 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 Presenter transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community Surveys show that the commercials on this is your FBI are listened to very carefully The reason is simple our equitable commercial messages treat you like an intelligent human being Their purpose is to give you useful information Tonight for instance, we're going to talk about the Equitable Education Fund the painless way to pay for college education for your children Every father and mother with ambitions for their children will welcome this information from the Equitable Society You in about 14 minutes Tonight's FBI file the musical stick up It has been a rare week in recent years when your FBI has not been involved in headline news of one kind or another Often those headlines reported the capture of a dangerous criminal Sometimes they merely harrowed at the entrance of the bureau into a case For the most part though the cases involved were well publicized crimes a Kidnapping a bank robbery or a murder which caught the interest of the nation However to make a deduction from those headlines that special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation work exclusively on spectacular infractions of the law would be to arrive at a false conclusion Your FBI has jurisdiction over approximately 120 federal laws and in the space of any given year It investigates thousands upon thousands of violations of those laws Part of the training of every special agent teaches him that no individual case is to be given precedents While another remains uninvestigated The reason behind that is relatively simple to the men of your FBI There are no unimportant crimes or unimportant lawbreakers For every criminal remains a menace to you the American people until his capture or his death Tonight's file opens on a lonely mountain road in a Northwestern state The blackness of the night breeds quiet the only sound for miles around being made by an ancient car wheezing along the Highland Why? What did you think of me tonight on that second course of wandering, huh? That's what you woke me up for I didn't know you were sleeping look I got a tip for you Anytime you see me with my eyes closed and my head leaning back on something soft take all the eight to five you can get I'm sleeping Didn't you think the horn sounded good tonight? How you're a nice kid, and I like you But what difference does it make how your horn sounded huh if you held high see for an hour and a half Do you think those round haircuts and know what you're doing? They'd like it better if you whistled Dixie through a mouthful of peanut butter You know something one guy at the dance said he's been every senior prom They've ever had and I play the hottest puppet of anybody in the history of the school Who was he a music teacher? Along here. Well, that doesn't mean he's a square He loves jazz too same way we do well don't cut me in for a full share I not only don't love it sometimes. I don't even like it You don't like working with a band working with Jean Forrest and his lonesome pine Kid, I don't want to hit you with a cornball, but I've seen better bands on nickel cigars I hate it that much why stick around I got a habit. I don't want to break eating Why? Can you see what that is up ahead on the right-hand side? No, but you better slow down, right? I can make it out now. Somebody's had an accident. Well, it's a sense. It didn't park upside down Okay, I'll take a look. There's a guy in there. He looks dead He is I wish he wouldn't moon You think we can get him out. I don't know Maybe Yeah, yeah, I got him. Can I give you a hand? Yeah Just shove that seat forward. I can put him in the back of our car. Okay Go ahead. There you are. Come on. Let's get him to a doctor Meanwhile in a nearby town County Sheriff Ned Campbell is just being greeted by a visitor Hello, Sheriff. I'm Jim Taylor. Howdy Taylor. I'm the new resident agent down here. Oh, yeah, Harry told me you'd be in How long is your assignment or just the two weeks that Harry's away on vacation? It looks like you walked right into something. Oh, what do you mean? The biggest case we've had here any year just broke half an hour ago. Oh any FBI jurisdiction? Yes, two men held up the north gate at the National Park got away with the day's receipts. How much would that be? 14 $1,500 you get any details, Sheriff? Yeah, one of the gateman just called in Bandit's got the phone wire at the station that gave him a half an hour start Could he describe the man? No, not satisfactorily, but he did get full details on the car They used including the license number. I've already sent out the alarm. Good I'm going out to interview the gate man. You want to come along? Well, maybe I'd better stick around here and try to get a lead on who's the registered owner of that getaway car I've already wired the state capital for that I shouldn't want to stay here in case a report comes in on the alarm. Well, I have two-way radio equipment in my car Well, in that case, Sheriff, let's go How is he Larry? He sounds like a spike Jones arrangement. Huh, lucky to be alive. You ever see a cut like that one on his head? I took a worse one when I joined this crummy band It's a good bandage you're putting on You're a real pro. Oh, how to be You ever hear of a little musical group called Harvey's Hot Shots? Oh, that was way back We played nothing but one night stand Places Rand McNally had heard about yet. Uh, got enough cloth? What an outfit that was I blew a horn sang vocals tap dance and set bones and sounds rugged rugged Sometime you should make jumps where the bus turns over every night You get on the way up with a base fiddle. It's coming down Yep Larry, we're gonna be late getting to the hotel. We're gonna be real late. I'm gonna eat. Hey, hey once and I played once I think this guy's getting with it. Yeah, take it easy pal. Yeah, no, you don't try to sit up It's okay. I can make it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah How do you feel? Oh, I can't tell you Where am I on the road? Who are you musicians? How did I get here Larry lifted you out of your car and carried it you Larry. Mm-hmm Thanks to get it Hey, there's the painted rock now relax pal. We'll have you to doctor pretty soon doctor for me. Now. Look if I was you I won't talk just listen Hey What's with that gun? Tell you friend to stay on this road Till I tell him to turn off Get away car. All right. Tell him that I don't see how they could both have walked away from a wreck like that Well, looks like the car turned over in midair when they blew that right front tire. Mm-hmm That'd mean that it didn't make those tire tracks just this side of the highway. No, it couldn't have Sure. Yeah, I'll buy you a flashlight for a minute. Yeah, sure Thanks, take a look at these footprints Must be fresh ones if they'd have been made before that rain this afternoon. They wouldn't be this clear look at this set Made by an odd pair of shoes. Yeah Seems like there were metal plates attached to the soles and heels. I never saw boots like that Sure, if I'd say the prince going back toward the highway are deeper than the set coming toward the car Doesn't look that way to you. Yeah You know somebody Might have been passing by stop when he saw the wreck carried one of the bandits back to his car I have it doesn't only account for one of them Well, this single set of prints on the other side of the wreck accounts for the other one looks to me like he got away under his own power There if you carry any plaster parish in your car. Yeah, there's a regular kid in the trunk Okay, let's get it out and make impressions of all these prints You You up front what? See that cabin pull up there Well pal it was sure nice giving you a lift you're coming in with me. Well now we really got a run-along get out Okay, you too All right, if I take my horn check it and get out now walk When you get to the door go on in Just push it open Yeah, pearl Okay, you sure uh-huh Over there they give me a lift home me and Ray blew a tire and cracked up You too sit over there Where is Ray? He wasn't hurt so he took the money back and headed for town to get another car Let him walk off of the money. I tried to stop him But I passed out when I come to I was riding with them. You got any idea where Ray is now Know them like I do I can guess He got into town with that money went to Willie's place and start buying drinks for the house Take the car outside and go call Willie's place now. Yeah, yeah Mind if one of us goes along and calls a guy we work for sit down He'll fire us if we don't get back. Don't you hear good sit down. How should I talk to Ray if you there? No, I'll just come back and tell me all right if I ain't in the house when you get back Don't get scared. Where are you going? No place unless those two make a move If they do you can look for me out back. I'll be burying them We will return in just a minute to tonight's exciting case from the official files of the FBI Now a special message from the equitable life assurance society to fathers and mothers of young children Yes, you're proud of those youngsters today, but you're going to be even prouder 15 years from now when one of them Write you a letter your mom and dad It sure is wonderful to be here in college. 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That's eq ui t a b le the equitable life Assurance society of the United States And now back to the FBI file the musical stick up No one over the age of understanding in these United States needs the word crime explained to him We are all only too familiar with it and yet with all the public knowledge about crime and criminals There still remains one important point almost invariably overlooked The victim of any crime anywhere in the nation is not a faceless impersonal being who travels about being a perpetual victim The average person caught in the deep net of crime is in the majority of cases a decent law-abiding citizen Take the file which the federal Bureau of Investigation has chosen for dramatization this evening a Case in which two men did what most people would have done under the same set of circumstances They stopped to see if anyone in a wrecked automobile needed help Your FBI does not advise any listener to avoid stopping at a wrecked car For the point to bear in mind is that in this country with major crimes being committed at the rate of three a minute Around the clock crime is an encroaching factor in our daily lives And that the two men being held at gunpoint in a forsaken cabin need not have been them But might have been any other two people in the nation Might indeed have been any two of you I File continues at the office of Sheriff Ned Campbell Sorry, I had to leave you here alone Taylor. That's okay. Sheriff. We're making a little progress Oh in what direction why you were gone a man named forest was in to file a complaint or he's a band leader at the hotel Oh, yeah, his outfit played a high school dance tonight about 40 miles up the highway two of the men made that trip In a car belonging to forest and he thinks they've stolen it why well the other musicians have all returned Forest said he heard this pair talking yesterday about going to San Francisco Well, you think this ties in with the National Park Robert. I'm not sure but it very well might oh Forest mentioned that one of the missing musicians was also a tap dancer Well, that made me think of those impressions of metal heel and toe plates that we found with a wrecked car Forest of the dancer was shoes like that. Oh and leaving the high school dance when they did they'd have gone past the wreck It's just about the right time Sheriff I got a description of the car and the musicians the alarm's already gone out as far as tiny pictures of these men Yeah, he's sending them right over You think that guy's gonna stay in the next room, I don't know But he does maybe we could try to sneak out, huh? What are you a hero? Oh, but the way our legs are tied to these chairs the first move we make this place It sounds like a bowling alley, but we can't just sit here Yes, we can What are you doing getting my horn? What for? Maybe somebody Hear it and come and help us. It's also a lot to drive them further away. Well, let's find out I was I was just practicing put that thing away, but I'm a musician hold it I'm in here. Did you call Willie's place? You were right Ray was there. Yeah, he was there and drinking heavy on my money Pearl you stay here. We're you going to Willie's place. I'll get the money and come back for you keep an eye on them You know where my other gun is get it out if they give you any trouble use it Sheriff how many side roads run up into the hill? Oh count in the trails. I'd say about 100 between here and Bentley Falls. You got enough volunteer deputies to comb every one of them No, not near enough Sheriff Campbell speaking Yes You did Where yeah, one was that Thanks Pete. Bye One of my man just saw the musician's car heading east on the highway east was heading west before wasn't it? How about alerting the other deputies Pete's already done that by phone good Where'd you see the car near Liberty Hill here come over the map? I can show you better. Okay Here we are Now this is the highway along through here. Yeah Well, here's Rock Point where that first port came from. That's when the car was heading west. That's right This is Liberty Hill where Pete just thought it hadn't east Now sheriff from what force told me about that car Nobody's averaging better than a mile a minute even on the highway. No probably not and that first report came in Exactly 27 minutes ago. Mm-hmm So the car couldn't have gone more than 27 miles west of Rock Point before it turned around and headed east 27 miles be about right here All right now how many dirt roads awful highway between Rock Point and where you've got your finger now 2025 still too many to cover maybe not We know what the tire tracks of the musician's car looks like and that rain might have softened those dirt roads enough So that we'd be able to follow them. Yeah, sure if we find out where that car has been We've got a good chance of finding out where it's headed now Look ma'am Why don't you let us go? No? Well, at least you gave it some thought How long are they begun no telling What are you doing getting my horn? I want to practice a little it quiet my nerves Don't try anything I'll take care of that Nice of you two to drop by the other men who work for Jean Forrest, aren't you? Yes, sir. Yeah, there you are. Thanks When you stopped on the highway at that red car that you pick up one or two men one Your car's gone from outside Who's using it the guy who lives here? Doesn't That'll be Gus Sheridan Jim. Oh, you know where he went his friend a guy named Ray something satiated with the L 00 T and stopped at a grog joint named Willie's place This Gus went to find him. Where's Willie's place shelf in town Say the other holdup man must be Ray Price and Sheridan her friends They hang out at Willie's any a back road We might take to head Sheridan off before he gets there No, but I can call in on the radio and have a couple of my men waiting for him Okay, let's get them out of here See any of your deputies. Yeah, there's one. Hello sheriff. Hi Carl. This is agent Taylor the FBI deputy Terry Hi, we got your call. We went inside and arrested Ray Price. He put away already Yeah, George took him to the jailhouse and we waited for Sheridan didn't he show up Yep, but he spotted us first and started firing. He wounded Bill and Frank. Oh bad No, no just place wounds anybody able to wing him now Not so you didn't notice you fired a full clip and then turned and ran toward the quarry I got men stationed all around. Where is this quarry shop about a half mile up the hill. I think you're still in there I imagine so Dark night like this. Oh, it'd be tough to write him out. Well, we can just keep the place covered all morning They might get away. I think we'll go in there tonight. I'll go in with you sure. Okay. Let's go There's any chance that more no breakthrough physical lay out in here. Well, we should be just about in the heart of the quarry Yeah, let's run it on three sides by steep rock walls find shoulder behind one of them We're in here with him and might have an effect. What are you doing? I'm gonna throw this rock I think you got him Taylor for your flesh over there Yeah, you've got him good Okay, let's get him out of here Ray Price the accomplice of the fatally wounded Gus Sheridan was convicted in federal court on a charge of armed robbery on a government Reservation and sentenced to a term of 15 years Pearl Sheridan was also convicted of being an accessory to armed robbery after the fact and sentenced to serve five years Once inside the abandoned stone quarry Special agent Taylor realized it would be impossible to see where Gus Sheridan was hiding He also realized that the first to fire would give away his position By throwing the sliver of rock some distance from where he and Sheriff Campbell were standing He forced Sheridan into firing at the noise and thus forced him to expose his hiding place And so another case from the files of the Federal Bureau of investigation was closed Like so many other cases this one could not have been completed as quickly nor maybe even so successfully Without the constant cooperation given agent Taylor by the county sheriff and his men Sometimes that cooperation comes to a special agent from a big city policeman Or a state prooper or any others whose chosen profession is war against crime Without that help your FBI would find it almost impossible to operate For which reason we take this opportunity publicly to thank every local law enforcement officer in the nation They deserve your thanks to Give them your support and they will remain what they have always been your first line of defense against crime Now one last word to fathers and mothers of all the things you can do for your children There's no greater proof of your love for them than an equitable education fund They'll be grateful for it as long as they live your boy or girl may only say a few words like thanks Thank you dad But you know from the look in his eye and the ring in his voice that he'll never forget your foresight in starting an equitable education fund Right now make that wise resolution to see your equitable representative soon Next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the federal Bureau of Investigation a case exposing a new and vicious criminal racket It's subject homicide. It's titled the swing shift racketeer 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 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 D. Lewis Your narrator was William Woodson and special agent Taylor was played by Stacy Harris Others in the cast were Jim Bannon, Tom Brown, WaterCatlett, JC Flippen, Wally Mayer and Peggy Weber 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 this same time when the equitable life assurance society Will bring you another thrilling transcribed story from the files of the federal Bureau of Investigation The swing shift racketeers on this is your FBI Stay tuned for the adventures of the thin man one and excitement for the whole family when the thin man comes your way