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Hello, it's me Doc. Okay to talk? Yes, go ahead, you can relax, Doc. Everything went off on schedule, just like you said. Watchmen tied up in the next room. Save Jimmy who Mark traces left cigarette ash on for what else? Does you called? Arnie SidD and me Charlie? Yeah, I called, and he said, and gush Charlie, all right, now you know what to do from here where the footpads all the way out of the car. Thank you,
look as if you left in a hurry. And vince, Yeah, you might take your glove off before you hang up. A palm print will tease the police and add a nice amateurish touch. You know how to spunget and you ought to. You made me practice enough? Oh that does it? Then? Better get started? And if anything should go wrong, what could you got us covered for? Every slip with you in a payroll, Nothing could go wrong back, not a
thing in this world. In the spring of this year, your FBI was called in on a spectacular series of robberies which baffled the law enforcement agencies of four states. Each robbery was seemingly executed by a trio of amateurs, but when the apparent leads were investigated, they all managed to converge in a dead end. At first, this was accepted a sheer coincidence, but later, when we began to assemble the incredible puzzle, we came across the most unusual
criminal career on record. Hey Jack, good morning, Gus. I guess you know why I'm here. Everything went off all right, led up perfect. Here's your envelope, DAK five thousand, even five thousand. I used to make that in just about a year. Thanks, Gus. I'd ask you in, but my wife and I are just having breakfast. Her forget that this is business, not social. Good bye, DAK. Vince said he'll call you when he's got the next layout ready. All right us? By now that wasn't so long, was it.
Oh?
Someone you don't know? Go on now read your paper.
I don't want to read the paper. Did you see this about that robbery? The police feel and arrest is imminent. They'd have made an arrest by now if you were still on the force.
Any hot coffee left have.
To make such foolish statements that they had any sense for a coup. It wasn't that renting agent again, huh at the door? Now you don't have to keep things from me, Dan. I know how hard it's been for you to make ends meet. In fact, I've been wondering hard it.
Wasn't the renting agent, Neddie. Now the rent is paid up, almost all our debts.
Are you found another position?
Neddy? You finally found one. You didn't even tell Netty that isn't it? It is? I wish it was, Believe me, I wish it was. But then, Neddy, Yes, that's what I've been wanting to talk to you about. I haven't been looking for any other job. What the commissioner didn't let me go for the reason? I told you my age had nothing to do with Dan.
What do you say?
I've been meaning to tell you the truth, but I just haven't had the courage.
What is it, Dan? Tell me?
It's not very pretty. Tell me I was fired, Neddy, for conduct done becoming a police technician, for gambling away twelve thousand dollars in IOUs held by Vince Connors. I said it wasn't pretty gambling, That's right. I thought no one knew, but somehow the commissioner found out didn't. How could you? That's what I've been asking myself. How could I? I just wanted more for you. I guess better close a house of our own. Who knows how it starts.
You bet a little at first, and you win. Before you know it, you enter a shady character like Vince Connor's for twelve thousand dollars. You can never pay him that kind of money, Dan, I know we can't. Don't you think I know? Anyhow? We won't have to pay him. He he didn't want the money. He didn't want it. No, he was willing to tear up the IOUs in exchange for my laboratory knowledge. Sorry, Nettie, I wish there'd been some other way out, but there wasn't.
Well, what did he want?
I told you my lab knowledge? Not only would he tear up the IOUs, but he'd pay me handsomely services rendered. What kind of services, Dan? The kind no one would accept from me anymore? Accept a person like Vince Connors. You better poor us bolsmore coffee, Dear. What I have to say is going to be just as repulsive to you as it was to me. But we still have to eat. I wish there'd been some other way out, but that just wasn't.
Back to the scientific touch in just a moment.
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A too up Tonight's story on the FBI in Peace of War the Scientific Touch with no open lead in the case, we subjected the night watchmen to the monotonous task of scrutinizing all photographs in the known criminal files of every lawlaw enforcement agency in the robbery areas, and our first break came with his tentative identification of a paroled gambler named Arnie Lenza. But Lindsa had an airtight alibi and promptly volunteered to prove his innocence with a
light detective test. The test appeared to do just that, corroborating Lens's claim of innocence completely, or, as they say in detective movies, may be too completely. Meaning, mister Stevens, you're familiar with the pathometer, aren't you? Only in courtroom discussions. It's to its admissibility. I'm afraid I see well. Throwing aside technical language, this particular machine records a subject's brain body electrical potentials when stimulated by thalamic cortical conscious apprehension.
Throwing aside technical language, Well, all right, I put it this way. There is a characteristic electrical pattern when the truth is told as well as one when the subject tells a lie. I'm with you now. With a lie, the subject undergoes the emotional reaction that invariably accompanies a fear of being caught stimulus, and this brain electrical change is simultaneously recorded. The pathometer is the instrument you used
to test lensor. Yes, and if you will take a look at these graphs, you'll notice one very unusual thing. You see what I mean? No electrical change exactly. That's unusual, very under the circumstances. Wait a minute, now, I'm afraid you're losing me again. Oh, if no change was recorded, wouldn't that indicate Lensa wasn't lying at all? It might, or it might indicate that he merely wasn't undergoing any emotional reaction. I see, in a test of this kind,
our questions aren't limited to the crime. We ask certain other questions that should cause emotional reaction in anyone. Back with me again. That's why the two completely lendsor answered the questions too. Well, yes, that's about it. The graphs should show electrical change in several instances, but as you see, they show none. Why I don't know the first time I've come up against anything like it. Well, a man could be pardon yes, hello Steeve. If you asked me
to call hold on a minute, will you dave? A man could be trained to control his reaction to questions. Couldn't he trained not to react at all? Well, it's possible, isn't it. It's possible, yes, But such a thing would require a great deal of practice, and then you'd have to have an expert around to handle it, someone like yourself, well anyway, someone qualified to anticipate the newest equipment. Dave, Look, I want you to do something for me right away.
Check each of those pds have personnel. Give us a report on all laboratory technicians past and present over the last ten years. I'll tell you when you get the reports all app technicians over the last ten years, right, Dave. Thanks? And meanwhile, what about Darnie Lenza officially or unofficially? Officially? Meanwhile, I have to let him go. Officially, Landsa told the truth, didn't he You can't hold a man for that. And you should have seen that lad character's face when he
looked over the grass. That was the only time all day I had trouble control of my gus in the back of the door, Annie, Okay, yeah, what is it me?
Uh?
Okay, open it? Hello, Doc, I never expected to see you over here. Gotts wrestle up and drink for the dots. No drink, thanks, Vince. I've got to talk to you for sure, don't I know it. The boys and me just finished drawing this parrel layout for you to look over pull up a chair. Honnie's got some stitches over his light test. Well you're here.
I got to hand it to you, Doc, all those hours a driller, but they were sure worth it.
You'll never hear a beef out of me again, That's right, I won't. And I'll never look over another layout either. That's what I come to talk about. Huh. I'm ending our relationship since I'm through. Now, wait a minute, Doc, let's not go up for deep. No, I'm not. I assure you are. Sit down and calm yourself. Hey, boys, how do you like that? For brains? Doc's not satisfied with his cut, and he dreams up this act to put on this queen. This isn't any act, Vince. I've
gone over the whole thing with my wife. She's made me see daylight. Oh you went over it with your wife. Yes, it was crazy getting tied up with you in the first place, all right. I was desperate, I admit it. I'm even grateful to you for the help. But it had an end some time before. It was too late. Naddie and I are leaving town. So this is why you're leaving? Yes, maybe with a fresh start on my money. Well on the money you got from me when you
didn't have what to eat. Vince, I said, I was grateful. I am, But I think I've done my part in paying you back. I you think wrong, dock leaving town wouldn't be a very bright move. I advise against it. I'm sorry. Yeah, call that, guys, I'll take care of you. No, it's no use, Vince. I've made up my mind you're wrong, dead wrong. I don't think so. I haven't done your part paying me back, not even a little. I've taken a real fancy to doing things scientific like, and I'm
not going back to doing them any different then. So I know how you feel. How you don't begin to know how I feel. So now I'm telling you I feel. You're not leaving Tom. You're staying, and Gus and Annie will be watching every move to see that you do. I here's your copy of the layout. Take it all, the look it over. Phone me on the angles, go on, take it. I said I was ending our relationship. Since I meant it. Annie, you heard what he said.
Take you So.
What's more, Vince? No, I think that's enough. That catches quick. He didn't know how I feel. Now he knows right doc to the Director Washington. Confidential examination of personnel records police laboratory technicians reveals two possibilities. One promising inquiry shows Bay City technicians fired from department last year in gambling connection with ex convict Vince Connors seen in company robbery suspect Arnie Lindson. Agent Reynolds checking technicians own circumstances will
advise signed it Stevens. Well, thank you very much, missus Daniels. You've been very helpful.
You're welcome, mister Reynolds.
I'm sorry, Dan, I'm sorry.
My husband wasn't here, but he should be back by tomorrow.
You can talk to name. That'll be fine. Oh, it's just a matter of routine, nothing to worry him about, Missus Daniels. Good bye, mister Reynolds.
I'll tell my husband. He may hear from you tomorrow.
Thank you.
By all right, he's gone, Dan, he said, I heard, just a matter of routine, nothing to worry me about.
What's the matter.
Maybe it would be better then, Maybe it would be better if if what if you spoke to the man, if you told the FBI the truth.
What you can't go on like this, Dan, those men will never let you go.
You know that now, maybe this is the.
Best way out. Oh, Nettie, I couldn't. I couldn't do that. Don't say such a thing, Darling. I just couldn't, Nettie. All right, if I spoke to him, if I told them the truth, what would happen to me and to you? Neddy? I couldn't stand with you, all right, Dan, you don't have to, Tony. I'm sorry. I never should have done this to you. I should have realized. Don't, Darling, don't. I'm sorry. Going to the FBI isn't the best way out, Nettie. I think I've got a better one, Dan, I got
myself into this mess. I should at least be smart enough to get myself out now. I've been working on something ever since I left Vince Connors. I didn't want to show you until I was sure. Show me what this this photostat? I made it up myself, photostat. It's a copy of a confession, Neddie, A complete confession, revealing every detail of the robberies and all the names Gus Arnie, Vince Connors. It also includes my name and what I did. But if you send that to the police, I'm not
sending it anywhere. I'm going to show Vince the original when I see him. Now, I want you to put this copy in our vault box at the bank, our VAULTA. I do it myself, but Vince warned me they'd be watching me.
Dan, you don't think that here.
I do neddie with a photostatic copy secure in our vault. I think Vince will have to let me go. Now, will you take it to the bank, Dear of course, Dan, of course I will. But I'm not sure, Maddie. Nothing's ever sure. But if anything, if anything, should ever happened to me, Vince will know what will happen to him. He said. He likes things scientific like well, maybe this will oblige.
Him back to the scientific touch in just a moment.
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Okay, let's go up here. I'll walk the rest of the way, right, give me five minutes with him. Then bring her along and Annie, Yes, escape her quiet. If she gives you any trouble, stop it. You know she won't give me no troubles. Okay, five minutes, then bring her along. Yes, who is it me? Vince, who are you expecting. Davy Crackett also closed the door and for me your two fingers. What are you doing here, Vince?
What does it look like I'm doing? I come over to see what new angles you've got for the payroll job lifeing? No, she isn't good. Women in business don't mix right with me. Well what have you got for me?
Doc?
No angles? Vince? No, I thought we had that kind of talk well tucked away? You thought wrong. You haven't looked over the layout. No, I haven't, and I don't intend to change your mind. That's it have come. I wanted time to figure some way to force your hand, and you figured it. I did. That's why Netty isn't here. The wife again, she's in this too, both of us. We're ending relations, whether you like it or not. What makes you think so, Doc, I'll show you, don't bother?
I'll show you. Huh, I'll show you. This is what makes you think so?
Isn't it?
Well? Prince? Uh? Huh? Where did you get that? Where did you get it? Where else? Dak the wife's purse? Dy yes, sir, that's where Gusanni. You know how the light they are with the ladies offered them missus a lift and come up with a surprise Forresta. How do you like that, Vince? Either of them may that they'll be here with her in a minute. You can tell him direct, he'll be here. Hah. Gus and on followed. If I it's safe, I always say I should have known,
not the sinder. You should have known a lot of things, Doc, a smart guy like you, you should have known not to force my hand with a photostack to the cops. She wasn't going to the cops. Come again, she wasn't. She was only a doc. Doc. Nice, try only at one word. No, that's the truth. Yeah, it has been stole it.
But I did stow it.
A corpse, Doc. Also, you're a fool. You had a warning from me. You acted up and you had a warning, didn't I want you? Didn't I? So now you're a corpse, the both of you. As soon as Gus brings her in that door. No, and it'll be scientific, Doc, real scientific. I learned just how to do it from you. An accident, maybe a suicide. Go answer, doc, you're crazy. You you were over eleven once in Go open the door, which finished. She had nothing to do with us. Leave that he
out stock listen to me. Now open the door, Doc, go open to the rolet. You have it right now, Vince, you hurt me over it. My name's Reynolds, Jock. I'm an agent of the FBI. Thank gods came back. There's a dangerous criminal insight with the gunner. All about it, We know all about it. I'll take it easy. Your wife's sake, what you saved. Take an easy stand over there, out of range.
Bence Connors, Fnce Conners.
What do you want. We're federal officers. Connors.
Come on out of there with your hands up.
Our house is covered front and back. Connors, come on out.
You're having a chat. Oh yeah, Fnce Connors.
All right, all.
Right, I'm hurt, don't shoot. I'm coming out. The defense offered in behalf of Doc Daniels attempted to plead temporary insanity brought on by the damaging loss of his job, but Daniels himself chose to be a forthright witness, convincing a jury that he was sane and fully aware of the nature of his acts. Vince Connors and his confederates received prison terms of fifteen years each, but in consideration of his age and cooperation, with the prosecution. Daniel's sentence
was reduced by the presiding judge to five years. Our files are closed on the Scientific Touch.
In Tonight's story, Phill Smith played the part of Doc Daniels Harold Huber with Mence Connors. This radio dominization for the FBI in Peace and War was written by Jack Hanson Fink. These programs are produced and directed by Beerry Mandebil. All names and characters used on the program are fictitious, and a similarity to the person's living or dead is
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