November 1, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear is true.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Drag Men.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. You
get a call from the Georgia Street Hospital. A woman
(00:30):
has been brought in to receive emergency treatment. She says
she was kidnapped and robbed. Your job, investigator, drag Men,
the documented drama of an actual crime. While the next
thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
(00:51):
you will travel step by step on the side of
the law through an actual case. Transcribed from official police Vince,
from beginning to end, from crime him to punishment.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Dragnette is the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It was Wednesday, February fourth. It's cool in Los Angeles.
We were working the night Watch out of robbery detail.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
My partner is Frank Smith, the boss a chief.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
That he take his bad brown mon name is Friday.
We rough on our way out from the office and
it was eight thirty two when we got to Georgia
Street Hospital for treatment room.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Doctor Hall, Hi, Frank, be right with her?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Excuse me?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Sent me?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Doctor?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Alright, alright, doctor got the Austin woman. Yeah, how is she?
Bro It's about the.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Phase, not too serious. She can leave when you finish
with her.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Good will we go in now? Is sure?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Let me know when you throw it him?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
All right? Thanks don.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Miss Austin. Yes, we're police officers. It's Frank Smith.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
My name is Friday.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I do?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Doctor just told us that she could return home when
we finished questioning, And so we're trying to keep you too.
Speaker 8 (01:58):
Long, any cures.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
I don't really hurt much. I was more frightened than
anything else.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
This man would like tell us what happened, though.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
I I stopped at a signal at Washington Bullbod Normandy,
and suddenly the.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Car door opened and the.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Man jumped in the car. I was scared, and I WoT.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
A yell, which started to open well on the passenger side.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
He got right in the front seat beside me, alright.
He had a knife in his hand. He said not
to scream or he'd stabbed me. Put the knife right
against my ribs, right right here. Then then he said
to drive straight ahead. I did, but we went a
couple of blocks I guess it was.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
And then he said.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
To stop the car when I pulled off.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
The curb and another man got in the car in
the back seat.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
The one of a knife told me get in the
back seat, and when I did, he gave the knife
to the other man. Then he started to drive, and
the man in the back took my person in the
front seat and started going through it. I I don't
know why I did, but I glad for it. It
was in mistead. He slapped me real hard. He said
(03:01):
that was just a sample. I'd get some more up.
I didn't just sit quiet.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
He took the money.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I had my billfold and he grabbed my arm and
twisted it so we so. I had a watch on him,
and I hesitated when he told me to take it off,
and then he hit me again.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He took your watch too, did he?
Speaker 9 (03:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I m M my ring too?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Can he give us a Cereal number on the watch?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Huh? Yes, I have it written down home?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
What any description of the ring too?
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Alright?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Would you go on sleek?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Uh? Sure, I'd wind up as a picture and a
headline and tomorrow's paper one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
What do you mean that?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Well? He was driving like a maniac, was breaking all
kinds of laws.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Then I thought, well, maybe this might be a good
satan his driving like that.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
I mean, cause the police car started chasing us.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I could hear the siren and I thought I saw
the red lights flash, and I was hoping that catches.
But well, somehow we'd got away from him. This man
took so many chances, and all one of we didn't
lash up sooner.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Do you mean that you did have an accident later on?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
We don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Well, after he got away from the police car, this
man kept driving real crazy and dangerous. Finally we went
down to dead end street. He put on the brakes,
but it was too late and we smashed into a
wall of some kind. Yeah, when they got out of
the car and they started running, I started screaming. Well, anyhow,
(04:28):
some man.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
Came out of a building.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I I told him what had happened, and.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
He called the police. In the ambulance.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Here, I am.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
There was some shakey, but.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Thankful it wasn't any worse.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Can he give us a description of these two men?
Speaker 7 (04:45):
I'm not much. I'm afraid it makes me feel pretty
stupid too.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
What do you mean, man, Well, I'm I'm always doing
those observation tests and magazine that could get real high ratings.
Then when him up against the real thing, I failed.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Can you give us a general idea of their age,
their coloring, their height, the way they were dressed.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
I I I don't think they were too old, maybe
around twenty or so.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
They had dark hair.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
I can't tell you how total they were the only
time I saw them standing up was when they ran
away from the car. You see, as I remember, the
one that drove had on a sport colored tan color,
and the one in the back had on a brown
swage jacket, you know, the kind were the knit cups
in the collar and the waist. That's about all I
can remember.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm sorry, that's alright.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
We appreciate the fact you under a pretty bad stretch.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I really thought they'd kill me, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Remember if they were clean shaven?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
E you mean that they have mustaches?
Speaker 6 (05:44):
That's right, No, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Well you remember if either met any scars or marks
in their faces, anything distinguishing it might help us identify
them later.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Well, if they did, I didn't see any, But well,
it was one thing.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I don't know if it means anything.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Yeah, the when I was driving. He had a bandage
on his thumb. I could see that because he held
a steering wheel up near the top.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Of which hand the right one.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
It was all wrapped up, you know, all all around.
I just ad he's he'd kind. I'm sorry, I can't
get you more information. That didn't make me happier than
for you to catch them, especially the one that kept
hitting me on the back seat desperately.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Outstand.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I think he enjoyed a grin when he did it
after I made the mistake of grabbing for my purse.
I tried not to give him a reason to hit
me again. It didn't help. Just hit me while he
felt like it no.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Reason at all, really wouldn't have made ay difference what
you did then.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
How do you mean, mister Friday.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Nothing like that. Yeah, they don't need a reason.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We continued to question, went Austin, but you could add
nothing further than what it is in identifying the suspects.
She did give us a description of the ring. She
said she would call and give us the serial number
of her watch. She couldn't tell us anything about the
knife used to intimidate her, other than the fact that
I had a blade about six inches long. We asked
her to come down to the city Hall and check
the mug books. Doctor Hall released the victim and she
returned home.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
In the company of her brother. The radio unit of
the dancers, the call had gotten out a local broadcast
on the two suspects.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
They impounded the victim's car and it had been moved
to the official police garage. Nine thirty seven pm, Frank
and I drove over to Wall Street.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The crew from Layton Prince had just finished going over
the car.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I tell Frank, alight, I known't no way.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
You fellas draw this one.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna get us some help this time.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Yeah, I just finished. It doesn't look too good.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, got a couple of partial it's nothing real clean.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, what we got from the victim, it looks like
we got our work cut out for us on this.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
What do you mean, Joe?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Well, oh, she could give us in the way of
a description would fit any number of guys.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I see, well, we got something out of the back
seat that might be some used to you.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I got it right here and I had a little.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
There you are, Jim, what's this?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I had a lumin container has some corneal lenses in it?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What do you mean eyeglasses?
Speaker 8 (08:03):
You know, the kind of fit.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Right in the act? Oh? OR'd you find 'em in.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
The back seat, right on top of the cushion.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Well, it might be something. We'll have to check with
the Austin woman see if they belonged to her, anybody
in their family?
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Yeah? What is this case too?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Kidnapping? Robbery?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
How many suspects too?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
One woman in the car?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yeah, heard her it all?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I beat her up a little hum.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Really he man?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I sure wish I had.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
More for you fellas to go on. Yeah, oh, we don't.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Have much, but at least we know something.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
What's that you?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
When we reach these two, Yeah, they won't give us
any fight.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
We went back to the ops and called gwyn Alston.
She told us the corneal lenses found in her car
did not belong to her or to any member of
her immediate family. She also gave us the serial number
on her watch. We took the container over the crime
lamb Ray Pinker said, because of the facets on the lenses,
he thought it was a type made by the Stimpson Company.
The next morning we drove out.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
To their shop.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We talked to George Dudley.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
We showed them the lenses.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes, that's our lands. You can come quite easily when
you hold it up to the light.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
You see those little facets it.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Oh yeah, could you tell us who these were made for? Dubley?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
We can give you the name of the oppetition. Appreciate
it it could.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
I'll have to check our file. Shouldn't take too long, pis.
Ordinarily we'd have checked len's.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
Power, diameter, radius curvature. Yes, sir, this is special type lens.
That's how used the correct the condition of the eye.
I known as carrotter Komas. What's aster chronical corny?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
So oh, we don't make too.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Many of them.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Excuse me.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I'll get the name of the opptition.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
So I five.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Pretty good deal.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Huh yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I know a fellow who worsm says he used to
hate to get a haircut, but not anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Right, Yeah, well, these glasses on these eyes.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Now I can get his haircut and still.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Read the magazine.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So huh I found it for you.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
That's good.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
These were made for John L. Roberts.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
Just minister, like write that down, okay, go ahead, please,
John L. Roberts four three nine Camden Drive, Beverly.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Hills like Saki.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yes, sir, this is the optition that in the prescription.
H that's right, all right, fine, Thanks for your cooperation.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Dudley, not at all.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I always got a kick out of helping you, Funny.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
A lot of steps to.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Solve the primary quite a few, you know, sure enough.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I've giving you a little sympty. You have a lot
of steps, yes, sir. He helped us make the first one.
We drove out to Beverly Hills and we talked to
John L.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Roberts. He checked the prescription.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Number against his files and gave us the name and
address of a Robert Bryerton as the man he had
fitted with the corneil lenses. Frank and I went over
to the house on Bedford Street, but there was nobody home.
We found out from a neighbor that Bryanton worked for
a coin machine repair company on Peco Boulevard. We located
the concern and the manager showed us where we could
find the suspect. Ten thirteen am.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Robert Brydon Is your name? Robert Bryerton?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Yeah, police officers, Sorry, dev vacation, Joe Friday.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
That's right, Frank Smith, I'd like to ask you some questions.
What about you wear those glasses all the time?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Do I what the glasses.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You got on? Do you wear them for work? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Most of the time.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
What's just about glasses?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Do you ever wear any other kind?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yeah? Why?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
What kind?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
How many kinds are they?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Why don't you tell us?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
I don't get this? What am I supposed to have done?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Do you wear another kind of glasses? Is that what
you said? Yeah? What kind?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Your corny a lenz nights?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Where are they?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I don't know?
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Home?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I guess you're not sure, book offices.
Speaker 11 (11:27):
I don't know what you're actor.
Speaker 12 (11:28):
But if it's something that happened in the last twenty years,
you've got the wrong guy.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Well, if we haven't, you've got nothing to worry about,
have you.
Speaker 12 (11:33):
That's right, But mistaken identity can be embarrassing. I just
like to know what I'm supposed to have done.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Suppose you tell us about the other glasses? Huh?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Your cornial lens?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
What do you want to know about it?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Like we said before, we want to know where they are?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Like I said, home, you're sure? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
How many pair? Do you have? One? You wear glasses
all the time? Yeah? Can you see without them.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
You have, but not too good.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Where were you night before last? At home? How about
last night?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Same?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
All night? Right? Can you prove it?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
My wife will tell you that. You can call her
on the phone.
Speaker 12 (12:07):
She'll tell you that in was the house.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
All right, we'll go out there if you can call her.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Just as well.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
We like to see your other glasses too, all right.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
You mind telling me what this.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Is all about.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Investigating kidnapping and Robert.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
You think I had something to do with it?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
We're investigating.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Okay, If that's how it is, I got nothing to high.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You want to go right now?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
My jacket's right here in the locker.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Wait a minute, I'll get it.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
That's that.
Speaker 12 (12:35):
Yeah, the bonds way with the next trim.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
We took Robert Bryanton with us and we drove out
to his home.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
On the way, he continued to deny any.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Knowledge of the crime. Because the victim, Gwyn Austin, had
been unable to furnish us with much of a description
of the suspects, it was difficult to determine whether or
not Bryanton was one of the men. He had dark hair,
he was in his early twenties. The sway jackety war
checked out eleven h seven, Am.
Speaker 12 (13:03):
Annah, Annah, I guess you didn't hear.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
It's all right, we'll wait for now.
Speaker 12 (13:09):
I've been trying to make up my mind whether I
should be mad or not. I know you're only doing
what you have to, so I guess there's no need
to get overheated. But i'll say it again. You got
the wrong guy.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh, if we're wrong, we'll admit it. This.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Hope this doesn't put me in bad down at work.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
No need for it too, if you're innocent, I suppose.
Speaker 12 (13:24):
So you want to sit down.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I don't know just when my wife will get back.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
You don't mind. We'd like to see your other glasses now.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh, sure, i'll get them for you.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Well, I usually keep.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Them on the bedroom dresser when I'm not using them.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
All right, we'll go with you, all right.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Sure.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
I hope she.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Made the bed.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
She's a pretty good housekeeper, but sometimes she gets a
little sloppy about it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I swear they were right here on the dresser. Yeah,
I haven't had them too long. I switch off with
these that I'm wearing.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Did you wear mem yesterday?
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
But then they should still be on the dresser. I
don't know where they could be.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I mean, we can't help you.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
What do you mean? I'll back there? Anna?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
What are you doing wrong? Uh?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Honey? Days are police officers? This is my wife?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I do How you doing?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Man?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
What are they doing here?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
We like to talk to him?
Speaker 8 (14:08):
Was bridon about what? I don't worry, dear, But what's
it all about?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Like to step out in the other room? Please, it's
all right.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Did I don't understand it?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Lets you do an he tells where your.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Husband was Tuesday night?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
He was home with me. How about last night?
Speaker 8 (14:25):
He was here all evening?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
You sure?
Speaker 8 (14:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He came home from Morton State in all evening.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
M se.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
What is his police business? Do you think Robert had
something to do with Yes, we do.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
When did this happen last night?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I told you it was home all evening?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
That may be true. But these cornial lenses were found
in the victim's car.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
They belonged to Robert.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
That's what his optician told us.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, it's all wrong. All victim was beaten by a
man who wore a jacket brown sway with Nick trim.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
That's kind of your husband owns, you know.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
But he wasn't out about house I tell you, I'll
play rock to take him downtown.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
No, he didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I know what, Simon Bradon. These are your husband's lenses.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
They were found in the victor's car.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
But he was with me all evening.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That may be, but we're gonna have to hold him.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
No, he didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
It was Gordon Gordon.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I let him wear Robert's jacket last night.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
It was Gordon, my brother.
Speaker 11 (15:28):
You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police force election.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Missus Bryant went on to explain that she let her
younger brother take this sway Jack at the previous night.
She also told us that the boy was living with
them while he attended school. After questioning her further, we
learned that Gordon Headache had been in trouble with the
police before. We called the office and asked Jack Crowley
to check the name and description through our We also
asked that if he came up with a record, he'd
have Harlan Stall compare Headache's fingerprints with the.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Partials found in the victim's car.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Frying and I got the address of the school if
the boy was attending, and we drove over to see him.
We waited in the small office while the school authorities
located him.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Well, Miss Austin was right him.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I want you told us clean. Well she said she
couldn't give us a very accurate description. Yeah, she said
the ages might be around twenty orself. Not many high
school students.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Look twenty, not even seniors.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You know that's true. But according to what the Brytons
told us, this could be the boy.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Yeah that's try.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Come in running side close the dark you Gordon headache, Yeah,
police officers.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Headche what needed his standard attention?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I told you once to come.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
On he not come on over here.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Sure, but remember where you are.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
These ain't sound proof walls.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I don't play tough with.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Us, Son, Sit out here, he said.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
There's always to you guys what to do. Sit down,
stand up here. It's all the same. Get off a guy,
all right.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I just keep still.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
I'm sitting in school trying to learn something.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You got to come around and jerk me out of class.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
Don't you wait until General Assember at the.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Whole school in on it.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
I don't care what you do to a guys reputation.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
That's what you think, is it?
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
My listen, son, we never heard of you before today.
We were finding out fast the way we got it.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You've gone way out of your way to make your
own record, and you didn't do it in the classroom.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Or you've got a good reason to be here.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
If you're innocent, you won't have to worry about what
anyone in their school thinks.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
You know, sell mean, miss, we don't have to son
if you're clean. It's like we never met you. But
I'm gonna put it right on the line for you.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
The way this thing shapes up right now, we think
you already bought yourself another hunk of.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Trouble figures I made before I go in. That's why
you're wrong, kid. Nobody's gonna tag.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
You with a bum beef.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You give us the right answers, And like my partner said,
we never met you.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
All right, what do you want from me?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You can start by telling us what you did last night?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I went to a show where downtown?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
What time?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh, around seven?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
I guess it was with you, No, buddy, I went
by myself.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I was the name of the theater. Uh what'd you see?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
What pictures? Yes?
Speaker 8 (18:03):
I remember right off. One was a Westerner that was
about spies.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
You're all by yourself?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I said, so didn't I?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
What times you get out of the show?
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Around ten?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I guess what'd you do? Then went home? What kind
of clothes you have on last night?
Speaker 8 (18:16):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
What were you wearing? Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Jackets, boys usual stuff?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Kind of jacket swayed ball to you?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
No, my brother in law?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
How'd you get out to Washington, Normandy? The way Washington, Normandy?
Speaker 8 (18:32):
I told you I was downtown?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Say what is this? You tell us you were in
that car?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Weren't you when you beat the woman.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
In your crazy?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
What was with you?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I told you I was alone?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
What more do you want the name of the person
that was with you?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I don't know what you're.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Trying to tag me with, but you're not gonna make
it this time.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I told you I was at a show by myself.
How do you think you can prove I wasn't.
Speaker 12 (18:53):
We found the lenses you lost from the jacket pocket
by it gets waded all the time I was sitting
in this show last night.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
That's sick.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
In other words, you don't want to tell us about
Is that?
Speaker 8 (19:02):
It about the show?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
All right? Headache?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
You play it your way. It's going to take us
a little longer.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
That's all the same old story.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Don't make any difference what I say. You know I
got a record, so I'm guilty.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Don't make any difference either way.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
On the pigeon, No, you're wrong, not with us, head Ache.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Come on, I just didn't fall off to Christmas Tree.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
There's only one way we want you. Yeah, if you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
We took Gordon Headache to the City Hall for further questioning.
We called Gwen Alston asked her to come down and
see if you could identify the suspect.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Alan Stall said the suspect's fingerprints.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Matched the partials found in the car, but there weren't
enough points to build a case. On two forty seven pm,
Frank and I had the suspect brought to the squad room.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
Why don't you give up. I ain't gonna cop out
to something I didn't do.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
We don't expect you to.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
But we still want to know how a container with
your brother in law's lenses could be found in the
backseat of a victim's car. Now, they were in his jacket,
and you wore that jacket, isn't it right?
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Don't ask me.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I was at the show.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, so you said another thing.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
You guys better treat me pretty good while I'm in here.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Sure, I'm a kid, don't forget.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, that's the way it reads in the books.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
For my money, that's as far as it goes. I
told you once we can put you in the backseat
of that car. I get it.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Robbery Friday, right, send her down with you right away,
Thank you. I'm gonna take the business office off you
right there.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Okay, John, it was a hello, Sergeant Friday.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
I got down as soon as I could have.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
You got the man here, Well, we'd like.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You to tell us.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
We'll get down the hall here.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Uh, well, what do I have to do?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Just look into this room.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Tell me to see the man that beats you up.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Can I have to face him?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
No, We'll go around here. You can look through the door.
Come on, all right, all right here, now do you
see him?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Well? What about it?
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Yes, that's him there.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
We confronted Gordon Headache with the fact that he'd been
positively identified by.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
The person he had beaten and robbed.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He still refused to admit any knowledge of the crime.
We booked him on Section seven hundred SUBM robbery.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
A check was made of the fi cards and an
attempt to identify the person who had been with headache
the night before.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We called Newton University in seventy seven street divisions. When
we checked the central o' clirk went through.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
The files and found that the suspect had been stopped.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
At ninth in Main Streets at ten pm the previous night,
and I.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Went over to the first street station.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Is the FI card you want to touch and thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, here's what we're looking for.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yah, wasn't alone.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
A person with the name of John.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Burko was with him.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Officer make a card on him too.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Yeah, I got here.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
What about the other guy, John burkele b E. R
koage nineteen five or six hold avenue. Yeah, something else
in the back here that checks out? What's that notation?
The officer remained, Yeah. Burko's right thumb was bandies. We
(22:22):
went back to the office and ran the named John
Burko threw R and I. We found a package for
him that showed several arrests of juvenile and one as
an adult for suspicion of adw Gwen Austin was shown
his mugshot and she identified him as the other suspect.
We drove out to his address on Whole Street was
a boarding house. The owner admitted this.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
To his room.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
We waited four hours went by eight nineteen pm.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
All right, Burke, hold it right there, I have.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
The police officers.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Get your hands overhead Come on, move sure over the dark,
Come on, hands up on the dark. Trying to hold
it right there? All right, okay, he's clean.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Job. What's the pitch on? Turn around with your hands
on hand.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
You back all right? Taking ease with my thumb. I
think I got blood poison. Yeah, now you want to
tell me what this is about.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
A friend of yours sent us over to get you.
He says you always worked together on everything. It's kind
of lonesome about you.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Who are you talking about, heady?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
He sent you here, He copped out to you.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
All let's go. What did he say?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
You figured we're here?
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I think big talk about how you never cap out
to anything, never admit nothing, and that's the way it
is when you get mixed up with young squirts.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
All right, let's go, lousy punk.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Suppose you know how he beat up that moment?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, should have.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Heard him afterwards laughing about how he hit her.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Should have figured he cop out.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
At the gun Neil no guts, gotta beat up on women,
No guts at all.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
What's that We just talked to him.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, he said the same things about you.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
The story you have just heard is true.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
The names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 11 (24:05):
On June ninth, trial was held in Department ninety seven,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. A petition was filed on
Gordon Headig alleging one count of robbery and kidnapping. He
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was declared unfit as a juvenile and ordered to be
tried in Superior court. Gordon Jerome Headig, and John Carlton
Berkell were tried and convicted of robbery in the first
degree one count, and kidnapping for the purpose of robbery.
Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment for
a period of not less than five years. Kidnapping for
the purpose of robbery with bodily harm is punishable by
(24:49):
imprisonment and the state penitentiary for life without possibility of paroles.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
Dragnet The Story of Your Police Force in Action is
the presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 13 (25:16):
About about.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
About that.
Speaker 13 (26:14):
That's
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear is true.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Drag Men.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. You
get a call from the Georgia Street Hospital. A woman
(00:30):
has been brought in to receive emergency treatment. She says
she was kidnapped and robbed. Your job, investigator, drag Men,
the documented drama of an actual crime. While the next
thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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you will travel step by step on the side of
the law through an actual case. Transcribed from official police Vince,
from beginning to end, from crime him to punishment.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Dragnette is the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It was Wednesday, February fourth. It's cool in Los Angeles.
We were working the night Watch out of robbery detail.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
My partner is Frank Smith, the boss a chief.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
That he take his bad brown mon name is Friday.
We rough on our way out from the office and
it was eight thirty two when we got to Georgia
Street Hospital for treatment room.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Doctor Hall, Hi, Frank, be right with her?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Excuse me?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Sent me?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Doctor?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Alright, alright, doctor got the Austin woman. Yeah, how is she?
Bro It's about the.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Phase, not too serious. She can leave when you finish
with her.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Good will we go in now? Is sure?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Let me know when you throw it him?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
All right? Thanks don.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Miss Austin. Yes, we're police officers. It's Frank Smith.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
My name is Friday.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I do?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Doctor just told us that she could return home when
we finished questioning, And so we're trying to keep you too.
Speaker 8 (01:58):
Long, any cures.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
I don't really hurt much. I was more frightened than
anything else.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
This man would like tell us what happened, though.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
I I stopped at a signal at Washington Bullbod Normandy,
and suddenly the.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Car door opened and the.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Man jumped in the car. I was scared, and I WoT.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
A yell, which started to open well on the passenger side.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
He got right in the front seat beside me, alright.
He had a knife in his hand. He said not
to scream or he'd stabbed me. Put the knife right
against my ribs, right right here. Then then he said
to drive straight ahead. I did, but we went a
couple of blocks I guess it was.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
And then he said.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
To stop the car when I pulled off.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
The curb and another man got in the car in
the back seat.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
The one of a knife told me get in the
back seat, and when I did, he gave the knife
to the other man. Then he started to drive, and
the man in the back took my person in the
front seat and started going through it. I I don't
know why I did, but I glad for it. It
was in mistead. He slapped me real hard. He said
(03:01):
that was just a sample. I'd get some more up.
I didn't just sit quiet.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
He took the money.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I had my billfold and he grabbed my arm and
twisted it so we so. I had a watch on him,
and I hesitated when he told me to take it off,
and then he hit me again.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He took your watch too, did he?
Speaker 9 (03:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I m M my ring too?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Can he give us a Cereal number on the watch?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Huh? Yes, I have it written down home?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
What any description of the ring too?
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Alright?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Would you go on sleek?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Uh? Sure, I'd wind up as a picture and a
headline and tomorrow's paper one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
What do you mean that?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Well? He was driving like a maniac, was breaking all
kinds of laws.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Then I thought, well, maybe this might be a good
satan his driving like that.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
I mean, cause the police car started chasing us.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I could hear the siren and I thought I saw
the red lights flash, and I was hoping that catches.
But well, somehow we'd got away from him. This man
took so many chances, and all one of we didn't
lash up sooner.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Do you mean that you did have an accident later on?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
We don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
No.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Well, after he got away from the police car, this
man kept driving real crazy and dangerous. Finally we went
down to dead end street. He put on the brakes,
but it was too late and we smashed into a
wall of some kind. Yeah, when they got out of
the car and they started running, I started screaming. Well, anyhow,
(04:28):
some man.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
Came out of a building.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I I told him what had happened, and.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
He called the police. In the ambulance.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Here, I am.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
There was some shakey, but.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Thankful it wasn't any worse.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Can he give us a description of these two men?
Speaker 7 (04:45):
I'm not much. I'm afraid it makes me feel pretty
stupid too.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
What do you mean, man, Well, I'm I'm always doing
those observation tests and magazine that could get real high ratings.
Then when him up against the real thing, I failed.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Can you give us a general idea of their age,
their coloring, their height, the way they were dressed.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
I I I don't think they were too old, maybe
around twenty or so.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
They had dark hair.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
I can't tell you how total they were the only
time I saw them standing up was when they ran
away from the car. You see, as I remember, the
one that drove had on a sport colored tan color,
and the one in the back had on a brown
swage jacket, you know, the kind were the knit cups
in the collar and the waist. That's about all I
can remember.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm sorry, that's alright.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
We appreciate the fact you under a pretty bad stretch.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I really thought they'd kill me, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Remember if they were clean shaven?
Speaker 7 (05:41):
E you mean that they have mustaches?
Speaker 6 (05:44):
That's right, No, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Well you remember if either met any scars or marks
in their faces, anything distinguishing it might help us identify
them later.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Well, if they did, I didn't see any, But well,
it was one thing.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I don't know if it means anything.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Yeah, the when I was driving. He had a bandage
on his thumb. I could see that because he held
a steering wheel up near the top.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Of which hand the right one.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
It was all wrapped up, you know, all all around.
I just ad he's he'd kind. I'm sorry, I can't
get you more information. That didn't make me happier than
for you to catch them, especially the one that kept
hitting me on the back seat desperately.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Outstand.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I think he enjoyed a grin when he did it
after I made the mistake of grabbing for my purse.
I tried not to give him a reason to hit
me again. It didn't help. Just hit me while he
felt like it no.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Reason at all, really wouldn't have made ay difference what
you did then.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
How do you mean, mister Friday.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Nothing like that. Yeah, they don't need a reason.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We continued to question, went Austin, but you could add
nothing further than what it is in identifying the suspects.
She did give us a description of the ring. She
said she would call and give us the serial number
of her watch. She couldn't tell us anything about the
knife used to intimidate her, other than the fact that
I had a blade about six inches long. We asked
her to come down to the city Hall and check
the mug books. Doctor Hall released the victim and she
returned home.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
In the company of her brother. The radio unit of
the dancers, the call had gotten out a local broadcast
on the two suspects.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
They impounded the victim's car and it had been moved
to the official police garage. Nine thirty seven pm, Frank
and I drove over to Wall Street.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The crew from Layton Prince had just finished going over
the car.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I tell Frank, alight, I known't no way.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
You fellas draw this one.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna get us some help this time.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Yeah, I just finished. It doesn't look too good.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, got a couple of partial it's nothing real clean.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, what we got from the victim, it looks like
we got our work cut out for us on this.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
What do you mean, Joe?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Well, oh, she could give us in the way of
a description would fit any number of guys.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I see, well, we got something out of the back
seat that might be some used to you.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I got it right here and I had a little.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
There you are, Jim, what's this?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I had a lumin container has some corneal lenses in it?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What do you mean eyeglasses?
Speaker 8 (08:03):
You know, the kind of fit.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Right in the act? Oh? OR'd you find 'em in.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
The back seat, right on top of the cushion.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Well, it might be something. We'll have to check with
the Austin woman see if they belonged to her, anybody
in their family?
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Yeah? What is this case too?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Kidnapping? Robbery?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
How many suspects too?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
One woman in the car?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yeah, heard her it all?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I beat her up a little hum.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Really he man?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I sure wish I had.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
More for you fellas to go on. Yeah, oh, we don't.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Have much, but at least we know something.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
What's that you?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
When we reach these two, Yeah, they won't give us
any fight.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
We went back to the ops and called gwyn Alston.
She told us the corneal lenses found in her car
did not belong to her or to any member of
her immediate family. She also gave us the serial number
on her watch. We took the container over the crime
lamb Ray Pinker said, because of the facets on the lenses,
he thought it was a type made by the Stimpson Company.
The next morning we drove out.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
To their shop.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We talked to George Dudley.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
We showed them the lenses.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes, that's our lands. You can come quite easily when
you hold it up to the light.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
You see those little facets it.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Oh yeah, could you tell us who these were made for? Dubley?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
We can give you the name of the oppetition. Appreciate
it it could.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
I'll have to check our file. Shouldn't take too long, pis.
Ordinarily we'd have checked len's.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
Power, diameter, radius curvature. Yes, sir, this is special type lens.
That's how used the correct the condition of the eye.
I known as carrotter Komas. What's aster chronical corny?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
So oh, we don't make too.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Many of them.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Excuse me.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I'll get the name of the opptition.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
So I five.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Pretty good deal.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Huh yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I know a fellow who worsm says he used to
hate to get a haircut, but not anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Right, Yeah, well, these glasses on these eyes.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Now I can get his haircut and still.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Read the magazine.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So huh I found it for you.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
That's good.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
These were made for John L. Roberts.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
Just minister, like write that down, okay, go ahead, please,
John L. Roberts four three nine Camden Drive, Beverly.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Hills like Saki.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yes, sir, this is the optition that in the prescription.
H that's right, all right, fine, Thanks for your cooperation.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Dudley, not at all.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I always got a kick out of helping you, Funny.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
A lot of steps to.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Solve the primary quite a few, you know, sure enough.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I've giving you a little sympty. You have a lot
of steps, yes, sir. He helped us make the first one.
We drove out to Beverly Hills and we talked to
John L.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Roberts. He checked the prescription.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Number against his files and gave us the name and
address of a Robert Bryerton as the man he had
fitted with the corneil lenses. Frank and I went over
to the house on Bedford Street, but there was nobody home.
We found out from a neighbor that Bryanton worked for
a coin machine repair company on Peco Boulevard. We located
the concern and the manager showed us where we could
find the suspect. Ten thirteen am.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Robert Brydon Is your name? Robert Bryerton?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Yeah, police officers, Sorry, dev vacation, Joe Friday.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
That's right, Frank Smith, I'd like to ask you some questions.
What about you wear those glasses all the time?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Do I what the glasses.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You got on? Do you wear them for work? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Most of the time.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
What's just about glasses?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Do you ever wear any other kind?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yeah? Why?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
What kind?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
How many kinds are they?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Why don't you tell us?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
I don't get this? What am I supposed to have done?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Do you wear another kind of glasses? Is that what
you said? Yeah? What kind?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Your corny a lenz nights?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Where are they?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I don't know?
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Home?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I guess you're not sure, book offices.
Speaker 11 (11:27):
I don't know what you're actor.
Speaker 12 (11:28):
But if it's something that happened in the last twenty years,
you've got the wrong guy.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Well, if we haven't, you've got nothing to worry about,
have you.
Speaker 12 (11:33):
That's right, But mistaken identity can be embarrassing. I just
like to know what I'm supposed to have done.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Suppose you tell us about the other glasses? Huh?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Your cornial lens?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
What do you want to know about it?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Like we said before, we want to know where they are?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Like I said, home, you're sure? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
How many pair? Do you have? One? You wear glasses
all the time? Yeah? Can you see without them.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
You have, but not too good.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Where were you night before last? At home? How about
last night?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Same?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
All night? Right? Can you prove it?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
My wife will tell you that. You can call her
on the phone.
Speaker 12 (12:07):
She'll tell you that in was the house.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
All right, we'll go out there if you can call her.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Just as well.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
We like to see your other glasses too, all right.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
You mind telling me what this.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Is all about.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Investigating kidnapping and Robert.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
You think I had something to do with it?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
We're investigating.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Okay, If that's how it is, I got nothing to high.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You want to go right now?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
My jacket's right here in the locker.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Wait a minute, I'll get it.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
That's that.
Speaker 12 (12:35):
Yeah, the bonds way with the next trim.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
We took Robert Bryanton with us and we drove out
to his home.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
On the way, he continued to deny any.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Knowledge of the crime. Because the victim, Gwyn Austin, had
been unable to furnish us with much of a description
of the suspects, it was difficult to determine whether or
not Bryanton was one of the men. He had dark hair,
he was in his early twenties. The sway jackety war
checked out eleven h seven, Am.
Speaker 12 (13:03):
Annah, Annah, I guess you didn't hear.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
It's all right, we'll wait for now.
Speaker 12 (13:09):
I've been trying to make up my mind whether I
should be mad or not. I know you're only doing
what you have to, so I guess there's no need
to get overheated. But i'll say it again. You got
the wrong guy.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh, if we're wrong, we'll admit it. This.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Hope this doesn't put me in bad down at work.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
No need for it too, if you're innocent, I suppose.
Speaker 12 (13:24):
So you want to sit down.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I don't know just when my wife will get back.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
You don't mind. We'd like to see your other glasses now.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh, sure, i'll get them for you.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Well, I usually keep.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Them on the bedroom dresser when I'm not using them.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
All right, we'll go with you, all right.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Sure.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
I hope she.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Made the bed.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
She's a pretty good housekeeper, but sometimes she gets a
little sloppy about it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I swear they were right here on the dresser. Yeah,
I haven't had them too long. I switch off with
these that I'm wearing.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Did you wear mem yesterday?
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
But then they should still be on the dresser. I
don't know where they could be.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I mean, we can't help you.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
What do you mean? I'll back there? Anna?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
What are you doing wrong? Uh?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Honey? Days are police officers? This is my wife?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I do How you doing?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Man?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
What are they doing here?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
We like to talk to him?
Speaker 8 (14:08):
Was bridon about what? I don't worry, dear, But what's
it all about?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Like to step out in the other room? Please, it's
all right.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Did I don't understand it?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Lets you do an he tells where your.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Husband was Tuesday night?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
He was home with me. How about last night?
Speaker 8 (14:25):
He was here all evening?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
You sure?
Speaker 8 (14:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He came home from Morton State in all evening.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
M se.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
What is his police business? Do you think Robert had
something to do with Yes, we do.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
When did this happen last night?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I told you it was home all evening?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
That may be true. But these cornial lenses were found
in the victim's car.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
They belonged to Robert.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
That's what his optician told us.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, it's all wrong. All victim was beaten by a
man who wore a jacket brown sway with Nick trim.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
That's kind of your husband owns, you know.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
But he wasn't out about house I tell you, I'll
play rock to take him downtown.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
No, he didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I know what, Simon Bradon. These are your husband's lenses.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
They were found in the victor's car.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
But he was with me all evening.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That may be, but we're gonna have to hold him.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
No, he didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
It was Gordon Gordon.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I let him wear Robert's jacket last night.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
It was Gordon, my brother.
Speaker 11 (15:28):
You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police force election.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Missus Bryant went on to explain that she let her
younger brother take this sway Jack at the previous night.
She also told us that the boy was living with
them while he attended school. After questioning her further, we
learned that Gordon Headache had been in trouble with the
police before. We called the office and asked Jack Crowley
to check the name and description through our We also
asked that if he came up with a record, he'd
have Harlan Stall compare Headache's fingerprints with the.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Partials found in the victim's car.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Frying and I got the address of the school if
the boy was attending, and we drove over to see him.
We waited in the small office while the school authorities
located him.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Well, Miss Austin was right him.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I want you told us clean. Well she said she
couldn't give us a very accurate description. Yeah, she said
the ages might be around twenty orself. Not many high
school students.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Look twenty, not even seniors.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You know that's true. But according to what the Brytons
told us, this could be the boy.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Yeah that's try.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Come in running side close the dark you Gordon headache, Yeah,
police officers.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Headche what needed his standard attention?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I told you once to come.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
On he not come on over here.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Sure, but remember where you are.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
These ain't sound proof walls.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I don't play tough with.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Us, Son, Sit out here, he said.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
There's always to you guys what to do. Sit down,
stand up here. It's all the same. Get off a guy,
all right.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I just keep still.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
I'm sitting in school trying to learn something.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You got to come around and jerk me out of class.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
Don't you wait until General Assember at the.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Whole school in on it.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
I don't care what you do to a guys reputation.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
That's what you think, is it?
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
My listen, son, we never heard of you before today.
We were finding out fast the way we got it.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You've gone way out of your way to make your
own record, and you didn't do it in the classroom.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Or you've got a good reason to be here.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
If you're innocent, you won't have to worry about what
anyone in their school thinks.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
You know, sell mean, miss, we don't have to son
if you're clean. It's like we never met you. But
I'm gonna put it right on the line for you.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
The way this thing shapes up right now, we think
you already bought yourself another hunk of.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Trouble figures I made before I go in. That's why
you're wrong, kid. Nobody's gonna tag.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
You with a bum beef.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You give us the right answers, And like my partner said,
we never met you.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
All right, what do you want from me?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You can start by telling us what you did last night?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I went to a show where downtown?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
What time?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh, around seven?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
I guess it was with you, No, buddy, I went
by myself.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I was the name of the theater. Uh what'd you see?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
What pictures? Yes?
Speaker 8 (18:03):
I remember right off. One was a Westerner that was
about spies.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
You're all by yourself?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I said, so didn't I?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
What times you get out of the show?
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Around ten?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I guess what'd you do? Then went home? What kind
of clothes you have on last night?
Speaker 8 (18:16):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
What were you wearing? Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Jackets, boys usual stuff?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Kind of jacket swayed ball to you?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
No, my brother in law?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
How'd you get out to Washington, Normandy? The way Washington, Normandy?
Speaker 8 (18:32):
I told you I was downtown?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Say what is this? You tell us you were in
that car?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Weren't you when you beat the woman.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
In your crazy?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
What was with you?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I told you I was alone?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
What more do you want the name of the person
that was with you?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I don't know what you're.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Trying to tag me with, but you're not gonna make
it this time.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I told you I was at a show by myself.
How do you think you can prove I wasn't.
Speaker 12 (18:53):
We found the lenses you lost from the jacket pocket
by it gets waded all the time I was sitting
in this show last night.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
That's sick.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
In other words, you don't want to tell us about
Is that?
Speaker 8 (19:02):
It about the show?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
All right? Headache?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
You play it your way. It's going to take us
a little longer.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
That's all the same old story.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Don't make any difference what I say. You know I
got a record, so I'm guilty.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Don't make any difference either way.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
On the pigeon, No, you're wrong, not with us, head Ache.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Come on, I just didn't fall off to Christmas Tree.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
There's only one way we want you. Yeah, if you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
We took Gordon Headache to the City Hall for further questioning.
We called Gwen Alston asked her to come down and
see if you could identify the suspect.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Alan Stall said the suspect's fingerprints.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Matched the partials found in the car, but there weren't
enough points to build a case. On two forty seven pm,
Frank and I had the suspect brought to the squad room.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
Why don't you give up. I ain't gonna cop out
to something I didn't do.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
We don't expect you to.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
But we still want to know how a container with
your brother in law's lenses could be found in the
backseat of a victim's car. Now, they were in his jacket,
and you wore that jacket, isn't it right?
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Don't ask me.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I was at the show.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, so you said another thing.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
You guys better treat me pretty good while I'm in here.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Sure, I'm a kid, don't forget.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, that's the way it reads in the books.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
For my money, that's as far as it goes. I
told you once we can put you in the backseat
of that car. I get it.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Robbery Friday, right, send her down with you right away,
Thank you. I'm gonna take the business office off you
right there.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Okay, John, it was a hello, Sergeant Friday.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
I got down as soon as I could have.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
You got the man here, Well, we'd like.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You to tell us.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
We'll get down the hall here.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Uh, well, what do I have to do?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Just look into this room.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Tell me to see the man that beats you up.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Can I have to face him?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
No, We'll go around here. You can look through the door.
Come on, all right, all right here, now do you
see him?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Well? What about it?
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Yes, that's him there.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
We confronted Gordon Headache with the fact that he'd been
positively identified by.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
The person he had beaten and robbed.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He still refused to admit any knowledge of the crime.
We booked him on Section seven hundred SUBM robbery.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
A check was made of the fi cards and an
attempt to identify the person who had been with headache
the night before.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We called Newton University in seventy seven street divisions. When
we checked the central o' clirk went through.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
The files and found that the suspect had been stopped.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
At ninth in Main Streets at ten pm the previous night,
and I.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Went over to the first street station.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Is the FI card you want to touch and thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, here's what we're looking for.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yah, wasn't alone.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
A person with the name of John.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Burko was with him.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Officer make a card on him too.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Yeah, I got here.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
What about the other guy, John burkele b E. R
koage nineteen five or six hold avenue. Yeah, something else
in the back here that checks out? What's that notation?
The officer remained, Yeah. Burko's right thumb was bandies. We
(22:22):
went back to the office and ran the named John
Burko threw R and I. We found a package for
him that showed several arrests of juvenile and one as
an adult for suspicion of adw Gwen Austin was shown
his mugshot and she identified him as the other suspect.
We drove out to his address on Whole Street was
a boarding house. The owner admitted this.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
To his room.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
We waited four hours went by eight nineteen pm.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
All right, Burke, hold it right there, I have.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
The police officers.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Get your hands overhead Come on, move sure over the dark,
Come on, hands up on the dark. Trying to hold
it right there? All right, okay, he's clean.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Job. What's the pitch on? Turn around with your hands
on hand.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
You back all right? Taking ease with my thumb. I
think I got blood poison. Yeah, now you want to
tell me what this is about.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
A friend of yours sent us over to get you.
He says you always worked together on everything. It's kind
of lonesome about you.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Who are you talking about, heady?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
He sent you here, He copped out to you.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
All let's go. What did he say?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
You figured we're here?
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I think big talk about how you never cap out
to anything, never admit nothing, and that's the way it
is when you get mixed up with young squirts.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
All right, let's go, lousy punk.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Suppose you know how he beat up that moment?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, should have.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Heard him afterwards laughing about how he hit her.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Should have figured he cop out.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
At the gun Neil no guts, gotta beat up on women,
No guts at all.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
What's that We just talked to him.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, he said the same things about you.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
The story you have just heard is true.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
The names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 11 (24:05):
On June ninth, trial was held in Department ninety seven,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. A petition was filed on
Gordon Headig alleging one count of robbery and kidnapping. He
(24:26):
was declared unfit as a juvenile and ordered to be
tried in Superior court. Gordon Jerome Headig, and John Carlton
Berkell were tried and convicted of robbery in the first
degree one count, and kidnapping for the purpose of robbery.
Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment for
a period of not less than five years. Kidnapping for
the purpose of robbery with bodily harm is punishable by
(24:49):
imprisonment and the state penitentiary for life without possibility of paroles.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
Dragnet The Story of Your Police Force in Action is
the presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.
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About about.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
About that.
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