June 18, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now, in cooperation with police and federal law enforcement
departments throughout the United States, Waterman's Pens.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And Waterman's Inc.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Present gang Busters.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Out of the foxholes of Europe, from the steaming jungle
swamps of the Pacific. Our men are now coming home
to a new America. A wave of crime has followed
every war, and we must not allow lawbreakers to tear
down here at home the very ideals that our men
have fought to preserve.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Tonight, Gangbusters present the authentic inside facts concerning a killer
who felt he was even too tough for the army.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
And so Lewis J.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Vallen, who has just resigned as commissioner of the largest
police department in the world, takes over to interview by
proxy Chief A. S. Harper, Chief of Police of Amarillo, Texas,
Commissioner Valentine.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Chief Harper, I believe that one of the surest ways
to combat crime is to expose it. Now, we would
like to have you rip this case wide open tonight, well.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Commissioner Valentine, I'd like to start back in October nineteen
forty two, at ten thirty in the evening, a small
time gangster, Doc Rickett was sitting with his girlfriend in
a fashionable Cincinnati nightclub.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
You're a snappy looking number tonight current.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
You like this dress?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (01:52):
Yes, but you like a glove, he'd them, Hey, what
are you stering us?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Huh? What are you staring us?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Red headed man over there? Any objections?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Honey, you're my girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
The redhead doesn't think so, he's smiling.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Hey, don't pay any attention to him.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Cora, Why not? That's Red Beaver, red Beef.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
He's dynamite. The FBI and Secret Service have sent out
coast to coast alarms. He was a deserter from the army.
He's the quickest trigger man I know of. He only
pulls the biggest jobs there are.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Thanks, Ricket, I thought he was interesting. Now I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Now you've done at He's coming over. You cross him
and you get a bullet through your head.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
And you thought you were a big shot. I bet
there are a million girls who wish they were in
my place right now.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
He's shop pretty late about a little dance play off. Beaver,
she's my girl, So you know who I am? Rickon?
Speaker 8 (02:58):
Sure I spotted you, red Hair.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
I know Sunday scroll teating myself.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
I blow around?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
How do you know my name? When I spotted good
looking here, I asked a few questions about who she
was with her? What's your tax?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Should Cora Coral Weston?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Mmmm, you've got what it takes. Car move over us
s down. Cora is my girl, you know, Rick?
Speaker 9 (03:25):
And I think I could use you, maybe put you
up in a big dough. Yeah, yeah, I could use
this smart guy right now.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
My business?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
What kind of business spever.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Be?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Entertainment business? Yeah? Sure, I'd like to entertain. Let's see,
we'll start with a little Halloween party.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I had Aoween party where.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
In the Avondale branch of the Second National Bank.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
Oh, I get it, Uh huh Halloween.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
You know, sweep the clean with the witches brown. Suppose
you take a walk for a couple of minutes, cricud
I I had went a little board of directed meeting
there with Karra. Well, I gram, okay.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Okay, I would I would get a drink at the
bar and then I'll be back.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Smooth, honey, Here are plenty of smoke.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Here are kind of sugar coated yourself favor.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
Leave him Holiday's Kara, I guess, sir, Why today's Columbus Day.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Remember a Columbus discovered America and moved in. So so
I'm taking a tip from him. I just discovered you,
so I'm gonna do like him. I don't moved in. Uh,
(05:03):
I say, sad, Cora sit in your apartment? You blame
to me.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Want me to fix your cocktail beaver?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
After two weeks you have to ask me. I'll land
panel out to the answer. Hello, Oh what is that
your beaver? Sure it's me. Well, I I haven't got
anything to do. I suppose I drop up hunh No,
Cora is my girlfriend? Uh record? Oh uh? Get your
(05:33):
surprise package?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah yeah, but a clown.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Suit and a cowboy suit? What's your gag? Sim Well,
it's Halloween.
Speaker 9 (05:41):
You dress up fancy on Halloween, don't you. You are
to wear a clown suit? See good gag?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Eh ah.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
Besides, the client tile at the bank will have a
tough time describing a clown and a cowboy.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I get it. Work with me, awhile rack it and
you're learning things.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
Attention on all police Almondale branch of the Second National
Bank just robbed is seven thousand dollars by two men
and Halloween costumes. One undress is a cowboy. One as
a cloud approach with caution. He's met a heavily off.
Speaker 11 (06:25):
That's all well, agend Hayley. We've put that warning on
every teletype.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Through the stage.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
We at the FBI appreciate your cooperation. Captain Morrise.
Speaker 11 (06:34):
The Bandit's turn of dressing in halloween costumes was a
touch of genius. Nobody can seem to identify them. But
I've always noticed that when a man gets money easily,
he spends it easily. So it's just one possible trap.
I sent out an alert the nightclubs, bars, racetracks and
pool rooms to watch for.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Men who seem to be spending money too freely.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Good, perfect, I'll never guess they're spending a little too
much money, is what we're waiting for.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Like this nightclub girl.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
We've sure have been covering them all, haven't we read?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
That's me girl everything in a big way.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
He would read you've been cracking so many banks every
day headlines in the papers.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Rickard's so scared he doesn't even dare leave.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
I had a He's pretty jealous, you know, read you
taking me away from him?
Speaker 9 (07:31):
To leave Rickett to me, maybe I've got the biggest
job yet lined up.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
A hundred thousand. Yeah, when Christmas.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
At Christmas time, everybody gets presents. I figure David the
year Charleston trust to want to give us a present?
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Whey do you always pick a holiday red?
Speaker 9 (07:53):
Holidays are made for guys like me on holidays are
suckers stuff up with takee and guzzle booze.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Right, they get slow and care was gee, I never
thought of that. It was makes him slip up and
let themselves uh a way to way to bring another
bottle of that champagne over here coming off.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
He's spending your money off of fast tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Read that's the way I make it, isn't it? A
thanks have much of money? You know?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Yeah, but you've been drinking a lot, he said tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And the man was drinking. He wasn't himself. That's for
other guys, not to me. You couldn't tell by the
way I suck. I've had a drink.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Here you are, sir, and pull through champagne.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
You know something, I'm gonna take a bath on that stuff.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
I wouldn't do that, sir.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
The bubbles a tick him quick on the trigger and
he pour it suddenly. So oh.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Anything else, sir?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No, Yeah, buy yourself a house for Christmas. Yeah, take it.
Drink you, sir, But yeah you say, uh, thank you, sir,
thank you.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
You've blown your top, beaver, given that guy a sentry
for a tish.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Shut up and drink your champagne. Dames of crab all
the time, get on my nerves.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
You couldn't just slip the way to the hundred.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Oh no, not you.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
You had to make a production of it.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I said, shut up, first thing, you know? Oh you're
putting that loose slip of yours, or I'll slap you again.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Now you've done it, your fool that are Sergeant? Why
you slap me?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh yeah, I eat on me. Sergeant's on toast. Uh.
He's gonna use that for an excuse to come over
and meet you. Us, gonna chase win.
Speaker 12 (09:32):
Like I did to get you away from Rick.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Something wrong?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
What's it to you? Can I do anything for your miss? No?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
No, everything's all right.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Hey what was your figuring on doing shot? If it
hadn't been all right, I'd take it easy. But you've
been celebrating a little too much. I suppose because you're
in the army, your figure. Maybe I'm easy pickings.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Uh oh, look, I don't want any trouble.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
As long as the young lady says, she's all right, okay,
I'm leaving.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I see you. We're gonna pull up Prince Charman stuff.
What that gunaway said? Time? Sergeant, you ran into a
tough customer.
Speaker 12 (10:06):
Oh you're so tough.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Why don't you join the army? We need some good fighters.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Are the army? Huh? I don't see you being so brave,
And besides, I don't like the looks of an army uniform.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Fred tred don't follow me. We gotta get out of here.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
How long are we gonna stay? Hold up here?
Speaker 9 (10:39):
In chorus five, Beaver as long as I say so, record,
start playing at Piana cars.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Sit down, Beaver, he's driving us.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Not to that wall. Shut up. It wasn't for your
negative wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Can you beat that? We'd get a smooth full blows
the top, shoots, and army sergeants sometimes to pin the.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Wrap on me. Yeah, I had not to be so
quick with that ride. Beaver.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
You're gonna start tell him me how to operate?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Oh no, and ain't kill him?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Comes pretty easy to me. Record. I'd remember that if
I were you. The same goes for you, gir and
wild say, there ain't no woodpecker. See what is called?
Oh how u the cops store him?
Speaker 12 (11:18):
Give us a chance to get out the back when
wander the fire escape and get the cops.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I'll last him from there.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Oh holm a doll.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Take your time, boys, take your time. Okay, what you
sell him?
Speaker 11 (11:38):
I'm Captain Morris of the Cincinnati Detective After her is
a federal ation. So what we're looking for?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Mine? And was him coming into this building?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
What'ch it on me? Every man who comes in this building,
don't come up here.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Unfortunately, got the comedy. We know he's here. Step percent hold.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
It, Copper, I'm old fashioned. I don't know that strange
man into my apartment. Unles, they got the search one
really yeah, and that goes double for Coppers.
Speaker 11 (12:05):
But by an odd coincidence, I happened to have a
such one right here.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Well, if you must come head, what was that?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Come on?
Speaker 11 (12:20):
Come back from that fire escape into the room again,
put your arms up. We guessed if we came in
the door, you a gentleman might go out the window.
So I had a few of my men out there. Okay, yeah,
I know one of 'em.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Captain Morse Rickett.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Ricket's an old time gangster.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The Redhead the new one.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I'm just an innocent bystander.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
The Redhead is the one who shot the army side.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You that nothing, not me coping.
Speaker 11 (12:43):
Oh, we had all the nightclubs tipped off the report
and then and was spending money too freely. The waiter
will wait it on your table.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Call us up.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
We examined a hundred dollar bill. You gave him a tip.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I wanna see my lawyer.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
I don't blame you.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Red.
Speaker 11 (12:56):
Suppose we get down the headquarters for a talk. And
if I say no, well you should say no. I'll
tell you you would come along a good deal like this.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Let's saw me.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Let's all will.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
So Red Beavers started moving fast, Chief Popper.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
His commissioner. Red Beaver didn't know what had struck him
till he was safe behind bars.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
But the crime history of Red Beaver not yet reached
his peak.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Tonight marks the first broadcast in this Elle Waterman Company
presentation of Gangbusters. And we're proud we have been able
to select a chief investigator and commentator for these programs,
a man who has been a police officer for almost
half a century, and who last midnight resigned after eleven
years as Police Commissioner of the New York City Police Department.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Lewis J.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Valentine, as head of the largest police force in the world,
has made contacts with and influence police procedure on a
nationwide scale. Federal, state, and local police departments throughout the
country know in respect Commissioner Valentine as being in the
forefront of our constant war against crime. Gangbusters and the L. E.
(14:16):
Waterman Company are proud that Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine will
act as chief investigator on these factual cases. Well, Commissioner Valentine,
how does it feel to be facing a microphone?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Frankly, mister Gardner, it's harder to face than a gangster
with a gun. But the Only Waterman Company has provided
me with an opportunity to do something I've wanted to
do for a long time. To me, Gangbusters, which names
names and states SAX is the ideal way to prove
the folly of crime to those who might otherwise be
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led astray. And it's going to be my purpose to
see that every program is pointed to bring about a better, safer,
happy America for all.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Thank you, Commissioner, and now, in recognition of your never
ending fight against.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Crime, the L E.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Waterman Company makes the year's first network presentation of its
Watermens de Luke's pen and Pencil gift set to you, Commissioner.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Thank you, mister Gardner. It's certainly as beautiful. But I
already have a Waterman set, one that was presented to
me when I became a Captain of Police in this
department nineteen years ago. And I'd rather miss one of
Missus Valentine's home meals than lose that set.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Well, Commissioner, I don't blame you, but we do want
you to have this newest model Waterman's.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Thanks mister Gardner, I accepted gratefully and I'll use them both.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And now, Commissioner Valentine. Back to the case of Red Beaver.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Chief Hopper.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Red Beaver was in the Cincinnati prison.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
He is Commissioner of Valentine, and it was sixteen minutes
before nine in the evening February twelve.
Speaker 13 (16:02):
Red Beaver lay.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Sprawled in his bunk, watching water pouring from his wash
base into the cell floor. Final lee, he walked over
to the bar, separating him from Doc ricket itself?
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Hi, very good?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Where's all the water coming from? Beaver?
Speaker 9 (16:23):
I told you we'd break, editor, John, But if it's
all the time to you, I'd rather walk got the swimmer.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
You know what day today is, Vivian sure, February twelve?
So what February twelve? Lincoln's birthday? What do you want
we should do with birthday cake? You never heard what
Lincoln did?
Speaker 9 (16:43):
We got him, so shot what you're raiment for us
to get? Ever before he did, he freed the slaves.
So today's Lincoln's birthday, So we'll do like him. We'll
free the slaves us in it just like that? How
(17:04):
comes up your base?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
And like the water and on the floor, why you're
just running plenty.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
You're gonna start raising fishing in it like I say, Okay, okay.
Speaker 12 (17:17):
Good, Now we'll wait a minute and we call it God.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And what we yell for a dry cell?
Speaker 9 (17:25):
When I would switch, when we hit him over the
head and make a break, that's the water coming.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
They could launch a ship in here now, okay, ran
in a cup?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
God got up.
Speaker 13 (17:52):
Kitchens gaming prisoners. Red Beaver and Doc Reckett have just.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
Held up the Second National Bank and our paving Green
nineteen forty Christ Lissaedan license number two nine three dash
three four eight.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That is all.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
To Kansas City Police.
Speaker 13 (18:17):
To Kansas City Police believe killer Red Fever and par
Ricketts are driving toward Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
These men are heavily armed.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
Suggest roadblock.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I can't stand us ray much longer, favor I'm cracking,
how worried? Will be all right here to Kansas City.
The whole country's working forest. I always do things in
a big way, Ricketts. If I tell you Kansas City's safe,
I got it all figured out. Broad block up ahead,
Plato's brought and compass all over the place. I'll run over.
I'll kill afula come on, I'm all in. Well, what's
(19:11):
what's going on for? Paises Cock h Glass.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Kansas City?
Speaker 13 (19:22):
FBI Washington Doc Rickett, companion of Red Beaver, was found
hiding in cellar in Kansas City. Rickett is now under arrest.
Red Beaver escaped and is believed hiding in one of
the southern states.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Hello hello, Edwards.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, sure, this is Edwards. That's you home.
Sure yeah, Wait a minute, Lisa, down man, you get tired.
I'm just not used to this Texas weather.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
How do you like it here in Ambrillo?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
It depends upon how well you like?
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Hey, baby, very often I'll see the night all right, Yeah,
we'll go to a clebt better.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
No, No, what's matic? Holdly can you beat that?
Speaker 12 (20:12):
H what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Two women out in the street they bump cars. Oh,
but the little one shoving a big one around. Nah,
the big one, she won't take it.
Speaker 11 (20:25):
Wall, what happened?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
The little one gives a big one a slap. The
cops seen him. Hey, there's a grand sand seat. Hey,
they're looking up here at the window. They can see
me laughing.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Now, see, you're as good as a radio fight.
Speaker 14 (20:38):
Announced it is.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
The CoP's walking across the sidewalk. Todd my lendo here
and this is a laugh.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Why if you'll only know, Hey, we see you saw
these two women bump cars?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Didn't you sure?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I see him off the side? I was looking right
out the window here, and which one was at fall?
He had valent? You don't get me between two days,
especially those days. If one of them was cute, it
might be different.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Hello, Wait a minute, baby, I'm talking about a copy here. Well,
I guess I have to take him up to the
station house. Will you come up with me and tell
what you're sold? Now, wait a minute, I'm not gone. Okay, okay, share,
I'll go with you. I'll be much applied to be wools. Yah,
sure I will. Hello, Shugar, I'll call you back later.
Speaker 9 (21:17):
I gotta go say justice done well Coppa, wait away,
I'll put on my hat and.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Be right with you. This is a gentleman. I was
telling you about Captain Kirkman. He was sitting in the
window and saw the two women bump enders.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
Oh, I appreciate your coming up to the station.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
That's all right.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
What's your name?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, Edwin.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Oh, I'm Captain Kirkman and this is Captain King.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I'm glad to meet you. Oh, sit down, mister Edwards.
H You've got a pretty good police station here at Amreillo,
haven't you. It serves this purpose. You're a stranger in Amreilla.
I've been here a couple of months. Hey, you want
me to tell you about those two women from because.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yes, but you don't happen to know a man by the.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Name of Red Beaver.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Uh. Red Beaver. He's an escaped convict and the killer. No,
I never had whom but he asked me. I was
just wondering.
Speaker 11 (22:17):
Red.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
That's all. Call me Red. My name is reddits Jack
Jack Edwards. Oh I see here there's a wanted circular
for Red Beaver for.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Desertion from the army and killing an army sergeant. I
don't know what you're sucking standing back to you, all
have their guns out.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
No, I didn't kill my body with me. I didn't
kill him. What a sucker I am.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Yes, sure, all police officers have been on the lookout
for you from the ending up here for then two
dams A bump their cars.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
I could funk them off.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Didn't figure it might be a little planned to get
you up here without any shooting.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
And I thought I was smart, me me Red Beaver
being took in by this one hot joint. I didn't
kill that guy, don't. We'll leave that to the United
States Army. Beaver.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
They're asking for you.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
No, look, I'll do anything. I'll tell you anything you
want to know, but don't let the army get hold
of me. So don'tn't don't let the honey get hold it.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Please, he tail.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Harry Red Beaver, as convicted by a court martial at
Fort Sill.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
You will on this morning of September twenty sixth, nineteen forty.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Four, be hanged by the neck until dead.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Harry Beaver, have you anything to say?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
No, No, I just think goodness.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
May God rest your soul.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And Commissioner Valentine at six thirty seven am, twenty minutes later,
Harry Red Beaver is dead, executed by the United States Army.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Offer.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
This has been a terrific case tonight one I doubt
that we will ever forget. I wish that every person
in this country might have heard.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It is Commissioner Valentine to Red Beaver. The men in
the uniform of their country were suckers. He knew better,
he knew how to get easy money.
Speaker 12 (24:35):
But it didn't turn out that way, and it never does.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And now before we present our urgent, last minute bulletins
on persons wanted.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
By the authorities. At this very moment, the case of
Red Beaver is over.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
But the case of the missing words remains a mystery
to millions of Americans. Their only clue is the peculiar
behavior of a fountain pen, a pen that sometimes writes
on and on without ever seeming to run drop.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Then again it seems.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Out of ink almost before it starts.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The reason is that in the first instance, the pen
was filled with Waterman's wonderful blue black ink, and thus
gave thousands of extra words. The second time, however, a
different ink had been used and fewer words resulted. This
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Speaker 2 (26:25):
Wisner, Dayton, Ohio Police Department announces a reward of eighty
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and a half year old baby, Ronald Thompson and conviction
of his kidnapper. Here is description given Gangbusters by Dayton
Police of alleged kidnapper woman known.
Speaker 14 (26:42):
As Mary Wilkie forty to forty five years old, five
feet six inches, about one hundred and fifty pounds, ruddy complexion,
ready sh brown hair. Believed Hannett brushed back and up
speeks with slight accent, possibly Southern or Eastern, pleasing personality.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
Renew vigilance for this woman.
Speaker 14 (27:10):
Reward now offered by Dayton, Ohio Police. Eighty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
From Denver, Colorado Police surgent bulletin concerning suspect wanted for
questioning and connection with murder of Ja richardson that city.
Suspect described as follows Andrew Cypus alias Jack Wood alias
William Hammond, thirty six, five feet six inches, about one
hundred and fifty pounds.
Speaker 10 (27:36):
Dark hair, brown eyes. When last seen, according to police,
wore khaki shirt or jacket with bloodstain on right shoulder
and sleeve where he supposedly was shot in struggle with victim.
Suspect believed to have left scene of crime in company
of women in green Pontiac Satan bearing Los Angeles license
ending in numerals eight zero. Watch for Andrew Cypus, wanted
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Speaker 2 (28:07):
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at once now here is Commissioner Valentine.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Next week, Gangbusters will present the Case of the Red
Evening Dress. It's about a girl and her love for
a killer.
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Out of the foxholes of Europe, from the steaming jungle
swamps of the Pacific. Our men are now coming home
to a new America. A wave of crime has followed
every war, and we must not allow lawbreakers to tear
down here at home the very ideals that our men
have fought to preserve.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Tonight, Gangbusters present the authentic inside facts concerning a killer
who felt he was even too tough for the army.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
And so Lewis J.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Vallen, who has just resigned as commissioner of the largest
police department in the world, takes over to interview by
proxy Chief A. S. Harper, Chief of Police of Amarillo, Texas,
Commissioner Valentine.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Chief Harper, I believe that one of the surest ways
to combat crime is to expose it. Now, we would
like to have you rip this case wide open tonight, well.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Commissioner Valentine, I'd like to start back in October nineteen
forty two, at ten thirty in the evening, a small
time gangster, Doc Rickett was sitting with his girlfriend in
a fashionable Cincinnati nightclub.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
You're a snappy looking number tonight current.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
You like this dress?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (01:52):
Yes, but you like a glove, he'd them, Hey, what
are you stering us?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Huh? What are you staring us?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Red headed man over there? Any objections?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Honey, you're my girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
The redhead doesn't think so, he's smiling.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Hey, don't pay any attention to him.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Cora, Why not? That's Red Beaver, red Beef.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
He's dynamite. The FBI and Secret Service have sent out
coast to coast alarms. He was a deserter from the army.
He's the quickest trigger man I know of. He only
pulls the biggest jobs there are.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Thanks, Ricket, I thought he was interesting. Now I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Now you've done at He's coming over. You cross him
and you get a bullet through your head.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
And you thought you were a big shot. I bet
there are a million girls who wish they were in
my place right now.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
He's shop pretty late about a little dance play off. Beaver,
she's my girl, So you know who I am? Rickon?
Speaker 8 (02:58):
Sure I spotted you, red Hair.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
I know Sunday scroll teating myself.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
I blow around?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
How do you know my name? When I spotted good
looking here, I asked a few questions about who she
was with her? What's your tax?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Should Cora Coral Weston?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Mmmm, you've got what it takes. Car move over us
s down. Cora is my girl, you know, Rick?
Speaker 9 (03:25):
And I think I could use you, maybe put you
up in a big dough. Yeah, yeah, I could use
this smart guy right now.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
My business?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
What kind of business spever.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Be?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Entertainment business? Yeah? Sure, I'd like to entertain. Let's see,
we'll start with a little Halloween party.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I had Aoween party where.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
In the Avondale branch of the Second National Bank.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
Oh, I get it, Uh huh Halloween.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
You know, sweep the clean with the witches brown. Suppose
you take a walk for a couple of minutes, cricud
I I had went a little board of directed meeting
there with Karra. Well, I gram, okay.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Okay, I would I would get a drink at the
bar and then I'll be back.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Smooth, honey, Here are plenty of smoke.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Here are kind of sugar coated yourself favor.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
Leave him Holiday's Kara, I guess, sir, Why today's Columbus Day.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Remember a Columbus discovered America and moved in. So so
I'm taking a tip from him. I just discovered you,
so I'm gonna do like him. I don't moved in. Uh,
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I say, sad, Cora sit in your apartment? You blame
to me.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Want me to fix your cocktail beaver?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
After two weeks you have to ask me. I'll land
panel out to the answer. Hello, Oh what is that
your beaver? Sure it's me. Well, I I haven't got
anything to do. I suppose I drop up hunh No,
Cora is my girlfriend? Uh record? Oh uh? Get your
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surprise package?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah yeah, but a clown.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Suit and a cowboy suit? What's your gag? Sim Well,
it's Halloween.
Speaker 9 (05:41):
You dress up fancy on Halloween, don't you. You are
to wear a clown suit? See good gag?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Eh ah.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
Besides, the client tile at the bank will have a
tough time describing a clown and a cowboy.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I get it. Work with me, awhile rack it and
you're learning things.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
Attention on all police Almondale branch of the Second National
Bank just robbed is seven thousand dollars by two men
and Halloween costumes. One undress is a cowboy. One as
a cloud approach with caution. He's met a heavily off.
Speaker 11 (06:25):
That's all well, agend Hayley. We've put that warning on
every teletype.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Through the stage.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
We at the FBI appreciate your cooperation. Captain Morrise.
Speaker 11 (06:34):
The Bandit's turn of dressing in halloween costumes was a
touch of genius. Nobody can seem to identify them. But
I've always noticed that when a man gets money easily,
he spends it easily. So it's just one possible trap.
I sent out an alert the nightclubs, bars, racetracks and
pool rooms to watch for.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Men who seem to be spending money too freely.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Good, perfect, I'll never guess they're spending a little too
much money, is what we're waiting for.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Like this nightclub girl.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
We've sure have been covering them all, haven't we read?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
That's me girl everything in a big way.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
He would read you've been cracking so many banks every
day headlines in the papers.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Rickard's so scared he doesn't even dare leave.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
I had a He's pretty jealous, you know, read you
taking me away from him?
Speaker 9 (07:31):
To leave Rickett to me, maybe I've got the biggest
job yet lined up.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
A hundred thousand. Yeah, when Christmas.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
At Christmas time, everybody gets presents. I figure David the
year Charleston trust to want to give us a present?
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Whey do you always pick a holiday red?
Speaker 9 (07:53):
Holidays are made for guys like me on holidays are
suckers stuff up with takee and guzzle booze.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Right, they get slow and care was gee, I never
thought of that. It was makes him slip up and
let themselves uh a way to way to bring another
bottle of that champagne over here coming off.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
He's spending your money off of fast tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Read that's the way I make it, isn't it? A
thanks have much of money? You know?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Yeah, but you've been drinking a lot, he said tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And the man was drinking. He wasn't himself. That's for
other guys, not to me. You couldn't tell by the
way I suck. I've had a drink.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Here you are, sir, and pull through champagne.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
You know something, I'm gonna take a bath on that stuff.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
I wouldn't do that, sir.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
The bubbles a tick him quick on the trigger and
he pour it suddenly. So oh.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Anything else, sir?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No, Yeah, buy yourself a house for Christmas. Yeah, take it.
Drink you, sir, But yeah you say, uh, thank you, sir,
thank you.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
You've blown your top, beaver, given that guy a sentry
for a tish.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Shut up and drink your champagne. Dames of crab all
the time, get on my nerves.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
You couldn't just slip the way to the hundred.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Oh no, not you.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
You had to make a production of it.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I said, shut up, first thing, you know? Oh you're
putting that loose slip of yours, or I'll slap you again.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Now you've done it, your fool that are Sergeant? Why
you slap me?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh yeah, I eat on me. Sergeant's on toast. Uh.
He's gonna use that for an excuse to come over
and meet you. Us, gonna chase win.
Speaker 12 (09:32):
Like I did to get you away from Rick.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Something wrong?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
What's it to you? Can I do anything for your miss? No?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
No, everything's all right.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Hey what was your figuring on doing shot? If it
hadn't been all right, I'd take it easy. But you've
been celebrating a little too much. I suppose because you're
in the army, your figure. Maybe I'm easy pickings.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Uh oh, look, I don't want any trouble.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
As long as the young lady says, she's all right, okay,
I'm leaving.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I see you. We're gonna pull up Prince Charman stuff.
What that gunaway said? Time? Sergeant, you ran into a
tough customer.
Speaker 12 (10:06):
Oh you're so tough.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Why don't you join the army? We need some good fighters.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Are the army? Huh? I don't see you being so brave,
And besides, I don't like the looks of an army uniform.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Fred tred don't follow me. We gotta get out of here.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
How long are we gonna stay? Hold up here?
Speaker 9 (10:39):
In chorus five, Beaver as long as I say so, record,
start playing at Piana cars.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Sit down, Beaver, he's driving us.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Not to that wall. Shut up. It wasn't for your
negative wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Can you beat that? We'd get a smooth full blows
the top, shoots, and army sergeants sometimes to pin the.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Wrap on me. Yeah, I had not to be so
quick with that ride. Beaver.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
You're gonna start tell him me how to operate?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Oh no, and ain't kill him?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Comes pretty easy to me. Record. I'd remember that if
I were you. The same goes for you, gir and
wild say, there ain't no woodpecker. See what is called?
Oh how u the cops store him?
Speaker 12 (11:18):
Give us a chance to get out the back when
wander the fire escape and get the cops.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I'll last him from there.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Oh holm a doll.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Take your time, boys, take your time. Okay, what you
sell him?
Speaker 11 (11:38):
I'm Captain Morris of the Cincinnati Detective After her is
a federal ation. So what we're looking for?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Mine? And was him coming into this building?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
What'ch it on me? Every man who comes in this building,
don't come up here.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Unfortunately, got the comedy. We know he's here. Step percent hold.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
It, Copper, I'm old fashioned. I don't know that strange
man into my apartment. Unles, they got the search one
really yeah, and that goes double for Coppers.
Speaker 11 (12:05):
But by an odd coincidence, I happened to have a
such one right here.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Well, if you must come head, what was that?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Come on?
Speaker 11 (12:20):
Come back from that fire escape into the room again,
put your arms up. We guessed if we came in
the door, you a gentleman might go out the window.
So I had a few of my men out there. Okay, yeah,
I know one of 'em.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Captain Morse Rickett.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Ricket's an old time gangster.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The Redhead the new one.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I'm just an innocent bystander.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
The Redhead is the one who shot the army side.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You that nothing, not me coping.
Speaker 11 (12:43):
Oh, we had all the nightclubs tipped off the report
and then and was spending money too freely. The waiter
will wait it on your table.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Call us up.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
We examined a hundred dollar bill. You gave him a tip.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I wanna see my lawyer.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
I don't blame you.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Red.
Speaker 11 (12:56):
Suppose we get down the headquarters for a talk. And
if I say no, well you should say no. I'll
tell you you would come along a good deal like this.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Let's saw me.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Let's all will.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
So Red Beavers started moving fast, Chief Popper.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
His commissioner. Red Beaver didn't know what had struck him
till he was safe behind bars.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
But the crime history of Red Beaver not yet reached
his peak.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Tonight marks the first broadcast in this Elle Waterman Company
presentation of Gangbusters. And we're proud we have been able
to select a chief investigator and commentator for these programs,
a man who has been a police officer for almost
half a century, and who last midnight resigned after eleven
years as Police Commissioner of the New York City Police Department.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Lewis J.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Valentine, as head of the largest police force in the world,
has made contacts with and influence police procedure on a
nationwide scale. Federal, state, and local police departments throughout the
country know in respect Commissioner Valentine as being in the
forefront of our constant war against crime. Gangbusters and the L. E.
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Waterman Company are proud that Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine will
act as chief investigator on these factual cases. Well, Commissioner Valentine,
how does it feel to be facing a microphone?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Frankly, mister Gardner, it's harder to face than a gangster
with a gun. But the Only Waterman Company has provided
me with an opportunity to do something I've wanted to
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names and states SAX is the ideal way to prove
the folly of crime to those who might otherwise be
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see that every program is pointed to bring about a better, safer,
happy America for all.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
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Speaker 8 (15:07):
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Speaker 5 (15:16):
Thank you, mister Gardner. It's certainly as beautiful. But I
already have a Waterman set, one that was presented to
me when I became a Captain of Police in this
department nineteen years ago. And I'd rather miss one of
Missus Valentine's home meals than lose that set.
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Thanks mister Gardner, I accepted gratefully and I'll use them both.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And now, Commissioner Valentine. Back to the case of Red Beaver.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Chief Hopper.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Red Beaver was in the Cincinnati prison.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
He is Commissioner of Valentine, and it was sixteen minutes
before nine in the evening February twelve.
Speaker 13 (16:02):
Red Beaver lay.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Sprawled in his bunk, watching water pouring from his wash
base into the cell floor. Final lee, he walked over
to the bar, separating him from Doc ricket itself?
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Hi, very good?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Where's all the water coming from? Beaver?
Speaker 9 (16:23):
I told you we'd break, editor, John, But if it's
all the time to you, I'd rather walk got the swimmer.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
You know what day today is, Vivian sure, February twelve?
So what February twelve? Lincoln's birthday? What do you want
we should do with birthday cake? You never heard what
Lincoln did?
Speaker 9 (16:43):
We got him, so shot what you're raiment for us
to get? Ever before he did, he freed the slaves.
So today's Lincoln's birthday, So we'll do like him. We'll
free the slaves us in it just like that? How
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comes up your base?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
And like the water and on the floor, why you're
just running plenty.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
You're gonna start raising fishing in it like I say, Okay, okay.
Speaker 12 (17:17):
Good, Now we'll wait a minute and we call it God.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And what we yell for a dry cell?
Speaker 9 (17:25):
When I would switch, when we hit him over the
head and make a break, that's the water coming.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
They could launch a ship in here now, okay, ran
in a cup?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
God got up.
Speaker 13 (17:52):
Kitchens gaming prisoners. Red Beaver and Doc Reckett have just.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
Held up the Second National Bank and our paving Green
nineteen forty Christ Lissaedan license number two nine three dash
three four eight.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That is all.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
To Kansas City Police.
Speaker 13 (18:17):
To Kansas City Police believe killer Red Fever and par
Ricketts are driving toward Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
These men are heavily armed.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
Suggest roadblock.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I can't stand us ray much longer, favor I'm cracking,
how worried? Will be all right here to Kansas City.
The whole country's working forest. I always do things in
a big way, Ricketts. If I tell you Kansas City's safe,
I got it all figured out. Broad block up ahead,
Plato's brought and compass all over the place. I'll run over.
I'll kill afula come on, I'm all in. Well, what's
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what's going on for? Paises Cock h Glass.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Kansas City?
Speaker 13 (19:22):
FBI Washington Doc Rickett, companion of Red Beaver, was found
hiding in cellar in Kansas City. Rickett is now under arrest.
Red Beaver escaped and is believed hiding in one of
the southern states.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Hello hello, Edwards.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, sure, this is Edwards. That's you home.
Sure yeah, Wait a minute, Lisa, down man, you get tired.
I'm just not used to this Texas weather.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
How do you like it here in Ambrillo?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
It depends upon how well you like?
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Hey, baby, very often I'll see the night all right, Yeah,
we'll go to a clebt better.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
No, No, what's matic? Holdly can you beat that?
Speaker 12 (20:12):
H what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Two women out in the street they bump cars. Oh,
but the little one shoving a big one around. Nah,
the big one, she won't take it.
Speaker 11 (20:25):
Wall, what happened?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
The little one gives a big one a slap. The
cops seen him. Hey, there's a grand sand seat. Hey,
they're looking up here at the window. They can see
me laughing.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Now, see, you're as good as a radio fight.
Speaker 14 (20:38):
Announced it is.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
The CoP's walking across the sidewalk. Todd my lendo here
and this is a laugh.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Why if you'll only know, Hey, we see you saw
these two women bump cars?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Didn't you sure?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I see him off the side? I was looking right
out the window here, and which one was at fall?
He had valent? You don't get me between two days,
especially those days. If one of them was cute, it
might be different.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Hello, Wait a minute, baby, I'm talking about a copy here. Well,
I guess I have to take him up to the
station house. Will you come up with me and tell
what you're sold? Now, wait a minute, I'm not gone. Okay, okay, share,
I'll go with you. I'll be much applied to be wools. Yah,
sure I will. Hello, Shugar, I'll call you back later.
Speaker 9 (21:17):
I gotta go say justice done well Coppa, wait away,
I'll put on my hat and.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Be right with you. This is a gentleman. I was
telling you about Captain Kirkman. He was sitting in the
window and saw the two women bump enders.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
Oh, I appreciate your coming up to the station.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
That's all right.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
What's your name?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, Edwin.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Oh, I'm Captain Kirkman and this is Captain King.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I'm glad to meet you. Oh, sit down, mister Edwards.
H You've got a pretty good police station here at Amreillo,
haven't you. It serves this purpose. You're a stranger in Amreilla.
I've been here a couple of months. Hey, you want
me to tell you about those two women from because.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yes, but you don't happen to know a man by the.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Name of Red Beaver.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Uh. Red Beaver. He's an escaped convict and the killer. No,
I never had whom but he asked me. I was
just wondering.
Speaker 11 (22:17):
Red.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
That's all. Call me Red. My name is reddits Jack
Jack Edwards. Oh I see here there's a wanted circular
for Red Beaver for.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Desertion from the army and killing an army sergeant. I
don't know what you're sucking standing back to you, all
have their guns out.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
No, I didn't kill my body with me. I didn't
kill him. What a sucker I am.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Yes, sure, all police officers have been on the lookout
for you from the ending up here for then two
dams A bump their cars.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
I could funk them off.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Didn't figure it might be a little planned to get
you up here without any shooting.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
And I thought I was smart, me me Red Beaver
being took in by this one hot joint. I didn't
kill that guy, don't. We'll leave that to the United
States Army. Beaver.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
They're asking for you.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
No, look, I'll do anything. I'll tell you anything you
want to know, but don't let the army get hold
of me. So don'tn't don't let the honey get hold it.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Please, he tail.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Harry Red Beaver, as convicted by a court martial at
Fort Sill.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
You will on this morning of September twenty sixth, nineteen forty.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Four, be hanged by the neck until dead.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Harry Beaver, have you anything to say?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
No, No, I just think goodness.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
May God rest your soul.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And Commissioner Valentine at six thirty seven am, twenty minutes later,
Harry Red Beaver is dead, executed by the United States Army.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Offer.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
This has been a terrific case tonight one I doubt
that we will ever forget. I wish that every person
in this country might have heard.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It is Commissioner Valentine to Red Beaver. The men in
the uniform of their country were suckers. He knew better,
he knew how to get easy money.
Speaker 12 (24:35):
But it didn't turn out that way, and it never does.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And now before we present our urgent, last minute bulletins
on persons wanted.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
By the authorities. At this very moment, the case of
Red Beaver is over.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
But the case of the missing words remains a mystery
to millions of Americans. Their only clue is the peculiar
behavior of a fountain pen, a pen that sometimes writes
on and on without ever seeming to run drop.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Then again it seems.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Out of ink almost before it starts.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The reason is that in the first instance, the pen
was filled with Waterman's wonderful blue black ink, and thus
gave thousands of extra words. The second time, however, a
different ink had been used and fewer words resulted. This
tremendous difference, ladies and gentlemen is because Waterman's Blue Black
is all ink, true ink, no solvents, no added chemicals,
(25:27):
no delution. That's why, by actual test, Waterman's Blue black
ink gives you up to six thousand, five hundred.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
More words per filling.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Think of it, up to six thousand, five hundred more
words per filling than other inks tested. Now you can
cut those messy pen filling chores, perhaps in half. Now
you can write steadily for hour after hour after hour
without pausing to refill your pen, and all you have
to do is to make every filling all Waterman's filling. Yes,
(25:57):
you can solve your own case of the misty words
forever with Waterman's Blue black ink. And remember, Waterman's ink
is also available in seven other pleasing and distinctive colors,
all come in the convenient tip fill bottles, each only
ten cents. All Gangbusters Nationwide clues.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Chief R. F.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Wisner, Dayton, Ohio Police Department announces a reward of eighty
five hundred dollars is being offered for return of two
and a half year old baby, Ronald Thompson and conviction
of his kidnapper. Here is description given Gangbusters by Dayton
Police of alleged kidnapper woman known.
Speaker 14 (26:42):
As Mary Wilkie forty to forty five years old, five
feet six inches, about one hundred and fifty pounds, ruddy complexion,
ready sh brown hair. Believed Hannett brushed back and up
speeks with slight accent, possibly Southern or Eastern, pleasing personality.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
Renew vigilance for this woman.
Speaker 14 (27:10):
Reward now offered by Dayton, Ohio Police. Eighty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
From Denver, Colorado Police surgent bulletin concerning suspect wanted for
questioning and connection with murder of Ja richardson that city.
Suspect described as follows Andrew Cypus alias Jack Wood alias
William Hammond, thirty six, five feet six inches, about one
hundred and fifty pounds.
Speaker 10 (27:36):
Dark hair, brown eyes. When last seen, according to police,
wore khaki shirt or jacket with bloodstain on right shoulder
and sleeve where he supposedly was shot in struggle with victim.
Suspect believed to have left scene of crime in company
of women in green Pontiac Satan bearing Los Angeles license
ending in numerals eight zero. Watch for Andrew Cypus, wanted
(28:00):
for questioning, murder dead the police Department.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
If you have any information concerning these clues, notify your
local police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or gang Busters
at once now here is Commissioner Valentine.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Next week, Gangbusters will present the Case of the Red
Evening Dress. It's about a girl and her love for
a killer.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Remember next week, same time, same station.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
One of the most unusual cases Gangbusters has ever presented.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
In the meantime.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
When you are buying a fountain pen or when you're
buying ink, just look for the name Waterman's gang Buster's
Sanctual Case Histories is a Philip's h Lord production. This
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