November 2, 2025 • 29 mins
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Smoke Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For
the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Department,
you will travel step by step on the side of
the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files,
from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnett is
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the story of your police force in action.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
It was Tuesday, March sixth, That was windy in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out of robbery detail.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Didion. My
name's Friday.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
It was two forty six pm when I got the room,
twenty seven A to robbery.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Praik got Joe.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
How about those the poenuts took them.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Down to the warrant office.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
They're going to serve all time.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
All the follow ups made packages in order.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
That about wraps it up.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Then thet Yeah, Al but Bentley nothing from Mack yet.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
No city car as soon as he heard it.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Yeah, be happy when we get him, which you he's
probably the worst of the lot.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, I don't cry about Max said, he's in real
trouble now. Broke none of his friends will have any
ado with them.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Book turn.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I don't think I'll ever understand a guy like Bentley.
What makes a man want to beat somebody just for
the sake of beating him?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Mmm? Figure that we'll have it made thirty two robberies
and just about it. Everyone Bentley's got to work over
at least one of the victims.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
It's pretty vicious. M Now we get him this time.
He's through. Probably knows it too. See when Mac blows
the whistle, probably gonna be rough to take him there, John,
and how you feel about it? But I'm happy it's over.
And let's face it, we were lucky on this one.
The guys were gun happy take it any longer to
get 'em. They have killed somebody, sure, maybe so by
my next day off, I'm gonna do nothing but sit
and not make 'em move. My feet are killing me.
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We had a lot of legwork on this one, not
just this one, Joe, all of them. I was reading
in the magazine the other day about a new kind
of art support. I gotta get me a pair of them.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
According to the ad, these are gonna be just a ticket,
some new kind of rubber soft. When they mold it
to your feet place back in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
How they do it?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
They got a place here in La No, just a
home office, just a small place, I guess, according to
the ad. The whole process pretty new.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, well, how do you get this one? Is it
a mold?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You stand on a piece of paper, hold a bucket
of water in each hand. You know, you put all
your weight on your feet. Well, and you draw the
outline of your foot on the paper. They make the
arts thing up from there.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Well, if you're holding a bucket of water in each hand,
is that right?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Well, how do you use the pencil? Well, well, a
bucket of water in each hand, he's gonna draw it.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, I get a robbery Friday.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Ohiafay, Yeah he's here. Oh Hi are the kids? Oh yeah, sure?
Offering them right on right, it's for you. Your wife
seems upset?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Thanks, Joe?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Hello, huh yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Alright?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Cam?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
But what's up?
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Well?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Can't you tell me?
Speaker 8 (04:23):
Now?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Well?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Why not? All right, honey, I'll be right there. Don't
worry now, goodbye?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Does no matter? Something wrong?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't know if they wants me to come right home,
say something's going on?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Couldn't you tell you about it on the phone.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
No, say something about the phone being tapped.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
We went down to the car pool and started over
for Frank's house. For the past three months we'd been
working on a case involving a gang that had been
operating in the city.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
During that time.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
They'd committed thirty two armed robberies, and in most instances
they'd beaten their victims for no apparent reason. Their ruthless
attitude was the most outstanding single point of their amo.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
We'd successfully round it.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Up all members of the gang with one exception. Leroy Bentley, alias.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
The Bull Bentley, was the known heavy man of the gang.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
In order to successfully prosecute and apprehend any criminal or criminals,
the police officer requires the fullest measure of cooperation and
assistance that he can obtain from many people, the private
citizen and his own associates as well. From the ranks
of the private citizen comes one important aid, the informant.
The working detective knows that in many cases his most
valuable assistance.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Can often come from his informant.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
In this particular case, we'd received information that would lead
us to Bull Bentley. Within a matter of days. Three
twenty two pm, we arrived at Frank's home.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
I'm glad to whom honey, I'm awfully worried.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Oh, Joe Roya, what's the trouble now? What's it all about?
This phone being tached? No, that's what he said, Oh
the man who called the honey, can you tell me
what this is all about?
Speaker 8 (05:47):
I got a phone call just before I called you.
It was a man said his name was bull Benchler
or Binley. I didn't get it. He said that you
thought you were a smart coup but if you didn't
lay off of he was going to take care of
your word. It hurt the most. He threatened the children
and me too, Frank, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
He said.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
The phone was tapped and we were being watched. Said
to tell you he wasn't kidding. He didn't have anything
to lose. He sounded real mean. I'm frightened.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Do you know this man, Frank? Oh he is. Yeah.
We have a warrant for his arrest.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
If fay, we are the kids with Stacy's in her
room playing. I called the school for Mike. The teacher
said she dismissed. The class should be home by now, Fink.
I don't know I'm worried about him.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I locked the doors, don't open for anybody. Joe and
I'll go out and see if we can find Mike.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
All right, I'm worried, sick about him. He should have
been home twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I wanna call a captain. Frank asked him to send
a couple of men out.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Huh, thanks, George, don't.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Worry about it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Faye two five one one, please, Yeah, robbery all Glenn's
captain there. That's Friday.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
I'd like to talk to.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Him excipt for this Friday. I'm out of Frank's house.
Frank Smith. Yeah, Bull Bentley called his wife, fretting her
and the kids. If he didn't lay.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Off, No, I said, if he didn't lay off because
he sent a couple of men out to stand by.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Fine, Mike isn't home from school yet't Frank like his
little boy?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Frank and I are going out to look for him, Yeah,
I said, he who was watching the house?
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Who?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Well, all right, we'll be as soon as we find
a boy, right O'donald Stewart's in the office, will be out.
Say they'll park the car down the street, watch for him,
let him in.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Won't you all right, Joe?
Speaker 8 (07:13):
What about it? Frank, you're gonna lay off this guy?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You want me to please find little Mike. Alright, honey,
go find him. Uh lock the door and don't know
open if anyone but O'donald's Stewart when they get here. Alright, dear, Now,
don't worry, honey, We'll find him. Yeah, let you go, Joe,
(07:37):
what are you thinking?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
I don't know, tell you one thing, you know, I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
There are two types of criminals that can be counted
on to be dangerous, the youngster who becomes easily panicked
at the scene of a crime, and the older criminal
who will do anything rather than go back to the penitentiary.
Bull Bentley was one of these. We knew that he
was more than capable of carrying out his threat. His
record was one of armed robbery, vicious beatings, and kidnapping.
At this particular time, he was wanted for murder in
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the state of Colorado. The average criminal will blame anyone
but himself for his predicament, usually the police officer, and
this was so in Bentley's case. He apparently thought that
by getting us off his trail, he could go free.
Frank and I searched the area around the house. We
found his little boy in a vacant lot two blocks
from school, playing with a group of youngsters. We put
him in the car and returned him to his home.
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Stuart and O'Donnell were at Frank's house and said they'd
stay there until they were relieved. Four point thirty six pm,
Frank and I checked back into the office.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Smidt Friday in here right on, an I'm the boy.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Ask a rat playing with some of the kids in
the neighborhood. And what's this all about? Well, this bunch
we just cleaned up.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Bull Bentley called Frank's wife and told her that if
Frank didn't lay off him, he was going to get
to him through his family.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
What are you planning to do?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
I'll no choice, get him before he can do anything,
I guess.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Frank.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You ask if you like to be taken office assignment. No, No,
it's it's up to you. Let's see that your house
is covered when you're not home. You're keeping the boy
away from school. Yeah, Kevin, till this thing's over, You
got any ideas where you can pick Bentley?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I alway's covered all the places he's known to hang out.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Want any help, you know, not right now? Just find
him fast. You know he's in town. Figure he's gonna
stay here. Oh, we don't think he's got much choice.
We figure he's broke, he's hot. None of his friends
will take a chance on putting him up. He's gonna
need money.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Better cover the.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Bus depots, train depots, Alert the airport detail. Get a
couple of hundred bugs printed up on him. Distribute them
to the beat men and radio cars. Contact Captain Hamilton intelligence.
He might be able to come up with something our
informant city. He could turn Bentley forward in a week.
A week's a long time, Joe.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
You've covered all his hangouts, all of them.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Nobody's seen him in a couple of days. Just seem
to drop out of sight.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Big ten a lot of people. Sometimes you don't realize
how big too. He start looking for one man. Yeah,
want to get in touch with the boys in the
press room, get in the story. See if they'll carry
Bull's picture, See Jack Brickets. He'll put the picture on
suspects one. We'll get shot out of right now. You've
got a silent number, haven't you, Frank, Yeah, I'll Bentley
got it had to come from somewhere. Joe and I
were talking about that. You know pretty much we'd give
the numbers out too. About the only one we can
figure the in a position to give it to beat
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Lee's Harry McLeod, your informant. Yeah, how long since you've
heard from this McLeod a couple of days? Figure maybe
you'd cross you throw in the bent like as possible.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I don't think so, though he's leveled with it so far.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Number anything from some place?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Yeah, well, it sure makes it look like McLeod donne.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I don't think Mack would give the number of wins
Bull could get it.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
We got thirty two people to prove it.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Bo, you better get on this thing. Come on, Frank
Fry check your letter, Skipper, Joe, I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Well, don't worry, we'll get to him.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
No, I mean this two bit thief calling faith threatening.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Or try to take him easier and in you feel.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Why made Joe Bull Bentley's bushed up against a hundred
different cops in this day? Why me?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Well of averages? I guess you were handy.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Just what to do? Skipper?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Gave you a choice if you'd like to go home,
Nobody blame you.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You don't know what it is, Joe. You don't have
a family. Something like this can split you in two.
Half of you wants to be on the job. The
other half was pulling you toward home. Joe. If that
chief Punk steps in my front porch, so I'm gonna
lean on my heart.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I look, Frank, it's isn't gonna get us any place.
Let's get over to the photo at me. Get this
thing moving now.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I could just figure it. Four thousand guys. It's in
the department of Bentley has to pick me?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Joe?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Why me?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
All right?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Look, Frank, I could try to spell it for you
a hundred ways and we still wouldn't come out with
any kind of a total. I know what you must
be going through, and I'm sorry it's gotta be you.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
I'm sorry it has to be any cop.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
You're right about me not having a family, but it's
squeezing me just as hard as it is you. You and
I both knew when we filled out those application blanks
that we were taking on.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
It's the job.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Frank.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Maybe I never told you before, and maybe you've been
through this too.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I don't know whe asn't a day goes by that
I'm on the job here that I don't run into
something that breaks my heart? Why did d Wilson have
to get shot down on he and his partner try
to take that guy out that rooming house or run
eighth Street? Why did Olson his partner have to end
up in the P and F ward last week? Why
do you have to run the gamut of every human
emotion class of people on the earth, Porter, Rich, It's
all the same. Somebody picks up a gun to knock
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over the corner gas station. Everything hangs in the balance
a minute. That thief slips a cartridge into his gun,
and the gas station attendant, his family, his kids, and
every relative he's gut slides right out into the short end.
Everybody seems to think that wherever crime is concerned, they
never get any close to it in the front page
of the morning paper.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
I know you know this, Frank.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
For every attempted crime, God only knows how many innocent
people are thrown into the balance even before the crime's
been committed.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
That's the way it is, Frank.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I'm not trying to tell you anything you don't know,
but the minute you passed that exam, you had to
make books that something like this could contaminate you, just
as surely as if you weren't a cop.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
I guess it's almost a legacy. Nobody's found a vaccine
for crime. Nobody's immune.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
And it's worse with you and me because we know
better than to think we can't be touched.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
We know we can.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
We invite it every time we roll on a call,
every time we pick somebody up, every time a guy gets.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Out of line. It's the job, Frank.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I didn't mean to give you an Academy lecture, but
if it's any comfort.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I'm with you. I know just how you feel, and
so do four thousand other guys right down here.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah. I guess maybe we better get moving.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Huh. Yeah, come on.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We took the mug shot of Bentley to the photo
lab and asked them to run off two hundred copies.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
We checked with the reporters in the prints room and
they promised us full cooperation. Jack Recketts told us that
he'd put the picture on the air. The next day.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Frank called home and found that there'd been no further
calls from Bentley. Six seventeen PM, we started to look
for Harry McLeod, our informant. We checked his hotel, but
the clerk told us he hadn't been in all afternoon.
We started checking his known hangouts in fear of burning McLeod.
We were unable to ask for him by name, which
made it necessary for us to canvass each individual place.
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Nine twenty eight pm, we located McLeod in a small
bar that was known to be frequented by thieves.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
We walked over to the bar and sat down next.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
To him in order to drink at the first opportunity
without arousing suspicion. We told mclod we wanted to talk
to him and that we'd meet him down the street
two blocks west. We left the bar, got in the car,
and drove to the meeting place.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Twenty minutes later, McLoud arrived, got in a back seat
and we drove away.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Want to get the radio, Joe, Yeah, smile with you guys.
I told you I get in touch with it. I
had something for you. You try and get me burn.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Take it easy, match. It's a couple of things we
want to know.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I'm on your side. You guys know that I've always leveled.
Will you have mine. Yeah, Well, then what's this spit?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You walk into that joint, you know what goes on
in there, and you pull me out? A good chance
somebody could have seen you, you know?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Yeah, we know, Mac. Have you seen Bentley?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
No?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I told you. I let you know when I turned him.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I don't slow us, Mac, this is important. Have you
seen him?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
If I saw him, i'd have called you. You know that,
don't you. I'd have called you, guys, I told you once,
I'd finger him for you. I haven't called.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I haven't seen him. It's that simple. What's the big
rush about getting Bentley? Anyway? He ain't going nowhere, Mac.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
We got a personal interest in this thing. This isn't
just robbery. Bull's been calling Frank's wife saying he was
going to kill her and the kids. You know he'd
do it, and how about it?
Speaker 6 (14:27):
I didn't know it was like that. Bulls mean enough
to do it.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Well, that's how it is. I'll ask you once more.
Have you seen him?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
When day before yesterday Sunday morning, saw him down, Marty,
I'll come.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
He didn't call us.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I couldn't, honest, I couldn't. He came in and asked
me for some dough. I told him I didn't have any.
I tried to stall him till I could get to
a phone. Yeah, didn't work. He wouldn't wait, got mad
when I couldn't help him.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
You see anything about a meat just said?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
He get in touch with me. He's real stall and
I couldn't let him have any dough.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
But I told him, I said, look, boy, you know
I want to help, but I just haven't got it.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
That's what I said. Yeah, I wasn't kidding either. The
thing's been pretty rough. Say you guys couldn't see your
way fair? Could you saw about the tide me of.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
You got me at the wrong time? Mac, I'm tapping
how about you?
Speaker 7 (15:03):
Smith?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
But if you got to have it, I got ten
bucks up and save him for a pair of shoes.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I sure I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
You guys know that now we know you got any
idea how blow might have gotten Frank's home fault.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
No, not the slidest.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Sure you didn't give it a joe.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
You have known me for a lot of years. Would
I do a thing like that after the way you
guys treated me?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
That's what we're trying to find out, Mac.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
I should get a little insulted at that, you guys figuring.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Out, Oh when I come off? But Mac, did you
give him the number?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
No, I swear to I didn't.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
All right, you got any ideas where Blue might be hiding,
not in.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Particularly, check the usual places.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, we looked at him all and you know as
much as I do.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
He did say, look me up in a couple of
days and.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
See where he was going when he left you, No,
just walked.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Out of my day's.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I saw a friend of his yesterday though. You know,
guys said he'd seen blow Sunday night, say what he
wanted money, said he'd tried.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
To tap him for some.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Dough to get out of town.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
His friend help him.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
He didn't give him any money, gave him something else.
So you know he gave him a gun.
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Speaker 4 (17:13):
Before we left Mack, he furnished us with the name
of the man who'd given the gun to Bull Bentley.
We recognized the name Dave Slater as a small time
hoodlum would do anything to make a dollar, as long
as he himself was reasonably safe in doing it. Mac
told us of several places where we might find him.
The most likely place was a pool room on North
Main Street. Slater had numerous arrests, most of them for
being drunk and for acting as a lookout for gambling games.
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He was a type of thief that can be found
in every large city, always on the fringe of criminal operations,
but never directly involved.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
In the crime itself.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
We checked several of the places Mac told us about,
but we couldn't come up with Slater.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
We checked the pool room.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The manager was evasive and at first appeared reluctant to talk.
We informed him that we knew Slater would be back
and that we'd wait for him. The manager asked us
to come to the back room with him. He told
us that Slater had said that he was going down
to the all night Hamburger standem corner to get something
to eat. We found Slater sitting at the counter.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Call this thing on Hamburger.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
All I can see is a bun. I'd be ashamed
to sell a.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Thing like this.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Lousy deal.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Thirty quie since but nothing Slater?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, well something you want?
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Police officer Slater? We want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
What about Bill Bentley?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Bentley? Never heard of We got information? You do know
him pretty well?
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Yeah, you tell your Pigeoni's line. I never heard of
the guy. Let me finish eat.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
We want to talk to you, Slater. You wanna make
it here? Would you rather get down town?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Can't you see I'm eating.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Now, let me finish.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I got nothing to tell you. I don't know any.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Bull Bentley and I lay off.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Huh, come on, you can think better than an empty stomach. Stare.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Frank and I took Slater out of a restaurant and
put him in the car. Once he was in custody,
his attitude changed completely. He said he wanted to help us,
but that he didn't know Bull Bentley. Ten forty four,
we got back to the city hall.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I want to stop out of the office, Joe calhonha.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
And I'll be the interrogationer. I'm gonna tell us.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Ten years later, Yeah said I.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Sure.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
Look, I told you I want to help you guys out,
but I'm I don't know anything.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
If I did, i'd let you know, I'd come up
with Slater. Where's Bentley?
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Look?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I keep telling you I don't know any Bentley?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Where are you living now?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Sally Hotel?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
What's fair?
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Long? You've been there a couple of days working now?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Yeah, a little odd job now?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
And then you know nothing steady when you call him
odd jobs later?
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Oh you know, sweep out the pool room, racked the
balls for him.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Sure, And look we've known you for eight years. You
never worked a day in that time. Now, how about Bentley?
We got a personal interest in him.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
We want him, We want him bad.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Okay, I tell you I don't know any Bentley.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Anything new. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Joey called a couple more times tonight. Last time at
ten thirty, scared Fay after death, said he knew Mike
was homie, that we're looking for him. If we don't stop,
it'll get to the kids. Said it didn't matter how
many cops we had around the house, he'd get to
him face. Almost hysterical. O' donald called the doctor.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
How about Slater?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
He came up with anything you still says he doesn't
know m I don't miss some punk.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Let's you and me get straightened out. What happens to
me is one thing. What happens to my family's another.
They don't pay me enough money to jeopardize my family.
Now you'll get this straight When punk's like you and
your trigger happy friends can threaten my family and then
something's got to give, and it's not gonna be me.
But I told you Buck, wipe that Sili grin off
your face. Slitter, you feel nice and safe there, don't you.
You know, as long as you're in custody, we gotta
take care of you. Well, maybe you'd like to know that.
(20:22):
If I have to, I'll take this badge off and
walk up one sidey and down the other. Now I
wanna know where Bentley is, and I want to know.
Now we're not stumbling around in the dark. We know
you gave him a gun. Let me tell you this, mister,
mark it down. If anything happens to my wife or
my kids, you can't run fast enough to get away,
cause I'll nail your heart right right. He's getting pretty tough,
isn't he?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Just telling you how you stand? Now, come on, where's badly?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I told you I don't know Bentley?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
All right, just get everything out of your pockets. Get
it on the table.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
There's nothing much change, keys and a nail file, address book,
my handkerchief, calm wallet, yeah, cigarettes, matches, that's all.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I'm gonna shake him down, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I told you that's all. Nobody you're looking for it.
Don't push your lucks later. Just clean Joe.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
How much money you got in your wallet?
Speaker 9 (21:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Double sew buck maybe.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
A funny thing. You guys never worked, but you always
got money, al right, take the money out of cont
it's later.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Why what's that going to prove?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Take it out and con it?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
All right?
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Ten twenty twenty five, ninety six, twenty seven, thirty seven, Another.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Five forty two bucks.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I didn't know I had that much.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
All right, Put the money in your piet, got all
the money in your wallet.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, that's it. I see the waller.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Yeah, there's nothing. Then a couple of cards, that's all.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, let's see her, A couple of point tickets.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Picture.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Who's the girl babe I met in Daego.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
You don't know if she's not in the rackets married now,
I haven't seen her in a year.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Why you're carrying a picture? Always kind of liked her.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Shit class real nice broad.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
You said you didn't know Bentley, that's very said. How
about Leroy Bentley? Naw, you know anybody a do all
named Bentley? Look, I told you I don't know any Bentley.
How many times I have to tell you know anybody
by the name of Bull.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I don't know anybody named Bull. I don't know anybody
named Bentley.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, take a look at Joy.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Maybe you explain this then?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Now, what's that bar?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Tab in your wallets named Bull written on it. How
about it, Slater? It was Bull?
Speaker 9 (22:21):
I don't remember that, Probably something I've picked up a
long time ago.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I don't remember tab dated March fourth day before yesterday.
Your memory must be getting pretty bad, huh.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I got nothing to say, Frank.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
You wanna check the business office and see who his
numbers listed to?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Can't cho right away?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
I'm gonna tell you something, boy. It's a rotten deal.
Law protects people like you. You're lying.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
We know it, and you know it too. You know Bentley,
you know where he is. What's more, we know you
gave him a gun Sunday night, the same date on
that tab. I'll tell you what we're gonna do, Slater,
you're a real wise guy. You talk fast.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
We're gonna get Bull. Maybe not night, maybe not to Marble.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
We'll get him, and when we do, we're gonna tell
him that you blew the whistle on him. We're gonna
put him in the same cell with you. I'd like
to hear you talk your way out of that.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You wouldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Don't make a buck on it.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Look, he's a mean guy. He'll kill me.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I thought you didn't know him all right, So.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I know him, but you wouldn't do that which you
put me in with him? Where is he? Slater?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
You're gonna tell him I turned him in.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
We're making no deals worthy.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I don't know where he is now you know where
he'll be?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (23:23):
I was supposed to meet him.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
There tonight, the bar down on West seventh. He's got
a friend works there, feeds him.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
He'll be there tonight.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Uh, yeah, said if I meet him and pay me
for the gun. Seventy five bucks on the gun?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Is it at thirty eighth?
Speaker 9 (23:33):
A good one too, worth more than seventy five bucks?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
But I needed the money.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Why'd you get the gun?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well, you'll find out anyway.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
I might as well tell you.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Proud of the car found out of the seat I
found out later belonged to a guy in the vice squad.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Probably real sorry about him. Could beat Joe barn West
seventh place called the Hamilton in. Yeah, that's it. He'll
be there all right, Slater.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Let's go where are you take him?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
They're going to jail.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Here?
Speaker 7 (23:57):
You can't Wall.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I should have known you.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
They do me a favor.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Uh? What's that?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Talk to the jailer? Make him give me a cell
by myself.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
We handcuffed Slater to a chair in the robbery office
and so we got back to book him. Twelve thirty
two am, Frank and I left the City Hall for
the Hamilton Inn on West Seventh Street. Slater had told
us that he was to meet Bull Bentley between one
and one thirty. When we got there, there were a
half a dozen people in the place. We checked the
bar and the men's restroom, but Bentley wasn't around. We
went back to the car, drove down the street to
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a closed service station and parked where we could keep
both doors of the restaurant under surveillance. Twelve fifty one
am one fifteen we waited one thirty five.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Joe that him.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I don't know it might be.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Let's take a look, right, you wanna take the side door.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I'll try the front.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Cry.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I don't see him.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Joe may have a minute at him going in the
phone booth back here.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Yeah, come on, I'll get him, like.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
Watch it break alright, Frank, I'll shake him down.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Who tell you who blow the whistle?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
I bum mccot it was him.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Here was the only one who knew give you my
telephone number. Yeah, he did, and he runs to you
and cops should have known better. I give him twenty
bucks for it.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
All that figures, What do you mean we gave him
ten not to.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
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were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
On June twelfth, the hearing was held in the District
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Speaker 2 (26:33):
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Speaker 1 (27:25):
The Roy W. Bentley was released to the Colorado authorities
for prosecution on a charge of murder. A hold was
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eventeus parole. He was convicted and is now serving a
life sentence in the Colorado State Penitentiary without possibility of parole.
Although David R. Slater was guilty of aiding and a betting
a Felonay, a complaint could not be issued due to
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the fact it could not be proved that Slater knew
Bentley was an ex convict when he gave him the gun.
He was filed on for petty theft in Division seven.
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Speaker 4 (02:17):
It was Tuesday, March sixth, That was windy in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out of robbery detail.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Didion. My
name's Friday.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
It was two forty six pm when I got the room,
twenty seven A to robbery.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Praik got Joe.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
How about those the poenuts took them.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Down to the warrant office.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
They're going to serve all time.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
All the follow ups made packages in order.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
That about wraps it up.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Then thet Yeah, Al but Bentley nothing from Mack yet.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
No city car as soon as he heard it.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Yeah, be happy when we get him, which you he's
probably the worst of the lot.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, I don't cry about Max said, he's in real
trouble now. Broke none of his friends will have any
ado with them.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Book turn.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I don't think I'll ever understand a guy like Bentley.
What makes a man want to beat somebody just for
the sake of beating him?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Mmm? Figure that we'll have it made thirty two robberies
and just about it. Everyone Bentley's got to work over
at least one of the victims.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
It's pretty vicious. M Now we get him this time.
He's through. Probably knows it too. See when Mac blows
the whistle, probably gonna be rough to take him there, John,
and how you feel about it? But I'm happy it's over.
And let's face it, we were lucky on this one.
The guys were gun happy take it any longer to
get 'em. They have killed somebody, sure, maybe so by
my next day off, I'm gonna do nothing but sit
and not make 'em move. My feet are killing me.
(03:23):
We had a lot of legwork on this one, not
just this one, Joe, all of them. I was reading
in the magazine the other day about a new kind
of art support. I gotta get me a pair of them.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
According to the ad, these are gonna be just a ticket,
some new kind of rubber soft. When they mold it
to your feet place back in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
How they do it?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
They got a place here in La No, just a
home office, just a small place, I guess, according to
the ad. The whole process pretty new.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, well, how do you get this one? Is it
a mold?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You stand on a piece of paper, hold a bucket
of water in each hand. You know, you put all
your weight on your feet. Well, and you draw the
outline of your foot on the paper. They make the
arts thing up from there.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Well, if you're holding a bucket of water in each hand,
is that right?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Well, how do you use the pencil? Well, well, a
bucket of water in each hand, he's gonna draw it.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, I get a robbery Friday.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Ohiafay, Yeah he's here. Oh Hi are the kids? Oh yeah, sure?
Offering them right on right, it's for you. Your wife
seems upset?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Thanks, Joe?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Hello, huh yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Alright?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Cam?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
But what's up?
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Well?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Can't you tell me?
Speaker 8 (04:23):
Now?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Well?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Why not? All right, honey, I'll be right there. Don't
worry now, goodbye?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Does no matter? Something wrong?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't know if they wants me to come right home,
say something's going on?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Couldn't you tell you about it on the phone.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
No, say something about the phone being tapped.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
We went down to the car pool and started over
for Frank's house. For the past three months we'd been
working on a case involving a gang that had been
operating in the city.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
During that time.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
They'd committed thirty two armed robberies, and in most instances
they'd beaten their victims for no apparent reason. Their ruthless
attitude was the most outstanding single point of their amo.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
We'd successfully round it.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Up all members of the gang with one exception. Leroy Bentley, alias.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
The Bull Bentley, was the known heavy man of the gang.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
In order to successfully prosecute and apprehend any criminal or criminals,
the police officer requires the fullest measure of cooperation and
assistance that he can obtain from many people, the private
citizen and his own associates as well. From the ranks
of the private citizen comes one important aid, the informant.
The working detective knows that in many cases his most
valuable assistance.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Can often come from his informant.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
In this particular case, we'd received information that would lead
us to Bull Bentley. Within a matter of days. Three
twenty two pm, we arrived at Frank's home.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
I'm glad to whom honey, I'm awfully worried.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Oh, Joe Roya, what's the trouble now? What's it all about?
This phone being tached? No, that's what he said, Oh
the man who called the honey, can you tell me
what this is all about?
Speaker 8 (05:47):
I got a phone call just before I called you.
It was a man said his name was bull Benchler
or Binley. I didn't get it. He said that you
thought you were a smart coup but if you didn't
lay off of he was going to take care of
your word. It hurt the most. He threatened the children
and me too, Frank, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
He said.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
The phone was tapped and we were being watched. Said
to tell you he wasn't kidding. He didn't have anything
to lose. He sounded real mean. I'm frightened.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Do you know this man, Frank? Oh he is. Yeah.
We have a warrant for his arrest.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
If fay, we are the kids with Stacy's in her
room playing. I called the school for Mike. The teacher
said she dismissed. The class should be home by now, Fink.
I don't know I'm worried about him.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I locked the doors, don't open for anybody. Joe and
I'll go out and see if we can find Mike.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
All right, I'm worried, sick about him. He should have
been home twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I wanna call a captain. Frank asked him to send
a couple of men out.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Huh, thanks, George, don't.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Worry about it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Faye two five one one, please, Yeah, robbery all Glenn's
captain there. That's Friday.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
I'd like to talk to.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Him excipt for this Friday. I'm out of Frank's house.
Frank Smith. Yeah, Bull Bentley called his wife, fretting her
and the kids. If he didn't lay.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Off, No, I said, if he didn't lay off because
he sent a couple of men out to stand by.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Fine, Mike isn't home from school yet't Frank like his
little boy?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Frank and I are going out to look for him, Yeah,
I said, he who was watching the house?
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Who?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Well, all right, we'll be as soon as we find
a boy, right O'donald Stewart's in the office, will be out.
Say they'll park the car down the street, watch for him,
let him in.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Won't you all right, Joe?
Speaker 8 (07:13):
What about it? Frank, you're gonna lay off this guy?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You want me to please find little Mike. Alright, honey,
go find him. Uh lock the door and don't know
open if anyone but O'donald's Stewart when they get here. Alright, dear, Now,
don't worry, honey, We'll find him. Yeah, let you go, Joe,
(07:37):
what are you thinking?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
I don't know, tell you one thing, you know, I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
There are two types of criminals that can be counted
on to be dangerous, the youngster who becomes easily panicked
at the scene of a crime, and the older criminal
who will do anything rather than go back to the penitentiary.
Bull Bentley was one of these. We knew that he
was more than capable of carrying out his threat. His
record was one of armed robbery, vicious beatings, and kidnapping.
At this particular time, he was wanted for murder in
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the state of Colorado. The average criminal will blame anyone
but himself for his predicament, usually the police officer, and
this was so in Bentley's case. He apparently thought that
by getting us off his trail, he could go free.
Frank and I searched the area around the house. We
found his little boy in a vacant lot two blocks
from school, playing with a group of youngsters. We put
him in the car and returned him to his home.
(08:28):
Stuart and O'Donnell were at Frank's house and said they'd
stay there until they were relieved. Four point thirty six pm,
Frank and I checked back into the office.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Smidt Friday in here right on, an I'm the boy.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Ask a rat playing with some of the kids in
the neighborhood. And what's this all about? Well, this bunch
we just cleaned up.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Bull Bentley called Frank's wife and told her that if
Frank didn't lay off him, he was going to get
to him through his family.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
What are you planning to do?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
I'll no choice, get him before he can do anything,
I guess.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Frank.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You ask if you like to be taken office assignment. No, No,
it's it's up to you. Let's see that your house
is covered when you're not home. You're keeping the boy
away from school. Yeah, Kevin, till this thing's over, You
got any ideas where you can pick Bentley?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I alway's covered all the places he's known to hang out.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Want any help, you know, not right now? Just find
him fast. You know he's in town. Figure he's gonna
stay here. Oh, we don't think he's got much choice.
We figure he's broke, he's hot. None of his friends
will take a chance on putting him up. He's gonna
need money.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Better cover the.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Bus depots, train depots, Alert the airport detail. Get a
couple of hundred bugs printed up on him. Distribute them
to the beat men and radio cars. Contact Captain Hamilton intelligence.
He might be able to come up with something our
informant city. He could turn Bentley forward in a week.
A week's a long time, Joe.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
You've covered all his hangouts, all of them.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Nobody's seen him in a couple of days. Just seem
to drop out of sight.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Big ten a lot of people. Sometimes you don't realize
how big too. He start looking for one man. Yeah,
want to get in touch with the boys in the
press room, get in the story. See if they'll carry
Bull's picture, See Jack Brickets. He'll put the picture on
suspects one. We'll get shot out of right now. You've
got a silent number, haven't you, Frank, Yeah, I'll Bentley
got it had to come from somewhere. Joe and I
were talking about that. You know pretty much we'd give
the numbers out too. About the only one we can
figure the in a position to give it to beat
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Lee's Harry McLeod, your informant. Yeah, how long since you've
heard from this McLeod a couple of days? Figure maybe
you'd cross you throw in the bent like as possible.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I don't think so, though he's leveled with it so far.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Number anything from some place?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Yeah, well, it sure makes it look like McLeod donne.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I don't think Mack would give the number of wins
Bull could get it.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
We got thirty two people to prove it.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Bo, you better get on this thing. Come on, Frank
Fry check your letter, Skipper, Joe, I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Well, don't worry, we'll get to him.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
No, I mean this two bit thief calling faith threatening.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Or try to take him easier and in you feel.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Why made Joe Bull Bentley's bushed up against a hundred
different cops in this day? Why me?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Well of averages? I guess you were handy.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Just what to do? Skipper?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Gave you a choice if you'd like to go home,
Nobody blame you.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You don't know what it is, Joe. You don't have
a family. Something like this can split you in two.
Half of you wants to be on the job. The
other half was pulling you toward home. Joe. If that
chief Punk steps in my front porch, so I'm gonna
lean on my heart.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I look, Frank, it's isn't gonna get us any place.
Let's get over to the photo at me. Get this
thing moving now.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I could just figure it. Four thousand guys. It's in
the department of Bentley has to pick me?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Joe?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Why me?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
All right?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Look, Frank, I could try to spell it for you
a hundred ways and we still wouldn't come out with
any kind of a total. I know what you must
be going through, and I'm sorry it's gotta be you.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
I'm sorry it has to be any cop.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
You're right about me not having a family, but it's
squeezing me just as hard as it is you. You and
I both knew when we filled out those application blanks
that we were taking on.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
It's the job.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Frank.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Maybe I never told you before, and maybe you've been
through this too.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I don't know whe asn't a day goes by that
I'm on the job here that I don't run into
something that breaks my heart? Why did d Wilson have
to get shot down on he and his partner try
to take that guy out that rooming house or run
eighth Street? Why did Olson his partner have to end
up in the P and F ward last week? Why
do you have to run the gamut of every human
emotion class of people on the earth, Porter, Rich, It's
all the same. Somebody picks up a gun to knock
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over the corner gas station. Everything hangs in the balance
a minute. That thief slips a cartridge into his gun,
and the gas station attendant, his family, his kids, and
every relative he's gut slides right out into the short end.
Everybody seems to think that wherever crime is concerned, they
never get any close to it in the front page
of the morning paper.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
I know you know this, Frank.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
For every attempted crime, God only knows how many innocent
people are thrown into the balance even before the crime's
been committed.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
That's the way it is, Frank.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I'm not trying to tell you anything you don't know,
but the minute you passed that exam, you had to
make books that something like this could contaminate you, just
as surely as if you weren't a cop.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
I guess it's almost a legacy. Nobody's found a vaccine
for crime. Nobody's immune.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
And it's worse with you and me because we know
better than to think we can't be touched.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
We know we can.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
We invite it every time we roll on a call,
every time we pick somebody up, every time a guy gets.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Out of line. It's the job, Frank.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I didn't mean to give you an Academy lecture, but
if it's any comfort.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I'm with you. I know just how you feel, and
so do four thousand other guys right down here.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah. I guess maybe we better get moving.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Huh. Yeah, come on.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We took the mug shot of Bentley to the photo
lab and asked them to run off two hundred copies.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
We checked with the reporters in the prints room and
they promised us full cooperation. Jack Recketts told us that
he'd put the picture on the air. The next day.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Frank called home and found that there'd been no further
calls from Bentley. Six seventeen PM, we started to look
for Harry McLeod, our informant. We checked his hotel, but
the clerk told us he hadn't been in all afternoon.
We started checking his known hangouts in fear of burning McLeod.
We were unable to ask for him by name, which
made it necessary for us to canvass each individual place.
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Nine twenty eight pm, we located McLeod in a small
bar that was known to be frequented by thieves.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
We walked over to the bar and sat down next.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
To him in order to drink at the first opportunity
without arousing suspicion. We told mclod we wanted to talk
to him and that we'd meet him down the street
two blocks west. We left the bar, got in the car,
and drove to the meeting place.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Twenty minutes later, McLoud arrived, got in a back seat
and we drove away.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Want to get the radio, Joe, Yeah, smile with you guys.
I told you I get in touch with it. I
had something for you. You try and get me burn.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Take it easy, match. It's a couple of things we
want to know.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I'm on your side. You guys know that I've always leveled.
Will you have mine. Yeah, Well, then what's this spit?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You walk into that joint, you know what goes on
in there, and you pull me out? A good chance
somebody could have seen you, you know?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Yeah, we know, Mac. Have you seen Bentley?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
No?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I told you. I let you know when I turned him.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I don't slow us, Mac, this is important. Have you
seen him?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
If I saw him, i'd have called you. You know that,
don't you. I'd have called you, guys, I told you once,
I'd finger him for you. I haven't called.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I haven't seen him. It's that simple. What's the big
rush about getting Bentley? Anyway? He ain't going nowhere, Mac.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
We got a personal interest in this thing. This isn't
just robbery. Bull's been calling Frank's wife saying he was
going to kill her and the kids. You know he'd
do it, and how about it?
Speaker 6 (14:27):
I didn't know it was like that. Bulls mean enough
to do it.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Well, that's how it is. I'll ask you once more.
Have you seen him?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
When day before yesterday Sunday morning, saw him down, Marty,
I'll come.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
He didn't call us.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I couldn't, honest, I couldn't. He came in and asked
me for some dough. I told him I didn't have any.
I tried to stall him till I could get to
a phone. Yeah, didn't work. He wouldn't wait, got mad
when I couldn't help him.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
You see anything about a meat just said?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
He get in touch with me. He's real stall and
I couldn't let him have any dough.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
But I told him, I said, look, boy, you know
I want to help, but I just haven't got it.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
That's what I said. Yeah, I wasn't kidding either. The
thing's been pretty rough. Say you guys couldn't see your
way fair? Could you saw about the tide me of.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
You got me at the wrong time? Mac, I'm tapping
how about you?
Speaker 7 (15:03):
Smith?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
But if you got to have it, I got ten
bucks up and save him for a pair of shoes.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I sure I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
You guys know that now we know you got any
idea how blow might have gotten Frank's home fault.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
No, not the slidest.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Sure you didn't give it a joe.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
You have known me for a lot of years. Would
I do a thing like that after the way you
guys treated me?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
That's what we're trying to find out, Mac.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
I should get a little insulted at that, you guys figuring.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Out, Oh when I come off? But Mac, did you
give him the number?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
No, I swear to I didn't.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
All right, you got any ideas where Blue might be hiding,
not in.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Particularly, check the usual places.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, we looked at him all and you know as
much as I do.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
He did say, look me up in a couple of
days and.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
See where he was going when he left you, No,
just walked.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Out of my day's.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I saw a friend of his yesterday though. You know,
guys said he'd seen blow Sunday night, say what he
wanted money, said he'd tried.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
To tap him for some.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Dough to get out of town.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
His friend help him.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
He didn't give him any money, gave him something else.
So you know he gave him a gun.
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Speaker 4 (17:13):
Before we left Mack, he furnished us with the name
of the man who'd given the gun to Bull Bentley.
We recognized the name Dave Slater as a small time
hoodlum would do anything to make a dollar, as long
as he himself was reasonably safe in doing it. Mac
told us of several places where we might find him.
The most likely place was a pool room on North
Main Street. Slater had numerous arrests, most of them for
being drunk and for acting as a lookout for gambling games.
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He was a type of thief that can be found
in every large city, always on the fringe of criminal operations,
but never directly involved.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
In the crime itself.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
We checked several of the places Mac told us about,
but we couldn't come up with Slater.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
We checked the pool room.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The manager was evasive and at first appeared reluctant to talk.
We informed him that we knew Slater would be back
and that we'd wait for him. The manager asked us
to come to the back room with him. He told
us that Slater had said that he was going down
to the all night Hamburger standem corner to get something
to eat. We found Slater sitting at the counter.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Call this thing on Hamburger.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
All I can see is a bun. I'd be ashamed
to sell a.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Thing like this.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Lousy deal.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Thirty quie since but nothing Slater?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, well something you want?
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Police officer Slater? We want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
What about Bill Bentley?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Bentley? Never heard of We got information? You do know
him pretty well?
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Yeah, you tell your Pigeoni's line. I never heard of
the guy. Let me finish eat.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
We want to talk to you, Slater. You wanna make
it here? Would you rather get down town?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Can't you see I'm eating.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Now, let me finish.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I got nothing to tell you. I don't know any.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Bull Bentley and I lay off.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Huh, come on, you can think better than an empty stomach. Stare.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Frank and I took Slater out of a restaurant and
put him in the car. Once he was in custody,
his attitude changed completely. He said he wanted to help us,
but that he didn't know Bull Bentley. Ten forty four,
we got back to the city hall.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I want to stop out of the office, Joe calhonha.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
And I'll be the interrogationer. I'm gonna tell us.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Ten years later, Yeah said I.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Sure.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
Look, I told you I want to help you guys out,
but I'm I don't know anything.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
If I did, i'd let you know, I'd come up
with Slater. Where's Bentley?
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Look?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I keep telling you I don't know any Bentley?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Where are you living now?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Sally Hotel?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
What's fair?
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Long? You've been there a couple of days working now?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Yeah, a little odd job now?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
And then you know nothing steady when you call him
odd jobs later?
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Oh you know, sweep out the pool room, racked the
balls for him.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Sure, And look we've known you for eight years. You
never worked a day in that time. Now, how about Bentley?
We got a personal interest in him.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
We want him, We want him bad.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Okay, I tell you I don't know any Bentley.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Anything new. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Joey called a couple more times tonight. Last time at
ten thirty, scared Fay after death, said he knew Mike
was homie, that we're looking for him. If we don't stop,
it'll get to the kids. Said it didn't matter how
many cops we had around the house, he'd get to
him face. Almost hysterical. O' donald called the doctor.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
How about Slater?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
He came up with anything you still says he doesn't
know m I don't miss some punk.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Let's you and me get straightened out. What happens to
me is one thing. What happens to my family's another.
They don't pay me enough money to jeopardize my family.
Now you'll get this straight When punk's like you and
your trigger happy friends can threaten my family and then
something's got to give, and it's not gonna be me.
But I told you Buck, wipe that Sili grin off
your face. Slitter, you feel nice and safe there, don't you.
You know, as long as you're in custody, we gotta
take care of you. Well, maybe you'd like to know that.
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If I have to, I'll take this badge off and
walk up one sidey and down the other. Now I
wanna know where Bentley is, and I want to know.
Now we're not stumbling around in the dark. We know
you gave him a gun. Let me tell you this, mister,
mark it down. If anything happens to my wife or
my kids, you can't run fast enough to get away,
cause I'll nail your heart right right. He's getting pretty tough,
isn't he?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Just telling you how you stand? Now, come on, where's badly?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I told you I don't know Bentley?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
All right, just get everything out of your pockets. Get
it on the table.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
There's nothing much change, keys and a nail file, address book,
my handkerchief, calm wallet, yeah, cigarettes, matches, that's all.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I'm gonna shake him down, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I told you that's all. Nobody you're looking for it.
Don't push your lucks later. Just clean Joe.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
How much money you got in your wallet?
Speaker 9 (21:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Double sew buck maybe.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
A funny thing. You guys never worked, but you always
got money, al right, take the money out of cont
it's later.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Why what's that going to prove?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Take it out and con it?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
All right?
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Ten twenty twenty five, ninety six, twenty seven, thirty seven, Another.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Five forty two bucks.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I didn't know I had that much.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
All right, Put the money in your piet, got all
the money in your wallet.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, that's it. I see the waller.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Yeah, there's nothing. Then a couple of cards, that's all.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, let's see her, A couple of point tickets.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Picture.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Who's the girl babe I met in Daego.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
You don't know if she's not in the rackets married now,
I haven't seen her in a year.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Why you're carrying a picture? Always kind of liked her.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Shit class real nice broad.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
You said you didn't know Bentley, that's very said. How
about Leroy Bentley? Naw, you know anybody a do all
named Bentley? Look, I told you I don't know any Bentley.
How many times I have to tell you know anybody
by the name of Bull.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I don't know anybody named Bull. I don't know anybody
named Bentley.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, take a look at Joy.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Maybe you explain this then?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Now, what's that bar?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Tab in your wallets named Bull written on it. How
about it, Slater? It was Bull?
Speaker 9 (22:21):
I don't remember that, Probably something I've picked up a
long time ago.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I don't remember tab dated March fourth day before yesterday.
Your memory must be getting pretty bad, huh.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I got nothing to say, Frank.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
You wanna check the business office and see who his
numbers listed to?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Can't cho right away?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
I'm gonna tell you something, boy. It's a rotten deal.
Law protects people like you. You're lying.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
We know it, and you know it too. You know Bentley,
you know where he is. What's more, we know you
gave him a gun Sunday night, the same date on
that tab. I'll tell you what we're gonna do, Slater,
you're a real wise guy. You talk fast.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
We're gonna get Bull. Maybe not night, maybe not to Marble.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
We'll get him, and when we do, we're gonna tell
him that you blew the whistle on him. We're gonna
put him in the same cell with you. I'd like
to hear you talk your way out of that.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You wouldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Don't make a buck on it.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Look, he's a mean guy. He'll kill me.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I thought you didn't know him all right, So.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I know him, but you wouldn't do that which you
put me in with him? Where is he? Slater?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
You're gonna tell him I turned him in.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
We're making no deals worthy.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I don't know where he is now you know where
he'll be?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (23:23):
I was supposed to meet him.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
There tonight, the bar down on West seventh. He's got
a friend works there, feeds him.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
He'll be there tonight.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Uh, yeah, said if I meet him and pay me
for the gun. Seventy five bucks on the gun?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Is it at thirty eighth?
Speaker 9 (23:33):
A good one too, worth more than seventy five bucks?
Speaker 6 (23:35):
But I needed the money.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Why'd you get the gun?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well, you'll find out anyway.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
I might as well tell you.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Proud of the car found out of the seat I
found out later belonged to a guy in the vice squad.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Probably real sorry about him. Could beat Joe barn West
seventh place called the Hamilton in. Yeah, that's it. He'll
be there all right, Slater.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Let's go where are you take him?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
They're going to jail.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Here?
Speaker 7 (23:57):
You can't Wall.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I should have known you.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
They do me a favor.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Uh? What's that?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Talk to the jailer? Make him give me a cell
by myself.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
We handcuffed Slater to a chair in the robbery office
and so we got back to book him. Twelve thirty
two am, Frank and I left the City Hall for
the Hamilton Inn on West Seventh Street. Slater had told
us that he was to meet Bull Bentley between one
and one thirty. When we got there, there were a
half a dozen people in the place. We checked the
bar and the men's restroom, but Bentley wasn't around. We
went back to the car, drove down the street to
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a closed service station and parked where we could keep
both doors of the restaurant under surveillance. Twelve fifty one
am one fifteen we waited one thirty five.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Joe that him.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I don't know it might be.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Let's take a look, right, you wanna take the side door.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I'll try the front.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Cry.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I don't see him.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Joe may have a minute at him going in the
phone booth back here.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Yeah, come on, I'll get him, like.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
Watch it break alright, Frank, I'll shake him down.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Who tell you who blow the whistle?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
I bum mccot it was him.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Here was the only one who knew give you my
telephone number. Yeah, he did, and he runs to you
and cops should have known better. I give him twenty
bucks for it.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
All that figures, What do you mean we gave him
ten not to.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
The story you have just heard was true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
On June twelfth, the hearing was held in the District
Attorney's office and a moment the results of that hearing.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Now here is our star Jack Webb.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Thank you, George Fenneman.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Friends, I'd like to talk to you about something that's
important to every one of you. Now, for the first time,
you can get a premium quality cigarette in either regular.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Or king size. Of course, that's Chesterfield. Both regular and
King sized Chesterfields are.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Made of the proven ingredients that give you the best
possible smoke.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Both are much milder, with.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
An extraordinarily good taste, no unpleasant aftertaste. Yes, there is
no difference between the two except King size. Chesterfield is larger,
contains so much more of the same tobaccos. It gives
you a twenty one percent longer smoke, yet it costs
very little more. So remember, either way you like him,
regular or King size Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
The Roy W. Bentley was released to the Colorado authorities
for prosecution on a charge of murder. A hold was
placed on him for the state of California in the
eventeus parole. He was convicted and is now serving a
life sentence in the Colorado State Penitentiary without possibility of parole.
Although David R. Slater was guilty of aiding and a betting
a Felonay, a complaint could not be issued due to
(27:46):
the fact it could not be proved that Slater knew
Bentley was an ex convict when he gave him the gun.
He was filed on for petty theft in Division seven.
He pled guilty and was sentenced to ninety days in
the county jail. You have just heard Dragnet, a series
(28:07):
of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes from
the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los
Angeles Police Department Technical Advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Winns,
Sergeant Vance Bracer. Heard Tonight where Herbellus, June Whitley, Jack Krusian,
script by John Robinson, music by Walter Schumann. Hell give
me speaking.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
These great programs sound off for Chesterfield Radio, Dragnet, The Dean,
markl and Jerry Lewis Show, and every weekday Arthur Godfrey
Time on television Dragnet, Gangbusters, Arthur Godfrey and his Friends,
and The Perry Como Show.
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Tomorrow, You'll want a sound off for Chesterfield because either
way you like them, regular or king size, Chesterfield gives
you the best possible smoke.
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This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
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