Hit-and-Run Driver (1935)

William Tannen: Jim, MGM Reporter

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  Jim, MGM Reporter : Ladies and gentlemen, as the MGM reporter it has been my job to bring to you accounts of criminal cases proving indisputably that crime does not pay. Today my message is more urgent than ever. For a new menace is sweeping the country, causing more deaths than America suffered during the entire World War. Thirty-seven thousand were killed and approximately one million injured last year alone. From all over the country come reports of violent deaths, horrible mutilation. No one is safe from this new public enemy. Who is he? He may be your neighbor. He may be that person in the seat next to you. He is the driver of any one of America's 25 million automobiles. I would like Captain James of the Kent County Traffic Division to tell you just how the police deal with this situation.

  Captain James : Thanks, Jim. Sit down. To combat this type of killer, we've developed a highly scientific method of detection. So efficient is this method that few hit-and-run drivers escape ultimate conviction. As an illustration, take the case that happened last June, along the Columbia Turnpike.