WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Dragnet. 00:07.000 --> 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 --> 00:25.000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. 00:25.000 --> 00:29.000 You get a call that a well-dressed man has held up a diamond merchant. 00:29.000 --> 00:32.000 He's escaped into the crowded streets of your city. 00:32.000 --> 00:39.000 Your job? Get him. 00:39.000 --> 00:43.000 Dragnet. The documented drama of an actual crime. 00:43.000 --> 00:47.000 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 00:47.000 --> 00:53.000 you will travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 00:53.000 --> 00:56.000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, 00:56.000 --> 01:03.000 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 01:03.000 --> 01:06.000 It was Tuesday, February 8th. It was cold in Los Angeles. 01:06.000 --> 01:08.000 We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 01:08.000 --> 01:11.000 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss of Chief Detective Stad Brown. 01:11.000 --> 01:12.000 My name is Frank. 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 I was on my way back from communications and it was 12, 10 p.m. when I got to room 27A. 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 Robbery. 01:18.000 --> 01:20.000 Did you get the wire off the A-hire? 01:20.000 --> 01:21.000 Yeah, I should have an answer this afternoon. 01:21.000 --> 01:23.000 If he doesn't come in, we better call him. 01:23.000 --> 01:24.000 Yeah. Want to get something to eat? 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 Yeah, it's about that time. Where do you want to go? 01:26.000 --> 01:27.000 No, how about the steakhouse? 01:27.000 --> 01:29.000 Good. I could use a couple of enchiladas. 01:29.000 --> 01:30.000 Get your hat. 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 You want to tag the skipper before we leave? 01:32.000 --> 01:34.000 No, he's not in. I saw him go out with Chief Brown. We can talk to him when we get back, huh? 01:34.000 --> 01:35.000 Right. 01:35.000 --> 01:41.000 Let's go. That's a hot one. I'll get it. 01:41.000 --> 01:42.000 Sauce? 01:42.000 --> 01:44.000 Yeah. Diamond merchant. Just hit for a load of unset diamonds. 01:44.000 --> 01:45.000 Big score? 01:45.000 --> 01:46.000 He'll buy a group of enchiladas. 01:46.000 --> 01:47.000 Huh? 01:47.000 --> 01:53.000 Eighty thousand dollars worth. 01:53.000 --> 01:57.000 Frank and I left the city hall and drove over to the address we'd gotten on the hotshot phone. 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 It was a large office building on Hope Street. 01:59.000 --> 02:04.000 From the lobby register, we found that the victim of Mr. George Mars occupied Suite 318. 02:04.000 --> 02:09.000 We checked with the uniformed officers who answered the call, and then we went upstairs to talk with Mars. 02:09.000 --> 02:13.000 Well, I tell you, Officer, there wasn't anything about him that would make a person think he was a hold-up man. 02:13.000 --> 02:14.000 Nothing. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 You want to tell us exactly what happened? 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 Well, sure. There's not much to talk about. I was sitting here looking at the papers, checking sales. 02:19.000 --> 02:20.000 What's that? 02:20.000 --> 02:24.000 Dollar Day. I figured maybe I could get a good buy on some suits. I've been needing them. 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 Figured maybe I could pick up a couple unsaved. 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 Not for a dollar, you know, but unsaved. 02:28.000 --> 02:29.000 Yeah, sure. Go ahead. 02:29.000 --> 02:33.000 Well, just sitting here reading the paper, and all of a sudden the door opens and in comes this fella. 02:33.000 --> 02:36.000 Nice looking. Sure no reason to think there was anything wrong. 02:36.000 --> 02:37.000 Yeah. 02:37.000 --> 02:39.000 Told me he wanted to see some diamonds unset. 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 You say why he wanted to see them? 02:40.000 --> 02:44.000 Yeah, something about opening a store up in the valley someplace around Sacramento. 02:44.000 --> 02:45.000 Oh, yeah. 02:45.000 --> 02:49.000 It felt kind of good. You know, to think a man had come all the way down here to look at stones I've got. 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 Did you say why he did that? 02:50.000 --> 02:55.000 No, I didn't ask. Lots of times that happens. Been in business quite a while. Word gets around. 02:55.000 --> 02:59.000 Anyway, the man said he wanted to see some stones. I went back to the safe to get them. 02:59.000 --> 03:00.000 Yeah. 03:00.000 --> 03:04.000 Picked up several trays and brought them out here. When I took another look, he was sitting right there. 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 There? 03:05.000 --> 03:09.000 Holding a gun. Just as calm as can be. Pointing the old gun right at me. 03:09.000 --> 03:10.000 Did he say anything to you? 03:10.000 --> 03:13.000 Told me to put the diamonds on the collar. Not to make any noise. 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 Said if I played it smart, I wouldn't get hurt. 03:15.000 --> 03:16.000 Yeah. 03:16.000 --> 03:21.000 I mean, this fellow, just as calm as could be, reached in his pocket, took out a pair of gloves, put them on, 03:21.000 --> 03:25.000 then he scooped all the diamonds into a little bag he was carrying and told me to get in the back room. 03:25.000 --> 03:26.000 Yeah. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Made me lay down on the floor and then he locked the door. 03:28.000 --> 03:32.000 Told me not to make any noise. Said to count to a hundred by once before I tried to yell. 03:32.000 --> 03:33.000 Mm-hmm. 03:33.000 --> 03:37.000 After he locked the door, I heard him leave the office. I started counting. 03:37.000 --> 03:40.000 All right, Mr. Morris, can you give us a description of the man? 03:40.000 --> 03:43.000 Outside of the fact he had the gun, I can't tell you anything about him. 03:43.000 --> 03:46.000 I'm trying to pull a picture out of my head, but there just isn't anything. 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 Well, maybe we can help you. 03:47.000 --> 03:49.000 Go ahead. I don't think it'll do any good. 03:49.000 --> 03:51.000 All right, let's start with his age. How old was he? 03:51.000 --> 03:54.000 I don't know. Medium, I guess. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 30, 35? Older, younger? 03:56.000 --> 03:57.000 I don't know. 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 How tall was he? 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 Oh, I guess he'd say he was... 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 I don't know. 04:01.000 --> 04:05.000 Well, when you looked at him, did he seem to be larger or smaller than yourself? 04:05.000 --> 04:06.000 About the same. 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 Well, then he'd be about, what, 5'10", 11"? 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 I guess so. I don't remember. 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 What about his face? Can you tell us anything about that? 04:13.000 --> 04:14.000 Nope. 04:14.000 --> 04:15.000 Do you have a mustache? 04:15.000 --> 04:16.000 Might have. 04:16.000 --> 04:17.000 But you aren't sure? 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 No. 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 Wear glasses? 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 I don't remember. 04:20.000 --> 04:24.000 Well, now think real carefully. Is there anything at all that you can remember about him? 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 Yeah, but it's kind of silly. 04:26.000 --> 04:27.000 Well, what is it? 04:27.000 --> 04:30.000 When I came back with the diamonds and he was holding the gun, I noticed his hands. 04:30.000 --> 04:31.000 Yeah? 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 His fingernails were manicured. 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 Yeah? 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 Yeah, real clean and with some kind of polish on them. You know what I mean? 04:37.000 --> 04:38.000 Yeah, I think so. 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 Like that? 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 I'll check with the fellas outside, Joe. Maybe they came up with something. 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 Okay. 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 Mr. Smith? 04:44.000 --> 04:45.000 Yes, sir? 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 I'm sure sorry about this not being able to help more. 04:48.000 --> 04:49.000 Well, don't worry about it, Mr. Marsh. 04:49.000 --> 04:50.000 I'm sure sorry. 04:50.000 --> 04:51.000 I'll be right back, Joe. 04:51.000 --> 04:52.000 All right. 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 You have a cigarette, Mr. Frider? 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 Yeah. Here you go. 04:57.000 --> 04:58.000 Thanks. 04:59.000 --> 05:00.000 Here's the light. 05:02.000 --> 05:03.000 I got it. 05:05.000 --> 05:06.000 This kind of thing happen to you often? 05:06.000 --> 05:07.000 How do you mean? 05:07.000 --> 05:10.000 Well, where somebody's robbed and can't remember what the holed up man looked like. 05:10.000 --> 05:11.000 What's in a while? 05:11.000 --> 05:13.000 Well, what do you do by it? 05:13.000 --> 05:14.000 Try to find another way. 05:14.000 --> 05:15.000 You usually find one? 05:15.000 --> 05:16.000 Most of the time. 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 Joe? 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 Yeah? 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 See you, man. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 Yeah. 05:21.000 --> 05:22.000 What do you got? 05:22.000 --> 05:23.000 Well, I checked with the men in the radio unit. 05:23.000 --> 05:24.000 Who? 05:24.000 --> 05:25.000 They got a guy downstairs. We better talk to him. 05:25.000 --> 05:26.000 Suspect? 05:26.000 --> 05:27.000 No, eyewitness. 05:27.000 --> 05:31.000 Frank and I went down to the lobby of the building and we met with the uniformed officers who'd answered the call. 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 They introduced us to Stanley Markin. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 Markin said he'd seen the holed up man. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 And I did. 05:36.000 --> 05:37.000 Saw him plain as anything. 05:37.000 --> 05:38.000 When was that, sir? 05:38.000 --> 05:39.000 Yeah. 05:39.000 --> 05:40.000 Must have been right after he held up old Mars. 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 Where'd you see him? 05:41.000 --> 05:44.000 Hall, right outside the office, right in front of the door, practically. 05:44.000 --> 05:45.000 Mm-hmm. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 On the way to my place, and this man come out of Mars. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 Lawry. 05:48.000 --> 05:49.000 Mm-hmm. 05:49.000 --> 05:50.000 Yeah. 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 He'll open the door and we'll go to the lobby. 05:52.000 --> 05:53.000 And he'll be there. 05:53.000 --> 05:54.000 And he'll be there. 05:54.000 --> 05:55.000 And he'll be there. 05:55.000 --> 05:58.000 Yeah, he'll open the door and bam, right into me. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 Like to knock me down. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 Really worried. 06:00.000 --> 06:01.000 Mm-hmm. 06:01.000 --> 06:03.000 Had this little black leash, you know, about this big. 06:03.000 --> 06:04.000 Mm-hmm. 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 Yeah, oh yeah. 06:05.000 --> 06:06.000 Had a death grip on him. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Well, did you get a good look at the man? 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 Close enough to you, right into me. 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 Thought sure I was going to end up on the floor. 06:12.000 --> 06:13.000 Yeah. 06:13.000 --> 06:14.000 Can you give us a description? 06:14.000 --> 06:15.000 Sure. What do you want to know? 06:15.000 --> 06:16.000 What do you look like? 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 Nothing special. Just a run of the mill crook. 06:18.000 --> 06:19.000 Seen one, seen them all. 06:19.000 --> 06:20.000 Okay. How old was he? 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 Oh, guess about 28, maybe 30. 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 Round in there. 06:23.000 --> 06:24.000 How tall? 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 About you. 06:25.000 --> 06:26.000 About six feet. 06:26.000 --> 06:27.000 Well, that's what you are? 06:27.000 --> 06:28.000 Yes, we're pretty close. 06:28.000 --> 06:29.000 Yeah. 06:29.000 --> 06:30.000 How was he built? 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 Medium. Didn't seem to have a lot of beef, just average. 06:32.000 --> 06:33.000 Mm-hmm. 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 How was he dressed? 06:34.000 --> 06:35.000 Had a gray suit on, dark gray. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 Little red pattern going through it. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.000 Single or double breasted? 06:38.000 --> 06:39.000 Single. 06:39.000 --> 06:40.000 What color shirt? 06:40.000 --> 06:41.000 White, blue tie. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 One of them new ones, you know, little thin kind, you know. 06:44.000 --> 06:45.000 Little bitty knot. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 Had one of them bar things to the collar. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 Holes in, you know. 06:48.000 --> 06:49.000 Mm-hmm. 06:49.000 --> 06:50.000 Square ends. 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 What's that? 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 On the bar. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 It was a square, you know, round like most of them, squares. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 I see. 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 Was he wearing a hat? 06:56.000 --> 06:57.000 Yeah. 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 New Humber, dark, had it kind down over one eye. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 Looked real rakish, like a spy. 07:01.000 --> 07:02.000 Mm-hmm. 07:02.000 --> 07:03.000 Was he clean shaven? 07:03.000 --> 07:04.000 Yeah. 07:04.000 --> 07:05.000 How do you mean? 07:05.000 --> 07:06.000 Did he have a mustache? 07:06.000 --> 07:07.000 No, he didn't. 07:07.000 --> 07:08.000 Was he wearing glasses? 07:08.000 --> 07:09.000 Not that I saw. 07:09.000 --> 07:10.000 Might have had them, but he wasn't wearing them. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.000 Did he say anything to you? 07:11.000 --> 07:12.000 Oh, the peepee, just wham, and then he took off. 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 Made me real mad. 07:13.000 --> 07:16.000 Guy almost knocked you down, and then doesn't even say you're sorry. 07:16.000 --> 07:17.000 Uh-huh. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 He took off, and when I thought about it, I went after him. 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 Did you see if he was carrying a gun? 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 I just told you I went after him. 07:22.000 --> 07:23.000 Yes, sir. 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 I'm not a coward, but I ain't no fool either. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 I'd have seen a gun, and I would have gone near it. 07:27.000 --> 07:28.000 Yes, sir. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 Guy didn't even wait for the elevator. 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 He just ran off the stairs. 07:32.000 --> 07:33.000 Fire exit, you know? 07:33.000 --> 07:34.000 Yeah. 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 Down three stories. 07:35.000 --> 07:36.000 All the way by the stairs. 07:36.000 --> 07:41.000 Tell you, it almost got me, but I was so sore about being run into, and then no apology, 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 just nothing. 07:42.000 --> 07:43.000 I went after him. 07:43.000 --> 07:44.000 Yes, sir. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 He got to the lobby, and he went out on the street. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 Thought I had him sure there. 07:48.000 --> 07:49.000 Place was all crowded. 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 The dollar day, you know? 07:50.000 --> 07:51.000 Yeah, we know. 07:51.000 --> 07:54.000 Didn't think he'd be able to run far with all them people. 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 He didn't. 07:55.000 --> 07:56.000 What's that? 07:56.000 --> 07:58.000 He didn't run very far. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 Only to the curb, and he jumped in a taxi. 08:00.000 --> 08:01.000 Yeah. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 Cab took off. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 I tried to get there before it left, but didn't make it. 08:04.000 --> 08:05.000 Too many crowds. 08:05.000 --> 08:08.000 I got the number of the cab he took, got it written down in my office. 08:08.000 --> 08:09.000 Can we go up and get it? 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 Sure. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 Scientifics come out yet? 08:12.000 --> 08:13.000 What's that? 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 Scientifics, you know, the fingerprints and all. 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 They come yet? 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 No, not yet. 08:17.000 --> 08:21.000 Well, they get here, and it'll be toot-a-loo to him, them guys and their machines, just 08:21.000 --> 08:25.000 a matter of dropping a few cards in some gadget and ping, there's the name. 08:25.000 --> 08:26.000 Yes, sir. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Well, it'll be a little more in there. 08:28.000 --> 08:29.000 Yeah, that's what you think. 08:29.000 --> 08:32.000 Soon as the scientifics get here, have them come and see me, first thing. 08:32.000 --> 08:33.000 You bet. 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 Give him something to really work on. 08:35.000 --> 08:36.000 What do you mean? 08:36.000 --> 08:37.000 Yeah. 08:37.000 --> 08:38.000 Good start on who the fellow is. 08:38.000 --> 08:39.000 What's that? 08:39.000 --> 08:43.000 When he bumped into me upstairs, he dropped his hat, blew right off his head. 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 Guy didn't stop to pick it up. 08:44.000 --> 08:45.000 I got it. 08:45.000 --> 08:46.000 It's a good one. 08:46.000 --> 08:47.000 Huh? 08:47.000 --> 08:50.000 Got his name in it. 08:50.000 --> 08:53.000 1232 p.m. 08:53.000 --> 08:57.000 The crew from the crime lab arrived and started their investigation of the office where the 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 robbery had taken place. 08:58.000 --> 09:02.000 Frank and I got the description of the thief out, and then we started to check on the cab 09:02.000 --> 09:03.000 number. 09:03.000 --> 09:05.000 The suspect's hat was turned over to the crime lab. 09:05.000 --> 09:10.000 When Frank and I looked at it, we found the initials TR on the inner band and the name 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 of a men's store in Las Vegas, Nevada. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 Lieutenant Lee Jones said they'd run a check on it for us. 09:15.000 --> 09:18.000 The stats office started a run on the MO and the description. 09:18.000 --> 09:22.000 Both the victim and Stanley Markham were taken to the city hall to look through the mug books 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 for a possible identification. 09:24.000 --> 09:29.000 At 1.26 p.m., we obtained the name of the cab driver who'd picked up the suspect. 09:29.000 --> 09:32.000 The company told us that his regular stand was at the corner of 6th and Broadway. 09:32.000 --> 09:35.000 When we got there, the driver was out on a call. 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 We waited until 2.14 p.m. when he returned. 09:37.000 --> 09:38.000 Yeah, I remember him. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 Picked him up in front of Jerry's building. 09:40.000 --> 09:41.000 That's right. 09:41.000 --> 09:42.000 Can you tell us where you took him? 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 Not right off. 09:43.000 --> 09:44.000 It should be on the way, Bill, though. 09:44.000 --> 09:45.000 Would you check for us? 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 Sure, just a minute. I'll get it. 09:48.000 --> 09:49.000 Nice break if he's got it. 09:49.000 --> 09:50.000 Yeah. 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 Yeah, here it is. 09:52.000 --> 09:56.000 I picked him up at 1206 and dropped him at the Totalin bar over on Fig. 09:56.000 --> 09:57.000 Did he go in the place? 09:57.000 --> 09:59.000 Yeah, I was making out the log. I saw him. 09:59.000 --> 10:00.000 Did he say anything to you on the way over? 10:00.000 --> 10:03.000 No, nothing special. Seemed kind of nervous. Kept looking back. 10:03.000 --> 10:06.000 I figured there was something wrong, but you get so many crackpots in this business, 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 you can't take time to worry about all of them. 10:08.000 --> 10:09.000 So what'd he do? 10:09.000 --> 10:10.000 Feel a little better if we talk to him about that. 10:10.000 --> 10:13.000 Yeah, sure. Oh, one thing he said might help you out. 10:13.000 --> 10:14.000 What's that? 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 Well, he wanted to know where he could get an airline schedule. 10:15.000 --> 10:16.000 Yeah. 10:16.000 --> 10:17.000 Said he was anxious to get out of town. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 The cab driver verified the description of the suspect. 10:24.000 --> 10:27.000 We put in a call to the airport detail and gave them the suspect's description. 10:27.000 --> 10:30.000 The bus depots and railroad terminals were also alerted. 10:30.000 --> 10:33.000 2.47 p.m. We drove over to the Totalin bar. 10:35.000 --> 10:36.000 Hi, what'll it be? 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 Police officers. Want to ask you a couple questions? 10:38.000 --> 10:39.000 Nothing wrong, is there? 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 I'd like you to tell us. 10:40.000 --> 10:43.000 Look around, you won't find nothing out of line. It's a clean place. 10:43.000 --> 10:45.000 Who's been in here this morning? 10:45.000 --> 10:47.000 Huh? How many people have been here? 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 Just a couple. It's kind of slow. Why? 10:49.000 --> 10:52.000 We're looking for a man about 28 or 30, six feet tall, medium build, 10:52.000 --> 10:53.000 wearing a dark gray suit. 10:53.000 --> 10:56.000 The only way we got it, he was in here about 12, 15, 12, 30. 10:56.000 --> 10:57.000 Today? 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 That's right. 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 What's he done? 10:59.000 --> 11:00.000 Was he here? 11:00.000 --> 11:01.000 I don't want any trouble. 11:01.000 --> 11:03.000 You're saying it the wrong way. Now, was the man in here? 11:03.000 --> 11:04.000 Yeah. 11:04.000 --> 11:05.000 Who is he? 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 I don't know. 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 You want us to buy that? 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 That's the way it is. If you don't like the color, shove off. 11:09.000 --> 11:10.000 No, you don't mean that, do you? 11:10.000 --> 11:14.000 Look, cop, the door was open when you came in. No lock. Same way when he was here. 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 Came in, had a drink, that's it. You try to build any more, 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 you're going to find out you lost the paddle. 11:18.000 --> 11:19.000 Get your coat. 11:19.000 --> 11:20.000 Huh? 11:20.000 --> 11:21.000 You heard me. Move. 11:21.000 --> 11:22.000 What are you going to do, take me downtown? 11:22.000 --> 11:23.000 That's it. 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 I've got to get somebody to watch the place. 11:25.000 --> 11:26.000 We'll wait. 11:29.000 --> 11:30.000 Look, it doesn't seem very fair. 11:30.000 --> 11:31.000 How do you mean that? 11:31.000 --> 11:32.000 I didn't have part of the action. 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 Well, why don't you tell us? 11:34.000 --> 11:37.000 The guy came in, he ordered bourbon and milk. He sat there and drank it. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 Had a couple more and left. Doesn't mean anything to me. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 And why are you standing in front of him? 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 I don't know. The place is clean, I like to keep it that way. 11:43.000 --> 11:44.000 Who is he? 11:44.000 --> 11:46.000 Look, I tell you true, I can't pull up a name. 11:46.000 --> 11:47.000 Well, I suppose you try. 11:50.000 --> 11:51.000 Tom something. 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 See him here often? 11:53.000 --> 11:55.000 A couple times a week. What's the attraction? 11:56.000 --> 11:59.000 Look, why don't you tell me what it's all about? Maybe we can make a deal. 11:59.000 --> 12:00.000 We don't need you on our side. 12:00.000 --> 12:01.000 Why does he come in? 12:01.000 --> 12:02.000 To see Alex. 12:02.000 --> 12:03.000 Who's she? 12:03.000 --> 12:04.000 Waitress. 12:04.000 --> 12:05.000 What's her last name? 12:04.000 --> 12:05.000 Coldbar. 12:05.000 --> 12:06.000 She go with this fella? 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 I don't know if it's serious, they've been out a couple of times. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Dinner and a show. Where do we find her? 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 I guess she's home. She don't come to work till 4.30. 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 You got her address? 12:13.000 --> 12:14.000 It's in the book. 12:14.000 --> 12:15.000 Get it. 12:15.000 --> 12:16.000 No other way? 12:16.000 --> 12:17.000 Get it. 12:18.000 --> 12:19.000 Okay. 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 Does Tom make a phone call while he was here? 12:21.000 --> 12:22.000 No. 12:22.000 --> 12:23.000 What did he have to say to you? 12:23.000 --> 12:25.000 He told me he just wound up a deal. He did pretty good on it. 12:25.000 --> 12:26.000 He said he was going home. 12:26.000 --> 12:27.000 You live in town? 12:27.000 --> 12:30.000 Not regular. He's from, I don't know, Nevada I think. 12:30.000 --> 12:31.000 You say where? 12:31.000 --> 12:34.000 Well, he mentioned some small town, a boulder city I think. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 There's not a street or anything there. 12:35.000 --> 12:36.000 You want to get the girl's address? 12:37.000 --> 12:38.000 Yeah. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 I hope you understand about the four. 12:42.000 --> 12:43.000 What do you mean? 12:43.000 --> 12:44.000 Why I wouldn't go with you from the front. 12:44.000 --> 12:45.000 Tell us. 12:45.000 --> 12:46.000 Well, it's Alice. 12:46.000 --> 12:47.000 Yeah. 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 She'd be in real trouble if it got out she was seeing Tom. 12:49.000 --> 12:50.000 Why? 12:50.000 --> 12:52.000 I don't think her husband would go for it. 12:57.000 --> 12:59.000 We called the name and description of the waitress into R&I, 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 but we found there was no record on her. 13:01.000 --> 13:03.000 Frank and I left the bar and went over to her home. 13:03.000 --> 13:06.000 It was a run down apartment building on Court Street. 13:06.000 --> 13:10.000 We checked with the manager and she told us that the girl's husband left about 9.30 that morning. 13:10.000 --> 13:14.000 She went on to say that Alice Colbar seldom left the place before 3.30 13:14.000 --> 13:16.000 and that as far as she knew she was still at home. 13:16.000 --> 13:18.000 Frank and I went up to talk to her. 13:23.000 --> 13:24.000 Probably asleep, huh? 13:24.000 --> 13:25.000 Mm-hmm. 13:28.000 --> 13:29.000 Miss Colbar. 13:29.000 --> 13:30.000 The door open? 13:32.000 --> 13:33.000 Yeah. 13:34.000 --> 13:35.000 I got your flashlight. 13:35.000 --> 13:36.000 Yeah, here. 13:37.000 --> 13:38.000 Miss Colbar? 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 Throw the light over there, Frank, in the corner near the bed. 13:42.000 --> 13:43.000 I'll call an ambulance. 13:43.000 --> 13:45.000 Yeah, tell them to step on it. 13:45.000 --> 13:46.000 How's she look? 13:46.000 --> 13:47.000 Like she's dead. 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 From the appearance of the room there had been a fight. 13:56.000 --> 13:58.000 Furniture was overturned, lamps were lit. 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 Furniture was overturned, lamps were broken. 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 Several bottles had apparently been smashed against the walls. 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 The body of Alice Colbar was lying on the floor near the bed. 14:05.000 --> 14:09.000 Her face was buried in the pillows if she'd used it to ward off additional blows from her attacker. 14:09.000 --> 14:13.000 An ambulance crew arrived and she was removed to George Street Receiving Hospital for treatment. 14:13.000 --> 14:18.000 A thorough search of the room failed to turn up anything to lead to the identity of the person who'd beaten her. 14:18.000 --> 14:22.000 We talked to the landlady again and we found that Irvin Colbar, the victim's husband, 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 was employed at a golf driving range out in the valley. 14:24.000 --> 14:27.000 We checked the name and description through the record section 14:27.000 --> 14:29.000 and we found that he had one arrest for drunk driving. 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 He'd been fined and placed on probation. 14:31.000 --> 14:34.000 4.26 p.m. Frank and I drove out to talk to him. 14:35.000 --> 14:36.000 I knew you'd be here. 14:36.000 --> 14:37.000 Is that right? 14:37.000 --> 14:38.000 How's Alice? 14:38.000 --> 14:39.000 Pretty rough. 14:39.000 --> 14:42.000 I don't know, just all of a sudden it was a beef and I hit her. 14:42.000 --> 14:43.000 With what? 14:43.000 --> 14:44.000 My hands. 14:44.000 --> 14:45.000 What started the argument? 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 Tom. 14:46.000 --> 14:47.000 Who's he? 14:47.000 --> 14:48.000 A friend of Alice's. 14:48.000 --> 14:49.000 You know his last name? 14:49.000 --> 14:50.000 No, I never even met him. 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 All right, tell us about it, will you? 14:52.000 --> 14:55.000 What do you don't know already? Everybody else does. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 Go ahead. 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 We've been going together for a couple of months. 14:58.000 --> 14:59.000 Alice works at a bar. 14:59.000 --> 15:02.000 Tom came in all the time. I guess it got pretty serious. 15:02.000 --> 15:03.000 Yeah. 15:03.000 --> 15:06.000 I went by the place last night, going to pick her up after work. 15:06.000 --> 15:07.000 She was gone. 15:07.000 --> 15:10.000 The bartender there told me she'd left with this fellow Tom. 15:10.000 --> 15:12.000 I got pretty sore. You can figure what it's like 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 finding your wife running around with another man. 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 Yeah. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 I had a couple of drinks. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 I was trying to think what to do. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 Right then I wanted to kill both of them. 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 A couple of guys in the bar tried to calm me down. 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 I guess I got pretty loaded. 15:25.000 --> 15:27.000 One of them took me to his place. I spent the night there. 15:27.000 --> 15:28.000 Mm-hmm. 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 Woke up this morning, went home. 15:30.000 --> 15:32.000 You got to believe me, I wasn't real sore anymore. 15:32.000 --> 15:35.000 Mad, yeah, but not so as I was going to do anything. 15:35.000 --> 15:36.000 Mm-hmm. 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 Alice was asleep when I got there. 15:38.000 --> 15:41.000 I woke her up, told her I knew all about her and Tom. 15:41.000 --> 15:42.000 Yeah. 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 Kind of thought she'd be sorry, you know, 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 say she was wrong, something like that. 15:46.000 --> 15:47.000 Uh-huh. 15:47.000 --> 15:48.000 She wasn't. 15:48.000 --> 15:49.000 Told me how her and Tom were in love 15:49.000 --> 15:52.000 and that she wanted a divorce so they could get married. 15:52.000 --> 15:55.000 Tried to talk to her, tell her how I loved her. 15:55.000 --> 15:57.000 Didn't do any good. 15:57.000 --> 16:00.000 She said we were all through for me to pack my things and get out. 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 I guess that's when I hit her, I don't know. 16:02.000 --> 16:05.000 All of a sudden I wanted to smash her. That's all there is. 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 You ever met this Tom? 16:07.000 --> 16:08.000 No. 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 How about the other guys in the bar? They know him? 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 I talked to them. I think that's about it. 16:12.000 --> 16:13.000 Any idea where he lives? 16:13.000 --> 16:14.000 No. 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 Tried to find out last night. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 None of the people around the place know him. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 I found out I'd killed him. 16:20.000 --> 16:22.000 You better get your coat. 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 Yeah. 16:24.000 --> 16:25.000 What are you going to do to me? 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 That's not up to us. 16:27.000 --> 16:28.000 I didn't kill her though, huh? 16:28.000 --> 16:31.000 She's still in critical condition. 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 Guess it doesn't make a difference anyway. 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 We only been married a couple of years. 16:35.000 --> 16:38.000 Won't be much without her. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 Never figured it'd end up like this. 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 I really loved her. 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 Done anything in the world to make her happy. 16:44.000 --> 16:45.000 How do you answer it? 16:45.000 --> 16:46.000 What's that? 16:46.000 --> 16:47.000 Why she did it. 16:47.000 --> 16:48.000 I wouldn't know. 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 I asked her, she wouldn't tell me. Just said it was over. 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 She wouldn't give me one reason. 16:52.000 --> 16:53.000 All right, come on, let's go. 16:53.000 --> 16:54.000 Can I see her? 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 Go check on her. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 I want to ask her, find out why. Maybe she'll tell me now. 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 Yeah, she can hear you. 17:00.000 --> 17:12.000 Ervin Colbar was taken to the main jail and booked in on charges of suspicion of violation of Section 245 PC, assault with a deadly weapon. 17:12.000 --> 17:17.000 We put in the call to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital and we found that the Colbar woman had been removed to the county hospital. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 She was still unconscious. 17:19.000 --> 17:23.000 We made arrangements to be called in the event she was able to be questioned. 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 6.45 p.m. 17:25.000 --> 17:26.000 We talked to Lieutenant Lee Jones. 17:26.000 --> 17:31.000 He told us that the lab had been unable to come up with any useful information at the scene of the crime. 17:31.000 --> 17:37.000 He said that they'd identified the manufacturer of the hat that the suspect had worn and they gave us their local address. 17:37.000 --> 17:44.000 He went on to say, however, that hairs found in the lining of the hat would act as corroborative evidence if the suspect were apprehended. 17:44.000 --> 17:48.000 We put in a call to the hat company, but we found that their officers were closed. 17:48.000 --> 17:53.000 We contacted the Las Vegas Police Department and asked them to check on the store who'd sold the garment. 17:53.000 --> 17:58.000 We gave them a complete description of the suspect and the initials TR with the possible first name of Tom. 17:58.000 --> 18:02.000 They said they'd call back the next morning with whatever information they could obtain. 18:02.000 --> 18:09.000 Wednesday, February 9th, we got word from County Hospital that Mrs. Alice Colbar had died in her sleep without regaining consciousness. 18:09.000 --> 18:12.000 The case was turned over to homicide officers for completion. 18:12.000 --> 18:17.000 Additional teams of men were sent out to the bar where she was employed in an effort to find some trace of the missing suspect. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 11.15 a.m. 18:19.000 --> 18:43.000 I'm going to talk to you. What'd they say? Yeah. How many? Looks pretty good, huh? What about a record? Yeah. Okay. 18:43.000 --> 18:52.000 18.64. 54. Right. Now I got it. Yeah. We'll let you know. Thanks for the help. Bye. 18:52.000 --> 18:58.000 Las Vegas. What do you got? Well, they checked with the clothing store where the hat was bought. It's a new model. Only been out a couple of months. 18:58.000 --> 19:02.000 Remember the guy who bought it? Yeah. Description didn't mean anything, but the initials did. 19:02.000 --> 19:09.000 The clerk said the hat was bought by Thomas Roark. Vegas got anything on him? Yeah. A couple of arrests for robbery. Do any big time? No. The cases wouldn't hold. 19:09.000 --> 19:16.000 They know where he is? They got an idea. Yeah. He's supposed to live out in Covina. 19:16.000 --> 19:21.000 Frank and I checked the name Thomas Roark through RNI and we found one assault arrest on a man answering his description. 19:21.000 --> 19:27.000 The mug shots were pulled and shown to the robbery victim and the witness. Both of them gave us positive identifications. 19:27.000 --> 19:32.000 We contacted the Covina Police Department and told them what had happened. They assured us a complete cooperation. 19:32.000 --> 19:37.000 Along with officers JJ O'Donnell and Sergeant Jim Austin, Frank and I left the office to take the suspect into custody. 19:37.000 --> 19:44.000 We met with officers from the Covina PD and we drove to 1854 Eldred Avenue. It was a small redwood house set well back on the lot. 19:44.000 --> 19:49.000 In the driveway was a late model Plymouth Coupe. From the street there was no sign of life. 19:49.000 --> 19:52.000 The shades were drawn and the front porch was covered with advertising newspapers. 19:52.000 --> 19:56.000 While O'Donnell and Austin covered the rear of the house, Frank and I went up the front door. 19:58.000 --> 20:01.000 You all set? Yeah. 20:01.000 --> 20:04.000 No one here? I'll take that side. 20:04.000 --> 20:07.000 Right. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 Nothing out back. How you doing? 20:09.000 --> 20:12.000 Wait a minute. Closet. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 I give up, don't you? 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 Go on out there. Yes. 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 I'll do like you say. No troubles, sir. Please, no trouble. 20:19.000 --> 20:21.000 Keep those hands where I can see them. Yes, sir. Just like you say. 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 Now turn around. Hands on the wall. Quick. Yes, sir. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 Come on, move. 20:25.000 --> 20:26.000 We won't find anything. 20:26.000 --> 20:31.000 Haven't done anything wrong. You got the wrong man. Yeah, sure. 20:31.000 --> 20:33.000 I'm telling you the truth, sir. I wouldn't lie. 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 All right. Come on. Let's go. Yes, sir. 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 I got a coat. Point it out. 20:37.000 --> 20:39.000 In the closet. Great. I'll get it. 20:39.000 --> 20:41.000 What's this all about, sir? You don't need a picture. 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 I'm afraid I do. I don't know why you're doing this. 20:43.000 --> 20:45.000 Is that your car in the driveway? Yes, sir. 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 You live here alone? No, sir. This is my sister's house. 20:47.000 --> 20:49.000 Where is she? Working, sir. 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 Here. Stick it on. Let's go. 20:51.000 --> 20:54.000 Can I get a hat? Don't bother. 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 We got one that'll fit you. 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 The suspect was taken to the city hall in question. 21:04.000 --> 21:08.000 For an hour, he maintained that he didn't know anything about the diamond robbery. 21:08.000 --> 21:14.000 While Frank and I were talking to him, the other officers were making a thorough search of his sister's house and her grounds. 21:14.000 --> 21:19.000 3.15 p.m. We got word that the diamonds had been found in the backyard of the place. 21:19.000 --> 21:23.000 When he was confronted with this information, the suspect made a full confession. 21:23.000 --> 21:27.000 6.08 p.m. He'd just finished giving us a statement. 21:28.000 --> 21:31.000 All right. This is a true statement, is it? 21:31.000 --> 21:34.000 Yes, sir. You make it without promises of reward or immunity. 21:34.000 --> 21:38.000 There's been no force exerted on you. You give this statement of your own free will, right? 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 Yep. All right. 21:40.000 --> 21:44.000 Here. Here's a pen. Sign all copies. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 Too bad about Alice. Yep. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 Nice kitten. 21:50.000 --> 21:54.000 Got too serious, though. Is that so? Yep. 21:54.000 --> 21:58.000 Yeah, I talked all the time about how she was gonna leave her husband, how we were gonna get married. 21:58.000 --> 22:01.000 Sign all copies, fellow. Yep. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 We missed one here. Get this one here. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 All right. 22:05.000 --> 22:08.000 She knew I was going back to Nevada, wanted me to take her. 22:08.000 --> 22:11.000 Silly. Yeah. 22:11.000 --> 22:16.000 Nothing between us. A little flirtation. You know, something to kill time. 22:16.000 --> 22:18.000 She didn't mean anything to me, nothing at all. 22:18.000 --> 22:20.000 You want to give me that pen? Yeah. 22:22.000 --> 22:25.000 I wouldn't have married her on a bet. I'll tell you that for true. 22:25.000 --> 22:27.000 Mm-hmm. 22:27.000 --> 22:30.000 She didn't mean a thing to me. You ought to believe it. 22:30.000 --> 22:33.000 Look, fellow, you don't have to convince us. Huh? 22:33.000 --> 22:35.000 We'll let you talk to her husband. 22:42.000 --> 22:45.000 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you have just heard is true. 22:45.000 --> 22:48.000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 22:48.000 --> 22:53.000 On June 9th, trial was held in Department 98, Superior Court of the State of California, 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 23:03.000 --> 23:07.000 Thomas Emery Roark was tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree 23:07.000 --> 23:10.000 and received sentence as prescribed by law. 23:10.000 --> 23:17.000 Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a period of not less than five years. 23:17.000 --> 23:21.000 Irvin Franklin Colbar was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree 23:21.000 --> 23:43.000 and was sentenced to the State Penitentiary for a period of from five years to life. 23:43.000 --> 23:47.000 You have just heard Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action 23:47.000 --> 23:52.000 and starring Jack Webb, a presentation of United States Armed Forces radio service.