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The documented drama of an actual crime. 19 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 20 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:04,000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 21 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:11,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 22 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 It was Wednesday, February 12th. It was cold in Los Angeles. 23 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,000 We were working the day watch out of bunko detail. My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Steed. 24 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:28,000 My name is Friday. We were at the Armstrong Thomas Department Store cafeteria and it was 314 p.m. when I got back to the table. 25 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Here, Joel. Let me give you a hand. 26 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Thanks. Here you are, Miss Terrance. 27 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Thank you. 28 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 I wonder if you tell us what this is all about now, ma'am. 29 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Surely. Sorry you had to wait, but I thought it might be better if we talked up here. 30 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Yes, ma'am. 31 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Would you pass the sugar, please? 32 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Oh, yes, ma'am. Here you are. 33 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Well, it's not a pretty thing. I don't know how I could have been so foolish. 34 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,000 But I guess when you get to be my age and you haven't got anything, almost any attention makes you forget. 35 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Yes, ma'am. How'd you first meet this man, Ben? 36 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,000 I saw him first at a musical. I met him very briefly that night. 37 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 He called me the next day, said that he wanted to see me again. 38 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Well, I told him that I didn't think it'd be proper, but he insisted. So that night we had dinner together. 39 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 He seemed so nice, I still can't believe it. 40 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Yes, ma'am. 41 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Such a wonderful time. I didn't think anybody could be so happy. 42 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:34,000 We ate at a wonderful little place down at the beach, then we went for a long drive and listened to the music on the radio. 43 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Just beautiful. The way the ocean looked, all moonlight and all. 44 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 When'd you see him again, ma'am? 45 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Not until he left. He'd call a couple of times a day. Got a little embarrassing. 46 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,000 The girls at the store here got to kidding me about it, but I didn't care. 47 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Then he told me he wanted to marry me. I couldn't believe it. So wonderful. 48 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Yes, ma'am. 49 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Then one day he told me that he was going to have to take a business trip up north. 50 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 When was that, do you remember, ma'am? 51 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 I guess it was about three weeks ago, something like that. 52 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Go ahead, please. 53 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Well, he left. I went down to the station and saw him off. 54 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,000 He kissed me and said that when he got back we'd be married. 55 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,000 We were going over to Las Vegas on our honeymoon. Wonderful plans. Wonderful. 56 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Then I heard from him and he got to San Francisco. 57 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,000 He called me from the hotel and said that he'd lost his wallet on the train. 58 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,000 He told me he'd lost everything. All his money, identification, everything. 59 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Mm-hmm. 60 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:47,000 That's when he asked me for the hundred dollars. I didn't think that anything was wrong, so I sent it to him. 61 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Where'd you send it, ma'am? 62 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 To his hotel. 63 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Did you hear from him at all after that, ma'am? 64 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Not a word. At first I thought that maybe he was just busy. 65 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:06,000 I did think it was kind of funny that he wouldn't say something about getting the money I sent, but not a word. 66 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Then I got worried. 67 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Yes, ma'am, I understand. 68 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Finally I called the hotel and they told me that he'd checked out. 69 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:21,000 I figured that maybe he was back in town and wanted to surprise me, so I called his apartment. 70 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:28,000 The landlady told me that he had left a couple of weeks before, that he didn't leave any forwarding address. 71 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Yes, ma'am. 72 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:39,000 I didn't know what to think. I didn't want to believe that he'd just used me, but there didn't seem to be anything else to think. 73 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Yes, ma'am. 74 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Then, of course, it was only a hundred dollars. 75 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:49,000 It seems that if he'd wanted to rob me, he could have asked for more. 76 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 I still don't believe it, even when I know it's true. 77 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Yes, ma'am. Now, I wonder if you could give us a description of the man. 78 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Yes, I can do that. But see, he was tall. 79 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 About how tall, ma'am? 80 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Over six feet, maybe six feet two. 81 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,000 He had blond hair, kind of wavy. 82 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 About how much would you say weighed, Miss Terrence? 83 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,000 I'd just be guessing, but I'd say about 190 or so. 84 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,000 I see. I wonder if you'd be kind enough to come down to the city hall and look at some pictures for us. 85 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 You think you might have one of his? 86 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000 It's possible, ma'am. Maybe it'd make you feel a little better to know that you're not the only woman that this Benton has taken. 87 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 There have been quite a few. 88 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 I guess I knew that. 89 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Even if I didn't want to believe it, I guess I knew it was just a confidence game. 90 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Such a cruel thing, though, to use a person's loneliness to rob them. 91 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Yes, ma'am, it is. 92 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,000 When you get along in years and you haven't got anything to hold on to, 93 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 a little attention and affection makes you forget everything else. 94 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Nothing else seems to matter. 95 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Yes, ma'am. I guess that's the way they figure it. 96 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Frank and I had been looking for Jonathan Benton for the past year. 97 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,000 During that time, he'd taken approximately $37,000 from women in the Los Angeles area. 98 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,000 His method of operation was to answer the ads in the personal columns of the daily papers. 99 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:23,000 He'd give the woman a whirlwind courtship, then, under the pretext of having to clean up some business before marriage, he'd leave town. 100 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,000 He'd call the next day and give them the story about losing his wallet and identification. 101 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 He'd ask them for $100. 102 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,000 This in itself was to throw off the suspicions of the victims. 103 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:40,000 In the event that they suspected that they were being taken in a racket, $100 was small enough so that their fears were quieted. 104 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Benton would answer about 20 to 30 of these ads at a time, and the request for money would hit all of the suspects at once. 105 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,000 We'd had several complaints lately, and there was no way of knowing how many women were being taken 106 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 and were too embarrassed to report it to the authorities. 107 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 4.30 p.m. 108 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 We drove Miss Terrence back to the city hall and had her check the mug books. 109 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 She was unable to give us an identification, however. 110 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Another month passed. 111 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 During that time, we received 14 more complaints. 112 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,000 In all instances, the description of the suspect matched that of Jonathan Benton. 113 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,000 All available sources of information were checked. 114 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Bulletin's had been gotten out carrying his description and the name he used. 115 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 No results. 116 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:24,000 On Wednesday, March 25th, we got a call that a man answering Benton's description had placed an ad in the personal columns of one of the daily papers. 117 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,000 It used the name of Thomas Conan. 118 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,000 The clerk at the ad counter gave us his address, and at 5.32 p.m., Frank and I went out to talk to him. 119 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Yeah? 120 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 You Thomas Conan? 121 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Yeah, that's right. What can I do for you? 122 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Police officers would like to talk to you. 123 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Sure, come on in. I'm always glad to talk to the law. 124 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 This is my partner, Frank Smith. 125 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Howdy-do, Mr. Smith. 126 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Howdy-do, sir. 127 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 If you boys will come on in, I'll shut the door. 128 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Thank you. 129 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 And now, what's this all about? 130 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Oh, sir, did you put this ad in the paper? 131 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Well, let me see. 132 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Texas cow man desires to meet a young lady. Object companionship. 133 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Spelled everything right to dead. 134 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Yes, sir, that's mine. I wrote it all myself. 135 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 How long have you been in Los Angeles? 136 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Well, now let's see. Got in on the bus last Tuesday. 137 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 That'd make a week and a day. 138 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Uh-huh. What brings you out here? 139 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Well, I guess you could say it's kind of a business trip. 140 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Got a little tired of the same faces back home, 141 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,000 so I thought I'd just see what the rest of the country looked like. 142 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,000 What little a's of it. I'm from Texas, you know. Amarillo. 143 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Yeah, what's all this about, anyway? Some law I broke? 144 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,000 No, it's about that ad. 145 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Oh, you found out, huh? 146 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Beg pardon? 147 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Oh, you found out about me saying I was a cattle man. That's it, ain't it? 148 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 What do you mean? 149 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Well, now, I didn't mean to harm. 150 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 I do have a couple of milk cows on the place. 151 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Holstein and the Guernsey. They're real nice, too. 152 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 It's just that I was so darn lonesome, 153 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 I kind of thought this might be a way to meet some nice gal. 154 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,000 I didn't mean to harm. You can see that, can't you? 155 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Yes, sir, I guess so. 156 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,000 I wonder if you'd mind taking a ride with us, sir. 157 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Well, I should say not always happy to go along with the law. 158 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Where you figure to go to? 159 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 I'd like you to meet somebody. 160 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Well, now that's right. Nice of you. 161 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Got some gal you'd like me to meet, huh? 162 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Well, it's not exactly that, sir. 163 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Well, it don't matter none. 164 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,000 I got nothing to do anyhow. 165 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Just sitting here wondering if I'd get any replies to the ad. 166 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 All right, sir. If you wouldn't mind, let's go. 167 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Not at all. I'll get my hat. 168 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Don't hardly feel conspicuous in this hat at all. 169 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Is that right? 170 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Yep. Kind of thought people might make something of it, 171 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 but hardly even notice it. 172 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Had two little kids come up today, ask for my autograph. 173 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Guess they figured I was a movie star. 174 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Made me feel real good, too. 175 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Then I wrote my name for them. They didn't know who I was. 176 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,000 That didn't make no mind to them. 177 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,000 They just thanked me and went on about the business. 178 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,000 Right nice little folks he was. 179 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Yeah. Well, let's go. 180 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Sure. Real nice people here in L.A. 181 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Real nice. Haven't met a bad'un yet. 182 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Well, you haven't been here long. We got him. 183 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 5.40 p.m. We drove Thomas Conan downtown 184 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 and had a car go out and pick up Miss Terrence. 185 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 While we talked to Conan in the interrogation room, 186 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 she walked by the open door and looked in at the suspect. 187 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,000 She told us that he was not the man who'd victimized her. 188 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,000 She was returned to her home, and after Conan had been checked through R&I, 189 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 he was released. 190 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 The next morning, Frank and I ran down a tip from an informant, 191 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,000 but it led us nowhere. 192 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,000 10.18 a.m. We checked back into the office. 193 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 You get the latest bulletin from San Francisco, Joe? 194 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Yeah, I looked it over this morning. 195 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 They checked out the hotel Benton was staying at. 196 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 He checked out of there. They haven't seen him since. 197 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Well, that means he's probably back here in town, huh? 198 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Well, if he is, we should start hearing about him again pretty soon. 199 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,000 I'll get it. 200 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Bunko, Friday. 201 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Who? 202 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Oh, yes, ma'am. Yes, Miss Terrence, I remember. 203 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Yes, ma'am, where was that? 204 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Would you give me that again? 205 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Yes, ma'am. 206 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 4-8 Vine. Uh-huh. 207 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Yes, that's right, ma'am. We'll get in touch with you. 208 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Right. Thank you very much. Bye. 209 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Grace Terrence? 210 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Yeah, she just saw Benton. 211 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Where? 212 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Went into an apartment out on Vine Street. 213 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,000 10.41 a.m. Frank and I got to the apartment house on Vine Street. 214 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:18,000 We talked to the landlord and he told us that a man answering the suspect's description was registered in apartment 4B. 215 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,000 He was registered under the name Jonathan Benson. 216 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,000 He told us that this Benson had just moved in and paid his first month's rent in advance. 217 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:31,000 He'd said that he was just going to be in town for a short time and that in the event that he moved out before his month was up, he expected no refund. 218 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Frank and I went up to the fourth floor and knocked on the door. 219 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Yeah? 220 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 You Jonathan Benson? Who are you? 221 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Police officers. We want to talk to you. 222 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,000 What about? 223 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Might be better if we talked inside. 224 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Maybe I don't want you in mine. 225 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 All right, I must see you get your hat. We want to talk to you downtown. 226 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000 What for? 227 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Come on, get your hat. 228 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Just a minute. I think maybe there's been some kind of mistake here. Just tell me exactly what it is you're looking for. I'm sure we can work it out. 229 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Come on, Mr. Quits stalling. Get your hat, will you? 230 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Come on in. 231 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,000 I'll get my hat. 232 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,000 I'll get it for you. 233 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 In this closet? 234 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Yeah, the gray one. 235 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,000 You sure you got the right man? 236 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Looks that way. 237 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000 No way to work this out. 238 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,000 What do you mean by that? 239 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 I don't even know why you want me to go with you. Seems you could fill me in on that. 240 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Got some people we'd like to have you meet. 241 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Who? 242 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,000 You'll see when we get there. 243 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Here's your hat. Come on, let's go. 244 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 You guys sure think you're the Gestapo coming in here dragging a private citizen out of his house. 245 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 If you haven't done anything wrong, you got nothing to worry about then, have you? 246 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:27,000 That's not the point. I don't like it. Coming in here and taking me downtown so a lot of stupid old broads can look at me. 247 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Who said we wanted women to look at you? 248 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 You did. 249 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,000 No, we said we wanted you to meet some people. 250 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Unless I misunderstood, huh? 251 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Yeah, I guess you did. 252 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,000 No way we can work this out, huh? 253 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,000 There's no way. Now, come on. 254 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Oh, just a minute. I want to be sure I got my key. I don't want to be locked out. 255 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Don't worry about it. 256 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,000 What do you mean? 257 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,000 You might not be coming back. 258 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Frank and I took Jonathan Benson downtown. We ran him through R&I, but we got no identification. 259 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,000 His fingerprints were rolled and checked, but they didn't make him. 260 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Miss Terrence was called and asked to come down to the city hall to try to identify the suspect. 261 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,000 2.30 p.m. We took him to the interrogation room. 262 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000 You ever use the name Benton? 263 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,000 No. 264 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,000 You sure? 265 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Yeah. 266 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,000 You ever use any other alias? 267 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Why should I? 268 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,000 You tell us. 269 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Now, look, why don't you come off it? Tell me what this is all about. 270 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,000 You told us you just got into town, is that right? 271 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Yeah, I've been here about a week. 272 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,000 Where'd you come from? 273 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Up north. 274 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Where up north? 275 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 San Francisco. 276 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,000 You live up there, do you? 277 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Most of the time, yeah. 278 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Most of the time? What's that mean? 279 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Just that. Most of the time I live in San Francisco. That hard for you guys to understand? 280 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 What line of work you in? 281 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 I'm a salesman. 282 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Yeah? What do you sell? 283 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Whatever people want to buy. 284 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,000 What are you selling now? 285 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Nothing right now. That's why I'm here. I'm looking for a deal. 286 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 You know a woman named Terrence, Grace Terrence? 287 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 No, I don't think so. My wife. 288 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,000 We'd like to know. 289 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Hey, maybe I'm wrong about all of this, but it seems to me that when they taught me civics in school, 290 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,000 they said that I had to be booked, that you had to let me go. 291 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 They changed that law? 292 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 No, that law's still good. 293 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Then let's stop horsing around. I got a lot of things I want to do. 294 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Fill me in on this and then let me out of here. 295 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:54,000 All right. There's been a confidence man working in the LA area, been taking money from women. 296 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Gives him a big pitch about wanting to marry him, and then he hits him up for a hundred bucks and leaves him. 297 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Sounds like a good racket. 298 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,000 He's taken a lot of money from people who haven't got it to spare. 299 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Offhand, I'd say that's their tough luck. 300 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Offhand, we'd say you're wrong. 301 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,000 The way you look at it. Where do I fit into this little fantasy? 302 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 You look good for the guy who's been pulling the deal. 303 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Me? 304 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,000 That's right. 305 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,000 You guys are flipping. 306 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Description matches. 307 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 So I look like another guy. 308 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Everything else about you checks out? 309 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 So you figure you've made me for the jobs, huh? 310 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 That's what we figure. 311 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Which way is the gas chamber? 312 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Come off it, fellas. 313 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 You guys know you're trying to hang a bad rap on me. 314 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,000 You know it and so do I. 315 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Now let's call the whole thing off. 316 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000 I can get out of here and you can get to the peanut. 317 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000 I'll get it. 318 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Hello, Jonathan. 319 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,000 What? 320 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Why'd you do it, Jonathan? 321 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Why? 322 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 If you wanted the money, you could have asked for it. 323 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 I'd have given it to you. 324 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,000 You didn't have to lie about what you thought. 325 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 The place is full of them loonies. 326 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Is this the man, Miss Terrence? 327 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Yes, Sergeant. That's him. 328 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 All right. How about it, Benson? 329 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,000 I don't know what she's talking about. 330 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 What's this bit where that's him? 331 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Loonies jumping with him. 332 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,000 All right, now Benson, I've had enough of that. 333 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Now come off it. You've just been identified. 334 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,000 We've got a lot more of them that we can have here. 335 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 I think they'll identify you too. 336 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Why, John? Why? 337 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Oh, get her out of here. 338 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 One thing I can't stand is a woman bawling. 339 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Something comes along, I can't figure out right away they got a ball. 340 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Anything comes along, they got to cry. I'm sick of it. 341 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,000 All right, ma'am. Maybe it'd be better if you waited in our office. 342 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Yes, Sergeant. 343 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 I still don't know why he did it. 344 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Why he took this way to get the money. 345 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,000 I took this way because it was the easy way. 346 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 You broads are all alike. Every last one of you. 347 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Let me get a few things straight first. 348 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,000 You say I took $100 from you. Is that right? 349 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Yes. 350 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 All right. 351 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 I want you to think about this and think real careful. 352 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Didn't I say that I wanted to borrow the money? 353 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Isn't that what I said? Borrow? 354 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Yes, that's what you said. 355 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Did I say that I'd pay the money back in any certain time? 356 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,000 I don't know. 357 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Well, you think real good. You'll remember that I didn't. 358 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,000 I just said that I'd pay you back. That's all. I didn't say when. 359 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000 I guess so. I don't... I don't care. 360 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,000 There you are. 361 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Is it any crime to borrow money from a friend? 362 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 I borrowed the money from her. I'll pay it back. 363 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 You said you wanted to marry me. You said you loved me. 364 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Oh, come off it, Sarah. You got no beef. 365 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 You got the soft light and the romantic music. You got it all. 366 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 Look at you. Take a good look. 367 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Who'd want to marry you? 368 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Here, just a minute. 369 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Here. Here's a hundred bucks I borrowed. I want to pay you back. 370 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 I got a hundred dollars worth of laughs from you. 371 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Got much easy. Here's your dough. 372 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Now, go home and have a good cry. I wouldn't marry you 373 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,000 if you were the last woman on earth. 374 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,000 All right, that's enough of that, Benson. 375 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,000 You're not just kidding. This old harpy with romantic ideas. 376 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,000 What a laugh. She thinks anybody wants to marry her, 377 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,000 and she's a loony, too. 378 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 I didn't think anybody could be this mean. 379 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,000 I didn't think anyone could be this cruel. 380 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:42,000 I don't believe it. 381 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,000 You got no choice. You know it all along. 382 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Thanks for the laughs. 383 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Come on, Miss Terrence, please. 384 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 You imagine that, that old bag really thinking I'd marry him? 385 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Yeah. 386 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Real laugh. 387 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Well, anyway, she got her dough back. I said I'd pay her back. 388 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 They did. You check with the rest of them. 389 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,000 I'll tell you the same thing. I borrowed the money, that's all. 390 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 I can't help it if they thought something else. 391 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000 I can't help it, Calvin. 392 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Come on, let's get this over with. I want to get out of here. 393 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Yeah. 394 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,000 You look upset, cop. Don't be. It won't prove anything. 395 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,000 I got something for you, Benson. 396 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Is that right? 397 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Yeah. Someplace, sometime you're going to make a mistake. 398 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Is that right? 399 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Yeah, and when you do, we're going to lean on you, and we're going to lean hard. 400 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:38,000 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 401 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Chesterfield Regular, Chesterfield Kingsize. 402 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:47,000 The first cigarette to give you premium quality either way you like them. 403 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:56,000 This means that Kingsize Chesterfield contains tobaccos of better quality and higher price than any other Kingsize cigarette. 404 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Chesterfield is first to name all its ingredients. 405 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,000 Ingredients that make the best possible smoke. 406 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,000 And Chesterfield gives you this full year scientific report. 407 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:13,000 No adverse effects to the nose and throat of a group smoking only Chesterfields. 408 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:18,000 So enjoy your smoking. Change to Chesterfield today. 409 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Much milder, with an extraordinarily good taste. 410 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:33,000 We had 12 of the victims of the confidence man look at Benson. 411 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:38,000 All of them gave a positive identification but verified his story that he'd borrowed the money from them. 412 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:43,000 4.25 p.m. Frank and I got in touch with the district attorney's office and talked with them. 413 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,000 What Benson had said was true. 414 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,000 In borrowing the money or in saying he was borrowing it, he'd committed no violation of the law. 415 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 We had to release him from custody. 416 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,000 A month passed. During that time we'd heard nothing more from the suspect. 417 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,000 He'd stopped working the Dodge in the Los Angeles area. 418 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,000 We contacted the San Francisco authorities and informed them of what had happened. 419 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 They said that they'd be on the lookout for Benson. 420 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:08,000 During the next two weeks, Frank and I worked on a ring of bunko artists that were working the obituary columns. 421 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:13,000 On June 16th we got a call from Burglary Division that they'd gotten a report of a theft. 422 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 And talking to the victim they'd gotten the name Jack Bentley. 423 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,000 They checked the files on him and found that it could be Jonathan Benson. 424 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000 The victim, a Miss Betty Lindsay, came to our office to talk to us. 425 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,000 I don't know why they thought that I should see you. It's just a plain theft. 426 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,000 The officers in Burglary said that they thought we might be interested in the thief, Miss Lindsay. 427 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 I wonder if you'd tell us about him. 428 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Lousy crumb. This guy's a real schnook. Schnook of the First Water. 429 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Yes, ma'am. What's his name, please? 430 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 He called himself Bentley. Jack Bentley. What a bum. 431 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 What do you look like, Miss Lindsay? 432 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Tall and blond. Kind of a nice looking guy if you went for the type. 433 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:48,000 I did. Now I got troubles. Oh, what a no good bum. 434 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,000 I wonder if you'd take a look at some of the pictures we've got here and see if he's in these. 435 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,000 Sure. I'd like to see you get him. Where are the pictures? 436 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Frank, would you get them, please? 437 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Yeah. 438 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Where'd you meet this Bentley? Do you remember? 439 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Well, I'm sort of the hostess at a place downtown around 5th. 440 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Anyway, about two, three weeks ago, this schnook comes in, orders a couple drinks and leaves. 441 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Next night he's back again. Oh, he was a cagey one. Didn't work too fast. 442 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,000 Took about a week to make the pitch, then he asked me out to dinner. 443 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Well, he always seemed kind of nice, so I told him I'd go. 444 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Here are the pictures, ma'am. 445 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,000 If you just take a look through them and see if there's one of Bentley in there. 446 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Oh, sure. Let me see. No. 447 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,000 It's nothing. Hey, this one's kind of cute. What's he wanted for? 448 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Oh, he works the casualty racket. 449 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 What's that? 450 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Gets the names of people that have died, tells their families that they ordered some stuff. 451 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000 What kind of stuff? 452 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Old pen and pencil sets, watches, cheap things. Charges a lot of money for them. 453 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Most of the people figure that it's one of the last things their loved ones wanted, so they pay the prices. 454 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,000 The stuff's worthless. 455 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Lousy racket. Such a nice looking guy, too. So honest. 456 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Well, that's why it works. 457 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Yeah, I suppose so. Well, let me see. 458 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,000 No, this one's not him. Hey, wait a minute. 459 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Yeah. 460 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,000 That's him. Oh, what a nudnik. 461 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Ma'am. 462 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,000 A nudnik, a real bum. But that's him, I'm sure of it. 463 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Benson. 464 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Ma'am. 465 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 You mean you know this guy? 466 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Yes, ma'am. What if you tell us exactly what happened? 467 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,000 Sure, like I was telling you. This guy, Benson? 468 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Yes, ma'am. That's right. Jonathan Benson. 469 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Yeah, well, anyway, he asked me out for dinner. I told him I'd go. 470 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000 He looked like he was pretty well fixed. I figured he wouldn't do no harm. 471 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Well, see, I don't get off till 12.30, and there ain't many nice places open after that. 472 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,000 But I said yes, so he told me he'd pick me up. 473 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,000 He got to the club about 10 o'clock. 474 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Said that he'd gotten through with whatever it was he was doing, 475 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,000 that he came by to see if he could use my apartment to freshen up a bit. 476 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Freshen up a bit. Boy, what a way to heist the place. 477 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Oh, what a bum. 478 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Go ahead, ma'am. 479 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Well, I gave him the key to the place. He said that he'd stop at a drug store 480 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,000 and pick up a razor and shave and wash his face, and then he'd be back to pick me up. 481 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 That's the last I ever saw of him. 482 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:01,000 Walked off with a fur coat I had. Saved for three years for that coat. 483 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Cost me 900 bucks. Then he took a ring worth about 150. Diamonds. 484 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Belonged to my mother. Sure hope you get him. Nail him good. 485 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Yes, ma'am. Oh, what a nootnik. 486 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 We continued to question Betty Lindsay. 487 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,000 She gave us the name of one of Benson's friends. We checked on him, 488 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000 and he gave us the name of a girl who knew the suspect. 489 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,000 We talked to her, and she was able to give us Benson's address. 490 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 It was a rooming house on Franklin Avenue in the Hollywood area. 491 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000 6.47 p.m. Frank and I went up to his room. 492 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Yeah, come on in. 493 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Should have kept my mouth shut. What do you guys want? 494 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,000 We want to talk you downtown, Benson. 495 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 We aren't going to get on that merry-go-round again, are we? 496 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,000 I'm getting tired of this whole deal. What are you guys trying to tell me this time? 497 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,000 We didn't have to do it, Benson. You took care of that yourself. 498 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 That right. You made a mistake. 499 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,000 What is it this time? You figure I took some candy away from a blind-nose boy? 500 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000 All right, come on, Benson. Let's go. 501 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 You're going to arrest me this time, or am I going as a favor? 502 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,000 This time it's on us. You mean we're playing for keeps now? 503 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Yeah. What's the charge? Grand theft. 504 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000 You kidding? No. 505 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,000 I really believe you're serious. That's right. You call it. 506 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 This is going to be interesting. 507 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 If you can't prove this, I'm going to own City Hall, 508 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,000 and the first thing I'm going to do is fire you two. You know that, don't you? 509 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,000 We'll take that chance. All right, but don't say I didn't warn you. 510 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,000 You know, Sunday I'm going to write a book. Call it Some of My Best Friends Are Cops. 511 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Yeah, you do that. I will. You'll have the time. 512 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,000 We took the suspect downtown. We talked to him for over an hour, but he'd admit nothing. 513 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Without being able to produce the stolen articles, the case would be difficult to prosecute. 514 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000 We had Benson take everything out of his pockets. 515 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Among his personal effects, we found a key to a locker in the subway terminal. 516 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,000 Two men from Bunko Division took the key and went down to the terminal. 517 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:48,000 They recovered a locked suitcase and brought it back to the squad room where we were questioning Benson. 518 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,000 How about it, Benson? This yours? Never saw it before in my life. 519 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 It's locked. You got a key to this, Benson? 520 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,000 I told you it wasn't mine. What more can I say? 521 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,000 See those keys there, don't you think? Yeah. Here. 522 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 All right. 523 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 I don't know what this is all going to prove. I told you the suitcase isn't mine. 524 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000 You know, that figures. That's how come the keys fit, huh? 525 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Cheap suitcase. A lot of the keys double. Is that right? 526 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,000 Sure. Lots of times I lost a key for one suitcase, used the key from another one to open it. 527 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Ever find one of these in the case? 528 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000 I never saw that fur coat in my life. 529 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,000 I haven't got the slightest idea how it got there. I want to talk to a lawyer. 530 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000 You're getting kind of jumpy, aren't you, Benson? Sure. I don't mind admitting it. 531 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,000 I told you I got no idea where that coat came from, but I know you guys aren't going to believe it. 532 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,000 You're out to get me. You said so. You're going to try everything you can do with it. 533 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 You want to tell us about it now? 534 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000 There's nothing to tell. I don't know nothing about it. 535 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000 You don't ever give up, do you? I don't know what you're talking about. 536 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,000 I want to see a lawyer. All right. We'll fix it so you can put that call in. 537 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,000 We got the owner of this coat on the way down here. She's going to identify it. 538 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Now, that's all we need. Now, you just sit there and keep your mouth shut, will you? 539 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 I'll get it. 540 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Funko, Smith. 541 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 What's that? 542 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Oh, yeah, sure. 543 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Sure I remember. 544 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 What? You did, huh? 545 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,000 Well, that's swell. Glad to hear it. 546 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,000 I wouldn't know. I'm not much of an authority, I guess. 547 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 I... 548 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Her name's what? 549 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 Yeah. It's a nice name. 550 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,000 Well, I'll be glad to tell him. I'm sure he'll be pleased. 551 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Thanks very much for calling. 552 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 When are you leaving? 553 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,000 I see. Okay. Thanks a lot. Bye. 554 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,000 Anything? 555 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,000 Yes, that kid from Texas, you know, that Thomas Conant? 556 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,000 Oh, yeah. You mean the cattleman? 557 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Yeah. Got an answer to his ad. 558 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Is that right? Yeah. Somebody called him up and he said that he made a real good deal for himself. 559 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,000 And he's shipping her back to Texas. 560 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,000 Well, you mean he found a girl. No, bought himself another Holstein. 561 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,000 The story you've just heard was true. 562 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 563 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:00,000 On October 17th, trial was held in Department 87, Superior Court of the State of California, 564 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 565 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 566 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,000 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 567 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000 Thank you, George Fenomen. 568 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,000 Quality throughout is what we try to put in every drag-net show, 569 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000 and it's what Chesterfield gives you in every cigarette. 570 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,000 It's the first premium quality cigarette in both regular and king's eyes. 571 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Smoking two packs a day myself, I can tell you that they're milder, with a real good taste. 572 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Chesterfield. 573 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000 The Last Supper 574 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Jonathan Arthur Benson, alias Jack Bentley, was tried and convicted of grand theft. 575 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,000 He received sentence as prescribed by law. 576 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,000 Grand theft is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary 577 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:57,000 for not less than one, nor more than ten years. 578 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:02,000 You have just heard Drag-Net, a series of authentic cases from official files. 579 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:07,000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 580 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 581 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Peggy Webber, Harry Bartel. 582 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. 583 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,000 Hell, give me speaking. 584 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:29,000 For a million laughs, tune in to Chesterfield's Martin & Lewis show Tuesday on this same NBC station. 585 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000 And sound off for Chesterfield. 586 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:37,000 Either regular or king's eyes, you'll find premium quality Chesterfield much milder. 587 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:42,000 Chesterfield is best for you. 588 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Chesterfield has brought you Drag-Net transcribed from Los Angeles. 589 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,000 Ladies and gentlemen, make tomorrow your D-Day. 590 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,000 Get an extra bond for defense. 591 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Step into any bank or post office and buy yourself a profitable share in America's future. 592 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,000 As an investment, bonds are better than ever. 593 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,000 They can help you save safely, conveniently, and profitably. 594 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:14,000 So whether you already buy on the payroll savings plan where you work, or the bond-a-month plan where you bank, 595 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000 get an extra bond for defense tomorrow. 596 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:35,000 Music by John Robinson.