Speaker 1: The FBI in Peace and War.
Speaker 2: The FBI in.
Speaker 3: Peace and War Another great story based on Frederic lar
Speaker 3: Collins copyrighted book, The FBI in Peace and War Drama,
Speaker 3: Thrills action. Tonight's story dumb luck, Oliver.
Speaker 2: I looked at the window.
Speaker 3: Now was read your movie magazine? I read it. We'll
Speaker 3: go in the club car and have a drink. I bloom, Amy,
Speaker 3: I am trying to read the newspaper, flew Oliver walk.
Speaker 2: In the air plane. This takes too long.
Speaker 4: What are you reading?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm reading about a Texas millionaire who dropped dead
Speaker 3: two days ago and left three and a half million
Speaker 3: dollars to a college with one hundred and seventy five students.
Speaker 2: How much is that a piece? Am reading about dead people? For?
Speaker 2: That's morbid?
Speaker 3: Amy, go buy another movie magazine?
Speaker 2: Why about dead people? Oliver?
Speaker 3: It because my little idiot.
Speaker 2: Girl, I don't think you should call me that, even joking.
Speaker 3: Well, because, my dear, I don't see any reason why
Speaker 3: that college would get all of the Texas millionaire's money.
Speaker 1: I'd like some of it myself.
Speaker 2: Who wouldn't Has he got wrote not a one? Poor guy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very sad, So how would you get.
Speaker 2: Some of that money.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know his background yet, but he was
Speaker 3: only forty nine, and it's always possible that he secretly
Speaker 3: promised to marry or even married some poor girl, and
Speaker 3: then died without ever mentioning that fact with.
Speaker 5: The executors of his estate.
Speaker 2: He had a girl.
Speaker 3: Well, it's possible, isn't it. And when this poor deceived
Speaker 3: little thing reads the paper, he's dead. Naturally, she's going
Speaker 3: to turn up with her lawyer and with letters in
Speaker 3: Charlie's handwriting, chow you the millionaire Charlie Emmett.
Speaker 2: He deceived her?
Speaker 5: Huh, Well, it's possible.
Speaker 2: So where is she now?
Speaker 3: Well, she may be right here in this compartment for
Speaker 3: all I know where you, dear.
Speaker 2: I never even heard of the guard that you mentioned
Speaker 2: him as a.
Speaker 6: Matter of that.
Speaker 3: Yes, dear, I get it, or you do. Yeah, I'm here,
Speaker 3: that's right, and you are Malaia right again.
Speaker 2: How much could we get out of it, Oliver?
Speaker 3: Well, if it worked enough to buy you a reversible
Speaker 3: mink coat, who ever heard of it?
Speaker 2: Jeezing, it'd be too hot a mink out.
Speaker 3: Of it, probably would.
Speaker 2: Yes, let me see the paper.
Speaker 7: I told you what was in it?
Speaker 4: I know, but if my boyfriend dropped dead all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, at least I order read his notices.
Speaker 1: Why Oliver Dean Santley wanted by our bureau or a
Speaker 1: fraud and forgery was one of the most intelligent swindlers
Speaker 1: in the business. During his various prison terms, he studied law,
Speaker 1: practiced penmanship, read avidly on every subject under the sun,
Speaker 1: and prepared himself for more swindles. His campaign to have
Speaker 1: braud the estate of Charles Emmett of Texas was researched
Speaker 1: down to the minutest detail. He spent days on county records,
Speaker 1: looked up old newspapers, visited every town the Texas man
Speaker 1: had lived there. With the full background and his girl
Speaker 1: Amy standing by, Santley called on the executors of the
Speaker 1: emit the state, and then he showed me these letters
Speaker 1: from Charlie to the girl. I just wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: I thought I knew all about chum. Are you assure sir?
Speaker 5: Naturally?
Speaker 1: I asked him some very pertinent questions.
Speaker 5: Oh, he has the.
Speaker 1: Facts offer, but how did mister Emmett. Of course, that's
Speaker 1: the first thing I wanted to know. How did Charlie
Speaker 1: manage to keep it secret, and why, well, why a
Speaker 1: simple He didn't intend to keep it secret.
Speaker 5: She lived in California and he was going to bring
Speaker 5: her here.
Speaker 1: Of course, she was associated with some nightclub. But Charlie
Speaker 1: obviously intended to Marrier on his next trip West. This
Speaker 1: lawyer who represents he's a California man, but it really
Speaker 1: seems quite confident he studied our.
Speaker 5: Statues, sorleft.
Speaker 1: What is she asking for us? Well, we didn't come
Speaker 1: to specific terms, but it sounded like two or three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand. My guess is that we finally agree on
Speaker 1: something between ten and twenty thousand. Of course, sir, the
Speaker 1: estate is not legally liable in a manner like this.
Speaker 1: I know it isn't, and so does her lawyer. He's
Speaker 1: presented her claim quite frankly, on a nuisance basis, save
Speaker 1: the estate bad publicity and save embarrassment to the university.
Speaker 1: I suppose that is worth something.
Speaker 5: I'm afraid it is.
Speaker 1: Of course, I said we'd.
Speaker 5: Want to talk with the young lady before we come
Speaker 5: to any decision.
Speaker 1: Naturally, I thought you might do that. Author be glad
Speaker 1: from what I gather from mister Santley, she's not an
Speaker 1: intellectual bombshell. You'll have to handle her with the techtile try, sir. Also,
Speaker 1: it's possible that she's merely an adventuress who met Charlie
Speaker 1: on one of his busines strips and is trying to
Speaker 1: cash in on a good thing. But you said he
Speaker 1: wrote her a letter.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, he did.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: In many ways Charlie was a brilliant man, but when
Speaker 1: it came to women, that's off in the way, sir.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm afraid it is.
Speaker 1: No man who has a million dollars ought to be
Speaker 1: allowed to write anything but business letters, especially after age party.
Speaker 3: All right, Now, where did you meet him? Amy?
Speaker 4: I met Charles at the Club sixteen in Los Angeles,
Speaker 4: where I was fulfilling and singing and engagement.
Speaker 3: What's wrong now you're reciting it like you were reading it.
Speaker 2: Well, I did read it off that paper he gave.
Speaker 3: I know you did, Amy, But the idea is on No, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I can't take any more till after writ eat.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Oliver, But once I learn about me and Charlie.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 1: That's the way to say it.
Speaker 7: You and Charlie. That actually sounded as if you were
Speaker 7: his girlfriend.
Speaker 6: Certainly.
Speaker 2: What you have to do, Amy is believe that.
Speaker 3: Think of the exciting place as Charlie took you, how
Speaker 3: much fun you had together, how sweet he was. How
Speaker 3: one night you know about the palm springs?
Speaker 1: And he said, gee, Amy, I.
Speaker 2: Sure we'd love to see you in a natural, sober
Speaker 2: blue mink cout Amy.
Speaker 3: Charlie was a romantic guy, not a walking bank account.
Speaker 2: Couldn't he express his romantic feelings in a practical way?
Speaker 3: Come on, come on, let's eat.
Speaker 4: Oh well, get it, Oliver, honest, I will. When do
Speaker 4: I have to see the lawyer.
Speaker 3: In a couple of days?
Speaker 2: Could we have chop Suey tonight? Oliver? If they have
Speaker 2: chopped Suey in Texas?
Speaker 3: They have everything in Texas, everything, especially money, and I'd
Speaker 3: like very much to get my hands on some of it.
Speaker 1: Although there were very few leads on Santley, we did
Speaker 1: get some encouragement when one of his victims gave us
Speaker 1: a business calling card, but Santley had left while posing
Speaker 1: as a lawyer. The address on the card was a
Speaker 1: non existent number on a street in downtown Chicago, but
Speaker 1: we figured that something must have prompted Santle to name
Speaker 1: this street, so we began checking with Santlee's photograph. We
Speaker 1: canvased building on the street in the nightclub. We finally
Speaker 1: came up with something.
Speaker 6: Let me see that picture again. Yeah, that's him, the
Speaker 6: big blow hard. What's she wanted for a swindle?
Speaker 3: I know it.
Speaker 6: If I told her once, I told her a hundred times.
Speaker 6: This guy is a phony layoff.
Speaker 1: Told who mister Grogan, er Amy.
Speaker 6: That dumb beell. But oh no, he's distinguished looking, she says.
Speaker 2: And I say, who is Amy?
Speaker 5: Mister Grogan?
Speaker 6: She used to sell cigarettes here. She was so dumb.
Speaker 6: I was keeping an eye on her.
Speaker 1: I see, no, you don't.
Speaker 6: This was strictly on the up and up. I'm not
Speaker 6: the marrying kind, but.
Speaker 1: If I had a been, I gather this young lady.
Speaker 2: She did.
Speaker 6: He called for her one night a year ago, and
Speaker 6: she just never came back.
Speaker 1: Have you any idea where they went, mister Grogan, Sure
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 6: I could practically give you a map. Every couple of months,
Speaker 6: he sends me postcards. There ready wish you were here,
Speaker 6: love Amy. We'd like to see those cards, mister Grogan.
Speaker 6: I tear them up every time I get. When I'm
Speaker 6: so mad, I tear it right up. But the last
Speaker 6: one was from Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1: How long ago was that I don't remember.
Speaker 6: A couple of weeks, maybe more.
Speaker 5: You think she's still went sampley all.
Speaker 6: She says on a postcard is dear Eddie, wish you
Speaker 6: were here, love Amy. She puts her tea on wish.
Speaker 1: But you're sure the last one was from Dallas.
Speaker 6: I'm positive, mister Grogan.
Speaker 1: Do you happen to have a picture.
Speaker 2: Of the girl?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I got one. Hey, but look, she's a
Speaker 6: good kid. I don't want anything to happen to her
Speaker 6: except she should learn or listen.
Speaker 1: With the cooperation of the Dallas police, we began an
Speaker 1: intensive search of the city. We didn't know, of course,
Speaker 1: that Santley was working on a swindle in nearby fort Worth,
Speaker 1: and that the former cigarette girl Amy was playing a leading.
Speaker 5: Part in this.
Speaker 4: And then when Charlie never wrote again, well, I just
Speaker 4: got in my room and waited and waited.
Speaker 1: I know how you must have felt, miss Harmon.
Speaker 2: It was just awful. I'll bet I waited and waited
Speaker 2: and then waited all. Bet you want to know anymore?
Speaker 1: No, I think we have all the facts. We didn't
Speaker 1: want to bother you but I'm sure mister Santley explained it.
Speaker 2: Yeah he did. I said, I don't mind talking to
Speaker 2: someone like you, mister Winters.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you.
Speaker 2: I always admire lawyers. They know everything.
Speaker 1: Well, not quite.
Speaker 2: You're kind of young to be a partner in or
Speaker 2: aren't you, mister Winners.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm thirty four. That's not very young.
Speaker 2: That's practically a baby.
Speaker 5: Do you think so?
Speaker 2: Charlie was forty nine, Yes he was. He worked too hard,
Speaker 2: didn't he. I'm afraid so you shouldn't work so hard,
Speaker 2: mister Winters.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm afraid. That's the nature of our business. But look,
Speaker 1: I don't have to work so hard that I couldn't
Speaker 1: take a client. Well you aren't exactly a client, but well,
Speaker 1: whatever your legal status, would you like to have lunch
Speaker 1: with me?
Speaker 5: Miss Harmon?
Speaker 3: Now Act two of Tonight's story, Dumb Luck.
Speaker 1: With pictures of Santley and Amy Harmon in the hands
Speaker 1: of every law enforcement agency in the vicinity of Dallas.
Speaker 1: Agent Reynolds and I began checking the fanciest hotels and
Speaker 1: night spots. Sampley likes to be seen spending money in
Speaker 1: the best places, And.
Speaker 3: Then I thought we might go to the Blue palms
Speaker 3: for dinner.
Speaker 2: Oh I can't, Oliver, I got to eat with mister Winters.
Speaker 3: Oh you do.
Speaker 2: He says, you'd better talk to me again.
Speaker 3: He talked to you yesterday, I know, and the day
Speaker 3: before that.
Speaker 5: Here I know.
Speaker 2: He says there are a couple of things he wants
Speaker 2: to clear up. I see you said I should go
Speaker 2: along with him, didn't.
Speaker 3: Jolifer, Yes, I did, and you've gone along very nicely. Amy.
Speaker 3: Now I think it's time he returned to California.
Speaker 2: I don't know anybody in California.
Speaker 3: Oliver, Amy, dear, you're not actually going there. You're just
Speaker 3: telling mister Winters that now you've handled your under the
Speaker 3: deal beautifully. Now I come in and clean up.
Speaker 1: Oh, Oliver, Yes, you.
Speaker 2: Could get put in jail for what you were doing,
Speaker 2: couldn't you now?
Speaker 3: What brought that up? Nothing?
Speaker 2: I've just been thinking, that's all.
Speaker 7: Oh you have.
Speaker 2: You don't think I can think?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 1: Of course I do.
Speaker 2: Now you don't. But mister Winter says, I'm very perceptive.
Speaker 2: You're what What does that mean, Oliver?
Speaker 7: It means that mister Winters does in no trouble when
Speaker 7: he sees it, As.
Speaker 1: Is often the case, our big break in the search
Speaker 1: for Santley came from an unexpected source. An elderly man
Speaker 1: who worked in the back newspaper for a room at the
Speaker 1: Dallas Library saw Santley's picture in the post office and
Speaker 1: called at our Dallas office.
Speaker 6: And he came into my room three or four times
Speaker 6: for back upies of the papers.
Speaker 5: Do you know what he was looking for, mister Harris.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I do, because I helped him. He said
Speaker 6: he was doing a magazine article of mister Charles Emmitt,
Speaker 6: and mister emmittt made all that money in oil.
Speaker 1: Is that the man who died just about a month ago?
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, he was only forty nine when he dropped
Speaker 6: stone dead in his office chair when I said commentary
Speaker 6: on the herd of Burley of.
Speaker 5: Modern Living, Yes it is.
Speaker 6: I'm seventy seven. Now we exactly the same as I
Speaker 6: did today. I graduated from high school.
Speaker 1: That's remarkable, now, could you tell us, mister Harris?
Speaker 6: I attributed it mostly to a substantial breakfast and at
Speaker 6: least one egg days, sometimes two eggs.
Speaker 1: Mister Harris, do you happen to have a copy of
Speaker 1: the paper on the day Emmett died?
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, we do.
Speaker 5: May we see it? Please?
Speaker 6: Of course, sit down, gentlemen, only take a minute.
Speaker 5: How do you figure the ankle? Steve?
Speaker 1: Well, if he gotta swindle the dead man, he certainly
Speaker 1: would have. But barring that a dead man's estate, it's
Speaker 1: as good a guess as any Yeah, how where does
Speaker 1: this cigarette girl fit him?
Speaker 5: Amy? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What about Amy Harmon's Harmon?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Did you did you enjoy your steak?
Speaker 4: It was delicious?
Speaker 1: You didn't eat very much.
Speaker 2: I'm not hungry.
Speaker 1: What are you thinking about, miss Harmon?
Speaker 4: About last night when you were asking me what did
Speaker 4: I want most of anything?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I used to think that.
Speaker 4: If I had a mink coat, I wouldn't want anything.
Speaker 2: Else in the world.
Speaker 4: Know, all of a sudden, Yes, I don't know what
Speaker 4: I want? Oh, except maybe a vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 1: Uh, a vacuum cleaner?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Still ask me why? I don't know?
Speaker 5: What do you want?
Speaker 2: Mister Winters?
Speaker 3: Me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want you to have dinner with me again
Speaker 1: tomorrow night and the next time after that.
Speaker 2: I can. I'm going back to California.
Speaker 1: What but miss Harmon, Amy, you can't go so soon.
Speaker 2: We got my ticket already. I'm going in the morning.
Speaker 1: We've got so much to talk about. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: stay one more week. I can't. Three days, I can't.
Speaker 4: Mister, my name is Author, I can't, honest, Author, I'd
Speaker 4: like to Amy.
Speaker 1: Stay one more day. There's something very important I want
Speaker 1: to ask you. But there are other considerations relating to
Speaker 1: a family situation and certain people. Amy, stay one more day, please, Amy,
Speaker 1: just twenty four hours?
Speaker 2: Well, I guess I could stay that much. Twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Couldn't hurt anybody credit.
Speaker 1: Within twenty four hours of our visit to the library,
Speaker 1: we were in the offices of Gordon and Winter's, a
Speaker 1: law firm which was acting as executor of the Emity State.
Speaker 1: We gave mister Gordon the facts on Oliver Sangley and
Speaker 1: his partner, Miss Amy Harmon. I'm afraid my partner, mister Winters,
Speaker 1: is going to be very upset about this. He he
Speaker 1: seems to have developed a genuine infection for this young lady.
Speaker 1: We've only seen her picture, but he's obviously attracted, quite
Speaker 1: and warm hearted. A matter of fact, I rather took
Speaker 1: to him myself. She reminded me, well, never mind, that's immaterial.
Speaker 1: Where is mister Winters now? Mister Gordon, we'd like to
Speaker 1: talk to him too.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm sure this won't surprise you, but he happens
Speaker 1: to be with miss Harmon right now. She was supposed
Speaker 1: to return to California today and mister Winter's persuaded her.
Speaker 5: For Arthur, he's really going to take this hard.
Speaker 1: Do you know where they've gone, mister Garden?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: I told him to go out to my country club.
Speaker 1: We have a swimming pool out there in an excellent kitchen,
Speaker 1: and my partner, mister Winters, is thirty four years old
Speaker 1: and as far as I know, has been extremely shy
Speaker 1: of women.
Speaker 5: Oh, this is going to be Yes, Arthur, where.
Speaker 1: Are you in my office?
Speaker 2: Sir?
Speaker 1: I just got in.
Speaker 5: I thought you're out my.
Speaker 1: Club, I was, sir, but now I'm here in my office. Well,
Speaker 1: come right in now, will you author this important?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 2: Sir?
Speaker 5: Oh this is very peculiar. Gentlemen, Do you mind if
Speaker 5: I handle it any way you want? Mister Gardner, thank
Speaker 5: you very much.
Speaker 1: I just wish I knew what there was to handle them.
Speaker 5: No, Arthur, come in, Come in, Arthur. This is Agent
Speaker 5: Stevens and Agent Reynolds of the FBI.
Speaker 3: FBI.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm afraid I have bad news.
Speaker 5: For you author. Miss Harmon already.
Speaker 1: Only, sir, on the way to the country club, he
Speaker 1: told you, yes, or the whole swindle. She couldn't go
Speaker 1: through with it. When she got through telling me she
Speaker 1: had such a headache, we stopped at the drug store
Speaker 1: for asburn. She went in the front way and out
Speaker 1: the back. I've been looking for all day. I suppose you,
Speaker 1: gentlemen they are. I don't feel very well, sir. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be quite ill. Will you excuse me from
Speaker 1: all of course, I'll be right back.
Speaker 5: This Gordon.
Speaker 1: We're going to pick up Sadly the girl might want him.
Speaker 5: Yes, I think that would be advisable. Oh, poor UPA.
Speaker 5: He's really taking it hard, isn't he.
Speaker 1: We picked up Oliver Santley at his hotel, and several
Speaker 1: days later we found Miss Harmon after she'd gone to
Speaker 1: Chicago to get back her old job. Miss Harmon was
Speaker 1: arrested and remanded to jail to face formal charges. During
Speaker 1: the first day in jail, she had a visitor, Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 2: So what are you doing here?
Speaker 1: With your permission? Amy? I'd like to represent you in
Speaker 1: this action? What's that?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: I want to handle your case as your lawyer. Oh
Speaker 1: h that is if you're not already represented.
Speaker 4: I'm not represented.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 1: Then let's go over the details so.
Speaker 2: That Arthur, you didn't have to do there.
Speaker 1: Yes, I did teach you. Yes, I I think undue
Speaker 1: influence has been brought to bear on you by mister Sandley,
Speaker 1: that you were coerced into this act, which I feel
Speaker 1: I can convince a jury was and is repugnant to
Speaker 1: your nature.
Speaker 2: What does that mean? Oh, I say you can kill
Speaker 2: me on.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try.
Speaker 2: Oh why so, I think I'm going to cry?
Speaker 1: Well, that's all right, go right ahead. We have half
Speaker 1: an hour. Oh oh yes, poor kid?
Speaker 5: Am I I think?
Speaker 2: So? What Arthur?
Speaker 4: Yes, do you want to kiss me?
Speaker 1: Yes? But not now, Amy. First, we've got to figure
Speaker 1: out what we're gonna tell the jury. Miss Amy Harmon,
Speaker 1: ably defended by her lawyer Arthur Winters, was given a
Speaker 1: one year suspended sentence by a sympathetic judge, but Oliver Santley,
Speaker 1: whose long records spoke for itself, was sent to a
Speaker 1: federal penitentiary for five years. We haven't checked up on
Speaker 1: Miss Harmon since the case, but we feel sure she's
Speaker 1: still enjoying dumb luck.
Speaker 3: And Tonight's story to Rita about pray. The thought of
Speaker 3: Amy Harmon Martin's Lane was author Winters. This radio dramatization
Speaker 3: for the FBI in Peace and War was written by
Speaker 3: Louis Pellettiers. These programs are produced and directed by Betty Manderville.
Speaker 3: All names in characters used on the program are fictitious.
Speaker 3: Any similarity to person's living or dead is purely for Wincinnati.
Speaker 5: This program is based.
Speaker 3: Upon Frederic Lacollins copyrighted book The FBI in Peace and War,
Speaker 3: and the broadcast does not imply endorsement, authorization, or approval
Speaker 3: by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is Warren Sweety
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