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This Is Your Fbi - "The Careless Kidnapper" (Old Time Radio, 1946) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents this is your FBI.
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  Speaker 1: This is your FBI, an official broadcast from the files
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  Speaker 1: of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presented as a public
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  Speaker 1: service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United
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  Speaker 1: States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community. Are
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  Speaker 1: you one of the fifty million Americans covered by Social Security?
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  Speaker 1: If so, have you any clear idea of your rights
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  Speaker 1: and benefits under Social Security? Well, there may be a
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  Speaker 1: pleasant surprise in store for you, for in a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes you will learn from our sponsor, the Equitable Life
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  Speaker 1: ah Duran Society of the United States, how easy it
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  Speaker 1: is to build Social Security into full security. Tonight's FBI
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  Speaker 1: file The Careless Kidnappers.
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  Speaker 2: The business of crime in America is experiencing the greatest
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  Speaker 2: boom in the history of the nation. It has no
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  Speaker 2: problem of manpower, for today one out of every twenty
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  Speaker 2: three persons in America has an arrest record, and it
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  Speaker 2: has no problem of raw materials for its raw materials
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  Speaker 2: or potential victims and money. And there's a population of
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  Speaker 2: one hundred forty million people on hand who are making
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  Speaker 2: more money than ever before. Consequently, the wheels of every
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  Speaker 2: branch of crime, including that dealt with into Night's case
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  Speaker 2: from the files of your FBI, are rolling in high
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  Speaker 2: gear and turning out an all time high production volume
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  Speaker 2: of a major crime every seventeen seconds. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: since this program went on the air two and a
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  Speaker 2: half minutes ago, eight major crimes have been committed in
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  Speaker 2: this country. Pearl Bedford was, you might say, one of
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  Speaker 2: the most even tempered persons in all the world. Unpleasant
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  Speaker 2: all the time, and her disposition is being far from
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  Speaker 2: Sweden at the moment by three things. The stifling mid
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  Speaker 2: afternoon heat which is making a furnace of the Chicago apartment,
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  Speaker 2: the sight of her husband sprought on the couch, and
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  Speaker 2: the brassy trumpeting of Satch, an unemployed friend who has
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  Speaker 2: been sharing the apartment. Pearl paces the floor, then suddenly
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  Speaker 2: stops and addresses her husband.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, stupid, Yohannie, I want you to go across the
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  Speaker 3: hall and stuff that bugle down that guy's throat.
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  Speaker 4: Well, when I get tired of it.
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  Speaker 5: He's been blowing his brains out for an hour.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I like him. I don't quit beefing, will you.
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  Speaker 5: I'll stop beefing when you get out and get us
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  Speaker 5: some money.
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  Speaker 4: Don't starve that again?
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  Speaker 5: What are you waiting for?
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  Speaker 6: Her?
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  Speaker 3: Woods are full of suckers with dough, and everybody's getting
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  Speaker 3: their share, everybody but you.
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  Speaker 4: I am not interested in Nichols and dimes.
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  Speaker 5: Oh oh, pardon me.
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  Speaker 4: When I make a score, it's gonna be a big one.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you're not gonna make it laying around up, I
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  Speaker 5: will shut up.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, where are you going? Going in to see stytch?
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  Speaker 4: It's peaceful?
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  Speaker 7: Who's there?
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  Speaker 8: It's me?
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  Speaker 4: Broadway?
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  Speaker 5: What it.
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  Speaker 4: Such?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Play some more? Will you play loud?
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  Speaker 9: You've been rubing again?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: What was it this time?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: For one thing, Pearl, don't appreciate your efforts on the trumpet, Sutch.
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  Speaker 9: No kidding. Well, look down at the casino. They're paying
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  Speaker 9: hot lips handover seventy five hundred a week for the
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  Speaker 9: same kind of efforts. Seventy five hundred pieces of that
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  Speaker 9: beautiful green stuff.
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  Speaker 4: It's a lot of money every week.
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  Speaker 9: It's a lot of money. Never mind a time limit.
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  Speaker 4: Such.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I guess this handa of a character would hate
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  Speaker 10: to stop working, right, man?
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  Speaker 4: Want we can make that kind of dough.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, look, if I was making that kind of money.
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  Speaker 11: I what do you mean you come up with any
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  Speaker 11: idea yet?
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  Speaker 4: We can make a big touch.
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  Speaker 6: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: I think I have got Pearl in here.
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  Speaker 5: What for?
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  Speaker 10: I'm gonna show her how lucky we ata. You've been
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  Speaker 10: playing that trumpet? Oh, will you get a load of
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  Speaker 10: those Bobby sockses out there Broadway?
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  Speaker 3: You're taking a chance parking right in front of the
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  Speaker 3: stage door.
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  Speaker 4: Quit beefing, will you satch?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: You sure you're right about hot wits Hanniber playing at
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  Speaker 4: benefit tonight.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, as soon as he finishes his last show here,
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  Speaker 9: he's going right over to the Lakeside hotel if he
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  Speaker 9: can get through those kids around the door here he came.
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  Speaker 6: Take them.
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  Speaker 4: All right, take the wheel setch make room in the
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  Speaker 4: back seat, Pearl. I'll go get.
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  Speaker 10: Him Hannover, mister Hanniba.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll see if I can get you away on
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  Speaker 4: in one piece. I beg your pardon. Cars waiting right
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  Speaker 4: over here.
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  Speaker 9: The car.
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  Speaker 4: They'll tell you they were sending somebody from the benefit
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  Speaker 4: to pick you up. No, no, they didn't tell me. No,
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  Speaker 4: not right now, honey, not right now. That's what we're
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  Speaker 4: here for. Come on, hold on to me. Let's say
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  Speaker 4: we can make it in the car. All right, let's go,
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  Speaker 4: Come on it will your kids?
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  Speaker 12: Come on?
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  Speaker 5: And the kids?
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me please?
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  Speaker 13: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Hid In mister Hannover. Yeah, take it away, satch.
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  Speaker 3: Oh brother, I guess you get pretty tired of that
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff from mister Hannover.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: So whoa.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry I was in such a hurry to get
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  Speaker 8: in the car. I'm afraid I didn't see it's very
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  Speaker 8: attractive occupant.
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  Speaker 4: This is miss Mason. Mister Hannover, Hello.
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  Speaker 5: Please to meet you.
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  Speaker 4: Are you playing the benefit tonight too, Miss Mason?
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  Speaker 10: Well, yeah, part of the show tonight, mister Hannover, but
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  Speaker 10: not the one at the hotel.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 10: I mean she has to do with this gun and
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  Speaker 10: decide what you know? Wisconsin is lovely this time the year, Hanniver.
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  Speaker 10: You might get to enjoy.
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  Speaker 4: A little of it. Everything goes all right, that's up
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  Speaker 4: to you.
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  Speaker 2: It was shortly before noon the next morning when a
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  Speaker 2: little man with a big cigar dashed into the Chicago
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  Speaker 2: office of the FBI, where he was ushered into the
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  Speaker 2: presence of Agent and Charge Dixon, and told his story excitedly.
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  Speaker 11: Here's a ransom note, mister Dixon.
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  Speaker 12: It just arrived in the mail about twenty minutes ago,
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  Speaker 12: and I came over with it right away.
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  Speaker 11: I'm glad you did.
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  Speaker 12: They want twenty five thousand dollars. What are we going
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  Speaker 12: to do?
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  Speaker 7: Well, our first concern is the safety of the victim. Now,
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  Speaker 7: you say Hanover got in a car with someone outside
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  Speaker 7: the casino club last night.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, but he didn't show up at the hotel for
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  Speaker 12: the benefit, and that's the last anyone saw of him.
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  Speaker 11: Have any idea who he drove away with.
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  Speaker 12: Well, the man on the stage door heard somebody say
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  Speaker 12: that he had come over to pick Hannover up.
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  Speaker 11: Any description, No, see what kind of card we was.
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  Speaker 12: No, he didn't suspect anybody of anything.
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  Speaker 7: I'll get the ransom note off to Washington by airmail
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  Speaker 7: right away to have it checked for clues.
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  Speaker 12: Well, how about the twenty five thousand.
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  Speaker 7: You are instructed in the note to put an ad
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  Speaker 7: in the local paper letting them know you're willing to
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  Speaker 7: meet their terms.
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  Speaker 12: You mean I'm willing, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, sure, for the sake of mister Hanniver's safety and
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  Speaker 7: to make it possible for us to go directly to.
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  Speaker 11: Work on the case.
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  Speaker 7: Our advice is to meet the ransom terms as quickly
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  Speaker 7: as you can.
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  Speaker 8: Mess.
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  Speaker 4: Mess.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that guy inside there playing the trump.
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  Speaker 11: But does he have to do that? Oh, mister Hannover,
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  Speaker 11: he's a fan of yours. He's got a strange way
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  Speaker 11: of showing it.
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  Speaker 5: That's how the snatch happened in the first place.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: He told us how good you were, how much dough
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  Speaker 5: you were making. That's what gave us the idea.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, now I really feel bad.
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  Speaker 8: Look how much longer are you gonna hold me here?
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  Speaker 5: That depends on what A car just stopped outside. I
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  Speaker 5: think you'll get your answer real soon.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, honey, what's the word, Hannover? It looks like you'll
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  Speaker 4: be out of the woods by tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Might Oh what do you mean, Budley?
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  Speaker 11: The ad in the paper says they'll pay off. Here's
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  Speaker 11: where you commend, Davey.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you're going to pick up the dough?
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  Speaker 5: Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 5: This is your party? Sweetheart? If you think I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 10: Be got up and listen, sa'ch keeps Hannover here. You
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  Speaker 10: and I drive into Chicago tomorrow morning at eleven o'clock.
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  Speaker 10: A woman in a blue dress bring a god, Zeena
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  Speaker 10: will be standing at the perfume counter and Gordon's department store.
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  Speaker 5: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 10: You'll be standing next to her. When she leaves, she'll
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  Speaker 10: accidentally drop her bag. You pick it up and start
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  Speaker 10: after her, But instead of catching.
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  Speaker 8: Up with it, you go out the other way and
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  Speaker 8: bring the bag to me in the.
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  Speaker 5: Car, and there'd be twenty five grand in the bag.
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  Speaker 4: That's right or such?
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  Speaker 5: Are you diff Just follow the sound of those musical notes?
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  Speaker 14: Oh yeah, since you're sure you can trust that brother
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  Speaker 14: of yours in the morning.
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  Speaker 9: Sure reads one hundred percent. Been running a hide out
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  Speaker 9: for three years, never lost the customer.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, to go back inside and write the my letter,
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  Speaker 10: tell them companies coming. Okay, I'll mail it in the
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  Speaker 10: morning in Chicago, Can I commend mister Dixon?
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  Speaker 11: Come ahead, Webb, how djamake out?
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  Speaker 8: I located a couple of the kids who were standing
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  Speaker 8: outside the casino stage door that night, but all they
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  Speaker 8: remembered was a big black sedan.
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  Speaker 11: I see, did you hear from Washington? Yes?
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  Speaker 7: I just received a tele time. A ransom note was
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  Speaker 7: written on cheap stationary that you can get at any
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  Speaker 7: store for a nickel. Handwriting doesn't check with any on
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  Speaker 7: file and there were no fingerprints.
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  Speaker 6: What next?
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  Speaker 7: A ransom money is being picked up in the department
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  Speaker 7: store at eleven o'clock. Yes, at least we'll have a
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  Speaker 7: picture of whoever comes for the money.
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  Speaker 4: How's that?
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  Speaker 7: I've planted Jackson with a camera on a step ladder
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  Speaker 7: a couple of cornors away, as though he's making pictures
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  Speaker 7: for displays.
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  Speaker 8: And he'll get a shot off whoever picks up the bag, right,
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  Speaker 8: And as.
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  Speaker 7: Soon as Hanover is safe, the hunt begins.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, mister Hanover, how about letting that thing cool off.
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  Speaker 9: I don't stop me now.
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  Speaker 11: I just gotta warmed.
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  Speaker 4: Up a.
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  Speaker 9: High you broadway? You got the money, yep?
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  Speaker 4: Come on, we gotta be moving.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, look what I got. Mister hot lips gave me
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  Speaker 9: his own trumpet.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, that was real generous. If your Hannover generous?
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  Speaker 11: Well what else could I do?
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  Speaker 4: Sad you didn't threaten me.
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  Speaker 9: I never threatened nothing. I just asked the man to
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  Speaker 9: give me his horn for this sort of parting gift,
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  Speaker 9: and he said no. So I started doing a little
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  Speaker 9: whitland with my knife.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I get it, Hannover. I'll have to blindfold you again.
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  Speaker 8: I'm used to it by now.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, here you go.
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  Speaker 8: That's got it.
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  Speaker 4: That's the time. No, let's get started, Come on sense.
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  Speaker 9: Broadway.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm about the dove. What about it?
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  Speaker 9: You get the whole twenty five thousand?
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  Speaker 11: Sure, hey, that ain't bad.
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  Speaker 9: Twenty five thousand divided by three? That the night hunk
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  Speaker 9: for me?
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  Speaker 6: Over?
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  Speaker 4: Eight?
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  Speaker 7: JEETU?
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  Speaker 6: Where's Pearl over?
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  Speaker 4: Then a car?
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  Speaker 9: She gonna beef?
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  Speaker 4: Bout?
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  Speaker 9: What about cucking me in.
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  Speaker 11: For a third?
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  Speaker 4: Ah, she ain't gonna beef but nothing.
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  Speaker 9: It doesn't sound like pearl.
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  Speaker 10: Get behind the wheel, sets you drive, We head right
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  Speaker 10: in for Hey, it doesn't matter what good pearl? Well,
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  Speaker 10: what does she care beef?
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  Speaker 13: She's dead.
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  Speaker 1: We will return in just a moment one to tonight's case,
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  Speaker 1: which shows how your FBI helps provide national security.
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  Speaker 11: Now, let's listen in on.
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  Speaker 1: A conversation about social security between a man named Fred
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  Speaker 1: Cameron and his friend, the Equitable Society representative.
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  Speaker 11: Listen, nothing, you've been holding out on me.
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  Speaker 15: Last night that brother in law of mine was bragging
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  Speaker 15: how he was going to retire on a nice, comfortable
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  Speaker 15: income when he got to be sixty five.
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  Speaker 11: That's right, Fred, he is yes, And he said, you
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  Speaker 11: work the whole thing out for him.
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  Speaker 15: You assure him how to make social security and life
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  Speaker 15: insurance dovetail. He said, it was amazing how little it
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  Speaker 15: costs to build social security in a full security.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we Equitable Society representatives are always saying, Well.
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  Speaker 15: Why not say to me, you're supposed to be my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Too, all right, Fred, with your two children ages five
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  Speaker 1: and three, your social security is equivalent to about thirteen
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  Speaker 1: two hundred ten dollars worth of life insurance. And that
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  Speaker 1: makes a mighty good foundation on which to build full security.
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  Speaker 11: I'll say it, guys, let's hear some more.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Fred, Most Americans are amazed when they find out
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  Speaker 1: what a valuable asset they have in social security, when
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: they discover how easy it is to build social security
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: into full security through life insurance. For instance, if you
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: already own some life insurance, your Equitable Society representative may
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: be able to show you how only a few dollars
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: extra per month will give your family complete protection and
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: assure you a comfortable retirement income through the Equitable Extended
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Income Plan. Remember, your social Security benefits vary according to
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: your age, sorary, and family situation, So why not get
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: the facts find out exactly what you are entitled to
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: under Social Security. The government has prepared a special card
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  Speaker 1: that will help you secure this information. To obtain one
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: of these cards, get in touch with your Equitable Society representative,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: or send your name and address on a postcard to
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: the Equitable Society care of this station. That's e q
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  Speaker 1: U I T A b l E. The Equitable Life
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  Speaker 1: Assurance Society of the United States. And now back to
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  Speaker 1: the FBI file the careless kidnappers.
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  Speaker 2: Through its policy of waiting until the victim is released,
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  Speaker 2: your FBI severely handicaps itself in the task of apprehending
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  Speaker 2: the kidnappers, but the safety of the victim comes first,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: and strict adherence to its rule of waiting has meant
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  Speaker 2: in scores of cases the difference between life and death
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  Speaker 2: for the victim. As for the kidnapper, no matter how
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  Speaker 2: much of us art this role of waiting gives him,
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  Speaker 2: the advantage is inevitably lost, for, like any other criminal,
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  Speaker 2: he always leaves one or more traces of his crime,
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  Speaker 2: which in turn lead always to his capture. Released by
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  Speaker 2: his kidnappers shortly after dark in a suburb of Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: The victim Hanover, identified himself to a passing police patrol
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  Speaker 2: and was driven swiftly to the city to FBI headquarters,
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  Speaker 2: where he gave an account of events up to the
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  Speaker 2: time of his release.
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  Speaker 8: I was still blindfolded when they put me out, so
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  Speaker 8: I was unable to get a good description of the car.
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  Speaker 11: I've probably gotten rid of it by now, anyway, But.
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  Speaker 8: The body of that woman was still in the car.
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  Speaker 7: You've probably gotten rid of that too, mister Haniver. To Hanover,
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  Speaker 7: we have a picture here of the woman who picked
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  Speaker 7: up the ransom money. One of our agents snapped it
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  Speaker 7: in the department store. Here is and that's her, all right.
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  Speaker 7: They call a pearl. We haven't been able to identify
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  Speaker 7: it yet with anybody in our files or at police headquarters.
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  Speaker 11: I see web. Yes, got a teletype off to Washington
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  Speaker 11: right away on those.
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  Speaker 4: Nicknames, uh Broadway in satch Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: Washington may be able to find something on them and
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  Speaker 7: the nickname file. Right, mister Haniver, you said we might
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: be able to find the cabin where they held you.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. They blindfolded me, of course before we got out
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  Speaker 8: of Chicago that night.
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  Speaker 6: Huh.
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  Speaker 8: But after a while the blindfold slipped a bit, and
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  Speaker 8: I remember seeing that we went north after passing through Canoshan.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Then they discovered the blindfold had slipped and fixed it back.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: But about fifteen minutes later we passed over a wooden bridge.
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  Speaker 8: I could hear the planking rattle.
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  Speaker 6: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 8: I got a sudden idea. As soon as we were
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  Speaker 8: off the bridge, I snapped on the second hand on
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: my wristwatch. Here it's a stopwatch model.
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  Speaker 6: You see.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, we turned right when we stopped at the cabin.
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: I stopped the watch.
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  Speaker 11: Good.
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: When they took the blindfold off, I noticed that we
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: had traveled four minutes and twenty eight seconds from the bridge.
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: Good for you.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: I wish all kidnapped victims would be that alert. Now,
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: how fast was the car traveling?
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: Would you say? Well?
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: Broadway kept warning Satch to hold the speed to thirty
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: five miles an hour because of the highway police.
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  Speaker 11: Huh hanover.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: This may be the lead that helps crack the case
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: if we can find that cabin.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: This is the cabin.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: All right, mister Dixon, flash on your leg web right,
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: let's look around somebody's bomb who have left a fingerprint
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: or two somewhere around here.
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: Would they likely be on a drinking glass?
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: Definitely?
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: Why, Oh, there's the glass Broadway used to drink whiskey
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: out of last night.
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: There's one here.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, oh that light closer. Okay, look at them, Yes,
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: three clear prints. We'll get those, all right, Well, put
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: your hand inside the glass.
• 20:00
  Speaker 11: It's steady. I just get this powder and this tape art.
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: How do you take the prince.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: They'll cover them with dusting powder. Take a strip of
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: this lifting tape, stick it down over the dusted prints,
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: and peel the tape off.
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: Oh, the impression of the prince is on the table. Yes,
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: it's uh writing tablet here on the table.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Look at the paper.
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: Yes, it looks like the same kind the ransom note
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: was written.
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: On the inside of the cover. Is a blotter too, Look,
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: it's been used yet. The one called Satch wrote a
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: letter on the tablet last night. Broadway was gonna mail
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: it in Chicago this morning.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: Hey, give me that mirror web okay, yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: Ah see if we can make out those blotted letters
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: have two Hi, doubt with you.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: For a.
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: I guess he means for a while. That looks like
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: part of an address down a little father.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Uh huh.
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: In the moy in Iowa. I can't make out the rest.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Oh that's enough to start us on our way to
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: the Moy though.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Right, well, let's get back to Chicago first and see
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: if we can identify these prints.
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: Hey, yeah, you see my trumpet.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: It's out of the couch.
• 21:35
  Speaker 11: What you're doing there?
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: I put it there? Why I couldn't take any more
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: of that plane? You just don't like music, not that
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: kind of music.
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: You're unhappy because you got lots of money and you
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: can't get outside to spend it.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe that's it.
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: How long do you think we ought to stay here
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: with my brother until it heats off? How long will
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: that take?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Another ten days or so?
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: It's a long time.
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: I wish I had my Hanover records out here, so
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: it'd have something to play against it.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: That's all we need.
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: Wait a minute, just doing as something.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: What the radio?
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: They should be playing them on one of the stations
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: out here, Hi, give me my trumpet.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Teletype? Just then from Washington, mister Dixon.
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: Thanks. Oh, here's the works web. The frinds on the
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: glass belong to Joseph Bedford, extortionist swindler. Yes, and the nickname.
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: Report says Bedford's nickname is Broadway. Good as for the
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: nickname Satch, the only one on record belongs to a
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: man named Johnson who works with.
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: Broadway Joe Bedford.
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: Well, what's our next move?
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: First, let's take a look around in bedford Chicago apartment.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: Here's his last known address. Maybe Satch live there too, right,
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: and then we'll head for des Moines.
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: What luck Web, Well.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: I've calmed all the record stores here in des moin Dixon,
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: and nobody answering Satch's description has bought any Hanover recording.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: I don't understand that it must have been released one
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: hundred Hanover records in his Chicago room.
• 23:21
  Speaker 11: It's essentially they have gone under here somewhere.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: If only the rest of that address had.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Come off on the blodder.
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: Well, anyway, the photos of Broadway and Satch arrived here
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: by air a little while ago. We won't have any
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: trouble identifying them. When we didn't find it that an idea.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: Hanovers said, wherever we found Satch, we'd find him playing
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: that trumpet. Yes, and he's got to have a recording
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: to play against. And for Satch, it's got to be
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: a Hanover recording.
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: He hasn't bought any here.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: Maybe he wouldn't have to buy any what it's a
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: long chance, but it's one worth trying, and it just
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: might pay off for us too.
• 24:04
  Speaker 12: Well.
• 24:04
  Speaker 13: So much for swoon light Sinatra folks, and now all
• 24:07
  Speaker 13: of you bugle bugs gets up with some blazing blasts
• 24:10
  Speaker 13: from a tar trumpet, because here's a request recording by
• 24:13
  Speaker 13: Hot Lips handle.
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: That's my boy, Broadway. Drop the needle and give us
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: a downbeat son, Sad.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: I throw a little bride money at you. Sat listen
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: to me, will you, Sad?
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: You say something?
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: Broadway.
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: I'll give you fifty bucks for that trumpet.
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: Hey, look his horn as a Hot Lips handover original.
• 24:44
  Speaker 14: Remember, Okay, hijacker, I'll give you fifty bucks to stop
• 24:49
  Speaker 14: playing just my fire.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: Cut off that radio's the idea I had to break
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: up the party boys. But we're special agents at the FBI.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: What we're both under arrest for kidnapping. There's an extra
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: charge of murder for you, Bedford a car with your
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: wife's body and it was just.
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: Found a while ago. Okay, how'd you find us?
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: We figured since you didn't bring any Hanover recordings with you.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: And since you didn't buy any in the mone you
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: might be requesting some to be.
• 25:15
  Speaker 11: Played in the recording broadcast.
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: Hmm.
• 25:17
  Speaker 11: And when your call came in, we had it traced
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: here to your brother's house.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Give me that horned setchy the cop broad Way.
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: What are you gonna go Broadway?
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: You won't be needing it anyway.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Well their crime of kidnapping. Joseph Bedford and Robin Johnson
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: are serving life terms in a federal penitentiary. Bedford was
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: not tried for the murder of his wife inasmuch as
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: she was her husband's accomplice in crime, and he has
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: received a life sentence anyway for kidnapping. Although fewer kidnappings
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: are committed than any other major crime, their number has
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: increased proportionately with the alarming upsurge of crime in America.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: According to mister j Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Bureau of Investigation, crime has increased thirteen percent in the
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: last six months as compared with the corresponding period last year.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: In a crime survey just compiled by your FBI, we
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: find larceny up nine point eight percent, aggravated assault ten percent,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: auto theft fifteen point five percent, burglary seventeen percent, negligent
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: manslaughter nineteen point two percent, murder twenty eight point five percent,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: and robberies have increased thirty one point eight percent. These
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: are startling figures, but call for a doubling of effort
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: on the part of all of us so that this
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: present crime wave shall not become a tidal wave engulfing you.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: The American people.
• 27:15
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• 27:26
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• 27:31
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• 27:34
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