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Dragnet. The document a drama of an actual crime.
For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
From beginning to end, from crime to punishment,
dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
Was Monday, April 19th, was windy in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out a traffic division.
My partner has been Romero. The boss is Lieutenant-Calfi, Commander AID. My name's Friday.
It was 7.55 a.m. when I got to the second floor at 123 South Figaroa Street,
Accident Investigation, getting run-thelling detail.
It's Monday morning.
Morning, Joe.
George. How is it?
Oh, it's not much better. It's still aching.
Hmm, rough.
A lousy thing kept me up most of the night.
Check what that dentist told you about?
Yeah, I did. He said it's a wisdom tooth. This one here.
Oh, yeah.
Says gotta come out. I'm supposed to go back and see him today.
That's rough. Remember a friend of mine had his wisdom teeth out.
Heard like the devil.
Terrible.
Finally pulled him.
Yeah.
Eight for five, six days after.
Right.
Excuse me, Joe.
Yeah, I'm okay.
But I have a fifty-seven on that problem I can handle yesterday.
Okay. I got most of it down. I'll finish it up.
Friday?
Hi.
Ben, come in, yeah?
He's down the record, bro.
I'll see that, Joe, guys.
Hmm.
I haven't gone down much.
It's a bad wisdom tooth. Dennis says he's gonna have to yank it.
Bummed down there.
That's the first time I ever had any trouble with him.
I remember a few years back my sister Gurdron had trouble with the wisdom tooth.
Impacting.
Yeah?
All side of a face was warm.
But kid was in terrible pain, full week.
Even after they pulled it, it's still hurt.
Uh-huh.
All right, Joe.
All right.
Just up the overnight reports down the records, my kid.
Oh, thanks, Ben.
This one on top here.
I'd like to have you two check it out.
Dead body report.
Yeah.
I left me a note on it.
That's about all.
Hard to figure.
What's the story?
Just what you see on the report.
The victims.
Edward Raymond Stokes, 732 Delano Street, apartment 2.
His body was finally gutter in there, 63rd in Vermont, 3 o'clock this morning.
No witnesses.
Only one piece of evidence.
Yeah, see, they got it listed here.
Skid marks near the body.
That all.
That's it.
Apparently it didn't run.
Where's the body, man?
Neighborhood mortuary out there.
I'm on the hill's funeral home.
One of the deputy corners handled the body.
Call on him, Joe Laramore.
Anybody claim a check?
No.
Okay.
Ben, you ready?
Yes, go.
We'll check you later, man.
Yeah.
Do you need any help?
I've got the clinic and the register, man.
Right.
How do we manage to draw all the choice ones?
I don't know.
Skid marks in the dead body.
Yeah.
Oh, say, I almost forgot.
How's your job?
Still hurts.
It's tough.
It's still swollen.
Mm-hmm.
What did Dennis say?
Wisdom, too.
Oh, miserable.
Yeah.
Why have I had the same thing a couple of years back?
Dennis tried to gank the tooth and it broke right in two.
Finally got it out.
That's good.
Funny thing about Wisdom, T.
What's that?
After they pull it.
It hurts for five, six days.
Eight thirty-three a.m., Ben and I drove out to sixty-third in Vermont
and we checked the spot where the dead body of Edward Stokes had been found.
According to the report, the body was found two feet west of the
easterly curb in thirty-two north of sixty-third street on Vermont.
We examined the Skid marks.
They showed definite signs of being a lot older than twenty-four hours.
The consistency of the rubber was weak and there were heavy dirt smudges
over them, indicating more aware of them.
They could have possibly had since the estimated time of the victim's death.
We got back in the car and drove to the Emerald Hills funeral home at Vernon and Denver Avenue.
Sure he's rotting with it for April, huh?
Yeah.
He's funeral home.
Do you ever notice him?
What's that?
Why do they always put onings over the wind?
It's never open and dry.
I don't know.
Come on.
It's in the corner.
You know what the office is?
There's a brass plate on that door over there.
Let's have a look.
Yes, sir.
Here's somebody, Jim.
Oh.
You have them?
Yeah, I'd be in service.
Police officers.
Like I talked to Mr. Lamor, I believe he's the deputy corner.
I'm Mr. Lamor.
You came about to hit and run victim?
Yeah, that's right.
The Sergeant Romero, my name's Friday.
If we'd like to check the body, if we could, certainly expect this way.
When it stands, you move the body from the scene of the accident here to the mortuary.
Yes, that's right, early this morning.
Unusual case.
Careful, there's two steps down just inside the door.
No, thank you.
Why do you say it's unusual, Mr. Lamor?
Well, here, I'd like to show you.
There.
Now, for one thing, the victim had a basal skull fracture.
I don't know about you, gentlemen, but in the hit and run cases,
I've handled a basal fracture's a pretty rare thing.
Well, it is possible, isn't it?
Yes, it's possible.
Anything is possible, is it, say?
That's not usual.
There's a few other things here, too.
Yeah.
Got us the victim's knee here.
Single clean cut.
Also, these wounds on the head.
I've never seen anything like it and hit and run cases I've been caught on.
Well, wound on the knee doesn't job, does it?
It was hit by a car, then he should be skinned up quite a bit.
Exactly.
Well, you know how it usually is.
The automobile hits the victim.
There's always signs that the body was either dragged or thrown.
Shredding of clothing, skinned knees, legs, elbows.
No sign of that here.
You don't think the victim could have been killed by a hit and run cause, eh?
No, I don't say that.
It's possible that it might have been a car, but...
Well, let's say it's not very probable.
Has anybody at all inquired about the body, Mr. Lamor?
No, and no.
It's funny.
Oh, uh, Mr. Lamor?
Mr. Lamor?
I'm gonna see you when I think about it.
All right, Tom.
Excuse me a moment.
Yeah, sure.
Well, yeah.
Where do we start?
I don't know.
Maybe we won't have to.
Hmm?
Another lead like this so we can turn over to homicide.
Side, dude?
Yeah?
Is the young lady in the lobby?
Yep.
She wants to claim the body.
The girl was shown the body.
She identified it as that of Edward Raymond Stokes.
She gave her name as Mary and Fuller, the victim's common law wife.
After she recovered from her shock, she asked if she might sit down for a while and rest.
He took her into one of the officers in the mortuary and then got her glass of water.
She told us that she had last seen Stokes alive at about 1 a.m. that morning.
They'd been drinking together at a neighborhood bar on Vermont Avenue between 63rd and 64th streets.
Half a block from her.
The victim's body had been found sprawled in the gutter.
Why don't you sit down over there, Ms. Fuller?
No, thanks.
How long would you know Edward Stokes and Fuller?
About six years.
On and off.
You've been together pretty much the last couple of years, though.
Oh, my God.
Do you mind telling us exactly what happened while you were with Stokes last night?
Everything you can remember.
I can't think this headache's killing me.
Oh, we should try, Ms. Fuller.
It's important.
Well, maybe I had done it together at the Spanish island face down on South Fig.
That wasn't about a quartet.
Then we drove out to the brown barrel in Vermont, but I told you about it.
Maybe I go there most of the time.
We stayed there and drank, played a little shuffleboard.
No.
You'll go ahead.
I always stayed too long drank a little too much.
I started talking to this guy next to me and he got sore.
I always got jealous when he was drunk.
Poor Eddie.
Did Eddie fight with this other man, Ms. Fuller?
No, oh, no.
I stopped him.
That made Eddie mad.
He never quit getting cry.
You always wanted to pick a fight.
Who was the other man, you remember?
No, I don't.
I guess I had a lot of drink, too.
Just some guy at the bar.
It's headache.
I was not going to take much longer just a few more questions.
But Oregon's getting on my nerves.
What happened after you broke up the argument between Stokes and the other man?
Nothing.
We stayed in the bar.
Eddie played shuffleboard most of the time.
I was one of the booths drinking.
Yeah.
Around 1 o'clock I started feeling sick.
I went outside and sat in the car.
I guess I passed out there.
In your car?
No.
I guess I belonged to one of the fellows in the bar.
I passed out and that's all I remember.
Did you sleep in the car all night?
No.
I guess whoever owned it drove me home.
How did they know where you live?
I must have been one of her friends.
I don't remember anything till this morning.
They phoned me up and said Eddie was dead.
Who phoned you miss for?
One of our friends.
I don't remember.
I had a rotten headache.
You can do better than that.
I tell you.
I don't remember.
They phoned and told me that he was dead.
Somebody ran Eddie down.
All right.
Where we going?
Downtown.
I'll have us to Niagara for take your statement.
I got a terrible hangover.
I've never had one of his bad cases.
Neither is Eddie.
Let's go.
From the way back to the office, Ben stopped at a drug store.
And I picked up a box of aspirin.
A wisdom tooth was giving me trouble again.
A clerk at the soda fund and fixed something for Marion Floor's hangover.
When we got her back to the office, we questioned her for more than an hour.
But she gave us only one additional piece of information.
The victim, Eddie Stokes, had been married before and divorced.
His ex-wife lived out in the valley with her two children.
And on several occasions, she came to see Stokes at the Vermont Avenue bar.
When he failed to make the monthly payments for the support of the children.
Each time they'd argued bitterly, we had a police denographer take the four woman statement
and she was released.
10.45 a.m., Sergeant's Rogers and McClendon were assigned to check out the Vermont Avenue bar
where Stokes had last been seen alive.
Ben and I drove out to the valley to the home of Catherine Stokes, the victim's former wife.
She met us on the front porch, inside it sounded like one of the children was practicing the piano.
We told her what had happened.
Last week, I think it was.
Yes, Thursday last week.
Eddie hadn't sent me money for the kid's support for three months.
I hated to chase after him like that. There wasn't anything else I could do.
Where did you meet him, Mr. Stokes?
That boy used to hang around.
It's over on Vermont called the Brown Bell or something.
Oh, wouldn't you like to come inside?
Yes, thank you.
Do you happen to know anybody by the name of Mary and Fuller?
Yes, Eddie mentioned you.
There's a man to see in a woman like that.
Do you know anything about her at all?
No. Whenever I saw Eddie, he'd mentioned he was running around with you.
Yes, he wanted to make me jealous.
Was your husband a pretty heavy drinker?
Yes, he was. So I got the divorce.
Eddie was such a fine boy when we got married. Good home.
You didn't know any of the people he'd been running around with lately?
No, just the fuller woman, that's all.
Can you think of anything at all that might possibly have a bearing on his death?
No. Eddie was probably drinking, wanted in the street in the car heading.
I don't know.
Oh, there's the bakery man. I've got to get some bread and a few things. Excuse me?
I think that's about old, don't you Joe?
Yeah. I'll tell you I'll leave our car to Mr. Stokes in case you want to contact his funny reason.
All right.
It's so wonderful when we were married, Eddie and I.
My folks gave us this house as a wedding present.
We got wonderful presents.
We had everything we wanted.
Car, nice house, kids.
It's wonderful that we started drinking.
Then everything went.
Job, everything.
Starting all of a sudden, I never knew why.
Yes, ma'am.
How do men get that way?
How do they start?
I don't know. We only see a part of it.
Yeah?
When they finish it.
12 noon.
Ben and I drove back into town to Vermont, the 63rd Street for a meet with Sagan's Rogers and McClendon.
They told us that they checked out the bartender who had been on duty the night before,
and also seven of his customers.
Their stories were almost identical.
Some of them remembered seeing Eddie Stokes at the bar.
Each of them remembered he was playing shuffleboard, but he was drinking heavily,
and then he left the bar at about 145 a.m.
Paul of us had the idea that for some reason the bartender and the customers were lying.
In most cases, it's hard to find two witnesses who tell identical stories, let alone seven.
For the rest of that afternoon, Rogers and McClendon and Ben and I spent our time canvassing the neighborhood
in the vicinity of the Brown Barrel Tavern.
4.45 p.m.
We talked to the proprietor of a small grocery store two blocks down the street from the tavern.
He told us that he rarely visited the bar, but he thought the man who ran the butcher shop next to his place
on Mr. Eugene Murray was a regular patron of the Brown Barrel.
So we went next door.
What do you think about two towns around Mr. Murray?
We had any time inside.
Yes, we had two farms.
Nice looking mates, anyhow.
Yeah, the stakes look good, don't they?
Mm-hmm.
Two farms.
All right.
Anything else now, Mrs. Kidney?
Got some nice fresh kidneys today?
No, I'll do it if you want such kidneys.
That'll be all.
You put it on the bill, I'll watch Mr. Murray.
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you.
Yes, ma'am.
Yes, ma'am.
Can I help you?
Police officers, Mr. Murray.
Like to ask you a few questions?
Oh, sure. Glad to help out if I can.
Have you ever been in the Brown Barrel tavern down the next block there?
Brown Barrel, I'll go there all the time.
Say, would you mind if I fix up another while we're talking?
Customers are going to pick it up in a couple of minutes.
I don't like to keep waiting.
Sure, go ahead.
I got to go to the ice bar.
When's the last time you were in the Brown Barrel, Mr. Murray?
Last night, wife and I went to the movies.
Well, that English picture.
How's the picture?
We got in the barrel and went home for a beer.
By what time was that?
Pretty close to two.
What's the matter?
Some kind of trouble?
Did you notice anything unusual while you were in there,
anybody fighting or arguing?
No, we were only in there a couple of minutes,
but I know that you mentioned that there was something funny happened.
What was that?
Well, a bartender call and a half dozen of the neighborhood gang
back in one of the booths talking together.
They seem kind of nervous.
None of them seem to be having a good time.
Yeah.
Well, wife and I yelled hello at them, but they kind of gave us to go by.
Then this drunk came up to us.
Then they say, officer, would you reach that knife for me?
Which one?
That one.
Oh, yeah.
There you are.
Go ahead.
Yeah, well, this drunk came up to us and whispered to me.
Say, you better get out of here.
There's been a fight.
Isn't that a beautiful piece of meat?
Well, I didn't pay much attention to him.
He was pretty drunk and hardly understanding my...
I guess they have a lot of fights in there anyway.
Is that all he told you? Is it been a fight?
Yeah, that time.
Well, he came back a couple of minutes later and whispered the same thing.
You better get out. There's been a fight, he said.
The wife and I just laughed at him.
He said, I know all about it.
A guy's been murdered.
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Six p.m. Ben and I went back to homicide to turn the case over to them
They asked us to handle the investigation for another day because they were short of men at the moment and because there was still a big
doubt as to whether or not he stoked it really good murdered actually the only solid lead
We had was the second hand testimony of a drunken witness that and the deputy coroner's doubts that folks was actually the victim of a
Gettin run
Mr. Murray the butcher didn't know the name of the man who told him that there'd been a murder and he could give us only a
Meager description
They brought Marion Fuller back in and requested her. She stuck to her story. She didn't remember anything. She was released again
Looked like we're in for a long night. We went across the street for a bowl of soup and a sandwich when we got back
Ben called his wife until we'd be working late. I called my mother
Working late again
Oh, Joseph
How's your tooth feeling?
It's a little better my it's still pretty tender. I'm gonna go to the dentist tomorrow. Yes
You've got to have that attendant to ride away bad teeth and poison your whole system
You be sure and see that dentist. Is it good? Well, he's okay
One of the fellows down here. It's only about him. I'll see you a little later. I don't wait up
Yes, and you don't work too late Joseph. You need your rest. Yeah, okay, mom. Goodbye. All right, Joseph. Bye
Joe yeah, just talk to that butcher's wife on the phone. Ms. Murray what you have to say ask the same questions
We asked Murray. She couldn't add much same story
You have something to wear. Yeah, man. Rogers and McClendon just called in. There's still a lot of that bomb
Yeah, finally got somebody to talk a little. Well, they get the bomb boy out there
He says it was a fight happened about 130 doesn't remember who was fighting not much. Yeah, my boy's name is Milner
He told Rogers he went outside about 20 minutes to two to put the garbage out
He saw the fuller woman asleep in that car. You get the license number? No
Said there was a ticket on the windshield
Ben and I checked with the sergeant in the watch at 77th Street division
He told us unit 111 was assigned to the area where the brown barrel was located and checking our worksheet
We found that unit 111 had issued a hang on citation the night before to a car parking near 63 30 and one half of Mont Avenue
The address of the brown barrel tavern. We checked the license number through DMV and found that the car was registered to a William R.
Honey 14 Nailer Street. We drove out to the Nailer Street address and talked to huddy's wife
She told us he was playing in a shuffleboard tournament that night at a bar down on South Olive Street
8.55 p.m. We checked in at the bar
Bargain. Oh, yes sir. What'll it be? You know if there's a William Huddy in here. He's supposed to be playing a shuffleboard game here tonight
Yeah, I know. He's with the Highland part team
Yeah, let me see
Yeah, that's him up now. Hell on the blue shirt. Thank you. Come on Ben
Yeah, I said Bell. Good wait. Make it another three
That cleans them good one Bell. Yeah, it's pretty close to beat that one. Thanks
Excuse me. Yeah, are you William Huddy? Yeah, that's right. Police officers. We're like talking to him in it. Oh
What a bomb. I need to ask you a few questions. You step over here, man
Yeah, all right
Well, you with the bomb belt having out on Vermont last night
Yeah, I was
Why what's the matter? You know our Marion Flair
Yeah, she hangs around the place. This is a guy named Eddie. Did you drive her home last night?
Yeah, as a matter of fact, I did she passed out my car
It's a nice kid, but she drinks a lot. I drove her home. Do you mind telling us what happened at the bar last night when you were there?
Well, I
About nine o'clock and I start playing shuffleboard with a couple of guys. This guy Eddie still wants
Yeah, we got the beef with a guy at the bar over the Marion. It's nothing big though guy left after a while
Go ahead much about all I left the place around 130 and this Eddie was beating with some merchant seeming about that time
Was the fuller girl still to buy that time? No, when I went outside. I saw a sleep in my car. So I drove her home
I left her off and then come back to the bar. That's when they told me told you what
Only said that he had a fight with this merchant seeming they said be better if we kept it quiet
Who told you that call a bot and then I got the real story from one of the fellows. I was playing shuffleboard with Leo McCarty
What did you tell you?
I always said that when Eddie stokes left the merchant seeming to follow them out. He said he chased Eddie
McCarty went out about five minutes later. Yeah
All the merchant seeming was gone and stokes was lying in the gutter down the street
Didn't McCarty look at him? Yeah, he said stokes look pretty bad
So he looked like he was dead, but I I would believe that when
McCarty always exaggerates
1015 p.m. We had William Huddy come back to the office with us where he questioned him further and took his statement
Then we had his friend Leo McCarty brought in along with a bartender at the brown barrel tavern and the customers that he framed his story with
McCarty was the first to give us the straight story and then the others followed
The bartender Carl Janssen who also owned the bar was the last to break. How about it Janssen?
Why didn't we get a straight story to begin with?
What about the publicity? How would that look like a murder around my place?
Could work out worse than that Mr. Janssen you've been with holding evidence. You talk these people into the same deal
I'd protect myself
Noose papers all the
scandal
recommends business. I had to keep it quiet
It's not my fault that Stokes has killed. I didn't do it. I'm not to blame
No, but you know who is to blame. No, how about it? Who is he?
I don't think it works on the ships
Comes in here most of the time when he's important. What's his name?
Henry Baxter. Okay, so I'll just pay you extra. Ben, you better get the captain now. Yeah
Hit the run, felony, Friday. Oh, yeah. No, just a minute for you Janssen. Oh
Thank you
Yes
Yes, we did just a minute
Sergeant. Yeah, it's my wife. She's at the bar now. She's thought you ought to know. Yeah, Henry Baxter
Freedom says he just came in
I talked to Janssen's wife until the delay Baxter as long as possible without arousing his suspicions
11.25 p.m. Ben and I and Mr. Janssen along with Rodgers and Clendon drove out to the Brown
Barrel tavern on Vermont when we got there Baxter was gone
Mrs. Janssen told us he was pretty drunk for the time he left the bar
She'd watched him go down one block across the street and then enter a small nightclub on the opposite side called the pink Shamrock
She'd been keeping an eye on the place and as far as she knew Baxter was still inside
We went down the street to the nightclub Rodgers and McClendon covered the back entrance
We got inside in the middle of a floor show the blonde was doing some kind of a dance
Can you spot him, Mr. Janssen?
I don't see him yet. How about over on this side back in the corner there?
No, no, it's not there. It's so dark in here. I can't see too well
There's a rear exit to the place. He could have slept out that way
No, no thanks
Hey, we better check with the waiter back
Man over there at that table
Where?
Yeah, I mean
I'm the most positive
Where?
I'd like to extend to you
Just find it to see you
Yeah
Yeah, that's him, that's him
All right, come on then. You stay right here, Mr. Janssen. You better
Waiter
Hey, wait
You're not a cold car
You're a little waiter?
Not a cold car
Your name is going to be Baxter
Hey
That's right
What?
Police officers, let's talk to you
Yeah
Oh
Yeah
Outside
I signed us, and we'll see you sure
Let's go outside, come on
I want him away, what's the big thing?
Sure, I know it's a big thing
A lot of people have got these dogs trying to get me bad cars
Now he knows what a bad time is
Come on, as he pucks dogs, I shot him how it's done
He's a voice guy
I slugged him
How many of his head on the car?
He was talking never in the world
Come on outside
Hey, everybody, I killed that East Coast
I killed him
Right there
Let's get him out of here
Yeah, okay
How's that, too, Phil, Jim?
Seems okay
Better have the dentist yank it out first thing tomorrow
I think I'll hold off of while
The story you have just heard was true
Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent
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