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You got a 19 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.040 call from one of the bus line terminals in your city. 20 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.799 A seven week old baby has been abandoned in the 21 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:01.120 depot waiting room. There's no sign of the mother, no 22 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.519 lead to or whereabouts. Your job find her. 23 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:18.400 Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. Well the 24 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:21.879 next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 25 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.479 you will travel step by step on the side of 26 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:28.080 the law through an actual case transcribed from official police bolence, 27 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.479 from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. 28 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:34.759 Dragnet is the story of your police force. In action. 29 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:43.080 Was Wednesday, August fourteenth, That was hot in Los Angeles. 30 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.719 We're working the day watch out of Juvenile Division, my partner, 31 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:47.560 said Jacob to the bosses, Captain. 32 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:49.919 Stein, Commander Juvenile Division. My name is Friday. 33 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:51.879 We're on the way out from the office, and it 34 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:53.639 was eleven oh five am when we got to the 35 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:56.800 corner of sixth in Los Angeles streets the bus depot, 36 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:01.400 use me, ma'am and missus Lewis. 37 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:03.240 Yes, that's Rid Are you the police, Yes. 38 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.960 Ma'am, it's my partner side and Jacob's name's Friday. Juvenile Division. 39 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:06.479 How do you do. 40 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.560 I'm certainly glad you're here. I've been waiting around the 41 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.360 seat be four hours. I don't know what to do. 42 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:13.759 The baby must be getting pretty heavy, ma'amkes's down over here. 43 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:18.120 Thought about it all right, thank you? 44 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:22.599 Yeah, that's all right, honey, you sleep me clease you 45 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:24.520 by the things. 46 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:27.120 That's a shame, yes, ma'am. Well, report we got didn't 47 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:27.759 go into detail. 48 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:29.479 Some woman left the baby with you, is that right? 49 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:29.919 Yes? 50 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:31.360 As soon as we got off the bus this. 51 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:33.639 Morning, she said she'd only be gone a few minutes. 52 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:34.319 It's been hours. 53 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:35.159 I don't know what to do. 54 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:36.759 Well, did you know the woman missus? 55 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:40.000 Well, her name's Dorothew Miller. She's from Arizona, Tucsons. 56 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:41.960 We got off the bus and she asked me if 57 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:44.159 i'd hold her baby while she went to get a luggage. 58 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:46.879 She said she'd meet me right there by the information there. 59 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:49.759 He's been waiting ever since. She hadn't come back. I 60 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:50.840 don't know what to think of it. 61 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:52.879 How well do you know this darting on her man? 62 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.439 Well, not too well. But she seemed like such a 63 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:57.800 nice girl, friendly and very socially. 64 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.360 We sat together all the way in, got on the 65 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:01.680 bus with her two sons. 66 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:03.840 At its Oh no, I'm from Cincinnati. I got on 67 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:05.879 the bus there and then went down to Dallas. Had 68 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:08.280 a visit with an ad of mine down there. I 69 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.840 got another bus at Dallas to come up here, went 70 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:14.159 along and started very nice. Same bus I came in 71 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:17.360 on this morning. I'm not getting my husband, army man, 72 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:20.199 he's coming in on a transport from overseas, coming in tomorrow. 73 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:22.480 So you say this, Dorothy Eveiller, I bought it the 74 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:24.399 bus of Tucson with a baby. She rode all the 75 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:25.680 way into Lost Age the hill. 76 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:28.199 Yes, right into this seapo. She sat on the seat 77 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:31.279 next to mine. He struck up a conversation. Got to 78 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:35.959 be quite good friends, he said a sepa. I stand imagine. 79 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.000 How did the Miller woman seen him as though? It's 80 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:40.120 all right? I mean, was there anything odd about her behavior? 81 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:41.000 Anything unusual? 82 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:43.000 No, nothing at all. Seemed to me to be a 83 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.920 perfect mother. Took good care of the baby woman. For 84 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:49.160 here's what's the upsetting for her to go off like this, 85 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:51.959 leave her baby where the stranger does. 86 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:52.639 Makes me sense? 87 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:55.000 Well, now you say you talk to this Dorothy Miller 88 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:56.319 quite a bit along the way, man, I. 89 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:57.319 Thank you for what was that? 90 00:04:57.639 --> 00:04:59.360 Maybe if we move out the card, Joe think me 91 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:00.000 a lot easier. 92 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.319 To That's a good idea, Miss Lords. Would you mind 93 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:04.160 coming along with us to our car parks. Just down 94 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:05.519 the street should be a little quet roun. 95 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:09.079 Yes, I have these two believes. 96 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:14.839 Okay, be out this way there she'd be. I'm sorry, 97 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:19.160 hardly part of help you ever won know that? 98 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:20.279 No, that's okay. 99 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:21.720 Just down the street here, ma'am. 100 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:27.199 Oh, miss gilful Day, it was shame or its troubled? 101 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:30.920 H Can you make it all right? Miss lord? 102 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:31.160 Oh? 103 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:32.040 Yes I can too. 104 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:34.759 I'm gonna slip the lashes and back of the funny 105 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:36.399 room there, yeah, okay, in your hands. 106 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:44.759 Okay, not about this miller woman, Miss Louis. 107 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:45.639 I was gonna ask you. 108 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:47.319 Yes, well, that she happened to tell you where she 109 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:49.319 lived in tu Soon, if she had any people or 110 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:49.920 any family. 111 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.439 No, I don't recall anything like that. She talks about 112 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:56.160 some of the girlfriends she had, their their babies. 113 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:57.959 She didn't mention any of. 114 00:05:57.879 --> 00:05:58.519 Them by name. 115 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:02.199 Those I about her description as low as anything unusual there, No, I. 116 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.120 Wouldn't say so small girl, I put three or four, 117 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:08.199 I'd say one hundred and ten or fifteen pounds, dark hair, 118 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:12.360 shoulder length, dark eyes, knife and classie, very pretty eyes. 119 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:13.439 Wow, how old would you say? 120 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:13.920 Twenty? 121 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:15.800 It's what she told me anyway, She said she had 122 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:17.959 a brisbee in May. I remember we talked about that 123 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:19.920 she was born under the same fine eyewa. 124 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:22.399 Char as the bull, and all the talk she had 125 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:23.920 was this and on our girls. She never gave you 126 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:25.839 any reason to think that anything was wrong with it, 127 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:28.120 didn't seem to be despondent, depressed about anything. 128 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:31.040 Perfectly normal girl, as far as I could tell, I 129 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:33.240 just can't get over it. I can't imagine her doing 130 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:34.000 anything like this. 131 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:36.079 Well, how'd you seem this morning when you got in 132 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:37.560 on the bus. Pretty much the same? 133 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:40.759 Yes, I think. So we got off the bus together. 134 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:42.800 She had her hands full with the baby, so I 135 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:45.439 helped her off with the hand belief she was carrying. 136 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:47.920 When we got inside the waiting room, she mentioned that 137 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:49.560 she had to go pick up some luggage from the 138 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.000 tech stands. She asked me if I'd mind very much 139 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:53.480 holding her baby while she went after it. 140 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.079 I said, no, not at all. She went around the 141 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:58.079 corner of the baggage stand and that's the last I saw. 142 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.000 You checked around the depot and you had her page. 143 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.560 I talked to everyone in the place. The porter's ticket 144 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.560 close information to travelers aid not one of. 145 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:12.480 Them could help. I tried everybody there, more friends than 146 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:19.319 ether than is he trying to think you were wonderful. 147 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:22.879 It's adorable. It's a little boy, she said. He named Steven. 148 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:25.319 Yes, ma'am. Oh, you say you've been way around the 149 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:27.160 depot three hours? Has the baby been said? 150 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.319 Yes, this handsley similar girl gave me the whole. I 151 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:33.160 found a bottleful of formula in it, and that's coffee 152 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:36.279 shop warmed it for me. A little teller here finished 153 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:36.680 it off. 154 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:39.959 Well, I guess we'll be wanting some more pretty soon. 155 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:42.519 I guess we're there back in Huh Yeah, I guess. 156 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:46.600 I can't imagine it. I just can't imagine this little boy. 157 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:47.480 Just look at him. 158 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:51.160 Yes, her own baby, so small, helpless? 159 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:53.279 How could she go off and leave him? 160 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:56.120 Well, I guess she had a reason. Must have been important. 161 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:59.000 A sudden week old baby, what's more important than that. 162 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:07.079 Before we left the bus depot, ed contacted the clerk 163 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.720 at the depot information desk and left our card with him. 164 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:13.040 If anyone came in to make inquiries about the abandoned child, 165 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.480 he was to advise him to get in touch with us. 166 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.920 Eleven forty eight am, the woman who had been left. 167 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:21.959 With the baby. Missus Marjorie Lewis, agreed to return to 168 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.000 the office with us and give us a complete report 169 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:25.560 on everything she knew about the case. 170 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.319 As soon as we got back, we briefed Captain Stein 171 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:31.079 on what happened, and he assigned Policewoman Betty Stone to 172 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:31.360 come in. 173 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:32.399 And help out with the baby. 174 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:36.159 A cursory examination seemed to indicate there was nothing abnormal 175 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:39.759 about the baby nor apparent deformities. We checked the blanket 176 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:42.279 in a baby's clothing, but we found no identifying marks 177 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:42.679 of any. 178 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:42.960 Use to it. 179 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:46.360 Policewoman Stone made the baby comfortable for the time being, 180 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:48.480 and then she began to check through the contents of 181 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:50.679 the small police which the baby's mother had left with 182 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:51.639 Missus Lewis. 183 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:55.320 It contained the usual assortment baby oil, powder, dextros, a 184 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:57.600 few cans of milk, a couple of blankets, and the 185 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:01.200 supply of diapers. Ed and I continued to interview Missus Lewis. 186 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:03.080 Is the miller woman's first baby, do you know or 187 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:04.000 did she happen to mention it? 188 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:05.960 Yes, it's her first, That's what she told me. 189 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.799 Anyway, did you talk about the baby's health at all? 190 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:10.039 Was there any trouble there, would you know? 191 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:12.840 Well, she did say she had some trouble with the formula. 192 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:15.200 At first, it didn't seem to suit. The baby wasn't 193 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:18.360 anything serious though, As a matter of fact, that does 194 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:19.320 worry me a little bit. 195 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:21.159 Such, what's that the baby's formula? 196 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.000 Missus Miller did say it had to be fixed a 197 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:26.360 special way, some special medicine she put in it too. 198 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:29.039 Are you sure the baby's going to get good care? 199 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:31.000 Yes, man's no need to worry. He'll be moved to 200 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:32.399 general hospital a la fassa. 201 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.080 But the special formula, the medicine she was giving him, 202 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:35.960 Will they know about that? 203 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:37.320 Will they know how to see him? 204 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:40.080 Well, they've handle cases like this performulas, Lewis, They're pretty competent. 205 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:41.039 People don't know what to do. 206 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.840 I truly hope so. I don't know why I'm so 207 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:44.559 considered her. 208 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:48.200 I guess it's just the little scholars, so small all alone. 209 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:50.600 It's a helpless, terrible change. 210 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:53.480 Yes, man, about this special formula the baby has to have. 211 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:55.440 What's the reason for that? Would you know the baby 212 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:56.240 been sick recently? 213 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:57.159 No, I don't think so. 214 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:00.360 Missus Miller did say he was a little sick when 215 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:02.639 he was born, spend a little time in an incubator. 216 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:04.840 I don't believe it was critical though, at least I 217 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:05.519 didn't gather. 218 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:05.960 It that well. 219 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.679 Thank you very much, miss Lewis. Appreciate your cooperation everything 220 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:09.159 you've done on it. 221 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:10.879 Not at all, tach, and I only wish I could 222 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:11.120 be more. 223 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:12.879 Hell, do you mind telling us where you'll be stopping 224 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:15.360 in town? Then hospital? We might have the contact you again? 225 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:17.679 Well right, don't have any reservations. I was thinking of 226 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:19.360 staying at a hotel close to downtown. 227 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:21.559 Was a big convention in town. Most of the place, 228 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:23.240 they're pretty crowd. We'd be glad to help you find 229 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.200 a hotel space if you're like, oh, well, that's. 230 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:28.360 Certainly very nice. Not at all, so I concidy. Could 231 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:29.039 I see you a minute? 232 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:30.840 Please? Yeah? Sorry, it was excuse me please? 233 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:36.720 Sure, yeah, I bet it or a policewoman. I'm not 234 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:39.240 bad at checking diapers. What do you mean over here? 235 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:42.879 Belief the mother elects of missus Lewis. 236 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:44.279 Did you come up with anything? 237 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:47.879 Didn't exort first, went over to Belief. Everything inside nothing 238 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.279 and I started putting the things back in the bag. 239 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:55.039 Found this nut stack of diapers there paid receipt for 240 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.080 a hospital bill eternity. 241 00:10:56.679 --> 00:10:58.799 Ward Santa Maria Hospital too Son. 242 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:03.600 There's a patient name right there at the top, Dorothy Miller. 243 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.879 Twelve thirty PM a local broadcast and an APB was 244 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:14.320 gotten out on Dorothy Miller. And then we sent a communication. 245 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:16.200 To the Tucson Police Department laying out the story for 246 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.360 them and asking him to check with the Santa Maria. 247 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.320 A Hospital there for a possible lead. 248 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:23.320 On the missing mother. Meantime, the baby was removed to 249 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:26.639 General Hospital. We found accommodations for missus Lewis at a 250 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:27.600 downtown hotel. 251 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:29.600 We dropped her off there and then we drove back 252 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:31.120 to the bus depot on Sixth Street. 253 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:33.480 We tried to locate the driver of the bus on 254 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.919 which the Miller woman and her baby had arrived that morning. 255 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:37.919 We were told he was off duty and then he 256 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:39.360 wouldn't report back until eight. 257 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:42.600 O'clock the following morning. We left our card along. 258 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:44.799 With a message for the driver asking him to contact 259 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:47.080 as as soon as he returned. For the rest of 260 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:49.360 the afternoon, Ed and I, along with the two other 261 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:51.279 men from Juvenile Division, checked. 262 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:53.519 With all the bus depot personnel, but we were unable 263 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:54.639 to turn up any kind of a lead. 264 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:58.600 After that, we started making the rounds of the hotels, bars, restaurants, 265 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:00.440 and taxi cab stands in the nameborhood. 266 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:03.919 The same result. Nothing. Seven fifty five am. 267 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.720 The following morning, I reported back in for work money Joe, alright, 268 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:08.879 bety head check in yet? 269 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:10.279 Uh h, I went out for a minute, says be 270 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:10.720 right back. 271 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:11.919 What do you know anything. 272 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:14.840 New communication for you from the Tucson PD kick back 273 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:17.080 on that query you got off to him yesterday. Take 274 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:18.000 ed left it in near by. 275 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:19.279 Well, thanks, Betty, I'll get it. 276 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:23.360 M hmm. 277 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:25.200 Do you see that edge short coming? 278 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.360 Yeah, confirms the fact the woman had her baby in 279 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:27.960 that hospital. 280 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.519 Still not much help, though, Yeah, I say they checked 281 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:33.840 out her last known address in Tucson. Should move, no 282 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.399 forwarding address, no landin their relatives or friends. 283 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:38.679 The day the baby was borne seems to check. 284 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:42.000 Out June twenty fourth, Thanks for baby just about seven 285 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:44.480 weeks old. It's part here. Doesn't make much sense out 286 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:44.679 of it. 287 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:47.000 The Miller girl's description, Yeah, mis. 288 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:49.799 Lewis said Dorothy Miller was small and dark, long, dark haired, 289 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:52.960 dark eyes. People at the hospital described her as being blonde, 290 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:56.159 fairly tall, blue eyes, long blonde hair, about twenty nine, 291 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:56.919 thirty years old. 292 00:12:57.159 --> 00:12:59.200 Missus Lewis said the Miller girl just turned twenty. 293 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:01.720 Didn't see she said, she doesn't figure. 294 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:03.960 A little too much to write off this coincidence to 295 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:06.840 Dorothy Miller's having babies same day, same hospital. 296 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:08.679 And I just sent this think this description of the 297 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:12.720 Miller girl, fairly tall, long lawn Here, there's Lewis has 298 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:16.000 long lawn here. Oh hi, Joe, Hi, what's doing? 299 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.159 A bus driver we wanted to talk to and wanted 300 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:19.799 to throw the bus Dorothy Miller and the baby came 301 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.159 in on yesterday. That description miss Lewis gave us A 302 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:25.000 Dorothy Miller driver doesn't remember anyone like that on his 303 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:27.440 buts he remembered miss Lewis. Though she didn't get on 304 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:28.960 the bus at Dallas. She didn't sit next to a 305 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:30.080 younger with a baby either. 306 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:32.399 Driver says, he's surely what's the pitch. 307 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:34.360 Lewis got on the bus at Tucsons she had a 308 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:41.320 baby in her arms. 309 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:49.879 You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police 310 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:50.639 force and action. 311 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.159 Jacobs and I went into the adjoining room, where we 312 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.639 continued to interview the bus driver. The same man who 313 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:06.679 had been driving a bus on which Missus Lewis and 314 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:09.360 the abandoned baby and his mother supposedly had arrived in 315 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:12.559 Los Angeles the day before. The more we talked to 316 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:14.600 the driver, the more he convinced it that the story 317 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:16.879 we'd gotten from Missus Marjorie Lewis was a long way 318 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:17.440 from the truth. 319 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:20.320 He repeated that he was absolutely sure. 320 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:22.679 That Missus Lewis did not get on the bus at Dallas, 321 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:25.080 that she boarded the bush at Tucsons, and that at 322 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:27.000 the time she got on she was holding a baby 323 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:29.519 in her arms. He was just as positive that Missus 324 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:31.200 Lewis held a baby in her arms all the way 325 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:33.399 to Los Angeles, and that she did not sit next 326 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:35.960 to a young, dark haired girl, but an elderly woman. 327 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:38.759 He also told us that none of his passengers on 328 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:41.600 that particular trip fitted the description of Dorothy Miller has 329 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:45.480 given us by Missus Lewis. Eight fifty am before the 330 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:47.559 bus driver left, we got his address and a phone 331 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:49.559 number where we could get in touch with him if necessary. 332 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:52.720 Nine oh five, Ams Ed and I got in the 333 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:55.039 car go to the downtown hotel where. 334 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:56.159 Missus Lewis was staying and. 335 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.600 Called her room from the phone in the lobby. She 336 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.600 told us that her husband, Army and Walter Lewis, had 337 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.399 arrived in from overseas earlier that morning and checked in 338 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:05.080 at the hotel. 339 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:06.480 I asked her if her. 340 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:08.480 Husband was with her, but she said no, he was 341 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:09.279 downstairs at the. 342 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:11.840 Hotel barber shop ed and I got in the elevator 343 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:12.679 and went up to see her. 344 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:15.159 Outside and down on the street you could hear the 345 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:18.279 sounds of a parade passing by. It was American Legion 346 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:24.159 Conventional week, the traditional parade, some. 347 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:24.879 Parade in this. 348 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:31.879 Oh, good morning, come in free, Thank you very. 349 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:32.159 Much, ma'am. 350 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:33.639 What happened? 351 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:34.679 Did you find out anything? 352 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:36.559 Well, A few things, ma'am. We've been checking around. 353 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:38.240 Two or three more questions we'd like to ask you 354 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:39.840 if you don't mind, well, no, not at all. 355 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:41.360 How the baby are they taking care of it? 356 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:43.759 The yes, ma'am, it's fine and checked at the hospital. 357 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:44.559 Is doing real well. 358 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.759 I'm goad and the mirror's girl, do I see Millie? 359 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:47.679 Did you find out anything? 360 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:49.440 We have been able to low kid, I know treasure 361 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:51.519 at all. While we're here, Miss Lewis, a few things 362 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:52.919 we'd like to have you straightened out for us. 363 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:53.279 Well, I'll do. 364 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:56.159 Anything I can to help, since I already told you 365 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:57.679 everything I could remember about the girl. 366 00:15:57.840 --> 00:15:59.679 Well, now we're going to be honest with you, miss Lewis. 367 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:01.120 I don't think you're telling the truth. 368 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:02.840 I don't understand. 369 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:03.279 Doctor. 370 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:04.840 The man who was driving a bus you came in 371 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:07.039 on yesterday, the same bush you say Dorothy Miller and 372 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:07.679 her baby were on. 373 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:08.639 Yes, that's right. 374 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:11.159 Well, the bus driver couldn't remember the Miller girl told 375 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:12.799 us none of his passions and even came close to 376 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:13.399 her description. 377 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:15.320 Well, there was quite a few people on the bus. 378 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.159 I guess you can't blame for not remembering it. 379 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:19.360 You remembered you, miss Lewis, you were sitting there at 380 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:21.080 the front of the bus. He doesn't remember anyone with 381 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:22.039 a baby sitting next to. 382 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:23.840 You, though, I guess you made a mistake. You can't 383 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:25.240 remember everything when they said you. 384 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:26.039 Were holding a baby. 385 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:27.240 I don't understand. 386 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.080 What is it you're trying to find out. 387 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:31.200 Well, we talked to you yesterday. You told us that 388 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:32.360 she got on the bus of Dallas. 389 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:32.919 Isn't it right? 390 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:34.799 Yes? What would that have to do with it? 391 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.039 The bus driver says, you got on a Tucson you 392 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:39.080 seemed to remember pretty well. He says, when he got 393 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:40.159 on the bus, you were holding. 394 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:40.799 A baby in your arms. 395 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:42.240 That's silly. He's wrong. 396 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:44.639 He must have leaking kids with somebody else. 397 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:46.159 I don't see how man. He says, you were the 398 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:47.559 only woman on the bus with a baby. 399 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:50.240 What's the point of his charge. I don't understand any 400 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:50.440 of this. 401 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:53.399