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I know that this is your FBI is sponsored by the Equitable Society In about 15 minutes, I'll be back with full information about the Equitable Society's fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers Tonight's FBI file the slapstick hold up America, as was to be expected, has changed in a quarter of a century The movies people were seeing then movies like Bo Brummel and the Ten Commandments were silent If Scott Fitzgerald was at work on a book called the Great Gatsby and Throughout the country in large cities and small towns People were seeing road companies of plays like Laugh Clown Laugh Stepping Stones and of course the student prince In every city even the split week stands There was something which today has all been vanished from the American scene There was the theatrical boarding house Actors lived there while they were in town and as sometimes happened Stayed on if the show closed in that particular place There are very few of those boarding houses left a few scattered here and there, but wherever you find one You will find people like the ones you meet tonight in our case from the files of your FBI People like the guy greens Tonight's file opens in a rear bedroom of just such a boarding house located in the large western city an Attractive dark-haired girl is putting on her makeup as the door opens. Hey ginger. I just thought of a good joke for the opening spot Listen to this I walk out cold see no music no nothing and I say good evening Ladies and gentlemen and then when nobody answers I say you got no manners at all. I just said good evening Well that warms them up see then I say look, I know there are people out there. I can hear them breathing You like it baby sure But where are you gonna use it? Huh? You don't need jokes. You need jobs. Oh now ginger. Don't start that again. Look, there'll be work When well, I saw Nelson when I was out. He wants me back at the hotel for the summer But that's almost six months away. What do we use for bread till then? Well, maybe I can get a couple of weeks from Sid Piermont You wrote to him before Christmas if he was gonna bookie you'd have heard from him by now Well, maybe the letter got lost. I'll write him again. Hey when the variety come in the afternoon, ma'am. What's in it? Rita I fan through it Sinatra struck oil in Wyoming. Oh good The kid needs it Guy, huh? Mrs. Olson stopped by again while you were out to ask about the rent Mm-hmm. She says unless she gets at least a piece of what we owe her. She'll have to ask us to move Mm-hmm guy. You're not listening to me guy. Would you please put down that paper? Hey ginger Huh? Did you see this what the nightclub reviews? I don't want to talk about nightclub reviews Look, you remember that baggy pants comic who worked at the hotel with me last summer Eddie Manley Yeah, well, did you see the review here? No wonder. He's working. What are you mumbling about? Why that bum stole my whole act Listen to this notice. He does an imitation of hildegard. He does the wrestler on the telephone talking to the man at the television station He does the old lady talking back to the radio. Ain't no wonder. I can't get bookings. He must be ruining the material Well, I got one break anyhow. What's that the bum is working right here in town Where at the Palms, you know that joint out of the road by the lake? Yeah Well, nobody's gonna steal guy greens. I can get away with it. Why don't you write to AG VA? They can stop I can stop him myself I'm going out there and see him right now. Oh Pave I didn't see you come in well. I had dinner in town tonight I figured I'd look in on my way home to see how everything was coming every time you do this is never any business You got to remember. It's right after Christmas paid people got no money. I didn't stop by to talk about the business here Have you heard anything yet from Chuck? Oh? No, it ain't time yet. You ain't do here for like go 20 minutes yet job set for eight o'clock in the button Well, I hope he does this one right. I laid the whole thing out like a rug for him Chuck is okay. So long as he doesn't have to do any thinking. He can't go wrong on this one of plain stick up. I Guess you're right. Yeah, sure look Why don't we uh, why don't we what well? Let's get down the road and see how businesses up there, huh? All right What's this? Which one of you guys is Pete Craig? Well, I am they tell me you own this joint, huh? Well, I'm guy green and I want to talk to you about Eddie Manley Who Eddie Manley the comedian you got working here. He's using all my material and it's got to stop Ralph you take care of this way. Yeah, sure Pete now look you're not giving me any quick brush off What do you think you're playing with kids? Well, you must think you are you wasting your time brother I fired Eddie Manley for coming in drunk an hour ago. Well, you still got his billing outside It had time to take it down yet. Oh, you're a liar. You're covering up for a round called twits and tell him to throw the creep out a Few minutes later in front of the local FBI field office special agent Jim Taylor is waiting for a car being driven by agent Frank Linden He sees it approach Sorry I had to get you waiting dinner Frank SAC assigned us to work together in a case. It just came in Every minute might be important what kind of a case is it Frank turn right at the next corner We're ahead for route 35. Where are we going water town? What kind of a case is this Jim you see the stories in this afternoon's papers about young John Anderson getting married Well, then you probably also saw the pictures of the collection of jewelry the bride got from Anderson's parents Yeah, well, so did a stick up man Anderson and his bride were held up 15 minutes ago Well, how do we get in on a hold up Jim? It happened on the train that they were taking to California They took the 740 out of here the newspapers really made Anderson his bride a target with those pictures sure did Well when the train was 20 minutes out of the station the Anderson's heard a knock on the door of the drawing room They opened the door the bannets stepped in pulled a gun and took every piece of jewelry the bride had with her Any description on what the band had looked like now? He's wearing a mask and look like a large handkerchief of the green border All we know is that he was a big man about six feet two inches tall that he's heavy set How come we're going to water town the 740 doesn't stop there Well the band had jumped off the train right near water town immediately after the hold up He pulled the emergency cord stopped the train and got away Train made a special stop at Watertown so that Anderson and his bride could get off there and wait for us Where are we going to meet them police headquarters? Well, this whole thing happened just 15 minutes ago Jim the trail should still be pretty warm. Yeah It's just all but warm enough to lead us right to the bandit. Yeah There's a man waiting for you. He said take his name. Mr. Chuck. Oh, thanks George clear up the table Hello Chuck brother am I glad to see you glad to get back here where you been Pete was here. He waited for you Where's he now you went home? Oh What's been to call him as soon as I see what you got so let's take a look at it. Okay. How'd it go? Okay, the way you've been all this time. I had some trouble after I got the stuff What happened the guy stood still when I grabbed all of the jewelry But I started to take a big rock off the dames fingery through a punch at me. It didn't shoot him Did you know but I slugged him the dame started to scream then what happened? I shoved all the stuff in this little police They had ran out pull the emergency cord trying to stop they jumped off. What were you when you jumped on? I don't know. Well, how did you get here? I iced at a car You didn't leave a hot car out in the parking lot. Did you know? No, no No, I drove it up into the woods behind the joint. I'll get rid of it later I hate to call Pete and tell him this he ain't gonna like it You like it when you tell him what I got in this police. Hey, where do I show you now? Tell me he ain't gonna like that. Oh, yeah, yeah, that stuff is beautiful Hey, are you gonna tell me where Eddie Manley is? I've been looking for him all over this crib He ain't at the bar. He ain't in his dressing room. Come on. Where are you hiding him? Who is this guy Ralph? He's a bum I had thrown out of here an hour ago Yeah, and I'm gonna keep coming back until you let me see Manley He stole my act and he ain't gonna get away with it And you're not gonna help him get away with it either. Well, tell him that right now Well, there he is and back here. Where? Manerson and his bride. Nothing we didn't already know Jim. She's still pretty hysterical Oh, I drove down to where the train stopped when the emergency cord was pulled. Yeah, did you find anything? Yeah, some footprints leading away from the train. Oh, we might get something from there Oh, I made some casts of the prints. They're in the back of the car We can drop them at the lab when we go back to the office, huh? Uh-huh The ground ought to be pretty soft out there after all the rain we've been having. That is take a look at my shoes How far were you able to follow the prints off for about a half a mile? I couldn't follow them once they reached the highway though. That's a highway 73, isn't it? Yeah, that's it And were you right near the bridge when the footprints ended? Yeah, how did you know? Because I think I can pick up the trail at that point. Oh, how? And just before you came in Jim, we got a report that a 1947 black Buick convertible was stolen on that road Come on. Let's send out a statewide alarm Okay, just a minute Well, come in come in say is your phone out of order. Well, no why well I hate to bother you at home But I've been calling you from the joint for 20 minutes your line was always busy Oh, well, I I was talking to a couple of guys in Florida. Oh Well out of Chuck make out. That's what I come over to tell you about Something go wrong again. No, not exactly Pete. It just didn't go a hundred percent the way we planned What happened this time well a chump put up a fight Chuck had to build him when the dame started the screen Chuck pulled the Emergency cord to stop the train. Uh-huh then instead of taking a cab to the joint from the station like we planned He hiked to the car Well, that's not too bad. That ain't the real trouble What do you mean? Remember the bum who came in to see it and that about Eddie Manley? Yeah, yeah Chuck and I were in the office. We had the loot spread all over the desk He busted in looking for Manley again. Did you see the stuff he must have What happened I conked him tied him up. He's in the closet in the office Chuck's there to see that he don't get away Well, we've got a problem If we let that stiff go the first thing he does is run right to the cops now contest about that You better tell toots to take care of them. Okay. I figured you'd want to do that But I wanted to talk to you before I gave toots to go ahead. Hey, wait a minute wait a minute. I Just thought of something why? This this office in pretty good That guy in the closet is just about Chuck's size, right? That's right Where's the car that Chuck stole after he jumped off the train? It's in the woods up and back of the joint good Let's hang this robbery on that stiff in the closet. Oh, well, it's easy Tell Chuck to switch clothes with the guy and put him in the hot car put some of the loot in the guy's pocket And shove the car off a cliff Listen The ticking of that clock should remind you that time is hurrying by But this is the last time the equitable society will offer its famous fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers to this radio Audience fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers. What kind of chart is that before I answer that question Tom? Let me ask you this if you should die Unexpectedly what monthly income would your wife and children need to live the way you want them to? Well, I really don't know mr. Keating. I've often worried about what would happen to them But I guess about all I've ever done is worry Tom The fact-finding chart is the first step towards ending that worry with this chart You know exactly how much money your family would require to live in reasonable comfort and security if you should be taken from them Here take a look at the chart see every foreseeable expense is provided for and you're guided by easy to understand Pictures every step of the way in five minutes You'll know the minimum income your family would need to keep going and to keep together During the critical years until your youngest child finishes high school sounds like just put the doctor ordered Where can I buy one of those charge you can't buy them Tom? They're free phone your equitable society Representative soon and ask him to bring you a fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers or send a postcard Care of this ABC station to the equitable life-assuring society your request will be forwarded to the nearest equitable representative There's the clock again Reminding you that the time is almost up that this is the last time the famous fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers Will be offered to this radio audience by the equitable life-assuring society of the United States And now back to the FBI file the slapstick hold up That a roadhouse which is a breeding place for crime a roadhouse like the one in tonight's case from the files of your FBI Is allowed to exist is not to be blamed upon either the local or the state police Well, the great probability is that those law enforcement agencies Are so undermined that it is impossible for them to do the job they want to do To clean the community of any such place It is your job as a citizen if you too want your community free of such criminal hangouts To see to it that your local police force is large enough to do its job It is cheaper in the long run and this has been proven in city after city To have such a large force of local policemen that criminals avoid your city in their travels Your bill last year the bill handed to you by thieves like the ones in tonight's case was well over a hundred million dollars That is what the value was of properties stolen from you the American people And unless your communities are more adequately police this year than they were in 1948 It is entirely possible that the bill for 1949 will be even larger Night's file continues in a waiting room at Memorial Hospital in Watertown Special agent Landon has just entered Got here soon. It's a good jam. Your message didn't catch up with me till a couple of minutes ago That's all right Frank. What are we doing here? Well, that stolen car was found by the local police It was where the bottom of a cliff a little way out of town man named guy green was in it We found some rings and a bracelet in his pocket. Oh Mrs. Anderson has definitely identified the items as part of the jewelry that was stolen on the train Well, that's just about closes the case then doesn't it yeah, I think so Yes, nurse. I'm mr. Taylor. Dr. Cordes said that it was all right for you to go in to see mr. Green now Thank you, but please don't stay in there any longer than you have to I won't it's the first door on the left Thanks again Frank. Oh, yes, Jim. Well, I'm in talking to green Why don't you check with his doctor about when he'll be able to be moved out again? Okay? Celia That's me. I'm a special agent of the FBI here my credentials. Well, it's about time you guys got into this case You mean you want to confess confess what? Committing that hold up on the train and stealing the car that you drove over the cliff I never stole anything in my life Except maybe an extra bow. How did you happen to be in that car? If you didn't steal it, I don't know tell me how you happen to have had that jewelry in your pocket. No Look, mr. Taylor. I'm an actor. Didn't you ever hear of an act called a guy named guy? That's me. I'm not a crook Where were you at 8 o'clock tonight, mr. Green? I was in a roadhouse called the Palms I went there looking for a guy named Eddie Manley. He stole my whole act If you're looking for a crook arrest him. Did you see Manley? No, it wasn't there You see anyone at the roadhouse sure saw a guy named Pete Craig who owns the place and a character named Ralph Harper Who runs it for him? I hope you can prove that's true. Well, you're in the proving business, mr. Taylor. Not me Yes, you're quite right. Well, I'm going out to that roadhouse now and see if your alibi is true Tell me what about the stiff we tied up in the closet. Well Chuck change clothes with him Like I said, we put the rings in bracelet in this pocket. Was he still out? Well, he came to for a minute, but Chuck belted them again. He was out cold and we put him in the car Yes, Chuck got to the cliff got out put the bomb behind the wheel shoved the car over the edge Well, it went okay, then up to there it did What do you mean two guys were fishing in the stream? They heard the noise and came running pulled the guy out one of them ran a call to hospital How do you know a pretty soon an ambulance came and then there was some cops. Oh That's great. I got a feeling he's still alive. Where's Chuck now? Out of the park He was supposed to get cut in for 25% of this wasn't he that's right Pete Well, call him in give him $200 and tell him he's fired My name is Taylor. I'm a special agent of the FBI Here my credentials. Oh, well, my name is Harper Frank Harper. I'm the manager here What can I do for you, mr. Taylor? I'd like to talk to you about an entertainer that you have working here Why don't you come into the office? It's a little drafty out here. Oh, I think You say you want to talk to me about one of my actors. That's right a performer named Eddie Manley He don't work here anymore. Mr. Taylor. Oh, when did he stop? Well, he was drunk when he reported for work tonight, so I fired him. I see. I'm sorry. I can't help you Tell me mr. Harper has anyone else been around here tonight looking for Manley. No, I see I'm the manager here like I said, and if anybody wanted manly they'd have been sent to see me the way you were I'll admit manly wasn't a very good comic, but I didn't think he was so bad to get arrested. We're not trying to arrest mr Manley. Oh However, do you know where I might be able to get in touch with him? Well, he was drunk like I told you when I threw him out of here a couple hours ago Maybe you can find him in one of those other joints up the road. All right, mr. Harper. Thanks very much Sorry to have bothered you not at all mr. Taylor come back any time Myself Jim. Oh, I spoke to the manager at the palms He denies that green or anyone else was around tonight looking for Manley manager He's the one green claims did the slugging isn't he? Yeah, he's the one I Don't know how much they're doing is any good But I made some plaster cast of the tires on the stolen car that green was found in. Oh good Did you go through the car? Yeah went over every inch of it I thought I might find a secret compartment with the rest of the Anderson jewels still an awful lot of it missing Almost all of it. I wonder what green could have done with it Oh, I haven't seen you since I checked those plaster casts. I made it the bandits footprints Oh, why because I'm not so sure now that green did the actual hold up What might she say that well the shoes he was wearing when he was brought into the hospital didn't match the footprints made by the man Who jumped off the train besides green shoes had taps built into the toes Oh Well, then maybe a handkerchief I found stuck behind the front seat of the car is more important than I thought it was What I get you for that this one both mr. And mrs. Anderson identified it because of the green border as the one that the Bandit used for a mask. Yeah, it is important Well, it's obviously been laundered But we'd have to send it to the lab in Washington to have them read the invisible laundry mark before we even start to find out Who's it was? Well, we haven't got that much time Take about two days. I know that Jim Hey, wait a minute Frank. We're in a hospital. What more do we want? Come on? We don't have to send that handkerchief to Washington. Come on Put up the safe Ralph. Let's take a look at that stuff. Sure, Pete. Did you get rid of Chuck? He wouldn't take the 200 Let him drop dead. He's out of the bar getting loaded probably waiting to see you I hope he holds his breath till I talk to him and 45 to the left Hey, Pete It's all in this bag. Fine. Let's lay it out on the desk and take a gander at it Hey Hey, this is good-looking merchandise. It's got to be worth 20 G's maybe more. Yes, sir And I know just the guy who can handle it for us too. There's a guy in Pittsburgh that handled some stuff Nice-looking stuff up beat Knock on that door before you come in here after this Chuck. Why? Because you don't work here anymore Okay, you can leave now. I want to talk to Ralph alone. I ain't leaving empty. You don't have to you've got 200 coming No dice That's all you get Take it and get out don't get so tough Pete Put that cap pistol down you want to see it go off. Don't you move either Ralph? Why don't you stop it Chuck? You're all boozed up. You got that whiskey courage going for you sure sure I'm loaded now. Why don't you go home and sleep it off come back here tomorrow night? Ralph put that stuff back in a satchel. You better do what he says Ralph. Okay, Pete Yeah, that's smart boys. It's smart. I'll close it up Ralph Stand back while I pick it up. Okay, Chuck you too Pete. You'll never get away with this Chuck watch me Now stay here till I get outside Drop that gun well, huh? Oh, no Take care of him. I'll get the two inside. He's a G man, Pete. He was here before that's right Craig My partner and I are both special agents of the FBI. We want all three of you for attempted murder Of Harper Peter Craig and Charles Wells each received sentences of 30 years for theft from an interstate carrier and attempted murder Special agent Taylor helped solve tonight's case because he remembered that invisible laundry marks can be read under ultraviolet light and that the hospital had a room equipped with ultraviolet ray machines After contacting the correct laundry. He found that the handkerchief belonged to Chuck Wells a known employee of Pete Craig The owner of the Roadhouse because that made it appear that the story told by the comedian Guy Green was true Special agents Taylor and Landon searched the territory surrounding the Roadhouse in the woods immediately behind the club They found tire marks which corresponded to the plaster casts They had made of the tires on the stolen car when Chuck Wells shoes fit perfectly into the other plaster casts The ones made by special agent Taylor at the spot where the bandit had jumped off the train There was no longer any doubt that Guy Green had been telling them the truth and thus in the space of five hours Your FBI not only was able to check the careers of three desperate Cariminals, but it also was able to perform the job. It likes best to do it was able to clear an innocent man In just a moment. We will tell you about next week's case from the files of your FBI But now listen Yes, the seconds are ticking away time is rushing by so once again Let me remind you that this is the last time the equitable society will offer its famous fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers on This program with this chart you can start to make sure that your family will be well fed well housed and well clothed Regardless of what happens to you phone your equitable society representative soon or send a postcard to the equitable society Care of this ABC station your request will be forwarded to the nearest representative of 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 account of a relentless manhunt its subject murder its title the fugitive bridegroom Incidents used into night'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 the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Steiner the author was Jerry D. Lewis Your narrator was William Woodson and special agent Taylor was played by Stacy Harris Tonight's program was directed by Sid Goodwin 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 societies 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 fugitive bridegroom on this is your FBI. This is ABC the American broadcasting company