August 21, 2025 • 24 mins
https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! Dive into the captivating world of classic crime-solving with "Dragnet Radio," where each episode brings to life the thrilling police investigations from the original 1950s radio series. Join Sergeant Joe Friday and his partners as they navigate the mean streets of Los Angeles, unraveling complex cases with meticulous detail and unflinching determination. This podcast not only revisits the groundbreaking drama that set the standard for all future police procedurals but also explores the cultural impact and historical significance of one of the most influential shows of its time.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you are about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Drag Nets.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a burglary detail. A
man walks into a pawn shop and wants to sell
a ring. Indications are that the ring is stolen. Your
job find.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Out drag met the documented drama of an actual crime.
For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation of the Los
(00:53):
Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on
the side of the law through an actual case transcribed
from a police finds, from beginning to end, from crime
to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force
in action.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
She was Tuesday, June seventeenth. It was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working the day Watch.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Out of Burgery.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Bernard. When
he was Friday, we were assisting another team in checking
out pawn shops and it was nine twenty seven am
when we got to five fifty two South Main Street
Recipic Home Company.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Hi, Joe Rank or what is it business?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
A pleasure?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Little of both?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I checked the Bible. Can herb sure a thing. I'll
get it for you. Where's your partner? Put the day off?
You go and get some sunshine. You picked a good
day for it. Yeah. Hey, r Joe, thank you, Herbert.
These all the tickets for yesterday. Yeah, it was kind
of slow money. It's easy. Did you find anything? Oh? No, no,
(01:56):
what we were okay? Thanks herb Oh it's okay.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You know what, Jo?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Any time we canna.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Help you, fellows, Yeah, say Joe. While we're here, I'd
like to look at the guitar. What it's not for me?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
You know me better than that. The only piece I
know is it ain't gonna rain no more?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
What's wrong with how dry I am? It's funny? What
do you got in a good guitar?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Herd?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Well, come on down here. I'll show you some goodbyes.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
One of my neighbors asked me to check if I
had a chance.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Wants to buy his kid one. What do you got?
You say, how much you want to spend? No?
Speaker 7 (02:23):
But I don't guess he wants to lay out too much.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
How about that one hanging up there, the one with
a knobs on it? Oh, that's an electric what's with
a nod for volume?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
How much.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Oh, that one?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Lets you have for thirty dollars.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
I don't think you'll go that much. You got something cheaper.
The kid can make his own volume. That's nice looking, though,
don't you think, Joe?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, say, here's a good one in Spanish? That the
regular kid? That's right? How much is it? Twelve dollars? Oh?
That sounds more like his pig? Can I see it? Sure? Thig?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah, it isn't tuned, but go ahead, AND's trum it?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Uh huh?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
What should I be listening for?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Total?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Yeah, that's nice?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Oh, excuse me for this cheer? Go ahead, hurt something
I can help you with her? Maybe?
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I guess?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
How does it sound to you? Joe? Do you wanna
step to the back? I don't know. I'm with you.
What are we listening for? Here?
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Oh? What does he get?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
You know?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah? H His neighbor telling me is pretty lucky. How's that?
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Well?
Speaker 7 (03:21):
His kid's been watching those singing cowboys on TV, so
now he wants to be one with.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
A guitar the sky next door. He says he's glad
his kid hasn't.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Got all wrapped up in space shows where.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Says they couldn't afford a spaceship.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, I don't gets her. Too many second hand spaceships
for sale?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Are they.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Do? You only think he's trying to push your hot ring?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I turn it down. Let's go all right? Hey you hello,
hold it up?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
You mean me?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
That's right, police officers, what's the matter. Let's go over
to the doorway. Why do we hear? Well? Why I'm
I move my hands over your head? Huh?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Turn around?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Alright, he's clean. See your unification? Like what you got
a driver's license?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Get it out? Alright, yeah, take.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
It out of the wallet.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Sure, I give it a meet James Fedder, it's your
true name. Yeah you look at this address, twelve oh
one South Ratton Street.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yeah, right here you are.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
How are you doing in that shop?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Oh? Wait? And to sell a ring? Let's say it alright,
yeah the ring belong to you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I wanna way here, Franco check herb alright? Erb you
like miner in a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Sure, let's take a look here at the man who
tried to say he's the ring down there?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah alright, I look at this. It's just the ring. Yeah,
it's an Emerald, real good stove. Why'd you turn it down?
Speaker 9 (04:45):
And I thought there was something wrong, Like I said,
you know, well, he wanted to sell it for twenty dollars,
you know, rings worth close to a thousand.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
We took James Ftder to the officer question named Frank,
checked with R and I and found that he had
a previous record. He'd been picked up on suspicion of
burglary and it'd served one term per auto theft. The
ring was examined and found to be genuine. Better maintained
the ring belonged to him. After an hour of interrogation,
he began to change his story.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
All right, I didn't know what it was worth. You
mean the ring wasn't yours then?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Yeah, if I'd known it was worth that much, I
wouldn't have tried to sell it so cheap. But where'd
you get it? I found it where MacArthur Park? When
last night I go over there all the time.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Did you do anything about trying to find out who
lost the ring? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I checked in the papers and the lost and found
I guess I looked in all of them.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I didn't see any ads.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Though for a green ring.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Uh huh. Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I looked at the ring real close. It didn't seem
like a good Stone. So I decided maybe it wasn't
worth anything advertising.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
No, but it was worth trying to sell, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Well, like I said, I ain't working, a few bucks
would come in hand.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Sure you don't believe me, do you?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Well, you haven't given us much reason to have it.
You started out a line, why should we think different?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Now?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yeah, I guess I told you was mine.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I was afraid.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Maybe you think I stole it, But I told you
the truth. Now you have I can prove it. You
take me out there. You take me that park right now?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
What'll that prove?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I show you just why I picked it up.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Well, now if we wait until Sunday, the trip won't
be wasted, will it.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
We can listen to band concert too.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
M We continued to question James better, but we were
unable to change his story. He was booked in on
suspicion of violation of section four.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Fifty nine PC and held for investigation.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
We made a check of his residence, his friends, and
the places he was known to frequent. We could find
nothing to hold him on. He came up on the
overtime sheet and he was released.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
The ring was booked as found property, Friday, June twentieth.
Why a y'all alright you check the book? Yeah, nothing
in job letrif you thank you? Right, listen to this, Hm.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He did me a favor, and now I'm gonna do
you one. Go to the Greyhound bus depot rental locker
number one O three.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Yeah, that all.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Take a look at him here, Hm, tie Britton, no greeting,
no signature, Yeah, what do you think? Let's check it out.
Frank and I took the letter over to Lakening Prince
and then we drove over the sixth of Los Angeles
Street the Greyhound bus depot. We went to the office
(07:07):
of Ralph Thomas, the regional manager. We told him about
the letter, and in his company we went to check
on locker number one oh three.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Well, the locker's empty.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Now we'll have to see if anything's been removed from
it recently. I wanna come with me, gentlemen, We'll take
the elevator at the basement.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I find there much.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
Say, how are the lockers checked, mister Thomas at ten
cents pace for twenty four hours? All lockers had checked
at midtime, and I see when the time limits the
articles are removed and a new locks put on the locker.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I say, of course, as long as the fees paid,
we don't bother it. All the things removed the ticket
it and held for ninety days.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
I see, we hold 'em here at the depot for
thirty days and then remove him to a warehouse. You'd
be surprised at how fast they accumulated.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yes, here we are, Hm.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
You mean all these things here have been left in lockers.
People checked them, didn't come back for him.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
We get quite a variety of things, ain't sure do course,
not all of 'em are much venue. For instance, sometimes
a person will go out by a new shirt, change.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It in the station, check the old one, and forget
about it.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Look at that Joe got stuff yellow poodle dog out
there or over there half a radio? Hm, that's not
much good unless you know the guy with.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
The other half and flat iron? Sure a lot of stuff. Yeah,
what about locker one O three? Well, I see now.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
If there was anything taken from it should be right
over here.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Hey, there's a nice looking luggage. You don't see how
a guy would forget something like that?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Here we are.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
He feels like a small box that's from number one
O three. Uh, that's what the tickets say to see.
Uh huh. What about the date that this was removed?
Speaker 9 (08:47):
Well, let's see midnight June seventeenth, it was three days ago.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, okay, if we open it, not at all? Here
you are here? Give me the favorite count? Yeah, looks
like a Christmas card boxer? Yeah, take a look.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Funny was it a Sergeant Friday jewelry? We signed a
release form for the jewelry, and then we went back
to the office. The check of pawn shop records was
made and we found that all the pieces had been
reported stolen in a recent burglary. Layton Prince had called
to say no Prince were found. The owner, Missus Carlton Hendricks,
(09:26):
was notified and she came down to the office eleven
o seven am.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
Are you mister Pidey the gentleman that I talked to
on the phone.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yes, ma'am, it's my partner Frank's.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Oh how do you do, mister Smith?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
How do you do Smith?
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Oh that's a nice, uncomplicated name, if you don't mind
my saying so, mister Smith, I think you look like
a very confident officer.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
And you, mister pidy. You look well, as though you
might be more complicated.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
But very efficient.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Very nice of you.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
See that's one of my hobbies, reading characters from faces.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
My friends say that I must always right.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
Oh when you called, I.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Was so thrilled. You can understand.
Speaker 10 (09:59):
But it means to rec possessions that you're given up
for lost.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yes, ma'am. Would you like to check the pieces now?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Yes, you know I had to call off a bridge
party this afternoon. But then there are the others, and
this will be such an experience to tell them about.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yes, ma'am. Now if you just look at these pieces
and tell us that they're yours.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Oh all right, it's Friday, whenever you're ready.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yes, ma'am. Well, this is the box they were found
in here where.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
It's a Christmas card box?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
How poor love them?
Speaker 10 (10:21):
I mis remember that, you know.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Tell my friends?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yes, man, you do that, Frank, would you hand me
that newspaper prices?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Oh yeah, thank you, thank you. I'll just spread these
on the table here and you can see them better.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Oh, Maurice would just die if you solved this.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That's your husband.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Oh gracious no, I don't have one.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
I mean at present, I'm divorced, you see, but we're
still very good friends. I met Maurice the jeweler.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
That's the way mister Friday spread my jewels on the newspapers.
You see, when Maurice showed me these things, he had
them all displayed on a wonderful piece of velvet.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Huh. Then you recognize these pieces being yours, Miss Hendrix's.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Oh yes, well, there's my wedding ring and my gold
charm bracelet.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Have you looked that that clothes gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
No?
Speaker 10 (11:02):
I oh you should hit here now look now you
see all those things have a special meaning. My husband
gave them to me.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
The little stop and go light.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Oh, that was silly.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
I was just learning to drive.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah, it was a good thing.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
We hadn't sured.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
Oh in lit little wheelbarrow the first time we.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Went to the races.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
And I want so much funny he said, I'd need
this to carry it in.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
M That's well, I guess we can report that the
jewels have been identifying for the owner.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Huh uh, huh.
Speaker 10 (11:25):
You see little Trouble and mister Brady.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Yes, ma'am, it's got a number on it.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
But my husband didn't give me this he didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Oh no, no, with.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
All anything enough.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
But poor Carlton, that's if my husband got furious. I
even calling him with a magnifying glass one day, trying
to read the number the dear jealous men.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Uh huh is everything out of the boxings to bridy.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Yes, ma'am, it's all right there in the paper.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
Why well, I don't see my rings?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
You mean this one right here?
Speaker 8 (11:51):
No?
Speaker 10 (11:51):
No, no, no, that's not it.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Uh it was an emerald in a platinum setting.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, well, we checked the burglary report.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I don't remember seeing any listening for that, Miss Hendrick.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
Yeah, I know the time I made the report, I
haven't missed it. These things were stolen from my jewelry box.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
I thought the emerald was in the safety department BOM.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I see.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
But why didn't you make a report when you discovered
that it was gone?
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Oh well, it's happened at a bad time.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
I've made plans to go over to Reno for a vacation.
You know what a lovely place that is. Well, I
thought if the rest of the things were recovered, the
ring would be too.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Well. Nevertheless, you should have taken the time of reported man.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Yes, I know, but at the time, I was more
concerned with my plans for this trip. Had you everything
to Reno? Oh, oh, you should go sometime. It's really wonderful.
I'm going back this winter for the winter sports. You
gentlemen's keep.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Oh ma'am, you know, Miss Hendrix. How much was your
ring valued for?
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Well, I'm not quite sure, but I think Carton paid
something like a thousand dollars for it.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
M Well, three days ago we recovered an emerald ring
that was supposed to have been found. It may possibly
be yours.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Here, you see, nothing to worry about. I just knew
when I saw you too, man, that everything was going
to be all right.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
My friends are right.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
I can't make character.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
We'll I have to go over to the property department
to identify the ring.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Ass Hendrix, Oh good good.
Speaker 10 (12:59):
That would be another period. I'm gonna have to get
in touch with Carton.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Now.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
I'll need another.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Charm for my bracelets.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
And I know now just.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
What I want, something that symbolizes this occasion, and especially
you two offices, and you guess what it'll be.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I can't call you, Frank, No, John can't.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Two little gold bloodhounds.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
We took Miss Hendrix over to the property department in
the Central Jail. We signed out for the ring and
she identified it as being hers.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
All the jewelry was booked as evidence.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
We went to the District Attorney's office and got a
warrant for the arrest of James Peeder. We got out
a local and APV on the suspect. Frank and I
checked his residence, but we were told the suspect had
moved several days previously. The land lady he had no
forwarding address. She couldn't tell us about any visitors or
any malee received.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
She was unable to tell us if he drove a car.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
We rechecked his own associates and friends. Several leads were obtained,
but none of them turned up anything. Five days went
by Thursday, June twenty.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Fifth, Frory, Frank, right.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Know, have you been here long?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
About five minutes? I just couldn't hit the lights this morning.
What's new? Well, we got a call.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
From one of theft Yeah, they picked up a man
early this morning trying to steal a car. Somebody we want,
I think so, James Fetter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police forces selection.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Before Frank and I checked out of the office. We
contacted all of that detail and told them we wanted
to talk to Fedder. We drove over to the main jail. Well,
suspect was brought to the interview room.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
How as you guys were looking for It's right. I
couldn't commend, but I didn't think it was important.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
So you do it the hard way. Huh, this is
a bad beef. I guess you figure him all that way.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
No, not always. You'd take a chance you get caughtage bad,
but you ain't getting credit for something you didn't.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Do it soon.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah, what do you.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Wanna see me?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Bond?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
No, just as some of the boys said, you're asking for.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Me, thought maybe you'd like to tell us more about
where you found that ring? Was that again? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
That again?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
You got my story?
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Now what more do you want?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
We got an alibi.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
I know.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
We like the truth I found, Sure you did. I
don't know where I fit in what you're trying to build,
but I want no part of it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Is not that simple, all right? You tell him that
ring wasn't lost, it was stolen. You know it. You
figure I'm your pigeon? Is that it? Let's try it
for size.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Mm mm not this time. You can leave it with
somebody else.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Might take a little time, but we're gonna make you
on it now, not from where I sit.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
You'll leave a better story.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
And you got right now, Well not until you can
prove I didn't find it. We got the other stuff
you took. Ah, Come on, now, you're really rich.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You did it as a favor, but that doesn't put
us on your side.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Look, maybe you better fill me in.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
We got your letter you did. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Now tell me what I said.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
I'll do even better. Here you read it. It's the
letter I wrote. That that's right. Uh, I get it now.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
You found some stuff downt the Greyhound Deepot you called it.
But I'll give you something else. You know, I didn't
write that letter. I don't know who did, but it
wasn't me.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
The ring you had has been identified by the know.
A lot of other stuff we recovered. Look, I'll tell
you something.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
It's like I said, you take your chances, but I
ain't gonna front for this deal. Yeah, it looks like
someone was trying to nail me in, but I don't
want it. You said I did your favorite. I didn't,
but I'm gonna now, all right, why don't you. I
got that ring from a girl I know, what's her name,
Jill Mason?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
What I ran in to her the other night? I
told her I could use a couple of bucks. She's
owed me fifteen for a long time. She said she
didn't have any cash, but she gave me the ring.
I didn't know what it was worth, that's the truth.
I don't think she did either. She's carrying a pretty
fair paggage at the time. Wouldn't go ahead, and she
told me she got the ring from a boyfriend. That's
all I knew about her.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Why did you give us the story about the park?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Well, I figured maybe keep her out of trouble. Long
as you had the ring, I thought that was enough.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
And what's this girl mean to you? You mean, how
well do I know her? Yeah? I talked to her,
that's all.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
But the only reason I give this to you is
I don't want to pay somebody else's bill. She ever
done any big time, I don't know. I never had
any serious talks with her.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
One tells where she lived.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Don't understand that letter.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Maybe you still think I wrote it, but I didn't.
We only got your word for that. No, it doesn't
make sense. I'd send a letter if I'd taken the
stuff and wanted to keep it new.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Mind of him, why you made a lot of other mistakes.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
After further questioning the suspect, you give us a description
of Jill Mason in her address. Frank and I went
back to the office and checked her name through R
and I, but we found no previous record for anybody
answering her description.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
We drove over to nine four to three.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Wright Street and we found the apartment house Better had
told us about.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
MM.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Jill Mason's name was listed on a mail box near
the front entrance.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
We went up to the third floor, a partner three sixteen.
We rang the bell and the door was opened by
a woman of about thirty five years of age. Her
face showed signs of having recently been bruised. Yeah, what
is it you, Jill Mason?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
That's right, police officers like to talk to you.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
Oh well, I was just going to the beauty part.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I'm like, no, we'd appreciate it if you can wait,
ma'am alright, or if we come.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
In guess so, thank you, Hm.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You live alone here, yep?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Or if we look around and ihead right, yeah, look
what's this all about?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
I don't think I like it.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
That's slobed.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Whitey put you up to this three part Whitey the
bartender up the one stock that chies to make a
course over a couple of ten cent glasses.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I broke last night.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
We haven't talked to you, they told.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Kjoe and then surprised me if they had. I just
never telling me. I wasn't an old lady. You shouldn't
are gonna be sore for.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
A couple of days.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
You know a person named James Fetter what's her last name?
Petter at the d e er.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
You say he knew me?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Can you tell us that please? You know?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Say, uh, it's gonna take long to make a difference. Yeah,
I'd like to call and cancel my appointment.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
All right, thanks, hi Ellen, Joe.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Mason, gonna have to cancel my appointment.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Okay, I'll call you.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Yeah, I'm sorry, Annie, Yeah, uh, goodbye.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
No sense keeping her waiting.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
I didn't have to ask if you'd be here long,
and it wasn't about last night.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
I knew mon If I sit.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Down, go ahead, hm, I.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Could lie to you, but if you talk to Fetter,
it could only be wasted breath I beat if it
is more than one way?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Could you give Feder a ring?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
That's what kicked the whole business off.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Yeah, you see my face look too bad now, but
you should have seen it.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
A week ago.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
I had had a gun. I think I had shot
him Fetter, you mean no, he didn't have anything to
do with it. I mean Steve Remsen. Who's he guy
that gave me the ring? When I gave the Fetder
for the money I owed him. I was pretty stupid
about it, but that wasn't any reason for me to
take the beaten.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
When did this Remsen get the ring?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Did you get my letter so I got.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Even with him?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Did you know the ring was stolen when you gave
it to Feeder?
Speaker 8 (19:32):
No, Steve just gave it to me. He didn't say
anything about where he got it or how much it
was worth.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Nothing.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Just before I saw Feder, I'd had a fight with Steve, got.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
A little loaded.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Fedder asked me for the money I gave him the ring.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Remsen told you it was stolen?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Did he later?
Speaker 8 (19:46):
If you'd found out what I'd done? With that, he
got real sore, said a feeder tried to pall him
the ring, they'd find out about.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
The other stuff.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Uh huh, said he couldn't go back to the bus
station for it. Cops might pick him up.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
I see we were up here.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
He was drinking, got madder all the time, and finally
worked me over. And I got in touch with me
after you let him go. Told me what had happened.
I didn't let on that I knew about the ring,
but that's when I figured.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
How to get even with Steve. I mailed you the letter.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Know where Remsen is now?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
No, he'll probably call the day.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
I haven't seen him since he beat up on me,
but he'll call trying to make up. I told him
we were through.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
I can get him up here for you.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Do you know where he lives? Not?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
No, he's moved.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Can you give us the address?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Sure?
Speaker 8 (20:26):
But don't you believe me. I wouldn't lie to you,
not after what he'd done on me. M I wanna
get even with him, that's all. I don't know why
you don't buy it.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Well, maybe we will. Yeah, if he shows up.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
We called the office and another team of men was
sent out to check the address Jill Mason had given
us for Steve Remsen. We had the name checked through
R and I, but without result. Frank went out and
moved the car away from the building in case Remsen
might show up. He went back to the apartment and
waited for him to call. Ten hours went by. She
received several calls, but none of them from Remsen. Manual Pinia,
one of the detectives checking Remsen's address, called and said
(21:00):
that they'd finally moved away on June eighteenth. He said
they'd make a follow up investigation.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Eleven thirty pm. Well, if he doesn't call me, he
said he might, then.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
I know, but it's never at any particular time. I
just said he'd been calling. Maybe he won't. What happens,
then we'll wait and see.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Remember hold it a week in here now? No?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Well?
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Oh hi, uh, I don't know if I can make it. Well,
I know i'd like to. Well, I'll have to call you.
Uh huh sure, sure, honey, thanks for calling.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Bye.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Girlfriend wanted me to go bowl him to myrow money.
You heard what I told her. I guess it's better
not to try to plan anything. Huh, yeah, it's a
front door. Buzzer, someone's calling him down below. The door's
locked at ten.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Alright, answer it and hold the receiver so we can
hear you. Still don't trust him, that's not the point.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Oh, it's him.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Get him up here.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
What's that, Steve? Uh huh? I no, honey, I guess
I too. Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Come on now, Harry, honey there, I'll open the front
door for him.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
He'll be right up.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Frank you when I left this door.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yeah, you carry a gun, and I've got one.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
We'll set Yeah, Ahi a doll.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Police officers, get your hands out.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
What's going on over your head?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Hold it right there? Right? Yeah? What is is?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Jill?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Alright, and he's clean. Get your hands behind your back.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Come on, you heard him.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
He's a police officers. Honey boy, you alright?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Hold it right there, remember me and the cops. I
should have finished what I started with you.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
You tried.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
You wouldn't have got you lately that if you'd used
your head, we wouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
In this mess. Now. My fault at tiny with a
not heead like, oh ye right, not stop at both
of you.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Sure, it's just that you guys never come close if
it wasn't. But it's dumb broad. You tell us had
it all worked out, things were going just the way
I planed.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Alright, sure I'd be.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Sitting pretty except for her. Yeah, sure, you were dumb Broad.
The biggest mistakes, No, there was one other. What the
first time she talked to you? Why the story you
have just heard is true. The names were changed to
protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
On October fifth, trial was held in Department ninety eight,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. In a moment the results
of that trial, Steve Lynn Remsen was tried and convicted
(23:44):
on one count of burglary and the second degree and
received sentence as prescribed by law. Burglary in the second
degree is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not
more than one year in the county jail, or by
imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of not
less than one nor more than fifteen years. You have
(24:11):
just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files.
Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police
wh Parker, Los Angeles Police Department
Ladies and gentlemen. The story you are about to hear
is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Drag Nets.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a burglary detail. A
man walks into a pawn shop and wants to sell
a ring. Indications are that the ring is stolen. Your
job find.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Out drag met the documented drama of an actual crime.
For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation of the Los
(00:53):
Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on
the side of the law through an actual case transcribed
from a police finds, from beginning to end, from crime
to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force
in action.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
She was Tuesday, June seventeenth. It was warm in Los Angeles.
We were working the day Watch.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Out of Burgery.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Bernard. When
he was Friday, we were assisting another team in checking
out pawn shops and it was nine twenty seven am
when we got to five fifty two South Main Street
Recipic Home Company.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Hi, Joe Rank or what is it business?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
A pleasure?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Little of both?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I checked the Bible. Can herb sure a thing. I'll
get it for you. Where's your partner? Put the day off?
You go and get some sunshine. You picked a good
day for it. Yeah. Hey, r Joe, thank you, Herbert.
These all the tickets for yesterday. Yeah, it was kind
of slow money. It's easy. Did you find anything? Oh? No, no,
(01:56):
what we were okay? Thanks herb Oh it's okay.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You know what, Jo?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Any time we canna.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Help you, fellows, Yeah, say Joe. While we're here, I'd
like to look at the guitar. What it's not for me?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
You know me better than that. The only piece I
know is it ain't gonna rain no more?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
What's wrong with how dry I am? It's funny? What
do you got in a good guitar?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Herd?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Well, come on down here. I'll show you some goodbyes.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
One of my neighbors asked me to check if I
had a chance.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Wants to buy his kid one. What do you got?
You say, how much you want to spend? No?
Speaker 7 (02:23):
But I don't guess he wants to lay out too much.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
How about that one hanging up there, the one with
a knobs on it? Oh, that's an electric what's with
a nod for volume?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
How much.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Oh, that one?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Lets you have for thirty dollars.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
I don't think you'll go that much. You got something cheaper.
The kid can make his own volume. That's nice looking, though,
don't you think, Joe?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, say, here's a good one in Spanish? That the
regular kid? That's right? How much is it? Twelve dollars? Oh?
That sounds more like his pig? Can I see it? Sure? Thig?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah, it isn't tuned, but go ahead, AND's trum it?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Uh huh?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
What should I be listening for?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Total?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Yeah, that's nice?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Oh, excuse me for this cheer? Go ahead, hurt something
I can help you with her? Maybe?
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I guess?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
How does it sound to you? Joe? Do you wanna
step to the back? I don't know. I'm with you.
What are we listening for? Here?
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Oh? What does he get?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
You know?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah? H His neighbor telling me is pretty lucky. How's that?
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Well?
Speaker 7 (03:21):
His kid's been watching those singing cowboys on TV, so
now he wants to be one with.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
A guitar the sky next door. He says he's glad
his kid hasn't.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Got all wrapped up in space shows where.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Says they couldn't afford a spaceship.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, I don't gets her. Too many second hand spaceships
for sale?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Are they.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Do? You only think he's trying to push your hot ring?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I turn it down. Let's go all right? Hey you hello,
hold it up?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
You mean me?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
That's right, police officers, what's the matter. Let's go over
to the doorway. Why do we hear? Well? Why I'm
I move my hands over your head? Huh?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Turn around?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Alright, he's clean. See your unification? Like what you got
a driver's license?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Get it out? Alright, yeah, take.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
It out of the wallet.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Sure, I give it a meet James Fedder, it's your
true name. Yeah you look at this address, twelve oh
one South Ratton Street.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yeah, right here you are.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
How are you doing in that shop?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Oh? Wait? And to sell a ring? Let's say it alright,
yeah the ring belong to you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I wanna way here, Franco check herb alright? Erb you
like miner in a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Sure, let's take a look here at the man who
tried to say he's the ring down there?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah alright, I look at this. It's just the ring. Yeah,
it's an Emerald, real good stove. Why'd you turn it down?
Speaker 9 (04:45):
And I thought there was something wrong, Like I said,
you know, well, he wanted to sell it for twenty dollars,
you know, rings worth close to a thousand.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
We took James Ftder to the officer question named Frank,
checked with R and I and found that he had
a previous record. He'd been picked up on suspicion of
burglary and it'd served one term per auto theft. The
ring was examined and found to be genuine. Better maintained
the ring belonged to him. After an hour of interrogation,
he began to change his story.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
All right, I didn't know what it was worth. You
mean the ring wasn't yours then?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Yeah, if I'd known it was worth that much, I
wouldn't have tried to sell it so cheap. But where'd
you get it? I found it where MacArthur Park? When
last night I go over there all the time.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Did you do anything about trying to find out who
lost the ring? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I checked in the papers and the lost and found
I guess I looked in all of them.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I didn't see any ads.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Though for a green ring.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Uh huh. Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I looked at the ring real close. It didn't seem
like a good Stone. So I decided maybe it wasn't
worth anything advertising.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
No, but it was worth trying to sell, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Well, like I said, I ain't working, a few bucks
would come in hand.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Sure you don't believe me, do you?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Well, you haven't given us much reason to have it.
You started out a line, why should we think different?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Now?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yeah, I guess I told you was mine.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I was afraid.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Maybe you think I stole it, But I told you
the truth. Now you have I can prove it. You
take me out there. You take me that park right now?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
What'll that prove?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I show you just why I picked it up.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Well, now if we wait until Sunday, the trip won't
be wasted, will it.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
We can listen to band concert too.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
M We continued to question James better, but we were
unable to change his story. He was booked in on
suspicion of violation of section four.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Fifty nine PC and held for investigation.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
We made a check of his residence, his friends, and
the places he was known to frequent. We could find
nothing to hold him on. He came up on the
overtime sheet and he was released.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
The ring was booked as found property, Friday, June twentieth.
Why a y'all alright you check the book? Yeah, nothing
in job letrif you thank you? Right, listen to this, Hm.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He did me a favor, and now I'm gonna do
you one. Go to the Greyhound bus depot rental locker
number one O three.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Yeah, that all.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Take a look at him here, Hm, tie Britton, no greeting,
no signature, Yeah, what do you think? Let's check it out.
Frank and I took the letter over to Lakening Prince
and then we drove over the sixth of Los Angeles
Street the Greyhound bus depot. We went to the office
(07:07):
of Ralph Thomas, the regional manager. We told him about
the letter, and in his company we went to check
on locker number one oh three.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Well, the locker's empty.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Now we'll have to see if anything's been removed from
it recently. I wanna come with me, gentlemen, We'll take
the elevator at the basement.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I find there much.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
Say, how are the lockers checked, mister Thomas at ten
cents pace for twenty four hours? All lockers had checked
at midtime, and I see when the time limits the
articles are removed and a new locks put on the locker.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I say, of course, as long as the fees paid,
we don't bother it. All the things removed the ticket
it and held for ninety days.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
I see, we hold 'em here at the depot for
thirty days and then remove him to a warehouse. You'd
be surprised at how fast they accumulated.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yes, here we are, Hm.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
You mean all these things here have been left in lockers.
People checked them, didn't come back for him.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
We get quite a variety of things, ain't sure do course,
not all of 'em are much venue. For instance, sometimes
a person will go out by a new shirt, change.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It in the station, check the old one, and forget
about it.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Look at that Joe got stuff yellow poodle dog out
there or over there half a radio? Hm, that's not
much good unless you know the guy with.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
The other half and flat iron? Sure a lot of stuff. Yeah,
what about locker one O three? Well, I see now.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
If there was anything taken from it should be right
over here.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Hey, there's a nice looking luggage. You don't see how
a guy would forget something like that?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Here we are.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
He feels like a small box that's from number one
O three. Uh, that's what the tickets say to see.
Uh huh. What about the date that this was removed?
Speaker 9 (08:47):
Well, let's see midnight June seventeenth, it was three days ago.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, okay, if we open it, not at all? Here
you are here? Give me the favorite count? Yeah, looks
like a Christmas card boxer? Yeah, take a look.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Funny was it a Sergeant Friday jewelry? We signed a
release form for the jewelry, and then we went back
to the office. The check of pawn shop records was
made and we found that all the pieces had been
reported stolen in a recent burglary. Layton Prince had called
to say no Prince were found. The owner, Missus Carlton Hendricks,
(09:26):
was notified and she came down to the office eleven
o seven am.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
Are you mister Pidey the gentleman that I talked to
on the phone.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yes, ma'am, it's my partner Frank's.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Oh how do you do, mister Smith?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
How do you do Smith?
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Oh that's a nice, uncomplicated name, if you don't mind
my saying so, mister Smith, I think you look like
a very confident officer.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
And you, mister pidy. You look well, as though you
might be more complicated.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
But very efficient.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Very nice of you.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
See that's one of my hobbies, reading characters from faces.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
My friends say that I must always right.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
Oh when you called, I.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Was so thrilled. You can understand.
Speaker 10 (09:59):
But it means to rec possessions that you're given up
for lost.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yes, ma'am. Would you like to check the pieces now?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Yes, you know I had to call off a bridge
party this afternoon. But then there are the others, and
this will be such an experience to tell them about.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yes, ma'am. Now if you just look at these pieces
and tell us that they're yours.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Oh all right, it's Friday, whenever you're ready.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yes, ma'am. Well, this is the box they were found
in here where.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
It's a Christmas card box?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
How poor love them?
Speaker 10 (10:21):
I mis remember that, you know.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Tell my friends?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yes, man, you do that, Frank, would you hand me
that newspaper prices?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Oh yeah, thank you, thank you. I'll just spread these
on the table here and you can see them better.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Oh, Maurice would just die if you solved this.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That's your husband.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Oh gracious no, I don't have one.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
I mean at present, I'm divorced, you see, but we're
still very good friends. I met Maurice the jeweler.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
That's the way mister Friday spread my jewels on the newspapers.
You see, when Maurice showed me these things, he had
them all displayed on a wonderful piece of velvet.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Huh. Then you recognize these pieces being yours, Miss Hendrix's.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Oh yes, well, there's my wedding ring and my gold
charm bracelet.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Have you looked that that clothes gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
No?
Speaker 10 (11:02):
I oh you should hit here now look now you
see all those things have a special meaning. My husband
gave them to me.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
The little stop and go light.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Oh, that was silly.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
I was just learning to drive.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah, it was a good thing.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
We hadn't sured.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
Oh in lit little wheelbarrow the first time we.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Went to the races.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
And I want so much funny he said, I'd need
this to carry it in.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
M That's well, I guess we can report that the
jewels have been identifying for the owner.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Huh uh, huh.
Speaker 10 (11:25):
You see little Trouble and mister Brady.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Yes, ma'am, it's got a number on it.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
But my husband didn't give me this he didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Oh no, no, with.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
All anything enough.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
But poor Carlton, that's if my husband got furious. I
even calling him with a magnifying glass one day, trying
to read the number the dear jealous men.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Uh huh is everything out of the boxings to bridy.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Yes, ma'am, it's all right there in the paper.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
Why well, I don't see my rings?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
You mean this one right here?
Speaker 8 (11:51):
No?
Speaker 10 (11:51):
No, no, no, that's not it.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Uh it was an emerald in a platinum setting.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, well, we checked the burglary report.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I don't remember seeing any listening for that, Miss Hendrick.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
Yeah, I know the time I made the report, I
haven't missed it. These things were stolen from my jewelry box.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
I thought the emerald was in the safety department BOM.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I see.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
But why didn't you make a report when you discovered
that it was gone?
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Oh well, it's happened at a bad time.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
I've made plans to go over to Reno for a vacation.
You know what a lovely place that is. Well, I
thought if the rest of the things were recovered, the
ring would be too.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Well. Nevertheless, you should have taken the time of reported man.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Yes, I know, but at the time, I was more
concerned with my plans for this trip. Had you everything
to Reno? Oh, oh, you should go sometime. It's really wonderful.
I'm going back this winter for the winter sports. You
gentlemen's keep.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Oh ma'am, you know, Miss Hendrix. How much was your
ring valued for?
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Well, I'm not quite sure, but I think Carton paid
something like a thousand dollars for it.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
M Well, three days ago we recovered an emerald ring
that was supposed to have been found. It may possibly
be yours.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Here, you see, nothing to worry about. I just knew
when I saw you too, man, that everything was going
to be all right.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
My friends are right.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
I can't make character.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
We'll I have to go over to the property department
to identify the ring.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Ass Hendrix, Oh good good.
Speaker 10 (12:59):
That would be another period. I'm gonna have to get
in touch with Carton.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Now.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
I'll need another.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Charm for my bracelets.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
And I know now just.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
What I want, something that symbolizes this occasion, and especially
you two offices, and you guess what it'll be.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I can't call you, Frank, No, John can't.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Two little gold bloodhounds.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
We took Miss Hendrix over to the property department in
the Central Jail. We signed out for the ring and
she identified it as being hers.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
All the jewelry was booked as evidence.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
We went to the District Attorney's office and got a
warrant for the arrest of James Peeder. We got out
a local and APV on the suspect. Frank and I
checked his residence, but we were told the suspect had
moved several days previously. The land lady he had no
forwarding address. She couldn't tell us about any visitors or
any malee received.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
She was unable to tell us if he drove a car.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
We rechecked his own associates and friends. Several leads were obtained,
but none of them turned up anything. Five days went
by Thursday, June twenty.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Fifth, Frory, Frank, right.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Know, have you been here long?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
About five minutes? I just couldn't hit the lights this morning.
What's new? Well, we got a call.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
From one of theft Yeah, they picked up a man
early this morning trying to steal a car. Somebody we want,
I think so, James Fetter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
police forces selection.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Before Frank and I checked out of the office. We
contacted all of that detail and told them we wanted
to talk to Fedder. We drove over to the main jail. Well,
suspect was brought to the interview room.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
How as you guys were looking for It's right. I
couldn't commend, but I didn't think it was important.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
So you do it the hard way. Huh, this is
a bad beef. I guess you figure him all that way.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
No, not always. You'd take a chance you get caughtage bad,
but you ain't getting credit for something you didn't.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Do it soon.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah, what do you.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Wanna see me?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Bond?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
No, just as some of the boys said, you're asking for.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Me, thought maybe you'd like to tell us more about
where you found that ring? Was that again? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
That again?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
You got my story?
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Now what more do you want?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
We got an alibi.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
I know.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
We like the truth I found, Sure you did. I
don't know where I fit in what you're trying to build,
but I want no part of it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Is not that simple, all right? You tell him that
ring wasn't lost, it was stolen. You know it. You
figure I'm your pigeon? Is that it? Let's try it
for size.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Mm mm not this time. You can leave it with
somebody else.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Might take a little time, but we're gonna make you
on it now, not from where I sit.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
You'll leave a better story.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
And you got right now, Well not until you can
prove I didn't find it. We got the other stuff
you took. Ah, Come on, now, you're really rich.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You did it as a favor, but that doesn't put
us on your side.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Look, maybe you better fill me in.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
We got your letter you did. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Now tell me what I said.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
I'll do even better. Here you read it. It's the
letter I wrote. That that's right. Uh, I get it now.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
You found some stuff downt the Greyhound Deepot you called it.
But I'll give you something else. You know, I didn't
write that letter. I don't know who did, but it
wasn't me.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
The ring you had has been identified by the know.
A lot of other stuff we recovered. Look, I'll tell
you something.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
It's like I said, you take your chances, but I
ain't gonna front for this deal. Yeah, it looks like
someone was trying to nail me in, but I don't
want it. You said I did your favorite. I didn't,
but I'm gonna now, all right, why don't you. I
got that ring from a girl I know, what's her name,
Jill Mason?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
What I ran in to her the other night? I
told her I could use a couple of bucks. She's
owed me fifteen for a long time. She said she
didn't have any cash, but she gave me the ring.
I didn't know what it was worth, that's the truth.
I don't think she did either. She's carrying a pretty
fair paggage at the time. Wouldn't go ahead, and she
told me she got the ring from a boyfriend. That's
all I knew about her.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Why did you give us the story about the park?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Well, I figured maybe keep her out of trouble. Long
as you had the ring, I thought that was enough.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
And what's this girl mean to you? You mean, how
well do I know her? Yeah? I talked to her,
that's all.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
But the only reason I give this to you is
I don't want to pay somebody else's bill. She ever
done any big time, I don't know. I never had
any serious talks with her.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
One tells where she lived.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Don't understand that letter.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Maybe you still think I wrote it, but I didn't.
We only got your word for that. No, it doesn't
make sense. I'd send a letter if I'd taken the
stuff and wanted to keep it new.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Mind of him, why you made a lot of other mistakes.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
After further questioning the suspect, you give us a description
of Jill Mason in her address. Frank and I went
back to the office and checked her name through R
and I, but we found no previous record for anybody
answering her description.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
We drove over to nine four to three.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Wright Street and we found the apartment house Better had
told us about.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
MM.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Jill Mason's name was listed on a mail box near
the front entrance.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
We went up to the third floor, a partner three sixteen.
We rang the bell and the door was opened by
a woman of about thirty five years of age. Her
face showed signs of having recently been bruised. Yeah, what
is it you, Jill Mason?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
That's right, police officers like to talk to you.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
Oh well, I was just going to the beauty part.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I'm like, no, we'd appreciate it if you can wait,
ma'am alright, or if we come.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
In guess so, thank you, Hm.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You live alone here, yep?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Or if we look around and ihead right, yeah, look
what's this all about?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
I don't think I like it.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
That's slobed.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Whitey put you up to this three part Whitey the
bartender up the one stock that chies to make a
course over a couple of ten cent glasses.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I broke last night.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
We haven't talked to you, they told.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Kjoe and then surprised me if they had. I just
never telling me. I wasn't an old lady. You shouldn't
are gonna be sore for.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
A couple of days.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
You know a person named James Fetter what's her last name?
Petter at the d e er.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
You say he knew me?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Can you tell us that please? You know?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Say, uh, it's gonna take long to make a difference. Yeah,
I'd like to call and cancel my appointment.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
All right, thanks, hi Ellen, Joe.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Mason, gonna have to cancel my appointment.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Okay, I'll call you.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Yeah, I'm sorry, Annie, Yeah, uh, goodbye.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
No sense keeping her waiting.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
I didn't have to ask if you'd be here long,
and it wasn't about last night.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
I knew mon If I sit.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Down, go ahead, hm, I.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Could lie to you, but if you talk to Fetter,
it could only be wasted breath I beat if it
is more than one way?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Could you give Feder a ring?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
That's what kicked the whole business off.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Yeah, you see my face look too bad now, but
you should have seen it.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
A week ago.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
I had had a gun. I think I had shot
him Fetter, you mean no, he didn't have anything to
do with it. I mean Steve Remsen. Who's he guy
that gave me the ring? When I gave the Fetder
for the money I owed him. I was pretty stupid
about it, but that wasn't any reason for me to
take the beaten.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
When did this Remsen get the ring?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Did you get my letter so I got.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Even with him?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Did you know the ring was stolen when you gave
it to Feeder?
Speaker 8 (19:32):
No, Steve just gave it to me. He didn't say
anything about where he got it or how much it
was worth.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Nothing.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Just before I saw Feder, I'd had a fight with Steve, got.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
A little loaded.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Fedder asked me for the money I gave him the ring.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Remsen told you it was stolen?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Did he later?
Speaker 8 (19:46):
If you'd found out what I'd done? With that, he
got real sore, said a feeder tried to pall him
the ring, they'd find out about.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
The other stuff.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Uh huh, said he couldn't go back to the bus
station for it. Cops might pick him up.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
I see we were up here.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
He was drinking, got madder all the time, and finally
worked me over. And I got in touch with me
after you let him go. Told me what had happened.
I didn't let on that I knew about the ring,
but that's when I figured.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
How to get even with Steve. I mailed you the letter.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Know where Remsen is now?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
No, he'll probably call the day.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
I haven't seen him since he beat up on me,
but he'll call trying to make up. I told him
we were through.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
I can get him up here for you.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Do you know where he lives? Not?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
No, he's moved.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Can you give us the address?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Sure?
Speaker 8 (20:26):
But don't you believe me. I wouldn't lie to you,
not after what he'd done on me. M I wanna
get even with him, that's all. I don't know why
you don't buy it.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Well, maybe we will. Yeah, if he shows up.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
We called the office and another team of men was
sent out to check the address Jill Mason had given
us for Steve Remsen. We had the name checked through
R and I, but without result. Frank went out and
moved the car away from the building in case Remsen
might show up. He went back to the apartment and
waited for him to call. Ten hours went by. She
received several calls, but none of them from Remsen. Manual Pinia,
one of the detectives checking Remsen's address, called and said
(21:00):
that they'd finally moved away on June eighteenth. He said
they'd make a follow up investigation.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Eleven thirty pm. Well, if he doesn't call me, he
said he might, then.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
I know, but it's never at any particular time. I
just said he'd been calling. Maybe he won't. What happens,
then we'll wait and see.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Remember hold it a week in here now? No?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Well?
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Oh hi, uh, I don't know if I can make it. Well,
I know i'd like to. Well, I'll have to call you.
Uh huh sure, sure, honey, thanks for calling.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Bye.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Girlfriend wanted me to go bowl him to myrow money.
You heard what I told her. I guess it's better
not to try to plan anything. Huh, yeah, it's a
front door. Buzzer, someone's calling him down below. The door's
locked at ten.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Alright, answer it and hold the receiver so we can
hear you. Still don't trust him, that's not the point.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Oh, it's him.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Get him up here.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
What's that, Steve? Uh huh? I no, honey, I guess
I too. Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
Come on now, Harry, honey there, I'll open the front
door for him.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
He'll be right up.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Frank you when I left this door.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yeah, you carry a gun, and I've got one.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
We'll set Yeah, Ahi a doll.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Police officers, get your hands out.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
What's going on over your head?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Hold it right there? Right? Yeah? What is is?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Jill?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Alright, and he's clean. Get your hands behind your back.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Come on, you heard him.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
He's a police officers. Honey boy, you alright?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Hold it right there, remember me and the cops. I
should have finished what I started with you.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
You tried.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
You wouldn't have got you lately that if you'd used
your head, we wouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
In this mess. Now. My fault at tiny with a
not heead like, oh ye right, not stop at both
of you.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Sure, it's just that you guys never come close if
it wasn't. But it's dumb broad. You tell us had
it all worked out, things were going just the way
I planed.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Alright, sure I'd be.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Sitting pretty except for her. Yeah, sure, you were dumb Broad.
The biggest mistakes, No, there was one other. What the
first time she talked to you? Why the story you
have just heard is true. The names were changed to
protect the innocent.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
On October fifth, trial was held in Department ninety eight,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. In a moment the results
of that trial, Steve Lynn Remsen was tried and convicted
(23:44):
on one count of burglary and the second degree and
received sentence as prescribed by law. Burglary in the second
degree is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not
more than one year in the county jail, or by
imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of not
less than one nor more than fifteen years. You have
(24:11):
just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files.
Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police
wh Parker, Los Angeles Police Department
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Ruthie's Table 4
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.