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We were working the day watch out of auto theft detail My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is that brown chief of detectives. My name's Friday We were at the main jail and it was 814 a.m. When we got to the second floor the interview room Good on phone. Yeah, right there You guys start pretty early in the morning, don't you yeah once in a while you got a cigarette Yeah, yeah, thanks. I never feel like I'm a lie. No, I had a cigarette the morning. How about a match for a cigarette? All right, what's this all about? You know that as well as we do a few questions We want to ask what's your partner setup? I don't know what you're talking about. No, it won't work slow We got the whole story from summers and what do you need for me just like to check out a few things What do you mean you get the whole story from summers? What did he say? Tell us everything he knows about the setup and what he says. You're the key man. Everything goes through you He said then yeah, you believe him got no reason not to that's why we're here. It's your side of the story How much he tell you that everything he knows Yeah, yeah, that figures you get a guy with a yen like that and some of the roof starts to drop They spill her insides out that's a trouble with doing business with hypes. You always run into it Yeah, well to your side up sure I knew going in if you lock summers up you'd break just a matter of time before he started seeing things and talked all over the place Why don't you do a little of the same? I got no choice. What do you want me to start? How about the beginning? There's good a place as any I guess all right. Who's the big gun in the setup? You're not gonna believe you try I don't know who he is. I've got the slightest idea and that's the truth You're asking us to buy the fact you work for a guy. You don't know I don't care if you buy it or not That's the way it is. I don't know who the big man is how to get your order He calls me where my place when when I got something for how does he know we got a set time each day He calls and he tells me what he wants done. I tell him what's going on What happens if you want to talk to anyone? It's not the time nothing I gotta wait how to get paid he calls me and tells me where to go I show up there and the dough is waiting. All right now you start at the beginning give us the whole story All right, I got him town about six months ago. We're from outside of Chicago All right. I laid around town for a few days and I got this rumble that maybe I can pick up a job What'd you hear? Oh just around I couldn't tell you where it was a word here another one there just around All right go ahead. Well, I'm home one day and the phone rings I answered and the guy asked me if I wanted to go to work for him I'm on my upper so I asked him what he wanted me to do and he springs his car ice thing on me I told him I wanted no part of it. Yeah, he kept on talking kept telling me how I was such a sweet Clean racket how we could work it without being tagged Finally, I told him I might be willing to sit down and talk to him about it He says no go said he didn't want anybody to know who he was and that went from me too He told me he'd swing the operation. What do you mean swing? Well, he said he'd tell me how to set it up how to make it work who to contact He had the organization already But he needed a man to take charge of the LA part of it. He told me that I was the guy he wanted Well, it's warm. How do you happen to come to you? I don't know I did time when I was a kid for Grand Theft Auto first time I got off light What'd you do the time in New York State? All right, go on. Well, maybe get a rumble about that You knew that I was down maybe figured that I was the guy to handle it for him I don't know why he just called. Do you have any idea who this man on the phone was? No, I thought about it a lot. I tried to come up with an answer But there just wasn't any please none that I could find might have been somebody you met back east I don't know could be I got no way of knowing the way the deal worked out I didn't have any reason to get nosy this guy really had it figured out like a charm I still don't know how you tagged us how about it you tell me you know better than Yeah, I suppose so I'd go ahead. What happened after you talked to this guy? Well, I wasn't real anxious right off. I told him I'd have to think about it. You see Next day he calls again told me he wanted to tell me the deal lay it out for me If I thought it was good, I could go along with it. Otherwise we could call it quits I'm just about to get bounced out of my room. So I listened we must have talked for about an hour That's when he laid it out for me where it looked the plan couldn't miss Wasn't anything he hadn't thought of all along the line He had the leaks all plugged up tight. You see all right how this deal work I thought Summers gave you the lineup. Yeah, he did but we'd like to hear from you Are you sure you ain't trying to con me into something you said it yourself you got no choice now I have you Yeah Well the way to work was smooth real smooth The boss that's what I call him he'd call me tell me what kind of car he wanted I'd get in touch with one of the boys and pass the order on you see yeah Hype would steal the car call me boop Some hype would steal the car and call me right away. Tell me where he had the car And the boss had called and I'd tell him he'd drive by look at the car If he okayed it, he'd call me and I'd tell the fella that's solid to get it rolling They'd drive it to Mexico, huh? Yeah First off I'd meet him and give him enough money to get back here though And after that they'd switch the plates in the car and shove up where'd you get the place? No, the boss and get him someplace then they'd be delivered to me always cold plates I I think he probably got him off. He used car lights. I don't know but that's the way it looked like to me Yeah, what happened then other guy drive the car straight through He delivered the car to a contact down in Tijuana What about the payoff from Mexico? How they worked then? Well, that went through me too. I'd get a call from the boss. He'd tell me where the meat was I'd show up and pick up a paper bag with an narcotics That's the way the stolen cars were paid for narcotics? Yeah Harold one was the best so by the time we cut it down went a long way What'd you do with this stuff? Well, some of it I'd use for paying off the hype that lifted the car and the rest went on to the boys How'd you get it to him? He'd call me tell me where to leave it Maybe an alley down time a telephone pole on central Once in a fountain right in front of city hall every time there's a different place Yeah, is it possible any of the others might know who he is? I talked to none of them know. I don't think they're holding that Yeah, this boss he ever say anything that could let you know where he was calling from? No How about his voice? You getting anything from that? What do you mean? You have an accent something like that? No, nothing. He talked just like you and me. There's one thing though What's that? He's been around. He knows the tricks. He knows about me everything I've ever done When he talks you know he knows all the rackets He ever sent you anything through the mail? No, what do you mean like with a postman? That's right No, a couple of times he sent me a batch of plates to use on the cars but they come by messing you One of the companies here? No, just a guy. I asked them who sent him what they couldn't tell me Couldn't or wouldn't? I ain't sure but I really don't think they know It's always a different guy each time. Never the same one twice You got some of the plates around? No, we used the last one on the car last night When does the boss usually send them to you? Depends on how many cars we've taken. He keeps track when we're out of cold plates Another batch of them shows up. It depends on the cars, you think? How about the other men working with you? The ones here in town? Do you give us a list of them? If I do it makes me a pretty big think If you don't I'm going to make you big trouble I suppose so. There's nothing you guys can promise me for this You know the answer to that too We can see that this week the attorney's office knows about the help he gave us That's all we can do It's better than nothing. Okay, I'll give you the name Now when this goes to trial we can figure you'll be a witness for the state Against who? Well, this boss, whoever he is Sure, if you can get him I don't think you will though Is that right? Sure, it stands to reason. I worked for the guy and never got to see him He ain't going to want to see the police Now he's a little like you, isn't he? Huh? He's got no choice We got the list of names from the suspect and then we checked with Captain Carl Shy in the archonics division He assigned two men to work with us on the case We got in touch with the sheriff's department and filled Sergeant Judge Shelton in on the development A call was put into Al Gaaton at San Diego And he said that he'd get in touch with the Mexican authorities And line up the cooperation we needed from them The name of the contact in Tijuana was given to them But they were unable to locate the suspect We asked the stats office to make a new run on the MO of the auto thefts In an attempt to come up with a new lead on the head of the ring of thieves They turned up six leads that were checked out And netted us nothing We got in touch with the state highway patrol And we worked out a system to intercept any cars that might be stolen in the future by the same gang The plan was that in the event we received a call regarding a stolen vehicle We put it on the air with the heading of the code word Alex This would alert all police officers between Los Angeles and the Mexican border The men named for us by the suspect Harry Sloan were all taken into custody Further interrogation netted us no new information In the meantime the leader of the gang had apparently succeeded in setting up a new group of thieves And was operating again The thefts continued through the next month During that time all precautions were taken to keep the stolen cars from getting to the border But the speed with which the gang operated made apprehending them almost impossible The radio operation with patrol units along the highway was tried But by the time the cars were reported stolen to us And we were able to get a broadcast out on them They were already across the border Thursday July 30th Frank and I checked into the office I'll check the book right Anything? No, let's call here from Faye that's all You know Skipper sure hacked about this thing, huh? Can you blame him? No, I suppose not He's got a lot of people leaning on him I don't know Joe It's about time the brakes start falling on our side Well we've been saying that for a long time too Doesn't seem to do much good Even when we do nail the big gun We're gonna have to prove it and that isn't gonna be easy Yeah The way he's gotta work down is gonna be awful To have to build a case that'll stick Well he doesn't handle the narcotics He doesn't handle the money all he does is okay the jobs Yeah, but there's gotta be an outlet for the heroin But where's he getting rid of it? That's a good question You know we've been trying to come up with the answer a long time No rumbles and formants don't know anything I get it Auto theft Friday Yes ma'am Well maybe we can help you Yes ma'am, huh? Well yes, well could we meet you? Oh no ma'am, you won't be involved Yo, what's that address again? Yeah Yes ma'am, we'll be there Well in about 10 minutes, what's that? No ma'am, just my partner Yes, that's right All right, see you then Right, goodbye Well maybe this is a break Who was it? Woman, she wouldn't give us her name She said that wasn't important She wants us to meet her What about? Something to do with used cars 10 10 a.m. Frank and I left the office And drove to Hollywood to meet the woman and called in She said that she wanted to meet us In one of the coffee shops along Vine Street We drove out the new freeway to Hollywood Boulevard And then down to Vine Street We parked the car and walked up to the coffee shop The girl on the phone had refused to give us her name So Frank and I had no way of knowing who she might be She told me to take a booth at the back of the restaurant And that she'd find us Frank and I sat down in order to cup of coffee And we waited There was no sign of the caller 11 a.m. She still hadn't shown up We were about ready to leave When a tall woman well dressed in her middle 30s came in She stopped at the door and looked around the place And then she headed for our booth Joe, that might be Now she's heading for the next booth I used one of the police What? Are you a policeman? Oh, what? Never mind Are you from the cops? Yes, ma'am I'm the one who called you and told you to meet me here Yes, ma'am I'm Joe Friday This is my partner Frank Smith You got some way to prove it Ma'am Prove that you're cops I don't want to talk to nobody who ain't a cop Yes, ma'am Here's my ID card Oh, yeah That's you, all right Yes, ma'am How about you? Yes, ma'am Here's mine Oh, yeah Oh, say that's a real nice picture You put on some weight, haven't you? Would you like to sit down, ma'am? We can get started on this Oh, yeah, sure Now what was your name? You don't need that It doesn't make any difference All right We order you something, maybe? Yeah, I'd like a Coke All right I'll get it, Joe You make sure it's a real Coke, though Genuine All right, ma'am I'm sorry, I'm late I got tied up That's all right, ma'am What if we can get started? Well, I was across the street Waiting by the radio station Yes, ma'am Waiting for that singer I don't know what's his name You know who I mean The cute one with the curly hair I never can think of his name Anyway, I was waiting for him to come out He's doing a show over there, you know He's a wonderful voice And he's so cute Now what's this all about This thing you want to tell us? Crazy kids in their autograph books I couldn't even get near him Miserable I wonder if we could get out of business here, ma'am You said on the phone that you could give us some information Yeah, I think I can help you out This seems to me that you might want to talk to this man What's his name? Well, maybe I ought to tell you about him first And then if you want to know his name I can tell you that All right, ma'am Go ahead Here's your Coke, ma'am Oh, thanks All right, that's good Coke Do you want to go on? On? Yes, ma'am, about the ma'am Oh, yeah Well, there's this fella And he's got an office in the building where I work Where would that be? A corner of Hollywood and Dick Street Right on the corner Ninth floor Elevators always out of order Yes, ma'am Well, he's got this office and I see him a lot You know what? The elevator Maybe down at the magazine We're acting the lobby anyway, I see him a lot Mm-hmm Well, about a week ago, he asked me for a date Just like that Come up to me while I was looking at TV stars parade At the magazine All about television stars Where they work, what they're like All interesting things like that Like, do they like garlic and what kind of knot Do they use in their ties? All interesting things like that So this man asked you for a date, huh? Came up just like brass and asked me out Well, first off, I was kind of flattered You know, he's pretty nice That's a nice car and all But I told him I couldn't go out with him Then I told him that I thought he should be ashamed of himself I told him he should be ashamed of himself Yes, ma'am Sure See, I knew he was married Nice little wife, real cute I saw her a couple of times around the building Lately, she hasn't been too well He's real cute Imagine him asking me out and him a married man Well, yes, ma'am But why do you think that the police might be interested in him? I'm coming to that And that was good Well, I kind of checked around, you know To see what this guy did And what business he was in Yes, ma'am He's in the used car business Sells old cars I see That's it Sells used cars in an office building Not even a lot Nothing There's a glass door Is there any lettering on it? Yeah, I thought about that, too But there isn't No, that's all he's got Just this little tiny office Dashing a couple of chairs Glass door Well, ma'am, there's nothing illegal in that, you know Oh, yeah But he doesn't have a license No, sir, he doesn't have a license I beg your pardon I work for a lawyer Alphabetical filing G to O I asked my boss if you didn't have to have some kind of license To sell cars in my bus As you do This man doesn't have one He goes out and buys these old cars And then fixes them up and sells them And he doesn't have a license Well, not only that The man he sells the cars to Why do you say that? No, because I do That's why I always come in the office And they sit there and talk and talk And then they leave I get in the hall sometimes And they laugh And they're real spooky guys Real spooky Well, what's the matter, ma'am? Man, it just came in A little bit of kind of blonde hair You see him? Yes, ma'am, what about him? Isn't it? Oh, what's his name? I know it as well I know my own He stars in all those space things You know, like the Saturn saga And the Martian maniac That was on last week And this all That one that just came in Well, he had on this kind of suit All covered with lights A space suit He was so cute Yes, ma'am Well, if you'll tell us the name of the man In your building, you'll check on him Oh, there's more to this story Ma'am There's more I'm not finished All right, would you like to sit down and go on? Oh, yeah Well, day before yesterday I'm standing by the elevator And one of this man's customers Come out of the office He walks over the elevator He reached into his pocket And took out a cigarette Kept the pack up here And the pocket up here You know, here With the handkerchief Yes, ma'am Well, when he pulled the pack out He dropped a little package So around on the floor He didn't see it Right away, he got into the elevator And went down And I went over and picked it up A little tiny thing Got it right here in my purse I was going to give it to the man And I thought maybe I better come to you And saw a picture of a thing Like this in the newspaper Well, here it is Well, you just look at that Come here, you see Yes, ma'am What is it, Jeff? Harold From 4 a.m. We continued to talk to the woman She gave us the name of the man Who ran the used car agency in her building Ralph Holland She also gave us a description of him And a description of the man She'd seen drop the narcotics We went back to the office And checked the name through R and I Holland had a record listing One arrest on suspicion of violation Of the State Narcotic Act The date of the arrest was August 17, 1937 He'd been released for lack of evidence We checked the name in the phone book And came up with a business and a residence address He lived with his wife In a large track out in San Fernando Valley 1.15 p.m. Frank and I drove out to talk with Holland's neighbors They told us that the family was known And respected throughout the area None of them could recount any actions That might cause suspicion They told us the Holland's had lived in the house For the past five years But that Mrs. Holland had said That the family was planning to move into town From the neighbors, we found out that Mrs. Holland Was a semi-invalid and rarely left the house We called the office and arranged for a stakeout on the house And then we drove back into Hollywood To talk with Holland's business associate From them, we got the same story Ralph Holland was a respected member of the community And was a member of several civic clubs None of his friends could tell us Much about his business activities We did learn, however, that many of his friends Couldn't figure how the family could live At the scale that they did They said that Holland had a good business But they couldn't see how he could afford The new cars that he drove Or the new house he was planning to move into By 46 p.m. we checked back into the office And talked with Captain Nelson You know, it should take us a couple of days To get the information back from the banks Yeah In the meantime, we got a lot of walking to do You know, it's going to be tough I was going to say we could have all the help we needed You've got in touch with narcotics? Yeah, I called him this morning They'll give us a hand Yeah, rough duty, isn't it? What do you mean? Well, we figured the guy's guilty Looks good for it, not a big job Yeah, got to prove it You are listening to Dragonet The authentic story of your police force in action Years ahead of them all Chesterfield is years ahead of all cigarettes Chesterfield quality is highest Here's the proof Recent chemical analyses give an index of good quality For the country's six leading cigarette brands The index of good quality table Which is a ratio of high sugar to low nicotine Shows Chesterfield quality highest Chesterfield quality highest 15% higher than its nearest competitor Chesterfield quality highest 31% higher than the average of the five other leading brands Don't you want to try a cigarette with a record like this? Chesterfield, first with premium quality And best for you Try Chesterfield today Regular or king size Work started Two teams of men were assigned from AutoFest Detail to help us And narcotics sent two more teams to work with us For the next three weeks Ralph Holland was kept under 24-hour surveillance Her stakeout was maintained on his house and on his office His business records were checked From these we came up with an estimate of what the suspect's income was Then we began to check his expenditures As a result we found that he had control of at least $250,000 That his business could not account for Everyone who visited the Holland's either at their home or at his office was checked on Among his visitors we found several known narcotic dealers The AutoFest continued but by now the code system had begun to work From July 31st to August 25th 16 cars were stolen that we attributed to Holland's operation All of them were recovered between Los Angeles and the Mexican border All of the drivers of the cars were taken into custody But none of them could give us any information to aid us in obtaining a conviction During that time Holland didn't make any attempt to handle any narcotics A dictograph had been placed in his office and all of his conversations were monitored But nothing incriminating was said We got the address of the new home the suspect had bought And a complete set of listening equipment was installed there From the time the couple moved into the house their conversations were monitored 24 hours a day The recordings were played for Captain Nelson, Captain Chi of Narcotics Division And for the men from the district attorney's office They agreed that there wasn't enough evidence to issue an indictment Friday August 28th Frank and I checked into the listening post Well you might as well sit down Frank we got a long night Gonna be better with a speaker What? Fellas downtown putting a speaker see Airphones get too heavy Oh yeah I was talking to Guy Anderson he was out here Said by the time you sit with those things in your head For a couple of hours feels like somebody shot your ears full of Nova game Yeah Speakers better Man, that's insane Easier too Well better turned on Yeah Holland come home you Just walked in for what we got here There they come Sounds like they're in the living room huh Yeah Want to take a trip with me? Where to? All of them and we drive down south You know I'm thinking I'd go to Mexico Oh I got it honey And anybody else that said things been rough lately Been picking the boys up as fast as I can find them Why did you call it quits you've made enough Just about to do that honey that's the last trip I'm glad of that Honey I don't like it Maybe I'm just getting jittery but I swear they've been men watching the house Here, thank you sir You're just getting jumpy honey There's nobody watching and anybody who knows about this Oh I'm glad you're like that I'm not too sure anymore Is it nothing to worry about we're clean This is the last trip after that we call it quits okay Just won't be glad when it's over That'll be good for you Get out of the house see the country Get you over this case of nerds you've got It might be kind of nice but that was Sure it would Best thing in the world for you See some new things When you figure it out Oh I'm going to pick up the car in the morning early I thought we'd get away about eight Stay down there for a couple of days Get back Tuesday Take our time Have a few left Who's going to pick up the car You kid named Jimmy We're going to meet him halfway just outside of Del Mar I'll take the car from there And I'll be glad when it's over I know I can feel honey I'll give you my word Tomorrow that's the end of it Well let's hope he's not kidding Early morning at 6 30 a.m. Frank and I along with the men from Narcotics Division Were parked down the street from the Holland home At 8 36 a.m. we saw the couple come out of the house And get into Ralph Holland's car They drove out to Sepulveda Boulevard and they turned south All units of the state police had been notified to watch for the car Members of the Sheriff's Department were stationed along the road Just outside Del Mar If we could take Holland into custody While he was in the possession of a stolen car And confront him with the stories of the two suspects We picked up earlier George Summers and Harry Sloan We felt that there was a good chance that he might confess In any event we'd be able to bring him to trial on a grand theft auto charge The meet was made with the man who'd stolen the car as scheduled And Holland started to drive south to the border Men from the Sheriff's Department took the thief into custody and we followed Holland About four minutes later we pulled the car over to the side of the road In front of a small coffee stand He and his wife got out of the car and they went into the place We drove by and then we doubled back And parked about a hundred yards up the road from the stand All right, let's go The boy should be around back by now Yeah All right, come on Yes, what do you want? You driving that green Buick out there? Yeah, so what? Wonder if we could see the registration papers on the car What for? Police officers We'd like to see the registration papers Watch it! Got no right to hit him like that We weren't doing anything You got no right All right, come on, Holland Funny for you You got some play a little rough That's it We didn't call it you did All right, hands are back of you Stand still How about it? He's clean You guys sure got a lot of nerve to come in here Beat him up like this Who tipped you? Who finked out? Don't worry about it Somebody had to But there wasn't anybody that knew Nobody at all How'd you find out? All right, come on It's perfect All the way around Where'd I go sour? 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Holland was tried and convicted On 12 counts Grand Theft Auto His wife, Milridar Holland Was tried and convicted Of one count Grand Theft Auto Seven other members of the gang Were apprehended and brought to trial On the same charges They all received sentences As prescribed by law Grand Theft Auto is punishable By imprisonment in the state penitentiary For a period of not less than one Nor more than 10 years Four suspects were apprehended And tried on charges of violation Of the state narcotic act of felony They were convicted and received terms As prescribed by law Violation of the state narcotic act To felony is punishable By imprisonment in the state penitentiary For a period of not less than one Nor more than six years A series of authentic cases from official files Technical advice comes from the office Of chief of police W.H. 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