For your listening enjoyment. John lund As, Johnny Dollar, Dave Brace,
Johnny Plymouth, Mutual Oh hied Dave, Johnny Sapphire is a bad let.
Yeah, I saw black cats. Cats don't get stolen, or at least
we don't ensure them. I what does the name Benny Stark mean anything to
you? Benny? Sorry? Yeah, jewel thief a couple of convictions.
I haven't heard of him lately. Are you hearing now? He called us
from Rockport, outside of Chicago, wants to talk with you. He apparently
has the sapphire neckmar who's your client, Dave named Helen Bowley? God,
people you in Rockport society, I've already made your playing in hotel divisions and
Jave, Benny your name right here. I have a few words to say,
and I'll say them as quickly as possible. You know, someone once
said that everyone and everything in America depends on speed, and that as our
country grows older, we all move faster. But it wasn't much more than
one hundred years ago that the fastest anyone could travel was at the speed of
a running horse, which wasn't very fast when you compare it to the speed
of our latest jet plane and talk about going to the moon at twenty five
thousand miles an hour. And during that same one hundred years or so,
we've grown from the first crude telegraph to the perfection of color television. Yes,
this increased speed in transportation, communication, and everything else has changed almost
everything in our country, including the cabinet of the United States. For example,
up to World War II, there wasn't any reason why the War and
Navy departments should be directly responsible to the president. But then there was a
growing need for the speeding up of military action and decision, calling for unified
commands and the more closely knit integration of military activities. Thus, our Department
of Defense was born, creating a new cabinet post to coordinate and to execute
the overall general policies relating to the armed forces, and the Secretary heading this
new Department of Defense became the representative to the President for the newly designated secretaries
of the Army, Navy, and more recently, the Air Force. In
the future, our fast moving world may add even more members to the President's
cabinet to ensure the safety and well being of our United States. Expense account
submitted by special Investigator Johnny Daughter to home office, Plymouth Mutual Insurance Company,
Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
the Boreguard matter xpenser count utem one fifty eight dollars and forty cents airfare and
incidental to Rockport, Illinois. I checked into the Bleaker Hotel and waited for
a contact from one Benny Stark jewel See. I planned to see the Borreguards
later, but instead the bore Guards came to see me, or anyway one
of them did. I'm Jettet Boutigoda. It was my niece Ellen, from
whom the nick that was schooling me. Oh sure, come in, mister
Boregard. I have a seat to think you, sir, A little unexpected.
I just got in town. Well, at least two braces of the
insurance company wired that you were coming. I wanted to talk to you before
you saw Ellen. Oh, I say, my niece is a remarkable girl.
Mister Dollar trifle headstog at times, though, and not always inclined to
use the best judgment. Well, I guess I could apply it to most
of us. Yes, yes, of course, Now tell me dolla do
you have any hope that the necklace may be recovered? I think so,
it's very certain. In fact, well, Ellen will be very happy.
It was an engagement. If you understand from till Avery, her fiance,
she was quite broken up when it was stolen. The as I imagine,
thirty thousand dollars is quite a loss. Well, it's more of the sentiment
a text than the beauty of it. You've seen the necklace now, but
I have photographs of it. Oh, yes, from the insurance company.
Well about your nieces? Boy, God, just what was it you wanted
to tell me? Well? I was shooting Johnny Dollar and this is Benny,
mister Dalling. Oh okay, shoot, you know where the pink pigeon
is? No, but I'll find it. Let's say out of town.
I'll meet you a at nine o'clock to night, back booth, behind the
bar. Yeah. Sure, have you got the item? I got more
than that. I got information that will blow the lid up. I've been
double cross Dollar and I'm gonna get eaten. What do you mean double cross?
First, we make a deal, see you to night. I got
to run along, mister. I didn't really have anything in particular we'll telling
me too impulsive sometimes, but you even' means any harm by it. I'm
sure you understand. Expens a count out of two fourteen dollars to hire a
car. Then he was on ice until nine o'clock, so I decided to
call on Ellen Beauregard, a girl who was too headstrong and impulsive, but
didn't mean any harm by it. Uncle Jarrett was wrong, though I didn't
understand. I left the car near the Borderguard coach house and walked down the
terrace toward the entrance. Ahead of me, in a glass in sunroom,
a man and a girl were so busy with each other that they didn't even
notice me, a highly romantic scene. The mistress of the house probably the
only trouble. Though she was wearing a maid uniform, he was still a
little flushed when she answered the door. Good, I can say, I'd
like to see him Slen Bouregarde. My name is Johnny Dollar. Done heard
the investigator on the robber Dave must have wired everybody in town. I'm do
Than's you come in, thanks, you'll work. I'll tell me Phil the
god you're here? Yeah right? Oh? Oh? He must be the
insurance fellow you too, Ellen said you were doing town today. I'm still
avery with Darling. How do you do? Ellen and I are engaged.
I gave her that necklace that was stolen. Yes, I know. I
certainly hope you can get it back. Insurance won't cover the sentimental value.
Sentimental value, yes, Oh, I know how you come up on the
terrace. But appearances are deceiving sometimes. I would want you to understand.
Oh, I think I understand perfectly with gravery good good. I got to
run. My officers are in the Central bank building drought in. If there's
any information like, thanks, I will bank. I'm offully sorry to do
waiting. Mister dollars quite all right in this border guarden gave me a chance
to meet you at fiance. Oh isn't shill a dollar head draw? Sometimes
impulsive, but he never means any harm by it. That is exactly well.
I thought you want to all about the robbery. No, I think
I know most of it already. I would like to see the safe though.
Oh course it's over here behind the painting. You've just got to find
that neckless mister dollar. I feel so guilty about it. Guilty why no?
Because it was a gift from Still and not that I was careless,
but yeah, I'm sure you understand. It is back of the portrait.
Hmm, an old fashioned one. Huh, everything now said, Our family
has been around quite a while. Yes, it wouldn't be much of a
job for a professional safe cracking. How'd they get into the house, miss
boy guard? Of course, a lock somewhere. No, you're not set
a key. You see, I've gone out for the afternoon, and Uncle
Jared was off somewhere and the housdenty your maid wasn't here. No, No,
after I left, she decided to go onto time to some shopping or
something or that. They couldn't have picked a better time. No, they
couldn't have. Oh see, incidentally, you'll uh he'd probably be talking to
Uncle Jared and uh. I wanted to warn you about him, cause he
means well. But is he head strong and impulsive too? No, No,
it's just that he's well a little the I'm sure you understand. To
Donald, it was nearly dark when I left, Filled with understanding and with
a lot of questions about the Border guarde establishment and still I needed answering.
I started to open the door of my car when I caught a flash of
white at the corner of the coach house. Somebody had seen me and then
tried the duck out of sights. I walked across the drive and moved quietly
up to the corner evening laws. Can I help you with that? No,
you, I was just coming to bring some tros. Well, fine,
let me put it in the incinerator for you. Oh, it's no
trouble. I'll just say of you sort of through this. There's something heavy
inside these favors. Oh, can't let me have it. You won't understand.
Oh, you're the first one around here who hasn't thought so. She
sounds impatient. You better run along. I'll take care of this for you.
Oh. I knew what it was already, and in a moment I
had it unwrapped. A thirty two caliber revolver, and one chamber had been
fired recently. I slipped the gun in my pocket and shove the papers into
the incinerator. It's the dollar all right here, miss boyguard. Oh,
Oh, I saw your colonel was still in the driveway, and I just
checking the layout of the grounds. I'm leaving now. M Lois just came
in from somewhere in this direction. Oh was she talking to you by any
chance? Oh? We passed the time of day. Well, don't believe
anything she tells you any definite reason. Why not? Oh, I've caught
her in all folkses lives. I didn't want to stay anything inside. She
might have been listening. How long has she been with you? Four months?
She goes out in the afternoon sometime, and I know she lies about
where she's been. Do you think she had something to do with the robbery?
I don't know. I'm only suggesting that you check very carefully on anything
she might tell you. Well, if she's like you say, why have
you kept her? No? I've been planning to let her go, But
so objections were raided? Who raised the objection? Uncle Jerry. When I
got back to the hotel and went to my room, I had another surprise
waiting for me. Go right in. I'll never see. Oh, thanks,
I could be in the wrong room, of course, I'm out of
your mister Dollar. You know a fellow named Benny Stark. Not exactly.
I'm looking forward to the meetium though. Let's see good business women I might
do I have any with you. My name is Katt, and mister Dollar
I'm the chief of police here. Oh, I see, how did you
get out of me? Found? Your name was Stark at rhythm of dam
at your room number here at the hotel. A friend of yours, and
I guess we might as well work together. Chief. I'm an insurance investigator
checking on that Borah God robbery from that Stark as a jewel thief. He
found the company and offered a talk of deal. I've got an appointment with
him at nine tonight. Yeah, I don't reckon you're going to be able
to keep it? Why not? Because this Stark feller got himself shot a
few hours ago, real shot, didn't might it? Yeah? Found him
in the room and I was over cursed town. You wouldn't know anything about
which mister dogger I might What kind of a gun was it? Thirty two
revolved recording of the lad well This might be the gun? I'm fired?
All right? Good? I took it away from lower the boy guid's made.
He was trying to hide it and the incinerator. He might have a
check, but I doubt if it's register is registered. Huh. We don't
have many guns around town here. I recognize this and as belongs to Jared
Borer Garden, Uncle Jared. What about these boy GUIDs? Who are they?
What are they? Full line family, four generations, just two of
them now Jared Allen not as wealthy as they once were. Maybe you never
know though they at least Jared seems they have plenty of money lately or not
just since the robbery, that's what you think. And I meant the last
four or five months? What about this phil Avery been there a couple of
years. Fine, you're in pellaciitic leader. Everybody is pretty ticuled when they
got engaged last ring because they was meant for each other. Well he goes
in for the lavish ufuly take them anybody now? Oh? Is it?
Know? I've got to talk to at the Dollar just a second. You
want to didge into the bathroom and listening? Good idea? Come on,
loss, thank you. I've got to have a talk with the Dollar.
What begun? Please? It's not the way it looks. And he's trying
to get me in trouble. I found the gun. Where take him under
the masters of my bed. I can't see it. I was trying to
get rid of it when you stopped me. Tonight in the paper, says
a man's been shot. Did you know him? No? You know who's
gun? This is? No, I don't know anything about it. Give
it to me, please, I'd like, sir Lois, but I'm afraid
it's not that simple, all right. See, you know many great men
have attained the highest office in our land, the presidency of the United States.
Can you guess the name of this man? As a boy, his
general health was bad, but as a man he was a dynamo of energy.
He was only forty two when he became president, the youngest man ever
to hold that position. His administration was a fairly untroubled one. There was
still no income tax, other taxes were comparatively low, and the United States
was in a peaceful era. Conservation of our natural resources was one of his
greatest concerns as president, and in nineteen hundred and two he signed a bill
putting the Reclamation Act into action. If you don't have his name by now,
here's one more important clue. During his administration, work was begun on
the Panama Canal. Who was he? Theodore Rose though twenty six President of
the United States. His life is part of your American heritage. Of you
and now with our star John Lund, we bring you the second act of
yours, truly, jolly Dollar, expend the gout out them three two dollars
and ninety cents two hamburgers. Stake lunches the next day at noon in the
Bleaker Hotel Grille, apparently a favorite daytime eating place for the president of the
Central City Bank. Oh man, who I say your mind passed me that
Tabasco sauce, mister Dollar? Oh here are Oh no, I love it
on Hamburger. I love Hamburger for that Manute get the proletary and it hearting
it. Maybe so, But you've got some pretty aristocratic clients, haven't.
Well, that's a bank for you. Gets you in the Bula guarde weh.
Here, try some of the saws. Thanks. Oh my, oh
their aristocratic and other As far as Hamley background has concerned a social position,
that sort of thing. But when it comes to money, that's another story.
When you want to know about a man's economic status and just ask his
bank, that's exactly what I'm doing. And oh yeah, so you are.
And now you understand, mister Dollar, that I wouldn't know it in
there they left this information out. Yes, yeah, that is a though
the town figures they're rolling in it. The bull regards are broke near plaque.
I have been for a couple of years. What about that house,
the estate, Oh my mortgage to the hill. Like a few other properties,
they've still managed to hang on to. But cash. Oh no,
no, they haven't got it. You're gonna eat that button? Huh oh
no, no, go ahead, thank you, thank you? What except
the last three or four months. You know, it's a funny thing.
Old Jarrett seems to be going around with a pocket full of money. Helped
me barring it from his perspective, son of ur? Huh, how was
he fixed financially? He fixed a man who can afford a thirty thousand dollars
engagement. Yet I have never looked through his account, but I'd say that
if he doesn't have it, he soon will have. Oh my boys to
go get her pretty well? Thought of elected him to the board of directors
of the bank last month. Then you're not going to eat that roll?
Oh, thank you, thank you? Thinking. I don't know how he
finds time for it. That boy, he's got to have a dozen job
aready? He had to postpone he wedding even they were supposed to get married
three weeks ago. Oh, I see lors the board guard made. Wouldn't
have anything to do with that, would he? Oh gossip, gossipe,
what gets around that gossip? Well she's a pretty little thing, you know,
and a man who's about to tie himself down for life. Well you
know how that is. Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, he just
too bad the fello and found out about it. Uh, just time to
be with some real excitement if he said, would you pass that sauce again?
Mister jolly well absidente chief, I have a couple. Oh, I'm
sorry, I didn't know you're busy. Well, that's all right, come
on in, you know, mister Avery Verlyn as we've met all, missus
dolling d you came. It's concerned you too, Mister a Ree figures we're
doing this girl or as an injustice. She's not involved in any of this,
mister Dollar, either the faft or the murder. She's not the kind.
I know her. Oh well, Miss Avery well enough to know that
she's a pretty fine person. The only trouble is, mister Avery, I've
got a pretty strong case against the girl. She was trying to dispose of
the murder guns. You know the time. How's it be empty to set
up the robbery? She could have given Benny's Stark a key to get in
one thing though that she've gotten. We haven't found the necklace. Unless she
can be tied up with that, a case won't stand. We're still looking.
What about her room at the boy of guards, of places around the
house that she might have access to. First thing in the morning, we're
gonna take it to pieces, mister Dollar, and you won't find a thing.
Wait and see. I'm afraid that you'll have to do, mister Avery,
wait and see him. Will you go on back and talk to if
you want? I told it you could have fifteen minutes. Thanks you getting
see I Jelly? All right, now, I's turn here mine, mister
Dolly Jeweler's This is a photo of that necklace. Do you know any jeweler
here in town who could make a duplicate imitation? I have to go to
Chicago for then, Well, that's what I want to know. Whether there's
somebody who did go into Chicago four or five months ago. Well, I
could get Jim over here from Hartley's Jewelry store. He could give them a
technical description over the phone. Chicago, please work pretty fast, might have
some information back by the zee. Good, I'll wait to hear from you.
There was nothing more I could do until I heard from the Chicago police,
so I went to my hotel room to wait it out. Johnny Dollar
A dollar, Oh yes, miss Bargart, we wanted it to come out
to dinnis side. Well that's softly nice. Yes, I'd like to good
to the family. Fine. See then expense a count item four fourteen dollars
car rental for an additional twenty four hours to attend dinner party at home of
clients. I arrived at six forty five, parked by the coach house,
and then at seven o'clock I joined Phil Avery in the Bidgeo's room. We
were about to start a game when the phone call had been hoping four came
through. I took it on the extension in the entry hall. Johnny Dollar,
James CapMan, doll don't get work from Chicago? Oh good? Any
luck? Yes located. You ever made a copy of that necklace five months
ago? You remember that? Well? Did you remember the client? Yes?
A girl is a description that's Ellen Burry, girdle it cheek and it
all adds up. Oh, I found the necklace. By the way,
Well, maybe I had better come out there, sooner the better, Chief,
I'll see it. Well, good evening, mister boy Garden. You
discovered our little friendly secret. I take it. I'm afraid though I knew
you would. I want to tell you. I warned Ellen, but she
hits something. Of course it was legal in the beat, but not later.
No, you better ask Ellen to come down as you wish, mister
Dollar. Well, shall we start the game, mister every All right,
go ahead and break him. Let's make it straight cool, okay, to
start two on a break like shooting quail in the brush? H four ball
in the corner pocket. By the way, mister Avery, you were right
about Lois. She isn't guilty. She was being framed. I told youself.
She's not involved in any of this except as an innocent bystander. Even
though I found the necklace a little while ago hidden in her room, you
found it. Good. The Bollerguards, though, are not quite so innocent.
M the seven ball in the side pockets? M what do you mean?
The Boar guards needed money. They were still keeping up a front,
but they were broken. And when you started getting interested in Ellen, they
figured you were their answer make her sound pretty cold blooded. Oh, I
don't think there was much love lost on either side. You were playing the
same game. Wait a minute, it was a natural the way you saw
it. Ellen the last of an old lion, the family prominent, wealthy.
Why she was the key to open any door in town. So you
gambled your stake on a thirty thousand dollars gift to show her that you were
in a fortune of it. Mister dollar, I don't like the twelve ball
in the far corner. Hm. Then about a month ago you had a
chance to see the border guard account at the bank. Why they were broker
than you were. I wasn't marrying Ellen for money. Only trouble was you
couldn't stand losing that thirty grand necklace. So you brought Benny stock in and
he stole it for you. When he gave it to you, he told
you it was phony, and you thought he was double crossing you. He
got sore and decided to try for a deal with the insurance company, and
that's why you killed him. You're accusing you of murder. So let's see
now the eight ball in the end pocket. Well, who else mister Avery.
Lois wasn't involved, except that you tried the framer. The Boer guard
knew the sapphire necklace was an imitation. You were the one who didn't.
It wasn't an imitation. I paid thirty thousand dollars for it. Not this
one Helen Soldiers a month after you gave it to her. They've been living
on the money she had this one made in Chicago. That dirty another clincher.
You were the only one who heard me tell Chief Cotton that we'd have
to find the necklace before we could convict Lois, So you brought it here
tonight and planted it. Well, I don't have to go on, No
you don't. Did you steal that gun from Uncle Jarrett too? Oh no,
this is my own. I lay down that queue now and get your
hands up, flow and easy. And if I don't, you thank you.
What's the dollar I bid? Your que makes quite a weapon. What's
it all about? Well, it seems you're fiance is the lad who had
your safe rifle and then later killed his partner. Oh yeah, I guess
murder is worse than fraud. What do you mean you filed an insurance claim
on a necklace you'd already sold. I rather imagine the company is going to
prosecute it. Chief Cotton's on the way, Miss Beauregard. Expense account ADEM
five one hundred and fourteen dollars and ten cents. Hotel incidental and transportation back
to Hartford expense account total two hundred and three dollars and forty cents. Yours,
truly, Johnny dollars