From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Dollar. My name's King,
Malibu Sheriff Station. Did you leave a message here? Oh, yes,
sir. I understand you're looking for Lorraine Broderick, Roderick or Bradley,
whatever name she's using. We want her. I'm looking forward to. What's
your connection. I'm an insurance investigator. We've been trying to find her all
away from Hartford. We have to pay off a claim that's due her claim.
Yeah, that's right. An old man left her fifteen hundred dollars.
He doesn't deserve it, not that one. I can't tell him that he's
dead. I'm expecting a little action on it pretty quick. Like to be
in on it. Come on over tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey
in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expenser, count America's
Fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by
Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Malibu Beach, California, to the Eastern Trust
Insurance Company Claims Division, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of
expenditures during my investigation of the Broderick matter more expensive item fifteen thirty eight dollars
even more transportation. My trip here to Malible Beach, where I didn't even
bother listening to another disgruntal hotel proprietor repeat a bad check story I knew only
too well. I went directly to the Sheriff's station and Deputy King, Well,
it's about the picture, mister dollar. Lorraine Bradley was at the end
four days and checked out this morning. Used the name Bradley. Lorraine Bradley.
She can't be too far ahead of you now, I hope not.
There has been a long rough chase. While she was at the end,
she took up with one of our local residents, a man named Joe Tappan,
who lives over in the beach colony. We know this much. He
drove her into town this morning, which he checked out of the inn.
Have you talked to this man Tappan yet? He hasn't come back it.
When did she leave the inn? About ten this morning? Uh? Huh?
After two? Now it gives him just about time. Here's a house
over in the colony. We've got a man there. Colony down the road,
apiece. They call it that because a lot of movie stars built beech
homs there twenty five or thirty years ago, movie colony right on the beach.
Aw this tappened? Is he an actor? Yeah? When he gets
work, which isn't very often. Mainly he keeps sun tan excuse me?
Sure? Yeah? This king? Oh good, right away, Tappened just
drove up to his house. Let's go. I went with Deputy King to
talk with Joe Tappan. He turned out to be a healthy, muscular man
in his mid thirties. By the time we got there, he was in
trunks and sunglasses, sitting on a porch at the front of his house.
He was a little stunned by the news we brought him. What the rain
of phony? But are you sure about that, sheriff? That's the man
at the seaside in Oh no, no, I don't believe it is this
Lorraine. Go ahead, look at it. Well, that looks like Lorraine.
Yes, but I can't be sure she's older. Well, I mean
the girl in this picture is pretty young. It's her all right. Mister
Dollar has been looking all over the country for Hartford, New York City,
up and down this coast. Well, come on, let's go up to
the house. I thought I knew her pretty well. How long did you
know, mister Tappan? Not long, but I knew her, I really
did. When did you meet her the first night she checked into the Seaside
in four days? Then? Yeah? I want something to drink? No?
No, thanks, Well, I think I'll have no. No,
No, I don't want to talk about her. We have to talk about
her, mister Tappan. But I'm sure there's some explanation about the check.
She'd have to explain quite a few checks, right dollar. And that's about
it, mister Tampa. I understand you drove her into Los Angeles this morning.
That's right. I took her to the Beverly Glenn Hotel. Did she
check in there? No, she just dumped her luggage. She told me
she didn't know whether or not she'd have to go to Chicago to I something
about a house she owned there that had to be rented her sword. Did
you leave her there at the Beverly Glen No, she made a phone call
and said that she had to meet a lawyer. Did she say where a
bar in Hollywood at the Topper I think it was on Kuga Boulevard. I
drove her over there and left her. When was this a couple of hours
ago? I guess about noon? How was she dressed black, strapless,
wore of her store? Did she mention any names, tell you anything about
herself? Oh? Yes, she told me that six months ago a little
boy was killed in an automobile action. He was only two years old.
She said that was a thing that broke up her marriage to this Bradley.
And she told me that she needed to believe in something again some and then
she needed someone to believe in her. Well, there wasn't any little boy
or any husband, mister Tappan. There have been a couple of men.
I've talked to a dentist in Hartford, a businessman in New York who felt
the same way as you do about her. Well, even with what you
told me, I believe what she said. Why she cried a little when
she was telling me, I don't care how you look at me. I
don't think that anyone could invent a story that tragic without some sort of basis.
A good liar can see a story in a newspaper like that one and
adapted for his own needs. But I am an actress, sir, and
I can tell when other people are acting She wasn't she? She go on,
mister Tappan, I've got a suggestion for you. What's your name,
Dollar, I've got a suggestion for you. Try believing what people tell you
sometime. It'll do something for that habit. You have a bearing down with
your eyes. Okay, the next time, I have two weeks off.
What see you, mister Tappan. I drove into Hollywood with Deputy King.
At the Beverly Glen Hotel, a worried clerk was still wondering what to do
with the fourteen pieces of luggage Lorraine Broderick had deposited there earlier. No,
she was not registered at the hotel. No, she hadn't phoned in and
given him any instructions. Deputy King made arrangements for a man to cover the
lobby in case she showed up to claim her things, and we went into
the topper. What mut me, gentlemen, police, I like to talk
to the man who was on duty here at noon today. Oh, that's
meet sir. Anything wrong now? This is mister Dollar. We're trying to
locate a woman who's been using the name Lorraine Bradley. We were told she
was in here around noon today. No, I don't recognize that name,
sir. About five five, dark brown hair, brown eyes, twenty four
years old, or a black strapless summer dress and a stole h twenty No,
No, nobody liked that in all day. No, so noon is
a pretty slow time, sir. I don't notice if anybody like that came
in. I think have you been in duty all at time? Time?
I came on at ten, that's when we opened. Are you sure this
is the right place? The top right now? This is the place I
wish I could help to save what I'm sorry, excuse you? Well,
we struck a one thing. What's that? That luggage is the Beverly Glen.
Yeah, we'll keep an eye on it. Lorraine Broderick did not return
to the Beverly Glen Hotel that day to claim her luggage. The lobby was
watched around the clock. Her description was on the daily bullet and every policeman
in Los Angeles was on the lookout for her. I spent my time thinking
about the little girl who had helped an old man sell newspapers one afternoon years
ago, A little girl with a face like an angel. I didn't feel
good about this case, but Joe Tappan felt worse when I went to see
him again. Well, hi, mind if I come in? What now,
mister Dulla your girlfriend? I've been thinking about what you told us so
so maybe you didn't understand what I told you. I'm not pushing my weight
around Tappan, but it seems to me you're a little stubborn. And what
you want to believe about her? How old did she tell you? Her
baby was that she lost in a car accident? Two years old? All
right? Two years ago? She was working for a dentist in Hartford,
Connecticut. He was pretty much in love with her. She left him flat
to take up with a man in the brokerage business in New York. She
left him flat, took sixty five hundred dollars when she did it. There
wasn't any baby in her life then. Her name was Lorraine Brodrick. It
still is now. Would you like to see my file on her? I
brought it along, No thanks. I thought i'd better prove that part was
a lie, So you proved it. Mind, if I sit down,
help yourself. Thanks? You have anything else to tell me? I suppose
I do, mister Tappan, since you don't seem to want to tell me
anything. I'll just sit down, please. I've heard every man who knew
her describe her, and I think I can understand why they feel the way
they do. All I've got is a picture from a high school annual taken
when she was seventeen. That was pretty good. She's twenty four now.
She must be seven years better. Anyhow, You're my only hope. Now
what loraene Brodrick can get away from the police for a while. Oh yeah,
she's smart and clever, and she can go right on doing these same
things she's been doing all along, stealing, writing bad checks. But that's
police business. My part is to find her and give her something. One
man left her and insurance bequest. But it's become more than that now,
to find her and stop her. Maybe. Look, they'll get her eventually,
tapping. Do you know what five years in prison can do to a
woman like her? Do you? Because I know her and she passed a
few bad checks doesn't mean that I'm responsible in any way. You're right,
it doesn't. But you're involved just the same. Oh you're different from just
some hotel man who's been tilted. You're a boyfriend, true, just a
four day boyfriend, but a woman like Lorraine Brodrick can do a lot of
damage in four days time. Why are you here? What do you want?
I'm here to disillusion you, tappen because I don't think you're disillusioned enough.
Now. You're a perfect stranger to me. I don't know you from
a grand Rappid's chair. But I'm doing you a favor talking to you about
Lorraine Brodrick. I'm doing you a favor telling you she's a crook and a
thief and a forger and everything she ever told you was a lie. Now
and then, a woman walks into a man's life that he'd sell his soul
for, but all she'll do in return is write you a bad check for
it. She's trouble in a great big way, tapping you know it as
well as I do. What do you want me to do? Apologize for
meeting her. I'll be satisfied if you tell me where she is and stop
lying. Now. Look here, I've listened to all. Iraine Brodrick never
went to that bar in Hollywood you were talking about yesterday. You didn't drop
her off there. No one there has ever seen her. And she's the
kind who could walk around the polo grounds with fifty thousand other people and still
be seen. Now, where did you take her? Where is she now?
Could it? Could it be fixed so she wouldn't know? I told
you? I suppose. So she's at the Wentmore Downtown, registered under the
name of Evelyn Brady. Oh this this beats me. Dollar. I just
don't understand it. What do you mean how what you told me is true?
I know that. But an hour ago she called me up here and
she said, Joe, I love you, and that sounded true too,
and I told her that I loved her. Now I'm turning her in?
What kind of crazy world do we live? In? Expense account Adam sixteen
fourteen dollars care fare from Malibu to downtown Los Angeles and the went Moore Hoote,
a second rate old timer on Figaroa Street, a little different from the
swank spots where Lorraine Brodrick had lived. So gaily the clerk told me she
was in thirteen oh two. I walked down the hall to Lorraine Broderick's room.
The door was standing partially open. All of the lights seemed to be
on. Hello, Hello, Hello, anybody? Huh what you way?
I'd found Lorraine Broderick at last, Only she was standing on a ledge outside
the window, all ready for a leap into eternity. There'll be another intriguing
episode of the Broderick Matter tomorrow. Tomorrow the end of the trail for me
and for Lorraine Broderick. Join us, won't you Yours Truly? Johnny Dower?
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood,
written by John Dawson, It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be
sure to join us tomorrow night, same time in station for the next exciting
episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking