WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 Dragnet. 00:03.000 --> 00:11.000 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.000 --> 00:22.000 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:22.000 --> 00:24.000 You're a detective sergeant. 00:24.000 --> 00:26.000 You're assigned a bunko fugitive detail. 00:26.000 --> 00:29.000 A pawnbroker tells you he suspects a swindle. 00:29.000 --> 00:31.000 He isn't sure. 00:31.000 --> 00:38.000 Your job? Check it out. 00:38.000 --> 00:42.000 Dragnet. The documented drama of an actual crime. 00:42.000 --> 00:46.000 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 00:46.000 --> 00:52.000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 00:52.000 --> 01:03.000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 01:03.000 --> 01:06.000 It was Wednesday, May 18th. It was cool in Los Angeles. 01:06.000 --> 01:08.000 We were working the day watch out of bunko fugitive detail. 01:08.000 --> 01:12.000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Dinion. My name is Friday. 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 I was on my way into the office and it was 7.55 a.m. when I got to room 38. 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 Bunko fugitive. 01:18.000 --> 01:20.000 Hi Joe. Morning. 01:20.000 --> 01:22.000 You remember Fred Alpen? Oh sure, how are you Fred? 01:22.000 --> 01:24.000 Hi. Hold my own Sergeant. 01:24.000 --> 01:25.000 Well what's new? 01:25.000 --> 01:28.000 I'm not sure. Maybe just wasting my time. Yours too. 01:28.000 --> 01:30.000 Fred thinks he stumbled onto a con game, Joe. All right? 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 No, it looked that way to me anyhow. 01:32.000 --> 01:33.000 Well what's the sting? 01:33.000 --> 01:35.000 Well I was just telling Smith here, 01:35.000 --> 01:38.000 a fellow came in last night, a little guy, he was kind of timid. 01:38.000 --> 01:40.000 Probably never been to a pawn shop before. 01:40.000 --> 01:43.000 At least he wasn't a steady. You know I can spot them straight off. 01:43.000 --> 01:48.000 He went to pawn a ring. Got a big green stone. Fancy setting. All gimmicked up, you know. 01:48.000 --> 01:51.000 Man's ring. Real fancy though. Ask me what it was worth. 01:51.000 --> 01:52.000 What'd you tell him? 01:52.000 --> 01:54.000 Worth 20 bucks, maybe 25. 01:54.000 --> 01:55.000 Is that what you told him? 01:55.000 --> 01:58.000 You know I can't loan full value, you know that. 01:58.000 --> 02:01.000 I offered him five bucks. I would have gone up to ten if he had pressed me. 02:01.000 --> 02:03.000 That's better than a lot of brokers would give. 02:03.000 --> 02:04.000 Did he take the five? 02:04.000 --> 02:05.000 Are you kidding? He went all out of pieces. 02:05.000 --> 02:07.000 Thought he was going to have a hammer. He started calling me a crook. 02:07.000 --> 02:10.000 Said the ring was an emerald. Shouted, screamed all over the place. 02:10.000 --> 02:13.000 It's an emerald, he said. A $5,000 emerald. That hunk of glass. 02:13.000 --> 02:15.000 Are you sure you didn't make a mistake, Fred? 02:15.000 --> 02:19.000 No, I ask you, sir. Would anybody try to pawn a 5G emerald with me, I ask you. 02:19.000 --> 02:22.000 Glass, that's what it was. Green glass. A nice setting, though. 02:22.000 --> 02:23.000 What do you think, sir? 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 The old diamond switch, maybe. 02:25.000 --> 02:26.000 Could be. 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 Sounds like the only difference is the color. 02:28.000 --> 02:29.000 You get his name, Fred? 02:29.000 --> 02:33.000 Yeah, I asked him. He just shouted and carried on, though. He wasn't making any sense at all. 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 Got his license, though. 02:34.000 --> 02:37.000 Yeah, he was parked right in front of the place. Got the number when he drove off. 02:37.000 --> 02:38.000 Thought you might want it. 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 Mm-hmm. 02:39.000 --> 02:42.000 I wrote it out. Put it in my pocket. 02:42.000 --> 02:45.000 It should be right here. 02:45.000 --> 02:47.000 Now, wait a minute. 02:47.000 --> 02:51.000 Oh, yeah, here it is. The match folder on the inside. 02:51.000 --> 02:53.000 You make it out all right? 02:53.000 --> 02:55.000 Yeah, I think so. We'll check it. 02:55.000 --> 02:57.000 Might be a good idea if you got right on it, huh? 02:57.000 --> 02:58.000 What do you mean? 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 Well, just before he left my place, he stopped all that carrying on. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 I think it sunk in when I told him about the ring being no good. 03:03.000 --> 03:06.000 Got real quiet, you know, kind of like he was making up his mind about something. 03:06.000 --> 03:07.000 Yeah. 03:07.000 --> 03:12.000 Asked me to sell him a gun. 03:12.000 --> 03:16.000 Fred Alphen gave us a description of the man who had tried to pawn the ring. 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 We called our branch of DMV and asked them to check the license number. 03:19.000 --> 03:26.000 They came up with the information that the automobile bearing that license was registered in the name of Garfield Hunt at 221 North Selma Avenue, Hollywood. 03:26.000 --> 03:29.000 9.03 a.m. Frank and I go out to talk to him. 03:29.000 --> 03:33.000 Well, it sure is a clear day. Look at those hills, Joe. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 Well, I read in the paper you can see for 40 miles. 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 Yeah, I bet. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 Morning. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 Who are you? What do you want? 03:42.000 --> 03:43.000 Is Mr. Hunt here? 03:43.000 --> 03:46.000 No. No, he's not here. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 Well, he lives here, doesn't he? 03:48.000 --> 03:49.000 Who are you? 03:49.000 --> 03:51.000 I'm sorry, ma'am. We're police officers. 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 Police? 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 That's right. This is my partner, Frank Smith. My name's Friday. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 Where is he? What's happened to him? 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 Might as well come inside. It'd be a little easier to talk. 03:58.000 --> 04:02.000 Oh, yes, of course. 04:02.000 --> 04:09.000 Oh, I forgot. The sofa's still made up. He slept down here last night, so I'd been near the phone. 04:09.000 --> 04:13.000 I thought he might call. I thought somebody'd call. 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 Your husband didn't come home. 04:15.000 --> 04:18.000 Never happened before. It's been 37 years. 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 Yes, ma'am. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 Just let me fold up that blanket so you can sit down. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 Here, I'll give you a hand, ma'am. 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 Oh, thank you. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 You got any idea where your husband might have gone, Miss Hunt? 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 No. No idea at all. 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 What time do you leave? 04:31.000 --> 04:35.000 9.35. Looked at the clock as he went out the door. 04:35.000 --> 04:39.000 Couldn't believe it. Not like God to go out that late. 04:39.000 --> 04:41.000 He was usually in bed by 10. 04:41.000 --> 04:42.000 Yes, ma'am. 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 He promised me he'd only be gone now. 04:44.000 --> 04:47.000 He promised me he'd be back by 10.30 for sure. 04:47.000 --> 04:48.000 I see. 04:48.000 --> 04:52.000 Never heard a word from him after that. Not a word. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 What do you suppose happened to him? 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Oh, we're sorry we don't know, Miss Hunt. 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 Well, you must have some notion. 04:58.000 --> 04:59.000 Sorry we don't. 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 He said you wanted to talk to him. 05:01.000 --> 05:03.000 Just a few questions, routine. 05:03.000 --> 05:04.000 What about? 05:04.000 --> 05:05.000 Oh, he'd rather talk to him. 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 You notified the police that he's missing? 05:07.000 --> 05:10.000 No. I didn't know what to do. 05:10.000 --> 05:13.000 Figured you'd get in touch with me when you found him. 05:13.000 --> 05:15.000 Guess I wasn't thinking very good. 05:15.000 --> 05:16.000 Never happened before. 05:16.000 --> 05:17.000 Yes, ma'am. 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 Are there any friends he might be staying with, relatives? 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 We don't know anybody else from Los Angeles. 05:22.000 --> 05:23.000 I see. 05:23.000 --> 05:26.000 Just moved out here last winter in Kansas. 05:26.000 --> 05:29.000 Children have grown up, settled. 05:29.000 --> 05:31.000 Gar sold the business. 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 We moved out here. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 Kansas winters can be pretty cold. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 Yes, ma'am. 05:36.000 --> 05:37.000 Your husband retired? 05:37.000 --> 05:38.000 He should be. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 He worked hard all his life. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 He deserves the rest. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 Had a little trouble with his heart last year. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 No, not a real attack. 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 The doctor told him to take it easy. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 Not Gar, though. 05:50.000 --> 05:55.000 Wasn't out here two months before he got all restless and fidgety. 05:55.000 --> 05:58.000 Couldn't take it sitting around the house. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 Started up again. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 In business? 06:00.000 --> 06:01.000 Yes. 06:01.000 --> 06:04.000 We had a tailor shop back in Kansas. 06:04.000 --> 06:09.000 Gar found a new business district opening up in San Fernando Valley 06:09.000 --> 06:12.000 off of Magnolia Boulevard. 06:12.000 --> 06:15.000 They were renting cheap, you know, right at the beginning. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 Wanted tenants. 06:17.000 --> 06:21.000 Didn't do much business at first, but things have been getting better. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Gar's a good tailor. 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 A lot more careful than most, learning his trade young. 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 The days when there were tailors. 06:29.000 --> 06:30.000 Yes, ma'am. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 You try to reach him there at the shop? 06:32.000 --> 06:35.000 I called last night three, four times. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 This morning, too. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.000 Nobody answered. 06:38.000 --> 06:39.000 I see. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 You think you can find him? 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 We'll do our best. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 I guess maybe I should have notified you last night. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 Yes, ma'am. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 I didn't know what to do. 06:48.000 --> 06:51.000 Thought you'd get in touch with me if something happened. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.000 Better to call us first. 06:53.000 --> 06:54.000 I guess so. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 Then it might not happen. 06:56.000 --> 07:04.000 Mrs. Hunt gave us a description of her husband. 07:04.000 --> 07:06.000 We advised her to make a formal report at the Valley Division. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 A local and an APB were sent out. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 3.15 p.m. 07:10.000 --> 07:14.000 Patrol car unit 9L78 reported Hunt had been found sitting in his car. 07:14.000 --> 07:17.000 The car was parked on Mulholland Drive. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 Hunt had readily identified himself. 07:19.000 --> 07:22.000 We asked the officers to bring him in for questioning. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 Hi, Joe. Frank. Pete. 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 Hi, Pete. Here he is. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 Thanks for spotting him for us. 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 Sure, anytime. 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 Want to sit down, Hunt? 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 Go ahead, sit down. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 What do you want with me? 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 Just like to talk to you, that's all. 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 Miss Frank Smith, my name's Friday. 07:37.000 --> 07:40.000 I've never been under arrest before. Not once. 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 Well, now you're not under arrest now, Miss Hunt. 07:42.000 --> 07:43.000 What am I doing here? 07:43.000 --> 07:45.000 Why did those officers make me come with them? 07:45.000 --> 07:46.000 Well, you didn't go home last night. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 Your wife's been worried about you. 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 I was going home when they found me. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 Wasn't any place else to go. 07:52.000 --> 07:53.000 Sarah Arden did call. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 She didn't call, sir. 07:55.000 --> 07:56.000 Well, how'd you find out? 07:56.000 --> 07:57.000 He tried to buy a gun. 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 Paw and Chop over on Main Street. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Oh. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 What did you want the gun for? 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 I wouldn't have hurt him. I just wanted my money back. 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 I thought I could scare him. 08:07.000 --> 08:10.000 That's all. I don't know nothing about firearms. 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 Thought maybe I could scare him. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 Who did you want to scare? Now, who were they? 08:13.000 --> 08:16.000 Well, they said they was renting a store next to mine. 08:16.000 --> 08:20.000 Said they was jewelers that opened up a valley branch for Lassingwell. 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 You know the big jewelry store downtown here? 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 Uh-huh. 08:24.000 --> 08:26.000 Crooks. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 That's what they were. Out and out, crooks. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Went looking for them early this morning. 08:30.000 --> 08:34.000 Back door to this store was open, you know, the one next to mine. 08:34.000 --> 08:35.000 Yes, sir. Go ahead. 08:35.000 --> 08:39.000 I couldn't find and hide the harem. The place was empty. 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 Just a couple of fakes. 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 Had the windows soaked over so nobody could see what they were up to. 08:44.000 --> 08:48.000 Pound on some old boards, making me think that they were remodeling. 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 Uh-huh. How much money did they get from you? 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 Not them exactly. A fellow working with them. 08:54.000 --> 08:58.000 Must have been working with them. Only way it makes sense. 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 Well, now suppose you tell us about it, wouldn't you? 09:00.000 --> 09:03.000 He'd come into my shop the day before yesterday, 09:03.000 --> 09:06.000 I was long about one o'clock in the afternoon, 09:06.000 --> 09:09.000 and called himself Norman Crist. He said he was from Greedley. 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 Really? 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 That's the town in Colorado where my brother lives. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 Said he knew my brother Ed back there. 09:15.000 --> 09:16.000 What did he want with you? 09:16.000 --> 09:21.000 Well, he claimed that Ed asked him to look me up, see how I was doing. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 Probably didn't know Ed at all. 09:23.000 --> 09:26.000 They must have told him, them juror fellows. 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 Ah, I got to thinking back. 09:28.000 --> 09:33.000 Remembered I mentioned having a brother in Colorado one day when we was having lunch. 09:33.000 --> 09:36.000 Told him the town, too. Greedley. 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 What happened then? Did he sell you the ring? 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 Oh, you know about that, too. 09:40.000 --> 09:43.000 Well, you tried to pawn it, didn't you? 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 No, sir, not really. 09:45.000 --> 09:50.000 I just wanted to find out how much it was worth so I could tell Sarah, you know, 09:50.000 --> 09:56.000 I was going to surprise her, figure that I'd give him another day before I tried to sell it. 09:56.000 --> 09:57.000 Well, how'd you happen to buy it? 09:57.000 --> 10:02.000 Oh, I wasn't buying it outright. I was just loaning on it. 10:02.000 --> 10:07.000 Told me he had a chance to option some property out near Encino, 10:07.000 --> 10:11.000 real bargain, said he had to close the deal by 5 p.m. that same day. 10:11.000 --> 10:14.000 He needed cash for a clincher. 10:14.000 --> 10:17.000 Had to get the money from Colorado. That's what he said. 10:17.000 --> 10:20.000 He was afraid he wouldn't be here in time. 10:20.000 --> 10:23.000 He couldn't go to the bank, didn't have any credit in L.A. 10:23.000 --> 10:30.000 Needed $3,000. He said if I'd loan him the three, he'd give me back $4,000 first thing the next morning. 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 Allowed me his ring for security. 10:32.000 --> 10:36.000 He said it was worth $7,000 easy. Said it cost him more than that. 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 You hand the money over? 10:38.000 --> 10:46.000 No, sir, not by a darn sight. Told him I didn't have $3,000. I told him straight out. 10:46.000 --> 10:52.000 Said all I had was $1,500 in my savings account. I guess I shouldn't have said that. 10:52.000 --> 10:53.000 Very nuts. 10:53.000 --> 10:57.000 He told me he might be able to swing it for $1,500. 10:57.000 --> 11:01.000 He'd have to go out there and see him in person. Said he'd come back. 11:01.000 --> 11:02.000 Did he leave then? 11:02.000 --> 11:07.000 No, not right away. I stopped him. I told him there was no point in coming back. 11:07.000 --> 11:13.000 I'm no jewel, I said. How do I know that ring's worth $7,000? 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 Told me to get it appraised while he was gone. 11:16.000 --> 11:19.000 Told me to take it to any jewel I wanted to. 11:19.000 --> 11:24.000 Seemed like he sure trusted me. Leaving a valuable ring like that. 11:24.000 --> 11:27.000 Kinda sold me on him. 11:27.000 --> 11:32.000 I went next door to ask those fellas who said they were jewelers. 11:32.000 --> 11:37.000 Place was locked up, so I figured they was still out for lunch. 11:37.000 --> 11:41.000 I figured maybe they was in the drug store down on the corner. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 Did you find them up there? 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 Yes, sir. 11:45.000 --> 11:47.000 What'd they say about the ring? 11:47.000 --> 11:54.000 Perfect, Admiral. That's what they said. One of them put their gadget up his eye, looked through it. You know what I mean. 11:54.000 --> 11:55.000 Yes, sir, I know. 11:55.000 --> 12:01.000 Perfect, Admiral, worth $10,000. Not stuff to fall in. 12:01.000 --> 12:07.000 Acted like they thought it was mine. Offered to buy it if I wanted to sell. 12:07.000 --> 12:14.000 I told them about the other fellas. That he needed $3,000. I told them the whole story. I did. 12:14.000 --> 12:21.000 They said they'd loan him five without batting an eye. Offered to make out a check, write, and then lay out. 12:21.000 --> 12:25.000 That took my wit away. They were so anxious. 12:25.000 --> 12:31.000 I said maybe we could go in 50-50. They put up $1,500. I'd put up $1,500. 12:31.000 --> 12:36.000 That way the guy would have $3,000 if he still needed that much. 12:36.000 --> 12:40.000 They could both make a little profit, you know. 12:40.000 --> 12:46.000 One of them asked me how I wanted the check. Should make it out to me. I told him we'll make it out to cash. 12:46.000 --> 12:47.000 Do you remember how he signed it? 12:47.000 --> 12:51.000 Jones. Quincy Jones. That's the name I knew him by. 12:51.000 --> 12:56.000 Other one called himself Wyatt Truesdale. I don't think that's their real name. 12:56.000 --> 12:59.000 You? Probably one of those, what did you call them? 12:59.000 --> 13:00.000 Aliases. 13:00.000 --> 13:02.000 Yes sir, yeah. Yeah, yeah. 13:02.000 --> 13:09.000 Well, anyway, I went over to my bank and drew out a $1,500. About $230, the fella came back. 13:09.000 --> 13:10.000 The one who gave me the ring. 13:10.000 --> 13:11.000 Yeah. 13:11.000 --> 13:17.000 Said he'd tried to talk the real estate people into being satisfied with $1,500. Wouldn't come down. 13:17.000 --> 13:23.000 Insisted on the whole $3,000. I told him not to worry that I had it. 13:23.000 --> 13:30.000 Give him my $1,500 and the check. He said the check would be okay, seeing as how it was on a local bank. 13:30.000 --> 13:33.000 He promised that he'd pay me back the next morning. 13:33.000 --> 13:34.000 That'd be yesterday. 13:34.000 --> 13:40.000 Yes sir. And when he didn't show up, I wanted to make sure just how much it was worth, the ring. 13:40.000 --> 13:48.000 In case something had happened to it. In case he didn't come back for it. That's why I went to the pawn shop. 13:48.000 --> 13:58.000 Offered me $5,000 for it. But I ended up in the pawn shop. Couldn't believe him at first. Said it was just glass, hunk of glass. 13:58.000 --> 14:06.000 Then a great light broke on me. How I'd been tricked. All of a sudden it come to me. 14:06.000 --> 14:09.000 Well, why'd you stay out all night? Why didn't you go home? 14:09.000 --> 14:17.000 Well, you see, sir, I couldn't face her, Sarah. I knew I'd been swindled. 14:17.000 --> 14:28.000 $1,500. Every cent that we'd saved. Been married 37 years. It was Sarah's money too. 14:28.000 --> 14:33.000 Not just because she's my wife. They helped earn it. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 Well, we'll try and get it back for you, Mr. Hunt. 14:35.000 --> 14:45.000 Ah, I've watched the show for 37 years, is it? That's what I kept thinking while I was sitting in my car up there in the hills. 14:45.000 --> 14:56.000 All day long I just kept thinking. 37 years. $1,500. I'll have to tell her, won't I? 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 Well, sir, I think that's up to you. 14:58.000 --> 15:02.000 She'll know it anyway. She'll know something's wrong. 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 Yes, sir. 15:04.000 --> 15:11.000 Too late to start all over. We won't have them. There's not a chance. 15:11.000 --> 15:12.000 Have what, sir? 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 Another 37 years. 15:14.000 --> 15:26.000 We continued to interview the victim, Garfield Hunt, and he gave us descriptions of the three suspects. 15:26.000 --> 15:30.000 The stats office came up with 24 possibilities. We showed the mug books to her. 15:30.000 --> 15:34.000 He identified two of the photographs. Ernest Wilcoxon and Paul Cleaver. 15:34.000 --> 15:40.000 Hunt was positive that Wilcoxon and Cleaver were the men who had rented the store next to his and had pretended to be jewelers. 15:40.000 --> 15:44.000 He was unable to find a photograph of Norman Criss, the man who had sold him the ring. 15:44.000 --> 15:48.000 We pulled the packages on Wilcoxon and Cleaver. They had both done time for burglary. 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 They had not previously worked with a third person. 15:50.000 --> 15:55.000 We called the Lassingwell Jewelry Company. They informed us that they were not opening a branch out in the valley. 15:55.000 --> 15:58.000 We checked with the owners of the building, which Hunt had his tailor shop. 15:58.000 --> 16:04.000 They told us the adjacent store had been rented on a weekly basis and that the renters had said they intended to use the space for temporary storage. 16:04.000 --> 16:08.000 A local and an APB were sent out on all three suspects. 16:08.000 --> 16:16.000 5.13 p.m. Using the information from their mama sheets, Frank and I began checking various places where Cleaver and Wilcoxon had been known to hang out. 16:16.000 --> 16:22.000 7.12 p.m. We went into the Black Parrot Bar on South Broadway and we talked to the bartender. 16:22.000 --> 16:25.000 Uh-uh. Not by them names. I don't know them. 16:25.000 --> 16:28.000 Well, maybe these pictures will help. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 How about it? 16:30.000 --> 16:31.000 Yeah, they come in here once in a while. 16:31.000 --> 16:32.000 Yeah, that's what we heard. 16:32.000 --> 16:33.000 Always come in together? 16:33.000 --> 16:34.000 As far as I know. 16:34.000 --> 16:38.000 Ever bring somebody with them? Talton, a fellow about 30, blonde hair? 16:38.000 --> 16:41.000 No, just two of them. Never seen them with another guy. 16:41.000 --> 16:42.000 I see. 16:42.000 --> 16:43.000 What do you want for it? 16:43.000 --> 16:44.000 You know how we can turn them up? 16:44.000 --> 16:45.000 We ain't here now. 16:45.000 --> 16:46.000 We can wait. 16:46.000 --> 16:47.000 Won't be in tonight. 16:47.000 --> 16:48.000 How do you know? 16:48.000 --> 16:49.000 They got money. 16:49.000 --> 16:50.000 Well? 16:50.000 --> 16:53.000 Big roll. The redheaded one was in yesterday. Quincy Jones. That's what he told me his name was. 16:53.000 --> 16:54.000 Yeah. 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 He's been running a tab. He paid it up in full. I had plenty left over. 16:57.000 --> 16:58.000 Is that right? 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 As long as they're carrying a roll, they don't come to my place. 17:00.000 --> 17:04.000 And for them expensive joints like out on the strip, you know, places like that. 17:04.000 --> 17:07.000 When they blow in their loot, they come back to me and start running up another tab. 17:07.000 --> 17:09.000 I called them on it, but what can you do? 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 This way I get some of their bundles. 17:11.000 --> 17:13.000 Uh-huh. You know where they live? 17:13.000 --> 17:15.000 Around here somewhere. I couldn't pin it down for you. 17:15.000 --> 17:17.000 Who could? 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 How bad do you want to find out? 17:19.000 --> 17:20.000 What do you mean? 17:20.000 --> 17:21.000 What costs you a drink? 17:21.000 --> 17:22.000 You that thirsty? 17:22.000 --> 17:25.000 Not for me. The girl over there in the corner booth, the blonde. 17:25.000 --> 17:26.000 Oh, yeah. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 She knows him. I've been out with him a couple of times. I've seen him leave together. 17:29.000 --> 17:30.000 All right. 17:30.000 --> 17:34.000 I'm just kidding about that drink. It's on the house. For you guys and her, too. 17:34.000 --> 17:35.000 No, we don't want anything. 17:35.000 --> 17:36.000 We'll pay for hers. 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 It's up to you. 17:41.000 --> 17:42.000 Hi. 17:42.000 --> 17:43.000 Good evening, miss. 17:43.000 --> 17:44.000 You're new, aren't you? 17:44.000 --> 17:45.000 Yes, ma'am. 17:45.000 --> 17:47.000 Place could stand with new talent. 17:47.000 --> 17:48.000 Here, I'll move over. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 Thanks. Thank you. 17:50.000 --> 17:52.000 What's the matter with this side? 17:52.000 --> 17:54.000 We're police officers. 17:54.000 --> 17:56.000 Why do you like that? 17:56.000 --> 17:57.000 Ma'am? 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 Oresco said I was going to meet somebody new today. 17:59.000 --> 18:00.000 You know, in the morning paper? 18:00.000 --> 18:01.000 Uh-huh. 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 Didn't say there'd be cops. 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 Here you are, Peg. 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 Where'd that come from? 18:07.000 --> 18:08.000 These guys. 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 You shouldn't call them guys, Jake. 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 Sell a bite of a lady a drink that makes him a gentleman. 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 From these gentlemen, that's what you should say. 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 Oh, sure. 18:16.000 --> 18:20.000 To your very good health, gentlemen. 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 Now then, what can I do for you? 18:24.000 --> 18:25.000 I'm at your service. 18:25.000 --> 18:29.000 The bartender says these guys are friends of yours. 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 I wouldn't say those pictures do him justice, 18:31.000 --> 18:33.000 but there is a resemblance. 18:33.000 --> 18:34.000 You know him, then? 18:34.000 --> 18:35.000 We've met. 18:35.000 --> 18:37.000 We weren't formally introduced, but we've met. 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 I mean, a lot of people in here. 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 Not the best people in town, maybe. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 It's not the best bar in town, but it's convenient. 18:43.000 --> 18:44.000 I work down the street. 18:44.000 --> 18:45.000 Uh-huh. 18:45.000 --> 18:47.000 You know where these men live? 18:47.000 --> 18:50.000 Oh, you mean these two so-called friends of mine? 18:50.000 --> 18:51.000 Yeah. 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 Am I? 18:53.000 --> 18:54.000 Well. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 Have you ever hear of the North Cross Arms Hotel? 18:56.000 --> 18:57.000 Yeah. 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 Well, I haven't been there with them, of course. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 I'm not sure if that's their residence, 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 but Quincy was carrying a hotel key, 19:03.000 --> 19:05.000 and one night it fell out of his pocket. 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 I think that was the name on the tag, North Cross Arms. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 All right. Thank you. 19:09.000 --> 19:10.000 Thank you. 19:10.000 --> 19:11.000 For the brandy. 19:11.000 --> 19:15.000 Don't mention it. 19:15.000 --> 19:16.000 Am I? 19:16.000 --> 19:17.000 What do we owe you? 19:17.000 --> 19:18.000 Sixpits. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 She drinks good stuff. 19:20.000 --> 19:21.000 There you go. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 Keep the change. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 Looks like I got one decent break. 19:25.000 --> 19:26.000 That so? 19:26.000 --> 19:28.000 Them paying their tab today before we pick them up. 19:28.000 --> 19:29.000 Well, they didn't pay it. 19:29.000 --> 19:30.000 Huh? Who did? 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 A man named Hunt. 19:36.000 --> 19:38.000 The clerk at the North Cross Arms Hotel told us 19:38.000 --> 19:40.000 that two men who resembled Wilcoxon and Cleaver 19:40.000 --> 19:42.000 were after none of the names of Jones and Truesdale. 19:42.000 --> 19:44.000 He said they'd gone out for the evening. 19:44.000 --> 19:46.000 He showed us up to their room, 36A. 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 We asked him about the suspect known as Norman Christ. 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 He told us he'd never seen anybody with Wilcoxon and Cleaver 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 who answered Christ's description. 19:52.000 --> 19:55.000 2.48 a.m. Wilcoxon and Cleaver returned to their room. 19:55.000 --> 19:58.000 We took them into custody and drove them down to the city hall for questioning. 19:58.000 --> 19:59.000 How many times you want to hear it? 19:59.000 --> 20:00.000 Until we get the truth. 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 Does Hunt say he gave us any money? 20:02.000 --> 20:03.000 He never gave us a cent, did he? 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 No, we even paid his lunch tab a couple of times. 20:05.000 --> 20:06.000 Right, always managed to out-fumble us. 20:06.000 --> 20:07.000 Owe us a couple of lunches. 20:07.000 --> 20:08.000 He paid them back. 20:08.000 --> 20:09.000 What? 20:09.000 --> 20:10.000 He paid us a couple of bucks, buys a lot of lunches. 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 What? 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 1,500. 20:12.000 --> 20:13.000 You got your share, you've been spending all over town. 20:13.000 --> 20:14.000 Hunt say he gave it to us? 20:14.000 --> 20:15.000 He still had over 600 bucks when he picked you up. 20:15.000 --> 20:16.000 Now where'd it come from? 20:16.000 --> 20:17.000 Hollywood Park. 20:17.000 --> 20:18.000 Picked three long shots yesterday. 20:18.000 --> 20:19.000 You want the names of the horses? 20:19.000 --> 20:20.000 Where's Christ? 20:20.000 --> 20:21.000 Told you before, never heard of him. 20:21.000 --> 20:22.000 Who is he? 20:22.000 --> 20:23.000 The guy you worked the game with. 20:23.000 --> 20:24.000 Never heard of him. 20:24.000 --> 20:25.000 You want to take this rap yourself? 20:25.000 --> 20:26.000 What rap? 20:26.000 --> 20:27.000 Why'd you rent that store out in the valley? 20:27.000 --> 20:28.000 Store? 20:28.000 --> 20:29.000 We showed him your mug shots. 20:29.000 --> 20:30.000 The man you rented it from, he made you. 20:30.000 --> 20:31.000 You want it in person? 20:31.000 --> 20:32.000 How about it? 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 Guess they got us there early. 20:34.000 --> 20:35.000 Yeah. 20:35.000 --> 20:39.000 We were going to open up a bookie joint. 20:39.000 --> 20:40.000 Is that right? 20:40.000 --> 20:41.000 Yeah, we changed our minds, looked the situation over, decided it might get a little warm out 20:41.000 --> 20:42.000 in the valley and cleared out. 20:42.000 --> 20:43.000 Bookie joint, huh? 20:43.000 --> 20:44.000 That's right. 20:44.000 --> 20:45.000 Not a jewelry store. 20:45.000 --> 20:46.000 What are you talking about? 20:46.000 --> 20:47.000 Us jewelers, Ernie and me? 20:47.000 --> 20:48.000 That's what you told Hunt. 20:48.000 --> 20:49.600 Nothing of the kind, laid it on the line, told him we were bookies. 20:49.600 --> 20:53.160 Just between us he was kind of pleased about it, likes to play the horses himself. 20:53.160 --> 20:55.000 Like the idea of being able to lay a bet, so convenient. 20:55.000 --> 20:56.000 You're a liar. 20:56.000 --> 20:59.800 Now look, say maybe that's what happened to his money, maybe he lost it on a nag. 20:59.800 --> 21:00.800 Come on, let's try it again. 21:00.800 --> 21:01.800 Now why'd you rent the store? 21:01.800 --> 21:05.200 We're going to get the same answers, same questions, same answers, it's a waste of time. 21:05.200 --> 21:06.200 We got plenty. 21:06.200 --> 21:07.200 Uh-uh. 21:07.200 --> 21:08.200 Seventy-two hours, that's all you got. 21:08.200 --> 21:11.400 You can hold us on suspicion for seventy-two, then you can turn us loose unless you prove 21:11.400 --> 21:12.400 something. 21:12.400 --> 21:13.400 We'll prove it. 21:13.400 --> 21:14.400 How? 21:14.400 --> 21:15.400 We didn't take any money from Hunt, nobody says we did, even him. 21:15.400 --> 21:18.080 If he was a mark for this, what's his name, Chris? 21:18.080 --> 21:19.080 That's right. 21:19.080 --> 21:20.080 How do you wrap us into the package? 21:20.080 --> 21:21.520 Hunt never saw us with him, nobody saw us with him. 21:21.520 --> 21:22.520 We'll find somebody. 21:22.520 --> 21:24.720 Seventy-two hours and you got to turn us loose, that's the law. 21:24.720 --> 21:25.720 Is that right? 21:25.720 --> 21:26.720 We know the law. 21:26.720 --> 21:27.720 Why'd you break it? 21:27.720 --> 21:36.880 We continued to question the suspects, but we were unable to break them down. 21:36.880 --> 21:39.240 Thursday, May 19th, 745 A.M. 21:39.240 --> 21:41.440 Another team of detectives took over the interrogation. 21:41.440 --> 21:42.920 Frank and I went back to the office. 21:42.920 --> 21:44.800 Think they'll pop out, Joe? 21:44.800 --> 21:47.400 I don't know, it doesn't look like it, does it? 21:47.400 --> 21:48.880 No, unless we turn up to Chris. 21:48.880 --> 21:49.880 Did you call your wife? 21:49.880 --> 21:53.200 Yeah, sure balled me out, kept dinner waiting until after ten. 21:53.200 --> 21:54.200 You're lucky. 21:54.200 --> 21:55.200 Well, maybe. 21:55.200 --> 21:56.200 I wonder if I'll get home tonight. 21:56.200 --> 21:57.200 I got it. 21:57.200 --> 22:00.000 Funko Fugitive, Friday. 22:00.000 --> 22:04.080 Yeah, that's right. 22:04.080 --> 22:05.440 Sounds like them. 22:05.440 --> 22:07.880 How long ago? 22:07.880 --> 22:08.880 Uh-huh. 22:08.880 --> 22:09.880 Yeah. 22:09.880 --> 22:10.880 Chris? 22:10.880 --> 22:12.880 It's a description. 22:12.880 --> 22:14.400 Smashed up a car on the Hollywood freeway. 22:14.400 --> 22:15.960 Georgia Street recognized him for my teletype. 22:15.960 --> 22:17.320 He able to talk? 22:17.320 --> 22:24.640 Died ten minutes after they brought him in. 22:24.640 --> 22:27.880 At the morgue, the victim Garfield Hunt identified the body. 22:27.880 --> 22:29.380 He was positive it was Norman Christ, 22:29.380 --> 22:31.220 the man who had sold him the ring. 22:31.220 --> 22:34.240 Wilcoxon and Cleaver were also shown the body. 22:34.240 --> 22:36.980 They denied that they'd ever seen Christ before. 22:36.980 --> 22:38.440 The next day, Friday, May 20th, 22:38.440 --> 22:40.100 the evidence against Wilcoxon and Cleaver 22:40.100 --> 22:41.760 was taken to the district attorney's office. 22:41.760 --> 22:43.440 The complaint was refused. 22:43.440 --> 22:44.800 The evidence was deemed insufficient 22:44.800 --> 22:46.840 to bring the matter to trial at this time. 22:46.840 --> 22:49.120 Wilcoxon and Cleaver were released. 22:49.120 --> 22:51.960 6.05 p.m., Frank and I got ready to sign out. 22:51.960 --> 22:55.000 Well, that really tears it. It sure does. 22:55.000 --> 22:56.600 The DA's office knows they're guilty. 22:56.600 --> 22:58.520 We know it and can't do a thing. 22:58.520 --> 22:59.560 Yeah. 22:59.560 --> 23:01.000 I guess we've been wasting our time, Joe. 23:01.000 --> 23:02.760 Just fanning the ball. 23:02.760 --> 23:03.880 Well, I'll tell you, we've spotted them 23:03.880 --> 23:05.040 and they're gonna stay spotted. 23:05.040 --> 23:05.880 Yeah. 23:05.880 --> 23:07.920 Next time they move in on a mark, we'll make it stick. 23:07.920 --> 23:09.560 Wouldn't be very smart of them to try it twice. 23:09.560 --> 23:10.520 They're not smart, huh? 23:10.520 --> 23:12.120 They tried it once. 23:12.120 --> 23:15.620 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 23:19.120 --> 23:21.520 The story you've just heard is true. 23:21.520 --> 23:24.000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 23:24.000 --> 23:25.840 Two months later, on July 12th, 23:25.840 --> 23:29.400 Wilcoxon and Cleaver were apprehended for a similar crime. 23:29.400 --> 23:32.240 They were charged with one count grand theft. 23:32.240 --> 23:35.200 On November 6th, trial was held in Department 98, 23:35.200 --> 23:37.040 Superior Court, State of California, 23:37.040 --> 23:38.840 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 23:38.840 --> 23:42.340 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 23:46.840 --> 23:48.920 Ernest P. Wilcoxon and Paul Cleaver 23:48.920 --> 23:51.160 were found guilty of one count grand theft 23:51.160 --> 23:53.960 and were sentenced to a term prescribed by law. 23:53.960 --> 23:56.160 Grand theft is punishable by imprisonment 23:56.160 --> 23:59.360 in the county jail for a period of not less than one year 23:59.360 --> 24:01.680 or for a period of from one to 10 years 24:01.680 --> 24:03.000 in the state penitentiary. 24:03.000 --> 24:06.500 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 24:07.920 --> 24:09.880 You have just heard Dragnet, 24:09.880 --> 24:12.600 the authentic story of your police force in action 24:12.600 --> 24:14.280 and starring Jack Webb, 24:14.280 --> 24:17.880 a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 24:17.880 --> 24:21.380 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 24:47.880 --> 24:51.380 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 25:17.880 --> 25:21.460 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"]