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It was raining in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 02:22.000 --> 02:26.000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Didion. My name is Friday. 02:26.000 --> 02:31.000 I was on my way into the office and it was 8.02 a.m. when I got to room 27A. Robbery. 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 John? 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 Yeah, Frank. 02:36.000 --> 02:37.000 It's really coming down, isn't it? 02:37.000 --> 02:39.000 Yeah, pouring out in the valley. 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 That's so? 02:40.000 --> 02:44.000 Yeah, keeps coming down like this, gonna cause a lot of trouble. Sure makes Faye mad. 02:44.000 --> 02:45.000 Yeah, how's that? 02:45.000 --> 02:51.000 Well, it gets to raining like this and she begins to think about the house. You know, doing something about it, changing stuff around. 02:51.000 --> 02:52.000 That's so? 02:52.000 --> 02:57.000 Spent the whole day yesterday moving furniture. Finally got it all set just before dinner. Looked pretty good, too. 02:57.000 --> 02:58.000 What happened? 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 Well, we got through dinner and all went in to look at television. 03:01.000 --> 03:02.000 Yeah. 03:02.000 --> 03:09.000 The way she had the furniture, none of us could see a thing. The chairs were either so close you couldn't see or else they were way across the room. 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 Well, you're not supposed to get too close, are you, anyway? 03:11.000 --> 03:19.000 Yeah, but Joe, we only got a 10-inch screen. We got one of those big magnifiers on it and if you get to one side, everybody looks like they got the mumps. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 Had to move all the stuff back the way it was. 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 It's a hot shot. I'll get it. 03:27.000 --> 03:28.000 All right, get your coat. We got one to roll on. 03:28.000 --> 03:29.000 What is it? 03:29.000 --> 03:30.000 Liquor store robbery. 03:35.000 --> 03:41.000 8-12 a.m. We arrived at the scene of the holdup. It was a large liquor grocery store at the corner of San Marino Avenue and Sixth Street. 03:41.000 --> 03:46.000 A radio unit was already there. Frank and I checked with him and then we talked with the victim, Mr. Henry Alden. 03:46.000 --> 03:51.000 I was just standing there at the counter. This old guy came in, pulled a gun, told me one of the money. I gave it to him. 03:51.000 --> 03:54.000 Uh-huh. He said on the phone that he was elderly. Is that right? 03:54.000 --> 03:58.000 Yeah, old guy. Must have been about 65 or 70. Real bum. 03:58.000 --> 03:59.000 How do you mean? 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 Well, the way he was dressed, you know, old clothes, real seedy. 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 Uh-huh. What if you tell us just what happened? 04:04.000 --> 04:13.000 Well, sure. It was about 8 this morning. I opened up and I was there making out the deposit slip for the bank. Guy walked in the back door and pulled his gun, told me one of the money. 04:13.000 --> 04:14.000 Uh-huh. 04:14.000 --> 04:20.000 Well, like I said, I gave it to him. He told me to get into the closet back there. He told me to lie down on the floor. 04:20.000 --> 04:24.000 And I did. And he had that gun pointed right at my head. I did like he told me. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 I see. What happened then? 04:25.000 --> 04:30.000 Well, he walked over to the door and flipped the lock on her a couple of times, you know, to make sure it worked. 04:30.000 --> 04:31.000 Yeah. 04:31.000 --> 04:37.000 And then he figured it was okay and he told me not to make any noise for five minutes. And he locked the door and left. That's it. Took all the money. 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 How much money did he take, would you know? 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 Yeah, to the penny. I just finished adding it up in just a minute. 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 All right. 04:44.000 --> 04:47.000 I got the figures on the machine. Tell you right away. 04:52.000 --> 04:57.000 That is $5,200.52. That's it exactly. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 You said the guy came in the back door, is that right? 04:59.000 --> 05:00.000 Yeah, that's right. 05:00.000 --> 05:03.000 Well, were you open? I mean, was the store open for business? 05:03.000 --> 05:09.000 No, we weren't. You see, I usually don't open before 8.30. We have the back door open for deliveries, bread, milk, stuff like that. 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 What if you could give us a description of the man? 05:11.000 --> 05:15.000 Well, sure. Like I said, he was old, say around 70, about in there. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 About how tall was he? 05:17.000 --> 05:21.000 I'd say maybe five, seven, not much more than that. 05:21.000 --> 05:22.000 How much did he weigh, would you know? 05:22.000 --> 05:25.000 Not much, maybe 125. 05:25.000 --> 05:26.000 How about his complexion? 05:26.000 --> 05:29.000 Real tan, like he'd been out in the sun a lot. Face was all wrinkled. 05:29.000 --> 05:30.000 How about the color of his eyes? 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 Blue, real blue. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 Now, what about his clothes? 05:34.000 --> 05:45.000 Real bum, had on this old overcoat, brown, all frayed, ragged around the sleeves. Had a patch on the right elbow. Patch looked like it was kind of dark, surge material. 05:45.000 --> 05:46.000 Was he wearing a hat? 05:46.000 --> 05:49.000 Yeah, yeah, blue, all beat up. You could see the dirt around the brim. 05:49.000 --> 05:51.000 How about his shirt and trousers? 05:51.000 --> 05:58.000 Blue striped shirt and old kind of brown pants, no press. Looked like he was getting ready to jump in, a real seedy. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 Yes, sir. Did he wear glasses? 05:59.000 --> 06:01.000 No, no, he didn't. 06:01.000 --> 06:04.000 Was he clean shaven or did he wear a mustache? 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 Well, he had about a four or five day old growth of beard, white. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 I see. Did he have any marks or scars that you could see? 06:10.000 --> 06:13.000 No, nothing like that. At least not that I could see. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 How about the gun? Was it a revolver or an automatic? 06:15.000 --> 06:20.000 Well, it looked like an automatic. Might have been a.45. I didn't look too close at that. 06:20.000 --> 06:23.000 Yeah. Do you have any sort of an accent when he talked to you? 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 No, no, nothing like that. 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 All right, Mr. Alden. Joe, I'll get the description out. 06:28.000 --> 06:32.000 Right, right, thanks. Mr. Alden, did the man say anything to you that might help identify him? 06:32.000 --> 06:37.000 No, not that I can think of. He kept telling me that he was real sorry he had to do this. 06:37.000 --> 06:40.000 Said, I'm really sorry, but I have to have the money. I have to. 06:40.000 --> 06:45.000 Kept asking me if I understood. I told him no. He said that someday I would. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 Real weird. Kept apologizing while he robbed me. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 I see. You're the owner here, are you? 06:49.000 --> 06:54.000 No, no, I'm just the manager. The owner's Mr. Wood. He's going to be real mad when he hears about this. 06:54.000 --> 06:58.000 Second time in three months we've been held up. Getting a little tiring. 06:58.000 --> 07:01.000 Couple more times the insurance company isn't going to stand for it. 07:01.000 --> 07:04.000 Yes, sir. Do you usually have that much money in the store? 07:04.000 --> 07:07.000 Most of the weekends, yeah. You see, a lot of our stuff is pretty expensive. 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 This is about the only store in the neighborhood that's open over Sunday. 07:10.000 --> 07:15.000 We get a lot of trade. Weekend business usually runs between three and five thousand. 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 About how many employees are there in the store? 07:17.000 --> 07:21.000 Three all tour. We stay open until two thirty in the morning. 07:21.000 --> 07:26.000 I come in in the morning and work until noon. Hank comes in and there's two of us until six. 07:26.000 --> 07:32.000 And John comes in and he works on through. Once in a while Mr. Wood comes in himself when we get busy. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 Wonder if I could have their names and addresses. 07:34.000 --> 07:37.000 Sure. They weren't involved in it, I'm sure of that. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 Well, we have to check them out anyway, Mr. Alden. 07:39.000 --> 07:44.000 Yeah, I suppose so. But I tell you, he knew what he was doing, the way he moved. 07:44.000 --> 07:48.000 The way he knew just when to come in. This fellow's done that sort of thing before. 07:48.000 --> 07:51.000 I say he was sorry about taking the money. He wasn't fooling anybody. 07:51.000 --> 07:54.000 Honestly, not a soul. Real bum, seedy, you know? 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 Yes, sir. 07:55.000 --> 07:59.000 All that baloney about how he had to have the money wasn't any other way. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 He wasn't sorry, not at all. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 Yeah, well, he probably will be. 08:07.000 --> 08:10.000 Nine thirty a.m. Frank and I started a canvas of the immediate vicinity. 08:10.000 --> 08:14.000 None of the store owners in the area had seen anyone answering the description of the holdup man. 08:14.000 --> 08:17.000 None of them had seen any suspicious cars in the area. 08:17.000 --> 08:21.000 We asked the liquor store manager to go with us to the city hall to look at the mug books. 08:21.000 --> 08:24.000 He called the store owner and when he arrived, we drove downtown. 08:24.000 --> 08:28.000 The victim went through the mug books on known holdup men, but failed to make an identification. 08:28.000 --> 08:31.000 A local and an APB were gotten out on the suspect. 08:31.000 --> 08:36.000 We asked the stats office to make a run on the M.O. used, and they came back with 14 possibles. 08:36.000 --> 08:40.000 It took us two days to check them out. They let us know where. 08:40.000 --> 08:44.000 The papers caught on to the story and letters began to pour in with advice and tips. 08:44.000 --> 08:49.000 On Monday, March 17th, the full week after the robbery, Frank and I had lunch and checked back into the office. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 See the afternoon papers, John? 08:51.000 --> 08:52.000 Yeah, pretty funny, huh? 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 Yeah, they should have taken up the story. 08:54.000 --> 08:57.000 Everybody got a different idea of who the old guy is and why he did it. 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 Have you read some of the stories? 08:59.000 --> 09:03.000 Yeah, sure. The only thing is, a lot of people seem to think the old guy's a real Robin Hood. 09:03.000 --> 09:06.000 Now, that's all right, but they forget that he walked in that store with a gun. 09:06.000 --> 09:09.000 Wasn't anybody to say that he wouldn't have pulled the trigger if somebody got in his way. 09:09.000 --> 09:12.000 Yeah, we should be glad when we get him to find out what it's all about. 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 I get it. 09:15.000 --> 09:16.000 Robbery Friday. 09:17.000 --> 09:18.000 Yes, ma'am, it is. 09:18.000 --> 09:19.000 No, ma'am. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 No, ma'am, we haven't caught him yet. 09:22.000 --> 09:23.000 What was that? 09:24.000 --> 09:25.000 Yes, ma'am. 09:25.000 --> 09:27.000 Would you give me that address again? 09:28.000 --> 09:29.000 Yes, I have it. 09:29.000 --> 09:31.000 Yes, ma'am. All right, thank you. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 There's another one. 09:33.000 --> 09:34.000 What's that? 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 Landlady runs a place out on 9th Street. 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 Says she's got a tenant that she sure is the old fellow we're looking for. 09:38.000 --> 09:39.000 How come? 09:39.000 --> 09:43.000 Says all the old guy does is stay up in his room. The other day, the landlady's daughter went upstairs for something. 09:43.000 --> 09:47.000 Tenant chased her down the stairs, yelling at her to stay away from his room, all that sort of thing. 09:47.000 --> 09:52.000 He was tired of people not respecting his rights, the rights of an old man, something I couldn't get at all on the phone. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 Description she gave him pretty much matches the one we got. 09:54.000 --> 09:55.000 What do you figure? 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 Well, we got no choice. We'll check it out. 10:00.000 --> 10:05.000 1.58 p.m. Frank and I got to the rooming house on 9th Street. It was a large, four-story building. 10:05.000 --> 10:08.000 We talked to the landlady and she gave us what information she could. 10:08.000 --> 10:10.000 She told us that the tenant's name was Roger Dietrich. 10:10.000 --> 10:13.000 She told us that he'd lived in the building for the past eight years. 10:13.000 --> 10:17.000 She went on to tell us that he had some sort of a private income and that he rarely left his room. 10:17.000 --> 10:23.000 The landlady explained that earlier the same morning, her 11-year-old daughter had gone to the attic to get some old newspapers, 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 and that on the way she'd run into Mr. Dietrich. 10:25.000 --> 10:30.000 The tenant had yelled at her and told her that as long as he was paying rent on the room, he wouldn't have anybody snooping around. 10:30.000 --> 10:35.000 We checked and found that he got no mail except the single letter a month with the income check. 10:35.000 --> 10:39.000 2.30 p.m. Frank and I went up to the fourth floor and knocked at the door. 10:41.000 --> 10:42.000 You want to try it again? 10:42.000 --> 10:43.000 Yeah. 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 Go away! 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 I don't want to! Go away! 10:50.000 --> 10:51.000 Mr. Dietrich? 10:51.000 --> 10:52.000 Who is it? 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 Police officers. We'd like to talk to you. 10:54.000 --> 11:05.000 Just a minute. 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 Who'd you say you were? 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 Police officers. We'd like to talk to you. 11:08.000 --> 11:09.000 What are your names? 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 My name's Friday. This is my partner, Frank Smith. 11:12.000 --> 11:16.000 Uh-huh. I guess it's all right. Come in. 11:16.000 --> 11:17.000 Thank you, sir. 11:19.000 --> 11:21.000 Well, I guess it's about that thing this morning, huh? 11:21.000 --> 11:22.000 Sir? 11:22.000 --> 11:26.000 Why, you don't have to play cagey with me. I know that she called you the old busybody. 11:26.000 --> 11:30.000 That bad kid of hers is just like her. He's always snooping. 11:30.000 --> 11:36.000 Well, it wasn't anything to it. The kid come up here and was snooping around trying to find out what I was doing. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 I'm not ready yet. 11:38.000 --> 11:39.000 What do you mean, sir, not ready? 11:39.000 --> 11:43.000 No. The book's not finished yet. It will be in another year. 11:43.000 --> 11:47.000 And the whole world can see it. Maybe mend their ways. 11:47.000 --> 11:50.000 Give them some hope to avoid what's coming. 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 Well, sir, that's not why we're here. 11:52.000 --> 11:56.000 Don't lie to me. I know all about you. I know that you'd be around. 11:56.000 --> 12:00.000 You're trying to stop me. I knew it. I knew it all the time. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 You see that stack of magazines over there? 12:02.000 --> 12:03.000 Yeah? 12:03.000 --> 12:07.000 Every copy of Life magazine ever printed, right from the first. 12:07.000 --> 12:10.000 I keep track, you know. I use it for research. 12:10.000 --> 12:11.000 Well, I don't quite understand, Mr. Dutry. 12:11.000 --> 12:12.000 That's from my book. 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 Oh, yeah. 12:13.000 --> 12:20.000 It's going to be in five volumes called The Evils of the Machine Age and Its Effect on Mankind. Five volumes. That's the five volumes. 12:20.000 --> 12:25.000 Got the first four finished. Working on the last one now. That's how I knew you were coming. 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 I worked it out on the charts. 12:28.000 --> 12:31.000 Well, we'd like to talk to you about what you were doing a week ago, sir. 12:31.000 --> 12:38.000 Oh, you were? Well, yes, I figured on that. I knew that you'd be checking me. I knew it. I saw it in the chart. 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 I'm getting close now. 12:40.000 --> 12:44.000 Well, it's going to sit up and take notice. Sit right up. 12:44.000 --> 12:47.000 Yes, sir. Did you go out last Monday? 12:47.000 --> 12:52.000 Monday? Last? Yes, yes. I went out to get some supplies. I got them to come right back. 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 Would you tell us what time of day that was? 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 All night, dear sir. I always go out at night. 12:56.000 --> 12:59.000 Yes, sir. Where'd you get these? What are they? Supplies? 12:59.000 --> 13:04.000 Well, that's a little place down the street. I always buy things there. Very nice. Very nice. 13:04.000 --> 13:08.000 Yes, sir. And the man down there would be able to tell us if you were there, wouldn't he? 13:08.000 --> 13:15.000 Oh, sure, yes. He and me had a talk about my book. It was really interesting. We talk all the time. 13:15.000 --> 13:22.000 I just finished volume four, you know, about what's going to happen if the machine is allowed to continue. 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 It's going to be terrible. 13:24.000 --> 13:25.000 I beg your pardon? 13:25.000 --> 13:30.000 The way the world's going. All these atom bombs. Now the hydrogen bomb. 13:30.000 --> 13:36.000 It's going to blow the world right away. Even if they stop there, things aren't going to be the same. 13:36.000 --> 13:40.000 It's all going to be different. You just betcha. 13:40.000 --> 13:44.000 You know what kids are going to look like a thousand years from now? 13:44.000 --> 13:47.000 Well, sir, I imagine pretty much the same way they do now, huh? 13:47.000 --> 13:49.000 Yes, sir. And that's just where you're wrong. 13:49.000 --> 13:51.000 Take a picture right here. 13:51.000 --> 13:58.000 That's volume four. You know, finished volume four. I'll get it. 13:58.000 --> 14:02.000 There you are. See? I can do it up myself. 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 Yeah. Well, what is it? 14:05.000 --> 14:10.000 Well, you see, that's the way we're all going to look. You see there? See? 14:10.000 --> 14:16.000 That large hair. All brains. Little bitty legs. 14:16.000 --> 14:21.000 That's from that we won't be doing any walking, you see, just riding all the time. 14:21.000 --> 14:28.000 One great big eye right in the middle of the head and the right arm fit only for eating breakfast food that makes noise. 14:28.000 --> 14:31.000 It's not turning on the television set, you see? 14:31.000 --> 14:36.000 Yes, sir. That's what the chart says we're going to look like if we all eat atom bomb. 14:36.000 --> 14:39.000 Yes, sir. I wonder if you'd mind coming downtown with us. 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 In an automobile? Yes, sir. 14:41.000 --> 14:45.000 Well, I'm afraid not. You see, I don't believe in them. They're not going to last, you see. 14:45.000 --> 14:48.000 Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Dietrich, but we have to ask you to go with us. 14:48.000 --> 14:51.000 Police business, huh? Yes, sir. That's right. 14:51.000 --> 14:56.000 Well, I don't like it, but I guess I got no choice. That right? Yes, sir. That's right. 14:56.000 --> 15:01.000 Well, all right. That way, I might as well ride in an automobile. 15:01.000 --> 15:07.000 Won't be around long, you know. It'll just fade right out of existence. 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 Is that right? Yeah. 15:09.000 --> 15:13.000 Take a look at what's going to happen in my book. Volume 5. 15:16.000 --> 15:21.000 3.01 p.m. We drove Roger Dietrich down to the city hall and checked him through R&I. 15:21.000 --> 15:24.000 We found no record on him. We got in touch with a holdup victim, Henry Alden, 15:24.000 --> 15:27.000 and asked him to come down to the city hall to see if he could identify the suspect. 15:27.000 --> 15:30.000 He got to the robbery squad room at 4.15 p.m. 15:30.000 --> 15:33.000 No, no, I'm sure, but that's not the guy. 15:33.000 --> 15:36.000 What's all this about, anyway? What are your officers trying to do? 15:36.000 --> 15:39.000 Well, it's all right, Mr. Dietrich. We're just conducting a routine investigation. It's all right now. 15:39.000 --> 15:42.000 Oh, it is, huh? Yes, sir. We can take you home now, if you like. 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 In that police car? Yes, sir. 15:44.000 --> 15:47.000 Well, how about this fellow? Are you going, too? No, sir. 15:47.000 --> 15:50.000 Oh, well, now, maybe I'll do just that. 15:50.000 --> 15:54.000 Would you mind dropping me off at Pershing Square? 15:54.000 --> 15:58.000 I'd like to listen to a speech. A friend of mine's making it this afternoon. 15:58.000 --> 15:59.000 Brilliant man. 15:59.000 --> 16:03.000 Oh, my, he's already written 12 books, all on odds. 16:03.000 --> 16:06.000 Sir? O-D-D-S, odds. 16:06.000 --> 16:11.000 Like, um, what are the chances of a comet falling on your house? 16:11.000 --> 16:16.000 Or, uh, what are the chances of a certain horse winning the Kentucky Derby? 16:16.000 --> 16:19.000 All things like that. You know, brilliant man. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 Yes, sir. He's dead broke. 16:21.000 --> 16:26.000 That right. Yep. Spends all his money on research. 16:26.000 --> 16:29.000 I'll get it. 16:29.000 --> 16:32.000 Robbery Friday. Yeah, Barnes. Uh-huh. Yeah. 16:32.000 --> 16:37.000 When'd you pick him up? Yeah. All right. No, we'll be right over. 16:37.000 --> 16:41.000 Anything? Yeah. Barnes over at the main jail. Says they got a drunk over there who's doing a lot of bragging. 16:41.000 --> 16:45.000 What about? Heist in the liquor store for $5,200. 16:45.000 --> 16:51.000 4.30 p.m. We had Roger Dietrich taken to his home, and then Frank and I went over to the main jail. 16:51.000 --> 16:59.000 We talked to Officer Phil Barnes. He told us that an Arnold Jefferson had been picked up and booked for L.A.M.C. 4127A on the previous day. 16:59.000 --> 17:03.000 Barnes went on to say that this was Jefferson's 42nd arrest on drunk charges. 17:03.000 --> 17:06.000 We had the suspect brought to the interview room, and we talked to him. 17:06.000 --> 17:09.000 All right, Jefferson, now what's all this about you holding up a liquor store? 17:09.000 --> 17:10.000 What do you know about it? 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 You match the description of the man who committed the robbery. 17:12.000 --> 17:16.000 The clothes there that you're wearing are like the ones the victim described. Now, how about it? 17:16.000 --> 17:20.000 You figure you can prove it without me telling you? Yeah, if Alden identifies you, we can. 17:20.000 --> 17:25.000 Alden? He's the man who was robbed. He's outside now. We want him to take a look at you. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 That won't be necessary. 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I knew it all the time. 18:59.000 --> 19:00.000 Is that right? 19:00.000 --> 19:03.000 Sure. I knew it even before I held up the store. 19:03.000 --> 19:05.000 You know, I didn't really want to do it. 19:05.000 --> 19:09.000 You know, I really meant it when I told him I was sorry about doing it. It really meant it. 19:09.000 --> 19:12.000 I guess maybe you find that kind of hard to believe. 19:12.000 --> 19:14.000 Well, I suppose you tell us about it, huh? 19:14.000 --> 19:17.000 Yeah. I guess the best way would be to start from the beginning, huh? 19:17.000 --> 19:18.000 Yeah. 19:18.000 --> 19:21.000 The thing you should understand is I think basically that I'm an honest man. 19:21.000 --> 19:25.000 All my life I've never cheated anyone or taken anything that didn't belong to me. 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 I've tried to live pretty much by the golden rule. 19:27.000 --> 19:28.000 Yes, sir. 19:28.000 --> 19:32.000 Sometimes, maybe lots of times, it'd be a little hard to do, but I did my best. 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 Yes, sir. Go ahead. 19:34.000 --> 19:39.000 I was born in the Middle West. Tiny little town. You probably never heard of it. 19:39.000 --> 19:43.000 It isn't on most of the map. Went school there through the eighth grade. 19:43.000 --> 19:46.000 Then I decided that I wanted to see the rest of the country. 19:46.000 --> 19:49.000 I worked my way through every one of the 48, every one of them. 19:49.000 --> 19:50.000 Uh-huh. 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 Did a lot of things, met a lot of people. 19:52.000 --> 19:53.000 Is that right? 19:53.000 --> 19:57.000 Well, all that time, all my life, I never did anything real big. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 Nothing that I could ever tell anybody about and be proud. 20:00.000 --> 20:01.000 Nothing to tell people about. 20:01.000 --> 20:02.000 Yes, sir. 20:02.000 --> 20:08.000 I'm 72 years old now. It's a long time to live and never do anything big. Long time. 20:08.000 --> 20:09.000 Mm-hmm. 20:09.000 --> 20:14.000 Came downtown one day, sat in the pleasure in the sun, met some real nice people. 20:14.000 --> 20:17.000 People like me, people without much reason. 20:17.000 --> 20:21.000 Got to coming down every day, sitting and talking, exchanging ideas. 20:21.000 --> 20:24.000 Found a lot of good friends. Most of them were alone. 20:24.000 --> 20:28.000 And I guess being alone made us members of the same club. 20:28.000 --> 20:31.000 Got to be a sort of a lodge. 17 of us. 20:31.000 --> 20:36.000 Used to meet, talk about things, the way the world was going, how things looked for the future, all things like that. 20:36.000 --> 20:37.000 Friends. 20:37.000 --> 20:40.000 Yes, sir. How'd you get along all this time? How'd you live? 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 Oh, I get a little pension from the state. Enough to get along on. 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 I don't need much. 20:44.000 --> 20:48.000 Well, one day I got to thinking about how I didn't really have anything big to remember. 20:48.000 --> 20:49.000 That's when I decided. 20:49.000 --> 20:50.000 You mean on the robbery? 20:50.000 --> 20:51.000 Yep. 20:51.000 --> 20:56.000 Decided that if I could get my hands on a lot of money, a lot of it all at once, I could have something. 20:56.000 --> 20:57.000 Yeah? 20:57.000 --> 20:58.000 So I started to figure. 20:58.000 --> 21:01.000 First off, I had to figure what kind of a store to rob. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 Had to be one where I could get enough money. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 Thought about it quite a while. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 When I had that figured, I picked out a store. 21:07.000 --> 21:11.000 And then I cased, is that right? 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 Yeah, that's right. 21:12.000 --> 21:15.000 Well, I cased the store, figured how I'd do it. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Then I figured that I'd have to have a gun. 21:17.000 --> 21:18.000 Yeah. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 Got one of those little plastic ones. 21:20.000 --> 21:23.000 Bought the dime store, fixed it up with shoe black. 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 Couldn't hurt anybody, just plastic. 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 Looked real, but couldn't hurt anyone. 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 Of course, the victim wouldn't know that, would he? 21:29.000 --> 21:31.000 Yeah, I thought considerable about that. 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 Worried about it a lot. 21:33.000 --> 21:36.000 About how if there was any trouble, it'd make it hard with just a plastic gun. 21:36.000 --> 21:39.000 Oh, not that I wanted to hurt anybody. I didn't. 21:39.000 --> 21:43.000 But I got to thinking what would happen if somebody got scared and thought it was real. 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 Could be trouble there. 21:45.000 --> 21:46.000 Mm-hmm. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 No, no, now before I go any further, 21:48.000 --> 21:51.000 I want you to know that right at this point I knew I was doing wrong. 21:51.000 --> 21:52.000 I knew it. 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 Knew that I'd have to go to jail for what I did. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 Knew it and it didn't matter. 21:56.000 --> 21:57.000 Had to be that way. 21:57.000 --> 22:00.000 Well, now if you knew that, why'd you go ahead with the robbery? 22:00.000 --> 22:02.000 Yeah, wasn't any other way to get the money. 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 At least none that I could think of. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 Believe me, I tried to think of one. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 All right, go ahead. 22:07.000 --> 22:12.000 And I held up the place, took the money, and then I made the man get into the closet. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 Did that so he wouldn't try to follow me. 22:14.000 --> 22:16.000 I was sorry about it. 22:16.000 --> 22:19.000 Tried to tell him, but I don't think he really believed it. 22:19.000 --> 22:20.000 Don't think he did. 22:20.000 --> 22:21.000 What'd you do then? 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 I took a bus out to the airport. 22:22.000 --> 22:27.000 Thought about taking a cab, but then I figured that I'd want to save as much money as I could so as to have it later. 22:27.000 --> 22:28.000 Yeah. 22:28.000 --> 22:32.000 I inquired around out there at the airport and found a place where I could rent an airplane. 22:32.000 --> 22:35.000 I paid for it in advance so there wouldn't be any trouble. 22:35.000 --> 22:37.000 Hired it to go to San Francisco. 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 Round trip, both ways. 22:39.000 --> 22:41.000 You hired an airplane? 22:41.000 --> 22:44.000 Yep. Big one. Carried 18 people. 22:44.000 --> 22:45.000 That's what I needed. 22:45.000 --> 22:47.000 Real comfortable seats, two motors. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 Had a girl paint on the front. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 From the war, I guess. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 All right, go ahead. 22:52.000 --> 22:57.000 Well, I took the bus back to town and I started walking around the plaza. 22:57.000 --> 23:00.000 Rounded up all 17 of my friends, a whole bunch of them. 23:00.000 --> 23:02.000 Talked to them all. 23:02.000 --> 23:06.000 Guys who had been nice to me even if there wasn't anything I could do for them. 23:06.000 --> 23:10.000 Told them to meet me at First and Main, right by the fountain in front of the city hall that night. 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 Told them that I was going to throw a party. 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 A party they'd never forget. 23:14.000 --> 23:17.000 Well, we got together that night and took a cab out to the airport. 23:17.000 --> 23:20.000 Well, matter of fact, we took four cabs. 23:20.000 --> 23:23.000 Had to show the drivers that I had the money for the tickets. 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 Guess they thought we was going to try to get a free ride. 23:25.000 --> 23:28.000 But anyway, when I showed them the money, they drove us out. 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 Give them a good tip. 23:30.000 --> 23:31.000 Nice fellas. 23:31.000 --> 23:34.000 Got on the airplane and flew up to San Francisco. 23:34.000 --> 23:36.000 Wonderful. 23:36.000 --> 23:38.000 Got into the city and then we started. 23:38.000 --> 23:39.000 Really had a time. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 Lasted three days. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 Wasn't anything we didn't see, nothing we didn't do. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 Three days of it. 23:45.000 --> 23:46.000 Real living. 23:46.000 --> 23:47.000 Everything was on me. 23:47.000 --> 23:48.000 Paid for it all. 23:48.000 --> 23:52.000 Went to the best places, ate the best food, drank the finest wines. 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 Really lived. 23:54.000 --> 23:56.000 Where'd you stay when you were in San Francisco? 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 Hotel down on Howard. 23:58.000 --> 24:01.000 Not the richest in town, but real nice. 24:01.000 --> 24:02.000 Clean rooms. 24:02.000 --> 24:03.000 All right, go ahead. 24:03.000 --> 24:08.000 Well, by the time that I thought we'd stayed long enough, we all got on the plane and come back. 24:08.000 --> 24:09.000 Got in Wednesday morning. 24:09.000 --> 24:12.000 Took cabs downtown, then we all went to breakfast. 24:12.000 --> 24:14.000 Had a real whopper. 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 Kind of a farewell for the whole party. 24:16.000 --> 24:20.000 After I settled up with the waitress, I only had a dollar seventy-five left. 24:20.000 --> 24:22.000 Gave it to her for a tip. 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 Sure made her happy. 24:24.000 --> 24:26.000 I don't guess she makes much down there. 24:26.000 --> 24:27.000 Yeah. 24:27.000 --> 24:30.000 Well, did any of your friends know where you'd gotten the money for this party? 24:30.000 --> 24:31.000 Oh, no. 24:31.000 --> 24:35.000 You see, when I first got the idea, I told them that I had a real rich brother. 24:35.000 --> 24:40.000 Told him that he died and that I was his only relative, that all the money would get to me. 24:40.000 --> 24:43.000 I figured that I could sort of set things up by doing that. 24:43.000 --> 24:44.000 Seemed to work all right. 24:44.000 --> 24:45.000 None of them said anything. 24:45.000 --> 24:46.000 Uh-huh. 24:46.000 --> 24:48.000 You remember the man you chartered the airplane from? 24:48.000 --> 24:49.000 Oh, sure. 24:49.000 --> 24:50.000 Real nice fella. 24:50.000 --> 24:51.000 I got his card. 24:51.000 --> 24:52.000 I kept it. 24:52.000 --> 24:53.000 Sort of a souvenir. 24:53.000 --> 24:55.000 I can give it to you if you want it. 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 Yeah, we'll have to have it. 24:57.000 --> 24:58.000 You ever done any big time? 24:58.000 --> 24:59.000 Me? 24:59.000 --> 25:00.000 Oh, no, no. 25:00.000 --> 25:02.000 No, just drunk arrests. 25:02.000 --> 25:03.000 Lots of them. 25:03.000 --> 25:04.000 Yeah. 25:04.000 --> 25:08.000 Big thing about this is that I wish there was some way to keep the boys from finding out 25:08.000 --> 25:09.000 so they wouldn't have to know. 25:09.000 --> 25:14.000 Of course, I know that I'm not going to see them again, but just the same, what are they going to think? 25:14.000 --> 25:17.000 How are they going to take this when they hear about it? 25:17.000 --> 25:18.000 I don't know. 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 I sure was wrong. 25:20.000 --> 25:21.000 Real wrong. 25:21.000 --> 25:23.000 How long will they put me in jail for? 25:23.000 --> 25:24.000 You guys know? 25:24.000 --> 25:25.000 Well, it depends. 25:25.000 --> 25:26.000 Depends on what? 25:26.000 --> 25:27.000 What the court says. 25:27.000 --> 25:28.000 Oh. 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 Still have to go to prison though, huh? 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 Yeah, I'm afraid so. 25:32.000 --> 25:35.000 Well, I haven't got much left. 25:35.000 --> 25:38.000 I guess no matter what they say, it's going to be life for me. 25:38.000 --> 25:40.000 Well, sir, we're not the ones to decide that. 25:40.000 --> 25:41.000 Yes, I know. 25:41.000 --> 25:43.000 You guys have been real nice. 25:43.000 --> 25:45.000 In a way, I'm glad it's over. 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 Like I said before, I knew you'd get me. 25:47.000 --> 25:50.000 I knew it all the time right from the beginning. 25:50.000 --> 25:52.000 Tried to figure out how it'd be when you did get me. 25:52.000 --> 25:55.000 What I'd say, how I'd act. 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 Wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. 25:57.000 --> 25:59.000 Not hard at all. 25:59.000 --> 26:00.000 One thing though. 26:00.000 --> 26:01.000 Yeah, what's that? 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 I kind of wish I hadn't done it. 26:03.000 --> 26:04.000 I really do. 26:04.000 --> 26:07.000 I keep thinking to my friends how they're going to take it. 26:07.000 --> 26:08.000 Yeah. 26:08.000 --> 26:09.000 You want to go? 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 You going to take me back now, huh? 26:11.000 --> 26:12.000 Yeah, I'm afraid we have to. 26:12.000 --> 26:14.000 Going to put me back in the tank? 26:14.000 --> 26:15.000 No, not this time. 26:15.000 --> 26:16.000 Upstairs? 26:16.000 --> 26:18.000 Yeah, upstairs. 26:18.000 --> 26:20.000 That means I'll have a cell all to myself. 26:20.000 --> 26:21.000 Be nice. 26:21.000 --> 26:23.000 I'd like to be alone. 26:23.000 --> 26:24.000 All right. 26:24.000 --> 26:25.000 You all set, Jefferson? 26:25.000 --> 26:26.000 Yeah. 26:26.000 --> 26:28.000 This way. 26:31.000 --> 26:33.000 Seventy-two years, nothing to show for it. 26:33.000 --> 26:34.000 Nothing. 26:34.000 --> 26:38.000 Only one thing I can really say I did with my life. 26:38.000 --> 26:40.000 What's that, Jefferson? 26:40.000 --> 27:07.000 Wasted 72 years. 27:07.000 --> 27:10.000 The story you have just heard was true. 27:10.000 --> 27:12.000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:12.000 --> 27:15.000 On July 24th, trial was held in Department 89, 27:15.000 --> 27:17.000 Superior Court of the State of California, 27:17.000 --> 27:20.000 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 27:20.000 --> 27:22.000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:22.000 --> 27:24.000 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:24.000 --> 27:26.000 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:26.000 --> 27:29.000 I hope you'll remember the facts George Fenomen reported to you earlier. 27:29.000 --> 27:32.000 Recent chemical analyses give an index of good quality 27:32.000 --> 27:34.000 for the country's six leading brands. 27:34.000 --> 27:36.000 The index of good quality table, 27:36.000 --> 27:38.000 a ratio of high sugar to low nicotine, 27:38.000 --> 27:40.000 showed Chesterfield quality highest. 27:40.000 --> 27:43.000 Fifteen percent higher than its nearest competitor. 27:43.000 --> 27:46.000 And Chesterfield quality, 31 percent higher than the average 27:46.000 --> 27:48.000 of the five other leading brands. 27:48.000 --> 27:50.000 Now, I'd like you to try Chesterfield's today. 27:50.000 --> 27:52.000 I know they're best for me, 27:52.000 --> 27:54.000 and I'm sure you'll find Chesterfield's are best for you. 27:54.000 --> 28:05.000 Arnold Peter Jefferson was tried and found guilty 28:05.000 --> 28:07.000 of one count of robbery in the second degree. 28:07.000 --> 28:09.000 He was sentenced to the state penitentiary 28:09.000 --> 28:11.000 for the term as prescribed by law. 28:11.000 --> 28:14.000 Robbery in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment 28:14.000 --> 28:16.000 for a period of not less than one year. 28:16.000 --> 28:18.000 Ladies and gentlemen, 28:18.000 --> 28:20.000 we wish to thank the editors of Real Magazine 28:20.000 --> 28:23.000 for their article, High Tension on TV, 28:23.000 --> 28:25.000 in the April issue now on sale. 28:25.000 --> 28:36.000 You have just heard Dragnet, 28:36.000 --> 28:39.000 a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:39.000 --> 28:41.000 Technical advice comes from the office of Chief of Police 28:41.000 --> 28:44.000 W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:44.000 --> 28:46.000 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, 28:46.000 --> 28:49.000 Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Fance Brasher. 28:49.000 --> 28:52.000 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Vic Rodman, Ralph Moody. 28:52.000 --> 28:55.000 Script by John Robinson, music by Walter Schuman. 28:55.000 --> 29:00.000 Hell, give me speaking. 29:00.000 --> 29:03.000 For a million laughs, tune in Chesterfield's Martin & Lewis show 29:03.000 --> 29:06.000 Tuesday on the same NBC station. 29:06.000 --> 29:08.000 And sound off for Chesterfield's. 29:08.000 --> 29:10.000 Either regular or king size, 29:10.000 --> 29:14.000 you'll find premium quality Chesterfield's much milder. 29:14.000 --> 29:18.000 Chesterfield is best for you. 29:18.000 --> 29:21.000 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed 29:21.000 --> 29:29.000 from Los Angeles. 29:29.000 --> 29:52.000 Tonight it's Adventure with Barry Craig on NBC.