1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,840 Sound off for Chesterfield. 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,000 Chesterfield, first with premium quality and best for you. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:25,040 Chesterfield brings you Dregnett. 4 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,680 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 5 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:38,880 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 6 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:40,360 You're a detective sergeant. 7 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,820 You're assigned a missing person's detail. 8 00:00:42,820 --> 00:00:45,040 You get a call that a man is missing. 9 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,880 He failed to return from his work the day before. 10 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,040 There are no leads to his whereabouts. 11 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:57,000 Your job, find him. 12 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,080 Here is Chesterfield's record with smokers and important to you. 13 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:07,120 No adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield. 14 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,720 That's the report of a doctor who has been examining a group of Chesterfield smokers 15 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:16,280 for a full year and two months as a part of a program supervised by a responsible independent 16 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,420 research laboratory. 17 00:01:18,420 --> 00:01:21,960 Don't you want to try a cigarette with a record like this? 18 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:25,680 Chesterfield, first with premium quality. 19 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,280 Chesterfield, first choice of young America. 20 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:34,200 And that's from a survey made in 274 colleges and universities. 21 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,640 Try Chesterfield's today. 22 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,000 Chesterfield, regular or king size. 23 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:46,280 They're much milder and best for you. 24 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:53,120 Dregnett, the documented drama of an actual crime. 25 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:58,120 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 26 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:02,800 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 27 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:04,520 police files. 28 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:09,760 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dregnett is the story of your police force 29 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:14,960 in action. 30 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,320 It was Tuesday, June 16th. 31 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:17,920 It was warm in Los Angeles. 32 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:21,160 We were working the night watch out a homicide division, missing persons detail. 33 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:22,480 My partner is Frank Smith. 34 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,440 The boss is Chief of Detective Stab Brown. 35 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:25,440 My name's Friday. 36 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:30,280 I was on my way back to the office and it was 1159 p.m. when I got to room 24, missing 37 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:31,280 persons. 38 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,280 What was his mental condition when you last saw him, Mr. Ford? 39 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,280 Where did you last see him? 40 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,760 Was he driving his car? 41 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:39,760 What time was that? 42 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,280 Yes, ma'am, but what was the exact time? 43 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:45,400 I see. 44 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:46,400 And your address? 45 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,400 And the phone, please. 46 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,880 Now, can you think of anything you forgot to tell me? 47 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:52,880 Right. 48 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:53,880 Right. 49 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:55,920 Oh, you gave me that before. 50 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:56,920 Mm-hmm. 51 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:59,280 Now, was your husband a drinking man, ma'am? 52 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:00,640 I see. 53 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:03,680 Okay, Miss Borg, we'll make a check, call you back. 54 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,880 Yes, ma'am, we'll do our best, thanks. 55 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:06,880 What's his name? 56 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,680 Ma'am, but the name of Borg, Missy. 57 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,760 I'm sure glad my wife doesn't call for help every time I miss a meal. 58 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,360 The trouble with most guys is they let a woman keep tabs on them, check on everything they 59 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:18,360 do. 60 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:19,360 Let me see that 97, will you? 61 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:20,360 Yeah, here you go. 62 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,800 That's everything his wife gave me. 63 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:23,800 Mm-hmm. 64 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:30,640 When you get the jails and records, I'll check Georgia Street County Hospital in the morgue. 65 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:35,240 It looked like a routine investigation. 66 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,080 Lots of things can keep a man from getting home. 67 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:42,880 A few drinks, a sick friend, unexpected business conference, a flat tire on an isolated road, 68 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:43,880 maybe just boredom. 69 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,080 But there are other things that can keep a man from getting home. 70 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,480 It had to be checked out. 71 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:55,280 Henry Borg, 51, male, white American, address 1571 East Burindos Street, had failed to return 72 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,600 home at the usual time on Monday. 73 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,400 His wife called one of the men he worked with and found that he hadn't been at work all 74 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:01,400 day that day. 75 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,200 He still hadn't come home the next afternoon. 76 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:05,200 She called us. 77 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,760 I checked the Gaga file to see if he was one of our regular customers, mental case or alcoholic. 78 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:10,760 He wasn't. 79 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,720 Frank and I checked the jails, the hospitals, and the morgue. 80 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,360 They had no record of him there, no John Doe's fitting his description. 81 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,240 And Borg had no criminal record. 82 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,600 We could assume that he was at least alive. 83 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,240 Frank called Mrs. Borg back, told her not to worry, and asked her to call us immediately 84 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:26,960 if she heard from her husband. 85 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:29,720 Wednesday, 310 p.m., still no word of Henry Borg. 86 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,880 At the day watch, it made another check of the jails, the hospitals, and the morgue. 87 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:35,760 Mrs. Borg called three times. 88 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,240 The day watch officer's notes described her as very upset. 89 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,280 I called her back and asked her to come in the next day to file a missing persons report. 90 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:46,640 I asked her also to bring in the best picture she had of her husband. 91 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,840 Thursday, 240 p.m., Mrs. Borg was waiting with Frank when I got to work. 92 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:53,120 She had already filled out the form 316. 93 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,680 She was holding an aging Pekingese dog in her arms. 94 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,760 Joe, this is Mrs. Borg. 95 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:58,760 How are you ma'am? 96 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,680 My partner, Joe Friday, ma'am. 97 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,460 Hello Officer Friday. 98 00:05:02,460 --> 00:05:04,280 I talked to Mr. Smith and filled out the paper. 99 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:05,680 Here's that picture you wanted. 100 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,800 Oh yes, thank you very much ma'am. 101 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:08,800 It's a good likeness. 102 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:13,320 Now, Mrs. Borg, I see here that you haven't put anything down under personal habits for 103 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:14,320 your husband. 104 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:15,320 Well, I don't understand. 105 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,760 Well, does your husband drink at all ma'am? 106 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:18,760 Henry? 107 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:19,760 No. 108 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:24,120 He takes a glass of beer with his supper when he comes home, but he's not what a person 109 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,160 would call a drinking person. 110 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:27,160 Gamble? 111 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:28,160 Gamble? 112 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:29,160 Yes ma'am. 113 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:30,160 Cards, dice, horses? 114 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:31,160 Oh, I should say not. 115 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,280 He never does nothing like that. 116 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:35,920 You've never known him to gamble at all then? 117 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:36,920 Henry? 118 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:37,920 I should say not. 119 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,160 Now, Mrs. Borg, you say here that your husband has no relatives. 120 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,920 Oh, only a brother Ed, older brother, but I didn't put him down. 121 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:45,720 We don't know where he lives. 122 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,000 Haven't heard a word about him nine, ten years. 123 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,000 What about your family? 124 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,120 Your husband friendly with your family? 125 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,120 My family hasn't spoke to me since the day I married Henry Borg. 126 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,280 Mrs. Borg, I see you only have one friend listed, a Hal Bishop. 127 00:05:57,280 --> 00:05:59,360 That's the man your husband rode to work with, isn't it? 128 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:00,360 Yes. 129 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:01,360 Do you know Mr. Bishop's address? 130 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:02,360 No, I don't. 131 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,760 Did your husband ride to work with Bishop every day? 132 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:06,160 You say he left his car at home Monday. 133 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:07,640 Did he ever drive it to work? 134 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:12,240 Well, he usually drove our car, but then he'd ride with Mr. Bishop pretty often too. 135 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:13,440 I didn't think anything about it. 136 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:14,640 It didn't seem like anything. 137 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:16,880 Well, did your husband spend much time with this Bishop? 138 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:18,880 No, just at work. 139 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,880 Henry, he used to like to spend his free time with me. 140 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,680 All right now, ma'am, please don't get upset here. 141 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,880 Did your husband have any financial problems, debts that were worrying him? 142 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,360 Financial difficulties like bills and things? 143 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,960 No, Henry always took care of it. 144 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,480 Do you think there might have been anything you didn't know about that was worrying him? 145 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,440 Officer, if Henry was worried about anything, I'd have known it. 146 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:41,800 He'd have told me for sure. 147 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:43,200 Now, what about your home? 148 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:44,200 Did you own it? 149 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:45,200 What do you mean? 150 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,840 Was there a mortgage on it, I mean? 151 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:47,840 Yes. 152 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:49,440 Do you have the pink slip on your car? 153 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:50,440 No, no. 154 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,560 Well, is it possible that your husband was behind in the payments? 155 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,000 No, no, he would have told me. 156 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,040 Well, did he owe money down where he worked? 157 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,440 No, not that I know of. 158 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:01,920 His job, maybe. 159 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:03,160 Was he worried about that? 160 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,360 Mr. Snyder, that's his boss. 161 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,600 He always said Henry would have a job as long as he was in the contracting business. 162 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:11,600 Henry makes good wages. 163 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,040 Now, you say here his mental condition was good. 164 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:16,240 Has that ever been poor? 165 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,640 You ever know your husband to black out? 166 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:20,080 How do you mean, black out? 167 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,120 Well, has he ever suffered from lapse of memory? 168 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,560 Is there any history of epilepsy in this family? 169 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:25,560 History of epilepsy? 170 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,320 Oh, no, not Henry. 171 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:29,320 He's a healthy man. 172 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:30,320 He hasn't had a sick day. 173 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,240 Now, Miss Borg, have you and your husband been getting along lately? 174 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,160 What do you mean by a thing like that, Officer? 175 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,160 You think Henry and I had a fight and that's why he left. 176 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:40,160 Is that what you think? 177 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,040 Well, we don't think anything here, but these are the things we have to check out. 178 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,280 Well, it's a waste of time. 179 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:46,880 Don't you think I'd have already told you that? 180 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:48,760 If Henry and I had had a fight, I'd have told you first off. 181 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,760 It's the first thing I'd have said. 182 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:51,760 Yes, ma'am. 183 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:52,760 Something's happened to my husband, Officer. 184 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:53,760 I just know it. 185 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:54,760 Something's happened to him. 186 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,200 Did you and your husband go out together much, ma'am? 187 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:03,440 Well, one night last month we went to the Coconut Grove, there in the Ambassador Hotel, 188 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:05,600 and we used to go up the movies pretty regular. 189 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,400 Was he in the habit of leaving the house at night alone? 190 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:09,760 No. 191 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:11,720 Just when he went out with Francine. 192 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:12,720 Francine? 193 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:17,720 Yes, our Pekingese here. 194 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:27,000 3.55 p.m. Thursday, June 18th. 195 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,720 Began to look as if Henry Borg was in trouble. 196 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,600 From what we'd been told, he wasn't a man who had just suddenly decided to leave home. 197 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,560 We had to find out if the facts we'd been given were accurate. 198 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:36,560 Thursday, 4.10 p.m. 199 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:40,800 We contacted Borg's friend, Hal Bishop, just as he was leaving the construction job where 200 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:41,800 they both worked. 201 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:45,480 He said he hadn't gone by Borg's house to pick him up Monday because Borg hadn't asked 202 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:46,480 him to. 203 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,600 The way they worked it, Borg always told him the day before if he wanted a ride. 204 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,640 At first, Bishop said he hadn't noticed anything strange about Borg recently. 205 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,520 Then he decided Borg had been a little irritable the last few days. 206 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,400 Said it wasn't like him to be irritable. 207 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:02,160 That he'd never known Borg to miss work before, and that he'd never heard of any trouble between 208 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:03,160 Borg and his wife. 209 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,280 He said that Borg didn't talk much about his wife. 210 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,080 We called on the neighbors of the Borgs. 211 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:12,160 They said nothing to indicate any flaws in Mrs. Borg's story. 212 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,520 Henry and Martha Borg were average people in an average neighborhood. 213 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,480 He went to work every morning at 7 a.m. 214 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,440 Came home at 5.15. 215 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,480 His neighbors didn't know much about him. 216 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,320 He was a quiet man. 217 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,800 They lived in the same house for 13 years. 218 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,400 Martha Borg was 47, maybe 48. 219 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,320 They never had visitors. 220 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:34,560 After 13 years in the same neighborhood, she apparently had no close friends. 221 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:37,800 Two of her neighbors had noticed that in the past year, Martha Borg would leave her house 222 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,800 three or four times a week at 11 a.m. 223 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:42,200 Always at 11 a.m. 224 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,840 She invariably got back before her husband did. 225 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,560 The neighbors said she usually brought some shopping home with her. 226 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:49,080 They did go out frequently in the evenings. 227 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:53,080 However, there were no reports of family trouble between Martha and Henry Borg. 228 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:54,760 Thursday, 6.20 p.m. 229 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,000 We talked to Adolf Wernicke, whose grocery store was on the corner a half a block from 230 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000 the Borg home. 231 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,280 They'd been trading with him ever since they moved to the neighborhood. 232 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,920 I don't know what to tell you about, Mr. Borg officer. 233 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:05,520 He always seemed like a nice fellow to me. 234 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:06,800 He didn't say much, but nice. 235 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,880 It sure is funny him disappearing like that. 236 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,320 You got any idea if he had any trouble with his wife? 237 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:12,960 No, that wife, she's a funny one. 238 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,760 Different from Mr. Borg is day and night. 239 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:15,760 Well, how's that, sir? 240 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:16,760 I don't know. 241 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:18,280 High hat sort of. 242 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:19,280 She's all right, I guess. 243 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:20,280 Kind of show off, though. 244 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,360 The kind of person who dresses up when she goes shopping around the corner and likes 245 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,120 to buy fancy groceries, stuff I never get calls for. 246 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:27,680 Like those anchovies up there on the shelf. 247 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:31,120 Now, I'll bet you I won't sell two cans of them in a year, but Mrs. Borg comes in and 248 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:32,120 she'll buy them. 249 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:33,520 Now, Mr. Borg, he don't like that kind of stuff at all. 250 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:34,520 He told me so himself. 251 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:35,520 Yes, sir, but how'd they get along? 252 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:37,000 Did he ever say anything about his wife? 253 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,320 I'm telling you the truth, officer. 254 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,320 I don't know. 255 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:40,920 As far as a man and his wife arguing, I don't pry. 256 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:41,920 It hurts business. 257 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,120 Come to think of it, he did say one thing. 258 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,240 It was a long time ago, about two, three months ago, maybe more. 259 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:48,240 What was that? 260 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:49,240 What'd he say? 261 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:50,640 Well, he came in here, just about like this time it was. 262 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:52,400 Didn't buy anything, just kind of hung around. 263 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:53,760 Remember, he seemed down to sorts. 264 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,280 I asked him if he was feeling all right. 265 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:56,280 Said he was. 266 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:57,280 Just felt like he had to get away from the house. 267 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,280 Now, that'll happen to a man. 268 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,000 Just feel like you gotta get away for a while. 269 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 You know what I mean, officer. 270 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 No, sir, I'm not married. 271 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,640 Thursday, 7.50 p.m. 272 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,880 Borg's description and the circumstances of his disappearance have been broadcast to all 273 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:15,880 units. 274 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:16,880 Still no word. 275 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:17,880 4.10 p.m. 276 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:19,440 Friday, June 19th. 277 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:20,440 We checked Borg's union. 278 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,920 He hadn't reported for a new job. 279 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:24,440 We filed an all-points bulletin. 280 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:25,440 8.5 p.m. 281 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,280 I checked back into the office. 282 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:28,280 Mrs. Borg was waiting. 283 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,960 Sergeant Friday, I'd like to know just what's going on around here. 284 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,880 My husband has been missing almost a week, and I don't see why something hasn't been 285 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:35,880 done about it. 286 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,600 If you can't find my husband, then why don't they put more men on this case? 287 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,120 This is a terrible thing. 288 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,720 I'm a woman alone, and the police haven't done a single thing. 289 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,280 My husband may be dead. 290 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,800 He may be dead, and nobody's doing anything about it. 291 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,040 In my work, you hear it every day, but you can't get mad. 292 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,560 It's against regulations, and you can't blame them either. 293 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:54,240 They're in trouble, so you let them talk. 294 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:55,240 You try to explain. 295 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:56,720 They don't listen, but you try. 296 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,720 Well, we're doing all we can, ma'am. 297 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,120 They're always talking these days about giving policemen more money. 298 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,800 It seems to me there are certain policemen who aren't even earning the money they get 299 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:04,800 right now. 300 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:05,800 Yes, ma'am. 301 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:06,800 What are you doing for my husband? 302 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,400 Mrs. Borg, here's the file on it. 303 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,120 Now we've made regular checks on the hospitals, the jails, and the morgues. 304 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,760 Thursday night, when you came in to file that Form 316, we had a complete description of 305 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,520 your husband broadcast to all radio units in the city. 306 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:20,080 Was teletyped to every police division. 307 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,340 Today, we sent out an all-points bulletin over the state wire. 308 00:12:23,340 --> 00:12:26,280 Every police department, sheriff's office, and highway patrol unit in the state knows 309 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:27,280 that your husband is missing. 310 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,720 Here, you can see the bulletin right here, ma'am. 311 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,560 Now, in these cases, ma'am, we start with nothing. 312 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:34,800 We don't know where they've gone or why they've gone. 313 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:36,240 Most of them turn up by themselves. 314 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:37,360 Some of them don't. 315 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,320 We do everything we can to find the ones that don't. 316 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:45,960 Mrs. Borg, there are 4,000 police officers in this city looking for your husband. 317 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,440 8.57 p.m. 318 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,720 When we thought Mrs. Borg was feeling better, we sent her home. 319 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,400 We reminded her again to notify us immediately if she heard from her husband. 320 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:57,400 9.10 p.m. 321 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,360 The desk at Central called and told us that they'd picked up a John Doe. 322 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,360 From what they said, he apparently was suffering from amnesia. 323 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:06,240 While I went down to homicide to check out some reports, Frank went over to Central to 324 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:07,800 see the man they picked up. 325 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,280 9.16 p.m. 326 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:10,280 Frank came back to the office. 327 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:11,280 John? 328 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:12,280 Yeah? 329 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,840 I just checked out that John Doe at Central. 330 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:15,840 Anything on him? 331 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:16,840 Yeah, it's Henry Borg. 332 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:33,680 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 333 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:35,360 Years ahead of them all. 334 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,800 Chesterfield is years ahead of all cigarettes. 335 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,320 Chesterfield quality is highest. 336 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:42,800 Here's the proof. 337 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:47,760 The chemical analysis give an index of good quality for the country's six leading cigarette 338 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:48,760 brands. 339 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:54,040 The index of good quality table, which is a ratio of high sugar to low nicotine, shows 340 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,400 Chesterfield quality highest. 341 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:58,080 Chesterfield quality highest. 342 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,600 15% higher than its nearest competitor. 343 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,080 Chesterfield quality highest. 344 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:08,000 31% higher than the average of the five other leading brands. 345 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,600 Don't you want to try a cigarette with a record like this? 346 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:12,600 Chesterfield. 347 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,800 With premium quality and best for you. 348 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,240 Try Chesterfield today. 349 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,560 Regular or king size. 350 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:30,040 9.18 p.m. 351 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,080 Officers Gorman and Mayer brought in Henry Borg, alias John Doe. 352 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,000 They found him wandering around on the 900 block down on South Spring Street, the financial 353 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 district. 354 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,200 Wasn't much reason for anybody to be loitering around there at that time of night. 355 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,640 All the businesses in the area were closed. 356 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:44,640 The officers investigated. 357 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,120 When they questioned the suspect, he would not or could not reply. 358 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,360 They took him to central division where the watch commander, Lieutenant Hale, had him 359 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:52,360 shaken down. 360 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:53,880 His wallet was missing. 361 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:55,680 No papers, no identification. 362 00:14:55,680 --> 00:15:00,000 In his pockets, the officers found eight cents, a key ring and several keys. 363 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,320 No cigarettes, no matches. 364 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,080 He was dressed in a good quality worsted suit. 365 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:05,080 Very rumpled. 366 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,120 No tie, no hat. 367 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,980 Gorman and Mayer had rolled his prints at the city hall and sent them to latent prints 368 00:15:09,980 --> 00:15:11,840 for classification. 369 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,960 During this time, no one let him know that we had any idea who he was. 370 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,320 The two officers that had picked him up stood by. 371 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,200 Frank and I walked over to where he was sitting. 372 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:26,120 Do you know who you are? 373 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:27,120 Feel sick? 374 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,120 Been drinking maybe? 375 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,280 Would you have a rough night? 376 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:36,360 Look, if you can talk, mister, I think you better make things a lot simpler here. 377 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,360 We're trying to help you. 378 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:44,120 How about tell us who you are? 379 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,520 Maybe there's something wrong with you, mister, but we don't think so. 380 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:47,520 We want to know who you are. 381 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:48,520 We want you to tell us. 382 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:52,240 If you don't, the only thing we can do is let them book you at city jail as a John Doe. 383 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:53,240 That's the law. 384 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:58,320 Now look, if you're trying to hide something, if you're wanted, we're going to know it 385 00:15:58,320 --> 00:15:59,320 in a few minutes anyhow. 386 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,480 If you want to wait, we'll wait it out with you. 387 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,000 You want us to think you're an amnesia case. 388 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Is that it? 389 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,420 Well, maybe you got a good reason, but it won't work. 390 00:16:07,420 --> 00:16:08,880 I've been in this department a long time. 391 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:10,600 I've seen a lot of phony amnesia cases. 392 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,880 I've only seen one real one and he didn't act like you. 393 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:14,680 You want to know what I think? 394 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,560 I think you're pulling a phony. 395 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:18,560 Come on. 396 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:19,560 How about it, mister? 397 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:20,560 I got it. 398 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:21,560 Missing persons Friday. 399 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:22,560 All right. 400 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:23,560 Yeah. 401 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:24,560 You bet. 402 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:25,560 Thanks very much. 403 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:26,560 Right. 404 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:27,560 Okay. 405 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:28,560 That was latent prints, mister. 406 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:29,560 They got your fingerprints classified. 407 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:30,560 Now we know you're not wanted for anything. 408 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:31,560 Look, we're not going to let you go. 409 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:32,560 We're going to have to get you out of here. 410 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:33,560 We're going to have to get you out of here. 411 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:34,560 We're going to have to get you out of here. 412 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:35,560 We're going to have to get you out of here. 413 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,680 Look, we know you're not a bum. 414 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,380 Your clothes are good and you look like a guy who takes good care of himself. 415 00:16:41,380 --> 00:16:43,160 A man like you doesn't walk around without a wallet. 416 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:44,160 What happened to you? 417 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:45,160 You got a problem? 418 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:46,160 Tell us about it. 419 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:47,160 Maybe we can help you. 420 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:48,340 Now, why don't you tell us who you are? 421 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:49,340 You probably got a wife. 422 00:16:49,340 --> 00:16:51,420 She must be mighty worried about you right now. 423 00:16:51,420 --> 00:16:54,880 All right, book him. 424 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,880 I lost my wallet. 425 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:58,320 How? 426 00:16:58,320 --> 00:16:59,580 I don't know how. 427 00:16:59,580 --> 00:17:00,580 Where? 428 00:17:00,580 --> 00:17:02,800 I don't know where I've been. 429 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:03,800 Now you listen to me, mister. 430 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:04,800 We want to know who you are. 431 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:06,800 We want to know where you've been, we want to know right now. 432 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:08,800 I don't know who I am. 433 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:09,800 Let me see your hands. 434 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:10,800 What? 435 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:11,800 Your hands. 436 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:12,800 Come on, hold them up. 437 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:13,800 Let me see them. 438 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:14,800 That's it. 439 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:16,600 Now I'm going to tell you something about yourself, mister. 440 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:17,800 You work for a living, don't you? 441 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:18,800 Hard work, with your hands. 442 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:19,800 Like a mason, maybe, huh? 443 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,800 Yeah, maybe you're a mason or a hod carrier. 444 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:23,800 You could be a painter, some kind of construction work, I'd say. 445 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,800 Something like a plasterer, for instance, huh? 446 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,800 You couldn't be a plasterer by any chance, could you, mister? 447 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:30,800 I don't know. 448 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:31,800 Okay. 449 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,800 You ready to talk to us now, Henry? 450 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,800 I wasn't trying to fool you. 451 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,800 I was only trying to fool myself. 452 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,800 We've been looking for you since Tuesday, Borg. 453 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,800 Your wife's pretty worried. 454 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,800 I'm not going back. 455 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:48,800 No matter what you do, I'm not going back. 456 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:49,800 We're not going to make you go back. 457 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:50,800 That's up to you, Borg. 458 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,800 All I pay is for, mister, is to find you, to make sure you're okay. 459 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:54,800 None of our business if you go back. 460 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:55,800 I'm not going back. 461 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:57,800 All right, now look, you're pretty upset, Borg. 462 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:58,800 Why don't you tell us about it? 463 00:17:58,800 --> 00:17:59,800 It's crazy. 464 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:01,800 It's crazy what I did. 465 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:03,800 It doesn't make any sense. 466 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,800 You fellas, you wouldn't be interested. 467 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:08,800 Maybe I'll just go. 468 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,800 If it's all right with you, I'll just go. 469 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:11,800 Yeah, it's all right. 470 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,800 It's okay if you want to. 471 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,800 Look, we're going to be around here another hour. 472 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:16,800 We haven't got much to do. 473 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:17,800 Our work's all cleaned up. 474 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:18,800 We're just about ready to go home. 475 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,800 Why don't you stick around and talk to us, huh? 476 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:21,800 We'd kind of like to hear what happened. 477 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:22,800 Yeah. 478 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,800 Just might help to clear things up in your mind if you talked about it. 479 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:28,800 Oh, it's crazy. 480 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,800 I know it's crazy, but I guess I do want to tell somebody about it. 481 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:33,800 How about a cigarette? 482 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:34,800 Will that help? 483 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,800 Yeah. 484 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:38,800 Think I'll give you a match? 485 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,800 I am a man 50 years old. 486 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:47,800 I work hard. 487 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,800 I learned my trade as a boy of 16. 488 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,800 I've been at it ever since. 489 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,800 My wife and me, we got a new car. 490 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,800 We got our own home, almost paid for. 491 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:03,800 A man my age, when he gets home nights, he wants to take it easy. 492 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,800 Read the paper, watch the television. 493 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:10,800 Bought a $400 TV, 21-inch screen. 494 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,800 Now, you want to know what happens when I get home? 495 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,800 She wants to go out. 496 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,800 It don't make any difference how tired I am. 497 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,800 It don't make any difference if I've been working hard all day. 498 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,800 She wants to go out. 499 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:28,800 Do you know what that's like? 500 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,800 Well, it doesn't sound like the reason a man would leave home. 501 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:35,800 I don't mind it once in a while if it was just once in a while, 502 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,800 but she's after me every minute I'm home. 503 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:41,800 Here for the last few years, it's been every night. 504 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,800 I don't know what's come over her. 505 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,800 She didn't used to be like that. 506 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,800 Martha used to be a sensible woman. 507 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,800 Now, she acts silly like a young girl. 508 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:55,800 She's different. 509 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:00,800 Goes in for fancy clothes, all kinds of fancy food, even anchovies. 510 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,800 And I don't like anchovies. 511 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:09,800 Last month, I swear, she even made me take her down to the Ambassador Hotel. 512 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,800 Imagine me at the Ambassador Hotel. 513 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:19,800 All I ever hear from her is, we've just got a few years left to have our fling. 514 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:21,800 I don't want any fling. 515 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,800 I'm a plasterer. That's hard work. 516 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:26,800 I get home, I want to rest. 517 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,800 It isn't like I cared if she goes out. 518 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,800 She goes to the movies almost every day. 519 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:36,800 Goes before noon, she tells me, before the prices go up. 520 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,800 I don't care about the money. 521 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,800 I want her to have a good time, the clothes, the things like that. 522 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,800 I don't care. 523 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,800 I love my wife. 524 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:51,800 I guess you think I'm crazy after what I did, but I love my wife. 525 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,800 I see, sir. 526 00:20:53,800 --> 00:21:00,800 And that dog, that Francine, what kind of a name is that for a dog? 527 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,800 You ought to hear her talk to it like it was a person. 528 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:05,800 How long you had the dog, Borg? 529 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,800 I don't know, two, three years. 530 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,800 The reason I ask, it seems funny, you just decided to leave home last month. 531 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,800 The dog's been around two or three years. 532 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:15,800 The ambassador thing was last month, he said. 533 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,800 Well, what did it? 534 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,800 It was the lessons. 535 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,800 The dancing lessons. 536 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:22,800 What? 537 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,800 But there's this social club up around Pico and Figueroa. 538 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,800 People go there to dance. 539 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,800 People are aged, she says. 540 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:31,800 Only I can't dance. 541 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,800 That's when she gets this idea I've got to take dancing lessons. 542 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,800 Did you ever hear of anything like that? 543 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,800 A man my age has got to take dancing lessons? 544 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:42,800 That's when you left. 545 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,800 That was Sunday afternoon when she got this idea. 546 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,800 She kept picking at me all afternoon. 547 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:49,800 It really got me. 548 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,800 I thought about it all night. 549 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,800 I couldn't sleep. 550 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,800 Monday morning I just didn't go to work. 551 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,800 I got drunk instead. 552 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,800 Got sick too. 553 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,800 Just couldn't think of anything else to do. 554 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,800 I guess you know the rest. 555 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:10,800 I lost my tie, my wallet, lost my hat too. 556 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,800 And they picked me up. 557 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,800 I was just kind of wandering around when they picked me up. 558 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,800 Seems like a shame when a man can't even go home. 559 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,800 You sure you don't want to go home now, Borg? 560 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,800 Maybe if you talk things over with your wife. 561 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,800 No, no, it wouldn't do any good. 562 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,800 Nothing I could say to her would do any good. 563 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:30,800 I can't go home. 564 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,800 Well, it sure has been interesting hearing you talk, Mr. Borg. 565 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,800 It's almost like hearing somebody tell about me, remember, Joe? 566 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:38,800 Yeah. 567 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,800 You had something like this? 568 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:41,800 Had it. 569 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,800 With me it was canasta though. 570 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,800 I hate cards, a waste of time. 571 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,800 I sure thought it was the end for me and Faye. 572 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:48,800 Remember, Joe? 573 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:49,800 But it wasn't? 574 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,800 No, for a while it sure looked like I was going to lose my happy home. 575 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,800 Guess I would have too, but I talked turkey to her. 576 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:56,800 You know what I mean, Borg? 577 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,800 No. What do you mean? 578 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,800 Talk turkey to him, make him understand. 579 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,800 You let a woman push you around, Borg, you're dead. 580 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,800 Well, Mr. Martha... 581 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:05,800 Look, they're all the same. 582 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,800 I sat her right down on the sofa and I said, now look, Faye, 583 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:09,800 and I told her what the scar was. 584 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:10,800 She took it too. 585 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:11,800 It's the only way to do. 586 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,800 You try what I say, Borg, you'll see I'm right. 587 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,800 I can just see, Martha, if I ever tried to put my foot down. 588 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:18,800 That's what I thought. 589 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,800 I was all set to give it up, move in with Joe here, right, Joe? 590 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:22,800 Yeah. 591 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,800 And I figured I might as well at least get a load off my chest. 592 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,800 Once I got started, I lost my temper. 593 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:28,800 You know, it's a funny thing. 594 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,800 Faye's always thought more of me since then. 595 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,800 You ask her, she'll tell you so herself. 596 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,800 Says she respects a man who'll stand up for his own rights. 597 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:36,800 Right, Joe? 598 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,800 Well, I don't know. 599 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,800 With me, I don't think it would work. 600 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:42,800 Sure it can. 601 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:43,800 Borg, you listen to me. 602 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,800 You tell her you're a working man. 603 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,800 Tell her when you get through work, you want to take it easy 604 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:48,800 and nobody's going to run you. 605 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:49,800 Set her straight, Borg. 606 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:50,800 Get tough if you have to. 607 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,800 She won't give you any trouble after that. 608 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,800 I just don't know, Martha. 609 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,800 It won't do any harm to try it. 610 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,800 I'd like to see Martha's face just once 611 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,800 if I even told her to shut up. 612 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,800 I wouldn't want her to have anything handy to throw. 613 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,800 Borg, look, it's 12 10. 614 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:07,800 We've got to be getting home now. 615 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:08,800 You take my advice. 616 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:09,800 You go home too. 617 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:10,800 Have a talk with her. 618 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:11,800 See if you can't work it out. 619 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:12,800 No. 620 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:13,800 No, Sergeant. 621 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,800 Thanks a lot, but I can't go home. 622 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,800 Well, like I told you, it's none of our business, 623 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,800 but I think you ought to try it. 624 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:21,800 Well, here. 625 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:22,800 Well, look, you're going to need car fare. 626 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:23,800 Here's a dollar. 627 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:24,800 You take this and go on home. 628 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:25,800 That'll get you there. 629 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,800 Well, OK. 630 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:30,800 You'll get this back, Sergeant. 631 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,800 I'll pay it back to you. 632 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,800 I guess maybe you're right. 633 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,800 Can't hurt anything to try it. 634 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,800 Boats of stuff. 635 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,800 Thank you a lot. 636 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,800 I didn't mean to put you fellas out this way. 637 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:43,800 Good luck to you, Borg. 638 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:44,800 You'll see. 639 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:45,800 It'll work. 640 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,800 Maybe it'll work. 641 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:48,800 Well. 642 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:49,800 Well. 643 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,800 But I don't know. 644 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,800 What the... 645 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:58,800 I'll get out of cancellation, Joe. 646 00:24:58,800 --> 00:24:59,800 That should wrap it up, huh? 647 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:00,800 Yeah. 648 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:01,800 What time did you say it was? 649 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:02,800 It's 1210. 650 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:03,800 Yeah. 651 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:04,800 Well, Joe, I better make a phone call first. 652 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:05,800 This time of night? 653 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:06,800 Why? 654 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:07,800 What's the matter? 655 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:14,800 I just remembered I told Fay I'd call her. 656 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:15,800 Friday, July 28. 657 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,800 A month had passed since Henry Borg 658 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,800 had left our office to go home. 659 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,800 We'd heard nothing further from him or his wife. 660 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,800 We assumed that they had reconciled their problems. 661 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:25,800 610 p.m. 662 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,800 Officers? 663 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,800 Oh, hello there, Borg. 664 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:30,800 Nice to see you again. 665 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:31,800 Hi, Borg. 666 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,800 I was afraid maybe you fellas wouldn't remember me. 667 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:34,800 It's been a while. 668 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,800 I tried to get out and see you before this. 669 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:37,800 Well, fine. 670 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:38,800 How are things going? 671 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:39,800 Did it work out, like I said? 672 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,800 I brought you something, Sergeant. 673 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,800 Some cigarettes for both of you. 674 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:44,800 Like you to have them. 675 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,800 I hope it's the right brand. 676 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:48,800 Well, yes, sir, that's the right brand, all right, 677 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:49,800 but you don't owe us anything. 678 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:50,800 I want you to have them. 679 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:51,800 That's all right, sir. 680 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:52,800 You keep them. 681 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:53,800 All right. 682 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,800 Well, anyway, here's that dollar, 683 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:57,800 the one you loaned me. 684 00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,800 Okay, Borg, thanks very much. 685 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,800 I sure owe you fellas a lot, and I really mean it. 686 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,800 My wife and I, we sure appreciate what you fellas did for us. 687 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:06,800 Oh, is that clock right? 688 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:07,800 Yes, sir. 689 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,800 Uh-oh, got to rush. 690 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:10,800 Got an appointment. 691 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:11,800 Be late if I don't hurry. 692 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:12,800 Appointment? 693 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:13,800 Yeah. 694 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,800 Got to get over to Arthur Murray's. 695 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,800 The story you have just heard is true. 696 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,800 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 697 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,800 On July 31st, a meeting was held in the office of the captain of homicide. 698 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,800 In a moment, the results of that meeting. 699 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,800 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 700 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,800 Thank you, George Fenomen. 701 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,800 Friends, we hope you've been listening to Dragnet regularly, 702 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,800 and we hope you've tried our Chesterfields. 703 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,800 If you haven't tried them yet, then tomorrow's your day. 704 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,800 Get a carton, regular or king size. 705 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,800 It only takes one carton at Chesterfields 706 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,800 to show you why Chesterfield is best for you. 707 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,800 Believe me, they're much milder with a wonderful taste. 708 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,800 America's best cigarette buy. 709 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:12,800 Chesterfield. 710 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,800 Since the subject, Henry George Borg, had committed no crime, 711 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:39,800 he was not held and the case was officially marked closed. 712 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,800 You have just heard Dragnet, 713 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,800 a series of authentic cases from official files. 714 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,800 Technical advice comes from the office of Chief of Police, 715 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,800 W.H. 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