1 00:00:06,719 --> 00:00:20,199 I'm now more yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The next half hour has its 2 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:26,640 baggage pack to take a trip with America's tabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar at 3 00:00:26,679 --> 00:00:32,399 insurance investigation, He's just an expert at making out his expense account He's an 4 00:00:32,399 --> 00:00:46,479 absolute genius. Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar to home 5 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:51,880 office. I were the Insurance Underwriters Association, Hartford, Connecticut. Attention General 6 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:58,119 Manager, Harvey Anthony. Hmmm, dear mister Anthony, here is your problem. 7 00:00:58,159 --> 00:01:00,439 The following is an accounting of my expense in the case of one hundred 8 00:01:00,439 --> 00:01:08,920 thousand dollars legs or who puts your company out on the limbs Fren's account. 9 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:14,799 I don't want sixty dollars twenty dollars across the board on a losing horse. 10 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,159 I was rushed into betting on when you had me paged on a public address 11 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:25,480 system at the race track. This is Harvey Anthony. Dollars thanks for calling 12 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,599 back soon. I only page me. They said it was an emergency. 13 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,920 Better be why what's a dollar? This is my day off and if I 14 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,159 know you, this call is gonna make it an off day. If I 15 00:01:36,239 --> 00:01:38,120 know you, my friend, you won't mind this assignment. I want you 16 00:01:38,159 --> 00:01:42,760 to go out to Hollywood act as a bodyguard for a big movie star, 17 00:01:42,439 --> 00:01:48,239 Marilyn Major, a bad body to God, what's the deal? We've issued 18 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,799 one of those publicity policies insured her legs for one hundred thousand. Policy will 19 00:01:52,799 --> 00:01:55,680 only be an effect for forty eight hours. We want you to stick with 20 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,519 her, just to see that she doesn't get mixed up any hockey games. 21 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,400 I get it. She's been notified, so she expects you. Wonder the 22 00:02:04,439 --> 00:02:07,439 forty eight hours starts tomorrow noon? Can you make it? Hour? Was 23 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,919 the help of American Airlines gets you to buy your ticket? About that? 24 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:23,000 I'll know right after the next race, I'll call you from Hollywood. Fens 25 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:30,199 accounts Item two ten dollars borrowed from a friend. Taxi fair from the racetrack 26 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,000 to town, from where I cash checked to pay. Item three one hundred 27 00:02:34,039 --> 00:02:38,400 and eighty six dollars and thirteen cents point fair Hartford to Hollywood. Item four 28 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:44,599 three fifty cab fair locks Ackless Municipal Airport to the Hall of the Ensured its 29 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:50,120 Marilyn Major at the Horizon View apartments on the sunset strip hit the driver one 30 00:02:50,159 --> 00:02:53,120 dollar. Miss Maker's apartment had the best view of the horizon, it being 31 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:59,800 the penthouse, but her outlook was anything but rosie. I found the apartment 32 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:21,439 open. First I looked in, then I went in. How I want 33 00:03:21,439 --> 00:03:24,240 to play? The person to person called please, mister Harvey Anthony Corker, 34 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:32,639 Connecticut volunteer three six thousand. My name is Dollar, as in blood Money. 35 00:03:35,159 --> 00:03:38,120 While I was waiting to get mister Anthony, I wondered who had got 36 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:42,240 Miss Major in the movies. I'd always thought she looked right at home anywhere, 37 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,639 and now right there in front of me, she was passing a Trevist 38 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:49,800 test. Lying there nice and relaxed. She looked right at home in the 39 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,759 role of a beautiful gal who has just been murdered. Her face was calm, 40 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,960 her legs were neatly placed in the best of cheesecake traditions. The only 41 00:03:58,039 --> 00:04:00,360 thing not quite as it should have been was a very real bullet hole, 42 00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:04,759 which she was worrying where an earring should have been. The next cameras that 43 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:11,759 would be taking her picture would be police cameras. The pictures be for Bloody 44 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,879 Dollar. Oh yeah, did you go ahead? Hell? Hello? Hello, 45 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:19,560 dollar, Yeah, yeah, this dollar, all right, Anthony. 46 00:04:19,759 --> 00:04:23,680 First, I want to tell you those legs you ensure are still in beautiful 47 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,879 shape. Good, good, fine. I only hope you didn't also ensure 48 00:04:26,959 --> 00:04:30,600 miss Major's life. She's dead. What Marilyn Major dead? That's right. 49 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,120 Oh, we certainly do ensure her life. We only issued that publicity policy 50 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,120 on her legs. Is a courtesy. Dollar. Get to work on it 51 00:04:39,199 --> 00:04:41,560 right away. I'll get to work on it. But don't waste too much, 52 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,680 hope. The meaning it looks like you're only out is if the policy 53 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,480 does not pay off on murder. Murder good to heaven. Well, there 54 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,920 may be something about the case of the famous from paying double indemnity for death 55 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:54,839 by violence. Oh, this is death by violence, brother, anyway you 56 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,639 look at it. Okay, Anthony, I'll get to work on it right 57 00:04:57,639 --> 00:05:00,800 after I call the cops and make a report. Do your mess, okay, 58 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:13,040 goodbye. Oh I'm not that jellowphone. The dames standing in the kitchen 59 00:05:13,079 --> 00:05:15,800 doorway had thirty two caliber steel in her hand to back up the brass in 60 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,720 her voice. She was a youngster, but obviously an old timer. Had 61 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:24,279 a lot of things. Her hair was the same color as The murdered woman's 62 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:29,920 smoke blonde, and her dress was tobacco brown and round and firm and fully 63 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,879 pink. I said, put down that phone. Ah sure, sure, 64 00:05:32,879 --> 00:05:38,160 okay, now, uh, you're doing a favor, will you if you 65 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,199 feel you want your finger near that trigger? How about moving it up to 66 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,600 the front end of the trigger? God huh, mister, I only heard 67 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,160 part of what you said, but you're not calling no police. Show that 68 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,600 damon there has done me enough harm. I came here to kill him, 69 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:54,120 but somebody beat me to it, and I'm not taking the back. Okay, 70 00:05:54,199 --> 00:05:57,399 so beat it. Who cares? Then I'll call the police. Somebody 71 00:05:57,519 --> 00:06:00,959 going to eventually before I go. I'm finding two things. I'm taking them 72 00:06:00,959 --> 00:06:02,439 with me. Come on, get up on your seats. Miss You're coming 73 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:09,160 with me in the bedroom. Okay, okay, don't get excited. Okay, 74 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:12,319 mister over against that wall with your faith and closing your hands straight up? 75 00:06:12,319 --> 00:06:15,959 Come on, move right. You learn this at the movies or by 76 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,519 watching your friends work. Don't be a lifetime Not as dumb as I look. 77 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:25,800 The host still look sister by this time. I shouldn't still like you 78 00:06:25,879 --> 00:06:28,800 well enough to want you. But what you're doing right now will get you 79 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:30,839 in plenty of trouble even if you didn't commit this theater, I'll take that. 80 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,040 If you don't get picked up for lash and they they'll still get you 81 00:06:34,079 --> 00:06:38,480 for tampering with evidence. As far as the police are concerned, at the 82 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,959 scene of a murder, nothing gets touched. They like it that way. 83 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:45,160 What I'm taking more is to be missed. You're play more here, just 84 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,279 like him. So she's gotten here love letters from men. Who are you 85 00:06:48,399 --> 00:06:51,600 covering up for your boyfriend? It's not even your business, mister, but 86 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:56,439 it's my hunts that I'm covering up for. Then you're just playing nuts. 87 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,360 If he knew her, they'll find that out. Then if they want him, 88 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,360 they'll find him. Yeah, and I'll find it dead. Huh. 89 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:09,800 My husband committed suicide over the no good Dame this morning. Oh no, 90 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:14,399 I've had enough out of you. Back up to dead. Not get over 91 00:07:14,439 --> 00:07:17,319 there and into that closet. Come on, too bad. What's the matter. 92 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:25,040 I always feel sorry for a sucker. I choked around in the dark. 93 00:07:25,519 --> 00:07:29,199 It was a small saucet. I met not much air that meant doing 94 00:07:29,199 --> 00:07:31,560 something about it. I took my finger in a file, stood at our 95 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,639 edge and slipped it under the door, pressing down the nap of the rut. 96 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:39,279 I did the same with my fountain pen, but at least allowed a 97 00:07:39,319 --> 00:07:42,759 small supply of air to sneak into my stuffy little cell. And then I 98 00:07:42,759 --> 00:07:45,959 glued my ear to a thin wooden panel that separated me from the bedroom. 99 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:50,519 It wasn't long before my captor apparently completed his search. I past the closet 100 00:07:50,519 --> 00:07:54,920 door and head to the front room. I didn't hear a dial of phone, 101 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,000 but it didn't take me long to realize that's what she was doing and 102 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,120 who she was calling. Give me the police. This is an emergency. 103 00:08:01,879 --> 00:08:09,639 Hello, Hello, PLA want I report a murder? All right? Hellos 104 00:08:09,639 --> 00:08:16,639 with a murder? The movie saw allan major in the penthouse. The horizon 105 00:08:16,759 --> 00:08:20,120 view were popping on the sunset strip. Never mind who I am. I 106 00:08:20,279 --> 00:08:26,680 caught the murderers. You'll find him locked up in the closet. From the 107 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,720 moment she hung up, I could only guess what was happening. I heard 108 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:35,080 a man spotstep brush in and then his voice that's what I'm telling you. 109 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,200 Please let us know I'm kicking them with me. I didn't think I had 110 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,720 the time to spend picking the lock on the closet door. So I thought. 111 00:08:46,759 --> 00:08:48,559 The girl who had just tried to turn me into the cops was lying 112 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,159 on her face in front of a telephone stand, and a cover of bullets 113 00:08:52,159 --> 00:08:56,159 had turned the brown silk on her back into wet red lace. She'd been 114 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:01,080 shot in the back, and if she succeeded in finding of letters, her 115 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,759 killer had taken them with him. I made a quick search myself and took 116 00:09:03,799 --> 00:09:07,440 a look for the remaining sets of letters, one from a guy who signed 117 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:13,039 himself Barren, and the other one from a guy whose autograph read with all 118 00:09:13,159 --> 00:09:16,559 my love larns. My instincts were trying to pull me out of that apartment, 119 00:09:16,639 --> 00:09:20,720 but one look down the street throw them into reverse. Black and white 120 00:09:20,759 --> 00:09:24,320 prowl cars were arriving, and I was less than another minute when their passenger 121 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:33,919 started pouring out of the elevator and through the front door. Backround, closet, 122 00:09:33,919 --> 00:09:37,000 boys, make sure you how in front of that door. Never mind 123 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,799 the closet, lieutenant, it's empty. I kicked my way out, all 124 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:41,799 right, Let's say your hands get them up, and I swear I'm gonna 125 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:46,320 buy some stock in a gun company. Everybody's got them. Get around behind 126 00:09:46,399 --> 00:09:52,679 him, check them the eleven. Yes, sir, okay, who are 127 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,320 you Johnny Dollar? And if you lend me back my right hand, I'll 128 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,559 give you my ID. Send my wallet. Gave him up it? Get 129 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:07,480 his wallet? Yes, it here? It is insurance, dick. Please, 130 00:10:07,639 --> 00:10:11,399 I'm a freelance special insurance invest together. It sounds better, keeps my 131 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:16,480 price up. Let's just story first. I'd like to go on record as 132 00:10:16,519 --> 00:10:20,360 saying I didn't commit either one of the murders. Either one. What are 133 00:10:20,399 --> 00:10:24,279 you talking about? Well? This one here is the girl who phoned in 134 00:10:24,279 --> 00:10:28,080 the report that brought you here, and once she was talking about Marilyn Major 135 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,240 is lying just as dead on the floor in the bedroom. Nolla, get 136 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,080 in there, take it. Look. Yes, while he's looking, you 137 00:10:33,279 --> 00:10:37,000 keep on talking. Okay, I'll start from the beginning. I always sent 138 00:10:37,039 --> 00:10:41,480 out here by high Worthy Insurance. They just to shift policy on the legs 139 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,279 of that dame in the other room one hundred thousand dollars publicity stunted. I 140 00:10:45,399 --> 00:10:48,759 was supposed to protect their interests. What do you mean by that? Well, 141 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:52,360 what do you think I was supposed to see that? She didn't attempt 142 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,840 any Hindu fire dances or try walking any type ropes during the next forty eight 143 00:10:56,879 --> 00:11:01,600 hours, you'd Warri's rod at the parkment at least? What else? When 144 00:11:01,639 --> 00:11:03,639 I got here, the door was open. I walked in and found her 145 00:11:03,919 --> 00:11:09,960 dead. Anyway to prove that any witnesses, just one? She's lying there 146 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:15,399 behind her. Over the phone, she accused you of the murder. That's 147 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,519 the wrong kind of a witness, now, lieutenants, the wrong kind of 148 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,639 dame. She knew I didn't do it. She was somewhere in this apart 149 00:11:20,639 --> 00:11:24,679 from I arrived. And why did you say it? I can hardly ask 150 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,200 her, Listen, lieutenants. She did tell me that she came here to 151 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,519 get some letters her husband had written them to the major Dame. She said 152 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:35,919 she was trying to protect him from what. Who knows. Maybe she just 153 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,440 wanted him to rest in peace. The guy coming at suicide this morning, 154 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,360 we can't shake his story with him, Kenley, You've got a lot of 155 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:48,000 dead friends out at this one here, get that way. I'm not sure. 156 00:11:48,399 --> 00:11:50,879 While I was in the closet, I heard her call you, and 157 00:11:50,919 --> 00:11:54,159 then a man came in and yelled something about blackmail at her and shot her, 158 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,080 and naturally he had disappeared by the time you'll kick your way out of 159 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,799 the closet. That's right, This story yours may win some kind of a 160 00:12:01,799 --> 00:12:07,399 prize dollar, but not for me. I'm not a judge. That's one 161 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,879 thing in my favor. I got something. The dame was dead, all 162 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,600 right. Look what I found in that closet. A fingernail file, a 163 00:12:13,639 --> 00:12:16,960 fountain pen with a name on it, Johnny Dollar, and a thirty two 164 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:22,720 caliber revolver Jam's in a shoe, well, Dollar, That combination puts you 165 00:12:22,879 --> 00:12:26,480 in a kind of jam too. Look, Lieutenant, I think I can 166 00:12:26,519 --> 00:12:30,679 make you see things my way if you'll let me go through my story once 167 00:12:30,759 --> 00:12:43,279 more. I was sent out here by a high worthy insurance expense account item 168 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:48,240 for three dollars candy, guns, cigarettes, and magazines to make cell number 169 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:54,840 thirty six, Los Angeles City jail less like a no place and more like 170 00:12:54,879 --> 00:13:07,919 a home. There's something about a jail door closing on you that sounds very 171 00:13:16,759 --> 00:13:20,919 In just a moment, we'll return to the second act of yours, truly, 172 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:24,120 Johnny Dollar. But first we want you to know that the biggest jackpot 173 00:13:24,159 --> 00:13:28,000 in the history of radio, fifty thousand dollars, goes in the works. 174 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:33,159 Tomorrow night when CBS Great Saturday Night Quiz shows, sing It Again comes to 175 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,159 you again over most of these same stations, fifty thousand dollars twenty five thousand 176 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:43,200 in marvelous prizes, plus twenty five thousand in cold hard cash. And that's 177 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,200 only the beginning. Because the longer the phantom boys questions if here the listeners, 178 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,440 the higher the rewards go. Be sure you're around tomorrow night when sing 179 00:13:50,519 --> 00:13:56,840 It Again sets telephones ringing across the nation, and fifty thousand dollars goes riding 180 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:11,639 on each call. Now back to yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. When 181 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:16,600 I accepted this Hollywood assignments, I visualized spending much of my time gazing upon 182 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:22,720 bars, but not the kind offered by Cell number thirty six. The guy 183 00:14:22,759 --> 00:14:26,799 who said stone walls do not a prison mate had never been a guest in 184 00:14:26,799 --> 00:14:30,440 the Los Angeles City jail. He had a better chance of getting out of 185 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,639 Barblet's quotations, and I had a getting out of there. But as we 186 00:14:33,759 --> 00:14:52,639 keep saying in the insurance racords, never say die, wow, that roach, 187 00:14:52,919 --> 00:14:56,679 what are you going for? I've heard tallot boys around headquarters have a 188 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:01,440 very funny joke about roaches and jails. But that's not why I am here. 189 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:07,600 Sit down, make yourself uncomfortable. Nice. I can't offer you, 190 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,320 I mean, Julip. The closest I can come is a spearmid life saver. 191 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,840 This kind of zero is a pleasure after facing the climb. Blew up 192 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:22,080 against huh so for a dollar or we've got to go on as Joe and 193 00:15:22,159 --> 00:15:24,639 a mess of evidence we haven't a yet been able to trace down to its 194 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:30,399 rightful womens. Oh, accidentally about that gun we thought might be yours. 195 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:31,720 Oh, don't tell me you're going to give up to me as a birthday 196 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:37,399 present. It was the weapon used to kill Marilyn Major, the power up 197 00:15:37,399 --> 00:15:39,600 and test we took on your hands. Let you up. You haven't been 198 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,600 firing any guns lately? Does that mean you've come here to what? Scout 199 00:15:43,639 --> 00:15:46,080 me to the front door. You're not so fair. We do want to 200 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,519 know what your finger, Prince, We're doing all over those two bundles of 201 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,639 love letters we found. I'm going to have to learn to pick things up 202 00:15:52,679 --> 00:15:58,120 with my knuckles, Lieutenant. I just had a natural curiosity as to who 203 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,919 killed the cat. The only difference we between us roach is that your curiosity 204 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:06,279 is official? How far did you get? Not far enough? Didn't take 205 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,759 much figgering to know that Miss Major's and playing a high class badger game. 206 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:15,200 All the perfume and the joint couldn't cover up the smell of blackness. On 207 00:16:15,279 --> 00:16:18,840 top of that, we found the two batches letters that you've been messing around 208 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:25,639 with, one signed Baron eether as signed Lawrence. Those the fire departments should 209 00:16:25,639 --> 00:16:29,799 be handling. Yeah, I remember there's probably a third set flowing around. 210 00:16:30,519 --> 00:16:33,720 Why do you say that I was not an eyewitness to this, only an 211 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,519 ear witness, but from what I could hear inside that closet, the name 212 00:16:37,559 --> 00:16:41,120 who came there looking for a husband's letters found them and she called you to 213 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:44,240 turn me in. On our way out of the apartment, some guy came 214 00:16:44,279 --> 00:16:47,559 in, stuck her for Marilyn Major and shot her on the back. When 215 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,200 I kicked my way out of the closet, those letters of hers were gone, 216 00:16:49,519 --> 00:16:52,919 so Faker's the murderer grabbed the letters out of her hand, thinking there 217 00:16:53,000 --> 00:17:00,279 was some he'd written. Then in your file that killer was either that Baronello 218 00:17:00,799 --> 00:17:04,759 the other one Lawrence Lieutenant. In my file, they're both murderers. It's 219 00:17:04,799 --> 00:17:08,759 just a question of who killed home. The guy who killed Marylyn Major certainly 220 00:17:08,799 --> 00:17:11,839 wouldn't have come back to kill her again, would he in this town? 221 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,680 You never know. Look, Lieutenant, I got a two ways stake in 222 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,480 this thing, one to get my name cleared, the other to get my 223 00:17:18,559 --> 00:17:22,319 job done. And I'm in a hurry. I imagine you are too, 224 00:17:22,079 --> 00:17:26,960 Marilyn League. It was a big name. That means we'll soon have newspapers 225 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,400 burning under our seats. We're in a hurry, all right, Okay, 226 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,960 then listen. If I were either one of those murderers, and I know 227 00:17:33,039 --> 00:17:36,680 that the police probably had a handful of letters, it could send me to 228 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,440 the gas chamber, I'd head for the border. Yeah. But if I 229 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:44,119 thought an outsider had him, somebody they might be able to buy off, 230 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:48,880 or scare off or be off, then I'd go find that guy. Well, 231 00:17:48,279 --> 00:17:51,960 let's bring this thing to what had in a hurry. Run a story 232 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,160 in the papers. Tell him you released me, tell him I escape, 233 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,599 tell him anything, just so long as you tell them that you suspect that 234 00:17:57,839 --> 00:18:03,440 I have those letters in some place. Well, if you don't mind taking 235 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,480 the chance of having two murderers gunning at you, we certainly don't. Oh 236 00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:11,519 I mind, believe me. I'm not doing you any favors. It's just 237 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:17,880 that I'll feel safer in my own hands. Okay, mister Pision, you've 238 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:22,440 got your over elected. We'll published that story, then we'll let you fly. 239 00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:26,079 The coop said, enough, just make sure that you give me plenty 240 00:18:26,079 --> 00:18:36,519 of fighter cover expense account Item six seven cents purchase of newspaper, an extra 241 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,000 edition that hit the street about a half an hour before I did. Item 242 00:18:40,039 --> 00:18:44,799 seven five dollars a big square meal to make up for the ones I'd missed, 243 00:18:44,799 --> 00:18:48,680 ignoring the little round beams while a guess of the city, seeing the 244 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,480 lieutenant's fiction and black prim on the front page of a newspaper almost had me 245 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,119 believing it. There was my picture, big as life, And when those 246 00:18:56,119 --> 00:19:00,359 birds set up a pigeon, they made sure everybody would know the la location 247 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,160 of his roost firmly. Planet High in the story was the name of a 248 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,359 hotel into which they had registered me, and to which I was under orders 249 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:19,160 to proceed immediately. As I walked down the hotel card or to my room, 250 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,839 I felt an icy chill and a flight of goose flesh headed south down 251 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:34,559 my spine, Darley and close a door. Expected company, but not your 252 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,440 kind. At first, I thought I'd got into the wrong room. This 253 00:19:38,519 --> 00:19:41,599 kid looked right at home, and she used some some of the clothes from 254 00:19:41,599 --> 00:19:45,680 a half packed over a night bag to make her look at Oh you're Johnny 255 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,079 Duck. Yeah, thanks for saving me a calling card? How are you? 256 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:52,880 Alice Hill? That doesn't mean anything. Otherwise known as missus Lawrence Hill, 257 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,799 Oh, Lawrence. Oh. The last time I saw that name it 258 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:02,039 said with love, but not to you. That's why I'm here. I 259 00:20:02,039 --> 00:20:04,039 want those letters. Why is you carrying a gun? It'll be here if 260 00:20:04,039 --> 00:20:10,400 we need it. We yes, my husband's on the lobby. Look, 261 00:20:10,519 --> 00:20:12,160 if you give me those letters, he wrote, I'll pack up my little 262 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:17,559 bag and leave and everybody will be very happy. Yeah. I think I 263 00:20:17,599 --> 00:20:19,359 know the next line, but go ahead. I hope you keep bond being 264 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,640 that smart. My husband was watching for you when you came in, so 265 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,720 he knows you're up here. Naturally, he knows I'm here, and he's 266 00:20:26,799 --> 00:20:30,920 on his way up. We want thoters. This isn't just a Badger game, 267 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,920 this is the world series. If I don't give you the letters, 268 00:20:33,079 --> 00:20:37,799 your husband busts in here shoots me and I get written off under the unwritten 269 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,039 law. Neat neat me. It's a handy law, right, It's covered 270 00:20:41,079 --> 00:20:45,000 a multitude of sin. Where are the letters? Where's your husband? It's 271 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,279 some matter with you? What do those letters mean to you? Well, 272 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,039 right now they look like my only hold on the future, Missus Hill, 273 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:52,799 how do I know that you and your dear Lince won't kill me after you 274 00:20:52,839 --> 00:20:56,559 get them? Do you want me to take your word for us? Well, 275 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,519 I'll have to trust Laurence. He don't know what to do. I 276 00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:04,000 already know there's nothing else for him to do. Look, Missus Hill, 277 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,599 why don't you wise up? Your husband is ready to commit one murder to 278 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,079 remove the evident motor for another, and he's dragging you into this with him. 279 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,160 You'll wind up an accessory before after and during the fight, you're running 280 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,440 up a blind alley as fast as you're gonna run, and it's too late 281 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,200 to turn around, so I'll just have to keep running. Oh, well, 282 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,480 here he is. Lace up your track shoes, lady. The race 283 00:21:25,599 --> 00:21:30,839 is on. Come in all right, still, praise Buffy. It's okay, 284 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,160 ALUs. You can hold off on the Dog and Pony Show. Save 285 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,079 it for the witnesses when they arrive. Don't waste it on Lawrence. And 286 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:41,039 maybe isn't Lawrence what? Oh? So this must be Barren? You all 287 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:45,200 through? That depends on that gun in your hand for other letters? Letters, 288 00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:48,480 letters, letters. You know, I'm beginning to feel like a mailman 289 00:21:48,519 --> 00:21:51,960 when he's late getting around in the morning. There's one thing I want to 290 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,480 know. Where is it an ugly part time romeo? Like you find all 291 00:21:55,519 --> 00:21:57,319 those pretty words you wrote? Look, don't got me, So I'll blast 292 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,319 still letters and all letters as the tone I was trying to bring your voice 293 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:04,119 up to mister Van No letters is exactly what I've got to offer. Lying 294 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,200 he admitted to me that he has. He's tried to blackmail you, Darren. 295 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,880 That's what he's doing. Oh are you never mind? My husband's the 296 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,839 saint bold you are. I read the papers, Lawrence, So that's right. 297 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:18,359 You'll be here any second between us, we'll figure out something. Now, 298 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,079 stay away from a dollar. I as good idea. If a man 299 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:26,799 asks, hang up, it'll be Lieutenant Roach Hugh. Wait a minute, 300 00:22:29,519 --> 00:22:33,640 okay, answer a dollar. But the first wrong word fires this gun. 301 00:22:33,839 --> 00:22:36,960 Oh you can believe me, nothing but right words are on the tip of 302 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:41,839 my tongue. Hello, whoever was on the other end of the line, 303 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:48,200 decide another trot and hung up. So I started an imaginary conversation with Lieutenant 304 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,880 wrote your homicide. While I was talking, I was thinking Darren's voice was 305 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,559 the voice I'd heard when I was locked in the closet. That made him 306 00:22:56,599 --> 00:23:02,440 the guy who shot the girl who turned me. By the process of elimination, 307 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,640 Lawrence Hill was elected murderer of Marilyn Major. During my thought which made 308 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,640 no sense. In my thoughts, which made plenty of sense, I was 309 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,880 checking the length of cord on the phone. I needed Barren a little closer, 310 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,960 so I started crossing enough dangerous words into the mouthpiece to draw him closer, 311 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,000 threatening me with his mutters, his looks, and his guns. He 312 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,559 moved into range, and I moved into action. I heaved the base of 313 00:23:26,559 --> 00:23:32,119 the telephone straight into his face. I moved in with my knee right after 314 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:37,680 stumble back Bunny and go with a gun, which I kicked one of the 315 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,680 metal. Then I made a break front on the pressure next to the bed, 316 00:23:40,759 --> 00:23:45,440 using his head to break the front. The water from the crank the 317 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,160 pitcher hit him in the face. But it didn't do him any good. 318 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,400 Hey, get out from on his there that way my gun. Come on, 319 00:23:52,319 --> 00:23:55,240 well, I got a hold of your ankle. I got a good 320 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:56,359 mind to do this thing right, and heave you out the one off. 321 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,839 Come on, I span a few all right, I hope it's you once. 322 00:24:02,319 --> 00:24:03,799 We don't want any trouble. Just let me audience. We'll pay you 323 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:07,440 anything. My husband's an important nest, so am I. I've had all 324 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,359 of pushing around on my take from now on on the theater, and your 325 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,440 hands are shut up. Oh no, you don't. I baited you. 326 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,359 Try to bait me. Now we'll both sit here and bait your husband. 327 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,279 It must have bet him to crall this room and hung up when he heard 328 00:24:19,279 --> 00:24:23,200 my voice. One thing I didn't bother to tell you. Your husband couldn't 329 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,400 have known I was up here until then, because I came in the hotel 330 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,799 the back way and came up here the back way elevator and all. What 331 00:24:30,839 --> 00:24:34,039 do you mean you baited me? Why do you think the police put my 332 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,839 name, my address, and my picture in the newspapers to draw autograph hunters. 333 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,039 Oh? Oh, is right. Now. I'll get over there in 334 00:24:41,039 --> 00:24:45,880 the corner while I retrieved mister Baron's gun from under the bed before some mouse 335 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,640 crawls out of the woodwork and Fry is taking a shot at me. Go 336 00:24:48,799 --> 00:24:55,160 on, get going, turn around. Okay, Now, if you don't 337 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,440 want me shooting runs in your stocking, don't make a move while I'm under 338 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:07,799 the bed. I feel like something that old maids hoped for. On the 339 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:15,000 boy, he's kind of gun kill him, kill him under the bed and 340 00:25:15,079 --> 00:25:26,640 taking no chances. Lesson wrote, you may be a lieutenant at the police 341 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:32,039 department, but to me you're just a fat private. Oh no, I 342 00:25:32,079 --> 00:25:33,799 don't mind studying myself up as a pigeon. But you promised me protection. 343 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:40,279 Well what Sampa, Tampa? Now who's who here? Let's get these stiffs 344 00:25:40,319 --> 00:25:42,480 sorted out then we can talk. There's only one stiff, the other one, 345 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,400 the one near the door's line. He's only wounded. I had to 346 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,200 shoot his pins out from under him. He came crashing in and killed Baron 347 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,599 by a mistake. That's Baron over there by the bed. Another case of 348 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,480 mistaken identity. He miss you. I happened to be under the bed at 349 00:25:56,519 --> 00:26:02,319 the time. Oh and I wasn't hiding, No, I was looking for 350 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,079 a gun, and I found it and I used it. If I had 351 00:26:04,079 --> 00:26:07,079 one right now, I'm not so sure I wouldn't use it on you. 352 00:26:07,079 --> 00:26:11,279 You still haven't told me why you left me here alone holding a sack all 353 00:26:11,279 --> 00:26:15,160 this time. I'll tell you a way, and I guess it was for. 354 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,039 And then I had posted in a lobby. Didn't see you come into 355 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:25,480 the hotel. Well, how do you like that? Johnny dollars? Wise 356 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:30,720 guy? Huh, Lieutenant, I got some news for you. Just to 357 00:26:30,759 --> 00:26:38,680 make sure I was taking no chances, I came him the back way. 358 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:48,319 Pen's account Item eight sixty two dollars Hollywood Entertainment. Seeing what there is to 359 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:52,119 see at Cerro's Item nine one hundred and five dollars seeing through it at one 360 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,880 of the things I saw at Cero's. Had a good time with me at 361 00:26:55,880 --> 00:27:00,880 the Mocambo. Item ten one hundred and eighty six dollars eighteen cents. Planefair 362 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:07,640 Hollywood Back to Hartford, Item eleven one dollar ticket to the movie. Back 363 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:12,079 in Hartford to study the last motion picture of Marilyn Major, so that in 364 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,759 the future i'd be sure to steer clear of her. Kind of a woman 365 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:21,279 who is too much of a Jinx for My kind of Man. Expense account 366 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:30,240 total nine hundred and forty eight dollars and seventy six cents signed, Yours Trooling 367 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:55,920 Johnny dollars. In keeping with the Easter season, you'll hear a different kind 368 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,640 of story on CBS Gangbusters Tomorrow Night, the authentic story you have a former 369 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:06,279 gangster's fight to go straight, broadcast in cooperation with outstanding parole authorities. You 370 00:28:06,319 --> 00:28:11,079 will find this Easter Eve Gangbusters drama as gripping as any programs CBS has ever 371 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:17,079 brought to you. Tomorrow Night, you'll also find a mid April adventure with 372 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:22,720 the intriguing title The heat Waves on CBS. Philip Marlow programs. Gangbusters and 373 00:28:23,039 --> 00:28:29,480 the Adventures of Philip Marlow are regular Saturday nights on most of these same CBS 374 00:28:29,519 --> 00:28:52,200 stations. Listening again next week when CBS brings you Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, 375 00:28:52,359 --> 00:28:56,400 with Charles Russell as Gunny, written by Paul Dudley and Gill Dowd, with 376 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,799 music by Mark Warnow. Yours Cruely Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Richard 377 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:08,519 Sandville for CBS for Columbia Broadcasting System MHM