1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Your detective sergeant, you're assigned the burglary detail. 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,000 In the past two months, a thief has broken into 18 markets. 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 There's no lead to his whereabouts, no clue to his identity. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Your job, get him. 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 6 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,000 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 7 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:46,000 you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. 8 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:59,000 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 9 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,000 It was Monday, December 14th. It was cold in Los Angeles. 10 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 We were working the day watch out a burglary detail. 11 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Bernard. 12 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000 My name is Friday. 13 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:12,000 We're on our way out of the office. It was 8.05 a.m. when we got to Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. 14 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Sergeant Lindby Simmons' office. 15 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 Yeah? Oh, did you give it to him? 16 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Uh-huh. 17 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Yeah. 18 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 What'd he say? 19 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Yeah. 20 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Well, when did he come back? 21 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Uh-huh. 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Well, did he have it for you? 23 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Yeah. 24 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Well, that'll teach you not to go that route anymore. 25 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,000 All right, Patrick, tell the sergeant to call me when he gets back. 26 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Right. 27 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Hi, Friday Smith. 28 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Oh, good morning, Sergeant. 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Just talking to Gene Patrick over at Highland Park. You know him? 30 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Yeah, I met him a couple of times. 31 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Picked up the youngster a couple of days ago on suspicion of burglary. 32 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Brought him into the office, and Patrick talked to him. 33 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Yeah. 34 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Well, he finally bought it, but the kid didn't have anything to do with the sets. 35 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,000 He told him to go home. 36 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Uh-huh. 37 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Kid told Gene he didn't have the money to get home, so Gene gave him 20 cents. 38 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Kid swore he'd come in and pay it back. 39 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Did he? 40 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Yeah, he came in this morning, gave Patrick two dimes. 41 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Told him thanks for believing the story. 42 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Uh-huh. 43 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Then Patrick got the kicker. 44 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Kid really did break into our house last night to get the money. 45 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 What's Patrick got to say about that? 46 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Says the kid's honest in a sort of way. He did pay him back. 47 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Where's the youngster now? 48 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Got him over at Holland Park juvenile. 49 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 I better call Gene. Maybe I can give him a hand. 50 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 I got a couple of street card tokens he won't be using. 51 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Might like to have them. 52 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Oh, hold it. 53 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 As loud as you, I don't think I'd bring it up to him for a couple of days. 54 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Well, what can I do for you two? 55 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Well, Lindsay, we've been working on a string of burglaries. 56 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 You maybe got the word on them. 57 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Well, I don't think so. What's the story? 58 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Bunch of store burglaries. 59 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Papers are tagged in them. Note bottle job. 60 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Oh, yeah. Yeah. 61 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Seems Hardgrove was telling me something about them the other day. 62 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Where do we come in? 63 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Well, the way the job looks, we've been thinking that maybe he belonged in your department instead of ours. 64 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 How do you figure that? 65 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 First off, the milk thing. 66 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 What do you mean? 67 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Every job he's pulled, we found an empty milk bottle on the counter. 68 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Okay. What's that prove? 69 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Well, milk and kids go together. 70 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Sure. So do milk and ulcers. 71 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Maybe your thief's got the bull hard when he gets into the store. 72 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 No, Lindsay, there's another thing. 73 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 The way he prowls the places, all he takes is petty cash. 74 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Just a couple of bucks outside. 75 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Candy, cigarettes, nothing big. 76 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Some of the places he's gone into, you could open the safe with a pocket knife. 77 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 And he hasn't even made a move toward them. 78 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Anyway, I've got a lot of them on the books. 79 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Maybe that's the way he gets his kicks. 80 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Oh, that's a nice try, Lindsay. 81 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 If you know anybody that can climb through a 14 by 10 inch hole, you trot them up and we'll talk to them. 82 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Okay, I haven't got the names of my desk, but you take a trip to Santa Anita, you'll meet a lot of them. 83 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Jockeys. 84 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 You guys know we'll go along with you on this thing. 85 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Anything we can do, but until we're sure that there's a juvenile involved, there's nothing we can do. 86 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Anything turns up, we'll be sure to turn it over to you. 87 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Well, look, we're not trying to prom this thing off on you, Lindsay. 88 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,000 We've had the stats office make so many runs on small adults that the cards are wearing out. 89 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 It means that none of the leads we've been chasing come out anywhere. 90 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 I figure that maybe you could come up with some answers for us. 91 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Well, it's a new one on me, Joe. 92 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:44,000 This milk that I've heard of a couple of thieves that went for it, but I can't name you a juvenile offhand. 93 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 I'll pass the word around today, watch and see what they can come up with. 94 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 I'll leave a note for heart growth. 95 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 You can pass it on to the night watch. 96 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Well, I appreciate anything you can do. 97 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 No trouble. 98 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Been running your ragged on this, huh? 99 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Pretty rough. 100 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Just that we can't seem to be able to come up with anything that has. 101 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Yeah. 102 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Oh, excuse me. 103 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Yeah. 104 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Georgia Street juvenile, Sergeant Simmons. 105 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Yeah. 106 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Yeah, they're here. 107 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Yeah. 108 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Okay, hang on. 109 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 I'll see you at your office. 110 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Thank you. 111 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Friday, Tony. 112 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Yeah. 113 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Right away, what's the address? 114 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Uh-huh. 115 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Yeah. 116 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Oh, I got it. 117 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,000 We'll leave right away. 118 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Who? 119 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Yeah, call him. 120 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Thanks. 121 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Well, come on, let's go. 122 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,000 The milk bottle kiddie hit again. 123 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 The call had come from Lieutenant Ginder in burgery. 124 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 He told us that he'd just gotten a call from a storekeeper named Marty Decker. 125 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 He said he'd been in the store for a while. 126 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,000 He said he'd been in the store for a while. 127 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 He said he'd been in the store for a while. 128 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 He said he'd been in the store for a while. 129 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 He said he'd been in the store for a while. 130 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:32,000 He said he'd been in the store for a while. 131 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 The call had come from Lieutenant Ginder in burgery. 132 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,000 He told us that he'd just gotten a call from a storekeeper named Marty Decker. 133 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 The man had called to report a burglary at his store at the corner of Jackson and Broadway 134 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Street. 135 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Lieutenant Ginder told us that the crime lab had been notified and had dispatched a crew 136 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 to investigate the premises for physical evidence. 137 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Frank and I left Georgia Street juvenile. 138 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 We drove over to Figueroa, and then we turned over onto Broadway. 139 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,000 The store that had been broken into was a small Italian delicatessen on the southeast 140 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,000 corner. 141 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 We walked out there, the crime lab crew had already arrived and was winding up their investigation. 142 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 We walked into the place and we met with Ray Pinker. 143 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Hi, Joe. 144 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Frank. 145 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Ray. 146 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,000 How's it going? 147 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Usual thing. 148 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Bottle of milk on the counter. 149 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 You want to check it over? 150 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Yeah. 151 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Come on back here. 152 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 See if you can make it's entrance back here at the rear of the store. 153 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Now this broke out the window pane. 154 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Yeah, not very big, huh? 155 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 It measures nine and a half, a 12 and three quarters. 156 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 No alarm on the window, huh? 157 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Yeah, you can see the wires here. 158 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Take a look. 159 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Oh, yeah. 160 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 How come the alarm didn't go off? 161 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,000 I talked to the owner. 162 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 He said he'd had trouble with the alarm system last couple of weeks. 163 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Called the company and asked them to fix it. 164 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 He thought it was okay. 165 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Guess there's something wrong. 166 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Some place didn't work last night. 167 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 What kind of alarm was it, Ray? 168 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 I'll try it on the building. 169 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 You know the kind. 170 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Yeah. 171 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000 What'd he take this time, Rick? 172 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Usual run of stuff. 173 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 According to the owner, there are about four cartons of cigarettes and that thing. 174 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Several boxes of candy. 175 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Can't be absolutely sure. 176 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Said he's got a check he stopped. 177 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,000 You better have to talk to him on that. 178 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Yeah, we will. 179 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,000 We'll catch him later. 180 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Want to wait a minute? 181 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 I'll check to see how the boys are doing on the prints. 182 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Have them check the counter in the milk bottle. 183 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Fine, thanks, Ray. 184 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Be right back. 185 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Bye. 186 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,000 I wonder when we're going to blow the whistle on this guy. 187 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000 I don't know. 188 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Can't do it fast enough for me. 189 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,000 I don't know about you. 190 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Hey, Joe. 191 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Look at this. 192 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:10,000 You know, I'd like to get a couple of those before we leave. 193 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,000 What are you talking about? 194 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Salami, Joe. 195 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Those right there, the hard Italian kind. 196 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,000 See, right there. 197 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 I remember last summer I was out in San Francisco. 198 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Yeah, I remember. 199 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Went up there to pick up a prisoner. 200 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Remember you were collecting days off? 201 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Yeah, I recall. 202 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,000 I had a hundred of them coming. 203 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Yeah, pretty funny. 204 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Anyway, I met Dan Shelley up there. 205 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,000 You mean the Irish tenor? 206 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Yeah, he and I went down to Cookie's Bar for lunch because he had some of the salami. 207 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Sliced it like paper. 208 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,000 You could almost read through it. 209 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Oh, that's the way it's supposed to be. 210 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I know, Joe. 211 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Anyway, Cookie sliced up a bunch of it, served it with cold cracked crab. 212 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Boy, I never tasted anything so good in my life. 213 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Have you ever read the newspaper through sliced salami? 214 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Yeah, well, I never have. 215 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Have you? 216 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,000 All the time. 217 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Just the funnies. 218 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Well, anyway, Faith tried to find them for me. 219 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Salami like this. 220 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Brought home all kinds of things, but she's never found the right kind. 221 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 You know, they'd be hard enough to pound tax with when she got them on. 222 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Oh, I never forget old Cookie and that spread. 223 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Well, if you can get your mind off food for a minute, and I know that'll be tough. 224 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Let's get on with this thing, Joe. 225 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Sure got to buy some of these before we leave. 226 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 This is my Cookie head. 227 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Yeah. 228 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 This place is powdered, Joe. 229 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Yeah. 230 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Nothing. 231 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Whoever was drinking the milk, he took the bottle out of the refrigeration compartment. 232 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 The bottle's sweated, and there's no print on it we can lift. 233 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Too bad. 234 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,000 None of many places. 235 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 No, we've gone over the place from top to bottom. 236 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 So there we can't find them. 237 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 That's not much help, is it? 238 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Came up with one thing. 239 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Maybe you can make something out of it. 240 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,000 What's that? 241 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Outside the window on the back parking lot. 242 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Came up with an open package of cigarettes. 243 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Don't know if it belonged to the thieves. 244 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Anything on it? 245 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,000 No. 246 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Fog last night ruined any prints that were on it. 247 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Boys have got it if you want it. 248 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Well, we'll take a look at it. 249 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Looks like everything's against us, huh? 250 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Another blank. 251 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Don't envy you guys trying to break this one. 252 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Most of the time it's a leak someplace. 253 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Somewhere along the line the guy's going to make a mistake and not cover something. 254 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Yeah, we've been saying that for weeks. 255 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 This is either the smartest thief I've ever seen or the luckiest. 256 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,000 What's this make for him? 257 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Number 19. 258 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,000 A lot of chances to take for nothing. 259 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 He's not getting anything out of the job. 260 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Maybe he isn't, but we are. 261 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 What? 262 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Headaches. 263 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:12,000 938 a.m. we talked to the victim. 264 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 He told us that as near as he could figure there was approximately $4 stolen from the store. 265 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,000 He went on to say that he'd ascertained that five cartons of cigarettes and several boxes of candy bars were taken. 266 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,000 He was unable to tell us if any other merchandise was taken until he made a complete inventory. 267 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:31,000 He went on to tell us that there was over $600 in the safe, but that as far as he could tell there had been no attempt to break into it. 268 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,000 We made a canvas of the neighborhood and talked to the neighbors. 269 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,000 None of them recalled having seen any suspicious people in the neighborhood the night before. 270 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,000 None of them had seen any suspicious automobiles in the area. 271 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,000 The one thing that was apparent was that the thief was working in a definite pattern. 272 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:50,000 He worked only on Friday and Saturday nights, always between 8 p.m. and 12 midnight. 273 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Frank and I met with Captain Bernard and it was decided that we would maintain a rolling stakeout in the area in which the suspect operated. 274 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Four other cars from Metro Reserve were assigned to work with us. 275 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:07,000 The next five nights we worked without result. It was slow and tedious, but considering the lack of information on the thief it was the only way we had left. 276 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,000 We had to be on or near the scene when the thief struck again. 277 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Saturday night, December 19th, Frank and I met and drove out to the area. 278 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,000 The streets were crowded with early Christmas shoppers. 279 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,000 I'll sure be glad when it's over. 280 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Why, what's the matter? 281 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 How many rooms in your apartment, Joe? 282 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Three, you know that. You've been there. 283 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Yeah, well, there won't be enough room. 284 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,000 What are you talking about? 285 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Faye. 286 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:30,000 What's Faye got to do with this? 287 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Hack, Joe, real hack. 288 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Why, what's the matter? 289 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:40,000 I got up this morning. I felt great. Faye's got breakfast on the table, all nice, a couple eggs, little pig sausages. Nice, you know. 290 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Yeah. 291 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,000 I come down to the table, she's got the food on, and I hit her with it. 292 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,000 What, the food? 293 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,000 You know, Joe, I hit her with what I'm about to tell her. I tell her I'm going to have to work tonight. 294 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,000 You work every night this week. What's wrong with that? 295 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 That's the way I figure it, so I got a way out. 296 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,000 You have a? 297 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Mm-hmm. Today is Faye's birthday. 298 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Oh, you didn't tell me. 299 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 It's not good to tell people, Joe. 300 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Oh, it isn't? 301 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,000 No. Faye's over 30. 302 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Yeah, I kind of figured that. 303 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Don't you get it? 304 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 I'm sorry, pal. You left me a couple of locks back on this one. 305 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Look, Faye. 306 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 I may never catch up. 307 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Faye's over 30, Joe. She's getting to the point where she's taking off years, see? 308 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 How can you give a person a last birthday present? 309 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 What do you mean, last birthday present? 310 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,000 I tell you about it. They're going to give her a present. 311 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Only now, instead of 30, she's 29. You understand? 312 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Well, to be perfectly honest with you, no. But as long as you do, it's perfectly all right with me. 313 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Yeah. 314 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,000 What about this morning? 315 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Well, I told her I was going to have to go to work. I got this present for her. 316 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Brand new deep fat fryer. Real good. All wrapped up. 317 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Deep fat fryer. All wrapped up with ribbon. Beautiful. Shiny. Beautiful. 318 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 So you gave it to her. Did it do any good? 319 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Well, John, you know what she does with it? 320 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Well, at this point, I wouldn't even want to guess. 321 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,000 I'm serious, Joe. This may mean the end of my home. 322 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Go ahead. 323 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,000 She doesn't even open it. Just puts it in the closet on the back porch. 324 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Doesn't even pull the paper apart to peek in what's in it. 325 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Real mad, Joe. You may not find me back in the house tonight. 326 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Well, you can apologize when you get home. 327 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,000 I don't know, Joe. Faye's pretty sore. Didn't even open the present. 328 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Wait a minute. 329 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Huh? 330 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Listen. 331 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Yeah. Is that where it's coming from? 332 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Yeah. It sounds like up on 7th. Come on. 333 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Yeah, right here. Pull up. 334 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Come on. I'll take the front. 335 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 All right. 336 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Hey, hold it up there. 337 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Wait, officer. Stop or I'll shoot. 338 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Frank, come around your way. Okay? 339 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Take it easy. 340 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Go ahead and shoot. Come on and kill me. 341 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Go ahead. Shoot me. Doesn't matter anymore. 342 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Go on. 343 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,000 All right. Yeah. 344 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Just get, Joe. 345 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,000 We'll see. 346 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,000 What are you doing in the store, son? 347 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,000 What do you think I'm doing? 348 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 You asked your question, son. 349 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Pretty stupid. What do you think I was doing? 350 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,000 How many stores have you broken into, son? 351 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Figure it out for yourself. 352 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Look, what do you got a chip on your shoulder for? 353 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,000 You're a big guy. Don't give me a lot of conversation. 354 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Do what you want to do. 355 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:18,000 All right, boy. You call it. Come on. 356 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,000 1150 PM. 357 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,000 We called the office and told them that we had a subject in custody 358 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 and that we were taking him to George Street Juvenile Bureau. 359 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,000 We put the boy in our car and we waited until a radio car arrived. 360 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:33,000 We asked the officers to notify the owner of the store and stand by until he got there. 361 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,000 We also asked that they make a 459 report. 362 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 1155 PM. 363 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 We started to take the youngster to the Juvenile Bureau. 364 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000 What's your name, son? 365 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,000 What difference does it make? 366 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Acting like that isn't going to help you. 367 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 You guys picked me up, remember? You worry about it. 368 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,000 I got nothing to be afraid of. 369 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 Oh, yes, you have, boy. You could have been shot back there. 370 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Maybe you should have pulled a trigger. 371 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Look, son, what's the matter with you? Why are you acting like this? 372 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,000 You just got real lucky back there. That's the only reason you're alive now. 373 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 It was dark in there. 374 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,000 As far as I could tell, you were an adult. You didn't stop when I told you to. 375 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Now, according to the book, I could have shot you. You know that, don't you? 376 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Showing the kid. That'd make you a big man. 377 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,000 No, I'm just bringing it up to prove a point. 378 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Save it. 379 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Now, look, son. I'm going to tell you something. 380 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,000 When you break into a place at night, you're not a kid anymore. 381 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,000 You're asking for trouble. 382 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,000 You've got both your pockets full of it. 383 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 The way you work tonight makes us think you're mixed up in a lot more theft than just tonight. 384 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,000 That right? 385 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,000 You ever been arrested before? 386 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000 No. 387 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Never been in trouble with the law, huh? 388 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Sure. I'm a real criminal. 389 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 I got to take a once-a-lifetime ride through a boulevard stop. 390 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Radio car stopped me and tagged me. 391 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Big deal. 392 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 But they're going to send me to San Quentin. 393 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Maybe they can give me the gatchings. 394 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,000 How old are you? 395 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,000 What difference does that make? 396 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,000 How old are you? 397 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,000 How old are you, figure? 398 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000 All right. 399 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,000 You look like you're about 11 to me. 400 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,000 That's what everybody thinks. 401 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,000 At least 15 my next birthday. 402 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Don't get it, son. 403 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,000 It's the truth. 404 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,000 15. 405 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,000 That's what I'll be 15. 406 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,000 When were you born? 407 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000 1939, November 2nd. 408 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 You're small for your age, aren't you? 409 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Why do you say that? 410 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Aren't you? 411 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,000 It's got nothing to do with it. 412 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Nothing at all. 413 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000 I can do anything any other kid can do. 414 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Anything. 415 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Don't forget that. 416 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000 What's the matter with you? 417 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Is that a sore point with you? 418 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Huh? 419 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Your size. 420 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Is that a sore point? 421 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Nothing wrong with my size. 422 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,000 The doctor says that I'm all right. 423 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Just that some people aren't meant to be as big as others, that's all. 424 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,000 There's nothing wrong with me. 425 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Now, now, come on, son. 426 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,000 What's your name? 427 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,000 Now, look, you know we're going to find out. 428 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,000 How are you going to find out? 429 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 We will. 430 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Why don't you save us all a lot of time and tell us the truth here? 431 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,000 It'd be better if you did. 432 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000 If I do tell you. 433 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,000 You going to put it in the papers? 434 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Huh? 435 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 I'll tell you. 436 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,000 There's going to be a lot of reporters around. 437 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,000 My name going to get in the papers? 438 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Not so much. 439 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Can't tell you. 440 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 You're going to tell me. 441 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,000 I'm going to tell you. 442 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,000 I'm going to tell you. 443 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000 I'm going to tell you. 444 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 I'm going to tell you. 445 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:36,000 I'm going to tell you. 446 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,000 It means there's no reporters around. 447 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,080 You're not going to tell us your name? 448 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:40,080 Is that it? 449 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:41,080 That's the way it is. 450 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:42,320 It's kind of funny, isn't it? 451 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,960 Maybe that's the way it looks to you. 452 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:46,220 What are you looking at? 453 00:14:46,220 --> 00:14:47,220 Can't tell you that either. 454 00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:49,220 You got things all wrong, son. 455 00:14:49,220 --> 00:14:51,920 It isn't what you want to tell us. 456 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:53,400 It's got nothing to do with it. 457 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,480 You're going to tell us what we want to know sooner or later? 458 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:56,480 Where are we going? 459 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:57,480 George Street. 460 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:58,480 That's where the jail is. 461 00:14:58,480 --> 00:14:59,480 Why do you ask that? 462 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:00,480 Because I want to know. 463 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:05,300 out of the jail where the part of the report is what is this thing with reporters 464 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,720 and you what it's all about the point is put your name in the paper and I'm done 465 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,920 well you get the reporters are lined up you get them from all the papers you 466 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,680 haven't done I'll tell you all about the whole story you just get the reporters and 467 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:22,600 the photographers be sure about them because I want to take you to. Let me get 468 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,600 this straight what you say you are going to give us any information without the 469 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,160 press being that right that's the way it's going to be you got it wrong boy 470 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,920 what doesn't make any difference who is there you're going to come around yeah 471 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:32,640 we'll find out. 472 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:47,280 1210 AM we got to Georgia Street juvenile bureau Frank pulled the car into the side 473 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,080 alley and we took the subject out of the back seat. Up this way. 474 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,920 Yeah well it's been here a long time. Don't you worry about it. 475 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:01,240 But. You want to take them down the hall Frank I'll check with hard growth Yeah 476 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:01,640 more. 477 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:10,560 I have Friday working kind of later Yeah we are I got to know from Simmons on the 478 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,040 milk burglary checked around the night was nothing on it I didn't call it I don't 479 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,240 think you have to worry about I think we got the answers Yeah just picked up a kid 480 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,360 we got him dead to rights in the market open bottle of milk right next to can 481 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,600 you know thanks got him down the hall you think is your boy and it looks like it 482 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,620 everything adds up the entrance what he tried to take the milk all along seems to 483 00:16:28,620 --> 00:16:32,540 fit you get that kind of a case what are you worried about there's two things Yeah 484 00:16:32,740 --> 00:16:37,020 we isn't right it you want that is no got some big thing working about the press 485 00:16:37,180 --> 00:16:40,380 so they won't give us anything without reporters being there makes it rough you 486 00:16:40,380 --> 00:16:45,340 know the policy I do you want to help him if he wants publicity take me down into 487 00:16:45,340 --> 00:16:55,380 this is a report I might do it or do I have to try to go ahead. What am I going 488 00:16:55,380 --> 00:16:59,780 to be well I'm going to say to you from the mirror as well we want to get. 489 00:17:05,660 --> 00:17:09,220 Some you want to talk to somebody from the papers it's against the policy that we 490 00:17:09,220 --> 00:17:14,180 swung for you with the city you from the moon I you tell the hell guy I got a phone 491 00:17:14,180 --> 00:17:19,380 in Baltimore yeah great I read all about it you know right me up like that I hope 492 00:17:19,380 --> 00:17:22,620 that I know what two men killed in that operation how we'd all with stories 493 00:17:22,620 --> 00:17:27,380 everybody did that's I mean for you to write me up with a picture that makes you 494 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:30,800 think you got it coming you break into one store and try to steal a couple of 495 00:17:30,820 --> 00:17:34,380 cartons of cigarettes that doesn't make the first page one store I got in the 496 00:17:34,380 --> 00:17:38,700 nineteen of them my team before they caught me that's important isn't that the 497 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:42,700 story I don't know my day couple things you better get straightened out here first 498 00:17:42,700 --> 00:17:46,300 off what your name better get your notebook out be able to take all this down 499 00:17:46,540 --> 00:17:51,700 don't worry about it so you just answer the questions I'll get it yeah OK my name 500 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:57,540 is I like playing that E.L.R.O.Y. G.R.A.H.A.N. 501 00:17:57,620 --> 00:17:59,740 Yeah I told you once I'm 502 00:17:59,740 --> 00:18:04,820 a 15 you said you broke into nineteen stores is that right yeah I can't might 503 00:18:04,820 --> 00:18:05,100 have made 504 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:09,180 a more but something wrong tonight I'm sure with the burger along that I turned 505 00:18:09,180 --> 00:18:14,140 up that mistake you still work and I wasn't for that if it only takes one though 506 00:18:14,140 --> 00:18:18,820 how much do you get yourself you want to apply it at it what you had to have a 507 00:18:18,820 --> 00:18:22,100 reason for committing these robberies you want to tell us what it was sure good 508 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:28,560 reason we are going to tell it. When you see I was had trouble at school never 509 00:18:28,580 --> 00:18:32,260 seemed to quite make it all the guys like me all that all the girls do to 510 00:18:32,620 --> 00:18:36,180 a girl calling almost every night asking to take in the dance and stuff like that 511 00:18:36,180 --> 00:18:40,740 I don't go much for stuff like that you can understand can't you Mr. Go ahead 512 00:18:40,740 --> 00:18:45,860 all right well they want me for all the teams football basketball all the time 513 00:18:45,860 --> 00:18:49,580 asking to play but I figured you want to get ahead in the world you got to have 514 00:18:49,580 --> 00:18:53,580 a name some place where you want to get to get out that look for it and you're 515 00:18:53,580 --> 00:18:58,260 going to get there don't you find that true Mr. You're going to get the way it 516 00:18:58,260 --> 00:19:02,460 was with me all the time turned down office to be on some team telling some girl 517 00:19:02,460 --> 00:19:06,940 I couldn't take it to a day and didn't have the time and I just couldn't make it 518 00:19:07,260 --> 00:19:10,860 you can understand it you've been around you know I was successful kind of people 519 00:19:11,340 --> 00:19:16,180 who like someone a lot of people we did you know what I mean don't you. 520 00:19:18,380 --> 00:19:22,780 What's the matter something wrong. I'm trying to tell you what happened I'm 521 00:19:22,780 --> 00:19:27,820 going to be straight what's the matter. Now you want to tell us the truth all 522 00:19:27,820 --> 00:19:31,060 right well I don't know why you're trying to tell us this line boy it isn't 523 00:19:31,060 --> 00:19:34,180 necessary I don't know why you did what you did but I do know you had a reason 524 00:19:34,180 --> 00:19:39,460 for that's all we want to know just the reason. You don't believe me. Right now 525 00:19:40,140 --> 00:19:45,140 how about you know some of them. Mr. You know. 526 00:19:46,540 --> 00:19:52,180 Can't even lie right. Can you until I good all my life I've been trying to be like 527 00:19:52,180 --> 00:19:56,580 other kids all the time getting beat up getting left out of things you know why 528 00:19:56,580 --> 00:20:00,980 you know. Big reason. 529 00:20:02,380 --> 00:20:07,980 The biggest reason in the world. Because I'm almost fifteen years old for 530 00:20:07,980 --> 00:20:13,860 a few seven inches tall for three seven weight ninety seven pounds and a very big 531 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:20,140 not big enough. All the time I think it's having around all the time you're the 532 00:20:20,140 --> 00:20:25,140 joke. It's the time when you figure it's easy to laugh to. 533 00:20:25,140 --> 00:20:29,420 But. Because if you don't some kids going to beat you up get to the point where you 534 00:20:29,420 --> 00:20:35,020 don't care anymore. I need to click off those coupons and send them in get the 535 00:20:35,020 --> 00:20:39,140 book back and how to build myself up what that didn't do nothing for me. 536 00:20:40,060 --> 00:20:44,780 We're still four feet seven weight ninety seven pounds all the stuff I took didn't 537 00:20:44,780 --> 00:20:49,380 do no good. Don't come out for seven ninety seven pounds. 538 00:20:49,380 --> 00:20:55,820 All right you want to tell us about the big reason. I did it to be big that's why 539 00:20:56,340 --> 00:21:01,900 I had things that people wanted to go back to me the other things kids wanted. I 540 00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:07,180 had all that stuff that the other kids wanted. Made me important don't you see that 541 00:21:08,020 --> 00:21:13,020 you've got to understand that. That's why one of my picture in the paper that's why 542 00:21:13,020 --> 00:21:24,220 I wanted to story. So the kids would know that then something big so they know. That 543 00:21:24,220 --> 00:21:29,700 it's going to be our. Know what it's like everything else I tried to do I lost it 544 00:21:29,700 --> 00:21:35,620 up I didn't mean to steal but it was the only thing to do the only way I had I 545 00:21:35,620 --> 00:21:40,700 wasn't the only thing I wanted to know what all the time the other kids laughing 546 00:21:40,700 --> 00:21:44,900 all the time talking just couldn't stand it anymore I just couldn't. 547 00:21:48,420 --> 00:21:58,220 You know thanks. You can understand it can't you make sense what that time wasn't 548 00:21:58,220 --> 00:22:02,580 so much the kids and I was little you know I didn't want to think I was small. 549 00:22:02,580 --> 00:22:02,580 Well. 550 00:22:10,580 --> 00:22:14,340 1236 AM we contacted the parents of the Graham boy asked them to come down to the 551 00:22:14,340 --> 00:22:18,180 station talk to them for an hour and try to fill them in the view of the fact that 552 00:22:18,180 --> 00:22:21,740 the parents of the subject responsible person the boy was booked for violation of 553 00:22:21,740 --> 00:22:23,180 section what the P.C. 554 00:22:24,180 --> 00:22:28,180 And he was really his parents pending his hearing in juvenile court five days 555 00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:31,740 passed we heard nothing from the boy on December twenty fourth blanket I checked 556 00:22:31,740 --> 00:22:37,660 into the office. Right well get in the back let's see you in the back OK thank 557 00:22:37,660 --> 00:22:45,660 you. I'm just right I was we do play 558 00:22:45,660 --> 00:22:51,340 a lot I guess you think it's kind of fun what's that I want to tell you I should 559 00:22:51,340 --> 00:22:54,700 think it's good what you did for me but we're with that big thing the other night 560 00:22:54,980 --> 00:22:58,100 well there's no way that some of course the left to make a decision on it yeah 561 00:22:58,100 --> 00:23:02,820 I'm sure what you did to make me feel better five I can turn whatever the judge 562 00:23:02,820 --> 00:23:07,860 decides I'll go along with it I'm on top of my folks so we got it all talked out 563 00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:11,060 all the way talk down but that's good we're glad of the time. 564 00:23:12,380 --> 00:23:16,060 When you guys don't like it I mean you know I'm just like a short time and all 565 00:23:16,860 --> 00:23:20,140 but I want to bring you these. Merry Christmas. 566 00:23:21,180 --> 00:23:24,340 Well I thought when I should be all right but it's necessary I want to get into 567 00:23:24,340 --> 00:23:29,060 a way to get from that's my right to be all right to appreciate it. 568 00:23:31,980 --> 00:23:36,540 A couple of times to the left but they're the kind of smoke yes and they'll be fine 569 00:23:36,540 --> 00:23:42,540 thanks. Well you guys are on. 570 00:23:43,180 --> 00:23:50,540 Yeah I just. Just want my things I can yeah I'm. Just not going to know you know 571 00:23:50,540 --> 00:24:01,660 what that. I didn't feel. The 572 00:24:01,660 --> 00:24:06,260 story you have just heard is true the names were changed to protect the innocent 573 00:24:06,540 --> 00:24:10,420 on the twenty first of December a petition was filed in juvenile court on 574 00:24:10,420 --> 00:24:15,100 behalf of the subject on January twenty sixth trial was held in Department fifty 575 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:19,620 two of juvenile court state of California in and for the county of Los Angeles in 576 00:24:19,620 --> 00:24:20,980 a moment the results of that trial. 577 00:24:29,220 --> 00:24:32,660 Elroy Merton Graham appeared before the juvenile court where he admitted the 578 00:24:32,660 --> 00:24:36,820 alleged burglaries at this time under the counsel of the judge of the juvenile 579 00:24:36,820 --> 00:24:40,060 court the subject was placed under the care of the probation department for a 580 00:24:40,060 --> 00:24:44,140 period of three years with the provision that his parents take him to a competent 581 00:24:44,140 --> 00:25:08,820 psychiatrist. You have just heard a series of authentic cases from official 582 00:25:08,820 --> 00:25:13,460 files technical advice comes from the office of chief of police W. H. Parker 583 00:25:13,460 --> 00:25:18,420 Los Angeles police department technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe Sergeant 584 00:25:18,420 --> 00:25:23,580 Marty Wynn Sergeant Vance Brasher tonight were then Alexander Jack Prushin 585 00:25:23,580 --> 00:25:29,820 Olan Suley Sammy Ogg script by John Robinson music by Walter Schuman Hal 586 00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:37,420 Gibney speaking. Transcribed from Los Angeles Dragnet is an NBC radio network 587 00:25:37,420 --> 00:25:43,700 production.