November 9, 2025 • 33 mins
Today's Adventure: An FBI agent tells a young visitor about a case that began with cattle rustling but led to a nationwide conspiracy.
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We'll wait to start Tarzan until we get into the
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serialized episodes, and I'm trying to minimize the number of
breaks that I take now. This particular episode of Adventure
(02:25):
Ahead is inspired by a non fiction book called Inside
the FBI. The original air to eight August twenty sixth,
nineteen forty four. Let's go ahead and take a.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Lesson what do you say live by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation in solving crimes and protecting the safety of
our nation and our home.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Okay, tell me this is it, at least one part
of it.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
FBI laboratory some pleasure, right, say, what's that fell over there?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Doing him?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
He's running a blood analysis, Tommy, What for? I'm going
to hear that a hundred times this afternoon. So suppose
we do this. Let's reconstruct an imaginary crime. Then as
we go through the various laboratories, try to work out
the solution from what we see.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Now, what sort of a story would you like to hear?
Speaker 8 (03:21):
Well, my daddy says that now with the war on
and all, any criminal here at home is an enemy
of our country.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Your dad's right, Tommy.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Maybe we want to trap a couple of leterists.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Oh and you, we'd have to have at least one
killing to satisfy you. All right, then let's start with
this blood analysis.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
What's blood analysis have to do with solving crimes?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Suppose we're trying to trap a ring of big time criminals.
They're stealing cattle, shipping at east and selling it under cover.
They're nationwide operators, Tommy. Since the FBI has ruined bank
robbing and kidnapping, they've been forced to try a new.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Angles jeepers an outfit, huh, quite an outfit.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
And let's suppose that the whole thing started somewhere in Texas.
The sheriff has been out to one of the largest
branches in his town.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Man. Oh, and they've been moved, not been moving on
drilled right between the eye. Yep.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Ol Man didn't have a chance. Somebody pugged him just
as he opened the door.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Any idea who might have done it? Slim Saunders was
around this way a couple of days ago. Saunders, I
thought he was in prison. Was but he's out now.
Speaker 9 (04:31):
Mm.
Speaker 10 (04:32):
Bullet went clean through the old man up around the summer.
Let's see shots fired up front? Here, should have pot
in the back wall?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Here she is that?
Speaker 10 (04:52):
Yeah, steel jacket from twenty five thirty five. I think
I look up Slim and see what kind of gun
he's took.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I Slim hold up?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh boy, oh, howdy, sheriff, what brings you up this away?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Murderer? Well that's so who you Slim?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Sure enough? Who'd I kill?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Old man Tuttle?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now, Sheriff? Why did I want to kill the turtle?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You and him had words, didn't they?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We're sure we had words. I have words with lots
of people, but I don't kill them.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
And you're a pretty good shot, ain't you.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I guess somebody as good as the next man with
a rifle.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Always use a wind chest of twenty five thirty.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Five for about three years. Now, I ain't use nothing else.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Hey, how about that blood on your Levi's.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's from a wildcat I killed about a week ago. Hey,
sureff did you get that shot?
Speaker 10 (05:50):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Now that that's a twenty five thirty five or I'll
eat it. Let's go a heavy look, Hidio, boyn't you?
Harry is sheriff cat the stars and wrangler for old
Man Tuddle.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yeah, hey there, Cacters, Hold up there, hid of sheriff.
What's up?
Speaker 10 (06:12):
H see a riffle cacus for sure? Twenty five thirty five?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Man? Yeah, taking in cacus.
Speaker 10 (06:21):
Maybe you can tell us something about the murder the
old man Tuttle, Old man murdered.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That's right. Well, who'd want to do a thing like that?
Speaker 10 (06:34):
Slim Characters tells a pretty convincing sturry. Well, your iron
is pretty weak. Now, there was a trail of blood
where old man Turtle was dragged because the porge, and
there was blood on your LEVI.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And I told you a dozen times, Sheriff it was.
It was from a wildcat I killed about a week ago.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
It's funny he didn't have no hide in your pack.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I killed him because he was stalking a yearl in
the mine and knocked the skin. And that's a truth,
Jerry FBI said. The whole thing I got to be
hearing sometime today.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
What's fb I got to do with it?
Speaker 10 (07:06):
I sent your levis to him, along with yours and
characters rivals, several cartridges.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Or you see, Tommy.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
That brings us right back to that piece of cloth
you were asking about. The chemist was able to tell
us in a minute that the blood on Slim's levies
was not human but wildcat.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Maybe so, but he could have killed oldland.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Hall, that's right.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
So we had to go a little further and find
out which gun fired the shot?
Speaker 8 (07:33):
How could you do that?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
With his s gadget right over here?
Speaker 7 (07:36):
That microscope not an ordinary ones, but we call a
comparison microscope.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
What's it do?
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Yeah, I put a bullet in this side, another bullet
on the other side.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Alu uh huh, I see him now?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I turned this s gadget right here.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
What happens now there's only one bullet.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
That's where you're wrong, Tommy. It looks like one bullet.
Actually you're seeing half of both bullets.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Both has looked the same.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
How you getting it. Those bullets were fired from the
same gun. Only bullets fired from the same gun will
match exactly.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
So that's how you knew whose gun did the killing.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
That's how. Of course, as soon as we knew, we
wired the sheriff.
Speaker 10 (08:17):
All right, men, is that telegram from the FBI. Now,
let's see what's what m hm staying pins murder bullet
fired from.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I guess that settles it.
Speaker 10 (08:39):
There was wildcat blood, A murdered gun belongs to cactus.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
What's that? All right? Cactus? You can't prove nothing. I
don't have to. The FBI has already done it. Start talking.
It was self defense, sheriffs, so help me. It was
about three days ago.
Speaker 11 (08:56):
A couple of city fellows offered me two hundred dollars
of outsort. I keep an eye on the old man,
not just to make sure he kept to the ranch house.
If the old man stirred, I was to give a
coyote house a signal. I was just sitting in the
saddle about fifty yards in front of the ranch house.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
There wasn't no moon out.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
They're not horse oh out there, big up I got.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
The old man was a dead shot. I know I'd
have to beat him to the drawer. Mighty cheap killing
a man, but two hundred dollars, Cactus, I didn't aim
to kill him, shelf.
Speaker 10 (09:31):
Pretty good aim and just the same real tetrap between
the eyes. I suppose that city what is was wrestling
the old man's cattle. I guess so sure, and darn
well I was. I got no more use for a
murderer than I have for restless. After I lock you up, Cactus,
I guess i'd better.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Have a look.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Not much to go on, char I.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Don't know about that, slim. I see, I've been right
smart interested in this. Here half the eye, for instance,
half the eye. Man, take a close look at them
tire tracks?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Now what kind of tracks would you say they was?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I wouldn't say now it was a cattle brand. I
could spot it in a minute.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
He's using a big truck ten wheel job. It can
look quite a few yearlings. And one of them back
right through a fence post too. You can see what
a paint scraped off?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
What you doing now picking up a few pieces of glass?
I wonder where that came from.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
I wouldn't be at all surprised when it comes from
a busted tail light let's go back to car.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Why the your father was picking up a few little
pieces of.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Glass, Those were mighty important pieces. Tommy. You see this
display over here.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Oh my cow, look at the head white.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Lenses sample from every car made. Tommy.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
See we fit pieces of broken lenses together and compare
them with these.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
When we match them up, we know the year end
model of the car were after.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Now, let's assume that the sheriff sent us those tale
like pieces.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We found out that they belonged to a red ten
Ton International.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Even know the color all sure, the paint that scraped
off on the fence post.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
You see how it all fits together.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Besides, the sheriff.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Had another clue the kind of tires that truck carried. Now,
as general rule, the FBI would have stopped there. But
since this case we're imagining looked like rustling, we would
have figured that the wrestlers were stealing the beef for
transport to eastern States. So chances are a few days
later the sheriff would Sheriff Croquett.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, David's an FBI. Oh to young fella, you find
that truck yead? Here's we did.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
We have a pretty good idea who made off of
old Man Tuttle's kettle.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I'd you figure that this job was.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Planned by a well organized mob run by Frank O'Connell.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Used to be bootlegger in the old days.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Now he's operating in stolen beef, counterfeit and stolen Russian
books and bootleg alcohol.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
What made you so sure this O'Connell was in this
wrestling business?
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Well, the truck was driven by one of O'Connell's trigger men,
Lympey Smith. He and another of O'Connell's robby's.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Drove the truck.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
How'd you know fingerprints were plastered all over the cab
of the truck?
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Jeebus? You mean you could have found the truck that quick?
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Tell me it wouldn't have been much job.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
We knew we were looking for a nineteen thirty nine
red ten ton internationally, and we knew exactly what kind
of tires it had. There could have been only one
truck that fitted our description perfectly.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
But how did you find the guys that drove the truck?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Temmy, I'm afraid you're not listening very closely.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
I know you said their fingerprints were plastered all over
the cab, But how could you tell whose prints they were.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
We would have just sticked them against our fingerprint file
here at FBI headquarters until we found the ones that match.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Is the file very big?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
I guess there must be about ninety one million sets
of prints on fire.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Ninety one million. Cow, you have to go through all
of them?
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Really not such a job, Tommy. Ever seen an old
fashioned player piano?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Sure, Grandma has one. I play it all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
You know how the rolls are punched, uh.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Huh, sort of like a conductor punches a train ticket,
only more holes.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Fingerprint information is punched on a card, something like that.
Then we run them through this machine.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
How does this thing work?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
See all those.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Little steel fingers, uh huh, hey they need that's right.
I'm setting them to di select cards. Punch one certain way. Oh,
I turn it on. See see how those little steel
fingers sort of feel each other.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
How about that it throws the card into this little
That's right, No steel fingers haven't found any holes that
match the way they're said. Fair, See that they court
the little steel finger court right those holes? Now, hey,
the right card went into a different slot, right.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
That may be the very card we're looking for now
we'll turn it off. It's Tommy.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
This machine right here has sent thousands of criminals up
for life just by selecting.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
A fingerprint card that same way.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Every once in a while, those hulams probably looked their
fingers and say, if you hadn't snitched on me, I
wouldn't be here.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
So that's how you found out who'd rolled the rustler's truck.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
That's how we would have done it.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
What happened to the cattle, Well, we'll assume that it
was shipped east Coorse.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Couple of FBI men would have followed it, because we'd
have known that sooner or later we'd catched the big shot.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Yeah, the big shot. You said this was gonna be
a big king uh huh.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But of course we wouldn't want to lose track the
guys who drove the truck, would we?
Speaker 8 (14:53):
Heck, no, what you reckon? They would have done after that?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
What spools?
Speaker 7 (14:57):
They met up with two other characters who had also
been step in the liquor racket back in for a
vision days.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
But what would they be up to?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
We wouldn't know it first.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
We just have to wait.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Maybe this time local police officials would stumble onto something
that would give us a clue.
Speaker 11 (15:15):
All right, Doc, what's the story. This man is employed
as night watching at the Morris Building.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Morris Building night Watch, that's.
Speaker 11 (15:23):
The building anywhere This man was shot while stepping in
his car afterward? Where was his car parked in an
alley reserved for parking space and building employees and tenants?
Speaker 12 (15:33):
You got the slug that's removed it from the man's leg.
M Nicol Jagget At twenty two. You say the man
was struck in the inner part of his thighs right
bullet took a shot downward courts Wow, ending shot was
fired from above?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Is this the kind of gun you haven't mind, Captain?
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Yes, mister da it was just such a gun that
fired the bullet. I'll have a comparison shot made with this.
Speaker 13 (16:00):
And save yourself the trouble, Captain. That could not possibly
be the gun?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
No, why not?
Speaker 13 (16:04):
Because that gun belongs to the wounded man. We found
it locked in the glove compartment of his car. Well,
old man, looks like we've solved our case.
Speaker 14 (16:18):
You mean you caught a man who shot me?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I think so.
Speaker 13 (16:21):
But the defense is working up a pretty strong case.
They're going to intimate that you might have carried a
gun for your own protection.
Speaker 14 (16:28):
Oh, that's ridiculous. You know, the company forbids me to
carry a gun.
Speaker 13 (16:31):
I don't say you could have carried a gun inside
your shirt and held it in place with your belt.
Speaker 14 (16:35):
But U proof, man, they can't prove a thing like that.
Speaker 13 (16:38):
Well, suppose you had carried a gun that way, and
suppose in stepping into your car, the trigger had caught
in your clothing and was pulled, the bullet would have
clowed down your leg.
Speaker 15 (16:48):
You mean they're going to try to prove I shot myself. Oh,
that's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.
Speaker 13 (16:53):
Ridiculous or not, it could have happened if the gun
had a long ball like this one.
Speaker 14 (16:58):
That would mastery. Hen Never that gun belost to me,
I know.
Speaker 13 (17:03):
But fear of an investigation as to why you were
carrying a concealed weapon might have kept you from the
circumstances of the shooting.
Speaker 15 (17:11):
It might have, yes, but we would believe a crazy
story like that.
Speaker 13 (17:17):
Oh, most any jury, you see, a ballistics expert has
proved that this is the guilty gun.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Oh you see, Tommy.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Again we turned to the comparison microscope, and again the
microscope found the guilty man.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
But why would this guy have shot himself?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Well, maybe the two fellows who drove the truck might
have had some idea of robbing a bank, so they
bribed this night watchman to let them into the second
floor that building.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
See Tommy's First National Banks on the ground floor.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Oh and maybe our friend took a gun along, just
in case the racketeers tried to double cross him.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Then he accidentally shot himself.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Was afraid that an investigation would tie him up with
the robber, so he might have tried to make out
like someone else had done the shooting cheaper crooks.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
You just don't have a chance, do they.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I'm afraid they don't, Tommy. Sooner or later, the law
always catches up with them. And Tommy.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
While it's true g men are especially trained to collect
evidence and apprehend criminals, even shooting out with him when necessary,
there are times when these g men most depend on
their ingenuity alone the crack the case. Well, let's bring
another stolen car in our case.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
You mean a stolen car to fit into this case.
Wehe're imagine it absolutely.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Now we've traced this stolen car across a couple of
state lines, and we suspect that the man we want
is in a little cabin in the mountains. But this
time we'd have to take it easy because the regular
raid would have.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Caused a lot of unnecessary shooting, maybe killing.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Well, that would mean we'd need a special agent was
pretty familiar with that part of the country, a man
who knew how to talk to people's language, so he
might be able to get our man without firework. The
man was strictly on his own, just had to depend
on plain old horse sense. So early one morning, this
ga man set out alone up the steep trail that
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led to a lonesome dwelling. Presently he came to a
weather beaten shack.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
He opened the door.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
There, inside he found an old mountaineer seated near an
ashfield fireplace.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Your god, min man, ain't you?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, you're a judge's father, ain't you.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I'm Judge Pepping. You ain't gonna take him?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
You're right, he ain't here, so I can't take him.
Somebody play that fiddle around here.
Speaker 16 (19:38):
Sure I do myself, and folks say I'm the best fidder.
But tricks here, nay, Phil.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You don't say. I used to feel a little bit myself,
looks like a mighty good violin in mind, if I look.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
At it, sure pick it up, love and do he plenty.
(20:14):
That's pretty. I never heard that one before.
Speaker 16 (20:21):
Well, strangers, that dog the first class settling. Maybe have
to buy the viddle you play some more. I never
know there was so much music in that old fiddle before.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, I gotta be getting back.
Speaker 17 (20:41):
How about Jed? You want him, don't you? No, I
don't want him. The government wants him. You know how
it is when the government wants a man may take
days or months or years to get him.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Longer it takes, or worse off of is.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
A Let me here, a stranger, I reckon, you're all right.
I like the way you talk, and I like the
way your fiddle.
Speaker 16 (21:04):
I'll help get at the Shere's office tomorrow noon noon tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Well, so long ago, land.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Gee, I mean you could have nabbed him use like that,
just like that.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Thought me, without firing a shot, all because that team
man used Blaine old horse hands. Besides, by making friends
with Jed's father, he was able to get quite a
bit of information.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
You mean you could have got the goods on the
whole gang.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Well, maybe not the whole gang, but not enough to
know definitely that everything was planned by one mob.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
The cattle rustling, the attempted bank robbery.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Everything Frank o'connelly could have been.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
At least we'll presume that all the men we'd watched
so far had worked for O'Connell at one time.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
I mean, why didn't you nab O'Connell.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
We hadn't completed our case.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Wow, this case is getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
For instance, we might have had to call on that
gentleman over there.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Why what's he doing?
Speaker 7 (22:02):
He's taking a clue under a comparison microscope. Here, take
a look at this display.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
What are they?
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Here's tommy hairs from different animals, as well as a
collection of slides showing twenty eight distinct shades of human hair.
This is known as the heir and fiber section.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Does it have something to do with our case?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Well, let's see if it does.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Let's suppose in our crooks, like all crooks, finally ran
up against the wrong man. A few days later, local
police officials found a murder on their hands. It happened
in a small filling station just on the edge of town.
After two days of exhaustive search. The officer in charge
of the investigation reported to his superior.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Got anything on that filling station murder sergeant.
Speaker 15 (22:46):
And not a clue, Captain, No finger prints, no footprints
worth checking.
Speaker 14 (22:51):
The murderer wore rope soles for shoes.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You know.
Speaker 15 (22:54):
Apparently he just walked in, stuck a knife and the
old man and cleared out.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
Or it's fine, just dandy reckon. The old man was
tied up in black market gasoline.
Speaker 14 (23:02):
Not a chance.
Speaker 15 (23:04):
Why just the other day he chased the fell out
of his place and try to peddle some coupons to him.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
You say someone did try to sell him coupons.
Speaker 15 (23:10):
That's what I was told. The old man's a stickler
for honesty, so he chases a guy. Hey, wait a minute,
what didn't I think of that before?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Hello? Yes, oh, in his left hand? Huh? Nothing else?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Okay, Gardner's office found a couple of hairs in the
old man's left hand.
Speaker 14 (23:33):
He chief, I just thought of it.
Speaker 15 (23:35):
The old man tossed out the last guy and tried
to pump gas coupons on him.
Speaker 14 (23:38):
Now suppose the same guy tried again.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Hey, he might have gotten pretty hot, threatened this guy
and a guy knife's him.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
It's a good guess.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Fine, who tried to sell him those gas coupons?
Speaker 17 (23:55):
I tell you you, guy's got nothing on men't we Now?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Would you be interested to know you're booked for murder?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Fat chance? Where's your proof?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
So it's proof you want to Anderson? Remember that filling
station killing last week?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Why about it?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Just this about it?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
The murdered man tangled with his assailant just before he
got a knife in his ribs, and a couple of
hairs got caught in a ring he wore on his
left hand.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Very interesting. So now you've got a couple of hairs.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
You wanted proof, Anderson, you're carrying it under your hat.
The hairs in the hand of the murdered man match
yours exactly. That's what the hair in fiber section has
to do with our case, Tommy.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
They pinned a murder rap on Anderson with just a
couple of hands.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yes, Matt would have just about sewed up our case
except for one thing. What was that O'Connell tried to
drop from sight entirely?
Speaker 8 (24:55):
How could he do that?
Speaker 7 (24:57):
He couldn't, but maybe he thought he could. Let's suppose
that he tried to dodge fingerprint identification. You see, Tommy,
skin corrugations on the fingers appear about three months before birth,
and they never vary.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
The criminal knows this.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
O'Connell knew it, but suppose, like all criminals, he tried
to convince himself that in his case, nature would make
an exception.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
All right, o'conna, let's remove the bandages and have a
look at those fingers.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
Now, the sweet surprise the Feds will get when they
check my new fingerprints.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
You know, kind of this works. It will be the
first time.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
What do you mean work, it's got to.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
No man's fingerprints have ever been changed by an operation.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
All right, come on, get those bandages off, Doc.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Oh, okay, that's a ticket.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
No fingerprints, Well, can't even Hey, Doc, look at that
finger and that one.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I told you it wouldn't work. O'Connell, Your fingerprints.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
Are coming back just as they were before I operated.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Even in operation, didn't change his fingerprints.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
No, Tommy fingerprints cannot be changed. Acid burns, surgery, nothing
affects him for long. That's why the ninety one million prints.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
That we have on file here at the FBI the.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Biggest man trap ever devised.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Wow, what I connall do.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
After that, O'Connell went back to his old hideout. But
we already had that spotted then to clean up the case.
Of course, we would have planned to attack at night.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Let's imagine that shortly after midnight the lead car drew
up a short distance from the Highland.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
All right, man, we blocked all roads. There's no chance
for him to escape. Have you guns ready? All cachhape
were for him.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
All right? You inside there, My.
Speaker 16 (27:03):
House is around it.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Come out with your hands up.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
They hurt your chief, looks like we left to smoke
him out.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Come out? Well, well, come in.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
All gangs in there?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
All right? Right him out? Are you all ready to
come out yet?
Speaker 9 (27:24):
Get him up here?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
I guess.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
Here they come one, two, three, four, five, six, Only
six of them, Chief, there should be seven.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Wells left in there.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Then it come along.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
That'nsil condo. Chief, he's upstairs.
Speaker 11 (27:42):
That's why the guests didn't get him.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Give him another dose.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
I will bring him out. I did it here he comes,
watch it.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
He's liable to try to shoot his way out.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Oh all right, ma'am lord.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
The rest of the car.
Speaker 11 (28:03):
What about O'Connell, Chief, Well, I think we'd got to
have and the mogled morgue handle app that last class
got him.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Gee, you almost had me believe in you there for
a while. Sometimes I forgot this was just an imaginary case.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
It wasn't as imaginary as you might think, Tommy. I
told you a story just to connect all the things
you saw here. Blood analysis, the work of the hair
and fiber section, ballistics, fingerprints. We changed names and places,
But in the FBI files are actual case histories which
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parallel the very things I've been telling you.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
You mean it actually could have happened.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yes, indeed, Tommy, it happens every day. We take a
piece of blood stained cloth and clear one man by
proving the stains weren't from human blood, and convict another
by proving that his gun fired the murder bullet. We
located a criminal's truck by identifying its make.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
And model, color and tires.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
We discover who drove the truck by fingerprints found in
the cab, and finally pin a murder wrap on a
black market operator by identifying a couple of hairs.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Going on the ring of the man he killed. And
what do you think about that?
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Oh boy, I'm gonna be a g man when I
grow up.
Speaker 18 (29:41):
Today's chapter of adventurer Ahead has taken you behind the
scenes of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For obvious reasons, names, dates,
and places were purely fictitious, but the entire story was
based on actual incidents and factual material contained in the
book Inside the FBI by John Florida. Investigative techniques for
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those which mister Florida describes, which are used daily by
the Department of Justice in solving crimes and safeguarding America.
Today's chapter an Adventurerhead was adapted for radio by Howard
Callaway and was directed by Joseph Mansfield. Music was by
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Doc Whipple. Adventurerhead is presented as a public service by
NBC at its affiliated independent stations. This is the National
Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Welcome Back.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
A really engaging episode that serves as a good introduction
to youthful listeners about the emerging police sciences and how
they worked in real life investigations. The way the agent
told the story also probably illustrated the way the shows
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writers likely compiled this story from the book, mixing details
from different cases to form a composite case, and I
think that it did a good job for its target
audience by maintaining a good balance for the most part
of action in science. Also, we learned that when recruiting
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Southern FBI agents, being a good fiddler is a useful
job skill. In all seriousness, I think that scene was
a nice acknowledgement of the human element in criminal investigation.
We might even call it soft skills today, and that's
a nice counterbalance in a story that I think is
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playing these until we go on our holiday break. Can
We'll wait to start Tarzan until we get into the
new year, since the first months of Tarzan will be
serialized episodes, and I'm trying to minimize the number of
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Ahead is inspired by a non fiction book called Inside
the FBI. The original air to eight August twenty sixth,
nineteen forty four. Let's go ahead and take a.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Lesson what do you say live by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation in solving crimes and protecting the safety of
our nation and our home.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Okay, tell me this is it, at least one part
of it.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
FBI laboratory some pleasure, right, say, what's that fell over there?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Doing him?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
He's running a blood analysis, Tommy, What for? I'm going
to hear that a hundred times this afternoon. So suppose
we do this. Let's reconstruct an imaginary crime. Then as
we go through the various laboratories, try to work out
the solution from what we see.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Now, what sort of a story would you like to hear?
Speaker 8 (03:21):
Well, my daddy says that now with the war on
and all, any criminal here at home is an enemy
of our country.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Your dad's right, Tommy.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Maybe we want to trap a couple of leterists.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Oh and you, we'd have to have at least one
killing to satisfy you. All right, then let's start with
this blood analysis.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
What's blood analysis have to do with solving crimes?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Suppose we're trying to trap a ring of big time criminals.
They're stealing cattle, shipping at east and selling it under cover.
They're nationwide operators, Tommy. Since the FBI has ruined bank
robbing and kidnapping, they've been forced to try a new.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Angles jeepers an outfit, huh, quite an outfit.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
And let's suppose that the whole thing started somewhere in Texas.
The sheriff has been out to one of the largest
branches in his town.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Man. Oh, and they've been moved, not been moving on
drilled right between the eye. Yep.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Ol Man didn't have a chance. Somebody pugged him just
as he opened the door.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Any idea who might have done it? Slim Saunders was
around this way a couple of days ago. Saunders, I
thought he was in prison. Was but he's out now.
Speaker 9 (04:31):
Mm.
Speaker 10 (04:32):
Bullet went clean through the old man up around the summer.
Let's see shots fired up front? Here, should have pot
in the back wall?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Here she is that?
Speaker 10 (04:52):
Yeah, steel jacket from twenty five thirty five. I think
I look up Slim and see what kind of gun
he's took.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I Slim hold up?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh boy, oh, howdy, sheriff, what brings you up this away?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Murderer? Well that's so who you Slim?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Sure enough? Who'd I kill?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Old man Tuttle?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now, Sheriff? Why did I want to kill the turtle?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You and him had words, didn't they?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We're sure we had words. I have words with lots
of people, but I don't kill them.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
And you're a pretty good shot, ain't you.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I guess somebody as good as the next man with
a rifle.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Always use a wind chest of twenty five thirty.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Five for about three years. Now, I ain't use nothing else.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Hey, how about that blood on your Levi's.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's from a wildcat I killed about a week ago. Hey,
sureff did you get that shot?
Speaker 10 (05:50):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Now that that's a twenty five thirty five or I'll
eat it. Let's go a heavy look, Hidio, boyn't you?
Harry is sheriff cat the stars and wrangler for old
Man Tuddle.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yeah, hey there, Cacters, Hold up there, hid of sheriff.
What's up?
Speaker 10 (06:12):
H see a riffle cacus for sure? Twenty five thirty five?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Man? Yeah, taking in cacus.
Speaker 10 (06:21):
Maybe you can tell us something about the murder the
old man Tuttle, Old man murdered.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That's right. Well, who'd want to do a thing like that?
Speaker 10 (06:34):
Slim Characters tells a pretty convincing sturry. Well, your iron
is pretty weak. Now, there was a trail of blood
where old man Turtle was dragged because the porge, and
there was blood on your LEVI.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And I told you a dozen times, Sheriff it was.
It was from a wildcat I killed about a week ago.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
It's funny he didn't have no hide in your pack.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I killed him because he was stalking a yearl in
the mine and knocked the skin. And that's a truth,
Jerry FBI said. The whole thing I got to be
hearing sometime today.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
What's fb I got to do with it?
Speaker 10 (07:06):
I sent your levis to him, along with yours and
characters rivals, several cartridges.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Or you see, Tommy.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
That brings us right back to that piece of cloth
you were asking about. The chemist was able to tell
us in a minute that the blood on Slim's levies
was not human but wildcat.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Maybe so, but he could have killed oldland.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Hall, that's right.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
So we had to go a little further and find
out which gun fired the shot?
Speaker 8 (07:33):
How could you do that?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
With his s gadget right over here?
Speaker 7 (07:36):
That microscope not an ordinary ones, but we call a
comparison microscope.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
What's it do?
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Yeah, I put a bullet in this side, another bullet
on the other side.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Alu uh huh, I see him now?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I turned this s gadget right here.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
What happens now there's only one bullet.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
That's where you're wrong, Tommy. It looks like one bullet.
Actually you're seeing half of both bullets.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Both has looked the same.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
How you getting it. Those bullets were fired from the
same gun. Only bullets fired from the same gun will
match exactly.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
So that's how you knew whose gun did the killing.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
That's how. Of course, as soon as we knew, we
wired the sheriff.
Speaker 10 (08:17):
All right, men, is that telegram from the FBI. Now,
let's see what's what m hm staying pins murder bullet
fired from.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I guess that settles it.
Speaker 10 (08:39):
There was wildcat blood, A murdered gun belongs to cactus.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
What's that? All right? Cactus? You can't prove nothing. I
don't have to. The FBI has already done it. Start talking.
It was self defense, sheriffs, so help me. It was
about three days ago.
Speaker 11 (08:56):
A couple of city fellows offered me two hundred dollars
of outsort. I keep an eye on the old man,
not just to make sure he kept to the ranch house.
If the old man stirred, I was to give a
coyote house a signal. I was just sitting in the
saddle about fifty yards in front of the ranch house.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
There wasn't no moon out.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
They're not horse oh out there, big up I got.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
The old man was a dead shot. I know I'd
have to beat him to the drawer. Mighty cheap killing
a man, but two hundred dollars, Cactus, I didn't aim
to kill him, shelf.
Speaker 10 (09:31):
Pretty good aim and just the same real tetrap between
the eyes. I suppose that city what is was wrestling
the old man's cattle. I guess so sure, and darn
well I was. I got no more use for a
murderer than I have for restless. After I lock you up, Cactus,
I guess i'd better.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Have a look.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Not much to go on, char I.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Don't know about that, slim. I see, I've been right
smart interested in this. Here half the eye, for instance,
half the eye. Man, take a close look at them
tire tracks?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Now what kind of tracks would you say they was?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I wouldn't say now it was a cattle brand. I
could spot it in a minute.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
He's using a big truck ten wheel job. It can
look quite a few yearlings. And one of them back
right through a fence post too. You can see what
a paint scraped off?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
What you doing now picking up a few pieces of glass?
I wonder where that came from.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
I wouldn't be at all surprised when it comes from
a busted tail light let's go back to car.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Why the your father was picking up a few little
pieces of.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Glass, Those were mighty important pieces. Tommy. You see this
display over here.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Oh my cow, look at the head white.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Lenses sample from every car made. Tommy.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
See we fit pieces of broken lenses together and compare
them with these.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
When we match them up, we know the year end
model of the car were after.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Now, let's assume that the sheriff sent us those tale
like pieces.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We found out that they belonged to a red ten
Ton International.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Even know the color all sure, the paint that scraped
off on the fence post.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
You see how it all fits together.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Besides, the sheriff.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Had another clue the kind of tires that truck carried. Now,
as general rule, the FBI would have stopped there. But
since this case we're imagining looked like rustling, we would
have figured that the wrestlers were stealing the beef for
transport to eastern States. So chances are a few days
later the sheriff would Sheriff Croquett.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, David's an FBI. Oh to young fella, you find
that truck yead? Here's we did.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
We have a pretty good idea who made off of
old Man Tuttle's kettle.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I'd you figure that this job was.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Planned by a well organized mob run by Frank O'Connell.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Used to be bootlegger in the old days.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Now he's operating in stolen beef, counterfeit and stolen Russian
books and bootleg alcohol.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
What made you so sure this O'Connell was in this
wrestling business?
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Well, the truck was driven by one of O'Connell's trigger men,
Lympey Smith. He and another of O'Connell's robby's.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Drove the truck.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
How'd you know fingerprints were plastered all over the cab
of the truck?
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Jeebus? You mean you could have found the truck that quick?
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Tell me it wouldn't have been much job.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
We knew we were looking for a nineteen thirty nine
red ten ton internationally, and we knew exactly what kind
of tires it had. There could have been only one
truck that fitted our description perfectly.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
But how did you find the guys that drove the truck?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Temmy, I'm afraid you're not listening very closely.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
I know you said their fingerprints were plastered all over
the cab, But how could you tell whose prints they were.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
We would have just sticked them against our fingerprint file
here at FBI headquarters until we found the ones that match.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Is the file very big?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
I guess there must be about ninety one million sets
of prints on fire.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Ninety one million. Cow, you have to go through all
of them?
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Really not such a job, Tommy. Ever seen an old
fashioned player piano?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Sure, Grandma has one. I play it all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
You know how the rolls are punched, uh.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Huh, sort of like a conductor punches a train ticket,
only more holes.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Fingerprint information is punched on a card, something like that.
Then we run them through this machine.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
How does this thing work?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
See all those.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Little steel fingers, uh huh, hey they need that's right.
I'm setting them to di select cards. Punch one certain way. Oh,
I turn it on. See see how those little steel
fingers sort of feel each other.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
How about that it throws the card into this little
That's right, No steel fingers haven't found any holes that
match the way they're said. Fair, See that they court
the little steel finger court right those holes? Now, hey,
the right card went into a different slot, right.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
That may be the very card we're looking for now
we'll turn it off. It's Tommy.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
This machine right here has sent thousands of criminals up
for life just by selecting.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
A fingerprint card that same way.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Every once in a while, those hulams probably looked their
fingers and say, if you hadn't snitched on me, I
wouldn't be here.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
So that's how you found out who'd rolled the rustler's truck.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
That's how we would have done it.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
What happened to the cattle, Well, we'll assume that it
was shipped east Coorse.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Couple of FBI men would have followed it, because we'd
have known that sooner or later we'd catched the big shot.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Yeah, the big shot. You said this was gonna be
a big king uh huh.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But of course we wouldn't want to lose track the
guys who drove the truck, would we?
Speaker 8 (14:53):
Heck, no, what you reckon? They would have done after that?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
What spools?
Speaker 7 (14:57):
They met up with two other characters who had also
been step in the liquor racket back in for a
vision days.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
But what would they be up to?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
We wouldn't know it first.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
We just have to wait.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Maybe this time local police officials would stumble onto something
that would give us a clue.
Speaker 11 (15:15):
All right, Doc, what's the story. This man is employed
as night watching at the Morris Building.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Morris Building night Watch, that's.
Speaker 11 (15:23):
The building anywhere This man was shot while stepping in
his car afterward? Where was his car parked in an
alley reserved for parking space and building employees and tenants?
Speaker 12 (15:33):
You got the slug that's removed it from the man's leg.
M Nicol Jagget At twenty two. You say the man
was struck in the inner part of his thighs right
bullet took a shot downward courts Wow, ending shot was
fired from above?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Is this the kind of gun you haven't mind, Captain?
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Yes, mister da it was just such a gun that
fired the bullet. I'll have a comparison shot made with this.
Speaker 13 (16:00):
And save yourself the trouble, Captain. That could not possibly
be the gun?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
No, why not?
Speaker 13 (16:04):
Because that gun belongs to the wounded man. We found
it locked in the glove compartment of his car. Well,
old man, looks like we've solved our case.
Speaker 14 (16:18):
You mean you caught a man who shot me?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I think so.
Speaker 13 (16:21):
But the defense is working up a pretty strong case.
They're going to intimate that you might have carried a
gun for your own protection.
Speaker 14 (16:28):
Oh, that's ridiculous. You know, the company forbids me to
carry a gun.
Speaker 13 (16:31):
I don't say you could have carried a gun inside
your shirt and held it in place with your belt.
Speaker 14 (16:35):
But U proof, man, they can't prove a thing like that.
Speaker 13 (16:38):
Well, suppose you had carried a gun that way, and
suppose in stepping into your car, the trigger had caught
in your clothing and was pulled, the bullet would have
clowed down your leg.
Speaker 15 (16:48):
You mean they're going to try to prove I shot myself. Oh,
that's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.
Speaker 13 (16:53):
Ridiculous or not, it could have happened if the gun
had a long ball like this one.
Speaker 14 (16:58):
That would mastery. Hen Never that gun belost to me,
I know.
Speaker 13 (17:03):
But fear of an investigation as to why you were
carrying a concealed weapon might have kept you from the
circumstances of the shooting.
Speaker 15 (17:11):
It might have, yes, but we would believe a crazy
story like that.
Speaker 13 (17:17):
Oh, most any jury, you see, a ballistics expert has
proved that this is the guilty gun.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Oh you see, Tommy.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Again we turned to the comparison microscope, and again the
microscope found the guilty man.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
But why would this guy have shot himself?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Well, maybe the two fellows who drove the truck might
have had some idea of robbing a bank, so they
bribed this night watchman to let them into the second
floor that building.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
See Tommy's First National Banks on the ground floor.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Oh and maybe our friend took a gun along, just
in case the racketeers tried to double cross him.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Then he accidentally shot himself.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Was afraid that an investigation would tie him up with
the robber, so he might have tried to make out
like someone else had done the shooting cheaper crooks.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
You just don't have a chance, do they.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I'm afraid they don't, Tommy. Sooner or later, the law
always catches up with them. And Tommy.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
While it's true g men are especially trained to collect
evidence and apprehend criminals, even shooting out with him when necessary,
there are times when these g men most depend on
their ingenuity alone the crack the case. Well, let's bring
another stolen car in our case.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
You mean a stolen car to fit into this case.
Wehe're imagine it absolutely.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Now we've traced this stolen car across a couple of
state lines, and we suspect that the man we want
is in a little cabin in the mountains. But this
time we'd have to take it easy because the regular
raid would have.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Caused a lot of unnecessary shooting, maybe killing.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Well, that would mean we'd need a special agent was
pretty familiar with that part of the country, a man
who knew how to talk to people's language, so he
might be able to get our man without firework. The
man was strictly on his own, just had to depend
on plain old horse sense. So early one morning, this
ga man set out alone up the steep trail that
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led to a lonesome dwelling. Presently he came to a
weather beaten shack.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
He opened the door.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
There, inside he found an old mountaineer seated near an
ashfield fireplace.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Your god, min man, ain't you?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, you're a judge's father, ain't you.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I'm Judge Pepping. You ain't gonna take him?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
You're right, he ain't here, so I can't take him.
Somebody play that fiddle around here.
Speaker 16 (19:38):
Sure I do myself, and folks say I'm the best fidder.
But tricks here, nay, Phil.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You don't say. I used to feel a little bit myself,
looks like a mighty good violin in mind, if I look.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
At it, sure pick it up, love and do he plenty.
(20:14):
That's pretty. I never heard that one before.
Speaker 16 (20:21):
Well, strangers, that dog the first class settling. Maybe have
to buy the viddle you play some more. I never
know there was so much music in that old fiddle before.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, I gotta be getting back.
Speaker 17 (20:41):
How about Jed? You want him, don't you? No, I
don't want him. The government wants him. You know how
it is when the government wants a man may take
days or months or years to get him.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Longer it takes, or worse off of is.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
A Let me here, a stranger, I reckon, you're all right.
I like the way you talk, and I like the
way your fiddle.
Speaker 16 (21:04):
I'll help get at the Shere's office tomorrow noon noon tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Well, so long ago, land.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Gee, I mean you could have nabbed him use like that,
just like that.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Thought me, without firing a shot, all because that team
man used Blaine old horse hands. Besides, by making friends
with Jed's father, he was able to get quite a
bit of information.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
You mean you could have got the goods on the
whole gang.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Well, maybe not the whole gang, but not enough to
know definitely that everything was planned by one mob.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
The cattle rustling, the attempted bank robbery.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Everything Frank o'connelly could have been.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
At least we'll presume that all the men we'd watched
so far had worked for O'Connell at one time.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
I mean, why didn't you nab O'Connell.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
We hadn't completed our case.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Wow, this case is getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
For instance, we might have had to call on that
gentleman over there.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Why what's he doing?
Speaker 7 (22:02):
He's taking a clue under a comparison microscope. Here, take
a look at this display.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
What are they?
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Here's tommy hairs from different animals, as well as a
collection of slides showing twenty eight distinct shades of human hair.
This is known as the heir and fiber section.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Does it have something to do with our case?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Well, let's see if it does.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Let's suppose in our crooks, like all crooks, finally ran
up against the wrong man. A few days later, local
police officials found a murder on their hands. It happened
in a small filling station just on the edge of town.
After two days of exhaustive search. The officer in charge
of the investigation reported to his superior.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Got anything on that filling station murder sergeant.
Speaker 15 (22:46):
And not a clue, Captain, No finger prints, no footprints
worth checking.
Speaker 14 (22:51):
The murderer wore rope soles for shoes.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You know.
Speaker 15 (22:54):
Apparently he just walked in, stuck a knife and the
old man and cleared out.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
Or it's fine, just dandy reckon. The old man was
tied up in black market gasoline.
Speaker 14 (23:02):
Not a chance.
Speaker 15 (23:04):
Why just the other day he chased the fell out
of his place and try to peddle some coupons to him.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
You say someone did try to sell him coupons.
Speaker 15 (23:10):
That's what I was told. The old man's a stickler
for honesty, so he chases a guy. Hey, wait a minute,
what didn't I think of that before?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Hello? Yes, oh, in his left hand? Huh? Nothing else?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Okay, Gardner's office found a couple of hairs in the
old man's left hand.
Speaker 14 (23:33):
He chief, I just thought of it.
Speaker 15 (23:35):
The old man tossed out the last guy and tried
to pump gas coupons on him.
Speaker 14 (23:38):
Now suppose the same guy tried again.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Hey, he might have gotten pretty hot, threatened this guy
and a guy knife's him.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
It's a good guess.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Fine, who tried to sell him those gas coupons?
Speaker 17 (23:55):
I tell you you, guy's got nothing on men't we Now?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Would you be interested to know you're booked for murder?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Fat chance? Where's your proof?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
So it's proof you want to Anderson? Remember that filling
station killing last week?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Why about it?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Just this about it?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
The murdered man tangled with his assailant just before he
got a knife in his ribs, and a couple of
hairs got caught in a ring he wore on his
left hand.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Very interesting. So now you've got a couple of hairs.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
You wanted proof, Anderson, you're carrying it under your hat.
The hairs in the hand of the murdered man match
yours exactly. That's what the hair in fiber section has
to do with our case, Tommy.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
They pinned a murder rap on Anderson with just a
couple of hands.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yes, Matt would have just about sewed up our case
except for one thing. What was that O'Connell tried to
drop from sight entirely?
Speaker 8 (24:55):
How could he do that?
Speaker 7 (24:57):
He couldn't, but maybe he thought he could. Let's suppose
that he tried to dodge fingerprint identification. You see, Tommy,
skin corrugations on the fingers appear about three months before birth,
and they never vary.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
The criminal knows this.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
O'Connell knew it, but suppose, like all criminals, he tried
to convince himself that in his case, nature would make
an exception.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
All right, o'conna, let's remove the bandages and have a
look at those fingers.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
Now, the sweet surprise the Feds will get when they
check my new fingerprints.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
You know, kind of this works. It will be the
first time.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
What do you mean work, it's got to.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
No man's fingerprints have ever been changed by an operation.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
All right, come on, get those bandages off, Doc.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Oh, okay, that's a ticket.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
No fingerprints, Well, can't even Hey, Doc, look at that
finger and that one.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I told you it wouldn't work. O'Connell, Your fingerprints.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
Are coming back just as they were before I operated.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Even in operation, didn't change his fingerprints.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
No, Tommy fingerprints cannot be changed. Acid burns, surgery, nothing
affects him for long. That's why the ninety one million prints.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
That we have on file here at the FBI the.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Biggest man trap ever devised.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Wow, what I connall do.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
After that, O'Connell went back to his old hideout. But
we already had that spotted then to clean up the case.
Of course, we would have planned to attack at night.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Let's imagine that shortly after midnight the lead car drew
up a short distance from the Highland.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
All right, man, we blocked all roads. There's no chance
for him to escape. Have you guns ready? All cachhape
were for him.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
All right? You inside there, My.
Speaker 16 (27:03):
House is around it.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Come out with your hands up.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
They hurt your chief, looks like we left to smoke
him out.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Come out? Well, well, come in.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
All gangs in there?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
All right? Right him out? Are you all ready to
come out yet?
Speaker 9 (27:24):
Get him up here?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
I guess.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
Here they come one, two, three, four, five, six, Only
six of them, Chief, there should be seven.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Wells left in there.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Then it come along.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
That'nsil condo. Chief, he's upstairs.
Speaker 11 (27:42):
That's why the guests didn't get him.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Give him another dose.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
I will bring him out. I did it here he comes,
watch it.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
He's liable to try to shoot his way out.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Oh all right, ma'am lord.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
The rest of the car.
Speaker 11 (28:03):
What about O'Connell, Chief, Well, I think we'd got to
have and the mogled morgue handle app that last class
got him.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Gee, you almost had me believe in you there for
a while. Sometimes I forgot this was just an imaginary case.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
It wasn't as imaginary as you might think, Tommy. I
told you a story just to connect all the things
you saw here. Blood analysis, the work of the hair
and fiber section, ballistics, fingerprints. We changed names and places,
But in the FBI files are actual case histories which
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parallel the very things I've been telling you.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
You mean it actually could have happened.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yes, indeed, Tommy, it happens every day. We take a
piece of blood stained cloth and clear one man by
proving the stains weren't from human blood, and convict another
by proving that his gun fired the murder bullet. We
located a criminal's truck by identifying its make.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
And model, color and tires.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
We discover who drove the truck by fingerprints found in
the cab, and finally pin a murder wrap on a
black market operator by identifying a couple of hairs.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Going on the ring of the man he killed. And
what do you think about that?
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Oh boy, I'm gonna be a g man when I
grow up.
Speaker 18 (29:41):
Today's chapter of adventurer Ahead has taken you behind the
scenes of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For obvious reasons, names, dates,
and places were purely fictitious, but the entire story was
based on actual incidents and factual material contained in the
book Inside the FBI by John Florida. Investigative techniques for
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those which mister Florida describes, which are used daily by
the Department of Justice in solving crimes and safeguarding America.
Today's chapter an Adventurerhead was adapted for radio by Howard
Callaway and was directed by Joseph Mansfield. Music was by
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Doc Whipple. Adventurerhead is presented as a public service by
NBC at its affiliated independent stations. This is the National
Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Welcome Back.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
A really engaging episode that serves as a good introduction
to youthful listeners about the emerging police sciences and how
they worked in real life investigations. The way the agent
told the story also probably illustrated the way the shows
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writers likely compiled this story from the book, mixing details
from different cases to form a composite case, and I
think that it did a good job for its target
audience by maintaining a good balance for the most part
of action in science. Also, we learned that when recruiting
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Southern FBI agents, being a good fiddler is a useful
job skill. In all seriousness, I think that scene was
a nice acknowledgement of the human element in criminal investigation.
We might even call it soft skills today, and that's
a nice counterbalance in a story that I think is
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quite rightfully dominated by science and action. Now, I do
want to go ahead and thank our Patreon supporter of
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