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Well, now it is time for this week's episode of Dragnet. The original
air dight mayl eleventh, nineteen fifty The title is The Big Knife. The
story you were about to hear is true, only the names have been changed
to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned the Juvenile Bureau.
A potential killer roams the halls of one of the high schools in your
city. Girls students are then brutally slashed by the criminals. Your job stop
him. Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next thirty
minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step
by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police
biolemist, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Drag Net is
the story of your police force in action. Thursday, November fourth, with
Windy and Watson, we were working the day Watch Georgia Street, Juvenile Girl.
My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Bowling, Commander Juvenile Division.
My name is Friday. It was two forty five pm when we got
to Charter High School main entrance. Which way is yo? I don't know.
We can ask this boy, hey son, Yeah, where's the Principal's
office? Straight down the hall, last door on the last thank you.
What's all the noise about football? Rolly, we're playing Pimont. Today's probably
lose. Can't leave confidence like that. It's just your funny now day.
Yeah check that sign m junior prom dollar twenty five per cup makes you feel
old and I never did go to those high school events. Ho'll come good
advance last says it still can. Yes, like to see mister Chase.
Could I have your names? Flee, Romero and Friday. Oh yes,
you can go right in that s thank me, mister Chase. Yes,
my name's Friday. I talked to you on the phone. Oh yes,
certainly. Sergeant's never chairing. Thank you. This is my partner, Ben
Romain. How do you do, sir? I am at Chase, Sit
down, sit down, certainly. Glad to see you, gentlemen. I'm
at the end of my room. Would you mind breathing as mister Chase,
I at all this troubles start. I don't know how it's happened. I
don't know why, but here's the results. I do this dress, bloodstains
on it. That's historic. A woman stormed in here and said her daughter
came home from school yesterday wearing this dress. As she told her her mother.
She'd been knife here for school. How many cases like this have your
hand? Twenty one in the past three weeks. Why didn't you notify us
and leave me? Sergeant? I didn't know which way to turn when I
first learned about these knife things. I wanted to call in the police,
but some of the girls who had been cut, the parents didn't want to
report of the publicity, there's no rioting. He didn't want it. I
hope you realize it, Jason. It's a pretty serious man, Believe me,
I did real life. What could I do? The knifings had to
be stopped. The parents didn't want them reported. I've tried everything humanly possible
to find out who's responsible. What have you tried, mister Chase Well.
I called on some of the older students from the Boys Council. I placed
them all over the grounds of the buildings and told them to keep an eye
out. No results, and the knifings have gone right on this past week.
They've even gotten worse. Oh that reminds me just a moment. Please,
yes, Darris, would you get Jim Travis, Please have them come
to my office right away. Travis is head of the Boys Council, he
helped organize the system of guards. He might be able to give you some
information. He said a minute ago that the situation has been worse this past
week. I mean the knifings have gotten more frequent, more frequent, and
more serious. One girl was cut very badly this morning. He had to
be sent home. A most of these girls cutting pretty much the same manner.
The school nurse treated some of them. She says that look to her
though the girls had been slashed with a very sharp knife, probably a razor.
Is there any definite time patterns of these knifings. All of them happened
between periods when the students change classes. The cards are pretty well crowded,
and that's why it's so difficult to pin it down to any one person.
I see. How about the victims themselves, missus Chase? Is there any
set pattern there? And that's what has me frightening? What I mean,
most of the victims, a lot of pretty girl. Whoever's doing this seems
to have a preference for them. Fight me. When you think of what
kind of mind the person must have, it's a little more than frightening,
mister Chase. Person with a knife must be a metal case, probably a
dangerous when. I don't think he's going to be satisfied with just knifing the
girls. Possible if we let it go much longer. You wanted to see
me, missus jaseos come in, Jim for what have come sooner? I'm
tied up with a rally committee and Jim missus sergeant fight in sergeant for mayor
of police officers they had to investigate the knifings. I thought maybe you'd be
able to help out with some information. Well, I still have a fellows
on the council watching cards. I haven't seen anything yet, but if you
have any time after the rally gym, we'd like to have you show us
around. Okay, So here's the school nurse still in your office and I
talk for her too, and I think so jid. When does missus Wesley
go home at three thirty on Thursday, Mister Chase, I'll tell her to
stay on a few We'll meet you outside the office here. Okay, I'll
see you later then, right the school out for the day, Yes,
I guess we'll have to wait the morning to interview the victims. The first
class is at eight o'clock. I'll have the girls assemble in the classroom next
to my office. All right, mister Chason, thank you, I'll be
right back. Dos see you gentlemen are like the rally is just breaking up.
Huh, three o'clock and all the games, the three things. The
kid's hurting me, a gym up, the cord on, let us go,
let us go. Okay, oh my, the rest of you go
about your business. You're go on. Now, what's about? A young
lady with control? A woman? Look at her dresses and COVID with romans.
An ambulance was called and the injured girl was taken at Georgia Street Receiving
Hospital, where she was treated for a cut on her right forearm and a
deep slash across her hips. She was not the serious condition was the doctor's
opinion that the wounds had been inflicted either by a very sharp knife or more
probably a razor. A detail of plain clothesmen were dispensed to chart her high
school to keep the grounds and quarters under strick surveillance until further notice. At
seven point thirty the next morning, policewoman Loreene Jensen Ben and I met at
the high school with Principal Chase and Jim Travers, the head of the Boys'
Council. By nine am, all of the twenty one nineing victims were assembled
in one of the empty classrooms. Police Woman Jensen outlined our plan of questioning.
May I have your attention please? This isn't going to take very long,
girl, so I will have to ask you to cooperate with us.
Try to remember every detail of the time and the place that the nothing's occurred.
We all have a report formed, Rita. You'd like to have your
ride. Three things. First, exactly where you were when you were injured.
After that writes the date and the time. Make that just as close
as you can remember it was. The bottom of the page writes the name
of the person you suspect might have cut you. Your answer will be get
confidential. Please don't compare notes with the girl next to you. We watch
your version, not to your neighbors. Sorry anyway, yeah, Travis,
five minute morning though, Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, Joe,
there's a recess coming up. We want to check the quarters. Can
you make out along for a little one. I'm sure you to go ahead.
You can check the clips when you get back, right, let's go
top of the stairs. Best. Sorry, Okay, if you stand back
a little the railings. No one down below the tellus are being watched either.
Okay, I'm pretty much interested in police work, you know, the
light detecting stuff. Let you keep on going here, one more fight,
all right. I wrote a paper once on the light detective because theology class
teacher liked it. So yeah, I've been reading how they take the fingerprints
prok and Prince and all that. Pretty interesting. Here we are. We
can keep an eye on the whole card from here. Okay, what detail
you officers work on Georgia Street, Juvenis you know Lee Jones or a rag
binker. Oh? Yes, I've read a lot about the crime when once
you come downtown, some might and we'll show you wrong. I'd be swell.
Okay, must be interesting meeting all kinds of people watching out of behavior.
Yeah. During the recess, while the students lived from classroom to classroom,
we kept the main quarter on the close surveillance. The other men from
Juvenal Bureau covered the rest of the corridors. We kept than I on the
main quarter. During the third recess, between periods at eleven am again or
results at eleven thirty, Travers went to check with the members of the boys
council to set up the noontime watch. Then and I went back to the
classroom on the main Florida Check with policewoman Jensen. We helped your tally the
results of the questioning of the girl victims that morning see seventeen eighteen nineteen.
Who takes care of the lots? I see there it is? Now?
What's it means? Well? Twelve say they were knifed on the main corridor.
Three knife outside the building or on the stairway, two in a classroom
at times they list doesn't look like there's any pattern there. How about the
suspects? If you looked down, that's even't got me beef. You've got
more of them than we have victims. Here the four pages of name.
Some of the girls wrote down as many as five suspects. It's kind of
helping. That's how many altogether? Pretty four? Oh, I'm as day.
Did you find out anything? It didn't turn out too well? Nothing
definite? Terrible morning parents calling up the newspapers. I don't know, certainly
out of my hands. Are there any assembly schedules for this afternoon? Yes,
after the fifth period? Why I think maybe a better canceling it seems
like every time the kids are crowded together, we just ask for trouble.
All right, I'll have a can't find something else on it? The girls
that we had in this room this morning, the victims. We'd like to
have every one of them brought back here after the next class, can all
right, I'll have it two slip cents to each morning, Thank you,
sir, Give you the chill kids getting cut up in broad dayline. Wherever
it is, the guy's got a stomach for it. How do you know
it's a guy? But of guesses? Any how about the school employees,
the janitors inst check them all out the coin. When we get the girls
back here, we'll go through the same routine. One thing we missed the
last time we talked to them. Yeah, we asked to pick suspects.
We might have more lucky if we have a bigger choice. Oh, how
do you mean? Well, instead of asking to pick out somebody, we've
found on the list the names of every person who was around them or near
them when they were touched and might have worked. If we can found a
couple of repeats on that they went to downstairs? Hory, come on,
then, what's the matter it's terrible, terrible if found her. She found
who who? Very price square downstairs, unconscious. I'm afraid. What do
you mean you're afraid? I'm not sure she's alive. We located the unconscious
girl in the corner of the basement, near the rear entrance to the girl's
locker room. She had been cut severely about the face and arms. At
Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, she was given an immediate blood transfusion. In addition
to her wounds, she was also treated for shock. We questioned the victim.
She stated that she did not see the person who attacked her. Later
that afternoon, she was removed to her own home upon the advice of her
family. Position one thirty five pm. Then and I got back to the
high school and checked in with a policewoman, Lorraine Jensen. How'd the last
station turned out? Ray a lot at it? It was a good idea,
Jim, Yeah, how'd we come out? Pretty good? You have
a list? They made out twenty one of them. Each girl listed an
average of eight persons around her. Sometimes she's nice. Yeah, one name
that occurs on nineteen twenty one. There they do, Jim Travers, you
are listening to Dragnet, the case history of a police investigation presented in the
Public Interest. Friday, November fifth PM, Ben and I started checking on
Jim Travers in the registrars filed he was listed as James Kirkland Travers, seventeen
years old. It was a well known, popular student. It was a
athlete. He was from a well to do family. His father was the
head of an engineering firm. His mother was from one of the oldest families
in the city. During his three and a half years at Charter High Him,
Travers had maintained close to an A average in his studies. He'd been
president of his class since freshman year, and he'd held numerous other class offices.
We interviewed his teachers. They had nothing but praise for Travers. They
tabbed him as a brilliant young man with an excellent future. We asked about
Traver's friends, who we powered around with who picked up a small league.
We were told that he had very few, if any, close personal friends
among the students, but he did have one girl at the high school he
was especially fond of. Her name was Barbara Ferris, a tall, dark
haired girl, exceptionally pretty. Her scholastic record was almost as high as Travers.
Two PM, policewoman Lorraine Jensen and I interviewed the girl in a small
room off the principal's office. Were now singling you out, baba. We're
interviewing most of the girls in the upper classes. You mean about what's gonna
happening around school? Yes, that's right. Well, I don't know much
about it. I was talking to Jim Travis last night. He's a friend
of mine. He told me why you were here? How long has he
known Jim Travis's father, Oh, since freshman year. I guess you go
study with him. Well, you don't like to call it that, but
I guess. So we go to the dances together. Sometimes, we go
to the show on weekends. You go out with him very often? No,
not very often. Jim's usually pretty busy. He studies a lot.
Does he go out with other girls? You know? Well? No,
I don't. Once he went out with Betty Fisher. He said he didn't
like her much. Betty's kind of a party girl. Jim likes to talk
about him with you know, dis geology books, stuff like that. Do
you get along with him pretty well? You get along fine? Sometimes he's
moody, but I guess I am too. Could you tell us a little
more about Jim? What's he likes? Well, what do you want to
know? That fool? Is there anything wrong? No, it's just routine
questioning. But I mean we have to check on everybody I see. Well,
Jim's certainly all right. He's like the rest of the fella. That's
the school, I guess, only he's smarter than most of him. Was
there anything Maybe it's odd about him that you noticed anything? He's very different?
Mmm? No, not that I've noticed. He's always been pretty bashful
up until this last year. Anyway, he's still that way sometimes when we
go out on dates. Not do you mean how is he bashful? You
know about girls and things. He's always nice, though he's not always thinking
about necking him stuff like most of them. You mean he's not the romantic
type. Well, he can be romantic when he wants to. Once we
parked outside my house after a dance. He's always nice. It was just
this one time, so that was nice. Well, he kissed me and
then he twisted my arm behind my back. He kept twisting it for no
reason. You know. I told him it hurt me, but he wouldn't
let go. He kept twisting my arm. What do you say? That's
what was so funny. He said, I like you better than any girl
I know. Yes, Then he said, that's why I'm hurting you.
After talking with Barbara Ferris, he had a pretty good idea that Jim Travers
was suspect we wanted, but because of his fine background and his record,
we realized that we'd have to prove beyond any question of a doubt that he
was the guilty person. We had only one thing to go on, besides
the information Barbara Pars had given him during the morning recesses when Travers was with
Ben and I was watching the corridors. Not one night thing took place when
we had left Travers and gone downstairs to check with policewoman Jensen. The girl
had been found slugged and cut at the rear of the girl's locker room.
Two thirty pm. Then and I met with a suspect. How it is
going, sir? Any luck? Not much? Jim? What's that another
rally? No band practice? Junior proms tonight, isn't it? Yeah?
Your doctor? The girl was nice downstair? Huh find out anything? No
not much. You want to stick with us this afternoon. I think you
might be able to help us out. Sure, I've got the colors on
the council standing by. You want him bline, let's go out. Huh,
I got time to tell sure, Okay, we can't go out this
way, and I certainly appreciate your learning and time along. Hoping you help
us. I think you can, Jim. So when we talk to those
girls this morning, Uh, we drew up a new list of possible suspects.
Yep, funny thing. One of the names on the list is yours.
Well, I've got nothing to hide. Oh, we'll make the system.
Thattic checks each name on the list and stuff with joy. Well,
where we have to go on the line detector? I don't like to try
that. I never saw one. Only pictures. No, No, you
won't have to go through that. I don't. Just be a couple of
questions and then we're gonna check your locker room. Okay, I'm you glad
to show you. Does this take us to the locker room? Yeah,
we can cut through here. Say. Uh. When we were questioning those
girls this morning, some almost said that they saw you in different parts of
the building, of the nineties six thing? What do you mean? Well,
your location didn't exactly jibe was your classroom schedule. In other words,
your class was on the third floor, but you were seen down on the
main cord in the honey out for them. Well, you see, I
usually take walks between periods. Sitting in classrooms makes me nervous sometimes. You
know, here, I'll get the door. Any other questions I can answered,
sergeant, No, that's all. How'd you happen to get an interested
in police work exam and said your father was an engineer, didn't you?
Yeah, that's right. I don't know how I got into it. I
just to put you out. I guess. I always like to watch people
reactions and every behavior. That mean, Oh, the locker room's down this
morn Okay, what are your funding on doing when you gudge with Sally?
Yeah? I guess so dad wants to send to a mits for school.
Yeah, say, uh, did you ever have the time. I'm sure
like to see some of the ballistics equipment down of the police crime lab.
I read up on the ballistics quite bit too. Oh is that so?
Yeah? The probably a graph flight attackers. That's my favorite thing. Wonderfulness
imagine charting probably different negative reactions like that's marvelous. Yeah, say either one
of you ever read Dawson Was Treated? Uh? I think it's called the
Psychology of the Criminal Mind. You ever read it? Uh? I think
we had that in training, didn't we done? Fem Like? How about
uh? Criminal behavior in this basis maxuals? Did you ever read that one?
Mm? No, I don't think that did. That's a great book.
We got quite a few textbooks on crime. We went on sex crimes.
I just gone very good that the locker room. Sh I almost went
past it. My locker is down this way. How do you shave?
Jim? You an electric razor or safe gradier? Me? Electric razier they're
the best. Yeah, a lot easier to use, hearing, it's all
open the frame. Yeah. Then you've got those envelopes. Uh yeah,
yeah, yeah they are. Okay? Would you step aside there, Jim?
Yeah? Sure, we get some dust straight industry shelf. All right,
there you are, Ben, you want to market no ten drivers?
Just scraping on locker. All right, let's see. Here's here's some more
scraping from the bottom of the locker this time. Okay, all stume these
envelopes. Oh, here's a nail file. Okay, Jim, Now when
you hold out your right hand, Oh yeah, hold an envelope under his
hand. What you been catch the nail scraping? Thank? Here, I
say, what's all this for? Argeant? What's this routine that everybody?
Jim, I'm just gonna take some sample specimens to run through the spectrograph spectadrap
No, I'll just scraped that middle finger nail. No, okay, that's
it now the index finger. What about the specscraph? Well, used it
all the time. Oh, it won't work in a case like this.
What that's off for the right hand man? Don't forget to market envelope?
Yeah, Jim travers scrapings finger news right? Ah, Joe right? Not
the left hand Jim. H yeah. No, we don't know if this
is gonna work or not. It's worth a try. We'll know this afternoon's
afternoon. Yeah, we'll have to run you through on the machine. Hold
the end book a little closer there. Yeah, well, well, how's
it gonna help you? I might tell us what you had for breakfast a
week ago, might tell us what kind of clothes you wore three days ago,
kind of objects she came in contact with. Oh, well, what
kind of principle does it operate on you? Oh? I don't know.
We can ask Lee Jones here. Let me get the scrapings from your thumb.
All right, there it is, and see what the market. Ben.
You want to call the office and tell them all our way in?
Yeah, in that that room right next to the frience was a okay,
you enclose your locker, Jim, I saw, yeah, all right,
we'll check the things in your pockets when we get to the crime. Right,
let's go on. That's spectograph must be a marvelous machine. Well,
it's worked for worth a lot of time. We've got evidence on the suspected,
either convicts them or clears them. You'll probably get a kick out of
it. I'd like to see it. You say it tells you everything a
person who's coming in contact with n't. Yeah, I say, could I
tell you how I shaved? Well, what do you mean? I mean,
whether an electric razor or safety every year? Sure, that's one of
the primary things. I don't know exactly how it works, but it does
the job. We'll get Lee Jones to explain it to him. About this
door, we can cut across the court here, it's a sure nice ground.
Will he hit me long downtown? Sergeant? Well you thanks, Jim.
You know, there's strange part about these knifings out here. What's that
whoever is responsible probably doesn't even realize what he's doing. Mandelie's sick. He's
very sick. The best thing for him to be a doctor, just like
any other sickness. It's not going to get better by itself. Yeah.
The only trouble is he's just getting his appetite up with his knifings. See
those much longer? How about that spectagraph? Sergeant? Say, for instance,
Well if I happened to hold a knife in my hand, or maybe
a raiser. Oh yeah, that is showing the machine we're going here.
Yeah, terrible thing. Whoever it is, terrible thing? Yes, it
is, I him going. I think you're ready to tell it, hope,
So backphone, all right, son, you want to tell us about
it now. I couldn't know my so I has a dude, I had
to I shouldn't sleep, my goodness study unless I did it. I couldn't
know my sosponsible for all. And I thinks are you you're new to you?
You're told I'm glad you caught me. It's getting worse. It might
have been too late. I'm glad you caught me. Barbara after the prompt
tonight here I was going to kill her. The story you have just heard
was true, only the names were changed to protect the innocent. On December
fifteenth, the hearing was held in Juvenile Court Department, thirty eighth City and
County of Los Angeles, State of California. In a moment the results of
that trial, seventeen year old James Travers was examined by court psychiatrists, who
found him to be one of the most dangerous metal cases they had ever examined.
The boy's parents, who cooperated to the fullest with the police officers and
with the court, made only one request that the boy be committed to a
private sanitarium. James Travers is now under confinement at that sanitarium for an indefinite
period of time. You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
from official fails. Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of
Police W A. Wardon Los Angeles Police Devicement. Green Director's Playhouse presents the
Damon Runyon story tomorrow on MDC Welcome Back. This is such a good episode.
It is one of my top twenty five favorite Dragnet episodes in any medium,
and it's very chilling for the crimes that were committed and how close the
police came to dealing with a real tragedy. I think the bit where they
subtly wore Jim Dan is one of the best confession scenes in Dragnet. They
didn't go really hard, and I think Friday maintained a friendly conversational tone throughout,
but provided enough nudges to get Jim to feel like they were closing in
using a clever bluff about the spectrograph. The successors to the spectrographs of nineteen
fifty are still used in police investigations to this day, but therefore identifying unknown
substances, bodily fluids and things of that sort. Friday was turning the spectrograph
into a magic crime solving box to elicit a confession from a golible teenager,
but really it was for his own good. Friday was right that Jim was
not well, and if Friday hadn't convinced him to own up to what he'd
done, he would have become a killer as it was, he got the
help he needed to protect himself and society. There was an early hint of
Jim being the culprit that I didn't catch the first few times I listened to
the episode, But because this is one that really stuck with me, I
knew, even though I haven't listened to this in years, that Jim was
the perpetrator. And early on he mentioned that a spot they were at was
a place where you could watch people and them not know it. That to
me was a bit unusual. Now, some people have backgrounds and professions that
require that sort of thinking. You know, you walk into a building and
you look around, and you're just automatically looking at places where you can observe
people, places where you can make an exit. Things like that that when
you come through through certain security and military professions. But for seventeen year old
boy, I thought that seemed a bit off. I think that the first
few times I just ignored it. I thought that it was just because he
was in charge of setting up the guards. But I think that sort of
thinking, well, it doesn't prove anything. It probably should have given a
hint speaking of the guards. I don't think i've talked about or really reflected
on how utterly messed up the reaction of the principle was. Maybe it's just
because of the news of the past decade or so of schools dealing with issues
portingly leading to death, but I can't even with this principle. He waited
until the twenty first knifing to call the police because he was trying to protect
reputations, and the only reason he ended up calling was because a parent stormed
in and brought her daughter's bloody dress and dropped it right on front of his
desk, and he thought that this was something he could handle internally by having
unarmed boys act as guards to look out and make sure that no one was
going to knife a girl. That was his plan, And you know,
the sort of chef's kiss of it was that he actually chose the guy who
was doing the knife fiends to set up the guard system, and he just
kept rolling with his plans as girls were getting stabbed in his school every day.
Now, I appreciate that this was a different time, but I still
think that it was off. I mean, Sergeant Friday even asked the question
like, why didn't you call a sooner? Why are we only hearing about
this after the twenty first knife fees, and the show often had subtle educational
thrust. And I think if there's a message coming out of this, it's
that you don't wait on this sort of thing, you know, you don't
just say it's just one or five knifeings, you know, no big deal.
We can probably take care of it ourselves. But I think that the
temptation to put protecting reputations and institutions over protecting lives and safety make this story
really feel like something very similar could happen just as easily today. All right,
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If you're worry, what's door? Listen? More done it? Just keep
your hands rightly on? What are you doing here? Chuck? Red Davis
was knocked off a couple of hours ago. That still doesn't answer my question.
I don't see why not one the cops think I did it too.
You can prove I didn't. Now is it add up? Not to my
liking? You better get somebody else. This is wearing. Maybe I haven't
handled this right, but I didn't kill Red? And why didn't you tell
that to the police. You don't think for a minute they believe me?
Was I told you? Why? I don't either. I look, Mike,
I know you don't like me, but give me credit for a little
intelligence. If I was gonna knock off Davis, would I shoot my mouth
off all of the time. So I tell you I didn't kill him,
then who did? I've got no idea. Okay, Morgan, I'll see
what I can do for you. First, I want you to surrender to
the cops. Ono. I think that's no deal. I'll wait a minute,
Mic, I'll make you a promposition. I'm not interested, but Pete,
say give me a chance, would you. I'm convinced that, with
any luck, you can clean this up in a couple of hours. If
you haven't by then I'll give myself up. I hope you'll be with us
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