1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Los Angeles, NBC brings you Dragnet. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,000 ["Dragnet Theme"] 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,000 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,000 ["Dragnet Theme"] 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 ["Dragnet Theme"] 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000 You get a call that a large market has been held up. 9 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,000 You have a good description of the thief. 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Your job, get him. 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 ["Dragnet Theme"] 12 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 ["Dragnet Theme"] 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 15 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law 16 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,000 through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 ["Dragnet Theme"] 20 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 It was Monday, March 10th. It was raining in Los Angeles. 21 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. 22 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Didion. 23 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 My name's Friday. 24 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 I was on my way into the office and it was 8.02 a.m. when I got to room 27A. 25 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Robbery. 26 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 So? 27 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Yeah, Frank. 28 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Really coming down, isn't it? 29 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Yeah, pouring out in the valley. 30 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,000 That so? 31 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Yeah. Keeps coming down like this, going to cause a lot of trouble. 32 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Sure makes the day, man. 33 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Yeah, how's that? 34 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 When it gets raining like this and she begins to think about the house, 35 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,000 you know, doing something about it, changing stuff around. 36 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Is that so? 37 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Spent the whole day yesterday moving furniture. 38 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Finally got it all set just before dinner. 39 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Looks pretty good, too. 40 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,000 What happened? 41 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Well, we got through dinner and all went in to look at television. 42 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Yeah. 43 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,000 The way she had the furniture, none of us could see a thing. 44 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,000 The chairs were either so close you couldn't see or else they rolled way across the room. 45 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Well, you're not supposed to get too close, are you, anyway? 46 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Yeah, but, Joe, we only got a 10-inch screen. 47 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 We got one of those big magnifiers on it, and if you get to one side, 48 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 everybody looks like they got the month. 49 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Had to move all the stuff back the way it was. 50 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,000 So, hot shot, I'll get it. 51 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 All right, get your coat. We got one to roll on. 52 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,000 What is it? 53 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Liquor store robbery. 54 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 812 a.m. We arrived at the scene of the holdup. 55 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 It was a large liquor grocery store at the corner of San Marino Avenue and 6th Street. 56 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 A radio unit was already there. 57 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Frank and I checked with them, and then we talked with the victim, a Mr. Henry Alden. 58 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 I was just standing there at the counter. 59 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 This old guy came in, pulled a gun, told me he wanted the money. 60 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,000 I gave it to him. 61 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Uh-huh. He said on the phone that he was elderly. Is that right? 62 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Yeah, old guy. Must have been about 65 or 70. 63 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Real bum. 64 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 How do you mean? 65 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Oh, he was dressed, you know, old clothes, real seedy. 66 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Uh-huh. 67 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Why don't you tell us just what happened? 68 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Well, sure. It was about 8 this morning. 69 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 I opened up, and I was there making out the deposit slip for the bank. 70 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Guy walked in the back door and pulled his gun, told me he wanted the money. 71 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Uh-huh. 72 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Well, like I said, I gave it to him. 73 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,000 He told me to get into the closet back there, tell me to lie down on the floor. 74 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 I did, and he had that gun pointed right at my head. 75 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,000 I did like he told me. 76 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,000 I see. What happened then? 77 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Well, he walked over to the door and flipped the lock on her a couple of times, you know, to make sure it worked. 78 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Yeah. 79 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 And then he figured it was okay, and he told me not to make any noise for five minutes. 80 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,000 He locked the door. 81 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Well, that's it. Took all the money. 82 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 How much money did he take, would you know? 83 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Yeah, to the penny. I just finished adding it up, just a minute. 84 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 All right. 85 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 I got the figures on the machine. Tell you right away. 86 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:54,000 That is $5,200.52. That's it exactly. 87 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 You said the guy came in the back door, then, right? 88 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Yeah, that's right. 89 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Well, were you open? I mean, was the door open for business? 90 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 No, we weren't. You see, I usually don't open before 8.30. 91 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Leave the back door open, though, for deliveries, bread and milk, stuff like that. 92 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Uh-huh. What if you could give us a description of the man? 93 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Well, sure. Like I said, he was old. 94 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Say, around 70, not in there. 95 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Uh-huh. About how tall was he? 96 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 I'd say maybe five-seven, not much more than that. 97 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,000 How much did he weigh, would you know? 98 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Not much. Maybe 125. 99 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 How about his complexion? 100 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Real tan, like he'd be on the sun a lot. Face was all wrinkled. 101 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 How about the color of his eyes? 102 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Blue, real blue. 103 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Uh-huh. Now, what about his clothes? 104 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:36,000 They were real bummed. Had on this old overcoat, brown, all frayed, ragged around the sleeves. 105 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Had a patch on the right elbow. Patch looked like it was kind of dark, surge material. 106 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Was he wearing a hat? 107 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Yeah, yeah, blue, all beat up. You could see the dirt around the brim. 108 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Uh-huh. How about his shirt and trousers? 109 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Blue striped shirt and old kind of brown pants, no press. 110 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Looked like he was getting ready to jump in, a real seedy. 111 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Did he wear glasses? 112 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 No, no, he didn't. 113 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Was he clean shaven or did he wear a mustache? 114 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 How about a four or five day old growth of beard, white. 115 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 I see. Did he have any marked scars that you could see? 116 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 No, nothing like that. At least not that I could see. 117 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 How about the gun? Was it a revolver, an automatic? 118 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Well, it looked like an automatic. Might have been a.45. I didn't look too close at that. 119 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Yeah. Did he have any sort of an accent when he talked to you? 120 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 No, no, nothing like that. 121 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,000 All right, Mr. Alden. I'll get the description out. 122 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Right, right, right. 123 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Mr. Alden, did the man say anything to you that might help identify him? 124 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:33,000 No, not that I can think of. He kept telling me he was real sorry he had to do this. 125 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 That I'm really sorry, but I have to have the money, I have to. 126 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Kept asking me if I understood. I told him no. 127 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 He said that someday I would. 128 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Real weird. Kept apologizing while he robbed me. 129 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 I see. You're the owner here, are you? 130 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,000 No, no, I'm just a manager. The owner's Mr. Wood. He's going to be real mad when he hears about this. 131 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Second time in three months we've been held up. 132 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Getting a little tired. Couple more times the insurance company isn't going to stand for it. 133 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 That's it. Do you usually have that much money in the store? 134 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Most of the weekends, yeah. You see, a lot of our stuff is pretty expensive. 135 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 This is about the only store in the neighborhood that's open over Sunday. 136 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000 We get a lot of trade. Weekend business usually runs between three and five thousand. 137 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 By how many employees are there in the store? 138 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Three, all two. We stay open until two thirty in the morning. 139 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,000 I come in in the morning and work until noon. Hank comes in and there's two of us until six. 140 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 And John comes in and he works on through. 141 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Once in a while Mr. Wood comes in himself and we get busy. 142 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 What if I could have their name in the business? 143 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Sure. They weren't involved there, I'm sure of that. 144 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 So we have to check them out anyway, Mr. Alden? 145 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Yeah, I suppose so. But I tell you, he knew what he was doing, the way he moved. 146 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,000 The way he knew just when to come in. This fellow's done that sort of thing before. 147 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Trying to say he was sorry about taking the money. He wasn't fooling anybody. 148 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 I tell you, not at all. Real bum, seedy, you know? 149 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Yes, sir. 150 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,000 All that baloney about how he had to have the money wasn't any other way. 151 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 He wasn't sorry, not at all. 152 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Yeah, well, he probably will be. 153 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Nine thirty a.m. Frank and I started the canvas of the immediate vicinity. 154 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,000 None of the store owners in the area had seen anyone answering the description of the holdup man. 155 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,000 None of them had seen any suspicious cars in the area. 156 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,000 We asked the liquor store manager to go with us to the city hall to look at the mug books. 157 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 We called the store owner and when he arrived we drove downtown. 158 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 The victim went through the mug books on known holdup men but failed to make an identification. 159 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 A local and an APB were gotten out on the suspect. 160 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:32,000 We asked the stats office to make a run on the MOUs and they came back with fourteen possible. 161 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 It took us two days to check them out. They led us nowhere. 162 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 The papers caught on to the story and letters began to pour in with advice and tips. 163 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 On Monday, March seventeenth, the full week after the robbery, 164 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Frank and I had lunch and checked back into the office. 165 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,000 See the afternoon papers, Joe? 166 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Yeah, pretty funny, huh? 167 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Yeah, they're taking up the story. 168 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Everybody got a different idea of who the old guy is and why he did it. 169 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Have you read some of the stories? 170 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Yeah, sure. The only thing is a lot of people seem to think the old guy is a real Robin Hood. 171 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Well, that's all right but they forget to be walking that store with a gun. 172 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Wasn't anybody to say that he wouldn't have pulled the trigger if somebody got in his way? 173 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Yeah, should be glad when we get him and find out what it's all about. 174 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 I get it. 175 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 I'll be fighting. 176 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Yes, ma'am, it is. 177 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 No, ma'am. 178 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 No, ma'am, we haven't caught him yet. 179 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 What was that? 180 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Yes, ma'am, uh-huh. 181 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Would you give me that address again? 182 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Yes, I have it. 183 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Yes, ma'am. 184 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 All right, thank you. 185 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Uh, there's another one. 186 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 What's that? 187 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Landlady runs a place out on 9th Street. 188 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Says she's got a tenant that she's sure the old fellow we're looking for. 189 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,000 How come? 190 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Says all the old guy does is stay up in his room. 191 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 The other day the landlady's daughter went upstairs for something. 192 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Tenant chased her down the stairs, yelling at her to stay away from his room, all that sort of thing. 193 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,000 He was tired of people not respecting his rights, the rights of an old man, something like that. 194 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,000 I couldn't get her all the phone description she gave him pretty much matches the one we got. 195 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 What do you figure? 196 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Well, we got no choice. We'll check it out. 197 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 One fifty-eight p.m. Frank and I got to the rooming house on 9th Street. 198 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 It was a large four-story building. 199 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 We talked to the landlady and she gave us what information she could. 200 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 She told us that the tenant's name was Roger Dietrich. 201 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 She told us that he'd lived in the building for the past eight years. 202 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,000 She went on to tell us that he had some sort of a private income and that he rarely left his room. 203 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:16,000 The landlady explained that earlier the same morning her eleven-year-old daughter had gone to the attic to get some old newspapers 204 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 and that on the way she'd run into Mr. Dietrich. 205 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,000 The tenant had yelled at her and told her that her daughter had run into Mr. Dietrich. 206 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:26,000 The tenant had yelled at her and told her that as long as he was paying rent on the room, he wouldn't have anybody snooping around. 207 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:31,000 We checked and found that he got no mail except the single letter a month with the income check. 208 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Two thirty p.m. Frank and I went up to the fourth floor and knocked at the door. 209 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,000 I want to try it again. 210 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Yeah. 211 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Go away! 212 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,000 I don't want any! Go away! 213 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Mr. Dietrich? 214 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Who is it? 215 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Police officers. We'd like to talk to you. 216 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Oh, just a minute. 217 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Who'd you say you were? 218 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Police officers. We'd like to talk to you. 219 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,000 What's your name? 220 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,000 My name's Friday. This is my partner, Frank Smith. 221 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Uh-huh. I guess it's all right. Come here. 222 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Thank you. 223 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Well, you got to come out that thing this morning, huh? 224 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Sir? 225 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Why, you don't have to play cage with me. I know that she called you the old busybody. 226 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,000 That bad kid of hers is just like her. He's always snooping. 227 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Well, there wasn't anything to it. The kid come up here, was snooping around, trying to find out what I was doing. 228 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 I'm not ready yet. 229 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 What do you mean, you're not ready? 230 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,000 No. The book's not finished yet. It will be in another year. 231 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,000 And the whole world will see it. Maybe men their ways. 232 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Give them some hope to avoid what's coming. 233 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Well, sir, that's not why we're here. 234 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Don't lie to me. I know all about you. I know that you'd be around. You're trying to stop me. 235 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 I knew it. I knew it all the time. 236 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000 You see that stack of magazines over there? 237 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Yeah. 238 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Every copy of Life magazine ever printed, right for free. I'd be attracted to it. I use it for research. 239 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Well, I don't quite understand it, do you think? 240 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 That's from my book. 241 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Oh, yeah. 242 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:14,000 It's going to be in five volumes called The Eagles of the Machine Age and its Effect on Mankind. 243 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Five volumes. That's five volumes. Got the first four finished. 244 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Working on the last one now. That's how I knew you were coming. 245 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 I worked it out on the chart. 246 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Well, we'd like to talk to you about what you were doing a week ago, sir. 247 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Oh, you were? Oh, well. 248 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Well, yes, I did get on that. I knew it should be checking me. I knew it. I saw it in the chart. 249 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 I'm getting close now. 250 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Well, it's going to sit up and take notice. Sit right up. 251 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Yes, sir. 252 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Did you go out last Monday? 253 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Monday? Last? Yes, yes. I went out to get some supplies. I got them to come right back. 254 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Would you tell us what time of day that was? 255 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 All night, sir. I always go out at night. 256 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Yes, sir. Where'd you get these, what are they, supplies? 257 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Well, that's a little place down the street. I always buy things there. Very nice, very nice. 258 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Yes, sir. And the man down there would be able to tell us if you were there, wouldn't he? 259 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Oh, sure, yes. He and me had a talk about my book. I was really interested. 260 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Really interested. We talk all the time. I just finished volume four, you know, about what's going to happen. 261 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:19,000 The machine is allowed to continue. It's going to be terrible. 262 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000 I'll make you a pint. 263 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:28,000 The way the world's going, all these atom bombs, now the hydrogen bombs, going to blow the world right away. 264 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Even if they stop there, things aren't going to be the same. They're all going to be different. 265 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,000 They're right. 266 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:39,000 You just betcha. You know what kids are going to look like a thousand years from now? 267 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Well, I imagine pretty much the same way they do now, huh? 268 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Yes, sir. And I just, where you're wrong, take a picture right here. 269 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:53,000 That's volume four, you know, volume four. I'll get it. 270 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,000 There you are. See? I'll do it up myself. 271 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Yeah. Well, what is it? 272 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Well, you see, that's the way we're all going to look. You see that? 273 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Yes. 274 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:11,000 That large head, tall brain, little bitty legs. 275 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:16,000 That's from the week we won't be doing any walking, you see, just riding all the time. 276 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:23,000 One great big eye right in the middle of the head, and the right arm fit only for eating breakfast food that makes noise, 277 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 and turning on the television sets, see? 278 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Uh-huh. 279 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Yes, sir. That's what the chart says we're going to look like if we all eat atom bombs. 280 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Yes, sir. I wonder if you'd mind coming downtown with us. 281 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000 In an automobile? 282 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Yes, sir. 283 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Well, I'm afraid not. You see, I don't breathe in them. They're not going to last, you see. 284 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Well, I'm sorry, Mr. D. Drake, but we have to ask you to go with us. 285 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Please, please, huh? 286 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Yes, sir. That's fine. 287 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Well, I don't like it, but I guess I've got no choice. That right? 288 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Yes, sir. That's fine. 289 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Well, all right. That way. I'd rather ride in an automobile. 290 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Won't be around long, you know. I'll just fade right out of existence. 291 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Is that right? 292 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Yeah. I think that's going to happen in my book. 293 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Uh-huh. 294 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Volume 5. 295 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:17,000 3.01 p.m. We drove Roger Dietrich down to the city hall and checked him through R&I. We found no record on him. 296 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:22,000 We got in touch with a holdup victim, Henry Alden, and asked him to come down to the city hall to see if he could identify the suspect. 297 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 He got to the robbery squad room at 4.15 p.m. 298 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,000 No, no, I'm sure of it. That's not the guy. 299 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Well, what's all this about anyway? What are you officers trying to do? 300 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Oh, it's all right, Mr. Dietrich. We're just conducting a routine investigation. It's all right now. 301 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Oh, it is, huh? 302 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Yes, sir. We can take you home now, if you like. 303 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 In that police car? 304 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Yes, sir. 305 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Well, how about this fellow? Are you going, too? 306 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,000 No, sir. 307 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Oh, well, GBRD just passed. 308 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Would you mind dropping me off at Person Square? I'd like to listen to a speech. 309 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,000 A friend of mine's written it this afternoon. Brilliant, man. 310 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Oh, my. He's already written twelve books. All on odds. 311 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,000 That's O-D-D-S, odds. 312 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Like, what are the chances of a comic falling on your house? 313 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Or, what are the chances of a certain horse winning the Kentucky Derby? 314 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 All things like that. 315 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Brilliant, man. 316 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Yes, sir. He's dead and bulk. 317 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Is that right? 318 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Yep. Spends all his money on research. 319 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 I got it. 320 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Probably Friday. 321 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Yeah, Barnes? 322 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,000 Uh-huh. 323 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Yeah. When'd you pick him up? 324 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Yeah. 325 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 All right. No, we'll be right over. 326 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Anything? 327 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Yeah. Barnes over at the main jail. Since they got a drunk over there, he's doing a lot of bragging. 328 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 What about? 329 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Heist in the liquor store for fifty-two hundred dollars. 330 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Four thirty p.m. We had Roger Dietrich taken to his home, and then Frank and I went over to the main jail. 331 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 We talked to Officer Phil Barnes. 332 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:55,000 He told us that an Arnold Jefferson had been picked up and booked for L.A.M.C. 4127A on the previous day. 333 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Barnes went on to say that this was Jefferson's forty-second arrest on drunk charges. 334 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,000 We had the suspect brought to the interview room, and we talked to him. 335 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,000 All right, Jefferson. Now, what's all this about you holding up a liquor store? 336 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,000 What do you know about it? 337 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 You match the description of the man who committed the robbery. 338 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 The clothes there that you're wearing are like the ones the victims described. 339 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Now, about it. You figure you can prove it without me telling you? 340 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Yeah. If Alden identifies you, we can. 341 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Alden? 342 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,000 He's the man who was robbed. 343 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 He's outside now. We want him to take a look at you. 344 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 That won't be necessary. You got the right man. 345 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:18,880 ["The 346 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,000 We had the victim, Henry Alden, look at the suspect, Arnold Jefferson. 347 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,000 He identified him positively as the man who had held up the liquor store. 348 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 We took Jefferson back to the city hall and checked him through R.N.I. 349 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,000 He had no felony record. Seven thirty p.m. We took him to the interrogation room." 350 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 I knew you'd get me. I knew it all the time. 351 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Did I, Ryan? 352 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Sure. I knew it even before I held up the store. 353 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 You know, I didn't really want to do it. 354 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 You know, I really meant it when I told him I was sorry about doing it. 355 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 It really meant it. 356 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Mm-hmm. 357 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Guess maybe you find that kind of hard to believe. 358 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Well, I suppose you tell us about it, huh? 359 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,000 I guess the best way would be to start from the beginning, huh? 360 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Yeah. 361 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 First thing you should understand is I think basically that I'm an honest man. 362 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,000 All my life I've never cheated anyone or taken anything that didn't belong to me. 363 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,000 I've tried to live pretty much by the golden rule. 364 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Yes, sir. 365 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Sometimes, maybe lots of times, it'd be a little hard to do, but I did my best. 366 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Yes, sir. Go ahead. 367 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,000 I was born in the Middle West. Tiny little town. You've probably never heard of it. 368 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:40,000 In dawn most of the map. Went school there through the eighth grade. 369 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 Then I decided that I wanted to see the rest of the country. 370 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Worked my way through every one of the 48, every one of them. 371 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Uh-huh. 372 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Did a lot of things, met a lot of people. 373 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,000 That's right. 374 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Well, all that time, all my life, I never did anything real big. 375 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Nothing that I could ever tell anybody about and be proud. 376 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Nothing to tell people about. 377 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Oh, good. 378 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:03,000 I'm 72 years old now. It's a long time to live and never do anything big. 379 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 A long time. 380 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Came downtown one day, sat in a plaza in the sun, met some really nice people. 381 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000 People like me, people without much reason. 382 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Got to coming down every day, sitting and talking, changing ideas. 383 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Found a lot of good friends. Most of them were alone. 384 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 And I guess being alone made us members of the same club. 385 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Got to be a sort of a lodge. 17 of us. 386 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:32,000 Used to meet, talk about things, the way the world was going, how things looked for the future, all things like that. 387 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Friends. 388 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Yeah, sick. 389 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 How'd you get along all that time? How'd you live? 390 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Oh, I get a little pension from the state, enough to get along on. I don't need much. 391 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Well, one day I got to thinking about how I didn't really have anything big to remember. 392 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 That's when I decided. 393 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,000 You mean on the robbery? 394 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Yeah. 395 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:52,000 Decided that if I could get my hands on a lot of money, a lot of it all at once, I could have something. 396 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Yeah? 397 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,000 So I started to figure. 398 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 First off, I had to figure out what kind of a store to rob. 399 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Had to be one where I could get enough money. 400 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Thought about it quite a while. 401 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 When I had that figured, I picked up the store. 402 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,000 And then I, uh, cased, is that right? 403 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Yeah, that's right. 404 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Well, I cased the store, figured how I'd do it. 405 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 And I figured that I'd have to have a gun. 406 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Yeah. 407 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Got one of those little plastic ones. 408 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Bought the dime store, fixed it up a shoe black. 409 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Couldn't hurt anybody, just plastic. 410 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 Looked real, but couldn't hurt anyone. 411 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Of course, the victim wouldn't know that, would he? 412 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Yeah, I thought considerable about that. 413 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Worried about it a lot. 414 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,000 About how if there was any trouble, it'd make it hard with just a plastic gun. 415 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Oh, and not that I wanted to hurt anybody. 416 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,000 I didn't. 417 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,000 But I got to thinking, what would happen if somebody got scared and thought it was real? 418 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Could be trouble there. 419 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Mm-hmm. 420 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,000 No, no, not before I'd go any further. 421 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 I want you to know that right at this point, I knew I was doing wrong. 422 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000 I knew it. 423 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Knew that I'd have to go to jail for what I did. 424 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Knew it, and it didn't matter. 425 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,000 Had to be that way. 426 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Well, now if you knew that, why'd you go ahead with the robbery? 427 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Wasn't any other way to get the money. 428 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000 At least none that I could think of. 429 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Believe me, I tried to think of one. 430 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,000 All right, go ahead. 431 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:08,000 And I held up the place, took the money, and then I made the man get in the closet. 432 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Did that so he wouldn't try to follow me. 433 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 I was sorry about it. 434 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 Tried to tell him, but I don't think he really believed it. 435 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Don't think he did. 436 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000 What'd you do then? 437 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,000 I took a bus out to the airport. 438 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Thought about taking a cab, but then I figured that I'd want to save as much money as I could so I could have it later. 439 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Yeah. 440 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,000 I inquired around out there at the airport and found a place where I could rent an airplane. 441 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000 I paid for it in advance so there wouldn't be any trouble. 442 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Hired it to go to San Francisco. 443 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Round trip, both ways. 444 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,000 You hired an airplane? 445 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Yep. 446 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,000 Big one. 447 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Carried 18 people. 448 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,000 That's what I needed. 449 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Real comfortable seats, two mortars, had a girl paint on the front. 450 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 From the wall, I guess. 451 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 All right, go ahead. 452 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:54,000 And I took the bus back to town, and I started walking around the plaza. 453 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,000 I ended up with all 17 of my friends, a whole bunch of them. 454 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Talked to them all. 455 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Guys who had been nice to me, even if it wasn't anything I could do for them. 456 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Told them to meet me at First and Main, right by the fountain in front of City Hall that night. 457 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Told them that I was going to throw a party. 458 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 A party they'd never forget. 459 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Well, we got together that night and took a cab out to the airport. 460 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,000 Well, as a matter of fact, we took four cabs. 461 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Had to show the drivers that I had the money for the tickets. 462 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Guess they thought that he was going to try to get a free ride. 463 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000 But when I showed them the money, they drove it out. 464 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Gave them a good tip. 465 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Nice fellow. 466 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Mm-hmm. 467 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Got on the airplane and flew off to San Francisco. 468 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Wonderful. 469 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Got into the city and then we started. 470 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Really had a time. 471 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Lasted three days. 472 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Wasn't anything we didn't see, nothing we didn't do. 473 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Three days of it. 474 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Real living. 475 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Everything was on me. 476 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Paid for it all. 477 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Went to the best places, ate the best food, drank the finest wine. 478 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Really did. 479 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Where did you stay when you were in San Francisco? 480 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Hotel down on Howard. 481 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Not the richest in town, but real nice. 482 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,000 Clean rooms. 483 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,000 All right. Go ahead. 484 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Well, by the time that I thought we'd stayed long enough, we all got on the plane and come back. 485 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Cutting Wednesday morning. 486 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Took cabs downtown, then we all went to breakfast. 487 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Had a real whopper. 488 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Kind of a farewell to the whole party. 489 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,000 After I settled up for the wake-up, I only had a dollar and seventy-five left. 490 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000 Gave it to her for a tip. 491 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Sure made her happy. 492 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,000 I don't guess she makes much down there. 493 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Yeah. 494 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Well, does any of your friends know where you're getting the money for this party? 495 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:31,000 Oh, no. You see, when I first got the idea, I told them that I had a real rich brother. 496 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Told them that he died and that I was his only relative, that all the money would get to me. 497 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,000 I figured that I could sort of set things up for doing that. 498 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Seemed to work all right. None of them said anything. 499 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Uh-huh. You remember the man you chartered the airplane from? 500 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Oh, sure. A real nice fella. 501 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 I got his card. I kept it. 502 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Started a souvenir. I can give it to you if you want it. 503 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Yeah, well, I'd like to have it. You ever done any big time? 504 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Me? Oh, no, no. No, just a grunker-esque. 505 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Lots of them. 506 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Yeah. 507 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Big thing about this is that I wish there was some way to keep the boys from finding out, so they wouldn't have to know. 508 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Of course, I know that I'm not going to see them again, but just the same. 509 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,000 What are they going to think? How are they going to take this when they hear about it? 510 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,000 I don't know. I sure was wrong. Really wrong. 511 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,000 How long will they put me in jail for, you guys know? 512 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Well, it depends. 513 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Depends on what? 514 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 What the court says. 515 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,000 Oh. Still have to go to prison, though, huh? 516 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Yeah, I'm afraid so. 517 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Uh-huh. 518 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Well, I haven't got much left. 519 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Guess no matter what they say, it's going to be life for me. 520 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Well, they're not going to want us to decide that. 521 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Yes, I know. You guys have been real nice. 522 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 In a way, I'm glad it's over. 523 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Like I said before, I knew you'd get me. I knew it all the time right from the beginning. 524 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Glad to figure out how it'd be when you did get me. What I'd say, how I'd act. 525 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,000 Wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. Not hard at all. 526 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,000 One thing, though. 527 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Yeah, what's that? 528 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,000 I kind of wish I hadn't done it. I really do. 529 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,000 I keep thinking to my friends how they're going to take it. 530 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Now, you want to go? 531 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 You want to take me back now, huh? 532 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000 Yeah, I'll bet we have to. 533 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Going to put me back in the tank? 534 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000 No, not this time. 535 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Upstairs? 536 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Yeah, upstairs. 537 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:19,000 That means I'll have a sailor all to myself. Be nice. I'd like to be alone. 538 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,000 All right. You all set Jefferson? 539 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Yeah. This way. 540 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Seventy-two years, nothing to show for it. Nothing. 541 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Only one thing I can really say I did with my life. 542 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,000 What's that, Jefferson? 543 00:24:35,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Wasted 72 years. 544 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,000 The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 545 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:11,000 On July 24th, trial was held in Department 89, Superior Court of the State of California, 546 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:16,000 in and for the County of Los Angeles. In a moment, the results of that trial. 547 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Arnold Peter Jefferson was tried and found guilty of one count of robbery in the second degree. 548 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,000 He was sentenced to the state penitentiary for the term as prescribed by law. 549 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:37,000 Robbery in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not less than one year. 550 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:51,000 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 551 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 552 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Fisher. 553 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Vic Brogman, Ralph Moody. 554 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. Hal Gitney speaking. 555 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Transcribed from Los Angeles, Dragnet is an NBC Radio Network production.