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02:18.360 --> 02:19.360 Yeah? 02:19.360 --> 02:23.520 I wonder if you can tell us where you find Leonard Dodd's? 02:23.520 --> 02:24.520 Yeah, that's him. 02:24.520 --> 02:26.440 The fellow back there in the blue suit. 02:26.440 --> 02:27.440 Thank you. 02:27.440 --> 02:28.440 Thank you. 02:28.440 --> 02:30.440 I don't know how it happened, honey. 02:30.440 --> 02:34.440 No, I just came in this morning and I noticed the stuff was gone. 02:34.440 --> 02:36.440 The whole shipment of suede coats. 02:36.440 --> 02:38.440 They haven't even been unpacked yet. 02:38.440 --> 02:40.960 Yeah, about two dozen of them. 02:40.960 --> 02:42.960 Were white with a button down collar. 02:42.960 --> 02:45.960 Yeah, I called the cops in the insurance company. 02:45.960 --> 02:47.960 Yeah, about 12,000. 02:47.960 --> 02:50.720 Well, a couple of customers just came in, honey. 02:50.720 --> 02:51.720 I'll call you back. 02:51.720 --> 02:52.720 Yeah. 02:52.720 --> 02:53.720 Well, don't worry about it. 02:53.720 --> 02:54.720 Mm-hmm. 02:54.720 --> 02:55.720 Goodbye. 02:55.720 --> 02:56.720 Yes, sir? 02:56.720 --> 02:57.720 Can I help you, gentlemen? 02:57.720 --> 02:58.720 Mr. Dodd's? 02:58.720 --> 02:59.720 That's right. 02:59.720 --> 03:00.720 Police officers. 03:00.720 --> 03:01.720 This is Frank Smith. 03:01.720 --> 03:02.720 My name's Friday. 03:02.720 --> 03:03.720 How do you do, sir? 03:03.720 --> 03:04.720 You reported a burglary this morning? 03:04.720 --> 03:05.720 Yeah, you guys from Hollywood? 03:05.720 --> 03:06.720 No, sir, we're out of Central. 03:06.720 --> 03:08.320 I didn't think I'd seen you around here before. 03:08.320 --> 03:09.720 You want to tell us what happened? 03:09.720 --> 03:12.720 Yeah, come on back to the store room. 03:12.720 --> 03:14.360 When did you first discover the theft? 03:14.360 --> 03:17.680 Well, this morning when I came in, I went back here to unpack some new merchandise and 03:17.680 --> 03:18.680 found most of it gone. 03:18.680 --> 03:19.680 Here, I'll get the door. 03:19.680 --> 03:20.680 Now, this is our store room. 03:20.680 --> 03:21.680 And we got a shipment from the East. 03:21.680 --> 03:27.680 The cases are kept here until we get a chance to unpack them and check the invoices. 03:27.680 --> 03:28.680 I see. 03:28.680 --> 03:30.520 Was all of the stolen merchandise taken from this room? 03:30.520 --> 03:31.520 I'm not sure about that. 03:31.520 --> 03:34.040 I do know that a shipment of suede jackets and waistcoats was in here. 03:34.040 --> 03:35.040 It's gone now. 03:35.040 --> 03:37.040 A couple of cases of shirts, too. 03:37.040 --> 03:39.960 The only way I'd have of knowing if they took anything from out in the store itself would 03:39.960 --> 03:40.960 be to make a complete inventory. 03:40.960 --> 03:41.960 Mm-hmm. 03:41.960 --> 03:42.960 What do you estimate the loss at? 03:42.960 --> 03:43.960 $12,000. 03:43.960 --> 03:46.320 When was the last time you saw the merchandise in here? 03:46.320 --> 03:47.320 Yesterday afternoon. 03:47.320 --> 03:48.320 What time? 03:48.320 --> 03:49.320 Well, I'd have to guess at that. 03:49.320 --> 03:51.280 I'd say about 3 or 3.30. 03:51.280 --> 03:52.920 How many doors are there to this store here? 03:52.920 --> 03:56.160 Just the front one, one in the back, opens into an alley. 03:56.160 --> 03:57.160 What if we could see the rear door? 03:57.160 --> 03:58.160 Sure. 03:58.160 --> 03:59.160 Back this way. 03:59.160 --> 04:02.920 One of the first things I thought of, too, but it was locked. 04:02.920 --> 04:04.360 You opened the door this morning, did you? 04:04.360 --> 04:05.360 Yes. 04:05.360 --> 04:06.960 I found the stuff gone, then I checked the door. 04:06.960 --> 04:07.960 It was still locked. 04:07.960 --> 04:08.960 Uh-huh. 04:08.960 --> 04:09.960 You have an alarm system in this store? 04:09.960 --> 04:10.960 Yes. 04:10.960 --> 04:11.960 It didn't go off last night, though. 04:11.960 --> 04:12.960 I see. 04:12.960 --> 04:13.960 Here's the door. 04:13.960 --> 04:14.960 You can see for yourself. 04:14.960 --> 04:15.960 There's nothing wrong with the lock. 04:15.960 --> 04:17.560 How about it, Joe? 04:17.560 --> 04:19.160 No, there's no signs of a Jimmy. 04:19.160 --> 04:20.160 Well, that's what I thought, too. 04:20.160 --> 04:21.160 I looked pretty close. 04:21.160 --> 04:22.160 Couldn't see any sign of where they got in. 04:22.160 --> 04:23.160 How about windows? 04:23.160 --> 04:24.160 Hmm? 04:24.160 --> 04:26.160 Possible they got in through a window? 04:26.160 --> 04:27.440 No, I'm sure of that. 04:27.440 --> 04:29.440 Only two we've got are in the tailor shop. 04:29.440 --> 04:30.440 Here. 04:30.440 --> 04:33.120 You can see them up there. 04:33.120 --> 04:34.120 Good 10 feet and barred. 04:34.120 --> 04:35.120 They couldn't have gotten in there. 04:35.120 --> 04:36.120 All right. 04:36.120 --> 04:37.720 We'll have our crime lab take a look. 04:37.720 --> 04:38.720 Who has keys to the place? 04:38.720 --> 04:39.720 Well, I've got one. 04:39.720 --> 04:40.720 Yes, sir, but who else? 04:40.720 --> 04:41.720 Well, there's just me and Al. 04:41.720 --> 04:42.720 Al? 04:42.720 --> 04:43.720 Yeah, Al Baker. 04:43.720 --> 04:44.720 He's sort of the assistant manager. 04:44.720 --> 04:48.680 Whenever I'm not around, he takes charge of things. 04:48.680 --> 04:49.680 Can we see him? 04:49.680 --> 04:50.680 Well, you can when he comes in. 04:50.680 --> 04:53.720 Listen, I don't want you to give him any trouble. 04:53.720 --> 04:55.440 I'd trust him with anything, anything at all. 04:55.440 --> 04:57.720 I don't want you asking him a lot of embarrassing questions. 04:57.720 --> 04:58.720 All right, sir. 04:58.720 --> 04:59.720 How long has he worked for you? 04:59.720 --> 05:01.840 Oh, I guess it's been about five years. 05:01.840 --> 05:03.400 I don't think I could run the place without him. 05:03.400 --> 05:04.640 Sure wouldn't want to try. 05:04.640 --> 05:05.640 I see. 05:05.640 --> 05:08.560 Besides this Baker, how many people do you have working for you in the store? 05:08.560 --> 05:09.560 Three others full time. 05:09.560 --> 05:11.160 During rush periods, I call in extra help. 05:11.160 --> 05:12.520 You can give us a list of their names? 05:12.520 --> 05:14.400 Yes, but you can be sure of one thing. 05:14.400 --> 05:15.400 What's that? 05:15.400 --> 05:16.840 Isn't anybody who works at the store do this? 05:16.840 --> 05:18.240 You seem pretty sure about that. 05:18.240 --> 05:19.680 Well, I know my people. 05:19.680 --> 05:21.280 All of them have been with me for a couple of years. 05:21.280 --> 05:23.000 I trust them all. 05:23.000 --> 05:25.200 I noticed that you're doing some remodeling here. 05:25.200 --> 05:26.200 How about the workmen? 05:26.200 --> 05:27.560 Possible one of them took the merchandise? 05:27.560 --> 05:31.000 Mr. Friday, do you know how much $12,000 in clothes is? 05:31.000 --> 05:32.000 Yes, sir. 05:32.000 --> 05:33.000 I have an idea. 05:33.000 --> 05:34.440 The both of you couldn't carry it in one trip. 05:34.440 --> 05:35.720 Not in a couple of trips. 05:35.720 --> 05:38.880 Whoever took those clothes was here a long time and he worked hard getting them out of 05:38.880 --> 05:39.880 the store. 05:39.880 --> 05:40.880 Yes, sir. 05:40.880 --> 05:41.880 But about the workmen? 05:41.880 --> 05:42.880 It couldn't have been one of them. 05:42.880 --> 05:43.880 None of them have keys to the place. 05:43.880 --> 05:46.640 They tried to open up to let them in and they leave before we close. 05:46.640 --> 05:48.240 They tried to get the things out of the store. 05:48.240 --> 05:49.840 One of us would have seen it. 05:49.840 --> 05:51.120 Couldn't possibly have been one of them. 05:51.120 --> 05:52.120 Frank. 05:52.120 --> 05:53.120 Yeah? 05:53.120 --> 05:54.120 You want to call the crime lab? 05:54.120 --> 05:55.120 Sure. 05:55.120 --> 05:56.120 Can I use your phone? 05:56.120 --> 05:57.120 Yes. 05:57.120 --> 05:58.120 It's on the counter in front of the store. 05:58.120 --> 06:00.120 I just don't understand it. 06:00.120 --> 06:01.120 Sir? 06:01.120 --> 06:03.200 Just doesn't seem to be any way they could have gotten all of the clothes out. 06:03.200 --> 06:04.200 No way at all. 06:04.200 --> 06:07.200 Well, they must have found one. 06:07.200 --> 06:10.200 1038. 06:10.200 --> 06:12.240 The crew from the crime lab arrived and went over the place. 06:12.240 --> 06:16.560 The whole store was checked and all entrances and exits of the store were checked for fingerprints. 06:16.560 --> 06:20.240 Both the front door and the rear exit were examined, but there was no mark of a Jimmy. 06:20.240 --> 06:23.160 The windows on the second floor were gone over, but the locks on them were secure and 06:23.160 --> 06:27.240 there was no apparent way they could have been used to remove the stolen merchandise. 06:27.240 --> 06:28.920 We talked to the other clerks in the store. 06:28.920 --> 06:32.600 From them we got approximately the same story that we'd obtained from the store manager. 06:32.600 --> 06:36.280 They verified that the merchandise had been on the premises at 3.30 p.m. the day before. 06:36.280 --> 06:40.440 None of them could say for certain that it was there after that, however. 06:40.440 --> 06:43.440 While Frank was checking with the members of the crew from the crime lab, I called the 06:43.440 --> 06:46.040 names of the employees into the record bureau for a check. 06:46.040 --> 06:47.840 Yeah, that's Baker. 06:47.840 --> 06:48.840 B-A-K-E-R. 06:48.840 --> 06:54.080 WMA, 46 years, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 156 pounds. 06:54.080 --> 06:55.080 Right. 06:55.080 --> 06:56.080 What? 06:56.080 --> 06:57.080 No. 06:57.080 --> 06:58.080 No, no visible marks of scars. 06:58.080 --> 06:59.080 Right. 06:59.080 --> 07:02.080 John, we got something for you. 07:02.080 --> 07:04.520 Okay, if you'll check the names I'll give you a call later. 07:04.520 --> 07:05.520 Right. 07:05.520 --> 07:06.520 What do you got? 07:06.520 --> 07:07.520 Come on upstairs. 07:07.520 --> 07:11.560 I got talking to Lee and figured from what they found the merchandise had to be taken 07:11.560 --> 07:12.560 out in the daytime. 07:12.560 --> 07:13.920 Lee goes along with that? 07:13.920 --> 07:14.920 Yeah. 07:14.920 --> 07:18.160 The way the doors look, if they were open somebody used a key. 07:18.160 --> 07:22.200 He thinks like we do that somebody took the cases out, planted them, then picked the stuff 07:22.200 --> 07:23.200 up last night. 07:23.200 --> 07:24.680 What do you got up here? 07:24.680 --> 07:27.240 The window that opens out on the roof of the next building. 07:27.240 --> 07:28.240 Check the lock. 07:28.240 --> 07:29.240 Hasn't been tampered with. 07:29.240 --> 07:30.240 Yeah. 07:30.240 --> 07:31.240 Come on. 07:31.240 --> 07:32.240 Climb up. 07:32.240 --> 07:35.760 No bars on this one, huh? 07:35.760 --> 07:36.760 Uh-uh. 07:36.760 --> 07:37.760 Over here. 07:37.760 --> 07:41.520 Right there behind the air shaft. 07:41.520 --> 07:42.520 Now what is it? 07:42.520 --> 07:43.520 Take a look. 07:43.520 --> 07:44.520 Uh-huh. 07:44.520 --> 07:45.520 Shirts. 07:45.520 --> 07:47.520 And this one? 07:47.520 --> 07:48.520 Swag coats. 07:48.520 --> 07:50.520 Is this all that was taken? 07:50.520 --> 07:51.520 No. 07:51.520 --> 07:52.520 Manager says about half. 07:52.520 --> 07:54.000 No sign of the rest of it, huh? 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 No. 07:55.000 --> 07:56.000 Must have taken that last night. 07:56.000 --> 07:57.640 Figures the thief will be back tonight for the rest. 07:57.640 --> 07:59.400 Well, it'll be here. 07:59.400 --> 08:05.320 So will we. 08:05.320 --> 08:08.760 They asked the manager of the clothing store to keep watch on the cases of stolen merchandise 08:08.760 --> 08:11.600 while we made arrangements to place a stakeout on them. 08:11.600 --> 08:12.600 12, 14 p.m. 08:12.600 --> 08:16.720 The crime lab finished their investigation and Frank and I talked with Lee Jones. 08:16.720 --> 08:19.920 He told us that he'd checked the fingerprints found on the doors and windows, but that all 08:19.920 --> 08:23.160 of them had been eliminated as they belonged to the members of the store staff or to the 08:23.160 --> 08:24.160 workmen. 08:24.160 --> 08:28.040 He told us that they'd found an impression of a tire print in the dirt of the alley next 08:28.040 --> 08:30.440 to the building where the stolen clothing had been found. 08:30.440 --> 08:33.920 He went on to say that they'd checked and had found that the truck belonging to the plaster 08:33.920 --> 08:37.920 contractor had tires of the same type that had left the impression. 08:37.920 --> 08:40.720 The canvas was made of the tenants in the building next to the clothing store, but they 08:40.720 --> 08:44.160 could give us no new information on the possible identity of the thief. 08:44.160 --> 08:45.160 3.52 p.m. 08:45.160 --> 08:48.800 We checked back with the record bureau on the list of names of store employees. 08:48.800 --> 08:49.800 Yeah. 08:49.800 --> 08:50.800 When was that? 08:50.800 --> 08:51.800 Uh-huh. 08:51.800 --> 08:52.800 How long? 08:52.800 --> 08:53.800 Did you get out clean? 08:53.800 --> 08:54.800 Uh-huh. 08:54.800 --> 08:55.800 Nothing on the rest of them, huh? 08:55.800 --> 08:56.800 Yeah. 08:56.800 --> 08:57.800 OK, thanks. 08:57.800 --> 08:58.800 Bye. 08:58.800 --> 08:59.800 Anything? 08:59.800 --> 09:00.800 Yeah. 09:00.800 --> 09:01.800 They checked the names. 09:01.800 --> 09:04.800 Came up with one possible. 09:04.800 --> 09:05.800 Yeah. 09:05.800 --> 09:06.800 The assistant manager, Al Baker. 09:06.800 --> 09:07.800 Uh-huh. 09:07.800 --> 09:08.800 He's done time for burglary. 09:08.800 --> 09:15.520 The record bureau had come up with the information that Alfred Roger Baker had been arrested 09:15.520 --> 09:17.520 in 1943 for burglary. 09:17.520 --> 09:20.120 He'd been tried and convicted on three counts. 09:20.120 --> 09:24.520 He'd spent a term in the state penitentiary at San Quentin and he'd been released. 09:24.520 --> 09:27.760 Since that time, he apparently had led the life of an exemplary citizen. 09:27.760 --> 09:28.760 4.07 p.m. 09:28.760 --> 09:31.840 Frank and I took him to the office of the clothing store to talk to him. 09:31.840 --> 09:32.840 Sit down, Baker. 09:32.840 --> 09:33.840 Sure. 09:33.840 --> 09:34.840 What's this all about? 09:34.840 --> 09:38.000 You don't think I had anything to do with this burglary, do you? 09:38.000 --> 09:39.000 How many times you been arrested? 09:39.000 --> 09:40.000 Why do you ask that? 09:40.000 --> 09:41.000 We just want an answer. 09:41.000 --> 09:42.000 You seen the record? 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 We've seen it. 09:43.000 --> 09:44.000 You know without me telling you. 09:44.000 --> 09:45.000 We'd like to hear it from you. 09:45.000 --> 09:46.000 I was arrested once. 09:46.000 --> 09:47.000 I did the time. 09:47.000 --> 09:48.000 I'm clean since then. 09:48.000 --> 09:51.000 I thought when you did the time and they let you out, you didn't owe anybody anything. 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 Yes, that's right. 09:52.000 --> 09:53.000 Well, then what are you guys hopping on me for? 09:53.000 --> 09:54.000 I just work here. 09:54.000 --> 09:55.000 I mean, just because I did a hitch for burglary, that I didn't have to do anything. 09:55.000 --> 09:59.000 We didn't say you did. 09:59.000 --> 10:04.000 Well, you sure acting like I did, bringing me in here talking about how I was arrested. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.640 Sure acting like you think I had something to do with this one. 10:06.640 --> 10:07.640 Well, you look good for it. 10:07.640 --> 10:08.640 How do you figure that? 10:08.640 --> 10:09.640 You got the only other key to the door. 10:09.640 --> 10:10.640 Look, I don't like to bring this up. 10:10.640 --> 10:11.640 Maybe you bright cops haven't thought about it, but who says Dodds couldn't have done 10:11.640 --> 10:12.640 it himself? 10:12.640 --> 10:13.640 What do you mean? 10:13.640 --> 10:14.640 Well, he's in trouble, big trouble. 10:14.640 --> 10:15.640 This would be an easy way out of it. 10:15.640 --> 10:16.640 Why don't you tell us? 10:16.640 --> 10:17.640 Well, all this stuff is insured. 10:17.640 --> 10:18.640 It'd be pretty sweet for him to lift the merchandise, collect on the insurance, and then sell the 10:18.640 --> 10:19.640 stuff too. 10:19.640 --> 10:20.640 It'd come out of the safe. 10:20.640 --> 10:21.640 It's a good thing. 10:21.640 --> 10:26.640 That's the way you got it figured out. 10:26.640 --> 10:28.640 I'm not trying to figure it anyway. 10:28.640 --> 10:31.160 All I know is that you guys are trying to wrap something around me that doesn't fit, 10:31.160 --> 10:32.160 and I want no part of it. 10:32.160 --> 10:33.160 Come right down. 10:33.160 --> 10:35.160 It must be a couple of guys' work here could have done it. 10:35.160 --> 10:37.560 The way we got it, the thief used the key. 10:37.560 --> 10:39.160 Well, that brings us right back to Dodds. 10:39.160 --> 10:41.880 Well, if he's in trouble financially, then why is he doing all this remodeling? 10:41.880 --> 10:43.320 He hasn't got much choice. 10:43.320 --> 10:45.960 He's got to brighten this place up or he's going to lose what business he's got. 10:45.960 --> 10:46.960 You check into him. 10:46.960 --> 10:47.960 You look it up. 10:47.960 --> 10:50.080 You'll see what I'm talking about makes a lot more sense than you hauling me in here. 10:50.080 --> 10:51.600 Can you account for your time last night? 10:51.600 --> 10:52.600 From when? 10:52.600 --> 10:53.600 From the time you left here? 10:53.600 --> 10:54.840 Yeah, I can give you every minute. 10:54.840 --> 10:56.320 All right, go ahead. 10:56.320 --> 10:57.560 I left here at 6.30. 10:57.560 --> 10:58.560 That's the time I always leave. 10:58.560 --> 10:59.560 Who was here when you left? 10:59.560 --> 11:00.560 You mean who locked up? 11:00.560 --> 11:01.560 That's right. 11:01.560 --> 11:02.560 Leonard. 11:02.560 --> 11:03.560 He always locks up, always. 11:03.560 --> 11:04.560 Where'd you go after you left? 11:04.560 --> 11:05.840 Went up to the corner and had a beer. 11:05.840 --> 11:06.840 That's like always, too. 11:06.840 --> 11:08.000 Anybody in the bar know you? 11:08.000 --> 11:09.560 Yeah, the bartender and the waitress. 11:09.560 --> 11:10.560 They'll vouch for you? 11:10.560 --> 11:11.560 Sure they will. 11:11.560 --> 11:12.560 All right, go ahead. 11:12.560 --> 11:13.800 After I left there, I drove home. 11:13.800 --> 11:15.600 What time did you leave the bar? 11:15.600 --> 11:16.600 About 7.10. 11:16.600 --> 11:19.640 I had one beer, smoked two cigarettes, put a nickel in the nut machine on the bar and 11:19.640 --> 11:20.640 went home. 11:20.640 --> 11:21.640 7.10. 11:21.640 --> 11:23.480 I sure wish I knew you were gonna want to know all this. 11:23.480 --> 11:25.200 I'd have been more careful about remembering. 11:25.200 --> 11:26.880 I forgot how many nuts I got from the machine. 11:26.880 --> 11:28.480 I'll take a wild guess and say 14. 11:28.480 --> 11:29.480 I got no way of proving that. 11:29.480 --> 11:32.680 You'll have to take my word for it. 11:32.680 --> 11:33.680 What time did you get home? 11:33.680 --> 11:34.680 About 7.50. 11:34.680 --> 11:35.680 Where do you live? 11:35.680 --> 11:36.680 Out in the valley. 11:36.680 --> 11:40.600 The traffic's heavy going out at the pass that time and it took me ten minutes longer 11:40.600 --> 11:41.600 than it usually does. 11:41.600 --> 11:43.000 Can you prove when you got home? 11:43.000 --> 11:44.000 Yeah, I can. 11:44.000 --> 11:45.000 How? 11:45.000 --> 11:46.000 Talk to my wife. 11:46.000 --> 11:47.960 We got a time clock on the wall just as you come in the door. 11:47.960 --> 11:48.960 I punch in and out. 11:48.960 --> 11:49.960 The time will be there. 11:49.960 --> 11:50.960 What time did you get home last night? 11:50.960 --> 11:51.960 I was home all night. 11:51.960 --> 11:54.480 I had dinner, sat around to watch television, went to bed. 11:54.480 --> 11:55.480 You didn't leave your house, huh? 11:55.480 --> 11:58.760 No, enough from the time I got home last night until I left this morning. 11:58.760 --> 11:59.760 Pretty bad, isn't it? 11:59.760 --> 12:00.760 How do you mean that? 12:00.760 --> 12:01.760 I can prove every minute of it. 12:01.760 --> 12:03.240 Look, you get off my back, cop. 12:03.240 --> 12:05.960 You start looking around, you'll come up with a lot of guys who had a lot more chance and 12:05.960 --> 12:07.840 a lot more reason to heist that stuff than I do. 12:07.840 --> 12:09.760 That won't be hard because I haven't got any. 12:09.760 --> 12:11.760 You sit tight and I'll show you who sold that stuff. 12:11.760 --> 12:12.760 Huh? 12:12.760 --> 12:13.760 Wait a minute. 12:13.760 --> 12:14.760 Where you going? 12:14.760 --> 12:15.760 Just over to the desk. 12:15.760 --> 12:16.760 I want to show you something. 12:16.760 --> 12:17.760 What? 12:17.760 --> 12:18.760 You'll see. 12:18.760 --> 12:22.160 Now you show me what you want and I'll get it for you. 12:22.160 --> 12:24.600 Hey, you cops, you never learn, do you? 12:24.600 --> 12:25.600 Open the top drawer. 12:25.600 --> 12:26.600 This one? 12:26.600 --> 12:27.600 Yeah. 12:27.600 --> 12:28.600 All right. 12:28.600 --> 12:29.600 Now open that one. 12:29.600 --> 12:30.600 All right, what do you want? 12:30.600 --> 12:31.600 A folder right there. 12:31.600 --> 12:32.600 This one? 12:32.600 --> 12:33.600 Yeah, that's the one. 12:33.600 --> 12:34.600 Put it up on the desk. 12:34.600 --> 12:35.600 All right. 12:35.600 --> 12:36.600 Go on, open it. 12:36.600 --> 12:37.600 Yeah. 12:37.600 --> 12:44.600 Now take a good look at the reason the stuff was stolen. 12:44.600 --> 12:45.600 What is it, Joe? 12:45.600 --> 12:46.600 Bills. 12:46.600 --> 12:48.720 There's nothing in the store that's paid for it. 12:48.720 --> 12:50.160 Take a look at them yourself here. 12:50.160 --> 12:52.280 Look here, past due. 12:52.280 --> 12:53.280 Please remit. 12:53.280 --> 12:54.280 Your credit is important. 12:54.280 --> 12:55.280 Overdue. 12:55.280 --> 12:56.280 Past due. 12:56.280 --> 12:57.280 Go through the rest of them. 12:57.280 --> 12:58.280 They're all like that. 12:58.280 --> 13:00.560 There's no place in the country anymore that'll extend any credit to Dodds. 13:00.560 --> 13:01.560 Not one. 13:01.560 --> 13:03.000 You're looking for somebody who had a reason to steal the stuff? 13:03.000 --> 13:04.000 Well, there's your answer. 13:04.000 --> 13:05.000 You talk to Leonard Dodds. 13:05.000 --> 13:06.000 He's got the reason. 13:06.000 --> 13:07.000 Come in. 13:07.000 --> 13:08.760 Joe, Frank, see you in a minute. 13:08.760 --> 13:09.760 I'll take it. 13:09.760 --> 13:11.880 I'm telling you, you got to lean on somebody. 13:11.880 --> 13:12.880 You lean on Leonard Dodds. 13:12.880 --> 13:13.880 He's the one. 13:13.880 --> 13:14.880 Don't come around here bothering me. 13:14.880 --> 13:15.880 Joe. 13:15.880 --> 13:16.880 Yeah? 13:16.880 --> 13:17.880 Yeah. 13:17.880 --> 13:22.080 Yeah, what do you got? 13:22.080 --> 13:23.880 You might be telling the truth, huh? 13:23.880 --> 13:24.880 Stuff on the roof. 13:24.880 --> 13:25.880 Yeah. 13:25.880 --> 13:26.880 It's gone. 13:26.880 --> 13:41.680 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 13:41.680 --> 14:00.040 R replica of what I met in Miami last night. 14:00.040 --> 14:06.840 and mildness. Peter says Chesterfield's for me too. As far as I'm concerned King is the only size 14:06.840 --> 14:12.440 and like Mary says Chesterfield is the only cigarette. Either way you like them. I bet you'll 14:12.440 --> 14:19.000 find Chesterfield is best for you. Yes, smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 14:19.000 --> 14:30.440 Regular and king-size Chesterfield. The best cigarette ever made and best for you. 14:34.840 --> 14:39.000 With the removal of the remaining packages on the roof our main opportunity of catching a thief was 14:39.000 --> 14:43.720 gone. We questioned the people in the store about it. From them we learned that the manager Leonard 14:43.720 --> 14:48.440 Dodds had brought the cases of clothing into the store himself. We talked to him and he offered as 14:48.440 --> 14:52.200 an explanation the fact that the insurance company wouldn't like him leaving the supply of expensive 14:52.200 --> 14:57.320 suede coats up on the roof. He went on to say that catching the thief was our business, that we were 14:57.320 --> 15:02.040 not to interfere with his running of the store in any attempt to apprehend them. We tried to question 15:02.040 --> 15:06.440 him regarding the accusations made by the salesman Al Baker. He said they were ridiculous and that 15:06.440 --> 15:10.440 we should know better than to listen to the accusations made by an ex-convict. He went on 15:10.440 --> 15:14.680 to say that he resented the questions we put to him and that if we intended to continue he would 15:14.680 --> 15:19.000 have to get in touch with his lawyer. We contacted the office and made arrangements for a stakeout 15:19.000 --> 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 15:23.000 --> 15:27.480 check further on Leonard Dodds. We checked with his bank and we found that he had several notes on 15:27.480 --> 15:32.200 the clothing store. The head of the loan department told us that Dodds payments had been irregular 15:32.200 --> 15:37.480 and that at the time he was overdue on one of the notes. We contacted the insurance company and 15:37.480 --> 15:41.880 found that Dodds had made a claim on the stolen merchandise that morning and had requested payment 15:41.880 --> 15:46.920 as soon as possible. We turned a list of the stolen articles over to pawn shop detail and asked them 15:46.920 --> 15:50.040 to see that the information would get into the hands of the second-hand dealers in the city. 15:50.760 --> 15:54.440 10 15 p.m. Frank and I filled out the log and prepared to leave the office. 15:55.000 --> 15:57.080 You about ready? Yeah I'll be right with you. I got it. 15:59.800 --> 16:06.760 Burgory Friday. Yes ma'am. Hmm? Well I'm not sure. No the officer that handled the case isn't here 16:06.760 --> 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. 16:13.000 --> 16:16.840 Yes all right. If you'll wait just a minute I'll transfer to the main jail. No the main jail. 16:16.840 --> 16:19.880 They'll probably be able to tell you. Yes that's right. Just a minute. Hold on please. 16:21.880 --> 16:26.200 Would you give this call to 2949 please? That's right the bill clerk. Thank you. 16:27.560 --> 16:30.440 Woman wants to know how much it's going to cost to get her husband out of jail. Yeah. 16:30.440 --> 16:41.160 I got it. Burgory Friday. Yeah. That's right we did. Yeah. When was that? 16:42.600 --> 16:47.240 That's right. Yeah okay we'll wait here. Right bye. 16:49.320 --> 16:52.840 Now looks like we got it made maybe. What do you mean? Radio car out in the west lake district 16:52.840 --> 16:56.520 just picked up a couple of kids. Both of them were loaded down with clothes. Yeah. Label on them is 16:56.520 --> 17:03.560 Dodd's clothing. The radio car officer had told me on the phone that he and his partner while making 17:03.560 --> 17:07.800 a routine patrol of the area had spotted two boys walking down the streets carrying large quantities 17:07.800 --> 17:12.200 of clothing. When they were stopped the two suspects were unable to account for the clothes 17:12.200 --> 17:16.200 and they were not able to tell the arresting officers where they'd gotten them. In checking 17:16.200 --> 17:20.360 the pair out the officers had called burglary detail and we'd gotten our first concrete lead 17:20.360 --> 17:25.960 to the thief. 10 47 p.m. The two suspects arrived at the office. Their names were checked through 17:25.960 --> 17:30.440 R&I and they were both found to have misdemeanor records listing petty theft and attempted burglary. 17:31.000 --> 17:34.840 One of them Walter Kramer had been convicted on burglary charges and had been sentenced to 17:34.840 --> 17:40.520 Preston school for boys. He was at the time on parole while the other boy waited in the squad room 17:40.520 --> 17:45.480 Frank and I questioned Kramer in the interrogation room. How old are you? 18. Where do you live? You 17:45.480 --> 17:49.240 know that already what are you asking me again for? I told the other cop gave him all the information. 17:49.240 --> 17:53.960 Where do you live? 2574 Brandon street. You want to tell us where you got the clothing you had when 17:53.960 --> 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 17:58.440 --> 18:02.680 you still that way? That depends on how you read this one. Where'd you get those things? I found them. 18:02.680 --> 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 18:06.840 --> 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 18:11.160 --> 18:14.840 what I learned up there. Not what you were sent there for. That depends on where you're sitting. 18:14.840 --> 18:18.120 You were picked up carrying a load of stolen clothes. You want to tell us where you got them? 18:18.120 --> 18:23.720 You tell me. Come on kid where'd you get the clothes? You're gonna play it that way are you? 18:23.720 --> 18:28.600 There ain't any other. Where were you yesterday? Starting when? From when you got up. I gotta tell 18:28.600 --> 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 18:33.960 --> 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 18:39.400 --> 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 18:44.440 --> 18:48.760 yesterday? Told you I got up about noon. Had some breakfast then went over to Harry's. That's the boy 18:48.760 --> 18:52.680 you were picked up with? Yeah I went over to his house sat around and watched the television. How long 18:52.680 --> 18:58.520 were you at his house? Maybe six. Sat around and talked philosophy. Talked and watched the old movies. 18:58.520 --> 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 19:03.400 --> 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 19:07.880 --> 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 19:13.240 --> 19:17.640 in the theft as deep as you are. I got some information for you cop. Neither one of us is in 19:17.640 --> 19:23.720 on it at all. All right get your coat. Where you taking me? City jail. You gonna book me? You called 19:23.720 --> 19:30.200 it. How about Harry? Well how about him? He going to? Yeah. What charge? Suspension 459 PC. Burglary? 19:30.200 --> 19:36.680 That's right. Come on. You mean that stuff is really stolen? That's right. You're telling me right? Yep. 19:38.600 --> 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 19:44.280 --> 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 19:48.760 --> 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. 19:53.320 --> 19:58.120 Where is the place? I'll show you. There's a lot more stuff there. A lot more. Clothing? Yeah. Whose 19:58.120 --> 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. 20:03.480 --> 20:08.120 Guy got out and unloaded some packing cases. When was all this? Last night. The way the garage looked 20:08.120 --> 20:12.600 though it wasn't the first time. Place was loaded. A lot of shirts, coats, suits, all kinds of things. 20:12.600 --> 20:16.280 Harry and me figured that we might as well help ourselves but we didn't steal the stuff originally. 20:16.280 --> 20:21.000 Not the first time. What's the address where the garage is? I don't know. Up on Short Ale Avenue 20:21.000 --> 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. 20:25.640 --> 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 20:30.120 --> 20:35.160 things. Terrible. That's what it is. Is that right? Sure. The important thing is that you know that we 20:35.160 --> 20:38.520 didn't steal it the first time. You got to believe that. We didn't steal it the first time. 20:38.520 --> 20:42.440 The first time. Is there really a difference? 20:45.480 --> 20:50.040 12 15 a.m. We talked to the suspect that had been picked up with Kramer. He gave us substantially 20:50.040 --> 20:54.440 the same story that we'd gotten from the first boy. They both agreed to take us out to the garage 20:54.440 --> 20:59.080 where they found the stolen merchandise. Before we left the office we put in a call to the clothing 20:59.080 --> 21:03.560 store but there'd been no report from the stakeout on the road. The two suspects directed us to drive 21:03.560 --> 21:07.400 out towards Silver Lake. We took the freeway out to Glendale Boulevard and turned right. 21:07.400 --> 21:11.880 We drove out to Loma Vista and then we turned right again. The boys directed us up the hill 21:11.880 --> 21:16.680 and then onto a side street. We went about a half a block farther before they pointed out the house 21:16.680 --> 21:21.640 to us. We drove down the street and parked the car. Frank and I and the two suspects walked back to 21:21.640 --> 21:26.360 the house and into the rear of the yard. A two-car garage in the rear of the building was unlocked. 21:26.920 --> 21:32.200 We went in. Scattered around the place we found several large packing cases of clothing. The labels 21:32.200 --> 21:36.040 on them were from some of the most exclusive men's stores in the city. There was no question about 21:36.040 --> 21:40.600 it. This was the plant for the stolen merchandise. Frank stood by the back door of the house and I 21:40.600 --> 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? 21:47.320 --> 21:52.360 My name's Friday police department. Oh yeah I met you over at Dodge. What is it some more questions? 21:52.360 --> 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 21:57.800 --> 22:00.840 a little morning? I could come down the police department. No I'm afraid we're gonna have to talk 22:00.840 --> 22:09.960 tonight. Oh okay come on in. Thank you. Anybody else in the house? Just my wife and the kid. Where are 22:09.960 --> 22:15.560 they? Upstairs they're all asleep. I told you I was just gonna turn in. That garage out back, 22:15.560 --> 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? 22:21.080 --> 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 22:26.120 --> 22:29.960 tonight? I left it at a service station down Glendale Boulevard. Avenue Grease near the 22:29.960 --> 22:35.080 Avenue Grease near the oil change. Why? Anybody else use the garage besides you? No. Everything in it 22:35.080 --> 22:41.960 belong to you? You mind if I call my lawyer? Well you can do that from downtown. You arresting me? 22:41.960 --> 22:48.680 Yes sir. You found the stuff huh? We found it. That cigarette? Yeah here. 22:51.080 --> 22:51.720 There's a match. 22:51.720 --> 22:56.440 I guess I should have gotten it out of the garage sooner. Figured on it first thing in the morning. 22:56.440 --> 22:59.960 You talked to me this morning at Dodds I should have known. I shouldn't have known right then. 22:59.960 --> 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 23:05.080 --> 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 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 a plastering contractor you know that. Yeah you told us that this morning. Well I bet on the jobs. 23:15.000 --> 23:18.200 All the contractors submit bids on how much money they're gonna give me. I'm not gonna 23:18.200 --> 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 23:22.440 --> 23:27.160 know what I mean? I always got in with a low bid. Used to drive the other contractors crazy. 23:27.160 --> 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? 23:31.480 --> 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 23:38.200 --> 23:43.720 and then I'd steal the other thousand of merchandise see. That way I could come out nobody get hurt. 23:43.720 --> 23:48.440 What about the store owner? They were insured. Only body in the middle was the insurance company. So 23:48.440 --> 23:53.400 you see nobody really got hurt. You about finished with that cigarette now? Yeah just about. You're 23:53.400 --> 23:57.800 pretty lucky you know. Is that right? Yeah sure this was going to be the last time. I figured that after 23:57.800 --> 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 24:02.120 --> 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 24:06.680 --> 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 24:11.560 --> 24:15.320 garage. They'd stolen some of the clothes they were picked up and they pointed the place out to us. 24:15.320 --> 24:21.640 Kids? That's right. How about that? That's really terrible isn't it? What is? Oh this younger generation 24:21.640 --> 24:25.560 I had legitimate reason. I was just trying to come out. Wasn't anybody going to get hurt my way. 24:26.280 --> 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 24:31.160 --> 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 24:35.960 --> 24:40.040 world's coming to. You want to tell me something Hetman? Sure what do you want to know? Well you 24:40.040 --> 24:44.120 said you just stole the difference between what you agreed to do the job for and what it really 24:44.120 --> 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? 24:49.320 --> 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 24:55.640 --> 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. 25:00.520 --> 25:04.840 Nobody'd expect me to take a complete loss would they? I wouldn't know about that. I just wanted 25:04.840 --> 25:10.440 what I had coming. Yeah well you're going to get it this time. 25:15.240 --> 25:20.040 The story you've just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 25:20.040 --> 25:25.320 On October 17th trial was held in department 89 superior court of the state of California in and 25:25.320 --> 25:30.440 fall the county of Los Angeles. In a moment the results of that trial. Now here is our star Jack 25:30.440 --> 25:35.480 Webb. Thank you George Fenomen. Friends the next time you buy cigarettes I wish you'd give our 25:35.480 --> 25:40.280 Chesterfields a try. Now that's all we ask. Just try them because these cigarettes do a better job 25:40.280 --> 25:45.640 of selling themselves than anything I could say. Either way you buy them regular or king size I 25:45.640 --> 25:50.360 know you'll like them because they smoke mild and they're really satisfying. Join the millions of 25:50.360 --> 25:55.720 smokers who've made Chesterfield America's most popular two-way cigarette and when you do I'm 25:55.720 --> 26:00.840 convinced you'll agree that Chesterfields are best for you. 26:07.880 --> 26:12.600 Martin Avril Hetman was tried and convicted of burglary in the second degree four counts and 26:12.600 --> 26:17.960 received sentence as prescribed by law. Burglary in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment 26:17.960 --> 26:23.320 in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than one nor more than 15 years or by 26:23.320 --> 26:28.920 imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year. Walter James Kramer and Samuel Arthur 26:28.920 --> 26:33.720 Nicholson were tried and convicted of burglary in the first degree. Burglary in the first degree 26:33.720 --> 26:38.120 is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than five 26:38.120 --> 26:43.960 years. 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