 The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This Is Your FBI Is Your FBI the official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community The Equitable Society's representatives wanted to nice audience to include certain men and women who are headed for successful careers so they did an unusual thing they asked them to listen yes by telephone, by postcard, by personal request they invited these special people to listen to tonight's message about the Equitable Society's plan for men and women on the way up in just fourteen minutes I'll give you full details on this plan for every man who believes he's going to succeed it is offered by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States tonight's FBI file the Telltale Calendar like in a profession law enforcement has its moments of satisfaction FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's personal capture of Alvin Corpus in New Orleans was such a moment however there are also moments of discouragement moments when the man whose job it is to enforce the laws of a city, a state, or a nation are faced with the realization that their task is almost overwhelming in the last ten years the population of this nation has risen ten million people of that number more than five hundred thousand have acquired fingerprint arrest records and yet in that same period the total number of law enforcement officers in the United States has not increased at all those who opposed any increases in police departments gave many reasons chief among them being that the taxpayer could not stand the added strain that is short-sighted economy though or in the field communities which have added manpower to the police force the number of crimes has shown an appreciable decline crime does not pay as a good slogan but unfortunately crime cannot be fought with slogans it takes men men who know their job men ready to battle the army of criminals on every front tonight's file opens in a weather beaten shack located on a desolate stretch of highway in the Midwest two crudely-painted signs hang in front one says harry's diner the other says gasoline inside a nondescript blonde is wiping the counter a middle-aged man also in an apron stands beside her looking into space you can wipe this counter till next year and it wouldn't be clean i know millen maybe if you painted it mr. davis davis and if i take thursday's off instead of tuesday you see my friend alice has thursday's off and this year her birthday in mind both come on thursday and so if i could have off on the twelfth instead of the tenth well here you can see for yourself on the calendar you see mr. davis you see i could even start to say on the nineteenth instead of the seventeenth because my friend's birthday isn't until the twenty-six anyway all right mr. davis why you've got each day x star no reason you've got a circle around next friday what's that for nothing millen harry we're running low on coffee all right is it a surprise is something mr. davis is what a surprise millen the ring around next friday on the calendar friday millen please mind your own business there's a pile of dishes in the sink millen you better get at them it's a simple question all of a sudden everybody gets mad people are all the time getting mad about nothing you say once harry i wish you wouldn't worry so they get out this week apple i know but it's been so long they won't forget how do you know they've been in jail for twenty years with nothing to think about except me but you're safe now we're ten miles from the no et al no we're not safe when they get out they'll come looking for me and they'll find me a few days later at an fb i field office special agent jim taylor enters the office of agent in charge butler you're sending for me mr butler yes taylor now uh... this may or may not turn out to be anything but you'd better check into it two men named al cockman and leo parson's get out of the pen tomorrow al cockman and leo parson's yes there's no reason why you should remember them they've been away for twenty years in the old days they used to sell protection to laundries if they didn't get paid the laundry trucks were dumped into the river well one day they dumped a truck with the driver still behind the wheel in the getaway they killed the united states marshal they committed two murders and got off with jail sentences they were convicted mainly on the evidence of an underling in their organization whose name was harry davis cockman and parson's had a good story and stuck to it but this harry davis cracked under questioning they swore they'd kill davis when they got out and they get out tomorrow yes now ordinarily that kind of threat is an empty one but i just got a report from the prison a guard overheard cockman and parson's talking about davis have they been questioned yes but they denied everything if you locate davis we'll notify the police wherever he is to give him some protection all right sir you'll find the testimony of the trial in our files read it as soon as you get a chance i wish you'd try to keep this clock while notice i do mr. davis you're always letting it run down well mr. stop yesterday while i was off here put it up on the shelf you never have to wind those electric clocks millery i want to talk to miss davis go ahead alone again alone yes miller would go into the kitchen i don't know what could be so private all of a sudden i don't keep no secrets from anybody and i don't like brother i was right ethyl about what about leo and al getting out how do you know i called the prison you made a long distance call i had to oh harry i had to find out ethyl they probably already started to look for me they'll never find you they can't nobody knows where we are paul does you're not afraid of your own son i'm gonna write him if anybody asks for me paul can say i'm dead he wouldn't tell anyone where you were anyway maybe we'll sell a diner move again harry we've moved every year since this thing happened i knew why we were doing it and i never complained did i no but there comes a time when you have to stop we can't just keep running for the rest of our lives moving once more won't hurt us this will be the last time ethyl i promise where do you want to go anyplace so long there's nobody there knows me we'll change her name that's it we'll change her name and then there won't be any harry davis left to be killed where does this ferry dock right over there remember oh yeah everything looks the same remember that pier up there al sure that ain't changed yeah and that dock where that big boat is i don't know that one i used it once with me before i met you i dumped a bag of cement off there anybody i know joey lee i remember him we're getting close let's move up front harry davis is still around i ain't worrying why not we know his kid lives here we don't find harry we'll find the kid he'll tell us he'll tell us real quick i've got something to report on that harry davis assignment mister butler have you found him yet taylor no sir but we should know where he is sometime this evening good the police rounded up a couple of other members of cochran and parsons old mob one of them told me davis is a son named paul who lives here well he shouldn't be too hard to locate we've already found out where he lives i called his house and left word with his wife to have him call me you sure you've got the right paul davis yes sir and i'm also pretty sure that leo parsons and al cochran know about paul davis too why well i spoke to his wife she told me that a man who wouldn't leave his name had called a little while ago to find harry's address yeah so there was an old friend of harry's who'd just gotten into town but he worried me butler speaking detective nelson in headquarters yes nelson something just for yes if you found him no what happened thanks very much nelson i'll send the man down there right away if you change your mind wait a minute lady yes what is it been here long about a year run the place alone no we didn't think so why sign outside says harry's diner oh where is he harry oh there there is no harry i run the place with my sister it says harry's diner i bought the place from a man named harry jackson and changed the sign harry jackson yes you believe that al no what do you men want harry davis nobody around here by that name what did this harry jackson look like well he wasn't an old man he had gray hair where'd he go some place in california he had some children out there we got no more bacon mrs davis you hear that al go back in the kitchen stay right here he's got a gun where's harry davis he went shut up mildred go ahead mildred talk he went into town what town centerville he went to pick up some supplies when we be back thanks mildred we'll wait for him we'll return in just a moment to this 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program to find the two men after having spent twenty long years in prison were anxious to do only one thing when they regained their freedom were anxious only to commit another crime which might in turn return them to prison for the rest of their lives that they cared little to enjoy freedom for even a short time is something which is perhaps incomprehensible to those of you not plagued with a criminal mind any study of arrest records such as is made every year by the federal bureau of investigation shows how cheaply criminals hold freedom once a person is sentenced to prison there is a fifty percent chance that he will be sentenced again at some future date to serve still another term and the figures also show that after a person has served two terms in prison the chances are even greater that he will commit another crime serious enough to see him sentenced a third time the figures you have just heard are the facts and if they are unpleasant it is well to remember one thing so is crime tonight's file continues at the FBI field office later that afternoon Special Agent Taylor has just entered I couldn't get much down at the hospital Mr. Butler did you talk to Paul Davis? No sir he hasn't regained consciousness well I want you to give this your full attention now Taylor all right sir if Parsons and Cochran are the ones who committed this assault they've violated their parole and we've got to move fast oh I tried to talk to Mrs. Davis at the hospital but she was too hysterical to answer any questions so I left and went out to their house Davis' mother-in-law was at the place taking care of their six-year-old son did she know where Harry was living? No sir but the boy told me that his daddy got a special delivery letter this morning from Grandpa Harry right after that they went out to the hall of telephone and Paul called the old man did you find that letter? I tried to sir but it wasn't in the apartment and he didn't have it on him when he was brought into the hospital well if Parsons and Cochran got a hold of it and there was a return address on the envelope they might be on their way to see if Davis works yes she's a bookkeeper to a meat company over on the east side go over and see if the letter's in his desk all right sir and report to me as soon as you get back we'd better find Harry Davis pretty soon or we'll have another murder on our hands I see it he wants gas we don't get it keep the door locked you heard him don't move man's coming in no he's not don't you go too we're waiting for Harry remember he's not you've been waiting too long sir you're right blue thanks don't touch that phone there you me? yeah answer it and don't talk funny I wish he's on back he'll be back in a little while anything else? yeah he said to close up when you get through with her you can tie this one up me? and we'll turn off the lights and wait for Harry yes what did you find? I didn't locate the letter from Harry but I did come up with two other things first is this snapshot it's on the glass on Paul Davis' desk looks something like the old pictures of Harry Davis oh it is Davis read what's written on the back of it dear Paul this is the diner my and I have bought we both miss you seems like a new snapshot David yes it does the better doesn't say where the diner is what else did you get? Paul Davis a carpool Davis drove them in this morning but when the men went out to lunch at noon time the car was gone got a description on it? yes sir I called the motor vehicle and got one from them then I set an alarm on it good now I'd suggest you get down to the hospital and wait till you can question either Paul Davis or his wife but less speaking well that's just up the road but Mrs. Davis must be right about where her own father in law lives well how did she know it was a place called Satterville what's the report on Davis when will you be able to question him don't remember us Leo it's you where's my wife where's the girl who works here what did you do with him let's take it easy looking back at you and still yeah we came to see you on time we're giving orders go ahead give them thanks but first listen to me both of you start talking the last couple of years I've been scared to death I knew you were I knew you'd come for me I couldn't eat I couldn't sleep now you're here I don't know why but I'm not scared now he's real brave real I am big you came here to kill me didn't you what do you say you got the gun Leo that makes you the head man but those women there on the floor they didn't have anything to do with you being set away set a lot you want me come along I'll go with you let's get it over with we ain't going any place give it to them now Leo hey don't try to pick up that gun Tarkin that's right special agent of the FBI thanks mister that's alright Davis you don't have to worry about these two anymore they wouldn't be bothering anybody for a long long time he was called to commit murder and return to federal prison for violating their conditional release before beginning to serve new sentences of 25 years each the thing special agent Taylor remembered which enabled him to find out near which particular town named centerville Harry Davis's diner was located was his conversation with the six year old son of Paul Davis he remembered that the boy had told him of having gone to the hall telephone when his father called grandpa Harry special agent Taylor had noticed that the hall telephone was of pay station and that calls had to be paid for as they were made fortunately Paul Davis's son was able to tell special agent Taylor how much money his father had dropped into the telephone when he made the call a quick check at long distance revealed the toll charges to the various towns named centerville in neighboring states and so the federal bureau of investigation was able to close another file and also was able to prevent a murder of the two preventing a murder was of course more important although Harry Davis had a criminal record he was entitled to all the protection your FBI gives every other citizen protection against those who would infringe on the rights granted to each of you by the instrument which every special agent works to defend the constitution of the United States in just a moment we will tell you about next week's exciting FBI file now one last word on the equitable society's plan for men and women on the way up it's a plan for the man who will someday soon telephone his wife and say well honey I saw Mr. Pearson himself he said I'm just the man they're looking for and they'll double my salary if you're that kind of man then the sooner you get in touch with an equitable society representative the better ask him for full information on the equitable society's life insurance plan for men and women on the way up or send a postcard care of this station to the equitable life insurance society this is Bill Woodson of Jerry Divine's this is your FBI speaking to you again ordinarily I bring you statistics about crime tonight I have a different kind of figure in the past year with no respect for age or sex heart disease killed more than 600,000 men women and children in this country the 1950 heart campaign is now in progress give whatever you can afford to it for your contribution may save your own life send that contribution tonight to heart H-E-A-R-T heart care of your local post office thank you next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation the story of a desperate criminal's attempt to escape it's subject unlawful flight it's title voice from the river 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 Harley Bear Ed Begley John McIntyre Jeanette Nolan Joe Vitale Peggy Weber and Roland Winters this is your FBI as 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 the same time when the Equitable Life Assurance Society will bring you another thrilling transcribe story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation voice from the river on this is your FBI the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet fun for the whole family follows immediately over most of these ABC stations stay tuned this is ABC the American Broadcasting Company