WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.680 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:12.680 --> 00:15.480 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:15.480 --> 00:20.080 Dragnet is brought to you by Chesterfield, made by Liggett and Myers. 00:20.080 --> 00:33.440 First, major tobacco company to bring you a complete line of quality cigarettes. 00:33.440 --> 00:35.000 You're a detective sergeant. 00:35.000 --> 00:37.320 You're assigned a juvenile detail. 00:37.320 --> 00:40.800 Four children in your city have apparently been abandoned by their mother. 00:40.800 --> 00:43.040 There's no trace of the woman's whereabouts. 00:43.040 --> 00:45.400 There's a possibility of foul play. 00:45.400 --> 00:51.680 Your job, investigate. 00:51.680 --> 00:55.200 Today you'll hear these three words everywhere. 00:55.200 --> 00:57.440 Chesterfield's for me. 00:57.440 --> 01:03.120 The cigarette tested and approved by 30 years of scientific tobacco research. 01:03.120 --> 01:05.400 Chesterfield's for me. 01:05.400 --> 01:08.920 The cigarette with a proven good record with smokers. 01:08.920 --> 01:11.920 And first cigarette to have such a record. 01:11.920 --> 01:14.320 Chesterfield's for me. 01:14.320 --> 01:19.240 Chesterfield gives you proof of highest quality, low nicotine. 01:19.240 --> 01:20.880 The taste you want. 01:20.880 --> 01:23.000 The mildness you want. 01:23.000 --> 01:28.280 The Chesterfield you smoke today is the best cigarette ever made. 01:28.280 --> 01:32.040 And best for you. 01:32.040 --> 01:39.240 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:39.240 --> 01:44.160 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:44.160 --> 01:48.760 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:48.760 --> 01:50.440 police files. 01:50.440 --> 01:55.640 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:55.640 --> 01:57.640 in action. 01:57.640 --> 02:01.960 It was Friday, February 8th. 02:01.960 --> 02:03.600 It was raining in Los Angeles. 02:03.600 --> 02:05.560 We were working the night watch out of juvenile detail. 02:05.560 --> 02:06.760 My partner's Frank Smith. 02:06.760 --> 02:08.040 The boss is Captain Powers. 02:08.040 --> 02:09.040 My name's Friday. 02:09.040 --> 02:13.640 I was on my way back from juvenile hall and it was 746 p.m. when I got to 1335 Georgia 02:13.640 --> 02:14.640 Street. 02:14.640 --> 02:15.640 The office. 02:15.640 --> 02:16.640 Joe? 02:16.640 --> 02:17.640 Yeah, Irene? 02:17.640 --> 02:19.640 You talked to Captain Powers? 02:19.640 --> 02:20.640 Yeah. 02:20.640 --> 02:22.280 The way it looks, Frank's gonna be tied up in court for a couple of days. 02:22.280 --> 02:23.280 It's going kind of hard. 02:23.280 --> 02:24.280 Gang war, isn't it? 02:24.280 --> 02:25.280 Yeah. 02:25.280 --> 02:26.280 Seems like everybody in town's climbed on this one. 02:26.280 --> 02:27.280 Really making a big thing out of it. 02:27.280 --> 02:28.280 Uh-huh. 02:28.280 --> 02:30.880 A fellow skipper said I was supposed to give you a hand on anything that might come up. 02:30.880 --> 02:32.200 Then you just made it. 02:32.200 --> 02:34.240 A woman in the next office, you better talk to her. 02:34.240 --> 02:35.240 What's it about? 02:35.240 --> 02:36.800 It'll be better if you got it straight from her. 02:36.800 --> 02:37.800 What is she, a crank? 02:37.800 --> 02:38.800 I don't think so. 02:38.800 --> 02:39.800 See what you can figure. 02:39.800 --> 02:40.800 All right. 02:40.800 --> 02:43.800 Mrs. Eggers? 02:43.800 --> 02:45.800 Yes, Miss Gardner. 02:45.800 --> 02:47.240 You ready to do something about this? 02:47.240 --> 02:48.240 Yes, ma'am. 02:48.240 --> 02:49.560 I'd like you to meet Sergeant Friday. 02:49.560 --> 02:50.560 Joe, this is Mrs. Eggers. 02:50.560 --> 02:51.560 Now, how'd you do? 02:51.560 --> 02:52.560 Mrs. Eggers? 02:52.560 --> 02:54.720 If you'd give him the story the way you told it to me. 02:54.720 --> 02:55.720 You bet I will. 02:55.720 --> 02:56.720 Sit down, young man. 02:56.720 --> 02:57.720 I'll tell you all about it. 02:57.720 --> 02:58.720 All right. 02:58.720 --> 02:59.720 Get your book out. 02:59.720 --> 03:00.720 How big a pardon? 03:00.720 --> 03:01.720 Your book. 03:01.720 --> 03:02.720 You're gonna take some notations, aren't you? 03:02.720 --> 03:05.720 Well, if you'll just tell us what this is all about. 03:05.720 --> 03:06.720 Yeah. 03:06.720 --> 03:10.080 Well, I don't want you to get the idea that I'm the nosy type. 03:10.080 --> 03:11.080 I'm not. 03:11.080 --> 03:13.720 It's just that I take an interest in the things that go on around me. 03:13.720 --> 03:15.360 Civil-minded is the way they put it in the papers. 03:15.360 --> 03:18.760 Of course, there are people who say that I pay too much mind to their business, but it 03:18.760 --> 03:19.760 isn't true. 03:19.760 --> 03:20.760 Not a bit of it. 03:20.760 --> 03:21.760 If you'd tell the sergeant what happened. 03:21.760 --> 03:22.760 Oh, yeah. 03:22.760 --> 03:26.200 Well, these people moved into the house about six months ago, the five of them. 03:26.200 --> 03:27.200 Yes, ma'am. 03:27.200 --> 03:30.160 Stevie, Pamela, Carol, Martin, and the mother, Rowena. 03:30.160 --> 03:31.160 Four kids and the mother. 03:31.160 --> 03:32.160 All right. 03:32.160 --> 03:33.160 Would you like to go on? 03:33.160 --> 03:34.960 Well, now, right off, I could spot this woman. 03:34.960 --> 03:35.960 I've seen a lot of them. 03:35.960 --> 03:37.840 How do you mean that, Mrs. Eggers? 03:37.840 --> 03:40.280 You can make it crystal if it's any easier. 03:40.280 --> 03:41.280 Yes, ma'am. 03:41.280 --> 03:42.280 What did you mean? 03:42.280 --> 03:43.280 That you've seen a lot of them? 03:43.280 --> 03:44.280 Alkies, you know, drunks. 03:44.280 --> 03:45.280 Mm-hmm. 03:45.280 --> 03:46.280 Well, she's one. 03:46.280 --> 03:47.880 I could spot it right off. 03:47.880 --> 03:49.960 Her and those four beautiful children. 03:49.960 --> 03:50.960 Yeah. 03:50.960 --> 03:54.120 Well, the first few months they lived there, I'd maybe see her a couple times a week, you 03:54.120 --> 03:55.600 know, going in the house or coming out. 03:55.600 --> 03:56.600 Just a couple times a week. 03:56.600 --> 03:57.600 Oh, I see. 03:57.600 --> 04:00.160 Last week, 10 days, I hadn't seen her at all. 04:00.160 --> 04:01.160 Not even a little sight. 04:01.160 --> 04:02.160 Mm-hmm. 04:02.160 --> 04:04.160 So right off, I figured that something was wrong. 04:04.160 --> 04:05.640 That's the way it looks to me. 04:05.640 --> 04:06.640 All right. 04:06.640 --> 04:07.640 Thank you, Mrs. Eggers. 04:07.640 --> 04:15.320 I wanted to see a town involvement, your mother, is busy in court, and she'll be there the 04:15.320 --> 04:16.320 next day. 04:16.320 --> 04:17.320 Put it around her Caboodle styling. 04:17.320 --> 04:18.320 Want the table dressed her like that? 04:18.320 --> 04:19.320 No, can't fit right away. 04:19.320 --> 04:20.640 Oh, that's what I wanted this policewoman to do. 04:20.640 --> 04:22.800 I told her I'd go right along with you. 04:22.800 --> 04:24.100 Well, that won't be necessary. 04:24.100 --> 04:27.200 Now listen, young man, if there's anything wrong with them kids, I want to know about 04:27.200 --> 04:28.200 it. 04:28.200 --> 04:29.200 I want to do my part. 04:29.200 --> 04:30.200 The whole neighborhood's talking. 04:30.200 --> 04:31.200 Is that right? 04:31.200 --> 04:32.200 Sure. 04:32.200 --> 04:35.200 Little Stevey's been to all the houses looking for something to do, asking for work. 04:35.200 --> 04:36.400 Let's just do that. 04:36.400 --> 04:37.800 We'll see what I say is true. 04:37.800 --> 04:38.760 Thank you, Mrs. Eggers. 04:38.760 --> 04:40.160 Don't go thanking me. 04:40.160 --> 04:42.000 Just trying to be civil-minded, that's all. 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 Mm-hmm. 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 Just seems that there isn't anybody 04:44.000 --> 04:45.480 who cares about those kids. 04:45.480 --> 04:46.680 Well, that's not true, Mrs. Eggers. 04:46.680 --> 04:47.280 What? 04:47.280 --> 04:47.780 We do. 04:47.780 --> 04:53.380 814 PM. 04:53.380 --> 04:55.520 Policewoman Irene Gardner and I left the office 04:55.520 --> 04:58.280 and drove over to the address the Eggers woman had given us. 04:58.280 --> 05:00.480 The house was a small, one-story clabbered building 05:00.480 --> 05:02.580 located on the rear of the lot. 05:02.580 --> 05:04.260 The front yard was overgrown with weeds 05:04.260 --> 05:07.200 and there were neighborhood advertising papers lying around. 05:07.200 --> 05:08.600 When we arrived, there was a faint light 05:08.600 --> 05:10.600 on in one of the front rooms. 05:10.600 --> 05:12.840 Irene and I went up to the front door and we knocked. 05:12.840 --> 05:14.100 We got no answer. 05:14.100 --> 05:16.100 I tried the door, but we found it locked. 05:16.100 --> 05:17.940 There was no sound from inside the place. 05:17.940 --> 05:19.340 The shades were drawn over the window 05:19.340 --> 05:21.940 so that it was impossible for us to see into the house. 05:21.940 --> 05:24.140 We walked around to the rear and tried the back door. 05:27.020 --> 05:27.520 Locked. 05:27.520 --> 05:28.020 Yeah. 05:28.020 --> 05:29.580 Doesn't look like there's anybody home. 05:29.580 --> 05:30.480 Mm-hmm. 05:30.480 --> 05:32.080 Let's talk to that Eggers woman again, huh? 05:32.080 --> 05:34.360 All right. 05:34.360 --> 05:35.560 Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? 05:35.560 --> 05:37.920 From the story she gave us, the kid should be at home. 05:37.920 --> 05:39.360 She might be seeing things, Joe. 05:39.360 --> 05:41.560 You know, trying to figure out some way to get attention. 05:41.560 --> 05:42.800 Yeah, it might be. 05:42.800 --> 05:45.600 Didn't seem like that to me, though. 05:45.600 --> 05:46.100 Joe? 05:46.100 --> 05:47.360 What? 05:47.360 --> 05:48.440 What do you got there? 05:48.440 --> 05:49.640 Front window. 05:49.640 --> 05:51.240 There, you see it? 05:51.240 --> 05:51.740 Yeah. 05:51.740 --> 05:52.840 There's somebody in there. 05:52.840 --> 06:02.320 Come on, let's go. 06:02.320 --> 06:03.120 Try it again. 06:03.120 --> 06:03.620 Yeah. 06:07.180 --> 06:09.780 Not answering. 06:09.780 --> 06:11.860 Come on, open up in there. 06:11.860 --> 06:12.820 We know you're in there. 06:12.820 --> 06:13.620 Come on. 06:13.620 --> 06:14.220 Open the door. 06:17.100 --> 06:18.360 What do you want? 06:18.360 --> 06:20.060 Police officers, let us in. 06:20.060 --> 06:21.060 There's nothing wrong. 06:21.060 --> 06:21.900 Go away. 06:21.900 --> 06:22.600 No, we can't do that. 06:22.600 --> 06:24.100 Now come on, open up. 06:24.100 --> 06:25.600 Who are you going to arrest? 06:25.600 --> 06:27.300 Nobody, we just want to talk to you. 06:27.300 --> 06:28.600 You sure that's all? 06:28.600 --> 06:30.040 That's right. 06:30.040 --> 06:32.020 OK, just a minute. 06:36.440 --> 06:37.820 What do you want? 06:37.820 --> 06:39.280 You Pamela Telford? 06:39.280 --> 06:41.020 I haven't done anything wrong. 06:41.020 --> 06:42.420 Well, we didn't say you did. 06:42.420 --> 06:44.160 Then what are you doing around here? 06:44.160 --> 06:45.520 What are you looking for? 06:45.520 --> 06:46.860 Your mother in? 06:46.860 --> 06:47.820 What? 06:47.820 --> 06:49.020 Is your mother home? 06:49.020 --> 06:51.300 Well, yeah, she's here. 06:51.300 --> 06:52.900 Well, we'd like to see her if it's all right. 06:52.900 --> 06:53.500 You can't. 06:53.500 --> 06:54.600 You can't see her. 06:54.600 --> 06:55.960 Well, I'm afraid we're going to have to. 06:55.960 --> 06:57.800 She's lying down asleep. 06:57.800 --> 06:59.500 That's why you can't talk to her. 06:59.500 --> 07:00.900 Well, what's the matter, little girl? 07:00.900 --> 07:01.880 Nothing. 07:01.880 --> 07:03.840 Why do you have something like that? 07:03.840 --> 07:05.080 Don't you think you better let us in? 07:05.080 --> 07:06.720 We're going to have to talk to your mother. 07:06.720 --> 07:07.780 But she's asleep. 07:07.780 --> 07:08.880 She's tired. 07:08.880 --> 07:09.780 You can't talk to her. 07:09.780 --> 07:10.680 You can't. 07:10.680 --> 07:11.520 Now come on. 07:11.520 --> 07:12.720 You want to go and wake her up? 07:12.720 --> 07:14.720 There's some things we've got to talk to her about. 07:14.720 --> 07:15.880 I wonder if we could come in. 07:15.880 --> 07:17.960 It's kind of wet out here. 07:17.960 --> 07:18.460 Hmm? 07:18.460 --> 07:19.520 How about it? 07:19.520 --> 07:22.300 Then you can get your mother and we can have our talk, huh? 07:22.300 --> 07:24.160 I guess you can come in. 07:24.160 --> 07:26.800 I guess it's all right. 07:26.800 --> 07:27.700 Come on in, Joe. 07:27.700 --> 07:29.900 Yeah. 07:29.900 --> 07:32.000 The front room was about 12 feet square. 07:32.000 --> 07:33.800 The only light in the room came from a candle 07:33.800 --> 07:35.540 and a jelly glass on a table. 07:35.540 --> 07:36.980 The only furniture in the place was 07:36.980 --> 07:39.680 the table that held the candle and a torn artificial leather 07:39.680 --> 07:41.380 and chrome couch. 07:41.380 --> 07:42.760 The floor was covered with paper, 07:42.760 --> 07:45.840 rain-soaked cardboard boxes, and dirty clothes. 07:45.840 --> 07:47.340 At a half a dozen different places, 07:47.340 --> 07:49.920 drops of dirty water were seeping through the roof. 07:49.920 --> 07:52.280 The water was being caught in empty tin cans that had been 07:52.280 --> 07:53.880 placed around the room. 07:53.880 --> 07:55.960 To the left was a door to a bedroom. 07:55.960 --> 07:58.280 In it, in a wooden crib, were two children. 07:58.280 --> 08:00.520 From the descriptions we'd gotten from the Yeager's woman, 08:00.520 --> 08:03.280 we recognized him as Martin Telford, age four, 08:03.280 --> 08:05.800 and his sister Carol, age two. 08:05.800 --> 08:07.420 As soon as the children saw Irene and me, 08:07.420 --> 08:09.120 they hid their heads under the dirty blanket 08:09.120 --> 08:10.360 that covered the crib. 08:10.360 --> 08:11.720 There was nothing else in the room 08:11.720 --> 08:14.800 except a dirty mattress lying on the floor in one corner. 08:14.800 --> 08:16.240 From the appearance of the bedding, 08:16.240 --> 08:19.600 it hadn't been laundered or changed in at least three weeks. 08:19.600 --> 08:21.400 On the other side of the house, a small kitchen 08:21.400 --> 08:24.400 was piled high with dirty dishes, pieces of rotting food 08:24.400 --> 08:25.960 and empty tin cans. 08:25.960 --> 08:27.880 The plumbing in the house had apparently been out 08:27.880 --> 08:29.400 of order for several weeks. 08:29.400 --> 08:31.120 While Irene and I looked over the house, 08:31.120 --> 08:33.160 the girl who'd met us at the door, Pamela Telford, 08:33.160 --> 08:34.320 followed us. 08:34.320 --> 08:37.200 When we got back to the front room, she started to cry. 08:37.200 --> 08:43.840 Oh, do you want to tell us where she is? 08:43.840 --> 08:44.480 Come on, Pamela. 08:44.480 --> 08:46.040 It's not as bad as all that, is it? 08:46.040 --> 08:49.480 Here, here's a handkerchief. 08:49.480 --> 08:50.440 Here you are. 08:50.440 --> 08:52.280 Now where's your mother? 08:52.280 --> 08:54.280 She's out looking for a job. 08:54.280 --> 08:55.840 It's kind of late for that, isn't it? 08:55.840 --> 08:56.880 I don't know. 08:56.880 --> 08:58.480 That's what she's doing, though. 08:58.480 --> 09:00.040 Out looking for a job. 09:00.040 --> 09:02.360 Well, now why'd you tell us that she was here tonight? 09:02.360 --> 09:04.280 Because I didn't know what you wanted. 09:04.280 --> 09:06.240 I thought you were trying to arrest her. 09:06.240 --> 09:07.680 Well, why'd you think that? 09:07.680 --> 09:09.360 Because that's what she said. 09:09.360 --> 09:10.880 Your mother said that? 09:10.880 --> 09:11.720 Yes. 09:11.720 --> 09:14.080 She told us that policemen arrested people. 09:14.080 --> 09:15.600 She told us about it. 09:15.600 --> 09:17.200 How you did it once to her. 09:17.200 --> 09:18.680 Your mother's been arrested? 09:18.680 --> 09:19.520 Yes. 09:19.520 --> 09:20.720 Do you know why? 09:20.720 --> 09:22.080 Because she was. 09:22.080 --> 09:23.520 But what for, do you know? 09:23.520 --> 09:24.600 She got sick. 09:24.600 --> 09:27.480 She got sick and they put her in jail. 09:27.480 --> 09:29.600 That's why I told you she was asleep. 09:29.600 --> 09:32.480 I thought that you'd go away and leave us alone. 09:32.480 --> 09:33.600 It's sure cold in here. 09:33.600 --> 09:34.480 Yeah. 09:34.480 --> 09:36.280 Do you have any heat in the house, Pamela? 09:36.280 --> 09:37.840 There's a heater in the bedroom. 09:37.840 --> 09:39.280 I'll turn it on. 09:39.280 --> 09:40.600 It doesn't work. 09:40.600 --> 09:41.200 What? 09:41.200 --> 09:42.320 The heater doesn't work. 09:42.320 --> 09:44.720 Marty was playing one day and he broke the little rods in it. 09:44.720 --> 09:46.040 It doesn't work anymore. 09:46.040 --> 09:47.960 Well, we should be able to get some heat out of it. 09:47.960 --> 09:48.840 No, you won't. 09:48.840 --> 09:50.200 There isn't any gas. 09:50.200 --> 09:51.480 They turned it off. 09:51.480 --> 09:52.600 Mm-hmm. 09:52.600 --> 09:54.280 Well, I think maybe you youngsters better come downtown 09:54.280 --> 09:55.240 with us, don't you think? 09:55.240 --> 09:55.760 Why? 09:55.760 --> 09:58.440 Well, it'll be warm down there, a lot more comfortable for you. 09:58.440 --> 09:59.320 We can't go. 09:59.320 --> 10:00.520 We've got to wait here. 10:00.520 --> 10:01.360 That's all right, Pamela. 10:01.360 --> 10:03.440 We'll leave word for your mother where you are. 10:03.440 --> 10:04.840 Maybe that's your mother now, huh? 10:04.840 --> 10:05.760 No, it's Steve. 10:08.960 --> 10:10.040 Who are you? 10:10.040 --> 10:11.400 He's a policeman. 10:11.400 --> 10:11.920 What do you want? 10:11.920 --> 10:13.280 There's nothing wrong here. 10:13.280 --> 10:14.880 There's nothing for you to come buttin' in for. 10:14.880 --> 10:16.080 We want to see your mother, son. 10:16.080 --> 10:17.080 She hasn't done anything. 10:17.080 --> 10:18.600 Why don't you cops leave her alone? 10:18.600 --> 10:20.680 All the time you're after, never leave her alone. 10:20.680 --> 10:22.480 You're kind of rough for a little guy, aren't you? 10:22.480 --> 10:23.600 That's none of your business. 10:23.600 --> 10:24.680 I know my rights. 10:24.680 --> 10:25.680 I know I'm good. 10:25.680 --> 10:26.840 Well, look here, son. 10:26.840 --> 10:28.680 We're going to take you downtown, give you a good meal, 10:28.680 --> 10:29.960 just until we can talk to your mother. 10:29.960 --> 10:31.240 That's all. 10:31.240 --> 10:32.600 Then you're going to bring us back? 10:32.600 --> 10:33.360 Well, we'll see. 10:33.360 --> 10:34.400 How about Marty and Carol? 10:34.400 --> 10:35.400 You taking them, too? 10:35.400 --> 10:36.400 Yeah. 10:36.400 --> 10:37.880 Going to give them something to eat? 10:37.880 --> 10:40.160 Yes, that's right. 10:40.160 --> 10:41.600 OK, we'll go with you. 10:41.600 --> 10:42.400 Just for the night, though. 10:42.400 --> 10:43.800 That's all, just for the night. 10:43.800 --> 10:44.560 You understand? 10:44.560 --> 10:45.080 Yeah. 10:45.080 --> 10:46.000 One another thing. 10:46.000 --> 10:46.920 Yes, what's that? 10:46.920 --> 10:48.320 We're paying our own way. 10:48.320 --> 10:49.240 I've got money. 10:49.240 --> 10:50.920 Anything you give us, we're going to pay for. 10:50.920 --> 10:52.120 Well, you won't have to do that, son. 10:52.120 --> 10:53.280 Well, I'm going to. 10:53.280 --> 10:54.320 We don't need charity. 10:54.320 --> 10:56.000 We're getting along all right. 10:56.000 --> 10:57.880 Everybody has a little luck now and then. 10:57.880 --> 10:58.680 Everybody. 10:58.680 --> 10:59.440 Mom tries. 10:59.440 --> 11:00.880 She really does. 11:00.880 --> 11:02.640 She's been looking for a job for a long time. 11:02.640 --> 11:03.280 Uh-huh. 11:03.280 --> 11:04.240 All right, Steve, you want to help 11:04.240 --> 11:05.720 get the others ready to leave? 11:05.720 --> 11:07.080 I'm not sure we can go. 11:07.080 --> 11:09.640 Well, I'm afraid you're going to have to, son. 11:09.640 --> 11:11.680 All right, but just for the night. 11:11.680 --> 11:14.000 The only reason is that I want Marty and Carol and Pamela 11:14.000 --> 11:15.720 to have something hot to eat. 11:15.720 --> 11:16.720 There's something wrong with the stove, 11:16.720 --> 11:18.280 so we can't cook on it. 11:18.280 --> 11:20.080 That's the only reason we're going, 11:20.080 --> 11:21.960 just because there's something wrong with the stove. 11:21.960 --> 11:23.080 The gas has turned on. 11:23.080 --> 11:23.600 No, it isn't. 11:23.600 --> 11:25.040 It just don't work. 11:25.040 --> 11:28.160 But whatever we eat, whatever we get, we're going to pay for. 11:28.160 --> 11:29.280 I've got the money. 11:29.280 --> 11:31.080 Well, I told you once before, that won't be necessary. 11:31.080 --> 11:32.120 It is, too. 11:32.120 --> 11:33.880 We're not taking any charity. 11:33.880 --> 11:34.800 We've never taken any. 11:34.800 --> 11:36.520 We're not going to start now either. 11:36.520 --> 11:38.960 Anything that's done for us is going to be paid for. 11:38.960 --> 11:40.400 Yeah, I guess that's right, Steve. 11:40.400 --> 11:40.960 Huh? 11:40.960 --> 11:41.760 It'll be paid for. 11:46.760 --> 11:48.000 8 56 PM. 11:48.000 --> 11:49.920 Men from the crime lab arrived and photographed 11:49.920 --> 11:50.720 the entire house. 11:50.720 --> 11:52.560 The pictures were held for evidence. 11:52.560 --> 11:54.560 A search of the house showed that there was no food 11:54.560 --> 11:55.720 for the children. 11:55.720 --> 11:58.240 In a cardboard box in the bedroom under a pile of toilet 11:58.240 --> 12:00.560 articles, we found a photograph of a man and a woman taken 12:00.560 --> 12:02.880 at what appeared to be a beach photographers. 12:02.880 --> 12:04.840 Irene and I checked through the rest of the house, 12:04.840 --> 12:06.160 but we found nothing that would indicate 12:06.160 --> 12:09.160 where the mother of the four Telford children had gone. 12:09.160 --> 12:11.240 The youngsters were taken to juvenile hall, bathed, 12:11.240 --> 12:13.440 given clean clothes, and fed. 12:13.440 --> 12:15.520 At first, Steve Telford refused to eat anything 12:15.520 --> 12:17.520 until he was assured that his two sisters and his brother 12:17.520 --> 12:19.440 were being given the same kind of food. 12:19.440 --> 12:20.560 After the boy had finished eating, 12:20.560 --> 12:22.080 Irene and I talked to him. 12:22.080 --> 12:24.200 His previous uncooperative attitude had changed, 12:24.200 --> 12:26.160 and he seemed anxious to help us find his mother. 12:26.160 --> 12:28.320 This is the longest she's ever been gone. 12:28.320 --> 12:30.040 I began to think there might be something wrong. 12:30.040 --> 12:31.760 Well, when did you see her last, Steve? 12:31.760 --> 12:32.920 This is Friday, isn't it? 12:32.920 --> 12:34.240 Yes, February 8. 12:34.240 --> 12:35.360 Uh-huh. 12:35.360 --> 12:36.640 It was last Tuesday then. 12:36.640 --> 12:37.800 You mean this week, son? 12:37.800 --> 12:39.600 No, a week ago. 12:39.600 --> 12:41.280 A week ago Tuesday. 12:41.280 --> 12:42.560 Well, what did she say when she left? 12:42.560 --> 12:43.880 Just like always. 12:43.880 --> 12:45.280 She said she wasn't feeling very good, 12:45.280 --> 12:47.000 and she was going out and trying to look for work. 12:47.000 --> 12:48.160 What kind of work does she do? 12:48.160 --> 12:49.800 She's a waitress, a good one too. 12:49.800 --> 12:50.960 Mm-hmm. 12:50.960 --> 12:52.440 That's a trouble, I guess. 12:52.440 --> 12:53.640 She's so good. 12:53.640 --> 12:54.720 What do you mean? 12:54.720 --> 12:56.280 Well, there are only a couple of places 12:56.280 --> 12:57.840 that Mom says are any good. 12:57.840 --> 12:59.800 Well, you know where she went to work. 12:59.800 --> 13:01.600 I don't believe I understand what you mean, Steve. 13:01.600 --> 13:04.760 Well, Mom always said that she wasn't just a hash slinger. 13:04.760 --> 13:05.600 That's what she called her. 13:05.600 --> 13:06.400 Oh, I see. 13:06.400 --> 13:07.800 She said that she was a waitress, 13:07.800 --> 13:09.720 and she couldn't go to work just any place. 13:09.720 --> 13:10.520 Mm-hmm. 13:10.520 --> 13:11.560 Where'd she work last? 13:11.560 --> 13:13.320 A big place out in Beverly Hills. 13:13.320 --> 13:15.040 I forgot the name right now. 13:15.040 --> 13:17.240 But when she got the job before she went to work, 13:17.240 --> 13:18.840 Mom took us out there. 13:18.840 --> 13:21.240 We didn't go right in, but we stood in front and looked at it. 13:21.240 --> 13:22.920 Big place, real nice. 13:22.920 --> 13:24.920 You know, all kind of grass in front. 13:24.920 --> 13:27.520 You could see the people inside having a good time. 13:27.520 --> 13:29.400 We didn't go in, but we could see it good. 13:29.400 --> 13:31.080 How long did your mother work there? 13:31.080 --> 13:33.800 Well, she had some trouble, and she had to quit. 13:33.800 --> 13:35.160 What do you mean trouble? 13:35.160 --> 13:38.400 She got sick, and the man who was her boss got mad at her. 13:38.400 --> 13:40.760 And I guess he said a lot of things that Mom didn't like. 13:40.760 --> 13:42.880 So Mom told him that he couldn't talk to her like that, 13:42.880 --> 13:44.240 and then she quit. 13:44.240 --> 13:47.200 Your mother ever tell you what was wrong with her? 13:47.200 --> 13:48.800 Steve? 13:48.800 --> 13:49.960 No, she didn't. 13:49.960 --> 13:52.560 Did she see a doctor about it? 13:52.560 --> 13:54.160 You might as well know it. 13:54.160 --> 13:55.600 You're going to find out anyway. 13:55.600 --> 13:57.320 What's that, son? 13:57.320 --> 13:58.760 Well, Mom drank a lot. 13:58.760 --> 14:01.520 Sometimes she'd drink too much, and then she'd get sick. 14:01.520 --> 14:02.680 That's what was wrong. 14:02.680 --> 14:03.560 Mm-hmm. 14:03.560 --> 14:04.600 Where's your father, Steve? 14:04.600 --> 14:07.520 He died before Carol was born, right before. 14:07.520 --> 14:09.560 I want you to take a look at a picture for us, will you? 14:09.560 --> 14:11.760 Look at it and tell us if you know who the man in it is. 14:11.760 --> 14:12.640 All right. 14:12.640 --> 14:14.880 There you are. 14:14.880 --> 14:17.360 That's Mom. 14:17.360 --> 14:18.880 You know who the man is? 14:18.880 --> 14:20.440 No. 14:20.440 --> 14:21.960 I don't think I ever saw him before. 14:21.960 --> 14:23.480 Does your mother have any men friends? 14:23.480 --> 14:25.240 No, I don't think so. 14:25.240 --> 14:27.200 At least she never told me about him. 14:27.200 --> 14:29.120 She always said that the kids were enough for her, 14:29.120 --> 14:31.080 that we were all that mattered. 14:31.080 --> 14:33.160 She used to say that when she got a steady job, 14:33.160 --> 14:34.880 we were all going to live good. 14:34.880 --> 14:36.800 She used to tell us how one day the phone would ring 14:36.800 --> 14:39.640 and all our troubles would be over, just like that. 14:39.640 --> 14:40.960 One day we've had a little trouble, 14:40.960 --> 14:43.000 and the next, everything was going to be all right. 14:43.000 --> 14:43.800 Mm-hmm. 14:43.800 --> 14:45.240 She really believed it, too. 14:45.240 --> 14:47.120 Just all of a sudden, the phone was going to ring 14:47.120 --> 14:48.440 and all our troubles would be over. 14:48.440 --> 14:49.800 Mm-hmm. 14:49.800 --> 14:51.120 I didn't know how to tell her. 14:51.120 --> 14:52.400 Tell her what, son? 14:52.400 --> 14:53.760 That they turned the phone off. 14:53.760 --> 14:36.040 ["The 15:00.040 --> 15:02.200 We had the name Rowena Telford checked through R&I. 15:02.200 --> 15:04.120 We found that the boy's story was true. 15:04.120 --> 15:07.880 The woman had been arrested once on a charge of 4127A LAMC, 15:07.880 --> 15:10.000 being drunk in a public place. 15:10.000 --> 15:11.760 Irene put in a call to the waitress' union 15:11.760 --> 15:13.680 and asked them to check to see if the woman was working 15:13.680 --> 15:15.400 any place in town. 15:15.400 --> 15:16.720 They came back with the information 15:16.720 --> 15:19.480 that the last job she'd held had been six months before 15:19.480 --> 15:21.320 and that she'd been fired for insubordination 15:21.320 --> 15:22.720 and for being drunk. 15:22.720 --> 15:24.360 We showed the picture of the man and woman 15:24.360 --> 15:26.480 that we'd found at the Telford home around the department 15:26.480 --> 15:27.680 in the hopes that one of the officers 15:27.680 --> 15:29.920 might recognize the place where it was taken. 15:29.920 --> 15:31.280 None of them did. 15:31.280 --> 15:33.080 The next morning, we had several copies made 15:33.080 --> 15:35.680 and we began a search of the bars along Fifth Street. 15:35.680 --> 15:37.160 We asked each bartender if he'd ever 15:37.160 --> 15:38.680 seen the man or the woman. 15:38.680 --> 15:40.080 In the first four places we checked, 15:40.080 --> 15:42.240 we got yes answers to the query about the woman, 15:42.240 --> 15:43.680 but none of the people we talked to 15:43.680 --> 15:46.200 could tell us anything about the man in the picture. 15:46.200 --> 15:48.680 Two more days passed without results. 15:48.680 --> 15:50.240 In the meantime, a warrant had been issued 15:50.240 --> 15:51.800 ordering the arrest of Rowena Telford 15:51.800 --> 15:53.960 charging her with child neglect. 15:53.960 --> 15:56.800 A local and an APB were gotten out on her. 15:56.800 --> 15:58.640 On the third day after we'd started our search 15:58.640 --> 16:00.400 for the missing woman, we talked with a bartender 16:00.400 --> 16:02.800 who was able to give us the name of the man in the picture. 16:02.800 --> 16:04.240 He described the man as a fry cook 16:04.240 --> 16:07.040 in one of the smaller restaurants down on Fifth Street. 16:07.040 --> 16:08.360 We checked the restaurant, but we found 16:08.360 --> 16:11.560 that he'd been fired on Monday, the 28th of January. 16:11.560 --> 16:13.600 A check of his home address gave us no indications 16:13.600 --> 16:15.280 to where he might be. 16:15.280 --> 16:16.600 Irene and I went back to the office 16:16.600 --> 16:18.680 and checked the name through RNI. 16:18.680 --> 16:19.520 Joe? 16:19.520 --> 16:20.600 Yeah. 16:20.600 --> 16:21.440 Did she come up with anything? 16:21.440 --> 16:23.880 Checked the name, he's registered as an ex-convict. 16:23.880 --> 16:24.720 Where'd he fall? 16:24.720 --> 16:26.760 Back in Pennsylvania, did time for ADW. 16:26.760 --> 16:27.600 Well, we better talk to him, huh? 16:27.600 --> 16:28.760 Right now he looks awful good. 16:28.760 --> 16:29.600 Why do you say that? 16:29.600 --> 16:30.440 Because he was arrested for it. 16:30.440 --> 16:31.280 Yeah. 16:31.280 --> 16:32.400 He tried to beat a woman to death. 16:32.400 --> 16:35.400 ["Dragnet Theme"] 16:42.160 --> 16:43.920 You are listening to Dragnet, 16:43.920 --> 16:46.560 the authentic story of your police force in action. 16:47.560 --> 16:49.960 Meet Peter Lynn Hayes and Mary Healy, 16:49.960 --> 16:53.040 America's favorite husband and wife comedy team. 16:53.040 --> 16:55.200 They are typical of smokers everywhere 16:55.200 --> 16:58.480 who are saying, Chesterfield's for me. 16:58.480 --> 17:01.800 Mary says, I've smoked regular sized Chesterfields 17:01.800 --> 17:03.440 for about seven years. 17:03.440 --> 17:04.920 Guess that ought to prove how I feel 17:04.920 --> 17:07.360 about Chesterfield's taste in mildness. 17:07.360 --> 17:10.240 Peter says, Chesterfield's for me too. 17:10.240 --> 17:12.960 For as I'm concerned, King is the only size 17:12.960 --> 17:16.360 and like Mary says, Chesterfield is the only cigarette. 17:16.360 --> 17:17.840 Either way you like them. 17:17.840 --> 17:21.160 I'll bet you'll find Chesterfield is best for you. 17:21.160 --> 17:25.080 Yes, smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 17:25.080 --> 17:28.120 Regular and King-sized Chesterfield. 17:28.120 --> 17:32.600 The best cigarette ever made and best for you. 17:32.600 --> 17:35.600 ["Dragnet Theme"] 17:41.280 --> 17:42.920 An immediate search was started for the man 17:42.920 --> 17:44.680 in the picture with Rowena Telford. 17:44.680 --> 17:46.400 From friends of his, we found that we might be able 17:46.400 --> 17:49.080 to locate him at a hamburger stand down at Santa Monica. 17:49.080 --> 17:51.440 Tuesday, February 12th, policewoman Irene Gardner 17:51.440 --> 17:53.440 and I drove down to the beach. 17:53.440 --> 17:54.560 Should be it up there, huh? 17:54.560 --> 17:55.380 Yeah. 17:57.040 --> 17:57.860 Go ahead. 17:57.860 --> 17:58.680 Thank you. 18:00.680 --> 18:01.640 Here we go. 18:01.640 --> 18:02.400 There's one in here. 18:02.400 --> 18:03.240 Yeah. 18:04.120 --> 18:06.080 Ready to see Willis Thatcher? 18:06.080 --> 18:06.920 What for? 18:06.920 --> 18:09.640 Police officer, you're Thatcher, aren't you? 18:09.640 --> 18:10.760 Yeah, what do you want with me? 18:10.760 --> 18:11.780 A couple of questions I'd like to ask you. 18:11.780 --> 18:13.240 Sure, I ain't got nothing to hide. 18:13.240 --> 18:15.160 No reason to give you any trouble, what do you want to know? 18:15.160 --> 18:16.900 You know a woman named Rowena Telford? 18:16.900 --> 18:18.460 Why do you ask that? 18:18.460 --> 18:19.780 It's a simple question, Thatcher. 18:19.780 --> 18:21.640 Can you give us the right kind of an answer? 18:22.640 --> 18:24.240 How about it? 18:24.240 --> 18:25.160 Yeah, I know her, why? 18:25.160 --> 18:26.160 What's she done now? 18:26.160 --> 18:27.200 When did you see her last? 18:27.200 --> 18:28.700 I don't know, a couple of weeks ago. 18:28.700 --> 18:30.100 Narrow that down, will you? 18:30.100 --> 18:30.740 Why? 18:30.740 --> 18:32.700 Listen, anything she did, I had no part of. 18:32.700 --> 18:34.280 We understand you were pretty friendly with her. 18:34.280 --> 18:35.400 That's not true. 18:35.400 --> 18:36.860 Sure, maybe I had a couple of dates with her. 18:36.860 --> 18:38.780 Not more than a couple, that's it. 18:38.780 --> 18:40.340 And anybody in the world could put up with her 18:40.340 --> 18:41.080 for more than that. 18:41.080 --> 18:42.500 Why do you say a thing like that? 18:42.500 --> 18:43.100 You ever know her? 18:43.100 --> 18:44.460 No, we're looking for her. 18:44.460 --> 18:45.120 You? 18:45.120 --> 18:46.300 No, I've never met her. 18:46.300 --> 18:48.040 That's how come you can ask that kind of question. 18:48.040 --> 18:49.720 And if you knew her, if you spent any time with her, 18:49.720 --> 18:51.220 you had to know what I mean. 18:51.220 --> 18:52.540 Well, suppose you tell us. 18:52.540 --> 18:56.140 She's a lush, a real lush, all the time bosin' it up. 18:56.140 --> 18:57.480 Wasn't so bad that she got loaded, 18:57.480 --> 18:59.720 but she was real loud when she was tanked up, real loud. 18:59.720 --> 19:00.260 Is that right? 19:00.260 --> 19:01.140 Sure, check around. 19:01.140 --> 19:02.340 Ask her friends, talk to them. 19:02.340 --> 19:04.860 They'll all tell you the same story, every one of them. 19:04.860 --> 19:06.260 First off, she'd have a couple of drinks. 19:06.260 --> 19:07.460 Next thing you know, any fellow with her 19:07.460 --> 19:09.220 be trying to get out of a place without getting 19:09.220 --> 19:10.500 his head knocked off. 19:10.500 --> 19:12.060 She was always starting trouble. 19:12.060 --> 19:12.980 Sit down, order a drink. 19:12.980 --> 19:14.940 The next thing you know, some guy was asking you outside. 19:14.940 --> 19:16.860 Well, I ain't built to go outside too often. 19:16.860 --> 19:18.100 I get hurt bad when I fight. 19:18.100 --> 19:19.980 Don't you have any other boyfriends? 19:19.980 --> 19:21.140 You don't listen very good, do you? 19:21.140 --> 19:21.760 What's that? 19:21.760 --> 19:23.340 I told you, didn't anybody around here 19:23.340 --> 19:24.220 had much to do with it. 19:24.220 --> 19:26.380 And as far as I know, there was nobody who went with it. 19:26.380 --> 19:28.300 How'd she seem the last time you saw her? 19:28.300 --> 19:29.620 All right, she had a little hangover. 19:29.620 --> 19:30.700 She always had one of those. 19:30.700 --> 19:32.340 Seemed depressed about anything? 19:32.340 --> 19:33.380 Not that she talked about. 19:33.380 --> 19:34.180 Mm-hmm. 19:34.180 --> 19:35.660 Did she say anything about leaving town? 19:35.660 --> 19:36.860 Not to me. 19:36.860 --> 19:38.300 Listen, how about giving me a break 19:38.300 --> 19:39.700 and telling me what this is all about? 19:39.700 --> 19:40.860 What do you have to rowena for? 19:40.860 --> 19:42.420 These fights you told us about, do you ever have 19:42.420 --> 19:43.820 any arguments with Miss Telford? 19:43.820 --> 19:45.340 I don't think that's any of your business. 19:45.340 --> 19:46.580 We're writing it down that it is, 19:46.580 --> 19:48.100 now how about an answer? 19:48.100 --> 19:49.380 Well, we had a couple of beefs. 19:49.380 --> 19:50.740 I told you, you couldn't go around with her 19:50.740 --> 19:51.940 and not have a little trouble. 19:51.940 --> 19:53.380 Did you ever hit her? 19:53.380 --> 19:54.500 We're back to that, huh? 19:54.500 --> 19:55.660 What do you mean? 19:55.660 --> 19:57.340 You know the record, the time I did. 19:57.340 --> 19:58.940 You figure maybe I did something to her, Rowena, 19:58.940 --> 19:59.540 isn't that it? 19:59.540 --> 20:00.540 You think I hurt her? 20:00.540 --> 20:01.340 We're asking you. 20:01.340 --> 20:02.780 Well, you're way off the road. 20:02.780 --> 20:03.820 I ain't going to try to con you. 20:03.820 --> 20:05.980 Sure, maybe I had a lot of reasons to want to belt her. 20:05.980 --> 20:07.620 I used to think a lot of Rowena. 20:07.620 --> 20:08.980 Awful lot. 20:08.980 --> 20:09.860 But that's all over. 20:09.860 --> 20:11.500 All I want her to do is to leave me alone, 20:11.500 --> 20:13.660 stay away from me. 20:13.660 --> 20:15.100 I didn't ever hit her. 20:15.100 --> 20:16.700 I didn't hurt her, no matter what you think. 20:16.700 --> 20:17.620 All right. 20:17.620 --> 20:18.580 You've got to believe it. 20:18.580 --> 20:20.460 I guess it sounds funny. 20:20.460 --> 20:21.700 Ain't trying to fool anybody. 20:21.700 --> 20:22.500 I'm ready to admit it. 20:22.500 --> 20:24.180 I'm a bum. 20:24.180 --> 20:26.140 She didn't have to keep telling me, not all the time. 20:26.140 --> 20:27.500 I know it. 20:27.500 --> 20:30.860 Nobody likes to be called a bum, even if you know it's true. 20:30.860 --> 20:34.940 ["The New York Times"] 20:34.940 --> 20:36.140 1 47 PM. 20:36.140 --> 20:37.980 We drove the suspect over to his rooming house 20:37.980 --> 20:39.140 and we checked the premises. 20:39.140 --> 20:40.980 We found nothing that would definitely tie him in 20:40.980 --> 20:43.220 with the disappearance of the Telford woman. 20:43.220 --> 20:45.060 After leaving his room, we took him downtown 20:45.060 --> 20:46.780 where he was held for further investigation 20:46.780 --> 20:48.820 on the charge of suspicion of murder. 20:48.820 --> 20:50.140 We checked communications, but we 20:50.140 --> 20:52.700 found that there had been no word on the missing woman. 20:52.700 --> 20:53.780 Her name and description had been 20:53.780 --> 20:55.540 checked through the files and missing persons 20:55.540 --> 20:57.340 bureau without results. 20:57.340 --> 20:58.540 3 40 PM. 20:58.540 --> 20:59.940 Frank came by the office and said 20:59.940 --> 21:01.860 that the trial he was attending was dragging on 21:01.860 --> 21:03.780 and there would be a couple more days before he'd 21:03.780 --> 21:05.620 be back on duty with me. 21:05.620 --> 21:07.860 A petition was filed on behalf of the children charging 21:07.860 --> 21:11.540 violation of section 273 APC, unfit home, 21:11.540 --> 21:14.380 asking that they be made wards of the juvenile court. 21:14.380 --> 21:16.140 Policewoman Irene Gardner put in a call 21:16.140 --> 21:17.860 to the next door neighbor of the Telford woman, 21:17.860 --> 21:19.900 but we found that there had been no trace of the missing woman 21:19.900 --> 21:21.820 since we'd removed the children. 21:21.820 --> 21:23.220 5 12 PM. 21:23.220 --> 21:24.500 We finished up the log for the day 21:24.500 --> 21:26.140 and we were leaving the office. 21:26.140 --> 21:26.540 I got it. 21:29.860 --> 21:31.500 Juvenile Friday. 21:31.500 --> 21:34.020 Yeah, that's right. 21:34.020 --> 21:35.500 Yeah, what's that address? 21:35.500 --> 21:36.100 Yeah. 21:36.100 --> 21:36.980 Mm-hmm. 21:36.980 --> 21:38.420 Yeah, sir, we'll be right there. 21:38.420 --> 21:39.740 Right, thank you. 21:39.740 --> 21:40.540 What do you got? 21:40.540 --> 21:41.660 Bar over on East 6th. 21:41.660 --> 21:42.160 Yeah? 21:42.160 --> 21:43.660 Rowena Telford just walked in. 21:43.660 --> 21:50.780 The bar tender was one of those that we'd questioned when we 21:50.780 --> 21:52.460 first started our investigation. 21:52.460 --> 21:54.180 At the time, he knew the Telford woman, 21:54.180 --> 21:56.620 but he said that he hadn't seen her for several weeks. 21:56.620 --> 21:59.580 On the phone, he told me that she just walked into his bar. 21:59.580 --> 22:00.980 Irene Gardner and I left the office 22:00.980 --> 22:02.820 and drove over to the East 6th Street address, 22:02.820 --> 22:04.260 but the woman had just left. 22:04.260 --> 22:05.780 We had her description and a description 22:05.780 --> 22:07.060 of the clothes she was wearing. 22:07.060 --> 22:08.740 We put that out to all cars in the area, 22:08.740 --> 22:11.100 but she was not picked up. 22:11.100 --> 22:12.820 Irene Gardner and I went back to the office 22:12.820 --> 22:15.300 and we put out a supplementary bulletin on the woman. 22:15.300 --> 22:17.540 At 8 14 PM, we got a call from the woman who'd 22:17.540 --> 22:20.300 made the original complaint, Mrs. Crystal Eggers. 22:20.300 --> 22:21.880 She told us that the Telford woman had just 22:21.880 --> 22:23.380 walked into her own home. 22:23.380 --> 22:25.140 Irene and I left the office and we drove out 22:25.140 --> 22:27.900 to the house on Vallejo Street. 22:27.900 --> 22:29.300 Light on, she must still be home. 22:29.300 --> 22:29.800 Yeah. 22:33.300 --> 22:34.300 Who is it? 22:34.300 --> 22:35.060 Police officers. 22:35.060 --> 22:36.060 We'd like to talk to you. 22:36.060 --> 22:37.060 Just a minute. 22:37.060 --> 22:39.460 It's about time you got here. 22:39.460 --> 22:40.460 You got them yet? 22:40.460 --> 22:41.460 I beg your pardon? 22:41.460 --> 22:42.860 You got the little brats? 22:42.860 --> 22:44.460 They all run off, all of them. 22:44.460 --> 22:47.460 Get my hands on them and they're going to get what for. 22:47.460 --> 22:48.460 Where are they? 22:48.460 --> 22:50.060 We have them downtown, Miss Telford. 22:50.060 --> 22:51.260 Why don't you bring them home? 22:51.260 --> 22:52.660 This is where they belong. 22:52.660 --> 22:54.060 I get my hands on them. 22:54.060 --> 22:56.460 Oh, what I'm going to give that little Steve. 22:56.460 --> 22:57.660 You mind if we come in? 22:57.660 --> 22:59.860 No, come right ahead. 22:59.860 --> 23:01.460 You know, I can't excuse the way your house looks. 23:01.460 --> 23:02.860 I've been away for a couple of days. 23:02.860 --> 23:04.660 You can see how the kids can mess around. 23:04.660 --> 23:07.260 I'm Sergeant Friday, this is Miss Gardner. 23:07.260 --> 23:08.660 Oh, how you do? 23:08.660 --> 23:09.860 Would you like some? 23:09.860 --> 23:11.060 No, that's all right. 23:11.060 --> 23:12.460 How come you didn't bring them back? 23:12.460 --> 23:14.660 They're being held in juvenile hall, Miss Telford. 23:14.660 --> 23:15.660 For what? 23:15.660 --> 23:16.860 Well, when we found them, they were suffering 23:16.860 --> 23:18.460 from malnutrition in this place here. 23:18.460 --> 23:20.660 It's not fit for youngsters. 23:20.660 --> 23:22.860 Oh, so you just took them out and put them in a home. 23:22.860 --> 23:23.860 Is that the way it is? 23:23.860 --> 23:25.460 Yes, ma'am, that's the way it is. 23:25.460 --> 23:27.460 Well, you've got your nerve. 23:27.460 --> 23:28.860 You really have. 23:28.860 --> 23:29.660 What? 23:29.660 --> 23:31.860 You coming in here and bringing them home. 23:31.860 --> 23:34.660 You ought to be ashamed of yourself. 23:34.660 --> 23:36.660 We have a warrant for your arrest. 23:36.660 --> 23:37.460 Me? 23:37.460 --> 23:38.660 Yes, ma'am. 23:38.660 --> 23:41.060 Now, you listen to me, cop. 23:41.060 --> 23:44.460 You've got no right to come in here and break up my home. 23:44.460 --> 23:47.060 I know all about you, cops, all about you, 23:47.060 --> 23:48.660 pussyfooting around trying to make 23:48.660 --> 23:51.060 everybody think you're so good. 23:51.060 --> 23:53.460 I know you for what you are, and I'll tell you this. 23:53.460 --> 23:54.660 Yes, ma'am, what's that? 23:54.660 --> 23:57.660 You better get those kids back here fast, do you hear me? 23:57.660 --> 23:59.860 You get them back here fast, you hear me? 23:59.860 --> 24:02.660 Fast, do you hear me? You get them back here fast. 24:02.660 --> 24:05.460 Because if you don't, I'm going to sue you and her 24:05.460 --> 24:08.460 and the city for every dime it's got. 24:08.460 --> 24:12.260 I'll take this to any court in the country I have to, 24:12.260 --> 24:14.660 but I'm going to get my kids back. 24:14.660 --> 24:17.060 You ain't half as good as you think you are. 24:17.060 --> 24:21.560 You want it plain, real plain so you can understand it. 24:21.560 --> 24:23.260 You stink, that's what. 24:23.260 --> 24:24.460 All of you stink. 24:24.460 --> 24:26.060 All right, ma'am, I think that's enough of that. 24:26.060 --> 24:28.060 Where have you been for the last two weeks? 24:28.060 --> 24:32.860 The most terrible thing that ever happened to me, to anybody. 24:32.860 --> 24:36.460 He told me, he loved me, and said he was going to get married. 24:36.460 --> 24:38.260 I thought it would be nice for the kids. 24:38.260 --> 24:41.060 That's what I thought, for the kids. 24:41.060 --> 24:44.060 He was going to drive down to Mexico and get married. 24:44.060 --> 24:46.460 It was all nice. 24:46.460 --> 24:50.060 Everything was going nice. 24:50.060 --> 24:54.260 He gave Stevie a couple of dollars and told him to take care of things. 24:54.260 --> 24:58.060 Then we left and drove all the way to San Diego without stopping. 24:58.060 --> 25:02.060 Then we had some lunch on the way to get married. 25:02.060 --> 25:06.260 We had a couple of drinks just to make the food taste better, that's all. 25:06.260 --> 25:08.860 Then all of a sudden I got sick again. 25:08.860 --> 25:14.060 He walked out on me, left me right there in the bar all by myself. 25:14.060 --> 25:19.660 All the promises he made to me, all the things he was going to have, 25:19.660 --> 25:23.060 all of it, just a lot of lies. 25:23.060 --> 25:28.060 Soon as I get a little sick, he just had a couple of drinks. 25:28.060 --> 25:34.060 He walked out on me, left me right there all by myself, you know. 25:34.060 --> 25:37.260 All by myself. 25:37.260 --> 25:39.860 I didn't have no money, no way to get back. 25:39.860 --> 25:41.660 What was I going to do? 25:41.660 --> 25:43.060 I believed him. 25:43.060 --> 25:45.660 I really thought he was going to marry me. 25:45.660 --> 25:50.060 I believed all he said, how things were going to be better. 25:50.060 --> 25:53.260 I believed it all. 25:53.260 --> 25:57.860 The dirtiest trick I ever heard of, walking out on a girl like that. 25:57.860 --> 25:59.860 A dirty trick. 25:59.860 --> 26:00.860 I got one to beat it. 26:00.860 --> 26:03.060 The one you pulled on your children. 26:03.060 --> 26:13.460 The story you've just heard is true. 26:13.460 --> 26:15.860 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:15.860 --> 26:21.060 On June 4th, trial was held in Department 97, Superior Court of the State of California, 26:21.060 --> 26:23.060 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 26:23.060 --> 26:25.060 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:25.060 --> 26:27.260 Now, here's our star, Jack Webb. 26:27.260 --> 26:28.860 Thank you, George Fenomen. 26:28.860 --> 26:31.660 Friends, we've tried very hard to set a dragnet standard. 26:31.660 --> 26:33.460 Now, to put that in just a few words, 26:33.460 --> 26:37.260 we try to make each program the kind of entertainment that you want. 26:37.260 --> 26:39.260 Now, we're going to keep working real hard at that. 26:39.260 --> 26:43.060 And you know, the people who make Chesterfields feel the same way about their cigarette. 26:43.060 --> 26:46.460 To sell a product, you have to make it good and keep it good. 26:46.460 --> 26:51.060 And the latest reports from our research lab shows Chesterfield is highest in quality. 26:51.060 --> 26:53.660 Highest in quality, low in nicotine. 26:53.660 --> 26:56.460 Smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 26:56.460 --> 26:57.460 Chesterfield. 26:57.460 --> 26:59.060 Regular or king size. 26:59.060 --> 27:00.060 They're milder. 27:00.060 --> 27:01.260 They're satisfying. 27:01.260 --> 27:02.660 They're best for me. 27:02.660 --> 27:04.260 Best for you. 27:04.260 --> 27:12.860 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 27:12.860 --> 27:18.260 Rowena Esther Telford was tried and convicted of violation of Section 273 APC, 27:18.260 --> 27:20.660 endangering the life and safety of a minor, 27:20.660 --> 27:25.660 which is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than one year. 27:25.660 --> 27:30.860 The four Telford children were made wards of the juvenile court and were placed in foster homes. 27:30.860 --> 27:40.060 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 27:40.060 --> 27:44.860 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 27:44.860 --> 27:50.060 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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