WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.760 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.760 --> 00:14.480 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:14.480 --> 00:19.520 Dragnet is brought to you by Chesterfield, made by Liggett and Myers. 00:19.520 --> 00:32.160 It's a major tobacco company to bring you a complete line of quality cigarettes. 00:32.160 --> 00:33.640 You're a detective sergeant. 00:33.640 --> 00:35.640 You're assigned to hit and run felony detail. 00:35.640 --> 00:39.120 A young woman has been run down and seriously injured. 00:39.120 --> 00:42.120 The driver of the car has fled from the scene. 00:42.120 --> 00:47.640 Your job, find him. 00:47.640 --> 00:51.240 Today, friends, you hear these three words everywhere. 00:51.240 --> 00:53.720 Chesterfield's for me. 00:53.720 --> 00:58.760 The Chesterfield you smoke today is the best cigarette ever made. 00:58.760 --> 01:05.480 Best for you because Chesterfield gives you proof of highest quality, low nicotine. 01:05.480 --> 01:09.040 The taste you want, the mildness you want. 01:09.040 --> 01:14.520 Chesterfield is best for you because it's tested and approved by 30 years of scientific 01:14.520 --> 01:16.440 tobacco research. 01:16.440 --> 01:22.120 Chesterfield is best for you because it has an established good record with smokers, proven 01:22.120 --> 01:24.120 by test after test. 01:24.120 --> 01:31.200 Yes, friends, the Chesterfield you smoke today is the best cigarette ever made for the taste 01:31.200 --> 01:34.160 you want, the mildness you want. 01:34.160 --> 01:37.920 Join the thousands now changing to Chesterfield. 01:37.920 --> 01:47.160 Always say Chesterfield's for me. 01:47.160 --> 01:50.320 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:50.320 --> 01:55.320 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:55.320 --> 01:59.960 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:59.960 --> 02:01.720 police files. 02:01.720 --> 02:06.980 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:06.980 --> 02:07.980 in action. 02:07.980 --> 02:10.120 It was Tuesday, April 7th. 02:10.120 --> 02:15.000 It was cold in Los Angeles. 02:15.000 --> 02:18.440 We were working the day watch out of traffic bureau, couldn't run felony detail. 02:18.440 --> 02:19.440 My partner is Frank Smith. 02:19.440 --> 02:20.440 The boss is Captain Kalfi. 02:20.440 --> 02:21.440 My name is Friday. 02:21.440 --> 02:27.640 We're on our way out from the office and it was 8.40 a.m. when we got to 1784 Byram Street. 02:27.640 --> 02:28.640 Front door. 02:28.640 --> 02:31.640 Better try it again, huh? 02:31.640 --> 02:32.640 Yeah. 02:32.640 --> 02:37.200 Hey, you sound like somebody coming. 02:37.200 --> 02:38.200 Yeah? 02:38.200 --> 02:39.200 Something you want? 02:39.200 --> 02:40.200 Miss Hunter? 02:40.200 --> 02:41.200 That's right. 02:41.200 --> 02:42.200 Who do you want? 02:42.200 --> 02:43.200 Police officers. 02:43.200 --> 02:44.200 We'd like to talk to you. 02:44.200 --> 02:45.200 Oh, about the thing last night, huh? 02:45.200 --> 02:46.200 Yes, ma'am. 02:46.200 --> 02:47.200 That's right. 02:47.200 --> 02:48.200 Well, come on in. 02:48.200 --> 02:49.200 I can't stand around for long. 02:49.200 --> 02:50.200 I'm going to be late for work as it is. 02:50.200 --> 02:51.200 Come on. 02:51.200 --> 02:52.200 Thank you. 02:52.200 --> 02:53.200 This is my partner, Frank Smith. 02:53.200 --> 02:54.200 My name's Friday. 02:54.200 --> 02:55.200 How do you do? 02:55.200 --> 02:56.200 Hi. 02:56.200 --> 02:57.200 Sit down there. 02:57.200 --> 02:58.200 I got to get ready to leave. 02:58.200 --> 02:59.200 There's some coffee there in the carafe if you want some. 02:59.200 --> 03:00.200 No, thank you. 03:00.200 --> 03:01.200 No, ma'am. 03:01.200 --> 03:02.200 Thank you. 03:02.200 --> 03:04.160 You'll find everything right there on the table. 03:04.160 --> 03:05.160 Two sugars. 03:05.160 --> 03:06.160 All right. 03:06.160 --> 03:09.240 What do you want to know about last night? 03:09.240 --> 03:11.280 I told the officers who were there all I know. 03:11.280 --> 03:12.280 Yes, ma'am. 03:12.280 --> 03:13.280 We know. 03:13.280 --> 03:14.280 We read their report. 03:14.280 --> 03:15.280 We'd like to go over it with you if it's all right. 03:15.280 --> 03:16.280 It seems like a waste of time to me. 03:16.280 --> 03:19.280 Spend a little more of it trying to catch the kid that hit the girl. 03:19.280 --> 03:20.280 It'd be better all the way around. 03:20.280 --> 03:21.280 Yes, ma'am. 03:21.280 --> 03:22.280 There's your coffee. 03:22.280 --> 03:23.280 Oh, thank you. 03:23.280 --> 03:24.280 Oh, it's still warm. 03:24.280 --> 03:25.280 Either one of you got a cigarette? 03:25.280 --> 03:26.280 Yes, ma'am. 03:26.280 --> 03:27.280 Here you are. 03:27.280 --> 03:28.280 Here's the light. 03:28.280 --> 03:34.720 Thanks. 03:34.720 --> 03:35.720 What do you want to go over? 03:35.720 --> 03:39.480 Well, according to what you said to the officers last night, you saw the accident, is that right? 03:39.480 --> 03:40.480 I saw it, yeah. 03:40.480 --> 03:42.600 I don't think it was an accident. 03:42.600 --> 03:45.520 If you ask me, I think the kid deliberately hit the girl, deliberately. 03:45.520 --> 03:46.960 Why do you say that? 03:46.960 --> 03:49.120 Well, just the way it looked, that's all. 03:49.120 --> 03:50.120 Kind of feeling. 03:50.120 --> 03:52.240 Wade came barreling around the corner. 03:52.240 --> 03:53.240 He must have seen her. 03:53.240 --> 03:57.920 She was right under the light, didn't even make an attempt to stop, none at all. 03:57.920 --> 04:01.200 I saw the girl step off the curb, right under the light. 04:01.200 --> 04:03.280 He had to see her, had to. 04:03.280 --> 04:06.360 Anyway, she stepped off the curb and started to cross the street. 04:06.360 --> 04:07.960 Harry and me saw her. 04:07.960 --> 04:11.760 She started to cross and then all of a sudden this kid in the hot rod was coming right at 04:11.760 --> 04:12.760 her. 04:12.760 --> 04:14.280 Wasn't anything she could do. 04:14.280 --> 04:17.360 Yes, ma'am. 04:17.360 --> 04:21.600 She kind of looked up at the car and then, well, like she was going to run, but she didn't 04:21.600 --> 04:22.600 have time. 04:22.600 --> 04:23.600 The car hit her and knocked her down. 04:23.600 --> 04:24.600 Did you get a good look at the car? 04:24.600 --> 04:26.400 You mean the one that hit her? 04:26.400 --> 04:27.400 Yes, ma'am. 04:27.400 --> 04:28.400 I did. 04:28.400 --> 04:29.520 It passed right under the light. 04:29.520 --> 04:30.920 Got a real good look at it. 04:30.920 --> 04:32.880 I wonder if you'd describe it for us. 04:32.880 --> 04:35.400 I told the cops all about it last night. 04:35.400 --> 04:36.400 Seems like that'd be enough. 04:36.400 --> 04:38.880 Why do I have to go through it again? 04:38.880 --> 04:41.400 Well, it might be something you didn't think of last night, Miss Hunter. 04:41.400 --> 04:42.400 Something you might have forgotten. 04:42.400 --> 04:45.880 It isn't likely, but if you gotta have it, I guess that's the way it's gotta be. 04:45.880 --> 04:47.760 Hope we can get it over with fast enough. 04:47.760 --> 04:49.840 I gotta get down to the corner so I won't miss my bus. 04:49.840 --> 04:51.560 Well, if it'd help, we can drive you to work. 04:51.560 --> 04:52.800 You can give us the information on the way. 04:52.800 --> 04:53.800 Well, that'll be fine. 04:53.800 --> 04:54.800 Wait a minute. 04:54.800 --> 04:55.800 I'll get my coat. 04:55.800 --> 04:56.800 Uh-huh. 04:56.800 --> 04:58.400 How'd it look when you came in? 04:58.400 --> 04:59.400 Ma'am? 04:59.400 --> 05:00.400 Did it look like it was gonna rain? 05:00.400 --> 05:01.880 No, it was pretty cold, though. 05:01.880 --> 05:03.360 The paper said it might rain today. 05:03.360 --> 05:05.360 Well, better take an umbrella. 05:05.360 --> 05:07.640 What kind of a car was it, Miss Hunter? 05:07.640 --> 05:09.160 A hot rod, you know the kind. 05:09.160 --> 05:11.840 Real low, two exhaust pipes, kind of beat up. 05:11.840 --> 05:13.640 What kind of a car was it, the brand name? 05:13.640 --> 05:16.000 I guess it was a Ford. 05:16.000 --> 05:17.000 Looked like one. 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 Hard to tell. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.480 It was kind of banged up, you know. 05:20.480 --> 05:23.280 I don't know why the police allow cars like that on the streets anyway. 05:23.280 --> 05:24.280 It couldn't be very safe. 05:24.280 --> 05:26.160 Can you tell us what year the car was? 05:26.160 --> 05:29.720 Well, I'm not real good at that, but I'd say maybe 1940. 05:29.720 --> 05:30.720 Might have been 1941. 05:30.720 --> 05:32.280 It was a pre-war car, though. 05:32.280 --> 05:33.280 Oh, yeah, I'm sure of that. 05:33.280 --> 05:34.280 Uh-huh. 05:34.280 --> 05:37.280 Would you like to get in, ma'am? 05:37.280 --> 05:40.280 Okay, thanks. 05:40.280 --> 05:45.200 All right, honey. 05:45.200 --> 05:46.200 Where can we drop you, ma'am? 05:46.200 --> 05:47.880 Near First and Broadway will be fine. 05:47.880 --> 05:48.880 Just on the corner there. 05:48.880 --> 05:49.880 Okay. 05:49.880 --> 05:54.880 Miss Hunter, was there anything about the car that would make it easier to identify? 05:54.880 --> 05:56.520 Not especially. 05:56.520 --> 05:58.360 Black Ford, all beat up. 05:58.360 --> 06:00.960 I'm sure I'd know it if I saw it again, any place. 06:00.960 --> 06:02.880 Did you get a good look at the driver of the car? 06:02.880 --> 06:05.000 No, not too good. 06:05.000 --> 06:08.160 All I could see was that he was a kid, you know, maybe 19, 20 years old. 06:08.160 --> 06:09.160 Uh-huh. 06:09.160 --> 06:10.160 Would you like to see her get that kid? 06:10.160 --> 06:11.160 Is the girl all right? 06:11.160 --> 06:12.160 She looked pretty bad last night. 06:12.160 --> 06:14.160 No, she's still in a critical condition. 06:14.160 --> 06:15.840 Doctors aren't sure yet whether she'll be all right. 06:15.840 --> 06:17.160 Sure hope she is. 06:17.160 --> 06:18.520 Have you talked to her? 06:18.520 --> 06:19.520 No, we haven't, not yet. 06:19.520 --> 06:22.080 It's a terrible thing. 06:22.080 --> 06:25.920 People like that running around in hot rods, barreling around the city, a person's not 06:25.920 --> 06:28.040 safe on the streets anymore. 06:28.040 --> 06:31.240 Just because a car's got twin tailpipes, Miss Hunter, doesn't have to be a hot rod. 06:31.240 --> 06:32.240 Well, this one was. 06:32.240 --> 06:35.960 It even had the little sort of license plate hanging down from the back bumper. 06:35.960 --> 06:37.880 You mean a state license plate? 06:37.880 --> 06:40.960 No, one of those with a club name on it, you know the kind. 06:40.960 --> 06:43.640 There's not a notation of that on the report that we remembered. 06:43.640 --> 06:45.920 I guess I forgot all the excitement at all. 06:45.920 --> 06:46.920 I must have forgot. 06:46.920 --> 06:48.960 Well, did you see the name on that plate? 06:48.960 --> 06:52.040 Yeah, not real good, but I saw it. 06:52.040 --> 06:53.040 Think you can remember it? 06:53.040 --> 06:54.840 Not all of it. 06:54.840 --> 06:58.040 The last part was wheels, something wheels, two words. 06:58.040 --> 06:59.400 You're pretty sure of that, are you? 06:59.400 --> 07:00.400 Yeah, wheels. 07:00.400 --> 07:01.400 That's the word I saw. 07:01.400 --> 07:02.400 I didn't remember it last night. 07:02.400 --> 07:03.920 I guess it didn't seem important then. 07:03.920 --> 07:06.880 Must be a lot of cars that have those plates on them all over town. 07:06.880 --> 07:07.880 Yes, we know. 07:07.880 --> 07:09.480 Don't seem like it's going to help much. 07:09.480 --> 07:11.680 A lot of cars with those plates on them, lots of them. 07:11.680 --> 07:12.680 Yes, ma'am. 07:12.680 --> 07:15.880 Even if you do find the kid with one of them, how are you going to know if he's the right 07:15.880 --> 07:16.880 one? 07:16.880 --> 07:17.880 Well, it's not going to be too hard. 07:17.880 --> 07:18.880 Huh? 07:18.880 --> 07:19.880 This car will tell us. 07:19.880 --> 07:23.240 It's not going to be too hard. 07:23.240 --> 07:26.800 According to the report, an automobile driven by one male occupant had struck a woman while 07:26.800 --> 07:30.560 she crossed the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Connecticut Street the night before. 07:30.560 --> 07:35.040 When the ambulance arrived at the scene, the victim, who was identified as Mrs. Helen Chapman, 07:35.040 --> 07:39.920 was unconscious and was removed to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for emergency treatment. 07:39.920 --> 07:42.640 Members of the crime lab had arrived at the scene and gathered what physical evidence 07:42.640 --> 07:44.040 they could find. 07:44.040 --> 07:47.840 All citizens in the vicinity were interrogated and their statements were taken. 07:47.840 --> 07:51.360 Photographs of the coroner were made and held for evidence. 07:51.360 --> 07:54.520 Because of the hit and run aspect of the case, Frank and I had been assigned to investigate 07:54.520 --> 07:55.520 it. 07:55.520 --> 07:59.080 At 1 14 p.m., we drove over to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital to talk to the attending 07:59.080 --> 08:01.320 physician, Dr. Sebastian. 08:01.320 --> 08:05.640 He said the patient's condition was so critical that she couldn't be moved to her own hospital. 08:05.640 --> 08:08.360 He told us that the victim hadn't recovered consciousness to the point where she could 08:08.360 --> 08:09.360 be questioned. 08:09.360 --> 08:13.880 He went on to tell us that she'd been administered serum albumin to counteract shock. 08:13.880 --> 08:16.000 He listed her injuries for us. 08:16.000 --> 08:19.360 Heart fractures of the femur, rib fractures, and associated internal injuries, including 08:19.360 --> 08:21.640 a punctured lung and brain concussion. 08:21.640 --> 08:24.560 It was not expected that she'd live. 08:24.560 --> 08:26.600 Frank and I left the doctor and walked down the hall. 08:26.600 --> 08:29.920 In the waiting room, we met a tall, thin man who looked as if he hadn't slept in several 08:29.920 --> 08:30.920 days. 08:30.920 --> 08:32.960 On the floor in front of him was a small pile of half-smoked cigarettes. 08:32.960 --> 08:36.080 He identified himself as the victim's husband, Carl Chapman. 08:36.080 --> 08:37.080 I don't know. 08:37.080 --> 08:38.080 I came home from work. 08:38.080 --> 08:39.080 They told me about it. 08:39.080 --> 08:40.080 I didn't even know. 08:40.080 --> 08:41.080 Didn't they try to call you at work? 08:41.080 --> 08:42.320 No, I guess they called the house. 08:42.320 --> 08:43.320 There wasn't anybody home. 08:43.320 --> 08:46.240 They just walked up to the door and there was a note telling me to call her. 08:46.240 --> 08:47.760 Didn't even know about Helen. 08:47.760 --> 08:48.760 I see. 08:48.760 --> 08:51.760 You like cigarette, Chapman? 08:51.760 --> 08:53.640 Thanks. 08:53.640 --> 08:57.440 You talked to the doctor? 08:57.440 --> 08:58.440 Yes, sir. 08:58.440 --> 08:59.440 We just did. 08:59.440 --> 09:00.440 Is there anything new? 09:00.440 --> 09:01.440 Is she going to be all right? 09:01.440 --> 09:02.440 Well, I don't know yet. 09:02.440 --> 09:03.440 You can ask the doctor yourself. 09:03.440 --> 09:05.560 Why don't anybody tell me anything? 09:05.560 --> 09:08.160 All the time I ask how my wife is, they tell me to ask the doctor. 09:08.160 --> 09:09.160 Why won't they tell me? 09:09.160 --> 09:10.160 I don't know, sir. 09:10.160 --> 09:12.120 Can't even find out if she needs anything. 09:12.120 --> 09:14.320 They won't let me see her. 09:14.320 --> 09:15.920 Anybody will tell me what's really happening in there. 09:15.920 --> 09:17.020 It's been over 10 hours. 09:17.020 --> 09:18.020 Nobody will tell me what's going on. 09:18.020 --> 09:20.920 Well, best thing is to try to sit down and take it easy, Mr. Chapman. 09:20.920 --> 09:22.080 That's great to say. 09:22.080 --> 09:23.080 Just sit down. 09:23.080 --> 09:24.080 Easy to say. 09:24.080 --> 09:25.080 It's not your wife who's in there. 09:25.080 --> 09:27.440 It isn't someone you love. 09:27.440 --> 09:28.440 Why are you here anyway? 09:28.440 --> 09:31.080 Why aren't you out trying to get the rotten little plunk that did it? 09:31.080 --> 09:32.800 Why don't you look for him? 09:32.800 --> 09:34.160 We'll get to him, sir. 09:34.160 --> 09:35.160 When? 09:35.160 --> 09:36.160 After Helen's dead? 09:36.160 --> 09:37.760 Is that going to be when you start looking? 09:37.760 --> 09:38.760 We're looking for him now. 09:38.760 --> 09:40.400 We came over in the hopes that we could talk to your wife. 09:40.400 --> 09:42.760 We thought she might be able to give us some information. 09:42.760 --> 09:44.320 What in God's name do you want from her? 09:44.320 --> 09:46.440 The name and address of the kid who ran it down? 09:46.440 --> 09:49.680 Does she have to get out of bed and go find him for you? 09:49.680 --> 09:51.240 It's your job, yours. 09:51.240 --> 09:53.320 All this talk about the police department being so good. 09:53.320 --> 09:54.320 But what are you doing? 09:54.320 --> 09:57.320 Are you standing around here with your toe in the dirt waiting for my wife to come to 09:57.320 --> 09:58.720 her enough to point the kid out? 09:58.720 --> 09:59.720 All right, sir. 09:59.720 --> 10:00.720 Now take it easy. 10:00.720 --> 10:01.720 Take it easy? 10:01.720 --> 10:02.720 Nothing. 10:02.720 --> 10:03.720 You listen to me, both of you. 10:03.720 --> 10:05.400 You listen. 10:05.400 --> 10:08.520 If she dies, if that kid killed her, I'll find him. 10:08.520 --> 10:10.640 I don't know how, but I will. 10:10.640 --> 10:14.680 I'm going to do the same thing to him with my hands that he did with this car. 10:14.680 --> 10:15.680 I'll find him. 10:15.680 --> 10:17.080 I swear I'll find him and I'm going to kill him. 10:17.080 --> 10:19.080 With my hands, I'm going to kill him. 10:19.080 --> 10:20.080 Mr. Chapman? 10:20.080 --> 10:21.080 Yeah. 10:21.080 --> 10:22.080 May I see you for a moment? 10:22.080 --> 10:23.080 Yeah. 10:23.080 --> 10:26.080 Would you excuse us for a minute, Sergeant? 10:26.080 --> 10:27.080 Sure, Doctor. 10:27.080 --> 10:28.080 We'll wait out in the hall. 10:28.080 --> 10:33.080 It's a rough one, isn't it? 10:33.080 --> 10:34.080 Yeah. 10:34.080 --> 10:37.080 I wonder what's going on in there. 10:37.080 --> 10:38.080 I don't know. 10:38.080 --> 10:39.080 Better call the Skipper. 10:39.080 --> 10:41.800 Tell him about that plate on the car. 10:41.800 --> 10:43.240 Get a broadcast out on it. 10:43.240 --> 10:45.360 Check the phone book for the address on the National Hot Rod Association. 10:45.360 --> 10:46.360 Better talk with him, huh? 10:46.360 --> 10:48.360 He might have something for us on the club. 10:48.360 --> 10:49.360 Right. 10:49.360 --> 10:52.080 Well, you better start, cop. 10:52.080 --> 10:54.320 You better find him fast because I'm looking too. 10:54.320 --> 10:56.280 You ought to go home and get some sleep, Mr. Chapman. 10:56.280 --> 10:57.280 You're all worn out. 10:57.280 --> 11:00.280 I'm not going to get any sleep until I catch that kid. 11:00.280 --> 11:03.600 Until I catch that kid. 11:03.600 --> 11:06.960 How is the girl? 11:06.960 --> 11:07.960 She's dead. 11:07.960 --> 11:16.880 She's going to have a baby in a couple of months. 11:16.880 --> 11:17.880 Three fifteen p.m. 11:17.880 --> 11:21.000 Frank and I drove out to the offices of the National Hot Rod Association on Hollywood 11:21.000 --> 11:22.000 Boulevard. 11:22.000 --> 11:24.520 We met with Bud Coons and Wally Parks. 11:24.520 --> 11:27.120 They checked their records for clubs with the last name Wheels. 11:27.120 --> 11:29.480 There were three in their files. 11:29.480 --> 11:32.680 Two were in the eastern part of the United States and one was listed as having headquarters 11:32.680 --> 11:34.720 in Alhambra, California. 11:34.720 --> 11:38.440 We obtained the name and address of the president of the club and we drove out to see him. 11:38.440 --> 11:42.320 We found him in the garage behind the house working on a 1941 Ford. 11:42.320 --> 11:44.320 We introduced ourselves and he asked us to sit down. 11:44.320 --> 11:46.120 What do you want to see me about? 11:46.120 --> 11:48.680 We understand that you're the president of the square wheels, is that right? 11:48.680 --> 11:49.680 Yeah, that's right. 11:49.680 --> 11:50.680 Why? 11:50.680 --> 11:51.680 How many members do you have in the club? 11:51.680 --> 11:52.680 Eighteen. 11:52.680 --> 11:53.680 Eighteen actives. 11:53.680 --> 11:54.680 There was a couple of guys in the service. 11:54.680 --> 11:56.680 What's this all about anyway? 11:56.680 --> 11:57.680 How come the questions? 11:57.680 --> 12:00.480 All your members have the metal plates with the club name on their car? 12:00.480 --> 12:01.480 Yeah. 12:01.480 --> 12:02.880 Get them when they pay the initiation fee. 12:02.880 --> 12:03.880 Why? 12:03.880 --> 12:04.880 Because they're all seven? 12:04.880 --> 12:05.880 Not legally. 12:05.880 --> 12:06.880 What do you mean? 12:06.880 --> 12:09.200 A couple of them out have been stolen from members. 12:09.200 --> 12:11.600 Any of the fellows in the club drive a black pre-war Ford? 12:11.600 --> 12:13.640 Yeah, I guess we got about five of them. 12:13.640 --> 12:15.640 I got one myself as a matter of fact. 12:15.640 --> 12:18.240 Listen, why can't you tell me what this is all about? 12:18.240 --> 12:20.480 Figure if I knew what you wanted, I could help you out. 12:20.480 --> 12:22.640 A woman was run down by a hot rod last night. 12:22.640 --> 12:25.280 One of the witnesses saw a plate on the car that might have been from your club. 12:25.280 --> 12:26.280 No kidding. 12:26.280 --> 12:27.280 That's the way we get it. 12:27.280 --> 12:28.280 What did it look like? 12:28.280 --> 12:32.600 Well, they say it had twin pipes, pretty well beat up, white sidewall tires. 12:32.600 --> 12:34.000 It's not one of ours then. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.520 You sound pretty sure about the plate. 12:35.520 --> 12:37.120 I told you, we've had a couple of them stolen. 12:37.120 --> 12:38.400 It must have been one of them. 12:38.400 --> 12:40.720 Well, how come you're so sure it wasn't one of your members? 12:40.720 --> 12:42.360 Oh, I know the car is in the club. 12:42.360 --> 12:43.600 There isn't a yo-yo in the bunch. 12:43.600 --> 12:44.600 What's a yo-yo? 12:44.600 --> 12:47.000 Oh, yeah, you know, a shot rod, junk heap. 12:47.000 --> 12:48.000 Oh, I see. 12:48.000 --> 12:49.000 I don't know. 12:49.000 --> 12:52.080 It seems like every time there's any trouble with a car over five years old, it's a hot 12:52.080 --> 12:53.080 rod. 12:53.080 --> 12:54.080 Sure not fair. 12:54.080 --> 12:55.080 That's so. 12:55.080 --> 12:56.080 Yeah. 12:56.080 --> 12:57.080 Come here, I'll show you. 12:57.080 --> 12:59.240 Now take a look at that. 12:59.240 --> 13:00.720 I've been working on it for three years. 13:00.720 --> 13:02.800 It's got over 1,200 bucks in it. 13:02.800 --> 13:03.800 Take a look at it. 13:03.800 --> 13:04.800 It's a lot of motor. 13:04.800 --> 13:08.600 Yeah, it's a good car, but what's it prove? 13:08.600 --> 13:10.520 The car that ran that woman down wasn't a hot rod. 13:10.520 --> 13:11.520 Well, how do you figure that? 13:11.520 --> 13:13.400 You said it was a wreck, didn't you? 13:13.400 --> 13:14.400 That's right. 13:14.400 --> 13:16.920 We haven't got a wreck that's allowed on the streets in this club. 13:16.920 --> 13:19.600 I don't know a legal club that has a yo-yo in it. 13:19.600 --> 13:21.100 We got a safety check every month. 13:21.100 --> 13:23.360 Any car that isn't safe has to be fixed or the guy's out. 13:23.360 --> 13:24.720 A lot of clubs operate that way. 13:24.720 --> 13:25.720 Yeah, we know. 13:25.720 --> 13:27.840 Our kids build rods for two reasons. 13:27.840 --> 13:30.680 Because they want the cars to run better, be more efficient, or else they want some 13:30.680 --> 13:32.800 of the things that you can buy in a showroom. 13:32.800 --> 13:36.400 Well, all this sounds good, but a woman was killed last night by a kid driving a hopped-up 13:36.400 --> 13:38.160 car of some kind. 13:38.160 --> 13:41.400 Maybe it had twin pipes, a loud muffler, but I'll give you odds from here to Bonneville 13:41.400 --> 13:43.480 that it wasn't a hot rod. 13:43.480 --> 13:44.760 I know how you guys feel. 13:44.760 --> 13:46.160 We're always getting it. 13:46.160 --> 13:49.080 Every kid behind a wheel in a second-hand car is a potential killer. 13:49.080 --> 13:54.000 The way the paper's pictures, we just roam around looking for somebody to run over. 13:54.000 --> 13:55.600 That's not true. 13:55.600 --> 13:56.600 You check the records. 13:56.600 --> 14:00.440 I think you'll find that the ratio between tickets given out to members of hot rod clubs, 14:00.440 --> 14:03.920 members of the NHRA, and any other group of drivers will make the hot rodders look pretty 14:03.920 --> 14:04.920 good. 14:04.920 --> 14:07.720 There hasn't been a ticket in our club in the last year and a half. 14:07.720 --> 14:09.880 The one before that was for overtime parking. 14:09.880 --> 14:12.040 Oh, I'm sorry, fellas. 14:12.040 --> 14:15.600 That car last night wasn't one of our guys, and you can bet he wasn't a hot rodder either. 14:15.600 --> 14:17.400 You got any way of knowing who could have gotten the plaque? 14:17.400 --> 14:19.560 Well, not right off, but we'll find him. 14:19.560 --> 14:20.560 How? 14:20.560 --> 14:22.280 There's only so many streets in Los Angeles. 14:22.280 --> 14:23.360 We'll find him. 14:23.360 --> 14:26.240 Guys like that make things rough on the clean drivers in this town. 14:26.240 --> 14:27.240 We'll find him for you. 14:27.240 --> 14:29.960 Well, we'll appreciate any help you can give us on this, but it's police business. 14:29.960 --> 14:31.800 If you find him, give us a call right away. 14:31.800 --> 14:32.800 Don't worry. 14:32.800 --> 14:33.800 We will. 14:33.800 --> 14:34.800 How do I get in touch with you? 14:34.800 --> 14:35.800 We'll leave you one of our cards. 14:35.800 --> 14:36.800 Anytime. 14:36.800 --> 14:37.800 You call us. 14:37.800 --> 14:38.800 All right. 14:38.800 --> 14:39.800 I'll get on the phone and get the fellas rounded up. 14:39.800 --> 14:40.800 If you turn anything, call us right away. 14:40.800 --> 14:42.160 Don't try to take care of it yourselves. 14:42.160 --> 14:43.480 Only one thing we're interested in. 14:43.480 --> 14:44.480 Yeah, what's that? 14:44.480 --> 14:46.280 Proving to you it wasn't one of us. 14:46.280 --> 14:47.280 That's what's important. 14:47.280 --> 14:48.280 Showing you we're on your side. 14:48.280 --> 14:49.640 Well, that shouldn't be too hard. 14:49.640 --> 14:50.640 Huh? 14:50.640 --> 14:55.640 There's a lot of room. 14:55.640 --> 14:59.400 We got the names and addresses of the members of the square wheel club and we talked to them. 14:59.400 --> 15:03.040 We checked their cars and each of them volunteered to assist us in attempting to locate the hit 15:03.040 --> 15:04.040 and run vehicle. 15:04.040 --> 15:05.040 6.40 PM. 15:05.040 --> 15:07.720 Frank and I got back to the office. 15:07.720 --> 15:11.320 During the afternoon, the broadcast on the car had gone over the state wire and every 15:11.320 --> 15:15.280 police officer in the state of California was looking for the hit and run car. 15:15.280 --> 15:18.560 When we checked with communications, there had been no replies to our broadcast. 15:18.560 --> 15:19.560 7.15 PM. 15:19.560 --> 15:24.240 We put in a call to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital and we talked again to Dr. Sebastian. 15:24.240 --> 15:27.200 He told us that the victim's husband, Carl Chapman, had been placed under the care of 15:27.200 --> 15:30.600 his family doctor and had been given sedatives to make him sleep. 15:30.600 --> 15:34.000 While I checked with Lieutenant Wolfram on the developments, Frank went over to the crime 15:34.000 --> 15:36.200 lab and talked with Lieutenant Lee Jones. 15:36.200 --> 15:37.680 8.47 PM. 15:37.680 --> 15:40.120 We met back in the squad room. 15:40.120 --> 15:41.120 Any word yet? 15:41.120 --> 15:42.120 No. 15:42.120 --> 15:43.120 Got a call from Al Gibbs. 15:43.120 --> 15:44.120 Hot rod club? 15:44.120 --> 15:45.120 Yeah. 15:45.120 --> 15:46.120 He says all the clubs in the area are looking for the car. 15:46.120 --> 15:47.960 They divided the city up in sections. 15:47.960 --> 15:49.120 Members are checking all the streets. 15:49.120 --> 15:50.120 No luck though, huh? 15:50.120 --> 15:51.120 No, nothing. 15:51.120 --> 15:52.600 Well, they turned a couple of cars but they don't check out. 15:52.600 --> 15:53.600 How'd you do? 15:53.600 --> 15:54.600 Pretty good. 15:54.600 --> 15:55.600 Got the report here. 15:55.600 --> 15:57.800 Had a couple of sandwiches sent in, got your Swiss on rye. 15:57.800 --> 15:58.800 Good. 15:58.800 --> 15:59.800 In the bag there. 15:59.800 --> 16:00.800 Where's coffee? 16:00.800 --> 16:01.800 Right there, carton. 16:01.800 --> 16:02.800 Oh. 16:02.800 --> 16:09.800 The lab sure did a good job on this stuff here. 16:09.800 --> 16:10.800 Here's a scene. 16:10.800 --> 16:14.520 Victim was found 10 feet 4 inches from the northeast corner, 4 feet 8 inches from the 16:14.520 --> 16:16.280 north pedestrian crosswalk. 16:16.280 --> 16:17.760 And put it about here, wouldn't it? 16:17.760 --> 16:18.760 Yeah. 16:18.760 --> 16:20.480 They found particles of broken glass. 16:20.480 --> 16:21.480 Checked on them at the lighthouse. 16:21.480 --> 16:24.480 Lenses from a 1940 Ford. 16:24.480 --> 16:26.560 Here's a picture on it. 16:26.560 --> 16:27.560 Yeah. 16:27.560 --> 16:30.280 In the gutter of the southwest corner they found this. 16:30.280 --> 16:32.160 It was a bumper guard. 16:32.160 --> 16:33.160 Yeah. 16:33.160 --> 16:34.160 I looked at it. 16:34.160 --> 16:35.160 It's new. 16:35.160 --> 16:36.160 Any brand name? 16:36.160 --> 16:37.160 Yeah, but it's not gonna help much. 16:37.160 --> 16:38.160 Distributed all over the country. 16:38.160 --> 16:40.600 Well, how about skid marks? 16:40.600 --> 16:41.600 Any sign of them? 16:41.600 --> 16:42.960 No, not that they could find. 16:42.960 --> 16:46.040 Either the kid didn't have time to use them or else he didn't want to. 16:46.040 --> 16:47.680 They came up with this though. 16:47.680 --> 16:49.080 Yeah, what's that? 16:49.080 --> 16:50.800 Well, some marks from a tire. 16:50.800 --> 16:54.440 Lee says he thinks they were made when the kid dug out to get away, spun the back wheels. 16:54.440 --> 16:58.360 Sure indicate that he didn't mean to stop at any time, huh? 16:58.360 --> 17:00.240 Well, that's the way Lee's got it figured. 17:00.240 --> 17:02.560 Well, it isn't much to go on, is it? 17:02.560 --> 17:04.040 They've come easier. 17:04.040 --> 17:05.040 Yeah. 17:05.040 --> 17:06.840 Well, let's go out and check the neighborhood again. 17:06.840 --> 17:08.960 We might still be able to turn up a decent description. 17:08.960 --> 17:12.080 We start checking the garages in the morning, try to turn a car with a broken headlight 17:12.080 --> 17:13.320 and a missing bumper guard. 17:13.320 --> 17:16.200 Okay, better call communications, get out a supplemental on the tires. 17:16.200 --> 17:17.200 Yeah, I'll take care of it. 17:17.200 --> 17:18.200 Hi, guys. 17:18.200 --> 17:19.200 Getting around felony Friday. 17:19.200 --> 17:20.200 Yeah, that's right. 17:20.200 --> 17:21.200 I'm gonna go get a new one. 17:21.200 --> 17:22.200 Yeah, I'll be right there. 17:22.200 --> 17:24.800 Yeah, that's right. 17:24.800 --> 17:25.800 Anybody there? 17:25.800 --> 17:28.000 No, no, keep it under surveillance. 17:28.000 --> 17:29.000 We'll be right out. 17:29.000 --> 17:30.000 Yeah, don't burn it. 17:30.000 --> 17:31.000 Right, bye. 17:31.000 --> 17:32.000 What do you got? 17:32.000 --> 17:33.160 It's beginning to go our way, maybe. 17:33.160 --> 17:34.160 Huh? 17:34.160 --> 17:43.920 They found the car. 17:43.920 --> 17:48.600 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 17:48.600 --> 17:50.940 Chesterfield's for me. 17:50.940 --> 17:52.960 You hear it everywhere. 17:52.960 --> 17:57.800 Tonight we hear from America's number one bandleader, Ray Anthony, who with his attractive 17:57.800 --> 18:01.400 wife Dee, plays college dates from coast to coast. 18:01.400 --> 18:04.560 In cigarettes, the young crowd really goes for Chesterfield. 18:04.560 --> 18:06.440 I've noticed that wherever we've played. 18:06.440 --> 18:11.480 And I guess it's one of the reasons Chesterfield is America's most popular two-way cigarette. 18:11.480 --> 18:15.980 Of course, Dee and I are Chesterfield smokers too. 18:15.980 --> 18:17.560 We know they're best for us. 18:17.560 --> 18:19.800 Chesterfield's for me. 18:19.800 --> 18:22.080 You hear it everywhere. 18:22.080 --> 18:27.280 The Chesterfield you smoke today is the best cigarette ever made. 18:27.280 --> 18:42.480 For the taste you want, the mildness you want, join the thousands now changing to Chesterfield. 18:42.480 --> 18:45.980 During a routine patrol of the streets in East Los Angeles, a radio unit had come across 18:45.980 --> 18:48.960 a car parked at the curb on Vancouver Avenue. 18:48.960 --> 18:51.880 We had stopped to investigate and found that it matched the description that we'd sent 18:51.880 --> 18:52.880 out. 18:52.880 --> 18:56.040 On the phone, I'd instructed the officer not to search the car, but merely to keep it under 18:56.040 --> 18:58.800 surveillance and check and hold anyone who approached it. 18:58.800 --> 19:02.320 Frank and I notified the crime lab of the find, and then we left the office and drove 19:02.320 --> 19:04.080 out to the location. 19:04.080 --> 19:07.000 We talked to the officers in the police car, and they told us that they hadn't seen anyone 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 near the vehicle. 19:08.000 --> 19:12.640 We checked the registration and found that the registered owner was a Jack Moore. 19:12.640 --> 19:15.320 The white slip gave us an address in Hollywood. 19:15.320 --> 19:18.520 While the crime lab went over the car, we drove out to Moore's address to talk to him. 19:18.520 --> 19:21.560 He lived in the large house built in the mid-20s as a private residence. 19:21.560 --> 19:24.080 It had been converted into a boarding house. 19:24.080 --> 19:25.080 Frank covered the rear entrance. 19:25.080 --> 19:26.080 I rang the front doorbell. 19:26.080 --> 19:27.080 Yeah? 19:27.080 --> 19:36.200 What do you want waking me up this time of night? 19:36.200 --> 19:37.200 Police officers. 19:37.200 --> 19:38.200 You have a tenant here named Jack Moore? 19:38.200 --> 19:39.200 What about him? 19:39.200 --> 19:40.200 We'd like to talk to him. 19:40.200 --> 19:41.200 Too late, Mac. 19:41.200 --> 19:42.200 He ain't here. 19:42.200 --> 19:43.200 Where is he? 19:43.200 --> 19:44.200 I don't know. 19:44.200 --> 19:45.200 He moved out this afternoon. 19:45.200 --> 19:51.800 He didn't say where he was going. 19:51.800 --> 19:53.760 A thorough search was made in the suspect's room. 19:53.760 --> 19:56.800 The manager told us that Moore had come home that morning, packed his belongings, and left 19:56.800 --> 19:57.800 the house. 19:57.800 --> 20:00.680 We called the crime lab, and Lieutenant Lee Jones told us that they'd established that 20:00.680 --> 20:04.360 Moore's car was the one that had run down the Chapman Girl. 20:04.360 --> 20:06.040 We talked to the other people in the roaming house. 20:06.040 --> 20:08.840 None of them could tell us where Moore might have gone. 20:08.840 --> 20:12.760 We put in a call to auto records, but the car was not listed as being stolen. 20:12.760 --> 20:16.960 We called his name into R&I, but we found that he had no felony record. 20:16.960 --> 20:19.960 From the occupants of the rooming house, we found that the suspect had no relatives in 20:19.960 --> 20:23.280 this state and no close friends that they could recall. 20:23.280 --> 20:26.920 Layton Prince came out and went over the room, and in going over it, we found a wastebasket 20:26.920 --> 20:30.080 Moore had used to dispose of articles that he didn't want. 20:30.080 --> 20:33.720 In the basket, we found several match folders from a bar out on West 7th Street. 20:33.720 --> 20:36.920 We put in a call to the bar, but we found that it was closed. 20:36.920 --> 20:39.560 From the manager of the rooming house, we got a good description of the suspect along 20:39.560 --> 20:44.160 with the information that he received no mail and that he was apparently unemployed. 20:44.160 --> 20:47.880 The stakeout was set up on the house, and at 3.36 a.m., Frank and I checked out of the 20:47.880 --> 20:49.800 office and went home for the night. 20:49.800 --> 20:54.320 The next day, Wednesday, April 8th, we contacted DMV and asked that they give us all information 20:54.320 --> 20:55.320 on the car. 20:55.320 --> 20:58.360 9.15 a.m., we drove over to the bar on West 7th Street. 20:58.360 --> 20:59.360 Not open yet. 20:59.360 --> 21:01.360 Don't open until 10. 21:01.360 --> 21:02.960 Police officers, like some information. 21:02.960 --> 21:05.320 License is back there on the wall in plain sight. 21:05.320 --> 21:06.560 There's nothing going on here. 21:06.560 --> 21:08.960 Do you have a customer in here named Jack Moore? 21:08.960 --> 21:10.120 We just opened the doors. 21:10.120 --> 21:11.480 We got no say about who comes in. 21:11.480 --> 21:13.560 As long as they don't cause trouble, we don't either. 21:13.560 --> 21:15.240 This guy's about 20 or 21. 21:15.240 --> 21:17.760 5'8", 5'10", 106 to 5 pounds. 21:17.760 --> 21:18.760 Blonde. 21:18.760 --> 21:19.760 Names Moore. 21:19.760 --> 21:20.760 Jack Moore. 21:20.760 --> 21:21.760 What's he done? 21:21.760 --> 21:22.760 We want to talk to him. 21:22.760 --> 21:23.760 About what? 21:23.760 --> 21:24.760 Police business. 21:24.760 --> 21:25.760 Have you seen him? 21:25.760 --> 21:26.760 Nothing that's gonna get the bar in trouble. 21:26.760 --> 21:28.160 That's a simple question, mister. 21:28.160 --> 21:29.160 Have you seen him? 21:29.160 --> 21:30.160 Maybe, yeah. 21:30.160 --> 21:32.600 You tell me what it's all about, and I might be able to help you out. 21:32.600 --> 21:33.600 They're running out of time. 21:33.600 --> 21:34.600 Have you seen Jack Moore? 21:34.600 --> 21:35.600 Yeah. 21:35.600 --> 21:36.600 When? 21:36.600 --> 21:37.600 Last night. 21:37.600 --> 21:38.600 Here? 21:38.600 --> 21:39.600 Yeah, he was in, got liquored up. 21:39.600 --> 21:40.600 I tossed him out when we closed. 21:40.600 --> 21:41.600 Where is he now? 21:41.600 --> 21:42.600 You better ask him. 21:42.600 --> 21:43.600 I'm gonna tell you once more. 21:43.600 --> 21:46.160 If you know where he is, you're gonna save yourself a lot of time by cooperating with 21:46.160 --> 21:47.160 us. 21:47.160 --> 21:48.160 I run a clean place here. 21:48.160 --> 21:49.280 I don't want any trouble with the cops. 21:49.280 --> 21:50.440 My license is on the wall. 21:50.440 --> 21:52.400 I got no choice of the customers who come in here. 21:52.400 --> 21:53.720 I don't want to get mixed up in any. 21:53.720 --> 21:54.720 We're not calling it that way. 21:54.720 --> 21:55.720 That's the way it is. 21:55.720 --> 21:56.720 This is a clean place. 21:56.720 --> 21:57.720 That's not what the book says. 21:57.720 --> 21:59.200 You've been tabbed a couple of times for serving minors. 21:59.200 --> 22:00.200 You run B Girls. 22:00.200 --> 22:02.280 You haven't served straight liquor in here for a couple of years. 22:02.280 --> 22:08.840 Now, if we have to get the information from you downtown, that's the way it's gonna be. 22:08.840 --> 22:09.840 Get your coat. 22:09.840 --> 22:10.840 Now, look, fellas, I was just trying to take care of myself. 22:10.840 --> 22:11.840 You did. 22:11.840 --> 22:12.840 Get your coat. 22:12.840 --> 22:13.840 Isn't there some way we can work this thing out? 22:13.840 --> 22:14.840 I don't want any trouble. 22:14.840 --> 22:15.840 Where's Jack Moore? 22:15.840 --> 22:16.840 I tried to run a clean place a couple of times. 22:16.840 --> 22:17.840 We've been over all that before. 22:17.840 --> 22:18.840 Now, where is he? 22:18.840 --> 22:19.840 I got him up at my place. 22:19.840 --> 22:20.840 You there now? 22:20.840 --> 22:21.840 I guess so. 22:21.840 --> 22:22.840 He got pretty loaded last night. 22:22.840 --> 22:24.840 Told me he didn't have any place to pad down. 22:24.840 --> 22:25.840 I took him home. 22:25.840 --> 22:26.840 What's the address? 22:26.840 --> 22:30.640 1862 and a half Woodworth Court, room 14. 22:30.640 --> 22:31.640 All right, let's go. 22:31.640 --> 22:32.640 Yeah. 22:32.640 --> 22:33.640 And don't try to call him. 22:33.640 --> 22:35.280 I got no phone in the room. 22:35.280 --> 22:37.560 If he's done anything, I had no part in it. 22:37.560 --> 22:39.280 Just trying to help a friend out, that's all. 22:39.280 --> 22:40.480 Just help a friend out. 22:40.480 --> 22:41.480 Yeah, sure. 22:41.480 --> 22:42.480 You tell him that. 22:42.480 --> 22:43.480 Oh, he got me in trouble. 22:43.480 --> 22:44.480 All because I tried to help him out. 22:44.480 --> 22:45.480 You just tell him. 22:45.480 --> 22:46.480 Yeah, we will. 22:46.480 --> 22:47.480 And tell him not to come around here anymore. 22:47.480 --> 22:48.480 Tell him to keep out. 22:48.480 --> 22:49.480 Tell him that, will you, for me? 22:49.480 --> 22:50.480 Tell him not to come back. 22:50.480 --> 22:51.480 Don't you worry about it. 22:51.480 --> 22:52.480 He won't be back. 22:52.480 --> 23:00.760 We called the office and another team of detectives came out to the bar to keep the bartender 23:00.760 --> 23:04.120 under surveillance in the event that he might try to contact the suspect. 23:04.120 --> 23:06.560 It took five and a half minutes to drive to the Woodworth Street address. 23:06.560 --> 23:10.200 It was a large building located at the end of a blind street. 23:10.200 --> 23:12.480 Room 14 was on the third floor in the front of the building. 23:12.480 --> 23:14.600 Frank and I approached the room and we listened. 23:14.600 --> 23:16.040 There was no sound from inside. 23:16.040 --> 23:18.040 You want to try the door? 23:18.040 --> 23:19.040 Yeah. 23:19.040 --> 23:20.040 It's unlocked. 23:20.040 --> 23:21.040 Yeah. 23:21.040 --> 23:24.040 There he is on the bed. 23:24.040 --> 23:26.040 Yeah, looks like the right guy. 23:26.040 --> 23:29.040 All right, let's wake him up. 23:29.040 --> 23:30.040 Come on. 23:30.040 --> 23:31.040 Let me alone, Charlie. 23:31.040 --> 23:32.040 Come on, get up, Lord. 23:32.040 --> 23:33.040 Get up on your feet. 23:33.040 --> 23:34.040 Let me alone. 23:34.040 --> 23:35.040 I told you, Charlie, let me. 23:35.040 --> 23:36.040 Who are you guys? 23:36.040 --> 23:37.040 What are you doing here? 23:37.040 --> 23:38.040 Police officers, you're under arrest. 23:38.040 --> 23:39.040 Wait a minute. 23:39.040 --> 23:40.040 All right, let me go. 23:40.040 --> 23:41.040 Come on, stand still. 23:41.040 --> 23:42.040 All right. 23:42.040 --> 23:43.040 All right, I quit. 23:43.040 --> 23:44.040 I quit. 23:44.040 --> 23:45.040 You want to shake him, Frank? 23:45.040 --> 23:46.040 Yeah. 23:46.040 --> 23:47.040 He's clean. 23:47.040 --> 23:48.040 Where you taking me? 23:48.040 --> 23:49.040 I ain't done nothing. 23:49.040 --> 23:50.040 You got no reason to push me around like this. 23:50.040 --> 23:51.040 All right, let's go. 23:51.040 --> 23:52.040 Where? 23:52.040 --> 23:53.040 I'm going to the bathroom. 23:53.040 --> 23:54.040 I'm going to the bathroom. 23:54.040 --> 23:55.040 I'm going to the bathroom. 23:55.040 --> 23:56.040 I'm going to the bathroom. 23:56.040 --> 23:57.040 I'm going to the bathroom. 23:57.040 --> 24:00.040 You got no reason to push me around like this. 24:00.040 --> 24:01.040 All right, let's go. 24:01.040 --> 24:02.040 Where? 24:02.040 --> 24:03.040 Where are you going to take me? 24:03.040 --> 24:04.040 Downtown. 24:04.040 --> 24:05.040 For what? 24:05.040 --> 24:06.040 Manslaughter. 24:06.040 --> 24:07.040 I didn't do it. 24:07.040 --> 24:08.040 I didn't. 24:08.040 --> 24:09.040 You got the wrong guy. 24:09.040 --> 24:10.040 You got the wrong one. 24:10.040 --> 24:11.040 I didn't do it. 24:11.040 --> 24:12.040 All right, come on, let's move. 24:12.040 --> 24:13.040 But you got the wrong one. 24:13.040 --> 24:14.040 I didn't do it. 24:14.040 --> 24:15.040 I didn't know what you wanted. 24:15.040 --> 24:16.040 That's why I run. 24:16.040 --> 24:17.040 I didn't know what you wanted. 24:17.040 --> 24:18.040 Well, you do now, so let's go. 24:18.040 --> 24:25.040 The suspect was taken to the squad room where he was questioned. 24:25.040 --> 24:27.040 He refused to admit any part in the crime. 24:27.040 --> 24:31.040 He was confronted with the physical evidence and with the ownership of the hit run vehicle. 24:31.040 --> 24:34.040 The witness to the crime came to the office and said that Jack Moore was the man that she'd 24:34.040 --> 24:38.040 seen at the wheel of the car when Helen Chapman had been run down. 24:38.040 --> 24:41.040 Throughout the interrogation, the suspect refused to say anything. 24:41.040 --> 24:45.040 At 1 47 p.m., the door to the squad room opened and Carl Chapman came in. 24:45.040 --> 24:46.040 Where is he? 24:46.040 --> 24:47.040 I know he's here. 24:47.040 --> 24:48.040 I want to see him. 24:48.040 --> 24:49.040 All right, take it easy, Chapman. 24:49.040 --> 24:50.040 I heard you caught him. 24:50.040 --> 24:51.040 I want to see him. 24:51.040 --> 24:52.040 I want to tell him. 24:52.040 --> 24:53.040 Is that the kid? 24:53.040 --> 24:54.040 Are you the one? 24:54.040 --> 24:55.040 Who killed Helen? 24:55.040 --> 24:56.040 Well, answer me. 24:56.040 --> 24:57.040 All right, take it easy, Chapman. 24:57.040 --> 24:58.040 Is he the one? 24:58.040 --> 25:00.040 The evidence points that way, yeah. 25:00.040 --> 25:03.040 Please, I want you to do something for me. 25:03.040 --> 25:04.040 What's that? 25:04.040 --> 25:05.040 Go away. 25:05.040 --> 25:06.040 Out of here, please. 25:06.040 --> 25:07.040 We can't do that, Chapman. 25:07.040 --> 25:08.040 He's in custody. 25:08.040 --> 25:09.040 Please, please leave me alone with him. 25:09.040 --> 25:10.040 Come on, Chapman, you better wait outside. 25:10.040 --> 25:11.040 Now, just a minute. 25:11.040 --> 25:12.040 Listen to me, kid. 25:12.040 --> 25:18.040 When they put you in that cell, you get down on your knees and thank God that they found 25:18.040 --> 25:20.040 you before I did, you understand? 25:20.040 --> 25:23.040 You thank him and every day you live, you thank him. 25:23.040 --> 25:25.040 You do that because I would have killed you. 25:25.040 --> 25:26.040 Take it easy, Chapman. 25:26.040 --> 25:28.040 My wife's dead because of him. 25:28.040 --> 25:29.040 You hear that? 25:29.040 --> 25:30.040 You killed her. 25:30.040 --> 25:33.040 They got laws to save people like you, but none for her. 25:33.040 --> 25:35.040 None for her and the baby. 25:35.040 --> 25:37.040 They didn't have any laws. 25:37.040 --> 25:39.040 None for them. 25:39.040 --> 25:41.040 All right, Chapman, come on, take it easy. 25:41.040 --> 25:42.040 Frank? 25:42.040 --> 25:44.040 Come on, son, yeah. 25:44.040 --> 25:48.040 Pretty upset, ain't he? 25:48.040 --> 25:50.040 I want you to remember something, kid. 25:50.040 --> 25:53.040 In the years I've been in this department, I've seen some bad ones, real bad. 25:53.040 --> 25:57.040 Teenage kids that didn't know any better scraped up off the pavement, sent home to their parents, 25:57.040 --> 25:59.040 drunks who were too loaded to know what went on. 25:59.040 --> 26:02.040 There's been a lot of them go through here, but you finished way ahead of the field, boy. 26:02.040 --> 26:04.040 You talk good. 26:04.040 --> 26:06.040 I bet you're on a lecture team around here. 26:06.040 --> 26:08.040 I'm getting fed up with you kids roaming the streets in death traps. 26:08.040 --> 26:09.040 Now, I don't care about you. 26:09.040 --> 26:11.040 You want to wrap yourself around a post you go ahead. 26:11.040 --> 26:13.040 We'll try and stop you, but don't you take somebody else with you. 26:13.040 --> 26:15.040 Every year the number gets bigger, more people killed. 26:15.040 --> 26:17.040 It isn't the honest drivers that do it. 26:17.040 --> 26:19.040 It's people like you who don't care for anybody else. 26:19.040 --> 26:21.040 Now, we've tried about everything in the books to make you understand. 26:21.040 --> 26:23.040 Doesn't look like any of them did any good, does it? 26:23.040 --> 26:25.040 I'm a bad one, ain't I? 26:25.040 --> 26:27.040 You killed a human being, boy, a woman who didn't even know you. 26:27.040 --> 26:29.040 She never saw you until it was too late. 26:29.040 --> 26:31.040 You threw a ten and a half a metal at a hundred and twenty pound woman, 26:31.040 --> 26:33.040 and then you ran away and left her in the gutter to die. 26:33.040 --> 26:36.040 You've wrecked the family. You tore it right down the middle and rolled over it. 26:36.040 --> 26:38.040 You've ruined the lives of all the people around that woman. 26:38.040 --> 26:41.040 You gave a group of decent kids a bad time because you stole their name. 26:41.040 --> 26:43.040 Now, you get on your feet, young fella, 26:43.040 --> 26:46.040 and you keep that smart mouth of yours closed, do you understand? 26:46.040 --> 26:48.040 Can I ask you something? 26:48.040 --> 26:49.040 What's that? 26:49.040 --> 26:50.040 Hit and run. 26:50.040 --> 26:51.040 How much will I get? 26:51.040 --> 26:53.040 I don't know, but it won't be enough. 27:00.040 --> 27:02.040 The story you have just heard is true. 27:02.040 --> 27:05.040 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:05.040 --> 27:08.040 On October 14th, trial was held in Department 97, 27:08.040 --> 27:10.040 Superior Court of the State of California, 27:10.040 --> 27:12.040 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 27:12.040 --> 27:14.040 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:14.040 --> 27:16.040 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:16.040 --> 27:17.040 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:17.040 --> 27:20.040 Thousands of smokers all across the country are now changing to Chesterfield. 27:20.040 --> 27:22.040 We'd like you to give them a try, too. 27:22.040 --> 27:25.040 I know you'll like them because the Chesterfield you smoke today 27:25.040 --> 27:27.040 is the best cigarette ever made. 27:27.040 --> 27:29.040 For the taste you want and the mildness you want, 27:29.040 --> 27:32.040 smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette. 27:32.040 --> 27:35.040 Regular or king-size, Chesterfield. 27:35.040 --> 27:39.040 Jack Carlisle Moore was tried and found guilty of manslaughter one count 27:39.040 --> 27:42.040 and received sentence as prescribed by law. 27:42.040 --> 27:45.040 Manslaughter is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary 27:45.040 --> 28:06.040 for a period not to exceed 10 years. 28:06.040 --> 28:07.040 You have just heard Dragnet, 28:07.040 --> 28:10.040 a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:10.040 --> 28:13.040 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 28:13.040 --> 28:16.040 W.H. 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