WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.720 I'm now for Edmund O'Brien as. 2 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:06.480 Gotta back and get your gum shoes on you. How 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:07.280 are you're going to be busy? 4 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:08.720 Who's this Ed Bonner? 5 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:11.199 And I'm calling it from Hartford Redye, Boston this week. 6 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:13.679 Get over to the Elwood Favorite Department store right away. 7 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:15.800 Oh call me later, edlad. 8 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:19.320 We got three hundred thousand dollars worth of liability insurance 9 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:20.160 on their further department. 10 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:21.239 Yes later. 11 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:23.760 Now they haven't got a fur department anymore? Does that 12 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:24.960 anybod Mike store? 13 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:25.480 What? 14 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:35.479 Edmund O'Brien And another transcribed adventure of the Man with 15 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:40.880 the Action Pact expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. 16 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:53.359 Yours truly Johnny dollar expense account submitted by a special 17 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:58.520 investigator Johnny Dolla to mister Ed Bonner Mutual Liability Company, Hartford, Connecticut. 18 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:01.399 The following is an account of expenditures and cut during 19 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:05.159 the investigation of burglary attecting policy issue to Elwood Savor 20 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:09.640 Department Store, Boston, Massachusetts or the eighty five Little met 21 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.040 the Spencer counts item one dollar ninety cents taxi sair 22 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:17.560 at Stuart Street entrance to the Elwood Favor Department store 23 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:21.640 where a police emergency ambulance was standing open. Two police 24 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:23.719 officers were helping a man in a white coat load 25 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:26.400 a blanket wrapped figure onto the ambulance litter. I got 26 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:29.280 my first information from the intern. I what's up? 27 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:32.159 And work the wagon. I pick up where everything else 28 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:32.680 left off. 29 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:34.200 Guy's names, chronnies. 30 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:37.480 An watchman here dead about an inch away. We'll already 31 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:39.879 give my transfusion upstairs if a pullets don't kill him. 32 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:41.079 The exposure world. 33 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:43.319 What does that mean? Side holding his chest. He's also 34 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:44.920 got frost byed. Somebody plugged him. 35 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:46.599 Let him lay in the cold storage ball where they 36 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:47.200 keep the furs. 37 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:49.760 How long ago? Oh? Who knows a person? 38 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:50.239 He winded up. 39 00:01:50.319 --> 00:02:03.439 Let's get out and I started group of reporters and 40 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:05.879 camera and seem to be converging sort of freight elevator 41 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:09.360 just inside the store entrance. I converged with him. We 42 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:11.520 all rode up to the fifth floor. Were two plain 43 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:15.719 clothesmen from burglary details stopped. I showed my ID card, 44 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:17.759 argued for five minutes, and finally got a frown and 45 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:20.759 a thumb jerk. I walked across thirty five yards of 46 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:24.439 expensive competing through a cubbyhole office door into a large room. 47 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:27.280 Standing in front of a huge refrigerated boult was a 48 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:29.919 tall man in a black set. His name was Delaney. 49 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:32.879 We shook hands. Go anything, Donna. Some guys walked down 50 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:34.800 a here last night with eighty five mink coats. It's 51 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:41.360 a mess. You got a cigarette? Yeah? Sure, heys. Door 52 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:43.039 is going to be closed all day while a burglary 53 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.639 squad goes over with everything they got. You can do 54 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:47.960 what you have to do too, Thanks Lucin, and I 55 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:51.039 appreciate it. What do you think if freight elevator is there? 56 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.039 Either both, I don't know. They must have a panel 57 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:55.960 truck or a big limo in an alley. Yeah, I 58 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:58.120 noticed that on my way up. To keep any car 59 00:02:58.199 --> 00:02:59.840 hidden from the street, and they'd be able to work 60 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:01.759 with o thing bouded. I got a man coming down 61 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:03.960 to check for tire tranks, but I won't do any guns. 62 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:05.879 Whoever they were, they did it quiet and they did 63 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:09.439 it meat meat. Yeah quiet? You mean that night watchman 64 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:11.599 Cronan that must have done some noise when he walked 65 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:13.759 into them and got shot. I hope he lives to 66 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.719 tell us something he's in tough shape. How about this 67 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.479 the war just like the banks have, only smaller and 68 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.280 they can also hang meat in it, not pride or 69 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:27.159 blasted or cut into just plain old fashioned tumbler work, sandpaper, 70 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:30.479 fingers and all. That wouldn't surprise me. Somebody was plenty guns, 71 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.680 not even much of a jimmy or pride too, or 72 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:35.800 feeling any just picked and fucked as nice as you pleasing. 73 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.759 Fourteen little tumblers fell back. The doors will open. I 74 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:41.560 thot that kind of thing stopped with Jimmy Valentine who 75 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:44.719 reported it. Guy named Jimmy three Struggle, our manager of 76 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.879 the fur department. Come on, he's in his office now 77 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:49.759 giving a statement. A couple of my boys. You can 78 00:03:49.759 --> 00:04:02.439 have a listening, mister Strogano. This is mister Dalla. He 79 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:04.560 represents your insurance company, oh, your. 80 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:05.919 Acquaintanship, mister Dollar. 81 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:09.400 Above all else, I am glad to make aha eighty 82 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:10.319 five men court. 83 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:13.319 While you're the three hundred thousand dollars coin of the realm. 84 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:15.840 You have a course broad check for say. 85 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:20.279 Yes, uh no, what they adjusted? Will do that, mister 86 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:23.040 strogan I'm an investigator, but don't worry you. By week, 87 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:24.079 month by month. 88 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:27.600 Fourteen years I get two works from the insurance company. 89 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:31.279 Two warns a premium Now is struggle of storm to 90 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.040 say back into warm, stay strong. 91 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:36.680 Believe me, mister stroganap Your money is waiting for you 92 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:38.680 in a vault and a bank in heart. But when 93 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:42.120 nobody can get it but you, whoa ba ba ba. 94 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:44.199 I suppose you go right on with your second mister 95 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:45.600 s we have to have it. 96 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.720 You know why is my age for men in this direction? 97 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:53.600 I answer you customer, telephone Friday, stand over mean court 98 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:57.199 right away? Sis as I send night coluncy, where's got 99 00:04:57.279 --> 00:04:59.439 to party? To breakfast next morning? 100 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:02.079 She's also wearing court. Maybe she's using. 101 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:06.759 To party Saturday and to costel Sunday all for Monday. Ah, 102 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:10.519 my husband does not like court. I'm standing back, Ship, 103 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:11.240 said me. 104 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:14.639 Real toughness to struggle. You can never tell what people 105 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:17.800 do next, I admit, strugglos can't tell. Look if you 106 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:19.680 just answer a few quick morning. 107 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:21.959 Even as I arise, pumps. 108 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.839 To me, are feeling of zooms? Yes? Yes, well about 109 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:25.920 something is going. 110 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.199 To ask bad, I said to myself. 111 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:30.800 And when I get here, no, or even before I 112 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:32.199 get here, I slip and fall. 113 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.639 No, no, even before that parking ticket for too long 114 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:37.120 past no even. 115 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:47.680 Before you went on like that for quite a while, 116 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:51.319 and the police stenographer took down every word. This whole 117 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.600 testimony typed up into twenty three so your space pages, 118 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:58.600 but only the following was of any use. Struggle arrived 119 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:01.240 at the start approximately eight four. Found the vall door 120 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:04.120 open and inside the wounded watchman Cronan. Also the mean 121 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:08.680 coach's gone stroking off notified insurance company. Stroking off notified police. 122 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:14.959 In that order, Spencer count item one dollar thirty five 123 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.360 cents for two ham sandwiches, two bottles of beer, all 124 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.800 of which I shared with Lieutenant Delaney, and stroking off stuff. 125 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.839 All kinds are heist jewels, trucks, cars, banks. But this 126 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:27.800 is the best so far, our real fourteen character double 127 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:30.439 breastday number one. Dilly, that's what it is, Donna. How 128 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.439 did they get in that? Say? They just opened it 129 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.439 up and walked in the same way you're walking your 130 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:39.160 own front door, Lieutenant. But how who's that good? Who? Well, 131 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:43.519 the creepy kids they always say he's that good. We 132 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:47.120 both know Creepy died twelve years ago Downamore and there 133 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.399 was dancing Dan Marathon, Dancing Dan. He couldn't open a 134 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:53.959 two bits padlock of he had the key? Who is good, Johnny? 135 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:58.839 Who could do it? I wish I knew. Struggle enough 136 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:00.839 is the only one in the stone. It was the combo, 137 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:04.279 the only one. But I don't know. But you aren't 138 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:06.519 taking any chances, didn't I see two of them in 139 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:09.120 Taylor mat and you ret your life? You didn't? And 140 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.279 by the way, didn't you put in a call to 141 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:13.839 your office and having checked on you ret your life? 142 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:20.319 I did cop one and all the time, tell any yeah, yeah, hi, Richie, 143 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:29.319 gonna give it to him, Yeah, all right, thanks Hospital 144 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.959 down the night Watchman Ronan died ten minutes ago without 145 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:36.199 saying a word. I was hoping he'd be able to 146 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:40.040 sell him some gaps, and he does at least one, 147 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:43.240 which one the other Watchman story about playing the radio 148 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:47.560 the part other Watchman. Now ready, Oh, I'm sorry, tell 149 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:49.399 maybe you passed him on, So tell me about him 150 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:51.600 as he shot too. No, no, no, we questioned him 151 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:54.680 first thing this morning. You see, Cronan made the rounds 152 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.839 and ready held down the office. We didn't know nothing 153 00:07:57.839 --> 00:07:59.879 about anything. Last night he was listening to his radio 154 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.240 his office downstairs. What gap does that fell, and Doc 155 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:06.199 says Cronan got it with a thirty two. It's a bit. 156 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:09.360 They don't make much noise. And a man leaning into 157 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:14.680 a radio close ready? Where can I find him? Right here? 158 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:16.480 He's waiting in the locker room. Why do you want 159 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:19.399 to talk to him? Yeah, mine, I help yourself. Donna, 160 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:25.360 thanks a dollar. Yeah, you're looking for three hundred dollars 161 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:29.120 worth a mink coats. I'm looking for a killer. Don't 162 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:32.360 be a wise guy when you do your poking around. Huh, 163 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:35.279 I'll I'll try to keep my nose clean. 164 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:45.799 Lieutenant, Yeah, Illo you already you another cop in a 165 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:51.039 way and walkway insurance investigator all like, mister insurance investigator. 166 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:53.039 Am I supposed to tell you something little tip, the 167 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:53.559 whole thing? 168 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:55.879 No, mister night watchman, You're just supposed to tell me 169 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:58.279 how things went for you last night? Wow? 170 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:01.519 At my office from ten to six, when hoe went 171 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:04.200 to bed, got picked up by two big flat footed 172 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.840 coppers at seven thirty. And here I am how things go. 173 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:09.919 To you last night? You sound a little put out, 174 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:13.159 rady or are you used to places being hoisted where 175 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:13.480 you work? 176 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:14.879 What kind of a nasty crackers that? 177 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:16.960 What'd you see in here last time, while you were 178 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.759 doing all your night watching no freight elevator moving, No, 179 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:22.879 no sounds on the stairs. No, And you didn't hear 180 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:24.480 the shots the plug cronin. No I did. 181 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:27.399 Why I sit in my office and listened to disc jockey. 182 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:29.080 Radio is liable to. 183 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:31.919 Smother a lot of noise. Wrong answers with cops like it. 184 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:35.799 I don't give me a better one. I'll have to 185 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:38.159 look for it, but I'll find it. Missus, show you'll 186 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:38.480 show you. 187 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.240 You'll never find those guys who trumped up of those 188 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:42.080 coats last night. 189 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:44.200 You sound awful sure of that. I am. 190 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:47.000 You spend all your time on someone like me, trying 191 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:48.720 to make up not enough and just to show everybody 192 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:49.440 how good y'are. 193 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:53.840 Really. If you're clean, you haven't got anything to worry about. 194 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:57.240 Maybe, but answer me this. Who's gonna say when a 195 00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:59.879 guy's clean, when he's right or wrong? A lot of 196 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.480 filing cabinets in a building somewhere, Answer the investigator? Who 197 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:13.200 knows who's gonna say? Let me alone? Just let me alone. 198 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.679 I didn't know what to make of already, but I 199 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:21.240 didn't know. I wanted to know more about him. At 200 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:23.960 the personnel office, I pulled out an application card. It 201 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:26.440 looked good enough, and then I suddenly put it back. 202 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:29.679 I had a hunch, and I headed for the Middleton 203 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:36.440 Safe Company. The presidents and chief designers the Middleton Sace 204 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:39.480 Company were standing under a blue life in the center 205 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:43.120 of a newly completed bore. He seemed lost in a 206 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:45.799 huge room of shiny, gleaning metal all around him. 207 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:48.279 At excuse me for not receiving me in my office 208 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:53.440 to inspection day is something like that. Now, this thing, this. 209 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:56.840 Is what I call the big key. The use of 210 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:57.639 the liting key. 211 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:00.919 Completed a fortnight to go for the film American Bankers. 212 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:05.080 You work on the Safe involves yourself. 213 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:07.360 The drama of it captured me. Is the youth to 214 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:11.720 compose and world and conform metal into an impregnable strunghold. 215 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:16.919 What's fascinating? Yes, yes, yes, God finds case hardened perfectly 216 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:21.559 alloid ohio steel strengthens to balla strengthen. But then I 217 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:24.840 bore you there, And now then why are we meeting? 218 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:28.519 So you can tell me something about Safe involves mister Medh. 219 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:30.039 I could say, but I'm afraid You'll have to be 220 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:30.759 more specific. 221 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:34.360 All right, tell me tell me about the kind of 222 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:37.440 vault you manufactured to the Ellwood Favorite apartments. 223 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:40.600 Still, Oh yes, yes, yes, the serve bottle. Yes, because 224 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:42.399 what precisely do you wish to know about that? 225 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:45.240 For how someone could open it without knowing the combination 226 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:49.879 with impossible occurrence? Have you read the morning papers people? 227 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:51.600 What about them? 228 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:54.000 That particular vault was opened last night and all the 229 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:54.679 furs taken? 230 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.559 It was what do you say, louted what that's impossible? 231 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:01.679 It happens. That's why I am here. This is quite 232 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:02.600 oh dmn names. 233 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.279 Of course you're want a thorough account for my organization, 234 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:07.120 of course, and I shall be glad to finish you 235 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:08.039 with any information that. 236 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:09.960 Might be helpful. I'd like to know how the combination 237 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:11.039 was that and who knows it? 238 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.320 But I'd have to know the serial numbers on that 239 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:14.200 particular bault. 240 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:15.879 Yes fridays. 241 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:19.559 Oh well, you're a very efficient man, Mistergether. So you 242 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:21.799 jotted them down, Well, let's go to my office and 243 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:24.799 look them up. No, no, no, that will be necessary 244 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:29.039 if I recognize these two D four or five precis. 245 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:33.120 Oh d D stands for Diana, and mister Dana's set 246 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:34.120 the final combination. 247 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:37.600 Mister Dana, my chief engineer for years, and who else 248 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:38.600 besides him would know it? 249 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:41.919 Myself and the person's proper authority at Elwoods. 250 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:44.919 Favor, of course, and I would be struggling on anyone 251 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:47.720 else here. I like to talking with the Dana. 252 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:54.159 Then, well, I'm afraid that's quite impossible. Oh, Albert Dinna 253 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:56.519 has been dead for seven years. 254 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:01.960 Up to and including that point, I had a whole 255 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:03.639 lot of nothing to go on. But by the time 256 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:05.840 I got back to Boylston Street, heading from my hotel, 257 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:08.919 things began to happen. A police car pulled up at 258 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:10.559 the curb and a familiar steps are on top of 259 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:13.440 a familiar head leaned out of the window. Are you yeah, Hello, 260 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:18.559 I might get you. I thought you might be interested 261 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:20.720 in a guy? What guy? You know? When we found 262 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:22.960 floating down the Charles River an hour ago? Who did? 263 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:25.480 I don't know, But it looks like he's got the 264 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:29.360 same enemies as a night watchman named Crawling. Huh. Yeah, 265 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:31.720 there were two thirty two slugs in him. We wouldn't 266 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:33.519 have picked it so fast, only that the second pair 267 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:36.600 bensloballistics in one day, and they match like your two 268 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:39.120 front seats. The same gun killed the night Watchman and 269 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:39.840 the Guy in the River. 270 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:54.639 In just a moment, we will return to the second 271 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:57.799 act of Johnny Dollar. But first, it's a family night 272 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:00.759 on the Bing Crosby Show again This Wednesday. Brother Bob 273 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.360 and Being's son Gary already have scored with the Groaner 274 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.320 this month, and Tomorrow night being fourteen year old twins 275 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:08.960 Philip and Dennis make their debut as a guest team. 276 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:10.600 You'll hear the kids trying to. 277 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:13.080 Sell Dad a membership in the Bing Crosby Fan Club, 278 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:16.000 a scheme that backfires, and you'll hear some rare and 279 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:19.200 wonderful scenes. CBS cordially invites you to hear The Bing 280 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.559 Crosby Show this Wednesday and every Wednesday over most of 281 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:28.720 these same CBS stations. Now with our star Edmund O'Brien, 282 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:32.480 we returned to the second act of Yours Truly Johnny Dollan. 283 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:43.960 I spent half the night at the City Morgue and 284 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:47.480 police headquarters Lieutenant Delaney examining the body they found in 285 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:49.919 the Charles River and trying to identify him. All the 286 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:51.960 labels were ripped out of his clothes and the laundry 287 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:54.080 marks are cut off. We were left with just his 288 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:58.159 physical characteristics and fingerprints. The mug file didn't duplicate him, 289 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.000 and the Prince didn't check with anything intil so they 290 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.679 sent them to the FDI in Washington. I got to 291 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:05.639 my hotel at four am to get some sleep, and 292 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:07.879 I got it three of the shortest hours work I 293 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:14.080 ever had. Dolla. Oh, tell her when he comes in? 294 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:14.840 Is that Bonner? 295 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:16.279 Johnny? How would you like to be fired? 296 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:21.240 Oh? Yeah, mister Bonner, sir? What can I do for you? 297 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:23.279 Turn up with any five minue coats? What have you 298 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:24.679 been doing since yesterday's sleeping? 299 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.960 Uh? Bonner, I've I've run my legs down to my knees. Honest, 300 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:31.320 I've been trying to find out something anything. I've peaked 301 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:34.039 into so many corners. I've I've got television eyes, and. 302 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:36.320 I've got a weak hard. Unless we find those first 303 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:38.120 twenty four hours, we have to pay off el. What 304 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:40.000 favors three hundred thousand dollars? 305 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:41.559 Well, what are you gonna do? Take it out of 306 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:42.600 my page? We have to. 307 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:44.679 We'll start by selling your money to a medical school, 308 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.039 play Johnny do or something? 309 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:51.360 Oh, Bonner? What that would say? The financial position. 310 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:53.320 Triple A couldn't be better. They wouldn't steal him. 311 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:55.679 I about the firm, man Strogan ass He's always had 312 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:59.159 money family. All right, bonner, I'll keep after it. I'll 313 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:00.480 tell you when I get Johnny. 314 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:02.559 Don't take my shouting personally, but this is a big one. 315 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:03.519 Give it everything you got. 316 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:11.039 I lost myself. I can out of bed, take a shower, 317 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:13.360 and get my clothes on. I started for the door, 318 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:15.080 and I had no idea where I was going. 319 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:16.559 Aha, mister dollar. 320 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:18.600 When somebody did my thinking for me to. 321 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:21.480 See you personally, I struggen off my astro the l 322 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:23.320 would say, but for the department. 323 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:25.360 Every years, do you have any news? News? 324 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:29.279 Every paper in the country should hit twice, Never in 325 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.360 my thirty years. But Association did that foul little beat 326 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:34.759 with me as anything like this happened. 327 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:35.759 What happened? 328 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:36.799 You wouldn't believe me. 329 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.919 Look, I'm pretty gullible. Well it's incredible. I don't blame 330 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.279 you for not believing. Oh, we're gonna keep up this game. 331 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.720 And he had health. Don't get happy if it's stroggen off. 332 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:47.399 I will tell you this morning. 333 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:50.200 Raped in dirty card goes back is arriving at before 334 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:50.799 the department. 335 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:56.919 Guess what a mean court? Incredible it's incredible. Indeed, you 336 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.240 mean one of the coats was returned by mayl right, 337 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:02.960 I don't know that's that's encouraging. I am not old Joyce. 338 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:04.920 You're still on me for eighty. 339 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:05.599 Four courts. 340 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.440 Item one cent for cab fair to Hellward Favors. It 341 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:16.880 didn't make any sense that the men or a man 342 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:19.519 who permitted murder to make the height would return anything. 343 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:22.519 But one code had come back. And in the pocket 344 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:25.599 I found a small piece of flick cardboards. It was 345 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:27.720 only a third of an inch long, but there were 346 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.480 three words on it. Country club dance. I was lucky. 347 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:33.680 The country club secretary had a guest list and one 348 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.079 name on it stuck out like the nose on Jimmy Duranty. 349 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:43.359 Patricia Reedy, Yes, oh it was ready? Yes, who names 350 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:46.319 Johnny Dollar? Your father is employed at hell With Favors me. 351 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:49.200 That's nice enough, is he he's probably? 352 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:49.559 Indeed? 353 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:50.640 May I help you? 354 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.279 I don't know anyhead. I show you at the country 355 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:57.200 club dance the other night. Oh were you there? It 356 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:01.160 couldn't keep my eyes up, Spree when you had that 357 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:01.880 coat on. 358 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:08.200 When I with this guy passed, Oh do you want Dollar? 359 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:11.079 An information? Patty will you make some coffee yourself. 360 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:17.359 Nothing I can't hand. Okay, dolla, what are you doing here? 361 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:18.319 Who asked you into my home? 362 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:20.200 My job? I can to find out about a mink 363 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.200 coat that showed up at L's favor this morning. 364 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:25.000 Okay, let's go out in the hall and talk. 365 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:30.160 Okay, all right, ready, let's hear it. 366 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:31.759 I don't go into a long song and dance. 367 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:34.319 I'll tell you everything just the way it will, and 368 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:36.599 I'd be real interested. The way I figured it, you 369 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.599 helped in the theft, maybe even killed Cronan. You kept 370 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:41.119 one of the coats, but you got scared you might 371 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:43.640 be caught with it, so you send it back your daughter. 372 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:45.079 Let the dance take it in the punt. 373 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:48.680 All right, here's the story, right down the line. I 374 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:49.680 didn't help in the height. 375 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:51.599 I had nothing to do with this. I didn't even 376 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:52.799 know what was happening. My guy told you. 377 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:54.480 I was in my office listening the radio. 378 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:58.799 Tell me ready, I have been arrested. Dollar. 379 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:00.960 You're smart enough to end it out sooner or later. 380 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:02.599 I serve time. 381 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:04.359 Sure you might as well know. 382 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:05.000 Lots of it. 383 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:08.319 Elwood Savor would be interested to know a trusted watchman 384 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:09.119 to serve time. 385 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.920 Or what to expect me to do when I got out, 386 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:14.160 cut up and die, I got to live too. I'm 387 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:19.880 straight now, I well almost. I had a wife, a kid, 388 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.200 A wife died, and seeing the kid in there thirteen 389 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:25.400 years of her life, she had nothing. But now I'm 390 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:27.279 trying to make up for that. Everything I do is 391 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:28.000 for her, not for me. 392 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:31.920 About the coach I borrowed, all the safe was locked 393 00:19:31.960 --> 00:19:32.440 up for the night. 394 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:36.240 I've been borrowing stuff right along. Whenever my kid needed anything, 395 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:39.599 I always return them in good shape. Told Pat they 396 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:40.160 let me do it. 397 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:41.000 She don't know nothing. 398 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:44.440 That's kind of a strange that I don't even know 399 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:46.440 how to spell the lot of But I do know this, 400 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:48.920 that girl in Mayor has a life. I have her 401 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.559