1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Dragnet. 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:11,080 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:18,080 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 4 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,500 Three hold-up men have robbed and beaten two supermarket operators in your city. 6 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:36,500 You've got a good description of the thieves. Your job, get them. 7 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,600 It was Tuesday, November 3rd. It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a robbery detail. 8 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,500 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss of Chief of Detective Stab Brown. My name's Barty. 9 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:53,600 We'd gotten a hot shot call about a robbery and it was 9.46 a.m. when we got to the corner of Lockwood and Barton Avenues. 10 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,320 The Lockton Market. 11 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,160 Officer back there. 12 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:04,600 Friday and Smith sent a robbery. Oh yeah, I'm Jackson, Unit 3A7. You answered the call? Yeah. 13 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,200 We got here a couple of minutes ago. Where's the victim? Back room there. He's pretty bad off. 14 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,440 Ambulance attendance with him now. 15 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,880 My partner's checking the neighborhood. If there's nothing you need me for, I'll give him a hand. 16 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:20,400 Yeah, make a 211 report for you, Lee, will you? Right. Thank you. 17 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:27,160 Looks like there was quite a fight. Yeah, stuff all over the place. Come on. 18 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:32,160 What do you got in that bottle? It sure stinks. Yeah, you gotta clean up these cuts and try to hold still. 19 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,200 Hey, take it easy, huh? 20 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,440 Yeah, I sent you one? We're out of central robbery. Is this the victim? Yeah, a couple of cuts, nothing serious. 21 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,680 Tell him about Andy. He's the one who really got it. Who's Andy? Yeah, the clerk. Pretty rough. 22 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,520 Looks like it might be a fractured jaw. He's on the truck now. 23 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,840 Let me get this tape on you now. 24 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,000 Oh. 25 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,360 That should do it. Might be a good idea if you saw your doctor. Yeah, what about Andy? 26 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,760 We're going to take him down to Georgia Street Receiving. You gonna call me and let me know about him? 27 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:09,200 That might be better if you call them. Yeah, okay. I see you guys. Yeah, right. Yeah, sure. 28 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,920 Boy, that one guy really clouded me. Heard. 29 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:18,440 What did he feel up to telling us what happened here? Three of them. Three came in and held up the place, clouded me and Andy. 30 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,960 Sure hope he's going to be all right. What's your name, sir? Cliff Hall. You own the store, do you? 31 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:29,560 No, me and Andy run it, though. We'd like to buy it. What time did these men come in? Must have been around 9.30, around there. 32 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,840 Did you give the officers who answered the call a description of the men? Yeah, that was the first thing they asked me. 33 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:39,280 Go ahead, please. I was getting the money ready for the bank deposit. Andy was back here stacking bottle cases. 34 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,760 These three guys came in first off. I thought they were customers. Yeah. Couple of them walked the back of the place. 35 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:49,400 I thought they were picking out stuff. The other one kind of stood around by the cash register where I was. Go ahead. 36 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,840 Well, after he was there for a minute and I see the other two aren't picking up nothing, I asked him if there was something I could get for him. 37 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,640 That's when he pulled out a gun. What about the other two? Oh, work like they had some kind of signal. 38 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:01,680 Soon as the one in front pulled his gun, the other two did too. 39 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:07,600 Fell asked me to put all the money in a paper bag, got the bag from up in front there, took it right out of the stack and handed it to me, 40 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:14,040 he said, for me to put the dough in it. You recall his exact words? What? The way he said it, the words he used. You recall him? 41 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:20,640 Let me see. I think it was put all the dough in this bag. Don't say anything. Just do as I say. That was the way he said it. 42 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:25,400 What did you do then? Like he said, he had that gun pointed right at me. I could see the other two guys. 43 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:31,720 I wasn't going to do anything. But what he told me, I put the money in the bag. I thought they'd leave the place. But that's when Andy came out. 44 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:36,960 I guess he wondered what the other two were after. You see, from where he was, he couldn't see the guns. Well, he walked out to him. 45 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:42,840 He didn't ask if there was anything special they were looking for. What happened then? Then he saw what was happening. 46 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:49,680 Saw the guns and he tried to throw the guys out. I don't know why he did it. Andy's like that. He gets an idea in his head and there isn't anything that'll shake it loose. 47 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:57,400 He tied into those two guys. Almost had him whipped too, even with the guns. The guy that was with me saw what was going on, yelled back at him, told him not to shoot. 48 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:05,680 He ran back and laid his gun alongside Andy's head. It all clouded him right along in here. Andy dropped like a sack of potatoes and the three guys ran out of the store. 49 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:12,120 How much money did they get, you know? I hadn't finished up with the bank statement yet. I'd just be guessing, but I'd say about $8,000. 50 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:18,840 Might run to $8,500, but that's about it. I see. Now, if you could just give us a description of the man. All three of them? If you could, yeah. 51 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:25,840 The one who was with me must have been about 5'11", kind of dark complex. It had straight black hair. What color were his eyes? Brown. 52 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:32,960 He had any marks or scars you could see? No. Clean shaver? Yeah, I had a real dark beard. It looked kind of like he had some kind of talcum powder on. 53 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:43,160 Remember how he was dressed? Let's see. Dark blue suit, gray top coat, gray hat. Was he wearing a tie, do you know? Yeah, a gray tie with maroon stripes. 54 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:49,680 You know, kind of diagonal, a thin tie. Anything unusual about him? Make it easier for us to identify him? No, I don't think so. 55 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:56,520 How about the gun he was carrying? What kind was it? I couldn't see the name. No, sir, I mean, was it an automatic or revolver? Oh, an automatic. 56 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:03,160 It looked like a big caliber, I'd say.45. One of the other fellows had a revolver, but the guy with me and the small one had automatics. 57 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:09,960 You know if they drove a car? Well, if they did, I didn't see it. Might have had it parked right out in front for all I know. I told you, I was busy when they came in. 58 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:15,840 When they left, I was too worried about Andy to pay any attention to him. Why are they hitting on a terrible thing right along here? 59 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:23,600 Oh, excuse me, man. I got some aspirin in the door. Yes, sir. I sure hope Andy's going to be all right. We've been together a long time. 60 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:29,320 I can't get over that little guy, the one who hit me. I should have taken him. But the big one, he's a tough looking real fighter. 61 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,880 Well, this is going to help much. Huh? He's going to lose this one. 62 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:42,880 We got the descriptions of the other two men and a supplementary local broadcast was gotten out. 63 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:49,080 The two officers who had answered the call found a woman in the neighborhood who'd seen three men leave the vicinity immediately after the robbery. 64 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:57,680 She said that she was parked in a car half a block from the store on the same side of the street. She explained that about nine twenty a.m., a car pulled into a parking place in front of her. 65 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:05,280 She'd seen three men leave the car and walk down the sidewalk in the direction of the Lockton Market. About ten minutes later, the men came back to the car. 66 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:13,720 They appeared to be in a hurry. One of the men was upset and arguing with the other two. She told the officers that they'd gotten into the car and driven off toward Hollywood Boulevard. 67 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:18,560 We asked her to describe the three men. The description she gave us matched the one we'd gotten of the thieves. 68 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,400 She gave us a description of the car and another supplementary broadcast was put out. 69 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:27,480 We asked her to come down to City Hall to go through the mug books to see if she could give us a positive identification. 70 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:34,760 The report from Georgia Street Receiving Hospital indicated that the victim of the slugging, Andrew Rich, was suffering from a fractured jaw and a concussion. 71 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:41,520 He was given emergency treatment and removed to the county hospital. The crime lab crew came out and they went over the store for physical evidence. 72 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,760 They were able to lift three partial fingerprints from the counter next to the cash register. 73 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:54,320 Dean Bergman in Leighton Prince explained that the partials were not enough for identification, but that if we apprehended the holdup men, he'd be able to tell us if they'd left the impressions. 74 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:58,920 Ten twenty-seven a.m. We took the victim Clifford Hall and the woman who'd seen the car to the mug room. 75 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:04,400 They went through the mug books, but they were unable to come up with an identification. We had the stats office make a run on the MO. 76 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:09,760 They came back with a list of seventeen names of men who at one time or another had used the same method of operation. 77 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:14,240 The list was split and Sergeants Mead and Leitner worked with us in checking the names out. 78 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:19,760 It was Thursday three forty eight p.m. Frank and I got to the sixth name on our list. 79 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,080 Jerry Evanston, right? Yeah. 80 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,800 It's sure dark in this hall. We ought to wash the windows, let some light in. 81 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,280 Yeah, here we are. 82 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:36,160 Why not be in? We'll try again. 83 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,200 Now let's talk to the manager. Yeah. 84 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,480 Yeah? Who is it? 85 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,280 The manager. We want to see him in it. 86 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:49,280 Just a minute. 87 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,800 What do you want? I just sleep. Come on, Evanston, open up. 88 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,320 Now go and get out of here. 89 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:01,040 Come on, Evanston, get up. 90 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,200 What are you doing, McQueen? 91 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,520 Look, you got no right to come busting in here like this. 92 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,520 Yeah, you're so clean. What are you putting that trouble for? 93 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,000 I get scared, that's all. I just get scared. 94 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,800 You feel somebody walk you up and shoves their way into your room. 95 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,800 You ain't going to stand around and just let them do it. 96 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,800 Stay clean, John. I told you that. 97 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:20,800 Look, I got no trouble. I don't want none. 98 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,600 You check with Galloway, he'll tell you. I'm home every night at nine o'clock. 99 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,600 Where were you this morning? Huh? 100 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:27,600 This morning, where were you? What time? 101 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,600 You just tell us what you did starting when he got up. 102 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,600 I was up all night. I got a virus or something. I couldn't sleep. 103 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,800 Take a look there in the dresser, you can see the stuff I've been taking. 104 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,800 I haven't been out of this room, not for a couple of days. 105 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,800 Can you prove that? Why? 106 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:42,800 Can you? No, there wasn't anybody here. 107 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:44,800 You get any phone calls? No. 108 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,800 I don't know what this is all about, but you guys are leaning on me for nothing. 109 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,800 Now, you talk to Galloway, he'll tell you I've been working. 110 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,800 Look here, I'll show you... Where are you going? 111 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,800 I just want to show you something I got in the drawer. 112 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,800 You stay right there, I'll get it for you. 113 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:58,800 Okay, I got nothing to hide. 114 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,800 Take a look in the top drawer there, left-hand side. 115 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:02,800 Yeah. 116 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:04,800 Please, what you mean? 117 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,800 Yeah, that's it. 118 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,800 Stand up and look, you'll see I'm telling you the truth. 119 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,800 Now, you see? It's all the check receipts I've gotten from where I work. 120 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,800 You look at them, I'm working every day and I'm home at night, oh, nine o'clock every night. 121 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,800 How about it, Joe? Yeah. 122 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,800 Now, you see? 123 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,800 You haven't been out of this room all day, huh? Not a minute. 124 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,800 Now, come on, what's all this about anyway? What are you guys after? 125 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,800 I figured maybe you could tell us. 126 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:29,800 Yeah? 127 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:31,800 I'm sorry, without you telling me what you want, there's nothing I can give you. 128 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,800 You see any of the boys anymore? 129 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,800 I mean, the fellas I knew before I fell. 130 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,800 Oh, that's right. 131 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,800 Not if I can help it, I'm trying to stay away from them. 132 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,800 See any of them lately? Yeah. 133 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,800 I saw Alex a couple days ago. 134 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,800 Alex? Yeah, Alex Finley. 135 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:47,800 I knew him when I was up in Q. He came in where I was working. 136 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,800 Did you talk to him at all? 137 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:51,800 Just said hello, passed a couple of minutes talking about some of the guys we know. 138 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,800 Seeing the rackets now? 139 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,800 I don't know. 140 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,800 John Perot? Yeah, I think so. 141 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,800 Did he give you anything? Oh, a couple of rumbles, but if I turn them over to you, I don't want a credit for them. 142 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,800 You don't know where you got them. 143 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,800 All right. 144 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,800 I think there's a gang that's going to start working here in town, market jobs. 145 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:07,800 How many men? 146 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:09,800 From what Alex says, there's four, all heavy guys. 147 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,800 Finley with them? 148 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:13,800 No, I don't think so. He told it to me that he just heard it. 149 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:15,800 Did he say anything about who the four men are? 150 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:17,800 No, I don't think he knew. He just said they were heavy and they were starting to work. 151 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,800 You know where we can get in touch with Alex? 152 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,800 No. 153 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:23,800 Well, you might check with Galloway at the parole office. He might have it. 154 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,800 Yeah, we will. 155 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,800 I'll probably see him again. I'll try to get the information if I can. 156 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,800 What is it? What does he want to know? Who the guys are? 157 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,800 That's right. 158 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:33,800 Okay. Now, like I told you, though, I don't want any credit for it. 159 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,800 I'm in real trouble if it gets around that I'm playing footsie with you. 160 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,800 Yeah, sure. 161 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,800 I'll try to find out when they're going to start working, too. 162 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:41,800 Well, don't you worry about that. 163 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,800 Huh? We already know that. 164 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:45,800 Four ten p.m. 165 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:47,800 We got in touch with Fred Galloway at the state adult parole offices 166 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:49,800 and we checked on Jerry Evanston. 167 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:51,800 From what the records showed, the story Evanston had told us was true. 168 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:53,800 His parole officer had reported him working 169 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,800 and apparently living up to the conditions of his release. 170 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,800 We left him one of our cards and asked him to call us back. 171 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,800 We were told that he was going to be released. 172 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,800 We left him one of our cards and asked him to call us 173 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,800 in the event he heard from Alex Finley. 174 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,800 Four twenty-one p.m. We checked back into the office 175 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,800 and we met with Sergeants Mead and Lightner. 176 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:09,800 They told us that they'd checked out the names 177 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,800 on their half of the list without result. 178 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,800 We sent a teletype up to George Brett in C.I.I. Sacramento 179 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,800 giving him the description of the holdup men 180 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,800 and listing the E.M.O. that they'd used. 181 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:19,800 We asked him to run the information through their files 182 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:21,800 and forward any information they came up with. 183 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,800 Five nineteen p.m. 184 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,800 We went out to get something to eat and then we checked back into the office. 185 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:27,800 Good dinner, huh, Joe? 186 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,800 Yeah. I never saw a guy could eat so many enchiladas as you. 187 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,800 Yeah, I can't help it. 188 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:33,800 I get started on them, can't seem to stop. 189 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:35,800 Yeah. 190 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:37,800 You got any soda in your locker? 191 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,800 No, you got trouble again? 192 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:41,800 You know I always do when we have enchiladas. 193 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,800 You ought to remember that when you order a half a dozen. 194 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,800 I suppose so. 195 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:47,800 I get it. 196 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:49,800 Lobby Friday, yep. 197 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:51,800 When was that? 198 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:53,800 They're pretty sure, are they? 199 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,800 Has the lab been called yet? 200 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,800 Yep. Okay. Right, thanks. 201 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,800 Well, that's a break. 202 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:01,800 They just found the getaway car. 203 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:07,800 Six forty seven p.m. 204 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,800 We left the office and drove out to where the car had been found. 205 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,800 It was parked on Lockwood Avenue, 206 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,800 five blocks from the market that had been robbed. 207 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:15,800 The radio car officers had spotted it 208 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,800 and had called the office immediately when they saw a brown paper bag 209 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,800 in the back seat bearing the printed name 210 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,800 Lockton Market. 211 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:23,800 A crew from Layton Prince came out and went over the car. 212 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,800 They were able to come up with a single print from a man's index finger. 213 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,800 Bergman compared it with the partials found at the market. 214 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,800 They matched. 215 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,800 We checked the white slip on the car 216 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,800 and found that the vehicle was stolen. 217 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,800 A report on it had been filed at ten thirty seven a.m. that morning. 218 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,800 We talked with the people in the immediate vicinity, 219 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,800 but none of them were able to tell us anything about the people who had parked the car. 220 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:41,800 However, we did come up with an elderly man 221 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:43,800 who told us that he'd seen three men get into another car 222 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:45,800 at about nine forty five that morning. 223 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:47,800 He said that he remembered it because the driver of the car 224 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:49,800 had pulled into a parking space 225 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:51,800 and stopped the motor. 226 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,800 Another automobile had parked directly in front of the car 227 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,800 and the driver of the first machine had moved 228 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:57,800 so that there was no one in front of them. 229 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,800 The man went on to say that 230 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,800 a few minutes after the driver pulled into the second parking place, 231 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,800 three men had come around the corner, 232 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:05,800 gotten into the car, and the four of them had driven off. 233 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:07,800 The witness was unable to give us a description of the car 234 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,800 other than to say that it was a late model Plymouth or Ford. 235 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,800 The only description he could give us of the men 236 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,800 was that one of them was large 237 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,800 and was wearing a gray top coat and a hat 238 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,800 and that one of them was small. 239 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,800 Eight forty p.m. 240 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,800 Frank and I went back to the office and checked out for the night. 241 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:23,800 The following morning at eight oh two a.m. 242 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:25,800 I checked back in for work. 243 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,800 Hi Joe. 244 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:29,800 Morning. Kind of cold out. 245 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,800 Yeah. 246 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,800 You look happy this morning. 247 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:35,800 I didn't sleep a wink last night, Joe. Not a wink. 248 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,800 What's the matter? 249 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,800 Stomach. Next time I even think about eating enchiladas, 250 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,800 stop me, will you Joe? 251 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:43,800 Yeah, sure. 252 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,800 Any mail come in? 253 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:47,800 No. 254 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,800 There's an ad here 255 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,800 from that store over in West Sixth. 256 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,800 They're having an annual sale. 257 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,800 Yeah? I want to try to get over there 258 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,800 and get me a new suit for Christmas. 259 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:59,800 There's a special delivery from Bracken. 260 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:01,800 Probably those mugs we asked for. 261 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:03,800 I'll see. 262 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,800 Yeah, there's six of them. 263 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:09,800 You want to get in touch with Cliff Hall? 264 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,800 Drive over and have him take a look at them. 265 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:13,800 Yeah. You got any other pictures? Yeah, we can mix them up. 266 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,800 I'll call Hall, Kay. 267 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,800 I sure hope we get an ident 268 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:21,800 that we haven't got much to go on. 269 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,800 There's got to be a break someplace. 270 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,800 We've got to find it. 271 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,800 From what Finley said about the gang starting up the operation, 272 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:29,800 it doesn't sound like just one job. No. 273 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:31,800 They start on a string, they can do a lot of damage. 274 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,800 It doesn't give us much choice, does it? No. 275 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,800 We've got to get to them. 276 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:39,800 Eight twenty-seven a.m. 277 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:41,800 Frank and I left the office and drove over 278 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,800 to the victim, Cliff Hall. We showed him the mug shots 279 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,800 George Bracken had sent us. 280 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,800 He picked one out and said that he was positive 281 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:49,800 that the man in the picture was the one who had held him up. 282 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,800 The name on the mug shot was Harold Bishop. 283 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:53,800 According to the record Bracken had sent us, 284 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:55,800 Bishop had been convicted twice on violation 285 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:57,800 of 211 P.C. armed robbery. 286 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:59,800 Nine twenty a.m. 287 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,800 We drove over to the county hospital and showed the pictures 288 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,800 to the other victim, Andrew Rich. 289 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,800 He picked the mug shot of Bishop as the suspect who'd robbed and beaten him. 290 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,800 The notation on Bishop's picture 291 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:09,800 gave us the information that he was on parole at the time. 292 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,800 We returned to the office and put in a call 293 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:13,800 to Fred Galloway at the State Adult Parole Office. 294 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,800 Yeah, Fred, this is Joe Friday. 295 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:17,800 Mm-hmm. 296 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,800 Yeah, fine. We'd like some information 297 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,800 on the Harold Bishop. San Francisco 298 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,800 number eight two six oh nine. 299 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,800 Two six. 300 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,800 That's right. Male, white, Caucasian. 301 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,800 We got a mug from Bracken. 302 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,800 No, he says on parole. 303 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,800 Yeah, if you will. 304 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,800 Thanks a lot. 305 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,800 Checking the master file now. 306 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:39,800 We'll be standing by if we need him. 307 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:41,800 When we get this address, we're going to have to move fast. 308 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,800 Yeah. Yeah, Fred. When was that? 309 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:45,800 Well, how's his report there? 310 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,800 I see. No, I don't know. 311 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:51,800 Yeah, I suppose. 312 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,800 Right, Fred. Thank you. 313 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,800 Well, you can tell me and Lightner to relax. 314 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,800 Bishop's got an out-of-state parole. 315 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,800 He's living over in Phoenix. Well, he still could be getting 316 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,800 into California. No, not likely. Huh? 317 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,800 Fred checked with his parole officer. Yeah. 318 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,800 He's been reporting to his parole officer every month. 319 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,800 We asked Fred Galloway at the State 320 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,800 Parole Office to contact Bishop's parole 321 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:21,800 officer in Phoenix and check him closely. 322 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,800 The report came back that the suspect 323 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,800 had a job with a small contractor 324 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,800 and that he'd been working regularly. 325 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,800 He'd also been giving monthly reports to his 326 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,800 officer. We'd had a 327 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,800 suspect identified by two of his victims, 328 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,800 and yet if the information we'd gotten was correct, 329 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:37,800 it would have been a physical impossibility for him 330 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,800 to have committed the robbery. 331 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:41,800 We got a copy of his jacket and looked over his 332 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,800 past record. We found that 333 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,800 Bishop had been arrested for armed robbery the first 334 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,800 time 18 years previously. 335 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,800 He'd been brought to trial and acquitted. 336 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,800 The next arrest was 10 months after 337 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:53,800 his trial. He'd been convicted and served six 338 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,800 years at San Quentin. He'd been released 339 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:57,800 and within six months Bishop had been picked up 340 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,800 again. This time he was sent 341 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,800 to Folsom Penitentiary. While he 342 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,800 was there he appeared to be a model prisoner, 343 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:05,800 and after serving four and a half years he'd been placed 344 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:07,800 on parole. After leaving 345 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:09,800 the prison he'd requested and been granted 346 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,800 an out of state leave. 347 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,800 In checking Bishop's M.O. we found that it matched 348 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,800 exactly that of the thieves who'd held up the 349 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:17,800 Lockton Market. The time 350 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:19,800 of approach was the same, the number of men 351 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,800 used was the same. The method of leaving 352 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:23,800 the scene was exact. We had a suspect 353 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,800 and yet he couldn't have committed the crime. 354 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,800 Three weeks passed. 355 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,800 On Saturday, November 26, 356 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:31,800 the thieves hit again. In checking with the victims 357 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,800 they identified the mug shot of Bishop. 358 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,800 We put in a long distance call to the Phoenix 359 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,800 Police Department and asked them to check on the suspect. 360 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,800 We got word back that he was in their city. 361 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:41,800 They told us that he wasn't at work due to a virus 362 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,800 infection. They went on to say that they'd checked 363 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,800 with his landlady and that she'd told them that Bishop hadn't 364 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,800 left his apartment at all on the day of the theft. 365 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,800 Monday, November 28, 366 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,800 we got our first break in the case. 367 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:53,800 I'll get it. 368 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:55,800 Robbery's 369 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:57,800 man. Yeah. Oh yeah 370 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,800 Jerry. Uh huh. 371 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:01,800 You sure about that? 372 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:03,800 Where? 373 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:05,800 Uh huh. How about the rest of them? 374 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,800 Yeah, just a minute. 375 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,800 Toss me that pad will you? Yeah, here you go. 376 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:11,800 Okay Jerry, go ahead. 377 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,800 Yeah. 378 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,800 Uh huh. 379 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,800 How do you spell it? L-A? 380 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:19,800 L-E-A? H-Y? 381 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:21,800 Uh huh. I got it. 382 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,800 Uh huh. You know the 383 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:25,800 address? Yeah. 384 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,800 Yeah. 385 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,800 Okay, thanks Jerry. We'll get in touch with you. 386 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:31,800 Right. Jerry 387 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,800 Evanston, remember the guy we talked to over in South 7th? 388 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,800 Yeah. Well the way he tells it, we aren't 389 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,800 too far off. How do you mean? He saw Bishop in town 390 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,800 last Saturday. 391 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:46,800 We put in a call and we found that there were two major airlines with flights to Phoenix. 392 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,800 The flight time they listed was one hour and 35 minutes by air. 393 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,800 If Bishop caught the last flight leaving Phoenix, he could arrive in Los Angeles at 1120 PM the night before he left. 394 00:18:54,800 --> 00:19:02,800 The next day after the holdup, he could catch a plane from the Los Angeles International Airport that would have him back in Phoenix at 825 PM. 395 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,800 By doing this, he would be absent from his work only one day. 396 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,800 And he could schedule his flight so as not to hit on the days when he had an interview with his parole officer. 397 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,800 Tuesday, November 29th, a meeting was held in Chief Thad Brown's office. 398 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,800 It was decided to put a special stake out on the airport and wait for the suspect to come into town. 399 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,800 At that time, he'd be followed and taken into custody as he prepared to commit another robbery. 400 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:28,800 The names of the three other men Jerry Evanson had given Frank as having been involved in the holdups had been checked through R&I. 401 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,800 All three of them had arrest records. 402 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,800 Surveillance was placed on their homes and they were kept under constant watch. 403 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,800 Monday, December 12th, 1115 PM, Frank and I relieved the stakeout at the airport. 404 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:47,800 There's a bench over there. We can keep all the gates in there. Yeah. 405 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,800 Wonder when he's going to hit again. I don't know. 406 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,800 The last couple of weeks it sure dragged by him. Yeah. 407 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,800 Anything on the other three guys? Well, I talked to Pinky Meade this morning. 408 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,800 He and Lightner are staked out at Lay's apartment. How they doing? 409 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,800 Nothing. Parking the car down the street. What they say Lay's like a clock. 410 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:08,800 He comes in at 5 AM, leaves at 9 PM every day. Got a cigarette? Yeah. 411 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,800 Here you go. 412 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,800 Joe. Yeah. 413 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:20,800 Bishop. Let's let him get outside. Yeah. 414 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,800 Wonder if he's got any luggage. 415 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,800 I'll be bringing up outside. We can wait for him there. 416 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:31,800 All right, come on. 417 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:41,800 You see him? Yeah, there he is. Getting into that cab. Come on. 418 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,800 Frank and I got in our car and followed the cab taken by the suspect. 419 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,800 We followed him out of the airport grounds and then up La Brea Avenue. 420 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,800 The cab turned right on Washington Boulevard and headed for downtown Los Angeles. 421 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,800 We pulled up to a stoplight. Still got him? Yeah, he's still up ahead in front of that blue Mercury. 422 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:02,800 See him? Yeah. You got the number of the cab? Mm-hmm. 2974. 423 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:09,800 There's the light. All right, let's go. 424 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,800 Better try to pick it up a little, Frank. Cab's pulling away from us. Yeah. 425 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,800 Think he's seen us? No. 426 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:21,800 Can't you close in a little? Traffic's too heavy. Yeah, use the siren. We'll tip him. Yeah. 427 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,800 Still see him? Yeah. 428 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:30,800 There's a break. Guy had to make it a right turn. Now we're right behind the cab. Yeah. I'll close in now. Good. 429 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:39,800 Watch it, Frank. That guy pulling out of the alley. Hold on. 430 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:46,800 As we drove down the street after the stoplight had changed, a car had failed to make a boulevard stop coming out of an alley and we'd hit it broadside. 431 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,800 The damage done to both cars was considerable and we'd lost our suspect. 432 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:56,800 Frank got to a phone and called the office. He gave them the number of the cab that Bishop was in and asked for a traffic investigation card. 433 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,800 The office started a search for the missing suspect. 434 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,800 Lieutenant Jack Smire told us to proceed to the apartment of Tom Leahy to wait for further development. 435 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:09,800 In the meantime, a citywide broadcast went out carrying the description of Bishop and the other three men involved in the theft. 436 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,800 Frank and I arrived at the apartment and we relieved mead and light in it. 437 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,800 We had the manager of the place let us into Leahy's room. We waited. 438 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:21,800 1.30 a.m. 2.30. 4 o'clock. 5.30 a.m. 439 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,800 Frank and I had been on duty for over 21 hours. 440 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:29,800 At 5.45, the phone in the apartment rang once and then it quit. That was the arranged signal between us and the office. 441 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:35,800 Frank put in the call. Lieutenant Smire told us that officers Max Herman and Ed Benson were on the way out to relieve us. 442 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,800 15 minutes later we heard somebody in the hall. 443 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:38,800 Joe? 444 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:39,800 Yeah, probably Benson and Herman. 445 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,800 Yeah. 446 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,800 I'll get it. 447 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:45,800 Watch it, Joe. 448 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:46,800 I'm coming up for you. 449 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:47,800 You all right, Joe? 450 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,800 Yeah, come on. 451 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:50,800 He's going upstairs. 452 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:56,800 Make it for the roof. Come on. 453 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:57,800 See him? 454 00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:59,800 No. You want to take that side? 455 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:00,800 Right. 456 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,800 Watch it. 457 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,800 Behind the elevator, Chef Joe. 458 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,800 Yeah, I see him. 459 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:09,800 Get away from me, cop. 460 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,800 You're in trouble, Bishop. Don't build any more for yourself. 461 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,800 I got nothing to lose. They held me again. I'll be up at the joint for life. Don't talk no more. He shouldn't use me. 462 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,800 There's no way off this roof, Bishop. Throw that gun out here and you follow him. 463 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:18,800 You're out of your mind, cop. 464 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,800 Give it up, Bishop. Now come on. Throw that gun out. 465 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:28,800 I'm going out, cop. You try to stop me, I'll blow your head off. 466 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:29,800 You all right, Joe? 467 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:30,800 Yeah. 468 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:31,800 How is he? 469 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:32,800 I better call an ambulance. 470 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,800 Yeah. What's that fill out of his pocket? 471 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,800 Wait a minute. 472 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:38,800 Something they'll never use. 473 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:39,800 Yeah? 474 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:49,800 Airplane ticket to Phoenix. 475 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:58,800 Albert Martin Krueger, Harold Nelson Bishop, Thomas Nagel Leahy, and Charles Everett Lee were taken into custody and brought to trial for two counts of robbery in the first degree. 476 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,800 They were convicted and received sentence as prescribed by law. 477 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:08,800 Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a period of not less than five years. 478 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:18,800 Because of his previous record, Thomas Nagel Leahy was given the maximum sentence and is now serving life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, Folsom, California. 479 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:24,800 DRAGNET is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 480 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,800 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 481 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:37,800 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service.