From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. I kidd o Carter at
Universal Adjustments, Jim, how are you in a rush? I have to
catch a plane at Tucson, Arizona. Lucky you nice there this time?
He listen. One of our brokers out there rode a fifty thousand straight life
policy. And a man named James Lancing. Lancing dropped dead two days ago.
Hu, and you'll never guess why, I'll bite why mister Lancing starved
to death what with a fifty dost He died of mal autrition. Got the
corner's report from Tucson right in my hand. Well, if a man could
buy a fifty thousand dollars policy, you ought to be able to buy himself
a square meal. Yeah, Johnny, Flight two oh three leaves a ten
forty five. You interested see at the airport, Jim, tonight and every
weekday night, Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action
Packed Expense Account, America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Universal Adjustment Bureau Home
Office, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expendit yours during
my investigation of the Lansing fraud expense account. Item one one hundred and seventy
eight dollars and thirteen cents cost a plane ticket Hartford to Tucson. I shaved,
showered, packed, and got out to the airport in time to have
breakfast there. Jim Carter found me at the cashier's cage. Hey, kiddo,
you won't need a code out there in a desert country. As usual,
Jim Carter was bigger than I thought. A man who stands six foot
five always is a little ruddier, a little more blustery, but as efficient
as ever. I wrote a special delivery air mail to the Insurance Commission in
Arizona this morning and explained to the worldwide. They wrote the policy, we're
holding up payment pending investigation. Are you gonna tell them that in person?
We'll be out there as soon as the letter? Well, I like to
be formal on these things, especially with the State Commission. Beside, I
just soon let him think we'll get around to a routine investigation later in a
week or two. In other words, you didn't tell anybody we're coming no,
I didn't. Maybe we can work it better this way. The faster
we moved in and find out what's what and aren't bothered by anybody, the
better off we'll be. Hey, give me a ticket, Yeah, sure,
her pal, Thank you, sir. Yeah, Johnny, ed commission
is going to get formal sooner or later and ask a lot of questions,
mainly why doesn't world Wide honor to claim and pay off the beneficiary? So
we'll have to skidaddle and get ourselves some good answers for him. Yeah,
yeah, thanks, pale. Has anybody asked that question yet the beneficiary?
Sure? James Lansing's sister named Arlene Kennedy. She called the broker and he
referred her to claims division at Worldwide, and she called long distance and then
they called me. I told her to put her off for a while,
telling her it was just routine. Let's see. She gonna be tough man.
She could be, Johnny. I understand she has money of her own,
and she has some influence in and around Tucson, a lot of money.
Yeah. Trust, she's very comfortably fixed it. Watch yourself, get
up. It's missus. Kennedy's pretty upset by the whole business. Can't blame
her for that. James Lancing died on the street with no identification on him.
By the time police found out who he was, a routine PM has
already been performed to determine cause you know, the county was going to bury
this guy with fifty dollars worth of insurance. Yeah, imagine that. Oh
excuse me, lady. Yeah, the post mortem never had happened unless Lancing
dropped dead on a public street. Yeah, I see what you mean.
I requested the coroner's office and Tucson to hold the body until it and get
something done. Better fix your seatbelts. Oh yeah, yeah. The first
thing that occurred to me when I saw the PM plannings was that it might
not be James Lansing at all. Chronic heart condition, long history, debility.
Doesn't sound like anybody worldwide would ensure Lancing took a physical before the policy
was issued. Of course he did, see if you got any material on
his insurance examination, sure right here. Standard for James Lancing was one hundred
percent okay when the policy was issued a couple of years ago. Malnutrition,
lung history, chronic heart How could he get in that bad shape in two
years. That's a pretty good question, Johnny, I'll be the answer is
gonna be great. Yeah. What's the examining physician's name? I see examining
here a doctor Carl Mayhood Sweet nine thirty two, Valley National Building, Tucson.
He's our first job, Johnny. Hey, cute stewardess. Yeah.
Well, back to business, kiddo. It was a long trip, and
I spent most of it going over the material in Jim Carter's briefcase. By
the time we circled Tucson Airport at four forty five in the afternoon, I
had the facts pretty well in mind. Expense account Item two three point fifty
Camp Fair, Tucson Airport to the Pioneer Hotel. Jim Carter and I took
a joining room. I unpacked my clothes and got on the phone. A
Sergeant Younger Tucson Police had made the doa report on James Lansing. Yes he
was in, Yes, he'd be glad to talk to me. I left
Jim Carter contacting the State Medical ward. Let me meet you, miss Donner.
How do you like Tucson. Well, I've gone here two hours.
Sergeant Weather's certainly nice. I like this all through the winter months. It's
a little warm in the summer, though, sir, this Lancing matter,
Yeah, it isn't really much to tell you, mister dollar, one of
the cars answered. The car man was found dead in the doorway of a
jewelry store about four blocks down the street. Uh huh. This was a
day before yesterday, Sergeant. Yeah, I went down to the scene and
called the corner's office. No identification on him, so we started to check
him out. Took us a little while. By the time we got a
make on him, the corner had already performed an autopsy. Yeah, I
understood. That was about the way it was. So tell me, how
did you identify him as Lancing? One of his prints matched up on our
cards here. Lancing was booked on a traffic beef year ago. Otherwise we'd
still be trying to make him. You're sure it's Lancing over him the more,
Yeah, we're sure. His sister came down identified him, named Kennedy.
Yes, What did missus Kennedy have to say about the cause of death?
Nothing? That malnutrition BT didn't do a thing for her, a thing.
We all thought Lancing is some sort of TRANSI you know, just some
old bum until we identified him. Any witness to see him dying? No,
I haven't found any. According to the corner, he'd been dead an
hour or so before anybody noticed him at all. Happened early in the morning.
I see, say, did Lansing have any other business down here other
than that traffic violation? Nope? All right? Who do I have to
see to get into the mark? Go off? Phone the corner for you.
Won't be any trouble there. You want to go now? No?
Later on? Maybe? Uh dollar. Yeah, death was from natural causes.
There's no doubt about that. Yeah. Then, no matter how much
you investigate, you people are gonna have to pay off. Well, aren't
you? Maybe we just have to be sure of one thing. What's that
that we ensured the right man. By the time I finished with Sergeant Younger,
it was six o'clock. I phoned a hotel in Jim Carter busy and
the fishing, as always, had already gotten the vital statistics on doctor Carl
Mayhood, Northwestern University Medical School, nineteen forty Army Medical Corps nineteen forty one
to forty five. Doctor Mayhood's license to practice medicine in Arizona was issued in
June of nineteen forty six, married two children. Income and practice, according
to Carter, was average. In person. Doctor Mayhood was a tall,
blonde man in his late thirties. He looked like he needed a week's rest
and a few lights in night. You have an alarme clock around the house,
Missus Garland, and here's that? Yes, goodbye, Yes, sir,
doctor Mayhood. My name is Johnny Dollar. I'm from Hartford. I
represent the Adjustment Bureau, handling a claim for Worldwide Insurance. Well, what
does that mean? I'm an investigator. So July fourteenth, nineteen fifty three,
you examined a man I'd like to get some information about. I hope
this won't take too long. Was it an insurance examination? Yeah? The
man's name was James Lancing. Do you happen to remember James Lancing? No?
I can't say that. I do remember mister Dollar. What about him?
Well, I'd like to show you the standard examination for him. First.
Is this your signature? M Is that your signature? Doctor? I
suppose so? Yes, I don't know. Aren't you sure? How many
people are certain of their signatures? It looks like my signature, mister Dollar.
I can't say for sure if it is a risen? All right?
What about these? Are these notations on the form in your handwriting? I
would think so, I don't know. It looks like my handwriting. I
can't say according to this form. You gave mister Lansing a complete physical and
pronounced him sound. That's my job as a doctor on these insurance examinations.
Anything unusual about that? Mister Lansing died two days ago? Doctor, there's
nothing unusual about that either. Did they send you all away from Hartford?
So I could tell you to go back there and buy a book on heart
disease? You can get them anywhere in the country, the simplest kind,
not even a doctor's book. Read it, know it, and don't take
up my valuable time. Now, let me hear that. Sure, this
patient Lancing was forty one years old. If he had no heart condition when
I examined him two years ago, obviously he didn't. According to my findings,
it's entirely reasonable to assume that he could have developed hard trouble in a
very short while, even the day after I examined him. You people gauge
those things in your premiums. Why do you bother me? Are you finished.
Huh, I'd take it. You've had yourself a tough day, doctor,
and you don't want to be bothered with anybody. Now. Look,
I'm not here to bother you. Just from what's on this sheet and what's
happened. You're in enough trouble to get yourself involved in a police investigation.
I'm here to try to avoid all that for you as well as me,
And please don't lecture me on heart trouble. Incidentally, we know the statistics
by age, race, color, climate, state, religion, occupation,
geographical area, and sex. It so happens we don't have to go into
that. Doctor. James Lancing died of malnutrition. I said, Lancing died
of malnutrition. I'll be dog corner's report. Look for yourself. Well,
he should know now. Was it possible for you to overlook that condition at
the time you examined Lancing? If he'd been suffering from malnutrition in any degree,
I would have discovered it and noted it. According to the coroner's findings,
James Lancing had been ill several years. The long and heart condition existed
at least ten years. Can you explain how you were able to pronounce some
physically fit, doctor, No, I can't how about this the angina condition.
I could have missed that, but it's unlikely with the degree of aggravation
noted here on the corner's report. Have you had much experience reading chest x
raise doctor? Of course, a lesions reported by the If there had been
any lesions on Lancing's chest, I would have reported them. I can't explain
that either. Or now you understand why I'm here. Certainly I wish I
could help you. You can just let me see your file copy of the
examination and the X ray you took at that time. I'll have my nurse
look them up. I don't keep files over a year old up here.
We have a place down on the basement. Okay, I'll have them for
you tomorrow. What time tomorrow, as soon as possible, like to have
them first thing. Doctor, You're kind of on me, aren't you.
That's all right, doctor, I'm kind of on you. There'll be another
intriguing episode in our story of the Lansing fraud tomorrow. Tomorrow. Dollars is
a good price for killing most anybody will listen for that kind of money.
Join us, won't you? Yours? Truly? Johnny Dull Yours Truly Johnny
Dollar is starring Bob Dailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. Written by John Dawson,
it is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure and join us
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Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking