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35 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:19,360 Yeah? 36 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,520 I wonder if you can tell us where you find Leonard Dodd's? 37 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:24,520 Yeah, that's him. 38 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,440 The fellow back there in the blue suit. 39 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:27,440 Thank you. 40 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:28,440 Thank you. 41 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,440 I don't know how it happened, honey. 42 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,440 No, I just came in this morning and I noticed the stuff was gone. 43 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,440 The whole shipment of suede coats. 44 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,440 They haven't even been unpacked yet. 45 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:40,960 Yeah, about two dozen of them. 46 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,960 Were white with a button down collar. 47 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,960 Yeah, I called the cops in the insurance company. 48 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,960 Yeah, about 12,000. 49 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,720 Well, a couple of customers just came in, honey. 50 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:51,720 I'll call you back. 51 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:52,720 Yeah. 52 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:53,720 Well, don't worry about it. 53 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:54,720 Mm-hmm. 54 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:55,720 Goodbye. 55 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:56,720 Yes, sir? 56 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:57,720 Can I help you, gentlemen? 57 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:58,720 Mr. Dodd's? 58 00:02:58,720 --> 00:02:59,720 That's right. 59 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:00,720 Police officers. 60 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:01,720 This is Frank Smith. 61 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:02,720 My name's Friday. 62 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:03,720 How do you do, sir? 63 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:04,720 You reported a burglary this morning? 64 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:05,720 Yeah, you guys from Hollywood? 65 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:06,720 No, sir, we're out of Central. 66 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,320 I didn't think I'd seen you around here before. 67 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:09,720 You want to tell us what happened? 68 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,720 Yeah, come on back to the store room. 69 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,360 When did you first discover the theft? 70 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,680 Well, this morning when I came in, I went back here to unpack some new merchandise and 71 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:18,680 found most of it gone. 72 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:19,680 Here, I'll get the door. 73 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:20,680 Now, this is our store room. 74 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:21,680 And we got a shipment from the East. 75 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:27,680 The cases are kept here until we get a chance to unpack them and check the invoices. 76 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:28,680 I see. 77 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,520 Was all of the stolen merchandise taken from this room? 78 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:31,520 I'm not sure about that. 79 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,040 I do know that a shipment of suede jackets and waistcoats was in here. 80 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:35,040 It's gone now. 81 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,040 A couple of cases of shirts, too. 82 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,960 The only way I'd have of knowing if they took anything from out in the store itself would 83 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:40,960 be to make a complete inventory. 84 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:41,960 Mm-hmm. 85 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:42,960 What do you estimate the loss at? 86 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:43,960 $12,000. 87 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,320 When was the last time you saw the merchandise in here? 88 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:47,320 Yesterday afternoon. 89 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:48,320 What time? 90 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:49,320 Well, I'd have to guess at that. 91 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,280 I'd say about 3 or 3.30. 92 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:52,920 How many doors are there to this store here? 93 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:56,160 Just the front one, one in the back, opens into an alley. 94 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,160 What if we could see the rear door? 95 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,160 Sure. 96 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,160 Back this way. 97 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,920 One of the first things I thought of, too, but it was locked. 98 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,360 You opened the door this morning, did you? 99 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:05,360 Yes. 100 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:06,960 I found the stuff gone, then I checked the door. 101 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:07,960 It was still locked. 102 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:08,960 Uh-huh. 103 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:09,960 You have an alarm system in this store? 104 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:10,960 Yes. 105 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:11,960 It didn't go off last night, though. 106 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:12,960 I see. 107 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:13,960 Here's the door. 108 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:14,960 You can see for yourself. 109 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:15,960 There's nothing wrong with the lock. 110 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,560 How about it, Joe? 111 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,160 No, there's no signs of a Jimmy. 112 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:20,160 Well, that's what I thought, too. 113 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,160 I looked pretty close. 114 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,160 Couldn't see any sign of where they got in. 115 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:23,160 How about windows? 116 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,160 Hmm? 117 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,160 Possible they got in through a window? 118 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,440 No, I'm sure of that. 119 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,440 Only two we've got are in the tailor shop. 120 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:30,440 Here. 121 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,120 You can see them up there. 122 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:34,120 Good 10 feet and barred. 123 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:35,120 They couldn't have gotten in there. 124 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,120 All right. 125 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:37,720 We'll have our crime lab take a look. 126 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:38,720 Who has keys to the place? 127 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:39,720 Well, I've got one. 128 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:40,720 Yes, sir, but who else? 129 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:41,720 Well, there's just me and Al. 130 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:42,720 Al? 131 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:43,720 Yeah, Al Baker. 132 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:44,720 He's sort of the assistant manager. 133 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,680 Whenever I'm not around, he takes charge of things. 134 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:49,680 Can we see him? 135 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:50,680 Well, you can when he comes in. 136 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,720 Listen, I don't want you to give him any trouble. 137 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:55,440 I'd trust him with anything, anything at all. 138 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,720 I don't want you asking him a lot of embarrassing questions. 139 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:58,720 All right, sir. 140 00:04:58,720 --> 00:04:59,720 How long has he worked for you? 141 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:01,840 Oh, I guess it's been about five years. 142 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:03,400 I don't think I could run the place without him. 143 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:04,640 Sure wouldn't want to try. 144 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:05,640 I see. 145 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,560 Besides this Baker, how many people do you have working for you in the store? 146 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:09,560 Three others full time. 147 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,160 During rush periods, I call in extra help. 148 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,520 You can give us a list of their names? 149 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,400 Yes, but you can be sure of one thing. 150 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:15,400 What's that? 151 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:16,840 Isn't anybody who works at the store do this? 152 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:18,240 You seem pretty sure about that. 153 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:19,680 Well, I know my people. 154 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,280 All of them have been with me for a couple of years. 155 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:23,000 I trust them all. 156 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,200 I noticed that you're doing some remodeling here. 157 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:26,200 How about the workmen? 158 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:27,560 Possible one of them took the merchandise? 159 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,000 Mr. Friday, do you know how much $12,000 in clothes is? 160 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Yes, sir. 161 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,000 I have an idea. 162 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,440 The both of you couldn't carry it in one trip. 163 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:35,720 Not in a couple of trips. 164 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,880 Whoever took those clothes was here a long time and he worked hard getting them out of 165 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:39,880 the store. 166 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:40,880 Yes, sir. 167 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:41,880 But about the workmen? 168 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:42,880 It couldn't have been one of them. 169 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:43,880 None of them have keys to the place. 170 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,640 They tried to open up to let them in and they leave before we close. 171 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,240 They tried to get the things out of the store. 172 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:49,840 One of us would have seen it. 173 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:51,120 Couldn't possibly have been one of them. 174 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:52,120 Frank. 175 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:53,120 Yeah? 176 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:54,120 You want to call the crime lab? 177 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:55,120 Sure. 178 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:56,120 Can I use your phone? 179 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:57,120 Yes. 180 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:58,120 It's on the counter in front of the store. 181 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,120 I just don't understand it. 182 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,120 Sir? 183 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,200 Just doesn't seem to be any way they could have gotten all of the clothes out. 184 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:04,200 No way at all. 185 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,200 Well, they must have found one. 186 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,200 1038. 187 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,240 The crew from the crime lab arrived and went over the place. 188 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:16,560 The whole store was checked and all entrances and exits of the store were checked for fingerprints. 189 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,240 Both the front door and the rear exit were examined, but there was no mark of a Jimmy. 190 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,160 The windows on the second floor were gone over, but the locks on them were secure and 191 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,240 there was no apparent way they could have been used to remove the stolen merchandise. 192 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:28,920 We talked to the other clerks in the store. 193 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,600 From them we got approximately the same story that we'd obtained from the store manager. 194 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,280 They verified that the merchandise had been on the premises at 3.30 p.m. the day before. 195 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:40,440 None of them could say for certain that it was there after that, however. 196 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,440 While Frank was checking with the members of the crew from the crime lab, I called the 197 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,040 names of the employees into the record bureau for a check. 198 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:47,840 Yeah, that's Baker. 199 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:48,840 B-A-K-E-R. 200 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:54,080 WMA, 46 years, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 156 pounds. 201 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,080 Right. 202 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:56,080 What? 203 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:57,080 No. 204 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:58,080 No, no visible marks of scars. 205 00:06:58,080 --> 00:06:59,080 Right. 206 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,080 John, we got something for you. 207 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,520 Okay, if you'll check the names I'll give you a call later. 208 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:05,520 Right. 209 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:06,520 What do you got? 210 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:07,520 Come on upstairs. 211 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,560 I got talking to Lee and figured from what they found the merchandise had to be taken 212 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:12,560 out in the daytime. 213 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:13,920 Lee goes along with that? 214 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:14,920 Yeah. 215 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,160 The way the doors look, if they were open somebody used a key. 216 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:22,200 He thinks like we do that somebody took the cases out, planted them, then picked the stuff 217 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:23,200 up last night. 218 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:24,680 What do you got up here? 219 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,240 The window that opens out on the roof of the next building. 220 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:28,240 Check the lock. 221 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:29,240 Hasn't been tampered with. 222 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:30,240 Yeah. 223 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:31,240 Come on. 224 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:32,240 Climb up. 225 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,760 No bars on this one, huh? 226 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:36,760 Uh-uh. 227 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:37,760 Over here. 228 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:41,520 Right there behind the air shaft. 229 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:42,520 Now what is it? 230 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:43,520 Take a look. 231 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:44,520 Uh-huh. 232 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:45,520 Shirts. 233 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,520 And this one? 234 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:48,520 Swag coats. 235 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:50,520 Is this all that was taken? 236 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:51,520 No. 237 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:52,520 Manager says about half. 238 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:54,000 No sign of the rest of it, huh? 239 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,000 No. 240 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Must have taken that last night. 241 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,640 Figures the thief will be back tonight for the rest. 242 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:59,400 Well, it'll be here. 243 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:05,320 So will we. 244 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,760 They asked the manager of the clothing store to keep watch on the cases of stolen merchandise 245 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,600 while we made arrangements to place a stakeout on them. 246 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:12,600 12, 14 p.m. 247 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,720 The crime lab finished their investigation and Frank and I talked with Lee Jones. 248 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,920 He told us that he'd checked the fingerprints found on the doors and windows, but that all 249 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,160 of them had been eliminated as they belonged to the members of the store staff or to the 250 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:24,160 workmen. 251 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,040 He told us that they'd found an impression of a tire print in the dirt of the alley next 252 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,440 to the building where the stolen clothing had been found. 253 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,920 He went on to say that they'd checked and had found that the truck belonging to the plaster 254 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:37,920 contractor had tires of the same type that had left the impression. 255 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:40,720 The canvas was made of the tenants in the building next to the clothing store, but they 256 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,160 could give us no new information on the possible identity of the thief. 257 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:45,160 3.52 p.m. 258 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,800 We checked back with the record bureau on the list of names of store employees. 259 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:49,800 Yeah. 260 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:50,800 When was that? 261 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:51,800 Uh-huh. 262 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:52,800 How long? 263 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:53,800 Did you get out clean? 264 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:54,800 Uh-huh. 265 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:55,800 Nothing on the rest of them, huh? 266 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:56,800 Yeah. 267 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:57,800 OK, thanks. 268 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:58,800 Bye. 269 00:08:58,800 --> 00:08:59,800 Anything? 270 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:00,800 Yeah. 271 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:01,800 They checked the names. 272 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,800 Came up with one possible. 273 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:05,800 Yeah. 274 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:06,800 The assistant manager, Al Baker. 275 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:07,800 Uh-huh. 276 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:08,800 He's done time for burglary. 277 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:15,520 The record bureau had come up with the information that Alfred Roger Baker had been arrested 278 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,520 in 1943 for burglary. 279 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,120 He'd been tried and convicted on three counts. 280 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,520 He'd spent a term in the state penitentiary at San Quentin and he'd been released. 281 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,760 Since that time, he apparently had led the life of an exemplary citizen. 282 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:28,760 4.07 p.m. 283 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,840 Frank and I took him to the office of the clothing store to talk to him. 284 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:32,840 Sit down, Baker. 285 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:33,840 Sure. 286 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:34,840 What's this all about? 287 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,000 You don't think I had anything to do with this burglary, do you? 288 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,000 How many times you been arrested? 289 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Why do you ask that? 290 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:41,000 We just want an answer. 291 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,000 You seen the record? 292 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 We've seen it. 293 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,000 You know without me telling you. 294 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,000 We'd like to hear it from you. 295 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,000 I was arrested once. 296 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,000 I did the time. 297 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 I'm clean since then. 298 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 I thought when you did the time and they let you out, you didn't owe anybody anything. 299 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Yes, that's right. 300 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Well, then what are you guys hopping on me for? 301 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 I just work here. 302 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 I mean, just because I did a hitch for burglary, that I didn't have to do anything. 303 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 We didn't say you did. 304 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Well, you sure acting like I did, bringing me in here talking about how I was arrested. 305 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,640 Sure acting like you think I had something to do with this one. 306 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:07,640 Well, you look good for it. 307 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:08,640 How do you figure that? 308 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:09,640 You got the only other key to the door. 309 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:10,640 Look, I don't like to bring this up. 310 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:11,640 Maybe you bright cops haven't thought about it, but who says Dodds couldn't have done 311 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:12,640 it himself? 312 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:13,640 What do you mean? 313 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:14,640 Well, he's in trouble, big trouble. 314 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:15,640 This would be an easy way out of it. 315 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:16,640 Why don't you tell us? 316 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:17,640 Well, all this stuff is insured. 317 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:18,640 It'd be pretty sweet for him to lift the merchandise, collect on the insurance, and then sell the 318 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:19,640 stuff too. 319 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:20,640 It'd come out of the safe. 320 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:21,640 It's a good thing. 321 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:26,640 That's the way you got it figured out. 322 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:28,640 I'm not trying to figure it anyway. 323 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,160 All I know is that you guys are trying to wrap something around me that doesn't fit, 324 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:32,160 and I want no part of it. 325 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:33,160 Come right down. 326 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,160 It must be a couple of guys' work here could have done it. 327 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,560 The way we got it, the thief used the key. 328 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:39,160 Well, that brings us right back to Dodds. 329 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,880 Well, if he's in trouble financially, then why is he doing all this remodeling? 330 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:43,320 He hasn't got much choice. 331 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,960 He's got to brighten this place up or he's going to lose what business he's got. 332 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:46,960 You check into him. 333 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:47,960 You look it up. 334 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,080 You'll see what I'm talking about makes a lot more sense than you hauling me in here. 335 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:51,600 Can you account for your time last night? 336 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:52,600 From when? 337 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:53,600 From the time you left here? 338 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:54,840 Yeah, I can give you every minute. 339 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:56,320 All right, go ahead. 340 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:57,560 I left here at 6.30. 341 00:10:57,560 --> 00:10:58,560 That's the time I always leave. 342 00:10:58,560 --> 00:10:59,560 Who was here when you left? 343 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:00,560 You mean who locked up? 344 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:01,560 That's right. 345 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:02,560 Leonard. 346 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:03,560 He always locks up, always. 347 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:04,560 Where'd you go after you left? 348 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:05,840 Went up to the corner and had a beer. 349 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:06,840 That's like always, too. 350 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,000 Anybody in the bar know you? 351 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,560 Yeah, the bartender and the waitress. 352 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:10,560 They'll vouch for you? 353 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:11,560 Sure they will. 354 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:12,560 All right, go ahead. 355 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:13,800 After I left there, I drove home. 356 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,600 What time did you leave the bar? 357 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:16,600 About 7.10. 358 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,640 I had one beer, smoked two cigarettes, put a nickel in the nut machine on the bar and 359 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:20,640 went home. 360 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:21,640 7.10. 361 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,480 I sure wish I knew you were gonna want to know all this. 362 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,200 I'd have been more careful about remembering. 363 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:26,880 I forgot how many nuts I got from the machine. 364 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:28,480 I'll take a wild guess and say 14. 365 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:29,480 I got no way of proving that. 366 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,680 You'll have to take my word for it. 367 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:33,680 What time did you get home? 368 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:34,680 About 7.50. 369 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:35,680 Where do you live? 370 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:36,680 Out in the valley. 371 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:40,600 The traffic's heavy going out at the pass that time and it took me ten minutes longer 372 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:41,600 than it usually does. 373 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,000 Can you prove when you got home? 374 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Yeah, I can. 375 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,000 How? 376 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Talk to my wife. 377 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,960 We got a time clock on the wall just as you come in the door. 378 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:48,960 I punch in and out. 379 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:49,960 The time will be there. 380 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:50,960 What time did you get home last night? 381 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:51,960 I was home all night. 382 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,480 I had dinner, sat around to watch television, went to bed. 383 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:55,480 You didn't leave your house, huh? 384 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,760 No, enough from the time I got home last night until I left this morning. 385 00:11:58,760 --> 00:11:59,760 Pretty bad, isn't it? 386 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:00,760 How do you mean that? 387 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:01,760 I can prove every minute of it. 388 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,240 Look, you get off my back, cop. 389 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,960 You start looking around, you'll come up with a lot of guys who had a lot more chance and 390 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:07,840 a lot more reason to heist that stuff than I do. 391 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:09,760 That won't be hard because I haven't got any. 392 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:11,760 You sit tight and I'll show you who sold that stuff. 393 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:12,760 Huh? 394 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:13,760 Wait a minute. 395 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:14,760 Where you going? 396 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:15,760 Just over to the desk. 397 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:16,760 I want to show you something. 398 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:17,760 What? 399 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:18,760 You'll see. 400 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,160 Now you show me what you want and I'll get it for you. 401 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:24,600 Hey, you cops, you never learn, do you? 402 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:25,600 Open the top drawer. 403 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:26,600 This one? 404 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:27,600 Yeah. 405 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:28,600 All right. 406 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:29,600 Now open that one. 407 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:30,600 All right, what do you want? 408 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:31,600 A folder right there. 409 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:32,600 This one? 410 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:33,600 Yeah, that's the one. 411 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:34,600 Put it up on the desk. 412 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:35,600 All right. 413 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:36,600 Go on, open it. 414 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:37,600 Yeah. 415 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:44,600 Now take a good look at the reason the stuff was stolen. 416 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:45,600 What is it, Joe? 417 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:46,600 Bills. 418 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,720 There's nothing in the store that's paid for it. 419 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,160 Take a look at them yourself here. 420 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,280 Look here, past due. 421 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:53,280 Please remit. 422 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:54,280 Your credit is important. 423 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:55,280 Overdue. 424 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:56,280 Past due. 425 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:57,280 Go through the rest of them. 426 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:58,280 They're all like that. 427 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,560 There's no place in the country anymore that'll extend any credit to Dodds. 428 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:01,560 Not one. 429 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:03,000 You're looking for somebody who had a reason to steal the stuff? 430 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Well, there's your answer. 431 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,000 You talk to Leonard Dodds. 432 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000 He's got the reason. 433 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Come in. 434 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,760 Joe, Frank, see you in a minute. 435 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:09,760 I'll take it. 436 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:11,880 I'm telling you, you got to lean on somebody. 437 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:12,880 You lean on Leonard Dodds. 438 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:13,880 He's the one. 439 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:14,880 Don't come around here bothering me. 440 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:15,880 Joe. 441 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:16,880 Yeah? 442 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:17,880 Yeah. 443 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:22,080 Yeah, what do you got? 444 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:23,880 You might be telling the truth, huh? 445 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:24,880 Stuff on the roof. 446 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:25,880 Yeah. 447 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:26,880 It's gone. 448 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:41,680 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 449 00:13:41,680 --> 00:14:00,040 R replica of what I met in Miami last night. 450 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:06,840 and mildness. Peter says Chesterfield's for me too. As far as I'm concerned King is the only size 451 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:12,440 and like Mary says Chesterfield is the only cigarette. Either way you like them. I bet you'll 452 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:19,000 find Chesterfield is best for you. Yes, smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 453 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:30,440 Regular and king-size Chesterfield. The best cigarette ever made and best for you. 454 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:39,000 With the removal of the remaining packages on the roof our main opportunity of catching a thief was 455 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,720 gone. We questioned the people in the store about it. From them we learned that the manager Leonard 456 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:48,440 Dodds had brought the cases of clothing into the store himself. We talked to him and he offered as 457 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,200 an explanation the fact that the insurance company wouldn't like him leaving the supply of expensive 458 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:57,320 suede coats up on the roof. He went on to say that catching the thief was our business, that we were 459 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:02,040 not to interfere with his running of the store in any attempt to apprehend them. We tried to question 460 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:06,440 him regarding the accusations made by the salesman Al Baker. He said they were ridiculous and that 461 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:10,440 we should know better than to listen to the accusations made by an ex-convict. He went on 462 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,680 to say that he resented the questions we put to him and that if we intended to continue he would 463 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:19,000 have to get in touch with his lawyer. We contacted the office and made arrangements for a stakeout 464 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,000 to be set up on the roof of the building next door and then Frank and I returned to the office to 465 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,480 check further on Leonard Dodds. We checked with his bank and we found that he had several notes on 466 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:32,200 the clothing store. The head of the loan department told us that Dodds payments had been irregular 467 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:37,480 and that at the time he was overdue on one of the notes. We contacted the insurance company and 468 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,880 found that Dodds had made a claim on the stolen merchandise that morning and had requested payment 469 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:46,920 as soon as possible. We turned a list of the stolen articles over to pawn shop detail and asked them 470 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,040 to see that the information would get into the hands of the second-hand dealers in the city. 471 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,440 10 15 p.m. Frank and I filled out the log and prepared to leave the office. 472 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,080 You about ready? Yeah I'll be right with you. I got it. 473 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:06,760 Burgory Friday. Yes ma'am. Hmm? Well I'm not sure. No the officer that handled the case isn't here 474 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:13,000 right now. What if I could take a message? Yes ma'am he'll call you when he gets in. All right uh-huh. 475 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,840 Yes all right. If you'll wait just a minute I'll transfer to the main jail. No the main jail. 476 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,880 They'll probably be able to tell you. Yes that's right. Just a minute. Hold on please. 477 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:26,200 Would you give this call to 2949 please? That's right the bill clerk. Thank you. 478 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,440 Woman wants to know how much it's going to cost to get her husband out of jail. Yeah. 479 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:41,160 I got it. Burgory Friday. Yeah. That's right we did. Yeah. When was that? 480 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:47,240 That's right. Yeah okay we'll wait here. Right bye. 481 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,840 Now looks like we got it made maybe. What do you mean? Radio car out in the west lake district 482 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,520 just picked up a couple of kids. Both of them were loaded down with clothes. Yeah. Label on them is 483 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:03,560 Dodd's clothing. The radio car officer had told me on the phone that he and his partner while making 484 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,800 a routine patrol of the area had spotted two boys walking down the streets carrying large quantities 485 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:12,200 of clothing. When they were stopped the two suspects were unable to account for the clothes 486 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:16,200 and they were not able to tell the arresting officers where they'd gotten them. In checking 487 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:20,360 the pair out the officers had called burglary detail and we'd gotten our first concrete lead 488 00:17:20,360 --> 00:17:25,960 to the thief. 10 47 p.m. The two suspects arrived at the office. Their names were checked through 489 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:30,440 R&I and they were both found to have misdemeanor records listing petty theft and attempted burglary. 490 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,840 One of them Walter Kramer had been convicted on burglary charges and had been sentenced to 491 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:40,520 Preston school for boys. He was at the time on parole while the other boy waited in the squad room 492 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:45,480 Frank and I questioned Kramer in the interrogation room. How old are you? 18. Where do you live? You 493 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:49,240 know that already what are you asking me again for? I told the other cop gave him all the information. 494 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:53,960 Where do you live? 2574 Brandon street. You want to tell us where you got the clothing you had when 495 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:58,440 you were picked up? You're smart cops you figure it out. You on parole now? No I got out clean. Are 496 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:02,680 you still that way? That depends on how you read this one. Where'd you get those things? I found them. 497 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,840 You expect us to buy that? I don't care if you buy it or not it's the truth. You're pretty heavy 498 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:11,160 aren't you? I've been around. That time up at Preston didn't do you much good did it? Be surprised 499 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,840 what I learned up there. Not what you were sent there for. That depends on where you're sitting. 500 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:18,120 You were picked up carrying a load of stolen clothes. You want to tell us where you got them? 501 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:23,720 You tell me. Come on kid where'd you get the clothes? You're gonna play it that way are you? 502 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:28,600 There ain't any other. Where were you yesterday? Starting when? From when you got up. I gotta tell 503 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:33,960 you all that? We want to hear it. Pretty dull. All right go ahead. Well I got up about noon. You got a 504 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:39,400 job? Yeah. Where? Around. What do you do? Nothing I'm a philosopher. I study people. I just sit around all day 505 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:44,440 and study people. How do you live? Stay with my folks. They pick up the tab. Go ahead. With what? What you did 506 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,760 yesterday? Told you I got up about noon. Had some breakfast then went over to Harry's. That's the boy 507 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,680 you were picked up with? Yeah I went over to his house sat around and watched the television. How long 508 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:58,520 were you at his house? Maybe six. Sat around and talked philosophy. Talked and watched the old movies. 509 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:03,400 What'd you do then? Left and went out to study people. Where'd you go? We down played a couple of games 510 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,880 of pool. Had something to eat. And after that? Went out to a movie. You got any way of proving that? Sure 511 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:13,240 talk to Harry. See your alibi? Yeah you talk to him. He'll tell you. Now you may not know this but he's 512 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:17,640 in the theft as deep as you are. I got some information for you cop. Neither one of us is in 513 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:23,720 on it at all. All right get your coat. Where you taking me? City jail. You gonna book me? You called 514 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:30,200 it. How about Harry? Well how about him? He going to? Yeah. What charge? Suspension 459 PC. Burglary? 515 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:36,680 That's right. Come on. You mean that stuff is really stolen? That's right. You're telling me right? Yep. 516 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:44,280 It ain't true. Will you tell us about it? No I mean Harry and me didn't steal the stuff. At least not 517 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:48,760 the first time. What do you mean by that? Well we stole it. Yeah you got us cold for that but not the 518 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:53,320 first time. Well where'd you get it? From a garage. That's the truth. We stole the stuff from a garage. 519 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:58,120 Where is the place? I'll show you. There's a lot more stuff there. A lot more. Clothing? Yeah. Whose 520 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:02,600 garage is it? I don't know. Harry and me were walking around out there and we saw this truck pull up. 521 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:08,120 Guy got out and unloaded some packing cases. When was all this? Last night. The way the garage looked 522 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:12,600 though it wasn't the first time. Place was loaded. A lot of shirts, coats, suits, all kinds of things. 523 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,280 Harry and me figured that we might as well help ourselves but we didn't steal the stuff originally. 524 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:21,000 Not the first time. What's the address where the garage is? I don't know. Up on Short Ale Avenue 525 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,840 near the light. Why don't we take you up there what you pointed out for us? Sure I'll show you. 526 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:30,120 I want to see him get his. Get a real good. What do you mean? Imagine having a garage full of stolen 527 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:35,160 things. Terrible. That's what it is. Is that right? Sure. The important thing is that you know that we 528 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,520 didn't steal it the first time. You got to believe that. We didn't steal it the first time. 529 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,440 The first time. Is there really a difference? 530 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:50,040 12 15 a.m. We talked to the suspect that had been picked up with Kramer. He gave us substantially 531 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:54,440 the same story that we'd gotten from the first boy. They both agreed to take us out to the garage 532 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:59,080 where they found the stolen merchandise. Before we left the office we put in a call to the clothing 533 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:03,560 store but there'd been no report from the stakeout on the road. The two suspects directed us to drive 534 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:07,400 out towards Silver Lake. We took the freeway out to Glendale Boulevard and turned right. 535 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,880 We drove out to Loma Vista and then we turned right again. The boys directed us up the hill 536 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:16,680 and then onto a side street. We went about a half a block farther before they pointed out the house 537 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:21,640 to us. We drove down the street and parked the car. Frank and I and the two suspects walked back to 538 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:26,360 the house and into the rear of the yard. A two-car garage in the rear of the building was unlocked. 539 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:32,200 We went in. Scattered around the place we found several large packing cases of clothing. The labels 540 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:36,040 on them were from some of the most exclusive men's stores in the city. There was no question about 541 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:40,600 it. This was the plant for the stolen merchandise. Frank stood by the back door of the house and I 542 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:47,320 went up on the front porch and rang the bell. Yeah. You're Martin Hetman aren't you? Yeah do I know you? 543 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:52,360 My name's Friday police department. Oh yeah I met you over at Dodge. What is it some more questions? 544 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:57,800 Yeah a few. Kind of late to come around. Well maybe a little. I'm just gonna turn in. Can you wait 545 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,840 a little morning? I could come down the police department. No I'm afraid we're gonna have to talk 546 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:09,960 tonight. Oh okay come on in. Thank you. Anybody else in the house? Just my wife and the kid. Where are 547 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:15,560 they? Upstairs they're all asleep. I told you I was just gonna turn in. That garage out back, 548 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:21,080 does that belong to you? What? The garage out in the back of the lot is it yours? Yeah it's mine why? 549 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:26,120 What do you use it for? What do you use a garage for? I keep the truck there. Well where's the truck 550 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:29,960 tonight? I left it at a service station down Glendale Boulevard. Avenue Grease near the 551 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:35,080 Avenue Grease near the oil change. Why? Anybody else use the garage besides you? No. Everything in it 552 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:41,960 belong to you? You mind if I call my lawyer? Well you can do that from downtown. You arresting me? 553 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:48,680 Yes sir. You found the stuff huh? We found it. That cigarette? Yeah here. 554 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:51,720 There's a match. 555 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,440 I guess I should have gotten it out of the garage sooner. Figured on it first thing in the morning. 556 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,960 You talked to me this morning at Dodds I should have known. I shouldn't have known right then. 557 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:05,080 I didn't think you'd figure it this way. All right come on get your coat. Yeah just let me finish 558 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:11,000 the cigarette. I'm sure you had it figured going real good. Want to hear about it? All right. Well I'm 559 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,000 a plastering contractor you know that. Yeah you told us that this morning. Well I bet on the jobs. 560 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,200 All the contractors submit bids on how much money they're gonna give me. I'm not gonna 561 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:22,440 do that. Well I bet on the jobs. All the contractors submit bids on how much we'll do the work for you 562 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:27,160 know what I mean? I always got in with a low bid. Used to drive the other contractors crazy. 563 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:31,480 Never could figure out how I could come out on it. You see it though don't you? Will you tell me? 564 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:38,200 Well you see if a job would cost me say uh $3,500 to do I'd put in a bid for $2,500. I always get the job 565 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:43,720 and then I'd steal the other thousand of merchandise see. That way I could come out nobody get hurt. 566 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:48,440 What about the store owner? They were insured. Only body in the middle was the insurance company. So 567 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:53,400 you see nobody really got hurt. You about finished with that cigarette now? Yeah just about. You're 568 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:57,800 pretty lucky you know. Is that right? Yeah sure this was going to be the last time. I figured that after 569 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:02,120 this I'd be able to go it straight. Got my equipment all paid for money in the bank. Figured I could go 570 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:06,680 it straight. This was going to be the last time. Well you were right weren't you? Hey you might tell me 571 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:11,560 something. What's that? How'd you tag me? How'd you find out? We caught a couple kids breaking into the 572 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,320 garage. They'd stolen some of the clothes they were picked up and they pointed the place out to us. 573 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:21,640 Kids? That's right. How about that? That's really terrible isn't it? What is? Oh this younger generation 574 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,560 I had legitimate reason. I was just trying to come out. Wasn't anybody going to get hurt my way. 575 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:31,160 But those kids. I hope you're going to put them away for a long time little thieves. Come on get your 576 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,960 coat let's go. That's just awful. No sense of honesty at all. I sure hate to think of what the 577 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:40,040 world's coming to. You want to tell me something Hetman? Sure what do you want to know? Well you 578 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:44,120 said you just stole the difference between what you agreed to do the job for and what it really 579 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:49,320 ought to be. I got it right? Yeah just the difference. Well you hit the Dodd star pretty high didn't you? 580 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:55,640 Twelve thousand dollars worth? Well you see that was a kind of a deal. Well I didn't get anything on the 581 00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:00,520 last job not a thing so I had to make up for it you see what I mean? Yeah. I had to come out some way. 582 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:04,840 Nobody'd expect me to take a complete loss would they? I wouldn't know about that. I just wanted 583 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:10,440 what I had coming. Yeah well you're going to get it this time. 584 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:20,040 The story you've just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 585 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:25,320 On October 17th trial was held in department 89 superior court of the state of California in and 586 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:30,440 fall the county of Los Angeles. In a moment the results of that trial. Now here is our star Jack 587 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:35,480 Webb. Thank you George Fenomen. Friends the next time you buy cigarettes I wish you'd give our 588 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:40,280 Chesterfields a try. Now that's all we ask. Just try them because these cigarettes do a better job 589 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:45,640 of selling themselves than anything I could say. Either way you buy them regular or king size I 590 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:50,360 know you'll like them because they smoke mild and they're really satisfying. Join the millions of 591 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:55,720 smokers who've made Chesterfield America's most popular two-way cigarette and when you do I'm 592 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,840 convinced you'll agree that Chesterfields are best for you. 593 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:12,600 Martin Avril Hetman was tried and convicted of burglary in the second degree four counts and 594 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:17,960 received sentence as prescribed by law. Burglary in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment 595 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:23,320 in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than one nor more than 15 years or by 596 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:28,920 imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year. Walter James Kramer and Samuel Arthur 597 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,720 Nicholson were tried and convicted of burglary in the first degree. 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