1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,640 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:23,200 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:24,200 You're a detective sergeant. 4 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,080 You're assigned to narcotics detail. 5 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,360 You get a tip that a man is peddling heroin in his place of residence. 6 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:32,360 He's a known user. 7 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:37,040 Your job, check it out. 8 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:46,760 Dragman, the documented drama of an actual crime. 9 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:51,160 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 10 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:55,640 travel step by step on the side of the law to an actual case transcribed from official 11 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:00,320 police files from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. 12 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,720 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 13 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,800 It was Tuesday, September 6th. 14 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:08,800 It was hot in Los Angeles. 15 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,080 We were working the night watch out on narcotics detail. 16 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,520 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss is Captain Walter. 17 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:14,520 My name's Friday. 18 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,880 We're on our way out from the office and it was 9.33 p.m. when we got to the corner of 19 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:18,880 8th and Temple. 20 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:19,880 Converted garage. 21 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:20,880 Is that the right address? 22 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,880 Yeah, I want you to swing around here at the corner. 23 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:25,880 We can park across the street up there. 24 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:26,880 Okay. 25 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,880 Yeah, right up here will do. 26 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:30,880 All right. 27 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:31,880 Sure isn't much of a house. 28 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:32,880 Looks more like a store or something. 29 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:33,880 Yeah. 30 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:34,880 You sure that's where he's living, Joe? 31 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:36,880 Yeah, Nicky says the place used to be a garage. 32 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:37,880 Huh? 33 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:38,880 A fellow ran it when it broke. 34 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:39,880 He turned it into living quarters. 35 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:40,880 I see. 36 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,880 How long has Denton been staying here? 37 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:43,880 About six months. 38 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:44,880 How long? 39 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:45,880 Well, he's got his family with him. 40 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:46,880 Wife, two or three kids. 41 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:47,880 All right. 42 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:48,880 Now what do you think? 43 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:49,880 Should we tap him now? 44 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:50,880 Let's give it a couple of minutes. 45 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:51,880 See if he's drawn any customers. 46 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:52,880 Okay. 47 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:53,880 Is this Nicky sure about all this? 48 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:54,880 Yeah, he says he is. 49 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:55,880 Says Denton's loaded for action 30 or 40 camps. 50 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:56,880 Just got him tonight, huh? 51 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:57,880 Yeah. 52 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:58,880 Nicky know who he got him from? 53 00:01:58,880 --> 00:01:59,880 He does. 54 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:00,880 He wouldn't tell me. 55 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:01,880 Joe. 56 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:02,880 Hmm? 57 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:03,880 Front door. 58 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:04,880 Yeah. 59 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:05,880 Must be their wife. 60 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:06,880 Wonder who she's looking for. 61 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:07,880 I don't see anybody. 62 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:08,880 Yeah, she doesn't either. 63 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:09,880 Well, that might make it a little easier for her. 64 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:10,880 What do you mean? 65 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:11,880 She left the door open. 66 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:26,720 Quashmily 45 minutes earlier, we received a telephone call from an informant named Nicky 67 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:27,720 Corbin. 68 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:33,960 Corbin reported that Slim Denton, a known narcotics user who lived at the corner of 69 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,320 Temple and 8th, had some 30 or 40 caps of heroin in his possession. 70 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,520 Corbin said Denton was getting ready to push the stuff. 71 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,480 Frank and I waited across the street from the Denton residence for 26 minutes. 72 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,120 During that time, no one came in or out of the house, but the front door remained open. 73 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,720 9.59 p.m., a young man turned to corner and headed into the converted garage. 74 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,960 Five minutes later, he reappeared and started down the street. 75 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,960 Should we talk to him? 76 00:02:58,960 --> 00:02:59,960 Yeah. 77 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:00,960 Wait a minute, Frank. 78 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:01,960 Huh? 79 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:02,960 I guess you forgot something. 80 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:03,960 Yeah. 81 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:04,960 Going back inside. 82 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:05,960 Now, let's give him some company. 83 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:12,240 The man reentered the Denton residence. 84 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,080 As soon as he disappeared through the front door, I moved in after him. 85 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,280 At the same time, Frank went around to the rear of the building. 86 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,920 The garage had been crudely partitioned into the room, and the front area contained an 87 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:27,200 overstuffed sofa, a dining room table, and chairs, and a TV set. 88 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,680 In addition to the young man who had gone in ahead of me, there were two other people 89 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:30,680 in the room. 90 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:37,680 One was a woman who had previously appeared in the doorway and a shallow-faced middle-aged 91 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:38,680 man. 92 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:39,680 Now, hold on, Mr. Where do you think you're going? 93 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:40,680 Please, doctor, you're under arrest. 94 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:41,680 Please. 95 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:42,680 That's right. 96 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:43,680 Don't move any of you. 97 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:44,680 It's a fine time for you to be showing up. 98 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:45,680 You ought to be ashamed. 99 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:46,680 How's that? 100 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:47,680 Three hours ago. 101 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:48,680 That's when you should have been here. 102 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:49,680 That's when we needed you. 103 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:50,680 Oh, now take it easy. 104 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:51,680 I was doing so already. 105 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:52,680 You're a girl only seven years old running around the city like this. 106 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:53,680 Lord knows what could have happened to her. 107 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,440 You call her a cop and don't even show up till three hours later. 108 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:56,440 I told you, hold your mouth. 109 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:57,440 Who else is my baby? 110 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,840 I was half out of my mind when she didn't come home from school. 111 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,800 No thanks to you that she got home at all. 112 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:03,800 I don't know what you're talking about, lady. 113 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,800 Elsie, that's what I'm talking about, my baby. 114 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:05,800 Yeah. 115 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:06,800 Anybody else around, Frank? 116 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:07,800 Yeah, a couple of youngsters sleeping in one of the back rooms. 117 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:08,800 That's it. 118 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:09,800 All right. 119 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:10,800 Now move over to that wall. 120 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:11,800 Go on, move. 121 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:12,800 I've never heard of such a thing. 122 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:13,800 A little girl gets lost on her way home from school. 123 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:14,800 You stand for a policeman that treats you like you're a slave. 124 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:15,800 You'd better get it straight, lady. 125 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:16,800 You're under arrest. 126 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:17,800 All of you. 127 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:18,800 It hasn't got anything to do with your daughter. 128 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:19,800 Arrest? 129 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:20,800 Hey, but you can't arrest me. 130 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:21,800 I ain't done anything. 131 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:27,800 Is that so? 132 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:28,800 You've got to have a reason to pick somebody up. 133 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:29,800 A good reason. 134 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:30,800 A violation of the State Narcotics Act. 135 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:31,800 Is that good enough? 136 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:32,800 What? 137 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:33,800 Come on. 138 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:34,800 Over against the wall. 139 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:35,800 Come on, move. 140 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:36,800 I'll check on the girl. 141 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:37,800 Well, I see you sure are making a mistake. 142 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:38,800 Yeah, we always do. 143 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:39,800 There's not any mistake. 144 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:40,800 You come out of your mind. 145 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:41,800 That's what you are. 146 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:42,800 Sure. 147 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:43,800 It's all because of Elsie. 148 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:44,800 Mechanics, she got lost. 149 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:45,800 You're right. 150 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:46,800 This ain't good. 151 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:47,800 That's why we wanted you. 152 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:48,800 You're right. 153 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,800 This ain't good. 154 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:52,800 That's why we wanted you. 155 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:53,800 Help us find her. 156 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:54,800 It didn't have nothing to do with no narcotics. 157 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,800 If your daughter was missing and you reported it, you'd have had plenty of help. 158 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,800 Of course we reported it three hours ago. 159 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:00,800 That's when you called them, Slim. 160 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:01,800 Huh? 161 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,800 When you went down to the drug store, you said you were going to use their phone. 162 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:05,800 Oh. 163 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:07,800 Well, you called them, didn't you? 164 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:09,800 I guess maybe I forgot. 165 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:10,800 Forgot? 166 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,800 Your own place and blood, your own baby? 167 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:13,800 What's the difference? 168 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:14,800 She's home, ain't you? 169 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:15,800 A lot of difference. 170 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:16,800 You give me a word to call. 171 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:17,800 Now look. 172 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:18,800 I'm not going to call you a little girl. 173 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:19,800 You got something else to worry about now. 174 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:21,800 I sure don't know what you're aiming at, Mr. 175 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:22,800 You don't, huh? 176 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:23,800 Neither do I. 177 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,800 You're accusing me of having something to do with narcotics, and I ain't never been 178 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:27,800 mixed up with dope. 179 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:28,800 I never even touched the stuff. 180 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:29,800 Not once. 181 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:30,800 Well, then we'll start with you. 182 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:31,800 Well, go right ahead. 183 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:32,800 I ain't got nothing to hide. 184 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:33,800 What's your name? 185 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:34,800 Boston, Jerry Boston. 186 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:35,800 How old are you? 187 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:36,800 Twenty-three. 188 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:37,800 You live around here? 189 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:38,800 Down the street, four houses east. 190 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:39,800 What do you do for a living, Jerry? 191 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:40,800 I work in a settlement station over on Peacock. 192 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:41,800 You married? 193 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:42,800 Yeah. 194 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:43,800 You got any kids? 195 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:44,800 No, not yet. 196 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,800 We're expecting one next month. 197 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:48,800 Where do you think you're going? 198 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,800 I just wanted to see the youngsters, it feels good. 199 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:52,800 Stay right here. 200 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:53,800 They'll be all right. 201 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:54,800 Well, you only got me, Jerry. 202 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:55,800 I don't know why. 203 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:56,800 We'll get around to you soon enough. 204 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:57,800 Now why don't you sit down and take it easy, lady? 205 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:58,800 Better do like I said, huh? 206 00:05:58,800 --> 00:05:59,800 Bullying a person in their own home. 207 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:00,800 Why'd you come over here tonight, Jerry? 208 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:01,800 I heard about elsewhere. 209 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:02,800 Excuse me, miss, and I wanted to find out if they found us. 210 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:03,800 You came in, you went out, and then you came back in again. 211 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:04,800 Is that it? 212 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:05,800 Yeah, that's right. 213 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:06,800 Well? 214 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:07,800 Well, Kitty wanted me to ask Mrs. Danton here something. 215 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:08,800 What? 216 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:09,800 Well, I'm sorry. 217 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:10,800 I'm sorry. 218 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,800 Kitty wanted me to ask Mrs. Danton here something. 219 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:15,800 Kitty's my wife. 220 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:16,800 Yeah. 221 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:18,800 I forgot when I was here first, so I had to come back. 222 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,800 What was it your wife wanted to find out? 223 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,800 Come on in, Jerry. 224 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,800 Wasn't nothing important, just something about me having a baby? 225 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:27,800 Uh-huh. 226 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,800 You want to step over here now, Jerry? 227 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:30,800 Huh? 228 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:31,800 Over here, please. 229 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:32,800 Five to ten. 230 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:33,800 Sure. 231 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,800 All right, empty your pockets, will you? 232 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:36,800 Yeah. 233 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:37,800 Take everything out. 234 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:38,800 All right. 235 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,800 That's it. 236 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,800 All right, and I'll turn the pockets inside out. 237 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:47,800 Okay. 238 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,800 How much money you got there, Jerry? 239 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:51,800 Twenty, twenty-five bucks. 240 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:52,800 You always pay that much gas, too. 241 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:53,800 Oh, I got paid today. 242 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:54,800 Mm-hmm. 243 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:55,800 Okay, son, roll up your sleeves. 244 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:56,800 Do what? 245 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:57,800 Your sleeves. 246 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:58,800 Come on, roll them up. 247 00:06:58,800 --> 00:06:59,800 All right. 248 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:00,800 It's a little high. 249 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:01,800 Come on. 250 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:02,800 Okay. 251 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:08,800 Okay, roll them back down. 252 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,800 You and the dancers are pretty good friends, right? 253 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:14,800 Oh, we're neighbors. 254 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:15,800 How long have you known each other? 255 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:16,800 Four or five months, I guess. 256 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:17,800 However long they've been living here. 257 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:18,800 Hey, what the heck you doing with that lamp? 258 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:19,800 Why, is it a light body? 259 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:20,800 It's kind of bright when you're looking right into it. 260 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:21,800 Okay, Jerry, put the stuff back in your pocket. 261 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:22,800 I'm going to take it to you someplace. 262 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:23,800 Wait a minute. 263 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:24,800 I'll go get it. 264 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:25,800 I'll go get it. 265 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:26,800 I'll go get it. 266 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:27,800 I'll go get it. 267 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:28,800 I'll go get it. 268 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:29,800 I'll go get it. 269 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:30,800 I'll go get it. 270 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:31,800 I'll go get it. 271 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:32,800 I'll go get it. 272 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:33,800 I'll go get it. 273 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:34,800 I'll go get it. 274 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:35,800 I'll go get it. 275 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:36,800 That's all I can do to get it to work. 276 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:37,800 Oh, you mean we should go somewhere? 277 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:38,800 Yeah. 278 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:39,800 Where, to someplace. 279 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:40,800 Wait a minute. 280 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:41,800 You mean I've got to stay here? 281 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:42,800 For the time being, yeah. 282 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:43,800 Well, look, you don't have to be worried. 283 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:44,800 All I thought I was going to be gone a couple minutes. 284 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:45,800 Maybe you're putting a nice young fella like Jerry through a whole list of foolishness. 285 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:46,800 Well... 286 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:47,800 Let's see how well you do it now, Vincent. 287 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:48,800 Huh? 288 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:49,800 Come on, over here. 289 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:50,800 You've already been wrong a once, Dad. 290 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:51,800 Maybe. 291 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:52,800 No sense of scaring on them like this. 292 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:53,800 There's no sense at all. 293 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,300 Now why don't you fellas just admit you made a mistake and go on your way? 294 00:07:57,300 --> 00:07:58,300 Over here. 295 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:01,300 Come on, quit stalling, will ya? Move. 296 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:04,800 Now go ahead, you went to your apartment. 297 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:13,800 Is that all of it? 298 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,300 You got every little doodad. 299 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:16,800 Turn him inside out. 300 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,300 Whatever you say. 301 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:20,800 What do you do for a living? 302 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,300 Well at the moment I'm sorta lookin' around, you might say. 303 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:25,300 Yeah, I'm pretty sure. 304 00:08:25,300 --> 00:08:27,300 You got a family, Denson. How you feelin'? 305 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:29,300 Oh, we manage. We manage pretty good. 306 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:29,800 How? 307 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,300 Don't you worry none about my children. They ain't goin' hungry as long as I can work. 308 00:08:33,300 --> 00:08:34,300 You live off your wife, do ya? 309 00:08:34,300 --> 00:08:36,300 Now ain't no way to put it at all. 310 00:08:36,300 --> 00:08:38,800 She's just helpin' out while I'm havin' a rough spell. 311 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,800 All right, Denson, roll up your sleeves, will ya? 312 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,300 Come on, get him up, will ya? 313 00:08:43,300 --> 00:08:47,300 Frank, look at this. He's got more tracks in the southern Pacific. 314 00:08:47,300 --> 00:08:48,300 Yeah. 315 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:51,800 Well, look here. I must've scratched myself the other day. 316 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:53,300 You know, I was doin' some cartwheeler work. 317 00:08:53,300 --> 00:08:54,800 How long have you been a high fella? 318 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,300 I'm afraid I don't know what you mean. 319 00:08:56,300 --> 00:08:58,300 Quit wastin' our time, Denson. Now how long? 320 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,800 Well, I reckon ain't no point in lyin' to you, gentlemen. 321 00:09:02,300 --> 00:09:06,300 Fact of the matter is, I did do a little chippin' once in a while when I was young. 322 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:07,800 Of course, that was some years ago. 323 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,300 Well, I'm glad you're still here. 324 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:10,300 I'm glad you're still here. 325 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:13,300 I mean, I'm glad you're still here. 326 00:09:13,300 --> 00:09:16,300 From the looks of them, you're buildin' up to a big batch of infections there. 327 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:18,800 Must be them scratches I was tellin' ya about. 328 00:09:19,300 --> 00:09:20,800 All right, Denson, where is it? 329 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:21,800 Oh. 330 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,300 The stuff. Where'd you stack it? 331 00:09:25,300 --> 00:09:27,300 Come on, Denson. We know you got 30 caps. 332 00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:29,300 We're gonna find it anyway, so why hold out? 333 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:31,300 30 caps? 334 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:33,300 A guy like me couldn't afford that much stuff. 335 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:34,800 Now you ought to have more things. 336 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:36,300 What'd you do, give it to your wife? 337 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:38,300 You ought to say a thing like that. 338 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:41,300 Well, even if I did have a little ache, I sure wouldn't want her to get involved. 339 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:43,300 Last person in the world. 340 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:47,300 Now you can say whatever you got in mind to, but I'm concerned that you just leave her out of this. 341 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:49,800 You're pretty anxious to go into the bedroom a little while ago, Mrs. Denson. 342 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,300 I told you to leave her out. Now if you won't do what I tell you... 343 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:53,300 Take it easy, Denson. 344 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:54,300 It don't matter what happens to me. 345 00:09:54,300 --> 00:09:56,300 You can lock me up, give me the gas chamber, don't matter. 346 00:09:56,300 --> 00:09:58,800 But my wife, she's a fine woman. I won't have you attackin' her reputation. 347 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,300 You can throw me in jail if you want to, stand me up in front of a firing squad. 348 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:02,300 Come on, Denson. 349 00:10:02,300 --> 00:10:04,300 But there's no reason to drag her into town. 350 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:05,300 Sit down. 351 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:06,300 She ain't done nothin'. 352 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:08,300 I'll read her drag line. 353 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:10,300 How about it, Mrs. Denson? 354 00:10:10,300 --> 00:10:13,300 I just don't know what you're lookin' for, Mr. I swear I don't. 355 00:10:13,300 --> 00:10:16,300 Well, either you've still got it on you, or you've got it in the bedroom. 356 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:17,300 What is it? 357 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:19,300 Sir. 358 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:21,300 Well, you're not giving us any choice. 359 00:10:21,300 --> 00:10:23,300 I guess you'd better put in a call to the office, Frank. 360 00:10:23,300 --> 00:10:24,300 Yeah. 361 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:26,300 Ask them to send a team over to take this joint apart. 362 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:27,300 Right. 363 00:10:27,300 --> 00:10:28,300 Tell them we're bringing in a couple of suspects. 364 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:31,300 See if they can get a policewoman to stand by so there'll be somebody to search Mrs. Denson when we get there. 365 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:32,300 Aye. 366 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:36,300 Now, you just wait a minute, mister. 367 00:10:36,300 --> 00:10:37,300 Can't arrest us. 368 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:38,300 Not both Clem and me. 369 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:39,300 Is that right? 370 00:10:39,300 --> 00:10:40,300 What about my youngsters? 371 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:42,300 I won't leave them here alone. 372 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:44,300 Can you get somebody to stay with them? 373 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:46,300 Well, I guess Josie will be home before too long. 374 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:47,300 Who's Josie? 375 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:48,300 Oldest girl. 376 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:49,300 Where is she now? 377 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:52,300 Went to the movies with her boyfriend. 378 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:55,300 She's full-grown, almost 19. 379 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:56,300 How soon do you expect her back? 380 00:10:56,300 --> 00:10:58,300 I don't know for sure. 381 00:10:58,300 --> 00:10:59,300 Pretty soon. 382 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:00,300 Now, maybe. 383 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:02,300 Uh-uh. We can't wait that long. 384 00:11:02,300 --> 00:11:04,300 Looks like we'll have to take the kids in too. 385 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:05,300 All right, I'll tell them downtown. 386 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:07,300 You got to ask Clem, you hear what they're saying? 387 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:08,300 Yeah. 388 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:09,300 You just going to sit there? 389 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:12,300 You going to let them drag our youngsters out of bed in the middle of the night? 390 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:13,300 There ain't nothing I can do, hon. 391 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:14,300 I tried to tell them. 392 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:15,300 You heard me try. 393 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:16,300 I'm not going to have my kids in jail. 394 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:18,300 Not for you, not for nobody. 395 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:21,300 It ain't right to get a man through his family, mister. 396 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:22,300 Yeah. 397 00:11:22,300 --> 00:11:25,300 I told you before, it don't make no difference what becomes of me. 398 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:26,300 You can send me away. 399 00:11:26,300 --> 00:11:28,300 You can put me in prison the rest of my life. 400 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:29,300 You can give me the gas chamber. 401 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:31,300 Oh, good. 402 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:33,300 You all through now? 403 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:35,300 Whew. 404 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:37,300 You see, hon, I tried. 405 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:38,300 I'm going to go have a look at the call frame. 406 00:11:38,300 --> 00:11:39,300 Yeah. 407 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:41,300 It'll probably take five or ten minutes to get the kids dressed, 408 00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:42,300 then we'll shove off. 409 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:43,300 All right. 410 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:45,300 I ain't going to stand for it, Clem. 411 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:46,300 I warned you. 412 00:11:46,300 --> 00:11:48,300 Those kids ain't going to jail on account of you. 413 00:11:48,300 --> 00:11:49,300 Alice. 414 00:11:49,300 --> 00:11:52,300 He asked me to hide it when we heard Jerry Boston coming up the block. 415 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:53,300 Well? 416 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:55,300 I put it inside my dress. 417 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:57,300 All right, if I turn around? 418 00:11:57,300 --> 00:11:58,300 Yeah. 419 00:11:58,300 --> 00:11:59,300 I'll get him for you. 420 00:11:59,300 --> 00:12:04,300 I reckon he's just thought you won't. 421 00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:06,300 You know better than this, Mrs. Benson. 422 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:07,300 Huh? 423 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:08,300 There's no H in here. 424 00:12:08,300 --> 00:12:09,300 This is just his layout. 425 00:12:09,300 --> 00:12:10,300 H? 426 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:11,300 It's what he gave me. 427 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:12,300 You're married to a guy who's been hooked for a long time. 428 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:15,300 You got a pretty good idea what this stuff looks like? 429 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:18,300 We're not going to waste any more time here. 430 00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:20,300 If you give it to the captain, go downtown. 431 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:21,300 All four of you. 432 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:22,300 I'll get him for you. 433 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:23,300 You just tell us where they are. 434 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:25,300 Don't listen to him, Alice, honey. 435 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:26,300 Don't listen to him. 436 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:28,300 Bedroom. 437 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:29,300 Which one? 438 00:12:29,300 --> 00:12:30,300 Where the kids are sleeping. 439 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:31,300 Go on. 440 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:32,300 Under the pillar. 441 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:33,300 Under the upstairs pillar. 442 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:34,300 That's where he put it. 443 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:35,300 See the younger? 444 00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:36,300 Yes, sir. 445 00:12:36,300 --> 00:12:37,300 I'd appreciate it if you'd try not to wake her. 446 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:38,300 There's a lot of women around when she's lost. 447 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:39,300 She's all tuckered out. 448 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:40,300 I had to tell him, ma'am. 449 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:41,300 I had to. 450 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:42,300 I'm sorry. 451 00:12:42,300 --> 00:12:43,300 I'm sorry. 452 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:44,300 I'm sorry. 453 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:45,300 I'm sorry. 454 00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:46,300 I'm sorry. 455 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:47,300 I'm sorry. 456 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:48,300 I'm sorry. 457 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:49,300 I'm sorry. 458 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:50,300 I'm sorry. 459 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:51,300 I'm sorry. 460 00:12:51,300 --> 00:12:52,300 I'm sorry. 461 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:53,300 I'm sorry. 462 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:54,300 I'm sorry. 463 00:12:54,300 --> 00:12:55,300 I'm sorry. 464 00:12:55,300 --> 00:12:56,300 It sure was a lousy trick, mister. 465 00:12:56,300 --> 00:12:57,300 What's that? 466 00:12:57,300 --> 00:13:02,760 Holding them youngsters over her head, making them afraid about them just so you could break 467 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,300 her down. 468 00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:06,700 Real lousy. 469 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:08,400 You ain't got no kids of your own, have you? 470 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:09,400 No. 471 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:10,660 Well, that's how I had it figured. 472 00:13:10,660 --> 00:13:14,260 The way you talked, Alice, the way you kept on her. 473 00:13:14,260 --> 00:13:15,260 Parent wouldn't act that way. 474 00:13:15,260 --> 00:13:16,260 Never in a million years. 475 00:13:16,260 --> 00:13:17,260 Not a rule of parents, that is. 476 00:13:17,260 --> 00:13:21,260 Well, there's just one thing that I don't understand here, Denz. 477 00:13:21,260 --> 00:13:22,260 What's that? 478 00:13:22,260 --> 00:13:25,260 How would you know? 479 00:13:25,260 --> 00:13:36,700 One of the pillows in the children's bedroom, Frank found an envelope which contained 32 480 00:13:36,700 --> 00:13:37,700 caps of heroin. 481 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:41,300 Danson admitted that the H belonged to him, but he refused to tell us where he'd acquired 482 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:42,300 it. 483 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:44,660 Jerry Boston denied any knowledge of the drug. 484 00:13:44,660 --> 00:13:48,540 We made arrangements for the two Danson children to be placed under protective custody of the 485 00:13:48,540 --> 00:13:49,540 juvenile division. 486 00:13:49,540 --> 00:13:53,380 Ten forty-two p.m., we took the Dansons and Jerry Boston down to the Narcotics Bureau 487 00:13:53,380 --> 00:13:54,380 for further questioning. 488 00:13:54,380 --> 00:13:59,460 Our investigation revealed that Boston was not implicated in the case and he was released. 489 00:13:59,460 --> 00:14:03,180 Eleven seventeen p.m., while Frank interrogated the Danson woman, I talked to her husband 490 00:14:03,180 --> 00:14:04,180 in the adjoining room. 491 00:14:04,180 --> 00:14:05,580 Oh, I never saw the like. 492 00:14:05,580 --> 00:14:07,260 You sure are hard to satisfy, mister. 493 00:14:07,260 --> 00:14:10,020 I told you this stuff was mine, now I'm already one. 494 00:14:10,020 --> 00:14:11,020 It just doesn't add up, Danson. 495 00:14:11,020 --> 00:14:12,020 Well, see why not. 496 00:14:12,020 --> 00:14:13,020 Well, you called it back, it's your place. 497 00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:14,020 Well, it's me. 498 00:14:14,020 --> 00:14:17,340 Well, where would a hype like you get enough money to buy 32 caps? 499 00:14:17,340 --> 00:14:19,740 Well, I had me elect to put away. 500 00:14:19,740 --> 00:14:21,220 Frank was right, so I made a buy. 501 00:14:21,220 --> 00:14:22,220 Oh, no, don't give me that. 502 00:14:22,220 --> 00:14:24,660 You're scratching just to keep even with your habits. 503 00:14:24,660 --> 00:14:26,900 I'll bet you look. 504 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:30,860 Now, we've seen the marks on your arm. 505 00:14:30,860 --> 00:14:31,860 You want me to guess? 506 00:14:31,860 --> 00:14:32,860 Three caps a day. 507 00:14:32,860 --> 00:14:33,860 That about it? 508 00:14:33,860 --> 00:14:38,860 All right, Danson, who's the stuff belong to? 509 00:14:38,860 --> 00:14:43,780 Look, fella, you're dead. 510 00:14:43,780 --> 00:14:46,460 We can make you on possession, maybe even on sale. 511 00:14:46,460 --> 00:14:47,460 Sale? 512 00:14:47,460 --> 00:14:50,020 You must be off your rocket. 513 00:14:50,020 --> 00:14:51,460 You know I never sold none on. 514 00:14:51,460 --> 00:14:52,460 Well, I'm sorry we got you. 515 00:14:52,460 --> 00:14:53,460 I already start pushing. 516 00:14:53,460 --> 00:14:54,460 Well, we know you started. 517 00:14:54,460 --> 00:14:55,460 Anybody told you that? 518 00:14:55,460 --> 00:14:56,460 He's a liar. 519 00:14:56,460 --> 00:14:57,460 I ain't no pusher, never have been. 520 00:14:57,460 --> 00:14:58,460 Then what are you doing with 32 caps? 521 00:14:58,460 --> 00:14:59,460 I keep telling you, Mr., they were cheap. 522 00:14:59,460 --> 00:15:00,460 How cheap? 523 00:15:00,460 --> 00:15:01,460 Five bucks a cap. 524 00:15:01,460 --> 00:15:04,460 That's not reasonable for them these days. 525 00:15:04,460 --> 00:15:08,420 165 bucks isn't reasonable. 526 00:15:08,420 --> 00:15:09,420 You never saw that much money. 527 00:15:09,420 --> 00:15:13,460 All right, who'd you buy them from? 528 00:15:13,460 --> 00:15:16,820 Oh, wouldn't be nobody you know. 529 00:15:16,820 --> 00:15:17,820 Why don't you try me? 530 00:15:17,820 --> 00:15:18,820 I don't know myself. 531 00:15:18,820 --> 00:15:19,820 Ain't from LA. 532 00:15:19,820 --> 00:15:20,820 Yeah. 533 00:15:20,820 --> 00:15:23,340 I was in the middle last week, took a trip down south across the border. 534 00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:24,340 Oh, sure you did. 535 00:15:24,340 --> 00:15:25,940 That's how come I made me such a good buy? 536 00:15:25,940 --> 00:15:26,940 You bet. 537 00:15:26,940 --> 00:15:31,220 Now, you listen, Benson, we didn't drop in on you tonight just because we were in the 538 00:15:31,220 --> 00:15:32,220 neighborhood. 539 00:15:32,220 --> 00:15:33,220 That's true. 540 00:15:33,220 --> 00:15:34,220 We wouldn't have been there if we didn't have information. 541 00:15:34,220 --> 00:15:35,820 You know that as well as I do. 542 00:15:35,820 --> 00:15:36,820 Well? 543 00:15:36,820 --> 00:15:39,020 Our info is that you just got those caps tonight. 544 00:15:39,020 --> 00:15:43,500 Well, I tell you, somebody sure has been spreading a lot of wild stories about me. 545 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:46,500 They've been on the nose so far. 546 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:49,580 Why are you spending your time these days? 547 00:15:49,580 --> 00:15:50,980 I reckon we covered that before. 548 00:15:50,980 --> 00:15:52,980 Well, I reckon we'll try it again. 549 00:15:52,980 --> 00:15:54,660 I stayed at home mostly. 550 00:15:54,660 --> 00:15:55,660 Were you home yesterday? 551 00:15:55,660 --> 00:15:56,660 Sure was. 552 00:15:56,660 --> 00:15:57,660 Day before? 553 00:15:57,660 --> 00:15:58,660 Yeah, as far as I can remember. 554 00:15:58,660 --> 00:15:59,660 A real homebody, aren't you? 555 00:15:59,660 --> 00:16:01,660 I figure I ought to stick pretty close to seeing how the wife's working. 556 00:16:01,660 --> 00:16:02,660 Well, I sure consider of you. 557 00:16:02,660 --> 00:16:05,540 When was the last time you were downtown? 558 00:16:05,540 --> 00:16:06,540 Whereabouts down there? 559 00:16:06,540 --> 00:16:07,540 Maine, Alameda, anywhere in there. 560 00:16:07,540 --> 00:16:09,700 I'm afraid I just don't recall. 561 00:16:09,700 --> 00:16:10,700 Last week maybe? 562 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:12,260 Oh, no, it wouldn't have been last week. 563 00:16:12,260 --> 00:16:13,260 I wasn't feeling rightly. 564 00:16:13,260 --> 00:16:14,980 Didn't go no place last week. 565 00:16:14,980 --> 00:16:16,620 Then how'd you get to Mexico? 566 00:16:16,620 --> 00:16:19,700 Guess my memory ain't as good as it used to be. 567 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:21,380 Becken, I'm kind of mixed up. 568 00:16:21,380 --> 00:16:22,380 You sure are. 569 00:16:22,380 --> 00:16:23,380 Right in there, Frank. 570 00:16:23,380 --> 00:16:24,380 Sit right over there. 571 00:16:24,380 --> 00:16:25,380 Now, now, honey, you take it easy. 572 00:16:25,380 --> 00:16:26,380 They can't do nothing to you. 573 00:16:26,380 --> 00:16:27,380 She knew where the stuff was. 574 00:16:27,380 --> 00:16:28,380 That ties her right into possession. 575 00:16:28,380 --> 00:16:29,380 Told you where to find it. 576 00:16:29,380 --> 00:16:30,380 Or they'll still want it. 577 00:16:30,380 --> 00:16:31,380 Who do the caps belong to, Mrs. Benson? 578 00:16:31,380 --> 00:16:32,380 The scams. 579 00:16:32,380 --> 00:16:33,380 They belong to whom? 580 00:16:33,380 --> 00:16:34,380 Where'd he get them? 581 00:16:34,380 --> 00:16:35,380 I don't know. 582 00:16:35,380 --> 00:16:36,380 I don't know. 583 00:16:36,380 --> 00:16:37,380 I don't know. 584 00:16:37,380 --> 00:16:38,380 I don't know. 585 00:16:38,380 --> 00:16:39,380 I don't know. 586 00:16:39,380 --> 00:16:40,380 I don't know. 587 00:16:40,380 --> 00:16:41,380 I don't know. 588 00:16:41,380 --> 00:16:42,380 I don't know. 589 00:16:42,380 --> 00:16:43,380 I don't know. 590 00:16:43,380 --> 00:16:44,380 I don't know. 591 00:16:44,380 --> 00:16:45,380 I don't know. 592 00:16:45,380 --> 00:16:46,740 I don't know. 593 00:16:46,740 --> 00:16:47,740 Honest, I don't. 594 00:16:47,740 --> 00:16:50,060 Did you have any visitors tonight besides Jerry Boston? 595 00:16:50,060 --> 00:16:51,060 Well, come on. 596 00:16:51,060 --> 00:16:52,060 I couldn't think of nobody. 597 00:16:52,060 --> 00:16:53,060 Slim, you've got to do something. 598 00:16:53,060 --> 00:16:54,060 You've got to get me out of here. 599 00:16:54,060 --> 00:16:55,060 Any single solitary thing I can do, I'll do. 600 00:16:55,060 --> 00:16:56,060 I want to know what's happened to my kids. 601 00:16:56,060 --> 00:16:57,060 Aw, take it easy, lady. 602 00:16:57,060 --> 00:16:58,060 They're in good hands. 603 00:16:58,060 --> 00:16:59,060 I want to know. 604 00:16:59,060 --> 00:17:00,060 They ain't never been away from me, not since they were born. 605 00:17:00,060 --> 00:17:01,060 They'll be all upset if I'm not there. 606 00:17:01,060 --> 00:17:02,060 Can't you understand how I feel? 607 00:17:02,060 --> 00:17:03,060 Yes, we can. 608 00:17:03,060 --> 00:17:04,060 My fault, anyway. 609 00:17:04,060 --> 00:17:05,060 It's all my fault. 610 00:17:05,060 --> 00:17:06,060 Now, now, honey, you oughtn't to talk about it. 611 00:17:06,060 --> 00:17:07,060 I don't know. 612 00:17:07,060 --> 00:17:08,060 I don't know. 613 00:17:08,060 --> 00:17:09,060 I don't know. 614 00:17:09,060 --> 00:17:19,660 I should have left you, Slim. 615 00:17:19,660 --> 00:17:23,260 I should have left you ten years ago when your things started digging dope. 616 00:17:23,260 --> 00:17:26,260 We wouldn't have had the other two kids. 617 00:17:26,260 --> 00:17:27,260 It'd just be Joseph. 618 00:17:27,260 --> 00:17:30,260 Dad knows what's happened to her. 619 00:17:30,260 --> 00:17:32,460 Now, you start worrying about Joseph. 620 00:17:32,460 --> 00:17:35,260 It's not time somebody worried about her, ain't it? 621 00:17:35,260 --> 00:17:36,260 Going out with a married man. 622 00:17:36,260 --> 00:17:39,260 It wasn't for you and your dirty, fiddly-dope kid. 623 00:17:39,260 --> 00:17:40,260 Never met him. 624 00:17:40,260 --> 00:17:41,260 Alice, I'm telling you, shut up. 625 00:17:41,260 --> 00:17:42,260 That's enough out of you, then. 626 00:17:42,260 --> 00:17:43,260 Oh, sure. 627 00:17:43,260 --> 00:17:46,260 He can't do no wrong, as far as you're concerned. 628 00:17:46,260 --> 00:17:48,260 God give you a free bangle. 629 00:17:48,260 --> 00:17:50,260 That makes him a fine fella, don't it? 630 00:17:50,260 --> 00:17:51,260 Fix company for your daughter. 631 00:17:51,260 --> 00:17:52,260 Who are you talking about, Miss Benson? 632 00:17:52,260 --> 00:17:53,260 Clark Heldie. 633 00:17:53,260 --> 00:17:54,260 That's who. 634 00:17:54,260 --> 00:17:55,260 He's the one who gives Slim them caps. 635 00:17:55,260 --> 00:17:56,260 He's the one. 636 00:17:56,260 --> 00:17:57,260 Going out with Joseph. 637 00:17:57,260 --> 00:17:58,260 First thing you know, she'll be on the stuff, too. 638 00:17:58,260 --> 00:17:59,260 Just like her father. 639 00:17:59,260 --> 00:18:00,260 Got to know what she's with tonight. 640 00:18:00,260 --> 00:18:01,260 Tonight. 641 00:18:01,260 --> 00:18:02,260 Last night. 642 00:18:02,260 --> 00:18:03,260 Every night. 643 00:18:03,260 --> 00:18:06,260 I talked to her. 644 00:18:06,260 --> 00:18:10,260 I talked to her till I was blue in the face. 645 00:18:10,260 --> 00:18:11,260 Just like her father. 646 00:18:11,260 --> 00:18:12,260 That's what she is, just like him. 647 00:18:12,260 --> 00:18:13,260 You know where they went? 648 00:18:13,260 --> 00:18:14,260 They said to the movies. 649 00:18:14,260 --> 00:18:15,260 No reason to believe them, though. 650 00:18:15,260 --> 00:18:16,260 You could have given us all this, Benson. 651 00:18:16,260 --> 00:18:17,260 Well, they wore them on my caps. 652 00:18:17,260 --> 00:18:18,260 I was just keeping them for perk. 653 00:18:18,260 --> 00:18:19,260 Then he brought Joseph home tonight. 654 00:18:19,260 --> 00:18:20,260 Boy, he finds out what's happening. 655 00:18:20,260 --> 00:18:21,260 He sure going to blow his back. 656 00:18:21,260 --> 00:18:22,260 Yeah. 657 00:18:22,260 --> 00:18:23,260 Guess maybe I got some shooting off my mouth too much. 658 00:18:23,260 --> 00:18:34,260 About having them 32 caps. 659 00:18:34,260 --> 00:18:37,260 Made me feel like a big man. 660 00:18:37,260 --> 00:18:40,260 Never had that much stuff for him my whole life. 661 00:18:40,260 --> 00:18:41,260 Told some other boys it was mine. 662 00:18:41,260 --> 00:18:46,260 Just showed you how you can get in trouble from a little exaggerating. 663 00:18:46,260 --> 00:18:49,260 Only had them caps a couple hours before you fellas showed up. 664 00:18:49,260 --> 00:18:50,260 Couple of hours. 665 00:18:50,260 --> 00:18:51,260 That's all it took. 666 00:18:51,260 --> 00:18:53,260 Look at this here mess on me. 667 00:18:53,260 --> 00:18:58,260 It took you a little longer than that, didn't it? 668 00:18:58,260 --> 00:18:59,260 What do you mean? 669 00:18:59,260 --> 00:19:00,260 Ten years. 670 00:19:00,260 --> 00:19:08,260 From previous investigations, Frank and I knew that Per Kelvey was involved in the narcotics 671 00:19:08,260 --> 00:19:09,260 trade. 672 00:19:09,260 --> 00:19:13,260 He'd been arrested several times for possession, but so far he'd always managed to escape conviction. 673 00:19:13,260 --> 00:19:18,260 At the time of his last arrest some five months ago, he had been in the company of his wife, 674 00:19:18,260 --> 00:19:19,260 Marjorie. 675 00:19:19,260 --> 00:19:22,260 As we were searching, three ounces of heroin were found on her person. 676 00:19:22,260 --> 00:19:26,260 Marjorie Helvey had not been known to us as a pusher or a user. 677 00:19:26,260 --> 00:19:29,260 But when her husband was questioned, he denied any knowledge of the dope. 678 00:19:29,260 --> 00:19:32,260 His wife was sentenced to a term at the Women's State Prison. 679 00:19:32,260 --> 00:19:33,260 12.08 a.m. 680 00:19:33,260 --> 00:19:35,260 Frank and I drove back to the Denson residence. 681 00:19:35,260 --> 00:19:36,260 The place was deserted. 682 00:19:36,260 --> 00:19:39,260 We went inside to wait for Helvey and Josie Denson. 683 00:19:39,260 --> 00:19:40,260 1.16 a.m. 684 00:19:40,260 --> 00:19:44,260 Well, if he wouldn't cop out to save his own wife, he's not going to give us anything. 685 00:19:44,260 --> 00:19:45,260 No. 686 00:19:45,260 --> 00:19:47,260 Well, that's true to some families. 687 00:19:47,260 --> 00:19:50,260 Well, can't help feeling sorry for the kids, though. 688 00:19:50,260 --> 00:19:51,260 Me, too. 689 00:19:51,260 --> 00:19:52,260 Wait a minute. 690 00:19:52,260 --> 00:19:53,260 Helvey's out in front, yeah. 691 00:19:53,260 --> 00:19:54,260 Yeah. 692 00:19:54,260 --> 00:19:55,260 How do you want to work it? 693 00:19:55,260 --> 00:19:56,260 Well, let's split him up. 694 00:19:56,260 --> 00:19:57,260 I'll talk to the girl. 695 00:19:57,260 --> 00:19:58,260 You take him in the other room and see what you can get. 696 00:19:58,260 --> 00:19:59,260 All right. 697 00:19:59,260 --> 00:20:00,260 Want to come in for a sec? 698 00:20:00,260 --> 00:20:01,260 Yeah, that's nothing to remember. 699 00:20:01,260 --> 00:20:02,260 Just sit on bed. 700 00:20:02,260 --> 00:20:03,260 You'd hope your old man didn't shoot too many Mike Camps. 701 00:20:03,260 --> 00:20:04,260 Police officer, you're under arrest. 702 00:20:04,260 --> 00:20:05,260 Don't try anything, Helvey. 703 00:20:05,260 --> 00:20:06,260 Okay. 704 00:20:06,260 --> 00:20:07,260 Hey, what's going on here? 705 00:20:07,260 --> 00:20:08,260 Where's the police? 706 00:20:08,260 --> 00:20:09,260 I don't know. 707 00:20:09,260 --> 00:20:10,260 I don't know. 708 00:20:10,260 --> 00:20:11,260 I don't know. 709 00:20:11,260 --> 00:20:12,260 I don't know. 710 00:20:12,260 --> 00:20:13,260 I don't know. 711 00:20:13,260 --> 00:20:14,260 I don't know. 712 00:20:14,260 --> 00:20:19,260 Don't try anything, Helvey. 713 00:20:19,260 --> 00:20:20,260 Okay. 714 00:20:20,260 --> 00:20:21,260 Hey, what's going on here? 715 00:20:21,260 --> 00:20:22,260 Where is everybody? 716 00:20:22,260 --> 00:20:23,260 The folks are out. 717 00:20:23,260 --> 00:20:24,260 What'd they do? 718 00:20:24,260 --> 00:20:25,260 Get themselves pinned? 719 00:20:25,260 --> 00:20:26,260 Let me see your purse. 720 00:20:26,260 --> 00:20:27,260 Sure. 721 00:20:27,260 --> 00:20:28,260 See what you want. 722 00:20:28,260 --> 00:20:29,260 Help themselves. 723 00:20:29,260 --> 00:20:30,260 Come on, move over here. 724 00:20:30,260 --> 00:20:31,260 Keep your hands out of your pockets and stand still, okay? 725 00:20:31,260 --> 00:20:32,260 It's a good thing I ain't ticklish, huh? 726 00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:33,260 All right. 727 00:20:33,260 --> 00:20:34,260 All right. 728 00:20:34,260 --> 00:20:35,260 Come on, Helvey. 729 00:20:35,260 --> 00:20:36,260 Huh? 730 00:20:36,260 --> 00:20:37,260 I want to talk to you out the back. 731 00:20:37,260 --> 00:20:38,260 Yeah, sure. 732 00:20:38,260 --> 00:20:39,260 What'd you guys do? 733 00:20:39,260 --> 00:20:40,260 Draw straws for us? 734 00:20:40,260 --> 00:20:41,260 You know what? 735 00:20:41,260 --> 00:20:44,260 Don't look so sad about it, honey. 736 00:20:44,260 --> 00:20:45,260 You won. 737 00:20:45,260 --> 00:20:46,260 I'm not so sure of it. 738 00:20:46,260 --> 00:20:47,260 I got the smart one, huh? 739 00:20:47,260 --> 00:20:48,260 Your mother and father have been arrested. 740 00:20:48,260 --> 00:20:49,260 Oh? 741 00:20:49,260 --> 00:20:50,260 And it's not going to go easy on them. 742 00:20:50,260 --> 00:20:51,260 Who cares? 743 00:20:51,260 --> 00:20:52,260 The old man's a bum. 744 00:20:52,260 --> 00:20:53,260 Always has been. 745 00:20:53,260 --> 00:20:54,260 When I was a little girl, he was a lush. 746 00:20:54,260 --> 00:20:55,260 Now he's a hype. 747 00:20:55,260 --> 00:20:56,260 I don't notice any change. 748 00:20:56,260 --> 00:20:57,260 What about your mother? 749 00:20:57,260 --> 00:20:58,260 What about her? 750 00:20:58,260 --> 00:20:59,260 She's been trying to hold the family together, hasn't she? 751 00:20:59,260 --> 00:21:00,260 Might be better if it fell apart. 752 00:21:00,260 --> 00:21:01,260 I'm going to give it straight to you, young lady. 753 00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:02,260 Your folks say that the cap was stolen. 754 00:21:02,260 --> 00:21:03,260 What about your mother? 755 00:21:03,260 --> 00:21:04,260 What about her? 756 00:21:04,260 --> 00:21:05,260 She's been trying to hold the family together, hasn't she? 757 00:21:05,260 --> 00:21:06,260 Might be better if it fell apart. 758 00:21:06,260 --> 00:21:11,260 I'm going to give it straight to you, young lady. 759 00:21:11,260 --> 00:21:12,260 Your folks say that the caps we found belong to your friend, Perk Halvey. 760 00:21:12,260 --> 00:21:13,260 Is that true? 761 00:21:13,260 --> 00:21:14,260 I wouldn't know. 762 00:21:14,260 --> 00:21:15,260 You'd know if you wanted to. 763 00:21:15,260 --> 00:21:20,260 It's going to be their word against his unless you step in. 764 00:21:20,260 --> 00:21:21,260 Include me out. 765 00:21:21,260 --> 00:21:22,260 Maybe you got a beef against your father. 766 00:21:22,260 --> 00:21:23,260 Maybe. 767 00:21:23,260 --> 00:21:26,260 Whatever you give me won't help him much. 768 00:21:26,260 --> 00:21:28,260 Might make a difference in your mother's case, though. 769 00:21:28,260 --> 00:21:29,260 Oh, come on. 770 00:21:29,260 --> 00:21:31,260 You don't care any more about my folks than I do. 771 00:21:31,260 --> 00:21:32,260 You're after Perk. 772 00:21:32,260 --> 00:21:33,260 It was his stuff, wasn't it? 773 00:21:33,260 --> 00:21:34,260 I don't know. 774 00:21:34,260 --> 00:21:35,260 You better think it over. 775 00:21:35,260 --> 00:21:36,260 Why should I? 776 00:21:36,260 --> 00:21:37,260 You don't mean anything to him. 777 00:21:37,260 --> 00:21:38,260 I don't know what he tells me. 778 00:21:38,260 --> 00:21:39,260 He's got a wife, hasn't he? 779 00:21:39,260 --> 00:21:40,260 The way I hear it, she's out of town. 780 00:21:40,260 --> 00:21:41,260 You know who sent her there? 781 00:21:41,260 --> 00:21:42,260 Nothing to keep the same thing from happening to you. 782 00:21:42,260 --> 00:21:43,260 It won't. 783 00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:44,260 You ever seen your mother cry, Josie? 784 00:21:44,260 --> 00:21:45,260 Well, I did tonight. 785 00:21:45,260 --> 00:21:46,260 She wasn't crying for herself either. 786 00:21:46,260 --> 00:21:47,260 It was for you and your kid sisters. 787 00:21:47,260 --> 00:21:48,260 You got a choice. 788 00:21:48,260 --> 00:21:49,260 Who's it going to be, your mother or that two-bit pusher in there? 789 00:21:49,260 --> 00:21:50,260 Not a very nice way to talk about a friend of mine, is it? 790 00:21:50,260 --> 00:21:51,260 I don't know. 791 00:21:51,260 --> 00:21:52,260 I don't know. 792 00:21:52,260 --> 00:21:53,260 I don't know. 793 00:21:53,260 --> 00:21:54,260 I don't know. 794 00:21:54,260 --> 00:21:55,260 I don't know. 795 00:21:55,260 --> 00:21:56,260 I don't know. 796 00:21:56,260 --> 00:21:57,260 I don't know. 797 00:21:57,260 --> 00:22:05,260 I don't know. 798 00:22:05,260 --> 00:22:12,260 I don't know. 799 00:22:12,260 --> 00:22:17,260 I don't know. 800 00:22:17,260 --> 00:22:28,260 I don't know. 801 00:22:28,260 --> 00:22:35,260 I don't know. 802 00:22:35,260 --> 00:22:40,260 I don't know. 803 00:22:40,260 --> 00:22:50,260 I don't know. 804 00:22:50,260 --> 00:22:57,260 I don't know. 805 00:22:57,260 --> 00:23:02,260 I don't know. 806 00:23:02,260 --> 00:23:12,260 I don't know. 807 00:23:12,260 --> 00:23:21,260 I don't know. 808 00:23:21,260 --> 00:23:30,260 I don't know. 809 00:23:30,260 --> 00:23:37,260 I don't know. 810 00:23:37,260 --> 00:23:44,260 I don't know. 811 00:23:44,260 --> 00:23:51,260 I don't know. 812 00:23:51,260 --> 00:23:59,260 I don't know. 813 00:23:59,260 --> 00:24:05,260 I don't know. 814 00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:11,260 I don't know. 815 00:24:11,260 --> 00:24:20,260 I don't know. 816 00:24:20,260 --> 00:24:26,260 I don't know. 817 00:24:26,260 --> 00:24:32,260 I don't know. 818 00:24:32,260 --> 00:24:41,260 I don't know. 819 00:24:41,260 --> 00:24:50,260 I don't know. 820 00:24:50,260 --> 00:24:57,260 I don't know.