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01:31.720 --> 01:34.120 Change to Chesterfield yourself. 01:34.120 --> 01:37.720 Smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 01:37.720 --> 01:40.840 Regular and king-size Chesterfield. 01:40.840 --> 01:48.680 Best for you. 01:48.680 --> 01:52.560 Dragnet, the documentary drama of an actual crime. 01:52.560 --> 01:56.720 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:56.720 --> 02:01.280 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 02:01.280 --> 02:03.200 police files. 02:03.200 --> 02:08.720 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:08.720 --> 02:11.200 in action. 02:11.200 --> 02:17.320 It was Wednesday, June 4th. 02:17.320 --> 02:18.760 It was warm in Los Angeles. 02:18.760 --> 02:20.480 We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 02:20.480 --> 02:23.720 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss of Chief of Detective Stad Brown. 02:23.720 --> 02:24.720 My name is Friday. 02:24.720 --> 02:27.880 We were on the way out from the office and it was 9.47 a.m. when we got to the county 02:27.880 --> 02:28.880 hospital. 02:28.880 --> 02:29.880 Ward 419. 02:29.880 --> 02:30.880 Hi. 02:30.880 --> 02:31.880 Mr. Gilmore? 02:31.880 --> 02:32.880 Yeah. 02:32.880 --> 02:33.880 I know you guys. 02:33.880 --> 02:34.880 No, sir. 02:34.880 --> 02:35.880 We're police officers. 02:35.880 --> 02:36.880 This is my partner, Frank Smith. 02:36.880 --> 02:38.880 My name is Friday. 02:38.880 --> 02:39.880 Hi, it is. 02:39.880 --> 02:40.880 Hello. 02:40.880 --> 02:41.880 A couple of stools over there. 02:41.880 --> 02:42.880 Drag them up. 02:42.880 --> 02:43.880 Sit down. 02:43.880 --> 02:44.880 I'll get them. 02:44.880 --> 02:45.880 Here you go. 02:45.880 --> 02:46.880 Thanks. 02:46.880 --> 02:49.880 How do you feel, Mr. Gilmore? 02:49.880 --> 02:50.880 Rough. 02:50.880 --> 02:51.880 Real rough. 02:51.880 --> 02:56.880 I feel like I've ridden 50 miles in the back of a ready-mixed cement truck. 02:56.880 --> 03:00.880 If it weren't for the pills they'd be giving me, I'd think I'd go off my rocker. 03:00.880 --> 03:02.880 You want to tell us what happened? 03:02.880 --> 03:04.880 Yeah, as much as I can remember. 03:04.880 --> 03:07.880 If it goes so far, then there's a room full of black. 03:07.880 --> 03:10.880 If you'll tell us what you can, please. 03:10.880 --> 03:11.880 Yeah. 03:11.880 --> 03:12.880 Yesterday, that's when it was. 03:12.880 --> 03:13.880 Yesterday? 03:13.880 --> 03:14.880 Yesterday morning. 03:14.880 --> 03:15.880 I checked in for work. 03:15.880 --> 03:16.880 Had a load. 03:16.880 --> 03:17.880 I was going to take over to Phoenix. 03:17.880 --> 03:19.880 Supposed to shove off about 10, 10.15. 03:19.880 --> 03:21.880 Did you know what you were carrying? 03:21.880 --> 03:22.880 Yeah. 03:22.880 --> 03:23.880 I saw the way, Bill. 03:23.880 --> 03:26.880 Some of the stuff they were loading. 03:26.880 --> 03:27.880 Used furniture. 03:27.880 --> 03:28.880 Didn't make any difference to me. 03:28.880 --> 03:30.880 They load the truck and I'll drive it. 03:30.880 --> 03:31.880 Uh-huh. 03:31.880 --> 03:32.880 I went across the street. 03:32.880 --> 03:34.880 Little coffee place over there. 03:34.880 --> 03:36.880 Got my back-end bottle filled and came back. 03:36.880 --> 03:38.880 By that time, they had the truck loaded. 03:38.880 --> 03:41.880 I signed the way, Bill, in the office and went out and got into the truck. 03:41.880 --> 03:43.880 The two guys were waiting for me. 03:43.880 --> 03:44.880 They were in the cab of the truck? 03:44.880 --> 03:45.880 Yeah. 03:45.880 --> 03:46.880 Sitting there. 03:46.880 --> 03:49.880 Kind of scrunched down so you couldn't even see it from the outside. 03:49.880 --> 03:50.880 Yes, sir. 03:50.880 --> 03:52.880 As soon as I opened the door, one of them had a gun pointed at me. 03:52.880 --> 03:55.880 Told me to get into the truck like there was nothing wrong. 03:55.880 --> 03:57.880 Just start the motor and get the truck away from me. 03:57.880 --> 03:59.880 Did they get out of the truck at that time? 03:59.880 --> 04:00.880 No. 04:00.880 --> 04:03.880 When I got there, they told me to drive away and I did. 04:03.880 --> 04:05.880 Wasn't going to mess around with them having a gun. 04:05.880 --> 04:06.880 Yeah, go ahead. 04:06.880 --> 04:10.880 Then we drove about three blocks and they told me to pull into an alley just off of Santa Fe. 04:10.880 --> 04:11.880 Santa Fe in what? 04:11.880 --> 04:12.880 Do you remember? 04:12.880 --> 04:14.880 Uh, by Porter Street between Porter and Enterprise. 04:14.880 --> 04:15.880 I see. 04:15.880 --> 04:16.880 Like to go ahead? 04:16.880 --> 04:21.880 Then they told me to pull into the alley and when I did, they made me get out of the truck. 04:21.880 --> 04:24.880 Took me around back and broke the seal and told me to get inside. 04:24.880 --> 04:25.880 Right. 04:25.880 --> 04:26.880 And that's what you did? 04:26.880 --> 04:31.880 Yes, sir. If they'd have told me to jump off the city hall, I'd have gone ahead and done it with that gun pointed at me. 04:31.880 --> 04:32.880 Now I'm a coward. 04:32.880 --> 04:35.880 A fellow weighs a gun around and I'm going to do just like he tells me. 04:35.880 --> 04:36.880 Yes, sir. 04:36.880 --> 04:38.880 Those guys are mean, you could tell. 04:38.880 --> 04:39.880 How's that? 04:39.880 --> 04:43.880 Oh, I'm kind of a student of phrenology and I could tell about those fellows real plain. 04:43.880 --> 04:44.880 Student of what? 04:44.880 --> 04:47.880 Phrenology. You know, bumps on the head. 04:47.880 --> 04:48.880 Huh. 04:48.880 --> 04:49.880 They all mean something. 04:49.880 --> 04:52.880 Of course, I didn't get a chance to make a good examination of these guys, but I could see it. 04:52.880 --> 04:53.880 Real criminal heads. 04:53.880 --> 04:55.880 Mumps told me so. 04:55.880 --> 04:58.880 One fellow had a head that was one of the worst I'd ever seen. 04:58.880 --> 04:59.880 Yes, sir. 04:59.880 --> 05:00.880 He was mean to his mother, I could tell. 05:00.880 --> 05:02.880 Had a bump right here. 05:02.880 --> 05:03.880 Here, you see? 05:03.880 --> 05:04.880 Yeah. 05:04.880 --> 05:06.880 He was mean to his mother. 05:06.880 --> 05:07.880 Yes, sir. 05:07.880 --> 05:08.880 Well, what happened after they tied you up? 05:08.880 --> 05:09.880 Just left me there. 05:09.880 --> 05:10.880 I see. 05:10.880 --> 05:11.880 You want to go on? 05:11.880 --> 05:12.880 Yeah. 05:12.880 --> 05:15.880 They must have drove for about 20 minutes and they stopped, pulled in some sort of a driveway. 05:15.880 --> 05:16.880 How'd you figure that? 05:16.880 --> 05:19.880 Well, right after they stopped, they made a half U-turn and then backed up. 05:19.880 --> 05:20.880 Backed up this ramp. 05:20.880 --> 05:21.880 Steep. 05:21.880 --> 05:26.880 Then they stopped and took me out of the truck, blindfolded me and made me get out of the truck. 05:26.880 --> 05:29.880 Now, this place where they stopped, that's where they unloaded the furniture, did they? 05:29.880 --> 05:30.880 Yeah. 05:30.880 --> 05:31.880 They must have taken it out of there. 05:31.880 --> 05:32.880 I heard them thumping around in the truck. 05:32.880 --> 05:34.880 Sounded like they were unloading it. 05:34.880 --> 05:36.880 Well, now what'd they do after they got all the furniture out? 05:36.880 --> 05:39.880 Put me back in, drove out to where you found the truck. 05:39.880 --> 05:43.880 After they both climbed into the back, beat me up. 05:43.880 --> 05:45.880 Don't remember much after that. 05:45.880 --> 05:47.880 Both of them worked you over, huh? 05:47.880 --> 05:48.880 Yeah. 05:48.880 --> 05:49.880 Both of them got in their licks. 05:49.880 --> 05:51.880 Especially the one who was mean to his mother. 05:51.880 --> 05:52.880 He was vicious. 05:52.880 --> 05:53.880 He was mean. 05:53.880 --> 05:56.880 They kept hitting me with their fists until I just passed out. 05:56.880 --> 05:59.880 Don't remember anything after that till I came to in the back of the truck. 05:59.880 --> 06:02.880 That's when I called the cops and the guys in uniform came out. 06:02.880 --> 06:04.880 I guess they're the ones who called you. 06:04.880 --> 06:05.880 Yes, sir. 06:05.880 --> 06:08.880 Now, is there any way that you might be able to tell us where they took you? 06:08.880 --> 06:10.880 You mean when they unloaded the furniture? 06:10.880 --> 06:11.880 Yes, sir. 06:11.880 --> 06:13.880 Well, I think maybe I got an idea. 06:13.880 --> 06:16.880 I tried to figure out how fast they was driving. 06:16.880 --> 06:19.880 And after you've been a driver for a while, you get to know. 06:19.880 --> 06:22.880 I'd say they were going about 20 miles an hour. 06:22.880 --> 06:23.880 We were still in town. 06:23.880 --> 06:25.880 My own guess is that they went out of Alameda. 06:25.880 --> 06:28.880 Must have gone out Santa Fe and then turned onto Alameda. 06:28.880 --> 06:29.880 Mm-hmm. 06:29.880 --> 06:33.880 I remember hearing kids yelling, that'd probably be Santa Fe High School. 06:33.880 --> 06:34.880 Yeah. 06:34.880 --> 06:39.880 I guess we went out of Alameda to maybe 43rd or 44th and they turned right. 06:39.880 --> 06:41.880 Kind of hard to figure it then. 06:41.880 --> 06:42.880 The truck got tied up in traffic. 06:42.880 --> 06:45.880 It was hard to tell if they were stopping for that or they were just at a light. 06:45.880 --> 06:46.880 Right. 06:46.880 --> 06:49.880 But I'd say that they were out about Avalon. 06:49.880 --> 06:51.880 Maybe they went up to San Pedro. 06:51.880 --> 06:53.880 I don't think so. 06:53.880 --> 06:54.880 I'd say Avalon. 06:54.880 --> 06:56.880 Then they turned left and headed for Hawthorne. 06:56.880 --> 06:58.880 Not sure how far they went. 06:58.880 --> 07:04.880 But I figured maybe around Rosa Cranes and then they turned a couple more times and they stopped and drove up that steep ramp. 07:04.880 --> 07:05.880 Mm-hmm. 07:05.880 --> 07:08.880 You figure they ended up around Rosa Cranes and Avalon. 07:08.880 --> 07:09.880 Yeah. 07:09.880 --> 07:11.880 I guess that's not much help though, huh? 07:11.880 --> 07:13.880 Well, it gives us an idea where to start looking. 07:13.880 --> 07:16.880 A couple other things that might help you. 07:16.880 --> 07:17.880 What's that? 07:17.880 --> 07:20.880 Well, it seems that when we started to back up the ramp, I heard a bump. 07:20.880 --> 07:22.880 Like they backed into a car. 07:22.880 --> 07:26.880 They didn't hit it hard, but I bet they did hit a car. 07:26.880 --> 07:27.880 Yeah. 07:27.880 --> 07:31.880 After that, they pulled the truck forward and stopped and backed up again. 07:31.880 --> 07:33.880 This time they scraped into the side of a house. 07:33.880 --> 07:35.880 I could feel it run along the side of the truck. 07:35.880 --> 07:39.880 Sounded like they might have torn up some of the wood on the house. 07:39.880 --> 07:40.880 Yeah. 07:40.880 --> 07:42.880 Will that help any? 07:42.880 --> 07:43.880 Yeah, sir. 07:43.880 --> 07:46.880 We'll have our crime lab check the truck and see if they can come up with anything. 07:46.880 --> 07:47.880 Sure hope you can. 07:47.880 --> 07:50.880 Oh, you talk to my boss yet? 07:50.880 --> 07:52.880 No, sir, but he's been notified, we understand. 07:52.880 --> 07:54.880 I bet he's plenty sore about it. 07:54.880 --> 07:57.880 Well, we wouldn't know about that, but he should understand that it wasn't your fault. 07:57.880 --> 07:59.880 He should, but he won't. 07:59.880 --> 08:00.880 I know. 08:00.880 --> 08:01.880 That right? 08:01.880 --> 08:02.880 Yeah. 08:02.880 --> 08:04.880 He doesn't understand anything that doesn't go on his way. 08:04.880 --> 08:06.880 Spotted a mile off. 08:06.880 --> 08:07.880 What's that, sir? 08:07.880 --> 08:08.880 His head. 08:08.880 --> 08:12.880 All kinds of bumps. 08:12.880 --> 08:20.880 Ten-oh-six a.m. 08:20.880 --> 08:22.880 We continued to question the victim Russell Gilmore. 08:22.880 --> 08:24.880 He gave us descriptions of the two men who kidnapped him. 08:24.880 --> 08:29.880 He also told us that at one time he heard one of the men call the other by the name Leo. 08:29.880 --> 08:33.880 Further, he told us that when the two bandits had taken him from the truck, they'd placed him in a garage. 08:33.880 --> 08:35.880 He was able to feel the wall. 08:35.880 --> 08:41.880 He said that he was sure it was a plaster wall, and as much as he could feel the studs and the wire holding the plaster. 08:41.880 --> 08:46.880 He said that at one time he heard a woman come out of a house and say something to the thieves while they unloaded the truck. 08:46.880 --> 08:51.880 He told us that the garage wasn't very large because there was no echo on the sounds that were made in the building. 08:51.880 --> 08:55.880 We called the office and got out a supplementary broadcast on the thieves carrying their descriptions. 08:55.880 --> 08:57.880 Ten-forty a.m. 08:57.880 --> 09:00.880 Frank and I left the county hospital and drove over to Central Station. 09:00.880 --> 09:02.880 We went up to the crime lab and talked to Ray Pinker. 09:02.880 --> 09:06.880 On the right rear fender, we found evidence that the truck had hit a car. 09:06.880 --> 09:08.880 It looked at some paint chips. 09:08.880 --> 09:10.880 Got them here. 09:10.880 --> 09:12.880 Looks like a blue car, huh? 09:12.880 --> 09:13.880 Yeah. 09:13.880 --> 09:15.880 I checked the paint with the Ditzer Production color book. 09:15.880 --> 09:17.880 Here, I'll show you. 09:19.880 --> 09:21.880 We got all the paints cataloged by color. 09:23.880 --> 09:24.880 Here. 09:24.880 --> 09:26.880 This is the one. 09:26.880 --> 09:29.880 Yeah, but Ray, there are a lot of blues here. How can you be sure this is it? 09:29.880 --> 09:33.880 Well, here. You see they got a color patch on each page in the book, hole in the patch. 09:33.880 --> 09:34.880 Oh, this little hole here, huh? 09:34.880 --> 09:35.880 Mm-hmm. 09:35.880 --> 09:38.880 Well, we just put this chip relief from the truck in the hole. 09:38.880 --> 09:40.880 Now lay it down. 09:40.880 --> 09:42.880 Get this lamp. 09:43.880 --> 09:44.880 There. 09:44.880 --> 09:45.880 Color matches. 09:45.880 --> 09:47.880 Got them the same light and you can see they're the same paint. 09:47.880 --> 09:49.880 Huh. Look at that, Joe. Same. 09:49.880 --> 09:51.880 Yeah, I see. 09:51.880 --> 09:52.880 Well, what do we got out of it, Ray? 09:52.880 --> 09:55.880 Car the truck hit was a 1953 Hudson Jet. 09:55.880 --> 09:57.880 It was a single-tone car. 09:57.880 --> 09:59.880 So the top color matches the body color. 09:59.880 --> 10:00.880 Yeah. 10:00.880 --> 10:03.880 You can only use this on one-color cars unless you got a special order. 10:03.880 --> 10:05.880 Mm-hmm. Did you find any house paint on the side of the truck, Ray? 10:05.880 --> 10:07.880 Yeah. Over here. 10:09.880 --> 10:11.880 Might be able to do a little better on that for you. 10:11.880 --> 10:12.880 Mm-hmm. 10:12.880 --> 10:15.880 House the truck ran into is about 36 years old. 10:15.880 --> 10:17.880 Might be a little more than that, but it's right around there. 10:17.880 --> 10:18.880 How did you come up with that? 10:18.880 --> 10:20.880 Been painted 18 times. 10:20.880 --> 10:22.880 Figure once every two years you come out with 36. 10:22.880 --> 10:25.880 Yeah. How do we know it's been painted every two years? 10:25.880 --> 10:27.880 We don't, Frank, just guessing. 10:27.880 --> 10:29.880 But the layers of paint are pretty even. 10:29.880 --> 10:31.880 Might indicate they did it regularly. 10:31.880 --> 10:33.880 You know, I didn't let the paint go too far before they redid it. 10:33.880 --> 10:34.880 Oh, yeah. 10:34.880 --> 10:36.880 Here are the chips of the house paint. 10:36.880 --> 10:38.880 Here, I'll put one on under the microscope. 10:41.880 --> 10:43.880 Here, take a look, Joe. 10:43.880 --> 10:45.880 Okay. 10:45.880 --> 10:47.880 You see okay? 10:47.880 --> 10:49.880 I haven't got a... I don't know. 10:49.880 --> 10:50.880 I'll adjust it. 10:50.880 --> 10:53.880 Yeah. I see what you mean. 10:53.880 --> 10:55.880 You know, the first coat was a cream white. 10:55.880 --> 10:58.880 And they stuck pretty much to that for the next half dozen paint jobs. 10:58.880 --> 11:00.880 Then they changed to a barn red. 11:00.880 --> 11:02.880 Into a green, then back to cream white. 11:02.880 --> 11:06.880 That goes on for three layers and then to the blue that's on it now. 11:06.880 --> 11:09.880 Ray, if we find the house, can you tell us if it's the same one? 11:09.880 --> 11:11.880 It shouldn't be too hard. 11:11.880 --> 11:12.880 There aren't many of them around. 11:12.880 --> 11:13.880 Well, how many? 11:13.880 --> 11:16.880 Well, 18 coats would be 18 factorial. 11:16.880 --> 11:20.880 That's multiplying 18 times 17, times 16, times 15, so on to times one. 11:20.880 --> 11:22.880 I got it worked out for you. 11:22.880 --> 11:24.880 I hope you have. I'm not with you at all here. 11:24.880 --> 11:25.880 Well, look. 11:25.880 --> 11:29.880 Works out to one in six quadrillion, four hundred and two trillion, 11:29.880 --> 11:32.880 three hundred and seventy three billion, seven hundred and five million, 11:32.880 --> 11:35.880 seven hundred and twenty eight thousand chances of finding its twin. 11:35.880 --> 11:38.880 Oh. That's pretty long odds. 11:38.880 --> 11:42.880 Well, if every man, woman and child on the face of the earth owned ten houses apiece, 11:42.880 --> 11:44.880 there wouldn't be another one like it. 11:44.880 --> 11:47.780 The 11:51.880 --> 11:53.880 1137 a.m. We put in a call to Layton Prince. 11:53.880 --> 11:56.880 Harlan Stahl told us that his crew had gone over the truck thoroughly, 11:56.880 --> 11:58.880 but had failed to come up with anything. 11:58.880 --> 12:01.880 We contacted the stats office and asked them to make a run on the M.O. 12:01.880 --> 12:02.880 that the thieves had used. 12:02.880 --> 12:06.880 They told us that the results would be ready for us late in the afternoon. 12:06.880 --> 12:08.880 We contacted hit and run detail, but there'd been no reports 12:08.880 --> 12:11.880 that could have been the car that the truck had hit. 12:11.880 --> 12:13.880 We went to the office and got a large map of the city. 12:13.880 --> 12:16.880 Then we drove out to the county hospital to talk to the victim again. 12:16.880 --> 12:20.880 We asked him to trace his movements while he'd been held prisoner in the back of the truck. 12:20.880 --> 12:23.880 He drew a line down Santa Fe Avenue up to Alameda 12:23.880 --> 12:26.880 and over to Avalon Boulevard on 43rd Street. 12:26.880 --> 12:29.880 From there, he traced the streets down to Rosecrans Avenue. 12:29.880 --> 12:34.880 He drew a circle on the map centered on the intersection of Rosecrans Avenue and Avalon Boulevard. 12:34.880 --> 12:38.880 He told us that we'd find the house we were looking for inside the circle. 12:38.880 --> 12:41.880 Before we left him, we made arrangements for the mug shots to be taken to the hospital 12:41.880 --> 12:45.880 for him to check for a possible identification of the suspects. 12:45.880 --> 12:48.880 1240 p.m. We contacted Records and Identification Division 12:48.880 --> 12:51.880 and asked them if they'd had any luck on running the name Leo. 12:51.880 --> 12:53.880 We were told that they had three possibles for us. 12:53.880 --> 12:58.880 The addresses on the packages were not in the area that had been circled by the victim Russell Gilmore. 12:58.880 --> 13:01.880 We got in touch with Lieutenant Jack Smires and filled him in on the developments. 13:01.880 --> 13:04.880 He called Metro Division and made arrangements for three additional teams of men 13:04.880 --> 13:08.880 to work with us in a search of the streets within the circle drawn by the victim. 13:08.880 --> 13:12.880 He also contacted the Divisional Commanders and asked for their cooperation. 13:12.880 --> 13:17.880 The men were instructed to find a residence with a steep driveway leading to a detached garage. 13:17.880 --> 13:21.880 The house would have a wooden porch on the right side of the house as it faced the street. 13:21.880 --> 13:24.880 It would be damaged to the wood on the porch. 13:24.880 --> 13:28.880 Also, there was a possibility that a Hudson automobile would be parked either in the driveway 13:28.880 --> 13:30.880 or on the street right next to it. 13:30.880 --> 13:32.880 The car would have some damage done to it. 13:32.880 --> 13:36.880 5.15 p.m. Frank and I got back to the office from the search area. 13:36.880 --> 13:39.880 I'm sure tired. I'm with you. A lot of streets out there. 13:39.880 --> 13:42.880 Yeah, a lot of houses on the streets. What are the guys from Metro doing? 13:42.880 --> 13:44.880 I don't know. I'll get it. 13:46.880 --> 13:49.880 Robbery Friday. Yep. 13:50.880 --> 13:52.880 Just a minute. Let me get there. 13:53.880 --> 13:56.880 Yeah, okay. Hang on to it. We'll be right out. 13:56.880 --> 13:57.880 Right. 13:57.880 --> 14:05.880 Well, the Metro boys did some good. The house. They found it. 14:05.880 --> 14:09.880 The address given us on the phone was 1486 Cedar Street down in Compton. 14:09.880 --> 14:12.880 It took us 35 minutes to get out there from the city hall. 14:12.880 --> 14:16.880 The officers from Metro Division Reserve stood by until we got there. 14:16.880 --> 14:20.880 We found the house located on Cedar between Dwight Street and Tawada Avenue. 14:20.880 --> 14:24.880 It was a one-story frame building with a stucco garage in the rear of the lot. 14:24.880 --> 14:29.880 On the left front side of the house was a wooden porch which had been scraped by some large object. 14:29.880 --> 14:32.880 Several of the pickets in the railing were broken. 14:32.880 --> 14:37.880 On the street in front of the house next door we found a 1953 Hudson jet painted a light blue. 14:37.880 --> 14:39.880 There was a dent in the left rear fender. 14:39.880 --> 14:45.880 We couldn't tell for certain, but the color of the car and the color of the paint on the porch seemed to match the chips that we'd seen in the crime lab. 14:45.880 --> 14:49.880 While the officers from Metro covered the rear of the building, Frank and I rang the front doorbell. 14:49.880 --> 14:53.880 There was no answer. We checked the garage, but we found nothing that would tie the house owners in 14:53.880 --> 14:55.880 with the robbery kidnapping. 14:55.880 --> 14:58.880 The interior walls of the garage were rough wooden studs. 14:58.880 --> 15:01.880 Between them we could see chicken wire embedded in plaster. 15:01.880 --> 15:05.880 The physical description of the house, the ramp leading to the garage, the garage itself, 15:05.880 --> 15:10.880 and the car parked on the street matched in every detail the picture that we'd been given by the victim. 15:10.880 --> 15:14.880 6.10 p.m. We got the name Conrad Lewis from the mailbox in front of the house, 15:14.880 --> 15:19.880 and while the officers from Metro checked it with our office, Frank and I went next door to talk with the neighbors. 15:19.880 --> 15:20.880 Yeah? 15:20.880 --> 15:22.880 I wonder if we could talk to you, ma'am. 15:22.880 --> 15:24.880 Sure. Who are you? 15:24.880 --> 15:26.880 Well, it might be better if we got in off the porch. 15:26.880 --> 15:28.880 You ain't coming in here unless I know who and what you are. 15:28.880 --> 15:30.880 We're police officers. 15:30.880 --> 15:31.880 Oh? 15:31.880 --> 15:33.880 Yes, ma'am. Here's our identification. 15:33.880 --> 15:36.880 Oh, yeah. Well, come on in. 15:36.880 --> 15:37.880 Thank you, ma'am. 15:37.880 --> 15:38.880 I'm Myrtle Richards. 15:38.880 --> 15:40.880 This is my partner Sergeant Friday. I'm Frank Smith. 15:40.880 --> 15:41.880 Oh, how do you do? 15:41.880 --> 15:42.880 How are you, ma'am? 15:42.880 --> 15:44.880 You just sit down. I'll turn off the television. 15:44.880 --> 15:45.880 Thank you. 15:45.880 --> 15:50.880 Comedy. I've seen it before a couple of times. I always laugh at them again, though. They're funny. 15:50.880 --> 15:51.880 Yes, ma'am. 15:51.880 --> 15:53.880 It's a great bone to the people, television. 15:53.880 --> 15:57.880 This one's only 12 inch, but I think maybe next year I'll get a bigger one, maybe even color. 15:57.880 --> 16:00.880 They got it now, you know. It's true color. It's beautiful. 16:00.880 --> 16:01.880 Yes, ma'am. 16:01.880 --> 16:05.880 Of course, I ain't actually seen it myself. I just read about it, you know. Beautiful. 16:05.880 --> 16:08.880 Oh, I'm a great fan. I got it on all day. 16:08.880 --> 16:10.880 Right from the early show to the late, late show. 16:10.880 --> 16:14.880 I understand next week one of them stations is going to start an early, early show next week. 16:14.880 --> 16:16.880 Start an early, early show. Now that'll be nice, won't it? 16:16.880 --> 16:19.880 Yes, ma'am, sure. I wonder if we could ask you a few questions. 16:19.880 --> 16:21.880 By certainly. You just go right ahead. 16:21.880 --> 16:23.880 That car out front, does that belong to you? 16:23.880 --> 16:24.880 The blue one? 16:24.880 --> 16:25.880 Yes, ma'am. 16:25.880 --> 16:28.880 Yeah, that's mine. I just got it a few months ago. 16:28.880 --> 16:29.880 That's what you're here about, huh? 16:29.880 --> 16:30.880 I beg your pardon? 16:30.880 --> 16:35.880 About how somebody hit my car. Big dent. Isn't that what you're here for? 16:35.880 --> 16:37.880 No, not exactly. Do you know who hit your car? 16:37.880 --> 16:41.880 No. I wish I did. If I knew, I'd sue them. 16:41.880 --> 16:46.880 Imagine hitting a car this parked right at the curb, not leaving a note or something to say who did it. 16:46.880 --> 16:51.880 Person who ran into me must be insured. It wouldn't cost him nothing. All he had to do was leave a card. 16:51.880 --> 16:53.880 Yes, ma'am. When was the automobile hit? 16:53.880 --> 16:58.880 Yesterday morning. I walked down to the market to do some shopping and get some things for dinner. 16:58.880 --> 17:01.880 Prats, little potato chips, things to eat while I watched the TV. 17:01.880 --> 17:06.880 When I got back, the dent was there. Did it while I was gone. Did it and didn't even leave a card. 17:06.880 --> 17:09.880 Yes, ma'am. Could you tell us who lives next door to you, please? 17:09.880 --> 17:10.880 Which side? 17:10.880 --> 17:11.880 The left side over there. 17:11.880 --> 17:14.880 Well, that's Lewis' house. Why are you asking about them? 17:14.880 --> 17:16.880 How long have they lived there, do you know? 17:16.880 --> 17:21.880 Yeah, I guess it's been about ten years. They moved in right after Conrad. 17:21.880 --> 17:24.880 That's Mr. Lewis right after he opened up the new store. 17:24.880 --> 17:25.880 What line of business is he in? 17:25.880 --> 17:30.880 Well, he's got some kind of a shipping business. Has deals with different stores all over the state. 17:30.880 --> 17:32.880 Did you see Mr. Lewis yesterday? 17:32.880 --> 17:35.880 Yes. Matter of fact, I did. He come over like usual at 5.30. 17:35.880 --> 17:37.880 He usually come over at that time, does he? 17:37.880 --> 17:39.880 Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, yeah. 17:39.880 --> 17:43.880 You see, there's a TV show he likes to see. I watch it, but his wife don't care for it. 17:43.880 --> 17:46.880 She watches something else, so Conrad comes over here. He was here last night. 17:46.880 --> 17:47.880 You see him during the day at all? 17:47.880 --> 17:48.880 No, I didn't. 17:48.880 --> 17:49.880 Do you know where they are tonight? 17:49.880 --> 17:52.880 I'm not sure, but I think they went to the movies. 17:52.880 --> 17:56.880 Seems to me Mrs. Lewis said that her and Conrad was going to a show over in town. 17:56.880 --> 17:57.880 That's probably for us. I'll get them. 17:57.880 --> 18:02.880 I imagine so. Isn't anybody come calling on me this time of night? 18:03.880 --> 18:05.880 Oh, it's Henderson, Joe. I'll be right back. 18:05.880 --> 18:09.880 Have you noticed any trucks in the neighborhood lately, Mrs. Richards? 18:09.880 --> 18:13.880 Oh, well, I'll have to think about that for a minute. 18:13.880 --> 18:16.880 You don't mean like the garbage you can truck, do you? 18:16.880 --> 18:18.880 No, man. Large moving vans. 18:18.880 --> 18:19.880 I see the others quite a bit. 18:19.880 --> 18:20.880 Yeah. 18:20.880 --> 18:22.880 Well, let me see. 18:22.880 --> 18:25.880 Well, there were some people who just moved into a new house down the street. 18:25.880 --> 18:27.880 That was about a month ago. That didn't help. 18:27.880 --> 18:29.880 Well, thank you, Mrs. Richards. 18:29.880 --> 18:30.880 Joe, see you in a minute. 18:30.880 --> 18:32.880 Yeah. Excuse me, please, Mrs. Richards. 18:32.880 --> 18:35.880 Yeah, you go right ahead. 18:36.880 --> 18:37.880 Yeah. 18:37.880 --> 18:39.880 Henderson ran the name Conrad Lewis through the files. 18:39.880 --> 18:41.880 He's been convicted for armed robbery. 18:51.880 --> 18:56.880 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 18:56.880 --> 19:01.880 Smokers by the thousands are now changing to Chesterfield 19:01.880 --> 19:04.880 because they're learning the facts about Chesterfield. 19:04.880 --> 19:05.880 Facts like these. 19:05.880 --> 19:09.880 A doctor has been examining Chesterfield smokers for 20 months, 19:09.880 --> 19:11.880 almost two full years now. 19:11.880 --> 19:14.880 We've just received his latest report, 19:14.880 --> 19:21.880 and it confirms again no adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses 19:21.880 --> 19:23.880 from smoking Chesterfield. 19:23.880 --> 19:26.880 That's a matter of record. 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Regular and king-size. 19:51.880 --> 19:56.880 Best for you. 20:01.880 --> 20:06.880 The record showed that Conrad Lewis had been arrested for suspicion of armed robbery 10 years before. 20:06.880 --> 20:09.880 He'd been brought to trial, convicted, and sent to San Quentin. 20:09.880 --> 20:11.880 He'd served six years, and then he'd been released. 20:11.880 --> 20:13.880 He was not on parole at the time. 20:13.880 --> 20:15.880 Frank and I parked our car down the street from Lewis' house, 20:15.880 --> 20:17.880 and we waited for him to return. 20:17.880 --> 20:20.880 At 10.57 p.m., we saw a dark-colored Lincoln sedan turn onto the street 20:20.880 --> 20:22.880 and swing into the driveway of the Lewis residence. 20:22.880 --> 20:25.880 A man and a woman got out of the car and entered the house. 20:25.880 --> 20:29.880 Frank and I waited a few minutes, and then we walked up to the front door and rang the bell. 20:29.880 --> 20:30.880 Yeah? 20:30.880 --> 20:31.880 You Conrad Lewis? 20:31.880 --> 20:32.880 Yeah, that's right. Who are you? 20:32.880 --> 20:33.880 Police officers. I'd like to talk to you. 20:33.880 --> 20:35.880 Sure. Come on in. 20:38.880 --> 20:40.880 What's this all about, something wrong? 20:40.880 --> 20:41.880 You own a truck? 20:41.880 --> 20:42.880 A truck. Do you own one? 20:42.880 --> 20:45.880 No. You mind telling me what this is all about? 20:45.880 --> 20:47.880 Can you account for your time since Monday night? 20:47.880 --> 20:48.880 Why? 20:47.880 --> 20:48.880 Can you? 20:48.880 --> 20:50.880 Look, I don't know what this is all about, 20:50.880 --> 20:52.880 and I'm not going to tell you a thing until you let me know what you want. 20:52.880 --> 20:53.880 Now, what do you want? 20:53.880 --> 20:55.880 The answers to those two questions. 21:00.880 --> 21:01.880 12.15 a.m. 21:01.880 --> 21:05.880 It had been only a little over 48 hours since Russell Gilmore had been kidnapped and beaten, 21:05.880 --> 21:07.880 and we had a suspect in custody. 21:07.880 --> 21:10.880 However, Lewis refused to admit any complicity in the crime. 21:10.880 --> 21:13.880 We talked to him for several hours, but he told us nothing. 21:13.880 --> 21:17.880 He admitted that he'd been arrested before and that he'd served time in San Quentin. 21:17.880 --> 21:21.880 However, he stuck to his statement that since his release, he'd done his best to live by the law. 21:21.880 --> 21:24.880 With the evidence at hand, he was booked at the main jail 21:24.880 --> 21:28.880 on a charge of suspicion of violation of Section 211 P.C. 21:28.880 --> 21:32.880 We obtained the keys to his place of business, and Frank and I went out to check it. 21:32.880 --> 21:35.880 It was a large wholesale store selling used furniture. 21:35.880 --> 21:39.880 A search at the premises failed to turn up any of the stolen merchandise. 21:39.880 --> 21:43.880 While Frank went through the stock rooms, I checked the business ledgers. 21:43.880 --> 21:45.880 Nothing back there either, Joe. How'd you do? 21:45.880 --> 21:47.880 Well, according to these, Lewis does a big shipping business. 21:47.880 --> 21:49.880 That's what the woman next door told us. 21:49.880 --> 21:51.880 Yeah, he's been making shipments up to Oakland regular. 21:51.880 --> 21:53.880 Books tell what they were? 21:53.880 --> 21:54.880 Yeah, right here. 21:54.880 --> 21:58.880 He's been sending large lots of used stuff to a place on MacArthur Boulevard. 21:58.880 --> 22:01.880 There's a whole list of it here. Tables, living room sets, TV sets. 22:01.880 --> 22:04.880 Better get in touch with the police up there and have them check this place out, huh? 22:04.880 --> 22:07.880 Yeah. Without that stolen property, we're not going to have a very good case against them. 22:07.880 --> 22:09.880 You got the address of the place up north? 22:09.880 --> 22:11.880 Yeah. Let's go back to the office and get a call in. 22:11.880 --> 22:13.880 Right. Sure hope they come up with the answers. 22:13.880 --> 22:15.880 Well, if they don't, we might be in trouble. 22:15.880 --> 22:16.880 Yeah? 22:16.880 --> 22:18.880 The DA's office is liable to throw the whole thing out. 22:22.880 --> 22:24.880 Thursday, June 5th, 820 a.m. 22:24.880 --> 22:27.880 We put in a call to Captain of Inspector Tony Bolger in Oakland 22:27.880 --> 22:30.880 and asked him to check on the recipient of the furniture shipment from Lewis. 22:30.880 --> 22:35.880 We also gave him as detailed a description of the stolen merchandise as we were able to obtain. 22:35.880 --> 22:38.880 In the meantime, Lewis had been admitted to bail and was released. 22:38.880 --> 22:40.880 Thursday, 1115 p.m. 22:40.880 --> 22:44.880 Frank and I got back to the office from checking a lead on one of the suspects who'd driven the truck. 22:45.880 --> 22:46.880 I got it. 22:49.880 --> 22:52.880 Robbery Friday. Yeah. Yes, it is. 22:52.880 --> 22:54.880 All right. Tony Bolger from Oakland. 22:54.880 --> 22:55.880 Let's hope we called it. 22:55.880 --> 22:56.880 Yeah. Yeah, Tony. 22:57.880 --> 22:58.880 Yeah? 22:59.880 --> 23:00.880 What'd he say? 23:01.880 --> 23:03.880 Well, that's the way it looked from here. 23:03.880 --> 23:05.880 What? Yeah, right. 23:05.880 --> 23:06.880 Okay. Thank you. 23:07.880 --> 23:08.880 How about it? 23:08.880 --> 23:10.880 When you talk to the man who bought the stuff, he's clean. 23:10.880 --> 23:12.880 How about the merchandise itself? 23:12.880 --> 23:13.880 It's all stolen. 23:18.880 --> 23:19.880 1120 p.m. 23:19.880 --> 23:22.880 We got in touch with Lieutenant Smyers and filled him in on the new developments. 23:22.880 --> 23:25.880 After we talked to him, we contacted officers Max Herman and Ed Benson 23:25.880 --> 23:28.880 and made arrangements to meet them at the house on Cedar Street. 23:28.880 --> 23:30.880 It took us less than half an hour to get out to Compton. 23:30.880 --> 23:33.880 The other officers were there by the time we arrived. 23:33.880 --> 23:35.880 While they covered the back door, Frank and I went up to the front. 23:35.880 --> 23:36.880 You think he knows it's us? 23:36.880 --> 23:38.880 I don't know. Try it again. 23:41.880 --> 23:43.880 The car's in the driveway. We know he's in there. 23:43.880 --> 23:44.880 Wait a minute. 23:44.880 --> 23:45.880 Sounds like somebody's coming now. 23:47.880 --> 23:48.880 Yeah? 23:49.880 --> 23:50.880 What are you doing out here? 23:50.880 --> 23:51.880 Aren't you guys ever going to get off my back? 23:51.880 --> 23:52.880 Mind if we come in and talk? 23:52.880 --> 23:53.880 I got a choice. 23:53.880 --> 23:54.880 No, you haven't. 23:54.880 --> 23:55.880 Come on in. 23:57.880 --> 23:58.880 Want to go through the house again? 23:58.880 --> 23:59.880 That won't be necessary. 23:59.880 --> 24:00.880 Yeah. 24:00.880 --> 24:01.880 I'm glad of that. 24:01.880 --> 24:02.880 What's it about this time? 24:02.880 --> 24:06.880 Same as before. 24:06.880 --> 24:07.880 Maybe you better spell it for me. 24:07.880 --> 24:08.880 We can go that route if that's the way you want it. 24:08.880 --> 24:10.880 Go ahead. I like fairy tales. 24:10.880 --> 24:12.880 All right. We got a report from the victim who was robbed and kidnapped. 24:12.880 --> 24:15.880 He was able to give us a description of this house, of your garage and of the whole setup. 24:15.880 --> 24:17.880 You've been on a spike again. You see him. 24:17.880 --> 24:18.880 We took a sample of the paint from your front porch. 24:18.880 --> 24:20.880 It matches paint found on a truck that was hijacked. 24:20.880 --> 24:21.880 A lot of houses in L.A. 24:21.880 --> 24:23.880 Not painted like this one. 24:23.880 --> 24:25.880 You think you're going to send me to the joint with a batch of paint? 24:25.880 --> 24:26.880 It's going to help. 24:26.880 --> 24:27.880 Look, cop, you know I've been in the rounds. 24:27.880 --> 24:30.880 I've seen enough trouble to know it's rough to get a conviction with circumstantial evidence. 24:30.880 --> 24:32.880 That's all you've got with me. Nothing more. 24:32.880 --> 24:34.880 Now why don't you go home and I'll just forget you were here tonight. 24:34.880 --> 24:35.880 We got the plant. 24:35.880 --> 24:36.880 What? 24:36.880 --> 24:37.880 We got the plant. They moved in on it. 24:37.880 --> 24:39.880 The man you sold the stolen furniture to is willing to testify. 24:39.880 --> 24:41.880 You know we got you cold. Now why not cop out? 24:41.880 --> 24:43.880 That's the way it hangs, huh? 24:43.880 --> 24:44.880 That's the way. 24:44.880 --> 24:46.880 All right. I'll get my coat and go with you. 24:46.880 --> 24:47.880 Just point it out. We'll get it for you. 24:47.880 --> 24:48.880 In the closet. 24:48.880 --> 24:49.880 Never mind. 24:49.880 --> 24:51.880 He's making a pain in the... 24:52.880 --> 24:54.880 Outside. 24:56.880 --> 24:57.880 He's in his car. 24:57.880 --> 25:00.880 Yeah, come on. 25:03.880 --> 25:05.880 He's heading down toward Rosecrans. 25:07.880 --> 25:08.880 Better hit the siren. 25:08.880 --> 25:10.880 Right. 25:14.880 --> 25:16.880 He's turning on the Rosecrans. Take a left. 25:16.880 --> 25:18.880 I got him. 25:20.880 --> 25:21.880 See him? 25:21.880 --> 25:22.880 Wait a minute. 25:22.880 --> 25:23.880 Yeah, up ahead there. 25:23.880 --> 25:24.880 Dry shot? 25:24.880 --> 25:27.880 Better not. Too many people around. 25:29.880 --> 25:31.880 Can't you close in on him? 25:31.880 --> 25:33.880 I think we're pulling up. 25:34.880 --> 25:35.880 Making a turn. 25:35.880 --> 25:36.880 Yeah. 25:36.880 --> 25:37.880 Stay with him. 25:37.880 --> 25:39.880 Hang on. 25:39.880 --> 25:41.880 It's a dead end, Frank. 25:41.880 --> 25:43.880 Yeah. 25:43.880 --> 25:45.880 He's in trouble, Joe. 25:47.880 --> 25:49.880 Come on. 25:49.880 --> 25:51.880 Let's get him out of there. 25:51.880 --> 25:52.880 That door is stuck. 25:52.880 --> 25:54.880 Wait a minute. I'll give you a hand. 25:54.880 --> 25:55.880 There. 25:55.880 --> 25:56.880 Can you get him? 25:56.880 --> 25:58.880 Better call an ambulance. The motor's in his lap. 25:58.880 --> 25:59.880 Is he still alive? 25:59.880 --> 26:00.880 Looks like it. 26:00.880 --> 26:01.880 Can you help me here? 26:01.880 --> 26:02.880 Yeah, let me get in there. 26:02.880 --> 26:03.880 All right. 26:03.880 --> 26:05.880 Come on. Let's put him down here. 26:05.880 --> 26:06.880 Yeah. 26:06.880 --> 26:07.880 All right. Take it easy, Lewis. 26:07.880 --> 26:08.880 I'll call the ambulance. 26:08.880 --> 26:09.880 Right. 26:09.880 --> 26:12.880 Take it easy, Lewis. We've sent for a doctor. 26:12.880 --> 26:15.880 I didn't see the sign. 26:15.880 --> 26:17.880 I didn't see the sign. 26:17.880 --> 26:19.880 I didn't know the street didn't go through. 26:19.880 --> 26:21.880 Lousy break. 26:21.880 --> 26:22.880 Lousy break. 26:22.880 --> 26:25.880 I'd have made it if I stayed off this street. 26:25.880 --> 26:28.880 You'd never have got me if I'd stayed off this street. 26:28.880 --> 26:32.880 I just turned the car, and all of a sudden I was on a dead end. 26:32.880 --> 26:33.880 I'm afraid you're wrong there, mister. 26:33.880 --> 26:34.880 Huh? 26:34.880 --> 26:36.880 You've been there a long time. 26:43.880 --> 26:45.880 The story you have just heard is true. 26:45.880 --> 26:48.880 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:48.880 --> 26:51.880 On October 14th, trial was held in Department 97, 26:51.880 --> 26:53.880 Superior Court of the State of California, 26:53.880 --> 26:55.880 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 26:55.880 --> 26:57.880 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:57.880 --> 26:59.880 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:59.880 --> 27:03.880 Well, here it is, the most talked about Christmas gift of the year, 27:03.880 --> 27:05.880 the Chesterfield Christmas Carton, 27:05.880 --> 27:07.880 now featured in nearly a million, 27:07.880 --> 27:10.880 300,000 retail tobacco stores from coast to coast. 27:10.880 --> 27:13.880 The famous covered bridge has been honored this week 27:13.880 --> 27:16.880 by a new Christmas tune, the Kissing Bridge. 27:16.880 --> 27:19.880 You'll be hearing a lot of it between now and Christmas. 27:19.880 --> 27:22.880 So give the gift that everybody's talking about, 27:22.880 --> 27:24.880 America's most popular two-way cigarette, 27:24.880 --> 27:27.880 regular and king-size Chesterfield, 27:27.880 --> 27:29.880 premium quality Chesterfield. 27:29.880 --> 27:33.880 Best to give, best to get for Christmas. 27:33.880 --> 27:36.880 The Chesterfield Christmas Carton 27:36.880 --> 27:39.880 The Kissing Bridge 27:41.880 --> 27:44.880 Conrad Austin Lewis and his Confederates were apprehended 27:44.880 --> 27:47.880 and brought to trial on 11 counts of grand theft auto 27:47.880 --> 27:49.880 and one count of kidnapping. 27:49.880 --> 27:52.880 They were found guilty and sentenced as prescribed by law. 27:52.880 --> 27:55.880 Grand theft auto is punishable by imprisonment 27:55.880 --> 27:58.880 in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than one, 27:58.880 --> 28:00.880 nor more than 10 years. 28:00.880 --> 28:03.880 Kidnapping is punishable by imprisonment for a term 28:03.880 --> 28:06.880 of from one to 25 years in the state penitentiary. 28:15.880 --> 28:17.880 You have just heard Dragnet, 28:17.880 --> 28:20.880 a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:20.880 --> 28:23.880 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 28:23.880 --> 28:25.880 W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:25.880 --> 28:29.880 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, 28:29.880 --> 28:31.880 and Sergeant Vance Brasher. 28:31.880 --> 28:35.880 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Vic Perrin, Virginia Greg, Jim Griffith. 28:35.880 --> 28:37.880 Script by John Robinson. 28:37.880 --> 28:39.880 Music by Walter Schuman. 28:39.880 --> 28:41.880 Hal Gibney speaking. 28:43.880 --> 28:46.880 Watch an entirely new Dragnet case history 28:46.880 --> 28:49.880 each week on your local NBC television station. 28:49.880 --> 28:52.880 Please check your newspapers for the day and time. 28:52.880 --> 28:57.880 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:00.880 --> 29:06.880 Buy new Fatima, the smooth smoke with Fatima tips of perfect cork. 29:06.880 --> 29:10.880 King size for longer filtering and Fatima quality 29:10.880 --> 29:12.880 for a much better flavor and aroma. 29:12.880 --> 29:16.880 This Christmas give Fatima in the special Christmas carton, 29:16.880 --> 29:22.880 cork tip and plain ends too. 29:22.880 --> 29:44.880 Here Merle Muller and the news next on the NBC Radio Network.