1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,280 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,200 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:15,200 Dragnet. 4 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:24,920 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:26,920 You're assigned a forgery detail. 6 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,760 A group of check passers is working in your city. 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,080 They've hit over 50 places of business. 8 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,280 You have no lead to their true identity. 9 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:35,280 They're still working. 10 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,280 Your job, stop them. 11 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:43,280 It was Wednesday, July 11th. 12 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:44,840 It was warm in Los Angeles. 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,720 We were working the day watch out a forgery detail. 14 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,600 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss of Chief Detective Stab Brown. 15 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:50,600 My name is Friday. 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:52,520 We were on our way out from the office. 17 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,960 It was 1120 a.m. when we got to the corner of York Boulevard and Buchanan Street. 18 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,080 Buchanan Market. 19 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:01,760 Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. 20 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:02,760 Like to eat some dorsal? 21 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,680 Eat in the back there by count 11, cold cereal. 22 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:06,680 Thank you. 23 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:07,680 Yeah? 24 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:08,680 Mr. Dawson? 25 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:09,680 Yeah? 26 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,960 Police officers would like to talk to you. 27 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:14,960 Oh, about the check, huh? 28 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:15,960 That's right. 29 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:17,200 Mind if I go ahead with this display? 30 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:18,200 I'd like to get it finished. 31 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,880 I got enough trouble with the boss as it is that I don't want to build anymore. 32 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:21,880 No, sir. 33 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:22,880 You go right ahead. 34 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:23,880 Is this fellow cop too? 35 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:24,880 Yes, sir. 36 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:25,880 This is Officer Frank Smith. 37 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:26,880 My name's Frank. 38 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,320 Sure hope you can get the guy that gave me the paper. 39 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:31,880 Waits stands now I'm gonna have to make it up out of my salary. 40 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:32,880 I don't make that much. 41 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,880 I haven't told my wife yet. 42 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,480 She's gonna scream like an eagle when she finds out. 43 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:38,920 We got a real strict budget. 44 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:39,920 Sure gonna last it up. 45 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:40,920 You have the check? 46 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:41,920 Yeah. 47 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:43,920 I got it right here. 48 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,760 Came back from the bank this morning. 49 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,760 Boss gave it to me. 50 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:50,760 Here you go. 51 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:51,760 Thank you. 52 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:52,760 Same as the others? 53 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:53,760 Looks like it. 54 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:54,760 Yeah, here. 55 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:55,760 Thank you. 56 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,760 How's that look to you? 57 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:58,760 Sir? 58 00:01:58,760 --> 00:01:59,760 The display. 59 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:00,760 It look all right? 60 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:01,760 Oh, yes, sir. 61 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:02,760 It's fine. 62 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:03,760 You got this mask finished and it's all gone. 63 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:05,760 What can you tell us about the man who gave you the check? 64 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:06,760 What do you want to know? 65 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,760 Well, what kind of identification did he use? 66 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:09,760 Just about the whole thing. 67 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,760 Driver's license, social security card, gasoline credit card, the works. 68 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:15,760 There's pencil notation on the back of the check. 69 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:16,760 This is his license number. 70 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:18,760 Let me take a look. 71 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:19,760 Here. 72 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:20,760 Yeah. 73 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:21,760 Yeah, that's it. 74 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,760 I figured sure it'd be good. 75 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:24,760 Nice looking fella. 76 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:25,760 I'm sure he'd never go in for a paper hanger. 77 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,760 Can you give us a description of him? 78 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:28,760 Yeah, sure can. 79 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:30,760 We got a good look at him. 80 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,760 This sure ought to sell his stuff. 81 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:36,760 What's that, sir? 82 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,760 I say this ought to sell his stuff. 83 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:39,760 This mask. 84 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,760 We're giving them away when you buy the breakfast food. 85 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,760 Extra quarter and you get one of these head things. 86 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,760 Kids sure go for them. 87 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:47,760 Uh-huh. 88 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:48,760 Whole display's built around it. 89 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:50,760 You see the finished mask goes right there. 90 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,760 Makes it look like the cardboard kid's wearing it. 91 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:54,760 Uh-huh. 92 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,760 You want to go ahead with the questions while I put it together? 93 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:57,760 Yes, sir. 94 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:59,760 Have you ever seen this man before? 95 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:00,760 No. 96 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:01,760 Of course he might have been around. 97 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:03,760 We do a pretty good business. 98 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:04,760 Could have been in, I wouldn't have remembered. 99 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:05,760 What'd he say to you? 100 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:07,760 Just came in and bought some groceries. 101 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,760 Must have been about a dollar and a half's worth. 102 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:10,760 He asked me to cash a check. 103 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:12,760 I told him the manager would have to okay it. 104 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:13,760 Uh-huh. 105 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:15,760 I told him the manager wasn't here or he'd have to wait. 106 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,760 Well, can't anyone else give the okay? 107 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:18,760 Not supposed to. 108 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,760 If we do and something goes wrong, we're stuck for it. 109 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:22,760 I see. 110 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:23,760 I told him he didn't have time. 111 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,760 Said he was on his lunch hour and he had to get the groceries home. 112 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:28,760 So I asked him if he had any identification. 113 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:29,760 He said he did. 114 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,760 It looked all right to me, so I cashed a check. 115 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:33,760 Uh-huh. 116 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,760 Say, would you hold this mask for me while I get the rubber band around the top? 117 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:38,760 Yeah, sure. 118 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,760 Now wait till I wind it around a couple of times. 119 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,760 We put these things up high, but the kids still find a way to get them down. 120 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:45,760 They're not put together good. 121 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:46,760 They don't last long. 122 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:48,760 Uh-huh. 123 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,760 Now do it. 124 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,760 Let's see. 125 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,760 I guess this is what goes in next, the eyepiece. 126 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,760 Take the eyepiece and put it inside the mask. 127 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,760 Slip into notches Y and T. 128 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,760 This is 60 years. 129 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:08,760 Did you look at the man's identification closely? 130 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:09,760 How do you mean close? 131 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:11,760 Well, did you take a good look at it? 132 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,760 Good enough to think it was all right to cash a check. 133 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:15,760 It looked genuine, huh? 134 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,760 If it didn't, I wouldn't have gone for the money. 135 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:18,760 I see. 136 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,760 Was there anything about the man that would make it easier for us to identify him? 137 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:22,760 Not that I could see. 138 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:23,760 He looked ordinary enough. 139 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:24,760 Nothing special about him. 140 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,760 Nothing that'd stand out. 141 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,760 Hold this a minute, will you, while I put the earpiece inside? 142 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:30,760 This here? 143 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:31,760 Yeah. 144 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:32,760 All right. 145 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,760 Thanks. 146 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,760 I guess that's all there is. 147 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,760 Put it up here on the top. 148 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:41,760 And that does it. 149 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,760 Here. 150 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:44,760 How's it look? 151 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:45,760 It's fine. 152 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:46,760 Huh, kind of scary. 153 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:48,760 Sure hope the boss likes it. 154 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:50,760 Sure been on my back since that check came back. 155 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,760 Seems like everything I do is wrong. 156 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:53,760 Be glad when this day is over. 157 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:54,760 Yes, sir. 158 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:56,760 You want to give us that description now? 159 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:57,760 Of the man who gave me the check. 160 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:58,760 That's right. 161 00:04:58,760 --> 00:04:59,760 Sure. 162 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:00,760 I'm gonna do all I can to help. 163 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:02,760 You think if you catch him, I'll be able to get the money back? 164 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,760 Well, that's hard to say, sir. 165 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:05,760 Sure hope so. 166 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:06,760 89.60. 167 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:07,760 That's a lot of money. 168 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:08,760 I hate to lose it. 169 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:09,760 How much was that? 170 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:10,760 89.60. 171 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:11,760 Yes, sir. 172 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,760 I don't even want to think about what my wife's gonna say. 173 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:15,760 That would be pretty rough. 174 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:16,760 Yes, sir, we understand. 175 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:18,760 How old was the man? 176 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:20,760 About 27, around in there. 177 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:21,760 About how tall was he? 178 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,760 Five, nine, I guess. 179 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,760 Say, if you do catch him, how do you go about getting the money back? 180 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:28,760 Well, it's booked as evidence first. 181 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:29,760 Then I get it back? 182 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:30,760 Well, that depends on what happens at the trial. 183 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:32,760 It's not up to us to decide, sir. 184 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:34,760 You see, the suspect has gotten several other people, too. 185 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,760 If there is anything recovered, they've got a share of it. 186 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,760 Then I probably won't get what's coming to me. 187 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:40,760 Well, no, sir, but you can be sure of one thing. 188 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:41,760 What's that? 189 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:42,760 Suspect will. 190 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:52,760 1146 A.M. 191 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:53,760 We got the complete description of the suspect, 192 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:55,760 and we made arrangements for the victim to come down to the city hall 193 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,760 and go through the mud books. 194 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,760 The information on the driver's license was checked through R&I 195 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,760 and the Department of Motor Vehicles, and we found it to be false. 196 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,760 The first bad check had come to our attention on February 16th, 197 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:08,760 five months previously. 198 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,760 Between then and the present forgery, 199 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,760 the gang had taken approximately $60,000 from businessmen in the Southland area. 200 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:16,760 All attempts had been made to stop them. 201 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:21,760 The checks cashed were all issued for the same amount, $91.10. 202 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,760 The checks were drawn on real companies, but on banks where no account existed. 203 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,760 Examination of the forgeries by the crime lab and by handwriting 204 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,760 showed that the checks themselves were not genuine. 205 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,760 The signatures on each of them vary. 206 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,760 The typewriter used to fill in the payee and the date was different in each instance 207 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,760 as was the check protector used. 208 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,760 MO bulletins carrying pictures of the checks and lists of the companies that they were drawn on 209 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,760 were gotten out to all supermarkets and check cashing agencies in the city. 210 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,760 None of the precautions we took did any good. 211 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:52,760 The gang continued to operate. 212 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,760 Each of the victims was questioned, but the descriptions of the suspect that they gave us 213 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:57,760 was different in each instance. 214 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,760 Examination of pictures of known check forgeries using the same method of operation 215 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:02,760 netted us nothing. 216 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,760 The stats office had made several runs on the information we had, 217 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,760 but they were not able to come up with any new evidence. 218 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,760 George Brereton up at Sacramento was contacted and he furnished us a list of possibles. 219 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,760 These were all checked out and several arrests were made clearing up other forgeries, 220 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,760 but our crime suspects were still free and they were still operating. 221 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,760 Wednesday, 4.15 p.m., Frank and I came back from Captain Welsh's office. 222 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,760 Well, now we know how to skipper fields. 223 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:27,760 Now, can you blame them? 224 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:28,760 No, I guess not. 225 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:30,760 We're doing all we can. 226 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,760 If the people who run the stores won't look at the bulletins, there's nothing we can do. 227 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,760 Remember, breaks are bound to go with us pretty soon. 228 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:37,760 I get it. 229 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,760 Forgery Friday. 230 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,760 Oh, just a minute, ma'am. 231 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,760 Fergie around? 232 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:45,760 I don't know. I'll take a look in back. 233 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:47,760 Hey, Fergie, then? Fergie? 234 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,760 No, he's not here. 235 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:51,760 He's not here right now. Can I take a message? 236 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,760 Mm-hmm. 237 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:55,760 Yes, ma'am. No, he's not working today. 238 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:57,760 Yes, ma'am. 239 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,760 Well, if you give me your number, I'll have him call when he gets in. 240 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,760 All right. 241 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:03,760 That's 9-8. 242 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,760 Yes, ma'am. 243 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,760 No, no, it's right in the message book. 244 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:09,760 No, he'll see it. That's right. 245 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:11,760 Yes, ma'am. Mm-hmm. 246 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:13,760 No, he'll look at the book when he comes in. 247 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,760 No, the first thing. 248 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:17,760 You bet. Well, you're more than welcome. 249 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,760 Yes, ma'am. Bye. 250 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,760 Problem? 251 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,760 No, she just didn't believe that Fergie would get the message. 252 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,760 Yeah, I know. Sometimes face has the same thing. 253 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:27,760 Sergeant Friday? 254 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:29,760 Yes, that's... Oh, hi, B. Come on in. 255 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,760 I wasn't sure you'd be in. 256 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:33,760 You're a nice man, don't you, Beatrice Dowling? 257 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:35,760 Oh, yeah, we've met. Sure, I haven't seen you in a long time. 258 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,760 Sit down, B. Here. Thanks. 259 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:39,760 There you go. 260 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:41,760 What can we do for you? 261 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,760 I thought I'd drop in and say hello. It's been a while. 262 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:45,760 Yeah, it has been. How's it been going? 263 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,760 Pretty good. Got myself a job. 264 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:49,760 When I got out, things were working good for me. 265 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:51,760 How long has it been now? A year ago, last January. 266 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,760 Well, is there anything we can do for you? 267 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:55,760 No. Might be the other way around. 268 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:57,760 What do you mean? 269 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:59,760 I never got a chance to tell you, Sergeant, 270 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:01,760 how much I appreciated what you did for me, 271 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,760 what you said in court. 272 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,760 Well, we just told him the truth. 273 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,760 I know. You would have gone a lot harder with me 274 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:09,760 if you hadn't been on my side. 275 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,760 It's nice of you to think of it that way, anyway. 276 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,760 It's true. I never got a chance before. 277 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:15,760 Now, maybe there's a way I can pay you back. 278 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,760 Well, it's not necessary, you know. 279 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:19,760 I know. I know. I want to. 280 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,760 Well, what do you got? 281 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:23,760 You know how it is. When you get out of jail, 282 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:25,760 you meet a lot of people in the business. 283 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:27,760 They all got a deal for you, 284 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:29,760 and I'm not going to con you a couple of times. 285 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:31,760 It's pretty hard, but I'm on the road, 286 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,760 and I'm going to stay there. 287 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:35,760 That's good to hear. 288 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:37,760 You get rumbles, you know, things come up. 289 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:39,760 I got one the other day. More than a rumble. 290 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,760 How about you, right away? 291 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:43,760 Figured there's a way to pay you back. 292 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:45,760 Well, what is it? 293 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:47,760 Met a guy in a bar, a little place near where I work. 294 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:49,760 Usually after work, I stop in and have a beer 295 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,760 while I wait for the traffic to clear up before I go home. 296 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,760 Another night, 297 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:55,760 I felt like I went and started talking. 298 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,760 We got to talking about different things. 299 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:59,760 Nothing big, just things. 300 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:01,760 You know how you do at a bar. 301 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:03,760 He asked me what I did for a living, 302 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:05,760 how things were going, like that. 303 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:07,760 And he wanted to know if I'd like to pick up a few extra bucks. 304 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,760 Said he wanted me to cash a check for him. 305 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:11,760 I told him I didn't have the money. 306 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,760 It didn't make any difference how small the check was. 307 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:15,760 I didn't have the loot. 308 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:17,760 Then he sprung it. 309 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:19,760 He didn't want me to cash it myself. 310 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:21,760 Said he wanted me to take it to the store and get it cashed. 311 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:23,760 Said he'd give me half what the check was for. 312 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:25,760 Well, why didn't he do it himself? 313 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,760 I asked him the same thing. 314 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,760 That's when he told me. 315 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:31,760 As soon as I heard it, I figured it might be something for you. 316 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,760 He said the check was stolen. 317 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:37,760 Beatrice Dowling had been convicted of forgery 318 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,760 three years before. 319 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,760 She'd been sentenced to the California Institution 320 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,760 for Women at Corona, California. 321 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:45,760 Frank and I had a small part in the investigation 322 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:47,760 that resulted in her conviction. 323 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:49,760 During the trial, we testified that her cooperation 324 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:51,760 had aided us in apprehending the rest of the gang 325 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:53,760 and allowing us to clean up the entire operation. 326 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,760 Since she'd been paroled, we'd lost track of her. 327 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:57,760 But on those occasions when we'd talk to a parole officer, 328 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,760 we found that she was living up to all of the conditions 329 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,760 of her release. 330 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:03,760 Frank and I took her across the street to a restaurant 331 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,760 and we talked further to her. 332 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:07,760 That's the sugar, will you second? 333 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:09,760 Yeah, yeah, I'll be. 334 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,760 You don't use it? No, no thanks. 335 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,760 How about you, Mr. Smith? No thanks, I take a bite too. 336 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:15,760 How about this guy? What did you tell him? 337 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:17,760 I said I'd think over the deal and let him know. 338 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,760 Did you get a chance to see the checks? 339 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,760 A couple. 340 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:23,760 Took him out of a wallet in his coat. I didn't get a good look at him though. 341 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,760 How about the man himself, did you ever see him before? 342 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,760 I don't think so. 343 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:29,760 You know why he picked you? 344 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:31,760 I've been trying to figure that one myself. 345 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,760 The only thing I can think of is the bartender there. 346 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,760 He knows I fell once, he might have given the word. 347 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:37,760 Has he got any record that you know of? 348 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,760 The bartender? I don't think so. 349 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:41,760 He likes to talk big, but I don't think he's ever done big time. 350 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,760 You set up anything about meeting the man with a check? 351 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:45,760 Not definite. 352 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:47,760 I told him I'd think it over. 353 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,760 I don't think he'd do it with the offer still be open. 354 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:51,760 He said it would, he said to look him up. 355 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:53,760 At the same bar? 356 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,760 Yeah, but I could get in touch with him there. 357 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,760 Any special time? 358 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:59,760 I'm gonna name one. I want you to know I wasn't even figuring to go through with it. 359 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:01,760 Not for a minute. 360 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,760 When he told me the checks were stolen, I thought right away about you. 361 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:05,760 Thought you might want the information. 362 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:07,760 I never figured to get mixed up in it. 363 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,760 Well, we'll buy it. 364 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:11,760 What are you gonna do about it? 365 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,760 Try to find out where the checks came from. 366 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:15,760 While you were talking to this guy, did he use a name at all? 367 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,760 Well, we were sitting there and another fellow came in and talked to him. 368 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:19,760 I heard the other guy call him Cecil. 369 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,760 Well, how about this other man? Do you know him? 370 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:23,760 No. 371 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,760 Never saw him around the bar? No, I never did. 372 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,760 Look, Peter, something I don't understand. If you stop at this bar all the time, how come you haven't seen this Cecil before? 373 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,760 Looks like he's a regular customer at the place. 374 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:31,760 You don't believe me, do you? 375 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:33,760 I'm just trying to get a straight. 376 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:35,760 I told you before, I only go in there about 5.30. 377 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,760 I'm only in the place maybe 15 minutes, then I leave. 378 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,760 There's a lot of time when people are coming in and out that I'm not there. 379 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,760 I see. 380 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:43,760 Listen. 381 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,760 I'm trying to give you guys something for free. 382 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:47,760 You don't want it? 383 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,760 Don't worry, you're not going to hurt my feelings. 384 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:51,760 No, it's not that big. Frank and I have been on the thing for the last four months here. 385 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:53,760 It's been giving us a lot of trouble. 386 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:55,760 Yeah. 387 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:57,760 Well, I think it's worth anything. 388 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,760 We're going to check it out. 389 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:01,760 Did this Cecil give you any idea where he got the checks? 390 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:03,760 He said they were stolen payroll checks, all made out and ready for endorsement. 391 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,760 Well, if they're made out, what about identification? 392 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:07,760 He said he had that. 393 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:09,760 All I'd need to put the checks through. 394 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:11,760 Did he show you any of it? 395 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:13,760 No, just said that he had it already. 396 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,760 All right, B. 397 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:17,760 I wonder if you can come back to the office and check through the books for us. 398 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:19,760 See if you can spot this Cecil. 399 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,760 Oh, sure. I'd be glad to help out. 400 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:23,760 I've got a bill we can leave. 401 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:25,760 I don't want to bring this up, Sergeant. 402 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:27,760 Yeah, what's that? 403 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:29,760 I hope you'll understand. I'm not trying to get out of line. 404 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,760 Well, go ahead, B. 405 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,760 They know me in this bar. This fella Cecil knows me. 406 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:35,760 What would happen if I went ahead of the deal? 407 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,760 You mean make the connection for us? 408 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:39,760 Yeah, line him up, find out how the gas is working. 409 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:41,760 I didn't ask you to do that. 410 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:43,760 It's not your idea. I figured it might be easier all around. 411 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:45,760 You and Mr. Smith will be right there. 412 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:47,760 As soon as I get the information, then it's up to you. 413 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,760 Well, I'll have to check that with the skipper. 414 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:51,760 We'll find out what he thinks of the idea. It might be pretty dangerous. 415 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,760 I thought of that too. The only one thing bothers me. 416 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:55,760 What's that? 417 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,760 Somebody's along the line. I'm going to have to tell this joker that I don't go for the deal. 418 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:59,760 He's going to find out I'm working with you. 419 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:01,760 When he does, be there. 420 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:11,760 We returned to the office and made arrangements to meet Beatrice Dowling the next day. 421 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,760 Frank and I got the name and description of the bartender at the place where the Dowling woman said she'd been approached. 422 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:19,760 We ran it through our eye, but we were not able to find a record for the man. 423 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,760 The next morning we met with Captain Welsh and told him of the idea. 424 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:25,760 He agreed that it appeared to be the only way we had of stopping the suspect. 425 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,760 We contacted Miss Dowling and made arrangements for her to be kept under constant surveillance. 426 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,760 The same day, Thursday, July 12th at 5.20 pm, she entered the bar. 427 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,760 Frank and I were parked down the street in our car. 428 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,760 How about it? See the doorway? 429 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:41,760 Well, all we can do now is wait. 430 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,760 Yeah. 431 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:45,760 Here, you want a cigarette? 432 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,760 I got one. 433 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:51,760 What's the matter? You got a cigarette? 434 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:53,760 Yeah, you got one on your hand? 435 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:55,760 There's some right here, sure. Here. 436 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,760 Thanks. 437 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,760 Oh, I'll sure be glad to get home. 438 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:04,760 Yeah. 439 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,760 Fay and me had a big argument last night. 440 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:08,760 Is that right? What's the matter now? 441 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,760 Oh, I came home. I guess about 7.30, about in there. 442 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:17,760 Right after dinner, I got ready for bed. That's when I saw it. 443 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:19,760 I should have known right from the start. 444 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,760 You should have known what? 445 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:23,760 Well, Fay fixed Swedish meatballs for dinner. 446 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:24,760 Again, huh? 447 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,760 Right then, I should have known. 448 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,760 That's what had happened. 449 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,760 You know, she always figures they'll soften me up, so I won't mind. 450 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:32,760 What'd you buy this time? 451 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:34,760 A new bedroom set. 452 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:36,760 King-sized bed, Joe. 453 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,760 Mattress, springs, couple of those new rubber pillows, you know, those bouncy spoonies. 454 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:42,760 Yeah, I know. 455 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:44,760 I took one look at them, and naturally, the roof went off. 456 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:46,760 You mean she bought the whole thing, huh? 457 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:48,760 She refurnished the whole room. 458 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:50,760 Cost a lot of money, didn't it? 459 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,760 That's what I thought. I was pretty sorry about it, too, and we had a few words. 460 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:55,760 I guess it was pretty bad. 461 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:01,760 By the time I got calmed down, she was asleep. 462 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,760 Then I saw the bill. 463 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:05,760 I couldn't believe it. 464 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,760 You wouldn't either, Joe. It wasn't big at all. 465 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:09,760 Is that right? 466 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,760 Yeah. 467 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:13,760 I sure slept good. 468 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:15,760 I think I could make it, Joe. 469 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:17,760 What's that? 470 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,760 You know how I'm always talking about sleeping for a week? 471 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,760 Well, the way I slept last night, I think I could make it. 472 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:23,760 You know something that you'd like to try? 473 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:25,760 How are you going to have to wait to try? Take a look down there. 474 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,760 Huh? 475 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,760 The bar. Beatrice is coming up. 476 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,760 Oh, yeah. A couple of guys with her. 477 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,760 They're acting kind of funny, aren't they? 478 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:35,760 Yeah. 479 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,760 The way they're shoving her around. 480 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,760 There's only one reason for that. They found out about us. 481 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:47,760 Frank and I followed the three people down the street. 482 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,760 A half a block from the bar, they got into a black Oldsmobile sedan 483 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:51,760 and pulled out into the line of traffic. 484 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,760 We kept them under surveillance while we drove to the downtown area. 485 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,760 We called Communications and got a rolling make on the car. 486 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,760 It was registered to a Cecil Maddox, 2482 North Alexandria on Hollywood. 487 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,760 We requested that Maddox be checked through RNI 488 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:01,760 and we found that he'd been arrested twice before on charges of grand theft. 489 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:03,760 And he'd served one term at San Quentin and one term at Folsom Penitentiary. 490 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,760 At the corner of Broadway and Clay streets, 491 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,760 the trio pulled into a parking lot and they left the car. 492 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:09,760 Frank and I parked our unit and followed them to a stationary store. 493 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,760 We were there for a couple of days. 494 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:13,760 We were there for a couple of days. 495 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,760 We were there for a couple of days. 496 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:17,760 We were there for a couple of days. 497 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:19,760 Frank and I parked our unit and followed them to a stationary store. 498 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:21,760 On the street we could see Maddox talk to a salesman 499 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:23,760 while the other man walked up to a display of typewriters. 500 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,760 while the other man walked up to a display of typewriters. 501 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,760 He took a slip of paper from his pocket and apparently tried to machine. 502 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,760 He took a slip of paper from his pocket and apparently tried to machine. 503 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:31,760 But the time he was finished Maddox had gotten through talking to the clerk 504 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,760 and they used the same piece of paper to try a check protector. 505 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:35,760 During this operation, Beatrice Dowling stood by and waited for them. 506 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:37,760 During this operation, Beatrice Dowling stood by and waited for them. 507 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:39,760 Finally, the three of them left the store 508 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:41,760 and walked two blocks east to a large market. 509 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,760 There we saw Maddox hand the Dowling woman an envelope. 510 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,760 After that she entered the store 511 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,700 that she entered the store and came back a few minutes later. 512 00:17:48,700 --> 00:17:50,840 Frank and I were about 10 feet from the pair of checkmen 513 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:53,240 when the woman returned. 514 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:54,280 Hey, Dave. 515 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:55,120 How'd it go? 516 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:55,940 Thank you, Fred. 517 00:17:55,940 --> 00:17:56,780 Here's the money. 518 00:17:56,780 --> 00:17:57,740 OK, let's go to a bar. 519 00:17:57,740 --> 00:17:58,580 We'll make the split. 520 00:17:58,580 --> 00:17:59,420 Half of this is mine, huh? 521 00:17:59,420 --> 00:18:00,180 That's the way we set up. 522 00:18:00,180 --> 00:18:00,700 Let's go. 523 00:18:00,700 --> 00:18:02,560 Come on, Frank. 524 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:04,020 All right, Maddox, hold it up. 525 00:18:04,020 --> 00:18:05,060 What's this all about? 526 00:18:05,060 --> 00:18:06,740 Police officers, you're under arrest. 527 00:18:06,740 --> 00:18:07,460 For what? 528 00:18:07,460 --> 00:18:08,460 Go ahead, spell out the beef. 529 00:18:08,460 --> 00:18:09,460 How's forgery, Fred? 530 00:18:09,460 --> 00:18:09,860 I don't know. 531 00:18:09,860 --> 00:18:10,620 You won't hang it on me. 532 00:18:10,620 --> 00:18:11,340 Don't book it, mister. 533 00:18:11,340 --> 00:18:12,100 You'll get short odds. 534 00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:12,780 The wrong beef. 535 00:18:12,780 --> 00:18:13,260 I won't talk. 536 00:18:13,260 --> 00:18:16,060 You already have, huh? You paid for it with a bad check. 537 00:18:16,060 --> 00:18:23,020 The two suspects were taken to the city hall. 538 00:18:23,020 --> 00:18:25,340 The second man was identified as Raymond Johnstone. 539 00:18:25,340 --> 00:18:27,380 We checked him through records and identification, 540 00:18:27,380 --> 00:18:29,800 and we found that he had a long felony record. 541 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,220 He'd served sentences in both San Quentin and Folsom. 542 00:18:32,220 --> 00:18:34,180 And from the record, we found that he was in Folsom 543 00:18:34,180 --> 00:18:36,780 at the time Maddox was serving his term. 544 00:18:36,780 --> 00:18:38,160 We talked to Johnstone for an hour, 545 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,260 but he refused to admit any complicity in the forgeries. 546 00:18:41,260 --> 00:18:43,540 9 15 PM, officers Ferguson and Regan 547 00:18:43,540 --> 00:18:45,380 went out to the address we've gotten for Maddox, 548 00:18:45,380 --> 00:18:46,780 and Frank and I talked to the suspect 549 00:18:46,780 --> 00:18:48,300 in the interrogation room. 550 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:49,860 All right, come on, Maddox, empty your pockets. 551 00:18:49,860 --> 00:18:50,260 What for? 552 00:18:50,260 --> 00:18:51,300 Because we want you to. 553 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:52,220 Do I get the stuff back? 554 00:18:52,220 --> 00:18:53,540 Put it on the table. 555 00:18:53,540 --> 00:18:55,100 I haven't got anything, nothing you want. 556 00:18:55,100 --> 00:18:55,900 Will you let us figure that out? 557 00:18:55,900 --> 00:18:56,860 Come on, on the table. 558 00:18:59,660 --> 00:19:05,700 There's a wallet, handkerchief, chain, 559 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:07,860 package of gum, keys, and that's it. 560 00:19:07,860 --> 00:19:12,820 All right, now the coat pockets. 561 00:19:12,820 --> 00:19:18,700 Cigarettes, lighter, some more chains, and parking stuff. 562 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:19,780 Inside pockets, too? 563 00:19:19,780 --> 00:19:21,300 There's nothing there you'd be interested in. 564 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:22,140 Inside pockets. 565 00:19:25,780 --> 00:19:26,820 Couple of letters, that's all. 566 00:19:26,820 --> 00:19:29,860 All right, let's take a look. 567 00:19:29,860 --> 00:19:32,060 Your true name's Cecil James Maddox? 568 00:19:32,060 --> 00:19:32,820 Yeah. 569 00:19:32,820 --> 00:19:34,580 Whose stuff belongs to? 570 00:19:34,580 --> 00:19:35,460 I don't know anything about it. 571 00:19:35,460 --> 00:19:37,460 Driver's license, social security card, oil company 572 00:19:37,460 --> 00:19:38,940 credit card, these don't belong to you, do they? 573 00:19:38,940 --> 00:19:39,940 Take a good look, cop. 574 00:19:39,940 --> 00:19:40,780 You see my name on them? 575 00:19:40,780 --> 00:19:42,020 We found them in your pocket. 576 00:19:42,020 --> 00:19:42,820 Cleaner must have left them. 577 00:19:42,820 --> 00:19:43,780 All come off it, Maddox. 578 00:19:43,780 --> 00:19:44,860 We got you nailed and you know it. 579 00:19:44,860 --> 00:19:45,580 You got to show me. 580 00:19:45,580 --> 00:19:46,780 All right, these other envelopes here, 581 00:19:46,780 --> 00:19:47,740 same thing on all of them. 582 00:19:47,740 --> 00:19:48,540 Now where'd you get them? 583 00:19:48,540 --> 00:19:51,580 I told you, I got a sloppy cleaner. 584 00:19:51,580 --> 00:19:53,260 Frank, you want to check to see if Fergie's back? 585 00:19:53,260 --> 00:19:53,740 Yeah, sure. 586 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:00,820 You got any money in the wallet? 587 00:20:00,820 --> 00:20:01,380 Couple of bucks. 588 00:20:01,380 --> 00:20:02,340 Take it out. 589 00:20:02,340 --> 00:20:02,820 Sure. 590 00:20:05,380 --> 00:20:06,060 I'll give it to you. 591 00:20:06,060 --> 00:20:06,980 Keep it in your hands. 592 00:20:06,980 --> 00:20:07,940 Give me the wallet. 593 00:20:07,940 --> 00:20:10,220 Here. 594 00:20:10,220 --> 00:20:11,500 You find anything interesting in there, 595 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:12,300 and I'll split it with you. 596 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:14,180 Sure. 597 00:20:14,180 --> 00:20:15,220 How about these checks? 598 00:20:15,220 --> 00:20:15,700 Where'd you get them? 599 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:16,220 I forget. 600 00:20:16,220 --> 00:20:17,900 Well, you better start remembering, mister. 601 00:20:17,900 --> 00:20:18,780 I'm trying. 602 00:20:18,780 --> 00:20:19,740 It just isn't working out. 603 00:20:19,740 --> 00:20:21,500 Pretty important that you do. 604 00:20:21,500 --> 00:20:22,340 I think I found them. 605 00:20:22,340 --> 00:20:22,740 Where? 606 00:20:22,740 --> 00:20:23,660 I don't remember. 607 00:20:23,660 --> 00:20:25,220 You turn up with $500 worth of checks, 608 00:20:25,220 --> 00:20:26,100 and you don't know where you got them, huh? 609 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:27,140 I haven't got the slightest idea. 610 00:20:27,140 --> 00:20:27,940 What about this receipt? 611 00:20:27,940 --> 00:20:28,380 What's it for? 612 00:20:28,380 --> 00:20:28,940 I don't know. 613 00:20:28,940 --> 00:20:29,620 It's in your wallet. 614 00:20:29,620 --> 00:20:30,460 You must have put it there. 615 00:20:30,460 --> 00:20:31,340 Look at the back. 616 00:20:31,340 --> 00:20:32,420 There's a phone number on it. 617 00:20:32,420 --> 00:20:34,180 Maybe that's where I kept it. 618 00:20:34,180 --> 00:20:35,060 No phone number here? 619 00:20:35,060 --> 00:20:37,020 Well, I can't tell you where I got it. 620 00:20:37,020 --> 00:20:38,020 I guess I've been carrying it around for a long time. 621 00:20:38,020 --> 00:20:39,100 They did a couple of months ago. 622 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:39,820 That's a long time to me. 623 00:20:39,820 --> 00:20:41,820 Look, what are you trying to prove with this innocent pitch? 624 00:20:41,820 --> 00:20:42,860 You know we got you going in. 625 00:20:42,860 --> 00:20:44,260 We're going to make a forgery complaint stick. 626 00:20:44,260 --> 00:20:45,460 Now why are you trying to make it harder? 627 00:20:45,460 --> 00:20:46,900 I don't think you can trip me for the beef. 628 00:20:46,900 --> 00:20:48,700 There's a couple of officers over at your apartment now. 629 00:20:48,700 --> 00:20:50,220 They come up with a press you use to print up 630 00:20:50,220 --> 00:20:51,340 the checks and the identification. 631 00:20:51,340 --> 00:20:52,260 You've had it, mister. 632 00:20:52,260 --> 00:20:53,180 Yes, they find the press. 633 00:20:53,180 --> 00:20:53,700 That's right. 634 00:20:53,700 --> 00:20:55,220 Only one big hole in the fairy tale. 635 00:20:55,220 --> 00:20:55,660 Is that so? 636 00:20:55,660 --> 00:20:56,580 I haven't got a press. 637 00:20:56,580 --> 00:20:57,780 I don't know where I got those checks. 638 00:20:57,780 --> 00:20:59,020 I think I bought them. 639 00:20:59,020 --> 00:21:06,020 You try to take me to court on that kind of evidence, 640 00:21:06,020 --> 00:21:11,020 and you'll make the front page as the dumbest cop of the year. 641 00:21:11,020 --> 00:21:12,020 Joe. 642 00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:13,020 Yeah? 643 00:21:13,020 --> 00:21:14,020 I've got something for you. 644 00:21:14,020 --> 00:21:15,020 You wait here, Maddox. 645 00:21:15,020 --> 00:21:16,020 Only one door, and you're in front of that. 646 00:21:16,020 --> 00:21:17,020 I'm not going anywhere. 647 00:21:17,020 --> 00:21:18,020 Just sit still. 648 00:21:18,020 --> 00:21:19,020 Yeah. 649 00:21:19,020 --> 00:21:20,020 How's it going? 650 00:21:20,020 --> 00:21:21,020 Not too good. 651 00:21:21,020 --> 00:21:22,020 You want a cop, huh? 652 00:21:22,020 --> 00:21:23,020 How'd you do? 653 00:21:23,020 --> 00:21:24,020 I talked to Fergie. 654 00:21:24,020 --> 00:21:25,020 They went over Maddox's apartment. 655 00:21:25,020 --> 00:21:26,020 Yeah. 656 00:21:26,020 --> 00:21:27,020 They didn't find anything. 657 00:21:27,020 --> 00:21:28,020 We went back into the interrogation room, 658 00:21:28,020 --> 00:21:29,020 and we talked to Raymond Johnstone, 659 00:21:29,020 --> 00:21:31,020 but he refused to cooperate with us. 660 00:21:31,020 --> 00:21:33,020 A thorough search was made of their car, 661 00:21:33,020 --> 00:21:35,020 but we failed to turn up anything new. 662 00:21:35,020 --> 00:21:37,020 We contacted the printer, who'd made up the receipt blanks. 663 00:21:37,020 --> 00:21:38,020 He checked his records, 664 00:21:38,020 --> 00:21:41,020 and was able to give us the address of the place that had ordered them. 665 00:21:41,020 --> 00:21:44,020 Officers Ferguson, Regan, Frank, and I drove out to the place. 666 00:21:44,020 --> 00:21:47,020 It was a cheap hotel located on East 7th. 667 00:21:47,020 --> 00:21:49,020 We checked with the desk clerk and showed him the receipt. 668 00:21:49,020 --> 00:21:52,020 He told us that two men answering the descriptions of the suspects 669 00:21:52,020 --> 00:21:54,020 had rented a room two months previously. 670 00:21:54,020 --> 00:21:56,020 He went on to say that there was a third man with a pair, 671 00:21:56,020 --> 00:21:58,020 and that he was in the room at the time. 672 00:21:58,020 --> 00:21:59,020 We asked about luggage, 673 00:21:59,020 --> 00:22:02,020 and the clerk said that the trio had moved in several large trunks. 674 00:22:02,020 --> 00:22:03,020 We got the room number, 675 00:22:03,020 --> 00:22:05,020 and while Ferguson and Regan covered the rear of the building, 676 00:22:05,020 --> 00:22:07,020 Frank and I went up to the room. 677 00:22:07,020 --> 00:22:09,020 Down this way. 678 00:22:12,020 --> 00:22:13,020 All right? 679 00:22:13,020 --> 00:22:15,020 Yeah. 680 00:22:19,020 --> 00:22:20,020 Yeah? 681 00:22:20,020 --> 00:22:21,020 Paul Adley? 682 00:22:21,020 --> 00:22:22,020 Yeah, that's right. What do you want? 683 00:22:22,020 --> 00:22:23,020 I'd like to talk to you. 684 00:22:23,020 --> 00:22:25,020 I'm kind of busy right now. What's it about? 685 00:22:25,020 --> 00:22:26,020 Police officers. 686 00:22:26,020 --> 00:22:27,020 Get out of here. 687 00:22:30,020 --> 00:22:31,020 You got no call to bust in here. 688 00:22:31,020 --> 00:22:32,020 I'm not doing anything wrong. 689 00:22:32,020 --> 00:22:33,020 Why don't you try to keep us out? 690 00:22:33,020 --> 00:22:35,020 I just don't like cops running all over the place. 691 00:22:35,020 --> 00:22:36,020 Where's that door go? 692 00:22:36,020 --> 00:22:38,020 Bedroom, but there ain't nothing in there that concerns you. 693 00:22:38,020 --> 00:22:39,020 I'll take a look. 694 00:22:39,020 --> 00:22:40,020 You stay out of there. 695 00:22:40,020 --> 00:22:41,020 What's this all about anyway? 696 00:22:41,020 --> 00:22:43,020 What are you cops trying to build? 697 00:22:43,020 --> 00:22:44,020 How about it, Frank? 698 00:22:44,020 --> 00:22:45,020 Take a look. 699 00:22:45,020 --> 00:22:47,020 Come on, Adley. Over here. 700 00:22:51,020 --> 00:22:52,020 Press and everything, huh? 701 00:22:52,020 --> 00:22:54,020 I do a little printing for the neighborhood people. 702 00:22:54,020 --> 00:22:55,020 There's nothing that concerns you. 703 00:22:55,020 --> 00:22:57,020 You do work for the Department of Motor Vehicles, too? 704 00:22:57,020 --> 00:22:58,020 What? 705 00:22:58,020 --> 00:22:59,020 These driver's license blanks. 706 00:22:59,020 --> 00:23:00,020 What are they for? 707 00:23:00,020 --> 00:23:01,020 Who tipped you? 708 00:23:01,020 --> 00:23:02,020 What? 709 00:23:02,020 --> 00:23:03,020 Who told you about the plant? Who told you? 710 00:23:03,020 --> 00:23:04,020 Does that make any difference? 711 00:23:04,020 --> 00:23:05,020 You bet it does. 712 00:23:05,020 --> 00:23:06,020 All the difference in the world. 713 00:23:06,020 --> 00:23:07,020 I don't know what they told you, 714 00:23:07,020 --> 00:23:08,020 but I'm not going to take the beef alone. 715 00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:09,020 I'm not going to take it alone. 716 00:23:09,020 --> 00:23:10,020 Is that so? 717 00:23:10,020 --> 00:23:11,020 Yeah. 718 00:23:11,020 --> 00:23:12,020 You go back and tell Cecil and Ray 719 00:23:12,020 --> 00:23:13,020 that they're going with me. 720 00:23:13,020 --> 00:23:14,020 I'm not going to carry this by myself. 721 00:23:14,020 --> 00:23:15,020 You tell them that, will you? 722 00:23:15,020 --> 00:23:16,020 Sure. 723 00:23:16,020 --> 00:23:17,020 Pony deal anyway. 724 00:23:17,020 --> 00:23:18,020 I sit here with the press, all the checks, 725 00:23:18,020 --> 00:23:20,020 anything goes wrong, I'm the one that stands for it. 726 00:23:20,020 --> 00:23:24,020 They're out with the money, one-sided, that's what it is. 727 00:23:24,020 --> 00:23:25,020 They get the kicks, I get the work, one-sided. 728 00:23:25,020 --> 00:23:26,020 No, not this time. 729 00:23:26,020 --> 00:23:27,020 Huh? 730 00:23:27,020 --> 00:23:28,020 You're all going to come out even. 731 00:23:28,020 --> 00:23:38,020 Cecil James Maddox, Raymond Richard Johnstone, 732 00:23:38,020 --> 00:23:41,020 and Paul Milton Hadley were tried and convicted 733 00:23:41,020 --> 00:23:43,020 on 18 counts of forgery. 734 00:23:43,020 --> 00:23:46,020 They received sentence as prescribed by law. 735 00:23:46,020 --> 00:23:49,020 Forgery is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail 736 00:23:49,020 --> 00:23:52,020 for not more than one year, or by imprisonment 737 00:23:52,020 --> 00:23:56,020 for not more than 14 years in the state penitentiary. 738 00:23:56,020 --> 00:23:58,020 You have just heard Dragnet, 739 00:23:58,020 --> 00:24:01,020 the authentic story of your police force in action, 740 00:24:01,020 --> 00:24:06,020 and starring Jack Webb, a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 741 00:24:06,020 --> 00:24:20,020 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service 742 00:24:20,020 --> 00:24:34,020 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service 743 00:24:34,020 --> 00:24:46,020 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service 744 00:24:46,020 --> 00:24:59,020 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service 745 00:24:59,020 --> 00:25:18,020 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service