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He must supply the answers to five questions What where who how and when? Because special agents of your FBI and Newspaper men are both investigators It is not unnatural that the members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Should be able to answer those questions with respect to crime In order to help them keep their answers up to date your FBI makes periodic surveys of the crime situation One of which has just been concluded The study reveals many shocking facts With perhaps the most shocking being the fact that in the first six months of this year The number of larcenies a number which includes swindles amounted to more than 277,000 or more than 1500 every day Should those figures fail to impress you should you feel that it's much ado about little Then perhaps you might be interested to know that the loot taken by criminals in those larcenies represented cash and property Valued at more than 17 million dollars Tonight's file opens in a second-floor room of a hotel located in a large midwestern city A young man is pacing the floor nervously while a lean gray haired man sits in the corner sipping a cup of black coffee Where you did it you really did it this time Wally. I've apologized in every way I know if I could I give you the money back. I'll try to deposit that in the morning. Who's that? Oh Tell her uncle Edd an unfortunate accident occurred my dear uncle Edd you've been drinking again drinking You should have seen him with the sucker. What happened? We're supposed to get the sucker drunk Instead of that your dear uncle Edd would get so plastered He starts to lift this guy's wallet and falls right off his chair. I don't understand it I was sitting firmly on the chair and all of a sudden you were sitting firmly on cloud number seven Well stay up there if you like it, but don't hang around Charlotte on me From now on we're traveling light Wally. I I don't like to call attention to my past kindnesses But if you remember I gave you a car when you got out of reform school a stolen car Wally you you obviously don't appreciate the sentiment that was involved I also gave you your start in this business on our look. I've heard this routine a hundred times true. You keep out of it Wally, he's my uncle and I'm not gonna stand by and have you just kick him out. Oh, all right All right, we can argue about that when we get home right now. We got something else to worry about How do we get out of this hotel without blowing our clothes? Oh, that's a relatively simple matter my boy All we have to do is take the sheets from those beds tie them together and let ourselves gently But firmly to the delightful terra firma below a few days later in an FBI field office special agent George Watson Is approaching the desk of agent Jim Taylor? Hi Jim. Oh George back from Quartz or something. Yeah, I'm going yet See if I can have some time off. I don't think you'll get it George. Why not because he's already assigned you to work on a new case with me Oh, what's this one about? Well, we received a teletype from the sheriff of a small town named Hudson It's about 300 miles from here. I know the place Wally said he was hanging around a gas station when a car pulled in to fill up Uh-huh one of the men in the car seemed a little drunk as he got out He walked over to the sheriff and asked him if he had any ice in his pocket Fine and in his conversation. He mentioned to the sheriff that they were coming here So well after they left the sheriff couldn't get the old drunk's face out of his mind He knew he'd seen it somewhere before so he went back to his office and checked through the FBI files Sure enough there it was. Who is he? His name is Ed Garvey. I don't know him at least by that name Well, he's been a confidence man for about 40 years. Well, they changed their names so often I guess I never ran across him But there was another man and woman in the car the sheriff found a flyer on the man His name is Wally Billings. He and Garvey have worked together in the past At what the old lemon pool swindled, you know where they get the victim to take cash out of the bank get him drunk And then pick his pocket. Uh-huh. I had an alarm sent out to every local police department between here and Hudson How long ago a couple of hours ago? Come on. Let's walk down to the teletype room. Okay. Maybe they've been caught by now and you can get that time off Where's Wally he went out He's still mad at you because I got out of the car and discussed generalities with a stranger You didn't have to pick the sheriff. Did you Charlotte? I was partially a man of distinction at that moment I didn't notice that the gentleman was an arm of the law Well, Wally had a right to be mad. Well, he isn't any longer. I've mended the breach. You mean you made up with him? Yes Oh, oh, I gave him a very commercial idea. It's a little thing based on the current national hysteria over football Oh, that's nice. Where is Wally? He had a date. Hmm with whom a mrs. Cornelius Hines Who is mrs. Cornelius Hines? Wally said she was a big society lady. He's building her up for something. He said it looked good Hmm, that's fine Uncle Ed, are you going out? Yes. Well, Wally said to make your promise one thing. What is that? He said to ask you not to get drunk Charlotte you know, I never drink when I attend the spot of Kings. Are you going to the races? Yes But you have no money my dear girl those racetrack trains ever decrowded and in the jostling mob It is a well-known fact that Wallets are very likely to slip from one pocket to another. Well, goodbye my dear This is certainly a beautiful view from here mrs. Hines. I insisted on the penthouse I think if you must live in this city you should at least be able to look down on it That's a good idea Another cup of tea mr. Billings. Oh, no, no, thanks You're probably wondering why I called you frankly. I am well. I read about you in the papers I also read about your pet charity. Oh Charities happen to be my business mrs. Hines. I'm a professional promoter. I raise money for charities and charge a percentage. I see I Have a feeling that I could be quite useful to you Well, I never have used high-pressure tactics. Oh, this isn't high pressure mrs. Hines I have a means of making money for your charity that will have the public clamoring to give you money really Take a look at this What is it? Those are football games this coming Saturday. Yes People all over the country buy these cards for from one to ten dollars But why they try to pick winners if they do they win and if they don't they lose Of course more lose than wins so the people who sell the cards make money. Oh So if we sold the cards we could raise a couple of thousand dollars for your charity every Saturday That sounds splendid. Think you'd like to try it Well, you can get society girls to sell them for you that would really make them move now What do you say? Mr. Billings, I I think I'd like your idea Call me in the morning The word yet on Billings and Garvey. No, not yet George. How about giving their pictures to the newspapers? Maybe we can smoke them out that way. I thought of that George in the SAC put thumbs down on the idea He's afraid it'd scare them off The old man Garvey is pretty slippery. He doesn't draw the line any place Well, do you know he once sold a hard-shelled business man a bridge across the Missouri River? What? Yes, he convinced this man. He was from the Department of the Interior and That as a defense measure in the event of war the government was going to tear down the bridge and build a tunnel Oh, yes, this man was in the scrap iron business and he sold him the bridge for $16,000 and in cash Special agent Taylor speaking Yes, sergeant. No, I've never had a chance to read it yet Page seven now I'll get a copy right away Thanks very much for calling George is that the journal you brought in with you? Yes. Oh, can I see it please sure here? That was Sergeant O'Rourke down at police headquarters Said there was a picture on page seven that might interest us Hey, look at this picture of the horse that won the big race yesterday. Oh, let's say there There's our man Garvey practically weighing in with a jockey well that proves he's living here Jim Yes, now. Let's see if we can find out where my shoes. I put them away while he told me Where is he now? I don't know He just said he was going out and for me to see that you didn't he can sit and talk to me No disrespect my dear, but that happens to be my idea of Conversational solitaire What's this big idea you gave Wally it concerns football but how have you ever seen a football pool guard Charlotte? You mean where you pick winners and get out exactly is that the idea? Yes What's so great about that the variation? I thought of with our cards every player must win Why because we take close games and we give 20 and 30 points to the player Not even a moron could lose Then how do we win we sell the cards in the sweet name of charity and then well well, you know the saying Charity begins at home. Oh Must be going good. Look Wally put this out of the paper this morning It's a picture of Mrs. Hines selling the first football card to the mayor So they've even got the mayor going for Say Charlotte, huh? This this woman in the picture. She's Mrs. Cornelius Hines. That's right Get my shoes I can't you want me to go out in these bedroom slippers. No, but Wally said I can't do it uncle I see I have no choice then Charlotte. I bid you a fond adieu. Where are you going to pay a call on Mrs. Well get out the bottle baby I talked to Mrs. Hines this morning and she told me the cards were almost sold out. Oh, honey, that's wonderful Where's Uncle Ed? Well, they call them in we'll all have a drink He's not here Wally, but I told you not to let him go out that door He went out and got drunk again in broad daylight He went out to see Mrs. Hines What? He saw a picture and he went to see her. Let me have that phone He does anything to spoil this deal. I'll murder him. I worked for a week on this statement. I finally got around Oh, hello. Hello, please connect me with Mrs. Hines apartment. Thank you. I Finally got her on the hook Hello, may I speak with Mrs. Hines, please? Hmm. Oh It's you. Well, let me talk to Mrs. Hines. I want to tell it But but your uncle He done it again. What do you mean? Mrs. Hines ain't Mrs. Hines. She's an old friend of his But she's a society lady. She's a larceny dame called Society Mary and she and your uncle are using our football money for a honeymoon We will return to tonight's exciting case from the official files of your FBI in just a minute Now a brief case from the official files of the equitable life assurance society of the United States Showing how equitable business insurance help stabilize our American economic system Names used are fictitious, but the case is an actual one This was the problem that confronted Mr. James Shanahan President of a large contracting company in Texas when those two boys of mine came out of the army They signed up to work for the old man, and they've really taken hold Far as I can see there's only one cloud of my horizon. What's that? Mr. Shanahan? Well, those two boys of mine have really pitched in But they've still got a lot to learn can't expect them to pick up for any 30 year know-how in three years Now Say I get killed in an accident tomorrow What happens to my business? 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What do you mean Jim? I've just been over talking to a girl named Bettina Franklin She called the local place first and they told her to call us. What about Billings gave a Mrs Cornelius Heinz some football pool cards, you know the kind where you get odds for picking a certain number of winners Yes, I've seen them. Well, Miss Franklin said that Miss Heinz arranged for her and 50 other girls to sell the cards throughout the city they sold quite a few of them and Every one of the cards was a winner. How could that happen? Here's one of them. Take a look for yourself and see. Okay, anybody could pick winners They've got Notre Dame at 20 point underdogs, right? Same thing with Michigan and from what Miss Franklin says Mrs. Heinz has disappeared. You suppose she wasn't on this swindle? I don't know, George I called the Daily Mirror. They're sending a messenger over with a picture of Mrs. Heinz. In the meantime I've sent one of the leftover cards to the lab. As soon as we get a report from them Let's try and find out where these cards were printed Yes, Edward. I can't tell you how happy I am. I'm so glad. Fate is a merry prankster. To think that just this morning I was a veritable prisoner And now I'm speeding across the country cosily confined with my radiant bride That's a little flowery dearest, but keep on talking. I love it. Merry my dove. Do you realize how many times in the past we almost got married? It ran into the dozens, didn't it? It was the most frustrating. I can tell you that Every time I would be in a position to plead for your hand You were either married to someone else or confined to the Bastille Darling, a couple of times you were legally detained yourself. Remember? It'll be fun being in California. I've never been out there before, you know I was there. My first husband took me there on our honeymoon. Oh, I wish you told me that before, my dear I'd have taken you elsewhere. Why? Because you'll have memories What memories? They arrested him as we pulled into the station. I went on the honeymoon alone Well, I trust no such vulgar occurrence will interrupt us Let's make a toast, my dear. To what? To my niece and her husband for being nice enough to pay for our honeymoon Word yet from the lab on those football cards, Jim? I'm just reading the report now, George. What do they say? Well, they sent us these two lists. What are they? Well, the cards were printed on stock manufactured by the Charleston paper company Uh-huh. This is a list of every print shop in this area that buys from the Charleston paper company What's the other list? Well, the lab also identified the type used on the card. It was manufactured by the national type founders incorporated Uh-huh. Now the second list carries the name of every print shop in this area that uses national type. I see Well, all we've got to do now is cross-index these two lists That'll give us a list of the print shops that carry both Charleston paper and national type Then we'll split that list and start checking to see which one of the shops put in these cards You we wouldn't be in this jackpot. What did I do? I wanted to throw your rocker out five years ago But he's not going to get away with this one. You can bet on that. He's not. No What your dear uncle doesn't know is that I know where he's headed for. Huh? I went over to Mrs. Hein's apartment and told the superintendent I was her brother And he told you where they went? No, but he let me into her apartment I ransacked the joint until I found what I wanted. What was that? This piece of paper What is it? It's a copy of a telegram your uncle had sent to the hotel central in Los Angeles What for? To reserve the honeymoon suite. Where did you find that? In the waste paper basket Then maybe he didn't send it. He sent it. I checked. I called the hotel central. You call Los Angeles? Yeah, and they got reservations for Colonel and Mrs. Edward Garvey. So we're flying out there Don't you remember he appointed himself the week he was being assistant secretary of war I'm late Jim. That's all I do aren't you? I just got here myself Mrs. Heinz lives in the penthouse of this building. I'm hoping we can find some clue and she was mixed up in it Yeah, well, maybe it'll be better if I give you all this in sequence, huh? Okay I just learned that Mrs. Cornelius Heinz has quite a criminal record Uh-huh. She came to town about three months ago posing as the widow of a Texas oil man She wormed her way and do so-called society by throwing a couple of lavish parties Apparently she was using the build-up for larceny purposes. Sounds that way. Did you get anything else? Yes, when I finished collecting information on her I went out to check on my list of print shops Uh-huh fourth place I went to turned out to be the one that printed the cards for billings. They gave me as a dress I went there, but I just missed billings and his wife too bad. Oh, I had a search warrant, though I went up look through the apartment. I found a clipping of a picture showing Mrs. Heinz selling the first football card to the mayor The mayor? That's right. I called Mrs. Heinz from the billings apartment found out that she'd left early this afternoon And with a man who answers the description of Ed Garvey Come on. Let's go inside and see if we can find out where Mrs. Heinz and Garvey went. Okay. We can find them I've got a hunch we'll get all of them Well, Mary, this is California with all this fog. How can you tell? I guess that's room service. I'll get it Colonel huh out of the way, uncle Mary we have some guests. Oh It's mr. Billings. That's right. How did you find it? Never mind that? You know what? We're here for get up that door Edward he seems quite insistent. You better give mr. Billings his share. Are you kidding? No, you're entitled to have the money. She's right. You don't think I'm gonna split with you now, do you? That was our original agreement. I made that agreement before you to grab the whole thing. Mr. Billings We were going to mail you your share. Oh now stop it will you? We're expecting somebody room service. That's who I thought it was when you came. Okay answer the door, but don't talk. All right Wally What you never introduced me? Oh, I'm sorry. Mrs. Heinz. This is my wife I couldn't be happier. Wally, I'm afraid you're not going to get that money now after all. Why not sir? You might as well introduce yourself. I'm a special agent of the fbi. I have warrants here for the arrest of all of you What? But we're on our honeymoon. The honeymoon's over. Now you please come along with me Ed, what can we do? The only thought I have at the moment my dear is to seek a co-ed prison Mr. And mrs. Billings along with edward garvey and the woman known as mrs. Heinz were all convicted for a violation of the national stolen property Act and sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison The clues which led special agent taylor to the hotel central in los angles were two in number The first was that he learned from the apartment house switchboard operator That only one telephone call had been made from the apartment of mrs. Heinz The charge slip showed that that call had been to western union A check of the western union records revealed that ed garvey had sent a request for reservations to the hotel central in los angles Special agent taylor then flew to los angles with what results you have already witnessed Like most confidence men and women the people in tonight's case worked hard to avoid detection And had the special agents of your fbi been careless or allowed themselves the luxury of getting discouraged These people might have succeeded in escaping However careless investigation plays no part in the work of your fbi And every special agent is taught as part of his basic training that to become discouraged is fatal 99 clues might prove fruitless But there is always the chance that the next one Will be the one that leads to the solution To the arrest and conviction of another segment of america's criminal population In just a moment, we will tell you about next week's exciting case from the files of your fbi Now one last word about business insurance The reason why the equitable society emphasizes this type of insurance is very simple The brains and experience responsible for the success of a business enterprise have a cash value And should therefore be protected by insurance like any other valuable asset Equitable society representatives have worked out plans for all types of business From progressive corner stores and successful law partnerships to large organizations with thousands on their payrolls Plan now to enlist the invaluable help that is yours for the asking from a trained business insurance specialist of the equitable life Assurance society of the united states Next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the federal bureau of investigation A thrilling factual story of an elusive manhunt its subject Murder its title The man who died twice The incidents used in tonight's equitable life assurance society's broadcast are adapted from the files of the federal bureau of investigation However, all names used are fictitious and any similarity thereof through the names of persons living or dead is accidental Tonight the music was composed and conducted by frederick steiner The author was jerry d louis your narrator was william woodson and special agent taylor was played by stacey harris 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 society's 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 story from the files of the federal bureau of investigation The man who died twice on this is your fbi This is abc the american broadcasting company