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Speaker 2: Gangbusters Tonight the case of the brothers in Banditry, who
Speaker 2: thought the way to social standing was money and the
Speaker 2: way the money was crime, until they learned that even
Speaker 2: the highest Polish leaves a mark.
Speaker 1: Gangbusters has asked the Honorable John J. Grosh, now criminal
Speaker 1: Sheriff Orleans Parish and former Chief of Detectives, New Orleans, Louisiana,
Speaker 1: to narrate by proxy tonight's case the.
Speaker 3: Inside facts in the case of Brothers in Banditry.
Speaker 1: Sheriff Grash, I know you have a lot to tell
Speaker 1: us tonight, so suppose you start right in all.
Speaker 4: Right, Don Gardner, and I think the place to begin
Speaker 4: would be a few years ago in Hollywood, California, in
Speaker 4: a room at one of the fashionable apartment hotels, a
Speaker 4: young man and a young woman were dancing while the
Speaker 4: portable phonograph hummed out the rhythm of the latest rage
Speaker 4: from South America, the sambo.
Speaker 5: That's it, This is fun, all right, stay with it,
Speaker 5: stay with it, sure you cut it old, darn it.
Speaker 6: I not come on honey, come on, it's simple.
Speaker 5: Oh no, not no, later, maybe turn it off?
Speaker 6: Surely anything you said, I get.
Speaker 5: One of these dances all set, and then they come
Speaker 5: out with a new one. Oh, I just got to
Speaker 5: sit down.
Speaker 6: I think I've got some ice in there. I'll fix
Speaker 6: your nice school drink.
Speaker 5: No thanks to sit down here with me. Sure, baby,
Speaker 5: Cleveland's gonna be awfully dull without you.
Speaker 1: Ralph.
Speaker 6: Stick around Hollywood.
Speaker 5: No, I've been here long enough without anything happening. My
Speaker 5: father gave me a year. If you're not in pictures
Speaker 5: by then, he said, come home. So back to the
Speaker 5: social world in Cleveland. That's me.
Speaker 6: Well, maybe I'll drop into Cleveland someday.
Speaker 7: Would you like that?
Speaker 5: Would I like the had? I?
Speaker 6: Oh, answer that with you, Lydia.
Speaker 5: Oh what's yours? Answered yourself?
Speaker 6: No, No, go ahead, honey, whoever it is, tell him,
Speaker 6: tell him. I won't be back till Tuesday. I don't
Speaker 6: want to talk to anybody.
Speaker 5: Hand me the phone.
Speaker 1: Sure, Hello, is this Ralph Olliver's room?
Speaker 5: Oh well, yes, yeah it is.
Speaker 6: Let me talk to you Ralph.
Speaker 5: Well he's not here right now.
Speaker 1: Oh when you expect him back?
Speaker 5: I don't know exactly, Tuesday, maybe Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Look where can I get in touch with them? This
Speaker 1: is his brother, it's come in tone.
Speaker 8: Hey, hey give me that phone. Sure, Hey, look you
Speaker 8: old Pelican?
Speaker 6: How are you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 9: Great? Real?
Speaker 10: Say?
Speaker 6: What's the idea?
Speaker 1: Tuesday?
Speaker 6: When'd you get in town just a little while ago?
Speaker 1: What are you doing tonight?
Speaker 8: Well, we were just thinking about getting dinner, Lot, I
Speaker 8: mean this, and then you can come back here and
Speaker 8: stay with me for sure.
Speaker 1: What if they say the biggest steaks in town of
Speaker 1: the Eldorado Club.
Speaker 6: We'll see you there in half an hour.
Speaker 1: Fine, in case you don't remember the base, look for
Speaker 1: a sailor suit for the striving half.
Speaker 6: Well, JG. So you finally made it?
Speaker 9: Hell on l another?
Speaker 6: Oh why didn't you write me Hello?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you all about it.
Speaker 9: Don't be late.
Speaker 1: I'm hungry as a bear.
Speaker 5: Oh, Lot, that's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Hell my CEO didn't think it was so wonderful.
Speaker 5: I never had such a good time. Why didn't you
Speaker 5: tell me about this kid brother of yours?
Speaker 6: Round my bolways?
Speaker 8: Kept them a secret? He's a woman stealing and he's
Speaker 8: so young too. I'll let him catch you, lad. Yeah,
Speaker 8: there's only a yeah between this. Besides I have only
Speaker 8: one love. That's the Navy.
Speaker 6: Would you care for another Brandy Lydio?
Speaker 5: No, thank you, Rob. I think I'll just go proud
Speaker 5: of my nose.
Speaker 1: No, I like it.
Speaker 5: You won't miss me. As a matter of fact, I
Speaker 5: feel in the way. You must have lots to talk about.
Speaker 5: I'll be back in a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Right, nice girl, she'll do a lot. Rich family, rich enough?
Speaker 1: How you telling you otherwise? It's a struggle. Say tell
Speaker 1: me something, will you plut?
Speaker 8: How come they jump you from machinists mate second class
Speaker 8: to lieutenant JG.
Speaker 6: In a year?
Speaker 1: Navy promotions are too slow, Ralph, I decided to promote myself.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm not in the navy anymore. I just like
Speaker 1: the uniform honorable discharge. Yeah that kind uh huh?
Speaker 6: Say catch you wearing that uniform? It will go tough one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they won't catch me. I'm move too fast. Do
Speaker 1: you have to move too fast? Or wouldn't you if
Speaker 1: you had a bunch of bum checks Tralia?
Speaker 7: Yeah, but you.
Speaker 1: Gotta be careful. Oh, I'm careful. Well why do we
Speaker 1: go me here? I don't know you're the host me? Well,
Speaker 1: didn't you invite me out to dinner. Oh sure, but
Speaker 1: I'm kind of short tonight of money? You mean what else? Oh,
Speaker 1: what's the matter. I've only got seven dollars to my name.
Speaker 1: Beat me, I've only got fired. That's not my help.
Speaker 1: Check will be over thirty dollars with all the drinks.
Speaker 6: What about Lydia?
Speaker 7: Forget it?
Speaker 1: Oh she's well, hell, couldn't you tell her you left
Speaker 1: you all at home?
Speaker 6: Forget it? I'm saving her for a bigger touch now.
Speaker 1: But she's going on with Cleveland tomorrow.
Speaker 6: And I'm going to Cleveland soon.
Speaker 1: Well what are we going to do? Hey? How about
Speaker 1: you and I fighting over who's going to pay? That's
Speaker 1: got whiskers? How about getting sick or spilling food or something?
Speaker 6: Hey, call that headwaiter over here.
Speaker 1: It's the idea. Just call him Cappen.
Speaker 7: Cappen.
Speaker 8: When he gets here, tell him what to find dinner
Speaker 8: we had, and ask him to bring the check.
Speaker 6: But Ralph, I do as I tell you. Here he comes.
Speaker 1: Can I be of service? Mission? Yeah? The dinner was excellent?
Speaker 7: Just right?
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, monsieur. May I have the check? Lase
Speaker 1: you assure in a moment.
Speaker 6: See isn't that Joe Davis?
Speaker 1: Excuse me? It is nothing, monsieur.
Speaker 4: I will leave the check in the movement.
Speaker 1: Tell me how that helped us, other than bring the
Speaker 1: eggs down quicker. The check will be over thirty bucks.
Speaker 1: Here be a liberal tipper.
Speaker 6: I give him a.
Speaker 1: Forty what's your get ahole?
Speaker 6: That does from the head waiter, but he doesn't know check.
Speaker 1: Well, how long you've been picking pockets?
Speaker 6: His is the first one. But when I have to,
Speaker 6: I can do anything and do it good.
Speaker 1: Now, let's get out of here before he missus that
Speaker 1: as soon as Lydia comes back, we'll take her home.
Speaker 1: Then I want to talk over a few things with you.
Speaker 6: Okay, lord, let's turn in. Huh, it's late.
Speaker 1: I just been sitting here thinking, Ralph, what's there to
Speaker 1: think about?
Speaker 8: Aren't you sick of wondering where your next dollar is
Speaker 8: coming from?
Speaker 1: I am? I wanna live off the fat of the land. Oh,
Speaker 1: who doesn't? He came along just in time, kid, I
Speaker 1: was about to look for somebody to help me. Okay,
Speaker 1: and counting your kid, brother, good. I throw away that
Speaker 1: sailor's suit and we go into business, a nice little business.
Speaker 6: Sort of capital gains.
Speaker 7: MM.
Speaker 8: We invest a few dollars in some guns, right, run
Speaker 8: 'em to a fortune.
Speaker 1: You know, Ralph. When you're cashing bum checks or even
Speaker 1: picking pockets, they don't look for you too hard robbery
Speaker 1: something else. Look lot when there's a hold up, the
Speaker 1: police look for criminals.
Speaker 8: We're not criminals. And we'll pick a town we both
Speaker 8: know well. I like New Orleans. Do what we have
Speaker 8: to do and get out immediately. Go to some place
Speaker 8: where we're respected citizens.
Speaker 1: M like Cleveland.
Speaker 8: Like Cleveland, we stay there and have a good time
Speaker 8: until we're ready for another business trip back to New Orleans.
Speaker 5: Thirteen eighty two.
Speaker 6: Good morning, miss, good morning. We'd like to see mister Florensen.
Speaker 1: Who is calling? Please Detective Santa's and King New Orleans
Speaker 1: Police Department.
Speaker 11: Oh, one moment, please, yes, mister Florcan Detective Sanders and
Speaker 11: King of the Police.
Speaker 5: Department to see you, to see me, Yes, sir, they're
Speaker 5: right here.
Speaker 6: Send them in.
Speaker 1: Are you about finished making up that deposit about sir?
Speaker 5: I'll bring it in when it's ready. Mister Florence's office
Speaker 5: is a first one on the right.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Come on, and I hope we get away with it.
Speaker 1: We will, won't worry, all right.
Speaker 8: Lott Hell here's luck, mister Floreston. Yes, I'm Detective Sanders.
Speaker 8: This is Detective King. We hate to trouble you when
Speaker 8: you're busy, but that's all right.
Speaker 1: If there's anything I can do for.
Speaker 6: You, we'd like to do something for you for me.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, you're in the habit of making a large
Speaker 1: bank deposit every Wednesday morning at eleven. Well, that's right.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the deposit's about ready now.
Speaker 8: And we had a tip from an informal last night.
Speaker 8: This informer thinks two bandits planned to hold you up
Speaker 8: today on your way to the bank.
Speaker 1: Really, Lieutenant doesn't put much stock in the report, but
Speaker 1: he sent us to escort you to the bank.
Speaker 5: Oh, fie, I have the deposit, mister florisac.
Speaker 1: Oh good, I'll take it please.
Speaker 5: Oh would you bring back some deposit slip.
Speaker 1: Sir, Yes, yes, of course, thank you.
Speaker 5: You're welcome, mister Farisa.
Speaker 8: And another thing, mister Florescent, Either we or other detectives
Speaker 8: will continue to escort you to the bank every Wednesday
Speaker 8: for three or four weeks, just the place.
Speaker 1: Sa Oh, I'll be glad to have you, believe me.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll take the money, but that's all right,
Speaker 1: I can carry.
Speaker 6: He meant we'll take it. Get him a priest, won't
Speaker 6: dot don't. I've got it.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 10: Okay, Oh miss yes, sir, mister Florest and asked me
Speaker 10: to tell you that we're escorting him to the bank
Speaker 10: in a half hour.
Speaker 6: He doesn't want to be disturbed until we return.
Speaker 5: Oh, I won't disturb him.
Speaker 6: Good, come on, sergeant.
Speaker 4: That Don, was how Ralph and Lorton Oliver staged their
Speaker 4: first robbery in New Orleans. They were delighted at their success,
Speaker 4: but the brothers soon learned it seldom that even the
Speaker 4: most ingenious schemes fool the police.
Speaker 1: Now back to Gangbusters. You were telling a sheriff Crash
Speaker 1: that the brothers Ralph and Lorte Molliver had worked out
Speaker 1: in the elaborate scheme to stage robberies in New Orleans
Speaker 1: then leave town before the police could make headway in
Speaker 1: their investigation.
Speaker 4: That's right, Don, and at least a half dozen cleverly
Speaker 4: executed robberies were committed in quick succession.
Speaker 6: After the last one, they planned to leave.
Speaker 4: For Cleveland, where they'd make the rounds as respectable citizens.
Speaker 4: Lawton was waiting on a busy New Orleans corner for
Speaker 4: his brother, when a brand new Cadillac Sedan pulled to
Speaker 4: a stop.
Speaker 8: Lot, Hey, lot, come on, get it roll?
Speaker 6: Where the devil you get this?
Speaker 7: I don't like it?
Speaker 1: Hey, some hunk of automobile.
Speaker 6: I like that power?
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, who says it? Don't tell me?
Speaker 1: Somebody let it standing there with the keys in it.
Speaker 8: It's ours, ours, yours and mine. We're going to Cleveland
Speaker 8: in the style. You mean you bought it right off
Speaker 8: the floor. Oh stop kidding. Well, yeah, this car costs
Speaker 8: well the must cost of thirty.
Speaker 1: Five hundred, at least thirty six and a quarter all
Speaker 1: honest rill, we'll make it up.
Speaker 6: What's money beside the Cadillac's gonna pay for itself?
Speaker 1: Eh?
Speaker 6: How well?
Speaker 8: I figured out one more job for us before we
Speaker 8: kiss An Orleans goodbye, and we can use the car
Speaker 8: for it.
Speaker 1: But what about the plates? It's registered no name license.
Speaker 8: Plates for a time at dusn't so we got a
Speaker 8: dozen men who knows it's our car. Then we head
Speaker 8: straight for Cleveland with a brand new Cadillac, free and clear.
Speaker 6: That's my brother.
Speaker 3: I don't expector I checked up on the license plates.
Speaker 3: Huh stolen. I didn't expect anything different than JA. No,
Speaker 3: but I was hoping. What was the car stolen from?
Speaker 7: Sergeant.
Speaker 1: I don't know about the car.
Speaker 3: The plate's taken off a nineteen forty Chevy some difference,
Speaker 3: and it reports on a new Cadillac Sadan. Being Stone,
Speaker 3: I couldn't find any inspector not any place in the state.
Speaker 3: If anyone's missing a brand new Cadillact, they certainly ought
Speaker 3: to squawk about it. Couldn't be You mean you were
Speaker 3: thinking these bandits might own that car and just have
Speaker 3: stolen the plates.
Speaker 7: Yeah, But why do they need to buy a.
Speaker 1: Car, Sergeant?
Speaker 3: These two men seem to have a way of their
Speaker 3: own and a purpose of their own. Well spoken, polished,
Speaker 3: and a little too confident. Why shouldn't they buy a
Speaker 3: Cadillac if they want one. If they did, it shouldn't
Speaker 3: be too hard to trace. Look into the state registrations
Speaker 3: for the last week or two. There won't be too
Speaker 3: many Cadillacts of that modelistic Yes, sir, I'll get right
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 8: You've been unfaithful, unfaithful, Yes, you've been taking sam lessons
Speaker 8: from somebody else.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 5: I never expected to see you in Cleveland, ground.
Speaker 6: I promised i'd be here, didn't I?
Speaker 5: That was a Hollywood promise.
Speaker 1: You don't know how I dreamed about seeing you again,
Speaker 1: How I couldn't wait to get here and then to
Speaker 1: hold you in my arms, dancing, not just dancing, Lydia. Look,
Speaker 1: look now, I'll be here two weeks. I want to
Speaker 1: see you every day and every night.
Speaker 6: Where are we going? Tomorrow afternoon?
Speaker 1: That's up to you.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow night, Tomorrow night, I'm busy.
Speaker 6: What's his name? I'm murdering.
Speaker 5: Let's sit down.
Speaker 6: Now, what's the matter with tomorrow night? Well, you can.
Speaker 5: See me if you want to.
Speaker 6: It's up to you.
Speaker 5: This is our table, isn't it.
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: What do you mean if I want to tomorrow night?
Speaker 5: It's the annual charity bark Well.
Speaker 6: I believe in charity.
Speaker 5: It so happens that I'm on the ticket committee.
Speaker 8: Congratulations, I'll take two tickets. How much are they?
Speaker 6: Whatever? You want to get?
Speaker 1: Well, i'll take.
Speaker 6: Two at five hundred dollars apiece.
Speaker 5: Oh that's very generous, Ralph. But I've already got mine.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll still take two. Block one want to in
Speaker 1: the hotel room.
Speaker 8: My whole family believes in charity.
Speaker 11: All right, all right, my goodness, no room's vacant, mister wall.
Speaker 1: Full of I don't want a room.
Speaker 5: Then what do you want?
Speaker 6: Do you have a room or named Oliver?
Speaker 9: Who are you?
Speaker 1: Bill collector?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Wo thedn't come in? Come in?
Speaker 7: Thanks?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: Did you want Ralph Oliver o Lorton Oliver?
Speaker 7: Oh, there's two of.
Speaker 11: Them, brothers, nicest boys you ever saw a high tone?
Speaker 7: I see it. Where's their room?
Speaker 6: They ain't in Orleans no more?
Speaker 11: Are you anyway an insurance salesman.
Speaker 1: I'm a police officer, man, police officer.
Speaker 11: Well, Friday, I think it was, yeah, Friday, because mister
Speaker 11: Hunter Clark moved in on Friday.
Speaker 1: Now then I'm Clark. You know where they went?
Speaker 11: Were traveling, they said, But if you ask me, it
Speaker 11: was Cleveland, they will rail Thad he's got a fiance,
Speaker 11: say in Cleveland. You must be making a mistake about
Speaker 11: those boys. They're nice boys.
Speaker 1: Did Ralph get mailed from Cleveland?
Speaker 5: Some?
Speaker 11: Now see here? You don't think I go around reading
Speaker 11: my roomors made?
Speaker 7: I'm sure you don't.
Speaker 11: Well it was from Cleveland High Society Gale, she writes
Speaker 11: on good Stationary. So you are after the wrong man.
Speaker 11: Anybody who has a high society. Girl, don't go mix
Speaker 11: it up with the police. You don't want all of
Speaker 11: her boys for nothing. They're very high type.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know, very high type. And please show me
Speaker 3: the room they occupied.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll show it to you, but you won't find
Speaker 5: nothing there. I clean it.
Speaker 11: Every day, Yeah, every day, right this way.
Speaker 1: One thousand dollars, Ralph, one thousand dollars for ticket hits
Speaker 1: an investment. Well, how long do you think the money
Speaker 1: he's gonna hold out? We've been here two days and
Speaker 1: you've already spent nearly two thousand. Well there's plenty more
Speaker 1: where we got this shore, back in New Orleans, in someplace.
Speaker 1: But we're in Cleveland. You're dated up for two weeks.
Speaker 6: Lot, what you know?
Speaker 8: Associating with these people here gives you a lot of
Speaker 8: inside information. Now the hotel across the street, for instance,
Speaker 8: did you know that every Monday night the wealthiest businessmen
Speaker 8: in town amuse themselves with a game of poker, a
Speaker 8: game of poker for high stakes in room eleven. Oh two,
Speaker 8: Oh who kids, that's the next game. Lot, They're gonna
Speaker 8: deal us in and we'll wind up the only winner.
Speaker 1: Welp, We decided not to work in Cleveland. This is
Speaker 1: for five got it all figured out? Well, this is
Speaker 1: going against everything we decided. We wear masks in disguise
Speaker 1: our voices. About midnight, we knock on the door and
Speaker 1: say it's the belt.
Speaker 6: When they open up.
Speaker 7: Okay, knock, yes, what is it?
Speaker 6: Gets said bell boy?
Speaker 1: Back in the room and reach quiet all of you,
Speaker 1: shut up, okay, on your feet, quiet, get up. I
Speaker 1: lay the door on the table. Empty your pockets and
Speaker 1: don't hold out.
Speaker 7: Shut up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna search every one of you before we get out,
Speaker 1: so put it all out. If you don't, it's eleven
Speaker 1: floors out that window.
Speaker 6: Go on, go on, empty your pockets.
Speaker 7: That's it.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, come on.
Speaker 8: All right now all of you get in the bathroom.
Speaker 8: Get in the bathroom and make it snappy. Get the
Speaker 8: dope path right, don't want get in get in there.
Speaker 8: Shut up you hey, yeah, shut the door and start counting.
Speaker 8: When you get to a thousand, you can come out
Speaker 8: and count slow, well, go on, count.
Speaker 3: One, two, three, four.
Speaker 6: I have shut the door, six seven. Hey, you got
Speaker 6: it all?
Speaker 1: Yeah about it? Take care of the ford, right, that's that,
Speaker 1: you know. Come on, let's get out. Here wait a
Speaker 1: minute for what Come on, Take it easy and I
Speaker 1: walk up to the bathroom door with me, but quietly.
Speaker 10: Listen, holded, quiet, thy God, open the shoe.
Speaker 9: Okay, I myself.
Speaker 8: Hey, start all over again to one thousand, and if
Speaker 8: you open that door before you reach a thousand, I'll
Speaker 8: shoot you right through the head. You think I'm gonna
Speaker 8: leave her? If you think I kittn just try it.
Speaker 9: One, two, three, four, five, sake seven h jad is
Speaker 9: Sergeant Wayne Cleveland. Just call me back, Inspector.
Speaker 12: Oh, they've been checking up there and they've got a
Speaker 12: line on the OLLI her brothers good. As a matter
Speaker 12: of fact, they had a robb ray of a poker
Speaker 12: game last night. The bandits wore masks, but it looks
Speaker 12: pretty much like it could be the Oli her brothers.
Speaker 9: It's their kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: How about playing reservation, Sergeant.
Speaker 9: I'll check out them right away.
Speaker 1: What time do you want to leave on the first
Speaker 1: flight out?
Speaker 9: Okay, I'll get the tickets and wire Cleveland. We're on
Speaker 9: the way.
Speaker 5: Well, here we are home again.
Speaker 1: It was a wonderful party, Lydia, thanks so letting me
Speaker 1: tagle long.
Speaker 5: It wouldn't have been the same without you, Lawton.
Speaker 6: Come on, honey, good night, Lawton. I'll be right out.
Speaker 1: Oh, don't hurry, take your time.
Speaker 6: Well is honey?
Speaker 5: Mother and father asked me to invite you to dinner tomorrow. Night.
Speaker 6: Good I'd love to come.
Speaker 5: I suppose they know things are getting serious.
Speaker 6: It's about time. They know the interesting more than time.
Speaker 6: Have you got your keys?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Good night, darling.
Speaker 5: How do you.
Speaker 1: Sure lydia let's get married, Ralph? I yes, oh no,
Speaker 1: that's all I want to hear.
Speaker 5: Well, Ralph, yees?
Speaker 6: Oh honey, Oh well baby, we don't say anymore.
Speaker 5: Let me remember every word.
Speaker 6: Good night, honey, good night, Darling. Well what do you think?
Speaker 6: What I propose it? And what Oliver? And nothing?
Speaker 1: We're police officers. Get in okay, I guess this is it, Ralph. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're waiting for us. Aunt, sergeant, place at quarters? All right,
Speaker 1: police aid quotas.
Speaker 4: That Don was the end of the activities of the
Speaker 4: Oliver brothers, who thought they could lead a double life.
Speaker 4: The only life they found, however, was behind penitentiary bars.
Speaker 4: And in addition, they're now waiting trial on six more
Speaker 4: robbery indictments.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Sheriff Grosh for this extraordinary case history
Speaker 1: and Gangbusters. Congratulations to the officers who participated in the
Speaker 1: investigation and apprehension of these criminals.