 This is your FBI This is your FBI The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation The I file Yesterday's Killers to hear people who tend to weave a veil of romance about the names and escapades of Al Capone of John Dillinger of Marb Barker and Alvin Carpus The gangsters who made prohibition first a laughing stock and then a serious business Some who listened to this program tonight were not yet born at that time We're not alive to see the mobs of hoodlums who made illegal whiskey the basis for criminal syndicates We're not yet reading a newspaper that morning in 1929 When a trigger happy gunman walked into a Chicago garage wearing a stolen police uniform And mowed down seven men A killing that became famous as the st. Valentine's Day massacre Those were the days she heard people say And they are right Those were the days when Al Capone had three entire floors in a large Chicago hotel When the word bootlegger was in some circles a badge of honor When decent people struggled to get a card of admittance to a smoke filled cellar So they could drink while rubbing elbows with the dregs of human society It is one of the jobs of your FBI to make sure that such days never return Tonight's file opens as special agent jim taylor driving up a lonely country road through a heavy storm He runs to the front door knocks and waits Yes, that's the wilson farm. It is. Oh, are you mr. Taylor? Yes. Oh, please come in. Thank you My uncle bob's expecting you. Yeah, let me have your coat. All right. That's quite a storm Yes, we get them out here Here hang it up. Thank you. Uncle bob's in that room there. Oh fine. You can go right in Thank you. Hello there. You mr. Taylor. That's right Wow, you made good time getting out here considering this storm. I guess I did There sit down Thanks, mr. Wilson Well, I suppose you're wondering what this is all about. I I couldn't tell you I think I know what it's about Charlie madison being killed last night, right? Yes And you know, I was there That's right We went through his papers. I can even answer that one You found a note saying that I was going to kill him You admit writing it? Sure. Sure. I'll even tell you why first I think you should know mr. Wilson that anything you can tell me can be used against you It's your constitutional right to say nothing Yeah, I know my rights I still want to talk Okay, but first I'd like to ask you a question All right. What's that? Why should you care who killed anyone as foul as charlie madison? He was a key witness in a government case now on trial in federal court And it appears that a violation of justice statute may have been committed which requires the fbi to secure all the facts Now what was your story? Well, first I'd like you to know that I had a good motive for killing charlie madison and a lot of people did Maybe you'll understand the motive a little better if I start at the beginning back when I first met the guy It was 1927 Oh, I was a hot 20 then Saturday night was what I waited for all week long That was the night we had the neighborhood dance Well, if one of those dances one saturday night, I was standing just inside the entrance smoking a cigarette when the guy I knew walked Oh, hi, Al Hey Want to get some exercise what kind? The guy right under the club banner. You see him Uh-huh We're gonna work him over you want to play Nah, and not tonight. Okay You're past Bobby, I'm so glad I found you. Mary. What's the matter? We just done powder in my nose and I heard Peggy Austin say the fellas are all gonna gang up on my date Is he the one over there? Yeah, right under the banner Look Al George and willy are all closing in on him right now Just cuz he isn't from the neighborhood. Well, that's his tough luck. Oh, bobby. Do something Please for me bobby help him for me Well, please Okay They're all around him now. Yeah, but nobody's hitting him yet. All right. I'll be tough. Don't talk smart, brother Just walk outside. All right. All right. Break it up. Huh? Leave the guy alone. He's okay. Look stay out of this I said leave him alone. Oh no. Oh, yes Come on, buddy. This is your fight. You better help me. Okay. We're gonna have to punch our way out of here I first met charlie madison mr. Taylor I look back now. I know that was the tip off I was always going to be the guy to get him out of a jam Say you want a drink or maybe some coffee? No, no, thanks. Go on with your story Well, the next time I saw charlie was the night of the dempsey tunny fight I had a job as an usher the seventh round had just started and I figured nobody else was coming So I started down the aisle to find a place to watch Oh, hi, mary. Oh, you're the guy. Yeah. Yeah, well, I'm glad I run into you. I never got a chance to thank you Come on, that tunny looks great, don't he? I bet on dempsey. Oh, you're gonna blow it. Oh dempsey needs his one punch Ten bucks ten. I thought you made a bet. I got three g's on tunny three thousand Hey, you must be doing good. Not bad. Got a little action going for me Hey, are you working me? No. Oh look, I owe you one. You got a job starting tomorrow night So that's how you went to work for him, huh? Yeah, he wasn't my kind of a guy, mr. Taylor But it gave me a chance to see mary You probably figured it out already I was in love with mary But to her there was nobody but charlie Well, he had a roadhouse out on the turnpike. I started as doorman at the place Then one night I was at the bar when I heard charlie the guy say charlie wanted to see me in his office I started right away because charlie Yeah, bob You remember I told you last night I was tired of being a penny anti guy Well, I did something I'm moving up What'd you do by lake bichigan? Not better than that. I bought four guys from lefty bannings mob. What for they're crossing him He's got a shipment of booze coming in but he's not gonna get it. We are Charlie just in case you're interested in some advice. I don't think it's a good idea Why? If you can buy those guys lefty can buy them back, then we got a war You afraid of war? No, I just think if you want that booze, let's go take it ourselves You always do everything so you'll get punched in the nose It saved you once That was different Lefty's got a boat coming in well, we got a boat too. I picked it up today We'll use it to hijack lefty We move tomorrow night Well, mr. Taylor, we did the job and it went off just like charlie laid it out The next night I was in the road house when I saw mary sitting alone at a corner table Hi, mary Sit down. Thanks. I didn't expect to see you Why not? I figured you'd be celebrating after last night's job Understand you're all in the big time now I suppose I ought to say congratulations. Well, I ought to but I won't What do you mean? Mary you better tell it to charlie. I've been trying too, but he won't listen It's too big barbie I'll talk to him. Will you try to tell him that this is Bob? I want to see you Excuse us, mary Lefty bannings on his way out here. Why you got a couple of torpedoes with him How do you know I just got a call in the office who told him it was us one of those guys I bought Well, let him come our boys ain't here bob. They're stashing the whiskey. Oh, that's bad I I think we better blow Where can we hide you got a better idea? Yeah Close the joint send mary home in a cab. We'll wait here We'll punch our way out again And don't get too frisky with it What do you mean? If we stay behind these tables, they'll be the targets not us We don't waste bullets till we get a real good shot Hey, what about the windows? What about them? Suppose they start shooting through they'll have to break them first. Then we'll see them They won't see us without lights. Well, maybe we've got hold it. Hold it Could be banning to shoot at the lock off. Don't answer him charlie. Don't come out. We're coming in Charlie medicine come out with your dukes up or we're coming in you had your chance What medicine ain't here But I am and here I come and I'll back to the fbi file Yesterday's killer life in the united states has changed so much since the 1920s That comparisons are needless to prove the point In one respect however, there has been little change And that is the state of mind which results in the constant growth of the criminal army That attitude which was widespread then And is equally at home in too many living rooms today Is the conversational tone used in referring to criminals? How many parents ask if the other has seen the story in the evening paper? The one about that bank robber who got away with a hundred thousand dollars? Far too often the answer is I'd almost be willing to rob a bank myself for that much money or that takes a lot of courage How can parents who say things like that expect a child to correct them? To tell them it doesn't take courage to hide behind a machine gun To tell them that criminals are the vermin of the earth To tell them the very things they should in fact be telling the child You as an individual cannot stop that practice All you can do is make sure of one thing Make sure it doesn't happen in your home Tonight's file continues at the farmhouse where bob wilson and special agent jim taylor sit talking They shot me up a little as I came through the door, but lefty banning wasn't interested in me He wanted charlie madison and charlie had gone They left me there on the front porch of the roadhouse Me and the body of the head waiter When I came to I was under arrest for his murder There come in There was a phone call from mr. Taylor uncle bobby when just now it was your office mr. Taylor, but while we were talking the phone went out That happens every time we have a storm. I see well, I'll keep trying to get your call as soon as the service comes back. Thank you Well as I was saying I was arrested I didn't kill the head waiter, but the shooting came with a bad time people were sick of hoodlums like me And the judge hit me with a 20-year bit. Yes. I know about that I never heard from charlie. He never showed up at the trial never sent word to me I did hear he and mary got married Had a kid a daughter Well after three years I got word I had a visitor It was mary I didn't want to see her so they told her I was sick She came back the next day and the next Finally I went down to the visitor's cage and there she was Hello I'm sorry. You've been sick. I ain't been But they told I didn't want to see you Look, there's a reason for my not having come here Charlie told me you double crossed him. Well, he said you were trying to get some of your friends to kidnap our little girl Mary You believed him I was in love with him Was He's a big man now Too big for me. His lawyer is arranging for a divorce. I'm going away Where I don't know I'll write to you You're going to be close enough to visit me again I don't know if I have my will If you're not We've got a date In 17 years If I hated charlie before I hated him double now I couldn't sleep at night. I'd lay awake thinking up new ways to murder him Tell me did you ever hear from mary just once she sent me her address but asked me not to write Well, finally the day came my sentence was up. I headed for mary right away But I was too late mr. Taylor She'd been dead for three years What about her daughter? I found Alice Charlie had never sent them a dime Mary died broke Well, that brought all the hate back again I started to look for charlie. I found out he was in europe So I rented this farm and kept my eyes on the paper Finally he came home When he did I wrote him that note you found He never answered it. So last night I went to see him I climbed in a window He wasn't home so I hello charlie What? Remember me? I uh Bob wilson Oh Sure Sure. Hello, Bob. This ain't a social visit Okay I've come to have a talk with you talk. I've been waiting for for 20 years. Look, bob. It's late Why don't you come around tomorrow? We're talking tonight. Okay What are we talking about? Your wife and your daughter my wife's dead. I know You sent flowers. That's right Why didn't you send something when she was alive like dough? I didn't know where she was living You're a liar now. Wait a minute. Listen. You've lied about everything from the first day I met you. Look. Is that what you came here to tell me? No Now I came here about your kid What about her? You've got a chance with her charlie a chance to make up for all the things you didn't do for mary Whatever I do with a kid is my business. Oh, no Now I'm making it mine You're gonna give that kid dough a lot of dough $50,000 worth 50. So Oh What a cheap shake this is Using my kid as the front to take me for 50 grand. Oh, I'm leveling. Get out of here. Oh, no Look, if you don't get out of here, you'll do nothing Remember that note I wrote you you remember what it said Said I was going to kill you Well now charlie. I'm going to let go not with a gun charlie. I don't need one I'm gonna do it with these hands These hands are strong charlie. They got strong and prison Strong from working a drill pass and breaking rocks, but now they're gonna Mr. Wilson Didn't you tell madison you didn't have a gun? I didn't that shot was fired through the window Oh Why didn't you report that to the police? After you've spent 20 years in jail You do what I did You leave quietly Mr. Wilson, I wonder if you'd come down to the office with me. You don't believe me about not killing them. I'm an investigator not a jury I just collect the evidence 12 people in that box decide whether or not it's true Oh, mr. Taylor. I was just coming in to get you. I've got your office on the phone. Oh, thank you very much It's down there end of the hall and turn left. Thanks. I won't be long Oh, you going out uncle bob. Yes. Yes. I have to go into town with mr. Taylor If the roads are bad, I won't try to come back tonight. All right So you'd better get your things and go over and stay with the albrights. Okay Call me at the albrights when you get to town. So I know you're safe too Don't you go worried about men? Well, the highway will be slippery tonight and well, I'll feel better if I know you're there Here here help me on with this coat. Will you dare? Oh, sure Putting on your coat mr. Wilson Trip won't be necessary. My office tells me the case is closed They've caught the person we wanted Who is it? Someone who waited a lot longer than you lefty banning Well So good night, mr. Wilson and good night miss, uh, oh, uh, didn't you two introduce yourself? No Well, mr. Taylor, this is alice madison As jim taylor said The fbi secures the facts in their investigation of the obstruction of justice Their facts led to the identification and conviction of lefty banning in state court for murder More important, they cleared bob wilson an innocent man entwined in a series of unexplainable circumstances Used into night's 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 places or persons living or dead is accidental This is your fbi is a jerry divine production