1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,680 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,480 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,080 Dragnet is brought to you by Chesterfield, made by Liggett and Myers. 4 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:33,440 First, major tobacco company to bring you a complete line of quality cigarettes. 5 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:35,000 You're a detective sergeant. 6 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,320 You're assigned a juvenile detail. 7 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,800 Four children in your city have apparently been abandoned by their mother. 8 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,040 There's no trace of the woman's whereabouts. 9 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,400 There's a possibility of foul play. 10 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:51,680 Your job, investigate. 11 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,200 Today you'll hear these three words everywhere. 12 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,440 Chesterfield's for me. 13 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:03,120 The cigarette tested and approved by 30 years of scientific tobacco research. 14 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,400 Chesterfield's for me. 15 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,920 The cigarette with a proven good record with smokers. 16 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,920 And first cigarette to have such a record. 17 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,320 Chesterfield's for me. 18 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:19,240 Chesterfield gives you proof of highest quality, low nicotine. 19 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:20,880 The taste you want. 20 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,000 The mildness you want. 21 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,280 The Chesterfield you smoke today is the best cigarette ever made. 22 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,040 And best for you. 23 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:39,240 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 24 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:44,160 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 25 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,760 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 26 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:50,440 police files. 27 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:55,640 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 28 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,640 in action. 29 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,960 It was Friday, February 8th. 30 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:03,600 It was raining in Los Angeles. 31 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,560 We were working the night watch out of juvenile detail. 32 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:06,760 My partner's Frank Smith. 33 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,040 The boss is Captain Powers. 34 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:09,040 My name's Friday. 35 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:13,640 I was on my way back from juvenile hall and it was 746 p.m. when I got to 1335 Georgia 36 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:14,640 Street. 37 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:15,640 The office. 38 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:16,640 Joe? 39 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:17,640 Yeah, Irene? 40 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:19,640 You talked to Captain Powers? 41 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:20,640 Yeah. 42 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:22,280 The way it looks, Frank's gonna be tied up in court for a couple of days. 43 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:23,280 It's going kind of hard. 44 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:24,280 Gang war, isn't it? 45 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:25,280 Yeah. 46 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:26,280 Seems like everybody in town's climbed on this one. 47 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:27,280 Really making a big thing out of it. 48 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:28,280 Uh-huh. 49 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,880 A fellow skipper said I was supposed to give you a hand on anything that might come up. 50 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:32,200 Then you just made it. 51 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,240 A woman in the next office, you better talk to her. 52 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:35,240 What's it about? 53 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:36,800 It'll be better if you got it straight from her. 54 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:37,800 What is she, a crank? 55 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:38,800 I don't think so. 56 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:39,800 See what you can figure. 57 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:40,800 All right. 58 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,800 Mrs. Eggers? 59 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,800 Yes, Miss Gardner. 60 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,240 You ready to do something about this? 61 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:48,240 Yes, ma'am. 62 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:49,560 I'd like you to meet Sergeant Friday. 63 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:50,560 Joe, this is Mrs. Eggers. 64 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:51,560 Now, how'd you do? 65 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:52,560 Mrs. Eggers? 66 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,720 If you'd give him the story the way you told it to me. 67 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:55,720 You bet I will. 68 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:56,720 Sit down, young man. 69 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:57,720 I'll tell you all about it. 70 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:58,720 All right. 71 00:02:58,720 --> 00:02:59,720 Get your book out. 72 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:00,720 How big a pardon? 73 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:01,720 Your book. 74 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:02,720 You're gonna take some notations, aren't you? 75 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,720 Well, if you'll just tell us what this is all about. 76 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:06,720 Yeah. 77 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,080 Well, I don't want you to get the idea that I'm the nosy type. 78 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:11,080 I'm not. 79 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,720 It's just that I take an interest in the things that go on around me. 80 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:15,360 Civil-minded is the way they put it in the papers. 81 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,760 Of course, there are people who say that I pay too much mind to their business, but it 82 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:19,760 isn't true. 83 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:20,760 Not a bit of it. 84 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:21,760 If you'd tell the sergeant what happened. 85 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:22,760 Oh, yeah. 86 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,200 Well, these people moved into the house about six months ago, the five of them. 87 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:27,200 Yes, ma'am. 88 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,160 Stevie, Pamela, Carol, Martin, and the mother, Rowena. 89 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:31,160 Four kids and the mother. 90 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:32,160 All right. 91 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:33,160 Would you like to go on? 92 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:34,960 Well, now, right off, I could spot this woman. 93 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:35,960 I've seen a lot of them. 94 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:37,840 How do you mean that, Mrs. Eggers? 95 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,280 You can make it crystal if it's any easier. 96 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:41,280 Yes, ma'am. 97 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:42,280 What did you mean? 98 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:43,280 That you've seen a lot of them? 99 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:44,280 Alkies, you know, drunks. 100 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:45,280 Mm-hmm. 101 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,280 Well, she's one. 102 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:47,880 I could spot it right off. 103 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,960 Her and those four beautiful children. 104 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:50,960 Yeah. 105 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,120 Well, the first few months they lived there, I'd maybe see her a couple times a week, you 106 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:55,600 know, going in the house or coming out. 107 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:56,600 Just a couple times a week. 108 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:57,600 Oh, I see. 109 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,160 Last week, 10 days, I hadn't seen her at all. 110 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,160 Not even a little sight. 111 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:02,160 Mm-hmm. 112 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,160 So right off, I figured that something was wrong. 113 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,640 That's the way it looks to me. 114 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:06,640 All right. 115 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:07,640 Thank you, Mrs. Eggers. 116 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:15,320 I wanted to see a town involvement, your mother, is busy in court, and she'll be there the 117 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:16,320 next day. 118 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:17,320 Put it around her Caboodle styling. 119 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:18,320 Want the table dressed her like that? 120 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:19,320 No, can't fit right away. 121 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:20,640 Oh, that's what I wanted this policewoman to do. 122 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,800 I told her I'd go right along with you. 123 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:24,100 Well, that won't be necessary. 124 00:04:24,100 --> 00:04:27,200 Now listen, young man, if there's anything wrong with them kids, I want to know about 125 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,200 it. 126 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,200 I want to do my part. 127 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:30,200 The whole neighborhood's talking. 128 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:31,200 Is that right? 129 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:32,200 Sure. 130 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,200 Little Stevey's been to all the houses looking for something to do, asking for work. 131 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,400 Let's just do that. 132 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:37,800 We'll see what I say is true. 133 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:38,760 Thank you, Mrs. Eggers. 134 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:40,160 Don't go thanking me. 135 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,000 Just trying to be civil-minded, that's all. 136 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Mm-hmm. 137 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Just seems that there isn't anybody 138 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,480 who cares about those kids. 139 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:46,680 Well, that's not true, Mrs. Eggers. 140 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:47,280 What? 141 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:47,780 We do. 142 00:04:47,780 --> 00:04:53,380 814 PM. 143 00:04:53,380 --> 00:04:55,520 Policewoman Irene Gardner and I left the office 144 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,280 and drove over to the address the Eggers woman had given us. 145 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,480 The house was a small, one-story clabbered building 146 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,580 located on the rear of the lot. 147 00:05:02,580 --> 00:05:04,260 The front yard was overgrown with weeds 148 00:05:04,260 --> 00:05:07,200 and there were neighborhood advertising papers lying around. 149 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:08,600 When we arrived, there was a faint light 150 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,600 on in one of the front rooms. 151 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,840 Irene and I went up to the front door and we knocked. 152 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:14,100 We got no answer. 153 00:05:14,100 --> 00:05:16,100 I tried the door, but we found it locked. 154 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:17,940 There was no sound from inside the place. 155 00:05:17,940 --> 00:05:19,340 The shades were drawn over the window 156 00:05:19,340 --> 00:05:21,940 so that it was impossible for us to see into the house. 157 00:05:21,940 --> 00:05:24,140 We walked around to the rear and tried the back door. 158 00:05:27,020 --> 00:05:27,520 Locked. 159 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:28,020 Yeah. 160 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:29,580 Doesn't look like there's anybody home. 161 00:05:29,580 --> 00:05:30,480 Mm-hmm. 162 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:32,080 Let's talk to that Eggers woman again, huh? 163 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,360 All right. 164 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:35,560 Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? 165 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,920 From the story she gave us, the kid should be at home. 166 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:39,360 She might be seeing things, Joe. 167 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,560 You know, trying to figure out some way to get attention. 168 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:42,800 Yeah, it might be. 169 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,600 Didn't seem like that to me, though. 170 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:46,100 Joe? 171 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:47,360 What? 172 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:48,440 What do you got there? 173 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:49,640 Front window. 174 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,240 There, you see it? 175 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:51,740 Yeah. 176 00:05:51,740 --> 00:05:52,840 There's somebody in there. 177 00:05:52,840 --> 00:06:02,320 Come on, let's go. 178 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:03,120 Try it again. 179 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:03,620 Yeah. 180 00:06:07,180 --> 00:06:09,780 Not answering. 181 00:06:09,780 --> 00:06:11,860 Come on, open up in there. 182 00:06:11,860 --> 00:06:12,820 We know you're in there. 183 00:06:12,820 --> 00:06:13,620 Come on. 184 00:06:13,620 --> 00:06:14,220 Open the door. 185 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:18,360 What do you want? 186 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,060 Police officers, let us in. 187 00:06:20,060 --> 00:06:21,060 There's nothing wrong. 188 00:06:21,060 --> 00:06:21,900 Go away. 189 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:22,600 No, we can't do that. 190 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,100 Now come on, open up. 191 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:25,600 Who are you going to arrest? 192 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,300 Nobody, we just want to talk to you. 193 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:28,600 You sure that's all? 194 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,040 That's right. 195 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,020 OK, just a minute. 196 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:37,820 What do you want? 197 00:06:37,820 --> 00:06:39,280 You Pamela Telford? 198 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:41,020 I haven't done anything wrong. 199 00:06:41,020 --> 00:06:42,420 Well, we didn't say you did. 200 00:06:42,420 --> 00:06:44,160 Then what are you doing around here? 201 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:45,520 What are you looking for? 202 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:46,860 Your mother in? 203 00:06:46,860 --> 00:06:47,820 What? 204 00:06:47,820 --> 00:06:49,020 Is your mother home? 205 00:06:49,020 --> 00:06:51,300 Well, yeah, she's here. 206 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:52,900 Well, we'd like to see her if it's all right. 207 00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:53,500 You can't. 208 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:54,600 You can't see her. 209 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:55,960 Well, I'm afraid we're going to have to. 210 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:57,800 She's lying down asleep. 211 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,500 That's why you can't talk to her. 212 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:00,900 Well, what's the matter, little girl? 213 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:01,880 Nothing. 214 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:03,840 Why do you have something like that? 215 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:05,080 Don't you think you better let us in? 216 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,720 We're going to have to talk to your mother. 217 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:07,780 But she's asleep. 218 00:07:07,780 --> 00:07:08,880 She's tired. 219 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:09,780 You can't talk to her. 220 00:07:09,780 --> 00:07:10,680 You can't. 221 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:11,520 Now come on. 222 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:12,720 You want to go and wake her up? 223 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:14,720 There's some things we've got to talk to her about. 224 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:15,880 I wonder if we could come in. 225 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,960 It's kind of wet out here. 226 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:18,460 Hmm? 227 00:07:18,460 --> 00:07:19,520 How about it? 228 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,300 Then you can get your mother and we can have our talk, huh? 229 00:07:22,300 --> 00:07:24,160 I guess you can come in. 230 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,800 I guess it's all right. 231 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:27,700 Come on in, Joe. 232 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:29,900 Yeah. 233 00:07:29,900 --> 00:07:32,000 The front room was about 12 feet square. 234 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,800 The only light in the room came from a candle 235 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,540 and a jelly glass on a table. 236 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:36,980 The only furniture in the place was 237 00:07:36,980 --> 00:07:39,680 the table that held the candle and a torn artificial leather 238 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,380 and chrome couch. 239 00:07:41,380 --> 00:07:42,760 The floor was covered with paper, 240 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,840 rain-soaked cardboard boxes, and dirty clothes. 241 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:47,340 At a half a dozen different places, 242 00:07:47,340 --> 00:07:49,920 drops of dirty water were seeping through the roof. 243 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,280 The water was being caught in empty tin cans that had been 244 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:53,880 placed around the room. 245 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:55,960 To the left was a door to a bedroom. 246 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,280 In it, in a wooden crib, were two children. 247 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,520 From the descriptions we'd gotten from the Yeager's woman, 248 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,280 we recognized him as Martin Telford, age four, 249 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:05,800 and his sister Carol, age two. 250 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,420 As soon as the children saw Irene and me, 251 00:08:07,420 --> 00:08:09,120 they hid their heads under the dirty blanket 252 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:10,360 that covered the crib. 253 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:11,720 There was nothing else in the room 254 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,800 except a dirty mattress lying on the floor in one corner. 255 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,240 From the appearance of the bedding, 256 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,600 it hadn't been laundered or changed in at least three weeks. 257 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,400 On the other side of the house, a small kitchen 258 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,400 was piled high with dirty dishes, pieces of rotting food 259 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:25,960 and empty tin cans. 260 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:27,880 The plumbing in the house had apparently been out 261 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,400 of order for several weeks. 262 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,120 While Irene and I looked over the house, 263 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,160 the girl who'd met us at the door, Pamela Telford, 264 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:34,320 followed us. 265 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,200 When we got back to the front room, she started to cry. 266 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:43,840 Oh, do you want to tell us where she is? 267 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:44,480 Come on, Pamela. 268 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:46,040 It's not as bad as all that, is it? 269 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,480 Here, here's a handkerchief. 270 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:50,440 Here you are. 271 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,280 Now where's your mother? 272 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,280 She's out looking for a job. 273 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:55,840 It's kind of late for that, isn't it? 274 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:56,880 I don't know. 275 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:58,480 That's what she's doing, though. 276 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:00,040 Out looking for a job. 277 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,360 Well, now why'd you tell us that she was here tonight? 278 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,280 Because I didn't know what you wanted. 279 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:06,240 I thought you were trying to arrest her. 280 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:07,680 Well, why'd you think that? 281 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:09,360 Because that's what she said. 282 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:10,880 Your mother said that? 283 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:11,720 Yes. 284 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,080 She told us that policemen arrested people. 285 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:15,600 She told us about it. 286 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:17,200 How you did it once to her. 287 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:18,680 Your mother's been arrested? 288 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:19,520 Yes. 289 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:20,720 Do you know why? 290 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,080 Because she was. 291 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:23,520 But what for, do you know? 292 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:24,600 She got sick. 293 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,480 She got sick and they put her in jail. 294 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,600 That's why I told you she was asleep. 295 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,480 I thought that you'd go away and leave us alone. 296 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:33,600 It's sure cold in here. 297 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:34,480 Yeah. 298 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,280 Do you have any heat in the house, Pamela? 299 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:37,840 There's a heater in the bedroom. 300 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,280 I'll turn it on. 301 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:40,600 It doesn't work. 302 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:41,200 What? 303 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:42,320 The heater doesn't work. 304 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,720 Marty was playing one day and he broke the little rods in it. 305 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,040 It doesn't work anymore. 306 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:47,960 Well, we should be able to get some heat out of it. 307 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:48,840 No, you won't. 308 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,200 There isn't any gas. 309 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:51,480 They turned it off. 310 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:52,600 Mm-hmm. 311 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:54,280 Well, I think maybe you youngsters better come downtown 312 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:55,240 with us, don't you think? 313 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:55,760 Why? 314 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,440 Well, it'll be warm down there, a lot more comfortable for you. 315 00:09:58,440 --> 00:09:59,320 We can't go. 316 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:00,520 We've got to wait here. 317 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:01,360 That's all right, Pamela. 318 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,440 We'll leave word for your mother where you are. 319 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:04,840 Maybe that's your mother now, huh? 320 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:05,760 No, it's Steve. 321 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:10,040 Who are you? 322 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:11,400 He's a policeman. 323 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:11,920 What do you want? 324 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,280 There's nothing wrong here. 325 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:14,880 There's nothing for you to come buttin' in for. 326 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:16,080 We want to see your mother, son. 327 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,080 She hasn't done anything. 328 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:18,600 Why don't you cops leave her alone? 329 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,680 All the time you're after, never leave her alone. 330 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:22,480 You're kind of rough for a little guy, aren't you? 331 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:23,600 That's none of your business. 332 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:24,680 I know my rights. 333 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:25,680 I know I'm good. 334 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:26,840 Well, look here, son. 335 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,680 We're going to take you downtown, give you a good meal, 336 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:29,960 just until we can talk to your mother. 337 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:31,240 That's all. 338 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:32,600 Then you're going to bring us back? 339 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:33,360 Well, we'll see. 340 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:34,400 How about Marty and Carol? 341 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:35,400 You taking them, too? 342 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:36,400 Yeah. 343 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:37,880 Going to give them something to eat? 344 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,160 Yes, that's right. 345 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:41,600 OK, we'll go with you. 346 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:42,400 Just for the night, though. 347 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:43,800 That's all, just for the night. 348 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:44,560 You understand? 349 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:45,080 Yeah. 350 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:46,000 One another thing. 351 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:46,920 Yes, what's that? 352 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:48,320 We're paying our own way. 353 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:49,240 I've got money. 354 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:50,920 Anything you give us, we're going to pay for. 355 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,120 Well, you won't have to do that, son. 356 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:53,280 Well, I'm going to. 357 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:54,320 We don't need charity. 358 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,000 We're getting along all right. 359 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,880 Everybody has a little luck now and then. 360 00:10:57,880 --> 00:10:58,680 Everybody. 361 00:10:58,680 --> 00:10:59,440 Mom tries. 362 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:00,880 She really does. 363 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:02,640 She's been looking for a job for a long time. 364 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:03,280 Uh-huh. 365 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:04,240 All right, Steve, you want to help 366 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:05,720 get the others ready to leave? 367 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:07,080 I'm not sure we can go. 368 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,640 Well, I'm afraid you're going to have to, son. 369 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,680 All right, but just for the night. 370 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:14,000 The only reason is that I want Marty and Carol and Pamela 371 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,720 to have something hot to eat. 372 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:16,720 There's something wrong with the stove, 373 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,280 so we can't cook on it. 374 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,080 That's the only reason we're going, 375 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:21,960 just because there's something wrong with the stove. 376 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:23,080 The gas has turned on. 377 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:23,600 No, it isn't. 378 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:25,040 It just don't work. 379 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,160 But whatever we eat, whatever we get, we're going to pay for. 380 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:29,280 I've got the money. 381 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,080 Well, I told you once before, that won't be necessary. 382 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:32,120 It is, too. 383 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,880 We're not taking any charity. 384 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:34,800 We've never taken any. 385 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:36,520 We're not going to start now either. 386 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,960 Anything that's done for us is going to be paid for. 387 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:40,400 Yeah, I guess that's right, Steve. 388 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:40,960 Huh? 389 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:41,760 It'll be paid for. 390 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:48,000 8 56 PM. 391 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,920 Men from the crime lab arrived and photographed 392 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:50,720 the entire house. 393 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:52,560 The pictures were held for evidence. 394 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:54,560 A search of the house showed that there was no food 395 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:55,720 for the children. 396 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,240 In a cardboard box in the bedroom under a pile of toilet 397 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,560 articles, we found a photograph of a man and a woman taken 398 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:02,880 at what appeared to be a beach photographers. 399 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:04,840 Irene and I checked through the rest of the house, 400 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:06,160 but we found nothing that would indicate 401 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,160 where the mother of the four Telford children had gone. 402 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,240 The youngsters were taken to juvenile hall, bathed, 403 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,440 given clean clothes, and fed. 404 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,520 At first, Steve Telford refused to eat anything 405 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,520 until he was assured that his two sisters and his brother 406 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,440 were being given the same kind of food. 407 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:20,560 After the boy had finished eating, 408 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:22,080 Irene and I talked to him. 409 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,200 His previous uncooperative attitude had changed, 410 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,160 and he seemed anxious to help us find his mother. 411 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,320 This is the longest she's ever been gone. 412 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,040 I began to think there might be something wrong. 413 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:31,760 Well, when did you see her last, Steve? 414 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:32,920 This is Friday, isn't it? 415 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:34,240 Yes, February 8. 416 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,360 Uh-huh. 417 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:36,640 It was last Tuesday then. 418 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:37,800 You mean this week, son? 419 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,600 No, a week ago. 420 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,280 A week ago Tuesday. 421 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:42,560 Well, what did she say when she left? 422 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:43,880 Just like always. 423 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:45,280 She said she wasn't feeling very good, 424 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,000 and she was going out and trying to look for work. 425 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,160 What kind of work does she do? 426 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:49,800 She's a waitress, a good one too. 427 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:50,960 Mm-hmm. 428 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,440 That's a trouble, I guess. 429 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:53,640 She's so good. 430 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:54,720 What do you mean? 431 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:56,280 Well, there are only a couple of places 432 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:57,840 that Mom says are any good. 433 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,800 Well, you know where she went to work. 434 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,600 I don't believe I understand what you mean, Steve. 435 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,760 Well, Mom always said that she wasn't just a hash slinger. 436 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:05,600 That's what she called her. 437 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:06,400 Oh, I see. 438 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:07,800 She said that she was a waitress, 439 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,720 and she couldn't go to work just any place. 440 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:10,520 Mm-hmm. 441 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:11,560 Where'd she work last? 442 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:13,320 A big place out in Beverly Hills. 443 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,040 I forgot the name right now. 444 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,240 But when she got the job before she went to work, 445 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:18,840 Mom took us out there. 446 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,240 We didn't go right in, but we stood in front and looked at it. 447 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:22,920 Big place, real nice. 448 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:24,920 You know, all kind of grass in front. 449 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,520 You could see the people inside having a good time. 450 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,400 We didn't go in, but we could see it good. 451 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,080 How long did your mother work there? 452 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,800 Well, she had some trouble, and she had to quit. 453 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:35,160 What do you mean trouble? 454 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,400 She got sick, and the man who was her boss got mad at her. 455 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,760 And I guess he said a lot of things that Mom didn't like. 456 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:42,880 So Mom told him that he couldn't talk to her like that, 457 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:44,240 and then she quit. 458 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,200 Your mother ever tell you what was wrong with her? 459 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:48,800 Steve? 460 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:49,960 No, she didn't. 461 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,560 Did she see a doctor about it? 462 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:54,160 You might as well know it. 463 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:55,600 You're going to find out anyway. 464 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:57,320 What's that, son? 465 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:58,760 Well, Mom drank a lot. 466 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,520 Sometimes she'd drink too much, and then she'd get sick. 467 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:02,680 That's what was wrong. 468 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:03,560 Mm-hmm. 469 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:04,600 Where's your father, Steve? 470 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,520 He died before Carol was born, right before. 471 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:09,560 I want you to take a look at a picture for us, will you? 472 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:11,760 Look at it and tell us if you know who the man in it is. 473 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:12,640 All right. 474 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,880 There you are. 475 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,360 That's Mom. 476 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:18,880 You know who the man is? 477 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:20,440 No. 478 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:21,960 I don't think I ever saw him before. 479 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,480 Does your mother have any men friends? 480 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,240 No, I don't think so. 481 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,200 At least she never told me about him. 482 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,120 She always said that the kids were enough for her, 483 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:31,080 that we were all that mattered. 484 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,160 She used to say that when she got a steady job, 485 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:34,880 we were all going to live good. 486 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:36,800 She used to tell us how one day the phone would ring 487 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,640 and all our troubles would be over, just like that. 488 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:40,960 One day we've had a little trouble, 489 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,000 and the next, everything was going to be all right. 490 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:43,800 Mm-hmm. 491 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,240 She really believed it, too. 492 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,120 Just all of a sudden, the phone was going to ring 493 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:48,440 and all our troubles would be over. 494 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:49,800 Mm-hmm. 495 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,120 I didn't know how to tell her. 496 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:52,400 Tell her what, son? 497 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:53,760 That they turned the phone off. 498 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:36,040 ["The 499 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,200 We had the name Rowena Telford checked through R&I. 500 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,120 We found that the boy's story was true. 501 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,880 The woman had been arrested once on a charge of 4127A LAMC, 502 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,000 being drunk in a public place. 503 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,760 Irene put in a call to the waitress' union 504 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:13,680 and asked them to check to see if the woman was working 505 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:15,400 any place in town. 506 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:16,720 They came back with the information 507 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,480 that the last job she'd held had been six months before 508 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,320 and that she'd been fired for insubordination 509 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:22,720 and for being drunk. 510 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,360 We showed the picture of the man and woman 511 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,480 that we'd found at the Telford home around the department 512 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:27,680 in the hopes that one of the officers 513 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:29,920 might recognize the place where it was taken. 514 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,280 None of them did. 515 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,080 The next morning, we had several copies made 516 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,680 and we began a search of the bars along Fifth Street. 517 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:37,160 We asked each bartender if he'd ever 518 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:38,680 seen the man or the woman. 519 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,080 In the first four places we checked, 520 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,240 we got yes answers to the query about the woman, 521 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:43,680 but none of the people we talked to 522 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,200 could tell us anything about the man in the picture. 523 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,680 Two more days passed without results. 524 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,240 In the meantime, a warrant had been issued 525 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:51,800 ordering the arrest of Rowena Telford 526 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,960 charging her with child neglect. 527 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,800 A local and an APB were gotten out on her. 528 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,640 On the third day after we'd started our search 529 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,400 for the missing woman, we talked with a bartender 530 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,800 who was able to give us the name of the man in the picture. 531 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:04,240 He described the man as a fry cook 532 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,040 in one of the smaller restaurants down on Fifth Street. 533 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:08,360 We checked the restaurant, but we found 534 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,560 that he'd been fired on Monday, the 28th of January. 535 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,600 A check of his home address gave us no indications 536 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,280 to where he might be. 537 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:16,600 Irene and I went back to the office 538 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,680 and checked the name through RNI. 539 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:19,520 Joe? 540 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:20,600 Yeah. 541 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:21,440 Did she come up with anything? 542 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,880 Checked the name, he's registered as an ex-convict. 543 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:24,720 Where'd he fall? 544 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,760 Back in Pennsylvania, did time for ADW. 545 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:27,600 Well, we better talk to him, huh? 546 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:28,760 Right now he looks awful good. 547 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:29,600 Why do you say that? 548 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:30,440 Because he was arrested for it. 549 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:31,280 Yeah. 550 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:32,400 He tried to beat a woman to death. 551 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,400 ["Dragnet Theme"] 552 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:43,920 You are listening to Dragnet, 553 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,560 the authentic story of your police force in action. 554 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,960 Meet Peter Lynn Hayes and Mary Healy, 555 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:53,040 America's favorite husband and wife comedy team. 556 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:55,200 They are typical of smokers everywhere 557 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,480 who are saying, Chesterfield's for me. 558 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,800 Mary says, I've smoked regular sized Chesterfields 559 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,440 for about seven years. 560 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:04,920 Guess that ought to prove how I feel 561 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,360 about Chesterfield's taste in mildness. 562 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:10,240 Peter says, Chesterfield's for me too. 563 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,960 For as I'm concerned, King is the only size 564 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,360 and like Mary says, Chesterfield is the only cigarette. 565 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:17,840 Either way you like them. 566 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:21,160 I'll bet you'll find Chesterfield is best for you. 567 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:25,080 Yes, smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 568 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:28,120 Regular and King-sized Chesterfield. 569 00:17:28,120 --> 00:17:32,600 The best cigarette ever made and best for you. 570 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,600 ["Dragnet Theme"] 571 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:42,920 An immediate search was started for the man 572 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:44,680 in the picture with Rowena Telford. 573 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:46,400 From friends of his, we found that we might be able 574 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,080 to locate him at a hamburger stand down at Santa Monica. 575 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,440 Tuesday, February 12th, policewoman Irene Gardner 576 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,440 and I drove down to the beach. 577 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:54,560 Should be it up there, huh? 578 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:55,380 Yeah. 579 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:57,860 Go ahead. 580 00:17:57,860 --> 00:17:58,680 Thank you. 581 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:01,640 Here we go. 582 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:02,400 There's one in here. 583 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:03,240 Yeah. 584 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:06,080 Ready to see Willis Thatcher? 585 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:06,920 What for? 586 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,640 Police officer, you're Thatcher, aren't you? 587 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:10,760 Yeah, what do you want with me? 588 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:11,780 A couple of questions I'd like to ask you. 589 00:18:11,780 --> 00:18:13,240 Sure, I ain't got nothing to hide. 590 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,160 No reason to give you any trouble, what do you want to know? 591 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:16,900 You know a woman named Rowena Telford? 592 00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:18,460 Why do you ask that? 593 00:18:18,460 --> 00:18:19,780 It's a simple question, Thatcher. 594 00:18:19,780 --> 00:18:21,640 Can you give us the right kind of an answer? 595 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:24,240 How about it? 596 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:25,160 Yeah, I know her, why? 597 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:26,160 What's she done now? 598 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:27,200 When did you see her last? 599 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:28,700 I don't know, a couple of weeks ago. 600 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:30,100 Narrow that down, will you? 601 00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:30,740 Why? 602 00:18:30,740 --> 00:18:32,700 Listen, anything she did, I had no part of. 603 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:34,280 We understand you were pretty friendly with her. 604 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:35,400 That's not true. 605 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:36,860 Sure, maybe I had a couple of dates with her. 606 00:18:36,860 --> 00:18:38,780 Not more than a couple, that's it. 607 00:18:38,780 --> 00:18:40,340 And anybody in the world could put up with her 608 00:18:40,340 --> 00:18:41,080 for more than that. 609 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:42,500 Why do you say a thing like that? 610 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:43,100 You ever know her? 611 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:44,460 No, we're looking for her. 612 00:18:44,460 --> 00:18:45,120 You? 613 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:46,300 No, I've never met her. 614 00:18:46,300 --> 00:18:48,040 That's how come you can ask that kind of question. 615 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:49,720 And if you knew her, if you spent any time with her, 616 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,220 you had to know what I mean. 617 00:18:51,220 --> 00:18:52,540 Well, suppose you tell us. 618 00:18:52,540 --> 00:18:56,140 She's a lush, a real lush, all the time bosin' it up. 619 00:18:56,140 --> 00:18:57,480 Wasn't so bad that she got loaded, 620 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,720 but she was real loud when she was tanked up, real loud. 621 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:00,260 Is that right? 622 00:19:00,260 --> 00:19:01,140 Sure, check around. 623 00:19:01,140 --> 00:19:02,340 Ask her friends, talk to them. 624 00:19:02,340 --> 00:19:04,860 They'll all tell you the same story, every one of them. 625 00:19:04,860 --> 00:19:06,260 First off, she'd have a couple of drinks. 626 00:19:06,260 --> 00:19:07,460 Next thing you know, any fellow with her 627 00:19:07,460 --> 00:19:09,220 be trying to get out of a place without getting 628 00:19:09,220 --> 00:19:10,500 his head knocked off. 629 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:12,060 She was always starting trouble. 630 00:19:12,060 --> 00:19:12,980 Sit down, order a drink. 631 00:19:12,980 --> 00:19:14,940 The next thing you know, some guy was asking you outside. 632 00:19:14,940 --> 00:19:16,860 Well, I ain't built to go outside too often. 633 00:19:16,860 --> 00:19:18,100 I get hurt bad when I fight. 634 00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:19,980 Don't you have any other boyfriends? 635 00:19:19,980 --> 00:19:21,140 You don't listen very good, do you? 636 00:19:21,140 --> 00:19:21,760 What's that? 637 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,340 I told you, didn't anybody around here 638 00:19:23,340 --> 00:19:24,220 had much to do with it. 639 00:19:24,220 --> 00:19:26,380 And as far as I know, there was nobody who went with it. 640 00:19:26,380 --> 00:19:28,300 How'd she seem the last time you saw her? 641 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:29,620 All right, she had a little hangover. 642 00:19:29,620 --> 00:19:30,700 She always had one of those. 643 00:19:30,700 --> 00:19:32,340 Seemed depressed about anything? 644 00:19:32,340 --> 00:19:33,380 Not that she talked about. 645 00:19:33,380 --> 00:19:34,180 Mm-hmm. 646 00:19:34,180 --> 00:19:35,660 Did she say anything about leaving town? 647 00:19:35,660 --> 00:19:36,860 Not to me. 648 00:19:36,860 --> 00:19:38,300 Listen, how about giving me a break 649 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:39,700 and telling me what this is all about? 650 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:40,860 What do you have to rowena for? 651 00:19:40,860 --> 00:19:42,420 These fights you told us about, do you ever have 652 00:19:42,420 --> 00:19:43,820 any arguments with Miss Telford? 653 00:19:43,820 --> 00:19:45,340 I don't think that's any of your business. 654 00:19:45,340 --> 00:19:46,580 We're writing it down that it is, 655 00:19:46,580 --> 00:19:48,100 now how about an answer? 656 00:19:48,100 --> 00:19:49,380 Well, we had a couple of beefs. 657 00:19:49,380 --> 00:19:50,740 I told you, you couldn't go around with her 658 00:19:50,740 --> 00:19:51,940 and not have a little trouble. 659 00:19:51,940 --> 00:19:53,380 Did you ever hit her? 660 00:19:53,380 --> 00:19:54,500 We're back to that, huh? 661 00:19:54,500 --> 00:19:55,660 What do you mean? 662 00:19:55,660 --> 00:19:57,340 You know the record, the time I did. 663 00:19:57,340 --> 00:19:58,940 You figure maybe I did something to her, Rowena, 664 00:19:58,940 --> 00:19:59,540 isn't that it? 665 00:19:59,540 --> 00:20:00,540 You think I hurt her? 666 00:20:00,540 --> 00:20:01,340 We're asking you. 667 00:20:01,340 --> 00:20:02,780 Well, you're way off the road. 668 00:20:02,780 --> 00:20:03,820 I ain't going to try to con you. 669 00:20:03,820 --> 00:20:05,980 Sure, maybe I had a lot of reasons to want to belt her. 670 00:20:05,980 --> 00:20:07,620 I used to think a lot of Rowena. 671 00:20:07,620 --> 00:20:08,980 Awful lot. 672 00:20:08,980 --> 00:20:09,860 But that's all over. 673 00:20:09,860 --> 00:20:11,500 All I want her to do is to leave me alone, 674 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:13,660 stay away from me. 675 00:20:13,660 --> 00:20:15,100 I didn't ever hit her. 676 00:20:15,100 --> 00:20:16,700 I didn't hurt her, no matter what you think. 677 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:17,620 All right. 678 00:20:17,620 --> 00:20:18,580 You've got to believe it. 679 00:20:18,580 --> 00:20:20,460 I guess it sounds funny. 680 00:20:20,460 --> 00:20:21,700 Ain't trying to fool anybody. 681 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:22,500 I'm ready to admit it. 682 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:24,180 I'm a bum. 683 00:20:24,180 --> 00:20:26,140 She didn't have to keep telling me, not all the time. 684 00:20:26,140 --> 00:20:27,500 I know it. 685 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:30,860 Nobody likes to be called a bum, even if you know it's true. 686 00:20:30,860 --> 00:20:34,940 ["The New York Times"] 687 00:20:34,940 --> 00:20:36,140 1 47 PM. 688 00:20:36,140 --> 00:20:37,980 We drove the suspect over to his rooming house 689 00:20:37,980 --> 00:20:39,140 and we checked the premises. 690 00:20:39,140 --> 00:20:40,980 We found nothing that would definitely tie him in 691 00:20:40,980 --> 00:20:43,220 with the disappearance of the Telford woman. 692 00:20:43,220 --> 00:20:45,060 After leaving his room, we took him downtown 693 00:20:45,060 --> 00:20:46,780 where he was held for further investigation 694 00:20:46,780 --> 00:20:48,820 on the charge of suspicion of murder. 695 00:20:48,820 --> 00:20:50,140 We checked communications, but we 696 00:20:50,140 --> 00:20:52,700 found that there had been no word on the missing woman. 697 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:53,780 Her name and description had been 698 00:20:53,780 --> 00:20:55,540 checked through the files and missing persons 699 00:20:55,540 --> 00:20:57,340 bureau without results. 700 00:20:57,340 --> 00:20:58,540 3 40 PM. 701 00:20:58,540 --> 00:20:59,940 Frank came by the office and said 702 00:20:59,940 --> 00:21:01,860 that the trial he was attending was dragging on 703 00:21:01,860 --> 00:21:03,780 and there would be a couple more days before he'd 704 00:21:03,780 --> 00:21:05,620 be back on duty with me. 705 00:21:05,620 --> 00:21:07,860 A petition was filed on behalf of the children charging 706 00:21:07,860 --> 00:21:11,540 violation of section 273 APC, unfit home, 707 00:21:11,540 --> 00:21:14,380 asking that they be made wards of the juvenile court. 708 00:21:14,380 --> 00:21:16,140 Policewoman Irene Gardner put in a call 709 00:21:16,140 --> 00:21:17,860 to the next door neighbor of the Telford woman, 710 00:21:17,860 --> 00:21:19,900 but we found that there had been no trace of the missing woman 711 00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:21,820 since we'd removed the children. 712 00:21:21,820 --> 00:21:23,220 5 12 PM. 713 00:21:23,220 --> 00:21:24,500 We finished up the log for the day 714 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:26,140 and we were leaving the office. 715 00:21:26,140 --> 00:21:26,540 I got it. 716 00:21:29,860 --> 00:21:31,500 Juvenile Friday. 717 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:34,020 Yeah, that's right. 718 00:21:34,020 --> 00:21:35,500 Yeah, what's that address? 719 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:36,100 Yeah. 720 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:36,980 Mm-hmm. 721 00:21:36,980 --> 00:21:38,420 Yeah, sir, we'll be right there. 722 00:21:38,420 --> 00:21:39,740 Right, thank you. 723 00:21:39,740 --> 00:21:40,540 What do you got? 724 00:21:40,540 --> 00:21:41,660 Bar over on East 6th. 725 00:21:41,660 --> 00:21:42,160 Yeah? 726 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,660 Rowena Telford just walked in. 727 00:21:43,660 --> 00:21:50,780 The bar tender was one of those that we'd questioned when we 728 00:21:50,780 --> 00:21:52,460 first started our investigation. 729 00:21:52,460 --> 00:21:54,180 At the time, he knew the Telford woman, 730 00:21:54,180 --> 00:21:56,620 but he said that he hadn't seen her for several weeks. 731 00:21:56,620 --> 00:21:59,580 On the phone, he told me that she just walked into his bar. 732 00:21:59,580 --> 00:22:00,980 Irene Gardner and I left the office 733 00:22:00,980 --> 00:22:02,820 and drove over to the East 6th Street address, 734 00:22:02,820 --> 00:22:04,260 but the woman had just left. 735 00:22:04,260 --> 00:22:05,780 We had her description and a description 736 00:22:05,780 --> 00:22:07,060 of the clothes she was wearing. 737 00:22:07,060 --> 00:22:08,740 We put that out to all cars in the area, 738 00:22:08,740 --> 00:22:11,100 but she was not picked up. 739 00:22:11,100 --> 00:22:12,820 Irene Gardner and I went back to the office 740 00:22:12,820 --> 00:22:15,300 and we put out a supplementary bulletin on the woman. 741 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:17,540 At 8 14 PM, we got a call from the woman who'd 742 00:22:17,540 --> 00:22:20,300 made the original complaint, Mrs. Crystal Eggers. 743 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:21,880 She told us that the Telford woman had just 744 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:23,380 walked into her own home. 745 00:22:23,380 --> 00:22:25,140 Irene and I left the office and we drove out 746 00:22:25,140 --> 00:22:27,900 to the house on Vallejo Street. 747 00:22:27,900 --> 00:22:29,300 Light on, she must still be home. 748 00:22:29,300 --> 00:22:29,800 Yeah. 749 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:34,300 Who is it? 750 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:35,060 Police officers. 751 00:22:35,060 --> 00:22:36,060 We'd like to talk to you. 752 00:22:36,060 --> 00:22:37,060 Just a minute. 753 00:22:37,060 --> 00:22:39,460 It's about time you got here. 754 00:22:39,460 --> 00:22:40,460 You got them yet? 755 00:22:40,460 --> 00:22:41,460 I beg your pardon? 756 00:22:41,460 --> 00:22:42,860 You got the little brats? 757 00:22:42,860 --> 00:22:44,460 They all run off, all of them. 758 00:22:44,460 --> 00:22:47,460 Get my hands on them and they're going to get what for. 759 00:22:47,460 --> 00:22:48,460 Where are they? 760 00:22:48,460 --> 00:22:50,060 We have them downtown, Miss Telford. 761 00:22:50,060 --> 00:22:51,260 Why don't you bring them home? 762 00:22:51,260 --> 00:22:52,660 This is where they belong. 763 00:22:52,660 --> 00:22:54,060 I get my hands on them. 764 00:22:54,060 --> 00:22:56,460 Oh, what I'm going to give that little Steve. 765 00:22:56,460 --> 00:22:57,660 You mind if we come in? 766 00:22:57,660 --> 00:22:59,860 No, come right ahead. 767 00:22:59,860 --> 00:23:01,460 You know, I can't excuse the way your house looks. 768 00:23:01,460 --> 00:23:02,860 I've been away for a couple of days. 769 00:23:02,860 --> 00:23:04,660 You can see how the kids can mess around. 770 00:23:04,660 --> 00:23:07,260 I'm Sergeant Friday, this is Miss Gardner. 771 00:23:07,260 --> 00:23:08,660 Oh, how you do? 772 00:23:08,660 --> 00:23:09,860 Would you like some? 773 00:23:09,860 --> 00:23:11,060 No, that's all right. 774 00:23:11,060 --> 00:23:12,460 How come you didn't bring them back? 775 00:23:12,460 --> 00:23:14,660 They're being held in juvenile hall, Miss Telford. 776 00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:15,660 For what? 777 00:23:15,660 --> 00:23:16,860 Well, when we found them, they were suffering 778 00:23:16,860 --> 00:23:18,460 from malnutrition in this place here. 779 00:23:18,460 --> 00:23:20,660 It's not fit for youngsters. 780 00:23:20,660 --> 00:23:22,860 Oh, so you just took them out and put them in a home. 781 00:23:22,860 --> 00:23:23,860 Is that the way it is? 782 00:23:23,860 --> 00:23:25,460 Yes, ma'am, that's the way it is. 783 00:23:25,460 --> 00:23:27,460 Well, you've got your nerve. 784 00:23:27,460 --> 00:23:28,860 You really have. 785 00:23:28,860 --> 00:23:29,660 What? 786 00:23:29,660 --> 00:23:31,860 You coming in here and bringing them home. 787 00:23:31,860 --> 00:23:34,660 You ought to be ashamed of yourself. 788 00:23:34,660 --> 00:23:36,660 We have a warrant for your arrest. 789 00:23:36,660 --> 00:23:37,460 Me? 790 00:23:37,460 --> 00:23:38,660 Yes, ma'am. 791 00:23:38,660 --> 00:23:41,060 Now, you listen to me, cop. 792 00:23:41,060 --> 00:23:44,460 You've got no right to come in here and break up my home. 793 00:23:44,460 --> 00:23:47,060 I know all about you, cops, all about you, 794 00:23:47,060 --> 00:23:48,660 pussyfooting around trying to make 795 00:23:48,660 --> 00:23:51,060 everybody think you're so good. 796 00:23:51,060 --> 00:23:53,460 I know you for what you are, and I'll tell you this. 797 00:23:53,460 --> 00:23:54,660 Yes, ma'am, what's that? 798 00:23:54,660 --> 00:23:57,660 You better get those kids back here fast, do you hear me? 799 00:23:57,660 --> 00:23:59,860 You get them back here fast, you hear me? 800 00:23:59,860 --> 00:24:02,660 Fast, do you hear me? You get them back here fast. 801 00:24:02,660 --> 00:24:05,460 Because if you don't, I'm going to sue you and her 802 00:24:05,460 --> 00:24:08,460 and the city for every dime it's got. 803 00:24:08,460 --> 00:24:12,260 I'll take this to any court in the country I have to, 804 00:24:12,260 --> 00:24:14,660 but I'm going to get my kids back. 805 00:24:14,660 --> 00:24:17,060 You ain't half as good as you think you are. 806 00:24:17,060 --> 00:24:21,560 You want it plain, real plain so you can understand it. 807 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,260 You stink, that's what. 808 00:24:23,260 --> 00:24:24,460 All of you stink. 809 00:24:24,460 --> 00:24:26,060 All right, ma'am, I think that's enough of that. 810 00:24:26,060 --> 00:24:28,060 Where have you been for the last two weeks? 811 00:24:28,060 --> 00:24:32,860 The most terrible thing that ever happened to me, to anybody. 812 00:24:32,860 --> 00:24:36,460 He told me, he loved me, and said he was going to get married. 813 00:24:36,460 --> 00:24:38,260 I thought it would be nice for the kids. 814 00:24:38,260 --> 00:24:41,060 That's what I thought, for the kids. 815 00:24:41,060 --> 00:24:44,060 He was going to drive down to Mexico and get married. 816 00:24:44,060 --> 00:24:46,460 It was all nice. 817 00:24:46,460 --> 00:24:50,060 Everything was going nice. 818 00:24:50,060 --> 00:24:54,260 He gave Stevie a couple of dollars and told him to take care of things. 819 00:24:54,260 --> 00:24:58,060 Then we left and drove all the way to San Diego without stopping. 820 00:24:58,060 --> 00:25:02,060 Then we had some lunch on the way to get married. 821 00:25:02,060 --> 00:25:06,260 We had a couple of drinks just to make the food taste better, that's all. 822 00:25:06,260 --> 00:25:08,860 Then all of a sudden I got sick again. 823 00:25:08,860 --> 00:25:14,060 He walked out on me, left me right there in the bar all by myself. 824 00:25:14,060 --> 00:25:19,660 All the promises he made to me, all the things he was going to have, 825 00:25:19,660 --> 00:25:23,060 all of it, just a lot of lies. 826 00:25:23,060 --> 00:25:28,060 Soon as I get a little sick, he just had a couple of drinks. 827 00:25:28,060 --> 00:25:34,060 He walked out on me, left me right there all by myself, you know. 828 00:25:34,060 --> 00:25:37,260 All by myself. 829 00:25:37,260 --> 00:25:39,860 I didn't have no money, no way to get back. 830 00:25:39,860 --> 00:25:41,660 What was I going to do? 831 00:25:41,660 --> 00:25:43,060 I believed him. 832 00:25:43,060 --> 00:25:45,660 I really thought he was going to marry me. 833 00:25:45,660 --> 00:25:50,060 I believed all he said, how things were going to be better. 834 00:25:50,060 --> 00:25:53,260 I believed it all. 835 00:25:53,260 --> 00:25:57,860 The dirtiest trick I ever heard of, walking out on a girl like that. 836 00:25:57,860 --> 00:25:59,860 A dirty trick. 837 00:25:59,860 --> 00:26:00,860 I got one to beat it. 838 00:26:00,860 --> 00:26:03,060 The one you pulled on your children. 839 00:26:03,060 --> 00:26:13,460 The story you've just heard is true. 840 00:26:13,460 --> 00:26:15,860 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 841 00:26:15,860 --> 00:26:21,060 On June 4th, trial was held in Department 97, Superior Court of the State of California, 842 00:26:21,060 --> 00:26:23,060 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 843 00:26:23,060 --> 00:26:25,060 In a moment, the results of that trial. 844 00:26:25,060 --> 00:26:27,260 Now, here's our star, Jack Webb. 845 00:26:27,260 --> 00:26:28,860 Thank you, George Fenomen. 846 00:26:28,860 --> 00:26:31,660 Friends, we've tried very hard to set a dragnet standard. 847 00:26:31,660 --> 00:26:33,460 Now, to put that in just a few words, 848 00:26:33,460 --> 00:26:37,260 we try to make each program the kind of entertainment that you want. 849 00:26:37,260 --> 00:26:39,260 Now, we're going to keep working real hard at that. 850 00:26:39,260 --> 00:26:43,060 And you know, the people who make Chesterfields feel the same way about their cigarette. 851 00:26:43,060 --> 00:26:46,460 To sell a product, you have to make it good and keep it good. 852 00:26:46,460 --> 00:26:51,060 And the latest reports from our research lab shows Chesterfield is highest in quality. 853 00:26:51,060 --> 00:26:53,660 Highest in quality, low in nicotine. 854 00:26:53,660 --> 00:26:56,460 Smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 855 00:26:56,460 --> 00:26:57,460 Chesterfield. 856 00:26:57,460 --> 00:26:59,060 Regular or king size. 857 00:26:59,060 --> 00:27:00,060 They're milder. 858 00:27:00,060 --> 00:27:01,260 They're satisfying. 859 00:27:01,260 --> 00:27:02,660 They're best for me. 860 00:27:02,660 --> 00:27:04,260 Best for you. 861 00:27:04,260 --> 00:27:12,860 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 862 00:27:12,860 --> 00:27:18,260 Rowena Esther Telford was tried and convicted of violation of Section 273 APC, 863 00:27:18,260 --> 00:27:20,660 endangering the life and safety of a minor, 864 00:27:20,660 --> 00:27:25,660 which is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than one year. 865 00:27:25,660 --> 00:27:30,860 The four Telford children were made wards of the juvenile court and were placed in foster homes. 866 00:27:30,860 --> 00:27:40,060 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 867 00:27:40,060 --> 00:27:44,860 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 868 00:27:44,860 --> 00:27:50,060 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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