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For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will
travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official
police files.
From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force
in action.
It was Thursday, June 5th.
It was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working the night.
Watch out for robbery detail.
My partner is Frank Smith.
The boss is Chief of Detective Staff Brown.
My name is Friday.
I was on my way back from the business office and it was 10 52 p.m. when I got to room 27A.
Robbery.
Did you get him?
Yeah, here's the gun.
You got the double-aught buck?
Yeah, Jack.
Here you go.
Any word yet?
No, we ought to be hearing pretty quick.
Nothing from Herman and Benson, huh?
Last we got from them, they were over on Hobart.
No action there?
Nothing.
I'll get it.
Robbery Friday.
Yes, ma'am.
That's right.
When was this?
No.
No, that's a burglary.
If you'll hold on just a minute, I'll have you switch them.
Yes, ma'am.
Hold on just one minute.
Would you give this call to 2524, please?
That's right, burglary.
Thank you.
Woman who wants somebody to come up to her, she's got to be there.
Yes, ma'am.
I'll be there.
Woman who wants somebody to come out and talk to her about her husband's work pants being
taken from the clothes line.
You should have gone out.
Yeah.
You got a cigarette?
I'm fresh out.
Here you are.
Got a match?
Yeah, thanks.
Well, you might as well sit down, take it easy.
You got no idea how long we're going to be here.
Guess so.
You know, I'm still not real sure about how this tip came in.
You want to fill me in?
Call came through this afternoon.
Man refused to give his name, just said he had some information he thought we'd like to
have.
No idea who it was, huh?
Said it wasn't important.
Went on to say that he could tell us where to pick up the men who held up the bank truck.
Well?
Well, I figured it might be a crank, so I asked him how we could be sure the story was true.
How'd he answer that?
Said he could prove it.
Said he had some of the serial numbers on the stolen bills.
To check out?
Yeah.
Gave me the numbers from 10 of the 20s.
I checked the serial numbers.
They're good.
And that's when he said he'd call back, huh?
Yeah, said he'd call tonight around 10 and give us the address where we could pick up
the men.
It's late now, about an hour.
Yeah.
But he knows what he's talking about.
We got to be here when the phone rings.
No way of getting an ID on them, huh?
None.
What'd he say about the men?
They heavy?
And the way he tells it, they're loaded.
Got all the guns and ammunition they need to hold out for a week.
Who knows that?
Why couldn't he give us the address this afternoon?
He said he wanted to put a lot of distance between him and the rest of them.
See how many there were?
Not right out.
The way he talked to them, we figured there were three.
Any names?
No.
Said he'd tell us where to pick them up.
Said when we blew the whistle, they'd tell us.
Uh, that'd be a little tight-taken, then, huh?
If the way they handled the guards on the truck is any indication, it isn't going to
be a picnic.
How many men we got?
We got a dozen in Benson, we can call them in.
Murph and Rafferty, Stewart and Creasy.
Where are they now?
Well, I saw Murph and Raff down at the business office just a minute ago.
Said they'd be right in.
I get it.
Robbery Friday.
Yes, it is.
Where?
Yeah, I'll put them through.
Call from San Francisco operator, said it's station to station.
Might be our boy.
Huh, he'd have to fly up north to get here this fast.
Airlines don't ask for recommendations when they sell a ticket.
Wait just a minute.
This Friday.
Who's this?
Okay, if that's the way you want it.
Yeah.
Give me that address.
All right, let me read that back to you.
1657 Garfield Place, apartment 408.
Is that right?
Okay.
Why don't you tell us your name?
I won't do any...
Hello.
All right, hang up.
I'll have the business office, get on it, see if they can come up with a number.
You got the address?
Yeah, I got that here.
The way he put it, job might be tougher than we figured.
What do you mean?
Well, I asked him his name.
I told him it wouldn't make any difference if he told us.
Yeah?
He said it wouldn't make any difference.
Said they'd kill him if they found out that he faked on them.
That figures.
Said that when he reads in the papers that they're dead, then he'll come in.
When they're dead?
Yeah, says we won't take them alive.
Ten days previously on Thursday, May 26th, three men had stopped an armored truck on
its way to the Federal Reserve Bank.
The truck had stopped for collection on Wilshire Boulevard.
The three holed up men had approached the truck and produced sawed off 12 gauge shotguns.
At gunpoint, two of the men forced the drivers to go out to the San Fernando Valley.
The third followed in another car.
On a side road south of Ventura Boulevard, the suspects had tied and then beaten the driver
and the guard.
The two men were placed in the back of the truck and after stealing all of the cash in
the vehicle, the thieves had driven off.
As soon as the theft was discovered, men from the Federal Bureau of Investigation were notified.
Together with them, Frank and I followed down every lead.
The crime lab went over the truck but found nothing that would help us in getting to the
thieves.
The light and fingerprints were able to come up with nothing.
The driver of the truck and the guard had been shown the mug books but they were unable
to make an identification.
The method of operation was checked through the stats office but when the leads that developed
were checked out, we were in the same position as when we first got the call.
We had no idea who the thieves might be.
Descriptions obtained from the two victims were broadcast to the entire nation but there
were no kickbacks.
The FBI weighed and sifted all evidence in its Washington headquarters but they came
up with the same results we had, nothing.
The phone call from the informant was the first concrete lead that we'd gotten.
There were nine men from the robbery division and three teams from the FBI in the operation.
From the information we had, we knew the suspects were armed and they were dangerous.
The people in the building were gotten out of their apartments.
The building itself was completely surrounded.
1.36 a.m. we moved in.
Boys in the street are set, let's go.
Alright, did you check the manager?
Yep.
Descriptions of the men in the apartment match the one we got from the driver of the
truck.
It checks out to be the same guys.
The manager say how many there were?
She's not sure they're all in.
Alright.
Sounds like somebody's moving around in there.
Really?
You ready?
Yeah.
Let's go.
Police officer, stand still.
What are you doing in here?
You here alone?
Yeah, alone.
What are you looking for, a convention?
Where are the other two?
What two?
Nobody else, Joe.
The closet over there looks like an arsenal, loaded with guns, couple of sawed-off shotguns.
You guys got no right to come in here like this.
I don't know what you're looking for, but you ain't gonna find...
What's your name?
Hank Peterson.
You rent this apartment with two other guys.
The manager tells us that they're Harvey Fitzgerald and Lou Colton.
Is that right?
Yeah, they live here.
Where are they now?
I don't know, out, maybe to a movie.
I don't know.
When do you expect them back?
Look, they're big fellas now.
They don't have to get me to sign a report card.
They do what they want.
They went out, I don't know where.
They didn't tell me.
They also didn't tell me when they'd be back.
What's this all about?
Where'd you get those guns in the closet?
They don't belong to me.
Who do they belong to?
One of the guys.
Why are you coming in here and asking all these questions?
I ain't done nothing.
You got no beef with me.
I don't know anything about the guns.
Maybe Lou likes to hunt.
I don't know.
They belong to Colton, huh?
Yeah, he brought them.
You don't know where he is now?
I told you, if I knew where he was, I'd tell you.
I don't want any trouble.
I don't like to have people pointing guns at me.
Would you put that one away?
Turn around.
What?
I said turn around.
Get over to the wall.
Put your hands up on it.
Big deal.
What happens now?
You kick my feet out, I fall down?
Stand still.
I'm gonna jump.
You're gonna find nothing on me.
I tell you, I'm clean.
Nice try, Peterson.
Here's a.38 Colt Joe had in his belt.
You go around pretty heavy for a fellow that doesn't want trouble, don't you?
I carry a lot of money.
Sometimes I think some guys are trying to take it away from me.
I gotta protect myself.
Anybody's got the right to protect themselves.
Yeah, you got a permit for this gun?
No, I didn't get around to it yet.
I'm going to it all right away.
I'll get one.
You know how it is.
You mean to do something, but you forget.
Hey, can I stand up straight now?
Yeah.
Come on, Peterson, get your hands behind you.
Maybe you guys will tell me what this is for.
What are you looking for?
I'm looking for a cop downtown.
You know you're making a big mistake.
Is that right?
Sure, you really call this one wrong.
You're dragging an innocent man.
I'm clean.
I made a mistake when I didn't register the gun.
I'll cop to that, but that's the edge.
I don't go past there.
No, you got it wrong, Peterson.
Read me how.
We got you going in for the bank truck robbery.
You and your two friends, you're gonna stand for it.
Keep talking about my two friends.
I got no friends.
I move in with a couple of fellas.
All of a sudden, I got a piece of some action there shoving.
You got it wrong, cop.
You aren't gonna tell us you happened to be here at the wrong time, are you?
Look, I'm from Chicago.
I got a lead on a job out here, it gets cold in Chicago in the wintertime.
I don't like the cold.
Get a lead on a job out here in California, so I put an ad in the paper telling how I'd
like to drive out with the guy, share expenses.
The fellow that answers the ad wants to leave, when I gotta go is Luke Colton.
I took a third of the tab driving out.
We got into town, he's got this apartment line up.
This one right here.
I got no place to stay, so he says for me to pad down with him, that's it.
The beginning, the middle, the end.
Anything outside of that, I don't know.
If you got trouble with Luke, then take it up with him, but don't make me fit in.
I got no part of the action, I don't want any.
What about the gun?
The gun you had on you?
I tried to explain that, I meant to get a permit for it, I didn't get around to it yet.
What about the ones in the closet?
Well, talk to Lou, they belong to him, maybe he's gonna open a museum.
All right, let's get out of here.
Come on, let's go.
Look what you did to the door, breaking it up like that.
No reason.
All you had to do was knock.
Landlady's gonna be pretty sore about it.
I'd have let you in if you had a knock, breaking up a door like that, she's gonna be real sore.
Probably won't talk to me.
It's gonna be a while before she's got the chance.
While Frank and I took Henry Peterson downtown, the other officers from robbery maintained
the surveillance on the apartment.
Because of the construction of the building, it was impossible to wait inside of the room.
However, all of the entrances were covered.
2.40 a.m.
We checked the suspect through R&I, but we found that he had no record in Los Angeles.
His fingerprints were taken and forwarded to Washington for checking.
It was printed and mugged and then placed in a cell in the felony section at the main
jail.
The rest of that night, the watch on the apartment continued without results.
The following morning, Frank and I met with Lieutenant Smyers at a special show-off of
the suspect for the driver and the guard of the armored car.
Without hesitation, they both stated positively that Peterson was one of the men who had held
them up.
The kickback arrived from Washington with the information that Peterson was wanted for
escape from the state penitentiary in New Jersey.
He'd been convicted on a charge of murder and robbery and given a life sentence.
The record showed that he'd escaped from the prison on Friday, May 9th, two weeks before
the truck had been robbed.
4.15 p.m.
We had him brought from his cell and Frank and I talked to him in the interrogation room
at the main jail.
You got a cigarette?
Yeah.
Here.
Thanks.
Here's a match.
What do we got going?
Same thing.
We want to know about the robbery of that armored car.
You figure there's something I could tell you on it, huh?
We wouldn't be here otherwise.
I'll make you a deal.
We don't make them.
You're gonna get me out.
You might go for this.
We can't promise you anything.
You're asking me to come over to your side.
Seems like you'd be willing to come a little closer to the line.
What do you got to say?
How bad you got me nailed?
As deep as it can go.
For real?
That's right.
Lay it out.
All of it?
Yeah.
We got the kickback from Washington.
We know you're wanted for escape.
We checked the guns from the apartment.
Found out they were taken in a burglary in Chicago Tuesday, May 13th.
Go ahead.
We checked with the Chicago papers.
The ad you told us about asking for a ride out here, it was never run.
You guys are sure thorough.
The victims of the robbery identified your picture.
They sure?
They're sure.
No chance for a mistake?
No chance.
If I cop out, where am I gonna do the time?
We don't decide then.
You think they'll send me back to Jersey?
I told you we got no say in that.
It's so cold back there.
It's nice here in California.
I like to stay here.
Nothing you guys can do so I can take the fall in Quentin, huh?
Nothing.
Any way you hear it, I'm nailed, huh?
That's right.
Okay.
Maybe it's marked down that I copped out.
They'll let me stay in California.
It'll be put down that way.
Okay.
Where do you want me to start?
Try the beginning.
Good place, is any?
You're with the holdup, huh?
Yeah.
How about the other two?
You picked them up yet?
No.
Haven't come back to the apartment.
Might be good if they didn't.
Where do you come up with that?
Heavy, real heavy.
What are their names?
Luke Colton, Harvey Fitzgerald.
Those are the names in the mailbox.
Are they real?
Far as I know.
You aren't sure, huh?
No.
Part of what I told you is true.
I broke out of a jail in Jersey, then beat it to Chicago.
Laid around for a couple of days, then started to look for some action.
I was broke.
I needed a score to set me up.
I was sitting in a bar down on State Street one night and I met Lou and Harvey.
They took me to the job out here.
You mean they came all the way out here to pull the one job?
Yeah.
They got a rumble about how it'd be a cinch.
Came out to run it off, then they figured I'm going back leaving you cops with nothing.
When were they figuring on leaving?
I don't know.
This was their part of the deal.
I told them going in, I wanted to stay out here.
Didn't make any difference to them.
We all figured that if we cut up a hundred thousand dollar score, none of us was going
to look bad.
For all I know, they might be on the way back now.
Their clothes were still in the apartment.
You know how many suits you can buy with a third of a hundred thousand dollars?
Let's go ahead.
Yeah, well, after the job, we made the split.
Talked it over and decided to dig in for a few days and then take off.
At least they decided to leave.
Didn't say when.
I told you, now they might be on the way back now.
Who else knows you're in on the job?
Huh?
Outside of you three, Colton, Fitzgerald.
Who else knows about it?
Isn't anybody.
Where's your part of the money?
Got it down in the bus depot.
Got it in the locker down there.
How long's it been there?
Since day before yesterday.
How often do they clean out them lockers?
Every 24 hours.
And then there's $33,000 floating around in the check room.
You got the key to the locker?
Yeah.
Where is it?
In my shoe.
I got a tape from the soul inside.
You want to give it to us?
Well, no, but I don't guess there's any other way.
No.
OK.
You spent any of the money?
You mean the stuff we stole?
That's right.
No, not a dime.
Why do you ask that?
Who else might know the serial numbers on the bills?
Well, nobody.
Nobody but us.
And I guess the guys at the bank, they got a record of them, I guess.
How about Colton and Fitzgerald?
They spent any of their part?
I don't know.
You got to ask them that.
The car you drove out after the armored truck.
Who'd that belong to?
Colton.
What kind of car is it?
Plymouth, 1952.
What model?
Sedan.
Color?
Light blue.
You know the license number?
No, I never paid any attention to it.
What state's it out of?
Illinois.
Who drove the car when you went on the holdup?
Harvey.
Fitzgerald, huh?
Yeah.
He drove the car and Lou and I went in the truck.
Either of them been arrested before?
I'm not sure, but I think Lou fell in New York.
I'm not sure, though.
How about Fitzgerald?
No.
At least he never said anything about it.
Only way I knew about Lou is that he talked about the food in Singsing.
That's the way I knew about him.
You know what he fell for?
He was in the food robbery, I think, and there was a kidnap rap, too, but he beat it.
He out clean?
I don't know.
Seems like you planned a job with two guys that you didn't know very well, doesn't it?
I was hungry and I was cold.
I wasn't about to ask for a life story when they offered me a part of the action.
How'd they pick you?
I told you, I was in a bar on state.
Lou and Harvey came in.
Both of them were carrying a load.
I was sitting there drinking beer, just the three of us in the place, and Lou was drinking
pretty heavy.
He gets in a beef with the barkeep, and I saw the roll he was carrying, so I figured
that if I could take his side in the brawl, maybe I could make a touch.
We walked out of the bar and he offered to buy me a meal.
Next thing I know, I'm on the way to California.
I'm a partner in a piece of goods that looks safe.
All that time in the car and you didn't find out anything about your two partners?
We drove straight through.
Well, we weren't driving.
We were sleeping.
Anyway, I wasn't a solid member of the club.
I wasn't about to get my nose mashed in for having it someplace where it didn't belong.
I figured if they wanted me to know something, they'd tell me.
You go with them for the guns?
No.
They already got nose when I fell in.
You knew they were stolen?
Guys turn up with that kind of muscle and can't come from anywhere else.
Sure, I knew it was stolen.
Colton and Fitzgerald have any friends out here?
No, not in L.A.
Anywhere on the coast?
I hear Lou's got some people up north.
Where?
Maybe San Francisco, Marin County, I don't know.
Might even be Oakland.
Somewhere around the Bay Area.
They say anything about going up there?
No.
Of course they might have.
Way Lou likes to eat.
Coming out here, he'd go 10 miles out of the way because he knew a place that had a good
chili size.
Think nothing of it.
I never saw anybody who liked to eat so much.
Real gourmet.
Only with him it was glutton.
He mention any names of people he knew up north?
No, just said he had people.
Anything about the car they're driving that'd make it easy to spot?
What do you mean?
Like a dented fender, a scratch, anything to identify it?
Yeah, yeah, it might be something.
There's a kind of scratch in the back left fender, I think.
A woman backed into us on the way out here.
Cut right through the metal.
You think of any reason why they might ditch the car?
No.
We kept a close tab on the papers right after the job and looked to see how much you had
on it.
When we didn't see anything, we figured the car was all right.
I don't think they'd ditch it.
It'd be pretty easy to trace.
Lou owns it outright.
Unless you want to try to grab cold plates, he'd drive it like it was.
Okay.
We'll get you your things and you can come over to City Hall and make a statement.
How about the key to the locker?
Oh, yeah.
There it is.
Probably some money due on the package I'll have to owe you.
We'll take care of it.
Too bad, isn't it?
What's that?
Thirty-three thousand.
I haven't got the dough to bail out the package.
It kind of works out even.
Why?
We'd have no place to spend it.
An immediate APB was gotten off carrying the names and descriptions of the two suspects,
also a description of the car.
A radiogram was sent to DMV at Illinois requesting a license and description of any car registered
to a Lewis Colton.
While Eleanor Eastlack took Peterson's statement, Frank got in touch with a telephone company.
They'd finished checking the phone call we'd gotten from San Francisco, but the information
they gave led us no farther toward apprehending the suspects.
The call had been made from a pay booth in the Ferry Terminal building.
We got in touch with the FBI and filled them in on the developments.
As a result of Peterson's statement, the number of men maintaining the surveillance of the
apartment on Garfield Place was cut to one team working days and one team working the
night watch.
We put a call in to San Francisco and talked to Chief of Inspector James English.
We filled him in on what had happened.
He assigned Inspectors Sutton and Zimmerlund to work with us on the case.
Five forty-six p.m.
We checked out a tripped car and we left for San Francisco.
It took us a little under ten hours to drive the 405 miles between the two cities.
At four oh three a.m. we stopped in Oakland and put in a call to the San Francisco Police
Department.
How much?
Yeah, just a minute.
Frank, you got a quarter?
Yeah.
Thanks.
Here you are.
Two six four, please.
Hello, this is Joe Friday.
Yeah.
You got a message there for me from Charlie Sutton or Jules Zimmerlund?
Hmm?
Yeah.
No, no, we just got in.
Yeah.
Oakland.
What?
Just a minute.
You see that speed sign up there?
Yeah.
Fifth and Poplar.
Yeah.
No, we're coming right over.
When was this?
I see.
Well, if Charlie calls in, tell him that we're on the way, will you?
Right.
Thank you.
Well, we're almost too late.
What do you mean?
They got a lead?
Sutton and Zimmerlund called in 30 minutes ago.
Yeah.
They're in the car waiting for the suspects now.
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The address the business office had given me on the phone was a large garage located
at the corner of Union Avenue and Lynch Street.
When Frank and I got there, we met with inspectors Sutton and Zimmerlin.
They told us that when they'd gotten the APB, a call had gone out immediately to the officers
in the city to be on the lookout for a 1952 blue Plymouth with a dent in the left rear
fender and carrying Illinois license plates.
The suspects had parked the car in a no parking zone on O'Farrell Street between Taylor and
Mason Streets.
At the peak hour of traffic, the car had been towed away from the parking place and left
in a garage.
While it was in the garage, the information on it had been received from our department
and an immediate stakeout was placed on it.
We felt reasonably sure that the suspects would return to the automobile.
They had no reason to think that there might be anything wrong.
The address of the garage had been left so that they might find the car.
All that would be necessary to release it would be the payment of the fine for overtime parking
along with the towing and garage fee.
The garage itself was a large building.
It provided four stories for parking.
The suspect's car was on the basement level.
We were able to keep watch on it from a small office near the exit ramp.
The attendants were instructed to act as if nothing was wrong when the suspects came in.
Once we knew that they were in the building, the entrances and exits would be blocked and
they would be taken into custody.
It was nothing to do but wait.
5.30 a.m.
No sign of Colton and Fitzgerald.
6.15 a.m.
Frank went out and brought back some hot coffee.
6.45.
7 a.m.
People began to come into the garage to get their cars but not the two suspects.
The later it became, the more difficult it would be for us to take the two men into custody.
If there was going to be any shooting, we'd be in a bad position with civilians in the
range of fire.
7.30.
8.00.
8.04 a.m.
Somebody coming down there.
Yeah.
You see who it is?
No.
Jules.
Yeah?
You and Charlie want to cover the other side?
Right.
Then watch it.
We should be able to get a pretty good look at him.
Yeah.
It's Colton and Fitzgerald.
Yeah.
You see Jules and Charlie?
Wait a minute.
Yeah.
Over by the gray murk.
Looks like they're all set.
All right.
Let's go.
All right.
What do you guys want?
Police officers.
You're under arrest.
Get them off.
The doors are blocked Colton, you're in here for good.
You're wearing a wrong kind of glasses, I'll get out.
Now look, we got you for robbery, don't make it anymore.
Joe?
Yeah.
He's over in the corner.
How about Fitzgerald?
Satin on Zimmerman and gun.
Two of their guns in their lap.
One no part of trouble.
Colton doesn't figure it that way.
I'll try to get around him.
Now watch yourself.
Keep those people back out of the doorway.
Go on Frank, I'll cover you.
Aye.
You come nearer me, come I'll kill you.
There's three more Colton, you aren't going to get by all of us.
Your partner Quint might not be smart like him.
He's not a smarty fair.
All right Colton, I'm coming to you.
You do it, you'll be dead when you get here.
Go down that gap.
Colton, Colton.
You see him Joe?
No.
Take it easy Joe.
Colton.
How about it?
He's hit, I can't tell how bad.
He's still got the gun.
Colton, you're going to hear me throw that gun out here.
Nothing.
Come on.
Better call an ambulance.
Right.
Never should have taken us.
Better take us.
We're going to get him.
Never should have taken us.
Better take it easy Colton, your hit word shows.
Never should have taken us.
Two of you, two of us.
You got it wrong mister.
Huh?
You were outnumbered going in.
The story you have just heard is true.
The names were changed to protect the innocent.
On September 18th, trial was held in Department 92, Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles.
In a moment the results of that trial.
Now here is our star Jack Webb.
Thank you George Feneman.
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Harvey Ned Fitzgerald and Lewis Jeffrey Colton were tried and convicted of kidnapping, robbery in the first degree, and violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Act.
They were found guilty and sentenced as prescribed by law.
Kidnapping is punishable by imprisonment for a period of from one to 25 years in the state penitentiary.
Robbery in the first degree by imprisonment for a term of not less than five years.
Violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Act by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of not less than five years.
Henry Vincent Peterson was remanded to the authorities of New Jersey for completion of his sentence.
A hold was placed on him by the state of California in the event he is paroled.
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Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wins, Sergeant Vance Brasher.
Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Herb Ellis, Vic Perrin.
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