 The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents this is your FBI This is your FBI the official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society Representative in your community Brief questions for fathers and mothers Do you believe that your boy or girl is the type who would benefit greatly by a college education? Are you determined to do everything in your power to see that he gets that education? If your answer is yes, then you want to know more about an equitable education fund It's the painless way to pay for college expenses the way to make sure your youngster gets his chance regardless of what happens to you Interested then please listen carefully in about 13 minutes when I give full details on the equitable education fund Created for opportunity-minded parents by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States The subject of our FBI file armed robbery its title ghost town The cold-blooded killer is a special variety of criminal Naturally, no two of these men are ever exactly alike But they do seem to have many metal traits and characteristics in common In general, they are outlandishly conceited Emotionally childish utterly selfish and ruthless and completely lacking in a sense of values They have been known to wax sentimental over a cat caught in a treetop and Then go out and coolly murder a human being who stands in the way of their own selfish ends As you will see in tonight's FBI file Rooting out these menaces to society is a job that requires determination resourcefulness and courage Tonight's FBI file opens on a desert in one of our western states a man and woman in a dark convertible wind along a lonely dusty road Hot Uh-huh and dirty nice parley Let's stop for a drink Okay, ad libous saloon. Oh, there must be some place open. You said the ghost town was a tourist trap It was but the new highway bypassed this road and even the ghost took it on the lamp That's it up ahead Uh-huh Brother, this is really no place How'd you know it was here Sherman told me Sherman, you know, he is satisfied just being the director on a picture He's also got to be the makeup man handle Wardrobe rewrite the script and on the side be a location scout Sitting's not a bad guy. Not if you collect vultures I'm supposed to find locations not him well Well, I wouldn't come this far just for a ghost town There are any closer to Hollywood Have it been in Beverly Hills after 11 at night You Worked for Sherman before no Real comical character. He'd use the a bomb for a hot foot. I don't mind practical jokers. I don't either if they're human You remember a picture last year called alligator man Well, I went to Florida three weeks ahead of the company to find an alligator farm Sherman called a friend of his down there and had my picture posted on every telegraph pole under the picture. It said wanted I Got picked up four times than gables Well, this is it When does Sherman start shooting here soon as he's through in Santa Fe Really came up with a ghost town Oh You're not kidding Wait a minute. I'd better take a shot of the street What's that camera pull the rod the kind that develops the pictures right away. Yeah, say you get the post office in if you can Got it. All right. Let's look around Get a shot of that Wells Fargo office and the hitching post in front. All right Hold it Tommy before Do you hear anything? Sure the boards in the sidewalk. They squeak like $3 shoes. No, it's nothing else Sounded like maybe a voice. Oh Grace nobody's been here since 1946 Come on. Come on. Let's do our work and get back to some whiskey Meanwhile at the office of the county sheriff some miles away FBI special agent Taylor has just entered and introduced himself to sheriff Lou Burnett Sheriff the office cut me driving back from another case and said that there'd been a bank robbery Yeah, four men held up the bank at powderville this morning powderville. It's a small town up the highway piece No, I see the cashier wounded one of the bandits But it's not enough to stop him the report said the wounded man and the driver They get away car took off West well How about the other two when the shooting started they ran down the street and stole a car any descriptions on not on the Men but we got descriptions on both cars I sent out alarms a while ago one of my deputies is on his way to interview the people at the bank Oh, maybe I'll run over there and give him a hand. You'll probably be able to use it He's a new man. I'll get him on the radio and tell him you're coming. All right fine. Oh, what's his name? Sure, Hartley Frank Hartley. All right, and can I have those license numbers? I might just run into them on the way over there Yeah Here this first one's the original getaway car and that's the one stolen at powderville Have you checked the license on their car motor vehicles working on it now? Oh, excuse me. Sure Sheriff Burnett. Hello, Sheriff. Do you have a deputy named Hartley? Yes. This is the county hospital He's just been brought in here. What for? He was found unconscious on the highway I guess we're almost finished, huh? Let's let's cross over and get that blacksmith shop. Okay Look down there. Where in that alley? There's a car The windshield those look like bullet holes Yeah, I guess they are. But what are you supposed to help me? Oh, honey, who are you? Mrs. Cornball? That's a prop. It wouldn't be a legit ghost town without a bullet riddled car Now look as long as we're here shoot another picture of the saloon from this angle Can you can you get in that hotel fire escape? I'll try all right. I'll take a look at the blacksmiths. Okay Tommy what? Tommy I got a man in that picture Well, he was on the fire escape. He there he is. Look He's running towards our car. I left the keys in it. Come on Hey Tommy. Hey Why that dirty little no no good could not not the guy in the car But who do you think put him up to it? I don't know our practical Joker mr. Sherman But why would he because it's very funny We got no telephone no water no food and it's 20 miles to the nearest town And then come in on those alarms. Yes, Taylor. We got one of the cars, but no man Oh, come I saw hardly in the hospital He told me he stopped on the way to powderville to help another deputy set up a roadblock down before they finished a car Shot past turned out. It was the original getaway car one with a wounded man in it That's right. A few seconds later the stolen car with the other two bandits ran the block Hardly fired after him hit their gas tank and the car ran into a ditch to down to the gun. Yeah, not quite fine Hardly arrested both men and started back here with them after a couple of miles They overpowered him got the keys of the handcuffs and they dumped him and stole his car So we're still minus two cars and four bandits. Yeah, but at least you've got descriptions on two of them And hardly he's getting out of the hospital in a little while when he does You'll come in and go over our file of pictures now Just a minute Sure Burnett. This is Parker in the wire room deputy Hartley's car has just been reported found where the parking lot at the county rodeo grounds. Thanks Parker. I'll get right out there Tommy cut another cigarette in the car. Oh That knucklehead Sherman Those clouds are moving this way. Yeah Rains all we need now How long you think we'll be here till Sherman stops laughing? I don't think this joke's very funny Come on grace. Where well that storm will be here pretty quick. Let's find shelter We haven't seen a roof yet without holes the hotel's two stories. Maybe the lower one will be safe That's where Sherman stooge came from I know Tommy Sherman can't just leave us here. You got a contract says he can't let's take a gander at this place Always sit on the cobwebs Hey, what's the matter? Look there in the corner some head on the floor That it's blood on his shirt. Looks like he's been shot. Wait, wait, honey Only the price it isn't blood. It's ketchup. Huh? Sherman's keeping the joke alive and we're supposed to fall for it You think so of course of course sure. That's a central casting body. Come on. Let's get out of here We've got an hour to go. Yeah, how much of a crowd's in the stadium 10,000. I don't suppose there's any way of getting them out Most of them would wait for the camera even if the storm does hit looks like we're stymied Didn't you find anything in Hartley's car? No, they abandoned it because that left front tire went flat There's no telling what kind of a car they stole from here We wait another hour and they'll really have a start on them and if you got a man you can leave here Those are my deputies handling traffic. Oh, fine. Let's have one of them stay here and get the details on the stolen car Where are we going West? That's the way they've been traveling since they left part of it They wouldn't come out this far and then double backward there be no point in it And then the rendezvous must be farther up the highway Let's try cruising sheriff and see if we spot anything shake hands with a millionaire. Let's go inside here on the porch Gotta do something You want to try walking back to the highway 18 miles in this we drown now. What else can we do? Sit here Sherman's conscience has to bother him sometime. He's got a cast-iron heart Tommy the car, huh? Well that is a car, isn't it? Yeah, if it was on the main highway, we couldn't see it could No No, it's headed for here. All right, that's not my car honey. Let's not be particular. They're heading right for us That's all we have to care about Well, you finally felt sorry for us, huh? Great joke boys, haha great joke. Who are they Tommy? I don't know Sherman stooge is I guess What are you doing here waiting for you? Who are they but I don't know okay fellas, okay? Come on. Let's get out of here. Hold it mister. Let go of me. Oh look boys joke over. Let's go, huh? You weren't going any quick. Oh, yes, we are come on Tommy. Stay put. Oh Turn around and get back in there. We will return in just a moment to tonight's exciting case from the official files of your FBI Now let's pay a quick visit to the living room of Andrew McDonald Fred Barton equitable society representative has dropped in to discuss life insurance problems Fred What's this equitable society college education insurance? I've heard about all right sure like my kid to go to a good college Well, you must mean the equitable education fund mr. McDonald It's very simple you take out an endowment life insurance policy There will be all paid up about the time your boys ready to enter college say in the class of 1970 the money's all there ready and waiting for him It's the painless way to pay for a college education. Well, just what do you mean painless? Well, it's pretty much the same principle as buying an automobile or TV set on an easy payment plan You spread the cost of your boys college education over 15 16 or 17 years Instead of taking a beating during the four years. He's actually in college. I get it It's buying a college education in 15 installments. That's it And if you should die before the plans completed it immediately becomes paid up in full The equitable society holds the money pays interest on the full amount and turns it over to your son when he's ready for college Regardless of what happens to you. He's sure to get the education you want him to have well That sounds right up my alley Tell me is it too early to start when your kids two years old? No, the earlier you start the lower your yearly cost will be In any case the amount you decide to pay is strictly up to you Maybe you'll decide to start an equitable education fund for about half what you expect to pay for your son's college expenses For instance, suppose you decide on $2,500 at your age that would cost you If you have children of your own Why not get the cost of an equitable education fund from your equitable representative? These equitable men don't go in for high-pressure methods They give you the information you need and let you make up your own mind Get in touch with your equitable representative soon or right care of the station to the equitable society at CQU I TA BLE the equitable life-assurance society of the United States And now back to the FBI file ghost town Detective story fans who are good citizens and criminals often have one interest in common the perfect crime But where as the good citizen likes to mull over its fictional possibility The criminal is always confident that he is about to commit it but as the detective story reader proves and As the criminal always learns there is no such thing as the perfect crime Our jails and penitentiaries are filled with men and women who have refused to Recognize the truth of this statement Tonight's case is an example It is one more proof that the perfect crime is a mirage that lures men to disaster It is proof once again that crime does not pay and never will Tonight's FBI file continues a few minutes later as Sheriff Burnett and Special Agent Taylor ride along the highway Looks like we're out of the storm yet Sheriff is there anything down this way that's out of the map here. No Well, then the nearest town's about 50 miles. Uh-huh, and they've been alerted Come in Parker Four six Get out in alarm Anything in on that first car? Sheriff how about those pictures? Parker you heard from Hartley? Good if he gets anything call us immediately. Is there any food in your car? Grace don't knock yourself out. He wouldn't help us if he could there's the other one Chuck just died Tell me a couple of things before I went Pete's got the loot load. I'll tell you what Pete. There's stick up man. Tell me. What do we do? Sitting wait. Wait for what? I don't know Maybe the Marines. I know where it'll be y'all the door be up back at the mine Hey, hey, wait a minute. What's bothering you? Well, you just can't leave us here We'll never get out alive at least take us back to the highway He's giving me a notion get up who me both of you Tommy he's got a gun Ain't no one looking for you to you drive our car. Where any place we got a mind to go come on Come in Parker. They got any record filed back about it be a perfect hideout. We can turn around and head back I think we answer Parker we're going to ghost town Tommy. This is our chance for what to get away to where I've got no idea where we are What do we do? I don't know. How about a fire? Huh? We can set fire to the brush that'll bring help not quick enough Tommy Maybe our two friends got it. Let's hope so Coming Come on you two get up One of the Fulton brothers. No, his name was Chuck Gates I called in and Parker says he was arrested twice with the Fultons Well that identifies three out of four of the bats you come across anything y'all the original getaway cars down there in the alley There's nothing in it though. What are those papers you've got all these are Polaroid negatives. I found them scattered all around What are they for? Well, they're from a camera that develops your picture a minute after you take it sure those movie folks Must have had it yeah Sure, let's add up what we've got so far Now we know the original getaway car got here with Chuck Gates and bandit number four Yates must have been the one that was wounded coming out of the bank. That's right All right, the movie people were here and their cars gone right now nobody's looking for that car So if the Fulton brothers got here while bandit number four was around that have all left in it with a movie couple driving Yeah, but then the car stolen from the rodeo grounds it'd be here That's just my point both cars are gone. So bandit number four must have taken the movie couple's car What do you think happened to the couple they either went off with number four or with a Fulton's and We're sure Swing your flashlight over here. Yeah, that way. Yeah, right there Hey, what is that? Polaroid camera that movie couple must have left in a real hurry to forget their camera The last picture still in here Salon, I see look there's a man on the hotel fire escape Hey Taylor, let me get a closer look at that. Yeah, I Know that man. I wish I had a cigarette. I'll take one more look. What are you doing? Looking for a cigarette just sit still, but I want to me do this You know something Grace What I wish these two bums knew something about the picture business why I'd like to sell them a new rider Well, if you do pick one who'll write me out of this grip Hey part look here. Here's a bag of it. Well, it looks like they found the loot That mean they'll leave us. I hope so. Yeah, it looks like it's all here, too What do we do now get moving? Yeah, what about them? I got that old figure Come on you two get up Where to now you're back in the car. You letting them go just as far as the cliff Oh now look the car off the cliff. That's one too many shut up Lie get Pete's body throw it in with them now. That's real hokey Tommy. They're not kidding. You're so right, lady Now get going Okay, I'll show they were gonna kill us. Yes, ma'am. I know we heard them all right sheriff. Let's take them in And bud Fulton were turned over to local authorities and prosecuted on a charge of murder Each received a sentence of life imprisonment After sheriff Bernat's recognition of the man in the picture as Pete Lake the fourth bandit He and special agent Taylor sped to the adobe hut where Lake had been arrested during the previous year And so your FBI in cooperation with a local law enforcement agency Was able to close this file and to apprehend two vicious killers Even more important of course. It also saved the lives of two innocent people No one has ever fully explained why certain men become criminals of the type in tonight's case But they have always been an ugly part of the American scene and so long as they remain Your FBI will continue to hunt them and to make them stand trial for their acts the advantages of an equitable Education fund first. It's the painless way to pay for a college education You spread the cost over many years instead of taking a beating in four second It's sure from the moment you start your certain your children will get the kind of education You want them to have regardless of what happens to you? So why delay ask your equitable representative for full information on an equitable education fund Or right care of this station to the equitable life assurance society Next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation its subject armed robbery its title the curious fishermen 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 places or 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 Willie Woodson and special agent Taylor was played by Stacy Harris Others in the cast were Newton Arnold and Polly Bear B. Benedett Edmund MacDonald Wally Mayer and John Sheehan 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 transcribe story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation The curious fisherman on this is your FBI Tune for a life in your hands starring Lee Bowman, which follows immediately this program came to you from Hollywood