WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:03.080 From Hollywood. 2 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:08.119 It's time now for John Lunnon as Johnny Daller. 3 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:11.759 This is orn vance. Set me up to Austining seven 4 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:12.560 years and you'll. 5 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:20.079 Remember or in vance? Oh the Zeman case. How that 6 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:21.000 I do it a lot. 7 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:24.000 About coming out and killing you. Instead, I'm gonna do 8 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:24.440 you favor. 9 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:26.600 What's on your mind? Advance? 10 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:29.359 I did all my time, and people don't like to 11 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:32.039 hire X cons. I think maybe you and I can 12 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:33.079 work out something. 13 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:35.920 I haven't got any jobs advance, not asking for the job. 14 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.560 It sounds like double talk to me. How don't think 15 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:40.560 you've dog you'll. 16 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:41.280 Give me any routine? 17 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:42.119 Dell, I've for them all. 18 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:45.439 You can help me and make yourself some money. It's legitimate. 19 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:48.520 You say, I don't know what it's all about. 20 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:50.719 I suppose I can over and tell you. 21 00:00:52.359 --> 00:01:00.679 Okay, I'll be waiting for you, John lud In a 22 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:03.479 transcribed adventure of a man with the action packed expenser 23 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:08.799 count America's fibulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar 24 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:25.640 expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Doller to All 25 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:31.200 States Insurance Company, Wilmington, Delaware. Attention, mister Don Freed, Chief investigator. 26 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:35.200 Since your office authorized me to conduct certain inquiries based 27 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:38.680 on information supplied by oron Vance, I am billing you accordingly. 28 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:42.680 The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation 29 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:46.840 of the Baltimore matter. 30 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:50.319 Expenser count Item one two ninety five. 31 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:54.079 A phone called a prisoner dismissal board at Sing Sing Prison, 32 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:57.079 where I was informed that oron Vance had been released 33 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.439 three days before the above date. He had completed seven 34 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:03.359 years of a seven to fifteen year term for grand theft. 35 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:05.319 It was non parole release. 36 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.479 The chaplain described him as a model prisoner with a 37 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:10.680 better than average chance of remaining out of prison for 38 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:13.879 the rest of his life. For that reason, I was 39 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:15.879 willing to listen to his story when he showed up 40 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:16.520 an hour later. 41 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:25.240 Hello, Odella, you haven't changed a bit. Come on advanced. 42 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:30.199 Yeah, sure, nice. It's a nice place you get. 43 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:31.199 I like it. 44 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:35.039 Sit down, tell me what's on your mind, Della. Look, 45 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.879 don't treat me like a con even if I am one. 46 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.319 I'll sit down, I'll have a smoke with you. I'll 47 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:40.800 talk with you. 48 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:43.360 Forget the other part for a while, will you please? 49 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:45.400 Okay? 50 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:57.240 That one nice? Just everybody's doing that. My wife went 51 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:58.680 over to see you the first day I got out. 52 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:01.560 You know what what, Kitty wouldn't let me in the house. 53 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:03.800 She get me forty dollars, told me to go out 54 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:06.520 and get a decent job. Tell you she had it 55 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.400 all worked out, work hard, she said, six months. If 56 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:11.400 everything's okay and you're not in any trouble, you can 57 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:12.599 come home to me and the kids. 58 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:14.840 If not, she said, I'm gonna divorce you. 59 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:15.840 What do you want me to say? 60 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:18.000 Want you to offer me a seat, invite me to 61 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:18.520 sit out it? 62 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:19.759 Sure? 63 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:29.199 Thanks again. No thought about it a lot. If you 64 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:32.360 hadn't been out to getting me seven years ago, i'd 65 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:35.599 have had you over for dinner. Maybe we would have 66 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:36.439 been friends. 67 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:37.599 Maybe. 68 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:40.199 Look, I can't get a job and I'll have to 69 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.800 go in business for myself. I need a steak. That's 70 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:43.719 why I'm here to see you. 71 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:47.199 I talked to you maybe twenty. 72 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:49.879 Times while you were working on that Zeeman case, and 73 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:52.759 I think I got to know you. I call you 74 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:56.240 today because of what I saw of you then. 75 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:59.639 I think you're an honest man. Thanks you ever. 76 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:03.080 Hear the town A case in Bornemore Towner Loan Company 77 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:07.400 in nineteen forty six, Yeah, everybody's heard about that million 78 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:08.039 dollar theft. 79 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.400 The insurance companies still have a reward for information leading 80 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:12.280 to the arresting. 81 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:14.199 Commission was never solved. I suppose they do. 82 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:17.360 I can help you help them solve it the half 83 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:18.959 of that reward, can you. 84 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:20.759 I know two of the men. 85 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:23.600 Who did it, two of the six men. I talked 86 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:26.040 to one of them yesterday. I'll tell you who they are. 87 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:27.839 Wake and pick them up. But I want my name 88 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:28.439 out of the picture. 89 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.879 Could get fixate, yeah, probably, but I have to talk 90 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:33.040 to the police sooner or later. 91 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.959 Oh look, this is a good thing dollar and all 92 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:37.879 I'm asking is your promise to keep my name out 93 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.759 of it. Tell me how good before I make any promises. 94 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:44.360 That's fair enough. They had some of the serial numbers 95 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:47.839 on part of the take here. This is one of 96 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.959 the bills. Why don't you check it with him? Then 97 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:51.839 we'll take it from here. 98 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.920 Spencer con item too, fourteen dollars and eighty five cent 99 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:04.079 it's a long distance phone called the chief investigator, Don Freed, 100 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:07.800 All State's Insurance, who verified that the serial numbers and 101 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:10.079 the ten dollar bill or on vance had me tied 102 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:13.959 in with the townter Loan company theft. I explained the 103 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.079 information I had at hand and the source from which 104 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:19.439 it had come, leaving out any mention of names. Freed 105 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:21.519 talked with his boss and pulled me back half an 106 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.319 hour later, giving me the go ahead. 107 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:29.240 Okay, vance here in business. All right, how does it work? 108 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:31.839 You tell me who they are. I'll handle it from here. 109 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.560 I mean the money part, and we have something, you'll 110 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:37.079 get paid for it. All I've had so far is talk. 111 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:39.759 This bill could have come from anywhere. You might have 112 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:41.079 picked it up at a cigar county. 113 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:41.319 Look. 114 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:43.120 I got it from a man named Leonard Torpie. 115 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:43.959 He lives in New York. 116 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:44.720 He's one of them. 117 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:45.879 Leonard Torpie. 118 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:48.199 Yeah, I met him my second year. Asked me he 119 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:50.079 was up on an old petty theft charte. She did 120 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:52.319 eighteen months. Told me to look him up when I 121 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:55.920 got out. This part may sound crazy, but we had 122 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:58.839 a few drinks together in his place yesterday. I was 123 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.000 weeping on his shoulder out all my hard luck, and 124 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.079 he said, you think you'll got hard luck? Then he 125 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:06.199 marched me into the bedroom, showed me a stack of 126 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:09.040 money and a bureau drawer. He said he couldn't spend it, 127 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:11.639 and he gave me one of the bills. Must have 128 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:15.199 been pretty drunk out it was. I got to thinking 129 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.560 about it. Checked the bill, found out it was in 130 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.279 the town of me. I looked up the story in it, 131 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:22.759 Torpie fits the description of one of the hold up 132 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:24.040 men right down the line. 133 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:27.079 We'll see you say, you know two of them? Who's 134 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:27.560 the other one? 135 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.399 Harold King lives in Reno, Nevada, now runs a filming 136 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.160 station there. He used to come see Torpy in visiting days. 137 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:34.120 I saw him several times. 138 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:35.680 It makes you think he had a part in the town. 139 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.040 I think just what top he said while he was drunk, 140 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:40.319 and the general description of the other hole up men 141 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.120 in the story say, while Thorpe was drunk, he mentioned 142 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.879 his old partner, Harry King told me where he was living. 143 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:47.759 So for you say anything about the hold up. 144 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:50.160 No, I told you I found that part for myself. 145 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:52.319 But King is the other man, I'm sure of it. 146 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:56.240 King have a record. I don't know anything about him. Okay, 147 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:58.639 where'd he be Alphoni? 148 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:02.279 Two days? Oh? I should know something by then. 149 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.399 Remember my name's out of it. The police or anybody else. 150 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:12.399 Sure you're afraid, Yeah, I'm a stool pigeon. 151 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:14.199 Well, haven't you noticed. 152 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:22.639 I'd noticed, and I worried me, so I followed him 153 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.680 when he left my place. I was buying a package 154 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:27.839 of cigarettes at the corner drug store while he bought 155 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:31.120 the street car for downtown. I tagged along in a 156 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:33.519 taxi to the main business section, watched him get off 157 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.040 and head for the bus terminal. I bought another package 158 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:37.920 of cigarettes while he bought a one way ticket to 159 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:40.959 New York. In a half hour before departure time, I 160 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.959 telephoned a private detective friend of mine, Pete Florian. 161 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:49.839 He appeared at the bus terminal fifteen minutes later. What's 162 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:52.480 the rumble, Johnny. That man over there in a gray overcoat. 163 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:55.079 His name's ed Vance. Uh huh. 164 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:57.839 He's on his way to New York right now. Maybe 165 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:01.199 you better tag along. See that nobody killed him. Oh, 166 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:03.439 if what he told me is true, somebody might try 167 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:04.079 to do just that. 168 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:06.879 Stay close till he settle somewhere. 169 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:09.319 And she I haven't got any more to tell you, Pete, 170 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:11.959 because I'm just starting to look into it. Find out 171 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:14.160 where he's living there, and contact me at this number. 172 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:16.160 I'll let you know what to do then, all right, 173 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:21.680 anything else, don't let him out of your sight Pete 174 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:27.360 Spencer con Item three one hundred bucks retainer for private 175 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:31.240 Detective Pete Florian for explained purposes. I stayed at the 176 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:33.480 bus terminal long enough to watch Pete board the New 177 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:35.919 York bound bus and take a seat across the aisle 178 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:43.440 for more in vance Item four eight dollars and eighty 179 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:47.200 five cents Plane fair Hartford and New York. Item five 180 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:50.440 four fifty cab fair to hotel, and then the Metropolitan 181 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:54.919 Police station, where I explained my business to Lieutenant. 182 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:58.360 Randall, who gave you this tip dollan. 183 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.600 I'm afraid I can't tell you that, Lieutenant. Why not 184 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:05.759 because I promised not to disclose any names. I can 185 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:07.759 tell you that the source is a man who couldn't 186 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:10.360 possibly have had anything to do with the case since 187 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:12.080 he was in president at the time of the hold up. 188 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:15.960 But you want me to stick my neck out and 189 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.879 get up a search warrant and maybe take this word 190 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:20.480 Torpi into custody. 191 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.360 On your say, so, you have plenty to start with with. 192 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.720 That ten dollar bill should be enough for you to 193 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:25.320 look into it. 194 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:27.279 And why you looked into it? 195 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:33.440 Frankly, yes, prima facie evidence, but no name, No name 196 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:37.000 I've told you all there is no believe me. 197 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:45.519 Let's get busy. The mug folder on. 198 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:48.240 Leonard Torpey showed a balding, forty year old man with 199 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:50.000 a long record of thefton burglary. 200 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:53.440 There was no record for a Harald King, although he 201 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:56.399 was listed as an associate of Torpee's. Lieutenant. 202 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.559 Randall wired Reno authorities requesting they locate King and hold 203 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:03.440 him for part possible questioning. Once these preliminaries were accomplished, 204 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:05.120 Randall and I went out to the address or a 205 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:08.600 dvance had given me. This turned up a blank. The 206 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:11.320 landlady informed us that mister Torpey had lived there, but 207 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:19.000 it checked out the preceding morning, no forwarding address. The 208 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:22.080 good Lieutenant and I parted company outside the apartment house, 209 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.799 and I walked back to my hotel. I was going 210 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:27.440 to change clothes and grab some dinner, but the clerk 211 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:28.799 waved me over to the house phone. 212 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:36.039 A call had just come in. Johnny Dollar paid Johnny 213 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:38.279 how to go when your boy getting down at. 214 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:40.320 Trailing to a place on one hundred and fifty fifth Street. 215 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:41.519 He's got a room with a view. 216 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:45.679 He's up there now alone. You think so any visitors. 217 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.399 Oh like one out about an hour ago, might be sleeping. 218 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:50.360 What's the number six? 219 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:52.840 Eighty rumps in the back first fall? Number ten? 220 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:53.799 Who are you? 221 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:55.399 Drug store? Right across the street? 222 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:02.720 Expense account items one sixty cab fare to the drug 223 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:05.000 star where Pete Floyan was keeping a watchful eye on 224 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:08.919 my nervous informer or in vance. I found the drug store, 225 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.360 but Pete was nowhere in sight. The girl behind the 226 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.960 soda fountain recognized him by my description and said he'd 227 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:16.679 stepped out a few minutes before. I glanced up and 228 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:18.879 down the block and then spotted him standing just outside 229 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:20.639 the shadow of a street light across the street. 230 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:27.279 I walked over, Hi, Johnny, that's the room back there, 231 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:30.159 lights on. He's got a couple of visitors in there 232 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.639 with him. Showed up about five minutes ago, car taxi. 233 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:37.840 What they looked like once thin, medium sized dark suit, 234 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:41.679 the other stocky dark suit too, both in the early forties. 235 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:46.080 Chopin wears glasses. Didn't make either one. 236 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:51.879 Here, that's one of them. Let me see. Yeah, he's 237 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.120 in there. What's his name? 238 00:11:54.919 --> 00:12:08.080 Leonard Talpee? We better go in Okaya right back there? 239 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:13.960 Yeah, who's uh? Leonard torpie. That's somebody who might wanna 240 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:16.039 kill Vance. I wish I knew more about what this 241 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.720 is all about, Johnny. Yeah, I said, Oh, it's all talk, 242 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:23.600 so far better cover me. I'm over there. 243 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:34.799 Okay, okay, Oh, mister Vance. 244 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:41.639 Or in Vance, you must have the wrong number, buddy, 245 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:43.240 nobody by that name lives here. 246 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.600 Well, are you sure positive? Why don't you try the manager? 247 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:49.120 I did. He said, mister Vance had this throw and 248 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.120 he's all wet. Good night. Just a minute. 249 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:00.399 Before I went down, I heard a go up a 250 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:02.840 couple of more times, must have been six inches from 251 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:05.559 my head. My eyes couldn't see and my feet wouldn't move, 252 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:07.039 but I could hear. 253 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:11.679 There was someone very close to me, and he was dying. 254 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:18.120 Johnny, Johnny Chunny. 255 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:38.879 We'll return to yours truly, Johnny Dollar in just a moment. 256 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:44.679 Sign up enroll now join the seven million strong who 257 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:48.639 buy United States Defense bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan, 258 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:51.840 where they work The bonds you buy help keep America 259 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:56.159 strong and now Series E bonds earn more. They give 260 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:59.399 you a quicker return on your investment through the Payroll 261 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.480 Savings Plan, and you will save the sure way before 262 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:07.480 you spend so sign up invest more in United States 263 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:16.159 defense bonds. Now with our star John Lunn, we bring 264 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:33.080 you the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. I 265 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:36.399 won't talk about my operation. I had one at the 266 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:39.639 police emergency hospital. As a matter of fact, I had two. 267 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:42.559 They prodded a thirty eight slug out of my neck 268 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:45.519 and another one out of my shoulder. It was forty 269 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:47.480 eight hours before I was allowed to sit up in 270 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:52.039 bed and talk naturally enough. My first visitor was Lieutenant Randall. 271 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:57.759 He looked haggard, tired, worried. You say you hired the 272 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:02.000 street Florian. Yeah, keep an eye on arm Vance with 273 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:05.840 sure tipster. It's okay to tell it now, I suppose. 274 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:12.080 Yeah, well thanks. Florian died right there in the hall. 275 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:16.440 Four slugs dances on the floor beneath you, still hanging on. 276 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:21.879 You're giving track of all this? What about Torpie? Did 277 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:25.840 you get him? We didn't, but Thorian did. Torpy's in 278 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:29.879 the morgue. The other man got away quite a night. 279 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:36.159 Yeah, look, Donny, you're the only one who can give 280 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:36.799 me the story. 281 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:37.039 Now. 282 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:39.720 Dance isn't able to talk and won't be for another 283 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:44.159 three days. If then everybody else is dead. Or Gone. 284 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:49.600 What happened? I don't know. I didn't see anything, Lieutenant. 285 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:53.200 I was trying to push into the room past Torpeye 286 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:55.080 and the whole world caved in. 287 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:00.559 And he uh and he lied on the man who was. 288 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:05.320 With Torpy good descriptions, with no luck so far. He 289 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:08.559 hoisted a car outside a Dvance's place. He found it 290 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:12.840 two hours later, no prints on it, some blood he 291 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:18.120 might have one of Fourian slugged his him. Yeah, we 292 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:19.559 gotta land that bird. 293 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:23.320 Hey, you all right? 294 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:31.919 I felt awful, and Lieutenant Randall left me alone for 295 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:34.879 the rest of the day. At three point thirty the 296 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:38.200 following day, or Advance regained consciousness long enough to relate 297 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:41.559 what had happened. I was wheelchaired down to his bedside, 298 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:43.279 statement and clothes. 299 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:51.320 That was Harry King with Toby King flew here three 300 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:55.279 days ago, Marino. It came to my place to find 301 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:57.399 out what I'd done with a ten dollar bill. Torby 302 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:00.480 give me that when he was drunk. I told him 303 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:04.720 I spent it, but they didn't believe me. It was 304 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:06.200 King shot me. 305 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:15.960 I've got reward money coming. I'm not gonna die. 306 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:19.000 He was still hanging on two days later when I 307 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:27.400 left the hospital Spencer con item seven fourteen dollars ambulance 308 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:32.319 ride from emergency hospital to my hotel. The doctors told 309 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:34.039 me to take it easy for a month and I'd 310 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:36.920 be all right. I had a phone call a half 311 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:41.640 hour after I started to take it easy, Johnny Dollar, are. 312 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:43.680 You interested in finding Harry King? 313 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:44.519 Hos? 314 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:44.599 This? 315 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:49.599 My name's Milvi King. I'm Harry's wife. 316 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:53.400 Oh do you want him? Or don't you sure? 317 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:57.880 I'm a trash restaurant on forty second off Broadway. Can 318 00:17:57.920 --> 00:17:58.319 you meet me? 319 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:02.160 Yeah? How I know you? 320 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:04.799 You won't, but I'll know you. She's been in the 321 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:06.119 paper for the last three days. 322 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:24.640 Hello, mister Dollar, missus King. 323 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:28.480 Yes, and you look pretty weak. I feel that way 324 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:29.519 every bit a sit down. 325 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.559 The small, pretty brunette woman and the nice clothes look 326 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:36.119 like anything but the wife of a bank bandit and murderer. 327 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:39.000 She looked more like a housewife on a shopping tour 328 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:41.559 or a school teacher on a New York vacation. 329 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:45.200 I listened while she cleared up some questions I had 330 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:45.640 in mind. 331 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:49.000 There's a reward posted, isn't there for that hold up 332 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:49.640 in Baltimore? 333 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:52.279 Ten thousand dollars? Yeah? 334 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:53.960 Well, I get it if I turn Harry over to 335 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:54.440 the police. 336 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.759 Sure how much? Half? 337 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:00.920 Well, that isn't much for You've enough your husband. 338 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:04.640 They'll get him sooner or later. Missus King the other 339 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:06.279 half spoken for on. 340 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:07.279 This dvance man. 341 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:10.279 Yes, wait em, just. 342 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:13.920 Trying to figure what about you. I'll pass it up 343 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:17.440 five thousand dollars. 344 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:19.839 For Harry, providing he was tied in with the Baltimore 345 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:23.079 hold up it. That's what the insurance company's interested in. 346 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:24.200 He was in it, all right. 347 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:27.599 I want to get something else straight. What happens to me? 348 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:28.799 What do you mean? 349 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:31.000 I'm his wife know he had a part that hold 350 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:33.559 up for the last six months. I haven't said anything. 351 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:35.880 Does that make me a party to it or something? 352 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:36.559 Head? 353 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:39.279 You could have informed, but you couldn't have testified being 354 00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:39.880 his wife. 355 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:41.480 I'm a rain I don't want to spend all the 356 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:43.319 money hiring lawyers to keep me out of jail. 357 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:46.400 My company, I've covered that. Where's Harry? Oh not yet? 358 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:47.759 What now? 359 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:50.960 I better get something in writing from you, Something that 360 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:53.720 says your insurance company'll pay me the reward and give 361 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:55.160 me help if I get in any trouble. 362 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:58.319 All right, I'll talk to him this time. 363 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:01.480 I'm thinking of the future. I'm going to have one. 364 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:04.359 Once this is over, I hope so, missus. 365 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:05.960 King, I know so, mister dollar. 366 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:09.160 Did Harry have money? He couldn't spend two. 367 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:12.039 Forty five thousand dollars? 368 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:13.920 Where is it? 369 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:17.519 I can give you that when I give you, Harry, Well, 370 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:21.200 it's thought of everything I tried to Harry and a 371 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:24.160 torpie man were fools. O Lee ever got out of 372 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:26.359 it was the mark bills worthless money. 373 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:28.440 You don't happen to know who the other phone man were, 374 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:29.000 do you? 375 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:29.240 No? 376 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:33.039 I suppose that's what you'll ask Harry when you get him. 377 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:35.440 That's the idea, Poor Harry. 378 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:38.200 How long will it take you to get things arranged? 379 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:40.920 Not more than an hour. I can do it by phone. 380 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:46.759 I'll call you, okay. 381 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:50.440 I gave her a fifty second start before I left 382 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:52.720 the table and went out on the street. I was 383 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:54.640 just in time to see her climb into a cab. 384 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:56.799 I was trying to hair one to follow her when 385 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:57.759 a black coupe. 386 00:20:57.680 --> 00:20:58.559 Pulled up to the curb. 387 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:07.720 Heyst it little change? 388 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:12.359 How he feel terrible? What is this? The vance told 389 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:13.119 us it was King. 390 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:15.400 We checked the airlines and found out that Ed's wife 391 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.000 with him when he flew in from Reno. That is 392 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:19.640 missus King up there in that cab, isn't he? 393 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:20.839 That's who she said she was. 394 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:24.079 She wants to sell you were a husband for part 395 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:25.680 of that reward, doesn't she yeap? 396 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:28.599 What's the delay? She wants to make sure she'll be 397 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:33.119 handled alright. The money and all sold advance. Don't need me, 398 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:37.599 I don't mean to. It's all figures. I thought she 399 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:39.240 might try to get in touch with you for just 400 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:39.839 that reason. 401 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:41.000