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You're assigned to auto theft detail. 00:47.000 --> 00:49.000 Get a call from the owner of a used car lot. 00:49.000 --> 00:52.000 He tells you he thinks he bought a stolen car. 00:52.000 --> 00:59.000 Your job, check it out. 00:59.000 --> 01:03.000 Smokers by the thousands are now changing to Chesterfield. 01:03.000 --> 01:09.000 The only cigarette ever to give you one, proof of low nicotine, highest quality. 01:09.000 --> 01:13.000 Two, this proven record with smokers. 01:13.000 --> 01:19.000 No adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield. 01:19.000 --> 01:34.000 Chesterfield, regular or king size, low in nicotine, highest in quality, best for you. 01:34.000 --> 01:38.000 Dragnet, the documentary drama of an actual crime. 01:38.000 --> 01:42.000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 01:42.000 --> 01:48.000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 01:48.000 --> 02:00.000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 It was Monday, May 4th. It was warm in Los Angeles. 02:02.000 --> 02:04.000 We were working the day watch out of auto theft detail. 02:04.000 --> 02:08.000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Nelson. My name is Friday. 02:08.000 --> 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. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 Is that you, Joe? Yeah. 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 Hi. When did you get in? 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 Well, about 7.30. I woke up at 5. I couldn't get back to sleep. 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 What's the matter? Oh, I'm sorry, Joe. 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 I don't think I could lift a pencil to make out a report today. 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 Is that right? What happened? Baseball. 02:27.000 --> 02:30.000 Baseball? Yeah. I tell you something, Joe. I found it out yesterday. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 Ain't no Chuck Stevens. Is that right? 02:32.000 --> 02:35.000 Yeah. Yesterday morning I got up early. I went to do a little work in the garden. 02:35.000 --> 02:38.000 It was a beautiful day, you know. Felt real great. 02:38.000 --> 02:42.000 I got out in the backyard. I take it easy, listen to the ball game, you know. Easy day. 02:42.000 --> 02:45.000 Yeah. And about 10, that guy next door, Neil Radcliffe came over. 02:45.000 --> 02:47.000 That's the fellow in the fire department, isn't it? 02:47.000 --> 02:50.000 No, Joe. That's Bud Hendricks in the fire department. Neil works for an insurance company. 02:50.000 --> 02:51.000 Oh, yeah. Yeah. 02:51.000 --> 02:54.000 Well, Neil's company is going to sponsor a team in the Little League. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 You know, kids baseball team. 02:56.000 --> 02:58.000 I think I read something about that in the papers, didn't I? 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 Yeah. I suppose you did. They're pretty good, too. 03:00.000 --> 03:04.000 Well, Neil's got sort of a tryout yesterday lined up for his team. 03:04.000 --> 03:07.000 Practice, you know. And he wanted me to umpire. 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 Do you know anything about being an umpire? 03:11.000 --> 03:13.000 Well, Joe, sure I do. 03:13.000 --> 03:16.000 And besides, Neil figures since I'm a policeman, the kids will believe me. 03:16.000 --> 03:18.000 He had a little trouble with himself last week. 03:18.000 --> 03:21.000 I always thought you had to go to some sort of a school to be an umpire. 03:21.000 --> 03:25.000 Well, Joe, you do for the regular leagues, but this was just a practice game. 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 Neil's team and some kids in the neighborhood. Yeah. 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 So I told him, sure, I'd do it. I changed my clothes, went out the park with them. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 You know, I thought it might be good public relations for the police department. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 You know what they tell us. 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 Being an umpire would be good public relations. 03:38.000 --> 03:41.000 Well, Joe, the bulletin say get out, get around the neighborhood, 03:41.000 --> 03:44.000 know your friends and their kids. All right, go ahead. 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 Sure, those kids are on the wrong league. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 What do you mean? They're murderers. 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 How's that? The way they play the game. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 Baseball. I never saw such ball. Is that a fact? 03:52.000 --> 03:57.000 Yeah. I figured, you know, softball, underhands, kids pitching, be easy to call. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 So it's regulation hardball. 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 Just like that. Bases are a little closer, but it's just like the big leagues 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 and the way those kids throw the ball. 04:04.000 --> 04:07.000 A couple of times there, I thought they were just kid not to hear their stump. 04:07.000 --> 04:11.000 Never see the ball. Thought the kid catch it, would just hit in his hand, his glove, you know. 04:11.000 --> 04:14.000 And all of a sudden he'd turn around and there'd be right in his mitt. 04:14.000 --> 04:19.000 Well, how'd you get so sore if you just umpired the game, you stood in one place, didn't you? 04:19.000 --> 04:22.000 While I was up in the game, yeah, but this team of Neil's was skunking the other kids 04:22.000 --> 04:25.000 so bad that we had a little reorganization. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 What do you mean reorganization? 04:28.000 --> 04:32.000 Well, the end of the second inning, the score was 14 to 2 04:32.000 --> 04:35.000 and I thought that was a little unfair to the neighborhood kids. 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 Being the umpire, you certainly had the right to think it was unfair. 04:38.000 --> 04:42.000 Well, I got out and I told them what I thought, so I decided to play first base for them. 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 You what? 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 I played first base for them. 04:44.000 --> 04:45.000 With all those kids? 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 Sure. Fun. I played five straight innings. 04:48.000 --> 04:49.000 That's what I was just going to ask you. 04:49.000 --> 04:53.000 Yeah. Finally had to quit. Could hardly move. 04:53.000 --> 04:57.000 Didn't seem to make any difference where I was, Joe. Those kids weren't there. They just ran me ragged. 04:57.000 --> 05:00.000 Yeah, well, maybe you better take it a little easy today. Would you like the day off? 05:00.000 --> 05:03.000 No, not the day off, Joe, but you know, I'll take it easy. 05:04.000 --> 05:09.000 Say, I rubbed liniment on my back all night. All over my arms and legs, man. I'm sore. 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 It even hurt to get dressed this morning. 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 What was the final score, anyway? 05:14.000 --> 05:17.000 Well, at the end of the second inning, it was 14 to 2 in favor of the Little Saints. 05:17.000 --> 05:22.000 You told me all that. 14 to 2. You got in the game and played. What did it end up with? 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 You know, I didn't even get one hit. 05:24.000 --> 05:25.000 You didn't? 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 No. Three times a bat didn't even get a hit. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 Yeah, well, that's too bad. What was the final score of the game? 05:33.000 --> 05:34.000 Did you hear me? 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 The final score of the game? 05:36.000 --> 05:40.000 Not the original score, but after you played five innings, what was the score, the total? 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 I was just curious to know of you. 05:42.000 --> 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. 05:50.000 --> 05:53.000 That was the other team's favorite. The team you weren't playing on. 05:53.000 --> 05:57.000 No, don't rub it in. The other team had run through their batting lineup twice. 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 The way they were going, I think they were going to have to call the game in the count of darkness. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 They'd been up for over an hour. Only one out. 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 They sound pretty good. 06:05.000 --> 06:07.000 They may sound pretty good to you with their murders. 06:07.000 --> 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. 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 I never saw anything like it. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 I'm sorry I missed being there to see you play. 06:17.000 --> 06:20.000 I bet you are. It was pretty bad, Joe, really. 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 Well, you'd never know it. 06:22.000 --> 06:25.000 Had me marked down for 10 errors when I left. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 Only 10. 06:27.000 --> 06:29.000 That was in five innings. 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 I guess you've got to be pretty bad to run up a score like that. 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 Oh, I wouldn't say that. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 I was, Joe, though. I was pretty bad. 06:37.000 --> 06:39.000 I get it. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 Auto Theft Friday. 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 Yes, sir. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 Sure, we'll be right out. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 Can you give me that name again, please? 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 Uh-huh, and that address. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 Fine. No, right away. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 Yes, sir. Friday. 06:56.000 --> 06:58.000 That's right. Right. Bye. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 What do you got? 07:01.000 --> 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. 07:04.000 --> 07:05.000 Yeah? 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 He thinks he bought a stolen car. 07:11.000 --> 07:15.000 8.15 a.m. We left the office and we drove out to the McGowan Car Company. 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 It was a large lot on Washington Boulevard. 07:17.000 --> 07:22.000 Along the front of the place, there was a line of late model cars, each advertised as today's special. 07:22.000 --> 07:26.000 We walked through the aisles of automobiles to the office in a trailer at the back of the lot. 07:26.000 --> 07:29.000 There was nobody around, so we knocked on the door and waited. 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 Well, he said he'd be here, didn't he? 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 Yeah, I told him we'd be right out. 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 Maybe he's gone out to breakfast. 07:35.000 --> 07:36.000 Yeah? 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 Mr. McGowan? 07:37.000 --> 07:38.000 That's right. 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 Police officer, sir. You called our office. My name's Friday. 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 Oh, yeah. Come on in. 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 Thank you. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 Come on in the back. Just having a cup of coffee. 07:44.000 --> 07:45.000 Fix you guys up with one? 07:45.000 --> 07:46.000 No, sir. Not for me. 07:46.000 --> 07:47.000 Not you? 07:47.000 --> 07:48.000 Yes, sir. Sure. I'll have a cup with you. 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 Good. Go on back and sit down. I'll bring it right back. 07:50.000 --> 07:51.000 Thank you. 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 Say, uh, get your fellas' names. 07:53.000 --> 07:56.000 My name's Frank Smith. This is my partner, Sergeant Friday. 07:56.000 --> 07:58.000 Oh, glad to meet you. I talked to you on the phone, didn't I, Mr. Friday? 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 Yes, sir. That's right. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Thought so. Never forget a name. Never do. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 Here's your coffee. 08:02.000 --> 08:03.000 Thanks. 08:03.000 --> 08:04.000 I'm Jesse McGowan. 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 Guys on the row are all the time kidding me about my first name. 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 Jesse. You get it? 08:08.000 --> 08:09.000 No, sir. I don't believe it. 08:09.000 --> 08:11.000 Jesse. Jesse James. 08:11.000 --> 08:12.000 Oh, yeah. Sure. 08:12.000 --> 08:16.000 Well, anyway, I wanted to tell you about when this guy came in Saturday night. 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 Last Saturday? 08:17.000 --> 08:19.000 Yeah, you see, we stay open till 10 on Saturday night. 08:19.000 --> 08:21.000 This guy must have come in about 9. 08:21.000 --> 08:22.000 Jack went over to take care of him, 08:22.000 --> 08:25.000 but the fellas said he wanted to see the manager, so Jack brought him back here. 08:25.000 --> 08:26.000 I see. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Said he had a car to sell. A brand new Merc. Beautiful car. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Say, I got a box of donuts here if you'd like one. 08:30.000 --> 08:31.000 No, thanks. 08:31.000 --> 08:32.000 I think I'll have one. 08:32.000 --> 08:35.000 Didn't get a chance to eat this morning. Got to worrying about this deal. 08:35.000 --> 08:36.000 Mm-hmm. 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 Got some of these new kind with the cinnamon on top. 08:39.000 --> 08:42.000 Hmm. Should be good. 08:42.000 --> 08:47.000 Well, I told this guy we'd like to buy the car, but we were kind of overstocked on Mercs. 08:47.000 --> 08:48.000 Yeah? 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 He said he'd just come out from the East and bought the car when he got here. 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 Said right after he paid for it, he lost his job and had to get some money out of it. 08:54.000 --> 08:55.000 Uh-huh. 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 I asked him if he'd like to make a trade, you know, transportation car and money to boot. 08:58.000 --> 09:01.000 Offered him a good deal on an ash rambler. Just got a couple of 51s in. 09:01.000 --> 09:02.000 Yeah, I see. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 He said he wanted to sell the car outright. 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 Said he was going to leave town. He wanted to get his money out of the car. 09:06.000 --> 09:07.000 I asked him how much he wanted for it. 09:07.000 --> 09:08.000 Mm-hmm. 09:08.000 --> 09:11.000 He told me he'd have to let it go for 2,200 bucks. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 It's about 800, I don't know what he must have paid for it. 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 Mm-hmm. 09:14.000 --> 09:17.000 Right away, I figured there was something wrong, so I had the mechanic look it over. 09:17.000 --> 09:19.000 Only had 3,200 miles on it. Hardly broke in. Beautiful. 09:19.000 --> 09:22.000 Radio, heater, white sidewalls, continental hookup, real beaut. 09:22.000 --> 09:23.000 What did your mechanic say about it? 09:23.000 --> 09:26.000 Said it was in perfect shape. So I asked the guy who the legal owner was. 09:26.000 --> 09:27.000 What'd he say? 09:27.000 --> 09:32.000 He said he was. He paid cash for it, had the pink slip made out to him all right. 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 He had the identification to go with it. 09:34.000 --> 09:35.000 You bought the car then, did you? 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 Yeah, sure looked like a good deal. 09:37.000 --> 09:40.000 I gave him a certified check made out to cash for the amount. 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 He gave me the keys. That was the last I saw of him. 09:42.000 --> 09:46.000 Well, aside from the fact that it's an unusual deal, why do you think there's something wrong with it? 09:46.000 --> 09:49.000 Well, for the first thing, the price he wanted for the car was too low. 09:49.000 --> 09:52.000 I had the feeling that if I'd given him any trouble on it, he'd have come down on it. 09:52.000 --> 09:53.000 Do you have the pink slip here? 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 Oh, yeah, I brought it with me this morning. I got it here in my wallet. 09:56.000 --> 09:59.000 Any other reason you think the deal might be phony? 09:59.000 --> 10:02.000 It's hard to put it into words, Sergeant. Nothing I can point out to you. 10:02.000 --> 10:05.000 Just a feeling. You stay in this business very long, you kind of get to know people. 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 Mm-hmm. 10:06.000 --> 10:07.000 Here. Here it is. 10:07.000 --> 10:08.000 Thank you. 10:08.000 --> 10:12.000 Yeah, there's been a lot of gags about used car salesmen, about how we're always after somebody. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 Most of the time, though, it's the other way around. 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 Is that right? 10:15.000 --> 10:17.000 Yeah, the bums were put out of the business right after the war. 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 The public wouldn't stand for the way they did business. 10:19.000 --> 10:22.000 You gotta rely on people coming back if you're gonna come out in the long run. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 I guess it's like almost any other kind of business. 10:24.000 --> 10:25.000 Yeah, I suppose so. 10:25.000 --> 10:29.000 What kind of identification did the man have to prove he was this, uh, was it a Lewis Carter? 10:29.000 --> 10:33.000 Yeah. Well, to tell you the truth, Sergeant, I didn't ask for any. 10:33.000 --> 10:37.000 He had the pink slip, price he was asking was right, we checked the block and body number. 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 There's a one listed on the slip, no reason to believe he didn't own the car. 10:40.000 --> 10:41.000 How about it, Joe? 10:41.000 --> 10:46.000 Well, looks like it's one of the slips from DMV in San Diego. 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 You mean there is something wrong? 10:47.000 --> 10:48.000 What if I use your phone, please? 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 Sure, you bet. It's right there, help yourself. 10:50.000 --> 10:51.000 Thank you. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 Can I dial a Michigan number on this? 10:54.000 --> 10:55.000 Yeah. 10:55.000 --> 10:56.000 All right. 10:56.000 --> 10:57.000 2507, please. 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 Yeah, auto thing. 11:00.000 --> 11:01.000 Hi, this is Joe Friday. 11:01.000 --> 11:02.000 Yeah. 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 Say we got a pink slip out here. 11:04.000 --> 11:07.000 Looks like it's one of those that were stolen from DMV down south. 11:07.000 --> 11:08.000 No, down south, San Diego? 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 You got the list there? 11:10.000 --> 11:11.000 Yeah, I'll wait. 11:11.000 --> 11:13.000 You mean somebody stole a pink slip from the department? 11:13.000 --> 11:15.000 Yeah, sure, as near as we can figure it, about two dozen of them. 11:15.000 --> 11:16.000 I've never heard of that. 11:16.000 --> 11:17.000 Well, this is the first one of them. 11:17.000 --> 11:18.000 Hello? 11:18.000 --> 11:19.000 Yeah, I'm Joe. 11:19.000 --> 11:20.000 Hello. 11:20.000 --> 11:21.000 Hello. 11:21.000 --> 11:22.000 Hello. 11:22.000 --> 11:23.000 Hello. 11:23.000 --> 11:24.000 Hello. 11:24.000 --> 11:25.000 Hello. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 Yeah, all right. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 Made out to a Louis Franklin Carter. 11:30.000 --> 11:31.000 No, no. 11:31.000 --> 11:33.000 C, C Charlie, yeah. 11:33.000 --> 11:37.000 A, R, D dog, yeah. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 E, R, Carter, yeah. 11:40.000 --> 11:43.000 Registration number is 660- 11:44.000 --> 11:45.000 No, two sixes. 11:45.000 --> 11:46.000 660- 11:47.000 --> 11:48.000 Two more sixes. 11:48.000 --> 11:49.000 667. 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 660-667, that's right. 11:52.000 --> 11:53.000 Address? 11:53.000 --> 11:56.000 4287 Ingram Street, Los Angeles. 11:57.000 --> 11:58.000 LA-5. 11:58.000 --> 12:01.000 Engine number 58-5509. 12:02.000 --> 12:03.000 All right, I'm sorry. 12:03.000 --> 12:07.000 58-5509-25. 12:07.000 --> 12:08.000 That's it. 12:09.000 --> 12:10.000 Mercury-8. 12:11.000 --> 12:12.000 Uh-huh. 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 Yeah, well, that's what we figured. 12:13.000 --> 12:14.000 You got anything on the car? 12:15.000 --> 12:16.000 Mm-hmm. 12:16.000 --> 12:17.000 No, it was sold Saturday night. 12:18.000 --> 12:19.000 That's right. 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 Yeah, there should be something out on it. 12:21.000 --> 12:23.000 Okay, right. 12:23.000 --> 12:24.000 Thank you. 12:24.000 --> 12:26.000 How about it, the car stolen? 12:26.000 --> 12:27.000 No report yet, sir. 12:27.000 --> 12:28.000 I gotta call the bank. 12:28.000 --> 12:30.000 You said you gave the man a certified check. 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 Yeah, I gotta stop payment on it. 12:32.000 --> 12:33.000 It ain't gonna be easy either. 12:33.000 --> 12:34.000 He can cash it any place. 12:34.000 --> 12:36.000 Sure looks like I'm on $2,200. 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 Well, it isn't likely he's been able to cash it by this time, sir. 12:38.000 --> 12:41.000 Maybe not, but I'll give long odds that he's standing in line when the door's open. 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 I better give him a call. 12:43.000 --> 12:49.000 Hope somebody's there. 12:49.000 --> 12:52.000 It's just 825. 12:52.000 --> 12:55.000 Yeah, probably a little early. 12:55.000 --> 12:56.000 Eh? 12:56.000 --> 12:59.000 Eh, doesn't sound like anybody's there yet. 12:59.000 --> 13:00.000 Well, I keep trying. 13:00.000 --> 13:01.000 I gotta get that check. 13:01.000 --> 13:02.000 See what I mean? 13:02.000 --> 13:03.000 What's that? 13:03.000 --> 13:04.000 About the jokes. 13:04.000 --> 13:07.000 We're the ones always trying to get away with a fast deal. 13:07.000 --> 13:08.000 No such thing. 13:08.000 --> 13:09.000 Take this one, for instance. 13:09.000 --> 13:10.000 Yeah? 13:10.000 --> 13:11.000 I bought the car in Goodfellow. 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 Paid cash for it. 13:13.000 --> 13:14.000 Gave the guy just what he asked for. 13:14.000 --> 13:15.000 Well, not quite, sir. 13:15.000 --> 13:16.000 Huh? 13:16.000 --> 13:19.000 You'll get a little more than that. 13:22.000 --> 13:25.000 We got a complete description of the suspect, Lewis Carter. 13:25.000 --> 13:26.000 We put out a local and an APB on him, 13:26.000 --> 13:30.000 and then we asked Dean Bergman to come out and go over the car for fingerprints. 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 The owner of the used car lot, Jesse McGowan, 13:32.000 --> 13:34.000 told us that the car had been washed and cleaned thoroughly, 13:34.000 --> 13:37.000 but he didn't think we'd be able to come up with any fingerprints. 13:37.000 --> 13:38.000 9 a.m. 13:38.000 --> 13:41.000 We put in a call to the bank and asked them to stop payment on the check 13:41.000 --> 13:44.000 and to notify their branch offices to do the same. 13:44.000 --> 13:46.000 McGowan supplied the number of the check, 13:46.000 --> 13:48.000 and the information was gotten out to the other banks 13:48.000 --> 13:50.000 and check cashing agencies in the area. 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 Bergman finished checking the car, 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 and he told us that the only print that he'd been able to find 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 was a partial thumbprint under the dashboard. 13:56.000 --> 13:58.000 We rolled the prints of the man who'd washed the car, 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 along with those of McGowan, 14:00.000 --> 14:03.000 and the other people on the lot who'd come in contact with the automobile. 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 None of theirs matched. 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 We checked with the office and told them 14:07.000 --> 14:10.000 that we'd check out the address listed on the pink slip. 14:10.000 --> 14:11.000 9 37 a.m. 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 We pulled up in front of 4287 Ingram Street. 14:14.000 --> 14:17.000 It was a large two-story place that had been converted into a rooming house. 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 There were several cars parked in the front yard. 14:19.000 --> 14:21.000 We went up to the front door and rang the bell. 14:21.000 --> 14:23.000 RINGING 14:24.000 --> 14:25.000 Want to try it again? 14:25.000 --> 14:26.000 Yeah. 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 RINGING 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 I didn't know there were any of those around anymore. 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 Don't see many of them nowadays. 14:33.000 --> 14:34.000 What? 14:34.000 --> 14:35.000 That kind of doorbell. 14:35.000 --> 14:36.000 Oh, yeah. 14:36.000 --> 14:37.000 Yeah? 14:37.000 --> 14:38.000 I'd like to see Lewis Carter. 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 I'm him. What do you want? 14:40.000 --> 14:41.000 Police officers. We'd like to talk to you. 14:41.000 --> 14:43.000 Cops? What do you want with me? 14:43.000 --> 14:44.000 Might be better if we talked inside. 14:44.000 --> 14:45.000 Huh? 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 Inside. 14:46.000 --> 14:48.000 Oh, yeah, yeah. Come on in. 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 I just got up. 14:52.000 --> 14:53.000 Do one of you guys got a cigarette? 14:53.000 --> 14:54.000 Yeah. Here you are. 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 Thanks. 14:57.000 --> 14:58.000 How about a match? 14:58.000 --> 14:59.000 Here. 14:59.000 --> 15:00.000 Thanks. 15:03.000 --> 15:05.000 Well, what, do you want to see me about something wrong? 15:05.000 --> 15:07.000 You own a 53 Mercury convertible? 15:07.000 --> 15:08.000 Yeah. Why? 15:08.000 --> 15:09.000 You know where it is? 15:09.000 --> 15:10.000 It should be out in front. Why? 15:10.000 --> 15:12.000 You leave the keys in your car when you park it? 15:12.000 --> 15:13.000 Once in a while I forget. Yeah. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 Look, I don't know if it's there now, though. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 Your car's been stolen, Mr. Carter. 15:16.000 --> 15:17.000 Huh? 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 Your car's been stolen. 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 Wait a minute. 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 Yeah, you're right. 15:23.000 --> 15:24.000 Well, where is it? 15:24.000 --> 15:25.000 Yeah, you got it packed for me? 15:25.000 --> 15:26.000 Is it in the police garage? 15:26.000 --> 15:27.000 No, sir. I'm afraid it's not that easy. 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 It was sold Saturday night. 15:29.000 --> 15:30.000 Sold? Who, too? 15:30.000 --> 15:32.000 A used car dealer out in Washington. 15:32.000 --> 15:33.000 Who owns the car, sir? 15:33.000 --> 15:34.000 Well, I do. 15:34.000 --> 15:35.000 Do you have the pink slip on it? 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 No, I didn't get it back from the Department of Motor Vehicles yet. 15:37.000 --> 15:38.000 Why? 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 Well, the man that sold the car had the pink slip with him. 15:40.000 --> 15:41.000 Well, I don't care if he did have it. 15:41.000 --> 15:42.000 The car doesn't belong to him. 15:42.000 --> 15:43.000 He had no right to sell it. 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 When's the last time you saw your car? 15:46.000 --> 15:47.000 I guess it was Saturday afternoon. 15:47.000 --> 15:48.000 I came home early. 15:48.000 --> 15:49.000 I parked it out in front. 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 Yeah, Saturday afternoon. 15:51.000 --> 15:53.000 How is it you didn't know the car was taken? 15:53.000 --> 15:55.000 Officer, you saw the front of this place. 15:55.000 --> 15:57.000 Must be half a dozen cars parked out there. 15:57.000 --> 15:58.000 There are rumors. They use a yard. 15:58.000 --> 16:00.000 You didn't use the car over the weekend, then. 16:00.000 --> 16:01.000 Is that it? 16:01.000 --> 16:02.000 Oh, no, I didn't. 16:02.000 --> 16:04.000 I got home Saturday afternoon, like I told you. 16:04.000 --> 16:07.000 I spent the whole weekend doing some painting in one of the upstairs rooms. 16:07.000 --> 16:08.000 It's been vacant a long time. 16:08.000 --> 16:11.000 I figure maybe if I put a little paint on it, I might be able to rent it. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 You see, my wife used to take care of the place. 16:13.000 --> 16:14.000 She and I had some trouble. 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 She went back each to see her mother. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 Seems like the house went to pot after she left. 16:18.000 --> 16:21.000 We're really going to have trouble when she comes back and sees this mess. 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 How many people do you have living here? 16:24.000 --> 16:25.000 Nine. 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 I'd like to have you take a look at this description and see if any of them fit it. 16:29.000 --> 16:30.000 You figure it might be one of them? 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 Well, we'd like you to check the description if you would. 16:37.000 --> 16:39.000 I'm pretty sure it isn't one of them. None of them match this. 16:39.000 --> 16:40.000 What if you can give us their names? 16:40.000 --> 16:41.000 Oh, sure I can. 16:41.000 --> 16:42.000 Why do you have to have them? 16:42.000 --> 16:43.000 Just for a team. 16:43.000 --> 16:44.000 Oh, yeah. 16:44.000 --> 16:47.000 Well, I can give them to you, but I'm sure they aren't mixed up in it. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 The thing I can't figure is how he got the pink slip. 16:49.000 --> 16:50.000 It was stolen, sir. 16:50.000 --> 16:51.000 From the state? 16:51.000 --> 16:52.000 Yes, sir. 16:52.000 --> 16:56.000 Last month, someone broke into their offices in San Diego and stole two dozen registration slips. 16:56.000 --> 16:57.000 How much did you get for the car? 16:57.000 --> 16:58.000 $2,200. 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 $2,200? A thing cost me over $3,000. 17:01.000 --> 17:02.000 Guy must be a jerk, huh? 17:02.000 --> 17:04.000 I don't know. It didn't cost him anything. 17:10.000 --> 17:13.000 10.15 a.m. We went by the used car lot and picked up the owner. 17:13.000 --> 17:16.000 We took him down to the city hall and had him check the mug books. 17:16.000 --> 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. 17:21.000 --> 17:24.000 We checked the names of the people who lived at Lewis Carter's house. 17:24.000 --> 17:30.000 One of them had a record of arrest on charges of violation of Section 4127A of the Los Angeles Municipal Code. 17:30.000 --> 17:33.000 He'd served a short term in the city jail and then he'd been released. 17:33.000 --> 17:37.000 His physical description, however, did not match that of the suspect we were looking for. 17:37.000 --> 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. 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 About the only thing we got working for us is the check. 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 Yeah. I hope they get the word out in time. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 He gets his hands on that money and he can go a long way. 17:50.000 --> 17:51.000 I get it. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 How about that Friday? Yes, sir. 17:54.000 --> 17:55.000 Yes, sir, we did. 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 Uh-huh. Right. 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 That's right. Be there as soon as we can make it. 17:59.000 --> 18:01.000 Right. Bye. 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 Well, he isn't going far. What do you mean? 18:03.000 --> 18:04.000 He's at the bank now. 18:15.000 --> 18:19.000 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in the United States. 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 The authentic story of your police force in action. 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 At cigarette dealers. 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 In vending machines. 18:31.000 --> 18:34.000 At supermarkets and stores coast to coast. 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 Chesterfields, please. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 Smokers by the thousands. 18:38.000 --> 18:43.000 Yes, smokers by the thousands are now changing to Chesterfield. 18:43.000 --> 18:46.000 The only cigarette ever to give you... 18:46.000 --> 18:50.000 One, proof of low nicotine, highest quality. 18:50.000 --> 18:54.000 Chemical analyses of the country's six leading brands confirm that. 18:54.000 --> 19:00.000 Two, the only cigarette ever to give you this proven record with smokers. 19:00.000 --> 19:04.000 Again and again, over a full year and one half, 19:04.000 --> 19:08.000 a group of Chesterfield smokers have been given thorough medical examinations. 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 The doctor's reports are a matter of record. 19:10.000 --> 19:17.000 No adverse effects to the nose, throat and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield. 19:17.000 --> 19:22.000 A responsible independent research laboratory supervises this continuing program. 19:22.000 --> 19:27.000 Chesterfield, the only cigarette ever with a record like this. 19:27.000 --> 19:41.000 Chesterfield, best for you. 19:41.000 --> 19:45.000 We'd gotten a call from a branch office of the bank that the check had been drawn on. 19:45.000 --> 19:52.000 At 11.30 a.m. that morning, a man had walked into the bank and presented a check for the amount of $2,200 drawn on the account of Jesse McCowan. 19:52.000 --> 19:56.000 Because of the amount of the check, it had to be okayed by the head cashier. 19:56.000 --> 20:02.000 Fortunately, he'd gotten the information about the check and had stalled the suspect long enough to call us. 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 He was able to keep him waiting until we got there. 20:04.000 --> 20:07.000 The man was taken into custody without any trouble. 20:07.000 --> 20:10.000 He denied having anything to do with the stolen car and he said that we'd made a mistake. 20:10.000 --> 20:12.000 We took him downtown and started to question him. 20:12.000 --> 20:16.000 I tell you, I don't know what this is all about. I'd like to help you out, but there's nothing I can do. 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 Frank, you want to get in touch with McCowan and have him come over? 20:18.000 --> 20:24.000 Yeah, right away. 20:24.000 --> 20:26.000 Do you want to tell me again where you got that check? 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 It was against the law to have a check. 20:28.000 --> 20:29.000 I'd like to know where you got this one. 20:29.000 --> 20:30.000 I want it. 20:29.000 --> 20:30.000 Where? 20:30.000 --> 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. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 I got nothing to do with this, let alone my pals. 20:36.000 --> 20:39.000 You'll save yourself a lot more trouble if you'll tell us where you got the check. 20:39.000 --> 20:41.000 All right, I want it in a poker game. 20:41.000 --> 20:42.000 Pretty high stakes. 20:42.000 --> 20:43.000 We gave up kid games. 20:43.000 --> 20:44.000 Where'd you win it from? 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 I told you, I wasn't going to name any names. 20:46.000 --> 20:47.000 We're going to get them sooner or later, you know that. 20:47.000 --> 20:48.000 Not for me, Yarn. 20:48.000 --> 20:49.000 You build it any way you want. 20:49.000 --> 20:50.000 That's the way I figure it. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 When was this poker game? 20:52.000 --> 20:55.000 Saturday night. I'm sorry, there's another one I can't answer. 20:55.000 --> 20:56.000 You been in San Diego lately? 20:56.000 --> 20:57.000 Not for a couple of months. 20:57.000 --> 20:58.000 When's the last time you were down here? 20:58.000 --> 20:59.000 I don't remember right off. 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 It'll help if you can. 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 What do you mean help me? I got no trouble. 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 You guys make a pinch while I'm trying to cash a check. 21:04.000 --> 21:06.000 I won the money, it was a payment for a debt. 21:06.000 --> 21:09.000 All I was trying to do is get my money. There's nothing wrong with that. 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 There's nothing wrong? Why don't you tell us who you won the money from? 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 And have you guys throw a beef at them? Nothing doing. 21:13.000 --> 21:16.000 I read where you fellas spend your time breaking up a game of old maid. 21:16.000 --> 21:17.000 That's a little more serious than that, isn't it? 21:17.000 --> 21:20.000 Well, maybe to you. I got no problem. All I got to do is sit tight. 21:20.000 --> 21:24.000 You keep believing that, mister. You keep acting like this and you'll see what a problem you really got here. 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 McGowan's on his way over, Joe. 21:27.000 --> 21:28.000 Who's McGowan? 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 He's the man who wrote the check you tried to cash. 21:30.000 --> 21:31.000 Waste of time, you don't know me. 21:31.000 --> 21:32.000 We'll let him decide then. 21:32.000 --> 21:33.000 Go ahead, have your fun. 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 Couple of questions we'd like to ask you. 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 Go ahead, I got nothing more important to do. 21:37.000 --> 21:41.000 Check your name through our identification bureau, came up with some mighty interesting things. 21:41.000 --> 21:42.000 Am I right? Yeah. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 Let me see, Frank. Here. 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 True name Harold Drake, is that right? Yeah. 21:47.000 --> 21:51.000 Your address is listed as 2917 Ledgewood Drive, is that right? Yep. 21:51.000 --> 21:53.000 You told us you'd never been arrested. I haven't. 21:54.000 --> 21:55.000 Let's take a look at the picture. 21:55.000 --> 21:57.000 You got the room rigged for moving? 21:57.000 --> 21:59.000 I'm gonna tell you something, Drake. You mark it down, you remember it. 21:59.000 --> 22:02.000 The sooner you stop playing footsie with us, the better it's gonna be for you, understand? 22:03.000 --> 22:04.000 When do you bring out the rubber hose? 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 That went out with the story you're trying to hand us. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 Here's the picture. 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 Yeah, the guy looks a lot like me. 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 If you didn't know any better, you might think we were twins. 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 Yeah, if you didn't know better. But we do, huh? 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 Oh, come off it, Drake. Will you? We got you nailed and you know it. 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 You want to sit there and dream up these fairy tales, that's up to you. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 But we got a job to do. We know you'll stand for this and so do you. 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 Now why don't you save us both a lot of trouble and cop out? 22:26.000 --> 22:29.000 Look, I'd like to do it, Sergeant. No lie, I really would. 22:29.000 --> 22:31.000 But I can't cop out to something I had nothing to do with. 22:31.000 --> 22:33.000 All right. Start all over again. 22:35.000 --> 22:36.000 Where did you get the check? 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 A guy gave it to me to pay off a polka debt. 22:38.000 --> 22:39.000 You gonna tell us who the guy is? No. 22:39.000 --> 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. 22:42.000 --> 22:46.000 You claim you never been arrested. We got a package on here that shows three arrests and two convictions. 22:46.000 --> 22:47.000 And a guy that looks like me. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 Let's go down to the hall and roll your prints. That'll clean it up. 22:49.000 --> 22:52.000 I'm for that. Now go on, tell me the rest of the fairy tale. 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 I'll lay it out for you in one syllable words. 22:54.000 --> 22:55.000 That'll make it easy for you. 22:55.000 --> 22:58.000 You broke into the offices of DMV down in San Diego on February 28th. 22:58.000 --> 23:02.000 Yeah, day goes nice in February. Somebody's gonna write a song about it sometime. 23:04.000 --> 23:07.000 You stole 26 pink slips ready for mailing to the owners. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 You must mean somebody else. 23:09.000 --> 23:12.000 That smile's gonna come off your face, Drake, when McGowan walks in here. 23:12.000 --> 23:15.000 Look, I don't know who Mr. McGowan is, but I'll be happy to meet him. 23:15.000 --> 23:18.000 Now tell me, what did I do after I stole the pink slips? 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 You got the address of Lewis Carter. 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 And you went to his home on Saturday night and you stole his car. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 You drove it down to McGowan's used car lot. 23:24.000 --> 23:27.000 With a pink slip, you sold it to him for 22 hundred bucks. 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 I was busy that night, wasn't I? 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 What are you trying to prove with all this talk, Drake? 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 You trying to make it rough on yourself? Is that what you want? 23:33.000 --> 23:34.000 I'm not trying to do anything. 23:34.000 --> 23:37.000 All I'm doing is trying to go along with you guys. 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 I'll check and see if McGowan's here. 23:44.000 --> 23:46.000 Can I have one of those? 23:46.000 --> 23:47.000 Yeah, help yourself. 23:47.000 --> 23:48.000 Thanks. 23:54.000 --> 23:56.000 You know, I wouldn't have your job for all the money in the world. 23:56.000 --> 23:57.000 You're right. 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 That's a lousy way to live. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 Going around trying to get people to cop out the things they didn't do. 24:01.000 --> 24:02.000 That's the way it looks to you, doesn't it? 24:02.000 --> 24:04.000 From anywhere I sit, it turns up just that way. 24:04.000 --> 24:05.000 A couple of things wrong. 24:05.000 --> 24:06.000 What? 24:06.000 --> 24:07.000 I've heard for one thing. 24:07.000 --> 24:08.000 If you can prove it's mine. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 All we got to do is walk down the hall and you've had it. 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 As soon as we check the prints, we've turned the key. 24:12.000 --> 24:14.000 Sounds good the way you tell it. 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 It's going to sound better the way the judge says it, isn't it? 24:16.000 --> 24:17.000 I was writing for you. 24:17.000 --> 24:19.000 You were arrested in 1939 for auto theft. 24:19.000 --> 24:20.000 You served three years. 24:20.000 --> 24:22.000 Arrested in 1945, suspicion of grand theft auto. 24:22.000 --> 24:23.000 Dismissed. 24:23.000 --> 24:24.000 There, you see. 24:24.000 --> 24:25.000 They knew they had the wrong guy. 24:25.000 --> 24:26.000 Nobody's told us. 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 Another arrest in 1946, grand theft auto. 24:28.000 --> 24:30.000 Served four years. 24:30.000 --> 24:32.000 Case of mistaken identity. 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 Is that what happened both times? 24:34.000 --> 24:35.000 Some people got very bad eyes. 24:35.000 --> 24:37.000 You take this fellow McGowan you're bringing in here. 24:37.000 --> 24:39.000 Wouldn't be at all surprised if he had bad eyes. 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 You know, there's one way to get yourself out of this. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 And that's to tell us where you got that check. 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 I don't know how to do it any more simple than I have, Sergeant. 24:45.000 --> 24:46.000 I want it playing poker. 24:46.000 --> 24:48.000 And I'm not going to tell you who I want it from. 24:48.000 --> 24:49.000 It wouldn't do any good. 24:49.000 --> 24:50.000 I don't know who's been giving you advice, mister. 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 But you are playing it very smart. 24:52.000 --> 24:53.000 Really? 24:53.000 --> 24:55.000 The guy who dreamed up this routine probably spent the next 20 years at Q. 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 As a matter of fact, he's still walking around. 24:57.000 --> 24:58.000 All right, mister. 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 Let's go down the hall and check your prints. 25:00.000 --> 25:01.000 Come on in, Mr. McGowan. 25:01.000 --> 25:02.000 That's a man. 25:02.000 --> 25:03.000 You sure about that? 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 Swear to it in court. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 What are you trying to do? Cause me a lot of trouble? 25:07.000 --> 25:08.000 I haven't done anything and you know it. 25:08.000 --> 25:10.000 Now you come in here and you say that's a man. 25:10.000 --> 25:11.000 You know what they can do to me? 25:11.000 --> 25:12.000 All right, Drake, that's enough of that. 25:12.000 --> 25:14.000 Let's go, Mr. McGowan. 25:14.000 --> 25:15.000 Swear to it in court. 25:15.000 --> 25:17.000 That's the man who sold me the car. 25:19.000 --> 25:20.000 How about it, Drake? 25:21.000 --> 25:22.000 Nothing more, huh? 25:22.000 --> 25:23.000 Yeah. 25:23.000 --> 25:25.000 We'll roll your prints and check them against the record. 25:25.000 --> 25:27.000 I got a couple of parcels from San Diego. 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 If yours match up, and I think they will, you've had it. 25:29.000 --> 25:30.000 No way out, huh? 25:30.000 --> 25:33.000 Not that I can see. 25:33.000 --> 25:34.000 Oh, what happens, uh... 25:34.000 --> 25:37.000 Now, this is just a wild question for the sake of argument. 25:37.000 --> 25:39.000 What happens if I cop out, plead guilty? 25:39.000 --> 25:41.000 We got nothing to say about that. 25:41.000 --> 25:42.000 You can't help out, huh? 25:42.000 --> 25:43.000 No, sir. 25:43.000 --> 25:45.000 Save the taxpayers a lot of money, no trial. 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 I told you we got nothing to say about that. 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 Not much to gain then by copping out, huh? 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 We got your maid if you do or you don't. 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 Maybe make it a little easier if there's no jury trial. 25:53.000 --> 25:54.000 That's up to the judge. 25:54.000 --> 25:56.000 Nothing you can do? 25:56.000 --> 25:58.000 Gonna go into the book that way. 25:58.000 --> 26:00.000 Mm-hmm. 26:00.000 --> 26:01.000 Got another cigarette? 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 They're right there. Help yourself. 26:03.000 --> 26:05.000 Thanks. 26:10.000 --> 26:11.000 All right, let's go. 26:11.000 --> 26:14.000 Might as well get the prints and finish this thing up. 26:14.000 --> 26:16.000 Come on, Drake, get up. 26:16.000 --> 26:17.000 No hurry, let me finish the cigarette. 26:17.000 --> 26:19.000 Come on, we got other things to do. 26:19.000 --> 26:20.000 Well, so have I. 26:19.000 --> 26:20.000 What? 26:20.000 --> 26:29.000 One to ten years. 26:29.000 --> 26:32.000 The story you have just heard is true. 26:32.000 --> 26:35.000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:35.000 --> 26:38.000 On September 15th, trial was held in Department 98, 26:38.000 --> 26:40.000 Superior Court of the State of California, 26:40.000 --> 26:42.000 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 26:42.000 --> 26:44.000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:44.000 --> 26:46.000 And now here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:46.000 --> 26:48.000 Thank you, George Fenomen. 26:48.000 --> 26:51.000 Well, this is brief, but I think very much to the point. 26:51.000 --> 26:53.000 Chesterfield is the only cigarette that gives you proof 26:53.000 --> 26:56.000 of low nicotine, highest quality. 26:56.000 --> 26:57.000 That's what I want in my cigarette, 26:57.000 --> 26:59.000 and that's what you should look for in yours. 26:59.000 --> 27:02.000 Chesterfield, regular or king size, best for you. 27:02.000 --> 27:04.000 Try them. 27:12.000 --> 27:14.000 Harold Alex Drake was tried and convicted 27:14.000 --> 27:16.000 of grand theft auto three counts 27:16.000 --> 27:19.000 and was sentenced as prescribed by law. 27:19.000 --> 27:21.000 Grand theft auto is punishable by imprisonment 27:21.000 --> 27:25.000 in the state penitentiary for a period of from one to ten years. 27:25.000 --> 27:28.000 A hold was placed on the suspect by San Diego County 27:28.000 --> 27:46.000 for prosecution on the burglary charge. 27:46.000 --> 27:47.000 You have just heard Dragnet, 27:47.000 --> 27:50.000 a series of authentic cases from official files. 27:50.000 --> 27:53.000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 27:53.000 --> 27:56.000 W.H. 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