 And now, the steel river prison break starring Bartlett Robinson, a tale well calculated to keep you in. Suspense. It was set for Friday, and I mean set. We thought of everything. Cronin would be waiting in a speedboat under the wall. We'd make it during the recreation period. Some of the boys had started a rhubarb in the far corner of the yard, and we'd be up and over and in the river before the gods missed us. And Tuesday night, the radio changed everything. Did you hear that on the radio? Yeah, yeah, I heard it. So it's raining outside. Yeah, and it's raining up the river, and it's raining in the mountains. You and we're mighty lucky to be nice and warm in a comfy little old print and sale. We gotta move up the timetable. Huh? What are you talking about? We walk out of here tomorrow night, Thursday morning latest. Hell come. Cronin won't be here first till Friday afternoon. Listen, by midnight tomorrow, this prison will be an island surrounded by the biggest flood since 1886. Very interesting. I don't know much about these things. We don't ever get much water on the real brand. Well, I know. I was born half a mile from here. I know the floods. I was raised on them. Flooded out twice a year when I was a kid, every fall and every spring. By tomorrow night, this cell block will be a swimming pool. That'll be a change. Tomorrow night, we go. But what about Cronin? Cronin ain't gonna get here in this flood. I don't think we ought to risk it, Bragg. There ain't any risk. You don't know how it is when there's a flood. People go crazy. We get out of here. We act like any other character is trying to get to high ground. Only we head for my house, get a change of clothes, and we're on our way. We'll be at Cronin's joining Youngstown before he could ever get started. I don't know, Bragg. If you're going with me, you'll go when I say so. And I say tomorrow. But, Bragg. What, Runt? I can't swim. We already had a gun. Don't matter how, Cronin got it into me. It's hid behind the tubes in my radio. I got this radio in myself because I've been such a model prisoner. Me. And this was one program I didn't want to miss a word of. Any way you couldn't get anything else. All the rest of that day, all night, the next morning. Holy. That's four feet of a foot. Holy. That's four feet of a foot stage. Here we go. Huh? Brownsville. That's what they call a neighborhood radio. Hey, March. Yeah, Bragg? Are you getting this? Every word. It won't be long now. Bragg, look. What? The floor. It's the end of the sail block. Water. Trickle of water. I told you that means this is a foot and a half or two feet out in the yard. And the lights went out. Conestoga County Jail in the drum tank on the fourth floor. You forgot. No, I didn't. Ain't you going to tape it to your leg? It goes into my belt. We're going to need it in less than three minutes. Now, stick close to me. All right, now, line up. Patty by the gate. I'll take him from behind. You get his gun. Right. All right, let's go, man. Make it snappy. You get lefty. I'll get Riley. He would have on me. Run. Shoot straighter. Just keep with me. All right, come on, boys. We've got all night now. Snap it up. Come on. Get the lead out. You got the gun run. Get behind me. Run filthy. Go on. Shoot lefty. Patty makes a good chest protect. You might not get hurt. Drop the hand drive and you're done. I just might drop you, lefty. You know what that'll get you. Sure. But what's the difference? One guard or two guards. It's the same hot seat. We've got to move, Frank. Every screw in a place will be down here now. Yeah. Let's go, boys. With the second back of Suspense. Memo Won Medals. Interesting information about our military awards and decorations. Campaign medals were authorized by Congress in 1905 for all officers and men engaged in specified wars and military action, including such widely divergent battles as the Civil War in the United States and the Boxer Rebellion in China. 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And now, starring Bartlett Robinson, act two of the Steel River prison break. We splashed up Ohio Street and there wasn't anyone following us. The screws were too busy getting the other cons into the buses. They couldn't have found us anyway because we lost ourselves behind the swinging doors of Fairleigh Heath Saloon where I used to rush the growler for my old man. We were in pretty good shape. I hadn't used my own gun yet and Runt had three rounds left in the guards' gun. So we just stood there in the dock with the water lapping around our knees and watched the buses loaded with stir birds pull out one by one for the Conestoga County Jail. We had it made. We got it made, boys. Yeah, so far. What do we do now? Swim? I told you I can't swim. We ain't gonna walk, that's for sure. My mom's house is ten blocks closer to the river. This water's going up, not down. And it stinks. Sure, it stinks. Flood's always stink. You should smell what it's like when the water drops. Only we won't be here to smell it. Hey, listen. Hey, where's our radio coming from? That's a rescue boat. Maybe you'll rescue us. That's what I'm counting on, Runt. You let me handle it. Just you two act like a... like you was a little tight. Hey, Mac, over this way. Where? Duck, he's using the switchlight. Just stay behind the swinging doors. Over here at Hurley Heath. It took the last guy out of here a half hour ago. Yeah, we was in the back room with a picture of Bear. We wasn't ready to leave yet. You're lucky I cut through this way. Now that the cons are out of the pen, this entire area's been cleared. You guys might have drowned. Yeah, I guess we might. Yeah, take my hand. Up you go. Master. Boy, never saw so much rain in all my life. All aboard? Yep. Yeah, then let's... Hey, what kind of suit is that? You guys are kind of... That's right, buddy. All right, take off his gun and make a run. Huh? Script him. I want to cover this number on my back. Oh, yeah, sure. Give me a hand, boss. There you are, Bray. Good. Over the side with him. Huh? You ain't gonna... No, I ain't gonna. You are. Over the side. Bray, that's murder. Look who's talking. We shot a guard ten minutes ago. What was that? Target practice? Over the side. Okay, Bray. Okay, you two. Hit the deck out of sight. Here we go. Hey, where we going, Bray? My mom's house. We're on Ohio Street now. We turn left onto Liberty. And eight blocks from here, we're home. Oh, turn off that radio. Now, here's Liberty Street now. Hang on, boys. Hey, take it easy, Bray. Watch out, Bray. There's a boatload of people here. Get down, Bray, get down. You run down that boat? Yeah, I know. There were women on it. It's kids. That's that stuff, Bray. We gotta go back. We can't go back. Hey, where's Run? Huh? Run. Run! Hey, where are you? Get down, Moish. Now, stay out of sight. But he ain't here. He must have fell out when we hit that boat. We gotta go back for him. We can't, Moish. He's got the gun. He had the guard's gun. I've still got mine with a full clip. You have a frag. He can't swim. I know. Maybe. Maybe the water ain't deep there, huh? Maybe you can walk. Are you kidding? Look at those store fronts. There's 15 feet of water under us. We tied up to the front porch roof of Ma's house. It didn't take long to rip the radio and the battery out of that launch. Kick a hole in her bottom and sink her on Ma's front yard. We needed the radio. I wanted to know whether the boys were looking for us or for flood victims. They were looking for flood victims. The people drowning and typhoid threatening and the water supply cut off and the phone lines out and the National Guard and Army called in. No one was thinking much about three escapees. I mean two. Ma wasn't home match. She was an old hand of floods. When that water hits 35 feet at the Ohio Avenue Bridge, Ma always lights out for ant carries in Mount Austin and sits it out. But everything was snuck on the second floor and my room was just like I'd left it. But Moish and I hit the sack hoping the water wouldn't come any higher. Hey Moish. Well come on, come on, rise and shine, wake up. Hey. What do you do to myself? This ain't a sell you jerk. Where am I? You're in my Ma's house, remember? We ain't stirring no longer. Yeah, yeah. Come on, come on, come on, get with us. Look out the window. I'm hungry. Oh, who ain't? Look at that. Ah, why? It stopped raining. The water's dropping. You can see the parlor windows on the house across the street. So? So, by this afternoon we can move. Well, you're going to be hungrier. Ma's kitchen will be three inches deep and muck. Hey, you know when this water drops, they'll be looking for us. And we won't be here. By midnight tonight we'll be in Cronin's joint in Youngstown. Oh. You're here, ain't you? Yeah. And don't ask how. Just take my word for it. We'll be there. By five o'clock that afternoon we were plenty hungry. But we could stand a little more of that because the water had drained out of the street and the people were beginning to drift back to their homes. Picking their way through the ankle deep muck. It was time for us to move. Motion I put on a couple of my best suits while the radio droned on and on. Sweetheart, we're in business. Stupid villain, Cincinnati. The cops over in Ohio will be so busy they'll never see the all-points flash about us. And Mudd's going to ruin you pretty fast. Turn up the cops and let's go. Hey, they turned my old schoolhouse into a morgue, listen. That's my ma. With the third act of suspense. We have together ample capacity in freedom to defend freedom. This is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO possesses a shield of well-equipped, highly trained land and sea forces plus tactical air support and special units. The NATO shield extends from north of Norway to the eastern mountains of Antolia in Asian Turkey. Complete disposition of forces is covered by a radar warning system plus a perfected network of telecommunications enabling this supreme commander to direct operations with extreme rapidity over a 2,000-mile front. The United States of America is a part of NATO. You should be aware of and alert to the programs and objectives of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. And now, starring Bartlett Robinson, Act 3 of the Steel River Prison Break. Maybe it was a mistake. It wouldn't be the first time they'd made mistakes like that. Or maybe it was a trick. Maybe the warden put out that flash to trap me. But maybe it was on the level. I had to know if my mother was dead. I had to be sure. So, Moish and I slowed through the mud up to our ankles but not out on the Youngstown Road. I was headed for the schoolhouse. And Moish, well, he's a good kid. He'd come along. They were stretched out in the assembly hall. Row on row on cots covered with sheets. In the assembly hall, where us kids used to pledge allegiance to the flag and sing America the beautiful. If they got her here, maybe to drop. I gotta be sure. I gotta see her. Yeah. I know. If you want to get out, you go. It's okay with me. Oh, no, no. I'm sticking, but you keep your eyes open. What's the tag on that one? Empanoi. He was unidentified. Lee Roy, Sarah Jean, at the school with her father. Turn down the sheet, will you, Moish? Huh? Yeah, yeah, sure. Moish. All right, Frank, put your hands up. Frank, let's do the head down behind his car. Double for these people who haven't had enough. I didn't get this part to give myself up in no lousy mark. So, behind his car, let's go by the high-diving board. Look, I'll follow you. Okay, Moish, come on. We gotta get out through here. Say goodbye to my mom before I... How did it happen, Lefty? How did she drown? Didn't you read her tag? No. Seems a rescue boat she was in was capsized by an unidentified launch at the corner of Ohio on Liberty Street last night. You're lying. That's what the tag says. It's sort of a hit-and-run pilot. You're lying. I was running that launch. Oh, you were. Well, like you said last night, Bragg, what difference does it make if you kill two instead of one? It's the same hot seat, ain't it? Which Bartlett Robinson starred in the Steel River prison break written, produced, and directed by William M. Robeson. Supporting Bartlett Robinson in the Steel River prison break were Barney Phillips, Jerry Hausner, Jack Moyles, Sam Pierce, Eddie Firestone, and Norm Alden. Listen. Listen again next week when we return with The Voice of Company A. Another tale well calculated to keep you in. Suspensive.