WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.840 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.840 --> 00:14.400 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:14.400 --> 00:19.000 Dragnet is brought to you by Chesterfield, made by Liggett and Myers. 00:19.000 --> 00:32.200 First major tobacco company to bring you a complete line of quality cigarettes. 00:32.200 --> 00:33.720 You're a detective sergeant. 00:33.720 --> 00:35.920 You're assigned a juvenile detail. 00:35.920 --> 00:38.480 You get a report of drug addiction within a group of teenagers. 00:38.480 --> 00:41.680 You don't know if the information is true. 00:41.680 --> 00:47.680 Your job, check it out. 00:47.680 --> 00:53.000 Take Peter Lynn Hayes and Mary Healy, America's favorite husband and wife comedy team. 00:53.000 --> 00:58.600 They are typical of smokers everywhere who are saying Chesterfield's for me. 00:58.600 --> 01:03.360 Mary says, I've smoked regular sized Chesterfield's for about seven years. 01:03.360 --> 01:07.360 Guess that ought to prove how I feel about Chesterfield's taste in mildness. 01:07.360 --> 01:10.360 Peter says Chesterfield's for me too. 01:10.360 --> 01:16.000 Far as I'm concerned, King is the only size and like Mary says, Chesterfield is the only 01:16.000 --> 01:17.000 cigarette. 01:17.000 --> 01:18.000 I like them. 01:18.000 --> 01:21.280 I bet you'll find Chesterfield is best for you. 01:21.280 --> 01:28.440 Yes, smoke America's most popular two-way cigarette, regular and king-sized Chesterfield's. 01:28.440 --> 01:35.760 For the taste you want, the mildness you want, join the thousands now changing to Chesterfield. 01:35.760 --> 01:40.680 Always say Chesterfield's for me. 01:40.680 --> 01:48.440 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:48.440 --> 01:53.360 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:53.360 --> 01:57.960 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:57.960 --> 01:59.680 police files. 01:59.680 --> 02:04.860 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 02:04.860 --> 02:10.040 in action. 02:10.040 --> 02:11.240 It was Wednesday, February 10th. 02:11.240 --> 02:12.440 It was cold in Los Angeles. 02:12.440 --> 02:14.520 We were working the day watch out of juvenile detail. 02:14.520 --> 02:15.520 My partner's Frank Smith. 02:15.520 --> 02:16.520 The boss is Captain Powers. 02:16.520 --> 02:17.520 My name's Friday. 02:17.520 --> 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 02:21.400 --> 02:23.400 squad room. 02:23.400 --> 02:25.840 Hi Frank. 02:25.840 --> 02:26.840 Well? 02:26.840 --> 02:27.840 Hmm? 02:27.840 --> 02:29.840 Well, what do you think? 02:29.840 --> 02:30.840 About what? 02:30.840 --> 02:31.840 Ruth, what do you think? 02:31.840 --> 02:32.840 Oh, she's nice, sure. 02:32.840 --> 02:33.840 Well, is that all you got to say? 02:33.840 --> 02:36.840 Well, what do you want me to say? 02:36.840 --> 02:37.840 Did you like her? 02:37.840 --> 02:38.840 She's a nice girl, yeah. 02:38.840 --> 02:40.280 You got another date with her? 02:40.280 --> 02:42.280 No, I told her I'd call her sometime. 02:42.280 --> 02:43.280 You said you'd call her? 02:43.280 --> 02:44.280 Mm-hmm. 02:44.280 --> 02:45.280 Did you say when? 02:45.280 --> 02:46.280 No, I just said sometime. 02:46.280 --> 02:47.280 Sometime. 02:47.280 --> 02:48.280 Well, Fay's not gonna like it. 02:48.280 --> 02:49.280 Why? 02:49.280 --> 02:50.280 She's just not, Joe. 02:50.280 --> 02:51.280 You're not sure? 02:51.280 --> 02:52.280 We had it this time. 02:52.280 --> 02:53.280 Well, look, Frank, I think it's real nice of you and Fay to be concerned. 02:53.280 --> 02:54.280 I don't think that I don't appreciate it, but when you asked me over last night, I figured 02:54.280 --> 02:55.280 we were just gonna have dinner and sit around and talk. 02:55.280 --> 02:56.280 I didn't know anything about this girl gonna be there. 02:56.280 --> 02:57.280 Don't you think you should have told me? 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Who am I speaking with? 19:09.280 --> 19:10.280 Yes, sir. 19:11.280 --> 19:12.280 Yes, sir. 19:13.280 --> 19:15.280 Well, we did find hypodermic marks. 19:16.280 --> 19:17.280 I see. 19:19.280 --> 19:21.280 All right, sir. We'll be checking with you. 19:21.280 --> 19:23.280 Now you'll get my daughter? 19:23.280 --> 19:25.280 I'll have her sent right up. 19:25.280 --> 19:27.280 You want to come out in the hall, Frank? 19:27.280 --> 19:32.280 Who'd he call? 19:32.280 --> 19:34.280 His family doctor. 19:34.280 --> 19:36.280 We might not have a case here. 19:36.280 --> 19:37.280 What's the matter? 19:37.280 --> 19:39.280 Well, the doctor says he's been treating the girl for the past six months. 19:39.280 --> 19:40.280 Yeah. 19:40.280 --> 19:42.280 Been giving her hypodermic injections. 19:51.280 --> 19:55.280 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 19:55.280 --> 19:59.280 Tobacco has been one of man's basic pleasures for over 400 years, 19:59.280 --> 20:04.280 and the Chesterfields you smoke today are the best cigarettes ever made. 20:05.280 --> 20:10.280 And when I say that, I mean Chesterfield regular, I mean Chesterfield king-size. 20:11.280 --> 20:17.280 Remember, this is the cigarette that's tested and approved by 30 years of scientific tobacco research. 20:18.280 --> 20:24.280 The cigarette that gives you proof of highest quality, low nicotine, the taste you want, 20:24.280 --> 20:26.280 the mildness you want. 20:26.280 --> 20:32.280 The cigarette that has an established good record with smokers, proven by test after test. 20:32.280 --> 20:39.280 Yes, friends, the Chesterfields you smoke today are the best cigarettes ever made. 20:39.280 --> 20:43.280 So join the thousands now changing to Chesterfield. 20:43.280 --> 20:57.280 Regular or king-size, always say Chesterfields for me. 20:57.280 --> 21:03.280 With the doctor's statement, there was nothing we could do but release the girl to her father pending further investigation. 21:03.280 --> 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. 21:08.280 --> 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. 21:14.280 --> 21:17.280 It was identified as Lewis Conklin, age 23. 21:17.280 --> 21:21.280 He was taken to the main jail and booked on the same charges as Vincent Beale. 21:21.280 --> 21:25.280 Their apartment was gone over, but no trace of narcotics was found. 21:25.280 --> 21:28.280 We questioned both suspects again, but they failed to cooperate with us. 21:28.280 --> 21:31.280 Frank and I checked out of the office and went home. 21:31.280 --> 21:35.280 The following morning, we drove out to see the doctor who had told me he was treating the Pilgrim Girl. 21:35.280 --> 21:40.280 He said the girl was underweight and highly nervous and that he had been giving her vitamin injections. 21:40.280 --> 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. 21:47.280 --> 21:52.280 February 11th, 10.24 a.m. We checked the car belonging to Vincent Beale. 21:52.280 --> 21:54.280 In the trunk, we found an expensive leather jacket. 21:54.280 --> 21:58.280 It looked too expensive to be worn by a man who had the reputation of never holding a job. 21:58.280 --> 22:01.280 We took the jacket over to the crime lab and had it checked. 22:01.280 --> 22:05.280 From a cleaning tag, we got the name of the cleaner who had serviced the jacket. 22:05.280 --> 22:10.280 We contacted him and he remembered the jacket as having been among several stolen from his store. 22:10.280 --> 22:14.280 With this information, we went back to the main jail and had the Conklin boy brought from his cell. 22:14.280 --> 22:17.280 He told us that the jacket belonged to Vincent Beale. 22:17.280 --> 22:18.280 It was brought into the interview room. 22:18.280 --> 22:20.280 This leather jacket belonged to you, Vince? 22:20.280 --> 22:22.280 No, I never saw it before. 22:22.280 --> 22:24.280 Conklin says it's yours. 22:24.280 --> 22:26.280 I don't know. Maybe it is. What difference does it make? 22:26.280 --> 22:28.280 Take a look. We want to know. 22:29.280 --> 22:30.280 Yeah, yeah, it's mine. 22:30.280 --> 22:31.280 Where did you get it? 22:31.280 --> 22:34.280 Where do you think I bought it? You know some place you can get these without buying them? 22:34.280 --> 22:36.280 Yeah, the same place you picked this one up. 22:36.280 --> 22:37.280 What's that supposed to mean? 22:37.280 --> 22:39.280 You know a man named Ted Hartman? 22:39.280 --> 22:40.280 Who? 22:40.280 --> 22:41.280 Ted Hartman. 22:41.280 --> 22:42.280 Ted Hartman. Never heard of him. 22:42.280 --> 22:43.280 He knows you. 22:43.280 --> 22:45.280 Maybe he's got a better memory than me. 22:45.280 --> 22:46.280 Says you used to work for him. 22:46.280 --> 22:47.280 Is that right? 22:47.280 --> 22:48.280 Yeah. Now how about it? 22:48.280 --> 22:50.280 Maybe I did. I had a lot of jobs. 22:50.280 --> 22:53.280 The cleaner says you worked for him a couple of weeks last December. 22:53.280 --> 22:55.280 That's a long time ago. 22:55.280 --> 22:56.280 Says this jacket was stolen from him. 22:56.280 --> 22:57.280 Where do I fit? 22:57.280 --> 22:58.280 He thinks you stole it. 22:58.280 --> 22:59.280 He's crazy. 22:59.280 --> 23:00.280 You sure enough to make a complaint? 23:00.280 --> 23:01.280 They'll laugh him out of court. 23:01.280 --> 23:03.280 Conklin says it's yours. 23:03.280 --> 23:05.280 I told you I bought it. 23:05.280 --> 23:07.280 Conklin wants no part of a burglary rap. 23:08.280 --> 23:10.280 What'd Conklin tell you? 23:10.280 --> 23:11.280 Maybe we ought to get your side of it, huh? 23:11.280 --> 23:13.280 What'd he tell you? I got a right to know. 23:14.280 --> 23:16.280 Look, he's going to make a beef like that on me. I got a right to know what he said. 23:16.280 --> 23:18.280 He wants no part of it. He lays it all on you. 23:19.280 --> 23:20.280 He's no good. 23:20.280 --> 23:22.280 I never figured for a guy I could trust. 23:22.280 --> 23:25.280 He did all right on the deal. Lute kept us both going. 23:25.280 --> 23:26.280 What do you mean? 23:26.280 --> 23:28.280 I thought he told you all about it. 23:28.280 --> 23:29.280 Yeah, well, we want to hear it from you. 23:29.280 --> 23:31.280 A lot of time stories get all mixed up. 23:31.280 --> 23:32.280 Now we want to get it right. 23:33.280 --> 23:35.280 Now, we knocked the place, but it was both of us. 23:35.280 --> 23:37.280 Lou was in on it all the way. 23:37.280 --> 23:38.280 Go ahead. 23:38.280 --> 23:40.280 We were scratching for H. We had it real bad. 23:40.280 --> 23:41.280 We needed some way out. 23:41.280 --> 23:43.280 I thought about the cleaning place. 23:43.280 --> 23:44.280 Figured we could score a good. 23:44.280 --> 23:45.280 Well, we did all right. 23:45.280 --> 23:47.280 Took care of three of us for a long time. 23:47.280 --> 23:48.280 You, Conklin, and the Pilgrim girls, that it? 23:48.280 --> 23:49.280 That's it. 23:49.280 --> 23:50.280 Why were you shooting? 23:50.280 --> 23:51.280 Me and Lou kept it down. 23:51.280 --> 23:53.280 The Pilgrim kids, she built up fast. 23:53.280 --> 23:55.280 She was juicing five caps a day. 23:55.280 --> 23:58.280 I should have listened to Lou. He kept telling me to drop her and leave her alone. 23:58.280 --> 23:59.280 Well. 23:59.280 --> 24:01.280 Wasn't anything between us. It was just for laughs. 24:01.280 --> 24:02.280 And then all of a sudden she was hooked bad. 24:02.280 --> 24:03.280 We had to do something. 24:03.280 --> 24:05.280 We stole her jacket so we could keep her supplied. 24:05.280 --> 24:06.280 Five caps a day. 24:06.280 --> 24:08.280 You know, that's a lot of H. 24:08.280 --> 24:10.280 I tried to break her down. I tried to cut her habit. 24:10.280 --> 24:11.280 I did what I could. 24:11.280 --> 24:13.280 You can see that, can't you? I did everything I could. 24:13.280 --> 24:15.280 How much was that? 24:21.280 --> 24:22.280 5.23 p.m. 24:22.280 --> 24:26.280 Frank and I, along with the policewoman Irene Gardner, drove out to the Pilgrim residence. 24:26.280 --> 24:28.280 We went up to the front porch and rang the bell. 24:28.280 --> 24:30.280 Yep. 24:30.280 --> 24:31.280 What do you want? 24:31.280 --> 24:32.280 I'd like to see your daughter. 24:32.280 --> 24:34.280 Now you get out of here. You get out of here right now. 24:34.280 --> 24:35.280 I've had enough of this shoving around from you. 24:35.280 --> 24:37.280 It's about time you learned your place. 24:37.280 --> 24:38.280 It might be better if we came in. 24:38.280 --> 24:40.280 Anything you've got to say to me you can say here. 24:40.280 --> 24:42.280 I don't want any cops in my house. 24:42.280 --> 24:43.280 You want to get your daughter? 24:43.280 --> 24:44.280 What for? 24:44.280 --> 24:46.280 You're going to have to take her down to Jubal Hall. 24:46.280 --> 24:48.280 You guys just don't give up, do you? 24:48.280 --> 24:49.280 You want me to call my doctor again? 24:49.280 --> 24:50.280 We talked to him this afternoon. 24:50.280 --> 24:52.280 Then you know the story. Now get out of here. 24:52.280 --> 24:53.280 You want to get your daughter? 24:53.280 --> 24:55.280 Look, I've got a gun inside. 24:55.280 --> 24:57.280 If you're still here when I come back, I'm going to use it. 24:57.280 --> 24:58.280 Now you listen to me, mister. 24:58.280 --> 25:00.280 You've been acting like a big man long enough. 25:00.280 --> 25:02.280 You can play the part of the outraged parent with your family, but don't try it with us. 25:02.280 --> 25:04.280 I'm not going to have you talk to me like that. 25:04.280 --> 25:05.280 Not much you can do about it. 25:05.280 --> 25:07.280 We've got the boys been supplying your daughter with narcotics. 25:07.280 --> 25:09.280 It's pretty clear that this home isn't the place for her. 25:09.280 --> 25:10.280 She's a good girl. 25:10.280 --> 25:11.280 We didn't say she wasn't. 25:11.280 --> 25:12.280 Then why don't you leave her alone? 25:12.280 --> 25:14.280 You know better than that. 25:14.280 --> 25:16.280 I can do you boys some good downtown. I've got a lot of friends. 25:16.280 --> 25:18.280 You're going to need them. 25:18.280 --> 25:21.280 All right, you want to make a case out of this, I'll fight you in every court in the country... 25:21.280 --> 25:23.280 before I let you take my daughter away from me. 25:23.280 --> 25:24.280 Now you just try it. 25:24.280 --> 25:27.280 Your daughter's a drug addict. She's sick. She's got to be straightened out. She needs help. 25:27.280 --> 25:29.280 Who are you to set yourself up as the jury? 25:29.280 --> 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. 25:33.280 --> 25:35.280 There isn't anything she wants she doesn't have. 25:35.280 --> 25:36.280 What about the things she needed? 25:36.280 --> 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. 25:41.280 --> 25:44.280 What about those two men who got her started? 25:44.280 --> 25:46.280 What are you going to do with them? They're guilty. 25:46.280 --> 25:47.280 If it hadn't been for those two, this never would have happened. 25:47.280 --> 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. 25:52.280 --> 25:54.280 What's going to happen to her? 25:54.280 --> 25:56.280 She'll be given medical attention. We'll do what we can. 25:56.280 --> 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. 26:00.280 --> 26:01.280 Yeah. 26:01.280 --> 26:04.280 She's mine. I'm her father. I've got the right to take care of her. 26:04.280 --> 26:05.280 Yes, sir, that's right. 26:05.280 --> 26:06.280 Hmm? 26:06.280 --> 26:07.280 Why didn't you? 26:07.280 --> 26:17.280 The story you have just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 26:17.280 --> 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. 26:24.280 --> 26:26.280 In a moment, the results of that trial. 26:26.280 --> 26:28.280 Now here is our star, Jack Webb. 26:28.280 --> 26:29.280 Thank you. 26:29.280 --> 26:34.280 Earlier, George Fenomen told you exactly why the Chesterfield you smoked today is the best cigarette ever made. 26:34.280 --> 26:37.280 And best for you. Now the rest is up to you. 26:37.280 --> 26:39.280 Get a carton or two for yourself. 26:39.280 --> 26:42.280 Smoke them and you'll say as we do, it's Chesterfield's for me. 26:50.280 --> 26:56.280 Vincent Norman Beale and Lewis Shelman Conklin were tried and convicted of one count of burglary 26:56.280 --> 27:00.280 and additional charges of violation of the State Narcotic Act of felony 27:00.280 --> 27:05.280 and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. They received sentences as prescribed by law. 27:05.280 --> 27:11.280 Burglary is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not less than five years in the state prison. 27:11.280 --> 27:16.280 Catherine Noreen Pilgrim had a hearing in juvenile court and was made a ward of that court. 27:16.280 --> 27:20.280 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 27:20.280 --> 27:25.280 Technical advice comes from the office of Chief of Police W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 27:25.280 --> 27:30.280 Technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Fance Brasher. 27:30.280 --> 27:44.540 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Joyce McCluskey, Henry W. 27:44.540 --> 27:52.540 Bartel, Carolyn Jones. Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. Hal Gibney speaking. 27:52.540 --> 27:58.540 Watch an entirely different Dragnet case history each week on your local NBC television station. 27:58.540 --> 28:01.540 Please check your newspapers for the day and time. 28:01.540 --> 28:06.540 Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles. 28:06.540 --> 28:18.540 Filter cigarette smokers, here is headline news. 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