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It's no beautiful. Uh-huh. There were no Empire State Building getting in a way Clem, you miss New York? I should say not The only thing I missed with you. I know that feeling. I'm glad I come out here ahead of you though There was a lot of work to do around a place and now it's ready for us I don't know how you ever got a long way out here by yourself. Oh, it wasn't too bad Any time I got stuck I went back to my Boy Scout handbook and found the answer And the first week I practically lived out of that handbook Well, baby It's just about time for you to close your eyes. We're coming close. Just over this little hill One thing now Charlotte, I don't want you to be expecting too much. It's still just a shack, you know It won't compare with something. Please be quiet. Let me form my own opinion. Okay? Let's have that opinion It's lovely. You like it, aren't it? Oh, it's wonderful Hey, is that our dog? His name is Slatt. He came with a place. Well, it'd be a nice fellow. Okay, Slatt. Take it down, boys. Down on it. That's a fellow. Hey, get down on it. This is everything I hoped it would be. It's different from Washington Heights, huh? Oh, it is. You know something funny? When I was a kid on a west side, I was all the time nuts for playing cowboy. Now look at me. Boots, blue jeans, ten-gallon hats. I'm no real McCoy. So is everything around here. Clint, let's go inside, huh? Sure, baby. You want to slide out on this side? That's it. Thank you, partner. You're mighty welcome, ma'am. Have you got any cows on this ranch? Sure. That's him. Over there in a barn. Oh, Clint. Yeah, wait a minute. I'll get out my key. You don't need a key. The door's open. That's funny. I thought I locked it. Well, honey, we just walk right in. Go ahead. Okay. Well, how do you like it? Hey. What's the matter, dear? I didn't leave those dirty dishes there. I didn't open those cans. Are you sure? Of course. I spent all day yesterday cleaning this place up before I went in for you. Hey, Charlotte, somebody must have broken in. Oh. Wait here. I'm going to look in the bedroom. Wait, Clint. No, no, you stay right there. Well? Nobody in there. The bed was slept in, though. Somebody broke in and stayed here last night. Some more coffee, Clint? No, thanks, baby. Oh, brother, what a dinner. Did you have enough? Did I have enough? Three helpings of everything. I'm up to here. Well, I think I'll do the dishes. No, no. Sit down and relax. We got all night. Well, I'd rather do them. What's that? Coyotes. They're kind of dangerous, aren't they? No, they stay up on the hills. They don't fart anybody. Do they yell like that much? Well, they... Look, baby, I'll tell you what. Let's turn on a radio and get a little music, huh? I don't mind they're yelling. Look, what with the house being broken into and all that? You've had enough things to make you chubby. Hey, this'll make you feel like you're right back in Washington Heights. Clint, I... I don't want you to think I'm a sissy. Oh, stop that kind of talk. Yeah. How's that, huh? Hey, did I ever show you this picture of me? My mother mailed it out to me last week. It's awful cute. That's when I was one of the Eagle Scouts at a Daniel Boone troop. We used to all the time go on hikes. New York? Sure, Van Cortland Park. Way over the Jersey to the Palisades. You know something? I never got lost once. Oh? Yeah, I was the best trail marker in the troops. We interrupt this program to broadcast a warning. Three men held up the Maywood Bank on Tuesday afternoon. One of the bandits has been captured, but the other two, who are armed, are still at large in this vicinity. All roads have been blocked off. Oh, that's enough of that. Clint, do you suppose they're the same ones? What do you mean? The ones who broke into this house. Of course not. But the man said they were in this neighborhood. Baby, this is a wide open spaces. This neighborhood is hundreds of miles... What's that? It's the dog, Slac. What's he barking for? I don't know, but I've got to find out. Wait, I'm coming with you. You're not going out there alone. You need a light? Not with this moon. He stopped barking. Yeah. Where is he? I don't know. Slac! Slac! Here, boys! Maybe he chased something. Maybe he ran up... Oh, it's green! What is it? Look here. Oh. He's dead. Isn't he, Clint? Yeah. Somebody hit him with a club. Meanwhile, in the nearby city of Grantsville, FBI Special Agent Taylor has just entered the office of Sheriff Nash. Sheriff, I'm Marty looking for the man who held up the bank at Maywood three days ago. Oh, yes. I've just been handed a report on that. You see, I've been up the state capital on business all week. Well, then let me give you a personal report on that. Well, go right ahead. Well, it was a free man's job. They pulled it and brought daylight. How much did they get? About $16,000. How about the money? The sheriff at Maywood was in the bank at the time of the robbery. He wounded one of the bandits, but they made their getaway in two cars. Now, one car ran out of gas about 30 miles down the road from here at the B bar H ranch. Well, that's Tom Jenkins playing it. Yes, that's it. Well, the two bandits in that car slugged one of Mr. Jenkins' hired hands, stole two horses and rode off. Did he leave any trail? No. No, none at all. What happened to the other fellow? The one who was wounded. I guess he couldn't keep going with that wound because he drove his car off into a ditch. Where? About five miles down the road. My guess is that this is where he was going to run the boo with his partners. What happened to him? One of your men is with him over to the hospital now. They picked him up. You can see I just got back. I don't know what's going on in my own office. I understand, Sheriff. Oh, here's a description of the other two robbers. I wish you'd post some notices on them. You bet, I will. You got anything else on either of them? Well, I got some prints on one of them from the car they abandoned. I've already sent them on to our identification division down in Washington. Good. Well, I'll have these warranted notices made up at once. I thought I told you to stay in the house. I just came out to shoot a couple of rabbits. You can't go rabbit shooting this time, isn't it? I come out early. Why didn't you go back? I did. When I got back, there were people in the house. A man and a girl. Who are they? I don't know. They see you? No. But that dog up there has jumped me. What'd you do? I killed him. No. How did you make out in town? Did you see Foster? No, he never showed. I waited at the saloon as long as I could. You think he might have got picked up? I don't know. He was hurt bad from that shot. Maybe he's dead. What are we doing now? Nothing. Just keep moving. Where's your horse? Right over there, back in that barn. I can't go get him. Let's get out of here. No, we can't go. Why not? We've got to go back to the house first. What do you want to go back there for? The money from the bank job is still in the bedroom. Sheriff, did you find out anything in town? I sure wish we'd gotten these water notices out a little sooner. Oh, why? One of these fellas was in the park of her saloon all afternoon. We must have been right then about Grandville being the place they were going to use for a rendezvous. Yes. When he left, he told the bartender that his friend showed up to tell him he couldn't wait. He gave the bartender a description of his friend. You got it? Yeah. That fella forced to have gotten a hospital. Did he tell the bartender anything else? No. He said he couldn't wait. Went out, got on his horse, and rode away. He's traveling by horse. He couldn't have gotten very far. Excuse me. Sheriff Nash. Yes, yes. He's here just a minute. For you, Taylor. Oh, thanks. Special Agent Taylor. Oh, hello, Fred. You have? Fine. Go ahead. Yes. Yeah. OK, Fred, thanks very much. I'll be in touch with the office as soon as I get anything. Why? What was that? That was our office, Sheriff. They've gotten an answer from Washington on the prints out of the single-fingerprint file. The prints belong to a thief named Randy Morton. Well, I've heard of him. He's got a long record. Oh, he usually works with his brother, Les. That might help. Who we're looking for. Sheriff, both Morton and his brother are known killers. You'd better warn all of your men to keep their guns handy. I'll do that. Well, what should we do next? Well, if you've got enough men, why don't you fan out and try to cover the neighborhood? We know they're around here someplace. OK. Where are you going? I'm going over to the hospital and check on whether or not I can talk to the wounded bandit. I'll see if the horse is here. OK. How do we work it? Let's look in the window first. Thanks, then, man. Yeah, let's go in and get our dough. If they get tough, we take care of them. Hey, what is that bag, mister? It's a gun I got here. Please. Keep those hands up. All right, Priske and Lester. Right. Clint, who are these men? I don't know. He ain't carrying nothing. What are you doing here? We left a package. Where is it, Lester? Under the mattress in that room. See if it's still there. What were you doing in this house? We slept here last night. You're the ones who killed my daughter. You asked too many questions. Clint, I know who they are. They're the ones the radio was telling about. They held up that bank. That's right. You'll never get away with this. Every road is blocked off. The radio said so. I got the money. You hear that, Lester? What? He says every road is blocked off. She claims we'll never get through. No. Can I tie him up? No. They're going to help us. Hmm? Oh. They got a car. They're going to drive us through that road block. I won't do it. Shit! All right, now listen to me, both of you. Do you want to drive us through the road block and live? 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Life to him is cheap, another person's life that is, and he'll now know such weakness as a qualm of conscience to stand between him and the one thing he values, his freedom. The night file continues as Special Agent Jim Taylor arrives in front of the young couple's home to meet Sheriff Nash. Hello Sheriff, one of your men called me at the hospital to say that you found the two horses that were stolen down at the B-B-R-H ranch. That's right, found them tied up right up the hill. You get anything over at the hospital? No, I was forced to die a couple of minutes after I got there. Oh, too bad. He might have helped us. Whose house is that, Sheriff? A young fellow named Williams came out from New York about a month ago. Oh, what do you know about him? Not much. He was in the Army, bought this place. One of those government loans. Oh, I see. He, uh, lived alone? No, no, I understand his wife came out from New York yesterday. Did Williams have a car? Yeah, but it's gone. Have you got any description of it? Yes, one of my deputies gave me one. I'm gonna send it out. Good. Let's hope they haven't gotten through the road blockages yet. We've got a double block, then. Fine. While you're sending out that alarm, I think I'll go inside and take a look around the house. Try to stop crying, baby. We'll get out of it, okay? Let's have a little less noise up front. Can I even talk to her? Wait a minute. What? Them lights up in the road must be a road block. Slow down, kid. Oh, thank heaven. This ain't doing you any good, lady. They're gonna duck under these blankets back here. And I don't need to tell you, too, better give the man the right answers. Baby, we gotta do it like he said. Evening. We're looking for a pair of men on horseback. You see anything of them? No, sir. How far you been riding? Oh, just this side of Grantville. That's where they were earlier tonight. You been on the highway right along? Yes, sir. Well, I don't think they could have got past here. But if you see anything of two men on horseback, you just go to the nearest phone and call the sheriff. Yes, sir. I'll do that. Fine. Go ahead. Nice work, kid. Where do we go now? Now. There's a fork in the road up ahead. Turn to the left. When are you letting us go? I ain't made up my mind about that yet. Yes, and I got bad news. Oh, what's that? We sent out that alarm a little too late. I got through the first block ten minutes ago. It's bad we didn't find those horses a little earlier. You find anything in here? Yes. William's wife did arrive just tonight. Her bags are in the bedroom. It's still unpacked. I spoke to that deputy of mine who knew the Williams boy. And? He don't think Williams was working with the Morton. I know they weren't. Here. Look at this picture of Williams as a youngster. Oh, what about it? Well, that's a boy scout uniform he's wearing. And he left these three matches on top of the picture. What does that mean? Well, three of anything is a boy scout signal of danger. You see, I used to be a scout myself. Well, if they ain't working with a Morton, those youngsters are in real danger. Mortons that just soon kill him is not. How far is that second road blocked from the first? Not very far. And have you notified them that the Mortons are in a car and not on horseback? Well, one of my men is doing that over the radio in my car now. Good. Now, if they got through the first block, then they must be traveling on the highway. That's right. Is there any pass we could cut through and maybe hit them off? Yeah, yeah, there is. Cold Rock Canyon cuts right down to the highway there. I think we better make a try it at that way, then. Come on, Sheriff, let's go. And this road ain't as smooth as the highway, but it'll get us there quicker. Oh, that's all we're looking for right now. We'll pick up about half an hour going this way. That might be enough to save a couple of lives. I sure hope so. Newton to car number one. That's right, Scott. Go ahead, Newton. More bad news, Sheriff. The Williams car got through the second road block. How'd that happen? There was a girl driving the car and Harrison was looking for three men. After they got passed, he got the second alarm, but they were gone. All right. We're headed down toward the highway now. They keep going. We'll head right into them. We'll be in touch with your leader. I'm OK. I'll see if they'll let me drive again. Just stay where you are. But, gee, we ain't going much further. We're stopping at the next crossroads. What are we stopping for, Randy? The car's getting too hot. You mean we start walking? No, there's a place down here by a water tower where every train stops. Yeah? There's one here to stop in about a half an hour. It'll pick up water and go to Chicago. We're going to be on it. There's a crossroad up ahead. Yeah. Slow down. Uh, what are we going to do with them? I don't know yet. We can't let them go. They'll run to the cops. We ain't going to let them go. We'll leave the car. We'll take care of them. Sheriff, there's the highway now, isn't it? Yeah, that's it. Here we are. Sheriff, look. There's a car parked over there. Looks like the Williams car. Come on, let's take a look. It is the Williams car. Is there any? Are they dead? No. No, they're still breathing. Oh, good. They're both unconscious. What do you suppose made the Mortons get out here? I don't know. Come on, let's see if we can find any trail. It's pretty dark to be looking for footprints. The mortar's still hot. That means they must have been here not more than a couple of minutes ago. They're good. No missing by a mortar, man. Come on, Sheriff. Come here. Flash a light on that front window of the car there, will you? That one? That's it. Didn't your deputy report that Mrs. Williams was driving when they went through that second road block? That's right. That means that Williams was sitting in this right-hand seat. I guess so, why? Look, what's drawn in the dust on that window? A long vertical line with short cross lines and a heart upside down. Yeah. Sheriff, radio your deputies to pick up these youngsters and get them to a doctor. I think I know where we can find the Morton brothers. It should have been here by now. Must be running late. Maybe we should have. Wait a minute. It comes now. You think it will stop? Sure. It's got to have water on it. Does it? Look, Les, I've run things pretty good so far, haven't I? That's good enough, Morton. Throw those hands up. Go on, both of you. Who are you? A railroad cop? Oh. I'm from the FBI. What? All right, Sheriff. Throw the cuffs on them. It'll be a downright place. Then let's get back to town. Pretty late for an old boy scout like me to be up. Randy Morton and his brother Les were tried and convicted in a federal court on the charge of bank robbery. They were sentenced to serve 20 years in a federal prison. And so, because a special agent of your FBI remembered his old boy scout signals, two dangerous bank robbers were caught. Clint Williams, riding beside his wife, had written two signals into the dust on the window of his car. Special agent Taylor put those two together and went directly to the water tower by the railroad track. With the results you have already witnessed. After the conviction of the two Morton brothers, the Williams were given a reward for their part in the capture. And your FBI was able to stamp a familiar word on still another file. The word closed. Moment, we will tell you about next week's exciting case from the files of your FBI. Now, some more useful facts on equitable society group insurance. It's a bargain for workers because it enables the company to give its employees the benefit of its wholesale purchasing power. 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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 Lewis. Your narrator was Dean Carlton, 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'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 story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Indifferent Mother on This Is Your FBI. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.