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Tonight's FBI file out of the storm. A war has been going on in this country since the birth of the nation in 1776. We refer to the war against crime a constant battle which is being waged on every front 24 hours a day between criminal and law enforcement agency. In this fight the criminal enjoys one great advantage he and he alone decides when the crime shall be committed. Sometimes it is possible for the special agents of your FBI or for your local police to be on the scene and to prevent that crime. But for obvious reasons that rarely happens. In most cases it is possible for the law breaker to strike and run. The problem of crime prevention is complex and not one which can be dismissed by the recital of a simple panacea. However there is one thing which more and more crime commissions are recommending after the studies. That is to enlarge your local police force for the past 20 years. The population of every big city has jumped up frequently and yet in most cases the police have remained at the same strength they had in the 1920s. Enlarging a police force costs money which means taxes which means that you have to put the bill. Cost is an important item not only in these days but all the time. However money spent for law enforcement is an investment in the future. An investment that will pay off with a victory in this 173 year war. The war against crime. The file opens in a small frame house located in the far suburbs of a western city. It is night. A summer storm sends vivid flashes of lightning into the living room of this dwelling. In this room a middle-aged man sits reading to his daughter. As Jennifer entered the room the dark foreboding room she had hated even as a little girl. She felt the presence of someone. Some intruded. Quickly she ran to the light switch. She clicked it. The stygian blackness of the room remained. Someone had cut the wires. Go on. As she stood there petrified someone slammed the door. She could hear their footsteps running down the long marble hallway. She opened the door to follow the mysterious visitor. And as she did so a strong beam of light fell across the carpet. And Jennifer saw something on the floor near the window. It was a body. The body of her brother. I knew it. No more for none Dan. But you can't stop reading now. We'll finish it tomorrow night. Father. What was that. Thunder. No. No I heard footsteps father. There's someone out there. You hear someone. Yes. Well I'll see who it is. Dad I was sure I. That story I read in the major. There you see I knew someone was there. Mr. Sandy. Yeah. I'm Albert Brewster. I've got a letter of introduction to you. Come inside. Thank you. Father. It's a Mr. Brewster. This is my daughter. How do you know. Hello. May I see the letter. Surely. Mr. Brewster. Yes. Why did you stand outside so long. What do you mean. You were outside when father opened the door the first time. I heard your footsteps. You've heard me all this time. I can't see Mr. Brewster. I depend on my sense of hearing. Why did you stand outside. Well. I wasn't sure I had to let. You're the new man in this territory for tell me do it. Yes sir. What does he want father. Mr. Brewster's company sent me some stock. Unconstrained. I haven't been able to move it so he's going to take it back. Oh. Would it be too late to go down to the store now sir. Yes I'm afraid it would be. Well I've got some business tomorrow morning about a hundred miles from here. Well if I could get it tonight. I'm sorry Mr. Brewster. Not in this storm. Well. I have a problem. What's that. I stopped at the hotel on my way through town. Pull up. You don't give me the jewelry now I have no place to stay. Well. I guess you can stay here tonight Mr. Brewster. I'll get the jewelry for you in the morning. That same evening at a nearby FBI field office special agent Tim Taylor seated at his desk when agent Earl Conrad approaches. Welcome back to the office. Thanks. I see we're working on a case together. Yeah that's right. What is it. I'll grab a chair. I'll show you another. Oh fine. There's a small trunk line railroad that runs from here to Salt Lake City and then heads north. Oh I know that line. No. Well it runs parallel to the highway for quite a way. And they both run past an old army camp that used to be called Camp Waterbury. Camp Waterbury. Yeah. I was stationed there before I went overseas. Well that must be why the SEC put you on the case. What kind is it Jim. Well body was found beside the railroad tracks and property that's part of the army camp. Better. Well of course I didn't think so. Why not. I went up there the first thing I did was to examine the body. Dressed in ragged clothes. Uh huh. He had a bad head wound and I thought he might have been killed falling off a train. Tracks take a pretty bad curb right at that spot. Then closer examination show he had a fresh haircut clean shave and a new manicure. It doesn't sound like a trip. No I'm sure he wasn't. Any idea who he was. No I contacted the nearby towns. They have no one reported missing. Still leaves a lot of territory to be checked. Yeah. How about fingerprints. I sent them along to Washington as soon as I got them. I've been expecting an answer momentarily. Uh huh. You think we ought to go back up to the camp. All the S.A.C. wants us to wait till we're here for my dinner in Washington. As soon as we do we start moving. I thought you went to bed. I got thirsty. Wanted a glass of water. He's been in every room but the kitchen. Just trying to find my way around. The kitchen is behind me. I'll show you. All right. Oh sorry. Find your way man. Here's a glass. Thank you. You didn't drink the water Mr. Brewster. How do you know. I didn't hear you. Really did good. That's right. I know there's a car going up the dirt road of a cave right now. What cave. The one up the hill. Leads to an underground lake. I don't hear any car. Hearing practice like a sense of catch. I'd like to develop that too. For instance. I can tell about most people by their hands. Yours are deceptive though. What. You're a jewelry salesman. When you came in tonight and we shook hands. I expected yours to be soft. They were hard. Very hard. Count. Want another glass of water Mr. Brewster. You know thanks. And I think we'd better get back upstairs. All right. Good night Miss Sanders. We got lucky Euro. What do you mean Jim. All the report just came in from my then. A man didn't have a criminal record. I don't understand what you mean by lucky. Oh he took a civil service exam two years ago and filed this Prince with the application. His name was Albert Brewster. What did you get on it. He was a jewelry salesman. How'd you find that out. Well I got the address he gave in his application and put in a call. Married. Yeah. I had to give the news to his wife. Ouch. That's a rough assignment. This one was doubly rough. Mrs. Brewster just had a baby a month ago. I guess the motive was robbery. Sounds like any idea how much jewelry Brewster was carrying. No not yet. His wife told me he was working for the Shelby Jewelry Company in New York with a time difference. Their offices are closed by now. Could she give you any other information. You said that her husband was traveling this territory for the first time on a train. No he was traveling by car. His company? No. His own. And the murder must have taken the car too. Any description on it. Yeah I'll complete. He covered a lot of territory in two days. Not telling where he is. Well if he's on the road with the car we've got a good chance. I sent out a five state alarm. Oh good. Well. Nothing else to do tonight or let's meet back here tomorrow morning and put that call through to the Shelby Company. Right. And as soon as we get his route from them we can start our search for the killer. Father. Father I've got to talk to you. No I want to talk about Mr. Brewster. I found him snooping around downstairs. Where? A little while ago. Did you see him? Yes. And he could have called me. He said he wanted to go into the water. The father I gave him went in and at first he didn't drink it. He was looking for something. Maybe you're mistaken. I don't think he's a jewelry killer. What? His hands. They're not soft. They're like a labor. Well they don't mean it. They don't mean it. In this afternoon's mail there's a letter from Shelby Jewelry Company. Wait a minute. Turn on the light and get it. Mr. Brewster will come here. They hope we'll do a bit in the future that Mr. Brewster is a new man in this territory. What? Listen to this. Mr. Brewster is anxious to help you. I will give you every chance to savage what you can. We have given him the western territory because we felt that he'd knowledge of the district's gainful traveling for the past 20 years for the Acme Castle Company. Yeah. But he's a young man. I know. Annie, we're going downstairs. What for? To call the police. I don't know what's happening here but this man is an imposter. Come on. All right. They're not calling the police or anybody else. To tonight's exciting FBI file. Before I give the special invitation I promised about the Equitable Society's independent 60s plan. Let me first give you an idea of what independent 60s means to you. Briefly, independent 60s is a plan that makes you self-supporting after your 60th birthday. No more job worries. No more money worries from then on. You're free and independent. Free to live the life of independence you've always wanted. For many members, independent 60s means a home in a section in which they've always wanted to live. 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In so many cases, it takes over a small amount of additional insurance to enable a man to look forward with complete confidence to independent 60s. A few extra dollars a week did it for me. So why not see your Equitable Representative without delay? Phone him soon. Or send a postcard care of this station to the Equitable Society. That's E-Q-U-I-D-A-V-L-E. The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Now, back to the FBI file out of the storm. Tonight's case from the files of your FBI points up one important fact that it would like to impress our new listeners. The young man who came to the home of Mr. Sanders and his daughter was already guilty of having committed a brutal murder of having by design and forethought killed a man, or profit. And yet, despite that fact he was personable enough to have been invited into a reputable person's home as a guest. The point your FBI would like to bring home to you is that there was no way of determining from his appearance that this young man was a vicious homicidal maniac. No one is to be blamed for having made the mistake. Because similar mistakes are being made this very moment in various parts of the nation. It is not within the province of the Federal Bureau of Investigation nor is it their desire to ask you to be suspicious of every stranger you meet. But it does request that you investigate every stranger you do business with. And certainly that you examine and invite into your home. The next file continues later in the Sanders home. What time is it Mr. Sanders? Been a long night. Look, and my daughter will go back to bed. Never mind father. I prefer to be with you. What time do you usually open up your store? Nine o'clock. And how long does it take you to get there from here? Half hour. Then you better get ready to go into town. Get the jewelry. Bring it back here to me. I can't do that. It doesn't belong to you. Please don't hide you Mr. Sanders. But I'm not lucky. I have a gun here. When you go into town your daughter stays here with me. You do as I say. She won't get hurt a bit. You understand? I think I do. I think you better get going. I've got to do as he says at me. Now one thing Mr. Sanders. I know how long it takes to drive to town. If you had gone too long there'd only be one thing for me to do. I'd have to kill your daughter and leave. The one of the Shelby jewelry company? Yeah. I just finished talking with them. Oh, they have to say. Well Brewster's next stop was to have been a small town upstate. You know I think the killer might have gone there in his place. Well Brewster was carrying a letter of introduction to the local jeweler up there. It stated that there was a consignment of jewelry by Brewster. That's right. You know the name of the jeweler? Sanders. How about calling? I've been trying to ever since the New York call went through. Does he? No answer. How about his home? No answer there either. I asked the switch board to try both numbers again in 15 minutes. Earl, if there's still no answer we'll call the local police. I'll then start checking and get up there ourselves. I'll just do back here now Mr. Sanders. I hope he's late. I hope he goes to the police instead of to a store. That's not wishing yourself any good. Your threats don't bother me. I will if I use this gun. So what do you think? Mr. Sanders, up to now I've had a lot of respect for the way you operate. I even liked the fact that she figured out I was a phony. There's one thing about me you've missed up on. When I say I'm going to do something I really do it. And I told your father that I'd kill you if he didn't come back right away. I meant it. If he isn't here in just three minutes more I will kill you. What will that prove? That I'm a man of my word. Father? We're in here. I just beat the deadline Mr. Sanders. Is that the jury? Yes. Let me have a look at it. Yes father. It's over now father. It's a very nice collection. You got what you wanted. Don't take your coat off Mr. Sanders. We're leaving. We're going for a ride. You can't do this. Don't feel hurt in this. You're coming with us. I'd be pretty foolish to leave both of you here. You'd call the police as soon as I went out that door. Look will you take me let Annie stay? Sorry you can't do it. Get a coat for her. I won't. Do I have to keep reminding you of this guy? Mr. Sanders I swear to you I will. Get me a coat father. That's a girl. You know I don't see why you're making such a fuss about this. It's a beautiful day. Nice ride. Pressure. Do us all good. I'll let you know when we get there. Come on. I'll feel better if you'll walk in front of me. I don't have to remind you both what would happen if you got out of line anyway. Thank you. It's always so clean after this. Now we'll use your car Mr. Sanders. That's it right there. Police might be looking for the one I came in. I think it would be best if you drive too. I don't know. Father I hear someone. She's right. I see him. He's not taking me. He's not taking me. Listen his daughter and a policeman are on. There's a shield and a hit cover and then he ran away. Did I get the right name of the killer? No. We still don't know who he is. That's right. I did get a description of him. I don't think we need it. Sanders told me the killer knows about a cave that's on a hill behind their house. He hit it up that hill when he ran away from the police. We're on our way there now. Are those kids sure they saw him go in? They couldn't see him come out of here. There's only one exit. Did you say he fired any shots when he was running away? That's right too. You can't have got me here. Whatever you are, you better come on and come out peacefully. Come and get me. There's platforms around here. There should be a shoot around corner there. That should leave him with only two bullets. It should. Identification of the body of Roy Grant by Mr. Sanders and his daughter as the man who had impersonated the murdered Mr. Brewster was a mere formality. And after it, tonight's file was closed. And so another of the 13,000 murders committed in this country in the past 12 months was solved. Not all of the others have been solved yet. And it must seem to the killers as it probably occurred to the one in tonight's case that murder is an easy crime to commit and to get away with. But the records proved that the contrary is true. All murders may not be solved as quickly as this one. But if the crime involves the violation of the statute over which the Federal Bureau of Investigation has jurisdiction then no matter how long it takes whether the time be days, weeks, months or years they are worked on by the special agents of your FBI until the criminal is captured. When robbery accompanies the murder as it did in this case, those special agents work not only to capture the killer but also to recover the stolen property. For only in that way do they continue to fulfill their job. Their job of protecting the lives and property of you the American people. 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 Society's Independent 60s plan. Mr. Keating, I've just passed my 40th birthday. Is that too late to start one of these plans? No. Your Equitable Representative will tell you that many men start their Independent 60s plan at about your age. Well, after I'm 60 what sort of an income will this plan give me? The exact figure depends on what you can afford to pay now and your future needs. Your Equitable Representative will gladly work it out for you. Ask him to drop around for a friendly visit. 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 from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A fact will account of a criminal double-cross. It's subjective. Swindly. It's titled The Lossinous Bride. Since 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 for the names of persons living or dead were accidentally. 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 Stacey Harris. Others in the cast were Herb Butterfield, Bill Conrad, Olive Deering and Tom Holland. 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 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 Lossinous Bride on this is your FBI. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.