Latest / Dragnet | Old Time Radio / Dragnet - "Big Red - Part 1" (Old Time Radio, 1952)

Transcript

Dragnet - "Big Red - Part 1" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A former suspect, Jack Wallace, tells Los Angeles narcotics detective
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Sergeant Joe Friday that he can lead police to a
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: newly arrived heroin operation. It is Dragnet, episode 134, Big Red,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: part one, first heard on NBC January 3rd, 1952. Friday
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: and his partner, Ed Jacobs, begin an undercover inquiry, seeking
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: the confidence of a dealer known as Cadillac Red. Jack
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Webb stars as Friday, with Barney Phillips and Stacey Harris
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: in the cast.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: Jim Moser wrote.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: This first half of a two-part case with music by
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: Walter Schumann. NBC's broadcast was sponsored by Fatima Cigarettes. Technical
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: advice came from the office of Los Angeles Police Chief W.H.
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: Parker.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
• 1:04
  Speaker 4: The story you are about to hear is true. The
• 1:07
  Speaker 4: names have been changed to protect the innocent.
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: Fatima Cigarettes. Best of all, king-size cigarettes brings you dragnet.
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a narcotics detail. You
• 1:27
  Speaker 4: receive a call from a former suspect you arrested. He
• 1:30
  Speaker 4: wants to meet with you. He claims he has information
• 1:33
  Speaker 4: and contacts with a big narcotics ring.
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: Your job? Check it out.
• 1:38
  Speaker 5: Fatima.
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: Fatima.
• 1:44
  Speaker 4: America's first largest selling blended cigarette. Now king size.
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: See the difference.
• 1:50
  Speaker 4: Taste the difference.
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: Smoke the difference. And in Fatima, the difference is quality.
• 1:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, you get all the advantages of extra length. Plus
• 1:59
  Speaker 4: Fatima quality, which no other king size cigarette has. Fatima
• 2:03
  Speaker 4: quality that gives you extra mildness. A much different, much
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: better flavor and aroma.
• 2:09
  Speaker 5: Definitely the best quality in its class. but the same
• 2:12
  Speaker 5: price as the cigarette you're now smoking.
• 2:14
  Speaker 4: So compare Fatima yourself today. When you see the difference,
• 2:19
  Speaker 4: taste the difference, smoke the difference, you'll switch to Fatima.
• 2:24
  Speaker 4: Because in Fatima, the difference is quality.
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: Ask your dealer for Fatima in the bright, sunny yellow pack.
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: Fatima, best of all king-size cigarettes.
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: you will travel step by step on the side of
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: the story of your police force in action.
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: It was Tuesday, August 9th. It was warm in Los Angeles.
• 3:09
  Speaker 6: We were working a special detail out of narcotics division.
• 3:12
  Speaker 6: My partner's Ed Jacobs. The boss is Captain Kearney. My
• 3:15
  Speaker 6: name's Friday. It was 7.28 p.m. when I got to
• 3:18
  Speaker 6: Lincoln Park, the west entrance.
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir? Got a couple of bags of peanuts, please? Yeah,
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: sure thing. Ten a bag, that'll be 20 cents. All right,
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: thank you. Thank you. Hi, Friday. Jack. Would have come
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: over sooner.
• 3:40
  Speaker 7: I saw you walking around the park. Wanted to make
• 3:42
  Speaker 7: sure you weren't tailed. Yeah, I made sure of that
• 3:43
  Speaker 7: before I came in. Let's go over there and sit down.
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 3:46
  Speaker 7: Say, there's a lot of stuff just came in town.
• 3:48
  Speaker 7: Some new pushers came with it.
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: Did you know that?
• 3:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I heard some talk. Like to knock them over?
• 3:53
  Speaker 7: I got the contact. What's in it for you, Jack?
• 3:55
  Speaker 7: A couple of reasons.
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 3:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah. One thing I'd like to tell you back. I
• 4:00
  Speaker 7: got out of jail last week. I talked to the wife.
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: She told me what you've been doing for her and
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: the kids while I've been out. A nice family, Jack.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: You let them down. You didn't.
• 4:07
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to forget it. Wife still has that
• 4:10
  Speaker 7: job you got her. The kids have them. It's a
• 4:11
  Speaker 7: lot better, too.
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you finding that place in Tahunga for them. It
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: sure helps. I'm glad to do it. Want some peanuts? Yeah, thanks. Now,
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: what about this narco ring you mentioned? Remember Snuffy Breen? Yeah.
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: Busted him the same time he did me. He got
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: a year. Yeah. Yeah. Just before I got out of
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: county last week, he told me to go see a
• 4:30
  Speaker 2: guy get me a job. What kind of a job?
• 4:33
  Speaker 7: Same kind you busted me on before. Pushing the stuff.
• 4:37
  Speaker 7: What's the guy's name?
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: Cadillac Red. Hmm? Yeah. New York, I think. Likes to
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: drive big cars. I guess that's how he got the name. Hmm?
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: What's the story on him? Red's been in town a month.
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: Four or five guys with him, all from the east.
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: Red says they got a big one to unload, six kilos. Paladin? Mm-hmm.
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: Mexican stuff. They seem to be having trouble. How do
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: you mean? Finding pushers, setting up a deal. The only
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: contact they had out here was Snuffy. He's in a can.
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: They're shouting around. I'll work him on peanut fat.
• 5:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: You talked to this Red, did you? Mm-hmm. What's he
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: asking from you?
• 5:14
  Speaker 7: Like I said, he wants me to start pushing stuff
• 5:15
  Speaker 7: for him.
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: They need contacts bad. I let him hang. I didn't
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: say one way or the other he's going to pull
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: me tonight. And that's so? Well, you figure you'll tell him.
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: Depends on you, Friday. I know one thing.
• 5:26
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to start pushing the junk again. You
• 5:28
  Speaker 7: get around it, you handle it, you start to chippy
• 5:30
  Speaker 7: with it, before you know it, you hook yourself. You
• 5:32
  Speaker 7: figure what you want to do, I'll help all I can.
• 5:34
  Speaker 7: I owe you that much.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: You pretty sure the gang needs contacts? Hungry for them.
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: Sitting on 20 ounces of junk. Can't find anyone to
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: trust to push it to. They got problems. Yeah. Think
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: you could give me an office to them? Pass me
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: off as a buyer? Friend of yours, maybe? Good chance.
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: How do you want to do it? Well, let him
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: know you have a friend who's ready for a buy.
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: Tell him I'm from up north. Make it Fresno. Red
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: Mountain neighborhood, is that all right? Okay, sounds good. This man,
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: Cadillac Red, he's going to phone you tonight, is that right? Mm-hmm.
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: I'll call you as soon as I hear from him.
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: All right, fine. Don't call me at the office. Here.
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: Here's my home phone. Don't worry about it. It's a
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: silent number. I can't trace it.
• 6:18
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: You call where? If I'm not in, leave the message
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: with my mother, okay? Your mother, okay. Pleasant 49321.
• 6:24
  Speaker 7: Okay, I'll ring you.
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: How much do you know about this Red? You impress
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: he's a big operator? Middle size, I guess.
• 6:34
  Speaker 7: He's out in New York, that's about all I know
• 6:35
  Speaker 7: for sure. Same for the rest of the gang. He's
• 6:38
  Speaker 7: supposed to be handling quality stuff real good.
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: How good? Red claims it tests out 40%. I don't
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: know what his asking price is. Where's this Red staying?
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: Did you find that out? No, he wouldn't tell me.
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: He was at a hotel on West 7th, but he
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: moved yesterday. Memphis guy doesn't settle long in one place.
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: Guess he's got a right to be shaky. All of
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: them have. How do you mean?
• 6:57
  Speaker 7: We got all that dough in the white stuff. Close
• 7:00
  Speaker 7: to 50 G's worth. Kill him if you knock him over.
• 7:02
  Speaker 7: Grab the junk.
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: We'll kill a lot more if we don't.
• 7:08
  Speaker 6: Before I left our informant, Jack Wallace, we set up
• 7:10
  Speaker 6: a plan for future contacts. In case of any emergency,
• 7:14
  Speaker 6: I would not attempt to get in touch with him
• 7:16
  Speaker 6: at his rooming.
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: House at 3rd and Olive Streets.
• 7:18
  Speaker 6: Instead, I'd contact him at his work, the Joe Adonis
• 7:21
  Speaker 6: Meat Market on West Temple, where he was employed as
• 7:23
  Speaker 6: a butcher. Wallace also promised to try to get me
• 7:26
  Speaker 6: a sample of the heroin from the narcotics ring. 10.50 p.m.,
• 7:31
  Speaker 6: I checked back in at the office and briefed Captain Kearney.
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: Sounds a little fantastic, Joe. Six kilos.
• 7:37
  Speaker 6: If it's true, it's a break a cop gets once
• 7:39
  Speaker 6: in a lifetime. Well, that's the way Wallace tells it.
• 7:41
  Speaker 6: I can't figure any reason why he'd lie to me.
• 7:42
  Speaker 6: How about this front man, Red? Did you check him
• 7:44
  Speaker 6: out yet?
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: Well, Ed's checking him through the moniker file now. He's
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: a New York operator. That's all Wallace could tell me.
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: You got any idea where the plant is? No, I don't.
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: Wallace didn't even know where Red was living. Red's supposed
• 7:54
  Speaker 2: to have a meet with him tonight. I gave him
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: my home phone, told him not to contact the office.
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: You got any court cases pending? No, but I got
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: two I was going to file on tomorrow.
• 8:01
  Speaker 7: You better give me the packages. I'll have Lou Walters
• 8:04
  Speaker 7: assign them to somebody else. You and Jacob stay with us, gang.
• 8:06
  Speaker 7: Put them to bed and get them up.
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: All right. Wallace is going to try to get you
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: a sample of the junk, huh? Yeah, he said he'd try. Captain? Joe? Hi. Hi, Ed.
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: You dig up anything? I don't know. Found one Cadillac red.
• 8:18
  Speaker 2: Could be our boy. You get a mug on him? No,
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: all we have is correspondence from New York. There was
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: a warrant on him back in 1945. Same thing, narcotics.
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: Later that year, the want was canceled.
• 8:28
  Speaker 4: He was picked up.
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: No disposition. You want us to radiogram New York for
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: a rundown on him? No, let's not stir it up.
• 8:34
  Speaker 7: Starting tomorrow, you two stay away from here. Get yourselves
• 8:37
  Speaker 7: fixed up in a hotel room downtown. Let me know
• 8:39
  Speaker 7: where you're staying.
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: Okay. Call me at 2 o'clock sharp in the afternoon.
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: I'll make it a point to be here. Better call
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: me on the inside line.
• 8:46
  Speaker 4: Right, Skipper.
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: Where do you think we ought to set up, Joe? Oh,
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know. How about Pop Sherman's place down there
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: on Hill Street? He'll cooperate. Okay. You know what that
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: stuff did to his boy. Yeah. Okay. You want to
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: check in tonight? No, my wife's going to scream her
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: head off as it is. You better make it in
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: the morning, huh? All right, we will. Narcotics, Kearney. Oh, yes, ma'am.
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: Just a minute. Bring you a gel. Okay, thank you.
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: Friday talking.
• 9:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, Ma.
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Did he say what time? Mm-hmm. Yeah, okay. Okay. No,
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: don't worry. I'll get a bike downtown and I'll be home. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Bye.
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: My mother, Wallace, just called my home, left a message
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: for me. Yeah? He had the meat with red. He's
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: got the sample.
• 9:37
  Speaker 6: At 7.30 the next morning, Ed Jacobs and I checked
• 9:39
  Speaker 6: in at Pop Sherman's hotel on South Hill Street and
• 9:42
  Speaker 6: took adjoining rooms. We'd left all possible identification in our
• 9:45
  Speaker 6: lockers at the office. At 9.30 a.m., technicians from our
• 9:49
  Speaker 6: crime lab arrived and installed a bug in my room
• 9:52
  Speaker 6: and set up the receiver next door in Ed's room.
• 9:55
  Speaker 6: In the event any of the gang happened to come
• 9:57
  Speaker 6: to my room, they'd be able to record the conversation.
• 10:00
  Speaker 6: I registered as Paul Lindsey, San Diego, California. Ed registered
• 10:04
  Speaker 6: as Ray Morrissey, Sacramento.
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: At 11 a.m., I went alone to.
• 10:09
  Speaker 6: Adonis Meat Market where our informant, Jack Wallace, handed me
• 10:12
  Speaker 6: a dummy package which I took back to the hotel.
• 10:15
  Speaker 6: Inside the package, I found a sample of the narcotics
• 10:18
  Speaker 6: along with a note from Wallace. He wrote that he'd
• 10:20
  Speaker 6: arranged a meet with Red for that night. I was
• 10:24
  Speaker 6: to pick up Wallace in front of the subway terminal building,
• 10:26
  Speaker 6: the Dill Street side, at 9.30 p.m. I gave the
• 10:30
  Speaker 6: sample of heroin to Ed, who took it to the
• 10:32
  Speaker 6: crime lab, where Sergeant Jay Allen ran a test on it.
• 10:36
  Speaker 6: The sample tested out within 40%. For the drug market,
• 10:40
  Speaker 6: it's considered good quality. At 9.20 that night, I left
• 10:44
  Speaker 6: the hotel and walked five blocks north to the Hill
• 10:46
  Speaker 6: Street entrance of the subway terminal building. Wallace was there
• 10:50
  Speaker 6: waiting for me. He said we were to meet Red
• 10:52
  Speaker 6: at a hotel on West 54th Street. 9.47 p.m. We
• 10:57
  Speaker 6: got to the hotel, went to a room on the
• 11:00
  Speaker 6: second floor. This one here.
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah? Yeah, who's that? It's Jack.
• 11:14
  Speaker 7: Good morning.
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: Red, this is my friend I was telling you about. Yeah?
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: Paul Lindsey. Paul, this is Red. Hi. Yeah, I hear
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: you got some H to unload, huh? Hmm? What are
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: you talking about? What is this, Jack? You giving me
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: a bum steer here? Relax, huh? It's all right. He's solid, Red.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: You can talk. No, he talks too fast and too much.
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: I'm here to do business. If you're ready, I am.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: If you're not, say so. I haven't got the time
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: to play cozy with you. No, no, take it easy
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: with me. Get along a lot better. What do you want?
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: Jack vouched for me. Isn't that enough for you?
• 11:44
  Speaker 7: The guy who vouched for Jack's in the county jail.
• 11:46
  Speaker 7: We haven't been able to talk to him. We've already
• 11:49
  Speaker 7: done business before.
• 11:50
  Speaker 6: Well, I could ask you the same thing. Now, look, mister,
• 11:52
  Speaker 6: we got one thing in common here. You got something
• 11:54
  Speaker 6: to sell, maybe I want to buy it. If we
• 11:56
  Speaker 6: can't get together, let's forget the whole thing right now.
• 11:58
  Speaker 6: You're not the only butcher in town. There's a chair
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: over there. Why don't you sit down? I'll fix a
• 12:02
  Speaker 6: couple of drinks. Jack can fix them. Let's find out
• 12:05
  Speaker 6: if you and I can get together.
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: All right. Same, Paul? Bourbon and water? Yeah. Well, how
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: about it? How much you got to sell? Easy, huh?
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: There's no rush. Talk better over a couple of drinks. Well,
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: maybe you got the time, mister. I haven't. How much
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: can you furnish me with? One you can buy from
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: the looks of it. Hey, Red, you got any lemons? Uh, no.
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: No lemon twist in it, Paul. That all right? Yeah,
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: that's all right. Make it light, will you? Now, this
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: junk you got, what's it test?
• 12:33
  Speaker 7: It's the best this town's seen in a long time.
• 12:35
  Speaker 7: It's 50% or better.
• 12:37
  Speaker 6: Well, who you trying to con? My tester used your
• 12:39
  Speaker 6: sample this afternoon. He says it won't go 40%.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: Okay. You know where you can get better? Paul, here
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: you are. Bread. Thank you. How about it, Lindsey? Do
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: we do business? Maybe. Oh, who's playing cozy now?
• 12:56
  Speaker 6: Well, if I do go, it won't be for standard price.
• 12:58
  Speaker 6: Your junk isn't worth it.
• 12:59
  Speaker 7: It's 40%. I don't care what your tester says. An
• 13:02
  Speaker 7: ounce will cost you 400.
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: No, not to me it won't. I'm not paying out
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: good money for milk sugar. I want a big buy
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: and I want quality, but not at 400 an ounce.
• 13:10
  Speaker 7: Maybe we can work something out. Why get excited?
• 13:12
  Speaker 6: Because I don't like chicken operators. I don't like stalling around. Now,
• 13:14
  Speaker 6: if you've got an offer, let's make it.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: Price is going to depend on a lot of things.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: How much merchandise are you going to want? 20 ounces.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: I've got customers up north. I have to have it
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: for them the 15th of the month. Up north where?
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: San Francisco, Sacramento. That's funny. We checked on them. Yeah? Yeah,
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: the hotel you're at. You're registered for San Diego. Yeah,
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: good address. I've never been there. I heard some talk
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: about you. You ever work for Fresno? Maybe. I take
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: customers where I find them. 20 ounces, huh? At the minimum?
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: For your stuff, yeah. Now, what's the price?
• 13:43
  Speaker 7: I think we might get together. It's a pretty good buy.
• 13:45
  Speaker 7: Might work out a discount on it.
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: How much? Three and a quarter an ounce. I figure
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: that's reasonable. Maybe you do. I don't. $ 2. 75. I can't
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: go better. If I didn't need this stuff right now,
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't offer that. Split the difference. 20 ounces, 300
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: an ounce. You can't do better than you know it. No,
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: how about it? 300 knots? I'm not lining up for
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: a soft touch. I want another sample when I move on.
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: You'll get it. Now, what do you say?
• 14:08
  Speaker 7: All right, you got a deal. 20 ounces. When do
• 14:10
  Speaker 7: I get this stuff? We'll get in touch with you tomorrow.
• 14:13
  Speaker 7: Through Jack here.
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: 6,000. You sure you got the money? I got it. Now,
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: what's the setup? Tomorrow, you'll get the word. All right.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: If I don't hear by 4 p.m., I'll know you're
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: gone hinky. I'll look up somebody else. You'll hear. How
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: about it, Jack? You ready to go? Yeah, okay. See
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: you later, Red. Jack? Yeah? You got a wife and
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: a couple of kids.
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: That's right. How are they, Jack? Okay, fine. Why? Nothing.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: I'll talk to you later, Jack. 10.40 p.m.
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: The informant, Jack Wallace, and I took a cab back
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: downtown and I dropped him off. I got to a
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: pay telephone, called Captain Kearney and my partner.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Ed Jacobs, and we set up a meeting. 11.20 p.m.
• 14:59
  Speaker 6: The three of us met on a side street out
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: on the North Wilshire District, and I briefed them on
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: what had happened. In order to prevent any possible harm
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: to either Wallace or his family, the captain told me
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: he'd have them placed under 24-hour surveillance. His children would
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: be kept under observation going and coming from school. The
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: next morning, I stayed close to my hotel room waiting
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: for a contact from either.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Red or another member of the gang. 1.05 p.m. Hello. Hello. Lindsay,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: this is Red. Yeah. That talk we had last night,
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: you still interested? Well, yeah, aren't you? Well, be out
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: on Mission Road, 1130 tonight. The way's the end of
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: the park out there. You'll get your sample. Mission Road.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: All right. You gonna be there? Yeah. Well, how I
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: know your man, he might make a mistake. He won't
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: make a mistake. He knows you.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: I hung up the phone and checked with Ed Jacobs
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: next door to see if he'd picked up the conversation
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: on his receiver.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: He told me he'd.
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: Notify Captain Kearney of the plan for that night and.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: That the captain would be in the office if I
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: wanted to contact him on the inside line.
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: As soon as I picked up the sample of heroin,
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: I was to return to my hotel room and Ed
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: would immediately take it back to the crime lab for analysis. 1.30 p.m.
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: I left the hotel, went downtown to a pay phone,
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: called home, and talked.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: To my mother. She said there hadn't been any phone calls.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: I walked around for a couple of hours.
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: Went to a late afternoon show, and then I went
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: over to Frank Tang's place for dinner.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: 11.15 p.m.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: I caught a yellow streetcar going north on Main Street
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: and rode to the end of the line.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: On Mission Road.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: It was about 300 yards from there to the designated
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: meeting place, the west end of the park.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: The place was dark, completely deserted. 11.25 p.m. 11.30. Lindsay? Yeah.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Package you want? Eucalyptus tree back there in the middle
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: of the park. Where? Straight back there. You can't miss it.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: You'll find the package under a rock at the bottom
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: of the tree. See you later. I started to cross
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: the park.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: The eucalyptus tree pointed out was about 200 feet from
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: the edge of the road.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: There was a narrow path hemmed with shrubbery leading up
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: to the base of the tree. There was a large
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: rock beside it.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: I bent down and looked under the rock. There was
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: nothing there. I started to turn, but it was too late.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: All right, wise guy.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Give me the boot, Stan. Give it to him. Shake
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: his pockets, Stan. No identification on him. He's clean. Let's go.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: He's got his sample.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: You are listening to Dragnet, authentic stories of your police
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: force in action.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Fatima, America's first largest selling blended cigarette. Now, king size.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: See the difference.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Taste the difference. Smoke the difference. And in Fatima, the
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: difference is quality.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, you get all the advantages of extra length, plus
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Fatima quality, which no other king size cigarette has.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: You see, Fatima contains the finest domestic and Turkish tobaccos,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: superbly blended.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: And Fatima is extra mild, with a much different, much
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: better flavor and aroma.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Fatima, definitely the best quality in its class. but the
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: same price as the cigarette you are now smoking.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: No wonder more smokers now insist on king-size Fatima than
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: ever before.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Friends, try Fatima. Buy several packs. Compare them. We're convinced
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: you'll start the new year with Fatima. Yes, when you
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: see the difference, taste the difference, smoke the difference, you'll
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: switch to Fatima. Because in Fatima, the difference is quality.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Buy Fatima. Best of all, king-size cigarettes.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: When I came to, it was a few minutes past midnight.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: The bruises on my face and head were beginning to swell.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: I felt dazed, sick to my stomach. I made my
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: way out of the park and down the road to
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: a public phone booth where I called my partner, Ed Jacobs.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: He came out right away and drove me back to
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: the hotel. Ed put in a call to Captain Kearney,
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: and he made arrangements to have a doctor sent over
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: to examine me. He treated me for numerous cuts and
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: bruises about the face and head and the upper part
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: of the body.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: There were no serious injuries.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: At ten minutes past one, Captain Kearney called back and
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: wanted to know if Ed and I could meet him
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: at his home. He didn't want to take the chance
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: of being seen. around our hotel.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Ed and I drove out to his house in the
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Silver Lake District. Come on in. Sit down.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, Skipper.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: How do you feel, Joe? My side hurts a little. Fair,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I guess. Yeah, they really gave you a working over.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: You recognize any of them? Yeah, one guy. I don't
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: know his name, though. What do you think, Skipper?
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Round up the whole bunch of them?
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: No, that's not going to help any. Suppose we pick
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: them up now. What do we got on them? A misdemeanor?
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Battery?
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: 30 days in jail, they're out again. We're right back
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: where we started. What do you figure's wrong, Joe? Think
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: they got hinky? I don't know. I can't figure.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: I think you better take a couple of days off.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: Go home and rest up. Let some of those bruises heal.
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: The whole thing could be blown by that time. The
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: deal will be cold. If we're going to make it pay,
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: I've got.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: To stay on it. How do you know they haven't
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: made you for a cop? The deal might be cold
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: right now. Yeah, that's possible. What other reason was there
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: for tamping you?
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: How about your friend Jack Wallace? He might have a
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: straight story.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Ask him about it. No, I'll do better. I'll ask Red.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: Captain Kearney finally agreed to go on with the plan
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: with the understanding that Ed Jacobs and another man from
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: our office would have me under surveillance at all times.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: It was understood that I'd go back to Red's hotel
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: room to see if I could pick up the loose ends.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: Jacobs and another officer would follow me to the hotel
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: and remain within calling distance.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: 2.10 a.m.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: I got to the hotel on West 5th Street and
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: went up to the second floor to Red's room.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, who's there? Lindsey. How you doing, Lindsey? Lindsey, quick!
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Lindsay.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: What's this all about? You want to know? You set
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: your hoods on me. Look at my face. I don't
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: know what you're talking about. I went back to pick
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: up the sample. This is what happens. How big do
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: you punks think he are?
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: All right, Stan.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: What happened out there? Not much. You said he was
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: acting smart. We thought he'd cool him off a little.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I told you to keep an eye on him. That's all.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Not to rough him up. No, he's a crab, baby.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: We hardly touched him. Oh, shut up.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: Every time you get on that eight, you get muscle happy.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: I've warned you before, Stan. Now, this is the last time.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: You better quit chipping with that junk. You cause any
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: more trouble like this and you're out.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Understand? He's a crybaby, Red. We didn't hurt him. I've
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: heard enough from you. Now go on. Take a walk. Okay.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: If you see Max, tell him I want him. Yeah,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: all right. Sorry, Lindsey. These things happen sometimes. Can't be helped.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: Why do you keep punks like that around? I thought
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: you were too smart to connect with users. They could
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: get both of us in trouble.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, they'll be all right. Relax.
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: Every once in a while I get geed up. I
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: have to straighten them out. I wouldn't trust them with
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: my laundry. They're all right for what I use them for.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: The good errand boys. I get you a drink?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: No. All right, what about the stuff? You ready to
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: move on the deal? I've been ready. I told you
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I needed the step of the 15th. How about tomorrow night?
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: What's the matter with right now? Now, now, you know
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: better than that. I don't keep the plan around here.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: I'll call you at 8 o'clock tomorrow night.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I still haven't got the sample. You don't need one.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: It's as good as the first one you got. Come on,
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: what are you stalling for? I'm getting tired of this
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: sample yak. If you don't want to buy, say so.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: You'll bring it to my hotel tomorrow night?
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: No, I'll call you. I'll tell you where you can
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: pick it up. 20 ounces, 300 an ounce, right? Yeah,
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: no phony stuff. You keep your hands on the table,
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: so will I. You deliver the merchandise, I'll pay the money.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: What are you worrying about? I trust you. Why can't
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: you trust me? Sure I did. Look at my face. 3.05 a.m.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: I left Red and went back downtown to my hotel room.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: A few minutes after I got in, I heard Ed
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Jacobs and Lieutenant Lou Walters enter the adjoining room. I
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: checked the hallway first, and then I went next door
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: and briefed him on what had happened with Red.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I told him I'd let Ed know about the time
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: and the place of the meet as soon as I heard.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Walters said he'd keep enough.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Men ready at the office to cover the area on
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: short notice. I went back to my room, took a shower,
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: and got some sleep. At 8 o'clock that night, I
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: was in my room standing by the phone.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I waited. No call.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: 8.30, 9 o'clock, 9.15, still no word.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: 9.25 p.m. Hello? Lindsay, this is Red. Sorry I'm late.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I couldn't get to the plan. What's the pitch? It's
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: all set. Norwich Grill, West 7th Street. When? 10.30, shot.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Before he hung up, Red told me to meet one
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: of his pushers in the last booth at the back
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: end of the grill.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: He said I'd recognize him.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: The man would have a package of heroin wrapped in newspapers.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: I was to hand him $ 6, 000, and he would give
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: me the package. I immediately contacted Ed in the room
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: next door, and he notified the office. At 10.15 p.m.,
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: I left the hotel with a dummy package of money
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: containing six marked bills. 10.28 p.m. I got to the
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Norwich Grill on West 7th Street.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: It was almost empty.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: I went to the rear booth where I found one
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: of Red's pushers, Stan, drinking coffee.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Right on the dot. Sit down, Lindsey. Yeah. Well, let's
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: not camp on this thing. You got the money? I
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: done business with you before. Where's the stuff? Didn't Red
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: tell you where to be?
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Wrapped up in that newspaper. He told me there'd be
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: some stuff under a rock one time. It wasn't there.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I want to look. What's the matter? Don't you trust me?
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: You think I got a reason to? All right. Have
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: a look. Here. You satisfied? No. Open it. All right.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: It's all there. I saw it made up. Enough for you? Yeah. Okay.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: You just made a deal. Yeah, what do you have? Coffee, black,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: piece of apple pie. All right. You? Coffee. All right. Okay,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: stuff's there. Now, how about the loot? I got it.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Let's have it. Six Gs. Red wants me back in
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: a hurry. Well, relax. We'll have some coffee. This is
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: a big deal. Money. Now, how about it? All right.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: There you go. What's the matter with you? What are
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: you shaking about? Nothing. I'm a little nervous. Red wouldn't
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: let me have a fix before I left. I'm getting
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: a little sick.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: I'm going to have a look here.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: What are you doing? Red told me to tell you
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: not to open it until you got it back to him.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Who are you kidding, mister? All right, you go ahead
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: and open it up. You'll have to answer for it,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: not me. Sure.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: Hey, what's the deal? Only a few bills in here.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: The rest of it's paper. Are you trying to beat us?
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: It's already done. You won't get away with this. We'll
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: fix you while Max is outside. Friday, we saw him
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: take the envelope. You get the stuff?
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right here. We're waiting outside, Joe. We got him.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: They're taking him in now. Cops. Lousy cops. Wait till
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Red hears about this. He will. Head.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll get him.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's go. Come on, fella. Move.
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: What are you grabbing me for? I deliver the stuff.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: That's all.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: These big deals aren't mine. I'm small time. Fixed once
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: in a while, that's all I want. Just little fixes,
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: the biggest deal I ever made.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. It's the truth. Now, what about Red?
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: He's got a lot of that stuff left. This guy's
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: above him. Big dealers. Why don't you get them?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: We'll get them. You can never guess who the other
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: two are. They're real high powers. Big deals. Nothing but
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: big deals. You won't bust them a hundred years. Yeah,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: let's go. Get my coat, will you, Ed, please? Yeah, okay. Hey,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: forgot your check. Who's gonna pay for the coffee? Here
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: you go. Oh, this one. Me? Yeah, you just made
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: a big deal.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: On August 13th, a booking was made at the Los
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Angeles Police Department, Watts Substation, City and County of Los Angeles,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: State of California.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: In a moment, the results of that booking.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: And now here is our star, Jack Webb.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you, George Fenneman.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: Friends, last year we were honored with thousands of letters
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: from listeners all over the country. Letters telling us that
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: you've bought Fatimas and you find them the best of
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: all King Sai cigarettes. Well, thanks to you and the
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: many thousands of other smokers who have.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Switched to Fatima.
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: Now, if you haven't tried Fatimas yet, make this your
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: cue for the new year.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Next time, get yourself a pack of Fatimas. Compare them.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: See the difference. Taste the difference. Smoke the difference.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: And when you do, I'm convinced that you'll switch to Fatima.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: Because believe me, in Fatima, the difference is quality.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: The two suspects, Stanley Parrish and Max Higbee, were booked
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: at the Watts substation on suspicion, the narcotic act, felony.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: After a meeting in the district attorney's office, they expressed
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: their desire to assist the police in the apprehension of
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: the outstanding members of the gang. They were filed on,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: and before a magistrate in municipal court, they waived their
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: right to a preliminary hearing to conceal.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: The fact of their arrest.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Next week, The Big Red, Part 2. Ladies and gentlemen...
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: To build our strength against aggression, we must equip our
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: armed forces with the weapons of war. At the same time,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: we must produce adequate supplies of civilian goods in order
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: to keep prices down and defeat inflation. We can meet
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: this double challenge by raising our productivity, by turning out
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: more goods and services for every hour we work, and
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: by refusing to let up until our nation is secure. Remember,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: the better we produce, the stronger we grow.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: from official files. Technical advice comes from the office of
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Chief of Police W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. Heard
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: tonight were Barney Phillips and Stacey Harris. Script by Jim Moser.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Music by Walter Schumann. Hal Gibney speaking.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Fatima Cigarettes, best of all king-size cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: transcribed from Los Angeles. Every day during every one of
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: your waking hours, NBC broadcasts the very finest in comedy, mystery, music, drama, news,
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: and programs.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Of public service.
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: So always set your dial to NBC, the leader in
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: radio programming. Counterspy fights international intrigue next on NBC.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: For this evening, we conclude with Dragnet's Big Red Part One.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Follow Dragnet for more classic broadcasts.