This Is Your FBI: The Comic Strip Bandits

This is your FBI! Tonight, the Subutable FBI file! Death of government property! It's title, the Comic Strip Bandits! Of the many criminals threatening you, the American citizen, the thief ranks among the most dangerous.

The professional thief will steal anything of value from any person at any time. In tonight's case, you will hear of thieves operating on a large scale. But these same criminals began their careers with thefts of less valuable objects.

The car thief may steal a bicycle next. And as in tonight's case, a thief may steal government property and become the subject of a relentless search by the agents of your FBI. Tonight's file opens in a large Midwestern city.

It is night, and at a waterfront pier, a refrigerator truck drives onto the pier and stops at the edge. A sedan pulls up behind it, and a tall man leaves the automobile and joins the driver of the truck.

You leave the emergency on? Yeah. Get on the other side. Let's get this over with him. The tall man moves into position, both men shove the truck toward the water. As the truck emerges, the two men climb into the waiting car which is being driven by a woman, and as the car pulls away, a fourth person appears on the scene.

A middle-aged man who has been sprawled against a crate, slowly lifts himself to his knees and looks after the disappearing car. Then he rises to his feet and staggers to a saloon across from the pier.

What'll it be, Bentley? Something to keep the hands steady and the memory clear, right? Make it gin. That's what you had last night to keep the tongue ready in the wood shop. Unquote. So I did, so I did. Roy, would you believe what I just saw?