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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It was a week before Christmas, and all through the
house a creature was stirring, and boy, what a rat.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is another in the adventures of America's fabulous freelance
insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, starring Charles Russell. At insurance investigation,
Johnny Dollar is only an expert at making out his
expense account he's an absolute genius.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Expense accounts submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Home
Office Industrial Insurance Incorporated, Hartford, Connecticut. Attention, mister Evan Stevens,
General Manager. The following is an accounting of my expenditures
during investigation of small time swindles big time department stores,
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or how I played Santa Claus and almost got left
holding the sack, or going for a sleigh ride without
benefit of snow can be tough sledding. Expanse account Item
one one dollar tip to a messenger who delivered this
assignment writing by hand to my apartment.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thanks with the dollar.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You have've never been known as a fast man with
a buck, mister Stevens, and I must say your note
to me also marked you in my mind as an
economist with words.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Dear Dollar, our client.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
The Association of department stores of Greater Manhattan has requested
help on the following problem.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
A young man's been making the realms of New.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
York department stores during the current Christmas rush, using his
equipment and official looking sales book. He goes to a
business department, makes a quick sale on some large item,
writes it up in his furious sales book, takes the
customer's cash, and disappears enclosed fine varying descriptions as furnished
by victims to date and check for your usual retainer feet.
Please put us top to this the perierus practice at
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once signed even Stephen's general manager.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Spence account item two six dollars twenty one cents. Train
pair Hartford to New York next morning at seven oh
three on the Banker's Special, a train very cleverly named
that because seventy five percent of its load is made.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Up of bankers.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I sat among them in a parlor car, watching them
limbering up for the day's chores, slowly shaking their heads
from side to side and softly whispering no. We arrived
at Grand Central at nine to twenty. The bankers got
off and headed for their granite vaults. I got off
and headed to face my stone wall. Spencer counts item
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three four bits cabpair to offices of the Association of
Department Stores of Greater Manhattan. There things gotten brighter right away.
Her name was Judy Whitehall. Boy, how she's been missed
by the scouts for the copacabana.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I'll never know.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I have been assigned to help you all I can,
mister Dollars, what would you.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Like to know her your home phone number? Oh, well,
maybe we can better wait until layer for that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
How many stores are there in your association, miss Whitehall?
Speaker 7 (03:17):
We have one hundred and twenty members stores, mister dollar.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Great, you know in one department store.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'm the kind of a guy that can't find the
glove department, and now I've got one hundred and twenty
stores in which to find someone I don't even know.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Well, we do have the man's description.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, as a matter of fact, we have a lot
of descriptions, all slightly different.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
And the regular store detectives are all on the lookouts.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It's like looking for a noodle of a spaghetti and.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
All the salespersonnel have been worn.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
What's beautiful your face?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Well, really, mister dollar after all.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Oh yeah, oh yes, I know business.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Well before I start, have you better give me a
letter of an education. I spend all day mosing around
the department stores without buying anything. I can stand a
good chance of getting picked up as a shoplifted.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Right away, follow me, Oh, justin minute.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Hello, this is miss Whitehall. Oh yes, missus Sander.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Well, why that's terrible, My goodness, that's awful.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Good gracious that that's worse.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Well, well, the insurance investigators here right now, missus Sanders.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
We'll be right over.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
What's so terrible?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
But that man, the one we're looking for, he was
in the Miller store making a phony sail on the
camera to the partner.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You also said it was awful.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
It was a little girl picked up a camera and
snapped his picture, and the man tried to take it
away from her and the girl he held, and then
her mother's screamed.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
And what made it worse when a store detective came
running and the man shot him. Then he grabbed a
little girl camera, ran off and ran off. They called
the police.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Really, I can't imagine why scene and the Miller's store
would have made the Notre Dame Bankville holler. Alcole Christmas
neck ties were selling like hotcakes. Only compared to most
of the ties, a heartcakee would look better on you.
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The camera department was on the mezzanine and the store manager,
mister Sander, was on her rampage.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Why doesn't somebody do something? Why can't they find him?
I've got men posted on every door. He's in this
store somewhere, and put oh, miss Whitehall, it's about time.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Who this?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
This is mister Dall and mister Sander from the insurance company.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
When I just what you can do?
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Dollar, I've already got twenty policemen running all over the store.
He capting the ridiculous prefostness and fantastic, that's.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
What it is.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Also amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Now, tell me, mister Sander about that little girl who
picked up the camera and snapped the carpet's picture.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Did they find her? Yet?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
They certainly did. In the rug department, she'd.
Speaker 9 (05:47):
Been shoved in the middle of a pile of nine
by twelve orientals on say it one hundred and twenty
three to fifty.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
She was scared, but not her.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
How the girl was found without the camera, I suppose, naturally.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
But the camera wouldn't do with any any good after
at the didn't have any film minutes they never do
went on display.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
I'm about the store detective, the one who got shot in.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
The hospital, Miss Hall.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
They'll call me here as soon as they find out
how badly he's been hurt.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well, getting back to that kid, was she able to
give you a good description of the guy who grabbed her?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
She hasn't stopped crying long enough.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well, how about her mother?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Neither is she?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Where are they now?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
There in my office? That's why I'm staying right here.
Speaker 9 (06:21):
Where is your off I'm the eighth floor, right next
to the credd In office.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well, this may be the first time I ever got
plassed the credit office.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
Come on, Judie, Oh Bobby, come on, blow your nose then.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Let be a brave little girl.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I don't want he hit me. He just kill me.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's just away.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I can.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Let me have another tribe, missus Jenson.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right, mister Dollar, if you think it'll do any good,
all right, Come on now, Bobby, all you have to
do is tell us what that bad man looks like.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We'll get him and then we'll fix you.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Come on now, I don't wanna kill me.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I'm beginning to think he's get up points. Okay, Bobby, okay, okay,
just a.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
METOPI oh Judy here, Yes, Johnny looks like as a
child psychologist.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I'm nothing at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I feel like telling little Bobby to go out and
play with some old razor blades.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Got any suggestions?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Well, it is almost Christmas.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Yeah, and one thing little girls don't want to do
with Christmas is get him wrong with Santa Claus?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Gotcha good gown? Where do we find Santa.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Claus in the tell I department on the fifth floor.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, give me about five minutes to explain things to
Santa and then bring Bobby down.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh, Bobby, what do you know?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
What happens to little girls who make Santa Claus mad
at them?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
What happened? They don't to look at television before they
go to bed? I mean at Christmas? What happens?
Speaker 10 (08:14):
They don't get any toys.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
All they get is old sweaters and underwear.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Well, listen, Bobby, this guy's said it happens to be
a good friend of mine.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Tell him? I want an air rifle?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You would?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay, okay, I'll even fix it so you can tell
him yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
How's that just fine?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
A good girl? Hey, where'd you get that blood on
your coat?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You gotta cut noser.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Ha's from that bad man.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I bit him on the head.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Okay, Judy, here I go go and on the way down,
maybe you better stop by the dog supply department and
buy a little Bobby a muzzle. If a kid doesn't
like his looks old Saint Nick may get nicked. Department
store should have some kind of a congressional medal for
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salespeople who worked in the toy department. Just before Christmas,
I took the elevator down to five, and when that
door slid open, it was.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Like stepping into Dottis.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Inferno Junior Grade. First, I got on a house phone
and called Sandra, who was still in the camera department.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
He had word from the hospital the store.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Detective had died without regaining consciousness.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I was no longer trying to catch a cheap swinder.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I was now out to swap blood with a dirty murderer.
A line of fidgety kids led me to Santa Claus,
sitting benignly on his throne. I had a short talk
with him and a short wait for Judy and little Bobby.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Okay, Santa, now we've got to make her talk. That
that is, You've got to all right, dollar.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right now, kiddy, you'll have to wait for a moment.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
We have a special little visitor coming to see me.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Oh yeah, I'll set okay, Bobby mcgirl. Now just let
me give you a hoist stuff and the sata's lamp.
He wants to ask you a few questions.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I want an air rifle.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You'll be a good little girl and answer all satis
nice questions and you'll get it.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
When I'm where i'd like to give it to you,
I'll go, yes, Well there we are, honey.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Now tell me what do you want for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I want an air rifle.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Well, we'll see what we can do about that.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Tell me if you've been a good little girl, Yes, sir,
we've heard. We'll just have to look up your name
in my little black book and make sure, hm pretty good.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
All but one little thing, what I do?
Speaker 7 (10:49):
I didn't do nothing?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, that's just it, you see, Bobby.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I have a note here that today some people asked
you what a certain man looked like, and you wouldn't
tell them. Is that right?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
I'm a great I don't want to tell they can't
make me.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, Bobby, maybe you and I had better talk this over.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
If you won't do something gross, how do you.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Take little Bobby's description of the murderer wasn't the greatest
by any means, but it was better than none of
all with which we had been furnished by the personnel
and the.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Camera department and the kid's mother.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We took the girl over the advertising department or an
artist made a sketch.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Armed with a drawing, we made a tour of the
store exits.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Showing it to the police posted on every door, giving
them a rough idea what to look for a medium builled,
pudgy man with black hair, and when he came across
such a character, he was to be issued an invitation
to show his hands. If he was sporting Bobby's teeth marks,
then they'd really know. Well, this chow out of the way,
missus Whitehall and I start and a pair of sandwiches
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in the tea room.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
The shoppers delight sandwich to be exact cream cheese, walnuts.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Water, cress and pineapple on a whole wheat bread.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
HM.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We found the store manager, Sandler, back in his office
he too was eating, but he was on a diet
of straight fingernails.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Oh terrible, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
BET's what it now.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Don't worry, mister Sander. He'll be caught as a swindler.
He might have gone on for years, but as a murderer.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It won't belong believe me.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Oh, what to do?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
What to do? What to do? Well, I've got.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Several ideas, and the first is get out of your
office and start at the top of the store and
work my way down.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
They're already doing that, and not a sign of you.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Well, I once found a mouse and a hayloft, so
be not disencouraged, and a pretty little.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Mouse you want, Oh dear, Oh, please try to relax,
mister Sander.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Everybody's doing your best.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
This, I'm sure they are.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
It's just to oh, hello, Yes, this is missus sand there.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Oh no, where how long has he been there? I'll
be right down.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
An hour?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
About an hour and a half ago.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Our store's handy class kept out into the employee best.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Room for the smoke. He was slat from behind.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
When he came to he was all tied up in
a broom closet and somebody has stolen his handy class suit.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
They just found him.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
About an hour and a half ago. Judy, you know
what that means.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh no, oh, yes, forty five minutes ago, when little
Bobby was giving Santa Claus the murder's description, he was.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Giving it to the murder himself. Oh good, gracious.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Instead of a kid's air rifle, it could have gotten
us a Revolver size thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
In just a moment, we will return to the second
act of Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
But first, CBS is.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Going to bring you one of the bugest present you
ever received from show business Tomorrow afternoon, Christmas Days. For
a full hour on the entire CBS network. You're going
to get all the comedy, all the laughs, and one
of the greatest Broadway in Hollywood hits of recent years,
The Man Who Came to Dinner and the Man Who Came,
will be played by none other than Jack Benny plus
Charles Wade, Gene Kelly, Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck and roslind Russell,
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plus Henry Fonda and John Garfield as narrators.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You'll hear them all.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
On CBS's special Holiday Hour tomorrow afternoon. Jack Bennie playing
the man who came to dinner and breaking a leg.
Had to stay on and on and on. Now, with
our star Charles Russell, we returned to the second act
of yours rule, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
There's no place like a crowded department store for a
fresh made murderer to Bonna Los, especially one. It's fl
Santa Claus for a lot of rosy cheeked little nippers.
I headed back to the toy department, but when I
got there, the cover was bare. Our lethal Saint Nick
had decided to give up his red flannel and white
whisker hiding place. We found the empty suit in a storeroom,
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tossed high on a stack of baby buggies.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Oh, Johnny, this is terrible. That man's a murderer. What
are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
What am I gonna do? Now?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Listen, Judy by now, there must be eighty seven cops sifting.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Through this store looking for that guy.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
They've got two cops on every door. Now, all I'm
gonna do is help him. Look, this is one of
those everybody's problems.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
You're right, I guess I'm just getting excited.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Oh look, that's you have a right to do. Come on,
let's get out here. I've got an idea, all right, Johnny.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Oh, mister, thank goodness I found you.
Speaker 11 (15:51):
Mi Standler wants you right away. Down on three, an
old lady has just been shot in Julia.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Missus Laningerie serves.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Are right for not I a rage? That's goduling.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Tried over here.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
Dollar let him through, Please let him lady, Please stand
back now, weil dollar congratulation.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Before this door was.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Only going to sue that company of yours for one
million dollars. Considering what this shooting will do to our reputation,
I'm going to make that five million.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Mister Sandler, keep your powder dry. First of all, it's
not my company. And second, you can't see him for
something they didn't do. And third you'd better get this
poor or gallow a hospital.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
How badly is she hurt?
Speaker 9 (16:43):
And how did that happen? The doctor's out the way
and we've sent for an ambulance. This woman was lost
having a big stairway looking for the ladies room. That
maniac saw her coming towards him and ran down the stairs,
firing over his shoulder.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
The bullet just seemed to graze her lip side.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Pretty lucky or the police were.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Searching all over the store.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Dollard. What are we going to do?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
This is terrible business.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Well, I suspect at any minute now the cops will
be telling you to do something.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
It's gonna be even worse for business. Close the store. Well,
but close the store.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
But we're staying open late tonight. It's the last minute run.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I'm just telling you what I think.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I think the cops will double the lookouts on all
the doors and make you close the store and they
can go to work.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
We lose thousands of dollars. They can't make me close
the store.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You stay open, you might lose a few more customers.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
The hard way.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Where's that doctor?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
He'll be here any minutes. Yes, what they called it
from the sporting goods in the basement.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
That man has been down there and held them up,
and he took four guns and six boxes of ammunition.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Six boxes of oooh, what's this story to do to
our store?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
If you're not careful, it's gonna turn your store onto
the world's largest shooting gallery with live targets. You know
what I suggest, mister SAMs.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
So what tell me what?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Don't wait for the police to tell you close the store?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Sandler didn't like it, and neither did the customers, as
they filed out of the store, past the scrutiny of
the police officers, still clutching their unfinished Christmas shopping lists.
The process was slow, and while the customers were leaving,
the clerks finished up their business, put the white shrouds
over their counters, and they too filed out into the
early night. The boys in blue watching the doors came
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up with several managering the general description of our friend
with a loose trigger fear, but none of them had
Little Bobby's teeth marks on his hands. I admitted a
fifty to fifty chance that mister Killer was still in
the building. There's nothing more eerie than a department store
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after closing, and it's white sheets. The whole joint seemed
to be playing ghost. I sent Judy over to.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
A steakhouse Patrice on Third Avenue to her to wait.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Then I had Sandler get me a gun from the
sporting goods department.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
For that lonely scared feeling. There is no medicine that
quite takes.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The place of a piece of cool steel in your
little hot hand. The sergeant in charge of the police
detail posted men outside all exits. The rest he took
up to the roof with him. Now we're gonna run
the whole store, burly blue sieve, floor by floor, counter
by counter, inch by inch. Sandler stayed with me down
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the first floor just for fun. I thought I would
start working my way up.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Donald. Don't you think we should get out of him
to the police.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I have several goosebumps that agree with you, mister Sandler,
But I have a very dangerous habit of trying to
earn my money.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Oh this is terrible.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh look, every counter and post in this store is
just the kind of hiding place a sniper would pray
for it. I get paid for this kind of work.
You don't I want you to go out for a nice
say war.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
It's night, Juliet.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Here I'm taking with you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Okay, But remember two of us gave him twice as
much to shoot at, don't I had to go and
open my pig mouth get down. Getting down on that
floor could have been committing suicide in itself. The killer's
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bullet and crashed into a showcase. And I see a
broken glass as a risky place to practice diving. Having
to swim out of it was twice as bad, but
that's what I.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Had to do.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Oh, mister doler Sadler, keep your head down, bury your
face in that glass, but keep your head down.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Here's do tell you what to do, anything but get
me out of here.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I have a wife and three kids.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Well, if you'll do what I tell you to do,
your wife will go on having a husband, and your
kids will still.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Have a father. Yes she has, just hear me.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I don't know exactly where that shot came from, but
from the looks of this glass, it must have been
from behind us. Now I'm gonna leave you and crawl
over near those elevators while I'm.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
On my way.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
You rattle around in this glass, let him hear where
you are. Give me about two minutes, and then do
something to draws fire. Dude, you what can I do
do anything but one that don't stand up? I think
if something, find it better, but don't take any chances.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
But what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Take some chances? Once I was on my way, Sandler
went to work with a vengeance.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I could hear him crashing around in that glass like
he was trying to corner the band aid markets. I
made it over to the elevators, scooting flat along the
floor till I hit a car with an open door
and slithered inside behind the protection of the elevator's front wall.
I stood up, peered over at the edge of the
door and waited for Santa to make the move that
would draw the murderer's fire. I must say Santa was
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dead game, and the way he made it move he
also stood a good chance and playing dead. First he
stopped wiggling around on his bed of glass, and then
he just stood straight up. They shot missed, but my
eyesight didn't. The killer was shooting from high up behind
a pole. He was standing up on a glass showcase
hoping for a better view. That didn't take me long
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to decide to give him a better view of the
inside of that glass showcase. I started deliberately shooting his
foothole out from under him. He was bleeding beautifully when
he started to run straight for the back of the store,
firing as he ran. As one last souvenir, he threw
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his empty gun over his shoulder at me.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
People who live in.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Glass houses shouldn't throw guns. I decided to join the
track team and won on the chase.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Back out of the main.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Floor to the employee's entrance out for the dimly lit
shipping department, and it's loading dock filled with packages ready
for shipment.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I could hear him moving around among them. Okay, get
your hands up and come out. I'm giving you a chance,
but it's not gonna last long. Head moving. Okay, so
you want to play.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I think i'll give you a couple of mule tied
presents early, and I'm sure nobody will mind if I
open your head Before Christmas. My hot headed friend was
fighting behind a high pile of wooden boxes ready for shipping.
I grabbed a heavy empty dolly, gave it a flying start,
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sent it crashing into the bottom box of the pile.
It was beautiful, the biggest crash that's twenty nine. It
was a tough fight, but mom, I don't think I won.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
At best. It was a draw. About the fifteenth time
I built it him.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He belted me right back, and he got his hands
on a hammer, laid it across the side of my head.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I got the hammer, did the same for him. I
made a whole in one.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
He fell squarely into a man's sized packing case, flying
at the foot of the packing bench.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I was a kidding, a weak dizzy. I had to
hold him.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
One thing to do top a case lying right there, already,
nails right way in, put it on right right over,
nail it up, good sight, good.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Good. One day.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And he was going black. Then everything went white. Hey, Corny,
is this may sound?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Where am I?
Speaker 8 (24:58):
You're in the hospital, Johnny, But don't worry. It's only
a slight concussion. It brought to your last night.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh I suppose I have a hammer shaped hole in
my head?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
No, no, darling it Hardley show.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
How could the advantages covering up? Oh? At least I
got him what I got him? The killer?
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Oh no, dear, you couldn't have They're still looking for him.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well, oh no, oh my gosh, what time is it?
Speaker 7 (25:30):
Living in the morning?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Why, Johnny, Johnny, please, Johnny, you're not supposed to get up.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Nurse, nurse if they let him get away. After all
my trouble, somebody was gonna need a doctor. Judy and
I hit the department store on twelve minutes flat. One
minute later I was in the shipping department talking to
the headman.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Now, mister Dollar, just calmed down. Everything's gonna be all
right now, exactly what is it?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You want to know? That big packing case, the one
that was lying right here in front of the bench
last night. Where is it? Oh? Well, the great big one, Yes,
the great big one, the one about eight feet long
and three feet wide. Yes, the one about eight feet
long and three feet wide.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Well, there was something very peculiar about that case.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
You're telling me? Where is it?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Well, this morning we came to work, the boys saw
it all packed up, so they put it on the
truck for Upper New York State. Oh no, oh, indeed
they did. But what was peculiar about it? Even though
they found it all ready to go. Later on they
found all the merchandise that were supposed to go in
it lying around loose.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It had never really been packed.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
But then, quick, the least you can do is tell
me where it went.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Well, now that I can do. That box was the
boss's big annual charity shipment of goods. That particular box
is on its way to some of the unfortunates who'll
be spending this Christmas away from home.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
All right, so where is it now? It should be
at the New York State Prison up in Arseny.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Expense account, Item five twelve dollars and eighty cents dinner
check at Pa Pro's, where I had asked Miss Judy
Whitehall to wait for me the night.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Before, and where I inadvertently stood her up. Although how
ad gal.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Can stand up after reading twelve dollars and eighty cents
worth of food more than I can figure out? Let's
see or expense account item six ten dollars medical supplies
for those poor CBS sound men Burn Surrey and Billy
Gould who had to break all that glass during the show.
Expense account total five hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents.
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You may think this amount is a little high, but
isn't everybody at this time of the year.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Signed yours trooling, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Your truly John.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Johnny.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Produce stars Charles Russell, script by Paul Dudley and Gildows.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Featured in the cast were Jaye.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Novello, Georgia Ellis, Marlene Ames Parley, Bear, Paul dubaf and
Connie Crowder. The special music is written and conducted by
Leith Stevens. Your announcer is Bob Stephenson. Be sure to
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be with us at the same time next week when
another unusual expense account is handed.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
In by yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Those two pleasant gentlemen of music, Von Monroe and Gene Autry,
will be around with special Christmas music tonight on CBS.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
On his caravan, Bond will feature.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
A medley of Christmas carols. You'll hear the Maestro and
his band featuring Bond's new song success, The Jolly Old.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Man in the bright Red Suit.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Gene Autry will bring you Christmas music and the Christmas
Eve Story Western styles. Be sure to hear these two
Saturday Night CBS stars, Von Monroe and Gene Autry on
most of these same CBS stations. I'll stay tuned for
Von Monroe's caravan, which follows on most of the same stations.
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This is CBS where yours truly, Johnny Dollar meets adventure
every Saturday Night. The Columbia Broadcasting System
It was a week before Christmas, and all through the
house a creature was stirring, and boy, what a rat.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is another in the adventures of America's fabulous freelance
insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, starring Charles Russell. At insurance investigation,
Johnny Dollar is only an expert at making out his
expense account he's an absolute genius.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Expense accounts submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Home
Office Industrial Insurance Incorporated, Hartford, Connecticut. Attention, mister Evan Stevens,
General Manager. The following is an accounting of my expenditures
during investigation of small time swindles big time department stores,
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or how I played Santa Claus and almost got left
holding the sack, or going for a sleigh ride without
benefit of snow can be tough sledding. Expanse account Item
one one dollar tip to a messenger who delivered this
assignment writing by hand to my apartment.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thanks with the dollar.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You have've never been known as a fast man with
a buck, mister Stevens, and I must say your note
to me also marked you in my mind as an
economist with words.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Dear Dollar, our client.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
The Association of department stores of Greater Manhattan has requested
help on the following problem.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
A young man's been making the realms of New.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
York department stores during the current Christmas rush, using his
equipment and official looking sales book. He goes to a
business department, makes a quick sale on some large item,
writes it up in his furious sales book, takes the
customer's cash, and disappears enclosed fine varying descriptions as furnished
by victims to date and check for your usual retainer feet.
Please put us top to this the perierus practice at
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once signed even Stephen's general manager.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Spence account item two six dollars twenty one cents. Train
pair Hartford to New York next morning at seven oh
three on the Banker's Special, a train very cleverly named
that because seventy five percent of its load is made.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Up of bankers.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I sat among them in a parlor car, watching them
limbering up for the day's chores, slowly shaking their heads
from side to side and softly whispering no. We arrived
at Grand Central at nine to twenty. The bankers got
off and headed for their granite vaults. I got off
and headed to face my stone wall. Spencer counts item
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three four bits cabpair to offices of the Association of
Department Stores of Greater Manhattan. There things gotten brighter right away.
Her name was Judy Whitehall. Boy, how she's been missed
by the scouts for the copacabana.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I'll never know.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I have been assigned to help you all I can,
mister Dollars, what would you.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Like to know her your home phone number? Oh, well,
maybe we can better wait until layer for that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
How many stores are there in your association, miss Whitehall?
Speaker 7 (03:17):
We have one hundred and twenty members stores, mister dollar.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Great, you know in one department store.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'm the kind of a guy that can't find the
glove department, and now I've got one hundred and twenty
stores in which to find someone I don't even know.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Well, we do have the man's description.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, as a matter of fact, we have a lot
of descriptions, all slightly different.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
And the regular store detectives are all on the lookouts.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It's like looking for a noodle of a spaghetti and.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
All the salespersonnel have been worn.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
What's beautiful your face?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Well, really, mister dollar after all.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Oh yeah, oh yes, I know business.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Well before I start, have you better give me a
letter of an education. I spend all day mosing around
the department stores without buying anything. I can stand a
good chance of getting picked up as a shoplifted.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Right away, follow me, Oh, justin minute.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Hello, this is miss Whitehall. Oh yes, missus Sander.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Well, why that's terrible, My goodness, that's awful.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Good gracious that that's worse.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Well, well, the insurance investigators here right now, missus Sanders.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
We'll be right over.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
What's so terrible?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
But that man, the one we're looking for, he was
in the Miller store making a phony sail on the
camera to the partner.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You also said it was awful.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
It was a little girl picked up a camera and
snapped his picture, and the man tried to take it
away from her and the girl he held, and then
her mother's screamed.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
And what made it worse when a store detective came
running and the man shot him. Then he grabbed a
little girl camera, ran off and ran off. They called
the police.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Really, I can't imagine why scene and the Miller's store
would have made the Notre Dame Bankville holler. Alcole Christmas
neck ties were selling like hotcakes. Only compared to most
of the ties, a heartcakee would look better on you.
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The camera department was on the mezzanine and the store manager,
mister Sander, was on her rampage.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Why doesn't somebody do something? Why can't they find him?
I've got men posted on every door. He's in this
store somewhere, and put oh, miss Whitehall, it's about time.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Who this?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
This is mister Dall and mister Sander from the insurance company.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
When I just what you can do?
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Dollar, I've already got twenty policemen running all over the store.
He capting the ridiculous prefostness and fantastic, that's.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
What it is.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Also amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Now, tell me, mister Sander about that little girl who
picked up the camera and snapped the carpet's picture.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Did they find her? Yet?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
They certainly did. In the rug department, she'd.
Speaker 9 (05:47):
Been shoved in the middle of a pile of nine
by twelve orientals on say it one hundred and twenty
three to fifty.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
She was scared, but not her.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
How the girl was found without the camera, I suppose, naturally.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
But the camera wouldn't do with any any good after
at the didn't have any film minutes they never do
went on display.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
I'm about the store detective, the one who got shot in.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
The hospital, Miss Hall.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
They'll call me here as soon as they find out
how badly he's been hurt.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well, getting back to that kid, was she able to
give you a good description of the guy who grabbed her?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
She hasn't stopped crying long enough.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well, how about her mother?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Neither is she?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Where are they now?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
There in my office? That's why I'm staying right here.
Speaker 9 (06:21):
Where is your off I'm the eighth floor, right next
to the credd In office.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well, this may be the first time I ever got
plassed the credit office.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
Come on, Judie, Oh Bobby, come on, blow your nose then.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Let be a brave little girl.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I don't want he hit me. He just kill me.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's just away.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I can.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Let me have another tribe, missus Jenson.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right, mister Dollar, if you think it'll do any good,
all right, Come on now, Bobby, all you have to
do is tell us what that bad man looks like.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We'll get him and then we'll fix you.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Come on now, I don't wanna kill me.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I'm beginning to think he's get up points. Okay, Bobby, okay, okay,
just a.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
METOPI oh Judy here, Yes, Johnny looks like as a
child psychologist.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I'm nothing at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I feel like telling little Bobby to go out and
play with some old razor blades.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Got any suggestions?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Well, it is almost Christmas.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Yeah, and one thing little girls don't want to do
with Christmas is get him wrong with Santa Claus?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Gotcha good gown? Where do we find Santa.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Claus in the tell I department on the fifth floor.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, give me about five minutes to explain things to
Santa and then bring Bobby down.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh, Bobby, what do you know?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
What happens to little girls who make Santa Claus mad
at them?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
What happened? They don't to look at television before they
go to bed? I mean at Christmas? What happens?
Speaker 10 (08:14):
They don't get any toys.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
All they get is old sweaters and underwear.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Well, listen, Bobby, this guy's said it happens to be
a good friend of mine.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Tell him? I want an air rifle?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You would?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay, okay, I'll even fix it so you can tell
him yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
How's that just fine?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
A good girl? Hey, where'd you get that blood on
your coat?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You gotta cut noser.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Ha's from that bad man.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I bit him on the head.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Okay, Judy, here I go go and on the way down,
maybe you better stop by the dog supply department and
buy a little Bobby a muzzle. If a kid doesn't
like his looks old Saint Nick may get nicked. Department
store should have some kind of a congressional medal for
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salespeople who worked in the toy department. Just before Christmas,
I took the elevator down to five, and when that
door slid open, it was.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Like stepping into Dottis.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Inferno Junior Grade. First, I got on a house phone
and called Sandra, who was still in the camera department.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
He had word from the hospital the store.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Detective had died without regaining consciousness.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I was no longer trying to catch a cheap swinder.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I was now out to swap blood with a dirty murderer.
A line of fidgety kids led me to Santa Claus,
sitting benignly on his throne. I had a short talk
with him and a short wait for Judy and little Bobby.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Okay, Santa, now we've got to make her talk. That
that is, You've got to all right, dollar.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right now, kiddy, you'll have to wait for a moment.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
We have a special little visitor coming to see me.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Oh yeah, I'll set okay, Bobby mcgirl. Now just let
me give you a hoist stuff and the sata's lamp.
He wants to ask you a few questions.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I want an air rifle.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You'll be a good little girl and answer all satis
nice questions and you'll get it.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
When I'm where i'd like to give it to you,
I'll go, yes, Well there we are, honey.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Now tell me what do you want for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I want an air rifle.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Well, we'll see what we can do about that.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Tell me if you've been a good little girl, Yes, sir,
we've heard. We'll just have to look up your name
in my little black book and make sure, hm pretty good.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
All but one little thing, what I do?
Speaker 7 (10:49):
I didn't do nothing?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, that's just it, you see, Bobby.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I have a note here that today some people asked
you what a certain man looked like, and you wouldn't
tell them. Is that right?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
I'm a great I don't want to tell they can't
make me.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, Bobby, maybe you and I had better talk this over.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
If you won't do something gross, how do you.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Take little Bobby's description of the murderer wasn't the greatest
by any means, but it was better than none of
all with which we had been furnished by the personnel
and the.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Camera department and the kid's mother.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We took the girl over the advertising department or an
artist made a sketch.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Armed with a drawing, we made a tour of the
store exits.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Showing it to the police posted on every door, giving
them a rough idea what to look for a medium builled,
pudgy man with black hair, and when he came across
such a character, he was to be issued an invitation
to show his hands. If he was sporting Bobby's teeth marks,
then they'd really know. Well, this chow out of the way,
missus Whitehall and I start and a pair of sandwiches
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in the tea room.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
The shoppers delight sandwich to be exact cream cheese, walnuts.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Water, cress and pineapple on a whole wheat bread.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
HM.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We found the store manager, Sandler, back in his office
he too was eating, but he was on a diet
of straight fingernails.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Oh terrible, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
BET's what it now.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Don't worry, mister Sander. He'll be caught as a swindler.
He might have gone on for years, but as a murderer.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It won't belong believe me.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Oh, what to do?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
What to do? What to do? Well, I've got.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Several ideas, and the first is get out of your
office and start at the top of the store and
work my way down.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
They're already doing that, and not a sign of you.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Well, I once found a mouse and a hayloft, so
be not disencouraged, and a pretty little.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Mouse you want, Oh dear, Oh, please try to relax,
mister Sander.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Everybody's doing your best.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
This, I'm sure they are.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
It's just to oh, hello, Yes, this is missus sand there.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Oh no, where how long has he been there? I'll
be right down.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
An hour?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
About an hour and a half ago.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Our store's handy class kept out into the employee best.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Room for the smoke. He was slat from behind.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
When he came to he was all tied up in
a broom closet and somebody has stolen his handy class suit.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
They just found him.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
About an hour and a half ago. Judy, you know
what that means.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh no, oh, yes, forty five minutes ago, when little
Bobby was giving Santa Claus the murder's description, he was.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Giving it to the murder himself. Oh good, gracious.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Instead of a kid's air rifle, it could have gotten
us a Revolver size thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
In just a moment, we will return to the second
act of Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
But first, CBS is.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Going to bring you one of the bugest present you
ever received from show business Tomorrow afternoon, Christmas Days. For
a full hour on the entire CBS network. You're going
to get all the comedy, all the laughs, and one
of the greatest Broadway in Hollywood hits of recent years,
The Man Who Came to Dinner and the Man Who Came,
will be played by none other than Jack Benny plus
Charles Wade, Gene Kelly, Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck and roslind Russell,
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plus Henry Fonda and John Garfield as narrators.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You'll hear them all.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
On CBS's special Holiday Hour tomorrow afternoon. Jack Bennie playing
the man who came to dinner and breaking a leg.
Had to stay on and on and on. Now, with
our star Charles Russell, we returned to the second act
of yours rule, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
There's no place like a crowded department store for a
fresh made murderer to Bonna Los, especially one. It's fl
Santa Claus for a lot of rosy cheeked little nippers.
I headed back to the toy department, but when I
got there, the cover was bare. Our lethal Saint Nick
had decided to give up his red flannel and white
whisker hiding place. We found the empty suit in a storeroom,
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tossed high on a stack of baby buggies.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Oh, Johnny, this is terrible. That man's a murderer. What
are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
What am I gonna do? Now?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Listen, Judy by now, there must be eighty seven cops sifting.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Through this store looking for that guy.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
They've got two cops on every door. Now, all I'm
gonna do is help him. Look, this is one of
those everybody's problems.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
You're right, I guess I'm just getting excited.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Oh look, that's you have a right to do. Come on,
let's get out here. I've got an idea, all right, Johnny.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Oh, mister, thank goodness I found you.
Speaker 11 (15:51):
Mi Standler wants you right away. Down on three, an
old lady has just been shot in Julia.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Missus Laningerie serves.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Are right for not I a rage? That's goduling.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Tried over here.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
Dollar let him through, Please let him lady, Please stand
back now, weil dollar congratulation.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Before this door was.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Only going to sue that company of yours for one
million dollars. Considering what this shooting will do to our reputation,
I'm going to make that five million.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Mister Sandler, keep your powder dry. First of all, it's
not my company. And second, you can't see him for
something they didn't do. And third you'd better get this
poor or gallow a hospital.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
How badly is she hurt?
Speaker 9 (16:43):
And how did that happen? The doctor's out the way
and we've sent for an ambulance. This woman was lost
having a big stairway looking for the ladies room. That
maniac saw her coming towards him and ran down the stairs,
firing over his shoulder.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
The bullet just seemed to graze her lip side.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Pretty lucky or the police were.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Searching all over the store.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Dollard. What are we going to do?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
This is terrible business.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Well, I suspect at any minute now the cops will
be telling you to do something.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
It's gonna be even worse for business. Close the store. Well,
but close the store.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
But we're staying open late tonight. It's the last minute run.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I'm just telling you what I think.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I think the cops will double the lookouts on all
the doors and make you close the store and they
can go to work.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
We lose thousands of dollars. They can't make me close
the store.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You stay open, you might lose a few more customers.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
The hard way.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Where's that doctor?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
He'll be here any minutes. Yes, what they called it
from the sporting goods in the basement.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
That man has been down there and held them up,
and he took four guns and six boxes of ammunition.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Six boxes of oooh, what's this story to do to
our store?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
If you're not careful, it's gonna turn your store onto
the world's largest shooting gallery with live targets. You know
what I suggest, mister SAMs.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
So what tell me what?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Don't wait for the police to tell you close the store?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Sandler didn't like it, and neither did the customers, as
they filed out of the store, past the scrutiny of
the police officers, still clutching their unfinished Christmas shopping lists.
The process was slow, and while the customers were leaving,
the clerks finished up their business, put the white shrouds
over their counters, and they too filed out into the
early night. The boys in blue watching the doors came
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up with several managering the general description of our friend
with a loose trigger fear, but none of them had
Little Bobby's teeth marks on his hands. I admitted a
fifty to fifty chance that mister Killer was still in
the building. There's nothing more eerie than a department store
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after closing, and it's white sheets. The whole joint seemed
to be playing ghost. I sent Judy over to.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
A steakhouse Patrice on Third Avenue to her to wait.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Then I had Sandler get me a gun from the
sporting goods department.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
For that lonely scared feeling. There is no medicine that
quite takes.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The place of a piece of cool steel in your
little hot hand. The sergeant in charge of the police
detail posted men outside all exits. The rest he took
up to the roof with him. Now we're gonna run
the whole store, burly blue sieve, floor by floor, counter
by counter, inch by inch. Sandler stayed with me down
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the first floor just for fun. I thought I would
start working my way up.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Donald. Don't you think we should get out of him
to the police.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I have several goosebumps that agree with you, mister Sandler,
But I have a very dangerous habit of trying to
earn my money.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Oh this is terrible.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh look, every counter and post in this store is
just the kind of hiding place a sniper would pray
for it. I get paid for this kind of work.
You don't I want you to go out for a nice
say war.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
It's night, Juliet.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Here I'm taking with you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Okay, But remember two of us gave him twice as
much to shoot at, don't I had to go and
open my pig mouth get down. Getting down on that
floor could have been committing suicide in itself. The killer's
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bullet and crashed into a showcase. And I see a
broken glass as a risky place to practice diving. Having
to swim out of it was twice as bad, but
that's what I.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Had to do.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Oh, mister doler Sadler, keep your head down, bury your
face in that glass, but keep your head down.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Here's do tell you what to do, anything but get
me out of here.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I have a wife and three kids.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Well, if you'll do what I tell you to do,
your wife will go on having a husband, and your
kids will still.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Have a father. Yes she has, just hear me.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I don't know exactly where that shot came from, but
from the looks of this glass, it must have been
from behind us. Now I'm gonna leave you and crawl
over near those elevators while I'm.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
On my way.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
You rattle around in this glass, let him hear where
you are. Give me about two minutes, and then do
something to draws fire. Dude, you what can I do
do anything but one that don't stand up? I think
if something, find it better, but don't take any chances.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
But what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Take some chances? Once I was on my way, Sandler
went to work with a vengeance.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I could hear him crashing around in that glass like
he was trying to corner the band aid markets. I
made it over to the elevators, scooting flat along the
floor till I hit a car with an open door
and slithered inside behind the protection of the elevator's front wall.
I stood up, peered over at the edge of the
door and waited for Santa to make the move that
would draw the murderer's fire. I must say Santa was
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dead game, and the way he made it move he
also stood a good chance and playing dead. First he
stopped wiggling around on his bed of glass, and then
he just stood straight up. They shot missed, but my
eyesight didn't. The killer was shooting from high up behind
a pole. He was standing up on a glass showcase
hoping for a better view. That didn't take me long
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to decide to give him a better view of the
inside of that glass showcase. I started deliberately shooting his
foothole out from under him. He was bleeding beautifully when
he started to run straight for the back of the store,
firing as he ran. As one last souvenir, he threw
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his empty gun over his shoulder at me.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
People who live in.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Glass houses shouldn't throw guns. I decided to join the
track team and won on the chase.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Back out of the main.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Floor to the employee's entrance out for the dimly lit
shipping department, and it's loading dock filled with packages ready
for shipment.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I could hear him moving around among them. Okay, get
your hands up and come out. I'm giving you a chance,
but it's not gonna last long. Head moving. Okay, so
you want to play.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I think i'll give you a couple of mule tied
presents early, and I'm sure nobody will mind if I
open your head Before Christmas. My hot headed friend was
fighting behind a high pile of wooden boxes ready for shipping.
I grabbed a heavy empty dolly, gave it a flying start,
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sent it crashing into the bottom box of the pile.
It was beautiful, the biggest crash that's twenty nine. It
was a tough fight, but mom, I don't think I won.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
At best. It was a draw. About the fifteenth time
I built it him.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He belted me right back, and he got his hands
on a hammer, laid it across the side of my head.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I got the hammer, did the same for him. I
made a whole in one.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
He fell squarely into a man's sized packing case, flying
at the foot of the packing bench.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I was a kidding, a weak dizzy. I had to
hold him.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
One thing to do top a case lying right there, already,
nails right way in, put it on right right over,
nail it up, good sight, good.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Good. One day.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And he was going black. Then everything went white. Hey, Corny,
is this may sound?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Where am I?
Speaker 8 (24:58):
You're in the hospital, Johnny, But don't worry. It's only
a slight concussion. It brought to your last night.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh I suppose I have a hammer shaped hole in
my head?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
No, no, darling it Hardley show.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
How could the advantages covering up? Oh? At least I
got him what I got him? The killer?
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Oh no, dear, you couldn't have They're still looking for him.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well, oh no, oh my gosh, what time is it?
Speaker 7 (25:30):
Living in the morning?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Why, Johnny, Johnny, please, Johnny, you're not supposed to get up.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Nurse, nurse if they let him get away. After all
my trouble, somebody was gonna need a doctor. Judy and
I hit the department store on twelve minutes flat. One
minute later I was in the shipping department talking to
the headman.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Now, mister Dollar, just calmed down. Everything's gonna be all
right now, exactly what is it?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You want to know? That big packing case, the one
that was lying right here in front of the bench
last night. Where is it? Oh? Well, the great big one, Yes,
the great big one, the one about eight feet long
and three feet wide. Yes, the one about eight feet
long and three feet wide.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Well, there was something very peculiar about that case.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
You're telling me? Where is it?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Well, this morning we came to work, the boys saw
it all packed up, so they put it on the
truck for Upper New York State. Oh no, oh, indeed
they did. But what was peculiar about it? Even though
they found it all ready to go. Later on they
found all the merchandise that were supposed to go in
it lying around loose.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It had never really been packed.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
But then, quick, the least you can do is tell
me where it went.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Well, now that I can do. That box was the
boss's big annual charity shipment of goods. That particular box
is on its way to some of the unfortunates who'll
be spending this Christmas away from home.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
All right, so where is it now? It should be
at the New York State Prison up in Arseny.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Expense account, Item five twelve dollars and eighty cents dinner
check at Pa Pro's, where I had asked Miss Judy
Whitehall to wait for me the night.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Before, and where I inadvertently stood her up. Although how
ad gal.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Can stand up after reading twelve dollars and eighty cents
worth of food more than I can figure out? Let's
see or expense account item six ten dollars medical supplies
for those poor CBS sound men Burn Surrey and Billy
Gould who had to break all that glass during the show.
Expense account total five hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents.
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You may think this amount is a little high, but
isn't everybody at this time of the year.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Signed yours trooling, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Your truly John.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Johnny.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Produce stars Charles Russell, script by Paul Dudley and Gildows.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Featured in the cast were Jaye.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Novello, Georgia Ellis, Marlene Ames Parley, Bear, Paul dubaf and
Connie Crowder. The special music is written and conducted by
Leith Stevens. Your announcer is Bob Stephenson. Be sure to
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be with us at the same time next week when
another unusual expense account is handed.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
In by yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Those two pleasant gentlemen of music, Von Monroe and Gene Autry,
will be around with special Christmas music tonight on CBS.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
On his caravan, Bond will feature.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
A medley of Christmas carols. You'll hear the Maestro and
his band featuring Bond's new song success, The Jolly Old.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Man in the bright Red Suit.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Gene Autry will bring you Christmas music and the Christmas
Eve Story Western styles. Be sure to hear these two
Saturday Night CBS stars, Von Monroe and Gene Autry on
most of these same CBS stations. I'll stay tuned for
Von Monroe's caravan, which follows on most of the same stations.
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This is CBS where yours truly, Johnny Dollar meets adventure
every Saturday Night. The Columbia Broadcasting System
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