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I travel. I can also earn resi credits, so you know I'm in the restaurants everyone's talking about. Plus, with the Digital Entertainment Credit, I'm even more excited to catch my favorite shows. All in all, I can access over $3,500 in annual value with benefits and eligible purchases across travel, entertainment, and more. Learn more at americanexpress.com slash explore.com. Enrollment requirements monthly and other limits in terms of apply. Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. NBC brings you dragnet. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to burglary detail. A gang of hijackers has started to work in your city. Truckloads of valuable merchandise have vanished. The thieves are clever,

seem to have a foolproof system. Your job, find them. Dragnet, the document had drama of an actual crime. Investigated and solved. The men who unvelentingly stand watch on the security of your home, your family, and your life. 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 from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Thursday, March 6. It was windy and Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out of burglary detail. My partner's been Romero. The boss is at backstrain, she was a detective. My name's Friday. I was on the way back from the record bureau and it was 5.35 a.m. when I got to Rom 2A, interrogation room. Read the storm, Ben. Yeah, 2600,

dozen, nine-lanced dockings, 45 bolts of sail, 58 cases imported birthing. When you're dumping this stuff, that's what we want to know. I told you the truth. I have nothing to do with it. I don't know anything about it. What was this stolen waybill doing in the cabbier truck? How many times I have to tell you? I don't know. Your fling of print for all over it. You must have carried it there. I didn't carry it there. Somebody's out to frame me. How many in the hijack gang, Level? Not in a hijack game. I told you I don't know. What are you going to let me go? Who's the head of the gang? I don't know any head of the gang I want to get out of here. You're covering for somebody. Not covering for anybody. You take the wrap for all this, you're going to have a beard down to your knees by the time you get out. I'm not taking any wrap. Then let's have it. I'm tired. $42,000 worth. You know who took it? You know where it is. They could have disappeared anywhere on the way from the east to the thousand place. Nothing was missing from those shipments when they came in on the train. Everything was there when they were unloaded to warehouse. Ben, they don't know. I don't know. Every dollar's worth was a con and four when it was loaded on the truck. Well, where is it now? I'm tired. We've been here all night.

Let me read it for you again. $2,600 doesn't add on stockings. $45 bolts of silk. 58 cases imported perfume. And you're trying to tell us somebody hijacked all that from the trucks without you knowing it? The trucks were loaded at the warehouse. We went out to eat. We came back out and the trucks delivered the stuff and that's all I know. And while you were out eating the receipts for the load disappeared too. That right, Levelle? I don't know where the waybills are. The shipping truck. That's his job. We talked to him. He says one of you could have taken away. Then he's lying. I didn't take him. Then what was this waybill doing in the cab of your truck? I told you I don't know. Somebody's trying to frame me. Why? I don't know. Somebody. I don't know why. Then you better come up with an answer, mister. Look, I'm tired. We've been here since six o'clock last night. We're all tired. Who are you covering for? What are you trying to build? I need a copy of Ben. It's cool. That's all right. You want some, Levelle? No.

All right, now look, let's get one thing straight. We've been here all night. We can be here all day tomorrow, the day after that, and the day after that. We've got enough to make you on this. You know that. We're going to stay with you to tell us the truth. Everything. I've told you all I'm going to tell you. We stay here for six months. You got it all. This year home phone, he'll side 8321. That's right, 8321. What times your wife get up, Levelle? What do you mean? Ben get an outside line. Yeah. You're not going to call my home. That's hillside 8321, Ben. Outside, please. Don't do that. Don't. Not my wife. Please. All right. Ask the questions again. This time I'll give you the answers. Thomas Levelle was 38 years old. He was a well-respected man in his community. Sometimes it's like that. You can question a man for hours. They'll never give you

any information. But somewhere in every man's make up, there's a weak point. We were lucky enough to find Levelle's. He told us that he would give us the locations where the hijack goods were hidden. He told us the addresses were written on the ledge of a windowsill on the seventh floor of the teamsters union hall. It was 830 AM. On the seventh floor is that right? Yeah. Do me a favor. Don't make it too big. Look, we have to walk through the hiring hall before we get the elevators in the bag. Yeah. These handcuffs. They'll see them all the guys in the hall. They know me. Can't you take them off my wrist till we get the elevator? Sorry, I'll be able to. I won't try anything, but don't make me walk in front of them with these. Sorry. Just till we get the elevator, can't you do that? I don't want the guys to see me. Well, here's my overcoat Levelle. Take it over your hands here. They won't see the cuffs. There you are. Come on.

Hey Tom, how are you? Hi. It's new Tom. Not much. Let's take the elevator. Yeah. Is that a grab? No thanks. Yeah? Yeah. It's down this way. Let me show you. It's left. Yeah, wind it up ahead there. Yeah, this one. I don't see anything on the wind as well. It's on the outside. Open the wind and let me check. Yeah, let me see. I've been grabbing. He's trying to jump. Get back here. Get back. I got you here.

I've been going. Get him, Joe. I can't hold him. He's pulling me out. Hold on, Ben. Grab me. Joe. Joe. He's slipping. Tried your hold on. He's taking loose. I can't hold him. Hold him, Joe. I couldn't hold him. You almost went wind. Let's get downstairs. What happened? Call an ambulance. There's been an accident. Thomas Levelle was 38 years old, who was a well-respected man in his community. He died with the same reputation. We had a prisoner who had met his death while in our custody. In cases like this, we had to have witnesses. But the time we got to the street, the usual accident crowd of gathered. Anybody here see the accident? What you want witnesses? Yeah. Did you see it? Yeah, we saw it. Let's get their names, Ben. My name's Pete Garfield. This is Jack Morris. We'll be your witnesses. You'll probably be subpoignant for the end quest tomorrow morning. Sure, we'll be there.

We saw you a twisted guy at the window. We saw you kill him. The next morning at 10 a.m. in the basement of the Hall of Justice, Harold J. Lane, deputy coroner, city and county of Los Angeles, read the report of the findings of the autopsy on the body of the deceased, Thomas Levelle. As his customary had a coroner's inquest, the identification witness was called a testifying first. Elizabeth Levelle, please. Raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give to be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Yes. Be seated. State your name. Elizabeth Levelle. What is your address? 1216 East Amarillo Drive. What is your occupation? I'm a housewife. What is your relation to the deceased? His wife. Have you viewed the body of the deceased in this office? Yes. Who was the deceased?

The deceased. Thomas Levelle. Is there anything further you wish to add? Thank you. Step down, please. Joseph Friday. Raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give to be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God? I do. Be seated. What is your address? 4656 Colossal. What is your occupation? I'm a police officer in and for the city of Los Angeles. Are you investigating and arresting officer on this case? I am. Will you state briefly the facts relating to the death of the deceased? On the morning following the arrest by us of the deceased on suspicion of Grand Theft merchandise, he expressed a desire to assist us in the apprehension of suspects involved in the steps and the recovery of property taken in them. Did he assist you?

Well, he informed us that if we took him to the teamster's union hall, he'd be able to obtain addresses of the locations where the stolen property was cashed. You then took him there? Yes, we did. What happened? When we arrived, he requested us to remove his handcuffs. We refused. The deceased then informed us that the addresses were written on a window ledge on the 7th floor. When we arrived at the hospital, a four, when we arrived at the window under the pretense of searching for the addresses, he threw himself over the ledge. I grabbed his left leg to restrain him, but he kicked loose. Did you at any time have any idea that the deceased planned such action? I did not. What did you do then? We immediately went to the location of the body and had an ambulance dispatched. Do you have anything further to state? No, I have not. Are there any questions from the jury? No, I don't. That's all I'll have to say. Step down. Peter Garfield.

Raise your right hand. Yeah. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so I hope you got it. Yeah. Be seated. State your name. Pete Garfield. How does your address? 1654 North Pico. What is your occupation? Truck driver. Donate General Warehouse. Did you know the deceased? Yeah. How did you know him? I worked with him. And then cops allire and sources bloody sitting over there. Please can find the testimony of this inquest to facts. Were you present at the time the deceased met his death? Told you I was. Those two cops pushed Tom out of the window. Where were you at the time the deceased was pushed or jumped from the window? Jack and I just left the union hall. We were going up the front door when it happened. But attracted your attention. Or in the screen when I looked up Tom was fallen. That cop was standing at the window watching him. Did you see the officer pushing? Yes, I saw him.

Did I understand you to say you were on the street outside the building at the time? Yeah. And you saw the officers push the deceased from the window on the seventh floor from your vantage point. Yeah. Isn't it true that that's a physical impossibility? What is? That you could have seen what you testified to from where you were standing. I know they pushed him. You know or you saw him. I know that's so. I'll time wouldn't jump out of the window. And it's true you didn't see the officers pushed the deceased out of the window. No, I didn't see him. Is there anything further you'd like to add? I must have pushed him. Any question from the jury? That's all Garfield's step down. Dorothy River? Raise your right hand. Yes. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to hope you God? I do. Be seated.

State your name. Dorothy River. What is your address? 211 South Beverly Drive. And what is your occupation? I'm a stenographer at the Teamsters Union Hall. Were you present the morning the deceased met his death? I was. State where you were and what you were doing. I was in our office on the seventh floor doing some filing. Please state what you witnessed. The filing cabinet in our office is by the door. The office faces on the hallway and the door happened to be open. I heard a commotion and looked out and I saw those two officers struggling with the man. Did you hear any conversation? Yes. I heard that officer there say, get back here, get back. And then outside the window, you'll let me go, let me go. This officer here, officer Friday, said, he's pointing me out, hold on, Ben, grab me. How far from the window were you? I'd say about 15 feet.

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After hearing additional witnesses, the carners jury retired at 11.57 am. Eight minutes later, they returned with their decision. The deceased met his death voluntarily in biosome actions. The homicide detail continued the investigation of LaValle's death, a week went by. With homicide working one side, we hope that they might turn up additional leads in the hijacking case. Nothing turned up. It seemed that with the death of Thomas LaValle, our leads came to an abrupt stop. On Tuesday morning, March 16th at 9am, we got a call from chief of detectives at Backstrand. Now, once more, what about the Williams and these shipments? You checked them? Everything we could. Talk to everybody and have them. And talk to them some more. $42,000 in merchandise doesn't just disappear. And who's the last one to handle those waste bills? The warehouse, yes, and the bill. The bills were signed and stamped. Two hours after he filed them and his death, they disappeared. What about the truck drivers? You checked them out? Talked to all of them. Nothing so far. Nothing was missing from those shipments until they left the warehouse. Is that right? Yeah. And somewhere in between the warehouse and the delivery points,

$42,000 worth of goods disappeared. Somebody's got to be hijacking those loads. We know that, but how do we get to it? Maybe they're working alone. Maybe they're working with the truck drivers. It's one of the others. That to me. It just hadn't lost LaValle. Well, you lost him. That doesn't close the case. You got a suggestion? Yeah, I got a suggestion. Track it. You are listening to Dragnet's authentic stories from official police files. And now an important announcement. Ladies and gentlemen, we are pleased to announce that starting next Thursday, October 6th, Dragnet will be brought to you by Fatima Sigeretz. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you, the listener, for your excellent response to our efforts in bringing you these weekly authentic presentations of actual cases from official files. Your letters are the only indications we have that Dragnet is a source of your listening pleasure. We'd like to hear from all of you. Starting next Thursday, October 6th,

over most of these same NBC stations, Dragnet will be heard weekly at 10.30 PM Eastern Standard Time, immediately following the Suffer Club. Check your newspaper for local release time. We stayed on the job. Another week went by. No leads. We spent so much time at the General Warehouse where the merchandise disappeared that we almost got to be a part of the crew. We got to know everybody. We made frequent visits to the Teamsters Union Hall. We've got us nothing. On Wednesday, March 26th, we reported in for work at 8 AM. Romero. Yes, Kipper? You've pulled around just long enough. They hijacked another load last night. $38,000. What outfit? Same General Warehouse. Who's your contact down there? Ray Holbart, ship him. Hop down there right now and get the details. Right it. There are two ways to sell this thing. Yeah. You can get those hijackers now where Wade will General Warehouse goes out of business. Get on it.

Holbart, who was the shipping truck on duty last night? I was working for SIGI, SIGO Master. He saw the code. And you saw this stuff was loaded on in trucks and you checked the waybill. As usual. Everything is usual. Checked the trucks out at 2 AM and went back to the office for all the waybills. You worked a pretty heavy schedule, Holbart. You started at 2 AM and you're still on duty? It took the last four hours of SIGI shift at 2 AM to 6 AM. He had a code. I was back here at 10 this morning to start my own shift. When did you find out the waybills were missing on that shipment last night? Oh, just four I went off. Maybe, you have passed five quarters six. How about the truck drivers who handle that, Holbart? You got them. Let's see. I got it right here. OK. Oh, here you go, Sergeant. Jack Morris and Pete Garfield. Jack Morris and Pete Garfield were brought in for questioning. We double-checked with homicide and found that their reports on Morris and Garfield tallied with ours. No previous records. Both men had been tailed for a reasonable length of time since their testimony at the LaValle inquest.

Their actions failed to implicate them. Four days after the second hijacking, we got a tip from one of our informants down in the warehouse district. He told us that a man in a gray suit had been hanging around the coffee shop next to the team's to his union hall. He was peddling nylon stockings cheap. There had been other reports like this, which we had followed up, but none of them had paid off. Usually, sex leads didn't pay off. But we couldn't be sure. They had to be checked. At a few minutes before five that afternoon, we found the nylon salesman in the gray suit in the back booth of the coffee shop with joining the union hall. Look, man. Take a look. It's fine. You can't do better. 51 gauge nylon. Look good, huh? Sure do, don't you, Joe. Yeah, they do. We've been looking for you, Max. Some of the guys in the union hall said that you'd be around. Sure. I saw lots of these around the hall truck drivers, just like you, buying them like crazy. Good deal. Sure looks like, man. How many pergots will have? Many of you won. Fall bits of pay, you know? You got a couple of dozen for us. Couple of dozen? No, not on me, but I can get them.

Many of you won. Well, we're kind in a hurry. Can you get them for us fast? Couple of dozen. Better make it three dozen, huh, Joe? Yeah, if you want. Three dozen. Can you get them now? Couple of hours, I can get them. Same quality. Wanna meet me here? I don't know. We wanted them for the night. My wife's birthday, you know? Well, maybe not a half. How's that? Three dozen? Meet your hand. Oh, look, Max. Maybe we're both heading the same direction. Can we go with you and pick up the nylon? Save time for all of it. No, I don't think so. No. I can't you wait. Oh, and a half. How's that? That'll find a better bite. I'm sorry, Max. I wish we had the time. Well, what do you have to go to pick up these nylon? Oh, way out. Sunset boulevard near FFX. Can't you wait? I'll make it fast. Can't we pay in and go out and pick them up ourselves? No. Don't look that way. No. Can't you wait here? I'll make it fast. All right, we ought to be home now, Joe. Yeah, sorry, mister. We'd have to skip it. Yeah, maybe we can pick up something on the way home, Ben, Candy, or something. My wife likes candy. No, look, fellas. I don't want to see a lose out on this deal.

I'll make you half way. How you mean? Look, together we will go out to sunset in FFX, huh? Near the place. You'll wait there at the hamburger stand. And in five minutes, I'll bring you the stuff, OK? I don't know. We're late already, but all right, it's a deal. I'll call the wife until we're going to be a little later. Three doesn't, all right? Three doesn't, the best. You can't do better. All right, I'll be back in just a minute. Take it out. 253. 252-3. Chief of detectives office, Chandler. Mike, Joe Friday, backstrand there. All right, now, Joe. Well, undo me a favor, Chandler. Make it fast. Get a couple of men out to sunset in FFX as fast as you can. Tell them to watch for Ben and me. You got that? Yeah, what else? We'll drive up on our car with another man. Ben and I'll get out of the car and go in the hamburger stand. The other man will walk off. Wherever you get, tell him to follow that man.

You got it? Right. All right, just tell him. See where he goes, see what he does. OK, Joe, right away. All right, Joe. You got dinner ready? Yeah, just about. We better hustle. Sure. That's dealing with the world. Let's go. 5 minutes to 6. We pulled up at the corner of sunset, Boulevard and Fairfax. It was almost dark. Ben and I got out of the car and cut it over for the hamburger stand on the corner. We caught a glimpse of Barcy and Kaplan on one of our detective cars parked in the gas station on the opposite corner. They had their eyes on our man. When the traffic signals changed, the man crossed the street and headed down Fairfax. Barcy and Kaplan waited a minute, and then they took off after him. He turned at the next corner and disappeared from sight. Ben and I ordered a cup of coffee, and we sat on a wait. At half past six, we were still waiting. At 5 minutes to 7, I went across the street to the drug store and called the office. Barcy and Kaplan hadn't been heard from. Their car, 105K, was not acknowledging calls. I had my calls switched from communications

to backspans office. How they lost him, Friday? I don't know how they lost him, but they lost him. Who's out there now? Sullivan and Whitney took a detail out there. They're coming to neighborhood right now. Well, how did it happen? A man just doesn't disappear in the thin air. That's what I keep telling you about that stuff. It's been hijacked. The search for the nylon salesman went on all that night and most of the next day. From his description, we ran a make on him. No previous record. It disappeared completely. We were right back where we'd started from. The only thing we could do was to start backtracking, requesting the people at General Warehouse, the truck drivers, the shipping clerks. We kept a close check on Garfield and Morris, and we went back to the only possible lead still remaining. Mrs. Laval. She could tell us nothing more than we already knew. When we left her, we started on the neighbors for the second time around. For the rest of the day, we canvas the immediate neighborhood. We got as many opinions of the Lavals as they had neighbors. At 3.30 that afternoon, we visited with Miss Gertrude Langster, a 50-year-old and main lady who lived almost directly across the street from the Laval House.

She's been at a town the first time we covered the neighborhood. The old saying goes, Sergeant, there's no fool like an old fool. Oh, say, if I told you, the chances I had when I was a girl would be not truck drivers like that. Laval, man, God resties. So, but find what a man thinks as low as Templeton Grant. You remember him, then? No, man. I was engaged to him once, but I fly away. That's what he used to call me. Well, man. I was slim in those days. Would you like to see some pictures of me as a girl? No, no, thank you, man. We'd just like to ask you a few questions, that's all. Could you tell us if the Lavals had many visitors to their house in the past six months or so? Oh, mine and no. Funny thing. I am the nosy type sergeant. I like to know everything that goes on around my neighborhood. And you can take my word for it. The Lavals never had visitors. You know, Sergeant, Friday, you'd mind me of a young man. I used to be engaged to just a few years ago. Yes, Miss Langston. Now would you tell us, please? Did you have any reason to think that there was something little out of the ordinary about Lavals? Oh, little out of the ordinary. He says, but my dear man, yes. Here he was at truck driver, and there she was

with a home furnished like the Astas. Well, I even used to see him cut some of the things home. And that car, his beautiful things, rubbed and glassware, bolts of fabric, oh, gorgeous. And he'd bring these things home after work. Is that it, Miss Langston? Anytime, anytime, day or night. We can't, anytime. After four, Jill, we better call off. Yeah. Now, you sure of all that you've told us, Miss Langston? Sure. Oh, my dear man. Of course I'm sure I watched him week after week. Well, thank you. Well, won't you stay for a cup of tea? I'll have Josephine fix it. Josephine? No, thank you, man. Well, then perhaps a glass of sherry? Thank you, no. But there is something. Yes. I wonder if we could use your phone, please. Oh, yes. In the hall next to the umbrella stand. Thank you, ma'am. Ready. There he is. To the sides. I'm talking a

boy. I don't care what they do for recreation, go get them. With red light and siren, it took us 12 minutes to pick up Barcy and Kaplan on Riverside Drive. At 4.23pm, we pulled up in front of the blue pony riding stables. Barcy and Kaplan's car was overturned just beyond the driveway leading up to the riding academy. Kaplan's heard a colon ambulance they rammed us. What kind of a car they in? They squissed, they're driving a 12-ton bulldog semi. Which way they head? Go on North. Got a three-minute lead on you. Newmatic commercial, add a new car. Adam 653. Let's go Ben. Can you see him, Joe? No, not yet. Watch that crossing. Up ahead, Joe. That's the semi-kin you're reading. Wait a minute. Adam 653 had them. Took a ride on Lancashan. Don't lose them. They're pushing at semi too hard. Look at that trailer sway. They're about to stay on Lancashan. They're going too fast to jump. They're going to be able to jump. I'm going to get the car. They're going too hard. Look at that trailer sway. They're about to stay on Lancashan. They're going too fast to turn now. Traffic's closing in up ahead of them. They better not turn.

That's what they're doing. Look at that trailer whip. They're going over. Let it jump first. Come on, Ben. All right. Let me see. Yeah, they're banged up with their lives. How they are, Joe? Yeah. Garfield, Morris, Little Man, and Grace. It's funny in it. What's that? Garfield's going to swear we pushed that truck through that window. The story you have just heard. I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. The story you have just heard is true. Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. Peter Garfield, Jack Morris, and John Doeful, the stocking salesman were hospitalized and later brought to trial. They were convicted on charges of grand theft and received sentences as prescribed by law.

They are now serving their terms in the state penitentiary. You have just heard the 18th in a new series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Acting Chief of Police WAWorton Lawsensuous Police Department. Tonight's program is dedicated to motorcycle officer Elmer Forsman of the Fresno, California Police Department. Who on the afternoon of October 6, 1946 gave his life so that yours might be more secure. Remember, stocking next Thursday night, October 6, Fatima Sigharets, and virtue to listen to Dragnet immediately following the supper club. That's 10.30pm Eastern Standard Time over most of these same NBC stations. Check your newspaper for local release time. Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles. Judy Canova joins the Star lineup of Saturday Show Tonight on NBC.

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