 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 as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society is representative in your community O A H O When my husband died H O saved our home for the children and me a H O stands for assured home ownership It's the name of a unique plan created by the Equitable Life Assurance Society a low-cost first mortgage is Combined with life insurance protection So the homeowner gets extra security and if he should die his widow inherits her home free and clear In just 14 minutes the Equitable Society will give you further information Listen carefully for more details on this ideal plan for homeowners Offered by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States tonight's FBI file the bogus healer Completed another of its surveys into the field of crime The Federal Bureau of Investigation now makes the results of that survey available to you the listeners of this official program The facts marshaled in this study do not make pleasant reading For whatever the economic picture might be in other fields Business is booming in crime Compared with the last pre-war survey It shows that almost every crime is being committed from four to sixty eight percent more often It shows that the value of property stolen in the past year in the United States amounted to more than a hundred and nineteen million dollars or Slightly less than a dollar for every man woman and child in the country In communities where the citizens took an active part in the war against crime The figures showed an appreciable decrease in the communities where the people regarded the local conditions as being a matter of concern Only to the police but not to them There was a marked increase Criminals are like any other brand of insect life They tend to congregate where conditions are most favorable The police will do their share and if backed by your support They will help you see to it that your city has no welcome that out when the criminals are looking for a place to call home Tonight's file opens in the waiting room of a small sanitarium located on the outskirts of a western city a Middle-aged woman sits reading a magazine when the door opens Mrs. Wilson, yes, Dr. Smith will see you now Go ahead. Thank you. Good morning, doctor How do you feel today? Oh terribly tired. I was afraid you would be a miss Perkins. Yes, doctor May I have Mrs. Wilson's x-rays, please? Yes Doctor, what do they show? They I'll let you see for yourself. Is it serious? I'm afraid so. Oh dear Here you are, dr. Smith. Thank you Now here let me hold this up to the light for you, mr. Wilson You see that white line Yes, mm-hmm that indicates the source of all your trouble your tiredness your headaches everything just that little line yes and And there's something else what is it? You see that blur at the end of the white line Right there. Yes, that's right. Uh-huh. Yes, Mrs. Wilson that blur indicates the presence of a malignant growth You mean I'm afraid it's cancer. Oh, no, no, no don't be alarmed. I'm sure we've caught it early enough It can be cured Doctor how well the method I use is highly technical I See I must caution you however that it's quite expensive. Oh, I don't care When can we start the treatment doctor in a day or so as soon as I prepared everything I'll need I'll call you as soon as I'm ready. Yes. Thank you, doctor You're very welcome and until you hear from me get as much rest as you can yes Yes, I will doctor Goodbye. Goodbye Eric and what is it on has she really got cancer? How would I know? The next afternoon at a nearby FBI field office special agent Jim Taylor is in the teletype room when agent Ken Randall approaches Oh, hi Ken the SAC told me to check with you. Yeah, we're on a robbery case jewels now A radium two needles of it was stolen last night in the X-ray room at Memorial Hospital any description on the face complete Including his name who is he? My name George urban know anything else about him. Well Auburn used to work at the hospital He's reported to be a chronic alcoholic. What was his job there? He'd been an orderly. Do they still have his address? Oh, we checked there, but he'd already moved no forwarding address I presume all the local police are checking all the neighborhood bars for him now How do we get him on this? Well an attendant noticed that Auburn was driving a car with California license plates Oh, and the radium was discovered missing the attendant realized that Auburn must have taken it So I gave the police a license number They checked it's a stolen car and Auburn drove it across the state line a drunk carrying radium around as a minister He opens one of those packages it would give anyone near him the worst kind of burn. Yeah, I know What have you done? Well, I just sent on the line when Auburn handled the car Can let's go back over to my desk get his record and study it. Maybe we'll get some lead on where he's headed Staying here at the resort, but I certainly didn't expect to run into you the very first minute. I arrived Beautiful place. Yes. Yes, it is. How long have you been here almost two weeks? Well, I must say it seems to have done you a world of good. I've never seen you looking better Well, I'm afraid Luxa deceiving What do you mean? My doctor tells me I'm a very sick woman. Oh Grace I thought you promised all of us. You wouldn't go to see any new doctors, but this one's different Lucy He's a wonderful man. What's his name? Dr. Smith. He's a specialist in what? Everything oh great. Well, he is his nurse told me. How did you happen to go to him in the first place? He had an ad in the paper a Doctor with an ad in the paper. It was a very dignified ad Lucy. Mm-hmm. Has he told you what's wrong with you? Yes, what is it? Cancer Rage but it's not hopeless Lucy. Dr. Smith says he caught it in an early stage and he can cure grace I don't believe you have cancer, but Lucy now look dear. How much do you know about this doctor? What makes you so willing to accept his diagnosis? He's a very fine man. Lucy. What school did he go to? Well, I'm sure I don't know might be worthwhile to check on him before you go back Please don't be silly when you're going to see him again. He's going to call me when well as soon as he's ready to give me another treat All right, I'll give you a few questions to ask him Let George Auburn alive not a thing Jim. I think I found something in his record that'll help good What is it a while Auburn was working at the hospital there were regular disappearances of valuable drugs Is he an addict now and he wasn't suspected of the thefts until one night? He came to work drunk was fired few hours later. They found some morphine missing He was picked up the next morning, but he didn't have the morphine on him. Did he admit he'd stolen it? Well, I said he'd been drinking and didn't remember the police put a surveillance on him that afternoon Auburn went to the office of a man calling himself Dr. Eric Gray The local police got a search warrant went through Gray's office and found the morphine there Was this a legitimate doctor? No, it turned out that he was a quack who allegedly treated people for cancer He was using the stolen drugs on his patients One of them died through his mistreatment That's pretty shocking. Yes. Where is this Gray now? I wish we knew he wasn't in his office at the time of the search must have been tipped off in some way By the time the police tried to arrest him he'd fled from the state Well, how much could you dig up on him? Mostly that he's going to be awfully tough to find. He must be operating again. Yeah, that's logical Can I'm also convinced that if we locate Gray we'll find Auburn Alma Yes, will you come here, please? Just had a session with Mrs. Wilson. She has a friend who has been trying to talk her out of coming here Eric, I'm afraid you've got more trouble. What do you mean? George Auburn was just here. What? He wanted to see you Where is he now? He went back into town. What for? I don't know How did he know where we were? He called my mother. Well, how did she know? I wrote her Alma I asked you not to write anyone. I'm sorry, Eric. Well, that helps a lot Mrs. Wilson's the wealthiest patient I've ever handled I'm not gonna lose her because of that drunken idiot Auburn He said he'd be back of course. Oh, yes. Well, I want to see him as soon as he arrives On the bogus doctor no one Auburn a report came in from the traffic control station at Johnson City to the storm can go through Yeah, Auburn was driving it. Oh, come they didn't stop it Oh, it's just one of those things Ken the officer didn't think about the alarm until after he'd let Auburn drive away Standing we might still catch up to him Take a look at this map. Oh here see this road here. Mm-hmm. Well, that's the road the control station is on It's not the main highway Now here. This is where the hospital is. It was robbed. Mm-hmm Here's the traffic control station Now why would anybody use that road when the highway was available? I think he did it to avoid the police No, there's no reason for him to suspect that there was an alarm out on him No, I believe he took this route in order to get to this town over here Wow, well, Ken there's a train that'll get into far well in the morning, and I think we ought to be on it Sandy man go enjoy thank you. Thank you. Well Greetings dog. Good to see you. I'll close the door, please see they were not disturbed surely Quite a set up you got here dark. I like it even better than the last place Yeah, make sure look almost legitimate. Why did you come here? Well, I I guess you'd say for a variety of reasons partly nostalgia And I've seen you and so long and and partly business. I'm not interested in the business phases In fact, I'm not interested in you. Oh That's a very unkind thing to say And after all the trouble I went through to what do you mean? I Brought you something a present something that will be a boon to your medical career What are you talking about? You're the man who cures cancer, aren't you? I got something that might really help you do it But right here in this little container You know what it is doc? Radium that's real radium. Mm-hmm. I Borrowed it from the hospital. You get out of here and take that stuff with you. No, wait a minute doc This is hardly the treatment. I expected I spent my last dough getting here to see you I thought I might negotiate a little sale with this precious ingredient or when I'm ordering you to leave doc I think you should be reminded of something the cops back home are still looking for you I could be real mean and tell them where you are now Ordinary I wouldn't think of doing such a thing especially to an old pair like you But if you're going to take that attitude if you're going to be that in hospital Then I might have to report you to the gentleman in blue Your job Now how about putting me up for the night doc? I've had a long day in a quantity of whiskey I think if I had a good night's sleep you might find me easier to negotiate with in the morning Very well, you can stay You wait here a moment, I'll have armor show you to your room. Thank you, sir I consider you a fine host and a very sporting fellow Alma I'm in here Auburn spending the night what I had no choice He threatened to turn me into the police Show him to his room will you Eric if you let him stay tonight. He'll move right in I have a way of preventing that How I'll kill him Just a moment to tonight's file which shows how your FBI protects American citizens and American homes Now a word about another type of home protection a plan which not only safeguards the owner during his lifetime But also continues to protect his widow if he should die Just listen in on this telephone conversation between a young widow and her father Dad listen to this news a representative of the equitable society just called to deliver the canceled mortgage on our house Yes, Fred told me that you don't know how it's free and clear if he should die It's not only that dad the equitable man handed me a check for all the money Fred paid to reduce the mortgage during his lifetime This young woman's husband didn't have just an ordinary mortgage. He had an equitable assured home ownership plan In this plan a low-cost first mortgage is integrated with life insurance protection That's why the widow inherited a house. That's hers free and clear What's more every dollar previously paid to reduce the mortgage was returned our plan had been operating for several years So my refund check amounted to over two thousand three hundred dollars Now let's run over some other features of the equitable society's assured home ownership plan first There's the cash fund which builds up in the owner's lifetime And which may be used whenever sickness or unemployment threaten home security second This cash fund may be used to cancel the mortgage well ahead of schedule Equitable society record show that many 20 year mortgages have been completely paid off in just about 15 years Finally the mortgage interest is only four percent And there's a liberal allowance to cover title search Lawyers fees and other closing costs. So for many reasons a man may consider himself lucky If his health age income and the location of his home Enable him to qualify for an equitable assured home ownership plan For full information see your equitable society representative All right, care of this station to the equitable life assurance society of the united states And now back to the fbi file the bogus healer The number of people who die of cancer each year in the united states People from every section of the country and from every walk of life Is more than twice as great as the number of servicemen killed in any year during world war two It is certainly tragic that it should be necessary for the federal bureau of investigation To warn you that throughout the nation there are quacks similar to the one portrayed on tonight's program If you should make the mistake of giving one of them the opportunity He will not only mulled you of your money, but he might even as has been pointed out Cost you your very life According to medical authorities Certain forms of cancer caught in their early stages can be cured But do not conduct your own diagnosis If you suspect cancer Go to a reputable doctor who is quite likely to find that you do not have cancer at all Beware of the charlatans who call themselves doctors without the legal right to do so They are the ones who promise every patient anything the patient wants to hear It is also well to remember That these quacks cannot affect recovery in any cancer case No matter how early it is caught So if you happen across one of them Across a pseudo doctor who promises to cure cancer in any stage Do your duty to yourself And to your fellow citizens Go to the nearest phone and call your local police Tonight's file continues in a room at the farwell police station What have you got there, Jim? Oh, it's a map of the territory between the traffic control station and here Oh, let's lay it out Okay Hold that corner down there, will you? Yeah Let's take a look Oh, here's the traffic station where Auburn was seen Let's put a pin there, huh? Got it Here's the gas station where he stopped last night at 830 Check The car would jump all the way down into town He parked his car in front of a liquor store on second There it is, second and main at 945 Put a pin there, will you? Okay The last pin goes back up here Other side of town That's the station where he got air for a bad tire That was at 10 o'clock sharp Now, that means the car came all the way through town to the liquor store Then headed back the way it came So we can discard everything past this last gas station So far as searching is concerned However, we must assume that Auburn was headed for some place in far well Or up here on the outskirts So we'll confine our search from this pencil line To this one I'll take the territory north of Main Street Right, have you got the copies of Auburn's picture? Yeah Here you are Okay, let's start looking, Kim Back here every half hour Good morning, Dr. Smith Good morning, Mrs. Wilson Oh, Doctor, this is Mrs. Douglas She's the friend I told you about How do you do, Mrs. Douglas? Doctor, I'd like to talk to you for a few minutes, if I may Certainly, Justice As soon as I finish Mrs. Wilson's treatment May I speak with you before you treat Mrs. Wilson? You see, one thing I wanted to discuss I'm not treating her Precisely, what is it you'd like to know? Your qualifications Well, I'm not used to having them questioned Well, I'm not used to having my closest friend treated for cancer Perhaps you'd like to see Mrs. Wilson's x-rays Oh, no, no, thank you I never could read them Then I do wish you'd get to the point I, um... I understand that Mrs. Wilson came to you through an advertisement in the newspaper That's right May I see your medical diploma, please? It burned when I had a fire in my last office What school is it from? I don't see what importance that has Grace? Yes Unless you see some satisfactory proof that this gentleman is qualified to treat you I not only would refuse to be his patient But I'd call the police Oh, Lucy, please Mrs. Wilson, I release you as my patient Oh, but, Doctor, she... If you have to hesitate about remaining under my care Even for a second, I must wash my hands of the entire case I'm sorry, nothing can change my decision I must request that you both leave Oh, dear Well, all right Good day Goodbye, Doctor Goodbye Alma Alma Yes, what is it? Go pack our bags, we're getting out of here The police located our bogus doctor That's right, Kim How did that happen? Well, a woman named Mrs. Douglas called in here while we were out She registered a complaint against a man named Dr. Smith He was treating a friend of hers for cancer, but she stopped it The sergeant on duty who took the call went right over to the address the woman gave But the doctor and his nurse had gone But he did find George Auburn there, he'd been poisoned Dead? No, fortunately, he was able to be revived How about the radium? This Smith and his nurse took that with him Are they traveling in the stolen car, Jim? No, Smith is using his own car Any description on that one? No, none at all Oh, fine Auburn was questioned after being revived But he was unable to give any rational statements to the police doctor Oh, stymied again Not entirely, Ken A neighbor saw Smith and the girl turn on to Highway 9 Headed west How long ago did they leave? Within the last 15 minutes Are you sure? Yes, the woman who registered the complaint said she and her friend were there 15 minutes ago Ken, if the university can help us, we might be able to catch them Come on How'd you know there was a drawbridge on this road? It's not in the map This is the way our train came last night That's what gave me the idea of having it open now to stop Smith and the girl Hey, hey, it's working Stop the car, Ken Come on, let's get up and walk Right I'll slide out that way, Jim Okay Can you carry the case? Yeah, right That's why One of these cars right along here We're very close This is the car Could you step out of the car, please? Who are you? We're special agents of the FBI What do you want? Two needles of radium for one thing I don't know what you're talking about A Geiger counter never lies Can you hear it? Now, both of you will please step out onto the road It's been a federal court to 10 years for a violation of the National Motor Theft Act For his mistreatment of a former patient which caused the patient's death The bogus doctor was turned over to local authorities for prosecution of manslaughter Every special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation undergoes a rigorous period of training before he gets his credentials That training includes many things The use of firearms The art of investigation A smattering of law The taking and the giving of evidence So that it is presentable in court And other courses that enable the graduate better to do his job One of those courses teaches the would-be agent how to adapt the latest in science to his use Teaches him, for instance, that the Geiger counter can help him locate a criminal Who might otherwise almost be beyond reach Even as the bogus doctor would have been in tonight's case Every special agent, like every other person, possesses intuition And there are times when the temptation to follow that intuition is almost overpowering But the Federal Bureau of Investigation has taught its members that there is a mightier weapon And that weapon is the one which led to the solution of tonight's case That weapon is knowledge We will tell you about next week's exciting case from the files of your FBI Now a word to the wife Let's consider the Equitable Society's assured home ownership plan From the woman's point of view While her husband lives, she has extra protection from the plan's special cash fund Which can be used if sickness or unemployment threaten home security If her husband dies, the mortgage is automatically canceled For full information, see your Equitable Society representative without delay Or write care of this station to the Equitable Life Insurance 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 the pursuit and arrest of a cunning criminal Its subject, blackmail, its title, the Lawsonous Landlady The incidents used in tonight's Equitable Life Insurance Society'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 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 Stacey Harris Others in the cast were Eleanor Audley, B. Benaderet, Rye Billsbury, Herb Butterfield, Bill Johnstone and Mary Schiff This is your FBI is a Jerry Divine production This is Larry Keating speaking for the Equitable Life Insurance 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 Insurance Society will bring you another thrilling story From the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation The Lawsonous Landlady on This Is Your FBI This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company