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Then don't fail to give full attention to this informing message from the Equitable Society due in about 14 minutes Tonight's FBI file the gold rush stick up As ages are measured among nations, the United States is a young country It's 170-yard years making it a figurative babe in arms However, in even that shorter period, our way of living has changed so much that the old way is almost forgotten Almost, but not entirely, especially in the western part of the nation Throughout the west there are communities that set aside days and sometimes weeks during which their former days of glory are annually recalled The highway for miles around is cluttered with signs proclaiming this to be Old Timers Week, El Dorado Week, or whatever name the townspeople have chosen for the celebration The local citizenry, most of whom dress normally during the remainder of the year get their mail-order cowboy clothes off the shelves and welcome the visitors Visitors they usually call sir or ma'am But who for this week can be addressed only as dude or partner Taken by and large, it amounts to harmless fun And if it does nothing but recall the olden days, it's well worth the trouble everyone goes to For the glories of the past are the things of which tradition is made Occasionally, though, this pleasant picture is disturbed Disturbed by the discovery that among the fun-makers There have been those interested in something more than tradition They have instead been interested only in crime Tonight's file opens in a small western town during one of those community celebrations This one is called Gold Rush Week Along the crowded main street, a middle-aged man walks toward the center of town accompanied by a friend Delightful little town, isn't it? So good to get away from them big cities with all the noise That could put me on the first screen, let's leave in town You can't blow now? Yes, I can What about the tunnel? Now we can leave it After all the time we spent digging it I'm not putting up with any more of this The Duke won't like it, George Well, the Duke hasn't had to spend three weeks in the shooting gallery He hasn't had to wear these musical comedy clothes either Look at this, full beers, leather pants I'm there, partners Get lost, you bum Now we get another parade A parade? They're just standing around up there at the theater Yeah Hey, maybe they found our tunnel You don't think they'd be celebrating with a brass band, do you? Come on, let's see what's going on Somebody's sitting on a horse and making a speech Looks like that one dumb mayor Ah, let's blow No way, the wind fixes everything Yeah, that means hope he acts in while we're... I know What do we do? Meanwhile at an FBI field office some miles away Special Agent Jim Taylor is just signing the register when Agent Ben Cook approaches All right, distinguished signature Oh, hello, Ben Hi, Jim, you're signing in or out? Out, I'm sorry to say I haven't seen you around the office lately I've slept in more beds in the last month than George Washington ever did You know that the boss has given me a break when he took me off of everything else and told me to concentrate on finding one man Who's that? You ever hear of a safe cracker called the Duke? Not that I know of Well, I wish I hadn't either The only description we've got is from an arrest record that's 27 years old and the only picture we've taken then Where's it been since? Out of action as far as we know until two years ago Well, what do we want this man for? Bank jobs Got any leads at all to work on? Well, not good ones, Ben Without any current identity about all I've been able to do is follow his trail of robberies So far he's led me from Auburn to the Cobb and the Greensboro from there to Crawfordville to Auburn, Blackford to Mount Vernon and from Mount Vernon back here Just about a perfect circle Yeah, just about it Well, if our boy's in town, why are you leaving? Well, his job here was 10 days ago He's already struck 100 miles away at Morganton Not likely he'd still be there then, is it? No, no, his pattern has been to move after each job but maybe I can get a description or find out where he went from there Well, see you when I get back, Ben The first train I ever saw was Cobb Webbs on the locomotive Did you see Duke any place? Maybe he missed the train Nobody could miss this train Oh, there he is Hey, Duke Duke Duke, over here I'm gonna take your bag, Duke Thank you The hotel's right around the corner Good Uh, Duke We run into a little trouble On the tunnel? Yeah, on one end of it What do you mean by that? Well, we ran it from the abandoned theater into the bank, just like you laid it out Yeah So today they're reopening the theater for one performance They're carving a 75-year-old turkey Oh, fine Got any ideas, Duke? Does the bank close this afternoon? Yeah But most of the money that's been spent here this week will be moved out of their vaults by Monday I know that What do you think we should do? I've got a schedule to stick to We'll go ahead with the job With the show going on or no? Yes, you want to back out? No, no How about you, George? I'll go along with the action All right Let's get to work right now Hi, Ben Oh, a traveling man How was Morgantown? I didn't even have to unpack my bags I got there and found out that the Duke had come back here Oh, no Well, I've cut him down a little, though When I started, he was a month ahead of me Now he's only three days Got any leads up there? Just one item I learned that he carried his tools in a violin case There was a help at this end How? Well, I contacted all transportation terminals a ticket seller at the bus station remembered the violin case Was he headed out of town again? Y'all Jim, didn't you say this character has an arrest record 27 years old? Yeah, that's right Then he's no youngster Yeah, I know, but he sure gets around I checked his pattern He only works two months out of the year That's what makes him so tough to catch How long has he been going so far this year? Seven weeks It's just about ready to go under again Yeah We've wired the police in every town within a 200-mile radius and asked them to be on the lookout for a man with a violin case When did the wires go out? Two hours ago A minute anybody answers, I hit the road again Just to follow me, too The tunnel's right over here Where's Johnny? He's locking that other door That'll keep any nosy actors out You're gonna damp down here Well, it ain't bad if you're a bat There's the cover I've lifted it, let's take a look It's not much of a tunnel, but we call it home I can stay here I'm going to work Corks biggie Corks biggie Corks biggie Corks biggie Corks biggie Corks biggie Corks biggie Corks biggie Corks biggie Corks biggie Corks biggie Corks biggie Corks biggie Jim Taylor, Ben Hi, Jim, where are you? Centerville Is your man there? No, he went to River Junction But he just left for there yesterday So we're closing in on him Oh, Ben, would you do me a favor? What's that? I've been trying to get through to the sheriff At River Junction, but his line's been busy I'll get on him Okay, now look, when you talk to him, Ben You can tell him about that violin case And one of the lead The Duke is growing a beard I'm afraid that's a dead one Oh, why? I was in River Junction a couple of days ago This is a gold rush week down there Every man in town's got a beard Oh Well, tell the sheriff to warn the people at the bank And anybody else in town who's got a safe Oh, it just seems long Having to listen to that stuff up there The acting? Yeah, the acting About a known about it Had a hit Duke for a bigger cut Is that the damn or a team of horses? Hey, I just thought of something What? We left the car in the hotel garage Well We gotta go all the way back there for the getaway Johnny Nobody even knows about this job until the bank is open Monday morning We could get out of here riding turtles I hope the show ends before Duke finishes Why? We don't know how it comes out I think I've got it Hey, that wasn't in the show I know It came from the bank Come on, let's get in there Right Somebody must have spotted Duke, huh? Yeah, I know Get your gun ready I got it This end's open Now, watch Watch yourself Watch yourself coming up Okay Don't move Hey, it's Duke It's Duke What happened? We heard shots Sheriff came in Is that him on the floor? Yes What do we do? We're finishing the job It's false ready to go now You boys go back to the hotel I'll meet you there We will return in just a moment 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 You'll find the time passes much more quickly Than you think Before you realize it 1960 or 65 will be here And the postman will bring you a letter From your youngster That reads like this Dear mom and dad This is a wonderful experience Starting here at college Believe me, I'm going to learn a lot Your boy or girl will have three good reasons For wanting to make good in college First, college men and women Earn more money Prexy Robinson made a speech To the whole freshman class yesterday He said that college men Earned $72,000 more during their working years Than the fellows who miss out on a college education Second, college men land the bigger job Then he said Out of every 16 men Earning $10,000 a year and up 15 have college educations That's 15 to one in the college man's favor Third, college men get more out of life They gain an all round culture An appreciation of the arts and literature That means even more to them Than their increased earning power Remember those three points, mother and dad And say to yourself here and now I'm not going to leave my family's education to chance I'm going to make sure With an equitable education fund An equitable education fund, what's that? It's the painless way to pay For your children's college education In this equitable society plan You start when your children are young Then each year you pay a sum of money That doesn't hurt An amount that scarcely makes a dent in your budget When your youngster's ready for college The money's all ready for him That's spreading the cost of education Over 10 or 15 years instead of taking a beating in four Right, now suppose the father dies Or becomes totally disabled Then no more payments are necessary The fund becomes fully established When the youngster is ready for college He gets the same education as if his dad had lived So don't delay a day longer Let your equitable society representative Show you how little it costs To start an equitable education fund Or write care of this station To the equitable society That's E-Q-U-I-T-A-B-L-E The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States And now back to the FBI file The gold rush stick up America is a nation difficult to describe In a few short words Certainly therefore almost impossible to picture in one However, if a person were to find himself Pin down in a situation where he had to Tell the story of this country in a single word He could do far worse than to choose the noun Progress Or here is a land and a people dedicated to advancement The field of law enforcement has been no exception With such great forward strides In scientific methods of investigation Having been made That police work is no longer a job But a profession The men who now protect you against the ravages of crime Have studied to attain their positions And through those courses of study Have come to certain inescapable conclusions One of which is pertinent to tonight's case From the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation There are in those files The records of a great number of men and women Who have committed one crime Been apprehended Served a determined prison And upon release Followed a decent law abiding existence Others however Seemingly were determined to continue their criminal careers In those cases The crimes committed invariably grew more serious And life became cheap to them So long that is as the life being taken Was not their own Tonight's FBI file continues later that afternoon At the sheriff's office in River Junction Special agent Jim Taylor enters And is met by agent Ben Cook Ben, Ben, what are you doing here? I reported your story to the SAC He sent me up here to meet you I'm afraid that Duke beat us both I mean he's been in action already? He took the local bank a lot of an hour ago Didn't you ever get through to the sheriff? Yeah, after I warned him he went to the bank Duke got him as soon as he stepped inside Oh, is he badly hurt? He's in the hospital, shoulder wound Did you get any details on the robbery? The bank was entered through a tunnel from the next building Duke must have had some accomplices Because there were three sets of footprints around the tunnel When was the sheriff found, Ben? Only about ten minutes after he was shot He came to and called for help outside the bank What about roadblocks? They were set up immediately Good, then the chances are the Duke is still here in town We might be better off if he weren't, Jim There's thousands of visitors here all celebrating He'll be next to him possible to pick him up Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean Now, there are three hotels here in town I'm going to check all of them and see what I can learn on recent arrivals I'd like to take a look at that tunnel, Ben Why don't I go over to the bank And when you finish with the hotels, you meet me there Listen to that I almost wish I was in a nice, quiet jail Hello, boys Hi, Duke Did you get the door? Yes How much? Over 20,000 That's okay Where have you been, Duke? We got here about an hour ago Watching the cops check every car leaving town Have they got roadblocks already? Yes It ain't going to be easy getting out of here You could take a train I went by the station Going through every piece of luggage Hey, how about bearing the door here And come back for it later? That's not a bad idea The safest place to stash it around here Is right under that mattress The way they clean this room It'll be next year before they find it Boys, pack your bags We're getting out of this hotel Why? The cops will be checking the place with strangers What'll we do when we hit the street? There must be something going on that we can duck into There's a rodeo tonight Oh, now, who wants to see that? We do There's only one road through this town After the rodeo, it'll be jammed And we're going to be on it A gem? There, by the tunnel That's a real neat job they did They went through the theater wall, the bank wall The day of the job They just had to break through this flooring here Working from the abandoned theater They had all the time they needed Hey, how did you make out? Well, I went to the three hotels And? I've had so many people checking in And out the last week That their records were hopelessly jumbled If we only had a good description on the duke Or even his confederates Jim, I was thinking on the way over Someone must have seen those men Coming in and out of the theater No, I explored that before I came in here Ben, I couldn't find anyone who had Any report from the roadblocks? I just called, so far, no suspects Hey, Ben Hi They dug this hole from the theater But there was no dirt around the excavation You're right That follows a pattern That I read about in one of the duke's earlier jobs Come on, let's get into the theater And look for that dirt Yo, Ben Yeah, Jim Come here, Mena, will you? Where are you? Near the stage door In this place I tried to walk through a door I wanted to go and find I was painted on some scenery No I found the dirt Good Mare, right in this dressing room Look All wrapped up in newspapers Just about fills the room That's a tidy little job Yeah, well, we've got to untidy it What do you mean? I'm afraid we're going to have to take each bundle out And examine the papers What for, Jim? Well, if we can find the oldest one It could help us solve this case Don't send me no place where I'm going to be more than 20 minutes From the nearest racing farm Look at that We almost made it These guys are pretty good Kid, you never seen our Carol on a two-year-old They let the boy have a good time, George Look at this crowd, they're still coming in Hey, have you got a piece of the gate? George, the bigger the crowd, the better it is for us I'll never be able to frisk all these people I don't know whether I'd rather get nailed Or have to sit and watch the rest of this thing That's big chance being carried out of the arena Let's give him a big hand This is pretty wild He ain't going to have nothing on me if we don't blow this crib Hey, fellas, we'd like to talk to you Well, what for? Don't rage, we've both got guns out of the programs What is this, a heist? The Special Agents, the FBI, you're all under arrest George Morgan, Johnny Stark and Claude White, alias the Duke Were tried and convicted of bank robbery Each was sentenced to serve a 20-year term in a federal penitentiary Special Agents Taylor and Cook were able to locate Claude White, alias the Duke And his accomplices because the theory about the newspapers Wrapped around the dirt proved to be correct Having gotten the date on which the tunnel was begun They checked every hotel, rooming house and motel register Searching for a party who had checked in on the 15th The date which appeared on the yellow newspaper George Morgan and Johnny Stark were the only ones Who had come to River Junction that day And remained through Gold Rush Week When Agents Taylor and Cook learned Morgan and Stark Had a visitor that afternoon They were certainly had located the right pair However, the party had checked out earlier in the evening But investigations showed they had purchased seats for the rodeo At the ticket booth in the hotel lobby The location of their seats was secured And the two Special Agents went to the ground Where the rodeo was being held They used the pretense of being program salesmen So they might approach the trio of criminals Without incurring their suspicion For had they been given the slightest hint They were about to be apprehended Any or all of them might have started shooting Might have injured or killed some of the other spectators This way was safer and even more important It got the job done The job of removing three more criminals from circulation 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 mom and 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 re-enactment of hitherto undisclosed facts On World War II espionage Its subject, attempted sabotage Its title, prisoner of war The incidents used in tonight's Equit of a 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 To the names of places or 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 Stacey Harris Others in the cast were Dan Barton Water Catlett Marlo Dwyer Ed Gargon Lamont Johnston And John McIntyre This is your FBI is a Jerry Divine production This is Larry Keating speaking for The Equitable Life Assurance Society In 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 transcribe story From the files of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation Prisoner of war on This is your FBI Stay tuned for the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet There's fun for the whole family When Ozzie and Harriet come your way next