --> 17:15.680 Of course, it's the same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. 17:15.680 --> 17:20.540 There's absolutely no difference except that king size Chesterfield gives you more than 17:20.540 --> 17:22.280 a fifth longer smoke. 17:22.280 --> 17:27.880 So remember, the modern way to sell cigarettes is the Chesterfield way. 17:27.880 --> 17:34.560 First and only cigarette with premium quality in both regular and king size. 17:34.560 --> 17:37.320 Chesterfield is much milder. 17:37.320 --> 17:48.680 Chesterfield is best for you. 17:48.680 --> 17:50.720 Thursday, May 6th, 930 a.m. 17:50.720 --> 17:53.840 I left my apartment and went down to the vicinity of Wilshire and Olympic. 17:53.840 --> 17:57.080 I spent an hour wandering around the bars in the area and then I checked into a small 17:57.080 --> 17:58.960 hotel down on South Hill. 17:58.960 --> 18:01.840 I registered as Joe Kelvin from Phoenix, Arizona. 18:01.840 --> 18:05.120 I told the clerk that I was in town on business and that I'd be there as long as it took me 18:05.120 --> 18:07.600 to conclude the deal I was working on. 18:07.600 --> 18:11.880 I spent the afternoon in a bar on Fourth Street and I got friendly with a bartender. 18:11.880 --> 18:14.840 I asked him if he knew Leslie Doyle and he told me that he'd seen him around but that 18:14.840 --> 18:16.600 he didn't know him very well. 18:16.600 --> 18:18.960 I asked if he'd ever seen Doyle with another man. 18:18.960 --> 18:21.760 He said that he had but he didn't know who he was. 18:21.760 --> 18:24.840 The bartender went on to say that the two men had frequent arguments and that they usually 18:24.840 --> 18:28.400 ended up with the other man walking out and Doyle going on a drunk. 18:28.400 --> 18:31.780 He told me that I might be able to get some additional information on the man in a cafe 18:31.780 --> 18:33.680 over on Fifth Street. 18:33.680 --> 18:37.280 I spent the next three days wandering around that area eating my meals in the restaurant. 18:37.280 --> 18:39.680 At the end of that time I had no new leads. 18:39.680 --> 18:43.660 Frank, Saunders, and Bomi were still working on the case and Frank told me that the bad 18:43.660 --> 18:46.400 border check passing was still going on. 18:46.400 --> 18:49.560 Other conversations with Doyle netted them nothing. 18:49.560 --> 18:52.380 At the end of a week I'd gotten to know one of the waitresses at the restaurant and she 18:52.380 --> 18:56.320 indicated that she knew Doyle's partner, that she knew him merely as Mac. 18:56.320 --> 18:58.600 She was unable to tell me where I could find him. 18:58.600 --> 19:02.040 I got in touch with Frank Smith and he ran the name through the moniker file on R&I but 19:02.040 --> 19:03.040 he got no make. 19:03.040 --> 19:07.120 Friday, May 14th, 1056 A.M. I stopped for breakfast. 19:07.120 --> 19:08.120 Morning Joe. 19:08.120 --> 19:09.120 Hi Agnes. 19:09.120 --> 19:10.120 Will it be this morning? 19:10.120 --> 19:11.120 Well let's see. 19:11.120 --> 19:16.160 Orange juice, a couple of eggs, toast and coffee. 19:16.160 --> 19:17.160 Big sunny side up? 19:17.160 --> 19:18.160 Yeah. 19:18.160 --> 19:19.160 How's the bacon? 19:19.160 --> 19:20.160 Great, just like always. 19:20.160 --> 19:21.160 Alright, a couple of pieces. 19:21.160 --> 19:22.160 Yeah. 19:22.160 --> 19:24.160 Want to bring the coffee right away? 19:24.160 --> 19:25.160 Yeah. 19:25.160 --> 19:26.160 Is that the morning paper? 19:26.160 --> 19:27.160 Yeah. 19:27.160 --> 19:28.160 Thank you. 19:28.160 --> 19:40.160 What happened to the sports page? 19:40.160 --> 19:43.440 Here. 19:43.440 --> 19:44.440 You don't look good this morning. 19:44.440 --> 19:45.440 Bad night? 19:45.440 --> 19:46.440 Yeah. 19:46.440 --> 19:47.440 I had trouble getting to sleep last night. 19:47.440 --> 19:48.440 How's the deal coming? 19:48.440 --> 19:54.160 Oh alright, I should wind it up in a couple of days. 19:54.160 --> 19:55.880 What business are you in anyway? 19:55.880 --> 19:59.040 Oh, you could call me kind of a broker I guess. 19:59.040 --> 20:02.040 That right? 20:02.040 --> 20:05.480 Yeah. 20:05.480 --> 20:07.480 Coffee's going hot. 20:07.480 --> 20:08.480 Yeah. 20:08.480 --> 20:10.440 Just, what does that mean? 20:10.440 --> 20:12.360 What, the coffee? 20:12.360 --> 20:13.360 Being a broker. 20:13.360 --> 20:17.200 Oh, I buy things for a price and I resell them for more. 20:17.200 --> 20:19.320 Things you buy, they hot? 20:19.320 --> 20:21.360 Why do you ask that? 20:21.360 --> 20:22.360 Just wondered. 20:22.360 --> 20:25.560 It rumbles around that you're in town buying stolen stuff. 20:25.560 --> 20:26.560 That right? 20:26.560 --> 20:29.560 That's what they say. 20:29.560 --> 20:31.560 Is it true? 20:31.560 --> 20:33.520 I don't know. 20:33.520 --> 20:36.160 I haven't been talking to the same people as you. 20:36.160 --> 20:37.960 That the reason you want to get in touch with Mac? 20:37.960 --> 20:42.920 Well look, if I answer that, I've answered the first question, haven't I? 20:42.920 --> 20:45.960 Is that the reason, Joe? 20:45.960 --> 20:47.960 Oh it might be. 20:47.960 --> 20:50.120 Where's the sports page, is it around? 20:50.120 --> 20:54.440 Why, do you know where I can get in touch with them? 20:54.440 --> 20:55.440 I like you, Joe. 20:55.440 --> 20:57.240 Yeah, well I think you're nice too. 20:57.240 --> 21:00.480 I'd like to have the sports page if you could find it for me. 21:00.480 --> 21:02.280 No, I mean it. 21:02.280 --> 21:03.280 I think you're alright. 21:03.280 --> 21:05.960 Well, thanks Agnes, that's nice of you to say that. 21:05.960 --> 21:08.720 You've never tried to get fresh. 21:08.720 --> 21:10.200 Different from most of the guys that come in here. 21:10.200 --> 21:11.200 Is that right? 21:11.200 --> 21:12.200 Sure. 21:12.200 --> 21:16.200 Guys all the time getting fresh asking me out. 21:16.200 --> 21:17.200 Not you, Joe. 21:17.200 --> 21:19.200 You got a girl in Phoenix? 21:19.200 --> 21:20.960 I might have, yeah. 21:20.960 --> 21:24.520 I've been back for a while, you know. 21:24.520 --> 21:26.520 Lucky girl. 21:26.520 --> 21:27.520 What's she like, Joe? 21:27.520 --> 21:28.520 Who's that? 21:28.520 --> 21:29.520 A girl in Phoenix. 21:29.520 --> 21:32.520 Oh, I guess she's a little like you. 21:32.520 --> 21:33.520 She's a nice girl. 21:33.520 --> 21:35.520 You want to get married? 21:35.520 --> 21:37.200 Well, I don't know. 21:37.200 --> 21:39.640 It kind of depends on this deal here that I'm working on. 21:39.640 --> 21:42.320 It would be nice if you got married. 21:42.320 --> 21:44.000 I'm going to get married someday. 21:44.000 --> 21:45.000 That'll be nice. 21:45.000 --> 21:48.400 It would be real nice if you got married. 21:48.400 --> 21:50.880 It depends on this deal, huh? 21:50.880 --> 21:52.880 Yeah, that's right. 21:52.880 --> 21:53.880 Okay. 21:53.880 --> 22:00.480 I'll tell you how to get in touch with Mac. 22:00.480 --> 22:01.480 Eleven fourteen a.m. 22:01.480 --> 22:03.080 I continued to talk to Agnes. 22:03.080 --> 22:06.040 She told me that she didn't know where Mac lived, but that she could put me in touch 22:06.040 --> 22:07.400 with a man who might. 22:07.400 --> 22:09.640 She gave me the address and I drove over to the place. 22:09.640 --> 22:11.920 It was a rooming house on South Vermont. 22:11.920 --> 22:12.920 I talked to the man. 22:12.920 --> 22:16.560 He told me that he'd seen Mac during the past week and that as far as he knew, the suspect 22:16.560 --> 22:19.680 was still living in an apartment house on 7th Street. 22:19.680 --> 22:21.000 One fifteen p.m. 22:21.000 --> 22:23.920 I called the office and Frank Smith came out to meet me. 22:23.920 --> 22:27.800 We arrived at the apartment house and talked to the manager, Mrs. Nancy Holmes. 22:27.800 --> 22:31.600 She told us that she had a tenant named McClain who answered the description we gave her. 22:31.600 --> 22:35.000 She told us that McClain had lived in the apartment for the past eight months. 22:35.000 --> 22:38.040 She went on to say that she didn't know what business he was in, but that up until a few 22:38.040 --> 22:41.040 weeks ago, he was in the company of a man called Doyle. 22:41.040 --> 22:43.920 Her description of the man matched that of the suspect. 22:43.920 --> 22:45.120 Two forty six p.m. 22:45.120 --> 22:47.960 In the company of the manager, we went through McClain's apartment. 22:47.960 --> 22:52.240 We found 14 checks made out to him and all of them drawn on large companies. 22:52.240 --> 22:55.080 All of them had the same broken printed border. 22:55.080 --> 22:57.080 Frank and I waited for him to return. 22:57.080 --> 22:58.080 Five thirty two p.m. 22:58.080 --> 23:06.120 What are you doing here? 23:06.120 --> 23:07.120 Your name, Gene McClain? 23:07.120 --> 23:08.920 Yeah, who are you? 23:08.920 --> 23:09.920 Police officers. 23:09.920 --> 23:10.920 These checks here. 23:10.920 --> 23:11.920 Where'd you get those? 23:11.920 --> 23:12.920 On the desk over there. 23:12.920 --> 23:14.360 You got no right to go through my things. 23:14.360 --> 23:15.360 We'll talk about that downtown. 23:15.360 --> 23:16.360 Come on, let's go. 23:16.360 --> 23:18.040 Now, look, maybe you guys made a mistake. 23:18.040 --> 23:19.040 Maybe you got the wrong fellow. 23:19.040 --> 23:20.800 Can't we work something out? 23:20.800 --> 23:21.800 This is a pretty good thing. 23:21.800 --> 23:22.800 There's enough for everybody. 23:22.800 --> 23:24.160 I'm sure we can make a deal. 23:24.160 --> 23:25.160 No reason to act like this. 23:25.160 --> 23:26.160 Where's the press, mister? 23:26.160 --> 23:27.160 Huh? 23:27.160 --> 23:28.160 What are you trying to print these up on? 23:28.160 --> 23:29.160 Where is it? 23:29.160 --> 23:30.160 I don't know what you're talking about. 23:30.160 --> 23:31.160 I don't know anything about a press. 23:31.160 --> 23:32.960 I don't even know what you're talking about. 23:32.960 --> 23:33.960 It won't work, McClain. 23:33.960 --> 23:34.960 We got Doyle. 23:34.960 --> 23:35.960 What's he told you? 23:35.960 --> 23:36.960 All we need. 23:36.960 --> 23:37.960 Well, then he's told you where the press is, too. 23:37.960 --> 23:39.380 We're asking you about that, mister. 23:39.380 --> 23:41.000 Like I said, I don't know what you're talking about. 23:41.000 --> 23:42.000 You drive a car, McClain? 23:42.000 --> 23:43.000 Yeah. 23:43.000 --> 23:44.000 Where'd you park it? 23:44.000 --> 23:45.000 On the street. 23:45.000 --> 23:46.000 No garages in this crummy place. 23:46.000 --> 23:47.000 No, that's not true, Mr. McClain. 23:47.000 --> 23:48.000 Oh, keep your nose out of this. 23:48.000 --> 23:49.720 You've been spouting off too much already. 23:49.720 --> 23:51.120 That's not true, Mr. McClain. 23:51.120 --> 23:58.120 I heard everything from the hall, and these officers asked me some questions, and I answered 23:58.120 --> 23:59.120 them. 23:59.120 --> 24:00.120 Please, never giving me any trouble. 24:00.120 --> 24:01.120 Ten years I've been managing this place, never had no trouble before. 24:01.120 --> 24:02.120 Now you come in here and louse things up. 24:02.120 --> 24:03.120 No, I'll turn it off. 24:03.120 --> 24:04.120 Come on, let's get out of here. 24:04.120 --> 24:05.120 Now you just wait a minute. 24:05.120 --> 24:08.200 Come in here and call this a crummy place. 24:08.200 --> 24:09.200 You didn't know I heard you, did you? 24:09.200 --> 24:10.200 Well, I did. 24:10.200 --> 24:13.400 Listen, officer, he's lying when he says he doesn't have a garage. 24:13.400 --> 24:15.200 You may keep his car out on the street. 24:15.200 --> 24:17.800 Maybe that part's true, but he's got a garage you just bet he has. 24:17.800 --> 24:18.800 Come on, let's get out of here. 24:18.800 --> 24:21.600 Stick around here and listen to this loony old bag she's cracking on. 24:21.600 --> 24:22.600 Where is the garage, ma'am? 24:22.600 --> 24:23.600 I'll show you. 24:23.600 --> 24:24.600 It's just down the street. 24:24.600 --> 24:25.600 It's an old place. 24:25.600 --> 24:27.360 They rent it from the Pearson's just down the street. 24:27.360 --> 24:28.360 I'll show you. 24:28.360 --> 24:31.040 From the old bat, real harpy, sticking her nose in where it don't belong. 24:31.040 --> 24:32.440 Don't you talk to me like that. 24:32.440 --> 24:36.400 I don't know what it is that these officers are looking for, but I'll just bet they'll 24:36.400 --> 24:39.400 find it there. 24:39.400 --> 24:43.560 6.27 p.m. 24:43.560 --> 24:47.240 Mrs. Holmes showed us down the street to a garage set behind a large house. 24:47.240 --> 24:49.880 The door was locked, but McLean produced the key. 24:49.880 --> 24:51.920 We went over the place, but we found nothing. 24:51.920 --> 24:52.920 6.55 p.m. 24:52.920 --> 24:53.920 Satisfied now? 24:53.920 --> 24:55.480 Told you there wasn't anything wrong. 24:55.480 --> 24:57.280 I told you you wouldn't find anything here. 24:57.280 --> 24:58.720 It's got to be here someplace, Joe. 24:58.720 --> 24:59.720 Yeah. 24:59.720 --> 25:00.720 How long you had this place, McLean? 25:00.720 --> 25:01.720 Couple of months. 25:01.720 --> 25:03.240 Now we can check the owner on that. 25:03.240 --> 25:04.840 Aren't you guys ever going to give up? 25:04.840 --> 25:07.680 You maybe got me in custody, but that don't mean you're ever going to be able to prove 25:07.680 --> 25:08.680 anything. 25:08.680 --> 25:09.680 I think maybe we'll be able to. 25:09.680 --> 25:10.680 Joe. 25:10.680 --> 25:11.680 Yeah? 25:11.680 --> 25:12.680 Take a look here. 25:12.680 --> 25:13.680 On the floor. 25:13.680 --> 25:14.680 Mm-hmm. 25:14.680 --> 25:17.640 Look here, see the old wooden floor and most of the nails are all rusted over. 25:17.640 --> 25:19.920 And right here, they look pretty new. 25:19.920 --> 25:21.280 Looks like the wood's been moved. 25:21.280 --> 25:22.280 Mm-hmm. 25:22.280 --> 25:23.280 How about this, McLean? 25:23.280 --> 25:24.280 I don't know what you're talking about. 25:24.280 --> 25:27.280 Grab that hammer, will you, Frank, over there. 25:27.280 --> 25:28.280 Yeah, sure. 25:28.280 --> 25:29.280 Here you go. 25:29.280 --> 25:30.280 All right. 25:30.280 --> 25:33.280 Now maybe we can take a look. 25:33.280 --> 25:35.560 You guys are wasting your time. 25:35.560 --> 25:36.560 You know that, don't you? 25:36.560 --> 25:38.060 Yeah, well, it's our time. 25:38.060 --> 25:39.060 Don't you worry about it. 25:39.060 --> 25:43.240 You want to give me a hand here, Frank? 25:43.240 --> 25:44.240 Yeah. 25:44.240 --> 25:45.240 All right. 25:45.240 --> 25:46.240 You got it? 25:46.240 --> 25:47.240 I got it. 25:47.240 --> 25:48.240 All right. 25:48.240 --> 25:51.240 It's all dug out down there. 25:51.240 --> 25:52.240 Yeah. 25:52.240 --> 25:53.240 Let's take a look. 25:53.240 --> 25:56.840 There's something down there. 25:56.840 --> 25:57.840 How about this, McLean? 25:57.840 --> 25:59.400 I don't know what you're talking about. 25:59.400 --> 26:00.400 The press, huh? 26:00.400 --> 26:01.400 Yeah. 26:01.400 --> 26:02.400 Wait a minute. 26:02.400 --> 26:03.400 Package over here. 26:03.400 --> 26:05.440 Let's see what's in it. 26:05.440 --> 26:08.320 Look, you got no right to come in here and tear up the place. 26:08.320 --> 26:09.800 I'm going to see a lawyer about this. 26:09.800 --> 26:11.520 How about it, Joe? 26:11.520 --> 26:12.520 Yeah. 26:12.520 --> 26:13.520 Printing press. 26:13.520 --> 26:14.520 Take a look. 26:14.520 --> 26:15.520 Huh. 26:15.520 --> 26:16.520 A Graver's place. 26:16.520 --> 26:19.520 Look, here's the broken border. 26:19.520 --> 26:21.480 All right, McLean, let's go. 26:21.480 --> 26:22.480 You just wait. 26:22.480 --> 26:23.480 My lawyer's going to hear about this. 26:23.480 --> 26:24.480 Is that right? 26:24.480 --> 26:25.480 Yeah, you bet it's right. 26:25.480 --> 26:26.480 Come in here, tear up the floor. 26:26.480 --> 26:27.480 You got no warrant. 26:27.480 --> 26:28.480 You got no right. 26:28.480 --> 26:29.480 Sick of being shoved around by you guys. 26:29.480 --> 26:30.480 You haven't got any beef, McLean. 26:30.480 --> 26:31.480 I'll decide that. 26:31.480 --> 26:32.480 No, you're wrong. 26:32.480 --> 26:40.840 Somebody else is going to do that. 26:40.840 --> 26:43.280 The story you have just heard was true. 26:43.280 --> 26:45.740 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:45.740 --> 26:50.420 On August 25th, trial was held in Department 89, Superior Court of the State of California 26:50.420 --> 26:52.460 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 26:52.460 --> 26:54.500 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:54.500 --> 26:57.040 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:57.040 --> 26:58.040 Thank you, George Fenomen. 26:58.040 --> 27:01.120 Friends, here are two important things to remember. 27:01.120 --> 27:04.480 Everything that goes into your Chesterfield makes it the premium quality cigarette, and 27:04.480 --> 27:08.480 it's the only cigarette that gives scientific evidence of real smoking pleasure. 27:08.480 --> 27:10.880 Try much milder Chesterfields today. 27:10.880 --> 27:11.880 They're best for you. 27:11.880 --> 27:26.080 Leslie Paul Doyle and Jean Raoul McLean were tried and convicted of 10 counts of forgery. 27:26.080 --> 27:30.040 They received their sentences as prescribed by law and are now serving their term in the 27:30.040 --> 27:33.240 State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California. 27:33.240 --> 27:36.980 Forgery is punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a period of not less 27:36.980 --> 27:40.380 than one nor more than 14 years. 27:40.380 --> 27:45.400 Ladies and gentlemen, with long-range aircraft and atomic bombs, the enemy is only hours 27:45.400 --> 27:47.760 away from where you live. 27:47.760 --> 27:52.960 Our Air Defense Command relies on radar to detect enemy aircraft, but it is possible 27:52.960 --> 27:56.240 for low-flying planes to remain undetected. 27:56.240 --> 28:01.080 You can help defend America by volunteering for the Ground Observer Corps, a group of 28:01.080 --> 28:06.400 civilian men, women, and teenagers who report the presence and activity of aircraft. 28:06.400 --> 28:19.200 For information, write or phone your nearest Civil Defense Center. 28:19.200 --> 28:23.960 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:23.960 --> 28:27.640 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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