 This is your FBI This is your FBI the official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Tonight the subject of our FBI file armed robbery its title Crime for sale only one person can eliminate crime you the honest citizen and Until that is understood fully by the American people Our home bread army of criminals will continue to increase Your FBI knows only too well that the job of crime eradication is more than merely hunting and arresting lawbreakers That can be and is done by your law enforcement agencies But responsibility really belongs to the people victimized by crime Really belongs to you In far too many cases Criminals are aided by their victims Cars are stolen because you leave your keys in the ignition after parking Homes are burglarized because you go out and forget to lock a window or a back door You are held up because you flashed too much money or because you spoke too freely in a public place The naming of each bad habit is not important What is important is that you the American people adopt a new and more sensible viewpoint The viewpoint that crime is almost constantly at your elbow and that you can aid in crime prevention by doing one thing By exercising constant vigilance Tonight's FBI file opens in the downtown district of a large eastern city a fashionable beauty parlor is closing for the day When one of the hairdressers approaches the table of a blonde manicurist don't put away your tray. Why not? I got a hangnail that's killing me. Oh, you want the scissors blow. Oh, you do it. I'd stab myself You look beat. Oh I'm dead just dead the business getting you down. It's not the business. It's the customers talk talk talk all day long I know what you mean take that Mrs. Emery Besides their trip and her new clothes now I have to hear the history of her new pooch I never told me it'd be like this when I took the course you have to go through that every day, too. No You're lucky. Thanks, Annie. That's fine. Oh still not put fresh polish on Say Annie if you got paid for listening to those dames would you listen real good? Who'd pay for that a friend of mine? He likes people who are good listeners Manicurists especially. Oh, is he got a beauty parlor? Well, not exactly. Oh, well, I couldn't even consider leaving here anyhow I have too many regular customers. Oh, you don't have to quit you could work for him right here in this place. Oh Gee flow, I don't understand. Well when they talk to you about their apartment for instance get the details You know how it's laid out how it's furnished. Yeah, and well if they're going away Find out exactly when and where and how long they'll be out of town then what I tell my friend He's a society reporter. He wants all the copy he can get and he's willing to pay for it Really five bucks for every good tip. That's what he's offered me and I'm cutting you in Gee, I could use some extra money with Christmas coming up and all then you're in business When you get something you tell me and I'll tell him gosh Now maybe I can buy some real nice Christmas presents who for myself Just a minute just a minute Hello Chuck. Oh, hi flow Uh, grab a chair. I'll be with you in a minute. Okay call room service if you want to drink I thought you were off the bike car That's my ulcers again, how can a big strong guy like you get ulcers Trying to run an efficient business You don't know the overhead I've got yeah, you make plenty sure but it's not all profit My work don't end when somebody brings in a tip. I got to sell the job get rid of the loot and pay everybody off Well, what have you got for me? I better read it to you Mrs. Emery 455 Park Drive. It's a good neighborhood six-room apartment wall safe behind portrait of Mrs. Emery and living room And portrait living room. All right. I got it. She's taking a trip to California be gone 10 days She leaves on Monday her maid's going with her. No one will be in the apartment till she returns that manicurist dig this Yeah, Annie Thank you can sell it. Oh sure sure it's high-class merchandise. Yeah, I got time for one drink What do we have a call down in order? Whatever you want, huh? How about you? Oh, no, thanks. I never drink during business hours a Few weeks later a veterans organization is parading past the building in which your FBI has its local field office As special agent Taylor makes his way across the crowded sidewalk grab the quick line so I could watch this Push over for a brass band. Oh my I wish you could see him But I got to keep an eye field for pickpockets. Hmm. Yeah, the chief put 30 extra men on this thing. Oh You're gonna be in the office later. No, I've got to go up town to interview a witness. Why I don't want some help on a few Jewel burglaries We've had three the last couple of weeks and I can't get a lead on any of no any FBI jurisdiction Oh, nothing. I know of there's only one thing I can do for you then you got a list of the loot. Yeah from each job here This stuff was taken from the apartment of a Mrs. Emery This is what a couple named York reported missing. There's what the thief took at the home of a Mr. And Mrs. Allen Okay, Larry, I'll send him on to Washington having posted in our national stolen property file Thanks. Each job was pulled while the victim was away on vacation. We haven't got a single good lead Sounds real professional. Yeah, they must have been at the Allen's There was a mink coat on the sofa being aired and the thief passed it Just open the wall safe took the jewelry a thousand dollars in cash and walked out Him look at him throw that baton That boy's real good. You had your lunch. Not yet. Come on. Let's go grab a sandwich. Okay. Oh Brother what a morning I put in I was busy too This your cone. Uh-huh. Oh, thanks. I knew I had something to tell you what I've got a scoop for your friend You know the thing I told you about Mrs. Emery taking a trip uh-huh and about Mrs. York and Mrs. Allen taking trips They're going away again. No, but they were all in this morning And what do you think? Well, they were gone their houses were robbed really. Oh low look She should ever see such a beautiful See that price tag for 35 bucks the fruit on top ought to be real You think your friend to pay $35 for that scoop what scoop I just told you three of my customers go on Vacation and they're all Rob. Isn't that a coincidence? It sure is and I did what you told me I got all the details and maybe your friend can put my name in the paper Annie have you told anybody else about this? Just you that's why it's a scoop. I'll take my advice forget the whole thing now. Come on Let's get that sandwich but low This is my chance to get my name in the paper kid fame ain't food if it gets out the three of your customers Got Rob. They might start thinking you're a jinx or something and go someplace else for their manicures Jay, you think so sure and you'd get canned That'd be awful If I got fired I wouldn't hear anything to tell you and your friend wouldn't have anything to write Maybe he'd get fired too. Well, that's why you got to think about what you do and say you got responsibilities now special agents of your FBI work only on violations of over 120 laws Over which Congress has given the Bureau jurisdiction However, your FBI also aides local police throughout the country by making available to them without cost the use of the FBI crime laboratory The Bureau also aides local law enforcement agencies by its national stolen property file a File which lists articles stolen all over the nation a file which came to play its part in this case Hello, Jim. Oh, hi Larry. I'm making out on those jewels. They're still no leads. Oh, we're in on them Oh, welcome. Yeah, the police and Robertsville arrested a fence and found more than $5,000 worth of stolen jewelry Robertville. Yeah, the thief probably figured offence that far away. It'd be pretty safe that he went across the state line We can sure use the help. I hope we can give it to you I'll send the Robertsville police a list of serial numbers off those stolen bills $1,000 if we're sticking at the Allen's. Yeah, they're all brand new fives of mr. Allen got to use his Christmas presents Yeah, here you'll want the numbers too. Oh, thanks. We've circularized all local banks But if the jewelry went to Robertsville, maybe the money did too. Hey, you're all the victims in town now Yep, and screaming for action. Okay. I think I'll go interview them. No laughing boy. Never mind the jokes flow Now your stomach can't be in that bad. Oh, no, no, no, it's wonderful wonderful You know, I don't know why I stay in this business You get one thing running smooth and something else goes wrong Chuck if somebody gave you a pass key to the mint You'd worry about him changing the lock. Oh, sure sure. It's nothing to you that my fence got knocked off Which one the man in Robertsville? So get a new one. It's not that easy Coming to the end of the year thought I'd show a little profit be able to take it easier next year Well, if your guy in Robertsville was such a genius, how come he got sashayed? Oh, probably callousness You know, that's the downfall of any business without a standard procedure. I know we've been through this before Unless of now there are some changes in my standard Okay, from now on don't come to this room the porter in the lobby. You'll handle all messages How about pay off? You'll take care of those two if you have anything for me leave it with him in an envelope I'll do the same when there's anything I've got for you. Well, there's something you can get to me right now What? $300. Oh, oh, yes, of course. Well, I've got it right here. Yeah, there we are Thanks. Now don't forget to pay the manicurist. I won't oh Listen to it all day all night You know with taxes the way they are a man's got to be crazy to stay in business Larry I think I found a lead let put you one up on me Jim You know anything about Jenny's beauty parlor over near the park No, why the three women were robbed all go there Well, I checked the city license bureau and the beauty operators Union either the owner nor any of the help as a record Let's go down do some questioning anyway. All right. Oh, there's one thing. I want you to check Charlie you're calling me Oh, thanks, Charlie That beauty parlor is in the 22nd. Oh You know we ought to try and get a list of all the customers at that place Maybe some others been robbed that we don't know about Thanks, Charlie Jim this ties in with what the lead you had some of those new five dollar bills were deposited at the national bank By home a manicurist at Jenny's beauty parlor And now back to the FBI file crime for sale It is with the hope of bringing exhibits of the different types of criminal that the federal Bureau of investigation helps bring this program to you So that you have examples of the actual lawbreakers before you Where you may study them and try to understand why and how they became criminals Pathology is taught by physical dissection Something of the same sort should be of value in learning why there is a disease called crime Surely one of the basic reasons is greed As one criminal put it Everyone I knew had to work for a living. They didn't get much out of it What I wanted was big automobiles and things like that. I Didn't see how I was going to get them by making a fool of myself and working all my life So I decided to take what I wanted end of quotes The man who said that was Alvin Carter's once America's public enemy number one His sentiments are those of most criminals Who decide to take what they want? What makes it important to every decent citizen is that the person they take from is you The night's FBI file continues at the fashionable beauty parlor special agent Taylor is interviewing Annie Gray Now miss Gray about those five dollar bills. What was wrong with them? Well, nothing I don't see why you're making all this fuss. I wanted to earn some extra Christmas money Is that anything to call out the FBI about now? See I'm right May I ask you another question? Sure. You said you earned those five dollar bills miss Gray. Yes. Where? Well, there's a girl here named flow Mitchell. She's nice and she likes me So she told me about a friend of hers who works on a paper who? Maybe I better start over. All right, please do this friend of flow Mitchell's works on a paper He's a society reporter and so when any of my customers we get a lot of society people here Yes, I know well when any of my customers told me about going away I was supposed to find out everything I could then I told flow She told her friend and I got five dollars and you told this flow Mitchell about Mrs. Emory Mrs York and Mrs. Allen all taking trips and I was right every time Tell me did miss Mitchell come to work today? Oh sure. She's in the other room with everybody else. All right. Thank you I still don't see what's wrong Miss flow Mitchell, please. I'm flow Mitchell. Well, you're coming here, please What's this all about? Hello, I had to tell him tell him what about you're giving her some five dollar bills for information about customers Who were leaving the city? She told you that yes, that's right. Lying won't help you now, Annie I'm sorry kid in a spot like this. I can't protect you. I never gave you any five dollar bills Hello, hello Chuck. Yes, is that you flow? Oh, no What about the rest of the 300? Now don't do anything foolish flow Did the cops question you yeah, and didn't arrest you no Running now would be an admission of guilt. Just sit tight. Well, believe me. I know about things like this now about your $285. I'll stand the loss dropped by the Porter's desk. There'll be an envelope waiting for you with good money in it No case under investigation by your FBI has worked on by only one agent in addition to special agent Taylor a Resident agent in Robertsville was checking the records of every person ever arrested with defense In Washington the FBI crime laboratory was carefully inspecting every piece of jewelry taken during the raid and Going over each ring each clip each bracelet for fingerprints to find a suspect a Suspect who might have committed the three robberies a Suspect who finally turned up? Yeah, we got a break all what happened the cashier at the Melody cafe pasted in that list of serial numbers over the Register about two hours ago a customer used two of the bills to pay his check The cashier called headquarters. I picked up the man who spent him and we got a full confession Oh, who is he always a safecracker named blackie Millette. I'm a lot. Yeah, I've got a record this long How does the beauty parlor fit in well? I don't know well That says he never heard of any gray or flow Mitchell Well, he must have gotten information someplace about those three families being out of town. Yeah, they told me you bought the job No from home doesn't know the man's name Why well it claims he hit town and a friend called a number for him then introduced him over the phone to somebody named Chuck And this mysterious Chuck sold him the three robberies. Yeah, that's his story Huh, how'd they conduct their business you left envelopes for Chuck or vice versa at the Porter's desk in the lobby of the River Hotel And he claims he's never seen this person. No, I doesn't even know his name now. Come on, Larry Let's go see the River Hotel Porter Can I help you? Yes, Porter. I'm special agent Taylor the FBI. This is Lieutenant Crawford of the police. I did Looking for a man named Chuck. We don't know his last name Chuck Yes, sir, we think he's a guest here. Mr. There's a thousand rooms in this hotel. Well, this man leaves envelopes with you and sometimes people leave one for him Oh, is that who you mean? You know him? Yes. He was by here a little while ago. And what is his name? I have no idea. You know what room is in? I'm not even sure he lives here. Oh when he came by before did he leave an envelope? Mm-hmm. May we see it, please? I guess so Here you are. Thanks Jim, look at the name on it. Oh Porter, when is Miss Flow Mitchell supposed to get this? Well, these things don't usually sit around long. Fine Can you do us a favor? Name it. When Miss Mitchell shows up, tell her there's no envelope here All I need is a crash helmet. Well, how's that, Larry? Well, I spent the war on a General Sherman tank in the South Pacific and this reminds me of it What hiding behind potted palms? We used to camouflage our tank with branches. Wait a minute, Larry That's Flow Mitchell. And where? The girl in the brown coat See she's going over to the writing desk. Yeah, that's here. That looks like money that she took out of her purse Wish we knew what she's writing on that envelope. Mm-hmm There she comes. Yes, ma'am. Can I help you? You got an envelope for Flow Mitchell. Wait a minute. Look, no, ma'am You're sure? Positive. There's got to be one. Sorry, ma'am Where are the house phones? Over there. Oh, never mind. I'll go right up here Jim, let's follow her. When she gets closer to the elevator as you take out after her. Okay. How about you? I can't, Larry. She knows me from the beauty parlor. That's right. Uh-oh. We're both out of action Huh? She's heading straight for the powder room. Oh, fine Well, we can move over behind that post. Yeah, come on Thanks, Porter. You're welcome. This gives us a good vantage point. Mm-hmm Everything's working out so far. Too bad you didn't give the porter that envelope. There's a house phone on each floor As soon as she goes into the room, you call me here, and I'll join you. Yeah, duck, Jim. Door's open. It's the maid, huh? Pardon me, ma'am. You talking to me? Yes. There's a tall girl wearing a brown coat in there. The one with the big hat Yes. She went out the other door. Jim, come on. No, hold it, Larry Two more banks of elevators on that side of the hotel. Hey, we can catch her. Miss, is there any way of getting to those elevators? Besides through the powder room? You go out to the street down to the next corner. I say, well, thank you, ma'am We won't have time for that. Jim, we're gone. She must be on her way upstairs by now. I'm afraid so. There's no point in waiting for her to come down. She'll never tell us who she visited. Wait a minute, Larry Maybe she won't have to. Let's go. Where? Over to that writing desk that she used Okay, okay. I'm coming Flow fine guy you are first you give me hot money, and then you hang me up I told you never to come to this room again save the standard procedure business if you got any idea You can con me out of that 285 bucks. You're wacky. What are you talking about money that green stuff? You hate to part with this isn't a tough enough business I got to get mixed up with a crazy dame. Never mind the flattery. Where's my money? Well, I said it would be in an envelope at the Porter's desk now Please get out not so fast. You're not getting another dime from me We agreed on the price and that's it. Look chum. I've just been to the Porter's desk He don't know from any envelope with my name on it. I left it there an hour ago. Tell him not me All right. Come on. Where downstairs to the Porter's desk. I'll prove to you. It's there. Okay Hello Chuck. He's an FBI man. That's right. You're both under arrest Chuck Burnett and flow Mitchell were convicted in federal court for aiding and debating in a violation of the interstate Transportation of government property statute and sentenced to a federal prison Special agent Taylor and detective Crawford arrived at Chuck Burnett's room because flow Mitchell had used a fresh blotter from the hotel writing desk after she addressed the envelope to room 713 Upon finding the blotter it became a simple matter to read the inverted number and to reach the room shortly after the girl did Thus through the close cooperation of a local law enforcement agency and your FBI The career of a man who tried to put crime on an assembly line basis was halted Halted before he could make you or one of your neighbors his next victim And even more important result was the freeing from suspicion of Annie Gray the manicurist whom flow Mitchell had attempted to frame The meticulous care exercised by modern-day law enforcement agencies like the federal Bureau of Investigation Represents one of the finest attributes of the American way of life a way of life founded on decency and on the sovereign rights of you the individual Used into night'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 places or persons living or dead is accidental This is your FBI is a Jerry divine production You