 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 presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society representative in your community Midway in tonight's program in place of the usual commercial We will bring you a special message on inflation from Thomas I. Parkinson President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Tonight the subject of our FBI file hijacking its title Captain Larson E Tonight's case from the files of your FBI brings out a significant fact Despite the introduction of hundreds of scientific aids of improved detection equipment and of faster The most important factor in crime investigation is still brain power There is no substitute for human intelligence That is why the qualifications for a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been made exceedingly exacting Only picked men those who measure up to the highest mental physical and character standards are chosen to serve in your FBI Tonight's file opens in a waterfront saloon as the bartender serves a customer a drink Fetch me a handful of rye whiskey Georgie boy, right? Well, don't distill the whiskey son just pour it coming up to the sea First one in the morning always tickles another shot cap at first. We better have a few words Maybe inside this box. I have a camera a movie camera. I'm sorry cap I can't handle any more stuff. No, but mate when I brought you that silk last week. I know I know I asked for some cameras I can't use them now the guy was selling and interested. Well, look all I want for a drink. I bought 10 Give me a thank on you. Yeah. Yeah, you might if I buy one for a cap Do you want the camera? No, no, no, I just hate drinking alone. Well, that's my sweetie you boy. We think you may think I'll take one too, huh? Okay? To your kind friends and to the voyage home Good whiskey and good friends What should we do with the drunken sailor? What should we do with Say you play that thing, huh? We ought to do fine together not at the bar You can't you're gonna sing take your drinks in the back. Okay. Come on cap. Oh, but then I bring a bottle back to the table, huh? All right cap. Let's go. Oh Nobody's got clear in that far corner You've got a couple of more trucks coming in today Scotty, I told you to stay out of here get that big piece broken up Charlie. Ah, but Jane I want to tell you I'm busy, but I got a deal for you. I wouldn't touch a deal of yours if I had a guarantee Come on back to work Joe. This is a junkyard not a flop house. Hey Jane Will you stand still and listen for a minute? Look, you remember whitey Jackson and Louis Adams They're the guys heisted all the stuff off the docks last year and they got knocked off Yeah, yeah, but nobody ever come up with the stuff whitey and Louis grabbed I Just found sure I tell you I come up with a guy who's got all of it Who an old bum I met this morning in a saloon on River Street. He tried to sell a bartender camera See so I bought the bum a drink He thinks he's a captain on a boat so I played the harmonica while he sang some songs about sailors He's time. He took a belt. I asked him if he had any silk or radios or the other stuff. I remembered whitey and Louis grabbing He's got them all where that's what we got to find out. We I bought him a bottle left him in a joint He's waiting for us. Oh, what do you say you want to see him? Okay Later that morning at the local FBI field office special agent Taylor returns to his desk to find police detective Doug Mitchell Oh Doug you waiting for me. Yes, Jim. I'll grab a chair. Thanks. I saw your agent in charge and he said to work with you Oh, and what you weren't in the office last year. Were you know? I came from Salt Lake City in January Well just about a year ago two thieves named whitey Jackson and Louis Adams burglarized shipping piers up and down the river How long to get away with it till we got a description of their boat that night the Harbor Patrol spotted them and they Tried to shoot their way out. That's pretty tough order both of them were killed When the boat was examined it was empty. Maybe they were looking for a job to do one. No There'd been another burglary an hour before well Doug could they've gotten back to home base and dropped off the loo Yes, but from papers in their pockets. We located their drop. Hmm. That was empty, too While the sudden activity on the case now Doug none of the loot had ever turned up till last night Oh found a couple of pieces when we raided a wholesale dry good store in the north side They were from an interstate shipment. Well, that gives us jurisdiction. All right. Yeah, I have interviewed the shopkeeper He says he bought these particular items from a bartender who works on the waterfront. No name. No, but he did give us a description Well, Doug, there's quite a few saloons down there My office is trying to check all of them now Jim. I'm fine. They get a lead contact, right? Oh Customers at the bar or beef and it was that was that Customers of even when you tell those bar beef and customers that it's Captain Crawford doing these sea shatties You tell him about me with it Tell him about me being the old skipper of the greatest ship. They don't care and I'll tell you something neither do I? Oh, is that so? So you let a man sit here and go around. Well, all right. Go ahead. I see somebody coming who does like my singing Welcome aboard madey Toy I'll be back cap. Hey before you two sit down. Keep him quiet or get him out. Yeah, sure sure. He'll be okay Oh cap, I'd like you to meet a friend of mine. I am. Oh, hello friend. Welcome. Welcome aboard friend Sit down. Come on sit down. Yeah, sure You still got your mouth organ madey. Yeah. Yeah, but first my friend here wants to talk to you Oh about the time we were three days out of Memphis. No, no, no, no No, I was mean about something else captain. I hear you know, or I can locate some silk Oh silk If I wanted to I could show you so much silk. You think I was a silkworm You know in those days in Memphis cap cap is let's stay with the silk. Yeah, where is it? It's on my ship. You got a ship. What what do you mean? What wait? Why don't you believe me? No? Well, what do you think it say wait wait wait now hold on I've got it There's only one way to prove it. Well, I'll show it to you. I'll prove it. Certainly. I'll show it Oh, I'll show if somebody will just walk through to kindly help me so I can get up Now I'll have you both piped aboard. What'll it be men you George Webster? That's right I'm a special agent the FBI here my credentials That's a detective Mitchell the police. Hello Webster. Yeah, you're the guy that pinched me two years ago This is a business call again. Oh wait a minute. Go look me up I've been working here since I got out you can't pin a wrap nobody's trying to pin anything on your web See then why'd you come here? I'll be with you in a minute. Go ahead. I'll answer if I can it's fine A man who owns a wholesale dry good store on the north side has been arrested We found some a whitey Jackson. I know he Adams loot his back room Well, what's that got to do with me? He claims you sold it to me. You know wait a minute Doug went some Home movie camera stolen by this Jackson and Adams three great seven Webster me I see that box, please which one on the shelf there behind the bar sure Here you are. Well, I get the list of stolen property. Hey look. I only work here Serial number is zero nine five three zero nine five three here it is. That's part of the loot Well, Webster that doesn't look very good for you doesn't hang out I know it was hot a guy come in and asked me to give him a couple of drinks for the camera Am I supposed to fingerprint everybody you say you got this from a customer? Yeah, an old guy named cap What's the rest of his name? So I know he says he's a captain on the ship Comes in a couple of times a week with a camera a little radio or something else I give him a few bucks and he drinks it up in here In a minute, can you describe this captain? Yeah It's about six feet tall gray hair Usually you got on an old p-jacket and a white cap. You know where he lives But he just left here a little while ago with two guys who are they I don't know I'm not putting out a description on the captain. All right, Doug And we'll talk to you Webster headquarters. Hey this old bomb has taken us no place Well, he said his boat was at the end of this dock. Hey cap Cap, you know where we're going I guess so What kind of a deal is this no chain we followed him this far I'll guarantee you there's no loop Well, we can always get out with the freighter. Oh One of them would make enough scrap to fill your job. Yeah, Scotty you can't hide stuff freighter. Why not? Nobody around captain. Come on. Let's follow. What can we lose? Here's where we wind up getting nailed for trespassing Sorry that none of my crew we hear the pipes that's distinguished visitors aboard my ship. They all desert your captain No, no, I gave them all shore leave then you're alone here. Yeah, that's right. Come on Let's go in my cabin. Come on champ. Let's see what he's got Come on boys, join me inside this thing will probably sink before we get off of gentlemen after you after you may be Okay Now just make yourself ship shape Jane look over there by the wall bolts of cell cameras. Yeah, what I tell you, huh? Hey cap Yeah, you got any more that stuff over there on the boat Did you say boat? Young fella ship never say boat you understand ship. Okay. Okay. I won't look you got any more to silk around on those cameras Here's the camera filming it too. Come on take it. Oh, we want to know if you got more stuff someplace else Oh Lots of it lots of it the holes full up with silk and cameras. Yeah Many You got that mouth organ with you if you have come on. Let's have a tune As I was walking down back to the yard pick up a truck. Okay. Oh Come on. Come on play me some music A pretty young maid. We do about him. That's easy That's for the loot and that's as a music lover in local newspapers through america beginning next sunday There will appear an advertisement of the equitable life assurance society which carries a special message on inflation It is signed by thomas i pockinson president of the equitable life assurance society This message is both timely and important You'll undoubtedly want to read it in full next week in the meantime. Here are the most significant passages The total insurance in force with the equitable society Represents money held for future delivery When do you every dollar of that sum will be paid? but As a responsible institution of thrift with more than 6 million people who look to us for economic security We are concerned with the purchasing power of those dollars when they become due For mounting inflation man-made threatens not only the worth of the dollar But the very existence of our national enterprise Indeed this threat is as real and deadly as the red menace against which we are arming But the plain fact is that in the fight against inflation We as a nation are hiding under the bed When we freeze wages or prices We are merely doctoring the symptoms of the inflation disease Rather than the disease itself If we are to stop the inflationary trend The makers of our public policies must deal with the monetary causes of the inflation They must control the expansion of bank deposits and the constantly increasing money supply There's nothing mysterious about this inflation More and more people are beginning to realize That the stories they read on the financial pages of their newspapers Have a direct relationship to the prices of food furniture and other living essentials In the same newspapers a week later Inflation is everybody's concern From the Wall Street banker to the Missouri housewife In the fight against it the American people you and your neighbors Must learn to look beyond the local grosses bill and the meat prices in the butcher shop You must look to washington the seat of our government where the monetary policy is made More than that you must make your own voice heard among the lawmakers Congress should be interested in your views on inflation And your congressman is as close as your nearest mailbox or telegraph office Let me repeat If we are to stop this inflationary trend The makers of our public policies must deal with the monetary causes of the inflation They must control the expansion of bank deposits and the constantly increasing money supply And now back to the fbi file captain larceny The opportunity to commit crime in one form or another is actually part of the daily lives of every one of us Indeed criminals are distinguished from good citizens not by any greater opportunity for crime But mainly by the criminals failure to resist temptation Admittedly resisting is sometimes difficult as it must have been in the case of the sea captain in tonight's story Yet had he done what he should have And he notified the police when he found the loot on the freighter He would have saved himself from physical assault It is no excuse that he took only a little of the loot he came across Or it isn't possible to draw a line and say I will steal this much and no more Or if tonight's case teaches any single lesson it is this Crime prevention begins at the tips of our own fingers And crime prevention is not only a moral matter But also a matter of self-preservation Tonight's file continues at police headquarters where special agent taylor is interviewing the suspected bartender Webster, how about going over those pictures again? All right, it's no use You gave us a description on the captain so i'm inclined to believe that he's an actual person He is But those other two men You can't find the pictures you can't tell us the names and you don't even remember what they look like It's true. I seen him around but uh, oh, hello, dr Anything in on that alarm? Not a word. How you doing here? Well, he either can't or won't give us any more help I'm inclined to think Wait a minute I don't know whether this will help or not But about a week ago cap came in and showed me a tattoo on his arm No It was a picture of a ship He have any special reason for showing it to you? Yeah, he said it was new Did he say where he had it done? Some place on main street Oh, that might give us a lead Come on, Doug. Let's cover every tattoo parlor down there Old day, Scotty Yeah, but this stuff is heavy Throw it on. Let's get this truck out of here Now that's the load. Grab that other door Okay Come on Oh, wait. Well, I'll be right back Where are you going? Oh, my harmonic. It's still in the captain's captain Leave it there That thing cost me 40 clams All right. Do what you want. I'm going All right. Forget it Get in on this side All right And what you think we've got In both loads, about 10 Gs worth What's funny? You not making any deal with me Huh? That's why you'll always be a minor leaguer, Scotty What are you talking about? If you held out before we got to the boat You could have made me give you half the profit This way you get 20% Oh, wait a minute. Gene, that ain't right I'll talk about it. I'll cut it down Oh, Gene, the whole thing was my idea What? Now stop beefing or I'll charge you for the ride Come in on the captain, Doug Not yet, Jim You may find him anyway. I had some luck Captain went to a tattoo parlor at Maine and Broadway Told the operator there his name was Crawford And part of the tattoo was the name of his ship, the SS Peter Simon Oh, you checked the ship's registry? Yeah, the SS Peter Simon's freighter That's been mothball since 1946 And nobody named Crawford was ever the captain on it Where's the boat now? Registry's checking that I questioned Webster again when I got back No? You remember anything else? Not much. One of the men who left with the captain Played a harmonica Oh, pardon me, Jim Sure Take the Mitchell Yes, yes, that's right It is? Oh, fine, fine, thanks for calling The SS Peter Simon's tied up at Cliff Point I'll ask the 20th precinct to send a couple of men over to the pier Fine, let's get up there ourselves Find anything, Jim? Yeah, Doug If this ship was used to store all the loot Somebody's made off with most of it The men from the 20th are going over the pier for us Oh, good Hey, look Scroll on that door there Please knock before entering Captain PJ Crawford Stand back, Doug Nobody home There's a harmonic on the table there Yeah, you know Webster might have been telling the truth with that Maybe we can get some prints off it Hey, look there Yeah, what? Staying here on the floor? This looks like blood Still wet There's another one over there Where? In the closet door I'll get it Let's get him out on the couch Come on Grab his leg, all right Bad scalp Easy laying down there All right, here we are Examining will you, Doug? Okay I'll get out of the car and radio for an ambulance I'm a special agent of the FBI This is Detective Mitchell Welcome, welcome, my boy You know why we're here? Yeah, I admit it Terrible thing stealing cargo from your own vessel You sold to anyone but George Webster, Captain I don't know, George, somebody, bartender How much did you give him? Well, I never kept the figures in my log All about how much? Oh, 20, maybe $25 worth? At all Yeah Did you know a Whitey Jackson and Louis Adams? No Well, how about that pair you met in the saloons before she'd tell us about them? Well, they're crooks I never should have taken them on board my ship Can you give us their names, Captain? Names, no, let me see now There's a tall one and he's, uh, he's, uh, Jean Jean what? No, I'm afraid that's all I know Well, how about the other one? Well, the short one Now let me see his name, let me see He'll come Scottie Scottie, that's it, that's it, Scottie Uh-huh What did they look like? Well, I guess I was pretty drunk when I met the tall I don't remember much what he looked like Well, can you give us a description of this Scottie? Yeah, let me see now, Scottie He was kind of dark, wears little mustache Dressed real seedy Any scars or marks on him? Scars Yeah, yeah, he had a little one on his chin Captain, do you think you'd recognize their pictures? Don't know that I would Now, if I was to hear that short one just play that mouth organ Then I'd be sure Scottie is the harmonica player Oh, plays it sweet too Well, thank you, Captain Come on, Doug Where to? Let's find a phone Now, let's stuff there, Charlie Sure, James Hello, Jean Hi, Scottie Put that under the shed I waited for you last night I got tied up here at the yard You hear me? You got my dough? Come on in the shack You'll really hate to pay You know anybody who likes it? Go ahead Now, hold out your met 100, 200, 250, and three Was the rest? That's it You said 20% I changed my mind It's like any business, Scottie Sometimes the price goes down overnight Jean, are you on a market for some pictures? Pictures? Yeah, that little camera the Captain had on the boat Works real good Yeah, take a look Nice to one of you coming out of the hall with the silk, huh? What else you got? Well, first we make a price on this one I figure you say a G I also got some good poses of you loading stuff on the truck Now, I ain't saying- You ain't saying nothing Go ahead Go ahead, tell them The negatives are in an envelope My landlady, Scottie Huh? Fine home in an hour, she takes it to the cops How much for the set, Jean? Suppose we set the price Huh? Who are you? Special agent of the FBI Keep him covered, Doug Right Now, let's take them in Jean Fulton and Larry Scott were turned over to state authorities And prosecuted for assault with intent to kill Each received a 10-year sentence When Special Agent Taylor learned the man called Scottie Was the one who played the harmonica And that he dressed in seedy clothes It seemed reasonable that anyone owning an expensive instrument Might pawn it when he found himself short A series of phone calls to the city's pawn shops Revealed a man answering Scottie's description Was a regular customer The pawn shop supplied his address And at the rooming house, Agent Taylor And Detective Mitchell learned from his landlady Where Scottie had gone Almost all the stolen property was thus recovered And later returned to the rightful owners Returned as a kind of dividend of law enforcement It is true that vigorous police investigation Always pays dividends to the people But one thing is even more profitable Crime prevention Practice it and see The incidents used in tonight's equitable life For children's 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. 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