WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:35.359 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:39.679 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:43.280 going to bring you this week's episode of Drag Napp. 4 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:46.600 But first I want to encourage you. If you're enjoying 5 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:51.079 the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software 6 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:54.159 and be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever 7 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:57.840 you download it. From today's program is rauch you in 8 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.560 part by the financial support of our listeners. 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There's no apparent cause of that. 20 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.640 Your job investigator. 21 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:13.599 Drag Net the documented drama of an actual crime. All 22 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.319 the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles 23 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:19.199 Police Department, you will travel step by step on the 24 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:21.800 side of the law through an actual case transcribed from 25 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:26.280 official police files, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment, 26 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:29.240 drag Net is the story of your police force and action. 27 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:36.599 It was Wednesday, November ninth. That was foggy in Los Angeles. 28 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:38.719 We were working the night watch out a homicide detail. 29 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:41.240 My partner's Bill Lockwood. The boss is Captain Lrmon. My 30 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:43.599 name's Friday. It was eleven, twenty eight pm when we 31 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:45.960 got to the third floor at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, 32 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:50.080 doctor Terrell's office right right to see You've been waiting 33 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:52.000 for you. We made it as soon as we could. Doctor, Like, 34 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:54.240 have you meet my new partner, Bill Lockwood, Doctor Carroll. 35 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:56.400 Bill, how I think I've seen you round Lockwood? 36 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:58.599 Yes, sir, how I understand you got a problem talk 37 00:02:58.639 --> 00:02:59.400 with the start. 38 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.719 Odd one after a few minutes after eleven, you want 39 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:02.960 to sit down a minute, I'll fill in. 40 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:04.479 Before we go back and take a look at the body. 41 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:05.319 Thanks very much. 42 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:08.680 I understand it's a woman that right, Yeah, Grace Morgan, 43 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:10.639 she's a night nurse son duty. She told me she 44 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:12.240 was sitting at the desk checking over. 45 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:13.240 Some patients cards. 46 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.240 It was about five ten minutes after eleven when she 47 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:17.840 heard the elevator come up. She heard the elevator stop 48 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:20.599 and the door's open. Kept on checking the cards there, 49 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:22.520 didn't pay any attention to it, and then she realized 50 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:24.840 nobody got out of the elevator. She looked up and 51 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:27.319 the elevator doors were still open. She saw this young 52 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:29.960 woman slumped over in a wheelchair sitting there in the elevator. 53 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:31.800 A woman was alone with her. That's right. 54 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:34.080 The nurse went over and wheeled her out of the elevator. 55 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:36.680 A woman was wearing a nightgown a bathroom over that. 56 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:40.520 She's unconscious, nurse called me. The two of us took 57 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:43.159 the woman into a treatment room, examined her. She was 58 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.400 dead in any indication, how long the body was still warm, 59 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:49.080 She didn't lived in dead a short time, any idea 60 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:50.759 of the cause of death. And then there's a couple 61 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.080 of abrasions on her right shoulder, another one in the 62 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.719 right temporal region. Not positive, but I don't think any 63 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:57.439 of them were severe enough to cause death. 64 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:58.639 No other markings at all. 65 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:01.680 No, she seemed to have been in good physical condition. Know, 66 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.360 it's a strong smell of alcohol, though, could be cheap 67 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:04.800 and drinking. 68 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:06.120 Here's a nurse. Pretty sure. 69 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:08.400 The woman came up the elevator alone. Possibility one of 70 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:09.639 the attendants might have brought her up. 71 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:10.000 No. 72 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:12.120 I checked for the attendant on duty down the first 73 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:14.840 floor lobby, Ray Collins. He didn't bring her up. He 74 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:17.079 said a man came in the lobby about eleven o'clock 75 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:19.040 said he had a sick woman out in his car. 76 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:21.519 He asked for a wheelchair to bring her in. Ray 77 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:23.199 asked if he could help, but the man said he'd 78 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.600 take care of it. It's all Rady knows about it. 79 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:27.600 He let the man have a wheelchair, then he went 80 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:29.240 in the back room to change some linens on the 81 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:30.040 ambulance striction. 82 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:32.959 Any possibility one of the other attendants might have brought 83 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:33.759 her up on the elevator. 84 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:35.879 No, Collins was the only attendant on duty. 85 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:39.000 I'd like to talk to him. Is he still around? 86 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:40.720 Yeah, I knew you'd want to see him. He was 87 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.040 off duty eleven thirty. I held him over. He's down 88 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.120 at the corner having a sandwich. He'll be back in 89 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:46.920 a few minutes. What do you figure, doctor, I think 90 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.160 the one could have operated the elevator self possible, not 91 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:54.199 too probable, though it's a self operating elevator automatic. Someone 92 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:56.160 could have wield a woman into the elevator, pushed the 93 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:58.839 button for the third floor, and then stepped back. We're 94 00:04:58.959 --> 00:04:59.800 taking her straight up. 95 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.519 Yeah, the nurses sure the elevator didn't go back down 96 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:03.439 after it got up here. 97 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:06.560 Positive, she heard the elevator doors open. They stayed that way. 98 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:08.879 She kept waiting for someone to come out, and that's 99 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:10.000 what attracted her attention. 100 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:13.040 How about identification the woman have a person or anything 101 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:13.199 like that. 102 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:15.480 Not, No, all she had was what she was wearing 103 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.279 nightgown slippers in the bathroom. 104 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:19.360 Let's go back and have a look on of swimming. 105 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:22.279 Okay, have it? You saw the only markings on the 106 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:25.360 body of those abrasions on the shoulder and the forehead. Yeah, yeah, 107 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:28.680 you don't think that's why she's dead. You any ideas 108 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:31.879 at all? I wouldn't want to say Lockwood strange one. 109 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:34.240 Then I have to wait for the autopsy. How about 110 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:36.240 the wheelchair? The woman came up in dockwards it though 111 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:38.920 back here in the same room with the body, and 112 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:40.519 I gave notice it wasn't to be touched. 113 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:41.480 I knew you'd want to check it. 114 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:45.120 Oh far in here, all right, just spoke in here? 115 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:50.839 Yeah, sure, no thanks, No over here on the table, 116 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.279 nurse put the woman's clothing over there, nightgown, slippers, bathroom 117 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.959 I see. Seems to be a fairly young woman, i'd. 118 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:02.920 Say, in her early thirties. 119 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:06.879 Nice looking girl, well groomed nose, her hair and fingernails, 120 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:08.920 well kept bruised. 121 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.399 There on her head. Took a pretty good blow to 122 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:10.680 cause that. 123 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:12.800 When you say, yeah, it might even be worse than 124 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:16.800 it looks hard to say right now. Other abrasions I. 125 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:19.519 Was telling you about right here along the clavicle seem 126 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:21.959 to be fairly distinct for or forum. 127 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:23.120 That's all of them. 128 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:25.920 Uh, it's it, like I say, we'll no more after 129 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:29.879 they post the money. Take a look at the clothing, 130 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:37.120 O're he? You want to check over the bathrobe bill, Yeah, there's. 131 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:41.199 No label here, size marking though, size thirty four, just 132 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:43.720 an ordinary rayon nightgown seems to be fairly new. It's 133 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:47.120 not damaged. Nothing in the bathrobe, Joe. Both pocket's empty, 134 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:51.000 no visible marking. Manufacturer's label here fairly common. 135 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:52.439 Trade name Lodi Marks. 136 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:54.199 No, none showing we can have a crime lab check 137 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:54.480 them over. 138 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:56.240 How about the slippers, though it's the same nothing. 139 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:58.000 Do you fellows want me to notify the corner, No, 140 00:06:58.079 --> 00:06:58.639 we'll get a doc. 141 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:00.399 We have to call in for the crime lab crew. Anyway, 142 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:01.319 it looks like a rough one. 143 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:02.360 We don't even know what we've got. 144 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:04.800 And figured if somebody murdered the woman, why did they 145 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:05.639 bring her here to die? 146 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:07.079 Yeah, she was sick or. 147 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:08.839 Hurt and they were worried enough about it to bring 148 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:10.240 her here. Why do they want to get rid of her? 149 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:13.399 Leave her alone in an elevator? Yeah, it doesn't make sense. 150 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.240 Somebody's got something to hide. Sure could use a lead 151 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.120 man puts her on the elevator and sends her up 152 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:20.800 three floors. Who she is? How she died? I don't 153 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:21.680 even know where she came from. 154 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:24.680 No choice when we start at the beginning, Yeah, ground floor, 155 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:31.160 eleven fifty two pm. The receiving hospital attendant Ray Collins 156 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:32.519 returned and we interviewed him. 157 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:33.639 In doctor Terrell's office. 158 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:36.199 He told us substantially the same thing the doctor had 159 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:38.959 told us at a few minutes past eleven o'clock that night, 160 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:40.759 a man entered the lobby of the hospital and asked 161 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:42.639 for a wheelchair to move a patient up to the 162 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.160 third floor. Colin stated he gave the man the wheelchair, 163 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:48.680 the man refused his offer of assistance, and Collins went 164 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.399 on about his work. He didn't see the patient, he 165 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:53.560 didn't see any car park outside, and he was able 166 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:55.480 to give us only a partial description of the man, 167 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:59.439 himself a male Caucasian about thirty five years old, short, 168 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:00.759 heavy built, old dark hair. 169 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:04.240 The group from the Prime Lab arrived and began their investigation. 170 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:05.360 The body was. 171 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:09.000 Photographed and fingerprinted, and the wheelchair was also dusted for prints. 172 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:11.639 The clothing was packed up to be taken downtown for 173 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:14.920 further examination. After the men from the Prime Lab left, 174 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:17.519 Bill Lockwood began a canvas of the immediate neighborhood for 175 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:20.199 possible witnesses. Meantime, I checked with the rest of the 176 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:21.120 hospital person out. 177 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:23.000 On the patience. They could tell me nothing. 178 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:27.199 Twelve thirty am I met Bill back at doctor Terrell's office. 179 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:28.519 How'd you do? Joey? 180 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:30.319 Lock After the nurses and some of the other attendants 181 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:32.480 they couldn't help any checked with a dispatcher on incoming 182 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:33.360 and outgoing ambulance. 183 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:35.120 There's nothing there? What about you? No good? 184 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:36.879 Most of the business places around here a lock up. 185 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:38.759 Talk to the newsboy down at the corner. He was 186 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:40.559 about the only one in the street. He didn't see anything. 187 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:43.039 Sure going slow and then might give Bergmann a call 188 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:44.840 see if he's got the woman's princes classified that. 189 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:47.480 How about the corner show up yere? 190 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:53.639 Yeah, I think he's in there now, yes, ma'am give 191 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:56.320 me station two five five seven, Yeah, that's right, late 192 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:03.360 in print, All right, let me talk to Bergman plice right, yeah, Dean, 193 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:04.000 Joe Friday. 194 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:06.039 Now we're still over at the hospital. And do any 195 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:09.879 good to those prints? That's what we figured How about 196 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:11.240 her princes? Yeah? 197 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:15.600 Okay Dean, thanks, yeah right, we're still betting a thousand 198 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:17.679 when you say they make her princes? Nothing in records 199 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:19.080 on her. Dean's going to set along a set to 200 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:20.320 Washington see if they got anything. 201 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:21.879 How about the wheelchair? Any prints there? 202 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:22.279 Oh? 203 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.799 The nurses and Doc Carrell's that's all we figured on that, 204 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:26.639 didn't we how's he luck? Sure is? 205 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:28.679 I checked with missing persons while you were up. There's 206 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.759 nothing there either, I mean, how about finish this up here, Holly. 207 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.159 We better get back to the office. Joe, Yeah, I 208 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:35.679 think I got something for you here, you know. 209 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.159 Nurse at the switchboard got a call a minute ago. 210 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:41.039 Man's voice wanted to know the condition of Colline Cheswick. 211 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.879 Nurse checked the list of patients, didn't find anyone by 212 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.360 that name. The man insisted she's here. The nurse asked 213 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:48.360 him one time the woman was admitted to the hospital. 214 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:50.559 He told her at eleven o'clock tonight. Now, man said, 215 00:09:50.559 --> 00:10:02.519 I know she's there. I brought her myself along. 216 00:09:57.600 --> 00:09:58.440 With doctor Terrell. 217 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:00.519 Bill Lockwood and I went down the hall and talked 218 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.000 to the nurse who'd received the phone call. She told 219 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:04.919 us that she tried to question the caller as to 220 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:08.039 his name and his relationship to the allegation Carla Chaswick, 221 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:10.639 but the man refused and hung up. We put in 222 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:12.080 a call to R and I and asked him to 223 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:14.279 run the name for us. There was no one for 224 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:16.399 that name in the files. We went back to the 225 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:19.080 doctor's office and started checking through the telephone directories. 226 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:20.679 In the northwestern section. 227 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:23.360 We found a listing for a missus Carla z Chaswick 228 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:26.399 on North Capitol Avenue. We called the number but there 229 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:28.679 was no answer, and we checked with the office, told 230 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:30.320 him what we had and we were going to follow 231 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:32.720 through on it. One eighteen am. 232 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:34.480 It was only a possibility, but it had to be 233 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:35.039 checked out. 234 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.320 Bill Lockwood and I left Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, got 235 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:39.879 in the car and drove out to the address on 236 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.279 North Capitol Avenue. Was a large apartment house, fairly new. 237 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:46.159 The name on the mailbox for apartment eighteen was missus 238 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.200 Carla Chaswick. We rang but there was no answer. We 239 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:51.679 finally had to get the manager out of bed, Missus Herbert. 240 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:53.799 We identified ourselves and explained the reason. 241 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:54.200 For our visit. 242 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:56.679 She got a pass key, showed us upstairs to the 243 00:10:56.679 --> 00:10:59.240 second floor and let us in apartment eighteen. There was 244 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:01.320 no one there, but there was evidence of a recent 245 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:04.639 party within a matter of hours. Half filled cocktailed glasses, 246 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:07.759 an empty whiskey bottle, a glass bowl containing partially melted 247 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.200 ice cubes. An end table in the corner has been overturned. 248 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:13.799 In the bedroom, women's clothing was scattered on the floor 249 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:14.759 and on the dressing table. 250 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:17.039 On the mantel in the living room there was a 251 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:18.559 picture of a woman did. 252 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:20.240 You notice anything unusual about her at that time? 253 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:20.559 Is her? 254 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:22.080 I mean anything out of the ordinary. 255 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:25.200 Oh, don't think so. She'd been drinking some I'm pretty 256 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:27.240 sure of that, and that's not unusual for missus Cheswick. 257 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:30.120 She drinks quite a bit, parties and things, runs around 258 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:30.399 a lot. 259 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:34.039 Yes, you didn't notice anything about her face, No cuts, bruises. 260 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:35.120 Anyone, No, nothing like that. 261 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:36.879 Why and you told her she had quite a few 262 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:38.840 men friends. Do you know any of their names? Where 263 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:39.240 they live? 264 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:39.559 No? 265 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:42.120 CA's they to do? She was just rooms. 266 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:42.799 The tenants. 267 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:44.720 I didn't try to get acquainted. It didn't have much 268 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:47.039 in common with her. The other tenants isn't either a 269 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.799 matter of fact, she kept pretty much to herself, her 270 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:50.639 and her friends. 271 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.600 I see now about this party she had last night 272 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:55.480 with Herbert. They say, you don't know who was there 273 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:55.840 with her? 274 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:57.000 No, I'm afraid of don't. 275 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:58.799 When I called her on the phone to ask her 276 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.240 to quiet things down, I heard that one man's voice talking. 277 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:01.799 That's about all. 278 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:04.200 Though I couldn't tell you who was there? 279 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:06.159 Was there anyone at all that you know of? It 280 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:07.799 was close to her, I mean someone we could talk 281 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:08.440 to about her. 282 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:10.799 Well, her husband. I suppose he's the only one close 283 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.080 to her. I know he comes around every month and 284 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:15.639 takes care of the rent. Kind of peculiar thing, but 285 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:18.639 I never questioned it. I figured it's their business live 286 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:20.639 and let's live. You any idea where we can find 287 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:23.360 the husband, I'm not sure. He works at a machine 288 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:26.080 shop out near Glendale. I have these home address in 289 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:27.919 my rent book downstairs. If you want it, yes, man, 290 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:29.159 we'd like to have that if we could. 291 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:31.080 Would you happen to know how missus Cheswick and her 292 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.399 husband got along, I mean the separation of there. 293 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:35.960 Was it friendly or did they still quarrel quite a bit? 294 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:38.200 No, as far as I know, they got along all right, 295 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:40.600 as long as they didn't have to live together. For 296 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:43.399 mister Cheswick, I's sorry for him. It's going to take 297 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.039 it hard his wife. I don't know whether to blame 298 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:48.360 or pity or she was a terrible disappointment to him, 299 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.360 that's all. I had a long talk with him once. 300 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:53.080 Seemed like such a nice man, hard worker, and he's 301 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:55.600 a wife. He was so disgusted, I mean, drinking all 302 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:58.919 the time, going out with different than men. Bitter disappointment. 303 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:01.440 He told me how well or did he see violent 304 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.480 on the subject iming did he feel angered toward his wife, wh. 305 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:05.799 Just pit a City'd rather have her dead than go 306 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:06.679 on the way she was. 307 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:13.480 We checked through the dead woman's apartment for names and 308 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:16.080 addresses of some of our men friends, but we found nothing. 309 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.960 The crew from the crime lab went over the apartment thoroughly. 310 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.360 The only evidence found were fingerprints on some of. 311 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:22.399 The cocktail glasses. 312 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.080 Along with the apartment manager, missus Herbert, we went downstairs 313 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:28.440 and she gave us mister Chesswick's home address and also 314 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:29.519 his place of employment. 315 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:32.799 Two thirty am we got to a phone and called. 316 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:35.120 Cheswick's home, but the people he was staying with told 317 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:36.080 us that he wasn't there. 318 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:37.080 He was working the. 319 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.080 All night shift at a farm implement factory on Glendale Boulevard. 320 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:43.240 Three to zero five am, Bill and I drove out 321 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.799 to the factory and checked with the night personnel superintendent. 322 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:48.519 He directed us to the factory repair shop, where Chesswick 323 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:50.919 was employed as a welder. The forarman at the repair 324 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:53.600 shop pointed him out course Chaswick was working on the 325 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:54.240 welding line. 326 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:55.919 A tall, thin man slight build. 327 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:59.960 Bill Lockwood and I went back and introduced ourselves. 328 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:01.879 Say any Cheswick. That's my name. What can I do 329 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:02.159 for it? 330 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:03.679 Like to talk to you for a few minutes as 331 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:06.320 we could. It's about your wife, Donna. What's the matter 332 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:07.200 of seeing trouble again? 333 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:09.120 It might be better if we can step outside and talk. 334 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:10.399 It will take very long, all right. 335 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:12.159 I gotta finish up this little job here. If you 336 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:14.519 don't mind waiting a couple of pieces of tube, It 337 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:15.240 won't take a minute. 338 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:16.240 Here you go right ahead. 339 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:18.200 You might stand back a couple of steps. 340 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:26.799 This thing pops a little okay, thanks, Ah, too much oxygen. 341 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.279 I have to light it again. Ah, that does it? 342 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:35.399 Don't look at the flames go bast of your eyes. 343 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:35.879 Yeah, I know. 344 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:40.840 For suring their money, don't they Yeah? 345 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:43.120 They seem to a lot of work. 346 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:50.320 Manish just tacond hair. Okay, that's got it. Now, what's 347 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:51.919 this about my wife? Sergeant? What's the matter? 348 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:54.120 Well, I understand you're separated from missus Chadwick. 349 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:57.200 Yeah, that's right about a year ago now. Finally gave 350 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.080 it up as a bad job. Wasn't anything I could 351 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:01.600 do for nothing else anybody could do for her hopeless. 352 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:03.399 Well when's the last time you saw? 353 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:05.679 First of the month went by the pair of Rent 354 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:07.200 dropped in and say hello, that's all. 355 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.360 I stay away as much as I can. No good, plumb. 356 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:12.440 That's about all you can say about her. James to 357 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:14.679 admit I was eating married to? Or why do you 358 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:15.360 ask anyway? 359 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:17.360 The wife's dead, mister Cheswick? 360 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:20.399 Uh? Yes, but she died late last night. Found her 361 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:21.840 at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. 362 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:26.360 Oh, because I've been expecting something like that. 363 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:31.200 I can't feel sorry. Probably the best thing for ither 364 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:31.679 have to. 365 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:32.960 But we're not sure. 366 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:35.440 I wonder if we could step outside triby a lot 367 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:36.360 easier to talk with it. 368 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:39.919 Yeah, all right, fine, over here, we can duck out 369 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:40.440 the back way. 370 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.120 Okay. 371 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:48.720 You say they found her at Georgia Street, huh? 372 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:51.200 Or was it she in an accident? I say it 373 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:51.840 doesn't look like that. 374 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:53.519 We're gonna have to wait for the coroner's report. 375 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:55.360 What time do you check in at night for work, 376 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:56.039 mister Cheswick. 377 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:57.879 We're supposed to be on the job by ten o'clock. 378 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:59.320 I punched in before that tonight. 379 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:00.600 Why teen question? 380 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:02.840 I suppose I've been around the Planet'll watch for your 381 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:04.639 check in a ten and you've been here ever since? 382 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:05.360 Yeah, that's right. 383 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:07.480 You can ask any of them what's the pitch You. 384 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:09.679 Think I had something to do with it, Charlie getting killed? 385 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:10.879 Well, we didn't say that, Cheswick. 386 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:12.360 Your wife's dead and we have to check out all 387 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:13.720 the leads, all the possible suspect. 388 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:15.200 Well, I don't know how it happened, but I didn't 389 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:17.080 have anything. I lived nine years with her. I was 390 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:20.080 just nine years of my life, booze parties, going out 391 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:20.639 all the time. 392 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:22.919 She wasn't my wife. She didn't know what the word meant. 393 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:25.000 I understand she's been running around with different men lately. 394 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:26.000 Do you have to know any of them? 395 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:26.879 Oh? I don't know. 396 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:30.399 I couldn't care less. Stupid dame, Sergeant. That's the easiest 397 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:32.480 way you can let her off. I tried to make 398 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:35.279 a go of it, wasn't any good. I worked for her, 399 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:37.720 try to give her everything she wanted. Didn't make any difference. 400 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:40.639 Yeah, it's a bum Some of them must be born 401 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:41.679