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For the next 30 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 from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Monday, October 23rd. It was foggy in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of narcotics detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Colonel. My name's Friday. It was 7.16 a.m. when we got to St. Christopher's Hospital, the pharmacy. How you do? Yes. Police Officer, Sister. You'd like to see Sister Mary Benedict? I'm she. Mother Superior sent us down to see you, Sister. We're investigating narcotics robbery. Yes, there have been quite a few policemen here in the past hour. I believe it was the fingerprint menu just left. Just a minute, I have their car. Yes, they were from Layton Fingerprint Division. Stahl and the boys from Layton Prince. Yes, that's right. Sergeant Harlan Stahl. Sister, we're the investigating officers assigned to the case. This is Sergeant Romero. My name's Friday. Are you a Lieutenant? No, I'm a Sergeant. I wonder if you could start right from the beginning for us. Just tell us what you know about the robbery. Well, after mass, I went to breakfast and then I came downstairs here to the pharmacy to open up. You keep the pharmacy locked overnight? Oh, yes, always. We always assign an intern on night duty. He has the key in case any medicines are needed during the night. He's authorized to issue what may be needed upon the doctor's request. Who else has a key to the pharmacy, Sister? Well, they're just three keys. Mother Superior keeps one in her desk. We have one for the intern on duty and I have one. All right. You want to go on? When I got down here this morning, I started to unlock the door and found it a jar. There were no lights on. I snapped on the wall switch. That one. That's when I saw young Jimmy Lyons. That's the intern? Yes, he was unconscious on the floor. I could see his head had been cut. He was bleeding profusely. What'd you do then? I called Mother Superior and she came right down. Dr. Spencer was summoned. He came in and started administering aid to intern Lyons there on the floor. Is that when you found out the narcotics were missing? No, not just at that moment. Both Mother Superior and myself were quite worried about young Lyons' condition. It was really Mother Superior who first noticed the narcotics safe had been tampered with. Your stories don't exactly jibed there, Sister. How do you mean? Mother Superior gives you credit for first noticing a theft. Oh, my no. She's very charitable, but she's the first one who pointed to the safe. She's very observant. I understand. Go ahead, please. Upon checking the safe, we found that someone had taken our entire store of narcotics. Everything. Is that the safe over there? Yes, that's the narcotics safe. Don't touch that, Mr. Friday. No? No, never. Nothing is to be touched until the police have completed their investigation. Clues. Well, we're the police, Sister. Then do you have all the clues you need? Well, I wouldn't know, but the men from Layton Fingerprints have dusted everything here, so it's all right to touch things now. That was Mr. Harland's stall, these men. Yes, that's right. Oh, I didn't know. We understand you have the inventory list. Yes, I have it on my desk. Here. Thank you. We keep a running inventory so that's the exact amount that's missing. Yes, ma'am. Cocaine and morphine. No birds eye, Joe. Looks like about 10,000 worth. I'd like to have a copy of this inventory, Sister. Would you take the carbon? I'd like to keep the originals for my monthly files. I'll be fine. Outside of this intern, lions, nobody saw whoever it was. No. Mother Superior and I have interrogated everyone. We made a thorough investigation on our own. I took notes. That's all? Yes, that's the way Father Brown does it. Father Brown? Yes, he's an expert detective. Brown. You wouldn't mean Thad Brown? No, Father Brown. Father Brown? You people have your own detectives now? Oh, my no. He's not a regular detective. He's more like Mother Superior and myself. Is that right? Yes, he's in England. Saw some really difficult cases. Here, I'll show you. See right here? The Triple Cross, another exciting Father Brown mystery by G.K. Chesterton. Oh. Yes, I have all but one of the Father Brown books. Mother Superior has it. I get it after she finishes. What's the condition of the intern? He's resting comfortably. Dr. Spencer says he'll be all right. Had to take nine stitches in his scalp. We'd like to talk to him. I'm sure that'll be all right. I don't have to tell you we all think this is a terrible thing. Yes, Sister, it is. All those narcotics. Whoever took them will distribute them, won't they? Well, that's our guess. Sister, the stuff will be sold to addicts. What makes a dope addict? How do they get started? Why do they do it? I don't know, Sister. I give you a lot of reasons. None of them good. None of them good. And for a few moments of what? Tonight they have it and tomorrow they have nothing. That's about the size of it, Sister. The stars are setting and the caravan starts for the dawn of nothing. The Bible? No, Omar Cayam. Before we left St. Christopher's Hospital, we talked with intern James Lyons. Since he was slugged from behind, he failed to see his assailant. He could tell us nothing. The entire hospital staff was screened thoroughly. They could add nothing to what we already knew. Between 6 and 7 o'clock that morning, $10,000 worth of high-grade prescription narcotics had been stolen. Somewhere in the city of Los Angeles was the answer. As in all narcotics cases, speed is the prime factor. Whoever held those narcotics wouldn't waste any time diluting or cutting it and making it ready for quick sale. Our job was to stop them. Five minutes past 8 a.m., we checked in with Sergeant Harlan Stahl at Layton Fingerprint's Detail. Not much hump, is it? That's all you got, huh? The safe was clean, not a print on it. No prints anywhere in the room. Slugged the intern from behind, took his keys, tore a bell-boop off his trousers, opened the safe and walled stout. Couldn't have been cleaner. Yeah. You didn't get anything on your end, though. Nothing. Gentlemen. Captain. Pick one up. Who is he? Junker by the name of Babe Kellogg. He's really seeing Steve, but he's coming out of it. Let's go talk to him. Check you later, Stahl. Yeah. What's the story on him? Wallace and Hunt picked him up downtown L.A. He was sitting in a parked car at 4th and Broadway. Thought at first he was a 390, but they couldn't raise him. He's down this way. What else? Well, Wallace figured he must be geed up so they rolled up his sleeve to look for the spike marks. They found him. Find anything on him? Yeah. There were two vials of him on the seat behind him. They sighed him. Description stuff. You got that list of serial numbers from the hospital? Yeah, right here. All right, let's go in. Wallace. Yeah, Captain? Friday, get a list of the serial numbers on that hospital heist. Hop down and check him against the vials you found in his car. Oh, here you are, Wallace. Thanks, Joe. How are you feeling, Babe? All right. Kellogg says Friday and Romero are a central division. Hi, Sam. You want to tell us about it? Nothing to tell. Living high, aren't you? I'm not unusual. It's not the way I get it. You're scoring good. Prescription stuff. Birthday present from a friend. Who is it? I want to keep his friendship. Who's your connection, Babe? I don't know. You know that morphine we picked out of your car is hot. Is it all of it? Hospital pharmacy was knocked over this morning. If the numbers on those vials of yours match up, you're in a real jam. No numbers on them? You might as well tell us where you got it. I'm not going to be a fagin' for you. Nobody's asking to be a fagin', Kellogg. That's high-powered stuff. If we don't get anybody else, it can go hard for you. I'm not going to bite the hand if he's me. You want to stand it alone on this one, not the idea? I didn't say that. One of us isn't going to go along and hold your hand. How about it? Who's your connection? All right. It isn't going to be a long wait, Kellogg. As soon as Walters gets back with those serial numbers, you can play hero all afternoon. It'll be on the 12th floor of the county jail, Babe. You won't have to wait long there, either. The minute you put one foot in that courtroom, the judge will throw you. Throw everything he's got at you. Two bottles of drugstore stuff? Robbery, Kellogg. $10,000. This is good, but two bottles ain't worth that much. You only show a part of it. Maybe you got the rest of it at your plant. You got my plant. 1931 S6, four-wheel brakes. Your car's being checked out. You didn't find any more, did you? No. I couldn't be that lucky. You feel pretty good now, but you'll get a yen on. You won't help me. You'll never do. When's the last time you helped us? Your memory's worse than mine. I helped you. I helped you guys a lot. Don't you remember the Frank Smith plant? No. 1933, Friday night last. I led you right to Smith's plant. Smith didn't have no geese like he found on me. He was a big man. We turned up four kites on him. Not for us, you didn't. Sure I did. Right here in Kansas City. I done your big favor that night. Friday night last. A different town, a different night, babe. You're kidding. In the St. Louis? Singing Steve, yeah. Don't kid me along. This is Kansas City. How rich is St. Louis? You're in Los Angeles, babe. Los Angeles, California. You're kidding. Clenide wouldn't do that to me. Who's Clenide? Levinson, Baltimore. Hangs out down at the continental hotel. That's in Kansas City. Yeah. Marty Clenide, tough cop. He said he'd make a hat for me. He didn't want me in KC. He gave me a floater out of town. That's why I came here to St. Louis. You're in Los Angeles, babe. You got it? Los Angeles. Oh, yeah. You told me. Want to step outside a minute? Yeah. Stay with him, Ramel. Right. That's it. Check's out, huh? Somebody cut through the serial number stamps on the vials, but you can still make them out. The two vials of morphine we found in Kellogg's car were from the hospital pharmacy. Thanks, wellness. Let's try it again, Friday. Right. All right, babe, now let's cut out the jokes. Those two vials you had came from the hospital. The numbers check out. No numbers on those vials. How do you know? You probably didn't even look at them. Oh, yeah, I looked. No numbers on them. We found them, all right. I don't see how you could read them. I couldn't. Why not? Somebody scratched them off. Oh, babe. You wouldn't know. Try us. How much heat do I have to stand if I take it along? Plenty. There was an intern slug on that job. It hurt pretty bad. They're going to tag you for assault, too. I never hurt anybody in my life. How do we know? I just told you. We don't know you didn't pull this job. We haven't got any proof. Once more. What's the count? Goes like this, babe. First degree robbery, five years to life. Assault with a deadly weapon, one to 10. Violation of the State Narcotics Act, one to 15. You can add. I'll lose you up there. You can get a real yarn on by that time. There's no buzzing up at Q. I can't go that route. Where'd you get the stuff? I'd rather be a Fagan than spend 50 years at the joint. You convinced us. Where'd you get it? Anybody turned Fagan before they spent 50 years at Q. No, I can't go that route. Where'd you get it, babe? From some joy-popper, who? I gave him 700 bucks. Clean me. Who? Come to me, passing you this off of us a croaker. I can spot a guy who's been hitting speedballs a mile away. I knew he wasn't any croaker. What was his name? He was Scorn Good, somewhere. All that Cecil and Mary. Now I know where he got us. Give us his name, babe. He's a bit clear in pictures learned castle. Where is he? You're in Arizona, on location. How could he be on location when you bought that stuff from him this morning? Half the plane this morning. He was on his way. Leonard Castle. Picture actor, that right? You got it. Run it down. 10 a.m., we checked the name Leonard Castle through R&I. We found nothing. We looked in the phone book and got the number. Garfield 3711, Central Casting. Andrew Casting. Los Angeles Police Department calling. Yes, sir. Do you have a Leonard Castle registered with you? One moment. Yes, we do. I wonder if you could tell me if he's working. Oh, just a minute. I have his card right here. A crime report for Schumann and Kester, independent production. They're shooting over at sound stages incorporated. They're working today? Yes, he is. You're sure that company's not on location? No, we have no location showing for that picture. Could you give me his call, please? Surely, he had a 9 o'clock call today. See, Mr. Castle? Yeah. You shouldn't have any trouble locating him over there. We'll find him. You are listening to Dragnet, actual case histories taken from official police files. If you smoke a long cigarette, it will be in your interest to listen to these case histories taken from the file marked Fatima. On this card, reporter Lee Silver statement. I need an extra mild cigarette. No other long cigarette I've tried is as mild as Fatima. Here is nurse Shirley Gilman statement. When I go off duty, I appreciate a mild cigarette. Fatimas are extra mild. I can enjoy them more. On this card, the statement by drama critic Richard Watts Jr. Anyone can tell Fatima contains the finest tobaccos. It's extra mild and has a much better flavor. All agree, it's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. And that's what more and more smokers are discovering every day. Yes, actual figures show extra mild Fatima has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. So enjoy extra mild Fatima yourself. You'll agree. It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. Best of all, long cigarettes. 10.30 a.m. Central casting gave us Leonard Castle's home address and detectives long and hunt went on immediate stake out. Ben and I drove out to sound stages incorporated and checked in at the reception desk. We showed them our identification. We were issued a pass to sound stage three. This is stage one. Stage three ought to be down there. Yeah. Not a very big lie. No, it's pretty small. Watch the truck bend. I think Kellogg knew what he's talking about. We'll know in a couple of minutes. Not very usual. Joy Popper pulling a job like that. They all start somewhere. That's a good way to get around the movie lie. Bye. Better than walking. Sure a thick fog, isn't it? Yeah, we don't have them often, but when we get them there, we'll be super. Oh, here we are. You better hold it, Ben. Red light. They're shooting in there. Oh, yeah, I didn't see it. Stage five, you know? Couldn't tell you. All clear. Let's go in. Hey, fella. I wonder if you can tell us where we could find Leonard Castle. Sure. Rosie, call in Castle, will you? Okay. Leonard Castle. Leonard Castle. Guess we can wait over here by the phone, huh? You'll be right here. Yeah, thank you. Rosie, you call me? Hey, gentlemen, I want to see you. Thanks, Rosie. You want to see me? Your name Leonard Castle. Yeah, that's right. Police officers. Yeah? There's some place where we can talk. Well, is this all right? I gotta stick close. I might be in the next shot. All right. You know a fella by the name of Babe Kellogg? No. He says he knows you. No, I never heard of him. You sure? Put us on a belt, George. Hold the work. Slide down. Slide. Hold it a minute. They're lining up a shot. Lefty, move that route about a foot and a half to your right. Hands in. Hold it right there. Make a little hotter. A couple of turns. Whoa, whoa. That's good. Back to you. Give me your ninky ninks right here. Camel left. Eric, when Fred Conrad crosses over to the table, can you help me out a little? Can you bring this one down about two points on the dimmer? It's done. Time to get that. All righty, Millie. Is it Conrad? Yes, sir. Take it real easy. Remember, you don't know your sergeant's got a clue until he comes to you with it. All right. You're anticipating a little bit, okay? Mm-hmm. Let's try it. Bob, watch that mic shatter. We're getting it on that wall. Am I out now? No, too much. Come here a little. That's fine. You're clear. All righty. All righty. We'll try one. Turn him over. Throw him. Speed. Action. All right, Chief. As soon as I get all the clues, I'll be right down. At least that broken window, huh? That's right. It's plastered with fingerprints. Yeah. We got our man. Cut. Let's hold this by a fold. You never heard of Babe Kellogg, huh? That's right. We're worried at six. It's not this morning, Ken. In bed? We've got men out to your place checking. What's it all about? Between six and seven o'clock this morning, somebody robbed the pharmacy at St. Christopher's Hospital. They slugged the intern, made off with over $10,000 worth of narcotics. Yeah. If we find you were in bed between six and seven, you're clear. Oh, I was. Anybody to back up that alibi? Well, I don't know. I guess you'd know. What time did she generally get up? Well, I don't know. Why? She couldn't very well back yet. She was still asleep. Well, she's usually up early. Thought you said you didn't know what time she got up. Well, I meant I don't usually know. What you knew this morning? No. And you don't know Babe Kellogg? Stimmer down, everybody. Let's have a quiet. All right, I'm off. What do you read on that junior, Harry? Nine plus. Make it a little hotter. A little hotter here. That's it. Whoa. Ten plus two. That's it. How about it, Steve? Anything. Turn him over. Rolling. Speed. Action. All right, Chief. As soon as I get all the clues, I'll be right in. Look what I found here. Piece of broken window, huh? That's right. It's plastered with prints. Yeah. We got our man. Cut. Jake, you said plastered with prints. The line rains plastered with fingerprints. You got to say the whole word. They'll never know what you mean in Vancouver. Come here, I'll unpack it. Yeah. Hold the work. Keep it quiet. That's Millie, isn't it? Tough director, but he's a good one. How long you been doing this kind of work, Council? Oh, six, seven years. What pictures you been in? Oh, I don't think you'd have noticed. They're mostly small parts. What kind of parts you got in this picture? I play a cop. What would you like to do? In this picture? No. What's your ambition? You're going to stay in pictures? Yeah, I'd like to. I'd like to get a few bigger parts if I could. It's pretty tough to try and set yourself to producer if he can't see you on film. Money's pretty good though, isn't it? A lot of pens. It's a different deal on each picture you do. You have an agent? No, I did have. Wasn't doing anything for me, so I let him go on. I'd represent him. Pretty hard to build any kind of a name without an agent, isn't it? A lot of pens. If you can keep up a good front, nice car. That's all it counts next time. You really believe that, do you? Don't you? I don't know much about it. I'm not an actor. You said you didn't know Babe Kellogg at all, didn't you? No, I don't know. You said you saw Yolanda at six o'clock this morning. No, I didn't see that. Well, there's theater on Milton, the director, which I like to meet him. What time do you see Yolanda this morning? Oh, Mr. Milton. Yeah, Castle? When are you going to get to me, Millie? Yeah, need me in the shop? No, still on the same thing. We'll get a unit after lunch. You can stay with your friends. Okay. What time does it break for lunch, Castle? Well, this company usually breaks around 12.30. It's only 11.15. Maybe we can go outside and talk. The director said he didn't need you. Well, you never want to believe the director. It's always the first assistant. We could check with him, couldn't we? Well, I don't like to do that. I hate to ask any favors. Said he wasn't going to use you till after lunch. Well, it isn't a good policy to bother the first assistant. Well, it's probably better in here anyway. I didn't see any place to sit on outside. Unless you have a car in the lot. Do you have a car? No, I don't. But you told us you had a car. No, I didn't tell you that, did I? I mean, you said something about keeping up a good front, a nice car. Isn't that what you said? Oh. Oh. Sure, I have a car. I don't know what I was thinking about. Yeah, I have a car. Mm-hmm. I thought you said you had a car. Well, I tell you, this picture act will drive you crazy. I don't know what I'm saying after that. Maybe you made a mistake about the babe Kellogg. Do you know him? No, I'm sure about that. I don't know any babe Carson. Kellogg. Kellogg, you know? I don't know him. Would you mind showing us your wallet? Well, what for? You want to see my identification? Can we see the wallet, please? All right. Hang on. No, you hold it. Would you open it up? Keep quiet, please. All right, please. Okay. Fair enough. Roy? Big. All right. Nice and easy now. Finger prints, Jake. Right. Action. All right, chief. As soon as I get all the clues, I'll be right in. These are broken window, huh? That's right. It's plastic with fingerprints. Yeah. We got our man. Cut. Same. No talking, please. Let's see how much money you got in your wallet, Castle. No, you hold it. Just count it for us. Well, there it is. What about the rest of it in there? All right. I didn't see it. All right. Count it. Just a few hundred, huh? Count it. All right. Let's see. Well, I can see four fifties right there on top. That's 200, isn't it? Yeah. That's 300. 400. 450. Yeah, go on. I didn't know I had this much. There's 250 more. That makes 700, doesn't it? This morning I thought I had. There's two more tens and a five there. That's $725, Castle. Yeah. You're doing pretty well on this picture, aren't you? It's not all picture money. All right. You can put your wallet away. Thanks. You didn't make this money on the picture. Where'd you get it? Play a little cards this night? Play a pretty leg? Yeah, pretty leg. Aren't you tired this morning? No. Not even when you got up at six? I say I got up at six. Now listen, Castle. You don't know what you said, but one thing's sure you're lying to us. You know Babe Kellogg and you own well enough to sell him two vials of high grade morphine. Are you wrong about that? All right, then you set us straight. Kellogg says he paid you $700 for this stuff. You got over 700 in your wallet. That's more than you need for lunch money. Now this could be a coincidence. You set us straight. Or you're wrong. Where'd you get the money? Turn them. Stay. Action. All right, Chief. Since I get all the clues, I'll be right in. Piece of broken window, huh? That's right. That's classical fingerprints. Yeah. We got our man. Captain. All right. What for? I told you I played cards. It won't do. Got the keys to your car. I can't leave. We'll get you excused. We want to look at your car. No, no. Don't do that. All right, then. Do you know Babe Kellogg? I don't know. Turn them. Action. All right, Chief. Since I get all the clues, I'll be right in. Piece of broken window, huh? Yeah. We got our man. Cut. Print it. All the brulee. Do you know Babe Kellogg? Yes. Yes, I know him. I know him. You robbed that hospital this morning? I needed it. I needed the money. I had to have it. I owed money. They were going to take my car. I was broke. What else could I do? I was sick once. I stayed at St. Christopher's. I knew where they kept the drugs. I knew if I could get them, I could make some fast money. I didn't mean to hit the kid. I couldn't let him see me. He didn't have to be there, did he? He didn't have to be there. I sold old Babe this stuff and the rest is in the car under the seat. I needed the money. I was broke. I was broke. Better get him out of here, Ben. Come on, Castle. That was a great reading. My name's Milton. I'm directing this picture. You the boy's agent? No, sir. Never heard him read better. Funny thing, no? Yeah. In front of the camera, he goes to the dogs. The story you've just heard was true. Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. On January 28th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 91, city and county of Los Angeles, state of California. In a moment, the results of that trial. And now, here is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you. 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