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Speaker 1: United States. The only national program that brings you authentic
Speaker 1: police case histories.
Speaker 2: Gangbuster at Margit Dayplay.
Speaker 3: A crime wave of the most serious proportions is spreading
Speaker 3: throughout the United States. Tonight Saturday, decemberate, nineteen forty five,
Speaker 3: a serious crime is being committed every forty second.
Speaker 4: Chicago, December eight.
Speaker 3: One man kills another wounded in gun battle with police. Chelsea, Massachusetts,
Speaker 3: December eight. Police searching desperately for person who telephoned father
Speaker 3: of six months old baby that kidnapped child would be returned.
Speaker 4: Quote in a box unquote.
Speaker 5: Redwood City, California, December eight. Sixteen year old high scho
Speaker 5: girl kidnapped by man and woman in green sedan.
Speaker 2: Theyse are authentic factors.
Speaker 3: Since this new crime wave has started, a murder has
Speaker 3: been committed in the United States every three hours.
Speaker 1: In its relentless war upon this crime wave, that this
Speaker 1: country may be a safe country in which to live.
Speaker 1: Gangbusters presents Lewis J. Valentine, former commissioner of the largest
Speaker 1: police force in the world, who will interview by proxy. W. M. Adams,
Speaker 1: Sheriff Potter County Texas Commissioner Valentine.
Speaker 6: Now Sheriff Adams. Suppose you start our gangbuster's case for tonight.
Speaker 5: While Commissioner Valentine, I'd like to go back a few
Speaker 5: years to Dallas, Texas Sheriff Hart was telephoning to the
Speaker 5: Texas State Police.
Speaker 2: This escape convict is deadly.
Speaker 3: I consider him one of the most dangerous criminals at large.
Speaker 3: And here's the description. Pikey Thompson twenty six, five feet
Speaker 3: eight inches, weight one hundred and fifty cold, black hair,
Speaker 3: dark brown eyes, swave some dresses like a fashion place.
Speaker 3: Blackie Thompson will kill on the slightest provocation.
Speaker 7: Uh, don't play anymore, Leila. All right, Denny, that's our song.
Speaker 7: I can't stand it tonight, Leila. Do you realize ever
Speaker 7: since we were ten years old, we planned to get married.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Denny, Leila, you're just infatuated.
Speaker 7: You don't know anything about him, only he came to town
Speaker 7: a month ago.
Speaker 8: But I can't help my feelings. Denny.
Speaker 4: Sure, he's handsome, he's been in places. He's flash he's exciting.
Speaker 8: Denny, he's romance. He's everything I ever dreamed of.
Speaker 7: And I'm just a guy who's always lived across the street.
Speaker 8: You'll get over it never.
Speaker 7: You don't even know Leyla what he does for a living. Oh,
Speaker 7: I suppose that's him?
Speaker 4: Is my hero?
Speaker 8: All right? Do I look all right? Denny?
Speaker 4: You look awful good to me.
Speaker 9: I'll be back minute, Blanky, I can.
Speaker 8: Denny's in the living room. I've just told him. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I hate a terrible to hurt him.
Speaker 4: You've told your old folks you're leaving town with me.
Speaker 8: No, but I've got my bags all packed after they
Speaker 8: were asleep.
Speaker 9: I leave them and not to meet you.
Speaker 4: I want to get out of this break.
Speaker 8: I never was so excited in my life. Oh, Blackie,
Speaker 8: you do love me, don't you sure?
Speaker 4: Blacky?
Speaker 8: There won't be one board minute.
Speaker 9: Being with you?
Speaker 4: You do another half of it.
Speaker 8: Kid, leaving this way, I'll probably never be able to
Speaker 8: come home again. You'll you'll always love me, won't you?
Speaker 4: You're okay, beautiful, waiting to get a look at the
Speaker 4: outside world with me.
Speaker 3: Emergency All State Police First National Bank in Rush Springs, Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: held up by three gunmen. Leader cold black hair, brown
Speaker 3: eyes attention to escape police. Gun shop at Rheotock, Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: held up by three gunmen. Leader black hair, immaculately dressed,
Speaker 3: brown eyes, machine guns, shotguns and ammunition stolen. Leader answers
Speaker 3: description of dangerous escape convict Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 4: Pretty swanky nightclub. Halila, Hey, you never said nothing like
Speaker 4: this in Hicktan you come from. That's the matter.
Speaker 8: Oh, I was just listening to that son. It just
Speaker 8: happens to mean a lot to me.
Speaker 4: Ah, thinking of that hick Romeo I took you away from.
Speaker 9: We'll snap out of it, all right, all right, I'm sorry, Blackie.
Speaker 4: You wanted excitement and you're getting it. Answer whomember. The
Speaker 4: first night you threw a fit when you found out.
Speaker 8: Who I really was, it was also new to me, Blakie.
Speaker 4: Now I'm gonna give you some real excitement. What I'm
Speaker 4: pulling another heist tomorrow the bank. Yeah, and the heat's
Speaker 4: on me. You're gonna drive our getaway car. I'm going
Speaker 4: to to drive our getaway car.
Speaker 8: All right? All right if you say so, Blakie.
Speaker 4: Well that's what I do.
Speaker 8: Say you still love me, blank I'll lay off that.
Speaker 4: Gool I'm getting fed up with it. You'll park the
Speaker 4: car in front of the bank and I'll take quit
Speaker 4: me and go in. Yes, you're the cash here. Yes,
Speaker 4: let's suspect up. Break for the sailing. Don't reach for
Speaker 4: the sailing, my arm. He didn't reach quick enough. Grab
Speaker 4: the dough. Okay, shut up, group the case, never mind him,
Speaker 4: get the dog, got it? Okay? Then come on, and
Speaker 4: if anyone tries to stop this, when we get outside,
Speaker 4: kill him.
Speaker 8: Are you all right? Blank you?
Speaker 9: I heart your.
Speaker 4: Mouth and step on the g step on it. I said,
Speaker 4: that's a fast now, leader. Those cops are sent out
Speaker 4: of arms. They spot a car, hit the sixty the figure,
Speaker 4: it's us. Keep your guns righty in the back, steat
Speaker 4: there with me. You don't worry. I'm ready.
Speaker 8: Oh, Blanky, I didn't realize it would be like this.
Speaker 4: You start whine enough for a plug?
Speaker 3: You just as quick as I want anybody else wacky.
Speaker 8: I'm sticking with you. I always will.
Speaker 3: Hey, Blackie, you think he'll kill that cashier.
Speaker 4: Back in the back. What's the difference.
Speaker 3: We got the dough, Blackie?
Speaker 8: Look coming down that other road car?
Speaker 4: Pots?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do we do?
Speaker 4: We can't turn back a black house. Shut up. We've
Speaker 4: only got one chance. Now, listen, Leela, you do what
Speaker 4: I tell.
Speaker 8: You, all right, Blackie, anything you see he.
Speaker 4: Driving straight aheads. Oh, nothing's wrong. Yes, if those cops
Speaker 4: you'll pull up, stop the car. But when you do
Speaker 4: pull up just a few feet ahead of them, you
Speaker 4: understand what my mind. Get the guns back there ready,
Speaker 4: I'll crawl a back seat with your Whitney.
Speaker 3: Cops.
Speaker 4: See it's all right there, waving Whitney. Hide down on
Speaker 4: the floor of the car. Now you do what I
Speaker 4: told you, Lelo.
Speaker 3: You'll get a slug in the back of the head.
Speaker 3: Pull over your people, pull over, okay, officer.
Speaker 4: Stop just ahead of them, Lela. That's right. And when
Speaker 4: I say so, jammer guns out the back window and
Speaker 4: let them have like you know, keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 4: I can see through the back window. Copsy get out now, yeah,
Speaker 4: don't work in this way.
Speaker 3: Okay the car, let them have it. Oh mo, kill
Speaker 3: kill them all.
Speaker 2: We got most of them.
Speaker 4: Blake, shut up, get.
Speaker 3: This car going, Thank you. Kill them you killed.
Speaker 4: They'll kill you if you don't get this car out.
Speaker 4: It's got the cups taking Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 5: One member of that patrol posse, was killed Commissioner Valentine.
Speaker 5: Two of the others were badly wounded and another received
Speaker 5: slight wound, but Blackie Thompson and his gang escape.
Speaker 1: All back to Gangbusters and commission Or Valentine.
Speaker 6: What happened Sheriff Adams After Blackie Thompson's spectacular escape from
Speaker 6: that puffy.
Speaker 5: Well, Commissioner Valentine, Blackie Thompson, reckless as he was, thought
Speaker 5: her best to hide out for a while. He and
Speaker 5: Leela had a hideout just outside of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Speaker 8: Why Blackie, come in Lena new suit, new shoes, But
Speaker 8: what's the idea of the suitcase?
Speaker 3: Are we going somewhere and me.
Speaker 4: Those gloves on the pura these uh uh pig skin
Speaker 4: pretty hard and rough.
Speaker 8: Blackie, you are planning on working out on me?
Speaker 4: Uh well, little talk with you first, even get on
Speaker 4: my nerves. I'm fed up, Blacky, no one, no scene,
Speaker 4: and I'm fed up with the Dame. I'm through and
Speaker 4: that ends it.
Speaker 8: But I can't go home. I haven't got any place
Speaker 8: to go. I haven't got anybody but you.
Speaker 9: You can't leave the.
Speaker 4: The reason I wanted to talk to you is you
Speaker 4: think you're gonna get back on me and tipping off
Speaker 4: the cops. You got another think coming. You can't one
Speaker 4: word of the cops and I'll find you and fill
Speaker 4: you full of lead.
Speaker 8: After I've given up my home and family and everything working.
Speaker 4: These pigskin gloves are just like Steve, and you have
Speaker 4: a beautiful face. I should bump you off now and
Speaker 4: to make sure you don't code. But just as a
Speaker 4: little sample, yeah a long time before that pussy, yourys
Speaker 4: looks human again. And if you were even tempted to
Speaker 4: say your word to the cops, just remember that little sample.
Speaker 3: Fletchy Mike, come in the office a minute.
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 4: Check?
Speaker 3: Did you check where the police in nearby cities? I'm
Speaker 3: Blackie jumping? Yes, sir, I know, so how about want
Speaker 3: to check it is now? I was just coming in
Speaker 3: from the printer. I'm sending one to every police chief
Speaker 3: in the country.
Speaker 2: Good of Heart's office?
Speaker 3: Is it? Who is this?
Speaker 9: There's a man you want, pat and I know where
Speaker 9: he is?
Speaker 3: Blackie TOMPs Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 9: He said he'd kill me if I ever told who
Speaker 9: are you? I was his girlfriend?
Speaker 3: Where is he?
Speaker 9: Tims Barr? I hope you lock him up till he dies.
Speaker 3: There's this gang with him.
Speaker 9: I don't know about his gang.
Speaker 3: What is now, beautiful girl? It might be Hello, Hello,
Speaker 3: A trip on Blackie Thompson. Yeah, my woman, black he's
Speaker 3: supposed to be over at Tim's bar. I'm driving over
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 4: You can't go alone, Chef his whole gang. Maybe with him.
Speaker 6: I'll take my chances, Mike.
Speaker 3: This time it's going to be Blankie Thompson or me.
Speaker 4: Hello, Sheriff. Kind of raw tonight?
Speaker 2: Hello Tim?
Speaker 4: What brings you to my place? Sheriff? Something up?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 4: Well, no one's been except that fella sitting back there
Speaker 4: in the corner. He's the man I'm watching in the
Speaker 4: bar mirror. Yeah, who is he?
Speaker 3: Five feet eight inches, one hundred and fifty pounds, black hair,
Speaker 3: dark brown eyes.
Speaker 4: That's right, Blackie Thompson. I saw his picture on the papers.
Speaker 4: What are you gonna do, Sheriff.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take him.
Speaker 4: Hey, that guy's a killer. Moved down the bar out
Speaker 4: of range.
Speaker 3: All right, stay where you are, both of you, and
Speaker 3: if we don't.
Speaker 4: I knew you was a cop, but the minute it
Speaker 4: came in, I was waiting for your first move to
Speaker 4: kill you.
Speaker 2: Here it looks like you've got the drop on me.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna kill you, and I'm gonna kill that dame
Speaker 4: that tipped you off. You wouldn't just kill me here
Speaker 4: in cold blow, wouldn't I you said your last speech here, Sheriff,
Speaker 4: you threw him right over your shoulder. All right, Blackie,
Speaker 4: get up on your feet. Kill Okay, I'm getting up, Cop,
Speaker 4: I'm getting up.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of jobs marked up against you,
Speaker 3: Blackie and one of his cop killing.
Speaker 2: Ervin.
Speaker 5: Blackie Thompson, rise and face the court. It is the
Speaker 5: sentence of this court that you, Irvin Blackie Thompson, for
Speaker 5: the crimes of kidnapping, murder, and robbery, be taken to
Speaker 5: the Texas State Prison at Huntsville, And that within the
Speaker 5: walls of the said prison, on the twenty fourth day
Speaker 5: of October next between the hours of six and ten
Speaker 5: in the morning, a sufficient current of electricity be passed
Speaker 5: through your body to cause your death. And may God
Speaker 5: have mercy on your soul.
Speaker 4: Just a minute, Whitney, you know the rules. Convicts are
Speaker 4: allowed near the death house. Yeah, I thought maybe, Ay,
Speaker 4: I thought I could see my old pile, Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 4: They're uh electrocuting them in a weekend. Oh, you have
Speaker 4: to get permissions from the warden. Oh well, then, uh,
Speaker 4: would you quiet God? Or I'll kill you. Where'd you
Speaker 4: get that gun? Open the door of the death house quick,
Speaker 4: surprising what a little gun smothered? Then?
Speaker 2: Can do.
Speaker 4: I walk inside? Screw nobody ever escaped from his death house. Yeah,
Speaker 4: wouldn't they have give me those keys? Blukey b like you?
Speaker 3: What's set in over here? With me?
Speaker 4: Hurry hurry? Yeah, come on, God, run with me, get
Speaker 4: me out of the cell. Open the door and come on. Okay,
Speaker 4: you know well the slight to be in the death house.
Speaker 4: Come on, open it up with me. Hurry, I'm working
Speaker 4: his fencers. I can't blakey. I'll never forget this flavor
Speaker 4: but me. Okay, Butney, No, I'll take that guy, but
Speaker 4: apply him your gun. I'll shove the god in the south.
Speaker 4: Let's screwise out for good. Hey, open myself, let's get
Speaker 4: out of here. It's gonna spend those other guys in
Speaker 4: the death house hand not stun and burn.
Speaker 3: I'm saying myself.
Speaker 4: Come on, I got the ladder hit on the other
Speaker 4: side of the storf like he had. No guy ever
Speaker 4: broke out of this death house before I get that
Speaker 4: ladd You know, okay, I got it over to the wall.
Speaker 8: Now you.
Speaker 4: Okay, stand the ladder up against the wall and it's okay,
Speaker 4: I'll start. I know you don't I'm first. Oh, that's
Speaker 4: no way to treat me. After I got you out
Speaker 4: of the Death House. Blankie the Blackie Thompson. Blackie comes first,
Speaker 4: look the gart up in the wall. Seasons.
Speaker 3: Oh Blackie, come back, help me? Will you help yourself?
Speaker 4: Who do you think I am?
Speaker 3: Emergency Emergency Blackie Thompson has just escaped from the Death House.
Speaker 3: While Whitney awaited him to escape, was shut by the
Speaker 3: tower guard and killed. Emergency Blankie Thompson has just escaped.
Speaker 4: I'm right here in the shadow.
Speaker 9: Oh, darling, I couldn't see you.
Speaker 4: You really like these country clem dancers. No, they're boling.
Speaker 8: I wish you'd come in.
Speaker 4: I've been watching you through the window. I knew you
Speaker 4: were here.
Speaker 8: I was trying to sneak out. I never knew a
Speaker 8: girl could be so in love in just one week.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, running away with me or not.
Speaker 8: But do you realize I hardly even know your name.
Speaker 4: You're in love with me though, more than anything in
Speaker 4: the world. Well, then after you get home tonight, pack
Speaker 4: sneak out and I don't have a car on the street.
Speaker 4: In the back of your house.
Speaker 8: You honestly love me, don't you?
Speaker 4: Would I be asking to run away with me if
Speaker 4: I didn't. All right, I will go with you.
Speaker 9: I'll go with you to the end of the world
Speaker 9: if you want you.
Speaker 4: We won't go that far at first. I'll take you
Speaker 4: for a few weeks to Amarilla, Texas. Amarilla. I don't worry, kid,
Speaker 4: you won't be bored. I promise you that.
Speaker 3: Attention.
Speaker 4: Attention.
Speaker 3: First National Bank just robbed by gunman about twenty eight
Speaker 3: black hair, handsome, immaculifney dressed. This gunman cruelly beat cashier.
Speaker 3: Believe to be killer. Blackie Thompson approach with caution. Sriff's office. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 3: what's the matter? This is the Sheriff's office. What's the matter?
Speaker 3: Are you you?
Speaker 6: Who is this?
Speaker 9: You? Looking for Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 4: Blackie Thompson. Every office in the South looking for Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 3: He's here in Amarilla, where I don't know who are you? On?
Speaker 9: His girlfriend? He told me he was gonna marry me.
Speaker 9: He said he loved me. He's found another girl, and
Speaker 9: I hope you catch him and shoot him and put
Speaker 9: him in the electric chair and kill him and put
Speaker 9: him in jail for life. I never, never, never, never
Speaker 9: want to see him again.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Hello, attention Texas police. Blackie Thompson reported to
Speaker 3: be here in Amarello. All patrol cars cover her main
Speaker 3: highways killer Blackie Thompson reported here in Amarello.
Speaker 4: You don't suppose, Sheriff, that.
Speaker 3: Girl who thown in game is a wrong steer.
Speaker 4: I'm Blackie Thompson here. She didn't expect that she was
Speaker 4: the cleverest actor I ever heard.
Speaker 3: I'm way Jerry police car in Texas and patrol him tonight.
Speaker 3: Look way down there on the lower road. See yeah
Speaker 3: to Dan must be doing seventy. Look way behind it.
Speaker 3: Three squad cars are after him. Sheriff must be Blackie
Speaker 3: Thompson in the first car. He's outright on the squad cars.
Speaker 3: Oh what a run break This road runs parallel that
Speaker 3: road for miles before there's a cut across, and we'll
Speaker 3: never be able to get down the highway in time
Speaker 3: to cut him off. We've got to those squad cars
Speaker 3: will never catch him. It's only one way to head
Speaker 3: the car off. Go down the embankment assist. He put
Speaker 3: bank in a rough field beyond. He's got to take
Speaker 3: a chance. Hang on, either make it or be killed.
Speaker 3: Watching look out that rock, steady, steady. Sure if you
Speaker 3: made it, he's about three hundred yards ahead of us.
Speaker 3: Step on it. I can't go any past her. He's
Speaker 3: pulling away. I'll see if I can plug his tires. Gord,
Speaker 3: he's stopping me out. Sure you've heard this out of
Speaker 3: the glass from wind Shoe. We'll get him.
Speaker 4: Oh, here comes the other squad cars. Come on, man,
Speaker 4: there he is right by his car, right out on
Speaker 4: the sides of the road. I know, man, Open fire,
Speaker 4: all right, man, hold it careful. Thompson may be playing possum.
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: If your gun's on him, though, If he starts to
Speaker 3: get up out of that road, let him have it.
Speaker 4: You got my covers must be at least thirty bullets
Speaker 4: in him.
Speaker 3: Well, then that's the end of Blackie Thompson. It's a
Speaker 3: shame that some of these men don't realize before it's
Speaker 3: too late, that they just can't get away with it.
Speaker 5: Well, Commission of Valentine, that's the case of Blackie Thompson.
Speaker 5: And I hope if there's anyone listening tonight who contemplates
Speaker 5: committing a crime. They'll just remember this case.
Speaker 6: We appreciate, Sheriff Adams, you are telling us these inside facts. Tonight,
Speaker 6: Gangbusters is a Phillips h Lord production.