WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 Drag me. 00:03.000 --> 00:10.000 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. 00:10.000 --> 00:13.000 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:13.000 --> 00:25.000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned the bunko fugitive detail. 00:25.000 --> 00:31.000 A secretary tells you her employer has suddenly left town. She says he's taken all the company records with him. 00:31.000 --> 00:37.000 Your job, check it out. 00:37.000 --> 00:42.000 It was Monday, May 18th. It was cloudy in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of bunko fugitive detail. 00:42.000 --> 00:45.000 My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Didion. My name's Friday. 00:45.000 --> 00:52.000 We were on our way back from lunch and it was 1.46 p.m. when we got to room 38. Bunko fugitive. 00:52.000 --> 00:53.000 Sergeant Friday? 00:53.000 --> 00:55.000 That's right. 00:55.000 --> 00:56.000 They told me to see you. 00:56.000 --> 00:58.000 Yes ma'am, it's my partner Frank Smith. 00:58.000 --> 00:59.000 How do you do? 00:59.000 --> 01:01.000 Good afternoon. 01:01.000 --> 01:04.000 My name's Givens. Clara Givens. 01:04.000 --> 01:06.000 Would you like to sit down here? 01:06.000 --> 01:10.000 Thank you. 01:10.000 --> 01:13.000 All right. 01:13.000 --> 01:14.000 Well? 01:14.000 --> 01:16.000 Yes ma'am. 01:16.000 --> 01:22.000 It isn't anything when you put your finger on it. At least it isn't anything I'm sure of. 01:22.000 --> 01:26.000 Wasn't even my idea. Coming to the police. 01:26.000 --> 01:31.000 Mama said I... I mean my mother advised me to discuss this matter with you. 01:31.000 --> 01:32.000 I see. 01:32.000 --> 01:35.000 She's always claimed there's something funny about my job. 01:35.000 --> 01:39.000 She said this just goes to prove it. I'm sure she's mistaken. 01:39.000 --> 01:42.000 I'm sure Mr. Orlean wouldn't do anything wrong. 01:42.000 --> 01:43.000 Mr. Orlean? 01:43.000 --> 01:47.000 Oh he's my boss. My employer, Henry Orlean. 01:47.000 --> 01:50.000 The thing is he's disappeared. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 Yeah? 01:52.000 --> 01:53.000 All of a sudden. 01:53.000 --> 01:54.000 I wanted to see him last. 01:54.000 --> 01:57.000 Friday. Friday evening when I left the office. 5 p.m. 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 Have you checked with his home? 01:59.000 --> 02:02.000 I don't know where he lives. He never told me. 02:02.000 --> 02:03.000 I see. 02:03.000 --> 02:07.000 He's never gone out of town before. Not since I started working for him. 02:07.000 --> 02:08.000 How long has that been? 02:08.000 --> 02:11.000 Seven months. Seven months on the third. 02:11.000 --> 02:12.000 What kind of business is he in? 02:12.000 --> 02:15.000 Uranium. Uranium stocks. 02:15.000 --> 02:19.000 Multiple Uranium Investments Incorporated. That's the name of his company. 02:19.000 --> 02:20.000 I see. 02:20.000 --> 02:23.000 Well don't the other employees have any idea where he went? 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 There aren't any other employees. I'm the only one. 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 Oh I see. Have you talked to a missing person? 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 No. No I haven't. 02:29.000 --> 02:31.000 You see mama doesn't think he's missing. 02:31.000 --> 02:34.000 She says he's skipped out that he's a crook. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 Does your mother know this Mr. Orlean? 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 Only what I told her about him. They've never met. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 She's been suspicious from the very beginning though. 02:41.000 --> 02:44.000 Fated to go following you. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 Well it's... 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 Well it's kind of hard to explain. 02:48.000 --> 02:49.000 How's that? 02:49.000 --> 02:53.000 You see the thing is mama just can't understand why he ever hired me. 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 Hmm? 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 The employment office sent me to see him. 02:57.000 --> 03:00.000 Along with seven or eight other secretaries. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 Mr. Orlean picked me out from all the rest. 03:03.000 --> 03:05.000 Was there something strange in that? 03:05.000 --> 03:09.000 Well the truth is I'm not much of a stenographer. 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 Not a real good one that is. 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 I get kind of nervous whenever I have to take dictation. 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 My typing's just fair too. 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 I could do a real clean copy if they'd just let me take my time. 03:19.000 --> 03:20.000 But they never do. 03:20.000 --> 03:21.000 Is that right? 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 Except for Mr. Orlean. 03:23.000 --> 03:26.000 He doesn't rush me or get me all upset. 03:26.000 --> 03:30.000 It's the first time I've ever been able to hang on to a job. 03:30.000 --> 03:31.000 Pays awful good. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 Twenty dollars a week more than I ever earned before. 03:34.000 --> 03:35.000 That's so. 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 Mama couldn't believe it when I told her. 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 She said there's a catch to it someplace. 03:39.000 --> 03:40.000 Hmm. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 It'd be different if I was... 03:42.000 --> 03:43.000 Well... 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 If I wasn't plain. 03:45.000 --> 03:48.000 Two or three of the other girls who tried out for Mr. Orlean. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 They were very attractive and they all had nice clothes. 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 Mm-hmm. 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 Mama sure was surprised when I told her he'd picked me. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 That there's a catch to it somewhere. 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 That's how she put it. 03:58.000 --> 04:02.000 He's up to something and he wants a secretary who's not too bright. 04:02.000 --> 04:07.000 Well I'm afraid we're going to need more than that to start an investigation, Miss Gibbons. 04:07.000 --> 04:08.000 Yes sir. 04:08.000 --> 04:09.000 I see. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 Well thank you very much. 04:11.000 --> 04:12.000 Just a minute. 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 Does he owe you any back wages? 04:13.000 --> 04:14.000 Oh no. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 No, I'm paid up a month in advance. 04:16.000 --> 04:17.000 Mm-hmm. 04:17.000 --> 04:20.000 That was another thing that seemed funny. 04:20.000 --> 04:23.000 I mean when you think about it now it seems funny. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 What do you mean? 04:24.000 --> 04:29.000 My being with him less than a year and him wanting me to take a vacation with pay a whole month off. 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 How'd that come about? 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 Well it was just last week. 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 Monday. 04:34.000 --> 04:35.000 Mm-hmm. 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 A week ago today when he brought up the subject. 04:38.000 --> 04:43.000 He said it was getting on towards summer and I had to start thinking about where I wanted to go on my vacation. 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 Yeah. 04:44.000 --> 04:48.000 I told him I didn't feel entitled to a vacation yet. 04:48.000 --> 04:52.000 He just smiled and said it was up to him to decide that. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 But he's the boss, wasn't he? 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 Then he insisted I tell him just where I wanted to go. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 I couldn't think of any place at all. 04:59.000 --> 05:03.000 He finally asked me why I didn't visit my sister in Hawaii. 05:03.000 --> 05:04.000 I see. 05:04.000 --> 05:07.000 She's married to a Navy officer stationed in Honolulu. 05:07.000 --> 05:10.000 I guess I must have mentioned her to Mr. Rowan. 05:10.000 --> 05:13.000 I guess that's what I knew about her. 05:13.000 --> 05:15.000 Yes ma'am, must be. 05:15.000 --> 05:18.000 But the idea of ever paying her a visit hadn't even crossed my mind. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 Mm-hmm. 05:19.000 --> 05:27.000 I tried to argue with him but he pretended to get mad and told me if I was a good enough secretary to deserve a holiday he's going to see that I got it. 05:27.000 --> 05:32.000 Then he said he'd make up for it when I got back that he'd really pour the work on. 05:32.000 --> 05:33.000 Mm-hmm. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 I knew he wasn't serious about pouring the work on. 05:35.000 --> 05:39.000 But it did seem like he really wanted me to go to Hawaii. 05:39.000 --> 05:41.000 Well why didn't you take him up on it? 05:41.000 --> 05:44.000 Well I meant to. I had my ticket. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 Round trip flight. 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 Mr. Rowan paid for it just like he said he would. 05:48.000 --> 05:49.000 Yeah. 05:49.000 --> 05:51.000 I was supposed to leave Saturday night. 05:51.000 --> 05:54.000 I sent Anne an airmail letter telling her all about the trip. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 That's my sister, Anne Burkott. 05:56.000 --> 05:57.000 Yeah. 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 Well Saturday morning she wired me not to come. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 Her husband's being transferred in a week or two. 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 But she wasn't sure where. 06:05.000 --> 06:06.000 Maybe back to the States. 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 I see. 06:07.000 --> 06:12.000 Oh I suppose I could have made the trip anyway but it wouldn't be any fun going some place where I didn't know anybody. 06:12.000 --> 06:15.000 I don't make friends very easy. 06:15.000 --> 06:16.000 Is that so? 06:16.000 --> 06:22.000 Well I didn't know just what to do whether Mr. Rowan would still want me to take the month off or not. 06:22.000 --> 06:26.000 I went down to the office this morning to talk to him about it. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 He wasn't there. Everything was gone. 06:28.000 --> 06:29.000 Yeah. 06:29.000 --> 06:34.000 From the safe, all records and stock certificates, everything. 06:34.000 --> 06:38.000 And corporation papers he had framed up on the wall. They were gone too. 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 Had somebody broken in? 06:40.000 --> 06:41.000 I don't think so. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 The door to the suit was locked when I got there. It had my key. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 And what about safe? 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 I don't understand. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 Well was the safe open or closed? 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 Closed. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.000 Well how'd you happen to look inside? 06:53.000 --> 06:58.000 I telephoned my mother and told her that Mr. Rowan wasn't there and she said I'd better check and see if anything was missing. 06:58.000 --> 07:01.000 Said it sounded to her like he'd skipped out. 07:01.000 --> 07:05.000 After I looked in the safe she told me to get in touch with the police. 07:05.000 --> 07:09.000 Well now just exactly what sort of business was this uranium company? 07:09.000 --> 07:14.000 Mr. Rowan invested in various uranium stocks. 07:14.000 --> 07:15.000 For other people? 07:15.000 --> 07:16.000 Yes that's right. 07:16.000 --> 07:17.000 Which bank did he use? 07:17.000 --> 07:21.000 Western National. The accounts in the main branch. 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 I'll give him a call Joe. 07:22.000 --> 07:23.000 Yeah. 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 Okay. 07:24.000 --> 07:28.000 Well there just wouldn't be any reason for him to run away would there? 07:28.000 --> 07:29.000 Well it's pretty hard to tell yet. 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 I mean he's doing a real good business. 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 Well that might be a reason. 07:33.000 --> 07:34.000 Oh? 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 You know the names of his customers? 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 The people who invested in Mr. Rowan? 07:37.000 --> 07:38.000 That's right. 07:38.000 --> 07:41.000 Well I guess I could remember some of them. 07:41.000 --> 07:45.000 Books are gone though. I wouldn't be able to recall them all. 07:45.000 --> 07:46.000 I see. 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 The old customers, the ones who've been with us for several months, I'd remember them. 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 Uh huh. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 Was the business new when you started to work with him? 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Yes sir, brand new. 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 Find out anything? 07:55.000 --> 07:59.000 Yeah, Orlean closed out the mullable uranium bank account last Friday evening. 07:59.000 --> 08:00.000 A little before six. 08:00.000 --> 08:01.000 Six? 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 Yeah. 08:02.000 --> 08:03.000 Banks they open late on Fridays Joe. 08:03.000 --> 08:04.000 Oh I forgot. 08:04.000 --> 08:05.000 How much did he withdraw? 08:05.000 --> 08:06.000 Just under a hundred thousand. 08:06.000 --> 08:07.000 A lot of money. 08:07.000 --> 08:08.000 Yeah. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 I guess mama was right about him. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 I'm starting to look that way. 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 I should have known. 08:14.000 --> 08:16.000 From the beginning I should have known. 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 What? 08:17.000 --> 08:25.000 She's always right. 08:25.000 --> 08:29.000 While Frank put in a call to Sacramento to check on the corporate status of multiple uranium investments, 08:29.000 --> 08:33.000 I asked Clara Givens to give me a detailed description of the suspect. 08:33.000 --> 08:38.000 Two twenty eight p.m. Sacramento reported that no such corporation had ever been authorized. 08:38.000 --> 08:41.000 We ran the name Henry Orlean through RNI and they had nothing on him. 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 We turned the description and MO over to the stats office. 08:44.000 --> 08:47.000 They came up with seven possible stock fraud artists. 08:47.000 --> 08:50.000 We pulled their mug shots and showed them to Miss Givens. 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 She was unable to identify any of the pictures. 08:52.000 --> 08:57.000 Three oh seven p.m. Miss Givens accompanied us to the Wendler building on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile. 08:57.000 --> 09:02.000 We went up to Suite 4D. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 Just a second until I find my key. 09:04.000 --> 09:07.000 Yes ma'am. 09:07.000 --> 09:12.000 Here it is. 09:12.000 --> 09:17.000 This is the outer office where I work. 09:17.000 --> 09:18.000 That's his office in there? 09:18.000 --> 09:22.000 Yes sir. 09:22.000 --> 09:23.000 That's real fancy. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 Have you talked to the building manager today? 09:25.000 --> 09:26.000 No sir. 09:25.000 --> 09:26.000 Is he around do you know? 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 There isn't any manager. 09:28.000 --> 09:31.000 Not exactly. The owner has an office down the hall. 09:31.000 --> 09:33.000 I'd be glad to find out if he's in. 09:33.000 --> 09:34.000 Thank you. 09:34.000 --> 09:35.000 You'll be here? 09:35.000 --> 09:38.000 Yes ma'am. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 Very impressive quarters huh? 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 Must have been a very impressive guy. 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 Yeah. 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 Look at that John. I wonder what he had up there. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 On the wall. See that spot? 09:48.000 --> 09:51.000 Looks like it used to be a picture or something. 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 Those incorporation papers maybe huh? 09:53.000 --> 09:54.000 Phony. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.000 I don't know as far as the state of California is concerned they're phony. 09:57.000 --> 09:59.000 This is Mr. Wendler. 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 Mr. Wendler is Sergeant Friday. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 How are you? 10:02.000 --> 10:03.000 How do. 10:03.000 --> 10:07.000 This is... I'm off the ferry. I don't seem to remember your name. 10:07.000 --> 10:08.000 Sorry my name's Frank Smith. 10:08.000 --> 10:11.000 Pleased to meet you. This is our identification. 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 Forget him. 10:13.000 --> 10:16.000 Well you're the owner of this building are you? 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 Well it's the Wendler building. I'm Ted Wendler. 10:18.000 --> 10:19.000 Yes sir. 10:19.000 --> 10:20.000 Draw your own conclusions. 10:20.000 --> 10:23.000 Do you have any objections to answering a few questions Wendler? 10:23.000 --> 10:24.000 No. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Alright will you answer them for us please? 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 I thought I was. 10:27.000 --> 10:29.000 Yes sir I asked you one before to own this building. 10:29.000 --> 10:30.000 Outright. 10:30.000 --> 10:31.000 That isn't important. 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 It's important to me. It's important to the mortgage company. 10:33.000 --> 10:34.000 Is it in your name? 10:34.000 --> 10:35.000 Yes it's in my name. 10:35.000 --> 10:36.000 Alright fine. 10:36.000 --> 10:37.000 What about the man who rented this suite? 10:37.000 --> 10:38.000 Yes sir. 10:38.000 --> 10:39.000 What about him? 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 Did you know he left town? 10:40.000 --> 10:41.000 Well she just told me. 10:41.000 --> 10:42.000 Did you know about it before? 10:42.000 --> 10:43.000 No. 10:43.000 --> 10:44.000 What can you tell us about him? 10:44.000 --> 10:45.000 He's a broker or something. Uranium stocks I guess. 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 We got that much. 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 That's all you know about him huh? 10:47.000 --> 10:48.000 Yeah. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 How long has he rented from you? 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 Let's see a little over seven months. 10:52.000 --> 10:53.000 He ate on the third. 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 Did he mention anything about where he had offices before? 10:55.000 --> 10:56.000 No he said he was from back east. 10:56.000 --> 10:57.000 Any particular place? 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 No. 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 Why what's he done? 10:59.000 --> 11:00.000 We like to talk to him that's all. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Well maybe he'll come back. 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 Well if he doesn't it's all the same to me. 11:04.000 --> 11:05.000 Why? 11:05.000 --> 11:07.000 I made him pay his rent in advance the whole first year. 11:07.000 --> 11:08.000 That's your usual practice? 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 No only with fellas in the stock market. 11:10.000 --> 11:11.000 You see I remember 1929. 11:11.000 --> 11:12.000 Yeah. 11:12.000 --> 11:14.000 You never know what's going to happen not with fellas in the market. 11:14.000 --> 11:15.000 You see I remember 29. 11:15.000 --> 11:16.000 Yeah. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 If Orleans stays away I'm way ahead of him. 11:18.000 --> 11:19.000 Rent's paid up. 11:19.000 --> 11:20.000 I'm nearly five months ahead of him. 11:20.000 --> 11:21.000 Yes sir. 11:21.000 --> 11:22.000 I wish we were. 11:22.000 --> 11:30.000 Ted Wendler confirmed Miss Gibbons description of the suspect and insisted he could tell 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 us nothing further about the man. 11:32.000 --> 11:36.000 While a crew from the crime lab went over the offices we again questioned Clara Gibbons. 11:36.000 --> 11:39.000 She gave us the names and addresses of some of the people who had invested money with 11:39.000 --> 11:40.000 Orleans. 11:40.000 --> 11:44.000 4.48 p.m. the crime lab reported that they'd been unable to discover any useful fingerprints 11:44.000 --> 11:45.000 in the suite. 11:45.000 --> 11:48.000 The only physical evidence they had uncovered was a copy of a prospectus which purported 11:48.000 --> 11:52.000 to list various securities owned by multiple uranium investments. 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 It had fallen behind a filing cabinet. 11:54.000 --> 11:59.000 The next day May 19th Frank and I checked with several of the uranium companies listed 11:59.000 --> 12:00.000 on the prospectus. 12:00.000 --> 12:04.000 They all informed us that none of their stock had ever been purchased by multiple uranium 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 incorporated or Henry Orleans. 12:06.000 --> 12:09.000 3.13 p.m. Frank and I drove out to interview one of the victims. 12:09.000 --> 12:10.000 Would you like to sit down? 12:10.000 --> 12:11.000 Thank you. 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 Miss Custis do you know a man named Henry Orleans? 12:14.000 --> 12:15.000 Yes. 12:15.000 --> 12:16.000 Yes I know him. 12:16.000 --> 12:17.000 Why? 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 Did you ever invest any money with him? 12:19.000 --> 12:20.000 Five thousand dollars. 12:20.000 --> 12:21.000 Nothing's happened to Mr. Orleans. 12:21.000 --> 12:22.000 We aren't sure yet. 12:22.000 --> 12:24.000 How'd you happen to give him the money? 12:24.000 --> 12:26.000 It was some insurance my husband left me. 12:26.000 --> 12:27.000 Yes ma'am. 12:27.000 --> 12:28.000 I'd kept it in savings. 12:28.000 --> 12:29.000 Didn't bring in much interest. 12:29.000 --> 12:31.000 When I heard about Mr. Orleans' company. 12:31.000 --> 12:32.000 Where did you hear about it? 12:32.000 --> 12:33.000 Do you remember? 12:33.000 --> 12:34.000 At the hospital. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 Ma'am? 12:35.000 --> 12:36.000 St. Agnes Children's Hospital. 12:36.000 --> 12:37.000 Oh. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 I spend a day a week there helping out in the charity ward. 12:39.000 --> 12:40.000 I'm on some of the committees too. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 You know fundraising, things like that. 12:42.000 --> 12:43.000 Yes ma'am. 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 Oh I'm not one of the big people behind the work but somebody has to get out and dig for 12:46.000 --> 12:47.000 the little donations too. 12:47.000 --> 12:48.000 Yes ma'am I do. 12:48.000 --> 12:50.000 And I have quite a bit of free time now. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 Do you remember who it was that first mentioned Mr. Orleans to you? 12:53.000 --> 12:56.000 I think it was Mrs. Larrington. 12:56.000 --> 12:57.000 Larrington? 12:57.000 --> 12:58.000 Yes Mrs. Arthur Larrington. 12:58.000 --> 12:59.000 You must have heard of her. 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 She does so much charity work around town. 13:01.000 --> 13:02.000 She's very prominent socially. 13:02.000 --> 13:03.000 Yes ma'am. 13:03.000 --> 13:06.000 Just what did she say about Mr. Orleans' company? 13:06.000 --> 13:09.000 Well she wasn't talking to me exactly. 13:09.000 --> 13:12.000 One afternoon when she was showing some people the plan for the new clinic. 13:12.000 --> 13:14.000 I guess she was asking them for some contributions. 13:14.000 --> 13:16.000 That's how it sounded. 13:16.000 --> 13:19.000 One of the ladies said it all depended on how well her husband's stocks did during the next 13:19.000 --> 13:20.000 quarter. 13:20.000 --> 13:21.000 I see. 13:21.000 --> 13:24.000 And Mrs. Larrington laughed and told her her husband ought to be in multiple uranium. 13:24.000 --> 13:27.000 But he wouldn't have anything to worry about. 13:27.000 --> 13:28.000 Go on. 13:28.000 --> 13:29.000 Well that was all I heard. 13:29.000 --> 13:32.000 They went on to the next room. 13:32.000 --> 13:36.000 Afterwards I got to thinking if this uranium stock was good enough for Mrs. Larrington maybe 13:36.000 --> 13:37.000 I ought to check into it. 13:37.000 --> 13:40.000 You know you're always hearing about people making fortunes in uranium. 13:40.000 --> 13:41.000 Yes ma'am. 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 Well I looked up the company in the phone book and talked to Mr. Orleans. 13:43.000 --> 13:48.000 At first he wasn't very anxious for me to invest but when I told him I knew Mrs. Larrington 13:48.000 --> 13:50.000 he said he'd take me in as a favor to her. 13:50.000 --> 13:51.000 When was all this? 13:51.000 --> 13:54.000 Oh about four months ago. 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 Have you seen Mr. Orleans since? 13:56.000 --> 13:57.000 No. 13:57.000 --> 13:58.000 You heard from him? 13:58.000 --> 13:59.000 Not directly. 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 I get a dividend check every month though. 14:01.000 --> 14:02.000 Stock's paying very well. 14:02.000 --> 14:03.000 I figured it out. 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 On a yearly basis it'll come to over 30%. 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 You can't do much better than that. 14:07.000 --> 14:11.000 I told some of my friends about it too so they could get in on it. 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 Well thank you very much ma'am. 14:13.000 --> 14:16.000 You still haven't explained what this is all about. 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 We're trying to get in touch with Mr. Orleans that's all. 14:18.000 --> 14:20.000 Oh the Wendler building on Wilshire Boulevard. 14:20.000 --> 14:21.000 That's where he's off to. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 The Wendler building. 14:22.000 --> 14:23.000 Yes ma'am. 14:23.000 --> 14:24.000 Isn't he there? 14:24.000 --> 14:25.000 No he isn't. 14:25.000 --> 14:26.000 I don't understand. 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 Orleans seems to have disappeared. 14:28.000 --> 14:30.000 What about my money? 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 I'm afraid that went with him. 14:32.000 --> 14:33.000 Why that isn't possible. 14:33.000 --> 14:34.000 He couldn't have. 14:34.000 --> 14:37.000 Mrs. Lawrence said it was a good stock. 14:37.000 --> 14:38.000 Yes ma'am we'll talk to her about it. 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 Well he paid me dividends every month. 14:40.000 --> 14:41.000 Good dividends. 14:41.000 --> 14:43.000 Yeah well I wouldn't count on any more of them. 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 Why I'll bring charges against him. 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 I'll have him put in jail. 14:46.000 --> 14:47.000 He'll find out. 14:47.000 --> 14:49.000 But that's all you need isn't it? 14:49.000 --> 14:50.000 Somebody to bring charges? 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 No ma'am not quite. 14:51.000 --> 14:52.000 Well what do you mean? 14:52.000 --> 14:53.000 We need him. 14:53.000 --> 15:03.000 Frank and I left Mrs. Custis and drove out to interview another victim. 15:03.000 --> 15:05.000 Mrs. J.T. Pressing on Highland Avenue. 15:05.000 --> 15:08.000 She told us that she had invested eight thousand dollars in multiple uranium. 15:08.000 --> 15:13.000 She also told us that she had first heard about the stock to a friend who was on the fundraising committee for St. Agnes Hospital. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 We interviewed three more victims. 15:15.000 --> 15:20.000 All of them were in some way associated with the hospital or were acquainted with Mrs. Arthur Lorington. 15:20.000 --> 15:23.000 8.45 p.m. We drove up to the Lorington Estate in Bel Air. 15:23.000 --> 15:27.000 A maid showed us into the library and said that Mrs. Lorington would see us in a few minutes. 15:27.000 --> 15:28.000 Hey Joe. 15:28.000 --> 15:29.000 Yeah. 15:29.000 --> 15:30.000 That's her. 15:30.000 --> 15:31.000 Huh? 15:31.000 --> 15:33.000 Up there on the wall that painting, that's Mrs. Lorington. 15:33.000 --> 15:34.000 Yeah. 15:34.000 --> 15:35.000 Saw it in the Sunday paper once. 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 Society page. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 Real honest to gosh. 15:39.000 --> 15:40.000 Artist did it. 15:40.000 --> 15:41.000 You don't say. 15:41.000 --> 15:42.000 Hmm. 15:42.000 --> 15:43.000 Probably flatters her a lot. 15:43.000 --> 15:44.000 Maybe. 15:44.000 --> 15:45.000 Well it's bound to. 15:45.000 --> 15:46.000 What makes you think so? 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 Well it stands to reason Joe. 15:48.000 --> 15:51.000 If all a person wants is a good likeness, a photographer ought to do the trick. 15:51.000 --> 15:52.000 Yeah. 15:52.000 --> 15:53.000 Artists know that too. 15:53.000 --> 15:54.000 They do. 15:54.000 --> 15:55.000 Hmm. 15:55.000 --> 15:56.000 Figures they want something else. 15:56.000 --> 15:58.000 Want to look better so he flatters them. 15:58.000 --> 15:59.000 Oh I see. 15:59.000 --> 16:00.000 That's the way it works. 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 Are you gentlemen waiting for me? 16:02.000 --> 16:03.000 Mrs. Lorington? 16:03.000 --> 16:04.000 That's right. 16:04.000 --> 16:05.000 We're police officers. 16:05.000 --> 16:06.000 This is Frank Smith. 16:06.000 --> 16:07.000 My name's Friday. 16:07.000 --> 16:09.000 Well I'm sure it's my husband you want to talk to. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 Unfortunately he's in San Francisco on a business trip. 16:11.000 --> 16:12.000 No ma'am. 16:12.000 --> 16:13.000 We'd like to talk to you if you don't mind. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 You know a man named Henry Orlean? 16:15.000 --> 16:16.000 Orlean? 16:16.000 --> 16:17.000 That's it, yeah. 16:17.000 --> 16:18.000 Hmm. 16:18.000 --> 16:21.000 The name sounds familiar but I meet so many people it's hard to be certain. 16:21.000 --> 16:24.000 Have you ever heard of a stock called Multiple Uranium Incorporated? 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 Oh yes, yes of course. 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 Well I didn't associate the two for a moment. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 That's Mr. Orlean's company isn't it? 16:30.000 --> 16:31.000 Yes ma'am. 16:31.000 --> 16:32.000 Do you have any money invested in that stock? 16:32.000 --> 16:37.000 No, not me personally but I can vouch for the company if that's what you want to know. 16:37.000 --> 16:40.000 You see I'm on the fundraising committee for St. Agnes Hospital. 16:40.000 --> 16:41.000 Matter of fact I'm the chairman. 16:41.000 --> 16:42.000 Yes ma'am we know. 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 And we do own some of Mr. Orlean's stock. 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 The hospital that is. 16:46.000 --> 16:48.000 Tell us how'd you happen to buy it? 16:48.000 --> 16:49.000 We didn't. 16:49.000 --> 16:50.000 It was a donation. 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 Would you mind telling us from who? 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 No not yet. 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 It's Orlean himself. 16:56.000 --> 16:57.000 I see. 16:57.000 --> 16:58.000 When did he give it to you? 16:58.000 --> 16:59.000 Last year. 16:59.000 --> 17:00.000 September. 17:00.000 --> 17:01.000 Yes it was September. 17:01.000 --> 17:03.000 Charity Bazaar. 17:03.000 --> 17:05.000 I don't recall the exact date but I can find out for you. 17:05.000 --> 17:06.000 Well September's close enough. 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 Just what was this bazaar? 17:08.000 --> 17:09.000 A party here at my home. 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 We opened the grounds to the general public. 17:11.000 --> 17:13.000 A garden party and auction combined. 17:13.000 --> 17:14.000 An auction? 17:14.000 --> 17:18.000 Some of the most picture people donated the items we sold and all the money went to the hospital. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 We raised over $25,000. 17:20.000 --> 17:23.000 Not counting what Mr. Orlean gave us. 17:23.000 --> 17:24.000 That's the stock donation. 17:24.000 --> 17:25.000 That's right. 17:25.000 --> 17:27.000 He congratulated me on the bazaar. 17:27.000 --> 17:29.000 He seemed to be very interested in charity work. 17:29.000 --> 17:33.000 I said we would certainly use his help and he offered to do whatever he could. 17:33.000 --> 17:34.000 Go ahead. 17:34.000 --> 17:37.000 He said that unfortunately he couldn't give us cash at the moment. 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 He mumbled something about a tax problem. 17:39.000 --> 17:41.000 I'm not really too clear about those things. 17:41.000 --> 17:44.000 Everyone seems to be having tax problems nowadays. 17:44.000 --> 17:48.000 So instead of an outright gift he offered us a block of stock in his company. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 I see. Now just how much stock was involved? 17:50.000 --> 17:54.000 Five hundred shares. I think something like that. 17:54.000 --> 17:58.000 At any rate he said the market value of what he was giving us would be in the neighborhood of $10,000. 17:58.000 --> 18:00.000 Did he tell you anything else about it? 18:00.000 --> 18:04.000 He didn't go into the details of his corporation and I certainly didn't question him. 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 You don't look a gift horse in the mouth. 18:06.000 --> 18:08.000 Yes ma'am. 18:08.000 --> 18:15.000 All I recall he said his company owned shares in other uranium companies so that the money was well diversified. 18:15.000 --> 18:16.000 Now was that all? 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 Yes I believe so. 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 Except that he made one request. 18:20.000 --> 18:21.000 What was it? 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 He asked me not to sell the stock for at least a year. 18:23.000 --> 18:24.000 To give you a reason? 18:24.000 --> 18:25.000 Oh yes. 18:25.000 --> 18:28.000 He said that within a year's time it would double in market value. 18:28.000 --> 18:31.000 And in the meantime the hospital would be receiving excellent dividends. 18:31.000 --> 18:32.000 I see. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 As a matter of fact the dividends have been remarkable. 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 Something like $500 a month I believe our treasurer told me. 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 Mr. Orlean must be a very shrewd investor. 18:40.000 --> 18:44.000 Did you ever discuss this uranium stock with any of your friends Miss Larkin? 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 Why yes, once or twice. 18:46.000 --> 18:50.000 One of our committee meetings when we were going over the books we were surprised at the return it was paying us. 18:50.000 --> 18:52.000 We all talked about it then. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 I suppose I may have mentioned it since. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 Just in conversation. 18:56.000 --> 18:57.000 Yes ma'am. 18:57.000 --> 19:00.000 Is Mr. Orlean upset that I told other people about his company? 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 I didn't know he wanted it kept secret. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 No he wanted you to tell him. 19:04.000 --> 19:05.000 Well then. 19:05.000 --> 19:09.000 Several people that you discussed multiple uranium with invested in the company as a result. 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 It's a perfectly sound investment. 19:11.000 --> 19:12.000 No ma'am. 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 What? 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 Orlean has disappeared and so has their money. 19:15.000 --> 19:16.000 I'm sure you're mistaken. 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 The stock he sold him was phony. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 So was the stock he gave your hospital fund. 19:20.000 --> 19:21.000 It couldn't be. 19:21.000 --> 19:22.000 Look at the dividends it paid. 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 It was just good advertising. 19:24.000 --> 19:27.000 You mean he used the hospital? 19:27.000 --> 19:28.000 He used me? 19:28.000 --> 19:29.000 I'm afraid so. 19:29.000 --> 19:33.000 I just don't know what to say. 19:33.000 --> 19:36.000 I've never been involved in a situation like this before. 19:36.000 --> 19:37.000 Yes ma'am. 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 It's terribly distressing. 19:39.000 --> 19:47.000 I know it's not my fault but I can't help thinking I should have been more careful more discreet. 19:47.000 --> 19:50.000 Well I'm sorry. 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 I'm afraid you'll have to excuse me. 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 I don't feel like talking anymore. 19:54.000 --> 19:55.000 I'm very upset. 19:55.000 --> 19:56.000 We understand. 19:56.000 --> 19:57.000 Annesia we'll show you out. 19:57.000 --> 19:58.000 We'll find a way. 19:58.000 --> 20:01.000 Let's go. 20:01.000 --> 20:05.000 Oh I was just looking at that painting up there again. 20:05.000 --> 20:06.000 You know I was right Joe. 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 Platters here. 20:08.000 --> 20:20.000 The interview with Mrs. Lorington had enabled us to establish the suspect's M.O. 20:20.000 --> 20:26.000 Additional bullets were sent out alerting all police departments, charity organizations and fundraising committees. 20:26.000 --> 20:29.000 During the rest of the week we interviewed other victims of the stock swindle. 20:29.000 --> 20:34.000 None of them could furnish any additional information about the whereabouts of the man who called himself Henry Orlean. 20:34.000 --> 20:39.000 Three weeks later on June 9th we received a report from the Chicago Police Department. 20:39.000 --> 20:45.000 They informed us that a man answering Orlean's description had worked an oil stock swindle in that city during the previous year. 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 He had then used the name of Roger Norgant. 20:47.000 --> 20:51.000 They also told us that this Norgant was suspected of an earlier stock swindle in Kansas City. 20:51.000 --> 20:56.000 Neither the Chicago nor Kansas City police had a positive identification of the suspect. 20:56.000 --> 20:59.000 But in both cities the M.O. had been the same. 20:59.000 --> 21:02.000 The suspect had donated a block of phony stock to a charitable organization. 21:02.000 --> 21:08.000 Had paid very high dividends on the donated shares and then had been able to acquire investments from private persons. 21:08.000 --> 21:11.000 Wednesday June 11th 317 p.m. Frank and I were in the office. 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 Sergeant Friday. 21:12.000 --> 21:13.000 Yes ma'am. 21:13.000 --> 21:14.000 You remember me. 21:14.000 --> 21:15.000 Clara Gibbons. 21:15.000 --> 21:16.000 I used to work with Mr. Orlean. 21:16.000 --> 21:17.000 Yes ma'am. 21:17.000 --> 21:18.000 How are you? 21:18.000 --> 21:19.000 What can we do for you? 21:19.000 --> 21:20.000 Mama just found him. 21:20.000 --> 21:21.000 Where? 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 Over on Hill Street. 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 She was just walking along and she saw him. 21:23.000 --> 21:24.000 Is she sure it's him? 21:24.000 --> 21:25.000 Positive. 21:25.000 --> 21:26.000 Please hurry. 21:26.000 --> 21:27.000 Just a minute Miss Gibbons. 21:27.000 --> 21:28.000 What is it? 21:28.000 --> 21:29.000 Didn't you tell us your mother had never seen this man? 21:29.000 --> 21:30.000 Well she's seen him now. 21:30.000 --> 21:31.000 He was walking downhill. 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 Why does she know it's him if she never saw him before? 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 I told her what he looked like dozens of times. 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 All about him. 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 I see. 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 For heaven's sake you don't have to see a person to know what he looks like. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 Mama would recognize Mr. Orlean anywhere. 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 She said so half a dozen times. 21:43.000 --> 21:44.000 She can describe him better than I can. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 My mother's very intelligent Sergeant. 21:46.000 --> 21:47.000 She's not like me. 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 Now please don't stand here and argue about it or he'll get away. 21:49.000 --> 21:50.000 Well just where is he? 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 The Norbridge Hotel corner of Hill and Hall. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 I thought your mother saw him on the street. 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 Well she followed him into the hotel. 21:55.000 --> 21:56.000 She didn't want to lose him. 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 He went upstairs and she telephoned me from the lobby. 21:59.000 --> 22:01.000 She said she'd wait there to make sure he didn't leave. 22:01.000 --> 22:02.000 Oh I see. 22:02.000 --> 22:03.000 She told me to bring you as soon as I could. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 It's nearly half an hour since she called me. 22:05.000 --> 22:06.000 We haven't got much time. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 Fine Miss Gibbons. 22:07.000 --> 22:08.000 All right we'll check on her right away. 22:08.000 --> 22:09.000 You're going to arrest him aren't you? 22:09.000 --> 22:10.000 If it's the right man. 22:10.000 --> 22:11.000 Of course it's the right man. 22:11.000 --> 22:12.000 Excuse me a minute. 22:12.000 --> 22:15.000 Do you have to answer it now? 22:15.000 --> 22:19.000 Uncle Fugitive Friday. 22:19.000 --> 22:20.000 Yeah that's right. 22:20.000 --> 22:21.000 I see. 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 Fine. 22:22.000 --> 22:23.000 Okay. 22:23.000 --> 22:24.000 We'll forward our warrant to you. 22:24.000 --> 22:25.000 Will you send us a notification by telegram? 22:25.000 --> 22:26.000 Thank you. 22:26.000 --> 22:27.000 We sure are. 22:27.000 --> 22:28.000 Many thanks. 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 Salt Lake City Police Department. 22:30.000 --> 22:31.000 Yeah? 22:31.000 --> 22:32.000 Picked up Orleans this morning. 22:32.000 --> 22:33.000 Tadden from our circular. 22:33.000 --> 22:34.000 Are you sure it's him? 22:34.000 --> 22:35.000 Gave him a full confession. 22:35.000 --> 22:36.000 Admitted to KC and Chicago deals too. 22:36.000 --> 22:37.000 But it couldn't be Mr. Arlen. 22:37.000 --> 22:38.000 He's at the Norbridge Hotel. 22:38.000 --> 22:42.000 No Miss Gibbons I'm afraid your mother was mistaken. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 I've never known Mama to make a mistake. 22:44.000 --> 22:45.000 No we all make them. 22:45.000 --> 22:47.000 But she's waiting for us at the hotel. 22:47.000 --> 22:48.000 What'll I tell her? 22:48.000 --> 22:51.000 Well let's see I guess there's only one thing. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 What's that? 22:52.000 --> 23:00.000 Tell her not to wait. 23:00.000 --> 23:02.000 The story you have just heard is true. 23:02.000 --> 23:05.000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 23:05.000 --> 23:08.000 On August 16th trial was held in Department 98, 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 Superior Court of the State of California, 23:10.000 --> 23:21.000 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 23:21.000 --> 23:25.000 Francis Caxton Wheatley alias Henry Orlean alias Roger Norgott 23:25.000 --> 23:28.000 was tried and convicted of grand theft seven counts 23:28.000 --> 23:31.000 and received sentence as prescribed by law. 23:31.000 --> 23:34.000 Grand theft is punishable by imprisonment in the County Jail 23:34.000 --> 23:37.000 for no more than one year or in the state prison 23:37.000 --> 23:41.000 for not less than one or more than ten years. 23:41.000 --> 23:44.000 Polls were placed on the suspect by the states of Illinois and Missouri 23:44.000 --> 23:53.000 at the termination of his sentence in San Quentin. 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 You have just heard Dragnet, 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 the authentic story of your police force in action 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 and starring Jack Webb, 23:59.000 --> 24:14.000 a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 24:15.520 --> 24:25.040 Three day in last 24:25.040 --> 24:41.840 four day in couple in