COLONEL: Dr. Simon, I understand that tonight's case concerns Eddie Doll, alias Eddie Larue, alias Burlington Eddie, alias Edward Foley. SIMON: Yes, Colonel Schwarzkopf. The case starts on September 16, 1930. Late at night, in the gang's hide-out at Lincoln, Nebraska, a barren room in the back part of a dilapidated apartment house. The shades were drawn, the windows sealed. The room was stuffy ... blue with smoke ... a tenseness was in the air. The gang was waiting nervously. SOUND: SNEAK IN FOOTSTEPS WALKING BACK AND FORTH. ROGERS: Sit down, Buck, and take a load off yer feet! TIM: Yeah. You gimme the willies walking around! BUCK: We may have ter bump the two guards off.... ROGERS: Forget it. Wait until Eddie Doll gets here. He's got all the low-down. TIM: I'm glad Doll has joined up with the gang. He's got a cool head.... He's slick.... He ain't one of these guys that goes off half cocked. BUCK: This is going ter be the smoothest bank job ever pulled in this country! SOUND: THREE KNOCKS ... TWO KNOCKS. BUCK: There's Doll now.... (HALF FADE) TIM: Make sure before you unbolt that door. SOUND: FOOTSTEPS UNDER TIM'S LINE. ROGERS: Who is it? DOLL: A guy. SOUND: SLIP BOLT ... DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES ... FOOTSTEPS. DOLL: Hi.... SOUND: SUBDUED GANG GREETS DOLL. TIM: Hi, Doll. DOLL: (MOVING CHAIR) Everybody here? BUCK: Yeah.... When we going ter crack the job? DOLL: We're going ter crack it in the morning, boys. SOUND: SLIGHT REACTION. ROGERS: What's the dope? DOLL: This is going ter be the most perfect bank cracking ever pulled in this country ... and the biggest. One million dollars. BUCK: Everything's set. DOLL: We're going to rehearse this thing inch by inch right now. I've got every emergency covered.... BUCK: We been working on it 3 months. DOLL: Buck, you're responsible for the getaway. If anything slips we'll all get lead poisoning.... Give the boys the setup. BUCK: Here's the map of our getaway. (SOUND OF PAPER) The car will do 70. You guys jumps in. We heads north, take the turn into Elm Street.... They're working on the road, so only one car can pass. I'm giving a taxicab driver 100 bucks. After we pass, he starts to drive through ... stalls his car ... so anybody chasing us will be stuck. ROGERS: Does he know what we're up to? BUCK: Of course not.... I told him it was a wedding party trying to get away.... We keeps going ... on the state highway over the railroad track. We turns off the highway, here, and heads for the hangout. I've drove over that route three times a day for the past 2 weeks. I could drive it blindfolded. TIM: How about license plates? BUCK: I got that fixed, too.... While we're driving we can drop off the license plates ... and swing new ones on. O.K., Doll? DOLL: All right. Now ... fer weeks I've had all you guys going in the bank ... having money changed.... I hired a vault terday ... got a good look through the cellar. (RUSTLE OF PAPER) Here's a picture of the inside of the bank. There'll be four guns in the bank ... one in this drawer here ... one in that drawer there.... and the two guards are always standing right here in front of this cage. Frank ... FRANK: Yeah! DOLL: You stands to the right of this guard, and Tim stands to the right of this one.... TIM: O.K. DOLL: At the signal ... you crack them guards ... snatch their guns. I'll get the two guns from the drawers. Ten seconds later, Sweeney comes in the bank with a machine gun. He covers the customers. (AD LIB AGREEMENT) We touch nothing in the bank but money.... We leave no fingerprints. Remember that! BUCK: Suppose the two guards puts up a fight. DOLL: Frank and Tim bumps 'em off. Now ... let's study the layout. We'll spend the rest of the night memorizing every detail. (FADE IN) SOUND: SLIGHT BANK COMMOTION ... ADDING LIGHT BACKGROUND. (FADE IN) MAN: Good morning, Mr. Smith.... I'd like to cash this check. TELLER: Certainly, Mr. Brown. DOLL: Stick 'em up.... This is a holdup! (QUIET) DOLL: Number three ... keep 'em covered with that machine gun. If anybody makes a move, mow the whole bunch down. ROGERS: Right. DOLL: Number one ... BUCK: (HALF OFF) Yes, sir ... DOLL: Scoop all the loose cash into those laundry bags. Hey, you ... you bank guy! Come here. Come with me and swing back the door of that vault. BANK GUY: Yes, sir. SOUND: FOOTSTEPS DOLL: Swing it back. SOUND: SEVERAL BOLTS. DOLL: One false move and you'll get lead poisoning ... Scoop all those bank notes into that bag. SOUND: MUCH CHANGE BEING POURED INTO BAGS ... MANY PACKAGES OF BILLS BEING TOSSED IN ... CONTINUES UNDER (FADE IN) ROGERS: There's a lot of loose money in these drawers, boss. DOLL: Take yer time, Pal.... This ain't no peanut robbery. Keep cool.... Use yer heads. This is going to be a million dollar haul.... Lug the full bags of money as far as the front door. SOUND: CHANGE GOING INTO BAGS OUT. (FADE IN) BUCK: There's a crowd collecting in front of the bank. DOLL: Let them collect.... We're collecting in here. ROGERS: (COMING ON) We got everything, boss. DOLL: You guys carry those bags. (PROJECTED) Don't one of you people take one step to follow us ... or we'll shoot holes in you. Come on.... (FOOTSTEPS) DOLL: Number three ... you stand at the door with the machine gun. As soon as we're all in the car, we'll give you the signal. ROGERS: Check. DOLL: Come on. (FOOTSTEPS ... CROWD GETS LOUDER ... SOUND OF MOTOR IDLING) Throw the bags of money in the back. (SEVERAL THUDS) Sound the signal.... Everybody get in. (HORN TWO LONG BLASTS) Here come the rest of the gang.... (CAR DOOR SLAMS) Step on it, Buck. SOUND: ROAR OF MOTOR UP STRONG AND FADE OUT. COLONEL: As I recall, Dr. Simon, that million dollar robbery was the biggest bank robbery ever staged in this country. Please tell our Palmolive Shave Cream listeners what happened next. SIMON: At that time, Colonel, bank robbery was not under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but the Lincoln, Nebraska, authorities asked the F.B.I. to furnish them with what information it could. On September 19, 1930, Inspector Haynes of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was in his private office in Washington, and I want you to see how a large organization operates in gathering complete information about a criminal.... SOUND: DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES. (FADE IN) DENNISON: You sent for me, Inspector Haynes. HAYNES: Dennison. This bank robbery in Lincoln, Nebraska, is the cleanest bank job ever done in this country. DENNISON: There isn't a clue.... HAYNES: Not one ... but ... we've got to find one. Now I've got here a complete report of how the robbery was executed. I want to check the modus operandi of this gang. DENNISON: Every musician has a definite individual musical touch.... Every painter has his own style.... Every criminal has his own individual approach to a crime. HAYNES: Yes, Dennison. We know there are some dozen gangs of bank robbers in the Middle West.... We know some recent gangs have been broken up.... DENNISON: You mean this robbery may have been committed by a leader who had his schooling from some gang that's already been caught? HAYNES: That's it. And if we can find a Middle Western gang, which operates similar to the procedure used in this robbery, it'll be a nail to hang our hat on. SOUND: BUZZER ... CLICK. HAYNES: Yes? FILTER I: Mr. Frank is here, Inspector. HAYNES: Send him in at once. FILTER I: Yes, sir. SOUND: CLICK. HAYNES: (TO DENNISON) I've asked several of the men to get reports on some of these Midwestern gangs, Dennison.... SOUND: DOOR OPENS ... CLOSES. FRANK: Frank reporting, Inspector. HAYNES: Get a report on that Salta gang? FRANK: Yes, sir.... They pulled four bank robberies. In each case, they shot the guards, and in each case they were careless about fingerprints ... and they didn't bother to take along loose silver. SOUND: BUZZER ... CLICK. HAYNES: Yes? FILTER I: O'Brien is waiting, Inspector. HAYNES: Tell him to come in. FILTER I: Yes, sir.... HAYNES: That's all, Frank. FRANK: Yes, sir. SOUND: DOOR OPENS ... CLOSES. HAYNES: (TO DENNISON) Dennison ... the Salta gang had no part in this bank robbery. This gang we're looking for scooped up the loose silver.... They left no fingerprints. SOUND: DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES. DENNISON: And the leader of the gang we're chasing had brains. O'BRIEN: (COMING IN) O'Brien reporting, sir. HAYNES: What about that Hoosier gang, O'Brien? O'BRIEN: There are six robberies laid to them, Inspector. In all six cases they entered the bank, bound their prisoners, took all money ... including loose silver. Only in one case was there shooting of a guard. The gang wore gloves in all cases, and only in one instance did they desert their car. HAYNES: Thanks, O'Brien.... Is Smith waiting outside? O'BRIEN: Yes, sir. HAYNES: Ask him to come in. O'BRIEN: (FADING) Yes, sir. SOUND: DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES. HAYNES: Dennison ... this gang sounds more like the one we're after.... their not shooting guards agrees.... Not deserting their car agrees.... Taking all loose silver agrees.... DENNISON: But the tying up of all those in the banks.... SOUND: DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES. HAYNES: That's where the Hoosier method differs from the gang that pulled this job. Hello, Smith.... SMITH: (COMES ON) I got reports on the Five-finger Mob and on the Yates gang. HAYNES: Let's have them. SMITH: Three bank robberies during the past year have been laid to the Five-finger Mob. In every case they've been scared off. DENNISON: Isn't that the gang that always leaves a girl in the car out front as a blind? SMITH: Yes, sir. HAYNES: Um ... they're just a rattlebrained mob. But there was a super thinking mind in back of this Lincoln, Nebraska, job. What about the Yates gang? SMITH: Broken up about two years ago. Three of them caught ... one shot.... Yates and two others escaped. Nothing has been laid to this gang during the past 2 years. HAYNES: What was their procedure? SMITH: (RATTLE OF PAPERS) I have it here. They entered the bank ... made a thorough sweep of money ... held employees at machine gun point.... In four cases they got reserve money from vaults, had a car waiting to make escape. In no case did they ever desert the car. HAYNES: Thanks, Smith. That's all. SMITH: Yes, sir. SOUND: STEPS ... DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES DENNISON: Inspector, that's the same modus operandi used in the Lincoln, Nebraska, robbery. HAYNES: Yes, Dennison. (RUSTLE OF PAPER) This report says that back in February our St. Louis field office was notified that a sheriff in Macomb, Illinois, picked up an Edward Doll for stealing a car. Doll was arrested, placed under $3,500 bail ... skipped bail. A car thief doesn't usually have $3,500 to put up as bail ... or to throw away by not appearing. SOUND: DICTOGRAPH. HAYNES: Fingerprint Department? FILTER I: Yes, sir. HAYNES: Look up the record of Edward Doll.... See who he's been connected with in the past. FILTER I: Yes, sir. SOUND: DICTOGRAPH CLICK. DENNISON: Are you figuring that Doll may have joined up with the Yates gang? HAYNES: Let's think now. The Yates gang always makes a thorough cleaning of the bank. That tallies. They don't tie the customers and employees. That tallies. DENNISON: And their general plan of procedure was similar to the procedure just used in this bank robbery. HAYNES: All right.... Yates and two of his pals are still at large.... Edward Doll skipped his bail 4 months ago.... It's taken several months to plan this bank robbery.... Why do all of these facts fit so perfectly? SOUND: DICTOGRAPH BUZZ ... CLICK OF RECEIVER. HAYNES: Inspector Haynes speaking. FILTER I: Report on Edward Doll ... arrested several times on minor offences ... known to be exceptionally clever.... It is possible that he is one of the leaders reorganizing a Western bank robbery gang. That's all. HAYNES: O.K. ... SOUND: DICTOGRAPH CLICK. DENNISON: So Doll does know Yates? HAYNES: Of course some of this is hypothetical, but Doll may have learned his bank robbing from Yates and now is even more clever. See that a picture of Doll, his history, and all of these facts are sent to the Nebraska authorities. It may be a good lead. SIMON: A number of months went by, Colonel ... Doll completely disappeared. Then suddenly ... FILTER 2: Kidnaping ... South Bend, Indiana. Kidnaping corresponds to description of Edward Doll, recently distributed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. FILTER I: Local bank in Tupelo, Mississippi, just robbed by Machine-gun Kelly. Description of his companion fits Edward Doll. Wanted ... all information on Machine-gun Kelly and Edward Doll. FILTER 3: Attention ... attention.... United States mail robbery at Effingham, Illinois.... Believe leader of gang was Edward Doll. SIMON: Well, Colonel, orders came from headquarters to the G men to redouble their efforts to get Edward Doll. Inspector Haynes again called Dennison into his office in Washington. HAYNES: Dennison, all we know up to now is Edward Doll is somewhere in this country ... and we've got to find him. I've just received some additional information. DENNISON: Something I haven't heard? HAYNES: Yes. Reports from all over the country. Doll's weakness is pretty girls. Has been known to visit Alice Kahn of New Orleans, Mildred Barling of San Francisco, Lucy Weber of Denver, Joan English of St. Louis.... There's a long list of them here, sir. SOUND: DICTOGRAPH BUZZ ... CLICK. HAYNES: Inspector Haynes. FILTER I: Report on Doll, sir. Used to pal around with Kathryn and Machine-gun Kelly. We have his fingerprints ... specimens of his handwriting, and a good picture of him. HAYNES: Send it all in immediately. SOUND: CLICK OF DICTOGRAPH. HAYNES: Well, Dennison, we're not very far ahead. DENNISON: Wait, Inspector, here's information I've dug up. Doll is fond of motion pictures ... especially gangster pictures. And get this.... He has tattoo marks on both his right and left forearms. A heart and an anchor and figure of a girl on his right forearm ... a cow girl and pierced heart on his left forearm. And he's quoted as having said that eventually he's going to retire to a chicken farm. HAYNES: Well, now we're getting somewhere! (DICTOGRAPH BUZZ ... CLICK) Inspector Haynes. SMITH: (FILTER) Men at one of our Western field offices have just been to the jail and talked with Machine-gun Kelly. They didn't let Kelly know they wanted information on Doll ... but they asked a lot of questions about other things, and Kelly intimated that about 9 months ago Doll married a girl by the name of Janet Galaton in New York. HAYNES: Thanks, Smith. SOUND: CLICK. DENNISON: Doll's already married, Inspector. HAYNES: That wouldn't stop him from marrying again. Um ... that's the best tip we've had yet. DENNISON: It's going to be a big job to examine all the marriage licenses in New York. They probably got married under fictitious names, too. HAYNES: (THINKING) Let's see.... Doll meets a girl ... wants to marry her. Is he going to let her know who he really is? If she were the type of girl that he could take in as one of the gang ... he wouldn't care if she knew his identity. Right, Dennison? DENNISON: Yes. HAYNES: But ... if Doll doesn't want her to suspect anything, then he can't ask her to sign a fictitious name to the marriage license. He'd change his name ... but that marriage license is going to contain her real name. We've got to find a license made out to Janet Galaton. COLONEL: Dr. Simon, I know the most interesting part of the case will be the police search for Janet Galaton, but before you tell us about that, Frank Gallop has a few words for our listeners. (COMMERCIAL) COLONEL: Dr. Simon, you were telling us that Inspector Haynes and Dennison went to New York to check the marriage license records. SIMON: Yes, Colonel Schwarzkopf, for over a month, Inspector Haynes and Dennison worked in the marriage bureau of New York, carefully going over every marriage license. It was a tedious job. (FADE) Then, late one afternoon ... SOUND: TYPEWRITERS AND OFFICE HUM IN BACKGROUND. DENNISON: (TENSE) What is it, Inspector Haynes? HAYNES: This is worth our weeks of tiresome checking, Dennison. A marriage license made out to Miss Janet Gabrielle Galaton and Mr. Leonard E. Foley. DENNISON: Janet and Galaton are fairly common names. HAYNES: Married to Leonard E. Foley.... Give me that sample of Doll's handwriting. DENNISON: Sure, here it is. SOUND: RUSTLE OF PAPER. HAYNES: Let's see.... Leonard E. Foley.... Um ... Edward Doll. Those two E's are written exactly the same way. DENNISON: Yes ... the ends on those two D's are the same too ... and notice the R's? HAYNES: Dennison, it's our first clue! DENNISON: Foley gives his address there as the Nemo Hotel, Dallas, Texas.... That's probably fictitious. HAYNES: But Janet Galaton gives her address as Danville, Vermont. That's probably correct. Come on, Dennison. We're going to Danville, Vermont. SIMON: Several hours later, Colonel, Inspector Haynes and special agent Dennison, posing as traveling salesmen, arrived at Danville, Vermont. They rented a car and drove up to the local post office. SOUND: CAR STOPPING. DENNISON: But why come to the post office, Inspector? Let's go up to her home. SOUND: TURN MOTOR OFF. HAYNES: This is safer. DENNISON: Why? HAYNES: Janet Galaton doesn't know she's married to a man like Doll, does she? DENNISON: No. HAYNES: If she doesn't know, her parents don't know. DENNISON: Um ... HAYNES: It's natural for parents to communicate with their daughter. If they don't realize there is any need for secrecy the most natural communications would be through the mails. DENNISON: I get you. HAYNES: The safest way to close down on a criminal is not to let anybody in the world know you're looking for him. Come on ... in the post office. SOUND: DOOR OF CAR ... FOOTSTEPS ON CEMENT ... CHANGE FOOTSTEPS TO WOOD. HAYNES: (FADE IN) How do you do. POSTMASTER: How do you do, sir. HAYNES: I'd like five 3-cent stamps. POSTMASTER: Yes, sir. SOUND: MONEY ON COUNTER. HAYNES: Say ... by the way.... Would you direct me to the home of Janet Galaton? POSTMASTER: Yes, sir. You turn right ... a mile up the road ... a green house on the right-hand side. SOUND: SEALING LETTERS. HAYNES: Thanks. Thought I'd drop in and surprise her. POSTMASTER: She's not at home now, you know. HAYNES: (DISAPPOINTED) Doesn't she live here any more? POSTMASTER: (LAUGH) Hasn't for a year. Married now ... married some out-of-town fellow. HAYNES: I'm awfully disappointed. Say ... I guess I'll drop her a postal card from here, though. You don't happen to know her address offhand, do you? POSTMASTER: Yes.... Her folks sent her a package yesterday and insured it.... The slip ... here it is. The package was sent to Mrs. Janet G. Foley, Box 270A, Route No. 2, St. Petersburg, Florida. HAYNES: Thanks. I'll drop her a card. (SLIGHT PAUSE) COLONEL: That was a clever piece of work, Dr. Simon. Please tell our Palmolive Shave Cream audience how Inspector Haynes followed it up. SIMON: Well, Colonel, 4 days later, Inspector Haynes and special agent Dennison arrived in St. Petersburg and talked with the local post office officials. (FADE IN) HAYNES: But I tell you there must be a Leonard E. Foley listed somewhere here in St. Petersburg. POST OFFICER: (FLORIDA ACCENT) No Leonard E. Foley in the city directory. HAYNES: Is the postman who delivers over Route No. 2 around? POST OFFICER: He may be in the other room. (FADE) I'll see. HAYNES: (LOWER VOICE) What do you think, Dennison? DENNISON: Funny there isn't a Leonard Foley in the directory. (FADE IN) POST OFFICER: Mr. Jenkins was just going out delivering mail. He has Rural Route No. 2. These two gentlemen are Federal officers, so answer anything they ask you. POSTMAN 2: (FLORIDA ACCENT) Yes, sir. HAYNES: We have the address of a Leonard E. Foley, Box 270A, Route No. 2. Know anything about him? POSTMAN 2: Why ... about 2 weeks ago he wrote out an order that all mail addressed to Foley should be delivered ... Wait a minute.... I've got that order here in my book. HAYNES: Good.... Did he write the instructions himself? POSTMAN 2: Yes, sir. HAYNES: Dennison ... let me have that sample of Doll's handwriting. DENNISON: Just a minute. SOUND: SHUFFLE OF CARDS. POSTMAN 2: Here's the note he wrote out. Says to deliver any mail addressed to Janet or Leonard Foley to 5190 38th Avenue North. HAYNES: Let me see the paper.... Um ... Dennison ... notice this E.... See this R.... DENNISON: That's his handwriting! HAYNES: He and his wife have a house out there? POSTMAN 2: Yes, sir. Farm about 35 acres. They raise chickens. HAYNES: When's the last time you saw him? POSTMAN 2: He come out to the postbox about 2 days ago. HAYNES: Thank you, gentlemen, very much. Come on, Dennison, we'll go out and see this Mr. Foley! SOUND: SLIGHT PAUSE ... MOTOR FADING IN. HAYNES: That looks like the house, Dennison, ahead on the right. DENNISON: Think there'll be shooting, Inspector? HAYNES: There will be if he can get his hands on his gun ... but first we've got to make sure he's the right man. DENNISON: Remember the tattoos. He should have a heart and anchor and a girl tattooed on his right forearm.... HAYNES: But on his forearm ... if we try to force him to roll up his sleeves there may be shooting. DENNISON: That would be a sure way to identify him, though. SOUND: CAR SLOWS UP. DENNISON: There's a man around back of the house. SOUND: CAR STOPS. HAYNES: (LOW) Change your gun into your outside pocket. DENNISON: (LOW) Right. SOUND: CAR DOOR OPENS ... FEET IN STRAW WALKING. HAYNES: (CALLING) Hello, there. Mind if we come out back and see you? DOLL: (DISTANCE) Come on. SOUND: MORE WALKING. (FADE IN) HAYNES: We're interested in buying some chickens.... DOLL: (A LITTLE SURPRISED) You ain't farmers.... HAYNES: No ... we've just moved to St. Petersburg. Thought we might arrange to get fresh chickens from you. DOLL: I ain't selling any. Wait a minute till I close that gate. (FADE) All the chickens will be out. DENNISON: (WHISPER) Think it's Doll? He's about the right size ... heavier, though. HAYNES: (WHISPER) We got to get a look at his forearm. (FADE IN) DOLL: What did you two fellers stop for, anyhow? HAYNES: I told you.... We'd like to have you kill us a fresh chicken every Sunday. You've got a nice place here.... This big hogshead makes a good watering trough. DOLL: Yeah.... It's always full of water, too.... This hose runs from that spring over there and keeps the hogshead full. HAYNES: Look here, Bill.... Lean over and look in it.... Isn't that water clean? DENNISON: Mighty clear. SOUND: DROP WATCH IN WATER HAYNES: Oh! I dropped my watch into the water! You've got your coat off, sir.... would you roll up your sleeves and get it out before the water gets into the works? DOLL: All right.... Wait a minute.... (BENDING OVER AND GRUNT ... SWISH OF WATER) There.... HAYNES: Thanks. ... It was awfully careless of me. DENNISON: Got a tattoo mark on your arm, haven't you? An anchor and a girl.... You must have been a sailor. DOLL: No.... I did it for the fun of it. DENNISON: This is interesting.... Tattoo always fascinated me.... Let me see it.... DOLL: Sure. HAYNES: That's beautiful work. DENNISON: Best I've ever seen! DOLL: You fellas think this is good? Wait til you see my other arm! HAYNES: (LEADING HIM ON) Oh, you've got another tattoo? DOLL: (PROUDLY) Look at this! DENNISON: A cow girl and a pierced heart. HAYNES: Hold your arms out together so I can compare the two designs. DOLL: Sure. What do ya think of 'em? SOUND: SUDDEN CLICK OF HANDCUFFS. DOLL: (ASTONISHED) Hey.... What's the idea ... ? Take these handcuffs off me! HAYNES: Edward Doll, you're wanted for the million dollar bank robbery in Lincoln, Nebraska; the South Bend kidnaping and too many other crimes to mention. DOLL: So you know me? How'd you find me? ... I didn't make one false move. HAYNES: That's one of the things that helped us find you, Doll. SIMON: And that, Colonel, was the end of Eddie Doll, master mind of the biggest bank robbery ever committed in this country. COLONEL: What happened to Doll, Dr. Simon? SIMON: He was sentenced to a long term in a Federal penitentiary. COLONEL: Thank you, Dr. Carleton Simon, for telling us this gripping case. You and I know that no matter how cunning a criminal may be, no matter how cleverly he may cover his tracks, sooner or later he is bound to be uncovered and suffer the full penalty of the law. Tonight's case has brought out vividly our oft-repeated statement ... THE CRIMINAL CANNOT WIN.