WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.840 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.840 --> 00:14.920 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:14.920 --> 00:20.340 Dragnet is brought to you by Chesterfield, made by Liggett and Myers. 00:20.340 --> 00:34.080 A great major tobacco company to give you a complete line of quality cigarettes. 00:34.080 --> 00:35.600 You're a detective sergeant. 00:35.600 --> 00:37.680 You're assigned to robbery detail. 00:37.680 --> 00:40.360 Two holdup men have been operating in your city. 00:40.360 --> 00:43.520 You've got descriptions of the men and of the car they're driving. 00:43.520 --> 00:49.920 Your job, get them. 00:49.920 --> 00:54.440 Smokers by the thousands are now changing to Chesterfield. 00:54.440 --> 00:55.880 No wonder. 00:55.880 --> 00:59.720 More and more smokers are learning this fact for themselves. 00:59.720 --> 01:04.720 Chesterfield, low in nicotine, highest in quality. 01:04.720 --> 01:11.280 A published fact proved by chemical analyses of the country's six leading cigarette brands. 01:11.280 --> 01:16.720 Chesterfield, the only cigarette ever with a record like this. 01:16.720 --> 01:25.320 Regular or king size, Chesterfield is best for you. 01:25.320 --> 01:32.160 Dragnet, the documentary drama of an actual crime. 01:32.160 --> 01:36.240 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:36.240 --> 01:40.760 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:40.760 --> 01:42.680 police files. 01:42.680 --> 01:48.120 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:48.120 --> 01:51.120 in action. 01:51.120 --> 01:56.320 It was Tuesday, April 14th. 01:56.320 --> 01:57.720 It was warm in Los Angeles. 01:57.720 --> 01:59.560 We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 01:59.560 --> 02:00.640 My partner's Frank Smith. 02:00.640 --> 02:02.480 The boss is Chief of Detective Stad Brown. 02:02.480 --> 02:03.480 My name's Bridey. 02:03.480 --> 02:06.560 We were on our way out from the office and it was 1046 A.M. when we got to the corner 02:06.560 --> 02:09.560 of Calhoun Street and Van Nuys Boulevard. 02:09.560 --> 02:11.560 The universal hobby shop. 02:11.560 --> 02:13.920 Yes, sir, what can I do for you? 02:13.920 --> 02:15.200 Would like to see Stanley McGowan, please. 02:15.200 --> 02:16.440 Oh, Stan's not in right now. 02:16.440 --> 02:17.440 Anything I can do for you? 02:17.440 --> 02:18.440 When do you expect him? 02:18.440 --> 02:19.440 It shouldn't be long. 02:19.440 --> 02:20.440 He just went out for some coffee. 02:20.440 --> 02:21.440 Are you sure there's nothing I can do? 02:21.440 --> 02:22.440 No, sir. 02:22.440 --> 02:23.440 You know where he went? 02:23.440 --> 02:24.440 No, I don't. 02:24.440 --> 02:25.440 Probably up the street. 02:25.440 --> 02:26.440 He'll be right back though if you want to wait. 02:26.440 --> 02:27.440 All right, fine. 02:27.440 --> 02:28.440 Pull up a couple of those stools. 02:28.440 --> 02:29.440 Make yourself comfortable. 02:29.440 --> 02:30.440 Thank you. 02:30.440 --> 02:32.440 You mind if I go ahead with this? 02:32.440 --> 02:33.440 I'd get it finished this afternoon. 02:33.440 --> 02:34.440 No, sir. 02:34.440 --> 02:35.440 You go right ahead. 02:35.440 --> 02:36.440 Pretty jazzy deals. 02:36.440 --> 02:37.440 You seen them? 02:37.440 --> 02:38.440 What's that? 02:38.440 --> 02:39.440 These boat models. 02:39.440 --> 02:41.760 You know, the one on the bottom? 02:41.760 --> 02:42.760 Oh, yeah. 02:42.760 --> 02:43.760 This is a new one. 02:43.760 --> 02:44.760 Just came in. 02:44.760 --> 02:45.760 Take a look. 02:45.760 --> 02:46.760 Jean Lafitte's boat. 02:46.760 --> 02:47.760 Pretty, isn't it? 02:47.760 --> 02:48.760 How's that? 02:48.760 --> 02:49.760 Lafitte, the pirate, you know. 02:49.760 --> 02:50.760 Oh, yeah. 02:50.760 --> 02:51.760 How do you get it inside the bottle? 02:51.760 --> 02:52.760 Well, the bottle comes in two halves. 02:52.760 --> 02:53.760 It's cut apart lengthwise. 02:53.760 --> 02:55.760 You put the boat in and glue the halves together. 02:55.760 --> 02:57.040 There are a couple all finished over there. 02:57.040 --> 02:58.040 Look pretty good. 02:58.040 --> 03:00.040 How long has McGowan been working here? 03:00.040 --> 03:02.040 Oh, I guess it's been about six months. 03:02.040 --> 03:03.040 Round in there. 03:03.040 --> 03:04.040 You guys friends of his? 03:04.040 --> 03:05.040 We want to talk to him. 03:05.040 --> 03:06.040 Oh. 03:06.040 --> 03:07.040 That's funny about him. 03:07.040 --> 03:08.040 What's that? 03:08.040 --> 03:09.440 He doesn't seem to have any close friends. 03:09.440 --> 03:12.280 Hey, you know, like he could call up and ask a favor from. 03:12.280 --> 03:13.840 Never hear him talk about anybody like that. 03:13.840 --> 03:15.440 Have you ever seen any of his associates? 03:15.440 --> 03:18.880 Oh, a couple of times when we get ready to close up, there might be a guy waiting for 03:18.880 --> 03:19.880 Stan. 03:19.880 --> 03:20.880 Most of the time he plays it single. 03:20.880 --> 03:24.160 Oh, I've tried a couple of times to get him out, you know, stop the bar on the way home, 03:24.160 --> 03:25.160 have a couple of drinks. 03:25.160 --> 03:26.480 Stan won't have any part of it. 03:26.480 --> 03:27.480 Plays it single. 03:27.480 --> 03:28.480 Do you have a car, would you know? 03:28.480 --> 03:29.480 Not that I've ever seen. 03:29.480 --> 03:31.960 Hey, say, will you hand me that gold paint over there? 03:31.960 --> 03:32.960 Yeah, sure. 03:32.960 --> 03:33.960 This one? 03:33.960 --> 03:34.960 Oh, no, no. 03:34.960 --> 03:35.960 This is the small one there. 03:35.960 --> 03:36.960 Yeah, yeah, that's right. 03:36.960 --> 03:37.960 Here you are. 03:37.960 --> 03:38.960 Thanks. 03:38.960 --> 03:39.960 A little bit of this goes a long way. 03:39.960 --> 03:41.720 Touch up the tops of the mast here and you'll be ready to rig. 03:41.720 --> 03:45.600 Well, these friends of his that pick him up, what kind of car do they drive? 03:45.600 --> 03:47.480 Say, where are all these questions for? 03:47.480 --> 03:48.480 Who are you guys? 03:48.480 --> 03:49.480 Police officers. 03:49.480 --> 03:50.480 It's Frank Smith. 03:50.480 --> 03:51.480 My name's Friday. 03:51.480 --> 03:52.480 Cops. 03:52.480 --> 03:53.480 Well, what do you want with Stan? 03:53.480 --> 03:54.480 Has he done something? 03:54.480 --> 03:55.480 We just want to talk to him. 03:55.480 --> 03:56.480 I sure hope it isn't anything serious. 03:56.480 --> 03:57.480 I sure hate to lose Stan. 03:57.480 --> 03:58.480 Is that so? 03:58.480 --> 03:59.480 He's one of the best riggers we've ever had. 03:59.480 --> 04:00.480 There's a couple of his models over there. 04:00.480 --> 04:01.480 Take a look. 04:01.480 --> 04:02.480 That one's a good one. 04:02.480 --> 04:07.480 $150, old iron sides. 04:07.480 --> 04:11.800 One of the best boats we've turned up. 04:11.800 --> 04:12.800 Stan did that. 04:12.800 --> 04:13.800 Sure got a steady hand. 04:13.800 --> 04:16.800 That's what it takes when it comes to rigging, steady hand. 04:16.800 --> 04:17.800 Want to go out now, Rudy? 04:17.800 --> 04:18.800 Yeah, yeah, in a minute. 04:18.800 --> 04:21.800 A couple of fellas here want to talk to you. 04:21.800 --> 04:23.080 You want to see me? 04:23.080 --> 04:24.080 Your name's Stanley McGowan? 04:24.080 --> 04:25.080 Yeah, that's right. 04:25.080 --> 04:26.080 What's this about? 04:26.080 --> 04:27.080 They're cops, Stan. 04:27.080 --> 04:28.080 Yeah? 04:28.080 --> 04:29.080 This is Frank Smith. 04:29.080 --> 04:30.080 My name's Friday. 04:30.080 --> 04:31.080 I've talked to you, McGowan. 04:31.080 --> 04:32.080 Sure, what about? 04:32.080 --> 04:33.080 You'd be better if we went out in the car, huh? 04:33.080 --> 04:34.800 Ain't no difference to me. 04:34.800 --> 04:35.800 You fellas stay here. 04:35.800 --> 04:36.800 I'll go out for some coffee. 04:36.800 --> 04:37.800 All right, thank you. 04:37.800 --> 04:38.800 Bring you back some? 04:38.800 --> 04:39.800 No. 04:39.800 --> 04:40.800 No, thanks. 04:40.800 --> 04:41.800 I won't be long. 04:41.800 --> 04:42.800 OK. 04:42.800 --> 04:47.600 What do you got to talk to me about? 04:47.600 --> 04:48.600 You seen Jim Boland lately? 04:48.600 --> 04:49.600 No, I haven't. 04:49.600 --> 04:50.600 When did you see him last? 04:50.600 --> 04:51.600 A couple months ago. 04:51.600 --> 04:52.600 Why? 04:52.600 --> 04:53.600 Why'd you see him? 04:53.600 --> 04:56.560 I came in here, wanted to know if I could help him out, give him a job, a place to sleep. 04:56.560 --> 04:57.560 Did you? 04:57.560 --> 05:01.240 No, I told him he could bunk at my place for a couple of days until he got squared away. 05:01.240 --> 05:02.240 Nothing I could do about a job. 05:02.240 --> 05:03.240 Why'd he come to you? 05:03.240 --> 05:04.240 I don't know. 05:04.240 --> 05:06.640 I met him at Q. Didn't have much to do with him. 05:06.640 --> 05:08.040 Hey, why'd you guys come to me? 05:08.040 --> 05:09.520 What makes you think I might be running with him? 05:09.520 --> 05:10.520 We didn't say you were. 05:10.520 --> 05:11.520 Same thing. 05:11.520 --> 05:12.520 You figure I know where he is. 05:12.520 --> 05:13.520 Well, the record says you knew him. 05:13.520 --> 05:14.520 We're just checking it out. 05:14.520 --> 05:15.520 I got nothing to do with him. 05:15.520 --> 05:16.520 I'm reporting every month. 05:16.520 --> 05:17.520 You check with my parole officer. 05:17.520 --> 05:18.520 He'll tell you. 05:18.520 --> 05:20.280 I've been carrying a bucket since the day I got out of the joint. 05:20.280 --> 05:21.280 I'm going to keep on carrying it. 05:21.280 --> 05:22.280 We got no beef with you, McGowan. 05:22.280 --> 05:23.880 We just want to get in touch with Boland. 05:23.880 --> 05:24.880 I'm sorry. 05:24.880 --> 05:26.880 There's nothing I can do to help you out. 05:26.880 --> 05:31.440 When he comes up, I'll give you a call. 05:31.440 --> 05:33.440 You know who he is? 05:33.440 --> 05:34.440 No, I never met him. 05:34.440 --> 05:36.160 Jim said they were cooking up some kind of deal. 05:36.160 --> 05:37.160 You know what it was? 05:37.160 --> 05:38.160 No. 05:38.160 --> 05:41.440 Look, I'd like to feed you guys, but there's nothing I can tell you. 05:41.440 --> 05:44.480 As far as I'm concerned, I want to stay away from Jim and the crowd he runs with. 05:44.480 --> 05:45.480 I want no part of him. 05:45.480 --> 05:46.480 I did my time. 05:46.480 --> 05:47.480 A couple more months, I'll finish up with the parole. 05:47.480 --> 05:48.800 I don't want to fall again. 05:48.800 --> 05:50.560 Nothing you can tell us about this guy, Phil, huh? 05:50.560 --> 05:51.560 Not a thing. 05:51.560 --> 05:52.560 You know where he met Boland? 05:52.560 --> 05:53.880 Seems like Jim mentioned it. 05:53.880 --> 05:55.760 I think it was some bar down on West Seventh. 05:55.760 --> 05:57.720 Just a guess, though, I couldn't back it. 05:57.720 --> 05:58.720 You know if Phil drove a car? 05:58.720 --> 05:59.720 Yeah. 05:59.720 --> 06:00.720 You know what kind? 06:00.720 --> 06:02.160 It seems like it was a Lincoln, late model sedan. 06:02.160 --> 06:03.160 How about the color? 06:03.160 --> 06:04.160 It was dark. 06:04.160 --> 06:06.120 I saw it once when he came by to pick up Jim. 06:06.120 --> 06:07.520 It was nighttime, I couldn't tell too good. 06:07.520 --> 06:08.520 It was just a dark color. 06:08.520 --> 06:09.520 Where was this? 06:09.520 --> 06:10.520 My place. 06:10.520 --> 06:13.320 I told you, Jim bumped with me a couple days right after he got in town. 06:13.320 --> 06:15.400 He just said you offered to let him stay with you, is that right? 06:15.400 --> 06:16.400 Well, same thing. 06:16.400 --> 06:17.600 Anyway, he was only there a couple of days. 06:17.600 --> 06:18.600 You say where he was going? 06:18.600 --> 06:20.160 No, I didn't see him. 06:20.160 --> 06:22.760 Him and me had a beef about how he wasn't looking for a job. 06:22.760 --> 06:24.520 He used to sit around all day reading magazines. 06:24.520 --> 06:26.480 We finally had a fight about it, I told him to get out. 06:26.480 --> 06:27.480 Wanted no part of him. 06:27.480 --> 06:29.480 I came home that night and he was gone. 06:29.480 --> 06:32.040 I haven't seen him since, I don't much want to either. 06:32.040 --> 06:34.120 Look, what are you after him for? 06:34.120 --> 06:35.120 What's he done? 06:35.120 --> 06:36.120 Just want to talk to him. 06:36.120 --> 06:38.160 He got a piece of these market jobs around town? 06:38.160 --> 06:39.480 Why do you ask that? 06:39.480 --> 06:41.040 Sounds like Jim, the way he works. 06:41.040 --> 06:42.560 I just figured maybe it was him. 06:42.560 --> 06:44.880 He checked the board, he violated parole. 06:44.880 --> 06:47.080 They tell us he hasn't shown up for three weeks. 06:47.080 --> 06:48.080 That's too bad. 06:48.080 --> 06:49.800 I kind of figure maybe he'd swing it this time. 06:49.800 --> 06:50.800 How do you mean? 06:50.800 --> 06:53.040 A couple times up in the joint we'd get to talking. 06:53.040 --> 06:54.880 He said he finally learned it. 06:54.880 --> 06:55.880 Figured out there was no way to beat it. 06:55.880 --> 06:58.240 Said if he got his parole he was going to stick by it. 06:58.240 --> 06:59.920 Get a job, carry a bucket. 06:59.920 --> 07:00.920 Too bad. 07:00.920 --> 07:03.080 All that talk, I really believed he met it. 07:03.080 --> 07:08.920 So did the parole board. 07:08.920 --> 07:13.440 Six weeks before, on March 3rd, the manager of a large supermarket had arrived at work. 07:13.440 --> 07:17.160 When he opened the front door, he found that a customer had followed him into the building. 07:17.160 --> 07:20.080 When the manager told the person that the store wasn't open for business yet, the man 07:20.080 --> 07:22.760 had drawn a gun and demanded that the safe be opened. 07:22.760 --> 07:27.440 The manager complied and after taking $1400 from the safe, the thief had fled. 07:27.440 --> 07:30.960 The manager was able to give us a good description of the holdup man and an accurate description 07:30.960 --> 07:31.960 of his car. 07:31.960 --> 07:35.320 He was unable to give us the license number and he could tell us little about the man 07:35.320 --> 07:37.120 who remained in the car. 07:37.120 --> 07:40.200 Immediate broadcasts were gotten out on the thieves but they'd apparently made good their 07:40.200 --> 07:42.320 escape. 07:42.320 --> 07:44.800 On March 12th, the procedure was repeated. 07:44.800 --> 07:48.480 Again we were able to get good descriptions but we were unable to come up with the suspects. 07:48.480 --> 07:51.880 In the following four weeks, the thieves hit five more times. 07:51.880 --> 07:54.400 Each time the MO employed was the same. 07:54.400 --> 07:57.800 The descriptions from each of the victims tallied with those that we'd already gotten. 07:57.800 --> 07:59.780 The description of the car was the same. 07:59.780 --> 08:03.040 This information was turned over to the stats office for compilation. 08:03.040 --> 08:05.640 Their findings listed 14 possible suspects. 08:05.640 --> 08:08.960 The packages of these men were pulled from R&I and the mug shots were shown to the victims. 08:08.960 --> 08:12.360 In each instance, one picture was picked as bearing a close resemblance to the holdup 08:12.360 --> 08:13.640 man. 08:13.640 --> 08:18.280 The prime suspect was identified as James Boland, WMA, 32 years old. 08:18.280 --> 08:22.040 He'd been arrested twice for violation of section 211 of the penal code. 08:22.040 --> 08:25.840 He'd been convicted once and had been sentenced to San Quentin for a period of from five years 08:25.840 --> 08:26.840 to life. 08:26.840 --> 08:30.360 However, at the prison, his behavior and attitude had been good and he'd been paroled on February 08:30.360 --> 08:33.240 19th, 10 days before the first holdup. 08:33.240 --> 08:37.680 We found that Boland had violated his parole and was wanted by the state adult authority. 08:37.680 --> 08:40.160 A check of his friends netted us no new information. 08:40.160 --> 08:42.320 His relatives could tell us nothing about his whereabouts. 08:42.320 --> 08:44.120 The legwork continued. 08:44.120 --> 08:46.360 Informants were questioned but were of no material aid. 08:46.360 --> 08:48.840 Saturday, April 18th, 846 p.m. 08:48.840 --> 08:52.080 I'd just gotten home from work and I was unlocking my front door. 08:52.080 --> 08:53.080 Hello? 08:53.080 --> 08:56.080 Oh yeah, Dave. 08:56.080 --> 08:58.080 Uh huh. 08:58.080 --> 09:03.360 Yeah, well I just got in. 09:03.360 --> 09:04.360 When was that? 09:04.360 --> 09:05.360 Yeah, I guess so. 09:05.360 --> 09:06.360 Yeah. 09:06.360 --> 09:07.360 I'll have to call my partner. 09:07.360 --> 09:08.360 Right. 09:08.360 --> 09:09.360 Yeah, where? 09:09.360 --> 09:10.360 Yeah, I know where that is. 09:10.360 --> 09:11.360 Well, let's see. 09:11.360 --> 09:12.360 It's 847 now. 09:12.360 --> 09:13.360 It'll take us about 15, 20 minutes. 09:13.360 --> 09:14.360 Right. 09:14.360 --> 09:15.360 Okay, we'll see you there. 09:15.360 --> 09:16.360 Yeah, sure. 09:16.360 --> 09:17.360 Bye. 09:17.360 --> 09:18.360 Hello, Fay? 09:18.360 --> 09:19.360 Yeah, Frank, there yet? 09:19.360 --> 09:22.360 What if I could talk to him? 09:22.360 --> 09:23.360 Yeah. 09:23.360 --> 09:26.360 Oh, Frank, I just got a call from Dave Hyde. 09:26.360 --> 09:31.240 Yeah, he says he wants to see us right away. 09:31.240 --> 09:32.240 Bar down on 6th Street. 09:32.240 --> 09:33.240 Yeah. 09:33.240 --> 09:34.240 No, all the way downstairs. 09:34.240 --> 09:35.240 Okay. 09:35.240 --> 09:36.240 What? 09:36.240 --> 09:37.240 Yeah, I'll be there. 09:37.240 --> 09:38.240 Okay. 09:38.240 --> 09:39.240 I'll be there. 09:39.240 --> 09:40.240 Okay. 09:40.240 --> 09:41.240 I'll be there. 09:41.240 --> 09:42.240 Okay. 09:42.240 --> 09:43.240 I'll be there. 09:43.240 --> 09:44.240 Okay. 09:44.240 --> 09:45.240 What? 09:45.240 --> 09:46.240 Yeah. 09:46.240 --> 09:53.480 No, he says he knows where we can find Jim Boland. 09:53.480 --> 09:56.600 Ten minutes later, Frank picked me up and we drove down to the cocktail lounge that our 09:56.600 --> 09:59.040 informant, David Hyde, had picked as a meeting place. 09:59.040 --> 10:02.680 When we walked in, we couldn't see Hyde, but the bartender told us that he was in one 10:02.680 --> 10:03.760 of the rear booths. 10:03.760 --> 10:04.760 We walked back. 10:04.760 --> 10:05.760 Hi, fellas, come out. 10:05.760 --> 10:06.760 Hi, Dave. 10:06.760 --> 10:07.760 Hi, Dave. 10:07.760 --> 10:08.760 What do you got for us? 10:08.760 --> 10:09.760 Lousy bummer. 10:09.760 --> 10:17.640 All the things I did for him, all the things, and now he's got a chance to settle up and 10:17.640 --> 10:19.120 he says he's having no part of me. 10:19.120 --> 10:20.120 You talking about Boland? 10:20.120 --> 10:21.120 Boland, what a bum. 10:21.120 --> 10:23.880 All I've done for him, this is the way he pays me back. 10:23.880 --> 10:26.040 Boy, you just wait till I spread the word around. 10:26.040 --> 10:28.520 There won't be anybody in town that'll have anything to do with him. 10:28.520 --> 10:29.520 He's through in this town. 10:29.520 --> 10:30.520 T-H-R-E-W. 10:30.520 --> 10:32.920 All right, Dave, settle down and give us the word. 10:32.920 --> 10:33.920 Where'd you see him? 10:33.920 --> 10:35.240 Bar over on 7th. 10:35.240 --> 10:36.240 Big man now. 10:36.240 --> 10:37.240 Got a role. 10:37.240 --> 10:38.240 Looks like a branch of Fort Knox. 10:38.240 --> 10:40.920 A lot of money, but he's too good for his old friends. 10:40.920 --> 10:41.920 Too good. 10:41.920 --> 10:46.080 See, how about you fellas pop in for a drink for a pal? 10:46.080 --> 10:47.080 How about it? 10:47.080 --> 10:48.080 You've had enough. 10:48.080 --> 10:49.080 Come on, why don't you see Boland? 10:49.080 --> 10:51.160 Just this morning, big man. 10:51.160 --> 10:53.080 Got good clothes, driving a big car. 10:53.080 --> 10:55.480 Asked him for a loan just to get squared away. 10:55.480 --> 10:58.600 Pick up a couple of tabs I got around town and just see me over the hump. 10:58.600 --> 11:00.080 You know what kind of car he's driving? 11:00.080 --> 11:01.720 Yeah, a big Lincoln. 11:01.720 --> 11:02.720 Brand new. 11:02.720 --> 11:04.080 Got red leather trim on the seats. 11:04.080 --> 11:08.960 He's got one of those seats that goes up and down, but he can't give a pal a helping hand. 11:08.960 --> 11:11.280 I spread this word around town, he's really finished. 11:11.280 --> 11:13.960 Ain't a guy in town to touch him with a 12-foot pole. 11:13.960 --> 11:15.320 A real darb, a real darb. 11:15.320 --> 11:16.320 You know where he's living? 11:16.320 --> 11:18.480 I don't know, probably got a house out in Bel Air. 11:18.480 --> 11:19.760 Looks like he could afford it. 11:19.760 --> 11:21.600 Who's he running with, you know? 11:21.600 --> 11:22.960 Some guy who's lightening cigarettes. 11:22.960 --> 11:24.000 What's that? 11:24.000 --> 11:26.120 Some guy who's lightening cigarettes all the time. 11:26.120 --> 11:27.840 Supposed to be some gun from the East. 11:27.840 --> 11:29.920 I think he's such a big shot. 11:29.920 --> 11:33.400 The cheap kind, you know, the kind of guy who has his suits cut so as you can see they're 11:33.400 --> 11:34.400 carrying a gun. 11:34.400 --> 11:35.400 You know, cheap. 11:35.400 --> 11:36.400 You know this fella's name? 11:36.400 --> 11:39.280 A couple times I heard old Jim call him Phil. 11:39.280 --> 11:41.280 Phil's not mine, a real darb. 11:41.280 --> 11:44.400 Hey, fellas, how about a drink? 11:44.400 --> 11:45.800 I'm feeling real bad. 11:45.800 --> 11:46.800 You still on H? 11:46.800 --> 11:49.080 Oh, no, no, no, no, I swear to you. 11:49.080 --> 11:51.160 I haven't had a pop in a long time. 11:51.160 --> 11:52.560 I'm trying to get off this stuff. 11:52.560 --> 11:55.960 Figured if I could get drunk enough it wouldn't be so bad. 11:55.960 --> 11:56.960 Rough go. 11:56.960 --> 11:58.800 Come on, how about a drink? 11:58.800 --> 11:59.800 You've had enough, Dave. 11:59.800 --> 12:00.960 You know if Baldwin's carrying a gun? 12:00.960 --> 12:02.360 I don't know for sure. 12:02.360 --> 12:03.480 I didn't see one. 12:03.480 --> 12:04.880 This darb Phil's got one. 12:04.880 --> 12:06.800 He's got his coat cut so as you can see it. 12:06.800 --> 12:07.800 Real cheap, small time. 12:07.800 --> 12:10.480 You want to show us where you saw Baldwin? 12:10.480 --> 12:13.240 I'll take you there if I have to carry you on my back. 12:13.240 --> 12:15.000 What a way to treat a friend. 12:15.000 --> 12:19.880 All the times I've helped him when he's had a bad yen and now he treats me this way. 12:19.880 --> 12:20.880 Real dog in a manger. 12:20.880 --> 12:23.920 I got a lot of friends in this town, a lot of buddies. 12:23.920 --> 12:25.920 Word gets out about Jim, he's finished. 12:25.920 --> 12:26.920 Miserable bum. 12:26.920 --> 12:29.680 I think about the rough times him and me had together. 12:29.680 --> 12:30.680 I get ill. 12:30.680 --> 12:31.680 I ill. 12:31.680 --> 12:33.640 All right, let's go. 12:33.640 --> 12:35.320 If you nail him, are you going back to the joint? 12:35.320 --> 12:36.320 I suppose so. 12:36.320 --> 12:37.320 How long are they going to give him? 12:37.320 --> 12:38.320 That's up to the court. 12:38.320 --> 12:42.320 There ain't a court in the world that'll give that bum what he's got coming. 12:42.320 --> 12:43.880 All I want to see is that he gets it good. 12:43.880 --> 12:48.120 I want to see him turn the key and lose it after what he did to me. 12:48.120 --> 12:50.280 I'll tell you something else too. 12:50.280 --> 12:51.280 Yeah, what's that? 12:51.280 --> 12:52.280 He's building a big habit. 12:52.280 --> 12:53.280 Is he hooked? 12:53.280 --> 12:54.920 He ain't chipping with it. 12:54.920 --> 12:58.080 I bet money he's shooting four or five caps a day that much easy. 12:58.080 --> 12:59.080 You sure about that? 12:59.080 --> 13:00.080 Why'd I lie to you? 13:00.080 --> 13:01.080 What reason I got to lie? 13:01.080 --> 13:02.080 All right, Hyde, let's go. 13:02.080 --> 13:03.080 Hey, how about a quick belt before we go home? 13:03.080 --> 13:04.080 I'm feeling rocky. 13:04.080 --> 13:05.080 Just a quick one. 13:05.080 --> 13:06.080 Let's pick up Bolin first, then we'll see what we can do for you. 13:06.080 --> 13:07.080 Yeah, and then you'll take care of it, huh? 13:07.080 --> 13:08.080 We'll see. 13:08.080 --> 13:09.080 Yeah, just so he gets his every pound. 13:09.080 --> 13:10.080 Can't wait to see the look on his face when he finds out the whistle's been blown. 13:10.080 --> 13:11.080 Oh, I can't wait. 13:11.080 --> 13:12.080 Neither can we. 13:12.080 --> 13:13.080 Let's go. 13:13.080 --> 13:14.080 9.13 p.m. 13:14.080 --> 13:15.080 Hyde, Frank, and I drove over to West 7th Street. 13:15.080 --> 13:16.080 Our informant pointed out the bar where he'd seen the suspect. 13:16.080 --> 13:17.080 We're going to have to get him out of there. 13:17.080 --> 13:18.080 We're going to have to get him out of there. 13:18.080 --> 13:19.080 We're going to have to get him out of there. 13:19.080 --> 13:38.080 We called the ops and told them where we were, and then we went into the place. 13:38.080 --> 13:40.080 Bolin wasn't there, but the bartender said that he was expected. 13:40.080 --> 13:43.880 The three of us sat down in a booth at the rear of the place, and we ordered black coffee 13:43.880 --> 13:44.880 for our informant. 13:44.880 --> 13:45.880 We waited. 13:45.880 --> 13:46.880 9.30 p.m. 13:46.880 --> 13:47.880 10.00. 13:47.880 --> 13:48.880 10.30. 13:48.880 --> 13:49.880 There he is. 13:49.880 --> 13:50.880 Coming in now. 13:50.880 --> 13:52.340 When you saw him this morning, did he say this guy, Phil, was going to be here? 13:52.340 --> 13:53.340 No, not to me. 13:53.340 --> 13:54.340 How about it, Joe? 13:54.340 --> 13:55.340 You better get out of here, Dave. 13:55.340 --> 13:56.340 Use the side door, will you? 13:56.340 --> 13:57.340 Yeah. 13:57.340 --> 13:58.400 We'll check with you later. 13:58.400 --> 13:59.400 All right. 13:59.400 --> 14:00.400 Let's go. 14:00.400 --> 14:01.400 Bolin? 14:01.400 --> 14:02.400 What? 14:02.400 --> 14:03.400 You're Jim Bolin? 14:03.400 --> 14:04.400 What do you want? 14:04.400 --> 14:05.400 Police officers. 14:05.400 --> 14:06.400 You're under arrest. 14:06.400 --> 14:07.400 All right, Bolin, come on. 14:07.400 --> 14:08.400 Get up. 14:08.400 --> 14:09.400 Come on. 14:09.400 --> 14:10.400 On your feet. 14:10.400 --> 14:11.400 Stand still. 14:11.400 --> 14:12.400 Good girl. 14:12.400 --> 14:13.400 Good girl. 14:13.400 --> 14:14.400 Good girl. 14:14.400 --> 14:15.400 Good girl. 14:15.400 --> 14:16.520 You're going to be fine. 14:16.520 --> 14:17.520 You're going to be fine. 14:17.520 --> 14:18.520 Stand still. 14:20.520 --> 14:21.520 He's clean, Joe. 14:21.520 --> 14:22.520 What's going on? 14:22.520 --> 14:23.520 What are you pulling a deal like this for? 14:23.520 --> 14:24.520 I didn't cause any trouble. 14:24.520 --> 14:25.520 All right, come on, let's go. 14:25.520 --> 14:26.520 Somebody blew the whistle on me. 14:26.520 --> 14:27.520 Somebody did. 14:27.520 --> 14:28.520 I'm gonna find out. 14:28.520 --> 14:29.520 I'm gonna get to him. 14:29.520 --> 14:30.520 I swear I'll get to him. 14:30.520 --> 14:31.520 Where's Phil? 14:31.520 --> 14:32.520 Huh? 14:32.520 --> 14:33.520 Phil, where is he? 14:33.520 --> 14:34.520 I don't know what you're talking about. 14:34.520 --> 14:35.520 All right, Bolum, let's go. 14:35.520 --> 14:37.520 Listen, you tell whoever it was who blew the whistle, 14:37.520 --> 14:38.520 they better start looking for a place to hide, 14:38.520 --> 14:40.520 because I'm gonna get to him if it's the last thing I do. 14:40.520 --> 14:41.520 You called it. 14:41.520 --> 14:42.520 What? 14:42.520 --> 14:47.520 It might be. 14:47.520 --> 14:48.520 Ten, fourteen p.m. 14:48.520 --> 14:51.520 We returned the suspect to the city hall and questioned him. 14:51.520 --> 14:53.520 He refused to admit any complicity in the holdups. 14:53.520 --> 14:55.520 He refused to tell us who Phil was. 14:55.520 --> 14:58.520 We talked to him for five and a half hours and we got nothing. 14:58.520 --> 15:00.520 At three thirty a.m. he was taken over the main jail 15:00.520 --> 15:02.520 and booked in on suspicion of robbery. 15:02.520 --> 15:04.520 We checked out the room that he told us he was living in, 15:04.520 --> 15:07.520 but we were unable to come up with anything that would tie him in with the holdups. 15:07.520 --> 15:08.520 Three days passed. 15:08.520 --> 15:12.520 On Tuesday, April 21st at eight thirty p.m., a special show up was arranged. 15:12.520 --> 15:14.520 Out of the seven victims who were present, 15:14.520 --> 15:17.520 five said that the suspect looked very much like the man who had held them up, 15:17.520 --> 15:20.520 but none of them would give us a positive identification. 15:20.520 --> 15:23.520 Jim Boland was returned to the felony cell block and we talked to the victims. 15:23.520 --> 15:26.520 All of them commented on the fact that the suspect we had in custody 15:26.520 --> 15:29.520 was the same height, the same weight, and had the same general coloring and appearance 15:29.520 --> 15:31.520 as the person who'd robbed them. 15:31.520 --> 15:34.520 However, none of them would swear positively that he was the person. 15:34.520 --> 15:36.520 At ten fifteen p.m., Frank and I went up to the felony section 15:36.520 --> 15:39.520 and had Boland brought from his cell to the interview room. 15:39.520 --> 15:42.520 His previous sullen attitude had changed considerably. 15:42.520 --> 15:44.520 How'd I make out? You got any identifications? 15:44.520 --> 15:46.520 Five of them say you look like the man. 15:46.520 --> 15:47.520 Well, they're wrong. They gotta be. 15:47.520 --> 15:49.520 I didn't have nothing to do with those holdups. 15:49.520 --> 15:51.520 If they say I'm the guy, then they're making a bad mistake. 15:51.520 --> 15:53.520 They seem pretty sure about what they say. 15:53.520 --> 15:55.520 They can't be. Look, they saw me behind the screen. 15:55.520 --> 15:58.520 You bring them up here. Let me talk to them face to face. 15:58.520 --> 16:00.520 I'll talk to them. I got nothing to hide. Just let me talk to them. 16:00.520 --> 16:01.520 You know we can't do that. 16:01.520 --> 16:03.520 I always thought it was up to you to prove a guy was innocent 16:03.520 --> 16:05.520 as well as trying to make him for a job. 16:05.520 --> 16:07.520 I'm not sure what kind of guy he is. 16:07.520 --> 16:09.520 Then why don't you give me a break? I got no part in these heists. 16:09.520 --> 16:10.520 You look good for them. 16:10.520 --> 16:13.520 Probably a lot of other guys who do too, but that don't mean they are. 16:13.520 --> 16:15.520 Come on, what do I have to do to make you believe? 16:15.520 --> 16:17.520 Why don't you come off of this, Boland? We got you going in. 16:17.520 --> 16:19.520 Why not play it smart and cop out? 16:19.520 --> 16:21.520 How can I cop out when I got no part in it? 16:21.520 --> 16:23.520 I'll lay it out for you. The ammo used in the jobs matches yours. 16:23.520 --> 16:26.520 Big deal. A lot of guys work the way I used to. 16:26.520 --> 16:28.520 Physical description we got matches you. 16:28.520 --> 16:30.520 So I haven't got two heads. A lot of guys look like me. 16:30.520 --> 16:32.520 The beef in the bar. If you didn't have anything to worry about, 16:32.520 --> 16:33.520 why'd you start the fight? 16:33.520 --> 16:36.520 How'd I know who you guys were? Maybe he was out to pull a heist on me. 16:36.520 --> 16:38.520 Oh, that's a nice try, Boland, but it won't work. 16:38.520 --> 16:40.520 You knew we were officers. Now why don't you save us a lot of time 16:40.520 --> 16:41.520 and tell us the truth here? 16:41.520 --> 16:43.520 You guys wouldn't know it if it'll bit you. 16:43.520 --> 16:44.520 There's one way to find out. 16:44.520 --> 16:45.520 Yeah? 16:45.520 --> 16:46.520 Try it. 16:47.520 --> 16:48.520 Got a cigarette? 16:48.520 --> 16:49.520 Here. 16:51.520 --> 16:52.520 You want one? 16:53.520 --> 16:54.520 Yeah. 16:58.520 --> 16:59.520 Okay. 17:00.520 --> 17:01.520 I'll level with you. 17:01.520 --> 17:03.520 I figured you was after me for P.V. 17:03.520 --> 17:05.520 I didn't have any idea about the 211 rep. 17:05.520 --> 17:06.520 Is that why you started the fight? 17:06.520 --> 17:07.520 I swear it is. 17:07.520 --> 17:09.520 How about the money you got? Where'd it come from? 17:09.520 --> 17:10.520 I got real lucky with a pair of dice. 17:10.520 --> 17:12.520 You expect us to believe that? 17:12.520 --> 17:13.520 That's the way things are. 17:13.520 --> 17:14.520 Where'd you hit the light? 17:14.520 --> 17:16.520 I can't tell you that. It wouldn't help any. 17:16.520 --> 17:17.520 Give you an alibi? 17:17.520 --> 17:19.520 Either you believe it or you don't. That's the way it was. 17:19.520 --> 17:20.520 I'm trying to level with you. 17:20.520 --> 17:22.520 We got a rumble at your back on H now. How about that? 17:22.520 --> 17:23.520 Where'd you hear that? 17:23.520 --> 17:24.520 We heard it. 17:25.520 --> 17:26.520 Yeah. 17:26.520 --> 17:28.520 Well, you tell them I haven't had a pop in over four years. 17:28.520 --> 17:30.520 Not since I went up to the joint. 17:30.520 --> 17:32.520 How about this link in your driver? 17:32.520 --> 17:33.520 Don't belong to me. 17:33.520 --> 17:34.520 Who owns it? 17:34.520 --> 17:35.520 Phil. 17:35.520 --> 17:36.520 Now we're back to that. You gonna tell us who Phil is? 17:36.520 --> 17:38.520 Listen, the guy's a friend of mine. 17:38.520 --> 17:39.520 I don't want to bring nothing down on him. 17:39.520 --> 17:41.520 He's leaving you way out in the cold. 17:41.520 --> 17:43.520 I suppose so. 17:43.520 --> 17:45.520 Well, if I tell you, you won't know, Willie. 17:45.520 --> 17:46.520 Not from us. 17:46.520 --> 17:47.520 Okay. 17:47.520 --> 17:49.520 Name's Phil Spence. 17:49.520 --> 17:50.520 How well do you know him? 17:50.520 --> 17:52.520 Say hello to, buy him a drink. 17:52.520 --> 17:53.520 That's not the way we get it. 17:53.520 --> 17:55.520 I don't care how you get it. That's the way it is. 17:55.520 --> 17:57.520 This Spence, he ever fallen? 17:57.520 --> 17:58.520 I hear yes. 17:58.520 --> 17:59.520 What for? 17:59.520 --> 18:00.520 211, ADW. 18:00.520 --> 18:01.520 Where? 18:01.520 --> 18:02.520 Here, California. 18:02.520 --> 18:03.520 You on parole? 18:03.520 --> 18:05.520 No, he got out clean. At least that's the way I hear it. 18:05.520 --> 18:07.520 You know where we can pick him up? 18:07.520 --> 18:09.520 I told you, I buy him a beer once in a while. I don't pay his rent. 18:09.520 --> 18:11.520 You're the one who said you wanted to go down the middle. 18:11.520 --> 18:13.520 All right, but I'm giving it to you that way. 18:13.520 --> 18:15.520 I don't know where his pad is. 18:15.520 --> 18:16.520 Does he work for a living? 18:16.520 --> 18:18.520 I don't know. I never heard him talk about a job. 18:18.520 --> 18:20.520 You know who he runs with? 18:20.520 --> 18:21.520 Some guy named Ed. 18:21.520 --> 18:22.520 You ever see him? 18:22.520 --> 18:23.520 No. No where he can be reached. 18:23.520 --> 18:26.520 Sometimes they hang around the bar where you pick me up. 18:26.520 --> 18:28.520 How about it, fellas? You gonna buy this story? 18:28.520 --> 18:30.520 Yeah, we'll check it out. 18:30.520 --> 18:32.520 I swear it, I got no part in it. 18:32.520 --> 18:34.520 Sure, you got me cold for P.V. 18:34.520 --> 18:36.520 I know I gotta go back for that, but I want nothing to do with the rest. 18:36.520 --> 18:37.520 We'll check it out. 18:37.520 --> 18:40.520 You do that. You'll find out what I said's the truth. 18:40.520 --> 18:42.520 You willing to identify these two other guys for us? 18:42.520 --> 18:43.520 How do you mean? 18:43.520 --> 18:44.520 Check over some mugs. 18:44.520 --> 18:46.520 Sure, just as long as you believe me. 18:46.520 --> 18:47.520 We'll see. 18:47.520 --> 18:48.520 You won't regret it. 18:48.520 --> 18:50.520 A lot of things I can tell you if you get me out of this. 18:50.520 --> 18:52.520 A lot of information I can give you. 18:52.520 --> 18:53.520 Let's go. 18:55.520 --> 18:56.520 You gonna give me a break, huh? 18:56.520 --> 18:58.520 We'll check it. 18:58.520 --> 19:02.520 Say, either one of you guys got some extra butts. 19:02.520 --> 19:03.520 I'm out. 19:03.520 --> 19:05.520 Yeah, here, take these. 19:05.520 --> 19:06.520 Thanks. 19:06.520 --> 19:07.520 Anything else you need? 19:07.520 --> 19:09.520 Not unless you can fix it for me to shave. 19:09.520 --> 19:11.520 We'll talk to the jailer about it. 19:11.520 --> 19:13.520 Beard's starting to itch. I'd like to get it off. 19:13.520 --> 19:15.520 We'll see what we can do. 19:16.520 --> 19:18.520 You gonna start checking my story now? 19:18.520 --> 19:19.520 That's right. 19:19.520 --> 19:20.520 You go to work on it. You'll find out. 19:20.520 --> 19:21.520 Yeah, sure. 19:22.520 --> 19:25.520 I'll pay you back. Just believe me, I'll pay you back. 19:25.520 --> 19:26.520 I'll pay you back. 19:31.520 --> 19:32.520 Figure he's telling the truth? 19:32.520 --> 19:33.520 It's hard to say. 19:33.520 --> 19:34.520 The identifications weren't too sure. 19:34.520 --> 19:36.520 Everything else is, there's only one way. 19:36.520 --> 19:37.520 Yeah. 19:37.520 --> 19:38.520 Check him out. 19:48.520 --> 19:53.520 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 19:53.520 --> 19:55.520 At cigarette dealers. 19:56.520 --> 19:58.520 In vending machines. 20:02.520 --> 20:05.520 At supermarkets and stores coast to coast. 20:05.520 --> 20:07.520 Chesterfield, please. 20:07.520 --> 20:09.520 Smokers by the thousands. 20:09.520 --> 20:14.520 Yes, smokers by the thousands are now changing to Chesterfield. 20:14.520 --> 20:21.520 The only cigarette ever to give you one proof of low nicotine, highest quality. 20:21.520 --> 20:25.520 Chemical analysis of the country's six leading brands confirm that. 20:25.520 --> 20:31.520 Two, the only cigarette ever to give you this proven record with smokers. 20:31.520 --> 20:35.520 Again and again, over a full year and one half, 20:35.520 --> 20:39.520 a group of Chesterfield smokers have been given thorough medical examinations. 20:39.520 --> 20:42.520 The doctor's reports are a matter of record. 20:42.520 --> 20:49.520 No adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield. 20:49.520 --> 20:54.520 A responsible independent research laboratory supervises this continuing program. 20:54.520 --> 20:59.520 Chesterfield, the only cigarette ever with a record like this. 20:59.520 --> 21:03.520 Chesterfield, best for you. 21:03.520 --> 21:10.520 ["The Star Spangled Banner"] 21:10.520 --> 21:14.520 Tuesday, April 21st, after we left the suspect Jim Boland at the main jail, 21:14.520 --> 21:18.520 Frank and I went back to the city hall and checked the name Phil Spence through R&I. 21:18.520 --> 21:21.520 There were nine packages carrying records for men with that name. 21:21.520 --> 21:25.520 Two of them had served terms for robbery in the state penitentiary at Folsom, California. 21:25.520 --> 21:29.520 We got off communications to George Brereton up at Sacramento and to Washington, 21:29.520 --> 21:32.520 requesting information on known criminals having that name. 21:32.520 --> 21:36.520 1230 a.m., we went back to the jail and had Boland brought from his cell. 21:36.520 --> 21:40.520 We showed him the mug shots from the packages we had, but he failed to give us an identification. 21:40.520 --> 21:42.520 We talked to him about Phil Spence. 21:42.520 --> 21:45.520 He gave us all of the information he could about the missing suspect's habits. 21:45.520 --> 21:49.520 At this point, we were still not sure that Boland wasn't implicated in the holdups, 21:49.520 --> 21:51.520 but we had to check out what facts we had. 21:51.520 --> 21:57.520 The one point which seemed to verify Boland's story was that the victims were unable to give a positive identification of him. 21:57.520 --> 22:00.520 1.30 a.m., we went back to the office and checked out for the night. 22:00.520 --> 22:06.520 The following morning, Wednesday, April 22nd, we started to recheck Boland's story of his movements during the times of the holdups. 22:06.520 --> 22:10.520 Upon re-questioning some of the witnesses, we found that they weren't as sure as they had been of the facts. 22:10.520 --> 22:13.520 That afternoon, we got a kickback from Sacramento. 22:13.520 --> 22:15.520 It contained three more possibles. 22:15.520 --> 22:20.520 C.I.I. said that they were sending us mug shots of the men by airmail special delivery. 22:20.520 --> 22:23.520 Boland gave us a list of places Spence was known to frequent. 22:23.520 --> 22:26.520 We came up with the name of a girl that the suspect was known to see from time to time. 22:26.520 --> 22:28.520 We got the address and we went out to talk to her. 22:28.520 --> 22:31.520 Knock, knock, knock. 22:31.520 --> 22:34.520 Knock, knock, knock. 22:34.520 --> 22:35.520 Doesn't look like she's home. 22:35.520 --> 22:37.520 We better check with the manager, huh? 22:37.520 --> 22:39.520 Yeah. 22:39.520 --> 22:40.520 Yeah? 22:40.520 --> 22:41.520 Eugene Schofield. 22:41.520 --> 22:42.520 Why? 22:42.520 --> 22:43.520 I didn't see her. 22:43.520 --> 22:44.520 Who are you? 22:44.520 --> 22:45.520 Police officers. 22:45.520 --> 22:50.520 Come in. 22:50.520 --> 22:51.520 I'm her. 22:51.520 --> 22:52.520 What do you want? 22:52.520 --> 22:53.520 I'd like to ask you a few questions. 22:53.520 --> 22:54.520 I figured that. 22:54.520 --> 22:56.520 Move some of those clothes and sit down. 22:56.520 --> 22:57.520 Can I get you anything? 22:57.520 --> 22:58.520 A drink maybe? 22:58.520 --> 22:59.520 No, ma'am. 22:59.520 --> 23:00.520 Thank you. 23:00.520 --> 23:01.520 All right. 23:01.520 --> 23:02.520 What do you want to talk about? 23:02.520 --> 23:04.520 How long has it been since you've seen Phil Spence? 23:04.520 --> 23:05.520 Who says I know him? 23:05.520 --> 23:07.520 We understand you know him pretty well. 23:07.520 --> 23:08.520 I've gone out with him a couple of times. 23:08.520 --> 23:09.520 That's the end of it. 23:09.520 --> 23:10.520 When did you see him last? 23:10.520 --> 23:12.520 A couple of days ago. 23:12.520 --> 23:13.520 Monday night, I think. 23:13.520 --> 23:14.520 You know where he is now? 23:14.520 --> 23:15.520 No. 23:15.520 --> 23:16.520 You know where he lives? 23:16.520 --> 23:17.520 Some hotel over on Flower. 23:17.520 --> 23:18.520 You know the name of the place? 23:18.520 --> 23:19.520 No. 23:19.520 --> 23:20.520 You ever been there? 23:20.520 --> 23:21.520 No. 23:21.520 --> 23:22.520 You know what Spence does for a living? 23:22.520 --> 23:23.520 I don't know. 23:23.520 --> 23:24.520 Got some kind of a job, I guess. 23:24.520 --> 23:25.520 He ever talk to you about what he does? 23:25.520 --> 23:27.520 I told you I'd just been out with him a couple of times. 23:27.520 --> 23:29.520 I didn't ask for his birth certificate. 23:29.520 --> 23:31.520 I just said I'd go out with him. 23:31.520 --> 23:33.520 There are all these questions about it anyway. 23:33.520 --> 23:34.520 What do you want to talk to Phil about? 23:34.520 --> 23:35.520 It's a personal matter. 23:35.520 --> 23:37.520 What kind of trouble is he in now? 23:37.520 --> 23:38.520 He been in trouble before? 23:38.520 --> 23:39.520 I don't know. 23:39.520 --> 23:41.520 Just with you cops around, must be something he's done. 23:41.520 --> 23:43.520 Spence got any close friends that you know of? 23:43.520 --> 23:44.520 Couple. 23:44.520 --> 23:45.520 You know who they are? 23:45.520 --> 23:48.520 One of them is a guy named Jim something. 23:48.520 --> 23:49.520 How about the rest? 23:49.520 --> 23:50.520 Feli calls Ed. 23:50.520 --> 23:51.520 What do you know about Ed? 23:51.520 --> 23:52.520 Not much. 23:52.520 --> 23:53.520 Is he in it too? 23:53.520 --> 23:54.520 Ma'am? 23:54.520 --> 23:57.520 He mixed up in this personal thing you want to talk to Phil about? 23:57.520 --> 23:58.520 Maybe. 23:58.520 --> 23:59.520 Never did like him. 23:59.520 --> 24:01.520 I always figured he'd end up getting Phil in trouble. 24:01.520 --> 24:02.520 Phil see quite a bit of him? 24:02.520 --> 24:03.520 Yeah. 24:03.520 --> 24:05.520 I think he's maybe in some kind of business deal with Ed. 24:05.520 --> 24:06.520 You ever say what the deal was? 24:06.520 --> 24:07.520 Not to me. 24:07.520 --> 24:10.520 One night a couple of weeks ago, he got real looped and him and Phil were talking about it. 24:10.520 --> 24:11.520 What'd they say? 24:11.520 --> 24:12.520 I don't know. 24:12.520 --> 24:13.520 Phil told me to go powder my nose. 24:13.520 --> 24:14.520 I don't know what they said. 24:14.520 --> 24:16.520 And how do you know what they talked about? 24:16.520 --> 24:20.520 Because when I came back, I heard Phil say something about how the deal was going to work out all right. 24:20.520 --> 24:21.520 Then he saw me and they shut up. 24:21.520 --> 24:22.520 Phil owns a car, doesn't he? 24:22.520 --> 24:24.520 Yeah, a new Lincoln. 24:24.520 --> 24:26.520 You ever let anybody else drive it? 24:26.520 --> 24:28.520 Once in a while he lets Jim take it. 24:28.520 --> 24:29.520 Not often. 24:29.520 --> 24:31.520 Phil's kind of touchy about the car. 24:31.520 --> 24:33.520 Say, how'd you fellas know about me? 24:33.520 --> 24:34.520 Routine. 24:34.520 --> 24:36.520 Checking Phil out, your name came up. 24:36.520 --> 24:37.520 Oh, that's all, huh? 24:37.520 --> 24:38.520 Ma'am. 24:38.520 --> 24:39.520 I'm not mixed up in it. 24:39.520 --> 24:41.520 You can answer that better than we can. 24:41.520 --> 24:42.520 Yeah. 24:42.520 --> 24:44.520 Well, I want you to know that I'm not. 24:44.520 --> 24:45.520 I got nothing to do with Phil. 24:45.520 --> 24:46.520 I mean it. 24:46.520 --> 24:47.520 I just met the guy. 24:47.520 --> 24:48.520 I had a couple of dates with him. 24:48.520 --> 24:49.520 He's hung up on something. 24:49.520 --> 24:50.520 I got nothing to do with it. 24:50.520 --> 24:51.520 You gotta believe that. 24:51.520 --> 24:52.520 When are you gonna see Spence again? 24:52.520 --> 24:54.520 You believe what I tell you, don't you? 24:54.520 --> 24:55.520 If he's in trouble, I got no part of it. 24:55.520 --> 24:57.520 When are you gonna see him again, lady? 24:57.520 --> 24:59.520 You mean when have I got a date? 24:59.520 --> 25:00.520 Yes, ma'am. 25:00.520 --> 25:01.520 Tomorrow night. 25:01.520 --> 25:02.520 He's gonna pick me up when I get through work. 25:02.520 --> 25:03.520 Where's that? 25:03.520 --> 25:04.520 Far down in Olympic. 25:04.520 --> 25:06.520 I'm a hostess there. 25:06.520 --> 25:07.520 Is that where you met him? 25:07.520 --> 25:08.520 Yeah, he came in one night. 25:08.520 --> 25:09.520 We got to talk. 25:09.520 --> 25:10.520 He asked me for a date. 25:10.520 --> 25:12.520 I don't want you to get the wrong idea about it, though. 25:12.520 --> 25:13.520 Ma'am? 25:13.520 --> 25:14.520 Well, about how I met him. 25:14.520 --> 25:15.520 I don't usually go out with the customers. 25:15.520 --> 25:16.520 Boss doesn't like it. 25:16.520 --> 25:17.520 It's just that Phil seemed kind of different. 25:17.520 --> 25:19.520 That's the reason I went out with him. 25:19.520 --> 25:20.520 I want you to get that straight. 25:20.520 --> 25:21.520 Mm-hmm. 25:21.520 --> 25:24.520 Just a minute. 25:24.520 --> 25:25.520 Expecting anybody? 25:25.520 --> 25:28.520 No, I don't know who it is. 25:28.520 --> 25:29.520 Want me to open it? 25:29.520 --> 25:32.520 Yeah, go ahead. 25:32.520 --> 25:34.520 What took you so long, honey? 25:34.520 --> 25:37.520 I got company, Phil. 25:37.520 --> 25:38.520 I know him. 25:38.520 --> 25:39.520 I don't think so. 25:39.520 --> 25:40.520 Huh. 25:40.520 --> 25:41.520 You Phil Spence? 25:41.520 --> 25:42.520 Yeah, who are you? 25:42.520 --> 25:43.520 Police officers would like to talk to you. 25:43.520 --> 25:44.520 What about? 25:44.520 --> 25:45.520 Might be better if we went downtown. 25:45.520 --> 25:46.520 Or who? 25:46.520 --> 25:47.520 What? 25:47.520 --> 25:48.520 I don't want to go downtown. 25:48.520 --> 25:49.520 You don't know much to say about it, miss. 25:49.520 --> 25:50.520 It's a pinch. 25:50.520 --> 25:51.520 But makes you happy? 25:51.520 --> 25:52.520 Mark it down that way. 25:52.520 --> 25:53.520 You want to shake him, Frank? 25:53.520 --> 25:54.520 Yeah. 25:54.520 --> 25:55.520 You know what you're gonna cop? 25:55.520 --> 25:56.520 What are you doing, Frank? 25:56.520 --> 25:57.520 Get out of here! 25:57.520 --> 26:00.520 Get out of here and take that cheap bomb with you! 26:00.520 --> 26:02.520 All right, come on, get out. 26:02.520 --> 26:03.520 You get out of here! 26:03.520 --> 26:04.520 Lousy deal. 26:04.520 --> 26:07.520 Get out of here, my deal, coming in and breaking up a girl's apartment. 26:07.520 --> 26:09.520 Who's gonna pay for all this? 26:09.520 --> 26:10.520 Who's gonna make it right? 26:10.520 --> 26:11.520 Just look at the place! 26:11.520 --> 26:12.520 Oh, shut up. 26:12.520 --> 26:14.520 Why don't you tell me they weren't here? 26:14.520 --> 26:15.520 Why don't you say something? 26:15.520 --> 26:16.520 All right, Spence, let's go. 26:16.520 --> 26:17.520 I'm coming. 26:17.520 --> 26:18.520 All I want to know is who told you. 26:18.520 --> 26:19.520 Who yapped? 26:19.520 --> 26:20.520 That lousy Eddie, I bet. 26:20.520 --> 26:21.520 He's the one. 26:21.520 --> 26:22.520 Never should have picked him up. 26:22.520 --> 26:23.520 He with you on the jobs? 26:23.520 --> 26:24.520 He told you, didn't he? 26:24.520 --> 26:25.520 How about Jim Boland? 26:25.520 --> 26:26.520 He in with you, too? 26:26.520 --> 26:28.520 Oh, that guy hasn't got enough sense to come in out of the rain. 26:28.520 --> 26:30.520 He's worse than Ed. 26:30.520 --> 26:31.520 I should know not to get mixed up with that dumb Eddie. 26:31.520 --> 26:32.520 I should know it always happens. 26:32.520 --> 26:33.520 Yeah. 26:33.520 --> 26:35.520 You run with a jerk, you're gonna get tripped up. 26:35.520 --> 26:37.520 When I was the Eddie shooting off his mouth hadn't been for him, 26:37.520 --> 26:38.520 you'd never got us. 26:38.520 --> 26:39.520 I'm gonna tell him off. 26:39.520 --> 26:40.520 What's the difference? 26:40.520 --> 26:41.520 You told him everything they wanted to know, 26:41.520 --> 26:42.520 you're all going to jail. 26:42.520 --> 26:43.520 Why don't you shut up? 26:43.520 --> 26:44.520 You're always wrong, sister. 26:44.520 --> 26:45.520 Not this time. 26:45.520 --> 26:46.520 Let's go. 26:53.520 --> 26:55.520 The story you have just heard is true. 26:55.520 --> 26:58.520 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:58.520 --> 27:01.520 On August 13th, trial was held in Department 92 27:01.520 --> 27:03.520 of Superior Court of the State of California 27:03.520 --> 27:05.520 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 27:05.520 --> 27:07.520 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:07.520 --> 27:09.520 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:09.520 --> 27:11.520 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:11.520 --> 27:13.520 Well, this is brief, but I think very much to the point. 27:13.520 --> 27:16.520 Chesterfield is the only cigarette that gives you proof 27:16.520 --> 27:18.520 of low nicotine, highest quality. 27:18.520 --> 27:20.520 That's what I want in my cigarette, 27:20.520 --> 27:22.520 and that's what you should look for in yours. 27:22.520 --> 27:24.520 Chesterfield, regular or king size, 27:24.520 --> 27:25.520 best for you. 27:25.520 --> 27:27.520 Try them. 27:35.520 --> 27:37.520 Philip Donald Spence and Edwin Floyd Morse 27:37.520 --> 27:39.520 were tried and convicted on four counts of robbery 27:39.520 --> 27:43.520 in the first degree and were sentenced as prescribed by law. 27:43.520 --> 27:46.520 Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment 27:46.520 --> 27:50.520 in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than five years. 27:50.520 --> 27:53.520 Jim Nathan Boland was released to the State Adult Authority 27:53.520 --> 27:55.520 for action on violation of his parole. 27:55.520 --> 27:57.520 He was returned to San Quentin 27:57.520 --> 27:59.520 for the balance of his original term. 28:09.520 --> 28:11.520 You have just heard Dragnet, 28:11.520 --> 28:13.520 a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:13.520 --> 28:16.520 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police 28:16.520 --> 28:19.520 W.H. 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