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01:29.240 --> 01:31.880 Change to Chesterfield yourself. 01:31.880 --> 01:35.600 Smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 01:35.600 --> 01:38.840 Regular and king-size Chesterfield. 01:38.840 --> 01:43.840 Best for you. 01:43.840 --> 01:50.720 Dragnet, the documentary drama of an actual crime. 01:50.720 --> 01:54.840 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:54.840 --> 01:59.400 travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:59.400 --> 02:01.320 police files. 02:01.320 --> 02:06.720 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:06.720 --> 02:13.800 in action. 02:13.800 --> 02:14.800 It was Thursday, June 5th. 02:14.800 --> 02:15.800 It was warm in Los Angeles. 02:15.800 --> 02:16.800 We were working the night. 02:16.800 --> 02:17.800 Watch out for robbery detail. 02:17.800 --> 02:18.800 My partner is Frank Smith. 02:18.800 --> 02:20.840 The boss is Chief of Detective Staff Brown. 02:20.840 --> 02:21.840 My name is Friday. 02:21.840 --> 02:26.000 I was on my way back from the business office and it was 10 52 p.m. when I got to room 27A. 02:26.000 --> 02:27.000 Robbery. 02:27.000 --> 02:28.000 Did you get him? 02:28.000 --> 02:29.000 Yeah, here's the gun. 02:29.000 --> 02:30.000 You got the double-aught buck? 02:30.000 --> 02:31.000 Yeah, Jack. 02:31.000 --> 02:32.000 Here you go. 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 Any word yet? 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 No, we ought to be hearing pretty quick. 02:34.000 --> 02:35.000 Nothing from Herman and Benson, huh? 02:35.000 --> 02:36.000 Last we got from them, they were over on Hobart. 02:36.000 --> 02:37.000 No action there? 02:37.000 --> 02:38.000 Nothing. 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 I'll get it. 02:39.000 --> 02:44.000 Robbery Friday. 02:44.000 --> 02:49.000 Yes, ma'am. 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 That's right. 02:50.000 --> 02:51.000 When was this? 02:51.000 --> 02:52.000 No. 02:52.000 --> 02:53.000 No, that's a burglary. 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 If you'll hold on just a minute, I'll have you switch them. 02:54.000 --> 02:55.000 Yes, ma'am. 02:55.000 --> 02:56.000 Hold on just one minute. 02:56.000 --> 02:57.000 Would you give this call to 2524, please? 02:57.000 --> 02:58.000 That's right, burglary. 02:58.000 --> 02:59.000 Thank you. 02:59.000 --> 03:00.000 Woman who wants somebody to come up to her, she's got to be there. 03:00.000 --> 03:01.000 Yes, ma'am. 03:01.000 --> 03:02.000 I'll be there. 03:02.000 --> 03:03.000 I'll be there. 03:03.000 --> 03:04.000 I'll be there. 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 I'll be there. 03:05.000 --> 03:06.000 I'll be there. 03:06.000 --> 03:07.000 I'll be there. 03:07.000 --> 03:08.000 I'll be there. 03:08.000 --> 03:10.800 Woman who wants somebody to come out and talk to her about her husband's work pants being 03:10.800 --> 03:12.000 taken from the clothes line. 03:12.000 --> 03:13.000 You should have gone out. 03:13.000 --> 03:14.000 Yeah. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 You got a cigarette? 03:15.000 --> 03:16.000 I'm fresh out. 03:16.000 --> 03:17.000 Here you are. 03:17.000 --> 03:18.000 Got a match? 03:18.000 --> 03:19.000 Yeah, thanks. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.400 Well, you might as well sit down, take it easy. 03:21.400 --> 03:23.360 You got no idea how long we're going to be here. 03:23.360 --> 03:24.360 Guess so. 03:24.360 --> 03:29.240 You know, I'm still not real sure about how this tip came in. 03:29.240 --> 03:30.600 You want to fill me in? 03:30.600 --> 03:32.160 Call came through this afternoon. 03:32.160 --> 03:35.000 Man refused to give his name, just said he had some information he thought we'd like to 03:35.000 --> 03:36.000 have. 03:36.000 --> 03:37.000 No idea who it was, huh? 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 Said it wasn't important. 03:38.000 --> 03:41.560 Went on to say that he could tell us where to pick up the men who held up the bank truck. 03:41.560 --> 03:42.560 Well? 03:42.560 --> 03:45.560 Well, I figured it might be a crank, so I asked him how we could be sure the story was true. 03:45.560 --> 03:46.560 How'd he answer that? 03:46.560 --> 03:47.560 Said he could prove it. 03:47.560 --> 03:50.000 Said he had some of the serial numbers on the stolen bills. 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 To check out? 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 Yeah. 03:52.000 --> 03:53.000 Gave me the numbers from 10 of the 20s. 03:53.000 --> 03:54.000 I checked the serial numbers. 03:54.000 --> 03:55.000 They're good. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 And that's when he said he'd call back, huh? 03:57.000 --> 03:59.880 Yeah, said he'd call tonight around 10 and give us the address where we could pick up 03:59.880 --> 04:00.880 the men. 04:00.880 --> 04:01.880 It's late now, about an hour. 04:01.880 --> 04:02.880 Yeah. 04:02.880 --> 04:04.640 But he knows what he's talking about. 04:04.640 --> 04:06.880 We got to be here when the phone rings. 04:06.880 --> 04:08.320 No way of getting an ID on them, huh? 04:08.320 --> 04:09.320 None. 04:09.320 --> 04:10.320 What'd he say about the men? 04:10.320 --> 04:11.320 They heavy? 04:11.320 --> 04:12.320 And the way he tells it, they're loaded. 04:12.320 --> 04:14.560 Got all the guns and ammunition they need to hold out for a week. 04:14.560 --> 04:15.640 Who knows that? 04:15.640 --> 04:17.360 Why couldn't he give us the address this afternoon? 04:17.360 --> 04:20.160 He said he wanted to put a lot of distance between him and the rest of them. 04:20.160 --> 04:21.160 See how many there were? 04:21.160 --> 04:22.160 Not right out. 04:22.160 --> 04:23.960 The way he talked to them, we figured there were three. 04:23.960 --> 04:24.960 Any names? 04:24.960 --> 04:25.960 No. 04:25.960 --> 04:26.960 Said he'd tell us where to pick them up. 04:26.960 --> 04:27.960 Said when we blew the whistle, they'd tell us. 04:27.960 --> 04:30.320 Uh, that'd be a little tight-taken, then, huh? 04:30.320 --> 04:33.400 If the way they handled the guards on the truck is any indication, it isn't going to 04:33.400 --> 04:34.400 be a picnic. 04:34.400 --> 04:35.400 How many men we got? 04:35.400 --> 04:37.040 We got a dozen in Benson, we can call them in. 04:37.040 --> 04:38.840 Murph and Rafferty, Stewart and Creasy. 04:38.840 --> 04:39.840 Where are they now? 04:39.840 --> 04:42.680 Well, I saw Murph and Raff down at the business office just a minute ago. 04:42.680 --> 04:43.680 Said they'd be right in. 04:43.680 --> 04:45.680 I get it. 04:45.680 --> 04:47.680 Robbery Friday. 04:47.680 --> 04:49.680 Yes, it is. 04:49.680 --> 04:50.680 Where? 04:50.680 --> 04:52.680 Yeah, I'll put them through. 04:52.680 --> 04:55.080 Call from San Francisco operator, said it's station to station. 04:55.080 --> 04:56.080 Might be our boy. 04:56.080 --> 04:58.440 Huh, he'd have to fly up north to get here this fast. 04:58.440 --> 05:00.600 Airlines don't ask for recommendations when they sell a ticket. 05:00.600 --> 05:01.600 Wait just a minute. 05:01.600 --> 05:02.600 This Friday. 05:02.600 --> 05:03.600 Who's this? 05:03.600 --> 05:06.200 Okay, if that's the way you want it. 05:06.200 --> 05:07.200 Yeah. 05:07.200 --> 05:08.200 Give me that address. 05:08.200 --> 05:11.240 All right, let me read that back to you. 05:11.240 --> 05:13.760 1657 Garfield Place, apartment 408. 05:13.760 --> 05:14.760 Is that right? 05:14.760 --> 05:15.760 Okay. 05:15.760 --> 05:16.760 Why don't you tell us your name? 05:16.760 --> 05:17.760 I won't do any... 05:17.760 --> 05:18.760 Hello. 05:18.760 --> 05:19.760 Hello. 05:19.760 --> 05:20.760 All right, hang up. 05:20.760 --> 05:25.760 I'll have the business office, get on it, see if they can come up with a number. 05:25.760 --> 05:26.760 You got the address? 05:26.760 --> 05:27.760 Yeah, I got that here. 05:27.760 --> 05:29.360 The way he put it, job might be tougher than we figured. 05:29.360 --> 05:30.360 What do you mean? 05:30.360 --> 05:31.360 Well, I asked him his name. 05:31.360 --> 05:32.360 I told him it wouldn't make any difference if he told us. 05:32.360 --> 05:33.360 Yeah? 05:33.360 --> 05:34.360 He said it wouldn't make any difference. 05:34.360 --> 05:35.800 Said they'd kill him if they found out that he faked on them. 05:35.800 --> 05:36.800 That figures. 05:36.800 --> 05:39.200 Said that when he reads in the papers that they're dead, then he'll come in. 05:39.200 --> 05:40.200 When they're dead? 05:40.200 --> 05:46.560 Yeah, says we won't take them alive. 05:46.560 --> 05:50.520 Ten days previously on Thursday, May 26th, three men had stopped an armored truck on 05:50.520 --> 05:52.840 its way to the Federal Reserve Bank. 05:52.840 --> 05:55.320 The truck had stopped for collection on Wilshire Boulevard. 05:55.320 --> 05:59.400 The three holed up men had approached the truck and produced sawed off 12 gauge shotguns. 05:59.400 --> 06:03.400 At gunpoint, two of the men forced the drivers to go out to the San Fernando Valley. 06:03.400 --> 06:05.400 The third followed in another car. 06:05.400 --> 06:09.200 On a side road south of Ventura Boulevard, the suspects had tied and then beaten the driver 06:09.200 --> 06:10.200 and the guard. 06:10.200 --> 06:13.240 The two men were placed in the back of the truck and after stealing all of the cash in 06:13.240 --> 06:15.880 the vehicle, the thieves had driven off. 06:15.880 --> 06:20.400 As soon as the theft was discovered, men from the Federal Bureau of Investigation were notified. 06:20.400 --> 06:22.960 Together with them, Frank and I followed down every lead. 06:22.960 --> 06:26.000 The crime lab went over the truck but found nothing that would help us in getting to the 06:26.000 --> 06:27.000 thieves. 06:27.000 --> 06:29.520 The light and fingerprints were able to come up with nothing. 06:29.520 --> 06:32.520 The driver of the truck and the guard had been shown the mug books but they were unable 06:32.520 --> 06:34.320 to make an identification. 06:34.320 --> 06:37.680 The method of operation was checked through the stats office but when the leads that developed 06:37.680 --> 06:41.040 were checked out, we were in the same position as when we first got the call. 06:41.040 --> 06:43.600 We had no idea who the thieves might be. 06:43.600 --> 06:46.840 Descriptions obtained from the two victims were broadcast to the entire nation but there 06:46.840 --> 06:48.440 were no kickbacks. 06:48.440 --> 06:52.060 The FBI weighed and sifted all evidence in its Washington headquarters but they came 06:52.060 --> 06:54.880 up with the same results we had, nothing. 06:54.880 --> 06:57.960 The phone call from the informant was the first concrete lead that we'd gotten. 06:57.960 --> 07:03.360 There were nine men from the robbery division and three teams from the FBI in the operation. 07:03.360 --> 07:07.300 From the information we had, we knew the suspects were armed and they were dangerous. 07:07.300 --> 07:09.440 The people in the building were gotten out of their apartments. 07:09.440 --> 07:11.440 The building itself was completely surrounded. 07:11.440 --> 07:13.960 1.36 a.m. we moved in. 07:13.960 --> 07:15.720 Boys in the street are set, let's go. 07:15.720 --> 07:17.160 Alright, did you check the manager? 07:17.160 --> 07:18.160 Yep. 07:18.160 --> 07:20.560 Descriptions of the men in the apartment match the one we got from the driver of the 07:20.560 --> 07:21.560 truck. 07:21.560 --> 07:22.560 It checks out to be the same guys. 07:22.560 --> 07:24.120 The manager say how many there were? 07:24.120 --> 07:25.640 She's not sure they're all in. 07:25.640 --> 07:26.640 Alright. 07:26.640 --> 07:34.280 Sounds like somebody's moving around in there. 07:34.280 --> 07:35.280 Really? 07:35.280 --> 07:36.280 You ready? 07:36.280 --> 07:37.280 Yeah. 07:37.280 --> 07:38.280 Let's go. 07:38.280 --> 07:39.280 Police officer, stand still. 07:39.280 --> 07:40.280 What are you doing in here? 07:40.280 --> 07:41.280 You here alone? 07:41.280 --> 07:42.280 Yeah, alone. 07:42.280 --> 07:43.280 What are you looking for, a convention? 07:43.280 --> 07:44.280 Where are the other two? 07:44.280 --> 07:45.280 What two? 07:45.280 --> 07:46.280 Nobody else, Joe. 07:46.280 --> 07:49.280 The closet over there looks like an arsenal, loaded with guns, couple of sawed-off shotguns. 07:49.280 --> 07:52.280 You guys got no right to come in here like this. 07:52.280 --> 07:55.760 I don't know what you're looking for, but you ain't gonna find... 07:55.760 --> 07:56.760 What's your name? 07:56.760 --> 07:57.760 Hank Peterson. 07:57.760 --> 07:58.760 You rent this apartment with two other guys. 07:58.760 --> 08:01.120 The manager tells us that they're Harvey Fitzgerald and Lou Colton. 08:01.120 --> 08:02.120 Is that right? 08:02.120 --> 08:03.120 Yeah, they live here. 08:03.120 --> 08:04.120 Where are they now? 08:04.120 --> 08:05.120 I don't know, out, maybe to a movie. 08:05.120 --> 08:06.120 I don't know. 08:06.120 --> 08:07.120 When do you expect them back? 08:07.120 --> 08:08.120 Look, they're big fellas now. 08:08.120 --> 08:09.680 They don't have to get me to sign a report card. 08:09.680 --> 08:10.680 They do what they want. 08:10.680 --> 08:11.680 They went out, I don't know where. 08:11.680 --> 08:12.680 They didn't tell me. 08:12.680 --> 08:14.160 They also didn't tell me when they'd be back. 08:14.160 --> 08:15.520 What's this all about? 08:15.520 --> 08:16.920 Where'd you get those guns in the closet? 08:16.920 --> 08:18.320 They don't belong to me. 08:18.320 --> 08:19.320 Who do they belong to? 08:19.320 --> 08:22.320 One of the guys. 08:22.320 --> 08:23.320 Why are you coming in here and asking all these questions? 08:23.320 --> 08:24.320 I ain't done nothing. 08:24.320 --> 08:25.320 You got no beef with me. 08:25.320 --> 08:26.320 I don't know anything about the guns. 08:26.320 --> 08:27.320 Maybe Lou likes to hunt. 08:27.320 --> 08:28.320 I don't know. 08:28.320 --> 08:29.320 They belong to Colton, huh? 08:29.320 --> 08:30.320 Yeah, he brought them. 08:30.320 --> 08:31.320 You don't know where he is now? 08:31.320 --> 08:32.320 I told you, if I knew where he was, I'd tell you. 08:32.320 --> 08:33.320 I don't want any trouble. 08:33.320 --> 08:35.080 I don't like to have people pointing guns at me. 08:35.080 --> 08:36.080 Would you put that one away? 08:36.080 --> 08:37.080 Turn around. 08:37.080 --> 08:38.080 What? 08:38.080 --> 08:39.080 I said turn around. 08:39.080 --> 08:40.080 Get over to the wall. 08:40.080 --> 08:43.720 Put your hands up on it. 08:43.720 --> 08:44.840 Big deal. 08:44.840 --> 08:45.840 What happens now? 08:45.840 --> 08:46.840 You kick my feet out, I fall down? 08:46.840 --> 08:47.840 Stand still. 08:47.840 --> 08:48.840 I'm gonna jump. 08:48.840 --> 08:49.840 You're gonna find nothing on me. 08:49.840 --> 08:50.840 I tell you, I'm clean. 08:50.840 --> 08:51.840 Nice try, Peterson. 08:51.840 --> 08:54.840 Here's a.38 Colt Joe had in his belt. 08:54.840 --> 08:58.000 You go around pretty heavy for a fellow that doesn't want trouble, don't you? 08:58.000 --> 08:59.000 I carry a lot of money. 08:59.000 --> 09:01.200 Sometimes I think some guys are trying to take it away from me. 09:01.200 --> 09:02.200 I gotta protect myself. 09:02.200 --> 09:03.800 Anybody's got the right to protect themselves. 09:03.800 --> 09:05.240 Yeah, you got a permit for this gun? 09:05.240 --> 09:06.680 No, I didn't get around to it yet. 09:06.680 --> 09:07.680 I'm going to it all right away. 09:07.680 --> 09:08.680 I'll get one. 09:08.680 --> 09:09.680 You know how it is. 09:09.680 --> 09:10.680 You mean to do something, but you forget. 09:10.680 --> 09:11.680 Hey, can I stand up straight now? 09:11.680 --> 09:12.680 Yeah. 09:12.680 --> 09:13.680 Come on, Peterson, get your hands behind you. 09:13.680 --> 09:17.760 Maybe you guys will tell me what this is for. 09:17.760 --> 09:18.760 What are you looking for? 09:18.760 --> 09:19.760 I'm looking for a cop downtown. 09:19.760 --> 09:20.760 You know you're making a big mistake. 09:20.760 --> 09:21.760 Is that right? 09:21.760 --> 09:22.920 Sure, you really call this one wrong. 09:22.920 --> 09:23.920 You're dragging an innocent man. 09:23.920 --> 09:24.920 I'm clean. 09:24.920 --> 09:26.720 I made a mistake when I didn't register the gun. 09:26.720 --> 09:27.920 I'll cop to that, but that's the edge. 09:27.920 --> 09:28.920 I don't go past there. 09:28.920 --> 09:29.920 No, you got it wrong, Peterson. 09:29.920 --> 09:30.920 Read me how. 09:30.920 --> 09:32.560 We got you going in for the bank truck robbery. 09:32.560 --> 09:34.360 You and your two friends, you're gonna stand for it. 09:34.360 --> 09:35.800 Keep talking about my two friends. 09:35.800 --> 09:36.800 I got no friends. 09:36.800 --> 09:37.800 I move in with a couple of fellas. 09:37.800 --> 09:39.960 All of a sudden, I got a piece of some action there shoving. 09:39.960 --> 09:41.000 You got it wrong, cop. 09:41.000 --> 09:43.640 You aren't gonna tell us you happened to be here at the wrong time, are you? 09:43.640 --> 09:44.640 Look, I'm from Chicago. 09:44.640 --> 09:48.800 I got a lead on a job out here, it gets cold in Chicago in the wintertime. 09:48.800 --> 09:49.800 I don't like the cold. 09:49.800 --> 09:52.320 Get a lead on a job out here in California, so I put an ad in the paper telling how I'd 09:52.320 --> 09:54.360 like to drive out with the guy, share expenses. 09:54.360 --> 09:57.840 The fellow that answers the ad wants to leave, when I gotta go is Luke Colton. 09:57.840 --> 09:59.800 I took a third of the tab driving out. 09:59.800 --> 10:01.520 We got into town, he's got this apartment line up. 10:01.520 --> 10:02.520 This one right here. 10:02.520 --> 10:05.360 I got no place to stay, so he says for me to pad down with him, that's it. 10:05.360 --> 10:07.560 The beginning, the middle, the end. 10:07.560 --> 10:08.560 Anything outside of that, I don't know. 10:08.560 --> 10:11.760 If you got trouble with Luke, then take it up with him, but don't make me fit in. 10:11.760 --> 10:13.560 I got no part of the action, I don't want any. 10:13.560 --> 10:14.840 What about the gun? 10:14.840 --> 10:15.840 The gun you had on you? 10:15.840 --> 10:19.240 I tried to explain that, I meant to get a permit for it, I didn't get around to it yet. 10:19.240 --> 10:20.240 What about the ones in the closet? 10:20.240 --> 10:23.000 Well, talk to Lou, they belong to him, maybe he's gonna open a museum. 10:23.000 --> 10:24.560 All right, let's get out of here. 10:24.560 --> 10:25.560 Come on, let's go. 10:25.560 --> 10:28.920 Look what you did to the door, breaking it up like that. 10:28.920 --> 10:29.920 No reason. 10:29.920 --> 10:30.920 All you had to do was knock. 10:30.920 --> 10:33.200 Landlady's gonna be pretty sore about it. 10:33.200 --> 10:37.240 I'd have let you in if you had a knock, breaking up a door like that, she's gonna be real sore. 10:37.240 --> 10:38.240 Probably won't talk to me. 10:38.240 --> 10:46.200 It's gonna be a while before she's got the chance. 10:46.200 --> 10:49.620 While Frank and I took Henry Peterson downtown, the other officers from robbery maintained 10:49.620 --> 10:51.720 the surveillance on the apartment. 10:51.720 --> 10:54.840 Because of the construction of the building, it was impossible to wait inside of the room. 10:54.840 --> 10:56.920 However, all of the entrances were covered. 10:56.920 --> 10:57.920 2.40 a.m. 10:57.920 --> 11:02.360 We checked the suspect through R&I, but we found that he had no record in Los Angeles. 11:02.360 --> 11:05.080 His fingerprints were taken and forwarded to Washington for checking. 11:05.080 --> 11:08.440 It was printed and mugged and then placed in a cell in the felony section at the main 11:08.440 --> 11:09.440 jail. 11:09.440 --> 11:13.280 The rest of that night, the watch on the apartment continued without results. 11:13.280 --> 11:16.520 The following morning, Frank and I met with Lieutenant Smyers at a special show-off of 11:16.520 --> 11:19.780 the suspect for the driver and the guard of the armored car. 11:19.780 --> 11:22.920 Without hesitation, they both stated positively that Peterson was one of the men who had held 11:22.920 --> 11:24.200 them up. 11:24.200 --> 11:27.440 The kickback arrived from Washington with the information that Peterson was wanted for 11:27.440 --> 11:30.560 escape from the state penitentiary in New Jersey. 11:30.560 --> 11:34.080 He'd been convicted on a charge of murder and robbery and given a life sentence. 11:34.080 --> 11:38.040 The record showed that he'd escaped from the prison on Friday, May 9th, two weeks before 11:38.040 --> 11:39.640 the truck had been robbed. 11:39.640 --> 11:40.640 4.15 p.m. 11:40.640 --> 11:43.640 We had him brought from his cell and Frank and I talked to him in the interrogation room 11:43.640 --> 11:44.640 at the main jail. 11:44.640 --> 11:45.640 You got a cigarette? 11:45.640 --> 11:46.640 Yeah. 11:46.640 --> 11:47.640 Here. 11:47.640 --> 11:48.640 Thanks. 11:48.640 --> 11:53.280 Here's a match. 11:53.280 --> 11:54.280 What do we got going? 11:54.280 --> 11:55.280 Same thing. 11:55.280 --> 11:57.480 We want to know about the robbery of that armored car. 11:57.480 --> 11:59.880 You figure there's something I could tell you on it, huh? 11:59.880 --> 12:01.280 We wouldn't be here otherwise. 12:01.280 --> 12:02.560 I'll make you a deal. 12:02.560 --> 12:03.560 We don't make them. 12:03.560 --> 12:04.560 You're gonna get me out. 12:04.560 --> 12:05.560 You might go for this. 12:05.560 --> 12:06.920 We can't promise you anything. 12:06.920 --> 12:08.520 You're asking me to come over to your side. 12:08.520 --> 12:10.520 Seems like you'd be willing to come a little closer to the line. 12:10.520 --> 12:12.040 What do you got to say? 12:12.040 --> 12:13.040 How bad you got me nailed? 12:13.040 --> 12:14.040 As deep as it can go. 12:14.040 --> 12:15.040 For real? 12:15.040 --> 12:16.040 That's right. 12:16.040 --> 12:17.040 Lay it out. 12:17.040 --> 12:18.040 All of it? 12:18.040 --> 12:19.040 Yeah. 12:19.040 --> 12:20.040 We got the kickback from Washington. 12:20.040 --> 12:21.040 We know you're wanted for escape. 12:21.040 --> 12:22.320 We checked the guns from the apartment. 12:22.320 --> 12:25.800 Found out they were taken in a burglary in Chicago Tuesday, May 13th. 12:25.800 --> 12:26.800 Go ahead. 12:26.800 --> 12:27.800 We checked with the Chicago papers. 12:27.800 --> 12:30.560 The ad you told us about asking for a ride out here, it was never run. 12:30.560 --> 12:32.120 You guys are sure thorough. 12:32.120 --> 12:33.920 The victims of the robbery identified your picture. 12:33.920 --> 12:34.920 They sure? 12:34.920 --> 12:35.920 They're sure. 12:35.920 --> 12:36.920 No chance for a mistake? 12:36.920 --> 12:37.920 No chance. 12:37.920 --> 12:39.160 If I cop out, where am I gonna do the time? 12:39.160 --> 12:40.160 We don't decide then. 12:40.160 --> 12:41.680 You think they'll send me back to Jersey? 12:41.680 --> 12:43.320 I told you we got no say in that. 12:43.320 --> 12:44.720 It's so cold back there. 12:44.720 --> 12:45.720 It's nice here in California. 12:45.720 --> 12:46.720 I like to stay here. 12:46.720 --> 12:50.160 Nothing you guys can do so I can take the fall in Quentin, huh? 12:50.160 --> 12:51.160 Nothing. 12:51.160 --> 12:52.800 Any way you hear it, I'm nailed, huh? 12:52.800 --> 12:53.800 That's right. 12:53.800 --> 12:54.800 Okay. 12:54.800 --> 12:56.280 Maybe it's marked down that I copped out. 12:56.280 --> 12:57.280 They'll let me stay in California. 12:57.280 --> 12:58.280 It'll be put down that way. 12:58.280 --> 12:59.280 Okay. 12:59.280 --> 13:00.280 Where do you want me to start? 13:00.280 --> 13:01.280 Try the beginning. 13:01.280 --> 13:02.280 Good place, is any? 13:02.280 --> 13:04.040 You're with the holdup, huh? 13:04.040 --> 13:05.040 Yeah. 13:05.040 --> 13:06.040 How about the other two? 13:06.040 --> 13:07.040 You picked them up yet? 13:07.040 --> 13:08.040 No. 13:08.040 --> 13:09.040 Haven't come back to the apartment. 13:09.040 --> 13:10.040 Might be good if they didn't. 13:10.040 --> 13:11.480 Where do you come up with that? 13:11.480 --> 13:12.480 Heavy, real heavy. 13:12.480 --> 13:13.480 What are their names? 13:13.480 --> 13:14.480 Luke Colton, Harvey Fitzgerald. 13:14.480 --> 13:16.480 Those are the names in the mailbox. 13:16.480 --> 13:17.480 Are they real? 13:17.480 --> 13:18.480 Far as I know. 13:18.480 --> 13:19.480 You aren't sure, huh? 13:19.480 --> 13:20.480 No. 13:20.480 --> 13:21.480 Part of what I told you is true. 13:21.480 --> 13:23.320 I broke out of a jail in Jersey, then beat it to Chicago. 13:23.320 --> 13:26.320 Laid around for a couple of days, then started to look for some action. 13:26.320 --> 13:27.320 I was broke. 13:27.320 --> 13:28.320 I needed a score to set me up. 13:28.320 --> 13:31.760 I was sitting in a bar down on State Street one night and I met Lou and Harvey. 13:31.760 --> 13:33.320 They took me to the job out here. 13:33.320 --> 13:35.720 You mean they came all the way out here to pull the one job? 13:35.720 --> 13:36.720 Yeah. 13:36.720 --> 13:38.200 They got a rumble about how it'd be a cinch. 13:38.200 --> 13:41.760 Came out to run it off, then they figured I'm going back leaving you cops with nothing. 13:41.760 --> 13:43.480 When were they figuring on leaving? 13:43.480 --> 13:44.480 I don't know. 13:44.480 --> 13:45.480 This was their part of the deal. 13:45.480 --> 13:46.920 I told them going in, I wanted to stay out here. 13:46.920 --> 13:48.160 Didn't make any difference to them. 13:48.160 --> 13:51.320 We all figured that if we cut up a hundred thousand dollar score, none of us was going 13:51.320 --> 13:52.320 to look bad. 13:52.320 --> 13:53.960 For all I know, they might be on the way back now. 13:53.960 --> 13:54.960 Their clothes were still in the apartment. 13:54.960 --> 13:58.240 You know how many suits you can buy with a third of a hundred thousand dollars? 13:58.240 --> 13:59.240 Let's go ahead. 13:59.240 --> 14:02.400 Yeah, well, after the job, we made the split. 14:02.400 --> 14:05.120 Talked it over and decided to dig in for a few days and then take off. 14:05.120 --> 14:06.600 At least they decided to leave. 14:06.600 --> 14:07.600 Didn't say when. 14:07.600 --> 14:09.520 I told you, now they might be on the way back now. 14:09.520 --> 14:10.920 Who else knows you're in on the job? 14:10.920 --> 14:11.920 Huh? 14:11.920 --> 14:12.920 Outside of you three, Colton, Fitzgerald. 14:12.920 --> 14:14.280 Who else knows about it? 14:14.280 --> 14:15.280 Isn't anybody. 14:15.280 --> 14:16.280 Where's your part of the money? 14:16.280 --> 14:17.280 Got it down in the bus depot. 14:17.280 --> 14:18.760 Got it in the locker down there. 14:18.760 --> 14:20.480 How long's it been there? 14:20.480 --> 14:21.480 Since day before yesterday. 14:21.480 --> 14:23.640 How often do they clean out them lockers? 14:23.640 --> 14:24.640 Every 24 hours. 14:24.640 --> 14:27.760 And then there's $33,000 floating around in the check room. 14:27.760 --> 14:28.760 You got the key to the locker? 14:28.760 --> 14:29.760 Yeah. 14:29.760 --> 14:30.760 Where is it? 14:30.760 --> 14:31.760 In my shoe. 14:31.760 --> 14:32.760 I got a tape from the soul inside. 14:32.760 --> 14:33.760 You want to give it to us? 14:33.760 --> 14:36.040 Well, no, but I don't guess there's any other way. 14:36.040 --> 14:37.040 No. 14:37.040 --> 14:38.040 OK. 14:38.040 --> 14:39.040 You spent any of the money? 14:39.040 --> 14:40.560 You mean the stuff we stole? 14:40.560 --> 14:41.560 That's right. 14:41.560 --> 14:42.560 No, not a dime. 14:42.560 --> 14:43.560 Why do you ask that? 14:43.560 --> 14:44.560 Who else might know the serial numbers on the bills? 14:44.560 --> 14:45.560 Well, nobody. 14:45.560 --> 14:46.560 Nobody but us. 14:46.560 --> 14:48.120 And I guess the guys at the bank, they got a record of them, I guess. 14:48.120 --> 14:49.120 How about Colton and Fitzgerald? 14:49.120 --> 14:50.120 They spent any of their part? 14:50.120 --> 14:51.120 I don't know. 14:51.120 --> 14:52.120 You got to ask them that. 14:52.120 --> 14:53.760 The car you drove out after the armored truck. 14:53.760 --> 14:54.760 Who'd that belong to? 14:54.760 --> 14:55.760 Colton. 14:55.760 --> 14:57.880 What kind of car is it? 14:57.880 --> 14:58.880 Plymouth, 1952. 14:58.880 --> 14:59.880 What model? 14:59.880 --> 15:00.880 Sedan. 15:00.880 --> 15:01.880 Color? 15:01.880 --> 15:02.880 Light blue. 15:02.880 --> 15:03.880 You know the license number? 15:03.880 --> 15:04.880 No, I never paid any attention to it. 15:04.880 --> 15:05.880 What state's it out of? 15:05.880 --> 15:06.880 Illinois. 15:06.880 --> 15:07.880 Who drove the car when you went on the holdup? 15:07.880 --> 15:08.880 Harvey. 15:08.880 --> 15:09.880 Fitzgerald, huh? 15:09.880 --> 15:10.880 Yeah. 15:10.880 --> 15:11.880 He drove the car and Lou and I went in the truck. 15:11.880 --> 15:13.880 Either of them been arrested before? 15:13.880 --> 15:15.720 I'm not sure, but I think Lou fell in New York. 15:15.720 --> 15:16.720 I'm not sure, though. 15:16.720 --> 15:17.720 How about Fitzgerald? 15:17.720 --> 15:18.720 No. 15:18.720 --> 15:20.560 At least he never said anything about it. 15:20.560 --> 15:23.480 Only way I knew about Lou is that he talked about the food in Singsing. 15:23.480 --> 15:24.480 That's the way I knew about him. 15:24.480 --> 15:25.480 You know what he fell for? 15:25.480 --> 15:28.200 He was in the food robbery, I think, and there was a kidnap rap, too, but he beat it. 15:28.200 --> 15:29.200 He out clean? 15:29.200 --> 15:30.200 I don't know. 15:30.200 --> 15:32.480 Seems like you planned a job with two guys that you didn't know very well, doesn't it? 15:32.480 --> 15:33.760 I was hungry and I was cold. 15:33.760 --> 15:36.480 I wasn't about to ask for a life story when they offered me a part of the action. 15:36.480 --> 15:37.480 How'd they pick you? 15:37.480 --> 15:39.680 I told you, I was in a bar on state. 15:39.680 --> 15:40.680 Lou and Harvey came in. 15:40.680 --> 15:42.200 Both of them were carrying a load. 15:42.200 --> 15:45.480 I was sitting there drinking beer, just the three of us in the place, and Lou was drinking 15:45.480 --> 15:46.480 pretty heavy. 15:46.480 --> 15:49.640 He gets in a beef with the barkeep, and I saw the roll he was carrying, so I figured 15:49.640 --> 15:52.960 that if I could take his side in the brawl, maybe I could make a touch. 15:52.960 --> 15:55.640 We walked out of the bar and he offered to buy me a meal. 15:55.640 --> 15:56.960 Next thing I know, I'm on the way to California. 15:56.960 --> 15:59.400 I'm a partner in a piece of goods that looks safe. 15:59.400 --> 16:02.540 All that time in the car and you didn't find out anything about your two partners? 16:02.540 --> 16:03.540 We drove straight through. 16:03.540 --> 16:04.540 Well, we weren't driving. 16:04.540 --> 16:05.540 We were sleeping. 16:05.540 --> 16:07.960 Anyway, I wasn't a solid member of the club. 16:07.960 --> 16:11.720 I wasn't about to get my nose mashed in for having it someplace where it didn't belong. 16:11.720 --> 16:13.640 I figured if they wanted me to know something, they'd tell me. 16:13.640 --> 16:14.640 You go with them for the guns? 16:14.640 --> 16:15.640 No. 16:15.640 --> 16:16.640 They already got nose when I fell in. 16:16.640 --> 16:17.640 You knew they were stolen? 16:17.640 --> 16:20.000 Guys turn up with that kind of muscle and can't come from anywhere else. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 Sure, I knew it was stolen. 16:21.000 --> 16:22.880 Colton and Fitzgerald have any friends out here? 16:22.880 --> 16:23.880 No, not in L.A. 16:23.880 --> 16:24.880 Anywhere on the coast? 16:24.880 --> 16:26.680 I hear Lou's got some people up north. 16:26.680 --> 16:27.680 Where? 16:27.680 --> 16:29.320 Maybe San Francisco, Marin County, I don't know. 16:29.320 --> 16:30.600 Might even be Oakland. 16:30.600 --> 16:31.600 Somewhere around the Bay Area. 16:31.600 --> 16:33.120 They say anything about going up there? 16:33.120 --> 16:34.120 No. 16:34.120 --> 16:35.320 Of course they might have. 16:35.320 --> 16:36.320 Way Lou likes to eat. 16:36.320 --> 16:38.920 Coming out here, he'd go 10 miles out of the way because he knew a place that had a good 16:38.920 --> 16:39.920 chili size. 16:39.920 --> 16:40.920 Think nothing of it. 16:40.920 --> 16:42.720 I never saw anybody who liked to eat so much. 16:42.720 --> 16:43.720 Real gourmet. 16:43.720 --> 16:44.720 Only with him it was glutton. 16:44.720 --> 16:46.920 He mention any names of people he knew up north? 16:46.920 --> 16:48.600 No, just said he had people. 16:48.600 --> 16:50.600 Anything about the car they're driving that'd make it easy to spot? 16:50.600 --> 16:51.600 What do you mean? 16:51.600 --> 16:54.000 Like a dented fender, a scratch, anything to identify it? 16:54.000 --> 16:55.520 Yeah, yeah, it might be something. 16:55.520 --> 16:58.280 There's a kind of scratch in the back left fender, I think. 16:58.280 --> 16:59.960 A woman backed into us on the way out here. 16:59.960 --> 17:00.960 Cut right through the metal. 17:00.960 --> 17:03.240 You think of any reason why they might ditch the car? 17:03.240 --> 17:04.240 No. 17:04.240 --> 17:08.040 We kept a close tab on the papers right after the job and looked to see how much you had 17:08.040 --> 17:09.040 on it. 17:09.040 --> 17:10.720 When we didn't see anything, we figured the car was all right. 17:10.720 --> 17:11.720 I don't think they'd ditch it. 17:11.720 --> 17:12.720 It'd be pretty easy to trace. 17:12.720 --> 17:13.720 Lou owns it outright. 17:13.720 --> 17:16.880 Unless you want to try to grab cold plates, he'd drive it like it was. 17:16.880 --> 17:17.880 Okay. 17:17.880 --> 17:20.160 We'll get you your things and you can come over to City Hall and make a statement. 17:20.160 --> 17:21.520 How about the key to the locker? 17:21.520 --> 17:22.520 Oh, yeah. 17:22.520 --> 17:23.520 There it is. 17:23.520 --> 17:27.840 Probably some money due on the package I'll have to owe you. 17:27.840 --> 17:29.120 We'll take care of it. 17:29.120 --> 17:30.120 Too bad, isn't it? 17:30.120 --> 17:31.120 What's that? 17:31.120 --> 17:32.120 Thirty-three thousand. 17:32.120 --> 17:33.120 I haven't got the dough to bail out the package. 17:33.120 --> 17:34.120 It kind of works out even. 17:34.120 --> 17:35.120 Why? 17:35.120 --> 17:36.120 We'd have no place to spend it. 17:36.120 --> 17:46.800 An immediate APB was gotten off carrying the names and descriptions of the two suspects, 17:46.800 --> 17:48.320 also a description of the car. 17:48.320 --> 17:53.000 A radiogram was sent to DMV at Illinois requesting a license and description of any car registered 17:53.000 --> 17:54.000 to a Lewis Colton. 17:54.000 --> 17:59.320 While Eleanor Eastlack took Peterson's statement, Frank got in touch with a telephone company. 17:59.320 --> 18:02.520 They'd finished checking the phone call we'd gotten from San Francisco, but the information 18:02.520 --> 18:05.720 they gave led us no farther toward apprehending the suspects. 18:05.720 --> 18:09.200 The call had been made from a pay booth in the Ferry Terminal building. 18:09.200 --> 18:12.280 We got in touch with the FBI and filled them in on the developments. 18:12.280 --> 18:15.840 As a result of Peterson's statement, the number of men maintaining the surveillance of the 18:15.840 --> 18:20.200 apartment on Garfield Place was cut to one team working days and one team working the 18:20.200 --> 18:21.200 night watch. 18:21.200 --> 18:25.560 We put a call in to San Francisco and talked to Chief of Inspector James English. 18:25.560 --> 18:26.840 We filled him in on what had happened. 18:26.840 --> 18:30.800 He assigned Inspectors Sutton and Zimmerlund to work with us on the case. 18:30.800 --> 18:32.440 Five forty-six p.m. 18:32.440 --> 18:34.480 We checked out a tripped car and we left for San Francisco. 18:34.480 --> 18:39.680 It took us a little under ten hours to drive the 405 miles between the two cities. 18:39.680 --> 18:43.320 At four oh three a.m. we stopped in Oakland and put in a call to the San Francisco Police 18:43.320 --> 18:44.320 Department. 18:44.320 --> 18:45.320 How much? 18:45.320 --> 18:46.320 Yeah, just a minute. 18:46.320 --> 18:47.320 Frank, you got a quarter? 18:47.320 --> 18:48.320 Yeah. 18:48.320 --> 18:49.320 Thanks. 18:49.320 --> 18:52.320 Here you are. 18:52.320 --> 18:56.320 Two six four, please. 18:56.320 --> 18:59.320 Hello, this is Joe Friday. 18:59.320 --> 19:00.320 Yeah. 19:00.320 --> 19:03.320 You got a message there for me from Charlie Sutton or Jules Zimmerlund? 19:03.320 --> 19:04.320 Hmm? 19:04.320 --> 19:05.320 Yeah. 19:05.320 --> 19:06.320 No, no, we just got in. 19:06.320 --> 19:07.320 Yeah. 19:07.320 --> 19:08.320 Oakland. 19:08.320 --> 19:09.320 What? 19:09.320 --> 19:10.320 Just a minute. 19:10.320 --> 19:13.320 You see that speed sign up there? 19:13.320 --> 19:14.320 Yeah. 19:14.320 --> 19:15.320 Fifth and Poplar. 19:15.320 --> 19:16.320 Fifth and Poplar. 19:16.320 --> 19:17.320 Yeah. 19:17.320 --> 19:19.320 No, we're coming right over. 19:19.320 --> 19:22.320 When was this? 19:22.320 --> 19:24.320 I see. 19:24.320 --> 19:27.320 Well, if Charlie calls in, tell him that we're on the way, will you? 19:27.320 --> 19:28.320 Right. 19:28.320 --> 19:29.320 Thank you. 19:29.320 --> 19:31.320 Well, we're almost too late. 19:31.320 --> 19:32.320 What do you mean? 19:32.320 --> 19:33.320 They got a lead? 19:33.320 --> 19:34.320 Sutton and Zimmerlund called in 30 minutes ago. 19:34.320 --> 19:35.320 Yeah. 19:35.320 --> 19:47.120 They're in the car waiting for the suspects now. 19:47.120 --> 19:52.280 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 19:52.280 --> 19:57.740 There are good reasons why thousands of people are changing to Chesterfield every day. 19:57.740 --> 20:02.480 Why Chesterfield is the largest selling two-way cigarette in America. 20:02.480 --> 20:07.280 Why Chesterfield is best for me and best for you. 20:07.280 --> 20:11.600 To sell a product, you have to make it good and keep it good. 20:11.600 --> 20:13.880 What do the latest reports show about Chesterfield? 20:13.880 --> 20:19.360 Well, our research laboratory has compared it with the leading cigarettes in the country. 20:19.360 --> 20:24.580 Chesterfield is highest in quality, low in nicotine. 20:24.580 --> 20:26.480 People these days want facts. 20:26.480 --> 20:30.040 When you want people to use your product, you have to tell them what effect it has on 20:30.040 --> 20:32.640 people who do use it regularly. 20:32.640 --> 20:38.560 That's why a doctor has examined for almost two years a large group of Chesterfield smokers. 20:38.560 --> 20:43.560 Forty-five percent of them have, on the average, been smoking Chesterfields for well over 10 20:43.560 --> 20:44.560 years. 20:44.560 --> 20:48.440 What is the effect on these people from smoking Chesterfield? 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23:03.000 --> 23:04.000 No. 23:04.000 --> 23:05.000 Jules. 23:05.000 --> 23:06.000 Yeah? 23:06.000 --> 23:07.000 You and Charlie want to cover the other side? 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 Right. 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 Then watch it. 23:09.000 --> 23:12.000 We should be able to get a pretty good look at him. 23:12.000 --> 23:13.000 Yeah. 23:13.000 --> 23:23.160 It's Colton and Fitzgerald. 23:23.160 --> 23:24.160 Yeah. 23:24.160 --> 23:29.160 You see Jules and Charlie? 23:29.160 --> 23:30.160 Wait a minute. 23:30.160 --> 23:31.160 Yeah. 23:31.160 --> 23:32.160 Over by the gray murk. 23:32.160 --> 23:33.160 Looks like they're all set. 23:33.160 --> 23:34.160 All right. 23:34.160 --> 23:35.160 Let's go. 23:35.160 --> 23:50.160 All right. 23:50.160 --> 23:55.160 What do you guys want? 23:55.160 --> 23:59.080 Police officers. 23:59.080 --> 24:02.460 You're under arrest. 24:02.460 --> 24:03.720 Get them off. 24:03.720 --> 24:05.720 The doors are blocked Colton, you're in here for good. 24:05.720 --> 24:08.720 You're wearing a wrong kind of glasses, I'll get out. 24:09.720 --> 24:12.720 Now look, we got you for robbery, don't make it anymore. 24:12.720 --> 24:13.720 Joe? 24:13.720 --> 24:14.720 Yeah. 24:14.720 --> 24:15.720 He's over in the corner. 24:15.720 --> 24:16.720 How about Fitzgerald? 24:16.720 --> 24:17.720 Satin on Zimmerman and gun. 24:17.720 --> 24:18.720 Two of their guns in their lap. 24:18.720 --> 24:19.720 One no part of trouble. 24:19.720 --> 24:20.720 Colton doesn't figure it that way. 24:20.720 --> 24:21.720 I'll try to get around him. 24:21.720 --> 24:23.720 Now watch yourself. 24:25.720 --> 24:27.720 Keep those people back out of the doorway. 24:27.720 --> 24:28.720 Go on Frank, I'll cover you. 24:28.720 --> 24:29.720 Aye. 24:29.720 --> 24:32.720 You come nearer me, come I'll kill you. 24:32.720 --> 24:35.720 There's three more Colton, you aren't going to get by all of us. 24:35.720 --> 24:37.720 Your partner Quint might not be smart like him. 24:37.720 --> 24:39.720 He's not a smarty fair. 24:40.720 --> 24:42.720 All right Colton, I'm coming to you. 24:42.720 --> 24:44.720 You do it, you'll be dead when you get here. 24:44.720 --> 24:45.720 Go down that gap. 24:47.720 --> 24:50.720 Colton, Colton. 24:50.720 --> 24:51.720 You see him Joe? 24:51.720 --> 24:52.720 No. 24:53.720 --> 24:54.720 Take it easy Joe. 24:55.720 --> 24:56.720 Colton. 24:56.720 --> 24:59.720 How about it? 24:59.720 --> 25:01.720 He's hit, I can't tell how bad. 25:01.720 --> 25:02.720 He's still got the gun. 25:02.720 --> 25:05.720 Colton, you're going to hear me throw that gun out here. 25:07.720 --> 25:08.720 Nothing. 25:12.720 --> 25:13.720 Come on. 25:16.720 --> 25:17.720 Better call an ambulance. 25:17.720 --> 25:18.720 Right. 25:20.720 --> 25:21.720 Never should have taken us. 25:21.720 --> 25:22.720 Better take us. 25:22.720 --> 25:23.720 We're going to get him. 25:23.720 --> 25:26.720 Never should have taken us. 25:26.720 --> 25:28.720 Better take it easy Colton, your hit word shows. 25:28.720 --> 25:30.720 Never should have taken us. 25:30.720 --> 25:33.720 Two of you, two of us. 25:33.720 --> 25:34.720 You got it wrong mister. 25:34.720 --> 25:35.720 Huh? 25:35.720 --> 25:37.720 You were outnumbered going in. 25:44.720 --> 25:46.720 The story you have just heard is true. 25:46.720 --> 25:49.720 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 25:49.720 --> 25:56.720 On September 18th, trial was held in Department 92, Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles. 25:56.720 --> 25:58.720 In a moment the results of that trial. 25:58.720 --> 26:01.720 Now here is our star Jack Webb. 26:01.720 --> 26:02.720 Thank you George Feneman. 26:02.720 --> 26:06.720 The Chesterfield Christmas Carton is the most talked about gift of the year. 26:06.720 --> 26:09.720 It features the covered bridge which of course inspired the Kissing Bridge song. 26:09.720 --> 26:12.720 Now a highlight of the Radio City Music Hall Christmas show. 26:12.720 --> 26:18.720 The carton itself is featured in most of the 1,300,000 retail tobacco stores coast to coast. 26:18.720 --> 26:21.720 This Christmas do what I'm going to do. 26:21.720 --> 26:23.720 Give America's most popular two way cigarette. 26:23.720 --> 26:26.720 Regular and king size Chesterfield. 26:26.720 --> 26:29.720 Best to give, best to get for Christmas. 26:37.720 --> 26:46.720 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. 26:46.720 --> 26:50.720 They were found guilty and sentenced as prescribed by law. 26:50.720 --> 26:56.720 Kidnapping is punishable by imprisonment for a period of from one to 25 years in the state penitentiary. 26:56.720 --> 27:01.720 Robbery in the first degree by imprisonment for a term of not less than five years. 27:01.720 --> 27:07.720 Violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Act by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of not less than five years. 27:07.720 --> 27:13.720 Henry Vincent Peterson was remanded to the authorities of New Jersey for completion of his sentence. 27:13.720 --> 27:18.720 A hold was placed on him by the state of California in the event he is paroled. 27:18.720 --> 27:26.720 Be sure to read the current issue of Photography Workshop for an interesting and informative look behind the scenes with Dragnet. 27:26.720 --> 27:30.720 That's Photography Workshop, the current issue. 27:30.720 --> 27:49.720 Music 27:49.720 --> 27:54.720 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 27:54.720 --> 27:59.720 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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