 The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents this is your FBI This is your FBI the official broadcast files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Transcribed and presented as a public service by the equitable life assurance society of the United States and the equitable Society's representative in your community. Did you ever stop to think how a little thing like a penny postcard can change your whole life? Take this case for example tonight Thousands of people are listening for this equitable society radio programs middle commercial all because some equitable society Representative took the trouble to mail out postcards postcards inviting them to do so This commercial will bring you a special message about the equitable society's independent 60s plan a practical workable plan for people who want to be completely Independent in their 60s. I'll be back in approximately 14 minutes to give you full information on this special plan Offered by the equitable life assurance society of the United States Tonight's FBI file the runaway guest The first important study of the criminal as a human being and of the factors which go to make him a criminal Was undertaken some 75 years ago in New York? The result was a report which gave to the English language the word juke's Out of which has come such words as juke joint and several others That study made the point for the first time that heredity and environment were important factors in the formation of the criminal Other studies have been made from time to time on the same subject Sociologists are still trying to determine the factors that turn a person into an enemy of society those factors are of course many and varied and Scientists are no closer to a definite solution to the problem Then they are to finding all the reasons for people falling in love However, one factor does keep appearing in case history after case history One factor that seems to be the dominant reason for a man becoming a criminal that factor is greed like hate greed is a consuming evil and Ultimately it must destroy the person it possesses for it drives him to constantly increasing once Once which can only be satisfied by cheating by stealing by killing It's file opens on the great American desert It is nighttime and two rather elderly men on equally ancient boroughs are slowly riding along a dusty trail Close enough to touch Glad old folks from the city can't see a night like this They'd all come here Boyle whole thing. Yeah You know what a fella at the waterhole told me about that silver train goes by here every night What? Says it goes hundred miles an hour not very likely. That's what I said Sure, don't go that fast coming up the grade. No Let's get across the tracks for come no reason to void. Let's wait Wonder where it's going Dangerous to start thinking that way why? Next thing, you know, you'll be wanting to get on it to find out One of them silver one together wouldn't like that Say Floyd you see that Something fell off off the train. Yeah. Well back there. You sure Let's go see what it is What did it look like couldn't write to tell to dark come on I see something up there. Yeah, looks like it's a man He dead to Floyd don't think so he hurt bad Only thing I can tell is he's bleeding bad Grab his feet like Put him on my borough We'll take him back to the cabin fix him up Early the next morning at a nearby FBI field office special agent Jim Taylor meets agent Dave Gibson in the hall Hello, Dave. Oh, hi, Jim. You just signing in. Uh-huh been over to police headquarters on that Thompson case Oh, I thought they had a lead, but it didn't work out. Well, we're on one now that's tougher than the Thompson case another escape prisoner That's right. What's the dope on this one? You ever come across a file on a Leo Newton? I don't think so he shot a policeman out of the coast How do we get in on it? Well a couple of weeks ago He's picked up back east as a suspect in a robbery case his gun was sent to our lab by the local police The unidentified ammunition file revealed that Newton's gun was the one that was used to kill the policeman I say Extradition was requested and granted and Newton was being transferred to the coast for trial on the murder charge in our custody No, a local sheriff. Well, well the train was going through the desert last night Newton asked the sheriff to take off the handcuffs fully undressed to go to bed Now the sheriff did Newton slugged him and jumped off anybody see him not that I can find out When do we get the report this morning when the sheriff came to all he reported that when Newton slugged him He fell against the compartment and broke his wrist watch Newton must have really lowered the boo one I guess he did watch stopped at 846. I checked for the railroad to find out exactly where the train was at that time It had passed a little town on a desert named Aurora at 816 30 minutes before the slugging That's right. The engineer said that he was doing 20 miles an hour on that upgrade So that would put the train about 10 miles out of Aurora west of there y'all Dave I'm going out there now and see if I can find Newton if I get any kind of a lead. I'll be in touch with you void Yeah, he just moved. It looks like he's coming too about time Louis young fella Where am I? You know a shack who now do get up Who are you I commission this is Floyd Edwards How'd I get here? We picked you up after you fell off in the train. Oh What's your name? Leo Leo Newton you remember falling off in the train. Uh-huh. How did it happen? Well, it was hot. I I Wanted some air. I walked out to the platform. I guess I Got busy all our members are started the fall. I couldn't stop us. Oh, you're lucky. I've seen you You might have laid there for a month How far is it town depends what town you mean anyone Aurora is the closest About 18 mile You're pretty far from anything out here. We like it that way How do you live we do a little prospecting for gold? Hmm Find anything enough to get our food water They got a mine. No, we eat but we just pan for the stuff Been lucky, huh? Look, mr. Asking questions can make you real tired You'd better get some rest First leg in Taylor speaking All right, Dave. I tried to get you before I know I got your message find anything not too much Yeah, and he must have hurt himself the sand was soft there, but I found a pretty big bloodstain Uh-huh. I also found some burrow tracks leading away from where Newton fell Oh, I doubt that this section of the desert has quite a few prospectors in it No, my guess is a couple of them found him and took him back to the cabin I've done that Dave but according to the police down here not many of the prospectors have radios or telephone So I doubt that'll be much help I'm afraid I'm going to have to spread this alarm by word of mouth I assume you couldn't follow those burrow tracks. Well, not very far. They led to a salt bed and I couldn't pick them up on the other side Jim you think a plane might help? Oh, I doubt it. After all, it's 17 hours since he jumped. That's true Dave your desk clean. Can't be in a little while. How about grabbing a train and getting down here? I'll leave Jim. Good. I'd like to find Newton as soon as we can until we do whoever picked him up is in real danger That's feeling better. I took a walk So you come in here Never know from the outside. This was a mine Where's your partner? Went to the springs to get water Why'd he say he didn't have a mine? Why'd he tell me that? You'll have to ask him, mister How you doing here? No good No gold at all? Just enough to buy grub Two fellas must be awfully hungry. Huh? You want all this work for just grub Mr. Newton You're feeling a lot better, ain't you? Some? If you got strength enough to walk from the cabin here You've got enough to ride into town I think tomorrow morning You ought to get set to be on your way Howdy yikes It's fixing the blow pretty hard. Where's mr. Newton back inside the cabin sleeping Why I ran into Pete Roberts at the spring Uh, Pete told me the police are looking for a fella who escaped Describe the fella it's him You sure positive Pete said the police said the fella escaped by jumping off the train He's a crook there seems oh, I knew it to set no what do you mean? He followed me to the mine Asked a lot of questions. Does he know we've got gold? No Oh I told him we was taking him into town tomorrow When we get to a raw you excuse yourself and go call the law I want You're not calling the law How long you've been spying on us long enough better put that right for town, mr. Newton I need it to get information. What do you mean? About where you keep your gold. We ain't cutting it. You didn't have a mind either now. Look, I know you got to stash someplace I get it up with this rifle goes off twice We will return in just a minute to tonight's exciting FBI file Tonight on the 1st of july with independence day only two days away Seems a specially appropriate time to invite you to take advantage of the equitable society's famous independent 60s plan The equitable society created this plan for self-reliant americans who want to keep on being After their 60 years old For men and women who want to be self-respecting and self-supporting Able to do what they choose and live where they choose My wife and I bought a nice little seven acre farm We keep our own cows chickens and have a big garden That's one way to beat the high cost of living. I can well believe it We have a deep freeze so we can have our own fruits and vegetables all winter long Every time I talk to a man who's retired on an equitable society independent 60s plan There's just one thought that comes to my head. 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My equitable society representative He showed me that I was already halfway towards independent 60s Thanks to social security and the life insurance I already own That's a fact in many cases only a small amount of additional insurance Is required to enable a man to look forward with complete confidence to independent 60s A few extra dollars a week did it for me So why not see your equitable representative without delay phone him soon Or send a postcard care of this station to the equitable society That's equi, pable the equitable life assurance society of the united states And now back to the fbi file the runaway guest The criminal despite what you may have heard or read elsewhere Is not a breed apart he is except for a notable flaw in character Exactly like any one of you now listening to this program In tonight's case from the files of your fbi for instance You meet a known killer a man who has taken another human being's life without a second's worth of remorse That killer does not talk out of the side of his mouth He is distinctly not the average murderer you meet in fiction stories He is articulate He buys his clothes in the same stores you do and he might even have gone to the same school as you He is in fewer words Not one who can be recognized from his speech his face or his clothes Any more than any other criminal can be recognized from those things The only thing that distinguishes the criminal from the law abiding citizen Is his engaging in crime The fact that crime of almost every kind is increasing to the point of establishing new high water marks each year Indicates to many serious students that the national character is undergoing a change for the worse That each year the moral fiber of our people becomes slightly weaker Slightly less capable of withstanding the temptation to commit some illegal act Whether that is true or not is something the federal bureau of investigation has no way of knowing But what is true beyond any question is that crime in this nation is at an all-time peak And that means virtually every crime From arson to murder Tonight's file continues at police headquarters in aurora agent gibson has just arrived to join special agent jim taylor Anything coming on newton jim? No, not a thing quite a storm blowing up. Yeah. Yeah, I know Dave I was hoping you'd get newton before I got here It's so as I but he hasn't come into town since he jumped the train I see I've posted pictures of him around town and the editor of the local weekly is going to run his picture Most of the people around here get the paper when does that come out? Well, that's a troubled day Not for three days I spent some time studying newton's record while I was at the office jim. Oh With a gun in his hands. He's a potential killer every minute He gives no warning when he's going to start shooting. He just levels the gun and let's go That's why we've got to get him as soon as we possibly can Are there any leads at all? Well, not much Oh, one of the burrows has a cleft on the right front. Who from I'm going to check on that now Where over at the assayers office if I'm right about the owners of those burrows being prospectors Maybe the assayer can help us find out which ones they work Pull that floorboard up all the way Hey, listen to that wind. Maybe it'll blow the joint over and save us a lot of hard work Now, let me have a look. There's nothing under it. I'll see for myself Well We'll just rip up someplace else. Look mister. I'm tired. We'll tear this whole shack down if we have to I'm going to find that gold Now let's uh Let's try underneath the bed slide the bed out of the way. It ain't there move the bed Start with the bottom board in the corner You hear me we ain't ripping anymore get to work. No, maybe I'm getting too close, huh? We done enough Okay, I'll work on this patch myself. You two guys get back over there Go on Don't try to jump me. I'll have the rifle within reach Stay back. Look what I found leave that gold Easy pop Are you stay putty? You'll get the same treatment, but I you go get the burrows I'm taking this golden heading for town and you're coming with me to show me the way I can't leave floyd. Yes, you can but this door. We'll take a chance on that I go get the burrows ready as soon as dawn breaks. We're getting out of here Maybe we can get someplace for this map. What do you got? All they say is I'll just cut up this list of the ball of prospectus for us. Here take a look And that as many as they thought they'd be no that's one break we got but Here where did you get a look at where their cabins are? Is that what those marks on the map are? Yeah, that's right But the only line running through that territory is this black line representing railroad tracks, Jim There are no roads. I know that so let's split the list in half I'll take everything this side of the tracks, but how do we travel? That's already been taken care of I went by the ranger station to make arrangements to use their jeeps And they had some walkie-talkies. We've got a pair of them They'll also give us any of the cooperation they can fine Then we can check with each other say oh every half hour And as soon as either one of us finds an ending we'll get together Yeah, Dave, where are you? I'm at a ranger sub station. It's located at g7 on the map G7. Yeah, I see it. I didn't get a thing over in this half. Do you find anything? Yeah, I located the prints of that burl the one with the cleft hoof. Where? You got your map? Yeah I'd look right about h8 You see where the railroad tracks curve Yeah, I found it. Were you able to follow them? No, the storm has pretty well covered up most of the prints I also found a bloodstained shirt partly buried Newton's initials were monogrammed on the left sleeve What'd they want? A man named Pete Roberts just called upon us at a cabin belonging to two old prospectors named Edwards and Mason Where's the cabin? At G9 on the map right near Navajo Pass. Wait a minute. Navajo Pass. Got it. Let's meet at the cabin as quick as we can Jim no, I just got here myself Nobody here. Hey, Dave. Look over there in the corner One of the prospects. Yeah, he's still alive. Dave get that water bucket over there. Will you I'll see what we can do for him Okay, Jim his head's bleeding. You must have been slugged. Yeah, here's a rag. Oh, it's a pretty nasty cut Yeah It looks like somebody was trying to tear up the floor of this place Yeah Dave, what are these old fellas prospect for gold? No A newton was probably trying to find it. I suppose he's headed for town. Yeah Some town better notify all surrounding areas to be on the lookout for him Must have commandeered the other old prospect it act as a guide. He did what? They just found this note in your man's hand. What's it say? Just uh, dear floyd. I'll be back I guess the other old fella wrote it, huh? Yeah, come on. Let's get off my Jeep Maybe Dave maybe a week. It's a cabin ain't it? That's your cabin. That's your cabin Well, what do you know? You've been taking me around in circles. I guess maybe I have It's quite a joke. And I got one that tops it and this one's going to be on you We're down that rifle. You're getting it pop Good shooting, mr. It's not the gun out of his hands. All right. Come on newton. You're not ready. How are you special agents of the FBI? Arresting you for attempted murder Was turned over to local authorities on the charge of killing a police officer He was found guilty and sentenced to be executed Special agents taylor and gibson waited at the cabin instead of attempting to pursue the fugitive Because of the note found in the unconscious prospectors hand the note which said I'll be back Agent taylor's reasoning was that it would have been obvious to floyd edwards that icke would return And therefore the note must have had some other and greater reason for being left It could mean he was returning with leo newton taylor's decision to wait outside the cabin for icke to lead his man back to where they had started Ended with results which you have already witnessed And so two special agents were able to apprehend the dangerous killer before he added another victim to his list In this case the allies of your fbi with the courage and ingenuity of a citizen And those two are deadly weapons which have given enough use by every citizen When he finds himself in a position to employ them will ultimately lead to the conquering of the crime wave To the defeat of the american criminal In just a moment, we will tell you about next week's exciting case from the files of your fbi Now two final questions on the equitable society's independent 60s plan Mr. Keating did you say social security and my present life insurance will help get one of these plans? Very definitely in many cases the two combined take care of the major cost of the plan About how much do you think i'd get each month when i'm 60? Well, that depends of course on your present earnings and your future needs You and your equitable representative can work it out together. Give him a ring anytime He'll be glad to drop over for a friendly visit or write care of this station to the equitable life assurance society of the united states Next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the federal bureau of investigation A factual history of two international criminals its subject homicide its title The transatlantic shakedown The incidents used in tonight's equitable life assurance societies broadcast are adapted from the files of the federal bureau of investigation However, all names used are fictitious and any similarity thereof to the names of persons living or dead is accidental Tonight's program was transcribed and the music was composed and conducted by frederick steiner The author was jerry d lewis Your narrator was william woodson and special asian taylor was played by stacey harris Others in the cast were harry barterl herb butterfield rank love joy and paul mcvay This is your fbi is a jerry divine production This is larry keating speaking for the equitable life assurance society of the united states And the equitable society's representative in your community And inviting you to tune in again next week at this same time When the equitable life assurance society will bring you another thrilling story from the files of the federal bureau of investigation The transatlantic shakedown on this is your fbi This is abc the american broadcasting company