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You're assigned to auto theft detail. 7 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Get a call from the owner of a used car lot. 8 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 He tells you he thinks he bought a stolen car. 9 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:59,000 Your job, check it out. 10 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Smokers by the thousands are now changing to Chesterfield. 11 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:09,000 The only cigarette ever to give you one, proof of low nicotine, highest quality. 12 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Two, this proven record with smokers. 13 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:19,000 No adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield. 14 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Chesterfield, regular or king size, low in nicotine, highest in quality, best for you. 15 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Dragnet, the documentary drama of an actual crime. 16 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 17 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:48,000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 18 00:01:48,000 --> 00:02:00,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 19 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 It was Monday, May 4th. It was warm in Los Angeles. 20 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 We were working the day watch out of auto theft detail. 21 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Nelson. My name is Friday. 22 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:15,000 I was on my way into the office and it was 7.56 a.m. when I got to room 40. Auto theft. 23 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Is that you, Joe? Yeah. 24 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Hi. When did you get in? 25 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Well, about 7.30. I woke up at 5. I couldn't get back to sleep. 26 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 What's the matter? Oh, I'm sorry, Joe. 27 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 I don't think I could lift a pencil to make out a report today. 28 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Is that right? What happened? Baseball. 29 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Baseball? Yeah. I tell you something, Joe. I found it out yesterday. 30 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Ain't no Chuck Stevens. Is that right? 31 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Yeah. Yesterday morning I got up early. I went to do a little work in the garden. 32 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 It was a beautiful day, you know. Felt real great. 33 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 I got out in the backyard. I take it easy, listen to the ball game, you know. Easy day. 34 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Yeah. And about 10, that guy next door, Neil Radcliffe came over. 35 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 That's the fellow in the fire department, isn't it? 36 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 No, Joe. That's Bud Hendricks in the fire department. Neil works for an insurance company. 37 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Oh, yeah. Yeah. 38 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Well, Neil's company is going to sponsor a team in the Little League. 39 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 You know, kids baseball team. 40 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 I think I read something about that in the papers, didn't I? 41 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Yeah. I suppose you did. They're pretty good, too. 42 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Well, Neil's got sort of a tryout yesterday lined up for his team. 43 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Practice, you know. And he wanted me to umpire. 44 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Do you know anything about being an umpire? 45 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Well, Joe, sure I do. 46 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 And besides, Neil figures since I'm a policeman, the kids will believe me. 47 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 He had a little trouble with himself last week. 48 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,000 I always thought you had to go to some sort of a school to be an umpire. 49 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Well, Joe, you do for the regular leagues, but this was just a practice game. 50 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Neil's team and some kids in the neighborhood. Yeah. 51 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 So I told him, sure, I'd do it. I changed my clothes, went out the park with them. 52 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 You know, I thought it might be good public relations for the police department. 53 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 You know what they tell us. 54 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Being an umpire would be good public relations. 55 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Well, Joe, the bulletin say get out, get around the neighborhood, 56 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 know your friends and their kids. All right, go ahead. 57 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Sure, those kids are on the wrong league. 58 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 What do you mean? They're murderers. 59 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 How's that? The way they play the game. 60 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Baseball. I never saw such ball. Is that a fact? 61 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Yeah. I figured, you know, softball, underhands, kids pitching, be easy to call. 62 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 So it's regulation hardball. 63 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Just like that. Bases are a little closer, but it's just like the big leagues 64 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 and the way those kids throw the ball. 65 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,000 A couple of times there, I thought they were just kid not to hear their stump. 66 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Never see the ball. Thought the kid catch it, would just hit in his hand, his glove, you know. 67 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 And all of a sudden he'd turn around and there'd be right in his mitt. 68 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Well, how'd you get so sore if you just umpired the game, you stood in one place, didn't you? 69 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,000 While I was up in the game, yeah, but this team of Neil's was skunking the other kids 70 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 so bad that we had a little reorganization. 71 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 What do you mean reorganization? 72 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Well, the end of the second inning, the score was 14 to 2 73 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 and I thought that was a little unfair to the neighborhood kids. 74 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Being the umpire, you certainly had the right to think it was unfair. 75 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Well, I got out and I told them what I thought, so I decided to play first base for them. 76 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 You what? 77 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,000 I played first base for them. 78 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,000 With all those kids? 79 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Sure. Fun. I played five straight innings. 80 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000 That's what I was just going to ask you. 81 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Yeah. Finally had to quit. Could hardly move. 82 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Didn't seem to make any difference where I was, Joe. Those kids weren't there. They just ran me ragged. 83 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Yeah, well, maybe you better take it a little easy today. Would you like the day off? 84 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 No, not the day off, Joe, but you know, I'll take it easy. 85 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Say, I rubbed liniment on my back all night. All over my arms and legs, man. I'm sore. 86 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 It even hurt to get dressed this morning. 87 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 What was the final score, anyway? 88 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Well, at the end of the second inning, it was 14 to 2 in favor of the Little Saints. 89 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:22,000 You told me all that. 14 to 2. You got in the game and played. What did it end up with? 90 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 You know, I didn't even get one hit. 91 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 You didn't? 92 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 No. Three times a bat didn't even get a hit. 93 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Yeah, well, that's too bad. What was the final score of the game? 94 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Did you hear me? 95 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 The final score of the game? 96 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Not the original score, but after you played five innings, what was the score, the total? 97 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 I was just curious to know of you. 98 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Yeah. 46 to 12. When I left. That was at the end of the seventh. The Little Saints were up when I left. 99 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 That was the other team's favorite. The team you weren't playing on. 100 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000 No, don't rub it in. The other team had run through their batting lineup twice. 101 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 The way they were going, I think they were going to have to call the game in the count of darkness. 102 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 They'd been up for over an hour. Only one out. 103 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,000 They sound pretty good. 104 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 They may sound pretty good to you with their murders. 105 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000 You know, Joe, those kids grew up. There isn't going to be a ball club in the country that's going to have a chance against them. 106 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,000 I never saw anything like it. 107 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 I'm sorry I missed being there to see you play. 108 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,000 I bet you are. It was pretty bad, Joe, really. 109 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Well, you'd never know it. 110 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Had me marked down for 10 errors when I left. 111 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Only 10. 112 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,000 That was in five innings. 113 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 I guess you've got to be pretty bad to run up a score like that. 114 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Oh, I wouldn't say that. 115 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 I was, Joe, though. I was pretty bad. 116 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 I get it. 117 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Auto Theft Friday. 118 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Yes, sir. 119 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Sure, we'll be right out. 120 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Can you give me that name again, please? 121 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Uh-huh, and that address. 122 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Fine. No, right away. 123 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Yes, sir. Friday. 124 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 That's right. Right. Bye. 125 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 What do you got? 126 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Well, I don't think you're going to get much rest today. There's a used car dealer out on Washington Boulevard. 127 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Yeah? 128 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 He thinks he bought a stolen car. 129 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,000 8.15 a.m. We left the office and we drove out to the McGowan Car Company. 130 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 It was a large lot on Washington Boulevard. 131 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Along the front of the place, there was a line of late model cars, each advertised as today's special. 132 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,000 We walked through the aisles of automobiles to the office in a trailer at the back of the lot. 133 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 There was nobody around, so we knocked on the door and waited. 134 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Well, he said he'd be here, didn't he? 135 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Yeah, I told him we'd be right out. 136 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Maybe he's gone out to breakfast. 137 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Yeah? 138 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Mr. McGowan? 139 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,000 That's right. 140 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Police officer, sir. You called our office. My name's Friday. 141 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Oh, yeah. Come on in. 142 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Thank you. 143 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Come on in the back. Just having a cup of coffee. 144 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Fix you guys up with one? 145 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,000 No, sir. Not for me. 146 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Not you? 147 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Yes, sir. Sure. I'll have a cup with you. 148 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Good. Go on back and sit down. I'll bring it right back. 149 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Thank you. 150 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Say, uh, get your fellas' names. 151 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 My name's Frank Smith. This is my partner, Sergeant Friday. 152 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Oh, glad to meet you. I talked to you on the phone, didn't I, Mr. Friday? 153 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Yes, sir. That's right. 154 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Thought so. Never forget a name. Never do. 155 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Here's your coffee. 156 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Thanks. 157 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,000 I'm Jesse McGowan. 158 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Guys on the row are all the time kidding me about my first name. 159 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Jesse. You get it? 160 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 No, sir. I don't believe it. 161 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Jesse. Jesse James. 162 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Oh, yeah. Sure. 163 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Well, anyway, I wanted to tell you about when this guy came in Saturday night. 164 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Last Saturday? 165 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Yeah, you see, we stay open till 10 on Saturday night. 166 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 This guy must have come in about 9. 167 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Jack went over to take care of him, 168 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,000 but the fellas said he wanted to see the manager, so Jack brought him back here. 169 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 I see. 170 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Said he had a car to sell. A brand new Merc. Beautiful car. 171 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Say, I got a box of donuts here if you'd like one. 172 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 No, thanks. 173 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 I think I'll have one. 174 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Didn't get a chance to eat this morning. Got to worrying about this deal. 175 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Mm-hmm. 176 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Got some of these new kind with the cinnamon on top. 177 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Hmm. Should be good. 178 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Well, I told this guy we'd like to buy the car, but we were kind of overstocked on Mercs. 179 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Yeah? 180 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 He said he'd just come out from the East and bought the car when he got here. 181 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Said right after he paid for it, he lost his job and had to get some money out of it. 182 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Uh-huh. 183 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000 I asked him if he'd like to make a trade, you know, transportation car and money to boot. 184 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Offered him a good deal on an ash rambler. Just got a couple of 51s in. 185 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Yeah, I see. 186 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 He said he wanted to sell the car outright. 187 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Said he was going to leave town. He wanted to get his money out of the car. 188 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,000 I asked him how much he wanted for it. 189 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Mm-hmm. 190 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,000 He told me he'd have to let it go for 2,200 bucks. 191 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 It's about 800, I don't know what he must have paid for it. 192 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Mm-hmm. 193 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Right away, I figured there was something wrong, so I had the mechanic look it over. 194 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Only had 3,200 miles on it. Hardly broke in. Beautiful. 195 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Radio, heater, white sidewalls, continental hookup, real beaut. 196 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,000 What did your mechanic say about it? 197 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Said it was in perfect shape. So I asked the guy who the legal owner was. 198 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,000 What'd he say? 199 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:32,000 He said he was. He paid cash for it, had the pink slip made out to him all right. 200 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 He had the identification to go with it. 201 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,000 You bought the car then, did you? 202 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Yeah, sure looked like a good deal. 203 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,000 I gave him a certified check made out to cash for the amount. 204 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 He gave me the keys. That was the last I saw of him. 205 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Well, aside from the fact that it's an unusual deal, why do you think there's something wrong with it? 206 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Well, for the first thing, the price he wanted for the car was too low. 207 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,000 I had the feeling that if I'd given him any trouble on it, he'd have come down on it. 208 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Do you have the pink slip here? 209 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Oh, yeah, I brought it with me this morning. I got it here in my wallet. 210 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Any other reason you think the deal might be phony? 211 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 It's hard to put it into words, Sergeant. Nothing I can point out to you. 212 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Just a feeling. You stay in this business very long, you kind of get to know people. 213 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Mm-hmm. 214 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Here. Here it is. 215 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Thank you. 216 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Yeah, there's been a lot of gags about used car salesmen, about how we're always after somebody. 217 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Most of the time, though, it's the other way around. 218 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Is that right? 219 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Yeah, the bums were put out of the business right after the war. 220 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 The public wouldn't stand for the way they did business. 221 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 You gotta rely on people coming back if you're gonna come out in the long run. 222 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 I guess it's like almost any other kind of business. 223 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Yeah, I suppose so. 224 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,000 What kind of identification did the man have to prove he was this, uh, was it a Lewis Carter? 225 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Yeah. Well, to tell you the truth, Sergeant, I didn't ask for any. 226 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 He had the pink slip, price he was asking was right, we checked the block and body number. 227 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 There's a one listed on the slip, no reason to believe he didn't own the car. 228 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,000 How about it, Joe? 229 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Well, looks like it's one of the slips from DMV in San Diego. 230 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,000 You mean there is something wrong? 231 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,000 What if I use your phone, please? 232 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,000 Sure, you bet. It's right there, help yourself. 233 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Thank you. 234 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Can I dial a Michigan number on this? 235 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Yeah. 236 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,000 All right. 237 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,000 2507, please. 238 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Yeah, auto thing. 239 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Hi, this is Joe Friday. 240 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Yeah. 241 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Say we got a pink slip out here. 242 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Looks like it's one of those that were stolen from DMV down south. 243 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 No, down south, San Diego? 244 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 You got the list there? 245 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Yeah, I'll wait. 246 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 You mean somebody stole a pink slip from the department? 247 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Yeah, sure, as near as we can figure it, about two dozen of them. 248 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 I've never heard of that. 249 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Well, this is the first one of them. 250 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Hello? 251 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Yeah, I'm Joe. 252 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Hello. 253 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Hello. 254 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Hello. 255 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Hello. 256 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Hello. 257 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Hello. 258 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Yeah, all right. 259 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Made out to a Louis Franklin Carter. 260 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,000 No, no. 261 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 C, C Charlie, yeah. 262 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:37,000 A, R, D dog, yeah. 263 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,000 E, R, Carter, yeah. 264 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Registration number is 660- 265 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,000 No, two sixes. 266 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,000 660- 267 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Two more sixes. 268 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,000 667. 269 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 660-667, that's right. 270 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Address? 271 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 4287 Ingram Street, Los Angeles. 272 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000 LA-5. 273 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Engine number 58-5509. 274 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:03,000 All right, I'm sorry. 275 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,000 58-5509-25. 276 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,000 That's it. 277 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Mercury-8. 278 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Uh-huh. 279 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Yeah, well, that's what we figured. 280 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,000 You got anything on the car? 281 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Mm-hmm. 282 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000 No, it was sold Saturday night. 283 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,000 That's right. 284 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Yeah, there should be something out on it. 285 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Okay, right. 286 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Thank you. 287 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 How about it, the car stolen? 288 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,000 No report yet, sir. 289 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,000 I gotta call the bank. 290 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 You said you gave the man a certified check. 291 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Yeah, I gotta stop payment on it. 292 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,000 It ain't gonna be easy either. 293 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,000 He can cash it any place. 294 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Sure looks like I'm on $2,200. 295 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Well, it isn't likely he's been able to cash it by this time, sir. 296 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Maybe not, but I'll give long odds that he's standing in line when the door's open. 297 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 I better give him a call. 298 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Hope somebody's there. 299 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,000 It's just 825. 300 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Yeah, probably a little early. 301 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Eh? 302 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Eh, doesn't sound like anybody's there yet. 303 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Well, I keep trying. 304 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,000 I gotta get that check. 305 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,000 See what I mean? 306 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,000 What's that? 307 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 About the jokes. 308 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 We're the ones always trying to get away with a fast deal. 309 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,000 No such thing. 310 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Take this one, for instance. 311 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Yeah? 312 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,000 I bought the car in Goodfellow. 313 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Paid cash for it. 314 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Gave the guy just what he asked for. 315 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Well, not quite, sir. 316 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Huh? 317 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,000 You'll get a little more than that. 318 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,000 We got a complete description of the suspect, Lewis Carter. 319 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,000 We put out a local and an APB on him, 320 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,000 and then we asked Dean Bergman to come out and go over the car for fingerprints. 321 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 The owner of the used car lot, Jesse McGowan, 322 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 told us that the car had been washed and cleaned thoroughly, 323 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,000 but he didn't think we'd be able to come up with any fingerprints. 324 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,000 9 a.m. 325 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 We put in a call to the bank and asked them to stop payment on the check 326 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,000 and to notify their branch offices to do the same. 327 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 McGowan supplied the number of the check, 328 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 and the information was gotten out to the other banks 329 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000 and check cashing agencies in the area. 330 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Bergman finished checking the car, 331 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000 and he told us that the only print that he'd been able to find 332 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000 was a partial thumbprint under the dashboard. 333 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 We rolled the prints of the man who'd washed the car, 334 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 along with those of McGowan, 335 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,000 and the other people on the lot who'd come in contact with the automobile. 336 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 None of theirs matched. 337 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,000 We checked with the office and told them 338 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,000 that we'd check out the address listed on the pink slip. 339 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,000 9 37 a.m. 340 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 We pulled up in front of 4287 Ingram Street. 341 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,000 It was a large two-story place that had been converted into a rooming house. 342 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 There were several cars parked in the front yard. 343 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,000 We went up to the front door and rang the bell. 344 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 RINGING 345 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Want to try it again? 346 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Yeah. 347 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 RINGING 348 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,000 I didn't know there were any of those around anymore. 349 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Don't see many of them nowadays. 350 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,000 What? 351 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000 That kind of doorbell. 352 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Oh, yeah. 353 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Yeah? 354 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 I'd like to see Lewis Carter. 355 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 I'm him. What do you want? 356 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Police officers. We'd like to talk to you. 357 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Cops? What do you want with me? 358 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Might be better if we talked inside. 359 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Huh? 360 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Inside. 361 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Oh, yeah, yeah. Come on in. 362 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 I just got up. 363 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Do one of you guys got a cigarette? 364 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Yeah. Here you are. 365 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Thanks. 366 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,000 How about a match? 367 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Here. 368 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Thanks. 369 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Well, what, do you want to see me about something wrong? 370 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 You own a 53 Mercury convertible? 371 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Yeah. Why? 372 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,000 You know where it is? 373 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,000 It should be out in front. Why? 374 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,000 You leave the keys in your car when you park it? 375 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Once in a while I forget. Yeah. 376 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Look, I don't know if it's there now, though. 377 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Your car's been stolen, Mr. Carter. 378 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Huh? 379 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Your car's been stolen. 380 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Wait a minute. 381 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Yeah, you're right. 382 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Well, where is it? 383 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Yeah, you got it packed for me? 384 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Is it in the police garage? 385 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,000 No, sir. I'm afraid it's not that easy. 386 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 It was sold Saturday night. 387 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Sold? Who, too? 388 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,000 A used car dealer out in Washington. 389 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Who owns the car, sir? 390 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Well, I do. 391 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Do you have the pink slip on it? 392 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 No, I didn't get it back from the Department of Motor Vehicles yet. 393 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Why? 394 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Well, the man that sold the car had the pink slip with him. 395 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Well, I don't care if he did have it. 396 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000 The car doesn't belong to him. 397 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 He had no right to sell it. 398 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 When's the last time you saw your car? 399 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,000 I guess it was Saturday afternoon. 400 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 I came home early. 401 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,000 I parked it out in front. 402 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Yeah, Saturday afternoon. 403 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 How is it you didn't know the car was taken? 404 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Officer, you saw the front of this place. 405 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Must be half a dozen cars parked out there. 406 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,000 There are rumors. They use a yard. 407 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000 You didn't use the car over the weekend, then. 408 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Is that it? 409 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Oh, no, I didn't. 410 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 I got home Saturday afternoon, like I told you. 411 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,000 I spent the whole weekend doing some painting in one of the upstairs rooms. 412 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,000 It's been vacant a long time. 413 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 I figure maybe if I put a little paint on it, I might be able to rent it. 414 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 You see, my wife used to take care of the place. 415 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,000 She and I had some trouble. 416 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 She went back each to see her mother. 417 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Seems like the house went to pot after she left. 418 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000 We're really going to have trouble when she comes back and sees this mess. 419 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 How many people do you have living here? 420 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Nine. 421 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 I'd like to have you take a look at this description and see if any of them fit it. 422 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,000 You figure it might be one of them? 423 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Well, we'd like you to check the description if you would. 424 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 I'm pretty sure it isn't one of them. None of them match this. 425 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,000 What if you can give us their names? 426 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,000 Oh, sure I can. 427 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Why do you have to have them? 428 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Just for a team. 429 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Oh, yeah. 430 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Well, I can give them to you, but I'm sure they aren't mixed up in it. 431 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 The thing I can't figure is how he got the pink slip. 432 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,000 It was stolen, sir. 433 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,000 From the state? 434 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Yes, sir. 435 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Last month, someone broke into their offices in San Diego and stole two dozen registration slips. 436 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,000 How much did you get for the car? 437 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:58,000 $2,200. 438 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000 $2,200? A thing cost me over $3,000. 439 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Guy must be a jerk, huh? 440 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 I don't know. It didn't cost him anything. 441 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,000 10.15 a.m. We went by the used car lot and picked up the owner. 442 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,000 We took him down to the city hall and had him check the mug books. 443 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:21,000 After going through the pictures, he was unable to give us an identification of the man who'd sold him the stolen automobile. 444 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,000 We checked the names of the people who lived at Lewis Carter's house. 445 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:30,000 One of them had a record of arrest on charges of violation of Section 4127A of the Los Angeles Municipal Code. 446 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,000 He'd served a short term in the city jail and then he'd been released. 447 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,000 His physical description, however, did not match that of the suspect we were looking for. 448 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:43,000 11.35 a.m. We had the used car dealer taken back to his lot and Frank and I checked into the office. 449 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 About the only thing we got working for us is the check. 450 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Yeah. I hope they get the word out in time. 451 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 He gets his hands on that money and he can go a long way. 452 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000 I get it. 453 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 How about that Friday? Yes, sir. 454 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Yes, sir, we did. 455 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Uh-huh. Right. 456 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 That's right. Be there as soon as we can make it. 457 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Right. Bye. 458 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Well, he isn't going far. 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I'd like to help you out, but there's nothing I can do. 488 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,000 Frank, you want to get in touch with McCowan and have him come over? 489 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Yeah, right away. 490 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Do you want to tell me again where you got that check? 491 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 It was against the law to have a check. 492 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,000 I'd like to know where you got this one. 493 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,000 I want it. 494 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,000 Where? 495 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,000 I don't know what this is all about. I'm not about to get any of my friends in trouble by naming them. 496 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 I got nothing to do with this, let alone my pals. 497 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 You'll save yourself a lot more trouble if you'll tell us where you got the check. 498 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,000 All right, I want it in a poker game. 499 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Pretty high stakes. 500 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,000 We gave up kid games. 501 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Where'd you win it from? 502 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 I told you, I wasn't going to name any names. 503 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 We're going to get them sooner or later, you know that. 504 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Not for me, Yarn. 505 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 You build it any way you want. 506 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,000 That's the way I figure it. 507 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,000 When was this poker game? 508 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Saturday night. I'm sorry, there's another one I can't answer. 509 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,000 You been in San Diego lately? 510 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Not for a couple of months. 511 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,000 When's the last time you were down here? 512 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,000 I don't remember right off. 513 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,000 It'll help if you can. 514 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,000 What do you mean help me? I got no trouble. 515 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000 You guys make a pinch while I'm trying to cash a check. 516 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000 I won the money, it was a payment for a debt. 517 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,000 All I was trying to do is get my money. There's nothing wrong with that. 518 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 There's nothing wrong? Why don't you tell us who you won the money from? 519 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 And have you guys throw a beef at them? Nothing doing. 520 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,000 I read where you fellas spend your time breaking up a game of old maid. 521 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000 That's a little more serious than that, isn't it? 522 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Well, maybe to you. I got no problem. All I got to do is sit tight. 523 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,000 You keep believing that, mister. You keep acting like this and you'll see what a problem you really got here. 524 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 McGowan's on his way over, Joe. 525 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Who's McGowan? 526 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 He's the man who wrote the check you tried to cash. 527 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Waste of time, you don't know me. 528 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000 We'll let him decide then. 529 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Go ahead, have your fun. 530 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Couple of questions we'd like to ask you. 531 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Go ahead, I got nothing more important to do. 532 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Check your name through our identification bureau, came up with some mighty interesting things. 533 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Am I right? Yeah. 534 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Let me see, Frank. Here. 535 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,000 True name Harold Drake, is that right? Yeah. 536 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Your address is listed as 2917 Ledgewood Drive, is that right? Yep. 537 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 You told us you'd never been arrested. I haven't. 538 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,000 Let's take a look at the picture. 539 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 You got the room rigged for moving? 540 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 I'm gonna tell you something, Drake. You mark it down, you remember it. 541 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,000 The sooner you stop playing footsie with us, the better it's gonna be for you, understand? 542 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,000 When do you bring out the rubber hose? 543 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000 That went out with the story you're trying to hand us. 544 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,000 Here's the picture. 545 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Yeah, the guy looks a lot like me. 546 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 If you didn't know any better, you might think we were twins. 547 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Yeah, if you didn't know better. But we do, huh? 548 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Oh, come off it, Drake. Will you? We got you nailed and you know it. 549 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 You want to sit there and dream up these fairy tales, that's up to you. 550 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000 But we got a job to do. We know you'll stand for this and so do you. 551 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Now why don't you save us both a lot of trouble and cop out? 552 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,000 Look, I'd like to do it, Sergeant. No lie, I really would. 553 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,000 But I can't cop out to something I had nothing to do with. 554 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,000 All right. Start all over again. 555 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Where did you get the check? 556 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 A guy gave it to me to pay off a polka debt. 557 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 You gonna tell us who the guy is? No. 558 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,000 I think it's time to stop playing games. Now let's get down to what we got on the books here. 559 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,000 You claim you never been arrested. We got a package on here that shows three arrests and two convictions. 560 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000 And a guy that looks like me. 561 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Let's go down to the hall and roll your prints. That'll clean it up. 562 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,000 I'm for that. Now go on, tell me the rest of the fairy tale. 563 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 I'll lay it out for you in one syllable words. 564 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,000 That'll make it easy for you. 565 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,000 You broke into the offices of DMV down in San Diego on February 28th. 566 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Yeah, day goes nice in February. Somebody's gonna write a song about it sometime. 567 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000 You stole 26 pink slips ready for mailing to the owners. 568 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 You must mean somebody else. 569 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,000 That smile's gonna come off your face, Drake, when McGowan walks in here. 570 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Look, I don't know who Mr. McGowan is, but I'll be happy to meet him. 571 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Now tell me, what did I do after I stole the pink slips? 572 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 You got the address of Lewis Carter. 573 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 And you went to his home on Saturday night and you stole his car. 574 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 You drove it down to McGowan's used car lot. 575 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,000 With a pink slip, you sold it to him for 22 hundred bucks. 576 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 I was busy that night, wasn't I? 577 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 What are you trying to prove with all this talk, Drake? 578 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000 You trying to make it rough on yourself? Is that what you want? 579 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,000 I'm not trying to do anything. 580 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,000 All I'm doing is trying to go along with you guys. 581 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 I'll check and see if McGowan's here. 582 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000 Can I have one of those? 583 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Yeah, help yourself. 584 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,000 Thanks. 585 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 You know, I wouldn't have your job for all the money in the world. 586 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,000 You're right. 587 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 That's a lousy way to live. 588 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Going around trying to get people to cop out the things they didn't do. 589 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,000 That's the way it looks to you, doesn't it? 590 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 From anywhere I sit, it turns up just that way. 591 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,000 A couple of things wrong. 592 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,000 What? 593 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000 I've heard for one thing. 594 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,000 If you can prove it's mine. 595 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 All we got to do is walk down the hall and you've had it. 596 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 As soon as we check the prints, we've turned the key. 597 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 Sounds good the way you tell it. 598 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 It's going to sound better the way the judge says it, isn't it? 599 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,000 I was writing for you. 600 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,000 You were arrested in 1939 for auto theft. 601 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,000 You served three years. 602 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Arrested in 1945, suspicion of grand theft auto. 603 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Dismissed. 604 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,000 There, you see. 605 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000 They knew they had the wrong guy. 606 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Nobody's told us. 607 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 Another arrest in 1946, grand theft auto. 608 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Served four years. 609 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Case of mistaken identity. 610 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Is that what happened both times? 611 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Some people got very bad eyes. 612 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000 You take this fellow McGowan you're bringing in here. 613 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Wouldn't be at all surprised if he had bad eyes. 614 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 You know, there's one way to get yourself out of this. 615 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 And that's to tell us where you got that check. 616 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 I don't know how to do it any more simple than I have, Sergeant. 617 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,000 I want it playing poker. 618 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 And I'm not going to tell you who I want it from. 619 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,000 It wouldn't do any good. 620 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000 I don't know who's been giving you advice, mister. 621 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 But you are playing it very smart. 622 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 Really? 623 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,000 The guy who dreamed up this routine probably spent the next 20 years at Q. 624 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,000 As a matter of fact, he's still walking around. 625 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,000 All right, mister. 626 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 Let's go down the hall and check your prints. 627 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Come on in, Mr. McGowan. 628 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,000 That's a man. 629 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000 You sure about that? 630 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Swear to it in court. 631 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 What are you trying to do? Cause me a lot of trouble? 632 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,000 I haven't done anything and you know it. 633 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Now you come in here and you say that's a man. 634 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,000 You know what they can do to me? 635 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,000 All right, Drake, that's enough of that. 636 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Let's go, Mr. McGowan. 637 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Swear to it in court. 638 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000 That's the man who sold me the car. 639 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,000 How about it, Drake? 640 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Nothing more, huh? 641 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Yeah. 642 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,000 We'll roll your prints and check them against the record. 643 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000 I got a couple of parcels from San Diego. 644 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,000 If yours match up, and I think they will, you've had it. 645 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,000 No way out, huh? 646 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,000 Not that I can see. 647 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Oh, what happens, uh... 648 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000 Now, this is just a wild question for the sake of argument. 649 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,000 What happens if I cop out, plead guilty? 650 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000 We got nothing to say about that. 651 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,000 You can't help out, huh? 652 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,000 No, sir. 653 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 Save the taxpayers a lot of money, no trial. 654 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000 I told you we got nothing to say about that. 655 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 Not much to gain then by copping out, huh? 656 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 We got your maid if you do or you don't. 657 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Maybe make it a little easier if there's no jury trial. 658 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,000 That's up to the judge. 659 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,000 Nothing you can do? 660 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Gonna go into the book that way. 661 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Mm-hmm. 662 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Got another cigarette? 663 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000 They're right there. Help yourself. 664 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Thanks. 665 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000 All right, let's go. 666 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,000 Might as well get the prints and finish this thing up. 667 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Come on, Drake, get up. 668 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,000 No hurry, let me finish the cigarette. 669 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Come on, we got other things to do. 670 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Well, so have I. 671 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,000 What? 672 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:29,000 One to ten years. 673 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,000 The story you have just heard is true. 674 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 675 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,000 On September 15th, trial was held in Department 98, 676 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,000 Superior Court of the State of California, 677 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 678 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 679 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 680 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Thank you, George Fenomen. 681 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,000 Well, this is brief, but I think very much to the point. 682 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Chesterfield is the only cigarette that gives you proof 683 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,000 of low nicotine, highest quality. 684 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,000 That's what I want in my cigarette, 685 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000 and that's what you should look for in yours. 686 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Chesterfield, regular or king size, best for you. 687 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000 Try them. 688 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Harold Alex Drake was tried and convicted 689 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000 of grand theft auto three counts 690 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,000 and was sentenced as prescribed by law. 691 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000 Grand theft auto is punishable by imprisonment 692 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,000 in the state penitentiary for a period of from one to ten years. 693 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000 A hold was placed on the suspect by San Diego County 694 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:46,000 for prosecution on the burglary charge. 695 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,000 You have just heard Dragnet, 696 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,000 a series of authentic cases from official files. 697 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 698 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000 W.H. 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