WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.400 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:09.400 --> 00:12.000 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:12.000 --> 00:13.000 Dragnet. 00:13.000 --> 00:22.760 You're a detective sergeant. 00:22.760 --> 00:25.120 You're assigned to homicide detail. 00:25.120 --> 00:28.720 An elderly man is threatening an entire neighborhood with a shotgun. 00:28.720 --> 00:31.040 He says he's going to use it to kill a man. 00:31.040 --> 00:37.800 Your job, take it away from him. 00:37.800 --> 00:38.800 It was Tuesday, June 15th. 00:38.800 --> 00:40.400 It was hot in Los Angeles. 00:40.400 --> 00:42.400 We were working the day watch out on homicide detail. 00:42.400 --> 00:43.800 My partner is Frank Smith. 00:43.800 --> 00:44.800 The boss is Captain Lawman. 00:44.800 --> 00:45.800 My name is Friday. 00:45.800 --> 00:47.400 We were on our way out from the office. 00:47.400 --> 00:51.080 It was 1146 A.M. when we got to unit 1F14. 00:51.080 --> 00:52.320 The police car standing by. 00:52.320 --> 00:53.320 Hi, Joe. 00:53.320 --> 00:54.320 Lloyd, what do you got? 00:54.320 --> 00:55.960 Take a look at the sign. 00:55.960 --> 00:59.800 Yeah, I will not live in the same neighborhood with a dog poisoner. 00:59.800 --> 01:02.240 Looks like he painted it himself. 01:02.240 --> 01:03.240 And there's a weekend figure he did. 01:03.240 --> 01:04.920 How'd you get the complaint? 01:04.920 --> 01:05.920 Came in, see the man. 01:05.920 --> 01:07.760 When we got here, the guy was sitting up there with his shotgun. 01:07.760 --> 01:09.640 Told us to leave him alone. 01:09.640 --> 01:11.600 We figured maybe you'd be a little better equipped to handle it. 01:11.600 --> 01:13.880 It might not work out that way, but we'll give it a try. 01:13.880 --> 01:15.240 Anything we can do to help out? 01:15.240 --> 01:16.240 Just be here. 01:16.240 --> 01:17.240 Right. 01:17.240 --> 01:23.960 You make a move for a gun and I'll have to kill you. 01:23.960 --> 01:25.280 What else while you're doing this? 01:25.280 --> 01:26.280 My business. 01:26.280 --> 01:27.280 Well, that gun makes it ours. 01:27.280 --> 01:30.800 You think that if you want to, it doesn't make any difference to me. 01:30.800 --> 01:32.280 I didn't ask you out here. 01:32.280 --> 01:35.080 Yeah, well, now that we made the trip, don't you think you ought to tell us? 01:35.080 --> 01:36.080 No. 01:36.080 --> 01:37.080 Something to do with that sign? 01:37.080 --> 01:38.080 Might have, yeah. 01:38.080 --> 01:40.080 Well, you better tell us about it. 01:40.080 --> 01:41.760 I don't see how it's going to help. 01:41.760 --> 01:43.760 You won't know unless you try, will you? 01:43.760 --> 01:44.760 All right. 01:44.760 --> 01:45.760 I'll tell you what. 01:45.760 --> 01:46.760 You come up here with a porch. 01:46.760 --> 01:47.760 We'll talk. 01:47.760 --> 01:48.760 Make it slow. 01:48.760 --> 01:49.760 Don't try to be smart. 01:49.760 --> 01:50.760 I can hit both of you with one shot. 01:50.760 --> 01:55.760 Yeah. 01:55.760 --> 01:59.760 Might not kill you, but it'd make you pretty sick. 01:59.760 --> 02:01.760 That's good. 02:01.760 --> 02:04.760 Hold it right there. 02:04.760 --> 02:07.760 Now, just stand still. 02:07.760 --> 02:08.760 All right. 02:08.760 --> 02:10.760 You want to tell us what this is all about? 02:10.760 --> 02:11.760 I don't. 02:11.760 --> 02:15.760 It's been 14 years since somebody killed her. 02:15.760 --> 02:19.260 Well, that's not much of a reason to sit out here and threaten everybody who walks by your 02:19.260 --> 02:20.260 house, is it? 02:20.260 --> 02:21.260 It's not much for me. 02:21.260 --> 02:22.260 Why? 02:22.260 --> 02:23.260 Because I know that they will show up. 02:23.260 --> 02:24.260 Who will show up? 02:24.260 --> 02:25.260 Whoever done it. 02:25.260 --> 02:30.260 They'll walk down the street, and when they do, I'm going to get them. 02:30.260 --> 02:32.760 Well, you know we're not going to let you do that. 02:32.760 --> 02:35.760 I don't see that there's much you can do to stop me. 02:35.760 --> 02:39.760 If you know who killed your dog, why don't you come downtown and make a complaint like 02:39.760 --> 02:40.760 you should? 02:40.760 --> 02:41.760 Evidence. 02:41.760 --> 02:42.760 What's that? 02:42.760 --> 02:43.760 We're going to have evidence. 02:43.760 --> 02:46.760 Yeah, well, you must have a lot of it to be ready to kill a man. 02:46.760 --> 02:47.760 We'll see. 02:47.760 --> 02:50.760 Who do you think poisoned your dog? 02:50.760 --> 02:55.760 I don't know, but he'll be by. 02:55.760 --> 02:57.760 Anybody else live in that house with you? 02:57.760 --> 02:58.760 No. 02:58.760 --> 02:59.760 There's nobody inside, huh? 02:59.760 --> 03:00.760 I told you there ain't nobody. 03:00.760 --> 03:01.760 Used to be Queenie, but not now. 03:01.760 --> 03:02.760 This is a picture of her. 03:02.760 --> 03:03.760 Beautiful. 03:03.760 --> 03:04.760 I'm going to tell you something, old timer. 03:04.760 --> 03:05.760 What? 03:05.760 --> 03:06.760 You can sit there and think you got this thing under control, but you haven't. 03:06.760 --> 03:07.760 It's not a picture. 03:07.760 --> 03:08.760 It's a picture of her. 03:08.760 --> 03:09.760 It's a picture of her. 03:09.760 --> 03:10.760 It's a picture of her. 03:10.760 --> 03:11.760 It's a picture of her. 03:11.760 --> 03:12.760 It's a picture of her. 03:12.760 --> 03:13.760 It's a picture of her. 03:13.760 --> 03:14.760 It's a picture of her. 03:14.760 --> 03:15.760 It's a picture of her. 03:15.760 --> 03:16.760 It's a picture of her. 03:16.760 --> 03:17.760 Here, down the street, take the 3, and get him. 03:17.760 --> 03:18.760 Yes, sir. 03:18.760 --> 03:19.760 Take him down the street quickly, or he'll take it easy. 03:19.760 --> 03:21.080 And you can't just stop him. 03:21.080 --> 03:23.460 Yeah, but that'll solve it like the way you can imagine. 03:23.460 --> 03:24.480 Here, here. 03:24.480 --> 03:25.480 Right himself. 03:25.480 --> 03:26.480 Speقl know I know that thing. 03:26.480 --> 03:27.480 Anyway, let's turn back. 03:27.480 --> 03:28.480 I can go into that place. 03:28.480 --> 03:29.480 I've got the gun. 03:29.480 --> 03:30.400 If I tell him not to think I'll break in, 03:30.400 --> 03:31.400 then I'll just kill Kinda- Girl. 03:31.400 --> 03:32.560 What OURE gonna say on this? 03:32.560 --> 03:33.560 Come on. 03:33.560 --> 03:35.400 Bring your gun up in the firing position, and I'll show you how I'm going to stop you. 03:35.400 --> 03:36.400 Yeah, well that's right. 03:36.400 --> 03:37.560 Good work, babyав 03:37.560 --> 03:43.440 All I'm trying to do is to pay back. 03:43.440 --> 03:45.440 I don't want to hurt anybody else. 03:45.440 --> 03:48.440 Look, mister, why don't you tell us who you think poisoned your dog and why? 03:48.440 --> 03:50.440 We might be able to do something for you. 03:50.440 --> 03:52.440 Cause I don't think it'd help. 03:52.440 --> 03:54.440 Well, why don't you give it a try? 03:54.440 --> 03:56.440 He was poisoned. 03:56.440 --> 03:58.440 I saw it come home. 03:58.440 --> 04:02.440 I saw it crawl right up that log. 04:02.440 --> 04:04.440 On her stomach. 04:04.440 --> 04:06.440 It's breaking her hind legs. 04:06.440 --> 04:08.440 Yeah. 04:08.440 --> 04:13.440 You wouldn't understand what she meant to me. 04:13.440 --> 04:15.440 She was like a person. 04:15.440 --> 04:18.440 Someone to talk to. 04:18.440 --> 04:21.440 She was a lot of company. 04:23.440 --> 04:28.440 This book here, written by a man who knew. 04:28.440 --> 04:30.440 He understood. 04:30.440 --> 04:34.440 Yeah, well, all that may be fine, but you got no right to sit out here with that shotgun. 04:34.440 --> 04:37.440 This man knew about dogs. 04:37.440 --> 04:39.440 Odd McIntyre. 04:39.440 --> 04:41.440 Who's that, sir? 04:41.440 --> 04:44.440 Old McIntyre? 04:44.440 --> 04:47.440 I want you to listen. 04:47.440 --> 04:52.440 This will explain just what I'm doing here. 04:52.440 --> 04:54.440 Hold it. Hold it right there. 04:54.440 --> 04:56.440 I'll drop this book and kill you. 04:56.440 --> 04:59.440 Now, I want you to listen to this. 04:59.440 --> 05:03.440 I want you to listen carefully. 05:03.440 --> 05:05.440 Brothers and sisters, 05:05.440 --> 05:12.440 I bid you beware of giving your hearts to a dog to tear. 05:12.440 --> 05:17.440 So wrote Kipling in an excellent elegiac. 05:17.440 --> 05:23.440 I happen to be a dog lover who does not believe in that warning. 05:23.440 --> 05:32.440 Eight of the happiest years of my life were spent in the almost constant companionship of a devoted dog. 05:32.440 --> 05:38.440 When he was taken from me, curly but with merciful swiftness, 05:38.440 --> 05:41.440 it was a terrific heart wrench. 05:41.440 --> 05:44.440 For two days I grieved inconsolably. 05:44.440 --> 05:49.440 For weeks I walked the streets at night trying to get hold of myself. 05:49.440 --> 05:53.440 Yet now, when time has dulled the page, 05:53.440 --> 05:59.440 I can truthfully say that the joy and understanding my dog brought into my life 05:59.440 --> 06:06.440 more than compensated for the sorrow of his passing. 06:06.440 --> 06:13.440 For my dog taught me many things as enduring as the ages. 06:13.440 --> 06:17.440 Outside of the divine relationship and the human, 06:17.440 --> 06:24.440 I know of no influence so ennobling as our relationship with a dog. 06:24.440 --> 06:26.440 My dog's name was Junior. 06:26.440 --> 06:31.440 He was a Boston Bulldog weighing 24 pounds with a blazed muzzle, 06:31.440 --> 06:35.440 white collar, and feet tipped with white. 06:35.440 --> 06:42.440 His coat was a glossy brown of an autumn leaf. 06:42.440 --> 06:48.440 He had a lovable lop ear that perked with quizzical abandon. 06:48.440 --> 06:55.440 He was full of joyous life and never, never outgrew his fantasies. 06:55.440 --> 07:01.440 I picked him up in a Fifth Avenue dog shop in much the same manner that one buys a drink in. 07:01.440 --> 07:04.440 I thought he was cute looking. 07:04.440 --> 07:13.440 He was then four weeks old and prodded sideways with mock seriousness. 07:13.440 --> 07:18.440 I took him home in my overcoat pocket. 07:18.440 --> 07:23.440 From that day on for eight years he played a big part in my life. 07:23.440 --> 07:28.440 He came to understand me better than most of my human associates did. 07:28.440 --> 07:32.440 He knew his time for play and my time for work. 07:32.440 --> 07:35.440 He did not trespass. 07:35.440 --> 07:42.440 His only illness displayed the heroic courage that characterized him until his death. 07:42.440 --> 07:46.440 One evening his mistress and I came home after the theater, 07:46.440 --> 07:50.440 and when we opened the door we missed his welcoming rush and bark. 07:50.440 --> 07:55.440 We found him lying on the floor of the bathroom in a pool of blood. 07:55.440 --> 08:00.440 When I bent over him there was a feeble thump of his tail as much as to say, 08:00.440 --> 08:02.440 don't worry. 08:02.440 --> 08:06.440 His eyes were glazing and I knew that he was in a desperate state. 08:06.440 --> 08:11.440 We worked over him several hours and finally in a wobbly manner he stood up, 08:11.440 --> 08:17.440 walked unsteadily to the bedroom and picked up his play ball as if to say, 08:17.440 --> 08:24.440 you see, I'm all right. 08:24.440 --> 08:27.440 In a half hour he had another hemorrhage. 08:27.440 --> 08:33.440 With uncanny instinct he rushed into the tile bathroom so as not to injure the carpet. 08:33.440 --> 08:38.440 Fortunately he recovered quickly from his attack and in two days seemed as well as ever. 08:38.440 --> 08:43.440 Dogs are unerring in reflecting the characters of their masters and mistress. 08:43.440 --> 08:50.440 To Junior I represented the play spirit, the wrong man Flapdoodle. 08:50.440 --> 08:55.440 He was somewhat of a roughneck in his relations with me, 08:55.440 --> 09:02.440 but with his mistress he was always gentle and careful. 09:02.440 --> 09:09.440 One of the important lessons Junior taught me was to have more faith in my fellow beings. 09:09.440 --> 09:14.440 I for years knocked about as a newspaper reporter and had acquired that veneer of cynicism 09:14.440 --> 09:17.440 that is typical of the craft. 09:17.440 --> 09:24.440 That rather smart, aliqui attitude of having to be shown. 09:24.440 --> 09:30.440 Now, I am the average human being, as likely to urge the rest, 09:30.440 --> 09:39.440 but I found that with Junior, because of his implicit faith in me, 09:39.440 --> 09:44.440 I never kept it trickery. 09:44.440 --> 09:49.440 I could not bear to abuse that rare confidence. 09:49.440 --> 09:54.440 And this set me to thinking that if we humans displayed the same faith in our fellows, 09:54.440 --> 10:01.440 we should be less likely to have that confidence abused. 10:01.440 --> 10:12.440 I come to the final chapter of Junior's life with tears that are shed on a shame. 10:12.440 --> 10:19.440 As I have said, he was my constant companion for eight happy years. 10:19.440 --> 10:22.440 My longest absence from him was when I was in Europe. 10:22.440 --> 10:28.440 The quarantine regulations are so strict that it is quite unfair and selfish to take a dog there. 10:28.440 --> 10:35.440 Junior, like all good dogs, was faithful to the end. 10:35.440 --> 10:44.440 He died obeying my command, which made his loss all the more tragic to me. 10:44.440 --> 10:48.440 I left him after his evening walk and was away until shortly after midnight. 10:48.440 --> 10:53.440 Upon my return, his breathing was, it seemed to me, especially joyous. 10:53.440 --> 11:00.440 It was so joyous, in fact, that it indirectly led to his death. 11:00.440 --> 11:04.440 Shortly before I arrived, a servant had taken him out for a walk, 11:04.440 --> 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, 11:10.440 --> 11:15.440 that I humed with him and we went out again together. 11:15.440 --> 11:21.440 At that hour, there was very little traffic on Fifth Avenue, and Junior ran far ahead of me. 11:21.440 --> 11:26.440 He had been trained to wait at curbings when unleashed until he received the command, go. 11:26.440 --> 11:29.440 Then he would race across the street like a flash. 11:29.440 --> 11:36.440 At the corner of 44th Street and Fifth Avenue, I stepped to the curb, looked both ways for signs of traffic, 11:36.440 --> 11:38.440 and seeing none, shouted, go. 11:38.440 --> 11:40.440 Junior was off at about. 11:40.440 --> 11:46.440 At the instant, a party of reckless joyriders in a heavy touring car swung madly around the corner, 11:46.440 --> 11:52.440 and both wheels on one side passed over his body. 11:52.440 --> 11:59.440 There was a jeer of derision that the car shot north with the taillights gleaming red in the night. 11:59.440 --> 12:06.440 Junior staggered to his feet, and as I lifted him in my arms, 12:06.440 --> 12:16.440 he looked up with his soft, pleading eyes, begging for the help I could not give. 12:16.440 --> 12:24.440 Hailing a taxicab, I hurried to my hotel a few blocks away, but before I reached there, 12:24.440 --> 12:30.440 he had died without even a quiver of pain. 12:30.440 --> 12:39.440 He lies buried today in the picturesque little dog cemetery on the sloping hills of Hartsdale, New York. 12:39.440 --> 12:50.440 Above him are the green grass, the whispering trees, and a stone carved with this inscription, 12:50.440 --> 13:04.440 Junior, faithful to the end. 13:04.440 --> 13:08.440 Ah, he is a great columnist, old Magendire. 13:08.440 --> 13:10.440 Yes. 13:10.440 --> 13:14.440 Now then, we'll all just wait. 13:14.440 --> 13:16.440 For what? 13:16.440 --> 13:18.440 For the man who poisoned McQueeny. 13:18.440 --> 13:20.440 They're expecting him, are you? 13:20.440 --> 13:22.440 You be by. 13:22.440 --> 13:25.440 This is going to be something different for you two. 13:25.440 --> 13:28.440 How's that? 13:28.440 --> 13:31.440 You won't have to look for the man who killed him. 13:31.440 --> 13:32.440 Friday, see you in a minute. 13:32.440 --> 13:37.440 Yeah, why. 13:37.440 --> 13:38.440 What have you got? 13:38.440 --> 13:39.440 We checked the old man through R9. 13:39.440 --> 13:40.440 Did you find anything we can use? 13:40.440 --> 13:41.440 No, no record. 13:41.440 --> 13:42.440 How about the neighborhood? 13:42.440 --> 13:44.440 Perkins and Henry checked, talked to the people on the street. 13:44.440 --> 13:45.440 Well? 13:45.440 --> 13:48.440 The news we can find out he's pretty near a hermit, doesn't have much to do with anybody. 13:48.440 --> 13:49.440 No close friends? 13:49.440 --> 13:50.440 No, none that anybody knows about. 13:50.440 --> 13:53.440 He gets one piece of mail a month, evidently some kind of check. 13:53.440 --> 13:56.440 We talked to the manager at the grocery down the street. 13:56.440 --> 13:57.440 Collins does all the shopping there. 13:57.440 --> 13:58.440 What do you have to say about that check? 13:58.440 --> 14:00.440 It's from an insurance company, some kind of annuity. 14:00.440 --> 14:01.440 Anything else? 14:01.440 --> 14:03.440 No, the rest of the book's empty. 14:03.440 --> 14:05.440 Where do we go from here? 14:05.440 --> 14:07.440 Find some way to get that gun away from him. 14:07.440 --> 14:08.440 Any ideas? 14:08.440 --> 14:11.440 Well, if we could find the poisoner, it might give us a break. 14:11.440 --> 14:12.440 If there is a poisoner? 14:12.440 --> 14:14.440 No, Lloyd, I believe him. 14:14.440 --> 14:16.440 Anyway, it won't do any harm to shake the neighborhood. 14:16.440 --> 14:19.440 If we pick the guy up, maybe the old man will settle down. 14:19.440 --> 14:20.440 It's a big job. 14:20.440 --> 14:21.440 Yeah, well, that's a big gun. 14:25.440 --> 14:26.440 12.07 p.m. 14:26.440 --> 14:31.440 We contacted the office and made arrangements for additional cars to start a thorough search of the area. 14:31.440 --> 14:36.440 There was just an outside chance that the dog poisoner might still be in the neighborhood somewhere. 14:36.440 --> 14:40.440 The crowd on the sidewalk had gotten larger and the uniformed officers were having trouble keeping order. 14:40.440 --> 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. 14:45.440 --> 14:46.440 Pete! 14:46.440 --> 14:47.440 Pete Collins! 14:47.440 --> 14:48.440 I hope right there, lady. 14:48.440 --> 14:49.440 He's a friend of mine. 14:49.440 --> 14:51.440 Yeah, well, he won't be if he pulls the trigger on that gun. 14:51.440 --> 14:53.440 What are you trying to do, Pete Collins? 14:53.440 --> 14:54.440 What? 14:54.440 --> 14:55.440 What are you doing to our street? 14:55.440 --> 14:57.440 I don't know what you mean. 14:57.440 --> 15:00.440 We were all sorry when Queenie died. 15:00.440 --> 15:03.440 Wasn't anybody on the street that didn't want to do something? 15:03.440 --> 15:04.440 That's nice of you. 15:04.440 --> 15:08.440 You sit here with that gun, trying to turn this street into a shooting gallery, 15:08.440 --> 15:10.440 and none of us are with you. 15:10.440 --> 15:12.440 You know why I'm doing it. 15:12.440 --> 15:14.440 That don't make it right. 15:14.440 --> 15:16.440 We had a meeting last night. 15:16.440 --> 15:21.440 All the people in the neighborhood tried to think what to do about getting another dog. 15:21.440 --> 15:23.440 I don't want no other dog. 15:23.440 --> 15:24.440 Grow up. 15:24.440 --> 15:27.440 Put that gun away and grow up. 15:27.440 --> 15:30.440 You get out of here right now. 15:30.440 --> 15:34.440 You get out of here and tell your friends that I don't need them. 15:34.440 --> 15:35.440 None of them. 15:35.440 --> 15:37.440 You go tell them that, will you? 15:37.440 --> 15:38.440 All right, come on. 15:38.440 --> 15:39.440 I'll be over here. 15:39.440 --> 15:40.440 Joe? 15:40.440 --> 15:41.440 Yeah? 15:41.440 --> 15:42.440 Just talked to the office. 15:42.440 --> 15:44.440 They're sending out more men with gas guns. 15:44.440 --> 15:45.440 Anything on the poisoner? 15:45.440 --> 15:48.440 No, still looking. 15:48.440 --> 15:50.440 Lady, what do you know about him? 15:50.440 --> 15:53.440 Well, he lived next door for 16 years. 15:53.440 --> 15:54.440 He lived alone all that time? 15:54.440 --> 15:55.440 Yeah. 15:55.440 --> 15:57.440 I think he was married before he moved here. 15:57.440 --> 15:58.440 Yeah. 15:58.440 --> 16:00.440 All he had was that old dog. 16:00.440 --> 16:01.440 Just the two of them. 16:01.440 --> 16:03.440 You have any idea who might have poisoned the dog? 16:03.440 --> 16:05.440 We'd all like the answer to that one. 16:05.440 --> 16:07.440 Ma'am? 16:07.440 --> 16:08.440 McQueen is not the first one. 16:08.440 --> 16:10.440 There have been 13 others. 16:10.440 --> 16:12.440 There's hardly a dog on the block that hasn't gotten sick. 16:12.440 --> 16:14.440 We've done about everything we could. 16:14.440 --> 16:15.440 It isn't easy. 16:15.440 --> 16:16.440 What do you mean? 16:16.440 --> 16:17.440 The way the law is. 16:17.440 --> 16:18.440 What? 16:18.440 --> 16:19.440 We checked into it. 16:19.440 --> 16:20.440 Oh, dear. 16:20.440 --> 16:22.440 The way the law reads, in order to prove poisoning, 16:22.440 --> 16:24.440 you've got to see the person throw the bait. 16:24.440 --> 16:25.440 Yeah. 16:25.440 --> 16:28.440 None of us got time to sit around the back fence 16:28.440 --> 16:31.440 and watch people walking down the alley. 16:31.440 --> 16:33.440 But even if you do see the person throw the bait, 16:33.440 --> 16:35.440 you can't just go in and arrest him. 16:35.440 --> 16:36.440 All right. 16:36.440 --> 16:38.440 The law says you've got to have part of the bait. 16:38.440 --> 16:39.440 That's hard to do. 16:39.440 --> 16:40.440 Mm-hmm. 16:40.440 --> 16:42.440 Makes it almost impossible. 16:42.440 --> 16:43.440 You've been to the authorities, have you? 16:43.440 --> 16:44.440 Yeah. 16:44.440 --> 16:46.440 SPCA, police. 16:46.440 --> 16:49.440 They've all done what they could. 16:49.440 --> 16:51.440 Dogs keep right on dying. 16:51.440 --> 16:54.440 We've even thought of maybe hiring somebody on our own. 16:54.440 --> 16:56.440 You know, sort of a special cop. 16:56.440 --> 16:58.440 Yeah. 16:58.440 --> 17:00.440 It seems a shame, don't it? 17:00.440 --> 17:01.440 Ma'am? 17:01.440 --> 17:03.440 Poor old man. 17:03.440 --> 17:06.440 How could anybody get low enough to poison his dog? 17:06.440 --> 17:08.440 That's what he wants to know. 17:08.440 --> 17:09.440 Joe. 17:09.440 --> 17:10.440 Yeah. 17:10.440 --> 17:11.440 You better leave, lady. 17:11.440 --> 17:12.440 Oh, yeah. 17:12.440 --> 17:14.440 I guess there's nothing more I can do for you. 17:18.440 --> 17:19.440 Yeah, what do you got? 17:19.440 --> 17:21.440 Well, this man here, his name is Bentley Mocker. 17:21.440 --> 17:22.440 Yeah. 17:22.440 --> 17:23.440 Uniformed men picked him up in an alley 17:23.440 --> 17:24.440 a couple of blocks from here, 17:24.440 --> 17:31.440 throwing this over the back fences. 17:31.440 --> 17:32.440 Meat, huh? 17:32.440 --> 17:33.440 Yeah. 17:33.440 --> 17:34.440 William? 17:34.440 --> 17:35.440 That the man? 17:35.440 --> 17:37.440 That the man who poisoned Queen? 17:37.440 --> 17:38.440 All right, put that gun down, Collins. 17:38.440 --> 17:40.440 I'm gonna kill him. 17:40.440 --> 17:41.440 How about it, Joe? 17:41.440 --> 17:42.440 Collins, put it down. 17:42.440 --> 17:43.440 No! 17:43.440 --> 17:44.440 Stand clear! 17:44.440 --> 17:45.440 Better get these people out of here. 17:45.440 --> 17:46.440 Right. 17:46.440 --> 17:47.440 What are we gonna do? 17:47.440 --> 17:48.440 No choice now. 17:48.440 --> 17:49.440 Yeah. 17:49.440 --> 17:58.440 1224 p.m. 17:58.440 --> 17:59.440 In spite of the precautions, 17:59.440 --> 18:01.440 it began to look as if we wouldn't be able to take Collins' gun away from him 18:01.440 --> 18:03.440 without physical violence. 18:03.440 --> 18:06.440 As he raised the shotgun, cocked it, and pointed it at Bentley Mocker, 18:06.440 --> 18:09.440 all of the other officers in the vicinity were ready to stop him. 18:09.440 --> 18:12.440 Collins, you use that gun, and I'm gonna use mine. 18:12.440 --> 18:13.440 Put it down. 18:13.440 --> 18:15.440 I'll shoot through you to get to it. 18:15.440 --> 18:16.440 Yes, sir, you're gonna have to. 18:16.440 --> 18:17.440 What's going on here? 18:17.440 --> 18:19.440 You got no right to do this to me. 18:19.440 --> 18:20.440 How about it, did you poison his dog? 18:20.440 --> 18:21.440 He's crazy. 18:21.440 --> 18:22.440 He'll kill me if he gets a chance. 18:22.440 --> 18:23.440 Just answer me, did you poison his dog? 18:23.440 --> 18:24.440 What if I did? 18:24.440 --> 18:25.440 Answer the question, mister. 18:25.440 --> 18:26.440 All right, I did. 18:26.440 --> 18:27.440 I poisoned him. 18:27.440 --> 18:29.440 You've been dropping poisoned meat all over this neighborhood, haven't you? 18:29.440 --> 18:31.440 There ain't anything you can do about it. 18:31.440 --> 18:32.440 14 dogs killed around here. 18:32.440 --> 18:33.440 Did you do it? 18:33.440 --> 18:34.440 Pests, that's how they are. 18:34.440 --> 18:35.440 Good riddance. 18:35.440 --> 18:36.440 That's the way it looks to you, doesn't it? 18:36.440 --> 18:39.440 Sure, rootin' around in the yards, barkin' and yowlin'. 18:39.440 --> 18:40.440 No good any of them. 18:40.440 --> 18:41.440 You all through? 18:41.440 --> 18:42.440 I could go on for hours about them. 18:42.440 --> 18:44.440 Had my way, I'd get rid of them all. 18:44.440 --> 18:47.440 I'm gonna tell you somethin', those dogs meant a lot to the people who lost him. 18:47.440 --> 18:50.440 That old man sittin' up there on the porch, to him that dog was part of his life. 18:50.440 --> 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? 18:55.440 --> 18:57.440 I don't have to stand around here and listen to you. 18:57.440 --> 18:58.440 No, sir, you don't. 18:58.440 --> 18:59.440 Lloyd? 18:59.440 --> 19:00.440 Yeah, Joe? 19:00.440 --> 19:01.440 Take him downtown. 19:01.440 --> 19:02.440 What for? 19:02.440 --> 19:03.440 You got no law to hold me? 19:03.440 --> 19:04.440 Yeah, well, maybe we can find one. 19:04.440 --> 19:05.440 You mean the way you talk, you think dogs are better than humans? 19:05.440 --> 19:06.440 In your case, they are. 19:06.440 --> 19:07.440 Come on, let's go. 19:07.440 --> 19:08.440 Frank? 19:08.440 --> 19:09.440 Yeah? 19:09.440 --> 19:11.440 Tell him to stand by with the gas. 19:11.440 --> 19:12.440 Yeah, no other way, huh? 19:12.440 --> 19:14.440 Now I'll make one more try. 19:14.440 --> 19:16.440 Right, I'll bring up the heavy stuff. 19:18.440 --> 19:20.440 All right, Collins, it's all over now. 19:20.440 --> 19:22.440 I'm gonna tell you once more, put that gun down. 19:22.440 --> 19:24.440 How long till I get one chance at that questionin'? 19:24.440 --> 19:26.440 He's gone, he's downtown. 19:26.440 --> 19:28.440 Now this is the last time, put it down. 19:28.440 --> 19:30.440 I don't care anymore. 19:30.440 --> 19:32.440 It's up to you, we've done all we can. 19:32.440 --> 19:33.440 That man ought to die. 19:33.440 --> 19:34.440 Put the gun down. 19:34.440 --> 19:38.440 I don't care anymore, I just as soon shoot you. 19:38.440 --> 19:39.440 Collins, it's all over. 19:39.440 --> 19:42.440 Now put that gun down or we'll take it away from you. 19:42.440 --> 19:43.440 Jump. 19:44.440 --> 19:45.440 Jump. 19:47.440 --> 19:48.440 Yeah. 19:48.440 --> 19:49.440 Take a look. 19:49.440 --> 19:50.440 What's the kid want here? 19:50.440 --> 19:52.440 Well, look, a note, and Louis' coat. 19:54.440 --> 19:56.440 Policeman, maybe this will help. 19:57.440 --> 19:58.440 I'm gonna read it. 20:04.440 --> 20:05.440 Did you read this? 20:05.440 --> 20:06.440 Yeah. 20:06.440 --> 20:08.440 Well, we'll give it a try. 20:08.440 --> 20:10.440 Collins, there's a boy here wants to see you. 20:10.440 --> 20:12.440 I don't want to talk to anybody. 20:12.440 --> 20:13.440 You might want to see him. 20:13.440 --> 20:14.440 Who is it? 20:14.440 --> 20:15.440 What's your name, sir? 20:15.440 --> 20:16.440 Davey. 20:16.440 --> 20:17.440 Davey. 20:17.440 --> 20:20.440 Oh, I know him, it's okay. 20:20.440 --> 20:21.440 Let him come up. 20:21.440 --> 20:23.440 Not as long as you got that gun. 20:24.440 --> 20:26.440 Now how about it? 20:26.440 --> 20:27.440 All right. 20:28.440 --> 20:29.440 Break it. 20:29.440 --> 20:35.440 Break it. Take the shells out. 20:36.440 --> 20:38.440 And toss them down there on the lawn. 20:41.440 --> 20:43.440 Now let that gun slide down the porch steps. 20:43.440 --> 20:44.440 Come on. 20:44.440 --> 20:53.440 All right, son, come ahead. 21:01.440 --> 21:06.440 Davey, what did you want to see me about? 21:07.440 --> 21:09.440 Ma said I should give you this note. 21:09.440 --> 21:10.440 What's in it? 21:10.440 --> 21:14.440 Well, now the quickest way to find that out is to read it, isn't it? 21:18.440 --> 21:28.440 My dear Mr. Collins, as you well know, all of your neighbors are dreadfully sorry you lost your Queenie. 21:28.440 --> 21:35.440 I know this one may never take her place, but please give her the chance. 21:35.440 --> 21:39.440 Oh, yes, it's a little girl. 21:40.440 --> 21:43.440 Your neighbor, Mrs. Tom Evans. 21:43.440 --> 21:45.440 Want to see the puppy? 21:45.440 --> 21:46.440 Well... 21:46.440 --> 21:49.440 Come on, son, let's unzip your jacket here. 21:49.440 --> 21:50.440 Here. 21:50.440 --> 21:51.440 Okay. 21:52.440 --> 21:53.440 There you are. 21:57.440 --> 21:59.440 It's a little girl. 22:00.440 --> 22:01.440 Just a puppy. 22:01.440 --> 22:02.440 That's right. 22:02.440 --> 22:07.440 Yeah, Queenie's collar doesn't fit too good. 22:08.440 --> 22:10.440 I think I'll have to get another one. 22:10.440 --> 22:12.440 No, I wouldn't worry about that. 22:12.440 --> 22:13.440 Huh? 22:13.440 --> 22:15.440 She'll grow into that one. 22:22.440 --> 22:24.440 The story you've just heard is true. 22:24.440 --> 22:26.440 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 22:26.440 --> 22:30.440 On July 12th, trial was held in Division 68, Muncie. 22:30.440 --> 22:32.440 Los Angeles Judicial District. 22:40.440 --> 22:44.440 Peter Lawrence Collins pled guilty to violation of Section 417 P.C. 22:44.440 --> 22:47.440 Drawing or exhibiting firearms, one count. 22:47.440 --> 22:52.440 Extenuating circumstances and lack of a prior record led the court to be lenient. 22:52.440 --> 22:56.440 The suspect was placed on probation for a period of three years. 22:56.440 --> 22:59.440 Bentley Jones Mocker was treated as a criminal. 22:59.440 --> 23:03.440 Bentley Jones Mocker was tried and convicted of Section 596 P.C. 23:03.440 --> 23:07.440 Unauthorized animal poisoning and received sentence as prescribed by law. 23:07.440 --> 23:12.440 Violation of Section 596 P.C. is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail 23:12.440 --> 23:14.440 for a period not to exceed six months. 23:14.440 --> 23:17.440 Or a fine of not more than $500. 23:17.440 --> 23:20.440 Or both such fine and imprisonment. 23:20.440 --> 23:23.440 Ladies and gentlemen, we are grateful to the McNaughts Syndicate, Inc. 23:23.440 --> 23:27.440 for granting permission to read excerpts from O.O. McIntyre's article entitled 23:27.440 --> 23:29.440 What My Dog Taught Me. 23:29.440 --> 23:34.440 You have just heard Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action 23:34.440 --> 23:58.440 and starring Jack Webb, a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.