THE BIG HONEYMOON and THE BIG PHONE CALL DRAGNET

Summary

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1001 Radio Crime Solvers – October 22, 2025

Episode: THE BIG HONEYMOON and THE BIG PHONE CALL (DRAGNET)

Brief Overview

In this episode, 1001 Radio Crime Solvers brings listeners a double-feature from the classic “Dragnet” radio series: “The Big Honeymoon” and “The Big Phone Call.” These dramatized cases from LAPD’s files illustrate the meticulous, sometimes relentless, nature of mid-century police investigations. The first half focuses on a "marriage racket" bunco artist preying on lonely women, while the second deals with a well-planned jewelry store robbery. Both stories highlight the drive for justice, the emotional toll of crime, and timeless human vulnerabilities.

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THE BIG HONEYMOON (00:01–28:51)

Main Plot

Sergeants Joe Friday and Ed Jacobs investigate a case involving a woman who committed suicide after being swindled through a marriage scam by Charles R. Reynolds, a suave fortune hunter who has disappeared with her money. As the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that Reynolds—also known by multiple aliases—is a seasoned con man with other victims.

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Key Discussion Points & Timeline

1. Introduction & Initial Interview (01:26–07:32)

• Friday and Jacobs meet with Ms. Wagner, the sister of the deceased, Dorothy Wagner.
• Ms. Wagner explains how Dorothy, a 42-year-old heiress, was taken in by Reynolds, who promised her love, marriage, and a world trip.
• Reynolds convinces Dorothy to exchange checks for $10,000 each—his turns out worthless, and he vanishes.
• Quote:

  “Might just as well have taken a gun and killed her. No difference.”
  — Ms. Wagner (01:58)

2. The Pattern of the Bunco Artist (07:44–13:40)

• The police see Reynolds’ crime as a classic "marriage racket" scam, preying on women’s desire for companionship.
• Investigation reveals Reynolds had multiple aliases, with similar scams in Chicago.
• Reynolds uses hotels and social introductions to identify victims.
• Quote:

  “Marriage racket’s as old as any con game on earth. And as con games go, it’s one of the lowest.” —Joe Friday (07:44)

3. Investigation & Legwork (13:38–16:00)

• Officers trace Reynolds' activities through contacts at hotels and restaurants.
• The headwaiter, Henry Kingsbury, admits tipping off Reynolds to wealthy, single women in exchange for cash.
• Kingsbury expresses regret but insists money was his only motivation.
• Quote:

  “He wanted us to roll out the red carpet for him that night.”
  — Henry Kingsbury (14:13)

4. Discovery of More Victims (16:07–19:09)

• Second victim, Hagar Lindstrom, recounts a near-identical experience to Dorothy’s: a whirlwind romance, quick marriage (this time in Mexico), and a lost $3,000 check.
• Lindstrom’s brother Lars was involved and also defrauded by Reynolds.
• Reynolds’s tactics: promise marriage and adventure, request a check, then vanish.

5. Closing in and Arrest (19:28–28:51)

• Investigators receive a tip about Reynolds’s local whereabouts via a friend of the Lindstroms. Eventually, they track him to a hotel under an alias but just miss him.
• Helen Stokes, a savvy bunco artist, is picked up and used as an informant to locate Reynolds.
• Through Stokes, Friday and Jacobs stake out Reynolds’s hideout, arrest him, and facilitate a lineup for victims to make positive identifications.
• Quotes:

  “You can't believe her, officer. She’s phony. She’s nothing but a con artist.”
  — Richland/Reynolds protesting Helen Stokes’s involvement (25:22)
  “Takes one to know.”
  — Ed Jacobs (25:27)

6. Resolution & Sentencing (28:51–end of segment)

• After the confrontation, Richland breaks down and makes flippant remarks about his crime and victims.
• The show concludes with the sentencing details:

  “Frank Richland was tried and convicted of two counts of grand theft and three counts of forgery of a fictitious name. After serving his term at San Quentin, California, he is to be released to Chicago authorities for prosecution.”
  — Joe Friday (28:51)

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THE BIG PHONE CALL (32:23–58:23)

Main Plot

Sergeants Friday and Jacobs interrogate Ernest W. Garvey, a jeweler suspected of orchestrating a $20,000 diamond heist by hiring a young accomplice. As Garvey feigns ignorance and indignation, the detectives methodically present evidence gathered over months, including financials, tape recordings, and details of the scheme.

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Key Discussion Points & Timeline

1. Confronting the Suspect (32:39–36:29)

• Friday and Jacobs call Garvey in for questioning, confronting him with accusations of organizing the robbery and profiting from the stolen jewels.
• Garvey responds with disbelief, indignation, and denial.
• Quote:

  “You engineer[ed] the whole thing. We know it and so do you.”
  — Ed Jacobs (34:21)

2. Presenting the Evidence: Financials & Tape Recordings (36:30–44:06)

• Detectives lay out Garvey’s recent expensive lifestyle and connect it to the proceeds of crime.
• Tape recordings, made covertly, provide evidence of Garvey’s dealings with accomplices (Tyson and fence Fred Lawrence).
• Garvey tries to bluff his way out, threatening lawsuits and claiming ignorance even when faced with direct conversation playbacks.
• Quote:

  “We’ve been recording every conversation that took place in your office for the last four months. Every word.”
  — Ed Jacobs (37:24)
  “I pay my taxes. I pay your salaries. … I helped you.”
  — Garvey’s weak diversion (43:32)

3. Breaking Down the Alibi (48:16–52:57)

• The detectives present detailed bank statements, bank loans, and expenses documenting Garvey’s inability to explain how he could afford his lifestyle.
• They counter his explanations, demonstrating discrepancies between income and expenditures.

4. Emotional Collapse & Confession (55:35–56:41)

• Garvey finally cracks under pressure, blaming his actions on his wife’s incessant demands for luxury and financial ambition.
• He confesses his orchestration of the robbery, involvement of Tyson and Lawrence, and expresses no remorse.
• Quote:

  “I’d have tried anything just to shut her up, get her off my back for a while.”
  — Garvey (55:58)

5. Case Resolution (57:20–58:23)

• The narrator summarizes the outcome: Garvey and Tyson are convicted of first-degree robbery, Lawrence of receiving stolen property, and all are sentenced as prescribed by law.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Marriage racket’s as old as any con game on earth. And as con games go, it’s one of the lowest."
  — Sergeant Friday (07:44)

• "How are you gonna warn a woman about a thief before her purse is gone?"
  — Sergeant Ed Jacobs (11:16)

• "You engineer[ed] the whole thing. We know it and so do you."
  — Ed Jacobs (34:21)

• "We’ve been recording every conversation… for the last four months. Every word."
  — Ed Jacobs (37:24)

• "I’d have tried anything just to shut her up, get her off my back for a while."
  — Ernest Garvey (55:58)

• "Takes one to know."
  — Ed Jacobs, regarding con artists (25:27)

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Important Timestamps

• 01:26 – Interview with Ms. Wagner begins
• 07:44 – Joe Friday’s reflection on the “marriage racket”
• 13:38 – Kingsbury’s confession about participating in Reynolds’ schemes
• 16:07 – Interview with Hagar Lindstrom (second marriage scam victim)
• 24:55 – Stakeout and arrest of Reynolds/Richland
• 28:51 – Sentencing for Frank Richland/Reynolds
• 32:39 – Open of “The Big Phone Call” with Garvey’s interrogation
• 37:24, 41:12, 44:11 – Tape recordings played for Garvey
• 55:35 – Garvey’s emotional confession and collapse
• 58:23 – Summary of trial and sentences

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Tone & Style

The episode retains Dragnet’s signature methodical, spare, and unsentimental tone. Dialogue is punchy and procedural, focusing on facts and causality. The detectives are persistent but not melodramatic, with occasional flashes of dry wit, especially when confronting suspects' bluffs.

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Conclusion

This double-feature Dragnet episode offers a vivid snapshot of classic police procedural drama, showing both the emotional devastation wrought by crime (“The Big Honeymoon”) and the dogged, evidence-driven pursuit of justice (“The Big Phone Call”). In both cases, methodical investigation, witness cooperation, and sharp questioning lead to resolution, though never without a human cost.

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Transcript

[Sergeant Friday]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

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[Sergeant Friday]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

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[Sergeant Friday]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

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[Ernest Garvey]

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[Sergeant Friday]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

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[Sergeant Friday]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

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[Ernest Garvey]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

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[Sergeant Friday]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

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[Ernest Garvey]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

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[Sergeant Friday]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Our control at the moment.

[Sergeant Friday]

The Dragnet program originally scheduled at this period has been postponed temporarily.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

It will be heard in just a few moments. Partners at GA Boss Friday we're on the way. On the way out from the office. 10:38am when we got to Paris Avenue, number 213.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yes.

[Sergeant Friday]

How do you do, Ms. Wagner? Police officers. I'm Sergeant Jacobs. This is my partner, Sergeant Friday.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Oh, yes, Sergeant. I've been expecting you. Would you come in, please?

[Sergeant Friday]

Thank you very much.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Thank you.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Hope you'll excuse the way the house looks, officers. Right in the middle of packing, getting ready to move.

[Sergeant Friday]

I understand. I'll try not to keep you, Ms. Wagner.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

So much to do. Making arrangements for Dorothy's funeral. The undertaker. Then all this moving business on top of it. I couldn't bear to stay here any longer though.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yes, ma', am, we understand. We'll make it as brief as we can. Like to have you tell us about this trouble that your sister had. As much as you know about it.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

I mean, plain out and out murder, in my opinion. Might just as well have taken a gun and killed her. No difference.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You knew all about the relationship between your sister Dorothy and this man Reynolds, is that correct?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yes, right from the beginning. I was there when they met. Would you mind if I went ahead packing these few things here? My sister's things. I'd like to Finish up before I leave. Have an appointment at noon. The mortuary.

[Sergeant Friday]

Surely you'll let a hint.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

A few books, knickknacks, personal things at Dorothy's. Foolish woman. I gave her credit for more sense.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Now, about this man Reynolds, Ms. Wagner.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

I saw through him right from the start. I tried to tell Dorothy he was a fortune hunter, money hungry. Of course, she wouldn't listen. She always knew better.

[Sergeant Friday]

Charles R. Reynolds. Is that the name you knew him by, ma'?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Am? Yes, that's right. Dorothy and I met him one Sunday night in the hotel dining room. Two of us always had dinner at the hotel. Sunday nights, Every Sunday.

[Sergeant Friday]

That's the Hotel Allen Wiltshire you told us about.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

That's correct. It'll be exactly a month this coming Sunday. Came up to our table and introduced himself. Claimed he knew my father when he was alive. Dad owned some big packing plants in the East. Died nine years ago. Left the estate to Dorothy and me.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

I see. Would you have anything to add to the description that you gave us on Reynolds, Ms. Wagner? I mean, can you think of anything unusual about him at all? Scars, peculiar mannerisms, anything like that?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

No, nothing special. Dressed well, as I say, apparently cultured, well traveled. He was handsome enough. Attractive. I knew he was only after our money, though. Playing up to Dorothy that way, kissing her hand, taking her out all the time. Probably would have tried the same thing with me. It's lucky I knew better.

[Sergeant Friday]

How did you, after the first meeting with her, Ms. Wagner, did he start dating your sister Dorothy right away?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yes, the next night. Called here at our home and asked Dorothy to the theater. I think he was going to ask me, but he was too smart for that. I knew him for what he was. Hmm. Imagine that poem Ms. Dorothy wrote in high school. Love poems, silly. She never did get it out of her head.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You and your sister lived alone here in the house, did you, ma'? Am?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yes, Dorothy and I, and the maid. I don't want to stay here after what's happened, though. I'm going to my cousin's in Vermont. Never wanted to see this place again.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yes, ma', am. I can understand. How soon after you met Reynolds did he marry your sister?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Little over two weeks. He'd been seeing her almost every night. Taking her out, dancing to the theaters, big dinners, bringing her home late, and sit here in the living room. I could hear them from my bedroom upstairs, laughing. Him telling her how beautiful she was. 42 year old woman. Imagine that.

[Sergeant Friday]

You're about the same age your sister.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Was, just about a little older. People always took us for twins, though. Here's a snapshot of me taking in my 20s. The boy with me there. He wanted to marry me. My money, of course, that's all he wanted. Too bad Dorothy never seemed to realize that about men. Girls from wealthy families, they have to be careful.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

We understand Reynolds took your sister out of town to be married.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Is that right? Yes, Las Vegas. Reynolds had told her his bank funds were tied up temporarily in a Canadian bank. He wrote Dorothy a check for $10,000 and she gave him her check for the same amount. He said he wanted to book reservations for around the world trip for both of them.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

I see.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

The same day Dorothy gave him the check, he cashed it. The bank called her about it, and she said it was perfectly all right. An hour after he cashed it, Reynolds disappeared. No trace of him, of course, his check's worthless. We found that out.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You figure that's the only reason your sister took her own life?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

There's no other reason. Wasn't the money so much? Dorothy has her share of the estate. It's a shame, I suppose. Awful shame. Disappointment. She should have known better, a woman her age.

[Sergeant Friday]

Had your sister ever been married before, Miss Wagner?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yes, when she was 18. Ran off to Chicago and married a young fellow. She claimed she loved him too. Naturally, he was after our money. My father and I went and brought her home. We had the marriage annulled. It was that way all her life. Half a dozen men. They brought Dorothy nothing but misery. And this was the last, this Charles Reynolds.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

How about his background, ma'?

[Sergeant Friday]

Am?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

His business connections? He ever mentioned any of that to you or your sister?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Claimed he had interests all over South America, Australia. Seemed to have plenty of money. Guess his kind always has. Do you think you'll find him?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

We're gonna try, Ms. Wanger.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Dorothy went upstairs to her bedroom and stayed there. She looked so strange. She took out some press flowers from a book. Some boy had given them to her once, years ago. Don't know who. She just sat on the edge of her bed and stared at them old press flowers. Next morning, the maid came upstairs and Dorothy was lying on the floor, empty bottle of pills next to her. Awful disgrace. Never happened before in our family.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

If you don't mind, Ms. Wagner, we like to get as many particulars about this man Reynolds as you can remember.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

There. That's the last. I don't know what else to tell you, officer. All I know is I was young when Dorothy was young. I could have had a man if I wanted. But I didn't run off when I was 18 to marry a boy. I knew my duty. It wasn't proper. It wasn't a love. I didn't run off as a middle aged woman to marry a fortune hunter either. What made her do it?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

I wouldn't know, ma'. Am. She was your sister.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

What kind of a man was he? What kind of a mind making love, kissing her just to take her money? Imagine selling somebody with a kiss.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Well, it's not the first time, ma'. Am.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Is that so?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Look it up. You'll find it in the Bible. 11:18am we continued to interview the victim's sister for another 40 minutes and then we left the Wagner home, drove back to the office and continued our investigation of the suspect, Charles R. Reynolds. As far as we were concerned, the criminal was new to us, but the crime wasn't. The marriage racket's as old as any con game on earth. And as con games go, it's one of the lowest. It trades on one of the most natural and normal instincts a man or a woman has. A desire for companionship, a home and a family. And for the sake of an easy dollar, it betrays the victim and the instinct ruthlessly, regardless of the consequences. In the case of 42 year old heiress Dorothy Wagner, the disappointment was too much to cope with. For her, the marriage game ended in the front parlor of a mortuary on South Hoover Street. For the suspect, Charles Reynolds, it had continued to be a paying business until he was stopped. After homicide detail completed their investigation of the case and it was definitely determined that Dorothy Wagner took her own life, the matter was turned over to us. 11:50am we got off a request to Las Vegas asking them for all the information on the marriage. Then I contacted the stats office and asked them to make a run on the suspect for us based on his detailed description and also on his method of operation. I went back down the hall and met Ed Jacobs at the R and I counter. How you doing?

[Sergeant Friday]

Not too much luck, Joe. Forger didn't come up with anything either. Nothing on them in their files.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

It's not much of a start, is it?

[Sergeant Friday]

Apparently this is the first time he's worked the town. Hornsby couldn't find anything on the name. Not in the main file anyway.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

What do you got there?

[Sergeant Friday]

I asked John to check the correspondence file. He came up with this.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Uh huh. How does Chicago?

[Sergeant Friday]

He came in over three months ago. Inquiry from their bunco detail. Suspect name right here. Frank L. Richland.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Same angle. Mary Draggett and Emo's Pretty close. Any description?

[Sergeant Friday]

Well, here what do you think?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Six foot, £170, gray, wavy hair, blue eyes, fair complexion. That's fairly close.

[Sergeant Friday]

Could be.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Mm.

[Sergeant Friday]

Here's the alias list Richland uses as long as your arm. Here's one caught our eye. Reynolds, alias George A. Reynolds, Thomas r. Reynolds, alias C.H. reynolds, alias Charles R. Reynolds.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Wants on him for forgery. Bunco grand theft. Lot of experience. How about a mug shot on this one?

[Sergeant Friday]

None attached. No la context either.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Well, we better get off a wire to Chicago PD have them send us what they can on him. Ought to prove it one way or the other. By the end of the week, maybe, huh?

[Ernest Garvey]

Yeah.

[Sergeant Friday]

Copy his name down here. Frank L. Richland. Correspondence number C143732. Chicago case number D61232. Attention. Lieutenant Smichels.

[Ernest Garvey]

I.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Just thinking, Ed.

[Sergeant Friday]

Huh?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

The last time anyone saw Reynolds, when was it? 10, 12 days ago.

[Sergeant Friday]

10 days ago? Yeah, September 23rd. Same day he cashed the check and took a run out.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Well, if he's working the city for the first time, he must figure he's had some fair luck. 10,000 on the first try. That's pretty encouraging. If he gets the idea the town's a gold mine, he's not gonna pull out stakes here.

[Ernest Garvey]

Hmm.

[Sergeant Friday]

Figures. Probably trying to reach a couple other women with the same angle. Could be he's working on it now.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

That's the problem.

[Sergeant Friday]

What do you mean?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

The women say he's been romancing three or four of them around town. He's got them all primed, huh. How are you gonna warn a woman about a thief before her purse is gone? After getting off a wire to Chicago regarding the suspect, which was in addition to the broadcast in the APB we'd gotten out on him, Ed Jacobs and I continued checking out the various contacts that he'd made in the city. We checked stores where he shopped, banks where he allegedly did business, restaurants and hotels which he reportedly patronized. It took three days of dull, steady legwork. You can say it much faster than you can do it. All of the bank references, without exception, were falsified where he made purchases. It was strictly cash dealing. The same for the restaurants he'd frequented. Besides meager descriptions of the man, the restaurant employees weren't able to help us much. At one of the two hotels where we learned he was a guest for a full month, we finally netted half a lead. One of the bell boys told us that the man known as Charles Reynolds seemed to be pretty friendly with the head waiter in the hotel dining room, a Henry Kingsbury. We located Kingsbury in the dining room in mid afternoon directing arrangements for a large private party to be held that night across the dance floor. The orchestra was on the bandstand, rehearsing, the musicians in their shirt sleeves. Kingsbury was reserved, not too cooperative.

[Sergeant Friday]

Yes, I was acquainted with Mr. Reynolds. No more than the other guests, though. That's not the way we get it. Mr. Kingsbury, we hear you were pretty friendly with him. Only as far as my job goes. That's my business. Making people feel at home, making them comfortable.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

We understand Reynolds was a pretty heavy tipper. Is that right?

[Sergeant Friday]

He always took good care of me and the boys. The waiters, very generous.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Did he expect anything special in return for the tips that he gave you?

[Sergeant Friday]

I don't think I understand.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Oh, I think you do. How about it?

[Sergeant Friday]

Well, he was always very good to us. All of us. I could hardly refuse. Refuse what? When he first moved into the hotel, he became friendly with me, introduced himself. He gave me a good tip in advance to take care of him. First few nights here, he spent at the cocktail bar. You know, meeting people, buying a few drinks, getting acquainted. Third or fourth night. That's when he asked me. Yeah, he said when some prominent women came into the dining room. Wealthy women. Would I point them out to him? Single women, of course, I couldn't see any harm in it. He put a $20 bill in my hand. I said yes, I would. After all, we have to look out for ourselves.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Did he expect anything else for those tips?

[Sergeant Friday]

I don't know. I don't think it'd be right if I told you. You know why we're here, Mr. Kingsbury. We leveled with you. We expect you to do the same with us. Well, there was the two Wagner sisters. They came here every Sunday night for dinner. Regular routine for them. Yeah, Mr. Reynolds was at the bar. He asked who they were and I told him. He seemed impressed. He asked me to help with an introduction to them, and I did. Next afternoon, he came to me again. He said he was taking one of the Wagner sisters to dinner that night. It was important to him. He gave me another big tip. Said he wanted us to roll out the red carpet for him that night.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

What'd that consist of?

[Sergeant Friday]

Well, special consideration. The best treatment in the house, you know. I was to act as if I'd known him for years. Well, it was a good tip.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

I did what he asked.

[Sergeant Friday]

As I say, we have to look out for ourselves. This happened more than once today? Two or three times. Yeah. Ms. Wagner. Dorothy Wagner. She seemed impressed at the time, I didn't think anything was wrong with her.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You actually didn't know Reynolds, is that right? You'd never seen him before?

[Sergeant Friday]

Well, I suppose, yes. I only found out later, though, reading the papers. I mean, what really happened? I didn't know what he was at the time. You couldn't see what Reynolds was up to? You didn't know what he was doing? No, naturally not. He was a good tipper. That's all I know. It was the money you have to look out for herself.

[Ernest Garvey]

Yeah.

[Sergeant Friday]

I felt sorry about Ms. Wagner. I went to the funeral. They couldn't say I'm to blame, could they? What happened? I mean, it's not on my conscience. You wouldn't say so, would you?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

She's dead, mister. You figure it. Thursday, October 13th. The investigation continued. Still no sign of the suspect. We got an answer from Las Vegas and also from the Chicago PD's bunco detail on our inquiries. They enclosed mug shots and fingerprint classification of the suspect, Frank Richland, alias Charles R. Reynolds. The pictures were shown to witnesses and acquaintances who'd known the suspect. And they definitely established Frank Richland and Charles Reynolds as one and the same person. We got out a supplementary APB containing the latest information on the suspect. Saturday, October 15th. We got our second complaint on the marriage bunco artist. This time from the proprietress of a small chain of lunch counters in the San Pedro area, a Ms. Hagar Lindstrom. Ed and I drove down to the harbor area where we interviewed her at one of her lunch counters. She identified Richland's mugshot. Her story of the marriage swindle matched closely with that of the previous victim, Dorothy Wagner.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yeah, he was a fine gentleman, Mr. Jan Richland. I don't know what happened. They don't know what to say.

[Sergeant Friday]

He told you he was from England, Ms. Lindstrom, is that right?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yeah. He talked like English when he could speak good English. Like from London or someplace. Says he builds boats. Big ones.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

I beg your pardon, ma'?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Am? Big boats.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Oh, yes.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

He told me. That's his business. He said he had lots of money. We would sail around the world on a honeymoon. Maybe he will come back still. I hope so.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

I wouldn't count on that. Ms. Lindstrom, would you tell us this, please? How'd you happen to meet this man Richland?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

At the hotel up the street. The big hotel? They can show it to you. The one on Yackson Street?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

They seem to know he was rich man. Nice clothes he wore. He spent money a Lot. When they got married, they spent lots of money.

[Sergeant Friday]

Where were you married, ma'?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Am? We went down to Mexico one weekend. We went down there and we got married. It was romantic. Very nice. Even Lars liked it.

[Sergeant Friday]

Who's that, ma'?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Am?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Lars. That's him down the counter there. Lars? My brother.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Oh, well, your brother went along with you when you got married, is that right?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Lars and I go every place together. He don't do anything without Lars. Mr. Richland was nice about it. He don't seem to mind. Lars, they call him. Lars, huh? Lars. Lars and I run the business together. Those are the fountains we have. It's a long time we have. Work at it. Hard work.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yes, ma'.

[Sergeant Friday]

Am. I guess so.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

We make good living. Not easy, though. That's why it was so bad. Mr. Ishland, $3,000 he took. These are the police laws. They want to know about Mr. Ishland.

[Sergeant Friday]

How do you do? How are you, sir? He was no good. When they find him, he hit him.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Now, the $3,000 he got from you, ma'. Am, how did that work? I mean, did you give him the money? Lend it to him? Just what was it?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

When we came back from Mexico from being married, Mr. Ashland and me and Lars. He said I was waiting for money from his bank in New York. Mr. Ishland said that he wrote me a check for $3,000. I gave him our check for 3,000. Even Lars thought it was all right. Didn't you, Lars?

[Sergeant Friday]

Yeah, he was crazy. His shick was no good. He beat him up. Pay punching good. That's quite a bit of money, Ms. Lindstrom. What kind of a story did he give you?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

He would buy the tickets for a honeymoon trip. That's what he said. A long trip together. Romantic. Mr. Richland and me and Lars. He didn't want. Lars Common Alumniators, Detonars?

[Ernest Garvey]

No, he didn't mind.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Now, this Richland disappeared right after he cashed your check?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yes, sir. He got the money and he was gone six days ago. We never hurt him. I don't know why he did this to us. He thought he loved me. He thought he was my husband.

[Sergeant Friday]

We haven't seen or heard anything of him since he disappeared.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Not me nor ours. But maybe we know. That's why we call you officers.

[Sergeant Friday]

Yes, ma'.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Am.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

We have this friend, Antonia M. Swenson. He met Mr. Richland Lawrence when he was here. His friends and callers. On the telephone, he said he saw Mr. Richland downtown going into the hotel.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Are you sure it was Richland?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yeah. He said he thought so.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

How long ago did he see him?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Last night.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

We got on the phone right away and talked to the friend of the Lindstroms, James Swenson. He gave us the name and location of the downtown hotel where he thought he'd seen the suspect, Richland the night before. Ed called the hotel and checked with the desk clerk.

[Sergeant Friday]

Yeah, that's right. Fairly tall, wavy gray hair, fair complexion, might be registered as John Richland. That's right. Okay, we'll check with you later.

[Ernest Garvey]

Bye.

[Sergeant Friday]

Any luck? Guy registered. His Harold Richland. Descriptions match.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

He's still there.

[Sergeant Friday]

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[Sergeant Friday]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Saturday, October 15, 2:30pm Ed Jacobs and I drove back downtown to the hotel where the bunco suspect Richland supposedly had been staying. The desk clerk definitely identified his mugshot and told us that the man registered as Harold Richland had checked out a few minutes before 9am that morning. No forwarding address. We examined the room he'd been staying in, talked to the residents and the employees of the hotel. But we failed to come up with a single lead as to the suspect's whereabouts. During the week that followed, we received three different kickbacks on the all points we'd gotten out on Richland. We checked each one of them out, but they failed to materialize into anything. We stayed on it. October 19th. Wednesday, 7:50am Morning. Hi. What's doin?

[Sergeant Friday]

Charlie Frost called from forgery. Went over to talk to him, came up with something on the Richland.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yeah, what's that?

[Sergeant Friday]

Picked up a woman Last night. Name of Helen Stokes. Got a good size record. Checks. Bunko Records.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yeah.

[Sergeant Friday]

Got her this time on a check beef. She wrote one for $3,500.

[Ernest Garvey]

Yeah?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Well, how's it tie in with us?

[Sergeant Friday]

Check was made out to Harold Richland.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

8:15Am we signed out, drove over to the main jail and had the forgery suspect, Helen Stokes, brought to one of the interrogation rooms. She was a dark haired, fairly attractive woman in her early 30s. As a bunco artist, she apparently knew her trade pretty well. She was relaxed and talkative. She told us Richland had introduced himself to her at a Palm Springs resort.

[Sergeant Friday]

The week before when the business of the check come up.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

As soon as we got back in town, he gave me the story his.

[Ernest Garvey]

Money was in a New York bank. I played along with the gag.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

He wrote me a piece of wallpaper for $3,500. I did the same for him. What's the difference? Nobody hurt. Both checks solid rubber.

[Sergeant Friday]

Maybe you forget, ma', am, there's a law against it.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

It's only a gag. I told you that. I would have loved to have seen his face when he found out the check was a phony. You don't think they're gonna push the charge against me, do you?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

No. We've already told you, miss, you wrote a bad one. There's a law against it.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

I was only stringing him along. I knew his check was a phony, too. I didn't have anything to gain. Look, suppose I help you find him. Will you give me a hand on this? See I get a break.

[Sergeant Friday]

We can't make any promises. You cooperate, helps find Richland be taken into consideration.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

All right, you're on. You can tell lover boy I tipped you.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You know where Richland is now?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

I can come close to it.

[Ernest Garvey]

How do you mean?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

I know where I'll be next week.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

On further questioning. Helen Stokes told us that on one occasion while she was at Palm Springs with Richland, she prowled his hotel room, went through his personal effects and read his correspondence. She told us that she read one letter from a friend of Richland's inviting him for a visit the week of October 31st. She also noted Richland's answer. Accepting the invitation. She said the friend's name was Maurice Archer and that the letter came from an Ocean Boulevard address in the beach town of Venice. We went back to the office, ran Archer's name through R and I and found out that he had a previous criminal record of petty theft and grand theft. We located him at an Ocean Boulevard address and Brought him in for interrogation. If there was any trouble, he wanted no part of it. After talking to him only a few minutes, he broke down and told us where we could find Richland. An address out near the end of Melrose Avenue. It was an apartment court. The suspect was registered in one of the rear cottages under the name of Reynolds. He wasn't at home. Ed and I went on stakeout inside the cottage. We waited. 6:30pm.

[Sergeant Friday]

Somebody coming in?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yeah. Hold it right there, mister. Police officers. What's this?

[Sergeant Friday]

Hands out in the open. Come on up.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

I don't understand this. Wanna shake him down in?

[Sergeant Friday]

Yeah.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

All right. It's clean.

[Sergeant Friday]

Look, I don't know what you want, officers, but this is a mistake.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Your name? Charles Reynolds? Reynolds?

[Sergeant Friday]

No, my name is Richland.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

That'll do.

[Sergeant Friday]

Let's go. Now, just a minute, please. What am I accused of? Who's accusing me? Last pigeon you had lined up, she wanted us to tell you. Helen Stokes.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Stokes?

[Ernest Garvey]

Phony dame.

[Sergeant Friday]

You can't believe her, officer. She's phony. She's nothing but a con artist.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

It's a good reason to believe her.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

What?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Takes one to know. 1 7:05pm after checking through the cottage, Ed and I drove Richland downtown and took him to the interrogation room. He'd admit Nothing. We called Ms. Wagner, the sister of his first victim, and she was still in town. She agreed to come down to the office to confront the suspect. So did the second victim, Hagar Lindstrom and her brother, Lars. Cars were set out to pick them up. At a special show up, Richland was picked out as the guilty man. We took him back to the interrogation room. Ms. Wagner was the first one called in. She again identified Richland, alias Reynolds, as the man who had married and swindled her sister, dorothy.

[Sergeant Friday]

All right, Ms. Wagner, that'll be all. Thanks very much for coming in.

[Ernest Garvey]

Yes, all right.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Thank you.

[Ernest Garvey]

Look, I don't know that woman. I'm not trying to be stubborn, but.

[Sergeant Friday]

I'm afraid you're wrong.

[Ernest Garvey]

I'm not the man you want.

[Sergeant Friday]

Lindstroms are outside, Joe. Waiting.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

All right, bring them in.

[Sergeant Friday]

Ms. Lindstrom. Mr. Lindstrom, come in, please.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Ms. Lindstrom. Mr.— Lindstrom.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yeah, it came.

[Ernest Garvey]

No, I don't know you. I've never seen you before.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

You married me, John. You wanted to be my husband. You said that. Why did you want to hurt me?

[Ernest Garvey]

Sorry, I don't know why.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

You said for you and me and Lars to go on the boat honeymoon, around the world. You and me and Lars. You Said all those things. Why did you want to hurt us?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

No, I. Is that enough for you?

[Ernest Garvey]

I don't know what they're talking about. He bait you up?

[Sergeant Friday]

Take it easy, Mr. Larson.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Lars lies.

[Sergeant Friday]

He said we all go around the world.

[Ernest Garvey]

Honeymoon. All right, all right. Get him out of here.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Okay, Mr. Lewsom. Thanks.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

It's no good, Lars. Come.

[Sergeant Friday]

Chief, out this way, please.

[Ernest Garvey]

Yeah. Find him. He hit him.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Thank you very much.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

There you are. All right.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

All right, Rickson, you ready to give us a statement? All right.

[Ernest Garvey]

I'll tell you, you can't blame me for that one, though.

[Sergeant Friday]

You wouldn't have gone through with that deal yourself.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Nobody would have. What's wrong?

[Sergeant Friday]

Nice looking girl.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Sure.

[Ernest Garvey]

I don't mean that.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

What do you mean?

[Ernest Garvey]

That big clown.

[Sergeant Friday]

Her brother Lars.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yeah.

[Ernest Garvey]

How'd you like to take that along? On a honeymoon?

[Sergeant Friday]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

It was Thursday, July 18th. It was sultry in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. My partner's Ed Jacobs. The boss is Captain Didion. My name's Friday. It was 1:35pm when we got back to the city hall. The interrogation room.

[Sergeant Friday]

So now, Mr. Garvey.

[Ernest Garvey]

Yes.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You want to call the captain, Ed? Let him know we're back?

[Sergeant Friday]

Okay, thanks.

[Ernest Garvey]

I'd still like to know what this is all about, Sergeant. Dragging me down here in the middle of the day. I've got an office.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Just a minute, mister.

[Sergeant Friday]

Yeah, I just got back.

[Ernest Garvey]

All of them.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Good. Yeah.

[Sergeant Friday]

Interrogation room.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Right.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Let us check in yet?

[Sergeant Friday]

Yeah, all back. Worked out fine.

[Ernest Garvey]

Would you please explain what this is about? Why you brought me down here.

[Sergeant Friday]

We think you know why.

[Ernest Garvey]

I don't. I haven't any idea. You take me away from my store on a busy day. You put a police guard on it. You insist on bringing me down here. What's it all about? Tell me.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

No, you tell us, Mr. Garvey.

[Ernest Garvey]

Tell you about what?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

The jewel robbery nine months ago. That hold up.

[Ernest Garvey]

What hold up? My store hasn't been.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Talk about your friend Thomas Ashley.

[Ernest Garvey]

Ashley? What about him?

[Sergeant Friday]

We think you remember it. Nine months ago. Parking lot, back of the building down on 4th Street.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Oh, sure.

[Ernest Garvey]

Some hold up man slugged him, stole his case of samples. I remember it now. Poor Tom. Thief made a big haul, didn't he?

[Sergeant Friday]

Unset Diamond's $20,000 worth.

[Ernest Garvey]

I remember it now. I don't think Tom's gotten over it yet. I was a jewelry salesman for the same company at the time, you know. Same company Tom was working for.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yeah, we know all that.

[Ernest Garvey]

Some of the big bosses thought Tom had a hand in it. They figured it was a put up job. Nothing was further from the truth, that's all. Sure, I know Tom. He's a close friend of mine. He wouldn't be mixed up in a deal like that. Tom and I worked out of the same office for years. We've had him over the house for dinner. We've even been on vacations together. He's one of the most honest men I know.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Are you sure of all this?

[Sergeant Friday]

Are you?

[Ernest Garvey]

Of course I'm sure. That isn't why you called me down here, is it? You don't think Tom had anything to do with that robbery, do you? You don't think he was in on it?

[Sergeant Friday]

He had nothing to do with it. I think you know that as well as we do.

[Ernest Garvey]

Then why am I here? There's nothing I can tell you about the holdup. Only what I heard from Tom, what I read in the news.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

No, you can tell us a lot more, Garvey. We didn't bring you here just past time of day.

[Ernest Garvey]

Tom was slugged and his sample case of stones were taken. That's all I can tell.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You're a liar, mister.

[Sergeant Friday]

What?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You engineered the whole thing. We know it and so do you.

[Ernest Garvey]

Is this some kind of a joke? If it is, I think it's invariably.

[Sergeant Friday]

Long way from a joke, Garvey. You planned the job, you got the loot. We can give you chapter and verse.

[Ernest Garvey]

I really think you're serious. You think I robbed Tom?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

We're past the thinking stage, Garvey. We already told you, we know you robbed him.

[Ernest Garvey]

Wait a minute. This thing is ridiculous. The whole idea is ridiculous. I don't know who gave you the so called information on me, but it's wrong. There's nothing further from the truth.

[Sergeant Friday]

Nobody gave us the information. We got it ourselves.

[Ernest Garvey]

You're really serious, are you? I robbed Tom. And you can prove I did.

[Sergeant Friday]

You get any idea?

[Ernest Garvey]

I know what to say.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Fantastic.

[Ernest Garvey]

I robbed my best friend Tom Ashley, nine months ago. I have $20,000 worth of diamonds. And you can prove it?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Every bit of it. What about it?

[Ernest Garvey]

I think you're out of your Mind. My name's George Garvey. You sure I'm the man you want? There couldn't be a mistake.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

No, there's no mistake. This thing.

[Ernest Garvey]

It'd be funny if I didn't think you were serious. Let me ask you just one question. Maybe that'll clear it up for you. Yeah, if I held up Tom Ashley. How is it he didn't recognize him?

[Sergeant Friday]

You know better than that, Garvey.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

What?

[Sergeant Friday]

You didn't hold up Tom Ashley yourself. You had someone do it for you.

[Ernest Garvey]

Oh, cloak and dagger. I'm afraid this is getting a little too wild for me, Sergeant. Maybe you can waste time making ridiculous charges. I can't. I'm going back to my store.

[Sergeant Friday]

It's a weak bluff, mistress. Not gonna do it.

[Ernest Garvey]

Excuse me. Are you sure you two men haven't been drinking?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Sit down, Mr. Garvey.

[Ernest Garvey]

I told you, I'm going back to my store.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Sit down.

[Ernest Garvey]

Look, you have no right to keep me here. These are ridiculous charges. You think I'm one of those cheap hoodlums you're used to dealing with?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Oh, now, come off it, mister. You got a $5,000 car and a $40,000 home. That doesn't rate you a special treatment. You're a thief and you know it as well as we do.

[Ernest Garvey]

I don't have to take this from you.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You haven't got much choice. We just finished five months legwork proving it.

[Ernest Garvey]

Proving what?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

All right, now sit down there. You engineered that holdup. We know who you got to do it. We know how it was carried out. We know how you planned on disposing of the diamonds. We know who your fence was. We know what the split was. We know what you did with part of the money. We know how much you got left. Yeah, that's right.

[Ernest Garvey]

What can I say? I don't even know what you're talking about.

[Sergeant Friday]

Any way you want it, Mr. Garvey.

[Ernest Garvey]

Maybe you'd like to tell me why I did all this.

[Sergeant Friday]

You know it better than we do.

[Ernest Garvey]

No, I mean it.

[Sergeant Friday]

Tell me you weren't making enough money at your job to suit yourself. Suit your wife, either.

[Ernest Garvey]

That's pretty good. Marilyn would get a big kick out of that one.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

All right, fellow, we can wait it out as long as you want. We spent nine months on this already. Another few days aren't going to make that much difference.

[Ernest Garvey]

Just as a matter of curiosity, how'd you first start off on this table? Whatever gave me the idea that I had anything to do with the hold up?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

When you started to spend Money, new car, new office for yourself. Fur coat for your wife. Transferred your two children to that private school.

[Ernest Garvey]

That makes a hold up, man out of me. Because I wanted to send my kids to a better school.

[Sergeant Friday]

Where'd the money come from?

[Ernest Garvey]

Can you explain that? Don't you think that's my business, Sergeant? Where I get my money, what I do with it.

[Sergeant Friday]

Not when you get it. Stealing?

[Ernest Garvey]

I'm afraid you're going just a little too far. You insist I'm a thief? I'm gonna insist you prove it. All right.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Have a look over here, Mr. Garvey.

[Ernest Garvey]

Yeah?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Some of the reports on the investigation. Reams of them. They cover everything from the time of the jewel robbery up to late yesterday. It's all right there. Everything from the crime report to signed statements.

[Ernest Garvey]

How would that concern me?

[Sergeant Friday]

Three quarters of the stuff concerns you. Have a look for yourself.

[Ernest Garvey]

I still can't get it straight in my mind. What makes you think I had anything to do with that, Robert?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You know what this is, Mr. Garvey? This machine right here?

[Sergeant Friday]

No.

[Ernest Garvey]

Some kind of recording apparatus.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

That's right. It's a tape recorder.

[Ernest Garvey]

You've been taking down this conversation and why?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

No, not this one. We've been recording every conversation that took place in your office for the last four months. Every word.

[Ernest Garvey]

What do you mean?

[Sergeant Friday]

Just that, Mr. Garvey. Every time you talked on the phone, every visitor you had, it's all down on tape, 25 reels of it.

[Ernest Garvey]

Interesting. Is that supposed to frighten me? No, no.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

We don't care if it frightens you or not. Something else, sir?

[Ernest Garvey]

Yes.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Reports on what you've been doing for the last four months. Daily reports. Every movement you made. That so everywhere you went, everybody you talked to, everything you did. Want to hear a sample?

[Ernest Garvey]

This must be some kind of a joke. That's the only explanation I can think of.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

May 12, Thursday. Sergeants Bitteroff and Rafferty. Those are the two officers who were tailing you at the time you checked in at your new office at 9:38am At 1003am you had a visitor, Kenneth Tyson. You talked to him in your office. Conversations recorded. Tyson left at 10:18am at 10:32am you left your office.

[Ernest Garvey]

If you're trying to impress me, I'm afraid it isn't working out very well.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You care for a cigarette?

[Sergeant Friday]

You hurt me.

[Ernest Garvey]

No, thanks. I have my own. All right, well, I've wasted enough time. Exactly what's the point of all this?

[Sergeant Friday]

Pretty simple. You're responsible for a robbery. We can prove it. We're giving you the chance to make a statement.

[Ernest Garvey]

It's nonsense.

[Sergeant Friday]

Is it? Of course.

[Ernest Garvey]

People following me, checking everything I do, where I spend my money, where I send my kids to school. What's it all about? It doesn't make any sense.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

All right, Mr. Garvey. We've said it before. We can wait it out as long as you want.

[Ernest Garvey]

Look, let's get this thing straight. Let's go back to the beginning and take it step by step.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

That's fine.

[Ernest Garvey]

The holdup was last fall, wasn't it? Sometime in October.

[Sergeant Friday]

October 7th. Monday. 5:20 in the afternoon.

[Ernest Garvey]

All right. Now, just what am I supposed to have done? None of your vague references about a new quote from my wife or where I send my kids to school. Let's have some facts, Joe.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

All right, Mr. Garling. You went to work as a jewelry salesman for the company 10 years ago. Your friend Tom Ashley, the victim, started the same year. The two of you have been pretty close friends.

[Ernest Garvey]

That's right. I told you that I will skip.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

The rest of your background for now. Two weeks before the robbery on September 24th, you had a meeting with a Kenneth Tyson. We met in the cafeteria on South Broadway. Tyson's 19 years old, lives with an older sister. He works in a gas station on Olympic Boulevard. He's done some work on your car for you. That's how you happen to know him.

[Ernest Garvey]

Yes, I think I remember the boy. I don't know him well, though. I don't recall the meeting either.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

No, you know the boy very well. At the time of the meeting, you promised him $1,000 if you'd hold up Your friend, Tom Ashley.

[Ernest Garvey]

Ridiculous.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Tyson agreed to it. And you briefed him on the plan. The following day, you gave him a gun.32 caliber Smith & Wesson. Serial number 362745.

[Ernest Garvey]

Nonsense. Where did you get that information?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Tyson.

[Ernest Garvey]

Well, he's lying. Believe me, if he told you that, he's lying. Is he the one who robbed Tom.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

October 7th, at your direction? He was in the parking lot behind the Hunter Croswell Building. Tom actually came out to get in his car. He had his case of sample diamonds with him. Tyson held him up, slugged him, took the stones and got away.

[Ernest Garvey]

Of course, it's obvious Tyson's trying to say I put him up to it. He's trying to get out of it that way.

[Sergeant Friday]

Afraid not, Mr. Garvey. Boy couldn't have carried off the holdup by himself.

[Ernest Garvey]

Of course he could. It's obvious he's trying to cover up.

[Sergeant Friday]

There Were six people in the company you worked for who knew that. On Mondays, Ashley always took the case. A sample. Diamonds long when he made his calls. Only on Monday. You were one of the people who knew that.

[Ernest Garvey]

I suppose you've considered the other five people.

[Sergeant Friday]

They were all checked out at the time they were all cleared, you along with them.

[Ernest Garvey]

But I'm not clear anymore. Is that it? This young hoodlum, Tyson, you're willing to take his word over mine?

[Sergeant Friday]

After the robbery, he took the case of diamonds to you. That was the next day. You paid him $500 and promised him the other 500 when he got rid of the stones.

[Ernest Garvey]

Oh, I suppose I've gotten rid of them. Or do I still have them?

[Sergeant Friday]

Two months after the hold up, he contacted a fence up in San Francisco. He drove up there and sold him some of the stones. And he broke them up and sold them. We know who he sold them to. We know what he got for them.

[Ernest Garvey]

Well, this fence, he's supposed to be another good friend of mine.

[Sergeant Friday]

He's still doing business with him. His name's Fred Lawrence.

[Ernest Garvey]

It's a new one on me. I don't know any Fred Lawrence. Can't even recall the name now.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Maybe this will help you, Mr. Garvey. Listen to him on the tape recorder. It's real four, isn't it, Ed?

[Sergeant Friday]

Yeah, I think so. They're all labeled there, right on the back of town.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yeah, you were.

[Ernest Garvey]

Well, what's all this about?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Phone conversation, Mr. Garvey. One of the things we recorded from your office. I told you about it before.

[Ernest Garvey]

Let's see.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

This one was on March 18th.

[Ernest Garvey]

I always thought wiretapping was against the law. Or do you pay any attention to that?

[Sergeant Friday]

You didn't tap your telephone line. We recorded everything from tiktographs we installed in your store and back in your office. They started recording the day you moved in. That was the 1st of March, wasn't it?

[Ernest Garvey]

I don't know why you're telling me. I can sue you for that, you know. I can sue you for your last dollar.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

All we're concerned with right now is Fred Lawrence. You say you don't know why. Cabby, listen to this. This was recorded March 18th in your office. Okay, here we go. Yo.

[Ernest Garvey]

Yeah, Marion. Mr. Lawrence. Yeah, sure. What am I. Hi, Fred. How are you?

[Sergeant Friday]

I'm good.

[Ernest Garvey]

Everything's fine. No heat at all. I should know.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

He's all right.

[Ernest Garvey]

I believe. He's a good kid.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

All right. Where?

[Sergeant Friday]

I don't know.

[Ernest Garvey]

It might not be so good if you're seeing something here. 8:00'.

[Sergeant Friday]

Clock.

[Ernest Garvey]

8:30. Okay, fine. Suppose 8:30. Big night, friend. Bye, Mr. Garvey.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You recognize that? How about it, Garvey?

[Ernest Garvey]

I understand they can do clever things with tape recorders nowadays. There's a way of piecing words together, isn't there? They can record your voice and then fix the tape. Take a simple sentence and change the words around to mean just the opposite.

[Sergeant Friday]

Examine the tape if you like. We didn't make a splice in it. All you'll find are the usual factory splice is just where it comes from, the manufacturer.

[Ernest Garvey]

What difference does it make anyway? There's nothing criminal about that conversation. Nothing at all.

[Sergeant Friday]

You told us a few minutes ago you didn't know Fred Lawrence. You never heard of him on that recording. It sounds like you know him pretty well.

[Ernest Garvey]

Fairly common name, wouldn't you say? Must be quite a few Fred Lawrences. And I didn't happen to remember the name right off.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

How about Tyson? What? Tyson? You told us you didn't know him well at all.

[Ernest Garvey]

I don't.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Well, it didn't sound that way on that tape, did it? You were telling Lawrence that he was all right. You said, believe me, he's a good kid. Know what you said?

[Ernest Garvey]

Now, how about it, mister? How about what? Is this, some kind of a frame? What are you trying to make me say?

[Sergeant Friday]

We're not gonna make you say anything, Garvey. We work robbery detail.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

That's a job.

[Sergeant Friday]

Robberies, they pay us to clean them up.

[Ernest Garvey]

I can pay you.

[Sergeant Friday]

What?

[Ernest Garvey]

Never mind. I didn't mean that. I meant I pay my taxes. I pay your salaries. I helped you.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Anyway, I don't know why I have.

[Ernest Garvey]

To be treated like this.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

No reason to make a big headache out of this for anybody, Garvey. Now, you engineered a hold up. We can prove that. We're giving you a chance to make a statement. That's all we want here.

[Ernest Garvey]

I've got nothing to say. Make a statement about what? All you're going on is hearsay, circumstantial evidence. You can't say I planned that, Robert.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Well, you admit you know Tyson. You know him well.

[Ernest Garvey]

I don't. I admit nothing.

[Sergeant Friday]

What about phone conversation?

[Ernest Garvey]

It's a fake. They phony those things up all the time. You know it as well as I do.

[Sergeant Friday]

You admitted you know Fred Lyons. Prove that from the recording.

[Ernest Garvey]

I admit nothing.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You don't even know Tyson.

[Ernest Garvey]

Is that what you want to say? I know him, that's all. He worked on my car a couple of times. I Don't know him. Well, all right.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Sir, I'd like to play you another recording.

[Ernest Garvey]

It's a waste of time. I haven't got the whole day to spend here. I got to get back to my store. I've got a business to operate.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

This won't take very long. Yeah.

[Sergeant Friday]

Here we are.

[Ernest Garvey]

April 5th. A lot of foolishness, anyway. How do I know you made those recordings? Could have gotten accurate, maybe made them up your salary. There weren't any dictographs. You make those things?

[Sergeant Friday]

There were dictographs, Mr. Garvey. Remember? Before you moved into that new suite of offices, you had them redecorated.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yeah.

[Sergeant Friday]

There were sound technicians from our crime lab out there working side by side with the painters and carpenters, installed dictographs in your store and back in your offices. They bugged the entire place.

[Ernest Garvey]

Wiretapping. I'll bring this into court if it's the last thing I do.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Look, now, we already told you, Mr. Garvey, it's not wiretapping. We didn't touch your phone lines. We didn't have to.

[Ernest Garvey]

It's invasion of privacy.

[Sergeant Friday]

I'm gonna take this in according to.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Listen to this recording. Might clear up a few things.

[Ernest Garvey]

Clear up what? What are you trying to prove?

[Sergeant Friday]

Okay, Joe.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yeah, it's coming in here. Date on this is April 5th.

[Ernest Garvey]

Yeah. Mary who? Tyson. Well, does he know I'm in?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yeah.

[Ernest Garvey]

Okay, send him back. You got more? Hi. Hi. Mr. Garvey, I'm Ken. How are you?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Come on in.

[Ernest Garvey]

Sit down.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Thanks.

[Ernest Garvey]

How you been, anyway? Pretty good. Trying to get a hold of you.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Last week or so. Hard to do.

[Ernest Garvey]

You're not in very much. Pretty busy. Yeah, Ken, it's the time of year, you know, it keeps you going. I don't want to waste any time. I'd like to know how the deal is working out, though. Going back east, Alderman?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Next month.

[Ernest Garvey]

I'd like to get the rest of my money if I could. Well, just like I told you the last time, Ken, I'm sending the stuff north. I hope to hear in a couple of days.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yeah, I know.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

That's what you told me before was.

[Ernest Garvey]

A pretty heavy job.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

I could use the money.

[Ernest Garvey]

I mean, if it wasn't so heavy, I wouldn't mind, but I. I got it coming, I think. Of course you do. There's no credit in there. It's just that I hadn't got it right now. Believe me, you'd have it in a minute if it was mine again. Yeah, but that was the agreement Wasn't it 500 before the job, 500 after, and have it last October makes a pretty good stretch. Now look, Ken, I told you the truth. I just haven't got it. Now, why don't you drop back in.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

A week or so? How about it, Mr. Garvey? What do you say to that?

[Ernest Garvey]

It's ridiculous, that's all. It's an obvious fake.

[Sergeant Friday]

You can look at the tape if you like. Inspect it if you can. Check every one of those 25 reels. We'll play every one of them right if you want.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Fakes.

[Ernest Garvey]

And they're bad ones at that. Now look, I'll give you both a chance. Either you book me in on a charge or else release me. You try booking me in and I'll sue you for false arrest. I'll break you. I'll see you blind. I can promise you that. Release me and I'll get back to work. I'll forget all about it. Now, you name it. Which one? Book me in or release me.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Oh, that's fair enough. You're gonna give us a choice, huh?

[Ernest Garvey]

You bet it's fair. You could get in a lot of hot water. Now it's up to you which one?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You ran a bad bluff, mister.

[Ernest Garvey]

What?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

We're booking you in.

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[Ernest Garvey]

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[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Thursday, 3:55pm Ed Jacobs and I continued questioning the robbery suspect, Ernest Garvey. Despite the evidence at hand, he still refused to admit any knowledge of the twenty thousand dollar jewel. For nine months before the questioning went on Garvey's answers became more and more confused. We kept pressing, laying out the case against him, step by step. 4pm 4:30. We stayed at it.

[Sergeant Friday]

Must have taken quite a bit of money, didn't it, Garvey? My wife's new fur coat. New car for yourself. Where'd he come from?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Now, look, there has to be an answer. Where'd that money come from?

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Simple.

[Ernest Garvey]

I borrowed it.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Where'd you borrow it?

[Ernest Garvey]

Some from friends, some from the banks. I don't see how it concerns you.

[Sergeant Friday]

How much money did you borrow?

[Ernest Garvey]

Don't you think that's my business?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Wasn't it about $7,000? That about right?

[Ernest Garvey]

Yeah. No, it was more. Well, what's the difference? It's my business.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You want to grab that folder head? The one with the dark brown? That's it.

[Sergeant Friday]

Got it.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Complete financial file on you, Mr. Garvey. Took us quite a few weeks getting this together. A lot of work.

[Ernest Garvey]

You must like snooping in other people's affairs.

[Sergeant Friday]

No, not especially.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

It's pretty dull. Here's a copy of your bank statement. It's a photo stab. Doesn't make much sense.

[Ernest Garvey]

What do you mean?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Well, we checked. Your income for that month amounted to $620.18. Your bank statement here shows you made deposits totaling $760 the same month. Now, how is that possible?

[Ernest Garvey]

Well, for your information, I made a loan that month. That's probably some of the loan money I deposited. I quit my old job that time. I was going in business for myself. I needed the money to redecorate the new store in the office. It's as simple as that.

[Sergeant Friday]

Now, quota stats of your loan paper's right here. Loan was for a month. Before that, February, you'd borrowed from another bank. Let's see, for $3,000. Made another one in April, too. That was for 1500. Different bank again.

[Ernest Garvey]

That's right. Do we have to go over this line by line?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

In three months, you made bank loans for $6,500. Besides that, in the same three months, you earned a total of $1,713.88. Together, that makes $8,213.88.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

What?

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Supply copies of your bank statements, Garvey. You have five different savings accounts in five different banks. They show from February to April, the same three months, you made deposits of more than $11,000. Now, how do you explain that, Garvey?

[Sergeant Friday]

Any explanation?

[Ernest Garvey]

It's almost 5 o'.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Clock.

[Ernest Garvey]

Can I use the phone? I have to call my wife and let her know. All right.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

We'll have to Listen in on the extension. Conversation's gonna be mine. Go ahead. I don't care.

[Ernest Garvey]

Okay.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Dial 9 to get an outside line.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

No.

[Ernest Garvey]

I see him.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You want to give us an explanation? You only had $8,200. How could you bank 11,000? It had to come from somewhere, didn't it?

[Ernest Garvey]

Purely a personal matter, that's all. I borrowed 3,000 from a brother of mine, lives back in Minnesota.

[Sergeant Friday]

You'd already made three loans.

[Ernest Garvey]

What?

[Sergeant Friday]

You have to borrow from your brother? You mind telling us?

[Ernest Garvey]

Yes, as a matter of fact, I do.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Well, that still doesn't balance the books, Mr. Garvey. You earned and borrowed $8,200. You got another 3,000 from your brother. You say that's 11,200. You banked $11,000?

[Ernest Garvey]

Yes, that's right. You always have to repeat.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

That'd leave you with $200. You and your family live for three months on $200?

[Ernest Garvey]

Is that why not? That could easily be. A lot of people do it.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Yes, sir.

[Sergeant Friday]

But not your family.

[Ernest Garvey]

I'm getting sick and tired of this. You're trying to tell me you know my family better than I do? What they eat, what they spend, what it takes to support them.

[Sergeant Friday]

We've been on this thing for nine months, Garvey. We've put in a lot of hours. We know your family pretty well. If you'd like, I'll tell you the last time you ordered steak from the meat market. When you paid your gas bill. The last time your wife bought a pair of shoes.

[Ernest Garvey]

I guess this is standard procedure for you on threatening people.

[Sergeant Friday]

I'm not threatening you, Mr. Garvey. We're giving you facts.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Another file here. It took us over a month to get this one together. Complete record of your expenses from February 1st. Covers February, March, April, May, June.

[Ernest Garvey]

I hope the police department has a good lawyer. Sergeant.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You've got a fair warrant, you say you and your. I'm sorry.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Go ahead.

[Ernest Garvey]

I hope the police department has a good lawyer. Sergeant, you've got fair warning I'm going to sue you for your last dollar.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Now, you say you and your family live three months on $200. That doesn't jibe with what we've got here. Take a look if you want to. Lies. Forgeries. It's all lies. I promise you.

[Ernest Garvey]

You.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Photo stand of the receipt for your wife's car. Sixteen hundred and $12.34. That includes the tax paid in full. Photo stat of the contract for your new car. Down payment.

[Ernest Garvey]

$2,000.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Liquor bill for the big party you threw in March. March 20. Liquor bill, $387. Catering bill, 1 94. Full year's check for tuition, room and board for your kids at the private school you sent them to. $1,864.07. That's only the beginning, Garvey. Comes to a lot more than $200.

[Ernest Garvey]

Have you heard enough? I better try to get my wife again. I have to let her know.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Dad. You handle it. Stanchion.

[Ernest Garvey]

Yeah.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

All right.

[Ernest Garvey]

Go ahead, dial.

[Sergeant Friday]

Now, you get outside.

[Ernest Garvey]

Garden. Yeah, I still talking. She might know I'm trying to get her.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Stupid. Well, wait a couple of minutes.

[Ernest Garvey]

You'll get through. Gabbing on the phone all day long. Gab on the phone and play cards. That's all she ever does.

[Sergeant Friday]

Got some more figures here for you, Garvey. Be a good idea if you hear him. Built for two more parties you threw last month. Food bill.

[Ernest Garvey]

Why do you have to keep pushing that stuff at me? So you've been sneaking around, finding out about my personal affairs. That's supposed to be good police work. This? This is a. You carried off a robbery, Garvey.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

We're giving you a chance to make a statement. I told you.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Why should I?

[Ernest Garvey]

What for? Give you a statement? Have you twisted around, incriminate me? I haven't had anything to do with this kid, Tyson. I better try that call.

[Sergeant Friday]

Well, D9 first.

[Ernest Garvey]

I know. I know you.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

What's the matter?

[Ernest Garvey]

What's the matter with her, Stupid? She ought to know I'm trying to get her. What's the matter, Garby? Don't forget.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Down. I am.

[Ernest Garvey]

One more. I don't want to hear it.

[Sergeant Friday]

I'll just play piece. I think you ought to hear.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Same reel there. Just fan it over there to that other part, Ed.

[Sergeant Friday]

All right, Tyson. Mr. Garvey. Same place. The office.

[Ernest Garvey]

But you told me on the phone you say you had the dough for me today.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You said the day. Sure.

[Ernest Garvey]

Now, wait a minute, Tyson. I didn't say that at all. I said maybe I'd have it for you. I didn't say definitely. Look, I can't give you what I haven't got. I want the 500, Darby.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

I need it.

[Ernest Garvey]

I stuck my neck out on a Robbie Joe.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

I get 500 delight. All right, Ed. Couldn't be any plainer. Now, what do you say?

[Sergeant Friday]

All night.

[Ernest Garvey]

She was never satisfied. She never couldn't be satisfied. Always more. She always had to have something else.

[Sergeant Friday]

How do you mean?

[Ernest Garvey]

Your wife. Playing cards, gabbing on the phone. That's all. She just kept writing me day in, day out. I wasn't making enough money. She didn't have any clothes. Kids ought to go to a better school. We ought to have a new house, on and on. I ought to go in business for myself. Make money. Lots of money. Same thing all the time. Talk, talk, talk. There's only so much you can take.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

You figured the robbery'd solve the problem, is that it?

[Ernest Garvey]

I guess so. I'd have tried anything just to shut her up, get her off my back for a while. I guess you got Tyson out. The other man, too. Fred Lawrence.

[Ms. Wagner / Ms. Lindstrom / Other female witnesses]

Yeah.

[Sergeant Friday]

They were picked up this afternoon. Lawrence at the airport. Tyson and show downtown. All three, all at the same time.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

What about your wife, Garvey? She know you planned this robbery?

[Ernest Garvey]

Oh, I didn't tell her. I think she knows, though.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

Pretty sure she does.

[Ernest Garvey]

Maybe she'll be satisfied now. Allows him money. She had to have it. Didn't even leave me enough to pay off that kid Tyson. Private school for the children. Wall to wall carpets in the house. New dishwasher, new coke, new car, everything. She just had to have them. You want to take me, book me in. I don't care.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

We'll stop off down the hall, take your statement. Sure.

[Ernest Garvey]

I don't care.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

All right, let's go.

[Ernest Garvey]

Say, just a minute, huh? Yeah, Chloe, take a. Yeah, that's what I figured.

[Sergeant Friday]

The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. On November 4, trial was held in Superior Court Department 87, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. In a moment, the results of that trial. And now, here is our star, Jack Webb.

[Sergeant Ed Jacobs]

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[Sergeant Friday]

Ernest W. Garvey and Kenneth Tyson were tried and convicted of first degree robbery, one count. And received sentences as prescribed by law. Fred Lawrence was tried and convicted of receiving stolen property, one count. First degree robbery is punishable by imprisonment from five years to life receiving stolen property as punishable by a prison term of not more than five years. You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes from the office of Chief of Police W.H. parker, Los Angeles Police Department. Heard tonight were Barney Phillips, Big Perrin and Eddie Firestone. Script by Jim Moser Music by Walter Schumann. Hal Gibney speaking. Fatima Cigarettes. Best of all, King Size Cigarettes has brought you Dragnet. Transcribed From Los Angeles.

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