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We also have a New Year's Eve special go check that 17 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:02,760 out Amazing dot Great Attactives dot net. And then we will have three Christmas 18 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:07,599 episodes of the old time radio snack Wagon next week at Snackwagon dot net. 19 00:02:08,439 --> 00:02:15,080 Now let's get into this week's episode of Dragnet. The original air date October 20 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:27,000 FIRS, nineteen forty nine and the title is Truck Hijackers, Ladies and Gentlemen. 21 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,240 The story you were about to hear is true, only the names have 22 00:02:30,319 --> 00:02:46,560 been changed to protect the innocent. NBC brings you Dragnet. You're a detective 23 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:52,840 sergeant. You're assigned to burglary detail. A gang of hijackers has started to 24 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:58,080 work in your city. Truckloads of valuable merchandise have finished. The thieves are 25 00:02:58,159 --> 00:03:04,319 clever, seem to have a food proof system. Your job find them. 26 00:03:05,159 --> 00:03:08,919 Drag Net. That documented drama of an actual crime, investigated and solved by 27 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:14,159 the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security at your home, your family, 28 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,080 and your life. All the next thirty minutes. In cooperation with the 29 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:22,000 Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of 30 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,639 the law through an actual case from official police files, from beginning to end, 31 00:03:25,879 --> 00:03:30,120 from crime to punishment. Drag Net is the story of your police force 32 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:38,360 in action. It was Thursday, March sixth It was windy in Los Angeles. 33 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,800 We were working the night Watch out of burglary detail. My partner's Ben 34 00:03:42,879 --> 00:03:46,639 Romero. The boss's at Backstrain shee be detective. My name is Friday. 35 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,439 I was on the way back from the record Bureau and it was five thirty 36 00:03:50,479 --> 00:03:55,599 five am when I got to Room two, a interrogation room. Read this 37 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:02,960 storm, Ben, Yeah, ninelon stockings, forty five bolts of sail, 38 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,879 fifty eight cases imported burkey. Before you're dumping this stuff of ballots? What 39 00:04:06,919 --> 00:04:10,479 we want to know? I told you the truth. I have nothing to 40 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,840 do with it. I don't know anything about it. What was this stolen 41 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:15,759 way building in the caviar truck? How many times I have to tell you 42 00:04:15,879 --> 00:04:19,120 I don't know. If fingerprints are all over it, you must have carried 43 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:23,160 it there. I didn't carry it there. Somebody's out to frame me. 44 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,399 How many in the hijack gang levelle I'm not in a highjack game. I 45 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,759 told you, I don't know. Why are you gonna let me go. 46 00:04:30,879 --> 00:04:32,800 Who's the head of the gang. I don't know any head of the gang. 47 00:04:32,879 --> 00:04:36,199 I want to get out of here. You're covering for somebody, not 48 00:04:36,399 --> 00:04:40,079 covering for anybody. You take the rap for all this. You're gonna have 49 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:42,240 a beard down to your knees by the time you get out. I'm not 50 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,839 taking any wrap. Then let's have it. I'm tired. Forty two thousand 51 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:47,839 dollars worth. You know who took it? You know where it is. 52 00:04:47,959 --> 00:04:51,319 They could have disappeared anywhere on their way from the East to the Thousand Places. 53 00:04:51,319 --> 00:04:54,439 Nothing was missing from those shipments when they came in on the train, 54 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:56,920 and everything was there when they were unloaded the warehouse. And I don't know, 55 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,600 I don't know. Every dollar's worth was a conting he was loaded on 56 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,800 the truck. Where is it now? I'm tired. We've been here all 57 00:05:04,879 --> 00:05:08,879 night. Let me well, let me read it for you again. Twenty 58 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,199 six hundred dozen nine on stockings, forty five bolts of silk, fifty eight 59 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:15,279 cases imported perfume. And you're trying to tell us somebody hijacked all that from 60 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:16,920 the trucks without you knowing it. The trucks were loaded at the warehouse, 61 00:05:16,959 --> 00:05:19,240 we went out to eat, we came back out in the trucks, delivered 62 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,639 the stuff and that's all I know. And while you were out eating, 63 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:27,600 the receipts for the little disappeared too pre right, Levell, I don't know 64 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,040 where the waybills are the shipping truck, that's his job. We talked to 65 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,639 him. He says, one of you could have taken the way, and 66 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,560 then he's lying. I didn't take him. And what was this waybill doing 67 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:40,000 in the CABR truck? I told you, I don't know. Somebody's trying 68 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,639 to frame me why. I don't know somebody. I don't know why, 69 00:05:43,759 --> 00:05:47,040 And you better come up with an answer. Mister. Look, I'm tired. 70 00:05:47,319 --> 00:05:50,639 We've been here since six o'clock last night. We're all tired. Who 71 00:05:50,639 --> 00:05:57,399 you're covering for? What are you trying to build? Any Let coffee left? 72 00:05:57,439 --> 00:06:01,600 Ben, It's cool, that's all right. Ye want some level? 73 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:25,160 No bright Now, Look, let's get one thing straight. We've been here 74 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,759 all night. We can be here all day tomorrow, the day after that, 75 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,120 and the day after that. We got enough to make you on this. 76 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:31,560 You know that we're gonna stay with you to tell us the truth everything 77 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,079 I've told you all. I'm gonna tell you. We stay here for six 78 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:40,199 months. You got it all? This your home phone hill Side eight three 79 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,560 two one. Let's ride a three to one. Sometimes your wife get up, 80 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,920 lavell. What do you mean, Ben, get an outsideline. Yeah, 81 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,120 you're not gonna call my home. It's hill Side eight three two one. 82 00:06:51,160 --> 00:07:04,120 Ben Upsiden, don't do that, don't not my wife? Please? 83 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:12,040 All right, ask the questions again. This time I'll give you the answers. 84 00:07:15,079 --> 00:07:17,439 Thomas Leval was thirty eight years old. He was a well respected man 85 00:07:17,439 --> 00:07:21,240 in his community. Sometimes it's like that. You can question a man for 86 00:07:21,319 --> 00:07:26,079 hours. They will never give you any information. But somewhere in every man's 87 00:07:26,079 --> 00:07:29,959 makeup there's a week point. We were lucky enough to find Laval's. He 88 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,040 told us that he would give us the locations where the hijacked goods were hidden. 89 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:35,160 He told us the addresses were written on the ledge of a window sill 90 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:41,360 on the seventh floor of the teamster's union Hall. Was eight thirty am on 91 00:07:41,439 --> 00:07:46,639 the seventh floors that night. Yeah, do me a favor. Don't make 92 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,959 it too big. Look, we have to walk through the hiring hall before 93 00:07:48,959 --> 00:07:53,480 we get to the elevators in the back. Yeah, with these handcuffs, 94 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:57,879 they'll see them. All the guys in the halls they know me. Can't 95 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,959 you take them off my wrists till we get neil wad Sorry, Lava, 96 00:08:01,279 --> 00:08:03,079 I won't try anything, but don't make me walk in front of him with 97 00:08:03,199 --> 00:08:07,480 these Ar'm sorry, just till we get in the elevator. Can't you do 98 00:08:07,519 --> 00:08:11,240 that? I don't want the guys to see me. Well, here's my 99 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,240 overcoat, Levalla. Drap it over your hands here and they won't see the 100 00:08:15,279 --> 00:08:26,720 cuffs. Hey, come on, yeah a lot s Hi Tom, Hi, 101 00:08:26,279 --> 00:08:33,440 Hi, there's no Tom, not much. Oh, that wasn't easy. 102 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:48,639 Let's take the elevator. Yeah is that gren? No? Thanks? 103 00:08:48,279 --> 00:09:07,960 Yeah, yeah, it's down this way. Let me show you to the 104 00:09:07,039 --> 00:09:16,320 left, the window up ahead, Yeah, this one. I don't see 105 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:18,679 anything on the windows. Stall it's on the outside. And open the window 106 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:26,000 and let me check. Yeah, let me see your fan. Drab him. 107 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,399 He's trying to jump in here. Back here, get back back your 108 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,320 here, Joe, get him, Joe. He can't hold him. He's 109 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,399 pulling me out. Hold on, benab Joe, Joe, he's swimming head. 110 00:09:35,879 --> 00:09:39,720 Try Joe, hold on he's taking loose. My cant hold him. 111 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:50,720 Hold him, Joe, Oh, I couldn't hold him. You almost went 112 00:09:50,759 --> 00:09:54,679 whining. Let's get downstairs. What happened. Call an ambulance. There's been 113 00:09:54,720 --> 00:10:01,679 an accident. Tom Us Laval was thirty eight years old who was a well 114 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:07,799 respected man in his community. He died with the same reputation. We had 115 00:10:07,799 --> 00:10:09,799 a prisoner who had met his death while in our custody. In cases like 116 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,120 this, we had to have witnesses. By the time we got to the 117 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:18,720 street, the usual accident crowded gathered. Anybody here see the accident where if 118 00:10:18,759 --> 00:10:22,000 you want witnesses? Yeah? Did you say it? Yeah, we saw 119 00:10:22,039 --> 00:10:24,120 it. Let's get their names. Ben. My name's Pete Garfield. This 120 00:10:24,279 --> 00:10:28,720 is Jack Marris. We'll be your witness. You'll probably be his opinion for 121 00:10:28,759 --> 00:10:31,399 the inquest tomorrow morning. Sure, we'll be there. We saw you pushed 122 00:10:31,399 --> 00:10:37,559 the guy at the window. We saw you kill him. The next morning, 123 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,519 at ten am, in the basement of the Hall of Justice, Harold 124 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,960 J. Lane, Deputy Corner City in County of Los Angeles, who read 125 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,159 the report of the findings of the autopsy on the body of the deceased Thomas 126 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,080 Laval, as his customary had a corner's inquest. The identification witness was called 127 00:10:52,080 --> 00:11:03,120 to testify first. Elizabeth Leval, Please raise your right hand. Do you 128 00:11:03,159 --> 00:11:05,559 solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give to be the truth, the 129 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,879 whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help you God. Yes, 130 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:16,639 be seated. Oh, state your name, Elizabeth Lavelle. What is 131 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:22,559 your address? Twelve sixteen East Camarillo Drive. What is your occupation? I'm 132 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:28,039 a housewife. What is your relation to the deceased? His wife? Have 133 00:11:28,159 --> 00:11:33,879 you viewed the body of the deceased in this office? Yes? Who was 134 00:11:33,919 --> 00:11:39,240 the deceased husband? Thomas Leavell? Is there anything further you wish to add? 135 00:11:41,799 --> 00:11:54,360 Thank you? Step down? Please, Joseph Friday raise your right hand. 136 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:58,720 Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give to be the 137 00:11:58,759 --> 00:12:01,840 truth, the whole truth, but the truth will help you God? I 138 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:09,799 do be seated. State your name, Joe Friday. What is your address? 139 00:12:09,039 --> 00:12:13,840 Forty six fifty six Collis Avenue. What is your occupation? I'm a 140 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,720 police officer in and for the city of Los Angeles. Are you the investigating 141 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:22,120 and arresting officer on this case? I am while he state briefly the facts 142 00:12:22,159 --> 00:12:26,679 relating to the death of the deceased. On the morning following the arrest by 143 00:12:26,759 --> 00:12:31,960 us of the deceased on suspicion of grand theft merchandise, he expressed a desire 144 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:37,759 to assist us in the apprehension of suspects involved in these thefts and the recovery 145 00:12:37,759 --> 00:12:41,080 of property taken in them. Did he assist you well? He informed us 146 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:45,120 that if we took him to the teamster's Union Hall, that he'd be able 147 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,639 to obtain addresses of the locations where the stolen property was cashed. You then 148 00:12:48,759 --> 00:12:54,080 took him there, Yes, we did. What happened when we arrived, 149 00:12:54,159 --> 00:12:58,039 he requested us to remove his handcuffs. We refused. Deceased then informed us 150 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:03,720 that the addresses were written on a window ledge on the seventh floor. When 151 00:13:03,759 --> 00:13:07,000 we arrived at the window, under the pretense of searching for the addresses, 152 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,879 he threw himself over the ledge. I grabbed his left leg to restrain him, 153 00:13:09,879 --> 00:13:15,039 but he kicked loose. Did you at any time have any idea that 154 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:18,840 the disease planned such action? I did not. What did you do? 155 00:13:18,919 --> 00:13:22,320 Then? We immediately went to the location of the body and had an ambulance 156 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,639 dispatched. Do you have anything further to state? No, I have not. 157 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:31,360 Are there any questions from the jury? That's all all, Sir Friday 158 00:13:31,399 --> 00:13:46,159 stepped down. Peter Garfield raise your right hand. Yeah. Do you solemnly 159 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,159 swear that the testimony you're about to give to be the truth, the whole 160 00:13:48,159 --> 00:13:52,200 truth, and nothing but the truth. So I help you God? Yeah, 161 00:13:52,919 --> 00:13:58,639 be seated. Yeah. State your name, Pete Garfield. How does 162 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:03,759 your sixteen fifty four North Pico? What is your occupation? Truck driver down 163 00:14:03,799 --> 00:14:09,559 the general warehouse? Did you know the deceased? Yeah? How did you 164 00:14:09,639 --> 00:14:11,320 know him? I worked with him and the CoP's a liar, and so 165 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:16,399 it says, buddy sitting over there, please can find the testimony of this 166 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:20,639 inquest to facts? Were you present at the time the deceased met his death? 167 00:14:20,159 --> 00:14:24,000 I told you I was. Those two cops pushed Tom out of the 168 00:14:24,039 --> 00:14:28,480 window. Where were you at the time the deceased was pushed or jumped from 169 00:14:28,519 --> 00:14:31,879 the window? Jack and I just left the Union Hall. We were going 170 00:14:31,879 --> 00:14:35,559 out the front door when it happened, but attracted your attention or him scream. 171 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,240 When I looked up, Tom was falling. That cop was standing at 172 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:43,600 the window watching him. Did you see the officer push him? Yes, 173 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:46,960 I saw him. Did I understand you to say you were on the street 174 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,879 outside the building at the time, Yeah, and you saw the officers pushed 175 00:14:50,919 --> 00:14:56,879 the deceased from the window on the seventh floor from your vantage point. Yeah. 176 00:14:56,399 --> 00:15:01,080 Isn't it true that that's a physical impossibility? What is that you could 177 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:05,039 have seen what you testified too from where you were standing. I know they 178 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:09,320 pushed him, you know, or you saw I know, that's all. 179 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:13,240 Tom wouldn't jump out of the window. Then it's true you didn't see the 180 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:18,159 officers pushed the deceased out of the window. No, I didn't see them. 181 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:22,679 Is there anything further you'd like to add? They must have pushed them, 182 00:15:22,919 --> 00:15:31,799 any question from the jury? That's all? Garfield stepped down. Dorothy 183 00:15:31,879 --> 00:15:39,360 River, raise your right hand. Yes. Do you solemnly swear that the 184 00:15:39,399 --> 00:15:43,159 testimony you're about to give to be the truth, the whole truth, and 185 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,200 nothing but the truth. To help you God, I do be seated. 186 00:15:48,559 --> 00:15:54,879 State your name, Dorothy River, What is your address two eleven South Beverly 187 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,759 Drive, and what is your occupation. I'm a stenographer at the Teamster's Union 188 00:15:58,799 --> 00:16:03,720 Hall. Were you present the morning the deceased met his death? I was 189 00:16:04,399 --> 00:16:08,000 state where you were and what you were doing. I was in our office 190 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:14,519 on the seventh floor doing some filing. Please state what you witnessed. The 191 00:16:14,879 --> 00:16:18,759 filing cabinet and our office is by the door. The office faces on the 192 00:16:18,759 --> 00:16:22,120 hallway, and the door happened to be open. I heard a commotion and 193 00:16:22,159 --> 00:16:27,080 looked out. I saw those two officers struggling with a man. Did you 194 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:33,200 hear any conversation? Yes? I heard that officer there say get back here, 195 00:16:33,279 --> 00:16:37,159 get back the man outside the window. Yo, let me go, 196 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,960 Let me go. This officer here, Officer Friday said, he's pulling me 197 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:47,519 out. Hold on, Ben grabbed me. How far from the window were 198 00:16:47,559 --> 00:16:53,519 you I'd say about fifteen feet. Do you have anything else to add? 199 00:16:55,080 --> 00:17:00,320 Yes. As the two policemen started downstairs, Officer Friday said to me, 200 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,079 call an ambulance. There's been an accident. Thank you, Miss River. 201 00:17:03,519 --> 00:17:07,759 Those officers didn't push that man out the window. They were trying to hold 202 00:17:07,799 --> 00:17:15,319 him. After hearing additional witnesses, the coroner's jury retired at eleven fifty seven 203 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:19,759 am. Eight minutes later, they returned with their decision. The deceased met 204 00:17:19,759 --> 00:17:26,599 his death voluntarily and buy his own actions. The homicide detail continued the investigation 205 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,559 of Laval's death. A week went by, with homicide working one side. 206 00:17:30,599 --> 00:17:33,519 We hope that they might turn up additional leads in the hijacking case. Nothing 207 00:17:33,559 --> 00:17:37,279 turned up. It seemed that with the death of Thomas Laval, our leads 208 00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:41,559 came to an abrupt stop. On Tuesday morning, March sixteenth, at nine 209 00:17:41,599 --> 00:17:45,599 am, we got a call from Chief of detectives at Backstrand. Now once 210 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,240 more, what about the way bills and these shipments. You check them everything. 211 00:17:48,279 --> 00:17:52,640 We could talk to everybody and handle them and talk to him some more. 212 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:56,319 Forty two thousand dollars in merchandise doesn't just disappear? Who's the last one 213 00:17:56,319 --> 00:18:00,720 to handle those waite bills? To wear a house shipping players were signed and 214 00:18:00,799 --> 00:18:03,319 stamped. Two hours after you filled them in his desk, they disappeared. 215 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:04,640 What about the truck drivers, You checked them out, talk to all of 216 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,640 them. Nothing so far, nothing was missing from those shipment until they left 217 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:12,000 the warehouse. Is that right? Yeah? And somewhere in between the warehouse 218 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,200 and the delivery points, forty two thousand dollars worth of goods disappeared, and 219 00:18:15,279 --> 00:18:18,799 somebody's got to be hijacking those loads. We know that, but how do 220 00:18:18,839 --> 00:18:22,079 we get to it. Maybe they're working alone, Maybe they're working with the 221 00:18:22,079 --> 00:18:25,240 truck drivers. It's one of the others got to be. Just hadn't lost 222 00:18:25,279 --> 00:18:26,920 leval Well, you lost them. That doesn't close the case. You've got 223 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:41,160 a suggestion, Yeah, I got a suggestion. Crack it. You are 224 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:45,559 listening to drag nets, authentic stories from official police files, and now an 225 00:18:45,599 --> 00:18:49,759 important announcement. Ladies and gentlemen. We are pleased to announce that, starting 226 00:18:49,799 --> 00:18:55,039 next Thursday, October sixth, drag Net will be brought to you by Fatima 227 00:18:55,079 --> 00:18:59,519 Cigarettes. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you the listener, for 228 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:03,160 your excellent response to our efforts in bringing you these weekly, authentic presentations of 229 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:08,240 actual cases from official files. Your letters are the only indications we have that 230 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,119 Dragnet is a source of your listening pleasure. We'd like to hear from all 231 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,759 of you. Starting next Thursday, October sixth, over most of these same 232 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:22,079 NBC stations, drag Net will be heard weekly at ten thirty pm Eastern Standard 233 00:19:22,079 --> 00:19:26,359 Time, immediately following the Supper Club. Check your newspaper for local release time. 234 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,640 We stayed on the job. Another week went by, no leeds. 235 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,519 We spent so much time at the General Warehouse where the merchandise disappeared, that 236 00:19:41,559 --> 00:19:45,200 we almost got to be a part of the crew. We got to know 237 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,960 everybody. We made frequent visits to the Teamsters union hall. It got us 238 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,799 nothing. On Wednesday, March twenty sixth we reported in for work at eight 239 00:19:52,799 --> 00:19:57,599 am. Friday, Romero, Yes, giver, you pooled around just long 240 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:02,519 enough. They hijacked another load last night, thirty eight thousand dollars. What 241 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:06,880 out fit the same General warehouse. Who's your contact down there? Ray Hobart, 242 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,240 shipping clerk, Hop down there right now and get the details right There 243 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:11,680 are two ways to sell this thing, you know. You can get those 244 00:20:11,759 --> 00:20:15,839 hijackers now or wait till General Warehouse goes out of business. Get on it. 245 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,920 Hobart, who was the shipping clerk on duty last night. I was 246 00:20:23,279 --> 00:20:26,720 working for Sigi siagullmeister. He's out of the cold. And you saw this 247 00:20:26,759 --> 00:20:30,160 stuff was loaded on the trucks, and you checked the way bill as usual, 248 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,799 everything as usual, checked the trucks out at two am, went back 249 00:20:33,839 --> 00:20:37,200 to the office, file the waybills. You work a pretty heavy schedule Hobart. 250 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:41,000 You started at two am and you're still on duty. It took the 251 00:20:41,079 --> 00:20:44,839 last four hours of siggy shift at two am to six am. He had 252 00:20:44,839 --> 00:20:48,359 a cold. I was back here at ten this morning to start my own 253 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,039 shift. When did you find out the way bills were missing on that shipping 254 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,640 last night? Uh? Just four? I went off? Maybe had pass 255 00:20:56,759 --> 00:21:00,000 five quarters six? How about the truck drivers who handled that load to Hobart. 256 00:21:00,279 --> 00:21:04,400 Let's see, I got it right here. Okay, here you go, 257 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:11,880 shag it. Jack Morris and Pete Garfield. Jack Morris and Pete Garfield 258 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,319 were brought in for questioning. We double checked with Homicide and found out their 259 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,039 reports on Morris and Garfield tallied with ours. No previous records. Both men 260 00:21:19,079 --> 00:21:22,160 had been tailed for a reasonable length of time since their testimony at the lav 261 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:26,839 Alley in quest. Their actions failed to implicate them. Four days after the 262 00:21:26,839 --> 00:21:30,640 second hijacking, we got a tip from one of our informants down in the 263 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,920 Warehouse district. He told us that a man in a gray suit had been 264 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,319 hanging around the coffee shop next to the teamster's union hall. He was peddling 265 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,319 nylon stockings cheap. There had been other reports like this which we had followed 266 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,960 up, but none of them had paid off. Usually such leads didn't pay 267 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,039 off, but we couldn't be sure. They had to be checked at a 268 00:21:49,039 --> 00:21:52,640 few minutes before five that afternoon, we found the nylon salesman in the gray 269 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,599 suit in the back booth of the coffee shop, was joining the Union hall. 270 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,920 Take a look, I'll find it. You can't do better. Fifty 271 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,960 one gauge n look good? Huh mm, sure do, don't they? 272 00:22:07,039 --> 00:22:08,079 Joe? Yeah, they do. We been looking for you, Mac. 273 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,279 Some of the guys in the Union House said that you'd be around. Sure. 274 00:22:11,319 --> 00:22:14,720 I saw lots of these around there, all truck drivers just like you, 275 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,880 buying them like crazy, good deal. Sure looks like it. Man, 276 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,920 How many pregnant? Half many as you want? Four bits of pair 277 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,279 of your name? You got a couple of dozen for us? A couple 278 00:22:22,319 --> 00:22:26,039 of dozen? No, not on me, But I can get'em as 279 00:22:26,039 --> 00:22:27,440 many as you want. Well, we're kind of in a hurry. Can 280 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,559 you get'em for us? Fast? Couple of dozen? Let him make 281 00:22:30,559 --> 00:22:33,519 it three dozen, hunt, Joe? Yeah, if you want three dozen? 282 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:34,720 Can you get him now? Couple of hours. I can get'em 283 00:22:34,759 --> 00:22:37,359 same quality. Want to meet me here? Oh? I don't know. 284 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:41,279 We wanted him for the night my wife's birthday. You know, well, 285 00:22:41,279 --> 00:22:44,119 maybe an hour and a half. How's that three dozen? Meet you here? 286 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,039 Oh? Look, Mac, maybe we're both head in the same direction. 287 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,000 Can we go in here and pick up the nine on? Save time 288 00:22:49,039 --> 00:22:52,920 for all of it? And no, I don't think so. No, 289 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,759 they can't you wait hour and a half? How's that'll find a better buy? 290 00:22:56,119 --> 00:23:00,279 I'm sorry, Mac, I wish we had the time. Where do 291 00:23:00,279 --> 00:23:03,279 you have to go to pick up these nilids? Oh? Way out Sunset 292 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:07,319 Boulevard near Fairfax. Can't you wait? I'll make it fast. Oh can't 293 00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:10,799 we pay you and then go out and pick'em up ourselves? Huh No, 294 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,640 don't work that way. No, can't you wait too, I'll make 295 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,279 it fast. We ought to be home now, Joe. Yeah, I'm 296 00:23:18,279 --> 00:23:19,920 sorry, mister. We'll have to skip him. Yeah, I maybe we 297 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,720 can pick up something on the way home, ben candy or something wife likes. 298 00:23:22,759 --> 00:23:26,039 Can now? Uh? Look, fellas, I I don't want to 299 00:23:26,079 --> 00:23:30,240 see you lose out on this deal. I'll meet you halfway. How you 300 00:23:30,319 --> 00:23:33,400 mean? Look together? We will go out to Sunset and Fairfax. Huh 301 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,039 they had the place. You'll wait there at the Hamburger stand, and in 302 00:23:37,039 --> 00:23:41,559 five minutes I'll bring you the stuff. Okay, I don't know. We're 303 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,519 late already, but alright, it's a deal. I'll call a wife until 304 00:23:45,519 --> 00:23:48,920 her we're gonna be a little later. Three doesn't alright? Three dozen of 305 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,400 the best. You can't do better? Alright, I'll be back just a 306 00:23:51,440 --> 00:24:14,680 minute. Two three two five two three, Chief of Detective's Office Chandler Mike 307 00:24:14,759 --> 00:24:18,000 Joe Friday. Backstand there out right now, Joe, want to do me 308 00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:19,279 a favorite, Chandler, Make it fast. Get a couple of men out 309 00:24:19,279 --> 00:24:22,480 to Sunset and fair Facts as fast as you can. Tell him to watch 310 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:23,720 for Ben and me. You got that? Yeah? What else? We'll 311 00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:26,160 drive up in our car with another man. Ben and I'll get out of 312 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,519 the car and go in the Hamburger stand. The other man will walk off 313 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,119 wherever you get. Tell him to follow that man. You got it right, 314 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:33,880 all right, Just tail him, see where he goes, see what 315 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:41,160 he does. Okay, Joe, right away, all said Jill. She 316 00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:45,839 got dinner ready. Just about We better hustle sure, best deal in the 317 00:24:45,839 --> 00:24:51,839 world. Let's go. At five minutes to six, we pulled up out 318 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,359 the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax. It was almost dark. Ben and 319 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:56,640 I got out of the car and started over for the Hamburger stand on the 320 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,200 corner. We caught a glimpse of Barcie and Kaplin, one of our detective 321 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,359 cars parked in the gas station on the opposite corner. They had their eyes 322 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,000 on our man. When the traffic signals changed, the man crossed the street 323 00:25:07,039 --> 00:25:11,359 and headed down Fairfax. Barsian Kaplan waited a minute, and then they took 324 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,960 off after him. He turned at the next corner and disappeared from sight. 325 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,119 Then and I ordered a cup of coffee and we sat on the wait. 326 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:22,240 At half past six, we were still waiting. At five minutes to seven, 327 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,079 I went across the street to the drug store and called the office. 328 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,960 Barsian Kaplan hadn't been heard from their car. One five K was not acknowledging 329 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,160 calls. I had my call switched from communications to Backstrand's office. Well, 330 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,480 they lost him, ran in. I don't know how they lost him, 331 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,079 but they lost him. Who's out there now? Sullivan and Whitney took a 332 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,200 detail out there, they're calling the neighborhood right now, Well, how did 333 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,519 that happen? A man just doesn't disappear in the thin air. That's what 334 00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:49,880 I keep telling you about that stuff that's been hijacked. The search for the 335 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,599 nylon salesman went on all that night and most of the next day. From 336 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,799 his description, we ran a make on him, no previous record. He 337 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,759 disappeared completely, and we were right back where he'd started from, the only 338 00:26:00,799 --> 00:26:04,640 thing we could do was to start backtracking, requesting the people at General Warehouse, 339 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,799 the truck drivers, the shipping clerks. We kept a close check on 340 00:26:07,839 --> 00:26:11,279 Garfield and Morris, and when we went back to the only possible lead still 341 00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:15,519 remaining, Missus Laval, she could tell us nothing more than we already knew 342 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,400 when we left her. We started on the neighbors for the second time around. 343 00:26:21,559 --> 00:26:23,519 For the rest of the day we canvassed the immediate neighborhood. We got 344 00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:27,319 as many opinions of the Laval's as they had neighbors. At three point thirty 345 00:26:27,319 --> 00:26:32,599 that afternoon, we visited with Missus Gertrude Lancaster, a fifty year old maiden 346 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,480 lady who lived almost directly across the street from the Laval house. She went 347 00:26:36,519 --> 00:26:38,960 out a town the first time we covered the neighborhood. The old single sergeant. 348 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,039 There's no fool like an old fool. Oh say, if I told 349 00:26:42,079 --> 00:26:45,200 you the chances I had when I was a girl. We you not truck 350 00:26:45,279 --> 00:26:49,920 drivers like that. Laval man god Rest is so but fine, wealthy man, 351 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,519 as lawy as Templeton Grants. You membered him, No, ma'am, 352 00:26:53,559 --> 00:26:56,880 I was engaged to him once. Butterfly aways, that's what he used to 353 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,200 call me. I was slim in those days. Would you like to see 354 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,559 some pictures of me as a girl? No, no, thank you, 355 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,200 ma'am. We'd just like to ask you a few questions, that's all. 356 00:27:06,319 --> 00:27:08,240 Could you tell us if the Lavals had many visitors to their house in the 357 00:27:08,279 --> 00:27:11,200 past six months or so? Oh? My, no, funniest thing. 358 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,720 I am the nosy type, Sergeant. I like to know everything that goes 359 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:18,319 on around my neighborhood. And you can take my word for it. The 360 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,839 Laval's never had visitors, you know, Sergeant Friday. You remind me of 361 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,799 a young man I used to be engaged to just a few years ago. 362 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,559 Yes, miss langs Now, would you tell us please, did you have 363 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,920 any reason to think that there was something a little out of the ordinary about 364 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,559 the laval. Oh little out of the ordinary, he says, But, 365 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,200 my dear man, yes, here he was a truck driver, and there 366 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,400 she was with a home furnished life for asters. Well I even used to 367 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,079 see him, caught some of the things home in that car. Has beautiful 368 00:27:44,079 --> 00:27:47,759 things, rugs and glassware, boats of fabric. Oh, gorgeous, And 369 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,359 he'd bring these things home after work. Is that it, miss langkare anytime 370 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:56,240 anytime day and night, weekends, anytime after ford, Joe, we better 371 00:27:56,279 --> 00:27:59,119 call office. Yeah. Are you sure of all that you've told us, 372 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,000 Miss langsay? Oh, my dear man, of course, I'm sure. 373 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,400 I watched him week after week. Well, thank you. Uh, won't 374 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,440 you stay for a cup of tea? I'll have Joseph beIN fixed at Joseph 375 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,920 No, thank you, ma'am. Well, and perhaps a glass a sherry, 376 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,200 thank you. No. But there is something, yes, I wonder 377 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,759 if we could use your phone please? Oh, yes, in the hall 378 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:36,759 next to the umbrellas down, Thank you, ma'am. Two five two three? 379 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,200 Thanks. Friday had nothing much here? Well, it is something here, 380 00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:44,960 Barsia and Captain just called Pete Garfield left his house half an hour ago. 381 00:28:45,359 --> 00:28:48,039 Then he picked up Marris. What's so unusual about that? Now they 382 00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:49,799 accept the guy driving the car, the little man in the gray sid the 383 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:55,880 Nylon salesman. Barsia and Captain are Tellingham headed north out of Riverside driving. 384 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,720 There's nothing out there but a golf course and a lot of writing stables. 385 00:28:57,759 --> 00:29:03,480 I don't care what they do for recor go get him with red lighting, 386 00:29:03,559 --> 00:29:07,640 Sirreen. It took us twelve minutes to pick up Barcie and Kaplan on Riverside 387 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,680 Drive at four twenty three pm. We pulled up in front of the Blue 388 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:15,000 Phony riding stables. Barcie and Kaplan's car was overturned just beyond the driveway leading 389 00:29:15,079 --> 00:29:17,440 up to the riding academy. Captain's hurt. I pulled an amum, I 390 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:18,440 say, Ram, that's some kind of a carta in they Swiss. They're 391 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,440 driving a twelve towns Bulldog semi. Which way they had going north? Got 392 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,319 a three minute lead on your new May commercial Adam six five three, Let's 393 00:29:25,359 --> 00:29:32,200 go Ben. Can you see him? Joe? No, not yet. 394 00:29:32,279 --> 00:29:37,079 Watch that crossing up ahead, Joe. That's a semi. Can you read 395 00:29:37,079 --> 00:29:41,279 it? Wait? A minute, Adam sixty five three at them, took 396 00:29:41,319 --> 00:29:47,079 a ride on lankersh don't lose them. They're pushing that semi too hard. 397 00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:49,160 Look at that trailer sway they have to stay on languish him. They're going 398 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,880 too fast to turn now. Traffic's closing in up ahead of them. They 399 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,799 better nor time. That's what they're doing. Look at that trailer whip. 400 00:29:56,839 --> 00:30:15,720 They're going over pit a star first. All right, whatever I want to 401 00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:22,240 see. Yeah, they're banged up with they're alive. They are Jill, 402 00:30:22,599 --> 00:30:27,759 Yeah, Garfield, Morris, little Man and Grace. Who is funny in 403 00:30:27,839 --> 00:30:32,680 it? What's that? Garfield's gonna swear? We pushed that truck through that 404 00:30:32,759 --> 00:30:44,519 window. The story you have just heard is true, only the names were 405 00:30:44,599 --> 00:30:48,200 changed to protect the innocent. Peter Garfield, Jack Morris, and John Dulpho, 406 00:30:48,319 --> 00:30:52,880 the stocking salesman, were hospitalized and later brought to trial. They were 407 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,640 convicted on charges of grand theft and received sentences as prescribed by law. They 408 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:03,880 are now serving their terms in the state penitentiary. You have just heard the 409 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:08,640 eighteenth in a new series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice for 410 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,680 Dragnet comes from the Office of Acting Chief of Police W. A. Wharton, 411 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:18,200 Los Angeles Police Department. Tonight's program is dedicated to motorcycle Officer Elmer forceman 412 00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:22,440 of the Presno, California Police Department, who, on the afternoon of October 413 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,640 sixth, nineteen forty six, gave his life so that yours might be more 414 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:33,519 secure. Remember. Starting next Thursday night, October sixth, Fatima Cigarettes invite 415 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:38,319 you to listen to Dragnet immediately following the supper Club. That's ten thirty pm 416 00:31:38,359 --> 00:31:42,920 Eastern Standard time over most of these same NBC stations. Check your newspaper for 417 00:31:44,039 --> 00:31:48,519 local release time. Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles. Judy Canova joins 418 00:31:48,519 --> 00:31:56,880 the star lineup of Saturday shows tonight on NBC Welcome Back, head Backstrand was 419 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,640 in one of his unhelpful moves. Often he's hands on, full of suggestions 420 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:07,880 and wisdom earned from years of experience. This week he's got ones like cracket. 421 00:32:08,119 --> 00:32:13,039 Thanks hadn't thought of that. I do have to say that the partners 422 00:32:13,079 --> 00:32:17,160 in the hijacking ring made a pretty dumb mistake by calling attention to themselves by 423 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:22,079 serving as witnesses against Friday and Romero. However, on the other hand, 424 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:28,000 I have to say that few things are more fortunate when someone wrongfully accuses you 425 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:35,640 than having a stenographer in the next room heard everything and can believably read it 426 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,839 all back word for word. Oh that was a good break for our heroes. 427 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:43,680 Well, now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have 428 00:32:43,839 --> 00:32:49,440 that question of a card game. A couple of weeks ago, Jonathan writes, 429 00:32:49,799 --> 00:32:52,880 I recognize the game they were playing on that episode. It was a 430 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,359 version of a game I used to play with my mother, grandmother, and 431 00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:00,920 aunt. It's called Canasta. Will, Friday and Romeo could play two handed. 432 00:33:01,079 --> 00:33:05,960 It is designed for four players. That's the best way to play. 433 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,640 This is not a casino game, but more of a clubhouse game where one 434 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:15,079 might find four ladies playing over coffee and tea. It is a rummy based 435 00:33:15,759 --> 00:33:22,759 game like Jim Rummy or five hundred Rummy, and I thoroughly enjoyed playing it. 436 00:33:22,799 --> 00:33:29,519 And he provides a helpful link to the rules for Canasta. And Will 437 00:33:29,559 --> 00:33:36,839 also had a comment from Tim who comments over on the Great Detectives website. 438 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:44,279 In the Vicars Dragnet episode, Friday was nonchalantly teaching Romero how to play Canasta. 439 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:50,039 The game was popular in the fifties and sixties. We spent many rainy 440 00:33:50,119 --> 00:33:55,279 afternoons down the Jersey store, stuck on the front porch of the bungalow, 441 00:33:55,359 --> 00:34:00,720 playing Canasta and wishing we were on the beach. It's a two deckmy game, 442 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:06,160 draw two discard one. Two sequences allowed, but the goal is to 443 00:34:06,559 --> 00:34:14,280 acquire seven of a kind a Canasta more points if you don't use two's or 444 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:20,559 joker wild cards. If you want the top card from the discard pile, 445 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,320 you have to take the entire pile. This can run to ten or twenty 446 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:31,480 cards. Towards the end of the game, place a set of say four 447 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:37,760 jacks on the tableau. Before you add another three jacks or wild card on 448 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:42,400 the set, it becomes a Canasta and move is moved to the side with 449 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,639 the red threes to be continued later. Scoring comes in two phases, the 450 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:52,639 base, which gives points to the for the number of Canasta more if there 451 00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:59,960 are no wild cards used for red threes, and bonuses for going out either 452 00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:04,840 playing or discarding your last card. Then comes the Maid, where you gather 453 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:10,519 all the cards on your tableau and score fours through sevens and five, eight 454 00:35:10,679 --> 00:35:15,880 through kings count ten, aces, induces count twenty, and as Friday explained, 455 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:21,440 jokers are with fifty cards left in your hand. When someone else goes 456 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,679 out are deducted from your total. The game requires a score pad keeping a 457 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:31,960 running total between games. A major challenge for a child is holding fifteen, 458 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:37,280 twenty, maybe thirty cards in their small hands. The gameplay is not too 459 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:44,480 difficult for them and teaches sorting cards, finding matching sets, planning to collect 460 00:35:44,519 --> 00:35:50,960 aces, deception of siblings, and barrent opponents. Your old smiles when someone 461 00:35:51,039 --> 00:35:55,280 discards a queen and you pick it up and lay down the six queens you've 462 00:35:55,320 --> 00:36:00,280 been secretly holding in your hands, just waiting for this moment, racking them 463 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:07,440 up and moving the stack to the side as complete a completed natural Canasta. 464 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:13,840 The reckoning at the end of each hand is a fun exercising in accounting and 465 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:19,639 book keeping, not too complicated, and easier than computing ten percent of your 466 00:36:19,679 --> 00:36:24,039 total worth as a penalty in Monopoly. It's a rote of passage when a 467 00:36:24,119 --> 00:36:30,360 child can finally shuffle two decks at once. Canasta is a pleasant pastime, 468 00:36:30,519 --> 00:36:34,599 a way of passing the time and distracting the kids waiting for the rain to 469 00:36:34,639 --> 00:36:37,639 stop. Well, Tim, thanks for sharing the memories. I also was 470 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:45,360 notified about it being Canasta from Gary from Bedford, England on the site called 471 00:36:45,679 --> 00:36:50,960 x. I had wondered whether they would use a real game or if they 472 00:36:51,559 --> 00:36:55,519 made it up like I think Burns and Allen did something called Kleebob, But 473 00:36:55,679 --> 00:37:01,159 apparently they weren't worried about any sort of infringement or any issue like that, 474 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:07,960 and the game of Canasta certainly had enough complications to work without having to make 475 00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:14,159 up a fictitious game, And it's interesting to hear people's memories of playing it. 476 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,519 I don't think I ever did anything beyond simple rummy when I was growing 477 00:37:17,599 --> 00:37:22,760 up, so it's a bit beyond me at first listening. But I think 478 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:27,079 with card games it's just kind of a matter of watching it. But I 479 00:37:27,079 --> 00:37:31,199 think card games are great. I particularly love the ones that can be played 480 00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:37,440 with the standard fifty two cards, which obviously Canasta cannot be because essentially, 481 00:37:37,599 --> 00:37:44,000 when you own a deck of cards and you own a book of rules for 482 00:37:44,159 --> 00:37:47,880 card games like by Hoil, you own all the games that can be played 483 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:53,920 with that no expansion packs, none of the expenses that typically go with gaming, 484 00:37:54,519 --> 00:37:59,760 and yeah, you can play anywhere you want, batteries not included or 485 00:38:00,519 --> 00:38:05,320 so thanks so much for those memories. Appreciate to Sharon. Then we had 486 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:12,920 a comment on YouTube from Ron sur regarding Eric Kelby and he said on that 487 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,440 one Eric is played by Ed Bagley and the captain is none other than Harry 488 00:38:17,519 --> 00:38:22,639 Morgan aka Bill Gannon. Well, thank you so much. Now, I 489 00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:30,119 had mentioned Harry Morgan in the commentary, but I had not caught Ed Bagley, 490 00:38:30,119 --> 00:38:34,760 and I appreciated him flagging that. And honestly, when I think of 491 00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:39,440 Ed Bagley Sr. I think of Twelve Angry Men, And even though I 492 00:38:39,559 --> 00:38:45,440 listened to all of the Richard Diamond episodes where he played Walt Levinson and did 493 00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:52,000 just such a fantastic job, I don't automatically expect to hear him in radio 494 00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:54,760 shows so I can overlook him. But I did go back and listen, 495 00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:00,119 and I think you're definitely right. It does sound to me like Ed very 496 00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:05,559 talented actor, and I think people forget, well at least I do, 497 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,639 how much radio he did. And then we have a comment regarding the one 498 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:15,920 Nita Lasky case Production eight and Betsy says kind of skeptical here about the true 499 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:23,119 story that this was based on. Well, I can definitely understand being skeptical 500 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:30,400 about the story that Friday and Romero were told by the missing woman when she 501 00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:34,480 returned. Now, obviously, for them, in a way, it doesn't 502 00:39:34,559 --> 00:39:37,840 matter whether she was telling the truth or not. They were not looking for 503 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:44,000 her for having committed a crime or something like that. They were trying to 504 00:39:44,119 --> 00:39:46,840 find out if she was alive and safe and well. And she was, 505 00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:52,400 and a story the story she told, though, I can definitely understand being 506 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:58,159 skeptical of or wondering, is that really what happened. What I do know 507 00:39:58,599 --> 00:40:05,639 is that the human mind is funny. People sometimes do strange, inexplicable things, 508 00:40:05,679 --> 00:40:09,960 and sometimes there's not a particularly good explanation that can kind of make the 509 00:40:10,079 --> 00:40:16,920 story a little bit less satisfying if you're talking fiction. But I think that 510 00:40:17,519 --> 00:40:22,800 in real life it just can't tell. Well, now it's time to thank 511 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,320 our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead and thank 512 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:31,039 Diane. Diane has been one of our Patreon supporters since July, currently supporting 513 00:40:31,039 --> 00:40:36,960 the podcast at the Master Detective level of fifteen dollars or more per month. 514 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,000 Thanks so much for your support. Diane, and that will do it for 515 00:40:40,119 --> 00:40:45,960 today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast 516 00:40:45,039 --> 00:40:50,920 software. Be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you download it from. 517 00:40:51,119 --> 00:40:55,960 We'll be back next Saturday with another episode of Dragnet, but join us 518 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,559 back here on Monday for the adventures of the Falcon Wear a business. What's 519 00:41:01,599 --> 00:41:05,519 that got to do with this? You never know, Wearing. I didn't 520 00:41:05,519 --> 00:41:07,119 come here for a third degree. You came here to get me to find 521 00:41:07,159 --> 00:41:10,719 someone for you, So I have to know things about her and you. 522 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,320 What do you want to know? Why you've been lying to me? You 523 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:19,719 say you haven't any idea why she disappeared. Still, you're sure right away 524 00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,840 at a long distance FADEO, you don't want the police in it? You 525 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,079 burn when I asked what business you're in. I don't like the way it 526 00:41:24,119 --> 00:41:29,639 adds up, all right, Wearing, You don't want the job? Sorry 527 00:41:29,679 --> 00:41:31,760 about it? Who says I don't want the job? I said you were 528 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:37,719 lying. But if that picture does the girl justice, saying, Still could 529 00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,960 be persuaded to look for him. You know something, then, somehow I 530 00:41:42,119 --> 00:41:47,880 don't think out you know something I like? Some somehow I didn't think I 531 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:52,000 hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, do you send your 532 00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:57,719 comments to Box thirteen at Great Detactoos dot yet, follow us on Twitter at 533 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:02,639 Radio Detactoos, and check us out on instat instagram dot com slash Great Detectives 534 00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:07,679 from Boise, Idaho. 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