1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:28,000 You get a call from the San Diego Police Department that three hold-up men have fought to be heading for your city. 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,000 You know they're armed. You know they're dangerous. Your job, get them. 6 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 7 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,000 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 8 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:57,000 you will travel step-by-step on the side of the law to an actual case transcribed from official police violence. 9 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:04,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 10 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:13,000 It was Monday, October 5th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working tonight. Watch out for robbery detail. 11 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 My partner is Frank Smith, the boss of Captain Diddy and my name is Flanny. 12 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,000 I got my way into the office and it was 4.58 p.m. when I got to room 27A. Robert. 13 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Hi, Mark. You think Frank? 14 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Yeah, he was here a couple of minutes ago. I think he went down the hall. Said he'd be right back. 15 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Thanks. How are the kids? 16 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 They're wearing the cycle again. 17 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Flanny? 18 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,000 They're on the cold cycle. 19 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Oh, yeah? 20 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Oldest boy brings one home with him, gives it to his sister. Then it goes to the baby, then to the wife, then to me. 21 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 By the time I got it, the oldest boy's ready to catch it again from me. Doesn't seem to be any end to it. 22 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Yeah, I see what you mean. 23 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Read me the other day where if you take care of a cold, you know, take a lot of pills, stay in bed, you can shake it in a week. 24 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,000 All right. 25 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Don't do anything special for it and it'll take seven days to get rid of it. 26 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:57,000 So, an APB here from San Diego. Boys down there really zoomed out of the gym. 27 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Can I take a look? 28 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Yeah, here you go. 29 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 I can hear them moan all the way from here. 30 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,000 What is it? 31 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Well, I had a jeweler out. We had a hotel on the coast. 32 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Three men, took 135,000 in jewels and at least 15,000 in cash. 33 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 150,000, huh? Any leads on them? 34 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 No, APB gives a description. List of the stolen jewelry. 35 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Oh. When did that happen? 36 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,000 I said 1.30 this morning. 37 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Yeah, it's going to keep them busy for a while. 38 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 That Mort's screaming like an eagle shell. 39 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Why? 40 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Well, I talked to him last week. Said he was going down to Mexico to do some fishing. 41 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Been saving days off for the last three months. 42 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 I'll get to go now. 43 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Yeah, I'll get it. 44 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Robbie, Friday. 45 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Yeah, go ahead. 46 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 San Diego. 47 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Yeah, hi Mort. 48 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Yeah, we got the APB. How's it going? 49 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Yeah. 50 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Mm-hmm. 51 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 When do you figure they left? 52 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Yeah. 53 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Okay, Mort, yeah. 54 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 All right, we'll keep an eye open. 55 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Right. Bye. 56 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,000 What you got? 57 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Well, Davis, Walton, Hewitt are coming up. 58 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,000 They're driving? 59 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Yeah, they're taking the hold of men are heading this way. 60 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 The early editions of the afternoon papers came out and they carried the complete story. 61 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Three men had entered the Carlton Surf Hotel at 1.30 a.m. 62 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 All three were armed and they forced the manager to open the safe. 63 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Inside the vault were the jewels and the other valuables that had been deposited 64 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 with the management for safekeeping by the guests. 65 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,000 After looting the safe, the three men had robbed five of the guests who had entered the lobby 66 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000 during the time that they'd been going through the safe. 67 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 After taking all the money and valuables they could find, 68 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,000 the three men forced the manager and the guests into a back-store room of the hotel and they locked them in. 69 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,000 None of the victims could tell the San Diego officers what kind of a card they'd been used, 70 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 but all of them were able to give good descriptions of the three men. 71 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:49,000 The San Diego Police Department had been called and the men from the Detective Bureau had begun an immediate investigation. 72 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,000 From the phone conversation I'd had with Lieutenant Mort Gere, 73 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 they had evidence to believe that the three men were heading up to Los Angeles. 74 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 While the three detectives from the San Diego Department came to L.A., 75 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Lieutenant Gere, Sergeant Tony McGuire would continue the investigation down in their city. 76 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 11, 12 p.m. 77 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Sergeant Carl Davis, Jerry Walk, and Happy Hewin arrived at the city hall. 78 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 They filled us in on what had happened. 79 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,000 The thing was they figured that someone who had either worked for the hotel or was working for it had engineered it. 80 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Ah, that checked out. 81 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 The identification was yet? 82 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Yeah. 83 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Virgil Russell worked for the hotel a year ago as a busboy in a dining room. 84 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 All the victims gave a positive identification on him. 85 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 How about the other two, Carl? 86 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Nothing on them, yeah. 87 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 What made the figure they might be coming up here? 88 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Well, Russell's got a record, such as package and found that he has a sister in San Diego. 89 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Checked her and she gave us a lead. 90 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Yeah. 91 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Said her brother and two men came by the house early this morning. 92 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Her brother's been staying with them the past few weeks. 93 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Anyway, he came by this morning, package closed, said he had to come up to L.A. on business. 94 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Was he having a dress up here for him, Carl? 95 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Not good. 96 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Said he told her he'd get in touch with her. 97 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 He was staying with a friend and placed out on Olympic Boulevard. 98 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Anything on that address? 99 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Yeah, package gave an address out there. 100 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Russell had listed a friend of his when he was arrested. 101 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 We figured he might be out there. 102 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Got a good description of the car. 103 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,000 One thing is going to help. 104 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Yeah. 105 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Sister told us that she asked her brother about the other two men. 106 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Wanted to know if they didn't want to come to the house. 107 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Russell said, no, they were waiting for him. 108 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,000 The three of them were in a hurry. 109 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 She didn't give us a description of the other two. 110 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,000 What time did this happen? 111 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,000 About 5.30 this morning. 112 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Well, they came right up here. 113 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,000 They'd get in about 8 then, wouldn't they? 114 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Yeah. 115 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 You're pretty sure that these are the right ones, huh? 116 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Looks like that. 117 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Identification of mugs. 118 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Russell's sister told us when he was packing that brooch fell out of his grip. 119 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,000 She picked it up for him. 120 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 You got a description of it? 121 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Yeah, that's just one that was taken from the hotel in the theft. 122 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Large diamond with four rubies in the setting. 123 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Looked real good for the job. 124 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 You got it broadcast out on the car? 125 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Yeah, Russell's sister told us it was a 53 Nash, red and black Continental hookup. 126 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,000 She said Russell just got back from a trip through Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico. 127 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Said that he had the rear window covered with those stickers, you know, the ones they get in gas stations. 128 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Yeah, I know what you mean. 129 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Window's supposed to be covered with them. 130 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Shouldn't be hard to spot. 131 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Well, maybe he figures that too. 132 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Might have them taken off, huh? 133 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Possible. 134 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,000 It's a lead, though. 135 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Something else to look out for. 136 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Any chance they might have gotten across the border into Mexico? 137 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Yeah, it's possible, but it isn't likely. 138 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Soon as we got word on the car, we got a supplemental APB on it 139 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 and got in touch with the authorities down the border. 140 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 They said they hadn't seen the car. 141 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 They'd match the description across the border. 142 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Now, if they'd gotten to the border, the officers down there didn't know about it anyway. 143 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Yeah, I talked to Al Gaitan from our office. 144 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,000 He said they'd be on the lookout for him. 145 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Our pawn shop detail got right on the car. 146 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 We got the description of jewelry out all over town. 147 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,000 We haven't had any reports on it yet, though. 148 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 They aren't going to try to sell it piece by piece, 149 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 or too many of those pieces are easy to recognize. 150 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 They'll probably try to peddle through a fence and have it broken up. 151 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Well, we'll get the word out to our informants, ask them to watch out for it. 152 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Yeah, heist that big camp. 153 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,000 You can't be quiet for long. 154 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Bound to be rumbles on at some place. 155 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 I'd like to check out the place on Olympic. 156 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 It looks like it's best leave we got. 157 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Okay, where are walking you and me? 158 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,000 I went down to the hall with Murphy. 159 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Wanted to check some things at R&I. 160 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Well, why don't we get on out to Olympic, huh? 161 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,000 You got the address? 162 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Yeah, you'd better check the place first. 163 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Could be rough. 164 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,000 What do you mean? 165 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Well, three of them are on. 166 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Ruffles served time quite before at the joint. 167 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Yeah. 168 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 I don't think he's going to want to go back. 169 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:58,000 We checked the name of Ruffles' friend through our files. 170 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 We found that he had no record. 171 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 We drove out to the address on Olympic and we talked with the neighbors. 172 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 From them we found out that it was not a private residence. 173 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 We talked to the woman who lived next door. 174 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,000 We asked her about the man listed in the San Diego package as a friend of the suspect. 175 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 She told us she hadn't seen him. 176 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Directly in front of the roaming house we found a car answering the description given us by the sister. 177 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 There were no lights on in the roaming house. 178 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Walking you uncovered the rear of the place. 179 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Frank, Carl, Davis, and I went up to the front door. 180 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Pretty dark. 181 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,000 I can't see anybody in there, can you? 182 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,000 No, I can't. 183 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Check the window to see if I can spot anybody. 184 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Right, Carl. 185 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 I'm going to try the door. 186 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Yeah. 187 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Who is it? 188 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Come on, open up. 189 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Ain't it? Nobody gets in here. 190 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 All right, Frank, let's hit it. 191 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,000 All right, stand right where you are. 192 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Hold on. 193 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,000 I'm not doing anything. What are you doing? Breaking anything? 194 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 I'm not doing anything. I'll take them, Joe. 195 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 He's clean. 196 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Everything okay? 197 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Yeah, Carl. 198 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,000 I'll get walking you. 199 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Who else is in the house? 200 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Nobody but the landlady. She's upstairs. Her and her daughter. 201 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Nobody else here. 202 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 What's your name? 203 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Peter. 204 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Where's Russell? 205 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 I don't know any Russell. 206 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,000 All right, we'll look around. Come on. 207 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 What's in there? 208 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Dining room? 209 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,000 There ain't nothing in there. 210 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Open it up. 211 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 See? 212 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Nobody here. 213 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 No. 214 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 All right, we'll check the other room. 215 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Where'd this door go? 216 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Bedroom. 217 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Ain't nobody in there. 218 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Open it up. 219 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Joe, nobody in the kitchen. Check the back porch. 220 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Walk in Davis upstairs. 221 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 All right, we'll try this one here. 222 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Come on, you open it up. 223 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,000 It's locked. You can't get in. 224 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000 There's a key in the door over here. Let's see if it's there. 225 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Rachel! Rachel! Get up! Rachel, it's the cops! Get up! 226 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 I'll get out of the way. You come on. Get up. 227 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 I'm up there, Joe. I see you. 228 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,000 All right, come on. You out of that bed. 229 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Hey, Joe? 230 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Yeah? 231 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,000 There's a bottle of sleeping pills on the table here. 232 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Yeah, an empty bottle of whiskey. 233 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,000 I guess he's dead drunk. 234 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Upstairs is clean, Joe. 235 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Russell, huh? 236 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 Yeah, he's drunk. I guess we're pretty lucky. 237 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Under his color there? 238 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Yeah. 239 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Three guns. 240 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,000 With the suspects in custody, we searched the house. 241 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:27,000 In the back bedroom where we found Virgil Russell, we found a folder with all of the newspaper stories of the hotel robbery. 242 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:32,000 In each instance, that portion of the story which referred to the thieves themselves was outlined in pencil, 243 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 and there were small notations along the margins of the newspaper. 244 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 A complete search of the house netted us nothing. 245 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:44,000 There was no sign of the loot from the robbery, although each of the suspects had a large amount of money in their possession. 246 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 We talked to the landlady, but she was unable to tell us anything about the suspects. 247 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:54,000 She said that she had rented a room to Peter Ellis over a year before, and that the suspect had moved out after living in the house for only two months. 248 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:59,000 She said that she hadn't seen them again since that night when they arrived at the house and asked for rooms. 249 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:04,000 We called the office and arranged for a stakeout on the place, and we took the two suspects back to the office. 250 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:09,000 We ran Peter Ellis through our eye, and we found that he had one previous conviction on a robbery charge. 251 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Two-fifteen a.m. We talked to Virgil Russell in the interrogation room. 252 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:18,000 All right, all right. I ain't trying to con you into anything. I was in on the heist, I'll admit it, but I ain't gonna be no Fink. 253 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Ain't gonna get any other names other than me. 254 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,000 You got the money we found on you from that hotel robbery, is that right? 255 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,000 I don't know where else it had come from. I got no reason to con you about the hotel job. I pulled it. 256 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,000 I ain't afraid to admit it. I'm just not telling Fink, that's all. 257 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Maybe we can get it out of Ellis. 258 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 He won't tell you anything. 259 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,000 You're pretty sure about that. He admits he was in on the robbery. 260 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,000 So what? 261 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 We all had a deal. If any of us got caught, they wouldn't tell about the others. 262 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,000 You think Ellis and that other guy go that route standing in your ass alone? 263 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Sure. We had an agreement. 264 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Oh, come on now. Tell us how much you got for the jewels. 265 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 You can tell us that and not tell us who the other man is, can't you? 266 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Yeah, I suppose so. 267 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,000 There's no way you could tell if I told you how much we got. 268 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000 How much? 269 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Seven thousand. 270 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,000 How much? 271 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Seven thousand. 272 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Who set up the deal to sell the stuff, your partner? 273 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Yeah, he handled all that. 274 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 He fixed it for you to get seven thousand bucks for all the jewelry? 275 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Yeah, that's right. 276 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Then you made a good deal, all right. Seven thousand for a hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars worth of jewelry. 277 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:15,000 One worth a hundred and thirty-five. That's just the papers making it sound big. 278 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 No, no, no. You're wrong. That's what the stuff is worth. 279 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Are you kidding? 280 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 You got that report, Frank. 281 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Yeah. 282 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Now, wait a minute. That's maybe what they claim the stuff is worth. 283 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,000 But you know how people are always jacking things up on the insurance companies? 284 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,000 The stuff was worth maybe fifteen thousand out of a cent more. 285 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Yeah, I do. I hear that. 286 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,000 This report you got from the insurance company, Carl? 287 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Yeah, that's it. 288 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Would you like to read it to yourself, Russell, or do you want me to read it to you? 289 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Oh, let me see it. 290 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Uh-huh. 291 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,000 What a lobby bum. 292 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Oh, no good, could you? 293 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:58,000 He's a thief. That's what he is. A thieving thief. 294 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 That's the kind of a guy you say you had a deal with, huh? 295 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Like you think he was doing you a big favor. Some deal. Seven thousand dollars. 296 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 If we picked him up, he'd have screamed like an eagle. 297 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,000 He's your pal, all right. 298 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Oh, no good thief. I can't believe it. 299 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Who do you sell his stuff to, do you know? 300 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:17,000 No, no, I don't, and that's the truth. I saw that guy, but I don't know who it was. 301 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 How did the deal work? 302 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Earlier tonight we got together out in Westwood. He called the fellow. 303 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,000 He was going to handle the deal. Told him to meet us there. 304 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Who's he? 305 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 A think, a lousy think. 306 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,000 What's his name? 307 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Payne Al Payne. 308 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,000 I spell it. 309 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Last name? 310 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 P-A-Y-N-E. He got a record? 311 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,000 No, I don't think so. I never heard him talk about it. He gives a description? 312 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Yeah. 313 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 That stuff was really worth a hundred and thirty-five grand. 314 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,000 He said it was a lot of talk. Newspaper talk, he said. 315 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Oh, brother, what a laugh. What's his pain look like? 316 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,000 I don't know. He's about 37, maybe 150, 60 pounds. 317 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,000 Both. 318 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,000 A little bit of hair on the edges of his head. 319 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 I'll type the names you want in, I do. 320 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Right. You want to bring the mugs back here? 321 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Yeah. 322 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Huffle? 323 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,000 Yeah. 324 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,000 That first name, is it Alfred or Albert? 325 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 I think it's Albert. He's some kind of a promoter. I don't know what he promotes. 326 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,000 I think it's just a dodge, kind of a front. 327 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 I'll be right back. 328 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Let's go ahead with the story about the buy, huh? 329 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,000 All right. Where was I? 330 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,000 You said you went out the west way. 331 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Oh, yeah. Well, we were supposed to meet out in the parking lot for the ice rink. 332 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Big place out there. 333 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Well, we met this guy there. A fellow named Payne Corley. 334 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,000 He looked at the stuff, said it was worth maybe 15,000 the way it was. 335 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 But he said it had to be broken down before it could be sold. 336 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 And it wouldn't bring that much when it was all broken down. 337 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 What did Alfred say to that? 338 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Well, he agreed to it, said it was true. He went right along with it. 339 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 A lot of the deals, he was probably in on the whole thing. 340 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Wouldn't be surprised. 341 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,000 I just can't get over it. 342 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 We had all that stuff and didn't know what it was worth. 343 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000 You got any idea who this guy is? 344 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 No, I told you I didn't know. 345 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,000 You said this Payne had an office here in town. You know who it is? 346 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,000 Yeah, I can show you. 347 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000 We were up there this afternoon while I was setting up a deal. 348 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 It was sitting on a building over on, uh, on Sixth. 349 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 You'd be willing to go over there with us? 350 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 So you can nail him? 351 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,000 That's right. We want to get the jewels back. 352 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Sure I'll go. But what that bum did to me, nothing too bad for him. 353 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000 How are you going to work it, Jim? 354 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Well, Russell, here I'll have to introduce me to somebody who wants to buy this stuff. 355 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,000 I'll have to tell Payne that I'm willing to pay, say, fifty thousand for the jewelry. 356 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 That way Payne will have to get in touch with the other man. 357 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 I don't think he'll pass up a deal like that. 358 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Maybe he figures to make more than that does for us. 359 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Yeah, but suppose he thinks that Russell here wants to do business with me. 360 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 He'll get the stuff back. I don't think he'll want to cross Russell. 361 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Might work. 362 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Well, we don't got much choice. We got to get the stuff back before it's broken up. 363 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Joe, I got some pictures here. 364 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 I'm not the description. 365 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,000 What was that? 366 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,000 I'm not the description. 367 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Oh. You want to look at these? 368 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Yeah. 369 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Joe's going to go see this Payne with Russell and Ella, try to get lead on where this stuff is. 370 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 He's going to work it. 371 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,000 I'll tell Payne I'm interested in buying the jewels off of him, maybe fifty thousand. 372 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Pictures are not here. None of these is Payne. 373 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 You'd go along with this plan, Russell? 374 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Sure. I'd like to see you get him and get him good. 375 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Pretty risky. 376 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,000 It doesn't look like it's any other way. 377 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,000 It does not. 378 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Russell? 379 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Yeah? 380 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 We know Payne carries the gun. I'm going to tell you something. I want you to remember it. 381 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,000 All right. 382 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,000 If you get any bright ideas about tipping Payne off about Joe, remember we'll have men all through the building. 383 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,000 All right. 384 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,000 We're not going to start any shooting. 385 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Yeah. 386 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 But we'll finish it. 387 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:21,000 The two suspects, Peter Ellis and Virgil Russell, were taken to the main jail and booked in 388 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,000 for violation of Section 211 of the California Penal Code. 389 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:29,000 After that, the officers from San Diego, Frank and I, discussed the plan for finding the stolen jewels. 390 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:34,000 It was agreed that I would go into the office building with the suspect, Virgil Russell. 391 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,000 To lessen the chances of discovery, I would carry no gun or any police identification. 392 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:44,000 We were unable to make contact that night, so the following morning we checked over the physical layout of the building. 393 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 It was six stories high and had one elevator. 394 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:51,000 There were two entrances to the building, one in the front and one that opened off an alley in the rear. 395 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Officers were planted at both entrances. 396 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Additional men were stationed on each floor. 397 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Two men were on the roof to cut off any possible escape to one of the adjoining buildings. 398 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:05,000 1130 a.m. Tuesday, October 6th, Russell called Payne and said that he wanted to see him. 399 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Payne told him to come right over to the office. 400 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Russell and I got into a car and we drove over. 401 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:15,000 It had been arranged that from the time we entered the building, no one would be permitted to leave until we returned to the main entrance. 402 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,000 1158 a.m. We got to the office building and we went up to the fourth floor. 403 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,000 The sign on Payne's door read, Albert Payne and Vespa. 404 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Russell opened the door and we walked in. 405 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Hi, Virg. What's the bet? 406 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Well, why couldn't you meet Joe Ferguson? 407 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Joe, glad to meet you. 408 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Yeah, same here, Al. 409 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Sit down, boys. 410 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Now, what's this all about? 411 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000 It's about the stuff, Sal. We gotta get it back. 412 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Now, what's the pitch? I don't even know what you're talking about. 413 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Come off it, Tane. Joe here's willing to up the ante for the jewels. 414 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,000 How much? 415 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,000 I'll go as high as 50,000. I gotta see it first. 416 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,000 For 15,000 worth of jewels? 417 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Papers say it's worth 135. 418 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,000 I explained that to you. They up to value. It's all insured. 419 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,000 People up to price for the insurance companies, papers up to price to sell more papers. 420 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,000 I told you. 421 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Yeah, and I ain't buying it. I want the stuff back. 422 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 I never even got my cut of the 7,000. Now, it feels the same way. 423 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 I told you the money'd be coming. 424 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Well, it ain't coming anymore. I want the stuff back. 425 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,000 I don't think we can do that. Most of it's already broken up. 426 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,000 No, not much of it could be broken up in the time that he's had it. 427 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 Guy that bought it isn't gonna like it. 428 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,000 Well, that's tough. He's just telling them to stop breaking it up. Tell them we want it back. 429 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Where do you figure the silver jewels? 430 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,000 I don't see where that concerns you. I'm walking you 50,000 for them. That's all you need to know. 431 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Come on, Al. Come on. Quit playing games. Let's get on it. 432 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,000 You get in touch with the guy you gave them to and get the jewels back. 433 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 I got something to say about this. I was in on the job with you. Let you forget it. 434 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 I'm only gonna say this once more, Ping. You get on that phone and get in touch with your contact. 435 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Tell him to stop breaking them up. You set up a meeting to get the stuff back. 436 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,000 I'll call him. I don't think it's gonna do any good. 437 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,000 He's probably got all the money. He's mouthing it down by this time. 438 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Got it all broken up. You call him. Let's see what happens. 439 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000 All right. 440 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Now, let me talk to Fred. 441 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Fred? Yes. 442 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Listen, something's come up we can't go through with the deal. 443 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 What? 444 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Yeah, I know. I told them. Doesn't make any difference. They want it all back. 445 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:21,000 Yeah, I told them that too. Doesn't make any difference. 446 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,000 You want the jewels back that have been broken down too? 447 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 I told you, Al. I want all of it back. 448 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Yeah. Yes, Fred. He says all of it. 449 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Okay. When can you make it? 450 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Yeah. All right. 451 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Yeah, we'll see you then, right? 452 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,000 Okay, bye. 453 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,000 I'll have the stuff wait till tomorrow night. 454 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Why does he have to wait that long? 455 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,000 How do I know? He just said he couldn't get it to you any sooner. 456 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 You should have let me talk to him. I would have told him. 457 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Yeah, sure. 458 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,000 How much of it's been broken up? 459 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Hardly. And he just got started. Fred says it's almost all whole. 460 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Who is this Fred? 461 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,000 That's none of your business. 462 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,000 I asked you a question, Al. 463 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,000 He picked your answer. Doesn't make any difference who he is. 464 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,000 You and your friends lost up the deal. Be happy. You fixed it fine. 465 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,000 Well, I'll come out better. 466 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Yeah, you better be right. Now, remember, I got a piece of this. 467 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 I won't forget. 468 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 What time tomorrow? We're going to need Fred. 469 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,000 He said he'd call. Let me know where and when. 470 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Well, it can't be any later than tomorrow. I got to be leaving then. 471 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 You're going to have the money with you when you pick up the stuff. 472 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,000 I don't have it. 473 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 All of it. I don't want you to stay on payment. 474 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,000 I told you I'd have it. 475 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,000 All right. You call me tomorrow about ten, Brugge. I'll let you know the details, Al. 476 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Okay. 477 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:30,000 I hope you're right about this, Brugge. 478 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,000 What do you mean? 479 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Oh, this deal. I don't like it. I hope nothing happens to louse it up. 480 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,000 Yeah, so do I. 481 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,000 Brugge will rough one eye, left the office and went downstairs. 482 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 We checked with Frank, Carl Davis, and the other officers from San Diego. 483 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Al Payne was taken into custody and booked in at the main jail on suspicion of violation of Section 211-PC. 484 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Then we returned to the office. 485 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,000 To find out who has the stuff? 486 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Yeah, a fellow named Fred. 487 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,000 You know who he is? 488 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,000 No, not yet, but we will. 489 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000 How'd you figure that thing didn't tell you? 490 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Well, I saw the number he dialed when he called Fred. 491 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,000 It was a Hollywood prefect sitting out down in the area. 492 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 I can try the number to see who answers. 493 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,000 Oh, I'm sorry. I got the wrong number. Excuse me. 494 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Together? 495 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Yeah. The Kinnery Trophy Company. 496 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,000 You want to check the book? 497 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Sure. 498 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000 K.K.I. and Fred. 499 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 David Joe. 500 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 Kinnery Trophy Company, son of Los Palmas. 501 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Trophy Company. That would give me a chance to melt the mountains down to metal, wouldn't it? 502 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 It would be easy to get rid of it that way. 503 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Makes sense. Why don't you figure to move in on it? 504 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Right now. We can drive out and check the place now. Look it over and then we'll go in and get him. 505 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,000 What happened to me? 506 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,000 We got to take you back to the main jail. 507 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,000 After the help I gave you? 508 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000 That's the way it's got to be. You know that going on. 509 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Yeah, I suppose so. Well, you tell the DA I helped though, huh? 510 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Yeah, we'll see he knows about it. 511 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 It's a bad deal all the way around. 512 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,000 A bad deal. I should have known I couldn't win. That's a start I should have known. Nobody can win. 513 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Still a lot of people trying. 514 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,000 We returned Virgil Russell to his cell and then we drove out to the Kinnery Trophy Company. 515 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,000 It was a two-story building on Los Palmas Avenue in Hollywood. 516 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 They made trophies and fraternity pins. 517 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:25,000 A large sign on the front of the building advertised that they could duplicate anything in metal. 518 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:30,000 We checked with the neighborhood merchants and found that there was a permanent staff of four employees. 519 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:36,000 The company was owned by a Roger Kingery and none of the neighborhood people could tell us anything about an employee by the name of Fred. 520 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,000 5 p.m. The employees of the plant left the building. One man remained. 521 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,000 From the description we'd gotten from Russell, we figured that he was the person Payne had called Fred. 522 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:52,000 6.03 p.m. The lights in the rear of the factory went on. Through the windows we could see the suspect working over a small furnace. 523 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,000 On a table off to one side we could see a quantity of jewelry. 524 00:21:55,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Frank, Carl, and I went to the side door of the plant while the other officers covered the remaining doors. 525 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,000 All right, you ready? 526 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Yeah. 527 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,000 Let's go. 528 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Carl? 529 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Yeah. 530 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 I'll hit the door and grab him before he's got the chance to throw the jewelry into the furnace. 531 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Right. 532 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Grab him, Carl. He's making a break point. 533 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,000 I got it. 534 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 What do you guys do breaking in here like this? 535 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Look at that, Joe. Jewelry matches the description of the stolen stuff. 536 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Yeah, it looks like it. 537 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,000 All right, Mr. Stanstow. 538 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Okay. 539 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Thanks, Queen. 540 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 I don't know what you guys are doing. I don't know what this is all about. 541 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 All right, save it. What's this jewelry doing here? 542 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000 That isn't mine. 543 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,000 I didn't ask you who it was. I asked you what it was doing here. 544 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Oh, I'd say give me $2,500 if I break it down for him. 545 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000 What's the fellow's name? 546 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Guy named Payne. Said he'd pay me to melt it down for him. 547 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,000 You know this stuff was stolen? 548 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000 No. No, I didn't. He just made the deal and melt it down. 549 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Didn't he call you this afternoon to tell you to stop breaking it up? 550 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Yeah, and then he called back and told me not to pay attention to what he said. 551 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Go ahead with the job. I did like he said. 552 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Who else is in this with you? 553 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000 What do you mean? 554 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Who else here at the factory? 555 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Nobody. I'm the only one. I only did it because I needed the money. 556 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,000 I didn't know where the jewels came from. I didn't care. They didn't make no difference to me. 557 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000 As long as I got mine, I was happy. I didn't know what it was all about. 558 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Looks like most of it's here, Joe. 559 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,000 How many pieces did you break down? 560 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Took a couple of the pins apart. Didn't have a time to melt any of the mounting down. It's all there. 561 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000 All the pain game. 562 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,000 What's your name? 563 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Fred Michael. 564 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,000 All right. Let's go. 565 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,000 I didn't know they were stolen. I didn't know anything about it. I just did a job. That's all. Just a job. 566 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Yeah. 567 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,000 I didn't even get paid for it. 568 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Don't worry about it. You will. 569 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:30,000 The story you have just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. 570 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:37,000 On February 18th, trial was held in Department 89, Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of San Diego. 571 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 In a moment, the results of that trial. 572 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Virgil Nathan Russell, Peter Howard Ellis, and Albert Franklin Payne were tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree. 573 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000 They received sentence as prescribed by law. 574 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of from five years to life. 575 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Fred George Michelson was tried and found guilty of receiving stolen property. 576 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,000 He received sentence as prescribed by law. 577 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:14,000 Receiving stolen property is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of not more than 10 years. 578 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,000 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 579 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, law firm to its police department. 580 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marki Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. 581 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Third tonight were Ben Alexander, Eddie Pyrstone, Art Gilmore. 582 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:47,000 Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. Hal Gibney speaking. 583 00:24:47,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Transcribed from Los Angeles, Dragnet is an NBC Radio Network production. 584 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Music by John Robinson.