1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Dragnet. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Two men have been terrorizing the tavern keepers in your city. 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 In spite of your efforts, they continue to run free. 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Your job, stop them. 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Dragnet. The document a drama of an actual crime. 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:52,000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, 12 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 13 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 It was Tuesday, June 14th. It was hot in Los Angeles. 14 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,000 We were working the day watch out a robbery detail. 15 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss of TV detectives Thad Brown. My name is Friday. 16 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,000 We're on our way out from the office and it was 11.13 a.m. 17 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,000 and we got to the corner of 7th Street and Sunset Boulevard. 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,000 The Black Dog Bar and Grill. 19 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,000 In the back. 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Hi. 21 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,000 How are you? 22 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Well, how will it be? 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Police officers. 24 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Oh, cops, huh? 25 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 That's right. This is Frank Smith. My name is Friday. 26 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,000 How are you? Nick Thomas. 27 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,000 I guess about last night, huh? 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,000 That's right. Would like to go over a couple things with you. 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Why, sure. Can I get you anything? 30 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,000 No. 31 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 You mind if I have a cup of coffee while we talk? 32 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,000 No, go ahead. 33 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Okay. 34 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Sure surprised me. 35 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,000 What's that? 36 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Last night I sure wasn't expecting it. 37 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Yeah. 38 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 You know, you read about things like that happening, but you just never figure them happening to you. 39 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Mm-hmm. 40 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Of course, you've been in the business as long as I have. You ought to expect it. 41 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 At least that's the way I figure it. 42 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Yeah. 43 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Well, okay, what do you want to know? 44 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Well, according to what you told the officers last night, the men came into the place about 1130, is that right? 45 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,000 That's right, 1130. 46 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,000 You sure about the time? 47 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Oh, yeah. You see, I always look at that newscaster, 1115, 1130. 48 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Mm-hmm. 49 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 He went off the air and they just put up the card where it tells us what station it is, and this guy walked right in. 50 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Yeah. 51 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,000 I can't stand him myself. 52 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,000 What? 53 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 The newscaster. I can't stand him. Me and the missus have gotten some real bad beefs about him. 54 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Is that right? 55 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Oh, yeah. She digs him, but I can't stand him myself. He's a real no-good. 56 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Mm-hmm. 57 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 He's the kind of a guy where if some old man's spitting the sidewalk, he could build it up so we should evacuate the whole city. 58 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 You know what I mean? 59 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Yeah, I think so. 60 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Well, he's like that. 61 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Mm-hmm. 62 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 He's a real no-good. 63 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 What if you check this description of the two men who held you up? 64 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Sure. 65 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 I know those two guys anyplace. I ever saw them again, I'd sure know them. 66 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Mm-hmm. 67 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Yeah, that's them, the tall one and the fat one. That's them. I know them anyplace. 68 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,000 What'd they say to you? 69 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Well, hardly nothing at all. Just walked up to the bar, leaned over, and told me to hand over the money. 70 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 I see. You remember the exact words? 71 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 You mean the way they said it? 72 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Yeah. 73 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Well, let me see. I think it was, uh... 74 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Okay, Mac, this is stick-up. Do like we tell you, you won't get hurt. My daddy talked. 75 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Mm-hmm. 76 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Just give us the money, don't make any noise. 77 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Yeah. 78 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 I did. Walked right back to the register, opened it up, and handed over the loot. 79 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,000 And what happened then? 80 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Told me to keep quiet, and then they walked out of the place. 81 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Mm-hmm. Anybody else in here? 82 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Oh, there was a couple of people up in front. 83 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Did the thieves bother them? 84 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 No, they were just after the money in the register. Other couple didn't even know there was anybody here until it was all over. 85 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,000 I see. 86 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 There were a couple of kids. 87 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,000 What's that? 88 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,000 You know what I mean? Like young and real in love. 89 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Roof could have fallen in. They wouldn't have known it. 90 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Yeah. 91 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 Cops talked to them last night, but they couldn't tell them nothing. 92 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 You say you'd know these men if you saw them again, huh? 93 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 You just get all the money you can on that one. 94 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Did you see if they had a car? 95 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Who? 96 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 The men who held you up. 97 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Oh, no. 98 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,000 They didn't have one, did they? 99 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Well, I didn't see it. 100 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Is there anything about them that you can tell us? 101 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 No, just a couple of guys. One tall, the other one fat. 102 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Did you see if they had a gun? 103 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 You think I'd have handed over the money if they didn't? 104 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000 What kind of a weapon was it? 105 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 It was a gun, the kind with bullets. You pull the trigger, it goes bang. 106 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 It was a gun. 107 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000 I know, but was it a revolver or an automatic? 108 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Well, I don't know. I guess it was... 109 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,000 What come to think of it, I guess... 110 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Hey, you know you're right. 111 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,000 What do you mean? 112 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 I didn't see it. 113 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Not even a peek. Guy had his hand in his pockets like this, you know? Like this? 114 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Yeah. 115 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 I didn't actually see the gun, though. Not for real. 116 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 He just had it in his pocket. 117 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Hey, you think he was just playing a joke on me? 118 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 What's that? 119 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,000 A funny that he really didn't have a gun at all? 120 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 No, we wouldn't know. 121 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Why not? 122 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 What? 123 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Well, why don't you know it's your job, isn't it? 124 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Knowing things like that, bunch of crooks running around, you don't even know if they've got a gun. 125 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 The fine lot of cops you guys are. 126 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Hey, I might have just given him that money for nothing. 127 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 If he didn't have a gun, there was no reason to hand it over. 128 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 No reason at all. I should have found out. That's what, huh? 129 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 What do you mean? 130 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 I made a grab at the guy. 131 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Probably didn't have nothing in the pocket but just his hand or something like that. 132 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 If he didn't have one, if I was right, I could have told you guys. 133 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Well, what was the other way? 134 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:43,000 What if you were wrong? 135 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 From the method of operation and the description of the suspects, 136 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,000 we knew that they were the same two men who had staged six robberies in the past week. 137 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,000 We showed the latest victim the mug shots from the packages that the stats office had turned for us. 138 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 They pointed out three of the pictures and said they looked something like the hold-up men, 139 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 but he was unwilling to make even a tentative identification. 140 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000 11.56 a.m. 141 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 We returned to the office and put in a call to Leighton Prince. 142 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 They hadn't been able to turn anything of value. 143 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 A canvas of the area around the bar netted nothing. 144 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 The case stood where it had seven days before when the robbery was first reported. 145 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 1.15 p.m. 146 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Well, it doesn't seem to be a directional trend. 147 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 No, they're hitting all over, aren't they? 148 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Anything from Bereton? 149 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 List of names came in this morning. We've already checked most of them out. 150 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 We could use a few more leads. 151 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 I'd settle for one. 152 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Ben. 153 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,000 You seen the skipper? 154 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Yeah, I was in earlier. I don't think he's in the office now. 155 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,000 I wonder when he's going to climb on it. 156 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 I don't know. I've been expecting him to. 157 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Is he better off around? 158 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 I haven't seen him. Why? 159 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Well, he said he might be able to help us turn something. 160 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Said he had an informant down in LA Street. 161 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Mm-hmm. 162 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Hot shot. 163 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Let's go. 164 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Same tube. 165 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Yeah. 166 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,000 They hit again. 167 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Frank and I left the office and drove out to the scene of the latest robbery. 168 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 It was a small restaurant located on South Spring. 169 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 By the time we got there, a radio card arrived and the officer was checking the area. 170 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 You're the cops, are you? Are you more cops? 171 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 That's right. 172 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,000 That's what I thought. 173 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Other fella, he left. He said he was going to look for the crooks. He just went up the street. 174 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,000 You want to tell us what happened? 175 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Held up, that's what. Held up. 176 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Yes, we understand. Did the officer get a description of the thieves? 177 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Sure, got it first thing. Said something about doing a broadcast or something. 178 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 I'm not sure what he meant, but that's what he said. 179 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 All right. You want to give us your name? 180 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Hector Pip. 181 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,000 What's that? 182 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 PIP. Like C. 183 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Uh-huh. 184 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Corn Dog wrote a story about them. 185 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Pips. C, you know. Yep. Hector Pip. 186 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 This is my partner, Frank Smith. My name's Friday. 187 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Sure thing. Now, what do you all know? 188 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Well, would you tell us what happened, please? 189 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Better get on the ball. Can't stand around and waste time. Better get the fellas what did it. 190 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Came in, right through that door. Came in and told me it was a stick-up. 191 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Had it just as plain as anything. 192 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Stick-up. 193 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Sent me to hand over the money in the cash register. Over. 194 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 How much was it? 195 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Well, I'm not sure. Must have been about 60, 70 dollars. I'm not sure. 196 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Did you see him when they left? 197 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Well, certainly. Couldn't very well miss him. Small place. 198 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Just stood here and watched him go. 199 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Watched my money go right out the door. 200 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Yes, sir. What I meant was, did you see him get in the car? 201 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 No, I didn't. No, I sure didn't. 202 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Just stood here and watched him go. But I didn't see no car. 203 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Was there anybody else in the place? 204 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Oh, there was one fellow. 205 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Where is he? 206 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 He left. All excitement got into gear and he left. 207 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Chincy, too. 208 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Chincy. 209 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,000 What do you mean? 210 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Old me for a piece of cream pie and a cup of coffee. 211 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Have you seen him before? 212 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 No, on your face. He ain't from around here. Brand new. 213 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Did you hear either of the two menus the name of any kind? 214 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,000 I sure did, yeah. 215 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,000 You want to tell us? 216 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Do I have to? 217 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 We'd like you to, if you will. 218 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Large. That's what he said. Large. 219 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Which one? 220 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 The tall one, like a fence picket. He's the one. 221 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,000 He called the other one large? 222 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,000 No. 223 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 But you said he used the name. 224 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Sure. But he was talking to me. 225 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Yeah. Well, look, is there anything else you can tell us about the man that might make it easier to identify him? 226 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,000 No, just two fellows. One tall, thin, other one fat. 227 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Mm-hmm. 228 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Didn't have no reason to call me large. 229 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,000 I've been on a diet for a couple of weeks. 230 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Eating those pills that swell up in your stomach. 231 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Mm-hmm. 232 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Well, I guess they work for some people. 233 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Makes me feel as though I had a sponge. 234 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Was there anything outstanding about the man? 235 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 No. Not that comes to mind, no. 236 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 They have a gun? 237 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Not right off. 238 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,000 What do you mean? 239 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Didn't have one when they come in. Of course, I didn't know that. 240 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,000 No, sir, I didn't have any idea, no. 241 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 Got him now, though. Stole him with the money. 242 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 What? 243 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,000 38 revolver and the 25 automatic. Took him. 244 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 I'm sorry. 245 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 I'm sorry. 246 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 I'm sorry. 247 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 I'm sorry. 248 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Frank and I took the latest victim to the city hall. 249 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,000 While we started to check the mug books, we ran the serial numbers of the guns through the record section. 250 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 We found that they were both registered to Hector Pipp. 251 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000 At 3.46 p.m., Frank came back to the office from the mug room. 252 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Joe, back here. 253 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,000 How's it going? 254 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 No, he still hasn't found it, eh? 255 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,000 What's he checking now? 256 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Coming out books. 257 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Got four or five more to go through. 258 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 You got pictures of stats office term? 259 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Yeah. 260 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Nothing? 261 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Hi, we had a meeting. 262 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Hi, Walt. Mug room. 263 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 I'm looking for you. 264 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Yeah? 265 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Talked to a fellow down on Main this morning. 266 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Said he knows the guys you're looking for. 267 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 We made arrangements for somebody to stay with the victim, and then Frank and I left the city hall. 268 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Sergeant Walt Bitteroff drove us over to talk to his informant. 269 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 We found him in a cheap hotel on Wall Street. 270 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Hey, Walt, come on in. 271 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Thanks, Angie. 272 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 You get it? 273 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Yep. Here you are. 274 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Am I cold? 275 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Right out of the icebox. 276 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Thanks. 277 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 These are the two guys I told you about, Angie. 278 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Oh, yeah. Hey, want some cold beer? 279 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000 No, thanks, Walt. 280 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000 How about you, Walt? 281 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 You don't mind if I have one? 282 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Go ahead. 283 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Oh, I must have had a good time last night. 284 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Yeah. 285 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 I feel like they're three feet apart. 286 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Nothing like a cold beer next morning. 287 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 My girlfriend gave me some new glasses, like in a beer commercial. 288 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Yeah, tonight. 289 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Sure looks good, doesn't it? 290 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Mm-hmm. 291 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Oh, yes, sir. That's what I needed. 292 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Funny. 293 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 What? 294 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Funny about beer. 295 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Always tastes good, but a glass like this makes it taste better. 296 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Embrooge. Pure embrooge. 297 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Yeah. I wonder if we can get down to business, Angie. 298 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Sure, sure. Now I get my head back. What can I do for you? 299 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000 I said you had some information on the two guys who were pulling these bar holdups. 300 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Yeah, yeah, that's right. 301 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 I'd like you to tell Friday and Smith here about it. 302 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,000 They cops? 303 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,000 That's right. 304 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 You're after the fellas, huh? 305 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Mm-hmm. 306 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Walt, tell you anything about set-up? 307 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,000 What do you mean? 308 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Well, anything you get, it didn't come from me. 309 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Yeah, they know that, Angie. 310 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Well, I gotta make sure. 311 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,000 I remember something that helped you out. I forget it right away. 312 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 You talked to me five minutes from now. I don't remember. 313 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Do you? 314 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:06,000 All right. What about the guys? 315 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Heavy. Got in town a couple of months ago. 316 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Where they from? 317 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,000 St. Louis. 318 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,000 They got the names? 319 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Yeah, part of them. 320 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000 What do you mean? 321 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Well, just with their call, that's all I got. 322 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,000 That'll do. 323 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Well, don't pay to ask too many questions, you know. 324 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 No. 325 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Step on somebody's toes and you find a foot in your face. 326 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,000 What about the names? 327 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Well, tall one's called Ronnie, fat guy's tag whale. 328 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Is that what everybody calls them? 329 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000 All I heard. 330 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Know where they live? 331 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Nope. 332 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Where'd you meet them? 333 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,000 I move around. 334 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Run into them a couple of bars. 335 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Seen them once or twice. 336 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 How do you know they're the ones we're after? 337 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000 Just figures, that's all. 338 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Got a big roll, talk loud, and where they look, just figures. 339 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 You know where we can pick them up? 340 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,000 I haven't got any idea. 341 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,000 They driving the car? 342 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Well, not that I've seen. 343 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Anything else you can tell us about them? 344 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000 You've had it. 345 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Have either one of them fallen? 346 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 No, we never spent an evening talking about it, but it figures they did. 347 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Back east, maybe? 348 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Yeah, I guess so. 349 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,000 I heard the whales say this was the first time they'd been on the coast. 350 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 All right, Angie, if there's nothing else. 351 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000 If you hear anything, Angie, we'd appreciate a call. 352 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Works out, I'll let you know. 353 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 I'm not gonna put anything in writing. 354 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 If those jokers hear about it, I'd have to dig a hole. 355 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Okay. 356 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Thanks for coming by, Walt. 357 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Yeah. 358 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Glad I met you guys. 359 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,000 See you again, huh? 360 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Yeah, sure. 361 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 All right, thanks for the beer, Walt. 362 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000 It's okay. 363 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Sure made a difference. 364 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,000 First got up, I felt like a gang of midgets had been playing soccer in my mouth. 365 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,000 We were up last night. 366 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Gotta make a few calls around to find out. 367 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Huh? 368 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,000 What kind of time I had. 369 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,000 We returned to the office and sent a radiogram to the St. Louis Police Department requesting 370 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,000 all information on anyone in their files who'd used the nicknames Ronnie or Whale. 371 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 We checked the two names through our moniker file without result. 372 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,000 The next day, Wednesday, June 15th at 5.26 p.m., we got word from the east. 373 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Here it is, John. 374 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,000 St. Louis? 375 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Yeah, looks like they're trying to get us out of here. 376 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,000 We're gonna have to get out of here. 377 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 We're gonna have to get out of here. 378 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 We're gonna have to get out of here. 379 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 We're gonna have to get out of here. 380 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Hey, John. 381 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 St. Louis? 382 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Yeah, looks like they turned them. 383 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Let me see. 384 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Arnold Sabba and Gerard Llewellyn. 385 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,000 How about Mugs? 386 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 We're sending stand-ups right away. 387 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Should be here in the morning, shouldn't we? 388 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Yeah. 389 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,000 All right, when I'll get it. 390 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,000 What is it? 391 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Robbery out on the Olympics. 392 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Sounds like Ronnie and the Whale. 393 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,000 How long ago? 394 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Just left the place. 395 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Shot it up pretty bad. 396 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Anybody hurt? 397 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000 No. 398 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:34,000 The policemen got in their way. 399 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,000 The Green Tree Cafe was located at the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Estrada Street. 400 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 By the time we got there, an ambulance had arrived, 401 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,000 and the wounded officer had been removed to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. 402 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 A felony car from Central Division had arrived at the scene 403 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 and had started to search for the officer's assailants. 404 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 We got the story from the bartender, Alvin Jaggers. 405 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Well, two guys come in, like I told you, walk right in, told me it was a hold-up. 406 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 How'd the policeman get shot? 407 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 On the way out, it happened. 408 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000 After I gave the guys the money, started to leave, 409 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Abner saw him, tried to stop him. 410 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000 You know the officer, do you? 411 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Yeah, he comes in once in a while, him and his wife come in for steak sandwiches. 412 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Was his wife with him tonight? 413 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Yeah, I think she went up to the hospital with him. 414 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,000 I think that's where she went. 415 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Anyhow, when Abner saw these two fellas, you know, with the hold-up man, 416 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,000 when he saw them, he told them to put down the guns. 417 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Where was he standing? 418 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,000 You mean Abner? 419 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,000 That's right. 420 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Oh, he was up there by the door. 421 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Him and the missus was in the front booth, and the guys went right by him when they come in. 422 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 He was standing right by the door, told them to put down the guns and give up. 423 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 Well, now did he have his gun out of the holster? 424 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Yeah, you know, he had a kind of aim, like this here. 425 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 I reckon he was afraid of the people in the place, you know. 426 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000 He had a shoot or something. 427 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,000 And these two fellas stopped by when they saw him dead in their steps, 428 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,000 told Abner to get out of the way. 429 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 He didn't budge none, held his ground for sure. 430 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Him right there, and them here, see? 431 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Now the tall one, he yelled that they was going to leave, 432 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,000 and Abner shouldn't try to stop them. 433 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,000 And they started to walk outside, and Abner brought the gun up so as he could shoot at him. 434 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Didn't make it, though. 435 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Shot him dead center, right here, in the chest. 436 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,000 After that, they ran out the place, took off down the street. 437 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Did the officer shoot at him at all? 438 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Mm-mm. Didn't have no chance. 439 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Guess he was finished before he started. 440 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Did the men get into a car? 441 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Well, if they did, I didn't see him. 442 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Too much going on. 443 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Did either one of these men use a name while they were in here? 444 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000 How you mean? 445 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Well, did they call each other by name? 446 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 Well, let me think about that for a minute. 447 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Yeah, I think they did. 448 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,000 What was it, do you remember? 449 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Well, after the shooting at tall when he turned the other fellow, 450 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 and he said, come on, well, let's get out of here. 451 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Uh-huh. Which one of them did the actual shooting? 452 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 I couldn't tell you that. 453 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000 What do you mean? 454 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Well, both of them shot about the same time. 455 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,000 It was more than a half a second difference. 456 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Bang, bang. Real fast. 457 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Both about the same time. 458 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,000 I don't know if they both hit Abner, but they both shot at the same time. 459 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Have you seen these men around before? 460 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000 You, no matter of fact, I have. 461 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000 They've been in here? 462 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Yeah, must have been three, four weeks ago. 463 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Mm-hmm. 464 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Coming with Georgia. I guess they're pretty good friends. 465 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Who's she? 466 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 She's a customer, spent a lot of time in here. 467 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Drinks bangers. Rough. 468 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 You know where we can get in touch with her? 469 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Shouldn't be too hard. 470 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 She lives down next block. 471 00:15:49,000 --> 00:16:02,000 We left the barn, walked to the entrance of the apartment hotel down the street. 472 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,000 According to the building register, Georgia Wells occupied apartment 314. 473 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,000 We rang the buzzer, and after a few moments, we were admitted to the building. 474 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,000 The elevator wasn't working, so we walked up three flights. 475 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Oh, man, I guess I'm getting old. 476 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Makes you wonder how far you'd get without all the modern conveniences. 477 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,000 I guess this is it here. 478 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Yeah. 479 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Better try it again. 480 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Yeah. 481 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Yeah? 482 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Georgia Wells. 483 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,000 That's right. I know you. 484 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Police officers, we'd like to talk to you. 485 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,000 What about? 486 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Might be better if we came inside. 487 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Sure, come on in. Nothing here to hide. Come on. 488 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,000 I'll look around, Frank. 489 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Yeah. 490 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,000 What's she looking for? 491 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Just want to check the place. 492 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 You're gonna find anything here. I got no beef with the cops. 493 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Never been in any trouble before, and I want to keep it that way. 494 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 All right. 495 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,000 It's clean, Joe. 496 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,000 You're gonna tell me what this is all about. 497 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 You know a couple of men named Ronald Sabba and Gerard Llewellyn. 498 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Why are you asking? 499 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,000 You know them? 500 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Yeah. 501 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,000 You know where they are? 502 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 No, look, maybe if you tell me why you're looking for the boys, I can help you out. 503 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,000 It's a police matter. 504 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 You go find them yourself. 505 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 When did you see them last? 506 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,000 A couple days ago. 507 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Where? 508 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Bar, over on Sixth. 509 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,000 You know where they live? 510 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Look, mister, I don't carry no water for them, 511 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,000 but I'm not gonna blow the whistle until I know what the beef is. 512 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 It's pretty serious, and you're not doing yourself any good acting like this. 513 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,000 You know where we can find them? 514 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Look, I'm on a level with you. 515 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 I know the boys. Sure, they're a lot of laughs, good spenders. 516 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 That's all it is with us. 517 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,000 We got it that you're pretty good friends. 518 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000 You've been talking to the landlady. 519 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 She's all the time sticking her nose in where it don't belong. 520 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Is that so? 521 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Yeah. 522 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 She's hacked at me anyway. 523 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Go out of her way to make trouble. 524 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,000 All the time she'll go out of her way. 525 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,000 And why'd she do that? 526 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:42,000 She don't like me, that's why. 527 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 She ain't got no reason. 528 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,000 She just don't like me. 529 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 All the time yelling about how I'm using too much laundry, 530 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 how I let the water run too long, 531 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 beefing about how I'm not supposed to do no cooking in the place. 532 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Plot of coffee, and she's ready to take it in front of the U.N. 533 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Mm-hmm. 534 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,000 I told the truth. 535 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Boys and me been out a couple of times, dinner, drinks, maybe a show, that's all. 536 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Nothing serious between us. 537 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Matter of fact, they both leave me cold, romantic. 538 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Well, then you shouldn't worry about telling us where to find them. 539 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000 I just don't want to get mixed up in nothing. 540 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,000 It's all there is to it. 541 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,000 I don't want to get dragged into something I didn't build. 542 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,000 You can see that, can't you, huh? 543 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000 You can see that. 544 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Where do we find them? 545 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000 They'll be here in 40 minutes. 546 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:29,000 We put in a call to the office and told them where we were. 547 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 We got out a local broadcast and an all-points bullet 548 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 and asking two suspects to be picked up. 549 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 5.52 p.m. 550 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 We settle down to wait for the men. 551 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 What am I supposed to do when they get here? 552 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Just keep out of the way. 553 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,000 There's going to be no shooting, is there? 554 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Not unless they start it. 555 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 You just don't know anymore. 556 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 What's that? 557 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,000 You go out with a guy, nothing serious, a few laughs, and you end up in trouble. 558 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Did they ever tell you what they did for a living? 559 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Ronnie mentioned something about starting a car agency. 560 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Yeah? 561 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 He had some deal back east where he could get the cars cheap, 562 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,000 then he figured on having them driven out here and selling them. 563 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,000 He told me how him and the whale was going to clean up. 564 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Mm-hmm. 565 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Said it was the sweetest deal they ever come across. 566 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Real sweet, they said. 567 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Joe. 568 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Yeah? 569 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 You better get in the other room, Miss Wells. 570 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Yeah, sure. Please, don't shoot. 571 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Go on. 572 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Go ahead. 573 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Hi, honey. 574 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Hi, Mr. Holder, right there. 575 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,000 This is... 576 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Come on, turn around. 577 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,000 What? 578 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Turn around. 579 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Put your hands up on that wall. 580 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Yeah. 581 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Hey, here, Joe. 38. 582 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Where'd you get this, Sabba? 583 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,000 I don't know what you're talking about. 584 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 This gun, where'd it come from? 585 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,000 I never saw it before. 586 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,000 It was in your coat. 587 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,000 Well, the new creeps put it there. It ain't mine. 588 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Where's Llewellyn? 589 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Oh? 590 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Gerard Llewellyn. 591 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,000 I never heard of him. 592 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,000 All right, put your hands down. 593 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Now turn around now? 594 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Yeah. 595 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,000 You guys gonna tell me what this is all about? 596 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,000 You know more than we do. 597 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Well, I ain't gonna argue about that. 598 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Where's the whale? 599 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,000 You guys been on the spike. 600 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000 I don't know what you're talking about. 601 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,000 I'm gonna call downtown, get somebody out here. 602 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,000 We'll take them in. 603 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Yeah. 604 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000 I got you, huh? 605 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 You lousy bum, you finked on it. 606 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,000 I have nothing to do with it. 607 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,000 All right, take it easy. 608 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000 She told you, didn't she? 609 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,000 Didn't she tell you where to get it? 610 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000 It doesn't make any difference. 611 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,000 It does to me. 612 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 All she ever wanted was a good time. 613 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,000 All the time wanting to go to the best places. 614 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000 All the time with the expensive clothes. 615 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,000 You lousy bum, that's all she is. 616 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,000 All right, that's enough of that. 617 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 You're not kidding. 618 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,000 You're all right with me if I never saw her again. 619 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,000 It'd be the best thing. 620 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Well, then you're gonna be happy. 621 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Huh? 622 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:29,000 All right, let's move. 623 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,000 One of the men took the steak out from the apartment. 624 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Frank and I drove down to the city hall. 625 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 We called the hospital and found the wounded officer. 626 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,000 It was 6.57 p.m. 627 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 We laid out the evidence for the suspect. 628 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,000 We checked the gun in our record section. 629 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 It's the one you stole from Hector Pipp yesterday. 630 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Mistake, sir. 631 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,000 Yeah, but we didn't make it. 632 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,000 You got nothing to hold me on. 633 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Nothing. 634 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,900 me or nothing. Four of the victims have seen your picture. They're willing to swear that 635 00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:58,260 you're one of the men who held him up. A bunch of creeps. That's all they are. The whole slew 636 00:20:58,260 --> 00:21:01,800 of them. Sure. Come on. Where do we pick up your partner? I keep telling you guys I haven't 637 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,000 got any partner. I don't know what you're talking about. You want to explain the gun? I don't 638 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,920 have to. I never saw that gun before. You guys turned it on me. That's what you say. 639 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,800 Well, I say it ain't mine. You planted it. What about the victims? They made a mistake. 640 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,300 It's happened before. Lots of times. You read about it all the time. Where some joker gets 641 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:19,680 up in court, swears he knows some fellow guy ends up spending a couple of years for something 642 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:24,920 he didn't do. All the time there's stories like that in the paper. All the time. Well, 643 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,000 you sit there and think you're clean. We got it figured different. I don't care how you 644 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,000 got it figured. I'm telling the story the way it happened. Now you keep talking about 645 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,640 this fellow Whale or whatever it is. I don't know. I never heard of him. All these jobs 646 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:40,840 you say I did. I don't know anything about them either. I guess. Oh yeah, well. Got a 647 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:44,600 call from D. Lightning. Yeah. Picked up the gunner. The girl's apartment? Yeah. He copped 648 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:51,600 out again the whole story. We're bringing him in now. OK. Well, you just heard it, Salah. 649 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:57,400 How about it? You want to make a statement now? Might go easier if you tell us. Get 650 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:04,400 him out of here! Grab him! Come on! Sit down there. Come on, let me out of there! Let me 651 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:12,000 out! All right, now on your feet. Get up. Lousy fat slob. He just kept his mouth shut, 652 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,200 I bet so. Just kept his big fat mouth shut. We've been all right. Him and his big mouth. 653 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:20,640 Now let's go. Him and his big fat mouth. Right into the joint. That's where he's put us. 654 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,600 Right into the joint. That's right. His idea, the whole thing. He's as full of hot air as 655 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,240 he is. Well, I hope he's happy. Look what he did. He got me a ticket right into the 656 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:41,160 joint. No. Huh? You paid your own way. The story you've just heard is true. The names 657 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:46,760 were changed to protect the innocent. On October 18th, trial was held in Department 94, Superior 658 00:22:46,760 --> 00:23:00,200 Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles. Ronald Evans Saba 659 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,240 and Gerard Stephen Llewellyn were tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree, 660 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:09,300 six counts, and received sentence as prescribed by law. Robbery in the first degree is punishable 661 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:13,240 by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than five years on 662 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:18,960 each count. Dragnet, the story of your police force in action is a presentation of the United 663 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:41,400 States Armed Forces Radio Service. 664 00:23:41,400 --> 00:24:05,720 The story of your police force in action is a presentation of the United States Armed 665 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:32,160 Forces Radio Service.