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It was Monday, December 14th.
It was cold in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out of burglary detail.
My partner's Frank Smith.
The boss is Captain Bernard.
My name's Friday.
We're on our way out of the office and it was 8.05 a.m. when we got to Georgia Street
Juvenile Bureau.
Sergeant Lindsay Simmons' office.
Yeah?
Well did you give it to him?
Uh huh.
Yeah.
What'd he say?
Yeah.
When did he come back?
Uh huh.
Well did he have it for you?
Yeah.
Well that'll teach you not to go that route anymore.
All right Patrick, tell the sergeant to call me when he gets back.
Right.
Hi Friday Smith.
Hi Lindsay.
Morning, Sergeant.
Just talking to Gene Patrick over at Holland Park.
Gene home?
Yeah, I met him a couple times.
Picked up a youngster a couple of days ago in suspicion of burglary.
Brought him into the office and Patrick talked to him.
Yeah.
Well he finally bought it that the kid didn't have anything to do with the thefts.
He told him to go home.
Uh huh.
Kid told Gene he didn't have the money to get home.
Said Gene gave him 20 cents.
Kid swore he'd come in and pay it back.
Did he?
Yeah, he came in this morning.
Gave Patrick two dimes.
Told him thanks for believing the story.
Uh huh.
Then Patrick got the kicker.
The kid really did break into a house last night to get the money.
What's Patrick got to say about that?
Says the kid's honest in a sort of way.
Did pay him back.
Where's the youngster now?
Got him over at Holland Park juvenile.
I better call Gene.
Maybe I can give him a hand.
I got a couple of street car tokens he won't be using.
Might like to have them.
Oh hold it.
If I was you I don't think I'd bring it up to him for a couple of days.
Well what can I do for you two?
Well Lindsay, we've been working on a string of burglaries.
You maybe got the word on them.
I don't think so.
What's the story?
Bunch of store burglaries.
Papers have tagged them.
The milk bottle jobs.
Oh yeah.
Seems Hartgrover's telling me something about them the other day.
Where do we come in?
Well the way the jobs look we've been thinking that maybe he belonged in your department
instead of ours.
How do you figure that?
First off the milk thing.
What do you mean?
Every job he's pulled we found an empty milk bottle on the counter.
Okay what's that prove?
Well milk and kids go together.
Sure, sort of milk and ulcers.
Maybe a thief's got the bull horrors when he gets into the store.
No Lindsay there's another thing.
The way he prowls the places.
All he takes is petty cash.
Just a couple of bucks outside.
Candy, cigarettes, nothing big.
Some of the places he's gone into you could open the safe with a pocket knife.
He hasn't even made a move toward them.
Maybe he's a kleptomaniac.
Got a lot of them on the books.
Maybe that's the way he gets his kicks.
Oh it's a nice try Lindsay.
If you know anybody that can climb through a 14 by 10 inch hole you trot them up and
we'll talk to them.
Okay I haven't got the names on my desk but you take a trip to Santa Anita you'll meet
a lot of them.
Jockeys.
You guys know we'll go along with you on this thing.
Anything we can do but until we're sure that there's a juvenile involved there's nothing
we can do.
Anything turns up we'll be sure to turn it over to you.
Now look we're not trying to pound this thing off on you Lindsay.
We've had the stats office make so many runs on small adults that the cards are wearing
out.
It just seems that none of the leads we've been chasing come out anywhere.
We figured that maybe you could come up with some answers for us.
Oh it's a new one on me Joe this milk bet.
I've heard of a couple of thieves that went for it but I can't name you a juvenile off
hand.
I'll pass the word around the day watch see what they can come up with.
I'll leave a note for Heartgrove he can pass it on the night watch.
Well I appreciate anything you can do.
No trouble.
Been running your ragged on this huh?
It's pretty rough.
It's just that we can't seem to be able to come up with anything that adds.
Yeah.
Oh excuse me.
Yeah.
Georgia Street juvenile Sergeant Simmons.
Yeah.
Yeah they're here.
Which one?
Okay hang on.
For you Joe your office.
Thank you.
Friday time.
Yeah.
Well right away what's the address?
Uh huh.
Yeah.
No I got it.
We'll leave right away.
Who?
Yeah call him.
Thanks.
Well come on let's go.
The milk bottle kid he hit again.
The call had come from Lieutenant Ginder in burglary.
He told us that he'd just gotten a call from a storekeeper named Marty Darabirdis.
The man had called to report a burglary at his store at the corner of Jackson and Broadway
streets.
Lieutenant Ginder told us that the crime lab had been notified and had dispatched a crew
to investigate the premises for physical evidence.
Frank and I left Georgia Street juvenile and we drove over to Figueroa and then we turned
over onto Broadway.
The store that had been broken into was a small Italian delicatessen on the southeast
corner.
By the time we got there the crime lab crew had already arrived and was winding up their
investigation.
We walked into the place and we met with Ray Pinker.
Hi Joe.
Frank.
Hi Ray.
How's it going?
Usual thing.
A bottle of milk on the counter.
You want to check it over?
Yeah.
Come on back here.
The thief made his entrance back here at the rear of the store.
There it is.
Broke out the window pane.
Yeah.
Not very big huh?
Measures nine and a half or twelve and three quarters.
No alarm on the window huh?
Yeah you can see the wires here.
Take a look.
Oh yeah.
How come the alarm didn't go off?
I talked to the owner.
He said he's had trouble with the alarm system the last couple of weeks.
Called the company and asked them to fix it.
He thought it was okay.
I guess there's something wrong.
Some place didn't work last night.
What kind of alarm was it Ray?
Outside on the building.
You know the kind.
Yeah.
What'd he take this time Ray?
Usual round of stuff.
According to the owner there are about four cartons of cigarettes missing.
Several boxes of candy.
Can't be absolutely sure.
He said he's got a check he's stocked.
It'd be better if you talked to him on that.
Yeah we will.
We'll catch him later.
Want to wait a minute?
I'll check and see how the boys are doing on the prints.
Have them check the counter and the milk bottle.
Alright thanks Ray.
Be right back.
Ray.
I wonder when we're going to blow the whistle on this guy.
I don't know.
I can't do it fast enough for me.
Well then what do you?
Hey Joe.
Look at this.
You know I'd like to get a couple of those before we leave.
What are you talking about?
Salami Joe.
Those right there.
The hard Italian kind.
See right there?
I remember last summer I was up in San Francisco.
Yeah I remember.
Went up there to pick up a prisoner.
Remember you were collecting days off?
Yeah I recall.
I had a hundred of them coming.
Yeah pretty funny.
Anyway I met Dan Shelley up there.
You mean the Irish tenor?
Yeah he and I went down to Cookie's bar for lunch.
She had some of this salami.
Sliced it like paper.
You could almost read through it.
That's the way it's supposed to be.
I know Joe.
Anyway Cookie sliced up a bunch of it.
Served it with cold cracked crab.
Boy I never tasted anything so good in my life.
Don't you ever read the newspaper through sliced salami?
Yeah?
Well I never have.
Have you?
All the time.
Just the funnies.
Well anyway Faye's tried to find them for me.
Salami like this.
Brought home all kind of things but she's never found the right kind.
You know they'd be hard enough to pound tax with them.
She got them home.
Boy I never forget old Cookie and that spread.
Well if you can get your mind off food for a minute and I know that'll be tough.
Let's get on with this thing Joe.
Yeah sure gotta buy some of these before we leave.
Just like Cookie had.
Just finished with the powder Joe.
Yeah.
Nothing.
Whoever was drank the milk he took the bottle out of the refrigeration compartment.
Bottle's sweated and there isn't a print on it we can lift.
That's too bad.
None of many places huh?
No we've gone over the place from top to bottom.
So there we can't find them.
That's not much help is it?
Came up with one thing maybe you can make something out of it.
What's that?
Outside the window in the back parking lot.
Came up with an open package of cigarettes.
Don't know if it belonged to the thief.
Anything on it?
No fog last night ruined any prints that were on it.
Boys have got it if you want it.
Well we'll take a look at it.
Looks like everything's against us huh?
Another blank.
Don't envy you guys trying to break this one.
Most of the time there's a leak someplace somewhere along the line the guy's gonna make
a mistake and not cover something.
Yeah we've been saying that for weeks.
This is either the smartest thief I've ever seen or the luckiest.
What's this make for him?
Number 19.
A lot of chances to take for nothing.
He's not getting anything out of the jobs.
Maybe he isn't but we are.
What?
Headaches.
9.38 a.m. we talked to the victim.
He told us that as near as he could figure there was approximately four dollars stolen
from the store.
He went on to say that he'd ascertained that five cartons of cigarettes and several boxes
of candy bars were taken.
He was unable to tell us if any other merchandise was taken until he'd made a complete inventory.
He went on to tell us that there was over six hundred dollars in the safe but that as
far as he could tell there had been no attempt to break into it.
We made a canvas of the neighborhood and talked to the neighbors.
None of them recalled having seen any suspicious people in the neighborhood the night before.
None of them had seen any suspicious automobiles in the area.
The one thing that was apparent was that the thief was working in a definite pattern.
He worked only on Friday and Saturday nights.
Always between 8 p.m. and 12 midnight.
Frank and I met with Captain Bernard and it was decided that we would maintain a rolling
stakeout in the area in which the suspect operated.
Four other cars from Metro Reserves were assigned to work with us.
For the next five nights we worked without results.
It was slow and tedious.
But considering the lack of information on the thief it was the only way we had left.
We had to be on or near the scene when the thief struck again.
Saturday night December 19th Frank and I met and drove out to the area.
The streets were crowded with early Christmas shoppers.
I'll sure be glad when it's over.
Why what's the matter?
How many rooms in your apartment Joe?
Three, you know that.
You've been there.
Yeah, there won't be enough room.
What are you talking about?
Fay.
What's Fay got to do with this?
Hack Joe, real hack.
Why what's the matter?
I got up this morning, I felt great.
Fay's got breakfast on the table, all nice, a couple eggs, little pig sausages, nice
you know.
Yeah.
I come down to the table, she's got the food on and I hit her with it.
What the food?
No Joe, I hit her with what I'm about to tell her.
I tell her I'm gonna have to work tonight.
You worked every night this week, what's wrong with that?
Well that's the way I figure it, so I got a way out.
Yeah, well.
Today is Fay's birthday.
Well you didn't tell me.
It's not good to tell people Joe.
Oh it isn't.
No, Fay's over 30.
Yeah, I kind of figured that.
Don't you get it?
I'm sorry pal, you left me a couple of blocks back on this one.
Look Fay...
I may never catch up.
Fay's over 30 Joe.
She's getting to the point where she's taking off years, see?
How can you give a person a last birthday present?
Yeah.
I tell you about it, you're gonna give her a present.
Only now instead of 30, she's 29.
You understand?
Well to be perfectly honest with you, no.
But as long as you do, it's perfectly all right with me.
Yeah.
What about this morning?
Well, I told her I was gonna have to go to work, I got this present for her.
Brand new deep fat fryer.
Real good.
What?
Deep fat fryer, all wrapped up with ribbon.
Beautiful, shiny, beautiful.
So you gave it to her, did it do any good?
Not a pound.
You know what she does with it?
Well at this point, I wouldn't even want to guess.
I'm serious Joe, this may mean the end of my home.
Go ahead.
She doesn't even open it, just puts it in the closet on the back porch.
Doesn't even pull the paper apart to peek at what's in it.
Real mad Joe, she may not let me back in the house tonight.
Well you can apologize when you get home.
I don't know Joe, Fay's pretty sore, didn't even open the present.
Wait a minute.
Listen.
Yeah, tell where it's coming from?
Yeah, sounds like up on seven, come on.
Yeah, right here, pull up.
Come on.
I'll take the front.
All right.
Hey, hold it up there.
Police officers, stop or I'll shoot.
Frank, he's coming around your way.
Okay.
Take it easy.
Go ahead and shoot.
Come on and kill me.
Go ahead and shoot me, it doesn't matter anymore.
Everything all right?
Yeah.
Just a kid Joe.
I see.
What are you doing in the store son?
What do you think I'm doing?
He asked you a question son.
Pretty stupid.
What do you think I was doing?
How many stores you're broken into son?
Figure it out for yourself.
Look, what do you got a chip on your shoulder for?
You're big guys.
Don't give me a lot of conversation.
Do what you want to do.
All right boy, you call it.
Come on.
1150 PM, we called the office and told them that we had a subject in custody and that we
were taking him to Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau.
We put the boy in our car and we waited until a radio car arrived.
We asked the officers to notify the owner of the store and stand by until he got there.
We also asked that they make a 459 report.
1150 PM, we started to take the youngster to the juvenile bureau.
What's your name son?
What difference does it make?
Acting like that isn't going to help you.
You guys picked me up remember?
You worry about it.
I got nothing to be afraid of.
Oh yes you have boy.
You could have been shot back there.
Maybe you should have pulled a trigger.
Look son, what's the matter with you?
Why are you acting like this?
You just got real lucky back there.
That's the only reason you're alive now.
It was dark in there.
As far as I could tell you were an adult.
You didn't stop when I told you to.
Now according to the book I could have shot you.
You know that don't you?
Killing a kid.
I'm not going to make you a big man.
No I'm just bringing it up to prove a point.
Save it.
Now look son, I want to tell you something.
When you break into a place at night you're not a kid anymore.
You're asking for trouble.
You've got both your pockets full of it.
The way you work tonight makes us think you're mixed up in a lot more thefts than just tonight.
Isn't that right?
You ever been arrested before?
No.
Never been in trouble with the law huh?
Sure, I'm a real criminal.
I got a ticket once for riding my bike through a boulevard stop.
Radio car stopped me and tagged me.
Big deal.
But they're going to send me to San Quentin.
Maybe you can give me the gas chamber.
How old are you?
What difference does that make?
How old are you?
You figure it.
Alright, you look like you're about 11 to me.
That's what everybody thinks.
I'll be 15 my next birthday.
Don't kid us son.
It's the truth, 15.
That's what I'll be, 15.
When were you born?
1939, November 2nd.
You're small for your age aren't you?
Why do you say that?
Aren't you?
It's got nothing to do with it, nothing at all.
I can do anything any other kid can do.
Anything.
Don't you forget that.
What's the matter with you?
Is that a sore point with you?
Huh?
Your size.
Is that a sore point?
I don't have any size.
The doctor says that I'm alright.
Just that some people aren't meant to be as big as others.
That's all.
There's nothing wrong with me.
Now now come on son, what's your name?
Now look, you know we're going to find out.
How are you going to find out?
We will.
Now why don't you save us all a lot of time and tell us the truth here.
It'd be better if you did.
If I do tell you.
You going to put it in the papers?
What?
I tell you.
There are going to be a lot of reporters around.
My name going to get in the papers?
Not from us.
Can't tell you then.
You mean if there's no reporters around you aren't going to tell us your name?
Is that it?
That's the way it is.
It's kind of funny isn't it?
Maybe that's the way it looks to you.
Where do you live?
Can't tell you that either.
Look you've got things all wrong son.
It isn't what you want to tell us.
That's got nothing to do with this.
You're going to tell us what we want to know sooner or later.
Where are we going?
Georgia Street.
That's where the jail is.
Why do you ask that?
Because I want to know.
Yeah there's a jail there.
Reporters?
What?
There are going to be reporters there.
What's the deal with reporters in here?
What's this all about?
Reporters put your name in the papers don't they?
Sometimes.
Well you get the reporters all lined up.
You get them from all the papers.
You have them there and I'll tell you all about it.
The whole story.
You just get the reporters and the photographers.
Be sure about them because I want some pictures too.
Well look let me get this straight.
What?
You say you aren't going to give us any information without the press being there.
Is that right?
That's the way it's going to be.
You got it wrong boy.
What?
Doesn't make any difference who's there.
You're going to come around.
Yeah.
You got it.
Yes.
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12 10 a.m. we got to Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. Frank pulled the car
into the side alley and we took the subject out of the back seat. Up this way
son. It's a seedy looking place. Yeah well it's been here a long time. Looks like I
said out of a picture. Don't you worry about it huh. You want to take him down
the hall Frank I'll check with Hargrove. Yeah come on. Hi Friday working kind of
late aren't you. Yeah we are. I got the note from Simmons on the milk burglaries.
Checked around the nightwives nothing on it so I didn't call you. I don't think
you have to worry about it. I think we got the answer. Yeah. We just picked up a
kid. We got him dead to rights in a market. Open bottle of milk right next to
the cash register. Where is he now? Frank's got him down the hall. You think
he's your boy? It looks like it. Everything adds up. The entrance, what he
tried to take, the milk, all along seems to fit. You got that kind of a case what
are you worrying about? Just two things. Yeah. Who he is and why he did it. He won't
tell you? No. He's got some big thing working about the press. Says he won't
give us anything without reporters being there. Makes it rough Joe you know the
policy. Yeah I do. He won't let us help him. If he wants publicity take me down
introduce me as a reporter. Well that might do it. Won't do any harm to try. Let's go.
Go ahead. Thanks. Who am I gonna be? Well tell me Sid Hughes from the mirror. Might as
well be one of the good ones. Son you wanted to talk to somebody from the
papers. It's against the policy but we swung it for you. This is Sid Hughes from
the mirror. Hi. You the fella that held that guy on the phone in Baltimore? Yeah. Great. I
read all about it. You gonna write me up like that? I hope not son. There were two
men killed in that operation. I read all the stories. Everybody did. That's how I
mean for you to write me up with a picture. What makes you think you got it
coming? You break into one store and try to steal a couple of cartons of
cigarettes. That doesn't make the first page. One store? I got into 19 of them. 19
before they caught me. That's important isn't it? That's a story. I don't know. Might be.
Couple of things we better get straightened out here. First off what's
your name? Better get your notebook out. Be able to take all this down. Don't worry
about it son. You just answer the questions. I'll get it. Yeah. Okay. My name
is Elroy Graham. That's E-L-R-O-Y G-R-A-H-A-M. Yeah. How old are you? I told you once.
Almost 15. You said you'd broken into 19 stores. Is that right? Yeah. 19. Might have
made them more but something went wrong tonight. Had trouble with the burglar
alarm. Thought I turned it off. Bad mistake. He's still working. It wasn't for that.
Guess it only takes one though huh Mr. Hughes? Yeah I guess so. You want to tell us
why you did it? What? You had to have a reason for committing these robberies. You
want to tell us what it was? Sure. Good reason. Real good. All right tell us. Well you
see I always had trouble at school. Never seemed to quite make it. All the guys
like me. They all did. All the girls do too. Got girls calling me almost every
night asking me to take them to dances. Stuff like that. I don't go much for
stuff like that. You can understand can't you Mr. Hughes? Go ahead Elroy. Well they
wanted me for all our teams. Football, basketball. All the time asking me to play. But I
figure if you want to get ahead in the world you got to have an aim. Some place
where you want to get. Figure out that. Work for it and you're gonna get there.
Don't you find that true Mr. Hughes? Go ahead. That's the way it was with me. All
the time turning down offers to be on some team. Telling some girl that I
couldn't take her to a dance. Just didn't have the time. Somehow I just couldn't
make it. You can understand it. You've been around you know all the successful
kind of people. You write something a lot of people read it. You know what I mean.
Don't you? What's the matter? Something wrong? I'm trying to tell you what
happened. I'm giving it to you straight. What's the matter? Now you want to tell
us the truth Elroy. What? I don't know why you're trying to sell us this line boy.
It isn't necessary. I don't know why you did what you did but I do know you had a
reason for it. That's all we want to know. Just the reason. You don't believe me?
Afraid not. How about you? No son, I don't. Mr. Hughes? No. Can't even lie right.
Can't even tell a lie good. All my life I've been trying to be like other kids.
All the time getting beat up, getting left out of things. You know why? Do you
know? Go ahead son. Big reason. Biggest reason in the world.
Cuz I'm almost 15 years old. I'm four feet seven inches tall. Four feet seven.
Weight 97 pounds. That ain't very big. Not big enough. Old time other kids shoving
you around. All the time you're the joke. Gets to the time when you figure it's
easy to laugh too. Because if you don't some kids gonna beat you up. Get to the
point where you don't care anymore. I used to clip out those coupons and send
them in. Get the books back on how to build myself up. Worked at it. Didn't do
nothing for me. Was still four feet seven and weight 97 pounds. All the stuff I took
didn't do no good. Still came out four feet seven. 97 pounds. All right son. You
want to tell us about the burglaries? I did it to be big. That's why. I had the
things other people wanted. Cigarettes, candy. The other things kids wanted. I had
all that stuff that the other kids wanted. Made me important. Don't you see that?
You got to understand it Mr. Hughes. That's why I wanted my picture in the
paper. That's why I wanted the story. So the kids would know that I'd done
something big. So they know. All right son. It's gonna be all right here. No it
isn't. Like everything else I tried to do. I loused it up. I didn't mean to steal
but it was the only thing to do. The only way I had. That wasn't there some other?
No. No there wasn't. All the time the other kids laughing. All the time
talking. I just couldn't stand it anymore. I just couldn't. Here you go. Thanks.
You can understand it can't you? It makes sense. What's that son? Wasn't so much the
kids saying I was little. Yeah. I didn't want to think I was small.
12 36 a.m. We contacted the parents of the Graham boy and asked them to come
down to the station. We talked to them for an hour and tried to fill them in. In
view of the fact that the parents of the subject were responsible persons the
boy was booked for violation of section 459 PC delinquent and he was released to
his parents pending his hearing in juvenile court. Five days passed and we
heard nothing from the boy. On December 24th Frank and I checked into the office.
Friday. Yeah Earl. Get in the back. I want to see you and Smith. Okay thank you.
Hi Mr. Friday. Well Roy what can we do for you? Well I guess you think it's kind of
funny. What's that? I want to tell you that I sure think it's good what you did
for me. Help me with that burglary thing the other night. Well it isn't over yet son.
The court still has to make a decision on it. Yeah but what you did to make me feel
better. As far as I'm concerned whatever the judge decides I'll go along with it.
I had a long talk with my folks so we got it all talked out. All the way talked out.
Well that's good son. We're glad of it son. Maybe you guys won't like it. I mean me
knowing you such a short time and all. But I wanted to bring you these. Merry
Christmas. Well that's awful nice of you. Alright but it isn't necessary. I want to
give them to you anyway. For what you did for me. Well that's mighty nice of you.
Alright sure appreciate it. A couple of packages of cigarettes. Hope they're the
kind of smoke. Yeah son they'll be fine. Thanks son. Well see you guys around huh?
Yeah sure son. Just one more thing sergeant. Yeah son? Just thought you'd
like to know. Yeah what's that? I didn't steal those.
The story you have just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the
innocent. On the 21st of December a petition was filed in juvenile court on
behalf of the subject. On January 26th trial was held in Department 52 of
juvenile court state of California in and for the County of Los Angeles. In a
moment the results of that trial. Now here is our star Jack Webb. Thank You
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Elroy Merton Graham appeared before the juvenile court where he admitted the
alleged burglaries. At this time under the counsel of the judge of the juvenile
court the subject was placed under the care of the probation department for a
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You have just heard Dragnet. A series of authentic cases from official files.
Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police WH Parker, Los Angeles
Police Department. Technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn,
Sergeant Vance Brasher. Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Jack Prushin, Olin Suley,
Sammy Ogg. Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schuman. Hal Gibney speaking.
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