Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now Gangbusters.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Gangbusters presented in cooperation with police and federal law enforcement
apartments throughout the.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
United States, the only national program that brings you authentic
police case histories.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Lewis J. Valentine, former commissioner of the largest police force
in the world, takes over for Gangbusters to interview by
proxy Sheriff TL head of Tunica County, Mississippi. Commissioner Valentine,
Commissioner head. The notorious criminal Bolanski has been front page
news within the past three weeks, and we're all very
(00:51):
anxious to hear the inside facts.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well, Commissioner Valentine. In the spring of nineteen forty, Stanley
Bolanski and his partner James K. Tillotson were two of
the trickiest gunment at large. Using the names of Robert
Hack and James Stewart, they stopped the fashionable in at Laconia,
New Hampshire, and posed as sons are very wealthy families.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
I'll find it another Demi Tess Volanski.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Where you cut out at Volanski stuff. So I just
to hear his Hack and Steward somebody.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
Will hear you, Okay, okay, oh, but what a hotel
a dine terrace overlooking the mountain lake. Yes, sir, home
was never like this back.
Speaker 8 (01:31):
At the Penitential.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Oh, stop the gig and okay, okay, yeah, there's something
in the newspaper that might interest you.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Okay, wells beach Man local store robbed by two mass gunmen.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And I wonder who that could be. You know, you
think those guys would learn the crime don't pay? Yeah,
wouldn't she? Come on? Come on, let's go. We ain't
had no desert yet, I said, come on.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Okay, here went against the rail like this can occasionally?
What for to see those two girls just finishing dinner
across at the Vidon.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I'll say a couple of dollars?
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Well, one of them is Martha Sandford, an old New
England family.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Know, I checked on it this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
She and her girlfriend are gonna be our first bit
of camouflage.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Oh boy, imagine being camouflaged with them.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Camouflage me all over, brother.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I shut up, just take along with whatever I say.
I think it just horrid.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Your mother and dad want to drag me off the harbor. Yes,
I wish I could stay on here with you. Halta anyway,
it will be for another two weeks.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I beg your pardon, but aren't you Martha Sandford? Well, yes,
she don't remember me. So many fellas were giving you
the rush at Dartmouth last morning.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
Oh well you are dot was that week?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
I guess I didn't make much of an impression though.
My name is Hack, Bobby Hack, Bobby Hack.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
Were you in the ski jumping contest?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
I was just a spectator. But well, Jimmy here he
tried to break his neck and the ski jump me.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh, I'm sorry, miss Sanford. This is Jimmy Stewart.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
How do you do? And this is Julie Harris?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
All right, Bomas Harris. Well you girls seem to be
going somewhere.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
It was nice meeting you again on Perhaps we'll see
you now that we're all here at the resort together.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
I don't see why not.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It'll be fine. Well, goodbye, miss Sandford in a pleasure.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Yeah, me too, goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Look for Pete's sake, will you cut out that knee too,
stuffy Bolanski?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
What did you let him get away for? We could
have dated amazing. There's no rush, oh rush at all.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
We won't pull another job the next week, and we'll
use him properly.
Speaker 9 (04:00):
Squadrome report from Cambridge, Massachusetts on warehouse robbery. Two gunman
believed heading this direction in black buick, Massachusetts license, heavily
armed and dangerous. All police beyond alert for this car.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Come on, let's get into the car.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
When of us girls don't come, we're going on them.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, go ahead. Society dames never are on timany Tolson.
I go to a hotel and tell him to take
a leg. Look, you don't tell society dames like them
to shake a leg.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Now you don't know?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Okay, but I'm still sick of white bull Can they
come in?
Speaker 10 (04:50):
Not a one hour?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Ain't long?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
You ain't don't pay any attention to jimmy girls. I'm
trying to cure him of the habit of saying ain't.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
But he says some of the Harvard boys say it's
hopping girls. Jem in the back, safe with Julie. Okay,
you're the boss.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
It does have a crowd indigestion.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You'll get over it. Well, girls, well it be.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Okay, Palo, what's coming? Scram coping with it?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
A foot's coming over of the car.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
What's the matter with you boys?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Pardon me, it's your car, young man? Why yes, officer?
Speaker 10 (05:29):
Hm black bewick game.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
What's wrong with that? Officer?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Maybe nothing?
Speaker 9 (05:34):
Miss, When we're looking for a car of this type
in connection with the hold up over in Massachusetts, what.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
A very idea are you accusing?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I'm not accusing anybody, just checking out. Never mind, surely
officer has to do his duty.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
New Hampshire pleads the bandit car had a Massachusetts license.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Well there's your answer, officer. Okay, let's go just a moment.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
You're probably okay, but let's your driver's license and car registration.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh I certainly I'm sorry. I see you have with me.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Now, see this is ridiculous. I'm off the sand, officer,
and if.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
You want proof of why, I'm not worried about you,
young woman, but your escorts here will have to identify themselves.
I'll stand on the running board. You better drive to
the police station.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
You don't cop it, step out of touth. What are
you doing?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You stop this car?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
That cops running back to his car.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
He's coming after us. Please stop. We'll all be killed.
You must be.
Speaker 11 (06:54):
Yeah, okay, we knocked out.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And we are okay. Oh, come on, Blansky got a blow.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, said ah, she die, she die.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I'm bottom up the f B. I lieutend, but they
told me at the station i'd find.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
You here at the hospital.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'm glad you got here, mister Barton, any idea yet?
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Who they've gone them?
Speaker 8 (07:34):
Were?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
Fingerprints on the wrecked blueck indicate the driver was Stanley Blansky.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And with whole company is looking for him.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
How all the girls, Miss Harris will recover? The doctor say,
Miss Sandford is dying.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh, that's terrible, In fact, was broken.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
She's right here in the emergency room this way. Don't leave, nurse,
we may need you as a way.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Yes, good lord. How young and pretty is it?
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Miss Sandford? Can you see this picture I have in
my hand?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Is that Vlansky's picture of Lieutenant?
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Yes, it's that queer.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
I'll hold it closer.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Yes, yes, I'll be.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Your positive, Miss Sander. Yes, no, I'm afraid there's nothing
more we can do here. Lieutenant should identify the picture
just in time. According gunman believed to be Volanski and
(08:48):
Tillotson have just pulled. You hold up much greater Boston
area up. Volanski headed that way, bomb and dangerous.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Attention as Walpole's sporting goods store, robbed of forty rifles,
thirty revolvers, large quantities of ammunition.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I s you'll notice you'll kidnapping and robbery ben't work
of Volaski and Pilotson.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Three oaks in the rocks and glassly you know Tiloton.
This is one of the swellest views and the whole No.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Sure, let's get the scenery Velanska. It's after midnight. Let's
get to work now. The England ain't healthy for us
no more. I want to get this job over. Win
the head side, like we plan.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, just think of it. Don't this this whotels full
of people.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Come on when you when you come on.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Okay, let the manage his bedrooms. The window up there
in the second floor. Yeah, you can claim up this trailers.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Okay, I'll go first, just like Romeo climbing under the trailers.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Watch yeah, m h m hmm is it.
Speaker 12 (10:23):
Yeah, there's a telephone trunk wire, got it right, okay,
all right, going into the little window.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Okay, watch it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
All right, come on, flash you like, Hey, this ain't
no manager's bedroom. It's a woman's child.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
What did he do?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I'll make no noise.
Speaker 11 (10:46):
Lady, you'll make another shine and we'll have choked you
right out of this world.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Why you guessed here? Either?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Cook?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
No good will to do? You guess to the managers?
Why you fat law break? Your name?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Is got anything wrong in there?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Quiet?
Speaker 8 (11:05):
It's quite glad, mister, brang rapid gulada ahead?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
What's going on? At your hands up?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Gets your hands up?
Speaker 6 (11:16):
You're brown the manager anger? Yes, I get this straight.
You've got a lot of wealthy guests here. We're gonna
go around to each room. You're gonna knock on the
door and wake them up. We're gonna rob every one
of them.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
No, I won't do what we say, mister. And after
we rob all the guests, then you will open the
hotel safe. We're doing a complete job.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
Yeah, spring as Clinton.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And don't try any funny work. The telephone wires a cut.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
We're way off from these isolated rocks, and if necessary,
we can kill everyone here.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh, it is a good down in history.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
M hm, we're rabbing a whole hotel at one.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Time, Yes, Commissioner Valentine. For over two hours, Volanski and
Tillotson held everyone in that hotel at gunpoint.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
That Sheriff Head was one of.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
The most daring robberies, and years now Sheriff Head Lanski
is partner Tillotson after robbing an entire hotel headed South.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yes Commission of Valentine. And they've pulled so many big
robberies in the South. How time doesn't permit us to
enumerate them. But the gunmen continued to follow out their
plan of camouflaging themselves by going around with only the
leading families and the finest girls. In fact, one such
young lady went driving with them just outside of Biloxa, Mississippi.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
You don't be sweety, you young men, to drive away
out to my uncle doctor. I do hate riding on Boston.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Is it's easy to sweep be sweet to a girl
like you?
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Yeah, besides your good camouflage.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Camouflage he means you're so pretty easy you dress up
the cars.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Oh, you know, I never thought I'd like Northern boys,
but I feel like I've known you do all my life. Oh,
here's my uncle's house. Tuning is driving Okay, I know
uncle's going to be glad to see you.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You see us? Does he know what's coming?
Speaker 8 (13:17):
But sure? I telephone him and told him I was
bringing up the nuts, young man.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Hey, your uncle's Cohn in front of the house, right, yeah,
where a minute is about? Just who is your uncle? Well,
I don't want his name. It's a police court. There's
a star on its.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
What got your boss upset? Just because my uncle's a
Sheriff's a trap house?
Speaker 7 (13:42):
He brought us here on purpose?
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Washington is such a thing as that?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Because you probably read the account of the hold up
at the weekends.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Pay a guy's coming out of the house.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I see him act the thing back in the car
hold as the host. Heck do they don't step on it?
Speaker 12 (14:00):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Gay? Sure finish k fining or to get my hands
on that team now, I'd kill it. I have I
rotten trick sheep pull on us.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
I'm telling you, Valanski, it's getting so you can't trust nobody.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Nobody coming in? Hello, Captain James well Barton? What brings
you down to Biloxi?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Those two bank robbers whose description new broadcast yesterday I
wanted to rob the wig in the bank. I flew
down as soon as I read about them.
Speaker 9 (14:38):
Blue down. If we I must want of mine to bed.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
They sound like the man we've been chasing all over
New England. Volanski and Tillotson.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
I'm sorry, but we haven't even got a clue on them.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Boughton.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Well, Captain James, I've been studying their method of operation
for weeks. I've got an idea of how we might
get on their trial. Yeah huh, Well, those gunmen never
hide out in the usual play. They appear in public
with respectable girls and poles as young men of wealth.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
By Godfrey, that's how Sheriff Howard's niece.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Almost caught him.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Now it's only a hunts Captain James.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But I have an idea. If we canvass the restaurants
and entertainment spots, we may find Balanski and Tillotson spending
some of their money right under our noses.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
This KFA we're.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Coming to isn't exactly the highest class spot, Buttom, but
it's very popular.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Well, we might as well try, Captain James. We haven't
had any luck yet. We can give the place that
once over from the Vestido quite a crowd. Ah, no
sign of the James here. That table in the far
(15:47):
corner near the exit sign. Is that Valenski down a
girl at the table with him In that other chat
that's Tellison, what a break. There's so many people in there,
they're jamd in merick sardines. How are we going to
get to that table that I'm being spotted?
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Both timid Soon and Balanscipe bound they have guns. They
ever start shooting in that crowd will be wholesale massacre.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
And wait, I've got to night it.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Here's a couple of waiters aprons. Yeah, say they might
do the tree, tie the string it back? Ay, right,
you think we ought to carry a tree or shooting out?
We'll need our hands for action.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I'm ready, I remember, James, We've got to grab those
rats before they can pull their guns. If they do
spot us, jump on the table. Yeah, knock the table
over and pull the tablecloth over their heads. Right, Okay,
come on, two class James, now, two flasts.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, girls looking this way?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Ay, sir, keep walking.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
There's a few mores steps he sees us, come on
die for him fast.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
Rights, you get Bozzy puerveret cuffs on him?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Ten?
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Ok?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Not sure? Sure? Okay?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Vlanski start walking here and Tillotson.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Are all washed up well. Commission of Valentine.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Bolanski and Tillotson were sentenced to life in prison in
the Mississippi Penitentiary for robbing the Wiggans Bank, but just
twenty two days ago. On October fifth, at eight o'clock
Friday morning, four prisoners were loaded into the truck cage
at the penitentiary to be taken to the prison palm.
One of those prisoners was Bolanski. The prison truck was
driving along the road.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I listen, you guys here, I think we're safe because
they got us in this iron cage in the back
of the truck.
Speaker 11 (17:43):
Here we had a thirty eight smuggler in the prison.
Kennedy's up next to the driver. They think he's a trustee,
but he's got that gun and he's gonna poke it.
The driver's ribs that things are gonna happen, and happen fast.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You ready, okay, Kennedy, stop his truggroll, bow your head off.
Come on, Kennedy, over in this cage quickly.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Okay, come on, throw that ry.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I just all our guys are gone. Places the strain on.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Emergency to all state police and sheriffs. Stanley Bolanski and
four other convicts escaping in prison truck along Highway seven.
These convicts all armed and will kill black all roads, black,
all roads, attention, all police, attention, all police. Bolanski and
(18:49):
convicts who append in prison truck and kidnapped women and
children have released victims and are now fleeing in black
buick sedan along road to good Be ready to shoot
it out with fleeing convicts hitted by po landscape.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Kennedy. Look those lights and rode up ahead. Must be cops.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
We can run them down.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Blanskap you guys, light down on the floor of the car.
Get on, okay, Yeah, you're gonna shoot out with him.
No cops ever gonna take me again. I'll tell you that.
Then here we go. Come on, say they didn't get us.
Just ahead, This rude left leads in the swamp, hagging
copping his sons. I'll kill him. I'm chill him. If
(19:34):
you ever get any wing near pulla now gonna take
that turn a God, look out the cream.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I can't look out the guy. Yeah, get out of
the car, man, Cops throw a ready coss down the road.
All right, nobody fellows taking the swabbert on the chain
on this way? Light man, thank go.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Don't know how you ever found this deserted house. Bilansky
you're mighty good. Yeah, this fools well looking for us
in this one. You and me was having ourselves a
good night's.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Sleep in this house here.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That'll be up a few minutes. Yeah, how are we
going to get out of these parts? Don't you worry
about that? I get more tricks of my sleeve than
these hicks down here are dreamed. I think we're to
get gone. Then, hey, Bilansky, what's the matter. There's a
whole armies around the house.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
What man?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Dogs gone? So he's a dirty red.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
H I get up, I got up, Poppas And this time, Blanski.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
You're through for good.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yes, Commission of Valentine. Just three weeks ago today the
Lansky was caught in that deserted house, and tonight he
is once again and in the Mississippi State Penitentiary for life.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
This has been a very very interesting case, Sheriff Head.
The Landskip could have been a real success in life,
but instead he has nothing to look forward to, accept
prison bars.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
From across the Atlantic, from across the Pacific, our fathers,
sons and brothers are returning to a new America. A
crime wave has followed every war, and we must not
allow lawbreakers to tear down here at home, the very
ideals that our men have fought to preserve. Gangbusters is
(21:54):
a Philips h Lord production.