1 00:00:06,639 --> 00:00:25,359 The Columbia Broadcasting System presents Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The next half hour 2 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:30,399 has its baggage packed to take a trip with America's fabulous freelance Insurance investigator. 3 00:00:30,679 --> 00:00:36,799 Johnny Dollar at Insurance Investigation is just an expert at making out his expense account. 4 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:48,320 He is an absolute genius. Expense account submitted by Investigator Johnny Dollar two 5 00:00:48,759 --> 00:00:52,320 Home Office, East Coast, Underwriters, Terminal Building, Hartford, Connecticut. 6 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,359 The following is an accounting of my expenditures and the investigation regarding the paracop policy 7 00:00:57,439 --> 00:01:03,119 for your company. Expense account Item one Lane Fair two Benton, Ohio, 8 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:07,400 forty dollars and four cents. Item two Lane Fair, Benton back to Harford 9 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:14,159 forty dollars and four cents. Explanation approaches to one way tickets Because of the 10 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,560 type of case I'm usually assigned, I never pressed my luck by buying round 11 00:01:18,599 --> 00:01:27,959 trips. This time I was almost right. Expense account Item three Cabfair Airport 12 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:33,560 the Valley Hotel two dollars and twenty cents. Tip the driver gee a dollar. 13 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,159 Naturally they'll be sticking on the table at night. Welcome to Warfare City, 14 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,519 Hey Dorman, Yes, sir, what can I do for you, 15 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:47,599 sir? Bring my bag and side William here dollar always and you needed a 16 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,159 dollar and a fair give a lot of people in the house, good evening. 17 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,519 Sent hello, you have a reservation for Johnny Dollar. Oh yes, 18 00:01:55,599 --> 00:01:57,040 mister dollars in his room? And he checked in about eight o'clunk. Uh, 19 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,120 I guess Anthon, and I used to be what room is he in? 20 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,879 I'm sorry, said, I'm not presided to tell you that I can 21 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,759 phone him. No, never mind, Uh, let me have one of 22 00:02:07,759 --> 00:02:10,840 those envelopes, will you. I'd like to leave my card for this mister 23 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:15,800 Dollar. Yes, here you are, okay, here, just pop this 24 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:20,759 in his box. The clerk promptly envelope in the box, number two O 25 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,479 seven, and I popped myself into an elevator going up the room too O 26 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:27,520 seven. I'd come to vent and to investigate a murder. And in just 27 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:35,919 a matter of minutes I found myself ready to commit one. Yes, who 28 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,439 is it? A bell boy, sir? A package from Hartford, Just 29 00:02:38,479 --> 00:02:50,319 a minute package for me, spress old gold. Oh come on, come 30 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,680 on, get up on your feet. Wait a minute, wait a minute, 31 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:54,879 take it easy. If you must be Johnny Dollar. Sometimes strangers in 32 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,520 a hotel room can be a lot of fun, but not only using my 33 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,080 name. What's your angle? I can explain everything. It'd better be good 34 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,800 and it better be fast. I didn't want to be seen waiting for you 35 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,240 in the lobby, and it's important that I talk with you before anybody else 36 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,199 does. That's why I'm here. I'm Eric Parker. Oh, the defense 37 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,280 attorney and his para cough thing. Huh. Well, I hope you're better 38 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,840 at defending your client than you are at defending yourself. Whether my client goes 39 00:03:16,879 --> 00:03:20,439 to the share and not, unfortunately, has nothing to do with my being 40 00:03:20,439 --> 00:03:23,759 a good lawyer. That's what I wanted to talk to you about. Well, 41 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,680 I suppose this is one time when the attorney won't mind relinquishing the floor. 42 00:03:28,439 --> 00:03:31,560 Once you get up on your feet, thanks, I will look. 43 00:03:31,599 --> 00:03:35,960 I'm I'm no coward dollar, but if either one of us is going to 44 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,159 get any place on this case, we'll have to work together. I need 45 00:03:38,199 --> 00:03:42,199 your help, and I need it badly. I do with single acts. 46 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:46,039 Sorry, don't be hasty. I can help you too. Just how much 47 00:03:46,039 --> 00:03:49,159 do you know about the Paracoff murder? All I know is is one of 48 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,319 the scruliest cases I've ever run into. All over the country, beneficiaries are 49 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,240 knocking off insured people, but not here in Benton, oh Now here they 50 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:01,240 tell me the insured man, uh Harlan Wolf knocked off his beneficiary and partner, 51 00:04:01,319 --> 00:04:04,560 Para Cooff. And now I've got the jelly assignment of trying to keep 52 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:10,680 the state from executing the insured man. My employer, East Coast Underwriters isn't 53 00:04:10,719 --> 00:04:13,560 anxious to see one hundred thousand dollars of their money burn up on the electric 54 00:04:13,639 --> 00:04:15,720 chair. At least we're both stuck with the same tough job. Now, 55 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,879 luck, I'll sell you a few things I already know, and you'd fill 56 00:04:18,879 --> 00:04:23,439 it in from there. All I know is that Paracoff was shot to death 57 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,480 and that his business partner, your client, Calind Wolf, was picked up 58 00:04:27,519 --> 00:04:30,120 leaving town and being held for the murder. What have they gone against him? 59 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,319 Only what they found on him. That's enough, the murder weapon, 60 00:04:33,439 --> 00:04:40,160 Any witnesses one Paracoff's wife, Marsha, and eyewitness the murder weapon and an 61 00:04:40,199 --> 00:04:43,839 eyewitness, well it seems at least first class. Anyway, the state of 62 00:04:43,879 --> 00:04:47,040 Ohio will be receiving a large electric bill one day, so is there any 63 00:04:47,079 --> 00:04:50,879 chance of my seeing Wolf. No, not before he's indicted. Grace Dollar 64 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:55,680 Harland Wolf shot Parakoff in self defense. There was no premeditation. Well, 65 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,720 I'm convinced that I could get him off with a second degree manslaughter verdict if 66 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,160 it weren't for the tactics of the plus. That's it. They not only 67 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:05,040 have intimidated my character witnesses, they've borne their own toperchery. That's the sort 68 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:09,319 of thing I'm up against. Well as the insurance companies keep on saying, 69 00:05:09,439 --> 00:05:12,759 never said, aye, Say where can I find the widow para Cough? 70 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,680 Well, if they aren't holding her in protective custody so nobody can question her, 71 00:05:15,759 --> 00:05:18,519 she may be at home. That's thirteen seventy five ninety sixth Street. 72 00:05:18,639 --> 00:05:27,480 I saw a lot of fingers. By the way, how's hers expense account 73 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,759 on him? Four cab fared to home, amurdered man and the girl he 74 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,040 left behind him two forty cents. I shivered all the way out to the 75 00:05:34,079 --> 00:05:39,879 suburbs, but not from fear or anticipation. A simple case of summer shorts 76 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,160 in red flannel weather. The Paracoff place was obviously the product of a good 77 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,319 income and a bad architect looked like a great big wedding cake, and Mother 78 00:05:47,439 --> 00:05:51,920 Nature had mercifully iced the confection. The front walk was white and untraveled. 79 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,600 This has driven snow. As a matter of fact, that's what it was, 80 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,120 three inches of it, which meant that Marsha hadn't had a visitor in 81 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,600 the past couple of hours. I was playing detective and somebody inside I was 82 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:09,879 playing the radio. So I played Beeping Tom and loved everybody second of it. 83 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,160 I couldn't see her face, but she had a lovely profile. I 84 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:30,279 hastened to the door. Wow, her hair was red and her eyes were 85 00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:32,560 green. Her hair stopped your cold, and then her eyes gave it the 86 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:38,120 ghost signal yes, would you mind saving that yes for later? I beg 87 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,639 your pardon. Well, I've come here to ask your help, and I 88 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,600 hope you'll say yes. My name is Johnny Dollar. I've been sent to 89 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,279 Benton to investigate the death of your husband. Well, why is this turned 90 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,160 into a federal Okay, no, no, I'm from the insurance company. 91 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:56,319 Oh, come in nice, Say where can I put my coat? The 92 00:06:56,439 --> 00:07:00,199 snow melt all over your carpet? Right? And now, just who are 93 00:07:00,199 --> 00:07:05,720 your coat? Any place? Okay, Hm, good shots. Come on 94 00:07:05,879 --> 00:07:10,480 in by the fireplace. It's nice and warm. I should have brought some 95 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:15,079 chestnuts. I could have fathered with my eyes closed. See enter for the 96 00:07:15,079 --> 00:07:17,040 living room, leaving a plant way of perfume there behind her, and I 97 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:25,199 didn't waste the breath of it. See that's nice perfume. Sit down, 98 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,920 thanks, Hey, you have good taste. That chair is a genuine antique. 99 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,079 Oh if you didn't stand a compliment before we get down to business. 100 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,199 You certainly furnish a room. Huh. Most of the things that just reproduction, 101 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:42,160 not the things I'm talking about. Oh you mean me? Uh uh? 102 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:46,920 Oh, this is a happy surprise. I expected to find someone fatter 103 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,800 and fortier my husband was. And now, uh what about his insurance? 104 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:55,000 Oh? You got me wrong. You see, I'm working for the company 105 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,519 that insured the man being held for the murder of your husband's al and wolf. 106 00:07:58,879 --> 00:08:01,319 What do you want from me? That's your story of what happened. 107 00:08:01,519 --> 00:08:03,959 Oh that I can't do. The district attorney had a long talk with me 108 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,199 about it. I'm not supposed to say anything to anybody about it until the 109 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,759 trial. Well, I'm not asking you for any state secrets. I just 110 00:08:09,759 --> 00:08:13,199 want to want you to save me a trip down to the marg. Oh, 111 00:08:13,759 --> 00:08:18,839 don't be so brutal. Oh sorry, I didn't realize you were still 112 00:08:18,879 --> 00:08:22,240 in the morning. I think Kasha confused me. Anyway, I met the 113 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,079 newspaper, Mark, that's what they call it files. You gave them a 114 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,759 story. Why won't you give it to make I told you I can't. 115 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,159 Okay, how are wasted your time? Oh? Wait, wait a minute, 116 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,559 don't go well, you aren't exactly co operating. Please sit down. 117 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,240 I'm going crazy in this house alone all the time. Can't we find something 118 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:48,159 else to talk about? Sure? Later, First things first, that makes 119 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,360 sense, all right. I don't see how it could be wrong to tell 120 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:54,679 you what's already been in the newspapers, Johnny, that's right, go ahead, 121 00:08:54,840 --> 00:09:00,200 all right. Well, Hollingwolf and I were here in this room alone. 122 00:09:00,639 --> 00:09:07,840 We were discussing business, business business the Highland Coal Corporation. My husband 123 00:09:07,879 --> 00:09:11,240 was its president, Harlan Wolf is a secretary treasurer, and I'm the vice 124 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:16,960 president. I can't resist this, but you a kind of business woman, 125 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:22,399 makes this anthracite hearted wine feel very bituminous. What I don't get it? 126 00:09:22,759 --> 00:09:26,240 Let it go? So you and Wolf were sitting here talking about your coal 127 00:09:26,279 --> 00:09:28,200 business. Where were you sitting? Well, I was sitting over there at 128 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,159 the desk. How about Wolf, He was sitting where you are right now. 129 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,559 And then my husband came home and no doubt accused you and the Secretary 130 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:39,360 treasurer of putting him too much over time? Is that it? Yes? 131 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:43,120 Oh it was terrible. They fought, and finally Harland ran over to the 132 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:48,080 couch over there and pulled his gun out of his overcoat pocket and started pulling 133 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,639 the trigger. Called the police, the neighbor. No, I did. 134 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,919 Well, that's all it is to it. That's all I wanted to know. 135 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:01,879 I didn't there didn't. No. Now, how about using those big 136 00:10:01,919 --> 00:10:07,000 shoulders of yours for throwing a lug on the fire? Sure, I'll uh, 137 00:10:07,039 --> 00:10:11,080 I'll go outside and get one now they're lugged in here. M I'd 138 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,919 rather go outside and get one that's a little damp. They burn much slower. 139 00:10:15,279 --> 00:10:24,440 Oh well, then while you're at it, get a big one. 140 00:10:26,799 --> 00:10:31,759 I left Marsha gazing into the fire, called a cab and stepped out into 141 00:10:31,799 --> 00:10:33,759 the cold night head to wait for it. I went down the front walk 142 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,600 with my mind and what was behind me? Instead of what lay ahead? 143 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:43,840 And hey, Dollar, out of the white snow loomed two very large blue 144 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,960 police uniforms completely filled. Get out of this paragraph, missed Dollar. As 145 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,960 a matter of fact, get out of this town, wie officer. I'm 146 00:10:50,039 --> 00:10:52,519 just beginning to like it here. Look, this is from the top. 147 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:56,559 That makes it official. We've got the guilty man. We don't want any 148 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:58,919 trouble. Look, you go back to the top and tell them that this 149 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,639 is one sure way of getting trouble. They told us how to answer that 150 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,559 one, too. Is my best, my vest to break every one of 151 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:09,720 the markers of Queen's very rules. I know I was fighting a losing fight, 152 00:11:09,799 --> 00:11:11,759 but I was fighting for a little time, and that's all I got. 153 00:11:13,279 --> 00:11:16,240 A fist never stopped in my head seemed to feel like a ping pong 154 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:20,799 ball and a four handed game. Suddenly things looked up. Me flat on 155 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:26,240 my back in the snow, seeing stars. Then a boot chain slide on 156 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:43,000 my head and switched off all the pretty lights. In just a minute, 157 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,279 we'll bring you the second act of yours, truly a Johnny Dollar. But 158 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,440 first we want to remind you that next Sunday night, CBS once more will 159 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,039 bring you ten great shows filled with great stars and complete with comedy, drama 160 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:58,039 and mystery. Betty Davis will make her first appearance on the Prudential Hour, 161 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,919 co starring with Raymon Land in a gripping story of a woman who has to 162 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:07,480 bridge a lifetime in three short hours. Once more, you'll hear those ninety 163 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:11,440 NonStop minutes of mirth with Spike Jones, Jack Benny, and Amos and Andy. 164 00:12:11,519 --> 00:12:16,159 In succession. There'll be more comedy, more drama following rapidly the adventures 165 00:12:16,159 --> 00:12:20,240 of Sam Spade, Lemon Abner, Helen Hayes, Eve Arden Life with Luigi. 166 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:26,519 It pays to be ignorant. Staying tuned to CBS on Sunday nights guarantees 167 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,000 you the greatest entertainment on the greatest listening night of all. These programs are 168 00:12:31,039 --> 00:12:35,200 regular Sunday Night features on most of these same CBS stations, and of course 169 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,960 Jack Benny comes to you over them all. Now back to yours, truly, 170 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:56,519 Johnny Dollar. Continuing expense Accounts submitted by Johnny Dollar to the Home Office, 171 00:12:56,519 --> 00:13:01,320 Heast Coast Sunday Writers Seminal Building, Hartford, Connecticut. Expense account I 172 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:07,799 AM five medical supplies bonded seven dollars Oh, and here's something I'll give you 173 00:13:07,879 --> 00:13:13,399 for free, a handy help for your regularly employed insurance investigatives. When I 174 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:18,200 find myself overwhelmed in a brawl with unknown assailants cops included, I do my 175 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,240 best to take away more than just bruises and contusions. During my career, 176 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,720 I picked more pockets than a rack boy in a pool room, and I 177 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,000 added one more to the store during the brawl in front of the paragof house 178 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:41,120 just before I went by bye in the snow. Hey, hey, mister, 179 00:13:41,159 --> 00:13:41,919 wake up, Come on, come on, wake up. You'll catch 180 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:46,039 your death of cold. Did you call a cab? Yeah? I think 181 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,639 so, Holy smokes, your face? Was you robbed? What's the matter, 182 00:13:50,879 --> 00:13:54,960 isn't it there? Huh? Here, I'll give you his hand, 183 00:13:56,759 --> 00:13:58,879 nice, holy smoked. When I first seen you laying there, I thought 184 00:13:58,919 --> 00:14:03,679 you was a snowman. Tiptober, How do you feel cold? Forever more? 185 00:14:03,759 --> 00:14:07,159 I shall look kindly upon the hattock in the deep freeze? Huhm, 186 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,039 Hey, hey, what are you looking for? I'm looking for a while. 187 00:14:11,279 --> 00:14:13,399 Did you lose it? First? I found it, then I lost 188 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:18,240 it? Ah, Oh, yeah, here it is. Come on, 189 00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:22,919 let's get out of here. Where to mister Police Headquarters, Police Headquarters, 190 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:33,879 over my dead body. Expense account item six breakfast in bed two dollars and 191 00:14:33,919 --> 00:14:41,200 forty cents. Expense account Item seven photographic work six dollars for taking pictures of 192 00:14:41,279 --> 00:14:45,960 contents of wallet I lifted from the police uniform the night before. Expense account 193 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,600 Item eight seventy cents cab fare to office of Edmund Byron, District Attorney. 194 00:14:50,559 --> 00:14:56,000 Sorry to have kept you waiting, but good heaven span your face Aloneious assault? 195 00:14:56,159 --> 00:14:58,960 Yeah, well I got a flash for you, not by personal or 196 00:15:00,039 --> 00:15:03,759 a person's unknown Splendid you wish to prefer charges? I wrought again, but 197 00:15:03,919 --> 00:15:07,960 not for felonious assault, and none against the guys who gave me this going 198 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,240 over last night. What are you talking about? You know what I'm talking 199 00:15:11,279 --> 00:15:13,639 about. There were a couple of your harness bulls, and why don't want 200 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:16,960 you to waste any time denying it? So forget it. I don't have 201 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,799 the slightest idea what this is all about. Dollar I said, forget it. 202 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:22,960 I want to talk about something more important. You're holding Hollanwolf for the 203 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,559 Paragraff murder. Now what I want to know is when are you going to 204 00:15:26,639 --> 00:15:30,759 hand down your indictment and what it's gonna be, first thing in the morning, 205 00:15:30,799 --> 00:15:33,000 first degree murder, anything else you want to know before I have you 206 00:15:33,039 --> 00:15:37,000 thrown out of here? Yeah? How do I get mixed up in these 207 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:46,039 roupe bops? Spends account item ten five cents. A phone call to my 208 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,080 partner in despair, Eric Barker, attorney for the defense, who agreed to 209 00:15:50,159 --> 00:15:52,440 lend me a set of police photographs to the scene of the crime and the 210 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:58,399 principles involved. Parakoff looked very dead, Marsha looked very frightened, and the 211 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:03,600 accused horn Wolf look very fat. The pictures of the scene of the crime 212 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:08,960 indicated the shooting occurred with Para Coff and Wolf standing face to face, and 213 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,559 that all the bullets had gone banging straight into the right side of Paracroff's money. 214 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,960 I set up an appointment to meet Parker at three that afternoon, and 215 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:22,759 decided to make the most of the time in between by seeing what kind of 216 00:16:22,759 --> 00:16:26,080 of a trade I could make on that wallet I'd picked up during the Winter's 217 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:30,639 Bullets of the night before. The name in it was Ben Arnold and the 218 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:41,039 address was disreputable. I don't want any brushes. What a coincidence. I'm 219 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,200 not selling any What do you want? I'm looking for Ben Arnold? Who 220 00:16:44,279 --> 00:16:48,240 isn't he promised me be home by now? By this time I should know 221 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,679 better. Okay, I'll wait outside inside. Hey, wait a minute, 222 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:53,080 Ben won't like this. Well, that makes it even I don't like Ben. 223 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,200 Look, I don't want any trouble. Okay, then don't make any 224 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,159 trouble. Well, what do you want here? Anyway? Let's just say 225 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,519 I dropped five for an unfriendly visits. If Ben finds you here, it'll 226 00:17:02,559 --> 00:17:06,400 get real unfriendly. I'm mourning you get out of here. Ain't bad face 227 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,519 of yours marked up enough? Well? That mouse hanging under your eye isn't 228 00:17:08,519 --> 00:17:14,160 exactly a beauty mark. It really spreads his blessings, doesn't he? Hey, 229 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:18,000 it had really spread one blessing. Right there, right there, close 230 00:17:18,039 --> 00:17:21,920 in front of me, there was a small room about the size of a 231 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,839 large closet, with a clothes sprawl high and low, making the whole place 232 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:29,039 look like a collapsed clothesline. And there, hanging on the back of the 233 00:17:29,079 --> 00:17:33,240 door was Ben Arnold's police uniform. My eyes popped out, pushed one of 234 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:40,720 its shiny brass buttons, and rang the bell. They're like little brass love 235 00:17:40,799 --> 00:17:48,200 letters on the brass stood the initials cp D and CPD were never the initials 236 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:56,279 of the Benton Police Department. Thanks for seeing me so quickly, Barker Dallar, 237 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:00,799 you are good lord. What happened to your face? A couple of 238 00:18:00,799 --> 00:18:03,359 police uniforms with over stuffed shoulders did this to me last night? Oh there 239 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,480 you are. I warned you. We're up against the ruthless bunch. Something 240 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,440 should be dumb about it by using the police force to beat up anybody who 241 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,680 stands in their way. No, Barker, they were wearing uniforms, but 242 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,119 they weren't police. What well, I'm afraid they don't follow you, Barker. 243 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,160 Can you give me one good reason for a bent and cop to be 244 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,160 wearing an out of town uniform? And don't tell me they got mixed up 245 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:26,599 at the cleaners out of town uniform? Yeah? Yeah, And here's another 246 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:30,359 one. If the law enforcement set up here is so rotten, why would 247 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,559 they go to all the trouble of dressing up an outsider to do their muscle 248 00:18:33,599 --> 00:18:38,119 work. Oh? I don't know what I mean is did they? Who 249 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:42,400 else would do it? Certainly couldn't have been Marcia. Why not? The 250 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:48,400 policy I'm interested in is the one that Parakoff, as president of that coal 251 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,720 company, took out on Wolfe's life because of his importance to the company. 252 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:56,279 That kind of policies taken out every day. But Marsha, as vice president 253 00:18:56,319 --> 00:19:00,240 of that coal company, is in line to collect on that policy if Wolf 254 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:03,079 goes to the chair. But why should Wolf admit to the shooting. He 255 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,079 has nothing to gain, there's life to lose. I'll look. Marsha told 256 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:11,240 me that the night of the murder, she and Wolf were along the house 257 00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:14,880 talking about the coal business. And then she didn't know what I meant when 258 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:19,279 I used the words bituminous an anthracite. Whatever Marsha had on the fire that 259 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:25,039 night was wolf, It wasn't coal. M Well, you're right about that. 260 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:29,920 Marcia and Wolf were having some kind of romance. Okay, So let's 261 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,599 say Marsha shot her husband. Let's say Wolf is madly in love with her. 262 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:37,839 Let's say she promises Wolf that she will testify he shot her husband in 263 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,559 self defense. Marsha gets away with murder. Wolf gets away with a light 264 00:19:41,599 --> 00:19:45,200 sentence, no none at all. And then Wolf gets away with a girl. 265 00:19:45,279 --> 00:19:48,039 That makes sense, But what makes you think this is even possible? 266 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,599 Barker, somebody had me beat up last night. I say the prosecution wouldn't 267 00:19:52,599 --> 00:19:57,759 have bothered sending fake cops, So a question is who would. It's one 268 00:19:57,759 --> 00:20:03,200 thing I'd really checking check fast. Here's what's that Those police photos you gave 269 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,319 me shure that Para Cough was shot by a left handed shooter. And that's 270 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:08,279 one of the prosecution's strongest points. Wolf was left handed. Well, that 271 00:20:08,279 --> 00:20:14,039 doesn't prove that Marsha isn't Parker. I'm going out and see missus Parker, 272 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,799 missus Parakoff, and there's only one thing. I really hope that she's left 273 00:20:17,839 --> 00:20:33,640 handed, that she's worrying that same neglige she had on last night. Oh, 274 00:20:33,759 --> 00:20:37,119 Marsha, can I come in right? John? Johnny? What happened 275 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,720 to your faith? Oh? I didn't get down to the beauty parlor today. 276 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,039 You look like you've been fighting. Uh huh, not too well, 277 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,880 but wisely, I'll come on in the other room. And uh, how 278 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:51,279 about throwing another lug on the fire. So you're a real little firebug, 279 00:20:51,319 --> 00:20:53,880 aren't you. You should have lived back in old Nero's time. Who's time. 280 00:20:55,319 --> 00:20:57,279 M never mind, I'll tell her what. I'll build the fire if 281 00:20:57,279 --> 00:21:03,519 you light it, I'd love to. Ah, you're getting a dry one 282 00:21:03,599 --> 00:21:07,240 from inside. Last night you went all the way outside. You get one 283 00:21:07,319 --> 00:21:11,400 that would burn for a long time. Oh that was last night. You 284 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:18,880 got some paper. Mm there we are, okay, on hot point. 285 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:26,359 Here's my letter, touch it off. Okay, there, that'll do it. 286 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:32,200 Come on, sit down over here, now over here'll do This chair 287 00:21:32,279 --> 00:21:36,039 is a perfect fit for me, which makes me think maybe the state of 288 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:40,079 Ohio as a chair that's a perfect fit for you. What are you talking 289 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:47,640 about? Well, if you wanna play games, i'll read you the rules. 290 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,039 You know, there's a big advantage in being on my side of investigation. 291 00:21:51,839 --> 00:21:53,359 That wasn't my racket, not the benefit of a lot of experience. 292 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:59,799 But murderers, well almost everyone is inexperienced at that business. One moment they 293 00:21:59,839 --> 00:22:03,000 are murderers, the next moment they are Johnny. Please, oh, let's 294 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,960 have a look at what's on my side. For instance, from the empty 295 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,559 show thrown off by an automatic pistol, the experts can get a better picture 296 00:22:08,599 --> 00:22:12,400 of a murder scene than they can from the witnesses. Your Osmond was killed 297 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,960 by a gun that was held approximately eighteen inches away and directly in front of 298 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:19,519 him, and the bullets enter the right half of his body. That means 299 00:22:19,599 --> 00:22:23,039 he was killed by someone who shoots left handed. Karlin Wolf is left handed. 300 00:22:23,079 --> 00:22:26,960 You can ask him. He'll tell you. I know that, and 301 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:30,440 so are you. Anybody who lights a cigarette lighter with your left hand is 302 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:33,640 left handed, which makes you a good candidate. That doesn't prove anything. 303 00:22:33,839 --> 00:22:37,160 No, no, I guess it doesn't. But this share I'm sitting in 304 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:41,960 does? What do you mean? Last night you told me Wolf was sitting 305 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,400 in it when your husband came home, and that statement makes you a liar. 306 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,440 Look, I'm trained down to the point where my belt is ready to 307 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:52,000 sue my hips for non support, and I can just get into this thing, 308 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,279 and well's Wolfe's picture shows that he's got a beam like the Queen Mary. 309 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,480 He wasn't in this chair, which makes me think he wasn't even in 310 00:23:00,559 --> 00:23:04,200 this room when your husband was killed. All right, So I'm a liar, 311 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,599 That doesn't mean I'm a killer, Marsha. Investigators can make a lot 312 00:23:07,599 --> 00:23:11,400 of mistakes, but a murderer can only make one. And you've made a 313 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,519 big I tell you I'm no murderer. You gotta believe me, Johnny, 314 00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:22,519 I'll tell you everything. You're right. Harlan Woolf wasn't here shot up Rrick. 315 00:23:22,519 --> 00:23:23,519 What are we going to do? He knows to keep quiet, Oh, 316 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,440 Barker for a defence. It's Ronny, you're writing Mardy a fence. 317 00:23:26,519 --> 00:23:29,559 We'll have to get rid of him, Mary, just as soon as we 318 00:23:29,599 --> 00:23:32,640 get rid of something else. Dollar. You've only got one thing on me, 319 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,839 Ben Arnold's wallet, and I want that now. You'll welcome to it, 320 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,000 Barker. But it might interest you to know that I've had its picture 321 00:23:40,079 --> 00:23:42,920 taken this morning, Your phony policeman's wallet and everything in it, and copies 322 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:47,359 are in the mail right now. The insurance company won't have any trouble connecting 323 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,599 you with the comedy cops who beat me up last night. You're a bluffing, 324 00:23:51,079 --> 00:23:52,960 and there's something else I've got on your, Barker. This morning, 325 00:23:53,279 --> 00:23:57,559 when I was lying in bed counting the bumps on my head, it suddenly 326 00:23:57,599 --> 00:24:02,920 occurred to me you were the only one who knew where I was going last 327 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,519 night, so you must have been the one who had me roughed up. 328 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,880 It also does my heart. Good to see you standing there with that gun 329 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:14,759 in your left hand, which makes you a candidate too. Shoutin eary you're 330 00:24:14,759 --> 00:24:18,480 a lawyer, Barker, what's your legal opinion? Are you just an accessory 331 00:24:18,599 --> 00:24:22,519 after the fact or before the fact? Or are you the murderer? What 332 00:24:22,519 --> 00:24:25,400 are you waiting for? Shoot enture my cat? You shut up, Rushia, 333 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,839 father, standstill you want, I will give me that gun, Marshall, 334 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,400 look out. When Marshall made a rush to grab the gun from Barker, 335 00:24:33,039 --> 00:24:34,240 she got between me and the gun, and I drove in behind her 336 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:40,319 arms straight out, picked her up, then heaved. Marsha went smashing at 337 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,279 a Barker, and I went in a frantic treasure hunt through that flilly mass 338 00:24:42,319 --> 00:24:47,240 of a sporting angry bodies to find the head that held the gun. Believe 339 00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:49,079 me, it was no place for a lady, but Marcia was no lady. 340 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,400 I grabbed deep in between them and pushed Barker's gun hand up and on 341 00:24:52,519 --> 00:24:56,279 the go round. And just to make sure the rest was strictly a fistfight, 342 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,440 damn, my trigger finger in over his and pumped a The shots went 343 00:25:00,519 --> 00:25:04,720 to the ceiling. The when the plaster was falling, it was like another 344 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:08,880 fight in the snow, but this time Johnny Darla came up heads instead of 345 00:25:10,039 --> 00:25:22,319 tail om On Barker up you come. I'll tell you all right, all 346 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:27,920 right. When I first met you last night, I asked you please to 347 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:32,720 say it yes. For later, I'm gonna ask you a few little questions, 348 00:25:33,039 --> 00:25:37,359 if I'm right, let's hear it. One. Did you kill your 349 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:44,759 husbands? Okay too? Did Eric Barker shoot? Sure? Did you kill 350 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,640 Holland Wolf? Tell him you did it and talk him into taking this this 351 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,960 rap for you. It was on Eric's idea, he said, we get 352 00:25:52,039 --> 00:25:56,119 rid of my husband and Wolf and collect their insurance. Marsha, there's just 353 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,279 one more question. Are you or aren't you going to call the district attorney 354 00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:19,400 and invite him over here? Expense account item eleven, twelve dollars and forty 355 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,480 cents. That's lunch for the district attorney, who also turned out to be 356 00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:27,039 left handers and a very nice guy to boot. We had a lot in 357 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,599 common. It was the first case either one of us had ever worked on 358 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,359 where the defense had been working harder than the state to bring in a conviction. 359 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,279 Also that it was the first case where everybody on both sides turned out 360 00:26:40,319 --> 00:26:45,200 to be guilty. Defense attorney Eric Barker of murder his girlfriend Marsha Parakoff of 361 00:26:45,319 --> 00:26:49,960 being an accessory before and after the fact, and Harland Wolfe of conspiracy to 362 00:26:51,039 --> 00:27:00,319 do a fraud. I wonder the nation's jails are getting overcrowded. Expense account 363 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:07,319 item twelve seven hundred dollars A side trip to Miami, Florida. Purpose uh 364 00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:15,319 oh, what purpose? To recover from catching forty winks and a miserable cold 365 00:27:15,319 --> 00:27:19,079 in Benton, Ohio snowbank. Hey, Johnny, come on in the worst 366 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:26,200 fine. Expense account total twelve dollars and twenty cents signed, yours truly, 367 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:48,119 Johnny Dollar. Now A word about a special CBS broadcast this Sunday. You'll 368 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,119 find it. A story that grips you for a full sixty minutes on the 369 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,440 air. A startling drama of a young reporter who finds that his assignment comes 370 00:27:56,519 --> 00:28:00,279 too close to home. A revelation of disturbing facts of on our mental hospitals 371 00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:07,200 based on actual documented reports and six months of intensive study in preparation, with 372 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,680 Eddie Albert starring as the young reporter. This tale of a mind in the 373 00:28:11,759 --> 00:28:15,839 shadow comes to you by popular demand in a repeat performance next Sunday over most 374 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:21,720 of these same CBS stations. Be sure to hear Mind in the Shadow next 375 00:28:21,799 --> 00:28:40,440 Sunday at twelve thirty Eastern Standard Time, listening again next week when CBS brings 376 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:45,240 You Yours Truly. Johnny Dollar, with Charles Russell as Johnny. Yours Truly 377 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,519 Johnny Dollar is written by Paul Dudley and gildowd with music by Mark Warnow, 378 00:28:48,839 --> 00:28:53,640 and is produced and directed by Richard Sandville for CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System