 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 This afternoon and this evening all over the country Equitable Society representatives have been calling their friends on the telephone This is Frank Morris representing the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Mr. Long I just wanted to remind you to listen to the Equitable Society's program tonight It's this is your FBI. Yeah, I know I listen every Friday Well tonight the Equitable Society has an announcement that is going to interest you personally The Equitable Society has just issued a new and enlarged edition of its famous fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers Don't miss the middle commercial Find out how to get your copy of the Equitable Society's fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers Tonight's FBI file the happy honeymooners in the United States today is at an all-time high and The figures gathered by your FBI and by other law enforcement agencies are enough to shock even the most complacent into a Realization that the time to fight the crime wave is now There is an average of more than 2,000 thefts committed in this country every day or more than one every minute around the clock That fact is serious enough But even more serious is the companion truth that crime like any disease spreads quickly when it remains unchecked We are all about to enter a new year If we all do our part to help fight that crime wave it can be a year to be remembered with pride If we fail to do our part and the same crimes we suffered this year will be repeated With one difference There will be more of them Next file opens on a remote country lane in one of our Midwestern states It is early afternoon and the young boy and girl are riding along the river road in a brand-new convertible Isn't this nice, honey Happy very oh look at that view you can see ten miles up the river Gee, I wish we could sometimes settle down in a place like this. I hate to keep traveling all the time Well, I don't like it too much myself dear, but I know business comes first. That's right Well, this is where we get out What do you mean? Look through those trees. You see that cabin. Uh-huh. It's ours What I read it it this morning. Oh You didn't I've got the keys right here. Come on I hope do you think so Yes, I've always dreamed about honest honest it's perfect. I just wish now that You wish what honey? Well, I don't want to have to leave this. Oh, you don't You mean we're going to settle down in one place. Yeah But what about work? Oh, well, we'll keep working. In fact, we got a job tonight. We're sticking up a jewelry store Go ahead honey ring the bell Yeah Oh, yeah, I checked Yes, good evening. Mr. Mitchell. Good evening. I'm sorry to trouble you about my car broke down outside your door I was wondering whether I might use your phone to call a garage. Good evening right in A young couple their car broke down and they want to use the phone Well Howard has to take off their coats. They must be great. I'll keep mine on Mrs. Mitchell I'm going right out again. In fact, your husband's coming with me What how would he's got a gun? What is this don't get excited? Oh, this is a hold up. It is. He's wasting his time. We have nothing of value here We know that Mr. Then what I want you to take him down to your jewelry store Then if you don't mind, he'd like to have you open your safe. I won't do it. Mr. Mitchell this gun here says you got him How would you better do with each other? He's right All right, Mary I'll go with him. Oh, what happens to my wife? Oh, my bride won't mind staying here with her. Will you Lucy? Of course not. I just love to visit. She'll stay here till I get the jewelry. Oh, by the way, Mrs. Mitchell Yeah, she has a gun too. Well, come on, sir. We better get going very well Such a nasty night out honey asked mr. Mitchell if he'd mind bringing an umbrella That same evening in the local FBI field office special agent Jim Taylor is seated at his desk just finishing a report on his last case Busy Jim. Oh, hello, Doug. What are you doing around the office this late? Oh, the boss called me at home and asked me to come in. Oh, something special come up. Maybe yes, maybe no Will you wait one second? Will I sign this report in the Fulton case and I'll be all finishing? Yeah, I'm certainly glad that file is closed. Oh my I don't want any more of those tough cases I'd like to work on a simple one for a change. We don't get any simple one. I guess not Well, what have you got Doug? We're all about two weeks to go two youngsters stuck up a jeweler in Memphis and we just got word from the Memphis office about it Memphis thinks they're headed this way. That's it The switchboard is working now covering every hotel in town. I doubt that it'll do any good. Oh, why not? Well, the descriptions aren't good enough to general but all we know is that one is a girl and Both the girl and boy are blond Anything unusual about the robbery? Yes They went to the home of the jeweler at night forced them to ride back to the store and open the safe No, that's a no wrinkle You know, I wish people had paid more attention to robbers when they're held up That's one and twenty can give you any kind of a description at all this jeweler in Memphis claims. He was so scared He forgot everything Hey, how'd they get into the jeweler's house? Oh funny story about the car breaking down outside the door. I see What do you think we ought to do first Jim? Oh, let's see. It's Seven o'clock now. I guess all the jewelry stores are closed by now. I think well, I'm edging so well We'd better get a list of the home phone numbers of every jeweler in town You know, I think I know where I can lay my hands on that kind of a list Jim fine get the list and we'll split it up and make the cause ourselves Doug how long I'm gonna take it to get the numbers. Oh about 15 minutes at most good I'll wait right here for you when you get back will go to work Gee mrs. Mitchell, I wish you'd stop that crying Everything's gonna be all right. I know it is Look Worrying isn't gonna do you a bit of good. I know from experience When I first started dating Eddie used to do jobs all by himself and I used to just worry myself sick about him But he always came home safe and sound I'm only trying to be sociable I'm only trying to point out that you shouldn't be so unhappy In fact, if I was you I'd be glad my guys. You've got a beautiful home here. You don't have to travel You've got lots to be thankful for mrs. Mitchell. Why did you have to pick on us? Huh? There are other jewelers in the city. Why did you pick on my husband? Well, you know, that's a funny thing We went window shopping one day and we passed your husband's store and I saw a ring in the window that I was just Nuts about the right thing in there. I said it Wait, mrs. Mitchell before you answer it I'll have to ask if you don't let on that anything's wrong and make the conversation very short very well Hello, oh, hello, mrs. Mitchell may I speak to my wife, please? It's for you. Thank you Hello, honey, everything's fine down here. Mr. Mitchell was very cooperative. Oh good Yeah, I'll be leaving here in a few minutes. I'll see you back at the cabin. How you gonna get there? Mr. Mitchell's car, that's nice of them. All right, dear. I'll meet you in about half an hour. All right. I Love you honey. I love you, baby. Bye. Bye I'm sorry mrs. Mitchell, but I've got to go now Before I leave though, please be a lamb and let me tie you up All right, Jim, how you coming made my last call a minute ago. How about you? I just finished I'll be tougher than to pull that same stunt on any jewel around here and think so. Hey, uh, any numbers on your list that didn't answer Yes, too Hey, um, how about the newspaper? I've already called them. They'll use this story tomorrow Special agent Taylor speaking Yes, I just got a call from a mrs. Howard Mitchell in Springtown Young couple came into our house tonight made her husband go down to his store and open the safe Sergeant is mr. Mitchell a jewel by any chance We've been looking for that couple sergeant. Have you got any descriptions on them not very much This was too excited to tell me more than just the bare facts You say this mr. Mitchell was brought into the city from Springtown. That's right. That's across the state line, mr. Taylor That's why I called you that makes it a kidnapping case. Oh Sergeant, what's mrs. Mitchell's address? 169 Bedford Street Springtown 169 Bedford and the address of a Huntsman store 1218 1218 5th. Thanks very much sergeant. We'll get on it right away Doug we've got some work to do. What's that Jim? Our young couple has already pulled a job I gather a local jeweler was taken from his home to his store. Here's the address of the store Doug. You check there I'm going out to the man's home Was there oh Just a second. Oh Baby your soul. Oh, gee, why didn't you blow the horn or something? I would have come out with mr. Mitchell's umbrella Let me help you Oh right over there in that bag Okay, I get it for you What's he doing here boy brought him back with me looks like he's tied up. He is Here take a look at this stuff Real nice, huh? And look here honey remember this it's a ring. I like them Uh-huh. I had mr. Mitchell make our special effort to put that in Eddie What made you bring mr. Mitchell home with you? Oh, I had a reason we only have one bedroom Well, he can sleep where he is tonight What was your reason? Well, I figured he could afford to give us a little more money Well, I called his wife and told her we were gonna keep mr. Mitchell until she gave us $20,000 We will return in just a moment to tonight's file which shows how your FBI promotes security for the nation Now let's bring this question of security closer to home Mac, you're a father. Did you ever see a chart like this before? Hmm a fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers What's it all about anyway this fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers has just been published by the equitable Society to perform a very useful service for a man like you go on. I'm listening mr. Heating it was designed to show you how much money your family would really need to keep going if you should die Fill in this fact-finding chart And you know exactly what income will be required to keep your wife and children well fed well housed and well closed Hey, that's something every man with a family ought to figure out Well with this equitable society chart you'll have the answer in five minutes flat look you're guided every step of the way by easy to Understand pictures which illustrate the rock bottom expenses your family will have to meet and when you finish You'll have a clear accurate and complete picture of just what income your family would need during the critical years Critical years and what's that mean the years before your youngest child finishes high school years during which the home must have a Minimum income to keep it together Okay, I'm going to buy one of these fact-finding charts tomorrow now. They're not for sale Mac They're free the equitable society representative in your community will be glad to bring you a copy Sit down with you and your wife together There's no obligation and get a true picture of where you stand phone him tomorrow to bring you an equitable fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers or send a postcard Here are this ABC station to the equitable society that EQI TABLE the equitable life-assurance society of the United States And now back to the FBI file the happy honeymooners According to the most recent figures available There are approximately seven and one half million persons with arrest records in the United States today And like any other group of people They have certain things in common But there is one thing which each criminal has that is his and his alone his appearance No two criminals look alike any more than any two decent citizens look exactly alike It has been a popular misapprehension that you can spot a criminal by watching him Experts in the living habits and movements of criminals like the special agents of your FBI Will be the first to tell you that nothing could be further from the truth There is absolutely no way to tell a criminal from a law-abiding person Until one of them commits a crime For that reason Your FBI advises extreme caution in dealing with any strangers Do not assume that every stranger is a thief, but by the same token Being careful may save you from becoming another victim of America's current crime ways Tonight's file continues in the FBI field office special agent Taylor has just returned to the office from his interview with mrs. Mitchell Well, Jim, I see you got soaked too. Yeah, the skin. I don't think I ever saw it rain this way They hope your trip was more productive than mine. Nothing at the store at all Huh? Not a thing. The police had already arrived when I got there and they went over everything How about the safe? Who is wide open and empty? No fingerprints? None at all Imagine the Mitchell must have opened the safe himself, but if he did he was wearing gloves How about mrs. Mitchell or she was all right until she got a phone call from the man the girl called Eddie Eddie said he was holding mr. Mitchell for $20,000 ransom Didn't kidnap the jeweler in Memphis. No, no, they just robbed him. This is something new. How is Mrs. Mitchell going to contact or she's not when Eddie called she said that she didn't have $20,000 So he said he'd give her a little while to dig it up But he'd call her back any call out the spring town is a long distance called Jim I know the foreign company is going to trace any call made to the Mitchell's number We'd better sit right here until they call. Yeah, that's what all we can do But mrs. Mitchell described the couple don't make very poorly. She was practically an hysterics Special agent say them Yes, I did How long ago operator trace it Thanks sergeant we'll get on it right away That was our call Doug Mitchell is being held at the house for the phone number senator late for two Let's check that number and get out there as fast as we can We just listen into the most wonderful program on the radio all about a woman who forgets her name And she can't remember where she lives look look dear. I'm trying to make a rough estimate on these jewels Tell me later, huh, but Eddie the announcer broke into their middle of it. Oh, what do you say? He said that the river was rising He said it'll flood the whole valley that everyone will be marooned here after the night. Hey, that's not so good What do we do honey? We're practically next to the river. I think maybe we'd better get out of here Oh, look if we're marooned here, we'll get picked up for everything What do we do with mr. Mitchell? We just have to leave him here. How about the $20,000 for Mrs. Mitchell? I think we better settle for the jewels. Are your bags still packed? Well, you better get them and we better get going. Can't we wait about 10 more minutes? What for? I want to hear how that program comes out Look at that river Jim. Yeah, it's really roaring. I don't think I've ever seen it that high It's flood stage. All right, I think the bridge will still be open all we can do is hope Close we don't get across. I know Look Jim, huh? There's a man with a lantern in the road Yeah, yeah, I see Coming around on my side. I'll roll my window down Doug Sorry, sir, the bridges closed We're both special agents of the FBI You're my credentials There any chance of us getting across? Oh, I wouldn't suggest it, huh? How bad is it? There's no telling but you can gamble if you want to Doug any way you want it, Jim Let's take a chance Okay with me. We're gonna try it. Well, good luck. Sure. Hope you make it. Thanks Left a little Jim. Okay Hold it Railing is down Close that means anything. Let's find out. Oh, that's pretty deep up ahead. The wires drive Okay, now this is the end of the bridge Look there's Mitchell tied up over there in the corner. Oh, is it Jim breathing, but he's unconscious. Come on Sometime get him to a doctor and then come back here About what honey about how nice it must be to live like Mr. Nick is Mitchell What do you mean? You know with a nice home pictures on the wall and a place where you can have your friends over for dinner Hey, it's not so you married me. Are you honey already? No, I'm not I Wish you weren't a traveling man. Oh, but you knew what business I was him when we got married. I know dear. I'm not complaining on it What are you stopping for on? Well, there's a fork in the road Take a look at the map and see which way we go, huh? Oh, Eddie. I forgot it. I left it in the cabin. Oh Well, I'll take a chance on this right turn the Chicago and sell a jewelry and then on to New York Come on dog. I want to see where this door leads to What's there Jim the shed attached to the cabin. It's been used as a garage Mitchell's cars here Map Root marks on it. Yeah, that's the road between here in Chicago still doesn't help much We don't know what kind of a car. They were driving. I don't know what they look like Aside from that everything's under control that much point and setting up a roadblock if we haven't got it this way minute Doug Well, okay, this can give us one lead on that young couple. Come on. Let's get to the phone I know about five more miles to go. Uh-huh He spoke to Mitchell's wife. Yes, I called him in the doctor's home. I told her he'd be okay I hope that roadblock has been set up. I just hope it was set up in time I'm a car's up ahead Jim. That's the beginning of the road block I was hoping there wouldn't be that many We're all doing out in weather like this. I'm probably trying to get into the city before both bridges go out Do we start at the head of the line? No, Doug Park it here and walk up Well, we can't get any wetter. That's one consolation. That's true Now, let's take a look at this convertible. Okay I'd yeah shine your flashlight closer. Will you? How's that? Yeah, that's fine. I think we may have something here I'm gonna keep us waiting here or a man said it'd be only a couple of minutes. He said they were fixing the road Well, this is certainly a silly time to be fixing a road. That's all I can say Well, maybe the storm wash some of the gravel away Oh, what is it Maybe their car got stuck Maybe they're cops better get out of here. That's what we're gonna do What do you want? You want you for armed robbery and kidnapping? Well, you must be mistaken Oh, no Your car left its signature in the dirt floor of the garage by your cabin Huh? You left rear tire at a deep gash and it's diamond shaped thread. That's all we had to look for but it was Enough mr. Can you close the door? I'm getting so I don't worry about that lady Both of you are going to a place where you'll be dry for a long long time The wanton young couple was sentenced to 25 years and 15 years Respectively for kidnapping and violation of the National Stolen Property Act And thus by careful investigation and hard work your FBI Forded the get rich quick scheme of another pair of criminals a pair who proved they would stop at nothing a Fair who though young and innocent in the parents were as completely criminal as any murderers on record That their well-laid plans came to nothing is a tribute to the thoroughness with which two special agents followed every clue and Kept following them until they achieved the two goals of your FBI in every kidnapping case The safe return of the victim and the capture of the criminals We will tell you about next week's exciting case from the official files of your FBI Now back to the news. We announced in our middle commercial the new and enlarged fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers Just issued by the equitable life insurance society for mr. Keating Let's see if I've got this straight The purpose of this chart is to give me a true picture of the minimum income required to give my family a decent standard of Living if I should die that's right Mac and the man who'll see that you get one of these fact-finding charts is your equitable society Representative no charge or obligation of course phone your equitable society representative soon or send a postcard Care of this ABC station to the equitable life insurance society of the United States Meanwhile your equitable representative wishes you a very happy new year Next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the Federal Bureau of investigation a case involving the operations of a Gang of professional thieves its subject bank robbery its title The sorrowful safe cracker 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 use our fictitious and any similarity thereof to the names of persons living or dead is accidental Tonight the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Stein the author was Jerry Lewis Your narrator was William Woodson and special agent Taylor was played by Stacy Harris 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 is representative in your community and Inviting you to tune in again next week at the same time when the equitable life insurance society Will bring you another thrilling story from the files of the Federal Bureau of investigation The sorrowful safe cracker on this is your FBI This is ABC the American Broadcasting Company