Speaker 1: System presents yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The next half hour
Speaker 1: has its baggage packed to take a half hour trip
Speaker 1: with America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar at Insurance Investigation,
Speaker 1: he is just an expert at making out his expense account.
Speaker 2: He is an absolute genius.
Speaker 3: Expense account submitted by Investigator Johnny Dollar to Home Office,
Speaker 3: East Coast Underwriters, Terminal Building, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
Speaker 3: an accounting of my expenditures and the investigation of the
Speaker 3: paracoffe policy for your company. Expense account Item one planefair
Speaker 3: to Benton, Ohio.
Speaker 2: Forty dollars four cents.
Speaker 3: Expense account idem two planefair Benton back to Hartford forty
Speaker 3: four cents.
Speaker 2: Explanation purchased two one way tickets instead of saving money.
Speaker 3: By purchasing one round trip because of a type of
Speaker 3: case on uge really assigned. I never pressed my luck
Speaker 3: by buying round trips. This time I was almost right.
Speaker 3: Expense account item free campfare airport to Valley Hotel two
Speaker 3: dollars and twenty cents.
Speaker 2: Hip the driver gee a dollar. Usually they'll be staying
Speaker 2: on the table tonight. Welcome to Warfare City. Hey, dorman, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: What can I do for you?
Speaker 4: Sir?
Speaker 2: Bring my bag and side with him?
Speaker 4: Oh here, Donna always yes you boy.
Speaker 2: Good easing, sir. Hello, do you have a reservation for
Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar? Oh? Yes, mister dollars in his room. He
Speaker 2: checked in about eight o'clock. Why I guess I ain't
Speaker 2: done there. I used to be what room is he in? Sorry?
Speaker 5: See, I'm not permitted to.
Speaker 2: Tell you that I can call.
Speaker 3: Oh no, never mind, only have an envelope with him.
Speaker 3: I'd like to leave my card for this mister Dollar. Yes,
Speaker 3: here you are, thanks, here, just pop this in his box.
Speaker 3: The clerk popped the envelope the box number two oh seven.
Speaker 3: So I popped myself into an elevator going up to room.
Speaker 2: Two o seven.
Speaker 3: I'd come to Benton to investigate a murder, and in
Speaker 3: just a matter of minutes I found myself ready to
Speaker 3: commit one.
Speaker 2: Hey, yes, who is it a bellboy? Sir? A package
Speaker 2: from Hartford? Just a minute? What kind of a delivery?
Speaker 2: Come on, get up on your feet. It's safe. It
Speaker 2: down here. I take it easy.
Speaker 5: You must be jolly dolla.
Speaker 2: Sometimes strangers in a hotel room can be a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. But not one. They're men and not one.
Speaker 2: They're using my name. What's your angle? Tell us th
Speaker 2: and dolla. I can explain everything had better be good
Speaker 2: and better be fast.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to be seen waiting for you in
Speaker 5: the lobby, and it's important.
Speaker 6: That I talk with you before anybody else does.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm here.
Speaker 3: I'm Eric Barker, Oh, the defense attorney in his Cara
Speaker 3: coff thing.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: Well, I hope you're better at defending your client and
Speaker 3: you are defending yourself.
Speaker 6: Whether my client goes to the chair or not, unfortunately,
Speaker 6: has nothing to do with my being a good That's
Speaker 6: why I wanted.
Speaker 5: To talk to you.
Speaker 3: I suppose this is one time when the attorney won't
Speaker 3: mind relinquishing the floor. Why don't you get up on
Speaker 3: your feet?
Speaker 2: Oh heys, phaps, I will.
Speaker 5: I have no coward dollar, but if either one of.
Speaker 6: Us is going to get any place in this case,
Speaker 6: we'll have to work together. I need your help, and
Speaker 6: I need it badly. Sorry, I do a single app Now,
Speaker 6: don't be hasty. I can help you too. Just how
Speaker 6: much do you know about the Paracoff murder?
Speaker 3: Well, I know it's one of the screwiest cases I've
Speaker 3: ever run into. Beneficiaries are knocking off insured people all
Speaker 3: over the country, but not here Inventon. Oh No, here
Speaker 3: they tell me the insured man knocked off the beneficiary.
Speaker 3: And now I've got the jolly assignment. I'm trying to
Speaker 3: keep the state from executing the insured. My employer, East
Speaker 3: Coast Underwriters isn't anxious to see one.
Speaker 2: Hundred thousand dollars of their money burn up in the
Speaker 2: electric chair.
Speaker 5: Well, at least we're both stuck with the same tough job.
Speaker 3: Look, I'll tell you a few things that I already know,
Speaker 3: and you fill it in from there.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: All I want to know is is that Paracroff was
Speaker 3: shot to death and that his business partner, your client,
Speaker 3: Harland Wolf, was picked up making a quick trip out
Speaker 3: of town was being held for the murder.
Speaker 2: What have they got on him?
Speaker 6: Only what they found on him, and it's enough the
Speaker 6: murder weapon, any witnesses one Paracoff's widow, Marsha.
Speaker 5: An eye witness.
Speaker 2: Murder weapon, and an eye witness.
Speaker 3: It seems, at least at first glance anyway, that the
Speaker 3: state of Ohio will be receiving a large electric bill
Speaker 3: one day soon any chance of my seeing Wolf.
Speaker 2: No, not before he's indented.
Speaker 6: Oh, great, Holland Wolf shot Parakoff in self defense.
Speaker 5: There was no premeditation.
Speaker 6: I'm convinced that I could get him off with a
Speaker 6: second degree manslaughter verdict.
Speaker 5: It is I could if it weren't for the tactics
Speaker 5: of the prosecution.
Speaker 2: Oh what's that?
Speaker 6: They not only have intimidated my character witnesses, but they
Speaker 6: also have suborn their own to perjury.
Speaker 2: Thing I am up against well as the insurance companies
Speaker 2: keep saying, Ever, say die, Where can I find the
Speaker 2: widow Parakoff?
Speaker 6: They aren't holding her protective custody, so nobody can question as.
Speaker 2: She may be at home.
Speaker 5: That's thirteen seventy five ninety sixth Street.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of figures.
Speaker 7: By the way, how's hers expense account?
Speaker 2: Item four cab fare the home of.
Speaker 3: Murdered man and the girl he left behind him two
Speaker 3: dollars and forty cents. I shivered all the way out
Speaker 3: to the suburbs, but not from fear or anticipation, just
Speaker 3: a simple case of summer shorts in red flannel weather.
Speaker 3: The Parakoff place was obviously the product of a good income,
Speaker 3: and the bad architect. It looked like a great, big
Speaker 3: wedding cake, and Mother Nature admercifully iced the confection. The
Speaker 3: front walk was white and untrammeled as the driven snow.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, that's what it was, three
Speaker 3: inches of it, which meant that Marsha hadn't had a
Speaker 3: visit in the past.
Speaker 2: Couple of hours.
Speaker 3: I was playing detective and somebody inside was playing the radio.
Speaker 3: So I've played peeping Tom and loved every second of it.
Speaker 3: I couldn't see her face, but she had a lovely profile.
Speaker 3: I hastened to the door.
Speaker 2: Ouch. Her hair was red and her eyes were green.
Speaker 3: Her hair stopped your cold, and then her eyes gave
Speaker 3: you the ghost signal.
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 2: Would you learn saving that? Yes for later?
Speaker 8: I beg your pardon.
Speaker 3: I've come to ask your help, and I hope you'll
Speaker 3: say yes. You see, my name is Johnny Dollar, and
Speaker 3: I've been sent to Benton to investigate the death of
Speaker 3: your husband.
Speaker 8: Say what is it? Has it turned into a federal case?
Speaker 2: Oh? I'm from the insurance coming.
Speaker 8: Oh come in all right?
Speaker 2: Uh? Where can I put my coat? This snow is
Speaker 2: melting all over your carpet?
Speaker 8: Let it melt your code any place.
Speaker 9: Okay, m good shot, combining by the fire, night and warm.
Speaker 2: I should have brought some chestnuts.
Speaker 3: I could have followed her with my eyes closed. She
Speaker 3: headed for the living room, leaving a pathway of perfume
Speaker 3: their behind.
Speaker 2: Her, and I didn't waste a breath of it. That's
Speaker 2: a nice perfume.
Speaker 3: Sit down, nice if you can stand a compliment before
Speaker 3: we get down to business.
Speaker 2: You certainly do furnish your room.
Speaker 8: Oh you like it.
Speaker 9: Most of the things. That's reproduction, not the things I'm
Speaker 9: talking about.
Speaker 8: Ah, you mean me.
Speaker 2: This is a happy surprise. I expect you to find someone.
Speaker 9: Fatter and fortier my husband was. Now what about his insurance?
Speaker 2: Oh, you've got me wrong.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm working for the company that insured the man
Speaker 3: being held for the murder of.
Speaker 2: Your husband, Harlan Woolf.
Speaker 8: What do you want from me?
Speaker 2: Just the story of what happened? Oh?
Speaker 9: Well, that I can't do. The district attorney had a
Speaker 9: lot long talk with me about it. I'm not supposed
Speaker 9: to say anything to anybody about it.
Speaker 8: Until the trial.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not asking you for any state secret. I
Speaker 3: just want you to save me a trip out of
Speaker 3: the morgue.
Speaker 8: Oh, don't be so brutal.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were still in
Speaker 3: the morning. That neglige confused me. Anyway, I'm at the
Speaker 3: newspaper Morgue, that's what they call their files.
Speaker 2: He gave them a story. Why don't you give it
Speaker 2: to me?
Speaker 8: I told you I can't.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I wasted your time.
Speaker 8: Oh wait a minute, you aren't leaving.
Speaker 2: Well you want co operating?
Speaker 9: Oh sit down, I'm going crazy in this house alone
Speaker 9: all the time. Can't we find something else to talk about?
Speaker 2: Sure, waiter, But first things first?
Speaker 9: Well, alright, well, I don't see how it could be
Speaker 9: wrong to tell you what's already been in the newspapers.
Speaker 2: Oh gone, Well, all right.
Speaker 9: Harlan Wilf and I were here in this room alone.
Speaker 9: We were discussing business, business business the Highland Coal Corporation.
Speaker 9: My husband was its president, Harlan is a secretary treasurer,
Speaker 9: and I'm the vice president.
Speaker 3: I can't resist this, but you know, your kind of
Speaker 3: business woman makes this anthracite heart of mine feel very bituminous.
Speaker 8: What I don't care it, let it go.
Speaker 3: So you and Wolf were sitting here talking about your
Speaker 3: coal business.
Speaker 8: Yes, and then my husband came home.
Speaker 3: And no doubt accused you and the secretary treasurer of
Speaker 3: putting in too much over time?
Speaker 2: Is that it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yes, Oh it was terrible.
Speaker 9: They fought, and finally Harland ran over to the couch
Speaker 9: over there and pulled his gun out of his overcoat
Speaker 9: pocket and started pulling a trigger.
Speaker 2: Who called the police? The neighbors?
Speaker 8: No, I did, Well, that's all there is, tuance.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's all I wanted to know. It didn't hurt
Speaker 3: for him.
Speaker 9: No, Now, how about using those big shoulders of yours
Speaker 9: to throw a log on the fire.
Speaker 2: Well, sure, I'll go outside and get one.
Speaker 8: Is there are lots in here?
Speaker 2: Ah? I have one that's a little damn They burned slower.
Speaker 9: Oh well, and while you're at it, get a big one.
Speaker 3: I left Marsha gazing into the fire, called a cab
Speaker 3: and stepped out into the coal. And I are to
Speaker 3: wait for it. I one time on the front, walked
Speaker 3: with my mind on what lay.
Speaker 2: Behind me instead of what was ahead.
Speaker 3: Out of the white snow loomed two very large blue
Speaker 3: police uniforms completely filled.
Speaker 1: Get out of this paragraph, mess, donna, matter of fact,
Speaker 1: get out of this.
Speaker 3: Town, wild officer I'm just beginning to like it here.
Speaker 5: This is from the top that makes it official. We
Speaker 5: got the guilty man. We don't want any trouble.
Speaker 3: Well you go back to the top and tell them
Speaker 3: if this is one sure way of getting trouble.
Speaker 2: They told us how to answer that one too.
Speaker 3: I dove my best, my best to break every one
Speaker 3: of the marquess of Queen's.
Speaker 2: I knew I was fighting a losing fight, but I
Speaker 2: was funny for a little time, and that's all I got.
Speaker 2: If this never stopped, my hip began to feel like
Speaker 2: a poo pot ball and a four handed game time.
Speaker 3: Suddenly things look dub me flat on my back in
Speaker 3: the snow, singing stars, and then a boot team flying
Speaker 3: toward my.
Speaker 2: Head and switched off all a little pretty.
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Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3: Expense a cat item five nikel supplies bonded seven dollars.
Speaker 2: And here's something I'll give you for free.
Speaker 3: I had the help for your regularly employed insurance investigators.
Speaker 3: When I find myself overwhelmed in a brawl unknown as
Speaker 3: sailings included, I do my best to take away more
Speaker 3: than just bruises and contusions. During my career, I've picked
Speaker 3: more pockets.
Speaker 2: Than a rack boy in a pool room. And I
Speaker 2: added one more to the score during the brawl in
Speaker 2: front of the.
Speaker 3: Parakoff House just before I went by bye in the snow.
Speaker 1: Hey hey, mister, wake up, come on, wake up, you'll
Speaker 1: catch your desert.
Speaker 6: Cold call of come yeah heay, so holy smokes, your fleece.
Speaker 2: Was your round? What's the matter, isn't it there? Huh? Here?
Speaker 2: Come on? I'll give you a hand.
Speaker 5: Thanks. Holy smoke. When I first seen you, lave and
Speaker 5: I thought you was a snowman tipped over?
Speaker 6: How do you feel?
Speaker 2: Cool? Forevermore? I shall look kindly upon the hattache in
Speaker 2: the deep freeze. Huh hey, hey, you're looking for I'm
Speaker 2: looking for a wallet. You lose it first? I found
Speaker 2: out and I lost it. Oh, here it is, Come on,
Speaker 2: let's get out of here. Work till mister police headquarters.
Speaker 2: Oh no, over my dead body.
Speaker 3: Expense account item six breakfast and beds two dollars and
Speaker 3: forty cents E Spenser account Item seven photographic work six
Speaker 3: dollars for taking pictures of contents of wallet.
Speaker 2: I left it from the police uniform the night before,
Speaker 2: which I sent to you, dearie post underwriters for safe keeping.
Speaker 3: Expense account Item eight seventy cents cab fare to opposite
Speaker 3: ed Byron District Attorney.
Speaker 2: I Denine tipped the driver one dollar. I have kept
Speaker 2: you waiting dollar.
Speaker 1: Good heavens man? What happened to your face? Well, miss assault, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I got a flash.
Speaker 2: For you, not by person or person's unknown.
Speaker 3: Splendid If you wish to prefer charge just half wrought
Speaker 3: again but not for felonious assault, and not against the
Speaker 3: guys who gave me going.
Speaker 2: Over last night. And what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about. They were two of
Speaker 3: your harness bulls. But I don't want to waste time
Speaker 3: listening to you deny it, so forget it.
Speaker 5: I don't have the slightest idea what this is all about.
Speaker 2: Dollar, I said, forget it.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about something more important. You're holding
Speaker 3: Harlem for the Parakoff murder, and what I want to
Speaker 3: know is one.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna hand down your indictment and what it's gonna.
Speaker 1: Be, first thing in the morning, first degree murdered. Anything
Speaker 1: else that you want to know before I have you
Speaker 1: thrown out of here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? How do I get mixed up in these roof bars?
Speaker 2: Expense account item ten Five minutes phone.
Speaker 3: Call to my partner in despair, attorney for the defense,
Speaker 3: Eric Parker, who agreed to lend me a set of police.
Speaker 2: Photographs of the scene of the crime. They arrived at
Speaker 2: my hotel room just as I was leaving it to eat,
Speaker 2: and when I looked at them, I had lost my appetite.
Speaker 3: According to the ex's marking, the various spots. Parakroff and
Speaker 3: wolf had been standing face to face in the middle
Speaker 3: of the room when Wolfe decided to punch Parakoff's ticket
Speaker 3: with a few thirty eight caliber preparations. According to the
Speaker 3: photographs of the Corpus delict guy, all of the steel
Speaker 3: jacket had forget me nots had gone banging straight into
Speaker 3: the right side of Parakoff's body. I set up an
Speaker 3: appointment to meet Parker at three that afternoon and decided
Speaker 3: to make the most of the time in between by
Speaker 3: seeing what kind of a.
Speaker 2: Trade I could make on that wallet I picked up
Speaker 2: during the.
Speaker 3: Winter Sports of the night before. The name in it
Speaker 3: was Ben Argold, and the address it's frecutable.
Speaker 2: I don't want any brushes or what a coincidence? I'm
Speaker 2: not selling it.
Speaker 8: What do you want?
Speaker 2: I'm looking for Ben Arnold?
Speaker 8: Who isn't he promised me the home by now?
Speaker 3: By this time, I shaid, no, better, Well, I'll wait
Speaker 3: outside inside.
Speaker 8: Hey, wait a minute, Ben won't like this.
Speaker 2: Well that makes it even I don't like Ben. Look,
Speaker 2: I don't want any trouble. Okay, don't make any trouble.
Speaker 6: What do you want here?
Speaker 2: Anyway? Oh, let's just say I dropped in front unfriendly visits.
Speaker 2: If Ben fine to hear, it'll get real unfriendly.
Speaker 8: Ain't sad face that you as marked up enough?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: That mouse hanging under your eye isn't exactly a beauty mark.
Speaker 3: Ben really spreads his blessings, doesn't he? Ben had really
Speaker 3: spread one blessing right there close in.
Speaker 2: Front of me. It was a small room, about the
Speaker 2: size of a large closet.
Speaker 3: For the clothes sprawled high and low, making the whole
Speaker 3: place look like a classed clothesline.
Speaker 2: And there, hanging on the back of the door was
Speaker 2: Ben Arnold's police uniform.
Speaker 3: My eyes popped out, pushed one of its shiny brass
Speaker 3: buttons and rang the.
Speaker 2: Bells there like little love letters on the brass for
Speaker 2: the initial CPD and CPD were never the initials of
Speaker 2: the Benton Police Department. Thanks for seeing me so quickly, Barker, good?
Speaker 2: What happened to your face?
Speaker 3: A couple of police uniforms with over stuffed shoulders did
Speaker 3: this to me last night?
Speaker 2: Eh?
Speaker 6: There you are. I warned you that we're up against
Speaker 6: a bunch of ruthless people. Something should be done about it.
Speaker 6: Using the police force to beat up anybody who stands.
Speaker 5: In their way.
Speaker 2: No, Barker wearing uniforms, but they weren't police.
Speaker 5: I'm afraid I don't follow you, Barker.
Speaker 3: Can you give me one good reason for a Benton
Speaker 3: cop to be worrying an out of town uniform? And
Speaker 3: don't tell me they got mixed up at the cleaners out.
Speaker 2: Of town uniform? Yes? And here's another one.
Speaker 3: If the law enforcement set up here is so rotten,
Speaker 3: why would they go to all the trouble of.
Speaker 2: Dressing up an outsider to do their muscle work? Right? No,
Speaker 2: what I mean is did they?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 5: Who else would do it? It certainly couldn't have been Marsian?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: She isn't exactly harder for a motive. If Wolf goes
Speaker 3: to the chair, she collects his insurance money. Not only
Speaker 3: is she the widow of the original beneficiary, she's also
Speaker 3: a vice president of the coal company. Anyway you look
Speaker 3: at it, she's a secondary beneficiary.
Speaker 5: But why should Wolf admit to the shooting. He has
Speaker 5: nothing to gain and his life to lose.
Speaker 3: Marsha told me that the knight of the murder, she
Speaker 3: and Wolf were alone in the house talking about the
Speaker 3: coal business. Then she didn't know what I meant when
Speaker 3: I used the words bituminous an anthracite. Whatever they had
Speaker 3: on the fire that night, it wasn't coal.
Speaker 6: If you're right about that, Marcia and Wolf were having wilt,
Speaker 6: some kind of a romance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. So let's say Marcia shot her husband. Let's
Speaker 2: say Wolf is madly in love with her.
Speaker 3: Let's say she promises Wolf that she will testify he
Speaker 3: shot her husband in self defense. Marcia gets away with murder,
Speaker 3: Wolf gets away with a light sentence, no, none at all,
Speaker 3: and then Wolf gets away with a girl.
Speaker 2: Now that does make sense.
Speaker 5: What makes you think this is even possible, Parker?
Speaker 3: Somebody had me beat up last night. I say, the
Speaker 3: prosecution wouldn't have volet sending fake cops. There's one thing
Speaker 3: I gotta check and check fast. What's that those police
Speaker 3: photos you gave me shure that Parakoff was shot by
Speaker 3: a left handed shoe.
Speaker 5: Well, that's one of the prosecution's strongest points. Wolf is
Speaker 5: left hand.
Speaker 2: That doesn't prove that Marcia isn't Barker. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: out and see missus Parakoff. And there's only really one thing.
Speaker 3: I hope that she's left handed. Ah, and she's wearing
Speaker 3: that same negliche that she had last night. Hello, Marsha,
Speaker 3: can I come out?
Speaker 8: Why Johnny? What happened to your fate?
Speaker 2: I didn't get down to the beauty fall today. You
Speaker 2: look like you've been fighting, not too well but wisely.
Speaker 9: Well, I'll come on in the other room and uh,
Speaker 9: how about throwing another lad on the fire?
Speaker 3: You're a real little fire bug, oh't you? You should
Speaker 3: have lived back an old narrows time?
Speaker 8: Who is time?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what. I'll build a fire if
Speaker 2: you are lighted.
Speaker 8: I'd last too. Oh you're getting a dry one from inside.
Speaker 9: Last night you went all the way outside to get
Speaker 9: one that would burn for a long time.
Speaker 2: Hey, you got some papers?
Speaker 5: There we are?
Speaker 2: Okay, hot point, here's my lighter. Touch it off?
Speaker 8: Okay, here, that'll do it. Come on, sit down.
Speaker 2: There's one more thing I'd like you to do for me.
Speaker 2: What is it? Very simple?
Speaker 3: Take up your phone and call the district attorney. Tell
Speaker 3: him you want to change your story on the murder.
Speaker 2: Of your husband.
Speaker 8: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: If you don't, I will, Oh what have I done? Okay?
Speaker 3: If you want to play games, I'll rage the rules.
Speaker 3: You know there's a big advantage to being on my
Speaker 3: side of investigation. See, fellows in my racket have the
Speaker 3: benefit of a lot of experience, But murderers we almost
Speaker 3: everyone is inexperienced at that business.
Speaker 2: One moment they aren't murderers, the next moment they are.
Speaker 2: Oh Johnny, please, well, now, let's take a look at
Speaker 2: what's on my side.
Speaker 3: For instance, for one thing, from the empty shells thrown
Speaker 3: off by an automatic pistol, the experts can get a
Speaker 3: better picture of a murder scene than they can.
Speaker 2: From the witnesses.
Speaker 3: Your husband was killed by a gun that was held
Speaker 3: approximately eighteen inches away and directly in front of him,
Speaker 3: and the bullets entered the right.
Speaker 2: Half of his body. That means he was killed by
Speaker 2: a left handed shooter.
Speaker 8: Kylin Wilson left handed, You can ask him.
Speaker 9: He'll tell you I know that, and I'm right handed.
Speaker 2: I just found that out too.
Speaker 8: Then what more do you need?
Speaker 3: Not much, now, Marsha, Let's see what you've got going
Speaker 3: for you. You've got a face and a body and
Speaker 3: not too much of a brain.
Speaker 2: But baby, that's not enough. It's not enough to offset
Speaker 2: the things that I know.
Speaker 8: You don't know anything.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So let's make this a guessing game. Let's
Speaker 2: guess after your husband was shot, you called.
Speaker 3: Wolf when he got here, you told him you've given
Speaker 3: your husband a thirty eight caliber di vore.
Speaker 2: Right. Then you choged him at the taking the rap
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: Right, no, And then you told him you testify you
Speaker 3: shot your husband's self defense.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: And once you got him a jaid, you told the
Speaker 3: district attorney that Wolf have committed premeditated murder.
Speaker 2: And he's been asking you to leave your husband and
Speaker 2: had threatened to shoot him if you didn't.
Speaker 4: Right step it.
Speaker 2: Hur he knows what are we gonna do.
Speaker 5: You'll have to get rid of a Merrick just as
Speaker 5: soon as we get rid of something else. All right, Dylla,
Speaker 5: I want Ben Arnold's wallet, and I want it right now.
Speaker 2: You're welcome to it.
Speaker 3: Barker, What did might interest you to know that I
Speaker 3: had its picture taken this morning, Your phony policeman's wallet
Speaker 3: and everything in it, and copies of the photos are
Speaker 3: in the mail right now. The insurance company won't have
Speaker 3: any trouble connecting you with the comedy cops who beat me.
Speaker 2: Up last night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, bluffing, but that's not.
Speaker 2: All I've done in your Barker. This morning, when I
Speaker 2: was lying in bed reading the bumps on my head,
Speaker 2: it suddenly.
Speaker 3: Dawned on me that you were the only one that
Speaker 3: knew where I was going last night, so you must
Speaker 3: have been the one who had me roughed up.
Speaker 2: It also does my heart good to see you standing
Speaker 2: there holding that gun in your left hand.
Speaker 3: You shot Park off and then got out of here
Speaker 3: while Marsha crawled wolf pull him she done and.
Speaker 2: Talked to them into taking the rat him. Shoot americ
Speaker 2: for a lawyer, Barker, how do you like my case?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 2: Isn't it the way you're waiting for?
Speaker 8: Shoot him?
Speaker 2: Kill him?
Speaker 8: I can't cut up Marshall. Stand still if you want,
Speaker 8: I will give me that gun.
Speaker 2: Bust out. Marshall made a rush, grabbed the gun from Barker.
Speaker 3: She got between me and the gun, and I dove
Speaker 3: in behind her arms straight out, picked her up and
Speaker 3: she Marsha went to smash under Barker and I went
Speaker 3: on a frantic treasure hunt with that clailing mass of snorting,
Speaker 3: angry bodies to find the hand that held the gun.
Speaker 2: Believe me, it was no place for a lady. But
Speaker 2: Marcia was no lad I wrapped deep in between them
Speaker 2: and the yank Parker's gun hand up out of the
Speaker 2: go around, and just to make sure the rest was
Speaker 2: strictly a fistfight, jam my trigger finger in the way
Speaker 2: the plaster was pulling. It was like another fight in
Speaker 2: the snow. At this time, Johnny Della came up heads
Speaker 2: instead of tails. Come on, barker up, come on, get up,
Speaker 2: telling you I don't all right, Marcia. I'll be a
Speaker 2: nice little girl, pick.
Speaker 3: Up the nice little telephone and call the nice little
Speaker 3: district attorney and invite him out to you a nice
Speaker 3: little house.
Speaker 2: Expense account item eleven, twelve dollars and forty cents.
Speaker 3: That was lunch for District attorney, during which we agreed
Speaker 3: that it was the first case we'd ever worked on
Speaker 3: where the defense was working harder for a conviction the prosecution.
Speaker 3: Also that it was the first case where everybody turned
Speaker 3: out to be guilty. Defense attorney Eric Vicker of murder
Speaker 3: his girlfriend, Martha Parakoff of being an accessory before and
Speaker 3: after the fact, and Harland Wolf of conspiracy to defraud.
Speaker 2: Oh Now, one of the nation's jails are getting overcrowded.
Speaker 3: Spenc account item twelve hotel bill, twenty eight dollars spenceccunt Adam,
Speaker 3: thirteen flowers for the cell of unlucky Marsha Paracoff, five
Speaker 3: dollars A spense account item fourteen seven hundred dollars side
Speaker 3: trip to Miami, Florida, purpose to recover from catching forty
Speaker 3: wings and miserable cold inventing the Ohio Snowbank.
Speaker 2: Expense account total twelve hundred and thirty dollars and twenty
Speaker 2: cents signed, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
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