Dragnet: The Big Press - Catching the Cowards

For more than a month, lone women across the western stretches of Los Angeles had been beaten, robbed, and left on the pavement. The attacks came at night, the descriptions were hopelessly vague, and the two men behind it had vanished into the dark each time. Detectives Joe Friday and Ben Romero of the LAPD's Robbery Detail knew they had to stop waiting for a break and manufacture one. With four policewomen from the Juvenile Bureau and a special detail from the Metropolitan Division, they set up a sprawling decoy operation - marked bills, shoulder holsters hidden under street clothes, and patrol cars running silent through residential blocks.

The trap held for days without a bite. Then policewoman Nancy Short walked her assigned route on Willoughby and Hudson - and the attackers struck. The victim fought back. She tore a pocket off one assailant's coat and left Friday and Romero holding a driver's licence belonging to 18-year-old George Landon. From Landon's confession, the trail led to his accomplice, Tommy Decker - the one who brought the gun, stole the cars, and did the hitting. Friday and Romero tracked Decker to a garage on South Flower Street. What followed was a chase through the shop floor, a locked locker room, and a gun thrown out in surrender before Decker ran out of places to hide.

Episode Quotes

"To the police officer, the lowest thief and most cowardly is the purse snatcher who preys on women." - Sergeant Friday

"I didn't wanna do it. I didn't wanna do it anytime. He talked me into it." - George Landon

"18 years old. What's it prove? ... Sometimes you kinda wonder if it's true - there's no such thing as a bad boy." - Sergeant Friday 

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One year ago tonight, through the facilities of your local national broadcasting company station, we were privileged to enjoy your attention at the premier broadcast of a new series of authentic documented dramas entitled Dragnet. This evening, on the occasion of our first anniversary as weekly guests in your home, the cast, technicians, and producers of Dragnet, wish to state publicly that our indebtedness is enormous. For the degree of success which Dragnet has achieved during the past year, our first and greatest obligation is to you, our weekly listeners, for your support, for your many kind letters of encouragement, criticism, and appraisal. If Dragnet is a proven success, then you have made it so. Behind the scenes, we have many more people to thank. Our engineers, our sound technicians, our cast. To the radio editors and columnists across the nation, also, a sincere thank you for your judgment of our effort. Additionally, claims on our thanks are held by the Los Angeles Police Department, for the National Broadcasting Company, and the Liggetton Myers Tobacco Company, makers of Fatima cigarettes. To all of these, and to you, our gratitude. Here at the starting point of Dragnet's second year of broadcasting, our wish is twofold. First, that we may enjoy your continued support. Secondly, that we may deserve that support. Thank you.

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SPEAKER_13 3:57

It was mild in Los Angeles. We're working the night. Watch out a robbery detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Ed Walker, Captain of Robbery. My name's Friday. It was 9:27 p.m. when I left for Cone Brew took the sunset drive-in and got to our car. 80K. Anything, news? Oh, Captain Walker's wife had her baby. Boy, eight pounds. Oh, that's well, TRF. Yeah? So does the captain. I put the uniform on the wafer film. Good dress them up, don't they?

SPEAKER_03 4:26

Good evening.

SPEAKER_13 4:27

Hi, Davy.

SPEAKER_03 4:28

Oh, hello. Didn't recognize you. What do you have? The usual?

SPEAKER_13 4:31

No, I think I'll have something else to hamburger this kind.

SPEAKER_03 4:34

There's a man you'll see to show, I think.

SPEAKER_13 4:36

Thanks, D. I'm kind of nobody. Maybe I'll take the meager. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 4:41

Well, if you are 18 West. Pod trim stud.

SPEAKER_13 4:45

What is that?

SPEAKER_03 4:47

Rusty.

SPEAKER_13 4:48

Oh, yeah. 35 cents.

SPEAKER_03 4:50

That's all this stuff I've been reading in the papers.

SPEAKER_12 4:53

What's that?

SPEAKER_03 4:54

A couple of guys going around snatching purses and beating up women. Paper said it's happened seven times in the last two weeks.

SPEAKER_12 5:00

Roads beat ninety cents.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

Roads they stood, too. Don't you know who's been doing it?

SPEAKER_13 5:05

No, not yet. What do you get from these liver and onions?

SPEAKER_03 5:09

Same as everything else. Soup, potatoes, and coffee.

SPEAKER_13 5:12

85 cents.

SPEAKER_03 5:13

How's it just take the perts? Why do they have to beat up the women?

SPEAKER_13 5:16

We don't know.

SPEAKER_03 5:17

Well, deadline staring me in the face every time I open a paper. I'm getting afraid to walk home at night.

SPEAKER_12 5:22

Do you get coffee and dessert with the Salisbury steak?

SPEAKER_03 5:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 5:26

Sixty five, huh?

SPEAKER_03 5:28

Sending your team. Roger on your call. Here, do you guys know what I've been talking about?

SPEAKER_13 5:32

Yeah, baby. We know. I'll take the Salisbury steak. Yeah, still alive.

SPEAKER_03 5:37

Hamburger special, don't you?

SPEAKER_13 5:39

Well done on mine, Clean.

SPEAKER_03 5:41

Burn. Okay. See a couple of minutes. Thanks.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

All units in the vicinity of 1016, Norris McKenzie. That's that's getting it. 484 PS is plugging. All units in the vicinity of 1016, Norris McKenzie. 484 P.S. do plug in close three. You won't have to take the call, K.

SPEAKER_12 6:02

Let her know we're going, too. So we're leaving. We'll be back. You know, I've been wondering if the hamburger and saladbury steak, what's the difference? Price.

SPEAKER_13 6:29

The police officer, the lowest chief, and most cowardly of the first natural phrase on women. For more than a month, flown women throughout the western section of the city had been robbed and beaten. The descriptions were confused and varied because the attacks took place at night. 1006 pm. We got to the location on North McKaddon where the woman was lying on the sidewalk. She's been sadly beaten about the face and neck, and her jaw had been broken. Officers Reed and Gell of Unit 61F were already there.

SPEAKER_12 6:55

Any witnesses officer?

SPEAKER_13 6:57

Yeah, this man in the sweater here saw it happened because the victim's name's Swanson. This Mr. Kahn. How do you do? Sergeant Romero, my name's Friday. I wonder if we could talk to you, please. Certainly. You want to come into the house? Right over here will be all right. That officer there said if you saw it happen. That's right. I was watching television. I heard the scream. I died. I looked out and saw these two men beating rough. Can you describe it? The life wasn't real good. They're about as tall as you two, but they had slighter build. How old were they, could you see them? I saw them knock her down. It was terrible. They hit her and then they kicked her. They picked up the first and and and and ran down that way. And you called the police?

SPEAKER_11 7:37

Yes, but not right away. I ran out and saw them get in their car across the street. They drove right past me. Then they turned each there on the main.

SPEAKER_13 7:46

Can you describe the car for? I got the license number for you. The last three numbers were 552. Just three numbers. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Can you describe the car? What kind was it? Well, I don't know. It was no, I think it was five. Maybe it's a dent. Well, was it a large car or a small? Oh, kind of medium. Did you notice the back of it? Yeah, that's where I saw the license face. No, I mean, did you notice anything about the car? Maybe a dent on a fender or a sticker on a window? I didn't look at the window. Did the car have a spotlight or a radio antenna? Well, I guess I didn't see it. I was trying to look at the license face. Did you notice anything unusual about this car? Any identifying marks at all? No, no, I didn't notice.

SPEAKER_12 8:22

How about the make of the car? Did you see what kind of what?

SPEAKER_11 8:25

No. The last three numbers on the license plate were 552. California license plate? Yes, it was.

SPEAKER_13 8:32

That should be enough here. Do you think he'll catch them tonight? Do you know how many plates m in 552? Well, Ben called in a general description of the car and the two attackers I talked to the other bystanders. I found out that the victim's name was Mrs. Frida K. Swanson, a widow. She had a room at 1003 North McCadden. None of the neighbors had seen the robbery or the beating take place. 1128 p.m. Ben and I arrived at Hollywood Receiving Hospital to interview Mr. Swanson, but she was unable to talk or to identify her attackers. She wrote on a piece of paper that she'd been slugged from behind and never got a good look at the man. Besides a broken jaw, she was suffering from a fractured wrist, a broken nose, and bruises about the face and body. Tuesday, July 2nd, the getaway car used in the attack on the previous night was found abandoned on Hollywood Boulevard and proved to be a stolen car. License number 6 Young 4552. The victim's empty purse was found inside. Routine investigation developed no lead. We met with Catherine Walker. Because the last four attacks had taken place within a six-block radius, we set up a flan of decoys in an attempt to trap the two purse matches. Four police women from juvenile bureau and a special detail from Metropolitan Division were assigned. Tuesday, 4 p.m., the special detail was ordered to the squad room for briefing.

SPEAKER_15 9:52

Hello, Dirk.

SPEAKER_13 9:53

Oh, hiya, Dorothy. Yeah, your feet.

SPEAKER_15 9:57

My feet, nothing the matter with them. You're a good dancer.

SPEAKER_13 9:59

Yeah, I bet I could use some lessons.

SPEAKER_15 10:01

Oh, you don't need lessons, Joe. You need practice.

SPEAKER_13 10:04

Okay, let's get started. I don't have to tell you the risks involved in an operation like this. I want all of you to know where everybody will be at any given time. By all of you, I mean the police women and also the men who'll be in the squad guard. If anybody misses anything, stop me. We don't have much of a description of the men we're after. There are two of them, both about 18 years old. Usually they wear sneakers, slacks, and fork coat. They've been in different kinds of cars, all of them colon. They keep each car for a few days and ditch it. Uh, hold on the map for me, Joe. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_12 10:42

Now, here's the area here. Residential. 90% of the dwellings have garages, so if a car to fight on the street, it might be unusual.

SPEAKER_13 10:51

Each of you will be given a list of cars stolen in the last 48 hours, still outstanding. I want you to check all tight cars against the hot teeth. Oh, uh first, hold up your person, please. Young lady, that person's too small, I'm afraid. Let's make it look worthwhile.

SPEAKER_02 11:08

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_13 11:09

All right. Before you leave, Sergeant Friday will pass out some marked bills I want you to carry. Okay, now police woman short. You aboard a West Sound Street car at Westing and Santa Monica Boulevard at uh at 9.03 p.m. Don't worry about beating scheduled the free charge. Get off at Lost Thomas at 9.13, walk south to Willoughby. Heading sound Willoughby to Hudson, and north one block to Romaine. You'll go west and Romain to Cointer, then we press your step to the starting point, and you're through. Got it? You'll be covered by Unit 81K. Yep.

SPEAKER_14 11:50

How fast, Miss Long should we walk?

SPEAKER_13 11:52

Oh, I'd say a pretty good pace. No woman likes to be alone on the streets at night, so it'll be natural.

SPEAKER_14 11:56

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_13 11:58

Polite woman ball.

SPEAKER_10 11:59

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_13 12:00

You aboard an East Sound bus at LeBray and Melrose at uh 9.35 C.M. Get off at Wilcox and Melrose at 9.45. Walk north on Wilcox to Waring, then west on Waring for two block, and north on Cherokee. Follow Cherokee for two block, turn east on Romaine. Follow Romaine to Cole, and turn north on Cole. When you get to Santa Monica Boulevard, refer to your steps to your starting point. You'll be covered by Unit 87, C.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

Will the car be cruising or will ready far?

SPEAKER_13 12:35

Go. Friday and Romero be cruising all the time. I'll get to the others when I finish with these instructions.

SPEAKER_14 12:43

Yes, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_13 12:44

Yeah?

SPEAKER_14 12:44

You said the two stars stacked were community?

SPEAKER_13 12:47

That's right.

SPEAKER_14 12:47

Send it pretty hard to hear him come up behind you.

SPEAKER_13 12:49

I'd think so.

SPEAKER_14 12:50

Did any of the victims kill them?

SPEAKER_13 12:52

They had, they wouldn't be victims. 9 p.m. The B Croy plan went into effect. We waited. Tuesday night passed. Nothing happened. Wednesday night, nothing. Thursday, July 4th, the B C Prey plan was enlarged to include a larger area, but everything was quiet. Friday, July 5th, Captain Waffe decided that the new flam covering an area from La Brea to Vine Street and from sunset to Beverly would be kept in operation. 1045 p.m. Ben and I cruised the exposed area.

SPEAKER_12 13:27

We've been thinking about moving to a new parade. Yeah? Only trouble is we don't know what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_13 13:33

You mean if rent control goes off?

SPEAKER_12 13:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 13:35

We don't know if rents will go off or it matters. You've got to leave them, man.

SPEAKER_02 13:38

171 C Son and Marathology are a five old step, Cody.

SPEAKER_13 13:42

We don't know what to do. We didn't toss a coin to the tide. Well, that's about as good a way as any. Coin came up sales four times in a row. Yes. Wife changed your mind on each toss, notice agents.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

Roger 71R.

SPEAKER_13 13:55

Not a police woman down there. Yeah. Nancy Stewart. You got her out there? Uh Howford on Hudson, East on No Rose, then up Wilcoch to sunset.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

All units, Willoughby and Hudson's 484B Air King's Loggins, those three.

SPEAKER_11 14:11

Besides, let's roll on it.

SPEAKER_02 14:12

Three half, Willoughby and Hugton. 484B as he plugins, those three.

SPEAKER_13 14:22

Looked out at the fortune and saw a woman sitting on the grass with a few people around. She was a young woman, about 25. Her clothes had been torn, and there was a red weld on her right step phone. She was trying to get to her feet as we came up.

SPEAKER_12 14:33

There'll be an ambulance here in a few minutes, miss. Can you tell us how it happened? Did you see who attacked me?

SPEAKER_04 14:39

Yes, I did. I can carry about him. Look, here I ripped off one of the pocket. Card saw.

SPEAKER_13 14:49

Driver's license. Your landing.

SPEAKER_04 14:51

Here's a piece of cloth I tore off of socket.

SPEAKER_13 14:53

I'll take that bell. Thank you. Do you want to stay with her? See if I can get a make on this license. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 14:58

Uh, would you give me the name, please?

SPEAKER_04 15:00

Barbara could have lesballed long hunt.

SPEAKER_13 15:06

80K to control one. 80K to control one.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

Go ahead, it gets.

SPEAKER_13 15:12

Text utspect for making warrants. George Landon, male. White, age 18, 5 feet 9 inches, 155 pounds, blue eyes, black hair. Address 27, 22 and a half, Arthur Avenue. Gam A367.

SPEAKER_02 15:29

Sag you're a test.

SPEAKER_04 15:33

I thought it was.

SPEAKER_12 15:37

Did you see that car?

SPEAKER_04 15:38

Yes, I saw a white sidewall tire with Crub's coat. Hard if he's a license player. I couldn't make it out.

SPEAKER_12 15:43

What color was it, Chris?

SPEAKER_04 15:44

I don't know. God breeze, I think. I'm mad at the boy. Well, you got the driver's lighting. We'd crawl there.

SPEAKER_12 15:50

Well, that's just for one of them, Vince. She said there were two men.

SPEAKER_04 15:53

I don't know. I grabbed one of their coats and the other one hit and stick. The thing I'm so mad about is I tried to frame and nothing had come out.

SPEAKER_13 15:59

I understand. All right. Hi. You miss 53F. We got the call. That's fine. This is the victim, Miss Curtis. If you'll handle the report and see that she gets home, we got a lead to check out. Okay. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 16:10

Roll one. 80K.

SPEAKER_13 16:12

Don't you call back, Jill? You better get it. Come on.

SPEAKER_11 16:14

Clark went to the first.

SPEAKER_13 16:22

80K to control one. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

80K. Suspect has misdemeanor and so any record. One arrest, suspicion of robbery, and one arrest, GTA. No wants at this time. Most recent address on suspects. 27, 22, and one-half, Arthur Avenue.

SPEAKER_13 16:38

Roger, been in trouble before. Fellon in misdemeanor. Yeah. Any address, Manchie. Maybe this clock does.

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SPEAKER_13 18:17

Friday, 11 p.m., Fenn and I drove to 27, 22 and a half Arthur Avenue, with a small house at the rear of a lot on the east end of town. Alongside the front house, there was a narrow passageway leading to the house in the back with a small lawn between the two, with no alley. Anybody leading from the front or back door had to go through the narrow passage. As we approached the house, a light was on in the front room, and through the window we could see a middle-aged woman reading a magazine. We rang the bell.

SPEAKER_05 18:52

Why, yes, he can. And his aunt, Miss Landon. What do you want?

SPEAKER_13 18:57

Can we come in? Thank you, huh? Is George Landon at home now?

SPEAKER_05 19:08

No, he isn't, but I think he'll be home soon. He never stays out late. He uh isn't in any trouble, really.

SPEAKER_13 19:16

You know where he is?

SPEAKER_05 19:17

With his friend. He's a popular boy. He really should be home soon.

SPEAKER_13 19:23

Where has he been, Miss Landon?

SPEAKER_05 19:25

I don't know. He goes out at night to know with his friend.

SPEAKER_13 19:29

Who are they?

SPEAKER_05 19:30

Well, I really don't know. You see, it's difficult to keep track of a young boy. He's a big boy and he's full of itality. He has to find things to do. Yes, ma'am. He lives here with me. I'm a dad. I'm not married, so I take care of him. He's a parent that died when he was a baby. I see.

SPEAKER_13 19:51

Does George work or does he go to school?

SPEAKER_05 19:53

Oh he's any school. You aren't here about that automobile that was going a year ago, are you?

SPEAKER_13 20:01

No, ma'am.

SPEAKER_05 20:03

He had some trouble then. I'm sure he didn't do it. Since then he's been very good. He hasn't missed a day's work and he goes to church with me anytime I ask him.

SPEAKER_12 20:14

Where does he spend his evenings, do you know?

SPEAKER_05 20:16

Well, I told you with his friend. The young man has to use up his energy. I don't try to hold him too tightly, a good boy like him.

SPEAKER_13 20:26

Can we look at his room?

SPEAKER_05 20:28

Oh, yeah. It's right here. I showed you how he music. Isn't that nice?

SPEAKER_12 20:38

Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_05 20:40

I'm not trying to descend him. I'm only telling you about him. He keeps his room cleaned up in the cell. He smoked a bit little, but I've never smelled a drop of liquor on his thread. He's a very good boy.

SPEAKER_13 20:54

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_05 20:55

He even reads a lot. You can see he's looking over again.

SPEAKER_13 20:58

Yes, sir. Do you mind if we look around a little bit?

SPEAKER_05 21:01

No. No, that's all right. I should be home soon. He's happy at a movie. Do you want to wait for him?

SPEAKER_13 21:11

No, it won't be necessary.

SPEAKER_05 21:13

He's always home by midnight. I'll tell him you're here. Oh God Nossity George now. George?

SPEAKER_09 21:21

Yeah?

SPEAKER_05 21:22

Even then would like to talk to you. The police officer.

SPEAKER_13 21:26

All right, take it easy, young fellow. Hold him, send him around. I don't stand filled, young fellow. It's no good.

SPEAKER_07 21:35

What do you guys think you're doing? I didn't do anything.

SPEAKER_13 21:39

I was just out for a ride. Is this your nephew?

SPEAKER_07 21:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 21:42

Coach doing Joe, Bothy Ritco. Is this your driver's license here, George? Yeah. I lost it. When? Last week? It was found tonight. So what? How'd you tell your coat? Getting out of the car the other night? Here's a piece of cloth. The girl who was attacked tonight gave it to us. It matches the tear there in your coat.

SPEAKER_05 22:05

What have you done, George?

SPEAKER_13 22:07

Tell her.

SPEAKER_07 22:09

I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to do it anytime. He talked me into it.

SPEAKER_13 22:12

Fruit talks into it.

SPEAKER_07 22:13

He made me do it. He's got a gun and he stole the cards. He made all the plans.

SPEAKER_13 22:16

Who made all the plans?

SPEAKER_07 22:17

Tommy. Oh, we never did anything. He's got to hang out at the drugstore until that time a year ago.

SPEAKER_12 22:20

What's his last name? He said that it'd always be held against me, and I better go along with him. Tommy who? Decker. Was he with you tonight?

SPEAKER_07 22:26

Yeah, he's the one that hit her when she grabbed hold of me. He's the one that always hit him. I never wanted him to do it.

SPEAKER_12 22:31

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_13 22:31

Where's the stuff you took out of that purse? Oh, Tommy's gonna hide it. Where? Back of where he worked? Where's that? Oh, garage someplace. I don't know where. He just started working there. Where does he live? Place on West 6. I never been there. What does this Decker look like? Same age I am, but about an inch taller and must be 15 pounds heavier. He's got dark hair. How's he dressed? Just like me. Sneakers and bronze flax and a tan sport coat. Better call the office, Pip. Yeah. Can I use your telephone now?

SPEAKER_05 23:02

Oh, it's it's in the hall behind the door.

SPEAKER_13 23:05

Thank you said Decker's got a gun? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:10

Officer, will you tell me the truth?

SPEAKER_13 23:13

I'll try, ma'am.

SPEAKER_05 23:15

Are George and this Tommy Decker the two men the paper you've been riding about?

SPEAKER_13 23:19

I'm afraid so.

SPEAKER_05 23:20

The ones who've been robbing the women?

SPEAKER_13 23:22

Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_05 23:23

And beating them up?

SPEAKER_13 23:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 23:24

I didn't mean it. I didn't know what I was doing. I raised you, George. I didn't either.

SPEAKER_13 23:33

11:42 p.m. We checked into the office with the 18-year-old suspect, George Landon. While Ben and the fleet stenographer took down the statement, I went down to RI and pulled the factories on the other suspect, Thomas Decker. His marma sheets showed a petition had been filed on 459 PC and 488 PC. They also showed three different recent addresses for Decker. One on West 6th Street, one on South Mariposa, and a third on North Catalina. Two units were dispatched to the first two addresses. Ben and I went to the address on North Catalina, Rooming House. We learned from Decker's landlady that he was working as an affrontist mechanic on the swing shift at a large garage on South Plower Street. At 12 51 a.m., Ben and I arrived at the garage.

SPEAKER_12 24:17

I beg you for it.

SPEAKER_09 24:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 24:18

Police Sir Thomas Decker worked here.

SPEAKER_09 24:21

Yeah, he was here.

SPEAKER_13 24:33

Thank you. You Thomas Decker? Yeah? Police officers like talking to you.

SPEAKER_08 24:42

Watch a joke. Take him. He's gone in the locker room. All right. Hey, hello. Stop over there. In the other way, I'm gonna block a room.

SPEAKER_09 24:58

Come on, Ben.

SPEAKER_12 25:06

Same from behind that cover.

SPEAKER_08 25:12

All right, men, give us that go. We're gonna go now. Run out. Right now, come on out. Head behind your head.

SPEAKER_13 25:27

All right, turn around.

SPEAKER_08 25:32

Head off downstairs. No. Let me go.

SPEAKER_13 26:00

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Only the names have been changed to protect free innocent. On November 1st, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 82, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. In a moment, the results of that trial.

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Thomas Decker and George Lendon were tried and convicted on five counts of grand theft person, five counts of grand theft auto, and five counts of assault with intent to do great bodily harm. They were sentenced to the state penitentiary fourth term as prescribed by law and are now serving their sentence.

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