1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,200 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:14,760 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:15,760 Dragmint. 4 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:27,000 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,120 You're assigned a robbery detail. 6 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,440 Two men are terrorizing your city. 7 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,000 They're both armed and considered dangerous. 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,280 Your job, get them. 9 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,080 It was Thursday, September 9th. 10 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:42,560 It was warm in Los Angeles. 11 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,440 We were working the night watch out of robbery detail. 12 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,120 My partner's Frank Smith, the boss of Chief of Detective Stad Brown. 13 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:49,120 My name's Friday. 14 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:54,240 I was on my way back from the street and it was 1142 p.m. when I got to the 814 club, 15 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:55,240 the back room. 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,240 I hate to think what's going to happen when Mr. Negri hears about it. 17 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:00,240 It's going to be pretty bad. 18 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:01,240 Yes, sir. 19 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:02,240 How about it, Jim? 20 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:03,240 You catch the fellows yet? 21 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:04,240 No, sir. 22 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:05,240 Description's out. 23 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:06,240 Guys from the F cars are checking the neighborhood. 24 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:07,840 Haven't got nothing yet, though, huh? 25 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:08,840 No, sir, not yet. 26 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:09,840 Wish I was home. 27 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:10,840 Sir? 28 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,160 If I was home, I could turn off the phone. 29 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,800 I got one of those attachments in the extension in the bedroom that turns it off. 30 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:17,800 Wish I was there now. 31 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,800 Mr. Negri's really going to be sore. 32 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,000 Was there anything at all about the two men that would stand out and make it a little 33 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,000 easier for us to identify them? 34 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,440 I'll tell you the truth, Sergeant, if there was, I didn't see it. 35 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:26,440 All right. 36 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:27,440 I was scared, darn scared. 37 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:28,800 I'm not afraid to say so. 38 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:29,800 Yes, sir. 39 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,880 I can tell you again if you want me to about the robbery. 40 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:32,880 All right, if you would. 41 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,960 It might be something you didn't remember the first time through. 42 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:35,960 Okay. 43 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:38,160 Guess it was about a quarter-eleven when we came in. 44 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,960 Just a guess, but I think it was about then. 45 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:40,960 Uh-huh. 46 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:41,960 A dark one. 47 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:42,960 The other machine gun. 48 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:45,160 He kind of moved over so he had a good look at the people sitting at the bar. 49 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:46,160 What kind of a gun was it? 50 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:47,160 Machine gun. 51 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:48,160 I see. 52 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,160 Go ahead. 53 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:50,920 I guess he could have hit them all from where he was. 54 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:55,280 He pulled the gun kind of low, you know, like at his hip here. 55 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:56,280 What about the other one? 56 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,360 Well, he waited with his friend and he walked up to the bar, stood right in the middle of 57 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:00,360 the floor. 58 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:01,360 He had the automatic, huh? 59 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:02,360 Yeah. 60 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:03,360 Yeah, looked like a.45. 61 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,720 He stood right in the middle of the place, just looking there, watching me. 62 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:07,720 What happened then? 63 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,200 Well, a fellow out in front reached over and pulled the plug in the jukebox, turned it 64 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,840 off right in the middle of the record, pulled the plug. 65 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:15,520 And that's what made the other people turn around. 66 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:16,520 Uh-huh. 67 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,400 Turned right around and looked at the guns. 68 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,040 That's when the light fell, the one with the.45. 69 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,120 He said, sit where you are. 70 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,120 This is a stick-up. 71 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,640 Are those his exact words? 72 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:27,440 Well, near as I can remember, yeah. 73 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:31,600 He kind of had a squeaky little voice, like it was still changing, you know? 74 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:32,600 Yes, sir. 75 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:33,600 But those were the words. 76 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:34,600 Sit right where you are. 77 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:35,600 This is a stick-up. 78 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:36,920 All right, Mr. Gilmore, you want to go ahead? 79 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:40,240 Well, the one with the funny voice told everybody to get up and turn around so they was facing 80 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,320 the bar, you know, with their back to the hold-up man. 81 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:44,320 Made them all turn around. 82 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:45,320 Uh-huh. 83 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:48,400 Then he told them to start from the back of the place and walk over to one of the tables 84 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:49,920 and dump all their money out. 85 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:52,120 Said not to forget anything. 86 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:53,120 Put it all there. 87 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:54,480 Did they take anything besides money? 88 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:55,480 Not that I saw. 89 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,000 I wonder if a couple of people had pretty good-looking watches on, but the only thing 90 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,800 the bandits seemed to want was cash. 91 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:01,800 I see. 92 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,400 And they left after they got the money, is that right? 93 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:05,400 Yeah. 94 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,280 Walked to the door and said for us not to try calling anybody for five minutes. 95 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:10,280 After that, they walked out. 96 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:11,880 Did you see if they had a car? 97 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:12,880 No, sir. 98 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,720 Didn't even go near the door. 99 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,520 We did like they said, five minutes, and after that, I called you. 100 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,560 You'd know them again if you saw them, would you? 101 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:20,560 You bet I would. 102 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,660 You put me in a crowd with them and I'll tell you. 103 00:03:22,660 --> 00:03:23,720 No trouble there. 104 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:24,720 I'd know them. 105 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:25,720 Oh, excuse me. 106 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:26,720 Go right ahead. 107 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:27,720 814 Club. 108 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:28,720 Yeah. 109 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:29,720 Oh, yeah, Mr. Negri. 110 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:30,720 Uh-huh. 111 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:31,720 That's right. 112 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:32,720 Well, who called you? 113 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:33,720 Yeah. 114 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:34,720 Well, there wasn't anything I could do about Mr. Negri. 115 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:35,720 No, sir. 116 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:36,720 Both of them had guns. 117 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:37,720 Yeah. 118 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:38,720 Well, you could have been the only one who had guns. 119 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:39,720 Yeah. 120 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:40,720 I could have been the only one who had guns. 121 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:41,720 Yeah. 122 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:42,720 I could have been the only one who had guns. 123 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:43,720 Yeah. 124 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:44,720 I could have been the only one who had guns. 125 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:45,720 Yeah. 126 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,720 I could have been the only one who had guns. 127 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:48,720 Yeah. 128 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:49,720 All right, sir. 129 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:50,720 That's the way you feel about it. 130 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:51,720 All right, sir. 131 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:52,720 Fine. 132 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:53,720 I'll be in in the morning. 133 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:54,720 Right. 134 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:55,720 All right. 135 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:56,720 Fired me. 136 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:57,720 Well, that's too bad. 137 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,720 I thought I heard you say you'd be in in the morning, though. 138 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:01,720 Yeah. 139 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:03,720 Well, I come in to pick up my money, you know. 140 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:04,720 I see. 141 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:12,720 By the time I get here tomorrow, I'll have another change of heart, so hire me back. 142 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:14,720 I've been fired 12 times already. 143 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:15,720 12? 144 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:16,720 He always hires me back. 145 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:17,720 Doesn't anybody else work for him? 146 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:18,720 They're right. 147 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,720 Well, you had a lot of trouble keeping help. 148 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:21,720 A lot of... 149 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:23,720 He thinks I should have stopped to hold up men myself. 150 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,720 Just walked in with my bare hands and stopped him. 151 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:28,720 Pretty silly when you think of it. 152 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:29,720 Uh-huh. 153 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,720 He says they're only kidding with the guns, that they wouldn't have really shot me. 154 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:33,720 Pretty silly. 155 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:34,720 Says he'd have bet on it. 156 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:35,720 They're right. 157 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:36,720 Doesn't take too much to figure that out. 158 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:37,720 Yeah. 159 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:43,720 Either way, I'd have lost, wouldn't I? 160 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,720 The description of the suspects, the method of operation they'd used, everything about 161 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,720 the robbery sounded just as if it had been read from IMO bulletins. 162 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,720 For the past three weeks, Frank and I had been after the two gunmen. 163 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,720 All sources of information had been tapped. 164 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,720 Victims and witnesses had been questioned and re-questioned. 165 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,720 People in the immediate vicinity had been talked to. 166 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,720 Mugshots had been pulled and worn out by handling. 167 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,720 To date, in concrete information, we had exactly what we'd started with. 168 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,720 Two gunmen who were moving around at will and robbing citizens where and when they chose. 169 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,720 The victims of the latest robbery were shown the mugbook, but they were unable to make 170 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:16,720 an identification. 171 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,720 The canvas of the area turned up no usable information. 172 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:24,720 Frank and I worked until 3.45 a.m. and then we filled out the log and left the office. 173 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,720 The next morning, we checked with Captain Donahoe and Chief Brown. 174 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,720 As a result of the meeting, we arrived at the only possible solution to apprehending 175 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:31,720 the suspect. 176 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,720 Leg work and a lot of it. 177 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,720 We spent the rest of the afternoon re-checking informants. 178 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,720 At 9.30 p.m., we stopped for dinner and then we went back to the office. 179 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,720 You got the address Sam gave you? 180 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,720 Yeah, it's here somewhere. 181 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,720 Yeah, there it is. 182 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,720 You think it's worth checking out? 183 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,720 Well, we got nothing else to do. 184 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:50,720 We might as well. 185 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,720 As soon as I get these straightened up, we can take a ride out there and see them. 186 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:54,720 Yeah. 187 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:55,720 Robert Murphy. 188 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:56,720 Yeah, he's here. 189 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:57,720 Just come in. 190 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:58,720 Friday? 191 00:05:58,720 --> 00:05:59,720 Yeah, Murr. 192 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:00,720 Take three, will you, Joe? 193 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:01,720 Thanks. 194 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:02,720 Three? 195 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:03,720 Yeah. 196 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:04,720 This is Friday. 197 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:05,720 Yeah, boy. 198 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:06,720 When was that? 199 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,720 Most possible. 200 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,720 Did you see anybody else? 201 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,720 All right, we'll come right over. 202 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:14,720 Bye. 203 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:15,720 Highland Park. 204 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,720 They just picked up a guy for 459. 205 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:18,720 Yeah. 206 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,720 Matches the description of our blonde holdup man. 207 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:21,720 You think it'll check out? 208 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:22,720 I don't know. 209 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:23,720 They shook him down when he was picked up. 210 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:24,720 They found a 45 with a full clip. 211 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:25,720 It's pretty heavy for a burglar. 212 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:26,720 Yeah, let's go over and talk to him. 213 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:27,720 It should be a break. 214 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:28,720 We've been chasing luck long enough. 215 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:29,720 Well, maybe we caught up. 216 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:38,720 Frank and I signed out of the office immediately and we started over to Highland Park. 217 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,720 It wasn't the first time we'd gone out on a similar call. 218 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,720 During the time we'd been after the holdup men, there'd been several others. 219 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:45,720 All of them had to be checked out. 220 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,720 We never knew when an odd piece of information might turn the lead that we'd been looking 221 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:50,720 for. 222 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,720 Just before we turned off onto Avenue 64, a call came in over the radio. 223 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,720 All units on sequence C-1, stand by. 224 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:57,720 You want to turn it up? 225 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:58,720 Yeah, I got it. 226 00:06:58,720 --> 00:06:59,720 All units on sequence C-1, stand by. 227 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:00,720 Stand by 11-J-4. 228 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:01,720 All units on sequence C-1, please stand by. 229 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:02,720 Sounds like a good one. 230 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:03,720 Yeah, wait a minute. 231 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:04,720 All units in the vicinity of Highland Park area. 232 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:05,720 All units in the vicinity of 6045 Yorke Boulevard, Highland Park Division. 233 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:06,720 Units 11F2, 11F3, 11F5, and 11F7. 234 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:07,720 And all traffic units, attention. 235 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:08,720 That's a big one. 236 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:09,720 At 1047 PM, this date, 11-J-4, 11-J-4, 11-J-4, 11-J-4, 11-J-4, 11-J-4, 11-J-4, 11-J-4, 11-J-4, 237 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:29,300 11-J-4, and 11-J-4, 11-J-4, 11-J-4. 238 00:07:29,300 --> 00:07:35,300 man entered the Highland Park Police Station and forced an officer to release two prisoners. 239 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:41,300 The man was armed with a submachine gun believed to be a.45 caliber. Suspect is described 240 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:44,300 as WMA. Sounds like our boy. 241 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:55,300 The Highland Park Police Division is a large brick building located on York Boulevard. 242 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:59,300 On the ground floor is a booking desk and a couple of administration offices. Directly 243 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:04,300 behind the booking counter across the hall is a cell block. Prisoners are held there 244 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:08,300 pending further investigation or transfer to the main jail. When Frank and I arrived, 245 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:12,300 there were a dozen police cars around the building. Other units were searching the area 246 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:16,300 for the escaped suspects. The call had gone out to the entire state and members of the 247 00:08:16,300 --> 00:08:19,300 Highway Patrol and the Sheriff's Department and all other departments were joining in 248 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:23,300 the manhunt. Frank and I talked to Officer Boyd Hutchins, the policeman who had been on 249 00:08:23,300 --> 00:08:27,300 duty when the escape took place. Well he came in this side door and first I thought he just 250 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:31,300 wanted some information. Uh huh. When I walked over to take care of him I couldn't see the 251 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:34,300 gun. He was carrying it low kind of hidden by the counter. You didn't see him come into 252 00:08:34,300 --> 00:08:38,300 the building then? No I was on the phone. First I knew is when he asked me if he could see 253 00:08:38,300 --> 00:08:42,300 Burton. Uh huh. I told him we couldn't swing it right then. Said he'd have to come back. 254 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:46,300 And that's when he asked me if there was anybody around who could okay a visit. Well. I told 255 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:49,300 him there was and said for him to come back in the morning. That's when he showed you 256 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:53,300 the gun huh? Yeah he brought it right up over the counter. Said for me not to cause any 257 00:08:53,300 --> 00:08:57,300 trouble and I wouldn't get hurt. He didn't have to tell me. Yeah. There had been a chance 258 00:08:57,300 --> 00:09:00,300 for me to take on him. I'd have tried but I didn't see how it would have proved anything 259 00:09:00,300 --> 00:09:04,300 for me to bleed all over him. Yeah. They made me take him back to the cell block. I unlocked 260 00:09:04,300 --> 00:09:08,300 the door and he told Burton to come out. Where about the other guy? Oh his name is Kenneth 261 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:12,300 Leckner. He was in the same cell with Burton. Guy with a machine gun asked if he wanted 262 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:15,300 to go for the ride and Leckner said yes and then the three of them walked out of the 263 00:09:15,300 --> 00:09:19,300 building. Did they make any attempt to tie you up or anything like that? No. They just 264 00:09:19,300 --> 00:09:23,300 said sit tight and I wasn't about to argue. What do you know about this Leckner? Oh he 265 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:26,300 was picked up on a want from Oklahoma. What charge? Murder. 266 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:33,300 We went to the city hall and we checked the name Gale Burton through R&I. There was no 267 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:37,300 record on him in Los Angeles. We forwarded the information on him to George Bretton up 268 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:41,300 at C.I.I. in Sacramento. The rest of the night was spent in checking out the possible places 269 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:45,300 the suspects might have been hiding. In a city of over two million people there are 270 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:49,300 a lot of places. While we were combing the city men from the sheriff's department were 271 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:53,300 going over the county territory. We had a vague description of the car that was used 272 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:57,300 but it might match any one of several hundred being driven on the streets of Los Angeles. 273 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:01,300 Road blocks were set up on principal routes leaving the city. Special details were standing 274 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:06,300 by at all train and bus depots and the airports were covered. Leaves and days off for all 275 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:10,300 personnel were cancelled and by the time the search got out of low gear over three thousand 276 00:10:10,300 --> 00:10:14,300 policemen were looking for the three men. Field stations were set up in the less populated 277 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:19,300 areas and coffee and hot soup were served to the men participating in the search. The 278 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:24,300 night dragged on without result. Saturday, September 11th we received a report that two 279 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:28,300 men answering the descriptions of Burton and the man who had aided in his escape had tried 280 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:33,300 to rent a boat down in San Diego. However when this was checked out it proved to be false. 281 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:37,300 Saturday afternoon we received information from George Bretton that Burton had an arrest 282 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:42,300 record in Sacramento and that mugshots and all information were being forwarded. We got 283 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:45,300 in touch with the authorities in the northern city and asked them to check further on the 284 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:49,300 friends and relatives of Burton. When the mugshots arrived they were shown to the holdup 285 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:53,300 victims. Mr. Gilmore would like to have you take a look at these pictures to see if you 286 00:10:53,300 --> 00:10:59,300 recognize any of them. You think there might be one here of the fellow who held us up? 287 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:08,300 No we want you to tell us if you can. Uh huh. No. Not him. Uh huh. No. Well you remember 288 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:13,300 how I told you Mr. Negrid gave me my job back? Yeah I remember that. He did. Just like always. 289 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:17,300 Oh that's fine. As soon as he read in the papers how they broke out of jail he said I was 290 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:21,300 right not to cause trouble. As soon as he found out about the jail break. We're not sure 291 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:28,300 they're the same men yet Mr. Gilmore. Don't know why. Sir? Don't know why? He ain't sure. 292 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:33,300 Here's his picture. This is the man who held you up? Yep. One and the same. How about it 293 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:40,300 Jeff? It's Burton. The other victims also identified Burton as one of the men who had 294 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:44,300 held them up. With the name of the man we at least had some place to start. We put in 295 00:11:44,300 --> 00:11:47,300 a call to Sacramento and we talked to the police department up there. We found that 296 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:51,300 the suspect had been arrested on charges of suspicion of burglary, suspicion of robbery, 297 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:56,300 ADW and assault with intent to do great bodily harm. In spite of the numerous arrests Burton 298 00:11:56,300 --> 00:12:01,300 had only served one term in the county jail. We got all available information on him and 299 00:12:01,300 --> 00:12:05,300 the search was intensified. We'd gotten reports from informants that the three men might 300 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:10,300 try to escape across the border into Mexico. San Diego was notified of this and Al Gaten 301 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:14,300 was dispatched to the international boundary of Tijuana to aid the Mexican police. Two 302 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:19,300 days passed without news of the suspects. Monday September 13th Frank and I got back 303 00:12:19,300 --> 00:12:23,300 into the office from chasing down a lead that went nowhere. Better check with a skipper. 304 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:31,300 Yeah I'll do it right away. I got it. Robbery Friday. Yeah all right I'll take it. Long 305 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:38,300 distance San Francisco. Might have gotten up there. Hello. This Friday. Oh yeah Eddie. 306 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:46,300 Mm hmm. Yeah well we got the identification from Brereton. No nothing yet. When was that? 307 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:52,300 That could be. It'd give them time wouldn't it. Just a minute Frank. Yeah. It's Eddie 308 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:56,300 Vandivert up there. When did these guys pull the first job? I think it was August 16th 309 00:12:56,300 --> 00:13:02,300 placed over on Pico. That's the first one. Yeah. August 16th Ed. No the other one doesn't 310 00:13:02,300 --> 00:13:11,300 show up on any of the sheets. Kenneth Leckner. No we're expecting it from Oklahoma. You 311 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:14,300 guys will check it out for us then huh. All right let us know as soon as you got something 312 00:13:14,300 --> 00:13:20,300 definite will you. Right. OK Ed. Thanks for calling. Right bye. What's he got? Well I 313 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:23,300 got a rumble that Brereton was up there the first part of August. He stayed about a week 314 00:13:23,300 --> 00:13:26,300 he said. Yeah. Ed says he's got an informant down in the Fillmore district used to run 315 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:30,300 with Brereton. Might give us a lead on the partner. How come? Well according to the 316 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:33,300 informant Brereton met a guy up north they got real chummy. They left town together. 317 00:13:33,300 --> 00:13:37,300 Come up with a name? Yeah he did. Kirby Monet M-O-N-E-T. Been in trouble? A couple of 318 00:13:37,300 --> 00:13:41,300 times. Petty stuff. Rumbles got it but he was always talking about going big forming his 319 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:45,300 own gang cutting into the heavy stuff. Matching. Real good. Monet's description is the same 320 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:52,300 as our number two man. Pictures of Kirby Monet arrived from San Francisco and when they 321 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:55,300 were shown to the victims of the thieves we had a positive identification on our second 322 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:59,300 suspect. Armed with this information the job of the men in the field was considerably 323 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:04,300 easier. Now they knew who they were looking for. Ten forty two p.m. Frank and I started 324 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:09,300 downstairs for our car. Excuse me Paul. Yeah. Can you tell me where the office of the chief 325 00:14:09,300 --> 00:14:15,300 is? Down the hall and to the right. Thanks. Wait a minute fellow. Hold on. What do you 326 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:19,300 want to see the chief about? That's personal. Maybe you better tell me huh? If I wanted 327 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:23,300 you I'd ask it that way. All right get over the wall. Better shake him down Frank. All 328 00:14:23,300 --> 00:14:28,300 right over here. You don't have to go through all this I'm not going to cause you any trouble. 329 00:14:28,300 --> 00:14:32,300 Your name's Kenna Fleckner isn't it? That's right. If you couldn't find me you figured 330 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:39,300 I'd come to you. Frank and I took the suspect to the squad room we got in touch with Chief 331 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:42,300 of Detective Stab Brown we told him what had happened and he said he'd come over to the 332 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:47,300 office as soon as possible. We shook Kenna Fleckner but we found nothing. We asked him 333 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:50,300 to tell us about the jail break. I didn't have nothing to do with it you got to believe 334 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:53,300 that. We'll let you tell us. I'm giving it to you the way it happened. Where are Monet 335 00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:57,300 and Burton? I don't know last I saw them they were on our West Pico. You got an address? 336 00:14:57,300 --> 00:15:00,300 No. They were sitting in the car they had a place case and they were waiting for the 337 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:03,300 crowd to clear before they took it. You know what place it was? That's a bar out there. 338 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:06,300 Got the name? No I haven't got any idea. I told you I want no part of it that's the reason 339 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:10,300 I left. You haven't gotten any idea where the place is huh? No none. You want to tag 340 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:16,300 communications Frank tell them about it? Yeah I'll get right away. You guys must have 341 00:15:16,300 --> 00:15:20,300 every cop in the country out looking for us never saw so much fuzz. No. I can't go that 342 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:24,300 route anymore it doesn't work out for me never was any good at running. Do you hear anything 343 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:27,300 at all about the plans they were making? No not a lot I don't think they trusted me very 344 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:31,300 much I was with them but like an inlaw or something. I'll tell you something sergeant. 345 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:35,300 What's that? These guys are roof jobs both of them. What do you mean? Well they lost 346 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:38,300 the road all the time talking about how they're going to put class back in holdups going to 347 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:42,300 form a big gang and really jump the cops all the time talking like that roof jobs. You 348 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:45,300 got any idea where we can pick them up? Ain't nothing I'd like better than to give you the 349 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:49,300 address but I ain't got it. What about this car they're using can you give us a description 350 00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:53,300 of it? Yeah it's a 52 Nash four door. Stole them? Must be they had it when we left Highland 351 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:58,300 Park. You give us the number on the plate? I don't think so I can't pull it up. I don't 352 00:15:58,300 --> 00:16:01,300 think I ever really took a good look at it. What about this machine gun they got shells 353 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:05,300 for it? They're loaded with them these two guys are heavy enough to start a small war 354 00:16:05,300 --> 00:16:09,300 on their own when they carry a chopper and a 45 in his belt. Burton's got two 45s and 355 00:16:09,300 --> 00:16:13,300 a 38 he carries a 38 strapped to his leg. He's always laughing about it says even if he's 356 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:17,300 picked up he's got to take it out. These guys are real far out they've been reading too 357 00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:22,300 many comic books all the time talking about Dillinger and Floyd. Burton even took to smoking 358 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:26,300 cigars as it makes him look like Doc Barker. And then he can give us it'll help us nail 359 00:16:26,300 --> 00:16:31,300 him? No nothing. Alright like man let's go. You're taking me to jail? That's right. Now 360 00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:35,300 you do me a favor huh Sergeant? What's that? Give me a cell by myself I hadn't much sleep 361 00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:40,300 in the last couple of days I'd sure like to get some. Alright let's see what we can do. 362 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:47,300 Alright sit still a minute. Alright let's go. You got to put these on again? That's right. 363 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:55,300 Alright come on. Get the word out? Yeah a little late. What do you mean? Burton and Monet 364 00:16:55,300 --> 00:16:59,300 have already hit the bar. Patrol car spotted them on the way out. Yeah. There was a beef 365 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:03,300 and the men in the car took Burton into custody. Dropped him in the car and started to bring 366 00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:07,300 him in. Hadn't gone more than a couple of blocks when Monet drove up. Rammed the police car 367 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:11,300 and started shooting. Anybody hurt? Yeah he took Burton away from the men in the unit and 368 00:17:11,300 --> 00:17:15,300 shot one of them. How bad? He's at Georgia Street receiving now. They don't expect him 369 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:22,300 to live. We had Count Fleckner held for the Oklahoma authorities. We contacted Captain 370 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:25,300 Donahoe and told him what had happened. He'd taken over the search for the two suspects 371 00:17:25,300 --> 00:17:29,300 in the Pico area. A blockade had been set up on all streets leading into and out of 372 00:17:29,300 --> 00:17:35,300 the area. All vehicles were being stopped and searched. All pedestrians were being interrogated. 373 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:39,300 Frank and I joined in the manhunt. By 6.30 the next morning, Wednesday September 15th, 374 00:17:39,300 --> 00:17:43,300 the area had been covered without result. However in checking all automobiles in the 375 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:48,300 vicinity of the holdup, we'd come across a 1952 Nash, gray in color. The left front fender 376 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:52,300 was damaged and it matched the description of the suspect's car very close. We put a 377 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:57,300 stakeout on the vehicle and it was kept under watch for the next 24 hours. During that time 378 00:17:57,300 --> 00:18:01,300 no one approached it. We checked the license number with Auto Theft Division and found 379 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:05,300 the car to be stolen. It had been taken from the owner five days before on September 10th. 380 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:09,300 We brought Kenneth Leckner from the main jail and he positively identified the car as the 381 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:13,300 one driven by Monet and Burton. At the end of the surveillance, a crew from the crime lab 382 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:17,300 came out and identified paint scrapings from the damaged fender as having come from the 383 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:21,300 police car that had been rammed. The crew from Layton Prince came out and went over the 384 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:25,300 car. While they worked, Frank and I stood by. Looks like we got a turn. It's not going to 385 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:28,300 do us much good if we can't find the guy with the key. Well, they should be about finished 386 00:18:28,300 --> 00:18:33,300 now. I'll check with them. All right. I'll walk over with you. Excuse me. Yes ma'am, 387 00:18:33,300 --> 00:18:36,300 something we can do for you. You know what those men are doing to that car? Police business. 388 00:18:36,300 --> 00:18:42,300 You a cop? That's right. You tell me what's going on? Investigation. Of what, the car? 389 00:18:42,300 --> 00:18:47,300 That's right. What are you looking for? Information. Not going to tell me, huh? 390 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:50,300 Well, it'd be a little better if we didn't, ma'am. OK. But he's not going to like it, 391 00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:54,300 not a bit. Who's that? A fellow that owns the car. He's not going to like having all you 392 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:58,300 guys room around. You know the man that owns the car? Sure. He's beginning to get married. 393 00:18:58,300 --> 00:19:03,300 I know him. What's his name? Monet. Kind of French-like. Romantic. How long you know him? 394 00:19:03,300 --> 00:19:08,300 Not long. Sort of a whirlwind courtship, you'd say. Just met each other and we knew. You 395 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:12,300 know where this Monet is now? Not right off. I know where he'll be. Where is that? At his 396 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:16,300 place. I'm supposed to meet him there at 7.30 tonight. We've got a date. Why, you want to 397 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:20,300 talk to him? That's right. He's a nice fellow. You'll like him. Almost everybody does. Is 398 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:23,300 that right? Never knew anybody met Kirby. Didn't want to be around him all the time. 399 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:27,300 Everybody wants to be around Kirby. You know him. You'll see. Well, I won't be too hard, 400 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:36,300 man. Huh? He's already convinced us. We had the girl, Drusilla Roth, show us where the 401 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:41,300 suspect was living. The results of the investigation by Layton Prince brought out several partial 402 00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:45,300 fingerprints. These were identified as belonging to both suspects. We checked with the landlady 403 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:50,300 at the apartment. She verified the fact that Monet and Burton had moved into the place three 404 00:19:50,300 --> 00:19:55,300 days before. She told us that neither man was at home. In our company, we checked the 405 00:19:55,300 --> 00:19:59,300 room. Under a pile of dirty clothes in one of the bureau drawers, we found several boxes 406 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:04,300 of ammunition for the 45s and the 38. There were also several hundred rounds of cartridges 407 00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:08,300 for the machine gun. Because of the physical structure of the building, it was decided 408 00:20:08,300 --> 00:20:11,300 that the best way to keep the place under surveillance would be for one team to cover 409 00:20:11,300 --> 00:20:15,300 the front door, another to watch the rear entrance, and a third to wait in the room 410 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:19,300 itself. Frank called the office and Sergeants Murphy, Rafferty, and Benson, along with 411 00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:24,300 Lieutenant Stoner, came out to help us. We instructed the manager to stay in her room 412 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:29,300 and not let on to either of the suspects that we were in the building. We waited. 6.45 413 00:20:29,300 --> 00:20:30,300 p.m. 414 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:32,300 Should be showing up pretty quick, huh? 415 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:35,300 Yeah. Any word from George Street? 416 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:40,300 I talked to Stoner when he got here. I've given Simon a couple of transfusions. I figure 417 00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:43,300 they're going to be able to transfer him to General the first thing in the morning. 418 00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:44,300 You gonna make it then? 419 00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:49,300 It looks like it. They took a 38 out of his left lung, two more out of his hip. Pretty 420 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:50,300 rough go. 421 00:20:50,300 --> 00:20:51,300 Yeah. 422 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:53,300 What time he got? 423 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:54,300 6.47. 424 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:57,300 Should be here by now. He's going to keep that date. 425 00:20:57,300 --> 00:20:59,300 Now there's another one that comes first. 426 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:04,300 At 7.06 p.m. there was a knock on the door. There was a signal with weeder rings. We opened 427 00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:07,300 it and found that Lieutenant Stoner had come up to tell us that Gail Burton had been taken 428 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:12,300 into custody. He'd approached the apartment, and as soon as the officers stopped him, he'd 429 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:16,300 surrendered, offering no resistance. Stoner wanted to tell us that he and Benson would 430 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:20,300 take the suspect downtown for booking. Frank and I settled back to wait for Manet. 431 00:21:20,300 --> 00:21:21,300 All right, Tony. 432 00:21:21,300 --> 00:21:24,300 Why don't you like a smoke? 433 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:28,300 Why is it, Joe, you and I always draw the stake inside the room where all we can do 434 00:21:28,300 --> 00:21:29,300 is sit? 435 00:21:29,300 --> 00:21:32,300 I don't know. You usually ask for it that way, don't you? 436 00:21:32,300 --> 00:21:36,300 Well, next time we're going to take one of the entrances. Sit out there in the car. 437 00:21:36,300 --> 00:21:40,300 Smoke when you want. If you want something to eat, just run down the drug store for a 438 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:42,300 candy bar. It's a lot better duty, Joe. 439 00:21:42,300 --> 00:21:43,300 Hmm. 440 00:21:44,300 --> 00:21:45,300 I thought I heard somebody coming tonight. 441 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:50,300 Yeah. 442 00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:51,300 What was that? 443 00:21:51,300 --> 00:21:52,300 Yeah. 444 00:21:55,300 --> 00:21:57,300 All right, Manet, hold it right there. 445 00:21:57,300 --> 00:21:58,300 Watch it, Joe. 446 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:00,300 I see him. 447 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:01,300 Down this way. 448 00:22:04,300 --> 00:22:06,300 All right, hold it. Any sign of him? 449 00:22:06,300 --> 00:22:08,300 No. He might have gone down the stairs. 450 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:10,300 The apartment at the end of the hall. 451 00:22:10,300 --> 00:22:15,300 Right, come on. 452 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:16,300 All right, Manet, come on out. 453 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:21,300 So last time around, Manet, throw that gun out and you follow it. 454 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:24,300 Not coming out. 455 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:26,300 All right, let's go in. 456 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:27,300 Wait a minute. 457 00:22:28,300 --> 00:22:29,300 I'll knock. 458 00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:33,300 All right, don't shoot me. I quit. I don't want to fight. 459 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:34,300 Throw the gun out here. 460 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:36,300 Right there. Drop it. 461 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:37,300 All right, here it is. 462 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:38,300 Come on, I can see it. 463 00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:40,300 I got it. 464 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:42,300 All right, hands behind your head. Back out of the door. 465 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:43,300 Come on, turn around. 466 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:44,300 Keep those hands where we can see them. 467 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:46,300 Okay, okay, I'm coming. 468 00:22:46,300 --> 00:22:48,300 I don't shoot anymore. I won't give you no more time. 469 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:49,300 All right, hold it right there. 470 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:50,300 Don't move. 471 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:51,300 Keep those hands up. 472 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:52,300 I'll check. 473 00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:57,300 There's another one. 45. 474 00:22:57,300 --> 00:22:58,300 Had it in his belt. 475 00:22:58,300 --> 00:22:59,300 I'd have given it to you. I wasn't going to try it anymore. 476 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:00,300 Yeah, sure. Keep still. 477 00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:01,300 All right. 478 00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:02,300 Take your hands down. 479 00:23:03,300 --> 00:23:04,300 Back of it. 480 00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:05,300 One at a time. 481 00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:06,300 All right. 482 00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:08,300 Try not to turn around. 483 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:10,300 You're going to take me in now? 484 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:11,300 That's right. 485 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:12,300 That cop I shot, he didn't die. 486 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:13,300 No, you're pretty lucky. 487 00:23:14,300 --> 00:23:16,300 And all you got me for is robbery. That's all. Just robbery. 488 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:17,300 That's how it looks from here, doesn't it? 489 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:20,300 Robbery, that's all. Jail term doesn't make a lot of difference. 490 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:21,300 Is that right? 491 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:23,300 Sure. And a jail built can hold me. Not one. 492 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:25,300 I'll get out. I'll be running again. You'll see. 493 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:26,300 I wouldn't give odds. 494 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:28,300 Huh? Bigger men than you said they'd come back. 495 00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:30,300 Yeah, show me. I'd sure like to meet him. 496 00:23:30,300 --> 00:23:35,300 Don't worry, you will. 497 00:23:40,300 --> 00:23:44,300 Kenneth Nelson Leckner was returned to the state of Oklahoma for prosecution on a murder charge. 498 00:23:44,300 --> 00:23:48,300 A hold was placed against him by the state of California in the event he was paroled. 499 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:54,300 Gail Claude Burton and Kirby Arno Monet were tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree, six counts. 500 00:23:54,300 --> 00:24:00,300 Violation of Section 4574 P.C., bringing a firearm into a prison. 501 00:24:00,300 --> 00:24:04,300 Violation of the machine gun law and assault with intent to commit murder. 502 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:09,300 Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not less than five years. 503 00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:16,300 Violation of Section 4574 is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not less than one year in the state penitentiary. 504 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:25,300 Violation of the machine gun law is punishable by a term in the state prison not to exceed five years and or a fine of $5,000. 505 00:24:25,300 --> 00:24:33,300 Assault with intent to commit murder is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not less than one nor more than 14 years in the state penitentiary. 506 00:24:33,300 --> 00:24:46,300 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. 507 00:24:46,300 --> 00:25:06,300 Fangirling with the New States Army Soldier Duke abundant soldier.