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Speaker 2: Hello Alice, Alice to me, I'm still done at the bank,
Speaker 2: but maybe you better go ahead.
Speaker 3: And need you suffer?
Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead, I'm I'm not coming home to night Alley.
Speaker 4: You're not coming home.
Speaker 2: I'm not coming home the norm. I'm going to wait
Speaker 2: for a while. I don't know exactly where, but I'll
Speaker 2: write to you if i can. I don't. Don't try
Speaker 2: to tell me.
Speaker 4: What's the matter?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: In Holley.
Speaker 2: Something's happened down here is something I've done. You're probably
Speaker 2: find anyway.
Speaker 3: Look, wait there, I'll come down a week would come.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry this happened, but I couldn't help it. To
Speaker 2: carry yourself, Vanage, you could carry yourself.
Speaker 1: Stanley Phillips, aged thirty one, was a teller at the
Speaker 1: suburban National Bank, where he had worked for ten years.
Speaker 1: Stanley had been married for seven of those years and
Speaker 1: had lived uneventfully in a three room apartment. He had
Speaker 1: one passionate and consuming interest in life, motor boats. For
Speaker 1: six months before his purchase of a sixteen foot speedboat,
Speaker 1: Stanley had been embezzling small sums of money from the bank,
Speaker 1: but he was clumsy and inept at hiding his steps.
Speaker 1: The night before and audit Stanley ran away and it
Speaker 1: was found he had stolen a total of fifty five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: How could he? How couldn't have done a thing? Right there?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Allie? Do you want another cup of coffee? Hell?
Speaker 4: Sat No?
Speaker 3: I didn't even know him, did I?
Speaker 4: All those years and I didn't know a thing about him?
Speaker 3: Who knows anybody even themselves?
Speaker 4: If he wanted the boat so bad, we could have
Speaker 4: saved the money. Why didn't he tell me?
Speaker 3: All he supposed he lie down a while, was that
Speaker 3: they fellow will be back, Get a little sleep. Oh,
Speaker 3: I can't law?
Speaker 4: What's the use of trying?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe I'll go back to the apartment.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're gonna stay here at the house with me.
Speaker 3: You've got your own room upstairs and no one will
Speaker 3: bother you. All right? But if Stammer should call the apartment, what,
Speaker 3: Oh you'll call me sometime, I know you will, Allie.
Speaker 3: I don't want you to talk to him, ever, i'd
Speaker 3: have to you can't, Allie.
Speaker 4: No, he isn't a racketeer or a hoodler.
Speaker 3: He took five thousand dollars of other people's money. Yes,
Speaker 3: I know he didn't think of you when he did it.
Speaker 4: Oh my, didn't.
Speaker 3: All he thought about was himself in that stupid boat.
Speaker 3: What right did he have to do a thing like
Speaker 3: this to you? He must have meant to put the
Speaker 3: money back sometime, Allie.
Speaker 4: He must have mad.
Speaker 3: All right, Alice, all right.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe maybe I will have.
Speaker 3: A little more coffee. Yes, it'll do you good.
Speaker 4: I'll bring my things over tomorrow from the department.
Speaker 3: Yes you want cream?
Speaker 4: No, just bless mah.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know just what he'd say if he was
Speaker 3: here now, he'd say, Ali, I was only borrowing the
Speaker 3: money temporarily. Yeah, sure, he was just borrowing. But he
Speaker 3: leaves you here to talk to cops, to have your
Speaker 3: picture in the paper, wife of them.
Speaker 4: That's small. You'll have to take.
Speaker 3: It, Alie, not him, Never mind if you didn't even
Speaker 3: know about it.
Speaker 4: If you're his wife, and.
Speaker 3: They're not gonna let you alone from now on, not
Speaker 3: till they catch him. They will catch him, won't they
Speaker 3: Stanley's such a bungler, they're sure to catch him sometimes.
Speaker 1: Although Stanley Phillips was clumsy in crime, he did manage
Speaker 1: to disappear for more than six months. During that time,
Speaker 1: he made no attempt to get in touch with his wife,
Speaker 1: and the strict surveillance we had maintained was relaxed a little.
Speaker 1: It was then that a long distance call reached Alice
Speaker 1: Phillips at eight thirty one morning.
Speaker 4: Stanley, where are you?
Speaker 2: And I want to tell you, Alice, let me get
Speaker 2: you in trouble.
Speaker 4: But listen, I need a little money.
Speaker 1: I haven't been too well Stanley.
Speaker 2: Look if I give you a name in a post
Speaker 2: office bars, could you let me have fifty dollars?
Speaker 4: Of course, Dan, But listen, if you're sick, go to
Speaker 4: a doctor. Please? Will you? Promising me, won't you just
Speaker 4: send me the money?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: Send it care of Frederick Milson Stanley. Stanley, No, I
Speaker 2: didn't know you were home.
Speaker 3: I was upstairs taking a nap.
Speaker 4: Stanley just phoned.
Speaker 3: I know. I listened on an extension. What I'm sorry, Alice.
Speaker 4: I had a feel you've got to snoop on my car.
Speaker 3: Can't help it, Alice. I had a feeling it might
Speaker 3: be him. I want them to catch him. By then
Speaker 3: it'll be over and you'll stop crying and worrying yourself
Speaker 3: into skin and boat.
Speaker 4: I had no right to listen in, well I did.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you don't know where to send him the money.
Speaker 4: He's sick, Ma, you hurt?
Speaker 3: Yes, I heard the same old whine. He can't take
Speaker 3: care of himself. He needs help.
Speaker 4: He does, he needs me, Alice, Well he does.
Speaker 3: And I suppose you'd go to him right this minute
Speaker 3: if you knew where he was.
Speaker 2: I suppose I would.
Speaker 3: Oh, Alice, SMI you can't be married to someone for
Speaker 3: seven years and then all of a sudden, Alice Darling,
Speaker 3: the man is a criminal.
Speaker 4: He's wanted by the police. I am still married to him.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be caught and sent to jail. Maybe he
Speaker 4: won't be Maybe he's smarter than he was six months ago.
Speaker 3: All right, Alice, there's no use arguing. Quarter nine and
Speaker 3: you better get down to the office.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to the office.
Speaker 3: Why they fired me.
Speaker 4: Mister Maxwell said they were cutting down on the staff.
Speaker 3: That isn't true, is it they sutting down?
Speaker 4: No, they found out I was using my maiden name.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, darling so high.
Speaker 4: They did it very gracefully.
Speaker 3: They didn't even mention Stanley. Well, if you're not going downtown,
Speaker 3: I've got an appointment at the employment agency.
Speaker 4: I'll just use my right name.
Speaker 5: That's all.
Speaker 4: I haven't got.
Speaker 3: Anything to hide, all right, scare, I'll be home for lunch.
Speaker 3: You've got anything, there's planner, you come home? I will Alice, yes,
Speaker 3: come home early, will you?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: I will.
Speaker 3: Hello, operator, Will you get me the downtown office of
Speaker 3: the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Speaker 1: Back to the Bungler in just a moment. The actions
Speaker 1: of all American military men are governed by a code
Speaker 1: of conduct. To General William Dean while a prisoner of
Speaker 1: war in Korea, the code meant a stubborn allegiance to
Speaker 1: his president. During an early interrogation by his North Korean captors,
Speaker 1: General Dean was asked to make an open statement condemning
Speaker 1: what they called the aggressive policy of the United States
Speaker 1: dictated by the President, but General Dean refused, saying, as
Speaker 1: a professional soldier of the United States, I cannot criticize
Speaker 1: our president because the president is the supreme commander of
Speaker 1: the United States Army.
Speaker 3: I swore this when I joined the Army.
Speaker 1: That's what the code meant to General Dean, That's what
Speaker 1: it means to any American in uniform. And I'll act too,
Speaker 1: of the night story the Bungler. After Alice, Phillip's mother
Speaker 1: had told us about the phone call, we knew two things.
Speaker 1: Philip was in Bay City, and he was probably using
Speaker 1: the name Frederick Neilson. Having a third element to this
Speaker 1: the fact that Bay City had a large public boatyard,
Speaker 1: we began looking in this area. After several days, we
Speaker 1: came to a marine service station. The owner of the
Speaker 1: station recognized Phillip's picture immediately, Sure, that's Fratt Nelson. He
Speaker 1: worked here for three months. Then I had to let
Speaker 1: him go fiveasphorically, well, he had some sort of cover
Speaker 1: with his back. I don't know what it was, but
Speaker 1: it got so he couldn't even lift one of those
Speaker 1: five horse out boards, and we serve us a lot
Speaker 1: of outboards, and I, well, I just had let him go.
Speaker 1: Was he pretty good with the vote, Yes, sir, I'll
Speaker 1: say that much. He was good with the boats. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, he was kind of a nut
Speaker 1: about boats. Said he owned a Sterling speedcraft, but I
Speaker 1: didn't believe those sterlings cost over five thousand. Have the
Speaker 1: only idea where Milson is now? No, I can't say
Speaker 1: that I have. He hasn't been in touch with you
Speaker 1: since he left. No, and I guess he wouldn't be either.
Speaker 1: We had a kind of an argument when he left.
Speaker 1: He said I had the right to fire him, and
Speaker 1: I said, if he couldn't do a day's.
Speaker 4: Work, well you know how those things go.
Speaker 1: This back, he will be had, mister Wiggley.
Speaker 2: Do you know whether he saw doctor.
Speaker 3: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I told him to see Doc Evans up there on
Speaker 1: Bayview Avenue, but I don't know that he did. Say,
Speaker 1: I don't suppose any of my business. But is he
Speaker 1: in some kind of trouble? We were coming to that. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's in trouble. He's wanted for embezzlements. He took money
Speaker 1: from a bank in Bridgetown. Embezzlement. Fred Milson, his right
Speaker 1: name is Stanley Phillips, embezzlement, A quiet little fellow like Fred.
Speaker 1: That's right. Well now, I certainly wouldn't have believed something
Speaker 1: like that. He didn't drink or runner around or anything.
Speaker 1: We know, mister Wrigley, we're going to give you a
Speaker 1: phone number to call if Phillips ever gets in touch
Speaker 1: with you again, Will you call this number immediately if
Speaker 1: you hear anything about him? Yes, I sure will. But
Speaker 1: fred Milson, you'd never think that a fellow like that
Speaker 1: was the type, would you.
Speaker 3: There is no.
Speaker 1: Particular type for that kind of crimes, Wriggly. It attracts
Speaker 1: all sorts of people. After our visit to the Marine
Speaker 1: Service Station, we saw a doctor Evans, who had treated
Speaker 1: Phillips for the back ailment. As we learned later, it
Speaker 1: was just at this time that Phillips came back to
Speaker 1: Bridgetown and stayed several hours, most of these hours in
Speaker 1: the Bridgetown Memorial Park, just across from his mother in
Speaker 1: law's house.
Speaker 2: Allis allis over here, will Allie. I've been waiting for hours.
Speaker 2: I thought it was going to miss you.
Speaker 4: Don't you know every policeman in town is looking for you.
Speaker 2: Sure, but nobody's ever in the park after six? Oh, Ellie,
Speaker 2: haven't want you?
Speaker 1: Shouldn't have.
Speaker 2: I've missed you something terrible, Allie? Could you Yes, Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm only gonna stay a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: Oh, Ally.
Speaker 4: Henley, why did you do it? Crazy thing? No?
Speaker 2: I know first only took a little bit. I was
Speaker 2: gonna put it back, but.
Speaker 3: Something always came up.
Speaker 4: If you only had told me about the g.
Speaker 2: I know I'll never do anything right. Listen, Allie, you
Speaker 2: got any money now? Money to say what I called you.
Speaker 4: I had some men that I lost my job.
Speaker 2: I got to get me at least two hundred dollars away.
Speaker 2: Two hundred were borrowed somewhere.
Speaker 4: Without a job, I couldn't fall and get it from
Speaker 4: your mother.
Speaker 2: She has plenty more to give me some money until
Speaker 2: I get on my feet, Alley, I got something wrong
Speaker 2: with my bags. I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 2: I have to have electric treatments where it can't work. Now,
Speaker 2: if you can send it to this address it's a garage,
Speaker 2: then let me sleep an upstairs room. Allie, get me
Speaker 2: the money somewhow. I'll try go down on.
Speaker 3: You, Yally.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry things, I'm I'm sorry they turned out the
Speaker 2: way they did. Don't take all the money.
Speaker 5: Oh, two hundred dollars is a lot of money, Alley.
Speaker 4: I can't want to take this course.
Speaker 3: Ma. If I knew typing and could take dictation, I
Speaker 3: could get a job. He see, where would you take
Speaker 3: the course downtown.
Speaker 4: There's a school on the Market Street.
Speaker 3: Allie, you want the money for Stanley, don't you.
Speaker 4: Stanley, Well, where did you get a crazy idea like that?
Speaker 3: He called you again? Of course he didn't, and you
Speaker 3: know that he must have called you again. Ali, Please
Speaker 3: don't get mixed up with him. He'll only bring you
Speaker 3: more trouble.
Speaker 4: Are you going to give me the two hundreds?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not, because it's for him.
Speaker 4: Please, Ma, I've never asked you for anything like this before.
Speaker 3: No, Alim, he needs the money desperately.
Speaker 4: He's sick, he can't work. Please, I beg you.
Speaker 3: I can't do it, al Please, And if you tell
Speaker 3: me where he is, I'll have to turn him over
Speaker 3: to the police.
Speaker 2: How could you?
Speaker 4: How could you do a thing like that?
Speaker 3: This is Stanley has Oh stop it, Stop talking so
Speaker 3: full of marls.
Speaker 4: I'm married to Stanley. He's my husband. I promise to
Speaker 4: love him.
Speaker 3: I pro promise things to Alice. He had obligations to you.
Speaker 4: You will, can't some one make a mistake, one mistake.
Speaker 3: I won't argue with your kad Alice, and I won't
Speaker 3: give you any money, all right?
Speaker 4: If you won't, I can't make you. But I'm not
Speaker 4: going to live here. I don't have to stay here
Speaker 4: anymore else.
Speaker 3: Don't be foolish.
Speaker 4: I'll stay with Nancy or what are the girls who
Speaker 4: I get work? Don't do that. I can't stay with
Speaker 4: you feeling the way you do. You know why I do.
Speaker 3: I know you've got some misguided No, he's not misguided.
Speaker 3: He made you the wife of a criminal.
Speaker 4: He's done damage is the less a lifetime.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's only one mistake, But why.
Speaker 4: Should you get a bad name? I'm showing, Ma, and
Speaker 4: I'm not coming back.
Speaker 3: Please don't, Allie.
Speaker 2: Hasn't he caused us enough trouble.
Speaker 4: I'm going to get that money for him somehow. You
Speaker 4: can call the FBI like you did last time.
Speaker 3: And tell them that Allie, what He's not worth all this?
Speaker 2: Believe me?
Speaker 4: Maybe he isn't.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm not even now. He don't go.
Speaker 4: Stanley needs me, Ma, you don't. I have to do
Speaker 4: what I can for him.
Speaker 1: Hello, back to the Bungler in just a moment. Friends,
Speaker 1: This is Jimmy Wallington. You know many great men have
Speaker 1: attained the highest office in our land, the presidency of
Speaker 1: the United States. Can you guess the name of this man.
Speaker 1: He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in eighteen fifty seven,
Speaker 1: the son of an eminent Juristic statesman. After graduating from
Speaker 1: Yale University, he served in various federal, state, and academic
Speaker 1: positions until nineteen one, when he became our first civil
Speaker 1: governor of the Philippine Island. In nineteen four, he entered
Speaker 1: President Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet as Secretary of War and served
Speaker 1: until nineteen eight, when he was nominated for and elected
Speaker 1: to the presidency.
Speaker 3: After his term in our highest.
Speaker 1: Office, he was a quite a Chief Justice of the
Speaker 1: United States Supreme Court, and served in that position until
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty. And you should have his name by now.
Speaker 1: But in case you don't, here's one more important clue.
Speaker 1: His son was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination by his
Speaker 1: party for the office of president. Yes, he was William
Speaker 1: Howard Taft, twenty seventh President of the United States. His
Speaker 1: life is part of your American heritage, and now act
Speaker 1: free of the right story. The butler several days after
Speaker 1: we had seen doctor Evans and were to have one
Speaker 1: more talk with Philip's wife. We had hoped that her
Speaker 1: gratitude might have changed since our last visit, so we
Speaker 1: were not prepared for the news. We heard from her mother, missus.
Speaker 3: Baker, and she hasn't even phoned, so I don't wish
Speaker 3: she is. I tried all her friends, but not a
Speaker 3: one of them heard from her.
Speaker 1: Do you think she knows where her husband is and
Speaker 1: may have gone to him.
Speaker 3: She couldn't have.
Speaker 4: She just couldn't have.
Speaker 1: But he did get in touch with her again and
Speaker 1: ask for money.
Speaker 2: Yes he did.
Speaker 3: That's what we had to fight about.
Speaker 1: Did he write to her?
Speaker 3: Did you see a letter? No, I didn't see a letter.
Speaker 3: I've been watching the mail every day.
Speaker 1: Do you think he might have been here in Bridgetown?
Speaker 3: I just don't know. I came home Monday afternoon and
Speaker 3: Allie was waiting for me. She'd been crying. I could
Speaker 3: see that, and then I was the blue. She asked
Speaker 3: me for two hundred dollars to take a secretarial course
Speaker 3: right away.
Speaker 1: It was for him, and there hadn't been any letter
Speaker 1: that day.
Speaker 3: No, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: So the chances are good that he came here and
Speaker 1: saw her.
Speaker 4: Yes, I did so.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: I know I shouldn't say this for her sake, but
Speaker 3: I wish you'd find him I.
Speaker 4: Wish it was over.
Speaker 1: Did your daughter have any money, missus Baker?
Speaker 4: Just what was in her purse?
Speaker 1: Two dollars, so she couldn't have gone very far to
Speaker 1: meet him. If she did meet him, how could.
Speaker 3: She see he's no better than a common sneak thief?
Speaker 3: How could she want someone like that?
Speaker 2: He works out that way, missus Baker.
Speaker 1: Quite often.
Speaker 3: I just don't understand if he was half a man
Speaker 3: and they're half a crook, but he just he's just
Speaker 3: a bungler.
Speaker 2: Missus Baker.
Speaker 1: Do you have a recent picture of your daughter?
Speaker 3: I have a snapshot from the beach last year. I'll do.
Speaker 3: You don't really think she's gone to him, do you?
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I do, missus Baker. From all Juke told us,
Speaker 1: he looks like a familiar story. Your daughter feels that
Speaker 1: her husband needs her. That's a pretty hard pull for
Speaker 1: any woman to resist.
Speaker 3: And I dreamed you were all alone here and you
Speaker 3: were sick, and they came to get you, and then
Speaker 3: you called me, and you kept calling and calling, and
Speaker 3: I couldn't get to help you.
Speaker 2: I know, ally, but you shouldn't have come here.
Speaker 3: I'd had to Stanley.
Speaker 4: I'll go back now if you want, but.
Speaker 2: I had to say I do uncle back.
Speaker 4: I had to see if you were all right.
Speaker 2: Ally, I'll go to morrow on please.
Speaker 4: Yes, i'd better. I'll have to get some money for
Speaker 4: your stand sometime.
Speaker 2: I don't want you to go.
Speaker 4: But I've only got six dollars.
Speaker 2: How could I'll get the money, Alley, I will, I'll
Speaker 2: get it. Listen. Ally, if I get enough for us
Speaker 2: to go away from me, to sit in New York
Speaker 2: as some big city, I could go on the stash
Speaker 2: and die.
Speaker 4: My man well enough to go any place. Dan, you're back.
Speaker 2: Never mind that, Ali, we could be ginning all over again,
Speaker 2: a clean slate, no more mistakes.
Speaker 4: If you really want to start fresh, Stanley, I.
Speaker 2: Don't don't talk about that anymore, but it's your first defense.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't give you a long term and and i'd
Speaker 4: wait stand. I won't go to jail. I couldn't stand that.
Speaker 2: I guess you could walk, Alley. I'm gonna get that money,
Speaker 2: and then you're not gonna start all over again. Listen,
Speaker 2: it'll be great like a honeymoon, mister and missus, Fred Neilson.
Speaker 2: There are plenty of boat yards around New York. I
Speaker 2: can sorta make a set of references from here in
Speaker 2: Bay City. So not Allie, what are you crying about?
Speaker 4: I think that.
Speaker 5: Just cry.
Speaker 2: But you can stop crying. We're gonna start over again.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get that money tomorrow. You'll wait and see.
Speaker 1: That's why I come to see you, mister Wrigley. I'll
Speaker 1: figure maybe you lend me the money.
Speaker 2: Why did you figure that, Fred, Well, after all, I
Speaker 2: hurt my backlift in the motor while I was on
Speaker 2: the job here.
Speaker 1: Well, this is the first time I heard of that.
Speaker 2: Well I did listen that big twenty five horse out
Speaker 2: of mister Clifford's boat. I figure you owe me compensation.
Speaker 1: How much compensation? Fred?
Speaker 2: One thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of money you got in the.
Speaker 2: Register right now. I don't know how much you take
Speaker 2: in on a big weekend like this.
Speaker 1: You expect me to hand I said to be alone,
Speaker 1: didn't I? And if I don't give it to you,
Speaker 1: you will, mister Wrigley, I'll have to have that money. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Fred, I don't feel I owe you anything,
Speaker 1: but look, if you'll come back tomorrow morning, I want
Speaker 1: the money now. Now listen to be reason now, mister Wrigley.
Speaker 1: Put that gun down, Fred, That won't get you anywhere.
Speaker 1: Open the cash register, believe open it, mister Wrigley.
Speaker 2: We're gonna step back away from there. Step away from
Speaker 2: a cash register, mister Wrigley.
Speaker 1: Fred, you know something, Do what I say.
Speaker 3: You know I ought to.
Speaker 1: Have my glasses fixed. That's not a gun, Fred, That's
Speaker 1: just a three dollar cigarette lighter.
Speaker 2: I used to own one like that.
Speaker 1: Get away from there, a shue, Go ahead, go on, Fred,
Speaker 1: shoot nothing.
Speaker 3: But she got a correct in my back.
Speaker 1: I will, Freddy, because as soon as I call a
Speaker 1: couple of government men who were in here looking.
Speaker 4: For you, I was only joking. It was all a joos.
Speaker 2: I know it was. And you bungled it, Freddy, or
Speaker 2: excuse me, Stanley.
Speaker 1: That's your right name, isn't it.
Speaker 2: You bungled it Stanley all the way.
Speaker 1: Stanley Phillips offered no defense to the charge of embezzlement
Speaker 1: or to his attempt at a hold up. In view
Speaker 1: of this serious complication to the original theft from the bank,
Speaker 1: Phillips received the sentence of five to eight years in prison.
Speaker 1: His wife, Alice, said she'd wait for him, but we
Speaker 1: understand that now after three years, she may be changing
Speaker 1: her mind about the Bungler. In the Knight's trimescribe story,
Speaker 1: Rosemary Writes played the part of Alice Phillips and Barb
Speaker 1: Raddick with Stanley Phillips. This radio coomenization for the FBI
Speaker 1: in Piece of War was written by Louis Polletteers. These
Speaker 1: programs are produced and direct did by Berry Vandebilt. This
Speaker 1: is the United States Armed Forces Radio and television service.