This is Your FBI: The Cross Country Fugitive (syndicated)

This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file. Flight to avoid prosecution.

It's title, the cross-country fugitive. The Federal Bureau of Investigation cooperates with the local and state police everywhere in the nation. The FBI laboratory, for example, makes its facilities available to every accredited law enforcement agency.

Thousands upon thousands of reports on the fingerprints of suspects are answered by the FBI and the notification division. Perhaps one of the most important aids your FBI gives local authorities is in locating missing witnesses.

Under the law, if a witness in a local criminal case involving a penitentiary offense is served with a subpoena, and evidence is found that the witness has left the state. Your FBI has jurisdiction under the law of covering unlawful flight to avoid giving testimony.

Such cases are actually man-hunts, for a person in hiding can flee to any corner of the country. Can change his occupation, his appearance, his habits. When all the facts are sufficiently evident, your FBI secures a warrant for that witness's arrest. Then comes the real job. The job of serving that warrant.

The night's file opens in an FBI field office in a western state. Agent and charge Bishop is at his desk when special agent Jim Taylor approaches. You sent for me, Mr. Bishop? Yes, Taylor. We got a job for you. How are you coming on that report?

Almost finished. Good. I'm putting you on a surveillance. When you were in the Boston office did you run across the hood named George Tracy no not directly but I know who he is well Tracy comes up for trial next week this time the police think they've got a case that'll stand up how does this office fit in well the case