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02:17.400 --> 02:18.400 How's it coming here? 02:18.400 --> 02:19.400 Oh, all right. 02:19.400 --> 02:20.400 Hey, Joe. 02:20.400 --> 02:21.400 Yeah. 02:21.400 --> 02:24.400 When Art gets in, tell him I'm done R&I, huh? 02:24.400 --> 02:25.400 Yeah, sure. 02:25.400 --> 02:26.400 Bob, how's it going? 02:26.400 --> 02:27.400 Oh, pretty good. 02:27.400 --> 02:28.400 What happened to you? 02:28.400 --> 02:32.800 Well, if it's all the same to you, I'd rather not talk about it. 02:32.800 --> 02:33.800 That bad, huh? 02:33.800 --> 02:34.800 You seen Joe? 02:34.800 --> 02:35.800 Yeah, he's over his locker. 02:35.800 --> 02:36.800 Thanks. 02:36.800 --> 02:37.800 Morning, Joe. 02:37.800 --> 02:38.800 What happened to you? 02:38.800 --> 02:39.800 Joe, I'd rather not talk about it. 02:39.800 --> 02:40.800 What happened to you? 02:40.800 --> 02:41.800 Joe, I'd rather not talk about it. 02:41.800 --> 02:42.800 What happened to you? 02:42.800 --> 02:43.800 Joe, I'd rather not talk about it. 02:43.800 --> 02:44.800 Joe, I'd rather not talk about it. 02:44.800 --> 02:45.800 What happened? 02:45.800 --> 02:46.800 All those scratches on your face? 02:46.800 --> 02:47.800 Please, Joe. 02:47.800 --> 02:48.800 I'll just ask you. 02:48.800 --> 02:49.800 Looked pretty bad, huh? 02:49.800 --> 02:50.800 Joe? 02:50.800 --> 02:51.800 Yeah? 02:51.800 --> 02:52.800 Yeah. 02:52.800 --> 02:53.800 I look pretty bad, huh? 02:53.800 --> 02:58.800 I thought you didn't want to talk about it, you said. 02:58.800 --> 03:01.800 If word about this gets out, Joe, I ain't ever gonna live it down. 03:01.800 --> 03:02.800 Is that right? 03:02.800 --> 03:03.800 I've been had, Joe. 03:03.800 --> 03:04.800 Copped for 12 years, I've been had. 03:04.800 --> 03:05.800 Well, what's it all about? 03:05.800 --> 03:06.800 You won't spread this around, will you? 03:06.800 --> 03:07.800 Look, I just asked you what happened. 03:07.800 --> 03:08.800 Now, if you don't want to tell me, I'll go along with you. 03:08.800 --> 03:09.800 You don't have to say a word. 03:09.800 --> 03:10.800 Come on, let's get on the reports. 03:10.800 --> 03:11.800 What do you say? 03:11.800 --> 03:16.800 You better get in touch with Bowles when he comes in, try to check some of these out, 03:16.800 --> 03:17.800 huh? 03:17.800 --> 03:18.800 You're not even interested, huh? 03:18.800 --> 03:21.800 All right, do you want to tell me about it? 03:21.800 --> 03:23.800 Well, if you really want to hear. 03:23.800 --> 03:24.800 Go ahead. 03:24.800 --> 03:25.800 Well, last night I took Fay down to the store. 03:25.800 --> 03:26.800 She had a little shopping to do. 03:26.800 --> 03:27.800 Small stuff, you know, potholders, dish towels, things like that. 03:27.800 --> 03:28.800 Yeah. 03:28.800 --> 03:29.800 I got a parking place right in front of the store, so I waited in the car for it. 03:29.800 --> 03:30.800 Mm-hmm. 03:30.800 --> 03:31.800 I was sitting there listening to the radio when this fellow walked up to the car. 03:31.800 --> 03:32.800 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 03:32.800 --> 03:33.800 I'm sorry. 03:33.800 --> 03:34.800 I'm sorry. 03:34.800 --> 03:35.800 I'm sorry. 03:35.800 --> 03:36.800 I'm sorry. 03:36.800 --> 03:37.800 I'm sorry. 03:37.800 --> 03:38.800 I'm sorry. 03:38.800 --> 03:39.800 I'm sorry. 03:39.800 --> 03:40.800 I'm sorry. 03:40.800 --> 03:41.800 But the fellow walked up to the car. 03:41.800 --> 03:45.800 He leaned in the window and asked me if I had a minute, and I told him I did and asked him 03:45.800 --> 03:46.800 what he wanted. 03:46.800 --> 03:47.800 Did you know the guy? 03:47.800 --> 03:48.820 Never saw him before. 03:48.820 --> 03:49.800 Didn't know him from Adam. 03:49.800 --> 03:50.800 Oh? 03:50.800 --> 03:52.400 Right off, I could see the guy had trouble. 03:52.400 --> 03:53.400 How do you mean? 03:53.400 --> 03:56.640 He looked real bad, like he'd been on a drunk for at least a week. 03:56.640 --> 03:59.880 The clothes were all rumpled up, looked like he slept in them for a week, you know how I 03:59.880 --> 04:00.880 mean. 04:00.880 --> 04:01.880 Yeah. 04:01.880 --> 04:02.880 What did this guy want to talk to you about? 04:02.880 --> 04:06.680 When I saw him, I figured he was gonna put the bite on me, so I braced myself, you know? 04:06.680 --> 04:08.180 You braced yourself, huh? 04:08.180 --> 04:10.720 Yeah, you know, I'm a real sucker for hard-l Larax stuff. 04:10.720 --> 04:12.720 I should learn to stay away from those guys. 04:12.720 --> 04:14.720 She was just saying the other night that if I... 04:14.720 --> 04:16.720 What does this guy want, Frank? Huh? 04:16.720 --> 04:18.720 Well, what do you want this fellow to talk to you? 04:18.720 --> 04:20.720 Oh, well, he gave me this story about how I'd been on a bat 04:20.720 --> 04:22.720 and how he was broke and he needed some money to clean up 04:22.720 --> 04:24.720 before he went home. Mm-hmm. 04:24.720 --> 04:27.720 Well, he makes it real plain that he does not want a handout. 04:27.720 --> 04:28.720 Nothing for nothing. 04:28.720 --> 04:30.720 What do you suppose he meant by that? 04:30.720 --> 04:31.720 That's when he showed me the package. 04:31.720 --> 04:32.720 The package, huh? Yeah. 04:32.720 --> 04:33.720 What package? 04:33.720 --> 04:35.720 Well, the one he was carrying. Didn't I tell you that? 04:35.720 --> 04:36.720 No, you didn't yet. 04:36.720 --> 04:38.720 Well, you see, before I couldn't see it, 04:38.720 --> 04:40.720 then he showed it to me. 04:40.720 --> 04:42.720 It's all done up in tissue paper, ribbons and all. 04:42.720 --> 04:45.720 The paper was kind of dirty, like he'd been carrying it for a long time. 04:45.720 --> 04:47.720 Ribbon was a little tired, but it was there. 04:47.720 --> 04:48.720 Mm-hmm. 04:48.720 --> 04:49.720 So he asked me if I wanted to buy it. 04:49.720 --> 04:51.720 That was this package? 04:51.720 --> 04:53.720 Well, what was in it, he asked me if I wanted to buy that. 04:53.720 --> 04:55.720 Well, what was in it? 04:55.720 --> 04:58.720 He took off the paper and he opened the thing up. 04:58.720 --> 05:00.720 And Joe, inside is a brand new razor. 05:00.720 --> 05:03.720 Brand new. Worth 25, 26 bucks in town. 05:03.720 --> 05:04.720 What kind of a razor? 05:04.720 --> 05:06.720 Well, he said he'd let me have it for 20 bucks. 05:06.720 --> 05:08.720 No, what kind of a razor? 05:08.720 --> 05:10.720 Just a razor, the kind you shave with? 05:10.720 --> 05:11.720 Yeah, an electric razor. 05:11.720 --> 05:13.720 Oh, well, you didn't tell me it was electric. 05:13.720 --> 05:14.720 Didn't I say that, Joe? 05:14.720 --> 05:16.720 No, you said he'd let you have it for 20 bucks 05:16.720 --> 05:17.720 just because he needed the money. 05:17.720 --> 05:20.720 Yeah, well, it happened that I didn't have 20 bucks, you know me, 05:20.720 --> 05:22.720 so I told him I couldn't make a deal. 05:22.720 --> 05:23.720 Then he left, huh? 05:23.720 --> 05:24.720 No, Joe. 05:24.720 --> 05:25.720 Now, look, you wanted to hear it. 05:25.720 --> 05:26.720 Will you let me finish? 05:26.720 --> 05:27.720 Well, it takes you a little time. 05:27.720 --> 05:29.720 I have to keep drawing you out here. 05:29.720 --> 05:31.720 I'm sorry, Joe. I want you to get all the facts. 05:31.720 --> 05:33.720 We're officers together. 05:33.720 --> 05:35.720 We talked back and forth for a little bit. 05:35.720 --> 05:38.720 Guy finally said that I looked like I had an honest face. 05:38.720 --> 05:40.720 That's a new approach, isn't it? 05:40.720 --> 05:42.720 Joe. 05:42.720 --> 05:43.720 Well. 05:43.720 --> 05:46.720 So finally he says he'll let me have the razor for 15 bucks. 05:46.720 --> 05:47.720 So I bought it. 05:47.720 --> 05:50.720 That's how you cut your face up, huh, with that new electric razor? 05:50.720 --> 05:51.720 Well, in a way. 05:51.720 --> 05:53.720 You see, I had to buy some blades last night, 05:53.720 --> 05:55.720 and since I had the new electric, I didn't do it. 05:55.720 --> 05:57.720 Well, you don't need blades for an electric. 05:57.720 --> 05:58.720 No, it wasn't for the electric, Joe. 05:58.720 --> 06:00.720 It was for the old one that I had at home. 06:00.720 --> 06:01.720 Oh, but you had the electric now, so you... 06:01.720 --> 06:03.720 Sure, and once I had that in my hand, I didn't want any blades. 06:03.720 --> 06:04.720 I see. 06:04.720 --> 06:07.720 The only thing I had in the house was a blade that was a week old. 06:07.720 --> 06:10.720 So I got up this morning, plugged in my brand new electric. 06:10.720 --> 06:12.720 What do you figure happened? 06:12.720 --> 06:13.720 Well, I'm going to take a real blind guess. 06:13.720 --> 06:15.720 It didn't run. 06:15.720 --> 06:17.720 How'd you know? 06:17.720 --> 06:20.720 Well, the same thing happened to Murphy over in Robbery last month. 06:20.720 --> 06:21.720 There was a big laugh around here. 06:21.720 --> 06:23.720 You were one of the guys that laughed the most, don't you remember? 06:23.720 --> 06:25.720 Yeah. 06:25.720 --> 06:27.720 Oh, yeah, I remember now. 06:27.720 --> 06:28.720 It's miserable. 06:28.720 --> 06:29.720 Murphy know about this yet? 06:29.720 --> 06:30.720 No. 06:30.720 --> 06:32.720 I ain't about to tell him either. 06:32.720 --> 06:33.720 Riley, Smith? 06:33.720 --> 06:34.720 Yeah, Skipper. 06:34.720 --> 06:35.720 See you guys? 06:35.720 --> 06:36.720 Right. 06:38.720 --> 06:39.720 Close the door. 06:41.720 --> 06:42.720 Sit down. 06:42.720 --> 06:43.720 Thank you. 06:43.720 --> 06:45.720 What happened to you, Smith? 06:45.720 --> 06:46.720 It's a long story, Skipper. 06:46.720 --> 06:47.720 You can tell me later. 06:47.720 --> 06:49.720 Why don't you guys take a look at this? 06:49.720 --> 06:50.720 What do you got there? 06:50.720 --> 06:51.720 Just saw Chief Brown on the way in. 06:51.720 --> 06:53.720 He's getting pressure from the corner pocket. 06:53.720 --> 06:54.720 They want this thing cleared up. 06:54.720 --> 06:55.720 What is it, Joe? 06:55.720 --> 06:58.720 Last few weeks, car stripping's taking a big jump. 06:58.720 --> 06:59.720 Not the usual line of stuff. 06:59.720 --> 07:01.720 Not just happening in certain neighborhoods. 07:01.720 --> 07:05.720 We got reports here from the Valley, Hollywood, Wiltshire, all of the divisions. 07:05.720 --> 07:06.720 Same thing's happening all over town. 07:06.720 --> 07:07.720 Uh-huh. 07:07.720 --> 07:08.720 Talked to the boys in the sheriff's office. 07:08.720 --> 07:09.720 They're getting it. 07:09.720 --> 07:11.720 Same in Burbank, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica. 07:11.720 --> 07:14.720 Doesn't seem to be any place they aren't getting it to. 07:14.720 --> 07:15.720 How about the stolen stuff, Skipper? 07:15.720 --> 07:16.720 Any of it show up yet? 07:16.720 --> 07:17.720 Not that we can find. 07:17.720 --> 07:19.720 All the usual outlets have been checked. 07:19.720 --> 07:20.720 None of the loot can be bought. 07:20.720 --> 07:22.720 Any special kind of things being taken? 07:22.720 --> 07:24.720 Let him see those reports, Joe. 07:24.720 --> 07:25.720 Yeah, here. 07:25.720 --> 07:26.720 Thanks. 07:26.720 --> 07:27.720 Take a look. 07:27.720 --> 07:28.720 We're not messing with kids in this thing. 07:28.720 --> 07:31.720 The way the victims tell it, this gang can break into a locked car 07:31.720 --> 07:33.720 and lift the radio in under 10 minutes. 07:33.720 --> 07:36.720 They can pull all four wheels off a car in under six minutes. 07:36.720 --> 07:37.720 Insurance companies are screaming. 07:37.720 --> 07:39.720 They already got into the police commission. 07:39.720 --> 07:42.720 Chief Brown told me this morning he didn't care how we did it, 07:42.720 --> 07:43.720 but he wanted it stopped. 07:43.720 --> 07:45.720 Well, where do we start? 07:45.720 --> 07:49.720 Well, up to now, the investigation's been handled pretty much by the divisions. 07:49.720 --> 07:51.720 From here on, it's in your laps. 07:51.720 --> 07:52.720 Use as many men as you need. 07:52.720 --> 07:53.720 Just bring the thieves in. 07:53.720 --> 07:55.720 You not working on anything now, are you? 07:55.720 --> 07:56.720 No, we're not. 07:56.720 --> 07:58.720 We're just winding up that Gibson thing. 07:58.720 --> 07:59.720 Couple reports to finish. 07:59.720 --> 08:00.720 We should be through by noon. 08:00.720 --> 08:02.720 Turn the reports over to somebody else. 08:02.720 --> 08:03.720 I want you to start on this thing right away. 08:03.720 --> 08:04.720 Okay. 08:04.720 --> 08:05.720 Right, Skipper. 08:05.720 --> 08:06.720 Anything you need, let me know. 08:06.720 --> 08:07.720 Right. 08:07.720 --> 08:08.720 I'll check you later. 08:08.720 --> 08:09.720 Right. 08:09.720 --> 08:10.720 Smith? 08:10.720 --> 08:11.720 Yes, sir? 08:11.720 --> 08:12.720 How'd you get all those cuts in your face there? 08:12.720 --> 08:13.720 Shaving? 08:13.720 --> 08:14.720 Well, in a way, yeah. 08:14.720 --> 08:16.720 Yeah, same thing used to happen to me. 08:16.720 --> 08:18.720 Why don't you get yourself an electric razor? 08:18.720 --> 08:19.720 Eight eleven a.m. 08:19.720 --> 08:22.720 Frank and I asked one of the other men in the detail to take care of the reports on the 08:22.720 --> 08:25.720 case that we'd finished, and then we started through the statements we'd gotten from Captain 08:25.720 --> 08:26.720 Nelson. 08:26.720 --> 08:30.720 From them, we got a pretty good idea of how the car stripping ring was operating. 08:30.720 --> 08:33.720 There seemed to be a definite plan for the thefts. 08:33.720 --> 08:35.720 Most of the stolen articles were in the luxury class. 08:35.720 --> 08:38.720 Only radios were taken from Cadillacs and Lincolns. 08:38.720 --> 08:40.720 Heaters were stolen from Chrysler's. 08:40.720 --> 08:42.720 Special hubcaps from Ford and Ford's. 08:42.720 --> 08:45.720 And then we got a pretty good idea of how the car stripping ring was operating. 08:45.720 --> 08:49.720 Heaters were stolen from Chrysler's, special hubcaps from foreign cars were listed among 08:49.720 --> 08:51.720 the stolen property. 08:51.720 --> 08:54.720 We had the stats office make a run on the M.O. that we could piece together, but their 08:54.720 --> 08:57.720 information led us nowhere. 08:57.720 --> 09:00.720 In none of the reports was there a possible description of the thief. 09:00.720 --> 09:03.720 The times the cars were stripped and the locations where the burglaries occurred made it apparent 09:03.720 --> 09:05.720 that it was a large scale operation. 09:05.720 --> 09:07.720 For the next two days, we talked to the victims. 09:07.720 --> 09:11.720 We double checked the time of the thefts and the movement of the victims immediately preceding 09:11.720 --> 09:12.720 the car stripping. 09:12.720 --> 09:15.720 We asked about people loitering in the vicinity of the parked cars. 09:15.720 --> 09:18.720 None of the drivers who had been victimized could supply us with any more evidence than 09:18.720 --> 09:20.720 they had given us in their statements. 09:20.720 --> 09:24.720 Friday, June 16th, we checked the list of recent parolees from state penitentiaries and 09:24.720 --> 09:28.720 work farms looking for ex-convicts who had been involved in cases of car stripping. 09:28.720 --> 09:32.720 The list of names we came up with were checked out, but they let us nowhere. 09:32.720 --> 09:35.720 In the meantime, the pressure from the citizens' groups in the city had gotten worse. 09:35.720 --> 09:39.720 At the end of the first week we had been working on the case, the value of stolen articles 09:39.720 --> 09:41.720 reached about $500 a day. 09:41.720 --> 09:44.720 Additional officers were assigned to patrol the streets. 09:44.720 --> 09:48.720 Radio cars doubled the number of field interrogations they normally made and although several arrests 09:48.720 --> 09:53.720 were made, the possible picked up apparently had no part in the activities of the organized ring. 09:53.720 --> 09:56.720 On Saturday, June 24th, we got a call from an ex-convict. 09:56.720 --> 09:59.720 He asked us to come out to his garage and talk to him. 09:59.720 --> 10:02.720 Come on back here, fellas. We can talk while I finish up. 10:02.720 --> 10:03.720 All right. 10:04.720 --> 10:06.720 Hey, quite a place you got here, Al. 10:06.720 --> 10:07.720 Yeah, I've been pretty lucky. 10:07.720 --> 10:09.720 Got just about all I can handle now. 10:09.720 --> 10:11.720 My business is going, I'm gonna have to take on some more help. 10:11.720 --> 10:13.720 How many men you got working for you now, Al? 10:13.720 --> 10:17.720 Two full-time. Saturdays I got a couple of kids who come in and help out with the wash jobs. 10:17.720 --> 10:20.720 Now we can talk right here, pull up a couple of those chairs. 10:20.720 --> 10:24.720 There's a rag there on that bench. If you want to wipe them off, they get a little dirty standing around. 10:24.720 --> 10:26.720 That's okay, Al. What'd you want to see us about? 10:26.720 --> 10:30.720 Well, first off, I want to tell you guys that I appreciate the way you tweeted me when I fell. 10:30.720 --> 10:32.720 I'll never forget it. Real nice. 10:32.720 --> 10:33.720 Don't worry about it, Al. 10:33.720 --> 10:36.720 I read in the papers where you're getting a lot of heat on the stripping going around. 10:36.720 --> 10:37.720 Yeah, that's right. 10:37.720 --> 10:38.720 I just wondered how you're doing on it. 10:38.720 --> 10:40.720 It's going pretty slow. Why, do you know anything? 10:40.720 --> 10:43.720 I got a couple of rumbles. You know, it's hard not to hear them. 10:43.720 --> 10:45.720 I heard that none of the stuff's been shoved, that right? 10:45.720 --> 10:46.720 We haven't seen any of it. 10:46.720 --> 10:48.720 The way I get it, you aren't about to. 10:48.720 --> 10:50.720 Hand me that socket wrench, will you? 10:51.720 --> 10:52.720 This one? 10:52.720 --> 10:53.720 Yeah, Alton. 10:55.720 --> 10:56.720 Here you go. 10:56.720 --> 10:57.720 Thanks. 10:59.720 --> 11:02.720 A fella came in here a couple days ago. I knew him from before. 11:02.720 --> 11:04.720 He said he wanted to do business. 11:04.720 --> 11:07.720 He asked me if I was interested in some good buys in used radios. 11:08.720 --> 11:10.720 I told him I might be if they were good. 11:10.720 --> 11:12.720 He said these were the best, all GMs. 11:12.720 --> 11:13.720 Then he gave me the price. 11:13.720 --> 11:15.720 When I heard that, I knew something was off. 11:15.720 --> 11:16.720 What was he asking? 11:16.720 --> 11:19.720 I told him he could deliver six Cadillac radios for $28.50 apiece. 11:19.720 --> 11:20.720 I asked him where he got them. 11:20.720 --> 11:21.720 What did he say to that? 11:21.720 --> 11:23.720 He told me it wasn't any of my business. 11:23.720 --> 11:25.720 Said what he got them didn't make the radios play any different. 11:25.720 --> 11:28.720 What makes you figure he might be in on the operation we're after? 11:28.720 --> 11:30.720 I told him if he could make deliveries at that price, 11:30.720 --> 11:32.720 I'd want a lot more than a half a dozen. 11:32.720 --> 11:34.720 He said he couldn't supply them. 11:34.720 --> 11:36.720 Said he only could spring six. 11:36.720 --> 11:38.720 I asked him if he was working alone. He told me no. 11:38.720 --> 11:40.720 I figured I ought to give you guys a call. 11:40.720 --> 11:41.720 Might be something for you. 11:41.720 --> 11:42.720 You said you know him, huh? 11:42.720 --> 11:43.720 Yeah, from before. 11:43.720 --> 11:45.720 Say, you guys like a cold beer? 11:45.720 --> 11:46.720 No, I don't. 11:46.720 --> 11:48.720 You mind if I have one? It's kind of hot. 11:48.720 --> 11:49.720 No, go ahead. 11:49.720 --> 11:50.720 Thanks. 11:54.720 --> 11:56.720 Day gets a little hot. You really notice it. 11:56.720 --> 11:57.720 Are you sure you guys don't want a beer? 11:57.720 --> 12:02.720 No, no thanks. 12:05.720 --> 12:06.720 Never could drink it out of a can. 12:06.720 --> 12:09.720 Seems to taste better in a glass. 12:10.720 --> 12:12.720 Ah, that's good. 12:12.720 --> 12:14.720 Who was the guy, Al? 12:14.720 --> 12:15.720 Ah, it's Manny, Manny Phillips. 12:15.720 --> 12:16.720 You know who he is in touch with him? 12:16.720 --> 12:18.720 Haven't got the slightest idea. 12:18.720 --> 12:19.720 Has he ever fallen? 12:19.720 --> 12:20.720 Yeah, I did time at Q for GTA. 12:20.720 --> 12:21.720 Is he on parole? 12:21.720 --> 12:23.720 I don't know. I think he made it free like I told you. 12:23.720 --> 12:24.720 I didn't know him real well. 12:24.720 --> 12:26.720 He used to hang around. Never had much to do with him. 12:26.720 --> 12:27.720 Mm-hmm. 12:29.720 --> 12:31.720 Yeah, this is the first time I've seen him since I got out. 12:31.720 --> 12:33.720 I've been staring clear at the old bunch. 12:33.720 --> 12:35.720 Makes it easier if you don't pal around with them. 12:35.720 --> 12:37.720 Business I got's going good. Got no trouble with anybody. 12:37.720 --> 12:38.720 And I wanted to go on like this. 12:38.720 --> 12:39.720 Mm-hmm. 12:39.720 --> 12:40.720 Never could figure it. 12:40.720 --> 12:43.720 Guy falls out and right away he's back with the same old bunch. 12:43.720 --> 12:45.720 How are you gonna stay clean like that? 12:45.720 --> 12:46.720 Well, you aren't. 12:46.720 --> 12:48.720 Somewhere along the line you gotta make a mistake. 12:48.720 --> 12:49.720 You're right back where you started. 12:49.720 --> 12:50.720 How long did it take you to learn it? 12:50.720 --> 12:52.720 I spent four and a half years at the joint. 12:52.720 --> 12:54.720 Some of them fall harder than that, Al. 12:54.720 --> 12:55.720 Yeah? 12:55.720 --> 12:56.720 And they still don't learn. 13:01.720 --> 13:02.720 1120 A.M. 13:02.720 --> 13:05.720 We called the office and Sergeants Bob Beck and Officer Art Molnar 13:05.720 --> 13:08.720 came out to the garage to stake out in case the suspect came back. 13:09.720 --> 13:11.720 Frank and I took Al Woodson down to the city hall 13:11.720 --> 13:13.720 and checked the name Manny Phillips through R&I. 13:14.720 --> 13:15.720 From the packages that were pulled, 13:15.720 --> 13:18.720 we were able to get an identification of the man who'd offered the radios for sale. 13:20.720 --> 13:22.720 We checked the information contained in the package. 13:22.720 --> 13:24.720 Phillips, whose real name was Manuel Richard Phillips, 13:24.720 --> 13:26.720 had an arrest record dating back 12 years. 13:26.720 --> 13:31.720 He'd spent one year at Fred C. Nella's School for Boys for car stripping when he was 14. 13:31.720 --> 13:34.720 From the time of his release, he'd been arrested on the average of once every two weeks. 13:35.720 --> 13:38.720 His age at the time of his latest release from San Quentin was given as 26. 13:39.720 --> 13:43.720 Out of that time, he'd spent a total of eight years in state penal institutions. 13:43.720 --> 13:46.720 From his package, we obtained his last recorded address. 13:46.720 --> 13:48.720 We checked it out and found that he'd moved three months before. 13:48.720 --> 13:50.720 We checked his forwarding address. He'd moved. 13:50.720 --> 13:53.720 Finally, after talking to the managers of nine more rooming houses and apartments, 13:53.720 --> 13:55.720 we came up with his present residence. 13:55.720 --> 13:58.720 The landlady told us that Phillips apparently didn't work for a living, 13:58.720 --> 14:00.720 but that he always had the money for his rent. 14:00.720 --> 14:04.720 She described him as quiet and said that he usually spent a good part of the daylight hours in his room. 14:04.720 --> 14:08.720 She was unable to tell us anything about his friends or any business associates that he might have. 14:09.720 --> 14:11.720 A stakeout was set up on the place immediately. 14:11.720 --> 14:13.720 Because of the apparent size of the operation, 14:13.720 --> 14:16.720 it was decided not to attempt to take the suspect into custody at this time. 14:16.720 --> 14:19.720 Instead, Captain Nelson agreed that we should keep Phillips under surveillance 14:19.720 --> 14:22.720 and try to learn more about the car-stripping game. 14:23.720 --> 14:25.720 For the next week, we followed Phillips. 14:25.720 --> 14:28.720 Twenty-four hours a day, there were at least two officers tracing his movements. 14:28.720 --> 14:31.720 On three nights, he was watched while he stripped cars of expensive accessories. 14:31.720 --> 14:36.720 The area was put under a code five so there would be no possibility of the suspect learning he was under observation. 14:37.720 --> 14:39.720 Eleven days after the surveillance began, 14:39.720 --> 14:42.720 Phillips was observed to visit a large marine supply yard down in San Pedro. 14:43.720 --> 14:47.720 The next night, July 6th, he drove up to the place at 11.37 p.m. 14:47.720 --> 14:50.720 He parked his car in front of the gate and dropped the large bundle over the fence. 14:50.720 --> 14:52.720 Immediately afterwards, he returned to his room. 14:52.720 --> 14:56.720 The following morning, at 8.06 a.m., we met with Sergeant Beck in Captain Nelson's office. 14:56.720 --> 14:59.720 What did you find out about the ownership of the supply yard? 14:59.720 --> 15:01.720 The license was issued to a Harry Swenson. 15:01.720 --> 15:02.720 And how about him? 15:02.720 --> 15:04.720 We checked the name through the Eye Bureau. Nothing on him there. 15:04.720 --> 15:06.720 Beck, you and Molnar came up with anything? 15:06.720 --> 15:07.720 Not that you haven't got. 15:07.720 --> 15:09.720 We staked out on the yard every night since we found it. 15:09.720 --> 15:12.720 Hasn't been a night that passes. Some car hasn't made a delivery of some kind. 15:12.720 --> 15:14.720 Got the license numbers of all the cars. 15:14.720 --> 15:16.720 They've all been checked out. 15:16.720 --> 15:18.720 We know who they are and where to find them. 15:18.720 --> 15:20.720 We've got a tail on Swenson every minute. 15:20.720 --> 15:21.720 Must have eyes in the back of his head. 15:21.720 --> 15:25.720 Soon as one of our men falls and step, he knows that the way he's acted, there isn't a thing we can prove. 15:25.720 --> 15:26.720 What's the DA's office say about it? 15:26.720 --> 15:28.720 We had lunch with Alexander yesterday, Skipper. 15:28.720 --> 15:30.720 Laid out the evidence we had. 15:30.720 --> 15:34.720 Told us if we tried to take Swenson to court with what we've got, they'd laugh us out of town. 15:34.720 --> 15:35.720 Where does that put you? 15:35.720 --> 15:37.720 Well, really not much further than we were. 15:37.720 --> 15:40.720 We know who's behind the ring. We know where they're operating from. 15:40.720 --> 15:42.720 The big thing now is to find the plant. 15:42.720 --> 15:46.720 Unless we can produce a stolen merchandise in Swenson's possession, we haven't got a case that'll stand up. 15:46.720 --> 15:48.720 No leaks about the plant? 15:48.720 --> 15:49.720 No, not that we can find. 15:49.720 --> 15:52.720 Everybody that's been near Swenson's place has been tailed. 15:52.720 --> 15:54.720 Twice a week there's a truck that leaves the yard. 15:54.720 --> 15:55.720 There's no way of telling what's in it. 15:55.720 --> 15:56.720 And the times we followed it, we've lost it. 15:56.720 --> 15:59.720 Well, how about a bug? Can you get one into Swenson's office? 15:59.720 --> 16:00.720 Well, I don't know how. 16:00.720 --> 16:02.720 There's no way of getting him out of there long enough to install one. 16:02.720 --> 16:04.720 The night watchman's always on the premises. 16:04.720 --> 16:05.720 We're not even sure he's not in on it, too. 16:05.720 --> 16:07.720 So where do you stand on it? 16:07.720 --> 16:08.720 Well, your guess is as good as ours. 16:08.720 --> 16:11.720 Alexander says that without finding the plant, we can't take him to court. 16:11.720 --> 16:14.720 Now, we've used every trick in the book to get him to lead us to it, and not one of them's worked. 16:14.720 --> 16:16.720 They haven't left a thing open. They're playing it real smart. 16:16.720 --> 16:18.720 How many men involved in the operation? 16:18.720 --> 16:21.720 Well, we're not sure, but as near as we can figure, 12. 16:21.720 --> 16:23.720 That's not counting Swenson or that night watchman. 16:23.720 --> 16:25.720 You've been in the business long enough to know it, then. 16:25.720 --> 16:26.720 What's that? 16:26.720 --> 16:28.720 When there's that many men working, there's got to be a leak someplace. 16:28.720 --> 16:29.720 Yeah. 16:29.720 --> 16:30.720 Find it. 16:30.720 --> 16:34.720 The Night Watchman 16:40.720 --> 16:45.720 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 16:45.720 --> 16:47.720 At cigarette dealers. 16:48.720 --> 16:50.720 In vending machines. 16:54.720 --> 16:57.720 At supermarkets and stores coast to coast. 16:57.720 --> 16:58.720 Chesterfields, please. 16:58.720 --> 17:00.720 Smokers by the thousands. 17:00.720 --> 17:05.720 Yes, smokers by the thousands are now changing to Chesterfields. 17:05.720 --> 17:07.720 The only cigarette ever to give you... 17:07.720 --> 17:13.720 One, proof of low nicotine, highest quality, a matter of record. 17:13.720 --> 17:18.720 Two, the only cigarette ever to give you this proven record with smokers. 17:18.720 --> 17:21.720 Again and again, over a full year and one half, 17:21.720 --> 17:26.720 a group of Chesterfield smokers have been given thorough medical examinations. 17:26.720 --> 17:29.720 The doctor's reports are again a matter of record. 17:29.720 --> 17:35.720 No adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield. 17:35.720 --> 17:40.720 A responsible independent research laboratory supervises this continuing program. 17:40.720 --> 17:57.720 Chesterfield, best for me, best for you. 17:57.720 --> 18:02.720 For the next week, a close surveillance was kept on Swenson's Marine Supply Yard, but there were no breaks. 18:02.720 --> 18:06.720 Kickbacks from George Brereton up at C.I.I. in Sacramento and from Washington, D.C. 18:06.720 --> 18:10.720 didn't disclose any previous criminal record on the suspect. 18:10.720 --> 18:15.720 During that week, on Tuesday, July 11th, and on Thursday, July 13th, a large steak truck left the yard. 18:15.720 --> 18:19.720 The back of the truck was covered with a piece of canvas so that we were unable to see what was in it, 18:19.720 --> 18:22.720 but we were reasonably sure that it contained stolen merchandise. 18:22.720 --> 18:26.720 In scouting the neighborhood for a possible place to establish a more workable stakeout, 18:26.720 --> 18:28.720 we came across an empty office on the second floor of the building 18:28.720 --> 18:31.720 directly across the street from Swenson's place of business. 18:31.720 --> 18:36.720 Officers equipped with binoculars maintained a constant watch on the activities in the yard. 18:36.720 --> 18:40.720 After another week, the events that had been seen were reported to Assistant District Attorney Adolf Alexander, 18:40.720 --> 18:43.720 and he stated that if we could get pictures of the operation, 18:43.720 --> 18:46.720 we might be able to make a case that would stand up in court. 18:46.720 --> 18:49.720 Monday, July 17th, we met with Sergeant Puttoff in the crime lab. 18:49.720 --> 18:51.720 How far are you going to have to be from the subject, Joe? 18:51.720 --> 18:52.720 Well, second floor across the street. 18:52.720 --> 18:54.720 Are you going to be able to take all the pictures during the day? 18:54.720 --> 18:58.720 Don't think so, Puttoff. Most of the activity runs after nine at night. 18:58.720 --> 19:02.720 Well, best bet for all of the infrared, then. We can shoot it with a 4x5. 19:02.720 --> 19:03.720 How about light? 19:03.720 --> 19:06.720 Oh, is there any sort of telephone pole, traffic signal in front of the place? 19:06.720 --> 19:11.720 Yeah, I think so. The way I remember it, there's a phone pole about 10 feet to the left of the gate as you face the yard. 19:11.720 --> 19:13.720 Well, we can tie the lights to that, then. 19:13.720 --> 19:15.720 Well, any chance they could be spotted? 19:15.720 --> 19:17.720 Outside. We can put them up pretty high. 19:17.720 --> 19:20.720 Irregular lamp reflectors with heavy infrared filters. 19:20.720 --> 19:22.720 If you know they're there and look up, you're going to be able to spot them. 19:22.720 --> 19:24.720 Any chance of taking movies? 19:24.720 --> 19:25.720 Yeah, we can swing that. 19:25.720 --> 19:28.720 Life magazine's been experimenting with a new fast film. 19:28.720 --> 19:30.720 Results I've seen with it are pretty amazing. 19:30.720 --> 19:32.720 All you need is one street lamp. We can use that. 19:32.720 --> 19:37.720 Well, if you have to string the infrared lights, wouldn't it be better to shoot the movies on that kind of film? 19:37.720 --> 19:38.720 Well, you'd get something. 19:38.720 --> 19:39.720 Film's pretty slow, though. 19:39.720 --> 19:41.720 It'd be better to use the stuff life's come up with. 19:41.720 --> 19:43.720 All right, how long will it take you to set it up? 19:43.720 --> 19:45.720 Well, how careful do we have to be? 19:45.720 --> 19:48.720 Well, these guys are pretty cagey. They get any idea at all, we're dead. 19:48.720 --> 19:49.720 Mm-hmm. 19:49.720 --> 19:53.720 Well, we can have a couple of men go out in the morning and outfit them as linemen. 19:53.720 --> 19:55.720 They should be able to have the rig ready for you by tomorrow night. 19:55.720 --> 19:57.720 We can start shooting pictures then, huh? 19:57.720 --> 19:58.720 Should be able to, yeah. 19:58.720 --> 20:00.720 All right. Is J. Allen around, do you know? 20:00.720 --> 20:02.720 Well, I think he's over the court this morning, Joe. 20:02.720 --> 20:04.720 Well, then maybe you can help us out there, too. 20:04.720 --> 20:05.720 What's that? 20:05.720 --> 20:07.720 We're trying to figure some way to tail a truck. 20:07.720 --> 20:11.720 We've been trying to find the plant these guys are using for a couple of weeks now, and we just can't get near them. 20:11.720 --> 20:13.720 We wondered if J. might have any ideas on that. 20:13.720 --> 20:15.720 Probably use fluorescent paint, that ought to do it. 20:15.720 --> 20:16.720 What's the gimmick there? 20:16.720 --> 20:19.720 Well, you tie a can of transparent fluorescent lacquer to the back of the truck, 20:19.720 --> 20:21.720 punch a hole in the can, and all you got to do is follow the drops. 20:21.720 --> 20:23.720 You punch a hole in the can, won't all the stuff run out? 20:23.720 --> 20:28.720 Well, there's a couple of brands on the market that have got enough viscosity so the paint will stay in the can, 20:28.720 --> 20:30.720 regulate the frequency of the drops by the size of the hole. 20:30.720 --> 20:31.720 Can you see it? 20:31.720 --> 20:33.720 Not without ultraviolet lamp. 20:33.720 --> 20:35.720 Tie one of those to the hood of your car and you've got it made. 20:35.720 --> 20:37.720 You got the equipment here to do that? 20:37.720 --> 20:38.720 Mm-hmm. 20:38.720 --> 20:40.720 Well, would you have J. give us a call when he comes in? 20:40.720 --> 20:43.720 Right. He'll know more about it than I do, be able to give you all a dope. 20:43.720 --> 20:44.720 Okay. 20:44.720 --> 20:45.720 I'll get right on the other for you. 20:45.720 --> 20:46.720 Thanks a lot. 20:46.720 --> 20:47.720 Say, how long have you been after this bunch? 20:47.720 --> 20:50.720 Well, let's see. We got the assignment on June 13th. 20:50.720 --> 20:52.720 That'd make it over a month now. 20:52.720 --> 20:53.720 A lot of time. 20:53.720 --> 20:55.720 Well, maybe now we'll have something to show for it. 20:55.720 --> 21:07.720 The following morning, Tuesday, July 18th, two men from the crime lab installed three 1,000 watt lamps in front of the Marine supply yard. 21:07.720 --> 21:10.720 The reflectors were equipped with heavy infrared filters. 21:10.720 --> 21:18.720 Test exposures from our position across the street indicated that whatever pictures we got would be recognizable enough as to be admitted in a court of law. 21:18.720 --> 21:25.720 The new fast film was obtained and 16 millimeter cameras were installed in the window of the office across the street from Swenson's. 21:25.720 --> 21:31.720 We talked with Sergeant J. Allen in the crime lab and he went to work on the use of the fluorescent paint. 21:31.720 --> 21:39.720 After experimenting, he was able to come up with the correct size hole in the bottom of the can so that a single drop of the lacquer would fall from the can every 10 seconds. 21:39.720 --> 21:45.720 A portable ultraviolet lamp was obtained and was ready for immediate installation on our car. 21:45.720 --> 21:51.720 For the next three nights, we sat in our vantage point and we photographed all activity on the suspect's premises. 21:51.720 --> 21:58.720 The pictures were shown to Adolf Alexander in the district attorney's office and he told us that they would play a large part in the prosecution of the case. 21:58.720 --> 22:03.720 However, he said that if we could come up with a hiding place of the stolen loot, the conviction would be assured. 22:03.720 --> 22:12.720 Tuesday morning, July 25th, 315 a.m., Frank and I took the can of fluorescent paint and climbed the fence into the supply yard. 22:12.720 --> 22:13.720 Back here. 22:13.720 --> 22:15.720 Right. 22:17.720 --> 22:19.720 Oh, lousy thing. I didn't see it. 22:19.720 --> 22:21.720 All right, you better hold it a minute. 22:22.720 --> 22:24.720 Who's there? 22:25.720 --> 22:26.720 The watchman. 22:26.720 --> 22:28.720 Yeah, better get back in the shadows. 22:28.720 --> 22:30.720 Yeah, come on, easy. 22:31.720 --> 22:33.720 Come on out. I know you're there. 22:33.720 --> 22:38.720 Come on out. Who is it? 22:45.720 --> 22:46.720 That was close. 22:46.720 --> 22:47.720 Yeah. 22:47.720 --> 22:49.720 All right, let's go. The truck should be back in the shed. 22:49.720 --> 22:50.720 Right. 22:57.720 --> 22:59.720 All right, here we are. 22:59.720 --> 23:03.720 There's a can. You want to hang it? I'll keep an eye on it. 23:03.720 --> 23:04.720 All right. 23:07.720 --> 23:09.720 Sit this thing on here. 23:10.720 --> 23:12.720 I thought up this handle. This doesn't work at all. 23:12.720 --> 23:13.720 Wait a minute. 23:13.720 --> 23:15.720 Bend it down? 23:15.720 --> 23:16.720 Yeah. 23:16.720 --> 23:17.720 Give me your hand, could you? 23:17.720 --> 23:18.720 Wait a minute. 23:18.720 --> 23:19.720 There's a sharp edge on this water. 23:19.720 --> 23:21.720 Okay, here it is. 23:22.720 --> 23:23.720 All right, wait a minute. 23:24.720 --> 23:25.720 We still clear there? 23:25.720 --> 23:26.720 Yeah. 23:26.720 --> 23:29.720 How about that watchman? 23:29.720 --> 23:30.720 He went back. 23:30.720 --> 23:31.720 Right there we are. 23:32.720 --> 23:34.720 How about the stopper in the can? 23:34.720 --> 23:36.720 I got it in place. The first bump should knock it out. 23:36.720 --> 23:37.720 I hope so. 23:37.720 --> 23:38.720 It's got to work. 23:38.720 --> 23:40.720 All right, now let's try to get out of here. 23:40.720 --> 23:43.720 See if you can kick something else, will you, on the way? 23:47.720 --> 23:51.720 Tuesday night at 11.35 p.m., the stake truck pulled out of Swenson's Marine Supply Yard. 23:51.720 --> 23:54.720 Sergeant Bob Beck, Frank, and I were put in the back of the truck. 23:54.720 --> 23:58.720 Sergeant Bob Beck, Frank, and I were parked in an alley just down the street. 23:58.720 --> 24:00.720 We let the truck get a good 20-minute start on us, 24:00.720 --> 24:03.720 and then the ultraviolet lamp was attached to the hood of our car. 24:03.720 --> 24:06.720 Frank started the motor, and we pulled out into the street. 24:09.720 --> 24:10.720 Spotted anything yet? 24:10.720 --> 24:11.720 No. 24:11.720 --> 24:13.720 Maybe the lacquer dried up around the cork held it in place. 24:13.720 --> 24:15.720 That's a happy thought. 24:15.720 --> 24:17.720 Here's the corner. Which way? 24:17.720 --> 24:19.720 Wait a minute. 24:20.720 --> 24:22.720 Let's take a chance straight ahead, huh? 24:22.720 --> 24:24.720 All right. 24:27.720 --> 24:29.720 There's nothing up this way. You better double back. 24:29.720 --> 24:31.720 Okay. 24:33.720 --> 24:35.720 Let's try it to the left this time. 24:40.720 --> 24:42.720 How about it? See anything yet? 24:42.720 --> 24:43.720 Go on up a little more, will you? 24:43.720 --> 24:45.720 Yeah. 24:47.720 --> 24:48.720 Yeah, there it is. 24:48.720 --> 24:50.720 Yeah. 24:50.720 --> 24:52.720 Look at that stuff. It's really lit up. 24:53.720 --> 24:57.720 For the next 35 minutes, we followed the trail left by the fluorescent paint. 24:57.720 --> 25:00.720 From time to time, we'd lose the trail, but we'd always pick it up again. 25:00.720 --> 25:03.720 The truck followed the main highway from San Pedro to Santa Monica, 25:03.720 --> 25:06.720 and then turned left up Santa Monica Canyon. 25:06.720 --> 25:09.720 The trail wound around towards Sunset Boulevard and turned to the left. 25:09.720 --> 25:13.720 About one mile from the beach, the drops indicated that the truck had left the main street 25:13.720 --> 25:16.720 and turned onto a private dirt road. 25:16.720 --> 25:19.720 Half a mile along the road, the trail stopped in front of a large wooden building 25:19.720 --> 25:21.720 in the middle of a field. 25:21.720 --> 25:23.720 We turned off the car lights and went up to the place. 25:23.720 --> 25:27.720 The blinds on the windows were drawn, but there were lights on in the front room. 25:27.720 --> 25:31.720 Sergeant Beck covered the rear of the building, and Frank and I went up to the front door. 25:36.720 --> 25:38.720 All right. Yeah. 25:39.720 --> 25:40.720 What are you doing in here? 25:40.720 --> 25:41.720 Police officers, you're under arrest. 25:41.720 --> 25:42.720 For what? 25:42.720 --> 25:43.720 Is there anybody else here in the building? 25:43.720 --> 25:44.720 What are you arresting me for? 25:44.720 --> 25:45.720 You want to check with Beck, Frank? 25:45.720 --> 25:46.720 Right. 25:46.720 --> 25:47.720 What are you doing coming in here like this? 25:47.720 --> 25:49.720 You got no right coming around kicking doors in. 25:49.720 --> 25:50.720 All right, save it, Swenson. 25:50.720 --> 25:51.720 How do you know my name? 25:51.720 --> 25:52.720 We've been watching you for a month now. 25:52.720 --> 25:53.720 Is there anybody else in this house? 25:53.720 --> 25:54.720 No. 25:54.720 --> 25:55.720 Do you own this place? 25:55.720 --> 25:56.720 I'm not answering anything until I see a lawyer. 25:56.720 --> 25:57.720 All right, you call it any way you want. 25:57.720 --> 25:58.720 We can find out. 25:58.720 --> 25:59.720 Got no right in here. 25:59.720 --> 26:00.720 I'm going to see my lawyer. 26:00.720 --> 26:01.720 You do that, Swenson. 26:01.720 --> 26:02.720 What's the charge? 26:02.720 --> 26:03.720 Burglary. 26:03.720 --> 26:04.720 You think you can make it stick? 26:04.720 --> 26:05.720 We're going to try, mister. 26:05.720 --> 26:06.720 Where's your evidence? 26:06.720 --> 26:07.720 You got to have evidence. 26:07.720 --> 26:08.720 We got it. 26:08.720 --> 26:09.720 There's nobody else here, Joe. 26:09.720 --> 26:10.720 Back room's full of stuff. 26:10.720 --> 26:11.720 Radios, heaters, tires, all here. 26:11.720 --> 26:12.720 So what? 26:12.720 --> 26:17.720 You got to have evidence. 26:17.720 --> 26:18.720 All right. 26:18.720 --> 26:19.720 Let's go, Swenson. 26:19.720 --> 26:20.720 Just a minute. 26:20.720 --> 26:21.720 Will you listen to me a minute? 26:21.720 --> 26:22.720 All right. 26:22.720 --> 26:23.720 You got this all wrong. 26:23.720 --> 26:24.720 You're making a big mistake here. 26:24.720 --> 26:25.720 I intend to pay for every bit of that stuff back there. 26:25.720 --> 26:26.720 I'm going to pay for it. 26:26.720 --> 26:27.720 Yeah, that's right. 26:27.720 --> 26:28.720 You will. 26:28.720 --> 26:35.520 The story you have just heard is true. 26:35.520 --> 26:38.280 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:38.280 --> 26:42.620 On December 12th, trial was held in Department 97, Superior Court of the State of California. 26:42.620 --> 26:44.620 In and for the County of Los Angeles. 26:44.620 --> 26:46.620 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:46.620 --> 26:48.620 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:48.620 --> 26:50.620 Thank you, George Feneman. 26:50.620 --> 26:56.620 Friends, we'd like to express our appreciation to all of you who made our drag-net theme song so popular. 26:56.620 --> 27:00.620 Whenever or wherever you hear it, we hope it'll remind you to try our Chesterfields. 27:00.620 --> 27:07.620 To join the thousands who are changing to Chesterfields and getting the one cigarette that's low in nicotine, highest in quality. 27:07.620 --> 27:10.620 Chesterfield, best for me, best for you. 27:10.620 --> 27:23.620 All other members of the gang were taken into custody and were brought to trial. 27:23.620 --> 27:32.620 Harry Ralph Swenson, along with his accomplices, was tried and convicted of 14 counts of burglary in the second degree and received sentence as prescribed by law. 27:32.620 --> 27:41.620 Burglary in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than one, nor more than 15 years. 27:41.620 --> 27:48.620 If you had only one book, the Bible, do you know that you would have within its covers the finest examples of literature, both in prose and poetry? 27:48.620 --> 27:52.620 You'd have stories which have never been equal, adventure, love, history, and prophecy. 27:52.620 --> 27:56.620 So read your Bible every day during National Bible Week. 27:56.620 --> 28:21.620 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:21.620 --> 28:26.620 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W.H. 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