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now we are getting into another yours truly Johnny Dollar omnibus.
This one is the Amy Bradshaw Matter from November twenty
first to twenty fifth, nineteen fifty five. Let's go ahead
and take a lesson.
Speaker 2: From Hollywood. It's time now for.
Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4: George Jenkins at Northwestern Dmnity.
Speaker 5: Oh hi, Georgie, how'd you like to go to New
York Johnny and get into the game man world of
the theater. Thanks a lot, Georgie, but no thanks. I'm
not the grease paint.
Speaker 4: Type I know.
Speaker 3: But Amy Bradshaw is Amy Bradshaw.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we wrote a policy on her a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 5: Look, if it's an autograph you want, why is then me?
Speaker 4: It's not that simple Anyhow, She's got all the fans
she wants.
Speaker 5: I know I'm one of them. I think she's great.
Speaker 4: Jenny looks like somebody's trying to kill him.
Speaker 3: Georgie.
Speaker 2: I'll be right.
Speaker 6: Over tonight at every weekday Night, Bob Bailey in the
transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense
Account America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator.
Speaker 3: Yours, truly, Johnny Dell.
Speaker 5: Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
Northwestern and thend of the Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut. The following
is an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation of
the Amy Bradshaw matter.
Speaker 3: Expense account.
Speaker 5: Item won sixteen dollars and fifty cents transportation and incidentals
to New York City. I checked in at the hotel
and then went over to the Criterion Theater on West
forty fourth, where Amy was starring in a play called
The Unguarded Hour. David Coleman, the director, was standing in
the wings watching the third.
Speaker 3: Act on stage. David Coleman.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm Johnny Dollar, insurance investigator sent over by Northwestern.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, mister Doller, I call them.
Speaker 3: Let's go over here where we can talk.
Speaker 5: Jane, how's the play going?
Speaker 7: Twenty two weeks now? I've been going along just fine
until this business came up?
Speaker 3: How did that start?
Speaker 7: Last evening? Just before a curtain time, I dropped by
Amy's dressing room. She looked well, strange, how so feel trembling.
She's staring at a note in her hand that sounded
like some sort of crank milk Juno. You are an
evil woman. You will be punished by sudden death unquote.
Speaker 3: Have you reported this to the police?
Speaker 7: Oh no, I was afraid that if I did, it
might get into the papers, and we don't want that
kind of publicity.
Speaker 5: I see, how about if I talk to Amy after
the show.
Speaker 7: I told her you'd be down and she'll talk.
Speaker 3: To you all good.
Speaker 7: Well, mister Dollar, the strain of lists, the whole things
being able to show up in her performance. She's making
mistakes and it rattles the cast, especially the young ongine
Sheila Mitchell.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 5: There's always a possibility that it is just a crank
note and that Amy I'll never hear any more of it. Well,
that's what I'm hoping, but we might as well face
another possibility that somebody close to Amy is using the
crank note as a cover.
Speaker 3: Has that thought ever occurred to you?
Speaker 7: Why? No, Oh, it hasn't, mister dollar.
Speaker 2: We will continue with the Bradshaw matter in a moment.
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Speaker 5: I waited for Amy Bradshaw in a dressing room at
the theater fifteen minutes later after the final hurt, and
she swept in. I've never seen her from closer than
the fifteenth row. Needless to say, I was impressed, ghastly,
but I didn't have a chance to say so.
Speaker 9: I think the second act a chance to say anything.
Oh well, that's the way it goes. If you'll just
give me a minute to get some of this makeup off.
Speaker 5: Now, now, Hi, Hi. I know it was only a
question of time until you ran down.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry. I guess I get a little overcharged out
on the stage. Listen, it's nice meeting you, mister Dollar,
and I know how you've come down here, but I
think you're wasting your time. Oh sold, things really pretty silly, you.
Speaker 7: Know, I hope so, Miss Breadshaw you mean Amy?
Speaker 5: Okay, Amy, say, look, how about having a drink with
me somewhere we can talk about it.
Speaker 9: I'd love to, but I'm afraid I have an eight tonight.
Could we make it tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Maybe? Sure? Okay, anytime?
Speaker 9: Excuse me, come in.
Speaker 3: Oh Mike, I'm sorry. I didn't know you had company.
Speaker 9: That's all right. This is Johnny Dollar. Johnny Mike Pmroy,
my agent. Do you think of it tonight?
Speaker 10: Mike?
Speaker 5: Well, I seemed like okay, Oh uh, tell you what
I mean.
Speaker 3: I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Tomorrow, Mike, I've got a.
Speaker 5: Few things I got to take care of tonight. Contracts
to go over, you know, things like that. Oh, of
course we're goining to meet your dollar, not Amy.
Speaker 9: Is that offer of a drink still good? Johnny?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: Sure, but I thought you said you have Oh oh sure,
let's go.
Speaker 9: Thanks for understanding anywhere in particular, there's a little place
right down the street, small and quiet. Oh, would you
mind if we crossed the stage and without the other door?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 9: I think someone's waiting for me outside this exit. Oh,
sort of a friend of mine, Porty Kine, But he
can be a little wearing and I'm rather tired.
Speaker 5: Sure I could see him through the open door, thin faced,
rather elegant looking man in the black Homburg. We went
out the other side and down the street to a
bar a few doors away. I am too on expense account.
Four dollars drinks. After the first one, Amy relaxed a little.
I wanted to get her talking about herself, and it
wasn't too tough to do.
Speaker 9: There's not really much to tell about me. I've been
acting a long time. Sometimes it seems too long. I've
come a long way. Some people would say, up, I
hope it is.
Speaker 3: You make it sound pretty simple.
Speaker 9: I guess we do what we have to, all of us.
I had to act so so.
Speaker 3: Just like that, huh, you just like that?
Speaker 5: You've always gotten everything you wanted, haven't you?
Speaker 9: I think so.
Speaker 3: Hasn't anyone ever gotten in your way.
Speaker 9: No, Johnny, that's never happened. If it did, it.
Speaker 5: Looks to me like somebody's standing in your way right now.
What do you mean that threatening letter you got the
other day?
Speaker 9: I told you the whole thing's silly, there's nothing to.
Speaker 3: It, and that's what you told me. But I don't
think you believe.
Speaker 9: It, Okay, So maybe I have worried a little about it.
I wouldn't have it it had it was probably only
my imagination.
Speaker 3: What was amy?
Speaker 9: Well, last night, after the show, I felt like walking
a little. I went west on forty fourth Street Times Square.
As usual, it was crowded. I stood on the curb
waiting for the light to change, and suddenly I got
shoved out into the street. Oh, right out into the traffic.
I jumped back just in time.
Speaker 3: You see, who did it?
Speaker 9: How can you tell in a crowd like that. I
know it was probably only coincidence that had happened right
after I got that note, But oh, Johnny, I still
just can't believe anybody is really trying to do me harm.
But I guess what's been making me nervous during the
performance is staring out at that blackness past the footlights.
Wondering if there's somebody out there.
Speaker 7: Who hates me.
Speaker 9: Ah huh, I guess I can't stand being hated, Johnny.
I've got to be loved.
Speaker 5: Look, Amy, did it ever occur to you this might
not be a crank out in the audience, that it
might be someone closer to you?
Speaker 9: What, Johnny, that's impossible, isn't I don't have many friends.
They mostly to do with the play, but those I
have a good one.
Speaker 5: Who else besides your agent Pomroy?
Speaker 3: How about the.
Speaker 9: Director David Coleman. He's a very old friend and one
of the best.
Speaker 3: How about the producer.
Speaker 9: Emily's the last person in the world who wished me
harm on a dollars and sense basis if nothing else.
Speaker 5: He and Dora Boat.
Speaker 2: Dora his wife.
Speaker 9: I like her very much.
Speaker 3: Does she like you?
Speaker 9: Why shouldn't she?
Speaker 5: What about this man you wanted to duck tonight, the
one who was waiting outside the theater, Portycane.
Speaker 9: Oh, A sort of a fan. I guess a little
eccentric maybe, but he's been very good to me, Johnny. Really,
it couldn't be any of them.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 5: Look, Amy, I was sent down here because Northwestern indemnity
holds upon you.
Speaker 3: Now, who's the beneficiary?
Speaker 9: William Yorke?
Speaker 3: Who's he?
Speaker 9: My husband?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I didn't know you were married and.
Speaker 9: We separated six months ago. But I wanted he didn't,
but he wanted.
Speaker 7: I didn't.
Speaker 9: It's as simple as that. Or is he now here
in New York somewhere? I guess I don't know. He's
a rider, sort of.
Speaker 4: Johnny.
Speaker 9: I'm tired.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, sure you must be. I'm sorry I kept
you so long.
Speaker 9: No, I didn't mean that. It's been nice, very nice.
It's funny. I seemed to relax a little when I'm
with you.
Speaker 3: We let that one lay and went outside.
Speaker 5: I had him three unexpensed account two dollars taxi to
Wamie's apartment. There was a car parked two doors down,
while the man just sitting in it. I saw Amy
give it a quick look. Then as she said good
night to me at the door, I noticed that she
slipped the catch on it. I saw it across the
street and stepped into the shadows. A moment later, the
door of the park car opened and her agent, Mike Pomroy,
got out and went into the apartment house. Then I
realized I wasn't the only one watching this. Half a
block down the street, I could see a figure in
a shadowy doorway. I ran toward him, but he took
off around the corner. When I reached the corner, he
was nowhere in sight. Amy might have been taking this
thing only half seriously, but I was real serious about it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: She said she had some very nice friends, but I
had a strong hunch that one of these very nice
friends was out to kill her. Johnny Dellar Elson, tell
it down a precinct headquarter, Johnny, Oh, hi, al, Sorry, I.
Speaker 4: Missed your call a few minutes ago. What's on your mind?
Speaker 5: An actress named Amy Bradshaw. Amy one of my favorite
me too, But right now I seem to be looking
for a guy who doesn't feel that way about her.
Like somebody's trying to kill Amy Bradshaw.
Speaker 4: Better come down here and tell me all about it.
Speaker 5: Expense accounts submitted by Special investigator Johnny Dollar, location, New
York City to the Northwestern Indemnity Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation
of the Amy Bradshaw matter. The threat of an attempt
on her well insured life expense account item five A
dollar seventy five cab from my hotel the precinct headquarters
to talk to Detective Lieutenant Alison. Tell him I looked
about the same as the last time i'd seen him. Rugged, competent,
maybe a few pounds heavy.
Speaker 3: Year sit down, Johnny Siddan.
Speaker 5: Thanks something about Amy Bradshaw, you said, Yeah, didn't know
you were a friend of hers. Northwestern Indemnity holds a
twenty five thousand dollars life insurance policy on her. Yeah,
take a look at this note. Amy got it several
days ago.
Speaker 4: You are evil.
Speaker 3: You will be punished by sudden de Oh. Come on, a.
Speaker 5: Couple of nights ago, after the show, somebody shoved Amy
off the curb and out into the traffic over in
Times Square. Well, the same thing happens to me almost
every time I'm around Times Square.
Speaker 3: You know what I smell in all this?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Sure you probably smell at publicity. I sure.
Speaker 5: Do you think I'd fall for a thing like that?
Speaker 3: You know an Amy Bradshaw very long?
Speaker 5: Oh, I'd seen her in a few shows, but last
night was the first time I ever met her in person.
I didn't know you pretty well I'd say you might
be getting a little stage.
Speaker 3: Struck on her. Uh huh.
Speaker 5: What about the man who trailed Amy to her apartment
last night?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know. I chased him, but he had
too much of.
Speaker 3: A lead on me.
Speaker 5: I still wouldn't go jumping to any conclusions. Who you
got to work on for instance, Well, for one, David Coleman,
her director. Then there's the producer Emory Taylor and his
wife Dora. From what Amy said, I get Dora doesn't
like her very well anybody else, And as a ragent
Mike Pomroy, she seems to be pretty wrapped.
Speaker 3: Up in him old stable fooling it looks like it.
Speaker 5: Also a fellow named Porter Kane who was usually hanging
around the theater waiting for Amy. And finally the man
I really came to talk to you about.
Speaker 11: Who's that name?
Speaker 5: Is Bill Yorke, her husband, but they're separated. Oh, she
doesn't know where he is. You figure he might tie
in somehow. He is the beneficiary of Amy's insurance policy.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll see if I can turn up an address
on him for you. Okay, thanks, Al.
Speaker 5: In the meantime, I think I'll pay a call on
this Porter Kin. See if I can find out just
how good a fan he is.
Speaker 2: We will continue with the Bradshaw met her in a moment.
Speaker 5: Expense account Adam six to twenty five cab to the
apartment of Porter Kine in the seventies.
Speaker 3: It was an expensive looking place.
Speaker 5: I got there about noon, but Porter Kin was just
finishing breakfast, accompanied by Chopin.
Speaker 11: May I offer you a cup of coffee? Mister Dollar.
Speaker 3: Oh, thanks, a blind place.
Speaker 12: Yes, now, if you came to see me about any Bradshaw,
I believe that's right.
Speaker 5: Mister Kane sent Northwestern and down to the Alliance. They
hold a policy on miss Bradshaw.
Speaker 11: You perhaps want some sort of character reference on her.
Speaker 3: You might put it that way.
Speaker 11: Well, in that case, you couldn't have come to one
better qualified than I. You see, Amy is my career
at present?
Speaker 5: Afraid I don't understand, mister Kane.
Speaker 12: Well, some years ago I was relieved with the sordid
but customarily necessary task of working for my bread and butter.
The result is that I've been able to devote myself
to a fascinating hobby.
Speaker 3: What kind of a hobby?
Speaker 12: I collect things, all the objects of my interests vary,
but they all have one thing in common.
Speaker 11: This signet ring I'm wearing, for.
Speaker 3: Instance, Yes, I noticed it very unusual.
Speaker 12: The crest is out of the Medichif Family Renaissance Italy,
the only ring of its kind in the world, so
far as any of the authorities on that period are aware.
Speaker 11: That a vase on the table, the painting on the wall.
Speaker 12: That sculpture one of a kind, huh, precisely, which brings
us quite logically to Amy, who is clear one of
a kind. So so I plan to add Amy to
my collection just like that.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 12: I'm certain Amy will see it my way in time,
and I have time now, If you'll excuse me, I
must dress for the matinee. Oh will I see you again, mister.
Speaker 5: Dollar, Yes, you probably will, mister Kane. I was glad
to get out of the hothouse atmosphere of Kane's apartment.
Real weird this character, and I had a hunch i'd
better keep an eye on him. It am seven a
dollar sixty five camp fair that evening to the Criterion theater.
I arrived half an hour before curtain time and headed
for Amy's dressing room, and as I approached her door,
you're listening real careful, I'll give it to you once again.
You've been tossing wrong cues de Shila for three nights now.
You've been doing everything you can to upstage or make
her look bad.
Speaker 9: Nke.
Speaker 3: It's just that I've.
Speaker 9: Been nervous lately. Maybe I have made a few mistakes
in my Amy.
Speaker 5: You know, I've got plans for Sheila, and I don't
want her looking bad in this play.
Speaker 9: You've got plans for Sheila?
Speaker 2: What? Amy?
Speaker 3: We can talk about that some other time, but for now,
I just want you to understand. You to lay on Sheila.
I mean, is that a threat? Mike, take it anywhere
you like.
Speaker 5: It sounded like Pomroy was coming outside, so I ducked
around behind a piece of scenery and waited a moment.
Then I went back to Amy's door. Oh, Johnny, hello, Amy,
you look tired.
Speaker 9: I am. I just had a little go around with
mikem I've been fluffing some of my lines lately. He
seems to think I've been doing it deliberately to make
Shila Mitchell look bad, But he's wrong. Have you found
out anything yet, Johnny, No.
Speaker 7: Not much.
Speaker 9: I still can't believe there's anything to it. It's so
silly to let it upset me, silly even to give
it a thought.
Speaker 5: Well, try not to, Amy, let me worryorry about it,
all right?
Speaker 9: Did I ever tell you it's nice having you around? Johnny?
Speaker 5: I left a dressing room and started for the alley door,
but somebody stepped out in front of me. It was
Mike Palmerai. Hello Dollar, Oh, Hi, Pomarai. I was just
talking to Dave Coleman the directory. He told me he
was the one who sent for you. He told me
why you didn't know about the threatening letter?
Speaker 3: Am he got? No? No, I didn't, look Dollar.
Speaker 5: Every actors I've ever known has gotten at least one
note like that during her career. You don't think they
should be taken too seriously, then.
Speaker 3: No, Miami's pretty nervous these days. As long as you're
around stirring things up. Should be worried about it. If
there's anything to be done about it, I can handle it.
Speaker 5: In other words, you want me to mind my own
business at it. You said that, Dollar, I didn't. It
might not be a bad IDEA funny thing when somebody
tells me to lay off a case. My interest in
it always doubles. After the final curtain, I went backstage
to wait for Amy. The stage door was open and
I could see Porter Kin waiting in the alley outside,
so I went over to him.
Speaker 11: Well, mister Dollar, good evening.
Speaker 5: Hello Kane on duty again tonight.
Speaker 12: Perhaps that's one way of putting it. I thought I
might have a little chat with Amy after she's cheat.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid she has a date.
Speaker 11: So do you happen to know with whom?
Speaker 3: Yeah, me, mister Dollar.
Speaker 11: Are you suggesting that I'm to regard you as some
sort of rival?
Speaker 5: Not at all, Kane. I'm just suggesting that I'm a
friend of Amy's.
Speaker 11: I see good night, mister Dollar.
Speaker 5: After Kin left, I stood beside the stage door and
tried to figure out some of the angles on this case.
There were too many of them. But the time I
went in, the theater was dark except for a dim
light bulb over the stage, and everyone had gone. Everybody,
that is, except Amy. I ran into the dock in theater.
She was standing horrified next to the stairway by the
dressing rooms, her eyes fixed on something that lay on
the floor.
Speaker 13: Johnny, I was on my way out to meet you.
I had a swish through the air, this heavy sandbag.
It barely missed me.
Speaker 3: Yes, stay back against the wall, Amy, you'll be okay.
Speaker 5: There, I climbed the long ladder up to the catwalk
above the stage, where they sometimes used the sandbags to balance.
Speaker 3: Hunts the scenery. It was dock up there. I started
edging along the catwalk. Suddenly my foot hit a loose board.
Speaker 5: I almost lost my balance, a loose board that could
have been left for me. And it was a long,
long drop down to the stage. Whoever had been up
there knew the theater pretty well. Finally I went back
down to Amy. She was trembling. Johnny, it's okay, Amy,
It's okay, Johnny.
Speaker 9: Maybe I didn't take it seriously before, but I do
know somebody dropped that sandbag from up there deliberately.
Speaker 13: Somebody is trying to kill me, and I'm scared.
Speaker 5: I'm scared, Johnny Dollar El sin Tell at police headquarters, Johnny, Yeah,
you hear what happened at the Criterion Theater after the
show last night. I was off duty when you called,
but Sergeant Rogers gave me a fill in this morning.
So somebody had tried to drop a sandbag on Amy
Bradshaw Banks Day. Yeah, a real near miss. You still
think these attempts in our life are publicity stunts? Looks
like your hunch was right. I'll have a couple of
my boys keep an eye on Amy.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Johnny.
Speaker 5: You wanted to know the whereabouts of this guy, Bill Yorke,
the husband Amy separated from.
Speaker 3: What have you got on him now?
Speaker 4: Seven six eight West Fourth Street down in Greenwich, Hilly?
Speaker 5: Thanks, I'll check it. New York City expense account submitted
by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office Northwestern
Indemneny Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of
expenditures during my investigation of the Amy Bradshaw matter. Expense
account Item eight two seventy five taxi from my hotel
to Greenwich Village to try and locate a writer named
Bill York who had separated from Amy six months ago.
Amy was a good actress, but she couldn't hide the
fact she was plenty scared by the attempts on her
life in the last three days. My hunch was it
was someone close to Amy, and Bill York was very
much on my list. After all, he was the beneficiary
on her life insurance policy. I hadn't been to this
part of the village in two or three years, but
from the looks of it, it hadn't changed a bit. Defiantly
shabby and run down. A few beards here and there,
a few gals with long straight hair, bookstores and bars
side by side. I checked at the address Al Sintella
had given me. It was a beat up, old rooming house.
Speaker 7: You come down here to interview the face rider something
like that. Not exactly too bad here. I thought you
wanted to carry my message to America.
Speaker 5: Now I'm afraid that's a little out of my department,
mister York. Amy did mention that you were a writer.
Speaker 7: I can tell you exactly what she said. She said,
you know, Bill's a writer, sort of right.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 7: As a matter of fact, Amy always felt it necessary
to apologize for me. There was one thing about our
marriage that was always so charming.
Speaker 5: Well, look, I didn't come here to discuss your marriage, York.
I don't know what you so bitter about. It's none
of my business.
Speaker 11: But oh what do I have to be bitter about here?
Speaker 7: I am an artist living an unfettered life of freedom
in Greenwich Village. What more could I ask?
Speaker 5: I guess I haven't read any of your books. Don't
worry about it. You're in good company, you and the publishers.
It's too bad, must make a little problem in the
grocery department.
Speaker 7: Oh, that doesn't worry me. You see, one can always
manage to live comfortably in huck. Oh, and if one
is willing to huck his soul, of course, returns are
much greater.
Speaker 3: I don't get you.
Speaker 7: That's not surprising, because nobody else but me would call
it my soul. It's just the manuscript for an unpublished novel,
three years of work and sweat and pain. But my
clever pawn broke mister Pomeroy has a fair idea what
it means.
Speaker 5: To me, Mike Pomeroy, Amy's agent, Tommy Champ, quite true.
In other words, if you could raise some money, you
could get this brainchild of yours out of hawk from him.
Tell me how long has it been since you've seen.
Speaker 3: Amy several months?
Speaker 5: Why you haven't been uptown near her apartment of the
last few days?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 3: You sure, of course?
Speaker 11: Anything else?
Speaker 3: No, not for now.
Speaker 2: We will continue with the Bridshaw matter. In a moment.
Speaker 5: I was getting nowhere in my attempt to find out
who was gunning for Amy Bradshaw, and I know it.
I called Mike Pomeroy, her agent, but he was out,
so I took the next name on my list, the
producer of Amy's play, Emory Taylor. Expense a cont item
nine one seventy five Camp Fair to Taylor's apartment in
the mid fifties, near the Museum of Modern Art. Taylor
wasn't in, but his wife, Dora was. She was sleep
looking and a little on the brittle side. She was
sitting behind a small bar in the den and she
looked quite at home there. Drink thanks? Will your husband
be back soon? Missus Taylor?
Speaker 13: Who knows?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh? Thank you?
Speaker 3: What do you want to see him about Amy Bradshaw?
Speaker 13: What about Amy Bradshaw?
Speaker 5: I wanted to ask him if he knew of anyone
who might want to harm Amy for any reason.
Speaker 13: Oh, I could answer that better than Ama Ray.
Speaker 5: There is someone there, certainly is who me.
Speaker 14: Why would you like it if your husband was knocking
himself out for your well, for a younger woman.
Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't that part of the business.
Speaker 9: Is it?
Speaker 13: That's not all Amy's hurt. Plenty of people getting where
she is.
Speaker 3: Do you think your husband's one of them?
Speaker 13: I hope not.
Speaker 3: Who has she heard? Missus Tanney.
Speaker 13: Do you know Dave Coleman, her director?
Speaker 14: He was very much in love with him a few
months ago. I see, I don't like to see someone
I like get the way he was one night here
he had a couple too many said if he couldn't
have her?
Speaker 13: Oh funny, how quick he got over it.
Speaker 5: Though, never says anything about it anymore.
Speaker 13: Huh, not a word?
Speaker 3: What about Porter Kane?
Speaker 13: Oh you've met him?
Speaker 3: Is he one of them that Amy's hurt?
Speaker 13: No? No, he's not in that category.
Speaker 14: Whatever happened to hurt him must have happened about the
age of five.
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 13: Who isn't that when most of our troublestore I wouldn't know.
Speaker 14: I once paid a psychiatrist five hundred dollars to tell
me that's when mine.
Speaker 3: Started your troubles?
Speaker 14: Sure can't you tell, mister Dollard, I'm the mixed up type.
Speaker 3: Aren't we all? Missus Tiller?
Speaker 5: I left her still sitting behind the bar, and somehow
I felt sorry for her.
Speaker 3: But she had given a new lead.
Speaker 5: David Coleman, Amy's director, who'd had it bad for Amy
just a few months ago and had now completely recovered.
Maybe I made a mental note to have a little
chat with Coleman that night. Then I put in another
call to Mike Pomeroy. This time he was in and
I finally talked him into meeting me at a little
bar on West forty fourth near the theater. But when
I got there, I could see that he wasn't feeling
very cooperative. Luck Dollar, I suggested once before, nice and polite,
that maybe you should try minding your own business. I
got the message, all right, Pomroy, and now I've got
one for you. I am minding my own business. This
is what I was hired to do. The insurance company
I represent holes a pretty hefty life insurance policy on Amy,
and if she's in any danger, they want to know.
Speaker 3: But I told you before, I think this whole thing's
pretty silly. I had a talk with Bill York, the
riter of this morning.
Speaker 5: Even though he and Amy are separated, you know, he's
still the beneficiary on are policy. So so he says
he's in hock to you. He's a bum. He wasn't
doing Amy any good. She was worrying about him. Only
split up. I told him as long as he stayed
away from her, didn't try to see her, I'd keep
him in groceries.
Speaker 4: I see.
Speaker 3: But naturally I wanted some security.
Speaker 5: The manuscript of his book, for instance.
Speaker 3: So great I'm born American novel.
Speaker 5: And apparently that manuscript means a lot to That's why
I figured it'd be good security. As a matter of dollar,
you look like you smelled something bad. I am what
am I supposed to be a philanthropist?
Speaker 3: Let me make one thing, Claire Palmeroy.
Speaker 5: As far as the kind of loans you make, I
agree with you, it's none of my business. But maybe
I just got a sensitive no. Yeah, anyway, now I
want my door back. Is anything wrong with that kind
of thing? I've got a play land up. I know
we'll go over big. I want to produce it. York's
tabs run up to several thousand bucks. Now I could
use the money, I see. The stupid part of the
whole deal is that York could pay me back within
a couple of months if he wanted to. Sure, there's
a lot of dough floating around to be made in
television these days, But that primadonna thinks he's way above
that sort of thing. This play you want to produce
COMROI well it star Amy?
Speaker 3: No Sheela men you.
Speaker 5: Oh well, thanks for the information be seen, I doubted.
On my way over to the Criterion Theater, I thought
about palm Roy, a rugged customer, and I felt he
was one more who wouldn't let anyone stand in the
way of anything he wanted to do. After the show,
I picked up Amy backstage and took her back to
her apartment. She looked very tired and didn't say. We
said good night at the front entrance, and I started
walking along the sidewalk. Then I spotted somebody in the
shadows across the street again watching. I could tell from
his hat and Cody was the same one who'd been
there the night before last. I kept on walking until
I reached the corner, then circled halfway around the block
to when Alley and edged up on him from behind.
He didn't see me until I dove at him. Well,
Bill York, what are you doing here? So you haven't
been there Amy for a long time? Huh, except tonight
and the night before last, watching her apartment. Come on,
New York, start talking and it better be good. Johnny
dellar alson tell it the police headquarters. Johnny better get
over here to my hotel room. Now I've got company.
Speaker 11: Who is it?
Speaker 4: Bill York, Amy Brandtshaw's X husband, right.
Speaker 5: I caught him watching her apartment half an hour ago,
and he's the one who was watching it the other night.
This time I had better luck catching him. Has he
opened up yet?
Speaker 3: No, but he will.
Speaker 4: Johnny take it easy with him.
Speaker 5: I think he's got plenty to tell us. Looks like
he's the boy where after l I'll be right over
New York City. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny
Dollar to the home Office Northwestern Indemnity Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut.
The following is an accounting of expendit yours during my
investigation of the Amy Brandtshaw matter. Amy star of a
Broadway play, and somebody was out to get her expense
account adam ten three dollars repairs to one coach leave
torn in the process of inviting Bill Yorke up to
my hotel room.
Speaker 7: Well, Dehli, you've got no right to drag me up
here your room this.
Speaker 3: Way, York.
Speaker 5: You're gonna sit right here until you open up and
tell me all about the attempt on Amy Branshaw's life.
Speaker 3: What you come in?
Speaker 5: Oh wow, Hi, Johnny York, this is Detective Lieutenant Elson.
Speaker 11: Tell her look kill and what's this all about?
Speaker 3: Well? I kind of thought that's what you tell us,
mister York.
Speaker 7: This is crazy.
Speaker 11: Why would I want to kill Amy?
Speaker 5: You're aware that you're still a beneficiary on Amy's insurance policy.
Even if I show you need money, and you need
it bad. You're several thousand bucks in debt to Mike
palmeroy Amy's agent. He's been pressing you for it lately.
Look down, you know you can't get the manuscript of
your novel, Lot of Hawk from him until you pay off.
You've got two strikes against your York motive and opportunity.
Speaker 7: Opportunity, sure, but motive, no dollar. I've never had any
reason to kill Amy. It's true she and I couldn't
make it together, but I guess that was more my
fault than hers.
Speaker 3: Go on.
Speaker 7: You see, Amy's never let anything stand in the way
of what she wanted. What she wanted, I didn't. I
guess we just lived in two different worlds.
Speaker 3: What do you mean.
Speaker 7: She's always been a success and I've always been a failure.
Speaker 5: You still haven't explained why you lied to me, York.
When I talked to you this morning, you told me
you hadn't been near Amy for a long time. But
when I caught up with you in front of her
apartment tonight, I realized you were the same one who
was watching the night before last.
Speaker 7: How about that, York, You fellas don't believe me much?
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 7: Sure, once in a while I go stand outside her
apartment house, look up at the light in the window,
maybe think a little about how things might have been.
That's all.
Speaker 5: Maybe you better come downtown with me, York. We'll check
your story further. If you're clean, you got nothing to
worry about.
Speaker 4: Sergeant, Take mister York down to the car and wait
for me there.
Speaker 3: Johnny, Who else have you talked to?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 3: Everybody close to her?
Speaker 5: The interesting most as a ragent Mike Pomeroy, he'd be
a pretty rough customer when he wants to, and he
thinks Amy's standing in the way of a career for
an actress he's currently interested in. Let's talk about somebody
else for a moment. Oh you, Johnny, I think you're
getting a little bit out of line.
Speaker 3: What do you mean.
Speaker 5: Down at police headquarters, we got a little black book.
Speaker 3: It tells us what to do and what not to do.
Speaker 5: It doesn't say anything about insurance investigators dragging possible suspects
to their hotel room to question them. Listen, now, when
I'm assigned to a case, I usually try to break
it any way I can.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 3: It's just that I think you're taking this case pretty big.
Speaker 5: Meaning yesterday I told you that if I didn't know
you better, I think you were falling for Amy a
little yourself.
Speaker 3: Think it over, Johnny.
Speaker 2: We will continue with the Bradshaw matter in a moment.
Speaker 5: Expense account out of eleven four dollars drinks for me.
I thought about what Alison Teller had said, the possibility
I was falling for Amy Bradshaw. I thought about it
for two hours. Finally I decided I had to find
out if he was right. I went over to Amy's apartment.
Speaker 9: It's good of you to come over, Johnny. I just
can't seem to sleep lately. Yeah, I noticed there's a
policeman on duty down in the lobby.
Speaker 3: Lieutenants and Teller arrange for that.
Speaker 9: It's funny, it should make me feel better, but it doesn't,
just keeps reminding me of it, threat on my life.
I'm glad you're here, Johnny. It's so am I halfly glad.
Maybe I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 3: But do you hear any objections? Well?
Speaker 9: Who could excuse me?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir?
Speaker 4: Hello?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 11: Porter?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 9: No, I'm sorry? No, really poor, it's out of the question.
Speaker 12: No, good night.
Speaker 3: Can huh?
Speaker 9: Yes? I suppose he means well, but he can be
rather annoying. Do you have a cigarette? Johnny? Thanks? You
seem rather quiet tonight.
Speaker 5: Oh, just thinking, I guess.
Speaker 9: Funny, a meeting like this, Yeah, just a few days ago.
I didn't know you at all.
Speaker 4: No, I know what.
Speaker 9: I don't know, Johnny. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Amy.
Speaker 9: It's a mistake, Johnny.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, wasn't it.
Speaker 9: Yes, Johnny, I'm afraid I've heard a couple of people
in the past. I don't want to hurt you, don't worry,
you want And that's the wonderful thing about being an actress.
You play so many parts.
Speaker 3: A kiss I was playing a part.
Speaker 10: Huh.
Speaker 9: Even if it weren't, Johnny, be no good, there'd always
be something between us. It's right over there in the maddle.
Speaker 3: The clock.
Speaker 9: Yes, we can't turn it back. If i'd met you
a long time ago before, Mike, but I didn't.
Speaker 3: No, so is the clock so bad?
Speaker 4: Amy?
Speaker 9: It is to an actress. Sometimes I pretend it isn't there.
You ever do that, Johnny.
Speaker 3: It doesn't do any good that you can try.
Speaker 9: You can live a whole life trying. Isn't that really
what we all do?
Speaker 11: I don't know.
Speaker 9: We go along, playing our parts, doing what we have
to do, pretending o'clock isn't there. It's all the while
it is that we keep on fighting against it. We
know we can't turn it back. We can't even stop it.
Speaker 5: One thing I'd accomplished, I guess I decided I wouldn't
be seeing Amy anymore after this case was wound up.
Winding it up, though, was another question, and I was
still as far from home as.
Speaker 3: Ever on it.
Speaker 5: But I couldn't seem to get port of Kine and
this quaint little hobby of collecting things out of my mind.
Speaker 11: Why good evening, mister Dollar and almost Kane, come in,
come in.
Speaker 3: Thanks. I know it's late.
Speaker 12: I'm sorry, not at all. As a matter of fact,
I was hoping i'd see you again.
Speaker 3: I don't want to keep you. I see your hat
and cold.
Speaker 11: I'm not going out. I've just come in.
Speaker 5: Oh you said you were hoping you'd see me again.
Speaker 11: Yes, I enjoyed our other little chat very much. I
suppose you came to talk some more about Amy Bradshaw.
Speaker 5: Matter of fact, mister Kane, I came to talk about
you splendid and about your hobby.
Speaker 11: Collecting a fascinating hobby, mister Dollar.
Speaker 3: You take it pretty seriously, don't you.
Speaker 12: I've devoted most of my life to it, and I
may say that I've succeeded rather brilliantly with it.
Speaker 11: Each item in my collection is incomparable, without equal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of a kind, and that.
Speaker 12: Of course, is precisely why Amy is necessary to complete
the collection, the crowning and final addition.
Speaker 3: Final.
Speaker 11: Yes, for your information, mister Dollar.
Speaker 12: When I've acquired Amy, I intend to cease my hobby. Oh,
she will complete my collection without her, though it is
still incomplete.
Speaker 5: Mind if I ask you a couple of questions, mister.
Speaker 3: Kane, not at all.
Speaker 5: You seem to have been pretty successful with your collection.
Have you ever run up against an item you wanted
but couldn't get?
Speaker 11: Of course, not that just doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: Has it ever happened?
Speaker 11: I can't remember that it.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it did happen once when.
Speaker 12: When I was nine years old, playmate of mine at
a lollipop that I admired greatly.
Speaker 11: He wouldn't give it to me, and he wouldn't sell
it to me.
Speaker 12: What did you do? I did the only logical thing
there was to do. I smashed the lollipop as.
Speaker 2: The dollar.
Speaker 5: Johnny Dollar Brashaw, Johnny Amy, it's one am.
Speaker 3: Anything the matter?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 15: Can you come over right away?
Speaker 3: Sure? Your apartment?
Speaker 15: No, I'm in my dressing room at the Criterion.
Speaker 3: Theater at one o'clock. Amy.
Speaker 5: There's a policeman assigned to you. Is he with you?
Speaker 15: No? I would not the back way. I came over
here alone.
Speaker 5: Why he's supposed to be protecting you?
Speaker 15: Johnny? I can't explain now, but I think I finally
know who's been trying to kill me. I want to
talk to you right away over here. Hurry, please hurry.
Speaker 5: New York City expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny
Dollar to the home Office Northwestern Indemnity Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut.
The following is an accounting of expendit yours during my
investigation of the Amy Bradshaw matter. Expense account ADEM twelve
five dollars taxi from my hotel to the Criterion Theater
on West forty fourth. Two bucks for the fair, three
bucks for getting me there. In five minutes, Amy had
sounded plenty scared over the phone. The camp skidded to
a stop in front. I caught a glimpse of somebody
at the other corner of the theater. It looked like
Porter Kane. I couldn't be sure, and I didn't have
time to find out right now. Backstage was quite dark
and I had to feel my way through some The
shot came from the direction of Amy's dressing room. Mike Palmer,
the Royal Ragent, was lying on the floor dead. There
was a gun on the floor too, just inside the door.
What happened to Amy, Amy, stop it? Tell me what
happened the door door.
Speaker 13: The shot came from the door.
Speaker 5: I ran outside the dressing room, across the stage into
the alley. I went in sight back inside, I found
a light switch, so I phoned Els and tell at
police headquarters, told him what had happened.
Speaker 3: Amy was quieter.
Speaker 5: Now, Amy, look, look, I know it's tough for you
to talk right now, but you've got to try and
tell me.
Speaker 9: No left him. Midnight, Mike called me at my apartment.
He said he wanted to talk to me about something important.
His office is nearby, and he asked me to beat
him here in my dressing room. So I came over
right away. Go on, Mike and I started talking. Suddenly
I saw the door opening, a crack hand with a
gun and Mike, Mike, Easy, easy, Mikes.
Speaker 13: So dude.
Speaker 5: He dove in between me and the door and collected
the slug.
Speaker 2: He fell against the door.
Speaker 9: That slammed on the hand. The gun dropped, and the
next thing I remember, you were in the room.
Speaker 3: You didn't see who was holding the gun. Oh, just
a hand, Amy.
Speaker 9: There was something on one of the fingers that I.
Speaker 3: Recognized, a large signet ring.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, yeah, it belonged to the guy out on
the sidewalk, Porter Kane.
Speaker 2: We will continue with the Bradshaw matter in a moment.
Speaker 5: Lieutenant Sintella arrived at Amy's dressing room and Amy repeated
her story to him. He sent a couple of his
boys out to pick up Porter Kane. Alan Amy and
I went down to headquarters. We left her in one
room while we went into another to question Kan, who
had been picked up at his apartment.
Speaker 11: See here, lieutenant.
Speaker 12: I don't know what this is all about, but I
certainly object to being routed.
Speaker 3: I asshole at Kane. You know why you're down here?
Speaker 11: I certainly do not.
Speaker 3: You don't know that Mike Palmeroy is dead.
Speaker 11: And Amy's agent? Really?
Speaker 3: Really, I never did like that.
Speaker 11: Chap quite an insensitive person.
Speaker 3: Well he's real insensitive. Now Kane's dead.
Speaker 11: How did it happen?
Speaker 3: Mike was shot by mistake? The real target was Amy?
Speaker 11: Good heavens.
Speaker 5: No, when's the last time you saw Amy? The night
before last? I spoke to her briefly after the show.
You haven't talked to her on the telephone?
Speaker 3: No, you're lying.
Speaker 5: I see here her apartment about eleven PM.
Speaker 3: I was there, all.
Speaker 12: Right, I did telephone, huh. I suggested she meet me somewhere.
I told her I'd wait for her outside of her
a park go on. I saw her come out later
by the alley, so I followed her through the theater,
thinking she meant for us to talk there.
Speaker 11: But then I I heard a shot.
Speaker 3: So you admit being in the vicinity.
Speaker 5: Well, yes, but I definitely did not go into the theater,
didn't you, Cain? Amy gotta look at the hand holding
the gun. There was a ring on one of the fingers.
Speaker 2: Ring your ring.
Speaker 11: She's completely mistaked.
Speaker 3: It's a very distinctive ring. It's not one that anybody
be mistaken about.
Speaker 11: See here, lieutenant.
Speaker 12: All of this wild supposition is based on the assumption
that I had a motive for wanting to kill Amy.
Speaker 5: You told me what your motive was when I talked
to you last evening in your apartment.
Speaker 11: What do you mean.
Speaker 5: I asked you what you do if you wanted something
for your collection and couldn't get it. You told me
a story about what happened when you were just a
kid nine years old. But I say, the kid had
a lollipop you wanted. He wouldn't give it to you,
so you smashed it. And that's what you were trying
to do tonight at Amy's dressing room. You couldn't have her,
so you tried to smash her. There wasn't much point
in my hanging around, so I got alse and tell
his permission to take Amy back to her apartment. We
could wait there for any new developments. Amy didn't say
a word all the way when we got there. She
sat in a chair staring at the wall. When she
finally spoke, it was more like she was talking to herself.
Speaker 9: He's dead, Amy, He's dead because of me.
Speaker 5: Stop talking that way. Mike Pomeroy jumped in the way
of a bullet. If he hadn't, you'd be dead. Stop it, Amy, Johnny, Yeah,
I think you think.
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 5: Oh, just a minute, I'll get it. It was Alisontella
down at police headquarters. When he finished talking, I didn't
say anything. There wasn't anything to say. After I hung up,
I stood there a moment, staring out the window, and
it started to rain. I felt old and tired and
empty and sick. I went back into the other room again.
Amy was sitting there looking.
Speaker 9: At me, Johnny, Amy, is that cough for me?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 9: Who was it?
Speaker 3: Lieutenants and tell her?
Speaker 5: Oh, the gun that killed Mike Pomeroy, there were no
fingerprints on it. You said you saw a bare hand
with a ring on it holding the gun. A bare
hand would have left fingerprints. You killed him, didn't you. Yes, Johnny,
the attempts on your life you fake them, didn't you
to convince people you were in danger so you could
kill Pomeroy. And we think the shot was intended for you.
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 10: Amy, you know why?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I guess. So you loved Mike.
Speaker 5: You knew he was growing away from you so fast,
so very fast. You saw him get interested in a
younger actress. You knew she was taking your place with him.
Speaker 9: Mike, I was dead. I couldn't stand that. I really couldn't.
So I started making it look like I was in danger.
It wasn't very hard, Johnny, I'm a good actress.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: After a while, I almost began to believe I was
in danger. Something was after me, was hunting me. It
finally caught up with me, and I did what I did.
Which Javis is the hunter, Johnny? And which is the hunted?
Speaker 3: Amy?
Speaker 5: Yes, I think one of lieutenants and Tella's men is
waiting for you.
Speaker 10: In the hall.
Speaker 9: All right, just one thing, Johnny, what isn't I'll need
something now, something. Don't forget me, Johnny, give me that.
Speaker 3: That you can count on.
Speaker 10: Amy.
Speaker 5: She walked out of the room and she didn't look back.
I'm glad she didn't expense account. I am thirteen sixteen
dollars and fifty cents. Transportation and incidentals from New York
back to Hartford. Expense account total one hundred and eighty
five dollars and twenty cents. End of account. End of
report remarks. Amy repeated her confession to Lieutenant Sintella, her
trials coming up soon, sweet case. Well, tomorrow's another day,
so they tell me yours, Julie, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 6: Johnny Dollar will return in a moment to tell you
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suicide or just Plaine murder? Join us, won't you? Yours truly?
Johnny Dollar?
Speaker 2: Yours truly?
Speaker 6: Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood,
written by Robert Rife, It is produced and directed by
Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast where Virginia, Greg
Florence Walcott, Don Diamond, Larry thor Vic Perrin and Carlton Young.
Speaker 2: Musical supervision by A. Marigo Marino.
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Johnny Dellar.
Speaker 2: This is Roy Rowlan speaking.
Speaker 1: Welcome back.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I will say that this one is a bit shorter
than our other omnibuses because we did come back on
us the John Animal commercials, which were pretty much the same,
but we did leave a couple in so you can
get a feel for them. But they were two in
each part, so a little bit shorter than some other ones.
And overall I thought this was a good actor story
and a good character story. It was a reminder of
the quality of actors available to Jack Johnstone and who
worked on this series, particularly during the serial run. The
way Carlton Young played Porter Kean was great. It was
so creepy, and even though he was an obvious suspect,
because of how creepy it was, I could buy him
as the culprit. In fact, I think it's safe to
say that Porter Kane will probably murder someone eventually, even
if he hadn't already. And even that one scene with
Johnny and Dora Taylor, the producer's wife, who was played
by Florence Wolcott, was such a great scene. I wish
we'd gotten more of her, but she was just so
engaging For having her on, It's just a shame there
was no plot reason for her being it further. And
then of course you have Virginia Gregg and another marvelous performance,
this time as the manipulative aging Starlett, who got to
the point where she nearly believed her own performance. I
often talk about not being a showcase for William Conrad,
with all the great guest characters he got to play.
I think the Johnny Dollar serials were much the same
thing for Virginia greg She got an opportunity to play,
if not her whole range, which is so significant, then
a lot of her range. We of course heard her
from the Valentine Matter, which we played last week, but
several weeks before this, and she'd been in The Broader
Matter the previous week in nineteen fifty five, and of
course she continued to make appearances throughout the serial run.
She was Kathy o'dair and Kathy o'dair's land lord in
the Nick schern Matter. She was in the Lamar Matter,
and she was Meg in The Mag's Palace Matter and
so many other really memorable performances throughout this particular serial.
In terms of the mystery, it was entertaining enough, but
our hero doesn't do a whole lot to solve it.
The police they pretty much figure it out. The episode
highlights Johnny's character in its strengths and weaknesses. He has
a very genuine nature and can be open hearted as
a professional though who has seen a lot. He can
be suspicious and can even be over the top in
that suspicion. But he can also easily become personally involved
because he cares about people and he sympathizes with him,
and that can make him more determined and get him
to fight harder for someone in trouble. But he can
also be played particularly by a pretty woman. Johnny's humanity
can cloud his judgment and lead him to make mistakes
and experience heartbreak, but that ultimately makes him an interesting
character that we enjoy following around. All right, well, now
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Speaker 9: Where well are you wearing?
Speaker 5: I'm never quite sure in the middle of a knife.
Speaker 15: My name is Phyllis Howard.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 10: Did you say Phillis Howard?
Speaker 3: That's right, that'll come in. I'm till they let you
wander around loose?
Speaker 9: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: Aren't you the gal whose uncle was T. J.
Speaker 10: Howard?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And didn't I read in the papers when his will
was probated last.
Speaker 3: Month he left you a cool ten million?
Speaker 9: It was only one.
Speaker 5: Well, whenever I read figures containing more than three zeros,
I get his Stigmatismy.
Speaker 11: What's bothering you?
Speaker 3: That a million dollars can't fit murder.
Speaker 9: Murder, Yes, there's a dead man in my apartment.
Speaker 3: How did he get that?
Speaker 2: I think he came off the fire escape.
Speaker 3: And he was alive when he walked in.
Speaker 10: Who is he?
Speaker 9: He called himself Paul, Paul?
Speaker 3: What about his last name?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Did he try to walk off with any of your property?
Speaker 9: I my jewel box?
Speaker 5: Okay, then we'll claim self defense, self defense?
Speaker 11: Yes, what did you do with the goun?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 9: I didn't kill him?
Speaker 11: And who doing?
Speaker 13: I don't know?
Speaker 2: Luck, miss Howard, Why didn't he try to kiss me?
Speaker 9: And while we were struggling it was a shot from
his gun.
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