 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 Transcribed and presented as a public service by the equitable life assurance society of the United States and the equitable society is representative in your community Did you ever hear of people paying particular attention to radio commercials? Well, that's exactly what's happening on this program right now Thousands of people will listen with special attention to tonight's middle commercial all because of a postcard They received in the mail this morning a postcard from their equitable society representative Inviting them to hear the news about the equitable society's independent 60s plan a Practical workable plan for people who want complete independence after they age of 60 I'll be back in just 14 minutes to give you full information on this special plan offered by the equitable life assurance society of the United States tonight's FBI file threes a crime Fingerprint cards and the files of your FBI recently passed the staggering total of 18 million That is a depressing fact But even more deplorable is the fact that these latest figures show that among those arrested in the past year The greatest number were 21 years of age The second predominant age group was 22 and the third was 23 This is a wealthy nation and the Horn of Plenty is our national problem But there is grave doubt in many quarters as to whether or not any nation can long continue to surrender its youth to the ways of crime and Still continue to prosper Tonight's case from the vials of your FBI is the story of three of those young men Three young men who might have included in their number your own son For this story could take place anywhere and could happen to anyone Tonight's file opens in a small one-car garage adjoining a frame house located in a large eastern city It is evening as a gray haired tired-looking woman sticks her head through the garage door to talk to her son Andy Where are your son? Dinner's ready All right Whose car is this Another one Well, this is three cars you fix belong into him Where does he get them? Don't you think you might find out? Look mom, he pays me to repair his cars not to ask questions Andy, I don't like George Roberts, and I think I have good reason for it Oh, hi George. Hello. How's it coming Andy? Okay? Look look mom. We why don't you put the stuff on the table? I'll be right in huh? All right Why be ready Andy tonight? Yeah, you did a real good job. I like the new color. This is the last job George What that was our agreement any car you steal from now on you get fixed someplace else a Few days later at local police headquarters FBI special agent Jim Taylor is approaching the desk of Detective Bill Snyder Oh I've just been assigned to it. You got anything on it Anything I've been able to pick so far is the thieves used the black sedan I can throw in a little more than that We can use help there You know a town called Madisonville across the state line. Yes Well, the local police is suspecting for some time at the owner of a radio store. There was a fence Two days ago one of their detectives went into the store copied the serial numbers off of several of the sets Factory to learn where the sets have been shipped to original They got an answer this morning the sets were part of the loot stolen from the 9th Street warehouse. Hey, we've still got a problem The fence says he bought the sets from a stranger named Frank Smith Do they believe him Did he give any description of this Frank Smith a very bad one he said he'd only met him twice both times Bill I think I'll run down to the warehouse take a look around. Are you going by your office on the way? I've got something for you to take along Here's a cap and a cone Cap was found this morning at the warehouse The comb was found after a robbery at another warehouse It's been in my desk up to now because we haven't had anything to compare it with I'll drop them by our lab. Thanks Yeah, okay on as soon as I'm through at the warehouse. I'll see if they've got the report ready for me If it is bill, I'll call it Hey grab a cute ball watch Okay Try that combo with a 10 ball You hit too hard the cue slip. It's only the chalk. We sure here They got any door in you It broke. Mm-hmm. I just gave you your end in the radios. I got a tip on a horse You bet the whole thing. Yeah, okay, then I don't way to play that shot. I was trying something Yeah, how about the door? Hey, I can let you have a sore. I got the shorts myself. You better do another job real quick I figured we go tonight. Well, but you've got to fix something first. What do you mean? You remember that cop that almost nailed us the last time. Yeah We ain't doing any more jobs so we can beat the price on that and get the word first. Oh Same way he operates Shortwave radio right in the car you Get Andy to hook one up for us. No, he ain't gonna go for it. Why not? He told me the other night he was paid up with us. He wasn't doing any more jobs. Yeah, give me that cue I'll show you how to make that shot. You see Keep practicing. I'm going over and talk to Andy. Hello, son I didn't call the drink. I just made some lemonade. Oh, where's it in that picture? Andy Someone waiting for you in the garage. Oh That friend of George's oh I Thought you weren't seeing them anymore. I'm not mom. Well, then why is he here? I don't know, but I'll find out right now. Yeah, that George is not dope He's been spending the whole day in a nice cool pool What do you want Frank? I asked George not to come around here anymore. It went for you too Yeah, I heard about that. Well We got another job for you kid. I can't handle it. It'll pay you good. I don't want your money Frank What's the matter with you? I just don't want to get mixed up with you guys You took our money once kid. You know why I took it. My mother was sick I needed a dough for a doctor in an operation. I'd have held up a bank to get it did about as bad I guess taking it from you look Andy I made a deal of fix up three cars for you guys and payment for the dough. I fixed those cars now worry. No I'm still in front. Oh Cops could find out who fix those cars From you. Yeah You'd be hanging yourself too. No, okay. I can prove who fixed them, but you can't prove who stole Look as a short way ready on this box. I want it hooked up in the black car George and me are doing a job tonight. Have it ready and You'll get ready to I just decided you're gonna be the guy who sits in the car and listens Through the records bill and Jim I just finished Find anything. No, we only had three Frank Smiths and our files and I've just checked the last one out Well, then we've got to assume that Frank Smith is an alias. I guess you're right Oh, I picked up that report from our lab bill on the cap and cone. That's right What did it say all the hairs found on the comb or exact duplicates of the hairs in the cap That means the same person was in on both robberies Well, it gives us something to work on in the morning. It's 10 30 Jim. You want to call tonight? Oh, I gotta go back to my office. Oh, I think we ought to do one thing first Oh, what's that alert every warehouse in the city? I'll have the switchboard. Take care of that Okay, if the watchmen are on the job and those thieves try again, maybe we'll be saved a lot of extra work United Avenue 31 that is all and Anything come in on the radio. Oh, no and turn it off now. Come on. Where inside the warehouse. Oh, no Look kid. We went all through this earlier today Now what I told you in your garage about my blowing a whistle to your mother in the cops Come on We need some help with what? With a crate it's too heavy for us to handle come on Walks often wait what thought I saw a light flash in at the other end of the building. I guess I didn't let's go You wouldn't hear go ahead kid. 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Edgar Hoover director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Mr. Hoover's message is and I quote Our nation somewhere along the line has fallen down on the job of educating its youth to the responsibility of citizenship as you heard on this official FBI radio program earlier Ages 21 through 23 dominated the arrest records through the past 12 months In many cases those young people have turned to crime because their parents and their communities have failed them Talk to any group of them as I have And you find that they were never taught to recognize the importance of their status as citizens Nor to recognize the need for the individual citizens cooperation with law enforcement Above all they were never given the realization of the utter futility of crime You cannot abolish deplorable conditions by ignoring them as many communities are even today ignoring the youthful crime wave It is your job as a member of your community to help these young men and women achieve a useful place in society For by doing that you will achieve a two-fold result First you will be helping your community by introducing young blood into its life scream and Second you will be doing your part in fighting the crime wave Tonight's file continues later the same night at the local FBI field office. Oh Jim. I'm glad to caught you here It's just about to go home her report just came in from the 17th precinct on the warehouse robbery and not the one we've been working on Not another one. Uh-huh and done by the same gang. Oh, how do you know the watchman saw them drive away in his description of the Getaway car is the same as the other watchman. Did he give you any description of the robbers? No, but he did something that might develop into a lead. Oh, what's that? He shot one of the bandits How does he know blood on the ground? No bill we'd better notify all hospitals immediately already done that. Oh good How about doctors who might be called to treat the wounded man? We haven't had a chance to get to them yet. Well, there are several telephone services for doctors Let's contact them and get them to spread their word Ryan. Oh, there are some doctors that don't have that service We've got a list of them and headquarters. We got one here, too. I'll tell you what we ought to do bill Yeah, why don't you go back to your office get your list and start at the bottom? Okay, I'll stay here and start from the top as soon as either one of us here's knitting We'll get together What is it and he's passed out what do we do we're almost to his join we work on him there Hey, he's bleeding real bad. All right, so he's bleeding. We uh I'll pull right into this driveway. We can bring him in the garage. Okay Wait, I'll help you. I'll take his feet. You grab his shoulders. All right. Let's start walking Quiet we don't want his whole lady to hear us. We'd like at this door. Let's drop him over there It won't turn on any light. We can see good enough. I'm right here. He's really out He's still breathing. He ain't gonna be very long if he keeps bleeding like that Let's see if we can patch him up or to be some rags and stuff around here. You look over there Great. We'll see the car. She'll know somebody's here. Let me handle this Yes, ma'am he is what are you? Oh, what what's happening? He got shot mrs. Mitchell And he he'll be okay. Yeah, I was an accident. He was playing with a gun and it went off Go into the house one of you call a doctor. Where do you hear me go in and call a doctor? Oh? He doesn't need a doctor mrs. Mitchell. I'll call one myself Are you gonna be good if she calls that doc? Let's get out of here special agent Taylor's being Yes, Bill Is this tied into the warehouse robbery? Yes, where is he now? Get anything else from the doctor? Yes, George Robert's okay. When are you going over there right now? Will you pick me up in front of the office? We'll go over together. My son was never in trouble before mrs. Mitchell That's right, mr. Taylor. I I checked on the records of the other two men before I left the office They've both been arrested quite a few times. I knew there were no good But it was my fault that Andy was with them huh, I Was sick this spring. I needed an operation we We didn't have enough money. My son borrowed some from them In return they made him do their work. I Didn't know this until a few minutes ago Andy just told me I see He's not a thief mr. Taylor. You've got to believe that I think I do mrs. Mitchell Did your son know where the others were going? No But he told me that you'd have trouble catching them They made him hook up a shortwave radio in their car so they could listen to police calls Yes, it will make it difficult Excuse me mrs. Mitchell. Oh Certainly what happened I missed young roberts at his house by a couple of minutes and Frank chickens landlady Told me he'd just left and they must still be in time. That's right. I think we might catch up to them after all Come on bill. Let's get out to your car We'd have heard about it wouldn't we George take off your sweater throwing out the winter in here 1948 black Buick sedan license unknown referred to in previous message reported seen five minutes ago Headed out of city on route 41. They got the wrong car. He ain't been nearly 47 and eight eight This must be something different cause eight seven and eight eight Station yourselves on route 11 and search for black sedan with two men in it referred to in previous message That takes care of it calling car six three and car six eight Calling car six three and six eight Station yourselves on route nine three knocks out ninety three. Yeah Calling cars five eight and five nine Calling cars five eight and five nine Station yourselves on route eight same instruction that is all Got every roadblock. You didn't hear anybody mention the toll bridge did you hey? That's right. That's going to get us out of town Was the lessons 1948 black Buick sedan referred to in previous messages has been apprehended on route 41 Hey, they caught us. Yeah turn that thing off right Hey bridges right around the corner. I know give me a quarter before The tall bridge. Okay There's a bridge Got the quarter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, doc. I don't want any quarter Jenkins Well, who are you a special agent of the FBI? I was pretty sure you'd try to use this bridge now get out of that car Frank Jenkins and George Roberts were given five-year prison terms for violation of the National Motor Vehicle theft act Andy Mitchell was put on probation for three years in as much as he was the victim of circumstances and associations The two young men in the stolen car were apprehended tonight because the messages they heard over their shortwave radio Messages which made it appear as if their flight for freedom would be successful were prepared by special agent Taylor They were so designed that the two men were led to believe that every exit from the city was closed except the bridge The mistake made by these young men in thinking they could commit crimes without paying for them is not an unusual error The ego of the criminal young or old tells him he can get away with anything Until he learns the fallacy of his reasoning He continues to build the number of major crimes a number which last year reached a total of more than a million 600,000 In the overall crime picture these three young men in tonight's case were relatively unimportant But they do serve to illustrate a problem which so far as the future of the nation is concerned has no fear The problem of keeping the names of the 21 22 and 23 year olds of the police plotters of the nation is one of the greatest law enforcement problems in the country today Because they are your sons This is also your problem In just a moment, we will tell you about next week's exciting case from the files of your FBI Now two final questions on the equitable societies independent 60s plan Mr. Keating is there any fixed amount of money that a man has to put into one of these plans? No, your equitable representative will work out an independent 60s plan that fits your present salary Well, how much of an income can I expect when I'm 60 that actual amount is determined by your present income and your future needs Your equitable society representative can give you the answer in a matter of minutes Phone him 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 Graphic story of a man hunt for three desperate criminals its subject jailbreak its title The sentimental double-cross The incidents used in tonight's equitable life-assurance societies 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's broadcast was transcribed and 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 Stacy Harris Others in the cast were Georgia backers Tony Barrett Tom Brown Ted Decorsia Ed Gargan and Bert Harlan 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 societies 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 the sentimental double-cross on This is your FBI. This is ABC the American broadcasting company