WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.200 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:12.200 --> 00:14.760 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:14.760 --> 00:15.760 Dragmint. 00:15.760 --> 00:27.000 You're a detective sergeant. 00:27.000 --> 00:29.120 You're assigned a robbery detail. 00:29.120 --> 00:31.440 Two men are terrorizing your city. 00:31.440 --> 00:34.000 They're both armed and considered dangerous. 00:34.000 --> 00:37.280 Your job, get them. 00:37.280 --> 00:41.080 It was Thursday, September 9th. 00:41.080 --> 00:42.560 It was warm in Los Angeles. 00:42.560 --> 00:44.440 We were working the night watch out of robbery detail. 00:44.440 --> 00:48.120 My partner's Frank Smith, the boss of Chief of Detective Stad Brown. 00:48.120 --> 00:49.120 My name's Friday. 00:49.120 --> 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, 00:54.240 --> 00:55.240 the back room. 00:55.240 --> 00:59.240 I hate to think what's going to happen when Mr. Negri hears about it. 00:59.240 --> 01:00.240 It's going to be pretty bad. 01:00.240 --> 01:01.240 Yes, sir. 01:01.240 --> 01:02.240 How about it, Jim? 01:02.240 --> 01:03.240 You catch the fellows yet? 01:03.240 --> 01:04.240 No, sir. 01:04.240 --> 01:05.240 Description's out. 01:05.240 --> 01:06.240 Guys from the F cars are checking the neighborhood. 01:06.240 --> 01:07.840 Haven't got nothing yet, though, huh? 01:07.840 --> 01:08.840 No, sir, not yet. 01:08.840 --> 01:09.840 Wish I was home. 01:09.840 --> 01:10.840 Sir? 01:10.840 --> 01:13.160 If I was home, I could turn off the phone. 01:13.160 --> 01:16.800 I got one of those attachments in the extension in the bedroom that turns it off. 01:16.800 --> 01:17.800 Wish I was there now. 01:17.800 --> 01:19.800 Mr. Negri's really going to be sore. 01:19.800 --> 01:22.000 Was there anything at all about the two men that would stand out and make it a little 01:22.000 --> 01:23.000 easier for us to identify them? 01:23.000 --> 01:25.440 I'll tell you the truth, Sergeant, if there was, I didn't see it. 01:25.440 --> 01:26.440 All right. 01:26.440 --> 01:27.440 I was scared, darn scared. 01:27.440 --> 01:28.800 I'm not afraid to say so. 01:28.800 --> 01:29.800 Yes, sir. 01:29.800 --> 01:31.880 I can tell you again if you want me to about the robbery. 01:31.880 --> 01:32.880 All right, if you would. 01:32.880 --> 01:34.960 It might be something you didn't remember the first time through. 01:34.960 --> 01:35.960 Okay. 01:35.960 --> 01:38.160 Guess it was about a quarter-eleven when we came in. 01:38.160 --> 01:39.960 Just a guess, but I think it was about then. 01:39.960 --> 01:40.960 Uh-huh. 01:40.960 --> 01:41.960 A dark one. 01:41.960 --> 01:42.960 The other machine gun. 01:42.960 --> 01:45.160 He kind of moved over so he had a good look at the people sitting at the bar. 01:45.160 --> 01:46.160 What kind of a gun was it? 01:46.160 --> 01:47.160 Machine gun. 01:47.160 --> 01:48.160 I see. 01:48.160 --> 01:49.160 Go ahead. 01:49.160 --> 01:50.920 I guess he could have hit them all from where he was. 01:50.920 --> 01:55.280 He pulled the gun kind of low, you know, like at his hip here. 01:55.280 --> 01:56.280 What about the other one? 01:56.280 --> 01:59.360 Well, he waited with his friend and he walked up to the bar, stood right in the middle of 01:59.360 --> 02:00.360 the floor. 02:00.360 --> 02:01.360 He had the automatic, huh? 02:01.360 --> 02:02.360 Yeah. 02:02.360 --> 02:03.360 Yeah, looked like a.45. 02:03.360 --> 02:06.720 He stood right in the middle of the place, just looking there, watching me. 02:06.720 --> 02:07.720 What happened then? 02:07.720 --> 02:11.200 Well, a fellow out in front reached over and pulled the plug in the jukebox, turned it 02:11.200 --> 02:13.840 off right in the middle of the record, pulled the plug. 02:13.840 --> 02:15.520 And that's what made the other people turn around. 02:15.520 --> 02:16.520 Uh-huh. 02:16.520 --> 02:19.400 Turned right around and looked at the guns. 02:19.400 --> 02:21.040 That's when the light fell, the one with the.45. 02:21.040 --> 02:23.120 He said, sit where you are. 02:23.120 --> 02:24.120 This is a stick-up. 02:24.120 --> 02:25.640 Are those his exact words? 02:25.640 --> 02:27.440 Well, near as I can remember, yeah. 02:27.440 --> 02:31.600 He kind of had a squeaky little voice, like it was still changing, you know? 02:31.600 --> 02:32.600 Yes, sir. 02:32.600 --> 02:33.600 But those were the words. 02:33.600 --> 02:34.600 Sit right where you are. 02:34.600 --> 02:35.600 This is a stick-up. 02:35.600 --> 02:36.920 All right, Mr. Gilmore, you want to go ahead? 02:36.920 --> 02:40.240 Well, the one with the funny voice told everybody to get up and turn around so they was facing 02:40.240 --> 02:43.320 the bar, you know, with their back to the hold-up man. 02:43.320 --> 02:44.320 Made them all turn around. 02:44.320 --> 02:45.320 Uh-huh. 02:45.320 --> 02:48.400 Then he told them to start from the back of the place and walk over to one of the tables 02:48.400 --> 02:49.920 and dump all their money out. 02:49.920 --> 02:52.120 Said not to forget anything. 02:52.120 --> 02:53.120 Put it all there. 02:53.120 --> 02:54.480 Did they take anything besides money? 02:54.480 --> 02:55.480 Not that I saw. 02:55.480 --> 02:59.000 I wonder if a couple of people had pretty good-looking watches on, but the only thing 02:59.000 --> 03:00.800 the bandits seemed to want was cash. 03:00.800 --> 03:01.800 I see. 03:01.800 --> 03:04.400 And they left after they got the money, is that right? 03:04.400 --> 03:05.400 Yeah. 03:05.400 --> 03:09.280 Walked to the door and said for us not to try calling anybody for five minutes. 03:09.280 --> 03:10.280 After that, they walked out. 03:10.280 --> 03:11.880 Did you see if they had a car? 03:11.880 --> 03:12.880 No, sir. 03:12.880 --> 03:14.720 Didn't even go near the door. 03:14.720 --> 03:17.520 We did like they said, five minutes, and after that, I called you. 03:17.520 --> 03:19.560 You'd know them again if you saw them, would you? 03:19.560 --> 03:20.560 You bet I would. 03:20.560 --> 03:22.660 You put me in a crowd with them and I'll tell you. 03:22.660 --> 03:23.720 No trouble there. 03:23.720 --> 03:24.720 I'd know them. 03:24.720 --> 03:25.720 Oh, excuse me. 03:25.720 --> 03:26.720 Go right ahead. 03:26.720 --> 03:27.720 814 Club. 03:27.720 --> 03:28.720 Yeah. 03:28.720 --> 03:29.720 Oh, yeah, Mr. Negri. 03:29.720 --> 03:30.720 Uh-huh. 03:30.720 --> 03:31.720 That's right. 03:31.720 --> 03:32.720 Well, who called you? 03:32.720 --> 03:33.720 Yeah. 03:33.720 --> 03:34.720 Well, there wasn't anything I could do about Mr. Negri. 03:34.720 --> 03:35.720 No, sir. 03:35.720 --> 03:36.720 Both of them had guns. 03:36.720 --> 03:37.720 Yeah. 03:37.720 --> 03:38.720 Well, you could have been the only one who had guns. 03:38.720 --> 03:39.720 Yeah. 03:39.720 --> 03:40.720 I could have been the only one who had guns. 03:40.720 --> 03:41.720 Yeah. 03:41.720 --> 03:42.720 I could have been the only one who had guns. 03:42.720 --> 03:43.720 Yeah. 03:43.720 --> 03:44.720 I could have been the only one who had guns. 03:44.720 --> 03:45.720 Yeah. 03:45.720 --> 03:47.720 I could have been the only one who had guns. 03:47.720 --> 03:48.720 Yeah. 03:48.720 --> 03:49.720 All right, sir. 03:49.720 --> 03:50.720 That's the way you feel about it. 03:50.720 --> 03:51.720 All right, sir. 03:51.720 --> 03:52.720 Fine. 03:52.720 --> 03:53.720 I'll be in in the morning. 03:53.720 --> 03:54.720 Right. 03:54.720 --> 03:55.720 All right. 03:55.720 --> 03:56.720 Fired me. 03:56.720 --> 03:57.720 Well, that's too bad. 03:57.720 --> 04:00.720 I thought I heard you say you'd be in in the morning, though. 04:00.720 --> 04:01.720 Yeah. 04:01.720 --> 04:03.720 Well, I come in to pick up my money, you know. 04:03.720 --> 04:04.720 I see. 04:04.720 --> 04:12.720 By the time I get here tomorrow, I'll have another change of heart, so hire me back. 04:12.720 --> 04:14.720 I've been fired 12 times already. 04:14.720 --> 04:15.720 12? 04:15.720 --> 04:16.720 He always hires me back. 04:16.720 --> 04:17.720 Doesn't anybody else work for him? 04:17.720 --> 04:18.720 They're right. 04:18.720 --> 04:20.720 Well, you had a lot of trouble keeping help. 04:20.720 --> 04:21.720 A lot of... 04:21.720 --> 04:23.720 He thinks I should have stopped to hold up men myself. 04:23.720 --> 04:26.720 Just walked in with my bare hands and stopped him. 04:26.720 --> 04:28.720 Pretty silly when you think of it. 04:28.720 --> 04:29.720 Uh-huh. 04:29.720 --> 04:32.720 He says they're only kidding with the guns, that they wouldn't have really shot me. 04:32.720 --> 04:33.720 Pretty silly. 04:33.720 --> 04:34.720 Says he'd have bet on it. 04:34.720 --> 04:35.720 They're right. 04:35.720 --> 04:36.720 Doesn't take too much to figure that out. 04:36.720 --> 04:37.720 Yeah. 04:37.720 --> 04:43.720 Either way, I'd have lost, wouldn't I? 04:43.720 --> 04:46.720 The description of the suspects, the method of operation they'd used, everything about 04:46.720 --> 04:49.720 the robbery sounded just as if it had been read from IMO bulletins. 04:49.720 --> 04:52.720 For the past three weeks, Frank and I had been after the two gunmen. 04:52.720 --> 04:54.720 All sources of information had been tapped. 04:54.720 --> 04:57.720 Victims and witnesses had been questioned and re-questioned. 04:57.720 --> 04:59.720 People in the immediate vicinity had been talked to. 04:59.720 --> 05:02.720 Mugshots had been pulled and worn out by handling. 05:02.720 --> 05:06.720 To date, in concrete information, we had exactly what we'd started with. 05:06.720 --> 05:11.720 Two gunmen who were moving around at will and robbing citizens where and when they chose. 05:11.720 --> 05:15.720 The victims of the latest robbery were shown the mugbook, but they were unable to make 05:15.720 --> 05:16.720 an identification. 05:16.720 --> 05:19.720 The canvas of the area turned up no usable information. 05:19.720 --> 05:24.720 Frank and I worked until 3.45 a.m. and then we filled out the log and left the office. 05:24.720 --> 05:27.720 The next morning, we checked with Captain Donahoe and Chief Brown. 05:27.720 --> 05:30.720 As a result of the meeting, we arrived at the only possible solution to apprehending 05:30.720 --> 05:31.720 the suspect. 05:31.720 --> 05:33.720 Leg work and a lot of it. 05:33.720 --> 05:36.720 We spent the rest of the afternoon re-checking informants. 05:36.720 --> 05:39.720 At 9.30 p.m., we stopped for dinner and then we went back to the office. 05:39.720 --> 05:41.720 You got the address Sam gave you? 05:41.720 --> 05:43.720 Yeah, it's here somewhere. 05:43.720 --> 05:45.720 Yeah, there it is. 05:45.720 --> 05:47.720 You think it's worth checking out? 05:47.720 --> 05:49.720 Well, we got nothing else to do. 05:49.720 --> 05:50.720 We might as well. 05:50.720 --> 05:53.720 As soon as I get these straightened up, we can take a ride out there and see them. 05:53.720 --> 05:54.720 Yeah. 05:54.720 --> 05:55.720 Robert Murphy. 05:55.720 --> 05:56.720 Yeah, he's here. 05:56.720 --> 05:57.720 Just come in. 05:57.720 --> 05:58.720 Friday? 05:58.720 --> 05:59.720 Yeah, Murr. 05:59.720 --> 06:00.720 Take three, will you, Joe? 06:00.720 --> 06:01.720 Thanks. 06:01.720 --> 06:02.720 Three? 06:02.720 --> 06:03.720 Yeah. 06:03.720 --> 06:04.720 This is Friday. 06:04.720 --> 06:05.720 Yeah, boy. 06:05.720 --> 06:06.720 When was that? 06:06.720 --> 06:09.720 Most possible. 06:09.720 --> 06:11.720 Did you see anybody else? 06:11.720 --> 06:13.720 All right, we'll come right over. 06:13.720 --> 06:14.720 Bye. 06:14.720 --> 06:15.720 Highland Park. 06:15.720 --> 06:17.720 They just picked up a guy for 459. 06:17.720 --> 06:18.720 Yeah. 06:18.720 --> 06:20.720 Matches the description of our blonde holdup man. 06:20.720 --> 06:21.720 You think it'll check out? 06:21.720 --> 06:22.720 I don't know. 06:22.720 --> 06:23.720 They shook him down when he was picked up. 06:23.720 --> 06:24.720 They found a 45 with a full clip. 06:24.720 --> 06:25.720 It's pretty heavy for a burglar. 06:25.720 --> 06:26.720 Yeah, let's go over and talk to him. 06:26.720 --> 06:27.720 It should be a break. 06:27.720 --> 06:28.720 We've been chasing luck long enough. 06:28.720 --> 06:29.720 Well, maybe we caught up. 06:29.720 --> 06:38.720 Frank and I signed out of the office immediately and we started over to Highland Park. 06:38.720 --> 06:41.720 It wasn't the first time we'd gone out on a similar call. 06:41.720 --> 06:44.720 During the time we'd been after the holdup men, there'd been several others. 06:44.720 --> 06:45.720 All of them had to be checked out. 06:45.720 --> 06:49.720 We never knew when an odd piece of information might turn the lead that we'd been looking 06:49.720 --> 06:50.720 for. 06:50.720 --> 06:53.720 Just before we turned off onto Avenue 64, a call came in over the radio. 06:53.720 --> 06:56.720 All units on sequence C-1, stand by. 06:56.720 --> 06:57.720 You want to turn it up? 06:57.720 --> 06:58.720 Yeah, I got it. 06:58.720 --> 06:59.720 All units on sequence C-1, stand by. 06:59.720 --> 07:00.720 Stand by 11-J-4. 07:00.720 --> 07:01.720 All units on sequence C-1, please stand by. 07:01.720 --> 07:02.720 Sounds like a good one. 07:02.720 --> 07:03.720 Yeah, wait a minute. 07:03.720 --> 07:04.720 All units in the vicinity of Highland Park area. 07:04.720 --> 07:05.720 All units in the vicinity of 6045 Yorke Boulevard, Highland Park Division. 07:05.720 --> 07:06.720 Units 11F2, 11F3, 11F5, and 11F7. 07:06.720 --> 07:07.720 And all traffic units, attention. 07:07.720 --> 07:08.720 That's a big one. 07:08.720 --> 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, 07:09.720 --> 07:29.300 11-J-4, and 11-J-4, 11-J-4, 11-J-4. 07:29.300 --> 07:35.300 man entered the Highland Park Police Station and forced an officer to release two prisoners. 07:35.300 --> 07:41.300 The man was armed with a submachine gun believed to be a.45 caliber. Suspect is described 07:41.300 --> 07:44.300 as WMA. Sounds like our boy. 07:50.300 --> 07:55.300 The Highland Park Police Division is a large brick building located on York Boulevard. 07:55.300 --> 07:59.300 On the ground floor is a booking desk and a couple of administration offices. Directly 07:59.300 --> 08:04.300 behind the booking counter across the hall is a cell block. Prisoners are held there 08:04.300 --> 08:08.300 pending further investigation or transfer to the main jail. When Frank and I arrived, 08:08.300 --> 08:12.300 there were a dozen police cars around the building. Other units were searching the area 08:12.300 --> 08:16.300 for the escaped suspects. The call had gone out to the entire state and members of the 08:16.300 --> 08:19.300 Highway Patrol and the Sheriff's Department and all other departments were joining in 08:19.300 --> 08:23.300 the manhunt. Frank and I talked to Officer Boyd Hutchins, the policeman who had been on 08:23.300 --> 08:27.300 duty when the escape took place. Well he came in this side door and first I thought he just 08:27.300 --> 08:31.300 wanted some information. Uh huh. When I walked over to take care of him I couldn't see the 08:31.300 --> 08:34.300 gun. He was carrying it low kind of hidden by the counter. You didn't see him come into 08:34.300 --> 08:38.300 the building then? No I was on the phone. First I knew is when he asked me if he could see 08:38.300 --> 08:42.300 Burton. Uh huh. I told him we couldn't swing it right then. Said he'd have to come back. 08:42.300 --> 08:46.300 And that's when he asked me if there was anybody around who could okay a visit. Well. I told 08:46.300 --> 08:49.300 him there was and said for him to come back in the morning. That's when he showed you 08:49.300 --> 08:53.300 the gun huh? Yeah he brought it right up over the counter. Said for me not to cause any 08:53.300 --> 08:57.300 trouble and I wouldn't get hurt. He didn't have to tell me. Yeah. There had been a chance 08:57.300 --> 09:00.300 for me to take on him. I'd have tried but I didn't see how it would have proved anything 09:00.300 --> 09:04.300 for me to bleed all over him. Yeah. They made me take him back to the cell block. I unlocked 09:04.300 --> 09:08.300 the door and he told Burton to come out. Where about the other guy? Oh his name is Kenneth 09:08.300 --> 09:12.300 Leckner. He was in the same cell with Burton. Guy with a machine gun asked if he wanted 09:12.300 --> 09:15.300 to go for the ride and Leckner said yes and then the three of them walked out of the 09:15.300 --> 09:19.300 building. Did they make any attempt to tie you up or anything like that? No. They just 09:19.300 --> 09:23.300 said sit tight and I wasn't about to argue. What do you know about this Leckner? Oh he 09:23.300 --> 09:26.300 was picked up on a want from Oklahoma. What charge? Murder. 09:29.300 --> 09:33.300 We went to the city hall and we checked the name Gale Burton through R&I. There was no 09:33.300 --> 09:37.300 record on him in Los Angeles. We forwarded the information on him to George Bretton up 09:37.300 --> 09:41.300 at C.I.I. in Sacramento. The rest of the night was spent in checking out the possible places 09:41.300 --> 09:45.300 the suspects might have been hiding. In a city of over two million people there are 09:45.300 --> 09:49.300 a lot of places. While we were combing the city men from the sheriff's department were 09:49.300 --> 09:53.300 going over the county territory. We had a vague description of the car that was used 09:53.300 --> 09:57.300 but it might match any one of several hundred being driven on the streets of Los Angeles. 09:57.300 --> 10:01.300 Road blocks were set up on principal routes leaving the city. Special details were standing 10:01.300 --> 10:06.300 by at all train and bus depots and the airports were covered. Leaves and days off for all 10:06.300 --> 10:10.300 personnel were cancelled and by the time the search got out of low gear over three thousand 10:10.300 --> 10:14.300 policemen were looking for the three men. Field stations were set up in the less populated 10:14.300 --> 10:19.300 areas and coffee and hot soup were served to the men participating in the search. The 10:19.300 --> 10:24.300 night dragged on without result. Saturday, September 11th we received a report that two 10:24.300 --> 10:28.300 men answering the descriptions of Burton and the man who had aided in his escape had tried 10:28.300 --> 10:33.300 to rent a boat down in San Diego. However when this was checked out it proved to be false. 10:33.300 --> 10:37.300 Saturday afternoon we received information from George Bretton that Burton had an arrest 10:37.300 --> 10:42.300 record in Sacramento and that mugshots and all information were being forwarded. We got 10:42.300 --> 10:45.300 in touch with the authorities in the northern city and asked them to check further on the 10:45.300 --> 10:49.300 friends and relatives of Burton. When the mugshots arrived they were shown to the holdup 10:49.300 --> 10:53.300 victims. Mr. Gilmore would like to have you take a look at these pictures to see if you 10:53.300 --> 10:59.300 recognize any of them. You think there might be one here of the fellow who held us up? 10:59.300 --> 11:08.300 No we want you to tell us if you can. Uh huh. No. Not him. Uh huh. No. Well you remember 11:08.300 --> 11:13.300 how I told you Mr. Negrid gave me my job back? Yeah I remember that. He did. Just like always. 11:13.300 --> 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 11:17.300 --> 11:21.300 right not to cause trouble. As soon as he found out about the jail break. We're not sure 11:21.300 --> 11:28.300 they're the same men yet Mr. Gilmore. Don't know why. Sir? Don't know why? He ain't sure. 11:28.300 --> 11:33.300 Here's his picture. This is the man who held you up? Yep. One and the same. How about it 11:33.300 --> 11:40.300 Jeff? It's Burton. The other victims also identified Burton as one of the men who had 11:40.300 --> 11:44.300 held them up. With the name of the man we at least had some place to start. We put in 11:44.300 --> 11:47.300 a call to Sacramento and we talked to the police department up there. We found that 11:47.300 --> 11:51.300 the suspect had been arrested on charges of suspicion of burglary, suspicion of robbery, 11:51.300 --> 11:56.300 ADW and assault with intent to do great bodily harm. In spite of the numerous arrests Burton 11:56.300 --> 12:01.300 had only served one term in the county jail. We got all available information on him and 12:01.300 --> 12:05.300 the search was intensified. We'd gotten reports from informants that the three men might 12:05.300 --> 12:10.300 try to escape across the border into Mexico. San Diego was notified of this and Al Gaten 12:10.300 --> 12:14.300 was dispatched to the international boundary of Tijuana to aid the Mexican police. Two 12:14.300 --> 12:19.300 days passed without news of the suspects. Monday September 13th Frank and I got back 12:19.300 --> 12:23.300 into the office from chasing down a lead that went nowhere. Better check with a skipper. 12:23.300 --> 12:31.300 Yeah I'll do it right away. I got it. Robbery Friday. Yeah all right I'll take it. Long 12:31.300 --> 12:38.300 distance San Francisco. Might have gotten up there. Hello. This Friday. Oh yeah Eddie. 12:38.300 --> 12:46.300 Mm hmm. Yeah well we got the identification from Brereton. No nothing yet. When was that? 12:46.300 --> 12:52.300 That could be. It'd give them time wouldn't it. Just a minute Frank. Yeah. It's Eddie 12:52.300 --> 12:56.300 Vandivert up there. When did these guys pull the first job? I think it was August 16th 12:56.300 --> 13:02.300 placed over on Pico. That's the first one. Yeah. August 16th Ed. No the other one doesn't 13:02.300 --> 13:11.300 show up on any of the sheets. Kenneth Leckner. No we're expecting it from Oklahoma. You 13:11.300 --> 13:14.300 guys will check it out for us then huh. All right let us know as soon as you got something 13:14.300 --> 13:20.300 definite will you. Right. OK Ed. Thanks for calling. Right bye. What's he got? Well I 13:20.300 --> 13:23.300 got a rumble that Brereton was up there the first part of August. He stayed about a week 13:23.300 --> 13:26.300 he said. Yeah. Ed says he's got an informant down in the Fillmore district used to run 13:26.300 --> 13:30.300 with Brereton. Might give us a lead on the partner. How come? Well according to the 13:30.300 --> 13:33.300 informant Brereton met a guy up north they got real chummy. They left town together. 13:33.300 --> 13:37.300 Come up with a name? Yeah he did. Kirby Monet M-O-N-E-T. Been in trouble? A couple of 13:37.300 --> 13:41.300 times. Petty stuff. Rumbles got it but he was always talking about going big forming his 13:41.300 --> 13:45.300 own gang cutting into the heavy stuff. Matching. Real good. Monet's description is the same 13:45.300 --> 13:52.300 as our number two man. Pictures of Kirby Monet arrived from San Francisco and when they 13:52.300 --> 13:55.300 were shown to the victims of the thieves we had a positive identification on our second 13:55.300 --> 13:59.300 suspect. Armed with this information the job of the men in the field was considerably 13:59.300 --> 14:04.300 easier. Now they knew who they were looking for. Ten forty two p.m. Frank and I started 14:04.300 --> 14:09.300 downstairs for our car. Excuse me Paul. Yeah. Can you tell me where the office of the chief 14:09.300 --> 14:15.300 is? Down the hall and to the right. Thanks. Wait a minute fellow. Hold on. What do you 14:15.300 --> 14:19.300 want to see the chief about? That's personal. Maybe you better tell me huh? If I wanted 14:19.300 --> 14:23.300 you I'd ask it that way. All right get over the wall. Better shake him down Frank. All 14:23.300 --> 14:28.300 right over here. You don't have to go through all this I'm not going to cause you any trouble. 14:28.300 --> 14:32.300 Your name's Kenna Fleckner isn't it? That's right. If you couldn't find me you figured 14:32.300 --> 14:39.300 I'd come to you. Frank and I took the suspect to the squad room we got in touch with Chief 14:39.300 --> 14:42.300 of Detective Stab Brown we told him what had happened and he said he'd come over to the 14:42.300 --> 14:47.300 office as soon as possible. We shook Kenna Fleckner but we found nothing. We asked him 14:47.300 --> 14:50.300 to tell us about the jail break. I didn't have nothing to do with it you got to believe 14:50.300 --> 14:53.300 that. We'll let you tell us. I'm giving it to you the way it happened. Where are Monet 14:53.300 --> 14:57.300 and Burton? I don't know last I saw them they were on our West Pico. You got an address? 14:57.300 --> 15:00.300 No. They were sitting in the car they had a place case and they were waiting for the 15:00.300 --> 15:03.300 crowd to clear before they took it. You know what place it was? That's a bar out there. 15:03.300 --> 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 15:06.300 --> 15:10.300 I left. You haven't gotten any idea where the place is huh? No none. You want to tag 15:10.300 --> 15:16.300 communications Frank tell them about it? Yeah I'll get right away. You guys must have 15:16.300 --> 15:20.300 every cop in the country out looking for us never saw so much fuzz. No. I can't go that 15:20.300 --> 15:24.300 route anymore it doesn't work out for me never was any good at running. Do you hear anything 15:24.300 --> 15:27.300 at all about the plans they were making? No not a lot I don't think they trusted me very 15:27.300 --> 15:31.300 much I was with them but like an inlaw or something. I'll tell you something sergeant. 15:31.300 --> 15:35.300 What's that? These guys are roof jobs both of them. What do you mean? Well they lost 15:35.300 --> 15:38.300 the road all the time talking about how they're going to put class back in holdups going to 15:38.300 --> 15:42.300 form a big gang and really jump the cops all the time talking like that roof jobs. You 15:42.300 --> 15:45.300 got any idea where we can pick them up? Ain't nothing I'd like better than to give you the 15:45.300 --> 15:49.300 address but I ain't got it. What about this car they're using can you give us a description 15:49.300 --> 15:53.300 of it? Yeah it's a 52 Nash four door. Stole them? Must be they had it when we left Highland 15:53.300 --> 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 15:58.300 --> 16:01.300 think I ever really took a good look at it. What about this machine gun they got shells 16:01.300 --> 16:05.300 for it? They're loaded with them these two guys are heavy enough to start a small war 16:05.300 --> 16:09.300 on their own when they carry a chopper and a 45 in his belt. Burton's got two 45s and 16:09.300 --> 16:13.300 a 38 he carries a 38 strapped to his leg. He's always laughing about it says even if he's 16:13.300 --> 16:17.300 picked up he's got to take it out. These guys are real far out they've been reading too 16:17.300 --> 16:22.300 many comic books all the time talking about Dillinger and Floyd. Burton even took to smoking 16:22.300 --> 16:26.300 cigars as it makes him look like Doc Barker. And then he can give us it'll help us nail 16:26.300 --> 16:31.300 him? No nothing. Alright like man let's go. You're taking me to jail? That's right. Now 16:31.300 --> 16:35.300 you do me a favor huh Sergeant? What's that? Give me a cell by myself I hadn't much sleep 16:35.300 --> 16:40.300 in the last couple of days I'd sure like to get some. Alright let's see what we can do. 16:40.300 --> 16:47.300 Alright sit still a minute. Alright let's go. You got to put these on again? That's right. 16:47.300 --> 16:55.300 Alright come on. Get the word out? Yeah a little late. What do you mean? Burton and Monet 16:55.300 --> 16:59.300 have already hit the bar. Patrol car spotted them on the way out. Yeah. There was a beef 16:59.300 --> 17:03.300 and the men in the car took Burton into custody. Dropped him in the car and started to bring 17:03.300 --> 17:07.300 him in. Hadn't gone more than a couple of blocks when Monet drove up. Rammed the police car 17:07.300 --> 17:11.300 and started shooting. Anybody hurt? Yeah he took Burton away from the men in the unit and 17:11.300 --> 17:15.300 shot one of them. How bad? He's at Georgia Street receiving now. They don't expect him 17:15.300 --> 17:22.300 to live. We had Count Fleckner held for the Oklahoma authorities. We contacted Captain 17:22.300 --> 17:25.300 Donahoe and told him what had happened. He'd taken over the search for the two suspects 17:25.300 --> 17:29.300 in the Pico area. A blockade had been set up on all streets leading into and out of 17:29.300 --> 17:35.300 the area. All vehicles were being stopped and searched. All pedestrians were being interrogated. 17:35.300 --> 17:39.300 Frank and I joined in the manhunt. By 6.30 the next morning, Wednesday September 15th, 17:39.300 --> 17:43.300 the area had been covered without result. However in checking all automobiles in the 17:43.300 --> 17:48.300 vicinity of the holdup, we'd come across a 1952 Nash, gray in color. The left front fender 17:48.300 --> 17:52.300 was damaged and it matched the description of the suspect's car very close. We put a 17:52.300 --> 17:57.300 stakeout on the vehicle and it was kept under watch for the next 24 hours. During that time 17:57.300 --> 18:01.300 no one approached it. We checked the license number with Auto Theft Division and found 18:01.300 --> 18:05.300 the car to be stolen. It had been taken from the owner five days before on September 10th. 18:05.300 --> 18:09.300 We brought Kenneth Leckner from the main jail and he positively identified the car as the 18:09.300 --> 18:13.300 one driven by Monet and Burton. At the end of the surveillance, a crew from the crime lab 18:13.300 --> 18:17.300 came out and identified paint scrapings from the damaged fender as having come from the 18:17.300 --> 18:21.300 police car that had been rammed. The crew from Layton Prince came out and went over the 18:21.300 --> 18:25.300 car. While they worked, Frank and I stood by. Looks like we got a turn. It's not going to 18:25.300 --> 18:28.300 do us much good if we can't find the guy with the key. Well, they should be about finished 18:28.300 --> 18:33.300 now. I'll check with them. All right. I'll walk over with you. Excuse me. Yes ma'am, 18:33.300 --> 18:36.300 something we can do for you. You know what those men are doing to that car? Police business. 18:36.300 --> 18:42.300 You a cop? That's right. You tell me what's going on? Investigation. Of what, the car? 18:42.300 --> 18:47.300 That's right. What are you looking for? Information. Not going to tell me, huh? 18:47.300 --> 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, 18:50.300 --> 18:54.300 not a bit. Who's that? A fellow that owns the car. He's not going to like having all you 18:54.300 --> 18:58.300 guys room around. You know the man that owns the car? Sure. He's beginning to get married. 18:58.300 --> 19:03.300 I know him. What's his name? Monet. Kind of French-like. Romantic. How long you know him? 19:03.300 --> 19:08.300 Not long. Sort of a whirlwind courtship, you'd say. Just met each other and we knew. You 19:08.300 --> 19:12.300 know where this Monet is now? Not right off. I know where he'll be. Where is that? At his 19:12.300 --> 19:16.300 place. I'm supposed to meet him there at 7.30 tonight. We've got a date. Why, you want to 19:16.300 --> 19:20.300 talk to him? That's right. He's a nice fellow. You'll like him. Almost everybody does. Is 19:20.300 --> 19:23.300 that right? Never knew anybody met Kirby. Didn't want to be around him all the time. 19:23.300 --> 19:27.300 Everybody wants to be around Kirby. You know him. You'll see. Well, I won't be too hard, 19:27.300 --> 19:36.300 man. Huh? He's already convinced us. We had the girl, Drusilla Roth, show us where the 19:36.300 --> 19:41.300 suspect was living. The results of the investigation by Layton Prince brought out several partial 19:41.300 --> 19:45.300 fingerprints. These were identified as belonging to both suspects. We checked with the landlady 19:45.300 --> 19:50.300 at the apartment. She verified the fact that Monet and Burton had moved into the place three 19:50.300 --> 19:55.300 days before. She told us that neither man was at home. In our company, we checked the 19:55.300 --> 19:59.300 room. Under a pile of dirty clothes in one of the bureau drawers, we found several boxes 19:59.300 --> 20:04.300 of ammunition for the 45s and the 38. There were also several hundred rounds of cartridges 20:04.300 --> 20:08.300 for the machine gun. Because of the physical structure of the building, it was decided 20:08.300 --> 20:11.300 that the best way to keep the place under surveillance would be for one team to cover 20:11.300 --> 20:15.300 the front door, another to watch the rear entrance, and a third to wait in the room 20:15.300 --> 20:19.300 itself. Frank called the office and Sergeants Murphy, Rafferty, and Benson, along with 20:19.300 --> 20:24.300 Lieutenant Stoner, came out to help us. We instructed the manager to stay in her room 20:24.300 --> 20:29.300 and not let on to either of the suspects that we were in the building. We waited. 6.45 20:29.300 --> 20:30.300 p.m. 20:30.300 --> 20:32.300 Should be showing up pretty quick, huh? 20:32.300 --> 20:35.300 Yeah. Any word from George Street? 20:35.300 --> 20:40.300 I talked to Stoner when he got here. I've given Simon a couple of transfusions. I figure 20:40.300 --> 20:43.300 they're going to be able to transfer him to General the first thing in the morning. 20:43.300 --> 20:44.300 You gonna make it then? 20:44.300 --> 20:49.300 It looks like it. They took a 38 out of his left lung, two more out of his hip. Pretty 20:49.300 --> 20:50.300 rough go. 20:50.300 --> 20:51.300 Yeah. 20:51.300 --> 20:53.300 What time he got? 20:53.300 --> 20:54.300 6.47. 20:54.300 --> 20:57.300 Should be here by now. He's going to keep that date. 20:57.300 --> 20:59.300 Now there's another one that comes first. 20:59.300 --> 21:04.300 At 7.06 p.m. there was a knock on the door. There was a signal with weeder rings. We opened 21:04.300 --> 21:07.300 it and found that Lieutenant Stoner had come up to tell us that Gail Burton had been taken 21:07.300 --> 21:12.300 into custody. He'd approached the apartment, and as soon as the officers stopped him, he'd 21:12.300 --> 21:16.300 surrendered, offering no resistance. Stoner wanted to tell us that he and Benson would 21:16.300 --> 21:20.300 take the suspect downtown for booking. Frank and I settled back to wait for Manet. 21:20.300 --> 21:21.300 All right, Tony. 21:21.300 --> 21:24.300 Why don't you like a smoke? 21:24.300 --> 21:28.300 Why is it, Joe, you and I always draw the stake inside the room where all we can do 21:28.300 --> 21:29.300 is sit? 21:29.300 --> 21:32.300 I don't know. You usually ask for it that way, don't you? 21:32.300 --> 21:36.300 Well, next time we're going to take one of the entrances. Sit out there in the car. 21:36.300 --> 21:40.300 Smoke when you want. If you want something to eat, just run down the drug store for a 21:40.300 --> 21:42.300 candy bar. It's a lot better duty, Joe. 21:42.300 --> 21:43.300 Hmm. 21:44.300 --> 21:45.300 I thought I heard somebody coming tonight. 21:45.300 --> 21:50.300 Yeah. 21:50.300 --> 21:51.300 What was that? 21:51.300 --> 21:52.300 Yeah. 21:55.300 --> 21:57.300 All right, Manet, hold it right there. 21:57.300 --> 21:58.300 Watch it, Joe. 21:59.300 --> 22:00.300 I see him. 22:00.300 --> 22:01.300 Down this way. 22:04.300 --> 22:06.300 All right, hold it. Any sign of him? 22:06.300 --> 22:08.300 No. He might have gone down the stairs. 22:09.300 --> 22:10.300 The apartment at the end of the hall. 22:10.300 --> 22:15.300 Right, come on. 22:15.300 --> 22:16.300 All right, Manet, come on out. 22:18.300 --> 22:21.300 So last time around, Manet, throw that gun out and you follow it. 22:23.300 --> 22:24.300 Not coming out. 22:25.300 --> 22:26.300 All right, let's go in. 22:26.300 --> 22:27.300 Wait a minute. 22:28.300 --> 22:29.300 I'll knock. 22:30.300 --> 22:33.300 All right, don't shoot me. I quit. I don't want to fight. 22:33.300 --> 22:34.300 Throw the gun out here. 22:35.300 --> 22:36.300 Right there. Drop it. 22:36.300 --> 22:37.300 All right, here it is. 22:37.300 --> 22:38.300 Come on, I can see it. 22:38.300 --> 22:40.300 I got it. 22:40.300 --> 22:42.300 All right, hands behind your head. Back out of the door. 22:42.300 --> 22:43.300 Come on, turn around. 22:43.300 --> 22:44.300 Keep those hands where we can see them. 22:44.300 --> 22:46.300 Okay, okay, I'm coming. 22:46.300 --> 22:48.300 I don't shoot anymore. I won't give you no more time. 22:48.300 --> 22:49.300 All right, hold it right there. 22:49.300 --> 22:50.300 Don't move. 22:50.300 --> 22:51.300 Keep those hands up. 22:51.300 --> 22:52.300 I'll check. 22:55.300 --> 22:57.300 There's another one. 45. 22:57.300 --> 22:58.300 Had it in his belt. 22:58.300 --> 22:59.300 I'd have given it to you. I wasn't going to try it anymore. 22:59.300 --> 23:00.300 Yeah, sure. Keep still. 23:00.300 --> 23:01.300 All right. 23:01.300 --> 23:02.300 Take your hands down. 23:03.300 --> 23:04.300 Back of it. 23:04.300 --> 23:05.300 One at a time. 23:05.300 --> 23:06.300 All right. 23:07.300 --> 23:08.300 Try not to turn around. 23:09.300 --> 23:10.300 You're going to take me in now? 23:10.300 --> 23:11.300 That's right. 23:11.300 --> 23:12.300 That cop I shot, he didn't die. 23:12.300 --> 23:13.300 No, you're pretty lucky. 23:14.300 --> 23:16.300 And all you got me for is robbery. That's all. Just robbery. 23:16.300 --> 23:17.300 That's how it looks from here, doesn't it? 23:17.300 --> 23:20.300 Robbery, that's all. Jail term doesn't make a lot of difference. 23:20.300 --> 23:21.300 Is that right? 23:21.300 --> 23:23.300 Sure. And a jail built can hold me. Not one. 23:23.300 --> 23:25.300 I'll get out. I'll be running again. You'll see. 23:25.300 --> 23:26.300 I wouldn't give odds. 23:26.300 --> 23:28.300 Huh? Bigger men than you said they'd come back. 23:28.300 --> 23:30.300 Yeah, show me. I'd sure like to meet him. 23:30.300 --> 23:35.300 Don't worry, you will. 23:40.300 --> 23:44.300 Kenneth Nelson Leckner was returned to the state of Oklahoma for prosecution on a murder charge. 23:44.300 --> 23:48.300 A hold was placed against him by the state of California in the event he was paroled. 23:48.300 --> 23:54.300 Gail Claude Burton and Kirby Arno Monet were tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree, six counts. 23:54.300 --> 24:00.300 Violation of Section 4574 P.C., bringing a firearm into a prison. 24:00.300 --> 24:04.300 Violation of the machine gun law and assault with intent to commit murder. 24:04.300 --> 24:09.300 Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not less than five years. 24:09.300 --> 24:16.300 Violation of Section 4574 is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not less than one year in the state penitentiary. 24:16.300 --> 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. 24:25.300 --> 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. 24:33.300 --> 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. 24:46.300 --> 25:06.300 Fangirling with the New States Army Soldier Duke abundant soldier.