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Captain Frank Kennelly
21st freaking charging water. Yeah. How'd they break in? Yeah. Yeah. What's missing? Oh, yeah. What's the name of the owner? There you are. In the muscle room at the 21st Precinct, the nerve center. A call is coming through. You will follow the action taken pursuant to that call from this minute until the final report is written in the 124 room at the 21st Precinct. Okay. I'll notify the detectives and let you know. Yeah. All right. 21st Precinct. It's just lines on a map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people who wedged into the 9/10 of a square mile between Fifth Avenue and the east river wouldn't know, if you asked them, that they lived or worked in the 21st. Whether they know it or not, the security of their home, their persons and their property is the job of the men of the 21st. Briefing the 21st. 160 patrolmen, 11 sergeants and four lieutenants, of whom I'm the boss. My name is Kennelly. Frank Kennelly. I'm captain in command of the 21st. I was working my night tour, 4pm to 8am it had been a comparatively quiet night, but at 10:30pm the Police Commissioner and the chief inspector paid a surprise visit to the precinct. I conducted them through the station house and then accompanied them on a tour of the precinct, returning in time to turn out the platoon for the late tour. At midnight, after the turnout, the brass signed the blotter and left. I went into my office to read and sign reports and communications prepared by Patrolman Fallon, the 124 man on the job during the 4 to 12 tour. At 12:40am Detectives Frank Cassidy and Chris Vitale of the 21st Squad were driving south on 2nd Avenue en route back to the station house following their investigation of a stabbing in a bar and Grill on 96th Street. Well, listen, what can you do? I asked her if you wanted to go. She thought it was too much trouble to get a babysitter come all the way into New York for something like that. And she didn't have a good time at last year. Well, this one was better. At least the food was good. Yeah, so I heard signal 32 in the garage. Signal 31. Look, when the light changes, what do you say we go over to that lunch tonight, see if that Harry showed up yet. We ought to talk to him and find out if he ran into his friend today. Well, he said he'd call me be. I don't know. I don't like the looks of that guy. I don't think he's trying to help us. All right. Yeah. Take a look across the Anabella. Tessa, isn't the door open? I don't see it. There, you see? Yeah. Pull over there. It sure is open. Come on. With your eyes and my brains, we could make a million dollars. I hold it at the window, then. Ye. It's awful dark in there. Just take a look at the door. That's been jimmied. Let's see if he's still in there. Oh, wait a minute. Reach in and see if there's a light switch. Yeah. No, no, nothing. Switch box must be in the back. All right, look, you go around behind the counter. I'll go in front. Okay. Watch it on the floor. You must. Yeah. Anything? No. Okay. Maybe coming back. Yeah, maybe. All right, I'll kick open the swinging door. Just throw your light in there. All right. Yeah, go ahead. Come on. Well? Nothing. They've been at work in here. All right. Look at that cabinet. Yeah. Let's see if we can find a switch box. Nothing on this floor. Watch those cases. Hold it. What? I heard somebody out front. Get him up back there. Watch it. Oh, it's the cop. Who is it? Who's it back there? The detective. Come on out here. Let me see it. What's a hermit? A hern battalion Casid. All right. Okay. Come on back here. You know where the lights are. There's a switch box over here. Oh, yes. Well, what about those million dollar eyes? Dude, that's better. Hand doors on the pose. I got to this one for a Jimmy Dash Lee as blacklight. I'm glad you think first and shoot later. You're the place you're going over, huh? Sure. Do it. I guess I better ring in phone out front. What's the name of the owner? Hewlett. Victor Hewlett. You better tell the lieutenant to have him notified. Only this two buildings down. We'll go wake him up. You stay here, huh? Okay. Come on. Yeah, they did a good job in the front door. Yeah. We'll be back in a minute, hun. Okay. Well, it doesn't look like they got too much out of there, huh? No, they made a little mess in the Back. They broke open the cabinet. Oh, that's good, I guess. Yeah. Go ahead. I'll check your mail. Yeah, here it is. Big. The healer. Second front. How's the inside door? Locke. Yeah. Hit the bell. Okay. See that showcase full of sausages there? Yes. Know what that is? That's Polish sausage. That's good stuff. Real hot. Ever tried? No, I don't think so. Hit the bell again, will you? Yeah. Krakow. I think they call it Krakow. That's the name of a city over there. Yeah, I know. Which came first, the sausage or the city. These guys are sound sleepy. You know, maybe his bell doesn't work. Maybe. What do you want? How do you want this thing? Pull out the tube. Who is it? Oh, yeah. Mr. Healy. You know what time it is? We detectives. Mr. Hillis, your store's been broken into. The store?
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Elma Hewis
What?
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Captain Frank Kennelly
You had burglars? Push the button. Open the door. Huh? Open the door, we'll come up and tell you about it. All right? Just a second. How do you serve that sausage? Like an hors d'. Oeuvres. Yeah, it's good that way. No, I got it. Yeah, we have a squirrel on this guy before him. Another burglary? No, he just stuck up about two years ago. Oh, yeah, those two guys from Jersey just did about $20 confession. Yeah, that's nice. Here. Here in the front. Okay. They caught him in the act on the 17th. Remember? Two men planted in the back when it came in? Yeah. Come in. Come on in. I'm putting on my pants. Did you get them or who? What'd they take? Well, we don't know. You'll have to tell us that. No, it's locked. Well, they're gimmicked. Excuse me. Getting dressed here. That's all right. Did they do much damage? No, not too bad. What time did you close up? About 10:30. But for the time is it now? I was sleep. Quarter to one. Can I go like this? I mean, says it's all right without tie. Better put a coat on, it's cold. Well, I. I got that over here on the left. Okay. Do you got your keys to get back in here? Yeah, I got them. Who was it, Dean? You know who it was? No, not yet. Did you notice any strangers come in the store tonight? There's always strangers. Not everybody's a regular. I mean, anybody suspicious that looked around a lot? No, not that I noticed. Go ahead. I got the other one. Well, now. What do you mean? Jimmy did. He broke the front door. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. They shoved the bar in between the lock and the door frame. Looks like some people what some people won't do. Yeah, you're telling me about the policeman, huh? Yeah. Well, they put it out on the radio. Oh, Dad's name. Oh, hello, Captain. What we got? Burglary thing. Captain? No. Oh, Taylor. We were driving by, found a door, Jimmy. No door on me, friend. New door? No, it can be fixed. They don't make a matter anymore. The one I had. Have any money in the cash register, Mr. Healer? No, there's no money in there. I take it out and leave it open like that every night I do. Sergeant have any chance around you at all? Yeah. Get some of these men back on the job, Sergeant. We don't need them all here. Where did you have this guy? Well, they had it in. Back there in tin box. Where was the tin box in that Brown county. That's right. But how did you know that? You were talking. Go ahead, Captain. Yeah, they got it. They got the 10 bucks. How much did you have in there, Ms. Eli? All right, plenty. I had plenty in there. How much? 400, $450, something like that. How did they find it? How'd they know where it was? You see where I had. Now be careful. Let me see way back there. A little 10 bucks.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
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Captain Frank Kennelly
I don't see how they could have found it. Anyone could have found it, Mr. Hila, if they knew what they were looking for and where to look. You are listening to 21st Precinct, a factual account of the way police work in the world's largest city. Now back to 21st Precinct and Captain Kennelly. Within a few minutes, the job of the uniformed officers at the scene of the burglary was finished. And with the exception of the Coleman Ahern, the first man on the job, they resumed patrol. The detectives took over the investigation and they continued to question the owner of the delicatessen, Victor Helas, concerning any suspicious customers that may have been in the store. Before he closed or during the day. At 10 minutes after one other detectives from the police laboratory arrived to make an examination of the premises for latent fingerprints which might have been left by the burglar or burglars. Contrary to the general opinion, fingerprints left at the scene of a crime are seldom in themselves responsible for the apprehension of a criminal if an arrest is eventually made through other means of investigation. However, fingerprints left at the scene are conclusive and usually the best evidence of the defendant's presence at the scene. In this instance, the experts were able to obtain no readable prints other than those of the proprietor of the door. The investigation by the detectives continued. I went back to the car operated by Patrolman Farrell and resumed patrol of the precinct until 2:30am When I returned to the station house where I completed some more paperwork. At 3:15am I lay down on the couch in my office after leaving instructions with Sergeant Waters, who was now on telephone switchboard duty, to awaken me at 7. At 6:30, the muster room was still except for the occasional call over the radio monitor and the buzz of the switchboard as the men on post rang in. 21st place in Saging Waters. Yeah, CB well, there's nobody home there. I had the man I post go by three times. Okay. Yeah, TV again, Lieutenant? They wanted to know if we made the notification for the 112th about the man who died in Queen's General. I told him we're still trying. Okay. How about some hot coffee, Lieutenant? No, I just can't suppose it's no, I don't think sign of it, but I can do without it. Don't make me mad. 21st Precinct, Sergeant Waters. All right, 14. Oh, listen, if you see that the problem is sanitation truck, tell them to handle those garbage cans a little lighter, will you? You had two more complaints from residents on that block yesterday morning. Okay. Yeah, I told me about the D.S. check this. Okay. Oh, hello, mister. Hey, sergeant. Morning. Yeah, we're up kind of early for after having such a big night. Yeah, I know. I got to open the store. Oh, were you able to get that door to stay closed all right? Yeah, the handyman from my building picture. All right, good. Is Captain Canelli still there? Like to talk to him. Well, I tell you, Mr. Healy, he's here, but he's sleeping. You see, he's supposed to be off at 8 o', clock, but he's got to go down to the federal grand jury and testify about some counterfeit case he made in arresting. Oh, sorry. What is it about the burglary well, in a way. I wanted to talk to the detectives that are working on it. They can tell you anything you want to know. Now this is personalized. I know the captain a long time. I'd like to ask him some advice. What of them? He's always going to wait. Maybe he wakes up. Well, he's tell me to wake him up at 7, but that just about gives him long enough to look over the reports and turn out the platoon. Will he come back later today? No, when he leaves here a little after eight. He's not back on a job until tomorrow morning. But if you want to take a chance and wait around maybe a few minutes. All right, all right, I'll take the chance. It's up to you. I'll wait a little while. Dragon, what's going. Oh, good morning, Lieutenant. You know, up early today? Yeah, got to go into the lineup today and a lot of things to clean up for kind of a night that we have. Well, there was a cutting in a bar and Grill on 96th Street. Bad? No, he was Peter St. David and sent home. Oh, and Mr. Heis here had his show up right here. Oh yeah? Mr. Heutenant King, Commander, 21st Detective Squad. How'd it go, Detective? Talk to you, Mr. Hill? Oh, yeah. Cassidy and Vitali rolled down the lieutenant. Where are they, up there? No, sir. I seen them go out of here about 4:30. Okay. Glad to have met you, Mr. Hillis. Yeah. You see it? Yep. Can I tell you, Mr. Willis, the captain won't be up for a while yet. Why don't you go out and get yourself a cup of coffee and come back a little after 7. Excuse me. Wear a shirt any place. Precinct Sergeant Waters? No, sir, it's all quiet. All right? Yes, Sir. Oh, Captain, Mr. Hillis is out here at the desk. He'd like to talk to you. All right. Yes, sir. You woke up Mr. Hillis. Could I see him? Yeah, he said you go in right through that door over there. Thanks. I'm much obliged. It's all right, Lieutenant. The captain's awakening. Come on. Wow. Come in, Mr. Healer. I didn't want to take up your time, Captain. Ah, that's all right. You don't mind if I shave? I've got a busy morning. No, that's all right. What can I do for you, Mr. Hill? Well, it's about the robbery. My store? Yeah, well, they. The touches are hardly the case. Want to talk to them? I know I talked them all night practically hardly getting sleep. Too bad. Well, that's all right. I Had to stay at the store anyway until the handyman fixed the door so it could be locked up. Well, they know more about the case than anyone. Yeah, except me. They know more about it than anyone. Except me, you mean. There's something you didn't tell him? There's something. Yes. Excuse me. Yes, sir. What's that, Captain? I know she's not a bad girl. Some. But my father. I know that. Who's that? My daughter. I know that. Elmer. You think he broke into the store? I don't know. All I know is he's the only one who knows where I keep the money. Back in the cabinet there. Nobody else knows. Did you talk to her about it? No, I didn't see her. I didn't see her for a week. She ran away from home last week. How old is she? 15. She'd be 16. Did you report her missing? What's the use of that? I couldn't make her come back. Where is she? You know. No, I. Look, Captain, I try my best, but what can I do? I try to raise it right. I can't spend 14 hours a day in the store to make a living and raise her right, too. What about her mother? I don't know. Same thing. She ran away too. She ran away, Left me with all responsibilities. When was this? Six years ago? Something like that. Have you heard from her? My wife? No. You don't know where she is? How could I know? Have you heard from Emma? Not a word. You know why she left? She left because I told her she was too young to hang around with those boys. There was wild boys in the neighborhood that I told I wouldn't stand for it. So she said I had nothing to do with it. She would do what she wants. So when I got home from the store, the clothes were gone and suitcases. Well, you should have come in and reported a message. No, I wouldn't do no good. Well, he should have let us be the judge of that. We've got a juvenile aid bureau that's pretty good at getting these things taken out. No, it's too late. Too late to get in and straightened out. Thief. I gotta raise a thief that would steal from her own father. If she asked me, I'd have given her the money instead. She gotta steal it. Well, you don't know that for sure. I know it. I know it right away. What can they do today? Stealing from her father, from stranger. Bad enough. What do you want me to do about it, Mr. He? I want you to tell me what to do about it. I'd suggest that you tell the detectives what you told me. If I do, what's going to happen to her? Couldn't be any worse than what happens to her if you don't. No. Yeah, it couldn't be any worse. I still go in. It was zipped Vitali and Cassidy, wasn't it? Yeah, I think so. Vitali and Cassidy. First preaching. Sergeant Warden. Sergeant Vitali and Cassidy upstairs? No, sir. They went out of here around 4:30 and I didn't see him come back. Well, who's up there? Benders catching in? Lt. King just came in a little while ago. Oh, all right. Yes. Come on, Mr. Helis, let's go up said. All right. You want that way? I'll be up in the detective try. Try my best. This way. Go ahead. What should I do with a girl without a mother? Kind of hard to do something. You got to admit it's very hard. I tried in there. Is Lt. King in his office? Yes. Some of the school. Peter. A buyer clothes? I don't know. Captain Canali. Come on, Captain. Morning, Captain. Hi, Matt. Matt, this is Mr. He was burglarized during the night. Yeah, I know. Just leaving the 61 on it. $450. Ms. He. Yeah, about. He thinks he knows who did it. Who's that? M. My daughter. My daughter Elma. You mean she, Jimmy. The daughter. One of her bipolar. Maybe He's. I don't know. He ran away from home last week, man. He doesn't know where she is. How old is he? Going on 16. Excuse me. You know where Beef and Cassidy went? No, sir. All they told me is they were going out on an investigation. Okay, just a second. Somebody's coming up to you. Not tell him to come in here. One of the detectives just came in. How sure are you it was your daughter, Mr. Hewis? You know where the cash box was? She was the only one come in. Want to see me look back? Where have you been since 4:30? Investigating with burglary. Mr. Hewitt. Mr. Hewis just called. Captain Kennelly. He knows the. So do I. Lieutenant. I got her out sitting on a bench. Alma. Yeah, right. Mr. Hale. She's sorry. The handyman told Cassidy me all about her and the boy she hung out with the neighborhood I want to talk to. Where'd you find her, V? He's sleeping in a club room. He's been staying there the whole week. He gave us the name of the boy she talked into breaking open the store. Cassidy went over to his house to get him. I got your tin box and all the money, Mr. Hale. Well, look, I don't want to care about the money. I want to talk to him right now. I want to talk to her. All right, take it easy, mister. He. My own flesh and blood come in here, did it to steal from me. Elma, it's all there.
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Elma Hewis
You don't have to worry. All the money.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
I didn't worry about the money. It's only about you.
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Elma Hewis
Only about me?
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Captain Frank Kennelly
Come here, Mr. Town.
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Elma Hewis
Elmer, that's nice to have you worry about.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
Let junk it smart. Elma. Don't get smart here. She shouldn't get smart.
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Elma Hewis
You want me dumb like you want Mama dumb.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
Don't compare yourself to her. Enough life anyway with us. Compare. Why did you break into the store, Alma?
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Elma Hewis
To get the money to go to Florida.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
Yeah. With this boy. She was going to Florida with this boy? Yeah.
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Elma Hewis
She wanted to. Yeah.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
And then to go to Florida, you had to steal from me, from your own father. See, Captain, I told you. I tried to raise a right.
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Elma Hewis
Raise me. Raise me from what?
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Captain Frank Kennelly
All right, Elma.
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Elma Hewis
I like the way he says raise me. You mean he gave me something new? He didn't raise me. I raised myself okay.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
That's what. I raised you right. That was your mother's job. And where was she easy?
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Elma Hewis
I wouldn't have any sense. She got out. She had enough. She got out. What I wanted to do, too. I wanted to get out.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
No, Elmer.
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Elma Hewis
And now I'm going to get out. I want to Florida. I'd get out. If I go to jail, I'd get out. Everything that happened is okay with me. I don't care.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
But none of this would have happened if you'd done like I told you. If you just stayed home and hope
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Elma Hewis
those boys alone was at home, not you. You were always in the store.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
All right, Mama.
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Elma Hewis
Had enough? I had enough.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
Okay.
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Elma Hewis
Maybe now you can take a hint.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
Take her outside, will.
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Elma Hewis
I still got something to say.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
Say it later. Come on, Elma.
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Elma Hewis
I want to say it now.
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Captain Frank Kennelly
You have to talk to your father. Let's go. All right, I got it. You see? You see what I've been up against? Yeah. I tried. You know I tried. But there was nothing I could do. Just too much of a mother. And you can. You can see that, can't you? Say yes. She's 15 years old. Well, she's 16. You think it was right to let her be missing from the hospital a week and not reported to the police? What could you have done? Nothing. We could have tried much more than you did. Well, maybe I was wrong about that. You were wrong about a lot of things. Does that make her right? Does that give her permission to break into my store? She. You know. Rowdy. My own daughter? No. I don't know. I'm. I'm so mixed up. I. I know. She's my kid. I love her. You want me to take her back in the house? I'll take her back in the house and try again. I'm willing to do that. Is that what you want? It's not what we want, Mr. Elis. All right, then it's what I want. I want to try again. I want to get her back in the house. I want to try again. It's not what you want either. It's going to be up to the Children's Court. Children's court? What does the Children's Court know about it? It's my daughter. All I need is time. With us, Mr. Helis, you had 15 years. Now it's time for someone else. 21st pre, Sergeant Waters. Yeah. All right. Oh, I got an alarm for you. Okay. A 1952 Chevrolet AA hardtop, painted two tone green. Pennsylvania registration unknown. Unknown? Yeah. That's liability to keep your eyes open for it. Yeah. All right. Let me know if you see a park in the post. Around the clock through the week. Every day, every year, a police precinct in the city of New York is a flesh and blood merry go round. Anyone can catch the brass ring, or the brass ring can catch anyone. 21st Precinct. A factual account of the way the police work in the world's largest city is presented with the official cooperation of the Patrolman's Benevolent association, an organization of more than 20,000 members of the Police Department, City of New York. Everett Sloan in the role of Captain Kennelly. Ken lynch is Lieutenant King, Harold Stone and Sergeant Waters. Featured in tonight's cast were John Larkin, John Sylvester, Bill Lipton, Bill Smith and Lynn Tapker. Written and directed by Stanley Nist Arcana Sea.