WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.640 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.640 --> 00:14.440 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:14.440 --> 00:15.440 Dragmets. 00:15.440 --> 00:22.760 You're a detective sergeant. 00:22.760 --> 00:28.440 You're assigned to homicide detail. 00:28.440 --> 00:31.200 You get a call to investigate unknown trouble. 00:31.200 --> 00:34.040 The caller gives no indication of what's wrong. 00:34.040 --> 00:35.840 Your job, check it out. 00:35.840 --> 00:37.840 It was Saturday, July 18th. 00:37.840 --> 00:43.240 It was warm in Los Angeles. 00:43.240 --> 00:45.400 We were working the day watch on a homicide detail. 00:45.400 --> 00:46.520 My partner is Frank Smith. 00:46.520 --> 00:47.520 The boss is Captain Warman. 00:47.520 --> 00:48.520 My name is Friday. 00:48.520 --> 00:52.480 We were on our way back from questioning a suspect and it was 10 56 a.m. when I got back 00:52.480 --> 00:53.480 to our car. 00:53.480 --> 00:58.840 You look 1k 80. 00:58.840 --> 00:59.840 Did you get me a pack too? 00:59.840 --> 01:00.840 Yeah, here you are. 01:00.840 --> 01:01.840 Thanks. 01:01.840 --> 01:02.840 Hey Joe. 01:02.840 --> 01:03.840 Hmm? 01:03.840 --> 01:06.680 I wonder if you'd do me a favor. 01:06.680 --> 01:07.680 I just did. 01:07.680 --> 01:08.680 I bought you a pack of cigarettes. 01:08.680 --> 01:09.680 No, something else. 01:09.680 --> 01:12.680 Well, I've been thinking about taking a sergeant's exam. 01:12.680 --> 01:15.200 See if I can crack it this time. 01:15.200 --> 01:16.200 Yeah. 01:16.200 --> 01:18.880 I figure I got about six months before they're going to hold them again. 01:18.880 --> 01:20.680 Gives me plenty of time to get ready. 01:20.680 --> 01:21.680 It's a lot of work. 01:21.680 --> 01:23.680 You're going to have to really hustle the books, you know. 01:23.680 --> 01:24.680 Yeah, I know. 01:24.680 --> 01:25.680 I talked to Fay about it last night. 01:25.680 --> 01:28.200 Got it all squared away. 01:28.200 --> 01:30.400 The in-laws aren't going to come out this year. 01:30.400 --> 01:31.880 That's what loused me up last year. 01:31.880 --> 01:32.880 It is, huh? 01:32.880 --> 01:33.880 Sure, Joe. 01:33.880 --> 01:34.880 You know our house. 01:34.880 --> 01:38.920 We had army cops all over the place, kids running around screaming. 01:38.920 --> 01:39.920 Nobody can study like that. 01:39.920 --> 01:41.920 You going to be able to work out the classes? 01:41.920 --> 01:43.520 Well, I'm going to have to. 01:43.520 --> 01:45.360 I can sure use the extra money. 01:45.360 --> 01:47.440 The plan, me and Mike, to do some work on the house. 01:47.440 --> 01:50.440 I thought the only way we could do it was a climactic sergeant. 01:50.440 --> 01:52.440 Well, what do you want me to do? 01:52.440 --> 01:55.640 Well, I wonder if you can kind of help me out along the way. 01:55.640 --> 01:56.640 You made it. 01:56.640 --> 01:58.640 Tell me what to do and what to watch out for. 01:58.640 --> 02:00.520 Well, I'll do what I can for you. 02:00.520 --> 02:02.520 But there's anybody who can make it for you besides yourself. 02:02.520 --> 02:03.520 Yeah, I know that. 02:03.520 --> 02:08.520 But as long as you're in my corner, old buddy, I'll be in your corner. 02:08.520 --> 02:09.520 Attention all units. 02:09.520 --> 02:11.520 We better get the hell out. 02:11.520 --> 02:17.520 All units, at 52-91 La Miranda Street, investigate unknown trouble. 02:17.520 --> 02:20.520 Car 11F-93, take the call. 02:20.520 --> 02:21.520 Code 3, KMA-367. 02:21.520 --> 02:22.520 This is Miranda now, isn't it here? 02:22.520 --> 02:23.520 Yeah, 6100 block. 02:23.520 --> 02:24.520 We must have just passed the place. 02:24.520 --> 02:25.520 I didn't see anything. 02:25.520 --> 02:26.520 Did you? 02:26.520 --> 02:27.520 Me either. 02:27.520 --> 02:28.520 Code 3, it's important. 02:28.520 --> 02:29.520 Make a U and we'll go back and check it out. 02:29.520 --> 02:30.520 All right. 02:30.520 --> 02:31.520 It should be up here on the right. 02:31.520 --> 02:32.520 Mm-hmm. 02:32.520 --> 02:33.520 5800, a couple blocks up ahead. 02:33.520 --> 02:34.520 Okay. 02:34.520 --> 02:35.520 We'll go back and check it out. 02:35.520 --> 02:36.520 All right. 02:36.520 --> 02:37.520 We'll go back and check it out. 02:37.520 --> 02:38.520 All right. 02:38.520 --> 02:39.520 We'll go back and check it out. 02:39.520 --> 02:40.520 All right. 02:40.520 --> 02:41.520 We'll go back and check it out. 02:41.520 --> 02:42.520 All right. 02:42.520 --> 02:43.520 We'll go back and check it out. 02:43.520 --> 02:44.520 All right. 02:44.520 --> 02:48.520 We'll go back and check it out. 02:48.520 --> 02:51.520 5800, a couple blocks up there. 02:51.520 --> 02:52.520 Take it easy. 02:52.520 --> 02:53.520 It should be in here. 02:53.520 --> 02:54.520 Yeah. 02:54.520 --> 02:55.520 Doesn't look like there's any trouble. 02:55.520 --> 02:56.520 I think this is it. 02:56.520 --> 02:57.520 You want to pull up? 02:57.520 --> 02:58.520 Yeah. 02:58.520 --> 03:03.520 At the back of the court, 5291. 03:03.520 --> 03:04.520 There's nothing going on. 03:04.520 --> 03:05.520 Yeah. 03:05.520 --> 03:10.520 Well, maybe I better verify that address, huh? 03:10.520 --> 03:11.520 Yeah. 03:11.520 --> 03:14.520 1K80 to Control 1. 03:14.520 --> 03:17.520 Control 1 to 1K80, go ahead. 03:17.520 --> 03:21.520 Would you repeat the address on the call to La Miranda Street? 03:21.520 --> 03:24.520 Stand by, 1K80. 03:24.520 --> 03:25.520 Excuse me? 03:25.520 --> 03:26.520 No. 03:26.520 --> 03:27.520 It's probably some kids having a time. 03:27.520 --> 03:28.520 Yeah. 03:28.520 --> 03:35.520 Control 1 to 1K80, that address is 5291 La Miranda. 03:35.520 --> 03:38.520 5291 La Miranda. 03:38.520 --> 03:39.520 Roger, Control 1. 03:39.520 --> 03:42.520 1K80, code 6 at that address, KMA367. 03:42.520 --> 03:45.520 Well, this is it. 03:45.520 --> 03:50.520 We better check it out, huh? 03:50.520 --> 03:54.520 There's nothing wrong here. 03:54.520 --> 03:58.520 Doesn't look like it, does it? 03:58.520 --> 04:00.520 There's somebody back there, Joe. 04:00.520 --> 04:01.520 See them at the window? 04:01.520 --> 04:02.520 Get down, Frank. 04:02.520 --> 04:03.520 How about it? 04:03.520 --> 04:04.520 I don't know. 04:04.520 --> 04:05.520 One thing's sure. 04:05.520 --> 04:06.520 Yeah? 04:06.520 --> 04:07.520 They didn't send for us. 04:07.520 --> 04:17.520 The five units of the cork were arranged in the shape of a U. 04:17.520 --> 04:20.520 5291 was the building at the far end. 04:20.520 --> 04:23.520 In the center, running between the two wings, was a grass area. 04:23.520 --> 04:29.520 Large palm trees were growing at either end, and there was a wrought iron table and four chairs in the center of the area. 04:29.520 --> 04:34.520 And what we could see of the building the shot had come from, the only door was the one facing us. 04:34.520 --> 04:38.520 Frank and I ducked over to the left side of the cork that the unit occupied by the manager. 04:38.520 --> 04:42.520 We waited on the porch until the felony car that had been assigned to the call arrived. 04:42.520 --> 04:47.520 While the officers from the unit covered the house, Frank and I went to the manager's place and talked to him. 04:47.520 --> 04:49.520 He identified himself as Marshall Rice. 04:49.520 --> 04:51.520 He appeared to be nervous and upset. 04:51.520 --> 04:52.520 I know why it should be so tough. 04:52.520 --> 04:54.520 You get him out of there, that's all I care about, just get him out. 04:54.520 --> 04:56.520 What did you say the man's name was? 04:56.520 --> 04:57.520 Dudley Gray. 04:57.520 --> 04:58.520 You're the one who called the police? 04:58.520 --> 05:00.520 Yeah, I called him right after he took the first shot. 05:00.520 --> 05:02.520 I wasn't going to wait around for no repeat performance. 05:02.520 --> 05:04.520 Do you have any idea why he's doing this? 05:04.520 --> 05:05.520 Only one that makes any sense. 05:05.520 --> 05:06.520 What's that? 05:06.520 --> 05:07.520 He's wigged. 05:07.520 --> 05:08.520 Sir? 05:07.520 --> 05:09.520 Flip, though. He's gone straight up. 05:09.520 --> 05:10.520 Did you talk to him this morning? 05:10.520 --> 05:13.520 Yeah, I went back there about 8.30, wanted to get some things straightened out. 05:13.520 --> 05:15.520 I sat and had a cup of coffee with him and Charlotte. 05:15.520 --> 05:16.520 Who's Charlotte? 05:16.520 --> 05:17.520 His wife. 05:17.520 --> 05:20.520 Real dial, she sure don't deserve to come up with a flip like him. 05:20.520 --> 05:21.520 How'd he seem then? 05:21.520 --> 05:22.520 You mean when I talked to him? 05:22.520 --> 05:23.520 That's right. 05:23.520 --> 05:24.520 All right, I didn't notice anything. 05:24.520 --> 05:27.520 If I had, I'd have called you then instead of waiting for this to happen. 05:27.520 --> 05:28.520 And what'd you talk about? 05:28.520 --> 05:29.520 Different things. 05:29.520 --> 05:31.520 We've been planning on doing a little remodeling, you know, painting papers. 05:31.520 --> 05:32.520 Yeah. 05:32.520 --> 05:33.520 Dudley's been helping me. 05:33.520 --> 05:35.520 Lost his job a couple of months ago. 05:35.520 --> 05:38.520 Since then he's just been sitting around watching the TV. 05:38.520 --> 05:40.520 I've been doing all liquor work. 05:40.520 --> 05:43.520 So I asked him to give me a hand with a redecorating. 05:43.520 --> 05:45.520 Guy's already six weeks behind on his rent. 05:45.520 --> 05:46.520 Just go to the show. 05:46.520 --> 05:47.520 Huh? 05:47.520 --> 05:49.520 Well, you try to be nice to a guy, try to give him a hand. 05:49.520 --> 05:50.520 What happens? He kicks you. 05:50.520 --> 05:52.520 He's no good. He's no good at all. 05:52.520 --> 05:54.520 You'll find out when he comes out. You'll see then. 05:54.520 --> 05:55.520 How long have they lived here? 05:55.520 --> 05:56.520 It's been a couple of years. 05:56.520 --> 05:58.520 Do you need the exact date they moved in? 05:58.520 --> 05:59.520 No, sir, not right now. 05:59.520 --> 06:01.520 You ever had any trouble with them before this? 06:01.520 --> 06:03.520 Nothing like this, that's for sure. 06:03.520 --> 06:04.520 But you have had trouble, huh? 06:04.520 --> 06:05.520 Well, sure. 06:05.520 --> 06:07.520 I just try to live together and not have a little beef now and then. 06:07.520 --> 06:09.520 What were the disagreements about? 06:09.520 --> 06:10.520 Different things. 06:10.520 --> 06:12.520 Sounds kind of silly when you talk about them. 06:12.520 --> 06:14.520 Well, it might help us get them out if we know what caused this. 06:14.520 --> 06:17.520 Well, like he likes one baseball team, I like another. 06:17.520 --> 06:19.520 He don't like the fish, I don't like the hunts, things like that. 06:19.520 --> 06:21.520 Lay them out in the sun, they just dry right up. 06:21.520 --> 06:22.520 Silly little thing. 06:22.520 --> 06:23.520 Anything else? 06:23.520 --> 06:25.520 Well, I guess I might as well tell you. 06:25.520 --> 06:26.520 You'll find out anyway. 06:26.520 --> 06:27.520 What's that? 06:27.520 --> 06:30.520 Well, Dudley thought there was something between Charlotte and me. 06:30.520 --> 06:33.520 Of course there wasn't, but you just couldn't convince him he was off base. 06:33.520 --> 06:35.520 Wasn't anything could convince him. 06:35.520 --> 06:37.520 He said something about that this morning, did he? 06:37.520 --> 06:40.520 Yeah, we were just sitting there talking about how he ought to help me out with the paint. 06:40.520 --> 06:41.520 And Charlotte said he should. 06:41.520 --> 06:43.520 All of a sudden he got this kind of wild look in his eye. 06:43.520 --> 06:45.520 Told me he knew all about me and his wife. 06:45.520 --> 06:47.520 That I wasn't fooling anybody. 06:47.520 --> 06:49.520 Well, we just sat there, didn't know what to think. 06:49.520 --> 06:52.520 Picked up his coffee cup and flung it across the room. 06:52.520 --> 06:54.520 Smashed against the wall, coffee all over the place. 06:54.520 --> 06:56.520 Streaming down the walls, ruined the paint. 06:56.520 --> 06:59.520 Told me to get out of the house and leave Charlotte alone. 06:59.520 --> 07:02.520 Said if he ever saw me talking to her again, he'd make me sorry I did. 07:02.520 --> 07:05.520 Well, what about his family now? Are they in the house? 07:05.520 --> 07:06.520 Pretty sure they ain't. 07:06.520 --> 07:08.520 Charlotte took the kids and left right after I did. 07:08.520 --> 07:09.520 I saw them walk out. 07:09.520 --> 07:10.520 You know where they went? 07:10.520 --> 07:12.520 I can't help you there. 07:12.520 --> 07:14.520 Did she have any people or friends in the neighborhood here? 07:14.520 --> 07:16.520 Nothing I ever heard. 07:16.520 --> 07:18.520 Got a sister down in National City, but I don't think she went there. 07:18.520 --> 07:19.520 Why'd you say that? 07:19.520 --> 07:20.520 She didn't have no grips. 07:20.520 --> 07:22.520 She'd go on there, she'd be taking clothes for the kids. 07:22.520 --> 07:24.520 Didn't have no grips when she left. 07:24.520 --> 07:26.520 Pretty sure she didn't go in National City. 07:26.520 --> 07:28.520 But you don't know where we can find her, huh? 07:28.520 --> 07:29.520 At least. 07:29.520 --> 07:31.520 Might have gone to a show, it'll deadly calm down. 07:31.520 --> 07:34.520 How do you figure to get him to come out? 07:34.520 --> 07:36.520 Well, we'll try to talk to him first to reason with him. 07:36.520 --> 07:37.520 That ain't gonna do it. 07:37.520 --> 07:39.520 He hasn't got any reason left to do a thing like this. 07:39.520 --> 07:40.520 Well, we gotta try. 07:40.520 --> 07:41.520 You're gonna have to kill him. You just wait and see. 07:41.520 --> 07:42.520 That's the only way you're gonna get him out. 07:42.520 --> 07:44.520 Shoot the house full of holes and hope he gets in the middle. 07:44.520 --> 07:45.520 That's the only way. 07:45.520 --> 07:46.520 We hope so. 07:46.520 --> 07:47.520 You'll see. 07:47.520 --> 07:48.520 Something else you ought to know. 07:48.520 --> 07:49.520 Yeah, what's that? 07:49.520 --> 07:50.520 That gun he's got, the.22 rifle. 07:50.520 --> 07:52.520 He's got a real thing about guns. 07:52.520 --> 07:54.520 He's got a real collection of rifles, pistols, automatics, a whole bunch of them. 07:54.520 --> 07:55.520 Yeah. 07:55.520 --> 07:56.520 And they all work. 07:56.520 --> 08:02.520 We got a description of Dudley Gray and we called it into our N.I. 08:02.520 --> 08:04.520 We found that he had no record in our files. 08:04.520 --> 08:07.520 We got in touch with Captain Lorman and filled him in. 08:07.520 --> 08:12.520 We requested that additional teams of men be dispatched with tear gas equipment and shotguns. 08:12.520 --> 08:16.520 The men from the felony unit covered the back of the house while Frank and I covered the front. 08:16.520 --> 08:19.520 All of the other tenants of the court were instructed to stay indoors. 08:19.520 --> 08:24.520 11, 14 a.m. So Frank standing by, I went up to the porch to try and talk to Gray. 08:26.520 --> 08:27.520 Gray? 08:28.520 --> 08:29.520 Gray, I want to talk to you. 08:29.520 --> 08:31.520 I got nothing to say to you. 08:31.520 --> 08:33.520 Why don't you put the gun down and come on out here. 08:33.520 --> 08:35.520 You try to take this place, I'll kill you all. 08:35.520 --> 08:36.520 No reason for that. 08:36.520 --> 08:37.520 I know who you are. 08:37.520 --> 08:39.520 You don't have to try to kid me. I know you. 08:39.520 --> 08:41.520 The police officer is Gray. We want to help you. 08:41.520 --> 08:42.520 Yeah, you don't have to lie. 08:42.520 --> 08:45.520 You just want me to open the gates and let you and the rest of men in here. 08:45.520 --> 08:48.520 Well, you go back and tell the chief I won't do it. 08:48.520 --> 08:50.520 All right, come on out here, Gray. Put the gun down. Let's talk it over. 08:50.520 --> 08:52.520 I'm telling you, I got nothing to say. 08:52.520 --> 08:55.520 Come sneaking around here trying to get me to let you in. 08:55.520 --> 08:58.520 As soon as you're inside, you bring the place down, run off all the horses. 08:58.520 --> 09:00.520 Run off what? 09:00.520 --> 09:03.520 Yeah, I chew the cage you won. Well, it won't work. 09:03.520 --> 09:06.520 I told you, I know who you are. You go tell the chief that it didn't work. 09:06.520 --> 09:09.520 Now, one Indian is getting in here, not one. 09:09.520 --> 09:11.520 I'm going to defend this fort till the cavalry gets here. 09:11.520 --> 09:14.520 Hell show you. Division on the way right now. 09:15.520 --> 09:17.520 Gray, come on out here. 09:17.520 --> 09:19.520 We're on your side. We want to help you. 09:19.520 --> 09:23.520 That's a lie. You got different clothes on, but I still recognize you. 09:23.520 --> 09:27.520 You were scouting around here last week, I remember. Now you get out of here. 09:27.520 --> 09:29.520 Come on, Gray. Give us a break. Let's talk it over. 09:31.520 --> 09:32.520 Go. 09:32.520 --> 09:33.520 Right with you. 09:36.520 --> 09:37.520 What about it? 09:37.520 --> 09:38.520 I don't know. He thinks he's in a fort. 09:38.520 --> 09:39.520 He told me he thought I was an Indian. You heard him. 09:39.520 --> 09:40.520 Yeah, I heard him. 09:40.520 --> 09:43.520 From what the landlord says, he can hold out in there as long as he wants. 09:43.520 --> 09:44.520 Yeah. 09:44.520 --> 09:47.520 Maybe if we could find his wife, we might be able to come up with the answer. 09:47.520 --> 09:50.520 All right, I'll check with the rest of the neighbors, see if they can tell us anything. 09:50.520 --> 09:52.520 Yeah, I'll go on back and try to talk to them. 09:52.520 --> 09:54.520 Wait a minute. Take it easy, Joe. He sounds pretty sick. 09:54.520 --> 09:55.520 Yeah. 09:55.520 --> 09:58.520 Check the boys in the back, William. See if there's any way of getting to them from there. 09:58.520 --> 09:59.520 Right. 10:06.520 --> 10:09.520 I see you out there. I see you. Now, don't try anything. I'm ready for you. 10:09.520 --> 10:11.520 Sure you are, Gray. We couldn't put anything over on you. 10:11.520 --> 10:14.520 You bet you can. I'm too smart for you. 10:14.520 --> 10:17.520 How long do you think it'll be before the cavalry gets here, Gray? 10:17.520 --> 10:20.520 They'll ride in a couple of days. Left Tucson. Day before yesterday. 10:20.520 --> 10:22.520 Should be here day after tomorrow. 10:22.520 --> 10:24.520 You're gonna fix up the Indians then, won't you, Gray? 10:24.520 --> 10:28.520 Yeah, I'm gonna make them sorry they ever tried this. 10:28.520 --> 10:32.520 Gray, how about letting us fight on your side? We'd sure like to be with you. 10:32.520 --> 10:33.520 You mean that? 10:33.520 --> 10:35.520 Sure, we'd like to be with a smart fellow like you. 10:35.520 --> 10:36.520 I couldn't. 10:36.520 --> 10:37.520 No? 10:37.520 --> 10:39.520 I'm not gonna know if I can trust you. 10:39.520 --> 10:42.520 Well, you can. I couldn't do anything that would hurt you. 10:42.520 --> 10:44.520 I suppose not. 10:44.520 --> 10:48.520 Okay, come on in. I can use somebody to watch if the Indians start using fire arrows. 10:48.520 --> 10:49.520 Come on in. 10:56.520 --> 10:58.520 Okay, I'll keep you covered. 10:58.520 --> 11:00.520 As soon as you get here, I'll take the bar off the gate. 11:00.520 --> 11:02.520 All right. 11:02.520 --> 11:05.520 Now, hurry up. Them Indians see you. They'll be all in here. 11:05.520 --> 11:07.520 Want to open the gate? 11:07.520 --> 11:09.520 Wait till you get a little closer. 11:09.520 --> 11:11.520 Can't take any chances. 11:11.520 --> 11:14.520 Almost there, Gray. You better open the door. 11:14.520 --> 11:16.520 Yeah, just a little closer. 11:18.520 --> 11:20.520 Thought you'd go full, man. Well, it didn't work, did it? 11:20.520 --> 11:22.520 It didn't work. You found out. It didn't work. 11:25.520 --> 11:29.520 When Gray fired at me, I dropped to the ground while Frank and the other officers returned the fire, 11:29.520 --> 11:31.520 driving the man away from the window. 11:31.520 --> 11:35.520 1147 a.m. The additional men arrived from the office with tear gas equipment. 11:35.520 --> 11:38.520 It was distributed and we worked out a plan to take Gray. 11:38.520 --> 11:43.520 It was decided that two men would cover the right side of the house while another team covered the back. 11:43.520 --> 11:48.520 Frank and I would go around to the left side and fire tear gas shells into the building until Gray had to leave. 11:48.520 --> 11:55.520 1158 a.m. All of the officers were in position and Frank and I started to move in to use the tear gas gun. 11:56.520 --> 11:59.520 All right. That's enough of that. Just get out of there. 11:59.520 --> 12:01.520 Other building, Joe. Yeah, I see her. 12:01.520 --> 12:04.520 Just get out of that garden. Go on now. Out. 12:04.520 --> 12:07.520 Would you get back in my house, please? We don't know when to get hurt here. 12:07.520 --> 12:11.520 Then you just better get right out of my azaleas. You knock down one more bush and you're in trouble. 12:11.520 --> 12:13.520 You don't understand, ma'am. There's a man in that house and he's got a gun. 12:13.520 --> 12:18.520 I don't care about Mr. Gray. What he does is his own business. I'm just telling you to get out of my flowers. 12:18.520 --> 12:22.520 All the year I've been worrying over trying to cope the blossom out of them. 12:22.520 --> 12:24.520 Now you come around here with your big feet and ruin it all. 12:24.520 --> 12:26.520 We're sorry about that, but we have to get Gray out of that house. 12:26.520 --> 12:29.520 Then do it without stepping all over my flowers. 12:29.520 --> 12:32.520 You're a cop. You're supposed to know how to handle things like this. 12:32.520 --> 12:34.520 Look what you've done to my two breast begonias. 12:34.520 --> 12:36.520 Three months I've been working with them. 12:36.520 --> 12:39.520 Just put them out last week and now look, they're all broken. 12:39.520 --> 12:43.520 You just ought to be ashamed of yourself, big men like you, doing a thing like this to my flowers. 12:43.520 --> 12:46.520 Look, ma'am, if we hurt your flowers, we're sorry. As you did. 12:46.520 --> 12:48.520 Do you think you'd better get inside now, lady? 12:48.520 --> 12:51.520 Are you telling me what to do? Yes, ma'am. 12:51.520 --> 12:54.520 That's a direct order? Yes, ma'am. 12:54.520 --> 12:58.520 All right. I'll go, but you just remember, you ordered me to go. 12:58.520 --> 13:00.520 You're going to hear about this young man. What's your number? 13:00.520 --> 13:02.520 What's the number on your badge? 13:02.520 --> 13:05.520 I intend to report you for this. You find out. 13:05.520 --> 13:08.520 Poor two-breast begonias. You find out. Now, what's your number? 13:08.520 --> 13:10.520 Frank, you want to handle it? Yeah. 13:10.520 --> 13:12.520 Come on, ma'am. We can talk right over here. 13:12.520 --> 13:14.520 Oh, you don't think you can soft-soak me out of it? 13:14.520 --> 13:16.520 I'm going to cause a lot of trouble, a lot of it. 13:16.520 --> 13:17.520 Nothing you can do to stop me. 13:17.520 --> 13:19.520 If you'll just go on inside, well, I'll talk to you later. 13:19.520 --> 13:23.520 All right, but I'll be watching you. I'll be right here watching you. 13:23.520 --> 13:25.520 Well, there's one for you. 13:25.520 --> 13:29.520 Well, let's get on with it. Right. 13:29.520 --> 13:31.520 Think we'll need the mask? 13:31.520 --> 13:33.520 Well, we shouldn't out here. 13:33.520 --> 13:35.520 How's it look out front? 13:35.520 --> 13:37.520 It's all right. Glendale and Lamonica are out there. 13:37.520 --> 13:39.520 Yeah. 13:39.520 --> 13:42.520 Whenever you're ready. 13:44.520 --> 13:47.520 I should bring them out. I'll get another one ready. 13:47.520 --> 13:51.520 Better hold it up until it comes, McCready. Right. 13:51.520 --> 13:53.520 Hey, hold it up, Joe. What do you got, Jack? 13:53.520 --> 13:54.520 Just found out. Yeah? 13:54.520 --> 13:56.520 Gray's wife and kids are in there with him. 14:02.520 --> 14:05.520 Sergeant Jack McCready was standing by in the manager's office 14:05.520 --> 14:07.520 when Mrs. Gray had telephoned from the house. 14:07.520 --> 14:10.520 With the possibility that innocent people might be hit, 14:10.520 --> 14:12.520 we were unable to fire into the home. 14:12.520 --> 14:14.520 We met with Captain Warman and Dupont. 14:14.520 --> 14:18.520 We discussed the methods we could use to get the woman and children out of the place. 14:18.520 --> 14:20.520 We worked out a plan. 14:20.520 --> 14:22.520 It would depend entirely on being able to talk to Mrs. Gray 14:22.520 --> 14:24.520 and explain what we were trying to do. 14:24.520 --> 14:27.520 Frank and I went to the manager's place and put in a call to the house. 14:27.520 --> 14:30.520 How about it? Just starting to ring. 14:30.520 --> 14:32.520 Figure it'll work? I don't know. 14:32.520 --> 14:35.520 The only way we can make it go is to talk to the woman. 14:35.520 --> 14:37.520 Explain the setup to her. 14:37.520 --> 14:39.520 Did you get in touch with the ops about the doctor? 14:39.520 --> 14:41.520 Yeah. They're sending a psychiatrist out. 14:41.520 --> 14:44.520 You might be able to talk to Gray. I hope so. 14:44.520 --> 14:46.520 Anything? No. 14:46.520 --> 14:48.520 Looks like we're in trouble. 14:48.520 --> 14:50.520 Yeah. She won't answer the phone. 14:50.520 --> 15:05.520 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 15:05.520 --> 15:19.520 Without being able to talk to the woman, there was little chance that the plan for getting her and the children out of the house would work. 15:19.520 --> 15:21.520 1 14 p.m. 15:21.520 --> 15:24.520 A large crowd of people had gathered on the street in front of the court. 15:24.520 --> 15:28.520 Additional policemen from Metro Division had to be called in to control them. 15:28.520 --> 15:33.520 From time to time, Dudley Gray would scream something at the bystanders and fire into the crowd. 15:33.520 --> 15:37.520 So far, we've been able to keep the curious citizens back far enough so that none of them were hurt, 15:37.520 --> 15:40.520 but it was only a matter of time before our luck ran out. 15:40.520 --> 15:44.520 Meanwhile, we were still faced with the problem of first getting the wife and children out of the house 15:44.520 --> 15:46.520 before we could attempt to take the man himself. 15:46.520 --> 15:49.520 1 29 p.m. 15:49.520 --> 15:54.520 While Frank and Sergeant Jack McCready went around to the back of the house to ascertain the possibility of removing the family from that side, 15:54.520 --> 15:58.520 I again attempted to talk to Gray. 15:58.520 --> 16:03.520 Gray? Gray? 16:03.520 --> 16:05.520 Come on, Gray, we want to talk to you. 16:05.520 --> 16:07.520 That's why I killed you, Ennion. 16:07.520 --> 16:10.520 Come on, Gray. We're police officers. We're trying to help you if you'll give us the chance. 16:10.520 --> 16:12.520 You expect me to believe that? The truth. 16:12.520 --> 16:14.520 No, that's what you say. I'll give you something. 16:14.520 --> 16:15.520 What's that? 16:15.520 --> 16:18.520 You better get out of here and take your friends with you. 16:18.520 --> 16:20.520 As soon as the cavalry gets here, you're all comfy and troubled. 16:20.520 --> 16:23.520 Now, come on, Gray. There isn't any cavalry. You're in Los Angeles. 16:23.520 --> 16:26.520 You're sick, Gray. We want to help you if you'll give us the chance. 16:26.520 --> 16:27.520 I don't need nothing from you. 16:27.520 --> 16:29.520 What about your wife and kids? Are you going to have them hurt? 16:29.520 --> 16:33.520 They're all right. Nothing's going to get to them. They're all right. 16:33.520 --> 16:35.520 They aren't going to stay that way with you shooting that gun. 16:35.520 --> 16:39.520 Well, you let me worry about it. They're my family. No concern of yours. They're mine. 16:39.520 --> 16:41.520 And you're going to have them killed, are you? 16:41.520 --> 16:46.520 That's a lie. Why do you think I'm doing all this? It's for them. So they can get out of here. 16:46.520 --> 16:51.520 I want to put the Indians swarming all over the place. It's for them I'm doing this. 16:51.520 --> 16:53.520 It's kind of hard to buy, Gray. 16:56.520 --> 16:59.520 It's hard to see what you're trying to protect them from. 17:00.520 --> 17:04.520 Who do you think you are to tell me that? Don't you think I know what's going on? 17:04.520 --> 17:07.520 All the time sitting in here looking at two people trying to take things away from me. 17:07.520 --> 17:09.520 You don't think I know what's going on, huh? 17:09.520 --> 17:13.520 Well, you just save your breath. Save everything. I know what's right. I know it and I'm doing it. 17:14.520 --> 17:16.520 Tell you what, we'll make a deal with you, Gray. 17:16.520 --> 17:17.520 What kind of deal can you make? 17:17.520 --> 17:20.520 Let your wife and kids come out. Let us take care of them. 17:20.520 --> 17:22.520 Give us a chance to prove that we're on your side. 17:22.520 --> 17:27.520 You can't catch me with that one again. You tried once before and it didn't work, remember? You tried once before. 17:27.520 --> 17:28.520 We didn't cause you any trouble. 17:28.520 --> 17:30.520 I don't believe anything you say. 17:30.520 --> 17:34.520 I won't save your breath. All you Indians are tricky. You're not fooling me. 17:35.520 --> 17:37.520 What about all the people out there in the street? 17:37.520 --> 17:38.520 Oh, what about us? 17:38.520 --> 17:39.520 You want to hurt them too? 17:40.520 --> 17:43.520 Be real honest with you. The one you got coming, but I'll be honest. 17:43.520 --> 17:44.520 All right. 17:44.520 --> 17:49.520 I don't much care. They're dumb enough to get caught in the middle of an Indian war. It's their tough luck. 17:50.520 --> 17:52.520 You've come close to shooting a couple of them, you know. 17:52.520 --> 17:55.520 Then tell them to go back to their homes. Leave the biting of the man. 17:56.520 --> 17:59.520 Come on, Gray. Let's get together and talk things over out here. What do you say? 17:59.520 --> 18:03.520 Nothing doing. You get me out of the fort and you try something. I'm not falling for that. 18:04.520 --> 18:06.520 What? And what are you trying to do? 18:06.520 --> 18:07.520 I don't know what you're talking about, Gray. 18:07.520 --> 18:11.520 Don't try that with me. You're trying to break into the back of the plate wall. It won't work. I'll take care of you all. 18:12.520 --> 18:13.520 Joe, Joe, get out of there. 18:13.520 --> 18:14.520 All right. 18:16.520 --> 18:17.520 How about it? 18:17.520 --> 18:19.520 We're getting the gas equipment ready now. 18:19.520 --> 18:21.520 Yeah. We got his family out. 18:27.520 --> 18:31.520 While I'd kept Gray busy in front of the house, Frank and Jack McCready had gone around to the rear. 18:31.520 --> 18:34.520 They'd found the room where Mrs. Gray and the children were hiding. 18:34.520 --> 18:37.520 By breaking a window, they'd been able to remove them from the house. 18:37.520 --> 18:41.520 The children were taken to one of the neighbors and Mrs. Gray was waiting for me in the manager's place. 18:42.520 --> 18:46.520 Outside, the members of homicide detail were making preparations to get Dudley Gray out of the house. 18:47.520 --> 18:51.520 Thank God you got us out of there. I don't know how to tell you. 18:51.520 --> 18:52.520 It's all right now, Mrs. Gray. 18:52.520 --> 18:53.520 The children, where are they? 18:53.520 --> 18:55.520 They're next door. Don't worry about it. 18:55.520 --> 18:57.520 What about Dudley? What are you going to do about him? 18:58.520 --> 18:59.520 Well, we're trying to get him to come out of the house. 18:59.520 --> 19:01.520 I'm going to have to shoot him? 19:01.520 --> 19:02.520 Well, that depends on how he wants it. 19:02.520 --> 19:05.520 Oh, he's sick, Sergeant. He doesn't know what he's doing. 19:05.520 --> 19:09.520 Sure, we know it, but your husband's in there taking pot shots at anybody who comes near him. 19:09.520 --> 19:12.520 Only a matter of time before somebody gets so close he can't miss. 19:12.520 --> 19:14.520 Isn't there some way to get him to give up? 19:14.520 --> 19:19.520 You're a policeman. To fit things like this before seems like it'd be your job to get him out without hurting him. 19:20.520 --> 19:22.520 Well, we're trying. What caused this to happen? 19:24.520 --> 19:25.520 A lot of things, Sergeant. 19:26.520 --> 19:28.520 Well, Mrs. Gray, if we knew what's wrong with him, it might help. 19:28.520 --> 19:30.520 Could you give us some kind of an angle on him? 19:30.520 --> 19:35.520 I don't know how long it's been built, and maybe a year, maybe longer, it's hard to say. 19:35.520 --> 19:38.520 He's trying to take care of the family, keep it together. 19:38.520 --> 19:40.520 Sometimes you don't see the signs. 19:40.520 --> 19:41.520 Yes, ma'am. 19:41.520 --> 19:43.520 It might be my fault. I guess it is. 19:43.520 --> 19:46.520 Just all of a sudden things got too heavy for him to carry. 19:46.520 --> 19:48.520 He lost his job. We couldn't pay the bills. 19:48.520 --> 19:52.520 God, so I wouldn't answer the phone because I knew it was somebody wanting their money. 19:52.520 --> 19:54.520 I'll try to take it easy, ma'am. 19:55.520 --> 19:57.520 He didn't have any way to get the pressure off. 19:57.520 --> 19:59.520 No way at all. It finally got him. 20:00.520 --> 20:01.520 All right, go ahead. 20:02.520 --> 20:04.520 You're sure the children are all right? They're being taken care of? 20:04.520 --> 20:05.520 Yes, ma'am, they're fine. 20:05.520 --> 20:09.520 Are they having lunch? I couldn't think of anything they haven't eaten since this morning. 20:10.520 --> 20:11.520 I'm sure they'll be fine. 20:11.520 --> 20:14.520 Alice is kind of picky with her food, needs coaxing to eat. 20:14.520 --> 20:17.520 They'll be all right, Mrs. Gray. Would you go on, please? 20:18.520 --> 20:20.520 Well, it finally broke this morning. 20:21.520 --> 20:24.520 Once it started, there wasn't anything we could do. Marshall came over. 20:24.520 --> 20:25.520 That's the manager? 20:25.520 --> 20:28.520 Yes, he came over to ask Dudley if he'd help with the painting. 20:28.520 --> 20:31.520 He mentioned that it'd be a way to pay some of the back rent. 20:31.520 --> 20:33.520 Didn't mean anything. Dudley just took it the wrong way. 20:33.520 --> 20:34.520 What's that? 20:34.520 --> 20:38.520 Marshall told him about the rent. I said it was nice of him to give Dudley the chance to make it up. 20:38.520 --> 20:40.520 I didn't mean anything by it. 20:40.520 --> 20:41.520 No. 20:41.520 --> 20:44.520 Then he got up from the table and went into the living room and turned on the television. 20:44.520 --> 20:46.520 Didn't say a word to me. Just got up and walked out. 20:46.520 --> 20:47.520 Uh-huh. 20:47.520 --> 20:50.520 Sat there watching a picture. One of those cowboy things. Just sat there and watched it. 20:50.520 --> 20:51.520 Yeah. 20:51.520 --> 20:53.520 Kids went in, tried to talk to him, so did I. 20:53.520 --> 20:58.520 Tried to bring him out of it. Didn't even know we were in the room. Just sat there and looked at the picture. 20:58.520 --> 21:00.520 Has your husband ever been under the care of a doctor? 21:00.520 --> 21:01.520 You mean for his mind? 21:01.520 --> 21:02.520 That's right. 21:02.520 --> 21:06.520 No, I was afraid to ask and I should have, but it just seemed that it didn't mean another bill. 21:06.520 --> 21:08.520 That was causing all the trouble anyway. 21:08.520 --> 21:12.520 I told you, I was trying to believe that it wasn't anything serious. That it would go away. 21:12.520 --> 21:13.520 Yeah. 21:13.520 --> 21:15.520 It would have been better to have the bill. 21:15.520 --> 21:24.520 Anyway, he sat there for a while. Then he just got up and walked to the closet, 21:24.520 --> 21:27.520 picked up the rifle and told me and the kids to get him to the back bedroom. 21:27.520 --> 21:29.520 Said that they weren't going to take the place. 21:29.520 --> 21:30.520 Did you know what he meant? 21:30.520 --> 21:34.520 No, not at first. I knew there was something wrong, but I didn't know it would be as bad as this. 21:34.520 --> 21:37.520 Is there anybody your husband's particularly fond of? 21:37.520 --> 21:41.520 We've been married for eight years, Sergeant. I guess I could qualify as one. 21:41.520 --> 21:46.520 That isn't what I mean, ma'am. Is there anyone that he'd listen to, a friend, maybe a minister or a priest? 21:46.520 --> 21:51.520 No, any friends he had have gone. They didn't understand his moods. There isn't anybody. 21:51.520 --> 21:52.520 All right, Miss Gray. 21:52.520 --> 21:54.520 Chow, see you, ma'am. 21:54.520 --> 21:55.520 Yeah. Excuse me. 21:55.520 --> 21:56.520 Yes. 21:56.520 --> 22:00.520 Yeah. We ran out of time. 22:00.520 --> 22:02.520 Gray just shot a cop. 22:02.520 --> 22:08.520 The officer was not seriously wounded. 22:08.520 --> 22:11.520 He was removed to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for treatment. 22:11.520 --> 22:14.520 People in the adjoining units were evacuated. 22:14.520 --> 22:18.520 The streets were cleared as much as possible and the men were in position to move in. 22:18.520 --> 22:22.520 Frank, Jack McCready, and I were opposite the front door of the house. 22:22.520 --> 22:28.520 From Mrs. Gray, we learned that her husband had several hundred rounds of ammunition for the rifle that he was using. 22:28.520 --> 22:32.520 In addition to this, he had several handguns and ample shells for them. 22:32.520 --> 22:37.520 She told us that the other guns were located in the closet in the rear of the place. 22:37.520 --> 22:43.520 It was decided to pour tear gas into the back windows and try to keep Gray away from the other guns. 22:43.520 --> 22:46.520 Frank was armed with a sawed-off shotgun loaded with double-arc buck. 22:46.520 --> 22:49.520 McCready had a.45 caliber machine gun. 22:49.520 --> 22:52.520 The officers were in position and the signal was given. 22:52.520 --> 22:53.520 There go the gas guns. 22:53.520 --> 22:56.520 Yeah. They should be coming out pretty quick. 22:56.520 --> 22:57.520 Hope we can take them without killing them. 22:57.520 --> 23:01.520 We'll try. Gas is starting to come through the front window. 23:01.520 --> 23:03.520 Go in. I quit. 23:03.520 --> 23:06.520 All right, throw the gun out, Gray. Throw the gun out. 23:06.520 --> 23:07.520 I won't do it. 23:07.520 --> 23:08.520 Come on, throw that gun out. 23:08.520 --> 23:10.520 Lay it out. Lay it out. 23:14.520 --> 23:15.520 He's down. 23:15.520 --> 23:16.520 Come on. 23:16.520 --> 23:17.520 He's still got the gun. 23:20.520 --> 23:21.520 Is he dead? 23:21.520 --> 23:22.520 No. He better get an ambulance. 23:22.520 --> 23:23.520 I'll take care of him. 23:24.520 --> 23:26.520 Is he dead? Did he kill him? 23:26.520 --> 23:27.520 No, ma'am. 23:27.520 --> 23:28.520 Oh, don't do this. 23:28.520 --> 23:30.520 I should have known. I should have seen. 23:30.520 --> 23:33.520 He's going to be all right, Mrs. Gray. The doctor's on the way. 23:33.520 --> 23:36.520 He didn't know what he was doing. That's all. He didn't know what he was doing. 23:36.520 --> 23:37.520 Yes, ma'am. 23:37.520 --> 23:39.520 He knows we love him. That's all that counts. 23:39.520 --> 23:40.520 We love him and want to take care of him. 23:40.520 --> 23:44.520 He didn't think anybody cared for him. That's what was wrong. He just didn't know. 23:44.520 --> 23:45.520 Yes, ma'am. 23:45.520 --> 23:48.520 Maybe he wouldn't get well. You know everybody wasn't against him. 23:48.520 --> 23:50.520 You know people care. Don't you think that's all that's wrong? 23:50.520 --> 23:53.520 I wouldn't know, ma'am, but he took the hard way to find out. 23:53.520 --> 24:06.520 The story you have just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 24:06.520 --> 24:14.520 On August 26, the preliminary hearing was held in the prison ward of the County Hospital in and for the county of Los Angeles, state of California. 24:14.520 --> 24:26.520 Dudley Peter Gray was held to answer charges of assault with intent to commit murder. 24:26.520 --> 24:31.520 He was examined by three psychiatrists appointed by the court and found to be insane. 24:31.520 --> 24:35.520 He was confined to the state mental hospital at Camarillo for treatment. 24:35.520 --> 24:47.520 You have just heard Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action and starring Jack Webb, a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.