WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.440 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.440 --> 00:14.240 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:14.240 --> 00:16.720 Drag nets. 00:16.720 --> 00:25.200 You're a detective sergeant. 00:25.200 --> 00:27.320 You're assigned to robbery detail. 00:27.320 --> 00:30.320 A holdup man has been hitting the banks in your city. 00:30.320 --> 00:34.360 After two months of following down leads, you get a possible identification. 00:34.360 --> 00:40.480 Your job, check it out. 00:40.480 --> 00:41.480 It was Thursday, July 25th. 00:41.480 --> 00:43.200 It was warm in Los Angeles. 00:43.200 --> 00:45.160 We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 00:45.160 --> 00:48.200 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss of Chief of Detectives Thad Brown. 00:48.200 --> 00:49.200 My name is Friday. 00:49.200 --> 00:53.160 We were on our way out from the office and it was 1042 A.M. when we got to 896 Dwayne 00:53.160 --> 00:54.160 Street. 00:54.160 --> 00:55.160 Front door. 00:55.160 --> 01:01.880 I'll get it again. 01:01.880 --> 01:02.880 This is nobody home. 01:02.880 --> 01:03.880 Yeah. 01:03.880 --> 01:05.880 You see in that window? 01:05.880 --> 01:08.280 No, can't see anybody moving around in there. 01:08.280 --> 01:11.280 Let's try the back. 01:11.280 --> 01:14.040 All right. 01:14.040 --> 01:15.040 Round this way. 01:15.040 --> 01:16.040 Uh-huh. 01:16.040 --> 01:19.280 Hey, sure pretty, isn't it, Joe? 01:19.280 --> 01:20.280 What's that? 01:20.280 --> 01:21.280 Rose tree there. 01:21.280 --> 01:22.280 Bella Portugal. 01:22.280 --> 01:23.280 Sure pretty. 01:23.280 --> 01:24.280 What? 01:24.280 --> 01:25.280 It's a little bit of a fence. 01:25.280 --> 01:27.080 Isn't that big, but we got roses on it already. 01:27.080 --> 01:28.080 What did you call it? 01:28.080 --> 01:30.080 One of those Bella Portugal rose trees. 01:30.080 --> 01:31.080 Oh. 01:31.080 --> 01:32.080 I'll pick a couple for you. 01:32.080 --> 01:33.080 Bring them in the office. 01:33.080 --> 01:34.080 Thanks, Frank. 01:34.080 --> 01:35.080 I don't know what I'd do with them, do you? 01:35.080 --> 01:36.080 Well, you can give them to Ann. 01:36.080 --> 01:37.080 She'd like them. 01:37.080 --> 01:38.080 Yeah. 01:38.080 --> 01:39.080 I get it. 01:39.080 --> 01:40.080 See anybody? 01:40.080 --> 01:48.080 No, looks like there's someone in the lawn chair over there, doesn't it? 01:48.080 --> 01:49.080 Huh. 01:49.080 --> 01:50.080 Miss Clark? 01:50.080 --> 01:51.080 Yes, who is it? 01:51.080 --> 01:52.080 Yeah, come on. 01:52.080 --> 01:53.080 You miss Viola Clark? 01:53.080 --> 01:54.080 That's right. 01:54.080 --> 01:55.080 Police officers, Miss Clark. 01:55.080 --> 01:56.080 This is Frank Smith. 01:56.080 --> 01:57.080 My name's Friday. 01:57.080 --> 01:58.080 Well, how do you do? 01:58.080 --> 01:59.080 How you doing, ma'am? 01:59.080 --> 02:00.080 What can I do for you? 02:00.080 --> 02:01.080 We'd like to ask a few questions. 02:01.080 --> 02:02.080 About Louie? 02:02.080 --> 02:03.080 Yes, ma'am. 02:03.080 --> 02:04.080 Well, would you mind talking inside? 02:04.080 --> 02:06.080 I'd rather the neighbors didn't know all my business. 02:06.080 --> 02:07.080 All right, fine. 02:07.080 --> 02:09.080 We can talk in there without anybody hearing. 02:09.080 --> 02:10.080 Yes, ma'am. 02:10.080 --> 02:11.080 Sure beautiful morning. 02:11.080 --> 02:12.080 Hot. 02:12.080 --> 02:13.080 Mm-hmm. 02:13.080 --> 02:16.080 We're planning a little trip down to the desert this weekend. 02:16.080 --> 02:18.080 Get some rest and a little sun. 02:18.080 --> 02:19.080 Yes, ma'am. 02:19.080 --> 02:21.080 I was trying to get a tan before then. 02:21.080 --> 02:22.080 Mm-hmm. 02:22.080 --> 02:23.080 Look, come on in. 02:23.080 --> 02:24.080 Thank you. 02:24.080 --> 02:25.080 Just go on through the kitchen. 02:25.080 --> 02:26.080 We can talk in the dining room. 02:26.080 --> 02:27.080 All right, thank you. 02:27.080 --> 02:30.080 I just feel funny going to a place where there's a swimming pool and sitting there without 02:30.080 --> 02:31.080 a tan, don't you? 02:31.080 --> 02:32.080 Yes, ma'am. 02:32.080 --> 02:33.080 Well, I do anyway. 02:33.080 --> 02:34.080 It makes me feel self-conscious like. 02:34.080 --> 02:35.080 I see, ma'am. 02:35.080 --> 02:36.080 Well, just go on in and sit down. 02:36.080 --> 02:37.080 I'll get us something cold to drink. 02:37.080 --> 02:38.080 No, that's all right, Miss Clark. 02:38.080 --> 02:39.080 Thank you. 02:39.080 --> 02:40.080 How about you, Mr. Smith? 02:40.080 --> 02:41.080 No, ma'am. 02:41.080 --> 02:42.080 Well, I'm going to have something. 02:42.080 --> 02:43.080 Bill, that's my husband. 02:43.080 --> 02:44.080 Brought me a case of that new kind of drink, you know, without any calories. 02:44.080 --> 02:45.080 Yes, ma'am. 02:45.080 --> 02:46.080 All kinds of flavors, supposedly. 02:46.080 --> 02:53.080 Supposed to be for people who are supposed to reduce, of course. 02:53.080 --> 02:58.080 I don't really need it, just that Bill bought it and all. 02:58.080 --> 02:59.080 Sit down. 02:59.080 --> 03:00.080 Thank you. 03:00.080 --> 03:01.080 Now, what was it about Louis? 03:01.080 --> 03:02.080 He's your brother, is that right? 03:02.080 --> 03:03.080 Well, yes, actually. 03:03.080 --> 03:04.080 He's my half-brother. 03:04.080 --> 03:05.080 You see, his father died and our mother remarried. 03:05.080 --> 03:06.080 I see. 03:06.080 --> 03:07.080 He's my half-brother. 03:07.080 --> 03:08.080 When did you see him last? 03:08.080 --> 03:09.080 Oh, let's see. 03:09.080 --> 03:10.080 I guess it was before the trial. 03:10.080 --> 03:11.080 I don't know. 03:11.080 --> 03:12.080 I don't know. 03:12.080 --> 03:13.080 I don't know. 03:13.080 --> 03:16.080 When did you see him last? 03:16.080 --> 03:17.080 Oh, let's see. 03:17.080 --> 03:18.080 I guess it was before the trouble I had about ten years ago. 03:18.080 --> 03:19.080 You heard anything from him since? 03:19.080 --> 03:20.080 Oh, a couple of times. 03:20.080 --> 03:21.080 Different people have told me they saw Louis. 03:21.080 --> 03:22.080 We always send it there. 03:22.080 --> 03:23.080 But you haven't talked to him, huh? 03:23.080 --> 03:24.080 Well, no, not in ten years. 03:24.080 --> 03:25.080 Would you excuse me a minute? 03:25.080 --> 03:26.080 I forgot the bottle opener. 03:26.080 --> 03:27.080 Yes, ma'am. 03:27.080 --> 03:28.080 When Louis got into trouble, we sort of stopped seeing each other. 03:28.080 --> 03:29.080 I tried to write to him when he was in prison, a little talky talky letter, but they just 03:29.080 --> 03:30.080 seemed to separate us more. 03:30.080 --> 03:31.080 What was that again, ma'am? 03:31.080 --> 03:32.080 I didn't hear you. 03:32.080 --> 03:33.080 I said that I tried to write to him. 03:33.080 --> 03:34.080 I tried to write to him. 03:34.080 --> 03:35.080 I tried to write to him. 03:35.080 --> 03:46.080 I tried to write to him when he was in prison, sort of a, you know, a talky talky letter, 03:46.080 --> 03:49.080 but, well, they just seemed to separate us more. 03:49.080 --> 03:50.080 I see. 03:50.080 --> 03:51.080 Did you see him when he was in prison? 03:51.080 --> 03:54.080 Oh, no, it was during the war and I was pretty busy with other things. 03:54.080 --> 03:55.080 Uh-huh. 03:55.080 --> 03:56.080 Huh. 03:56.080 --> 03:59.080 Bill, my husband, was overseas and I was writing to him, sending him little things. 03:59.080 --> 04:01.080 Just never seemed to get around to seeing Louis. 04:01.080 --> 04:05.080 Oh, I thought about it, but just never quite seemed to get to it. 04:05.080 --> 04:09.080 New flavor, pineapple pie, kind of tangy. 04:09.080 --> 04:11.080 You sure you don't want any? 04:11.080 --> 04:14.080 No, no, thank you. 04:14.080 --> 04:16.080 Oh, that's good. 04:16.080 --> 04:19.080 I've got some little crackers, low calorie. 04:19.080 --> 04:20.080 Would you like some of them? 04:20.080 --> 04:21.080 No, ma'am, thank you. 04:21.080 --> 04:25.080 Well, when Louis got out of jail, I heard he went back east, Salt Lake, I think, got 04:25.080 --> 04:27.080 a job with a paint store back there. 04:27.080 --> 04:28.080 He did pretty good. 04:28.080 --> 04:29.080 Something happened, though. 04:29.080 --> 04:30.080 He quit or got fired or something. 04:30.080 --> 04:31.080 Anyway, he came out here again. 04:31.080 --> 04:33.080 Do you have any idea where your brother might be staying? 04:33.080 --> 04:37.080 No, last I heard it was in some furnished room down on Pico. 04:37.080 --> 04:38.080 Would you have the address? 04:38.080 --> 04:39.080 I'm afraid not. 04:39.080 --> 04:42.080 Do you have any idea where we might be able to get it? 04:42.080 --> 04:43.080 Not the least. 04:43.080 --> 04:44.080 Uh-huh. 04:44.080 --> 04:46.080 What's he done this time? 04:46.080 --> 04:48.080 Well, it'll be better if we talk to him about it, ma'am. 04:48.080 --> 04:49.080 Well, it seems to me I'm the sister. 04:49.080 --> 04:50.080 You should be able to tell me. 04:50.080 --> 04:52.080 I'm certainly going to cooperate with you. 04:52.080 --> 04:54.080 I think it'd be better if we talked to him, though. 04:54.080 --> 04:55.080 That's the way you're going to handle it. 04:55.080 --> 04:56.080 There's not much I can do. 04:56.080 --> 04:59.080 Did your brother have any hobbies, anything that he might try to work at? 04:59.080 --> 05:01.080 No, not that I can remember. 05:01.080 --> 05:03.080 Well, when he was a kid, I think he used to collect stamps, 05:03.080 --> 05:06.080 but then I guess every boy does that. 05:06.080 --> 05:09.080 Mostly, though, he used to read a lot, always had his nose in a book. 05:09.080 --> 05:10.080 Uh-huh. 05:10.080 --> 05:12.080 Had a big collection of those books you could buy in the five-and-dime, 05:12.080 --> 05:14.080 you know, the little thick ones. 05:14.080 --> 05:15.080 Yeah, I kind of know what you mean. 05:15.080 --> 05:18.080 I guess he had just about every one that was ever published. 05:18.080 --> 05:20.080 There was a big thing with the kids in the neighborhood. 05:20.080 --> 05:23.080 Well, Louie had about 100, all different stories. 05:23.080 --> 05:26.080 He built a case for them out in the garage out of apple boxes. 05:26.080 --> 05:27.080 I remember that, out in the garage. 05:27.080 --> 05:28.080 Yes, ma'am. 05:28.080 --> 05:30.080 Had a library going, little cards and everything. 05:30.080 --> 05:32.080 Charged the kids two cents to read the book. 05:32.080 --> 05:33.080 Real going business. 05:33.080 --> 05:34.080 Uh-huh. 05:34.080 --> 05:35.080 Oh, he was a funny kid. 05:35.080 --> 05:39.080 Always trying to figure out how to get somebody else to do the work for him. 05:39.080 --> 05:41.080 He'd say that if he had his way, 05:41.080 --> 05:43.080 he'd get what he wanted without really working for it. 05:43.080 --> 05:47.080 I wonder if being in jail made him change, if he still feels like that. 05:47.080 --> 05:48.080 What does that mean? 05:48.080 --> 05:50.080 That he can live the easy way. 05:50.080 --> 05:51.080 He's still trying. 05:51.080 --> 05:59.080 11 31 a.m. 05:59.080 --> 06:03.080 We left the house and continued checking out the friends and relatives of the suspect Louie wrote. 06:03.080 --> 06:07.080 According to his book, he'd been arrested for the first time, 06:07.080 --> 06:11.080 10 years previously on charges of 459 burglary, five counts. 06:11.080 --> 06:13.080 He'd been sentenced to San Quentin. 06:13.080 --> 06:15.080 He'd been released four years previously. 06:15.080 --> 06:19.080 On June 11th, he walked into a bank at the corner of Reservoir and Montana streets 06:19.080 --> 06:22.080 and robbed the place of $1,180. 06:22.080 --> 06:26.080 He'd hit again on June 19th, July 12th, and July 23rd. 06:26.080 --> 06:28.080 In each instance, the victims were shown mug books, 06:28.080 --> 06:31.080 but they were unable to make a positive identification. 06:31.080 --> 06:36.080 On July 24th, we talked to a cab driver who had driven the suspect away from the latest holdup. 06:36.080 --> 06:38.080 He was able to give us an identification of the suspect, 06:38.080 --> 06:40.080 but when we checked the area where Rode had left the cab, 06:40.080 --> 06:44.080 we were unable to come up with additional information. 06:44.080 --> 06:48.080 The other victims were shown Rode's picture, and all of them made a positive identification. 06:48.080 --> 06:53.080 Locals and APBs were gotten out on him, and all places he was known to frequent were checked. 06:53.080 --> 06:56.080 Still, we couldn't take him into custody. 06:56.080 --> 06:59.080 Two days passed while we looked for the suspect. 06:59.080 --> 07:04.080 On Friday, July 26th, the bank located on Hollywood Boulevard was held up for $1,800. 07:04.080 --> 07:07.080 The suspect matched the description of Rode. 07:07.080 --> 07:11.080 From one of the people in the vicinity, we got the number of the cab the suspect was supposed to have taken. 07:11.080 --> 07:16.080 We got in touch with the traffic manager of the cab company and got the name and stand number of the driver. 07:16.080 --> 07:19.080 9.20 p.m. Frank and I drove out to see him. 07:19.080 --> 07:20.080 The car of Hollywood and Loma Linda? 07:20.080 --> 07:21.080 That's right. 07:21.080 --> 07:22.080 Bank near there. 07:22.080 --> 07:23.080 What time was it supposed to be? 07:23.080 --> 07:24.080 The way we got it, about five. 07:24.080 --> 07:25.080 Tonight? 07:25.080 --> 07:26.080 That's right. 07:26.080 --> 07:28.080 I don't recall the guy. Are you sure it was me? 07:28.080 --> 07:29.080 Well, we got the number of your cab. 07:29.080 --> 07:31.080 You're pretty busy today. Let me check the way, though. 07:31.080 --> 07:32.080 All right. 07:32.080 --> 07:34.080 Let me take a look here. 07:37.080 --> 07:39.080 Yeah, yeah, here it is. Loma and Hollywood. 07:39.080 --> 07:40.080 Where'd you drop the fare off? 07:40.080 --> 07:42.080 2,000 block on Sensei. 07:42.080 --> 07:43.080 That'd be near Echo Park? 07:43.080 --> 07:44.080 Yeah. 07:44.080 --> 07:45.080 Can you tell us anything about the man? 07:45.080 --> 07:47.080 No, like I told you, I've been pretty busy tonight. 07:47.080 --> 07:48.080 Well, that's pretty important. 07:48.080 --> 07:50.080 Oh, what kind of things you want to know? 07:50.080 --> 07:52.080 Well, what'd he say to you when he got into the cab? 07:52.080 --> 07:53.080 Oh, not much. 07:53.080 --> 07:56.080 Seems to me he just told me to drive right down Sunset and then he'd tell me where to let him out. 07:56.080 --> 08:00.080 Was there anything about him that stood out? An accent maybe? Star? Birthmark? Anything like that? 08:00.080 --> 08:02.080 No, it doesn't seem to me that there was. 08:02.080 --> 08:04.080 I could only get a glimpse of him in the rear view mirror. 08:04.080 --> 08:07.080 He was kind of sitting off to one side. Kind of hard to see. 08:07.080 --> 08:08.080 You don't remember anything about him, then, huh? 08:08.080 --> 08:10.080 No, nothing had helped. 08:10.080 --> 08:11.080 Did you say where he was going? 08:11.080 --> 08:15.080 Well, not that I remember. Just told me to drive right down Sunset until he told me to stop. 08:15.080 --> 08:17.080 When he got out of the cab did you see where he went? 08:17.080 --> 08:18.080 I didn't notice. 08:18.080 --> 08:21.080 He said something about getting a drink and asked me if I could name a good bar for him. 08:21.080 --> 08:22.080 Did you? 08:22.080 --> 08:25.080 I couldn't. I don't know the neighborhood very well. I told him they were all probably pretty good. 08:25.080 --> 08:27.080 Did he seem drunk to you? 08:27.080 --> 08:29.080 Well, he had more than a couple. I can't tell you how many. 08:29.080 --> 08:31.080 You know, some guys can hold more than others without showing it. 08:31.080 --> 08:32.080 Yeah. 08:32.080 --> 08:33.080 Well, he was like that. Hard to tell how many he'd lifted. 08:33.080 --> 08:34.080 Uh-huh. 08:34.080 --> 08:36.080 Say, something might help. I just thought of it. 08:36.080 --> 08:37.080 You know, what's that? 08:37.080 --> 08:39.080 He had a kind of a mole on his face right by his mouth. 08:39.080 --> 08:40.080 On which side do you remember? 08:40.080 --> 08:43.080 Well, let me think now. I was looking at him in the mirror. 08:43.080 --> 08:45.080 It was on his left side. 08:45.080 --> 08:47.080 Mirror shows things on the side that don't... 08:47.080 --> 08:49.080 Yeah, yeah. It'd be on his left side. 08:49.080 --> 08:51.080 Yeah, I always get mixed up like that. You know, you know, when you look in the mirror, 08:51.080 --> 08:54.080 if you got something on the right side of your face, it's on the left side of the mirror. 08:54.080 --> 08:55.080 Yeah. 08:55.080 --> 08:57.080 Well, I was looking at him so it'd be on the same side as I saw it. 08:57.080 --> 08:59.080 Yes, there was a left side. 08:59.080 --> 09:00.080 Where was the mole? 09:00.080 --> 09:01.080 Right here. Right by the upper lip. 09:01.080 --> 09:03.080 Not real big so as you'd notice it right off. 09:03.080 --> 09:05.080 Yeah, I forgot about it until just now. 09:05.080 --> 09:07.080 The one he paid the cab bill, what'd he use? 09:07.080 --> 09:09.080 You mean the size bill he gave me? 09:09.080 --> 09:10.080 Yeah. 09:10.080 --> 09:12.080 A 20. I think I got it right here. 09:12.080 --> 09:14.080 Real new. 09:14.080 --> 09:17.080 Yeah, yeah, here it is. He had a whole fistful of those. 09:17.080 --> 09:19.080 Just like this. All brand new. 09:19.080 --> 09:23.080 I asked him if he was going on a trip. You know, people draw a lot of money out when they're gonna take a trip. 09:23.080 --> 09:24.080 I figured maybe that's what he was gonna do. 09:24.080 --> 09:25.080 What'd he say? 09:25.080 --> 09:29.080 Well, he said he wasn't. He said he just made a withdrawal from the bank, but he said he wasn't going away. 09:29.080 --> 09:30.080 Well, he's wrong there. 09:30.080 --> 09:31.080 Huh? 09:31.080 --> 09:32.080 As soon as we find him, he is. 09:32.080 --> 09:45.080 The cab driver identified Roach's mugshot, and at 10.08 p.m., Frank and I drove over to the 2000 block on Sunset Boulevard. 09:45.080 --> 09:48.080 We checked at several bars, but we were unable to find the suspect. 09:48.080 --> 09:53.080 One of the bartenders said he thought that a man answering Roach's description might have been in, but he couldn't be sure. 09:53.080 --> 09:59.080 In each of the places, we left our card, and we asked the owner or the bartender to notify us if the suspect should come in. 09:59.080 --> 10:02.080 12.26 a.m., Frank and I checked back into the office. 10:02.080 --> 10:04.080 You want to check the book, I'll sign us out. 10:04.080 --> 10:05.080 All right. 10:08.080 --> 10:09.080 Anything? 10:09.080 --> 10:10.080 Yeah. 10:10.080 --> 10:11.080 We got a message here from Fay. 10:11.080 --> 10:12.080 Yeah? 10:12.080 --> 10:16.080 She wants you to stop by the drugstore and pick up a refill prescription for the baby. 10:16.080 --> 10:19.080 Oh, it says she's already called him. You just have to pick it up. 10:19.080 --> 10:20.080 Oh. 10:20.080 --> 10:22.080 Well, that blows the coffee. 10:22.080 --> 10:24.080 Well, I ought to get home anyway. I'd like to get a good night's sleep. 10:24.080 --> 10:25.080 All right. See you in the morning, old buddy. 10:25.080 --> 10:26.080 All right. 10:26.080 --> 10:27.080 You gonna have breakfast at home? 10:27.080 --> 10:31.080 I don't know. Say it was up half the night with the kids. Might be better if I let her sleep. 10:31.080 --> 10:33.080 Well, why don't you meet me at that dairy place? 10:33.080 --> 10:34.080 Good deal. About seven, huh? 10:34.080 --> 10:35.080 That'll be fine with me. 10:35.080 --> 10:36.080 All right. 10:36.080 --> 10:38.080 You go on ahead. I'll get the lights, sir. 10:38.080 --> 10:40.080 Hold on. I'll get it. 10:44.080 --> 10:45.080 Robbery Friday. 10:45.080 --> 10:46.080 Yes, sir? 10:47.080 --> 10:48.080 No, sir. We're the ones. 10:49.080 --> 10:50.080 How long ago was that? 10:51.080 --> 10:52.080 I see. 10:52.080 --> 10:53.080 Right away. 10:53.080 --> 10:54.080 What do you got? 10:54.080 --> 10:55.080 Bar out on Sunset. 10:55.080 --> 10:56.080 Yeah? 10:56.080 --> 10:58.080 There were two suspects there now tearing the place up. 11:04.080 --> 11:07.080 We left the city hall and we drove over to the bar on Sunset Boulevard. 11:07.080 --> 11:11.080 By the time we'd gotten there, a police unit had arrived and the disturbance was under control. 11:11.080 --> 11:18.080 The suspect had left the scene and the broadcast was put out to all cars in the area carrying his description and the description of the clothing he was wearing. 11:18.080 --> 11:24.080 When we walked into the bar, the bartender was sitting at one of the tables in the back of the place holding a stake to his left eye. 11:24.080 --> 11:28.080 The place itself was a mess. Bar stools were scattered over the floor. Tables were upended. 11:28.080 --> 11:33.080 The back bar was smashed and the mirror that ran along the length of the bar itself was broken. 11:33.080 --> 11:37.080 Frank and I checked with the officers from the unit and then we went back to talk to the bartender. 11:38.080 --> 11:40.080 Why don't you guys tell me about him? 11:40.080 --> 11:41.080 Sir? 11:41.080 --> 11:44.080 Why don't you tell me who he was? I didn't know. Look at this place. Look what he did. 11:44.080 --> 11:45.080 What started the fight? 11:45.080 --> 11:46.080 I don't know. 11:46.080 --> 11:47.080 Did you recognize him when he came in? 11:47.080 --> 11:51.080 No, right off. He sat down, ordered a drink. Next thing I know, the place is coming down around me. 11:51.080 --> 11:53.080 When did you know he was the man we were looking for? 11:53.080 --> 11:55.080 After he bellowed the fellow next to him. That's when I knew. 11:55.080 --> 11:59.080 He called you right away. He should have told me he was rough. He should have told me. 11:59.080 --> 12:01.080 We told you not to try to take him yourself. 12:01.080 --> 12:04.080 But you didn't make a point of it. I just thought it was something you told everybody. 12:04.080 --> 12:06.080 Can you tell us what he said when he came in? 12:06.080 --> 12:10.080 We were having a nice night. Pretty good business. Sitting there watching the fights on the television. 12:10.080 --> 12:13.080 Nice and quiet. Poring good. Looked like a good night for the till. 12:13.080 --> 12:14.080 Yeah. 12:14.080 --> 12:18.080 Door swings open and in comes this guy. I didn't pay any attention to him. Walked over and sat at the bar. 12:18.080 --> 12:20.080 Right there in the middle. Sat at the bar. 12:20.080 --> 12:21.080 Mm-hmm. 12:21.080 --> 12:24.080 Ordered a highball. You had a couple. I should have known right then. 12:24.080 --> 12:28.080 Had been in this business any time at all. You should be able to spot the ones here like they caused trouble. 12:28.080 --> 12:30.080 What'd he ask for in the drink? 12:30.080 --> 12:34.080 Bourbon and ginger. I mixed it, collected for it, and then went back to watching the fight. 12:34.080 --> 12:38.080 Had a little bet on it. Always take the white corner with one of the regulars. You know, a couple of bucks. 12:38.080 --> 12:39.080 Mm-hmm. 12:39.080 --> 12:43.080 I'm standing there watching the fight. All of a sudden there's one going on in the room. 12:43.080 --> 12:46.080 This new guy and the fellow next to him. Going at it hot and heavy. 12:46.080 --> 12:47.080 Fine. Go on. 12:47.080 --> 12:49.080 This do any good, you know? 12:49.080 --> 12:50.080 What's that? 12:50.080 --> 12:53.080 Hole in a stake on a black eye. Supposed to take swelling down. 12:53.080 --> 12:54.080 I wouldn't know, sir. 12:54.080 --> 12:57.080 Sure hope so. Guy laid a bottle on my cheek. Feels like he broke something. 12:57.080 --> 12:59.080 You want us to call a doctor for you? 12:59.080 --> 13:02.080 No, I'll check one later. Other cops ask me the same thing. I'm all right. 13:02.080 --> 13:04.080 Sir, would you like to go ahead with the story, please? 13:04.080 --> 13:09.080 Not much more to tell. Place just seemed to explode. I jumped over the bar. I got a billy club in the back. 13:09.080 --> 13:12.080 Grabbed that and jumped over the bar and tried to get the two guys apart. 13:12.080 --> 13:16.080 They were throwing everything they could lay their hands on at each other. Well, look at the place. 13:16.080 --> 13:20.080 You bet if I just put a lock on the door and open up someplace else, it'd be easier. 13:20.080 --> 13:22.080 Just to be sure, would you take a look at these? 13:22.080 --> 13:24.080 Just the man who caused the fight. 13:24.080 --> 13:27.080 Wait a minute. I can't see them good. 13:27.080 --> 13:29.080 Yeah, that's him. 13:29.080 --> 13:30.080 You're pretty sure, are you? 13:30.080 --> 13:32.080 Yeah, Louis Routh. That's the fellow. 13:32.080 --> 13:34.080 This afternoon when we talked to you, you said you didn't know him. 13:34.080 --> 13:37.080 I didn't make much of an impression then. When I saw him in person, I remembered. 13:37.080 --> 13:39.080 Well, he was in here earlier then. 13:39.080 --> 13:40.080 Yeah, same guy. 13:40.080 --> 13:42.080 Did you hear him say anything at all that might help us find him? 13:42.080 --> 13:44.080 No, but you ought to talk to the guy you had the fight with. 13:44.080 --> 13:46.080 Yeah? He went to school with Routh. 13:51.080 --> 13:54.080 We got the name of the man the suspect had the fight with. 13:54.080 --> 13:56.080 We drove over to his home and talked to him. 13:56.080 --> 13:59.080 He explained that he'd been enrolled in a night class with Routh. 13:59.080 --> 14:04.080 We went on to say that they'd met at school when both of them were studying criminology at one of the colleges in the area. 14:04.080 --> 14:09.080 We got what information we could about Routh, and then Frank and I went back to the office. 14:09.080 --> 14:14.080 We tried to contact the school, but we were not able to reach anyone who could check the registration records for us. 14:14.080 --> 14:21.080 The next morning we called the head registrar and asked her to check the records in the college night extension courses for a Louis Routh. 14:21.080 --> 14:24.080 Thirty minutes later she called back with the suspect's address. 14:24.080 --> 14:29.080 Frank and I left the office and drove out to the place, a two-story boarding house out on Adams Boulevard. 14:29.080 --> 14:32.080 Routh had moved, but he'd left a forwarding address. 14:32.080 --> 14:34.080 We drove over there and found that he was still registered. 14:34.080 --> 14:36.080 We got the number of the room and we went upstairs. 14:36.080 --> 14:39.080 Frank stood on one side of the door while I took the other. 14:39.080 --> 14:42.080 Just a minute. 14:46.080 --> 14:47.080 Yeah? 14:47.080 --> 14:48.080 You Louis Routh? 14:48.080 --> 14:49.080 Yeah, what do you want? 14:49.080 --> 14:51.080 Police officers, you're under arrest. 14:51.080 --> 14:52.080 For what? 14:52.080 --> 14:54.080 Spishing the robbery. 14:54.080 --> 14:55.080 How'd you get to me? 14:55.080 --> 14:57.080 We did. 14:57.080 --> 14:58.080 Can I get a coat? 14:58.080 --> 15:00.080 No, you tell us where it is. We'll get it for you. 15:00.080 --> 15:01.080 Closet over there. 15:01.080 --> 15:03.080 I'll get it. 15:03.080 --> 15:07.080 There's a bottle of aspirin in the pocket there. Make sure you don't drop it. 15:07.080 --> 15:09.080 Hangover I got, I'm gonna need something. 15:09.080 --> 15:10.080 Yeah. 15:10.080 --> 15:13.080 I don't think I ever have a headache like this one. 15:13.080 --> 15:14.080 Terrible. 15:14.080 --> 15:15.080 You better get used to it. 15:15.080 --> 15:16.080 Huh? 15:16.080 --> 15:18.080 They're gonna get worse. 15:21.080 --> 15:25.080 Her show up was arranged and all of the victims of the holdups were present. 15:25.080 --> 15:29.080 They all gave positive identifications of Louis Routh as the man who'd held them up. 15:29.080 --> 15:33.080 A complaint was issued by the district attorney's office and on the following Friday, August 2nd, 15:33.080 --> 15:37.080 a preliminary hearing was held in Division 34 of municipal court. 15:37.080 --> 15:40.080 Routh was bound over for the charges filed against him. 15:40.080 --> 15:46.080 September 2nd at 10 a.m., the suspect fled guilty to robbery in the first degree, two counts. 15:46.080 --> 15:49.080 Routh asked for immediate sentence and the judge complied with the request. 15:49.080 --> 15:52.080 He was sent to San Quentin where he went through the clinic. 15:52.080 --> 15:57.080 On recommendation of the authorities at the prison, the board ordered him sent to the penitentiary at Chino, California. 15:57.080 --> 16:02.080 Seven months had passed since his arrest and from what we heard, Routh was a model prisoner. 16:02.080 --> 16:05.080 During that time, we cleaned up a string of loan company holdups 16:05.080 --> 16:09.080 and Frank's children had gone through the chickenpox and several types of virus. 16:09.080 --> 16:14.080 On Sunday, February 23rd, Frank and I were in the office trying to catch up on the detail work. 16:16.080 --> 16:18.080 You got the L.A. number on Lawrence Pichetti? 16:18.080 --> 16:19.080 Yeah. 16:19.080 --> 16:20.080 Wait a minute. 16:21.080 --> 16:22.080 Here they are. 16:22.080 --> 16:25.080 168947. 16:25.080 --> 16:28.080 Six, eight, nine, four, seven. 16:28.080 --> 16:30.080 You sure mean what you say. 16:30.080 --> 16:31.080 Yeah. 16:31.080 --> 16:32.080 Terrible what he did to that kid. 16:32.080 --> 16:33.080 Oh, man. 16:35.080 --> 16:36.080 Robbery Friday? 16:36.080 --> 16:37.080 Yeah, Savage. 16:37.080 --> 16:38.080 Mm-hmm. 16:38.080 --> 16:40.080 When did it happen? 16:41.080 --> 16:43.080 Well, you know how he did it? 16:44.080 --> 16:46.080 All right, we'll check in on it right away. 16:46.080 --> 16:48.080 No, no. Send it down, will you? 16:48.080 --> 16:49.080 Right. 16:49.080 --> 16:50.080 Bye. 16:50.080 --> 16:52.080 Teletype in from Chino. 16:52.080 --> 16:53.080 Yeah? 16:53.080 --> 16:55.080 Roach just broke out of jail. 17:00.080 --> 17:03.080 An immediate watch was put out on all the places Roach was known to frequent. 17:03.080 --> 17:07.080 All officers in the field were supplied with descriptions and pictures of the suspect. 17:07.080 --> 17:10.080 From the story as we got it from the prison officials, 17:10.080 --> 17:13.080 we were able to piece together the method of Roach's escape. 17:13.080 --> 17:15.080 Several months before he'd started on the bank robberies, 17:15.080 --> 17:18.080 he'd gotten work as a day laborer up at Chino. 17:18.080 --> 17:23.080 He managed to bury a gun and several hundred dollars in a watertight container in the prison grounds. 17:23.080 --> 17:26.080 On his arrival at the prison, he'd waited for the right moment, 17:26.080 --> 17:29.080 and then he dug up the weapon and the money and made a break. 17:29.080 --> 17:32.080 He picked Sunday, a day when the prison grounds were crowded with visitors. 17:32.080 --> 17:35.080 Fortunately, there had been no one hurt when Roach had escaped. 17:35.080 --> 17:38.080 However, we knew he was armed and was to be considered dangerous. 17:39.080 --> 17:43.080 Two days after his escape, a man answering his description held up a grocery store. 17:43.080 --> 17:46.080 From the clerk, we obtained a positive identification of Roach. 17:46.080 --> 17:48.080 The next day, he hit again. 17:48.080 --> 17:52.080 This time, he beat one of the clerks in the store when the man refused to open the cash register. 17:52.080 --> 17:56.080 Additional information was forwarded to all law enforcement agencies throughout the area. 17:56.080 --> 17:59.080 Roach's picture was carried on the police television show, 17:59.080 --> 18:03.080 and the daily newspapers cooperated and carried his likeness and description. 18:03.080 --> 18:07.080 Calls began to come into the complaint board from people who thought they'd seen the suspect. 18:07.080 --> 18:12.080 In each instance, the information was checked out and several of the reports appeared authentic. 18:12.080 --> 18:18.080 On Wednesday, March 4th, we got a call from Calvin Niles, the bartender who'd given us the original information on Roach. 18:18.080 --> 18:20.080 Frank and I drove out to see him. 18:20.080 --> 18:23.080 I tried to hold him here, tried my darnest, but he wouldn't go for it. 18:23.080 --> 18:24.080 Did you talk to him at all? 18:24.080 --> 18:26.080 Yeah, I had a couple of words. 18:26.080 --> 18:27.080 What about? 18:27.080 --> 18:29.080 Mainly about the fight he had before he got him. 18:29.080 --> 18:31.080 You know, when he broke up the place? 18:31.080 --> 18:34.080 Talked about that, he said he was sorry about it, told me the other fella caused it. 18:34.080 --> 18:37.080 Said he'd like to be able to pay for it, but he didn't have the money. 18:37.080 --> 18:39.080 I thought he was going to hit me up for a loan. 18:39.080 --> 18:41.080 The way he acted, I thought sure he wanted to make a touch. 18:41.080 --> 18:43.080 Did you see anything at all about where he was staying? 18:43.080 --> 18:44.080 No word. 18:44.080 --> 18:45.080 Didn't give you any indication at all? 18:45.080 --> 18:46.080 Nope. 18:46.080 --> 18:47.080 Was he driving a car? 18:47.080 --> 18:48.080 Nothing I could see. 18:48.080 --> 18:53.080 When he walked out, I went over to the door to see if I could spot anything, but by the time I got out from behind the bar, he disappeared. 18:53.080 --> 18:54.080 Was there a cab stand around here? 18:54.080 --> 18:56.080 A couple of blocks up the street. 18:56.080 --> 18:57.080 Think he might have taken a taxi? 18:57.080 --> 18:58.080 We'll check it. 18:58.080 --> 19:01.080 I don't think he could have gotten that far on the time it took me to get to the door. 19:01.080 --> 19:03.080 I can see that far and I didn't see him. 19:03.080 --> 19:05.080 I don't think he took a taxi. 19:05.080 --> 19:06.080 Did he come in alone? 19:06.080 --> 19:10.080 As far as I could tell, he came in, sat down, ordered a highball, drank it up and left. 19:10.080 --> 19:12.080 I don't think he was here more than five minutes also. 19:12.080 --> 19:14.080 But you're pretty sure there wasn't anybody with him, are you? 19:14.080 --> 19:15.080 Yeah, I had been. I'd have seen him. 19:15.080 --> 19:17.080 Did he look like he was going to meet anybody here? 19:17.080 --> 19:18.080 Not especially. 19:18.080 --> 19:20.080 Did he give you any reason for coming in? 19:20.080 --> 19:21.080 Not right out, he didn't. 19:21.080 --> 19:22.080 How do you mean? 19:22.080 --> 19:24.080 Lucky I did it now, I guess. I didn't plan it that way. 19:24.080 --> 19:25.080 What's that? 19:25.080 --> 19:27.080 I told you, I thought he wanted to make a touch. 19:27.080 --> 19:32.080 I told him I'd just taken the money to the bank, dropped it in the night depository, said I'd cleaned the place out. 19:32.080 --> 19:33.080 He left right after that? 19:33.080 --> 19:35.080 Yeah, finished up his drink and walked out. 19:35.080 --> 19:37.080 Sure got a lot of nerve, you ask me. 19:37.080 --> 19:38.080 What do you mean? 19:38.080 --> 19:41.080 He comes in the place once, breaks it up, then comes back to try to hold it up. 19:41.080 --> 19:43.080 Well, you're not sure about that, are you? 19:43.080 --> 19:45.080 As far as I'm concerned, that's what he came in for. 19:45.080 --> 19:47.080 Can you give us a description of what he was wearing? 19:47.080 --> 19:51.080 Uh, plain blue suit, looked like it was gabardine, two button. 19:51.080 --> 19:52.080 How about a hat? 19:52.080 --> 19:56.080 No, he wasn't wearing one. He had on a white shirt, black knit tie, you know, the narrow kind. 19:56.080 --> 20:01.080 One of those little stick pins shaped like a little ladybug. You know the kind I mean? 20:01.080 --> 20:02.080 Yeah, sir. 20:02.080 --> 20:03.080 One of those. 20:03.080 --> 20:05.080 All right, Mr. Niles, if any more comes up, we'd appreciate a call from him. 20:05.080 --> 20:07.080 You've got it. I'll tell you one thing, Sergeant. 20:07.080 --> 20:08.080 What's that? 20:08.080 --> 20:11.080 After that fight, I did just about everything I could to help business, help pay for the damage. 20:11.080 --> 20:12.080 Yeah, sir. 20:12.080 --> 20:14.080 This is one customer I want to lose. 20:14.080 --> 20:21.080 For the next two days, the search for the suspect went on. 20:21.080 --> 20:24.080 Roaming houses where he might have been staying were checked. 20:24.080 --> 20:26.080 Friends and relatives were interrogated. 20:26.080 --> 20:29.080 Al Gaiten, down in San Diego, was notified, and he alerted the authorities at the border 20:29.080 --> 20:32.080 in the event Rowe tried to escape into Mexico. 20:32.080 --> 20:36.080 In the meantime, a rolling stakeout was set up in the area where the thief had been hitting. 20:36.080 --> 20:38.080 Two more days passed without activity. 20:38.080 --> 20:43.080 On Monday, March 9th, Frank and I were in Unit 1K80, cruising on West Pico. 20:43.080 --> 20:45.080 Sure is a quiet night. 20:45.080 --> 20:46.080 Yeah. 20:46.080 --> 20:48.080 I'll be glad when it's over. I'll get home and hit the sack. 20:48.080 --> 20:49.080 How you coming with the books? 20:49.080 --> 20:50.080 Huh? 20:50.080 --> 20:51.080 Oh, you mean for the Sergeant exam? 20:51.080 --> 20:52.080 Yeah. 20:52.080 --> 20:53.080 Oh, pretty good. 20:53.080 --> 20:58.080 All units, attention. All units, a 211 has just occurred at the grocery store 20:58.080 --> 21:00.080 at the corner of Pico Boulevard and Ottawa Street. 21:00.080 --> 21:03.080 Unit 1R13 handled the call, code 3. 21:03.080 --> 21:04.080 Better hit it. 21:04.080 --> 21:05.080 Yeah. 21:05.080 --> 21:10.080 All units, attention. All units, a 211 has just occurred at the grocery store 21:10.080 --> 21:13.080 at the corner of Pico Boulevard and Ottawa Street. 21:13.080 --> 21:17.080 Unit 1R13 handled the call, code 3. 21:20.080 --> 21:22.080 1K80 to Control 1. 21:22.080 --> 21:25.080 Control 1 to 1K80, go ahead. 21:25.080 --> 21:28.080 Code 6 to Pico Boulevard and Ottawa Street. 21:28.080 --> 21:34.080 Control 1 to 1K80, Roger, KMA 367. 21:35.080 --> 21:41.080 Attention all units, attention all units, be on the lookout for the following described suspect 21:41.080 --> 21:45.080 wounded in connection with 211 at grocery store at Pico Boulevard and Ottawa Street. 21:45.080 --> 21:55.080 Suspect described as WMA 40 or 50 years, size C8 and 1 1 1 1, 150 to 155, medium belt, gray hair. 21:55.080 --> 22:01.080 Suspect is wearing a dark blue suit, snow-packed white shirt, black tie and black shoes. 22:01.080 --> 22:05.080 Suspect has a mole on the left side of his face just above the mouth. 22:05.080 --> 22:08.080 He is carrying a large blue steel revolver, western type. 22:08.080 --> 22:14.360 Suspect believed to be driving a 1952 crack 22:14.360 --> 22:17.080 sedan, dark in color, license number unknown. 22:17.080 --> 22:19.080 The vehicle has a damaged lift rear fender, use caution. 22:19.080 --> 22:21.080 Suspect is considered dangerous, KMA 367. 22:21.080 --> 22:22.080 Sounds like roast, doesn't it? 22:22.080 --> 22:23.080 Yeah. 22:23.080 --> 22:25.080 Hang on. 22:26.080 --> 22:28.080 Here at Pico, the car that just passed us. 22:28.080 --> 22:29.080 Yeah. 22:29.080 --> 22:31.080 Dark Chrysler sedan, damaged left fender. 22:31.080 --> 22:32.080 You better check it. 22:32.080 --> 22:33.080 Right. 22:33.080 --> 22:34.080 Hold it. 22:34.080 --> 22:36.080 It's taken off, you better lean on it. 22:39.080 --> 22:40.080 It doesn't look like it's gonna stop. 22:40.080 --> 22:42.080 Watch it, Frank, the street car. 22:46.080 --> 22:47.080 Is it a close one? 22:47.080 --> 22:49.080 As long as they don't come any closer, huh? 22:49.080 --> 22:50.080 You see him? 22:50.080 --> 22:51.080 Yeah, up ahead. 22:51.080 --> 22:52.080 You gonna try a shot at him? 22:52.080 --> 22:54.080 No, we can't, there's too many people around. 22:54.080 --> 22:56.080 We're pulling up. 22:56.080 --> 22:57.080 All right, hold it steady. 22:57.080 --> 22:59.080 Pull over, police officers. 22:59.080 --> 23:01.080 He doesn't act like he hears you. 23:01.080 --> 23:02.080 It's rolled all right. 23:02.080 --> 23:03.080 Yeah. 23:03.080 --> 23:04.080 Try to cut him off. 23:04.080 --> 23:06.080 All right, come on, ropes, pull over. 23:06.080 --> 23:08.080 All right, cut him off. 23:08.080 --> 23:10.080 All right, hang on. 23:16.080 --> 23:17.080 Come on, pull up, let's go. 23:19.080 --> 23:20.080 You really plowed into that lamppost. 23:20.080 --> 23:22.080 Yeah. 23:24.080 --> 23:25.080 All right, come on, out of the car. 23:25.080 --> 23:27.080 All right, getting out. 23:27.080 --> 23:28.080 Getting out? 23:28.080 --> 23:30.080 I see I've got my hands up in the air. 23:30.080 --> 23:31.080 Throwing like you'd like. 23:31.080 --> 23:32.080 All right, come on, move it. 23:33.080 --> 23:35.080 Come on, put your hands on the car here. 23:35.080 --> 23:36.080 Lean on it. 23:36.080 --> 23:37.080 I'll check it. 23:39.080 --> 23:40.080 Here's the gun, Joe. 23:40.080 --> 23:41.080 All right. 23:41.080 --> 23:43.080 Come on, Ruff, get your hands behind you. 23:43.080 --> 23:44.080 Yeah. 23:45.080 --> 23:46.080 All right, let's go. 23:46.080 --> 23:47.080 I'm about my car. 23:47.080 --> 23:48.080 We'll take care of it. 23:48.080 --> 23:50.080 You're not going to just leave it there, are you? 23:50.080 --> 23:51.080 I wouldn't worry about it. 23:51.080 --> 23:52.080 Huh? 23:52.080 --> 23:53.080 You're not going to be driving it for a while. 24:01.080 --> 24:04.080 Louis Albert Roach was tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree, 24:04.080 --> 24:08.080 four counts, and violation of Section 4530 PC escape. 24:08.080 --> 24:11.080 Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment 24:11.080 --> 24:15.080 in the State Penitentiary for a period of not less than five years. 24:15.080 --> 24:18.080 Escape from a state prison is punishable by imprisonment 24:18.080 --> 24:20.080 for a period of not less than one year. 24:20.080 --> 24:23.080 Said second term of imprisonment to commence from the time 24:23.080 --> 24:26.080 the prisoner would otherwise have been discharged from said prison. 24:27.080 --> 24:31.080 You have just heard Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action, 24:31.080 --> 24:45.080 and starring Jack Webb, a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 25:02.080 --> 25:05.080 The U.S. Department of State 25:05.080 --> 25:08.080 The United States Army 25:08.080 --> 25:15.080 The United States Army 25:15.080 --> 25:23.080 The United States Army 25:23.080 --> 25:30.080 The United States Army