WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Dragnet. 00:07.240 --> 00:11.080 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.080 --> 00:18.080 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:21.320 --> 00:25.000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. 00:25.000 --> 00:29.500 Three hold-up men have robbed and beaten two supermarket operators in your city. 00:29.500 --> 00:36.500 You've got a good description of the thieves. Your job, get them. 00:39.360 --> 00:43.600 It was Tuesday, November 3rd. It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a robbery detail. 00:43.600 --> 00:47.500 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss of Chief of Detective Stab Brown. My name's Barty. 00:47.500 --> 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. 00:53.600 --> 00:56.320 The Lockton Market. 00:56.320 --> 01:00.160 Officer back there. 01:00.160 --> 01:04.600 Friday and Smith sent a robbery. Oh yeah, I'm Jackson, Unit 3A7. You answered the call? Yeah. 01:04.600 --> 01:08.200 We got here a couple of minutes ago. Where's the victim? Back room there. He's pretty bad off. 01:08.200 --> 01:10.440 Ambulance attendance with him now. 01:10.440 --> 01:13.880 My partner's checking the neighborhood. If there's nothing you need me for, I'll give him a hand. 01:13.880 --> 01:20.400 Yeah, make a 211 report for you, Lee, will you? Right. Thank you. 01:20.400 --> 01:27.160 Looks like there was quite a fight. Yeah, stuff all over the place. Come on. 01:27.160 --> 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. 01:32.160 --> 01:35.200 Hey, take it easy, huh? 01:35.200 --> 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. 01:39.440 --> 01:43.680 Tell him about Andy. He's the one who really got it. Who's Andy? Yeah, the clerk. Pretty rough. 01:43.680 --> 01:46.520 Looks like it might be a fractured jaw. He's on the truck now. 01:46.520 --> 01:50.840 Let me get this tape on you now. 01:50.840 --> 01:53.000 Oh. 01:53.000 --> 01:57.360 That should do it. Might be a good idea if you saw your doctor. Yeah, what about Andy? 01:57.360 --> 02:00.760 We're going to take him down to Georgia Street Receiving. You gonna call me and let me know about him? 02:00.760 --> 02:09.200 That might be better if you call them. Yeah, okay. I see you guys. Yeah, right. Yeah, sure. 02:09.200 --> 02:12.920 Boy, that one guy really clouded me. Heard. 02:12.920 --> 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. 02:18.440 --> 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? 02:22.960 --> 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. 02:29.560 --> 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. 02:33.840 --> 02:39.280 Go ahead, please. I was getting the money ready for the bank deposit. Andy was back here stacking bottle cases. 02:39.280 --> 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. 02:43.760 --> 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. 02:49.400 --> 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. 02:53.840 --> 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. 02:58.640 --> 03:01.680 Soon as the one in front pulled his gun, the other two did too. 03:01.680 --> 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, 03:07.600 --> 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? 03:14.040 --> 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. 03:20.640 --> 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. 03:25.400 --> 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. 03:31.720 --> 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. 03:36.960 --> 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. 03:42.840 --> 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. 03:49.680 --> 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. 03:57.400 --> 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. 04:05.680 --> 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. 04:12.120 --> 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. 04:18.840 --> 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. 04:25.840 --> 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. 04:32.960 --> 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. 04:43.160 --> 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. 04:49.680 --> 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. 04:56.520 --> 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. 05:03.160 --> 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. 05:09.960 --> 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? 05:15.840 --> 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. 05:23.600 --> 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. 05:29.320 --> 05:32.880 Well, this is going to help much. Huh? He's going to lose this one. 05:32.880 --> 05:42.880 We got the descriptions of the other two men and a supplementary local broadcast was gotten out. 05:42.880 --> 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. 05:49.080 --> 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. 05:57.680 --> 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. 06:05.280 --> 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. 06:13.720 --> 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. 06:18.560 --> 06:22.400 She gave us a description of the car and another supplementary broadcast was put out. 06:22.400 --> 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. 06:27.480 --> 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. 06:34.760 --> 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. 06:41.520 --> 06:45.760 They were able to lift three partial fingerprints from the counter next to the cash register. 06:45.760 --> 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. 06:54.320 --> 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. 06:58.920 --> 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. 07:04.400 --> 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. 07:09.760 --> 07:14.240 The list was split and Sergeants Mead and Leitner worked with us in checking the names out. 07:14.240 --> 07:19.760 It was Thursday three forty eight p.m. Frank and I got to the sixth name on our list. 07:19.760 --> 07:22.080 Jerry Evanston, right? Yeah. 07:22.080 --> 07:24.800 It's sure dark in this hall. We ought to wash the windows, let some light in. 07:24.800 --> 07:27.280 Yeah, here we are. 07:30.800 --> 07:36.160 Why not be in? We'll try again. 07:36.160 --> 07:39.200 Now let's talk to the manager. Yeah. 07:39.200 --> 07:42.480 Yeah? Who is it? 07:42.480 --> 07:45.280 The manager. We want to see him in it. 07:45.280 --> 07:49.280 Just a minute. 07:52.400 --> 07:54.800 What do you want? I just sleep. Come on, Evanston, open up. 07:54.800 --> 07:56.320 Now go and get out of here. 07:56.320 --> 08:01.040 Come on, Evanston, get up. 08:01.040 --> 08:03.200 What are you doing, McQueen? 08:03.200 --> 08:05.520 Look, you got no right to come busting in here like this. 08:05.520 --> 08:07.520 Yeah, you're so clean. What are you putting that trouble for? 08:07.520 --> 08:10.000 I get scared, that's all. I just get scared. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.800 You feel somebody walk you up and shoves their way into your room. 08:12.800 --> 08:16.800 You ain't going to stand around and just let them do it. 08:16.800 --> 08:18.800 Stay clean, John. I told you that. 08:18.800 --> 08:20.800 Look, I got no trouble. I don't want none. 08:20.800 --> 08:23.600 You check with Galloway, he'll tell you. I'm home every night at nine o'clock. 08:23.600 --> 08:25.600 Where were you this morning? Huh? 08:25.600 --> 08:27.600 This morning, where were you? What time? 08:27.600 --> 08:29.600 You just tell us what you did starting when he got up. 08:29.600 --> 08:33.600 I was up all night. I got a virus or something. I couldn't sleep. 08:33.600 --> 08:36.800 Take a look there in the dresser, you can see the stuff I've been taking. 08:36.800 --> 08:38.800 I haven't been out of this room, not for a couple of days. 08:38.800 --> 08:40.800 Can you prove that? Why? 08:40.800 --> 08:42.800 Can you? No, there wasn't anybody here. 08:42.800 --> 08:44.800 You get any phone calls? No. 08:44.800 --> 08:48.800 I don't know what this is all about, but you guys are leaning on me for nothing. 08:48.800 --> 08:50.800 Now, you talk to Galloway, he'll tell you I've been working. 08:50.800 --> 08:52.800 Look here, I'll show you... Where are you going? 08:52.800 --> 08:54.800 I just want to show you something I got in the drawer. 08:54.800 --> 08:56.800 You stay right there, I'll get it for you. 08:56.800 --> 08:58.800 Okay, I got nothing to hide. 08:58.800 --> 09:00.800 Take a look in the top drawer there, left-hand side. 09:00.800 --> 09:02.800 Yeah. 09:02.800 --> 09:04.800 Please, what you mean? 09:04.800 --> 09:06.800 Yeah, that's it. 09:06.800 --> 09:08.800 Stand up and look, you'll see I'm telling you the truth. 09:10.800 --> 09:13.800 Now, you see? It's all the check receipts I've gotten from where I work. 09:13.800 --> 09:17.800 You look at them, I'm working every day and I'm home at night, oh, nine o'clock every night. 09:17.800 --> 09:19.800 How about it, Joe? Yeah. 09:19.800 --> 09:21.800 Now, you see? 09:21.800 --> 09:23.800 You haven't been out of this room all day, huh? Not a minute. 09:23.800 --> 09:25.800 Now, come on, what's all this about anyway? What are you guys after? 09:25.800 --> 09:27.800 I figured maybe you could tell us. 09:27.800 --> 09:29.800 Yeah? 09:29.800 --> 09:31.800 I'm sorry, without you telling me what you want, there's nothing I can give you. 09:31.800 --> 09:33.800 You see any of the boys anymore? 09:33.800 --> 09:35.800 I mean, the fellas I knew before I fell. 09:35.800 --> 09:37.800 Oh, that's right. 09:37.800 --> 09:39.800 Not if I can help it, I'm trying to stay away from them. 09:39.800 --> 09:41.800 See any of them lately? Yeah. 09:41.800 --> 09:43.800 I saw Alex a couple days ago. 09:43.800 --> 09:45.800 Alex? Yeah, Alex Finley. 09:45.800 --> 09:47.800 I knew him when I was up in Q. He came in where I was working. 09:47.800 --> 09:49.800 Did you talk to him at all? 09:49.800 --> 09:51.800 Just said hello, passed a couple of minutes talking about some of the guys we know. 09:51.800 --> 09:53.800 Seeing the rackets now? 09:53.800 --> 09:55.800 I don't know. 09:55.800 --> 09:57.800 John Perot? Yeah, I think so. 09:57.800 --> 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. 09:59.800 --> 10:01.800 You don't know where you got them. 10:01.800 --> 10:03.800 All right. 10:03.800 --> 10:05.800 I think there's a gang that's going to start working here in town, market jobs. 10:05.800 --> 10:07.800 How many men? 10:07.800 --> 10:09.800 From what Alex says, there's four, all heavy guys. 10:09.800 --> 10:11.800 Finley with them? 10:11.800 --> 10:13.800 No, I don't think so. He told it to me that he just heard it. 10:13.800 --> 10:15.800 Did he say anything about who the four men are? 10:15.800 --> 10:17.800 No, I don't think he knew. He just said they were heavy and they were starting to work. 10:17.800 --> 10:19.800 You know where we can get in touch with Alex? 10:19.800 --> 10:21.800 No. 10:21.800 --> 10:23.800 Well, you might check with Galloway at the parole office. He might have it. 10:23.800 --> 10:25.800 Yeah, we will. 10:25.800 --> 10:27.800 I'll probably see him again. I'll try to get the information if I can. 10:27.800 --> 10:29.800 What is it? What does he want to know? Who the guys are? 10:29.800 --> 10:31.800 That's right. 10:31.800 --> 10:33.800 Okay. Now, like I told you, though, I don't want any credit for it. 10:33.800 --> 10:35.800 I'm in real trouble if it gets around that I'm playing footsie with you. 10:35.800 --> 10:37.800 Yeah, sure. 10:37.800 --> 10:39.800 I'll try to find out when they're going to start working, too. 10:39.800 --> 10:41.800 Well, don't you worry about that. 10:41.800 --> 10:43.800 Huh? We already know that. 10:43.800 --> 10:45.800 Four ten p.m. 10:45.800 --> 10:47.800 We got in touch with Fred Galloway at the state adult parole offices 10:47.800 --> 10:49.800 and we checked on Jerry Evanston. 10:49.800 --> 10:51.800 From what the records showed, the story Evanston had told us was true. 10:51.800 --> 10:53.800 His parole officer had reported him working 10:53.800 --> 10:55.800 and apparently living up to the conditions of his release. 10:55.800 --> 10:57.800 We left him one of our cards and asked him to call us back. 10:57.800 --> 10:59.800 We were told that he was going to be released. 10:59.800 --> 11:01.800 We left him one of our cards and asked him to call us 11:01.800 --> 11:03.800 in the event he heard from Alex Finley. 11:03.800 --> 11:05.800 Four twenty-one p.m. We checked back into the office 11:05.800 --> 11:07.800 and we met with Sergeants Mead and Lightner. 11:07.800 --> 11:09.800 They told us that they'd checked out the names 11:09.800 --> 11:11.800 on their half of the list without result. 11:11.800 --> 11:13.800 We sent a teletype up to George Brett in C.I.I. Sacramento 11:13.800 --> 11:15.800 giving him the description of the holdup men 11:15.800 --> 11:17.800 and listing the E.M.O. that they'd used. 11:17.800 --> 11:19.800 We asked him to run the information through their files 11:19.800 --> 11:21.800 and forward any information they came up with. 11:21.800 --> 11:23.800 Five nineteen p.m. 11:23.800 --> 11:25.800 We went out to get something to eat and then we checked back into the office. 11:25.800 --> 11:27.800 Good dinner, huh, Joe? 11:27.800 --> 11:29.800 Yeah. I never saw a guy could eat so many enchiladas as you. 11:29.800 --> 11:31.800 Yeah, I can't help it. 11:31.800 --> 11:33.800 I get started on them, can't seem to stop. 11:33.800 --> 11:35.800 Yeah. 11:35.800 --> 11:37.800 You got any soda in your locker? 11:37.800 --> 11:39.800 No, you got trouble again? 11:39.800 --> 11:41.800 You know I always do when we have enchiladas. 11:41.800 --> 11:43.800 You ought to remember that when you order a half a dozen. 11:43.800 --> 11:45.800 I suppose so. 11:45.800 --> 11:47.800 I get it. 11:47.800 --> 11:49.800 Lobby Friday, yep. 11:49.800 --> 11:51.800 When was that? 11:51.800 --> 11:53.800 They're pretty sure, are they? 11:53.800 --> 11:55.800 Has the lab been called yet? 11:55.800 --> 11:57.800 Yep. Okay. Right, thanks. 11:57.800 --> 11:59.800 Well, that's a break. 11:59.800 --> 12:01.800 They just found the getaway car. 12:05.800 --> 12:07.800 Six forty seven p.m. 12:07.800 --> 12:09.800 We left the office and drove out to where the car had been found. 12:09.800 --> 12:11.800 It was parked on Lockwood Avenue, 12:11.800 --> 12:13.800 five blocks from the market that had been robbed. 12:13.800 --> 12:15.800 The radio car officers had spotted it 12:15.800 --> 12:17.800 and had called the office immediately when they saw a brown paper bag 12:17.800 --> 12:19.800 in the back seat bearing the printed name 12:19.800 --> 12:21.800 Lockton Market. 12:21.800 --> 12:23.800 A crew from Layton Prince came out and went over the car. 12:23.800 --> 12:25.800 They were able to come up with a single print from a man's index finger. 12:25.800 --> 12:27.800 Bergman compared it with the partials found at the market. 12:27.800 --> 12:29.800 They matched. 12:29.800 --> 12:31.800 We checked the white slip on the car 12:31.800 --> 12:33.800 and found that the vehicle was stolen. 12:33.800 --> 12:35.800 A report on it had been filed at ten thirty seven a.m. that morning. 12:35.800 --> 12:37.800 We talked with the people in the immediate vicinity, 12:37.800 --> 12:39.800 but none of them were able to tell us anything about the people who had parked the car. 12:39.800 --> 12:41.800 However, we did come up with an elderly man 12:41.800 --> 12:43.800 who told us that he'd seen three men get into another car 12:43.800 --> 12:45.800 at about nine forty five that morning. 12:45.800 --> 12:47.800 He said that he remembered it because the driver of the car 12:47.800 --> 12:49.800 had pulled into a parking space 12:49.800 --> 12:51.800 and stopped the motor. 12:51.800 --> 12:53.800 Another automobile had parked directly in front of the car 12:53.800 --> 12:55.800 and the driver of the first machine had moved 12:55.800 --> 12:57.800 so that there was no one in front of them. 12:57.800 --> 12:59.800 The man went on to say that 12:59.800 --> 13:01.800 a few minutes after the driver pulled into the second parking place, 13:01.800 --> 13:03.800 three men had come around the corner, 13:03.800 --> 13:05.800 gotten into the car, and the four of them had driven off. 13:05.800 --> 13:07.800 The witness was unable to give us a description of the car 13:07.800 --> 13:09.800 other than to say that it was a late model Plymouth or Ford. 13:09.800 --> 13:11.800 The only description he could give us of the men 13:11.800 --> 13:13.800 was that one of them was large 13:13.800 --> 13:15.800 and was wearing a gray top coat and a hat 13:15.800 --> 13:17.800 and that one of them was small. 13:17.800 --> 13:19.800 Eight forty p.m. 13:19.800 --> 13:21.800 Frank and I went back to the office and checked out for the night. 13:21.800 --> 13:23.800 The following morning at eight oh two a.m. 13:23.800 --> 13:25.800 I checked back in for work. 13:25.800 --> 13:27.800 Hi Joe. 13:27.800 --> 13:29.800 Morning. Kind of cold out. 13:29.800 --> 13:31.800 Yeah. 13:31.800 --> 13:33.800 You look happy this morning. 13:33.800 --> 13:35.800 I didn't sleep a wink last night, Joe. Not a wink. 13:35.800 --> 13:37.800 What's the matter? 13:37.800 --> 13:39.800 Stomach. Next time I even think about eating enchiladas, 13:39.800 --> 13:41.800 stop me, will you Joe? 13:41.800 --> 13:43.800 Yeah, sure. 13:43.800 --> 13:45.800 Any mail come in? 13:45.800 --> 13:47.800 No. 13:47.800 --> 13:49.800 There's an ad here 13:49.800 --> 13:51.800 from that store over in West Sixth. 13:51.800 --> 13:53.800 They're having an annual sale. 13:53.800 --> 13:55.800 Yeah? I want to try to get over there 13:55.800 --> 13:57.800 and get me a new suit for Christmas. 13:57.800 --> 13:59.800 There's a special delivery from Bracken. 13:59.800 --> 14:01.800 Probably those mugs we asked for. 14:01.800 --> 14:03.800 I'll see. 14:05.800 --> 14:07.800 Yeah, there's six of them. 14:07.800 --> 14:09.800 You want to get in touch with Cliff Hall? 14:09.800 --> 14:11.800 Drive over and have him take a look at them. 14:11.800 --> 14:13.800 Yeah. You got any other pictures? Yeah, we can mix them up. 14:13.800 --> 14:15.800 I'll call Hall, Kay. 14:17.800 --> 14:19.800 I sure hope we get an ident 14:19.800 --> 14:21.800 that we haven't got much to go on. 14:21.800 --> 14:23.800 There's got to be a break someplace. 14:23.800 --> 14:25.800 We've got to find it. 14:25.800 --> 14:27.800 From what Finley said about the gang starting up the operation, 14:27.800 --> 14:29.800 it doesn't sound like just one job. No. 14:29.800 --> 14:31.800 They start on a string, they can do a lot of damage. 14:31.800 --> 14:33.800 It doesn't give us much choice, does it? No. 14:33.800 --> 14:35.800 We've got to get to them. 14:37.800 --> 14:39.800 Eight twenty-seven a.m. 14:39.800 --> 14:41.800 Frank and I left the office and drove over 14:41.800 --> 14:43.800 to the victim, Cliff Hall. We showed him the mug shots 14:43.800 --> 14:45.800 George Bracken had sent us. 14:45.800 --> 14:47.800 He picked one out and said that he was positive 14:47.800 --> 14:49.800 that the man in the picture was the one who had held him up. 14:49.800 --> 14:51.800 The name on the mug shot was Harold Bishop. 14:51.800 --> 14:53.800 According to the record Bracken had sent us, 14:53.800 --> 14:55.800 Bishop had been convicted twice on violation 14:55.800 --> 14:57.800 of 211 P.C. armed robbery. 14:57.800 --> 14:59.800 Nine twenty a.m. 14:59.800 --> 15:01.800 We drove over to the county hospital and showed the pictures 15:01.800 --> 15:03.800 to the other victim, Andrew Rich. 15:03.800 --> 15:05.800 He picked the mug shot of Bishop as the suspect who'd robbed and beaten him. 15:05.800 --> 15:07.800 The notation on Bishop's picture 15:07.800 --> 15:09.800 gave us the information that he was on parole at the time. 15:09.800 --> 15:11.800 We returned to the office and put in a call 15:11.800 --> 15:13.800 to Fred Galloway at the State Adult Parole Office. 15:13.800 --> 15:15.800 Yeah, Fred, this is Joe Friday. 15:15.800 --> 15:17.800 Mm-hmm. 15:17.800 --> 15:19.800 Yeah, fine. We'd like some information 15:19.800 --> 15:21.800 on the Harold Bishop. San Francisco 15:21.800 --> 15:23.800 number eight two six oh nine. 15:23.800 --> 15:25.800 Two six. 15:25.800 --> 15:27.800 That's right. Male, white, Caucasian. 15:27.800 --> 15:29.800 We got a mug from Bracken. 15:29.800 --> 15:31.800 No, he says on parole. 15:31.800 --> 15:33.800 Yeah, if you will. 15:33.800 --> 15:35.800 Thanks a lot. 15:35.800 --> 15:37.800 Checking the master file now. 15:37.800 --> 15:39.800 We'll be standing by if we need him. 15:39.800 --> 15:41.800 When we get this address, we're going to have to move fast. 15:41.800 --> 15:43.800 Yeah. Yeah, Fred. When was that? 15:43.800 --> 15:45.800 Well, how's his report there? 15:47.800 --> 15:49.800 I see. No, I don't know. 15:49.800 --> 15:51.800 Yeah, I suppose. 15:51.800 --> 15:53.800 Right, Fred. Thank you. 15:55.800 --> 15:57.800 Well, you can tell me and Lightner to relax. 15:57.800 --> 15:59.800 Bishop's got an out-of-state parole. 15:59.800 --> 16:01.800 He's living over in Phoenix. Well, he still could be getting 16:01.800 --> 16:03.800 into California. No, not likely. Huh? 16:03.800 --> 16:05.800 Fred checked with his parole officer. Yeah. 16:05.800 --> 16:07.800 He's been reporting to his parole officer every month. 16:15.800 --> 16:17.800 We asked Fred Galloway at the State 16:17.800 --> 16:19.800 Parole Office to contact Bishop's parole 16:19.800 --> 16:21.800 officer in Phoenix and check him closely. 16:21.800 --> 16:23.800 The report came back that the suspect 16:23.800 --> 16:25.800 had a job with a small contractor 16:25.800 --> 16:27.800 and that he'd been working regularly. 16:27.800 --> 16:29.800 He'd also been giving monthly reports to his 16:29.800 --> 16:31.800 officer. We'd had a 16:31.800 --> 16:33.800 suspect identified by two of his victims, 16:33.800 --> 16:35.800 and yet if the information we'd gotten was correct, 16:35.800 --> 16:37.800 it would have been a physical impossibility for him 16:37.800 --> 16:39.800 to have committed the robbery. 16:39.800 --> 16:41.800 We got a copy of his jacket and looked over his 16:41.800 --> 16:43.800 past record. We found that 16:43.800 --> 16:45.800 Bishop had been arrested for armed robbery the first 16:45.800 --> 16:47.800 time 18 years previously. 16:47.800 --> 16:49.800 He'd been brought to trial and acquitted. 16:49.800 --> 16:51.800 The next arrest was 10 months after 16:51.800 --> 16:53.800 his trial. He'd been convicted and served six 16:53.800 --> 16:55.800 years at San Quentin. He'd been released 16:55.800 --> 16:57.800 and within six months Bishop had been picked up 16:57.800 --> 16:59.800 again. This time he was sent 16:59.800 --> 17:01.800 to Folsom Penitentiary. While he 17:01.800 --> 17:03.800 was there he appeared to be a model prisoner, 17:03.800 --> 17:05.800 and after serving four and a half years he'd been placed 17:05.800 --> 17:07.800 on parole. After leaving 17:07.800 --> 17:09.800 the prison he'd requested and been granted 17:09.800 --> 17:11.800 an out of state leave. 17:11.800 --> 17:13.800 In checking Bishop's M.O. we found that it matched 17:13.800 --> 17:15.800 exactly that of the thieves who'd held up the 17:15.800 --> 17:17.800 Lockton Market. The time 17:17.800 --> 17:19.800 of approach was the same, the number of men 17:19.800 --> 17:21.800 used was the same. The method of leaving 17:21.800 --> 17:23.800 the scene was exact. We had a suspect 17:23.800 --> 17:25.800 and yet he couldn't have committed the crime. 17:25.800 --> 17:27.800 Three weeks passed. 17:27.800 --> 17:29.800 On Saturday, November 26, 17:29.800 --> 17:31.800 the thieves hit again. In checking with the victims 17:31.800 --> 17:33.800 they identified the mug shot of Bishop. 17:33.800 --> 17:35.800 We put in a long distance call to the Phoenix 17:35.800 --> 17:37.800 Police Department and asked them to check on the suspect. 17:37.800 --> 17:39.800 We got word back that he was in their city. 17:39.800 --> 17:41.800 They told us that he wasn't at work due to a virus 17:41.800 --> 17:43.800 infection. They went on to say that they'd checked 17:43.800 --> 17:45.800 with his landlady and that she'd told them that Bishop hadn't 17:45.800 --> 17:47.800 left his apartment at all on the day of the theft. 17:47.800 --> 17:49.800 Monday, November 28, 17:49.800 --> 17:51.800 we got our first break in the case. 17:51.800 --> 17:53.800 I'll get it. 17:53.800 --> 17:55.800 Robbery's 17:55.800 --> 17:57.800 man. Yeah. Oh yeah 17:57.800 --> 17:59.800 Jerry. Uh huh. 17:59.800 --> 18:01.800 You sure about that? 18:01.800 --> 18:03.800 Where? 18:03.800 --> 18:05.800 Uh huh. How about the rest of them? 18:05.800 --> 18:07.800 Yeah, just a minute. 18:07.800 --> 18:09.800 Toss me that pad will you? Yeah, here you go. 18:09.800 --> 18:11.800 Okay Jerry, go ahead. 18:11.800 --> 18:13.800 Yeah. 18:13.800 --> 18:15.800 Uh huh. 18:15.800 --> 18:17.800 How do you spell it? L-A? 18:17.800 --> 18:19.800 L-E-A? H-Y? 18:19.800 --> 18:21.800 Uh huh. I got it. 18:21.800 --> 18:23.800 Uh huh. You know the 18:23.800 --> 18:25.800 address? Yeah. 18:25.800 --> 18:27.800 Yeah. 18:27.800 --> 18:29.800 Okay, thanks Jerry. We'll get in touch with you. 18:29.800 --> 18:31.800 Right. Jerry 18:31.800 --> 18:33.800 Evanston, remember the guy we talked to over in South 7th? 18:33.800 --> 18:35.800 Yeah. Well the way he tells it, we aren't 18:35.800 --> 18:37.800 too far off. How do you mean? He saw Bishop in town 18:37.800 --> 18:39.800 last Saturday. 18:39.800 --> 18:46.800 We put in a call and we found that there were two major airlines with flights to Phoenix. 18:46.800 --> 18:49.800 The flight time they listed was one hour and 35 minutes by air. 18:49.800 --> 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. 18:54.800 --> 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. 19:02.800 --> 19:05.800 By doing this, he would be absent from his work only one day. 19:05.800 --> 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. 19:10.800 --> 19:14.800 Tuesday, November 29th, a meeting was held in Chief Thad Brown's office. 19:14.800 --> 19:18.800 It was decided to put a special stake out on the airport and wait for the suspect to come into town. 19:18.800 --> 19:22.800 At that time, he'd be followed and taken into custody as he prepared to commit another robbery. 19:22.800 --> 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. 19:28.800 --> 19:30.800 All three of them had arrest records. 19:30.800 --> 19:34.800 Surveillance was placed on their homes and they were kept under constant watch. 19:34.800 --> 19:39.800 Monday, December 12th, 1115 PM, Frank and I relieved the stakeout at the airport. 19:39.800 --> 19:47.800 There's a bench over there. We can keep all the gates in there. Yeah. 19:47.800 --> 19:49.800 Wonder when he's going to hit again. I don't know. 19:49.800 --> 19:52.800 The last couple of weeks it sure dragged by him. Yeah. 19:52.800 --> 19:55.800 Anything on the other three guys? Well, I talked to Pinky Meade this morning. 19:55.800 --> 19:58.800 He and Lightner are staked out at Lay's apartment. How they doing? 19:58.800 --> 20:02.800 Nothing. Parking the car down the street. What they say Lay's like a clock. 20:02.800 --> 20:08.800 He comes in at 5 AM, leaves at 9 PM every day. Got a cigarette? Yeah. 20:08.800 --> 20:12.800 Here you go. 20:12.800 --> 20:15.800 Joe. Yeah. 20:15.800 --> 20:20.800 Bishop. Let's let him get outside. Yeah. 20:20.800 --> 20:22.800 Wonder if he's got any luggage. 20:22.800 --> 20:25.800 I'll be bringing up outside. We can wait for him there. 20:25.800 --> 20:31.800 All right, come on. 20:31.800 --> 20:41.800 You see him? Yeah, there he is. Getting into that cab. Come on. 20:41.800 --> 20:44.800 Frank and I got in our car and followed the cab taken by the suspect. 20:44.800 --> 20:47.800 We followed him out of the airport grounds and then up La Brea Avenue. 20:47.800 --> 20:51.800 The cab turned right on Washington Boulevard and headed for downtown Los Angeles. 20:51.800 --> 20:55.800 We pulled up to a stoplight. Still got him? Yeah, he's still up ahead in front of that blue Mercury. 20:55.800 --> 21:02.800 See him? Yeah. You got the number of the cab? Mm-hmm. 2974. 21:02.800 --> 21:09.800 There's the light. All right, let's go. 21:09.800 --> 21:12.800 Better try to pick it up a little, Frank. Cab's pulling away from us. Yeah. 21:12.800 --> 21:15.800 Think he's seen us? No. 21:15.800 --> 21:21.800 Can't you close in a little? Traffic's too heavy. Yeah, use the siren. We'll tip him. Yeah. 21:21.800 --> 21:23.800 Still see him? Yeah. 21:23.800 --> 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. 21:30.800 --> 21:39.800 Watch it, Frank. That guy pulling out of the alley. Hold on. 21:39.800 --> 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. 21:46.800 --> 21:50.800 The damage done to both cars was considerable and we'd lost our suspect. 21:50.800 --> 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. 21:56.800 --> 21:58.800 The office started a search for the missing suspect. 21:58.800 --> 22:03.800 Lieutenant Jack Smire told us to proceed to the apartment of Tom Leahy to wait for further development. 22:03.800 --> 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. 22:09.800 --> 22:12.800 Frank and I arrived at the apartment and we relieved mead and light in it. 22:12.800 --> 22:16.800 We had the manager of the place let us into Leahy's room. We waited. 22:16.800 --> 22:21.800 1.30 a.m. 2.30. 4 o'clock. 5.30 a.m. 22:21.800 --> 22:23.800 Frank and I had been on duty for over 21 hours. 22:23.800 --> 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. 22:29.800 --> 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. 22:35.800 --> 22:37.800 15 minutes later we heard somebody in the hall. 22:37.800 --> 22:38.800 Joe? 22:38.800 --> 22:39.800 Yeah, probably Benson and Herman. 22:39.800 --> 22:41.800 Yeah. 22:41.800 --> 22:44.800 I'll get it. 22:44.800 --> 22:45.800 Watch it, Joe. 22:45.800 --> 22:46.800 I'm coming up for you. 22:46.800 --> 22:47.800 You all right, Joe? 22:47.800 --> 22:49.800 Yeah, come on. 22:49.800 --> 22:50.800 He's going upstairs. 22:50.800 --> 22:56.800 Make it for the roof. Come on. 22:56.800 --> 22:57.800 See him? 22:57.800 --> 22:59.800 No. You want to take that side? 22:59.800 --> 23:00.800 Right. 23:00.800 --> 23:04.800 Watch it. 23:04.800 --> 23:06.800 Behind the elevator, Chef Joe. 23:06.800 --> 23:08.800 Yeah, I see him. 23:08.800 --> 23:09.800 Get away from me, cop. 23:09.800 --> 23:11.800 You're in trouble, Bishop. Don't build any more for yourself. 23:11.800 --> 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. 23:15.800 --> 23:17.800 There's no way off this roof, Bishop. Throw that gun out here and you follow him. 23:17.800 --> 23:18.800 You're out of your mind, cop. 23:18.800 --> 23:20.800 Give it up, Bishop. Now come on. Throw that gun out. 23:20.800 --> 23:28.800 I'm going out, cop. You try to stop me, I'll blow your head off. 23:28.800 --> 23:29.800 You all right, Joe? 23:29.800 --> 23:30.800 Yeah. 23:30.800 --> 23:31.800 How is he? 23:31.800 --> 23:32.800 I better call an ambulance. 23:32.800 --> 23:34.800 Yeah. What's that fill out of his pocket? 23:34.800 --> 23:37.800 Wait a minute. 23:37.800 --> 23:38.800 Something they'll never use. 23:38.800 --> 23:39.800 Yeah? 23:39.800 --> 23:49.800 Airplane ticket to Phoenix. 23:49.800 --> 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. 23:58.800 --> 24:02.800 They were convicted and received sentence as prescribed by law. 24:02.800 --> 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. 24:08.800 --> 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. 24:18.800 --> 24:24.800 DRAGNET is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 24:48.800 --> 24:50.800 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 25:18.800 --> 25:37.800 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service.