 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's representative in your community At this exact moment your home is one of many millions in which this radio program is tuned in In the Equitable Life Assurance Society, we feel that this nationwide home listening carries with it a very serious responsibility Our Equitable Radio Message must be keyed to home and family problems Tonight's Equitable Society Message is on Education If there are children in your home, you'll be particularly interested in this commercial about the Equitable Education Fund Don't miss it in about 14 minutes Tonight's FBI file the friendly frame-up It is a truism in law enforcement circles that no criminal is easy to catch Each one presents a new problem demanding a new approach Some of course are easier to apprehend than others It is simpler to bring to justice the criminal who lives by crime alone Who earns no honest dollar than it is to trap the species of lawbreakers among us Who live a jackal and hide existence Who operate a legitimate business as a front and a criminal business undercover Those people are difficult to weed out because for the most part they take no active role in the commission of any crime Mainly they are the brains and the money behind the operation of a complex criminal machine A machine which is built to stop at nothing The night's file opens in a smoke-filled gymnasium Sweaty fighters are going through their training workouts one shadow boxing One working with a sparring partner in the ring another punching the heavy bag To live an o'clock in the morning as pete web who manages these fighters walks through the gym to his office Work lefty keep going Nice footwork jackie. See me later. Would you? Mr. Webber. Hi buffalo. No time for you now kid. Catch me an hour, huh? Okay Louie right with you Louie Goodbye, who was that bob hudson? What do you want the job? Are you kidding? Some things just because I managed to meet with when he was fighting I should support him for the rest of his life Let me drop that Let's come in this morning little nanny's in the jug Where'd you get that the auntie was in he just visited Danny got the whole story What happened? Well Danny said he met a guy on a train coming east What kind of a guy the bond salesman Danny got him loaded and the guy spilled it. He was carrying some bonds Oh, it's perfect for Danny. He's always got those go to sleep pills in his kick So he slipped some of the guy's drink and clipped his briefcase. Well, what went wrong? Well, the guy must have come too awful fast. He quit contact of the cops They called Danny in the station. No, not till he hit his apartment What about the bonds? Well, Danny was afraid he might have a tail on him So as soon as he hit the railroad station, he checked the briefcase of the baggage counter Then he put the claim check in an envelope and dropped it in the mailbox Who'd email it to? Well, that's what yancy came up to tell us Danny mailed a claim check to you. No Did it come in? No Danny free. We should get it this afternoon Then he wants for you to get rid of the bonds and get some cash to him for a mouthpiece You see Where'd he check the stuff? North side station Well, when the baggage checks him then you run over there and pick the stuff up me. Yeah, are you kidding? No, why his level of e-50 cops waiting around that baggage counter He just told me that he wasn't picked up till he hit his apartment. All right. He could have talked since then Danny wouldn't talk. Why don't you pick this stuff up? Well, for the same reason I got huh? Look, we just can't leave the stuff there. It's too good a score for us We got to get some Wait a minute what? I got an idea Ellie Where are you honey? In the bedroom. Okay. You're home early, honey. Any luck today? Yeah, I got a job. Oh, bob. That's wonderful I'm so excited. I don't get too excited. Why not? Well, you hear who I'm working for who? Pete Webb Oh, no, well, ellie. I had to find a job. Yeah, but not with Pete Bob, how could you after the things that he's done to me? I know what he's done to me, but we also have to eat But bob, there are plenty of guys For two solid months now. I've been pounding the pavement looking for work. I know but I found out real quick about my friends They turned out to be a lot of guys who only wanted to be around while I was winning but other people other people Well, I take one look at this nose and these cauliflower ears and practically come right out and tell me they're not interested in hiring a punch drunk fighter That's why I finally called Pete I understand honey. I'm sorry. It's okay. What are you gonna do for Pete? I don't know, but I told him no larceny What'd he say? He said the job was clean when he stopped work this afternoon I gotta pick up something for him. What? A package that's checked at north side station The same afternoon in the local FBI field office special agent Jim Taylor is just approaching his desk Jim oh Jim. Oh, yes, boy. I've been looking for you. I just left the boss He's put us both on a case that just came in. No, what are the details of it? A man named laurence black was on a train our route here from cleveland He was robbed at 21 000 dollars of negotiable bonds No, how was the job done? The thief slips and knockout drops into one of black's drinks I see when he came to we gave the police at the station a good description of the man he was drinking with The description was so good in fact that the local police picked up the thief within an hour as it was entering his apartment Wait paul if they picked him up. What's the case? What are we working on the thief didn't have the bonds on him? Oh, I see I presume the police searched his apartment from top to bottom But there wasn't a trace of either the bonds or the briefcase they were in What are the police sure they've got the right man the victor made a positive identification I see jim our job is to find out what he did with those bonds between the time He got off the train and the time he got home Okay Who's the thief paul? His name is newton. He has a long criminal record newton What's his Swiss name dan dan newton? That's right That could be little dany Paul have you got anything on him here a description? Maybe you got a whole file right here pictures and all as well Have a look at it. Yeah. Yeah Thanks Yeah Yeah, that's little dany. All right. You know i'm jim. Yes Yes, and I think I know where the bonds are really Yes, you see little dany has always used a regular pattern of operation He rides trains picks up a victim clips him then checks his load at the railroad station as soon as he gets off But jim there was no baggage check found on him when he was picked up No, no, there wouldn't be his usual procedure is to mail the check either to himself or to a friend Paul what station do you arrive in the north side station? Let's notify the police and have them send a man of that baggage counter at once Hey bud, how about that bag? I gave you the check five minutes ago Look, can I get some service here? Hey, hey you is that the briefcase? Well, it's about time. Let me have it Hey Wait a minute. Hmm You better let me have that briefcase Who are you police? Here's the badge What is this? Just give me the briefcase hudson How do you know me? I used to watch your fight now. Let's have the bag and come along with me What for this is an arrest. Hmm. I gotta take in Look, I don't get any of this. You just claimed that briefcase. Well, so what I'm picking it up for the guy I work for Hudson that briefcase was stolen. Hmm There's $21,000 worth of negotiable bonds in there. Well, wait, there must be some mistake. There's no mistake I know the briefcase and I've been waiting an hour to nail whoever picked it up Whoever picked it up. Yeah now come on. Wait a minute. I'm being framed. Come on. I said, oh no, let go of me Hey, come back here. Stop right shoe. Hudson, you hear me? Special agent tailing. Oh, what's that, Paul? A man picked up the briefcase officer attempted to arrest him, but he got away. With the briefcase? Yes. Oh, that is tough How's that? The arresting officer recognized the man. Said his name was Bob Hudson, ex prize fighter. Yeah, I've heard of him Hudson was wounded in the getaway. The officer fired two shots at him. He certainly hit him at least once Any idea where this Hudson lives? The police are checking that now. Paul heard them call me as soon as they find his address I'll raise my shoulder. I'll call a doctor. Wait, no doctors, Ellie Huh? The guy with the gun was a cop I was framed, Ellie Pete Webb framed me. Oh no, darling, how? What bag I was to call for at the railroad station. It was loaded with stolen bonds $21,000 worth. And he sent you there knowing that? Sure. Hoping I'd get away clear. Oh, look, this is awful Oh, you were right about Pete, honey I shouldn't have taken that job. Oh, forget about that. Why did the cop shoot you? Well, it was gonna take me in. I couldn't let Pete's frame go that far So I busted away from him. Bob, you shouldn't have done that. Pete was in the wrong, not you Well, I could never prove that from the city jail Bob, you just got to let me call the doctor. I said no, Ellie But I can't just... Look, I wouldn't be here anyway when he came. What do you mean? I got a call to make. What? I'm gonna go see Pete Webb I'm going right now. Bob, please listen to me. Your shoulder The bleeding stopped. But you've got to let him do... Ellie I'm gonna go see Pete Webb and I'm gonna make him come down to the cops with me and tell the real story about those stolen bonds Just a minute. Hello, Louis. How are you, Bob? Come on in Pete, it's Bob Hudson. Hi, you kid. Hello, Pete What took you so long? I was beginning to get a little worried about you. No kidding Hey What's with the blood in my shirt? Yeah, what happened? I got shot. Huh? By who? Cop What for? You should know what for, Pete I don't get you. The briefcase. The briefcase that you framed me into picking up Oh, I sent you on there and that's all. Stop the routines. Hey, where is the briefcase? I haven't got it. The cops get it? No. Where is it? I put it away in a safe place That's going to stay there until I take both you guys and the bonds to the cops You're going to take us to the cops? That's right. Pete, this guy really is punchy. You did frame me. You got to admit that Yeah, I admit it But only to you, not the cops I was just paying you back for an old score What do you mean? The time you double crossed me in Bay City I never double crossed anybody in my life Remember the time I had you in a man at Bay City? I bet against you. I told you about it You turn around and win the fight. I've tried to win every fight You're in one now. You ain't gonna win. Oh, no. I'm taking you both to the cops right now Hold the phone. This gun says different That ain't stopping me, Louis. That's what you think. No guns, Louis. This is better Louis, uh, take this blackjack when he comes to keep using it on him till you find out where he stashed that briefcase Well, okay, boss Where you going? I want some action I'm going to the fights We will return in just a moment to tonight's case from the files of your fbi Tomorrow on hundreds of football fields boys and girls will raise their voices in the old traditional songs The same songs you and I sang in our college days Well, college wasn't all singing for me, mr. Keating. I had a swell time But I took medicine and studied pretty hard at it Of course you studied harry and there are hundreds of thousands of others just like you That's why the average college graduate earns $72,000 more during his working years than the average american What's more that extra $72,000 is just half the story Educated men and women have cultural interests and appreciation that they wouldn't part with for any amount of money So for many reasons everyone agrees college is the wisest and best investment Loving fathers and mothers can make for their children. 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The man to see is your equitable society representative Give your children their chance to earn that extra 72,000 dollars by getting in touch with your equitable representative soon Or send a postcard care of this station to the equitable society That's equi ta ble the equitable life assurance society of the united states And now back to the fbi file the friendly frame up Tonight's case from the files of your fbi illustrates one major point A point which cannot be stressed too strongly or repeated too often It is absolutely impossible for a decent law abiding citizen to do business with a criminal The two cannot mix any more successfully than oil and water Because their minds and their hearts are so different The decent man lives by the credo that he must work for what he gets And that his fellow man is entitled to the same courtesy and dignity that he himself expects in return But the criminal regards his fellow men as just so many potential victims And he looks with contempt on those who work for what they want Your fbi asks you to remember those things if you're ever tempted to enter into any agreement with a criminal Remember them and heed them well Tonight's file continues that same evening at the local fbi field office Special agent jim taylor has just returned to his office where a special agent maryden is waiting for him Hello pa any word from the police on hudson hudson's. I've been here jim. Had any dinner yet? No, the drugstore is going to send up a sandwich and some coffee. That'll hold me for a while The note you left for me said you went to hudson's house. What happened? Oh, his wife was there When I questioned her she told me that hudson had been given a job just this afternoon by his old manager pete web Pete web. Yes The local characters on the shady side, but nobody's ever been able to get anything on him Mrs. Hudson says that webb sent her husband for the briefcase. Did he know what was in it? Well, she said no She said that hudson returned to the house wounded this afternoon after he'd been at the station And that he'd gone from there to webs apartment What for to make webb go to the police with him and admit that the whole thing was a frame I see so I left hudson's and went over to webs apartment Yes Webby'd gone out to the fights according to a stooge of his named louis slater who answered the door louis slater Where do I know that name from? No, he's a petty larceny hoodlum He said he'd heard of hudson, but that he didn't know him and that hudson had positively never been to webs apartment I don't trust people who are so positive Either to why paul, but I didn't have a search warrant so there wasn't much I could do except take his word for it I'll get it Special agent taylor speaking. Hello taylor. This is spencer down at headquarters. Oh, hello spencer We've got hudson again and this time he won't break loose. Where'd you find him? He was unconscious in an alley off main street in first avenue. He's over at city hospital now Still unconscious according to last reports. He was in fact the doctor say they don't know if he'll ever come out of it Well, thanks very much spencer right bye Hudson is at city hospital unconscious. Well, come on. Let's get up there Don't you want to wait for me at the apartment? Yeah, I was but some of the important came I came to tell you don't tell me nothing this round's over. Come on sailor from the fbi was around He was looking for hudson. What'd you tell him? I said, I didn't even know the guy good What'd you do with hudson? I dumped him in an alley alive. Yeah, just about that's bad Look, you didn't say nothing about knocking him off. Okay. Okay You find out where you put the stuff. Yeah, I think so. What do you mean fake? Well, he never came too after you conked him. So I frisked him when I found this key What is it? That's one of those subway locker boxes. This says so right here I figured it's probably a box on that station here where hudson lives The key's got a number on it and we can check. That's a good idea Look louie, why don't you go up and see if you're right? Are you kidding? No, look, that's how hudson got where he is Look louie. I want to watch this fight. I'll see you at the gym in the morning They patched up the bullet wounds, but somewhere hudson took an awful beating after he was shot must have been You think he got the beating at webs place? Mm could be I checked on what time web got to the fights tonight You'd have had time to see hudson and still get to the arena when he did Hudson didn't have the bonds on him when they found him, did he? His pockets were empty pool. What did the doctor think of hudson's chances? No, 50-50. He might pull out of it. There's no telling Oh comes his wife now My nurse told me you spoke to the doctor. Yes, that's right. How is he? Is he going to get better? Well, mrs. Hudson, it'll be a little while probably before the doctors know any more than they do now Here comes one of them now, Jim Oh, yes, that's him. That's bob's doctor. Yes He's coming over here. Well now be calm mrs. Hudson. He looks bad news. I know it I can see it in the doctor's face Pete I got some news for you What is it? Well, you were worried about me not knocking off hudson, huh? Uh, he died this morning in the hospital How do you know? I heard the rumor from a dozen guys. So I called the hospital They said it was official. They also told me he'd die without ever coming to That means he couldn't tell the cops where he stashed the buns. That's right Uh, where's that locker key? Right here in my kick What do you think we should start looking like I said last night we go first to the subway station near where hudson lived Okay, let's go Pete the locker should be down at this end of the platform Uh-huh. Wait a minute What is it? It's a train killin It's an express. Pete. It ain't stopping. That looks like the lockers down there. Yeah Now let's just hope they got number 21 77 We'll just walk by the lockers and take again with the numbers as we pass. Okay Do you see where I see? Good old number 21 77 Let's go to work. Here's the key Okay Fits, huh? Yeah There we are. What's in there? Just what we're looking for Let's open it up, huh? Not here stupid. Come on. Let's get going Wait, what is it that guy coming toward us? He's the guy from the fbi. You sure? Yeah Let's round and make for the other eggs a quick Not a chance. We're blocked off Nice going paul. All right, web. Let's have that briefcase What is this? I don't think I have to explain Well paul, let's call the hospital as soon as we can hudson will be happy to know we picked these men up Hudson's dead. You just heard a rumor that he was dead. I planted that rumor with a fight mob I hoped he'd get back to you the hospital said he was dead They were instructed to say that Hudson's not only alive, but he told us where the bonds were He also told us that you probably had the missing key. This is nothing but lies I think you'll change your mind when hudson's testimony sends you both away for a long long time Ben his henchmen louis later were tried in a federal court and given 20 years for violating the national stolen property act They were then turned over to local authorities and sentenced to an additional long term for attempted murder And thus your fbi performed a double function in tonight's case First they apprehended the guilty criminals And second they approved the innocence of an accused man It's the everyday job of special agents to arrest the violators of certain federal laws And the story of their success in that job is in their record and in their reputation But the second function performed in tonight's case is even more important Because the basic foundation of good law enforcement must be public confidence The knowledge that the public has that it will not be victimized in order to build up an impressive record of convictions That each individual questioned will be treated as innocent until he is proven guilty That is why every special agent is instructed when he is appointed a member of the federal bureau of investigation That the primary job of your fbi is to protect the american people And that a major part of that protection Is seeing to it that no innocent man We found guilty of a crime. He did not commit Just a moment. We will tell you about next week's exciting case from the files of your fbi Now one last word about the equitable education fund The outstanding feature of this plan is this it makes sure that your children will be educated no matter what happens Whether you live or die, they'll get the education you want them to have So don't wait any longer get in touch with your equitable society representative soon Or send a postcard care of this station to 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 case that graphically illustrates the fate of a supposedly honest businessman who chooses to consort with thieves It's subject fraudulent bankruptcy It's titled merchants of arson The incidents used in tonight's equitable life assurance society broadcast are adopted 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 fred rick steiner Your narrator was dean carton 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 is representative in your community And inviting you to tune in again next week at the same time when the equitable life assurance society Will bring you another thrilling story from the files of the federal bureau of investigation merchants of arson on this is your fbi This is abc the american broadcasting company