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While the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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Dragment is the story of your police force in action.
It was Thursday, November 4th. It was windy in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch at a Georgia Street juvenile bureau.
My partner is Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Bowling commander juvenile division.
My name is Friday. It was 2.45 p.m. when we got to charter high school.
Main entrance.
Which way is you? I don't know. We can ask this boy. Hey son.
Yeah? Where's the principal's office?
Straight down the hall. Last door on the left.
Thank you. What's all the noise about?
Football rally. We're playing P-month today. Probably lose.
Can't beat confidence like that. Kids are sure plenty nowadays.
Yeah. Check that sign.
Doing your prom.
Dollar 25 per cup.
Makes you feel old, don't you?
I never did go to those high school dances.
I'll come.
Yes, sir?
Like to see Mr. Chase.
Could I have your name, please?
Romero and Friday.
Oh, yes, he's expecting you. You can go right here.
That's why they're here.
Thank you, ma'am.
Mr. Chase?
Yes?
My name is Friday. I talked to you on the phone.
Well, yes. Certainly, Sergeant. Never chair.
Thank you.
It's my partner, Ben Romero.
No, do you do, sir?
Hi, Mr. Chase.
Sit down. Sit down.
Certainly glad to see you, gentlemen.
I'm at the end of my rope.
Would you mind breathing, Mr. Chase?
I'd always trouble start.
I don't know how it's done.
I don't know why.
But here's the result, Sergeant.
This dress blood stains on it.
What's the story?
A woman stormed in here and said her daughter came home from school
yesterday wearing this dress.
As she told her, her mother, she'd been knifeed here at the school.
How many cases like this have you had?
21 in the past three weeks.
Why didn't you notify us?
Believe me, Sergeant, I didn't know which way to turn.
When I first learned about these knifeings,
I wanted to call in the police,
but some of the girls who didn't cut the parents
didn't want to be part of the publicity
that no deride they didn't want to.
I hope you realize, Mr. Chase,
that it's a pretty serious rhythm.
Believe me, I did realize what could I do.
The knifeings had to be stopped.
The parents didn't want them reported.
I've tried everything humanly possible
to find out who's responsible.
What have you tried, Mr. Chase?
Well, I called on some of the older students
from the boys' council.
I placed them all over the grounds
and the buildings and told them to keep an eye on.
No results, sir.
The knifeings have gone right on.
This past week, they've even gotten worse.
Oh, that reminds me.
Just a moment, please.
Yes, Mr. Chase?
Adaris, would you get Jim Travers, please?
Haven't come to my office right away.
Yes, Mr. Chase.
Travers is head of the boys' council.
He helped organize the system of guards.
He might be able to give you some information.
You said a minute ago that the situation has been
worse this past week.
You mean the knifeings have gotten more frequent?
More frequent and more serious.
One girl had cut very badly this morning.
She had to be sent home.
All right, most of these girls cut
in pretty much the same man.
The school nurse treated some of them.
She says they've looked to her
as though the girls have been slashed
with a very sharp knife.
Probably a razor.
Is there any definite time pattern
that these knifeings?
All of them happened between periods
when the students changed classes.
The card is a pretty well-crowded
and that's why it's so difficult
to pin it down to any one person.
I see.
How about the victims themselves, Mr. Chase?
Is there any set pattern there?
That's what has to be frightened.
I mean, most of the victims
are rather pretty girls.
Whoever's doing this seems to have a preference for them.
It's frightening when you think of what kind of mind
the person must have.
It's a little more than frightening, Mr. Chase.
Huh?
Person with a knife must be a metal case.
Probably a dangerous one.
I don't think he's going to be satisfied
with just knifeing the girls.
It's very possible if we let it go much longer.
You wanted to see me, Mr. Chase?
Come in, Jim.
What if I come sooner?
I'm tied up with a rally committee.
Jim, this is Sergeant Friday
and Sergeant Romero, police officers.
Oh, right.
They had to investigate the knifeings.
I thought maybe you'd be able to
help out with some information.
Well, I still have the fellows
on the council watching Carter's.
We haven't seen anything yet.
Well, you have any time after the rally, Jim.
We'd like to have you show us around.
OK, Sergeant.
Is the school nurse still in their office?
And I talk to her too.
I think so.
Jim, when does Miss Wesley go home?
3.30 on Thursday, Mr. Chase.
I'll tell her to stay on a few minutes.
That's fine.
We'll meet you outside the office here.
OK, I'll see you later then.
Right.
The school out for the day.
Yes, it is.
I guess we'll have to wait a morning to interview the victim.
The first class is at 8 o'clock.
I'll have the girls assembled in the classroom
next to my office.
All right, Mr. Chase.
Thank you.
I'll be right back, Doris.
See you, gentlemen, all.
Looks like the rally's just breaking up, huh?
Three o'clock, now.
The game's a three-stake.
It's certainly jam up the corridor.
Come on.
Come on.
Let us go here.
Let us go here.
Let us go here.
All right.
The rest of you go about your business.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
I finally got you.
How'd you stray?
How'd you come on out to business?
And you go out now?
What's the matter, young lady?
What's the trouble?
There's parents who wash my shoes.
What's the matter, either?
Look, their dress is coming with blood.
An ambulance was called.
The injured girl was taking the Georgia Street receiving hospital
where she was treated for the cut on her right forearm
and a deep slash across her hips.
She was not in serious condition.
Would the Doctor's opinion that the wounds
had been inflicted, either by a very sharp knife
or a more probably a razor?
a plane clothesman were dispensed to try to high school to keep the grounds and quarters
under strict surveillance until further notice. At 7.30 the next morning policewoman Lorraine
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terms and conditions apply. By 9 am all of the 21 nightings victims were assembled in one of the empty
classrooms. Policewoman Jensen outlined our plan of questioning. May I have your attention please?
This isn't going to take very long girls but I will have to ask you to cooperate with it.
Try to remember every detail of the time and the place that the nightings occurred.
We all have report forms right now. We'd like to have you write three things.
First, exactly where you were when you were injured. After that write the date and the time.
Make that just as close as you can remember.
The bottom of the page writes the name of the person you suspect might have cut you.
Your answer will be kept confidential.
Please don't compare notes with the girl next to you. We watch your version not your neighbor.
Sergeant, you have driving? Five minute warning though.
Yeah, okay. All right? Yeah Joe.
There's a recess coming up and we want to check the quarters. Can you make out a room for them?
Sure you do go ahead. I can check the steps when you get back.
All right, let's go over here.
Okay.
The top of the stairs are the best, Sergeant. Okay.
If you stand back a little from the railing no one down below them will tell if they're being watched either.
Okay. I'm pretty much interested in police work. You know, the light of tech and stuff.
I don't know. I'm going to keep on the door in here. One more flight.
All right.
I wrote a paper once on the light of tech and front because the technology grants it to you like it.
That's so.
Yeah. I've been reading how they take fingerprints,
proffembrants and all that. Pretty interesting.
Here we are.
We can keep an eye on the whole car there from here. Okay.
What detail do you officers work on?
The Georgia Street Viewer.
You know, Lee Jones or Ray Pinker?
Oh yeah.
I've read a lot about the crime line.
Once you come downtown somewhere actually, I'm going to show you around.
Might be swell.
Okay.
Must be interesting meeting all kinds of people and watching how they behave, you know.
Yeah. It's interesting.
During a recess, while a student's moved from classroom to classroom,
we kept the main corridor under closer valence.
The other men from juvenile bureau covered the rest of the quarters.
We kept an eye on the main corridor during a third recess between periods at 11 AM.
Again, no results.
At 11.30, drivers went to check with the members of the boys' consoles set up the noon time watch.
Then I went back to the classroom and the main floor to check with policewoman Jensen.
We helped her tally the results of the questioning of the girl victims that morning.
That's the 17, 18, 19.
Who?
Who takes care of the lab?
I see.
There it is.
Now what's it mean?
Well, 12 say they were knifeed on the main corridor.
Three, knifeed outside the building.
Four on the stairway.
Two in the classroom.
At times, ain't this?
Doesn't look like there's any pattern there.
How about the suspects that they wrote down?
That's even got me, B.
We've got more of them than we have victims here.
There's four pages of names.
Some of the girl wrote down as many as five suspects.
I'm just going to help with that.
How many are together?
34.
Oh, hi, Mr. J.
Did you find out anything?
No, it didn't turn out too well, nothing definite.
Terrible morning.
Parents calling up newspapers.
Pigeonville.
Certainly out of my hands.
Are there any assembly scheduled for this afternoon?
Yes, after the fifth period.
Why?
I think maybe a better cancel.
Seems like every time the kids are crowded together,
we just ask for trouble.
No, I'll have a cancel.
Something else, Mr. Chase.
The girls that we had in this room this morning,
the victims, we'd like to have every one of them
brought back here after the next class.
All right, Sergeant, I'll have two slips sent to each one.
Thank you.
Here's your the children.
Those kids getting cut up in broad daylight.
Wherever it is, the guy's got a stomach for it.
How do you know it's a guy?
This is pretty guess is any.
How about this school employees, the janitors, and the rest of them?
Check them all out the point.
When we get the girls back here, we'll go through the same routine.
One thing we missed the last time we talked to them.
Yeah?
We ask them to pick suspects.
We might have more luck if we have a bigger choice.
Well, how do you mean?
Well, instead of asking to pick out somebody,
we'll kind of list the names of every person
who was around him or near him when they were cut.
I might work if we can spot a couple of rupees.
Tell them, all right?
Sergeant, they want your downstairs, hurry.
Come on, Ben.
What's the matter?
It's terrible.
It's terrible.
I found her.
They found who.
A Betty Price.
Where?
Downstairs unconscious.
I'm afraid.
What do you mean you're afraid?
I'm not sure she's alive.
We located the unconscious girl in a corner of the basement near
the rear entrance to the girl's locker room.
She'd been cut severely about the face and arms.
At Georgia Street receiving hospital,
she was given an immediate blood transfusion.
In addition to her wounds, she was also treated for shock.
We questioned the victim.
She stated that she did not see the person who attacked her.
Later that afternoon, she was removed to her own home
upon the advice of her family physician.
135 PM, Ben and I got back to the high school
and checked in with policewoman Lorraine Janssen.
How'd the last station turn out, Lorraine?
Well, a lot better.
It was a good idea, Jones.
Yeah?
How'd we come out?
Pretty good.
Yeah, the list they made out.
21 of them.
Oh, huh.
Each girl lists as an average of eight persons
around her at the time she was nine.
Yeah.
There's one name that occurs on 19s, 20 and less.
Yeah, Joe.
Jim Travers.
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Friday, November 5th, 145 pm,
Ben and I started checking on Jim Travers.
In the registrar's files, he was listed as James Kirkland Travers,
17 years old.
He was a well-known popular student.
He was a fine athlete.
He was from a well-to-do family.
His father was the head of an engineering firm.
His mother was from one of the oldest families in the city.
During his three and a half years at Chaitar High,
Jim Travers had maintained close to an A average in his studies.
He'd been president of his class in freshman year,
and he'd held numerous other class offices.
We interviewed his teachers.
They had nothing but praise for Travers.
They tabbed him as a brilliant young man with an excellent future.
We asked about Travers' friends, who we paled around with.
We picked up a small league.
We were told that he had very few, if any, close personal friends
among the students.
But he did have one girl at the high school he was especially fond of.
Her name was Barbara Ferris.
A tall, dark-haired girl, exceptionally pretty.
Her scholastic record was almost as high as Travers.
2 p.m., policewoman Lorraine Jensen and I interview the girl
in the small room of the principal's office.
We're not thinking you out, Barbara.
We're interviewing most of the girls in the upper classes.
You mean about what's been happening around school?
Yeah, that's right.
Well, I don't know much about it.
I was talking to Jim Travers last night.
He's a friend of mine. He told me while you were here.
How long have you known Jim Travers, Barbara?
Oh, since freshman year, I guess.
You go steady with him?
Well, we don't like the call of that, but I guess so.
We go to the dances together.
Sometimes we go to the show on weekends.
You go out with him very often?
No, not very often.
Jim is usually pretty busy. He studies a lot.
Does he go out with other girls, do you know?
Well, no, I don't.
What if he went out with Betty Fisher?
He said he didn't like him much.
Betty's kind of a party girl.
Jim likes to talk about things.
You know, physiology, books, stuff like that.
Do you get along with him pretty well?
We get along fine.
Sometimes he's moody, but I guess I am too.
Could you tell us a little more about Jim?
What's he like?
Well, what do you want to know that for?
Is there anything wrong?
No, it's just routine questioning, Barbara.
We have to check on everybody.
Oh, I see.
Well, Jim's certainly all right.
He's like the rest of the fellas that's school, I guess.
Only smarter than most of them.
Well, is there anything maybe that's odd about him
that you noticed anything very different?
No, not that I've noticed.
He's always been pretty bashful
up until this last year anyway.
He's still that way sometimes when we go out on dates.
How do you mean?
How is he bashful?
You know, about girls and things.
He's always nice though.
He's not always thinking about necking and stuff
like most of them.
You mean he's not the romantic type?
Well, he can be romantic when he wants to.
Once we parked outside my house after a dance,
he's always nice.
It was just this one time.
What was that?
Well, he kissed me and then he twisted my arm behind my back.
He kept twisting it for no reason.
Yeah.
I told him it hurt me, but he wouldn't let go.
He kept twisting my arm.
What do you say?
That's what was so funny.
He said, I like you better than any girl I know.
Yeah.
Then he said, that's why I'm hurting you.
After talking with Barbara Ferris,
we had a pretty good idea that Jim Travers
was a suspect we wanted.
But because of his fine background and his record,
we realized that we'd have to prove
beyond any question of a doubt that he was the guilty person.
We had only one thing to go on
besides the information Barbara Ferris had given us.
During the morning recesses,
when Travers was with Ben and I was watching the quarters,
not one nighting took place.
When we had left Travers and gone downstairs
to check with policewoman Jensen,
a girl had been found slugged and cut
at the rear of the girl's locker room.
2.30 p.m. Ben and I met with a suspect.
How was going, Sergeant?
Any luck?
No luck, Jim.
What's that, another rally?
No, a band practice.
Junior proms tonight, isn't it?
Yeah.
You talked to a girl who was nice downstairs, huh?
Find out anything?
No, nothing much.
Do you want to stick with us this afternoon?
I think you may be able to help us out.
Sure, I've got the fellows on the council standing by.
If you want to come.
All right.
Let's go outside, huh?
We've got time to attend.
Sure, okay.
We can go out this way.
I certainly appreciate you letting me hang along.
Hope I'm helping.
I think you can, Jim.
When we talk to those girls this morning,
we'd drop a new list of possible suspects.
Yeah.
Funny thing.
One of the names on the list was yours.
I've got nothing to hide.
Well, we'll make a systematic check of each name on the list
and start reviewing.
Well, well, we have to go in the line, Detective.
I'd like to try that.
I never saw one.
I only picked it up.
No, no, you won't have to go through that.
I'll just be in a couple of questions
and then we're going to check your locker.
Okay, I'd be glad to show you.
Does this take us to the locker room?
Yeah, we can cut through here.
Say, yeah.
When we were questioning those girls this morning,
someone said that they saw you in different parts of the building
on the market.
It took place.
What do you mean?
Well, your location didn't exactly jive
with your classroom schedule.
In other words, your classroom was on the third floor
but you were sitting down in the main corner
in the honey counter for that.
Well, you see, I usually take walks between the periods.
Sitting in the classroom was making me nervous sometimes.
Here, I'll get the door.
And the other questions, I can answer, Sergeant?
No, that's all.
How did you happen to get an interest in police work, Jim?
You said your father was an engineer, didn't you?
Yeah, that's fine.
I don't know how I got into it, but I just took two out of gas.
I always like to watch people's reactions and everything.
Pat me.
No, the locker room's down this way.
Okay.
What are you planning on doing when you graduate?
College?
Yeah, I guess so.
Dad wants to send me the MIT school.
Yeah.
Say, if you ever have the time, I'd sure like to see some of the
ballistics equipment out of the police crime lab.
I've read up on the ballistics quite a bit too.
All is it so?
Yeah.
I mean, probably a graph in the light attack.
That's my favorite though.
Wonderful to see.
Mm-hmm.
Imagine charging positive and negative reactions like that.
Smartness.
Yeah, it is.
Say, you don't want to have you ever read Dawson's Trees?
Well, I think it's called the psychology of the criminal mind.
Have you ever read it?
I think we had that in training, didn't we, Dad?
I don't know if that was my idea.
How about criminal behavior and its basis?
That Maxwell's book.
Did you ever read that one?
No, I don't think I've done it.
That's a great book.
I've got quite a few textbooks on crime.
One of the sex crimes I just got very good.
This locker room, almost went past it.
My locker's down this way.
How do you save Jim?
Do you use an electric razor or a safe razor?
Me.
I like that razor and I have the best.
Yeah, a lot easier to use.
Here, it's all open for you.
All right.
Ben, you got those envelopes.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, there.
Okay, would you step aside there, Jim?
Yeah, sure.
We get some dust sprinkles and a shelf.
All right, now you got a Ben, you want a market?
Yeah, some more 10 drivers.
Dust creeping from the locker.
All right.
Let's see, here.
Here's some more spray things from the bottom of the locker.
Okay, I'll send these envelopes.
Here's an L5.
Whole cage, Jim.
Now, will you hold out your right hand?
Oh, yeah.
Holding them, blow up under his hand.
What do you think?
You got some of the mail spray things.
Thank you, all right.
I'm saying, what's all this for, Sergeant?
Oh, it's just routine with everybody, Jim.
I'm just going to take some sample specimens to run through the spectrograph.
The spectrograph?
Mm-hmm.
No, let me scrape that middle finger down a little.
Oh, okay.
That's it.
Now the index finger.
Well, what about the spectrograph?
We use it all the time.
Well, won't work in a case like this, will it?
All right.
That's all for the right hand, Ben.
Don't forget to mark the envelope.
Yeah.
Jim, clavaries,
scrapings,
from
fingers,
nails,
back,
hand.
How do you know?
I don't know the left hand, Jim.
Yeah.
You know, we don't know if this is going to work or not.
It's worth a try.
We'll know this afternoon.
This afternoon?
Yeah.
We'll have to run you through on the machine.
Hold the envelope a little closer, Ben.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, well, how's it going to help you?
But Mike, tell us what you had for breakfast a week ago.
Mike, tell us what kind of clothes you wore three days ago.
Kind of objects you came in contact with.
Oh.
Well, what kind of principal does it operate on?
No, I don't know.
We can ask lead, Jones, here.
Let me get the scrapings from your thumb.
There it is, and I'll see what the market's been.
You want to call the officer and tell them we're on our way in?
Yeah, I'll be in that room right next to the principal's house.
Okay.
You can close your locker, Jim.
That's all.
Yeah, all right.
We'll check the things in your pocket so we get to the crime line.
Let's go.
Look at that spectra graph.
Must be a marvelous machine.
Well, it's worked for us a lot of times.
We've got evidence on a suspect that either you're convicts or it clears them.
You'll probably get a kick out of it.
I'd like to see it.
You say it tells you everything or a person's coming in contact with, huh?
Yeah, that's right.
Could it tell you how I shave?
You know how do you mean?
I mean, with an electric razor or a safer razor.
Oh, yeah, sure.
That's one of the primary things.
I don't know exactly how it works, but it does the job.
We get lead Jones to explain it to us.
How up the store we cut across cutting iron.
Those are sure nice grounds.
Well, he keep me long downtown, Sergeant.
Well, you think Jim.
You know, it's strange quite about these nice things out of you.
What's that?
Whoever's responsible probably doesn't even realize what he's doing.
Mantle he's sick is very sick.
Best thing for him would be a doctor.
Just like any other sickness, it's not going to get better by itself.
Yeah.
The only trouble is he's just getting his appetite up with these nice things.
Yeah, he goes much longer.
How about that spectrograph, Sergeant?
Say for instance, well, if I happen to hold a knife in my hand or maybe a razor.
Oh, yeah.
That is showing the machine.
We're going here?
Yeah.
Terrible thing.
Whoever it is.
Terrible thing.
Yes, it is.
Terrible thing.
Here you go.
Jill, how's it going?
I think he's ready to tell us.
Hope so.
I think the graph won.
All right, son, you want to tell us about it now?
I couldn't help myself.
I had to do what I had to.
I couldn't sleep.
I couldn't study unless I did.
I couldn't help myself.
You're responsible for all the nice things I get.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're losing.
Who told you?
You told us, yeah.
I'm glad you caught me.
It was getting worse.
It might have been too late.
I'm glad you caught me.
Why?
Vibrant.
After the prom tonight.
Yeah.
I was going to kill her.
The story you're just heard was proved.
Only the names were changed.
To protect the innocent.
On December 15th, the hearing was held in juvenile court
Department 38 City and County of Los Angeles, state of California.
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It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima.
17-year-old James Travers was examined by court
psychiatrists who found him to be one of the most dangerous
mental cases they had ever examined.
The boy's parents who cooperated to the fullest with the police
officers and with the court made only one request
that the boy be committed to a private sanitarium.
James Travers is now under confinement at that sanitarium
for an indefinite period of time.
You have just heard dragnet,
a series of authentic cases from official files.
Technical advice for dragnet comes from the office of chief of police,
W.A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department.
Fatima cigarettes. The best of all, long cigarettes
has brought you dragnet from Los Angeles.
Screen directors Playhouse presents a Damon Runyon story.
Tomorrow on NBC.
