Review - The Big Pair Aired 9-16-54
Friday, Smith are working the day-watch out of Burglary Detail. The lesson for house owners is not to leave any tell-tale signs someone is gone, e.g. newspapers collecting on doorsteps with curtains drawn. A couple is very successful robbing houses of their contents, selling the items to various retailers under false names, cashing the check proceeds, moving to the next home visibly unoccupied, breaking a rear window, entering the home and posing as a couple moving out via a hired moving van with movers.
The couple is so successful that it takes an eye-witness to a decoy house being robbed, before the couple is caught. The police can identify the two criminals through a furniture retailer, a bank teller, a watchful pet shop owner, but are unable to nab the burglars in the act. Quick action by the police when the couple is spotted in action casing a decoy home, is how the criminals are arrested.
Supporting cast members are believable including a young girl as one of the victims, plus a furniture store owner as an duped receiver of some stolen merchandise. Friday, Smith get help on this case from a familiar character actor policeman, as well. The voice of the police-woman providing identity of vehicle plate owners is familiar, too. Fifteen counts of burglary in the second degree sends each to prison.
The couple is so successful that it takes an eye-witness to a decoy house being robbed, before the couple is caught. The police can identify the two criminals through a furniture retailer, a bank teller, a watchful pet shop owner, but are unable to nab the burglars in the act. Quick action by the police when the couple is spotted in action casing a decoy home, is how the criminals are arrested.
Supporting cast members are believable including a young girl as one of the victims, plus a furniture store owner as an duped receiver of some stolen merchandise. Friday, Smith get help on this case from a familiar character actor policeman, as well. The voice of the police-woman providing identity of vehicle plate owners is familiar, too. Fifteen counts of burglary in the second degree sends each to prison.