This is Your FBI: The Strange Extortion

The Equitable Society presents this is your FBI. The Your FBI, an official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.

For your FBI you look for national security, and to the Equitable Society for Financial Security. These two great institutions are dedicated to the protection of you, your home, and your country. Tonight's file, the Strange Extortion.

Hardly a day passes, that some person of large income or great wealth does not receive a letter demanding that he pay the sender a certain sum of money or suffer the consequences. The usual implication is death to himself or some member of the family.

Through most of these extortion letters are written by cranks who never carry out their threats, but the FBI must investigate them all. And quite often, the letters are the real thing. Tonight's case from the files of your FBI involving attempted extortion is one of the most extraordinary stories of its kind on record.

Lindtrock was a wholly appropriate name for the old secluded Long Island estate, for it not only described the volcanic outcroppings about the place, but it suited the character of the despotical woman who ruled the cold-raced stone house with perpetual ill-temper and a passionate contempt for all under its jagged roof. Although Lettie Bradford could seldom leave her bed,

her arassable spirit haunted every room, and had long since made flintrock a house of mutual It is now one minute after nine o'clock in the morning. Bloody Bradford reaches for her stick and... Janet! Janet!

Oh, that's too big nurse. Janet! About time, young lady. Good morning, Mrs. Bradford. Nearly two minutes after nine, Janet. I'm sorry. That's no excuse. You know, very well, I want my breakfast at nine o'clock, and nine o'clock doesn't mean two minutes after nine.