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Chesterfield. 23 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Dragnet, the documentary drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 24 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. 25 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:14,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 26 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,000 It was Monday, February 9th. It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 27 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Norman. My name is Friday. 28 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:31,000 I was on my way into the office and it was 7.45 a.m. when I got to room 42. Homicide. 29 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Back to you, John? Yep. You're in early, aren't you? Yeah, I couldn't sleep last night. 30 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Dropped off about three this morning then woke up at five, couldn't get back to sleep. 31 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Got up, made some coffee and decided to come on in the office. Yeah, I had a little trouble last night too. 32 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,000 You did? What's your trouble? I don't know. I got up late yesterday morning. I guess that was it. 33 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 I'll get it. Alright. 34 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Homicide Friday. Yep. Yeah, I remember. 35 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Johnny. Yep. When did you get the letter? Yeah, we'll be right over. Right. Bye. 36 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:10,000 You remember that bartender over in that place on 6th Street, a fellow named Johnny? Yeah, is that him on the phone? 37 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Yeah, he says he's got an offer to make himself a fast $5,000. What for? Somebody wants him to kill a man. 38 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:25,000 8, 10 a.m. Frank and I drove over to John Bronson's apartment. He lived in a new development on Wilshire Boulevard. 39 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,000 We checked the name plates in the lobby of the building and then we went up to apartment 6B. We rang the bell and waited. 40 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Hiya, Joe, Frank. Come on in. How are you, John? Good to see you, John. 41 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Kind of early to get you guys over here, but I got worried about it and figured I'd better talk to you. 42 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,000 You want to tell us what it's all about? Yeah, come on out in the kitchen. I got some coffee made. Okay. 43 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Here, sit down there. I'll pour you a cup of coffee. Alright. Good. 44 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Well, it started last night. I guess it was about 10, 10, 15. Payphone in the bar rang, kept ringing. I went over to answer it. 45 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,000 I fell on the other end and asked for Johnny. Yeah. I told him it was me and then he hit me with a deal. 46 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,000 At first I thought he was kidding. What did he say? He asked me if I wanted to make a fast $5,000. 47 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Of course I told him yeah. Then he sprung the snapper and said he wanted me to kill this guy, a fellow named Wilhelm Ulrich. 48 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:16,000 You know this Ulrich? No, never laid eyes on him. First time I even heard the name. Okay, go ahead, John. 49 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Well, this guy on the phone started to lay it out, told me how he wanted it done. Here's your coffee. Thank you. 50 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:28,000 I asked the joker who he was. He said it didn't matter. All that counted he said was that I knock off this Ulrich guy. Yeah. 51 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 I told him I didn't know who the man was and I didn't know where to get in touch with him to kill him. 52 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 You know, kind of going along with the gag all this time, thought it was a joke. Uh-huh. 53 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Well, this fellow on the phone said he'd give me all the dope I had to have, said he'd get it in mail this morning. Yeah. 54 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Came special delivery just before I called you, special. Uh-huh. You got the letter, have you? 55 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Yeah, I got it in the other room. I'll get it for you. All right, I'll go with you. 56 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 John, how much have you handled the letter? Well, I opened it up. I didn't know what was in it. Uh-huh. 57 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 If I'd have known what it was, I wouldn't have touched it at all, but I didn't know. 58 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:58,000 I looked at it when I found out what was in it and figured I'd better call you. Couldn't see any way to tell who sent it. 59 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Maybe you can when you see it. Uh-huh. When I saw what it was, I didn't touch it anymore. Uh-huh. 60 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Well, let's see here. Money. Yeah, five one hundred dollar bills. 61 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:16,000 And what's the letter say? Just a minute. I'm just by the edge here. 62 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,000 This is Johnny. Here's the down payment. You'll get the rest when you finish the job. 63 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:27,000 The name is Wilhelm Ulrich. The address is 2192 Vine Street, Hollywood. 64 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 It's written on the typewriter. No signature. That's it. 65 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Let me see it, William. Oh, you can see it here. 66 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,000 First off, I thought the whole thing was a joke. I didn't believe it. You know, I just thought it was some drunk trying to be funny. 67 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,000 We get calls like that all the time, guys, trying to be funny. Yeah. 68 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:47,000 And when I got this letter, I got scared. I ain't gonna kill nobody, especially somebody you don't even know, not for no five thousand. 69 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Did you recognize the voice on the phone, John? No, I don't think I ever heard it before. 70 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,000 You got any idea why he'd called you? No, I've been clean. I haven't got a record. 71 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Nothing like that. I run a clean place. Never done anything that could tie me up with the rackets. Yeah, we know. 72 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Well, maybe I ran a little booze during Prohibition. Not much, just a little. Everybody was doing it then, but I'm clean now. 73 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Joe, there's a postmark here on the letter. It's mailed in Hollywood. Yeah, I saw that. We can check the postal authorities on the mailbox number, find out when it was picked up, huh? 74 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Yeah. Time on it here is 11, looks like 1145 last night. That's the time. 75 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 You sure that you don't know Ulrich, John? Possibility he's been in your bar sometime, maybe, huh? 76 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Well, that'll be hard to say. We do a good business. Lots of people come in, I don't know. 77 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:31,000 You know, just come in once in a while. I wouldn't know who they were. They keep quiet, and I ain't getting nosy. 78 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Well, we're going on back to the office. You'll probably hear from the caller again, Johnny, and as soon as you do, you let us know, will you? 79 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:43,000 You gonna see this Ulrich phone? Yeah, we'll talk to him. Might be better if you don't say anything about this to anybody, John. 80 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Oh, no worry, I won't. Okay, we'll be talking to you later. You be at the bar? Yeah, I'll be there at four. Okay, thanks a million. 81 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:56,000 No strain, glad to do it. Can't get over it, that guy calling, making an offer like that. I just can't get over it. He should know better than that. Yeah? 82 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Sure, yeah, I don't know. Somebody ain't gonna kill somebody they don't even know. 83 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:12,000 We drove back to the city hall and turned the letter over to the crime lab to see if they could find any physical evidence to help us identify the writer. 84 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:19,000 We ran the name Wilhelm Ulrich through R&I and we found no record. A further check on the name and we came up with one possibility. 85 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,000 The address listed on the report was the same as the one given in the letter. We pulled the package and checked it. 86 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Let's take a look at it. All right. 87 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Now, let's see, there's a crime report and a statement here. Report from George Street Receiving Hospital. 88 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Now, what's the date on that? January 2nd last year. 89 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Well, it seems this Ulrich got a hold of some poison wine. Wine. Yeah. Hey, wait a minute. Yeah? 90 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:50,000 You remember, Joe? He was an old guy. He was a German. He got a bottle of wine for Christmas and opened it New Year's Day. 91 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:56,000 We worked that case with Lamonic and Gallina. Oh, sure. I remember now. Yeah, we ran down some of the leads for him. They didn't go anywhere. Yeah. 92 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,000 That was the one where he didn't know where the wine came from, isn't it? Yeah. Nothing came from it. The leads didn't go anyplace. 93 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:08,000 As I remember, he's a nice old guy. I wonder why somebody's after him. I don't know. Last time we couldn't find anybody with a motive. 94 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Well, there's one someplace. 95 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:18,000 We'd helped investigate an attempted poisoning of Wilhelm Ulrich over a year ago. 96 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Somebody sent him a bottle of imported wine. Ulrich had opened the wine for dinner on New Year's and had drunk some of it. 97 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:31,000 A short time later, he was seized with violent stomach cramps. He was rushed to George Street Receiving Hospital for treatment. 98 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,000 He was then transferred to the county hospital for further treatment. 99 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Examination of the remaining wine showed that it had been dosed with a quantity of poison. 100 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Fortunately, Ulrich didn't drink much of the poison wine and he recovered. 101 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Detectives Joe LaMonica and Danny Galindo had handled most of the investigation. 102 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,000 We'd helped them briefly in checking out some of the leads that they'd gotten. We checked with them again on the case. 103 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,000 From the crime report, we got a list of the people that the two officers had interviewed. 104 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,000 We checked with them and they gave us as much personal information as they could. 105 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:07,000 One fifteen p.m. We drove out to see Wilhelm Ulrich. We found him in the yard digging in a rosebed. 106 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,000 No, I can't understand it. I never quite believed that about the wine, sir. 107 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Why do you say that, Ulrich? 108 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Well, I found it hard to believe in my heart that anyone would want to do me harm. 109 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,000 I have no enemies. No one that hates me enough to want to kill me. I'm sure of that. 110 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Well, I'm afraid you could be wrong about that, Ulrich. 111 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,000 The officer said that before. Somehow, though, I just can't believe it. 112 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:30,000 I have nothing anyone would want to kill me for. All of the people I know are my friends. We all got along. 113 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Yes, sir. 114 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Look at that. Isn't that a beautiful rose? Such loveliness. 115 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Mm-hmm. 116 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 No? I'm sorry, officers. You're mistaken about this. 117 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 I wonder if we could talk to you in the house, sir. 118 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Yes, that might be better. I could make you a cup of hot tea if you'd like. 119 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 No, sir. Thanks. Just the same. 120 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Have you officers had lunch yet? 121 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Yes, sir. Thank you. 122 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Oh, I thought maybe you'd like a sandwich. Just got some liverwurst from a little place downtown. 123 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,000 German. Excellent food. 124 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Mm-hmm. 125 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Here, I'll get the door. 126 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Just sit down any place. I have to get the dirt off my shoes, Marta. 127 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 I would be very angry if I tracked dirt around. 128 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Marta, that's your daughter, isn't it? 129 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Yes. She comes over every couple of days and straightens up the house for me. 130 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Wonderful girl, Marta. I don't know what I'd do without her. 131 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Yes, sir. Now, there's a couple of things we'd like to ask you. 132 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Certainly. Anything I can do to help. 133 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Well, I would like to go over the information on the report here. 134 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Is that from the last time? The time of the wine? 135 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Yes, sir. That's right. 136 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,000 All right. If you just ask anything you want, I've got nothing to hide. 137 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 All right, sir. 138 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 We checked the crime report you filled out last year. 139 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Now, has anything changed in your family since then? 140 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 No. You gentlemen still working on that? 141 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Well, yes, sir. We have another matter to discuss here. 142 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 There's one thing that has changed. 143 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,000 What's that, sir? 144 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 The part here about me running the business. 145 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:47,000 That's changed. I still run it in a way. 146 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,000 I still supervise it, but Robert, he actually runs it. 147 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Robert. You mean this name here, Robert Davis? 148 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Yes. He's my son-in-law, Marta's husband. 149 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,000 He takes care of the business now. He's a good boy. 150 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Marta's lucky to have him. 151 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,000 How long has your son-in-law been running the business, Mr. Ulrich? 152 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Well, let me see. It's been about eight, nine months. 153 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 He took over right after I got out of the hospital. 154 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 He's done wonders with it. Wonders. 155 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,000 How's that, sir? 156 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Modernized. It changed it all around. 157 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Had one of those efficiency experts come in and study the people. 158 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Time and motion men, I think they call them. 159 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 They come in with a stopwatch and look at the people doing the work 160 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 and figure out how long it should take them to do a certain job. 161 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 And then they plan how the job can be done faster and cheaper. 162 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Wonderful thing. Big changes. 163 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Yes, sir. I don't want you to take offense at this, Ulrich, 164 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 but how are the relations between you and your son-in-law? 165 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 I don't think I understand. 166 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 How do you get along? Do you have any quarrels, disagreements? 167 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Oh, no. Robert and I never disagree. 168 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 I found out that it didn't pay to argue with him. 169 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Sir? 170 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,000 I found out that it didn't pay. He was always right. 171 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Uh-huh. 172 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Yes, you see, we had a few arguments when he took over the business 173 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 about this time and motion study thing. 174 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 I see. You want to tell us about these arguments? 175 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,000 They weren't anything serious. 176 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 I didn't think that it was a good idea to change. 177 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 I couldn't see any reason for it. Everything was going good. 178 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,000 The business was making money. Everybody seemed to be happy. 179 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 I didn't want to take a chance, disturbing a good thing. 180 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 You know, the golden goose. 181 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Uh-huh. You want to go ahead, please? 182 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Well, Robert said that we were behind at times, 183 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 that if we didn't do something about it, 184 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 we wouldn't be able to compete with other people. 185 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 We manufacture women's dresses, you know. 186 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Sir, I saw that on the report. 187 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,000 I finally told him to go ahead. I thought that he'd fail. He didn't. 188 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Now we compete. More dresses, more money. 189 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 The employees are happy. They have music, coffee times. They like it. 190 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,000 But it's all changed. I don't go down there anymore. 191 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 I don't care much for it. It's changed. 192 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 So I just stay home and work in the garden. 193 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 It's Robert's factory now. 194 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,000 You and Robert haven't had any other disagreements, have you? 195 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Oh, no. He's a fine young man, running the business very well. 196 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 He's a good boy. I'm lucky to have him. 197 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Well, how about your competitors, Mr. Ulrich? 198 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,000 How do they feel about this change in the way you operate your business? 199 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000 They resent it? 200 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Oh, no. I haven't really got any competitors. 201 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,000 The big manufacturers don't care. 202 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 I don't make enough dresses to bother them. 203 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 And the other little men are in the same boat with me. 204 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,000 They're too busy running the factories to worry about me. 205 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Now, can you think of anybody who might want to do a thing like this? 206 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 How about that phone call? 207 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,000 I told you before I can't. I find it very hard to believe. 208 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Well, I would have to talk to the people that you know, the people around you. 209 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 We'd appreciate it if you didn't tell anybody what we were after. 210 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 If you wanted that way, it's so hard to believe. 211 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 I still think you're wrong. 212 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Looks like it's going to rain. Be good for the flowers. 213 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 It's been dry up in the valley. Farmers need the rain. 214 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Yes, sir. You'll go along with us on this thing, will you? 215 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Not tell anybody about it? 216 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Sure. I'll help. 217 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 It's all right if I tell my daughter and son-in-law about it, isn't it? 218 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Well, it'd be better if you didn't say anything to him or your daughter, not to anybody. 219 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,000 They're going to see you here. They're going to ask questions. They're not stupid. 220 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Yes, sir. You could tell them that we were asking about somebody that you employ. How'll that be? 221 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,000 What do I say if Robert asks what it's about? I have no secrets from him. 222 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Well, tell them we ask you not to tell anybody about it. 223 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Tell them it's a police business. It happens all the time. 224 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:47,000 I suppose I could do that, but I don't like it. I don't like it at all. It's lying. 225 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Yes, sir. That may be true, but it's the best way. 226 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Oh, I guess it's a small lie. I can't tell myself that it's a small lie. 227 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,000 We'll have some policemen come out and watch Mr. Alrick until we find the person who's doing this. 228 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Do you have to do that? 229 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Yes, sir. I'm afraid so. 230 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Well, no, I don't like that at all. Even worse than the lying. No, no, I don't like it at all. 231 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Mr. Alrick, I wonder if you really understand that when we ask you not to tell anybody about this, 232 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,000 when we want to keep you under surveillance, it's just for your protection. 233 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:18,000 But if what you say is true, if somebody really does want to kill me, if somebody hates me that much... 234 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Yes, sir. 235 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Can you stop him? 236 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,000 We called the office and had a team of men sent out to keep Wilhelm Alrick under surveillance. 237 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:36,000 His house and his person were to be watched 24 hours a day until we apprehended the person or persons who wanted him killed. 238 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,000 We spent the rest of the afternoon talking to the people in the neighborhood. 239 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:44,000 From all of them, we got the same story. Alrick was liked and respected through the area. 240 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:51,000 All of the local shopkeepers and their business associates told us that he paid cash for everything he bought and that his credit was good. 241 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:56,000 He was active in the local flower club and had twice in the past served as president of the organization. 242 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,000 The neighbors confirmed what Alrick had told us about his family. 243 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,000 His son-in-law and his daughter seemed to be devoted to the elderly man 244 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:08,000 and were constantly trying to get him to sell the house he lived in and come to live with them. 245 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,000 6.42 p.m. We returned to the office. 246 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Man, it's really coming down, huh? 247 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Yeah, it sure is. 248 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 You got a raincoat in your locker? 249 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Yeah, I got one of those plastic kind in the bag. 250 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Oh, yeah, I want to get me one of those. 251 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 I'll get mine. We'll go over and check the son-in-law. You got his address? 252 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Yeah, it's a place out on Ivar. 253 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Sure was a nice old man, huh? 254 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Yeah, he seems to be. 255 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 If you want to grab my coat, I'll get the phone. 256 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,000 Yeah, I'll get it. 257 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Thank you. 258 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Homicide Friday. 259 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Yeah. 260 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Uh-huh. 261 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Yeah, John. When? 262 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Yeah. 263 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 No, we'll be right over. Right away. You bet. 264 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Frank. Yeah? 265 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Call from the bartender, Johnny. 266 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Yeah? 267 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Says he just got another phone call. 268 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Person told him that he'd gotten a down payment for the job, 269 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,000 and he wanted to know why Ulrich hadn't been killed. 270 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Yeah. 271 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Guy said if Johnny didn't get on it, 272 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,000 the money wouldn't do him any good. 273 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Told him to make up his own mind. 274 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Uh-huh. 275 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Either he makes good on the job or they'll kill him. 276 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000 You are listening to Dragnet, 277 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 the authentic story of your police force in action. 278 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Chesterfield is best for you. 279 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Listen to Chesterfield's record. 280 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 For a full year and two months, 281 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 a doctor has been making regular examinations 282 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 of a group of Chesterfield smokers, 283 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 and he reports that he has been 284 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 in the hospital for a few days. 285 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 He says that he's been in the hospital 286 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,000 for a few days, 287 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 and he's been in the hospital for a few days. 288 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,000 He's been in the hospital for a few days, 289 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 and he's been in the hospital for a few days. 290 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 And he reports no adverse effects 291 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,000 to the nose, throat, and sinuses 292 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 from smoking Chesterfields. 293 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Don't you want to try a cigarette 294 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:34,000 with a record like this? 295 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Chesterfield. 296 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,000 First with premium quality 297 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 in both regular and king size. 298 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Chesterfield. 299 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 First choice with Young America. 300 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:48,000 And that's from a survey of 274 colleges and universities. 301 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Try Chesterfields today. 302 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Remember, 303 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Chesterfield is America's best cigarette buy. 304 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Music 305 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 7, 10 p.m. 306 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 We got to the bar on 6th Street. 307 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 There were only a couple of people in the place. 308 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,000 The bartender, Johnny, told us 309 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,000 of the phone call that he'd received. 310 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000 He said that the person on the phone 311 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,000 had told him that if he didn't hurry up 312 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 and kill Ulrich, 313 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Johnny himself would be taking care of him. 314 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 We called Lee Jones at the crime lab 315 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,000 to ask him if he'd been able to come up 316 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,000 with anything on the letter. 317 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 He told us that there was no way of tracing it. 318 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Fingerprints found on the letter 319 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 were those of the bartender. 320 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,000 Photographs were taken of the letter 321 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 and along with the money, 322 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,000 it was booked for further evidence. 323 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000 We'd gotten in touch with the postal authorities 324 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 and they said that they'd give us assistance. 325 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 They gave us the location of the box 326 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 where the letter had been mailed. 327 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 They said they'd try to find out who sent it. 328 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,000 We arranged for a stakeout on the bar 329 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000 and then we called the men at Ulrich's home. 330 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 They told us that the son-in-law, Davis, 331 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,000 and Ulrich's daughter had been there, 332 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,000 but that no one else had seen 333 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 or spoken to the elderly man. 334 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000 9.32 p.m., Frank and I drove out 335 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 to check on Robert Davis. 336 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000 We got to the apartment house 337 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,000 and rang the bell to the manager's room. 338 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Yes? 339 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Miss Franklin? 340 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Yes, what is it? 341 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Police officers, ma'am. 342 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,000 We'd like to talk to you if we could. 343 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Oh, well, I suppose it's all right. 344 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Come on in. 345 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Thank you very much. 346 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Thank you very much, ma'am. 347 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:08,000 This is my partner, Frank Smith. 348 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,000 My name's Friday. 349 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,000 What is it you wanted to see me about? 350 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Oh, we'd like to talk to you 351 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,000 about one of your tenants, please. 352 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Oh? Which one? 353 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,000 I bet I can guess. 354 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Ma'am. 355 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,000 It's about that couple on the fifth floor, 356 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,000 isn't it? 357 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,000 The Radcliffs. 358 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,000 It's them, isn't it? 359 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,000 No, ma'am, it isn't. 360 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,000 We'd like to talk to you about 361 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,000 a Robert Davis and his wife. 362 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,000 The Davises? 363 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Yes, ma'am. 364 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Why, I never thought it. 365 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,000 It should be the Radcliffs, 366 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,000 the way they carry on. 367 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,000 The Davises. 368 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:30,000 I never thought it. 369 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000 What do you want to know about them? 370 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Well, it's just a routine investigation, ma'am. 371 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Can you tell us how long they lived here? 372 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Well, see now. 373 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 They've been almost six years. 374 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 They've been in the building, you know. 375 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Yeah, six years anyway. 376 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,000 They haven't always lived 377 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,000 in the same apartment, though. 378 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Ma'am. 379 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,000 When they moved in, 380 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,000 they was in a little apartment 381 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,000 on the second floor, 382 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000 living room, they pulled down a bed, 383 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,000 a little bitty place. 384 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Then they moved up to the sixth floor, 385 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 two bedroom, nice place. 386 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Nice people. 387 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,000 The Davises, her wife, 388 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,000 never thought it. 389 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Do they have any close friends 390 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 in the building, would you know? 391 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,000 Well, not Mr. Davies. 392 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 He's kind of the quiet type. 393 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Never has much to do with anybody 394 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,000 he keeps to himself. 395 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Mm-hmm. 396 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,000 Now, Mrs. Davis, 397 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,000 that's a different thing. 398 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 She's a living doll. 399 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,000 She's nice to everybody 400 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,000 and so sweet. 401 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Never had a harsh word for anybody. 402 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Always a smile. 403 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,000 I think Mr. Davis thinks 404 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,000 he's too good for anybody. 405 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 He always seems kind of snooty. 406 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Yes, ma'am. 407 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Do you ever have any arguments 408 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,000 with anybody in the building 409 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,000 that you might know of? 410 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Well, he's had a few arguments, 411 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,000 like everybody else does. 412 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Like I said before, 413 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000 he thinks he's too good for anybody. 414 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,000 He thinks he's better than anybody. 415 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,000 He's got no right to, either. 416 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Ma'am. 417 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Why, he owes half the people 418 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,000 in the neighborhood money. 419 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Way behind in his bills, 420 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 owes me a couple of months rent. 421 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,000 Never seems to be able 422 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,000 to pay anybody he owes. 423 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,000 I talked to the milkman, 424 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 owes him for a month back. 425 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,000 Every time he asks for his money, 426 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Davis tells him to come back 427 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,000 and stop hounding him. 428 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000 I can't understand it. 429 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Seemed like such nice people 430 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000 when they moved in. 431 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Two years ago, 432 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 that's when the trouble started. 433 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,000 It was our understanding 434 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,000 that he had a pretty good job. 435 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,000 And he has. 436 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Works for his father-in-law, 437 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000 manages some kind of a factory. 438 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Addresses, I think. 439 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Oh, but that isn't it. 440 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:05,000 He makes enough money. 441 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,000 He just spends it faster 442 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,000 than he makes it, that's all. 443 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,000 I think he gambles. 444 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Why do you say that, ma'am? 445 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000 Oh, he's always going off 446 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000 on some kind of business trip. 447 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,000 At least that's what he says it is, 448 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,000 but I know different. 449 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,000 Yes, how's that, ma'am? 450 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Well, he'd come back 451 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 from one of those 452 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,000 business trips once. 453 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Cab pulled up, 454 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,000 and it just happened 455 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,000 that I was standing out in front. 456 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,000 A driver got out 457 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 and gave him the bill for the cab, 458 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,000 all the way from the airport. 459 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000 Almost $6. 460 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,000 Well, anyway, 461 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:33,000 when Mr. Davis got the money 462 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,000 out of his pocket 463 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,000 to pay the cab bill, 464 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,000 a chip fell on the sidewalk. 465 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,000 He didn't think that I saw it, 466 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 but I did. 467 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,000 The cab driver did, too. 468 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 Well, what kind of a chip was it, ma'am? 469 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Well, you understand, 470 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 I'm not a gambling woman, 471 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 so I wouldn't know. 472 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000 But the cab driver, he knew. 473 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Oh, you just betcha, 474 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000 he knew right away. 475 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,000 He picked up the chip 476 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000 and handed it back to Mr. Davis 477 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,000 and said something about 478 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,000 being in Las Vegas kind of kid, 479 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,000 and you know. 480 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Yes, ma'am. 481 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Well, I've seen Mr. Davis 482 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000 get upset, but never like that. 483 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000 He grabbed the chip away 484 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,000 from the cab driver 485 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,000 and told him to mind 486 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,000 his own business. 487 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Said that he'd had the chip 488 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000 a long time, 489 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000 that it didn't concern 490 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,000 the cab driver. 491 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,000 He was real mean. 492 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Uh-huh. 493 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 And then at night, 494 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,000 well, the argument 495 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,000 that he and the missus had, 496 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 I never in all my days 497 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000 heard anything like that. 498 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Well, what happened, ma'am? 499 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Well, you understand, 500 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 that I just happened to be 501 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,000 in the hall. 502 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,000 I was making sure 503 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,000 that the lights on the floor 504 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 were all on. 505 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Those bulbs are always burning out, 506 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 and I was checking them, you know. 507 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Yes, ma'am. 508 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Well, anyways, 509 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I hear this argument 510 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 coming from the Davises' apartment. 511 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Mrs. Davis is telling how she 512 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 isn't going to stand for it anymore. 513 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Mr. Davis better settle down 514 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,000 and get to work 515 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,000 and stop this foolishness. 516 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,000 She didn't come right out 517 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,000 and say what foolishness, 518 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000 but I could tell. 519 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 I could tell. 520 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 It was his gambling, 521 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,000 that's what it was. 522 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,000 Yes, ma'am. 523 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Is there anything else 524 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,000 that you could think of 525 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,000 that you could tell us 526 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,000 about the Davises? 527 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000 No, I don't think so. 528 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 I'm kind of surprised, though. 529 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,000 I don't like him, 530 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,000 but I never thought 531 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,000 that he'd have the police 532 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,000 after him. 533 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,000 Well, we're just conducting 534 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,000 a routine investigation, 535 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Mrs. Franklin. 536 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Oh, now you don't have 537 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,000 to play cagey with me. 538 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000 I know about you, policeman. 539 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 You and your routine investigations. 540 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000 You ain't fooling me. 541 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 You want him for something. 542 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,000 Now, what is it? 543 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Can you tell me? 544 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Ma'am, it's just police business, 545 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,000 just routine. 546 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 We'd appreciate it 547 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 if you didn't say anything 548 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,000 to anybody about us being here. 549 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Oh, sure, I'll go along with you. 550 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 I won't tell a soul, 551 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,000 not a living soul. 552 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Thank you very much, 553 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000 Mrs. Franklin. 554 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,000 I'm going to leave you our card. 555 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 We'd appreciate it 556 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 if you'd give us a call 557 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,000 if anything comes up. 558 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Uh-huh. 559 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000 I'll call you back, too, 1-1. 560 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Is that right? 561 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Yes, ma'am. 562 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Just ask for the homicide division 563 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 that's written down there. 564 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,000 All right, you just bet I will. 565 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,000 I'd be glad to help. 566 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,000 I'm just glad to. 567 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,000 All right, fine. 568 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,000 One thing, though. 569 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Yes, ma'am? 570 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Are you sure there ain't nothing 571 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000 that you want those people 572 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,000 on the fifth floor for? 573 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,000 The Radcliffe's? 574 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:56,000 From the manager's office, 575 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,000 we called the Ulrich home. 576 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,000 We talked to Mr. Ulrich. 577 00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,000 He told us about the visit 578 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 that afternoon from the Davises. 579 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,000 He said that he hadn't told 580 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Robert Davis anything 581 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,000 about the threats on his life. 582 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 We went upstairs and talked to Davis. 583 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,000 We told him that we had 584 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,000 a serious matter to discuss with him, 585 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000 and then we asked him to accompany us 586 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 down to the city hall. 587 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,000 I don't know what you're talking about. 588 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 I told the police everything 589 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,000 I know about this a year ago. 590 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000 I don't know anything about it. 591 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Wish I could help, but I can't. 592 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000 You know, this has got me worried. 593 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Well, if you haven't done anything wrong, 594 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 you've got nothing to worry about. 595 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000 I haven't done anything wrong. 596 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 In here. 597 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Go ahead. 598 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,000 All right, now tell me 599 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,000 what this is all about. 600 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Frank? 601 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Yeah? 602 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000 Go check the office, see if we've got 603 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,000 any answers to the calls this afternoon. 604 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Right. 605 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,000 You got a cigarette? 606 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Yeah. 607 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Help yourself. 608 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Well, let's get to it, huh? 609 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 I've got to get home, get some sleep. 610 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,000 I've got a rough day tomorrow. 611 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,000 This won't take very long. 612 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 How do you get along with your father-in-law? 613 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:58,000 All right, why? 614 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Like to know? 615 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Well, I don't see how that concerns you, 616 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,000 but you ask, so I'll tell you. 617 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 We get along fine, me and the old man. 618 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,000 We get along just great. 619 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Does that make you happy? 620 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000 That's not the point. 621 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Anything? 622 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 No, nothing new. 623 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,000 You go over to Las Vegas much, Davis? 624 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Not much. Why? 625 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000 How often would you say you went over there? 626 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,000 Maybe a couple times a year, 627 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,000 not any more than that. 628 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,000 When was the last time? 629 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,000 What's so important about when I was in Vegas last? 630 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000 You guys spent a little more time 631 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 finding out who was trying to kill my father-in-law. 632 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Less time asking questions that don't make any sense. 633 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000 You'd be doing a better job. 634 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,000 What can you tell us about somebody 635 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000 trying to kill your father-in-law? 636 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000 All I know is what he told me this afternoon. 637 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,000 What did he tell you? 638 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Not much. 639 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Said something about a bartender, 640 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,000 something about a phone call. 641 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000 Did he tell you who the bartender was? 642 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000 No, just that it was someplace over on Sixth. 643 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 All right, Davis, come off it, huh? 644 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,000 What do you mean, come off it? 645 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,000 You want to tell us why you did it 646 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,000 or do you want us to tell you? 647 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 Did what? I got nothing to tell you. 648 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 I don't know what you guys are talking about. 649 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,000 We talked to your father-in-law this morning. 650 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000 We told him that we'd gotten a report 651 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 that his life had been threatened. 652 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,000 We didn't tell him how it happened. 653 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,000 We didn't tell him where our information came from, 654 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,000 so he didn't know. 655 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,000 All right, so maybe I got it someplace else. 656 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,000 Oh, wait a minute. You couldn't. 657 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000 We didn't talk to anybody else. 658 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000 No, I heard it someplace. 659 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000 I don't remember, but I heard it. 660 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000 We checked around, 661 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000 found out you gamble quite a lot. 662 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,000 You're a steady loser. 663 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000 You owe a lot of money in town, don't you? 664 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,000 They're right. 665 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Yeah, that's right. 666 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 I think we can make you for the threat on Ulrich's life. 667 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 I don't think we'll have any trouble at all. 668 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,000 You had the motive, you had the opportunity. 669 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,000 First thing in the morning, 670 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,000 we'll check with the factory. 671 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,000 We'll see if you made a withdrawal of $500. 672 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,000 We make that, and you've got big trouble. 673 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 You figure you're going to be able to do that? 674 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,000 We think so, yeah. 675 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,000 We'll get your father-in-law down here 676 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000 and ask him what he told you this afternoon. 677 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Find out if he did tell you about that bartender, 678 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 about the bar on sixth, about the phone call. 679 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,000 You know, it doesn't look like 680 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000 it's going to be too much trouble making you for this. 681 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000 Save your time. 682 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,000 What do you mean? 683 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,000 You don't have to go through that thrash. 684 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,000 I did it. 685 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 I tried to have the old man knocked off. 686 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,000 Were you the one who sent him the wine last year? 687 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Yeah. 688 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,000 That's when it started. 689 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000 I started to gamble. 690 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,000 Lost a lot of money. 691 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Couldn't pay it back. 692 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,000 No way to pay it back. 693 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Guys I owed the money to were leaning on me. 694 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,000 I had to pay them off. 695 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Had to. 696 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,000 Yeah. 697 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,000 I can only think of one way, 698 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,000 get rid of the old man. 699 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Didn't you get a pretty good salary out of working for him? 700 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Yeah, pretty good, but it didn't go far. 701 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Not far enough. 702 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,000 I tried to win it back, 703 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 make good on the losses I had. 704 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000 I couldn't do it. 705 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,000 The more I gambled, the worse it got. 706 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,000 I just couldn't do it. 707 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,000 It wasn't any other way. 708 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000 The other way, I decided to kill the old man. 709 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000 It's the only way. 710 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,000 Can't you see that? 711 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,000 It's the only way I could get clear. 712 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,000 I know. 713 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 I figured if I could get rid of the old man, 714 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,000 I'd have everything fixed. 715 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Everything would be okay. 716 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000 I guess it worked out all right anyway. 717 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,000 What do you mean? 718 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Well, there's nothing in the book 719 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,000 they can throw at me. 720 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 He's still alive, I didn't kill him. 721 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Who got hurt? 722 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,000 You did. 723 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,000 How do you figure? 724 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,000 I didn't kill him. 725 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,000 You're going to jail for trying. 726 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:39,000 The story you have just heard is true. 727 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 728 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000 On June 18th, trial was held in Department 89, 729 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,000 Superior Court of the State of California, 730 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,000 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 731 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 732 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,000 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 733 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,000 Thank you, George Fenomen. 734 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,000 I want to thank all of you for your interest in Dragnet. 735 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000 Thanks very much for your letters. 736 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,000 We really appreciate them, 737 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,000 and we'll try to keep around giving you 738 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 the kind of a show that you like. 739 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,000 I want to thank all of you, too, 740 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,000 who have switched to Chesterfield. 741 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000 I know you're going to like them, 742 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000 and I know you'll find their best for you. 743 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Now, you folks who haven't tried Chesterfield, 744 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000 I'd like you to pick up a carton tomorrow. 745 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Chesterfield, it's a great smoke. 746 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Robert Walter Davis was tried and convicted 747 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,000 of attempted homicide. 748 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,000 He received sentence as prescribed by law. 749 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Attempted homicide is punishable by imprisonment 750 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,000 in the state penitentiary 751 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:46,000 for a period of not less than 20 years. 752 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,000 You have just heard Dragnet, 753 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,000 a series of authentic cases from official files. 754 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 755 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000 W.H. 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