1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:05,759 From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund o'bryen. Has Johnny Dollar? Is 2 00:00:05,799 --> 00:00:09,759 Mitchell Candle you call my office? Oh yes, mister Kendall. I'm an 3 00:00:09,759 --> 00:00:13,119 insurance investigator from Hartford, Connecticut. I was sent out here to look into 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,359 the job as Wilder killing by the company that holds the policy on his life. 5 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:20,039 Oh yeah, haven't you called the wrong lawyer of the Dollar. I'm 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:24,519 defending missus wis I'm prosecuting her. I understand that I'm not a prosecution witness, 7 00:00:24,559 --> 00:00:27,960 not yet. Anyway, I'm glad to hear that insurance money had nothing 8 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,800 to do with the situation. Mister Dollar, he killed himself, defends and 9 00:00:36,679 --> 00:00:41,159 Edmund O'Brien and another adventure of the man with the action packed expenser God America's 10 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:56,359 fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by 11 00:00:56,399 --> 00:01:00,600 special Investigator Johnny Dalla to home office, Britannia Life Insurance Company, May Hertford, 12 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,159 Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditure during my investigation of the 13 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:11,560 Jarvis Wilder matter. Expense account item on one hundred and fifty dollars and fifty 14 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:17,599 cents airfan incidentals between Hartford and Farmington, New Mexico. It was shortly afternoon 15 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:22,239 when I reached the drowsing western town. I checked into a hotel and read 16 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,040 in the local paper that the county grand jury at any moment was expected to 17 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:29,400 indict the widow, missus Alma Wilder, for the murder of her husband. 18 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,879 I contacted her lawyer by phone, and a few minutes later walked into his 19 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,799 office. Well, miss door, you read quite a trip, hi am 20 00:01:37,799 --> 00:01:41,280 misquando. Yeah, it's a lot of miles from Hartford. Not too many 21 00:01:41,359 --> 00:01:47,719 hours these days, thank you. I read the papers. The indictment comes 22 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:49,719 any minute. Huh. Yes, it didn't take long from aress to conviction, 23 00:01:49,879 --> 00:01:53,079 with his little cost to the taxpayers possible. That's the way they liked. 24 00:01:53,439 --> 00:01:56,920 Not that there's anything wrong with the way things have been handled, you 25 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,079 understand, I haven't gotten too many details of Alma missus Wilder and fasted when 26 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:06,640 she was arrested, fessed again at the inquest that was only yesterday, also 27 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,599 only a formality. Why they indict them then? Why doesn't she plead guilty 28 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,520 and get it over with? Cause I won't let her. I wanna trial, 29 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,039 cause I'm going to get her not guilty verdict for on the grounds of 30 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:21,280 self defense and temporary insanity. Those grounds have spent a lot of widows, 31 00:02:21,319 --> 00:02:23,639 I guess do you object to that? No, not at all. I 32 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,599 hope you tell me she's innocent. A lot of money tied up in the 33 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,719 policies for Javis's brother and his estate. None is due her. I wish 34 00:02:30,759 --> 00:02:35,599 I could help you on there. Were you planning on going out to the 35 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:38,520 ranch? Yeah, I thought I might. Why. I wanted to warn 36 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:44,280 you about what kind of people they are, what kind of it They have 37 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,360 been the most hated people in this part of the state for two generations. 38 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:51,080 Russell is a twin brother, you know, and he has not only the 39 00:02:51,159 --> 00:02:54,919 appearance of Jovis, but every single bad quality, selfishness, cruel as they 40 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,680 conceit. Russell has a wife too, hasn't he yes Roses? And if 41 00:03:00,759 --> 00:03:04,360 she shoots him, I won't be surprised. But I'd advise you to be 42 00:03:04,479 --> 00:03:07,719 careful if you're going out there. Don't push too hard. They like to 43 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:12,280 run people off their property. I'll watch it. Thanks. Just what do 44 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,639 you expect to accomplish, mister Dollar. I've got to make a report. 45 00:03:15,719 --> 00:03:20,240 That's a murdered routine. You still have any idea. I'm working with the 46 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:23,960 prosecution to set up a motive to your client and turn it into a first 47 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:29,439 degree charge. Forget it. I'm not well. They've been awfully quiet, 48 00:03:29,759 --> 00:03:35,039 and I've been practicing law long enough to develop a suspicious mind. It was 49 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,159 nice for me. Thanks a lot for the help, mister Kendall. I'll 50 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:46,479 probably see you again before I leave it. The wild Ranch was about fifteen 51 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:51,080 miles out of town, if I report, some five thousand acres and cattle 52 00:03:51,159 --> 00:03:54,120 range. I wheeled a rented car up a road that led to a large 53 00:03:54,159 --> 00:03:59,680 house resting on a noll among a few pine trees. There were some outbuildings 54 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,719 and finally a grizzled karaka who got up from a bench to stop me as 55 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:09,560 I neared the house. You got bidness here? That's right, you have 56 00:04:09,719 --> 00:04:13,719 to wait. Ain't nobody at home? What kind of business? Nothing to 57 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,560 do with ranching. My name is Dolla. I am here from the East 58 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,079 to get a report on the shooting of Javis Wildler. What's that? I 59 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,959 said? I'm from the East. What's your interest in the trouble? And 60 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,079 I've been hired by an insurance company that got a report on it. Where'd 61 00:04:27,079 --> 00:04:31,720 you say he was from the east Hartford, Connecticut? My volks come from 62 00:04:31,759 --> 00:04:36,000 there about come west in the eighties. You heard of the Shrims back there? 63 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:40,079 No, I don't think soon. I had daddy had six brothers, 64 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:44,040 so some of their kin is still around hazard bills. Where we was from 65 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,079 from? You heard of that? Yeah, it's in the northern part of 66 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,680 the state, isn't it on the Scantic River? It marked on the map. 67 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:54,319 Yeah, I know the place, mister shrim I take it. You 68 00:04:54,439 --> 00:04:58,240 work here on the ranch for more than forty work for you, old man, 69 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,959 Poor Jarvis and Russell was born. Where were you the other night when 70 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,639 Jonas was shot? I got a cabin to myself. That's it over there, 71 00:05:06,439 --> 00:05:10,439 That's where I was. Could you tell me what happened as far as 72 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:17,680 you're concerned, as far as I'm concerned, set down. Sure, I'm 73 00:05:17,759 --> 00:05:23,519 old man. I lived through some right troublesome time, seeing a lot of 74 00:05:23,639 --> 00:05:27,959 men get killed, and I always sort of figured I stay healthy because I 75 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,839 never meddled with nobody's business, right or wrong. I'm not sure I know 76 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,639 what you're driving at. Are you advising me to stop meddling. It ain't 77 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:41,439 my place to advise a young fellow side. I ain't smart enough. You 78 00:05:41,519 --> 00:05:45,759 asked me. As far as I'm concerned, well as fair as I'm concerned, 79 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:48,839 I don't know what happened. I still don't catch you. You're telling 80 00:05:48,879 --> 00:05:53,079 me that other people don't know what happened. It ain't my place to tell 81 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,120 you anything. I didn't come here to investigate the murder. Well that's been 82 00:05:57,199 --> 00:06:00,600 done and it's in the hands of the authorities. I was his wife, 83 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:04,199 confessed you. Yeah, you wait here. I we're refusing his wife. 84 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:09,439 I got short. Wait a minute. That was it? Wasn't it? 85 00:06:10,399 --> 00:06:13,199 You thought something had been uncovered and that I'd come to look into it. 86 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,480 Isn't that? It tran It don't concern me, Yes it does. Is 87 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,600 there a possibility that Alma Wilder did not kill her husband? He can fast? 88 00:06:21,639 --> 00:06:25,759 Didn't she? That's not what I asked. She said she killed him, 89 00:06:25,759 --> 00:06:29,199 and I reckon she knows better than anybody else, don't you. I 90 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,279 ain't got time to talk no more. I ain't got short all right, 91 00:06:31,319 --> 00:06:33,720 Trian, I can't hold you, but I'll have to go to the police 92 00:06:33,759 --> 00:06:39,240 with us. Now, don't go stir up a lot of trouble, young, 93 00:06:39,319 --> 00:06:43,519 So don't stir it up, you do. I got a feeling you're 94 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,920 gonna be sorry. If it's there to be stirred up, I'll have to 95 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,920 do it. And I guess it's there, all right. But I can 96 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,639 make a deal with you, Shrian, What do you You talk to me? 97 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:56,240 And I won't go to the police. As an insurance investigator, I'm 98 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:00,480 in a position to make a deal like that legally, all right, young 99 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,399 feller, you want to grab it with the tail you can. It ain't 100 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:09,839 much for a certain what I saw I heard Jarvis yelling out of That's what 101 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:13,519 woke me up. When I heard the shot, I jumped to the door. 102 00:07:14,399 --> 00:07:16,079 It was light enough to see and there was bulls laying on the ground. 103 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,920 They'd come out of the house. Yes, And it come over me 104 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,959 when I saw him that she didn't shoot him, cause she was laying on 105 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,600 her belly with her feet towards him, like as if that's where he'd knocked 106 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,240 her. No, that wouldn't mean much with him. I told you, 107 00:07:30,319 --> 00:07:32,959 it wasn't much for certain. So when I got to where she was, 108 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:38,079 she didn't have no gun. It was on the ground next to Jarvis. 109 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:41,879 Where was everybody else? They come out of the house, Russell and his 110 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,319 wife, and I got out of sight. It stayed in my mind that 111 00:07:46,439 --> 00:07:50,120 Almud didn't kill him till she said she did. Is that all Shrand? 112 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:54,959 You're telling me everything. That's the whole of it, The way she was 113 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,600 laying and where the gun was. I got there fast and it come to 114 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,439 me that she didn't shoot him. What are you figuring around doing? Not 115 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,480 sure? Don't see what I can make out of it. Thanks for telling 116 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,720 me. I'm going back to town. You can count on my confidence. 117 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:16,560 But if anything develops, I may have to talk to you again. You 118 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,720 need to gonna stay or Wrestle and his wife come back after talking to you. 119 00:08:20,879 --> 00:08:22,800 I think I'd better get to them later. And if you don't feel 120 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:26,720 like it, you don't even have to tell them I was here and I 121 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,879 want it ain't my business that you come, and it ain't their business, 122 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:39,200 then I talk to you. There was little enough to go on, certainly 123 00:08:39,879 --> 00:08:43,200 back in town. I approached the authorities on the basis of wanting a routine 124 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:48,240 report. The investigation was no more thorough than could be expected. The profession 125 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,960 naturally would do away with the usual need for examination. There were photographs who 126 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:58,279 record the position of the body, et cetera, results of ballistic comparison tests 127 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:03,159 to establish the fatal weapon thirty thirty rifle. That was about all. The 128 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,440 autopsy report hadn't as yet been added. I debated on where to go from 129 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,600 there, and decided against Kendall, the depends lawyer. I got permission to 130 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:18,600 visit the cell of the confessed murderers. Almer Wilder was a slight, well 131 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:22,759 formed brunette of twenty four. She looked older than her years, but she 132 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:28,720 would have been quite beautiful under different circumstances. I don't understand why you've come 133 00:09:28,759 --> 00:09:31,679 to see me, mister Dodge. I saw him all, how it happened. 134 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,120 Didn't you talk to him? Yes, why have you come to see 135 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,559 me? I read your confession. I guess I was curious about what kind 136 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,279 of a woman could make such a calm statement about killing her husband. It 137 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,399 was done and finished, there's no other way to say it. I'm curious 138 00:09:46,399 --> 00:09:50,279 about what kind of woman could be driven to the point where she'd do such 139 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,679 a thing. If you're read it, you know any kind of a woman. 140 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,919 I was kind of a woman. He made out of me. In 141 00:09:58,039 --> 00:10:01,919 your confession, you said he'd been cruel to you. What kind of culture 142 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,679 did you mean? I won't talk about it, physical program physical, Yes, 143 00:10:05,879 --> 00:10:09,159 I won't talk about it. What do you want me? I'd hope 144 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,600 maybe you would wanna talk to somebody that though it might help you. I 145 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,360 told all the truth I'm going to I don't tell anybody about my life with 146 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,759 whom I went through it and I ex finished. I won't talk about it 147 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:26,759 all right time. I've been here a long time since I killed him. 148 00:10:26,759 --> 00:10:31,720 I've been happier than I have for three years. It's the kind of a 149 00:10:31,799 --> 00:10:37,200 woman I am now happy. I haven't noticed, but I really wasn't after 150 00:10:37,279 --> 00:10:41,080 that part of the truth. You hated your husband and that or not? 151 00:10:43,039 --> 00:10:48,120 What about the twin brother? I hate him? Do think it's me? 152 00:10:48,279 --> 00:10:52,200 Do you? Yes? I hate him, hate him in the same way 153 00:10:52,279 --> 00:10:56,120 I hated Jervis. What about the sister in love? You thought much of 154 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:01,519 anything about Rosemary? Just any jot to that house? You see? She 155 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,279 dead personally. I should have known then what it was going to be liked. 156 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,440 Wasn't there anybody you liked out there or who liked you? Why any 157 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,039 of the men who worked in I never saw him, weren't allowed in the 158 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:18,039 house, and I wasn't allowed outside alone. Why I'm asking these things because 159 00:11:18,039 --> 00:11:22,320 I don't know. If it's confession, you and I will stick hu. 160 00:11:22,399 --> 00:11:26,080 I'm a right now. Only you know whether or not you really killed your 161 00:11:26,159 --> 00:11:30,559 husband. Yes, I did. If somebody knew you and felt sorry for 162 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,240 how unhappy you were, he might have killed me. There wasn't anybody. 163 00:11:33,399 --> 00:11:35,919 If somebody had thought enough of you to do that, you could be thanking 164 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,240 him with your confession. It would be a a noble gesture, I suppose. 165 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,639 But if that is the case, it's gonna come out. It wasn't. 166 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:48,080 You could save everybody a lot of trouble if you'd tell me it wasn't 167 00:11:48,159 --> 00:11:54,320 that nobody would do that for me. I didn't know anybody. I killed 168 00:11:54,399 --> 00:11:56,679 him because I hated him when I was trying to run away and he was 169 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,360 trying to top me. Don't kill anymore more anymore looking for these Why not? 170 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:07,919 I'm one, and you don't. I kill job as nobody else do. 171 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:15,399 Nobody had because I killed him. He was trying to run away and 172 00:12:15,399 --> 00:12:20,519 he wouldn't let me. He's going to take me back to that house couldn't 173 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:26,480 go back. Please please let me stay here alone. You better sit down 174 00:12:26,519 --> 00:12:48,600 around. I won't fight you anymore. Thank you, thank you. We 175 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,200 will return you to the second act of yours. Tooly Johnny Dollar, in 176 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,159 just a moment. There's one married couple you can always depend on for fun 177 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,720 on Saturday evenings. And when bite them over, it's the easiest saying tune 178 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,879 the sea. Yes, they're the seal Ball and that man she calls my 179 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,480 favorite husband. You don't have to get involved in the strange predicaments they do. 180 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,879 All you have to do is sit back and laugh at the results house 181 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,600 for asking them in this evening. The seal Ball and my Favorite Husband will 182 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:18,879 be waiting on most of these same CBS stations. Now, with our star 183 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,759 Edmital O'Brien, we return you to the second act of yours, truly, 184 00:13:22,039 --> 00:13:41,039 Johnny Dollar. Yes, come in well, missus, doller him, mister 185 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,440 Kennell. I didn't know whether you'd be in here. I was an aunt 186 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,200 five o'clock. Oh yes, I sometimes stay in the office until eight or 187 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:50,480 so. I'm a single man, no place to do any homework to Now, 188 00:13:50,799 --> 00:13:56,679 thanks well, I see you escape the wild arrange without loss of life? 189 00:13:56,759 --> 00:13:58,399 Old, Yeah, I'm in it all right? Nobody was there? 190 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:05,600 Were lucky? Did you uh talk to crutch Field? Who crutch Field prosecuted? 191 00:14:05,759 --> 00:14:09,279 Oh? I didn't even know who he was. No, I haven't 192 00:14:09,279 --> 00:14:13,039 seen him. Uh would you like a whiskey? Uh? Yeah, thanks? 193 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,639 I think I could stand on good. Ah. I went to see 194 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:20,440 how'm my wilder? Oh? What's the matter with her? Just what do 195 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:22,600 you mean? Oh? Where do you take this? Knee? Yeah? 196 00:14:22,639 --> 00:14:26,519 That'll be fine. I mean, how could any woman live like a prisoner 197 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,480 with a man she hated for three years? Wasn't it three years? This 198 00:14:31,639 --> 00:14:33,159 is the twentieth century. Nobody has to put up with anything like that? 199 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,919 Why didn't she leave? If it was that tough? Hey? Thanks? 200 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:45,600 I believe she did try to leave one other time and evidently was discouraged from 201 00:14:45,639 --> 00:14:50,240 trying again police. That's what she told me. What that she was beaten? 202 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,679 H hard to believe. I know it. So was uh the case 203 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:58,840 that broke in the papers last year of the man who'd been locked in a 204 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:03,639 room for fourteen year? Remember, yeah, answering, Well, shall we 205 00:15:03,799 --> 00:15:11,039 toast the human race? Mister Dollar, Let's not bother mister Kendall did you 206 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:16,559 ever give a thought to the possibility that Alma Wilder could be innocent? What 207 00:15:18,159 --> 00:15:22,720 I mean actually innocent, that somebody else could have killed her husband. It's 208 00:15:22,759 --> 00:15:26,600 the dollar if you've come in to win the information pertinent to this case. 209 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,639 I want to know about it. Well, it's not quite information yet, 210 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,240 but maybe it will be. Or was it source? I can't tell you 211 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,960 that now. Why not came to me in confidence. I've got to keep 212 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,799 it that way. But I faced Alma with it. The way she reacted 213 00:15:39,919 --> 00:15:41,159 makes me think that there's something to it. What do you say that, 214 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:45,360 I asked her if somebody we don't know about got rid of her husband for 215 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,000 it? Oh? She answered, Actually, she said no, and I 216 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,600 don't believe it has anything you learned pointed to the identity of this person. 217 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:58,200 No, until we can be more specific, this is worthless as testimony. 218 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,919 Yeah, I know, and give anything to produce a witness that would blast 219 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,080 Crutchfield's case from here to the state capitol. Yeah, but there's too much 220 00:16:07,159 --> 00:16:11,399 a hoop for here. Who knows? God? Her confession as signed statement 221 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,679 a matter of record. Obviously you're going to follow it up. Oh, 222 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,200 sure, I'll have to. Now, would there be any way to keep 223 00:16:18,279 --> 00:16:22,919 the whole thing confidential. Uh, without interfering with your work. I don't 224 00:16:22,919 --> 00:16:27,000 know. We'd have to see. Of course, it's too much to hope 225 00:16:27,039 --> 00:16:32,279 for. Won't start m paneling a jury until day after tomorrow at the earliest. 226 00:16:32,639 --> 00:16:34,159 If you're making any progress and need more time, let me know I 227 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,240 can delay that, all right, I will. You ought to be congratulated, 228 00:16:37,279 --> 00:16:42,879 mister dollar. However you came about its uh possibility case of plain full 229 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,399 lock. As a matter of fact, Ah, don't say that. You 230 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:51,399 put us in the back seat. A green horn. We Westerners don't like 231 00:16:51,519 --> 00:17:00,240 that at all. I turned in early the next morning. I looked up 232 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,319 the arresting officer in the Wilder case, the man who had supervised what little 233 00:17:03,359 --> 00:17:07,279 work had been done on it. It's not only a greenhorn, but a 234 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,039 Johnny come lately. I expected a lot less cooperation than I got. Well, 235 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:15,240 i'll be dag. I don't know what to make of that. She's 236 00:17:15,279 --> 00:17:17,559 a queer one, all right, but I never thought of nothing like that. 237 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,400 Maybe there isn't a thing to it, But well, how did she 238 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:23,480 act that night? Well, she was kind of numb when I got out 239 00:17:23,519 --> 00:17:27,720 there. Acted day, she didn't talk till next morning. Russell, that's 240 00:17:27,799 --> 00:17:32,519 the brother says he was an eyewitness. His wife didn't see nothing, and 241 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,799 an old timer that works out there says he didn't either. I suppose it's 242 00:17:34,799 --> 00:17:37,720 pretty later on a paravan test on her, isn't it. We can try. 243 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,759 I don't hold much by myself when you're trying to prove somebody didn't fire 244 00:17:41,799 --> 00:17:45,720 a gun when you want to know did they? Then they're all right. 245 00:17:45,799 --> 00:17:48,359 I guess we'll test her though in the rifle. Yeah, I'll send that 246 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:52,359 back to you again. Got her prints off of it. But we'll see 247 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:53,119 what else. I know. This is a lot of trouble. No, 248 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,640 we need nothing. We don't get many like this, And to tell you 249 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:06,880 the truth, I sort of enjoy trying to work out these things. It 250 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,079 was about a quarter after ten when I turned into the Wilder Ranch road, 251 00:18:10,519 --> 00:18:12,319 passing the out buildings. I looked for, but didn't see the old man 252 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:25,799 Shram who'd been there the day before. You've got business here, Mester, 253 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,359 Yeah, are you, Russell Wilder? I don't remember asking you to come. 254 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,160 I don't do business with anybody I don't know. I think you better 255 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:37,240 get back in your car and drive on out. I think you'll talk with 256 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,240 me, mister Wilder. What about the Britannia Life Insurance company sent me out 257 00:18:41,559 --> 00:18:45,200 a few things to take care of on your brother's policies. You are the 258 00:18:45,319 --> 00:18:48,200 salesman we bought from. No. I came out from Hertford, Connecticut. 259 00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:51,079 Why'd you come all the way from there? It's quite a bit of money 260 00:18:51,079 --> 00:18:53,319 involved. Company wants to be sure everything's in order. Jarvis and I kept 261 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,880 our own books. Everything's in order. There seemed to be a few loose 262 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:02,119 ends to take care of, not that I know about it. I understand 263 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:06,920 you saw your brother's wife kill him. I saw it. That's what you 264 00:19:07,039 --> 00:19:12,839 told the police. But it's not true. Maybe I didn't hear you. 265 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:18,039 Sometimes it doesn't do any good to throw your weight around, no matter what 266 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:21,920 kind of reputation you got for being rough. This is one of those times 267 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,000 while they're so take it easy and you better get out of here, get 268 00:19:25,039 --> 00:19:27,880 off my line. You can put me off, it won't do any good. 269 00:19:30,079 --> 00:19:33,640 Murder doesn't brush off that easy. And you're in this one up to 270 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,920 your neck. Say what you gotta say. I said it. You didn't 271 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,599 see your brother get killed. You know it, And the police are working 272 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,079 now to prove it. I saw it. What were you doing outside at 273 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:48,279 eleven at night? Didn't the sound of the shot bring you out? She 274 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,240 killed him. It's not the open and shutcase you thought they had against it. 275 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,680 Why did you lie about seeing her shoot him? Didn't make any difference. 276 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,160 I do things the way I think I ought to be done. You 277 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:00,799 got no right to ask me questions. I don't have to ask you anymore. 278 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:03,839 I've found out all I want. Yeah, wait a minute, let 279 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:10,359 go, I may What do you want? She killed him? It was 280 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:11,960 the same as if I saw her. I know she killed him. No, 281 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,400 they don't. She said she did. Now they want to find out 282 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,279 why she said it. She's not the only one in the picture anymore. 283 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,759 You're in it too. You could have done it, kill my own brother. 284 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,880 Your reputation says you could have your I mean full of hate. Both 285 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,200 of you seem to get a lot of satisfaction out of kicking your wives around. 286 00:20:30,319 --> 00:20:33,599 That's what passed for love and your marriage is what can you expect people 287 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,720 to think about the association between you and Jervis. You don't kill your brother? 288 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:41,200 Why not for the insurance money and the ranch? I'll kill you if 289 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:47,160 you don't stop talking like that, you know Wilder, I think you would. 290 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:59,519 I guess that tells me everything I wanted to know. Oh yeah, 291 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,839 come all right, just been out to the ranch. I'll never see it 292 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,680 again. And I finally met your brother in law or him again. How 293 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:11,559 did you happen to marry Jarvis? Cause my friends were all married. I 294 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,920 wanted to be. I was dumb enough to believe his promises he could be 295 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:21,240 different when he wanted to be a long time ago. Anywhere the rifle you 296 00:21:21,319 --> 00:21:25,160 shot him with is it his? Yes? That you knew where he kept? 297 00:21:25,799 --> 00:21:29,799 Yes, in the bedroom he kept it loaded. Yes, And you 298 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,160 took it when you tried to sneak out of the house. Yes. I 299 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,319 had my mind made up to kill him this time if he tried to stop 300 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:41,359 me. He was asleep and you got up and got dressed, shirt and 301 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,359 leave eyes and shoes. He didn't wake up while you were dressing. What 302 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:51,839 if he had Were you near the rifle? Yes? Is there a cartridge 303 00:21:51,839 --> 00:21:55,599 in the chamber. I don't know very much about him, I think so. 304 00:21:56,599 --> 00:21:59,920 You ever shot the rifle before? One like it? Long time? 305 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,039 How did you cock the rifle with the lever? Over the hammer. What 306 00:22:03,559 --> 00:22:07,039 when you shot him? Did you cock the rifle with the hammer of the 307 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:11,440 lever? I'm not sure? Now what difference? Does it make a lot 308 00:22:11,519 --> 00:22:14,279 of difference? You'd cock it one way if the cartridge was in the chamber, 309 00:22:14,319 --> 00:22:17,240 and the other way if you had to bring one up from the magazine. 310 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,079 You know that. Yes, which way? I remember? And it 311 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,200 doesn't make any difference, Yes, it does. One way would have left 312 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,119 an ejected cartridge on the ground and the police would have found it. They 313 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:30,000 didn't ask me these questions. They didn't have any reason not to believe your 314 00:22:30,039 --> 00:22:32,599 confession. It's true. Did Russell see you kill your husband? Yes? 315 00:22:32,759 --> 00:22:34,839 Did he tell the police he saw you? Yes? He said she killed 316 00:22:34,839 --> 00:22:37,640 my brother. I'm a weakness. I saw he said that he was lying, 317 00:22:37,799 --> 00:22:41,240 wasn't he No, he saw me. He told me he was lying. 318 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,119 He didn't he saw me. He didn't see you. He didn't see 319 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,920 you because you didn't kill him. I did. Did Russell kill him? 320 00:22:48,559 --> 00:22:51,839 Did he? He could have come on? Tell me the truth, cow 321 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:59,240 man, tell me the truth. Huh? What is it, Officer Dandy 322 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:00,359 said? Word? He wants you to come over, can't it wait? 323 00:23:00,559 --> 00:23:07,759 He says, it's mighty important, and you better come all right. It 324 00:23:07,799 --> 00:23:17,880 wouldn't have to be so rough, you know. I'm h was it? 325 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,960 You know, I'm not certain something about the rifle they was working on. 326 00:23:30,839 --> 00:23:33,319 I think we did her, dollar. I think we did her I hope. 327 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,880 So look right here, and this is the murder weapon. Didn't bother 328 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,960 a lot. But look at that butt plate. Yeah, jammed into the 329 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,039 ribbing on the plate and into the indentations for the screwheads. More on the 330 00:23:45,079 --> 00:23:48,000 one side. We got that cover too. And you told me how she 331 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,640 was lying with her feet towards the deceased, Well that figures in two. 332 00:23:52,319 --> 00:23:56,759 And I called back the corner about some march they found in Jarvis's arm teeth, 333 00:23:56,799 --> 00:24:00,799 Mark Harry. See, yeah, it's done a lot of work, 334 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,240 dandy, And next time I won't wait. Anyhow, we didn't have a 335 00:24:03,279 --> 00:24:06,920 Marlin rifle like the murder gun, but it didn't make no difference. We 336 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,400 took one of our winchesters out on some dirt. We sort of guessed at 337 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,079 the angle to get more dirt onto one half of the plate than the other, 338 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,039 like that Marlin has in it. That's it, Dandy, You've got 339 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:18,599 it here. We jammed the stock on the ground and pulled the trigger. 340 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,839 The recoil pushed the butt plate into the ground, and we got dirt in 341 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,359 it, about the same as the marlin. It's good work. Say, 342 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:34,960 could we phone Mitchell Kendall? I promised him he'd be in on this opposite 343 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,640 dandy and I waited twenty minutes for candle outside. Alma whiless cell and we 344 00:24:38,799 --> 00:24:42,480 went in without it. Itscept for a while to realize how much we knew 345 00:24:42,559 --> 00:24:48,160 now about what had happened. Why here I want to keep on saying that, 346 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,839 missus Wiler, it ain't true. It can't be. You didn't know 347 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,440 anything about that rifle. You didn't have it when you left the house. 348 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,319 Javis had it when he came out after you didn't he I'm scared. I 349 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,119 don't know what happened. We can tell you. He tried. I had 350 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,960 to stop you outside with a rifle. It was calm. I don't know, 351 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:04,519 we do, Alma. He tried to stop you and you bit him. 352 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:07,559 He threw you with one arm and the rifle fell from the other went 353 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,920 off when it hit the ground. Everything fits in and you were lying and 354 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,119 set your way. You couldn't have shot him and got there. Nothing you 355 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,680 can say now will change it. We know what happened. It's true, 356 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,920 isn't it. Yes, Yes, it's true. Why didn't you tell us 357 00:25:23,039 --> 00:25:26,319 you made a false confession and stuck with it? What made you do that? 358 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:32,720 What were you afraid of? Were you afraid of? Russell? I 359 00:25:32,839 --> 00:25:36,640 was afraid I'd have to go back to that house. I mean it's it's 360 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,359 better to go to prison. Yes, I wouldn't have died for it, 361 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:44,440 would I? But I will know? Why should you? Alma? What 362 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:49,480 do you mean he said I would? Russell said I would? He said, 363 00:25:51,759 --> 00:25:56,359 you killed my brother. I am a witness. I am a witness 364 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:03,400 before the law. Don't kill you. I swear no matter where you go, 365 00:26:03,799 --> 00:26:11,839 I will. And they will. That's the kind of men they are 366 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:22,720 when they say, if they can do anything, please these you've got to 367 00:26:22,799 --> 00:26:42,480 let me stay here. Expense account Item too miscellaneous one hundred and eighty five 368 00:26:42,519 --> 00:26:48,000 dollars item free, same as item one. Transportation back to Hartford expense account 369 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,799 total five hundred and forty dollars remox No pleasant ones. The girl who'd reached 370 00:26:53,839 --> 00:26:59,680 the point where prisons seem better than what we call freedom is giving up both 371 00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:17,319 for a hospital where they hope she'll improve its Truly Johnny Dahr. Yours Truly 372 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,880 Johnny Dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the title role and is written by Gil Dodd 373 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:25,440 with music by Wilbur Hatch. Edmund O'Brien's latest picture as the Paramount Picture production, 374 00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:29,279 The Redhead and the Cowboy. Featured in tonight's cast were Parley Bear, 375 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:34,039 Tim Graham, Bill Conrad Her Butterfield and Mary Lansing. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar 376 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:41,960 is produced and directed by him del Vallie. This is Dick Cutting inviting you 377 00:27:42,039 --> 00:27:45,960 to join us next week at this time when Edmund O'Brien returns as Yours Truly 378 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:56,119 Johnny Dollar. There have been some changes made, and it's faster, it's 379 00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:00,759 funnier, it's got new life and a brand new punch because Dan Murray's taken 380 00:28:00,839 --> 00:28:03,880 over. What show is this? Why CBS Saturday Night Musical Quiz Sing It 381 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,279 Again that are of melody, mirth and money that's heard on most of these 382 00:28:07,319 --> 00:28:12,039 same CBS stations. 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