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01:42.400 --> 01:45.400 Chesterfield. 01:45.400 --> 01:53.800 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:53.800 --> 01:58.160 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:58.160 --> 02:02.800 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 02:02.800 --> 02:04.520 police files. 02:04.520 --> 02:09.760 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:09.760 --> 02:11.600 in action. 02:11.600 --> 02:16.440 It was Wednesday, June 3rd. 02:16.440 --> 02:18.000 It was hot in Los Angeles. 02:18.000 --> 02:19.920 We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 02:19.920 --> 02:21.000 My partner's Frank Smith. 02:21.000 --> 02:22.280 The boss is Captain Didion. 02:22.280 --> 02:23.280 My name's Friday. 02:23.280 --> 02:27.760 I was on my way into the office and it was 746 a.m. when I got to room 27A. 02:27.760 --> 02:28.760 Robbery. 02:28.760 --> 02:29.760 Joe? 02:29.760 --> 02:30.760 Yeah. 02:30.760 --> 02:31.760 You're early. 02:31.760 --> 02:32.760 Yeah. 02:32.760 --> 02:34.280 I got to run over to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. 02:34.280 --> 02:35.280 What's the matter? 02:35.280 --> 02:36.280 I don't know, Frank. 02:36.280 --> 02:37.280 I started to get headaches last night. 02:37.280 --> 02:38.280 I couldn't sleep. 02:38.280 --> 02:39.280 They're ringing in my ears. 02:39.280 --> 02:40.280 I don't know what it is. 02:40.280 --> 02:41.280 Now hold on. 02:41.280 --> 02:42.280 I got my locker. 02:42.280 --> 02:43.280 I'll get it for you. 02:43.280 --> 02:44.280 What are you talking about? 02:44.280 --> 02:45.280 The headaches. 02:45.280 --> 02:46.280 Get worse when you move. 02:46.280 --> 02:47.280 What? 02:47.280 --> 02:48.280 When you move around, it gets worse, right? 02:48.280 --> 02:49.280 Yeah. 02:49.280 --> 02:50.280 Feels like your head's going to blow out? 02:50.280 --> 02:51.280 Yeah. 02:51.280 --> 02:52.280 Glad you came to me. 02:52.280 --> 02:54.320 I know just what it is. 02:54.320 --> 02:55.320 Got stuff right up here. 02:55.320 --> 02:56.320 Some place. 02:56.320 --> 02:57.320 Yeah, here it is. 02:57.320 --> 02:58.320 There you are, Joe. 02:58.320 --> 02:59.320 Take two. 02:59.320 --> 03:00.320 Put you right up. 03:00.320 --> 03:01.320 What is it? 03:01.320 --> 03:02.320 Salt. 03:02.320 --> 03:03.320 Salt? 03:03.320 --> 03:04.320 Salt. 03:04.320 --> 03:05.320 That's your trouble. 03:05.320 --> 03:10.320 You don't get enough salt. 03:10.320 --> 03:12.280 Same thing happened to me last summer. 03:12.280 --> 03:15.320 Ever since then, I always keep a bottle of salt tablets right in my locker. 03:15.320 --> 03:16.320 Always ready. 03:16.320 --> 03:17.320 Take two. 03:17.320 --> 03:18.320 Fix you right up. 03:18.320 --> 03:19.320 I don't know. 03:19.320 --> 03:20.320 You got a penny? 03:20.320 --> 03:21.320 What for? 03:21.320 --> 03:22.320 A cup? 03:22.320 --> 03:23.320 Now wait a minute, Joe. 03:23.320 --> 03:24.320 We're not going to drink that water anymore. 03:24.320 --> 03:25.320 No? 03:25.320 --> 03:26.320 Just a minute. 03:26.320 --> 03:33.320 Bought a whole case of this for us. 03:33.320 --> 03:36.400 There you are, boy. 03:36.400 --> 03:37.400 Drink it right out of the bottle. 03:37.400 --> 03:38.400 What is it? 03:38.400 --> 03:39.400 Poland water, Joe. 03:39.400 --> 03:40.400 It's 100% pure. 03:40.400 --> 03:41.400 Right from the springs. 03:41.400 --> 03:42.400 Real water. 03:42.400 --> 03:43.400 Well? 03:43.400 --> 03:44.400 Yep. 03:44.400 --> 03:45.400 Read right there on the bottle. 03:45.400 --> 03:46.400 See? 03:46.400 --> 03:47.400 Not carbonated. 03:47.400 --> 03:48.400 Full of minerals and good things. 03:48.400 --> 03:50.400 Yeah, well, Frank, maybe I ought to wait and see the doctor, huh? 03:50.400 --> 03:51.400 Joe, believe me. 03:51.400 --> 03:52.400 I know what's wrong. 03:52.400 --> 03:53.400 It's happened to me. 03:53.400 --> 03:54.400 Same thing. 03:54.400 --> 03:55.400 Salt. 03:55.400 --> 03:56.400 That's what you need. 03:56.400 --> 03:57.400 Well, there you are. 03:57.400 --> 03:58.400 Poland water in the pills. 03:58.400 --> 03:59.400 Fix you right up. 03:59.400 --> 04:00.400 There they are. 04:00.400 --> 04:01.400 Go ahead. 04:01.400 --> 04:02.400 Look, I appreciate all this. 04:02.400 --> 04:03.400 Really, I do. 04:03.400 --> 04:04.400 But I think I ought to see the doctor, huh? 04:04.400 --> 04:06.400 Joe, don't you trust me. 04:06.400 --> 04:07.400 Well, yeah. 04:07.400 --> 04:08.400 Take the pills. 04:08.400 --> 04:09.400 Salt. 04:09.400 --> 04:10.400 Salt. 04:10.400 --> 04:11.400 Take them. 04:11.400 --> 04:12.400 All right. 04:12.400 --> 04:13.400 There and now. 04:13.400 --> 04:14.400 That wasn't bad, was it? 04:14.400 --> 04:15.400 If the headaches don't go away, we can drop by Georgia Street and see the doctor. 04:15.400 --> 04:16.400 Well, you want to give me the bottle, I'll put the cap back on. 04:16.400 --> 04:17.400 Yeah. 04:17.400 --> 04:18.400 Keep it fresh for us. 04:18.400 --> 04:19.400 All right. 04:19.400 --> 04:20.400 Anything in the box? 04:20.400 --> 04:21.400 Yeah, an arrest report. 04:21.400 --> 04:22.400 We're supposed to check the guy out. 04:22.400 --> 04:23.400 Anything on it? 04:23.400 --> 04:24.400 Killed up a grocery store at the corner 7th of Francis a week ago yesterday. 04:24.400 --> 04:25.400 When did they pick him up? 04:25.400 --> 04:26.400 Last night. 04:26.400 --> 04:27.400 Victim saw him on the street and called a radio car. 04:27.400 --> 04:28.400 Took him into custody and they booked him. 04:28.400 --> 04:29.400 Well, I don't know. 04:29.400 --> 04:30.400 I don't know. 04:30.400 --> 04:31.400 I don't know. 04:31.400 --> 04:32.400 I don't know. 04:32.400 --> 04:33.400 I don't know. 04:33.400 --> 04:38.400 I don't know. 04:38.400 --> 04:39.400 Well, let's go talk to him. 04:39.400 --> 04:40.400 I'll see what he's got to say. 04:40.400 --> 04:43.240 After we get through, we can drop by the hospital if he's still got the headaches. 04:43.240 --> 04:44.240 This shouldn't take too long. 04:44.240 --> 04:45.240 Well. 04:45.240 --> 04:46.240 Sure. 04:46.240 --> 04:47.240 Guy's already confessed. 04:47.240 --> 04:54.600 We ran the name of the suspect, Thomas Stanford, through R&I, but we found no previous criminal 04:54.600 --> 04:56.200 record for any one of his description. 04:56.200 --> 04:57.200 8, 10 a.m. 04:57.200 --> 04:59.240 We drove over to the main jail. 04:59.240 --> 05:01.800 We went up to the second floor and signed in. 05:01.800 --> 05:04.960 Stanford was brought from his cell and Frank and I took him to one of the interview rooms. 05:04.960 --> 05:07.440 We gave him a cigarette and he started to talk. 05:07.440 --> 05:08.720 He was quiet and cooperative. 05:08.720 --> 05:10.280 Yeah, I did the robbery. 05:10.280 --> 05:11.280 We could go yesterday. 05:11.280 --> 05:13.720 I'd like to check some things out here on the arrest report. 05:13.720 --> 05:14.720 Sure. 05:14.720 --> 05:15.720 I want to get this over with. 05:15.720 --> 05:16.960 I did it like I told you. 05:16.960 --> 05:17.960 Nothing special. 05:17.960 --> 05:18.960 Just held up the store. 05:18.960 --> 05:22.200 Your full name is Thomas Arthur Stanford. 05:22.200 --> 05:23.200 Is that right? 05:23.200 --> 05:24.200 Yeah. 05:24.200 --> 05:25.200 Thomas Arthur. 05:25.200 --> 05:26.200 My friends call me Tom. 05:26.200 --> 05:29.120 Your home address is 1824 and a quarter south Maripose Avenue. 05:29.120 --> 05:30.120 Yeah. 05:30.120 --> 05:33.920 My father, 1824 and a quarter south Maripose Avenue, LA 7. 05:33.920 --> 05:34.920 What's your father's name? 05:34.920 --> 05:35.920 Arthur. 05:35.920 --> 05:36.920 Same as my middle name. 05:36.920 --> 05:37.920 I was named after him. 05:37.920 --> 05:38.920 You employed? 05:38.920 --> 05:39.920 I'm not a regular. 05:39.920 --> 05:40.920 What do you mean? 05:40.920 --> 05:42.520 I don't have a regular job like in a factory or a store. 05:42.520 --> 05:43.520 I'm a gardener. 05:43.520 --> 05:44.520 I work for different people. 05:44.520 --> 05:45.880 Can you give us a list of the people you work for? 05:45.880 --> 05:47.440 I'm sure if you've got to have them. 05:47.440 --> 05:48.440 It's just routine. 05:48.440 --> 05:49.440 Oh. 05:49.440 --> 05:50.440 Yeah, I'll give them to you. 05:50.440 --> 05:51.680 You want to tell us how you committed the robbery? 05:51.680 --> 05:52.680 Yeah, I'll tell you. 05:52.680 --> 05:54.040 There isn't much to tell, though. 05:54.040 --> 05:55.040 It's pretty simple. 05:55.040 --> 05:56.040 I went in and held the place up. 05:56.040 --> 05:57.040 I took the money. 05:57.040 --> 05:58.240 That's about all there is to it. 05:58.240 --> 06:00.280 Were you armed when you went into that grocery store? 06:00.280 --> 06:01.280 Yeah. 06:01.280 --> 06:02.280 Yeah, I had a gun. 06:02.280 --> 06:03.280 What kind of a gun? 06:03.280 --> 06:04.280 32 automatic. 06:04.280 --> 06:05.280 Had eight bullets in it. 06:05.280 --> 06:06.280 Where's the gun now? 06:06.280 --> 06:07.280 Threw it away. 06:07.280 --> 06:08.280 Where? 06:08.280 --> 06:09.280 In one of the ponds up in Ferndale. 06:09.280 --> 06:10.280 You mean up in Griffith Park? 06:10.280 --> 06:11.760 Yeah, just a little up the canyon. 06:11.760 --> 06:13.240 You want to show us where it is? 06:13.240 --> 06:14.240 Sure. 06:14.240 --> 06:15.240 All right. 06:15.240 --> 06:17.480 If you start right at the beginning, tell us all about the robbery, what you did. 06:17.480 --> 06:19.200 Why do you have to know all that? 06:19.200 --> 06:20.200 I told you I did it. 06:20.200 --> 06:21.200 There's nothing more you have to know. 06:21.200 --> 06:22.200 We've got to have it for the record. 06:22.200 --> 06:24.080 It's just routine, like I told you. 06:24.080 --> 06:25.200 You guys do a lot of things. 06:25.200 --> 06:26.200 It's routine, don't you? 06:26.200 --> 06:28.480 Yeah, we do quite a bit. 06:28.480 --> 06:29.480 Was there anybody in the store when you went in? 06:29.480 --> 06:30.640 Just the woman that owned the place. 06:30.640 --> 06:31.640 I guess she owned it. 06:31.640 --> 06:34.760 The way she carried on, you'd have thought it was her own money I was taking. 06:34.760 --> 06:37.440 Well, I took out the gun and I told her it was a stickup. 06:37.440 --> 06:39.440 I said for her not to cause any trouble. 06:39.440 --> 06:40.440 What did she say to that? 06:40.440 --> 06:42.000 Well, that's when she got hacked at me. 06:42.000 --> 06:43.000 Started to yell. 06:43.000 --> 06:44.000 What'd you do? 06:44.000 --> 06:47.040 I guess she figured I meant what I said when I told her to shut up. 06:47.040 --> 06:50.200 Anyway, she quieted down, then I told her to get into the back room. 06:50.200 --> 06:54.200 They got this little room where they keep the empty coke and the beer bottles. 06:54.200 --> 06:55.480 I told her to get in there. 06:55.480 --> 06:56.480 Did she? 06:56.480 --> 07:00.480 Yeah, she went into the room and I locked the door from the outside and I went to the 07:00.480 --> 07:03.720 cash register and punched the no sale button and took the money. 07:03.720 --> 07:05.920 After that, I left the store. 07:05.920 --> 07:08.400 You didn't have the money on you when they picked you up last night. 07:08.400 --> 07:09.400 Where is it? 07:09.400 --> 07:10.400 It's gone. 07:10.400 --> 07:11.400 I spent it. 07:11.400 --> 07:12.400 You spent it all? 07:12.400 --> 07:13.720 Yeah, every last nickel. 07:13.720 --> 07:15.080 I had myself a ball. 07:15.080 --> 07:16.080 You remember where you spent it? 07:16.080 --> 07:17.360 Oh, around different places. 07:17.360 --> 07:20.800 I bought myself some clothes, spent some of it in clubs. 07:20.800 --> 07:21.800 Just went. 07:21.800 --> 07:22.800 None of it left. 07:22.800 --> 07:23.800 You drive a car, Stanford? 07:23.800 --> 07:24.800 Yeah. 07:24.800 --> 07:26.400 It isn't mine though, it belongs to my father. 07:26.400 --> 07:27.840 It's a big Chrysler sedan. 07:27.840 --> 07:29.800 Did you drive that when you held up the grocery store? 07:29.800 --> 07:32.800 Yeah, I had it parked down the street on 7th. 07:32.800 --> 07:34.400 Remember the time when you went into the store? 07:34.400 --> 07:36.280 Yeah, it was just after 12. 07:36.280 --> 07:37.280 12 noon. 07:37.280 --> 07:39.720 What were you doing in the neighborhood last night? 07:39.720 --> 07:40.720 You mean when they picked me up? 07:40.720 --> 07:41.840 That's right. 07:41.840 --> 07:42.840 Just looking around. 07:42.840 --> 07:43.840 You ever been arrested before? 07:43.840 --> 07:46.240 No, never been mixed up with a cop. 07:46.240 --> 07:48.440 You ever been in the hospital, mental institution? 07:48.440 --> 07:50.440 What do you ask a question like that for? 07:50.440 --> 07:51.440 Routine. 07:51.440 --> 07:52.440 Oh. 07:52.440 --> 07:55.680 Well, when I was a kid I had my tonsils out, I was in a hospital then. 07:55.680 --> 07:57.400 A couple of days, I don't remember it too well. 07:57.400 --> 07:58.400 It was a long time ago. 07:58.400 --> 08:00.400 How old are you, Stanford? 08:00.400 --> 08:01.400 28. 08:01.400 --> 08:05.320 All these questions you're asking me, I told the two cops that picked me up the same things. 08:05.320 --> 08:06.320 Why you gotta ask them again? 08:06.320 --> 08:08.480 Can't you just send me their penitentiary and get it over with? 08:08.480 --> 08:10.120 Gotta double check the story, Stanford. 08:10.120 --> 08:11.120 I suppose so. 08:11.120 --> 08:13.240 It just seems that you're going to a lot of trouble. 08:13.240 --> 08:14.240 You don't have to. 08:14.240 --> 08:15.240 I told you, I did it. 08:15.240 --> 08:17.920 I'm not giving you any trouble, I confess. 08:17.920 --> 08:19.040 My father know about this yet? 08:19.040 --> 08:20.040 Yeah, he was called. 08:20.040 --> 08:22.080 He's gonna be pretty sore about it. 08:22.080 --> 08:23.080 All right. 08:23.080 --> 08:26.840 Sure he doesn't know I used his car. 08:26.840 --> 08:31.520 9.15 a.m. 08:31.520 --> 08:34.720 We checked the suspect out of the main jail and took him over to the store that had been 08:34.720 --> 08:35.720 robbed. 08:35.720 --> 08:39.160 While Frank waited in the car, I went in and talked to the victim, a Mrs. Alice Kenwood. 08:39.160 --> 08:42.600 I told her that we'd bring the suspect into the store and ask him several questions about 08:42.600 --> 08:43.940 the robbery. 08:43.940 --> 08:46.920 During that time, I told her that we wanted her to observe the suspect so that she could 08:46.920 --> 08:49.040 give us a positive identification. 08:49.040 --> 08:51.920 I told her that it would be better if she didn't talk to him and that if she had any 08:51.920 --> 08:54.320 questions she could ask him through us. 08:54.320 --> 08:58.480 She agreed and said that she would do anything she could to help us in the investigation. 08:58.480 --> 09:03.620 I went out to the car and Frank and I brought the suspect into the store. 09:03.620 --> 09:05.100 Come on back here, Stanford. 09:05.100 --> 09:06.100 What are you bringing me here for? 09:06.100 --> 09:07.100 What are you trying to prove? 09:07.100 --> 09:08.680 I'd like to have you explain a few things for us. 09:08.680 --> 09:09.840 Well, I told you all I could. 09:09.840 --> 09:11.200 I told you I committed the robbery. 09:11.200 --> 09:12.200 Isn't that enough? 09:12.200 --> 09:14.120 Just a couple of things we'd like to have you clear up for us. 09:14.120 --> 09:15.120 What things? 09:15.120 --> 09:16.120 I told you how I did it. 09:16.120 --> 09:17.480 Well, she'll tell you. 09:17.480 --> 09:18.480 That's the woman I held up. 09:18.480 --> 09:19.480 She'll tell you it was me. 09:19.480 --> 09:20.480 She should know. 09:20.480 --> 09:21.480 She's the one who turned me in. 09:21.480 --> 09:22.480 How about it, Miss Kenwood? 09:22.480 --> 09:23.480 He's the one, all right. 09:23.480 --> 09:24.480 I know many places. 09:24.480 --> 09:25.480 Well, isn't that enough? 09:25.480 --> 09:26.480 What more do you want? 09:26.480 --> 09:28.960 I'd like to have you show us just how you came into the store, what you did while you 09:28.960 --> 09:29.960 were in here. 09:29.960 --> 09:30.960 You mean the whole thing? 09:30.960 --> 09:32.720 Yeah, from the time you came in through the door. 09:32.720 --> 09:33.720 All right. 09:33.720 --> 09:35.320 Take these handcuffs off and I'll show you. 09:35.320 --> 09:37.000 You can show us with them on. 09:37.000 --> 09:38.000 It's got to be that way. 09:38.000 --> 09:39.480 It's going to make it tougher. 09:39.480 --> 09:40.480 Go ahead. 09:40.480 --> 09:41.480 Yeah. 09:41.480 --> 09:44.480 Well, I came in the door. 09:44.480 --> 09:46.720 I came in and she was standing behind that counter. 09:46.720 --> 09:47.720 You mean Miss Kenwood? 09:47.720 --> 09:48.720 Yeah, her. 09:48.720 --> 09:49.720 She was standing behind the counter. 09:49.720 --> 09:53.640 I walked over to her and I showed her the gun. 09:53.640 --> 09:55.240 I told her it was a stick up. 09:55.240 --> 09:56.800 I told her I wanted the money. 09:56.800 --> 09:57.800 That's right. 09:57.800 --> 09:59.160 He pointed the gun at me and thought he was going to shoot. 09:59.160 --> 10:00.160 All right. 10:00.160 --> 10:01.160 Go ahead, Stanford. 10:01.160 --> 10:03.360 Well, she started to yell, told me to get out of the store. 10:03.360 --> 10:04.360 Certainly I yelled at him. 10:04.360 --> 10:06.680 You think I want anybody coming in here and waving a gun around? 10:06.680 --> 10:09.120 Oh, if my husband was here, he'd show you. 10:09.120 --> 10:10.120 Show you good. 10:10.120 --> 10:11.120 You see what I mean? 10:11.120 --> 10:12.480 I never saw a woman that could yell so much. 10:12.480 --> 10:13.480 Go ahead, Stanford. 10:13.480 --> 10:14.480 What'd you do then? 10:14.480 --> 10:16.480 Well, I told her if she didn't keep quiet, I'd have to shoot her. 10:16.480 --> 10:18.200 And then I told her to get in the room and back. 10:18.200 --> 10:19.560 Now, just hold on a minute. 10:19.560 --> 10:21.880 He's not only a thief, but he's a liar too. 10:21.880 --> 10:22.880 Ma'am. 10:22.880 --> 10:23.880 That's not what he did at all. 10:23.880 --> 10:25.000 What do you mean, Mrs. Kenwood? 10:25.000 --> 10:26.360 He didn't tell me to get into the back room. 10:26.360 --> 10:27.360 There ain't any back room. 10:27.360 --> 10:28.360 How about that, Stanford? 10:28.360 --> 10:29.360 You're going to listen to her. 10:29.360 --> 10:30.360 I'm the one that robbed the place. 10:30.360 --> 10:31.360 She didn't. 10:31.360 --> 10:32.360 I guess I know what I did. 10:32.360 --> 10:34.360 All right, let's take a look back here. 10:34.360 --> 10:36.880 Come on. 10:36.880 --> 10:38.160 What's behind this curtain here, Miss Kenwood? 10:38.160 --> 10:40.440 Just a little space where I keep my empty bottles. 10:40.440 --> 10:42.000 Goes right out onto the alley. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.360 There, see, that's where I put her. 10:44.360 --> 10:46.360 That's where I told her to stay. 10:46.360 --> 10:49.000 And you said you locked the door. 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 There's no door there. 10:50.000 --> 10:51.000 I got confused. 10:51.000 --> 10:52.000 It doesn't make any difference. 10:52.000 --> 10:55.040 I told her to get back there and stay there until I was out of the store. 10:55.040 --> 10:56.040 That's a lie. 10:56.040 --> 10:57.040 You did no such thing. 10:57.040 --> 10:58.320 You told me to get down on the floor and cover my face. 10:58.320 --> 11:00.600 Then you went over to the cash register and you took the money. 11:00.600 --> 11:01.600 I didn't move. 11:01.600 --> 11:04.560 I didn't want to give you any trouble the way you were waving that gun around. 11:04.560 --> 11:05.840 I wonder you didn't try to kill me. 11:05.840 --> 11:06.840 Well, you're yacking that up. 11:06.840 --> 11:07.840 I should have done it. 11:07.840 --> 11:08.840 All right, that's enough. 11:08.840 --> 11:09.840 Frank. 11:09.840 --> 11:10.840 Yeah? 11:10.840 --> 11:11.840 You want to take Stanford out of the car? 11:11.840 --> 11:12.840 I'll be right with you. 11:12.840 --> 11:13.840 Yeah, okay. 11:13.840 --> 11:14.840 Come on, Stanford, let's go. 11:14.840 --> 11:16.600 You've got to go through all this before I told you I did. 11:16.600 --> 11:17.600 And I never saw anything like it before. 11:17.600 --> 11:18.600 You can't even confess around here. 11:18.600 --> 11:19.600 Nobody believes you. 11:19.600 --> 11:20.600 Miss Kenwood? 11:20.600 --> 11:21.600 Yes, officer. 11:21.600 --> 11:25.840 Are you sure that's the man that held you up here? 11:25.840 --> 11:26.840 I said it before. 11:26.840 --> 11:27.840 I'm positive. 11:27.840 --> 11:29.480 There isn't any doubt in my mind. 11:29.480 --> 11:32.120 You heard what he said, how he said he robbed you. 11:32.120 --> 11:33.120 Is that the way it happened? 11:33.120 --> 11:36.200 Well, everything was the same except where he said that he put me in back there. 11:36.200 --> 11:37.280 That wasn't true. 11:37.280 --> 11:39.200 He made me lie down on the floor right there. 11:39.200 --> 11:41.600 Told me to stay still for five minutes, not to move. 11:41.600 --> 11:44.400 Said that if I caused any trouble, he'd come back and shoot me. 11:44.400 --> 11:46.000 I think he's crazy. 11:46.000 --> 11:47.480 Anybody would wave a gun around like that. 11:47.480 --> 11:48.480 It's terrible. 11:48.480 --> 11:49.720 I wish my husband was here. 11:49.720 --> 11:50.720 He'd show that snip. 11:50.720 --> 11:52.760 He's in the Army, you know, my husband. 11:52.760 --> 11:53.760 Yes, ma'am. 11:53.760 --> 11:57.040 Awful thing, him overseas getting shot at and young punks like that roaming around the 11:57.040 --> 11:58.560 streets with guns, threatening people. 11:58.560 --> 11:59.560 It's a terrible thing. 11:59.560 --> 12:00.560 Now, this is pretty important, ma'am. 12:00.560 --> 12:01.880 I want to ask you once more. 12:01.880 --> 12:03.480 You're sure that's the man who held you up? 12:03.480 --> 12:05.200 How many times do I have to say it? 12:05.200 --> 12:06.200 I told you that it is. 12:06.200 --> 12:07.200 He admitted himself. 12:07.200 --> 12:08.200 What more do you need? 12:08.200 --> 12:09.200 Well, I don't know, ma'am. 12:09.200 --> 12:11.880 There's just something here that isn't right about the whole thing. 12:11.880 --> 12:13.120 Doesn't make any difference. 12:13.120 --> 12:14.120 He's the man. 12:14.120 --> 12:15.120 What's the mistake about that? 12:15.120 --> 12:17.320 Oh, you just let me know when you want me in court. 12:17.320 --> 12:18.320 I'll be there. 12:18.320 --> 12:20.520 I want to see him get what's coming to him, every bit of it. 12:20.520 --> 12:21.520 Yes, ma'am. 12:21.520 --> 12:25.520 So do we if he's the right man. 12:25.520 --> 12:30.000 12.22 p.m. 12:30.000 --> 12:33.360 We drove the suspect back to the city hall for further questioning. 12:33.360 --> 12:37.800 Frank took him to the interrogation room and I checked into the squad room. 12:37.800 --> 12:38.800 Pardon me? 12:38.800 --> 12:39.800 Yes, sir. 12:39.800 --> 12:40.800 Sergeant Friday? 12:40.800 --> 12:41.800 Yes, sir. 12:41.800 --> 12:42.800 Something I can do for you? 12:42.800 --> 12:43.800 I'm Arthur Stanford, Tom's father. 12:43.800 --> 12:44.800 Oh, yes, sir. 12:44.800 --> 12:45.800 I understand my son is here. 12:45.800 --> 12:46.800 Is that right? 12:46.800 --> 12:47.800 Yes, sir. 12:47.800 --> 12:48.800 He's here. 12:48.800 --> 12:49.800 I wonder if I could see him, talk to him. 12:49.800 --> 12:50.800 Yes, sir. 12:50.800 --> 12:51.800 I think that can be arranged. 12:51.800 --> 12:52.800 Has he told you why he did it? 12:52.800 --> 12:53.800 Has he? 12:53.800 --> 12:54.800 Well, he's given us some reasons, sir. 12:54.800 --> 12:55.800 None of them are very good. 12:55.800 --> 12:56.800 I can't understand it. 12:56.800 --> 12:58.560 Just isn't any reason for him to do a thing like this. 12:58.560 --> 13:00.720 No reason at all that I can see. 13:00.720 --> 13:02.600 I don't know what to do, Mr. Friday. 13:02.600 --> 13:05.480 I left the house this morning and all the people in the neighborhood knew about it. 13:05.480 --> 13:06.480 They all knew. 13:06.480 --> 13:08.640 I walked down the street and they turned away from me. 13:08.640 --> 13:10.640 I could see them watch me through the windows of their houses. 13:10.640 --> 13:11.920 I could tell what they were thinking. 13:11.920 --> 13:14.600 My son's a thief, a common thief. 13:14.600 --> 13:17.240 And in my heart, I know it's true. 13:17.240 --> 13:18.640 I don't know what to do about it, Mr. Friday. 13:18.640 --> 13:19.640 Can you tell me? 13:19.640 --> 13:20.640 No, sir. 13:20.640 --> 13:21.640 I'm afraid I can't. 13:21.640 --> 13:22.640 Well, maybe he can. 13:22.640 --> 13:23.640 May I see him? 13:23.640 --> 13:24.640 Yes, sir. 13:24.640 --> 13:25.640 He's across the hall. 13:25.640 --> 13:26.640 This way. 13:26.640 --> 13:33.080 Right over here, sir. 13:33.080 --> 13:35.280 I wonder if I could have a cigarette. 13:35.280 --> 13:36.280 Yes, sir. 13:36.280 --> 13:37.280 Here you are. 13:37.280 --> 13:38.280 Here's a match. 13:38.280 --> 13:42.840 Thank you. 13:42.840 --> 13:45.840 I'm not sure what I'm going to say to women who see him. 13:45.840 --> 13:47.120 I wish I had some time to think. 13:47.120 --> 13:48.880 Well, you don't have to go in now if you don't want to, sir. 13:48.880 --> 13:51.000 Oh, it wouldn't help any to put it off. 13:51.000 --> 13:52.000 Won't get any easier with time. 13:52.000 --> 13:55.000 I might as well get it over with. 13:55.000 --> 13:57.920 All right, sir. 13:57.920 --> 14:01.760 Hi, Pop. 14:01.760 --> 14:02.760 Why'd you do it, son? 14:02.760 --> 14:04.640 Well, I did it because I wanted to. 14:04.640 --> 14:05.640 I wanted the money. 14:05.640 --> 14:07.560 I didn't know any other reason you robbed somebody. 14:07.560 --> 14:09.000 I wanted the money, so I did it. 14:09.000 --> 14:10.000 You could have come to me. 14:10.000 --> 14:11.240 I'd have tried to get the money for you. 14:11.240 --> 14:12.240 You know I'd have tried. 14:12.240 --> 14:13.240 Where'd you get it? 14:13.240 --> 14:14.680 Where'd you get that kind of money? 14:14.680 --> 14:16.200 All your life you've been grubbing for pennies. 14:16.200 --> 14:17.800 I don't want small money. 14:17.800 --> 14:18.800 I want to be rich. 14:18.800 --> 14:19.800 I will be, too. 14:19.800 --> 14:21.400 All right, take it easy, Stanford. 14:21.400 --> 14:22.960 All right, Mr. Friday, I understand. 14:22.960 --> 14:25.040 All my life you've been saying you understand. 14:25.040 --> 14:26.040 I'm getting sick of it. 14:26.040 --> 14:29.520 As long as I can remember, you've been telling me to get out and do something on my own. 14:29.520 --> 14:31.240 Well, I finally did it. 14:31.240 --> 14:32.400 Now you aren't happy with it. 14:32.400 --> 14:35.000 You expect me to throw my head up in the air because you're a thief? 14:35.000 --> 14:36.000 Oh, knock it off. 14:36.000 --> 14:39.280 I'm tired of you giving me lectures all the time, yakety yak. 14:39.280 --> 14:40.280 Never stop. 14:40.280 --> 14:41.280 That's enough of that, don't you think, Stanford? 14:41.280 --> 14:42.280 Well, you keep out of this, cop. 14:42.280 --> 14:43.280 This is a family matter. 14:43.280 --> 14:44.280 It doesn't concern you. 14:44.280 --> 14:45.520 This is between my father and me. 14:45.520 --> 14:46.520 Well, tell me why. 14:46.520 --> 14:47.520 That's all I want. 14:47.520 --> 14:48.520 Why? 14:48.520 --> 14:51.360 Tell me so I can face the neighbors, so I can tell them you had a reason. 14:51.360 --> 14:52.360 Tell them your son's a bum. 14:52.360 --> 14:54.920 Well, they know that already, but that's not a reason to steal. 14:54.920 --> 14:55.920 It's good enough for me. 14:55.920 --> 14:57.000 They're not going to listen to you anyway. 14:57.000 --> 14:58.640 They already made up their minds about me. 14:58.640 --> 14:59.920 They did that a long time ago. 14:59.920 --> 15:01.400 Come on, Stanford, let's go back to jail. 15:01.400 --> 15:02.400 Sure. 15:02.400 --> 15:03.400 Anything else here to do? 15:03.400 --> 15:04.400 He never understood. 15:04.400 --> 15:06.360 Yeah, one thing I'd like to ask first. 15:06.360 --> 15:07.360 What's that? 15:07.360 --> 15:09.840 You're going to jail for a long time. 15:09.840 --> 15:11.160 I have to live while you're gone. 15:11.160 --> 15:12.160 That's your worry. 15:12.160 --> 15:13.780 Well, it always has been. 15:13.780 --> 15:15.520 I want to know what you did with the gardening tools. 15:15.520 --> 15:17.280 I'll have to have them to get along. 15:17.280 --> 15:18.280 I don't know. 15:18.280 --> 15:19.520 I left them someplace. 15:19.520 --> 15:20.520 You remember where? 15:20.520 --> 15:21.520 Think. 15:21.520 --> 15:22.520 I need those tools. 15:22.520 --> 15:23.520 I'm not sure. 15:23.520 --> 15:24.520 Maybe at Mrs. Howard's. 15:24.520 --> 15:25.520 Maybe that's where I left. 15:25.520 --> 15:26.520 Over on 12th? 15:26.520 --> 15:28.200 Yeah, I did her place last Wednesday. 15:28.200 --> 15:30.160 I guess I forgot to pick stuff up when I left. 15:30.160 --> 15:31.160 It must still be there. 15:31.160 --> 15:32.160 And I'll go over and get them. 15:32.160 --> 15:33.160 Wait a minute. 15:33.160 --> 15:34.160 What do you want? 15:34.160 --> 15:36.960 You said you did some gardening for this Mrs. Howard last Wednesday. 15:36.960 --> 15:37.960 That would be a week ago yesterday. 15:37.960 --> 15:38.960 Is that right? 15:38.960 --> 15:39.960 That's what I said. 15:39.960 --> 15:41.040 You remember what time you were there? 15:41.040 --> 15:43.280 Most of the day I got there about 10 in the morning. 15:43.280 --> 15:44.600 Left about four in the afternoon. 15:44.600 --> 15:45.960 I was in a hurry to get away. 15:45.960 --> 15:47.280 That's why I forgot the tools, I guess. 15:47.280 --> 15:49.400 Did you leave the place at all during the day? 15:49.400 --> 15:50.400 Not until I finished. 15:50.400 --> 15:52.320 What are you trying to prove with all these questions? 15:52.320 --> 15:53.320 It's about the robbery, Stanford. 15:53.320 --> 15:54.320 Yeah? 15:54.320 --> 15:58.080 If you were at this Howard woman's house, how could you have held up the grocery store? 15:58.080 --> 15:59.240 Don't make no difference how I did it. 15:59.240 --> 16:00.520 I don't have to explain it to you. 16:00.520 --> 16:01.520 No, you're wrong about that, Stanford. 16:01.520 --> 16:02.520 Is that right? 16:02.520 --> 16:05.960 The things you don't add up, the way you confess, the difference in your story about the robbery. 16:05.960 --> 16:09.160 Now, this thing about you being at the Howard house, I don't know why you're lying about 16:09.160 --> 16:10.160 this, Stanford. 16:10.160 --> 16:11.160 Yeah. 16:11.160 --> 16:22.920 But we're going to find out. 16:22.920 --> 16:27.920 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 16:27.920 --> 16:31.240 Chesterfield is best for you. 16:31.240 --> 16:32.880 Listen to Chesterfield's record. 16:32.880 --> 16:37.720 For a full year and two months, a doctor has been making regular examinations of a group 16:37.720 --> 16:44.240 of Chesterfield smokers, and he reports no adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses 16:44.240 --> 16:46.400 from smoking Chesterfields. 16:46.400 --> 16:50.320 Don't you want to try a cigarette with a record like this? 16:50.320 --> 16:56.240 Chesterfield, first with premium quality in both regular and king size. 16:56.240 --> 16:57.560 Chesterfield. 16:57.560 --> 17:04.320 First choice with Young America, and that's from a survey of 274 colleges and universities. 17:04.320 --> 17:06.640 Try Chesterfields today. 17:06.640 --> 17:20.760 Remember, Chesterfield is America's best cigarette buy. 17:20.760 --> 17:24.340 We continued to talk to the suspect, Thomas Stanford, for another hour. 17:24.340 --> 17:27.880 He refused to say anything about the conflicting aspects of his story. 17:27.880 --> 17:31.360 His father pleaded with him to tell us the truth, but other than admitting he was responsible 17:31.360 --> 17:34.000 for the grocery store robbery, he'd say nothing. 17:34.000 --> 17:37.800 We got the address of the house where Stanford had said he'd left the gardening tools. 17:37.800 --> 17:39.380 315 p.m. 17:39.380 --> 17:42.400 After taking the suspect back to the main jail, Frank and I drove out to talk to the 17:42.400 --> 17:44.840 Howard woman. 17:44.840 --> 17:45.840 Place sure looks nice. 17:45.840 --> 17:46.840 Well kept. 17:46.840 --> 17:47.840 Yeah. 17:47.840 --> 17:48.840 Look at those carnations, Joe. 17:48.840 --> 17:49.840 Never seen anything so pretty. 17:49.840 --> 17:50.840 Yeah, they're very nice. 17:50.840 --> 17:53.840 You know, Fay tries them all the time. 17:53.840 --> 17:55.960 Never seems to have any luck with them, though. 17:55.960 --> 17:59.040 Plants come up all right, but the flowers just don't seem to get very big. 17:59.040 --> 18:00.040 Mm-hmm. 18:00.040 --> 18:01.040 About size of half a buck. 18:01.040 --> 18:02.040 Little bitty things. 18:02.040 --> 18:03.040 Yeah. 18:03.040 --> 18:04.040 Sure smell good, though. 18:04.040 --> 18:05.040 I'll get the bell. 18:05.040 --> 18:06.040 Yes? 18:06.040 --> 18:07.040 Miss Howard? 18:07.040 --> 18:08.040 That's right. 18:08.040 --> 18:09.040 Is there something you want? 18:09.040 --> 18:10.040 Police officers, ma'am. 18:10.040 --> 18:11.040 We'd like to talk to you. 18:11.040 --> 18:12.040 Policeman? 18:12.040 --> 18:13.040 What do you want to see me for? 18:13.040 --> 18:16.040 Well, it's about a man who did some work for you, Thomas Stanford. 18:16.040 --> 18:17.040 Oh. 18:17.040 --> 18:18.040 Yes, come in, Mom. 18:18.040 --> 18:19.040 I'm going to get you something. 18:19.040 --> 18:20.040 I'm going to get you something. 18:20.040 --> 18:21.040 I'm going to get you something. 18:21.040 --> 18:22.040 I'm going to get you something. 18:22.040 --> 18:23.040 I'm going to get you something. 18:23.040 --> 18:24.040 Yes, come in, Mulcher. 18:24.040 --> 18:28.280 Thank you very much. 18:28.280 --> 18:29.280 My name's Friday, Mrs. Howard. 18:29.280 --> 18:30.280 This is my partner, Frank Smith. 18:30.280 --> 18:31.280 Well, how do you do? 18:31.280 --> 18:32.280 How do you do, ma'am? 18:32.280 --> 18:33.280 You sit down there. 18:33.280 --> 18:34.280 I'm having a late lunch. 18:34.280 --> 18:35.280 Can I get you anything? 18:35.280 --> 18:36.280 No, thank you. 18:36.280 --> 18:37.280 Oh, thank you, ma'am. 18:37.280 --> 18:38.560 Sure you wouldn't have a glass of iced tea or something like that? 18:38.560 --> 18:39.560 No, thanks, Mrs. Howard. 18:39.560 --> 18:40.840 How about this man, Stanford? 18:40.840 --> 18:42.160 Oh, yes, Tom. 18:42.160 --> 18:43.160 He's a good gardener. 18:43.160 --> 18:45.160 He does a beautiful job on the place. 18:45.160 --> 18:46.680 You should take a walk around the grounds. 18:46.680 --> 18:47.680 He keeps it just beautifully. 18:47.680 --> 18:48.680 Yes, ma'am. 18:48.680 --> 18:50.080 Could you tell us when he was here last? 18:50.080 --> 18:52.520 Oh, well, I'd have to think about that. 18:52.520 --> 18:53.520 You'll see. 18:53.520 --> 18:55.440 Well, I think it was a week ago yesterday. 18:55.440 --> 18:56.440 Yes, that's right. 18:56.440 --> 18:57.440 Last Wednesday. 18:57.440 --> 18:58.440 He comes once a week. 18:58.440 --> 18:59.440 He should have been here yesterday. 18:59.440 --> 19:01.240 He called his house when he didn't show up. 19:01.240 --> 19:02.240 No answer. 19:02.240 --> 19:03.240 Probably forgot. 19:03.240 --> 19:04.240 He's very forgetful, you know. 19:04.240 --> 19:05.240 Is that right? 19:05.240 --> 19:06.240 Oh, yes. 19:06.240 --> 19:07.600 But take the last time he was here. 19:07.600 --> 19:09.480 He walked off and forgot all of his tools. 19:09.480 --> 19:10.960 Lawn mower, clippers, everything. 19:10.960 --> 19:13.080 Had to take it back to the garage. 19:13.080 --> 19:15.240 Just left it on the lawn right out in front of the place. 19:15.240 --> 19:18.080 Have you ever had any trouble with him? 19:18.080 --> 19:19.080 What do you mean by trouble? 19:19.080 --> 19:20.080 Well, any arguments, disagreements. 19:20.080 --> 19:24.240 Well, on a couple of occasions, we've had words about what flowers to put in. 19:24.240 --> 19:25.600 He's wanted to plant one thing. 19:25.600 --> 19:26.760 I've wanted something else. 19:26.760 --> 19:28.680 They've never been serious, though. 19:28.680 --> 19:29.680 Yes, ma'am. 19:29.680 --> 19:32.400 I suppose I shouldn't say this. 19:32.400 --> 19:33.400 What's that, Miss Hart? 19:33.400 --> 19:36.200 Well, frankly, I've never thought that Tom was real bright. 19:36.200 --> 19:37.200 He seemed sort of backwards. 19:37.200 --> 19:39.200 How do you mean, backward? 19:39.200 --> 19:43.880 Well, when it came to thinking out something for himself, he just couldn't handle it. 19:43.880 --> 19:48.240 If you told him to do a thing a certain way, do it, never vary from the way you told him. 19:48.240 --> 19:50.880 But ask him to figure something out and he was dead. 19:50.880 --> 19:54.440 It seemed like the motor was turning over all right, but he just couldn't get the clutch 19:54.440 --> 19:55.440 out. 19:55.440 --> 19:56.440 Gears just wouldn't work. 19:56.440 --> 19:57.440 Yes, ma'am. 19:57.440 --> 19:59.640 That's why I say I don't think he's very bright. 19:59.640 --> 20:01.360 He just can't seem to think for himself. 20:01.360 --> 20:02.360 No initiative. 20:02.360 --> 20:04.360 Do you remember what time he was here on Wednesday? 20:04.360 --> 20:06.240 Well, now let's see. 20:06.240 --> 20:08.400 He got here about 10 in the morning. 20:08.400 --> 20:10.920 It was right after that radio show about the friends. 20:10.920 --> 20:13.440 I'd just finished listening to that when he got here. 20:13.440 --> 20:14.640 That goes off the air at 10. 20:14.640 --> 20:15.800 Have you ever heard it? 20:15.800 --> 20:16.800 No, ma'am. 20:16.800 --> 20:18.480 I should listen sometime. 20:18.480 --> 20:20.920 These people tell why they need a friend to help them out of trouble. 20:20.920 --> 20:22.240 I listen to it every morning. 20:22.240 --> 20:25.200 Makes me feel pretty lucky, those poor people. 20:25.200 --> 20:28.920 I sure appreciate what I've got when I hear what they have to say. 20:28.920 --> 20:30.400 Was Stanford here all day, ma'am? 20:30.400 --> 20:31.400 Yes, all day. 20:31.400 --> 20:37.920 He didn't leave until, let's see, I guess it was about five someplace around in there. 20:37.920 --> 20:41.600 It seems to me it was just before the five o'clock news, just before that when he left. 20:41.600 --> 20:44.960 You say he got here at 10 and then he left just before five o'clock. 20:44.960 --> 20:45.960 Is that right? 20:45.960 --> 20:46.960 Yes. 20:46.960 --> 20:48.360 Any chance that he might have been away without you knowing it? 20:48.360 --> 20:49.360 No. 20:49.360 --> 20:50.360 No, I'd have known it if he had. 20:50.360 --> 20:53.520 He was out in the backyard most of the morning and then he took care of the front later in 20:53.520 --> 20:54.520 the day. 20:54.520 --> 20:55.520 What's he do about lunch, Ms. Howard? 20:55.520 --> 20:56.520 What do you mean? 20:56.520 --> 20:58.480 Well, does he bring his lunch with him? 20:58.480 --> 20:59.640 Once in a while he does, yes. 20:59.640 --> 21:01.120 Well, he didn't on Wednesday, though. 21:01.120 --> 21:02.120 I'm sure about that. 21:02.120 --> 21:04.120 How do you mean, Mrs. Howard? 21:04.120 --> 21:06.640 Well, long about lunchtime. 21:06.640 --> 21:10.560 Was right after the noon news. 21:10.560 --> 21:12.200 I made up a little plate for him. 21:12.200 --> 21:16.480 A couple of sandwiches, potato chips and some pickles, little tiny sweet gherkins. 21:16.480 --> 21:18.480 I made it up and I took it out to him. 21:18.480 --> 21:19.480 Yes, ma'am. 21:19.480 --> 21:22.360 I took this nice plate out to him and where do you suppose I found him? 21:22.360 --> 21:23.360 Where? 21:23.360 --> 21:26.040 Out behind the garage, sitting next to the compost box. 21:26.040 --> 21:27.520 What do you suppose he was doing? 21:27.520 --> 21:29.000 Oh, what, ma'am? 21:29.000 --> 21:30.720 Reading a comic book. 21:30.720 --> 21:32.600 All about cops and robbers. 21:32.600 --> 21:35.320 One of those with a picture on the cover of the crooks trying to shoot their way out of 21:35.320 --> 21:36.320 the bank. 21:36.320 --> 21:40.720 I told him that he'd better get on the ball, let the clutch out and get to work. 21:40.720 --> 21:44.160 I told him that I wanted the yard finished up by five and that I didn't want any funny 21:44.160 --> 21:45.160 business about it. 21:45.160 --> 21:46.520 What did he say to that? 21:46.520 --> 21:52.480 Well, he just looked at me for a long time and then he said, OK, Warden, just like that. 21:52.480 --> 21:53.480 OK, Warden. 21:53.480 --> 21:56.480 But he got to work right away and he finished up on time. 21:56.480 --> 21:58.840 You see, my son and daughter-in-law were coming over. 21:58.840 --> 22:01.280 It was his birthday and we'd planned a little party. 22:01.280 --> 22:03.440 I wanted the place to be nice for them. 22:03.440 --> 22:04.640 Yes, ma'am, we understand. 22:04.640 --> 22:07.920 Is it possible that Stanford could have gotten away from the yard at all between ten and 22:07.920 --> 22:08.920 five? 22:08.920 --> 22:09.920 No, no, I'm sure of that. 22:09.920 --> 22:10.920 He was here all the time. 22:10.920 --> 22:11.920 All right, ma'am. 22:11.920 --> 22:12.920 Thank you very much. 22:12.920 --> 22:13.920 What's this all about? 22:13.920 --> 22:15.360 Is Tom in some sort of trouble? 22:15.360 --> 22:17.280 No, it's just a routine investigation, Ms. Howard. 22:17.280 --> 22:20.000 I'm going to give you our card in case you think of anything else. 22:20.000 --> 22:21.000 Here you are. 22:21.000 --> 22:23.000 Oh, thank you. 22:23.000 --> 22:25.000 Michigan 5211. 22:25.000 --> 22:26.000 Is that right? 22:26.000 --> 22:27.000 Yes, ma'am. 22:27.000 --> 22:28.000 Ask for robbery division. 22:28.000 --> 22:29.000 That's extension 2511. 22:29.000 --> 22:30.000 It's right on the card. 22:30.000 --> 22:31.000 Oh, yes. 22:31.000 --> 22:32.000 Poor Tom. 22:32.000 --> 22:33.000 All this trouble. 22:33.000 --> 22:34.000 It's too bad. 22:34.000 --> 22:35.000 Yes, ma'am. 22:35.000 --> 22:36.000 I just wish this was New York. 22:36.000 --> 22:37.000 I beg your pardon? 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 Well, if this was New York, everything would be all right. 22:39.000 --> 22:40.000 How's that? 22:40.000 --> 22:41.440 That program about the friends? 22:41.440 --> 22:42.440 Yes, ma'am. 22:42.440 --> 22:50.400 Tom could sure use one. 22:50.400 --> 22:53.760 We left Mrs. Howard's home and talked to some of the people in the neighborhood. 22:53.760 --> 22:57.040 They told us that the Howards were respected people in the community, and some of them 22:57.040 --> 23:00.720 verified the fact that Stanford had worked for almost two years. 23:00.720 --> 23:03.880 The man who lived directly across the street from the Howard house said that he'd talked 23:03.880 --> 23:06.120 with Stanford on the afternoon of the robbery. 23:06.120 --> 23:09.720 And he said that he'd asked the suspect about the seeds that he used to raise the carnations 23:09.720 --> 23:12.080 that were planted along the front of the house. 23:12.080 --> 23:15.880 He went on to say that he'd been working in the front yard of his own house all afternoon, 23:15.880 --> 23:18.600 and that he'd seen the suspect throughout that time. 23:18.600 --> 23:21.960 We drove back to the grocery store and talked with the victim, Mrs. Kenwood. 23:21.960 --> 23:25.800 Under questioning, she admitted that she could have made a mistake about the identification, 23:25.800 --> 23:30.040 but she said that if she was wrong, the thief could act as a double for Tom Stanford. 23:30.040 --> 23:31.200 10.30 p.m. 23:31.200 --> 23:34.060 We drove back to the main jail and picked up the suspect. 23:34.060 --> 23:37.320 We took him back to the city hall and talked to him in the interrogation room. 23:37.320 --> 23:40.000 He was sullen and refused to answer our questions. 23:40.000 --> 23:41.000 Stanford? 23:41.000 --> 23:42.000 Yeah? 23:42.000 --> 23:45.240 I'd like to have you tell us the truth this time. 23:45.240 --> 23:46.600 I told you it isn't my fault. 23:46.600 --> 23:48.280 If you don't believe me, it isn't my fault. 23:48.280 --> 23:50.500 Now, look, Stanford, we talked with this Mrs. Howard. 23:50.500 --> 23:53.500 She told us that you were working for her all day a week ago Wednesday. 23:53.500 --> 23:54.500 So what's that prove? 23:54.500 --> 23:55.500 Well, do you admit it's true then, huh? 23:55.500 --> 23:56.500 Sure it's true. 23:56.500 --> 23:57.500 I was working. 23:57.500 --> 24:01.360 Then how could you have gotten to the grocery store and held it up? 24:01.360 --> 24:03.000 Stanford? 24:03.000 --> 24:04.000 I did it. 24:04.000 --> 24:05.120 You got anything more to say? 24:05.120 --> 24:06.120 I did the robbery. 24:06.120 --> 24:07.120 Smith, you get tonight's papers? 24:07.120 --> 24:08.120 Yeah, I picked them up earlier. 24:08.120 --> 24:09.120 Anything in them about me? 24:09.120 --> 24:10.120 I didn't see anything. 24:10.120 --> 24:13.120 There must have been something, some story about me with my name. 24:13.120 --> 24:15.120 Well, if there was, I didn't see it. 24:15.120 --> 24:16.120 Well, maybe it didn't look good. 24:16.120 --> 24:17.120 Maybe. 24:17.120 --> 24:18.120 There's got to be something, a picture or something. 24:18.120 --> 24:19.120 No. 24:19.120 --> 24:20.120 Well, let me look. 24:20.120 --> 24:21.120 Where'd you leave the papers, Frank? 24:21.120 --> 24:22.120 It's quite room. 24:22.120 --> 24:23.120 Would you get them and let me look? 24:23.120 --> 24:24.120 Sure. 24:24.120 --> 24:36.480 Pretty important to you that you're in the papers, isn't it? 24:36.480 --> 24:37.880 I just want to see them, that's all. 24:37.880 --> 24:38.880 Well, he'll bring them back. 24:38.880 --> 24:39.880 You must have made a mistake. 24:39.880 --> 24:40.880 There's something about me. 24:40.880 --> 24:41.880 There's got to be. 24:41.880 --> 24:43.400 It isn't every day there's a robbery like this. 24:43.400 --> 24:45.440 The papers would write it up big, wouldn't they? 24:45.440 --> 24:46.440 I don't know. 24:46.440 --> 24:47.440 I'm sure they would. 24:47.440 --> 24:50.240 There was a story when the place was robbed, told all about how it was done. 24:50.240 --> 24:52.400 It was just a little story, but now they've got me. 24:52.400 --> 24:54.400 It seems you should have a picture. 24:54.400 --> 24:57.080 Here it is. 24:57.080 --> 25:01.240 Let me see. 25:01.240 --> 25:06.640 Nothing on the first page. 25:06.640 --> 25:07.640 Robbery happened a week ago. 25:07.640 --> 25:08.640 It's old news. 25:08.640 --> 25:11.640 Yeah, but you just caught me last night. 25:11.640 --> 25:15.280 Nothing. 25:15.280 --> 25:19.520 Not one lousy word. 25:19.520 --> 25:20.520 Nothing at all. 25:20.520 --> 25:21.520 It makes a difference, doesn't it? 25:21.520 --> 25:22.520 Sure, it does. 25:22.520 --> 25:23.520 Sure. 25:23.520 --> 25:26.200 If there isn't anything in the papers, how are people going to know I did it? 25:26.200 --> 25:27.200 How are they going to know? 25:27.200 --> 25:28.200 They won't. 25:28.200 --> 25:29.200 But they got to. 25:29.200 --> 25:30.200 They got to. 25:30.200 --> 25:31.200 Don't you see that? 25:31.200 --> 25:33.120 If they don't know that I did the robbery, there ain't no reason for it. 25:33.120 --> 25:34.120 No reason at all. 25:34.120 --> 25:35.120 What do you mean, Stafford? 25:35.120 --> 25:37.240 Well, there won't be no pictures, no nothing. 25:37.240 --> 25:38.880 People still think I'm nobody. 25:38.880 --> 25:40.760 No one's going to know that I did do something. 25:40.760 --> 25:41.760 No one will know. 25:41.760 --> 25:43.840 The way it looks to us, you didn't do it. 25:43.840 --> 25:46.320 There should be a story about it, about how I confessed. 25:46.320 --> 25:51.240 Maybe not a picture, but at least a story, something. 25:51.240 --> 25:54.000 You didn't do it, did you? 25:54.000 --> 25:55.000 Stafford? 25:55.000 --> 26:00.640 Come on, you didn't hold up that story, did you? 26:00.640 --> 26:01.640 No. 26:01.640 --> 26:02.640 No, I didn't. 26:02.640 --> 26:05.840 I thought I could get away with it. 26:05.840 --> 26:10.400 I thought that if I confessed, you'd put me in jail and people would look at me different. 26:10.400 --> 26:16.240 And they wouldn't laugh at me anymore because I'd done something. 26:16.240 --> 26:17.240 Poor dumb Tom. 26:17.240 --> 26:18.840 That's what they say. 26:18.840 --> 26:21.160 Poor dumb Tom. 26:21.160 --> 26:24.200 Just once I wanted to show them, show them that I could do something. 26:24.200 --> 26:27.680 You're ready to go? 26:27.680 --> 26:28.680 Back to the jail? 26:28.680 --> 26:31.000 That's right. 26:31.000 --> 26:35.200 You think we could stop on the way over and like to pick up something? 26:35.200 --> 26:37.360 Yeah, what's that? 26:37.360 --> 26:38.360 Other papers. 26:38.360 --> 26:48.960 There might be something in them. 26:48.960 --> 26:51.800 The story you have just heard is true. 26:51.800 --> 26:54.560 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:54.560 --> 26:58.280 On June 4th, the meeting was held in the district attorney's office, city and county of Los 26:58.280 --> 27:00.120 Angeles, state of California. 27:00.120 --> 27:02.480 In a moment, the results of that meeting. 27:02.480 --> 27:04.760 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:04.760 --> 27:05.760 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:05.760 --> 27:08.880 I'd like to talk to you people who don't smoke Chesterfields. 27:08.880 --> 27:12.400 I'm convinced that if you try just one carton, you'll find their best for you. 27:12.400 --> 27:16.760 They're milder, they have a wonderful taste, and most important, they have premium quality 27:16.760 --> 27:19.960 in both sizes, regular or king size. 27:19.960 --> 27:21.520 So pick up that carton, will you? 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Rogers was apprehended while attempting to hold up 27:43.240 --> 27:46.600 a liquor store at the corner of Third and Temple Streets. 27:46.600 --> 27:50.120 While being interrogated, he confessed to committing the robbery that Stanford had been 27:50.120 --> 27:51.560 accused of. 27:51.560 --> 27:55.200 The physical appearance of the two men was almost identical. 27:55.200 --> 27:59.200 Rogers was tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree and received sentence 27:59.200 --> 28:12.080 as prescribed by law. 28:12.080 --> 28:17.340 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:17.340 --> 28:20.160 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 28:20.160 --> 28:22.720 Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:22.720 --> 28:27.800 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wins, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 28:27.800 --> 28:32.080 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin. 28:32.080 --> 28:34.280 Script by John Robinson. 28:34.280 --> 28:35.800 Music by Walter Schuman. 28:35.800 --> 28:40.280 Hal Gibney speaking. 28:40.280 --> 28:44.720 For A Million Laughs, tune in Chesterfield's Martin and Lewis show Tuesday on this same 28:44.720 --> 28:46.720 NBC station. 28:46.720 --> 28:49.000 And sound off for Chesterfields. 28:49.000 --> 28:55.600 Either regular or king size, you'll find premium quality Chesterfields much milder. 28:55.600 --> 29:04.360 Chesterfield is best for you. 29:04.360 --> 29:09.560 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:09.560 --> 29:12.800 Now new Fatima has the tip for your lips. 29:12.800 --> 29:15.760 Fatima tips of perfect cork. 29:15.760 --> 29:17.960 King size for natural filtering. 29:17.960 --> 29:21.880 Fatima quality for a much better flavor and aroma. 29:21.880 --> 29:25.960 So remember, new Fatima has the tip for your lips. 29:25.960 --> 29:30.680 Fatima, see how smooth they are. 29:30.680 --> 29:34.680 Remember Fatima is made by the makers of Chesterfield. 29:34.680 --> 29:41.920 And it's adventure with Barry Craig on NBC.