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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents this is your FBI.
This is your BI, the official broadcast.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
From the files of the Federal Pure of Investigation, presented
transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance
Society of the United States, and the Equitable Society is
representative in your community. Ah All, ah All, if you
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contemplate placing a mortgage on your home, it will pay
you to remember those letters. They stand for the Assured
Home Ownership Plan of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, a
money saving home saving plan designed.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
To speed the day when you can say, no mortgage
on my house, I own it free and Claire.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
If that appeals to you.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Please listen carefully in about thirteen minutes for full information
on the Equitable AHOL plans. Tonight the subject of our
FBI file Armed Robbery. It's titled The Innocent Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Nearly all criminals are emotionally childish, undependable, and unscrupulous. Some,
like the characters you'll meet into Night's dramatization from FBI files,
are more vicious than others, but make no mistake about it,
the dashing and charming Robin Hood types are few and
far between. Criminals taint with unhappiness, the lives of all
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those with whom they come in contact, The little niceties
of life, the decent, courteous kindness is the Christmas spirit
itself that make up normal people's lives are completely foreign.
To the vast majority of them. Whatever they do is
for themselves alone. One of your FBI's major purposes in
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bringing you these programs is to present the underworld as
it really is, without glamo earth, without sentimentality. When night Clift,
the I File opens in a cheap hotel room in
the downtown district of a large eastern city, A twelve
year old girl is alone in the room. She walks
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to a full length mirror on the wall and sings
a song. When she finishes, she bows to the mirror, Thank.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
You, ladies and gentlemen for your kind applause. That there's
a great act. That we've got a long show. So
let's meet a star who needs no one tout where.
I didn't hear you come in.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
You ought to know better than try to bring him
on a star that way.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Oh, but I was just trying to have what theater
were you playing? This is the one I named after
all right, you're.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
On the stage at the Roxy. A sensational flash actor
just finished. Now your stars are next, so you want
to give her a bill.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
But Daddy, you always say him now a star who
needs no introduction.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
I know I do, but then I had to do something. Oh,
and I tell a couple of jokes, like as I
was coming in the stage door tonight, a bum came
up and asked me for two dollars for a cup
of coffee, and I said, two dollars for a cup
of coffee. Why you can get one for a nickel?
And he shrugged his shoulder and says, well, can I
help it if I'm a big tripper?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What he's going see?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Slug him again? You see that bummy shirt? Crazy? I
met him yesterday too, and he asked me for eight
dollars for a piece of pie. And I said eight
dollars for a piece of pie, My man, you can
get one for a dime. And he shrugged and says,
do I tell you've had to eat? Now? They warmed
up and you bring on your starck you oh say,
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anybody call me?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Beat mom?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
What do you want? I don't know. I got the
messages tod Hey maybe he's got some actions.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
She's getty, you think so?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Oh he's my Asian idy. He wouldn't call to find
out how I was. Hey, maybe they need some extra
closing insurance at the palace. Can't be anything, yo, Come on,
hit me with a good luck kiss and I'll go
see him.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Hey, sorry to keep you waiting. Yeah, oh hello, I
just got your message. And let me tell you, brother,
I am ready. I got two new routines, and I
got a kid writing me a parody on Melancholy Baby
Wall to give it the opening I come out and
the broken down suits.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
He fred, Fred, I didn't call you first. He had
a job.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Oh that's okay. I do just as good at nightclubs.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
I'll just move this song upit a minute, Fred, This
ain't a nightclub job either. A guy uptown call me
this morning and he's having a Christmas party for some
kids at his house tonight. He wants a guy to
play Santa Claus.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
And you called me for that, I said, I look, Pete,
I know Votable's dead, but there's still a lot of places.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Where I can mis twenty five bucks in me it.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Well, look, I give my dresser more than that Fred, look,
I better level with you.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Vaudeville ain't dead, but you aren't. I couldn't book you
in a charity bazaar.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
You couldn't book Abraham looking at a patriotic rally.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
You want the job?
Speaker 8 (05:27):
And no, okay, then I'll get somebody out of door ahead.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Oh Fred, by.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
The way, how's your kid these days?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Great? Good? Glad to hear it. She eating good? For sure,
I gotta cut her down. She's getting a little heavy.
Well she's even h even what okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
You're a Santa Claus. I fits right there in that box.
So Carl will pick you up in front of your
hotel at seven.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Now you be ready, daddy.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
How'd you make Wait? I get rid of this box.
Now I'll take that hugaty.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Well, Pete Marraw told me Oscar Hammerstein says he positively
can't do his next show without me, and so that
put Pete in the spot. Why well, Max Gordon's got
a script, and he told Pete if I don't do it,
he'll never hire another actor from him. Oh did you
bring yourself?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I'm sorry I didn't keep watching the water all bowled
out and the spaghetty's ruining.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
H So what that was our last?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Can?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Look?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
You're going down to the grill and eat steak?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
They said, it's a desk. No more signing.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
I'm paying them cash. Now go ahead.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Aren't you eating with me?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
No, honey, where you going? Well? You see, Oscar Hammerstein
is crazy to have me in the show he's doing.
But the angels don't know me. So Oscar asked me
if i'd do him a favor and audition. Oh you
never saw a guy so sorry in your life asking
me the audition. But I told him I don't mind.
I knew the spotty.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Then can I go?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Oh no, no, no, not a night, honey. Now hit
me with a good luck kiss and run down and
have your dinner. That's it, now go ahead.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
But Daddy, I always saw when they did a show
they hired the actors before they bought the costumes.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Well they do.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Then how come mister Hammerstein had your costume already? Huh
On that box it says Santa Claus costumes size forty two.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Oh there, Uh, well, you see after the audition, I'm
gonna play a benefit, daddy, Okay, I never could conye
you want to know what a big star your old
man is. I'm playing Santa Claus at a kid's party uptown.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
You're playing Santa Claus. Yeah, oh that's wonderful, Daddy, that's great.
Santa Claus is the biggest star in town. Right now,
who's bigger? Well, old Crosby, the lone ranger. There's nothing
at Christmas time Santa Claus and is Rainbey or Headliners.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Maybe you're right, of course I am.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
It's perfect casting. They finally got a star playing a
star's part. Don't you understand?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Yeah, I understand. Thanks, honey.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Hey, you're waiting for me.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
You Fred Harper here?
Speaker 11 (08:49):
All right?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Getting okay? Hey, who's sowing this party? Mister Crowe? You
his truffer? He look, uh, I ain't never worked a
thing like this before. You mind If I try a
couple of gags on you go ahead? Well, I figure
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I'll walk out and say, I know Santa Claus is
supposed to come in through the door, but them Chimney
sweeps have got a real strong union nothing. Yeah, maybe
it's a little too fast. How about this. I'd have
been here sooner except for one of my range here.
He showed up late because he went to the movies.
It seems he wanted to see the picture because he
read the book, said Powell was your mother frightened by
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ned sparks. You know what an against the lord to
laugh in this city? Um hm, hey, i's gout this call.
Well lived uptown?
Speaker 11 (09:45):
Yeah he does.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Well, then what are we doing down here by the river?
Speaker 10 (09:50):
You will see that sun.
Speaker 11 (09:53):
Which one the following day on the street corner near
the LOCALPI field off his special agent Jim Taylor and
the police detective Mike Woolf Lay.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Why hello, Jim, I just come up to see you all.
What about Jewel sat last night? Well, you uptown go
home with some people named Cardwell, huh, what's our jurisdiction?
Interstate transportation? And these car was living in a big
house on the heights that felt the approach to the
Hunting and Bridge, you know where the globally turned begins.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Yeah, well, only were having.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
A Christmas party last night for their children and some
neighborhood kids. This Carwin went all out and hired a
knight at the play, Santa Claus. Santa Claus stuck up
the place. Oh no, yeah, tied up the children. The
car was in the house and then he emptied missus
Carmo's jewel case.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
It call it like white again? How much did sent
a grab at the party?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
About fifteen thousand dollars worth of jewelry and three hundred
and cash.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
It's quite a home.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
After he left, one of the parents wiggled over were
wind wind saw and drive across the bridge.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Ill they know it was a peacee car.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Oh, it had a broken tail light so they could
follow it all the way. The alarm has already gone
out on the carn.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
Monk and going out. Why can any prince found around
the place.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I haven't an update yet, and I doubt we'll come
across any part of the Santa Claus outfit with a
pair of rubber gloves alls, and we won't need the
prince for identification though we know who Santa Claus was. Oh,
mister Carwell told me he was hired through a theatrical
agent named Pete Morrow. Contacted Morrow and learned that he
sent an actor named Fred Harper.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
Find out where he lives.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, it's a hotel vending. I call ed everybody's room,
didn't answer him.
Speaker 10 (11:40):
You interviewed the victimship.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
No, I was gonna do that now, okay, I'll go over.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
To Harper's hotel.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
What do you want back?
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Especially Agent Taylor the FBI?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
There, MI credential. What can I do for you?
Speaker 10 (12:04):
If you please? Ring mister Fred Harper's room.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
He's not in his little girl's been looking for him too.
Seems he didn't get home last night.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
You heard Harper very well.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
I was once a straight man. Is he in trouble?
Speaker 10 (12:18):
Yeah, he seems to be here.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Have you heard from my daddy yet?
Speaker 10 (12:22):
No?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
I haven't. Roxy, Mister Taylor, this is Popper's daughter, Roxy.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
Mister Taylor's from the FBI some of the.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Do you know where my daddy is?
Speaker 12 (12:30):
No?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Can you help me find him? I mean, please, don't want.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
To do our best?
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Roxy?
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Did you uh see your father last night?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yes, sir, he was going to play a party at
Santa Claus.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Were you here when he lit?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
A man called for him. You see this man only
from the window. He was in a big car. Daddy
got in with him.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
What kind of a car, wasn't I don't know, with
a sedan, a convertible? What color?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I couldn't, but I do number one thing. One of
the lights and back was broken all. Mister Tillish, are
you asking me all these questions?
Speaker 10 (13:09):
Well, Roxy, somebody came to that party wearing a Santa
Claus held up the people.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Oh real, hold up with a gun.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
That's right, not daddy.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
He couldn't do anything like that.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
He's not a crook. MISO for you. Thanks, Please believe me, mister,
I'll be right back.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
You can take it all left. Call quiet things Hello, Jim.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Mike Wolf Yeah, Mike Fred Harp has been picked up.
Oh where the approach to the huntingman bridge and two
of the stolen pieces of jewelry were found in his pocket.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
We will return in just a minute due tonight's exciting
case from the official file, which shows how your FBI
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Speaker 3 (14:07):
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Speaker 1 (14:11):
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Speaker 12 (14:24):
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Speaker 10 (14:30):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
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Here's why this can happen so fast. Every Equitable AHO
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Speaker 6 (15:03):
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Speaker 1 (15:05):
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Speaker 12 (15:13):
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Speaker 10 (15:19):
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Speaker 3 (15:20):
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Speaker 1 (15:22):
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Speaker 12 (15:31):
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Speaker 6 (15:54):
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Speaker 6 (15:59):
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Speaker 10 (16:03):
We own it free and clear.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
And now back to the FBI file.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
The innocent Santa.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Claus we referred previously to the selfishness and callousness of
the criminal mind during the Christmas season, when the vast
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majority of us are in a genial, relaxed mood. The
underworld does not hesitate even at this season to strike
often and hard. There's no off season in crime. Being
off God is not safe at any time. The men
of your FBI are convinced that it is high time
to stop romanticizing gangsters and hoodlums.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
FBI agent who.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Come in contact with the underworld daily know it. But
what it is ruthless around the calendar, with no.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Days off or good behavior.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
The nights if the I file continues. In the hospital
ward at the City Jail, special Agent Jim Taylor is
interviewing Fred Harper.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Mister Harper, you insist that mister Carlwell's chauffeur knocked you
out last night.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Show these lumps on my nogg and prove it.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
But mister Cardwell says he has no chauffeur and never
sent a car for you.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Well, whoever the guy was, he belted me out, and
that's all you can tell me, mister Taylor, Do I
look like a guy who'd stick up a kid's party?
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Unfortunately, looks don't mean a thing.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
But I've never been picked up, even for jaywalking. The
only record I got is in the back issues of Variety.
Speaker 10 (17:49):
Are you sure you can't remember anything about this name?
Speaker 6 (17:52):
He's a tough audience.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I told him two jokes, both bops. You never even
cracked a smile. My agent can prove they sent a
car for me. Pete Morrow in the Central Building.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 10 (18:05):
Detective Will spoke to him. He claims they gave you
the Santa Claus outfit and call those address, and you
were supposed to get there by yourself.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Oh he's a liar.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Well his word is better than yours right now? Why
he didn't turn up with any of the stolen jewelry
on her?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
But I'm being frank, No you're not.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
This case won't be close to refine the rest of
that jewelry.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
How Albert, don't hold out on me?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Is this all the stuff you grabbed last night?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Except for the two haunts? They're stuck in Harper's pucket.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
The papers made it a much bigger job, all the papers.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
The papers.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
They got Illinois a seven point favorite in the Rossport
Can you bet them?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Not me?
Speaker 10 (18:51):
No?
Speaker 11 (18:52):
The same with stick ups all what ties to the joint?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Got two hundred clams?
Speaker 10 (18:57):
Papers come out and say I grab eight thousands.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
This is the age we live in.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Kid.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
No, well, we're gonna get the fences.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
I'm not gonna tell you that.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
Why not because the next time.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
We do a job, you might take the loop straight
to him.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Well, let's leave it this way.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Don't mind it.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I suppose I do.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
It won't make any difference that I don't mind. Fine,
you call me tomorrow and I'll tell you how much
we're cutting up.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Right, Honey, I got to scare. That's nice.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
When you didn't come home.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
We keep being scared. We're still in the jackpot.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Mister Taylor told me he was coming to see you.
Didn't you tell me you had nothing to.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Do with it? But I'm still here. Oh they'll let
you go, sure when they take this turban off my
nug and they'll move you down to our regular set downstairs.
Great guy, you got your an old man.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
I know you didn't steal anything.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Thanks, Tonny. Oh don't hand me that bottle of pills.
My head starts coming off if I get up here
in a little water. Huh. Thanks?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
What kind of pills is?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Though?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
I don't know? Well, here goes o. They chased like
chopped up theater tickets. Nothing Eh, I just don't.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Feel like laughing, Daddy, Will you be out Friday?
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I got it? Why?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I promise my teacher.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
I promised her.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
What well the school Christmas play is Friday? I told
you you'd be there.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
That's fine, And I'm such a hit here I think
they'll hold me over.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
But I told my teacher, what a sensational sata claus
you do.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
Daddy.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
We've got to figure some way to get you out.
By Friday.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
If you get an idea, cut me in for half.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Isn't there anything we can do?
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Sure? Just keep helping, honey, Mike.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
I got a report from my lab on that jewelry.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
No, it's the word.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
They found a single latent fingerprint on one of the bracelets.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We've got Fred Harper's prince right away. I've already checked
it's not one of his. That doesn't prove he's innocent.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
I can't help feeling he is, though.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You believe the story about the mysterious stranger posing his
call with chauffing, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
I do.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Harper's little girl told me about the tail light on
that car being broken. There's no way she could have
known that. She wasn't telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, pardon me, sure, Wolf speaking.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
This is Captain Gordon State Police. You got that car?
You set off your lama?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Where one of my men just found it?
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Well, Highway eighty one, it's the turnpike.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
See if nobody touches it.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Thanks Captain, Come on, Jim, car's been found. Yeah, that's
the car i'd might there's the broken tail an. Yeah,
let's see what's inside, Mike.
Speaker 10 (22:26):
Look here on the back seat. Huh Santa Claus out there.
The France shirt.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Good, there's the whiskers on the floor meaning labels.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
Yeah, YEAO costume company. But that's no help. Harper's agent
admits running this.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
M I'm supposed to go through the trunk.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
Wait, look up front first.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
My mind at police went over everything in the car
for prints and was clean.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
Yeah, let's stick a looking in there. All these gloves
compartments are like the clocks.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
They never work.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
O nice instruction book based.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
For this cooker, Mike bubber gloves.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
I said, back to town and get these to the lab.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Oh feed Well, Fred, how come I let you out?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Mister Taylor here can tell you.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Oh Taylor, if I'm a special agent b FBI, I'd
like to ask you a few questions.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
If I'm being sure, sure I do anything?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Sit down and sit down.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Thanks. Mistermorrow, you told Detective Wolf you made no arrangements
to have Harper picked up the other night.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
We found that car.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
Yesterday, the one he used in the stick up.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
Well, the one that was used but not by Harper.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
We also found the gloves that were part of the
whole of Man's costume. Jeh So our laboratory got a
full set of prints off the inside of those clothes.
One of them matches a print we got from a
piece of jewelry we found.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
In Hopper's pocket.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Well, what's that all got to do with me?
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Well, the prince belonged to something named al Bedford.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Who, mister Taylor, I told you what to expect. This
guy would can give you the right time in El Jane, Illinois.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Mister Morrow, you know Al Bedford? Well, he's an actor,
he's a professional criminal.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Well then how would I know him?
Speaker 10 (24:24):
His record shows you once gave him a character reference
when he put in for a parole.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
What's his name? Al?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
What?
Speaker 10 (24:31):
Al Bedford?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
You gotta be nice to him, Pete. Maybe you'll give
you the job boocking talent on those prison shows.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
I don't know what either one of you guys are
talking about it.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Oh hi, Mike, we got.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Al Bedford and just got a full confession from him.
Mister Morrow, here was his partner.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
That's a lie, Hey, mister Taylor. That clears me, now, huh,
yes it does. And I'd better call my kid and
find out for still time to do that Santa Claus bit.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
All right, Mike here can drop Morrow off at the
city jail.
Speaker 12 (24:55):
I'll go with you.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
The auditorium is down this way, mister Taylor.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
It's pretty big school.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
MS got the biggest stage of any school in town.
That's why Roxby goes here.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
Now.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
I think she's majoring in posenior marches. What time you got,
it's four or fifteen? Folk are not late. Hey, you
want in on the secret, but I'm scared scared of
what walking out on that stage in front of two thousand. Kid,
you've been on.
Speaker 10 (25:42):
Plunding of stages.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Yeah, but what do you do with Sandy Claus? You
can't get hoky, You gotta play him straight. Oh, I
guess this is the stage door. I saw four kids
walking here wearing halos. Huh they started? Yeah, if they
got tired, wedding can blendy.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
You see a little girl on there.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Now, look what you're old man? And the sady car
cuts him over there.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
Oh, come on, hey, where you're going?
Speaker 6 (26:17):
I've been cancelled.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Daddy, you made it, daddy, you made it.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Ye.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Look, honey, mister Taylor and I are going outside now
and catch the show. Oh fun, No, we don't want
to hang around backstage year getting everybody way with your
Stata Claus.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
We can't do the show without you.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
Our baby.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Don't let me down easy. There's Sam Whisker sitting over
there on that trunk.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Oh, that's the janitor. He was standing in for you
till you got here.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Why don't you let him do it?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
He's got no Sata Claus material. Daddy, you promised me.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Yeah, but I suppose I lay an egg you.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Oh, Daddy, you're teazing.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Okay, I'll do it. I mean can't go out front
to watch this, all right? And thanks again, mister Taylor.
Speaker 10 (27:04):
You're very welcome Mary Christmas, and the same to both
of you.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Let's make it bigger. Let's make it Merry Christmas to everybody.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
And now we bring you a message from the Book
of Luke and the New Testament. A message shared with
you by FBI Director G. Ed Garoover, every special Agent
and employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A message
also shared with you by every officer and employee of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. A
message which comes to from those who bring you this
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weekly program. A message written in simple words, Glory to
God in the Highest and on earth, peace, goodwill, toward men.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
The incidents used into Night's Equilable Life Assurance Society's broadcast
are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigations. However,
all names used are fictians, and any similarity thereof to
the names of places or persons living or dead is accidental.
Tonight the music was composed and conducted by Frederic Steiner.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
The author was Jerry D.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Lewis, Your narrator was William Woodson, and Special Agent.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Taylor was played by Stacey Harrick.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Others in the cast were Anthony Barrett, Walter Catlett, J C. Flippan,
Tony Hughes, Bill Johnstone, and Anne Whitfield. This Is Your
BI is a Jerry Divine production. This is Larry Keating
wishing you a merry Merry Christmas from the Equitable Life
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
From the files of the Federal Pure of Investigation, presented
transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance
Society of the United States, and the Equitable Society is
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Speaker 1 (00:57):
To speed the day when you can say, no mortgage
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Speaker 3 (01:02):
If that appeals to you.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Please listen carefully in about thirteen minutes for full information
on the Equitable AHOL plans. Tonight the subject of our
FBI file Armed Robbery. It's titled The Innocent Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Nearly all criminals are emotionally childish, undependable, and unscrupulous. Some,
like the characters you'll meet into Night's dramatization from FBI files,
are more vicious than others, but make no mistake about it,
the dashing and charming Robin Hood types are few and
far between. Criminals taint with unhappiness, the lives of all
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those with whom they come in contact, The little niceties
of life, the decent, courteous kindness is the Christmas spirit
itself that make up normal people's lives are completely foreign.
To the vast majority of them. Whatever they do is
for themselves alone. One of your FBI's major purposes in
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bringing you these programs is to present the underworld as
it really is, without glamo earth, without sentimentality. When night Clift,
the I File opens in a cheap hotel room in
the downtown district of a large eastern city, A twelve
year old girl is alone in the room. She walks
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to a full length mirror on the wall and sings
a song. When she finishes, she bows to the mirror, Thank.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
You, ladies and gentlemen for your kind applause. That there's
a great act. That we've got a long show. So
let's meet a star who needs no one tout where.
I didn't hear you come in.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
You ought to know better than try to bring him
on a star that way.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Oh, but I was just trying to have what theater
were you playing? This is the one I named after
all right, you're.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
On the stage at the Roxy. A sensational flash actor
just finished. Now your stars are next, so you want
to give her a bill.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
But Daddy, you always say him now a star who
needs no introduction.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
I know I do, but then I had to do something. Oh,
and I tell a couple of jokes, like as I
was coming in the stage door tonight, a bum came
up and asked me for two dollars for a cup
of coffee, and I said, two dollars for a cup
of coffee. Why you can get one for a nickel?
And he shrugged his shoulder and says, well, can I
help it if I'm a big tripper?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What he's going see?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Slug him again? You see that bummy shirt? Crazy? I
met him yesterday too, and he asked me for eight
dollars for a piece of pie. And I said eight
dollars for a piece of pie, My man, you can
get one for a dime. And he shrugged and says,
do I tell you've had to eat? Now? They warmed
up and you bring on your starck you oh say,
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anybody call me?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Beat mom?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
What do you want? I don't know. I got the
messages tod Hey maybe he's got some actions.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
She's getty, you think so?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Oh he's my Asian idy. He wouldn't call to find
out how I was. Hey, maybe they need some extra
closing insurance at the palace. Can't be anything, yo, Come on,
hit me with a good luck kiss and I'll go
see him.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Hey, sorry to keep you waiting. Yeah, oh hello, I
just got your message. And let me tell you, brother,
I am ready. I got two new routines, and I
got a kid writing me a parody on Melancholy Baby
Wall to give it the opening I come out and
the broken down suits.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
He fred, Fred, I didn't call you first. He had
a job.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Oh that's okay. I do just as good at nightclubs.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
I'll just move this song upit a minute, Fred, This
ain't a nightclub job either. A guy uptown call me
this morning and he's having a Christmas party for some
kids at his house tonight. He wants a guy to
play Santa Claus.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
And you called me for that, I said, I look, Pete,
I know Votable's dead, but there's still a lot of places.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Where I can mis twenty five bucks in me it.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Well, look, I give my dresser more than that Fred, look,
I better level with you.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Vaudeville ain't dead, but you aren't. I couldn't book you
in a charity bazaar.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
You couldn't book Abraham looking at a patriotic rally.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
You want the job?
Speaker 8 (05:27):
And no, okay, then I'll get somebody out of door ahead.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Oh Fred, by.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
The way, how's your kid these days?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Great? Good? Glad to hear it. She eating good? For sure,
I gotta cut her down. She's getting a little heavy.
Well she's even h even what okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
You're a Santa Claus. I fits right there in that box.
So Carl will pick you up in front of your
hotel at seven.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Now you be ready, daddy.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
How'd you make Wait? I get rid of this box.
Now I'll take that hugaty.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Well, Pete Marraw told me Oscar Hammerstein says he positively
can't do his next show without me, and so that
put Pete in the spot. Why well, Max Gordon's got
a script, and he told Pete if I don't do it,
he'll never hire another actor from him. Oh did you
bring yourself?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I'm sorry I didn't keep watching the water all bowled
out and the spaghetty's ruining.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
H So what that was our last?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Can?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Look?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
You're going down to the grill and eat steak?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
They said, it's a desk. No more signing.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
I'm paying them cash. Now go ahead.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Aren't you eating with me?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
No, honey, where you going? Well? You see, Oscar Hammerstein
is crazy to have me in the show he's doing.
But the angels don't know me. So Oscar asked me
if i'd do him a favor and audition. Oh you
never saw a guy so sorry in your life asking
me the audition. But I told him I don't mind.
I knew the spotty.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Then can I go?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Oh no, no, no, not a night, honey. Now hit
me with a good luck kiss and run down and
have your dinner. That's it, now go ahead.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
But Daddy, I always saw when they did a show
they hired the actors before they bought the costumes.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Well they do.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Then how come mister Hammerstein had your costume already? Huh
On that box it says Santa Claus costumes size forty two.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Oh there, Uh, well, you see after the audition, I'm
gonna play a benefit, daddy, Okay, I never could conye
you want to know what a big star your old
man is. I'm playing Santa Claus at a kid's party uptown.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
You're playing Santa Claus. Yeah, oh that's wonderful, Daddy, that's great.
Santa Claus is the biggest star in town. Right now,
who's bigger? Well, old Crosby, the lone ranger. There's nothing
at Christmas time Santa Claus and is Rainbey or Headliners.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Maybe you're right, of course I am.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
It's perfect casting. They finally got a star playing a
star's part. Don't you understand?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Yeah, I understand. Thanks, honey.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Hey, you're waiting for me.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
You Fred Harper here?
Speaker 11 (08:49):
All right?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Getting okay? Hey, who's sowing this party? Mister Crowe? You
his truffer? He look, uh, I ain't never worked a
thing like this before. You mind If I try a
couple of gags on you go ahead? Well, I figure
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I'll walk out and say, I know Santa Claus is
supposed to come in through the door, but them Chimney
sweeps have got a real strong union nothing. Yeah, maybe
it's a little too fast. How about this. I'd have
been here sooner except for one of my range here.
He showed up late because he went to the movies.
It seems he wanted to see the picture because he
read the book, said Powell was your mother frightened by
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ned sparks. You know what an against the lord to
laugh in this city? Um hm, hey, i's gout this call.
Well lived uptown?
Speaker 11 (09:45):
Yeah he does.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Well, then what are we doing down here by the river?
Speaker 10 (09:50):
You will see that sun.
Speaker 11 (09:53):
Which one the following day on the street corner near
the LOCALPI field off his special agent Jim Taylor and
the police detective Mike Woolf Lay.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Why hello, Jim, I just come up to see you all.
What about Jewel sat last night? Well, you uptown go
home with some people named Cardwell, huh, what's our jurisdiction?
Interstate transportation? And these car was living in a big
house on the heights that felt the approach to the
Hunting and Bridge, you know where the globally turned begins.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Yeah, well, only were having.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
A Christmas party last night for their children and some
neighborhood kids. This Carwin went all out and hired a
knight at the play, Santa Claus. Santa Claus stuck up
the place. Oh no, yeah, tied up the children. The
car was in the house and then he emptied missus
Carmo's jewel case.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
It call it like white again? How much did sent
a grab at the party?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
About fifteen thousand dollars worth of jewelry and three hundred
and cash.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
It's quite a home.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
After he left, one of the parents wiggled over were
wind wind saw and drive across the bridge.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Ill they know it was a peacee car.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Oh, it had a broken tail light so they could
follow it all the way. The alarm has already gone
out on the carn.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
Monk and going out. Why can any prince found around
the place.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I haven't an update yet, and I doubt we'll come
across any part of the Santa Claus outfit with a
pair of rubber gloves alls, and we won't need the
prince for identification though we know who Santa Claus was. Oh,
mister Carwell told me he was hired through a theatrical
agent named Pete Morrow. Contacted Morrow and learned that he
sent an actor named Fred Harper.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
Find out where he lives.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, it's a hotel vending. I call ed everybody's room,
didn't answer him.
Speaker 10 (11:40):
You interviewed the victimship.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
No, I was gonna do that now, okay, I'll go over.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
To Harper's hotel.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
What do you want back?
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Especially Agent Taylor the FBI?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
There, MI credential. What can I do for you?
Speaker 10 (12:04):
If you please? Ring mister Fred Harper's room.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
He's not in his little girl's been looking for him too.
Seems he didn't get home last night.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
You heard Harper very well.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
I was once a straight man. Is he in trouble?
Speaker 10 (12:18):
Yeah, he seems to be here.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Have you heard from my daddy yet?
Speaker 10 (12:22):
No?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
I haven't. Roxy, Mister Taylor, this is Popper's daughter, Roxy.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
Mister Taylor's from the FBI some of the.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Do you know where my daddy is?
Speaker 12 (12:30):
No?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Can you help me find him? I mean, please, don't want.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
To do our best?
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Roxy?
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Did you uh see your father last night?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yes, sir, he was going to play a party at
Santa Claus.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Were you here when he lit?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
A man called for him. You see this man only
from the window. He was in a big car. Daddy
got in with him.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
What kind of a car, wasn't I don't know, with
a sedan, a convertible? What color?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I couldn't, but I do number one thing. One of
the lights and back was broken all. Mister Tillish, are
you asking me all these questions?
Speaker 10 (13:09):
Well, Roxy, somebody came to that party wearing a Santa
Claus held up the people.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Oh real, hold up with a gun.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
That's right, not daddy.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
He couldn't do anything like that.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
He's not a crook. MISO for you. Thanks, Please believe me, mister,
I'll be right back.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
You can take it all left. Call quiet things Hello, Jim.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Mike Wolf Yeah, Mike Fred Harp has been picked up.
Oh where the approach to the huntingman bridge and two
of the stolen pieces of jewelry were found in his pocket.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
We will return in just a minute due tonight's exciting
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Speaker 12 (14:24):
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Speaker 6 (15:03):
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Speaker 10 (16:03):
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Speaker 3 (16:12):
And now back to the FBI file.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
The innocent Santa.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Claus we referred previously to the selfishness and callousness of
the criminal mind during the Christmas season, when the vast
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majority of us are in a genial, relaxed mood. The
underworld does not hesitate even at this season to strike
often and hard. There's no off season in crime. Being
off God is not safe at any time. The men
of your FBI are convinced that it is high time
to stop romanticizing gangsters and hoodlums.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
FBI agent who.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Come in contact with the underworld daily know it. But
what it is ruthless around the calendar, with no.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Days off or good behavior.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
The nights if the I file continues. In the hospital
ward at the City Jail, special Agent Jim Taylor is
interviewing Fred Harper.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Mister Harper, you insist that mister Carlwell's chauffeur knocked you
out last night.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Show these lumps on my nogg and prove it.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
But mister Cardwell says he has no chauffeur and never
sent a car for you.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Well, whoever the guy was, he belted me out, and
that's all you can tell me, mister Taylor, Do I
look like a guy who'd stick up a kid's party?
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Unfortunately, looks don't mean a thing.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
But I've never been picked up, even for jaywalking. The
only record I got is in the back issues of Variety.
Speaker 10 (17:49):
Are you sure you can't remember anything about this name?
Speaker 6 (17:52):
He's a tough audience.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I told him two jokes, both bops. You never even
cracked a smile. My agent can prove they sent a
car for me. Pete Morrow in the Central Building.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 10 (18:05):
Detective Will spoke to him. He claims they gave you
the Santa Claus outfit and call those address, and you
were supposed to get there by yourself.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Oh he's a liar.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Well his word is better than yours right now? Why
he didn't turn up with any of the stolen jewelry
on her?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
But I'm being frank, No you're not.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
This case won't be close to refine the rest of
that jewelry.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
How Albert, don't hold out on me?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Is this all the stuff you grabbed last night?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Except for the two haunts? They're stuck in Harper's pucket.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
The papers made it a much bigger job, all the papers.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
The papers.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
They got Illinois a seven point favorite in the Rossport
Can you bet them?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Not me?
Speaker 10 (18:51):
No?
Speaker 11 (18:52):
The same with stick ups all what ties to the joint?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Got two hundred clams?
Speaker 10 (18:57):
Papers come out and say I grab eight thousands.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
This is the age we live in.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Kid.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
No, well, we're gonna get the fences.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
I'm not gonna tell you that.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
Why not because the next time.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
We do a job, you might take the loop straight
to him.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Well, let's leave it this way.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Don't mind it.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I suppose I do.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
It won't make any difference that I don't mind. Fine,
you call me tomorrow and I'll tell you how much
we're cutting up.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Right, Honey, I got to scare. That's nice.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
When you didn't come home.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
We keep being scared. We're still in the jackpot.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Mister Taylor told me he was coming to see you.
Didn't you tell me you had nothing to.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Do with it? But I'm still here. Oh they'll let
you go, sure when they take this turban off my
nug and they'll move you down to our regular set downstairs.
Great guy, you got your an old man.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
I know you didn't steal anything.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Thanks, Tonny. Oh don't hand me that bottle of pills.
My head starts coming off if I get up here
in a little water. Huh. Thanks?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
What kind of pills is?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Though?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
I don't know? Well, here goes o. They chased like
chopped up theater tickets. Nothing Eh, I just don't.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Feel like laughing, Daddy, Will you be out Friday?
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I got it? Why?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I promise my teacher.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
I promised her.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
What well the school Christmas play is Friday? I told
you you'd be there.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
That's fine, And I'm such a hit here I think
they'll hold me over.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
But I told my teacher, what a sensational sata claus
you do.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
Daddy.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
We've got to figure some way to get you out.
By Friday.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
If you get an idea, cut me in for half.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Isn't there anything we can do?
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Sure? Just keep helping, honey, Mike.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
I got a report from my lab on that jewelry.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
No, it's the word.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
They found a single latent fingerprint on one of the bracelets.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We've got Fred Harper's prince right away. I've already checked
it's not one of his. That doesn't prove he's innocent.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
I can't help feeling he is, though.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You believe the story about the mysterious stranger posing his
call with chauffing, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
I do.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Harper's little girl told me about the tail light on
that car being broken. There's no way she could have
known that. She wasn't telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, pardon me, sure, Wolf speaking.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
This is Captain Gordon State Police. You got that car?
You set off your lama?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Where one of my men just found it?
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Well, Highway eighty one, it's the turnpike.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
See if nobody touches it.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Thanks Captain, Come on, Jim, car's been found. Yeah, that's
the car i'd might there's the broken tail an. Yeah,
let's see what's inside, Mike.
Speaker 10 (22:26):
Look here on the back seat. Huh Santa Claus out there.
The France shirt.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Good, there's the whiskers on the floor meaning labels.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
Yeah, YEAO costume company. But that's no help. Harper's agent
admits running this.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
M I'm supposed to go through the trunk.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
Wait, look up front first.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
My mind at police went over everything in the car
for prints and was clean.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
Yeah, let's stick a looking in there. All these gloves
compartments are like the clocks.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
They never work.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
O nice instruction book based.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
For this cooker, Mike bubber gloves.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
I said, back to town and get these to the lab.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Oh feed Well, Fred, how come I let you out?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Mister Taylor here can tell you.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Oh Taylor, if I'm a special agent b FBI, I'd
like to ask you a few questions.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
If I'm being sure, sure I do anything?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Sit down and sit down.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Thanks. Mistermorrow, you told Detective Wolf you made no arrangements
to have Harper picked up the other night.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
We found that car.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
Yesterday, the one he used in the stick up.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
Well, the one that was used but not by Harper.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
We also found the gloves that were part of the
whole of Man's costume. Jeh So our laboratory got a
full set of prints off the inside of those clothes.
One of them matches a print we got from a
piece of jewelry we found.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
In Hopper's pocket.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Well, what's that all got to do with me?
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Well, the prince belonged to something named al Bedford.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Who, mister Taylor, I told you what to expect. This
guy would can give you the right time in El Jane, Illinois.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Mister Morrow, you know Al Bedford? Well, he's an actor,
he's a professional criminal.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Well then how would I know him?
Speaker 10 (24:24):
His record shows you once gave him a character reference
when he put in for a parole.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
What's his name? Al?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
What?
Speaker 10 (24:31):
Al Bedford?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
You gotta be nice to him, Pete. Maybe you'll give
you the job boocking talent on those prison shows.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
I don't know what either one of you guys are
talking about it.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Oh hi, Mike, we got.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Al Bedford and just got a full confession from him.
Mister Morrow, here was his partner.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
That's a lie, Hey, mister Taylor. That clears me, now, huh,
yes it does. And I'd better call my kid and
find out for still time to do that Santa Claus bit.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
All right, Mike here can drop Morrow off at the
city jail.
Speaker 12 (24:55):
I'll go with you.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
The auditorium is down this way, mister Taylor.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
It's pretty big school.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
MS got the biggest stage of any school in town.
That's why Roxby goes here.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
Now.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
I think she's majoring in posenior marches. What time you got,
it's four or fifteen? Folk are not late. Hey, you
want in on the secret, but I'm scared scared of
what walking out on that stage in front of two thousand. Kid,
you've been on.
Speaker 10 (25:42):
Plunding of stages.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Yeah, but what do you do with Sandy Claus? You
can't get hoky, You gotta play him straight. Oh, I
guess this is the stage door. I saw four kids
walking here wearing halos. Huh they started? Yeah, if they
got tired, wedding can blendy.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
You see a little girl on there.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Now, look what you're old man? And the sady car
cuts him over there.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
Oh, come on, hey, where you're going?
Speaker 6 (26:17):
I've been cancelled.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Daddy, you made it, daddy, you made it.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Ye.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Look, honey, mister Taylor and I are going outside now
and catch the show. Oh fun, No, we don't want
to hang around backstage year getting everybody way with your
Stata Claus.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
We can't do the show without you.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
Our baby.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Don't let me down easy. There's Sam Whisker sitting over
there on that trunk.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Oh, that's the janitor. He was standing in for you
till you got here.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Why don't you let him do it?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
He's got no Sata Claus material. Daddy, you promised me.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Yeah, but I suppose I lay an egg you.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Oh, Daddy, you're teazing.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Okay, I'll do it. I mean can't go out front
to watch this, all right? And thanks again, mister Taylor.
Speaker 10 (27:04):
You're very welcome Mary Christmas, and the same to both
of you.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Let's make it bigger. Let's make it Merry Christmas to everybody.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
And now we bring you a message from the Book
of Luke and the New Testament. A message shared with
you by FBI Director G. Ed Garoover, every special Agent
and employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A message
also shared with you by every officer and employee of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. A
message which comes to from those who bring you this
(27:51):
weekly program. A message written in simple words, Glory to
God in the Highest and on earth, peace, goodwill, toward men.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
The incidents used into Night's Equilable Life Assurance Society's broadcast
are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigations. However,
all names used are fictians, and any similarity thereof to
the names of places or persons living or dead is accidental.
Tonight the music was composed and conducted by Frederic Steiner.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
The author was Jerry D.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Lewis, Your narrator was William Woodson, and Special Agent.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Taylor was played by Stacey Harrick.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Others in the cast were Anthony Barrett, Walter Catlett, J C. Flippan,
Tony Hughes, Bill Johnstone, and Anne Whitfield. This Is Your
BI is a Jerry Divine production. This is Larry Keating
wishing you a merry Merry Christmas from the Equitable Life
Assurance Society of the United States, and the Equitable Society
is representative in your community and inviting you to tune
(29:14):
in again next week at the same time to This
is Your ABI. They tuned for the adventures of Ozzie
and Harriet. There's fun for the whole family when Ozzie
and Harriet come your way next. This program came to
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