July 16, 2025 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Cooperation with police and federal law enforcement departments throughout the
United States. The only national program that brings you authentic
police case histories.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Gangbuster at Margit Dayplay.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
A crime wave of the most serious proportions is spreading
throughout the United States. Tonight Saturday, decemberate, nineteen forty five,
a serious crime is being committed every forty second.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Chicago, December eight.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
One man kills another wounded in gun battle with police. Chelsea, Massachusetts,
December eight. Police searching desperately for person who telephoned father
of six months old baby that kidnapped child would be returned.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Quote in a box unquote.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Redwood City, California, December eight. Sixteen year old high scho
girl kidnapped by man and woman in green sedan.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Theyse are authentic factors.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Since this new crime wave has started, a murder has
been committed in the United States every three hours.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
In its relentless war upon this crime wave, that this
country may be a safe country in which to live.
Gangbusters presents Lewis J. Valentine, former commissioner of the largest
police force in the world, who will interview by proxy. W. M. Adams,
Sheriff Potter County Texas Commissioner Valentine.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Now Sheriff Adams. Suppose you start our gangbuster's case for tonight.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
While Commissioner Valentine, I'd like to go back a few
years to Dallas, Texas Sheriff Hart was telephoning to the
Texas State Police.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
This escape convict is deadly.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I consider him one of the most dangerous criminals at large.
And here's the description. Pikey Thompson twenty six, five feet
eight inches, weight one hundred and fifty cold, black hair,
dark brown eyes, swave some dresses like a fashion place.
Blackie Thompson will kill on the slightest provocation.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Uh, don't play anymore, Leila. All right, Denny, that's our song.
I can't stand it tonight, Leila. Do you realize ever
since we were ten years old, we planned to get married.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I'm sorry, Denny, Leila, you're just infatuated.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
You don't know anything about him, only he came to town
a month ago.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
But I can't help my feelings. Denny.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Sure, he's handsome, he's been in places. He's flash he's exciting.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Denny, he's romance. He's everything I ever dreamed of.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
And I'm just a guy who's always lived across the street.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
You'll get over it never.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
You don't even know Leyla what he does for a living. Oh,
I suppose that's him?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Is my hero?
Speaker 8 (02:56):
All right? Do I look all right? Denny?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
You look awful good to me.
Speaker 9 (02:59):
I'll be back minute, Blanky, I can.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
Denny's in the living room. I've just told him. Yeah,
I hate a terrible to hurt him.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You've told your old folks you're leaving town with me.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
No, but I've got my bags all packed after they
were asleep.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
I leave them and not to meet you.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I want to get out of this break.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
I never was so excited in my life. Oh, Blackie,
you do love me, don't you sure?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Blacky?
Speaker 8 (03:30):
There won't be one board minute.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
Being with you?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You do another half of it.
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Kid, leaving this way, I'll probably never be able to
come home again. You'll you'll always love me, won't you?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You're okay, beautiful, waiting to get a look at the
outside world with me.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Emergency All State Police First National Bank in Rush Springs, Oklahoma,
held up by three gunmen. Leader cold black hair, brown
eyes attention to escape police. Gun shop at Rheotock, Oklahoma,
held up by three gunmen. Leader black hair, immaculately dressed,
(04:15):
brown eyes, machine guns, shotguns and ammunition stolen. Leader answers
description of dangerous escape convict Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Pretty swanky nightclub. Halila, Hey, you never said nothing like
this in Hicktan you come from. That's the matter.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Oh, I was just listening to that son. It just
happens to mean a lot to me.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Ah, thinking of that hick Romeo I took you away from.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
We'll snap out of it, all right, all right, I'm sorry, Blackie.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
You wanted excitement and you're getting it. Answer whomember. The
first night you threw a fit when you found out.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Who I really was, it was also new to me, Blakie.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Now I'm gonna give you some real excitement. What I'm
pulling another heist tomorrow the bank. Yeah, and the heat's
on me. You're gonna drive our getaway car. I'm going
to to drive our getaway car.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
All right? All right if you say so, Blakie.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well that's what I do.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Say you still love me, blank I'll lay off that.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Gool I'm getting fed up with it. You'll park the
car in front of the bank and I'll take quit
me and go in. Yes, you're the cash here. Yes,
(05:57):
let's suspect up. Break for the sailing. Don't reach for
the sailing, my arm. He didn't reach quick enough. Grab
the dough. Okay, shut up, group the case, never mind him,
get the dog, got it? Okay? Then come on, and
if anyone tries to stop this, when we get outside,
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kill him.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Are you all right? Blank you?
Speaker 9 (06:24):
I heart your.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Mouth and step on the g step on it. I said,
that's a fast now, leader. Those cops are sent out
(06:48):
of arms. They spot a car, hit the sixty the figure,
it's us. Keep your guns righty in the back, steat
there with me. You don't worry. I'm ready.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Oh, Blanky, I didn't realize it would be like this.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You start whine enough for a plug?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
You just as quick as I want anybody else wacky.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
I'm sticking with you. I always will.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Hey, Blackie, you think he'll kill that cashier.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Back in the back. What's the difference.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
We got the dough, Blackie?
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Look coming down that other road car?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Pots?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, what do we do?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
We can't turn back a black house. Shut up. We've
only got one chance. Now, listen, Leela, you do what
I tell.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
You, all right, Blackie, anything you see he.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Driving straight aheads. Oh, nothing's wrong. Yes, if those cops
you'll pull up, stop the car. But when you do
pull up just a few feet ahead of them, you
understand what my mind. Get the guns back there ready,
I'll crawl a back seat with your Whitney.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Cops.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
See it's all right there, waving Whitney. Hide down on
the floor of the car. Now you do what I
told you, Lelo.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You'll get a slug in the back of the head.
Pull over your people, pull over, okay, officer.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Stop just ahead of them, Lela. That's right. And when
I say so, jammer guns out the back window and
let them have like you know, keep your mouth shut.
I can see through the back window. Copsy get out now, yeah,
(08:17):
don't work in this way.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Okay the car, let them have it. Oh mo, kill
kill them all.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We got most of them.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Blake, shut up, get.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
This car going, Thank you. Kill them you killed.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
They'll kill you if you don't get this car out.
It's got the cups taking Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
One member of that patrol posse, was killed Commissioner Valentine.
Two of the others were badly wounded and another received
slight wound, but Blackie Thompson and his gang escape.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
All back to Gangbusters and commission Or Valentine.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
What happened Sheriff Adams After Blackie Thompson's spectacular escape from
that puffy.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Well, Commissioner Valentine, Blackie Thompson, reckless as he was, thought
her best to hide out for a while. He and
Leela had a hideout just outside of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Why Blackie, come in Lena new suit, new shoes, But
what's the idea of the suitcase?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Are we going somewhere and me.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Those gloves on the pura these uh uh pig skin
pretty hard and rough.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Blackie, you are planning on working out on me?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Uh well, little talk with you first, even get on
my nerves. I'm fed up, Blacky, no one, no scene,
and I'm fed up with the Dame. I'm through and
that ends it.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
But I can't go home. I haven't got any place
to go. I haven't got anybody but you.
Speaker 9 (09:59):
You can't leave the.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
The reason I wanted to talk to you is you
think you're gonna get back on me and tipping off
the cops. You got another think coming. You can't one
word of the cops and I'll find you and fill
you full of lead.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
After I've given up my home and family and everything working.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
These pigskin gloves are just like Steve, and you have
a beautiful face. I should bump you off now and
to make sure you don't code. But just as a
little sample, yeah a long time before that pussy, yourys
looks human again. And if you were even tempted to
say your word to the cops, just remember that little sample.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Fletchy Mike, come in the office a minute.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
All right?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Check?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Did you check where the police in nearby cities? I'm
Blackie jumping? Yes, sir, I know, so how about want
to check it is now? I was just coming in
from the printer. I'm sending one to every police chief
in the country.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Good of Heart's office?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Is it? Who is this?
Speaker 9 (11:06):
There's a man you want, pat and I know where
he is?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Blackie TOMPs Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
He said he'd kill me if I ever told who
are you? I was his girlfriend?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Where is he?
Speaker 9 (11:17):
Tims Barr? I hope you lock him up till he dies.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
There's this gang with him.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
I don't know about his gang.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
What is now, beautiful girl? It might be Hello, Hello,
A trip on Blackie Thompson. Yeah, my woman, black he's
supposed to be over at Tim's bar. I'm driving over
right now.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
You can't go alone, Chef his whole gang. Maybe with him.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
I'll take my chances, Mike.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
This time it's going to be Blankie Thompson or me.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Hello, Sheriff. Kind of raw tonight?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Hello Tim?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
What brings you to my place? Sheriff? Something up?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Well, no one's been except that fella sitting back there
in the corner. He's the man I'm watching in the
bar mirror. Yeah, who is he?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Five feet eight inches, one hundred and fifty pounds, black hair,
dark brown eyes.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
That's right, Blackie Thompson. I saw his picture on the papers.
What are you gonna do, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I'm gonna take him.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Hey, that guy's a killer. Moved down the bar out
of range.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
All right, stay where you are, both of you, and
if we don't.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I knew you was a cop, but the minute it
came in, I was waiting for your first move to
kill you.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Here it looks like you've got the drop on me.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I'm gonna kill you, and I'm gonna kill that dame
that tipped you off. You wouldn't just kill me here
in cold blow, wouldn't I you said your last speech here, Sheriff,
you threw him right over your shoulder. All right, Blackie,
get up on your feet. Kill Okay, I'm getting up, Cop,
I'm getting up.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
There are a lot of jobs marked up against you,
Blackie and one of his cop killing.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Ervin.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Blackie Thompson, rise and face the court. It is the
sentence of this court that you, Irvin Blackie Thompson, for
the crimes of kidnapping, murder, and robbery, be taken to
the Texas State Prison at Huntsville, And that within the
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walls of the said prison, on the twenty fourth day
of October next between the hours of six and ten
in the morning, a sufficient current of electricity be passed
through your body to cause your death. And may God
have mercy on your soul.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Just a minute, Whitney, you know the rules. Convicts are
allowed near the death house. Yeah, I thought maybe, Ay,
I thought I could see my old pile, Blackie Thompson.
They're uh electrocuting them in a weekend. Oh, you have
to get permissions from the warden. Oh well, then, uh,
would you quiet God? Or I'll kill you. Where'd you
(14:13):
get that gun? Open the door of the death house quick,
surprising what a little gun smothered? Then?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Can do.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I walk inside? Screw nobody ever escaped from his death house. Yeah,
wouldn't they have give me those keys? Blukey b like you?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What's set in over here? With me?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Hurry hurry? Yeah, come on, God, run with me, get
me out of the cell. Open the door and come on. Okay,
you know well the slight to be in the death house.
Come on, open it up with me. Hurry, I'm working
his fencers. I can't blakey. I'll never forget this flavor
but me. Okay, Butney, No, I'll take that guy, but
apply him your gun. I'll shove the god in the south.
Let's screwise out for good. Hey, open myself, let's get
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out of here. It's gonna spend those other guys in
the death house hand not stun and burn.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I'm saying myself.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Come on, I got the ladder hit on the other
side of the storf like he had. No guy ever
broke out of this death house before I get that
ladd You know, okay, I got it over to the wall.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Now you.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Okay, stand the ladder up against the wall and it's okay,
I'll start. I know you don't I'm first. Oh, that's
no way to treat me. After I got you out
of the Death House. Blankie the Blackie Thompson. Blackie comes first,
look the gart up in the wall. Seasons.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Oh Blackie, come back, help me? Will you help yourself?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Who do you think I am?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Emergency Emergency Blackie Thompson has just escaped from the Death House.
While Whitney awaited him to escape, was shut by the
tower guard and killed. Emergency Blankie Thompson has just escaped.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I'm right here in the shadow.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
Oh, darling, I couldn't see you.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
You really like these country clem dancers. No, they're boling.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
I wish you'd come in.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I've been watching you through the window. I knew you
were here.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
I was trying to sneak out. I never knew a
girl could be so in love in just one week.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Well, yeah, running away with me or not.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
But do you realize I hardly even know your name.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You're in love with me though, more than anything in
the world. Well, then after you get home tonight, pack
sneak out and I don't have a car on the street.
In the back of your house.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
You honestly love me, don't you?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Would I be asking to run away with me if
I didn't. All right, I will go with you.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
I'll go with you to the end of the world
if you want you.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
We won't go that far at first. I'll take you
for a few weeks to Amarilla, Texas. Amarilla. I don't worry, kid,
you won't be bored. I promise you that.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Attention.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Attention.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
First National Bank just robbed by gunman about twenty eight
black hair, handsome, immaculifney dressed. This gunman cruelly beat cashier.
Believe to be killer. Blackie Thompson approach with caution. Sriff's office. Hello, Hello,
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what's the matter? This is the Sheriff's office. What's the matter?
Are you you?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Who is this?
Speaker 9 (17:51):
You? Looking for Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Blackie Thompson. Every office in the South looking for Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
He's here in Amarilla, where I don't know who are you? On?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
His girlfriend? He told me he was gonna marry me.
He said he loved me. He's found another girl, and
I hope you catch him and shoot him and put
him in the electric chair and kill him and put
him in jail for life. I never, never, never, never
want to see him again.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Hello, Hello, Hello, attention Texas police. Blackie Thompson reported to
be here in Amarello. All patrol cars cover her main
highways killer Blackie Thompson reported here in Amarello.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
You don't suppose, Sheriff, that.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Girl who thown in game is a wrong steer.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I'm Blackie Thompson here. She didn't expect that she was
the cleverest actor I ever heard.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I'm way Jerry police car in Texas and patrol him tonight.
Look way down there on the lower road. See yeah
to Dan must be doing seventy. Look way behind it.
Three squad cars are after him. Sheriff must be Blackie
Thompson in the first car. He's outright on the squad cars.
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Oh what a run break This road runs parallel that
road for miles before there's a cut across, and we'll
never be able to get down the highway in time
to cut him off. We've got to those squad cars
will never catch him. It's only one way to head
the car off. Go down the embankment assist. He put
bank in a rough field beyond. He's got to take
a chance. Hang on, either make it or be killed.
(19:26):
Watching look out that rock, steady, steady. Sure if you
made it, he's about three hundred yards ahead of us.
Step on it. I can't go any past her. He's
pulling away. I'll see if I can plug his tires. Gord,
he's stopping me out. Sure you've heard this out of
(19:49):
the glass from wind Shoe. We'll get him.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Oh, here comes the other squad cars. Come on, man,
there he is right by his car, right out on
the sides of the road. I know, man, Open fire,
all right, man, hold it careful. Thompson may be playing possum.
(20:19):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
If your gun's on him, though, If he starts to
get up out of that road, let him have it.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
You got my covers must be at least thirty bullets
in him.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, then that's the end of Blackie Thompson. It's a
shame that some of these men don't realize before it's
too late, that they just can't get away with it.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Well, Commission of Valentine, that's the case of Blackie Thompson.
And I hope if there's anyone listening tonight who contemplates
committing a crime. They'll just remember this case.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
We appreciate, Sheriff Adams, you are telling us these inside facts. Tonight,
Gangbusters is a Phillips h Lord production.
Cooperation with police and federal law enforcement departments throughout the
United States. The only national program that brings you authentic
police case histories.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Gangbuster at Margit Dayplay.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
A crime wave of the most serious proportions is spreading
throughout the United States. Tonight Saturday, decemberate, nineteen forty five,
a serious crime is being committed every forty second.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Chicago, December eight.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
One man kills another wounded in gun battle with police. Chelsea, Massachusetts,
December eight. Police searching desperately for person who telephoned father
of six months old baby that kidnapped child would be returned.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Quote in a box unquote.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Redwood City, California, December eight. Sixteen year old high scho
girl kidnapped by man and woman in green sedan.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Theyse are authentic factors.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Since this new crime wave has started, a murder has
been committed in the United States every three hours.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
In its relentless war upon this crime wave, that this
country may be a safe country in which to live.
Gangbusters presents Lewis J. Valentine, former commissioner of the largest
police force in the world, who will interview by proxy. W. M. Adams,
Sheriff Potter County Texas Commissioner Valentine.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Now Sheriff Adams. Suppose you start our gangbuster's case for tonight.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
While Commissioner Valentine, I'd like to go back a few
years to Dallas, Texas Sheriff Hart was telephoning to the
Texas State Police.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
This escape convict is deadly.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I consider him one of the most dangerous criminals at large.
And here's the description. Pikey Thompson twenty six, five feet
eight inches, weight one hundred and fifty cold, black hair,
dark brown eyes, swave some dresses like a fashion place.
Blackie Thompson will kill on the slightest provocation.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Uh, don't play anymore, Leila. All right, Denny, that's our song.
I can't stand it tonight, Leila. Do you realize ever
since we were ten years old, we planned to get married.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I'm sorry, Denny, Leila, you're just infatuated.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
You don't know anything about him, only he came to town
a month ago.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
But I can't help my feelings. Denny.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Sure, he's handsome, he's been in places. He's flash he's exciting.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Denny, he's romance. He's everything I ever dreamed of.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
And I'm just a guy who's always lived across the street.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
You'll get over it never.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
You don't even know Leyla what he does for a living. Oh,
I suppose that's him?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Is my hero?
Speaker 8 (02:56):
All right? Do I look all right? Denny?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
You look awful good to me.
Speaker 9 (02:59):
I'll be back minute, Blanky, I can.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
Denny's in the living room. I've just told him. Yeah,
I hate a terrible to hurt him.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You've told your old folks you're leaving town with me.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
No, but I've got my bags all packed after they
were asleep.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
I leave them and not to meet you.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I want to get out of this break.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
I never was so excited in my life. Oh, Blackie,
you do love me, don't you sure?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Blacky?
Speaker 8 (03:30):
There won't be one board minute.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
Being with you?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You do another half of it.
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Kid, leaving this way, I'll probably never be able to
come home again. You'll you'll always love me, won't you?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You're okay, beautiful, waiting to get a look at the
outside world with me.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Emergency All State Police First National Bank in Rush Springs, Oklahoma,
held up by three gunmen. Leader cold black hair, brown
eyes attention to escape police. Gun shop at Rheotock, Oklahoma,
held up by three gunmen. Leader black hair, immaculately dressed,
(04:15):
brown eyes, machine guns, shotguns and ammunition stolen. Leader answers
description of dangerous escape convict Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Pretty swanky nightclub. Halila, Hey, you never said nothing like
this in Hicktan you come from. That's the matter.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Oh, I was just listening to that son. It just
happens to mean a lot to me.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Ah, thinking of that hick Romeo I took you away from.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
We'll snap out of it, all right, all right, I'm sorry, Blackie.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
You wanted excitement and you're getting it. Answer whomember. The
first night you threw a fit when you found out.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Who I really was, it was also new to me, Blakie.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Now I'm gonna give you some real excitement. What I'm
pulling another heist tomorrow the bank. Yeah, and the heat's
on me. You're gonna drive our getaway car. I'm going
to to drive our getaway car.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
All right? All right if you say so, Blakie.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well that's what I do.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Say you still love me, blank I'll lay off that.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Gool I'm getting fed up with it. You'll park the
car in front of the bank and I'll take quit
me and go in. Yes, you're the cash here. Yes,
(05:57):
let's suspect up. Break for the sailing. Don't reach for
the sailing, my arm. He didn't reach quick enough. Grab
the dough. Okay, shut up, group the case, never mind him,
get the dog, got it? Okay? Then come on, and
if anyone tries to stop this, when we get outside,
(06:18):
kill him.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Are you all right? Blank you?
Speaker 9 (06:24):
I heart your.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Mouth and step on the g step on it. I said,
that's a fast now, leader. Those cops are sent out
(06:48):
of arms. They spot a car, hit the sixty the figure,
it's us. Keep your guns righty in the back, steat
there with me. You don't worry. I'm ready.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Oh, Blanky, I didn't realize it would be like this.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You start whine enough for a plug?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
You just as quick as I want anybody else wacky.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
I'm sticking with you. I always will.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Hey, Blackie, you think he'll kill that cashier.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Back in the back. What's the difference.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
We got the dough, Blackie?
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Look coming down that other road car?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Pots?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, what do we do?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
We can't turn back a black house. Shut up. We've
only got one chance. Now, listen, Leela, you do what
I tell.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
You, all right, Blackie, anything you see he.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Driving straight aheads. Oh, nothing's wrong. Yes, if those cops
you'll pull up, stop the car. But when you do
pull up just a few feet ahead of them, you
understand what my mind. Get the guns back there ready,
I'll crawl a back seat with your Whitney.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Cops.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
See it's all right there, waving Whitney. Hide down on
the floor of the car. Now you do what I
told you, Lelo.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You'll get a slug in the back of the head.
Pull over your people, pull over, okay, officer.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Stop just ahead of them, Lela. That's right. And when
I say so, jammer guns out the back window and
let them have like you know, keep your mouth shut.
I can see through the back window. Copsy get out now, yeah,
(08:17):
don't work in this way.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Okay the car, let them have it. Oh mo, kill
kill them all.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We got most of them.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Blake, shut up, get.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
This car going, Thank you. Kill them you killed.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
They'll kill you if you don't get this car out.
It's got the cups taking Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
One member of that patrol posse, was killed Commissioner Valentine.
Two of the others were badly wounded and another received
slight wound, but Blackie Thompson and his gang escape.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
All back to Gangbusters and commission Or Valentine.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
What happened Sheriff Adams After Blackie Thompson's spectacular escape from
that puffy.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Well, Commissioner Valentine, Blackie Thompson, reckless as he was, thought
her best to hide out for a while. He and
Leela had a hideout just outside of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Why Blackie, come in Lena new suit, new shoes, But
what's the idea of the suitcase?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Are we going somewhere and me.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Those gloves on the pura these uh uh pig skin
pretty hard and rough.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Blackie, you are planning on working out on me?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Uh well, little talk with you first, even get on
my nerves. I'm fed up, Blacky, no one, no scene,
and I'm fed up with the Dame. I'm through and
that ends it.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
But I can't go home. I haven't got any place
to go. I haven't got anybody but you.
Speaker 9 (09:59):
You can't leave the.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
The reason I wanted to talk to you is you
think you're gonna get back on me and tipping off
the cops. You got another think coming. You can't one
word of the cops and I'll find you and fill
you full of lead.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
After I've given up my home and family and everything working.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
These pigskin gloves are just like Steve, and you have
a beautiful face. I should bump you off now and
to make sure you don't code. But just as a
little sample, yeah a long time before that pussy, yourys
looks human again. And if you were even tempted to
say your word to the cops, just remember that little sample.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Fletchy Mike, come in the office a minute.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
All right?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Check?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Did you check where the police in nearby cities? I'm
Blackie jumping? Yes, sir, I know, so how about want
to check it is now? I was just coming in
from the printer. I'm sending one to every police chief
in the country.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Good of Heart's office?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Is it? Who is this?
Speaker 9 (11:06):
There's a man you want, pat and I know where
he is?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Blackie TOMPs Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
He said he'd kill me if I ever told who
are you? I was his girlfriend?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Where is he?
Speaker 9 (11:17):
Tims Barr? I hope you lock him up till he dies.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
There's this gang with him.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
I don't know about his gang.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
What is now, beautiful girl? It might be Hello, Hello,
A trip on Blackie Thompson. Yeah, my woman, black he's
supposed to be over at Tim's bar. I'm driving over
right now.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
You can't go alone, Chef his whole gang. Maybe with him.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
I'll take my chances, Mike.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
This time it's going to be Blankie Thompson or me.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Hello, Sheriff. Kind of raw tonight?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Hello Tim?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
What brings you to my place? Sheriff? Something up?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Well, no one's been except that fella sitting back there
in the corner. He's the man I'm watching in the
bar mirror. Yeah, who is he?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Five feet eight inches, one hundred and fifty pounds, black hair,
dark brown eyes.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
That's right, Blackie Thompson. I saw his picture on the papers.
What are you gonna do, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I'm gonna take him.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Hey, that guy's a killer. Moved down the bar out
of range.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
All right, stay where you are, both of you, and
if we don't.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I knew you was a cop, but the minute it
came in, I was waiting for your first move to
kill you.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Here it looks like you've got the drop on me.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I'm gonna kill you, and I'm gonna kill that dame
that tipped you off. You wouldn't just kill me here
in cold blow, wouldn't I you said your last speech here, Sheriff,
you threw him right over your shoulder. All right, Blackie,
get up on your feet. Kill Okay, I'm getting up, Cop,
I'm getting up.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
There are a lot of jobs marked up against you,
Blackie and one of his cop killing.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Ervin.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Blackie Thompson, rise and face the court. It is the
sentence of this court that you, Irvin Blackie Thompson, for
the crimes of kidnapping, murder, and robbery, be taken to
the Texas State Prison at Huntsville, And that within the
(13:28):
walls of the said prison, on the twenty fourth day
of October next between the hours of six and ten
in the morning, a sufficient current of electricity be passed
through your body to cause your death. And may God
have mercy on your soul.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Just a minute, Whitney, you know the rules. Convicts are
allowed near the death house. Yeah, I thought maybe, Ay,
I thought I could see my old pile, Blackie Thompson.
They're uh electrocuting them in a weekend. Oh, you have
to get permissions from the warden. Oh well, then, uh,
would you quiet God? Or I'll kill you. Where'd you
(14:13):
get that gun? Open the door of the death house quick,
surprising what a little gun smothered? Then?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Can do.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I walk inside? Screw nobody ever escaped from his death house. Yeah,
wouldn't they have give me those keys? Blukey b like you?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What's set in over here? With me?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Hurry hurry? Yeah, come on, God, run with me, get
me out of the cell. Open the door and come on. Okay,
you know well the slight to be in the death house.
Come on, open it up with me. Hurry, I'm working
his fencers. I can't blakey. I'll never forget this flavor
but me. Okay, Butney, No, I'll take that guy, but
apply him your gun. I'll shove the god in the south.
Let's screwise out for good. Hey, open myself, let's get
(14:59):
out of here. It's gonna spend those other guys in
the death house hand not stun and burn.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I'm saying myself.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Come on, I got the ladder hit on the other
side of the storf like he had. No guy ever
broke out of this death house before I get that
ladd You know, okay, I got it over to the wall.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Now you.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Okay, stand the ladder up against the wall and it's okay,
I'll start. I know you don't I'm first. Oh, that's
no way to treat me. After I got you out
of the Death House. Blankie the Blackie Thompson. Blackie comes first,
look the gart up in the wall. Seasons.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Oh Blackie, come back, help me? Will you help yourself?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Who do you think I am?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Emergency Emergency Blackie Thompson has just escaped from the Death House.
While Whitney awaited him to escape, was shut by the
tower guard and killed. Emergency Blankie Thompson has just escaped.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I'm right here in the shadow.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
Oh, darling, I couldn't see you.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
You really like these country clem dancers. No, they're boling.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
I wish you'd come in.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I've been watching you through the window. I knew you
were here.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
I was trying to sneak out. I never knew a
girl could be so in love in just one week.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Well, yeah, running away with me or not.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
But do you realize I hardly even know your name.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You're in love with me though, more than anything in
the world. Well, then after you get home tonight, pack
sneak out and I don't have a car on the street.
In the back of your house.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
You honestly love me, don't you?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Would I be asking to run away with me if
I didn't. All right, I will go with you.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
I'll go with you to the end of the world
if you want you.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
We won't go that far at first. I'll take you
for a few weeks to Amarilla, Texas. Amarilla. I don't worry, kid,
you won't be bored. I promise you that.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Attention.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Attention.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
First National Bank just robbed by gunman about twenty eight
black hair, handsome, immaculifney dressed. This gunman cruelly beat cashier.
Believe to be killer. Blackie Thompson approach with caution. Sriff's office. Hello, Hello,
(17:44):
what's the matter? This is the Sheriff's office. What's the matter?
Are you you?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Who is this?
Speaker 9 (17:51):
You? Looking for Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Blackie Thompson. Every office in the South looking for Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
He's here in Amarilla, where I don't know who are you? On?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
His girlfriend? He told me he was gonna marry me.
He said he loved me. He's found another girl, and
I hope you catch him and shoot him and put
him in the electric chair and kill him and put
him in jail for life. I never, never, never, never
want to see him again.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Hello, Hello, Hello, attention Texas police. Blackie Thompson reported to
be here in Amarello. All patrol cars cover her main
highways killer Blackie Thompson reported here in Amarello.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
You don't suppose, Sheriff, that.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Girl who thown in game is a wrong steer.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I'm Blackie Thompson here. She didn't expect that she was
the cleverest actor I ever heard.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I'm way Jerry police car in Texas and patrol him tonight.
Look way down there on the lower road. See yeah
to Dan must be doing seventy. Look way behind it.
Three squad cars are after him. Sheriff must be Blackie
Thompson in the first car. He's outright on the squad cars.
(19:03):
Oh what a run break This road runs parallel that
road for miles before there's a cut across, and we'll
never be able to get down the highway in time
to cut him off. We've got to those squad cars
will never catch him. It's only one way to head
the car off. Go down the embankment assist. He put
bank in a rough field beyond. He's got to take
a chance. Hang on, either make it or be killed.
(19:26):
Watching look out that rock, steady, steady. Sure if you
made it, he's about three hundred yards ahead of us.
Step on it. I can't go any past her. He's
pulling away. I'll see if I can plug his tires. Gord,
he's stopping me out. Sure you've heard this out of
(19:49):
the glass from wind Shoe. We'll get him.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Oh, here comes the other squad cars. Come on, man,
there he is right by his car, right out on
the sides of the road. I know, man, Open fire,
all right, man, hold it careful. Thompson may be playing possum.
(20:19):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
If your gun's on him, though, If he starts to
get up out of that road, let him have it.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
You got my covers must be at least thirty bullets
in him.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, then that's the end of Blackie Thompson. It's a
shame that some of these men don't realize before it's
too late, that they just can't get away with it.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Well, Commission of Valentine, that's the case of Blackie Thompson.
And I hope if there's anyone listening tonight who contemplates
committing a crime. They'll just remember this case.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
We appreciate, Sheriff Adams, you are telling us these inside facts. Tonight,
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