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02:22.800 --> 02:25.440 Well did you give it to him? 02:25.440 --> 02:26.440 Uh huh. 02:26.440 --> 02:27.440 Yeah. 02:27.440 --> 02:30.440 What'd he say? 02:30.440 --> 02:32.440 Yeah. 02:32.440 --> 02:33.440 When did he come back? 02:33.440 --> 02:34.440 Uh huh. 02:34.440 --> 02:37.440 Well did he have it for you? 02:37.440 --> 02:38.440 Yeah. 02:38.440 --> 02:42.680 Well that'll teach you not to go that route anymore. 02:42.680 --> 02:45.280 All right Patrick, tell the sergeant to call me when he gets back. 02:45.280 --> 02:46.280 Right. 02:46.280 --> 02:47.280 Hi Friday Smith. 02:47.280 --> 02:48.280 Hi Lindsay. 02:48.280 --> 02:49.280 Morning, Sergeant. 02:49.280 --> 02:50.920 Just talking to Gene Patrick over at Holland Park. 02:50.920 --> 02:51.920 Gene home? 02:51.920 --> 02:52.920 Yeah, I met him a couple times. 02:52.920 --> 02:54.760 Picked up a youngster a couple of days ago in suspicion of burglary. 02:54.760 --> 02:56.720 Brought him into the office and Patrick talked to him. 02:56.720 --> 02:57.720 Yeah. 02:57.720 --> 02:59.720 Well he finally bought it that the kid didn't have anything to do with the thefts. 02:59.720 --> 03:00.720 He told him to go home. 03:00.720 --> 03:01.720 Uh huh. 03:01.720 --> 03:02.720 Kid told Gene he didn't have the money to get home. 03:02.720 --> 03:04.400 Said Gene gave him 20 cents. 03:04.400 --> 03:05.720 Kid swore he'd come in and pay it back. 03:05.720 --> 03:06.720 Did he? 03:06.720 --> 03:07.720 Yeah, he came in this morning. 03:07.720 --> 03:08.720 Gave Patrick two dimes. 03:08.720 --> 03:10.360 Told him thanks for believing the story. 03:10.360 --> 03:11.360 Uh huh. 03:11.360 --> 03:12.360 Then Patrick got the kicker. 03:12.360 --> 03:15.360 The kid really did break into a house last night to get the money. 03:15.360 --> 03:16.680 What's Patrick got to say about that? 03:16.680 --> 03:18.480 Says the kid's honest in a sort of way. 03:18.480 --> 03:21.080 Did pay him back. 03:21.080 --> 03:22.080 Where's the youngster now? 03:22.080 --> 03:23.080 Got him over at Holland Park juvenile. 03:23.080 --> 03:24.080 I better call Gene. 03:24.080 --> 03:25.080 Maybe I can give him a hand. 03:25.080 --> 03:26.080 I got a couple of street car tokens he won't be using. 03:26.080 --> 03:27.080 Might like to have them. 03:27.080 --> 03:28.080 Oh hold it. 03:28.080 --> 03:30.080 If I was you I don't think I'd bring it up to him for a couple of days. 03:30.080 --> 03:31.640 Well what can I do for you two? 03:31.640 --> 03:33.600 Well Lindsay, we've been working on a string of burglaries. 03:33.600 --> 03:34.600 You maybe got the word on them. 03:34.600 --> 03:35.600 I don't think so. 03:35.600 --> 03:36.600 What's the story? 03:36.600 --> 03:37.600 Bunch of store burglaries. 03:37.600 --> 03:38.600 Papers have tagged them. 03:38.600 --> 03:39.600 The milk bottle jobs. 03:39.600 --> 03:40.600 Oh yeah. 03:40.600 --> 03:43.160 Seems Hartgrover's telling me something about them the other day. 03:43.160 --> 03:44.160 Where do we come in? 03:44.160 --> 03:49.160 Well the way the jobs look we've been thinking that maybe he belonged in your department 03:49.160 --> 03:50.160 instead of ours. 03:50.160 --> 03:51.160 How do you figure that? 03:51.160 --> 03:52.160 First off the milk thing. 03:52.160 --> 03:53.160 What do you mean? 03:53.160 --> 03:54.160 Every job he's pulled we found an empty milk bottle on the counter. 03:54.160 --> 03:55.160 Okay what's that prove? 03:55.160 --> 03:56.160 Well milk and kids go together. 03:56.160 --> 03:58.880 Sure, sort of milk and ulcers. 03:58.880 --> 04:01.160 Maybe a thief's got the bull horrors when he gets into the store. 04:01.160 --> 04:02.160 No Lindsay there's another thing. 04:02.160 --> 04:03.400 The way he prowls the places. 04:03.400 --> 04:04.720 All he takes is petty cash. 04:04.720 --> 04:05.920 Just a couple of bucks outside. 04:05.920 --> 04:08.080 Candy, cigarettes, nothing big. 04:08.080 --> 04:10.240 Some of the places he's gone into you could open the safe with a pocket knife. 04:10.240 --> 04:11.960 He hasn't even made a move toward them. 04:11.960 --> 04:12.960 Maybe he's a kleptomaniac. 04:12.960 --> 04:14.320 Got a lot of them on the books. 04:14.320 --> 04:15.320 Maybe that's the way he gets his kicks. 04:15.320 --> 04:16.640 Oh it's a nice try Lindsay. 04:16.640 --> 04:19.760 If you know anybody that can climb through a 14 by 10 inch hole you trot them up and 04:19.760 --> 04:20.760 we'll talk to them. 04:20.760 --> 04:23.800 Okay I haven't got the names on my desk but you take a trip to Santa Anita you'll meet 04:23.800 --> 04:24.800 a lot of them. 04:24.800 --> 04:25.800 Jockeys. 04:25.800 --> 04:27.360 You guys know we'll go along with you on this thing. 04:27.360 --> 04:30.180 Anything we can do but until we're sure that there's a juvenile involved there's nothing 04:30.180 --> 04:31.440 we can do. 04:31.440 --> 04:33.000 Anything turns up we'll be sure to turn it over to you. 04:33.000 --> 04:35.120 Now look we're not trying to pound this thing off on you Lindsay. 04:35.120 --> 04:38.240 We've had the stats office make so many runs on small adults that the cards are wearing 04:38.240 --> 04:39.240 out. 04:39.240 --> 04:41.200 It just seems that none of the leads we've been chasing come out anywhere. 04:41.200 --> 04:43.400 We figured that maybe you could come up with some answers for us. 04:43.400 --> 04:45.800 Oh it's a new one on me Joe this milk bet. 04:45.800 --> 04:48.720 I've heard of a couple of thieves that went for it but I can't name you a juvenile off 04:48.720 --> 04:49.720 hand. 04:49.720 --> 04:51.920 I'll pass the word around the day watch see what they can come up with. 04:51.920 --> 04:54.200 I'll leave a note for Heartgrove he can pass it on the night watch. 04:54.200 --> 04:55.680 Well I appreciate anything you can do. 04:55.680 --> 04:56.680 No trouble. 04:56.680 --> 04:57.680 Been running your ragged on this huh? 04:57.680 --> 04:58.680 It's pretty rough. 04:58.680 --> 05:01.040 It's just that we can't seem to be able to come up with anything that adds. 05:01.040 --> 05:02.040 Yeah. 05:02.040 --> 05:03.040 Oh excuse me. 05:03.040 --> 05:04.040 Yeah. 05:04.040 --> 05:05.640 Georgia Street juvenile Sergeant Simmons. 05:05.640 --> 05:06.640 Yeah. 05:06.640 --> 05:08.000 Yeah they're here. 05:08.000 --> 05:09.000 Which one? 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 Okay hang on. 05:11.000 --> 05:12.440 For you Joe your office. 05:12.440 --> 05:15.040 Thank you. 05:15.040 --> 05:16.040 Friday time. 05:16.040 --> 05:17.040 Yeah. 05:17.040 --> 05:19.040 Well right away what's the address? 05:19.040 --> 05:20.040 Uh huh. 05:20.040 --> 05:21.040 Yeah. 05:21.040 --> 05:22.040 No I got it. 05:22.040 --> 05:23.040 We'll leave right away. 05:23.040 --> 05:24.040 Who? 05:24.040 --> 05:25.040 Yeah call him. 05:25.040 --> 05:26.040 Thanks. 05:26.040 --> 05:27.040 Well come on let's go. 05:27.040 --> 05:33.160 The milk bottle kid he hit again. 05:33.160 --> 05:35.480 The call had come from Lieutenant Ginder in burglary. 05:35.480 --> 05:38.640 He told us that he'd just gotten a call from a storekeeper named Marty Darabirdis. 05:38.640 --> 05:41.680 The man had called to report a burglary at his store at the corner of Jackson and Broadway 05:41.680 --> 05:42.680 streets. 05:42.680 --> 05:45.880 Lieutenant Ginder told us that the crime lab had been notified and had dispatched a crew 05:45.880 --> 05:49.320 to investigate the premises for physical evidence. 05:49.320 --> 05:51.960 Frank and I left Georgia Street juvenile and we drove over to Figueroa and then we turned 05:51.960 --> 05:52.960 over onto Broadway. 05:52.960 --> 05:56.920 The store that had been broken into was a small Italian delicatessen on the southeast 05:56.920 --> 05:57.920 corner. 05:57.920 --> 06:00.880 By the time we got there the crime lab crew had already arrived and was winding up their 06:00.880 --> 06:01.880 investigation. 06:01.880 --> 06:04.760 We walked into the place and we met with Ray Pinker. 06:04.760 --> 06:06.760 Hi Joe. 06:06.760 --> 06:07.760 Frank. 06:07.760 --> 06:08.760 Hi Ray. 06:08.760 --> 06:09.760 How's it going? 06:09.760 --> 06:10.760 Usual thing. 06:10.760 --> 06:11.760 A bottle of milk on the counter. 06:11.760 --> 06:12.760 You want to check it over? 06:12.760 --> 06:13.760 Yeah. 06:13.760 --> 06:14.760 Come on back here. 06:14.760 --> 06:18.360 The thief made his entrance back here at the rear of the store. 06:18.360 --> 06:19.360 There it is. 06:19.360 --> 06:20.640 Broke out the window pane. 06:20.640 --> 06:21.640 Yeah. 06:21.640 --> 06:22.640 Not very big huh? 06:22.640 --> 06:24.360 Measures nine and a half or twelve and three quarters. 06:24.360 --> 06:25.960 No alarm on the window huh? 06:25.960 --> 06:27.520 Yeah you can see the wires here. 06:27.520 --> 06:28.520 Take a look. 06:28.520 --> 06:29.520 Oh yeah. 06:29.520 --> 06:31.760 How come the alarm didn't go off? 06:31.760 --> 06:32.760 I talked to the owner. 06:32.760 --> 06:35.240 He said he's had trouble with the alarm system the last couple of weeks. 06:35.240 --> 06:36.240 Called the company and asked them to fix it. 06:36.240 --> 06:37.240 He thought it was okay. 06:37.240 --> 06:38.240 I guess there's something wrong. 06:38.240 --> 06:40.520 Some place didn't work last night. 06:40.520 --> 06:41.960 What kind of alarm was it Ray? 06:41.960 --> 06:42.960 Outside on the building. 06:42.960 --> 06:43.960 You know the kind. 06:43.960 --> 06:44.960 Yeah. 06:44.960 --> 06:45.960 What'd he take this time Ray? 06:45.960 --> 06:46.960 Usual round of stuff. 06:46.960 --> 06:49.240 According to the owner there are about four cartons of cigarettes missing. 06:49.240 --> 06:50.240 Several boxes of candy. 06:50.240 --> 06:51.240 Can't be absolutely sure. 06:51.240 --> 06:53.000 He said he's got a check he's stocked. 06:53.000 --> 06:54.640 It'd be better if you talked to him on that. 06:54.640 --> 06:55.640 Yeah we will. 06:55.640 --> 06:56.640 We'll catch him later. 06:56.640 --> 06:57.640 Want to wait a minute? 06:57.640 --> 06:58.640 I'll check and see how the boys are doing on the prints. 06:58.640 --> 07:00.640 Have them check the counter and the milk bottle. 07:00.640 --> 07:01.640 Alright thanks Ray. 07:01.640 --> 07:02.640 Be right back. 07:02.640 --> 07:03.640 Ray. 07:03.640 --> 07:04.640 I wonder when we're going to blow the whistle on this guy. 07:04.640 --> 07:05.640 I don't know. 07:05.640 --> 07:07.640 I can't do it fast enough for me. 07:07.640 --> 07:09.640 Well then what do you? 07:09.640 --> 07:10.640 Hey Joe. 07:10.640 --> 07:11.640 Look at this. 07:11.640 --> 07:14.640 You know I'd like to get a couple of those before we leave. 07:14.640 --> 07:16.480 What are you talking about? 07:16.480 --> 07:17.480 Salami Joe. 07:17.480 --> 07:18.480 Those right there. 07:18.480 --> 07:19.480 The hard Italian kind. 07:19.480 --> 07:20.480 See right there? 07:20.480 --> 07:21.480 I remember last summer I was up in San Francisco. 07:21.480 --> 07:22.480 Yeah I remember. 07:22.480 --> 07:23.980 Went up there to pick up a prisoner. 07:23.980 --> 07:24.980 Remember you were collecting days off? 07:24.980 --> 07:25.980 Yeah I recall. 07:25.980 --> 07:27.980 I had a hundred of them coming. 07:27.980 --> 07:29.720 Yeah pretty funny. 07:29.720 --> 07:31.320 Anyway I met Dan Shelley up there. 07:31.320 --> 07:32.840 You mean the Irish tenor? 07:32.840 --> 07:34.720 Yeah he and I went down to Cookie's bar for lunch. 07:34.720 --> 07:35.720 She had some of this salami. 07:35.720 --> 07:36.720 Sliced it like paper. 07:36.720 --> 07:37.720 You could almost read through it. 07:37.720 --> 07:39.280 That's the way it's supposed to be. 07:39.280 --> 07:40.600 I know Joe. 07:40.600 --> 07:42.160 Anyway Cookie sliced up a bunch of it. 07:42.160 --> 07:43.520 Served it with cold cracked crab. 07:43.520 --> 07:45.720 Boy I never tasted anything so good in my life. 07:45.720 --> 07:47.880 Don't you ever read the newspaper through sliced salami? 07:47.880 --> 07:48.880 Yeah? 07:48.880 --> 07:49.880 Well I never have. 07:49.880 --> 07:50.880 Have you? 07:50.880 --> 07:51.880 All the time. 07:51.880 --> 07:52.880 Just the funnies. 07:52.880 --> 07:54.840 Well anyway Faye's tried to find them for me. 07:54.840 --> 07:55.840 Salami like this. 07:55.840 --> 07:59.320 Brought home all kind of things but she's never found the right kind. 07:59.320 --> 08:01.000 You know they'd be hard enough to pound tax with them. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 She got them home. 08:02.000 --> 08:05.160 Boy I never forget old Cookie and that spread. 08:05.160 --> 08:09.160 Well if you can get your mind off food for a minute and I know that'll be tough. 08:09.160 --> 08:10.160 Let's get on with this thing Joe. 08:10.160 --> 08:12.920 Yeah sure gotta buy some of these before we leave. 08:12.920 --> 08:14.800 Just like Cookie had. 08:14.800 --> 08:17.000 Just finished with the powder Joe. 08:17.000 --> 08:18.000 Yeah. 08:18.000 --> 08:19.000 Nothing. 08:19.000 --> 08:21.440 Whoever was drank the milk he took the bottle out of the refrigeration compartment. 08:21.440 --> 08:23.400 Bottle's sweated and there isn't a print on it we can lift. 08:23.400 --> 08:24.400 That's too bad. 08:24.400 --> 08:25.400 None of many places huh? 08:25.400 --> 08:27.520 No we've gone over the place from top to bottom. 08:27.520 --> 08:28.840 So there we can't find them. 08:28.840 --> 08:30.320 That's not much help is it? 08:30.320 --> 08:33.200 Came up with one thing maybe you can make something out of it. 08:33.200 --> 08:34.200 What's that? 08:34.200 --> 08:36.200 Outside the window in the back parking lot. 08:36.200 --> 08:37.880 Came up with an open package of cigarettes. 08:37.880 --> 08:38.880 Don't know if it belonged to the thief. 08:38.880 --> 08:39.880 Anything on it? 08:39.880 --> 08:42.960 No fog last night ruined any prints that were on it. 08:42.960 --> 08:43.960 Boys have got it if you want it. 08:43.960 --> 08:46.080 Well we'll take a look at it. 08:46.080 --> 08:47.440 Looks like everything's against us huh? 08:47.440 --> 08:48.440 Another blank. 08:48.440 --> 08:50.160 Don't envy you guys trying to break this one. 08:50.160 --> 08:53.360 Most of the time there's a leak someplace somewhere along the line the guy's gonna make 08:53.360 --> 08:54.600 a mistake and not cover something. 08:54.600 --> 08:56.640 Yeah we've been saying that for weeks. 08:56.640 --> 08:59.200 This is either the smartest thief I've ever seen or the luckiest. 08:59.200 --> 09:00.920 What's this make for him? 09:00.920 --> 09:01.920 Number 19. 09:01.920 --> 09:04.400 A lot of chances to take for nothing. 09:04.400 --> 09:06.100 He's not getting anything out of the jobs. 09:06.100 --> 09:07.680 Maybe he isn't but we are. 09:07.680 --> 09:08.680 What? 09:08.680 --> 09:09.680 Headaches. 09:09.680 --> 09:15.480 9.38 a.m. we talked to the victim. 09:15.480 --> 09:18.520 He told us that as near as he could figure there was approximately four dollars stolen 09:18.520 --> 09:19.520 from the store. 09:19.520 --> 09:23.000 He went on to say that he'd ascertained that five cartons of cigarettes and several boxes 09:23.000 --> 09:24.480 of candy bars were taken. 09:24.480 --> 09:28.920 He was unable to tell us if any other merchandise was taken until he'd made a complete inventory. 09:28.920 --> 09:32.040 He went on to tell us that there was over six hundred dollars in the safe but that as 09:32.040 --> 09:35.480 far as he could tell there had been no attempt to break into it. 09:35.480 --> 09:37.920 We made a canvas of the neighborhood and talked to the neighbors. 09:37.920 --> 09:41.680 None of them recalled having seen any suspicious people in the neighborhood the night before. 09:41.680 --> 09:44.600 None of them had seen any suspicious automobiles in the area. 09:44.600 --> 09:48.040 The one thing that was apparent was that the thief was working in a definite pattern. 09:48.040 --> 09:50.900 He worked only on Friday and Saturday nights. 09:50.900 --> 09:53.520 Always between 8 p.m. and 12 midnight. 09:53.520 --> 09:56.400 Frank and I met with Captain Bernard and it was decided that we would maintain a rolling 09:56.400 --> 09:59.320 stakeout in the area in which the suspect operated. 09:59.320 --> 10:02.240 Four other cars from Metro Reserves were assigned to work with us. 10:02.240 --> 10:04.960 For the next five nights we worked without results. 10:04.960 --> 10:06.560 It was slow and tedious. 10:06.560 --> 10:10.240 But considering the lack of information on the thief it was the only way we had left. 10:10.240 --> 10:14.520 We had to be on or near the scene when the thief struck again. 10:14.520 --> 10:18.000 Saturday night December 19th Frank and I met and drove out to the area. 10:18.000 --> 10:19.920 The streets were crowded with early Christmas shoppers. 10:19.920 --> 10:21.800 I'll sure be glad when it's over. 10:21.800 --> 10:22.800 Why what's the matter? 10:22.800 --> 10:25.200 How many rooms in your apartment Joe? 10:25.200 --> 10:26.680 Three, you know that. 10:26.680 --> 10:27.680 You've been there. 10:27.680 --> 10:29.360 Yeah, there won't be enough room. 10:29.360 --> 10:31.160 What are you talking about? 10:31.160 --> 10:32.160 Fay. 10:32.160 --> 10:33.720 What's Fay got to do with this? 10:33.720 --> 10:35.160 Hack Joe, real hack. 10:35.160 --> 10:36.560 Why what's the matter? 10:36.560 --> 10:38.360 I got up this morning, I felt great. 10:38.360 --> 10:43.080 Fay's got breakfast on the table, all nice, a couple eggs, little pig sausages, nice 10:43.080 --> 10:44.080 you know. 10:44.080 --> 10:45.080 Yeah. 10:45.080 --> 10:49.000 I come down to the table, she's got the food on and I hit her with it. 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 What the food? 10:50.000 --> 10:52.040 No Joe, I hit her with what I'm about to tell her. 10:52.040 --> 10:54.720 I tell her I'm gonna have to work tonight. 10:54.720 --> 10:56.680 You worked every night this week, what's wrong with that? 10:56.680 --> 10:59.560 Well that's the way I figure it, so I got a way out. 10:59.560 --> 11:00.920 Yeah, well. 11:00.920 --> 11:01.920 Today is Fay's birthday. 11:01.920 --> 11:03.600 Well you didn't tell me. 11:03.600 --> 11:05.440 It's not good to tell people Joe. 11:05.440 --> 11:06.880 Oh it isn't. 11:06.880 --> 11:10.000 No, Fay's over 30. 11:10.000 --> 11:13.880 Yeah, I kind of figured that. 11:13.880 --> 11:15.800 Don't you get it? 11:15.800 --> 11:19.080 I'm sorry pal, you left me a couple of blocks back on this one. 11:19.080 --> 11:20.080 Look Fay... 11:20.080 --> 11:21.080 I may never catch up. 11:21.080 --> 11:22.080 Fay's over 30 Joe. 11:22.080 --> 11:25.360 She's getting to the point where she's taking off years, see? 11:25.360 --> 11:28.400 How can you give a person a last birthday present? 11:28.400 --> 11:29.400 Yeah. 11:29.400 --> 11:32.760 I tell you about it, you're gonna give her a present. 11:32.760 --> 11:35.200 Only now instead of 30, she's 29. 11:35.200 --> 11:36.200 You understand? 11:36.200 --> 11:38.760 Well to be perfectly honest with you, no. 11:38.760 --> 11:41.800 But as long as you do, it's perfectly all right with me. 11:41.800 --> 11:42.800 Yeah. 11:42.800 --> 11:43.800 What about this morning? 11:43.800 --> 11:48.120 Well, I told her I was gonna have to go to work, I got this present for her. 11:48.120 --> 11:49.600 Brand new deep fat fryer. 11:49.600 --> 11:50.600 Real good. 11:50.600 --> 11:51.600 What? 11:51.600 --> 11:53.640 Deep fat fryer, all wrapped up with ribbon. 11:53.640 --> 11:55.960 Beautiful, shiny, beautiful. 11:55.960 --> 11:57.680 So you gave it to her, did it do any good? 11:57.680 --> 11:58.680 Not a pound. 11:58.680 --> 11:59.960 You know what she does with it? 11:59.960 --> 12:02.640 Well at this point, I wouldn't even want to guess. 12:02.640 --> 12:06.040 I'm serious Joe, this may mean the end of my home. 12:06.040 --> 12:07.040 Go ahead. 12:07.040 --> 12:11.040 She doesn't even open it, just puts it in the closet on the back porch. 12:11.040 --> 12:13.960 Doesn't even pull the paper apart to peek at what's in it. 12:13.960 --> 12:16.720 Real mad Joe, she may not let me back in the house tonight. 12:16.720 --> 12:18.840 Well you can apologize when you get home. 12:18.840 --> 12:21.400 I don't know Joe, Fay's pretty sore, didn't even open the present. 12:21.400 --> 12:22.400 Wait a minute. 12:22.400 --> 12:23.400 Listen. 12:23.400 --> 12:25.400 Yeah, tell where it's coming from? 12:25.400 --> 12:28.400 Yeah, sounds like up on seven, come on. 12:28.400 --> 12:32.400 Yeah, right here, pull up. 12:32.400 --> 12:33.400 Come on. 12:33.400 --> 12:36.400 I'll take the front. 12:36.400 --> 12:39.400 All right. 12:39.400 --> 12:46.040 Hey, hold it up there. 12:46.040 --> 12:48.040 Police officers, stop or I'll shoot. 12:48.040 --> 12:50.040 Frank, he's coming around your way. 12:50.040 --> 12:51.040 Okay. 12:51.040 --> 12:52.040 Take it easy. 12:52.040 --> 12:53.040 Go ahead and shoot. 12:53.040 --> 12:54.040 Come on and kill me. 12:54.040 --> 12:55.040 Go ahead and shoot me, it doesn't matter anymore. 12:55.040 --> 12:56.040 Everything all right? 12:56.040 --> 12:57.040 Yeah. 12:57.040 --> 12:58.040 Just a kid Joe. 12:58.040 --> 12:59.040 I see. 12:59.040 --> 13:00.040 What are you doing in the store son? 13:00.040 --> 13:01.040 What do you think I'm doing? 13:01.040 --> 13:02.040 He asked you a question son. 13:02.040 --> 13:03.040 Pretty stupid. 13:03.040 --> 13:04.040 What do you think I was doing? 13:04.040 --> 13:05.040 How many stores you're broken into son? 13:05.040 --> 13:06.040 Figure it out for yourself. 13:06.040 --> 13:07.040 Look, what do you got a chip on your shoulder for? 13:07.040 --> 13:08.040 You're big guys. 13:08.040 --> 13:09.040 Don't give me a lot of conversation. 13:09.040 --> 13:10.040 Do what you want to do. 13:10.040 --> 13:11.040 All right boy, you call it. 13:11.040 --> 13:12.040 Come on. 13:12.040 --> 13:28.160 1150 PM, we called the office and told them that we had a subject in custody and that we 13:28.160 --> 13:29.960 were taking him to Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. 13:29.960 --> 13:33.600 We put the boy in our car and we waited until a radio car arrived. 13:33.600 --> 13:37.500 We asked the officers to notify the owner of the store and stand by until he got there. 13:37.500 --> 13:40.400 We also asked that they make a 459 report. 13:40.400 --> 13:43.880 1150 PM, we started to take the youngster to the juvenile bureau. 13:43.880 --> 13:46.560 What's your name son? 13:46.560 --> 13:47.560 What difference does it make? 13:47.560 --> 13:49.240 Acting like that isn't going to help you. 13:49.240 --> 13:50.700 You guys picked me up remember? 13:50.700 --> 13:51.700 You worry about it. 13:51.700 --> 13:52.700 I got nothing to be afraid of. 13:52.700 --> 13:53.700 Oh yes you have boy. 13:53.700 --> 13:55.240 You could have been shot back there. 13:55.240 --> 13:57.640 Maybe you should have pulled a trigger. 13:57.640 --> 13:59.080 Look son, what's the matter with you? 13:59.080 --> 14:00.080 Why are you acting like this? 14:00.080 --> 14:01.800 You just got real lucky back there. 14:01.800 --> 14:03.080 That's the only reason you're alive now. 14:03.080 --> 14:04.080 It was dark in there. 14:04.080 --> 14:05.760 As far as I could tell you were an adult. 14:05.760 --> 14:06.760 You didn't stop when I told you to. 14:06.760 --> 14:08.080 Now according to the book I could have shot you. 14:08.080 --> 14:09.080 You know that don't you? 14:09.080 --> 14:10.080 Killing a kid. 14:10.080 --> 14:11.080 I'm not going to make you a big man. 14:11.080 --> 14:12.520 No I'm just bringing it up to prove a point. 14:12.520 --> 14:13.520 Save it. 14:13.520 --> 14:15.440 Now look son, I want to tell you something. 14:15.440 --> 14:17.880 When you break into a place at night you're not a kid anymore. 14:17.880 --> 14:18.880 You're asking for trouble. 14:18.880 --> 14:20.560 You've got both your pockets full of it. 14:20.560 --> 14:23.760 The way you work tonight makes us think you're mixed up in a lot more thefts than just tonight. 14:23.760 --> 14:24.760 Isn't that right? 14:24.760 --> 14:25.760 You ever been arrested before? 14:25.760 --> 14:26.760 No. 14:26.760 --> 14:27.760 Never been in trouble with the law huh? 14:27.760 --> 14:28.760 Sure, I'm a real criminal. 14:28.760 --> 14:32.560 I got a ticket once for riding my bike through a boulevard stop. 14:32.560 --> 14:34.240 Radio car stopped me and tagged me. 14:34.240 --> 14:35.240 Big deal. 14:35.240 --> 14:37.040 But they're going to send me to San Quentin. 14:37.040 --> 14:39.640 Maybe you can give me the gas chamber. 14:39.640 --> 14:41.600 How old are you? 14:41.600 --> 14:42.600 What difference does that make? 14:42.600 --> 14:43.600 How old are you? 14:43.600 --> 14:44.600 You figure it. 14:44.600 --> 14:46.520 Alright, you look like you're about 11 to me. 14:46.520 --> 14:47.520 That's what everybody thinks. 14:47.520 --> 14:49.400 I'll be 15 my next birthday. 14:49.400 --> 14:50.400 Don't kid us son. 14:50.400 --> 14:51.400 It's the truth, 15. 14:51.400 --> 14:52.400 That's what I'll be, 15. 14:52.400 --> 14:53.400 When were you born? 14:53.400 --> 14:54.400 1939, November 2nd. 14:54.400 --> 14:56.400 You're small for your age aren't you? 14:56.400 --> 14:57.400 Why do you say that? 14:57.400 --> 14:58.400 Aren't you? 14:58.400 --> 15:00.040 It's got nothing to do with it, nothing at all. 15:00.040 --> 15:02.000 I can do anything any other kid can do. 15:02.000 --> 15:03.000 Anything. 15:03.000 --> 15:04.000 Don't you forget that. 15:04.000 --> 15:05.000 What's the matter with you? 15:05.000 --> 15:06.000 Is that a sore point with you? 15:06.000 --> 15:07.000 Huh? 15:07.000 --> 15:08.000 Your size. 15:08.000 --> 15:09.000 Is that a sore point? 15:09.000 --> 15:10.000 I don't have any size. 15:10.000 --> 15:11.000 The doctor says that I'm alright. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.680 Just that some people aren't meant to be as big as others. 15:13.680 --> 15:14.680 That's all. 15:14.680 --> 15:15.680 There's nothing wrong with me. 15:15.680 --> 15:18.680 Now now come on son, what's your name? 15:18.680 --> 15:20.600 Now look, you know we're going to find out. 15:20.600 --> 15:22.480 How are you going to find out? 15:22.480 --> 15:23.480 We will. 15:23.480 --> 15:25.960 Now why don't you save us all a lot of time and tell us the truth here. 15:25.960 --> 15:30.080 It'd be better if you did. 15:30.080 --> 15:31.080 If I do tell you. 15:31.080 --> 15:32.440 You going to put it in the papers? 15:32.440 --> 15:33.440 What? 15:33.440 --> 15:34.440 I tell you. 15:34.440 --> 15:36.440 There are going to be a lot of reporters around. 15:36.440 --> 15:37.440 My name going to get in the papers? 15:37.440 --> 15:38.440 Not from us. 15:38.440 --> 15:39.440 Can't tell you then. 15:39.440 --> 15:42.120 You mean if there's no reporters around you aren't going to tell us your name? 15:42.120 --> 15:43.120 Is that it? 15:43.120 --> 15:44.120 That's the way it is. 15:44.120 --> 15:46.080 It's kind of funny isn't it? 15:46.080 --> 15:49.240 Maybe that's the way it looks to you. 15:49.240 --> 15:50.240 Where do you live? 15:50.240 --> 15:51.240 Can't tell you that either. 15:51.240 --> 15:54.200 Look you've got things all wrong son. 15:54.200 --> 15:55.480 It isn't what you want to tell us. 15:55.480 --> 15:56.640 That's got nothing to do with this. 15:56.640 --> 15:59.040 You're going to tell us what we want to know sooner or later. 15:59.040 --> 16:00.040 Where are we going? 16:00.040 --> 16:01.040 Georgia Street. 16:01.040 --> 16:02.040 That's where the jail is. 16:02.040 --> 16:03.040 Why do you ask that? 16:03.040 --> 16:04.040 Because I want to know. 16:04.040 --> 16:05.040 Yeah there's a jail there. 16:05.040 --> 16:06.040 Reporters? 16:06.040 --> 16:07.040 What? 16:07.040 --> 16:08.040 There are going to be reporters there. 16:08.040 --> 16:09.040 What's the deal with reporters in here? 16:09.040 --> 16:10.040 What's this all about? 16:10.040 --> 16:12.040 Reporters put your name in the papers don't they? 16:12.040 --> 16:13.040 Sometimes. 16:13.040 --> 16:14.760 Well you get the reporters all lined up. 16:14.760 --> 16:15.760 You get them from all the papers. 16:15.760 --> 16:17.800 You have them there and I'll tell you all about it. 16:17.800 --> 16:18.800 The whole story. 16:18.800 --> 16:21.640 You just get the reporters and the photographers. 16:21.640 --> 16:24.280 Be sure about them because I want some pictures too. 16:24.280 --> 16:26.840 Well look let me get this straight. 16:26.840 --> 16:27.840 What? 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Don't you worry about it huh. You want to take him down 18:13.320 --> 18:21.560 the hall Frank I'll check with Hargrove. Yeah come on. Hi Friday working kind of 18:21.560 --> 18:25.040 late aren't you. Yeah we are. I got the note from Simmons on the milk burglaries. 18:25.040 --> 18:27.920 Checked around the nightwives nothing on it so I didn't call you. I don't think 18:27.920 --> 18:30.760 you have to worry about it. I think we got the answer. Yeah. We just picked up a 18:30.760 --> 18:33.920 kid. We got him dead to rights in a market. Open bottle of milk right next to 18:33.920 --> 18:37.200 the cash register. Where is he now? Frank's got him down the hall. You think 18:37.200 --> 18:40.120 he's your boy? It looks like it. Everything adds up. The entrance, what he 18:40.120 --> 18:44.200 tried to take, the milk, all along seems to fit. You got that kind of a case what 18:44.200 --> 18:48.200 are you worrying about? Just two things. Yeah. Who he is and why he did it. He won't 18:48.200 --> 18:51.360 tell you? No. He's got some big thing working about the press. Says he won't 18:51.360 --> 18:54.480 give us anything without reporters being there. Makes it rough Joe you know the 18:54.480 --> 18:58.920 policy. Yeah I do. He won't let us help him. If he wants publicity take me down 18:58.920 --> 19:04.720 introduce me as a reporter. Well that might do it. Won't do any harm to try. Let's go. 19:04.720 --> 19:12.800 Go ahead. Thanks. Who am I gonna be? Well tell me Sid Hughes from the mirror. Might as 19:12.800 --> 19:21.320 well be one of the good ones. Son you wanted to talk to somebody from the 19:21.320 --> 19:25.240 papers. It's against the policy but we swung it for you. This is Sid Hughes from 19:25.240 --> 19:29.680 the mirror. Hi. You the fella that held that guy on the phone in Baltimore? Yeah. Great. I 19:29.680 --> 19:33.800 read all about it. You gonna write me up like that? I hope not son. There were two 19:33.800 --> 19:37.960 men killed in that operation. I read all the stories. Everybody did. That's how I 19:37.960 --> 19:41.580 mean for you to write me up with a picture. What makes you think you got it 19:41.580 --> 19:44.840 coming? You break into one store and try to steal a couple of cartons of 19:44.840 --> 19:49.600 cigarettes. That doesn't make the first page. One store? I got into 19 of them. 19 19:49.600 --> 19:53.920 before they caught me. That's important isn't it? That's a story. I don't know. Might be. 19:53.920 --> 19:56.720 Couple of things we better get straightened out here. First off what's 19:56.720 --> 20:00.640 your name? Better get your notebook out. Be able to take all this down. Don't worry 20:00.640 --> 20:05.080 about it son. You just answer the questions. I'll get it. Yeah. Okay. My name 20:05.080 --> 20:12.960 is Elroy Graham. That's E-L-R-O-Y G-R-A-H-A-M. Yeah. How old are you? I told you once. 20:12.960 --> 20:18.360 Almost 15. You said you'd broken into 19 stores. Is that right? Yeah. 19. Might have 20:18.360 --> 20:21.120 made them more but something went wrong tonight. Had trouble with the burglar 20:21.120 --> 20:25.760 alarm. Thought I turned it off. Bad mistake. He's still working. It wasn't for that. 20:25.760 --> 20:30.440 Guess it only takes one though huh Mr. Hughes? Yeah I guess so. You want to tell us 20:30.440 --> 20:33.720 why you did it? What? You had to have a reason for committing these robberies. You 20:33.720 --> 20:39.800 want to tell us what it was? Sure. Good reason. Real good. All right tell us. Well you 20:39.800 --> 20:43.840 see I always had trouble at school. Never seemed to quite make it. All the guys 20:43.840 --> 20:47.560 like me. They all did. All the girls do too. Got girls calling me almost every 20:47.560 --> 20:51.080 night asking me to take them to dances. Stuff like that. I don't go much for 20:51.080 --> 20:56.400 stuff like that. You can understand can't you Mr. Hughes? Go ahead Elroy. Well they 20:56.400 --> 21:01.120 wanted me for all our teams. Football, basketball. All the time asking me to play. But I 21:01.120 --> 21:04.480 figure if you want to get ahead in the world you got to have an aim. Some place 21:04.480 --> 21:07.920 where you want to get. Figure out that. Work for it and you're gonna get there. 21:07.920 --> 21:13.000 Don't you find that true Mr. Hughes? Go ahead. That's the way it was with me. All 21:13.000 --> 21:16.320 the time turning down offers to be on some team. Telling some girl that I 21:16.320 --> 21:20.400 couldn't take her to a dance. Just didn't have the time. Somehow I just couldn't 21:20.400 --> 21:24.060 make it. You can understand it. You've been around you know all the successful 21:24.060 --> 21:28.760 kind of people. You write something a lot of people read it. You know what I mean. 21:28.760 --> 21:35.960 Don't you? What's the matter? Something wrong? I'm trying to tell you what 21:35.960 --> 21:41.080 happened. I'm giving it to you straight. What's the matter? Now you want to tell 21:41.080 --> 21:44.600 us the truth Elroy. What? I don't know why you're trying to sell us this line boy. 21:44.600 --> 21:47.720 It isn't necessary. I don't know why you did what you did but I do know you had a 21:47.720 --> 21:52.080 reason for it. That's all we want to know. Just the reason. You don't believe me? 21:52.080 --> 22:01.800 Afraid not. How about you? No son, I don't. Mr. Hughes? No. Can't even lie right. 22:01.800 --> 22:06.600 Can't even tell a lie good. All my life I've been trying to be like other kids. 22:06.600 --> 22:11.680 All the time getting beat up, getting left out of things. You know why? Do you 22:11.680 --> 22:18.800 know? Go ahead son. Big reason. Biggest reason in the world. 22:18.800 --> 22:24.520 Cuz I'm almost 15 years old. I'm four feet seven inches tall. Four feet seven. 22:24.520 --> 22:32.200 Weight 97 pounds. That ain't very big. Not big enough. Old time other kids shoving 22:32.200 --> 22:38.040 you around. All the time you're the joke. Gets to the time when you figure it's 22:38.040 --> 22:42.920 easy to laugh too. Because if you don't some kids gonna beat you up. Get to the 22:42.920 --> 22:47.560 point where you don't care anymore. I used to clip out those coupons and send 22:47.560 --> 22:52.280 them in. Get the books back on how to build myself up. Worked at it. Didn't do 22:52.280 --> 22:58.240 nothing for me. Was still four feet seven and weight 97 pounds. All the stuff I took 22:58.240 --> 23:05.360 didn't do no good. Still came out four feet seven. 97 pounds. All right son. You 23:05.360 --> 23:10.440 want to tell us about the burglaries? I did it to be big. That's why. I had the 23:10.440 --> 23:15.560 things other people wanted. Cigarettes, candy. The other things kids wanted. I had 23:15.560 --> 23:20.560 all that stuff that the other kids wanted. Made me important. Don't you see that? 23:20.560 --> 23:25.040 You got to understand it Mr. Hughes. That's why I wanted my picture in the 23:25.040 --> 23:29.600 paper. That's why I wanted the story. So the kids would know that I'd done 23:29.600 --> 23:39.600 something big. So they know. All right son. It's gonna be all right here. No it 23:39.600 --> 23:44.400 isn't. Like everything else I tried to do. I loused it up. I didn't mean to steal 23:44.400 --> 23:49.200 but it was the only thing to do. The only way I had. That wasn't there some other? 23:49.200 --> 23:54.200 No. No there wasn't. All the time the other kids laughing. All the time 23:54.200 --> 24:04.040 talking. I just couldn't stand it anymore. I just couldn't. Here you go. Thanks. 24:05.200 --> 24:11.240 You can understand it can't you? It makes sense. What's that son? Wasn't so much the 24:11.240 --> 24:16.960 kids saying I was little. Yeah. I didn't want to think I was small. 24:22.680 --> 24:26.480 12 36 a.m. We contacted the parents of the Graham boy and asked them to come 24:26.480 --> 24:29.920 down to the station. We talked to them for an hour and tried to fill them in. In 24:29.920 --> 24:32.960 view of the fact that the parents of the subject were responsible persons the 24:32.960 --> 24:37.160 boy was booked for violation of section 459 PC delinquent and he was released to 24:37.160 --> 24:40.920 his parents pending his hearing in juvenile court. Five days passed and we 24:40.920 --> 24:45.000 heard nothing from the boy. On December 24th Frank and I checked into the office. 24:45.000 --> 24:51.680 Friday. Yeah Earl. Get in the back. I want to see you and Smith. Okay thank you. 24:54.200 --> 25:00.040 Hi Mr. Friday. Well Roy what can we do for you? Well I guess you think it's kind of 25:00.040 --> 25:04.080 funny. What's that? I want to tell you that I sure think it's good what you did 25:04.080 --> 25:07.760 for me. Help me with that burglary thing the other night. Well it isn't over yet son. 25:07.760 --> 25:11.880 The court still has to make a decision on it. Yeah but what you did to make me feel 25:11.880 --> 25:15.480 better. As far as I'm concerned whatever the judge decides I'll go along with it. 25:15.480 --> 25:20.280 I had a long talk with my folks so we got it all talked out. All the way talked out. 25:20.280 --> 25:25.720 Well that's good son. We're glad of it son. Maybe you guys won't like it. I mean me 25:25.720 --> 25:30.840 knowing you such a short time and all. But I wanted to bring you these. Merry 25:30.840 --> 25:35.120 Christmas. Well that's awful nice of you. Alright but it isn't necessary. I want to 25:35.120 --> 25:39.160 give them to you anyway. For what you did for me. Well that's mighty nice of you. 25:39.160 --> 25:45.080 Alright sure appreciate it. A couple of packages of cigarettes. Hope they're the 25:45.080 --> 25:52.720 kind of smoke. Yeah son they'll be fine. Thanks son. Well see you guys around huh? 25:52.720 --> 25:59.320 Yeah sure son. Just one more thing sergeant. Yeah son? Just thought you'd 25:59.320 --> 26:09.680 like to know. Yeah what's that? I didn't steal those. 26:09.680 --> 26:14.760 The story you have just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the 26:14.760 --> 26:19.160 innocent. On the 21st of December a petition was filed in juvenile court on 26:19.160 --> 26:24.240 behalf of the subject. On January 26th trial was held in Department 52 of 26:24.240 --> 26:28.360 juvenile court state of California in and for the County of Los Angeles. In a 26:28.360 --> 26:32.640 moment the results of that trial. Now here is our star Jack Webb. Thank You 26:32.640 --> 26:36.520 George Veneman. Friends Thanksgiving is traditionally a time when families and 26:36.520 --> 26:40.360 friends get together. I'd like to make this suggestion. Tomorrow get a couple 26:40.360 --> 26:44.160 of cartons at Chesterfields. You'll be all set for Thanksgiving and the weekend. 26:44.160 --> 26:49.080 We know you, your family, and guests are sure to enjoy America's most popular 26:49.080 --> 27:02.680 two-way cigarette. Chesterfield regular and king-size. Best for you. 27:02.680 --> 27:06.720 Elroy Merton Graham appeared before the juvenile court where he admitted the 27:06.720 --> 27:10.800 alleged burglaries. At this time under the counsel of the judge of the juvenile 27:10.800 --> 27:14.000 court the subject was placed under the care of the probation department for a 27:14.000 --> 27:18.040 period of three years with the provision that his parents take him to a competent 27:18.040 --> 27:23.160 psychiatrist. Ladies and gentlemen don't forget your letter carrier when he makes 27:23.160 --> 27:27.160 a special trip to call on you for muscular dystrophy. 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