December 19, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dragnet.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. For
(00:28):
the past three weeks, a strong arm hold up man
has been terrorizing the downtown area. You've got a description
of the thief and the method of operation for him.
Your job find him.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
you will travel step by step on the side of
the law through an actual case transcribed from official police violence.
From beginning from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story
of your police force in action.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It was Monday, May third. It was warm in Los Angeles.
We're working the night Watch out of robbery detail. My
partner's Frank Smith. The boss's chiev Detective stad Brown.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
My name is Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I was on the way back to the office. It
was four or two pm when I got the room.
Twenty seven robbery.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Hi Joe, Hi Jim.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
How's it going?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
What do you got here? There's a new gimmick they're trying.
But what's to do. Suppose let all of us in
the room here, what comes over the hotshot phone?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I mean without picking it up? Huh yeah. How's it work? Well,
look on choice, just knob Here is the volume control.
You just turn it on. Put the phone on like this.
You have to adjustice tol gizmos so it fits the earpiece.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
That's always do it.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Where do we hear it through that speaker over there?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Uh huh, We've got another one hooked up in the squadron.
We we ought to be able to hear it any
place then, huh yeah. You don't have to get out
and pick up the receiver. You can hear the whole call.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Should make a lot easier. We're going to keep it
or just trying it out the way it looks, we'll
leave it in.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
I ought to save a lot of steps. Called a
phone a deck huh yeah. Works good, a lot better
than trying to juggle a phone on your shoulder and
write at the same time. And the desk man doesn't
have to repeat what's said to everybody in the room.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
And I only got one question, what's that?
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Wilson in Market Street, southeast corner two eleven and Sluggy
never mind.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I just got the answer. Huh. It works.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Wilson in Market Street, southeast corner two eleven and slugging.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Frank Jim Austen and I left the city hall. There
was no way of telling him the hot shot call
if the suspect was the one we were looking for
or not, but either way we had to check it out.
It took us three minutes to get to the scene.
An ambulance was in the area and they'd answered the call.
The attendant was giving the victim first aid. She was
a woman in their late fifties or early sixties.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Please do something.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I can't stand but please do something. If we talk,
make it brief. We gotta move ren as soon as
we can.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Right, lady, I'm a police officer.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I've got to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Oh go away.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
I can't duck to anybody.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Can't you give me something please.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
So we'll take care of it. You just try to relax.
You get a name on her hurt, Sir myrah McFadden.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Says, McFadden, Can you tell us who did it?
Speaker 9 (03:31):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Reason I've given you money. You didn't have to kip me.
Was it one man?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Whouldn't he ask for I've given it to him.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Did you see who it was?
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I gettend it anymore? Please?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
What's wrong?
Speaker 9 (03:47):
You're here?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Legs broke and cat tractor me through the skin.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Can you tell us what happened with mc fadden?
Speaker 10 (03:53):
He tried to grab my foos I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
He tried to take it away from me.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I wouldn't let him have it, and then he kicked
me in the back and.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
I felt something happened to my leg.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Don't please do something me.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Just.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
God, please help me.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Excuse me? Starting to have to give him more Phoenix
kitchen right ahead?
Speaker 9 (04:19):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Oh. So was it a man? Yes? Was he talk yes?
About five foot eight to five ten?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Maybe? I don't know, or was he dark?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yes? Did he say anything to you at all? No?
Speaker 10 (04:41):
He just kicked me and I fell down.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Was he wearing a coat? Was he wearing a coat?
Mm hmm coat yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (04:53):
He is kicking me and I fell down.
Speaker 11 (04:57):
My leg.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Doesn't her anymore? I can hidly see it?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Uh anymore?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
M doesn't it sound.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
We'll take her in now, right.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
What'd you find out?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Jim Anything talked to the newsboy in the corner.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Did he see it at the beginning, heard the woman scream,
turned around and saw the guy bring his knee up
her do her back.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Drop her on the sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Did he get a look at him? Yeah, fella took.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Off down that way.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
The newsboy ran after him, and he realized he couldn't
tag him and came back called the ambulance.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
How about a description gives that the other fella think
got it out? How's it lining up to YouTube all
the way? It's the guy we're looking for?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And he switched his him always hitting in the daytime?
Now yeah, something else said old lady. Mmm, he's getting
braver all the time. We talked to the witness. What
he told us about the suspect. It was the same
person we after. There was only one change in his.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Method of operation.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Instead of waiting for darkness, he was now hitting in
the daylight hours. During the time we'd spent on the case,
the stats office had made several runs trying to give
us some kind of a lead. Everything about the suspect
had been checked and rechecked. Special show ups were arranged,
and possible suspects were shown to the victims. In spite
of all our efforts, the suspect.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Continued to run free.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Wednesday, Frank e stopped for dinner across the street from
the City Hall.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
It's a big thing.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Now, what's that mambo? M mambo Dan's step. They's been
trying to get me to learn. She sees it on
TV all of the face. Says A man looks sophisticated
when he does it.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
That's what she says. Uh, yeah, you think it would would?
What make me look sophisticated? Do you want me to
be honest? Sure, Joe, I don't think anything could do.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
That for you.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Oh I'm glad to hear it, old buddy, mm hmm.
I'll tell Faye keep her off my back about.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Taking him lessons?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
All right, Joe?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Oh yeah, Dick, how's it going?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Oh? Pretty good? Had Donahoe said you was over here?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Uh huh, it's my partner, Frank Smith is Dick Blake
writes for the La Examiner.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Hi, I haven't seen you for Frank.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Oh yeah, I want to cut coffee.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
No, no thanks, I just had dinner.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You're looking for something special day?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I could get a story on a strong arm man.
You fellas are after anything you can give me?
Speaker 11 (07:24):
No, you got about all of it? What about the
McFadden woman. She's gonna be all right.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
You haven't heard anything I call the county Hospital's happened though.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Set Her leg's been set. I'm gonna take some time
to heal. They're giving her a new kind of serum.
She's gonna be all right, though, Huh, I'm not sure yet.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
They don't know if there's any injury to or spine.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Sure, rough one.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Well, that's the weadest guy does business.
Speaker 11 (07:43):
You know, we've been getting calls for the last ten days, letters,
the editors, everything you.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Know you can get in the line. Dick has been
coming at us from all sides.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
What do you got on?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
We got to put out a mimigraft answer to that? Hm,
you know we can take a lot of paper.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Is there anything I can have? That's no secret. Most
of the victims have told us the same story. God
comes up to one's, starts a conversation about a.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Ride on, plays a cup of coffee, anything, sold a
victim down from there.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
First chance he gets, he slams the victim into the wall,
ask for the money.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Before them are fat.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
And wh when he worked at night, didn't he Yeah?
What about his choice of victims? If possible tie in there.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Mm hmm, not that we can find anybody on the street,
is right? You got a description of Yeah, white male
American around thirty, dark hair, dark eyes, one hundred and
sixty five pounds, five eighty five pounds.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
But it's a couple of thousand people.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yeah. Now, what about the area he's working? Is there
anything there?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, seem to make most of his pickups down around
the plaza.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
And what about the victims himself?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Well, he usually looked like the carrying money.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Or no, not all the time.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Last week he beat up a service man in Savidian clothes.
He took forty four dollars from him. Kid didn't look
like he had a diame in his pockets.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, nothing about this guy.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
If that's a pattern day, there's only one thing that
can drop in a pocket. He's mean, the way he works,
the kick he gets out of beating up a person,
it's gotta be more than just money to him.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah. Well, one more thing. How close are you.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Outside the country mile?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Half the division's been on his tail. It keeps up.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Metro's gonna ask for an increasing budget to hire more men.
We've got the area covered like rain and he don't
get wet.
Speaker 11 (09:05):
Well, I got to get back to the office, write something.
Try to take it easy, honestly, Look, we're on your
side now.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Thanks for the help.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Okay, see Rona right, So.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I'm frank cool. Huh yeah, anything comes up, let me know.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Huh we got something you'll hear about it.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Should you like to get a break on the story?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Well, we're both even there, huh so would we?
Speaker 9 (09:21):
He?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So the next week, the patrol of the streets continued.
The strong arm batted Hit three more times. Each time
the victim and the witnesses gave us the same description.
It matched the suspect we were looking for. Thursday May thirteenth,
seven fifty two pm, we got back to the squadron.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Anything come in, Yeah, tick back on, Whitey.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
How's it look? No good?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, according to Bretton, he's been in jail for the
last two months. Yeah, he's waiting for trial.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
And stocked him. What does it say what he fell for?
Armed robbery graduated? Uh, looks like it. I got it
robbery Friday. Hello, yeah, well could you speak up? I
can't hear. Yeah, that's better. How's that?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Well? What was that name again.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah, we'll not give me your name.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
We can't do much with that. What do you got?
Fellas is a name of a strong arm Bandits Benny Jessop.
What about the person who called hung up anonymously? Yeah?
What do you think? That was one way to find out? Yeah,
ask Benny Jessop.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
After we checked the name through R and I, Frank
and I went out to Benny Jessup's address.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Wow, where Benny Jessip?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Hell? What do you want?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You've been in? Jessep?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, police officers want to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
You're looking for something special.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
A couple of questions we want to ask you.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Sure, I got no beef.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
The cops appreciate it if you keep it short. I
got big trouble, but this Selson might help.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Ah.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
It's got a hold of some bad food, real ink.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
Excuse Yeah, what's it all about?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
You?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Ever been arrested? Jessep?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (11:29):
Look, it'd be a lot easier and faster if I
started off telling you I've been the route. Uh, if
you guys check the record before you came up here.
You know I fell once for burgery. You know I'm
free now. I don't know nobody nothing. Let's go from there.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
All right.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
You got a job. Yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 10 (11:40):
I'm a candy butcher?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
What's that?
Speaker 10 (11:42):
I sell candy? Where one of the theaters downtown?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
When do you work nights? Name them?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Monday through Saturday?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What hours?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Check in at four? Work till eleven, eleven thirty?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
How come you're not there tonight? I told you I'm sick.
How long you had the job? A couple of years?
Anybody to back that up?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
What you mean?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Well, anybody will say you're there.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Look, you better tell me what this is about. Huh.
I'm not hung up on anything.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
I got no part of any action.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
You guys are in the You know that comes.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Down to one thing. Do you improve you're working every night?
You're clean?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah? I know that.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Now how do you sell this candy? Where are you
in the theater? When you work all over?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Storeroom, lobby, all over?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You got a regular stand? Do you work in the aisles?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Stand in the lobby?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Somebody there to take the tickets?
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Well I ought to be able to tell us then,
shouldn't they tell you nothing.
Speaker 12 (12:27):
I've been working since I got out of the joint.
You go down there and start asking a lot of questions.
You're going to cause a lot of trouble.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Is that right? Probably get me fired, don't worry about it.
Speaker 10 (12:35):
Yeah, easy to say you haven't got the job.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
They're calling?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Check.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah you got a phone?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
You see one around?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Give me the number. I don't know what you work there,
but you don't know the phone number I forgot. Where
is the place?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Corner third and Weller?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
What's the manager's name?
Speaker 5 (12:50):
You got to talk to him.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Look, I can do it on the phone, or we
can go on down there. How do you want it?
Speaker 10 (12:55):
Names woodroom.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I'll tack a job. Well, if you tell me what
this is about, if it fits, you'll know who.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Turned you on me?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
What?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Look?
Speaker 10 (13:03):
Who tried to box job? You've got reason to come
up here. I don't know what you're digging for, but
I'm not around. Somebody gave you my name, didn't they.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
We've heard it. If we told you the truth, you
wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Somebody, I know it's hard to say.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
You just need two words.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
What's that first and last name?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
We got a call we don't know who it was from.
Person said we were looking for you, and you battle
up here in rousting you've got no rousing. We had
to check it out.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Burgery?
Speaker 10 (13:26):
No, well, I'm home free. Only thing I ever fell
for I learned.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
How about it? You talk to woodroom? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (13:33):
What about my job?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Is alliby hole. He's been there every work night for
the last four months. And I told you, all right,
you're out. But somebody's on your back.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Nothing new.
Speaker 10 (13:41):
I've been carrying a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
All right, Jessep. We'll leave it right there. Keep your
nose clean.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Thanks a lot.
Speaker 10 (13:46):
Uh, I'm not sure I want you on my team.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
Look what about my job? What a woodroom say?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You've got no trouble?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
He says, take care of yourself. Yeah, good work tomorrow night.
We'll see you around, Jessep.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
I didn't tell him everything what I talked to the
manager on the phony film man.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
You know, you know the guy who called you. Yeah,
what about him?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
He's an usher down there. Yeah, he wants the big
candy butchers. Frank and I left Jessip and went downtown
to talk to the theater manager in person. He verified
the fact that Jesssep had Bennett worked during the hours
of the robberies. Other people who worked in the theater
were questioned their statements ruled out.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Jessip is our suspect.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Another day went by, there were several strong arm robberies
in the downtown area, but none with the same viciousness
used by our suspect. Saturday, May fifteenth, Frank and I
got back to.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
The office, hid Joe. Frank Jim Hi when he got there,
talked skippers.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Afternoon, had a meeting with Chief Brown. Yeah, they drew
the line. Said we got to come up with something.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
We got half a minute metro working on it. Now,
all the streets are covered. There's not much more we
can do.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Hey, guy's got to make a mistake. All we need
is a little time skipper.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Just cut off the supply.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
It is.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Yeah, I've been going over and take a look at
this man. Most of the strong arms have been taking
place in this area. We've had cars here here, along
here and covering the alleys in here. But suppose we
put our own men in that area on foot decoy system?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Yeah, the only thing we haven't tried.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
It might work.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Something to do.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
How do we set it up?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Guy makes most of us pickups around the plaza, right,
and we start from there.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Each night, one of us walked around.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
The streets try to pick the guy up, other two
following a car.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
So what's the captain think of the idea? I haven't
talked to him yet. He can't be if it's a possibility.
And when do we start?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
How about the night?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, let's go Wait a minute, who's going to do
the walking?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Doesn't make a lot of difference.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
How about flipping a client? All right?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I man, fine, that's one you didn't get, Joe, I win,
I hope.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So for the next two days the plan was carried out.
The thief didn't hit. He began to wonder if he
quit his operation. Monday, May seventeenth, while Frank and Jim
Austin followed me in Unit one K eighty, I acted
as decoy twelve forty seven am. It looked like another
(16:14):
wasted night.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
You got a match?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I want a cigarette?
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Sir? All right?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I know about a light?
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Yeah, go on, I'm forgive me your walk, Try and
take it, alright, fellow, where you going? Let me go?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Okay, cool, get up there.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Get your hands against the wall. Come on, move all right, now,
get your hands in back of the.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Hi mine. Don't shout copy a.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Do as you're told.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
We'll tell you a lot of trouble.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Jim. Yeah, here you go, all right, you hands down,
run around.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Good?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
What's your name? Why don't you find us? We will?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We want to save time, Giles. What's your name? Fellow?
What's your name?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
You're not gonna do any good on him?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
He's deaf? His hearing aid's broken. You're not getting through
it all?
Speaker 4 (17:31):
That's all? Well when you tell us his name?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Sitting here, Remler, just the two of you in this
You see anybody?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I ask you a question?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
You got an answer?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
What'd you tell him? I can't hear what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Never mind, I told you wouldn't get through to him.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You got it wrong, Hi, We'll get through.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police forces and action.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Frank Jim Austin the Knights at the suspects of the
City Hall for questioning you guys, got nothing on ue
you're sitting in the place. Fella, that ride we got
your mate on tonight. Time we get through, we'll tag
you for at least ten more counts.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
You better stick to coffee, isn't anybody gonna let me
know what's going on?
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Can't you fix that things?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
We'll get it taken care of. Where do you guys live?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Dig jup? That's what you're paying?
Speaker 8 (18:25):
All right?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
We can do it the hard way. That's how you want.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
It and get no help from me.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
It works both ways.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
You're whistling anyway. You maybe got us for the night.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's what's going on. Oh shut up, be careful what
you tell them.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
You guys work alone. You got a reason anything? Does
anybody else?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
We want you to tell us?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You're off your rocker.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
God, you better put a button on that mouse shaper.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Why you're treated people?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Doesn't give you a soft ticket.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
It doesn't make any difference. How I got it. I'm
gonna ride it all the way.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Will you stick with that and see where you land?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Really off your rocker?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Isn't anybody gonna tell me what's going on?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I take everything out of your pocket, taper, right, come on,
just put.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It right there on the table, A lot of paper there.
You always carry that much money?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
How much is there?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I don't know. You must have some idea maybe three
four on a dollar.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
You work for a living? No, where'd you get the money.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
I'm a bank.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
What'd you used to take it out?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Why?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
A gun or a pen?
Speaker 7 (19:20):
I didn't stay it the best? If you're trying to
build a lot of money, how'd you get it? My
own man left it till well. You don't work at all?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Uh? No, I don't believe in it.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
How about him?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
No? No, he doesn't work either.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
What do you say about me? He wants to know
if you work? Huh? He wants to know if you work.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
No, none of us do, Giles, Dave and me have incomes.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
None of us work? Shut up?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Whose Dave?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Now, Look, we're about troop playing games with you. You
come in here like you're twelve feet toll and try
to throw your weight around with it.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Isn't gonna work.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
As soon as you realize that, the better it's gonna
be for you. Now, how about it?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Who is he?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
You know?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
We'll come up with it. How much do you think
you'll do to get you out of here?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
What he can?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Oh, that's not gonna hold your stuff? You can call
it two ways, easy in yours? Now, what's it gonna be?
Speaker 5 (20:05):
How about it? What do you wanna know this day?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
What's his full name Samsel. Was he withy and all
the robbery?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
What about tonight?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Stayed on?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Why he set up all?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
You know, there's we figured we'd pull this one by ourself.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Where's he now? I don't know home?
Speaker 10 (20:19):
I guess where's that apartment out on the front.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
That's in Hollywood?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
What's the phone number?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Just give me the phone number, will you?
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Hollywood nine eight eight four four?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
How dialect? You just talk? Are you gonna use the gadget?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Joe?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah, we might as well. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I'll listen.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
That's Hollywood nine eight eight four four.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, And when he answers, you just talk right into
that thing.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Hello, Hello, Dave?
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Yeah, this huge Joss Yeah, Disney with you?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (21:31):
How'd it go?
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Pretty good?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
You coming home right away?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Yeah, I'll go.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Out and get some beer.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I should be back by the time you guys get in. Okay, Dave,
let's see you as soon.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
As you get home.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
We'll have a celebration.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Huh yeah, sure, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I'll give the girls a call. Sound all right to you?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
It's fine. Oh.
Speaker 11 (21:48):
One thing though, you know that Helen always got a
couple of crow girlfriends around.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
You better stop on the way home.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Uh what for?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I'll see if you can pick up a couple more guys.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
We ran David Santel's name and description through R and I,
and we found that he'd served the term at the
County jail for violation of the State in Narcotics Act.
There was no record on either Giles Shaffer or Sidney Tremler.
Reminer was taken to the main jail and Frank and I,
along with Jim Austin and Giles Shaffer, drove out to
Santel's apartment. It was a large place in the Hollywood area.
While Jim Austin stayed with a suspect, Frank and I
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checked with the manager. He told us that Santal had
left a few minutes before we got to the place.
The four of us went inside. Well I know you
went over in, saidam you guys? Sure throw a muscle
or eye.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
You know we got a long way to catch you.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
All right, What am I supports to doing?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Dave comes back, Just sit there and keep your mind shut.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
You know it's gonna be pretty interesting. What's that the
expression on your face when the judge tends us loose.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Well, don't make book on that. Wice is Queen Joe.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
All right, you guys never do one on a stage
work and you always live high.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Don't you stay their shavor?
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Thinks you all said yeah walk?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Is there anything else you want to throw?
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Now?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I'll cause me more trouble. I'll make a hold on
you big enough to walk through.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
All right?
Speaker 7 (23:14):
All right, turn around, eys cleaner, put your hands down
if you don't need those, I'm not gonna give you
any trouble.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Let's make sure I told you not to put.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Those on me.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Try to muscles, cop.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I got a lawyer.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
It's gonna be on the carpet for this time.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
We get through with deal.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Have you walk in a beach so far off you'll
be lucky to get home on weekend?
Speaker 8 (23:31):
You know?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You punks make me sick to my stomach. You lean
on some old man or a woman. You're strong arm,
a service man. You got about as much guts as
an underfed worm.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I'm not just save it for the course.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Sit on your mouth.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I'll I'll let you know what I'm through. I'm gonna
tell you something. You remember what happened to you tonight?
You put it on the wire and get it around
to the rest of the two bit bums that work
the same filthy operation.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
You tell them every time they put the.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Arm in an old man, every time they slug a
service man, they're never gonna know it might be a cop.
And if it's not, there'll be four of us waiting
in the next doorway. So before you roll that next victim,
you think about that, will you?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
You got it all off your chest. Now, No, I
got one more thing for you.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
You're going to jail and we're going to drop every
book we got on you. There's a mirror in the
car and away and you look at it and smile.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
What for?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Be happy? You still got all those teeth.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
The story you have just heard is true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
On September fourteenth, trial was held in Department ninety eight
Superior Court at the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. Giles Herbert Schaffer, David Arthur Santel,
and Sidney Thomas Reremler were tried and convicted of robbery
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in the first degree fourteen counts and received sentence as
prescribed by law. Robbery in the first degree is punishable
by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for knock less than
five years on each count. Because of the viciousness shown
by the suspects, their sentences were set to run consecutively.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Dragnet is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Service stomach.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
Stop jump
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Jumper SAPPER
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dragnet.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. For
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the past three weeks, a strong arm hold up man
has been terrorizing the downtown area. You've got a description
of the thief and the method of operation for him.
Your job find him.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
you will travel step by step on the side of
the law through an actual case transcribed from official police violence.
From beginning from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story
of your police force in action.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It was Monday, May third. It was warm in Los Angeles.
We're working the night Watch out of robbery detail. My
partner's Frank Smith. The boss's chiev Detective stad Brown.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
My name is Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I was on the way back to the office. It
was four or two pm when I got the room.
Twenty seven robbery.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Hi Joe, Hi Jim.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
How's it going?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
What do you got here? There's a new gimmick they're trying.
But what's to do. Suppose let all of us in
the room here, what comes over the hotshot phone?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I mean without picking it up? Huh yeah. How's it work? Well,
look on choice, just knob Here is the volume control.
You just turn it on. Put the phone on like this.
You have to adjustice tol gizmos so it fits the earpiece.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
That's always do it.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Where do we hear it through that speaker over there?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Uh huh, We've got another one hooked up in the squadron.
We we ought to be able to hear it any
place then, huh yeah. You don't have to get out
and pick up the receiver. You can hear the whole call.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Should make a lot easier. We're going to keep it
or just trying it out the way it looks, we'll
leave it in.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
I ought to save a lot of steps. Called a
phone a deck huh yeah. Works good, a lot better
than trying to juggle a phone on your shoulder and
write at the same time. And the desk man doesn't
have to repeat what's said to everybody in the room.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
And I only got one question, what's that?
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Wilson in Market Street, southeast corner two eleven and Sluggy
never mind.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I just got the answer. Huh. It works.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Wilson in Market Street, southeast corner two eleven and slugging.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Frank Jim Austen and I left the city hall. There
was no way of telling him the hot shot call
if the suspect was the one we were looking for
or not, but either way we had to check it out.
It took us three minutes to get to the scene.
An ambulance was in the area and they'd answered the call.
The attendant was giving the victim first aid. She was
a woman in their late fifties or early sixties.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Please do something.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I can't stand but please do something. If we talk,
make it brief. We gotta move ren as soon as
we can.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Right, lady, I'm a police officer.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I've got to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Oh go away.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
I can't duck to anybody.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Can't you give me something please.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
So we'll take care of it. You just try to relax.
You get a name on her hurt, Sir myrah McFadden.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Says, McFadden, Can you tell us who did it?
Speaker 9 (03:31):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Reason I've given you money. You didn't have to kip me.
Was it one man?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Whouldn't he ask for I've given it to him.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Did you see who it was?
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I gettend it anymore? Please?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
What's wrong?
Speaker 9 (03:47):
You're here?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Legs broke and cat tractor me through the skin.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Can you tell us what happened with mc fadden?
Speaker 10 (03:53):
He tried to grab my foos I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
He tried to take it away from me.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I wouldn't let him have it, and then he kicked
me in the back and.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
I felt something happened to my leg.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Don't please do something me.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Just.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
God, please help me.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Excuse me? Starting to have to give him more Phoenix
kitchen right ahead?
Speaker 9 (04:19):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Oh. So was it a man? Yes? Was he talk yes?
About five foot eight to five ten?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Maybe? I don't know, or was he dark?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yes? Did he say anything to you at all? No?
Speaker 10 (04:41):
He just kicked me and I fell down.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Was he wearing a coat? Was he wearing a coat?
Mm hmm coat yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (04:53):
He is kicking me and I fell down.
Speaker 11 (04:57):
My leg.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Doesn't her anymore? I can hidly see it?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Uh anymore?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
M doesn't it sound.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
We'll take her in now, right.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
What'd you find out?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Jim Anything talked to the newsboy in the corner.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Did he see it at the beginning, heard the woman scream,
turned around and saw the guy bring his knee up
her do her back.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Drop her on the sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Did he get a look at him? Yeah, fella took.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Off down that way.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
The newsboy ran after him, and he realized he couldn't
tag him and came back called the ambulance.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
How about a description gives that the other fella think
got it out? How's it lining up to YouTube all
the way? It's the guy we're looking for?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And he switched his him always hitting in the daytime?
Now yeah, something else said old lady. Mmm, he's getting
braver all the time. We talked to the witness. What
he told us about the suspect. It was the same
person we after. There was only one change in his.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Method of operation.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Instead of waiting for darkness, he was now hitting in
the daylight hours. During the time we'd spent on the case,
the stats office had made several runs trying to give
us some kind of a lead. Everything about the suspect
had been checked and rechecked. Special show ups were arranged,
and possible suspects were shown to the victims. In spite
of all our efforts, the suspect.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Continued to run free.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Wednesday, Frank e stopped for dinner across the street from
the City Hall.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
It's a big thing.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Now, what's that mambo? M mambo Dan's step. They's been
trying to get me to learn. She sees it on
TV all of the face. Says A man looks sophisticated
when he does it.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
That's what she says. Uh, yeah, you think it would would?
What make me look sophisticated? Do you want me to
be honest? Sure, Joe, I don't think anything could do.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
That for you.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Oh I'm glad to hear it, old buddy, mm hmm.
I'll tell Faye keep her off my back about.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Taking him lessons?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
All right, Joe?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Oh yeah, Dick, how's it going?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Oh? Pretty good? Had Donahoe said you was over here?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Uh huh, it's my partner, Frank Smith is Dick Blake
writes for the La Examiner.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Hi, I haven't seen you for Frank.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Oh yeah, I want to cut coffee.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
No, no thanks, I just had dinner.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You're looking for something special day?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I could get a story on a strong arm man.
You fellas are after anything you can give me?
Speaker 11 (07:24):
No, you got about all of it? What about the
McFadden woman. She's gonna be all right.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
You haven't heard anything I call the county Hospital's happened though.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Set Her leg's been set. I'm gonna take some time
to heal. They're giving her a new kind of serum.
She's gonna be all right, though, Huh, I'm not sure yet.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
They don't know if there's any injury to or spine.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Sure, rough one.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Well, that's the weadest guy does business.
Speaker 11 (07:43):
You know, we've been getting calls for the last ten days, letters,
the editors, everything you.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Know you can get in the line. Dick has been
coming at us from all sides.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
What do you got on?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
We got to put out a mimigraft answer to that? Hm,
you know we can take a lot of paper.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Is there anything I can have? That's no secret. Most
of the victims have told us the same story. God
comes up to one's, starts a conversation about a.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Ride on, plays a cup of coffee, anything, sold a
victim down from there.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
First chance he gets, he slams the victim into the wall,
ask for the money.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Before them are fat.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
And wh when he worked at night, didn't he Yeah?
What about his choice of victims? If possible tie in there.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Mm hmm, not that we can find anybody on the street,
is right? You got a description of Yeah, white male
American around thirty, dark hair, dark eyes, one hundred and
sixty five pounds, five eighty five pounds.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
But it's a couple of thousand people.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yeah. Now, what about the area he's working? Is there
anything there?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, seem to make most of his pickups down around
the plaza.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
And what about the victims himself?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Well, he usually looked like the carrying money.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Or no, not all the time.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Last week he beat up a service man in Savidian clothes.
He took forty four dollars from him. Kid didn't look
like he had a diame in his pockets.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, nothing about this guy.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
If that's a pattern day, there's only one thing that
can drop in a pocket. He's mean, the way he works,
the kick he gets out of beating up a person,
it's gotta be more than just money to him.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah. Well, one more thing. How close are you.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Outside the country mile?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Half the division's been on his tail. It keeps up.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Metro's gonna ask for an increasing budget to hire more men.
We've got the area covered like rain and he don't
get wet.
Speaker 11 (09:05):
Well, I got to get back to the office, write something.
Try to take it easy, honestly, Look, we're on your
side now.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Thanks for the help.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Okay, see Rona right, So.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I'm frank cool. Huh yeah, anything comes up, let me know.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Huh we got something you'll hear about it.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Should you like to get a break on the story?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Well, we're both even there, huh so would we?
Speaker 9 (09:21):
He?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So the next week, the patrol of the streets continued.
The strong arm batted Hit three more times. Each time
the victim and the witnesses gave us the same description.
It matched the suspect we were looking for. Thursday May thirteenth,
seven fifty two pm, we got back to the squadron.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Anything come in, Yeah, tick back on, Whitey.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
How's it look? No good?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, according to Bretton, he's been in jail for the
last two months. Yeah, he's waiting for trial.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
And stocked him. What does it say what he fell for?
Armed robbery graduated? Uh, looks like it. I got it
robbery Friday. Hello, yeah, well could you speak up? I
can't hear. Yeah, that's better. How's that?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Well? What was that name again.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah, we'll not give me your name.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
We can't do much with that. What do you got?
Fellas is a name of a strong arm Bandits Benny Jessop.
What about the person who called hung up anonymously? Yeah?
What do you think? That was one way to find out? Yeah,
ask Benny Jessop.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
After we checked the name through R and I, Frank
and I went out to Benny Jessup's address.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Wow, where Benny Jessip?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Hell? What do you want?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You've been in? Jessep?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, police officers want to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
You're looking for something special.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
A couple of questions we want to ask you.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Sure, I got no beef.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
The cops appreciate it if you keep it short. I
got big trouble, but this Selson might help.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Ah.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
It's got a hold of some bad food, real ink.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
Excuse Yeah, what's it all about?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
You?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Ever been arrested? Jessep?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (11:29):
Look, it'd be a lot easier and faster if I
started off telling you I've been the route. Uh, if
you guys check the record before you came up here.
You know I fell once for burgery. You know I'm
free now. I don't know nobody nothing. Let's go from there.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
All right.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
You got a job. Yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 10 (11:40):
I'm a candy butcher?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
What's that?
Speaker 10 (11:42):
I sell candy? Where one of the theaters downtown?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
When do you work nights? Name them?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Monday through Saturday?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What hours?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Check in at four? Work till eleven, eleven thirty?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
How come you're not there tonight? I told you I'm sick.
How long you had the job? A couple of years?
Anybody to back that up?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
What you mean?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Well, anybody will say you're there.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Look, you better tell me what this is about. Huh.
I'm not hung up on anything.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
I got no part of any action.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
You guys are in the You know that comes.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Down to one thing. Do you improve you're working every night?
You're clean?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah? I know that.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Now how do you sell this candy? Where are you
in the theater? When you work all over?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Storeroom, lobby, all over?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You got a regular stand? Do you work in the aisles?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Stand in the lobby?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Somebody there to take the tickets?
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Well I ought to be able to tell us then,
shouldn't they tell you nothing.
Speaker 12 (12:27):
I've been working since I got out of the joint.
You go down there and start asking a lot of questions.
You're going to cause a lot of trouble.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Is that right? Probably get me fired, don't worry about it.
Speaker 10 (12:35):
Yeah, easy to say you haven't got the job.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
They're calling?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Check.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah you got a phone?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
You see one around?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Give me the number. I don't know what you work there,
but you don't know the phone number I forgot. Where
is the place?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Corner third and Weller?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
What's the manager's name?
Speaker 5 (12:50):
You got to talk to him.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Look, I can do it on the phone, or we
can go on down there. How do you want it?
Speaker 10 (12:55):
Names woodroom.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I'll tack a job. Well, if you tell me what
this is about, if it fits, you'll know who.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Turned you on me?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
What?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Look?
Speaker 10 (13:03):
Who tried to box job? You've got reason to come
up here. I don't know what you're digging for, but
I'm not around. Somebody gave you my name, didn't they.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
We've heard it. If we told you the truth, you
wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Somebody, I know it's hard to say.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
You just need two words.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
What's that first and last name?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
We got a call we don't know who it was from.
Person said we were looking for you, and you battle
up here in rousting you've got no rousing. We had
to check it out.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Burgery?
Speaker 10 (13:26):
No, well, I'm home free. Only thing I ever fell
for I learned.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
How about it? You talk to woodroom? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (13:33):
What about my job?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Is alliby hole. He's been there every work night for
the last four months. And I told you, all right,
you're out. But somebody's on your back.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Nothing new.
Speaker 10 (13:41):
I've been carrying a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
All right, Jessep. We'll leave it right there. Keep your
nose clean.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Thanks a lot.
Speaker 10 (13:46):
Uh, I'm not sure I want you on my team.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
Look what about my job? What a woodroom say?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You've got no trouble?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
He says, take care of yourself. Yeah, good work tomorrow night.
We'll see you around, Jessep.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
I didn't tell him everything what I talked to the
manager on the phony film man.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
You know, you know the guy who called you. Yeah,
what about him?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
He's an usher down there. Yeah, he wants the big
candy butchers. Frank and I left Jessip and went downtown
to talk to the theater manager in person. He verified
the fact that Jesssep had Bennett worked during the hours
of the robberies. Other people who worked in the theater
were questioned their statements ruled out.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Jessip is our suspect.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Another day went by, there were several strong arm robberies
in the downtown area, but none with the same viciousness
used by our suspect. Saturday, May fifteenth, Frank and I
got back to.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
The office, hid Joe. Frank Jim Hi when he got there,
talked skippers.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Afternoon, had a meeting with Chief Brown. Yeah, they drew
the line. Said we got to come up with something.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
We got half a minute metro working on it. Now,
all the streets are covered. There's not much more we
can do.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Hey, guy's got to make a mistake. All we need
is a little time skipper.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Just cut off the supply.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
It is.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Yeah, I've been going over and take a look at
this man. Most of the strong arms have been taking
place in this area. We've had cars here here, along
here and covering the alleys in here. But suppose we
put our own men in that area on foot decoy system?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Yeah, the only thing we haven't tried.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
It might work.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Something to do.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
How do we set it up?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Guy makes most of us pickups around the plaza, right,
and we start from there.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Each night, one of us walked around.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
The streets try to pick the guy up, other two
following a car.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
So what's the captain think of the idea? I haven't
talked to him yet. He can't be if it's a possibility.
And when do we start?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
How about the night?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, let's go Wait a minute, who's going to do
the walking?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Doesn't make a lot of difference.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
How about flipping a client? All right?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I man, fine, that's one you didn't get, Joe, I win,
I hope.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So for the next two days the plan was carried out.
The thief didn't hit. He began to wonder if he
quit his operation. Monday, May seventeenth, while Frank and Jim
Austin followed me in Unit one K eighty, I acted
as decoy twelve forty seven am. It looked like another
(16:14):
wasted night.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
You got a match?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I want a cigarette?
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Sir? All right?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
I know about a light?
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Yeah, go on, I'm forgive me your walk, Try and
take it, alright, fellow, where you going? Let me go?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Okay, cool, get up there.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Get your hands against the wall. Come on, move all right, now,
get your hands in back of the.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Hi mine. Don't shout copy a.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Do as you're told.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
We'll tell you a lot of trouble.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Jim. Yeah, here you go, all right, you hands down,
run around.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Good?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
What's your name? Why don't you find us? We will?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We want to save time, Giles. What's your name? Fellow?
What's your name?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
You're not gonna do any good on him?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
He's deaf? His hearing aid's broken. You're not getting through
it all?
Speaker 4 (17:31):
That's all? Well when you tell us his name?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Sitting here, Remler, just the two of you in this
You see anybody?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I ask you a question?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
You got an answer?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
What'd you tell him? I can't hear what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Never mind, I told you wouldn't get through to him.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You got it wrong, Hi, We'll get through.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police forces and action.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Frank Jim Austin the Knights at the suspects of the
City Hall for questioning you guys, got nothing on ue
you're sitting in the place. Fella, that ride we got
your mate on tonight. Time we get through, we'll tag
you for at least ten more counts.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
You better stick to coffee, isn't anybody gonna let me
know what's going on?
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Can't you fix that things?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
We'll get it taken care of. Where do you guys live?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Dig jup? That's what you're paying?
Speaker 8 (18:25):
All right?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
We can do it the hard way. That's how you want.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
It and get no help from me.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
It works both ways.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
You're whistling anyway. You maybe got us for the night.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's what's going on. Oh shut up, be careful what
you tell them.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
You guys work alone. You got a reason anything? Does
anybody else?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
We want you to tell us?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You're off your rocker.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
God, you better put a button on that mouse shaper.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Why you're treated people?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Doesn't give you a soft ticket.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
It doesn't make any difference. How I got it. I'm
gonna ride it all the way.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Will you stick with that and see where you land?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Really off your rocker?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Isn't anybody gonna tell me what's going on?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I take everything out of your pocket, taper, right, come on,
just put.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It right there on the table, A lot of paper there.
You always carry that much money?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
How much is there?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I don't know. You must have some idea maybe three
four on a dollar.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
You work for a living? No, where'd you get the money.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
I'm a bank.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
What'd you used to take it out?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Why?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
A gun or a pen?
Speaker 7 (19:20):
I didn't stay it the best? If you're trying to
build a lot of money, how'd you get it? My
own man left it till well. You don't work at all?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Uh? No, I don't believe in it.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
How about him?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
No? No, he doesn't work either.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
What do you say about me? He wants to know
if you work? Huh? He wants to know if you work.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
No, none of us do, Giles, Dave and me have incomes.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
None of us work? Shut up?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Whose Dave?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Now, Look, we're about troop playing games with you. You
come in here like you're twelve feet toll and try
to throw your weight around with it.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Isn't gonna work.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
As soon as you realize that, the better it's gonna
be for you. Now, how about it?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Who is he?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
You know?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
We'll come up with it. How much do you think
you'll do to get you out of here?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
What he can?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Oh, that's not gonna hold your stuff? You can call
it two ways, easy in yours? Now, what's it gonna be?
Speaker 5 (20:05):
How about it? What do you wanna know this day?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
What's his full name Samsel. Was he withy and all
the robbery?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
What about tonight?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Stayed on?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Why he set up all?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
You know, there's we figured we'd pull this one by ourself.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Where's he now? I don't know home?
Speaker 10 (20:19):
I guess where's that apartment out on the front.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
That's in Hollywood?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
What's the phone number?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Just give me the phone number, will you?
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Hollywood nine eight eight four four?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
How dialect? You just talk? Are you gonna use the gadget?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Joe?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah, we might as well. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I'll listen.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
That's Hollywood nine eight eight four four.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, And when he answers, you just talk right into
that thing.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Hello, Hello, Dave?
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Yeah, this huge Joss Yeah, Disney with you?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (21:31):
How'd it go?
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Pretty good?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
You coming home right away?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Yeah, I'll go.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Out and get some beer.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I should be back by the time you guys get in. Okay, Dave,
let's see you as soon.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
As you get home.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
We'll have a celebration.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Huh yeah, sure, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I'll give the girls a call. Sound all right to you?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
It's fine. Oh.
Speaker 11 (21:48):
One thing though, you know that Helen always got a
couple of crow girlfriends around.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
You better stop on the way home.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Uh what for?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I'll see if you can pick up a couple more guys.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
We ran David Santel's name and description through R and I,
and we found that he'd served the term at the
County jail for violation of the State in Narcotics Act.
There was no record on either Giles Shaffer or Sidney Tremler.
Reminer was taken to the main jail and Frank and I,
along with Jim Austin and Giles Shaffer, drove out to
Santel's apartment. It was a large place in the Hollywood area.
While Jim Austin stayed with a suspect, Frank and I
(22:27):
checked with the manager. He told us that Santal had
left a few minutes before we got to the place.
The four of us went inside. Well I know you
went over in, saidam you guys? Sure throw a muscle
or eye.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
You know we got a long way to catch you.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
All right, What am I supports to doing?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Dave comes back, Just sit there and keep your mind shut.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
You know it's gonna be pretty interesting. What's that the
expression on your face when the judge tends us loose.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Well, don't make book on that. Wice is Queen Joe.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
All right, you guys never do one on a stage
work and you always live high.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Don't you stay their shavor?
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Thinks you all said yeah walk?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Is there anything else you want to throw?
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Now?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I'll cause me more trouble. I'll make a hold on
you big enough to walk through.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
All right?
Speaker 7 (23:14):
All right, turn around, eys cleaner, put your hands down
if you don't need those, I'm not gonna give you
any trouble.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Let's make sure I told you not to put.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Those on me.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Try to muscles, cop.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I got a lawyer.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
It's gonna be on the carpet for this time.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
We get through with deal.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Have you walk in a beach so far off you'll
be lucky to get home on weekend?
Speaker 8 (23:31):
You know?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You punks make me sick to my stomach. You lean
on some old man or a woman. You're strong arm,
a service man. You got about as much guts as
an underfed worm.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I'm not just save it for the course.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Sit on your mouth.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I'll I'll let you know what I'm through. I'm gonna
tell you something. You remember what happened to you tonight?
You put it on the wire and get it around
to the rest of the two bit bums that work
the same filthy operation.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
You tell them every time they put the.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Arm in an old man, every time they slug a
service man, they're never gonna know it might be a cop.
And if it's not, there'll be four of us waiting
in the next doorway. So before you roll that next victim,
you think about that, will you?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
You got it all off your chest. Now, No, I
got one more thing for you.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
You're going to jail and we're going to drop every
book we got on you. There's a mirror in the
car and away and you look at it and smile.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
What for?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Be happy? You still got all those teeth.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
The story you have just heard is true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
On September fourteenth, trial was held in Department ninety eight
Superior Court at the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. Giles Herbert Schaffer, David Arthur Santel,
and Sidney Thomas Reremler were tried and convicted of robbery
(24:44):
in the first degree fourteen counts and received sentence as
prescribed by law. Robbery in the first degree is punishable
by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for knock less than
five years on each count. Because of the viciousness shown
by the suspects, their sentences were set to run consecutively.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Dragnet is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Service stomach.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
Stop jump
Speaker 8 (26:15):
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