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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good evening.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It's time once again to return to those exciting premier
days of radio as KRLD presents the story of another
real life crime fighter on Gangbusters, Now.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
In cooperation with police and federal law enforcement departments throughout
the United States. The only national program that brings you
authentic police case history, Gangbuster.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Goodnight.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Gangbusters presents the case of the collector rob Midwestern supermarkets
of thousands of dollars until the case of cigarettes put
him out of business.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We'll begin tonight's exciting story in just the moment.
Speaker 7 (01:01):
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Speaker 8 (01:07):
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for this insect spray? That it's good, that it's great,
that it's better than that. Ain't enough got to write
me a poem that surefire stuff. Let me see, Let
(01:32):
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Speaker 9 (01:57):
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Speaker 4 (01:57):
Today Gangbusters has asked the Honorable Leonard L. Murphy, Chief
of Detectives of the Saint Louis, Missouri Police Department, to
narrate by proxy to a Knight's case. Chief Murphy, you've
told me that it's surprising how many criminals actually have
very clever ideas. Yes, Don Gardner, but in these instances,
being clever doesn't mean being smart.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
If they were smart, they.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Never would have used their talents in the direction they did.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
And very Brie.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
These clever boys know they have a quick mind, but
they overestimate their shrewdness in a quest for lots of
money with no work. Your case for tonight took place
in the city of Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Chief Murphy.
Speaker 10 (02:31):
As that's right, Don, and one night not long ago,
young man and the girl were seated in the last
drow of a mammoth movie theater on Grand avenue. The
last showing of the picture just ended, and the audience
was filing out to the strains of the giant Willotza organ.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Oh what a picture.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You want to see it over again? You gotta conpect tomorrow.
Speaker 11 (02:52):
Okay, a girl can dream, can't she?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Sure someplace else?
Speaker 11 (02:55):
Come on, oh, Stitch, you got about as much for
romance as in Turtle.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It was a wonderful picture.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Hardness, please.
Speaker 11 (03:04):
Harden please the way he came back to her at
the end and then just held her. Oh blush, right picture, Yeah, yeah,
great stuff, rich What where are we going?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Oh what do you think I'm hungry. I'll buy you
a candy bar. Oh well, stick here a minute. I'll
be right back where you going.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Just stick here, I'll be back.
Speaker 11 (03:22):
Oh oh yeah, yeah okay, Richard.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Rich, I won't go my hide behind a flower pot.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I got interested in the picture.
Speaker 10 (03:33):
Come on, let's get this over with. Make it quick
and to the point, and worry. I like 'em that way,
so you don't get your hair.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Must that's one reason, uh, I believe in advertising.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And it's s Treasury's office.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Okay, I'm sick.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Knock right.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
The guy out front said to see you you've got
a little let him up to. Hey, molle, you've got
a crack on the head or worse, maybe sit still,
bud Well here it is wrapped up pretty, and let's go.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What about Junior here?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
He must get awful sleepy working nights there but sleep
Let's go. I got a date wedding. You know you
don't have to drag me, okay? Or there a movie?
(04:38):
Rich A, rich what come here? Re minder? William?
Speaker 8 (04:45):
You want now?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Stud?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It's my tie straight?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Rich Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
You and your ties. I'll straighten your tie for you
in case so I use the mirror. And there was
a nice piece of business last night, rich And I'm
glad you're happy.
Speaker 10 (04:58):
I'm counting on plenty of jobs that rich Stead's got
to be kept in.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
More of these fancy tis.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, you have enough to hire.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Are you expecting anyone in the morning?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Grab her? Gonna get behind the donor?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Okay, okay, just a minute, there was over Francy, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now, I love Francy yourself.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Hello, Francy, you're up early?
Speaker 11 (05:28):
You want to make something of a drape shape?
Speaker 8 (05:30):
What's eating you? What's eating me?
Speaker 11 (05:32):
I'll tell you what's eating me? I open up the
paper this morning. And what do you think is staring
me in the face? What that movie house was held
up last night? As if you didn't know?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
All right? So what?
Speaker 11 (05:44):
Oh rady a minute, Francy, don't go away. I'll be
right back. Took me there under false pretenses. That's what
you did, which you felt me better if you knew
we were gonna do the dam beside the point, I
got better things to do than play decoy for a
couple of hundred.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And one thing better.
Speaker 11 (05:56):
Listen, wolf in Wolf's clothing. I didn't come here.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Okay, get it down to a convulsion, will you these
walls talk back.
Speaker 11 (06:03):
You can highsto all the joints you want, you can
spend all the dough on me. But if I'm part
of any job, notes or undeknownst, I want what I
got coming, I'll give you what you got coming in
by yourself.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Let me see if I get you straight, Francy. Yeah,
you want to go to work.
Speaker 11 (06:18):
Look happy. I gotta pay my rent the same.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
As anybody else with my money. You don't if you.
Speaker 11 (06:23):
Don't like it, though, Gramon, pick up your pork pie
and take a walk.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I'm in well, not yet, Francy, I have to work
out an angle.
Speaker 11 (06:29):
Oh it's easy. There's always an angle.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
You just angled me, you right out of the picture.
Get easy, said, I got an idea. This is gonna
be good for all of us. Oh excuse me, Miss Lewis,
sure something?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Sergeant watsh?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Tell me o?
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Sergeant still? Yes, sir, he's.
Speaker 10 (06:49):
Looking the pictures over, trying to pick out those two bandits.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
All right, I'll be right in, okay, Lieutenant.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
Well, mister Lewis, this will be the last batch you'll
have to look through today.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
That's a good sid and I have to work at once.
I can come back tomorrow if you want.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Well, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Just go through those pictures, take a good look at
each one of them, both profile and front view.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
If any of those men look for me, you just
let me know.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I sure will just take your time, right, okay, Well
it's not this one.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Let's sort.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Oh come in, lieutenant. How's it going, Sergeant?
Speaker 10 (07:20):
Not too well, mister Lewis, Lieutenant, NEAs, mister Lewis, Lieutenant, you'll.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Go right ahead, mister Lewis.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Sure if I recognize any of them? Ahalla, y'all fine,
looks like a new bunch that sergeant.
Speaker 10 (07:31):
Yeah, he's been through the entire Motors Upper and I file,
and he can't make anybody we've ever handled for robbery.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
What's you're looking at now?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Oh mugs?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Did you hit one?
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Mister Lewis? I thought I did. Now the saint him?
Speaker 10 (07:45):
I'm sure, Okay, keep looking, Yeah I will, Yes, Lieutenant,
I think we're in for.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
A siege from these boys.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Well, let's keep out of sergeant. They know at the game.
At least they're up against a couple of old timers.
They've got them on that anyway.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
But what's the matter with going to the pines? Rich
At least they got some music there.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
You can dance.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I told you Stud's going.
Speaker 11 (08:12):
To meet this year, and I can't think of a better.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Reason for you.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Listen, Francis, get the chip off your shoulder. We're not
gonna be any good unless for a team. Remember that,
rah rah rah teams.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Do you want something most to drink?
Speaker 11 (08:25):
Well, as long as I've got a choice, I think
uh a party spoiled?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Hello, Richie, have aying set sit out?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Stud get nicely?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
I'm fine.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
How are you suddenly sick? A mond?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Come on? What did Bailey have to say, Well, he.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Didn't exactly go for it like Romeo went for Juliet.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
That's a nice tie you got on stud Is it new?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's pure silk at the port it this afternoon's class.
Speaker 11 (08:50):
Huh, it was a little longer you could hang yourself for.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Why you good?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Jake cut it out? What did Bailey say?
Speaker 10 (08:57):
Well, Richie said he never looked at it that way.
He didn't think chain grocery stores would be the ticket,
and he got suspicious.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
But you seld him there'd be lots of doll in.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Those says yeah, but a guy's always suspicious when he
gets something for nothing. For you to case fifteen or
twenty of those stores a big job, rich especially for free.
He wants to know what you're gonna get out of it.
You told him, Yeah, I told him. I laid it
on the line.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
I told him that after he knocks over so many
chain stores saves, they'll stop keeping the dough in the
saves and that's when you start your And he went
for it, but it was still a little suspicious.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Rich I had to promise him something.
Speaker 10 (09:32):
What I had to promise him that when he broke
into those stores, I'd.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Go along, just for the ride. Huh, Well, I'm gonna
do the work or take my split. You know how
it is, Rich, Sure, sure, I know how it is.
And it's okay.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You gotta take your pick.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Study the barely's in their mind.
Speaker 10 (09:49):
I'll take his end. You're just playing a hunch. Maybe
they'll take it out of the safe, maybe they won't.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Okay, Stud, I guess you know best.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Thanks, Rich, I know you wouldn't kick. You can do
what you like, only don't come running to me when
I get started. I'll be satisfied.
Speaker 10 (10:07):
I think I'll go call Bailey and said you put
to go Canada, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, I'll be right back.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
Yeah, strichnine and Soda feel like that guy? What do
you have to be so nice about it for? He
just walked out on the team?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Ray Ray Rocky. That's all right, Francy. He leaves everything
for you and me. Bet to Murray, you gotta start
shopping for groceries.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Baby.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
In chain storms, water waiter over so down, the criminal
Rich engineered a queer plan to set other criminals off
on a series of chain grocery stores safe burglaries in
Saint Louis. Now, if you're puzzle how he could profit
(10:52):
from burglaries committed by other criminals. They'll see shortly that
he had quite an ingenious plan, but he didn't realize
that detectives also live by engineer.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
We'll return to tonight's exciting story on Gangbusters following this
brief pause.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
How do you want this help wanted ad classifying?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (11:09):
Do you mean?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Well?
Speaker 12 (11:10):
The Dallas Times Herald has expanded the classifications in our
help wanted section, so we can put your ad underhelp
wanted Professional or help wanted General Olayer. Well, we'll list
your bricklayer ad under help Wanted General and alphabetically under
the bees. The New Times Herald want ads have more
classifications and the jobs are alphabetized.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Job finding is easier in the New Times Herald classifieds
called seven four eight, fourteen fourteen.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
Don't you see it's a great opportunity hack. We'll sell
a million of them?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Well maybe, but do we have to get the whole shipment?
Speaker 10 (11:47):
Now?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well, we put them.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
It's no problem. We'll just rent a Pilgrim self service
mini warehouse. We lock it, we keep the key.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah, you talk like we've already made a fortune. Now
you know warehouse storage is expensive. Listen to me, believe
in me.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
You can store stuff at Pilgrim for just pennies a day.
You're rent by the month, and you read as little
or as much space as you need, and it's self
service so you don't have to pay extra labor.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, what is this Pilgrim place, handy? Yeah, they're all
over the place.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
We can look up in the Yellow Pages and see
which one is the nearest.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Okay, I'm sold. In fact, you better make that order
for two million.
Speaker 9 (12:24):
This mini warehouse mini drama has been brought to you
by Pilgrim, the anted clutter people who also build Pilgrim
Parks for businesses that need offices and warehouse under the
same room.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Now back to Gangbusters. You were telling his chief Murphy
that the young criminal rich convinced another gang that they
could profitably burglarize the safes of chain grocery stores in
Saint Louis, and even went so far as to have
his girl Francy case the stores for them. That's right done,
and soon police reports began to show a plague of
these safe burglaries. A chain grocery store is broken into,
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and it's safe cracked nearly every night, saying those detectors
were doing all they could to catch the criminals, but
decided as Rich hoped they would and for cautionary measures
were also necessary. Lieutenant nee House and Sergeant Walsh were
discussing the situation and Police headquarters. Rick Clark be all
right with you, sergeant, Yes, sir, got them all lined up,
have you, Yes, sir, all the district managers, A and
(13:20):
P stores, Kroger's, Piggley, Wiggily, and one or two others.
But Lieutenant, do you really think they'll.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Go for it?
Speaker 10 (13:26):
I don't see why not. They want to stop these burglars.
The best way to do it, next to catching the thieves,
is not to leave anything for them to take.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
If they do break in.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
Yeah, but some of these stores take in three or
four thousand a day, Lieutenant. No matter what kind of
trouble we've been having, it's still a side easier to
break into a manager's home than the store is safe.
Yes it is, But the burglars won't know the store
managers are carrying the money home with them.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
They won't know where it went. So no publicity on
this move, no publicity at all.
Speaker 11 (13:58):
Oh, yes, madam, you're the manager, aren't you. Yes, I
help you I'd like to get a check.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Cashed for may.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Well, I'm sorry, madam. Company rules were not allowed to
cash checks.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
But I left home without any money. Well, I guess i'll.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Have to go back.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Well, if you'd like, you can do your marketing now
and we'll hold the packages for you.
Speaker 11 (14:17):
No, I think I'll run on home. But well, it
seems so silly rule not to cash customers checks. If
you cash checks, you wouldn't have lost so much money
in that robbery you had the other night.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Maybe you're right, but there won't be any more money
lost in burglaries.
Speaker 11 (14:31):
They haven't caught the criminals.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
No, not yet. But if they try it again, they'll
find an empty safe. As a matter of fact, they
try it in any of our stores, they'll find the
safe empty.
Speaker 11 (14:38):
Really well, thanks, just the same, Hello.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Rich, Yeah, fancy had to.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
Go there still to stop keeping their receipts around at.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Night, then the managers must be taking it away with them.
Take a few more places around closing time. And if
that's the way it is, I'll go to work. Hey
just a minute, Oh, I'm sorry, so the door is
closed at night.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well, in that case, give me the oh what do
you mean? Come on, buddy, I'm a collector. Get him up,
Get him up. Please, don't you take that package?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Givin Harry said, hiks, buddy.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
Well, I just put on an alarm on that last one, Lieutenant,
Good Lieutenant, I wish we could provide an armed god
for every chain store manager in the city.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Where are we going to get the men in Osloge?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And I can't help feeling that these robberies and safe
burglaries are tied up in some way. It's just too
neat to be a coincidence.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Maybe, but safe burglars and stick up men just don't
run together.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Lieutenant m what about the stolen goods angle? Not much yet.
Speaker 10 (15:57):
Those burglars must know that cigarettes are just about as
hard to trace his money. I guess that's why they
went to the trouble to take them along. At least
cigarettes are hearted to conceal. Well, we're keeping our eye
on receivers of such merchandis okay. I only hope it
comes through before every store in town is touched.
Speaker 11 (16:17):
Hey, you know what's in here? Rich spaghetti?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
No kidding, I don't imagine.
Speaker 11 (16:22):
The stuff is hard when you're buying, just goes to
show up your nose around enough, you'll learn plenty.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, well I must be summing it around here. That's
quick to fix.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Oh, take your pick.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
I got two closets full of groceries ready to go
in business myself. Uh, apple juice, tomato juice, sour kraut juice,
grape fruit juice.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Anything.
Speaker 11 (16:40):
Oh there's chow maine. Hey, imagine chow maine and cans.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Who'said?
Speaker 11 (16:46):
Not somebody with more groceries?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I hope ward and take a look.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
Oh sure, okay, I'm coming. Yeah. Oh I knew it
was too good to last.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
How about Francy?
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Come in, come in.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
It's rich around.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
Hey, Rich, come on out. You got lots of company.
Heart Schaffner and Marx about rich?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Whoa, sir, where'd you spring from? I hear you doing
all right?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Rich?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well here you're doing alright.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
We were until they didn't leave the dough in the
safes anymore. It worked out like you're figured.
Speaker 11 (17:26):
I bet you're happy too.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Look, Rich, have you have you got a spot for me?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
A spot?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You should have stayed with me all the while?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Stud you've been rolling in.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Clover now, I guess I would have, but I'm flat flat.
You guys must have taken plenty out of those safes. Yeah,
but there were four of us. It was alright, broh,
what happened to the doll?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
You know?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
If you close only a few m and I dropped
a bundle across the river? Haven't you got sense enough
to stay out of a crack game?
Speaker 11 (17:51):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Now yes, how about a rich you take me back in?
If you do?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Rich, I swear, haven't you got anything with?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Do? What?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Then? Well?
Speaker 10 (18:02):
I I got two cases of cigarettes. We took out
one joint. What do you say, rich?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Nothing to 'em?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
But rich?
Speaker 8 (18:07):
You will?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Had you a chance to stick and you didn't. But
do you want charity? Okay, that's the way you feel
about it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Get rid of those cigarettes. They had to bring you
a hundred or so.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah, I guess I don't have to do.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But be careful where you sell 'em.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Don't worry.
Speaker 11 (18:21):
Well, thanks, just the same, Put some of your suits
and hop they ought to keep you for a month.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I did already. That's so long.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Take it easy. There goes my pal.
Speaker 11 (18:36):
He's a bum, A bum with shoulder pads.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Maybe I should have taken him back.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Are you losing your mind?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Nob? He gets picked up or anything. You will hold
them from here? The Saint jo Ah.
Speaker 11 (18:47):
Who's gonna pick 'em up?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Nobody, I guess, but only I hope he's careful about
getting rid of those cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
They involve too many people.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
A hundred one two three, Lucious, huh oh, it's sat.
Hold on, Stud, just a minute, just minute, mid three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
one hundred. What do you do and figure it out?
Your income?
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Text? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Inventory, my boy, just inventory, So in your mind, Stud,
busy today, very busy.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Look delicious?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I'm a little short of cash. Well, I'm not so
long out of myself, my boy, not long at all.
I wasn't asking for a loan. It's a good thing
because you wouldn't get it. You wouldn't get it. I
could you use some cigarettes?
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Stud?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You know I don't smoke quit years ago. I'm on
lucious cigarettes. How many you got? How many? Two cases?
Old goals, both of 'em. There's not much of a
market for cigarettes these days, Stud, not much. When you're
buying something, there's never much of a market, is there, Lucious.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Oh, it's the risk, Stud, it's the risks.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
What'd you get 'em. I got 'em.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Isn't it enough?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Forty dollars for the two cases? Forty dollars? What's a
hundred cottons?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
There? Forty dollars?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Stood?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
They're at sea flushes? Maybe maybe?
Speaker 12 (19:59):
I hm?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Forty dollars? Okay?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
What do you got? The cigarettes?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Way?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
They're out in the car.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
What are we waiting for?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
And we're waiting for let's get him. You got the
forty that I'm surprised at you? Come on?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Yeah? What as much these days?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Haven't heard em quite a time, quite a time.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Oh he's a big shot now, Lucious. He don't deal
with nothing but cash.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Now he's too bad. Witch's the car, it's the convertible?
Speaker 10 (20:25):
Are nine nine?
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Where'd you get it?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I borrowed it? Well, come on, come on, the cigarettes
get in the trunk. Forty bucks ain't much money, Lucious,
What than you got? You get the point?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
There?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
They are alright?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Let's get him inside a mind the forty bucks, Lucious,
Oh yes.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
And forty dollars.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Little uh liotends doing anything? And what he thirty? Forty?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Thanks? Inside?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Inside?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
What up you take the other kid?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Come on?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Come on, lest the truck. Forty bucks the market has
been stood very bad.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
All right, you too, that's far enough. Cops, drop those cottons.
Please see your officer.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I'm a legitimate business man, legitimate.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Your record says different. You Where you get those cigarettes?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
What do you think they fell off some truck?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
I see here, Captain, I mind, I'm not a captain,
and you're under arrest receiving stolen property.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Stolen property. Those cigarettes were taken in a burglary.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Ridiculous, ridiculous burglary. I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know anything about any burglary.
Speaker 10 (21:32):
I will see how much you know about burglary.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
There's and also a few robberies.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Come on, both of you.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
See here.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I said, come on, and I mean it honest, Rich.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
I just can't sit here and listen to your cry
and your beer all night.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I'm telling you, Francy, I made a mistake turning stood out.
I should have taken him back. I got a feeling.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
I've got a feeling too. I've got a feeling. It
ain't Christmas if you took him back in that's exactly
what it would have today Christmas.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
We're getting out of town, crying out loud.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Why in the rig.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Yes, any place, get back tonight. We're leaving in the morning. Okay,
well you got a passenger, then come on, let's get
out of here.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Not so fast. Let me finish my dream the.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Right, Yes, Sergian wash, Lieutenant, I just put this stud character.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Back in the hole of they Did you get what
you wanted?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Everything? He's saying like a soprano with the mint. We
do want to make simultaneous pickups tonight. I'll need a
few spots.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
All right, sergeant, take anybody you want.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
You want to come along, Lieutenant, Yeah, you're short handed.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Well it's not exactly that, Lieutenant. There is one of
these birds I want to color myself. I name Rich.
He's the one that had this brainstorm, and I figured
you'd like to be in on it too.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
By all means, Sergeant, I want to be among the
first to meet this Rich.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Okay, hold it here, stunt, Yeah, how which door is it?
And what's that one? They had a second one?
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Myers, climb right on past the room, killing the craft.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
You said, stick at the head of the stairs.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Do you set the tent?
Speaker 10 (23:20):
Let's go the one, stud, I said, go, okay, you
don't have to show me, and you stop at the room,
knock on the door and say it to you. But
I gave you, guys a little door like you're told. Okay, knock,
(23:43):
go ahead, knock alright. When they ask who it is,
you'll answer at them and then get.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Back out of the way.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
You show the ren sergeant.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I hope so.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Not again.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Yeah, wiz it, go ahead, answer.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
It's me, stud.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
It's done.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
Okay, just a second.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
The fact that's done.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Police officer, very well, don't move it me.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You don't take what is a gun on the rest right.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
There's no sense in crying about him. Sister.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
The two of you will be separated for a long
time for good.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I guess so, don That was how the young bandit
with an idea learned the police also have ideas. Rich
and all his accomplices were taken in custody. Subsequently, he
was sentenced to a term of twelve years in the
Missouri State Penitentiary. Well, thank you, Chief Murphy for this
absorbing case history and Gangbuster's congratulations to the police officers
who rounded up this troublesome gang of criminals.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
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Speaker 4 (00:23):
In cooperation with police and federal law enforcement departments throughout
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authentic police case history, Gangbuster.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Goodnight.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Gangbusters presents the case of the collector rob Midwestern supermarkets
of thousands of dollars until the case of cigarettes put
him out of business.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We'll begin tonight's exciting story in just the moment.
Speaker 7 (01:01):
Oh, the poet said from the edge of his bed,
here's the chance I've been looking for.
Speaker 8 (01:07):
Opportunity knocks.
Speaker 7 (01:10):
Seems that isotox needs a poem that'll sell it on
the air. Isotox isotas Let me see, Let me think
my brain is on the blink. What can I say
for this insect spray? That it's good, that it's great,
that it's better than that. Ain't enough got to write
me a poem that surefire stuff. Let me see, Let
(01:32):
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Speaker 2 (01:35):
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Speaker 9 (01:57):
Get it.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Today Gangbusters has asked the Honorable Leonard L. Murphy, Chief
of Detectives of the Saint Louis, Missouri Police Department, to
narrate by proxy to a Knight's case. Chief Murphy, you've
told me that it's surprising how many criminals actually have
very clever ideas. Yes, Don Gardner, but in these instances,
being clever doesn't mean being smart.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
If they were smart, they.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Never would have used their talents in the direction they did.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
And very Brie.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
These clever boys know they have a quick mind, but
they overestimate their shrewdness in a quest for lots of
money with no work. Your case for tonight took place
in the city of Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Chief Murphy.
Speaker 10 (02:31):
As that's right, Don, and one night not long ago,
young man and the girl were seated in the last
drow of a mammoth movie theater on Grand avenue. The
last showing of the picture just ended, and the audience
was filing out to the strains of the giant Willotza organ.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Oh what a picture.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You want to see it over again? You gotta conpect tomorrow.
Speaker 11 (02:52):
Okay, a girl can dream, can't she?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Sure someplace else?
Speaker 11 (02:55):
Come on, oh, Stitch, you got about as much for
romance as in Turtle.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It was a wonderful picture.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Hardness, please.
Speaker 11 (03:04):
Harden please the way he came back to her at
the end and then just held her. Oh blush, right picture, Yeah, yeah,
great stuff, rich What where are we going?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Oh what do you think I'm hungry. I'll buy you
a candy bar. Oh well, stick here a minute. I'll
be right back where you going.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Just stick here, I'll be back.
Speaker 11 (03:22):
Oh oh yeah, yeah okay, Richard.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Rich, I won't go my hide behind a flower pot.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I got interested in the picture.
Speaker 10 (03:33):
Come on, let's get this over with. Make it quick
and to the point, and worry. I like 'em that way,
so you don't get your hair.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Must that's one reason, uh, I believe in advertising.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And it's s Treasury's office.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Okay, I'm sick.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Knock right.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
The guy out front said to see you you've got
a little let him up to. Hey, molle, you've got
a crack on the head or worse, maybe sit still,
bud Well here it is wrapped up pretty, and let's go.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What about Junior here?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
He must get awful sleepy working nights there but sleep
Let's go. I got a date wedding. You know you
don't have to drag me, okay? Or there a movie?
(04:38):
Rich A, rich what come here? Re minder? William?
Speaker 8 (04:45):
You want now?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Stud?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It's my tie straight?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Rich Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
You and your ties. I'll straighten your tie for you
in case so I use the mirror. And there was
a nice piece of business last night, rich And I'm
glad you're happy.
Speaker 10 (04:58):
I'm counting on plenty of jobs that rich Stead's got
to be kept in.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
More of these fancy tis.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, you have enough to hire.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Are you expecting anyone in the morning?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Grab her? Gonna get behind the donor?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Okay, okay, just a minute, there was over Francy, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now, I love Francy yourself.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Hello, Francy, you're up early?
Speaker 11 (05:28):
You want to make something of a drape shape?
Speaker 8 (05:30):
What's eating you? What's eating me?
Speaker 11 (05:32):
I'll tell you what's eating me? I open up the
paper this morning. And what do you think is staring
me in the face? What that movie house was held
up last night? As if you didn't know?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
All right? So what?
Speaker 11 (05:44):
Oh rady a minute, Francy, don't go away. I'll be
right back. Took me there under false pretenses. That's what
you did, which you felt me better if you knew
we were gonna do the dam beside the point, I
got better things to do than play decoy for a
couple of hundred.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And one thing better.
Speaker 11 (05:56):
Listen, wolf in Wolf's clothing. I didn't come here.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Okay, get it down to a convulsion, will you these
walls talk back.
Speaker 11 (06:03):
You can highsto all the joints you want, you can
spend all the dough on me. But if I'm part
of any job, notes or undeknownst, I want what I
got coming, I'll give you what you got coming in
by yourself.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Let me see if I get you straight, Francy. Yeah,
you want to go to work.
Speaker 11 (06:18):
Look happy. I gotta pay my rent the same.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
As anybody else with my money. You don't if you.
Speaker 11 (06:23):
Don't like it, though, Gramon, pick up your pork pie
and take a walk.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I'm in well, not yet, Francy, I have to work
out an angle.
Speaker 11 (06:29):
Oh it's easy. There's always an angle.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
You just angled me, you right out of the picture.
Get easy, said, I got an idea. This is gonna
be good for all of us. Oh excuse me, Miss Lewis,
sure something?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Sergeant watsh?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Tell me o?
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Sergeant still? Yes, sir, he's.
Speaker 10 (06:49):
Looking the pictures over, trying to pick out those two bandits.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
All right, I'll be right in, okay, Lieutenant.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
Well, mister Lewis, this will be the last batch you'll
have to look through today.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
That's a good sid and I have to work at once.
I can come back tomorrow if you want.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Well, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Just go through those pictures, take a good look at
each one of them, both profile and front view.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
If any of those men look for me, you just
let me know.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I sure will just take your time, right, okay, Well
it's not this one.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Let's sort.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Oh come in, lieutenant. How's it going, Sergeant?
Speaker 10 (07:20):
Not too well, mister Lewis, Lieutenant, NEAs, mister Lewis, Lieutenant, you'll.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Go right ahead, mister Lewis.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Sure if I recognize any of them? Ahalla, y'all fine,
looks like a new bunch that sergeant.
Speaker 10 (07:31):
Yeah, he's been through the entire Motors Upper and I file,
and he can't make anybody we've ever handled for robbery.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
What's you're looking at now?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Oh mugs?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Did you hit one?
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Mister Lewis? I thought I did. Now the saint him?
Speaker 10 (07:45):
I'm sure, Okay, keep looking, Yeah I will, Yes, Lieutenant,
I think we're in for.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
A siege from these boys.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Well, let's keep out of sergeant. They know at the game.
At least they're up against a couple of old timers.
They've got them on that anyway.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
But what's the matter with going to the pines? Rich
At least they got some music there.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
You can dance.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I told you Stud's going.
Speaker 11 (08:12):
To meet this year, and I can't think of a better.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Reason for you.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Listen, Francis, get the chip off your shoulder. We're not
gonna be any good unless for a team. Remember that,
rah rah rah teams.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Do you want something most to drink?
Speaker 11 (08:25):
Well, as long as I've got a choice, I think
uh a party spoiled?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Hello, Richie, have aying set sit out?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Stud get nicely?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
I'm fine.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
How are you suddenly sick? A mond?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Come on? What did Bailey have to say, Well, he.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Didn't exactly go for it like Romeo went for Juliet.
Speaker 11 (08:44):
That's a nice tie you got on stud Is it new?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's pure silk at the port it this afternoon's class.
Speaker 11 (08:50):
Huh, it was a little longer you could hang yourself for.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Why you good?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Jake cut it out? What did Bailey say?
Speaker 10 (08:57):
Well, Richie said he never looked at it that way.
He didn't think chain grocery stores would be the ticket,
and he got suspicious.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
But you seld him there'd be lots of doll in.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Those says yeah, but a guy's always suspicious when he
gets something for nothing. For you to case fifteen or
twenty of those stores a big job, rich especially for free.
He wants to know what you're gonna get out of it.
You told him, Yeah, I told him. I laid it
on the line.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
I told him that after he knocks over so many
chain stores saves, they'll stop keeping the dough in the
saves and that's when you start your And he went
for it, but it was still a little suspicious.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Rich I had to promise him something.
Speaker 10 (09:32):
What I had to promise him that when he broke
into those stores, I'd.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Go along, just for the ride. Huh, Well, I'm gonna
do the work or take my split. You know how
it is, Rich, Sure, sure, I know how it is.
And it's okay.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You gotta take your pick.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Study the barely's in their mind.
Speaker 10 (09:49):
I'll take his end. You're just playing a hunch. Maybe
they'll take it out of the safe, maybe they won't.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Okay, Stud, I guess you know best.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Thanks, Rich, I know you wouldn't kick. You can do
what you like, only don't come running to me when
I get started. I'll be satisfied.
Speaker 10 (10:07):
I think I'll go call Bailey and said you put
to go Canada, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, I'll be right back.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
Yeah, strichnine and Soda feel like that guy? What do
you have to be so nice about it for? He
just walked out on the team?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Ray Ray Rocky. That's all right, Francy. He leaves everything
for you and me. Bet to Murray, you gotta start
shopping for groceries.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Baby.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
In chain storms, water waiter over so down, the criminal
Rich engineered a queer plan to set other criminals off
on a series of chain grocery stores safe burglaries in
Saint Louis. Now, if you're puzzle how he could profit
(10:52):
from burglaries committed by other criminals. They'll see shortly that
he had quite an ingenious plan, but he didn't realize
that detectives also live by engineer.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
We'll return to tonight's exciting story on Gangbusters following this
brief pause.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
How do you want this help wanted ad classifying?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (11:09):
Do you mean?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Well?
Speaker 12 (11:10):
The Dallas Times Herald has expanded the classifications in our
help wanted section, so we can put your ad underhelp
wanted Professional or help wanted General Olayer. Well, we'll list
your bricklayer ad under help Wanted General and alphabetically under
the bees. The New Times Herald want ads have more
classifications and the jobs are alphabetized.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Job finding is easier in the New Times Herald classifieds
called seven four eight, fourteen fourteen.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
Don't you see it's a great opportunity hack. We'll sell
a million of them?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Well maybe, but do we have to get the whole shipment?
Speaker 10 (11:47):
Now?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well, we put them.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
It's no problem. We'll just rent a Pilgrim self service
mini warehouse. We lock it, we keep the key.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah, you talk like we've already made a fortune. Now
you know warehouse storage is expensive. Listen to me, believe
in me.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
You can store stuff at Pilgrim for just pennies a day.
You're rent by the month, and you read as little
or as much space as you need, and it's self
service so you don't have to pay extra labor.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, what is this Pilgrim place, handy? Yeah, they're all
over the place.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
We can look up in the Yellow Pages and see
which one is the nearest.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Okay, I'm sold. In fact, you better make that order
for two million.
Speaker 9 (12:24):
This mini warehouse mini drama has been brought to you
by Pilgrim, the anted clutter people who also build Pilgrim
Parks for businesses that need offices and warehouse under the
same room.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Now back to Gangbusters. You were telling his chief Murphy
that the young criminal rich convinced another gang that they
could profitably burglarize the safes of chain grocery stores in
Saint Louis, and even went so far as to have
his girl Francy case the stores for them. That's right done,
and soon police reports began to show a plague of
these safe burglaries. A chain grocery store is broken into,
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and it's safe cracked nearly every night, saying those detectors
were doing all they could to catch the criminals, but
decided as Rich hoped they would and for cautionary measures
were also necessary. Lieutenant nee House and Sergeant Walsh were
discussing the situation and Police headquarters. Rick Clark be all
right with you, sergeant, Yes, sir, got them all lined up,
have you, Yes, sir, all the district managers, A and
(13:20):
P stores, Kroger's, Piggley, Wiggily, and one or two others.
But Lieutenant, do you really think they'll.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Go for it?
Speaker 10 (13:26):
I don't see why not. They want to stop these burglars.
The best way to do it, next to catching the thieves,
is not to leave anything for them to take.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
If they do break in.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
Yeah, but some of these stores take in three or
four thousand a day, Lieutenant. No matter what kind of
trouble we've been having, it's still a side easier to
break into a manager's home than the store is safe.
Yes it is, But the burglars won't know the store
managers are carrying the money home with them.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
They won't know where it went. So no publicity on
this move, no publicity at all.
Speaker 11 (13:58):
Oh, yes, madam, you're the manager, aren't you. Yes, I
help you I'd like to get a check.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Cashed for may.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Well, I'm sorry, madam. Company rules were not allowed to
cash checks.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
But I left home without any money. Well, I guess i'll.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Have to go back.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Well, if you'd like, you can do your marketing now
and we'll hold the packages for you.
Speaker 11 (14:17):
No, I think I'll run on home. But well, it
seems so silly rule not to cash customers checks. If
you cash checks, you wouldn't have lost so much money
in that robbery you had the other night.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Maybe you're right, but there won't be any more money
lost in burglaries.
Speaker 11 (14:31):
They haven't caught the criminals.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
No, not yet. But if they try it again, they'll
find an empty safe. As a matter of fact, they
try it in any of our stores, they'll find the
safe empty.
Speaker 11 (14:38):
Really well, thanks, just the same, Hello.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Rich, Yeah, fancy had to.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
Go there still to stop keeping their receipts around at.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Night, then the managers must be taking it away with them.
Take a few more places around closing time. And if
that's the way it is, I'll go to work. Hey
just a minute, Oh, I'm sorry, so the door is
closed at night.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well, in that case, give me the oh what do
you mean? Come on, buddy, I'm a collector. Get him up,
Get him up. Please, don't you take that package?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Givin Harry said, hiks, buddy.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
Well, I just put on an alarm on that last one, Lieutenant,
Good Lieutenant, I wish we could provide an armed god
for every chain store manager in the city.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Where are we going to get the men in Osloge?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And I can't help feeling that these robberies and safe
burglaries are tied up in some way. It's just too
neat to be a coincidence.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Maybe, but safe burglars and stick up men just don't
run together.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Lieutenant m what about the stolen goods angle? Not much yet.
Speaker 10 (15:57):
Those burglars must know that cigarettes are just about as
hard to trace his money. I guess that's why they
went to the trouble to take them along. At least
cigarettes are hearted to conceal. Well, we're keeping our eye
on receivers of such merchandis okay. I only hope it
comes through before every store in town is touched.
Speaker 11 (16:17):
Hey, you know what's in here? Rich spaghetti?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
No kidding, I don't imagine.
Speaker 11 (16:22):
The stuff is hard when you're buying, just goes to
show up your nose around enough, you'll learn plenty.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, well I must be summing it around here. That's
quick to fix.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Oh, take your pick.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
I got two closets full of groceries ready to go
in business myself. Uh, apple juice, tomato juice, sour kraut juice,
grape fruit juice.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Anything.
Speaker 11 (16:40):
Oh there's chow maine. Hey, imagine chow maine and cans.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Who'said?
Speaker 11 (16:46):
Not somebody with more groceries?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I hope ward and take a look.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
Oh sure, okay, I'm coming. Yeah. Oh I knew it
was too good to last.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
How about Francy?
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Come in, come in.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
It's rich around.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
Hey, Rich, come on out. You got lots of company.
Heart Schaffner and Marx about rich?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Whoa, sir, where'd you spring from? I hear you doing
all right?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Rich?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well here you're doing alright.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
We were until they didn't leave the dough in the
safes anymore. It worked out like you're figured.
Speaker 11 (17:26):
I bet you're happy too.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Look, Rich, have you have you got a spot for me?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
A spot?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You should have stayed with me all the while?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Stud you've been rolling in.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Clover now, I guess I would have, but I'm flat flat.
You guys must have taken plenty out of those safes. Yeah,
but there were four of us. It was alright, broh,
what happened to the doll?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
You know?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
If you close only a few m and I dropped
a bundle across the river? Haven't you got sense enough
to stay out of a crack game?
Speaker 11 (17:51):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Now yes, how about a rich you take me back in?
If you do?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Rich, I swear, haven't you got anything with?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Do? What?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Then? Well?
Speaker 10 (18:02):
I I got two cases of cigarettes. We took out
one joint. What do you say, rich?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Nothing to 'em?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
But rich?
Speaker 8 (18:07):
You will?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Had you a chance to stick and you didn't. But
do you want charity? Okay, that's the way you feel
about it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Get rid of those cigarettes. They had to bring you
a hundred or so.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah, I guess I don't have to do.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But be careful where you sell 'em.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Don't worry.
Speaker 11 (18:21):
Well, thanks, just the same, Put some of your suits
and hop they ought to keep you for a month.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I did already. That's so long.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Take it easy. There goes my pal.
Speaker 11 (18:36):
He's a bum, A bum with shoulder pads.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Maybe I should have taken him back.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Are you losing your mind?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Nob? He gets picked up or anything. You will hold
them from here? The Saint jo Ah.
Speaker 11 (18:47):
Who's gonna pick 'em up?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Nobody, I guess, but only I hope he's careful about
getting rid of those cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
They involve too many people.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
A hundred one two three, Lucious, huh oh, it's sat.
Hold on, Stud, just a minute, just minute, mid three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
one hundred. What do you do and figure it out?
Your income?
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Text? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Inventory, my boy, just inventory, So in your mind, Stud,
busy today, very busy.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Look delicious?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I'm a little short of cash. Well, I'm not so
long out of myself, my boy, not long at all.
I wasn't asking for a loan. It's a good thing
because you wouldn't get it. You wouldn't get it. I
could you use some cigarettes?
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Stud?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You know I don't smoke quit years ago. I'm on
lucious cigarettes. How many you got? How many? Two cases?
Old goals, both of 'em. There's not much of a
market for cigarettes these days, Stud, not much. When you're
buying something, there's never much of a market, is there, Lucious.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Oh, it's the risk, Stud, it's the risks.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
What'd you get 'em. I got 'em.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Isn't it enough?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Forty dollars for the two cases? Forty dollars? What's a
hundred cottons?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
There? Forty dollars?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Stood?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
They're at sea flushes? Maybe maybe?
Speaker 12 (19:59):
I hm?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Forty dollars? Okay?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
What do you got? The cigarettes?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Way?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
They're out in the car.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
What are we waiting for?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
And we're waiting for let's get him. You got the
forty that I'm surprised at you? Come on?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Yeah? What as much these days?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Haven't heard em quite a time, quite a time.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Oh he's a big shot now, Lucious. He don't deal
with nothing but cash.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Now he's too bad. Witch's the car, it's the convertible?
Speaker 10 (20:25):
Are nine nine?
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Where'd you get it?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I borrowed it? Well, come on, come on, the cigarettes
get in the trunk. Forty bucks ain't much money, Lucious,
What than you got? You get the point?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
There?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
They are alright?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Let's get him inside a mind the forty bucks, Lucious,
Oh yes.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
And forty dollars.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Little uh liotends doing anything? And what he thirty? Forty?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Thanks? Inside?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Inside?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
What up you take the other kid?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Come on?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Come on, lest the truck. Forty bucks the market has
been stood very bad.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
All right, you too, that's far enough. Cops, drop those cottons.
Please see your officer.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I'm a legitimate business man, legitimate.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Your record says different. You Where you get those cigarettes?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
What do you think they fell off some truck?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
I see here, Captain, I mind, I'm not a captain,
and you're under arrest receiving stolen property.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Stolen property. Those cigarettes were taken in a burglary.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Ridiculous, ridiculous burglary. I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know anything about any burglary.
Speaker 10 (21:32):
I will see how much you know about burglary.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
There's and also a few robberies.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Come on, both of you.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
See here.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I said, come on, and I mean it honest, Rich.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
I just can't sit here and listen to your cry
and your beer all night.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I'm telling you, Francy, I made a mistake turning stood out.
I should have taken him back. I got a feeling.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
I've got a feeling too. I've got a feeling. It
ain't Christmas if you took him back in that's exactly
what it would have today Christmas.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
We're getting out of town, crying out loud.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Why in the rig.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Yes, any place, get back tonight. We're leaving in the morning. Okay,
well you got a passenger, then come on, let's get
out of here.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Not so fast. Let me finish my dream the.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Right, Yes, Sergian wash, Lieutenant, I just put this stud character.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Back in the hole of they Did you get what
you wanted?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Everything? He's saying like a soprano with the mint. We
do want to make simultaneous pickups tonight. I'll need a
few spots.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
All right, sergeant, take anybody you want.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
You want to come along, Lieutenant, Yeah, you're short handed.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Well it's not exactly that, Lieutenant. There is one of
these birds I want to color myself. I name Rich.
He's the one that had this brainstorm, and I figured
you'd like to be in on it too.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
By all means, Sergeant, I want to be among the
first to meet this Rich.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Okay, hold it here, stunt, Yeah, how which door is it?
And what's that one? They had a second one?
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Myers, climb right on past the room, killing the craft.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
You said, stick at the head of the stairs.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Do you set the tent?
Speaker 10 (23:20):
Let's go the one, stud, I said, go, okay, you
don't have to show me, and you stop at the room,
knock on the door and say it to you. But
I gave you, guys a little door like you're told. Okay, knock,
(23:43):
go ahead, knock alright. When they ask who it is,
you'll answer at them and then get.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Back out of the way.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
You show the ren sergeant.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I hope so.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Not again.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Yeah, wiz it, go ahead, answer.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
It's me, stud.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
It's done.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
Okay, just a second.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
The fact that's done.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Police officer, very well, don't move it me.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You don't take what is a gun on the rest right.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
There's no sense in crying about him. Sister.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
The two of you will be separated for a long
time for good.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I guess so, don That was how the young bandit
with an idea learned the police also have ideas. Rich
and all his accomplices were taken in custody. Subsequently, he
was sentenced to a term of twelve years in the
Missouri State Penitentiary. Well, thank you, Chief Murphy for this
absorbing case history and Gangbuster's congratulations to the police officers
who rounded up this troublesome gang of criminals.
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