Speaker 1: The Columbia Broadcasting System presents Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The
Speaker 1: next half hour has its baggage pack to take a
Speaker 1: trip with America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. At
Speaker 1: Insurance Investigation. He is just an expert at making out
Speaker 1: his expense account. He is an absolute genius.
Speaker 2: Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Two home Office,
Speaker 2: American Continental Life Insurance Company.
Speaker 3: Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 2: The following is an accounting of my expenditures fulfilling your
Speaker 2: assignment as a bodyguard, the body being that of your
Speaker 2: late policy holder, Robert W.
Speaker 3: Perry.
Speaker 2: Expense account at them one fair on night train Hartford
Speaker 2: to New York three dollars and eighty cents Spenser account
Speaker 2: at him two a dollar ready taxi to Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 2: The following morning, two offices Perry and Van Bruton importers,
Speaker 2: arriving as promised at exactly nine am.
Speaker 4: I help you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my name is Johnny Dollar. I have an appointment
Speaker 3: with mister Perry for nine o'clock.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, from the insurance company. Well you're right on time.
Speaker 3: They told me i'd better be.
Speaker 4: Mister Perry just came in. He's alone and waiting for you.
Speaker 4: I'll buzz in that you're here.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 2: What was left of your policy holder, Mister Perry was
Speaker 2: just sliding out of his swivel chair as I hit
Speaker 2: the room. At the top of his desk get erupted
Speaker 2: and split the mahogan. He pointed their sharp fingers.
Speaker 3: Upward through lazy circles of smoke swirling toward the ceiling.
Speaker 3: The buzzer from his secretary's desk had been rigged to
Speaker 3: a booby trap. No, mister Parris, they away from him.
Speaker 3: There's nothing you can do for him. He's dead.
Speaker 5: What happened, What happened? Whatever happened?
Speaker 2: Come on, let's look it back out of here. Hey, Irna,
Speaker 2: sit down, I'll get you a drink of water. Here
Speaker 2: you are, just drink this turn.
Speaker 7: In the lars.
Speaker 8: Everybody heard as a doctor in the third floortion. I
Speaker 8: call him.
Speaker 2: Never mind the doctor, call the police, and nobody gets
Speaker 2: in here until they arrived. And the rest of you
Speaker 2: go on, feed it, run along and turn off that alarm.
Speaker 3: Okay, miss just take it easy.
Speaker 5: He was also sudden. What happened?
Speaker 3: That's not too hard to figure out.
Speaker 2: Somebody wanted to give your boss mister Perry a shortcut
Speaker 2: through life. So whoever, it was figured out that the
Speaker 2: secretary would never buzzer a boss unless he was at
Speaker 2: his desk. They rigged up a bomb somewhere in his desk.
Speaker 2: It would go off when you buzzed him.
Speaker 3: I like you, I wait a.
Speaker 2: Minute, Wait a minute. Don't get hysterical on me. There's
Speaker 2: excitement enough around here. There'll be plenty more when the
Speaker 2: police get here.
Speaker 3: Keep cool.
Speaker 5: But I did you saw me do it?
Speaker 3: Look the way you put it.
Speaker 2: I killed him by coming in here and giving you
Speaker 2: my name, So you buzz him?
Speaker 3: Drop it, will you?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 3: What about yesterday? Was he here? Yes?
Speaker 9: All day?
Speaker 3: What time was it when you last used the buzzer?
Speaker 5: Right up to the last minute? About five point thirty?
Speaker 3: Who left the office first? You or Perry?
Speaker 5: Mister Perry, he always leaves first. And I lock up.
Speaker 2: Looks of things. You should have used more locks last night?
Speaker 2: Somebody got in here to do some wiring. Oh I
Speaker 2: forgot that fire alarm, haul that equipment and no fire
Speaker 2: Look before the police arrived. Do you know why I
Speaker 2: was sent here?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Mister Perry recently felt that his life was endangered. He
Speaker 4: thought that, well, one hundred thousand dollar policy, the insurance
Speaker 4: company would do everything they could to help keep him alive.
Speaker 3: Well, we didn't have much of a chance to be
Speaker 3: What was he afraid of?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Okay. Why were his other appointments for today?
Speaker 5: He only had two, his partner, mister van Bruton at
Speaker 5: eleven and the.
Speaker 3: One at a time. Now, van Bruton, anything special about
Speaker 3: that meeting?
Speaker 5: Yes, mister van Bruton arrived just yesterday from Holland.
Speaker 3: You mean there was a branch of this firm in Holland.
Speaker 4: Yes, mister Perry was buying out Van Bruton's interest. They
Speaker 4: had their final meeting at Van Bruton's hotel last night. Oh,
Speaker 4: van Bruton was coming by this morning to pick up
Speaker 4: his money.
Speaker 5: Uh cash, No, cashier's checked. The bank is to delivered
Speaker 5: here at ten thirty.
Speaker 3: Now quick. Perry's other appointment? Who was that?
Speaker 5: Christine? His wife?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, now Christine the beneficiary, Yes, but.
Speaker 4: She wouldn't have been the beneficiary in another two weeks.
Speaker 4: They were getting a divorce.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the motive. You don't like her?
Speaker 5: I didn't mean it that way.
Speaker 3: How about Perry? Did you like him? Okay? Well, here's
Speaker 3: an easy one.
Speaker 9: What's your name, Susan, Susan Gates?
Speaker 5: Now, isn't it about it?
Speaker 3: Now? Okay, Susan, you'd better save your voice during the
Speaker 3: next few hours. You're going to have a lot of
Speaker 3: talking to do.
Speaker 2: Oh, here come the fireman, and we haven't even got
Speaker 2: a child who asked them to save.
Speaker 8: Where's the fire? I'm looking for a fire.
Speaker 2: Just stick around when the cops get here. Somebody will
Speaker 2: get burned. The fireman should have stuck around, because the
Speaker 2: cops arrived in a blaze of glory.
Speaker 3: It was a very high class investigation to lieutenants.
Speaker 2: Finally, after about an hour, the police photographer ran out
Speaker 2: of flashboats, the office of the deceased ran out of fingerprints,
Speaker 2: and the lieutenants ran out of question so they on
Speaker 2: the scene phase of the investigation was closed out about
Speaker 2: five minutes of eleven. I left the police to pack
Speaker 2: up their notebooks, their clues, and the body and went
Speaker 2: into the outer office. Susan looked like she could use
Speaker 2: a big broad shoulder to weep on, but unfortunately I
Speaker 2: was worrying my light gray suit about. Then a dark
Speaker 2: blue suit and a deep green voice entered the room
Speaker 2: from the car door.
Speaker 10: Say there's some fella out here, says he belongs here.
Speaker 8: His name is Ben Bruton.
Speaker 10: Shall I let him in?
Speaker 3: What do you think his name is on the door
Speaker 3: you just open? Oh?
Speaker 1: Indeed, now, well, my name happens to be Murphy and
Speaker 1: it's on beds all over the country.
Speaker 3: But that don't mean I'm stuck with feathers.
Speaker 5: Does it?
Speaker 3: As he'll teacher Johnny Dada and never to cross tongues
Speaker 3: with an irishman. Okay, sentiment officer.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, you confirm.
Speaker 10: The policeman out there is a tubble here or I'm
Speaker 10: Bremavan Bruton. Where's mister Perry? He's waiting for me.
Speaker 2: No, no, look my appointment he's not keeping He's dead.
Speaker 10: This isn't possible. Last night I saw him, he was well.
Speaker 10: What happened?
Speaker 3: He was hit by a buzzbond?
Speaker 10: A buzz bomb?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 2: Uh sorry, I forgot other people aren't used to these things.
Speaker 3: You mean that was foul play, very foul. Please? May
Speaker 3: I sit down?
Speaker 10: My first visit in all these years, since before the war,
Speaker 10: it was to be so happy. Now tragedy like this.
Speaker 10: He was a good man, a good partner.
Speaker 2: I understand that as of last night you were no
Speaker 2: longer partners.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that. I realize, of course,
Speaker 10: that it is indelicate to speak of such things as
Speaker 10: money at a time like this. That is why I'm
Speaker 10: here to receive my payment.
Speaker 3: Oh just because Perry got hiss. There's no reason for
Speaker 3: you not getting yours. Huh.
Speaker 10: But you misunderstand me. I am deeply grieved. Since a
Speaker 10: transaction was consummated, what they there to do? A delay
Speaker 10: would be in needless waste of money. I have already
Speaker 10: faithful passage back to Amsterdam tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Who you are.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 10: In all my years of business, this is indeed the
Speaker 10: saddest moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, those are very kind words, Van Bruton, and
Speaker 2: I'd believe them if your eyes would stop counting all
Speaker 2: the zeros on that check expense account. It him three
Speaker 2: ninety cents phone call to.
Speaker 9: Your company American counted in a life insurance company. Good morning.
Speaker 3: Oh well that's a matter of opinion. This is Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2: Put me through to mister Gordon, will you, sir? Mister
Speaker 2: look Connee, this is Johnny Dollar. I want to speak
Speaker 2: to Gordon. Oh and while I'm telling him what I've
Speaker 2: got to tell him maybe you'd better sit in his
Speaker 2: lap with some smelling salts.
Speaker 5: I'm not that type of the secretary.
Speaker 9: And besides, he doesn't have a laugh.
Speaker 2: Hello, dollar, how are you making out out about one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 10: What's that?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Somebody tell mister Perry into a firecracker. He's dead news
Speaker 3: A big policy. Yeah. Look, what I want to know
Speaker 3: is shall I stay on the case?
Speaker 8: Certainly? By all mean? By the way, is there is
Speaker 8: there a chance of proving suicide?
Speaker 3: There's a non.
Speaker 2: Payment clause to make this one a suicide? That have
Speaker 2: to be a Santa clause. Nobody could hate himself enough
Speaker 2: to do it this way?
Speaker 3: What are the possibilities? Only fair?
Speaker 2: As an estrange wife, she's the beneficiary, but she wouldn't
Speaker 2: have been in a couple of weeks. Divorce coming up,
Speaker 2: I'll start with her, all right.
Speaker 3: Turner, good luck. But watch those expenses. I godon, I'm surprised.
Speaker 2: I think an insurance man would be the first to
Speaker 2: want to see a fellow live a little expense account
Speaker 2: item free camp fair two eighty cents, tip the driver
Speaker 2: one dollar. Christine perry apartment was on Sutton Place, overlooking
Speaker 2: the river, and from what the dormant told me all
Speaker 2: of the proprieties. I took the elevator up to the
Speaker 2: twenty fourth floor, and there I discovered that our garden
Speaker 2: fresh widow was living high in more ways than one.
Speaker 2: Everything about the place was French. The maid that led
Speaker 2: me into the living room, the decorps, and the perfume,
Speaker 2: which reminds you that breathing can be fun. I looked
Speaker 2: up from enjoying my nose to see Missus Perry looking
Speaker 2: down her.
Speaker 3: Mister Dollard or Missus Perry.
Speaker 9: I believe we can dispense with any getting acquated.
Speaker 11: You're an insurance investigator interested in the death of my husband,
Speaker 11: the natural.
Speaker 9: You're here because you've jumped to the conclusion that I
Speaker 9: killed him.
Speaker 3: Oh you're the one that's jumping the conclusions, lady.
Speaker 9: And what do you want the policies in order the
Speaker 9: premium of the polipaid.
Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 2: I know that you've got a great motive so far,
Speaker 2: the only motive I've found.
Speaker 9: You haven't had much time to look Chack.
Speaker 3: This is my first thought. Maybe you can help me.
Speaker 3: I know anyone who would be happier with your husband
Speaker 3: out of the way.
Speaker 11: I know very little about my husband's friends or for
Speaker 11: that matter, his activities for the past six months.
Speaker 3: That's when I left him. Uh huh, Well, that's not
Speaker 3: my help for either of us. Oh, that's someone else
Speaker 3: to suspect. I may just have to concentrate.
Speaker 9: On you, mister Dollar.
Speaker 5: I picked him in.
Speaker 9: I want to concentrate on me.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I hope he is long on alibis as you are
Speaker 2: short on your temper.
Speaker 3: Where were you last night for.
Speaker 11: A friend, al Donovan for a while? I think as
Speaker 11: my husband was, and I've witnesses to prove who was
Speaker 11: with him.
Speaker 9: Anybody at the club, the priest can tell you.
Speaker 3: We'll save me a trip. I can't afford the prices
Speaker 3: they get there. Certainly pleasure.
Speaker 11: My husband was with his beautiful little secretary of Susan
Speaker 11: Yates wore.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be more surprised if your late husband walked
Speaker 2: through the door and said that all right, Master, that
Speaker 2: siy else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how much time?
Speaker 7: I am a big guy, baby, six foot four, and
Speaker 7: I've got big years.
Speaker 3: Come back, please, mister Donovan, your companion of last evening,
Speaker 3: I'm getting you out of here.
Speaker 8: Christine, you do what you say you lie to me?
Speaker 3: How can I help you? If you lie to me?
Speaker 3: You call me stupid.
Speaker 8: The way you're playing this, you'll all of you. I'm
Speaker 8: right into herself. I'm getting you out of here.
Speaker 5: What are you doing in the idea creates?
Speaker 3: She's right, you are stupid, Donovan. She was doing just
Speaker 3: fine until you dropped in. Mister You've been asking a
Speaker 3: lot of questions.
Speaker 8: Now I'll give you one answer.
Speaker 7: All right, Christine, So much for the wise guy. Now
Speaker 7: about you and your alibi. You wasn't with me at
Speaker 7: the club cup Priest last night, And if it's always
Speaker 7: did approve, your husband was there with his secretary, who
Speaker 7: were you there with? You told me you were going
Speaker 7: with your husband talking divorce.
Speaker 2: Remember when Ill measured me for that swing, I measured
Speaker 2: my chances with him. To me, he looked like one
Speaker 2: of the corporate assets of Murder Incorporated. So I rolled
Speaker 2: over the punch, hit the floor, and stayed there with
Speaker 2: my eyes closed and my ears open. What I heard
Speaker 2: was Christine's alibi flying out the window, mister Donovan giving
Speaker 2: her a few loving cuffs, and finally the pair of
Speaker 2: them flying out the door. I allowed myself the luxury
Speaker 2: of a twenty second massage and the new lump on
Speaker 2: my jaw, and then I got up and started.
Speaker 3: Out after them. This case was becoming interesting.
Speaker 1: In just a moment, we'll return to the second act
Speaker 1: of yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 8: But first this important message.
Speaker 1: Sixty million dollars is what the Red Cross needs to
Speaker 1: carry on it's great work in nineteen forty nine. If
Speaker 1: this seems like a lot, just try to review briefly
Speaker 1: the various activities of the Red Cross. It can't be
Speaker 1: done briefly. Red Cross services extend into every area of
Speaker 1: our lives, bringing care, comfort and recreation to the men
Speaker 1: of the armed forces, bringing first aid training programs, nursing services,
Speaker 1: blood banks to our own communities.
Speaker 3: And all the.
Speaker 1: Time, as these activities go on uninterrupted, the Red Cross
Speaker 1: is holding itself ready to spring into instant action in
Speaker 1: case of disaster, fire, but explosion, any sort of catastrophe
Speaker 1: finds the Red Cross on the scene with food, clothing,
Speaker 1: and medical care. Sixty million isn't so much in the
Speaker 1: light of such activity. We can make it. With each
Speaker 1: of us contributing. We're giving to our own safety, security
Speaker 1: and peace of mind, and to our neighbors too. So
Speaker 1: let's give generously to our own red Cross. Now back
Speaker 1: to the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2: I hit the street just in time to see Donmond
Speaker 2: pushing Christine Perry into a cream colored convertible. When they
Speaker 2: got rolling, I file into a cab and followed them,
Speaker 2: and the chase was on. At fifty seventh and Broadway,
Speaker 2: things got complicated. My cab was three cars behind theirs
Speaker 2: when a red light flashed into a stop. Then the
Speaker 2: door of their convertible flew open. Christine jumped out, dashed
Speaker 2: across the street and down to the subway. Since Donovan
Speaker 2: didn't follow her, I followed him. When he finally pulled
Speaker 2: to a stop, he took two chances. He parked in
Speaker 2: a no parking zone and walked straight into the building
Speaker 2: beside it a police station.
Speaker 8: This is mister Doll, Lieutenant. He's been waiting for you.
Speaker 10: For some time.
Speaker 8: Well, you can wait outside sat.
Speaker 3: CA, sir.
Speaker 2: My name is Johnny Della, Lieutenant. There are my credentials.
Speaker 8: Insurance. Eh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Perry murder in particular, You've.
Speaker 8: Come to the right place. Dollar.
Speaker 12: A man named Donovan just walked in here and made
Speaker 12: a full confession.
Speaker 8: He what that's right, right, clicks, just typing it up.
Speaker 12: In the meantime, the gentleman is down in the tank
Speaker 12: having a bite of lunch on the city he confessed.
Speaker 3: Does his story add up?
Speaker 12: As far as I know, I haven't heard too much
Speaker 12: about the case myself.
Speaker 8: It's met in my precinct.
Speaker 3: What did he use for a motive?
Speaker 8: Jealousy? Says he's in love, wanted to marry Perry's wife.
Speaker 3: Did he say how he manages it?
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's still the key to the office from the
Speaker 12: wife's apartment, entered the building last night and wired a
Speaker 12: bomb to the buzzer system.
Speaker 3: Well, guys do a lot of strange things the name
Speaker 3: of love.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it looks like Donovan did.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 2: He either killed a man or he's trying to cover
Speaker 2: up for someone who dead a Listen, don't execute him
Speaker 2: for a couple of days.
Speaker 3: Hollows and I.
Speaker 2: Spent the rest of the afternoon downtown in the offices
Speaker 2: of Perry and Van Bruton, importers. The partner's correspondence told
Speaker 2: me two things. They had been extremely friendly and Van
Speaker 2: Bruton was extremely Perry had been sending him two pays
Speaker 2: from a famous Hollywood makeup firm at four point thirty,
Speaker 2: I opened the drawer marked employment files. They rocked me
Speaker 2: with two minor explosions of their own. The folder marked Donovan.
Speaker 2: Albert J. Told me that he'd been employed as Perry's
Speaker 2: bodyguard over a period of years, and that he was
Speaker 2: canned the day before the murder. Before I received blast
Speaker 2: number two from the folder of Perry's secretary Susan Gates, the.
Speaker 3: Office door opened behind me. Well, mister dollar.
Speaker 11: They were supplied with a search warrant, just the one
Speaker 11: I was born with, Missus Perry, the kind they say
Speaker 11: kills cats.
Speaker 3: You know, curiosity? What are you looking for? I found it?
Speaker 3: How about you? What are you doing here? Why?
Speaker 11: I'm tired of dueling with you? I'm here because I
Speaker 11: want to Well, I've got to talk to someone. I
Speaker 11: called your hotel.
Speaker 3: You what's there?
Speaker 11: I tried to locate Susan, but I couldn't, so I thought,
Speaker 11: maybe you'll be down here.
Speaker 3: What's the basis of our sudden friendship?
Speaker 9: You should know al Donovan's confession.
Speaker 3: The newspapers have it already is but there's not a.
Speaker 9: Word of truth, and that he didn't kill my husband.
Speaker 3: How do you know that?
Speaker 9: Because what it's impossible.
Speaker 3: That's all.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was a little hard for me to swallow too
Speaker 2: when the police told me about it, But since then
Speaker 2: it's become a little more digestible. What do you mean,
Speaker 2: I just learned that he was your husband's bodyguard.
Speaker 3: He was fired yesterday.
Speaker 2: That same day, your husband calls his insurance when he's
Speaker 2: screaming for another body God, Now.
Speaker 3: How would that head up for you? A beef? Maybe?
Speaker 11: Al Donovan's a fool, never thinks. He just rushes in
Speaker 11: and says it does whatever's on his mind. He told
Speaker 11: my husband if he didn't.
Speaker 3: Divorce me, that.
Speaker 9: How he threatened him.
Speaker 2: Now you came in here saying that Diamond's confession was
Speaker 2: no good, and you spend your time making it sound
Speaker 2: better and better.
Speaker 3: What do you want anyway?
Speaker 11: I can't help it. I've got to tell you the teeth.
Speaker 11: I know it doesn't sound like I'm trying to help.
Speaker 2: Al, but what can I Do You really want me
Speaker 2: to answer that here? If you want to help out,
Speaker 2: phone the police, tell them Donovan made that phony confession
Speaker 2: to cover up for you. It's simple, not as simple
Speaker 2: as dead. You don't need the gun, Christine, hang up
Speaker 2: the phone.
Speaker 11: Sure, I hope you don't mind my version being held
Speaker 11: for murder myself.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a commoner version. I'm in no hurry to
Speaker 2: see you behind bars, but don't forget. When the cops
Speaker 2: want to pick you up, they'll.
Speaker 3: Do it now.
Speaker 2: Don't spoil the rest of the afternoon. Take that gun
Speaker 2: someplace else. I've got things to do the first time.
Speaker 9: Imagine we'll need to call that.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't man, not necessarily.
Speaker 2: If it'll make you feel any better, we'll just put
Speaker 2: this phone out of order.
Speaker 3: Satisfying, of course not.
Speaker 9: But don't get me wrong, mister Dalla, I wish you nothing.
Speaker 10: But success in your investigation.
Speaker 2: I puzzled over that exit line for a few seconds
Speaker 2: after she'd gone, and then I went back to the
Speaker 2: company's employment file, namely the application for employment as secretary
Speaker 2: of Susan Gates.
Speaker 3: It informed me that during.
Speaker 2: The war she had worked in the munitions planned a
Speaker 2: specialty wiring bomb fuses.
Speaker 3: When Miss Susan Gates.
Speaker 2: Reached home at eight thirty that evening, she found a
Speaker 2: visitor me, how did you get in here?
Speaker 3: Professional secret Oh?
Speaker 5: You scared me? What do you want? Why did you
Speaker 5: come here?
Speaker 3: I wanted to bring you the good news.
Speaker 2: I heard on the radio that al Donovan confessed to
Speaker 2: Perry's murder.
Speaker 5: El I can't believe it.
Speaker 3: Why not? Who do you like for the spot?
Speaker 5: Why Christine? Alice covering up for.
Speaker 2: I'd like to agree with you if it turns out
Speaker 2: that Christine wound up her husband's life with a bang.
Speaker 2: The company that hired me saves a hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: But I don't know. She claims she has all kinds
Speaker 2: of alibis. One of them is you me? Ah, did
Speaker 2: you see her at the club Caprice last night? Why?
Speaker 5: Who? Yes?
Speaker 3: I know who you were with your boss.
Speaker 5: There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3: I am not preaching it, Sirma. I want to know who
Speaker 3: she was with.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, I'd never seen before mister Perry,
Speaker 4: knew him, but he wouldn't tell me who he was.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 5: I don't know? He said, I might get the wrong
Speaker 5: idea about what. I don't know.
Speaker 4: We didn't sit there and talk about it all night.
Speaker 4: Why should we sit here and talk about it all night?
Speaker 3: All right? All right? When a census taker shows up
Speaker 3: and asks a lot of questions, people answer them.
Speaker 2: When an investigator tries to do his job. They make
Speaker 2: the proverbial clam look like a blabbermouth.
Speaker 4: Look, mister dor believe me, this has been a greater
Speaker 4: shock to me than anyone else.
Speaker 3: The shifting. Of course, you're a late employer, mister Perry.
Speaker 3: How long did you work for him?
Speaker 5: Four years?
Speaker 3: And where'd you worked before? Then?
Speaker 2: H Let me help you bombs, wiring fuses? Remember all right?
Speaker 5: I remember?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 2: Then maybe you'll remember a little bit more. Let's go
Speaker 2: back to last night, guy with Christine Perry?
Speaker 3: Who was he?
Speaker 5: I tell you, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Was it Van Bruden? I don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll get that.
Speaker 4: No, I'll go.
Speaker 3: You make sure you just don't keep going Susan. When
Speaker 3: Susan snapped the spring locks, who opened the door?
Speaker 2: The gun outside opened up the first slug quarter on
Speaker 2: the left shoulder, spinning her out of the way of
Speaker 2: the rest of them. It was getting them knotts. Every
Speaker 2: time a buzzer went off, things started booming. Susan was
Speaker 2: sprawled out on the floor and from the door, and
Speaker 2: to open it, I had a mover. By the time
Speaker 2: I did, the hallway outside was empty. Okay, my ticketies,
Speaker 2: it won't start hurting for a couple of minutes. We'll
Speaker 2: have a doctor here by then he'll give her something.
Speaker 2: I just try and keep going. Yeah, I'll throw my
Speaker 2: coat over you. Try not to move, trying to ruin
Speaker 2: this rug? Never mind the rug. But we want to
Speaker 2: worry about is who tried to ruin you?
Speaker 5: What'll they do to me?
Speaker 3: Well? Who do to you?
Speaker 5: They'll arrest me?
Speaker 2: No, they don't arrest people beginning shot. Do you have
Speaker 2: any idea who it was that.
Speaker 5: Man in the office this morning?
Speaker 3: One picked up the check man Bruton?
Speaker 5: No, No, he wasn't.
Speaker 3: Then Bruton he was a phony? Yep, and you still
Speaker 3: gave him that check.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, I won't ask you why, but apparently you
Speaker 2: gave him the money and then try to blackmail him.
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 5: He'll have me.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be a bit surprised. Who is this guy?
Speaker 2: Where can I find him? Come on, I don't pass
Speaker 2: out on me. Now his name?
Speaker 3: Quick?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 3: Where does he lived?
Speaker 5: Nelson?
Speaker 3: Who did under his own name? I don't blame you.
Speaker 2: I could use a few moments of unconsciousness myself. The
Speaker 2: Nelson hotel didn't have a Dutch name on the register,
Speaker 2: so I got a hold of the housekeeper and found
Speaker 2: out how many rooms his staff hadn't been able to
Speaker 2: make up all day because of do not disturb signs
Speaker 2: and their doors. I want to calling at these particular rooms.
Speaker 2: On the ninth floor I awakened one old maid. On
Speaker 2: the seventh I startled a bunch of poker players who
Speaker 2: thought they were being raided. On the fifth I blushed
Speaker 2: my way out of the bridal suite, and on the
Speaker 2: fourth I struck the door of four twenty seven and
Speaker 2: the jackpots.
Speaker 10: Who's there? Don't you see the sign I do not
Speaker 10: miss to be disturbed?
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, I must have the wrong room.
Speaker 2: I started up the hall after the fire acte, but
Speaker 2: when I got to it, I changed my mind. One
Speaker 2: of the few things I had learned about this guy,
Speaker 2: Van Sant was and he loved to murder people through doors,
Speaker 2: So I decided against trying to chop his down. Then
Speaker 2: I remember the way those people came pouring out of
Speaker 2: those offices earlier in the day when they heard that
Speaker 2: fire alarm. So I picked up the little red hammer
Speaker 2: next to the big red fire axe, broke the little
Speaker 2: glass window, pulled the little brass hook, and set off
Speaker 2: a big brassy noise.
Speaker 3: Then I rushed back to four twenty seven. Fire, Fire, fire,
Speaker 3: where's the fire right here?
Speaker 6: In my eyes?
Speaker 3: Sweethet?
Speaker 10: Why you come here?
Speaker 2: You wish you hadn't to remind addresser you're through shooting
Speaker 2: guns for the day. Well you think the him sense
Speaker 2: you want to try some more?
Speaker 10: You kind of make me stay here.
Speaker 3: The fire we all died and.
Speaker 2: It looked good barbecued. But I'll make a deal with you.
Speaker 2: You talk. If I like what I hear, I'll show
Speaker 2: you how to get out of here alive.
Speaker 10: How do I know this?
Speaker 2: Well, you don't think I'm gonna stay here in Friday.
Speaker 2: And if you don't start flapping that tongue in a hurry,
Speaker 2: I'll probably I just tie you to a chair and run.
Speaker 3: First was Van Bruton.
Speaker 10: You will find him in the bedroom.
Speaker 3: You've gotta be alive. He's out cold. What's the matter
Speaker 3: with it?
Speaker 8: People? Be all right?
Speaker 10: He's on the sedatives.
Speaker 2: What did this identity switch start? You better hurry up.
Speaker 2: I smell smoke.
Speaker 10: I knew Van Bruton in Amsterdam. I knew about to
Speaker 10: say of his interest, and I knew that the girl
Speaker 10: in the office here had never seen Van Bruton. What
Speaker 10: let's go now.
Speaker 3: I don't get up. I can't feel it getting warm
Speaker 3: in here.
Speaker 2: The firefies. You will be safe, and don't be too sure.
Speaker 2: They always started the top floor and work their way down.
Speaker 2: Come on, I can hear those flames crying.
Speaker 10: You know the rest. Last night, when the transaction was
Speaker 10: all finished with Parry, I gave to Van Bruton someb
Speaker 10: sedative and his cocoa.
Speaker 3: You set up that bomb, so Perry get it before
Speaker 3: you showed up to pick up the check. Y'all.
Speaker 10: I told you that then it happened. That girl didn't
Speaker 10: know I was an impostor. I don't know how.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you.
Speaker 2: She's been sending old Van Bruton and they had two
Speaker 2: pays for the last four years. Gray Ones, my redheaded friend.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, let's get out of you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, out fo.
Speaker 2: Her expense account Item four a dollar forty night letter
Speaker 2: informing you the American Continental would have to meet payment
Speaker 2: of claim to missus Christine Ferry, innocent widow of the insured.
Speaker 3: The only thing she was guilty.
Speaker 2: Of was trying to stay on the right side of
Speaker 2: a hot tempered boyfriend. She lied about who she was
Speaker 2: with at the club Caprice, not to fix herself an alibi,
Speaker 2: but to keep al Donovan from learning that she'd been
Speaker 2: out with another guy, that guy being the real mister
Speaker 2: van Bruton, who had only taken her out to try
Speaker 2: to targument a reconciling with his friend her husband. Item
Speaker 2: five sixty dollars silver chafing dish wedding present for Christine
Speaker 2: and her new husband, al Donovan. That was at least
Speaker 2: she could do for the guy who had confessed to
Speaker 2: a murder he thought she had committed. Item six eight
Speaker 2: dollars flowers for Susan Gates Prison Hospital. Item seven fine
Speaker 2: for turning in false alarm. One thousand dollars and no cents.
Speaker 2: And that's what I think I'm beginning to get by
Speaker 2: getting into this racket.
Speaker 3: No sense.
Speaker 2: Expense account total twelve and sixty three dollars yours, truly,
Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1: In just a moment, we'll tell you about next week
Speaker 1: Johnny Adventure.
Speaker 3: But first this reminder.
Speaker 1: Just a little earlier tonight on CBS, Jack Bennet turned
Speaker 1: dractic actor on the Ford Theater. But this Sunday he'll
Speaker 1: be back again on his own show with a special
Speaker 1: treat for the Jack Benny fans. After the last broadcast
Speaker 1: on which the Ronald Coleman's appeared, thousands of letters came
Speaker 1: in from fans asking the Jack and Ronnie and Benita
Speaker 1: back again.
Speaker 3: Soon the Walkeagan Wit did, and Ronnie.
Speaker 1: And Benita, by popular demand, returned the Jack Benny programmed
Speaker 1: this Sunday in what should result in one of the
Speaker 1: most hilarious broadcasts of the year. So be sure to
Speaker 1: listen to mister and Missus Ronald Coleman on The Jack
Speaker 1: Benny Show, which is heard on all CBS stations this Sunday.
Speaker 1: Listening again next week when CBS brings You Yours Truly
Speaker 1: Johnny Dollar with Charles Russell as Johnny. Yours Truly Johnny
Speaker 1: Dollar is written by Paul Dudley and gildowd with music
Speaker 1: by Mark Warnow, and is produced and directed by Richard
Speaker 1: sand Bill for CBS look Up and Be a Broadcasting System.
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