WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:10.880 System presents yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The next half hour 2 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.320 has its baggage packed to take a half hour trip 3 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:19.120 with America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar at Insurance Investigation, 4 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:23.039 he is just an expert at making out his expense account. 5 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:27.039 He is an absolute genius. 6 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:32.240 Expense account submitted by Investigator Johnny Dollar to Home Office, 7 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:36.479 East Coast Underwriters, Terminal Building, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is 8 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:39.399 an accounting of my expenditures and the investigation of the 9 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:44.359 paracoffe policy for your company. Expense account Item one planefair 10 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:45.960 to Benton, Ohio. 11 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:47.039 Forty dollars four cents. 12 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:51.320 Expense account idem two planefair Benton back to Hartford forty 13 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:52.359 four cents. 14 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.439 Explanation purchased two one way tickets instead of saving money. 15 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.240 By purchasing one round trip because of a type of 16 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:02.479 case on uge really assigned. I never pressed my luck 17 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:06.079 by buying round trips. This time I was almost right. 18 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:14.280 Expense account item free campfare airport to Valley Hotel two 19 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:15.560 dollars and twenty cents. 20 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:19.200 Hip the driver gee a dollar. Usually they'll be staying 21 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.719 on the table tonight. Welcome to Warfare City. Hey, dorman, Yes, sir, 22 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:25.400 What can I do for you? 23 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:25.640 Sir? 24 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:27.319 Bring my bag and side with him? 25 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:38.280 Oh here, Donna always yes you boy. 26 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:40.879 Good easing, sir. Hello, do you have a reservation for 27 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:44.280 Johnny Dollar? Oh? Yes, mister dollars in his room. He 28 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:47.400 checked in about eight o'clock. Why I guess I ain't 29 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:50.040 done there. I used to be what room is he in? Sorry? 30 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:51.359 See, I'm not permitted to. 31 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:52.519 Tell you that I can call. 32 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.280 Oh no, never mind, only have an envelope with him. 33 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:58.120 I'd like to leave my card for this mister Dollar. Yes, 34 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:03.280 here you are, thanks, here, just pop this in his box. 35 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.159 The clerk popped the envelope the box number two oh seven. 36 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:10.280 So I popped myself into an elevator going up to room. 37 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:11.080 Two o seven. 38 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:13.599 I'd come to Benton to investigate a murder, and in 39 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:16.240 just a matter of minutes I found myself ready to 40 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:21.680 commit one. 41 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:26.879 Hey, yes, who is it a bellboy? Sir? A package 42 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:36.080 from Hartford? Just a minute? What kind of a delivery? 43 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:39.319 Come on, get up on your feet. It's safe. It 44 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:40.759 down here. I take it easy. 45 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:42.360 You must be jolly dolla. 46 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:44.520 Sometimes strangers in a hotel room can be a lot 47 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:46.280 of fun. But not one. They're men and not one. 48 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:48.199 They're using my name. What's your angle? Tell us th 49 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:50.000 and dolla. I can explain everything had better be good 50 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:50.719 and better be fast. 51 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:52.199 I didn't want to be seen waiting for you in 52 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:53.520 the lobby, and it's important. 53 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:54.800 That I talk with you before anybody else does. 54 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:55.639 That's why I'm here. 55 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:58.800 I'm Eric Barker, Oh, the defense attorney in his Cara 56 00:02:58.879 --> 00:02:59.240 coff thing. 57 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:00.000 Huh. 58 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:01.960 Well, I hope you're better at defending your client and 59 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:03.199 you are defending yourself. 60 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.000 Whether my client goes to the chair or not, unfortunately, 61 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:08.840 has nothing to do with my being a good That's 62 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:10.080 why I wanted. 63 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:10.360 To talk to you. 64 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:13.599 I suppose this is one time when the attorney won't 65 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:16.280 mind relinquishing the floor. Why don't you get up on 66 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:16.680 your feet? 67 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:19.439 Oh heys, phaps, I will. 68 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:22.719 I have no coward dollar, but if either one of. 69 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:24.199 Us is going to get any place in this case, 70 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.400 we'll have to work together. I need your help, and 71 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:30.199 I need it badly. Sorry, I do a single app Now, 72 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:33.960 don't be hasty. I can help you too. Just how 73 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:36.039 much do you know about the Paracoff murder? 74 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:38.199 Well, I know it's one of the screwiest cases I've 75 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:41.680 ever run into. Beneficiaries are knocking off insured people all 76 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:45.120 over the country, but not here Inventon. Oh No, here 77 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:47.960 they tell me the insured man knocked off the beneficiary. 78 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:50.319 And now I've got the jolly assignment. I'm trying to 79 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.960 keep the state from executing the insured. My employer, East 80 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:56.000 Coast Underwriters isn't anxious to see one. 81 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:58.400 Hundred thousand dollars of their money burn up in the 82 00:03:58.439 --> 00:03:59.039 electric chair. 83 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:01.840 Well, at least we're both stuck with the same tough job. 84 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:04.639 Look, I'll tell you a few things that I already know, 85 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:05.879 and you fill it in from there. 86 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:06.280 All right. 87 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:08.840 All I want to know is is that Paracroff was 88 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:11.919 shot to death and that his business partner, your client, 89 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:14.560 Harland Wolf, was picked up making a quick trip out 90 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:16.040 of town was being held for the murder. 91 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:16.959 What have they got on him? 92 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.680 Only what they found on him, and it's enough the 93 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:24.000 murder weapon, any witnesses one Paracoff's widow, Marsha. 94 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:25.399 An eye witness. 95 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:26.800 Murder weapon, and an eye witness. 96 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.240 It seems, at least at first glance anyway, that the 97 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:32.959 state of Ohio will be receiving a large electric bill 98 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:35.759 one day soon any chance of my seeing Wolf. 99 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:37.360 No, not before he's indented. 100 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:41.319 Oh, great, Holland Wolf shot Parakoff in self defense. 101 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:42.800 There was no premeditation. 102 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:45.480 I'm convinced that I could get him off with a 103 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:47.160 second degree manslaughter verdict. 104 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:50.040 It is I could if it weren't for the tactics 105 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:50.800 of the prosecution. 106 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:51.920 Oh what's that? 107 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:55.879 They not only have intimidated my character witnesses, but they 108 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.639 also have suborn their own to perjury. 109 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.879 Thing I am up against well as the insurance companies 110 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.199 keep saying, Ever, say die, Where can I find the 111 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:07.000 widow Parakoff? 112 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:10.839 They aren't holding her protective custody, so nobody can question as. 113 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:11.560 She may be at home. 114 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:14.600 That's thirteen seventy five ninety sixth Street. 115 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:15.920 That's a lot of figures. 116 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:26.959 By the way, how's hers expense account? 117 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:28.959 Item four cab fare the home of. 118 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:31.199 Murdered man and the girl he left behind him two 119 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:34.199 dollars and forty cents. I shivered all the way out 120 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:37.480 to the suburbs, but not from fear or anticipation, just 121 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:40.319 a simple case of summer shorts in red flannel weather. 122 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:44.319 The Parakoff place was obviously the product of a good income, 123 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.839 and the bad architect. It looked like a great, big 124 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:52.040 wedding cake, and Mother Nature admercifully iced the confection. The 125 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:54.839 front walk was white and untrammeled as the driven snow. 126 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:57.360 As a matter of fact, that's what it was, three 127 00:05:57.360 --> 00:05:59.680 inches of it, which meant that Marsha hadn't had a 128 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:00.839 visit in the past. 129 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:01.639 Couple of hours. 130 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:06.000 I was playing detective and somebody inside was playing the radio. 131 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.720 So I've played peeping Tom and loved every second of it. 132 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:13.639 I couldn't see her face, but she had a lovely profile. 133 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:15.560 I hastened to the door. 134 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:27.439 Ouch. Her hair was red and her eyes were green. 135 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.439 Her hair stopped your cold, and then her eyes gave 136 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:31.240 you the ghost signal. 137 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:32.600 Yes? 138 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:34.839 Would you learn saving that? Yes for later? 139 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:36.319 I beg your pardon. 140 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:39.040 I've come to ask your help, and I hope you'll 141 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:41.439 say yes. You see, my name is Johnny Dollar, and 142 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:43.399 I've been sent to Benton to investigate the death of 143 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:43.920 your husband. 144 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:46.879 Say what is it? Has it turned into a federal case? 145 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:48.879 Oh? I'm from the insurance coming. 146 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:51.480 Oh come in all right? 147 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:56.399 Uh? Where can I put my coat? This snow is 148 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:57.480 melting all over your carpet? 149 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:00.800 Let it melt your code any place. 150 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:10.079 Okay, m good shot, combining by the fire, night and warm. 151 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:11.480 I should have brought some chestnuts. 152 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.399 I could have followed her with my eyes closed. She 153 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.079 headed for the living room, leaving a pathway of perfume 154 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:19.120 their behind. 155 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:23.360 Her, and I didn't waste a breath of it. That's 156 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:24.279 a nice perfume. 157 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:28.120 Sit down, nice if you can stand a compliment before 158 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:29.040 we get down to business. 159 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:31.240 You certainly do furnish your room. 160 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:32.160 Oh you like it. 161 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:35.480 Most of the things. That's reproduction, not the things I'm 162 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:36.040 talking about. 163 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:37.920 Ah, you mean me. 164 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:42.839 This is a happy surprise. I expect you to find someone. 165 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:47.160 Fatter and fortier my husband was. Now what about his insurance? 166 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:48.560 Oh, you've got me wrong. 167 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:50.879 I'm I'm working for the company that insured the man 168 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:52.399 being held for the murder of. 169 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:53.800 Your husband, Harlan Woolf. 170 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:54.920 What do you want from me? 171 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:57.240 Just the story of what happened? Oh? 172 00:07:57.279 --> 00:07:59.839 Well, that I can't do. The district attorney had a 173 00:07:59.879 --> 00:08:02.079 lot long talk with me about it. I'm not supposed 174 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:03.759 to say anything to anybody about it. 175 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:04.480 Until the trial. 176 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:06.560 Well, I'm not asking you for any state secret. I 177 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:07.879 just want you to save me a trip out of 178 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:08.240 the morgue. 179 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:10.000 Oh, don't be so brutal. 180 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:14.319 Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were still in 181 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:18.079 the morning. That neglige confused me. Anyway, I'm at the 182 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.079 newspaper Morgue, that's what they call their files. 183 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:22.120 He gave them a story. Why don't you give it 184 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:22.319 to me? 185 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:23.759 I told you I can't. 186 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:25.720 Okay, So I wasted your time. 187 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.600 Oh wait a minute, you aren't leaving. 188 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:30.360 Well you want co operating? 189 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:34.399 Oh sit down, I'm going crazy in this house alone 190 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:38.440 all the time. Can't we find something else to talk about? 191 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:41.799 Sure, waiter, But first things first? 192 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:46.000 Well, alright, well, I don't see how it could be 193 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.240 wrong to tell you what's already been in the newspapers. 194 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:51.039 Oh gone, Well, all right. 195 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:55.240 Harlan Wilf and I were here in this room alone. 196 00:08:55.840 --> 00:09:02.320 We were discussing business, business business the Highland Coal Corporation. 197 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:06.000 My husband was its president, Harlan is a secretary treasurer, 198 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.200 and I'm the vice president. 199 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:12.159 I can't resist this, but you know, your kind of 200 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:16.320 business woman makes this anthracite heart of mine feel very bituminous. 201 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.440 What I don't care it, let it go. 202 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:22.320 So you and Wolf were sitting here talking about your 203 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:23.000 coal business. 204 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:25.600 Yes, and then my husband came home. 205 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:27.919 And no doubt accused you and the secretary treasurer of 206 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:29.000 putting in too much over time? 207 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:29.320 Is that it? 208 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:29.600 Oh? 209 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:31.639 Yes, Oh it was terrible. 210 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.240 They fought, and finally Harland ran over to the couch 211 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.440 over there and pulled his gun out of his overcoat 212 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.960 pocket and started pulling a trigger. 213 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:40.639 Who called the police? The neighbors? 214 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:43.440 No, I did, Well, that's all there is, tuance. 215 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.480 Oh, that's all I wanted to know. It didn't hurt 216 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:47.399 for him. 217 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:52.759 No, Now, how about using those big shoulders of yours 218 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:54.080 to throw a log on the fire. 219 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:56.480 Well, sure, I'll go outside and get one. 220 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:57.960 Is there are lots in here? 221 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:03.159 Ah? I have one that's a little damn They burned slower. 222 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:12.759 Oh well, and while you're at it, get a big one. 223 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:19.399 I left Marsha gazing into the fire, called a cab 224 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:21.519 and stepped out into the coal. And I are to 225 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:24.559 wait for it. I one time on the front, walked 226 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:25.840 with my mind on what lay. 227 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:27.759 Behind me instead of what was ahead. 228 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:32.639 Out of the white snow loomed two very large blue 229 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:34.399 police uniforms completely filled. 230 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:39.000 Get out of this paragraph, mess, donna, matter of fact, 231 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:39.600 get out of this. 232 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:42.480 Town, wild officer I'm just beginning to like it here. 233 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:45.480 This is from the top that makes it official. We 234 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:47.919 got the guilty man. We don't want any trouble. 235 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:49.840 Well you go back to the top and tell them 236 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:51.919 if this is one sure way of getting trouble. 237 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.440 They told us how to answer that one too. 238 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.000 I dove my best, my best to break every one 239 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:00.639 of the marquess of Queen's. 240 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:03.240 I knew I was fighting a losing fight, but I 241 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:06.120 was funny for a little time, and that's all I got. 242 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.840 If this never stopped, my hip began to feel like 243 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.399 a poo pot ball and a four handed game time. 244 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:16.639 Suddenly things look dub me flat on my back in 245 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:20.399 the snow, singing stars, and then a boot team flying 246 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:21.000 toward my. 247 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:24.519 Head and switched off all a little pretty. 248 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:35.559 Live All America is taken to sing it again CBS 249 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:38.559 Saturday Night show of Fun, Frolic and the Fabulous Phantom 250 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:42.120 Portune by telephone, listens all over the nation are asked 251 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:45.360 for their answers to the rhythmic riddle songs, popular songs 252 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:47.639 with new lyrics hiding the name of a movie star, 253 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:50.879 radio star, or man about town. A right answer to 254 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:52.960 a riddle and the listener gets a crack at sing 255 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:56.879 It Again phantom voice fortune of twenty four five hundred 256 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.320 dollars in prizes. It's a sensational session of me, music, 257 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:04.399 suspense and prizes. Steff miss sing it Again tonight over 258 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:08.000 most of the same CBS network stations. Maybe you sing 259 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:11.600 to the tune of twenty four or five and how 260 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:13.039 back to yours truly? 261 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:14.279 Johnny Dollar. 262 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:24.879 Expense a cat item five nikel supplies bonded seven dollars. 263 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:26.759 And here's something I'll give you for free. 264 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:30.440 I had the help for your regularly employed insurance investigators. 265 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.440 When I find myself overwhelmed in a brawl unknown as 266 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.120 sailings included, I do my best to take away more 267 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:40.919 than just bruises and contusions. During my career, I've picked 268 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:41.840 more pockets. 269 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:43.440 Than a rack boy in a pool room. And I 270 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:45.279 added one more to the score during the brawl in 271 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:45.720 front of the. 272 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:51.240 Parakoff House just before I went by bye in the snow. 273 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:57.759 Hey hey, mister, wake up, come on, wake up, you'll 274 00:12:57.759 --> 00:12:58.720 catch your desert. 275 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:04.519 Cold call of come yeah heay, so holy smokes, your fleece. 276 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:08.399 Was your round? What's the matter, isn't it there? Huh? Here? 277 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:09.720 Come on? I'll give you a hand. 278 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:13.360 Thanks. Holy smoke. When I first seen you, lave and 279 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:14.840 I thought you was a snowman tipped over? 280 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:15.679 How do you feel? 281 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:19.159 Cool? Forevermore? I shall look kindly upon the hattache in 282 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:24.480 the deep freeze. Huh hey, hey, you're looking for I'm 283 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.799 looking for a wallet. You lose it first? I found 284 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.879 out and I lost it. Oh, here it is, Come on, 285 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.679 let's get out of here. Work till mister police headquarters. 286 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:37.000 Oh no, over my dead body. 287 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:45.559 Expense account item six breakfast and beds two dollars and 288 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:49.519 forty cents E Spenser account Item seven photographic work six 289 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:51.960 dollars for taking pictures of contents of wallet. 290 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:54.240 I left it from the police uniform the night before, 291 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:58.080 which I sent to you, dearie post underwriters for safe keeping. 292 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:01.960 Expense account Item eight seventy cents cab fare to opposite 293 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:03.519 ed Byron District Attorney. 294 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:09.320 I Denine tipped the driver one dollar. I have kept 295 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:10.039 you waiting dollar. 296 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:15.039 Good heavens man? What happened to your face? Well, miss assault, Yeah, 297 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:16.320 but I got a flash. 298 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:19.000 For you, not by person or person's unknown. 299 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:22.360 Splendid If you wish to prefer charge just half wrought 300 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:25.120 again but not for felonious assault, and not against the 301 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:26.559 guys who gave me going. 302 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:28.840 Over last night. And what are you talking about? 303 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.440 You know what I'm talking about. They were two of 304 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:34.039 your harness bulls. But I don't want to waste time 305 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:35.480 listening to you deny it, so forget it. 306 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:37.840 I don't have the slightest idea what this is all about. 307 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:39.200 Dollar, I said, forget it. 308 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.559 I want to talk about something more important. You're holding 309 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:45.080 Harlem for the Parakoff murder, and what I want to 310 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:45.679 know is one. 311 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.279 Are you gonna hand down your indictment and what it's gonna. 312 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.600 Be, first thing in the morning, first degree murdered. Anything 313 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:53.159 else that you want to know before I have you 314 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:53.919 thrown out of here? 315 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:58.919 Yeah? How do I get mixed up in these roof bars? 316 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:08.279 Expense account item ten Five minutes phone. 317 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:10.600 Call to my partner in despair, attorney for the defense, 318 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:13.679 Eric Parker, who agreed to lend me a set of police. 319 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:16.039 Photographs of the scene of the crime. They arrived at 320 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.120 my hotel room just as I was leaving it to eat, 321 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:21.000 and when I looked at them, I had lost my appetite. 322 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:25.720 According to the ex's marking, the various spots. Parakroff and 323 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:28.480 wolf had been standing face to face in the middle 324 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:31.720 of the room when Wolfe decided to punch Parakoff's ticket 325 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:36.360 with a few thirty eight caliber preparations. According to the 326 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:39.799 photographs of the Corpus delict guy, all of the steel 327 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:42.519 jacket had forget me nots had gone banging straight into 328 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:46.159 the right side of Parakoff's body. I set up an 329 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:49.279 appointment to meet Parker at three that afternoon and decided 330 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:50.840 to make the most of the time in between by 331 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:51.600 seeing what kind of a. 332 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:53.519 Trade I could make on that wallet I picked up 333 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:53.879 during the. 334 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:57.120 Winter Sports of the night before. The name in it 335 00:15:57.320 --> 00:16:00.679 was Ben Argold, and the address it's frecutable. 336 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:10.000 I don't want any brushes or what a coincidence? I'm 337 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:10.559 not selling it. 338 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:11.879 What do you want? 339 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:13.399 I'm looking for Ben Arnold? 340 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:16.679 Who isn't he promised me the home by now? 341 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:19.960 By this time, I shaid, no, better, Well, I'll wait 342 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:21.759 outside inside. 343 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:24.080 Hey, wait a minute, Ben won't like this. 344 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:26.679 Well that makes it even I don't like Ben. Look, 345 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:29.720 I don't want any trouble. Okay, don't make any trouble. 346 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:31.240 What do you want here? 347 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:34.799 Anyway? Oh, let's just say I dropped in front unfriendly visits. 348 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:37.679 If Ben fine to hear, it'll get real unfriendly. 349 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:40.240 Ain't sad face that you as marked up enough? 350 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:40.679 Well? 351 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:43.279 That mouse hanging under your eye isn't exactly a beauty mark. 352 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:50.600 Ben really spreads his blessings, doesn't he? Ben had really 353 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:52.879 spread one blessing right there close in. 354 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.159 Front of me. It was a small room, about the 355 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:57.919 size of a large closet. 356 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:00.639 For the clothes sprawled high and low, making the whole 357 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:02.600 place look like a classed clothesline. 358 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:05.599 And there, hanging on the back of the door was 359 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:07.160 Ben Arnold's police uniform. 360 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.279 My eyes popped out, pushed one of its shiny brass 361 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:13.079 buttons and rang the. 362 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:17.559 Bells there like little love letters on the brass for 363 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:22.799 the initial CPD and CPD were never the initials of 364 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:34.880 the Benton Police Department. Thanks for seeing me so quickly, Barker, good? 365 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:37.200 What happened to your face? 366 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:40.039 A couple of police uniforms with over stuffed shoulders did 367 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:40.920 this to me last night? 368 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:41.200 Eh? 369 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:43.599 There you are. I warned you that we're up against 370 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:46.720 a bunch of ruthless people. Something should be done about it. 371 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.759 Using the police force to beat up anybody who stands. 372 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:49.960 In their way. 373 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:53.240 No, Barker wearing uniforms, but they weren't police. 374 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:57.160 I'm afraid I don't follow you, Barker. 375 00:17:57.279 --> 00:17:59.519 Can you give me one good reason for a Benton 376 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:01.720 cop to be worrying an out of town uniform? And 377 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.440 don't tell me they got mixed up at the cleaners out. 378 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:06.839 Of town uniform? Yes? And here's another one. 379 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:09.839 If the law enforcement set up here is so rotten, 380 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:11.759 why would they go to all the trouble of. 381 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:14.799 Dressing up an outsider to do their muscle work? Right? No, 382 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:16.640 what I mean is did they? 383 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:17.079 Why? 384 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:19.960 Who else would do it? It certainly couldn't have been Marsian? 385 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:20.640 Why not? 386 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:25.000 She isn't exactly harder for a motive. If Wolf goes 387 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:28.440 to the chair, she collects his insurance money. Not only 388 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:31.279 is she the widow of the original beneficiary, she's also 389 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:34.039 a vice president of the coal company. Anyway you look 390 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:35.880 at it, she's a secondary beneficiary. 391 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:38.160 But why should Wolf admit to the shooting. He has 392 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:40.240 nothing to gain and his life to lose. 393 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:43.480 Marsha told me that the knight of the murder, she 394 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:45.559 and Wolf were alone in the house talking about the 395 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.279 coal business. Then she didn't know what I meant when 396 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.079 I used the words bituminous an anthracite. Whatever they had 397 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:54.279 on the fire that night, it wasn't coal. 398 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:59.880 If you're right about that, Marcia and Wolf were having wilt, 399 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:01.079 some kind of a romance. 400 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:05.079 Yeah, okay. So let's say Marcia shot her husband. Let's 401 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:07.480