 in the name of the law we bring you another of the thrilling stories in this exciting series taken from actual police case file our story begins on the night of november 27th 1934 in seattle's police headquarters headquarters i want to report a stolen car stolen car i'll connect you to the detective bureau headquarters yes mr richards i just found out that my main store robbery let me take this report what was stolen mr richards in i see you know how the place was entered and what was the value of the stolen property sir around mr richards i'll give this report to captain of detectives immediately sir hey swiney come on slow freight hustle it up what's all the rush what's up edward another phantom gang job ah you're crazy that phantom gang pulled that periodical company job last night tell it to swiney i'm telling it to you come on take this report into captain scrappard oh he ain't in his office oh turn a duck eh well he's in the chief's office here headquarters go ahead fire department that phantom gang's got captain scrapper turn his hair he won't make me a sergeant for bringing in this report lieutenant this is edward sir reserves wanted sir fugitive steamship dock on fire captain i want a full report on this lumber supply robbery first thing in the morning yes sir i can give you a full report now chief no fingerprints no clues nothing just the jimmy marks on the front door the calling card of seattle's phantom gang well we've got to get them we've had a year of pillaging and plundering by a gang that's never yet left their trace chief were overdue on this fantastic ring i know look here's my own record on all those unsolved robberies 16 of them yes and not counting the repeats galbraith lumber company burglarized four times blue street candy company three times and none of the loot has ever been found none of the stuff stolen on these jobs has ever showed up at a pawn shop or a second hand dealer or a fence or a fence leave shadow dozens of them and look at the kind of stuff this phantom gang steals big stuff expensive machinery motors and then then this cough drop canned oysters ham bacon tools book soups christmas tree light man what about lefty connor's have you checked on him lately lefty he'd machine gun you for a song chief but he wouldn't let those dumb mobs as of his father with machinery what about or no co or no co is a number one suspect burglary like this is right up his alley but i can't pin anything on him yet well keep your man on his trail captain this phantom gang has got to be wiped out have you any new ideas on it yeah little butch barrett has a pretty young sister silvia what about her she just got engaged to fill sherman today fill sherman yeah one of our bright young cops marion the sister of the smartest mob leader in seattle a killer too say captain you didn't put sherman up to it did you mean i'd never give a cop an assignment like that it will be signing his death warrant little butch thinks the sun rises on that sister of his how do you think they'll sherman even got close enough to her to say hello that's what i want to find out little butch may be the works on this phantom gang anytime he lets a cop marry into his family it's for no good reason yes oh edwards chief four alarm player sir four alarms now on the fugitive steamship duck player the crowd's all over the docks all reserves requested to get the reserves out all precincts five to fourteen and have all patrolmen and radio cars keep doubly watchful on their beats for burglaries special orders yes chief four alarm doc fire come along you bet chief maybe little butch is in the awesome racket now to cover up a couple of other jobs tonight stick close to me what do you say all right butch afraid of the big bad fire now but it's water from the swimming with cops fix out so that's cheaper police cutlery but a fire ladder the guy next to miss graffit captain to take this oh so that's graffit heard phil speak of him hope i can take phil here yes but graffit sees you with me he'll know i'm not pulling off a job somewhere else in seattle oh why can't you go straight butch i don't want the police to get my brother well the cops have got my sister ain't they makes me look good with the mob all right they think little butch is a new kind of stool pigeon my assistant are clubbing bads well don't you want me to be happy butch sure silver you know i'd give you my right arm but not your promise to get away from that mob i can't i'm in too deep they wouldn't let me go butch let's get away from seattle phil can get a job somewhere else i'd never quit the cops here he's on his way up besides here comes graffit now you look at those fireboats the flames are getting higher yeah it's a great night for the cops all right hello butch wish you'd want me to meet your sister i happen to know her by sight i think i got enough cops on you ought to be nice to me butch i might be able to help your brother-in-law that is if your mob lets him live long enough to marry your sister please please well you're trying to do scraffit tell me butch how many jobs are you pulling off tonight undercover of this fire you can't finish phantom gang business on me who said anything about phantom gang it's in all the papers are you marrying phil shaman because you think he's a policeman in the family will help your brother i'm marrying phil shaman because i love him and if you don't stop hounding us phil and i'll leave seattle and take little butch with you that would look good for an ex cop wouldn't it phil can make good as a cop anywhere he couldn't buy you clothes like those you're wearing on a cop face why don't you let us alone scraffit if you're so fine of your sister butch why don't you help her come clean about the phantom gang wash up this suspicion that's hanging over you and her and this young cop he's gonna marry take your own potatoes on this phantom gang scraffit i'm not gonna help you ever since i was a kid all i got from a cop was the wrong end of a club all right butch if he gets smart and change your mind let me know come on sir phil let's get out of here before this guy makes one crack too many come on i'm coming jenny i'm coming yes captain any orders yeah keep following butch what was he doing today well he played card at joe's place then this afternoon about five he took a ride down this way stopped over on second street near the blue street candy company blue street candy company why didn't you tell me that before well i thought i was going to turn in a full report in the morning the phantom gang has quite cracked the blue street candy company three times it may be cracking up at the fourth time right now jenny you follow a little butch don't let him out of your sight get going yes sir boy i'll watch him all right sergeant sergeant long yes sir sergeant motorcycle fight car yes sir come on i'm detaching you from fire duty go sports party coming out here we are yes sir listen sergeant long and i are going over to the blue street candy place on second street near front get another squad car and six more men face them in behind us and round that block understand right now we got you remember no siren keep us quiet as you can i want this stuff to be a surprise come on that's the blue street factory down the street yes sir there's no light there at all that gang knows its way around in there by this time you follow me done ready yes sir there's a door well it's open it's been jimmied open come on in someone in there who's there who's there speak up or shoot you speak up or we'll shoot or you'll find a place for that flashlight over there where police here he comes why is patrolman jankins oh hello look captain i was passing by sir noticed the front door and been jimmied open so i came in and was just looking around when i heard you i almost let you have it in the dark yeah you almost got it too never mind yeah this place has been robbed all right those shelves cleaned up yeah i noticed it they took that time wherever they were is that phantom gang again hey i thought they hired a watchman after that last burglary yeah that's right they did i wonder where he is let's look around all right hold your flashlight over here sergeant okay it's a door huh looks like it leads to a kind of a sello way captain yeah stand back and cover me sergeant you do jankins right i'm gonna open that door yes sir all right captain but i'll stand back well the saints had mercy watchman at the foot of the stairs he's been murdered you know what i think i think it's suicide now that might be his own gun over there and look look at the powder marks on a temple could he still be alive no he's dead poor fellow look at that red blood on his white hair come on man help me turn him over right and he was kidding that he had a sweet job in that candy factory headquarters and there's a big hole out in the middle of park street park street near where there's seven three yes sir all right thank you car 19 car 19 go to park street near seven park street near seven hole in street arrange warning for automobiles place red lanterns oh good evening captain hello edwards there was a patrolman on that park street beef i was just going to call his precinct we're sure handed on menu no sir any news on that watchman murder last night captain not a clue this depression is breeding crime in more ways than one every department short handed policemen doubling up on their beat excuse me captain headquarters this is the manager of the harvey electric supply company number 11 charles street i will report a robbery harvey electrical supply robbery what another one go on edwards let's have it yes sir go ahead sir i came down to the office late to go over some figures for a new job i found a store ransack the door been jimmied open store ransack door jimmy that's phantom gang again i'll send a squad car right around sir you better this town's going to be a burgers paradise five pretty sore car fifteen car fifteen go to harvey fifteen just a minute edwards isn't that filled sherman squad car yes sir he's with jack miller call sherman in right away send another man out to take his place go ahead i'll get the chief don't care the order i'll be in his office yes sir car fifteen car fifteen officer sherman report the headquarters immediately sherman report the headquarters immediately officer miller proceeds a harvey electrical supply company 11 charles street robbery sherman you're in a bad spot well chief i don't know anything about that harvey electrical robbery and you don't know who killed that poor old watchman last night no captain at harvey burglary tonight was on my beat that's all i know chairman do you take orders from the police department or from little butch barrett or captain don't bring him into this i love his sister sure and i'm gonna marry her well why don't you protect her then what do you mean sherman captains grafford means that you're holding something back on this harvey robbery tonight are you trying to shield somebody your future brother-in-law come clean sherman where will you when the hobby's always burglarized well i was i took time out the time what time was that about 10 30 tonight jack miller and i were driving along charles street in the squad car and jack wanted to know if it wasn't hungry well it wasn't jack said to grab a bite so he dropped me off at the white circle hamburger wagon how long were you there under little butch called him no no i tell you i was there for almost three hours off your beat three hours all right take my bad but don't do anything to jack said he was just calling on his girl it was her birthday or you were calling on your girl no sir i'll tell him about her little butch your sister well yes then she knew you were off your beat well i chairman i want you to go out on your squad car route again right now oh jeez i mean thank you just a minute if anyone asks you why you were brought in tonight it's just a new routine i'm trying understand yes sir if you talk you're through that'll be all yes sir thank you sir glad you let him off chief i've got an idea the sherman driver car of his own yeah he has a little roadster does he drive it to work yes he's sitting in the pop and garage grafford i have an idea we're going to invest in a little oil stock oil stock yes i want you to get a five gallon can of motor oil and tie it under sherman's car so he can't see it yes then i want you to have a plug made so it can be pulled out of the oil can when sherman drives his car out of the garage we're going to track him understand yes but why well if sherman saw a big pool of oil under his car before he drove out of the garage he'd look under it and see the can right chief you're a fast think we've got to think fast to keep ahead of this phantom gang and remember that poor old night watchman the corner said they tried to make it look like suicide kill him with his own gun i'd like to track down the man who did that we'll track this phantom gang in oil and have a man assigned to see that sherman's oil is renewed every day how about putting a can on little but his car too and you fix it i'd like to see if little butchers and sherman's oil tracks cross i think it can be arranged good be anything sergeant not sure captain the armory across the street there is pitch dark are you sure those oil tracks came here yeah two of them we found two pools of oil in the street there in front of the armory after the cars had gone well a national guard armory is the last place you'd look for crooks and that building's a regular fortress swell view overlooking Puget Sounder who's that coming down the street they're back in the doorway it's a man in uniform national guard uniform sergeant sergeant stripes yes sir he's at the armory door now getting out keys there he goes in well the chief got me a key to that door this afternoon shall we go over and crash now take it easy sergeant maybe we'll get some more efficient our net wait a minute there comes somebody around the corner it's a patrolman beat man probably what are you doing now just waiting there in the shadow of the armory recognize him too dark captain he's expecting someone maybe it's this guy it's a police squad car and jack miller in it by himself wonder where his partner is jack miller right he's chairman partner in the squad carry me here listen there they go in bill bill who how we could tell from his car he said it's parked behind the armory every day yeah but we can tell better by looking him right in the eye we're going in sergeant come on two cops and an army sergeant up the step sergeant and the key back is the inside of your hat take it easy this is the drill floor nobody here I look like a stairway over here come on right with you watch out for these stairs another door I'll just open it a crack careful that room inside there is lighted take it easy nobody here looks like the armory carpenter shop let's look around a lot of big closet yeah carpenter tools electrical grinder two new portable electric saws where let me see here the bottom of this cupboard pull away those rags in that toilet say what is this more saws and lamps and what names do you see on them sergeant look get it richards lumber supply company Harvey electrical and say captain all this paint is in the gallery company the one they knocked off four times and we finally got them cracked in oil wait a minute what's that they're coming get ready sergeant I'm ready turn out the light shoot and turn the light on fire right all right sergeant Captain Slavery put up your hands Jenkins you too Miller ah just a minute all your cops doing in this armory you got my right shooting in here being in my cop in the shop keep them up sergeant oh it's your cop in the shop is this sergeant I thought it belonged to the National Guard well I'm regimental carpenter and can't take your material and how you take care of materials stolen by the phantom gang from lumber companies and electrical stores and that ain't no no Captain that is them sergeant Lee called us in here tonight he thought he heard a bugler Miller you and Jenkins ought to be in the zoo in the snake house yeah that'll be tough on the snakes take their guns and clubs away and strip off their badges oh it's a pleasure hey let's hear my uniform you won't need that police uniform much longer Jenkins where's the rest of the loot bill getting your car parked out behind the armory who else is in this with you oh you want to play shut mouth now hey you can't make us talk captain we know all the tricks yeah maybe I've got one you don't know bring them along sergeant we'll send a van for the care takers material oh captain we got part of the phantom gang but only part and I know chief your investment in oil was a great idea you must admit I used my head when I attached those oil cans through those other cars attract Miller and Jenkins right to the armory the leader of this mob the brains is still loose in Seattle and it looks like a big gang to me oh captain no one knows we arrested those men last night no sir they're being held in Communicado good makes my blood boil to think my own policemen are burglars thieves maybe killers but if we can keep this arrest quiet for one more night excuse me chief uh here's that list you want it sir all right sweetie that'll be all right yes sir captain here's the record of all the patrolmen on whose beat those phantom gang robberies to place oh I see dates of robberies beats patrolmen and the night's off right now take a look at these precinct maps Jenkins he was off his own beat that night of the blue streak murder sure in there covering up probably helped rob that place and then had an alibi just going by and look at this most of these robberies were pulled when the regular patrolman had his night off and somebody else was doubling on his beat exactly we're short-handed on police and somebody had been tipping off the phantom gang on what beats are unguarded and when that's why a lot of these stores are cleaned up the gang had lots of time and they knew it but how can we put our fingers on the tip off man chief this gives me an idea you track this phantom gang in oil suppose I track them another way how here's my plan tonight in about 10 minutes headquarters take the woods just a minute oh yes captain Edwards chief wants to see you right away special assignment all right captain but uh we'll take over the switchboard I'll take it used to be my old job you know come on give me the headphones yes sir there you are I'll see the hello right who feels charming why I don't know I'll see who is this well never mind please just tell him Sylvia little bushes sister eh oh sweetie well this is Edward this is Joe hello Joe one truck say anyone on duty first avenue between no nobody's there tonight swiney swiney hurry up yes captain ready take the board take these headphones yes remember your orders yeah yes sir just shall I pledge everybody now captain Edwards will be in jail any minute now yes give them the works and remember swiney tell those squad guys no sirens within hearing distance gave us lumber company right first avenue between second of Virginia oh chief chief they all sit all cars all cars go to Davis lumber company first avenue we've got them red handed then all posted captain already chief and five of him own policemen five more plots on the Seattle police look out people look out nice work common he'd have plugged the chief if you hadn't got him thanks Sherman all right chief I owe to to you forgive me this chant I want to I'm Joe night watchman I shot him the killer of the night watchman well that's one member of the phantom gang who won't have to stand in trial come on Seattle's finest down to the jail to meet your pal Edwards you're going for a ride in your own wagons