Speaker 1: Now Gangbusters presented in cooperation with police and federal law
Speaker 1: enforcement departments throughout the United States, the only national program
Speaker 1: that brings you authentic police case histories.
Speaker 2: Tonights Gangbusters percents the case of the Cincinnati narcotics ring
Speaker 2: who's deadly dealings in drugs spread across two nations until
Speaker 2: the Royal Canadian mount Is, the Federal Narcotics Bureau and
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Police cornered the ringleader in a final.
Speaker 3: Duel to death.
Speaker 1: Gangbusters has asked the Honorable Clem W. Murrs, Chief of
Speaker 1: Detectives of the Cincinnati Police Department, to narrate by proxy
Speaker 1: tonight's case. Chief Merz, I know the case you're going
Speaker 1: to tell us about tonight has an international flavor.
Speaker 4: That's true, Don Gardner.
Speaker 2: The most important it shows the effectiveness of cooperation between federal, local,
Speaker 2: and Canadian authorities despite the handicaps of international borderlines.
Speaker 1: Well, it sounds as though you have quite a case
Speaker 1: for his Chief Mers. Why don't you start right in?
Speaker 2: All right, don Suppose we begin just a few months
Speaker 2: ago in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Late one night,
Speaker 2: two men were in a room on the fourth floor
Speaker 2: of a second rate hotel near the union station. One,
Speaker 2: a middle aged bald fella strangely nicknamed Sonny, sat on
Speaker 2: the edge of the bed, while the other, Big Jim Lebard,
Speaker 2: occupied the only upholstered chair in the room. After a moment,
Speaker 2: Big Jim got up, walked the dresser to poor drinks
Speaker 2: to bind the deal.
Speaker 3: They just close.
Speaker 5: Okay, Sonny, We'll have a drink on it.
Speaker 4: It's like it easy with mine.
Speaker 5: That's amount of sunny Canadian whiskey. Bites a little hard.
Speaker 4: All bites hard after you tease it too much.
Speaker 5: Hey, Sunny, may you make a fortune out.
Speaker 3: Of the deal.
Speaker 6: Much obliged Jim for wishing meda for you. You already
Speaker 6: made yours when Lick and.
Speaker 7: I took Nobody asked you to come here and buy
Speaker 7: you want. You got to pay the price. Well, here's luck,
Speaker 7: four one hundred piece.
Speaker 6: That's the first time I ever paid four hundred an
Speaker 6: ounce in the last here's the last.
Speaker 7: Look, Senne announce of heroin is just as hard to
Speaker 7: come by in Canada as it is in the States.
Speaker 7: And I'm the hottest guy in Toronto. Just now they
Speaker 7: got three kings warrants out for me. I should lay alone.
Speaker 7: If there is a deal I got to make.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, you may don't beef one do you deliver.
Speaker 3: When you're leaving?
Speaker 7: All you got to do is walk across the hall
Speaker 7: to my room. You can pick up the package anytime.
Speaker 6: What do you mean pick up the package? I ain't
Speaker 6: carrying thirty pieces over the border. You've got to deliver
Speaker 6: to Cincinnata.
Speaker 5: You take it with your Sonning?
Speaker 4: Who are you kidding?
Speaker 6: My understanding the deal was you delivered to Cincinnati. I
Speaker 6: ain't running no drugs across the border of any of
Speaker 6: my business.
Speaker 5: My business either Sentning not at four hundred an ouncident.
Speaker 4: Okay, you want delivered to Cincinnata. The deal's off. It's
Speaker 4: the matter with you.
Speaker 5: You made a deal, you stick to it.
Speaker 4: Not if I got to run the border, I don't.
Speaker 7: It'll cost you an extra one hundred apiece if I
Speaker 7: got to deliver to Cincinnata.
Speaker 4: Who do you think you're holding up?
Speaker 6: You an extra three grand for running the border with
Speaker 6: a two pound package?
Speaker 4: What do you think? I am crazy?
Speaker 7: You can run the border for nothing, Sonny. It won't
Speaker 7: cost you a dime.
Speaker 4: Okay, you robbed me. When do you deliver?
Speaker 7: It won't be in a hurry, it'll get there. Come
Speaker 7: on across the hall in my room. I'll show you
Speaker 7: what you bought.
Speaker 6: That's always a good idea of seeing what you buy.
Speaker 3: I have a look in the hall.
Speaker 4: It's okay, there's not a sol round.
Speaker 5: I didn't go Wait a minute, what back inside?
Speaker 3: Fast?
Speaker 7: Somebody is in my room. Did you see that light
Speaker 7: over the transom? I didn't leave no lights?
Speaker 8: Law?
Speaker 5: How should I know? We'll find out quick?
Speaker 4: Stick in here?
Speaker 7: What I get about fifty pieces of heroin over there?
Speaker 7: I gotta protect my investment because.
Speaker 4: You sent you'll duck that gun. You'll stick here. You
Speaker 4: don't get me involved.
Speaker 5: Kill need help and you're shot up?
Speaker 7: And open that door. Go on, the door was on latch.
Speaker 7: Walk across the hall, open up and jump back. O. Look,
Speaker 7: go on, hold it okay? Open all right? Well what
Speaker 7: are you after, assistant?
Speaker 9: I'm sorry. I must have made a mistake.
Speaker 3: In the rooms.
Speaker 9: Yes, I must be on the wrong.
Speaker 3: Come in and shut the door.
Speaker 9: Really, it is a mistake.
Speaker 7: As long as you made a mistake, you figured you
Speaker 7: might as well take advantage of the time. Is that
Speaker 7: why you piled up my clothes ready to go out
Speaker 7: the door with him?
Speaker 4: It is a gym. Maybe she's law.
Speaker 5: Law, she's a sneak thief. Ain't that right, sister?
Speaker 9: Please, I've never done anything before. Don't call the police. Please,
Speaker 9: what's your story. I'm stuck in Toronto. I want to
Speaker 9: get back home to Montreal. I had to get far somehow.
Speaker 5: So you picked on me. Huh.
Speaker 9: I didn't know it was you. I didn't care who
Speaker 9: it was. I tried every door. Please, don't call the police.
Speaker 4: Gym, she didn't find the you know.
Speaker 5: Don't worry. I had to take a good deal of looking.
Speaker 9: What's your name, Lucille, Lucille Beauve. You won't call the police?
Speaker 7: No, I don't think so. You're a little too pretty
Speaker 7: to rot in jail. I think I'll give you your
Speaker 7: lesson myself. This is what you need, A lot of it.
Speaker 3: You need.
Speaker 5: Had out to carll it, get.
Speaker 4: Rid of a gym.
Speaker 9: I wonder was paid to Montreal?
Speaker 5: All and walk it? Go on, get out?
Speaker 9: Oh all right, thanks, thank you very much, thank me
Speaker 9: for what for not calling the police? Goodbye?
Speaker 7: Wait a minute, yes, louse seal than you're saying, yes,
Speaker 7: how'd you like to earn car fair to Montreal?
Speaker 9: Earn it?
Speaker 5: How are you off your get restick your head out
Speaker 5: of this. What's in Montreal?
Speaker 9: That's home. I'm broke. There's no place else to go.
Speaker 7: You got a job, Lissen, I'm sure you have. Now
Speaker 7: go in there and get rid of those tears. I'll
Speaker 7: tell you all about it when you feel better.
Speaker 9: Okay, and there, yeah, go on? Thanks, thanks ever so much.
Speaker 9: You know you're really nice.
Speaker 4: How crazy can you get your.
Speaker 7: You have a sea such your eye as black as
Speaker 7: he has to spain?
Speaker 4: What do you want to get mixed up with a lousy,
Speaker 4: sneaky for.
Speaker 5: She was telling the truth, the first thing she ever tried.
Speaker 4: Oh were you kidding? They all got the same stories.
Speaker 5: Telling the truth, dreamed about running into one like her?
Speaker 4: How can a guy as how as you take a chance?
Speaker 4: How do you know what? She won't crack the lad
Speaker 4: of them, and that she finds out.
Speaker 7: You watch your thirty pieces delivered to Cincinnata, don't you
Speaker 7: what's that got to do with?
Speaker 5: Not much? Except little Louciale is going to carry him
Speaker 5: across the border for me?
Speaker 4: Oh well, I don't care how just as long as
Speaker 4: it gets across.
Speaker 7: It will Tomorrow you take a train to Windsor and
Speaker 7: you I'll drive with Lucial. You're checking at the Buckingham
Speaker 7: and Windsor you'll hear from me by Tuesday night.
Speaker 5: So I had never been on a trip across to the.
Speaker 3: States the seal.
Speaker 9: I've always wanted to go.
Speaker 7: Have your wish tomorrow, first thing in the morning. Let's
Speaker 7: have a drink, don't jim.
Speaker 9: Why do we have to lie to them? What do
Speaker 9: we have to tell them we're married? Oh?
Speaker 7: Say, it's a lot of unnecessary questions. Maybe that's soon
Speaker 7: for just a couple from Toronto going on a little vacation.
Speaker 7: There's nothing to do it we drive right across.
Speaker 9: Well, I suppose it's all right, sure, sir, Only I
Speaker 9: don't have the clothes to take a vacation.
Speaker 7: Where do we get across to Detroit? You'll get nice clothes.
Speaker 9: Honest. I can't get over it all, especially when I
Speaker 9: think I could have been in jail, could have done
Speaker 9: such a dumb thing.
Speaker 5: At least you picked the right room.
Speaker 9: You've really been swell.
Speaker 5: That's because I want to be. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 9: You, what's the matter?
Speaker 7: Should still keep your mu shut. Those two guys coming
Speaker 7: to cops and cops.
Speaker 4: I am a pretty good time, Big Jim.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like a good time as well as.
Speaker 10: Any Oh ho was this Jim?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I had some trouble.
Speaker 11: By A couple of cops made me in the joint.
Speaker 4: I just did get away and lose the goods.
Speaker 11: I got the goods. It was in the car they hauled.
Speaker 3: In loose sial.
Speaker 4: So what lot they didn't get you with the goods?
Speaker 11: You've got a pencil handy.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Why, I'm going to give you the name of
Speaker 4: a lawyer.
Speaker 11: Get hold of him. Tell him to get a rid
Speaker 11: of make bond for anything.
Speaker 4: Are you kidding?
Speaker 11: I want her out?
Speaker 3: Do you hear?
Speaker 6: You don't need her to get the stuff across? And
Speaker 6: you know what, get that lawyer and get her out.
Speaker 6: You get on a train and head for Cincinnata. I'll
Speaker 6: see you there in a couple of days. Have my
Speaker 6: doll ready because I'm gonna need it. Don't forget the lawyer.
Speaker 6: You don't get out the thirty pieces.
Speaker 2: Canada Showdown the Fugitive Big Jim Lebard, a notorious Canadian
Speaker 2: dealer and narcotics, had the narrowest escape from capture. The
Speaker 2: next time he was face to face with police officers,
Speaker 2: a shower of bullets closed the gap between them.
Speaker 1: You were telling his chief Mers that the Canadian narcotics
Speaker 1: dealer Big Jim Lebard narrowly missed the rest and Windsor, Ontario,
Speaker 1: the night before he planned the smuggle thirty ounces of
Speaker 1: heroin into the United States.
Speaker 4: That's right down.
Speaker 2: But the police did pick up the girl, Lucille Beauvais,
Speaker 2: whom Lebard planned to use as an aid in the
Speaker 2: smuggling venture. There was no evidence against her, and she
Speaker 2: didn't even know the identity of Lebard, so she was
Speaker 2: released shortly after dark the next night, walked out of
Speaker 2: the House of Detention for Women a stranger in town.
Speaker 2: Lucille had no particular place to go, and she headed
Speaker 2: toward a brightly lit restaurant, which was the first thing
Speaker 2: she saw.
Speaker 3: She walked out of the jail door. Keep walking, keep
Speaker 3: your head straight.
Speaker 7: Tell me who you are about to tell him myself
Speaker 7: before idly leaping in an hour Victoria Cark bench under
Speaker 7: the Queen's stature. Make sure you aren't fallow. Change cabs
Speaker 7: a couple of times. Yeah, there's some dope.
Speaker 9: I don't know whether I want to eat you.
Speaker 5: Be there, I'll see you.
Speaker 3: M hm.
Speaker 11: Me back here me shadows.
Speaker 5: I wanted to see if you had the place set
Speaker 5: up with cops.
Speaker 9: You know, I wouldn't do anything like that.
Speaker 7: I didn't know. Mind if I come around and sait
Speaker 7: don no. Well what they tell you about me, I'm
Speaker 7: a pretty mean customer.
Speaker 9: Huh, that's what they said.
Speaker 3: Would you still like to go across to the States.
Speaker 9: To help you smuggle dope in the UK y.
Speaker 3: Cigarette?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 9: Thanks. I don't know what to think of you bringing
Speaker 9: me from Toronto wanting to take me to the States,
Speaker 9: especially when you caught me a robb in your room.
Speaker 9: I thought maybe you fell in love with me.
Speaker 3: Maybe I didn't.
Speaker 9: You wanted to use me, you had a purpose.
Speaker 7: I only wanted to use you. Why should I take
Speaker 7: the chance to meeting you tonight? They caught me in
Speaker 7: be ten years baby, At least.
Speaker 9: That's what they told me.
Speaker 5: Commit Please know, I said to commune please you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that looks like I just want to use you.
Speaker 9: How to go back home to Montreal?
Speaker 7: Can you think you're too good for me? Do you
Speaker 7: think a sneak thief is any better than I am?
Speaker 7: It's not that you come to the States with me
Speaker 7: when you know it all right? I want what are
Speaker 7: you waiting for?
Speaker 9: All right, you, I'll go with you, Sure you will.
Speaker 9: They're watching all the borders, Jim. I know they've got
Speaker 9: the US customs and the lookout. Oh you'll get cold.
Speaker 5: We have plans to change, baby, We're not going as
Speaker 5: tourists anymore.
Speaker 12: Now, come on, all right, hope, reach am I freezing?
Speaker 7: Hold yourself? Baby, got to keep my eye out of control?
Speaker 7: How much longer? I another fifteen minutes? Maybe you've gotta
Speaker 7: bice done.
Speaker 4: Getty's over the water, Oh Detroit.
Speaker 9: You looks in their looks like a good breach out
Speaker 9: for those sides.
Speaker 3: Fifteen minutes, Baby.
Speaker 9: That's fifteen minutes. Seems like a central getted door.
Speaker 3: What are you worried about?
Speaker 7: Doesn't turn around Mack at the patrol boat, Jim, he
Speaker 7: that looks like it.
Speaker 3: Get doing?
Speaker 4: Shut up?
Speaker 9: You know what are we gonna do? You?
Speaker 5: No one to keep quiet?
Speaker 3: Jim a week and keep quiet, stay al on the boat.
Speaker 5: Maybe there passes him before of the search.
Speaker 4: Shut up, Jim.
Speaker 5: Drop the package overboard, not on your life.
Speaker 4: Drop the package and I have us for nothing.
Speaker 5: I don't throw fifteen grand overboard.
Speaker 3: I fight for Jim.
Speaker 7: Please goes over Jim, watchhot, Mac, you will be the
Speaker 7: first to get shot.
Speaker 9: Averywhere what's going away?
Speaker 3: I think it is?
Speaker 4: It was it's a pressure cryed Jim.
Speaker 5: That was a squeaker.
Speaker 9: Well let's get to the right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go on row, Captain Leedarp Captain Agent Laney, the
Speaker 1: Narcotics Bureau Treasury Department is.
Speaker 3: Here to see you, Lady, lady. Is he from the
Speaker 3: Cincinnati office just the second Captain?
Speaker 1: Are you from the local office, Miss Laney?
Speaker 4: No, I'm out of Washington.
Speaker 3: He's from Washington. Captain.
Speaker 11: Ask mister Lanie to come in.
Speaker 3: Right through that door.
Speaker 8: Mister Laney, thanks, come in my name. Hello Captain, I'm
Speaker 8: glad to make you have a chair.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 4: I'm in Cincinnati on a special job. Captain.
Speaker 3: How can we help?
Speaker 2: Did you ever handle the narcotics dealer Sonny Wilton?
Speaker 3: Yes, we've hadl him.
Speaker 4: Do you know where I can put my hands on him.
Speaker 3: At the moment, But I'll put a couple of my
Speaker 3: boys to checking. Will do.
Speaker 2: But we're more interested in the guy he's been dealing
Speaker 2: with lately, Big Jim Labard a Canadian.
Speaker 3: You think he's in Cincinnati too? It's just a.
Speaker 2: Tip Canadian Mardys have been looking for him on three
Speaker 2: warrants narcotics cases. They picked up a boatman who's been
Speaker 2: running smugglers across the Detroit River. Their information is that
Speaker 2: Big Jim made a deal with Sonny and came to Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll be on the lookout for them. Both.
Speaker 2: Maddy's almost got their hands on this big gym last week.
Speaker 2: He saw them coming and ducked out of a bar.
Speaker 2: They couldn't shoot the kind of the crowd, but they
Speaker 2: did get a girl he was with. Oh how does
Speaker 2: she figure in it here? Well, they had no charge
Speaker 2: to hold her on. According the boatman, Big Jim just
Speaker 2: took her along when he smuggled in the narcotics.
Speaker 8: I see excuse me a second. Ask Mayor and stuff
Speaker 8: to step in here right away. Yes, sir, there are
Speaker 8: a couple of my best men on this kind of deal.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: We don't have too much to go on, Captain, But
Speaker 2: the Canadian authority is doing a little further checking on
Speaker 2: the girl. If they find out anything, we'll hear about it.
Speaker 2: They want Lebard and want them bad.
Speaker 9: Jim. What I don't feel like going out and drinking
Speaker 9: staying up all night again, tonight, I do. Do you
Speaker 9: think it's time we got out of Cincinnati.
Speaker 5: Sonny's friends are good people.
Speaker 9: To know them well, I don't care for them.
Speaker 5: We'll act like you care for him.
Speaker 9: This is business, Oh, Jim, I want to go home.
Speaker 5: I want to go to montre You don't stop nagging
Speaker 5: me about going home.
Speaker 7: I'll give you something really to nag about it. Jim
Speaker 7: made a lot of doors, Sonny a good chance to
Speaker 7: make more.
Speaker 9: We're not taking that boat trip again.
Speaker 7: Yep, you're gonna help with the lord more dope. No,
Speaker 7: you know something is just as hard to come by
Speaker 7: in Canada. Guns.
Speaker 9: Guns.
Speaker 7: Yeah, A lot of guys I know will pay a
Speaker 7: good price for a heater. And that's who we're taking
Speaker 7: back a good stock of guns.
Speaker 9: Didn't you make enough money?
Speaker 7: There's never enough money. And listen, baby, wake up when
Speaker 7: we get to that party. These are people I'm doing
Speaker 7: business with. I don't want them to think I got
Speaker 7: a corps traveling with me.
Speaker 9: All right, I'll wake up.
Speaker 5: Captain Hartman, Lady Narcotics Burea, Kevin.
Speaker 3: Oh, hello, Lennie, anything now?
Speaker 11: I think so.
Speaker 2: I just spoke to Washington. They got a message from
Speaker 2: the Canadian modern police. They had a mail cover on
Speaker 2: the home of the girl's mother.
Speaker 8: In Montreal, Oh a letter showed up from her mail
Speaker 8: from Cincinnati.
Speaker 11: Yeah, with a.
Speaker 2: Return address on Maple Avenue. I went by and looked
Speaker 2: at the building. It's a big apartment house.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. I suppose we put a plant there and
Speaker 3: wait for them to come out.
Speaker 4: That's all right with me.
Speaker 8: Okay, you come on buy here, Lennie, and we'll see
Speaker 8: what arrangements we can make.
Speaker 3: Hello, Lennie, how's it going.
Speaker 5: You haven't seen a soul that looks like a bard
Speaker 5: of the girl?
Speaker 4: Captain?
Speaker 8: Well, people living in the potting house stick here long
Speaker 8: enough will spot him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I suppose, so wait a minute, someone can be out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's not big Jim.
Speaker 8: Like I see if you know, it's not big Gym.
Speaker 8: But wouldn't you like Sunny said him. I could miss
Speaker 8: Sunny two blocks away. Come on right, let me handle
Speaker 8: this lady.
Speaker 3: I know him.
Speaker 8: Great, ahead, he's coming this way. That's stopped like a cigarette.
Speaker 8: Have one, thanks right, thank you?
Speaker 3: Where do you think you're going? Sunny?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 3: Police officers?
Speaker 4: Is that so?
Speaker 3: Where's big Jim?
Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about?
Speaker 3: He lives in that building, and you know it.
Speaker 4: Why don'd you go in.
Speaker 3: And get him.
Speaker 8: Okay, we're gonna not and every door, and you're going
Speaker 8: to be right in front of him. No, no, now, Look,
Speaker 8: you don't get me mixed up in this which is
Speaker 8: his apartment.
Speaker 6: He's got guns, he got plenty of guns. He'll use them.
Speaker 6: You don't get me to knock on his door, which
Speaker 6: is his apartment. So honey, h five, Look, don't take
Speaker 6: me up there, hold me and he'll use those guns.
Speaker 8: All right, all right, we'll see that. You get a
Speaker 8: nice seat on the sidelines, and that's where I want
Speaker 8: to be, on the sidelines. You'll keep your eye on him. Lene,
Speaker 8: I want to call downtown. Get a couple more men
Speaker 8: out here. We may need them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll say you will. Come on, Kevin, I'll watch
Speaker 4: him till you get back.
Speaker 3: What right over here and give me a hand with
Speaker 3: his stuff.
Speaker 9: Oh, Jim, I'm busy trying to pack.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 5: I me get the stuff out of that draw and
Speaker 5: into the cotton. Well, come on, Jim, I don't want
Speaker 5: to handle guns. Guns are the safest thing in the world.
Speaker 5: When you're not how to handle them.
Speaker 3: Come on, help me pack them.
Speaker 9: Are they loaded?
Speaker 3: Sure? They loaded? How good do you think they'd be
Speaker 3: if they would?
Speaker 9: I can't touch them.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go back to Mantreal. You'd give me your hand. No, listen,
Speaker 7: she might show you something. I mean, it's please.
Speaker 9: You heard.
Speaker 5: That's too easy. Now give me a hand.
Speaker 9: Who's that expecting anybody answers?
Speaker 3: You'll find out.
Speaker 9: Yes, who is it? Jim? It's Sonny him.
Speaker 11: He can give me a hand, all.
Speaker 9: Right, Sonny, Just a minute, Sonny, I thought you were.
Speaker 4: Police officers one side. Jim got him up?
Speaker 3: Quick watch he's gonna go yump, got up? I did it?
Speaker 5: Come on, Jim, it looks like he's throw Miss.
Speaker 9: I owed him so much.
Speaker 4: I can imagine they'd off call mambulance.
Speaker 3: All right, miss. Now let's have the story from beginning
Speaker 3: to end.
Speaker 2: That n was how Cincinnati police and agents of the
Speaker 2: Narcotics Bureau Treasury Department dealt with James Lebard, a dangerous
Speaker 2: fugitive from Canada. The girl Seal was deported to Canada
Speaker 2: to face various charges, and Sunny Wilton, the Cincinnati narcotics dealer,
Speaker 2: was held on a charge of parole violation and returned
Speaker 2: to prison to complete his term.
Speaker 1: While congratulations Chief Merz to all the officers Cincinnati, Federal
Speaker 1: and Canadian who showed such excellent coordination in bringing about
Speaker 1: an end to these dangerous criminals. The Night's Case was
Speaker 1: dramatized by Stanley Neiss and directed by William Sweets, with
Speaker 1: Frank Reddick and Susan Douglas in leading roles. Don Gardner
Speaker 1: speaking gang Busters as a phillips h Lord production