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the law through an actual case transcribed from official police violence.
From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
the story of your police.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Force in action. It was Wednesday, November twenty sixth. It
was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day
watch out of robbery detail. My partner's Frank Smith, the
boss's chief Detective's that Brown. My name is Friday. I
was on my way back to the office. It was
two thirty four pm when I got to Room twenty
seven to eight robbery. Come on, Joe, everybody's in the
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Skipper's office, right, I take by R and I to
pick up these packages. Anything on them, No, not much.
We'll check them out. But they don't look like they're
going to any place. Yeah, go ahead, Joe, Frank you
want to come over here, Yes, sorry, we lated don't.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Worry about it. Let's get this thing on the own,
all right.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I want to settle down, let's get started. The word's
probably gotten to you about why we're here. It's on
this perse snatching thing. Friday and Smith have got things
gotten way out of hand. Keep hit again. Night before
last victims at the county hospital in a critical condition.
She was pistol whipped and it looks like she's got
a fractured scope, so me a matter of time before
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somebody's killed. That's the reason we're here to see that
it doesn't happen. We've got MIMEOGRAPHEDMO sheets. Why don't you
find what information we've got? Some of it's pretty broad,
but it's the best we've been able to come up with.
Friday and Smith have handled the thing to hear, so
I'll let them give you the details you want to
tell them. Yeah, all right, skipper. Well, first off, you'll
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notice on those MO sheets all of the crimes have
been listed in the order that they happened, also the
place and the time. There's also a description of the
clothing the suspect war and when we could get it,
a description of the suspect. Now you'll notice that in
most cases there's quite a difference there on the physical
description of the suspect. However, we've been able to put
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them all together and we've come up with a composite
drawing that should look something like the suspect. One thing
that's fairly constant is the description of the clothing worn
by the suspect. It's almost always dark. Were's a hat,
and he's been known to wear a top coat. The
hat and the coat are also dark material, clear or
any other money. All right, now, take a look over here.
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That's the wall map, and we pinpointed all the jobs
so you can get a little better picture of the
operations we all see there. Yeah, all right, first one
took place at seventy third Street, just off Broadway right here.
The rest of the pins along here show the jobs
that he made from there all the way up to Jefferson.
He's also worked avalon Boulevard, Central Avenue, any street where
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there's a street car or a bus line he's hit.
He works between the hours of five thirty and eleven
thirty PM. The approach is almost always the same, Frank,
You want to tell him about the victim, Yeah, the
victim will get off the street car usually or the
bus whatever it is, it starts to walk home. As
soon as the woman gets in the area that's not
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lighted well or that hasn't gotten much traffic, the guy
walks up behind her and drabs him. After that, he
tries to take a purse. If the victim offers any resistance, well,
he usually slugs him. Cause the fact that two of
the victims have seen a gun. He's hand I know
he's armed. So the gun's been described as revolvers.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
How about car, Joe, excuse me, suspect driveway car.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, well we've got to assume that. Yeah, he's been
seen a couple of times by people in the neighborhoods
as he ran through their yards. Pretty safe to figure
that he's got a car parks on the side street somewhere.
None of the victims have seen a car, however, but
we know he leaves the area immediately.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
No descriptions vehicle, no, No, We've.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Had a couple of calls, but they didn't check out. Now,
the plan here is to use policewomen as decoys and
try to bait him out into the open. That's the
reason the women officers are here.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Do you figure to work the main arterials? What was
that You figure to work the main arterials?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah? Yeah, there'll be two officers assigned to follow each
policewoman we've been able to obtain ten in all, that'll
mean that twenty officers will be assigned to them. The
rest of you will be in the area somewhere. Now,
one of the things to look for is any vehicle
which closely follows a street car or bus. How about
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any questions, Yes, how are we going to get our assignments? Well,
skipper here has a list on me. All of the
officers who are to work with a policewoman are noted.
Now the others are given the areas that they're supposed
to patrol. What about other calls coming in? I didn't
hear it.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
The other calls coming in? Who's going to handle them?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well, those officers not assigned to a policewoman. See, there'll
be other units from the outlying areas on the operation too.
They'll lend us a hand. But remember this, under no
circumstances are those officers working with the decoy. It's a
leaver that clearer, don't leave the policewoman.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well, don't we stick with the detail nless there's an
emergency call.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Well, look, if we run into any problems, what do
we call Joe.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, we'll be in the area in one kd Oh,
you can get touch with us, Harry, how about it? Well,
if we pick up a suspect, should we get in
touch with you? Well, you can use your own judgment
on that yard. If you think it's a routine pick up,
take him to robbery and you'll be processed there. Any
more questions, h Skipper? Anything else? We all know about
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the days off cancelation. Sorry, it has to hit now,
but that's why it's gotta be. No one will draw
any time to listening is cleaned up. When Burphy won't
do any good to have your wife call me, You're
still gonna have to work.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Operationals start tonight and go into the suspects in custody.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Have a happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Okay, so hey, wait a minute, a point of goal.
The worksheets on the board outside. You can check it
on the way out. You better do that, right, Is
anything else you need to carry it off? No, it's
all there, Skipper. I mean we use now's luck. No
reason for you to be different. Suspects had his share.
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Frank and I left the office and drove out to
the area of the operation. The plan was that the
police women would board the cars and buses and get
off at the points where previous sluggings had not taken place.
In the established demo of the suspect, it was noted
that he never hit on any street more than once.
At four pm that afternoon, all of the units were
in place in the plan started. During the night, several
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pickups were made, but no one was apprehended who resembled
the suspect. Those people who were detained were processed and
they were either booked or release. The following day, Thursday,
November twenty seven, Frank and I checked the reports filed
by officers in the field. At three pm, we stopped
at a small restaurant. We had to play a sliced turkey,
cold gravy and some lumpy maxed potatoes. We wished each
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other a happy Thanksgiving. We went back to Unit one
CATO and cruised the streets marked for surveillance. Another night
went by without the suspect hitting. Saturday, November twenty ninth,
eleven thirty pm, Frank and I were driving down San
Pedro Street at Vernon Avenue. Looks like another one shot, huh,
And it's beginning to shape up that way. And then
I think of the suspect knows about the operation. I
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mean where we're working. You got as much as I have.
Doesn't seem likely. You got a cigarette? I'm out. Yeah,
there you go. Thanks, I'm going to give you a life.
Six sixty.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Drafted accidents.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I was sure hacked about Thanksgiving. Well, I figured now
that didn't make me too mad. She had the in
laws over. Yeah, her brother. One thing about that guy,
you eat more than any ten people.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I've had to sit there and just look at him
and everybody's through and he's still going strong. Yeah, nephew
was over too. You know Little Sam. You've heard me
talk about Little Sam. No, I don't think so. Yeah,
a little Sam. Kid's a monster, only ten years old.
He's a real monster. Hey's sister. Lets the kid do
whatever comes into his mind. They say it isn't good
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to repress him. What they say, it isn't good to
repress him. That's what they you know, repress him. Yeah,
i'd like to take him over. I'd repress him. Yeah,
I guess you do that, real good one.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
You one K eighty one Kato beat Unit one K
eight seven at the three hundred block East fifty first Street.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Go to.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
One kto Roger km eight three sixty seven. Let's go. Yeah,
that's when the units assigned to a decoy. It's a
good one. Well, there's one way to find out, isn't
they Yeah, ask him. South Park is located at the
corner of San Pedro on fifty first Street. One of
the police women had gotten off a street car at
the corner of Main Street and fifty first. She'd walked
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east and then she passed the park. A man had approach,
locked her progress and demanded money. The man was pretty drunken.
When the officers following the woman arrived at the scene,
he was struggling with a police woman. He was taken
into custody and we were called. We took the man
to the room twenty seven am. From there to the
interrogation room. Physically he mastered the description of the suspect
as we'd gotten from the victims twelve fifteen am. That's
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the veriest thing I everard of. Pulling me in here,
I guess, all right, what's your name? I don't think
I'm good attend. Let me see your wallet. Nothing in there,
no juice, Empty your pockets on the table.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Did you have a copy of the LA food.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Come on, mister, empty your pockets with you? All right?
Come on everything. How about your wallet, hey, young man,
no Jews. Take the money out. I told you there's
no Jews, no money in the wallet. No, all right,
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how about it. It's your true name, Victor Nathaniel Roberts.
You think I use a I don't be smart. Where
do you live? Oh? I have no path? While you've
been sleeping? Well, I can you got a job? What
do you work?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You ever hold a job? Nope, never had a job.
I can't remember. What What were you doing on fifty
first Street tonight? Oh? Just looking around at eleven thirty
at night. The son hurts my eyes. All right. I
was just walking along the street with this young woman.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Stop me.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
She stopped you. She tried to pick me up. That
girl was a police woman. You're telling me what were
you doing out there? I'm never going there again. Ever
been arrested? I am now before. I'll tell you the truth.
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Yeah you do that. I have where?
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
All around? What we arrested for? Bag? Have you done
time in California? Come on, have you done time in California?
Have you yes? I'll check the record. John A Right,
is he gonna look me up? What's that I say?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Is he gonna look me up?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
He's gonna check your record again? Mm hmm.
Speaker 10 (12:43):
I'ms you mind a little constructive criticism and you listen, mister,
your funny times running out here. You must feel a
little sweeky about this whole thing, don't.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You what's that? I mean, this whole business about the woman?
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Don't you think that's going too far?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
How long you've been in Los Angeles? Ooh, sometime this year?
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Checked your about a year? What I said, I checked you.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
About a year?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
A year ago? You mean, yeah, yeah, about a year ago?
What if you haven't got a job? How he managed
to live? How we got a little drink?
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Have you? So?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Now see a minute? Time? She sit still? What do
you got checked? R? And I got the word on Roberts?
You know what about him? It's been tagged sixty seven
times for drunk fall in La totals ninety two. Doesn't
look like he's our man, though he's been Camarillo over
the last three months. We put in a call to
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the superintendent at the State hospital up at Camarillo. He
told us that Victor Roberts had only been released ten
days before. He'd spent three months undergoing treatment for alcoholism.
The suspect we were looking for had been working for
the past two months. Roberts was booked in at the
main jail and the charge of violation of Section forty
one to twenty seven ALAMC. During the time we'd been
working on the case, all known per snatchers had been
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picked up and interrogated runs but the Stats office had
been made and the names they gave us had been
checked out. Locals and apbs were gotten out carrying the
description in the MO of the suspect. The leads that
came in were followed up without result. Informants were questioned
and George Bretton up at CII and Sacramento furnished this
a list of possibles. All in all, over one hundred
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people had been questioned in the course of the investigation.
Several other cases were cleared, but our prime suspect was
still free. Meantime, the operation continued. Each night at four
thirty pm, ten policewomen would board street cars and buses
in the area. Ten police cars carrying twenty officers would
follow them. In the immediate vicinity. Another forty men were
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patrolling the streets and alleys looking for the thief. As
a result of the newspaper stories on the string of crimes,
calls were coming into the complaint board at such a
rate that they were our normal facilities. Women refused to
walk the streets alone after dar Apparently the thief could
come and go as he pleased, and the next two
days he hit three times, but in areas that were
not covered. He began to hit the places he hadn't
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worked before. He seemed to know where we were and
that we were using decoys. The search went on Tuesday,
December second, we got a call from the manager of
a cheap hotel in the skid Row area. We drove
out to see her.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Right down this way. He's not in.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, just what is it you wanted to succee?
Speaker 9 (15:29):
You wait and you get a good luck.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
You'll know here we are.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
I'll get the door. You just come on in. You
that's right over here.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I was cleaning up this morning, my girls said, had
to do it myself, and just cleaning up, and I
found him over here in the closet.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Yeh, up on the shelf.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Can you see him up? There way backs, get a chair.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well, I was just straightened enough and I saw him,
and I thought to myself, I ought to call the police.
Get him right out here. That's what I thought to myself.
I always feel it's the duty of every citizen to
cooperate with the police.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yes, ma'am, watch flashlight flight huh flashlight? Oh yeah here you.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Well, do you see them up there on the shelf, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Ma'am rank, Yeah, something's done.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
Then pick them up with well, you'll find out anyway.
You don't have to worry about fingerprints.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I guess I shouldn't have done it, but when I
found him, I picked them up, but I put them
right back right where I found them.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Okay, what you got?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Two women's purses?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Two?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Look inside of them, all kinds of cards and things.
No money, but all kinds of other stuff.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
You just don't.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
You mean registered? Yeah, well, he gave his name as
Jerry Kilgallan.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
You ask me, though, I.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
Think it's phony.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You take the room alone to the Oh.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
Absolutely, this is a hotel for man. Don't allow no
women in.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Is it possible when somebody else left these persons up there?
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Hardly? These rooms are cleaned every day, clean thoroughly. I
don't miss anything that.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
The identification of him, Joe, I don't recognize the names.
We'll have to check him. Take a look at this though,
no here on the lining of the purse. Get it
to the labba.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
What is it?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
You find something?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We're not sure?
Speaker 9 (17:13):
But what is it?
Speaker 8 (17:13):
I called you.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
I got a right to know.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It looks like bloodstains.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
You are listening to drag Net the authentic story of
your police force election.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We got a complete description of Jerry kill Gallant, and
Frank called it into R and I. We found no
record on him under that name. The purse was sent
to Lieutenant Lee Jones at the Prime Lab, and after
running a precipitate test, he told us that the stains
were human blood. The stakeout was placed on the hotel
and that night, Killed Gallan was taken into custody. Under interrogation,
he admitted taking the purses from two women in a
department store in downtown Los Angeles. He went on to
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explain that he'd just gotten into town and that he
was broken, hungry. He gave us the date and the
times of the thefts, and when we called the victims
they were able to give us positive identifications. He told
us that when he'd taken the second purse, he'd cut
his hand on the clasp, and of the bloodstains he
found were his own. He was booked in at the
main jail and the charge of suspicion of robbery. That night,
Frank and I took up our place in the Dragonet operation.
Nothing happened. The next night went by without activity. On
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Thursday night, at approximately eight forty five, a woman was
slugged and robbed after she left the bus on seventy
first Street, just off of a month. All cars in
the operation converged on the area and a block five
block search was made. Additional officers were called in to
aid in the hunt. Every alley, every street, and every
backyard was gone over thoroughly. Eleven fifteen pm, while the
search continued, Frank and I drove down to Georgia Street
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Receiving Hospital to talk to the latest victim.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
I was on my way home and thinking like this
had happened. How's just walking home?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Can you give us a description of the man?
Speaker 8 (19:01):
I don't know. It's dark, I was just walking home
and it happened.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Did you see the man at all? Yes?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
It was dark.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Was he a tall man?
Speaker 8 (19:12):
I guess so. I guess he was tall. I talked
to the other man.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Is't not enough?
Speaker 8 (19:17):
I talked to them.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, we're trying to get all the information we can.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
I don't remember good.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
He had hurt?
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Isn't it something that can do to make my head
stop hurting?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Did you see the man's face? Did you get a
look at it?
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Yeah? Yes, I did. I saw his face.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Can you describe it for us? Can you tell us
what he looked like?
Speaker 8 (19:37):
I don't know. I don't feel good.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
This is pretty important man.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
And he had a real white face, real white.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
What about these eyes? Can you tell us what color
they were?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Ooh?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Water?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
How about his hair?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
It looked brown. I'm not sure. I think it was brown.
He had a head on. Uh. I couldn't tell good.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Just a few more questions now, yeah, can you tell
what color his hat was?
Speaker 8 (20:08):
I don't know. We had hurts. Can't you do something?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We'll send for the doctor again. It might be able
to give you another sedien hurts something else, ma'am. Was
the man clean shaven? Uh?
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I said? Did he have a mustache?
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Oh? No, no mustache?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You wear glasses? No? Is there anything else you can
tell us about his appearance? No?
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Nothing. He had a gun. I know that he had
a gun. That's what he hit me with. Gun. He
hit me when I wouldn't give him the purse. First
he asked me for the money. Then when he get
out of my way, he said he'd killed me, and
he hit me on the head, hit me as hard
as he could.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Alright, ma'am. Now, is there anything else you can tell
us It might make it easier to identify him.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
No nothing. I told you everything. I know nothing else.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
All right. I'm sorry to have bothered you. Thank you.
We'll be talking with you again when you're feeling better.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Yeah, you'll come back then. I try to remember.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Then, Thank you very much for your help.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
It's all right. You asked the doctor to come back,
won't you. Yes' huh, officer. Something else might help a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
What's that man?
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Before he hit me? I remember there was a fight.
I didn't want even take my purse. There was a fight.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
I tried to stop him and I scratched him, scratched
him hard. See broke a fingerne when I did it.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
He'll help, ouner, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
It should last thing. I remember before he hit me.
He was bleeding a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
What did you scratch him, ma'am? Do you remember on
the hand?
Speaker 8 (21:50):
No? No, what right across the face? Mum, left side.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
We got to a phone and we had a broadcast
put out carrying the additional information on the man and
the fact that he had been badly scratched. Officers in
the immediate area of the attacks out of the check
of all the drug stores that were open in the
hope that the thief had stopped the medication. After getting
a call out, Frank and I left the hospital and
started back to search the area. Eleven forty six pm.
You talked to doctor about the victim. Yeah, she's in
pretty bad shape. We're going to move he to General.
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Sebastian says, I might have to operate. He glad to
get this guy, you know.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Attention All units, Attention.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
All units want to turn it up job.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
All units on frequency seven, please stand by. All units
in the vicinity of the one hundred block on West
twenty ninth Street.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Officer needs help. Special attention one k at oh code three.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Lean on it right.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
All units in the vicinity of the one hundred block
on West twenty ninth Street. Officer needs help. Special attention
one k ATO code tree frequency seven thayer.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I'll call him one k eto to control one. Acknowledging
the call to the one hundred block on West twenty
ninth Street, m A three sixty seven. Took us two
and a half minutes to get to the location. At
the curb on the side of the street, we saw
a parked police unit. Standing next to it was a
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woman officer. We pulled up next to the unit and
talked to her. She told us that our suspect had
tried to attack her and on the arrival of the
two officers, had fled the scene. At that moment, Officer
Sleuter and Murphy were in pursuit. While Frank got additional
information from the police woman. I went back to the
car and got on the radio. One K eight oh
to control one, one k oh to control one.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Control one to one K eight oh, Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Suspect is now on foot being pursued by two plane
clothes officers through backyards in the area of West one
hundred block between twenty ninth Street and thirtieth Street. Despatch
units to block intersections of Broadway and twenty ninth Street
Broadway in thirtieth Broadway in twenty eighth Street, Broadway in
twenty seven intersections of Maine and twenty eight Maine and
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twenty ninth Maine and thirtieth streets, Maine and twenty seventh Street.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Control one A O. Roger am A three sixth seven.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I got the story, said, yeah, let's go. Police woman
says there, headed west to the back of the house.
Down there. All right, school attention.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
All units, attention, all units.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
One K eight police woman, right, take it.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Easy west twenty ninth Street, now being pursued.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Got alive on this time.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Let's hope we can keep him in the backyard between
one hundred block twenty ninth Street and one hundred block
thirtieth one.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Play eight two.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Wife, Flight's over there, John, Let's take a look. You
see who it is? No, stuck back behind the garage.
Come on, swooter, what do you got? He's back there.
Murphy's with him, you guys, all right, yeah, all right,
let's take a look. You want to call him ambulance? Frank, right,
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how is he? You better stop? Frank, Yeah, tell him
to cancel that ambulance. He opened up first, Jill murf
and I gave him every chance. Now that morning gave
those women. The story you have just heard is true.
The names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
On December eighth, an inquest was held in the offices
of the Corner in and for the County of Los
Angeles in a moment the results of that inquest. At
the inquest, the coroner's jury returned a verdict that the suspect,
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Kenneth Neil Stewart, died as a result of gunshot wounds
inflicted by police officers in the line of duty. The
death was listed as justifiable homicide. You have just heard
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next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
you will travel step by step on the side of
the law through an actual case transcribed from official police violence.
From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
the story of your police.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Force in action. It was Wednesday, November twenty sixth. It
was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day
watch out of robbery detail. My partner's Frank Smith, the
boss's chief Detective's that Brown. My name is Friday. I
was on my way back to the office. It was
two thirty four pm when I got to Room twenty
seven to eight robbery. Come on, Joe, everybody's in the
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Skipper's office, right, I take by R and I to
pick up these packages. Anything on them, No, not much.
We'll check them out. But they don't look like they're
going to any place. Yeah, go ahead, Joe, Frank you
want to come over here, Yes, sorry, we lated don't.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Worry about it. Let's get this thing on the own,
all right.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I want to settle down, let's get started. The word's
probably gotten to you about why we're here. It's on
this perse snatching thing. Friday and Smith have got things
gotten way out of hand. Keep hit again. Night before
last victims at the county hospital in a critical condition.
She was pistol whipped and it looks like she's got
a fractured scope, so me a matter of time before
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somebody's killed. That's the reason we're here to see that
it doesn't happen. We've got MIMEOGRAPHEDMO sheets. Why don't you
find what information we've got? Some of it's pretty broad,
but it's the best we've been able to come up with.
Friday and Smith have handled the thing to hear, so
I'll let them give you the details you want to
tell them. Yeah, all right, skipper. Well, first off, you'll
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notice on those MO sheets all of the crimes have
been listed in the order that they happened, also the
place and the time. There's also a description of the
clothing the suspect war and when we could get it,
a description of the suspect. Now you'll notice that in
most cases there's quite a difference there on the physical
description of the suspect. However, we've been able to put
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them all together and we've come up with a composite
drawing that should look something like the suspect. One thing
that's fairly constant is the description of the clothing worn
by the suspect. It's almost always dark. Were's a hat,
and he's been known to wear a top coat. The
hat and the coat are also dark material, clear or
any other money. All right, now, take a look over here.
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That's the wall map, and we pinpointed all the jobs
so you can get a little better picture of the
operations we all see there. Yeah, all right, first one
took place at seventy third Street, just off Broadway right here.
The rest of the pins along here show the jobs
that he made from there all the way up to Jefferson.
He's also worked avalon Boulevard, Central Avenue, any street where
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there's a street car or a bus line he's hit.
He works between the hours of five thirty and eleven
thirty PM. The approach is almost always the same, Frank,
You want to tell him about the victim, Yeah, the
victim will get off the street car usually or the
bus whatever it is, it starts to walk home. As
soon as the woman gets in the area that's not
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lighted well or that hasn't gotten much traffic, the guy
walks up behind her and drabs him. After that, he
tries to take a purse. If the victim offers any resistance, well,
he usually slugs him. Cause the fact that two of
the victims have seen a gun. He's hand I know
he's armed. So the gun's been described as revolvers.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
How about car, Joe, excuse me, suspect driveway car.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, well we've got to assume that. Yeah, he's been
seen a couple of times by people in the neighborhoods
as he ran through their yards. Pretty safe to figure
that he's got a car parks on the side street somewhere.
None of the victims have seen a car, however, but
we know he leaves the area immediately.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
No descriptions vehicle, no, No, We've.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Had a couple of calls, but they didn't check out. Now,
the plan here is to use policewomen as decoys and
try to bait him out into the open. That's the
reason the women officers are here.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Do you figure to work the main arterials? What was
that You figure to work the main arterials?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah? Yeah, there'll be two officers assigned to follow each
policewoman we've been able to obtain ten in all, that'll
mean that twenty officers will be assigned to them. The
rest of you will be in the area somewhere. Now,
one of the things to look for is any vehicle
which closely follows a street car or bus. How about
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any questions, Yes, how are we going to get our assignments? Well,
skipper here has a list on me. All of the
officers who are to work with a policewoman are noted.
Now the others are given the areas that they're supposed
to patrol. What about other calls coming in? I didn't
hear it.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
The other calls coming in? Who's going to handle them?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well, those officers not assigned to a policewoman. See, there'll
be other units from the outlying areas on the operation too.
They'll lend us a hand. But remember this, under no
circumstances are those officers working with the decoy. It's a
leaver that clearer, don't leave the policewoman.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well, don't we stick with the detail nless there's an
emergency call.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Well, look, if we run into any problems, what do
we call Joe.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, we'll be in the area in one kd Oh,
you can get touch with us, Harry, how about it? Well,
if we pick up a suspect, should we get in
touch with you? Well, you can use your own judgment
on that yard. If you think it's a routine pick up,
take him to robbery and you'll be processed there. Any
more questions, h Skipper? Anything else? We all know about
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the days off cancelation. Sorry, it has to hit now,
but that's why it's gotta be. No one will draw
any time to listening is cleaned up. When Burphy won't
do any good to have your wife call me, You're
still gonna have to work.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Operationals start tonight and go into the suspects in custody.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Have a happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Okay, so hey, wait a minute, a point of goal.
The worksheets on the board outside. You can check it
on the way out. You better do that, right, Is
anything else you need to carry it off? No, it's
all there, Skipper. I mean we use now's luck. No
reason for you to be different. Suspects had his share.
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Frank and I left the office and drove out to
the area of the operation. The plan was that the
police women would board the cars and buses and get
off at the points where previous sluggings had not taken place.
In the established demo of the suspect, it was noted
that he never hit on any street more than once.
At four pm that afternoon, all of the units were
in place in the plan started. During the night, several
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pickups were made, but no one was apprehended who resembled
the suspect. Those people who were detained were processed and
they were either booked or release. The following day, Thursday,
November twenty seven, Frank and I checked the reports filed
by officers in the field. At three pm, we stopped
at a small restaurant. We had to play a sliced turkey,
cold gravy and some lumpy maxed potatoes. We wished each
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other a happy Thanksgiving. We went back to Unit one
CATO and cruised the streets marked for surveillance. Another night
went by without the suspect hitting. Saturday, November twenty ninth,
eleven thirty pm, Frank and I were driving down San
Pedro Street at Vernon Avenue. Looks like another one shot, huh,
And it's beginning to shape up that way. And then
I think of the suspect knows about the operation. I
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mean where we're working. You got as much as I have.
Doesn't seem likely. You got a cigarette? I'm out. Yeah,
there you go. Thanks, I'm going to give you a life.
Six sixty.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Drafted accidents.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I was sure hacked about Thanksgiving. Well, I figured now
that didn't make me too mad. She had the in
laws over. Yeah, her brother. One thing about that guy,
you eat more than any ten people.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I've had to sit there and just look at him
and everybody's through and he's still going strong. Yeah, nephew
was over too. You know Little Sam. You've heard me
talk about Little Sam. No, I don't think so. Yeah,
a little Sam. Kid's a monster, only ten years old.
He's a real monster. Hey's sister. Lets the kid do
whatever comes into his mind. They say it isn't good
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to repress him. What they say, it isn't good to
repress him. That's what they you know, repress him. Yeah,
i'd like to take him over. I'd repress him. Yeah,
I guess you do that, real good one.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
You one K eighty one Kato beat Unit one K
eight seven at the three hundred block East fifty first Street.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Go to.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
One kto Roger km eight three sixty seven. Let's go. Yeah,
that's when the units assigned to a decoy. It's a
good one. Well, there's one way to find out, isn't
they Yeah, ask him. South Park is located at the
corner of San Pedro on fifty first Street. One of
the police women had gotten off a street car at
the corner of Main Street and fifty first. She'd walked
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east and then she passed the park. A man had approach,
locked her progress and demanded money. The man was pretty drunken.
When the officers following the woman arrived at the scene,
he was struggling with a police woman. He was taken
into custody and we were called. We took the man
to the room twenty seven am. From there to the
interrogation room. Physically he mastered the description of the suspect
as we'd gotten from the victims twelve fifteen am. That's
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the veriest thing I everard of. Pulling me in here,
I guess, all right, what's your name? I don't think
I'm good attend. Let me see your wallet. Nothing in there,
no juice, Empty your pockets on the table.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Did you have a copy of the LA food.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Come on, mister, empty your pockets with you? All right?
Come on everything. How about your wallet, hey, young man,
no Jews. Take the money out. I told you there's
no Jews, no money in the wallet. No, all right,
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how about it. It's your true name, Victor Nathaniel Roberts.
You think I use a I don't be smart. Where
do you live? Oh? I have no path? While you've
been sleeping? Well, I can you got a job? What
do you work?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You ever hold a job? Nope, never had a job.
I can't remember. What What were you doing on fifty
first Street tonight? Oh? Just looking around at eleven thirty
at night. The son hurts my eyes. All right. I
was just walking along the street with this young woman.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Stop me.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
She stopped you. She tried to pick me up. That
girl was a police woman. You're telling me what were
you doing out there? I'm never going there again. Ever
been arrested? I am now before. I'll tell you the truth.
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Yeah you do that. I have where?
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
All around? What we arrested for? Bag? Have you done
time in California? Come on, have you done time in California?
Have you yes? I'll check the record. John A Right,
is he gonna look me up? What's that I say?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Is he gonna look me up?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
He's gonna check your record again? Mm hmm.
Speaker 10 (12:43):
I'ms you mind a little constructive criticism and you listen, mister,
your funny times running out here. You must feel a
little sweeky about this whole thing, don't.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You what's that? I mean, this whole business about the woman?
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Don't you think that's going too far?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
How long you've been in Los Angeles? Ooh, sometime this year?
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Checked your about a year? What I said, I checked you.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
About a year?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
A year ago? You mean, yeah, yeah, about a year ago?
What if you haven't got a job? How he managed
to live? How we got a little drink?
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Have you? So?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Now see a minute? Time? She sit still? What do
you got checked? R? And I got the word on Roberts?
You know what about him? It's been tagged sixty seven
times for drunk fall in La totals ninety two. Doesn't
look like he's our man, though he's been Camarillo over
the last three months. We put in a call to
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the superintendent at the State hospital up at Camarillo. He
told us that Victor Roberts had only been released ten
days before. He'd spent three months undergoing treatment for alcoholism.
The suspect we were looking for had been working for
the past two months. Roberts was booked in at the
main jail and the charge of violation of Section forty
one to twenty seven ALAMC. During the time we'd been
working on the case, all known per snatchers had been
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picked up and interrogated runs but the Stats office had
been made and the names they gave us had been
checked out. Locals and apbs were gotten out carrying the
description in the MO of the suspect. The leads that
came in were followed up without result. Informants were questioned
and George Bretton up at CII and Sacramento furnished this
a list of possibles. All in all, over one hundred
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people had been questioned in the course of the investigation.
Several other cases were cleared, but our prime suspect was
still free. Meantime, the operation continued. Each night at four
thirty pm, ten policewomen would board street cars and buses
in the area. Ten police cars carrying twenty officers would
follow them. In the immediate vicinity. Another forty men were
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patrolling the streets and alleys looking for the thief. As
a result of the newspaper stories on the string of crimes,
calls were coming into the complaint board at such a
rate that they were our normal facilities. Women refused to
walk the streets alone after dar Apparently the thief could
come and go as he pleased, and the next two
days he hit three times, but in areas that were
not covered. He began to hit the places he hadn't
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worked before. He seemed to know where we were and
that we were using decoys. The search went on Tuesday,
December second, we got a call from the manager of
a cheap hotel in the skid Row area. We drove
out to see her.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Right down this way. He's not in.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, just what is it you wanted to succee?
Speaker 9 (15:29):
You wait and you get a good luck.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
You'll know here we are.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
I'll get the door. You just come on in. You
that's right over here.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I was cleaning up this morning, my girls said, had
to do it myself, and just cleaning up, and I
found him over here in the closet.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Yeh, up on the shelf.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Can you see him up? There way backs, get a chair.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well, I was just straightened enough and I saw him,
and I thought to myself, I ought to call the police.
Get him right out here. That's what I thought to myself.
I always feel it's the duty of every citizen to
cooperate with the police.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yes, ma'am, watch flashlight flight huh flashlight? Oh yeah here you.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Well, do you see them up there on the shelf, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Ma'am rank, Yeah, something's done.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
Then pick them up with well, you'll find out anyway.
You don't have to worry about fingerprints.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I guess I shouldn't have done it, but when I
found him, I picked them up, but I put them
right back right where I found them.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Okay, what you got?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Two women's purses?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Two?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Look inside of them, all kinds of cards and things.
No money, but all kinds of other stuff.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
You just don't.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
You mean registered? Yeah, well, he gave his name as
Jerry Kilgallan.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
You ask me, though, I.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
Think it's phony.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You take the room alone to the Oh.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
Absolutely, this is a hotel for man. Don't allow no
women in.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Is it possible when somebody else left these persons up there?
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Hardly? These rooms are cleaned every day, clean thoroughly. I
don't miss anything that.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
The identification of him, Joe, I don't recognize the names.
We'll have to check him. Take a look at this though,
no here on the lining of the purse. Get it
to the labba.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
What is it?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
You find something?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We're not sure?
Speaker 9 (17:13):
But what is it?
Speaker 8 (17:13):
I called you.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
I got a right to know.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It looks like bloodstains.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
You are listening to drag Net the authentic story of
your police force election.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We got a complete description of Jerry kill Gallant, and
Frank called it into R and I. We found no
record on him under that name. The purse was sent
to Lieutenant Lee Jones at the Prime Lab, and after
running a precipitate test, he told us that the stains
were human blood. The stakeout was placed on the hotel
and that night, Killed Gallan was taken into custody. Under interrogation,
he admitted taking the purses from two women in a
department store in downtown Los Angeles. He went on to
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explain that he'd just gotten into town and that he
was broken, hungry. He gave us the date and the
times of the thefts, and when we called the victims
they were able to give us positive identifications. He told
us that when he'd taken the second purse, he'd cut
his hand on the clasp, and of the bloodstains he
found were his own. He was booked in at the
main jail and the charge of suspicion of robbery. That night,
Frank and I took up our place in the Dragonet operation.
Nothing happened. The next night went by without activity. On
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Thursday night, at approximately eight forty five, a woman was
slugged and robbed after she left the bus on seventy
first Street, just off of a month. All cars in
the operation converged on the area and a block five
block search was made. Additional officers were called in to
aid in the hunt. Every alley, every street, and every
backyard was gone over thoroughly. Eleven fifteen pm, while the
search continued, Frank and I drove down to Georgia Street
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Receiving Hospital to talk to the latest victim.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
I was on my way home and thinking like this
had happened. How's just walking home?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Can you give us a description of the man?
Speaker 8 (19:01):
I don't know. It's dark, I was just walking home
and it happened.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Did you see the man at all? Yes?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
It was dark.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Was he a tall man?
Speaker 8 (19:12):
I guess so. I guess he was tall. I talked
to the other man.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Is't not enough?
Speaker 8 (19:17):
I talked to them.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, we're trying to get all the information we can.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
I don't remember good.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
He had hurt?
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Isn't it something that can do to make my head
stop hurting?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Did you see the man's face? Did you get a
look at it?
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Yeah? Yes, I did. I saw his face.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Can you describe it for us? Can you tell us
what he looked like?
Speaker 8 (19:37):
I don't know. I don't feel good.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
This is pretty important man.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
And he had a real white face, real white.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
What about these eyes? Can you tell us what color
they were?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Ooh?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Water?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
How about his hair?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
It looked brown. I'm not sure. I think it was brown.
He had a head on. Uh. I couldn't tell good.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Just a few more questions now, yeah, can you tell
what color his hat was?
Speaker 8 (20:08):
I don't know. We had hurts. Can't you do something?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We'll send for the doctor again. It might be able
to give you another sedien hurts something else, ma'am. Was
the man clean shaven? Uh?
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I said? Did he have a mustache?
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Oh? No, no mustache?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You wear glasses? No? Is there anything else you can
tell us about his appearance? No?
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Nothing. He had a gun. I know that he had
a gun. That's what he hit me with. Gun. He
hit me when I wouldn't give him the purse. First
he asked me for the money. Then when he get
out of my way, he said he'd killed me, and
he hit me on the head, hit me as hard
as he could.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Alright, ma'am. Now, is there anything else you can tell
us It might make it easier to identify him.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
No nothing. I told you everything. I know nothing else.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
All right. I'm sorry to have bothered you. Thank you.
We'll be talking with you again when you're feeling better.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Yeah, you'll come back then. I try to remember.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Then, Thank you very much for your help.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
It's all right. You asked the doctor to come back,
won't you. Yes' huh, officer. Something else might help a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
What's that man?
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Before he hit me? I remember there was a fight.
I didn't want even take my purse. There was a fight.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
I tried to stop him and I scratched him, scratched
him hard. See broke a fingerne when I did it.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
He'll help, ouner, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
It should last thing. I remember before he hit me.
He was bleeding a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
What did you scratch him, ma'am? Do you remember on
the hand?
Speaker 8 (21:50):
No? No, what right across the face? Mum, left side.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
We got to a phone and we had a broadcast
put out carrying the additional information on the man and
the fact that he had been badly scratched. Officers in
the immediate area of the attacks out of the check
of all the drug stores that were open in the
hope that the thief had stopped the medication. After getting
a call out, Frank and I left the hospital and
started back to search the area. Eleven forty six pm.
You talked to doctor about the victim. Yeah, she's in
pretty bad shape. We're going to move he to General.
(22:22):
Sebastian says, I might have to operate. He glad to
get this guy, you know.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Attention All units, Attention.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
All units want to turn it up job.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
All units on frequency seven, please stand by. All units
in the vicinity of the one hundred block on West
twenty ninth Street.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Officer needs help. Special attention one k at oh code three.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Lean on it right.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
All units in the vicinity of the one hundred block
on West twenty ninth Street. Officer needs help. Special attention
one k ATO code tree frequency seven thayer.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I'll call him one k eto to control one. Acknowledging
the call to the one hundred block on West twenty
ninth Street, m A three sixty seven. Took us two
and a half minutes to get to the location. At
the curb on the side of the street, we saw
a parked police unit. Standing next to it was a
(23:11):
woman officer. We pulled up next to the unit and
talked to her. She told us that our suspect had
tried to attack her and on the arrival of the
two officers, had fled the scene. At that moment, Officer
Sleuter and Murphy were in pursuit. While Frank got additional
information from the police woman. I went back to the
car and got on the radio. One K eight oh
to control one, one k oh to control one.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Control one to one K eight oh, Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Suspect is now on foot being pursued by two plane
clothes officers through backyards in the area of West one
hundred block between twenty ninth Street and thirtieth Street. Despatch
units to block intersections of Broadway and twenty ninth Street
Broadway in thirtieth Broadway in twenty eighth Street, Broadway in
twenty seven intersections of Maine and twenty eight Maine and
(23:53):
twenty ninth Maine and thirtieth streets, Maine and twenty seventh Street.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Control one A O. Roger am A three sixth seven.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I got the story, said, yeah, let's go. Police woman
says there, headed west to the back of the house.
Down there. All right, school attention.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
All units, attention, all units.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
One K eight police woman, right, take it.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Easy west twenty ninth Street, now being pursued.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Got alive on this time.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Let's hope we can keep him in the backyard between
one hundred block twenty ninth Street and one hundred block
thirtieth one.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Play eight two.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Wife, Flight's over there, John, Let's take a look. You
see who it is? No, stuck back behind the garage.
Come on, swooter, what do you got? He's back there.
Murphy's with him, you guys, all right, yeah, all right,
let's take a look. You want to call him ambulance? Frank, right,
(24:55):
how is he? You better stop? Frank, Yeah, tell him
to cancel that ambulance. He opened up first, Jill murf
and I gave him every chance. Now that morning gave
those women. The story you have just heard is true.
The names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
On December eighth, an inquest was held in the offices
of the Corner in and for the County of Los
Angeles in a moment the results of that inquest. At
the inquest, the coroner's jury returned a verdict that the suspect,
(25:38):
Kenneth Neil Stewart, died as a result of gunshot wounds
inflicted by police officers in the line of duty. The
death was listed as justifiable homicide. You have just heard
(26:06):
Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical
advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,
Los Angeles Police Departments Technical Advisors Captain Jack Donaho, Sergeant
Marty Winns, Sergeant Van Spracier. Heard tonight were Ben Alexander,
Vic Perrin, Vivi, Janie Herbellus. Script by John Robinson, music
(26:27):
by Walter Schumann, hel Gibney speaking. Watch an entirely different
drag Net case history each week on your local NBC
television station. Please check your newspapers for the day in time.
Chesterfield has brought you drag Net transcribed from Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
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