WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.120 --> 00:00:03.040 From Hollywood. 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:08.000 It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dollar. 3 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:11.359 This is Edward Whiteman, mister Dollar. I understand that mister 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:12.960 Soderberry's death brought you here. 5 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:16.079 Yes, thanks for calling back. I tried to locate the 6 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:19.039 Constable Fred Rehman I believe his name is. Yes, I 7 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:21.359 haven't found him, so I thought i'd talk with you. 8 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:23.600 You were riding with mister Soderberry when he was killed. 9 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:24.120 Is that right? 10 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:24.800 Yes? 11 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:25.280 I was. 12 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:27.879 I'll do everything I can to help you, and as 13 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:30.280 a matter of fact, I just left Constable remon. 14 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.560 Oh where is he? I'd like to say him. 15 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:34.759 He thinks he's found the place from which the shots 16 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:37.520 were fired, the roof of Goodwood's store. I left him 17 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:40.000 there less than five minutes ago. If you'll meet me 18 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:41.399 in front of your hotel, i'll show you. 19 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:43.719 Thanks, mister Whiteman. I'll be down right away. 20 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:52.479 Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with 21 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:57.759 the Action Packed Expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. 22 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:11.519 Yours truly, Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by special Investigator 23 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:15.439 Johnny Dalla to Home Office, Britannial Life insurance company, Hartford, Connecticut. 24 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:18.959 The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation 25 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.959 of the Soderberry main matter expense account out of won 26 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:26.760 forty two dollars and forty five cents airfare, car rental 27 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:30.319 and incidentals between Hartford and Sodaberry. I, for one, had 28 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:32.159 never heard of the town, but I founded a few 29 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:35.519 miles from Portland, Maine. First two church spires and then 30 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.680 the small group of Companion buildings, all set against a 31 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:41.879 peaceful New England background. The first thing I noticed when 32 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:44.640 I drove onto its single business street was that some bunting. 33 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:49.200 The first thing I noticed when I drove onto its 34 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:51.319 single business street was that some bunting and a few 35 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:55.400 American flags were still standing reminders of the ceremony during 36 00:01:55.400 --> 00:02:01.120 which its leading citizen, Gordon Soderberry, had been murdered. His 37 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.439 personal secretary and assistant, Edward Whiteman, gave me the details 38 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:06.040 after I met him in front of my hotel. 39 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:10.560 The ceremony. Oh, yes, you wouldn't have noticed entering town 40 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:13.240 from the east. You didn't know about the factory. 41 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:15.159 No, I hadn't heard a new one. 42 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:20.400 No soda Berry, No, mister Soderberry built it during the 43 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.800 first year of World War Two. We won some subcontracts 44 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.439 from those shipbuilders and hoped to bring new wealth to 45 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:29.919 the town. The ceremony was arranged this morning because it reopened. 46 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:31.919 No, i'd hardly. 47 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:34.639 Could hardly have been. 48 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:36.199 Called happy even before the tragedy. 49 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.840 Oh, the town was the favor of the factory, definitely, 50 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:41.680 not that we cross over here. 51 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:45.319 These people are settled in their ways. The factory changed 52 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:48.479 things outside. Men came in to work, married local girls 53 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:52.159 and took them away. The farmers in the section lost 54 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:54.199 the free labor of their sons to wages and had 55 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:55.479 to hire all the men. 56 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:57.639 I can see how it would upset a place like this. 57 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:00.879 You think somebody could have been incense up over the reowning. 58 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.560 Who have killed mister Soderberry. I have no idea. 59 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:05.879 I thought I should mention the feeling of the town. 60 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:08.800 He and I were in the first of three cars 61 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.639 driving to the factory. We were in the rear seat. 62 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:17.080 Suddenly he stiffened. He made this sound that I couldn't 63 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:19.919 describe it. I didn't know what had happened. I don't 64 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:21.080 think I heard the shots. 65 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:25.240 He slumped forward. It was all over this. 66 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:29.000 This is Goodwood's store. Where was the car as closely 67 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:32.319 as I can recall, it was directly in front, straight 68 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:35.520 out from here. Of course, the chauffeur stopped so as 69 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.520 he realized what had happened. That'd be about up there 70 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:39.560 near the wagon. 71 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:43.560 There's a limousine here that's pretty close shooting. But the 72 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.280 windows up and down, and they were down and open, 73 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:49.280 that is, how do you get up in the roof 74 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:49.800 of the store. 75 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:51.360 Well, there are stairs in the rear. 76 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:56.159 Fred a constable, run, yes, who's there? 77 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:59.400 Ed Whiteman, there's a man here who's been sent up 78 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:01.879 from Kinetic. Have to say, you want to ask you 79 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.039 some questions? I have to go back to the office. 80 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:07.840 All right, what can I do for you? 81 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:10.159 Why did you pick this roof? Is the place where 82 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:11.240 the shooting was done? 83 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.719 Because mister Sordiberry's hofer was just in front and under 84 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:16.639 the others three or four doors give the side and 85 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:18.160 have stairs to them. 86 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:22.120 Hmmm, that's good enough. He've been resting a rifle barrel 87 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.319 on the forest front. It'd be some pretty fancy shooting. 88 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:26.560 The been some fair riflemen in the section for a 89 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.160 good number of years now. If you know your history, 90 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.360 I've been proud of this shooting at some of the 91 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:34.319 matches we've had, but I can't say I'm so proud. 92 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:38.000 Now you have any idea where to start. 93 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:42.040 There's been a man in my mind. Ben's suddenly he 94 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:44.360 had a sixteen year old son killed by a band 95 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:47.319 saw when the factory was opened before, and now he's 96 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:50.720 got another young Ben he read sixteen. 97 00:04:50.800 --> 00:05:00.600 Next week, we walked to the Southern Line house, which 98 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:02.680 was only about a quarter of a mile away, and 99 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.000 Fred Rehmon gave me the background of the town. The 100 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.040 Soderberries had been in control of the town and the 101 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.319 surrounding country for more than three generations. Always they had 102 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:14.839 been respected as thrifty, honest people, but never had they 103 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:17.279 been well liked. The death of fifty three year old 104 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:20.079 Gordon Sowderberry meant the last of the male lineage. This 105 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:23.000 sole survivor was his sister Beth, many years as junior. 106 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:25.439 The constable didn't seem impressed when I told him that 107 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.600 potentially she was some sixty thousand dollars richer in cash 108 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:32.120 in view of Gordon's insurance policy. We crossed a bridge 109 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:34.279 to reach Ben Sutherland's house and found his wife waiting 110 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:36.800 for his near the front door. I know why you've come, 111 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:39.120 said women. I heard about the trouble. 112 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:41.079 Mister Sutherland wouldn't do it. 113 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:42.399 He wouldn't do such a thing. 114 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:44.360 Oh, I didn't come to see right help that he did? 115 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:46.600 Where's your husband? Mister Sutherland could re talk to him? 116 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:47.480 Who are you? 117 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:51.920 He's mister Dollar Corton Souderberry ensured his own life, and 118 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:53.720 this man is looking for the one that took it, 119 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:54.600 and he'll. 120 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:56.920 Goth do better to go some other place for your question. 121 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:58.560 You like to talk to your husband if you'll tell 122 00:05:58.600 --> 00:05:59.879 us where he is? He ain't he? 123 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.519 And young Ben where's he? 124 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:03.680 He ain't here either? 125 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:06.680 Where did they go? We wouldn't come here if we 126 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:08.920 didn't have reason to. The constable told me your husband 127 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:11.639 has made friends against Gordon Soderberry because of the death 128 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:14.120 of your other son. You must have known that, so 129 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:16.199 now you must understand why we're here so. 130 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:18.480 The lens of god fearing man. And he wouldn't take 131 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:20.480 the law into his own hands. 132 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.920 You know that, said Jimmin. He called you his friend. 133 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:26.160 I'm nobody's friend. 134 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:30.160 Now, if you're convincing nothing to do with the trouble, 135 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:31.360 why don't you tell us where he. 136 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:34.600 Is because he told me not to. I keep my 137 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:38.000 husband's word. He said, don't tell anybody. 138 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:38.040 So I won't. 139 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:39.839 Well, when did he live. 140 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:41.959 Last night? 141 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.839 He drove his truck. I know the sound, and if 142 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:48.399 he'd come through town it would have woke me. So 143 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.639 he went the other way. I know that rude and 144 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:55.480 where he'd passed through. Well, he don't leave me, no doubt, 145 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:57.959 missus Huthland. I'll have to put the state police after 146 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:58.360 the truck. 147 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:00.680 You have business what you have to do, not mind. 148 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:02.439 Don't you see you're making it worse by trying to 149 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:03.120 hide the truth. 150 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:07.560 Hide the truth. I'm keeping a trust, young men, and 151 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:09.759 if you don't know the worth of a trust, you 152 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:11.439 don't know the worth of anything. 153 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:21.759 I went back with Constable Remon to his house where 154 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:24.120 he lived alone, in which doubled as an office. He 155 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:28.360 phoned the description and licensed number of Southerland Structors County Superiors, and, 156 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.279 with the typical disinterest higher echelon seemed to maintain for 157 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.240 lower echelon problems, they told him they wouldn't be able 158 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:37.079 to take delivery of Soderberry's body until the following day. 159 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:40.439 That left us with no better than a vague prompt one, 160 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:42.800 we'd get such vital points as the caliber of the 161 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.800 murder weapon, the entry angle of the fatal bullet, and 162 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:48.800 the distance from which it was fired. Remen left me 163 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:50.720 and went to talk with some of the townspeople, and 164 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:53.959 that evening, soon after dusk, I went to the Soderberry home, 165 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:56.759 hoping that his sister Beth would be in condition to 166 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:07.160 receive me. Yes, uh is Missoda Barrian? Yeah, she said, 167 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:09.360 I wonder if she feels well enough to see me. 168 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:11.800 Does she know who you are? Not yet, I've been 169 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:14.399 hired by a brother's insurance company to look into his death, 170 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:17.959 to tell her that please? Oh, yes, of course. Won't 171 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:21.439 you come in? Thank you. My name's Tafft. I'm a 172 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:24.199 friend of the families, taf my name is Donald. How 173 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:26.079 do you do. Beth is in the sitting room. I'll 174 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:27.920 leave it to your judgment. That is, I hope to 175 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:33.639 visit upsets or you won't press I won't all right, Beth? 176 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.759 Yes, come in, Lawrence? Well who what? 177 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.519 Oh? This is mister Dollars in the insurance company. 178 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:44.879 I see. Please sit down. 179 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:45.399 Thanks. 180 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:48.639 I don't believe I quite understand, mister Dollar. 181 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:50.120 I'm an insurance investigator. 182 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.799 Oh, of course, then would you prefer that we talked 183 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:54.399 in privacy? 184 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:56.080 I leave that up to you. Miss. 185 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.360 I think mister Taft is stayed out of his sense 186 00:08:59.399 --> 00:08:59.879 of duty. 187 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:01.039 No, I haven't. 188 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:03.000 But at least this will give you a chance to 189 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:05.080 leave for a bit. Lies, I'll be all. 190 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:08.399 Right, all be I probably should run home for a while. 191 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:11.399 All right, And thank you ever so much much. You've 192 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:12.879 been terribly helpful. 193 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:16.200 Alphony in an hour. Good evening, mister Dollard, and I 194 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:21.519 missed twan No, mister Dollar, when did you arrive about 195 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:22.600 three this afternoon? 196 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:26.639 Then undoubtedly you know more about this horrible thing than 197 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:26.960 I do. 198 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:29.480 I'm afraid it's not very much. I've been working with 199 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:31.879 Constable Remon. He wants to narrow it down to one 200 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.279 of the local men who is against the factory reopening. 201 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:37.519 But from what I've learned, it refuses to be narrowed 202 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:38.679 very much on that basis. 203 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:42.320 Yes, I'm afraid you're quite right. My brother was not 204 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:45.960 famous for making friends. I say that at the risk 205 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:49.919 of sounding cold and unemotional. Emotion very seldom helps on 206 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:53.840 my work, which is ferreting out the truth. I think 207 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:56.360 Gordon understood what he was doing. I'm sure he did. 208 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:00.639 He knew that our people detest changed. They simply can't 209 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.120 cope with it. Yet yet he forced it on him 210 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:04.080 in nineteen forty two. 211 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:06.399 You change yourself to be apart from. 212 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:10.440 Your people in the yes, but only by reason of inheritance. 213 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:14.840 Change was forced upon me too. I was much younger 214 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.200 than my brother. I was sent to school in England. 215 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:20.919 But I came back and found it quite easy to 216 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:23.519 forget and settle back into this tiny world. 217 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:25.720 I suppose the whole town did during the years after 218 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:26.639 the factory clothed. 219 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:27.480 Of course he did. 220 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:31.080 There was one particular man, Ben Sutherland. What do you 221 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:31.480 think of it? 222 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:33.480 I don't know. 223 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:37.840 I suppose his name is in everyone's mind tonight. The 224 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:40.039 death of his son because of the hated factory had 225 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:43.879 a violent reaction on him. And why not he knew 226 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.080 his son hadn't been born to stand in front of 227 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:47.200 the machine that killed him. 228 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:49.519 What does he say? 229 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:52.919 He can't be located left town last night. He took 230 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:53.759 young Ben with him. 231 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:58.240 I hope it isn't he he suffered it, or I 232 00:10:58.279 --> 00:10:59.519 could be troubling the general. 233 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:04.919 Yes, General Scott, he didn't alarm when you arrived, did he? 234 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:07.840 First? I've heard from him someone. 235 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.120 Else into animal perhaps said that shroudon happens, he's well 236 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:12.440 aagy to center himself. 237 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:17.519 By the time we got no oil antlet and I 238 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:20.559 found the dog, he was moving silently toward the house, 239 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.399 trailing what looked like a fractured front leg. I didn't 240 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:26.320 know what to think. When I told the surviving sister 241 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:29.960 about it, she didn't seem frightened, but I couldn't help 242 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.960 wondering whether her loyalty to her people wasn't misplaced, and 243 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:37.000 whether the killer hadn't decided to eliminate all the soda 244 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:47.559 Berries from the town that bore their name. I phoned 245 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:49.639 Castle Rahman as soon as I got back into the house, 246 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:51.919 but it was a needless call. The sound of the 247 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.480 shots in the quiet village had aroused everyone, and those 248 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.919 who cared seemed to know right where to come. The 249 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:59.639 first to arrive was Edward Whiteman, the dead man's assistant. 250 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:02.639 Less than a minute later, the Constable and Lawrence taffed. 251 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.399 After we'd made another swing around the house without turning 252 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:08.240 up anything, and after we'd satisfied ourselves that Beth Soderberry 253 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:10.600 it was well protected, Ramon and I started back to 254 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:14.919 my hotel. Tell me about Beth and these others white 255 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:17.559 men and this man taffed which and you went first? 256 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:19.000 White man? He's not a native, is he? 257 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:22.240 No, he's from Benger. He came here when mister Soderberry 258 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:23.240 commenced to open up. 259 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.639 He's not an old friend like Taff and not hardly. 260 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:29.159 Lawrence Taft was often a good deal back his folks 261 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:32.120 died in the fire. Mister Soderberry took him in, sent 262 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:34.799 him to school in Brunswick. Taft helped him with the 263 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:37.960 factory last time. He made a smart man out of him. 264 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:42.039 But I wouldn't say a happy how come unless folks 265 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:45.039 leave tone and never come back. They're all mixed up 266 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:49.600 when they're twixted between like Taft is, it ain't natural. 267 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:51.080 That's pretty much what Beth told me. 268 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:55.320 She and him have been sort of thick conven and well, 269 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:57.919 I'll come across here. We got your direction straight. 270 00:12:58.080 --> 00:12:59.879 Yeah, where was Lawrence Taff this morning? 271 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.559 You mean when the trouble broke out? That's right, we've 272 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:08.200 missed Beth most likely? Why, I guess we can check 273 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.480 that then? Weren't thinking he killed mister Soberr. 274 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:13.519 I don't want anything to slip by. 275 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.759 You don't know us people. We pay what we owe 276 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:19.200 if it takes a whole lot of life. The get 277 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:22.600 that was between them two was thicker than blood. Lawrence 278 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:25.600 Taft would have killed himself before he would have killed 279 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:26.399 mister Sodiberry. 280 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:27.960 You know them better than I do. 281 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:32.279 That's the truth. I'll see you in the morning. I 282 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:33.159 hope you sleep well. 283 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.200 The next day things moved along a little more. According 284 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:45.519 to the book, the county men arrived before noon to 285 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.919 remove the body for autopsy and ballistics examination, and soon 286 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.360 after they left the report. The county men arrived before 287 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:55.159 noon to remove the body for autopsy and ballistics examination, 288 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:57.639 and soon after they left a report in from the 289 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:01.480 state police. Ben Sutherland and his truck had been spotted 290 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:04.840 leaving a town five miles away. A car escorted them 291 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:06.960 to Soderberry, and the constable and I were at his 292 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:14.720 house when he arrived. Oh, then, what ever happened to you? 293 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.039 Then stop your neck and tongue, go in the house 294 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:20.200 where you suited to be. I've been to your fire 295 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:22.360 when out of mind truckle Yes, I was. 296 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:26.120 Only worried, and you got that so horrible and the 297 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:28.559 look of your face and your clothes Ben, you've been 298 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:29.759 through one thing or another. 299 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:32.639 Who might you be? My name is Dollar. I'm an 300 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:33.679 insurance investigator. 301 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:35.879 He can to help me defend the laws of the state. Ben. 302 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:39.159 And it's true said that mister Soderberry was shot and killed. 303 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:39.720 That's true. 304 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:42.159 When did you hear about mister Saddamon. 305 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:44.440 Those men that stopped me, they told me, They told 306 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:46.000 me you wanted to talk to me about it. 307 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:49.480 Fed that's true, and I don't take to it because 308 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:50.159 we were friends. 309 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.840 You left town. I before asked mister Sutomon, where'd you go? 310 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:55.759 Do I have to answer this stranger's question. 311 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:57.080 It'll be better if you do. 312 00:14:57.519 --> 00:14:59.879 That night I made up my mind. I well I 313 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.679 had to do. I took young Ben away. That's my 314 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:05.320 youngest son. I should have took my oldest boy. I 315 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:07.200 knew I should have, but I listened to the talk 316 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:10.240 about the factory and wages and such things. So I 317 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:13.720 didn't take him, and that factory did and I never 318 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:14.399 got him back. 319 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.039 And you blame Gordon Soderberry for it all these years. No, 320 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:18.120 I blame myself. 321 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:20.039 I knew what to do and I didn't do it. 322 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:22.320 Didn't you make public threats against him? 323 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:26.000 That was a Coward's talk. I talked big in front 324 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:28.519 of my friends. I didn't know what else to do. 325 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:29.960 I didn't kill him. 326 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:31.440 Fred, where'd you go? The other night? 327 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:34.480 I heard the talk starting him, young Ben, talking about 328 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.799 the factory, what the Widges would buy. He'd be careful, 329 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:40.840 he told me. And if he earned enough Widges, he'd 330 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:43.360 go to school like Lawrence taff crazy like his brother. 331 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:45.720 And I put an axe handle to him and put 332 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:48.320 him in the truck and carried him away. Where mister Sutherland, 333 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:51.519 he's done a farm where he belongs up? No about Brighton. 334 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:52.399 He's done a farm. 335 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:54.720 He'd be safe. How far away is it more than 336 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:57.440 twenty miles? The times you leave after nine o'clock? He 337 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:00.000 got there before midnight. Then he slept in the tree. 338 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:03.120 I left him with Alex Turner. Then you had time 339 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:05.960 to drive back here before the fact that. Then you 340 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:08.759 had time to drive back here before the factory ceremony started. 341 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.279 I went to Brighton. Your face is scratched and cut, 342 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:12.840 your clothes are torn. How did that happen? 343 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:13.679 I fought for the man? 344 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:15.120 What man? And why did you fight? 345 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:16.960 I don't know what man. I don't know who I 346 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:19.919 fought because I was drunk. I went to Brighton to drink, 347 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:23.919 and that's what I did not for nine years was 348 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:24.639 that happening. 349 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:26.399 You didn't come back here last night and have to 350 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:28.440 find out a dog at the Sodaberry plane. I was 351 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:30.720 in Brighton. If you were, you'll probably be asked to 352 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:33.279 prove that's where I was. And you'd better start remembering 353 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:36.120 who you fought or who you were with. That's all 354 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:46.720 for me possible. We were involved with the prox two 355 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:48.840 hundred and eighty people, most of whom were known to 356 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.720 each other by side at least the word Constable Remen 357 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:54.720 had been doing without me had alibied most of them tactically. 358 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:56.840 Everybody had been on the street during the start of 359 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:59.360 the ceremony, and at the time of the shooting, less 360 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.440 than forty were unaccounted for. At five point thirty that afternoon, 361 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:05.720 when the county officers called in their report, the point 362 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:07.920 of entry was just below the left armpit. The arm 363 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:10.519 hadn't been touched. Angle of entry still made it look 364 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:12.559 like the killer had fired from the roof of the store, 365 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.359 and the murder weapon was identified as a not too 366 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:18.680 common rifle caliber two hundred and fifty three thousand and 367 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:21.240 now the unaccounted for citizens seemed to be trimmed down. 368 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:25.160 A four who owned that caliber rifle? Then Sutherland was 369 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:29.559 among them. It was close to noon the following day 370 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:32.480 before the results of the test firing came back. The 371 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:35.119 murder weapon wasn't among the rifles that were sent in. 372 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:38.519 Well, they they did something wrong. I am no great 373 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:39.680 shapes of trouble like this. 374 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:42.720 It's not necessarily that we did something wrong, Constable. Maybe 375 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:45.079 we just didn't do quite enough. One of those two 376 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:46.920 fifty three thousands got away from us. 377 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:49.599 A men's rifle is no secret here. He's proud of it. 378 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.519 What kind of rifle that Gordon Sodaberry owned. Why the 379 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:56.839 townspeople hated the factory, that's the motive we've given them. 380 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:59.720 But none of them owned the murder weapon, not even 381 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.640 poor Ben Sutherland, with a stronger motive than anyone else. 382 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:05.480 Unless he could have bought a rifle with just this 383 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:09.039 in mind and kept it hidden. I don't know. We'll 384 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.759 work on that too. But then, now let's look at 385 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.599 the people we've neglected. Edward Whiteman can't be involved because 386 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:18.000 he was sitting next to the victim. You tell me, 387 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:18.960 Lawrence Tafft is. 388 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:21.559 Clear he wouldn't ever kill mister Sogerbnett and the sister. 389 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:24.400 She seems to belong or to the town than to 390 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:27.559 the family. She didn't approve of what a brother was doing. 391 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:29.440 I can't hold a thing like that in my mind. 392 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:31.240 We don't kill our kin. 393 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:34.920 Here. There are some that have Will you do this 394 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:37.319 for me? Will you get the three of them in 395 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:38.880 here and keep them for an hour? 396 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:40.799 But how would I keep them? 397 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:43.079 I don't know. Write up a statement for them to 398 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:46.559 sign something about the ballistics reports. You can spend some 399 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:49.599 time over them. Then ask the sister to go into 400 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:52.160 detail about what she's going to do with the factory. 401 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:54.400