Speaker 1: From Hollywood.
Speaker 2: It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 3: Johnny Dolla, inspected traper returning your calls.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, inspector, thanks very much. I wonder when I
Speaker 1: could talk with you about the Hannibal Murphy dead.
Speaker 4: What your pleasure, sir?
Speaker 3: Do I understand you've come all the way from the States.
Speaker 1: Yes, the news broke yesterday and his insurance company thought
Speaker 1: i'd better. The reports weren't quite clear on whether or
Speaker 1: not it was accidental. Then you haven't heard, only that
Speaker 1: he somehow fell off a cliffs.
Speaker 3: Oh. Then, I hope you'll pardon my being a bit
Speaker 3: nonplussed at your timely arrival. Mister Murphy's death was definitely
Speaker 3: not accidental. Examination this morning revealed a bullet wound in
Speaker 3: his head.
Speaker 2: Edmond O'Brien in a transcribed adventure of the Man with
Speaker 2: the Action packed Expenser car America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 1: Yours truly, Johnny Dalla expense account submitted by special Investigator
Speaker 1: Johnny Daller to Home Office, Plymouth Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
Speaker 1: of the Hannibal Murphy matter expence count item won two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four dollars and eighty cents airfan incidentals
Speaker 1: between Hartford and Kingston, Island of Jamaica. After checking into
Speaker 1: the mural Bank Hotel and reporting my phone to the
Speaker 1: British Constabulary, I went over late that morning and met
Speaker 1: the aves in charge.
Speaker 4: Well, mister Donald, it's a pleasure to have you here.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Inspector Trevan.
Speaker 4: The news of the death of one of your countrymen
Speaker 4: is hardly the kind of invitation I should like to send.
Speaker 1: If it hadn't been mister Murphy, I probably would have
Speaker 1: been invited to a murder someplace else. It's a popular pastime.
Speaker 1: What do you know about the Murphy's inspector, I understand
Speaker 1: he's survived by a widow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a brother also, Paul Murphy, and the stepdaughter Felice.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about them. I mean they're all here
Speaker 1: in Kingston. Yes.
Speaker 4: The brother has lived here for the past two years,
Speaker 4: has a cottage just outside town. The deceased and his
Speaker 4: family were visiting him, had been here for two months.
Speaker 1: Anyone else.
Speaker 4: Two servants, an old cook and a young man who
Speaker 4: has rather general duties.
Speaker 1: Do you have any kind of ethere, Inspector.
Speaker 4: Since the fact that the murder has proved only this morning, No,
Speaker 4: except that it was murdered. The position of the wound
Speaker 4: in the head rules out suicide. Any suspicions then, uh, No,
Speaker 4: none that I wished to voice at the moment. Perhaps
Speaker 4: you'd like to visit the scene of the crime, or
Speaker 4: rather the point from which the body fell into the sea.
Speaker 1: Thanks, Inspector, I would like most British police officers, he
Speaker 1: was playing it close to the vest, but on the
Speaker 1: way he did let me know that he considered the Murphys,
Speaker 1: including the surviving brothers, the people who had been spoiled
Speaker 1: by too much money, were completely selfish and quite possibly
Speaker 1: could be hated by a number of people. After a
Speaker 1: drive a few minutes, we left the car and crossed
Speaker 1: through a strip of shaded parkway to a bridle path
Speaker 1: at parallel of the cliff, some hundred feet in height.
Speaker 1: At the bottom, breakers piled in against the jumble of
Speaker 1: coral and rocks. Here we are.
Speaker 4: We wrote the section off in case we might learn
Speaker 4: something from the marks, though we will. There you see
Speaker 4: on the edge of the torn earth and the broken branches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his body was found alone.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was discovered by a young Irelander who was
Speaker 4: searching for shell fish at an early morning low tide.
Speaker 1: He said, the Murphy cottage wasn't far away? Can you
Speaker 1: see it from here?
Speaker 4: No, it's beyond the trees there. The path turns inland
Speaker 4: before it reaches the grove.
Speaker 1: Does this cliff run near their place? Yes?
Speaker 4: I believe so that you and I share a common bewilderment.
Speaker 1: H just killer met him here? I shoot him. If
Speaker 1: he could have been pushed over the.
Speaker 4: Cliff and killed that way precisely, we should have had
Speaker 4: a devil of a time proving was murder at all,
Speaker 4: unless the killer wasn't strong enough to get him over
Speaker 4: while he was alive like a woman. If possibility that
Speaker 4: dost present itself, doesn't it yet? If he'd been shot
Speaker 4: and fallen here then dragged to the edge, they would
Speaker 4: have been signed with anne no bloodstains nothing. So unless
Speaker 4: he was shot somewhere else and carried here, we must
Speaker 4: visualize the victim and the killer standing side by side
Speaker 4: on the sheer edge of the precipice, gazing out to sea,
Speaker 4: a moment before the shot was fired.
Speaker 1: Can we go to the house now.
Speaker 4: I had planned to wait until I had a more
Speaker 4: complete report from ballistics, but please feel free to pay
Speaker 4: them a visit if you wished.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Inspecting, I should let them know I'm here.
Speaker 4: Very good. Come along, I'll drop you by.
Speaker 1: The theory that Murphy was shot someplace else had holes
Speaker 1: in it too. The idea was to dispose of the body.
Speaker 1: Who I dump it so close to his home? The
Speaker 1: mail servant answered, Mink. Suddenly, Missus Murphy was resting and
Speaker 1: left me on the verandah while he went to find
Speaker 1: out if she'd see me. A few seconds after he'd gone,
Speaker 1: I met another member of the household, a daughter, plain
Speaker 1: girl with short hair, gangling figure, and troubled eyes.
Speaker 5: Matter with me? Let you in?
Speaker 1: He thought, I'd better wait out here.
Speaker 6: What you want?
Speaker 1: I came to see missus Murphy that what happened? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 6: My name is Police. I'm her daughter.
Speaker 7: I cannot mean.
Speaker 6: Oh, thanks, you're American, aren't you?
Speaker 1: It's right? My name is Dolla.
Speaker 6: You've come here because of what happened to my stepfather.
Speaker 6: Why did you?
Speaker 1: I was sent by his insurance company and the States.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'd forgotten about that.
Speaker 5: I suppose he left a lot, always did everything so handsomely.
Speaker 6: In an accident. You know he was murdered. Somebody shot him.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know that.
Speaker 8: I suppose it will be all sorts of trouble. Now,
Speaker 8: please do come and ask all kind of questions.
Speaker 1: Well, things like this are never pleasant. Are you worried that?
Speaker 1: Answer your questions? Why should I be just the way
Speaker 1: you mentioned it?
Speaker 6: Well I'm not.
Speaker 5: I'll tell them everything I know and everything I thought
Speaker 5: about him.
Speaker 6: I'm not ashamed. I had a right to hate him.
Speaker 5: Pilise, stop it. Stop talking that way strung. You're not
Speaker 5: Every awful thing that ever happened to me is his fault.
Speaker 5: He was filter out and stop it. Go to your room,
Speaker 5: all right, I'll go. She won't be able to send
Speaker 5: me away. When the police come, I'll.
Speaker 6: Tell them to get out of here.
Speaker 5: Yes, mother, Oh terribly sorry. She really doesn't mean what
Speaker 5: she says. I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be missus Murphy.
Speaker 5: But an outburst like that to a perfect stranger, I
Speaker 5: don't know what you must think.
Speaker 1: I think she's a pretty upset young woman, but.
Speaker 5: She has no right to be. She's been an extremely
Speaker 5: difficult child. I don't know what else to say to you.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm terribly ashamed for her. Now, would you come into.
Speaker 1: The drawing room, thank you?
Speaker 5: Please sit down. You are an insurance investigator, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1: Yes, and if you feel up to it, I'd like
Speaker 1: to get as clear a picture as I can of
Speaker 1: what happened the night your husband was killed.
Speaker 5: I imagine that I shall have you put up with it.
Speaker 1: Shat sooner or later. Yes, it probably would have been
Speaker 1: easier if your husband's brother were here to take part
Speaker 1: of the responsibility.
Speaker 5: Oh, he went to make arrangements for flying my husband home.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure when he'll be back, but I'll help
Speaker 5: all I can.
Speaker 1: First, missus Murphy, do you have any idea who could
Speaker 1: have killed your husband?
Speaker 5: Not the faintest idea, mister Dolla.
Speaker 1: You've been here in Kingston for two months? Is that right?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: Could? Your husband haven't made any enemies during that time?
Speaker 1: Did he mention anything like that?
Speaker 5: No, you mentioned nothing. We've been about there's a little
Speaker 5: We only met a few people, some of Paul's friends,
Speaker 5: but he couldn't have made any enemies.
Speaker 1: Who was here the other night, No one but.
Speaker 5: Hannibal or Paul and Celicie and I and the servants.
Speaker 1: Of course, did your husband leave the house, Yes, of.
Speaker 5: Course he did. It's quite a strange question, mister Doner,
Speaker 5: considering where he was found.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, why did he leave?
Speaker 5: Paul said he was going to take a walk. He
Speaker 5: was in the house when I went to my room.
Speaker 1: What time is that?
Speaker 5: Little past ten? Paul retired a short time later and
Speaker 5: remembered that Hannibal said he wasn't sleepy, perhaps he would
Speaker 5: take a walk.
Speaker 1: And I take it your daughter had gone to bed too. Yes,
Speaker 1: do you mind if I talked to her?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: I rob you didn't.
Speaker 5: Why do you suspect her?
Speaker 1: I didn't say that, do you?
Speaker 5: Of course not. Mother would hardly suspect her own daughter.
Speaker 1: Why don't you want me to talk to me?
Speaker 5: Because she's a poor, unbalanced girl who's filled with war,
Speaker 5: hates and misunderstandings. She'll say dreadful things about Hannibal and
Speaker 5: about me, things that are absolutely not true.
Speaker 1: She'll have to be questioned missus Murphy.
Speaker 5: Of course I realized that, Well, there's nothing more right
Speaker 5: to say. I'll show you to her room.
Speaker 1: The police wasn't in her room. I found her waiting
Speaker 1: for me on the Bridle Trail along the cliff. She's
Speaker 1: been crying.
Speaker 5: I heard it say you were an investigator, and I
Speaker 5: ought to talk to you again.
Speaker 6: I knew I couldn't, hass I waited here. I just
Speaker 6: know it's the matter with me. I shouldn't have said
Speaker 6: what I did. I meant it when I said it. No,
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I know quite what you mean.
Speaker 5: I'm awfully mixed up. The doctor tried to explain it
Speaker 5: to me.
Speaker 8: When my real father died, my mother was all I had,
Speaker 8: and when he came along, I thought he was stealing,
Speaker 8: not from me. I thought I didn't didn't have anything anymore.
Speaker 1: How long ago is that?
Speaker 6: It's been three years. I was fourteen when they were married.
Speaker 6: But he did take her away.
Speaker 8: He chucked me into an old school and went off
Speaker 8: on a trip. I know I didn't do it just
Speaker 8: to hurt me, but at night it would seem to
Speaker 8: me that he did.
Speaker 5: I tried to get over it, but I never could.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm glad he's dead.
Speaker 1: It's not a very wise thing to say for Lisa.
Speaker 6: I can't help it.
Speaker 1: Do you have anything else you wanted to tell me?
Speaker 8: No, I wanted to explain why I acted the way
Speaker 8: I didn't have. I don't suppose you understand.
Speaker 1: Part of it. I think I do. Quite a few
Speaker 1: children have to adjust themselves to step there hands these days.
Speaker 1: It's tough, and some do it better than others.
Speaker 8: I haven't done it well at all. Now I won't
Speaker 8: have to try anymore.
Speaker 6: I am sorry. It's the way I acted. I want
Speaker 6: to help you everywhere I can.
Speaker 1: How do you think you can help me?
Speaker 6: I'm not sure yet to let you know?
Speaker 1: All right, phlease, I'll be talking to you again. I
Speaker 1: didn't know then what this strange mixed up girl was
Speaker 1: driving at. I got the impression that she wanted to
Speaker 1: talk more than she had, but I was fairly sure
Speaker 1: the way to bring it out was to wait rather
Speaker 1: than press it too high. I checked in with Inspector Trabert,
Speaker 1: and his reactions were about the same as mine. On
Speaker 1: the strength of them, he called Paul Murphy into his
Speaker 1: office that afternoon. The last time I saw him was
Speaker 1: when I went to bed.
Speaker 2: We'd had a drink together, and he said he wasn't
Speaker 2: asleep here. He thought he might take a walk.
Speaker 4: Do you know how long after that he might have
Speaker 4: left the house.
Speaker 1: No, I'm sorry, I don't. I was dead tired, I
Speaker 1: went right asleep.
Speaker 4: Was he in my habit of taking walks at night sometimes?
Speaker 1: Yet? But you didn't hear a shot? No, I didn't
Speaker 1: hear anything.
Speaker 4: How much time passed would you say between the time
Speaker 4: you left him and the time.
Speaker 1: You were asleep? Oh? Not more than fifteen minutes, inspector, Then.
Speaker 4: He couldn't have left the house before, say, quarter past eleven.
Speaker 1: Yes, got'd be about it. And you're sure you didn't
Speaker 1: say anything about meeting anyone. He simply said he might
Speaker 1: take a walk.
Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure that I understand the importance of
Speaker 2: these questions.
Speaker 4: The importance is this, Your brother was killed by a
Speaker 4: twenty five caliber pistol fired at quite close range. I'm
Speaker 4: afraid we must assume that if he did not meet anyone,
Speaker 4: somebody either accompanied him or followed him.
Speaker 2: You mean you suspect someone in my house. We're only
Speaker 2: stating the facts. Someone was with your brother.
Speaker 4: We've ruled out the possibility of a robbery motive, since
Speaker 4: both you and the widow have stated that none of
Speaker 4: his personal effects are missing.
Speaker 1: You can see how the thing narrows down mister Murphy. Yes,
Speaker 1: I can don't know what to say.
Speaker 4: Do you mean that you suspect someone?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: If you do, mister Murphy, it would be you your
Speaker 1: advantage to come out with it.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid the duty of making accusations as yours not mine.
Speaker 4: A commendable statement, sir, As long as you don't mean
Speaker 4: that you're withholding.
Speaker 1: Information, I'm not. I have no information at all.
Speaker 4: Very well, mister Murphy, you may go.
Speaker 1: When Paul Murphy left, we both felt that he too
Speaker 1: was holding back, that it would be a long time
Speaker 1: before he offered any information. But we were only half right.
Speaker 1: He phoned the office a few minutes after he had
Speaker 1: reached food.
Speaker 4: Yes, have you called in your own doctor and a
Speaker 4: doctor Drummond. Yes, I know him. Now we'll send one
Speaker 4: immediately and come out ourselves. Yes, thank you very much,
Speaker 4: mister Murphy. Well, the stepdaughter attempted suicide?
Speaker 1: How serious?
Speaker 4: Mister Murphy was quite beside himself, and it was hard
Speaker 4: to know what did she do? Slashed her wrists a
Speaker 4: method that is really successful. But the question is why
Speaker 4: did she do it?
Speaker 2: We will return you to yours truly, Johnny Dollar, in
Speaker 2: just a moment. Later this evening, the Gangbusters give a
Speaker 2: graphic illustration of what happens when the police not a
Speaker 2: criminal who is a perfectionist. When a gang leader leaves
Speaker 2: no stone unturned to commit the perfect crime, there's a
Speaker 2: rough man hunt ahead for the police. Here are the
Speaker 2: exciting developments when you tune in Gangbusters later this evening
Speaker 2: on most of these same CBS radio stations. Now, with
Speaker 2: our star Edmond O'Brien, we bring you the second act
Speaker 2: of yours truly, Johnny Dollar respected Trevor and I and
Speaker 2: right out to the Murphy residents, but were held back
Speaker 2: from Pelice's room.
Speaker 1: I built a private and an official physician. The latter
Speaker 1: was the last to leave her room.
Speaker 4: Doctor, how is she?
Speaker 2: You can see her now, as you might expect, she's
Speaker 2: in a highly emotional state.
Speaker 4: Yes, oh this is mister Dollar. Doctor Gurley.
Speaker 1: How do you do, sir? Doctor Gurley? Is she gonna
Speaker 1: be all right?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, I think so.
Speaker 2: You can do a very good job of it. I
Speaker 2: think she needs a good psychiatrist, very good one.
Speaker 1: She's evidently needed one for a long time. She's saying
Speaker 1: anything to you, nothing specific, only that she hates everyone. Well,
Speaker 1: I wish you luck, gentlemen. I've got to run.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Gurley by doctor good day. Well yeah, missus Murphy,
Speaker 4: we've been told we could see.
Speaker 5: Don't call me Mury, that's not my name, and its
Speaker 5: happy Hello.
Speaker 6: Hello, mister.
Speaker 4: She you remember me, Inspector Trey, but that I spoke
Speaker 4: to you yesterday?
Speaker 5: I remember yesterday.
Speaker 6: I hardly remember anything. I don't want to. I want
Speaker 6: to forget.
Speaker 1: What do you want to forget?
Speaker 5: Everything?
Speaker 6: My whole life. It's been a waste, nothing's been right.
Speaker 4: I hate her, please, I don't care.
Speaker 5: I'm going to tell the truth is they't kill him?
Speaker 6: My mother and Paul.
Speaker 4: I thought, all happening you would have witnessed the killing.
Speaker 6: I saw what was happening here.
Speaker 5: I saw what was happening in England last summer.
Speaker 6: I first I was glad.
Speaker 5: I put he'd go away and I'd never see him
Speaker 5: again when we came here. If it weren't him, it
Speaker 5: would be somebody else.
Speaker 6: I knew it would never stop.
Speaker 1: Plase, hold it slow down.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific, young lady.
Speaker 4: Do you mean that the marriage between your mother and
Speaker 4: stepfather was not a happy one?
Speaker 5: Started last summer in England. She was getting tired of him.
Speaker 5: I heard them fighting and calling one another names. They
Speaker 5: tried to hide it from me because they knew it'd
Speaker 5: make me happy.
Speaker 6: But I heard them. She wanted divorced him. He wouldn't
Speaker 6: let her.
Speaker 1: What happened the other night, Felice, I.
Speaker 6: Knew what was happening here too.
Speaker 5: I heard them arguing the other night after they sent
Speaker 5: me to my room.
Speaker 6: Then I heard mother go to her room. Then they
Speaker 6: left the house.
Speaker 1: Your stepfather and Paul.
Speaker 4: Did you see them leave? Yes?
Speaker 6: And then I heard the shot.
Speaker 1: What time did you hear it? You remember?
Speaker 6: Yes? I remember it? Quarter past eleven. I remember because
Speaker 6: I was lying in bed awake.
Speaker 5: But when I heard it, I sat up and I
Speaker 5: turned on my lamp and I looked at the clock.
Speaker 5: Then I turned the lamp off again and went to
Speaker 5: the window. In a little while, I saw Paul come
Speaker 5: back alone.
Speaker 1: Why haven't you told us this before, Pelice, No, don't know.
Speaker 8: He was awfully mixed up. She's my mother, that's first.
Speaker 8: I thought I should protect her, and I thought of
Speaker 8: everything she had done to me. She never wanted me,
Speaker 8: She threw me away. She's never been a real mother.
Speaker 5: I've always keep her. I'm telling you.
Speaker 6: Turned I wanted to be punished for everything.
Speaker 4: I shall expect you to repeat this in the form
Speaker 4: of a small statement.
Speaker 6: Well, but you've got to take.
Speaker 5: Me away from here now I can't see here. I'm
Speaker 5: a pleasure of what they do.
Speaker 1: The girl was moved to the police hospital later that
Speaker 1: day repeated a statement under oak. But about the time
Speaker 1: she was doing that, there's another development. Inspector Trebotte received
Speaker 1: a call from the proprietor of a second hand shop
Speaker 1: and specialized in fishing, tackle and guns.
Speaker 4: After youse, Good afternoon, are you mister innes? I am
Speaker 4: Inspector Trabert.
Speaker 7: How I thought you were place when you came in.
Speaker 4: This is mister Doller, an American investigator.
Speaker 1: Out of MENTU. Mister Ennis, we want to thank you
Speaker 1: for phoning about the game.
Speaker 7: Well, I thought it was my duty. I've been reading
Speaker 7: about the.
Speaker 9: Murder and when this chap came in here to tell
Speaker 9: me a pistol? What was the same caliber as the
Speaker 9: missing weapon? I said to myself, you opt to the
Speaker 9: phone and tell the police.
Speaker 4: Who could we receive the pistol?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 7: I've got a ridea behind the case.
Speaker 1: Here we are wait a moment. Have you handled it much?
Speaker 7: Handle it? Of course I've handled it. I had to
Speaker 7: look it over before I paid him for it.
Speaker 4: If this is the murder weapon, I'd like to protect
Speaker 4: any fingerprints that might remain. Let me pick it up. Hmm,
Speaker 4: A webly, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1: And it's been in England. Would you recognize the man
Speaker 1: who brought an end, mister Ennis?
Speaker 7: I think so.
Speaker 9: There's not much trade and guns here, you know, fishing
Speaker 9: gear mostly. I think this is the first gun I've
Speaker 9: bought in six months. Yes, yes, i'd remember him. Would
Speaker 9: you describe I try? It was about my size, I'd
Speaker 9: say a little heavier. We had what you'd call brown hair.
Speaker 1: He was ten the English or America?
Speaker 7: He was English, as I am.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you, mis soon as it's possible, you may
Speaker 4: be called upon for identification.
Speaker 9: Happy to oblige this spector. But what about the money?
Speaker 9: I paid four pounds for that pistol?
Speaker 1: And you have Felice's foreign statement, respector Traber was supposed
Speaker 1: to make an arrest so the last time he returned
Speaker 1: to the murphysidence.
Speaker 4: And I shall have to remind you that anything you
Speaker 4: say may be held in evidence against you.
Speaker 1: Do you mean that you're arresting it's for Hannibal's murder.
Speaker 4: There's nothing else I can do. So I have a
Speaker 4: statement given under oath to the effect that you and
Speaker 4: the deceased left this house together the night of the murder.
Speaker 1: That's not true.
Speaker 4: That the sound of a shot was heard, and that
Speaker 4: you were then seen returning to this house alone, that
Speaker 4: isn't true.
Speaker 1: There's not one word of truth in it. I didn't
Speaker 1: leave the house with him. Can you prove that, mister Murphy. Alice,
Speaker 1: you know I didn't leave, don't you.
Speaker 5: Of course he didn't.
Speaker 1: Can you prove it? Missus Murphy? I understood you to
Speaker 1: say you were in your room, that you went to
Speaker 1: sleep immediately and heard nothing.
Speaker 4: My daughter made that statement, isn't she under oath and
Speaker 4: the four witnesses?
Speaker 5: But she lied. I told you she would, Mister Dolla,
Speaker 5: she do anything to hurt me.
Speaker 1: You've got to believe that, Alice. Wait, what did she say?
Speaker 4: Was my reason for killing my own brother because of
Speaker 4: your love for his wife?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: She's insane. How can you believe these things? Your men
Speaker 5: have intelligence.
Speaker 1: My men were used to working with evidence. The Swan
Speaker 1: statement is admissible evidence unless it can be proved false.
Speaker 1: Neither one of you seems to be able to do that.
Speaker 2: I don't think we better say anymore until we have
Speaker 2: legal counsel.
Speaker 5: No, I won't let her do this to me.
Speaker 6: We can't, Paul.
Speaker 5: I think she killed him. She hated him.
Speaker 2: She's the only one in the house that had reason
Speaker 2: to take No good Alice, what are you going to
Speaker 2: do with this, inspector, I shall have to take you
Speaker 2: to jailer. Sorry, we did give us a few minutes
Speaker 2: to get ready, of course, Come on, Alice, go get
Speaker 2: your things, everything of the all.
Speaker 1: Right, what do you think inspected to be?
Speaker 4: Quite honest, I'm not sure, but I know my duty
Speaker 4: as a policeman. The strength of that statement of their
Speaker 4: innocence or guilt out up to the courts to decide.
Speaker 1: Less formally, though, it's a pretty frightening thing to think
Speaker 1: of if that girl and her mental frame of mind
Speaker 1: could suddenly decide that she was a witness, make a
Speaker 1: sworn statement and bring all this down on two innocent people.
Speaker 4: Yes, I know, but the fact remains that they have
Speaker 4: absolutely nothing to say in their own defense. I've got
Speaker 4: to arrest them.
Speaker 1: The widow and Paul Murphy were taken in and I
Speaker 1: couldn't get out of my mind the strength of the
Speaker 1: case against them as far as the crown went, the
Speaker 1: strength built on the fact that there was no evidence,
Speaker 1: were no witnesses to refute police's statement. I suppose that
Speaker 1: as far as the insurance angle went, my job was done.
Speaker 1: But after I left Inspector Trabert, I went to the
Speaker 1: hospital to see the girl again. God high a feeling.
Speaker 6: I feel awfully lonely. They rest mother and Paul. Yeah,
Speaker 6: then I'm all alone. She'll never want me best now,
Speaker 6: no matter what happened, But she never wanted me anyway.
Speaker 7: I'm glad I did it.
Speaker 1: If you told the truth, you have nothing to worry about.
Speaker 6: What do you mean I have nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you told the truth, you did the
Speaker 1: right thing. But if you didn't, you've done one of
Speaker 1: the worst things anyone could do.
Speaker 6: Of course, I told the truth.
Speaker 1: He believed me, don't you That doesn't make any difference,
Speaker 1: inspected that you do.
Speaker 5: Don't you.
Speaker 6: You just think I was lying?
Speaker 7: Do you?
Speaker 1: I hope then you think I could make it all up?
Speaker 5: Do you think I could do a thing like that?
Speaker 1: I hope not.
Speaker 5: I couldn't.
Speaker 6: I know what you're thinking. I told you how I
Speaker 6: hated her and I hated him.
Speaker 5: I could never say the things I said if they
Speaker 5: weren't true. I could never do a thing like that.
Speaker 1: How did you happen to see the two men leave
Speaker 1: the house together? You never really explain that.
Speaker 5: What you can do?
Speaker 1: I thought you were in bed nothing. You saw them
Speaker 1: leave and went to bed. Then you heard the shot,
Speaker 1: and you got up again and went back to the window.
Speaker 1: Was your light on when you saw them leave? But
Speaker 1: you turned it on when you heard the shot? Yes,
Speaker 1: Then you turned it off and got out of bed
Speaker 1: and went back to the window. And who did you see?
Speaker 5: I told you Paul?
Speaker 1: I was sure it was Paul.
Speaker 5: I was sure.
Speaker 1: Why were you sure I saw? Why were you sure
Speaker 1: it was Paul? Why didn't you think it was your stepfather?
Speaker 6: And it was poor because I had a feeling that
Speaker 6: something was going to happen.
Speaker 1: More questions, Better get use of them. The defense attorney
Speaker 1: is going to be asking the same kind of this
Speaker 1: gets into the courts. Well, I won't buy anymore for Lisa.
Speaker 1: I guess your time.
Speaker 6: You don't believe me, do you?
Speaker 1: I told you? Doesn't make any difference. As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: the matter was out of my hands by that time,
Speaker 1: and I was sort of fifty to fifty on believing
Speaker 1: your girl. I made my plane reservations on my way
Speaker 1: back to the hotel. But when I asked my key,
Speaker 1: I got to set a message to phone Inspector Traylor.
Speaker 1: When I did, he told me a that the twenty
Speaker 1: five caliber weblaze from the shops the murder gun and
Speaker 1: b had some prints on it and checked to a
Speaker 1: known criminal who had confessed for shooting. He asked me
Speaker 1: if I wanted to come over.
Speaker 4: It's an incredible turn of events raised this perfect hob
Speaker 4: of the girl's statement. In any case, we thought the
Speaker 4: bill from it. On the other hand, Oh here, I
Speaker 4: should like to have you meet mister Roy Church.
Speaker 1: What are you doing back, Copper? You beat it out
Speaker 1: of me, and now you've got it. Who dropped quite
Speaker 1: a bombshell into this?
Speaker 4: Mister Church, tell mister Dollar in your own words, how
Speaker 4: you came to kill mister Murphy.
Speaker 1: Why should I You've told him, haven't you?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: I doubted he would believe me.
Speaker 1: I like to hear Church. His ready brother said he
Speaker 1: was going to pay me to do it.
Speaker 2: Paul Murphy promised me five hundred time he did take
Speaker 2: me one hundred, and I waited two blinking weeks on
Speaker 2: that clip for his brother to take his walk, and
Speaker 2: I got welsh by the dirty beggar before I had.
Speaker 7: To sell the pistol.
Speaker 4: Tell him why, mister Church.
Speaker 2: I was supposed to take this here Murphy's wallet, to
Speaker 2: make it look like robbery. But he fell over the
Speaker 2: clip when I shot him, and I couldn't reach him.
Speaker 4: That'll be all, mister Church, thank you very much.
Speaker 7: Think nothing of it, well, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1: This means there is no word of truth in that
Speaker 1: science statement, except that maybe she heard the shot. She
Speaker 1: didn't see the men leave the house or poor come back.
Speaker 1: She didn't know anything.
Speaker 4: Yes, a rather spiteful statement, but fortunately true in content.
Speaker 1: They did have the man killed.
Speaker 4: I don't know what to do about that girl? What
Speaker 4: would you do?
Speaker 1: Luckily, I can leave the whole mess in your hands, inspector,
Speaker 1: But I wish you'd come up and work a nice,
Speaker 1: simple Hartford murder with me sometimes? Do you good? Spence?
Speaker 1: Count Adam two same as Adam on transportation back to
Speaker 1: Hartford Adam three. Miscellaneous expenses two hundred and four dollars
Speaker 1: and eighty cents. Spence count totals seven hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: four dollars and forty cents. Remarks I can't help wondering
Speaker 1: what would have happened if Felice's sworn statement had been
Speaker 1: entirely false and the widow and Paul entirely innocent. I
Speaker 1: wonder if they would have been hanged anyway. Yours Truly,
Speaker 1: Johnny Dallas.
Speaker 2: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the title
Speaker 2: role and is written by Gil Dowd with music by
Speaker 2: Wilbur Hatch. Edmond O'Brien can soon be seen starring in
Speaker 2: the Paramount Pictures technical or production Silver City, featured into
Speaker 2: Night's cast where Eric Snowden, Virginia, Greg Jeanette, Nolan, ben Wright,
Speaker 2: Charles Davis, and Dan O'Hurley. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is
Speaker 2: transcribed in Hollywood by hi May del Vye. This is
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