1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,400 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,000 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Dragnet. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:22,760 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,120 You're assigned to homicide detail. 6 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,720 An elderly man is threatening an entire neighborhood with a shotgun. 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,040 He says he's going to use it to kill a man. 8 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:37,800 Your job, take it away from him. 9 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:38,800 It was Tuesday, June 15th. 10 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:40,400 It was hot in Los Angeles. 11 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:42,400 We were working the day watch out on homicide detail. 12 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:43,800 My partner is Frank Smith. 13 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:44,800 The boss is Captain Lawman. 14 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:45,800 My name is Friday. 15 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:47,400 We were on our way out from the office. 16 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,080 It was 1146 A.M. when we got to unit 1F14. 17 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:52,320 The police car standing by. 18 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:53,320 Hi, Joe. 19 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:54,320 Lloyd, what do you got? 20 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,960 Take a look at the sign. 21 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,800 Yeah, I will not live in the same neighborhood with a dog poisoner. 22 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,240 Looks like he painted it himself. 23 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:03,240 And there's a weekend figure he did. 24 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:04,920 How'd you get the complaint? 25 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:05,920 Came in, see the man. 26 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:07,760 When we got here, the guy was sitting up there with his shotgun. 27 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:09,640 Told us to leave him alone. 28 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:11,600 We figured maybe you'd be a little better equipped to handle it. 29 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,880 It might not work out that way, but we'll give it a try. 30 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,240 Anything we can do to help out? 31 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:16,240 Just be here. 32 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:17,240 Right. 33 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:23,960 You make a move for a gun and I'll have to kill you. 34 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:25,280 What else while you're doing this? 35 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:26,280 My business. 36 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:27,280 Well, that gun makes it ours. 37 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,800 You think that if you want to, it doesn't make any difference to me. 38 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:32,280 I didn't ask you out here. 39 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,080 Yeah, well, now that we made the trip, don't you think you ought to tell us? 40 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:36,080 No. 41 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:37,080 Something to do with that sign? 42 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:38,080 Might have, yeah. 43 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,080 Well, you better tell us about it. 44 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,760 I don't see how it's going to help. 45 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,760 You won't know unless you try, will you? 46 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:44,760 All right. 47 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:45,760 I'll tell you what. 48 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:46,760 You come up here with a porch. 49 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:47,760 We'll talk. 50 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:48,760 Make it slow. 51 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:49,760 Don't try to be smart. 52 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:50,760 I can hit both of you with one shot. 53 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:55,760 Yeah. 54 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,760 Might not kill you, but it'd make you pretty sick. 55 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,760 That's good. 56 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,760 Hold it right there. 57 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,760 Now, just stand still. 58 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:08,760 All right. 59 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:10,760 You want to tell us what this is all about? 60 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:11,760 I don't. 61 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,760 It's been 14 years since somebody killed her. 62 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,260 Well, that's not much of a reason to sit out here and threaten everybody who walks by your 63 00:02:19,260 --> 00:02:20,260 house, is it? 64 00:02:20,260 --> 00:02:21,260 It's not much for me. 65 00:02:21,260 --> 00:02:22,260 Why? 66 00:02:22,260 --> 00:02:23,260 Because I know that they will show up. 67 00:02:23,260 --> 00:02:24,260 Who will show up? 68 00:02:24,260 --> 00:02:25,260 Whoever done it. 69 00:02:25,260 --> 00:02:30,260 They'll walk down the street, and when they do, I'm going to get them. 70 00:02:30,260 --> 00:02:32,760 Well, you know we're not going to let you do that. 71 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,760 I don't see that there's much you can do to stop me. 72 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,760 If you know who killed your dog, why don't you come downtown and make a complaint like 73 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:40,760 you should? 74 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:41,760 Evidence. 75 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:42,760 What's that? 76 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:43,760 We're going to have evidence. 77 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,760 Yeah, well, you must have a lot of it to be ready to kill a man. 78 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:47,760 We'll see. 79 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,760 Who do you think poisoned your dog? 80 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:55,760 I don't know, but he'll be by. 81 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:57,760 Anybody else live in that house with you? 82 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:58,760 No. 83 00:02:58,760 --> 00:02:59,760 There's nobody inside, huh? 84 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:00,760 I told you there ain't nobody. 85 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:01,760 Used to be Queenie, but not now. 86 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:02,760 This is a picture of her. 87 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:03,760 Beautiful. 88 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:04,760 I'm going to tell you something, old timer. 89 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:05,760 What? 90 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:06,760 You can sit there and think you got this thing under control, but you haven't. 91 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:07,760 It's not a picture. 92 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:08,760 It's a picture of her. 93 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:09,760 It's a picture of her. 94 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:10,760 It's a picture of her. 95 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:11,760 It's a picture of her. 96 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:12,760 It's a picture of her. 97 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:13,760 It's a picture of her. 98 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:14,760 It's a picture of her. 99 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:15,760 It's a picture of her. 100 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:16,760 It's a picture of her. 101 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:17,760 Here, down the street, take the 3, and get him. 102 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:18,760 Yes, sir. 103 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:19,760 Take him down the street quickly, or he'll take it easy. 104 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:21,080 And you can't just stop him. 105 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,460 Yeah, but that'll solve it like the way you can imagine. 106 00:03:23,460 --> 00:03:24,480 Here, here. 107 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:25,480 Right himself. 108 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:26,480 Speقl know I know that thing. 109 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:27,480 Anyway, let's turn back. 110 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:28,480 I can go into that place. 111 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:29,480 I've got the gun. 112 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:30,400 If I tell him not to think I'll break in, 113 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:31,400 then I'll just kill Kinda- Girl. 114 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:32,560 What OURE gonna say on this? 115 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:33,560 Come on. 116 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:35,400 Bring your gun up in the firing position, and I'll show you how I'm going to stop you. 117 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:36,400 Yeah, well that's right. 118 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:37,560 Good work, babyав 119 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:43,440 All I'm trying to do is to pay back. 120 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,440 I don't want to hurt anybody else. 121 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,440 Look, mister, why don't you tell us who you think poisoned your dog and why? 122 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,440 We might be able to do something for you. 123 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,440 Cause I don't think it'd help. 124 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,440 Well, why don't you give it a try? 125 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,440 He was poisoned. 126 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,440 I saw it come home. 127 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,440 I saw it crawl right up that log. 128 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,440 On her stomach. 129 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,440 It's breaking her hind legs. 130 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:08,440 Yeah. 131 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:13,440 You wouldn't understand what she meant to me. 132 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,440 She was like a person. 133 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,440 Someone to talk to. 134 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,440 She was a lot of company. 135 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:28,440 This book here, written by a man who knew. 136 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,440 He understood. 137 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,440 Yeah, well, all that may be fine, but you got no right to sit out here with that shotgun. 138 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,440 This man knew about dogs. 139 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,440 Odd McIntyre. 140 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:41,440 Who's that, sir? 141 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,440 Old McIntyre? 142 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,440 I want you to listen. 143 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:52,440 This will explain just what I'm doing here. 144 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,440 Hold it. Hold it right there. 145 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,440 I'll drop this book and kill you. 146 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,440 Now, I want you to listen to this. 147 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,440 I want you to listen carefully. 148 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,440 Brothers and sisters, 149 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:12,440 I bid you beware of giving your hearts to a dog to tear. 150 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:17,440 So wrote Kipling in an excellent elegiac. 151 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:23,440 I happen to be a dog lover who does not believe in that warning. 152 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:32,440 Eight of the happiest years of my life were spent in the almost constant companionship of a devoted dog. 153 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:38,440 When he was taken from me, curly but with merciful swiftness, 154 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,440 it was a terrific heart wrench. 155 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,440 For two days I grieved inconsolably. 156 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:49,440 For weeks I walked the streets at night trying to get hold of myself. 157 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:53,440 Yet now, when time has dulled the page, 158 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:59,440 I can truthfully say that the joy and understanding my dog brought into my life 159 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:06,440 more than compensated for the sorrow of his passing. 160 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:13,440 For my dog taught me many things as enduring as the ages. 161 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,440 Outside of the divine relationship and the human, 162 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:24,440 I know of no influence so ennobling as our relationship with a dog. 163 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,440 My dog's name was Junior. 164 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:31,440 He was a Boston Bulldog weighing 24 pounds with a blazed muzzle, 165 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,440 white collar, and feet tipped with white. 166 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:42,440 His coat was a glossy brown of an autumn leaf. 167 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:48,440 He had a lovable lop ear that perked with quizzical abandon. 168 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:55,440 He was full of joyous life and never, never outgrew his fantasies. 169 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:01,440 I picked him up in a Fifth Avenue dog shop in much the same manner that one buys a drink in. 170 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,440 I thought he was cute looking. 171 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:13,440 He was then four weeks old and prodded sideways with mock seriousness. 172 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:18,440 I took him home in my overcoat pocket. 173 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:23,440 From that day on for eight years he played a big part in my life. 174 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:28,440 He came to understand me better than most of my human associates did. 175 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,440 He knew his time for play and my time for work. 176 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,440 He did not trespass. 177 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:42,440 His only illness displayed the heroic courage that characterized him until his death. 178 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,440 One evening his mistress and I came home after the theater, 179 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:50,440 and when we opened the door we missed his welcoming rush and bark. 180 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:55,440 We found him lying on the floor of the bathroom in a pool of blood. 181 00:07:55,440 --> 00:08:00,440 When I bent over him there was a feeble thump of his tail as much as to say, 182 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,440 don't worry. 183 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,440 His eyes were glazing and I knew that he was in a desperate state. 184 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:11,440 We worked over him several hours and finally in a wobbly manner he stood up, 185 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:17,440 walked unsteadily to the bedroom and picked up his play ball as if to say, 186 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:24,440 you see, I'm all right. 187 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,440 In a half hour he had another hemorrhage. 188 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:33,440 With uncanny instinct he rushed into the tile bathroom so as not to injure the carpet. 189 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:38,440 Fortunately he recovered quickly from his attack and in two days seemed as well as ever. 190 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:43,440 Dogs are unerring in reflecting the characters of their masters and mistress. 191 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:50,440 To Junior I represented the play spirit, the wrong man Flapdoodle. 192 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:55,440 He was somewhat of a roughneck in his relations with me, 193 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:02,440 but with his mistress he was always gentle and careful. 194 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:09,440 One of the important lessons Junior taught me was to have more faith in my fellow beings. 195 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:14,440 I for years knocked about as a newspaper reporter and had acquired that veneer of cynicism 196 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,440 that is typical of the craft. 197 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:24,440 That rather smart, aliqui attitude of having to be shown. 198 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:30,440 Now, I am the average human being, as likely to urge the rest, 199 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:39,440 but I found that with Junior, because of his implicit faith in me, 200 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:44,440 I never kept it trickery. 201 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:49,440 I could not bear to abuse that rare confidence. 202 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:54,440 And this set me to thinking that if we humans displayed the same faith in our fellows, 203 00:09:54,440 --> 00:10:01,440 we should be less likely to have that confidence abused. 204 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:12,440 I come to the final chapter of Junior's life with tears that are shed on a shame. 205 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:19,440 As I have said, he was my constant companion for eight happy years. 206 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,440 My longest absence from him was when I was in Europe. 207 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:28,440 The quarantine regulations are so strict that it is quite unfair and selfish to take a dog there. 208 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:35,440 Junior, like all good dogs, was faithful to the end. 209 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:44,440 He died obeying my command, which made his loss all the more tragic to me. 210 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:48,440 I left him after his evening walk and was away until shortly after midnight. 211 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:53,440 Upon my return, his breathing was, it seemed to me, especially joyous. 212 00:10:53,440 --> 00:11:00,440 It was so joyous, in fact, that it indirectly led to his death. 213 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,440 Shortly before I arrived, a servant had taken him out for a walk, 214 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:10,440 but he was so glad to see me, and he loved so to go out late at night without a muzzle or a leash on, 215 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:15,440 that I humed with him and we went out again together. 216 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:21,440 At that hour, there was very little traffic on Fifth Avenue, and Junior ran far ahead of me. 217 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:26,440 He had been trained to wait at curbings when unleashed until he received the command, go. 218 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,440 Then he would race across the street like a flash. 219 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:36,440 At the corner of 44th Street and Fifth Avenue, I stepped to the curb, looked both ways for signs of traffic, 220 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,440 and seeing none, shouted, go. 221 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:40,440 Junior was off at about. 222 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:46,440 At the instant, a party of reckless joyriders in a heavy touring car swung madly around the corner, 223 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:52,440 and both wheels on one side passed over his body. 224 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:59,440 There was a jeer of derision that the car shot north with the taillights gleaming red in the night. 225 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:06,440 Junior staggered to his feet, and as I lifted him in my arms, 226 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:16,440 he looked up with his soft, pleading eyes, begging for the help I could not give. 227 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:24,440 Hailing a taxicab, I hurried to my hotel a few blocks away, but before I reached there, 228 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:30,440 he had died without even a quiver of pain. 229 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:39,440 He lies buried today in the picturesque little dog cemetery on the sloping hills of Hartsdale, New York. 230 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:50,440 Above him are the green grass, the whispering trees, and a stone carved with this inscription, 231 00:12:50,440 --> 00:13:04,440 Junior, faithful to the end. 232 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,440 Ah, he is a great columnist, old Magendire. 233 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,440 Yes. 234 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,440 Now then, we'll all just wait. 235 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:16,440 For what? 236 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:18,440 For the man who poisoned McQueeny. 237 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,440 They're expecting him, are you? 238 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,440 You be by. 239 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,440 This is going to be something different for you two. 240 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,440 How's that? 241 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,440 You won't have to look for the man who killed him. 242 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:32,440 Friday, see you in a minute. 243 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:37,440 Yeah, why. 244 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:38,440 What have you got? 245 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:39,440 We checked the old man through R9. 246 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:40,440 Did you find anything we can use? 247 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:41,440 No, no record. 248 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:42,440 How about the neighborhood? 249 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,440 Perkins and Henry checked, talked to the people on the street. 250 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:45,440 Well? 251 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,440 The news we can find out he's pretty near a hermit, doesn't have much to do with anybody. 252 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:49,440 No close friends? 253 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:50,440 No, none that anybody knows about. 254 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,440 He gets one piece of mail a month, evidently some kind of check. 255 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,440 We talked to the manager at the grocery down the street. 256 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:57,440 Collins does all the shopping there. 257 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:58,440 What do you have to say about that check? 258 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,440 It's from an insurance company, some kind of annuity. 259 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:01,440 Anything else? 260 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,440 No, the rest of the book's empty. 261 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,440 Where do we go from here? 262 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:07,440 Find some way to get that gun away from him. 263 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:08,440 Any ideas? 264 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,440 Well, if we could find the poisoner, it might give us a break. 265 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:12,440 If there is a poisoner? 266 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:14,440 No, Lloyd, I believe him. 267 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,440 Anyway, it won't do any harm to shake the neighborhood. 268 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,440 If we pick the guy up, maybe the old man will settle down. 269 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:20,440 It's a big job. 270 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:21,440 Yeah, well, that's a big gun. 271 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:26,440 12.07 p.m. 272 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:31,440 We contacted the office and made arrangements for additional cars to start a thorough search of the area. 273 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:36,440 There was just an outside chance that the dog poisoner might still be in the neighborhood somewhere. 274 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,440 The crowd on the sidewalk had gotten larger and the uniformed officers were having trouble keeping order. 275 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:45,440 While I was talking to the office, a middle-aged woman broke through the lines and ran toward the porch and Peter Collins. 276 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:46,440 Pete! 277 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:47,440 Pete Collins! 278 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:48,440 I hope right there, lady. 279 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:49,440 He's a friend of mine. 280 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:51,440 Yeah, well, he won't be if he pulls the trigger on that gun. 281 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,440 What are you trying to do, Pete Collins? 282 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:54,440 What? 283 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:55,440 What are you doing to our street? 284 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:57,440 I don't know what you mean. 285 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,440 We were all sorry when Queenie died. 286 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,440 Wasn't anybody on the street that didn't want to do something? 287 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:04,440 That's nice of you. 288 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,440 You sit here with that gun, trying to turn this street into a shooting gallery, 289 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,440 and none of us are with you. 290 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,440 You know why I'm doing it. 291 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,440 That don't make it right. 292 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,440 We had a meeting last night. 293 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:21,440 All the people in the neighborhood tried to think what to do about getting another dog. 294 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,440 I don't want no other dog. 295 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:24,440 Grow up. 296 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,440 Put that gun away and grow up. 297 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,440 You get out of here right now. 298 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:34,440 You get out of here and tell your friends that I don't need them. 299 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:35,440 None of them. 300 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,440 You go tell them that, will you? 301 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:38,440 All right, come on. 302 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:39,440 I'll be over here. 303 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:40,440 Joe? 304 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:41,440 Yeah? 305 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:42,440 Just talked to the office. 306 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,440 They're sending out more men with gas guns. 307 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:45,440 Anything on the poisoner? 308 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,440 No, still looking. 309 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,440 Lady, what do you know about him? 310 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,440 Well, he lived next door for 16 years. 311 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:54,440 He lived alone all that time? 312 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:55,440 Yeah. 313 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,440 I think he was married before he moved here. 314 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:58,440 Yeah. 315 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,440 All he had was that old dog. 316 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:01,440 Just the two of them. 317 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,440 You have any idea who might have poisoned the dog? 318 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,440 We'd all like the answer to that one. 319 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,440 Ma'am? 320 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:08,440 McQueen is not the first one. 321 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,440 There have been 13 others. 322 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,440 There's hardly a dog on the block that hasn't gotten sick. 323 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,440 We've done about everything we could. 324 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:15,440 It isn't easy. 325 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:16,440 What do you mean? 326 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:17,440 The way the law is. 327 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:18,440 What? 328 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:19,440 We checked into it. 329 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:20,440 Oh, dear. 330 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,440 The way the law reads, in order to prove poisoning, 331 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:24,440 you've got to see the person throw the bait. 332 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:25,440 Yeah. 333 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,440 None of us got time to sit around the back fence 334 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:31,440 and watch people walking down the alley. 335 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,440 But even if you do see the person throw the bait, 336 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:35,440 you can't just go in and arrest him. 337 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:36,440 All right. 338 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,440 The law says you've got to have part of the bait. 339 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:39,440 That's hard to do. 340 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:40,440 Mm-hmm. 341 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,440 Makes it almost impossible. 342 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:43,440 You've been to the authorities, have you? 343 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:44,440 Yeah. 344 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,440 SPCA, police. 345 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,440 They've all done what they could. 346 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,440 Dogs keep right on dying. 347 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,440 We've even thought of maybe hiring somebody on our own. 348 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:56,440 You know, sort of a special cop. 349 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:58,440 Yeah. 350 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,440 It seems a shame, don't it? 351 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:01,440 Ma'am? 352 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,440 Poor old man. 353 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,440 How could anybody get low enough to poison his dog? 354 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,440 That's what he wants to know. 355 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:09,440 Joe. 356 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:10,440 Yeah. 357 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:11,440 You better leave, lady. 358 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:12,440 Oh, yeah. 359 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:14,440 I guess there's nothing more I can do for you. 360 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:19,440 Yeah, what do you got? 361 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,440 Well, this man here, his name is Bentley Mocker. 362 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:22,440 Yeah. 363 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:23,440 Uniformed men picked him up in an alley 364 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:24,440 a couple of blocks from here, 365 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:31,440 throwing this over the back fences. 366 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:32,440 Meat, huh? 367 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:33,440 Yeah. 368 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:34,440 William? 369 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:35,440 That the man? 370 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,440 That the man who poisoned Queen? 371 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:38,440 All right, put that gun down, Collins. 372 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,440 I'm gonna kill him. 373 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:41,440 How about it, Joe? 374 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:42,440 Collins, put it down. 375 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:43,440 No! 376 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:44,440 Stand clear! 377 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:45,440 Better get these people out of here. 378 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:46,440 Right. 379 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:47,440 What are we gonna do? 380 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:48,440 No choice now. 381 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:49,440 Yeah. 382 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:58,440 1224 p.m. 383 00:17:58,440 --> 00:17:59,440 In spite of the precautions, 384 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,440 it began to look as if we wouldn't be able to take Collins' gun away from him 385 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,440 without physical violence. 386 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,440 As he raised the shotgun, cocked it, and pointed it at Bentley Mocker, 387 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,440 all of the other officers in the vicinity were ready to stop him. 388 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,440 Collins, you use that gun, and I'm gonna use mine. 389 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:13,440 Put it down. 390 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:15,440 I'll shoot through you to get to it. 391 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:16,440 Yes, sir, you're gonna have to. 392 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:17,440 What's going on here? 393 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:19,440 You got no right to do this to me. 394 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:20,440 How about it, did you poison his dog? 395 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:21,440 He's crazy. 396 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:22,440 He'll kill me if he gets a chance. 397 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:23,440 Just answer me, did you poison his dog? 398 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:24,440 What if I did? 399 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:25,440 Answer the question, mister. 400 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:26,440 All right, I did. 401 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:27,440 I poisoned him. 402 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,440 You've been dropping poisoned meat all over this neighborhood, haven't you? 403 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:31,440 There ain't anything you can do about it. 404 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:32,440 14 dogs killed around here. 405 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:33,440 Did you do it? 406 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:34,440 Pests, that's how they are. 407 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:35,440 Good riddance. 408 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:36,440 That's the way it looks to you, doesn't it? 409 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,440 Sure, rootin' around in the yards, barkin' and yowlin'. 410 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:40,440 No good any of them. 411 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:41,440 You all through? 412 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:42,440 I could go on for hours about them. 413 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,440 Had my way, I'd get rid of them all. 414 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,440 I'm gonna tell you somethin', those dogs meant a lot to the people who lost him. 415 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,440 That old man sittin' up there on the porch, to him that dog was part of his life. 416 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:55,440 What gives you the right to sneak around back alleys and side yards and kill off a pet that belongs to a child or an old man? 417 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,440 I don't have to stand around here and listen to you. 418 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:58,440 No, sir, you don't. 419 00:18:58,440 --> 00:18:59,440 Lloyd? 420 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:00,440 Yeah, Joe? 421 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:01,440 Take him downtown. 422 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:02,440 What for? 423 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:03,440 You got no law to hold me? 424 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:04,440 Yeah, well, maybe we can find one. 425 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:05,440 You mean the way you talk, you think dogs are better than humans? 426 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:06,440 In your case, they are. 427 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:07,440 Come on, let's go. 428 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:08,440 Frank? 429 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:09,440 Yeah? 430 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,440 Tell him to stand by with the gas. 431 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:12,440 Yeah, no other way, huh? 432 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,440 Now I'll make one more try. 433 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,440 Right, I'll bring up the heavy stuff. 434 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,440 All right, Collins, it's all over now. 435 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:22,440 I'm gonna tell you once more, put that gun down. 436 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,440 How long till I get one chance at that questionin'? 437 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,440 He's gone, he's downtown. 438 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,440 Now this is the last time, put it down. 439 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,440 I don't care anymore. 440 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:32,440 It's up to you, we've done all we can. 441 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:33,440 That man ought to die. 442 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:34,440 Put the gun down. 443 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,440 I don't care anymore, I just as soon shoot you. 444 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:39,440 Collins, it's all over. 445 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,440 Now put that gun down or we'll take it away from you. 446 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:43,440 Jump. 447 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:45,440 Jump. 448 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:48,440 Yeah. 449 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:49,440 Take a look. 450 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:50,440 What's the kid want here? 451 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,440 Well, look, a note, and Louis' coat. 452 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,440 Policeman, maybe this will help. 453 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:58,440 I'm gonna read it. 454 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:05,440 Did you read this? 455 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:06,440 Yeah. 456 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,440 Well, we'll give it a try. 457 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,440 Collins, there's a boy here wants to see you. 458 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,440 I don't want to talk to anybody. 459 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:13,440 You might want to see him. 460 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:14,440 Who is it? 461 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:15,440 What's your name, sir? 462 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:16,440 Davey. 463 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:17,440 Davey. 464 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,440 Oh, I know him, it's okay. 465 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:21,440 Let him come up. 466 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,440 Not as long as you got that gun. 467 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,440 Now how about it? 468 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:27,440 All right. 469 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:29,440 Break it. 470 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:35,440 Break it. Take the shells out. 471 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,440 And toss them down there on the lawn. 472 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,440 Now let that gun slide down the porch steps. 473 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:44,440 Come on. 474 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:53,440 All right, son, come ahead. 475 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:06,440 Davey, what did you want to see me about? 476 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,440 Ma said I should give you this note. 477 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:10,440 What's in it? 478 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,440 Well, now the quickest way to find that out is to read it, isn't it? 479 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:28,440 My dear Mr. Collins, as you well know, all of your neighbors are dreadfully sorry you lost your Queenie. 480 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:35,440 I know this one may never take her place, but please give her the chance. 481 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,440 Oh, yes, it's a little girl. 482 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,440 Your neighbor, Mrs. Tom Evans. 483 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,440 Want to see the puppy? 484 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:46,440 Well... 485 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,440 Come on, son, let's unzip your jacket here. 486 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:50,440 Here. 487 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:51,440 Okay. 488 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:53,440 There you are. 489 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,440 It's a little girl. 490 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:01,440 Just a puppy. 491 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:02,440 That's right. 492 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:07,440 Yeah, Queenie's collar doesn't fit too good. 493 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,440 I think I'll have to get another one. 494 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,440 No, I wouldn't worry about that. 495 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:13,440 Huh? 496 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,440 She'll grow into that one. 497 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,440 The story you've just heard is true. 498 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,440 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 499 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,440 On July 12th, trial was held in Division 68, Muncie. 500 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,440 Los Angeles Judicial District. 501 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:44,440 Peter Lawrence Collins pled guilty to violation of Section 417 P.C. 502 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,440 Drawing or exhibiting firearms, one count. 503 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:52,440 Extenuating circumstances and lack of a prior record led the court to be lenient. 504 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,440 The suspect was placed on probation for a period of three years. 505 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,440 Bentley Jones Mocker was treated as a criminal. 506 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,440 Bentley Jones Mocker was tried and convicted of Section 596 P.C. 507 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,440 Unauthorized animal poisoning and received sentence as prescribed by law. 508 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:12,440 Violation of Section 596 P.C. is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail 509 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,440 for a period not to exceed six months. 510 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,440 Or a fine of not more than $500. 511 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,440 Or both such fine and imprisonment. 512 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,440 Ladies and gentlemen, we are grateful to the McNaughts Syndicate, Inc. 513 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,440 for granting permission to read excerpts from O.O. McIntyre's article entitled 514 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,440 What My Dog Taught Me. 515 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:34,440 You have just heard Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action 516 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:58,440 and starring Jack Webb, a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.