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Chesterfield. 21 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Dragnet. The document a drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:05,000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 23 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:16,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 24 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000 It was Thursday, December 10th. It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of burglary detail. 25 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Chief of Detective Stad Brown. My name is Friday. 26 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:30,000 We were on the way out from the office and it was 10, 14 a.m. when we got to the Armstrong Schneider Jewelry Company. 27 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 The manager's office. 28 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Can I help you? 29 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Yes, ma'am. Police officers, would you like to see Mr. Armstrong? 30 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Oh, yes. Just a minute. 31 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Police officers are here. Yes, sir, right away. 32 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Will you go right in, please? 33 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Thank you very much. 34 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Mr. Armstrong's office. Yes, sir. I'm sorry to leave you in the meeting. 35 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Won't you come in? 36 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Thank you very much. 37 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Thanks, sir. 38 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Mr. Armstrong? 39 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Yes. 40 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 My partner, Frank Smith. My name is Friday. 41 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,000 How do you do? Won't you sit down? 42 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Thank you very much. 43 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Thanks. 44 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Would you like a cigarette? 45 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Yes, sir. Thank you. 46 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Thanks. 47 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,000 I have a lighter. 48 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 As you know, this firm is probably the foremost fine jewelry store on the coast. 49 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Yes, sir. I wonder if you'd tell us about the theft. 50 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Yes. Well, we discovered it this morning. 51 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,000 How old was it? 52 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 About 945. That's when we missed it. 53 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 I guess the necklace was taken about nine. 54 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,000 It must have been right after we opened. 55 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Could you give us a description of the piece, sir? 56 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Yes, I have it right here. 57 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Got it from the insurance records. 58 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Have a drawing of it. We always have that done on high-priced items. 59 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Here you are. 60 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Thank you. 61 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 What value do you place on the necklace? 62 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 It's insured for $8,000. 63 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 A firm can't afford to take a loss like that. 64 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Could you tell us exactly how it was taken? 65 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Yes, I can. 66 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 At about nine, we just opened the front doors. 67 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 People had started to come in. 68 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Lots of shoppers. Christmas, you know. 69 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Well, this one couple came in, asked to see some of our more expensive necklaces. 70 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Henderson brought the tray out of the safe and showed the collection to the people. 71 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Henderson? 72 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Yes. He's the clerk who was waiting on the people. 73 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 I gave him his notice. I had to. 74 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Looks to me like carelessness. 75 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 I wonder if we could talk to him. 76 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Yes, all right. 77 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Thank you. 78 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Miss Courtney, would you have Henderson sent in here, please? 79 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Yes, right away. 80 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 What? 81 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 No, tell him I'll call later. 82 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 That's right. Have him leave the number and I'll call back. 83 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Right, yes. 84 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 He'll be right in. 85 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 All right, thank you. 86 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 How long has this Henderson been working here? 87 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I'd have to check the employment records to be sure. 88 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Offhand, I think it's been about five years. 89 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Ever since we opened at this location, we used to have a store downtown, 90 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 then we moved out here. 91 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Where did he work before that? 92 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Well, let me see. I think it was someplace up north. 93 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,000 San Francisco, I believe. 94 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Yes, he worked in a store up there. 95 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Had excellent references. He's a good salesman. 96 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 But you gave him notice, huh? 97 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Well, I felt it was the only thing to do. 98 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 If he's getting careless, he has no business working in a store 99 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 that deals with expensive merchandise. 100 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Excuse me. 101 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Yes? 102 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Send him right in. 103 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,000 What? 104 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 No, please tell him to call later. 105 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 No, I'm not into anyone. No one but Sharon. 106 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 My wife. 107 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Yes, sir. 108 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Come in. 109 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Do you want to see me, Mr. Armstrong? 110 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Yes, come right in, Henderson. 111 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 These are police officers, Mr. Friday and Mr. Smith. 112 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,000 This is Charles Henderson. 113 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,000 How are you? 114 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Hi. 115 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,000 How are you? 116 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 They'd like to ask you some questions about the theft. 117 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Yes, sir. Anything I can do to help? 118 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Could you give us a description of the company you're waiting on? 119 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Yeah, I think so. The man was about 35, maybe 40. 120 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 About how tall was he? 121 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Maybe 5'11". Might have been six feet. 122 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 I'd say he weighed about 155 pounds, something like that. 123 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Uh-huh. How about his coloring, his complexion? 124 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 It was light. Looked like he'd been out in the sun, though. 125 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 His nose was all sunburned. 126 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 I notice it because you don't often see people with sunburns like that this time of the year. 127 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000 You know, December. 128 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Mm-hmm. How was he dressed, do you remember? 129 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:47,000 He had a gray hat on, gray chalk striped suit on, flannel blue shirt, maroon tie. 130 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Didn't see his shoes. He had on one of those new round collars, though. 131 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,000 You know, rounded here on collar points? 132 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Mm-hmm. Was he clean shaven? 133 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:59,000 No. No, he had a little mustache, one of those that looks like it's drawn on with an eyebrow pencil. 134 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Just a line. You know the kind. 135 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Uh-huh. How about the woman? What'd she look like? 136 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 She was a small woman, not much more than 5'2", little, about 100 pounds. 137 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Real pretty. She had dark hair and blue eyes, very fair. 138 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 I noticed it because I thought at the time that maybe she dyed her hair. 139 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Mm-hmm. Did she have any marks or scars you saw? 140 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 No. No, I don't think so, no. 141 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 How was she dressed? 142 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:22,000 She was a little too overdressed, had a dress and a coat, had a jewel clip here on her dress. 143 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,000 She looked kind of flashy cheap, you know. 144 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 I see. Anything about the way they talked and the accent, anything like that? 145 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 No. Nothing I can remember. 146 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Would you remember if either one of them wore glasses, maybe? 147 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,000 No. The man, though, he had a kind of funny way of talking. 148 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 What do you mean? 149 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Oh, he sounded sort of like one of those pitch men on TV, you know, the kind that sell kitchen gadgets, things like that. 150 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Mm-hmm. Could you tell us what happened, what they said when they came in, how they took the jewels? 151 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Yes. They came in right after we opened, asked to see something in necklaces. 152 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Said they wanted to pay around 5,000. 153 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 So I brought out the tray, but didn't find anything that they liked. 154 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,000 And then I brought out the other tray. They looked at one of the necklaces, a beautiful thing, 8,500. 155 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 You know, Mr. Armstrong, the emerald-cut diamond with a small sapphire star. 156 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Yes, I know the one, beautiful thing. 157 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Excuse me, can I use that ashtray a minute? 158 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Here you are. 159 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Yeah, thank you. 160 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,000 What if you'd go on, please? 161 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Oh, sure. Well, I brought out the other tray and showed them the necklaces in it. 162 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,000 They both looked for a long time. 163 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Then the woman said that she didn't think there was anything there she wanted. 164 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Mm-hmm. What was the matter? Didn't they care for our designs? 165 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 No, it wasn't that, sir. They just didn't see anything they liked. 166 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 So they moved back to the other tray. 167 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Then the woman said she'd found what she wanted. 168 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 It was a small piece, three diamonds and four small rubies. 169 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Did they buy that? 170 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 No, they said they wanted to think about it. 171 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 They made a big thing about asking me if I thought that it would be sold before they could make up their minds. 172 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Mm-hmm. 173 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Well, I told them if they wanted to put a small deposit on it, we could hold it for them. 174 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Yeah. 175 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Men said he'd rather not do that. He said they'd know by this afternoon. 176 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 At that time, there were several people in the store, Christmas shoppers, you know. 177 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Mm-hmm. 178 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Some of them were looking at a display of bracelets we had on the counter. 179 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,000 I went over to them to see if there was anything I could do. 180 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,000 You know, tell them that I'd get someone to wait on them. 181 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I understand. 182 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 It's a foolish thing to do. I know that. 183 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,000 I'm afraid it was. 184 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Yeah, I know now. 185 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Well, when I got back, the couple was leaving. 186 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 They told me they'd be in this afternoon and let me know. 187 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,000 I walked out of the store and I stopped to help a gentleman that came in. 188 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,000 When I turned back to the trays, I noticed that the necklace in the more expensive tray was gone. 189 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Mm-hmm. Would you be able to give us positive identification of these people if you ever saw them again? 190 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Yes, I'm sure I would. 191 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,000 I wonder if you can come downtown with us and look at some pictures, see if you can identify the thieves for us. 192 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Of course, if Mr. Armstrong has no objection. 193 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Not at all. You'd like me to come along, too? 194 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 I don't think that'll be necessary right now. If there's anything we need, we can get in touch with you here, can't we? 195 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Yes, right here at my home. I can give you that number. 196 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,000 All right, fine. 197 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Okay. 198 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Here it is. 199 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Thank you, sir. 200 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Well, thanks very much. You ready to go? 201 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Yes, sir. I'll get my hat. 202 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Just a minute, Anderson. 203 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Yes, sir. 204 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,000 As soon as you get through down there, come on back. Your job's waiting for you. 205 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000 All right, sir. I'd like to come back. 206 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Anything I can do to help, just let me know. 207 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,000 All right, Mr. Armstrong. 208 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Not at all. 209 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 I'll get my hat and meet you at the door. 210 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Right. 211 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 Have you notified the insurance company of the theft yet, Armstrong? 212 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,000 I have a call in to them now. I'm expecting an agent from the firm any minute. 213 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Sure hope you can recover it. 214 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Yes, we'll do the best we can. 215 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Eight thousand dollar necklace. How do you think they'll go about disposing of it, break it up? 216 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Well, either that or leave it in one piece. 217 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,000 That'll make it kind of hard to unload, won't it? Eight thousand dollars. 218 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Not at their price. 219 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Ten thirty-seven a.m. We talked to the other people in the store. 220 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 From them we got verifying descriptions of the two thieves. 221 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Eleven thirty-two a.m. Frank and I took the clerk, Charles Henderson, down to the city hall and had him go through the mug books. 222 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:52,000 We got out a local and an APB on the pair of thieves and a description of the stolen necklace was prepared for the Daily Bulletin. 223 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:59,000 The insurance company that underwrote the necklace got in touch with us and said that they were getting out printed circulars to jewelers throughout the country. 224 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 The victim was unable to make an identification from the mug books. 225 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:08,000 We had the MO of the theft run through the stats office, but when the possibles were checked out we had no new leads. 226 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Further interrogation of the owners and employees of the stores in the immediate vicinity of Armstrong and Schneider failed to turn up anything new. 227 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:20,000 The theft was not a new one. For the past six weeks there had been a series of burglaries taking place out on Wilshire Boulevard. 228 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Most of them had been exclusive women's stores or jewelry shops. 229 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:30,000 To date all of them had been articles of small individual value. None that approached the value of the necklace taken from Armstrong and Schneider. 230 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:35,000 In an attempt to apprehend the thieves all of the usual avenues of sale of stolen goods had been checked. 231 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,000 None of the precautions apparently did any good and the thefts continued. 232 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Another two weeks passed. In that time the thieves hit three times all in the same general area. 233 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:51,000 The employees of the victimized stores were questioned. From the information we got from them we could be certain that the suspects were the same ones we were after. 234 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 On Tuesday December 29th Frank and I got back from checking a lead. 235 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Well there's another one that went no place. 236 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Yeah, you go and check the book. 237 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Yeah, I'll get it. 238 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Anything there? 239 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Yeah, there's a call here from Alex Olson. 240 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Olson? 241 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Yeah, got a Dunkirk number. You know Olson? 242 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,000 No, that name doesn't mean anything to me. Say what it's about. 243 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,000 No, just a call him. He says it's important. 244 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Alright, give me the number, huh? 245 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Yeah. 246 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Here you go. 247 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,000 What is this? One nine oh? Is that a nine? 248 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Yeah, I think so. Yeah, it's a nine. 249 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 You don't make nines very good. 250 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Low-pick, hand-write. 251 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Can I speak to Alex? 252 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Oh, Alex Olson. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. 253 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Hotel. Yeah. 254 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Hello. This Olson? Yeah. This is Frye, police department. You want me to call you? 255 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Yeah, oh yeah. Sure, sure I remember now, huh? 256 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Yeah, sure. We'd like to talk to you. Yeah. 257 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Now, we'll come over there. That's right. You want to give me the address? 258 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Just a minute. Yeah. 259 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Okay. 260 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Right. Right. Bye. 261 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Olson, he works for that carnival. You remember we talked to him last year. 262 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Says he wants to see us about some burglaries now. 263 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Oh yeah, I remember. 264 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Says he's in with the thieves. 265 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Eleven twenty-six a.m. We drove out to the address Olson had given me on the phone. 266 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 We talked to the desk clerk at the hotel. 267 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,000 He said that Olson had just moved in and that during the time he'd been there, 268 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Olson hadn't talked much to any of the other people in the place. 269 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,000 The clerk gave us his room number and Frank and I went up to talk to him. 270 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Oh, where is that? Joe Frye. 271 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Oh, just a minute. 272 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 All right, come on in. Thanks. 273 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 All right. 274 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Olson, this is my partner Frank Smith. 275 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Hello. 276 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 I remember you. Sit down. Thanks. 277 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 You want a drink? No. 278 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Thanks. Oh, I got to have one. 279 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:15,000 What was it you want to talk to us about, Olson? 280 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Olson. 281 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,000 What was it you want to talk to us about? 282 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Oh, man. 283 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 I don't know what to hang over. I really get him. 284 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Yeah, let's get to the point, shall we? What's on your mind? 285 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,000 I don't know why I drink so much. I feel terrible the next day. 286 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 I always drink too much. 287 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 All right, now look, Olson, maybe you got a lot of time. 288 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000 We haven't. We didn't come over here to sit and watch you drink. 289 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Now get to the point. You said on the phone that you were in with a gang of thieves. 290 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 We were looking for. Now what about it? 291 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 What I told on the phone was true. It's all true. 292 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 I'm glad to tell you. Get it over. 293 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Get it all out in the open. That's what I need to do. 294 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Get it all out in the open. 295 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 You had any breakfast yet? 296 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 No, I just got up before I called you. 297 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Is there any place around here you can get something to eat? 298 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Don't make no difference around here. Nobody knows me. 299 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,000 I think there's a place down the street right next to the hotel. 300 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 But what's all this about food? 301 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 I think you'll feel better if you have something to eat, won't you? 302 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 No, wait a minute. 303 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 You've had enough of that. Put it down. 304 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,000 I don't want no food. 305 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 All right, we do. Let's go. 306 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,000 You guys are getting a little bossy, aren't you? 307 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,000 We want to hear what you got to say. You keep hitting that bottle. 308 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Neither one of us is going to make it. 309 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Come on, Phil. We'll buy you some breakfast. 310 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 You got a coat? It's cold out. 311 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Oh, yeah. 312 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 I'm sure glad you guys came. I'm glad to get this off my chest. 313 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Wait a minute. Those dresses in there, women's clothes, those belong to you? 314 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Oh, no. I'm just keeping them for a friend. 315 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,000 The labels on some of them here come from out on Wilshire, don't they? 316 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,000 You get a gold star. I'll tell you about them. That's part of the deal. 317 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,000 You want to tell us now? 318 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Look, you made a deal about some coffee. Maybe it'll help me find my hands. 319 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Are you going to back out now? 320 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 All right, let's go. We'll come back. 321 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,000 You can come back. Take all the time you want. I've got some other stuff you want to see too. 322 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,000 But come on, let's go. 323 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Let's walk down. Let's not take the elevator. It's too noisy. Murder. 324 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,000 What's this other stuff you wanted to show us, Olson? 325 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,000 The jewelry. I got some of it in the dresser. It's cheap stuff. 326 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Nothing worth anything. It's cheap. 327 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 What'd you get the clothes and jewelry? 328 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Red asked me to keep them for him. 329 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Who? 330 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,000 He's the guy you want. He's the one that's engineering the thefts. He's the one. 331 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,000 He's a real crumb, big man. He's the one you want. I'd like to see you get it. 332 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,000 How many other people working with him? 333 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,000 Three others. 334 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000 You know who they are? 335 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Sure. I know the whole story. Start to finish. I know the whole thing. 336 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 I'll tell you. I'll tell you all about it. 337 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Let's go out the side way. 338 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,000 All right. 339 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Where's this coffee shop? 340 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Wait a minute. Are you sure you wouldn't like a belt? 341 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,000 No, neither do you. Now let's go. 342 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Okay. You're calling it. Restaurant's right down here. Just a couple of doors. 343 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 You know where this Red is? 344 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Yeah, I'll tell you. He's the one you want. 345 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 How about the woman that works with him? 346 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 That's May. Red's not the guy that goes into the stores. 347 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 A fellow that works that part of the operation is his brother-in-law, a guy named Hank. 348 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,000 What was her name? 349 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,000 May. 350 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 It was May. Is she the woman in the team? 351 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Yeah. Red wouldn't trust anybody else. He's a big man, you know. 352 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,000 You don't believe it. You just ask Red, he'll tell you. Big man, big bum. 353 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 This the place? 354 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Yeah. 355 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 Uh, you're positive? 356 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 No, I guess you wouldn't. 357 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Booth in the back, all right? 358 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Yeah. Hey, Joe, it doesn't look like they got service in the booths. 359 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,000 What do you want, Olsen? 360 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Well, it ain't what I want, but I'll settle for a cup of coffee. 361 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Joe? 362 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Yeah, it's all right for me. 363 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 I'll get it and bring it back. 364 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Come on, Olsen, let's go. 365 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Sit down. 366 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 All right, now suppose you start right at the beginning and tell me about it, huh? Who's Red? 367 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,000 How do they work the operation? Where can we find him? Tell us everything. 368 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,000 All right. Well, first off, Red's real name is Keith Jameson. 369 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 They call him Red because he's got red hair, I figure. 370 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Yeah. What's he do for a living? 371 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,000 He works for Carney. Most of the year we're on the road, this is the off season. 372 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:08,000 So he's laying up in a trailer camp out in the valley. He doesn't do anything regular, huh? He just steals. 373 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Is he one of the owners of this carnival? 374 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,000 No, he runs a pitch game, you know, rings and the pegs. 375 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,000 If you play real good, you can win a quarter's worth of slum for five bucks. 376 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 How about his wife? She travel with the show? 377 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Yeah, yeah, she travels. It ain't a regular show. Not Red's part. He's just got a concession. 378 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 You know, he goes with the show like a leech. 379 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 He's been thrown out of a dozen Carnies for crooked stuff. 380 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,000 His brother-in-law's a dip when we're on the road. Picks pockets in the crowd around Red's place. 381 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,000 He's gotten us all in a lot of trouble. No Carney in the country will have us around anymore. 382 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Don't take him long to get wise to it. 383 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 He's the one that's in on the burglaries with Red and his wife, is that it? 384 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000 That's right. He lifts his stuff. 385 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,000 How about his wife? Where does she fit in? 386 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Well, she's the distraction, you know, the one that comes up and asks questions, pulls the clerk away so Hank can lift his stuff. 387 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,000 In case there's any trouble, Hank acts as lumber, too. 388 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000 What do you mean lumber? 389 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Well, you know, muscle. He takes care of the guys that run the beef. 390 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Hey, can you give me a hand with that, huh, Frank? 391 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Yeah, here. Look at my thumb. It's got a splash to it. 392 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 You think it's blistered? No, it's good hot coffee in there. 393 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Here you are, Olsen. 394 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Oh, thanks. 395 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Come on, pass the sugar, will you? 396 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Yeah, here you are. 397 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Where do you fit into this, Olsen? 398 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,000 No place, really. I'm just along for the ride. 399 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,000 I think Red figures sometime the axe is gonna fall and he wants my head under it. 400 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,000 I usually hold on to the stolen stuff until Red finds a buyer. 401 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Does he use a fence? 402 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,000 No, he pushes his stuff himself. He usually works on the tip. 403 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,000 You know, if somebody wants to buy a piece of merchandise, Red meets him, sets up a deal. 404 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Uh-huh. You want him to cooperate with us all along the line on this thing? 405 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Sure, sure. I'll go along with you. 406 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 You know where the necklace is that they lifted a couple of weeks ago? 407 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Yeah, yeah, Red's got it. He's looking for a buyer now. 408 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 You think he can set up a meet for us? 409 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Yeah, if he thought you wanted to buy the piece, it could be done. 410 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,000 You set up a meet? 411 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Sure, sure. I want to see you get him. 412 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,000 Tell me something. How are you gonna come out on this if we pick up Red and the others? 413 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,000 What do you want out of it? 414 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 I got my reasons. I got good reasons. 415 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000 You want to tell us what they are? 416 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000 Sure. I got no reason not to. Give me the sugar again, man. 417 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Yeah. 418 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,000 You see, Red figures he's gonna make a sideshow character out of me next season. 419 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 I'm not gonna go that route. 420 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Yeah? What do you mean? 421 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Oh, you know, the wild man from Borneo is sitting in a pit all day and yell at the customers. 422 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 A bitch like that always draws a big crowd. 423 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Red figures will be good for picking pockets. 424 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Yeah. 425 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 You ought to know by now, Red's out of his mind. 426 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,000 Yeah. 427 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Wild man from Borneo. 428 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Even the leopard skin won't help look at me. 429 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Hmm. 430 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,000 I only weigh 105 pounds. 431 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:45,000 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 432 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Chesterfield is best for you. 433 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Listen to Chesterfield's record. 434 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:56,000 For a full year and two months, a doctor has been making regular examinations of a group of Chesterfield smokers. 435 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:14,000 And he reports no adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses from smoking Chesterfields. 436 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Don't you want to try a cigarette with a record like this? 437 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000 Chesterfield. 438 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,000 First with premium quality in both regular and king size. 439 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Chesterfield. 440 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 First choice with Young America. 441 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,000 And that's from a survey of 274 colleges and universities. 442 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Try Chesterfields today. 443 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Remember, Chesterfield is America's best cigarette buy. 444 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,000 2.24 p.m. We continued to talk to Alex Olson. 445 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000 He told us what he knew of the operation of the thieves. 446 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,000 We went back to his room and searched the third floor. 447 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,000 We found several pieces of cheap costume jewelry and several of the stolen dresses. 448 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Most of the other things in his room were worthless. 449 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000 As far as we knew, had not been stolen. 450 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000 We took him down to the city hall and had him checked through RNI. 451 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:08,000 He had an arrest record showing several arrests for being drunk in a public place. 452 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,000 We checked the name Keith Red Jameson through the files. 453 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000 There was no record on him. 454 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,000 There was no record in the Moniker file either. 455 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Jameson's brother-in-law and the two women were also checked out, 456 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 but we found no previous criminal record for either of them. 457 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Communications were gotten off to Washington to check the police. 458 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,000 We went to Washington to check the possibility that the suspects might have records in other states. 459 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,000 4.40 p.m. We met in Captain Wisdom's office. 460 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Olson told us that he'd arrange a meeting for us with Red. 461 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,000 While we listened on an extension phone, he called the suspect, 462 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 told him that he had a buyer for the necklace. 463 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,000 A meet was set up for the following morning at the entrance to Alvera Street. 464 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 Red said that he'd have the necklace with him at the time. 465 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,000 5.37 p.m. Frank, Olson, and I drove out to the trailer camp in the valley. 466 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,000 We checked the trailer that Red lived in and also the one his brother-in-law had. 467 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 We got a good look at the car Red would drive to the meet, 468 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 and then we arranged for a stakeout on the trailer park. 469 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:59,000 8.23 p.m. The three of us drove back down to the city hall. 470 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 You ain't gonna try and take him at the meet, are you? 471 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 We hadn't gotten around to that yet. Why? 472 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000 Well, you do, and it's gonna point straight at me. 473 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 You ain't gonna put him away forever, you know. 474 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 He's gonna get out and he's gonna draw a straight line to me. 475 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 I don't want that. I gotta be protected. 476 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 We'll take care of him. Don't worry about it. 477 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Oh, big deal. You'll take care of me. Well, how? That's what I wanna know. 478 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,000 How you gonna do it? 479 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 We'll get him before he gets to the meet. 480 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 There you go in here. 481 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Look, tell me, how you gonna work it? 482 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 We'll come up with a way. 483 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 You ain't gonna get near him in plain clothes. 484 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 I'll tell you that right now. He'll spot you a mile away. 485 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Comes to cops, he's got eyes in the back of his head. 486 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,000 You can't get anywhere near him in those clothes. 487 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Don't worry, we won't. He'll be picked up for something else. 488 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000 We'll find a necklace on him if he's got it, 489 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 and you'll never know that's what we're after. 490 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 How you gonna work it? How? 491 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,000 We'll be in uniform in a traffic car coming in from the valley. 492 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000 That might work, huh, Frank? 493 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Yeah, I think so. 494 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000 He's bound to make a mistake. When he does, we'll be there. 495 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Yeah, that'll do it. 496 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 You'll never figure out anything to do with that, never. 497 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Yeah, it ought to work. 498 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Yeah, that'll work good. 499 00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Yeah. 500 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 You guys wouldn't like a... 501 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000 No, we wouldn't. No booze. 502 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Okay. 503 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 I just noticed the bar across the street. 504 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 I thought maybe you guys would like to stop there. 505 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000 I'd feel a little better about this if I had a drink. 506 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Just a little one. Come on now, bud. 507 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Sorry, Alex, I'm gonna take you over to the main jail. 508 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 You gotta what? 509 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 For the time being, we gotta hold you. 510 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Now, wait, it ain't the jail that bothers me. 511 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Not being in jail. It's just that I hear it's pretty rough 512 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000 to get a drink over at the Greybar Hotel, you know. 513 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000 That's the only thing that bothers me. 514 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 There's no room service there. 515 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Yeah, well, it'll all work out for you. 516 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Well, I don't know. 517 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Since I got mixed up in this thing, 518 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000 it seems like I got no choice in anything. 519 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 It don't seem fair. I got no choice. 520 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,000 DA's office will know what you did. It'll be marked down that way. 521 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 I got no beef with you guys. 522 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 You better take it easy with Red, though. 523 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Is that right? 524 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Yeah. He's got a gun. 525 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 The following morning at 4.30 a.m., 526 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Frank and I were dressed in the uniform of traffic officers. 527 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,000 We were parked two blocks from the trailer park in a traffic car. 528 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 The meet with Red was scheduled for 9 a.m. 529 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,000 The officers on stakeout at the trailer park told us 530 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,000 that they'd seen no activity in Red's trailer the night before. 531 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000 From where we were parked, 532 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000 we could keep his car under constant surveillance. 533 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,000 At 7.45 a.m., we saw the suspect and his wife 534 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 come out of the trailer and get into the car. 535 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 We followed them over to Ventura Boulevard, 536 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,000 and from there down Cohinga Pass. 537 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000 We kept far enough behind them 538 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 so that they'd have less chance of knowing that they were being followed. 539 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 They turned by the freeway construction point 540 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 and continued on down Cohinga Boulevard. 541 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 When they got to the corner of Yucca and Cohinga, 542 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000 they made a mistake. 543 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000 They turned left from the wrong lane of traffic. 544 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Well, that's it. You want to hit the siren? 545 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Yeah. I got the light. 546 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000 He's going straight down Yucca, Joe. 547 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Yeah. Pull up behind him, huh? 548 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Right. 549 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Okay, he sees us. He's pulling over. 550 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 I'll cover the other side. Watch yourself. 551 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 Right. 552 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 What's wrong, officer? I didn't do anything. 553 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 See your operator's license, please. 554 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,000 Sure. It's in my pocket. I'll get it. 555 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,000 You want to get out of the car, please? 556 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 I don't have to get out to show you my driver's license. 557 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000 I'd like to have you get out of the car. 558 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Don't argue with him, Red. Do what he says. 559 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 You made an illegal left turn back there at Cohinga. 560 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Illegal? You got the wrong guy. 561 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000 You see that guy in front of me? He jumped the light something awful. 562 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000 He's the guy you ought to be after. He's the one, not me. 563 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 All right. Move over to the car. What? 564 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 Over to the car. Now put your hands up there. 565 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000 Now against the car. I don't know what you mean. 566 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Now come off it, Jameson. 567 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Get out of here! 568 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 All right, Jameson. On your feet. 569 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 What are you doing? You got no right to beat him up like that. 570 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Big thing for making a left turn. 571 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000 You guys trying to prove. Just wait until the papers get this. 572 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 We got friends, you know. All right, lady. Take it easy. 573 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000 The man makes a mistake and you cops act like you were the judges. 574 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 You got no right to treat a citizen like that. 575 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 Here, Frank, go hold this. Yeah. 576 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 38 Coults. You play rough, don't you, Red? 577 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Shut up. 578 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 What's this, Red? You leave that alone. 579 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000 It's mine. It doesn't concern you. 580 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Necklace, Joe? Yeah. 581 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 So it's a necklace. What's that prove? 582 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 You got nothing on it. Just write out the ticket for the left turn, let us go. 583 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,000 That's all you got. You got a permit for this gun? 584 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,000 No. This necklace is stolen, you know that, don't you? 585 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 I don't know anything about it. I'm not going to say anything until I see a lawyer. 586 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Nothing. I knew this would happen. 587 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000 I always knew it about you. You're yellow. 588 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 You want to take a chance as long as you ain't going to be nailed. 589 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000 Let something go wrong and right away you start screaming for a lawyer. 590 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,000 Poor excuse for a man. 591 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000 You took a chance and you lost. 592 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000 Well, don't be a coward about it. You got no excuse. 593 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000 None in the world. You got no excuse at all. 594 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Well, that makes you even, lady. Huh? Neither of you. 595 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 The story you have just heard is true. 596 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 597 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:36,000 On April 15th, trial was held in Department 87, Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles. 598 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 599 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,000 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 600 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 Thank you, George Fenomen. 601 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:47,000 I sure hope you were listening real close to what George Fenomen had to say tonight, because it proves what I always tell you. 602 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:52,000 You can't beat the premium quality you get in Chesterfield, regular or king size. 603 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:58,000 I'd like you to try Chesterfield. 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