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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Your faithful friend with muscles aching pain, present.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Gang Busters, Americans to War on the Underworld.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Gang Busters brought to you the men and women of
America by the makers of Stan's Women, which the cooperation
of leading law enforcement officials of the United States.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Gang Busters presents facts and the eleus for the police
on the.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Underworld or any case histories. They chose the never ending
activity of the police and their work of protecting our citizens,
real America's crusade against crime.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Now, for those of you who are familiar with the
name schwartz Cough, just an editorial note, we'll get right
back the program. Colonel Schwartzkoff, who oftentimes interviews the lawman
who brings in the story to Gangbusters, is of course,
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in actuality, the father of H. Norman Schwarzkough, General of
the United States Army, and so this is kind of
interesting to hear him portrayed his father portrayed as a
law enforcer. And also interesting there's the character of the
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law man, a sheriff, I'm sorry, a judge who comes
on the program. Judge Miller is played by none other
than Bill Johnstone, who about the same time was playing
the Shadow on the mutual network. So there's a couple
of interesting voices to listen for here.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Now for our part's the interview between Colonel Schwartzkoff and
Judge L. D. Miller of Chattanooga, Tennessee Witchhaw setting as
a special office turned over the Gangbusters by Commissioner Lewis J.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Valentine of the New York City Police. Colonel Schwartzkoff, Judge Miller,
I understand that Charleson and Rogers, the Nickel and Dime bandits,
were hunted by the police of six states. Yes, Colonel Schwartzkoff,
actually eight different police departments were after them within a
period of thirty days. But why do you call these
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particular criminals the Nickel and Dime bandits.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Well, Colonel James Carson, the brains.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Of the combination had a theory of crime different from
any criminal in all my experience. I got a new
plan on stick ups. It'll pay big dividends. I want
to give me a smart plot, that dose of a gift,
and we're gonna go to the Mississippi Valley pulling.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Little shots nickel and DN.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yes, when we pulled enough for these nickel and dime jobs,
we'll have just as much Jack as if we'd stuck
up a dozen big banks. On December fourth, nineteen thirty nine,
following a tournament Minnesota State Reformatory, Johnson drove up to
a roadside tavern near Minneapolis.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
The owner was talking to a customer.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
You're right with there, mister, anything else, sir? Oh, that'll
be all? Bill? Charge it? Will you? With a fancy
car like that? You want me to charge it? Fancy?
Right behind your pal? Turn around? Look up, Bill, he's
got a gun, A special kind of gun, lister with
a hat trigger. Come on, both, you back up into
that hot dog joint before I turn this kind of
loose on you. I want your dog. Oh, I got
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some change, give it me? Yeah? Are you hoping up
a cash register? Here? Thirty five bucks? It's all I got.
I know what. I scoop out that change and stick
it in my pocket. Nicholas and dying. Huh. I'd like
to see you for five minutes without that gun. Here's
a change, thanks, white guy. I get out of here,
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not so fast you hempty a pocket? Sound pretty brave,
aren't you? With a gun? Yeah? And it's likely a
waf any minute I was sort off. P's gonna take
my store. I want your white guy wi you're getting
away from me, I'll show you a gun. Get hurt. Yeah,
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I guess pretty bad. You go going three of those bullets.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
But I got his gun.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
You're gonna need a Dutch. What do we do with
this guy? Lock him in the washroom. You'll make it
all as sure. I got the special gun. You're right,
heat back my money? All right? He come on, you
had a washroom. You'll never get me to jail. Insight punk, Okay,
I'll lock it and I'm going the police. Don't get
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nable this bill being bad our operator? Get me the
police sit ull, what's the the what's from window there?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
What fuck?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
They? God, he's in his.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Car, not ross show.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It's jam that guy's special pistol champ and saved this
all life the drag gud Miller for the victim to
turn on at the sailing that gunpoint and disarm him.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Here it is, colonel.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Fortunately the wounds of the tavern owner were not serious.
Johnson made a dash for Chicago, where he went into
partnership with another criminal named Joe Rogers. Together, they stole
a late model car and started south lazing a trail
of robberies from Illinois to Louisiana. On the ninete December seventeenth,
in Blytheville, Arkansas, Johnson and Rodgers committed an unusual robbery
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showing a peculiar obsession Blitheville Luck robbery.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Two men broke into a house and stole a large
collection of pistols, automatic shotguns and rifles. Seen escaping in
blue or black dots to Dan, don't ify all gun
dealers to be on lookout for unusual weapons of foreign bank.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
A few days later, Colonel Johnson and Rogers were in
Minneapolis waiting in the stolen new Buick sedan across the
street from a small apartment house. Boy, this is the
life where Rogers here set at Charles, Cops and newspapers
screaming about us some head in New Orleans. Nothing for
us to do but sit back and take it easy. Shure,
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I got drink right now, and so would. I wish
that baby is would hurry up. That's only ten Pat eleven.
I told her the snake out a quarter past.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
She made up a mind to come with us.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Hope. So you know me Rogers, white woman and song, Yeah,
I know, But when are we gonna quit this small
town stuff and go after something big like what banks
spaghetta Rodgers knock over a bank and every cop in
the States after you, just thinking that though we could
pick up in banks. Oh, we've been getting the places
you pick his chicken feed. Nothing but nickels and dimes.
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There's nothing you can't fight with nickels and dimes, Rogers,
if you got enough of them.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Sure, but we could.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
There's no butts to it. It adds up, see and
the wrap for little jobs, there's nothing like it is
for a bank. On in one bank job, we listen,
sap hey ticket, eat with you. Banks have gods, and
the gods have guns and tear gas. They have balconies,
the ambush bank bandits. They have brig alarms to call
the cops. Let's just see we can get as much
in the flank our gas stations as we could in
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a dozen.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Banks and no risk.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Ah maybe a right the way I figure it becomes
your girlfriend. Oh hello baby, Hello Jim, Jim.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I'm glad to see him.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You and need both get in the car. It's my pile,
Joe Rogers.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Place to nature, how I Oh, what's up? Where are
we going?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
We're going south? Kid?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
How do I to go with its south?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Gee, I'd love to, but what about my folk?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Send him a postcard, just say having a wonderful time.
I wish you were here.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
What are you guys gonna do?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
We got special ideas, swell clothes, good liquor, and plenty
to keep us busy. What do you say? I say,
what are we waiting for? Baby?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
You're gonna be perfect.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Let's go rogers. Where to back to New Orleans where
it's nice and warm. We're gonna make some stops in
the way and where we stopped, nobody's ever gonna forget us.
It's gonna be a joy right to remember? That was
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near midnight, Colonel on December twenty first, nineteen hundred and
thirty nine.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Three days later, Chief c R.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Bryan of the Chatanoo Liviutenancee Police were sitting in his
office when Police Captain Homer Edmondson walked in with a
message in his hands. Morning Captain, Good morning, Chief Ran.
It's just came in on a telegype I would you
like to look at it? From sweet Water yeshir.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Or as two men wanted dear for robbery who wrote
Sianka famous morning free in.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
One man about.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Twenty weight, one fifty, blue wise, light hand, the other
one older weight about one forty, dark haired slender, both
bandits wearing leather jackets.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That's a pretty complete description, Chief, These bends took sixty
dollars in currency, cigarette sliquor in a large amount of
nichols and dimes. Heavily armed, large amount of nichols and dimes.
That sounds familiar. You are right, Captain. This is the
sixth three port in the last few days that used
those exact words. Yes, and each report was near Chattalogan.
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If you broadcast this message to the patrol cars, yes, sir,
right after came in. Set it out again. Captain. It's
the first good description we've had of those men. They
try anything here on whatever you meant the forced to
be waiting for them, right, Chief, Wait a second, Chief,
primes being some cops over quick, Chief, I've just been rocked.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Who's this?
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Jack Parker?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I got a filling station at Maidland Watkins. I just
ope enough ten minutes ago and two guys walked in.
Hold on of man. Captain has been a hold up
over at Mainland Watkins the filling station. Send a patrol
car over there right away, right away, Chief, Go ahead,
mister Parker. What happened? These two guys walked in cheap?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
They're both four eleven jackets. They had four guns between them.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And they cleaned out the cash riches.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
How much they get?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Seven bucks? Almost all small change?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Nicholson banshuh.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Well, no, it don't sound like much cheap, but it's
a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
To me, mister Parker, I don't care if it was
seven cents or seven million dollars. If these bandits are
the men I think they are, they're going to try
to pull some more jobs like this here in chattanoog Ah,
and we're going to get.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Them the next after noon.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Colonel. The woman man and you have a small drying
goods store in Chattanooga. This aren't two men, apparently customers
walking into her store.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Now I help you, gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, let me see some shirts the best of your guy,
and I want to see some socks.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And sting me right over here?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
What size shirt, fifteen color, thirty four sleeves and on
one size eleven socks?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, just take your pick. That's just what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Sisters, Stick them up, hold take it easy, sister, one
peep out of in Australia. Get out on the floor
behind that counter and don't move if you want to live.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Yes, pretty fancy looking socks. Pound, get some for me
and the shirts.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You're getting silk the most expensive I can find. It
means fast. Okay, he's here, looks swell green silk.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
You ready?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Power?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Hey, sister, where's your cash register?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Then back of the concert. But there's only I know,
I know, there's only a little change. That's what they
all see.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
How much pale and bucks and about five and change.
Thanks for the service, lady. We should have tell our
friends about you. And remember, sister, if you move off
that floor before or out of this store, it will be.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
The last time you ever moved.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Exactly forty four minutes later, colonel in the Chattanooga liquor
store on the other side of town. Will that be all, gentlemen,
just the three bottles of whiskey? No, that ain't all, mister,
Reach for the ceiling. What do you want?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Don't shoot him?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Pella cups? Why here you get all right? Keep them covering?
N What are you gonna do? I'm gonna teach you
not to be so nosy. That'll teach you to ask me.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
What I want.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I please, please, come kick me again. Come on, pell
let's get out of here. Get the dough. Okay, take everything,
even a small change. How much is it?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
That is about ninety bucks in it? Hey, here's something
else down, a nice new get for your collection.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Say, not so bad? Different from money I got? Maybe
I gotta try it out on this wise guy.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
No, no, please, okay.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Mister, but just so you won't run after it, here's
something more to remember it. But oh, that brutal hold
up was the third. The Nickel and Dime band is
committed in the heart of Chattanooga within twenty four hours.
If redoubled the average of the needs to catch Charleston
and Rodgers and resulted in the gun battle that Chattanooga
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will long remember. Law enforcement officers within a radius of
fifty miles of Chattanooga cooperated in a special meeting of
police representatives at the office of Chief C. R. Brand.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
All possible angles were discussed.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Fortunately, men, we have a complete description of these two
bammits and definite identification clues. When are they? Chief Brian
the first thustman. There's the nickel and diamond angle, So
anyone seen spending an unusual amount of silver is a
definite suspect. Then there's the gun angle. The gun angle.
It's this Fraser. These men are crazy about guns. They
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take pride in them, not just as weapons, but as
items to collect. So the bandits might just show off
their guns, sometimes without staging a whole of them, particularly
if they've been drinking. That's still another clue, Chief Brian.
They amount of liquor they consumed, judging by the mouth
they've stoled. And the girl with them, the one that's
been seen in their car, now we have her description,
all right, Captain Edminson. These are all valuable clues. Man,
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And we have one other advantage from what these bannets
have said to their victims. They don't expect the police
to go after them seriously, just because the facts have
been relatively small exactly. That gives me an idea, Chief
for us at Edmondson. Maybe we can get these bandits
through a weakness on their own system. How Catton, Let's
give these clues to every reliab of citizens in the
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vicinity of Chattanooga, every small star keeper. Then when the
bandits do show up again, they'll be spotted immediately. Good. Yeah, Well,
when it's understood, every available man is to stay on
duty till these ballots are behind bars. I want them
and custardly before somebody gets killed. Within one hour after
that meeting, Colonel merchants, filling station employees, make a Star, proprietors,
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business people, all of which Attanooga.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Were planning to cooperate with the police. Cooperate with police this.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I'm staying right here at the store.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
If those Bannets come back this way, I'm going to
be ready for him.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Didn't Nichol and.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Dime Croup come anywhere near me? I'm gonna call the police.
I'm more than five.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Or seven m again.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
I'll be glad to clock rate.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I've got a score to settle with those rights, and
I'd like to see them both behind bars if they
ever come into my face.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Nichols and don say, I get it. If those buzzards
stick their noses in.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
My place, I'll be waiting for him.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You can count on.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Me that night.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Coonel December twenty sixth, nineteen thirty nine, at the rock
Castle Route House, ten miles west of Chattanooga, the cashier
Bill Reaper was standing behind his counter. That's here, Yes, sir,
I want to follow with sep Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
So we're not allowed to sell liquor in bottles except
the guests.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Of rock Castle. Oh I guess here, me and my
power and one of the cabins right next story.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Oh, I beg your pardon.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
Sure here that'll be one sixty five please, I have
to take it.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And change change friscopal twenty here twenty five thirty fifty
five sixty.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Five right, thank you, sir?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Your better is right? Said? What are you staring at? Oh?
Why I see anything wrong with me? No?
Speaker 9 (16:12):
I was just thinking what a good looking green silk
chuch you have on?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Oh that? Yeah? Yeah it is good looking. Everything I
got is good looking. Look at this? Hey, hey what God,
don't be scared. I ain't gonna use it. And your boy,
that's some pistol, who bet your life? It is special automatic,
only one like it in that country.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Yes, sir, Well, is there anything else you want?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah? Yeah, sure, I almost forgot. Give me Give me
some of those fox lunches, you guys man? How many
let's see now?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Were three?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Three?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Here they are?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
If you want me to carry him for you? Yeah,
that's right then getting a little rocky.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Hey, Joe, take over, will you.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Let's go. So, and which cabin is it? Second one
of the letter.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Mister cabin?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, come over up, come on, come on,
come on over it up, it's me come on, hike down.
Let me in weds Bay reckon.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I'll be getting along mint Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, sure, sure, I see you later.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
Any yeah, I'll see you later, operator, Operator, get.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Me the police.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Police headquarters.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
Chief, Listen, this is Bill right out at rock Castle.
Those two nichol and Dime cooks you're looking for, but
they're here.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
How do you know?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
I'm positive, Chief, every single clue you giving me the
Nicholas and Dimes, the guns, the liquor, everything checks you.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Notice the car, Yes, sir, it's a.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Big black new nineteen forty billy in a cowboy.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Right next on. Three of them, So, two men and
the girl. That's what I'll find.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Cooperations though, sip tecton. Don't say a word to anyone.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I'll send the emergency squad out.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
The right away.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Fifteen minutes later, Colonel Captain Homer Edmondson with a group
of picked men from the Kattanooga Police force, including Detective
Shipley and Carson Nick, members of the County Uniform Police
under Captain Dyer outside the rock Castle roadhouse. The cashier
Bill Raper was waiting for them. Which cabine They and
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mister Raper that one with the lights on. Captain Edmondson,
all right, mensess on on the phrasing. You stick with me.
All right now we will go to the front of
the house. Shipley, you and Carson couple them back with
Captain Dyer. They got that's our plan again, simply to
close in and get those bandits. We can't start shooting,
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and we're absolutely sure these are themen we want. But
if they show the slightest resistance, open fire with the
laft guns immediately ready, Yes, sir, let's go watch you.
They turned out the lens. Got to stand back. I'll
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knock open up police. That's a minute. Hurry it up,
all right, proping, come and get it. Come back, man,
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cap'n just losing those bullets and bounce all right, man,
open over their riot guns right cutting, Get down a
little baby. Those cops are using riot guns. I'll take
the kimmy, I'll lo you pick it. Yeah, come to
the back door. I'll come to the front. Okay, Chelson,
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come on, drop it, try and take it. You'd better
give up from there.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
You're surrounded.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We'll give him hot. Let give me another cat, babe,
this one's empty. Hey, I Jimmy hounds in the back.
Rogers hand sae hi. It's too dark out there. They're
all around it. Jimmy shallow baby, Oh babe, your head,
Oh my head told you to keep down, all right. Copper,
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your gout right, cow. I'll tell you tak it away
with that taro Taroson is a copper creeping up in
the back. You'll cover the front, Rogers. I'll get that cop.
He's coming right up in the back door.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Jimmy, shut up, babe, I'm running the show. Hold in
your hand, Oh, pay you. I'm waiting for your coup.
Give me kill I'll say I kill him. I got
his gun to it. Yeah, they got Rogers night on
on the four, Babe, I'll get.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Him for that, all right, cover it.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I got one here, wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
They killed Shipley?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Shipley? How he broke in the back door, shot down
before he had a chance. The dirty dogs. Give me
a rat canhas yes, my tempty.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Captain.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'm going after him. I wait, don't go up there.
It's probably a trap. They're going one of them. Not
that's head door stop ropire, you're going for the woods.
I can't see him there between those big tweets. Missed
him so dark I can't see. We'll never find him
in the darkness.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Before we do Keaton, he might be hurt.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Dia, you and Carson follow him. I am going to
get some bloodhounds. What's with the dots? Happened where they stopped? Too?
Dark room? I'm afraid they lost the trail fraser Ford
after we've followed their banner for almost eight miles. It's
all right, sessmen. Those bloodhounds have told me just what
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I want to know. Uh, that'll get you, Kim. For
the last two miles the bandit's trail has followed right
along these railroad tracks. That's right. But now we've lost it.
I can't see what Then are headed toward Chattanooga, not
away from it. Doesn't that mean anything to you?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Men?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Am thought maybe the bannerood jump afraid away from Chattanooga, now, sussmen.
I thought he'd had four Chattanooga, but I couldn't be sure.
Now I know he's gone back to the city where
we can lay our hands on him.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
With one of the Nichol and.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Dime bandits, Joel Rodgers dead colonel the bandit's girlfriend in
a prison hospital.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
The Chattanooga police combed the city for.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
The remaining bandit, now definitely identified as James Charhnson.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Later that night, after visiting hundreds of rooming.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Houses, two police officers patrol them, Prey and Sussman climbed
the stairs of a cheap rooming house an hour after midnight.
What number the landlady saved racer room six? And it's
room number six right up there they have the stairs.
You know my land lady set her new boarder arrived
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an hour agone? Had you gone ready? But I will?
Sussman turned on your Flasklan, I'll try the door right.
It isn't right, it's lucky. Careful now easy see there
he's a bad sound asleep. Wonder if he's a guy
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he wone. He's pretty young for abandon Let's make sure.
Susman pulled down the covers. A pistol laid his right
hand and another one next to him. He started to
wake up. Grabb Will you.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
I can't do nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I got an put the places all Charlie, and you're
all through. You come to the Queen. I'm not to
cut your line. Oh General right, Fraser h let's see
those too gone. I don't prove nothing coming. I didn't
come a buddy.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I like gun, see it?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I collect them? Eh, well, this is one gun you
never should have collected, Charleson. It's the gun you took
from Detective Shipley after you killed him. And that's the
last gun you're ever gone to collect. And so Conry Schwartzko,
whose splended police work an excellent citizen cooperation, the criminal
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activities of James Charleston came to an abrupt end. Placed
on trial in my court for robbery and murder on
February twenty seventh, nineteen.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Forty, he was quickly found guilty.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I sentenced him to life imprisonment in the Tennessee State Penitentiary.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
He's aunt this very moment.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
And what happened to the girl who was with Charleston
and Roger Judge Moway for months?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
She hurried between life and death. With a bullet touching
her brain.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Doctor said her mental faculties would be impaired indefinitely, and
under the circumstances she was freed in the custody of
her parents. Back Judge Miller for a fine case. I'm
particularly pleased with the way you brought out the great
value of public cooperation with the authorities. When the police
thus frankly solicit help from our law abiding citizens, and
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those citizens promptly and comprehensively cooperate, no criminal can escape.
Every time the police and the people work together, the
end is inevitable.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Crime does not pay.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Annul the clues.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Special bulletin All citizens. What for murderer twenty four five
feet five inches, one hundred and thirty five pounds, dark
brown hair, slicked back, brown eyes. This man with tall
sandy haired companion having wrinkled face, wanted for brutal murder
several days ago. Refrigeration engineer near San Antonio, Texas. Maybe
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traveling in black Ford Station Wagan and may have in
possession of forty four caliber Smith and Wesson revolver with
cedar handle.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Warning citizens of Pennsylvania be on lookout for man twenty
eight five feet eight inches, one hundred and sixty pounds,
brown hair, gray eyes, occupation farmer.
Speaker 10 (26:24):
This man wanted in connection.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
With field slaying last week Indian Head section of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
If you have any information concerning these clues, notify your
local police, the Federal view of investigation, or Gangbusters at Once,
or Slow's miniment.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Next week, the case of the Missing Corpse here re
enacted for.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
The first time, the inside factual account of one of
the most fantastic cases.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
In all criminology. Learn how a dead man faced his murderer.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Slow's liniment brings you on a fill a sax Lawd's
most astounding grammatizations in America's crusade against crime.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I grace, I achiemon, I'm all of americast war on
the
Your faithful friend with muscles aching pain, present.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Gang Busters, Americans to War on the Underworld.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Gang Busters brought to you the men and women of
America by the makers of Stan's Women, which the cooperation
of leading law enforcement officials of the United States.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
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on the.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Underworld or any case histories. They chose the never ending
activity of the police and their work of protecting our citizens,
real America's crusade against crime.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Now, for those of you who are familiar with the
name schwartz Cough, just an editorial note, we'll get right
back the program. Colonel Schwartzkoff, who oftentimes interviews the lawman
who brings in the story to Gangbusters, is of course,
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in actuality, the father of H. Norman Schwarzkough, General of
the United States Army, and so this is kind of
interesting to hear him portrayed his father portrayed as a
law enforcer. And also interesting there's the character of the
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law man, a sheriff, I'm sorry, a judge who comes
on the program. Judge Miller is played by none other
than Bill Johnstone, who about the same time was playing
the Shadow on the mutual network. So there's a couple
of interesting voices to listen for here.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Now for our part's the interview between Colonel Schwartzkoff and
Judge L. D. Miller of Chattanooga, Tennessee Witchhaw setting as
a special office turned over the Gangbusters by Commissioner Lewis J.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Valentine of the New York City Police. Colonel Schwartzkoff, Judge Miller,
I understand that Charleson and Rogers, the Nickel and Dime bandits,
were hunted by the police of six states. Yes, Colonel Schwartzkoff,
actually eight different police departments were after them within a
period of thirty days. But why do you call these
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particular criminals the Nickel and Dime bandits.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Well, Colonel James Carson, the brains.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Of the combination had a theory of crime different from
any criminal in all my experience. I got a new
plan on stick ups. It'll pay big dividends. I want
to give me a smart plot, that dose of a gift,
and we're gonna go to the Mississippi Valley pulling.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Little shots nickel and DN.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yes, when we pulled enough for these nickel and dime jobs,
we'll have just as much Jack as if we'd stuck
up a dozen big banks. On December fourth, nineteen thirty nine,
following a tournament Minnesota State Reformatory, Johnson drove up to
a roadside tavern near Minneapolis.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
The owner was talking to a customer.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
You're right with there, mister, anything else, sir? Oh, that'll
be all? Bill? Charge it? Will you? With a fancy
car like that? You want me to charge it? Fancy?
Right behind your pal? Turn around? Look up, Bill, he's
got a gun, A special kind of gun, lister with
a hat trigger. Come on, both, you back up into
that hot dog joint before I turn this kind of
loose on you. I want your dog. Oh, I got
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some change, give it me? Yeah? Are you hoping up
a cash register? Here? Thirty five bucks? It's all I got.
I know what. I scoop out that change and stick
it in my pocket. Nicholas and dying. Huh. I'd like
to see you for five minutes without that gun. Here's
a change, thanks, white guy. I get out of here,
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not so fast you hempty a pocket? Sound pretty brave,
aren't you? With a gun? Yeah? And it's likely a
waf any minute I was sort off. P's gonna take
my store. I want your white guy wi you're getting
away from me, I'll show you a gun. Get hurt. Yeah,
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I guess pretty bad. You go going three of those bullets.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
But I got his gun.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
You're gonna need a Dutch. What do we do with
this guy? Lock him in the washroom. You'll make it
all as sure. I got the special gun. You're right,
heat back my money? All right? He come on, you
had a washroom. You'll never get me to jail. Insight punk, Okay,
I'll lock it and I'm going the police. Don't get
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nable this bill being bad our operator? Get me the
police sit ull, what's the the what's from window there?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
What fuck?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
They? God, he's in his.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Car, not ross show.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It's jam that guy's special pistol champ and saved this
all life the drag gud Miller for the victim to
turn on at the sailing that gunpoint and disarm him.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Here it is, colonel.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Fortunately the wounds of the tavern owner were not serious.
Johnson made a dash for Chicago, where he went into
partnership with another criminal named Joe Rogers. Together, they stole
a late model car and started south lazing a trail
of robberies from Illinois to Louisiana. On the ninete December seventeenth,
in Blytheville, Arkansas, Johnson and Rodgers committed an unusual robbery
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showing a peculiar obsession Blitheville Luck robbery.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Two men broke into a house and stole a large
collection of pistols, automatic shotguns and rifles. Seen escaping in
blue or black dots to Dan, don't ify all gun
dealers to be on lookout for unusual weapons of foreign bank.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
A few days later, Colonel Johnson and Rogers were in
Minneapolis waiting in the stolen new Buick sedan across the
street from a small apartment house. Boy, this is the
life where Rogers here set at Charles, Cops and newspapers
screaming about us some head in New Orleans. Nothing for
us to do but sit back and take it easy. Shure,
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I got drink right now, and so would. I wish
that baby is would hurry up. That's only ten Pat eleven.
I told her the snake out a quarter past.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
She made up a mind to come with us.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Hope. So you know me Rogers, white woman and song, Yeah,
I know, But when are we gonna quit this small
town stuff and go after something big like what banks
spaghetta Rodgers knock over a bank and every cop in
the States after you, just thinking that though we could
pick up in banks. Oh, we've been getting the places
you pick his chicken feed. Nothing but nickels and dimes.
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There's nothing you can't fight with nickels and dimes, Rogers,
if you got enough of them.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Sure, but we could.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
There's no butts to it. It adds up, see and
the wrap for little jobs, there's nothing like it is
for a bank. On in one bank job, we listen,
sap hey ticket, eat with you. Banks have gods, and
the gods have guns and tear gas. They have balconies,
the ambush bank bandits. They have brig alarms to call
the cops. Let's just see we can get as much
in the flank our gas stations as we could in
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a dozen.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Banks and no risk.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Ah maybe a right the way I figure it becomes
your girlfriend. Oh hello baby, Hello Jim, Jim.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I'm glad to see him.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You and need both get in the car. It's my pile,
Joe Rogers.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Place to nature, how I Oh, what's up? Where are
we going?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
We're going south? Kid?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
How do I to go with its south?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Gee, I'd love to, but what about my folk?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Send him a postcard, just say having a wonderful time.
I wish you were here.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
What are you guys gonna do?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
We got special ideas, swell clothes, good liquor, and plenty
to keep us busy. What do you say? I say,
what are we waiting for? Baby?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
You're gonna be perfect.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Let's go rogers. Where to back to New Orleans where
it's nice and warm. We're gonna make some stops in
the way and where we stopped, nobody's ever gonna forget us.
It's gonna be a joy right to remember? That was
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near midnight, Colonel on December twenty first, nineteen hundred and
thirty nine.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Three days later, Chief c R.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Bryan of the Chatanoo Liviutenancee Police were sitting in his
office when Police Captain Homer Edmondson walked in with a
message in his hands. Morning Captain, Good morning, Chief Ran.
It's just came in on a telegype I would you
like to look at it? From sweet Water yeshir.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Or as two men wanted dear for robbery who wrote
Sianka famous morning free in.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
One man about.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Twenty weight, one fifty, blue wise, light hand, the other
one older weight about one forty, dark haired slender, both
bandits wearing leather jackets.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That's a pretty complete description, Chief, These bends took sixty
dollars in currency, cigarette sliquor in a large amount of
nichols and dimes. Heavily armed, large amount of nichols and dimes.
That sounds familiar. You are right, Captain. This is the
sixth three port in the last few days that used
those exact words. Yes, and each report was near Chattalogan.
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If you broadcast this message to the patrol cars, yes, sir,
right after came in. Set it out again. Captain. It's
the first good description we've had of those men. They
try anything here on whatever you meant the forced to
be waiting for them, right, Chief, Wait a second, Chief,
primes being some cops over quick, Chief, I've just been rocked.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Who's this?
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Jack Parker?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I got a filling station at Maidland Watkins. I just
ope enough ten minutes ago and two guys walked in.
Hold on of man. Captain has been a hold up
over at Mainland Watkins the filling station. Send a patrol
car over there right away, right away, Chief, Go ahead,
mister Parker. What happened? These two guys walked in cheap?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
They're both four eleven jackets. They had four guns between them.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And they cleaned out the cash riches.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
How much they get?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Seven bucks? Almost all small change?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Nicholson banshuh.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Well, no, it don't sound like much cheap, but it's
a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
To me, mister Parker, I don't care if it was
seven cents or seven million dollars. If these bandits are
the men I think they are, they're going to try
to pull some more jobs like this here in chattanoog Ah,
and we're going to get.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Them the next after noon.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Colonel. The woman man and you have a small drying
goods store in Chattanooga. This aren't two men, apparently customers
walking into her store.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Now I help you, gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, let me see some shirts the best of your guy,
and I want to see some socks.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And sting me right over here?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
What size shirt, fifteen color, thirty four sleeves and on
one size eleven socks?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, just take your pick. That's just what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Sisters, Stick them up, hold take it easy, sister, one
peep out of in Australia. Get out on the floor
behind that counter and don't move if you want to live.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Yes, pretty fancy looking socks. Pound, get some for me
and the shirts.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You're getting silk the most expensive I can find. It
means fast. Okay, he's here, looks swell green silk.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
You ready?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Power?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Hey, sister, where's your cash register?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Then back of the concert. But there's only I know,
I know, there's only a little change. That's what they
all see.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
How much pale and bucks and about five and change.
Thanks for the service, lady. We should have tell our
friends about you. And remember, sister, if you move off
that floor before or out of this store, it will be.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
The last time you ever moved.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Exactly forty four minutes later, colonel in the Chattanooga liquor
store on the other side of town. Will that be all, gentlemen,
just the three bottles of whiskey? No, that ain't all, mister,
Reach for the ceiling. What do you want?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Don't shoot him?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Pella cups? Why here you get all right? Keep them covering?
N What are you gonna do? I'm gonna teach you
not to be so nosy. That'll teach you to ask me.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
What I want.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I please, please, come kick me again. Come on, pell
let's get out of here. Get the dough. Okay, take everything,
even a small change. How much is it?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
That is about ninety bucks in it? Hey, here's something
else down, a nice new get for your collection.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Say, not so bad? Different from money I got? Maybe
I gotta try it out on this wise guy.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
No, no, please, okay.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Mister, but just so you won't run after it, here's
something more to remember it. But oh, that brutal hold
up was the third. The Nickel and Dime band is
committed in the heart of Chattanooga within twenty four hours.
If redoubled the average of the needs to catch Charleston
and Rodgers and resulted in the gun battle that Chattanooga
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will long remember. Law enforcement officers within a radius of
fifty miles of Chattanooga cooperated in a special meeting of
police representatives at the office of Chief C. R. Brand.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
All possible angles were discussed.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Fortunately, men, we have a complete description of these two
bammits and definite identification clues. When are they? Chief Brian
the first thustman. There's the nickel and diamond angle, So
anyone seen spending an unusual amount of silver is a
definite suspect. Then there's the gun angle. The gun angle.
It's this Fraser. These men are crazy about guns. They
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take pride in them, not just as weapons, but as
items to collect. So the bandits might just show off
their guns, sometimes without staging a whole of them, particularly
if they've been drinking. That's still another clue, Chief Brian.
They amount of liquor they consumed, judging by the mouth
they've stoled. And the girl with them, the one that's
been seen in their car, now we have her description,
all right, Captain Edminson. These are all valuable clues. Man,
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And we have one other advantage from what these bannets
have said to their victims. They don't expect the police
to go after them seriously, just because the facts have
been relatively small exactly. That gives me an idea, Chief
for us at Edmondson. Maybe we can get these bandits
through a weakness on their own system. How Catton, Let's
give these clues to every reliab of citizens in the
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vicinity of Chattanooga, every small star keeper. Then when the
bandits do show up again, they'll be spotted immediately. Good. Yeah, Well,
when it's understood, every available man is to stay on
duty till these ballots are behind bars. I want them
and custardly before somebody gets killed. Within one hour after
that meeting, Colonel merchants, filling station employees, make a Star, proprietors,
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business people, all of which Attanooga.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Were planning to cooperate with the police. Cooperate with police this.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I'm staying right here at the store.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
If those Bannets come back this way, I'm going to
be ready for him.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Didn't Nichol and.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Dime Croup come anywhere near me? I'm gonna call the police.
I'm more than five.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Or seven m again.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
I'll be glad to clock rate.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I've got a score to settle with those rights, and
I'd like to see them both behind bars if they
ever come into my face.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Nichols and don say, I get it. If those buzzards
stick their noses in.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
My place, I'll be waiting for him.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You can count on.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Me that night.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Coonel December twenty sixth, nineteen thirty nine, at the rock
Castle Route House, ten miles west of Chattanooga, the cashier
Bill Reaper was standing behind his counter. That's here, Yes, sir,
I want to follow with sep Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
So we're not allowed to sell liquor in bottles except
the guests.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Of rock Castle. Oh I guess here, me and my
power and one of the cabins right next story.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Oh, I beg your pardon.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
Sure here that'll be one sixty five please, I have
to take it.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And change change friscopal twenty here twenty five thirty fifty
five sixty.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Five right, thank you, sir?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Your better is right? Said? What are you staring at? Oh?
Why I see anything wrong with me? No?
Speaker 9 (16:12):
I was just thinking what a good looking green silk
chuch you have on?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Oh that? Yeah? Yeah it is good looking. Everything I
got is good looking. Look at this? Hey, hey what God,
don't be scared. I ain't gonna use it. And your boy,
that's some pistol, who bet your life? It is special automatic,
only one like it in that country.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Yes, sir, Well, is there anything else you want?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah? Yeah, sure, I almost forgot. Give me Give me
some of those fox lunches, you guys man? How many
let's see now?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Were three?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Three?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Here they are?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
If you want me to carry him for you? Yeah,
that's right then getting a little rocky.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Hey, Joe, take over, will you.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Let's go. So, and which cabin is it? Second one
of the letter.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Mister cabin?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, come over up, come on, come on,
come on over it up, it's me come on, hike down.
Let me in weds Bay reckon.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I'll be getting along mint Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, sure, sure, I see you later.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
Any yeah, I'll see you later, operator, Operator, get.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Me the police.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Police headquarters.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
Chief, Listen, this is Bill right out at rock Castle.
Those two nichol and Dime cooks you're looking for, but
they're here.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
How do you know?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
I'm positive, Chief, every single clue you giving me the
Nicholas and Dimes, the guns, the liquor, everything checks you.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Notice the car, Yes, sir, it's a.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Big black new nineteen forty billy in a cowboy.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Right next on. Three of them, So, two men and
the girl. That's what I'll find.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Cooperations though, sip tecton. Don't say a word to anyone.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I'll send the emergency squad out.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
The right away.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Fifteen minutes later, Colonel Captain Homer Edmondson with a group
of picked men from the Kattanooga Police force, including Detective
Shipley and Carson Nick, members of the County Uniform Police
under Captain Dyer outside the rock Castle roadhouse. The cashier
Bill Raper was waiting for them. Which cabine They and
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mister Raper that one with the lights on. Captain Edmondson,
all right, mensess on on the phrasing. You stick with me.
All right now we will go to the front of
the house. Shipley, you and Carson couple them back with
Captain Dyer. They got that's our plan again, simply to
close in and get those bandits. We can't start shooting,
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and we're absolutely sure these are themen we want. But
if they show the slightest resistance, open fire with the
laft guns immediately ready, Yes, sir, let's go watch you.
They turned out the lens. Got to stand back. I'll
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knock open up police. That's a minute. Hurry it up,
all right, proping, come and get it. Come back, man,
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cap'n just losing those bullets and bounce all right, man,
open over their riot guns right cutting, Get down a
little baby. Those cops are using riot guns. I'll take
the kimmy, I'll lo you pick it. Yeah, come to
the back door. I'll come to the front. Okay, Chelson,
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come on, drop it, try and take it. You'd better
give up from there.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
You're surrounded.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We'll give him hot. Let give me another cat, babe,
this one's empty. Hey, I Jimmy hounds in the back.
Rogers hand sae hi. It's too dark out there. They're
all around it. Jimmy shallow baby, Oh babe, your head,
Oh my head told you to keep down, all right. Copper,
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your gout right, cow. I'll tell you tak it away
with that taro Taroson is a copper creeping up in
the back. You'll cover the front, Rogers. I'll get that cop.
He's coming right up in the back door.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Jimmy, shut up, babe, I'm running the show. Hold in
your hand, Oh, pay you. I'm waiting for your coup.
Give me kill I'll say I kill him. I got
his gun to it. Yeah, they got Rogers night on
on the four, Babe, I'll get.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Him for that, all right, cover it.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I got one here, wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
They killed Shipley?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Shipley? How he broke in the back door, shot down
before he had a chance. The dirty dogs. Give me
a rat canhas yes, my tempty.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Captain.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'm going after him. I wait, don't go up there.
It's probably a trap. They're going one of them. Not
that's head door stop ropire, you're going for the woods.
I can't see him there between those big tweets. Missed
him so dark I can't see. We'll never find him
in the darkness.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Before we do Keaton, he might be hurt.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Dia, you and Carson follow him. I am going to
get some bloodhounds. What's with the dots? Happened where they stopped? Too?
Dark room? I'm afraid they lost the trail fraser Ford
after we've followed their banner for almost eight miles. It's
all right, sessmen. Those bloodhounds have told me just what
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I want to know. Uh, that'll get you, Kim. For
the last two miles the bandit's trail has followed right
along these railroad tracks. That's right. But now we've lost it.
I can't see what Then are headed toward Chattanooga, not
away from it. Doesn't that mean anything to you?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Men?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Am thought maybe the bannerood jump afraid away from Chattanooga, now, sussmen.
I thought he'd had four Chattanooga, but I couldn't be sure.
Now I know he's gone back to the city where
we can lay our hands on him.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
With one of the Nichol and.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Dime bandits, Joel Rodgers dead colonel the bandit's girlfriend in
a prison hospital.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
The Chattanooga police combed the city for.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
The remaining bandit, now definitely identified as James Charhnson.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Later that night, after visiting hundreds of rooming.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Houses, two police officers patrol them, Prey and Sussman climbed
the stairs of a cheap rooming house an hour after midnight.
What number the landlady saved racer room six? And it's
room number six right up there they have the stairs.
You know my land lady set her new boarder arrived
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an hour agone? Had you gone ready? But I will?
Sussman turned on your Flasklan, I'll try the door right.
It isn't right, it's lucky. Careful now easy see there
he's a bad sound asleep. Wonder if he's a guy
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he wone. He's pretty young for abandon Let's make sure.
Susman pulled down the covers. A pistol laid his right
hand and another one next to him. He started to
wake up. Grabb Will you.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
I can't do nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I got an put the places all Charlie, and you're
all through. You come to the Queen. I'm not to
cut your line. Oh General right, Fraser h let's see
those too gone. I don't prove nothing coming. I didn't
come a buddy.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I like gun, see it?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I collect them? Eh, well, this is one gun you
never should have collected, Charleson. It's the gun you took
from Detective Shipley after you killed him. And that's the
last gun you're ever gone to collect. And so Conry Schwartzko,
whose splended police work an excellent citizen cooperation, the criminal
(24:30):
activities of James Charleston came to an abrupt end. Placed
on trial in my court for robbery and murder on
February twenty seventh, nineteen.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Forty, he was quickly found guilty.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I sentenced him to life imprisonment in the Tennessee State Penitentiary.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
He's aunt this very moment.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
And what happened to the girl who was with Charleston
and Roger Judge Moway for months?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
She hurried between life and death. With a bullet touching
her brain.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Doctor said her mental faculties would be impaired indefinitely, and
under the circumstances she was freed in the custody of
her parents. Back Judge Miller for a fine case. I'm
particularly pleased with the way you brought out the great
value of public cooperation with the authorities. When the police
thus frankly solicit help from our law abiding citizens, and
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those citizens promptly and comprehensively cooperate, no criminal can escape.
Every time the police and the people work together, the
end is inevitable.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Crime does not pay.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Annul the clues.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Special bulletin All citizens. What for murderer twenty four five
feet five inches, one hundred and thirty five pounds, dark
brown hair, slicked back, brown eyes. This man with tall
sandy haired companion having wrinkled face, wanted for brutal murder
several days ago. Refrigeration engineer near San Antonio, Texas. Maybe
(25:57):
traveling in black Ford Station Wagan and may have in
possession of forty four caliber Smith and Wesson revolver with
cedar handle.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Warning citizens of Pennsylvania be on lookout for man twenty
eight five feet eight inches, one hundred and sixty pounds,
brown hair, gray eyes, occupation farmer.
Speaker 10 (26:24):
This man wanted in connection.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
With field slaying last week Indian Head section of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
If you have any information concerning these clues, notify your
local police, the Federal view of investigation, or Gangbusters at Once,
or Slow's miniment.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Next week, the case of the Missing Corpse here re
enacted for.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
The first time, the inside factual account of one of
the most fantastic cases.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
In all criminology. Learn how a dead man faced his murderer.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Slow's liniment brings you on a fill a sax Lawd's
most astounding grammatizations in America's crusade against crime.
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