1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,840 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,400 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:19,000 Dragnet is brought to you by Chesterfield, made by Liggett and Myers. 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:32,200 First major tobacco company to bring you a complete line of quality cigarettes. 5 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:33,720 You're a detective sergeant. 6 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:35,920 You're assigned a juvenile detail. 7 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,480 You get a report of drug addiction within a group of teenagers. 8 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:41,680 You don't know if the information is true. 9 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:47,680 Your job, check it out. 10 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:53,000 Take Peter Lynn Hayes and Mary Healy, America's favorite husband and wife comedy team. 11 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,600 They are typical of smokers everywhere who are saying Chesterfield's for me. 12 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:03,360 Mary says, I've smoked regular sized Chesterfield's for about seven years. 13 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,360 Guess that ought to prove how I feel about Chesterfield's taste in mildness. 14 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,360 Peter says Chesterfield's for me too. 15 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:16,000 Far as I'm concerned, King is the only size and like Mary says, Chesterfield is the only 16 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,000 cigarette. 17 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,000 I like them. 18 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,280 I bet you'll find Chesterfield is best for you. 19 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:28,440 Yes, smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette, regular and king-sized Chesterfield's. 20 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:35,760 For the taste you want, the mildness you want, join the thousands now changing to Chesterfield. 21 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:40,680 Always say Chesterfield's for me. 22 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:48,440 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 23 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:53,360 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 24 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,960 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 25 00:01:57,960 --> 00:01:59,680 police files. 26 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,860 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 27 00:02:04,860 --> 00:02:10,040 in action. 28 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:11,240 It was Wednesday, February 10th. 29 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,440 It was cold in Los Angeles. 30 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,520 We were working the day watch out of juvenile detail. 31 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:15,520 My partner's Frank Smith. 32 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:16,520 The boss is Captain Powers. 33 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:17,520 My name's Friday. 34 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,400 I was on my way into the office and it was 8.01 a.m. when I got to Georgia Street juvenile 35 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,400 squad room. 36 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,840 Hi Frank. 37 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:26,840 Well? 38 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:27,840 Hmm? 39 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,840 Well, what do you think? 40 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:30,840 About what? 41 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:31,840 Ruth, what do you think? 42 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:32,840 Oh, she's nice, sure. 43 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:33,840 Well, is that all you got to say? 44 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,840 Well, what do you want me to say? 45 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:37,840 Did you like her? 46 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:38,840 She's a nice girl, yeah. 47 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:40,280 You got another date with her? 48 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,280 No, I told her I'd call her sometime. 49 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:43,280 You said you'd call her? 50 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:44,280 Mm-hmm. 51 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:45,280 Did you say when? 52 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:46,280 No, I just said sometime. 53 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:47,280 Sometime. 54 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:48,280 Well, Fay's not gonna like it. 55 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:49,280 Why? 56 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,280 She's just not, Joe. 57 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:51,280 You're not sure? 58 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:52,280 We had it this time. 59 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:53,280 Well, look, Frank, I think it's real nice of you and Fay to be concerned. 60 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:54,280 I don't think that I don't appreciate it, but when you asked me over last night, I figured 61 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:55,280 we were just gonna have dinner and sit around and talk. 62 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:56,280 I didn't know anything about this girl gonna be there. 63 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:57,280 Don't you think you should have told me? 64 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:58,280 Let me know. 65 00:02:58,280 --> 00:02:59,280 I don't know. 66 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:00,280 I don't know. 67 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:01,280 I don't know. 68 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:02,280 I don't know. 69 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:09,280 I don't know. 70 00:03:09,280 --> 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Who am I speaking with? 170 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:10,280 Yes, sir. 171 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:12,280 Yes, sir. 172 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,280 Well, we did find hypodermic marks. 173 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:17,280 I see. 174 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,280 All right, sir. We'll be checking with you. 175 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:23,280 Now you'll get my daughter? 176 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,280 I'll have her sent right up. 177 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,280 You want to come out in the hall, Frank? 178 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:32,280 Who'd he call? 179 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,280 His family doctor. 180 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,280 We might not have a case here. 181 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:37,280 What's the matter? 182 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,280 Well, the doctor says he's been treating the girl for the past six months. 183 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:40,280 Yeah. 184 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,280 Been giving her hypodermic injections. 185 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:55,280 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 186 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:59,280 Tobacco has been one of man's basic pleasures for over 400 years, 187 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:04,280 and the Chesterfields you smoke today are the best cigarettes ever made. 188 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:10,280 And when I say that, I mean Chesterfield regular, I mean Chesterfield king-size. 189 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:17,280 Remember, this is the cigarette that's tested and approved by 30 years of scientific tobacco research. 190 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:24,280 The cigarette that gives you proof of highest quality, low nicotine, the taste you want, 191 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,280 the mildness you want. 192 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:32,280 The cigarette that has an established good record with smokers, proven by test after test. 193 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:39,280 Yes, friends, the Chesterfields you smoke today are the best cigarettes ever made. 194 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:43,280 So join the thousands now changing to Chesterfield. 195 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:57,280 Regular or king-size, always say Chesterfields for me. 196 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:03,280 With the doctor's statement, there was nothing we could do but release the girl to her father pending further investigation. 197 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:08,280 The parents of the teenager who had written us the first letter came to the office and she was released to them. 198 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:14,280 At 11.40 p.m. that night, we got word that the other suspect had returned to the apartment and been taken into custody. 199 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,280 It was identified as Lewis Conklin, age 23. 200 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:21,280 He was taken to the main jail and booked on the same charges as Vincent Beale. 201 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:25,280 Their apartment was gone over, but no trace of narcotics was found. 202 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,280 We questioned both suspects again, but they failed to cooperate with us. 203 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,280 Frank and I checked out of the office and went home. 204 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:35,280 The following morning, we drove out to see the doctor who had told me he was treating the Pilgrim Girl. 205 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:40,280 He said the girl was underweight and highly nervous and that he had been giving her vitamin injections. 206 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:47,280 He went on to say that he had stopped treating her five months previous at her father's request and that he had not seen the girl since then. 207 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:52,280 February 11th, 10.24 a.m. We checked the car belonging to Vincent Beale. 208 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,280 In the trunk, we found an expensive leather jacket. 209 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:58,280 It looked too expensive to be worn by a man who had the reputation of never holding a job. 210 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,280 We took the jacket over to the crime lab and had it checked. 211 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,280 From a cleaning tag, we got the name of the cleaner who had serviced the jacket. 212 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:10,280 We contacted him and he remembered the jacket as having been among several stolen from his store. 213 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:14,280 With this information, we went back to the main jail and had the Conklin boy brought from his cell. 214 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,280 He told us that the jacket belonged to Vincent Beale. 215 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:18,280 It was brought into the interview room. 216 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,280 This leather jacket belonged to you, Vince? 217 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:22,280 No, I never saw it before. 218 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,280 Conklin says it's yours. 219 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,280 I don't know. Maybe it is. What difference does it make? 220 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,280 Take a look. We want to know. 221 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:30,280 Yeah, yeah, it's mine. 222 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:31,280 Where did you get it? 223 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,280 Where do you think I bought it? You know some place you can get these without buying them? 224 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,280 Yeah, the same place you picked this one up. 225 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,280 What's that supposed to mean? 226 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,280 You know a man named Ted Hartman? 227 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:40,280 Who? 228 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:41,280 Ted Hartman. 229 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,280 Ted Hartman. Never heard of him. 230 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:43,280 He knows you. 231 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,280 Maybe he's got a better memory than me. 232 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:46,280 Says you used to work for him. 233 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,280 Is that right? 234 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:48,280 Yeah. Now how about it? 235 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,280 Maybe I did. I had a lot of jobs. 236 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,280 The cleaner says you worked for him a couple of weeks last December. 237 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,280 That's a long time ago. 238 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:56,280 Says this jacket was stolen from him. 239 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:57,280 Where do I fit? 240 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:58,280 He thinks you stole it. 241 00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,280 He's crazy. 242 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,280 You sure enough to make a complaint? 243 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:01,280 They'll laugh him out of court. 244 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,280 Conklin says it's yours. 245 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,280 I told you I bought it. 246 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,280 Conklin wants no part of a burglary rap. 247 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,280 What'd Conklin tell you? 248 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:11,280 Maybe we ought to get your side of it, huh? 249 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,280 What'd he tell you? I got a right to know. 250 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,280 Look, he's going to make a beef like that on me. I got a right to know what he said. 251 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,280 He wants no part of it. He lays it all on you. 252 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:20,280 He's no good. 253 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,280 I never figured for a guy I could trust. 254 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,280 He did all right on the deal. Lute kept us both going. 255 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:26,280 What do you mean? 256 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,280 I thought he told you all about it. 257 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,280 Yeah, well, we want to hear it from you. 258 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,280 A lot of time stories get all mixed up. 259 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:32,280 Now we want to get it right. 260 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,280 Now, we knocked the place, but it was both of us. 261 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,280 Lou was in on it all the way. 262 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,280 Go ahead. 263 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,280 We were scratching for H. We had it real bad. 264 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:41,280 We needed some way out. 265 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,280 I thought about the cleaning place. 266 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:44,280 Figured we could score a good. 267 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:45,280 Well, we did all right. 268 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,280 Took care of three of us for a long time. 269 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,280 You, Conklin, and the Pilgrim girls, that it? 270 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,280 That's it. 271 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,280 Why were you shooting? 272 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,280 Me and Lou kept it down. 273 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,280 The Pilgrim kids, she built up fast. 274 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,280 She was juicing five caps a day. 275 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,280 I should have listened to Lou. He kept telling me to drop her and leave her alone. 276 00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,280 Well. 277 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,280 Wasn't anything between us. It was just for laughs. 278 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:02,280 And then all of a sudden she was hooked bad. 279 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:03,280 We had to do something. 280 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,280 We stole her jacket so we could keep her supplied. 281 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:06,280 Five caps a day. 282 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,280 You know, that's a lot of H. 283 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,280 I tried to break her down. I tried to cut her habit. 284 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,280 I did what I could. 285 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,280 You can see that, can't you? I did everything I could. 286 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,280 How much was that? 287 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:22,280 5.23 p.m. 288 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:26,280 Frank and I, along with the policewoman Irene Gardner, drove out to the Pilgrim residence. 289 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,280 We went up to the front porch and rang the bell. 290 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,280 Yep. 291 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:31,280 What do you want? 292 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:32,280 I'd like to see your daughter. 293 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,280 Now you get out of here. You get out of here right now. 294 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:35,280 I've had enough of this shoving around from you. 295 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,280 It's about time you learned your place. 296 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:38,280 It might be better if we came in. 297 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,280 Anything you've got to say to me you can say here. 298 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,280 I don't want any cops in my house. 299 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:43,280 You want to get your daughter? 300 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:44,280 What for? 301 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,280 You're going to have to take her down to Jubal Hall. 302 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,280 You guys just don't give up, do you? 303 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:49,280 You want me to call my doctor again? 304 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:50,280 We talked to him this afternoon. 305 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,280 Then you know the story. Now get out of here. 306 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:53,280 You want to get your daughter? 307 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,280 Look, I've got a gun inside. 308 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,280 If you're still here when I come back, I'm going to use it. 309 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:58,280 Now you listen to me, mister. 310 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,280 You've been acting like a big man long enough. 311 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,280 You can play the part of the outraged parent with your family, but don't try it with us. 312 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,280 I'm not going to have you talk to me like that. 313 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,280 Not much you can do about it. 314 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,280 We've got the boys been supplying your daughter with narcotics. 315 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,280 It's pretty clear that this home isn't the place for her. 316 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,280 She's a good girl. 317 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:11,280 We didn't say she wasn't. 318 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:12,280 Then why don't you leave her alone? 319 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,280 You know better than that. 320 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,280 I can do you boys some good downtown. I've got a lot of friends. 321 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,280 You're going to need them. 322 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,280 All right, you want to make a case out of this, I'll fight you in every court in the country... 323 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,280 before I let you take my daughter away from me. 324 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:24,280 Now you just try it. 325 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,280 Your daughter's a drug addict. She's sick. She's got to be straightened out. She needs help. 326 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,280 Who are you to set yourself up as the jury? 327 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,280 You've got a fine girl in there. She's got all the breaks except somebody who thinks enough of her to stand by her. 328 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,280 There isn't anything she wants she doesn't have. 329 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,280 What about the things she needed? 330 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:41,280 You let her run all over the town by herself, she gets in trouble and you won't take the time to care for her. 331 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,280 What about those two men who got her started? 332 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,280 What are you going to do with them? They're guilty. 333 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,280 If it hadn't been for those two, this never would have happened. 334 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:52,280 They'll be taken care of. You lay the blame any place you want, mister, but if you're honest, you'll keep it. 335 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,280 What's going to happen to her? 336 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,280 She'll be given medical attention. We'll do what we can. 337 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:00,280 I can afford to take care of her. I've got the money. I'll hire the best people. I want her to have the best. 338 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,280 Yeah. 339 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,280 She's mine. I'm her father. I've got the right to take care of her. 340 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:05,280 Yes, sir, that's right. 341 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:06,280 Hmm? 342 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:07,280 Why didn't you? 343 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:17,280 The story you have just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 344 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:24,280 On June 3rd, trial was held in Department 98, Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles. 345 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,280 In a moment, the results of that trial. 346 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,280 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 347 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:29,280 Thank you. 348 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:34,280 Earlier, George Fenomen told you exactly why the Chesterfield you smoked today is the best cigarette ever made. 349 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,280 And best for you. Now the rest is up to you. 350 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,280 Get a carton or two for yourself. 351 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,280 Smoke them and you'll say as we do, it's Chesterfield's for me. 352 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:56,280 Vincent Norman Beale and Lewis Shelman Conklin were tried and convicted of one count of burglary 353 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,280 and additional charges of violation of the State Narcotic Act of felony 354 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:05,280 and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. They received sentences as prescribed by law. 355 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:11,280 Burglary is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not less than five years in the state prison. 356 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:16,280 Catherine Noreen Pilgrim had a hearing in juvenile court and was made a ward of that court. 357 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:20,280 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 358 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:25,280 Technical advice comes from the office of Chief of Police W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 359 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:30,280 Technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Fance Brasher. 360 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:44,540 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Joyce McCluskey, Henry W. 361 00:27:44,540 --> 00:27:52,540 Bartel, Carolyn Jones. Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. Hal Gibney speaking. 362 00:27:52,540 --> 00:27:58,540 Watch an entirely different Dragnet case history each week on your local NBC television station. 363 00:27:58,540 --> 00:28:01,540 Please check your newspapers for the day and time. 364 00:28:01,540 --> 00:28:06,540 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 365 00:28:06,540 --> 00:28:18,540 Filter cigarette smokers, here is headline news. 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