WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.000 I'm now for Edmund O'Brien. 2 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:05.599 As yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 3 00:00:12.439 --> 00:00:16.359 Edmund O'Briens towering in another adventure of America's fabulous freelance 4 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:21.399 insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. At insurance Investigation, Johnny Dollar. 5 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:24.440 Is only an expert at making out his expense account, 6 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:32.320 He's an absolute genius. 7 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:42.920 Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the 8 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:46.719 Great Collidian Life Insurance Company, The following is an accounting 9 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:50.759 of my expenditures during the investigation of the circumstances surrounding 10 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:55.000 the murder of your policyholder, Loyal B. Martin. Or how 11 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:59.399 to take a vacation in Fairfield County expense account adam 12 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:03.880 one three dollars and twenty cents smileage from up Connecticut 13 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:10.280 to the country, a state of the deceased. I drove 14 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:13.840 up a long cement driveway towards a mausoleum tight manor house. 15 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:17.840 There were rolling green lawns liberally sprinkled with statuary, and 16 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:20.040 the thought occurred to me that if he had spent 17 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:22.599 much of his life here, the late mister Martin was 18 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:40.879 most fortunate. He feels right at home in a cemetery. Yes, 19 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:43.280 my name is Dollar. I'm here to see missus Martin. 20 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.400 Oh, yeah, missus Martin. 21 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:50.799 I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you. The widow has 22 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:53.319 gone shopping the day after the death of her husband. 23 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:55.879 Something attractive in mourning clothes. 24 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.640 I'm sure. Well, what time is she expected back? 25 00:01:58.719 --> 00:01:59.560 I have no idea. 26 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:03.640 It shouldn't be long. Do you mind if I come 27 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:04.079 in and wait? 28 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.400 You'll forgive my asking, young man, But just what is 29 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:09.039 your business here at Loyal Haven? 30 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:11.400 I was sent here by an insurance company. 31 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:14.680 Oh, why then you come in. 32 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:17.240 Here? 33 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:22.639 Right in here, I'm missus Tompkins keeping mister Dollar. 34 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:26.000 I was with mister Martin for over thirty years. 35 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:29.800 He was a wonderful man. The furniture also looks like 36 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:32.680 it might have been with mister Martin for over thirty years. Victorian, 37 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:33.120 isn't it? 38 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:34.159 Yeah? 39 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:40.039 Pure loyal mister Martin, that is was an expert on 40 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:41.080 the Victorian period. 41 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.400 Please thank you, mister Dollar. 42 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:47.639 I suppose you'll think it's him delicate in me at 43 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:48.039 this time? 44 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:53.080 That about Loyals Insurance, his policies. 45 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:55.439 Did they Yes, miss Tompkins, they did. One of his 46 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:58.719 policies leaves you a nice sizeable amount but before you 47 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:01.280 start counting it, maybe you and I had better have 48 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:04.400 a little understanding. Yeah, well, I'm not here to represent 49 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:09.319 the payoff department. I'm here to investigate the murder. Oh well, 50 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:12.560 I see, Yes, Before the company pays off, they want 51 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.199 to make sure that among the beneficiaries, they don't pay 52 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:18.120 off the murder, because they really don't have to do that. 53 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:21.439 I didn't realize, and either do a lot of people. 54 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:23.680 You know, it's the way quite a few good murders 55 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:24.199 are wasted. 56 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:26.960 Yeah, I suppose you're right. 57 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:30.919 Well, that's what you're here for. 58 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.960 I suppose you want to talk to the police. The 59 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:35.840 tenant Marquet is in the library. 60 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:42.800 That's where it happened. Oh, library, Well that might help. 61 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.599 If I can't find any other answers, I can always 62 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.960 try looking some up in a book. Which way do 63 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.840 I go? Oh? The door just across the hall, thank you? 64 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:56.919 And waterhole. The only thing missing was old Queen Victoria herself, 65 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:59.840 even the musty odor clinging to the green bell that 66 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.919 seem to have been passed down through the centuries. There 67 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:05.360 was a brace of more eaten pheasants on the wall, 68 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:07.680 and a bouquet of more eaten flowers on the glass 69 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:11.120 on a marble top side table. The library was the same, 70 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:13.960 but there were three things that looked out of place. 71 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:17.839 He an old suit of armor, b a glass case 72 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.759 filled with new, well polished sporting rifles and shotguns. And 73 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:26.040 see a very gruff looking lieutenant of the police who 74 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.199 wired me as I came in. And who are you? Oh? 75 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:32.879 Here, here's my little breath saverer. Yeah, Johnny Dollar. They 76 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:35.759 told me you'd be here. Well, I've told everybody else. 77 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:38.279 I better tell you. Don't touch anything. They want to 78 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.720 re fingerprint the whole room. Okay, okay, what'd your find, 79 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:44.680 Lieutenant Nathan? But the cadaver with two bullet holes in 80 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:47.720 his back? Haven't got a caliber report from ballistics yet? 81 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:49.639 Have you an estimated time of departure? 82 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:53.120 And the corner, says Martin Dianed after dinner last night. 83 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:55.720 Uh huh, anything to go on? 84 00:04:55.879 --> 00:05:00.920 Yes, the usual faith, hope and suspicion. Wife too young 85 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.240 and too pretty for an ugly old buck like Martin 86 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.600 mister married him for his money. Then there's that housekeeper, 87 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:09.079 Sarah Tompkins. Yeah, I met her on the way in, 88 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.560 and she used to be the old man's intended From 89 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:14.600 what I can find, out, probably jealous of the young wife. 90 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:16.120 Then there's the brother Mary. 91 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:19.480 He showed up a few weeks ago, broken brooding, probably 92 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:22.680 in love with the young wife. And then there's Nick Bladdie, 93 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:26.079 a private detective wired himself out as Martin's bodyguard. 94 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:29.199 Bodyguard eh, no doubt, also in love with the young wife. 95 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:31.680 Let be who's your choice? 96 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:34.279 Except for the fact that there are only two bullets, 97 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:36.199 I think they all did it. 98 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:47.839 The nodes through which Lieutenant Mark would talk was a 99 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:50.480 long one, and in more ways than one, a horn 100 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:53.199 of plenty. For out of that had pought enough motives 101 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:57.000 and suspects to furnish a dozen murders. I started through 102 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:59.680 this cast of characters and found that all of them 103 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:01.720 had been very little to say and didn't want to 104 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.399 say it. The first I dug up was the bodyguard, 105 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:07.279 my brother, investigator Nick Bollatti, as he returned from a 106 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:08.160 horseback ride. 107 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.079 I had to have you on the case, Dolla. The 108 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:13.720 police have tied my hands. They told me to stay 109 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:15.000 out of it, but to stick around. 110 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:16.319 You got any ideas. 111 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:19.199 Everybody seems to think it was an inside job, that 112 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:20.560 somebody in the household did it. 113 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:23.160 I'm not so sure the reason I was around. 114 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:25.759 Was because old man Martin made too many dollars and 115 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.920 too many enemies doing it. But that's only my opinion. 116 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:32.000 Why don't you talk to the old boy's younger brother, Marty. 117 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.680 I found Marty living the life of Riley. He was 118 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:42.120 upstairs in his room, cuddled up to a twenty year 119 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.720 old bottle of brandy, which was still under age to 120 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:46.720 be around. The kind of book he was reading. 121 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:50.240 Yeah, I'll tell you something, Doller. My brother and I 122 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:53.279 I never did get along. You'd find that out anyway. 123 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.240 Why'd you come back here, Marty? Because Loyal's little bride, 124 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:59.120 Joanne sent for me. She was afraid of him and 125 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:01.319 she didn't know if he was on to her. Was 126 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.759 he about that? You'll have to talk to joy Anne. 127 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:13.360 Joyanne didn't get home until three o'clock in the afternoon. 128 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:16.000 I caught up with her twenty minutes later as she 129 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:18.959 came dripping out of the swimming pool. The suit she 130 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:21.360 was wearing would have gotten her pinched on the river. 131 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:23.439 Er. Oh, that was refreshing. 132 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:28.160 It certainly is talked me that tall? Eh? Surely here 133 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:32.560 missus Martin joy Anne? I hate for malady. Who are you? 134 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:35.319 I'm from the insurance company here to find out whether 135 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.839 you killed your husband or not. Oh good for you, 136 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:38.519 mister Dolla. 137 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:39.240 That's what I like. 138 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:42.720 Men who get right down to the point. I was 139 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:46.120 told you were here. Oh nobody told me about you. 140 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:47.720 Come on over and learn. 141 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:49.360 I want to stretch out here in the sun. 142 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:52.480 Here you man, the flieswater? 143 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:58.560 Okay, close here beside me, it gets too warm. Slip 144 00:07:58.560 --> 00:07:59.160 off his shirt. 145 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:03.560 Thank you. Well, I suppose we start talking business. Marty 146 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:05.600 tells me you sent for him to come here because 147 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.959 you were afraid of your husband. I'll come well. 148 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.120 I knew Marty before I knew Loyal. As a matter 149 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:15.879 of fact, he's the one who introduced me to what 150 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:17.560 do you call a dead husband? 151 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:20.720 You call him unlucky? I guess anyway, for the purposes 152 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:22.959 of this conversation, I'll know who you mean if you 153 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:26.879 just say husband. But you didn't answer my question. I meant, 154 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:30.399 were you afraid of your spouse? And if so, why, Yes, 155 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:32.840 I was afraid of him. 156 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:35.039 I might as well tell him, mister dollar, I want 157 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:38.639 to be frank with you. The only thing Loyal didn't 158 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:41.639 have to offer me was love. I seem to be 159 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:46.399 a girl who needs just that. Frankly, I tried to 160 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.759 make up the deficit. Missus Tompkins, the housekeeper, saw to 161 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.360 it that my husband found out about it. From then 162 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:59.799 on it would like living with a madman. So end 163 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:04.960 my confession, So beginne with my suspicions. What about this 164 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:08.440 housekeeper till I came along, she always thought that Loyal 165 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:09.720 would wind up marrying her. 166 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:12.480 No, don't get me wrong. 167 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:16.000 I realized that I'm still the best jury data round. 168 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.159 If you kill him, you might make some headway with 169 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:23.120 a self defense plea thanks. I remember that. 170 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:27.879 In the meantime, just in case this thing gets messy 171 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:31.600 for me and it shows signs. I'm going to spend 172 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:34.440 what's left of my free time enjoying myself. 173 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:36.519 Well, that won't sound good to a jury, but it 174 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.240 sounds good to me. I haven't spend too much time 175 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:43.000 around here. I might wind up having to plead self 176 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:48.879 defense myself. Ah from me, No, I'm not bathing s. 177 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:56.360 I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to keep 178 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:59.440 two eyes on four people reading from left to right. 179 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:02.279 Brother Marty stayed in his room, finishing his book, and 180 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:06.039 his brandy Nick Bollati, the bodyguard with nobody the god 181 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:08.519 got back on his horse and canned it off into 182 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:11.879 the sunset. The joyous widow joy Anne locked herself in 183 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:14.399 her room, and all I could get through the keyhole 184 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.960 was the sound of a light and lovely snort. I 185 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.639 couldn't tell whether it was the genuine article or not. 186 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:23.720 Having no way of checking, I picked up the trail 187 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:27.559 of Sarah Tompkins, the housekeeper. She at least was apparently 188 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.279 up to no good. I found her in the library 189 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:32.600 doing just what Lieutenant Mark would have told her not 190 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:35.840 to do, smearing the surfaces of mister Martin's desk with 191 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:38.840 a dust rag. And as anybody knows, you can't fingerprint 192 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:40.519 a dust rag. Hey, cut it. 193 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:44.080 Out, mister Martin's private study. 194 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:47.120 Those are the police private fingerprints. You're messing up. 195 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:50.639 I was doing nothing of the sort from ducking his desk. 196 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:53.120 I always do it at this time of day. Get 197 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:54.399 out of here, you don't belong in here. 198 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:55.960 Keep your wig on, miss Hampkins. 199 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:56.919 I'll not be. 200 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:00.000 Told what to do by outsiders. Everything was all right 201 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:03.480 until outsiders started coming in. If it wasn't for outsider's 202 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.159 loyal it's still be alive. First tet Girl, then his brother, 203 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.240 and that detective not the police. 204 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:11.679 And you Why did any of you have to come here? 205 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:13.600 Why couldn't you leave us alone? 206 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:16.639 I'll calm down, missus Tompkins. Trying to calm down, And 207 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:20.759 now what's going on in here? One? Oh? And what 208 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:23.960 do you too, love birds up to? It's all right, lieutenant. 209 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:24.679 I'll tell you about it. 210 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:27.559 Later, all right, But get her out of here. I've 211 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:30.279 got him looking to do privately. Take it down to 212 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:31.399 her room and ain't come back. 213 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.159 You mean you got something hot? It ain't cold, okay, 214 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.000 Missus Tompkins. Come on, but I. 215 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:37.960 Haven't finished in there. 216 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:40.080 Come on, you can get it later. It's just time 217 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:41.679 for you to take a little rest before dinner. 218 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:43.559 But I never rested time of day. 219 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:45.080 He didn't like me too. 220 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:49.759 Missus Tompkins. Come on, tell me really, why were you 221 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:53.039 wiping off that desk? Those police this morning? 222 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:57.240 Scattered white powder all over his desk. He would have 223 00:11:57.279 --> 00:11:59.120 been furious with me. He hated any coming. 224 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:05.960 The shots had come from the library, and that's where 225 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:08.320 I went, but not fast enough. By the time I 226 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:11.480 got there, Lieutenant Mackwood was dead, and whoever had done 227 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:15.240 the shooting was gone, apparently through an open window. Mockwood 228 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:17.320 still clutched the shotgun he'd grabbed out of the gun 229 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:20.960 case but hadn't had a chance to use. Two things 230 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:24.720 had just died in that room, the Lieutenant and a 231 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.279 hot piece of evidence he'd never had the chance to 232 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:28.200 pass on to me. 233 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:43.279 In just a moment, we returned to the second act 234 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:46.679 of Johnny Dollar. But first, the cream of the wit 235 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:49.159 and the best of the music which Arthur Godfrey brings 236 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:51.759 you in the daytime on CBS, can now be heard 237 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:55.399 on Godfrey's Digest, a new Saturday evening show heard on 238 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:59.200 most of these same CBS stations. Listen tomorrow night and 239 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.559 here the weeks fastest flashes of the Godfrey Humor, the 240 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:06.000 top song sung by Jeanette Davis and Bill Lawrence, the 241 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:10.519 finest singing of the Mariners. Arthur Godfrey's Digest and the 242 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:14.399 Goldbergs are the latest addition to CBS's great Saturday Nights. 243 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:18.600 Now with our star Edmund O'Brien, we returned to the 244 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:21.240 second act of Yours truly Johnny Dollar. 245 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:40.120 Hey, oh Mark, what, Yeah, he's dead? Oh what are 246 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:42.600 you doing? Sala? I'm looking for what there seems to 247 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:45.639 be a shortage of around here. Blatti clues you don't 248 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:46.759 mind where you look? Do you? 249 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:50.360 Rule number one? Don't get caught frisking dem cops. 250 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:53.399 Forget about it, Billotti, will you maybe I can suffer 251 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:56.080 from laps of memory for you. Sometimes that's a deal. 252 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:59.840 Got any idea what you're looking for? No, but whatever 253 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:02.279 it was, it was important enough to get him killed. 254 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:05.600 I'd hope maybe there'd be something in his notebook, for instance, 255 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:07.759 I mean lot, oh, very little. It's a brand new book, 256 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:13.600 only one notation in it. Check totooing diameter, recheck penetration. 257 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:16.879 What do you make of that? It's too scientific for me. 258 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:20.240 I'm a skip case and divorce type detected myself. All 259 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.159 I know is you'd better put that book back in 260 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:23.279 his pocket and leave it then. 261 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.559 Yeah, I guess you're right. Nice timing, BELDI, and remember, 262 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:28.279 thanks for the loss of memory. 263 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:28.720 Get it. 264 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:30.240 What happened? What's going on? 265 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:32.080 Lieutenant? 266 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:35.759 Who did it? Dealer's choice? So far? The dealer is 267 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:36.639 the only one who knows. 268 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:41.440 First My brother, Now, Lieutenant Markwood, there'll be real trouble. 269 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:41.960 About this, Johnny. 270 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:42.759 Shall I call it? Police? 271 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:44.759 Drop the innocent access to them? I'll call it. No. 272 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.240 Maybe I better do it, Maddy. If everybody will stop 273 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:49.519 pleading not guilty by wanting to call the police. I'd 274 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:51.759 like to get a word in the police have already 275 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.519 been called. If you'll get out of here, I'd like 276 00:14:54.559 --> 00:15:06.519 to try earning my salary. If I had had longer 277 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:09.720 ears and more soulful eyes, I would have been all bloodhound, 278 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:12.159 because I could sniff out the first of the trail, 279 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:14.759 the smell of court. I told me that Lieutenant Mark 280 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:17.120 woulds killer and either ben inside the room when he 281 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:20.159 fired or just outside with the weapon pointed through the 282 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:26.159 still open window. Outside, the grass formed a deep wet 283 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.799 rug right up to the house and smothered any immediate 284 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:31.679 hopes i'd had of finding footsteps. But ten feet away 285 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:34.519 I had better luck. A ray of light from inside 286 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:38.159 spotlighted something that up like it might be a star witness. 287 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:42.120 It was a thirty two caliber avowve. I scooped it 288 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:44.519 up with my handkerchief and went back through the open 289 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:50.480 window to look it over under the light. I checked 290 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:54.519 six empty chambers and a crimson smear on the walnut grip. 291 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:58.120 And somebody was feeding me a herring. At shoe was red, 292 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:11.080 but it was in blood. It was lipstick. I'd like 293 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.720 to introduce myself. Dollar, I'm Sergeant Norn McDougall. Oh your sergeant. 294 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.120 Ah, poor Markwood, Thank the Lord. He didn't have any 295 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:18.919 wife and kids. 296 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:22.840 I'm glad to hear that cops usually do. This's one 297 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:23.639 good thing about it. 298 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:26.039 When the police officer goes, there's plenty of 'em that 299 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:27.200 lives on the fight back. 300 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:29.559 All the police in the world. You can throw in 301 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:33.159 the private ones too, Sergeant, Thanks Dollar, ma'am. Maybe a 302 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:35.480 better take your statement. Well, it won't take long. I 303 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:37.559 heard the shots from the hallway and I came back. 304 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:40.039 He was killed either from inside the room or just 305 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:42.559 outside the window. I didn't get a look at the killer, 306 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:44.919 but I found what might be the murder gun. Here 307 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:49.559 it is. I've watched that handkerchief M thirty two caliber. 308 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:51.559 How does that match up with a gun that killed 309 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:57.120 old man MARKM? Do you know same caliber? H? I 310 00:16:57.159 --> 00:16:58.840 wonder what he was doing with his shotgun? 311 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:02.279 Ain't load and Mark would knew better than the wave 312 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:04.680 a unloaded gun in the face of a full one. 313 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:09.279 Did you get anything else out of ballistic, Sergeant headache? 314 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.319 Dollar, what we got from ballistics, don't add it with 315 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:13.400 what we got from autopsy. 316 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:16.160 Well, how's that those two slugs. 317 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:18.440 Entered Martin's body a ninch and a half apart, but 318 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:21.359 according to the shallow penetration, they were fired from a 319 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:24.559 distance of three hundred yards. Do you know anybody could 320 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:26.079 do that kind of shooting with a thirty two? 321 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:29.400 That's pretty fancy shooting. Could it have been done with 322 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:31.559 a stationary mount a matter chance? 323 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:33.759 The body would have started falling after the first shot, 324 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:36.640 and you can't reaim a stationary mount that fast. 325 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:40.839 Yeah, yeah, you're right. You know, I didn't have a 326 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:42.839 chance to spend much time with Mark would before he 327 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:45.079 got it, so I don't have much to work on it. 328 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:48.400 You got anything to spare, Just a lot of routine 329 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:50.920 confusion so far. You know yourself. 330 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:52.880 Dollar, you take four witnesses, you're bound to get at 331 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:55.920 least two different stories. Two of the people that heard 332 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:57.960 the shooting when Martin got killed last night, so they 333 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.839 heard two shots. The other two say they heard one, 334 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.000 the only thing. The whole four agree honestly they didn't 335 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:04.680 see anything. 336 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:08.279 Oh that sounds familiar, Thanks anyway, sergeant. 337 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:12.799 Sure anytime, Hey, Sam, take this gun into town. Tell 338 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.559 ballistics to run it through for fingerprints and check it 339 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:16.319 against those slugs. 340 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:19.279 The Martin case. I want to report right away. I 341 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:21.839 hitched the ride with that gun into the ballistics department 342 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:24.079 while waiting for the test to be made, I asked 343 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:26.680 some questions, and I came up with a real brain buster. 344 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:30.440 Despite the fact that the penetration report said that Martin 345 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:32.759 had been shot from a distance of three hundred yards, 346 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:36.599 his skin and clothing had been tattooed with powder, indicating 347 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:40.880 the shots had been fired at close range. The tree 348 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:42.960 that little puzzler put me up would have made the 349 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:46.440 giant redwood forest look like a hedge. Then they gave 350 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:52.720 me the ballistic report. The lands and grooves scored into 351 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.000 the slugs by the revolver barrow proved that both Loyal 352 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:59.119 Martin and Lieutenant Markwood had been killed by the thirty 353 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:03.880 two caliber gun i'd picked up in the eye. No 354 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:08.680 prints on it. Registered owner, a young lady who looked 355 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:11.240 much better in a bathing suit than she'd ever look 356 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:25.839 in the electric chair. The widow Joy Anne Martin. Who 357 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:28.119 is it the heart for the Horseshow dollar? I want 358 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:28.640 to talk to you. 359 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:31.079 Oh, I'll be with you in a second. 360 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:36.000 I'm okay. First she was in the pool. Now it's 361 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:39.119 the shower. He's also in plenty of hot water. 362 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:44.200 Hi, don't pay any attention to my hair. 363 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:46.599 H don't worry, I won't. 364 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:50.039 I suppose you think it's a silly time of night 365 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:52.839 for me to be taking a shower. I thought it 366 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:54.880 might help me to get to sleep. 367 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:56.839 Well, I'm afraid I won't. 368 00:19:58.039 --> 00:20:00.720 Hi, Johnny, you were. 369 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:05.759 You were pretty careless with that gun, weren't you. Hot gun? 370 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:08.880 Oh that handy little thirty two caliber gun with a 371 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:12.119 handy little registration number engraved on it, that told the 372 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:15.079 nasty old police that you bought it six weeks ago. 373 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:19.319 Huh, My gun's right here in the drawer. I bought 374 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:21.680 it to protect myself from my husband. 375 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:27.319 Here, Johnny, Johnny, it's gone. It's real gone. It's done 376 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.000 gone and killed two men so far. And if you 377 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:32.680 can't do some fast talking and some fast proving, it 378 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:35.640 stands a good chance of shortening your pretty little life expectancy. 379 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:37.880 Somebody must have stored it. 380 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:40.759 Oh no, that's not even a down payment on the store. 381 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.240 But Johnny, there's a whole house full of people who 382 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:45.680 could have done it. Not only that, they'd they'd be 383 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:47.039 glad to get me out of the way if they 384 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:52.960 could Why well, missus Thompskin because she hates me Royle's 385 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:55.279 brother Marty, because I stand to inherit everything. 386 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:57.720 What about Nick Bollotti? Doesn't he have an extra grind? 387 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:02.839 I don't know what he could? Okay, skip it. Tell 388 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:05.640 me you remember hearing two shots being fired around here 389 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:09.400 anytime before your husband was killed, probably away from the house, 390 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:15.039 because I wanna know? Did you? Hm? You amaze me? 391 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:19.960 Yes, I did hear two shots the day before Lawyer 392 00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:24.480 was killed. I was horseback riding down by the Walnut Grove. 393 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:27.359 I remember because my horse shoed. 394 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:29.200 Well, this is coming a bit too readily to be 395 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:31.880 readily believed. But how big is that Walnut Grove? 396 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:32.839 Not very big? 397 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:35.519 Yeah? Can you spot those shots? 398 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:35.680 Ah? 399 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:36.680 A little closer? 400 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:39.839 They sounded as if they came from about the middle. 401 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.680