 This is your FBI. This is your FBI. An 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. To your FBI you look for national security. And to the Equitable Society for Financial Security. These two great institutions are dedicated to the protection of you, your home, and your country. Tonight, the story of a crime against society. Grand Larsonage. There is no such thing as a typically criminal face. A criminal can look like the most respectable citizen. Beneath the surface he may be a counterfeiter or a pickpocket or a safecracker. But on the surface, on the physical surface you see, he may look like an accountant or a mechanic or a salesman. A few criminals have been smart enough to take advantage of this fact by leading double lives. By actually pretending to be a respectable citizen without anyone knowing differently. Neither the police nor the community, nor even in one case, the criminal's own wife. I hope you're going to finish that pudding. I really don't have time. Oh, come on now. How about just a little more, hmm? Well, okay. The way you try to fatten me up I'll have to start going to a gym. Well, you need your calories, Dan, with all that night work you do. Pays dividends, honey. Pays dividends. Oh, I know. I ran into Mrs. McKinney downtown today, and she said, her husband said, you were the top salesman of the company. Is that what she said? Well, of course you know what we get if I top all sales for this month. No, what? A trip to Mexico, all expenses paid. Daniel. Yep. Hey, I better be getting underway. Oh, so are you working again tonight? Got a good prospect, I think I can land. Oh, Dan. I hate leaving alone again, honey, but this is his business. Oh, I don't mind that. I just don't like to see you work so hard. Pays dividends. Well, I wish there was some easier way of getting to Mexico. Honey, believe me, I'm getting us to Mexico the easiest way anybody could. I'll wait up. To his wife, to his community, to the world, Daniel Hawley was a hardworking citizen. And he was a salesman, a good one during the day. At night, however, Daniel Hawley was something else. On the evenings, when he wasn't with his wife, when he wasn't busy being a model citizen, he was at work in a store or an office or a shop, at work in a building which had a safe. Jenny, where the devil you've been? Well, I had a late dinner. At the blanket? Of course. And the nitroglycer. It's going to be an easy job. Yeah. It will. I studied it very carefully the other afternoon. Very easy. I'm glad you think so. Yeah. Thanks, Michael. I thought you were going to call me this afternoon. I didn't have time. It was a prospect I had to see. You don't say. Yeah, I think the wall charge will be enough to pull this. I finally got tired of waiting, so I tried to call you. I thought I told you never to call unless it was absolutely necessary. I didn't know whether you were going to show up tonight. I told you I wasn't. Anyway, there was no answer. Oh, you've got a new number. No, that's great. I suppose all your prospects know it but me. Shhh. Where am I going to call if I need to? What's that? One of the company pencils. The number's done. Okay. You think... Come on, come on, come on. Get the charge set. We haven't got all night. No, you've got to be on the job right and early in the morning. That's right. What's the percentage in it? We tripped in Mexico. Huh? You wouldn't understand even if I told you. No, I'm stupid. I like to have one jab at a time. You finished that amount of charge? Yeah. Okay. Let's have the blanket. Yeah. Now, you know what you have to do right after the safe pops up. I know. I know. Okay, then. Stand back. One very little mistake which was the worst he could make. He violated a federal law and thereby challenged the FBI. Did you get all the evidence the sheriff had, Will? Yes, right down to fingerprints. Any good ones? Not too good from this last job. But there were very clear ones from some of the others. They're being checked in the laboratory now. How many jobs does this fellow pose anyway? Well, there's no way of knowing it, whether he was in or not of them. In the last three years, there have been 14 burglaries in that district. All safe tracking? Yes, and all done in the same way. Come in. Oh, hello, Helen. Here's a teletype on those fingerprints. Fast work. You got anything? We sure did. Here's the file we have on the gentleman. Thanks, Helen. You're welcome. Well, seems he's an old hand at the game. Really? His record goes back to 1930. Between then and 1938, our friend was arrested four times. Patty Larsonie, attempted assault, burglary. What about after 1938? Nothing. He got out of prison then, and apparently has just disappeared. No record of his possible bare bones. No. What's his name? Keeler. Joseph Keeler. Description? Yes. Five, ten and a half. Heavy scent, brown hair, brown eyes. No distinguishing marks. Just average looking. Yes, that's what he looked like in 1938. Seven years ago. So about all we know is that he has a record. And the sheriff doesn't have any more on him either. Nice blind alley. Well, he made the mistake of leaving his fingerprints around. He made the mistake of violating a federal law. Maybe he's made another one we don't know about yet. Well, if he hasn't, maybe he will. No, maybe it's about that. They always do. If there are five steps involved in the committing of a crime, then there are 5,000 mistakes the criminal can make. Some are even made after the crime is committed. Many criminals, for example, take a curious pleasure in walking by the doors of a police station and returning to the scene of the crime and deliberately courting danger. The most common mistake is that criminals cannot stop. They get away once the professional criminal tries again thinking he has learned more and not realizing that the more crimes he commits, the more chance he has of being caught because he is bound to make more mistakes. Daniel, are you very busy? I'm not too busy for you. What is it? Well, I've been trying to straighten out my account for the month. All right. Oh, it's not what you think at all. The bank doesn't bad, right? No, the baking company doesn't. They sent me this bill for $5.80, and we really owe them $9.80. Are you sure? Of course, I know what I bought. Then what's the trouble? Well, they're a big company, and if they can't get their bills paid... Laura, make out the check for $9.80. But, Dad... Honesty may not be its own reward, but... Daniel, I wasn't here. I know, dear, but for $4.00, I wouldn't have it on your conscience. I'd have it on mine. It's not worth it, Laura. It's never worth it. You mean sooner or later they always find out? That isn't the point. Oh, I know, Dad. Any way they don't always find out, it's always just a question of your own honesty. Daniel, I'm making out the check for the right amount. That's my girl. Just a drop in the bucket. What do you mean? That company does a wonderful business. Harriet's cousin told me. She works in the Ohio office, the one just across the river. What did you do there? Books or something. But she said that at the end of every month, they always have at least $9.00 or $10.00 in the safe, in that office alone. You don't say. Well, you can ask yourself at the party tomorrow night. What? I said you'll see her tomorrow night at the party. Oh, Laura, about that party, I don't think I... Now, Dan, I thought you said definitely you wouldn't have to work tomorrow night. Oh, but honey, there's that... To Mexico, you know. Oh, Dan, you think... No, dear, I'm very sorry, but I just heard of a prospect. A particularly good one. Ready, Jenny? Yeah. Okay, stand back. Nice and neat, John. Nice and neat. Not bad. I hope there's as much dough inside that safe as you think. Why shouldn't there be? Baking company? Well, there's only one sure way to find out, and that's by... Well, how do you like that? What? Look, got a small safe inside the big one. You sure cased this job, didn't you? Shut up. Oh, come on. Let's put the blanket over the little one. There isn't time. What? There isn't time. We're going to be back again in this round. What are we going to do? Chuck it up the experience? Shut up. Let me think. Why are you thinking? I hope you don't mind if I just... Hey, wait. Come on. Where? Help me lift the little safe out. We can't carry that out of the building. The first place is too heavy, and then the second place... We can carry it ten yards, can't we? What if we can't? There's an elevator over there that'll take us right down to the basement. And what? The basement's really a loading platform. The company keeps its delivery trucks down there. We put the safe in the truck. Let's lift it. Yes. Oh, not so heavy. Heavy enough. All right. This way. You know how to work the elevator? Sure. Sure. All right. Feather down. Easy. Easy there. There. Now, shine your flash. Of course. I can find the starter for this... Oh. There you are. That's been part of hearing. He's on the other side of the building. I thought you said he was. That's where he's supposed to be. Let's pick her up and dump her on the back of this one. Lifting wallets is a lot easier on the back. Yes. But there's a lot less in them, too. All right. Now, turn it down. Easy. Easy. You got a draft? Sure. I slide in the ignition keys. What? Where are the ignition keys? How are you going to start this thing? They always leave them in the truck somewhere. Where? Usually on the little ledge under this. Run tight because the minute he turns, I'm going to move fast. Just start it. You ready? Get it to late now. Who's there? Who's there? Chokey Chokey. Who's in the truck? Come on. Come on. We pull out of this alley. We're in the clear. Keep your eye out, Johnny, and you. Johnny. I'm sorry, friend, but there's no room for excess baggage on this trip, so. Out you go. You figure it well. I left a bit small space out here. And then tied it over there to the elevator. Sure. Anything yet on the one of the strong trucks? No, except he wasn't the one we were looking for. The ship that does his alley. Maybe his partner is the one we're looking for, isn't it? Well, he left fingerprints all over the steering wheel of the truck and all over the small space. Who knows soon enough if they might see others. He didn't say it down. He's the case for us. How do you mean? Well, he drove a stolen truck across the river and over the state line. Did you find anything on the body of the ambulance? No, just a usual thing. Tea, wallets, a pencil from some company, a bar of candy, and of course his gun. Nothing to give it to me. Nothing that looks so good. I think it needs job on this face. Well, we've had enough practice. I wonder where they got the metric listening. Probably homemade. You know how they... I knew sooner or later our little friend would make a mistake. What have you got there? You know how these boys always cover a face with a blanket when they crack it? No. Well, here's a piece of that blanket. This name is the killer, or whatever he calls himself. Left his visiting card. We momentarily close the Federal Bureau of Investigation's file on Daniel Hawley's case. We'll return to this case in just a moment. If you believe in democracy, then you believe in life insurance. I go to get it. First, let's consider the typical owner of life insurance. A man who says to himself, look, I believe in taking care of myself. If I die, nobody else will have to look out for my family. When I get old, nobody else will have to support me. 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But in the Hawley case, it was the lead the speculations had been waiting for. They sent the piece of cloth immediately to the laboratory and had it analyzed. At the texture, the weaving, the thickness, the dye, every conceivable element in that piece of blanket analyzed until they found who manufactured it. From the manufacturer, they found out what area that type blanket was sold. They kept narrowing down the hunt until at last they found the only store in the vicinity of the burglaries which had that blanket for sale. Oh, we don't have that blanket anymore. It's wool, you know. Wool blankets are hard to get these days. How long has it been since you've had it in stock? Oh, two years now, maybe even more. And I guess you wouldn't remember who you sold it to. No, but I could find out. You said? Sure. That was a pretty fine blanket, you know. When they came in, I called all my stock customers and said, grab them while you can. Did they all buy blankets? No, sir. I didn't have enough to go around. Why, one customer alone bought half a dozen. Who was that? Well, I couldn't tell except it was one of the charge customers. How many charge customers did you have then? Oh, several dozens. Let's see. Do you have a list of who they were? Sure. But how are you going to pick out the one you're looking for? We'll pick him up. There's 34 names. I know. But I think we'll pick out the right one. 36 names, actually, well. That would take quite a while to check all of them. Yes, I was thinking about that. Of course, we have his description. Oh, a description of him seven years ago. And probably over a dozen men on that list could fit it. Let me see it again. Sure. Benton. Rocket. Andy. Green. Halt. That name. What about it? I've seen it someplace before. It's not a very unusual name. No, but I've seen it someplace. Where? What I'm trying to remember. Holly. Oh, that name was in the local paper that's going in. That's the same as the name Dan Holly when it comes in. Yeah, I saw it, too. He worked for... Have you still got the stuff that was found on the other man's body? Sure. Right here in the door. The pencil. Right. Here it is. Killer product. Look who that salesman works for. Daniel Hawley. Alias, Joe Kehler. Oh, we can't be sure. Too much of a coincidence. We still can't be sure. I know, but we've got Kehler's fingerprint. They match the print from the steering wheel of that truck. And if Holly's much, well, suppose we visit Mr. Hawley and see if we can get his print. Good down, gentlemen. Mrs. Hawley's upstairs, but I can get her down and drop her. That's quite all right. There's no need to bother him. How about a drink? No, thank you. You're sure? No, thanks. We're really here to ask you a few questions, Mr. Hawley, if you care to answer them. Why? I'd be delighted, too, sir. Delighted. How long have you lived here? Well, let me see now. Almost six years, I think. And before that? Before that, I was in New England. Where? Oh, wow, old bird. I was a salesman there, too. Once a salesman, always a salesman, I guess. Pretty cool up there, isn't it? Yes, indeed. I was glad to get back in. I have an aunt up there, no. She's just freezing, she says. Can't get enough blanket. Well, I don't wonder. Hard to get enough. Yes, sir. Are you one of those lucky people who's stuffed up what if it still gets blankets, Mr. Hawley? Well, frankly, gentlemen, I have to admit, I'd eat by a couple. Whoa, whoa, nothing. Yes, as a matter of fact, I believe there were. You think we can see them? Oh, right now, Mrs. Hawley's got them all packed away in most walls for the summer, and you know how women are. Yeah. I understand you're a tough salesman over at Peerless for this area, Mr. Hawley. Well, hard work and lots of luck will always do it, I say. Mainly luck. Do you have any cards, or do you always give out pencils like this? Yeah. Is that one of my pencils? Here. Oh, yes. Oh, there. Do you mind if I hang on to it? No. I thought it was a pleasure. Here. Thanks. May I ask when you got that pencil, sir? We found it on the body of a fake cracker who was shot. What? You don't say. Yes. Well, well, those pencils, you won't keep bad company, don't you? They certainly do. Well, I think we'll be getting along with the boy. Oh, I'm sorry. I couldn't be more happy. Goodbye, Mr. Hawley, and thanks for the pencil. Not at all, gentlemen. Goodbye. Packing. Well, Daniel Hawley, where are you going? To New York. New York? Yes. But I saw those two men. What two men there? The ones that just left. I saw them from my window, and I said to myself, Laura, that's just going to mean more work for Daniel. Okay. Pretty nice work, honey. What do you mean? They just came to talk to me about my winning that trip to Mexico. I've got to go to the New York office first to go to some kind of official ceremony. Well, it seems awfully funny to have to go to Mexico by way of New York, but as long as you're going to get there. Oh, I'm going to get there, honey. Don't you worry about that. The FBI never makes an arrest until it is sure of its facts. But at the same time, a suspected criminal is never left on watch. He's never left free to disappear before absolute truth can be obtained. Daniel Hawley knew he had left his fingerprints on his own pencil. He knew those prints would be matched with those he'd left on the steering wheel of a stolen truck. He knew the FBI would soon have absolute truth. And so he packed his bag, got in his car, and drove to the town railroad depot. When's the next train? Why, hello, Mr. Hawley. When's the next train? There's one doing right now. Let me have a ticket. A ticket? Yes. Don't you care where she's bound for? Oh, of course. Well, maybe you won't want to take her. Where is she bound for? Let me see now. Oh, yes, yes. Noor. That's fine. Just where you're going. Yes, yes, yes. Let me have a ticket. Well, now, ain't that a piece of luck now. Look, will you let me have a ticket or I won't make the train? Yes. I'm getting to this place as I can. You sure are upset today, Mr. Hawley. Don't worry, that's all. I'm just in a hurry. Well, here's the ticket. That'll be... Don't worry. Keep the change. Well, Mr. Hawley, don't you want to... Take your bags. No, no, that's all right. I'll handle it by... No, Taylor. Yes? Going someplace, Mr. Kaley? Well, I... Or should I say Hawley? You'd better get aboard still. We'll pull it out. He's changed his mind. Yes, sir. Don't think I'll be going after all. Like the rest of us criminals make mistakes. Only theirs are more costly. One small mistake can mean years in prison. But the worst mistake a criminal can make is to violate a federal law. Because when that happens, he finds himself up against the very thing that all criminals try to avoid. The FBI. Criminals don't try to stay clear of the FBI. Don't try to avoid any encounter with it merely for melodramatic reasons. They have one simple practical reason. They know that sooner or later, they will be caught by the FBI. And once caught, they will be convicted. You'll hear about the file on next week's case in just a moment. In this, the opening week of the seventh warlone drive, I should like to read an important message from Thomas I. Parkinson, president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. I hope. In every warlone drive, America has never failed to go over the top. And one factor in this unbroken record of success is heavy bond buying by life insurance companies. In both the fifth and sixth warlone drive, the Equitable subscription was larger than that of any other life insurance company. Larger, in fact, than any other single subscription of any kind. In the present drive, the Equitable will again be one of the leading subscribers. In addition, firms of this society are heavily invested in the great industries that have broken records manufacturing weapons of war. And in the railroads, it has done such a tremendous job of wartime transportation. That is why we say that in wartime, equitable dollars are fighting dollars. And at all times, they are security dollars. For you, your home, your country. Next week, a crime against our war efforts. Draft dodges. The incident used in tonight's broadcast is taken 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 directed by Van Cleave. The author was Lawrence MacArthur, and your narrator was Frank Lovejoy. This is your FBI is a Jerry Divine production. Now this is Carl Frank speaking for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and inviting you to tune in again next week at this same time. 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