WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:00.800 From Hollywood. 2 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:05.639 It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dollen. 3 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:08.080 A plane crash, Johnny, did you hear? 4 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:10.880 Yes, I just turned off my radio. Oh it's horrible. 5 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:11.599 Who is this? 6 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:14.279 Oh, I'm sorry, it's Sam Harris, Columbia. 7 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:17.480 Oh. Sure, does your company carry the policies on that airline? 8 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:19.120 Yes, but I'm not thinking of that. 9 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:20.359 That crash was planned. 10 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:22.559 They're definite about it now. 11 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:25.160 Yes, an explosion, some kind of a bomb. There were 12 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:27.519 thirteen people killed in the plane. They don't know how 13 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:29.920 many in the houses have crashed into We've got to 14 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:33.039 place responsibility. The company wants to do whatever it can. 15 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:35.200 We've got to find whoever is responsible. 16 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.320 Sure, mister Harris, you want me to go out, Yes, 17 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:37.679 we do. 18 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:40.880 The airline representative is a man named Reed. Go out 19 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:41.719 and do everything you. 20 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:49.799 Can O'Brien in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with 21 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:55.200 the action packed expenser car America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator. 22 00:00:54.640 --> 00:01:08.200 Yours Truly, Johnny Dallar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator 23 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:11.599 Johnny Dallar to Home Office, Columbia or Risk Insurance Company. 24 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:15.040 The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation 25 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:20.200 of the Fairway matter. The Spenser account Item one two 26 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:22.879 fifty cab fair of the scene of the plane crash, which, 27 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:25.920 as unoch covered quite a bit of territory. The Fairway 28 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:29.120 Airlines plane had taken off at eight twenty PM, had 29 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:31.359 reached an altitude of no more than a thousand feet, 30 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:34.599 and then had crashed, setting a fire two houses a 31 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:43.239 short distance from the Springfield Hartford Airport. I got there 32 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.799 a little after nine thirty. One house had been partially saved, 33 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:49.799 but the other had been completely demolished. The family of 34 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:53.000 four living in it had been killed. The parents of 35 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:55.760 one child in the first house weren't expected to live, 36 00:01:56.760 --> 00:01:59.840 and beyond twisted pieces of a plane were scattered at 37 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:03.280 a field. Fragman is still smoking and turned white by 38 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:05.439 the phone from chemical extinguisher. 39 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:17.479 Serene. Mister Carl Reen over here? 40 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:18.840 What is he? 41 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:22.280 Please and wait. 42 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.560 In your car. Will let you know as soon as 43 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:30.000 we're care. Yes, who you are from? My name is Doma, 44 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:33.680 the insurance company said insurance company. Good lord, this is 45 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:36.319 hardly the time to worry about money. I'm a private 46 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.520 investigator that hired me to help him any way I 47 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:42.560 can and pick the plane I'm sorry, I misundissitude. 48 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:42.960 I guess I. 49 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:45.560 Oh, you will have to excuse me. This is good. 50 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:47.039 Who there are some things I have to do. 51 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:52.599 Come along, mister g Gee. I just know about the explosion, 52 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:55.319 and she thinks since the chance where her daughter wasn't 53 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:58.960 on the plane she was, she was stewardous. You haven't 54 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.240 told her. I let her hope for a couple of 55 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:05.159 more hours. Why shouldn't I I've had to tell too 56 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:09.439 many people. It's it's just horrible. I think, even worse 57 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:12.439 than if it had been an accident, and you know 58 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:15.960 it was premeditated. When you know someone planned it, What 59 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:19.360 kind of person would would you have to beat it 60 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:22.400 to plan something like this. It's under believed, mister aid, 61 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:25.639 but we have proof it was an explosion in the 62 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:29.080 extreme after section that destroyed all the control cables to 63 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.919 the tailor's head. I don't suppose the Civil Aeronautics man, 64 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:34.560 as we know it was on his way as sending 65 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:38.360 one of their best s W. Newton, Captain Lenhard of 66 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:40.919 the State nieces here though. Oh, I'd like to speak 67 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:42.919 to him, and you have any idea where he is 68 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:44.599 the last time I saw him he was doubled by 69 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:49.080 that amph it's left, but to see the group of 70 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:53.520 men over by the hangar. Yeah, they collected the bodies. 71 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:57.639 There mayde as many identifications as possible. I know it's planned, 72 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.240 mister Reid, but don't you go at pieces, Hi, That 73 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:04.479 wouldn't help him. I'll be all right, help I'll see 74 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:13.960 you let out. I remembered Captain Jim Lenhard, my case 75 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.160 we shared last year, and I found him in the 76 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:20.480 group of silent man. The silence and the expressions told 77 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.040 better than words how they felt about the row of 78 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:27.439 sheet draped bodies on the ground. I was readmaking up. 79 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:29.399 I thought he was going to pieces a little while ago. 80 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:31.759 He's still in pretty bad shape. You he's not alone. 81 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:34.560 But for us anyway, Dollar, it could have been worse, 82 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:37.240 plane could have been filled. Yeah, it crossed my mind, 83 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:40.279 and you and I are thinking together, Captain, that our 84 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:43.079 approach will be to find out, if we can, which 85 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.000 victim was the planned victim. Oh, with what we have now, 86 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:48.480 I don't see any other way to start, do you. 87 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:52.439 The possibilities as I see them, a murder with a motive, 88 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:59.240 suicide disguised, or a homicidal maniac that must cover I 89 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:01.639 have men covering airport for a two mile circle around it. 90 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:04.279 Their orders are to question everybody at this spot, search 91 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:08.199 every car. It's about all we can do tonight. Now, 92 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:09.720 I'll see you in the morning. Then if it's all right, 93 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:12.639 view it sure is. Glad to heavy on the case. 94 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:16.519 I'll Mitchell in my office at nine. Good. Oh, there's 95 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:19.519 another ambulance, and get the rest of these poor devils 96 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:21.680 into the morgue. Try to find out who they are. 97 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.199 The next morning, the official findings were released. The explosive 98 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:35.120 had been nitro glycerin that had been detonated by some 99 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:38.800 electrical means, which it was assumed was connected to a 100 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:42.560 timing device that had not yet been found. Captain Lenhardt's 101 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:45.040 men had questioned the number of suspicious characters near the 102 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:48.839 airport without result, but he himself had received an anonymous 103 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:52.079 tip on a possible suspect, a Wilbo Wheeler, who was 104 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:54.439 a member of the ground crew that had serviced the 105 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:57.720 plane just before its takeoff. Wheeler was shown to the 106 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:02.120 Captain's aves about forty minutes after I'd gone. Man, why'd you. 107 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:03.680 Pick me to come up here? Why didn't you get 108 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:05.279 Straker or Mills? They're over me. 109 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:07.879 It's just routine wheeling, routine, but you must. 110 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:09.240 Have a reason. I got a right to know if 111 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:10.279 you got a reason have at. 112 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:11.800 Night, why do you think we started with you? 113 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:12.920 Well, I'm asking you. 114 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:15.279 And I said, Wieler. Can't you say you don't know 115 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:18.480 the stewardess who died in that crash? Surely good you? 116 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:22.519 I know, I know. I understand that she meant something 117 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:25.240 to him. Were you in love with her? Yes, we 118 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:27.839 understand that you made quite a pest of yourself phoning 119 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:29.759 her at home, waiting for her at the airport, and 120 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:31.399 then a week or so ago you learned she was 121 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:34.000 going to marry the co pilot who was killed. What's 122 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.720 his name, Bill Strand? Wasn't it Willna? Yeah, you're saying 123 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:40.079 that you think I caused that crash. You wanted to 124 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:41.920 know why you were here. I told you it was 125 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:44.120 just routine wheeling, and it would have been if you'd 126 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:47.120 acted differently. But it sounded as though you were trying 127 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:49.639 to hide some facts from us. I won't anymore. Don't. 128 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:50.680 I don't have any reason to? 129 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:51.560 And why did you? 130 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:54.120 I don't know. I've been going crazy since I heard 131 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:57.199 about it. Last night. I was still at the field night, 132 00:06:57.800 --> 00:06:58.519 I got sick and. 133 00:06:58.480 --> 00:06:59.879 I had to go home. Yeah, we heard about that. 134 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:03.120 I got home and I turned on my radio and 135 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:06.800 I heard what caused the crash, that explosion. I knew 136 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:08.720 that a lot of things I've said, a lot of 137 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:10.720 things I'd done were gonna make trouble for me. 138 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:13.959 Even getting sick and coming home was bad. 139 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:16.759 What were some of the other things? I said some 140 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:18.800 pretty bad things to Shirley when I heard she was 141 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:22.000 gonna marry Strand. Then I had a fight with him. 142 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:24.120 I had to fight with him over the same thing. Well, 143 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.680 I guess for me, it was really over that. He 144 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:28.920 ordered me around one day and I didn't like it, 145 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:30.040 and that's how it started. 146 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:32.319 He beat me up pretty bad and said he'd have 147 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:32.959 my job. 148 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:37.519 And I told him that I'd see the day as 149 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:40.639 playing with him in it would be plastered to get 150 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:41.199 some hill. 151 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.480 I know it sounds like na, but it didn't mean anything. 152 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:46.279 It was just talk. 153 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:50.800 There's plenty of that. Ah, you heard enough, noll And, 154 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:55.399 I think so that's all went winter, I can go. Yeah, 155 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:57.879 nobody would be stupid enough to compromise himself the way 156 00:07:57.920 --> 00:07:59.519 you did and pull a job like. 157 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.199 This, and sure made a lot of mistakes. 158 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:05.040 I know that. Yeah, just be around where we can 159 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:06.480 find you if we wanna talk to you anymore. 160 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:11.199 But I can't go back to the airport, Sir, I 161 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:12.519 was gonna call him and quit if. 162 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:14.360 Sorright, w you just be where we can find you, 163 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:19.480 That's all I will. I'm sorry. A lot of people 164 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:25.639 are Wheeler. Oh no, well, goodbye Winner, thanks for coming down. Yes, sir, 165 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:31.360 what do you think? 166 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:32.000 Uh? 167 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:34.240 The only reason I say I for get him is 168 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:36.399 because he's the first one we'd questioned, and things don't 169 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:40.679 work out that way. Yeah, Collins. Uh. The man just 170 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:45.159 leaving my office names Wheeler, Wilbur Wheeler. How two of 171 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:47.200 the boys get on him and stay all arranged? Were 172 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:51.960 leading tonight? Yeah, I think I'd like to know it's 173 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.440 in his background. I'd like to get a psychiatrist's reaction, 174 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:58.559 wouldn't you we learned about him. No, let's get on 175 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:00.639 this list of passengers and see what we can get 176 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:07.279 from their survivors. We spent the rest of the day 177 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:09.639 in the efforts of six more of Captain Lenhart's men 178 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.600 preparing files on the ten dead passengers. One file contained 179 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.080 nothing but a name Rupert Stone, gotten from the ticket 180 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:18.039 office records is that of a man who had paid 181 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:22.320 cash for space to Augusta, Maine. The heart for address 182 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.480 he had given was non existent, and the phone number 183 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:26.440 rang a bakery where no one had ever heard of 184 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:30.039 a Rupert Stone. That one we dropped until the accurate 185 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.720 identification of the bodies was complete. Lenhard and I started 186 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:35.799 out to follow up a couple of the others that evening. 187 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:47.080 This is a rock and work check. Missus Graham, Yes, 188 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:50.200 this is mister Dollar. I'm Captain Lenhart of the State Police. 189 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:52.360 We'd like to talk to you about the death of 190 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:52.840 your husband. 191 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:56.120 No, I've talked too much. 192 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.799 It only keeps in my mind the things I saw 193 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.279 in that field. The women's crying. We know, Missus Graham, 194 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:06.799 but it's our job to fix the responsibility. We only 195 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:08.559 want to ask you a few questions. You ought to 196 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:10.639 help find whoever caused all those desks if you could, 197 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:11.120 wouldn't you? 198 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:12.440 How can I have? 199 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:17.240 Man? May we come in all right, but only a 200 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:21.440 little while I haven't slept. Uh? Thank you? Well? 201 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:24.279 No, Skipper be. 202 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:31.320 Quiet, he knows poor old dog. Very soon he will 203 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:36.519 die and then I'll be alone. M Please sit down. 204 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:42.600 M thank you. Miss grant. Yeah, yeah, thank you. Uh 205 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:49.519 uh missus grahamy your husband be yes, uh well he 206 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:50.799 he bought space to Boston. 207 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.919 They yes, his brother. 208 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:58.759 Is very bad m he was a religious man. Quite 209 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:04.600 often he would go to visit his brother's grave. I see, Uh, 210 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:07.240 I I think that's all we needed. Wasn't a dollar 211 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:10.720 to to recheck his planting? Yeah? Uh yes, I I 212 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:12.519 think that was only I. I think we'd better go. 213 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.879 Weren't sorry to bothered you, missus Graham? And uh, thank 214 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.240 you very much for seeing alright, Yes, thanks very much. Oh, 215 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.159 don't bother to get up. You don't have to come 216 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:25.679 to the door with us. Good night, good night night. 217 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.960 Quiet skip her, he won't come back. 218 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:39.360 I couldn't cut it. Think that dog did it? Sorry, 219 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:44.720 don't apologize to me. How the did something happened to 220 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:47.159 be since I was a rookie, forget it. But grilling 221 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:49.120 a poor old woman to find out if her husband's 222 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:52.279 cancer might have driven him to suicide and I couldn't 223 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:56.240 go through it a whole rotten mess. Ah, he gets 224 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.840 getting it so well? Why don't we have a couple 225 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:00.480 of drinks on the way downtown to get it for 226 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.480 the night? Man or trying to That suits me, you know, 227 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.120 while's on Front Street. That's fine anything, So let's go. 228 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:08.440 Then I'll hold him from there and have columns check 229 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:09.039 me off duty. 230 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.039 Yeah, oh you praised to leave. 231 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:23.679 No, he had a phone. I'll catch you. 232 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:27.200 Dollar sixty shirt, thanks, keep it, thank you. 233 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:29.799 Oh here come, I'll wreck up dollar. I guess I'll 234 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:32.639 have to waste mine because it seems I'm not off duty. 235 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:35.200 What happened. I'll go back to that stewardess again. The 236 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:38.080 explosive has been checked to her equipment. The lab men 237 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:40.440 say some twisted battle lay found used to be our 238 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:42.919 first aid box. I think it was in there. And 239 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:46.360 brings Wilbo Wheeler back again too, and he's been picked 240 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.480 up right now. I don't think I need this drink 241 00:12:48.519 --> 00:13:04.000 to get through a session with him. 242 00:13:04.039 --> 00:13:06.360 We will return you to the second act of yours, truly, 243 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:10.279 Johnny Dollar. In Just a Moment, Lee Tracy plays his 244 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:14.799 rollicking screen role of Hildy Johnson newspaperman in Hecton MacArthur's 245 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:19.840 perennial comedy The Front Page tomorrow night on CBS Broadway Playhouse. 246 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:23.399 It's an all fun cast headed by Lee Tracy as 247 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:27.879 Chicago's Hecton MacArthur farce about crime reporters comes to life 248 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:32.759 once again on Broadway Playhouse tomorrow night, over most of 249 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:40.919 these same CBS stations. Now, with our star Edmond O'Brien, 250 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:43.720 we return you to the second act of yours, truly, 251 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:45.120 Johnny Dollar. 252 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:03.720 Not necessarily were not necessarily? 253 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:04.639 Well, I heard you do. 254 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:08.320 Did you locate Carl Reibeller? Yeah, he was at home. Well, 255 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.320 a guy's been under doctor's camp that I think I 256 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:13.759 got what we need. I YouTube been getting along. We'll 257 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.200 have just got here. We were covering the point of 258 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:17.799 whether or not I have a rife of have him 259 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:18.559 brought down here? 260 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:19.440 Maybe I'm wrong? 261 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:23.320 You are? Didn't you want to come wilden? I guess 262 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:25.039 I don't like the idea of being poured into a 263 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:27.039 police car twice in one day, with everybody in the 264 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:29.000 block gawking at me. A lot of people have been 265 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:31.240 loaded into police cars today, wheer they were glad to 266 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:32.879 come in and do anything they could to help clear 267 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:33.480 this thing up. 268 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:36.080 I want to help too. I didn't mean it that way. 269 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:38.759 Glad to hear that. How long have you worked for 270 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:39.720 the Fairway Airline? 271 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:41.279 About a year and a half, I. 272 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:42.320 Guess what'd you do before that? 273 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:44.919 What do you mean? You still think I had something 274 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:46.559 to do with that crash? That's what you mean it. 275 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:50.240 We'd like to find out who did, wouldn't you? But 276 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:52.159 you think I did it and I didn't. I told 277 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:53.919 you I didn't, even you said I didn't. And it 278 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:55.960 sounds like you've got nothing to worry about, So calm 279 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:57.159 down and answer our question. 280 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.480 I want to know why you're asking questions like that. 281 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:00.360 Why did you bring me. 282 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:03.200 Back here because some new evidence has turned up? That's why? 283 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:05.840 What does that have to do with me? 284 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:08.600 It has to do with Shirley Goodie. I don't know 285 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:10.759 what you mean. I don't know what you're talking about. 286 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:12.720 I told you everything there was about her and me. 287 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:14.440 Did you know that she carried a first aid kid 288 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:15.559 about the plane last night? 289 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:17.600 First aid kid? I don't know what you mean. 290 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.799 You don't after working there a year and a half, 291 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:21.039 What did you do on the plane? 292 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:24.480 Brought food on, checked the water and a few. 293 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:26.840 Other things things that the stewardess would be involved, and 294 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:28.720 she'd be there with you, wouldn't she. Yeah, but I 295 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:30.879 don't know what you're driving and I don't know what 296 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:33.279 you mean in the back part of the plane. Yes, 297 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:36.159 Shirley was there and you were there last night. Yeah, 298 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:38.279 but where did she put a first aid kid wheeler? 299 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:39.879 Why do you ask me that? 300 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:43.399 I don't remember. I didn't notice they had a place 301 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:46.039 they kept it, but I didn't know it. I don't 302 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:49.720 know I was in it. If I know what you meant, 303 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.440 I don't know why you're asking me these I talked 304 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.320 to mister Reid, so I know about these things. Fairways 305 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:58.080 non scheduled, and so they have their own particular routines. 306 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:00.440 One of them is that this first DAI kid is 307 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.759 the stewardess's responsibility. Each one is a kit. They take 308 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:05.159 it off the plane when they leave, and they bring 309 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:06.600 it aboard when they report for work. 310 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:08.120 I don't know what you're talking about. 311 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.440 The explosive wheeler, the nitroglycerin that was hidden in that 312 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.320 first aid kit, I didn't put it there, that's what 313 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:14.759 you mean. 314 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:17.120 But I didn't know it. I didn't know anything. 315 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:19.519 About it enough explosive to tear off the whole tailor side. 316 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:20.080 I didn't know. 317 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:22.840 I didn't thirteen people in that plane wheel are four 318 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:25.159 people in One of the houses had crashed into probably 319 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:28.840 two more, and the other I I didn't do it. 320 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:40.519 Wilbert Wheeler was turned over to the police psychiatrist because 321 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:42.679 we couldn't get any father with him, and a lie 322 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:46.200 detected test was arranged for the following morning. The web 323 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:49.320 that was tightening around him was only circumstantial, and the 324 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.960 question was did he know that he could keep on 325 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:54.240 saying he hadn't done it and that we couldn't do 326 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:58.720 anything without physical proof, or was he innocent. Our last 327 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:01.039 move that night was to go to whel room. We 328 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:03.000 were looking for a wire that could be checked to 329 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.079 that used with the explosive. We couldn't find that or 330 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:08.960 anything else that could be a definite help, but a 331 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:12.960 couple of things we didn't find seemed strange. Hey, he 332 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.519 said he came home and turned on his radio, But 333 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:17.599 there isn't a radio here. Maybe we've got him on 334 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:22.599 a real line, then, h newspapers land hard? Can you 335 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:28.680 find any I hadn't noticed? Oh, are any? Unless he's 336 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:32.880 got him out of site someway? Why would he do that? Hum, 337 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:36.839 I'm in the waste papers to ask you. You'd think 338 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.160 a man as closely connected to this as he was 339 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:41.680 would wanna find out what the papers were saying, wouldn't 340 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:46.319 you guilty or innocent? Yeah, uh, I don't know. Dollar, 341 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:50.880 I'm bushed. Let's drop it for the night, hunt really, uh, 342 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:53.559 we'll try him again tomorrow. I'll drop you at home 343 00:17:53.599 --> 00:18:01.759 and see about a mile in the morning. The next morning, 344 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.599 Lenhard and I talked to the psychiatrist spend a couple 345 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:07.960 of hours with Wheeler. In technical terms, what he said 346 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:11.480 was that Wheeler was definitely suffering from a severe guilt complex. 347 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:14.400 But whether that meant he had actually committed the crime 348 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.279 or had only wished secretly that harm would come to 349 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:20.640 his goodhue wasn't clear yet. In terms of evidence, that 350 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:23.720 meant nothing. The lack of a radio or newspapers in 351 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:27.039 his room. The doctor tossed off his meaning merely that 352 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:30.519 Wheeler was hiding from actuality. His captain put it, if 353 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.599 that doctor thinks he helped my metal condition, he's wrong. 354 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:42.200 That afternoon, there were two developments. The first one was 355 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:44.799 the report that the results of Wilbert Wheeler's light detector 356 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:47.720 test were negative, but his reactions put the mark of 357 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:50.839 guilt all over him. The second came from the Fairway 358 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:54.359 office of Carl Reid. He'd been unable to locate another 359 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:57.480 of his stewardesses, and when finally he'd sent someone to 360 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:05.880 our apartment, she'd been found shot to death. We met 361 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:07.640 mister Reid at the scene of the second crime. I 362 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:11.079 I simply had to get back in the job today. Right, 363 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.119 Two of our flights were delayed yesterday because it might 364 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:17.720 going to pieces. I don't know if I make it easy. 365 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:19.839 You trying to phone this girl and tell her to 366 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:21.920 reproach to one of your flights, and when you send 367 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:25.039 somebody out here, she was found dead. Right. Yes, I 368 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:28.200 hadn't tried to contact Alice before because I knew that 369 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:31.720 she and Missus Goodview had been close friends, and I 370 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:37.079 knew she must have felt almost responsible for her death. Why, 371 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:40.279 mister Red, Why sh she was scheduled for the flight 372 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:42.640 the other night? I thought you knew that. No, we didn't. 373 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:44.839 I wish we had. But I told you that that 374 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:46.759 night that at the same of the crash, I was 375 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:49.039 talking to her mother and Missus Goodhughes. Yes, I remember that. 376 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:50.680 You you said she thought there was a chance that 377 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:52.839 her daughter wasn't on the plane. I told you the 378 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:55.559 other girl was scheduled. No, mister read No, you made 379 00:19:55.599 --> 00:19:57.640 it sound like Missus Goodhu thought her daughter was on 380 00:19:57.759 --> 00:20:01.000 a different flight. You didn't say anything out another steward's 381 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:03.440 good lawd it's all right, it's all right, mister Reid. 382 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:05.920 The human mind doesn't then follow us, but it can 383 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:08.519 correct its mistakes. I'll go on and tell us now 384 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:13.480 that that's all. With everything else, I suppose it didn't 385 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:18.440 seem important. I know our procedure is less exact than 386 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.599 the larger companies. The girls often traded flights. Why did 387 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:26.880 you find out about this trade? Not until missus Goodhewe 388 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:29.279 told me that her daughter had gone to work that night. 389 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:31.519 You didn't discuss it with her? Buy any chance? Oh? 390 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:36.799 I I didn't discuss it that night. And I think 391 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:38.880 we'd better go see missus Goodiere dollar. I think so. 392 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:41.720 Sergeant Collins over there will be in charge here, mister Reid. 393 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:43.599 He may want to ask you a few more questions. 394 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:48.440 All right, Collins, I'm leaving. I'll say you at headquarter. 395 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:49.880 MM. 396 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:53.319 You know what this probably means. The case against Wheeler 397 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:57.799 is shot second Stewardess. That's a pattern. Everything we've tried 398 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:00.880 to do is more than nothing. Circumstance gelebt and sometimes 399 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:04.400 does that. But we were close. We settled on a 400 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:08.599 stewardess anyway as the intended victim. But it doesn't help 401 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:10.680